Fine... The let's talk about "God told me to invade Iraq" George W. Bush, who made-up reasons to invade a country and kill 100,000 civilians. And he did it in the name of America, God, and Haliburton. He's the biggest mass-murderer in recent history and he claims that God himself told him to invade -- making it an invasion in the name Christianity.
Such as Slavery. It's certainly more "recent" than the crusades. And don't tell me that Christians didn't have Slaves in the USA, and were more then willing to kill a few to make sure there were no insurrections. Or let's go more recent, where good Christians beat to death any Homosexuals they tend to come across.
And how about the KKK, also run by good Christians, and I'm sure they go to church every Sunday ?
Don't act like America is full of clean, well-spoken intellectuals. The vast majority appear to be knee-jerk, xenophobic rednecks who watch Fox News and believe everything Glenn Beck says.
No, but I'm sure Rush "big fat drug addict racist" Limbaugh will say that this is a reason we can't have a mosque near ground zero. And then he'll do his Chinaman impersonation to piss off yet another billion people.
The FIRST matrix movie was based heavily on "Ghost in the Shell". Now that the Wachowskis have watched "Serial Experiments Lain" and/or ".Hack", they are ready to do more.
Also, have you ever considered that "The Terminator" and "The Matrix" are EXACTLY the same plot, just that one takes place inside Skynet and the other outside Skynet? Combine the two, and you end up with the basic plot to William Gibson's "Neuromancer"?
Frankly, for all of you spouting about how great and original the first Matrix was, the only thing original about it was that it combined a lot of existing tropes in a way *you* never saw before. And the reason the sequels were so bad is that they didn't have time to rip off as much anime as they did the first time around. (The Gundams in the third film were a dead giveaway though).
But since then, they've had plenty of time to rip off cyberpunk anime. So, they might not be as bad as #2 and #3... But who knows?
Have you called Verzion or Fedex services lately? They are both english language processing menu driven systems. Of course, the most used response from their system is 'Sorry, I didn't quite get that...'
Of course the fact the Verizon now even has a system for you to pay your bill without even speaking to a human is pretty impressive. Too bad their billing system itself is still in the dark ages.
Verizon is a phone company that doesn't know how to answer a phone, transfer a call, make a three-way call, or anything else involving phones.
Their billing department plays games, randomly changing your bill by a few extra cents each month, even if you're on a set-amount negotiated by contract. Their CSAs (when and if you get through to one) will *say* they are doing everything to resolve your issues, but nothing happens.
And then of course, my favorite: Sales guy swears up and down on a stack of bibles that your bill is going to be $89.99, plus a few taxes and fees. He'll tell you "About $114" when all is said and done. And you ask him again. So that's *everything* right? I won't get a huge bill with set-up fees and crap? He says "No. I guarantee your bill won't be over $114". Three weeks later the first bill arrives and it's $250. You then get to spend the next 6 months fighting with them over that bill. You will threaten to take them to court. You will write the Attourney State General, your Senators, your Congressmen. You will speak to every Vice-President Verizon has, wasting over $1000 of your time and theirs. Finally, they will agree to credit your bill. Except that no credit ever appears and you get to start all over again, or give up.
That's the Verizon I know. I hope you faire better. All I know is that I wouldn't trust them to clean toilets, much less run critical infrastructure.
Think about it: We've been on this planet for thousands of years, and we still can't talk to any other species, no matter how smart they may seem. What chances are we going to have when we meet something from another planet? Let's assume we get there, not that they come here. When we land, are we going to start finding ET delicious?
Cameron didn't really address these issues *enough* in "Avatar". Frankly, if the blue-skinned guys hadn't been humanoid-looking, we'd probably be eating them. There would have been no attempt at making meaningful contact, no matter how smart they were.
So perhaps this guy is right: Dolphins need to be treated as "people with a soul". Or whatever justification you can muster so that we start putting serious effort into making contact. After all, with so many forms of life on this planet, why are we assuming we're the ONLY intelligent species?
Actually a replacement for the space shuttle could be built by just one or two defense contractors. The only reason a space shuttle requires dozens of companies is something you pointed out earlier: politics.
As NASA projects are "public dollars", every senator and congressman wants to get their hands in the pot and take some of that money for their state/district. So it's legally mandated to spread the money around, which is why the bolts are made in one state, while the nuts in another.
You could take the technology from the SR-71 and X-15 and X-20 programs and build a shuttle replacement, in secret, with a 'skunkworks' team. Remember that the aircraft that created the "doughnuts on a rope" contrail/exhaust plume has never been identified, so, we're never been certain that Auroura wasn't some kind of military spacecraft. What we're talking about isn't a big lumbering dump-truck with a huge payload bay, but something smaller, lighter, with a 2-man crew and maybe a small bay for satellite deployment and retrieval.
Remember that if Burt Rutan can make a spacecraft that's dropped from another high-altitude aircraft, that's gotta be easy as pie for a defense contractor. Look up the photos of the SR-71 with the drone attached to it, and tell me that's not possible to scale up slightly for a LEO craft.
I'll bet you're wondering what the heck one of the worst Star Trek movies ever has to do with the censoring of Huck Finn.
Well, I'll tell you.
In Star Trek V, there's a guy wandering about trying to remove everyone's "pain", and in doing so, he converts them to his particular cult because they feel so "healed" by the removal of the pain. But it's a sham.
Kirk correctly points out that "I need my pain. It makes me who I am."
And here we are as a society trying to do the same thing: remove something we consider painful. In the hope that we'll somehow be "healed". But it's a sham. We need our pain, it's what makes us what we are. It's what keeps our society in check. And as usual, the big-brother committee, in true "Brazil" fashion, has targeted a word, and not the real problem. Changing a word doesn't change race relations in the USA, nor does it excise xenophobia.
If anything it points out the ridiculousness of nanny-state-ism, just as much as Frank Gorshin's portrayal of a man who is black on the right side, who despises a man who is black on the left side. It's too bad our society learned nothing from Star Trek. Poor Gene. He tried so hard to explain. But nobody listened.
That they won the Civil War. We keep messing with History to make it more palatable.
If you go to Georgia and take a "tour" of some of the fancy houses set up as museums now, you'd be astounded by how much "history" they get wrong. I mean it'll floor you, you really want to speak up and tell the curator he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about, but then you tell yourself "don't make a scene. don't embarrass your GF."
I'm constantly reminding people of even common misconceptions, like "Edison invented the lightbulb" (He did not).
It's actually very worrysome about how little we Americans know about our own history or what actually took place, because people only know about the falsehoods portrayed in movies or on TV. Things that have been altered for dramatic presentation or to make it dumbed-down enough for the general population to understand.
And to those of you who were *FOR* Amazon "censoring" homosexual books or books involving incest or rape by removing those titles from their ebooks, well, do you see where this slippery slope is heading, or are you still happy to bury your head in the sand?
Continue to allow this and doubleplus ungood newspeak is just around the corner.
Who would have changed the N-word to "Muslim". Or whatever moniker they've assigned to Obama this week. Maybe they'd have just changed it to "Democrat".
And therein lies one of the most interesting aspects of the SR-71. That a rocket powered missile could not catch up to a jet-powered aircraft. Although there have been some "official" record-setting flights with the SR-71, it's actual top-speed still remains secret.
The fact that the friggin' thing was built in the 50's and we can't even get a shuttle into LEO these days really shows how far we've fallen. Something's wrong in this place if our current technology doesn't have the capabilities of yesterday's technology.
Hasn't everyone been trying to guess what the big data center they are building is for? Well, this could be the answer you're looking for... TFTP booting has been around since the days of Xterms, maybe even before then.
It makes perfect sense for user-recovery as well. Imagine this: You've dropped your macbook, and now it won't boot from the HD, but can automatically default to net-booting into a utility that will attempt to repair the HD. It will also allow you to boot into a stripped down OS that allows you to copy all your important files to a USB stick or maybe to a ".mac" cloud destination.
The current Macbook Air doesn't eve have a HD -- it uses flash. Just imagine how much thinner they'll be able to make that computer if all it is, is a screen, keyboard and some wireless networking. Then it really will be a Macbook "Air" -- the whole machine becomes a true "netbook" in that it boots and runs from the internet.
Just wait until Apple figures out how to power it from the network as well. No batteries needed.
Hasn't everyone been trying to guess what the big data center they are building is for? Well, this could be the answer you're looking for... TFTP booting has been around since the days of Xterms, maybe even before then.
It makes perfect sense for user-recovery as well. Imagine this: You've dropped your macbook, and now it won't boot from the HD, but can automatically default to net-booting into a utility that will attempt to repair the HD. It will also allow you to boot into a stripped down OS that allows you to copy all your important files to a USB stick or maybe to a ".mac" cloud destination.
The current Macbook Air doesn't eve have a HD -- it uses flash. Just imagine how much thinner they'll be able to make that computer if all it is, is a screen, keyboard and some wireless networking. Then it really will be a Macbook "Air" -- the whole machine becomes a true "netbook" in that it boots and runs from the internet.
Just wait until Apple figures out how to power it from the network as well. No batteries needed.
Gee, and I still have my issues of Macworld where every editor was writing Apple's epitaph, Apple's stock was about $12 a share, and Spindler had turned the company into the "Computer of the week" with dull-as-dirt case designs (they looked like the old "Leading Edge" machines).
Infoworld by that point wasn't even acknowledging Apple's existence, and everything Apple-related was folding up. Then came the rumors that Apple was going to buy BeOS, but nobody believed it would be enough to save them. Then came the annoucement that they had bought NeXT, and Steve Jobs was returning.
Everyone gasped, and then continued to say it wouldn't be enough to save them. Then Jobs introduced the "Fisher-Price Mac", a candy-colored all-in-one atrocity with no floppy drive... The iMac. It did OK, but not well enough.
Then Jobs decided to enter the MP3 player market, an interesting twist, as that market seemed too small to make money. And that's where the genius began. Apple decided to create NEW MARKETS, rather than try and push into already crowded markets that were oversaturated with cheap PCs. Of course, we got Cmdr. Taco's famous "lame" review, but Apple's "Think different" continued to push us with marketing and Apple tied into the "cool factor" of having an iPod.
And Apple's been riding high ever since. Not bad. Not bad at all for a company that everyone, every so-called "expert" considered to be done, kaput, washed-up, finito.
And yet, these experts continue to scream in their columns and blogs, and on CNBC about how right they are about everything, and I have to wonder how those people sleep at night being so wrong all the time, and yet, get paid to give their opinion.
Go figure. All I know is that I have a friend who bought Apple stock when they were at their low point because he believed in that company. He's doing very well right now, I assume. More power to him, and screw those "experts".
Please re-read my post. I said targeting FOX makes sense because they scream the loudest, and are the only group that can make a change in the political landscape. Unless you've got a better idea.
Targeting politicians themselves for the no-fly list doesn't work, we already see that Senators and Congressmen are allowed to bypass security altogether. If you're too well known, it's useless. If however, you target everyone at FOX, not just the newscasters, but their writers, cameramen, producers, etc., THEN, maybe, THEN, they will stand up and force the government to make a change.
Also, if you think about it, FOX initially supported all the initiatives (up until the naked bodyscanners/gropings), so, they reap what they sow.
So now all citizens are enemies of the state? And with a "tip list" that is so easily game-able, why don't we all just submit the names of everyone who works for FOX NEWS?
I'd love to hear about Glenn Beck not being able to fly, or Sarah Palin strip-searched and groped at the airport. Now that might make FOX reverse some of their propaganda. If anything, when it comes to security theater, that's actually one of the very few things Glenn Beck and I agree on.
But since FOX yells louder than any other "news" agency (nobody watches msnbc, CNN is useless), they are a great target for this. I say make FOX an enemy of the state, and let them see how their "post 9-11 world" that they yap about so much has become an insane police-state.
They after all, are the only group to create their own grass-root support, as FOX essentially created the "Tea Party", so, only they can create enough backlash to have any effect in American politics.
If I open a diner, and my sign on the door says 'Whites only', that's OK because I am a private business? I mean, if you're black, and don't like that, you're free to eat elsewhere or open your own diner that serves blacks only, right?
"If you tally it up, God is directly responsible for somewhere between 2 and 25 million deaths in the Bible. Satan is responsible for somewhere between 10 and 60."
And here's some news right back: Corporations are now in control of the government, and seem to have more "rights" than citizens. Pretty soon they will control *everything* as you or I understand it. They already control what you read, what you hear, what you watch. "News" is just another form of corporate filtered "infotainment", and Congress is bought and sold like it was a stock.
Sounds to me like you're a corporate mouthpiece that wants all control in the hands of the elite, where people have only the rights granted to them by their masters, any of which can be taken away on a whim or profit motive.
If you want to live in a world where you're a mindless consumer, a wage slave that exists only to provide wealth to his corporate masters, go for it.
But don't tell me I'm wrong to demand that equality exists for all, and furthermore, don't tell me that I'm confused about "private enterprise" because any sufficiently large corporation is indistinguishable from government.
Just ask any farmer that has ever had to deal with Monsanto.
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Fine... The let's talk about "God told me to invade Iraq" George W. Bush, who made-up reasons to invade a country and kill 100,000 civilians. And he did it in the name of America, God, and Haliburton. He's the biggest mass-murderer in recent history and he claims that God himself told him to invade -- making it an invasion in the name Christianity.
Such as Slavery. It's certainly more "recent" than the crusades. And don't tell me that Christians didn't have Slaves in the USA, and were more then willing to kill a few to make sure there were no insurrections. Or let's go more recent, where good Christians beat to death any Homosexuals they tend to come across.
And how about the KKK, also run by good Christians, and I'm sure they go to church every Sunday ?
Don't act like America is full of clean, well-spoken intellectuals. The vast majority appear to be knee-jerk, xenophobic rednecks who watch Fox News and believe everything Glenn Beck says.
No, but I'm sure Rush "big fat drug addict racist" Limbaugh will say that this is a reason we can't have a mosque near ground zero. And then he'll do his Chinaman impersonation to piss off yet another billion people.
Wow... You really need to get out of your mom's basement....
The FIRST matrix movie was based heavily on "Ghost in the Shell". Now that the Wachowskis have watched "Serial Experiments Lain" and/or ".Hack", they are ready to do more.
Also, have you ever considered that "The Terminator" and "The Matrix" are EXACTLY the same plot, just that one takes place inside Skynet and the other outside Skynet? Combine the two, and you end up with the basic plot to William Gibson's "Neuromancer"?
Frankly, for all of you spouting about how great and original the first Matrix was, the only thing original about it was that it combined a lot of existing tropes in a way *you* never saw before. And the reason the sequels were so bad is that they didn't have time to rip off as much anime as they did the first time around. (The Gundams in the third film were a dead giveaway though).
But since then, they've had plenty of time to rip off cyberpunk anime. So, they might not be as bad as #2 and #3... But who knows?
Try and remember that a significant percentage of slashdot denizens weren't even *born* when the shuttle started flying. Now.... get off my lawn.
Have you called Verzion or Fedex services lately? They are both english language processing menu driven systems. Of course, the most used response from their system is 'Sorry, I didn't quite get that...'
Of course the fact the Verizon now even has a system for you to pay your bill without even speaking to a human is pretty impressive. Too bad their billing system itself is still in the dark ages.
Verizon is a phone company that doesn't know how to answer a phone, transfer a call, make a three-way call, or anything else involving phones.
Their billing department plays games, randomly changing your bill by a few extra cents each month, even if you're on a set-amount negotiated by contract. Their CSAs (when and if you get through to one) will *say* they are doing everything to resolve your issues, but nothing happens.
And then of course, my favorite: Sales guy swears up and down on a stack of bibles that your bill is going to be $89.99, plus a few taxes and fees. He'll tell you "About $114" when all is said and done. And you ask him again. So that's *everything* right? I won't get a huge bill with set-up fees and crap? He says "No. I guarantee your bill won't be over $114". Three weeks later the first bill arrives and it's $250. You then get to spend the next 6 months fighting with them over that bill. You will threaten to take them to court. You will write the Attourney State General, your Senators, your Congressmen. You will speak to every Vice-President Verizon has, wasting over $1000 of your time and theirs. Finally, they will agree to credit your bill. Except that no credit ever appears and you get to start all over again, or give up.
That's the Verizon I know. I hope you faire better. All I know is that I wouldn't trust them to clean toilets, much less run critical infrastructure.
If we can't communicate with Dolphins.
Think about it: We've been on this planet for thousands of years, and we still can't talk to any other species, no matter how smart they may seem. What chances are we going to have when we meet something from another planet? Let's assume we get there, not that they come here. When we land, are we going to start finding ET delicious?
Cameron didn't really address these issues *enough* in "Avatar". Frankly, if the blue-skinned guys hadn't been humanoid-looking, we'd probably be eating them. There would have been no attempt at making meaningful contact, no matter how smart they were.
So perhaps this guy is right: Dolphins need to be treated as "people with a soul". Or whatever justification you can muster so that we start putting serious effort into making contact. After all, with so many forms of life on this planet, why are we assuming we're the ONLY intelligent species?
Actually a replacement for the space shuttle could be built by just one or two defense contractors. The only reason a space shuttle requires dozens of companies is something you pointed out earlier: politics.
As NASA projects are "public dollars", every senator and congressman wants to get their hands in the pot and take some of that money for their state/district. So it's legally mandated to spread the money around, which is why the bolts are made in one state, while the nuts in another.
You could take the technology from the SR-71 and X-15 and X-20 programs and build a shuttle replacement, in secret, with a 'skunkworks' team. Remember that the aircraft that created the "doughnuts on a rope" contrail/exhaust plume has never been identified, so, we're never been certain that Auroura wasn't some kind of military spacecraft. What we're talking about isn't a big lumbering dump-truck with a huge payload bay, but something smaller, lighter, with a 2-man crew and maybe a small bay for satellite deployment and retrieval.
Remember that if Burt Rutan can make a spacecraft that's dropped from another high-altitude aircraft, that's gotta be easy as pie for a defense contractor. Look up the photos of the SR-71 with the drone attached to it, and tell me that's not possible to scale up slightly for a LEO craft.
I'll bet you're wondering what the heck one of the worst Star Trek movies ever has to do with the censoring of Huck Finn.
Well, I'll tell you.
In Star Trek V, there's a guy wandering about trying to remove everyone's "pain", and in doing so, he converts them to his particular cult because they feel so "healed" by the removal of the pain. But it's a sham.
Kirk correctly points out that "I need my pain. It makes me who I am."
And here we are as a society trying to do the same thing: remove something we consider painful. In the hope that we'll somehow be "healed". But it's a sham. We need our pain, it's what makes us what we are. It's what keeps our society in check. And as usual, the big-brother committee, in true "Brazil" fashion, has targeted a word, and not the real problem. Changing a word doesn't change race relations in the USA, nor does it excise xenophobia.
If anything it points out the ridiculousness of nanny-state-ism, just as much as Frank Gorshin's portrayal of a man who is black on the right side, who despises a man who is black on the left side. It's too bad our society learned nothing from Star Trek. Poor Gene. He tried so hard to explain. But nobody listened.
That they won the Civil War. We keep messing with History to make it more palatable.
If you go to Georgia and take a "tour" of some of the fancy houses set up as museums now, you'd be astounded by how much "history" they get wrong. I mean it'll floor you, you really want to speak up and tell the curator he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about, but then you tell yourself "don't make a scene. don't embarrass your GF."
I'm constantly reminding people of even common misconceptions, like "Edison invented the lightbulb" (He did not).
It's actually very worrysome about how little we Americans know about our own history or what actually took place, because people only know about the falsehoods portrayed in movies or on TV. Things that have been altered for dramatic presentation or to make it dumbed-down enough for the general population to understand.
And to those of you who were *FOR* Amazon "censoring" homosexual books or books involving incest or rape by removing those titles from their ebooks, well, do you see where this slippery slope is heading, or are you still happy to bury your head in the sand?
Continue to allow this and doubleplus ungood newspeak is just around the corner.
Who would have changed the N-word to "Muslim".
Or whatever moniker they've assigned to Obama this week.
Maybe they'd have just changed it to "Democrat".
And therein lies one of the most interesting aspects of the SR-71. That a rocket powered missile could not catch up to a jet-powered aircraft. Although there have been some "official" record-setting flights with the SR-71, it's actual top-speed still remains secret.
The fact that the friggin' thing was built in the 50's and we can't even get a shuttle into LEO these days really shows how far we've fallen. Something's wrong in this place if our current technology doesn't have the capabilities of yesterday's technology.
Hey little Twelve Toes,
I hope you're thriving...
Some of us ten-toed folks are still surviving.
If you help me with my twelves,
I'll help you with your tens.
And we can all be friends.
Little twelve toes....
Please come back home.
Hasn't everyone been trying to guess what the big data center they are building is for? Well, this could be the answer you're looking for... TFTP booting has been around since the days of Xterms, maybe even before then.
It makes perfect sense for user-recovery as well. Imagine this: You've dropped your macbook, and now it won't boot from the HD, but can automatically default to net-booting into a utility that will attempt to repair the HD. It will also allow you to boot into a stripped down OS that allows you to copy all your important files to a USB stick or maybe to a ".mac" cloud destination.
The current Macbook Air doesn't eve have a HD -- it uses flash. Just imagine how much thinner they'll be able to make that computer if all it is, is a screen, keyboard and some wireless networking. Then it really will be a Macbook "Air" -- the whole machine becomes a true "netbook" in that it boots and runs from the internet.
Just wait until Apple figures out how to power it from the network as well. No batteries needed.
Hasn't everyone been trying to guess what the big data center they are building is for? Well, this could be the answer you're looking for... TFTP booting has been around since the days of Xterms, maybe even before then.
It makes perfect sense for user-recovery as well. Imagine this: You've dropped your macbook, and now it won't boot from the HD, but can automatically default to net-booting into a utility that will attempt to repair the HD. It will also allow you to boot into a stripped down OS that allows you to copy all your important files to a USB stick or maybe to a ".mac" cloud destination.
The current Macbook Air doesn't eve have a HD -- it uses flash. Just imagine how much thinner they'll be able to make that computer if all it is, is a screen, keyboard and some wireless networking. Then it really will be a Macbook "Air" -- the whole machine becomes a true "netbook" in that it boots and runs from the internet.
Just wait until Apple figures out how to power it from the network as well. No batteries needed.
Wow, it wouldn't take much for a group to pool their resources and buy SCO just for haha's.
Gee, and I still have my issues of Macworld where every editor was writing Apple's epitaph, Apple's stock was about $12 a share, and Spindler had turned the company into the "Computer of the week" with dull-as-dirt case designs (they looked like the old "Leading Edge" machines).
Infoworld by that point wasn't even acknowledging Apple's existence, and everything Apple-related was folding up. Then came the rumors that Apple was going to buy BeOS, but nobody believed it would be enough to save them. Then came the annoucement that they had bought NeXT, and Steve Jobs was returning.
Everyone gasped, and then continued to say it wouldn't be enough to save them. Then Jobs introduced the "Fisher-Price Mac", a candy-colored all-in-one atrocity with no floppy drive... The iMac. It did OK, but not well enough.
Then Jobs decided to enter the MP3 player market, an interesting twist, as that market seemed too small to make money. And that's where the genius began. Apple decided to create NEW MARKETS, rather than try and push into already crowded markets that were oversaturated with cheap PCs. Of course, we got Cmdr. Taco's famous "lame" review, but Apple's "Think different" continued to push us with marketing and Apple tied into the "cool factor" of having an iPod.
And Apple's been riding high ever since. Not bad. Not bad at all for a company that everyone, every so-called "expert" considered to be done, kaput, washed-up, finito.
And yet, these experts continue to scream in their columns and blogs, and on CNBC about how right they are about everything, and I have to wonder how those people sleep at night being so wrong all the time, and yet, get paid to give their opinion.
Go figure. All I know is that I have a friend who bought Apple stock when they were at their low point because he believed in that company. He's doing very well right now, I assume. More power to him, and screw those "experts".
America is dead. Our decline is just the corpse rotting.
I think you just wrote my new sig....
Please re-read my post. I said targeting FOX makes sense because they scream the loudest, and are the only group that can make a change in the political landscape. Unless you've got a better idea.
Targeting politicians themselves for the no-fly list doesn't work, we already see that Senators and Congressmen are allowed to bypass security altogether. If you're too well known, it's useless. If however, you target everyone at FOX, not just the newscasters, but their writers, cameramen, producers, etc., THEN, maybe, THEN, they will stand up and force the government to make a change.
Also, if you think about it, FOX initially supported all the initiatives (up until the naked bodyscanners/gropings), so, they reap what they sow.
So now all citizens are enemies of the state? And with a "tip list" that is so easily game-able, why don't we all just submit the names of everyone who works for FOX NEWS?
I'd love to hear about Glenn Beck not being able to fly, or Sarah Palin strip-searched and groped at the airport. Now that might make FOX reverse some of their propaganda. If anything, when it comes to security theater, that's actually one of the very few things Glenn Beck and I agree on.
But since FOX yells louder than any other "news" agency (nobody watches msnbc, CNN is useless), they are a great target for this. I say make FOX an enemy of the state, and let them see how their "post 9-11 world" that they yap about so much has become an insane police-state.
They after all, are the only group to create their own grass-root support, as FOX essentially created the "Tea Party", so, only they can create enough backlash to have any effect in American politics.
So, to bring this back on target:
If I open a diner, and my sign on the door says 'Whites only', that's OK because I am a private business? I mean, if you're black, and don't like that, you're free to eat elsewhere or open your own diner that serves blacks only, right?
"If you tally it up, God is directly responsible for somewhere between 2 and 25 million deaths in the Bible. Satan is responsible for somewhere between 10 and 60."
I forget.... which side are we on?
And here's some news right back: Corporations are now in control of the government, and seem to have more "rights" than citizens. Pretty soon they will control *everything* as you or I understand it. They already control what you read, what you hear, what you watch. "News" is just another form of corporate filtered "infotainment", and Congress is bought and sold like it was a stock.
Sounds to me like you're a corporate mouthpiece that wants all control in the hands of the elite, where people have only the rights granted to them by their masters, any of which can be taken away on a whim or profit motive.
If you want to live in a world where you're a mindless consumer, a wage slave that exists only to provide wealth to his corporate masters, go for it.
But don't tell me I'm wrong to demand that equality exists for all, and furthermore, don't tell me that I'm confused about "private enterprise" because any sufficiently large corporation is indistinguishable from government.
Just ask any farmer that has ever had to deal with Monsanto.