'Cept that all of those spammers are generally using forged headers from all sorts of third-world locales, hijacked desktop machines, and other legal, semilegal, illegal, and otherwise extra-jurisdictional relays.
The Internet is not a closed system. They would throw a satellite into orbit and shoot their spam in from space... through hijacked TIVO boxes connected to satellite TV subscribers jacked into a DSL line for broadband.
Wipe away to the satellite subscriber being led away in chains...
(6 Hz voice) Now doesn't cable sound so much better?
Everyone, please go home and open your mailbox. Now tell me if having to pay for postage has cut down on the level of unsoliceted mail arriving in you snailmail mailbox.
Audio tapes are in the same realm as wire tapping an reading someone's mail. Recording without consent is a serious crime. (Hey, what became of that hose monster from Maryland who recorded Lewinsky? Last I heard she was looking at a couple of years in jail.)
Video tape is like any kind of photography. As long as it's in a public area, and you aren't doing anything lurid with it, it's fair game. (YLOMV).
Blood, tissue and fluid samples would require a consent form, if not a search warrent.
Know your law. Avoid hyperbole. It gets in the road of the point you were making.
A guy with a sidearm killing bad guys on the frontier of the old west was a hero. That same person in a more civilized environment is a Vigilante.
Don't give me that all or nothing crap. Don't give me that "Freedom Fighter" crap. This is the United States. If you don't have the balls to say something to my face, why should I have to put up with you leaving a post-it note on my windsheild, or calling my house in the middle of the night.
I challenge authority on a regular basis. I vote. I vote in primaries. I attend zoning meetings. I write to my congresscritters.
Our forefathers fought and died to give us what we have today. Is it perfect? Hell no. The Republic is a lousy form of government. But it's the best one we know.
In my experience, the people who are bitching about how totalitarian the government has become merely want to replace it with their own totalitarian regime.
I hate to tell you this, but Thomas Paine put his name to that little broadside known as "common sense."
The Declaration of Independence was Signed by numerous merchants, lawyers, and civic leaders, at grave peril to themselves and their families.
Recently the Supreme Court ruled against the wearing of masks during protests, mostly on the grounds that the constitution protects free speech, not anonymity. You can say whatever you want, but you have to be willing to take the lumps for it.
It's been my experience that most people crying for anonymity on the internet are not big believers in freedom of expression. They are believers in freedom to not get punched in the mouth.
I'm pushing 30 and I remember my teenage years. There were productive moments (like my long nights hacking C code, lead in the school play, marching band) and less than productive moments (mosh pits, hanging out with stoners, and cable TV.)
Looking back, when I was bored it was not because there were not plenty of things to do. I was bored because I wanted to be out there trying to score with some chick at a sloppy party where there was lots of drinking.
Every town with a post-office has [insert your place of worship], who tend to stock people your age. Most locales in the US have a [boy scout|girl scout|explorer] troup. Unless you live in one of the Republican Republics, your school also has extra-curricular activities that always want to soak up every waking moment of your time, aka Marching Band and Sports.
And if you have any population to speak of, there are at the very least 2, possibly 3 other people who think just like you do and could always arrange to meet up and one of your places and just sit around and bitch about how little there is to do.
At which point any parental authority in earshot will generally give you $20 to go to the movies.
You really have to work fast. Leaving them out there too long, especially in the cold, and rigor mortis sets in. Believe me, there is nothing less pleasent in the world than searching through some guy's entrails for antennae components.
Tip for you procrastinators out there: MRI's do a really awsome job of extracting metal parts from a cadaver. Unfortunately the force it exerts tends to smash the plastic bits.
I recommends the chainsaw and microwave oven approach. Though I have to say, this is one of those cases where it might pay to just buy a new dish.
In my days what I actually owned a tv and watched cable, I used to be a History Channel fanatic. But the shows played once at dinner time, and then they looped about 3 times until the next morning. Great if you caught something halfway through getting home from work and are an insomniac who is up at 2am.
I had some favorites (mmmm... history of the gun, military blunders, that cheezy show with the Soviet planes) so I can imagine that I too would be duplicating an awful lot of programming.
I know it's linux on the interior. Any scripting tools out there?
Ah hell, I find the Internet wastes enough of my time. I used to sit around LOOKING for stuff to watch when we had cable.
We are presently TV free. The wife want's to make an exception for public television, put I'm going to put my foot down on afternoon toons or cable/satellite. DVD's are fine. You can pause them, stop them, eject them, and otherwise choose what you are watching.
Alright, maybe I'm just bitter because she won't let me buy that LCD projector for the living room...
Kind of funny they way we sound like former druggies when we say that.
We just had a little one, and the camel's nose is poking back in the tent. My wife got a set of rabbit ears to get public television. I just see that as a gateway to afternoon cartoons, which ultimately leads to complaints about why the picture is fuzzy and we need to upgrade to cable or satellite.
The situation is a little more complicated. Israel has held onto that territory for so long that many inside her borders consider it to be their turf.
But all-in-all, you are right. The Palestinians have done more to shoot their own cause in the foot than they have ever done to damage Israel or convince them to leave.
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The Internet is not a closed system. They would throw a satellite into orbit and shoot their spam in from space... through hijacked TIVO boxes connected to satellite TV subscribers jacked into a DSL line for broadband.
Wipe away to the satellite subscriber being led away in chains...
(6 Hz voice) Now doesn't cable sound so much better?
Everyone, please go home and open your mailbox. Now tell me if having to pay for postage has cut down on the level of unsoliceted mail arriving in you snailmail mailbox.
--Sean
Citations and case law please? Otherwise you are simply an "ebony hued" iron pot calling a kettle black.
Video tape is like any kind of photography. As long as it's in a public area, and you aren't doing anything lurid with it, it's fair game. (YLOMV).
Blood, tissue and fluid samples would require a consent form, if not a search warrent.
Know your law. Avoid hyperbole. It gets in the road of the point you were making.
Don't give me that all or nothing crap. Don't give me that "Freedom Fighter" crap. This is the United States. If you don't have the balls to say something to my face, why should I have to put up with you leaving a post-it note on my windsheild, or calling my house in the middle of the night.
I challenge authority on a regular basis. I vote. I vote in primaries. I attend zoning meetings. I write to my congresscritters.
Our forefathers fought and died to give us what we have today. Is it perfect? Hell no. The Republic is a lousy form of government. But it's the best one we know.
In my experience, the people who are bitching about how totalitarian the government has become merely want to replace it with their own totalitarian regime.
Now, if you had a bouncer at the door and a membership list, it might be considered a private club.
The Declaration of Independence was Signed by numerous merchants, lawyers, and civic leaders, at grave peril to themselves and their families.
Recently the Supreme Court ruled against the wearing of masks during protests, mostly on the grounds that the constitution protects free speech, not anonymity. You can say whatever you want, but you have to be willing to take the lumps for it.
It's been my experience that most people crying for anonymity on the internet are not big believers in freedom of expression. They are believers in freedom to not get punched in the mouth.
Except of course that the camera is only temporarily "blinded" while the green laser is shining on it.
Looking back, when I was bored it was not because there were not plenty of things to do. I was bored because I wanted to be out there trying to score with some chick at a sloppy party where there was lots of drinking.
Every town with a post-office has [insert your place of worship], who tend to stock people your age. Most locales in the US have a [boy scout|girl scout|explorer] troup. Unless you live in one of the Republican Republics, your school also has extra-curricular activities that always want to soak up every waking moment of your time, aka Marching Band and Sports.
And if you have any population to speak of, there are at the very least 2, possibly 3 other people who think just like you do and could always arrange to meet up and one of your places and just sit around and bitch about how little there is to do.
At which point any parental authority in earshot will generally give you $20 to go to the movies.
Hmmm, and which account would you use "ATH [NO CARRIER]" as a password for?
You know it's going to be a bad day when:
Probably from all those patents on film technology.
Hey, the superbowl is a great time to go out to eat. As long as the place doesn't have a big-screen TV, you have the place to yourself.
You really have to work fast. Leaving them out there too long, especially in the cold, and rigor mortis sets in. Believe me, there is nothing less pleasent in the world than searching through some guy's entrails for antennae components.
Tip for you procrastinators out there: MRI's do a really awsome job of extracting metal parts from a cadaver. Unfortunately the force it exerts tends to smash the plastic bits.
I recommends the chainsaw and microwave oven approach. Though I have to say, this is one of those cases where it might pay to just buy a new dish.
In my days what I actually owned a tv and watched cable, I used to be a History Channel fanatic. But the shows played once at dinner time, and then they looped about 3 times until the next morning. Great if you caught something halfway through getting home from work and are an insomniac who is up at 2am.
I had some favorites (mmmm... history of the gun, military blunders, that cheezy show with the Soviet planes) so I can imagine that I too would be duplicating an awful lot of programming.
I know it's linux on the interior. Any scripting tools out there?
We are presently TV free. The wife want's to make an exception for public television, put I'm going to put my foot down on afternoon toons or cable/satellite. DVD's are fine. You can pause them, stop them, eject them, and otherwise choose what you are watching.
Alright, maybe I'm just bitter because she won't let me buy that LCD projector for the living room...
Kind of funny they way we sound like former druggies when we say that.
We just had a little one, and the camel's nose is poking back in the tent. My wife got a set of rabbit ears to get public television. I just see that as a gateway to afternoon cartoons, which ultimately leads to complaints about why the picture is fuzzy and we need to upgrade to cable or satellite.
That's great and all, but who is going to play the chip?
Hell, they will believe almost anything they see on TV.
Ok,ok the Vikings believed the only way to get into heaven was to die in battle, but when is the last time you've run into a practicing Norse Pagan?
(And no, Islam doesn't have that rule. Just the extremists.)
That's another area where the Soviets had an edge. They knew when to cut their losses.
But all-in-all, you are right. The Palestinians have done more to shoot their own cause in the foot than they have ever done to damage Israel or convince them to leave.
TMYK (The more you know...)
Oh wait that is what happened.