There is a lot of water under the bridge, since 1973. Yes, Chile has a good standing now.
I had plenty of friends who came to the US as economic refugees from Chile in the early '80's. Some were ethnic chinese, who had once prospered and were now bankrupt.
Check out the story of Milton Friedman's "Chicago Boys", a tale of spin and deceit.
"Orwell was writing about the reality of 1948, with the layers of appearance peeled-off. The shallower chisel-marks of his own time were cast into sharper bas-relief by supposing an arc that played 36 years into his future.
From: Laurence Canter (nike@indirect.com) Subject: Green Card Lottery- Final One? Newsgroups: alt.brother-jed, alt.pub.coffeehouse.amethyst View: Complete Thread (4 articles) | Original Format Date: 1994-04-12 00:40:42 PST
Green Card Lottery 1994 May Be The Last One! THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED.
The Green Card Lottery is a completely legal program giving away a certain annual allotment of Green Cards to persons born in certain countries. The lottery program was scheduled to continue on a permanent basis. However, recently, Senator Alan J Simpson introduced a bill into the U. S. Congress which could end any future lotteries. THE 1994 LOTTERY IS SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE SOON, BUT IT MAY BE THE VERY LAST ONE.
PERSONS BORN IN MOST COUNTRIES QUALIFY, MANY FOR FIRST TIME.
The only countries NOT qualifying are: Mexico; India; P.R. China; Taiwan, Philippines, North Korea, Canada, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland), Jamaica, Domican Republic, El Salvador and Vietnam.
Lottery registration will take place soon. 55,000 Green Cards will be given to those who register correctly. NO JOB IS REQUIRED.
THERE IS A STRICT JUNE DEADLINE. THE TIME TO START IS NOW!!
For FREE information via Email, send request to cslaw@indirect.com
--
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Stunning. Absolutely brilliant. To disagree with you is to shit on the U.S. Constitution, and to defame the notion of an inalienable right to Life, Liberty and the persuit of Happiness.
Tyranny in the 13 American Colonies under George III was fractional, compared to these outrages....But it isn't Bush as the ultimate actor here - he's the sock puppet for trillionaire mega-wealth - those elite who never wanted a Republic, and have worked to undermine such since they first cozied Hamilton up to Washington.
We are living in Brazil. The future as foretold by Terry Gilliam's 1985 rich and multi-layered film masterpiece Brazil is upon us. First released fifteen years ago, Terry Gilliam's Brazil was astonishingly accurate in forecasting political trends. In a previous essay, I examined the film as a critique of socialist central planning. In this piece, I will discuss how Brazil portends Bush's War on Terror.
The world of Brazil shows a totalitarian society in which freedom has been forfeited for a false promise of protection from terrorist attacks. Gilliam shows how the threat of terrorism is manipulated by the state as a means of political control over the population. The threat of terror is created by the internal security police in order to generate public acceptance of totalitarian police powers.
Gilliam's exposition raises some important questions: Is the terror created by the power of the state in the alleged pursuit of terrorism worse than the terrorism itself? And are they really any different?
The ministers of state in Brazil have succeeded in creating a society organized around a continuous response to the threat of terrorism. Random bombings occur regularly. The protagonist Sam and his mother must go through a security check in order to enter a restaurant. And then during their meal a large explosion blows out the back of the dining room; they continue eating while bodies are dragged away.
As in modern America, there is some doubt about whether Brazil's "War on Terrorism" is really working. At the opening of the film Minister Helpmann, the Deputy Minister of information (the internal security agency), appears on TV immediately after a bombing takes place:
INTERVIEWER: Do you think that the government is winning the battle against terrorists?
HELPMANN: Oh yes. Our morale is much higher than theirs, we're fielding all their strokes, running a lot of them out, and pretty consistently knocking them for six. I'd say they're nearly out of the game.
INTERVIEWER: But the bombing campaign is now in its thirteenth year.
HELPMANN: Beginner's luck.
Now in the US, we are told by the Bush administration that the war on terrorism will become a more or less permanent state of affairs.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. war on terrorism may rage for decades and has forced Pentagon strategists to think more broadly than they've had to since World War II, a top military official said Sunday.
"The fact that it could last several years, or many years, or maybe our lifetimes would not surprise me," Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday on ABC's This Week.
The film has been reissued on DVD with commentary by the director in which he states that it was his intention to convey that there were so many government plants, double agents, agents provocateurs, moles, infiltrators, etc. that at some point even the government did not know for sure whether there were any real terrorists or whether all of the terror was fabricated by the police as part of their anti-terror campaign.
In a conversation between Sam and Ministry of Information office Jack Lint, Lint reveals how he - as a key member of the internal security department - understands the events that are taking place:
Let's not think of this as a.DLL, or a COM/ActiveX dealie.
All that happens is Explorer (NOT IE) is calling native code OR Media Player to open the file, and pass the first rendered frame. Then Explorer does the scaling, and stuffs this into the Desktop.ini, and caches the ICO/BMP wherever.
This works fine, all the way around, as long as the handler - in this case the CODEC - doesn't dump. You can't vouch for every CODEC - some are yet-to-be, some are legitimate but from folks who make your licensing partners uncomfortable, some are just 'minority' stuff and code coverage is hard enough!
So? Do you demand that the event handlers are all clean in every CODEC in the world? No way. You treat them as potentially destablizing unknowns. You don't render, until you get a clean return. If you fault in rendring, you trap and use a 'dummy'. You never let the CODEC into your execution space. If it faults, no prob. You never let your code treat an unclean exit as a destablising event.
Vista has major Explorer bugs, still in evidence. Thumbnail rendering (the default setting)is buggy, and causes crashes.
DivX codec is a big culprit here. On trying to render the thumbnail, the codec causes an excepton under Vista. Explorer SHOULD trap this, and render a grey square, or something.
Instead, explorer faults, and the entire desktop - including the menu, taskbar, and any current file transfers - goes HUP.;-)
The "cure" is to check the option for opening all new explorer windows in their own process. That's incredibly wasteful of resources - of course, if you can run Vista at speed... you probably already have a Lamborghini. You can also tell explorer to never render thumbnails. Seems like a real waste, 'tho'.
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There is a lot of water under the bridge, since 1973. Yes, Chile has a good standing now.
I had plenty of friends who came to the US as economic refugees from Chile in the early '80's. Some were ethnic chinese, who had once prospered and were now bankrupt.
Check out the story of Milton Friedman's "Chicago Boys", a tale of spin and deceit.
Safeguarded Chilean Democracy!
By assisnating the elected president, and committing extrajudicial targeted killings and torture.
Some of those were killed on U.S. soil.
Oh, yeah. He nearly destroyed the economy in Chile, by turning it into a test-bed for academic theory hatched at the Hoover Institution.
Pinochet did this, too.
"No, the terrorists have won when our troops stop killing their countrymen"
I know it's not your position - but it is the position of many in the Mediaverse.
What you are describing is "collective punishment" - a war crime.
Julia, Are You Awake
Read it
"Orwell was writing about the reality of 1948, with the layers of appearance peeled-off. The shallower chisel-marks of his own time were cast into sharper bas-relief by supposing an arc that played 36 years into his future.
And here we are. Here we have been."
From: Laurence Canter (nike@indirect.com)
Subject: Green Card Lottery- Final One?
Newsgroups: alt.brother-jed, alt.pub.coffeehouse.amethyst
View: Complete Thread (4 articles) | Original Format
Date: 1994-04-12 00:40:42 PST
Green Card Lottery 1994 May Be The Last One!
THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED.
The Green Card Lottery is a completely legal program giving away a
certain annual allotment of Green Cards to persons born in certain
countries. The lottery program was scheduled to continue on a
permanent basis. However, recently, Senator Alan J Simpson
introduced a bill into the U. S. Congress which could end any future
lotteries. THE 1994 LOTTERY IS SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE
SOON, BUT IT MAY BE THE VERY LAST ONE.
PERSONS BORN IN MOST COUNTRIES QUALIFY, MANY FOR
FIRST TIME.
The only countries NOT qualifying are: Mexico; India; P.R. China;
Taiwan, Philippines, North Korea, Canada, United Kingdom (except
Northern Ireland), Jamaica, Domican Republic, El Salvador and
Vietnam.
Lottery registration will take place soon. 55,000 Green Cards will be
given to those who register correctly. NO JOB IS REQUIRED.
THERE IS A STRICT JUNE DEADLINE. THE TIME TO START IS
NOW!!
For FREE information via Email, send request to
cslaw@indirect.com
--
Canter & Siegel, Immigration Attorneys
3333 E Camelback Road, Ste 250, Phoenix AZ 85018 USA
cslaw@indirect.com telephone (602)661-3911 Fax (602) 451-7617
I just like saying "Ubuntu".
There, I did it: "Ubuntu. Ubuntu, Ubuntu!"
Stunning. Absolutely brilliant. To disagree with you is to shit on the U.S. Constitution, and to defame the notion of an inalienable right to Life, Liberty and the persuit of Happiness.
...But it isn't Bush as the ultimate actor here - he's the sock puppet for trillionaire mega-wealth - those elite who never wanted a Republic, and have worked to undermine such since they first cozied Hamilton up to Washington.
Tyranny in the 13 American Colonies under George III was fractional, compared to these outrages.
So, money is just more information too, right?
Minibar key?
GOOD!
I need a drink, now.
I dunno. What was an Italian supposed to do, in 1922?
"There's nothing down here but papier mache and aluminum foil."
"But Cap'n, wha' aboot reports heard o' some loon, with an 'acoustic screwdriver'?"
by Robert Blumen
We are living in Brazil. The future as foretold by Terry Gilliam's 1985 rich and multi-layered film masterpiece Brazil is upon us. First released fifteen years ago, Terry Gilliam's Brazil was astonishingly accurate in forecasting political trends. In a previous essay, I examined the film as a critique of socialist central planning. In this piece, I will discuss how Brazil portends Bush's War on Terror.
The world of Brazil shows a totalitarian society in which freedom has been forfeited for a false promise of protection from terrorist attacks. Gilliam shows how the threat of terrorism is manipulated by the state as a means of political control over the population. The threat of terror is created by the internal security police in order to generate public acceptance of totalitarian police powers.
Gilliam's exposition raises some important questions: Is the terror created by the power of the state in the alleged pursuit of terrorism worse than the terrorism itself? And are they really any different?
The ministers of state in Brazil have succeeded in creating a society organized around a continuous response to the threat of terrorism. Random bombings occur regularly. The protagonist Sam and his mother must go through a security check in order to enter a restaurant. And then during their meal a large explosion blows out the back of the dining room; they continue eating while bodies are dragged away.
As in modern America, there is some doubt about whether Brazil's "War on Terrorism" is really working. At the opening of the film Minister Helpmann, the Deputy Minister of information (the internal security agency), appears on TV immediately after a bombing takes place:
INTERVIEWER: Do you think that the government is winning the battle against terrorists?
HELPMANN: Oh yes. Our morale is much higher than theirs, we're fielding all their strokes, running a lot of them out, and pretty consistently knocking them for six. I'd say they're nearly out of the game.
INTERVIEWER: But the bombing campaign is now in its thirteenth year.
HELPMANN: Beginner's luck.
Now in the US, we are told by the Bush administration that the war on terrorism will become a more or less permanent state of affairs.
U.S. war may last decades
Military pushed to think broadly
By KAREN MASTERSON
WASHINGTON - The U.S. war on terrorism may rage for decades and has forced Pentagon strategists to think more broadly than they've had to since World War II, a top military official said Sunday.
"The fact that it could last several years, or many years, or maybe our lifetimes would not surprise me," Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday on ABC's This Week.
The film has been reissued on DVD with commentary by the director in which he states that it was his intention to convey that there were so many government plants, double agents, agents provocateurs, moles, infiltrators, etc. that at some point even the government did not know for sure whether there were any real terrorists or whether all of the terror was fabricated by the police as part of their anti-terror campaign.
In a conversation between Sam and Ministry of Information office Jack Lint, Lint reveals how he - as a key member of the internal security department - understands the events that are taking place:
SAM: You don't really think Tuttle and the g
And no, SpybotSD can't help you.
Find out what investigative journalist Greg Palast was doing the past few weeks, and why they now have a journalist wearing orange.
Sober? I haven't intoxicated meself, beyond the Christmas tipple, in 24 years.
You rock.
I don't want an effective Secret Police.
It wasn't what the U.S. signed on for in 1776 or 1789.
Government is the puppet of the Corporation.
The Corporation is the puppet of the Bank.
you can always comply with the wishes of authority...
Or you can go here.
what forensic traces are left on YOUR machine.
It's about what trace you leave across the Internet/Googlesphere/SkyNet.
Sure. I argue that the CODEC is failing - but that Explorer is not written to deal with a bad exit or no exit from the CODEC. It IS DivX failing.
Look. It's a CODEC.
.DLL, or a COM/ActiveX dealie.
Let's not think of this as a
All that happens is Explorer (NOT IE) is calling native code OR Media Player to open the file, and pass the first rendered frame. Then Explorer does the scaling, and stuffs this into the Desktop.ini, and caches the ICO/BMP wherever.
This works fine, all the way around, as long as the handler - in this case the CODEC - doesn't dump. You can't vouch for every CODEC - some are yet-to-be, some are legitimate but from folks who make your licensing partners uncomfortable, some are just 'minority' stuff and code coverage is hard enough!
So? Do you demand that the event handlers are all clean in every CODEC in the world? No way. You treat them as potentially destablizing unknowns. You don't render, until you get a clean return. If you fault in rendring, you trap and use a 'dummy'. You never let the CODEC into your execution space. If it faults, no prob. You never let your code treat an unclean exit as a destablising event.
It is really sad.
You have never written software, I take it?
It is the job of the Windows Explorer to recover gracefully from faulty plugins/libraries.
It wouldn't matter the source. If the plugin faults - Explorer should trap this and revert to its default/null response, as if no plugin were present.
If you are not trapping this generically, you have an incomplete design.
I am not an anecdote. I am a free man!
;-)
Vista has major Explorer bugs, still in evidence. Thumbnail rendering (the default setting)is buggy, and causes crashes.
DivX codec is a big culprit here. On trying to render the thumbnail, the codec causes an excepton under Vista. Explorer SHOULD trap this, and render a grey square, or something.
Instead, explorer faults, and the entire desktop - including the menu, taskbar, and any current file transfers - goes HUP.
The "cure" is to check the option for opening all new explorer windows in their own process. That's incredibly wasteful of resources - of course, if you can run Vista at speed... you probably already have a Lamborghini. You can also tell explorer to never render thumbnails. Seems like a real waste, 'tho'.
Oh, and BTW: Welcome to the future.