Even if you don't like the messages in the propaganda, it is atleast nice to see our government is moving with the times and using "modern mind control" to shape public opinion.
Always Remember that Propaganda is Mind Control!
All instutions will try to control your mind: family, business, education, government & religion. Be aware of that fact, make your decisions wisely, and encourage others to do the same.
Just wait for Propaganda to be billed a WMMC (Weapon of Mass Mind Control) and restricted for government use only.
I think 16 month is a little too young for educational video games. We went all out and bought our kids V-tech stuff. All the adults liked the toys; the kids could care less. I have a 3 and 5 year old. They mainly play 3 different games: Blue Clues (Education), Sponge Bob (God I hate SB), & Bob the Builder ( at least Bob can fix things, even if he is clueless about Wendy.) They enjoy playing Final Fanstany games after I've gotten to a point where the characters are near invicible.
They also loved Kingdom Hearts. I rented that one. It looks like we will end up buying it though.
It's been a long time since I've played a GB. I've not tried any of the new color or advanced versions. I remember the first GB was as armored as my TI-82, and very difficult to break. Of course, I didn't go around giving a $80 Graphing Cal. to a toddler for durability testing though.
Wal-mart needs to sell generic ink carts. They could get be "Equate" or "Great Value" and sell 'em for $15 to $20 bucks, and put them side by side of the "name brand" ink cartridge.
Hey, we all appericate his noble work for science. Many scientists have become ill studying new areas... of course they didn't know the dangers of what they were studying. This guy is using a tool that should have a warning label on it. I hope that he is following all the recommended safety precautions.
Good thing that I use the Equate version of Slim Fast. I drink 2 for breakfast and 1 for lunch... I omit the 30 min. of exercise though. Each can has about a third of all needed vitmains and minerals. Of course, I always wonder how much of those go down the toliet. Well, I mainly stick to it because it is cheaper and "healthier" than anything else I could pick for myself to eat for lunch. It's either that or McDonalds... Hey, I do spoil myself every now and then.
Well, books are words in a print. The value doesn't really change... Software... Have you seen any old software that could be resold at the original price to fill the original role? Maybe in 30 or 40 years, when we have an "unchanging standard" platform that is expected to stay that way for the next oh 50 - 100 years then we will see software written that could go out of fashion one decade, and come back another. Now, a days we just keep reinventing the same old wheels with new names.
But it's renewable, predictable, and would remove the sick political imperatives behind the distribution and availability of fossil fuels. As an added bonus, no more terrorists.
It would just transfer the political imperatives from overseas to our farmers. Generally, I think this a good thing. Political imperative will always be there. There will always be terrorists. As long as a government some where exists, there will be those that rebel against it. Oh, they may not be as well funded as the Middle Eastern kind, but they will still exist.
If it was my business, I'd want it in as many of my cars as possible. I'd also want a little camera in the steering wheel that would take a picture of who ever was driving the vechile, like an ATM machine that would start wirelessly transmitting ASAP when the car is reported stolen. You don't like it; don't try to steal it. Plain and simple. As far as monitoring the cars, you are renting them, not buying them.
Generally, I think this is a good thing. When I was in middle school, through HS, and into college, and now with a job, I had to carry an ID Card. Here at work there is an RFID tag in it that we can swipe infront of a few doors. It is easier then the mag. strips. MS, HS, & college all had barcodes. It worked well. My DL has a mag strip and a large 2d bar code. "Active Census" will be fun. Imagine having realtime data on the population. We will not have privacy. The only thing close to privacy will be what we keep locked in our head. Wait a few years, and they'll be able to read that as well.
Remember the tech. itself isn't good or bad. It is what "we" do with it. Alot of "good" can come of this. I would absolutly love to know where *everything* that I own is at all times. (That would elimate theft or make those that steal RFID goods be caught extremely easily.)
It is easy to miss use this as well. I'm surprised some one other than the US government hasn't sponsered an effort to seemlessly track everything and everyone yet. It is only a matter of time.
I honestly think that Wal-mart could take over the world with alittle proper planning. 90% of the goods I buy come from Wal-mart. My wife buys all her gas from them because it is cheaper and she is always going there. I go straight home from work so I fill up from a sightly more expensive place.
I think it would work. Imagine a Wal-mart/mini mall on the bottom with massive parking in front. You'd have that big park/ baseball field/ soccer field in back. (Wal-mart would have to sell school uniforms and sports uniforms.) There would be school in the second level and everything else would be apartments. If you could get solar panels over the parking lot, a recycling center, and water treatment plant on-site, you'd have a really good model for sustainable village.
Yeap, they do if your company uses AOL on as your companies ISP. Companies should have an IT person that can setup proper ISP things rather than depend on AOL. I'd be mighty surprised if your "business" consists of anything more than either messager spam or "messager spam" removal software.
He didn't include in newly required link so that we could all purchase the book through him so he'd get a commission. Come on people if you review a book remember to throw up a quicky Amazon link so you get a commission.
1. Write Book Review. 3. Add link to personal home page. 3. Post Review on Slashdot. 4. Make $.02 in comission from all the slashdot sales.
I personnally think some one should try building a Wal-mart Apartment complex. Just run down the stairs and buy whatever you need rather than drive 10-20 mins. Throw a school in there, and park on a side and those soccer moms won't ever have to leave Wal-mart.
The "world" will still depend on time. "Developed" first world nations won't. Basicly a new globaly encomny with come up with the Middle East and the "third" world on side, and advanced nations on the other. Plus you have to remember that he middle east has been taking in all that money. If they use it wisely, they should be o.k.
Oh, I never thought of it that way. If you combine that idea, with that small Nuclear reactor that was mentioned the other day, we could all be having "nuclear" powered cars! O.k. the Gas stations would be converted to Nuke stations, and they would just make H, but it would be the power source. Quick some one figure a way to recycle/clean "nuclear" waste and we are in the clear.
Does anyone know why the US does not have a system for aiding people in legal battles, and why when a motion in court is found to not be enforcable in law, does the person who brought the suit (and therefore a large monetary cost) to someone erroneously, does not have to pay
Since you are a foreigner I'll let you know, but you can't spread it around. We, the people, of the United States, are in the process of selling our souls to corporate interests. It is in the corporate interest for business to send a little legal form letter to an individual that could utter destory an individual's life.
Forget Iraq and hidden WMD, the RIAA has weapons of mass terror. You'd be terrorized if you recieved a little piece of paper that basicly said you have pay one commerce instution all your money or pay all your money to a lawyer that will attempt to fight it. Do you really think it is in the corporate interest for me to be able to fight? Nope. I have not as shot. Another business has a shot. But I as an individual am worthless legally without money/resources to back me.
Yes, but this is different. The farmers sign an agreement that they get to see upfront and can take a copy to their lawyer to look it over.
If a farmer wants to use my new handy dandy super magic seeds that produce 10x-100x as much as regular seeds, I'd sure want a legal contract stating that he'd get all his seeds from me or my autorized outlets.
Farmers have long used open sourced seeds to plant in their fields. (God was nice to not require us to pay roylaties. O.k. Maybe God did expect something in return.) They also breed plant varieties to improve strains.
Apple came out with the i-mac. Apple came out with the i-pod. Apple came out with the i-tunes.
How long until Apple comes out with a branded Cellphone/PDA? How long until Apple joines forces with Sony just so for PS4 Sony can put that cute Apple logo on the machine. (And they could reintroduce the Apple Stickers too so folks will buy more than one just for the stickers.)
And little did we know that those "big lizards" are actually fish that are running around on the ocean floor. I'm sure there are a ton of things we don't know about this planet. How long will take us to decide to start tracking all the members of these species with RFID tags? One day there will be a big computer that is monitoring us all... Of course there may already be a big computer monitoring us all that we don't know about. All it would take is some wave form emitted from each species that gets passed on to its young. Those super advanced aliens out there "could be" tracking us all if they cared to.
#3 & #4 are silly. I get no say about how any other citizen runs their life, so therefore I can't force a woman to give birth. And #4 is just scary from the 'evil clone army' point of view so to speak
You do get a say in how others run their lifes. You can lobby your rep. and they can pass laws. You can bug the hell out of friends and family, and they will either conform to your ideas or try to run. From the (Christian) religious stand point, you can go and "witness" or pray. If you have alot of money or a CEO of a mega busniess, you can use money to form laws and can change how laws are interpreted. (Lobbists and lawyers.) You have the say, wether anything gets done isn't really up to you though.
My personal opinion is that if the mother has the right to terminate the unformed fetus, she should also have to right to terminate the child at *any* point in its live span. (Logically it is not a big jump.) Hey, humans *like* killing infants/adults we always want *some one* removed from society.
By #3 I was thinking along the lines of others looking to adopt. If *any citizen* wants to spend the resources, to develop the human fine.
# 4, I wouldn't say ECA, I'd say citizens that owe their entire lives to the government. Knowing how humans operate though, you are right the labor pool would be used as a source of either virtual slave labor or expendable troops. Sad. If was also thinking if the government wants to start socializing young kids let 'em try. I hope it wouldn't work. I think if a government could successfully raise childern either USSR, China, Cuba, or North Korea would have been successful at it by now.
I think of Brave New World where basically every social instution is a factory model run by the government. I don't want it to happen, but a parts of it will sooner than we would like as well. (People are not parts of an organized machine, yet.)
I think it would be more "workable." Just to record finger print data on all new borns and at the time insert RFID tags in all appendages. You know each finger, each toe, each ear, the tongue, and sexual organs. Let's see 'em try to remove all of them.;) They'd have to be entirely passive or active and get energy from metabolic processes. We could start off passive and upgrade to active when the tech is ready. Now, I just need to become Global Dictator, and I'll have a method of global population monitoring.
I did you warn you they were overly simplistic solutions. I know Social Security will never be *fixed* unless it becomes an *undue burden* on the *working age group.* My overtime idea was more of a thought about making *your time* more valuable. I know that won't ever change unless it happened globally. I dream about being the global dictator. I know that it's not going to happen. My abortions *solution* was trying to come up with a *logical* answer, not just a *moral* answer. I basicly think that the Supreme Court was wrong. I'm not talking about the moral issue of terminating a life. I just think that only the *government* should have that right. O.k. how about this, an abortion concil that a woman has to get approval from. A few requirements should be that 1. She doesn't want it. 2. The father doesn't want it. 3. Any other citizen doesn't want it. 4. The government doesn't want it. 5. If all four conditions are true, terminate the life.
I'm adopted. I'm glad that "I" was given up rather than terminated.
I think the Supreme Court decision took the "power " to preserver life away from the state and gave it to a minor.
I was also trying to put some economic limits on it as well.
Actually, after going through college with a scholarship, I think that highschool and middle school would be better off and "cheaper." If the parents had a bill to pay if the student did not meet "scholarship" standards.:)
I'd have to flush out the idea alot more. I've always wanted to see what "education" really costs rather than all the taxes in the name of "education." That's just me though.
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Even if you don't like the messages in the propaganda, it is atleast nice to see our government is moving with the times and using "modern mind control" to shape public opinion.
Always Remember that Propaganda is Mind Control!
All instutions will try to control your mind: family, business, education, government & religion.
Be aware of that fact, make your decisions wisely, and encourage others to do the same.
Just wait for Propaganda to be billed a WMMC (Weapon of Mass Mind Control) and restricted for government use only.
I think 16 month is a little too young for educational video games. We went all out and bought our kids V-tech stuff. All the adults liked the toys; the kids could care less. I have a 3 and 5 year old. They mainly play 3 different games: Blue Clues (Education), Sponge Bob (God I hate SB), & Bob the Builder ( at least Bob can fix things, even if he is clueless about Wendy.)
They enjoy playing Final Fanstany games after I've gotten to a point where the characters are near invicible.
They also loved Kingdom Hearts. I rented that one. It looks like we will end up buying it though.
It's been a long time since I've played a GB. I've not tried any of the new color or advanced versions. I remember the first GB was as armored as my TI-82, and very difficult to break. Of course, I didn't go around giving a $80 Graphing Cal. to a toddler for durability testing though.
Wal-mart needs to sell generic ink carts. They could get be "Equate" or "Great Value" and sell 'em for $15 to $20 bucks, and put them side by side of the "name brand" ink cartridge.
Hey, we all appericate his noble work for science. Many scientists have become ill studying new areas... of course they didn't know the dangers of what they were studying. This guy is using a tool that should have a warning label on it. I hope that he is following all the recommended safety precautions.
Good thing that I use the Equate version of Slim Fast. I drink 2 for breakfast and 1 for lunch... I omit the 30 min. of exercise though. Each can has about a third of all needed vitmains and minerals. Of course, I always wonder how much of those go down the toliet. Well, I mainly stick to it because it is cheaper and "healthier" than anything else I could pick for myself to eat for lunch. It's either that or McDonalds... Hey, I do spoil myself every now and then.
Well, books are words in a print. The value doesn't really change...
Software... Have you seen any old software that could be resold at the original price to fill the original role?
Maybe in 30 or 40 years, when we have an "unchanging standard" platform that is expected to stay that way for the next oh 50 - 100 years then we will see software written that could go out of fashion one decade, and come back another. Now, a days we just keep reinventing the same old wheels with new names.
But it's renewable, predictable, and would remove the sick political imperatives behind the distribution and availability of fossil fuels. As an added bonus, no more terrorists.
It would just transfer the political imperatives from overseas to our farmers. Generally, I think this a good thing. Political imperative will always be there. There will always be terrorists. As long as a government some where exists, there will be those that rebel against it. Oh, they may not be as well funded as the Middle Eastern kind, but they will still exist.
If it was my business, I'd want it in as many of my cars as possible. I'd also want a little camera in the steering wheel that would take a picture of who ever was driving the vechile, like an ATM machine that would start wirelessly transmitting ASAP when the car is reported stolen.
You don't like it; don't try to steal it. Plain and simple. As far as monitoring the cars, you are renting them, not buying them.
Generally, I think this is a good thing. When I was in middle school, through HS, and into college, and now with a job, I had to carry an ID Card. Here at work there is an RFID tag in it that we can swipe infront of a few doors. It is easier then the mag. strips. MS, HS, & college all had barcodes. It worked well. My DL has a mag strip and a large 2d bar code. "Active Census" will be fun. Imagine having realtime data on the population. We will not have privacy. The only thing close to privacy will be what we keep locked in our head. Wait a few years, and they'll be able to read that as well.
Remember the tech. itself isn't good or bad. It is what "we" do with it. Alot of "good" can come of this. I would absolutly love to know where *everything* that I own is at all times. (That would elimate theft or make those that steal RFID goods be caught extremely easily.)
It is easy to miss use this as well. I'm surprised some one other than the US government hasn't sponsered an effort to seemlessly track everything and everyone yet. It is only a matter of time.
I honestly think that Wal-mart could take over the world with alittle proper planning. 90% of the goods I buy come from Wal-mart. My wife buys all her gas from them because it is cheaper and she is always going there. I go straight home from work so I fill up from a sightly more expensive place.
I think it would work. Imagine a Wal-mart/mini mall on the bottom with massive parking in front. You'd have that big park/ baseball field/ soccer field in back. (Wal-mart would have to sell school uniforms and sports uniforms.) There would be school in the second level and everything else would be apartments. If you could get solar panels over the parking lot, a recycling center, and water treatment plant on-site, you'd have a really good model for sustainable village.
Yeap, they do if your company uses AOL on as your companies ISP. Companies should have an IT person that can setup proper ISP things rather than depend on AOL. I'd be mighty surprised if your "business" consists of anything more than either messager spam or "messager spam" removal software.
He didn't include in newly required link so that we could all purchase the book through him so he'd get a commission. Come on people if you review a book remember to throw up a quicky Amazon link so you get a commission.
1. Write Book Review.
3. Add link to personal home page.
3. Post Review on Slashdot.
4. Make $.02 in comission from all the slashdot sales.
I personnally think some one should try building a Wal-mart Apartment complex. Just run down the stairs and buy whatever you need rather than drive 10-20 mins. Throw a school in there, and park on a side and those soccer moms won't ever have to leave Wal-mart.
The "world" will still depend on time. "Developed" first world nations won't. Basicly a new globaly encomny with come up with the Middle East and the "third" world on side, and advanced nations on the other. Plus you have to remember that he middle east has been taking in all that money. If they use it wisely, they should be o.k.
Oh, I never thought of it that way. If you combine that idea, with that small Nuclear reactor that was mentioned the other day, we could all be having "nuclear" powered cars! O.k. the Gas stations would be converted to Nuke stations, and they would just make H, but it would be the power source. Quick some one figure a way to recycle/clean "nuclear" waste and we are in the clear.
Does anyone know why the US does not have a system for aiding people in legal battles, and why when a motion in court is found to not be enforcable in law, does the person who brought the suit (and therefore a large monetary cost) to someone erroneously, does not have to pay
Since you are a foreigner I'll let you know, but you can't spread it around. We, the people, of the United States, are in the process of selling our souls to corporate interests. It is in the corporate interest for business to send a little legal form letter to an individual that could utter destory an individual's life.
Forget Iraq and hidden WMD, the RIAA has weapons of mass terror. You'd be terrorized if you recieved a little piece of paper that basicly said you have pay one commerce instution all your money or pay all your money to a lawyer that will attempt to fight it. Do you really think it is in the corporate interest for me to be able to fight? Nope. I have not as shot. Another business has a shot. But I as an individual am worthless legally without money/resources to back me.
Yes, but this is different. The farmers sign an agreement that they get to see upfront and can take a copy to their lawyer to look it over.
If a farmer wants to use my new handy dandy super magic seeds that produce 10x-100x as much as regular seeds, I'd sure want a legal contract stating that he'd get all his seeds from me or my autorized outlets.
Farmers have long used open sourced seeds to plant in their fields. (God was nice to not require us to pay roylaties. O.k. Maybe God did expect something in return.) They also breed plant varieties to improve strains.
You'd like to supervise the lawyers in that company while they procreate?
Apple came out with the i-mac.
Apple came out with the i-pod.
Apple came out with the i-tunes.
How long until Apple comes out with a branded Cellphone/PDA?
How long until Apple joines forces with Sony just so for PS4 Sony can put that cute Apple logo on the machine. (And they could reintroduce the Apple Stickers too so folks will buy more than one just for the stickers.)
Be devious.
Be evil.
Profit!!
It's even been proposed that there are still over 50 large (not bacteria sized) parasites on humans that have never been entered into a textbook.
I feel sorry for those poor grad students going out to "find" those missing parasites.
And little did we know that those "big lizards" are actually fish that are running around on the ocean floor. I'm sure there are a ton of things we don't know about this planet. How long will take us to decide to start tracking all the members of these species with RFID tags? One day there will be a big computer that is monitoring us all... Of course there may already be a big computer monitoring us all that we don't know about. All it would take is some wave form emitted from each species that gets passed on to its young. Those super advanced aliens out there "could be" tracking us all if they cared to.
Someone at Sony needs to grow a sack, and tell these PC assholes to shove it.
Sony may not want to BE the next target though.
#3 & #4 are silly. I get no say about how any other citizen runs their life, so therefore I can't force a woman to give birth. And #4 is just scary from the 'evil clone army' point of view so to speak
You do get a say in how others run their lifes. You can lobby your rep. and they can pass laws.
You can bug the hell out of friends and family, and they will either conform to your ideas or try to run.
From the (Christian) religious stand point, you can go and "witness" or pray.
If you have alot of money or a CEO of a mega busniess, you can use money to form laws and can change how laws are interpreted. (Lobbists and lawyers.)
You have the say, wether anything gets done isn't really up to you though.
My personal opinion is that if the mother has the right to terminate the unformed fetus, she should also have to right to terminate the child at *any* point in its live span. (Logically it is not a big jump.) Hey, humans *like* killing infants/adults we always want *some one* removed from society.
By #3 I was thinking along the lines of others looking to adopt. If *any citizen* wants to spend the resources, to develop the human fine.
# 4, I wouldn't say ECA, I'd say citizens that owe their entire lives to the government. Knowing how humans operate though, you are right the labor pool would be used as a source of either virtual slave labor or expendable troops. Sad.
If was also thinking if the government wants to start socializing young kids let 'em try. I hope it wouldn't work. I think if a government could successfully raise childern either USSR, China, Cuba, or North Korea would have been successful at it by now.
I think of Brave New World where basically every social instution is a factory model run by the government. I don't want it to happen, but a parts of it will sooner than we would like as well.
(People are not parts of an organized machine, yet.)
I think it would be more "workable." Just to record finger print data on all new borns and at the time insert RFID tags in all appendages. You know each finger, each toe, each ear, the tongue, and sexual organs. Let's see 'em try to remove all of them. ;) They'd have to be entirely passive or active and get energy from metabolic processes. We could start off passive and upgrade to active when the tech is ready. Now, I just need to become Global Dictator, and I'll have a method of global population monitoring.
I did you warn you they were overly simplistic solutions. I know Social Security will never be *fixed* unless it becomes an *undue burden* on the *working age group.* My overtime idea was more of a thought about making *your time* more valuable. I know that won't ever change unless it happened globally. I dream about being the global dictator. I know that it's not going to happen.
:)
My abortions *solution* was trying to come up with a *logical* answer, not just a *moral* answer. I basicly think that the Supreme Court was wrong. I'm not talking about the moral issue of terminating a life. I just think that only the *government* should have that right. O.k. how about this, an abortion concil that a woman has to get approval from. A few requirements should be that
1. She doesn't want it.
2. The father doesn't want it.
3. Any other citizen doesn't want it.
4. The government doesn't want it.
5. If all four conditions are true, terminate the life.
I'm adopted. I'm glad that "I" was given up rather than terminated.
I think the Supreme Court decision took the "power " to preserver life away from the state and gave it to a minor.
I was also trying to put some economic limits on it as well.
Actually, after going through college with a scholarship, I think that highschool and middle school would be better off and "cheaper." If the parents had a bill to pay if the student did not meet "scholarship" standards.
I'd have to flush out the idea alot more. I've always wanted to see what "education" really costs rather than all the taxes in the name of "education." That's just me though.