The Internet is a public forum where people gather freely.
The Internet (American Netizens, in this case) should, therefore, be regulating the Federal Election Commission, not the other way around.
If we permit them to frame this as "allowing" us inherent rights, we are giving freedoms up, both locally (America), and globally, as in the whole Net, unnecessarily.
"Yes, but you still have some kind of pseudo-democracy."
You Got It, thats what we have. Willful Ignorance is the law of the land nowadays. Americans have to have a hard series of Bitch Slaps to get anything. Fuck, we have had two fraudulent elections in a row and we still don't have paper trails or standardized voting machines. No wonder they are always saying "God Bless America", we probably need it more than the rest of the world. But I think "God give us a Freaking Clue." would be more useful
Christ, it just keeps getting better and better in the "Land of the Free(TM)." Would someone just nuke us now and put us out of everyone's misery. Oh Shit! Patriot Act Flag! Better shut my pie-hole.
I have a friend who is blind and I set up a SUSE system for her with emacs speak. All well and good, but you know what caught my eye, literally, in her home? It was a map of the united states about 4x3 on the wall. All the states were outlined in simple yarn and glue, with some braille stickers of the state names. Her mother made it for her by hand, and I bet she can find most states more accurately than most of us (where the hell is Indiana anyways?). I realize this is labor intensive, but its a great project with the kid and you can learn as well. Plus its a gift that lasts a lifetime, just like the good globe my mom bought me when I was 11.
I'm a geek, and my mom's birthday is in a few weeks, so this looks cool to me. Where can I get one of these? The main site is in japanese, and I can't find any other distributors....
Political Geek Idea:
Run the upcoming debates with different candidates speaking from a Burning Bush and a Pencil Cactus respectively.
I always start my daily (minimum) 2 hour news read with/. and Todays Papers on Slate.com, a summary of several of the top American Dailies. Both excellent jumping off points for the morning.
I totally agree. But I'm willing to give 'Merica one last chance. If Bush wins 2004, I think that is enough. It will take a decade or two just to beat-back all the P.A. Laws now on the books. But to be honest, I've been looking for out of country employment for the last two years anyways.
Bought Suse retail. $43.50. Promised to deliver support for handicapped. Bullshit. Not even a copy of Emacspeak on it. Bought Mandrake, $5 at user group meeting. Saved days to hours time setting up. See Ya Suse, you sucked anyways. And lied.
Where's my $10 rebate now?
Bitches.
I just can't wade through all the messages. Don't think anyone will read this. But. This was tragic, because civilians were on it. A teacher and a muscician. Remember? They found his foot. If you want a moment to rend your soul, then go to napster or, if you are coo, dig up your old vinyl copy of Jean Michelle Jarre's recording of Ron's Piece, which was *going* to be the first piece of music played live in space (or at least orbit). Haunting. Eloquent. Shame.
Bush didn't answer either, he 'answered' with what could be a result of a perl script based on his speeches. I'm only 33, but I came of age politically during RayGun and Bush, they were bad people, who did bad things, I was scared at night as a teenager about nuclear war. Clinton/Gore maintained many of the bad things while throwing bones to the rest of us.
so...
Bush = bad
Gore = bad
Nader=unlikely (but I'm voting for him)
Oh jesus, I smoked pot all through High School. I went to the High School for Health Professions too, so I knew what I was doing to my body and mind. But I only smoked after I got home and finished my homework. Then a bowl and some good ole C-64 games. Big deal. I'm a productive member of society and still smoke 16 years later. It really irritates me to think I have to go to jail for smoking a doobie at the beach.
and driver licsenses, food stamps, IP numbers assigned when you access your ISP. Are we talking about the Music Industry or the NSA? What freaking paranoia.
They don't have the resources to monitor everyone. Perhaps we should *all* come up with a crack and flood them with submissions, real or not.
i.e. Place computer in attic, run soundcard cable out west window over roof and down the east side of the house, then throught the kitchen and into the back of the TV set where we record music to VHS tapes!
As far as The Challenge goes, they should have had a web site development challenge first.
He stated his own analysis followed (that means opinion, you know). No different than a Katz article.... Shame on you for being ambushed by the truth and not liking it. Reality Does Suck, doesn't it?
"don't have the ability to sell vast quantities of i-openers to the hacker community"
Yeah, there *are* so many of us that we would drag the company down financially, aren't there?
How many people are actually going to hack the hardware? Perhaps they should sell the 2.5 inch drives with the units to make up the cost.
I thought the concept was interesting, and that they would freak on a few hundred people actually hacking thier hardware that they would change the system to prevent it. How much did that cost??
Mattel has a history that I wouldn't be too proud of, perhaps they should place themselves in the ban list too. Certainly this MotherJones article will be banned for full frontal nudity as well, even though they are critisized for thwarting a ban on PVC toxic toys in the EU.
I see alot of people running to an abstract concept: Death For Others. I'm sure alot of you would run the other way if you were Bernard Getz and you had to die because you killed others in 'self defense'. Getz did not die. He proved suspicion of provocation is enough for lethal action. Apparently an AP line is all you need behind your monitor to vote to kill a man. Sad.
Actually, no. And we don't own the Panama Canal, and we have clear access to it for another 20 years or so regardless of who is a service provider (china) for the locks. So we are not 'giving' away anything. This is prime capitalisim in action. If China had owned the canal, america would position itself into their place, and dropped bombs to secure it. So spare me American Brother.
Sodomy, jaywalking, and smoking pot, are against the law. Should careless, stoned, homosexuals be killed too, Nazi-Boy? BTW, I bet you have done 2 of the 3.
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The Internet (American Netizens, in this case) should, therefore, be regulating the Federal Election Commission, not the other way around.
If we permit them to frame this as "allowing" us inherent rights, we are giving freedoms up, both locally (America), and globally, as in the whole Net, unnecessarily.
You Got It, thats what we have. Willful Ignorance is the law of the land nowadays. Americans have to have a hard series of Bitch Slaps to get anything. Fuck, we have had two fraudulent elections in a row and we still don't have paper trails or standardized voting machines. No wonder they are always saying "God Bless America", we probably need it more than the rest of the world. But I think "God give us a Freaking Clue." would be more useful
Christ, it just keeps getting better and better in the "Land of the Free(TM)." Would someone just nuke us now and put us out of everyone's misery. Oh Shit! Patriot Act Flag! Better shut my pie-hole.
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Infor mation_Technology_Association_Of_America
I have a friend who is blind and I set up a SUSE system for her with emacs speak. All well and good, but you know what caught my eye, literally, in her home? It was a map of the united states about 4x3 on the wall. All the states were outlined in simple yarn and glue, with some braille stickers of the state names. Her mother made it for her by hand, and I bet she can find most states more accurately than most of us (where the hell is Indiana anyways?). I realize this is labor intensive, but its a great project with the kid and you can learn as well. Plus its a gift that lasts a lifetime, just like the good globe my mom bought me when I was 11.
I'm a geek, and my mom's birthday is in a few weeks, so this looks cool to me. Where can I get one of these? The main site is in japanese, and I can't find any other distributors.... Political Geek Idea: Run the upcoming debates with different candidates speaking from a Burning Bush and a Pencil Cactus respectively.
I always start my daily (minimum) 2 hour news read with /. and Todays Papers on Slate.com, a summary of several of the top American Dailies. Both excellent jumping off points for the morning.
I totally agree. But I'm willing to give 'Merica one last chance. If Bush wins 2004, I think that is enough. It will take a decade or two just to beat-back all the P.A. Laws now on the books. But to be honest, I've been looking for out of country employment for the last two years anyways.
Yup and they made that *before* the legislation. Freaked them out a little, needless to say. Money well spent.
Bought Suse retail. $43.50. Promised to deliver support for handicapped. Bullshit. Not even a copy of Emacspeak on it. Bought Mandrake, $5 at user group meeting. Saved days to hours time setting up. See Ya Suse, you sucked anyways. And lied. Where's my $10 rebate now?
Bitches.
Thanks man. I feel oddly better now.
Shame you weren't alive then. The world is such a better place now.
I just can't wade through all the messages. Don't think anyone will read this. But. This was tragic, because civilians were on it. A teacher and a muscician. Remember? They found his foot. If you want a moment to rend your soul, then go to napster or, if you are coo, dig up your old vinyl copy of Jean Michelle Jarre's recording of Ron's Piece, which was *going* to be the first piece of music played live in space (or at least orbit). Haunting. Eloquent. Shame.
http://www.bullatomsci.org/clock.html
Ok, I know you were shitting yourselves, but in 84 I think RayGun was president. OK?
so...
Bush = bad
Gore = bad
Nader=unlikely (but I'm voting for him)
But please, don't vote Bush.
Oh jesus, I smoked pot all through High School. I went to the High School for Health Professions too, so I knew what I was doing to my body and mind. But I only smoked after I got home and finished my homework. Then a bowl and some good ole C-64 games. Big deal. I'm a productive member of society and still smoke 16 years later. It really irritates me to think I have to go to jail for smoking a doobie at the beach.
They don't have the resources to monitor everyone. Perhaps we should *all* come up with a crack and flood them with submissions, real or not.
i.e. Place computer in attic, run soundcard cable out west window over roof and down the east side of the house, then throught the kitchen and into the back of the TV set where we record music to VHS tapes!
As far as The Challenge goes, they should have had a web site development challenge first.
He stated his own analysis followed (that means opinion, you know). No different than a Katz article.... Shame on you for being ambushed by the truth and not liking it. Reality Does Suck, doesn't it?
Is not a Bad Idea Rob.....
Now if they would team up with MS!
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"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front
porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and
playing my Hohner harmonica."
Abraham Lincoln - 1855
Yeah, there *are* so many of us that we would drag the company down financially, aren't there?
How many people are actually going to hack the hardware? Perhaps they should sell the 2.5 inch drives with the units to make up the cost.
I thought the concept was interesting, and that they would freak on a few hundred people actually hacking thier hardware that they would change the system to prevent it. How much did that cost??
get real, ala metallica (sux).
http://www.motherjones.com/sideshow/pvc.html
I see alot of people running to an abstract concept: Death For Others. I'm sure alot of you would run the other way if you were Bernard Getz and you had to die because you killed others in 'self defense'. Getz did not die. He proved suspicion of provocation is enough for lethal action. Apparently an AP line is all you need behind your monitor to vote to kill a man. Sad.
Actually, no. And we don't own the Panama Canal, and we have clear access to it for another 20 years or so regardless of who is a service provider (china) for the locks.
So we are not 'giving' away anything.
This is prime capitalisim in action. If China had owned the canal, america would position itself into their place, and dropped bombs to secure it. So spare me American Brother.
Sodomy, jaywalking, and smoking pot, are against the law. Should careless, stoned, homosexuals be killed too, Nazi-Boy? BTW, I bet you have done 2 of the 3.