Do you seriously think they would win any implantees if they ran out and said that they were going to use these to herd dissenters into the nearest incinerator?
Hell no, tel them the tag will get them 20% off at the grocery store and they'll flock to you.
Those who have the mark of the beast on them will not longer be able to make the sign of the cross and yadda yadda. So they're pretty much doomed because of that.
I'm not religious, but I have to admit that I'm not going to fuck myself on this whole salvation thing over an implant... I'll use cash mmmkay.
Everyone complains about being on a slippery slope in regard to the PATRIOT Act, until they look around and notice that we are already at the bottom of the slope, wondering how we got here.
I work in government software, and every one of the IT guys I've met was hopelessly clueless on everything from how to network a printer to how to give a user privleges on a local machine.
That's why they hire two of them. One to turn the printer while the other holds the cable, or something like that.
I worked at a [socialist] Christian non-profit, and I have to say that the reward for hard work was, 99% of the time, more work.
Of course, the CEO made $250K and worked a little over 80% of the year (and not hard at that).
I found out quickly that the correct tactic was to become invisible while always seeming busy. So I usually just hung out in my office and made sure everything ran smoothly. They were running in the red and ended up firing the wrong people (the hardest workers instead of the extraneous administrative, marketing, etc). It was funny because instead of cutting fat from the outside, they chose to mutilate the meat and cut the fat away from the bone.
Later on, I was willing to take a lower salary offer at a more respectable (almost true capalist) company where I am now making more money.
This sounds like a move to inflate subscription numbers by Napster. Some slick marketing exec (BMG) probably thought this up while reading that iTunes got 1 million sales.
This is a pretty clever idea though, who better to "give" services to than college students who are already going to download. Lure them in with the streaming, then watch as the viral marketing infects their non-college associates.
I'm sure they made some programmer write code specifically so that this would be easy to do too. Automated hack be damned.
PHB: "Hey Jim, the DOT wants to be able to 'ground' the entire trucking industry in a matter of minutes in the event of an emergency. Can you write some code for that?"
Of course, this is all a red herring and will not be deployed. Keep your eye on the real prize, just as the terrorism futures market was never meant to be more than a rabble-rouser, this is the same.
Nuetron bombs are effective because those they don't kill immediately, they kill slowly. Many soldiers could survive the initial blast, just to become a burden on the rest as they lay dying of radiation poisoning.
Viruses also work like this, however they are much less predictable and harder to contain since radiation does not spread. There's a specific term for this type of military strategy (slow killing versus quick casualties), but I don't know it.
Regardless, it is considered inhumane and is specifically condemned by the Geneva Convention due to it's needless infliction of suffering beyond the normal realm of warfare.
Agent: "Pollster, you had specific orders to wait until we got here to begin this procedure."
(looks around)
Agent: "Where are your men now?"
Pollster: "I just sent them up there a minute ago... they were gonna make a little side trip and then vote for Dean. They should be bringing down Bush now."
(Agent looks at school)
Agent: "No Sergeant, the Diebold machines have already voted for Bush."
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USA! USA! USA! We're the greatest and we don't do that! /karma burn, fuck it
I can't wait until the U.S. can beat that.
We're number one! We're number one! USA! USA!
Yeah, because I'm sure he would have been able to read English.
Do you seriously think they would win any implantees if they ran out and said that they were going to use these to herd dissenters into the nearest incinerator?
Hell no, tel them the tag will get them 20% off at the grocery store and they'll flock to you.
Those who have the mark of the beast on them will not longer be able to make the sign of the cross and yadda yadda. So they're pretty much doomed because of that.
I'm not religious, but I have to admit that I'm not going to fuck myself on this whole salvation thing over an implant... I'll use cash mmmkay.
Maybe he got aroused while perusing; Thus paroused?
Here's a better one for you: FBI checks out library records of terrorist suspects 06/25/2002
Start with Enron's and work your way up.
An indefinite holiday at Camp X-Ray?
they said in septermber they've NEVER used this power of the patriot act
They are lying.
Everyone complains about being on a slippery slope in regard to the PATRIOT Act, until they look around and notice that we are already at the bottom of the slope, wondering how we got here.
...Mr. Arthur Dent, please report to the particle physics lab and make confused faces.
That is all.
I work in government software, and every one of the IT guys I've met was hopelessly clueless on everything from how to network a printer to how to give a user privleges on a local machine.
That's why they hire two of them. One to turn the printer while the other holds the cable, or something like that.
How do you propose doing a wheelie with one wheel? You are a constant wheelie.
Unless of course you meant a burn-out. Which would be amusing to see on this unicycle machination.
I don't see it.
:)
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No, that's the State Penn.
I worked at a [socialist] Christian non-profit, and I have to say that the reward for hard work was, 99% of the time, more work.
Of course, the CEO made $250K and worked a little over 80% of the year (and not hard at that).
I found out quickly that the correct tactic was to become invisible while always seeming busy. So I usually just hung out in my office and made sure everything ran smoothly. They were running in the red and ended up firing the wrong people (the hardest workers instead of the extraneous administrative, marketing, etc). It was funny because instead of cutting fat from the outside, they chose to mutilate the meat and cut the fat away from the bone.
Later on, I was willing to take a lower salary offer at a more respectable (almost true capalist) company where I am now making more money.
Anyways, this is offtopic, so I'll shut up now.
This is America, just sue the fucking school.
This sounds like a move to inflate subscription numbers by Napster. Some slick marketing exec (BMG) probably thought this up while reading that iTunes got 1 million sales.
This is a pretty clever idea though, who better to "give" services to than college students who are already going to download. Lure them in with the streaming, then watch as the viral marketing infects their non-college associates.
From those, according to their ability.
:X
To those, according to their need.
Ah, the mantra of Socialism.
I'm sure they made some programmer write code specifically so that this would be easy to do too. Automated hack be damned.
PHB: "Hey Jim, the DOT wants to be able to 'ground' the entire trucking industry in a matter of minutes in the event of an emergency. Can you write some code for that?"
Of course, this is all a red herring and will not be deployed. Keep your eye on the real prize, just as the terrorism futures market was never meant to be more than a rabble-rouser, this is the same.
The dead have risen, and they are voting.
Nuetron bombs are effective because those they don't kill immediately, they kill slowly. Many soldiers could survive the initial blast, just to become a burden on the rest as they lay dying of radiation poisoning.
Viruses also work like this, however they are much less predictable and harder to contain since radiation does not spread. There's a specific term for this type of military strategy (slow killing versus quick casualties), but I don't know it.
Regardless, it is considered inhumane and is specifically condemned by the Geneva Convention due to it's needless infliction of suffering beyond the normal realm of warfare.
This way, when a terrorist highjacks a plane, we can detonate an e-bomb and knock every plane out of the sky before they can crash into a building.
Huzzah!
(Outside of a school gymnasium, November 2004)
Agent: "Pollster, you had specific orders to
wait until we got here to begin this procedure."
(looks around)
Agent: "Where are your men now?"
Pollster: "I just sent them up there a minute ago... they were gonna make a little side trip and then vote for Dean. They should be bringing down Bush now."
(Agent looks at school)
Agent: "No Sergeant, the Diebold machines have already voted for Bush."