href="http://i-cias.com/e.o/saudi_5.htm">1993: USA asks Saudi Arabia to pay for the Gulf War, that costed USA alone US$51 billion. This came in a time when the Saudi economy was facing severe problems, with budget deficits.Or how about
Considering costs of between US$50 billion and US$70 billion for the 1991 Gulf War, arms purchases since the war of around US$50 billion, and approximately US$26 billion lost in aid to Iraq during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, the Saudi economic position can be pictured as one that was not enjoying good health for the decade 1985-95.
And yes, now they own significant interests in the US, a lot of them stemming from James Baker et al. That was the point; interesting how their fortunes here have changed in just 10 years. Also don't get the personal wealth of the ruling family and the wealth of the country confused; you can be certain they're 2 very seperate things.
That applies to GPS-assisted devices; your average GSM mobile can be tracked to within a couple of hundred feet (less in closely populated areas) at all times it's switched on, without your knowledge or consent. There's websites in the UK that allow exactly this, with just a confirmation SMS required to activate it.
From a records point of view, generally it is only which cells your phone has registered with (not necessarily making a call), but signal strength data and some fancy computing would give you away retroactively to more accuracy than I'd care for personally.
I know it, and you know it, and millions of others know it and see it in lots of things the US is doing, but for some reason the Americans act a little funny when you throw in the N word. There's also Godwin's Law to be considered.
But yes, as a goddamn-provable fact, little national symbols and jingoism of the "Homeland" type can be seen in fascist states ad nauseum, and can be seen in the US today. Even without drawing any conclusions from this fact, this isn't a popular observation. It's traditional to stick to comparing it to fictional fascist states, through the use of "Peace is war", or perhaps "We're all equal, but some of us are more equal than others". Say there's any similarity between 2004 USA and 1923 Germany and you're firmly in the wacko camp. You're either with us or with the terrorists, don't forget, so if I were to say something outlandish and fantastic like "global warming is a proven occurrence and is caused by burning hydrocarbons", I'm basically showing my support for UBL and am only half a step away from sawing some poor fuck's head off.
You were not invited to leave bases in SA, it was one of those "unilateral" decisions the US is so keen on these days. Oh, and you nearly bankrupted the country by charging them 50-odd billion dollars for the bases they didn't want. So, you've chosen to be uninformed?
Yes, that'd be Ted "Theodore" Kacynzki (sp), aka The Unabomber. He wanted to opt out of society too.
Being (un/under)informed is a personal choice, and someone who chooses not to be informed has their own set of problems, or lack of problems.
It used to be a personal choice, but now even those who choose not to be have problems; I doubt someone who watches Fox News an hour a day would admit they are uninformed, yet they are.
Note that if no-one hates what you are doing, you likely aren't doing anything. Acting gets people pissed, DEAL WITH IT!
It's not me that hasn't dealt with it; how many times has Bush addressed the issue of all those unwanted bases in Saudi Arabia? None? By your logic, UBL was just "acting", and you should eal with it.
I think we've got at least 100 years before the next civil war, the changes from the last one haven't yet been assimilated, and we made it past the chokepoint(1970s)
The changes from the last one will never be assimilated, and meanwhile the divide is growing.
Believing that corporations exploit any but the willing is a sign that you too are underinformed
Coprporations exploit society, from the government down to the illegal immigrant, and if you believe you can opt out of society there's a wooden shack in Montana I will sell you. The former resident now has Supermax in his address.
But losing some of them is acceptable to you? [insert that quote about prepared-to-sacrifice-deserves-neither-etc here]
Which of these is true:
Your population is underinformed, living in fear and being exploited by corporations
Everything is hunky-dory, just these troublesome terrorists to deal with (but not the causes, obviously) and they only hate us because we're free or something.
Really, something is wrong with America. The diminishing of personal "liberties" (why didn't you say rights?) you're happy to tolerate is just one symptom, and without treatment of the causal disease (and I'm not pretending to know what it is) there's only one inevitability; the death of America. At best, I think you're looking at civil war within 30 years. Insane? Maybe, but did you argue when Reagan funded the Mujaheddin?
That thing still confuses me too; Best guess is that "the attack" would swing people towards Bush; "stay the course" and all this shit (even this is bizarre - if there is another attack, it's Bush's fault that UBL is still out there). UBL (if that's what we're going to decide is the problem, again, it's like targetting Colonel Sanders to stop KFC) can't want Bush back in? Unless he does, in which case, why would you want the same thing as UBL?
This whole election/attack thing is curcular argument after catch-22.
So what's the qualitative difference between using a proprietary code to access service information and inventing your own screw head to achieve the same result in a physcial medium?
Surely under the DMCA, I can put a copy of Fantastia in a wooden box, screw it shut with a BenBenBen Twonky-Head Screw, and prosecute anyone who tried to open the box?
Really, how does the government know what I read last week?? They can review my purchasing habits, and can request my library history, but they have no way of knowing what I bought with cash at the local thrift store/used dealer.
They can demand your library history, and jail the librarian if (s)he reports the demand. That this is acceptable to you says a lot. Seems to me that you have exposed a dangerous loophole though, so someone better email Ashcroft.
there are no cameras at any intersection where I live.
Doesn't really matter, as your cellphone (you carry one, right?) records will show your location for the past x months on demand.
And the only time you would want/need a permit to protest is if you intend to block traffic, and the permit provides the "protesters" police protection
Sure, and the safe area thoughtfully provided by the police tends to be out of sight of both the event they are protesting and the media attending it.
I still can't get over how phrases like "Free Speech Zone" and "The Homeland" have entered the language with such little fanfare. Anyone refering to the protection of The Homeland and wearing a little lapel flag 24/7 would have been looked at a little funny in Ye Olden Dayes.
In a report penned by freelance Wi-Fi evangelist and weblogger Glenn Fleishman, we discover that Terry Dickson (for it is he) avoids "sites laden with graphics that are slow to load, concentrating on work involving relatively small text files and e-mail," on balance, his life had "changed for the better" - which is good news for the whole Dickson family.
The Times discloses that the name of this Wi-Fi user was provided by the trial operator, PointShot. It doesn't mention that PointShot's experiment is funded by Intel, who we learn in the article is also Dickson's employer. Intel's capital fund has helped to sponsor a number of Wi-Fi trials in North America and Canada.
Now it may be pure coincidence that the only "independent" member of the public the Times could find was an employee of the experiment's sponsor. It may be the case that only Intel employees use Wi-Fi, or it may not. We simply don't know. But we do think he could be a teeny bit more enthusiastic about it.
It wouldn't be any fun if the contenstants were asked to know things that only a tiny minority of people are likely to know, like the name of the actor who played "Bobba Fett" in the Star Wars movies.
Temuera Morrison. I'll take vulnerabilities in Windows 98 for 1000, please Alex.
There's a great tinfoil spam theory atm, saying that 'Al Queda' (I'll be simplistic for the intl. audience) are responsible for spam, as it's a surefire way to hide super-sekrit instructions to your global army of henchmen in a deluge of meaningless garbage.
Oh, tinfoil hat wearers, but only because they are incapable of seeing logic, reason or even the facts in their opponent's arguments, and result to ad hominem attacks and non sequiters.
Hit with Memory Stick? I still can't buy anything bigger than 128Mb unless I import, and it's the thick end of a thousand dollars for 512Mb (I've got a P800 = Memory Stick Duo).
They've finally just got Samsung to adopt MS, but other than that, pshaw.
According to the Total Recall commentary (I haven't read the books so can't say for sure), Minority Report is a follow-up/sequel to Total Recall in some way, as the psychics in the tub are meant to be from Mars.
Also, A Scanner Darkly is the best non-HS Thompson book about drugs screwing wid' ya.
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href="http://i-cias.com/e.o/saudi_5.htm">1993: USA asks Saudi Arabia to pay for the Gulf War, that costed USA alone US$51 billion. This came in a time when the Saudi economy was facing severe problems, with budget deficits.Or how aboutAnd yes, now they own significant interests in the US, a lot of them stemming from James Baker et al. That was the point; interesting how their fortunes here have changed in just 10 years. Also don't get the personal wealth of the ruling family and the wealth of the country confused; you can be certain they're 2 very seperate things.
Now if a few hundred million more people would say something similar in November...
That applies to GPS-assisted devices; your average GSM mobile can be tracked to within a couple of hundred feet (less in closely populated areas) at all times it's switched on, without your knowledge or consent. There's websites in the UK that allow exactly this, with just a confirmation SMS required to activate it.
From a records point of view, generally it is only which cells your phone has registered with (not necessarily making a call), but signal strength data and some fancy computing would give you away retroactively to more accuracy than I'd care for personally.
I know it, and you know it, and millions of others know it and see it in lots of things the US is doing, but for some reason the Americans act a little funny when you throw in the N word. There's also Godwin's Law to be considered.
But yes, as a goddamn-provable fact, little national symbols and jingoism of the "Homeland" type can be seen in fascist states ad nauseum, and can be seen in the US today. Even without drawing any conclusions from this fact, this isn't a popular observation. It's traditional to stick to comparing it to fictional fascist states, through the use of "Peace is war", or perhaps "We're all equal, but some of us are more equal than others". Say there's any similarity between 2004 USA and 1923 Germany and you're firmly in the wacko camp. You're either with us or with the terrorists, don't forget, so if I were to say something outlandish and fantastic like "global warming is a proven occurrence and is caused by burning hydrocarbons", I'm basically showing my support for UBL and am only half a step away from sawing some poor fuck's head off.
You were not invited to leave bases in SA, it was one of those "unilateral" decisions the US is so keen on these days. Oh, and you nearly bankrupted the country by charging them 50-odd billion dollars for the bases they didn't want. So, you've chosen to be uninformed?
Yes, that'd be Ted "Theodore" Kacynzki (sp), aka The Unabomber. He wanted to opt out of society too.
Didn't this case just say that you can't?
Which of these is true:
- Your population is underinformed, living in fear and being exploited by corporations
- Everything is hunky-dory, just these troublesome terrorists to deal with (but not the causes, obviously) and they only hate us because we're free or something.
Really, something is wrong with America. The diminishing of personal "liberties" (why didn't you say rights?) you're happy to tolerate is just one symptom, and without treatment of the causal disease (and I'm not pretending to know what it is) there's only one inevitability; the death of America. At best, I think you're looking at civil war within 30 years. Insane? Maybe, but did you argue when Reagan funded the Mujaheddin?That thing still confuses me too; Best guess is that "the attack" would swing people towards Bush; "stay the course" and all this shit (even this is bizarre - if there is another attack, it's Bush's fault that UBL is still out there). UBL (if that's what we're going to decide is the problem, again, it's like targetting Colonel Sanders to stop KFC) can't want Bush back in? Unless he does, in which case, why would you want the same thing as UBL?
This whole election/attack thing is curcular argument after catch-22.
So what's the qualitative difference between using a proprietary code to access service information and inventing your own screw head to achieve the same result in a physcial medium?
Surely under the DMCA, I can put a copy of Fantastia in a wooden box, screw it shut with a BenBenBen Twonky-Head Screw, and prosecute anyone who tried to open the box?
Man, your courts need a demotion.
I still can't get over how phrases like "Free Speech Zone" and "The Homeland" have entered the language with such little fanfare. Anyone refering to the protection of The Homeland and wearing a little lapel flag 24/7 would have been looked at a little funny in Ye Olden Dayes.
The UK has numerous train-borne WiFi servuices, which work through a combination of satellite uplink and GPRS connections through tunnels.
I'll take vulnerabilities in Windows 98 for 1000, please Alex.
beagle.sourceforge.net doesn't have it :(
There's a great tinfoil spam theory atm, saying that 'Al Queda' (I'll be simplistic for the intl. audience) are responsible for spam, as it's a surefire way to hide super-sekrit instructions to your global army of henchmen in a deluge of meaningless garbage.
Just because somewhere is really really bad at sorting out itself doesn't mean it can't start waving its sword around at others.
This could start a trend; using our armed forces for things that actually do impact directly on all of us!
..daydreams about SAC launching against China after getting fed up of GR0W Y0U.R P3N|S emails...
Oh, tinfoil hat wearers, but only because they are incapable of seeing logic, reason or even the facts in their opponent's arguments, and result to ad hominem attacks and non sequiters.
Or am I getting confused with Republicans?*
* 2 flamewars in one thread!
Throw in Canada and New Zealand, you're looking at the founders of UKUSA and Echelon.
Maybe Fort Meade is renting out CPU cycles to Mr Richter.
If you want the Symantec release re-written by someone who knows what they're talking about, look here.
"Evaman occupies a false email address" doesn't fill me with respect for CoolTechZone's credentials.
Hit with Memory Stick? I still can't buy anything bigger than 128Mb unless I import, and it's the thick end of a thousand dollars for 512Mb (I've got a P800 = Memory Stick Duo).
They've finally just got Samsung to adopt MS, but other than that, pshaw.
Bobcat Goldthwaite. And Rip Torn as his police liason.
According to the Total Recall commentary (I haven't read the books so can't say for sure), Minority Report is a follow-up/sequel to Total Recall in some way, as the psychics in the tub are meant to be from Mars.
Also, A Scanner Darkly is the best non-HS Thompson book about drugs screwing wid' ya.