Actually polls have indicated that 80% of Nader's supporters (including myself) would have not voted for either major canidate had Nader not been in the race. I got your majority profile right here.;)
BTW, is anybody else incensed that AOL started using CD's a couple years back? I can't format the disks and use them any more, so end up getting a free coaster about every week or so. They're starting to pile up!
I have an idea... Insteading creating further waste by throwing them away, lets collect as many of those frickin' CDs as we can. Stuff them into 5 gallon garbage bags, and load as many U-Hauls as possible. Then drive down to Dulles, VA and unload them onto the steps of AOL headquarters. Maybe they'd get the message.
Unless i'm misinformed (which i may be), I've read that there are still agreements with the Russian government, new or old, that the US has a part in, regarding ABM systems, and that a system of the degree they (the US) are planning would "clearly break" these agreements.
Rogue control of weapons systems is a scary thought and is always a possibility. And with our own government leaping half-blind into the 21st century, using 1/2-assed security systems on their information networks, a similar situations could arise here at home.
And "rouge" is a funny word... "Rogues" can become "freedom fighters" overnight in the press, and vice versa (ie: the KLA in Kosovo).:)
I just wonder when too much defense can lend itself to an all out offense. We could seize offensive rougue control over the entire globe with a large enough forcefield.
Note the phrase "but upon probable cause". This means the government has the right perform lawful searches. That's called "inherent authority".
Granted. But the procedure in question here isn't search and seizure... it's stealth and surveillance. Sounds unreasonable to me...
A system like Carnivore could allow the FBI the ability to monitor a massive amount of public and private comunications on a whim. They've already given themselves the power to tap phone lines with or without court order, and Carnivore is the first step in applying the idea to the Net.
That particular line from the article blew me away. And why not have a public debate over goverment-sanctioned electronic surveillance? Do you think we, the mass, have become so blinded by the manufacturing of consent that we would let such a thing roll over us, given the chance to share our thoughts? (What do you think? - Sharing is caring!)
You can read lines like this from government officials everyday in the papers. And it kinda frustrates me that this stuff can breeze past us like generic cool jazz.
STORY TIME (ZzZzZzZ):
Read a front page article yesterday about the US gov's push to get a continental anti-missle system going by 2005 at the latest. Such a system would undoubtably violate US weapons-treaty agreements with Russia, and perhaps initiate another cold war (but I guess Russia has not the funds to compete, so hey - we already won!). The only argument in Congress regarding this anti-missle system is whether to deploy it now, or wait and let the technology advance in time. There is no noticable record of anyone in the House asking why we would need a system so absurdly huge at all.
Why do I get the feeling that there is something very wrong going on here? When is the last time the US was really threatened with a continental attack. And who the hell has the nerve to deploy weapons of mass destruction in this day and age (besides the US), and let alone deploy them at a county that has the rest of the world by the gonads? We really need this, eh?
16 years late, 1984 is just pulling into the station.
The Daily Show is a Show on Comedy Central. They aren't looking for a Tom Brokaw. If you want Tom Brokaw, then by all means watch NBC Nightly News... I watch the Daily Show because its hosted by a doofus and because it is unprofessional. Its funny. I always thought Craig Kilborn had a pole up his ass, but that kinda added to the attraction of the show... Jon Stewart just has a different style that relies more on naivete rather than arrogance.
OH BOY! imagine the fun stuff you could do with this kind of technology:
1) tap the live feed of a political convention;
2) remove background, load desert sunset slide;
3) insert giant bananas in cowboy suits;
4) roll DAT of "heeyaws!", whipcracks, and gunshots...
BAM!!!... political campaign covergae just got 1500% more interesting...
Nothing will beat the hold that crude oil has on us, at least any time soon.
Remeber the electric car? The one that never got out of the showroom? It was cheap, sleek. And no and no fossil fuels = no icky CO2... Sure it only went up to about 70 mph, but it was efficient and cost effective.
But electricity doesn't move money the way oil does. All that effort in the Persian Gulf would have gone to waste. Unexplained price hikes on gasoline wouldn't give our corporate masters those much needed bonuses. Oh things would have been very different now had the elctric car become the "future".
It would take a helluva lot to break the global oil insustry. And nitro just don't seem tuff enuff...
"...we have the technology to build robots to use as riot police..."
thats the first thing i thought of after reading the article. said droids could have no qualms over brutalizing a biological being. and you know that the government would likely pass some hush hush laws that would ensure them a pardon in any case of wrongful death...
so much for our right to assemble peaceably.
hey... dick nixon may be dead, but his spirit still lives on...
"The system was aimed only at teaching people how to use robots. Thai researchers did not have the funds for a manufacturing base to compete with countries like the US and Japan."
Don't worry, Thailand... the US will be exporting its own brand of killer robots to the world's "developing" nations soon enough! Would you like some stun belts with that?
Don't know if anyone metioned it, but I read over the changes to the user agreement last night myself and noticed interesting changes to section 5c. "Confidentiality of Information". The following information (in bold) was added to the policy:
"Comcast will disclose to third parties personal information that Comcast maintains related to Customers only when it is necessary to deliver the Service to customers or carry out related business activities, in the ordinary course of business, for ordinary business purposes, and at a frequency dictated by Comcast's particular business need, or pursuant to a court order or order of any regulatory body having jurisdiction over matters which are the subject of this Agreement. Comcast may also disclose personal information to prevent criminal activity(including bomb threats), violation of the @Home Network Acceptable Use Policy, or in the event of fraud...
Sounds like it could be the Carnivore policy they told me they hadn't developed yet.:/
The irony is that you can get GRAPHIC depictions of violence anywhere, yet this isn't seen as a problem, but looking at n3kk1d breasts is. Go figure.
Unless of course those breastises are in a National Geographic mag... then it qualifies as a cultural study.:)
It's interesting... I work for the IT dept. of my college and i find the policy on web browsing to be great: you can seek out whatever content you want on their network as long as its not offending anyone else. This means that any schmoe can sit in an empty lab and look at pr0n all day as long as no one else cares. the same goes for "sensative" information such as bomb making instructions and homemade LSD recipies. Despite the freedom, we rarely have problems with users.
I suppose there is nothing wrong with parents censoring their kids. If they are that insecure in their parenting skills and need to resort to some form domesticated totalitarianism rather than a practice of open discussion and exchange with their young ones, then there may be no better option than to restrict their freedoms - AT HOME...
I think Parental Judgement should stay within its own domain.
Libraries are public institutions and their policies should respect and reflect the interests of the public. - I don't mean the general public, the silent one that the media and government help to create. Yes, you know... that general public that you are supposed to feel outside of, in hopes that the alienation will force you to jump on their bandwagon - Libraries should be asking us what more we want to see on their shelves. Instead they are downsizing their resources because this invisible general public is generating a fear of accessible information. And its all bullshit.
I've talked to a lot of people, old and young, about the coming information age, censorship, government regulation of information, etc... I've heard lots of diferent opinions and argued extensively. But I have yet to meet someone so opposed to the free exchange of information that they have taken it upon themselves to write letters, lobby, and do the traditional American song and dance for their ideological cause... so my question is: If there are Representatives in Washington, DC trying to block our rights to knowledge, exactly who and how many are they representing?
One day the schools will finally stop teaching chemistry, physics, and general mathematics. You'll go to public school for 12 years and learn nothing but altered histories and the words to the Star Strangled Banter.
they take themselves so seriously. they give blood for their art. who ever said anyone had to care how hard they work? are metallica and dr. dre so dumb and cocky that they think that the financial recognition of their work is the glue that holds humanity together? its bullshit. if dr. dre and metallica were to retire tomorrow and never make music again, would a war break out? no. they really aren't as important as they think they are. and no one is required to give a rats ass whether or not they got their big fat royalty check this week. is this any way to respond to the people who are giving you attention, recognition, and spreading your name around? do they think people are trading their music online in an effort to hurt their well being?! "hey lets download dr. dre's music, he sucks i wanna see him go down!" people don't have that much time to waste. i could go on about the music industry in general, but i'll leave it be. let me just say it's a horrible bitch goddess. the real sad part is that the general public will probably once again let itself get fucked by breuraucratic horseshit. here's to our freedom down the toilet once again. brought to you by the people who want you to appreciate them.
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mp3s of Negativland's original "U2" single is available here. Top of the page. "The forbidden single"
check out http://www.gatt.org/fundintel.html
C'mon... when you see the words "Intellectual Property Fund" and Negativland together, how can you take it seriously?
Actually polls have indicated that 80% of Nader's supporters (including myself) would have not voted for either major canidate had Nader not been in the race. I got your majority profile right here. ;)
BTW, is anybody else incensed that AOL started using CD's a couple years back? I can't format the disks and use them any more, so end up getting a free coaster about every week or so. They're starting to pile up!
I have an idea... Insteading creating further waste by throwing them away, lets collect as many of those frickin' CDs as we can. Stuff them into 5 gallon garbage bags, and load as many U-Hauls as possible. Then drive down to Dulles, VA and unload them onto the steps of AOL headquarters. Maybe they'd get the message.
say hello to mr. chomsky for us.
Thanks for the insight ...
:)
Unless i'm misinformed (which i may be), I've read that there are still agreements with the Russian government, new or old, that the US has a part in, regarding ABM systems, and that a system of the degree they (the US) are planning would "clearly break" these agreements.
Rogue control of weapons systems is a scary thought and is always a possibility. And with our own government leaping half-blind into the 21st century, using 1/2-assed security systems on their information networks, a similar situations could arise here at home.
And "rouge" is a funny word... "Rogues" can become "freedom fighters" overnight in the press, and vice versa (ie: the KLA in Kosovo).
I just wonder when too much defense can lend itself to an all out offense. We could seize offensive rougue control over the entire globe with a large enough forcefield.
Note the phrase "but upon probable cause". This means the government has the right perform lawful searches. That's called "inherent authority".
:D )
Granted. But the procedure in question here isn't search and seizure... it's stealth and surveillance. Sounds unreasonable to me...
A system like Carnivore could allow the FBI the ability to monitor a massive amount of public and private comunications on a whim. They've already given themselves the power to tap phone lines with or without court order, and Carnivore is the first step in applying the idea to the Net.
I can't wait for telescreens! - (sorry
"The People of the United States..."...
I don't remeber being polled on this. The DOJ apparently singed the dotted line for us. In some corners, they'd call that forgery.
And I don't even live in fucking America.
I do. Can I come live with you?
That particular line from the article blew me away. And why not have a public debate over goverment-sanctioned electronic surveillance? Do you think we, the mass, have become so blinded by the manufacturing of consent that we would let such a thing roll over us, given the chance to share our thoughts? (What do you think? - Sharing is caring!)
You can read lines like this from government officials everyday in the papers. And it kinda frustrates me that this stuff can breeze past us like generic cool jazz.
STORY TIME (ZzZzZzZ):
Read a front page article yesterday about the US gov's push to get a continental anti-missle system going by 2005 at the latest. Such a system would undoubtably violate US weapons-treaty agreements with Russia, and perhaps initiate another cold war (but I guess Russia has not the funds to compete, so hey - we already won!). The only argument in Congress regarding this anti-missle system is whether to deploy it now, or wait and let the technology advance in time. There is no noticable record of anyone in the House asking why we would need a system so absurdly huge at all.
Why do I get the feeling that there is something very wrong going on here? When is the last time the US was really threatened with a continental attack. And who the hell has the nerve to deploy weapons of mass destruction in this day and age (besides the US), and let alone deploy them at a county that has the rest of the world by the gonads? We really need this, eh?
16 years late, 1984 is just pulling into the station.
Don't be afraid to share your thoughts...
goddamn shit ass nuckerfucking bitch cunt anus fondeling sony!!!!!
yup... what may be even scarier is that people would watch it.
The Daily Show is a Show on Comedy Central. They aren't looking for a Tom Brokaw. If you want Tom Brokaw, then by all means watch NBC Nightly News... I watch the Daily Show because its hosted by a doofus and because it is unprofessional. Its funny. I always thought Craig Kilborn had a pole up his ass, but that kinda added to the attraction of the show... Jon Stewart just has a different style that relies more on naivete rather than arrogance.
OH BOY! imagine the fun stuff you could do with this kind of technology:
... political campaign covergae just got 1500% more interesting...
1) tap the live feed of a political convention;
2) remove background, load desert sunset slide;
3) insert giant bananas in cowboy suits;
4) roll DAT of "heeyaws!", whipcracks, and gunshots...
BAM!!!
er... wishful thinking?
Nothing will beat the hold that crude oil has on us, at least any time soon.
Remeber the electric car? The one that never got out of the showroom? It was cheap, sleek. And no and no fossil fuels = no icky CO2... Sure it only went up to about 70 mph, but it was efficient and cost effective.
But electricity doesn't move money the way oil does. All that effort in the Persian Gulf would have gone to waste. Unexplained price hikes on gasoline wouldn't give our corporate masters those much needed bonuses. Oh things would have been very different now had the elctric car become the "future".
It would take a helluva lot to break the global oil insustry. And nitro just don't seem tuff enuff...
"...we have the technology to build robots to use as riot police..."
thats the first thing i thought of after reading the article. said droids could have no qualms over brutalizing a biological being. and you know that the government would likely pass some hush hush laws that would ensure them a pardon in any case of wrongful death...
so much for our right to assemble peaceably.
hey... dick nixon may be dead, but his spirit still lives on...
THE LADY BUG IS HURTING ME!!!
"The system was aimed only at teaching people how to use robots. Thai researchers did not have the funds for a manufacturing base to compete with countries like the US and Japan."
Don't worry, Thailand... the US will be exporting its own brand of killer robots to the world's "developing" nations soon enough! Would you like some stun belts with that?
Don't know if anyone metioned it, but I read over the changes to the user agreement last night myself and noticed interesting changes to section 5c. "Confidentiality of Information". The following information (in bold) was added to the policy:
:/
"Comcast will disclose to third parties personal information that Comcast maintains related to Customers only when it is necessary to deliver the Service to customers or carry out related business activities, in the ordinary course of business, for ordinary business purposes, and at a frequency dictated by Comcast's particular business need, or pursuant to a court order or order of any regulatory body having jurisdiction over matters which are the subject of this Agreement. Comcast may also disclose personal information to prevent criminal activity(including bomb threats), violation of the @Home Network Acceptable Use Policy, or in the event of fraud...
Sounds like it could be the Carnivore policy they told me they hadn't developed yet.
The irony is that you can get GRAPHIC depictions of violence anywhere, yet this isn't seen as a problem, but looking at n3kk1d breasts is. Go figure.
:)
Unless of course those breastises are in a National Geographic mag... then it qualifies as a cultural study.
It's interesting... I work for the IT dept. of my college and i find the policy on web browsing to be great: you can seek out whatever content you want on their network as long as its not offending anyone else. This means that any schmoe can sit in an empty lab and look at pr0n all day as long as no one else cares. the same goes for "sensative" information such as bomb making instructions and homemade LSD recipies. Despite the freedom, we rarely have problems with users.
I suppose there is nothing wrong with parents censoring their kids. If they are that insecure in their parenting skills and need to resort to some form domesticated totalitarianism rather than a practice of open discussion and exchange with their young ones, then there may be no better option than to restrict their freedoms - AT HOME...
I think Parental Judgement should stay within its own domain.
Libraries are public institutions and their policies should respect and reflect the interests of the public. - I don't mean the general public, the silent one that the media and government help to create. Yes, you know... that general public that you are supposed to feel outside of, in hopes that the alienation will force you to jump on their bandwagon - Libraries should be asking us what more we want to see on their shelves. Instead they are downsizing their resources because this invisible general public is generating a fear of accessible information. And its all bullshit.
I've talked to a lot of people, old and young, about the coming information age, censorship, government regulation of information, etc... I've heard lots of diferent opinions and argued extensively. But I have yet to meet someone so opposed to the free exchange of information that they have taken it upon themselves to write letters, lobby, and do the traditional American song and dance for their ideological cause... so my question is: If there are Representatives in Washington, DC trying to block our rights to knowledge, exactly who and how many are they representing?
One day the schools will finally stop teaching chemistry, physics, and general mathematics. You'll go to public school for 12 years and learn nothing but altered histories and the words to the Star Strangled Banter.
yaya! weeeeeeeeeeeeee. tried the linux packages too. they seem to work. i got that work. i got that... flavor. uhh. yeah.
once again some wicked q3a mod is released and i can't play it on my G4 becasue its a self-extracting EXE. anyone know where i can find RA3 zipped?
they take themselves so seriously. they give blood for their art. who ever said anyone had to care how hard they work? are metallica and dr. dre so dumb and cocky that they think that the financial recognition of their work is the glue that holds humanity together? its bullshit. if dr. dre and metallica were to retire tomorrow and never make music again, would a war break out? no. they really aren't as important as they think they are. and no one is required to give a rats ass whether or not they got their big fat royalty check this week. is this any way to respond to the people who are giving you attention, recognition, and spreading your name around? do they think people are trading their music online in an effort to hurt their well being?! "hey lets download dr. dre's music, he sucks i wanna see him go down!" people don't have that much time to waste. i could go on about the music industry in general, but i'll leave it be. let me just say it's a horrible bitch goddess. the real sad part is that the general public will probably once again let itself get fucked by breuraucratic horseshit. here's to our freedom down the toilet once again. brought to you by the people who want you to appreciate them.