After spending a few years in the shipping/recieving docks of UPS, I give this piece of advice:
Your package is nothing more than something to take aggression out on. $9.00/hr for shit work makes one very angry, and it is your package that loses out. A fragile package just means it breaks easier when it's thrown into the trailer.
Once upon a time, the Constitution was worth a whole lot more than just 6000 lives.
The above comment couldn't be more true. In 1814 the British (yes, those of the same country of Tony Blair, the Queen Mum, and the egghead Prince Charles) entered Washington and burned the White House to the ground. The White House. Did we panic? No. Did we run? No. We stood our ground. And we did nothing to undermine the Bill of Rights, as opposed to the bullshit being signed into law after the WTC Attacks.
Why did we do no such thing? Because our fore fathers, unlike us, knew that fear was our only enemy. Fear was the only thing that could do us in. They knew that if we recieved enough "attacks" and we kept signing in new bills, eventually we would end up right where we were when we lived under british law.
Thus, the just rebuilt the White House. Now, what would happen if the White House was burned down today? Obvioulsy massive legislation would be passed faster than you could say 'what the fuck?!?'.
How much longer till our laws start to mirror the actions of our enemies? Now look at us. The very country that our fore fathers broke us off from is now in bed with our president. Fuck the Queen and brush her teeth!
We have swapped the 'God, Guns, Guts' for 'Nintendo, MTV, Mcdonalds' to keep us free. Until we realize what is truly important, nobody will give a shit. And it never matters until everything you have is taken away.
We once had something great. Not anymore. This is the type of shit that happens when a person's bubble is burst. They refuse to look at events leading up to what happened, and react without thinking when their bubble is burst.
The Constitution was once there to protect us. Now nobody cares. But in the end, apathy will kill you.
Ok. You aren't giving up any freedom. You want to fly with an ID card? Great, it helps the check-in process. You don't? Ok, check-in an hour earlier for security screening.
They aren't even talking about tracking where people go, you think they have that much storage? Think about it, 100 million people get the card and as you paranoid-folk think, are being tracked when they go shopping for instance. Say 20% of them go shopping, 20 million new records tied in to store records and other indexes. In a 24 hour period. Through a week.
Now we have 140 million rows. How the fuck do you expect anything to sift through that. Not only is it (currently) technologically infeasible, it's just assinane and mundane for people to do so.
What we really need now, to stop any counterfeit ID's, is to have an implantable ID chip (mark of the beast), so that you can neither buy or sell with it.
</sarcasm>
NOTICE: In case this actually does happen, I will cease to exist.
Look at it in this light: Coercing the public over long periods of time to accept a new format that is easily manipulated and/or destroyed in order to control them. Which would be easier for the government to do? Go house to house and burn the books as Guy Montag did before he realized what he was doing, or peacifully change the media content at a central point (a database linked to a website) that every one reads from? Throw in a dash of George Orwell's Animal Farm and word mangling, and you get a picture of a very bleak future. Imagine the last laugh by those who are More Equal Than Others.
At least with books, I have something that would have to be pried from my cold, dead fingers.
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only a matter of hours before someone has linux hacked onto it.
"Its not GNU, its X-BOX!"
After spending a few years in the shipping/recieving docks of UPS, I give this piece of advice:
Your package is nothing more than something to take aggression out on. $9.00/hr for shit work makes one very angry, and it is your package that loses out. A fragile package just means it breaks easier when it's thrown into the trailer.
Once upon a time, the Constitution was worth a whole lot more than just 6000 lives.
The above comment couldn't be more true. In 1814 the British (yes, those of the same country of Tony Blair, the Queen Mum, and the egghead Prince Charles) entered Washington and burned the White House to the ground. The White House. Did we panic? No. Did we run? No. We stood our ground. And we did nothing to undermine the Bill of Rights, as opposed to the bullshit being signed into law after the WTC Attacks.
Why did we do no such thing? Because our fore fathers, unlike us, knew that fear was our only enemy. Fear was the only thing that could do us in. They knew that if we recieved enough "attacks" and we kept signing in new bills, eventually we would end up right where we were when we lived under british law.
Thus, the just rebuilt the White House. Now, what would happen if the White House was burned down today? Obvioulsy massive legislation would be passed faster than you could say 'what the fuck?!?'.
How much longer till our laws start to mirror the actions of our enemies? Now look at us. The very country that our fore fathers broke us off from is now in bed with our president. Fuck the Queen and brush her teeth!
We have swapped the 'God, Guns, Guts' for 'Nintendo, MTV, Mcdonalds' to keep us free. Until we realize what is truly important, nobody will give a shit. And it never matters until everything you have is taken away.
We once had something great. Not anymore. This is the type of shit that happens when a person's bubble is burst. They refuse to look at events leading up to what happened, and react without thinking when their bubble is burst.
The Constitution was once there to protect us. Now nobody cares. But in the end, apathy will kill you.
Go back to TFC.
Dude. Get a grip.
Take a breath.
Ok. You aren't giving up any freedom. You want to fly with an ID card? Great, it helps the check-in process. You don't? Ok, check-in an hour earlier for security screening.
They aren't even talking about tracking where people go, you think they have that much storage? Think about it, 100 million people get the card and as you paranoid-folk think, are being tracked when they go shopping for instance. Say 20% of them go shopping, 20 million new records tied in to store records and other indexes. In a 24 hour period. Through a week.
Now we have 140 million rows. How the fuck do you expect anything to sift through that. Not only is it (currently) technologically infeasible, it's just assinane and mundane for people to do so.
Google does it with billions of rows.
...when they crack my OpenBSD bridge firewall.
MS audits... just not the code ;)
-DigiBoi
Wow, Michael. Could you post a few more spoilers on the top of the front page? I don't think there are enough.
First we complain about day old news. Now we complain about news before it happens. Will we ever be happy?
What we really need now, to stop any counterfeit ID's, is to have an implantable ID chip (mark of the beast), so that you can neither buy or sell with it.
</sarcasm>
NOTICE: In case this actually does happen, I will cease to exist.
Compaq 486/66: Free
2 old NICs sitting on shelf: Free
OpenBSD: Free
Laughing at hax0rs trying to hack your Bridge Firewall: Priceless.
At least with books, I have something that would have to be pried from my cold, dead fingers.
i doubt 4 years ago they had telnetd for novell.
Hehe, look at how many SP's they had before they decided to come out with WinNT 4.0 from 3.51 :)
Usually, this sort of tactic would tend to imply that Intel is somewhat... afraid(?) of the unknown. Just my opinion :)