Well he said it himself: http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/10/30/arar_031030 "A Canadian citizen deported by the U.S. to Syria has told federal officials that he was tortured while a prisoner in the Middle East, CBC News has learned."
Deporting other countries citizens, detaining people without charge and torture is anti-American yet the Bush administration seems to favor such things.
Countries are pushed by the US administration to detain people without charge. A Canadian citizen was deported to Syria because the Canadian government refused to detain him. Syria also refused to detain him at first but after some pressure by the US they agreed and emprisoned him for a year, torturing and questioning him until they finally let him go. It's too bad, I'm sure Saddam would've done a better job at torturing that guy.
I actually listen to the AM stations, couldn't care less about FM. There are many interesting shows and discussions and I can listen while I'm working, unlike TV.
Agreed. I'm a privacy nut but I see no problem with black boxes who are used under such circumstances. As you said, the monitoring is not constant, I see no problem here.
What are the chances that the US and many other countries will follow? Then Google will have to check every advertiser, every keyword, etc. for trademarks. That's quiet stupid.
I'm okay with anti-abortion websites talking about there views but I'm not okay if they list the doctor's home address and tell people to go kill them. And from what I've seen from those websites (haven't seen much yet) they generally don't do that.
Or maybe they're just politicians trying to bully the gaming industry into giving them some money just like the music and movie industries and more recently Microsoft do.
I lived for a few years in a country ravaged by war and that's what made me violent at the time. Heck if I didn't have a little compassion I would've tried to kill some people but instead I came to try some crazy suicidal stuff like yelling at soldiers to shoot me everytime I was pissed off. Then I started watching Jackie Chan movies and heck it was good fun that made all the war and violence a little lighter.
Then I lived in a peacefull country and within a year, most of the hatred, violence and rage that I had in me was gone and replaced by peacefull thoughts. I play lots of violent video games and watch lots of violent movies but does it desensitize me from real violence? Hell no. Does it make me a criminal? Hell no. Even after all the real dead people that I saw during a real war I still have a very hard time taking a look at victims of real violence. You can't get desensitized to such horrible stuff. Talk to war photographers and ask them if they're desensitized:) No matter how many actual dead corpses you see it's still horrible every single time. The only way I coped with it was to not look and act as if it doesn't exist.
Are Saddam, Bush, Ben Laden, Putin, Sharon, Arafat, etc. game players?:)
They keep talking about wanting to charge people money to play EA titles. Shouldn't they be concentrating on making the online lobbies stable and useable to begin with? I mean seriously, they talk and whine on and on yet there online support still sucks. People can barely even get an online game running and EA is already talking about money:)
"Other distributors of pornography have also embraced the file-sharing networks as a promotional vehicle. They distribute sample pictures and videos in an attempt to attract paying customers to their Web sites.
"The adult industry, like others, is against the illegal downloading of their videos," said Gary Kremen, the chief executive of Sex.com, a directory of sexually explicit Web sites, "but they are much smarter than the music industry. They see p2p as money to be made." "
I play MechAssault, RTCW, Midnight Club 2, Midtown Madness and soon I'll be playing ESPN's NHL online. I have yet to buy the PS2 online adapter though because I'm still waiting for them to come out with a good online game and the fact that the PS2 online games don't have voice chat is disappointing.
Apparently Mario Kart will be online enabled and if it gets good reviews then maybe I'll buy a GC just for it. Playing Mario Kart online will be great.
Read about Wilco and see what the major labels can do.
The RIAA looks out for the recording industry and the consumer looks out for himself. So I would go with the latter.
The better way is to stop bothering consumers with nonsense, lower the prices or offer something worthy (extra-content) on CD. Just a suggestion from someone who rarely even listens to music. I find myself buying more and more DVD's instead of renting movies. A good movie with extra content is worth purchasing.
I tell you what's different. I'm sharing porn, yet the RIAA is still spying on me though. It's scanning the whole network to see if I or anyone else is sharing and downloading any songs even though I have yet to do so. This slows down the network and punishes those of us who use Kazaa legitimately. Can you imagine if everyone did the same as the RIAA? Can you imagine some people always patrolling your neighbourhood making sure there's nothing illegal around? It won't make you feel uncofortable?
But hey fucke'm, they'll be the ones loosing customers, oh they already are:)
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Well he said it himself: http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/10/30/arar_031030
"A Canadian citizen deported by the U.S. to Syria has told federal officials that he was tortured while a prisoner in the Middle East, CBC News has learned."
Deporting other countries citizens, detaining people without charge and torture is anti-American yet the Bush administration seems to favor such things.
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
-- Henry Kissinger
Countries are pushed by the US administration to detain people without charge. A Canadian citizen was deported to Syria because the Canadian government refused to detain him. Syria also refused to detain him at first but after some pressure by the US they agreed and emprisoned him for a year, torturing and questioning him until they finally let him go. It's too bad, I'm sure Saddam would've done a better job at torturing that guy.
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I actually listen to the AM stations, couldn't care less about FM. There are many interesting shows and discussions and I can listen while I'm working, unlike TV.
Agreed. I'm a privacy nut but I see no problem with black boxes who are used under such circumstances. As you said, the monitoring is not constant, I see no problem here.
How do you like people to insult everything about the US everytime a stupid judge makes a crazy decision? Heck, that is without mentionning Ashcroft.
What are the chances that the US and many other countries will follow? Then Google will have to check every advertiser, every keyword, etc. for trademarks. That's quiet stupid.
Why should Microsoft loose money and time for such a small market? If they don't like it, they shall feel free to use another office suite.
Geez the racism is quiet pathetic around here. This subject is not to be used as an excuse to insult Arabs nor Israel nor Jews.
As for Mac Office in Hebrew, well they should have to use Windows. I don't see Apple porting it's software to PC.
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I'm okay with anti-abortion websites talking about there views but I'm not okay if they list the doctor's home address and tell people to go kill them. And from what I've seen from those websites (haven't seen much yet) they generally don't do that.
Or maybe they're just politicians trying to bully the gaming industry into giving them some money just like the music and movie industries and more recently Microsoft do.
I lived for a few years in a country ravaged by war and that's what made me violent at the time. Heck if I didn't have a little compassion I would've tried to kill some people but instead I came to try some crazy suicidal stuff like yelling at soldiers to shoot me everytime I was pissed off. Then I started watching Jackie Chan movies and heck it was good fun that made all the war and violence a little lighter .
:) No matter how many actual dead corpses you see it's still horrible every single time. The only way I coped with it was to not look and act as if it doesn't exist.
:)
Then I lived in a peacefull country and within a year, most of the hatred, violence and rage that I had in me was gone and replaced by peacefull thoughts. I play lots of violent video games and watch lots of violent movies but does it desensitize me from real violence? Hell no. Does it make me a criminal? Hell no. Even after all the real dead people that I saw during a real war I still have a very hard time taking a look at victims of real violence. You can't get desensitized to such horrible stuff. Talk to war photographers and ask them if they're desensitized
Are Saddam, Bush, Ben Laden, Putin, Sharon, Arafat, etc. game players?
I don't know, for some reason they have a lack of interest for games. I don't think it's about the language, it's more about the culture I guess.
They keep talking about wanting to charge people money to play EA titles. Shouldn't they be concentrating on making the online lobbies stable and useable to begin with? I mean seriously, they talk and whine on and on yet there online support still sucks. People can barely even get an online game running and EA is already talking about money :)
For you maybe but not for me. Also, does an album cost as much as a blockbuster movie to make? Hell no.
Oh yeah everyone should just quit his job and become a politician. It's not that people's jobs are important or anything.
I can find you plenty of people in Saudi Arabia who'll say the same thing :)
"Other distributors of pornography have also embraced the file-sharing networks as a promotional vehicle. They distribute sample pictures and videos in an attempt to attract paying customers to their Web sites.
"The adult industry, like others, is against the illegal downloading of their videos," said Gary Kremen, the chief executive of Sex.com, a directory of sexually explicit Web sites, "but they are much smarter than the music industry. They see p2p as money to be made."
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I play MechAssault, RTCW, Midnight Club 2, Midtown Madness and soon I'll be playing ESPN's NHL online. I have yet to buy the PS2 online adapter though because I'm still waiting for them to come out with a good online game and the fact that the PS2 online games don't have voice chat is disappointing.
Apparently Mario Kart will be online enabled and if it gets good reviews then maybe I'll buy a GC just for it. Playing Mario Kart online will be great.
Read about Wilco and see what the major labels can do.
The RIAA looks out for the recording industry and the consumer looks out for himself. So I would go with the latter.
The better way is to stop bothering consumers with nonsense, lower the prices or offer something worthy (extra-content) on CD. Just a suggestion from someone who rarely even listens to music. I find myself buying more and more DVD's instead of renting movies. A good movie with extra content is worth purchasing.
It's licensed content which I have legal rights to share. So yeah, what I share is perfectly legal and it's not piracy.
If you feel enraged just delete it. On the other hand, can you tell the RIAA to stop scanning the network? No.
Oh the cops are patrolling your neighborhood 24 hours a day? Where do you live? I thought Saddam was gone.
I tell you what's different. I'm sharing porn, yet the RIAA is still spying on me though. It's scanning the whole network to see if I or anyone else is sharing and downloading any songs even though I have yet to do so. This slows down the network and punishes those of us who use Kazaa legitimately.
:)
Can you imagine if everyone did the same as the RIAA? Can you imagine some people always patrolling your neighbourhood making sure there's nothing illegal around? It won't make you feel uncofortable?
But hey fucke'm, they'll be the ones loosing customers, oh they already are
In short, it's okay with you if I have a program that follows your steps while you're surfing the web because the sites you're visiting are public.