Problem is, when these "features" become mandatory over then next few years, and if we have four more years of Bush/Ashcroft, Inc. this is a highly probable scenario.
Well of course the Bushes support cutting down tall trees. They crowd out all the sunlight...
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Manned space flight for the purposes of science and exploration is not necessary yet. We've proven with the great success of the recent Mars rover missions that we don't need to endanger humans to explore our immediate neighborhood. The basic things we want to study on other planets can be studied by a robot.
If people want to cowboy around in space, fine. Privatize it, build up a space tourism industry, and take the risks that way. But when you lose human lives on the government's dollar, you risk shutting down scientific progress for years while the government "investigates".
What does checking Outlook email have to do with _Basic_ Input or Output? Why don't they keep going and put a spreadsheet in the BIOS while they're at it?
And EVEN FURTHER FURTHER, you are not doing any good for a free society by parroting the right-wing "guilty until proven innocent" mentality.
You start from the presumption that the person they are tracking is an Al Qaedia member.
If this presumption turns out to be false, you just approved a warrent for arrest, tracked, classified as an enemy combatant, and (traveling further down your line of thought) imprisoned without trial, someone who is totally innocent.
Congratulations!!! America is now safe from another "middle-eastern guy".
This is unamerican and illegal thought!!! Whether it be atoms or bits, everything needs to be owned and properly licensed for use! The idea that something can be free for all borders on communism and treason! Here in the U$A we must ensure that authors and inventors rule the use of their work with an iron fist! Write your senators and the FBI, these traitorous academics must be silenced and jailed, in order to preserve their freedom!
Then you had some pretty rude "masters". I was in the MK2/3 crowd and got pretty good (not the best in town but close) and basically, when a newbie player would step up and challenge we'd be graceful. Offering to let the guy win one out of 3 rounds, and allowing the rounds to last the full 60 seconds before beating them so we both got the maximum amount of time at the machine. Seemed to be allright with most of them and there were no fist fights or anything!
Of course, with everything else neglected, life there was hell in more ways than I care to enumerate.
Do you know anyone who used to live in Soviet Russia? Although it was far from wonderful, life there really wasn't that bad, especially compared to today.
Looks like quite a few have pointed out that this reporter's description of Iraq is much nicer than the one put out by the major networks. Of course it is! Bush, Inc. would like you to believe that Iraq is hanging from a thread, with the good strong USA as it's only hope against a collapse into barbarism. More and more independent reports show that Iraq is badly war-torn, but functional and quite capable of returning to self-governance. Definitely NOT a picture our military contracters want you to see.
I wouldn't say I uncovered anything. Just comparing the difference between what this guy (who we assume actually is in Iraq, and has no financial incentive to lie) describes, and what our state-run propaganda distribution networks describe.
Try to use love to buy a house in the suburbs, or privacy to get three meals a day. Until you can to this, people will always be trading their lives and health for money (a.k.a. going to work).
Then, if you were really worth all that money you think you're worth, you'd realize you should switch to one of the following professions:
Boat building Watch making Artist High-end Dog-house construction etc.
Am I the only one seeing opportunities?
Exactly what I did. Moved into the boating industry. The only people with money anymore are the ones who buy million dollar yachts, and I'm gonna take what I can of it.
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Problem is, when these "features" become mandatory over then next few years, and if we have four more years of Bush/Ashcroft, Inc. this is a highly probable scenario.
Well of course the Bushes support cutting down tall trees. They crowd out all the sunlight...
[duck]
Manned space flight for the purposes of science and exploration is not necessary yet. We've proven with the great success of the recent Mars rover missions that we don't need to endanger humans to explore our immediate neighborhood. The basic things we want to study on other planets can be studied by a robot.
If people want to cowboy around in space, fine. Privatize it, build up a space tourism industry, and take the risks that way. But when you lose human lives on the government's dollar, you risk shutting down scientific progress for years while the government "investigates".
how are users supposed to protect themselves from this one?
Don't Run Outlook
It's really really really really that simple.
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there."
-- Clare Booth Luce, American playwright and diplomat
BIOS - Basic Input Output System
What does checking Outlook email have to do with _Basic_ Input or Output? Why don't they keep going and put a spreadsheet in the BIOS while they're at it?
If it's like many "open source with firmware" drivers, it's probably a lot like this:
...[many thousands of bytes].... };
unsigned char firmware[] = { 0x22, 0x45,
void driver(void)
{
run_firmware(firmware);
}
Uh, yea, I'd consider that open source all right...
Solution: Web designers, stop trying to be so clever.
If you want your site to be spiderable, don't hide it behind javascript and flash!
EXCELLENT POST
Wish I had mod points.
And EVEN FURTHER FURTHER, you are not doing any good for a free society by parroting the right-wing "guilty until proven innocent" mentality.
You start from the presumption that the person they are tracking is an Al Qaedia member.
If this presumption turns out to be false, you just approved a warrent for arrest, tracked, classified as an enemy combatant, and (traveling further down your line of thought) imprisoned without trial, someone who is totally innocent.
Congratulations!!! America is now safe from another "middle-eastern guy".
BREAKING NEWS!
Republicans raise money for George W. Bush!
EXCLUSIVE!!
Christians give lots of money to their church!
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
People who have an interest in helping you give you money!!!! OMG I CANT BELIEVE IT WTF!11!!11!!1
So how many furlongs per hogshead does it get? Are we scientists here or do we still use ancient systems of measurement?
Who is this "consumer"? Do you really think there are people out there whose sole function in society is to consume goods?
This is unamerican and illegal thought!!! Whether it be atoms or bits, everything needs to be owned and properly licensed for use! The idea that something can be free for all borders on communism and treason! Here in the U$A we must ensure that authors and inventors rule the use of their work with an iron fist! Write your senators and the FBI, these traitorous academics must be silenced and jailed, in order to preserve their freedom!
Step 1: Buy the "IP" of a bankrupt company
Step 2: Find someone infringing and sue
Step 3: Profit!!!
Seems like you're the only one in this thread against HAM operators. Do you stand to gain financially from BPL deployment?
Then you had some pretty rude "masters". I was in the MK2/3 crowd and got pretty good (not the best in town but close) and basically, when a newbie player would step up and challenge we'd be graceful. Offering to let the guy win one out of 3 rounds, and allowing the rounds to last the full 60 seconds before beating them so we both got the maximum amount of time at the machine. Seemed to be allright with most of them and there were no fist fights or anything!
Lesson learned:
Don't stake your business on being able to place artificial limits on how users use a product they buy.
DivX learned this. The RIAA are learning this. the MPAA will learn it. And looks like broadband providers will soon learn it too.
Of course, with everything else neglected, life there was hell in more ways than I care to enumerate.
Do you know anyone who used to live in Soviet Russia? Although it was far from wonderful, life there really wasn't that bad, especially compared to today.
Looks like quite a few have pointed out that this reporter's description of Iraq is much nicer than the one put out by the major networks. Of course it is! Bush, Inc. would like you to believe that Iraq is hanging from a thread, with the good strong USA as it's only hope against a collapse into barbarism. More and more independent reports show that Iraq is badly war-torn, but functional and quite capable of returning to self-governance. Definitely NOT a picture our military contracters want you to see.
I wouldn't say I uncovered anything. Just comparing the difference between what this guy (who we assume actually is in Iraq, and has no financial incentive to lie) describes, and what our state-run propaganda distribution networks describe.
When you actually _ASK_ someone who is IN Iraq right now, you get a different picture of what it's like than the picture Bush News wants you to have.
Try to use love to buy a house in the suburbs, or privacy to get three meals a day. Until you can to this, people will always be trading their lives and health for money (a.k.a. going to work).
Then, if you were really worth all that money you think you're worth, you'd realize you should switch to one of the following professions:
Boat building
Watch making
Artist
High-end Dog-house construction
etc.
Am I the only one seeing opportunities?
Exactly what I did. Moved into the boating industry. The only people with money anymore are the ones who buy million dollar yachts, and I'm gonna take what I can of it.
You can't make money selling to the middle class!