The reason terrorism is non-existent on US soil since 9/11 is that we're actually doing something to stop it. The NSA Al Qaeda spying is one of the programs enacted to fight terror. Thanks for eloquently pointing out that Bush is doing a great job fulfilling his duty of keeping America safe from terror.
Foreign terrorists are plotting every day to murder Americans. You can plug your ears and scream "la la la" all you want, but that won't change the truth. There's a reason that Britain and Spain were hit post-9/11 while terrorist-most-wanted target #1 wasn't hit. The reason is that we're doing a damn good job of stopping them in this country. They have tried to hit us and they have been foiled.
At least 63% of Americans believe that Al Qaeda is in fact a threat to America, meaning your fringe kook appeasement views are in the minority, just as you were in the minority on November 2nd, 2004.
it appears that the public values security over privacy
What a load of BS. What you should have said was that the public values security over the "privacy" of known Al Qaeda agents trying to murder us.
If you aren't Al Qaeda, if you aren't calling Al Qaeda, and if Al Qaeda isn't calling you then you aren't being spied upon without a warrant. Period, end of story, nothing more to see here. Those who call this issue domestic spying are flat out liars and spinsters. Call it what it is -- Al Qaeda spying. Domestic spying sounds much more threatening to the American people, but even when you lie you still have 63% of the people informed about the issue going along with the program. This is not a tragedy, it is not a sign of the decline of America. If anything it is testament to the intelligence of the American people. We aren't falling hook, line and sinker for the mainstream media's BS catch of the day.
World food production has reached its peak!! Food demand is growing without bound, this is a complete disaster that threatens to destroy humanity. It's all over, the sky is falling, and we're all going to die. By 1850 we will all be dead!!!
Thanks to the Incumbent Protection Act of 2002, AKA The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill, corporations and individuals can no longer freely express their opinions of candidates using the public airwaves. Therefore those who wish to influence public policy hire lobbyists to influence those already elected rather than trying to elect candidates who fall on their side of the political spectrum.
No, it's a disaster. When a country spends billions of dollars and sends seven of its finest men and women on a mission, and that mission ends in a spectacular failure, you can safely use the disaster word.
The Asian tsunami was a disaster. Hurricane Katrina was a disaster.
The former President of the United States, the man voted President of the Century no less, said that he and his wife were "pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger" in his famous speech on the night of the disaster.
Oh but some slashdotter says it wasn't a tragedy twenty years later, change the history books.
Remember the 6x86 anyone? The "P166" that could keep up with the real Pentium @ 166MHz at integer performance but ran Quake at like 10 FPS because it didn't have a pipelined FPU??
Wikipedia is the top hit on google for a lot of common searches, and I do agree that it is an okay source of information if you need info in a hurry. However I have noticed a clear liberal bias among many articles. Here are three examples I remember off the top of my head from searches in the last week --
Little Saigon, CA -- the article gives a good overview of the landscape of Westminister and Garden Grove, but then out of nowhere he drops "The event also raised some controversial issues about constitutional free speech in the United States". No sir, the event didn't raise controversial issues. I suppose if you were a socialist then yes, maybe the issues would be controversial. But to 99.99% of America, someone flying the VC flag on American soil is a disgrace to those who gave their lives in Vietnam. The guy broke the law by selling pirated movies and he was arrested, end of story.
Newt Gingrich -- In the TRIVIA section: "Candace Gingrich, his sister, works for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest gay and lesbian organization. In years past she has headed up HRC's "National Coming Out Day" campaign." Gee, thanks for that "trivia". The author couldn't reasonably fit that line in an article on Newt himself, so he sneaks it into the "trivia" section. Clear liberal bias here.
Ronald Reagan -- "It is frequently reported that Secret Service agents had to inform Reagan every morning that he was once the president". Really sir, since it's so "frequently" reported I guess you wouldn't mind providing a link? What business does this phrase have in an encyclopedia entry of Ronald Reagan other than to undermine his legacy??
Chicken Little was right all along, the world is doomed! If global warming doesn't kill us we'll surely all die from hurricanes, AIDS, cancer, global cooling, terrorism, polarity shift, deforestation, killer whales, cyborg aliens or some other ailment that has yet to be discovered.
It's not about revenue, it's about earnings. If it takes Time Warner $42 billion in sales to earn the same ammount as it takes Google with $3 billion in sales then I'd much rather own Google because of the higher profit margin = more room for earnings growth in the future.
You claim that it's "BS" that the patriot act will only be used on/against terrorists. I've been hearing this for years, so where are all the cases of abuses? I don't see any. Care to point some out, or are you making a tinfoil argument?
Despite what the media wants you to believe, we are winning the hearts and minds of the people in Iraq and we are WINNING the war. The root cause of Islamic hatred toward America and the west is our success and our rejection if Islam. We can remedy this in two ways, by killing or capturing all Islamic terrorists or by converting to Islam. The terrorists know that if they lose in Iraq then it's all over for them, that's why foreign terrorists from all over the middle east are pouring into Iraq. This is the terrorists' last stand and we will prevail.
Fortunantly we have a president now who couldn't care less what the American left and the American media say about him. They can keep calling him Hitler day and night, they can yell at him until they are blue in the face just like they did to Reagan. Bush has convictions - he knows he's doing the right thing, it doesn't matter to him one bit what vocal fringe lunatics think.
Mod parent down, "-1 liberal liar". That goes for 90% of the posts on this topic.
"After measured deliberation and a public debate, the House has again provided the brave men and women of law enforcement with critical tools in their efforts to combat terrorism and protect the American people"
How has YOUR LIFE been effected by the Patriot Act?? I don't want to hear your wild insane "Bush can knock down my door without a warrant" theories, I want to know how YOU have been negatively effected by the patriot act.
Oh yeah, IT HASN'T. Unless your name is Habib and you wear a turbin to work then nobody gives a fvck what you do. I also know that if 9/11 occurred during the presidency of a Democrat you'd be STFUing right about now, you wouldn't even see 100000 crap articles like this on slashdot.
PUT UP OR SHUT UP, HOW HAS THE PATRIOT ACT EFFECTED YOU????
2600 is feces. Half the mag is crazy leftist ranting about Bush, the other half is garbage tech articles. I don't know how 2600 gets away with charging for their sheit.
Anytime the government gets involved in anything costs skyrocket beyond what a private company would pay. When you spend money that doesn't belong to you, people have a tendancy to make bad purchasing decisions. If willing members of the public want to get together and pool their funds to build a network then that's fine with me. But don't steal my hard-earned dollars to pay for a service that a private company could provide for a much cheaper cost.
Oh boo hoo, I was using Windows the other day and I suddenly felt saddened by the "lack of community". I mean, why by a computer if there's "no user community rallying around the platform"?
While this idiot is writing crap articles Windows users are GETTING WORK DONE! NOW GO GET YOUR FVCKING SHINEBOX Chris Pirillo!!!
"We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by the clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties"
So unless you advertise that your service is useful for infringement OR you take steps to intentionally allow for infringement then this ruling doesn't affect you. That won't stop chicken little from posting that an FTP ban is around the corner though.
The difference is one of about 180 degrees. One society mandates that people be given the mechanisms to fliter out unwanted content. The other mandates that government-determined unwanted content never reach the eyes of its people.
It's like the difference between a society that allows suicide and one that murders all its people. One makes death a choice, one makes it mandatory. Not a difference of degree.
The examples you cite for the US becoming opressive are flawed. The eminent domain decision handed down the other day was from a group of appointed lawyers, not from public officials. The decision was almost universally condmned and I expect congress to address this issue, possibly with a new constitutional ammendment. Meanwhile expect local governments to address this issue as well. I bet you'll see a CA proposition limiting eminant domain pass in the 2006 elections. As for that http://www.67cshdocs.com/ site, it was run by a member of the US armed forces who took pictures from his work that his employer didn't condone, so his employer asked for their removal. If I walked into my job and took pics of everything to post on a web site, I'd expect my employer to get pretty mad too.
Claiming that the government controls the American media is a joke. Dan Rathergate is a great example, but look at the way the press covers the Gitmo situation for a recent example. Here we had a story in Newsweek about flushing a book down a toilet to get information out of known terrorists. Once the sources of the story were revealed to be questionable at best, the media circled the wagons around Newsweek, searching high and low for any evidence of mistreatment of a book. In the end they found five cases of Koran mistreatment by prison guards, and fifteen cases of Koran mistreatment by prisoners. This lead to a US senator comparing Gitmo to a Nazi death camp. Nine million innocents died in Nazi camps, five books of known terrorists were flushed in Gitmo... you do the math.
The fact is that if the media were half the puppet that you seem to believe, you wouldn't see stories like Gitmo on the front page of the New York Times for a week. There is no question that such stories damage America and put our troops in greater danger, but since we have a free press this is allowed.
Not even close. The Utah law mandates that ISPs provide filtering software to those who ask for it. In Iran, your browsing is filtered whether you like it or not. In addition, I don't seem to recall stories of women being stoned in Utah for having pre-marital sex.
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The reason terrorism is non-existent on US soil since 9/11 is that we're actually doing something to stop it. The NSA Al Qaeda spying is one of the programs enacted to fight terror. Thanks for eloquently pointing out that Bush is doing a great job fulfilling his duty of keeping America safe from terror.
Foreign terrorists are plotting every day to murder Americans. You can plug your ears and scream "la la la" all you want, but that won't change the truth. There's a reason that Britain and Spain were hit post-9/11 while terrorist-most-wanted target #1 wasn't hit. The reason is that we're doing a damn good job of stopping them in this country. They have tried to hit us and they have been foiled.
At least 63% of Americans believe that Al Qaeda is in fact a threat to America, meaning your fringe kook appeasement views are in the minority, just as you were in the minority on November 2nd, 2004.
it appears that the public values security over privacy
What a load of BS. What you should have said was that the public values security over the "privacy" of known Al Qaeda agents trying to murder us.
If you aren't Al Qaeda, if you aren't calling Al Qaeda, and if Al Qaeda isn't calling you then you aren't being spied upon without a warrant. Period, end of story, nothing more to see here. Those who call this issue domestic spying are flat out liars and spinsters. Call it what it is -- Al Qaeda spying. Domestic spying sounds much more threatening to the American people, but even when you lie you still have 63% of the people informed about the issue going along with the program. This is not a tragedy, it is not a sign of the decline of America. If anything it is testament to the intelligence of the American people. We aren't falling hook, line and sinker for the mainstream media's BS catch of the day.
World food production has reached its peak!! Food demand is growing without bound, this is a complete disaster that threatens to destroy humanity. It's all over, the sky is falling, and we're all going to die. By 1850 we will all be dead!!!
Thanks to the Incumbent Protection Act of 2002, AKA The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill, corporations and individuals can no longer freely express their opinions of candidates using the public airwaves. Therefore those who wish to influence public policy hire lobbyists to influence those already elected rather than trying to elect candidates who fall on their side of the political spectrum.
No, it's a disaster. When a country spends billions of dollars and sends seven of its finest men and women on a mission, and that mission ends in a spectacular failure, you can safely use the disaster word.
The Asian tsunami was a disaster.
Hurricane Katrina was a disaster.
Challenger was a disaster as well.
The former President of the United States, the man voted President of the Century no less, said that he and his wife were "pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger" in his famous speech on the night of the disaster.
Oh but some slashdotter says it wasn't a tragedy twenty years later, change the history books.
Remember the 6x86 anyone? The "P166" that could keep up with the real Pentium @ 166MHz at integer performance but ran Quake at like 10 FPS because it didn't have a pipelined FPU??
Wikipedia is the top hit on google for a lot of common searches, and I do agree that it is an okay source of information if you need info in a hurry. However I have noticed a clear liberal bias among many articles. Here are three examples I remember off the top of my head from searches in the last week --
Little Saigon, CA -- the article gives a good overview of the landscape of Westminister and Garden Grove, but then out of nowhere he drops "The event also raised some controversial issues about constitutional free speech in the United States". No sir, the event didn't raise controversial issues. I suppose if you were a socialist then yes, maybe the issues would be controversial. But to 99.99% of America, someone flying the VC flag on American soil is a disgrace to those who gave their lives in Vietnam. The guy broke the law by selling pirated movies and he was arrested, end of story.
Newt Gingrich -- In the TRIVIA section: "Candace Gingrich, his sister, works for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest gay and lesbian organization. In years past she has headed up HRC's "National Coming Out Day" campaign." Gee, thanks for that "trivia". The author couldn't reasonably fit that line in an article on Newt himself, so he sneaks it into the "trivia" section. Clear liberal bias here.
Ronald Reagan -- "It is frequently reported that Secret Service agents had to inform Reagan every morning that he was once the president". Really sir, since it's so "frequently" reported I guess you wouldn't mind providing a link? What business does this phrase have in an encyclopedia entry of Ronald Reagan other than to undermine his legacy??
Chicken Little was right all along, the world is doomed! If global warming doesn't kill us we'll surely all die from hurricanes, AIDS, cancer, global cooling, terrorism, polarity shift, deforestation, killer whales, cyborg aliens or some other ailment that has yet to be discovered.
I have a hard time believing that using a PC to do routing will be faster than using custom hardware.
It's not about revenue, it's about earnings. If it takes Time Warner $42 billion in sales to earn the same ammount as it takes Google with $3 billion in sales then I'd much rather own Google because of the higher profit margin = more room for earnings growth in the future.
You claim that it's "BS" that the patriot act will only be used on/against terrorists. I've been hearing this for years, so where are all the cases of abuses? I don't see any. Care to point some out, or are you making a tinfoil argument?
Despite what the media wants you to believe, we are winning the hearts and minds of the people in Iraq and we are WINNING the war. The root cause of Islamic hatred toward America and the west is our success and our rejection if Islam. We can remedy this in two ways, by killing or capturing all Islamic terrorists or by converting to Islam. The terrorists know that if they lose in Iraq then it's all over for them, that's why foreign terrorists from all over the middle east are pouring into Iraq. This is the terrorists' last stand and we will prevail.
Fortunantly we have a president now who couldn't care less what the American left and the American media say about him. They can keep calling him Hitler day and night, they can yell at him until they are blue in the face just like they did to Reagan. Bush has convictions - he knows he's doing the right thing, it doesn't matter to him one bit what vocal fringe lunatics think.
Mod parent down, "-1 liberal liar". That goes for 90% of the posts on this topic.
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"After measured deliberation and a public debate, the House has again provided the brave men and women of law enforcement with critical tools in their efforts to combat terrorism and protect the American people"
SOURCE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,128
Care to post your source? As if you had one.
Before he was elected, Clinton was actually quoted as saying that he believed Hitler was Jesus.
Mod me up please, this post with its fake quote is about as insightful as the parent. Fair is fair.
How has YOUR LIFE been effected by the Patriot Act?? I don't want to hear your wild insane "Bush can knock down my door without a warrant" theories, I want to know how YOU have been negatively effected by the patriot act.
Oh yeah, IT HASN'T. Unless your name is Habib and you wear a turbin to work then nobody gives a fvck what you do. I also know that if 9/11 occurred during the presidency of a Democrat you'd be STFUing right about now, you wouldn't even see 100000 crap articles like this on slashdot.
PUT UP OR SHUT UP, HOW HAS THE PATRIOT ACT EFFECTED YOU????
Is this "article" a paid advertisement?
2600 is feces. Half the mag is crazy leftist ranting about Bush, the other half is garbage tech articles. I don't know how 2600 gets away with charging for their sheit.
Anytime the government gets involved in anything costs skyrocket beyond what a private company would pay. When you spend money that doesn't belong to you, people have a tendancy to make bad purchasing decisions. If willing members of the public want to get together and pool their funds to build a network then that's fine with me. But don't steal my hard-earned dollars to pay for a service that a private company could provide for a much cheaper cost.
I didn't think you could. Otherwise you'd have people patenting words like "the" and "it" and we'd all be screwed over.
Oh boo hoo, I was using Windows the other day and I suddenly felt saddened by the "lack of community". I mean, why by a computer if there's "no user community rallying around the platform"?
While this idiot is writing crap articles Windows users are GETTING WORK DONE! NOW GO GET YOUR FVCKING SHINEBOX Chris Pirillo!!!
"We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by the clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties"
So unless you advertise that your service is useful for infringement OR you take steps to intentionally allow for infringement then this ruling doesn't affect you. That won't stop chicken little from posting that an FTP ban is around the corner though.
The difference is one of about 180 degrees. One society mandates that people be given the mechanisms to fliter out unwanted content. The other mandates that government-determined unwanted content never reach the eyes of its people.
It's like the difference between a society that allows suicide and one that murders all its people. One makes death a choice, one makes it mandatory. Not a difference of degree.
The examples you cite for the US becoming opressive are flawed. The eminent domain decision handed down the other day was from a group of appointed lawyers, not from public officials. The decision was almost universally condmned and I expect congress to address this issue, possibly with a new constitutional ammendment. Meanwhile expect local governments to address this issue as well. I bet you'll see a CA proposition limiting eminant domain pass in the 2006 elections. As for that http://www.67cshdocs.com/ site, it was run by a member of the US armed forces who took pictures from his work that his employer didn't condone, so his employer asked for their removal. If I walked into my job and took pics of everything to post on a web site, I'd expect my employer to get pretty mad too.
Claiming that the government controls the American media is a joke. Dan Rathergate is a great example, but look at the way the press covers the Gitmo situation for a recent example. Here we had a story in Newsweek about flushing a book down a toilet to get information out of known terrorists. Once the sources of the story were revealed to be questionable at best, the media circled the wagons around Newsweek, searching high and low for any evidence of mistreatment of a book. In the end they found five cases of Koran mistreatment by prison guards, and fifteen cases of Koran mistreatment by prisoners. This lead to a US senator comparing Gitmo to a Nazi death camp. Nine million innocents died in Nazi camps, five books of known terrorists were flushed in Gitmo... you do the math.
The fact is that if the media were half the puppet that you seem to believe, you wouldn't see stories like Gitmo on the front page of the New York Times for a week. There is no question that such stories damage America and put our troops in greater danger, but since we have a free press this is allowed.
Not even close. The Utah law mandates that ISPs provide filtering software to those who ask for it. In Iran, your browsing is filtered whether you like it or not. In addition, I don't seem to recall stories of women being stoned in Utah for having pre-marital sex.
Understand the difference?
Like these pictures??
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http://www.pbase.com/kburch/the_picture_from_iraq
You can thank the liberal media for not showing these.