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  1. Re:Go Apple! on WikiLeaks App Removed From Apple Store · · Score: 1

    No the site is not in "Legal Limbo", it is illegally distributing classified documents, Apple is a manufacturer located in the US where it is illegal, and conducts significant business with the US government; there is no way they are going to allow an App specifically designed to conduct illegal activity to be sold period.

  2. Re:Obama achieved something on Senate Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' · · Score: 1

    Sure the Government will spend $100K training a hop-head to do something that he is mentally incapable of doing because he's a hophead and hope he does it for at least two years; then when he finally gets out hope he doesn't claim he's stupid because of a closed head trama when in reality it's all of the kilos of weed he smoked.and collect disability of the VA for life.

  3. Re:state militaries on Senate Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' · · Score: 1

    Right now the National Guard has it's own form of Separation of Powers, each Combat Division has key Units stationed in separate States. A Battalion is reasonably intact geographically each Unit may be housed in a single armory or in several armories; the next level a Brigade is geographically distanced from the Battalions. Our Brigade had 3 infantry Battalions in South Eastern Michigan, our Armor Battalion was in the South West side of the state, and it's physical assets were a 2 hr drive North of their home armory and physically near the Brigade headquarters and the Artillery battalion was also in SE Michigan Also with its gun located 2 hours North and everybody's Ammunition was a 2 hours drive North. Our Division Headquarters was located in Illinois and it commanded Brigades in Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.
    This set up gave each Governor a credible militia for emergency activations due to civil disturbances or natural disasters yet unable to field a credible force for military adventures against neighboring states.

  4. Re:Obama achieved something on Senate Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' · · Score: 1

    Those kids are often natural born US Citizens.

  5. Re:Obama achieved something on Senate Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' · · Score: 1

    Outside of the very visible Day Laborers lined up outside the Home Depots waiting for an installation job from a home owner or a Day job from a contractor, it's very very hard to exist or work without a valid SSN and having taxes withheld from your wages; it just not likely that the valid SSN is going to be yours as it is unlikely that you'll be able to reap the benefits, fro the withholdings or to receive a refund of any excess withholdings! Approximately 18 million people in the US are using a valid SSN that is used by multiple people, people that will never receive a dime of benefits for the labors. So it's not about financial drain on the federal part, they're probably making a profit off the illegal immigrants.
    Open the boarders up, yeah right, there is a war going on down there in Mexico, there are website like El Blog del Narco that report on the fighting like American websites report traffic accidents.
    Time to pull your head out of the sand there cupcake; Narco-Terrorism in Mexico is far more deadly than what's going on in Afghanistan. A little waterboarding offends your sensibilities, hese will show you how the real pros do it. Right now. Ciudad Juarez, the most violent city in Mexico, is just across the Rio Grande from El Passo TX, as many as 5,000 Women have been murdered in the last 10 years. Mexican Prisons have become Safehouses for criminals who come and go as they please and to top it all off, Mexican Drones are crashing in the United States. Opening our boarders isn't an option and securing them isn't xenophobic, it's due diligence. You know things are getting bad when war correspondents who have cover wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and all over the Orient are returning to the US after years overseas because the US SW is where the action is going to be real soon.

  6. Re:It's what you do in a foxhole on Senate Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' · · Score: 1

    One thing that people in general are forgetting is that most Service Members are also family members and frequently it's the non-serving spouses that get most stressed out about issues like Females in combat or Openly Gay service members. The Reason Gays were originally excluded from US Military using Security concerns as an excuse isn't diminished by events like Bradley Manning

  7. Re:Obama achieved something on Senate Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' · · Score: 1

    The saying goes "Lead, Follow or get the hell out of the way" so Obama takes a lot of vacations.

  8. Re:global standards for policing the internet on UN Considering Control of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Add in some modern stuff like mesh network via built in wireless networking cards and pringle cans, and a dash of old stuff like UUCP and any control of the internet would be fleeting at best.

  9. Re:Are Annoymous' DDoS attacks illegal? on Scotland Yard Has Been After Anonymous For Months · · Score: 1

    If the third is illegal, the the first two would be considered Inciting to Riot in many jurisdictions.

  10. Re:Obligatory on Scotland Yard Has Been After Anonymous For Months · · Score: 1

    Anonymous is most like a flock of pigeons, individuals often joint or leave the flock and it has no effect on the flock as a whole and other times one individual will leave and the whole flock leaves with them as if they were of one mind.

  11. Re:Obligatory on Scotland Yard Has Been After Anonymous For Months · · Score: 2

    Log msgs -> /dev/null, there that wasn't so hard was it?

  12. Re:Doomed on Michael Moore Posts Julian Assange's Bail · · Score: 1

    Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position.

    As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented.
    Propaganda

    So documentary films are now officially propaganda films as per wikipedia?

  13. Re:Doomed on Michael Moore Posts Julian Assange's Bail · · Score: 1

    Michael Moore is an Academy-Award winning filmmaker and best-selling author. His films 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' 'Bowling for Columbine' and 'SiCKO' are among the all-time top ten grossing documentaries.Michael Moore

    He thinks they are documentaries, so that's what he putting them forward as.

  14. Re:oh gee on Michael Moore Posts Julian Assange's Bail · · Score: 1

    Well I didn't think MM sprung for Assange's bail, he put up $20K against a $350K bond. Assange or Wikileaks raised money for Manning's defense, and promised to send $20K to it, but hasn't. I don't know how bail bonds work in England, but if it's 10% cash like in the US then I have serious doubts the Manning defense fund is going to see any money because Assange is going to need $15K real quick. The Wau Holland Foundation which is handling the funds seem to have a habit of late legal filings and having their funds frozen for money laundering; which doesn't inspire confidence in their ability to execute their fiduciary responsiblites

  15. Re:Doomed on Michael Moore Posts Julian Assange's Bail · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm missing something, but aren't documentary films supposed to be taken literaly?

  16. Re:Doomed on Michael Moore Posts Julian Assange's Bail · · Score: 1

    I've seen a Photograph made by Michael Yon (third photo in the slide show actually) used without permission or even atribution by Moore; if a film maker will infringe the copyright of another professional, what wouldn't he do? The photo was only taken down after Yon's lawyers started threatening law suits.

  17. Re:Goose Gander on Michael Moore Posts Julian Assange's Bail · · Score: 1

    Well a Lawyer is appointed to represent you, which usually means he negotioates a deal with the prosecuter as fast as possible so he can get on to a cash client.

  18. Re:Okay that's some funny shit on Anonymous Now Attacking Corporate Fax Machines · · Score: 1

    Oh no this is rich stuff, sending junk faxes is already against the law, the banks, Amazon/paypal and mastercard are probably regulated to the point where they probably have their own assigned FBI liason; throw in phone records I think the no-fly list is going to be getting pretty long. Don't forget each one of those junk faxes is worth a $500.00 fine or civil damages just to sweeten the pot.

  19. Re:This isn't activism on Operation Payback and Hactivism 101 · · Score: 1

    I'm confused, which they are you referring to.

  20. Re:Mach 8 to Orbit? on Navy Tests Mach 8 Electromagnetic Railgun · · Score: 1

    Sorry but appeals to authority are difficult over the internet, and rarely work on anyone over three years of age, I guess you'll have to recomend the book.

  21. Re:Obvious research on 'Anonymous' WikiLeaks Proponents Not So Anonymous · · Score: 1

    No, in fact that's what makes them so usable, what they are doing is most likely just sophmoric idiocity, but it still plays into the hands of both the USG and the CoS well enough that if either had actively initiated the response I wouldn't be surprized.

  22. Re:Mach 8 to Orbit? on Navy Tests Mach 8 Electromagnetic Railgun · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why you think you need a rocket to shift into orbital insertion, you don't shoot the projectile straight up but at about a 45 degree angle, it just goes into orbit, falls to Earth far downrange or spirals out of the Earth's gravity well. Even our space launches the vehicle is significantly off vertical while still observable from the ground.

  23. Re:I've heard that before on Navy Tests Mach 8 Electromagnetic Railgun · · Score: 1

    For a rocket the air resistance is negligible because it going pretty slow when in the thick of it; you would have to hit 17,500 Mi/Hr to make orbit and with a mass-driver you have to do it in the thickest atmosphere. When you watched the railgun video, didn't you wonder where all of the fire and smoke was coming from when the electric cannon was fired, that my friend was air resistance.

  24. Re:I've heard that before on Navy Tests Mach 8 Electromagnetic Railgun · · Score: 1

    147,400,000 oz of gold times $1,392.00/oz = 205,180,800,000; I think we have a little wiggle room there, mostly because a lot of different countries and people have a vested interest in the Emperer remaining clothed.

  25. Re:Yay! on Navy Tests Mach 8 Electromagnetic Railgun · · Score: 1

    No that's not entirely correct, Space-based WMD are banned but not conventional weapons, wikipedia has an article that goes into more detail. I don't see how a railgun with a muzzle velocity of Mach 8 would be a WMD in space where orbital velocity is around Mach 15 (or the velocity that would be that if there were atmosphere).