To: sales@barracudanetworks.com, press@barracudanetworks.com Date: May 9, 2005 11:10 AM Subject: boycott of your products due to SYS-CON
I'm writing to inform you I am engaging in a personal boycott of all your publications due to your affiliation Maureen O'Gara, who is currently stalking the Groklaw author Pamela Jones.
O'Gara's most recent "article" consisted of personal information about Ms. Jones, including her home address and disparaging comments about Ms. Jones' living conditions.
The article contained a number of offensive comments about the Jehovah Witnesses, under the guise of "accusing" Ms. Jones of being one.
I will not purchase any products or services from any firms who do business with SYS-CON while a paranoid, delusional pseudo journalist such as Maureen O'Gara remains on your payroll.
I am writing your advertisers to inform them of this decision, so they are aware that their use of your site for advertising purposes is costing them business.
From: Michael Perone To: ********* Date: May 9, 2005 11:24 AM Subject: RE: boycott of your products due to SYS-CON
Michael Perone Call me 650 292 1523
To: Michael Perone Date: May 9, 2005 11:42 AM Subject: Re: boycott of your products due to SYS-CON
I'm afraid I can't call you during the day today, as I am at work and need to keep my line available for client calls.
I have noting against Barracuda Networks aside from your advertising with a company that employs a stalker disguising herself as a journalist.
The above link does not contain the photographs of the home of Pamela Jones that ran in other online publications running the article.
So long as Maureen O'Gara is employed by SYS-CON, I will not purchase any products from any company that advertises on their sites or in their publications. If SYS-CON fires Maureen O'Gara or a company ceases advertising with SYS-CON sites and publications, then I would have no reason to avoid their products.
From: Michael Perone To: *********** Date: May 9, 2005 11:46 AM Subject: RE: boycott of your products due to SYS-CON
We don't emplyy this person according to our records.
To: Michael Perone Date: May 9, 2005 11:52 AM Subject: Re: boycott of your products due to SYS-CON
I know you don't employ Maureen O'Gara, however, you advertise on web sites owned and operated by SYS-CON, who does employ her. So long as your advertisements run on SYS-CON owned sites, and Maureen O'Gara remains a SYS-CON employee, then I will not purchase your products.
This is nothing personal, I'm informing all of the companies that advertise on SYS-CON sites of the same thing.
Instead of firearms they should use paintguns so you can see what a rabbit looks like in a nice marblized orange and purple swirl.
There's a major problem with that idea. The paintball impact would most likely shatter every bone in the rabbit's body, leaving it crippled, suffering but still alive. It's more merciful to just shoot it with a real gun. I knew some guys in college who used paintball guns to shoot squirrels. The results were generally horrific, and tended to live until a nearby hawk came down to finish the poor things off.
And notice I said "I knew some guys" not "I was friends with."
That's a very good point that I hadn't thought of. You're right though, this further demeans the value of life. Ted Nugent has a lot to say about hunting. He claims all the meat his family eats consists of animals he'd killed. He describes it as an encounter with the animal, and to hear him talk it's an experience bordering on the religious.
If you don't have what it takes to go out and shoot an animal in person, then you have no business hunting. If the only way you can kill something is by proxy, then you shouldn't be killing anything.
NO, they're just going to shut down anyone who tries to operate an Internet hunting operation in California.
You see, they don't want unlicensed people using firearms in the state of California, especially when said persons aren't even IN the state but are using Video over IP and a computer to aim and fire a real gun.
Internet hunting is, form a safety perspective, a very dumb and dangerous idea.
This isn't about it being "unsporting" This is about it being dangerous.
Let's imagine this scenario:
Some punk kid steals a wallet, and signs up for some online recreation in an Internet cafe. They decide to engage in online hunting.
Now, another punk kid runs through the filed where the gun is set up, slips and falls on some deer guts.
The punk in the Internet Cafe thinks it'd be funny to pull the trigger while aimed at the kid.
Or how about the fact that this means unlicensed hunters are essentially operating firearms in your state using buggy video over IP. If you've ever worked with these systems you'll know how crappy they are.
Humans have pushed out all of the deer's predators, leaving only us and our cars. If we don't hunt them, the ones who would otherwise be taken down by a wold or coyote would starve to death.
As a side note, I don't hunt and admit I'd probably get sick and throw up if I tried, but I have nothing against those who do as long as they're licensed and follow safety practices.
I'm glad this is banned. The last thing I need is some jackass 1,000 miles away operating a firearm near my parents' house.
My question is, did you complain about the religious overtones of "The Matrix"? It's clearly a movie about Faith, about believing in a higher purpose and being willing to sacrifice yourself for the greater good. It's actively hostile towards the notions of Atheism, and while the sequels were terrible, that idea was pushed even further.
Do you complain about the Taoist themes in many Kung-Fu action films?
Did you complain about the blatantly pro-feminist agenda of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"?
Did the fact that the movie "Hero" was essentially a story about the need for Chinese unity, about a "Together under any circumstances" ideal cause you to complain?
I'm not claiming Christianity is being singled out, but I've been hearing people complain about "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" for ages, and I'm going to say that this specific book IS being singled out. For some reason a bunch of people are getting into a snit over a Christian subtext. A few weeks ago I was talking with a Jewish friend of mine who had read the book and enjoyed it, but was annoyed that shed enjoyed it because after reading it, she found out that it was considered Christian "propaganda" by some.
My reply. "Well, CS Lewis was a Christian writing for a predominately Christian audience. The Christian themes probably entered into his mind as naturally as a Jewish theme would for you if you were to write a novel."
"You know, I hadn't thought of it that way."
"Besides," I said, "It can't be very effective propaganda if you had to be told about it later. DO you feel a sudden, urgent desire to go to Church?"
We both laughed.
"And having grown up among Fundamentalists, I can tell you that there are a LOT of children out there whose only early exposure to Fantasy writing is through CS Lewis. The Christian Subtext lets it slip into homes where Tolkien is banned as being 'Satanic'. Any Christian subtext the books contain does a lot to infiltrate Christian homes and nothing to convert anyone."
The US has been shipping people overseas for "interrogation" for a few years now. It was almost killed by a lawsuit about a year and a half ago, until it was ruled that the US could use information from overseas interrogations, even if torture was used in extracting the information. After that, people who aren't US citizens have been shipped overseas for interrogation in even larger numbers. I believe Syria is one of the major destinations.
What would it take for "america" to realize we need to focus on our own country and not everywhere else?
The loss of our bread and circuses.
While many of the ultra wealthy would love to destroy the Middle Class, it's an amazing stabilizing influence. Everyone in it is highly unlikely to rise up against the government in any dangerous way. How many suicide bombers have season tickets, a three bedroom house and a mortgage?
It also provides a means for the masses to channel our energy into financial and economic activities, and gives the Lower Classes (I'm using these terms in a purely economic manner, please do not make any race, culture, religion or other connections). The lower classes can have the hope of living "The American Dream" and advancing economically.
Destroy the middle class, and you lose all the stabilizing factors it provides, and you have a disenfranchised population who remembers the middle class and is pissed that it vanished.
What's happening now with the "Generation X" situation is an entire generation is not expected to do as well as their parents. The end result will be a gradual, generational erosion of the "Middle Class" until it can vanish without the initial "They ruined me" reaction of a sudden destruction.
While in the short term this means the Upper, Upper Class can make it nearly impossible for others to enter their monetary realm, it does, in the long run, increase the liklihood of wholesale political overthrow.
On a side note, they don't realize that the most effective long term strategy for stability and peace ion the Middle East is to encourage the development of a middle class.
Point. In reading my post, please replace the line references to Democrats with references to Pigs Flying.
Actually, both parties have changed dramatically in the last few decades, so your comparison doesn't really hold water. Remember that in Lincoln's time, it was the Republicans pushing to free the slaves, but during 60's it was the Democrats, with the Republicans fighting to maintain segregation. Political parties change over time, often dramatically so.
P2P is being punished so harshly because doing so protects the interests of big business.
Here's the skinny:
The wealthy don't care about the crimes that impact predominately middle and lower class people. They don't care about white collar crime because most of the time, it's the government or the Middle or Lower classes that end up taking the financial hit. (Enron for example)
P2P however is something that the wealthy can't let stand. The lower and Middle classes have the chance to take money from the wealthy and big business. THAT'S what the government and big business are going to take seriously. I'm sure there was a version of the bill that included capital punishment clauses, not for serious consideration but as a "We all would love to pass this one, but not even the MPAA campaign contributions could balance the political backlash from the masses."
Remember kids, when you use P2P, you're supporting terrorists, and because of that, using P2P will get you shipped to Syria where a confession will be tortured out of you, and then you'll be imprisoned without trial or access to a lawyer until such time as Democrats seize control of the government.
his computer is still running an IRC after half the hard drive is supposedly gone.
If "Program Files" and the System root are in the second half that's being deleted, and it's a delete and not a format, then yes, I can see that happening.
As a matter of fact I have seen this happen before. At a former job, we had a sales guy who insisted on "cleaning up" his hard drive every now and then. In Windows 98 he deleted large swaths of the Windows directory and Program Files, and the system ran for the rest of the day. When he rebooted however, the system was dead.
The same sales guy did it again during the W2K roll out. The users all had admin accounts on their machines (Don't ask, it was because of a political nightmare involving a management staff who thought having less than an administrator account meant they were being treated like children.)
Anyway, he tried to delete the c:\winnt folder, and kept at it while getting error messages about files being in use. He finally called IT when he got tired of "File in use" errors. I got up there and listened politely as he explained what he'd been doing.
"You know of course that Windows 2000 is based on Windows NT, right?"
"Yeah, but I'm not running NT, so I don't need it."
"In Windows 2000, the WINNT folder is the same thing as the Windows directory in 98. Did you notice that you don't have a Windows directory?"
He tried to reboot, and sure enough, the system was dead.
A management meeting ensued where I had to defend "Renaming the Windows directory" on the new Windows 2000 systems. The fact that it's the default name, and that the systems came from Dell that way, meant nothing. The company owner repeatedly told me to "Just rename it, I don't see why you'd have to redo the server."
The moral of the story is of course, that Windows is surprisingly resilient in terms of running as vital system files are deleted from underneath it.
Slashdot Mirror
she's still more on top of it than Ms. O'Gara.
I think we all know that's not much of a compliment.
It's actually kind of back handed.
To: sales@barracudanetworks.com, press@barracudanetworks.com
Date: May 9, 2005 11:10 AM
Subject: boycott of your products due to SYS-CON
I'm writing to inform you I am engaging in a personal boycott of all your publications due to your affiliation Maureen O'Gara, who is
currently stalking the Groklaw author Pamela Jones.
O'Gara's most recent "article" consisted of personal information about Ms. Jones, including her home address and disparaging comments about
Ms. Jones' living conditions.
The article contained a number of offensive comments about the Jehovah Witnesses, under the guise of "accusing" Ms. Jones of being one.
I will not purchase any products or services from any firms who do business with SYS-CON while a paranoid, delusional pseudo journalist such as Maureen O'Gara remains on your payroll.
I am writing your advertisers to inform them of this decision, so they are aware that their use of your site for advertising purposes is
costing them business.
From: Michael Perone
To: *********
Date: May 9, 2005 11:24 AM
Subject: RE: boycott of your products due to SYS-CON
Michael Perone
Call me 650 292 1523
To: Michael Perone
Date: May 9, 2005 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: boycott of your products due to SYS-CON
I'm afraid I can't call you during the day today, as I am at work and need to keep my line available for client calls.
I have noting against Barracuda Networks aside from your advertising with a company that employs a stalker disguising herself as a journalist.
You can see a copy of the article in question at
http://www.clientservernews.com/
The above link does not contain the photographs of the home of Pamela Jones that ran in other online publications running the article.
So long as Maureen O'Gara is employed by SYS-CON, I will not purchase any products from any company that advertises on their sites or in their publications. If SYS-CON fires Maureen O'Gara or a company ceases advertising with SYS-CON sites and publications, then I would have no reason to avoid their products.
From: Michael Perone
To: ***********
Date: May 9, 2005 11:46 AM
Subject: RE: boycott of your products due to SYS-CON
We don't emplyy this person according to our records.
To: Michael Perone
Date: May 9, 2005 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: boycott of your products due to SYS-CON
I know you don't employ Maureen O'Gara, however, you advertise on web sites owned and operated by SYS-CON, who does employ her. So long as your advertisements run on SYS-CON owned sites, and Maureen O'Gara remains a SYS-CON employee, then I will not purchase your products.
This is nothing personal, I'm informing all of the companies that advertise on SYS-CON sites of the same thing.
Matthew Miller
A 'C' for that article?
A 'D' and only then if the author was the teacher's pet.
*shudder*
Instead of firearms they should use paintguns so you can see what a rabbit looks like in a nice marblized orange and purple swirl.
There's a major problem with that idea. The paintball impact would most likely shatter every bone in the rabbit's body, leaving it crippled, suffering but still alive. It's more merciful to just shoot it with a real gun. I knew some guys in college who used paintball guns to shoot squirrels. The results were generally horrific, and tended to live until a nearby hawk came down to finish the poor things off.
And notice I said "I knew some guys" not "I was friends with."
That's a very good point that I hadn't thought of. You're right though, this further demeans the value of life. Ted Nugent has a lot to say about hunting. He claims all the meat his family eats consists of animals he'd killed. He describes it as an encounter with the animal, and to hear him talk it's an experience bordering on the religious.
If you don't have what it takes to go out and shoot an animal in person, then you have no business hunting. If the only way you can kill something is by proxy, then you shouldn't be killing anything.
Aside from that fact that this means an unlicensed individual is operating a firearm in another state using dodgy video over IP to aim the damn thing.
And if said hunter kills a human being, then any investigation involves interstate commerce and a whole mess of jurisdiction issues.
NO, they're just going to shut down anyone who tries to operate an Internet hunting operation in California.
You see, they don't want unlicensed people using firearms in the state of California, especially when said persons aren't even IN the state but are using Video over IP and a computer to aim and fire a real gun.
Internet hunting is, form a safety perspective, a very dumb and dangerous idea.
This isn't about it being "unsporting" This is about it being dangerous.
Let's imagine this scenario:
Some punk kid steals a wallet, and signs up for some online recreation in an Internet cafe. They decide to engage in online hunting.
Now, another punk kid runs through the filed where the gun is set up, slips and falls on some deer guts.
The punk in the Internet Cafe thinks it'd be funny to pull the trigger while aimed at the kid.
Or how about the fact that this means unlicensed hunters are essentially operating firearms in your state using buggy video over IP. If you've ever worked with these systems you'll know how crappy they are.
Internet hunting just isn't safe.
Hear hear!
Deer don't inhabit the Midwest, they infest it.
Humans have pushed out all of the deer's predators, leaving only us and our cars. If we don't hunt them, the ones who would otherwise be taken down by a wold or coyote would starve to death.
As a side note, I don't hunt and admit I'd probably get sick and throw up if I tried, but I have nothing against those who do as long as they're licensed and follow safety practices.
I'm glad this is banned. The last thing I need is some jackass 1,000 miles away operating a firearm near my parents' house.
Did you complain about "The Matrix"?
OK, you dislike all religion. I can respect that.
My question is, did you complain about the religious overtones of "The Matrix"? It's clearly a movie about Faith, about believing in a higher purpose and being willing to sacrifice yourself for the greater good. It's actively hostile towards the notions of Atheism, and while the sequels were terrible, that idea was pushed even further.
Do you complain about the Taoist themes in many Kung-Fu action films?
Did you complain about the blatantly pro-feminist agenda of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"?
Did the fact that the movie "Hero" was essentially a story about the need for Chinese unity, about a "Together under any circumstances" ideal cause you to complain?
I'm not claiming Christianity is being singled out, but I've been hearing people complain about "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" for ages, and I'm going to say that this specific book IS being singled out. For some reason a bunch of people are getting into a snit over a Christian subtext. A few weeks ago I was talking with a Jewish friend of mine who had read the book and enjoyed it, but was annoyed that shed enjoyed it because after reading it, she found out that it was considered Christian "propaganda" by some.
My reply. "Well, CS Lewis was a Christian writing for a predominately Christian audience. The Christian themes probably entered into his mind as naturally as a Jewish theme would for you if you were to write a novel."
"You know, I hadn't thought of it that way."
"Besides," I said, "It can't be very effective propaganda if you had to be told about it later. DO you feel a sudden, urgent desire to go to Church?"
We both laughed.
"And having grown up among Fundamentalists, I can tell you that there are a LOT of children out there whose only early exposure to Fantasy writing is through CS Lewis. The Christian Subtext lets it slip into homes where Tolkien is banned as being 'Satanic'. Any Christian subtext the books contain does a lot to infiltrate Christian homes and nothing to convert anyone."
Yes, but when you describe it that way, it doesn't make for a very good paranoid, classist, socio- economic rant.
Hmmm. That could also be used in a Viagra ad.
BBQ flavor Viagra?
The BBQ that will -
I'd better stop there before I inspire a Spammer.
You don't watch much news do you?
The US has been shipping people overseas for "interrogation" for a few years now. It was almost killed by a lawsuit about a year and a half ago, until it was ruled that the US could use information from overseas interrogations, even if torture was used in extracting the information. After that, people who aren't US citizens have been shipped overseas for interrogation in even larger numbers. I believe Syria is one of the major destinations.
In which case, it's time for a new political party!
At which point we have the Silver Rule. ;)
Then the Copper Rule.
Hopefully more gold will be found before we get to wood.
What would it take for "america" to realize we need to focus on our own country and not everywhere else?
The loss of our bread and circuses.
While many of the ultra wealthy would love to destroy the Middle Class, it's an amazing stabilizing influence. Everyone in it is highly unlikely to rise up against the government in any dangerous way. How many suicide bombers have season tickets, a three bedroom house and a mortgage?
It also provides a means for the masses to channel our energy into financial and economic activities, and gives the Lower Classes (I'm using these terms in a purely economic manner, please do not make any race, culture, religion or other connections). The lower classes can have the hope of living "The American Dream" and advancing economically.
Destroy the middle class, and you lose all the stabilizing factors it provides, and you have a disenfranchised population who remembers the middle class and is pissed that it vanished.
What's happening now with the "Generation X" situation is an entire generation is not expected to do as well as their parents. The end result will be a gradual, generational erosion of the "Middle Class" until it can vanish without the initial "They ruined me" reaction of a sudden destruction.
While in the short term this means the Upper, Upper Class can make it nearly impossible for others to enter their monetary realm, it does, in the long run, increase the liklihood of wholesale political overthrow.
On a side note, they don't realize that the most effective long term strategy for stability and peace ion the Middle East is to encourage the development of a middle class.
Point. In reading my post, please replace the line references to Democrats with references to Pigs Flying.
Actually, both parties have changed dramatically in the last few decades, so your comparison doesn't really hold water. Remember that in Lincoln's time, it was the Republicans pushing to free the slaves, but during 60's it was the Democrats, with the Republicans fighting to maintain segregation. Political parties change over time, often dramatically so.
You're missing the point.
P2P is being punished so harshly because doing so protects the interests of big business.
Here's the skinny:
The wealthy don't care about the crimes that impact predominately middle and lower class people. They don't care about white collar crime because most of the time, it's the government or the Middle or Lower classes that end up taking the financial hit. (Enron for example)
P2P however is something that the wealthy can't let stand. The lower and Middle classes have the chance to take money from the wealthy and big business. THAT'S what the government and big business are going to take seriously. I'm sure there was a version of the bill that included capital punishment clauses, not for serious consideration but as a "We all would love to pass this one, but not even the MPAA campaign contributions could balance the political backlash from the masses."
It's the REAL Golden Rule.
The one who has the Gold makes the Rules
Start -> Control Panel -> Add Remove Programs
Wait for "The list to be populated"
Click "Remove" next to "eMule, used Frequently"
"Are you sure you want to uninstall eMule?
*sigh* "Yes"
Remember kids, when you use P2P, you're supporting terrorists, and because of that, using P2P will get you shipped to Syria where a confession will be tortured out of you, and then you'll be imprisoned without trial or access to a lawyer until such time as Democrats seize control of the government.
Long gone, the company has been sold to a larger firm that's even worse.
German hackers are the best!
Nah, they keep getting caught. Ever read "The Cuckoo's Egg"?
Russian Hackers on the other hand, they're a serious threat.
Never underestimate the desperation of those seeking to be "published."
his computer is still running an IRC after half the hard drive is supposedly gone.
If "Program Files" and the System root are in the second half that's being deleted, and it's a delete and not a format, then yes, I can see that happening.
As a matter of fact I have seen this happen before. At a former job, we had a sales guy who insisted on "cleaning up" his hard drive every now and then. In Windows 98 he deleted large swaths of the Windows directory and Program Files, and the system ran for the rest of the day. When he rebooted however, the system was dead.
The same sales guy did it again during the W2K roll out. The users all had admin accounts on their machines (Don't ask, it was because of a political nightmare involving a management staff who thought having less than an administrator account meant they were being treated like children.)
Anyway, he tried to delete the c:\winnt folder, and kept at it while getting error messages about files being in use. He finally called IT when he got tired of "File in use" errors. I got up there and listened politely as he explained what he'd been doing.
"You know of course that Windows 2000 is based on Windows NT, right?"
"Yeah, but I'm not running NT, so I don't need it."
"In Windows 2000, the WINNT folder is the same thing as the Windows directory in 98. Did you notice that you don't have a Windows directory?"
He tried to reboot, and sure enough, the system was dead.
A management meeting ensued where I had to defend "Renaming the Windows directory" on the new Windows 2000 systems. The fact that it's the default name, and that the systems came from Dell that way, meant nothing. The company owner repeatedly told me to "Just rename it, I don't see why you'd have to redo the server."
The moral of the story is of course, that Windows is surprisingly resilient in terms of running as vital system files are deleted from underneath it.
Why was this green lighted? I've posted about this before. Someone, somewhere, exchanged sexual favors with a member of the slashdot editorial staff.
That's how ALL the stories get posted, didn't you know that?