...and the crater which the bomb left did NOT extend INTO the perimiter of the building (as the illustration in the "memorial book" shows. You
are thinking of the World Trade Center).
Apparently 5000psi reinforced structural concrete fractures at the slightest puff of wind these days. Anyone ever heard of Boyle's law? The best facts on explosive are at the library in books published by Los Alamos.
I don't want my sister, girlfriend, or my own ass getting cavity searched at the airport just because it's "important for national security to
interdict narcotics".
And I agree... events like Oklahoma were designed to have exactly this effect on public opinion: "Gee, I guess we really do need to let the police have unlimited power to kick in our doors to keep evil red-necks from blowing shit up. Guess we're not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Pass the KY jelly, please. Oh GOD!... COLD HANDS..."
(...and I STILL don't believe that suicidal "yutes" wear masks.)
If they want to centralize kontrol of who has access... then it's no longer open source, correct?
This looks like another attempt to be exclusive based on "security concerns". If successful (which I doubt) then it would be a very convenient lever to use for the purpose of upstream content filtering (once no one except the exclusive handful is allowed to see the inner workings of the code).
It goes like this; "Hey, I got an unable to locate server error. Guess the site doesn't exist anymore." and "Hey, my Konspiracy Kracker web site isn't getting any hits. Guess no one is interested."
I fit the profile above also, to the letter. I'm in my mid thirties and educated. I use a computer. Why am I anonymous? So I can ask questions without getting disappeared! Is it just me or does ANYONE ELSE have severe problems with the official version of events at Colombine? First a little self-disclosure. I'm a geek. Always have been, always will be. I was an "out-cast" in school, bullied, scape-goated, rejected, lied about, and all the rest of the baggage that goes with the territory of being a little too quiet and a little too opinionated. Sound familiar? Anyone else having flashbacks to high-school? I always knew I'd get out, get away, and HAVE FUN. That hope kept me alive. I was right. Life's a lot more fun now for a variety of reasons. However; I used to fantasize. Oh yes! I had wonderful vengence fantasies about getting revenge with those who abused me. I envisioned spilling the blood of those I had learned to hate. (Hatred does such ugly things to us). In such a vengence fantasy, I could picture walking right up to one of my potential targets and letting them see my smiling face, right before I wasted them! Yessiree. They would KNOW who was killing them. Is any revenge-fantasy different? What good is revenge if you can't relish the silent reproach of your enemies eyes? So, why wear a mask? Why wear a mask if suicide was part of the plan? Why target people at random? The gunmen went after "jocks" and "blacks" and girls who "believed in God". Strange... I would have had a name list. There's eyewitness reports that at least one of the gunmen was unmasked and WASN'T a student. How did two skinny teenagers manage an assault that would make a Navy Seal proud? How did the same two skinny teenagers manage to get ALL of those bombs into the school? Did they really manage to break-in the night before undetected, and the lock-up as they left, so that the next morning, no one noticed the intrusion? Black trenchcoats, masks, and fatigues, huh? You mean, like, FBI fatigues: the kind of baggy, black, leg-pocket pants that police and skate-punks like to wear? Early reports that day DID have the shooters "dressed like police". Then after all the choas and fun of killing, the two "gunmen" both killed themselves as planned, and were found together in the library. Yeah, right! I'm calling shit on this version of events. It looks to me like an event designed to do exactly what it did; Sway public hysteria and provide credence for genetically fingerprinting every teenager in the country, legislating conformist behavior, and "re-educating" those who express outlying views at an early age. Note to other "conspiracy buffs": They used the Oklahoma bombing for the same purpose: Create "fear of the internet", fear of gunowners, and justification for jack-boot tactics. I DON'T BELIEVE the single bomb theory, either. Single bomb theory, Single bullet theory: Same shit, different decade!
It's not about accountability. It's about keeping track of dissenters. In the old Soviet Union, Typewriters had to be registered with the state. GET IT?
I'd be one of them 'lurking perverts' (no you may NOT have my real name). But not to fear. I just want your money, not your children. I only hope that I get the chance to CASH IN on the action before it gets regulated out of existence. Guess I'm just one of those "opportunist, gigolo, cab-drivers". So be it. Everyone needs a day job. I agree with you. The big money, corporate bullies want to own it ALL. They don't want to share the bandwidth with small-time pornographers like myself. They want YOU to buy THEIR pornography. That way, they keep ALL they money and also get to dictate the unwritten standards inherent in any mass media. In other words: IT'S ALL PORNOGRAPHY! (Sorry, didn't mean to yell. I just get so darn worked up over these issues). The Internet represents what the heavies in DC and the board-room fear the most: a free society with a voice. They fear cryptography because they can't spy on us (as effectively) when we use it. They fear 'hackers/crackers' because such skills can penetrate THEIR OWN secret databases (us spying on THEM). Now THAT they hate. Just witness the fate of any of a number of Mitnicks out there whose REAL harm amounts to very little. It's not the scale of any real damage the hackers caused, it's the power the hackers posses. In this age of 'data-mining', when every detail of your spending habits and physical health is stored electronically, you are effectively 'naked' to the owners of the database. The powers attempting to control and regulate the net hate it when the shoe is on the other foot: when THEY are naked to us. Insurance companies already own your ass. If you don't believe this, just try collecting from them if you are injured performing an activity which lies outside of the narrow parameters defined in your insurance contract. Of course, everyone has their own definition of what the term 'regulation' actually means. If you are the owner of the 'big pipe', regulation means the government forces you to share it with other ISPs so that they too can have an equal chance of providing consumers with high speed access. If you are the consumer, regulation means someone upstream is filtering your content. This can happen without you knowing it (the scary part). Some people go in for this on purpose. There are ISPs that sell pre-filtered 'family' content, automatically blocking anything that smells like 'pron'. Now THAT'S democratic capitalism: buy what you want to buy. Don't buy what you don't want or don't agree with. You are right, though. It won't stay this way. Because someone else has decided that certain content should be off limits to you. You will not be allowed to decide for yourself. Such freedom has been deemed too dangerous. You won't be able to look at the porn that I want to make available, even if I give it away. So it's not ALL about the money. It's also about someone else's vision of a bleached and sanitized America (how will they control overseas content?). But why should you be allowed to look at nudity or read about strange, 'perverted' behavior that some of us engage in every night? You already can't do what you please with your own body. You are not allowed to put drugs in your body for the sake of pure entertainment. You are only allowed to use the drugs which THEY want to sell you; especially if those drugs make you or your children more tractable, listless, and easier to manage. Yeah, the internet took shape while adults, geeks, and perverts still ran unfettered and free. It was an adults world where adults were allowed to make adult choices for themselves. Adults could select adult content if they chose or select something tamer. For the most part, they acted very adult about it, the occasional flame-war notwithstanding. The nice thing about flame-wars is, no one dies. Ideas may get shot down. Unpopular or 'tasteless' content may never makes it to any 'top-100' listing. If you hate my flavor of sexually explicit material, you can e-mail me and tell me I'm a sicko. You can e-mail all of your friends and tell them not to check out my web site. You can hire a 'cracker' and try to force my site off the net (but I'll retaliate!). It's an adult's world. I don't like everything I see. I don't agree with everthing that is being promoted. I buy those products which I damn well choose to buy and ignore those which I think are rip-offs (I only PAY for porn I agree with!). I don't want to live in a world where everything is safe for toddlers and techno-phobes. That's just too suffocatingly SAFE! I don't want the world to be reconstructed so that it is safe for your little neonate to wander around and not bump it's soft head on the furniture. That's YOUR job. Not mine. If you don't like it, DON'T BUY THEM A COMPUTER. Please, keep little Johny away from my wild, wonderful Internet and don't let him play in the street (I drive fast). Make sure that he grows up without the skills or the knowledge to be competitive in a technological world. That should make him a nice, well behaved consumer. Give him Ritilin if he complains. He can always go into law learn to legislate away freedoms which he never learned to enjoy or master. I remain, sincerely... an Anonymous Coward Lurking Pervert, (because jack-booted thugs have access to no-knock warrants) PS: Almost forgot; be a part of the revolution; GO VOTE.
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...and the crater which the bomb left did NOT extend INTO the perimiter of the building (as the illustration in the "memorial book" shows. You are thinking of the World Trade Center).
Apparently 5000psi reinforced structural concrete fractures at the slightest puff of wind these days. Anyone ever heard of Boyle's law? The best facts on explosive are at the library in books published by Los Alamos.
I don't want my sister, girlfriend, or my own ass getting cavity searched at the airport just because it's "important for national security to interdict narcotics".
And I agree... events like Oklahoma were designed to have exactly this effect on public opinion: "Gee, I guess we really do need to let the police have unlimited power to kick in our doors to keep evil red-necks from blowing shit up. Guess we're not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Pass the KY jelly, please. Oh GOD!... COLD HANDS..."
(...and I STILL don't believe that suicidal "yutes" wear masks.)
...is to hide.
If they want to centralize kontrol of who has access... then it's no longer open source, correct?
This looks like another attempt to be exclusive based on "security concerns". If successful (which I doubt) then it would be a very convenient lever to use for the purpose of upstream content filtering (once no one except the exclusive handful is allowed to see the inner workings of the code).
It goes like this; "Hey, I got an unable to locate server error. Guess the site doesn't exist anymore." and "Hey, my Konspiracy Kracker web site isn't getting any hits. Guess no one is interested."
Then again, I'm not technical... just paranoid.
I fit the profile above also, to the letter. I'm in my mid thirties and educated. I use a computer. Why am I anonymous? So I can ask questions without getting disappeared! Is it just me or does ANYONE ELSE have severe problems with the official version of events at Colombine? First a little self-disclosure. I'm a geek. Always have been, always will be. I was an "out-cast" in school, bullied, scape-goated, rejected, lied about, and all the rest of the baggage that goes with the territory of being a little too quiet and a little too opinionated. Sound familiar? Anyone else having flashbacks to high-school? I always knew I'd get out, get away, and HAVE FUN. That hope kept me alive. I was right. Life's a lot more fun now for a variety of reasons. However; I used to fantasize. Oh yes! I had wonderful vengence fantasies about getting revenge with those who abused me. I envisioned spilling the blood of those I had learned to hate. (Hatred does such ugly things to us). In such a vengence fantasy, I could picture walking right up to one of my potential targets and letting them see my smiling face, right before I wasted them! Yessiree. They would KNOW who was killing them. Is any revenge-fantasy different? What good is revenge if you can't relish the silent reproach of your enemies eyes? So, why wear a mask? Why wear a mask if suicide was part of the plan? Why target people at random? The gunmen went after "jocks" and "blacks" and girls who "believed in God". Strange... I would have had a name list. There's eyewitness reports that at least one of the gunmen was unmasked and WASN'T a student. How did two skinny teenagers manage an assault that would make a Navy Seal proud? How did the same two skinny teenagers manage to get ALL of those bombs into the school? Did they really manage to break-in the night before undetected, and the lock-up as they left, so that the next morning, no one noticed the intrusion? Black trenchcoats, masks, and fatigues, huh? You mean, like, FBI fatigues: the kind of baggy, black, leg-pocket pants that police and skate-punks like to wear? Early reports that day DID have the shooters "dressed like police". Then after all the choas and fun of killing, the two "gunmen" both killed themselves as planned, and were found together in the library. Yeah, right! I'm calling shit on this version of events. It looks to me like an event designed to do exactly what it did; Sway public hysteria and provide credence for genetically fingerprinting every teenager in the country, legislating conformist behavior, and "re-educating" those who express outlying views at an early age. Note to other "conspiracy buffs": They used the Oklahoma bombing for the same purpose: Create "fear of the internet", fear of gunowners, and justification for jack-boot tactics. I DON'T BELIEVE the single bomb theory, either. Single bomb theory, Single bullet theory: Same shit, different decade!
It's not about accountability. It's about keeping track of dissenters. In the old Soviet Union, Typewriters had to be registered with the state. GET IT?
Actually, I'm an artistic pornographer. No models were eaten or harmed for the making of MY porn!
I'd be one of them 'lurking perverts' (no you may NOT have my real name). But not to fear. I just want your money, not your children. I only hope that I get the chance to CASH IN on the action before it gets regulated out of existence. Guess I'm just one of those "opportunist, gigolo, cab-drivers". So be it. Everyone needs a day job. I agree with you. The big money, corporate bullies want to own it ALL. They don't want to share the bandwidth with small-time pornographers like myself. They want YOU to buy THEIR pornography. That way, they keep ALL they money and also get to dictate the unwritten standards inherent in any mass media. In other words: IT'S ALL PORNOGRAPHY! (Sorry, didn't mean to yell. I just get so darn worked up over these issues). The Internet represents what the heavies in DC and the board-room fear the most: a free society with a voice. They fear cryptography because they can't spy on us (as effectively) when we use it. They fear 'hackers/crackers' because such skills can penetrate THEIR OWN secret databases (us spying on THEM). Now THAT they hate. Just witness the fate of any of a number of Mitnicks out there whose REAL harm amounts to very little. It's not the scale of any real damage the hackers caused, it's the power the hackers posses. In this age of 'data-mining', when every detail of your spending habits and physical health is stored electronically, you are effectively 'naked' to the owners of the database. The powers attempting to control and regulate the net hate it when the shoe is on the other foot: when THEY are naked to us. Insurance companies already own your ass. If you don't believe this, just try collecting from them if you are injured performing an activity which lies outside of the narrow parameters defined in your insurance contract. Of course, everyone has their own definition of what the term 'regulation' actually means. If you are the owner of the 'big pipe', regulation means the government forces you to share it with other ISPs so that they too can have an equal chance of providing consumers with high speed access. If you are the consumer, regulation means someone upstream is filtering your content. This can happen without you knowing it (the scary part). Some people go in for this on purpose. There are ISPs that sell pre-filtered 'family' content, automatically blocking anything that smells like 'pron'. Now THAT'S democratic capitalism: buy what you want to buy. Don't buy what you don't want or don't agree with. You are right, though. It won't stay this way. Because someone else has decided that certain content should be off limits to you. You will not be allowed to decide for yourself. Such freedom has been deemed too dangerous. You won't be able to look at the porn that I want to make available, even if I give it away. So it's not ALL about the money. It's also about someone else's vision of a bleached and sanitized America (how will they control overseas content?). But why should you be allowed to look at nudity or read about strange, 'perverted' behavior that some of us engage in every night? You already can't do what you please with your own body. You are not allowed to put drugs in your body for the sake of pure entertainment. You are only allowed to use the drugs which THEY want to sell you; especially if those drugs make you or your children more tractable, listless, and easier to manage. Yeah, the internet took shape while adults, geeks, and perverts still ran unfettered and free. It was an adults world where adults were allowed to make adult choices for themselves. Adults could select adult content if they chose or select something tamer. For the most part, they acted very adult about it, the occasional flame-war notwithstanding. The nice thing about flame-wars is, no one dies. Ideas may get shot down. Unpopular or 'tasteless' content may never makes it to any 'top-100' listing. If you hate my flavor of sexually explicit material, you can e-mail me and tell me I'm a sicko. You can e-mail all of your friends and tell them not to check out my web site. You can hire a 'cracker' and try to force my site off the net (but I'll retaliate!). It's an adult's world. I don't like everything I see. I don't agree with everthing that is being promoted. I buy those products which I damn well choose to buy and ignore those which I think are rip-offs (I only PAY for porn I agree with!). I don't want to live in a world where everything is safe for toddlers and techno-phobes. That's just too suffocatingly SAFE! I don't want the world to be reconstructed so that it is safe for your little neonate to wander around and not bump it's soft head on the furniture. That's YOUR job. Not mine. If you don't like it, DON'T BUY THEM A COMPUTER. Please, keep little Johny away from my wild, wonderful Internet and don't let him play in the street (I drive fast). Make sure that he grows up without the skills or the knowledge to be competitive in a technological world. That should make him a nice, well behaved consumer. Give him Ritilin if he complains. He can always go into law learn to legislate away freedoms which he never learned to enjoy or master. I remain, sincerely... an Anonymous Coward Lurking Pervert, (because jack-booted thugs have access to no-knock warrants) PS: Almost forgot; be a part of the revolution; GO VOTE.