Wikipedia (Unless you think I've conspired to make up the entry here): "The department was created from 22 existing federal agencies in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001." Making a single department from 22 agencies is called consolidation.
Next, distractions: An alert system which never goes off alert is not an alert system at all. It's a continuous message to be vigilant, which is not information, it's a fear tactic. What's more, there would have been a massive uproar if the government had no internal response to the hijackings, so they took existing groups and rebranded them as a single simple solution to the communication problem. Then muddied up the water with reorgs and ill-managed funding.
Get your head out of that bucket of ice. Our scepticism has nothing to do with "terrorists" it has to do with a corrupt government telling us what to do! They only act promptly in their own interest - they simple don't want people fighting them to use their own sheeple's resources against them.
And the government IS corrupt! We're conditioned to ignore it, not act on it! Did a crown of angry citizens attack Tom Delay? No. Did Oren Hatch get run out of town? Nope. The last time some corrupt official was reported in your news paper, did you gather up a posse and run him down in the streets? Not likely.
The DHS is a shell organization set up to distract and consolodate power. Period.
The US government could give a rat's pellet collection about your internet connection, tornado warning, etc. The only reason any emergency response systems exist is because if they didn't they would lose control and we would riot (note: Katrina), or someone could step in and fill the need as a power grab. They are so unenthusiastic about actually helping that they constantly test how little we will tolerate. They'll all fly in to provide emergency legislation to "help" to Terri Schiavo, but will let thousands of gallons of needed water get accidently released from resorviors during a drought. The rule of thumb is - if it's getting excessive funding it's important to them, if it's not, it's only important to us.
So given that, here is the real reason they are ordering us around on this one. Our personal resources can be used in a denial of service attack against THEM. That's right folks, Homeland security is worried that they will get attacked with their own citizens resources. I'd bet all the money owed to me by the Social Security Administration that if someone figured out how to remotely control our garden tools to attack Congress, they would not put up jammers to block the attempts, they would make it illegal to house a garden tool that wasn't chained to the wall and arrest anyone who did not comply.
These people are not our friends, they are not our representatives even any more - we don't base our selection of them on their legislative actions (such as attempts to repeal the 4th amendment or eliminate term limits on the presidency - hello? Austrian born foreign Dictator running an industrial power? Sound familiar?). We base them on spoon fed garbage meant to mislead and "entertain" the public.
BTW, you overloaded your feel good paragraph against your sceptics - Shouldn't the second paragraph's first sentence have read "On the other hand, we should be suspicios."
And you know where my vote lies. Although random individual people working for the government are decent, there are enough sociopaths to wreck the whole thing. An apple with bugs in it is an apple a person won't eat unless they are starving. The trick is to get us to the point we are starving.
What do you think Public Relations is? One of the "fathers" of modern day public relations, Edward Bernays wrote a book. It's called.... Propoganda. And the entire context is how to help a company or politician spread their message or product.
It's actually an interesting read: http://militant.org/files/propaganda.pdf. It will only take a couple of days and give you insight into where modern day techniques originated from. Adolf Hitler, the American bacon for breakfast campaign, a lot of things that are popular today are so as a result of this book and this man.
The frontal assault doesn't work reliably on people any more - everyone who wants to be effective any more has to be somewhat manipulative.
Not sure what the difference is between the two, because I'm still looking for the bill's number. It's almost as if people like to use the fluffy name and never really look at the bill - only reference it from other articles.
Hmmm, I don't subscribe to either party or any other political action committee (that is all they really are after all), but I don't see your point.
You pointed out that groups that represent employees and self employeed contribute almost exclusively to Democrats. The money these groups throw around is a fraction of what corporations do.
What's more, you also quote funds through legal channels when it's well known that campaign contributions come from under the table as well.
In short, you're using faulty data. If you want to search a room for something you don't look exclusively in the one corner where the light is, you also look in the dark corners.
We tried when we, despite being loyal allies, declined to support your ridiculous invasion of Iraq. But you ignored the feedback and jammed shoddy intelligence down our throats. And attempting to stop you from killing your own people and others for a poor cause is more noble than shooting other people on your behalf.
Here's a news brief for you: America is the fascist now. So what would you suggest at this point? A fight between friends. That is, in fact what is occurring.
Sometimes, when you are faced with a problem which seems to have only complicate answers, it's important to step back and try to understand what problem you were trying to solve in the first place. Let's take inventory.
* We have people and things which need to move around. That's definate. * We cannot instantaneously make them appear in their next location. That's definate for now. * We have a lot of people and things and they have to get around one another to get to where they want/need to be.
Then there was a solution: A carraige. So now there other problems, a long line of solutions, and subsequent problems. * The carraige needs to be pulled or pushed - get a horse * The horse needs to be kept alive and poops - replace the horse with a gasoline engine. * The engine makes the car' go very fast and it kills people when run into one another - plate the carraige in metal. * The metal is very heavy and the car is sinking in the mud - make the tires larger and the steering better. * The cars are going faster and the deaths are still occurring - make safety features. * Enclosed or open, the cars are really hot - make an air conditioner and power it with the engine. * Gosh I'm bored - add a radio and other entertainment * I'm distracted and drunk and people are still dying - Add some laws and a highway infrastructure to keep the drivers in order. * I'm hungry - Make some drive-throughs restaurants. * There are more people - make bigger roads * The more people are causing more deaths - make bigger vehicles
So on and one it goes. But the problem was people and things need to get from point a to point b, not I'm bored, I'm hungry or the ground is muddy.
So someone gets an idea somewhere in there - a train. more problems * We aren't all going to the same place * I don't like these other people * You can't fit a train stop in my neighborhood * trains bring hooligans
But if the main goal is point a to point b for people or packages, doesn't a personal rapid transit system seem more logical?
very interesting video. The computer programmer explains what he was asked to do. He gets stupid at the end though and starts rambling off topic, but I blame that on too much time on Slashdot.
I can confirm this happens. I've had it happen once in my neighborhood - I run the web site for it. Every time someone calls for a new user account, I open a browser against their IP address to see if they are doing stupid stuff. Admin access default password has occurred once. I then call them up and tell them if they don't fix it they cannot use the sight because they obviously aren't paying attention and could easily end up with a password grabber, compromising the web site.
Agreed, this is a ruse typical of other US maneuvers. Make the body impotent, then when others demand fairness, hand them the body instead of the power.
Let me correct your correction then. Once the sperm enters the Oocyte it is then considered a cell. It's after this point that the mitochondria introduced by the sperm is destroyed. Clearly it wouldn't have happened before because the mitochondria wasn't in the Oocyte. The embryo is the egg cell I speak off, not the precursory elements of it.
Please try to keep in mind, getting together in groups of people who think like you do to rally against every make and model of dissenting opinion does not make you more correct - it simply makes you more obnoxious. What's more, you get less and less feedback of your mistakes. Such as attacking other sovereign countries because God tells you it's the right thing to do.
ever used perl for win32? There were differences between it and unix' perl versions.
And it's naive to think that python or Perl are good examples. There was such huge energy behind Java in the commercial world that Microsoft made a clone. You better believe J++ would come back again if Sun gave a half a chance for it to sneak back in.
I'd argue that the reason Genesis' villian is the snake is because it is an early predator of ours and stealthy, not the other way around as you point out.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, let's take a cursory glance then.
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Wikipedia (Unless you think I've conspired to make up the entry here):
"The department was created from 22 existing federal agencies in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001."
Making a single department from 22 agencies is called consolidation.
Next, distractions: An alert system which never goes off alert is not an alert system at all. It's a continuous message to be vigilant, which is not information, it's a fear tactic. What's more, there would have been a massive uproar if the government had no internal response to the hijackings, so they took existing groups and rebranded them as a single simple solution to the communication problem. Then muddied up the water with reorgs and ill-managed funding.
http://www.usmayors.org/72ndWinterMeeting/homelan
http://hsgac.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Pres
these go on and on. It's the '80's Pentagon spending all over again.
Stop worrying about how I say something and actually take a look around.
Get your head out of that bucket of ice. Our scepticism has nothing to do with "terrorists" it has to do with a corrupt government telling us what to do! They only act promptly in their own interest - they simple don't want people fighting them to use their own sheeple's resources against them.
And the government IS corrupt! We're conditioned to ignore it, not act on it! Did a crown of angry citizens attack Tom Delay? No. Did Oren Hatch get run out of town? Nope. The last time some corrupt official was reported in your news paper, did you gather up a posse and run him down in the streets? Not likely.
The DHS is a shell organization set up to distract and consolodate power. Period.
Here's my hypothesis.
The US government could give a rat's pellet collection about your internet connection, tornado warning, etc. The only reason any emergency response systems exist is because if they didn't they would lose control and we would riot (note: Katrina), or someone could step in and fill the need as a power grab. They are so unenthusiastic about actually helping that they constantly test how little we will tolerate. They'll all fly in to provide emergency legislation to "help" to Terri Schiavo, but will let thousands of gallons of needed water get accidently released from resorviors during a drought. The rule of thumb is - if it's getting excessive funding it's important to them, if it's not, it's only important to us.
So given that, here is the real reason they are ordering us around on this one. Our personal resources can be used in a denial of service attack against THEM. That's right folks, Homeland security is worried that they will get attacked with their own citizens resources. I'd bet all the money owed to me by the Social Security Administration that if someone figured out how to remotely control our garden tools to attack Congress, they would not put up jammers to block the attempts, they would make it illegal to house a garden tool that wasn't chained to the wall and arrest anyone who did not comply.
These people are not our friends, they are not our representatives even any more - we don't base our selection of them on their legislative actions (such as attempts to repeal the 4th amendment or eliminate term limits on the presidency - hello? Austrian born foreign Dictator running an industrial power? Sound familiar?). We base them on spoon fed garbage meant to mislead and "entertain" the public.
BTW, you overloaded your feel good paragraph against your sceptics - Shouldn't the second paragraph's first sentence have read "On the other hand, we should be suspicios."
And you know where my vote lies. Although random individual people working for the government are decent, there are enough sociopaths to wreck the whole thing. An apple with bugs in it is an apple a person won't eat unless they are starving. The trick is to get us to the point we are starving.
Haven't you been keeping up the the news?
What do you think Public Relations is? One of the "fathers" of modern day public relations, Edward Bernays wrote a book. It's called.... Propoganda. And the entire context is how to help a company or politician spread their message or product.
It's actually an interesting read: http://militant.org/files/propaganda.pdf. It will only take a couple of days and give you insight into where modern day techniques originated from. Adolf Hitler, the American bacon for breakfast campaign, a lot of things that are popular today are so as a result of this book and this man.
The frontal assault doesn't work reliably on people any more - everyone who wants to be effective any more has to be somewhat manipulative.
An interesting tidbit, this was introduced in 2005 as well by Lamar Smith of Texas:
t _reform_p.html
http://patentlaw.typepad.com/patent/2005/06/paten
Not sure what the difference is between the two, because I'm still looking for the bill's number. It's almost as if people like to use the fluffy name and never really look at the bill - only reference it from other articles.
Hmmm, I don't subscribe to either party or any other political action committee (that is all they really are after all), but I don't see your point.
You pointed out that groups that represent employees and self employeed contribute almost exclusively to Democrats. The money these groups throw around is a fraction of what corporations do.
What's more, you also quote funds through legal channels when it's well known that campaign contributions come from under the table as well.
In short, you're using faulty data. If you want to search a room for something you don't look exclusively in the one corner where the light is, you also look in the dark corners.
We tried when we, despite being loyal allies, declined to support your ridiculous invasion of Iraq. But you ignored the feedback and jammed shoddy intelligence down our throats. And attempting to stop you from killing your own people and others for a poor cause is more noble than shooting other people on your behalf.
Here's a news brief for you: America is the fascist now. So what would you suggest at this point? A fight between friends. That is, in fact what is occurring.
Sometimes, when you are faced with a problem which seems to have only complicate answers, it's important to step back and try to understand what problem you were trying to solve in the first place. Let's take inventory.
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* We have people and things which need to move around. That's definate.
* We cannot instantaneously make them appear in their next location. That's definate for now.
* We have a lot of people and things and they have to get around one another to get to where they want/need to be.
Then there was a solution: A carraige. So now there other problems, a long line of solutions, and subsequent problems.
* The carraige needs to be pulled or pushed - get a horse
* The horse needs to be kept alive and poops - replace the horse with a gasoline engine.
* The engine makes the car' go very fast and it kills people when run into one another - plate the carraige in metal.
* The metal is very heavy and the car is sinking in the mud - make the tires larger and the steering better.
* The cars are going faster and the deaths are still occurring - make safety features.
* Enclosed or open, the cars are really hot - make an air conditioner and power it with the engine.
* Gosh I'm bored - add a radio and other entertainment
* I'm distracted and drunk and people are still dying - Add some laws and a highway infrastructure to keep the drivers in order.
* I'm hungry - Make some drive-throughs restaurants.
* There are more people - make bigger roads
* The more people are causing more deaths - make bigger vehicles
So on and one it goes. But the problem was people and things need to get from point a to point b, not I'm bored, I'm hungry or the ground is muddy.
So someone gets an idea somewhere in there - a train. more problems
* We aren't all going to the same place
* I don't like these other people
* You can't fit a train stop in my neighborhood
* trains bring hooligans
But if the main goal is point a to point b for people or packages, doesn't a personal rapid transit system seem more logical?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_trans
you suspected correctly. The current rep, Tom Feeney, representing South Florida rigged the US 2004 election election for his post.
http://www.youtube.com/v/7WmC4grXdIk
http://www.house.gov/feeney/
very interesting video. The computer programmer explains what he was asked to do. He gets stupid at the end though and starts rambling off topic, but I blame that on too much time on Slashdot.
In the news:
Half baked insurance companies deny auto claims by default - news at 11p
Says Fourier.
I can confirm this happens. I've had it happen once in my neighborhood - I run the web site for it. Every time someone calls for a new user account, I open a browser against their IP address to see if they are doing stupid stuff. Admin access default password has occurred once. I then call them up and tell them if they don't fix it they cannot use the sight because they obviously aren't paying attention and could easily end up with a password grabber, compromising the web site.
Clearly this was a software problem.
Agreed, this is a ruse typical of other US maneuvers. Make the body impotent, then when others demand fairness, hand them the body instead of the power.
Hypnosis? A sample size of 18 people with only 10 experiencing the feeling? They haven't created anything but much ado about nothing.
Wake me when 38 people out of 40 experience it without any persuasion.
Let me correct your correction then. Once the sperm enters the Oocyte it is then considered a cell. It's after this point that the mitochondria introduced by the sperm is destroyed. Clearly it wouldn't have happened before because the mitochondria wasn't in the Oocyte. The embryo is the egg cell I speak off, not the precursory elements of it.
Sure they do. You see, it's a series of tubes...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
Ugh, I'm so ashamed!
You mean like air conditioners?
*ducks*
Shortly thereafter, sales of novelty license plates skyrocket as well...
It gets destroyed by the egg cell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm
Yeah, because helping a person who is stuck in traffic understand what caused the traffic jam is pure evil man, pure evil.
We're on the defensive because we're not organizing in an attempt to attack anyone.
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You need to work on your logic - here's a book to help:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/087975124X/002-4
Please try to keep in mind, getting together in groups of people who think like you do to rally against every make and model of dissenting opinion does not make you more correct - it simply makes you more obnoxious. What's more, you get less and less feedback of your mistakes. Such as attacking other sovereign countries because God tells you it's the right thing to do.
ever used perl for win32? There were differences between it and unix' perl versions.
And it's naive to think that python or Perl are good examples. There was such huge energy behind Java in the commercial world that Microsoft made a clone. You better believe J++ would come back again if Sun gave a half a chance for it to sneak back in.
I'd argue that the reason Genesis' villian is the snake is because it is an early predator of ours and stealthy, not the other way around as you point out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_implies_