Your name, age, address, and photograph is going to be stored in the EU passport database the instant you cross an EU border if the US Biometric passport is issued.
Americans will have no control over what is done with this data. It will be retained forever, and shared within the EU as the EU sees fit.
Eventually, everyone everywhere that has a passport will be stored in every country's passport database, as the billions of international travellers criss cross the globe.
This will not happen if the Biometric passport effort fails. In the article, the spokesperson from one of the companies set to make billions out of shearing the western population talks about there not being "showstoppers". There are showstoppers. Ask any Australian about their sucessful fight against ID cards.
We can have a more secure passport without a centralized database. The problem is that the governments WANT centralized passport databases for the purposes of control. This biometric push has nothing to do with making passports that cannot be forged.
I love the one with Mary, where you can see the dude and his dog looking up at something.
You know, all those religious paintings, whilst fascinating are really open to wide interpretation. Even the one with the dog, which is really compelling.
What is far more interesting to me are the written accounts like the one from the time of the Roman empire, describing "At sunset, a burning shield passed over the sky at Rome. It came sparkling from the west and passed over to the east." an ancient UFO report, and a UFO report in every way that counts!
The one from From Conrad Wolfhart, Lycothenes could be Aurora Borealis, especially since its Scotland (very northern) but that doesnt explain the ship part, and also, people at that time knew what the Aurora Borealis looked like, and would have been able to eliminate that as a possibility, which would have prompted the writing of this report as a special event. Thinking and typing out loud:]
You of course, must be reading Nuforc for the latest reports; some really strong and spectacular ones in there!
Of course, one shouldnt believe in anything like this...only the facts should be taken into account, and then you either accept or refuse to accept. A Critical Accepter is more to my liking; Ive faced the facts, but dont accept anything but the strongest cases. Of course, all you need is a single good case to proove the whole ET hypothesis; after that its just exozoology.
Thanks for that excellent link! The China picture is the same one used in the best documentary ever "UFOs are Real". See that film if you can.
As for it being a street lamp or not, normally we would simply (or maybe not simply) find out if that street had suspended street lamps at the time. On cursory examination, wouldnt there be more than one lamp in the frame, receding into the distance? That would rule out street lamps, as would the dude that appears to be pointing at the thing in the right hand side of the frame!
In any case, correlating this photo with other photos of identical objects at other times and places is more useful in saying something about the event; there are some pretty astonishing "same object different circumstance" pics around.
if your argument relies on a premise which can not be shown to be true, your argument is undeniably invalid.
My "argument" does not rely on a premise which is false. You need to read some materials about this subject, instead of skirting around the unpleasant fact that you have to do some work.
Your post is interesting behaviorally however. Your responses are identical to those which were made by your type in the mid 1990s on USENET. We have seen this kind of pointless gesturing from your school of "thought" before, and all of you were comprehensively demolished, for all time.
If you have any real interest in this subject, you need to do some work. That means reading.
Reading is fundamental. If you dont want to face the facts, thats OK. This debate is over. Its been over for years. You need to do your homework, and get acquainted with the facts.
I've never seen a report by anyone I find remotely credible about UFOs.
and so, because you have not seen them, they dont exist, AND/OR your measure of who is credible or not is questionable. either way, you are completly delusional.
Apparently, if you're not trolling, you have.
Im not trolling, unlike you, and I have, because I know how to read, and use Google.
But then, based on the way you responded to my post, I have to assume you're either trolling, or simply too easily convinced.
I assumed by your flippant, ignorant, pointless and infantile post that you were certainly trolling, and i treated you accordingly. I fed the troll.
If we take as given that they are solid, and under the control of something by virtue of their ability to take evasive action, then you have to face this fact. After having faced it, there are some conclusions you can come to. If you will not say the words, if you will not face the facts head on, then you are in denial.
Nothing wrong with being in denial of course.
And you cannot throw the whole premise away because this particular case shows illuminated objects (illuminated by virtue of heat). There are enough radar visual cases involving non spherical (ie non natural) shapes of irrefutable quality that you can read if this Mexican case is not good enough for you.
Then you have to face it, deal with it and smell the fresh ground coffee!
And of course, because the pilots are Mexican they cant possibly have the necessary training to be able tell the difference between equipment anomaly and normal function.
Had they been American pilots that would have been a totally different story.
And you, having logged 10,000 hours on drug interdiction duty in the same setup, know the difference between correct function and equipment failure.
What "bothers" me is why people refuse to make the next step. You accept that they are unidineitied, that they are flying and that they are objects, but you wont "go there" and say what they could possibly be, using the same reasoning skills that you use for anything else that you think about.
Just think about this one question. What manmade object can fly, in complete silence, at many hundreds of miles per hour, come to a complete stop, and then accelerate to hundreds of miles per hour, all without making a sound?
When you address this seriously, without prosaic explanations or complete nonsense, without ridicule or cowardly arguing techniques, then you will have served all the relevenat criteria for dealing with "The UFO Thing". Untill then, its just pure denial.
This is true moreso now than ever before, thanks to "911"; people simply cannot dismiss with a wave of a hand uncorrelated targets flying in American airspace. These events are very serious indeed.
The Wallonia Triangle event (Belgian Airforce tracking visually and with radar, multiple witnesses on the ground and a superb corroborating photo from close up) had a similar level of beyond doubt credibility, was widely reported, and nothing at all "happened".
The fact of the matter is, UFO's are real, some of them are extraterrestrial craft and...
it doesnt matter.
They are not going to give up their secrets. They are not going to interact with us in a way that is desireable to us, and nothing that they do is going to change the way that the majority of us live. In any case, even the most logical and intelligent of opinion shapers are in denial about UFOs; this is the main reason why no amount of evidence will cause a sea change in the public's perception.
In every way that matters, these ET craft are of no signifigance to the ordinary man. Until they are made to interact with us on our terms, and the pundits are finally forced to concede, this is something that simply needs to be documented with rigor and then left at that; expecting the earth to be rocked by this or another irrefutable case, or the secret reports getting released is not the holy grail as everyone has been seeking.
Or a "straw man argument". Dolphins are not even aliens.
Whilst we are on the subject, this story has been shooting around the world; some very interesting infra-red footage shot by the Mexican Airforce shows...make up your own mind. The footage was shot by drug interdiction aircraft on patrol for smugglers.
Guns are designed to shoot bullets efficiently. You can use them to shot anytying, including people. The choice to shoot people is yours, and has nothing to do with the utility of the gun.
Thats what Gmail is for. Its for all those people who DONT have a computer themselves and who only use terminals in airports and internet cafes all over the world. They are legion, and previously, had to check their mail regularly or see their unique accounts deactivated. Even if they did check their mail regularly, The amount of space they were given was so small as to be almost useless.
With Gmail, all of this changes. And there is no barrier to switching, save changing your email address and informaing everyone, this price is very affordable; there are not thousands of legacy emails and family photo attachments that cannot be transfered over to the Gmail - the artificailly low storage limits on the other free systems have seen to that. Once they, the Hotmail legions understand what Gmail is, all the other free services will see users desert them like rats fleeing a sin...well, very fast.
The only way that the other services can possibly hope to stem this flow is to immediately duplicate the storage and permanency of account features of Gmail. Only then will the price of leaving become too great.
"Protects Credit Cards And Other Valuables From EMF Damage"
The magnetic strip on your credit card can be damaged, even erased by exposure to strong magnetic fields. Ordinary magnets will do it, but so can less obvious sources such as anti-theft scanners in department stores or libraries, small electric motors, even speaker magnets (someone told us that electromagnetic harassment can be used to erase credit cards too)! This handsome black leather wallet is discretely lined with both RF and magnetic field shielding materials and offers excellent protection. Includes 2-compartment bill fold, 6-compartment credit card holder and change pouch, all shielded. Measures about 4" x 4½" when folded. Quality European craftsmanship, equally attractive for men and women.
If Ibuka and Morita were still at the helm (or men of their calibre) the "far reaching implications" decision would have been made. This type of decision is not beyond the ability of a CEO; look at IBM, a company with a long history of intelectual property as inviolable asset business strategy, turning on a dime to embrace and bolster Linux with many many millions of dollars in investment.
Your analysis is brilliant; the two halvs exerting pressure on each other created this sterile, non-SONY generation of products, and have allowed other companies with a singal vision wipe them out.
As for mandating DRM, you cannot mandate that from this day forward, water will be forevermore dry.
It cannot be denied that SONY was once one of the greatest companies on earth. Take a look if you have not already seen this gallery of Walkmen. They got it right lots of times, in many areas.
In this one area, digital music, they have got it completely wrong. This is unusual for SONY. Their portable digital music players have completely flopped, their proprietary encoder is a failure, and they are being left out in the cold in an area where they should be numnber one.
They were in a position to set the rules. They own Columbia and its huge back catalogue. They have the technical expertise to build the most seductive portables. They have software developers. What they were/are missing is the foresight.
They should have:
Released open players instead of crappy crippled portable DRM factorys
Released the entire Columbia music catalogue for free via a web site.
Watched tens of millions buy their shiny players and split the money with their Columbia artists.
Watch their CD sales increase.
They would have owned the portable music player space, created the number one destination for music online, demonstrated that MP3s are the new radio, short circuted all the RIAA lawsuits, and....acted more like SONY.
Precisely. They need to work on that, not GUI non-issues
C'mon last stable was 4.11. 5 never was finished when they already released 6, (yes I agree OSX was the reason) and 6 is not even near to be stable (don't know on OSX though)
it can still dissapear with no reason under OSX, and there is already a 6.1 patch! WORK WORK WORK Ibrahimi!!!
InDesign is taking Quarks share in such ammount.
InDesign is a piece of trash. No professional is switching to it, and it cannot touch the ubiquity and third party support of QuarkXpress.
Xpress is easy enough, thats my point. Putting money into GUI simplification so that people who dont like to read can use Quark is a total waste of money for them. Their prorities are (were) the port to OSX and stability.
For all its excellence with output (and when I used it, it worked well) Quark is certainly not an example of brilliant, or even good UI design.
QuarkXpress is the best layout programme ever. It is difficult to learn, but once you learn it, using it is simplicity itself. Its power is astonishing. It is ouput second to none. Anyone who remembers the thrill of being able to set the background color to none of an item knows why QuarkXpress is so beloved.
It is extensible in ways and with third pary support that other programs only dream about. Look at "La Redout" and the other 4 inch thick catalogues. They are all produced with Quark, via an extension that connects your Xpress file with your huge database of catalogue items, including photos prices and everything else. That is sex.
Quark Xpress is like Autocad. Autocad is not number one without reason, and it too has a learning curve as steep as the Matterhorn. Once you master it though, you can build anything based on its output, from Beyblades to the replacement for the Twin Towers.
Some things in life are hard, and they are worth mastering if you love your art, in the case of Quark Xpress, setting type.
Slashdot Mirror
Your name, age, address, and photograph is going to be stored in the EU passport database the instant you cross an EU border if the US Biometric passport is issued.
Americans will have no control over what is done with this data. It will be retained forever, and shared within the EU as the EU sees fit.
Eventually, everyone everywhere that has a passport will be stored in every country's passport database, as the billions of international travellers criss cross the globe.
This will not happen if the Biometric passport effort fails. In the article, the spokesperson from one of the companies set to make billions out of shearing the western population talks about there not being "showstoppers". There are showstoppers. Ask any Australian about their sucessful fight against ID cards.
We can have a more secure passport without a centralized database. The problem is that the governments WANT centralized passport databases for the purposes of control. This biometric push has nothing to do with making passports that cannot be forged.
But you know this!
I love the one with Mary, where you can see the dude and his dog looking up at something.
:]
You know, all those religious paintings, whilst fascinating are really open to wide interpretation. Even the one with the dog, which is really compelling.
What is far more interesting to me are the written accounts like the one from the time of the Roman empire, describing "At sunset, a burning shield passed over the sky at Rome. It came sparkling from the west and passed over to the east." an ancient UFO report, and a UFO report in every way that counts!
The one from From Conrad Wolfhart, Lycothenes could be Aurora Borealis, especially since its Scotland (very northern) but that doesnt explain the ship part, and also, people at that time knew what the Aurora Borealis looked like, and would have been able to eliminate that as a possibility, which would have prompted the writing of this report as a special event. Thinking and typing out loud
You of course, must be reading Nuforc for the latest reports; some really strong and spectacular ones in there!
Call me a skeptical believer
Of course, one shouldnt believe in anything like this...only the facts should be taken into account, and then you either accept or refuse to accept. A Critical Accepter is more to my liking; Ive faced the facts, but dont accept anything but the strongest cases. Of course, all you need is a single good case to proove the whole ET hypothesis; after that its just exozoology.
Thanks for that excellent link! The China picture is the same one used in the best documentary ever "UFOs are Real". See that film if you can.
As for it being a street lamp or not, normally we would simply (or maybe not simply) find out if that street had suspended street lamps at the time. On cursory examination, wouldnt there be more than one lamp in the frame, receding into the distance? That would rule out street lamps, as would the dude that appears to be pointing at the thing in the right hand side of the frame!
In any case, correlating this photo with other photos of identical objects at other times and places is more useful in saying something about the event; there are some pretty astonishing "same object different circumstance" pics around.
if your argument relies on a premise which can not be shown to be true, your argument is undeniably invalid.
My "argument" does not rely on a premise which is false. You need to read some materials about this subject, instead of skirting around the unpleasant fact that you have to do some work.
Your post is interesting behaviorally however. Your responses are identical to those which were made by your type in the mid 1990s on USENET. We have seen this kind of pointless gesturing from your school of "thought" before, and all of you were comprehensively demolished, for all time.
If you have any real interest in this subject, you need to do some work. That means reading.
"If we take as given"
Reading is fundamental. If you dont want to face the facts, thats OK. This debate is over. Its been over for years. You need to do your homework, and get acquainted with the facts.
Or not, if thats your thing.
INVISIBLE fighte tech?
Put down the crack pipe before you post!
I've never seen a report by anyone I find remotely credible about UFOs.
and so, because you have not seen them, they dont exist, AND/OR your measure of who is credible or not is questionable. either way, you are completly delusional.
Apparently, if you're not trolling, you have.
Im not trolling, unlike you, and I have, because I know how to read, and use Google.
But then, based on the way you responded to my post, I have to assume you're either trolling, or simply too easily convinced.
I assumed by your flippant, ignorant, pointless and infantile post that you were certainly trolling, and i treated you accordingly. I fed the troll.
Guilty as charged.
at best: firsthand accounts from people who seem to be insane.
Lie.
at worst: second or thirdhand accounts from people who also seem to be insane.
Lie.
Note that when I say insane, I mean in ways other than the claim that they observed these events.
??? gibberish.
Go back to sleep.
Who knows?
If we take as given that they are solid, and under the control of something by virtue of their ability to take evasive action, then you have to face this fact. After having faced it, there are some conclusions you can come to. If you will not say the words, if you will not face the facts head on, then you are in denial.
Nothing wrong with being in denial of course.
And you cannot throw the whole premise away because this particular case shows illuminated objects (illuminated by virtue of heat). There are enough radar visual cases involving non spherical (ie non natural) shapes of irrefutable quality that you can read if this Mexican case is not good enough for you.
Then you have to face it, deal with it and smell the fresh ground coffee!
A Totally useless tracker. Try This one. Lets see if Freeache works...
Looks like equipment anomaly.
And of course, because the pilots are Mexican they cant possibly have the necessary training to be able tell the difference between equipment anomaly and normal function.
Had they been American pilots that would have been a totally different story.
And you, having logged 10,000 hours on drug interdiction duty in the same setup, know the difference between correct function and equipment failure.
Yeah, Right, What-ever!
The UFO thing has sorta been bothering me.
What "bothers" me is why people refuse to make the next step. You accept that they are unidineitied, that they are flying and that they are objects, but you wont "go there" and say what they could possibly be, using the same reasoning skills that you use for anything else that you think about.
Just think about this one question. What manmade object can fly, in complete silence, at many hundreds of miles per hour, come to a complete stop, and then accelerate to hundreds of miles per hour, all without making a sound?
When you address this seriously, without prosaic explanations or complete nonsense, without ridicule or cowardly arguing techniques, then you will have served all the relevenat criteria for dealing with "The UFO Thing". Untill then, its just pure denial.
This is true moreso now than ever before, thanks to "911"; people simply cannot dismiss with a wave of a hand uncorrelated targets flying in American airspace. These events are very serious indeed.
The Wallonia Triangle event (Belgian Airforce tracking visually and with radar, multiple witnesses on the ground and a superb corroborating photo from close up) had a similar level of beyond doubt credibility, was widely reported, and nothing at all "happened".
The fact of the matter is, UFO's are real, some of them are extraterrestrial craft and...
it doesnt matter.
They are not going to give up their secrets. They are not going to interact with us in a way that is desireable to us, and nothing that they do is going to change the way that the majority of us live. In any case, even the most logical and intelligent of opinion shapers are in denial about UFOs; this is the main reason why no amount of evidence will cause a sea change in the public's perception.
In every way that matters, these ET craft are of no signifigance to the ordinary man. Until they are made to interact with us on our terms, and the pundits are finally forced to concede, this is something that simply needs to be documented with rigor and then left at that; expecting the earth to be rocked by this or another irrefutable case, or the secret reports getting released is not the holy grail as everyone has been seeking.
that's a logical fallacy.
Or a "straw man argument". Dolphins are not even aliens.
Whilst we are on the subject, this story has been shooting around the world; some very interesting infra-red footage shot by the Mexican Airforce shows...make up your own mind. The footage was shot by drug interdiction aircraft on patrol for smugglers.
Guns are designed to shoot bullets efficiently. You can use them to shot anytying, including people. The choice to shoot people is yours, and has nothing to do with the utility of the gun.
And you know that.
Thats what Gmail is for. Its for all those people who DONT have a computer themselves and who only use terminals in airports and internet cafes all over the world. They are legion, and previously, had to check their mail regularly or see their unique accounts deactivated. Even if they did check their mail regularly, The amount of space they were given was so small as to be almost useless.
With Gmail, all of this changes. And there is no barrier to switching, save changing your email address and informaing everyone, this price is very affordable; there are not thousands of legacy emails and family photo attachments that cannot be transfered over to the Gmail - the artificailly low storage limits on the other free systems have seen to that. Once they, the Hotmail legions understand what Gmail is, all the other free services will see users desert them like rats fleeing a sin...well, very fast.
The only way that the other services can possibly hope to stem this flow is to immediately duplicate the storage and permanency of account features of Gmail. Only then will the price of leaving become too great.
And that is not going to happen.
How about right now?
CARD-SAFE(TM) WALLET
"Protects Credit Cards And Other Valuables From EMF Damage"
The magnetic strip on your credit card can be damaged, even erased by exposure to strong magnetic fields. Ordinary magnets will do it, but so can less obvious sources such as anti-theft scanners in department stores or libraries, small electric motors, even speaker magnets (someone told us that electromagnetic harassment can be used to erase credit cards too)! This handsome black leather wallet is discretely lined with both RF and magnetic field shielding materials and offers excellent protection. Includes 2-compartment bill fold, 6-compartment credit card holder and change pouch, all shielded. Measures about 4" x 4½" when folded. Quality European craftsmanship, equally attractive for men and women.
CEO must decide what the right balance is.
If Ibuka and Morita were still at the helm (or men of their calibre) the "far reaching implications" decision would have been made. This type of decision is not beyond the ability of a CEO; look at IBM, a company with a long history of intelectual property as inviolable asset business strategy, turning on a dime to embrace and bolster Linux with many many millions of dollars in investment.
Your analysis is brilliant; the two halvs exerting pressure on each other created this sterile, non-SONY generation of products, and have allowed other companies with a singal vision wipe them out.
As for mandating DRM, you cannot mandate that from this day forward, water will be forevermore dry.
You know what I am talking about.
It cannot be denied that SONY was once one of the greatest companies on earth. Take a look if you have not already seen this gallery of Walkmen. They got it right lots of times, in many areas.
In this one area, digital music, they have got it completely wrong. This is unusual for SONY. Their portable digital music players have completely flopped, their proprietary encoder is a failure, and they are being left out in the cold in an area where they should be numnber one.
They were in a position to set the rules. They own Columbia and its huge back catalogue. They have the technical expertise to build the most seductive portables. They have software developers. What they were/are missing is the foresight.
They should have:
They would have owned the portable music player space, created the number one destination for music online, demonstrated that MP3s are the new radio, short circuted all the RIAA lawsuits, and....acted more like SONY.
1 PGP
2 Mozilla full suite
3 SSH
4 Daemon Tools
5 Videolan
6 Cygwin
7 Ultraedit
8 All non spyware p2p apps
9 Samurize
10 Skype
in no particular order (except mozilla, which needs to follow PGP, so Enigmail can get with it)
and sooooo many others!
stability: ????? bwaaahaahahahaha
Precisely. They need to work on that, not GUI non-issues
C'mon last stable was 4.11. 5 never was finished when they already released 6, (yes I agree OSX was the reason) and 6 is not even near to be stable (don't know on OSX though)
it can still dissapear with no reason under OSX, and there is already a 6.1 patch! WORK WORK WORK Ibrahimi!!!
InDesign is taking Quarks share in such ammount.
InDesign is a piece of trash. No professional is switching to it, and it cannot touch the ubiquity and third party support of QuarkXpress.
nuff said.
Xpress is easy enough, thats my point. Putting money into GUI simplification so that people who dont like to read can use Quark is a total waste of money for them. Their prorities are (were) the port to OSX and stability.
For all its excellence with output (and when I used it, it worked well) Quark is certainly not an example of brilliant, or even good UI design.
QuarkXpress is the best layout programme ever. It is difficult to learn, but once you learn it, using it is simplicity itself. Its power is astonishing. It is ouput second to none. Anyone who remembers the thrill of being able to set the background color to none of an item knows why QuarkXpress is so beloved.
It is extensible in ways and with third pary support that other programs only dream about. Look at "La Redout" and the other 4 inch thick catalogues. They are all produced with Quark, via an extension that connects your Xpress file with your huge database of catalogue items, including photos prices and everything else. That is sex.
Quark Xpress is like Autocad. Autocad is not number one without reason, and it too has a learning curve as steep as the Matterhorn. Once you master it though, you can build anything based on its output, from Beyblades to the replacement for the Twin Towers.
Some things in life are hard, and they are worth mastering if you love your art, in the case of Quark Xpress, setting type.
If a PGP encrypted message is sent with a PGP encrypted attchment bearing the file extension
In both cases, the subject was a line cut from the ciphertext in the body of the message.
Does this mean that Gmail scans attachments as well as the body of an email?
doesnt present any ads to you if the content of your email is a PGP encrypted message.