I doubt you'll get much of an audience. I know in reality restricting encryption won't make any difference as encryption is widely available outside the US but after what happened, the so-called "intelligence" community has been perceived as having their dicks in the wind when this was going down. Now they are trying to save face. What they really need to concentrate on are the gaping holes in aviation security as well as more thorough scrutiny of those entering North America. Soliciting the cooperation of Canada and Mexico will be essential.
What the Internet was designed to do...
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You guys did what the Internet was designed to do: Maintain communications in a time of crisis. Well done! Amazing that most of the other so-called "news" sites had their pants around their ankles for most of the day...at least where the net was concerned.
Not entirely on topic, but I just heard a brief report on ABC that already there are already spammers soliciting bogus donations for WTC relief. Pretty bloody disgusting...anyone who would stoop so low is in serious need of a buckshot enema.
Yes, rebuild it with a SAM battery on the roof...
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I also favor the middle-finger design with the addition of a SAM battery on the roof.
What about the Pyromania cover?
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The Israel factor.
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This is an excerpt from an analysis I just received from Stratfor
The big winner today, intended or not, is the state of Israel.
Israel has been under siege by suicide bombers for more than a
year. It has responded by waging a systematic war against
Palestinian command structures. The international community,
particularly the United States, has pressured Israel heavily to
stop its operations. The argument has been made that the threat
of suicide bombings, though real, does not itself constitute a
genuine threat to Israeli national security and should not
trigger the kind of response Israel is making.
Today's events change all of this.
First, the United States no longer can argue that Israel should
endure the bombings. Moving forward, the domestic American
political mood simply won't tolerate such a stance.
Second, Israel now becomes, once again, an indispensable ally to
the United States. The United States is obviously going to launch
a massive covert and overt war against the international radical
Islamic movement that is assumed to be behind this attack. Not
only does this align U.S. and Israeli interests but it also makes
the United States dependent on the Israelis -- whose intelligence
capabilities in this area as well as covert operational
capabilities are clearly going to be needed.
Excuse me...big winner, intended or not?
Is this a suggestion that some Israeli faction might be involved?
Who benefits? Who pays?
I can't see this being a Palestinian operation. The last thing they want is a pissed-off US pouring more money into Israel. It might have been Bin Laden but I would've expected him to show more of a sick sense of "pride" in his handiwork. The Iraqis? maybe, but Iraq is monitored pretty closely and they know what it feels like to be on the receiving end of US ire. Answer who benefits and you might be close to uncovering the source of this wickedness.
This'll probably get modded to hell, but I don't care. Karma isn't everything.
The nature of air piracy has changed. Before this, if you were the unfortunate victim of a hijacking, you would have a reasonable chance of living through the event if you kept your head down.
No more.
After watching yesterday's video I know one thing, I'd rather go out in a hail of bullets than cowering in the back of the plane, while it slams into a building. Give every passenger a gun and the scumbags wouldn't even make it to the cockpit door.
Knowing the kind of security surrounding civil aviation, it is highly unlikely that any group could successfully pull off 4+ simultaneous hijackings. How much do you want to bet some "intelligence" agency knew about these hijackings in advance and allowed them to happen in order to make the case for greater funding to combat terrorism, not realising what the outcome of these hijackings would be?
Microsoft allows none of this. When you get a MS OS, there are no standard tools for changing the way Windows works. Your choice of OS is whatever MS decides to dictate today. Right now it's ME and 2000. In two months it'll be ME and XP. There are no other choices.
So what? When you buy a Ford, you get a Ford engine. Don't like Ford engines? Don't buy Ford. Don't like MS tools (or lack thereof)? Don't buy MS. Besides, it's their O/S...they can do whatever the hell they want with it.
Want to buy a Dell without paying for MS? Try it. You can't.
Then I don't buy Dell...
I do however buy O/S-free PC's from other reputable vendors, both for myself and for other clients. There are more vendors than Dell, just like there are more desktop O/S's than Windows, just like there are more ISP's than AOL...
There is actual choice in the computer industry as well. It's not Microsoft's fault people don't exercise their right to choose (or they do and their choice is Microsoft)...
Does it frighten anyone else that the government is getting it's hands into the workings of big business?
You're suprised? That's precisely what "big government" does! Sticks it's hands into everything it can (and usually manages to screw everything up in the process)! After all, it also wants to get it's hands into your computer!
California and New York appear to be responding to a surprising turnabout by the Justice Department, which last week said it would not seek a breakup of Microsoft or retry the claim that the software giant illegally tied together Internet Explorer and Windows 95 and 98...
In other news, federal and state prosecutors have decided to suepend antitrust proceedings against auto manufacturer Ford, Ford has been accused of violating antitrust laws by bundling engines, seats, and wheels with their automobiles. The DOJ originally sought to force the auto manufacturer to sell a stripped-down model minus these key items to allow competitors the opportunity to sell their products to Ford consumers...
"We are aware of DivX and similar technologies, but it's not the technology that's the issue, it's how it is applied," said a spokesman for the Motion Picture Association of America, who declined to comment specifically on DivXNetworks. "Our concern is with technology that is marketed, promoted and used as a tool for piracy."
Bullshit.
This is not about piracy. This is about the content providers using "piracy" as a means to justify threatening and bullying an uninformed public into letting them help themselves to a bigger slice of the pie. They want a system where you pay to see the movie in the theater, you pay to aquire the DVD, you pay if you move to another region because you need to purchase another player to watch movies for sale in that region, you pay for the privledge of watching it on your PC. You pay...and pay...and pay... Hell, they'd probably like us to pay royalties on the memories we have in our heads!
On September 1, 1992, Bobby Fischer came out of his 20 year retirement and gave a press conference in Yugoslavia. He pulled out an order from the U.S. Treasury Department warning him that he would be violating U.N. sanctions if he played chess in Yugoslavia. He spit on the order and now faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if he returns to the U.S. In addition, he most forfeit his $3.65 million to the U.S. Treasury and forefeit 10% of any match royalties earned.
Some things never change. How many stories have we had now featuring the blockheaded American government foisting asinine rules on individuals? 10 years in prison and 3.8 million in penalties for playing chess??? They're lucky he only spit on the order...
I'm probably going to get modded to hell for this but I'm going to ask it anyway: Who is Brett Glass and why should anyone care if he disagrees with an artist's choosing to release music under some kind of open license? Is he "somebody" in the music industry? A RIAA hack? An (unknown to me) artist? What interests does he really represent?
I live @ 20 miles from the 49th parallel. I'm thinking the preliminary post SSSCA price for an unwelded hard drive should be...um...two thousand bucks? Any takers?
Seriously, if I lived in the states, I'd be stocking up right now. Or considering a move...
...To advance the control of public opinion and to research and expand the understanding of how to manipulate the human psyche, individually and collectively. Today this agenda includes the microchipping of people and their permanent connection to a global computer.
This is a line from this site here, and a quote from a book by a certain David Icke. I was pretty sure the bit about microchipping was pretty far-fetched.
I'm not so sure now, at least conceptually speaking. Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. The desired end it would seem, can be achieved by tracking individual's movements coupled with thought manipulation through popular media.
I would think that with the coming economic downturn, being able to offer an alternative to Microsoft's draconian (not to mention expensive) licensing scheme would be attractive, particularily to the bean-counters who are likely going to be calling the shots. I just installed Mandrake 8 and it was pretty much painless and as far as what the average user does...clicks on their e-mail, clicks on their word processor, and browses the net, there isn't a whole hell of a lot of difference.
The clincher for many businesses however, will be not so much (Lin)ux/ Star office's functionality or having to accustom users to a different way of doing things, but rather the must-have app that only runs on Windows. THATS why Microsoft has the lion's share of the desktop market.
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Dan Rather said it best when he said that one needs to be very careful with initial reports...
Write your senators. NOW.
I doubt you'll get much of an audience. I know in reality restricting encryption won't make any difference as encryption is widely available outside the US but after what happened, the so-called "intelligence" community has been perceived as having their dicks in the wind when this was going down. Now they are trying to save face. What they really need to concentrate on are the gaping holes in aviation security as well as more thorough scrutiny of those entering North America. Soliciting the cooperation of Canada and Mexico will be essential.
You guys did what the Internet was designed to do: Maintain communications in a time of crisis. Well done! Amazing that most of the other so-called "news" sites had their pants around their ankles for most of the day...at least where the net was concerned.
Not entirely on topic, but I just heard a brief report on ABC that already there are already spammers soliciting bogus donations for WTC relief. Pretty bloody disgusting...anyone who would stoop so low is in serious need of a buckshot enema.
I also favor the middle-finger design with the addition of a SAM battery on the roof.
Though the crosshairs might suggest a rocket launcher or artilery.
This is an excerpt from an analysis I just received from Stratfor
The big winner today, intended or not, is the state of Israel.
Israel has been under siege by suicide bombers for more than a
year. It has responded by waging a systematic war against
Palestinian command structures. The international community,
particularly the United States, has pressured Israel heavily to
stop its operations. The argument has been made that the threat
of suicide bombings, though real, does not itself constitute a
genuine threat to Israeli national security and should not
trigger the kind of response Israel is making.
Today's events change all of this.
First, the United States no longer can argue that Israel should
endure the bombings. Moving forward, the domestic American
political mood simply won't tolerate such a stance.
Second, Israel now becomes, once again, an indispensable ally to
the United States. The United States is obviously going to launch
a massive covert and overt war against the international radical
Islamic movement that is assumed to be behind this attack. Not
only does this align U.S. and Israeli interests but it also makes
the United States dependent on the Israelis -- whose intelligence
capabilities in this area as well as covert operational
capabilities are clearly going to be needed.
Excuse me...big winner, intended or not?
Is this a suggestion that some Israeli faction might be involved?
Who benefits? Who pays?
I can't see this being a Palestinian operation. The last thing they want is a pissed-off US pouring more money into Israel. It might have been Bin Laden but I would've expected him to show more of a sick sense of "pride" in his handiwork. The Iraqis? maybe, but Iraq is monitored pretty closely and they know what it feels like to be on the receiving end of US ire. Answer who benefits and you might be close to uncovering the source of this wickedness.
This'll probably get modded to hell, but I don't care. Karma isn't everything.
Ask yourself: Who has the most to gain if the US directs it's anger and military might against the Arab world?
How about Mossad? An effective way to eliminate your enemy is to get another nation pissed-off at them...
The nature of air piracy has changed. Before this, if you were the unfortunate victim of a hijacking, you would have a reasonable chance of living through the event if you kept your head down.
No more.
After watching yesterday's video I know one thing, I'd rather go out in a hail of bullets than cowering in the back of the plane, while it slams into a building. Give every passenger a gun and the scumbags wouldn't even make it to the cockpit door.
But understandably everyone is very edgy...
I'm close to Vancouver Intl. Just heard a very noisy military aircraft fly by.
Knowing the kind of security surrounding civil aviation, it is highly unlikely that any group could successfully pull off 4+ simultaneous hijackings. How much do you want to bet some "intelligence" agency knew about these hijackings in advance and allowed them to happen in order to make the case for greater funding to combat terrorism, not realising what the outcome of these hijackings would be?
Microsoft allows none of this. When you get a MS OS, there are no standard tools for changing the way Windows works. Your choice of OS is whatever MS decides to dictate today. Right now it's ME and 2000. In two months it'll be ME and XP. There are no other choices.
So what? When you buy a Ford, you get a Ford engine. Don't like Ford engines? Don't buy Ford. Don't like MS tools (or lack thereof)? Don't buy MS. Besides, it's their O/S...they can do whatever the hell they want with it.
Want to buy a Dell without paying for MS? Try it. You can't.
Then I don't buy Dell...
I do however buy O/S-free PC's from other reputable vendors, both for myself and for other clients. There are more vendors than Dell, just like there are more desktop O/S's than Windows, just like there are more ISP's than AOL...
There is actual choice in the computer industry as well. It's not Microsoft's fault people don't exercise their right to choose (or they do and their choice is Microsoft)...
Does it frighten anyone else that the government is getting it's hands into the workings of big business?
You're suprised? That's precisely what "big government" does! Sticks it's hands into everything it can (and usually manages to screw everything up in the process)! After all, it also wants to get it's hands into your computer!
California and New York appear to be responding to a surprising turnabout by the Justice Department, which last week said it would not seek a breakup of Microsoft or retry the claim that the software giant illegally tied together Internet Explorer and Windows 95 and 98...
In other news, federal and state prosecutors have decided to suepend antitrust proceedings against auto manufacturer Ford, Ford has been accused of violating antitrust laws by bundling engines, seats, and wheels with their automobiles. The DOJ originally sought to force the auto manufacturer to sell a stripped-down model minus these key items to allow competitors the opportunity to sell their products to Ford consumers...
"We are aware of DivX and similar technologies, but it's not the technology that's the issue, it's how it is applied," said a spokesman for the Motion Picture Association of America, who declined to comment specifically on DivXNetworks. "Our concern is with technology that is marketed, promoted and used as a tool for piracy."
Bullshit.
This is not about piracy. This is about the content providers using "piracy" as a means to justify threatening and bullying an uninformed public into letting them help themselves to a bigger slice of the pie. They want a system where you pay to see the movie in the theater, you pay to aquire the DVD, you pay if you move to another region because you need to purchase another player to watch movies for sale in that region, you pay for the privledge of watching it on your PC. You pay...and pay...and pay... Hell, they'd probably like us to pay royalties on the memories we have in our heads!
On September 1, 1992, Bobby Fischer came out of his 20 year retirement and gave a press conference in Yugoslavia. He pulled out an order from the U.S. Treasury Department warning him that he would be violating U.N. sanctions if he played chess in Yugoslavia. He spit on the order and now faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if he returns to the U.S. In addition, he most forfeit his $3.65 million to the U.S. Treasury and forefeit 10% of any match royalties earned.
Some things never change. How many stories have we had now featuring the blockheaded American government foisting asinine rules on individuals? 10 years in prison and 3.8 million in penalties for playing chess??? They're lucky he only spit on the order...
Haven't they already got a protptype working in this home?
I'm probably going to get modded to hell for this but I'm going to ask it anyway: Who is Brett Glass and why should anyone care if he disagrees with an artist's choosing to release music under some kind of open license? Is he "somebody" in the music industry? A RIAA hack? An (unknown to me) artist? What interests does he really represent?
There's no giant software company willing and able to offer them fat bribes...er, I mean "campaign contibutions"!
I live @ 20 miles from the 49th parallel. I'm thinking the preliminary post SSSCA price for an unwelded hard drive should be...um...two thousand bucks? Any takers?
Seriously, if I lived in the states, I'd be stocking up right now. Or considering a move...
...To advance the control of public opinion and to research and expand the understanding of how to manipulate the human psyche, individually and collectively. Today this agenda includes the microchipping of people and their permanent connection to a global computer.
This is a line from this site here, and a quote from a book by a certain David Icke. I was pretty sure the bit about microchipping was pretty far-fetched.
I'm not so sure now, at least conceptually speaking. Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. The desired end it would seem, can be achieved by tracking individual's movements coupled with thought manipulation through popular media.
will it detect that too?
I would think that with the coming economic downturn, being able to offer an alternative to Microsoft's draconian (not to mention expensive) licensing scheme would be attractive, particularily to the bean-counters who are likely going to be calling the shots. I just installed Mandrake 8 and it was pretty much painless and as far as what the average user does...clicks on their e-mail, clicks on their word processor, and browses the net, there isn't a whole hell of a lot of difference.
The clincher for many businesses however, will be not so much (Lin)ux/ Star office's functionality or having to accustom users to a different way of doing things, but rather the must-have app that only runs on Windows. THATS why Microsoft has the lion's share of the desktop market.
hey nice gun rack.
Thank-you! It goes nicely with the Confederate flag and the "better dead than red" bumber sticker, don't you think?
Note: This post was made by my evil twin fron the alternate universe and should not be taken as a representation of my true opinions.