Yes! You hit that one right on the head. There are actually laws providing for a "protest zone" on school campuses and other highly populated public events. WHAT THE FUCK?
Iowa has all but banned sex offenders from the entire state. There are so many rules that a sex offender cannot possibly live within 50 miles of any city in this state. Now I'm not condoning sex offenses, but for fuck's sake, this is just overboard. What's next? Drug users? School bullies? People who expose white suburban kids to any other ideas than the ideas their parents force-fed them their whole lives?
I would also like to point out that this two sided coin leaves no room for the people. True, the government is a juggernaut but its only due to the unimaginable size of the corporations spanning the globe. As the government paves the way for corporations to move in an privatize basic necessities in third world countries (such as water in africa - including rainwater) the corporations kick back a cut of those disgusting profits. I'm willing to bet a large portion of the American population has never even heard of the IMF (International Monetary Fund), even as riots and protests spark worldwide as they take over yet another country and bring them into worse economic positions than they were before. Guess who is the largest IMF backer? That's right. The United States of America. Sure we'll toss in a $300 million loan to a poor suffering country. But then we get to own them for the entire debt duration, including their once soveriegn people who have absolutely no say in the matter, and are suddenly subjected to a poverty that pales their previous conditions.
People in these countries are dying trying to gain just a spark of freedom that we are pumping money into to put out. Yet Bush speaks of restoring peace and democratizing the world. Come on people.
I'd say sooner than 10 years the way the world is heating up around us. China will be dwarving us in their shadow within that amount of time (they could crush us right now by not taking our debt if they wanted to, but that wouldn't help them grow to their full potential), we will still be complaining about a lack of oil as Russia uses their deep-well technology to catch up with Saudi Arabia's 2 trillion barrel reserves (and projects to sustain it for the next century), and more urgently Iran may fight back just hard enough to break our morale completely when we try to force their hand. America is looking pretty hobbled these days, and I can only pray we wake up before the shit hits the fan once and for all. We have been lied to for so long now, the thought of rejecting any of it would mean rejecting a part of our lives, which is an incredibly hard thing for a normal human to do. We Americans are GOOD people. We have terrible leadership, and we have become apathetic and lazy, but letting the so called 'leaders' give us our milk and tell us when to take naps, as they go out and rape, murder, and pillage in our names is intolerable.
The internet is really the only hope we have left of breaking this downward spiral before its TOO LATE and someone else does it for us - and mind you, they're quickly catching on to that idea. I hate sounding like a paranoid freak, but goddamnit that's exactly how this whole shebang works. If you believe in our military-approved medias, you've got a lot of catching up to do. Read as much about everything going on in the world as you can from as many different sources as you can. You still never get a complete picture, but its like getting lasek eye surgery after wearing coke bottle glasses for 10 years.
Oh and I've turned off scores on all comments and set up my preferences to make them all as near to 0 as I can get. I just realized how much valuable insight can be completely missed by skimming all the highly rated comments. Try it sometime.
Voting takes too long and the results are not guaranteed to work out. However, civil disobedience, and prompt action definately stir the booties of the ones who think they're in power. Government is basically a backdoor for corporations to push the boundaries what the people will tolerate. How many times has the government held the monolithic corporations at bay to give right of way to the little guy, when recent and similar instances indicated the people would complacently let him be trampled? How long has it been since our government had the balls to do something right when it would clearly counter any shred of short-term business sense? We live in a world of instant gratification, this much is absolutely true, and our government not exempt. It is plainly obvious they will trade our long-term liberties, livelihoods, and best interests in general for a quick buck today.
It's high time they get a taste of their own medicine. Clip their wings and show them who REALLY runs the show. It's not the man in the white house or on capitol hill. It's the people who put him there, and pay for every luxury he's ever known - us.
An interesting proposition. Sometimes its the little things we CAN do that can make the biggest difference of all. Say suddenly 25% of America decided to humor you and adblock yahoo and boycott them.. they would change their stance pretty damn quickly. Yet, we do not do such things. We whine and complain and stamp our feet, but then we go back to our daily routines and try not to think of ourselves as contributing to the problem, all the while knowing at the back of our minds we're hypocritical. I will go ahead and humor you. I will adblock yahoo and their services, but mind you, I do not depend on yahoo for squat. Had this been about Google, I would most likely be a hypocrite with the millions of others.
I guess it depends on how important what they offer is to you personally, and what you'd be willing to sacrifice (dignity, others' liberties) to continue to receive their services and goods.
Very well said brother. Very well said. I think from now on I will browse strictly at -1. I don't know how all these commies are getting mod points, but it's becoming pretty ridiculous.
I've stared a computer screen since I was too young to walk, yet I have 20/15 vision according to the last eye test I had done. Somehow this still interests me... I would dig having 20/10 or 20/5 vision... I wonder if they would consider making special lenses for people who have good vision already, but would still like to improve it?
Indeed. I work for a small/mid-sized ISP in Iowa. We handle primarily business internet connections (frame relay & ATM) and VOIP. I'm thanking my lucky stars that Qwest handles all the fiber and lines for us, as I can't even begin to imagine taking the insane amount of calls from upset customers complaining that their traceroutes to google are over 100 ms. Then imagine if all the other carriers decided to go the same route... we'd be put out of business just trying to manage who has access to who's network, without stepping on the toes of such and such network... it would be a nightmare. I don't see how this is even feasible. The internet would break out into a massive war and either crumble or straight up split into factions.
I'd have to be changing static routes on a daily basis on top of the myriad of dns changes, website setups, router configs, troubleshooting, down connection notifications, audits... ugh... forget it. I quit.
I fail to see how the parent is offtopic. Why is it whenever someone posts something anti-bush its automatically -1 (flamebait, troll, overrated, offtopic). It almost NEVER fails.
Well.. if those large corps are all in on it, what chance does anyone have? Unless they're running a super hardened linux/bsd... cisco has undocumented/unpatched bugs in their IOS code that can easily be exploited.. as does MS I'm sure.. verisign could easily fuck people's certs up... come on... its not even a fair fight.
I've often noticed the buildings around my workplace having whole floors with their lights on all night (I work the graveyard shift). I seriously doubt anyone is there, so why leave the lights on? On the other hand, I cannot say I shut my machine down when I go home. To do so would be incredibly counter-productive, as I often need to remote in from home on a whim. If I couldn't do that I'd have a hefty cab-fare awaiting.
I agree with you on the media spins the politics, but I don't believe people would vote for someone who's actively promoting this kind of wiretapping. Therefore if the Democrats were to use that as part of their platform they would sink miserably. If they WERE elected in that respect, what would cause them to put a stop to the wiretapping? Obviously the people were FOR it because they were elected into office promoting it, so why change positions now, especially with so much pressure from the executive branch to leave it be?
I will vote (regardless of party) for whomever stands up for what I believe in. I have little faith in any elected official to actually come through on their promises, but at least I will sleep a little easier at night knowing I didn't sacrifice my beliefs.
Well, I think if Bush were to go, Cheney would be watching his ass like crazy. Once you've got one down, what's stopping you from kicking the next screw-up out? Not much unless he completes the police-state while the whole country is now paying close attention; a feat no politician is smooth enough to pull off.
Indeed. Here is a site I would recommend, even while it may not accomplish any goals, other than getting the word out that there are like-minded people, and we SHOULD impeach this president.
This president has gotten away with some terribly henious things, and really hasn't accounted for ANY of them.
President Clinton was impeached, and I sincerely doubt that there were half as many people who were really upset about what he did with Lewinsky as who care about what Bush is doing. Yet he keeps on slithering away and things keep deteriorating.
Even if you voted for him the SECOND time, you have to admit that we're losing our freedoms rather quickly, and even when people like this former NSA 'employee' are standing up and trying to slap us in the face and get our attention. I commend this man for his bravery at standing up and displaying anger and disgust publicly. This is what I call patriotic.
I've noticed a rather alarming trend among other websites I've seen carry this story. A large number of the editorials are questioning the legality of the infringement of our constitutional rights. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't believe I need to be one to know that there is definately something wrong with this whole situation. If it is "legal" we need to have the supreme court take a closer look, and if that produces nothing, have congress rewrite the laws. Now if in fact, by some bizarre reinterpretation of the constitution this is justified as legal for this to BE taking place - as I'm pretty sure they're not pulling the plug on this one just because someone blew a little whistle - there are still plenty of other impeachable.
I remember taking those tests around 3rd - 5th grades. In 4th grade I remember one test coming back saying I had an 11th grade reading level. The teacher didn't have any books for me, so I was exempt from having to take any more tests.
That was also the same year I was in a special program called MAGIC, where no one was graded on anything. You were just supposed to do your work the best you could. I excelled in math to the point of doing algebra. I fell behind in everything else. The next year I dropped out of that program because my mom didn't like not getting report cards, and I didn't like not getting money for them. I was so far ahead in math that I never had to try in any math class up until about 9th grade. Then the shit hit the fan, and I was way too lazy to do it anymore. All in all it didn't work out so well. I also failed entry level algebra in college 2 semesters in a row. The thing that stuck with me most was the laziness.:/
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hahahaha... good god you nerds... i never knew browsing slashdot at 0 with no comment moderations visible could be so much fun
Yes! You hit that one right on the head. There are actually laws providing for a "protest zone" on school campuses and other highly populated public events. WHAT THE FUCK?
Iowa has all but banned sex offenders from the entire state. There are so many rules that a sex offender cannot possibly live within 50 miles of any city in this state. Now I'm not condoning sex offenses, but for fuck's sake, this is just overboard. What's next? Drug users? School bullies? People who expose white suburban kids to any other ideas than the ideas their parents force-fed them their whole lives?
I would also like to point out that this two sided coin leaves no room for the people. True, the government is a juggernaut but its only due to the unimaginable size of the corporations spanning the globe. As the government paves the way for corporations to move in an privatize basic necessities in third world countries (such as water in africa - including rainwater) the corporations kick back a cut of those disgusting profits. I'm willing to bet a large portion of the American population has never even heard of the IMF (International Monetary Fund), even as riots and protests spark worldwide as they take over yet another country and bring them into worse economic positions than they were before. Guess who is the largest IMF backer? That's right. The United States of America. Sure we'll toss in a $300 million loan to a poor suffering country. But then we get to own them for the entire debt duration, including their once soveriegn people who have absolutely no say in the matter, and are suddenly subjected to a poverty that pales their previous conditions.
People in these countries are dying trying to gain just a spark of freedom that we are pumping money into to put out. Yet Bush speaks of restoring peace and democratizing the world. Come on people.
I'd say sooner than 10 years the way the world is heating up around us. China will be dwarving us in their shadow within that amount of time (they could crush us right now by not taking our debt if they wanted to, but that wouldn't help them grow to their full potential), we will still be complaining about a lack of oil as Russia uses their deep-well technology to catch up with Saudi Arabia's 2 trillion barrel reserves (and projects to sustain it for the next century), and more urgently Iran may fight back just hard enough to break our morale completely when we try to force their hand. America is looking pretty hobbled these days, and I can only pray we wake up before the shit hits the fan once and for all. We have been lied to for so long now, the thought of rejecting any of it would mean rejecting a part of our lives, which is an incredibly hard thing for a normal human to do. We Americans are GOOD people. We have terrible leadership, and we have become apathetic and lazy, but letting the so called 'leaders' give us our milk and tell us when to take naps, as they go out and rape, murder, and pillage in our names is intolerable.
The internet is really the only hope we have left of breaking this downward spiral before its TOO LATE and someone else does it for us - and mind you, they're quickly catching on to that idea. I hate sounding like a paranoid freak, but goddamnit that's exactly how this whole shebang works. If you believe in our military-approved medias, you've got a lot of catching up to do. Read as much about everything going on in the world as you can from as many different sources as you can. You still never get a complete picture, but its like getting lasek eye surgery after wearing coke bottle glasses for 10 years.
Oh and I've turned off scores on all comments and set up my preferences to make them all as near to 0 as I can get. I just realized how much valuable insight can be completely missed by skimming all the highly rated comments. Try it sometime.
Voting takes too long and the results are not guaranteed to work out. However, civil disobedience, and prompt action definately stir the booties of the ones who think they're in power. Government is basically a backdoor for corporations to push the boundaries what the people will tolerate. How many times has the government held the monolithic corporations at bay to give right of way to the little guy, when recent and similar instances indicated the people would complacently let him be trampled? How long has it been since our government had the balls to do something right when it would clearly counter any shred of short-term business sense? We live in a world of instant gratification, this much is absolutely true, and our government not exempt. It is plainly obvious they will trade our long-term liberties, livelihoods, and best interests in general for a quick buck today.
It's high time they get a taste of their own medicine. Clip their wings and show them who REALLY runs the show. It's not the man in the white house or on capitol hill. It's the people who put him there, and pay for every luxury he's ever known - us.
Thank you kindly good sir. I'm going to go ahead and copy your setup if you don't mind.
An interesting proposition. Sometimes its the little things we CAN do that can make the biggest difference of all. Say suddenly 25% of America decided to humor you and adblock yahoo and boycott them.. they would change their stance pretty damn quickly. Yet, we do not do such things. We whine and complain and stamp our feet, but then we go back to our daily routines and try not to think of ourselves as contributing to the problem, all the while knowing at the back of our minds we're hypocritical. I will go ahead and humor you. I will adblock yahoo and their services, but mind you, I do not depend on yahoo for squat. Had this been about Google, I would most likely be a hypocrite with the millions of others.
I guess it depends on how important what they offer is to you personally, and what you'd be willing to sacrifice (dignity, others' liberties) to continue to receive their services and goods.
Very well said brother. Very well said. I think from now on I will browse strictly at -1. I don't know how all these commies are getting mod points, but it's becoming pretty ridiculous.
I've stared a computer screen since I was too young to walk, yet I have 20/15 vision according to the last eye test I had done. Somehow this still interests me... I would dig having 20/10 or 20/5 vision... I wonder if they would consider making special lenses for people who have good vision already, but would still like to improve it?
Indeed. I work for a small/mid-sized ISP in Iowa. We handle primarily business internet connections (frame relay & ATM) and VOIP. I'm thanking my lucky stars that Qwest handles all the fiber and lines for us, as I can't even begin to imagine taking the insane amount of calls from upset customers complaining that their traceroutes to google are over 100 ms. Then imagine if all the other carriers decided to go the same route... we'd be put out of business just trying to manage who has access to who's network, without stepping on the toes of such and such network... it would be a nightmare. I don't see how this is even feasible. The internet would break out into a massive war and either crumble or straight up split into factions.
I'd have to be changing static routes on a daily basis on top of the myriad of dns changes, website setups, router configs, troubleshooting, down connection notifications, audits... ugh... forget it. I quit.
Which of these cells pinch off to form friggen laser beams?
I fail to see how the parent is offtopic. Why is it whenever someone posts something anti-bush its automatically -1 (flamebait, troll, overrated, offtopic). It almost NEVER fails.
Who the hell gave you idiots mod points?
I'm up when my post first grows!
Well.. if those large corps are all in on it, what chance does anyone have? Unless they're running a super hardened linux/bsd... cisco has undocumented/unpatched bugs in their IOS code that can easily be exploited.. as does MS I'm sure.. verisign could easily fuck people's certs up... come on... its not even a fair fight.
Now the CIA can outsource 1/2 their work... :P If we hack it into a video fraud detection package we can effectively get rid of the CIA all together...
I've often noticed the buildings around my workplace having whole floors with their lights on all night (I work the graveyard shift). I seriously doubt anyone is there, so why leave the lights on? On the other hand, I cannot say I shut my machine down when I go home. To do so would be incredibly counter-productive, as I often need to remote in from home on a whim. If I couldn't do that I'd have a hefty cab-fare awaiting.
I think you're the only one confused on this issue. It is indeed well known in the tech industry what b and B stand for - bits and bytes.
I agree with you on the media spins the politics, but I don't believe people would vote for someone who's actively promoting this kind of wiretapping. Therefore if the Democrats were to use that as part of their platform they would sink miserably. If they WERE elected in that respect, what would cause them to put a stop to the wiretapping? Obviously the people were FOR it because they were elected into office promoting it, so why change positions now, especially with so much pressure from the executive branch to leave it be?
I will vote (regardless of party) for whomever stands up for what I believe in. I have little faith in any elected official to actually come through on their promises, but at least I will sleep a little easier at night knowing I didn't sacrifice my beliefs.
Well, I think if Bush were to go, Cheney would be watching his ass like crazy. Once you've got one down, what's stopping you from kicking the next screw-up out? Not much unless he completes the police-state while the whole country is now paying close attention; a feat no politician is smooth enough to pull off.
Constitutional rights only protect you from government -- private property rights trump constitutional ones.
Sorry if this was a joke - I don't quite get it. Without constitutional rights, you would have no property because you would not be a citizen...
Indeed. Here is a site I would recommend, even while it may not accomplish any goals, other than getting the word out that there are like-minded people, and we SHOULD impeach this president.
This president has gotten away with some terribly henious things, and really hasn't accounted for ANY of them.
President Clinton was impeached, and I sincerely doubt that there were half as many people who were really upset about what he did with Lewinsky as who care about what Bush is doing. Yet he keeps on slithering away and things keep deteriorating.
Even if you voted for him the SECOND time, you have to admit that we're losing our freedoms rather quickly, and even when people like this former NSA 'employee' are standing up and trying to slap us in the face and get our attention. I commend this man for his bravery at standing up and displaying anger and disgust publicly. This is what I call patriotic.
I've noticed a rather alarming trend among other websites I've seen carry this story. A large number of the editorials are questioning the legality of the infringement of our constitutional rights. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't believe I need to be one to know that there is definately something wrong with this whole situation. If it is "legal" we need to have the supreme court take a closer look, and if that produces nothing, have congress rewrite the laws. Now if in fact, by some bizarre reinterpretation of the constitution this is justified as legal for this to BE taking place - as I'm pretty sure they're not pulling the plug on this one just because someone blew a little whistle - there are still plenty of other impeachable .
Just my $1.02
I remember taking those tests around 3rd - 5th grades. In 4th grade I remember one test coming back saying I had an 11th grade reading level. The teacher didn't have any books for me, so I was exempt from having to take any more tests.
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That was also the same year I was in a special program called MAGIC, where no one was graded on anything. You were just supposed to do your work the best you could. I excelled in math to the point of doing algebra. I fell behind in everything else. The next year I dropped out of that program because my mom didn't like not getting report cards, and I didn't like not getting money for them. I was so far ahead in math that I never had to try in any math class up until about 9th grade. Then the shit hit the fan, and I was way too lazy to do it anymore. All in all it didn't work out so well. I also failed entry level algebra in college 2 semesters in a row. The thing that stuck with me most was the laziness.
You mean GATTACA. Come on man.. the whole point of the title is that it relates to DNA sequencing...
Now go thru and view each of the teachers' pictures. That'll learn em. Oh shoot, now I'm probably committing a felony as well...