historically, when life becomes so restrictied that everything one does is illegal as new laws take away the people's freedom, guns have been used to take that freedom back.
The problem being that this isn't the 1700's; and the citizenry is not allowed to have anything that could stand a prayer against thugs in tanks and riot gear.
Sorry, in a battle between joe bob's militia and the US, I know where my bets will go...
Only when there is competition. Where I am at, there is AOL, Wal-mart and a local dialup ISP. The local dialup only offered a web-based mail serice which I could never log onto, and they logged ALL activity (or so they claim).
So, I swtiched to Wal-mart dialup. Better the devil that gives you 50% off....
Sorry, I don't see it. The resources are not there, and the motivation is not there. Look over sf.net sometime. Look at all the abandoned projects...then come back and tell me these people are going to start a new internet?!?!? I'll believe it when I see it (and I am decidedly NOT holding my breath).
At this point you have two choices: you can shut down alaska and force everyone to relocate to the lower 48, or you can open anwar. That's the economic reality up there atm, and is likely to remain so for quite some time.
Anyone who tells you differnt hasn't lived up there, or is lying (most probably both).
This article reminds me of how my left-handed friends describe the tools they face in real life. The right-handed never notice that things are geared for them. For the left-handed, it's very noticable.
This jumped out at me because I'm tired^H^H^H^H^Hleft-handed. I'm right at the cut off age where they stopped punishing left-handers for being left handed. With the exception of scissors (which, honestly, I learned early on to use right-handed) I can honestly say I Don't notice that how much things are geared for anyone.
[except I'll occasionally find doors that seem to be made for left handers, and they'll strike me as being very unusual.]
It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons, effective today, without any warning.
My suspicion is this happened because I made anti-war statements in a Canadian newspaper article in the Globe & Mail, but I am not an American citizen so I cannot claim to have free speech there (even made "quote of the day")."
You might be king shit amongst a group of nerds but the idea that your opinion matters to the US Government is laughable. If it was anyone It could have been MS whispering in ears just like they did for SE Linux. Not because of some lame anti war comment you made in a Canadian newspaper.
It could very well have been as simple as someone from Darpa decided to peruse the mailing list/IRC forums one day and asked a n00b question and didn't like the response (unlikely, but not nearly as unlikely as getting shitcanned for an anti-war comment).
I agree, Theo is blatantly stretching.
[using my karma bonus as I feel this needs to be heard and discussed.]
you can be certain this is another way to tax the locals just like his 'emp' and his 'allen' *cough* 'seahawks' stadium (300 million in sales taxes diverted to fund it). what a cheezeface.
That strategy has worked wonderfully well for him so far. And they only had what, 3 tries before the voters before they pushed that studium through in a back-door meeting?
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If voting could accomplish anything, it would have been made illegal!
[btw, I am a registered voter; but I'm under no illousions that it matters.]
lynx. And brother, do we mean it!"
... look at my user ID! It's too high, someone already took "beryllium" ... :(
/. account after my real name: jon katz...
And they don't do anything with it, either. Gimps.
I can relate. I really wanted to name my
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...funny little thing called 'cash'.
The problem being that this isn't the 1700's; and the citizenry is not allowed to have anything that could stand a prayer against thugs in tanks and riot gear.
Sorry, in a battle between joe bob's militia and the US, I know where my bets will go...
Only when there is competition. Where I am at, there is AOL, Wal-mart and a local dialup ISP. The local dialup only offered a web-based mail serice which I could never log onto, and they logged ALL activity (or so they claim).
So, I swtiched to Wal-mart dialup. Better the devil that gives you 50% off....
Sorry, I don't see it. The resources are not there, and the motivation is not there. Look over sf.net sometime. Look at all the abandoned projects...then come back and tell me these people are going to start a new internet?!?!? I'll believe it when I see it (and I am decidedly NOT holding my breath).
...and this is different from socialist europe in what way again?
So you know this one, then: "The GNU will rise again!" ;)
Find a job outside of the tech sector and become a luddite.
Works for me.
In a word: yes.
I'm convinced all those goatse links were preparation for that eventuality, too.
Exactly; so the one resource that alaska DOES have is being undercut even more (as if selling off the rights to BP wasn't bad enough!)....
At this point you have two choices: you can shut down alaska and force everyone to relocate to the lower 48, or you can open anwar. That's the economic reality up there atm, and is likely to remain so for quite some time.
Anyone who tells you differnt hasn't lived up there, or is lying (most probably both).
Make a serious attack against the libertarian viewpoint and see how fast you get the "time out" IP ban.
This jumped out at me because I'm tired^H^H^H^H^Hleft-handed. I'm right at the cut off age where they stopped punishing left-handers for being left handed. With the exception of scissors (which, honestly, I learned early on to use right-handed) I can honestly say I Don't notice that how much things are geared for anyone.
[except I'll occasionally find doors that seem to be made for left handers, and they'll strike me as being very unusual.]
What, specifically are you referring to?
While I don't think theo is particularly "rad", I can certainly see why some would. He certainly does nothing half-ass..it's whole ass or nothing!
It could very well have been as simple as someone from Darpa decided to peruse the mailing list/IRC forums one day and asked a n00b question and didn't like the response (unlikely, but not nearly as unlikely as getting shitcanned for an anti-war comment).
I agree, Theo is blatantly stretching.
[using my karma bonus as I feel this needs to be heard and discussed.]
You know, that wouldn't be a problem if it was a statue of her..petrified, so to speak...
got hot grits?
Send in the clones, bring in the clones...
No. I meant Billy Bob Carter; Jimmy's brother and maker of Billy Beer.
Billy bob notwithstanding, the carter administration was pretty decent (on the scale of not being corrupt).
And I would suggest going back fourty-three years, at least.
That strategy has worked wonderfully well for him so far. And they only had what, 3 tries before the voters before they pushed that studium through in a back-door meeting?
Besides, they already have an amusement park...though not even half the scale of the one you're referring to.