NORML's is here, and another one from a lawyer is here. Well worth printing out and laminating and keeping in your billfold.
Two things to note: 1) If you happen to be on a military base, even just to turn around and leave because you made a wrong turn, your rights are severely abridged. If you are on their property the military is free to search anything they want.
2) The War On Drugs has created a lot more room for officers to manuever in if the key phrase "drugs" is used. Here is a rather disheartening discussion about this "special" area of search law.
Rumors of rampant violence at the Convention Center prompted Louisiana National Guard Lt. Col. Jacques Thibodeaux put together a 1,000-man force of soldiers and police in full battle gear to secure the center Sept. 2 at about noon.
It took only 20 minutes to take control, and soldiers met no resistance, Thibodeaux said. What the soldiers found - elderly people and infants near death without food, water and medicine; crowds living in filth - shocked them more than anything they'd seen in combat zones overseas. But they found no evidence, witnesses or victims of any killings, rapes or beatings, Thibodeaux said.
Oh bullshit. Enron and Bush go way back, KennyBoy has been one of Bush's largest campaign contributors for many years, and Enron received a lot of favors from Texas while Bush was governor. He didn't give Clinton or the Dems much money in comparision. Enron unraveled because it was built as a house of cards, with insider partnerships siphoning tens of millions of dollars out. As far as Robert Rubin goes, he was just a hired gun.
A lot of things went nuts during the last half of the 90's, and blew up with the stock market bubble. Including Enron, HealthSouth, WorldCom, etc.
Watch "The Smartest Guys In The Room" sometime. It's disgusting.
Repblicans--the party of cutting taxes on the rich and spending us into a bottomless deficit.
Dude you need to get your head out of your ass. Do you make over $100K per year? No? While then BushCo just passed another tax cut designed to redistribute money from the 90% of Americans that make less than the that to those that do. Your money, dumbass.
On Iraq, over 80% want us out, just as we would want invaders out. We aren't helping them so much as killing them. Baghdad has less water and electricity now then before the invasion. That's a success story?
Drugs have been around for milleniums. Some people can deal, some can't. Get over it.
Abortion. ABORTION? It's not your fucking body carrying the potential child. So it's not your choice. It's her choice. And it's one fucking tough choice either way.
Grow fucking up and listen to something other than the 700 Club and Fox News.
BushCo just used a rather obscure Federal Secrets action to try to get the EFF v. AT&T lawsuit thrown out last Friday afternoon. See http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/ (It's the third or fourth story down)
No, not make everyone like us, but rather ensure that the threat to our security is truly gone. In Iraq we have arguably increased the threat to our security significantly rather than removed. Saddam wasn't a threat, but Al Qaeda is and it has been strengthend by our actions in Iraq.
Actually I was trying to divid 10 Gb (10,000,000,000 bits) by 256K (256,000) which gives me about 39,000. Unfortunately It was late at night and I did it in my head, and obviously transposed some zeros...
No one is stupid enough to line people up for killing any more. The closest anyone came to doing that was the Highway of Death at the end of the Iraq War, and that was a retreating army that had been promised by the diplomats that it would not be destroyed. The US military destroyed it anyway.
If you want to win a war, and have it stay won, it takes troops that care about the locals on the ground. It's easy to take out a regime, to kill the current leadership, but what happens after that? Does the local population welcome you or learn to hate you? Is this because of your own actions or inaction? See Iraq today for reference.
No one is going to attack the USA on its own soil and hasn't for over a hundred years. It's us attacking others on their soil, and we can't win if the locals hate us. Not in the long run.
As best as I can tell in my research so far is that the Narus gear sniffs packets as they go by and saves those that are "interesting" to a local disk array. Then this data is analyzed to a greater degree, first with software and then by humans.
But how about that little difference between Kerry and Bush where the former actually went to Viet Nam and fought rather than using his station in life to get out of it, like Bush did.
Bush is a stupid asshole who only cares about his rich buddies corporations. Some Democrats are as well, like Leiberman and Biden. But there are others, like Feingold, Waxman, etc. that actually do care about the founding principles of our country.
Used it to log on to the campus system in about 1980. Wrote first program to automatically access online data in 1983 for a senior project building 3D Black-Scholes options pricing models with the first and only IBM PC on campus.
Survival instinct? You mean a progressive politician shouldn't reach out to one of few sites that gets a million-plus hits per day from his constituency?
The "contractors"/mercenaries operate under no laws whatsoever, and have killed plenty of Iraqi's, especially in Fallujah, Ramadi, et al. You piss the locals off, when they all have weapons, and you pay the price. Period. Bush should have kept our troops in Afghanistan focused on Osama rather than gallivant off to Iraq on some fucking neo-con fantasy that has cost hundreds of millions of US taxpayers dollars and several thousand US lifes, plus tens of thousands of Iraqi lives. But you would never know that if you listened only to US corporate media.
Clinton needs to get a clue. Warner already has one.
Most all US banks operate this way. They don't check your account when you make a withdrawal or debit card purchase, they just process it and then charge you an overdraft fee for each transaction. Banks like Wells Fargo will even reorder your transactions for your from largest to smallest when they process them, to make sure as many transactions as possible are left to process when you become overdrawn. That way they can maximize the fees. I found this out the hard way and had a long and heated conversation with the bank manager about these practices. Have since moved my account to a local, small bank that processes transactions in the order in which they occur.
The US government has been following PNAC's playbook almost line for line since Bush was elected in 2000. Retaining control over ICAAN is a key part of PNAC's planfor retaining control over "cyberspace". Hence, it's now the US government's posture as well.
What's off-topic about pointing out where this plan came from, and a few other things from the same plan?
The Project For A New American Century is an organization dedicated "...to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests." Among the members are VP Dick Cheney and his currently embattled Chief of Staff Lewis Libby, SecDef Don Rumsfled, Jeb Bush (brother of President Bush), etc. See their Statement of Principals and a list of the signers of this founding document. If you don't recognize some of the names, Google them and see where they have worked in the last five years. Paul Wolfowits, Dov Zakheim and Zalmay Khalilzad are good ones to start with. Here's a nice place to start with Zakheim. And it only gets more interesting from there;)
In September, 2000 PNAC released a controversial document entitled Rebuilding America's Defenses, in which they argued that a "catastrophic and catalyzing event-like a new Pearl Harbor" was needed to speed up their planned re-militarization of America (see pg. 68). Earlier in this document they itemized their core principals, including 'CONTROL THE NEW "INTERNATIONAL COMMONS" OF SPACE AND "CYBERSPACE," and pave the way for the creation of a new military service - U.S. Space Forces - with the mission of space control.'(see pg. 11) On page 57 they go into more detail about how and why America must retain control of cyberspace. Controlling ICAAN is critical to this goal.
Scared yet? Remember, these are the folks that brought us the Patriot Act, forcing a vote on it after 9/11 without allowing anyone to read it, and enabling such great things as holding potential "terrorists" indefinitely without access to family or legal representation, sneak-and-peek searches, warrantless monitoring of e-mail, monitoring dissent groups without any suspicion of criminal activity by them, etc., etc.
As for Iraq, PNAC has been calling for the overthrow of Saddam since 1997 as a way to retain control of world energy supplies, critical to ensuring America's control over the world. But I think they bit off more than they could chew over there.
This group is truly scary, and they have been running our government for five years now.
It's called the Project for the New American Century, and their goal is "We aim to make the case and rally support for American global leadership" by creating "a military that is strong and ready to meet both present and future challenges; a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad; and national leadership that accepts the United States' global responsibilities."
If you dig deeper, it's mostly about oil and Israel.
A key document is called Rebuilding America's Defenses, available here: http://newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDe fenses.pdf
From page 12: 'CONTROL THE NEW "INTERNATIONAL COMMONS" OF SPACE AND "CYBERSPACE," and pave
the way for the creation of a new military service - U.S. Space Forces - with the mission of
space control.'
The scariest part is that the folks who wrote all this crap are controlling our government right now.
document everything. Record conversations, take notes that are dated and preferably even signed by co-worker witnesses, without being an ass about it. Fulfill your agreement even of he doesn't fulfill his. This way you are covering your ass if he tries to screw you out of your last check or something.
But don't turn the screws on the guy, rather be the real grown-up. He needs you, you know it, and for sure everyone else knows it. So simply turn the other cheek and in the long run all those who are witness to the spectacle remember not only your great worth, but also your great character. And he might just publicly meltdown if you act like you don't really care what the fuck he does.
That's worth a lot more down the road than some childish bullshit to get back at him. The couple of weeks will be nothing in the greater scheme of things. Trust me--I've hired and fired plenty of people in the last 46 years.
You mean Westernize them like this: ""One story is of a young girl who is 16 years old," he says of one of the testimonies he video taped recently, "She stayed for three days with the bodies of her family who were killed in their home. When the soldiers entered she was in her home with her father, mother, 12 year-old brother and two sisters. She watched the soldiers enter and shoot her mother and father directly, without saying anything."
The girl managed to hide behind the refrigerator with her brother and witnessed the war crimes first-hand.
"They beat her two sisters, then shot them in the head," he said. After this her brother was enraged and ran at the soldiers while shouting at them, so they shot him dead. "??
There's more, a lot more, here. I'm not sure that we are creating many friends in Iraq or anywhere in the Mideast, except Israel. Polls of Iraqis show the overwhelming majority want us gone, now or in the very near future. But the US Army is not planning to leave anytime soon.
To say nothing of Abu Graib, etc.
So tell me again--how are we helping them, exactly?
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NORML's is here, and another one from a lawyer is here. Well worth printing out and laminating and keeping in your billfold. Two things to note: 1) If you happen to be on a military base, even just to turn around and leave because you made a wrong turn, your rights are severely abridged. If you are on their property the military is free to search anything they want. 2) The War On Drugs has created a lot more room for officers to manuever in if the key phrase "drugs" is used. Here is a rather disheartening discussion about this "special" area of search law.
See http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/29/162837/62 A researcher for Jack Carter's NV Senate campaign has really taken this on, and wants to make some noise. Click to help out.
Oh bullshit. Enron and Bush go way back, KennyBoy has been one of Bush's largest campaign contributors for many years, and Enron received a lot of favors from Texas while Bush was governor. He didn't give Clinton or the Dems much money in comparision. Enron unraveled because it was built as a house of cards, with insider partnerships siphoning tens of millions of dollars out. As far as Robert Rubin goes, he was just a hired gun.
A lot of things went nuts during the last half of the 90's, and blew up with the stock market bubble. Including Enron, HealthSouth, WorldCom, etc.
Watch "The Smartest Guys In The Room" sometime. It's disgusting.
Repblicans--the party of cutting taxes on the rich and spending us into a bottomless deficit.
What fucking planet are you living on? Fox News?
Why did this poll show almost 3/4's of Iraqi's view us as occupiers. And almost half advocate killing US troops.
And you think they want us there?
Dude you need to get your head out of your ass. Do you make over $100K per year? No? While then BushCo just passed another tax cut designed to redistribute money from the 90% of Americans that make less than the that to those that do. Your money, dumbass.
On Iraq, over 80% want us out, just as we would want invaders out. We aren't helping them so much as killing them. Baghdad has less water and electricity now then before the invasion. That's a success story?
Drugs have been around for milleniums. Some people can deal, some can't. Get over it.
Abortion. ABORTION? It's not your fucking body carrying the potential child. So it's not your choice. It's her choice. And it's one fucking tough choice either way.
Grow fucking up and listen to something other than the 700 Club and Fox News.
It's semantic datamining in realtime all the data that flows through AT&T's San Francisco peering point. See http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/8/14724/2 8476
BushCo just used a rather obscure Federal Secrets action to try to get the EFF v. AT&T lawsuit thrown out last Friday afternoon. See http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/ (It's the third or fourth story down)
No, not make everyone like us, but rather ensure that the threat to our security is truly gone. In Iraq we have arguably increased the threat to our security significantly rather than removed. Saddam wasn't a threat, but Al Qaeda is and it has been strengthend by our actions in Iraq.
Actually I was trying to divid 10 Gb (10,000,000,000 bits) by 256K (256,000) which gives me about 39,000. Unfortunately It was late at night and I did it in my head, and obviously transposed some zeros...
I don't like them, either. I qualify for MENSA, I'm not an idiot.
I'll fix the math, I was doing it in my head late at night...
No one is stupid enough to line people up for killing any more. The closest anyone came to doing that was the Highway of Death at the end of the Iraq War, and that was a retreating army that had been promised by the diplomats that it would not be destroyed. The US military destroyed it anyway.
If you want to win a war, and have it stay won, it takes troops that care about the locals on the ground. It's easy to take out a regime, to kill the current leadership, but what happens after that? Does the local population welcome you or learn to hate you? Is this because of your own actions or inaction? See Iraq today for reference.
No one is going to attack the USA on its own soil and hasn't for over a hundred years. It's us attacking others on their soil, and we can't win if the locals hate us. Not in the long run.
As best as I can tell in my research so far is that the Narus gear sniffs packets as they go by and saves those that are "interesting" to a local disk array. Then this data is analyzed to a greater degree, first with software and then by humans.
And trying to dumb it down enough to non-geeks to understand it.
Sorry...
So you don't mind the NSA noting your particular favorite form of porn?
You mean Kerry, not Clinton.
But how about that little difference between Kerry and Bush where the former actually went to Viet Nam and fought rather than using his station in life to get out of it, like Bush did.
Bush is a stupid asshole who only cares about his rich buddies corporations. Some Democrats are as well, like Leiberman and Biden. But there are others, like Feingold, Waxman, etc. that actually do care about the founding principles of our country.
Used it to log on to the campus system in about 1980. Wrote first program to automatically access online data in 1983 for a senior project building 3D Black-Scholes options pricing models with the first and only IBM PC on campus.
Survival instinct? You mean a progressive politician shouldn't reach out to one of few sites that gets a million-plus hits per day from his constituency?
The "contractors"/mercenaries operate under no laws whatsoever, and have killed plenty of Iraqi's, especially in Fallujah, Ramadi, et al. You piss the locals off, when they all have weapons, and you pay the price. Period. Bush should have kept our troops in Afghanistan focused on Osama rather than gallivant off to Iraq on some fucking neo-con fantasy that has cost hundreds of millions of US taxpayers dollars and several thousand US lifes, plus tens of thousands of Iraqi lives. But you would never know that if you listened only to US corporate media.
Clinton needs to get a clue. Warner already has one.
Most all US banks operate this way. They don't check your account when you make a withdrawal or debit card purchase, they just process it and then charge you an overdraft fee for each transaction. Banks like Wells Fargo will even reorder your transactions for your from largest to smallest when they process them, to make sure as many transactions as possible are left to process when you become overdrawn. That way they can maximize the fees. I found this out the hard way and had a long and heated conversation with the bank manager about these practices. Have since moved my account to a local, small bank that processes transactions in the order in which they occur.
The US government has been following PNAC's playbook almost line for line since Bush was elected in 2000. Retaining control over ICAAN is a key part of PNAC's planfor retaining control over "cyberspace". Hence, it's now the US government's posture as well.
What's off-topic about pointing out where this plan came from, and a few other things from the same plan?
The Project For A New American Century is an organization dedicated "...to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests." Among the members are VP Dick Cheney and his currently embattled Chief of Staff Lewis Libby, SecDef Don Rumsfled, Jeb Bush (brother of President Bush), etc. See their Statement of Principals and a list of the signers of this founding document. If you don't recognize some of the names, Google them and see where they have worked in the last five years. Paul Wolfowits, Dov Zakheim and Zalmay Khalilzad are good ones to start with. Here's a nice place to start with Zakheim. And it only gets more interesting from there ;)
In September, 2000 PNAC released a controversial document entitled Rebuilding America's Defenses, in which they argued that a "catastrophic and catalyzing event-like a new Pearl Harbor" was needed to speed up their planned re-militarization of America (see pg. 68). Earlier in this document they itemized their core principals, including 'CONTROL THE NEW "INTERNATIONAL COMMONS" OF SPACE AND "CYBERSPACE," and pave the way for the creation of a new military service - U.S. Space Forces - with the mission of space control.'(see pg. 11) On page 57 they go into more detail about how and why America must retain control of cyberspace. Controlling ICAAN is critical to this goal.
Scared yet? Remember, these are the folks that brought us the Patriot Act, forcing a vote on it after 9/11 without allowing anyone to read it, and enabling such great things as holding potential "terrorists" indefinitely without access to family or legal representation, sneak-and-peek searches, warrantless monitoring of e-mail, monitoring dissent groups without any suspicion of criminal activity by them, etc., etc.
As for Iraq, PNAC has been calling for the overthrow of Saddam since 1997 as a way to retain control of world energy supplies, critical to ensuring America's control over the world. But I think they bit off more than they could chew over there.
This group is truly scary, and they have been running our government for five years now.
A key document is called Rebuilding America's Defenses, available here: http://newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDe fenses.pdf
From page 12: 'CONTROL THE NEW "INTERNATIONAL COMMONS" OF SPACE AND "CYBERSPACE," and pave
the way for the creation of a new military service - U.S. Space Forces - with the mission of
space control.'
The scariest part is that the folks who wrote all this crap are controlling our government right now.
That would be my suggestion, too. It's the nearest thing to a Toughbook-type cam.
document everything. Record conversations, take notes that are dated and preferably even signed by co-worker witnesses, without being an ass about it. Fulfill your agreement even of he doesn't fulfill his. This way you are covering your ass if he tries to screw you out of your last check or something.
But don't turn the screws on the guy, rather be the real grown-up. He needs you, you know it, and for sure everyone else knows it. So simply turn the other cheek and in the long run all those who are witness to the spectacle remember not only your great worth, but also your great character. And he might just publicly meltdown if you act like you don't really care what the fuck he does.
That's worth a lot more down the road than some childish bullshit to get back at him. The couple of weeks will be nothing in the greater scheme of things. Trust me--I've hired and fired plenty of people in the last 46 years.
Yep, you wouldn't want your airline reservation service, to say nothing of inflight data, running on Google right now!
You mean Westernize them like this: ""One story is of a young girl who is 16 years old," he says of one of the testimonies he video taped recently, "She stayed for three days with the bodies of her family who were killed in their home. When the soldiers entered she was in her home with her father, mother, 12 year-old brother and two sisters. She watched the soldiers enter and shoot her mother and father directly, without saying anything."
The girl managed to hide behind the refrigerator with her brother and witnessed the war crimes first-hand.
"They beat her two sisters, then shot them in the head," he said. After this her brother was enraged and ran at the soldiers while shouting at them, so they shot him dead. "??
There's more, a lot more, here. I'm not sure that we are creating many friends in Iraq or anywhere in the Mideast, except Israel. Polls of Iraqis show the overwhelming majority want us gone, now or in the very near future. But the US Army is not planning to leave anytime soon.
To say nothing of Abu Graib, etc.
So tell me again--how are we helping them, exactly?