What can one expect from a 'government' that is basically a tool of the corporations? With this and the $@*%ing anti-flag-burning bull$hit, the corporations can better try to turn the United States into a big pool of good, little workers that never challenge their superiors. Hell, take away the machine from the Borg and you got a description of what gov't and big business want!
I was reading many of the posts dealing with this thread, and it got me to recall the years I served hard time in seven different 'prisons.' I was always the outcast, the loner. When I was breezing thru classes and toying with computers, others made fun of me for my size, my looks, or my intelligence. Teachers and other school personnel could have cared less about my daily plight, and quite often life at home was no easier. The only thing that saved my butt in my early years was that my family was a military family. Every few years we moved to a new locale. The torment toned down in my later years, mainly because trying to find anyone willing to picking on a s++:++ was getting hard to find. At my last school I didn't encounter as much harassment, but then, I was a senior in high school, I had just arrived there after 5 years in Germany, and I was basically unknown to most people there.
However, there is another kind of harassment that I encounter here in college. I attend Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. My degree program, officially called Information and Decision Systems, should be called Micro$oft Wor$hip. It's tough being a Mac/SGI user when just about everybody else wants to (figuratively) perform vile sex acts with Micro$oft Bill. You would not believe the ridicule I have had to put up with because of my choice of platforms. Hopefully, when I get a job after school, I will be able to work on a platform I want to work on, not the tool of evil that is Wintel.
/. covered this website a few months ago: http://www.faceintel.org/ The address was different back then, but all the material is still there. Very interesting reading.
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What can one expect from a 'government' that is basically a tool of the corporations? With this and the $@*%ing anti-flag-burning bull$hit, the corporations can better try to turn the United States into a big pool of good, little workers that never challenge their superiors. Hell, take away the machine from the Borg and you got a description of what gov't and big business want!
I was reading many of the posts dealing with this thread, and it got me to recall the years I served hard time in seven different 'prisons.' I was always the outcast, the loner. When I was breezing thru classes and toying with computers, others made fun of me for my size, my looks, or my intelligence. Teachers and other school personnel could have cared less about my daily plight, and quite often life at home was no easier. The only thing that saved my butt in my early years was that my family was a military family. Every few years we moved to a new locale. The torment toned down in my later years, mainly because trying to find anyone willing to picking on a s++:++ was getting hard to find. At my last school I didn't encounter as much harassment, but then, I was a senior in high school, I had just arrived there after 5 years in Germany, and I was basically unknown to most people there.
However, there is another kind of harassment that I encounter here in college. I attend Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. My degree program, officially called Information and Decision Systems, should be called Micro$oft Wor$hip. It's tough being a Mac/SGI user when just about everybody else wants to (figuratively) perform vile sex acts with Micro$oft Bill. You would not believe the ridicule I have had to put up with because of my choice of platforms. Hopefully, when I get a job after school, I will be able to work on a platform I want to work on, not the tool of evil that is Wintel.
My fault, it's http://www.faceintel.COM/
/. covered this website a few months ago:
http://www.faceintel.org/
The address was different back then, but all the material is still there. Very interesting reading.