In 1960, in one of President Eisenhower's last speeches before John F. Kennedy took over, he warned about the "industrial-military complex" taking over every aspect of people's lives and he was VERY worried over this.
Today, that worry has come true. Now it's the "industrial-military-media" complex and it has more power over government than you would believe.
Our biggest enemy is apathy. Most people shrug these things off, then suddenly realized why all their rights and privacy are gone.
Yes, it's called the WTO, and it's responsible for
placing profits over human rights.
We have to fight the power now before they completely run roughshod over our rights. It's not just the U.S.A., either. It's happening all over the planet.
I recently installed a Sun Blade 1000 here at work. It's an Ultra Sparc III 750 Mhz processor.
It was a HUGE upgrade from the Ultra 1 it was replacing. Pretty soon I'll be rolling out Sun's Gridware to make the most of it.
It blows any of the pentium-based machines we have here out of the water.
"On April 6, the government of Thailand issued a ban
on all GE crops. On May 1, a similar ban came into effect in Sri
Lanka. On March 19, a million farmers marched in New Delhi, calling
for, among other things, an end to the World Trade Organization and a
ban on genetic engineering and life form patents. In Japan and South
Korea government inspectors have continued to test for StarLink and
other unapproved varieties of GE foods, while importers are steadily
turning away from the US and Canada to other suppliers such as Brazil,
China, and Australia for GE-free corn, soybeans, and canola. On April
20 consumer groups in Japan called for a halt in all corn imports from
the US. In the Philippines, a bitter debate has erupted over
field-testing GE rice and corn varieties. Protests against GE cotton
have erupted in Indonesia. Mandatory GE labeling laws begin coming
into effect in New Zealand and Australia in July, while labeling laws
are already being enforced in Japan and Korea. Labeling laws are under
discussion in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, as well as in the
Philippines and Taiwan. Perhaps most significant of all was the
announcement on April 18 that the government of China was banning the
cultivation of GE rice, corn, soy, and wheat-out of fear of losing its
major export markets. Monsanto and the biotechnology industry had
previously held out hope that China would be the "promised land" for
biotech expansion. Despite all the hoopla about how great biotech is
doing, the same three countries most heavily promoting the technology,
the US, Canada, and Argentina, are still producing almost 99% of all
GE crops."
Biotech is still very young, and its long-term effects have not been studied yet.
Scientists still do not know the outcome of all this testing, and like all things corporate, the goal is profits over everything else.
The Biotech industry already has an economic strangehold on countries like Argentina who now completely depend on genetically modified crops.
What you will not see in the news media (especially the U.S. corporate machine media) is that Thailand is considering bans on it. GMO seed has to be delivered in Singapore under armed guard. Thousands of farmers in 3rd world countries and in Europe are protesting, some even on the doorstep of Monsanto.
All of this is glossed over by the media or not mentioned at all, yet it's very real. Keep your eyes open. Check out alternative news media sites such as:
My wife and I buy organic whenever we can. The problem is, just because food is certified organic, doesn't mean it may have been contaminated by GMO crops nearby (pollen, etc..)
I find it horrifying that a bill requiring proper labelling of foods as genetically modified hasn't happened here in the U.S. yet. Companies like Monsanto don't want that to happen because of what happened in the UK. Foods were labelled as genetically modified and nobody bought them. Supermarkets like Tesco and Sainsbury's had to clear their shelves. This is where we can make a difference. Show Monsanto you do not support their shoddy research on GMO crops. Hit them in the wallet.
If you want to see capitalism's "benefits" at the end of the today, look at the mexican migrant worker working on a lettuce or artichoke field in the Salinas Valley in California. Ask the sweat shop worker in New York who makes all of Old Navy and Gap's clothes. Ask the inhabitants of the "poorer" nations if they think the World Bank and IMF have been kind to them.
I'm not saying the alternatives (communism, socialism, etc..) work either. Democracy sure doesn't exist in this world either.
Once I had a floppy disk infected with the Monkey-A virus and a user booted up with it and infected his laptop with it.
His laptop was of course infected, and I didn't know about boot sector viruses then (I had just started out as a temp that summer) so I fdisk'd/MBR his drive. Boy was he pissed.:)
Hey with a bacterium like this, we could wipe out royal families all over the world!
Just think about it. Microsoft has done its
best to hype the X-Box. I saw the previews, it's
not all that impressive. I saw actual jaggies on the X-Box demos. This is not a good thing!
Let's hope Sony doesn't alienate its developers like they did for the PS2.
Anyone remember this happening last year?
Why is Apple so paranoid about their themes?
This will not endear them to the Open Source community. They are shooting themselves in the foot on this one.
Fialar
The DMCA anti circumcision provisions angered Jews & Muslims all around the world as members of Congress backpedal and attempt to explain how these provisions get approved onto completely irrelevant bills.
"We must crush in its birth the artistocracy
of our moneyed corporations, which
dare already bid defiance to the laws
of our country."
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1812
For once I agree with Katz's article. Those statistics sounds quite sound.
Look at the protests we had last year and this year:
Seattle (World Bank/IMC)
Washington D.C. (World Bank/IMC)
Philadelphia (Republican Nat'l Convention)
Los Angeles (Democratic Nat'l Convention)
It's quite clear that Americans are becoming increasingly irritated with the way corporations have just "taken over" many aspects of our society.
Did you know that 100 years ago, the government could revoke a corporation's charter if they saw that the corporation was abusing its power? A century of slick corporate lawyers whittling away at this law has put it out of people's minds. (It's still in the books!)
I think the problem is that most people (at least in this country.. the U.S.) have become too complacent. They just roll over when told to. You look at many multinational corporations and they practically have rewritten the laws and have gone beyond national boundaries.
To find out how bad it's gotten, check out sites such as Adbustets. Corporations commit many crimes but only get slaps on the wrists. (Such as making a product and then when people get killed by the product, they just get slapped with a fine.) They get away with these things because people just shake their heads and look the other way.
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There is a page that tells you your browser isn't totally supported but you can still click to continue.
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At least Intel's drivers for the Pro/100 VM card are stable. Heh.
Just get a cable modem or DSL, get a base unit and broadcast a net. Get a couple of your buddies to do the same and voila! Instant wireless net.
fialar
Today, that worry has come true. Now it's the "industrial-military-media" complex and it has more power over government than you would believe.
Our biggest enemy is apathy. Most people shrug these things off, then suddenly realized why all their rights and privacy are gone.
fialar
We have to fight the power now before they completely run roughshod over our rights. It's not just the U.S.A., either. It's happening all over the planet.
fialar
Check it out here.
fialar
It blows any of the pentium-based machines we have here out of the water.
-fialar
fialar
"On April 6, the government of Thailand issued a ban on all GE crops. On May 1, a similar ban came into effect in Sri Lanka. On March 19, a million farmers marched in New Delhi, calling for, among other things, an end to the World Trade Organization and a ban on genetic engineering and life form patents. In Japan and South Korea government inspectors have continued to test for StarLink and other unapproved varieties of GE foods, while importers are steadily turning away from the US and Canada to other suppliers such as Brazil, China, and Australia for GE-free corn, soybeans, and canola. On April 20 consumer groups in Japan called for a halt in all corn imports from the US. In the Philippines, a bitter debate has erupted over field-testing GE rice and corn varieties. Protests against GE cotton have erupted in Indonesia. Mandatory GE labeling laws begin coming into effect in New Zealand and Australia in July, while labeling laws are already being enforced in Japan and Korea. Labeling laws are under discussion in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, as well as in the Philippines and Taiwan. Perhaps most significant of all was the announcement on April 18 that the government of China was banning the cultivation of GE rice, corn, soy, and wheat-out of fear of losing its major export markets. Monsanto and the biotechnology industry had previously held out hope that China would be the "promised land" for biotech expansion. Despite all the hoopla about how great biotech is doing, the same three countries most heavily promoting the technology, the US, Canada, and Argentina, are still producing almost 99% of all GE crops."
You can read more about it on the site.
Fialar
Scientists still do not know the outcome of all this testing, and like all things corporate, the goal is profits over everything else.
The Biotech industry already has an economic strangehold on countries like Argentina who now completely depend on genetically modified crops.
What you will not see in the news media (especially the U.S. corporate machine media) is that Thailand is considering bans on it. GMO seed has to be delivered in Singapore under armed guard. Thousands of farmers in 3rd world countries and in Europe are protesting, some even on the doorstep of Monsanto.
All of this is glossed over by the media or not mentioned at all, yet it's very real. Keep your eyes open. Check out alternative news media sites such as:
Independent Media Center
Organic Consumers Association
My wife and I buy organic whenever we can. The problem is, just because food is certified organic, doesn't mean it may have been contaminated by GMO crops nearby (pollen, etc..)
I find it horrifying that a bill requiring proper labelling of foods as genetically modified hasn't happened here in the U.S. yet. Companies like Monsanto don't want that to happen because of what happened in the UK. Foods were labelled as genetically modified and nobody bought them. Supermarkets like Tesco and Sainsbury's had to clear their shelves. This is where we can make a difference. Show Monsanto you do not support their shoddy research on GMO crops. Hit them in the wallet.
Fialar
I'm not saying the alternatives (communism, socialism, etc..) work either. Democracy sure doesn't exist in this world either.
The U.S. is one big corporate oligarchy.
fialar
As of Solaris 7, you can remount your volumes
with the "logging" parameter.
Solaris also comes with volume management built in.
-fialar
Solaris Administrator
Their specs say the Quicksync only works with Windows and Outlook but no mention of anything that will work with Linux!
What gives?
-F
I know about the AOL chatrooms, but what about
the AIM conversations? (Using Oscar or TOC)?
Does anyone know if there's a team of AOL
employees that watches all that traffic?
fialar
His laptop was of course infected, and I didn't know about boot sector viruses then (I had just started out as a temp that summer) so I fdisk'd /MBR his drive. Boy was he pissed. :)
Hey with a bacterium like this, we could wipe out royal families all over the world!
Let's hope Sony doesn't alienate its developers like they did for the PS2.
fialar
Anyone remember this happening last year? Why is Apple so paranoid about their themes? This will not endear them to the Open Source community. They are shooting themselves in the foot on this one. Fialar
Serpent is actually more secure than Rijndael, even if slightly slower. I personally use serpent in my loopback fs's, and it works really well!
The DMCA anti circumcision provisions angered Jews & Muslims all around the world as members of Congress backpedal and attempt to explain how these provisions get approved onto completely irrelevant bills.
Does 95/98/ME/2K have vulnerabilities to SYN floods or has Microsoft patched this too?
Anyone have any links to it?
Vendors should stop waiting and start coding their games in OpenGL/Glide/SDL for Linux.
Why wait for Microsoft to finally release API's
when you can start doing it now for Open Source.
Think how much more Blizzard would make if they
re-released all their titles for Linux and also had a hand in improving the API interfaces.
Gaming in Linux would take off like a rocket and leave toys like X-Box in the dust.
I haven't gotten a nightly to run in about 2 weeks.
./mozilla and it just sits there.. nothing happens.
I run
Last good one was like 083100
"We must crush in its birth the artistocracy
of our moneyed corporations, which
dare already bid defiance to the laws
of our country."
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1812
Look at the protests we had last year and this year:
Seattle (World Bank/IMC)
Washington D.C. (World Bank/IMC)
Philadelphia (Republican Nat'l Convention)
Los Angeles (Democratic Nat'l Convention)
It's quite clear that Americans are becoming increasingly irritated with the way corporations have just "taken over" many aspects of our society.
Did you know that 100 years ago, the government could revoke a corporation's charter if they saw that the corporation was abusing its power? A century of slick corporate lawyers whittling away at this law has put it out of people's minds. (It's still in the books!)
I think the problem is that most people (at least in this country.. the U.S.) have become too complacent. They just roll over when told to. You look at many multinational corporations and they practically have rewritten the laws and have gone beyond national boundaries.
To find out how bad it's gotten, check out sites such as Adbustets. Corporations commit many crimes but only get slaps on the wrists. (Such as making a product and then when people get killed by the product, they just get slapped with a fine.) They get away with these things because people just shake their heads and look the other way.
Fialar