"long-winded fanaticism" was counter to "sound-bite mania". You need to stop and think before starting to respond.
The reason I stopped actively reading (I did still skim for anything worthwhile) is that your comment was so ridiculously off base as to discredit you. The *only* non-secularist revolutionary-political movement today are the Jihadists. Europe gave it up, oh, 600 years ago, give or take a Pope. Non-muslim Asia disavowed theocratic governance at least by the end of World War II. Only Jihadists seeking to force Sharia (sp?) are seeking to distroy civilized society.
By the way. I am not a Marxist; I am a believer in Christ. But I don't want a "Christian Government" any more than I want an Islam government. I do, however, hope that many in governmental positions would be people of sincere faith. For example: I would hope my teacher in school would pray but I would resist a public school dictated prayer.
Now I am too long winded, thanks to the hour, and this won;'t be edited down.
To look at things in more detail: your "secularists" are not. The Western camp is divided in many groups, some of them equally vicious, bloodthirsty and dangerous as the Jihadists (Israel springs to mind).
Israel is a secular democratic state as is every Western country, save the Vatican, and as such it poses no threat except to those wishing to destroy it (I won't argue this point tonight). I stopped reading your "long-winded fanaticism" when I got to this point (except I did skim).
Trodden? I'm not talking about the trodden. The only trodden fighting World War III are the religious fascists trying to fight a global war using their most vulnerable people (the trodden) as the weapons.
Then you go off and talk about social and economic changes. Sure, these changes are important, but they are not warfare. In fact, I'd prefer not to refer to these changes in martial terms but in terms fitting their domain: social, political and economic changes.
There is a war on between Jihadists and Secularists (many of whom are religious people of faith, but know that the State cannot be entrusted with such important matters). And in this war there are those who HAVE modern weapons and those who don't. It is imparative that we (the West, the Secularists) maintain this critical imbalance.
I am glad my country has weapons and willpower to hunt down the Jihadists and destroy them.
So, where do the bots get the money to play? Botswana National Bank? Stolen accounts?
No matter how good the bots are they've got to lose some sometime. I wonder if the casinos aren't in on it and "cover" the bots themselves -- a "house" player, if you will.
(I did not RTFA, I'm meta-moderating and got interested in the thread; sorry.)
That's why he called me a dumbass. See, if I did something stupid someone would point that out. When all someone can do is disagree, then the person himself is the problem. I wonder if the AC thought I was making a political statement.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought...Albert Einstien
AE expected the weapons to change, but not the way of warfare. In fact we are in the midst of World War III right now. And the weapons have actually become more crude than they were during World War II and the extension called the Cold War. The weapons of World War III are:
Passenger planes
Human bombs -- young men and women
Grainy videos of beheadings of innocents
Bomb-ladden school gyms
Box cutters and shoe bombs
etc.
I hadn't considered this until reading your.sig. Now that the super-weapons have made state-to-state warefare unwinnable by any rouge state the way of warring has changed.
Yes, quarantine. And why not for the Japs, too? And Kentukians?
Fuck yes!
No fuck, actually; haven't you learned about HIV by now?
Jokes aside, here's a different view on Japanese Internment in the War with Japan. (No, it's not a white supremacist wondering where we went wrong letting them out!)
You don't get the Electoral College, I think, by reading your post. Popular vote is near-to irrelevant; what matters is the EC.
All states happen to use a system of populous voting to determine their own delegates for the EC, but it is the EC that decides the election -- or Congress in case of a tie, and finally the Supreme Court (BTW, the Supreme Court did not decide the 2000 election; it overturned the Florida Supreme Court's violation of its own election laws; this had the effect of sealing the last official vote tally and Bush won by ~530 votes, sending the Replubican delegates to the EC) as ultimate court of any dispute. (And, yes, if Gore/Boies won the court fight and had their way Bush would still have won the vote -- Gore wasn't interested in re-counting all the counties, only the most Democratic; it was Bush that mentioned recounting all the votes, including the overseas votes by servicemen and servicewomen -- and if all the counties were recounted with a liberal ruling on "voter intent" some news organizations who did the count say Gore would have won; but that scenario was never on the table and is only interesting as a "hmmm..." exercise).
This won't be useful for kids -- it will be useful for paedophiles looking for kids and trying to avoid FBI agents posing as kids. Kids won't give a crap - so they blow an hour chatting with an adult; so what? But the value of identifying a real minor to a paedophile is much higher. Ask McNaughty, er, McNaughton formerly of Java/Disney fame.
You seriously need to obtain, by inner growth or theft, a sense of humor. Note, please, having a sense of humor does not mean one need laugh or find humorous all attempts at humor, whether sarcasm, irony, exaggeration, joke, or intentionally idiotic statement; just to be able to identify the attempt as such. I am ever dismayed when such obvious attempts at smart-assing are treated with the seriousness of a CBS 60 Minutes investigation, er, nevermind.
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Please continue to use Dual Athalon 64 processors connected by 802.11g to unfettered cable modems to run Solitare, Word and, especially, Internet Explorer. We need the excess power to provide the thousands of spam relays, DDoS zombies, open proxies and anonymous FTP servers for our training manual distribution efforts.
Thank you for your continued cooperation,
Al Qaeda and Russian Spammers
Kidding aside, these 50,000 machines DDoSing Authorize.Net... where do they come from? Does the average person know that these are not machines owned by the DDoS'er but likely THEIR machine 0wned by the DDoS'er? SETI at home, Folding at home, etc., aren't the only ones capable of reclaiming these wasted resources.
This abundance of power won't go away (until Longhorn is released -- kidding) for what manufacturer or salesperson will tell the novice computer purchaser that a 1998 computer is more than enough for their needs? Or that LTSP is all a large company needs for their basic workstation desktops?
People should be held accountable for what they allow their computer to do. Just like any other property I may own; if through my negligence something I own is used by another to harm others, I may be held liable. Especially if I left the item unprotected -- such as a car with the doors unlocked left running with a full tank of gas along with my now-legal assault weapons, fully automatic and fully loaded, sitting in the passenger seat while I stroll into the convenience store for a Sno-ball and RedBull power lunch -- those harmed through my negligance can sue me, or press charges against me.
NYTimes reports the obvious. This one coordinating phone call between Mapes, Burkett and Lockhart is the new center of this breech of journalistic integrity -- overshadowing the fraudulent documents themselves, as it betrays the motives behind the actions.
My original post was a reaction to the news that such a phone call existed. Seems like CBS and the NYTimes agree that it by itself is inexcusable.
Undeniable culpability on the part of CBS to fraudulently affect the outcome of an election. Disgraceful.
The article says Mary Mapes, CBS Producer, calls Joe Lockhart, of the Kerry campaign, to tell him that Burkett has documents about Bush's Guard service and that he wants to help the campaign... I called this conversation and subsequent two-pronged attack on Bush (CBS's report and the Kerry campaign's "Favorite Son" ad) coordination. Further, the forgeries (no one claims they are authentic) are designed to impugn Bush's character and dissuade people from voting for him. The accusations are based on false documents. Coordination, fraud... all there.
But, I guess you believe Lockhart when he said that they didn't talk about the only thing of interest Burkett had to offer on the subject of Bush's guard service. *snicker*
The fact that Mapes called the Kerry campaign to help the campaign (even if just one single phone call) is all I need to know that CBS is trying to affect the outcome of a political campaign through coordinating with one campaign in a partisan fashion. For any American such coordination is fine, but not for a journalist. At least, not unless the rules are to be re-written; in which case I'd prefer advance notice.
There is no evidence in the article of coordinating and no evidence of undeniable culpability or fraud.
We must have read different articles. When CBS producer Mary Mapes calls the Kerry campaign to tell them a Mr. Burkett has documents to help the Kerry campaign CBS is not only favoring a political party but aiding and abetting -- then when the documents are forgeries and so easily identifiably so...that is fraud. What did you get from the article?
Hell no. It's never over for them until the last ballot is shredded. They are never finished -- they just keeping moving forward like sharks that never sleep, always pushing, pulling, kicking, blocking, lying.
Monday, September 20th, 2004
Put Away Your Hankies...a message from Michael Moore
9/20/04
Dear Friends,
Enough of the handwringing! Enough of the doomsaying! Do I have to come there and personally calm you down? Stop with all the defeatism, OK? Bush IS a goner -- IF we all just quit our whining and bellyaching and stop shaking like a bunch of nervous ninnies. Geez, this is embarrassing! The Republicans are laughing at us. Do you ever see them cry, "Oh, it's all over! We are finished! Bush can't win! Waaaaaa!"
Hell no. It's never over for them until the last ballot is shredded. They are never finished -- they just keeping moving forward like sharks that never sleep, always pushing, pulling, kicking, blocking, lying.
That's right. CBS is a tool of the RNC. *gufaw*
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- Would you want the Google guys to set you up on a blind date?
What a great idea! Too bad Lotus Domino is squatting at gdate.com, but Blind Dating would put the oogle in Google.Great idea. Especially since the Chinese government is such a bastion of free speech.
Not.
So why when I physically block all other squares on the page do the A and B squares appear different?
The reason I stopped actively reading (I did still skim for anything worthwhile) is that your comment was so ridiculously off base as to discredit you. The *only* non-secularist revolutionary-political movement today are the Jihadists. Europe gave it up, oh, 600 years ago, give or take a Pope. Non-muslim Asia disavowed theocratic governance at least by the end of World War II. Only Jihadists seeking to force Sharia (sp?) are seeking to distroy civilized society.
By the way. I am not a Marxist; I am a believer in Christ. But I don't want a "Christian Government" any more than I want an Islam government. I do, however, hope that many in governmental positions would be people of sincere faith. For example: I would hope my teacher in school would pray but I would resist a public school dictated prayer.
Now I am too long winded, thanks to the hour, and this won;'t be edited down.
But they are not warfare. Obviously warfare has a precursor cause and post conflict result.
- To look at things in more detail: your "secularists" are not. The Western camp is divided in many groups, some of them equally vicious, bloodthirsty and dangerous as the Jihadists (Israel springs to mind).
Israel is a secular democratic state as is every Western country, save the Vatican, and as such it poses no threat except to those wishing to destroy it (I won't argue this point tonight). I stopped reading your "long-winded fanaticism" when I got to this point (except I did skim).Try saying simple things with less words.
Then you go off and talk about social and economic changes. Sure, these changes are important, but they are not warfare. In fact, I'd prefer not to refer to these changes in martial terms but in terms fitting their domain: social, political and economic changes.
There is a war on between Jihadists and Secularists (many of whom are religious people of faith, but know that the State cannot be entrusted with such important matters). And in this war there are those who HAVE modern weapons and those who don't. It is imparative that we (the West, the Secularists) maintain this critical imbalance.
I am glad my country has weapons and willpower to hunt down the Jihadists and destroy them.
No matter how good the bots are they've got to lose some sometime. I wonder if the casinos aren't in on it and "cover" the bots themselves -- a "house" player, if you will.
(I did not RTFA, I'm meta-moderating and got interested in the thread; sorry.)
That's why he called me a dumbass. See, if I did something stupid someone would point that out. When all someone can do is disagree, then the person himself is the problem. I wonder if the AC thought I was making a political statement.
AE expected the weapons to change, but not the way of warfare. In fact we are in the midst of World War III right now. And the weapons have actually become more crude than they were during World War II and the extension called the Cold War. The weapons of World War III are:
I hadn't considered this until reading your .sig. Now that the super-weapons have made state-to-state warefare unwinnable by any rouge state the way of warring has changed.
Fuck yes!
No fuck, actually; haven't you learned about HIV by now?
Jokes aside, here's a different view on Japanese Internment in the War with Japan. (No, it's not a white supremacist wondering where we went wrong letting them out!)
All states happen to use a system of populous voting to determine their own delegates for the EC, but it is the EC that decides the election -- or Congress in case of a tie, and finally the Supreme Court (BTW, the Supreme Court did not decide the 2000 election; it overturned the Florida Supreme Court's violation of its own election laws; this had the effect of sealing the last official vote tally and Bush won by ~530 votes, sending the Replubican delegates to the EC) as ultimate court of any dispute. (And, yes, if Gore/Boies won the court fight and had their way Bush would still have won the vote -- Gore wasn't interested in re-counting all the counties, only the most Democratic; it was Bush that mentioned recounting all the votes, including the overseas votes by servicemen and servicewomen -- and if all the counties were recounted with a liberal ruling on "voter intent" some news organizations who did the count say Gore would have won; but that scenario was never on the table and is only interesting as a "hmmm..." exercise).
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This won't be useful for kids -- it will be useful for paedophiles looking for kids and trying to avoid FBI agents posing as kids. Kids won't give a crap - so they blow an hour chatting with an adult; so what? But the value of identifying a real minor to a paedophile is much higher. Ask McNaughty, er, McNaughton formerly of Java/Disney fame.Minesweeper? Hah! I've progressed to Frozen Bubble!
You seriously need to obtain, by inner growth or theft, a sense of humor. Note, please, having a sense of humor does not mean one need laugh or find humorous all attempts at humor, whether sarcasm, irony, exaggeration, joke, or intentionally idiotic statement; just to be able to identify the attempt as such. I am ever dismayed when such obvious attempts at smart-assing are treated with the seriousness of a CBS 60 Minutes investigation, er, nevermind.
Kidding aside, these 50,000 machines DDoSing Authorize.Net ... where do they come from? Does the average person know that these are not machines owned by the DDoS'er but likely THEIR machine 0wned by the DDoS'er? SETI at home, Folding at home, etc., aren't the only ones capable of reclaiming these wasted resources.
This abundance of power won't go away (until Longhorn is released -- kidding) for what manufacturer or salesperson will tell the novice computer purchaser that a 1998 computer is more than enough for their needs? Or that LTSP is all a large company needs for their basic workstation desktops?
People should be held accountable for what they allow their computer to do. Just like any other property I may own; if through my negligence something I own is used by another to harm others, I may be held liable. Especially if I left the item unprotected -- such as a car with the doors unlocked left running with a full tank of gas along with my now-legal assault weapons, fully automatic and fully loaded, sitting in the passenger seat while I stroll into the convenience store for a Sno-ball and RedBull power lunch -- those harmed through my negligance can sue me, or press charges against me.
My original post was a reaction to the news that such a phone call existed. Seems like CBS and the NYTimes agree that it by itself is inexcusable.
Exactly what I was thinking. There's even Linux support for these things (I had a Sierra Wireless card for a brief time).
- Undeniable culpability on the part of CBS to fraudulently affect the outcome of an election. Disgraceful.
The article says Mary Mapes, CBS Producer, calls Joe Lockhart, of the Kerry campaign, to tell him that Burkett has documents about Bush's Guard service and that he wants to help the campaign... I called this conversation and subsequent two-pronged attack on Bush (CBS's report and the Kerry campaign's "Favorite Son" ad) coordination. Further, the forgeries (no one claims they are authentic) are designed to impugn Bush's character and dissuade people from voting for him. The accusations are based on false documents. Coordination, fraud... all there.But, I guess you believe Lockhart when he said that they didn't talk about the only thing of interest Burkett had to offer on the subject of Bush's guard service. *snicker*
The fact that Mapes called the Kerry campaign to help the campaign (even if just one single phone call) is all I need to know that CBS is trying to affect the outcome of a political campaign through coordinating with one campaign in a partisan fashion. For any American such coordination is fine, but not for a journalist. At least, not unless the rules are to be re-written; in which case I'd prefer advance notice.
If you don't agree, respond.
Really? I thought the first one, in Arizona, was going to be a CBS correspondent. All the better.
We must have read different articles. When CBS producer Mary Mapes calls the Kerry campaign to tell them a Mr. Burkett has documents to help the Kerry campaign CBS is not only favoring a political party but aiding and abetting -- then when the documents are forgeries and so easily identifiably so...that is fraud. What did you get from the article?
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That's right. CBS is a tool of the RNC. *gufaw*Hell no. It's never over for them until the last ballot is shredded. They are never finished -- they just keeping moving forward like sharks that never sleep, always pushing, pulling, kicking, blocking, lying.
And there is word that some on Bush's team want to throw CBS off the debate moderation rotation -- if Kerry was smart he'd demand they go, too!