There has been a history of people being punished for doing the right thing.
Yes, this is insane, but it's also how it is.
--True, if you take the right approach, have the right kind of charisma, (ie, express honesty and even explain your concerns up front about how other people before you being punished for having done the right thing in the past,) you might be able to pull it off. I wouldn't count on it though. The sheep behind the glass are getting colder every day, and even a smooth talker like me has been really having to sweat in order to earn my best intentions. It's getting tough out there.
So in this instance, and others like it, I wouldn't bother.
And just to be clear, I wouldn't use the exploit either. --Chances are, if you do, you'll really end up in hot water. Indeed, I strongly suspect that some cases of these kinds of exploits are designed to discover those who are not sheep-like enough so that they can be flagged for later. . , uh, disposal. (Same goes for things like performing acts of geurilla advertising, and ad-defacement of particularly nasty posters and billboards around your town. That sort of thing is monitored.)
--Which, of course, means that if you try in earnest to bring the hole in the code to the attention of the 'masters of the universe', then somebody, somewhere will be all pissed off with you for ruining their entrapment scheme.
My advice? Sit tight. --The furthest you might want to go is to discuss it openly to anybody who cares to listen, saying you heard about it on the net from some anonymous coward. Wide open honesty is usually the best way to screw evil plans without bringing down reprisal and brimstone on your head. Works for me.
The system doesn't get hacked. Or it does. It doesn't matter, because this time, (after being burned once already), the people are paying attention. --Heck, this Diebold stuff, (Die-Bold???? What's with that etymology?), and its inherent problems is even making real news.
So. ..
The people will be watching closely the left hand of the magician, (misdirection). Maybe there will be some election fraud, maybe there won't be. It doesn't matter, because the people will get their president of choice. --I'm guessing, Democrat, Howard Dean.
Still theorizing here. ..
Now some say that Bush need only set another war going during the campaign, and that this will assure his re-election. Maybe. --Thing is, to do so, he'll need to do some very unpopular things. Like recalling tens of thousands of reservists to active duty. --Because the U.S. military is spread very thinly. Or even more un-popularly, calling a Draft. (Collective shudder. Is everybody here over the age of 21? No? I see. Hope all you youngsters like combat boots and DU.)
"The scramble to find replacement units for Iraq duty is stark testimony to just how thinly the 480,000-strong U.S. Army is stretched.
Of the Army's 33 active-duty brigades, 21 are deployed overseas -- 16 in Iraq, two in Afghanistan, two in South Korea, and one in Bosnia. All but three of the rest are either preparing for one of those missions, recovering and retraining after one of those missions or held in reserve. " Story here
So maybe this will be enough to piss everybody off. --There's already a scandal brewing on the back-burner about Bush's lying to congress. There's the crappy shape of the economy, thanks to Bush's complete mis-management. And there's the fact that he's an ex-coke head who can't even talk properly without making a hundred and one creepy Freudian slips. (I lost my link, but there are long lists of his verbal screw-ups all over the web. Go look. It's just crazy!)
Of course, if things get really bad, all Bush need do is punch that big red button and call down a state of emergency, and that's the end of the show. Democracy over, bub. Welcome to the new Amerika.
However, this Howard Dean guy. ..
Looks bright and new. He's saying all the right things. --While he was governor, he managed to keep Vermont out of deficit while the rest of the country went to shit. He's openly criticizing Bush's stupid war on Iraq, (a war which is getting a couple of kids killed every day. --And those are just the official numbers.) People are losing faith in Bush, and Dean sounds like a good guy. He's also talking about some social welfare reform which all the millions of people too broke to afford medical coverage, might just perk up enough at the sound of to head in droves to try out those new DieBold machines. ..
Problem is, Dean is also being backed by the Zionists. (Now, please, moderators, curb your knee-jerk desire to mod me into dust at the first sound of Jewish conspiracy, and at least finish reading this. There's no hate here or Trollish nonsense. Just listen). ..
A man named, Steve Grossman, is Howard Dean's head of campaign Fundraising.
What does that mean? I'll tell you:
Steve Grossman was ALSO the president, -not just some pamphleteer, but the president- of one of the most powerful Israeli lobby groups in the entire world, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee(AIPAC).
Steve Grossman shed his official Democratic posts in 1992 when members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee elected him as their president. Now, Grossman has co
Well, of course there are going to be rational excuses in place for creating all this prison storage space. And, um, Training, did you say you were involved with?
FEMA is a real agency. Indeed, they were the ones in charge of New York during the 9-11 circus. Between them and the Patriot act, and various other creepy laws, (some of which are discussed breifly here ) once a crisis has been declared, it will be entirely 'legal' to put virtually anybody in prison for whatever reason some chump in a uniform decides is good enough for him.
If the sliver of perspective you have leads you to feel safe and secure, then that's fine. That's your choice. But don't describe my concerns as "Fantasy" and "Paranoia".
Not when the current government is filled with liars, who through their lies send kids off to war against nations which posed no threat, and who do it for no other reason than Greed. There is no argument here. None. If you give me one, it had better be good, because I've heard all the bullshit there is so far, and it all comes from people who don't think and who don't read anything but the state and Zionist-owned idiot media. Bush and his gang are LIARS, plain and simple. --And if you bothered to look at some of the information which is freely available, you would not only recognize this, but also the fact that those lies are directly responsible for the current miserable state of the economy, and of War against straw-man villains.
When the axe falls, and it WILL, you sound like you're a ripe candidate for the 4th option, (the one I specifically decided not to mention last post); and that is, "Be one of the assholes shooting civilians."
How was it put. . . "The people would rather believe a simple lie than a complex truth."
Calling this thing MATRIX *DOES* show a particular level of incompetence behind it.
No it doesn't, I'm afraid. I wish it did, but this is in fact quite deliberate.
By seeing something as overt as this but letting it go, the public is subconsciously, (and not even very subconsciously at that), chosing to accept subserviance. The level of overt control is raised slowly, and the public lets it go at each level, until they have attained a completly defeated slave mentality.
The aim of the current war being waged by government against Americans is not to overtly defeat the populace. It's to lead the populace into a state of self-defeat.
That's how it works. --If they push too far with one attack, (Like this MATRIX shit), and the people start getting rowdy, then they'll immediately pull back and say, "Sorry, Sorry. Didn't mean it, we won't do it. --Well, except for maybe these little parts here and here." And then they'll try again in two weeks with something else. You cannot get them to stop, and you will not be able to find a rational agreement through legislation, because the enemy is not seeking balance; it is seeking total domination and it will not stop pushing and pecking until it has achieved its ends. The public, though dull-witted, is for the most part 'good and reasonable' which means that it will continue to act in good faith. Psychopaths, like Bush are not human and so they will never act in good faith. It's like a diode. The current goes in one direction only. You don't play cards with psychos.
There are exactly three responses one can take to this kind of tactic:
1. Haul the heads of government out of their offices and hang them all for high treason.
2. Get out of the U.S. before they haul you out of *your* office and send you to a camp. (Here's another with site with some photos, --one including a shot of a placard with a date stamp, reading "Jun 00", presumably indicating a construction date shortly after Shrub's election. This particular set of photos is of an un-manned camp, hence the ability to take photos).
This is way beyond paranoia, this is just plain old stupidity.
People were telling me I was stupid and paranoid when I was yelling about the US plans for world domination and fascist lock-down through a killing of the economy, through fake excuses for war, through rigged elections. --That was before Shrub got in power, before 9-11 and before Afghanistan. And Iraq. Before Patriot. Before Homeland Security.
Nothing has slowed down, my ostrich friend. Indeed, it's speeding up.
Only problem is that leaving the US fascist state will become increasingly difficult as the months progress. If you are the sort who doesn't like what is happening in the US, then your name is probably on a list. If your name is on a list, then there is an increasing probability that you will be stopped at a border crossing or airport.
It's only a matter of time before being stopped turns into being re-directed to a barbed-wire facility. --In Denver, perhaps?
1. Slashdot hasn't really changed very much over the last 5 years.
2. This moronic myth of the 'Troll' has been getting sillier of late. Just because a person doesn't agree with a poster's viewpoint doesn't automatically make that poster a 'Troll'. People deliberately posting to raise ire for purposes of Ego-boosting, are much fewer and further between than most people seem to believe. I have been labeled a 'Troll' more times than I can count, and I certainly do not have any Ego problems. I just don't like to waste my time posting to say, "Me Too". I post when I think I have an alternative viewpoint worthy of consideration, which, I dare say, is the whole point of networking. --What good is a forum if there is no effort to explore as many different viewpoints as can be brought to bear on a subject? Those who complain, are those who can't deal with any information which falls outside the boundaries of the school-of-fish mentality. These people often cry, 'Troll' rather than think or read what is written.
3. If people are going to go to the trouble of maintaining multiple on-line personalities which require near-daily upkeep, then those people are spending enormous effort. --I can spend a couple of *hours* at a sitting just using my single personality, (yes, just the one), in viewing all the various information/news sites I visit. I think the exercise you are concerned about is A) a LOT less exagerated in reality than you believe it to be, and B) a short lived practice among those who DO maintain many on-line personalities simply because of the level of effort required.
4. Do away with anonymity? Anonymity is a treasure. --It stops the drunken bar crowd from being able to pound you if you vote for the 'wrong' party. Anonymity is one of the most valuable assets of the Internet. In any case, even a stupid heckle from the peanut gallery can be a valuable indicator of public opinion. (Indeed, if you are a 'Troll' yourself right here with this very post, then SO WHAT? You've raised an interesting argument and I'm raising an appropriate response. There are more people who read here than you and I; people on all points of any number of learning curves. This exchange might actually be useful to somebody.) In any case, I notice that you posted anonymously yourself for this very article.
5. And finally. . . Who cares? Don't you have a scroll tab on your browser? Sheesh. Learn how to skim. I've NEVER had any problem picking out the "Signal" to the "Noise" on Slashdot or anywhere else I visit. Indeed, Slashdot remains, as it always has, a valuable source of information and measure of public reaction to whatever subject is being discussed.
You are over-reacting.
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Cold fingers in room-temp environments usually indicates a problem with circulation, which can in turn be a stress-related issue. (Diet and exercise may have something to do with it, but I don't know.)
In any case, extra heating (of the mouse), might be a help, as may be such herbal medicines as Ginko Bilboa, (which has been found effective in improving microcirculation to the head, hands and feet.), but I tend to think that if something is stress-related, then drugs and mechanical fixes are not as good overall as is examining the core problem.
There are lots of different ways to deal with stress and physiological stress responses. Typically, educating yourself, (a little All-The-Web searching or reading a book or two), is the best start. --Then try a few of the methods until you zero in on the core.
Heck. Maybe computers and small, picky work is causing you stress. Maybe you subconsciously know you're in the wrong place. Maybe you were supposed to be a Lumberjack. . . Swinging from tree to tree, singing. ..
We've seen this kind of marketing strategy before, but I don't think I can recall one where it has been deliberate. That is. . , "What will the new Computer/Car/Quake do!? The world wants to know!" -And, frankly, so does the company's PR department, because they've been ready to go since March, but nobody will tell them what the hell the product is suppoed to do, so they release what little they can when they can. As such, the whole exercise actually helps to ramp up the anticipation among the gear/tech/gamer heads.
Wonder if it'll work when they tell you up front that this is what they're doing. --Will people be offended by the manipulation or will they see it in the spirit of fun?
Other than that. ..
A new game device. Oh joy. --Ooh, and one which has all the destructive qualities of microwave technology, but this time, in the hands of children with still developing brains. --Perhaps softening their brains with EM while they soften their brains with video crack will improve our odds of a smooth take-over of Humanity. (I think there may be a measure which is directly proportional to the amount of drool swinging from lax lips.)
There have only been three countries which use the Eagle for its national symbol. The Roman empire, which was taken down by the Mongol hoards (Russia/Greater-Asia), Nazi Germany, where its back was broken in part by Russia, and a coalition of European and American forces. And now America, which also thinks it is invincible, and which will ALSO break its back on Asia.
I believe in patterns. Heck, even Nostrodamus saw this one coming, where he talked about globes of fire exploding from the heavens and the "yellow tide" covering the globe.
Since you (sort of) asked, the country I am from is Canada. And since you talk so mightily about how America comes riding to the aid of the impoverished, I'm going to remind you that Canada entered WWII a couple of YEARS before the US. --The US however, (in standard fashion), didn't enter the war until it had to, because it was busy making huge gobs of money selling arms and technology to the real combatants, (INCLUDING Nazi Germany!; Bush's grand dad made his family fortune selling to the Nazis. --He was hand-slapped for it after the war, but faced no real punishment. Typical. CNN won't have mentioned that.)
As for the Iraqi women kissing soldiers and all that good stuff. ..
Sure. On day one. Sort of. (That statue falling and those cheering crowds, as any who searched a bit more deeply, would have discovered was a bit of clever photography and clever editing to make a small crowd of maybe 200 people look like thousands. But again, you'd have to dig a little to learn that, and those sold by state propaganda don't usually dig as a general rule.)
But honestly, you REALLY need to do some more reading about the current situation. The people shooting at US soldiers are NOT remnants of Saddam's military. They're regular people who hate the way they're being mis-treated, tortured, indiscriminately killed and generaly abused by their new masters. --Families who are pooling their resources to buy guns in order to protect their children and wives. There is no running water. There is no electricity. There is no public communications system, (Well, there WAS for a couple of days, until the US military told Betelco to shut down). There is no order in Iraq, because the US military is being horribly mismanaged. --Sure there are MANY well-meaning American soldiers over there who don't realize the true nature of the game they are caught in; most soldiers are just kids after all. But the real nature of the game is such that at the top levels, there is actually a desire for the chaos to remain.
--See, despite your arrogant words about US military might, despite your being saturated with propaganda, and despite your calous disrespect for the people of other nations or the deaths of civilians, you still talk with pride about wanting to help the world become a better place. As perverted and bent as you and your beliefs are as to how to achieve it, you still have the desire to be a good guy, and I respect that. Unfortunately, that is NOT how the people at the top of the power pyramid are motivated.
Chaos IS desired. American Death camps WILL come to exist as another push to wipe out all the Semitic (Jews and Arabs) peoples of the earth goes into full swing. Nazi Germany, as those in the know, realize, was a dry run. It was a test to see what could be gotten away with. The real game is only just beginning.
Though, as before, arrogance WILL be the Beast's undoing.
You think America is invincible?
Consider this: The Chinese have nukes. They have delivery systems. (They're planning a moon landing before the end of this very year.) They also have an army larger than the entire population of the United States. And that's before a draft! There aren't enough machine gun rounds to stop that kind of invasion force. (Just as the Nazis did not have enough r
Ah. Another person who seems to define 'Troll' as 'Any Viewpoint which he doesn't agree with'.
How incredibly lame.
But definitions aside, let me add a few points in no particular order. ..
1. Betelco, if it runs a clean operation, knows that it doesn't have a chance in hell to win such a contract. The British have only a 20% share in the company, and the rest is owned by Semitic interests, who we all know are terrorists and not white. No. That just won't do.
2. It's all about cell phones, which are nasty items anyway. So it hardly matters who puts them in; they're designed to deaden the minds of the populace. Not good.
3. I was not playing favorites; I was pointing out that the prime interest of the U.S. is money, not the welfare of the Iraqi people. --Betelco's Iraqi chief was hoping to hand out free cell phones to emergency crews, police, medical workers and other essential services in order to help get Bagdhad back under control. The simple fact that the US wants this plan shut down in order that 'proper bidding process' might be gone through, is evidence of exactly where U.S. priorities lie.
--Or that Bush's prime directive was to 'Save those People'? I wonder what your naive excuse will be when your country takes out Syria, Iran, chunks of Africa, Korea, and then insanely hurls itself at China, (the mouse waking up the elephant.)
In any case, I suppose the fact that the Iraqis are sending a couple of U.S. boys home in bags every day is a sign that they truly appreciate their 'liberation'.
It'll be interesting to see how much you appreciate being 'liberated' when the world finally gets fed up with America and WWIII starts in earnest.
this provides Iraq with a golden opportunity to have a rebuilt, ultra modern communications system. If we do it right, Iraq could very well have one of the most technologically advanced comm. systems ever designed. And the people of Iraq, at least based on this story, seem more than willing to embrace the technology and as such would probably be willing to try out the newest communications technology. This would be the perfect time and place to test new/unproven technologies and if they work well, we could adopt them here in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world. Make the best of a bad situation.
What a nice world view. I wish it were true.
There is no desire to create a good system. There is only the desire to satisfy greed. If a working system were the only thing in question, then Betelco would not have been told to turn off its newly installed cell-phone network. --Betelco, a middle eastern cell-phone company, with hard-working gumption and a capitalist's initiative any American would be proud to be part of were it to take place in the U.S. of A., just invested about $5 million to install a new cell-phone network in Bagdhad. Two days ago, they flipped the switch, and residents of Bagdhad were back on-line with working cell-phones, restoring public access to basic electronic communications (which did indeed exist before the US savaged Bagdhad's entire infrastructure.)
But naturally, the corporate favored ones who were first in line to carve up the ripe and newly 'cleared' market, cried and whined. "No fair! No fair!" And so the American military 'urged' yesterday that Betelco discontinue their services.
People starving and dying in the streets? Screw that. There's due process to consider here!
In any case, we certainluy can't have some scruffy upstart (non-American) telco walk in and take the cake after all the hard work the U.S. and "coalition forces", (read: "imperial lackeys"), did to trash the existing infrastructure so that "healthy competition" could be implemented. Heavens no!
Mind you, there is going to be a conference and a tender bidding to see which telco giant will get the juicy contract, and apparently, the Americans only are only represented by one of the three firms bidding. Looks like a PR bullshit parade to me. Smart money is on the U.S. dominating the field. They have the most guns there, after all, and the most dead Iowan farm boys! To the victor the spoils. (Oh, but this was a war of "liberation". How DO I keep forgetting?)
Same is planned for energy, water and, well, all the various corporate money makers a modern western city comes equipped with. Fast food. Televisions, cars and gumball machines all made in the grand old U.S. of A. --(And all to be subsidized by Iraqi oil and the US taxpayers, naturally.)
Oh yes, the corporations love this deal. Too bad a modern city had to be leveled, and women, old folks, babies and children had to be sliced into juicy red ribbons with American flachette bombs and chaotic bullet storms fired by terrified American boys who had no clue what the hell they were doing in the middle of Bush-The-Liar's evil war. Why is it that the innocent always end up killing/being killed in these sickening ploys?
And this is just the gravy. --Sure, it's really all about world domination, but one simply cannot perform the magic without also lining one's pockets along the way. It's the American Way, after all.
Yeah. It seems that Grossman is not his chair, but is instead coordinating his campaign fundraising.
[. ..]in 2004, you need to have a certain threshold amount of money to compete," says Steve Grossman, a former DNC chair, who is heading Governor Dean's fundraising effort. "Between now and the 4th of July, every campaign has to establish that it can raise enough money to make the grade."[. ..] --Christian Science Monitor
Please pardon me for not fact checking diligently enough before posting. My bad.
Yeah. It seems that Grossman is not his chair, but is instead coordinating his campaign fundraising.
[. ..]in 2004, you need to have a certain threshold amount of money to compete," says Steve Grossman, a former DNC chair, who is heading Governor Dean's fundraising effort. "Between now and the 4th of July, every campaign has to establish that it can raise enough money to make the grade."[. ..]--Christian Science Monitor
Please pardon me for not fact checking diligently enough before posting. My bad.
A couple of my friends are betting on Shrub hitting the 'Emergency' button and instigating a total lock-down of the U.S., suspension of all rights and the firing up of the 800 or so empty but staffed and waiting American concentration camps sitting idle around the nation. "Night of Long Knives" and all. ..
While this IS planned, no doubt, I tend to feel (make that fevrently hope) that we're not quite there yet.
Here's a quote from a recent interview with Eustace Mullins. ..
You know Howard Dean's campaign chair is Stephen Grossman, ex- president of AIPAC...
OH MY GOD! He is? Well, Jewish money is buying this campaign...
Dean's another blank slate. He's never done anything, and they're raving about him. When you see someone become the darling of the media, watch out for someone like that. You know they're compromised...compromised forever, you can't expect anything from them.
--Keeping in mind that 'Jewish Money' would more aptly be called 'Zionist Money'. Zionism doesn't have the best interests of the Jews at heart by a long shot!
Moderators. . . Please at least glance at the link info before you label this message 'Troll' (it's not. I don't have a deficient ego.) If you can't deal with this stuff, please get your fear levels under control rather than irresponsibly use your mod points. This stuff is here and it affects everybody. Cringing denial won't make it go away. Best to learn what it out there so that it can't hurt you.
Close. Now just add the fact that a large percentage of the New Testament was written 75 years after Christ died, and that Rome's propaganda/mind-control/secret-services department (and yes, like all governments, they too had such people), had a strong hand in who wrote what.
A whole book followed zealously by a big chunk of your empire? Hmm. Better make sure there's lots of 'Turn the other cheek' stuff in that book so that all those cultists are easier to control! (Among MANY other things.)
Christ's Flock? Sheep are fleeced or slaughtered or both. Yeah. Make me a sheep!
A couple of my friends are betting on Shrub hitting the 'Emergency' button and instigating a total lock-down of the U.S., suspension of all rights and the firing up of the 800 or so empty but staffed and waiting American concentration camps sitting idle around the nation. "Night of Long Knives" and all. ..
While this IS planned, no doubt, I tend to feel (make that fevrently hope) that we're not quite there yet.
Here's a quote from a recent interview with Eustace Mullins
You know Howard Dean's campaign chair is Stephen Grossman, ex- president of AIPAC...
OH MY GOD! He is? Well, Jewish money is buying this campaign...
Dean's another blank slate. He's never done anything, and they're raving about him. When you see someone become the darling of the media, watch out for someone like that. You know they're compromised...compromised forever, you can't expect anything from them.
--Keeping in mind that 'Jewish Money' would more aptly be called 'Zionist Money'. Zionism doesn't have the best interests of the Jews at heart by a long shot!
So does this mean that I'm the guy responsible for people in the U.K. having the thumbscrews tightened up on them another notch?
Sheesh. Sorry, guys!
Actually, I stopped shaving with blades altogether many years ago, so clearly this is a case of over-reaction. I don't know about Gillette, but fuck Bic, anyway. Cheep bastards! I know a past executive of that company who, back in the Seventies, got fired because he had a moral problem with planned obsolescence; Did you know that for abut two cents more per unit, it's possible to make razor blades that last 10x longer? --Which, according to the Fuck-The-Man-Rules-Of-Engagement, meant that to do the system proper justice, one had to keep track of the blades you stole, and pay for every 10th one. --Becase, you know, shoplifting without a rules set leads to savagry. I'm not a barbarian, after all.
Who the hell needs 5 blades? And those packages are simply bands of cardboard which leave the product exposed to the air, just begging people to make the most rational decision in the world, which is, of course, "But I only need one. These bastards are trying to screw me! Well, screw THEM! They'll never catch me! They put the magnetic strip on the cardboard, not the blades! Fools!"
--And look where this leads us. . ! To the creation of the exact atmosphere we're seeing here. One in which, a ridiculous over-reaction, with embedded chips and video cameras and all, can enter our reality on the wings of a somewhat reasonable-sounding argument. "But shoplifters!" --Yeah, because you're greedy assholes who make it too easy. What? Shrink wrapping would eat up another 2 cents profit? --Not to mention that you wouldn't even need to do that, if you would be so kind as to make a GOOD product and sell them ONE at a damned time!
Greed, folks! We all know it, and we all know where it's taking us. (WWIII and the borgification of humanity.) Now pardon me, but my thumbscrew needs oiling.
It is a very, very rare thing to meet film makers/animators/comic artists who don't also have script ideas of their own which they want to produce. --Further, though you observe that many animators are without great core ideas, I doubt that you will find very many who would agree with you, nor who are willing to set aside their own personal explorations into story-telling so that you can 'feed' them your ideas.)
And pardon me for saying, but until you work out a less offensive manner in which to approach the 'labor' on a project, you probably also need to work further on your writing skills. Understanding the why's and wherefore's of social graces is to understand the human condition. And if writers don't understand the human condition, they're no place.
But anyway. ..
Unfortunately, most of the labour will never get the opportunity, nor will they be able to raise their own energy level to a point where they can begin to realize their ambitions. They usually end up by default, working for others. And this is where the media industry comes from.
Enter Machinima. Dirt cheep. Fast. Low quality.
Three things can happen;
1. The technically able people will FINALLY be able to work on their own projects.
2. The technically able people will see the low quality and say, "Pass."
3. The technically able will be faced again with having to come up with new excuses for their lack of motivation.
Now finally. ..
If your work is amazing and provocative enough, then you should be able draw to you people who will be willing to set aside their own goals and who will want to work on yours; to make your goals their own. --But make no mistake; your work has to be big and bright, or you will only draw to you the lower-end of craftspeople. So get some of your stuff published. Get it out there. There are millions of ways. --Build a browsable webpage version of your world/s. Heck, if it's really that important to you, you might even consider learning some of the technical craft yourself.
There now. --Aren't you sorry you solicited advice from a legion of keyboard jockies?
There are a Lot Of Sites which the lords of Google have cut from their search engine. And I'm not talking porn. (The proliferation of sex-obsession is actually encouraged due to its weakening effect upon individuals.) I'm talking about anything which holds any real weight and thereby pisses off the wrong people. --Or anybody who needs to be punished, are chopped from what has become the Internet's de-facto public eye. (Google.)
Easily done, too. Make a remarkable product. (Google was amazing when it began). Then corporatize it and hand over the strings to the bad men.
This isn't a joke. There are plenty of examples. My own websites are among them; won't list them here, because I can't afford the backlash of losing anonymity, but on the 'lesser' search engines they show up fine and dandy at the tops of the lists. The same was true on Google, until I crossed a couple of lines back when Iraq was taken by Bush and his gang of psychopaths. Google has since chopped ALL my sites despite the fact that they have nothing to do with my personal political views and various beliefs about how reality works.
There IS a war be waged to suppress human awareness. Those of us who have the balls to try to lift the curtain for others to see DO take damage.
Anyway, people should use All The Web if they want a search engine with teeth.
You're all just a bunch of cynical, (oh, hold on; gotta nuke stupid blinking head-ache generator at the top of Slashdot. . , taking microsecond to note which product or service I will never, ever patronize. Ah there we go. . . Nuked. Stress level falling. Mozilla, like drinking from a cool mountain stream.)
Now where was I. . ?
Oh yes!
. . bastards!
-FL --Image nuke should come with a mouse-over + keyboard shortcut option.
Is that hackers are just a small portion of the people responsible.
What if there were power-mad lunatics in office who dreamed of a world where civil rights no longer existed; had even drafted proposals and suggestions as to how this could be achieved by, (this is true!), manufacturing Pearl Harbour type events so that they could ride the back-lash into a position where the public was ready to accept draconian re-writes to the laws?
Think I'm joking? Many of Bush's current cronies have written plans and proposals over the last few years of exactly this sort. Do some Googling. You'll find them, because some journalists are mad as hell. The evidence is all there for anybody brave enough to stare it in the face.
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Yes, this is insane, but it's also how it is.
--True, if you take the right approach, have the right kind of charisma, (ie, express honesty and even explain your concerns up front about how other people before you being punished for having done the right thing in the past,) you might be able to pull it off. I wouldn't count on it though. The sheep behind the glass are getting colder every day, and even a smooth talker like me has been really having to sweat in order to earn my best intentions. It's getting tough out there.
So in this instance, and others like it, I wouldn't bother.
And just to be clear, I wouldn't use the exploit either. --Chances are, if you do, you'll really end up in hot water. Indeed, I strongly suspect that some cases of these kinds of exploits are designed to discover those who are not sheep-like enough so that they can be flagged for later. . , uh, disposal. (Same goes for things like performing acts of geurilla advertising, and ad-defacement of particularly nasty posters and billboards around your town. That sort of thing is monitored.)
--Which, of course, means that if you try in earnest to bring the hole in the code to the attention of the 'masters of the universe', then somebody, somewhere will be all pissed off with you for ruining their entrapment scheme.
My advice? Sit tight. --The furthest you might want to go is to discuss it openly to anybody who cares to listen, saying you heard about it on the net from some anonymous coward. Wide open honesty is usually the best way to screw evil plans without bringing down reprisal and brimstone on your head. Works for me.
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So. .
The people will be watching closely the left hand of the magician, (misdirection). Maybe there will be some election fraud, maybe there won't be. It doesn't matter, because the people will get their president of choice. --I'm guessing, Democrat, Howard Dean.
Still theorizing here. .
Now some say that Bush need only set another war going during the campaign, and that this will assure his re-election. Maybe. --Thing is, to do so, he'll need to do some very unpopular things. Like recalling tens of thousands of reservists to active duty. --Because the U.S. military is spread very thinly. Or even more un-popularly, calling a Draft. (Collective shudder. Is everybody here over the age of 21? No? I see. Hope all you youngsters like combat boots and DU.)
So maybe this will be enough to piss everybody off. --There's already a scandal brewing on the back-burner about Bush's lying to congress. There's the crappy shape of the economy, thanks to Bush's complete mis-management. And there's the fact that he's an ex-coke head who can't even talk properly without making a hundred and one creepy Freudian slips. (I lost my link, but there are long lists of his verbal screw-ups all over the web. Go look. It's just crazy!)
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Of course, if things get really bad, all Bush need do is punch that big red button and call down a state of emergency, and that's the end of the show. Democracy over, bub. Welcome to the new Amerika.
However, this Howard Dean guy. .
Looks bright and new. He's saying all the right things. --While he was governor, he managed to keep Vermont out of deficit while the rest of the country went to shit. He's openly criticizing Bush's stupid war on Iraq, (a war which is getting a couple of kids killed every day. --And those are just the official numbers.) People are losing faith in Bush, and Dean sounds like a good guy. He's also talking about some social welfare reform which all the millions of people too broke to afford medical coverage, might just perk up enough at the sound of to head in droves to try out those new DieBold machines. .
Problem is, Dean is also being backed by the Zionists. (Now, please, moderators, curb your knee-jerk desire to mod me into dust at the first sound of Jewish conspiracy, and at least finish reading this. There's no hate here or Trollish nonsense. Just listen). .
A man named, Steve Grossman, is Howard Dean's head of campaign Fundraising.
What does that mean? I'll tell you:
Steve Grossman was ALSO the president, -not just some pamphleteer, but the president- of one of the most powerful Israeli lobby groups in the entire world, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
FEMA is a real agency. Indeed, they were the ones in charge of New York during the 9-11 circus. Between them and the Patriot act, and various other creepy laws, (some of which are discussed breifly here ) once a crisis has been declared, it will be entirely 'legal' to put virtually anybody in prison for whatever reason some chump in a uniform decides is good enough for him.
If the sliver of perspective you have leads you to feel safe and secure, then that's fine. That's your choice. But don't describe my concerns as "Fantasy" and "Paranoia".
Not when the current government is filled with liars, who through their lies send kids off to war against nations which posed no threat, and who do it for no other reason than Greed. There is no argument here. None. If you give me one, it had better be good, because I've heard all the bullshit there is so far, and it all comes from people who don't think and who don't read anything but the state and Zionist-owned idiot media. Bush and his gang are LIARS, plain and simple. --And if you bothered to look at some of the information which is freely available, you would not only recognize this, but also the fact that those lies are directly responsible for the current miserable state of the economy, and of War against straw-man villains.
When the axe falls, and it WILL, you sound like you're a ripe candidate for the 4th option, (the one I specifically decided not to mention last post); and that is, "Be one of the assholes shooting civilians."
How was it put. . . "The people would rather believe a simple lie than a complex truth."
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No it doesn't, I'm afraid. I wish it did, but this is in fact quite deliberate.
By seeing something as overt as this but letting it go, the public is subconsciously, (and not even very subconsciously at that), chosing to accept subserviance. The level of overt control is raised slowly, and the public lets it go at each level, until they have attained a completly defeated slave mentality.
The aim of the current war being waged by government against Americans is not to overtly defeat the populace. It's to lead the populace into a state of self-defeat.
That's how it works. --If they push too far with one attack, (Like this MATRIX shit), and the people start getting rowdy, then they'll immediately pull back and say, "Sorry, Sorry. Didn't mean it, we won't do it. --Well, except for maybe these little parts here and here." And then they'll try again in two weeks with something else. You cannot get them to stop, and you will not be able to find a rational agreement through legislation, because the enemy is not seeking balance; it is seeking total domination and it will not stop pushing and pecking until it has achieved its ends. The public, though dull-witted, is for the most part 'good and reasonable' which means that it will continue to act in good faith. Psychopaths, like Bush are not human and so they will never act in good faith. It's like a diode. The current goes in one direction only. You don't play cards with psychos.
There are exactly three responses one can take to this kind of tactic:
So of those three. . , which are you going to do?
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People were telling me I was stupid and paranoid when I was yelling about the US plans for world domination and fascist lock-down through a killing of the economy, through fake excuses for war, through rigged elections. --That was before Shrub got in power, before 9-11 and before Afghanistan. And Iraq. Before Patriot. Before Homeland Security.
Nothing has slowed down, my ostrich friend. Indeed, it's speeding up.
Wait, watch and learn. And try not to get shot.
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My sentiments exactly.
Only problem is that leaving the US fascist state will become increasingly difficult as the months progress. If you are the sort who doesn't like what is happening in the US, then your name is probably on a list. If your name is on a list, then there is an increasing probability that you will be stopped at a border crossing or airport.
It's only a matter of time before being stopped turns into being re-directed to a barbed-wire facility. --In Denver, perhaps?
The time to get out is NOW.
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I'm surprised at you people! And we gave you T-Shirts and everything!
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Yeah, okay. That is kinda cute.
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2. This moronic myth of the 'Troll' has been getting sillier of late. Just because a person doesn't agree with a poster's viewpoint doesn't automatically make that poster a 'Troll'. People deliberately posting to raise ire for purposes of Ego-boosting, are much fewer and further between than most people seem to believe. I have been labeled a 'Troll' more times than I can count, and I certainly do not have any Ego problems. I just don't like to waste my time posting to say, "Me Too". I post when I think I have an alternative viewpoint worthy of consideration, which, I dare say, is the whole point of networking. --What good is a forum if there is no effort to explore as many different viewpoints as can be brought to bear on a subject? Those who complain, are those who can't deal with any information which falls outside the boundaries of the school-of-fish mentality. These people often cry, 'Troll' rather than think or read what is written.
3. If people are going to go to the trouble of maintaining multiple on-line personalities which require near-daily upkeep, then those people are spending enormous effort. --I can spend a couple of *hours* at a sitting just using my single personality, (yes, just the one), in viewing all the various information/news sites I visit. I think the exercise you are concerned about is A) a LOT less exagerated in reality than you believe it to be, and B) a short lived practice among those who DO maintain many on-line personalities simply because of the level of effort required.
4. Do away with anonymity? Anonymity is a treasure. --It stops the drunken bar crowd from being able to pound you if you vote for the 'wrong' party. Anonymity is one of the most valuable assets of the Internet. In any case, even a stupid heckle from the peanut gallery can be a valuable indicator of public opinion. (Indeed, if you are a 'Troll' yourself right here with this very post, then SO WHAT? You've raised an interesting argument and I'm raising an appropriate response. There are more people who read here than you and I; people on all points of any number of learning curves. This exchange might actually be useful to somebody.) In any case, I notice that you posted anonymously yourself for this very article.
5. And finally. . . Who cares? Don't you have a scroll tab on your browser? Sheesh. Learn how to skim. I've NEVER had any problem picking out the "Signal" to the "Noise" on Slashdot or anywhere else I visit. Indeed, Slashdot remains, as it always has, a valuable source of information and measure of public reaction to whatever subject is being discussed.
You are over-reacting.
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In any case, extra heating (of the mouse), might be a help, as may be such herbal medicines as Ginko Bilboa, (which has been found effective in improving microcirculation to the head, hands and feet.), but I tend to think that if something is stress-related, then drugs and mechanical fixes are not as good overall as is examining the core problem.
There are lots of different ways to deal with stress and physiological stress responses. Typically, educating yourself, (a little All-The-Web searching or reading a book or two), is the best start. --Then try a few of the methods until you zero in on the core.
Heck. Maybe computers and small, picky work is causing you stress. Maybe you subconsciously know you're in the wrong place. Maybe you were supposed to be a Lumberjack. . . Swinging from tree to tree, singing. .
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We've seen this kind of marketing strategy before, but I don't think I can recall one where it has been deliberate. That is. . , "What will the new Computer/Car/Quake do!? The world wants to know!" -And, frankly, so does the company's PR department, because they've been ready to go since March, but nobody will tell them what the hell the product is suppoed to do, so they release what little they can when they can. As such, the whole exercise actually helps to ramp up the anticipation among the gear/tech/gamer heads.
Wonder if it'll work when they tell you up front that this is what they're doing. --Will people be offended by the manipulation or will they see it in the spirit of fun?
Other than that. .
A new game device. Oh joy. --Ooh, and one which has all the destructive qualities of microwave technology, but this time, in the hands of children with still developing brains. --Perhaps softening their brains with EM while they soften their brains with video crack will improve our odds of a smooth take-over of Humanity. (I think there may be a measure which is directly proportional to the amount of drool swinging from lax lips.)
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You are in for one HUGE rude awakening.
How do I put this. .
There have only been three countries which use the Eagle for its national symbol. The Roman empire, which was taken down by the Mongol hoards (Russia/Greater-Asia), Nazi Germany, where its back was broken in part by Russia, and a coalition of European and American forces. And now America, which also thinks it is invincible, and which will ALSO break its back on Asia.
I believe in patterns. Heck, even Nostrodamus saw this one coming, where he talked about globes of fire exploding from the heavens and the "yellow tide" covering the globe.
Since you (sort of) asked, the country I am from is Canada. And since you talk so mightily about how America comes riding to the aid of the impoverished, I'm going to remind you that Canada entered WWII a couple of YEARS before the US. --The US however, (in standard fashion), didn't enter the war until it had to, because it was busy making huge gobs of money selling arms and technology to the real combatants, (INCLUDING Nazi Germany!; Bush's grand dad made his family fortune selling to the Nazis. --He was hand-slapped for it after the war, but faced no real punishment. Typical. CNN won't have mentioned that.)
As for the Iraqi women kissing soldiers and all that good stuff. .
Sure. On day one. Sort of. (That statue falling and those cheering crowds, as any who searched a bit more deeply, would have discovered was a bit of clever photography and clever editing to make a small crowd of maybe 200 people look like thousands. But again, you'd have to dig a little to learn that, and those sold by state propaganda don't usually dig as a general rule.)
But honestly, you REALLY need to do some more reading about the current situation. The people shooting at US soldiers are NOT remnants of Saddam's military. They're regular people who hate the way they're being mis-treated, tortured, indiscriminately killed and generaly abused by their new masters. --Families who are pooling their resources to buy guns in order to protect their children and wives. There is no running water. There is no electricity. There is no public communications system, (Well, there WAS for a couple of days, until the US military told Betelco to shut down). There is no order in Iraq, because the US military is being horribly mismanaged. --Sure there are MANY well-meaning American soldiers over there who don't realize the true nature of the game they are caught in; most soldiers are just kids after all. But the real nature of the game is such that at the top levels, there is actually a desire for the chaos to remain.
--See, despite your arrogant words about US military might, despite your being saturated with propaganda, and despite your calous disrespect for the people of other nations or the deaths of civilians, you still talk with pride about wanting to help the world become a better place. As perverted and bent as you and your beliefs are as to how to achieve it, you still have the desire to be a good guy, and I respect that. Unfortunately, that is NOT how the people at the top of the power pyramid are motivated.
Chaos IS desired. American Death camps WILL come to exist as another push to wipe out all the Semitic (Jews and Arabs) peoples of the earth goes into full swing. Nazi Germany, as those in the know, realize, was a dry run. It was a test to see what could be gotten away with. The real game is only just beginning.
Though, as before, arrogance WILL be the Beast's undoing.
You think America is invincible?
Consider this: The Chinese have nukes. They have delivery systems. (They're planning a moon landing before the end of this very year.) They also have an army larger than the entire population of the United States. And that's before a draft! There aren't enough machine gun rounds to stop that kind of invasion force. (Just as the Nazis did not have enough r
How incredibly lame.
But definitions aside, let me add a few points in no particular order. .
1. Betelco, if it runs a clean operation, knows that it doesn't have a chance in hell to win such a contract. The British have only a 20% share in the company, and the rest is owned by Semitic interests, who we all know are terrorists and not white. No. That just won't do.
2. It's all about cell phones, which are nasty items anyway. So it hardly matters who puts them in; they're designed to deaden the minds of the populace. Not good.
3. I was not playing favorites; I was pointing out that the prime interest of the U.S. is money, not the welfare of the Iraqi people. --Betelco's Iraqi chief was hoping to hand out free cell phones to emergency crews, police, medical workers and other essential services in order to help get Bagdhad back under control. The simple fact that the US wants this plan shut down in order that 'proper bidding process' might be gone through, is evidence of exactly where U.S. priorities lie.
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--Or that Bush's prime directive was to 'Save those People'? I wonder what your naive excuse will be when your country takes out Syria, Iran, chunks of Africa, Korea, and then insanely hurls itself at China, (the mouse waking up the elephant.)
In any case, I suppose the fact that the Iraqis are sending a couple of U.S. boys home in bags every day is a sign that they truly appreciate their 'liberation'.
It'll be interesting to see how much you appreciate being 'liberated' when the world finally gets fed up with America and WWIII starts in earnest.
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What a nice world view. I wish it were true.
There is no desire to create a good system. There is only the desire to satisfy greed. If a working system were the only thing in question, then Betelco would not have been told to turn off its newly installed cell-phone network. --Betelco, a middle eastern cell-phone company, with hard-working gumption and a capitalist's initiative any American would be proud to be part of were it to take place in the U.S. of A., just invested about $5 million to install a new cell-phone network in Bagdhad. Two days ago, they flipped the switch, and residents of Bagdhad were back on-line with working cell-phones, restoring public access to basic electronic communications (which did indeed exist before the US savaged Bagdhad's entire infrastructure.)
But naturally, the corporate favored ones who were first in line to carve up the ripe and newly 'cleared' market, cried and whined. "No fair! No fair!" And so the American military 'urged' yesterday that Betelco discontinue their services.
People starving and dying in the streets? Screw that. There's due process to consider here!
In any case, we certainluy can't have some scruffy upstart (non-American) telco walk in and take the cake after all the hard work the U.S. and "coalition forces", (read: "imperial lackeys"), did to trash the existing infrastructure so that "healthy competition" could be implemented. Heavens no!
Mind you, there is going to be a conference and a tender bidding to see which telco giant will get the juicy contract, and apparently, the Americans only are only represented by one of the three firms bidding. Looks like a PR bullshit parade to me. Smart money is on the U.S. dominating the field. They have the most guns there, after all, and the most dead Iowan farm boys! To the victor the spoils. (Oh, but this was a war of "liberation". How DO I keep forgetting?)
Same is planned for energy, water and, well, all the various corporate money makers a modern western city comes equipped with. Fast food. Televisions, cars and gumball machines all made in the grand old U.S. of A. --(And all to be subsidized by Iraqi oil and the US taxpayers, naturally.)
Oh yes, the corporations love this deal. Too bad a modern city had to be leveled, and women, old folks, babies and children had to be sliced into juicy red ribbons with American flachette bombs and chaotic bullet storms fired by terrified American boys who had no clue what the hell they were doing in the middle of Bush-The-Liar's evil war. Why is it that the innocent always end up killing/being killed in these sickening ploys?
And this is just the gravy. --Sure, it's really all about world domination, but one simply cannot perform the magic without also lining one's pockets along the way. It's the American Way, after all.
And sadly, it really, really is.
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Please pardon me for not fact checking diligently enough before posting. My bad.
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Please pardon me for not fact checking diligently enough before posting. My bad.
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A couple of my friends are betting on Shrub hitting the 'Emergency' button and instigating a total lock-down of the U.S., suspension of all rights and the firing up of the 800 or so empty but staffed and waiting American concentration camps sitting idle around the nation. "Night of Long Knives" and all. .
While this IS planned, no doubt, I tend to feel (make that fevrently hope) that we're not quite there yet.
Here's a quote from a recent interview with Eustace Mullins. .
--Keeping in mind that 'Jewish Money' would more aptly be called 'Zionist Money'. Zionism doesn't have the best interests of the Jews at heart by a long shot!
Moderators. . . Please at least glance at the link info before you label this message 'Troll' (it's not. I don't have a deficient ego.) If you can't deal with this stuff, please get your fear levels under control rather than irresponsibly use your mod points. This stuff is here and it affects everybody. Cringing denial won't make it go away. Best to learn what it out there so that it can't hurt you.
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A whole book followed zealously by a big chunk of your empire? Hmm. Better make sure there's lots of 'Turn the other cheek' stuff in that book so that all those cultists are easier to control! (Among MANY other things.)
Christ's Flock? Sheep are fleeced or slaughtered or both. Yeah. Make me a sheep!
-FL Buddy Jesus is turning in his grave!
A couple of my friends are betting on Shrub hitting the 'Emergency' button and instigating a total lock-down of the U.S., suspension of all rights and the firing up of the 800 or so empty but staffed and waiting American concentration camps sitting idle around the nation. "Night of Long Knives" and all. .
While this IS planned, no doubt, I tend to feel (make that fevrently hope) that we're not quite there yet.
Here's a quote from a recent interview with Eustace Mullins
--Keeping in mind that 'Jewish Money' would more aptly be called 'Zionist Money'. Zionism doesn't have the best interests of the Jews at heart by a long shot!
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I don't remember, actually.
So does this mean that I'm the guy responsible for people in the U.K. having the thumbscrews tightened up on them another notch?
Sheesh. Sorry, guys!
Actually, I stopped shaving with blades altogether many years ago, so clearly this is a case of over-reaction. I don't know about Gillette, but fuck Bic, anyway. Cheep bastards! I know a past executive of that company who, back in the Seventies, got fired because he had a moral problem with planned obsolescence; Did you know that for abut two cents more per unit, it's possible to make razor blades that last 10x longer? --Which, according to the Fuck-The-Man-Rules-Of-Engagement, meant that to do the system proper justice, one had to keep track of the blades you stole, and pay for every 10th one. --Becase, you know, shoplifting without a rules set leads to savagry. I'm not a barbarian, after all.
Who the hell needs 5 blades? And those packages are simply bands of cardboard which leave the product exposed to the air, just begging people to make the most rational decision in the world, which is, of course, "But I only need one. These bastards are trying to screw me! Well, screw THEM! They'll never catch me! They put the magnetic strip on the cardboard, not the blades! Fools!"
--And look where this leads us. . ! To the creation of the exact atmosphere we're seeing here. One in which, a ridiculous over-reaction, with embedded chips and video cameras and all, can enter our reality on the wings of a somewhat reasonable-sounding argument. "But shoplifters!" --Yeah, because you're greedy assholes who make it too easy. What? Shrink wrapping would eat up another 2 cents profit? --Not to mention that you wouldn't even need to do that, if you would be so kind as to make a GOOD product and sell them ONE at a damned time!
Greed, folks! We all know it, and we all know where it's taking us. (WWIII and the borgification of humanity.) Now pardon me, but my thumbscrew needs oiling.
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And pardon me for saying, but until you work out a less offensive manner in which to approach the 'labor' on a project, you probably also need to work further on your writing skills. Understanding the why's and wherefore's of social graces is to understand the human condition. And if writers don't understand the human condition, they're no place.
But anyway. .
Unfortunately, most of the labour will never get the opportunity, nor will they be able to raise their own energy level to a point where they can begin to realize their ambitions. They usually end up by default, working for others. And this is where the media industry comes from.
Enter Machinima. Dirt cheep. Fast. Low quality.
Three things can happen;
1. The technically able people will FINALLY be able to work on their own projects.
2. The technically able people will see the low quality and say, "Pass."
3. The technically able will be faced again with having to come up with new excuses for their lack of motivation.
Now finally. .
If your work is amazing and provocative enough, then you should be able draw to you people who will be willing to set aside their own goals and who will want to work on yours; to make your goals their own. --But make no mistake; your work has to be big and bright, or you will only draw to you the lower-end of craftspeople. So get some of your stuff published. Get it out there. There are millions of ways. --Build a browsable webpage version of your world/s. Heck, if it's really that important to you, you might even consider learning some of the technical craft yourself.
There now. --Aren't you sorry you solicited advice from a legion of keyboard jockies?
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There are a Lot Of Sites which the lords of Google have cut from their search engine. And I'm not talking porn. (The proliferation of sex-obsession is actually encouraged due to its weakening effect upon individuals.) I'm talking about anything which holds any real weight and thereby pisses off the wrong people. --Or anybody who needs to be punished, are chopped from what has become the Internet's de-facto public eye. (Google.)
Easily done, too. Make a remarkable product. (Google was amazing when it began). Then corporatize it and hand over the strings to the bad men.
This isn't a joke. There are plenty of examples. My own websites are among them; won't list them here, because I can't afford the backlash of losing anonymity, but on the 'lesser' search engines they show up fine and dandy at the tops of the lists. The same was true on Google, until I crossed a couple of lines back when Iraq was taken by Bush and his gang of psychopaths. Google has since chopped ALL my sites despite the fact that they have nothing to do with my personal political views and various beliefs about how reality works.
There IS a war be waged to suppress human awareness. Those of us who have the balls to try to lift the curtain for others to see DO take damage.
Anyway, people should use All The Web if they want a search engine with teeth.
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Now where was I. . ?
Oh yes!
. . bastards!
-FL --Image nuke should come with a mouse-over + keyboard shortcut option.
What if there were power-mad lunatics in office who dreamed of a world where civil rights no longer existed; had even drafted proposals and suggestions as to how this could be achieved by, (this is true!), manufacturing Pearl Harbour type events so that they could ride the back-lash into a position where the public was ready to accept draconian re-writes to the laws?
Think I'm joking? Many of Bush's current cronies have written plans and proposals over the last few years of exactly this sort. Do some Googling. You'll find them, because some journalists are mad as hell. The evidence is all there for anybody brave enough to stare it in the face.
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