You are encouraging citizens to question the wisdom of the state in matters of national security.
Such an act is considered a terrorist attack by the Bush Administration.
The SWAT team will be by to collect you shortly.
Please resist arrest. It won't change your ultimate fate as an eternal detainee being tortured for information, but it will give the SWAT team some target practice and the chance to play with their TASERs, which is always fun for the SWAT.
We held the video ram in place with a piece of electrical tape. If we didn't, jostling the case caused the SOB to fall out, and we'd have to tip the case over to rattle the RAM chip out.
There's no overall master plot involved here, so kindly leave story book entities like the "Illuminati" and random conspiracy theories out of it. You would do well to research some of the actual history of public education in the US. It's based on the formalized vocational training that started in Germany in the late 1800's.
There's no conspiracies here. The simple fact of the matter is most politicians are funded by large business entities, and it's in the best interest of those entities to have a pool of workers who have the skill necessary to be useful.
It's also in the best interest of society for there to be a thriving economy, which requires literate and skilled workers.
While the enforcement of conformity was part of the original German model the USA adopted, it has survived here in part because it's easier to teach basic skills to a group of well behaved students than to a collection of anarchist free thinkers.
But kindly leave the loopy conspiracy theories out of it. I'm talking about basic history and human nature.
One factor is racism and classism. There are a lot of people who think that "some people" don't deserve an education. Because of this belief, the "disruptive" students are seen as being beneath the norm, and thus unworthy of an actual education.
The group that's seen as "disposable" varies dramatically from one school to the next. In some places it's a clear division along color lines. In others it's financial. In one school I attended the teachers enforced the student created cliques, so it was the geeks and nerds (such as myself) who always got the short end of th stick.
Regardless, many administrators set out to reduce the head count of the "disposable" group.
Then there's the issues around the point of the public school system.
The public schools weren't created to be a benign benefit for the masses. They were created to create workers for the increasingly industrialized country. Teaching obedience and conformity to society is more important than teaching how to read or write. If you have any doubt take a look at all the athletes who get moved up through the school system despite never learning to read or write beyond a first or second grade level.
When the point of the school system is to create obedient workers, anyone who is disruptive and failing to
And don't underestimate the popularity games. A lot of teachers go into it not for the love of teaching or a desire to educate the next generation, but so they can stay in High School longer. They want to stay one of the "popular kids" and still love beating up on the nerds and geeks. The only difference is now they can do it with detentions and expulsions in addition to verbal abuse.
Nope. He just read the mission statement for the public school system in the USA.
You see, the schools aren't there to provide an education beyond minimal skills. They really are there to teach conformity.
The goal of the school system is to provide workers who will do what their bosses tell them, and voters who will blindly tow the party line. The fact that only 39% of Americans support President Bush is going to be seen not as a failure by Bush, but as a failure of the school system to educate the other 61% into obedience.
I went to Lutheran High School Westland in Michigan, and this sort of thing was going on there in the 1990's. There were some kids who were suspended for doing "something" at a party off school property.
I never officially (as in no statement was released) found out WHAT the kids did to get suspended. Apparently one of the terms of their return to school was that they wouldn't talk about it.
This being high school, there were a number of rumors that flew around. Some people said they got drunk at a party, other said that they were dressed in drag for a Halloween party.
Fortunately for the student body one of the women sleeping with one of the suspendees knew what happened and talked about it quite freely.
The girls on the suspension list were seen walking down the street in a nearby neighborhood. They were wearing their school letter jackets, and skirts that flagrantly violated the dress code.
The guys were suspended for being with them at the time.
The rationale? They were 'Damaging the school's reputation."
All that's happened is that this kind of BS has migrated from the private religious schools to the public schools, and most people just don;t care, because it's not "their kid."
Since lawyers are involved, I must first state that the following is my opinion, and is not to be considered authoritative in any way shape or form.
Here's the deal:
They didn't care about actually getting the necessary documents signed before filing.
They need this guy to keep quiet so they can pursue the lawsuit.
They want to keep him tied up in legal proceedings until the Apple case has been resolved, and they're using a number of dirty tricks to do so.
If they win, he won;t get a dime anyway, as it will all be eaten up in "legal fees."
If they lose the suit with Apple, they'll then go after this poor guy with everything they have to either get him to cough up some obscene legal fees or declare bankruptcy. After all, if they lose, SOMEONE has to suffer for it.
It's not about proving anything about if he's really their client. It's all about delaying him so they can continue going after Apple.
That assumes the ABA will do anything about this or even care.
It sounds like the law firm in question is using the various loopholes in the system to keep their scam running. If they win the suit with Apple, the guy won't get anything because the entire settlement would be declared eaten up in court costs.
If Apple wins, they'll bankrupt the guy with lawsuits if he doesn't cough up about 20 years of his potential income to pay off their fees.
Either way, they're going to screw him over any way they can.
The problem is, as things stand now, if they lose the lawsuit, which is likely, this poor guy would be on the hook for all the legal fees concocted by the lawyers.
In other words, he'd end up selling everything he owns and spending the rest of his life in debt if Apple wins the lawsuit.
Linux has (depending on the distro) provided an easier, simpler and more straightforward install process on most hardware since 2002 at least. My old Thinkpad has seen a lot of OS installs. Getting Windows up and running on it can take two or three evenings and countless reboots. Getting Linux up and running on the same hardware is a relatively painless process that takes about half an hour of interaction from me plus some "Leave it in the corner while it downloads stuff" time.
Just wait until they finish decrypting all the data files on my PC.
"You mean we spent four days decrypting Gigs upon Gigs of vacation photos??"
"Well, they have an 8 Megapixel camera, lots of memory cards and use RAW format..."
"But that's all you found? There aren't even any racy photos in the bunch?"
"Should we start decrypting the second RAID array?"
"The one labeled 'Project Gutenberg text to speech files in WAV format'?'
"Yes, that one."
"Go for it. I don't know what this 'Project Gutenberg' is, but it's got to be seditious. Plebeians don;t label anything a 'Project' unless they have delusions of being all 'Cloak and Dagger.'"
No one's gotten wise to the ploy. Bush's numbers are low because we're still in Iraq long after the infamous "Mission Accomplished" photo shoot.
If he declared victory this week and pulled the troops out his number would shoot through the roof again. And you know what, they'd stay there unless FOX news started covering the destruction and violence going on after we left.
By and large, the people who were fooled before are still fooled now. They're just tired of war.
Yeah, that bored looking guy playing solitaire on his laptop, complaining about his delayed flight?
He's playing solitaire alright, but that PDA has an RFID scanner built in, and he's not syncing to keep his calendar up to date.
Take a batch of stolen identities and just fly around the country for a few days, using credit cards made out to the names of stolen identities to finance the trip.
You don't even have to take any international flights, just go through a few airports that have international terminals.
I used to keep a hidden partition on my PC's boot drive. That partition contained a clean, perfect copy of the OS and the applications I needed to get up and running.
Computer too hosed to continue?
Well, my data was on another drive anyway sooo.
Boot to Partition Magic, delete the live partition, and copy the "Known Good" partition over.
Every few weeks I'd boot to the restore partition and install OS updates and AV definition files.
I haven't bothered setting that up again, largely because I now go so long before reformat and reinstalls that by the time I need to do it, I might as well install all the drivers and applications from scratch anyway.
But the scenario you describe is the general idea behind imaging a hard drive. Why go to all the fuss when you can just wipe it clean and restart?
Besides, in the corporate environment, you often do what's faster.
The media moguls want DRM, therefore, there will be DRM.
You see, as a consumer, you';re just a blind, dumb automaton responding to media campaigns. Your "rights" don't matter unless money can be made off them.
They don't care what's good for YOU, they just care what's good for them.
It's all about cramming their preferred technology down your throat for their benefit,. Don't like it? Be prepared to be labeled a pirate or other "criminal" type.
Remember Rule #1, demonize your opposition in the public opinion.
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You are encouraging citizens to question the wisdom of the state in matters of national security.
Such an act is considered a terrorist attack by the Bush Administration.
The SWAT team will be by to collect you shortly.
Please resist arrest. It won't change your ultimate fate as an eternal detainee being tortured for information, but it will give the SWAT team some target practice and the chance to play with their TASERs, which is always fun for the SWAT.
And to make matters worse, he's a racist stereotype!!!
We should ban this whole "Nintendo" company. I mean, they've named their most recent game machine machine after a male phallus!
Don't you mean Blotus Goats?
My college SO had a Packard Hell.
We held the video ram in place with a piece of electrical tape. If we didn't, jostling the case caused the SOB to fall out, and we'd have to tip the case over to rattle the RAM chip out.
There's no overall master plot involved here, so kindly leave story book entities like the "Illuminati" and random conspiracy theories out of it. You would do well to research some of the actual history of public education in the US. It's based on the formalized vocational training that started in Germany in the late 1800's.
There's no conspiracies here. The simple fact of the matter is most politicians are funded by large business entities, and it's in the best interest of those entities to have a pool of workers who have the skill necessary to be useful.
It's also in the best interest of society for there to be a thriving economy, which requires literate and skilled workers.
While the enforcement of conformity was part of the original German model the USA adopted, it has survived here in part because it's easier to teach basic skills to a group of well behaved students than to a collection of anarchist free thinkers.
But kindly leave the loopy conspiracy theories out of it. I'm talking about basic history and human nature.
Thank you for that incredibly bad pun.
I needed a laugh after the work day I've had.
And of course you'll need Windows Vista to see files in the new format.
One factor is racism and classism. There are a lot of people who think that "some people" don't deserve an education. Because of this belief, the "disruptive" students are seen as being beneath the norm, and thus unworthy of an actual education.
The group that's seen as "disposable" varies dramatically from one school to the next. In some places it's a clear division along color lines. In others it's financial. In one school I attended the teachers enforced the student created cliques, so it was the geeks and nerds (such as myself) who always got the short end of th stick.
Regardless, many administrators set out to reduce the head count of the "disposable" group.
Then there's the issues around the point of the public school system.
The public schools weren't created to be a benign benefit for the masses. They were created to create workers for the increasingly industrialized country. Teaching obedience and conformity to society is more important than teaching how to read or write. If you have any doubt take a look at all the athletes who get moved up through the school system despite never learning to read or write beyond a first or second grade level.
When the point of the school system is to create obedient workers, anyone who is disruptive and failing to
And don't underestimate the popularity games. A lot of teachers go into it not for the love of teaching or a desire to educate the next generation, but so they can stay in High School longer. They want to stay one of the "popular kids" and still love beating up on the nerds and geeks. The only difference is now they can do it with detentions and expulsions in addition to verbal abuse.
Dear God, the repercussions for defending yourself against one of the members of the football team, and winning the fight are absurd.
It was easier to transfer.
You must have had one sad, empty childhood....
Nope. He just read the mission statement for the public school system in the USA.
You see, the schools aren't there to provide an education beyond minimal skills. They really are there to teach conformity.
The goal of the school system is to provide workers who will do what their bosses tell them, and voters who will blindly tow the party line. The fact that only 39% of Americans support President Bush is going to be seen not as a failure by Bush, but as a failure of the school system to educate the other 61% into obedience.
I went to Lutheran High School Westland in Michigan, and this sort of thing was going on there in the 1990's. There were some kids who were suspended for doing "something" at a party off school property.
I never officially (as in no statement was released) found out WHAT the kids did to get suspended. Apparently one of the terms of their return to school was that they wouldn't talk about it.
This being high school, there were a number of rumors that flew around. Some people said they got drunk at a party, other said that they were dressed in drag for a Halloween party.
Fortunately for the student body one of the women sleeping with one of the suspendees knew what happened and talked about it quite freely.
The girls on the suspension list were seen walking down the street in a nearby neighborhood. They were wearing their school letter jackets, and skirts that flagrantly violated the dress code.
The guys were suspended for being with them at the time.
The rationale? They were 'Damaging the school's reputation."
All that's happened is that this kind of BS has migrated from the private religious schools to the public schools, and most people just don;t care, because it's not "their kid."
Yeah. Good luck with that. I'm sure the ABA will clear this all up right quick.
Since lawyers are involved, I must first state that the following is my opinion, and is not to be considered authoritative in any way shape or form.
They'll either make it less expensive to pay them off than to fight them in court, or they'll drive him into bankruptcy.
It's about getting paid, and failing that, getting vengeance on someone, regardless of if it's that person's fault.
Since lawyers are involved, I must first state that the following is my opinion, and is not to be considered authoritative in any way shape or form.
Here's the deal:
They didn't care about actually getting the necessary documents signed before filing.
They need this guy to keep quiet so they can pursue the lawsuit.
They want to keep him tied up in legal proceedings until the Apple case has been resolved, and they're using a number of dirty tricks to do so.
If they win, he won;t get a dime anyway, as it will all be eaten up in "legal fees."
If they lose the suit with Apple, they'll then go after this poor guy with everything they have to either get him to cough up some obscene legal fees or declare bankruptcy. After all, if they lose, SOMEONE has to suffer for it.
It's not about proving anything about if he's really their client. It's all about delaying him so they can continue going after Apple.
That assumes the ABA will do anything about this or even care.
It sounds like the law firm in question is using the various loopholes in the system to keep their scam running. If they win the suit with Apple, the guy won't get anything because the entire settlement would be declared eaten up in court costs.
If Apple wins, they'll bankrupt the guy with lawsuits if he doesn't cough up about 20 years of his potential income to pay off their fees.
Either way, they're going to screw him over any way they can.
It's not about who's right and who's wrong.
It's about who has the better lawyers.
The problem is, as things stand now, if they lose the lawsuit, which is likely, this poor guy would be on the hook for all the legal fees concocted by the lawyers.
In other words, he'd end up selling everything he owns and spending the rest of his life in debt if Apple wins the lawsuit.
Linux has (depending on the distro) provided an easier, simpler and more straightforward install process on most hardware since 2002 at least. My old Thinkpad has seen a lot of OS installs. Getting Windows up and running on it can take two or three evenings and countless reboots. Getting Linux up and running on the same hardware is a relatively painless process that takes about half an hour of interaction from me plus some "Leave it in the corner while it downloads stuff" time.
Just wait until they finish decrypting all the data files on my PC.
"You mean we spent four days decrypting Gigs upon Gigs of vacation photos??"
"Well, they have an 8 Megapixel camera, lots of memory cards and use RAW format..."
"But that's all you found? There aren't even any racy photos in the bunch?"
"Should we start decrypting the second RAID array?"
"The one labeled 'Project Gutenberg text to speech files in WAV format'?'
"Yes, that one."
"Go for it. I don't know what this 'Project Gutenberg' is, but it's got to be seditious. Plebeians don;t label anything a 'Project' unless they have delusions of being all 'Cloak and Dagger.'"
Who said anything about a "decent" joke?
wii're all working on Baaaaad puns. On that score, wii're all doing very, very well.
Would it be called the WiiWii?
If you have enough of them, would it be the WiiWiiWiiWiiWiiWii all the way \home ?
Fortunately people are getting wise to the ploy, it is only unfortunate it has taken so long.
HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
Oh, that's a good one.
Har! HA! HO!
Stop, stop, I can't take much more.
No one's gotten wise to the ploy. Bush's numbers are low because we're still in Iraq long after the infamous "Mission Accomplished" photo shoot.
If he declared victory this week and pulled the troops out his number would shoot through the roof again. And you know what, they'd stay there unless FOX news started covering the destruction and violence going on after we left.
By and large, the people who were fooled before are still fooled now. They're just tired of war.
Yeah, that bored looking guy playing solitaire on his laptop, complaining about his delayed flight?
He's playing solitaire alright, but that PDA has an RFID scanner built in, and he's not syncing to keep his calendar up to date.
Take a batch of stolen identities and just fly around the country for a few days, using credit cards made out to the names of stolen identities to finance the trip.
You don't even have to take any international flights, just go through a few airports that have international terminals.
All good points.
I used to keep a hidden partition on my PC's boot drive. That partition contained a clean, perfect copy of the OS and the applications I needed to get up and running.
Computer too hosed to continue?
Well, my data was on another drive anyway sooo.
Boot to Partition Magic, delete the live partition, and copy the "Known Good" partition over.
Every few weeks I'd boot to the restore partition and install OS updates and AV definition files.
I haven't bothered setting that up again, largely because I now go so long before reformat and reinstalls that by the time I need to do it, I might as well install all the drivers and applications from scratch anyway.
But the scenario you describe is the general idea behind imaging a hard drive. Why go to all the fuss when you can just wipe it clean and restart?
Besides, in the corporate environment, you often do what's faster.
The media moguls want DRM, therefore, there will be DRM.
You see, as a consumer, you';re just a blind, dumb automaton responding to media campaigns. Your "rights" don't matter unless money can be made off them.
They don't care what's good for YOU, they just care what's good for them.
It's all about cramming their preferred technology down your throat for their benefit,. Don't like it? Be prepared to be labeled a pirate or other "criminal" type.
Remember Rule #1, demonize your opposition in the public opinion.