This is the kind of thing that pisses me off. Personally I think our Government spend faaaaaar too much money as it is, and then this story comes along. I'm all for SETI and stuff, but I don't think this is a totally worthwhile use of my tax dollars.
Pork spending. I'm sure someone at NASA has a brother in law that works for SETI or something similar and that's how the funding got there. I seriously doubt it was because of evidence or anything solid and concrete.
I mean, we have enough problems that the Federal Government is involved with already...and now they're going to throw more money at a cause best funded by private dollars? Insane. While I think NASA is a worthy objective (atleast partly, it should be privitized)...I don't want Federal Money going to support something like SETI.
The reason they cut the funding off in the first place is that it is frivolous. Like grant money given to artists and crap like that. Let's see Government give another big across the board tax cut..raise revenue back a little and stop funding all these silly programs that are clearly private groups and shouldn't receive Federal Dollars.
Let's secure our boarders and get better education in our schools and fix our roads and things of that nature before we start spending Tax Dollars hailing Alpha Centuari.
Only you can stop the stupid Represenatives and Senators wasting our money. End pork spending.
I live in an area where DSL nor cable modems are available. Our telephone lines do not support any protocol higher than V.34, and I have use the Verizon Express Network and so far it's going great. For $80/month I get unlimited bandwidth and usage and I get pretty decent speeds (nothing major, 125k or so. But it works for me).
WiFi, unless it spreads everywhere really quick will be isolated to the big cities and forgotten by the rest of the country. Cellular is the way to go because of the availibility. Sure 802.11x has fast ass speeds, but I don't live anywhere close to a major city. So it's my tiny bit of bandwidth and go everywhere around here. Works for me, man.
Vice City had a number of known actors doing voice work. Ray Liotta, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper, Burt Reynolds, Gary Busey, Lee Majors, Fairuza Balk and others. I was really suprised when they didn't promote any of the celebrity voice actors.
And as far as voice actors go, David Hayter smokes everyone away. Let's just hope that his success at being a writer (X-Men, X2, Hulk) doesn't mean he won't voice everyone's favorite neck-snapping badass.
I love Final Fantasy IV (the last good FF game far as I'm concerned), but it's all about Chrono Trigger.
A huge and indepth story with something like 14 different endings, tons of replayability, cool and memorable characters (epecially that chatterbox Crono), loads of subplots and sidequests..and excellent music. It's the absolute best 2D RPG, and quite possibly the greatest console RPG of all time.
I mean I was actually sad when the game was over. I mean, it was over. Done, no more. That Xmas of 1995 (released during the summer I know but I never played it until Xmas) was such a happy and fun time. And there was never to be a sequel. Ever. Never ever ever not even if you give us money and beg us.
Then they made Chrono Cross, which was a disgrace to all that made Chrono Trigger good. Atleast the pre-order clock was really cool (and fitting, if you leave the clock hands reading 10:04)
This is so strange. Why didn't Dr. Dre (and the Verve) just recreate the sounds rather than use a sample from another song? From someone who's in the record industry (a good friend of mine) it's so easy to recreate rather than outright steal the sample.
Final Fantasy IV comes close (in my book of Best Console Games it's MGS, FFIV, LTTP). And ChronoTrigger was another great game that had lots of things going for it (that shockingly, was a good game Square made). So yeah, and stuff.
Well, somethings need to be recycled. The GBA is a great platform to showcase some of the old 8 and 16bit games that a lot of younger gamers haven't played. I mean come on dude, it's A Link to the Past.
The RE games situation is a bit strange, but since when has Capcom not been guilty of milking their franchises? The remake of RE 1 I think was to make the story of 1 mesh better with the rest of the game series (and possibly the film).
Please bear in mind that the Resident Evils and MGS are both being done by third parties who's games never came out on a Nintendo system and are thus going after an untapped audience (or was Resident Evil 2 released on the N64? I don't recall if it was canned or not)... Although my perspection is a bit biased due to my fondness of Kojima and his series, I don't see anything wrong with giving the world more Solid Snake.
Excellent excellent. Hopefully this was in some way inspired by my own drive to get MGS remade for the PS2 (didn't see the petition? Oh well, like those things work anyways). But is just confirmation, this was talked about several months ago. I defy anyone to name me one game that had a deeper plot and characterization than Metal Gear Solid. And if anyone says Final Fantasy VII or Zelda: Ocarina of Time so help me I'll leap across the Internet and strangle you.
Seriously, MGS was such a good example of how games can be more cinematic and still be good games. The story was interesting and ever-changing, the characters were well developed and beautifully executed, the script and translation was good, and the voice acting was beyond anything ever seen in a game prior (many props to Mr. David Hayter). I honestly believe that Metal Gear Solid is the single greatest console game of all time (on the level of story and characterization).
Schweet. I don't care if there are any extras, although they would be nice. Just more sneaking, more cardboard boxes and more good Snake-isms.
What is with these attacks again Matt Drudge and his Drudge Report? He doesn't write the stories most of the time, he just links to other people's unpublished content. And times like these, which aren't awfully common, he reports on something because he gets it first. If someone (Newsweek) sits on a story and hold it, and Drudge already has wind of it he'll publish it. That's how he broke the story of Monica Lewinski, in additions to other exclusives he's got.
This blind attacks against Drudge is mindnumbing. Let's be good brainwashed little masses and only get our news from CNN and NPR!
No retard, we have had attempted terroritsts attacks against the United States since 9/11. But thanks to the SYSTEM, none of them have come to fruitation. Hm...
Planned attacks + Security System = No successful attacks. Oh yeah it doesn't work.;)p
This whole thread is nothing more than a mindless, left-wing sponsored bash of President Bush, his administration, and Republicans in general. Not one argument has been presented on WHY the Patriot Act shouldn't be extended. You take this and other websites to push your agenda which this country DOES NOT agree with and HAS rejected time and time again.
American will no longer allow those who consider themselves to be more intelligent than the average BLUE COLLAR citizen to sit back and badmouth us. The BLAME AMERICA FIRST camp is loosing steam. The average citizens are NOT tollerating these anti-American stances.
You complained when we secured our country. We haven't had a terrorist attack since 9/11. A testiment to how the system we have put in place WORKS. It has secured and will continue to safeguard this country and our people, while you whine, uninformed, about matters that effect all of us.
You are the same people who take to the streets to protest our war in Iraq. We have just freed a nation of people who were inslaved to a brutal, evil dictator. Would you care to tell the overjoyed, newly freed Iraqi citizens who are throwing roses at our troops that we have no business there?
This nation is doing what is in the best interest for US, not the UN or the world. We have taken care of the world both economically and militarly since the 1940s, and now we have to band together and do what is necessary to make AMERICA secure for AMERICANS. And if you don't like it, SHUT THE HELL UP.
But it is okay. While you post to the Internet and demand that the Government unsecure itself, I sit comfortable knowing that these laws and policies are preventing another 3,000 innocent CIVILIANS from being murdered. I sit comfortably knowing it's harder for someone to make L.A. into a gigantic radioactive mushroom cloud.
So I hope people like Slashdot reader continue their level of young, uninformed nonsense. It only helps strengthen my side's cause.
A great little indie flick. Classic stuff. It's available on DVD but I'd love to see it on the big screen.
Hell, I'd love to see lots of films on the big screen. MST3K: The Movie, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, the 60s Batman film, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, all kinds of cool things.
Too bad one can't like rent out a theater for a screening or something similar so we chould show these flicks as they were ment to be seen, on the big screen!;)
I'm 20, and my earliest memory is from when I was 3 I believe. My family's business is general contracting, and my then 53 year old grandfather was moving some uniform lockers into a building at our shop. The doors/sides of the door on these lockers were razer sharp and when the door slammed on his hand...whammo, cut the tip of his finger off.
What I believe is that we start remembering things that are memorable. Waking up and looking at smiling people and other mundaine tasks arn't worthy of kickstarting the memory centers of the brain. While my mind jolted awake and fused brain cells together to create and sustain this memory, maybe other people's brains didn't deem anything "worthy" of remembering until later on? Beats the heck out of me.
For those interested, the Delta IV is build in my home town of Decatur, Alabama. At construction time it was the largest Boeing building under one roof (or so they told us contractor). Massive complex. And from what I understand, the Delta IV's are one of the components of the National Missle Defense system that the Government has been developing. Interesting stuff in Alabama, lots of rockets and other stuff.;)
The problem I've found in online communities is censorship. In a community ran website like Everything2 (and even Slashdot, to a lesser degree), censorship is at the whim of the people in power. If they don't agree with what you say, most times you'll have your stuff cut, edited, or removed all together. I had this problem on E2 late last year, and I haven't been back since (A friend of mine logged onto my account to check something, but that wasn't me). I had an opinion that didn't mesh with what the editors of E2 believed, and I was cut as a result. Now in the issue of fairness, I want to point out that my node was about how George W. Bush is the rightful President. It was filled with evidence and fact, not speculation and conjure, but it was still yanked nonetheless. Why? Because the editor that k-lined it didn't agree with me, and they didn't want anyone else to read it and possibly side with me. I've gotten over it, as I said I haven't contributed or returned to E2 since the whole thing happened, but when you advertise a broad, diverse online community where ideas can thrive you must consider that not all the ideas will agree with you, and in the true spirit of open thought one should allow viewpoints from outside your method of thought. And from my experience most online communities don't allow that.
I have no problem with not being listened to..but when my thoughts and comments are censored (like they were on Everything2) solely because they didn't grok with the admins..yeah, I'm not going to waste my time providing them with content just to be slapped down for providing factual, documented evidence while others who post little more than flames are elevated to god like status.
And how did the good Senator (not Congressman as I so erroniously reported earlier) stomp on the Constitution? Violation of the First Admendment? They had the right to freely express themselves, which they did openly. However, when that expression presents a clear and present danger to the continued prosperity of the United States as both the body politic and the people, actions such as McCarthy's were totally justified.
As of this writing, my original post was moderated to Score 0: Flamebait. Just the open-minded thinking I would expect for Slashdot. Openness to any ideas, as long as they don't conflict with your own. This is the exact same reason I left Everything2. Disagree with me all you want, but I'm only speaking my side of things.
"I am reminded of the Communist Trials, the stupidity of which we look back upon now and laugh at"
Stupidity? Uh, you must not know about history..but from the 1920s until the 50s this country was infused with Communists and Communism. Alger Hiss ring a bell? How about Roosevelt and Truman's very leftist leanings and their perception of Communism and America? What McCarthy did (and he didn't start it, the House UnAmericans Activities Committee was around waay before him), he was doing a valuable service to this country. Even now, there are forces at work both in this country and in our Federal Government (Congress especially) that are actively undermining American security and interests, working to undo the freedoms and peace that we enjoy, and spit in the face of the hard work, values and respect for man and country that made this nation great. And for the most part, those people are allied under one banner...the Democratic National Party.
We don't look back and laugh at McCarthy's crusade as something dreamed up by a delusional Congressman from Wisconsin...we see it as a man who loved his country and was wanting to defend it from an outside force that was (and still is) attempting to destroy the basic freedoms that we enjoy. So please sir, don't speak of an decent American like Rep. Joseph McCarthy in such a harsh tone without proof. Atleast not on my watch.
Typical Slashdot. Anti-American statements, more about how Bush and company are evil, yadda yadda. This s a perfect illustration of what's wrong with this country. The politically/intellectual elite DO NOT represent the vast majority of Americans, by which I call "Middle America". That's why the leftist media's attempt to portray Bush as a moron didn't stick, the average man doesn't see anything wrong with another average guy running the show.
"Our rights are being stepped on" Like how? Specifically, not "They Government has the option to hold you indefinitely without a lawyer"..those are hypotheticals that come into play very goddamn rarely in the real world. Has any Slashdotter been held because of some tripe they posted, or a shirt they've worn or an organization they've supported? I doubt that.
This country will do whatever it takes to ensure that another September 11th doesn't happen, and as someone who has a profound love for his country, I see nothing wrong with that. It's so easy to forget that THREE THOUSAND AMERICANS died last year...that's several times the amount of dead at Pearl Harbor..and unlike December 7th 1941, these were civilians. People who had sinned no worse than to go to work paid with their lives...and I see nothing wrong with our Government trying to protect us from that ever happening again.
But on the other hand, this kind of thing is expected from the Slashdot audience. Most of us are young adults (less than 35's young, kids), myself included. So of course there's going to be the liberal touchy-feely element at hand, it's something that has to be worked out..and will be, once most of us get older (me? I'm special;).
Just keep in mind that these precautions, while an inconvenience, is part of what's keeping LA, Chicago, NYC, Miami, Atlanta, etc from being turned into vapor by a suitcase nuke (or some other horrible, horrible possibility). And if you complain about your bags getting checked or some little kid being searched or whatever..bear in mind that if an American city is wiped from the face of the Earth....it'll be a lot worse than it is now...for us (a little), but way more so for the rest of the world.
So yeah...to sum up all this ranting...anything that'll help prevent another September 11th/save American lives I'm all for. And I'm suprised most of you arn't, but not really.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I sure as hell don't want the Government to tell me where and/or when I can use a cell phone (I don't have one, but that's beside the point). It's not the Government's place to tell people if they can use their cell phone in a public place. Public. If it's a private place and the owner says No Cellphones, that's their choice...but for a public place the Government wants to regulate cell phone usage. How strange.
Does this mean eventually we'll have a "sweet spot", like what was shown on Enterprise? Will we be able to go the say, the Artic Circle, and push off a mountain and experience some zero-G fun? And like, how will the climates and enviroments of places further from the equaitor alter? This sounds interesting, yet scary at the same time.
I have this nifty little sync program for Win9X boxes (2K doesn't work with it, and there's no plans for an update). It called into the USAC (Atomic Clock) hourly and synced my machines directly to time. It was a great little program, some from company with a name like "JediTech" or something similar. Now if I could only find a version (or similar program) that worked under 2K......
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This is the kind of thing that pisses me off. Personally I think our Government spend faaaaaar too much money as it is, and then this story comes along. I'm all for SETI and stuff, but I don't think this is a totally worthwhile use of my tax dollars.
Pork spending. I'm sure someone at NASA has a brother in law that works for SETI or something similar and that's how the funding got there. I seriously doubt it was because of evidence or anything solid and concrete.
I mean, we have enough problems that the Federal Government is involved with already...and now they're going to throw more money at a cause best funded by private dollars? Insane. While I think NASA is a worthy objective (atleast partly, it should be privitized)...I don't want Federal Money going to support something like SETI.
The reason they cut the funding off in the first place is that it is frivolous. Like grant money given to artists and crap like that. Let's see Government give another big across the board tax cut..raise revenue back a little and stop funding all these silly programs that are clearly private groups and shouldn't receive Federal Dollars.
Let's secure our boarders and get better education in our schools and fix our roads and things of that nature before we start spending Tax Dollars hailing Alpha Centuari.
Only you can stop the stupid Represenatives and Senators wasting our money. End pork spending.
I live in an area where DSL nor cable modems are available. Our telephone lines do not support any protocol higher than V.34, and I have use the Verizon Express Network and so far it's going great. For $80/month I get unlimited bandwidth and usage and I get pretty decent speeds (nothing major, 125k or so. But it works for me).
WiFi, unless it spreads everywhere really quick will be isolated to the big cities and forgotten by the rest of the country. Cellular is the way to go because of the availibility. Sure 802.11x has fast ass speeds, but I don't live anywhere close to a major city. So it's my tiny bit of bandwidth and go everywhere around here. Works for me, man.
Vice City had a number of known actors doing voice work. Ray Liotta, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper, Burt Reynolds, Gary Busey, Lee Majors, Fairuza Balk and others. I was really suprised when they didn't promote any of the celebrity voice actors.
And as far as voice actors go, David Hayter smokes everyone away. Let's just hope that his success at being a writer (X-Men, X2, Hulk) doesn't mean he won't voice everyone's favorite neck-snapping badass.
I love Final Fantasy IV (the last good FF game far as I'm concerned), but it's all about Chrono Trigger.
A huge and indepth story with something like 14 different endings, tons of replayability, cool and memorable characters (epecially that chatterbox Crono), loads of subplots and sidequests..and excellent music. It's the absolute best 2D RPG, and quite possibly the greatest console RPG of all time.
I mean I was actually sad when the game was over. I mean, it was over. Done, no more. That Xmas of 1995 (released during the summer I know but I never played it until Xmas) was such a happy and fun time. And there was never to be a sequel. Ever. Never ever ever not even if you give us money and beg us.
Then they made Chrono Cross, which was a disgrace to all that made Chrono Trigger good. Atleast the pre-order clock was really cool (and fitting, if you leave the clock hands reading 10:04)
This is so strange. Why didn't Dr. Dre (and the Verve) just recreate the sounds rather than use a sample from another song? From someone who's in the record industry (a good friend of mine) it's so easy to recreate rather than outright steal the sample.
Final Fantasy IV comes close (in my book of Best Console Games it's MGS, FFIV, LTTP). And ChronoTrigger was another great game that had lots of things going for it (that shockingly, was a good game Square made). So yeah, and stuff.
Well, somethings need to be recycled. The GBA is a great platform to showcase some of the old 8 and 16bit games that a lot of younger gamers haven't played. I mean come on dude, it's A Link to the Past.
The RE games situation is a bit strange, but since when has Capcom not been guilty of milking their franchises? The remake of RE 1 I think was to make the story of 1 mesh better with the rest of the game series (and possibly the film).
Please bear in mind that the Resident Evils and MGS are both being done by third parties who's games never came out on a Nintendo system and are thus going after an untapped audience (or was Resident Evil 2 released on the N64? I don't recall if it was canned or not)... Although my perspection is a bit biased due to my fondness of Kojima and his series, I don't see anything wrong with giving the world more Solid Snake.
Excellent excellent. Hopefully this was in some way inspired by my own drive to get MGS remade for the PS2 (didn't see the petition? Oh well, like those things work anyways). But is just confirmation, this was talked about several months ago. I defy anyone to name me one game that had a deeper plot and characterization than Metal Gear Solid. And if anyone says Final Fantasy VII or Zelda: Ocarina of Time so help me I'll leap across the Internet and strangle you.
Seriously, MGS was such a good example of how games can be more cinematic and still be good games. The story was interesting and ever-changing, the characters were well developed and beautifully executed, the script and translation was good, and the voice acting was beyond anything ever seen in a game prior (many props to Mr. David Hayter). I honestly believe that Metal Gear Solid is the single greatest console game of all time (on the level of story and characterization).
Schweet. I don't care if there are any extras, although they would be nice. Just more sneaking, more cardboard boxes and more good Snake-isms.
What is with these attacks again Matt Drudge and his Drudge Report? He doesn't write the stories most of the time, he just links to other people's unpublished content. And times like these, which aren't awfully common, he reports on something because he gets it first. If someone (Newsweek) sits on a story and hold it, and Drudge already has wind of it he'll publish it. That's how he broke the story of Monica Lewinski, in additions to other exclusives he's got.
This blind attacks against Drudge is mindnumbing. Let's be good brainwashed little masses and only get our news from CNN and NPR!
No retard, we have had attempted terroritsts attacks against the United States since 9/11. But thanks to the SYSTEM, none of them have come to fruitation. Hm...
;)p
Planned attacks + Security System = No successful attacks. Oh yeah it doesn't work.
This whole thread is nothing more than a mindless, left-wing sponsored bash of President Bush, his administration, and Republicans in general. Not one argument has been presented on WHY the Patriot Act shouldn't be extended. You take this and other websites to push your agenda which this country DOES NOT agree with and HAS rejected time and time again.
American will no longer allow those who consider themselves to be more intelligent than the average BLUE COLLAR citizen to sit back and badmouth us. The BLAME AMERICA FIRST camp is loosing steam. The average citizens are NOT tollerating these anti-American stances.
You complained when we secured our country. We haven't had a terrorist attack since 9/11. A testiment to how the system we have put in place WORKS. It has secured and will continue to safeguard this country and our people, while you whine, uninformed, about matters that effect all of us.
You are the same people who take to the streets to protest our war in Iraq. We have just freed a nation of people who were inslaved to a brutal, evil dictator. Would you care to tell the overjoyed, newly freed Iraqi citizens who are throwing roses at our troops that we have no business there?
This nation is doing what is in the best interest for US, not the UN or the world. We have taken care of the world both economically and militarly since the 1940s, and now we have to band together and do what is necessary to make AMERICA secure for AMERICANS. And if you don't like it, SHUT THE HELL UP.
But it is okay. While you post to the Internet and demand that the Government unsecure itself, I sit comfortable knowing that these laws and policies are preventing another 3,000 innocent CIVILIANS from being murdered. I sit comfortably knowing it's harder for someone to make L.A. into a gigantic radioactive mushroom cloud.
So I hope people like Slashdot reader continue their level of young, uninformed nonsense. It only helps strengthen my side's cause.
A great little indie flick. Classic stuff. It's available on DVD but I'd love to see it on the big screen.
;)
Hell, I'd love to see lots of films on the big screen. MST3K: The Movie, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, the 60s Batman film, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, all kinds of cool things.
Too bad one can't like rent out a theater for a screening or something similar so we chould show these flicks as they were ment to be seen, on the big screen!
I'm 20, and my earliest memory is from when I was 3 I believe. My family's business is general contracting, and my then 53 year old grandfather was moving some uniform lockers into a building at our shop. The doors/sides of the door on these lockers were razer sharp and when the door slammed on his hand...whammo, cut the tip of his finger off.
What I believe is that we start remembering things that are memorable. Waking up and looking at smiling people and other mundaine tasks arn't worthy of kickstarting the memory centers of the brain. While my mind jolted awake and fused brain cells together to create and sustain this memory, maybe other people's brains didn't deem anything "worthy" of remembering until later on? Beats the heck out of me.
For those interested, the Delta IV is build in my home town of Decatur, Alabama. At construction time it was the largest Boeing building under one roof (or so they told us contractor). Massive complex. And from what I understand, the Delta IV's are one of the components of the National Missle Defense system that the Government has been developing. Interesting stuff in Alabama, lots of rockets and other stuff. ;)
The problem I've found in online communities is censorship. In a community ran website like Everything2
(and even Slashdot, to a lesser degree), censorship is at the whim of the people in power. If they don't agree with what you say, most times you'll have your stuff cut, edited, or removed all together. I had this problem on E2 late last year, and I haven't been back since (A friend of mine logged onto my account to check something, but that wasn't me). I had an opinion that didn't mesh with what the editors of E2 believed, and I was cut as a result. Now in the issue of fairness, I want to point out that my node was about how George W. Bush is the rightful President. It was filled with evidence and fact, not speculation and conjure, but it was still yanked nonetheless. Why? Because the editor that k-lined it didn't agree with me, and they didn't want anyone else to read it and possibly side with me. I've gotten over it, as I said I haven't contributed or returned to E2 since the whole thing happened, but when you advertise a broad, diverse online community where ideas can thrive you must consider that not all the ideas will agree with you, and in the true spirit of open thought one should allow viewpoints from outside your method of thought. And from my experience most online communities don't allow that.
I have no problem with not being listened to..but when my thoughts and comments are censored (like they were on Everything2) solely because they didn't grok with the admins..yeah, I'm not going to waste my time providing them with content just to be slapped down for providing factual, documented evidence while others who post little more than flames are elevated to god like status.
Impeachment wasn't about sex. Impeachment was about lying under oath about sex. Ignorance is something alright...
And how did the good Senator (not Congressman as I so erroniously reported earlier) stomp on the Constitution? Violation of the First Admendment? They had the right to freely express themselves, which they did openly. However, when that expression presents a clear and present danger to the continued prosperity of the United States as both the body politic and the people, actions such as McCarthy's were totally justified.
As of this writing, my original post was moderated to Score 0: Flamebait. Just the open-minded thinking I would expect for Slashdot. Openness to any ideas, as long as they don't conflict with your own. This is the exact same reason I left Everything2. Disagree with me all you want, but I'm only speaking my side of things.
"I am reminded of the Communist Trials, the stupidity of which we look back upon now and laugh at"
Stupidity? Uh, you must not know about history..but from the 1920s until the 50s this country was infused with Communists and Communism. Alger Hiss ring a bell? How about Roosevelt and Truman's very leftist leanings and their perception of Communism and America? What McCarthy did (and he didn't start it, the House UnAmericans Activities Committee was around waay before him), he was doing a valuable service to this country. Even now, there are forces at work both in this country and in our Federal Government (Congress especially) that are actively undermining American security and interests, working to undo the freedoms and peace that we enjoy, and spit in the face of the hard work, values and respect for man and country that made this nation great. And for the most part, those people are allied under one banner...the Democratic National Party.
We don't look back and laugh at McCarthy's crusade as something dreamed up by a delusional Congressman from Wisconsin...we see it as a man who loved his country and was wanting to defend it from an outside force that was (and still is) attempting to destroy the basic freedoms that we enjoy. So please sir, don't speak of an decent American like Rep. Joseph McCarthy in such a harsh tone without proof. Atleast not on my watch.
Typical Slashdot. Anti-American statements, more about how Bush and company are evil, yadda yadda. This s a perfect illustration of what's wrong with this country. The politically/intellectual elite DO NOT represent the vast majority of Americans, by which I call "Middle America". That's why the leftist media's attempt to portray Bush as a moron didn't stick, the average man doesn't see anything wrong with another average guy running the show.
;).
"Our rights are being stepped on" Like how? Specifically, not "They Government has the option to hold you indefinitely without a lawyer"..those are hypotheticals that come into play very goddamn rarely in the real world. Has any Slashdotter been held because of some tripe they posted, or a shirt they've worn or an organization they've supported? I doubt that.
This country will do whatever it takes to ensure that another September 11th doesn't happen, and as someone who has a profound love for his country, I see nothing wrong with that. It's so easy to forget that THREE THOUSAND AMERICANS died last year...that's several times the amount of dead at Pearl Harbor..and unlike December 7th 1941, these were civilians. People who had sinned no worse than to go to work paid with their lives...and I see nothing wrong with our Government trying to protect us from that ever happening again.
But on the other hand, this kind of thing is expected from the Slashdot audience. Most of us are young adults (less than 35's young, kids), myself included. So of course there's going to be the liberal touchy-feely element at hand, it's something that has to be worked out..and will be, once most of us get older (me? I'm special
Just keep in mind that these precautions, while an inconvenience, is part of what's keeping LA, Chicago, NYC, Miami, Atlanta, etc from being turned into vapor by a suitcase nuke (or some other horrible, horrible possibility). And if you complain about your bags getting checked or some little kid being searched or whatever..bear in mind that if an American city is wiped from the face of the Earth....it'll be a lot worse than it is now...for us (a little), but way more so for the rest of the world.
So yeah...to sum up all this ranting...anything that'll help prevent another September 11th/save American lives I'm all for. And I'm suprised most of you arn't, but not really.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I sure as hell don't want the Government to tell me where and/or when I can use a cell phone (I don't have one, but that's beside the point). It's not the Government's place to tell people if they can use their cell phone in a public place. Public. If it's a private place and the owner says No Cellphones, that's their choice...but for a public place the Government wants to regulate cell phone usage. How strange.
Lowtax and Penny Arcade said it. Best. Fark 'um.
Does this mean eventually we'll have a "sweet spot", like what was shown on Enterprise? Will we be able to go the say, the Artic Circle, and push off a mountain and experience some zero-G fun? And like, how will the climates and enviroments of places further from the equaitor alter? This sounds interesting, yet scary at the same time.
I have this nifty little sync program for Win9X boxes (2K doesn't work with it, and there's no plans for an update). It called into the USAC (Atomic Clock) hourly and synced my machines directly to time. It was a great little program, some from company with a name like "JediTech" or something similar. Now if I could only find a version (or similar program) that worked under 2K......