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Yes, when all the digits reset to zero the next binary digit (to the left) is set representing a decimal 1024... keeping this (1024) in memory, I continue to use the original 10 (intentional) position digit counting system until....
You said, "(FBI) they're also supposed to be looking for people in the U.S. engaged in criminal activity that is not really supposed to be the province of the federal government?"
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is chartered by the USA Government to investigate all interstate (physical/internet...) crimes, organized crime, terrorist activities... [ http://www.fbi.gov/hq.htm ] go to their website and read. The FBI has the lead in almost all "Domestic Interstate and Federal" threats/crimes investigation and prevention.
The "Real Professionals" in Military and Government Service (especially field personnel) have my thanks and respect for all they are doing.
FBI politicized "executives/bosses" are among the biggest (Military "Career First" GO, State Department OJT, Homeland Defense popinjays, Justice Department Spinsters, Executive Department Story Tellers...) failures of the USA Government. Chaos theory should apply to the politicized "executives/bosses" creating a critical avalanche of failures that could eventually overwhelm the proportionally few remaining real "executives/bosses" Professionals in the USA Government. Then the politicized "executives/bosses" will blame the "Real Professionals" and degrade the efforts further.
The "Real Professionals" in Military and Government Service (especially field personnel) are not failing our National Interest. Our Field Personnel are exceptional and would have prevented (I believe) 9-11 and the NOLA catastrophe, killed Bin Laden and all the top terrorist leaders.... The "Real Professionals" in Military and Government Service have been oppressed, fired, and forced to retire or accept political "Ass-kissing", "Dogma-sucking", and "Delusion-puking" as SOP in the USA Government.
It all started in Congress, now it is in the Whitehouse, and finally include the politicization of the Supreme Justice of the land. Just what we don't fycking need politicized "executives/bosses". In times of National Emergency our politicized "executives/bosses" are advocating Corporate-Welfare, Religious Mythology Policy, Plutocratic Fools' Doctrine....
I you, in these times, believe any politician (including a parent) is telling the truth, working or the Public Good, and defending US Citizen freedoms, justice, and posterity for our grand-children, then you are a fool, uneducated, and/or mentally ill.
Would it be legal to bet on which politician annually is identified as the worse politician in the United States? Would it be legal to bet on which politician will wipe their ass with The USA Constitution and Citizens next?
If Vegas could come up with odds and fair-games that could tally nationally and internationally the worse/best "in office" politician... I would damn sure start voting again with a few bets in Vegas.
I mean, I think, we can't legally sell our vote or bet on elections; However, our votes (most of the time) count on the basis of the amount of money expended by the elected official; so, why not have betting pools that pays out every year on criminal a/o poor-performance politicians. On December 31 we could place our votes/IP and/or credit card name/address, then be given an option to make our bet on any elected federal politician. The vote counts, but the payout is proportional to the winners who pick the biggest looser politician in Washington DC (on pool national another international) all US Citizens could vote twice. Then on Jan 01, the losers would be announced to the public.
Well anyway, it would be as democratic as anything else today in the USA [got money, place a bet!].
I need no source to state rain is wet or that politicians (many not all) are corrupt and amoral.
I suspect that you would not notice rain is wet, and you would remain standing in the rain till struck by lightning.
PLEASE, always note my sig-quote: "Reality is self-induced hallucination." It is my way of saying; I may not, and you may not be suffering from the same mass-hysteria.
That I think you're an idiot for attempting to sound dogmatically-smart by requesting source and evidence, when source and evidence is something you would reject if it conflicted with your limited understanding of reality, but you would be in excellent company with Bush, Chaney, Hitler, Goring, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Chang....
NOTE: I may be wrong and you may not be an idiot, but I think, I am right, you do not see what a frail, weak, and meaningless species we are in relationship to everything. When we go extinct, we will be at fault for allowing self-serving leaders to self-destruct everything that humanity has achieved.
If George Bush decides god told him to (when it was Chaney wishing and whispering) press the button, the repercussions is all our fault from Tokyo, to Moscow, to Mecca, to Johannesburg, to Berlin, to London, to Quebec, San Diego, to New Orleans, to NYC, to Washington DC... and George, US, EU... will suffer the consequences. Okay, it ain't the fycking button... it is global warming, cancerous chemicals, German/Cambodia/Africa... Genocide. Humanity has some great and wonderful art, science, stories, hopes and dreams, philosophies... all that can end because of a greedy and delusional plutocracy supported by dogmatist that suspect they are intelligent, because they can memorize then regurgitate/parrot/ape political, mythology, economic, doctrine....
Next time show me you are intelligent and think for yourself, or go-pound-salt and give Bush a BJ in the O. Source and evidence abounds, you and others chose to ignore/deny at great peril to all and posterity.
Of course you can just wave and call me a doomsday nut... a few years ago I stopped saying I told you so, it ain't fun no more.
All our politicians favor a Corporate Welfare/Socialist Economy like communism.
Communism was social theory applied to economics governing. Corporatism is economic theory applied to society/culture governing. Either way it is a plutocracy/oligarchy but not Capitalism or Democracy.
So, Capitalism, Democracy, People, Patriotism, god, values... are all spun to political agenda-crap demagoguery. No meaning, all truthyness, complete special interest dogma by the few to oppress the many. Sounds like governments of 3 millennium ago.... Who could possibly believes in evolution there must be a cruel god playing war and hope as practical jokes.
FOLLOW THE WEALTH VALUES, because there are no ethics, moral, and justice values for corporatist/plutocrats, just greed-value for those fools/losers. Without honor, ethics... you are a fool and loser... just like King George.
King George and the corporatist aristocracy depend on net-nepotism. Only US Citizens support Net-neutrality for capitalism and advancements in quality of life, education, democracy.
Animats (I believe) is a con-artist for hire MS-Lobbyist, Vorizon, RIAA.... It is amazing how many are on/. and other blog/social websites. It is big-business paying pseudo-authority figures to act like they are knowledgeable on topic they are clearly clueless about and hawk wares of questionable value like Vista. DRM is one of the large problems with all MS-applications like MS-Office and Adobe-PDF does not work for DRM and/or longterm (multi-decades) content management.
The "Open-File-Formats" PNG (graphics), SXW (text), SXC (spreadsheet), SXI (presentation), ODT (text), ODS (spreadsheet), ODP (presentation)... are required. When law is used to make anything illegal for corporate profit and not public benefit... I call it theft and fraud, and this time it is the content black hole of no (or expensive) recovery.
Who in their right mind would want to use proprietary formats to eSign, password and/or encrypt protect, then try to recover the data 10 or 20 years later for legal reasons. Trying to keep the content portable over five years with proprietary applications is already a nightmare of unimaginable proportions.
Anyway, you are correct, I have no problem using any media files on GNU/Linux OS and applications. Work media-files are all in a MS-format and I open and use them at home with little or no problem... without breaking any MS-Laws or DRM-Laws. Should we tell Animats about Wine, SAMBA, Crossover... or leave the idiot in the dark.
I am not opposed to MS products, I am opposed to anti-capitalist corporate-welfare/monopoly tactics made legal by idiots in our government listening to scam artist corporate-lobbyist. Look at the FCC management idiots that believe OSS is more insecure than proprietary... MS software... "Obscurity Security (ObSec)" is proof of stupidity in government. Even DOD rejects ObSec these days... I wish the FCC, Congress, CIA... would get on the moving bandwagon of real progress (it ain't MS) in technology. MS is just the poster child for anti-capitalist corporate-welfare/monopolies in the USA and EU. When ghost-lobbyist call everyone MS bashers, they are totally wrong, because I am (as always) pro-capitalist economy and anti-Luddite.
I agree, "Catholic churches are an El Dorado for pedophiles and predators."
Also, I know from friends back 30 years ago the Methodist, Jewish, Islam, Baptist, Lutheran, Mormon... "are an El Dorado for pedophiles and predators." Parents need to be aware that when their kids are at a religious location/function that there is an equal (I think) chance of pedophiles and predators injuring their child.
I have believed for decades, that the reduction in people attending church/temple/mosque... around the world is due to parents being abused by pedophiles and predators in religious places. We tend to avoid places (whether we recall or not) where we were harmed emotionally/mentally as a child. It would explain why many folks stay at home and watch/donate to televangelist, it ain't like there ain't a church around the corner in the USA.
US NEWS covers catholics/jews, because they are the easiest, safest, and most sensational television stories/targets in the USA. I mean look at the Jim and Tammy Baker types in the televangelist media. I am sure we are only seeing the tip of the metaphorical/proverbial iceberg, but if the media investigate (tracked down the sick SOBs in other religions) and adults would come forward..., I suspect we would find a much larger problem than any one wants to know about or deal with today/tomorrow. Look at Congress, prisons....
If I had children, they would not attend any religious or political location/school/function... without me always present to protect them.
You would figure after more than a decade (maybe two) of proving the stupidity of "Security Through Obscurity (STO)" [proprietary software OS/apps/products, voting machines...] that all government managers globally would know that STO is a damn dumb highly insecure positions for everything. In WWI, maybe WWII STO had some benefit, but today STO is a position for any idiot (in government, business, religion...) to take and make their own before being retired with cause.
REMEMBER: Government/Business workers are not the problem, but the higher the stupid management the bigger the problems for natural disasters, security, cost.... Consider present conditions no exception for today or tomorrow, due to friend/family nepotism.
Reply: Finally, someone that understands MS Lawyers and Mr. Gates, you must be the Sheriff of Nottingham. At least you appear not to be one of those treasonous subversive Welfare-Corporatist corrupting democracy and capitalism in the USA.
Don't worry, I am just deep sea fishing?
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Who said (or something like); "Mission First, Safety Always unless it conflicts with Mission"?
If you are taught to kill, then maybe you will live long enough too do some other less important stuff like fuck and drink whatever is available.
Whoops, I am off-topic again, but this does relate to the cousin Bin Laden comment? . . . __Remember: Learn to takeoff and fly, and god will take care of the rest.
A few folks mentioned the Linux community fragmentation as problematic?
What some would call fragmentation is a dynamic strength to innovation and creativity. The fragmentation is lacking in MS, Adobe, Oracle... all like DOD, Congress, Ford, GM... are monolithic structured institutions. They are all legacy/Luddite business models of the industrial imperialism economic expansion. They are all dysfunctional in the present global expansionist economy. Oligarchic/Totalitarian business/government architectures lack ability to change manage fast enough to for efficient growth and performance. In the past these legacy institutions would accumulate great wealth, then during down-markets buy (at a non-inflated price) small more innovative, creative, and dynamic entrepreneurial startups to bolster product line and appear competitive when the market improves. Repeated failures by the big institutions to create, sustain, and maintain collaborative community commons indicates a dieing institution, not healthy community organizations.
Anyway GNU, KDE... RedHat, Ubuntu... OpenOffice, Ant... Firefox, Opera... Thunderbird, Evolution...... are not fragments, they are the same youthful and dynamic community that continue to do far more with far less, than any legacy institution. MS, Adobe, Oracle... all like DOD, Congress, Ford, GM... RIAA-DMCA... all wish they could slow down or even stop the Global Open Communities, but this will remain a failure in progress.
No it was not Ron's SDI plan to defend earth from us No it was not FDR's Lend-Lease plan for EU No it was not JFK's Domino/Containment plan you No it was not Bush's Fear-oppression plan for US YES! It was George C Marshall's "European Recovery Plan" [AKA: The Marshall Plan]
Folks it really is all about economics and education to create or waste for the very-long-run.
The past few to many decades we have waste economics for prophet (I know) and greed, but not for democracy and freedom from fear of our leaders and the demons they create in the world and themselves.
Again nothing new, industrial age economics which support corporate welfare is good for plutocratic corporatist/politicians and FUS citizens. This will provide a catastrophic legal penalty/fine for internet-radio, the SOS for telcos over the last 20 years, IPR for the last 30 years.... The purpose of Corporatist-Government Economics is to provide welfare funding for US/other corporations with customer-hostage holding, price gouging legacy oil infrastructure, heist-priced healthcare, credit-card and loan pillaging of lower income communities.... Well anyway it is a very peaceful nonviolent totalitarian terrorism for US... we love it... or we would always vote the incumbent out of office permanently.
The new royalties, as best I understand, are based on the number of times a music/product is broadcast to any customer. IOW, sort of like: AM/FM/XM... one broadcast to many customers (1*100=100), but internet radio a broadcast/multicast... occurs for each destination IP address (100*100=10,000); So, if my analogy is correct at what ever proportion, then internet radio could not possibly afford the royalties and they are out-of-business.
Unless, internet radio limits their broadcast to open-content and old (no IPR) music and other open-biz concepts, and start looking and booking open-music artist in new creative venues and concerts. Well then maybe eventually the legacy music companies that pirate and pillage music from young and new artist would eventually go out-of-biz. We Can Hope!
Yes, I am predisposed to being offended by subjects that provide jobs and present no value (my opinion) beyond talking points for historical dogmatic failure agendas. This intent for me was obvious, the author may have expressed other plausible spun-intent.
The great divide exist for US and many other around the world. We know what works for the white-collar will work for the blue-collar to produce business/government Presidents/leaders, but we maintain the divide in the USA, EU, India, China..., due to delusional beliefs in living false-prophets and pseudo-leaders and/or debased self-serving moral spun-imperatives.
NOT fycking likely, CDs/DVDs will remain until a significant (~80%) majority of the public has +2MB/Sec bandwidth to the home. The USA at present will be about the 20th to 30th country to have +2MB/Sec bandwidth to the home. I expect this level of telecommunications services (~80%) to USA homes will be about 2025ce (due to bandit-pricing), unless Congress and Corporatist cause further easy-money customer-hostage (RIAA, FCC, FTC, DMCA, Telcos...) delays and corporatist/politician excuses.
The USA today ranks 20th in telecommunications, and 30th in heathcare..., our faux-leaders' predilection for business, government, and religion dogma which provides plausible [treasonous] spin-truth lies for corruption and amorality for the ruling/privileged few, will always fails US Citizens and humanity.
NOTE: It ain't their fault, can only be honestly applied to non-USA citizens. We need to accept all responsibility for creating this vapid aristocracy of wealth and birth rights in the USA. Our USA revolutionary founding fathers, mothers, and family would all be extremely disappointed in all US for the mess our disgustful greed and pretense pride. We have all rested, far to long, on our WWII and historical founders' wreaths of laurel without delivering any new building material for our children's destiny and National Security.
"Viewing American class divisions through MySpace and Facebook social websites." "Viewing American class divisions through Public and Private schools." "Viewing American class divisions through Poverty and Wealth socio-economics." "Viewing American class divisions through Occupational and Recreational sex." "Viewing American class divisions through Compact and Luxury transportation." "Viewing American class divisions through Emergency Room and Private Room hospitalization." "Viewing American class divisions through Court Appointed and Personally Retained legal representation." "Viewing American class divisions through... ad nauseam... for US, EU, India, China, Russia, Japan, Korea... as I said ad nauseam." Therefor/So, WTF/BFD class division is an observable social phenomenon indicating a single problem of humanity to treat other individuals as groups and prove social silliness/iniquity by using pseudo-science/religion/politics....
I am far better educated, with a higher IQ than GWBush (who is President of the USA), but my education is far less recognized in any part of the USA or Europe than that of VP Chaney and many politicians in the DC area. I could never of been President, but I do not doubt that there are orphan kids, kids from poor families, and folks on MySpace a/o FaceBook that could be (IF) in a truly democratic, honorable, and free-society would make far better Presidents than any president that occupied the Whitehouse after FDR and Harry.
Representations of the class divide in American youth, pay, insurance, health, education... indicates a great nation in decline, our cohesion and homogeneity of national purpose and destiny are crippled. The Real Character of our USA youth is not on any goddamn website, college campus, in a mansion.... Our Best Youth Today are on the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Life all learning reality, lessons, value.... The value of a human life is not in blood/wealth or website, some plutocratic fools would like US to think that birthright and wealth have real value to humanity and history. Most of US are not fools, but some of our leaders are insults to all that is good and right with humanity.
Question: How will the USPO control paid web-lobbyist from posting spin-agenda that corrupts discovery?
Over the last five years, I have noticed a significant increase in what I call lurking-lobbyist presenting very reasonable spin-agenda with pseudo-evidence. Some stuff would test the ability of investigative [AKA: muck-racking] news reporters.
Paid "lurking-lobbyist" appears to be big business. I have no proof of "lurking-lobbyist" on/., digg, CNN, Yahoo!, Google..., but I have at times noticed that there appears to be a sort of coincidental cluster-postings and ratings on some political/business topics that leave me with a strong sense of disbelief.
I mean, it was easy to corrupt government and democracy in the USA without much fan fair and notice by the public. Could the same be happening on major websites?
Could corporatist demagoguery be skewing web-content (as happened to print/broadcast news) into agenda-appropriate manipulative content for public consumption?
This (in the past) was called a peaceful banana republic coup,... when a few privileged greedy people conspired to subversively/overtly topple/overthrow their populist democratic government for their special greedy, military, religious... interest.
In the USA, there was a time that this was called TREASON!
The old gray (US) dame, just ain't what she use to be, work her to death daily, put her away wet, and buy/steal the next one another day.
VOTE THEM ALL OUT ALWAYS, or hang'em for treason, the entertaining spectacle will be of great interest and attendance for US.
Don't worry everything is okay with US, and I am crazy, but smiling and laughing all the way to the bank (stock market). Whoops, as proof, I originally posted this in the wrong place. Don't worry the moderators let me know with many -offtopic points.
This keeps Linux out of the office, schools..., by making sure businesses buying Dell cannot get GNU/Linux/OSS. If I were to provide a winning proposal for installing (as a prime contractor) and supporting for a couple years, and I was costing cheap Dell computers preloaded with OSS to meet the contract requirements, then this could be a very costly mistake to make. If I made this whoops, it would be my costly mistake, not Dell/MS.
Always make sure who and what you are dealing with.
I wounder if MS & Dell know why/how computers migrated from the home environment into the office environment, and eventually on everyones' desk. Maybe they should ask others maybe older and far wiser then themselves, like Jobs at Apple, RHS at GNU/FSF....
SUMMARY: I think, only trusting and misinformed folks will potentially buy Dell and MS products.
Not Czars=Ceasar NotNot who's there? I don't know, Who? Who's the guy in the picture with Bush in China? Putin Bush is in the other picture in Russia. I don't know, who is putin in a bush in Russia or China in a picture. At least a picture doesn't stink up everyplace making it unbearable, and unlivable.
I hope there is never a passport required to leave this earth. I keep my towel close, my thumb up, and my beer mug full... hoping to escape before any other elections.
REMEMBER, I am an old guy..., I don't know what I am hearing or saying these days (THANKS god!)
GNU/Linux/Open Knights of Quixote; you are charged to bravely defend freedom from the crass tyranny of global corporatist oppression. They use human, culture, art, science, democracy, and economy terms spun 180 degrees from any reasonable meaning and/or truth.
With intent to harm; these political, corporatist, religious plutocrats, and their unclean and unleashed semi-literate hate rabid followers are now rising upon their; metaphorical, "hoofed hind haunches" and seeking to enslave and aggressively destroy human curiosity, creativity, and human expectations of survival for all future children of Gaia.
None are as blind and/or evil, as those who cannot see the analogous invasion and subjugation of government by anti-capitalist corporatist and anti-christ religious. For the foreseeable; future, the rights of humanity are at an end in this world, the honorable forces of freedom are falling to the evil forces of corporatist institutionalized tyranny in governments globally.
I grievously regret that all will not be over for most of US or EU quickly..., our self-induced end will come torturously slow.
All is DOOMED, prepare yourself, no need to repent, god recently died again, heaven is filled to overflowing with Christians, Moslems, and a few Jews [NO MORE ROOM!]. Also, there are cold-eternal-full free-beer keg at the party in hell for anyone requesting, THANK GOD for sensible and reasonable options.
The hell of it is there are no glasses/mugs or straws and cups... you must drink beer from the 5 liter pitchers or the tap [BOTTOMS UP!].
For those that do not understand, how this relates, GNU/Linux and the Open community are about freedom and responsibility to humanity, and MS Gates is a corporatist plutocrat. What do you want to be today?
I dumped my suse, I won't buy dell, this past weekend Ubuntu is up for my computers, and I first used Red Hat in 1997. | THANKS to the good folks and leaders of Red Hat, Ubuntu, and everyone in the Global Open Source Community.
This (in the past) was called a peaceful banana republic coup,... when a few privileged greedy people conspired to subversively/overtly topple/overthrow their populist democratic government for their special greedy, military, religious... interest.
In the USA, there was a time that this was called TREASON!
The old gray (US) dame, just ain't what she use to be, work her to death daily, put her away wet, and buy/steal the next one another day.
VOTE THEY ALL OUT ALWAYS, or hang'em for treason, the entertaining spectacle will be of great interest and attendance for US.
Don't worry everything is okay with US, and I am crazy, but smiling and laughing all the way to the bank (stock market).
This is corporatist welfare economics. Like the RIAA/DMCA/... US citizens are persecuted, until proved innocent.
If companies can not control/secure their resources/assets, then they need to go out of business. Persecuting the innocent for proof of innocent, or make additional welfare payments to support a Bad-Biz model is the real crime to a democratic nation and a capitalist economy. The more BadBiz models (with Government permission/protection) being persecuted and requiring innocent customers to prove innocence, honor, and honesty the less the USA is FREE, DEMOCRATIC, CAPITALIST. IOW: Stop the persecution, fyck all plutocrat corporatist and their welfare BadBiz models.
One corporatist welfare BadBiz model that reminds me of the old 1950/60s mafia loan sharks is the present credit card rates today. However, that may be due to inflation (think about it... "percentage"). Today annual mafia percentage is 100% plus, but balloon-loans that take the money and the property are close to the mafia rates. In the USA we now call all this good ethical, honest, and open Biz/Gov models/laws/...FUS. Yes, like the acronym FUS corporatist, plutocrats, politicians...
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Yes, when all the digits reset to zero the next binary digit (to the left) is set representing a decimal 1024 ... keeping this (1024) in memory, I continue to use the original 10 (intentional) position digit counting system until ....
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who know binary counting and those who don't.
If you were a shepherd, could you count up to 1023 or more sheep on eight fingers and two thumbs? Yes
You said, "(FBI) they're also supposed to be looking for people in the U.S. engaged in criminal activity that is not really supposed to be the province of the federal government?"
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...) failures of the USA Government. Chaos theory should apply to the politicized "executives/bosses" creating a critical avalanche of failures that could eventually overwhelm the proportionally few remaining real "executives/bosses" Professionals in the USA Government. Then the politicized "executives/bosses" will blame the "Real Professionals" and degrade the efforts further.
.... The "Real Professionals" in Military and Government Service have been oppressed, fired, and forced to retire or accept political "Ass-kissing", "Dogma-sucking", and "Delusion-puking" as SOP in the USA Government.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is chartered by the USA Government to investigate all
interstate (physical/internet...) crimes, organized crime, terrorist activities
[ http://www.fbi.gov/hq.htm ] go to their website and read. The FBI has the lead in almost
all "Domestic Interstate and Federal" threats/crimes investigation and prevention.
The "Real Professionals" in Military and Government Service (especially field personnel) have my thanks and respect for all they are doing.
FBI politicized "executives/bosses" are among the biggest (Military "Career First" GO, State Department OJT, Homeland Defense popinjays, Justice Department Spinsters, Executive Department Story Tellers
The "Real Professionals" in Military and Government Service (especially field personnel) are not failing our National Interest. Our Field Personnel are exceptional and would have prevented (I believe) 9-11 and the NOLA catastrophe, killed Bin Laden and all the top terrorist leaders
It all started in Congress, now it is in the Whitehouse, and finally include the politicization of the Supreme Justice of the land. Just what we don't fycking need politicized "executives/bosses". In times of National Emergency our politicized "executives/bosses" are advocating Corporate-Welfare, Religious Mythology Policy, Plutocratic Fools' Doctrine
I you, in these times, believe any politician (including a parent) is telling the truth, working or the Public Good, and defending US Citizen freedoms, justice, and posterity for our grand-children, then you are a fool, uneducated, and/or mentally ill.
Would it be legal to bet on which politician annually is identified as the worse politician in the United States?
... I would damn sure start voting again with a few
Would it be legal to bet on which politician will wipe their ass with The USA Constitution and Citizens next?
If Vegas could come up with odds and fair-games that could tally
nationally and internationally the worse/best "in office"
politician
bets in Vegas.
I mean, I think, we can't legally sell our vote or bet on elections; However, our votes (most of the time) count on the basis of the amount of money expended by the elected official; so, why not have betting pools that pays out every year on criminal a/o poor-performance politicians. On December 31 we could place our votes/IP and/or credit card name/address, then be given an option to make our bet on any elected federal politician. The vote counts, but the payout is proportional to the winners who pick the biggest looser politician in Washington DC (on pool national another international) all US Citizens could vote twice. Then on Jan 01, the losers would be announced to the public.
Well anyway, it would be as democratic as anything else today in the USA [got money, place a bet!].
Would it be (who cares about fair) legal?
I need no source to state rain is wet or that politicians (many not all) are corrupt and amoral.
... will ... it is global warming, cancerous chemicals, ... all that can end because of a greedy and delusional plutocracy supported by ....
... a few years ago I stopped saying I told you so, it ain't fun no more.
I suspect that you would not notice rain is wet, and you would remain standing in the rain till struck by lightning.
PLEASE, always note my sig-quote: "Reality is self-induced hallucination."
It is my way of saying; I may not, and you may not be suffering from the same mass-hysteria.
That I think you're an idiot for attempting to sound dogmatically-smart by requesting source and evidence,
when source and evidence is something you would reject if it conflicted with your limited understanding of
reality, but you would be in excellent company with Bush, Chaney, Hitler, Goring, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Chang....
NOTE: I may be wrong and you may not be an idiot, but I think, I am right, you do not see what a frail, weak,
and meaningless species we are in relationship to everything. When we go extinct, we will be at fault for
allowing self-serving leaders to self-destruct everything that humanity has achieved.
If George Bush decides god told him to (when it was Chaney wishing and whispering) press the button,
the repercussions is all our fault from Tokyo, to Moscow, to Mecca, to Johannesburg, to Berlin, to
London, to Quebec, San Diego, to New Orleans, to NYC, to Washington DC... and George, US, EU
suffer the consequences. Okay, it ain't the fycking button
German/Cambodia/Africa... Genocide. Humanity has some great and wonderful art, science, stories, hopes and
dreams, philosophies
dogmatist that suspect they are intelligent, because they can memorize then regurgitate/parrot/ape political,
mythology, economic, doctrine
Next time show me you are intelligent and think for yourself, or go-pound-salt and give Bush a BJ in the O.
Source and evidence abounds, you and others chose to ignore/deny at great peril to all and posterity.
Of course you can just wave and call me a doomsday nut
All our politicians favor a Corporate Welfare/Socialist Economy like communism.
... are all .... Who could possibly believes in
... you are a fool and loser ... just like King George.
Communism was social theory applied to economics governing.
Corporatism is economic theory applied to society/culture governing.
Either way it is a plutocracy/oligarchy but not Capitalism or Democracy.
So, Capitalism, Democracy, People, Patriotism, god, values
spun to political agenda-crap demagoguery. No meaning, all truthyness,
complete special interest dogma by the few to oppress the many. Sounds
like governments of 3 millennium ago
evolution there must be a cruel god playing war and hope as practical jokes.
FOLLOW THE WEALTH VALUES, because there are no ethics, moral, and justice
values for corporatist/plutocrats, just greed-value for those fools/losers.
Without honor, ethics
King George and the corporatist aristocracy depend on net-nepotism.
Only US Citizens support Net-neutrality for capitalism and advancements in
quality of life, education, democracy.
Jedi,
.... It is amazing how many are on /. and other blog/social websites. It is big-business paying pseudo-authority figures to act like they are knowledgeable on topic they are clearly clueless about and hawk wares of questionable value like Vista. DRM is one of the large problems with all MS-applications like MS-Office and Adobe-PDF does not work for DRM and/or longterm (multi-decades) content management.
... are required. When law is used to make anything illegal for corporate profit and not public benefit ... I call it theft and fraud, and this time it is the content black hole of no (or expensive) recovery.
... without breaking any MS-Laws or DRM-Laws. Should we tell Animats about Wine, SAMBA, Crossover ... or leave the idiot in the dark.
... MS software ... "Obscurity Security (ObSec)" is proof of stupidity in government. Even DOD rejects ObSec these days ... I wish the FCC, Congress, CIA ... would get on the moving bandwagon of real progress (it ain't MS) in technology. MS is just the poster child for anti-capitalist corporate-welfare/monopolies in the USA and EU. When ghost-lobbyist call everyone MS bashers, they are totally wrong, because I am (as always) pro-capitalist economy and anti-Luddite.
Animats (I believe) is a con-artist for hire MS-Lobbyist, Vorizon, RIAA
The "Open-File-Formats" PNG (graphics), SXW (text), SXC (spreadsheet), SXI (presentation), ODT (text), ODS (spreadsheet), ODP (presentation)
Who in their right mind would want to use proprietary formats to eSign, password and/or encrypt protect, then try to recover the data 10 or 20 years later for legal reasons. Trying to keep the content portable over five years with proprietary applications is already a nightmare of unimaginable proportions.
Anyway, you are correct, I have no problem using any media files on GNU/Linux OS and applications. Work media-files are all in a MS-format and I open and use them at home with little or no problem
I am not opposed to MS products, I am opposed to anti-capitalist corporate-welfare/monopoly tactics made legal by idiots in our government listening to scam artist corporate-lobbyist. Look at the FCC management idiots that believe OSS is more insecure than proprietary
Animats,
... "are an El Dorado for pedophiles and predators." Parents need to be aware that when their kids are at a religious location/function that there is an equal (I think) chance of pedophiles and predators injuring their child.
..., I suspect we would find a much larger problem than any one wants to know about or deal with today/tomorrow. Look at Congress, prisons ....
... without me always present to protect them.
I agree, "Catholic churches are an El Dorado for pedophiles and predators."
Also, I know from friends back 30 years ago the Methodist, Jewish, Islam, Baptist, Lutheran, Mormon
I have believed for decades, that the reduction in people attending church/temple/mosque... around the world is due to parents being abused by pedophiles and predators in religious places. We tend to avoid places (whether we recall or not) where we were harmed emotionally/mentally as a child. It would explain why many folks stay at home and watch/donate to televangelist, it ain't like there ain't a church around the corner in the USA.
US NEWS covers catholics/jews, because they are the easiest, safest, and most sensational television stories/targets in the USA. I mean look at the Jim and Tammy Baker types in the televangelist media. I am sure we are only seeing the tip of the metaphorical/proverbial iceberg, but if the media investigate (tracked down the sick SOBs in other religions) and adults would come forward
If I had children, they would not attend any religious or political location/school/function
You would figure after more than a decade (maybe two) of proving the stupidity of "Security Through Obscurity (STO)" [proprietary software OS/apps/products, voting machines ...] that all government managers globally would know that STO is a damn dumb highly insecure positions for everything. In WWI, maybe WWII STO had some benefit, but today STO is a position for any idiot (in government, business, religion ...) to take and make their own before being retired with cause.
REMEMBER: Government/Business workers are not the problem, but the higher the stupid management the bigger the problems for natural disasters, security, cost.... Consider present conditions no exception for today or tomorrow, due to friend/family nepotism.
Reply: Finally, someone that understands MS Lawyers and Mr. Gates, you must be the Sheriff of Nottingham. At least you appear not to be one of those treasonous subversive Welfare-Corporatist corrupting democracy and capitalism in the USA.
Don't worry, I am just deep sea fishing?
Who said (or something like); "Mission First, Safety Always unless it conflicts with Mission"?
If you are taught to kill, then maybe you will live long enough too do some other less
important stuff like fuck and drink whatever is available.
Whoops, I am off-topic again, but this does relate to the cousin Bin Laden comment?
. . . __Remember: Learn to takeoff and fly, and god will take care of the rest.
A few folks mentioned the Linux community fragmentation as problematic?
... all like DOD, Congress, Ford, GM ... are monolithic structured institutions. They are all legacy/Luddite business models of the industrial imperialism economic expansion. They are all dysfunctional in the present global expansionist economy. Oligarchic/Totalitarian business/government architectures lack ability to change manage fast enough to for efficient growth and performance. In the past these legacy institutions would accumulate great wealth, then during down-markets buy (at a non-inflated price) small more innovative, creative, and dynamic entrepreneurial startups to bolster product line and appear competitive when the market improves. Repeated failures by the big institutions to create, sustain, and maintain collaborative community commons indicates a dieing institution, not healthy community organizations.
... RedHat, Ubuntu ... OpenOffice, Ant ... Firefox, Opera ... Thunderbird, Evolution ... ... are not fragments, they are the same youthful and dynamic community that continue to do far more with far less, than any legacy institution. MS, Adobe, Oracle ... all like DOD, Congress, Ford, GM ... RIAA-DMCA ... all wish they could slow down or even stop the Global Open Communities, but this will remain a failure in progress.
What some would call fragmentation is a dynamic strength to innovation and creativity. The fragmentation is lacking in MS, Adobe, Oracle
Anyway GNU, KDE
No it was not Ron's SDI plan to defend earth from us
No it was not FDR's Lend-Lease plan for EU
No it was not JFK's Domino/Containment plan you
No it was not Bush's Fear-oppression plan for US
YES! It was George C Marshall's "European Recovery Plan" [AKA: The Marshall Plan]
Folks it really is all about economics and education to create or waste for the very-long-run.
The past few to many decades we have waste economics for prophet (I know) and greed, but not for democracy and freedom from fear of our leaders and the demons they create in the world and themselves.
Again nothing new, industrial age economics which support corporate welfare is good for plutocratic corporatist/politicians and FUS citizens. This will provide a catastrophic legal penalty/fine for internet-radio, the SOS for telcos over the last 20 years, IPR for the last 30 years .... The purpose of Corporatist-Government Economics is to provide welfare funding for US/other corporations with customer-hostage holding, price gouging legacy oil infrastructure, heist-priced healthcare, credit-card and loan pillaging of lower income communities .... Well anyway it is a very peaceful nonviolent totalitarian terrorism for US ... we love it ... or we would always vote the incumbent out of office permanently.
The new royalties, as best I understand, are based on the number of times a music/product is broadcast to any customer.
IOW, sort of like: AM/FM/XM... one broadcast to many customers (1*100=100), but internet radio a broadcast/multicast... occurs for each destination IP address (100*100=10,000); So, if my analogy is correct at what ever proportion, then internet radio could not possibly afford the royalties and they are out-of-business.
Unless, internet radio limits their broadcast to open-content and old (no IPR) music and other open-biz concepts, and start looking and booking open-music artist in new creative venues and concerts. Well then maybe eventually the legacy music companies that pirate and pillage music from young and new artist would eventually go out-of-biz. We Can Hope!
Yes, I am predisposed to being offended by subjects that provide jobs and present no value (my opinion) beyond talking points for historical dogmatic failure agendas. This intent for me was obvious, the author may have expressed other plausible spun-intent.
..., due to delusional beliefs in living false-prophets and pseudo-leaders and/or debased self-serving moral spun-imperatives.
The great divide exist for US and many other around the world. We know what works for the white-collar will work for the blue-collar to produce business/government Presidents/leaders, but we maintain the divide in the USA, EU, India, China
NOT fycking likely, CDs/DVDs will remain until a significant (~80%) majority of the public has +2MB/Sec bandwidth to the home. The USA at present will be about the 20th to 30th country to have +2MB/Sec bandwidth to the home. I expect this level of telecommunications services (~80%) to USA homes will be about 2025ce (due to bandit-pricing), unless Congress and Corporatist cause further easy-money customer-hostage (RIAA, FCC, FTC, DMCA, Telcos...) delays and corporatist/politician excuses.
..., our faux-leaders' predilection for business, government, and religion dogma which provides plausible [treasonous] spin-truth lies for corruption and amorality for the ruling/privileged few, will always fails US Citizens and humanity.
The USA today ranks 20th in telecommunications, and 30th in heathcare
NOTE: It ain't their fault, can only be honestly applied to non-USA citizens.
We need to accept all responsibility for creating this vapid aristocracy of
wealth and birth rights in the USA. Our USA revolutionary founding fathers,
mothers, and family would all be extremely disappointed in all US for the
mess our disgustful greed and pretense pride. We have all rested, far to long,
on our WWII and historical founders' wreaths of laurel without delivering any
new building material for our children's destiny and National Security.
May gods/politicians/plutocrats save US all.
Dear Danah, associates, & some /.s',
... ad nauseam ... for US, EU, India, China, Russia, Japan, Korea ... as I said ad nauseam." Therefor/So, WTF/BFD class division is an observable social phenomenon indicating a single problem of humanity to treat other individuals as groups and prove social silliness/iniquity by using pseudo-science/religion/politics....
... indicates a great nation in decline, our cohesion and homogeneity of national purpose and destiny are crippled. The Real Character of our USA youth is not on any goddamn website, college campus, in a mansion .... Our Best Youth Today are on the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Life all learning reality, lessons, value.... The value of a human life is not in blood/wealth or website, some plutocratic fools would like US to think that birthright and wealth have real value to humanity and history. Most of US are not fools, but some of our leaders are insults to all that is good and right with humanity.
After reading your essay:
"Viewing American class divisions through MySpace and Facebook social websites."
"Viewing American class divisions through Public and Private schools."
"Viewing American class divisions through Poverty and Wealth socio-economics."
"Viewing American class divisions through Occupational and Recreational sex."
"Viewing American class divisions through Compact and Luxury transportation."
"Viewing American class divisions through Emergency Room and Private Room hospitalization."
"Viewing American class divisions through Court Appointed and Personally Retained legal representation."
"Viewing American class divisions through
I am far better educated, with a higher IQ than GWBush (who is President of the USA), but my education is far less recognized in any part of the USA or Europe than that of VP Chaney and many politicians in the DC area. I could never of been President, but I do not doubt that there are orphan kids, kids from poor families, and folks on MySpace a/o FaceBook that could be (IF) in a truly democratic, honorable, and free-society would make far better Presidents than any president that occupied the Whitehouse after FDR and Harry.
Representations of the class divide in American youth, pay, insurance, health, education
Question: How will the USPO control paid web-lobbyist from posting spin-agenda that corrupts discovery?
/., digg, CNN, Yahoo!, Google..., but I have at times noticed that there appears to be a sort of coincidental cluster-postings and ratings on some political/business topics that leave me with a strong sense of disbelief.
Over the last five years, I have noticed a significant increase in what I call lurking-lobbyist presenting very reasonable spin-agenda with pseudo-evidence. Some stuff would test the ability of investigative [AKA: muck-racking] news reporters.
Paid "lurking-lobbyist" appears to be big business. I have no proof of "lurking-lobbyist" on
I mean, it was easy to corrupt government and democracy in the USA without much fan fair and notice by the public. Could the same be happening on major websites?
Could corporatist demagoguery be skewing web-content (as happened to print/broadcast news) into agenda-appropriate manipulative content for public consumption?
This (in the past) was called a peaceful banana republic coup, ... when a few privileged greedy people conspired to subversively/overtly topple/overthrow their populist democratic government for their special greedy, military, religious... interest.
In the USA, there was a time that this was called TREASON!
The old gray (US) dame, just ain't what she use to be, work her to death daily, put her away wet, and buy/steal the next one another day.
VOTE THEM ALL OUT ALWAYS, or hang'em for treason, the entertaining spectacle will be of great interest and attendance for US.
Don't worry everything is okay with US, and I am crazy, but smiling and laughing all the way to the bank (stock market). Whoops, as proof, I originally posted this in the wrong place. Don't worry the moderators let me know with many -offtopic points.
MS Gates and MR Dell FUS and make a deal.
...,
This keeps Linux out of the office, schools
by making sure businesses buying Dell cannot get
GNU/Linux/OSS. If I were to provide a winning proposal
for installing (as a prime contractor) and supporting
for a couple years, and I was costing cheap Dell
computers preloaded with OSS to meet the contract
requirements, then this could be a very costly mistake
to make. If I made this whoops, it would be my costly
mistake, not Dell/MS.
Always make sure who and what you are dealing with.
I wounder if MS & Dell know why/how computers migrated
from the home environment into the office environment,
and eventually on everyones' desk. Maybe they should ask
others maybe older and far wiser then themselves, like
Jobs at Apple, RHS at GNU/FSF....
SUMMARY: I think, only trusting and misinformed folks
will potentially buy Dell and MS products.
Not Czars=Ceasar
... hoping to escape before any other elections.
..., I don't know what I am hearing or saying these days (THANKS god!)
NotNot who's there? I don't know, Who?
Who's the guy in the picture with Bush in China?
Putin Bush is in the other picture in Russia.
I don't know, who is putin in a bush in Russia or China in a picture.
At least a picture doesn't stink up everyplace making it unbearable, and unlivable.
I hope there is never a passport required to leave this earth.
I keep my towel close, my thumb up, and my beer mug full
REMEMBER, I am an old guy
GNU/Linux/Open Knights of Quixote; you are charged to bravely defend freedom from the crass tyranny of global corporatist oppression. They use human, culture, art, science, democracy, and economy terms spun 180 degrees from any reasonable meaning and/or truth.
..., our self-induced end will come torturously slow.
... you must drink beer from the 5 liter pitchers or the tap [BOTTOMS UP!].
With intent to harm; these political, corporatist, religious plutocrats, and their unclean and unleashed semi-literate hate rabid followers are now rising upon their; metaphorical, "hoofed hind haunches" and seeking to enslave and aggressively destroy human curiosity, creativity, and human expectations of survival for all future children of Gaia.
None are as blind and/or evil, as those who cannot see the analogous invasion and subjugation of government by anti-capitalist corporatist and anti-christ religious. For the foreseeable; future, the rights of humanity are at an end in this world, the honorable forces of freedom are falling to the evil forces of corporatist institutionalized tyranny in governments globally.
I grievously regret that all will not be over for most of US or EU quickly
All is DOOMED, prepare yourself, no need to repent, god recently died again, heaven is filled to overflowing with Christians, Moslems, and a few Jews [NO MORE ROOM!]. Also, there are cold-eternal-full free-beer keg at the party in hell for anyone requesting, THANK GOD for sensible and reasonable options.
The hell of it is there are no glasses/mugs or straws and cups
For those that do not understand, how this relates, GNU/Linux and the Open community are about freedom and responsibility to humanity, and MS Gates is a corporatist plutocrat. What do you want to be today?
I dumped my suse, I won't buy dell, this past weekend Ubuntu is up for my computers, and I first used Red Hat in 1997.
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THANKS to the good folks and leaders of Red Hat, Ubuntu, and everyone in the Global Open Source Community.
This (in the past) was called a peaceful banana republic coup, ... when a few privileged greedy people conspired to subversively/overtly topple/overthrow their populist democratic government for their special greedy, military, religious... interest.
In the USA, there was a time that this was called TREASON!
The old gray (US) dame, just ain't what she use to be, work her to death daily, put her away wet, and buy/steal the next one another day.
VOTE THEY ALL OUT ALWAYS, or hang'em for treason, the entertaining spectacle will be of great interest and attendance for US.
Don't worry everything is okay with US, and I am crazy, but smiling and laughing all the way to the bank (stock market).
Cable companies and executives has a lobby on /..
... "percentage"). Today annual mafia percentage is 100% plus, but balloon-loans that take the money and the property are close to the mafia rates. In the USA we now call all this good ethical, honest, and open Biz/Gov models/laws/...FUS. Yes, like the acronym FUS corporatist, plutocrats, politicians...
This is corporatist welfare economics. Like the RIAA/DMCA/... US citizens are persecuted, until proved innocent.
If companies can not control/secure their resources/assets, then they need to go out of business. Persecuting the innocent for proof of innocent, or make additional welfare payments to support a Bad-Biz model is the real crime to a democratic nation and a capitalist economy. The more BadBiz models (with Government permission/protection) being persecuted and requiring innocent customers to prove innocence, honor, and honesty the less the USA is FREE, DEMOCRATIC, CAPITALIST. IOW: Stop the persecution, fyck all plutocrat corporatist and their welfare BadBiz models.
One corporatist welfare BadBiz model that reminds me of the old 1950/60s mafia loan sharks is the present credit card rates today. However, that may be due to inflation (think about it
Don't worry, Be Happy, !HAVEFUN!
I know DOD, NSA, and CIA are not surprised.
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Politicians and news folks Fox/CNN/... only want to
surprise the USA Citizens/public for rating purposes.
Yes, some GOs/FAs are great politicians with agendas.
Look up some stuff about "Titan Rain" and even that was old news for some folks.
Time Magazine:
The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies (And the Man Who Tried to Stop Them)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,
Remember the recent persecution and jailing of "Two" US Border Patrol folks
(by US) for doing their job and trying to stop drug smugglers?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ART
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhRWRbqIvtU
This type of stuff goes back many years even before
the present gang of politicians; So, "NO CHANGE"!
Don't worry, be happy, !HAVEFUN!