Don't forget, cell phones sold in the U.S. post-2005 are required to have tracking capabilities built-in, usable by law enforcement. You are getting your global locator beacon whether you like it or not.
Does anyone recall that all cell phones sold in the U.S. post-2005 are required to have tracking capability built-in? Did everyone forget, or was the requirement postponed?
Arnold and the Republicans raise a tax? Not likely. They'll simply borrow more billions and declare victory while the state goes all the way into the dumpster.
Reelect Arnold, you 'Fornians... good job playing Rove's game of ousting the ONE guy who told the truth about Enron's robbery, while installing Ken Lay's buddy. Blame the guy who told the truth, install the liar.
Oh, and good job helping Rove kick out your Secretary of State. A good Republican is taking his place. Say goodbye to proper recounts, say hello to untrackable voting machines.
You're going bankrupt while they're looting you blind. The interest alone on that loan Arnie purchased to cover up the tax deficit is going to destroy public works.
Let's not talk about your property tax caps and the subsequent death of your school system. Tho it might explain why the public can't do budget math nowadays.
In response to the "so what?" posts, let's play a game:
Suppose I, catbeller, in my civilian life, told a representative of Microsoft that I would personally unemploy, say, his family members by making a couple of phone calls, barring his cooperation in paying me a few million dollars, and signing a few contracts granting me much power.
How long until the armored black farmboys smash my door down with a ram? How long would I be in FMITA prison?
But Microsoft can do it. And no one is responsible. The corporation has civil rights as an individual, but has no civil obligations. Even if a crime is somehow proven, no one goes to jail, not for theft of billions, Enron style, or death of thousands, Dupont/Bhopal style.
All power and priviledge, no responsibilty for its own actions. The very thing that makes conservatives quiver: no consequences for individuals for their own actions. Fake corporate "persons" front for real people committing real crimes. The current setup is organized crime.
I've come to the conclusion that corporate personhood is a concept that has to be eliminated. People should answer for their crimes. If Bill made the decision to extort the Danes, then he should have to answer for it at a trial after extradition from the U.S. But in the real world...
"barring any additional restrictions I agreed to when I purchased it (EULA)."
I personally bar any additional restrictions in the EULA.:) I agreed to buy a DVD, not a license. I'm not Blockbuster or Hollywood Video: I have no business contract with any vendor, and have no intention of honoring one slipped into the packaging. I do what I will with my DVD. Fair use or no, I own every bit embedded on that piece of plastic substrate, the box, and the air trapped inside of the shrinkwrap. If I can crack the copy control they put on the disc, more power to me. I didn't ask for it.
It occurs to me that to be really, really safe, eventually we all should have cameras and microphones implanted in our foreheads, streaming data back to federal servers via encrypted radio links. It's the logical course for a country trying for the title of Safest, Securest Nation on Earth.
Don't laugh. Train people over generations to expect surveillance, and they'll accept headcams For The Good of All. And the cameras could be made relatively unobtrusive.
Quick questions for all of you out there: Will Bill Gates and the Bush family, or anyone else wealthy and connected, make their data available for all to see? Do we get to see Bush's arrest record? Drug record? Accident record? Complete military service records? No? Why can they hide, and not us? Will there be two societies, one which cannot hide, with no civil rights, and the other, which will have full civil rights formerly possessed by all?
There's a problem with "sending federal tax back to the states". It won't work for a majority of the western and southern states which, per capita, receive far more federal dollars back than they pay in Federal taxes. Those who complain the loudest about Federal funding, Colorado, Idaho, yadda yadda, are swimming in free cash. Welfare queens with Stetsons on.
To twist the blade a bit further, the states which are not predominately Republican pay more in than they receive back. The old line states, New York, California, Ohio, a few others, get creamed by pumping their tax dollars into states which then in turn complain about the tax system.
The federal taxes that the western and southern states pay are bonanzas for them!
It's not illegal for North Korea to develop nuclear weapons.
Bush has tossed away several treaties we've already signed regarding development of nuclear weapons. We're not special children of God's army, so the privilege is open to other nations now.
They are busy starving, and not menacing us.
They have been explicitly informed by Bush that he is going to make a point of destroying them. They have an excellent case for defending themselves. They have a logical case that possessing the weapons deters an invasion by Bush. By Bushian logic, we haven't invaded, so possessing the nukes keeps us out. Q.E.D.
They aren't going to attack anyone with the damned things. It would be instant suicide. CNN would be roasting radioactive weenies on their ashes in a month, chuckling at the wonderfulness of it all.
Wrapup: they have the weapons for the exact same reason the U.S. claimed it needed ours. Deterence.
The evil or not-evil of North Korea is irrelevant. Bush et al support Uzbekistan, which boils its dissidents alive in oil. Evil is a convenient label for removing people you don't like."
Labelled a troll? It's a simple statement of several obvious facts. Deal with it, wingers. Moderation is not meant for political hitmen to use to stifle information.
Oh, it's quite easy to visit Cuba. Change planes in Central America, and fly to Cuba from there. The Cuban customs will stamp a piece of paper and place it in your passport, so you can toss the evidence when you leave.
I feel quite sad for Cuba. Eventually the U.S. will come back in and "liberate" the country. Then it will be a violent free market hell with a surging infant death rate. At least if you keep your nose clean there today, you can live to be quite old and healthy, if not rich.
If the U.S. hadn't kept the country isolated from the NA market for the last half century, perhaps we would have seen the world's best socialist experiment. Maybe they could have made it work, like China has. With a 90 mile separation from the U.S., they could have become quite the tourist destination and manufacturing center. I think they are instead doomed to a military/corporate invasion in the near future. Poor bastards.
Um, afghanistan and iraq have degenerated into the 7th century. We boosted the holy warriors into power in Afghanistan in the eighties because the fought the Ruskies. We just kicked out a stable secular ruler in Iraq, which is being replaced by a Shiite theocracy, popularly elected.
Why do you assume that the Bush administration, oil men all, want to bring down the price of oil?
It's about the control of the oil, not the price of it. I made the same mistake in thinking myself. I thought they'd flood the market with cheap oil and break the cartel pricing stucture, and save Bush's economic hide much as Reagan was saved by OPEC's crackup in the early '80's.
But it seems they have a bigger agenda, controling Asia/China's access to the petro they need, while reaping huge private awards in the oil industry. Bush is a faux-free marketer: he will not interfere in the price of oil. Flow of blood, no problem, flow of oil -- he's got a problem.
It's not illegal for North Korea to develop nuclear weapons.
Bush has tossed away several treaties we've already signed regarding development of nuclear weapons. We're not special children of God's army, so the privilege is open to other nations now.
They are busy starving, and not menacing us.
They have been explicitly informed by Bush that he is going to make a point of destroying them. They have an excellent case for defending themselves. They have a logical case that possessing the weapons deters an invasion by Bush. By Bushian logic, we haven't invaded, so possessing the nukes keeps us out. Q.E.D.
They aren't going to attack anyone with the damned things. It would be instant suicide. CNN would be roasting radioactive weenies on their ashes in a month, chuckling at the wonderfulness of it all.
Wrapup: they have the weapons for the exact same reason the U.S. claimed it needed ours. Deterence.
The evil or not-evil of North Korea is irrelevant. Bush et al support Uzbekistan, which boils its dissidents alive in oil. Evil is a convenient label for removing people you don't like.
"Insert Off-Topic comment about not being able to find Osama Bin Laden here."
OKAY! After torturing over a thousand innocent men, women, and children, we've not found bin Laden. We also cannot find out where all the oil revenues from Iraq are going.
Could it be that the reason we can't find "al Queda" is because there is no such thing? After you slaughter a few tens of thousands and torture a few thousand more, you have to Occam's Razor the damn problem. There ain't no answers because the question is wrong.
Only because you asked. Must be a sensitive subject, the fake evidence for invading Iraq and all.
To make this work, saveenterprise would have to prove, as a first step, that they have access to 38-88 million bucks.
They key would be to set up an escrow account with, say, Paypal? that would accumulate real money. If they can achieve the target amount, they have some real POWER. If they cannot achieve target, then the money should be paid back from escrow.
Here's a cute thought: how much interest can 88 million earn in a couple of months? I don't think escrow accounts can be invested, but... jeez. At the end of the money raising period, if the project went bust, everyone would get their cash back, minus admin fees for the escrow holder, plus interest earned. Yipes.
Why didn't anyone think of this for Whedon's Buffyverse? I hearby propose sending someone to JW's house with a proposal.
The power of this kind of project is unlimited, if you think about it. Building Rutan's SpaceShipOne cost about 20-30 million. An escrow fund could build spaceships. Space stations. How much to go to the moon, if you wanted to do it cheap and practical? A billion? That's a few hundred dollars for each star trek fan. A small investment in a club, and you not only could finance SF, you could finance instead the reality.
ALSO KILLED: PFC Hubble Space Telescope, killed 02/07/2005 in a guerilla political attack in Iraq, victim of a sneak budget mortar.
The President expressed sympathy for the family of PFC Telescope, tho he blamed terrorists for forcing him to spend the money necessary to save PFC Telescope on.2 day's worth of occupying Iraq.
PFC Telescope's family was quietly outraged, because the President's people had previously pledged to supply the money for the operation. None would comment on the record, for several other children are at risk at the moment.
Pictures of the cremation will not be permitted. Any NASA contractor taking such a picture will be terminated, the Administration said, so that PFC Telescope's privacy will be respected.
Several more casualties of the Iraq occupation are rumored to be announced soon: the education system, social security, medicare, public health, and police funding. At time of publication, the deaths cannot yet be confirmed, tho their passing seems to be imminent.
And "The condescending attitude and disrespect of "blue-staters" toward the "red-staters" is one of the biggest reasons why you are losing election after election. " is NOT trolling?
If a viral lie is injected, and I see it, I'm posting against it. It's the unanswered lies that own the country now.
Like they preserved all the movies prior to 1940? The vast majority of celluoid has turned to dust, the copyright holders not bothering to remaster over the decades. Keaton's works are almost all gone. The silents are just about gone. I've a hunch that the reason Disney won't release the old cartoon archives on DVD is because they sat on it for so long it disintegrated.
Copyright holders are rarely the original artists. They are businessmen who hold no emotional or artistic attachment to the "property" they acquire. And they suck at taking care of it.
This is another reason why copyright should expire. The owners are poor overseers. As Jefferson et al maintained, art spawns new art, endlessly borrowing from the past. Art dies under copyright.
Well, that's more a function of the cost and size of data storage. Give me a Petabyte of soldid state nonvolatile storage, and I'll toss Jurrassic Park I in there for giggles, along with 20's silent films, clips from "Bozo's Circus" on WGN on 1969's Chicago TV, the collected books of mankind, complete 3D terrain maps of Mars and every old time radio recording in existence. Gimme a $200 unit that does this, and I'll preserve anything I can get my hands on!
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"Periodically, there is a call to "revise" Prop 13. Usually by the CA Legislature. Gee, you think they want more money or something?"
Your school system is dying from starvation. For god's sake, you need to pay more taxes.
Don't forget, cell phones sold in the U.S. post-2005 are required to have tracking capabilities built-in, usable by law enforcement. You are getting your global locator beacon whether you like it or not.
Not a terrorist :
Islamofascist. See also: liberal, Democrat, Saddam Hussein.
Report to the meme injection center in your area immediately for reeducation, sir.
Does anyone recall that all cell phones sold in the U.S. post-2005 are required to have tracking capability built-in? Did everyone forget, or was the requirement postponed?
Bwahahhahaaa!
Arnold and the Republicans raise a tax? Not likely. They'll simply borrow more billions and declare victory while the state goes all the way into the dumpster.
Reelect Arnold, you 'Fornians... good job playing Rove's game of ousting the ONE guy who told the truth about Enron's robbery, while installing Ken Lay's buddy. Blame the guy who told the truth, install the liar.
Oh, and good job helping Rove kick out your Secretary of State. A good Republican is taking his place. Say goodbye to proper recounts, say hello to untrackable voting machines.
You're going bankrupt while they're looting you blind. The interest alone on that loan Arnie purchased to cover up the tax deficit is going to destroy public works.
Let's not talk about your property tax caps and the subsequent death of your school system. Tho it might explain why the public can't do budget math nowadays.
It was such a wonderful state once.
In response to the "so what?" posts, let's play a game:
Suppose I, catbeller, in my civilian life, told a representative of Microsoft that I would personally unemploy, say, his family members by making a couple of phone calls, barring his cooperation in paying me a few million dollars, and signing a few contracts granting me much power.
How long until the armored black farmboys smash my door down with a ram? How long would I be in FMITA prison?
But Microsoft can do it. And no one is responsible. The corporation has civil rights as an individual, but has no civil obligations. Even if a crime is somehow proven, no one goes to jail, not for theft of billions, Enron style, or death of thousands, Dupont/Bhopal style.
All power and priviledge, no responsibilty for its own actions. The very thing that makes conservatives quiver: no consequences for individuals for their own actions. Fake corporate "persons" front for real people committing real crimes. The current setup is organized crime.
I've come to the conclusion that corporate personhood is a concept that has to be eliminated. People should answer for their crimes. If Bill made the decision to extort the Danes, then he should have to answer for it at a trial after extradition from the U.S. But in the real world...
"barring any additional restrictions I agreed to when I purchased it (EULA)."
:) I agreed to buy a DVD, not a license. I'm not Blockbuster or Hollywood Video: I have no business contract with any vendor, and have no intention of honoring one slipped into the packaging. I do what I will with my DVD. Fair use or no, I own every bit embedded on that piece of plastic substrate, the box, and the air trapped inside of the shrinkwrap. If I can crack the copy control they put on the disc, more power to me. I didn't ask for it.
I personally bar any additional restrictions in the EULA.
It occurs to me that to be really, really safe, eventually we all should have cameras and microphones implanted in our foreheads, streaming data back to federal servers via encrypted radio links. It's the logical course for a country trying for the title of Safest, Securest Nation on Earth.
Don't laugh. Train people over generations to expect surveillance, and they'll accept headcams For The Good of All. And the cameras could be made relatively unobtrusive.
Quick questions for all of you out there: Will Bill Gates and the Bush family, or anyone else wealthy and connected, make their data available for all to see? Do we get to see Bush's arrest record? Drug record? Accident record? Complete military service records? No? Why can they hide, and not us? Will there be two societies, one which cannot hide, with no civil rights, and the other, which will have full civil rights formerly possessed by all?
There's a problem with "sending federal tax back to the states". It won't work for a majority of the western and southern states which, per capita, receive far more federal dollars back than they pay in Federal taxes. Those who complain the loudest about Federal funding, Colorado, Idaho, yadda yadda, are swimming in free cash. Welfare queens with Stetsons on.
To twist the blade a bit further, the states which are not predominately Republican pay more in than they receive back. The old line states, New York, California, Ohio, a few others, get creamed by pumping their tax dollars into states which then in turn complain about the tax system.
The federal taxes that the western and southern states pay are bonanzas for them!
" Good for them.
It's not illegal for North Korea to develop nuclear weapons.
Bush has tossed away several treaties we've already signed regarding development of nuclear weapons. We're not special children of God's army, so the privilege is open to other nations now.
They are busy starving, and not menacing us.
They have been explicitly informed by Bush that he is going to make a point of destroying them. They have an excellent case for defending themselves. They have a logical case that possessing the weapons deters an invasion by Bush. By Bushian logic, we haven't invaded, so possessing the nukes keeps us out. Q.E.D.
They aren't going to attack anyone with the damned things. It would be instant suicide. CNN would be roasting radioactive weenies on their ashes in a month, chuckling at the wonderfulness of it all.
Wrapup: they have the weapons for the exact same reason the U.S. claimed it needed ours. Deterence.
The evil or not-evil of North Korea is irrelevant. Bush et al support Uzbekistan, which boils its dissidents alive in oil. Evil is a convenient label for removing people you don't like."
Labelled a troll? It's a simple statement of several obvious facts. Deal with it, wingers. Moderation is not meant for political hitmen to use to stifle information.
Oh, it's quite easy to visit Cuba. Change planes in Central America, and fly to Cuba from there. The Cuban customs will stamp a piece of paper and place it in your passport, so you can toss the evidence when you leave.
I feel quite sad for Cuba. Eventually the U.S. will come back in and "liberate" the country. Then it will be a violent free market hell with a surging infant death rate. At least if you keep your nose clean there today, you can live to be quite old and healthy, if not rich.
If the U.S. hadn't kept the country isolated from the NA market for the last half century, perhaps we would have seen the world's best socialist experiment. Maybe they could have made it work, like China has. With a 90 mile separation from the U.S., they could have become quite the tourist destination and manufacturing center. I think they are instead doomed to a military/corporate invasion in the near future. Poor bastards.
Read the PNAC site. Your smoking gun is there. Failing that, google PNAC and Iraq invasion and oil.
"North Korea is selling nuclear technology around the world. What could threaten us more than that?"
That was Pakistan. Huge scandal, physicist sold nuke tech around the world, got pardoned last year?
We don't seem to be invading Pakistan. Where bin Laden is. Which sold the weapons tech.
Curious.
Um, afghanistan and iraq have degenerated into the 7th century. We boosted the holy warriors into power in Afghanistan in the eighties because the fought the Ruskies. We just kicked out a stable secular ruler in Iraq, which is being replaced by a Shiite theocracy, popularly elected.
Why do you assume that the Bush administration, oil men all, want to bring down the price of oil?
It's about the control of the oil, not the price of it. I made the same mistake in thinking myself. I thought they'd flood the market with cheap oil and break the cartel pricing stucture, and save Bush's economic hide much as Reagan was saved by OPEC's crackup in the early '80's.
But it seems they have a bigger agenda, controling Asia/China's access to the petro they need, while reaping huge private awards in the oil industry. Bush is a faux-free marketer: he will not interfere in the price of oil. Flow of blood, no problem, flow of oil -- he's got a problem.
Are you nuts? You actually think North Korea is going to declare war on us and commit suicide???
Too much Fox News rots the brain.
"You don't believe Washington turned hostile in 2001, do you?"
Yes. We defined them as part of the Axis of Evil, and pledged their destruction. Jesus.
Good for them.
It's not illegal for North Korea to develop nuclear weapons.
Bush has tossed away several treaties we've already signed regarding development of nuclear weapons. We're not special children of God's army, so the privilege is open to other nations now.
They are busy starving, and not menacing us.
They have been explicitly informed by Bush that he is going to make a point of destroying them. They have an excellent case for defending themselves. They have a logical case that possessing the weapons deters an invasion by Bush. By Bushian logic, we haven't invaded, so possessing the nukes keeps us out. Q.E.D.
They aren't going to attack anyone with the damned things. It would be instant suicide. CNN would be roasting radioactive weenies on their ashes in a month, chuckling at the wonderfulness of it all.
Wrapup: they have the weapons for the exact same reason the U.S. claimed it needed ours. Deterence.
The evil or not-evil of North Korea is irrelevant. Bush et al support Uzbekistan, which boils its dissidents alive in oil. Evil is a convenient label for removing people you don't like.
"Insert Off-Topic comment about not being able to find Osama Bin Laden here."
OKAY! After torturing over a thousand innocent men, women, and children, we've not found bin Laden. We also cannot find out where all the oil revenues from Iraq are going.
Could it be that the reason we can't find "al Queda" is because there is no such thing? After you slaughter a few tens of thousands and torture a few thousand more, you have to Occam's Razor the damn problem. There ain't no answers because the question is wrong.
Only because you asked. Must be a sensitive subject, the fake evidence for invading Iraq and all.
"Beyond that, ruling an island nation would be cool. "
Holy crap. This novel form of financing could do much more than just extend TV series...
WHY NOT buy an island? And declare it a nation? Call it "SafeHaven". The U.S. is getting wierd -- maybe we should create a safety net.
Create a new nation by using a subscription model!?!?
To make this work, saveenterprise would have to prove, as a first step, that they have access to 38-88 million bucks.
They key would be to set up an escrow account with, say, Paypal? that would accumulate real money. If they can achieve the target amount, they have some real POWER. If they cannot achieve target, then the money should be paid back from escrow.
Here's a cute thought: how much interest can 88 million earn in a couple of months? I don't think escrow accounts can be invested, but... jeez. At the end of the money raising period, if the project went bust, everyone would get their cash back, minus admin fees for the escrow holder, plus interest earned. Yipes.
Why didn't anyone think of this for Whedon's Buffyverse? I hearby propose sending someone to JW's house with a proposal.
The power of this kind of project is unlimited, if you think about it. Building Rutan's SpaceShipOne cost about 20-30 million. An escrow fund could build spaceships. Space stations. How much to go to the moon, if you wanted to do it cheap and practical? A billion? That's a few hundred dollars for each star trek fan. A small investment in a club, and you not only could finance SF, you could finance instead the reality.
ALSO KILLED: PFC Hubble Space Telescope, killed 02/07/2005 in a guerilla political attack in Iraq, victim of a sneak budget mortar.
.2 day's worth of occupying Iraq.
The President expressed sympathy for the family of PFC Telescope, tho he blamed terrorists for forcing him to spend the money necessary to save PFC Telescope on
PFC Telescope's family was quietly outraged, because the President's people had previously pledged to supply the money for the operation. None would comment on the record, for several other children are at risk at the moment.
Pictures of the cremation will not be permitted. Any NASA contractor taking such a picture will be terminated, the Administration said, so that PFC Telescope's privacy will be respected.
Several more casualties of the Iraq occupation are rumored to be announced soon: the education system, social security, medicare, public health, and police funding. At time of publication, the deaths cannot yet be confirmed, tho their passing seems to be imminent.
And "The condescending attitude and disrespect of "blue-staters" toward the "red-staters" is one of the biggest reasons why you are losing election after election. " is NOT trolling?
If a viral lie is injected, and I see it, I'm posting against it. It's the unanswered lies that own the country now.
Like they preserved all the movies prior to 1940? The vast majority of celluoid has turned to dust, the copyright holders not bothering to remaster over the decades. Keaton's works are almost all gone. The silents are just about gone. I've a hunch that the reason Disney won't release the old cartoon archives on DVD is because they sat on it for so long it disintegrated.
Copyright holders are rarely the original artists. They are businessmen who hold no emotional or artistic attachment to the "property" they acquire. And they suck at taking care of it.
This is another reason why copyright should expire. The owners are poor overseers. As Jefferson et al maintained, art spawns new art, endlessly borrowing from the past. Art dies under copyright.
Well, that's more a function of the cost and size of data storage. Give me a Petabyte of soldid state nonvolatile storage, and I'll toss Jurrassic Park I in there for giggles, along with 20's silent films, clips from "Bozo's Circus" on WGN on 1969's Chicago TV, the collected books of mankind, complete 3D terrain maps of Mars and every old time radio recording in existence. Gimme a $200 unit that does this, and I'll preserve anything I can get my hands on!