The plan is reduce the population by 80% [infowars.com] so that the elite can have their life-extention technology to themselves and rule over a more managable and sustainable populace.
Well at least someone is thinking about the future. We can't go on breeding forever.
So, someone who served the sentence for their crime still can't be trusted to never do it again. And for his hubris, Kevin will never be on your payroll.
Similarly, then, you would never employ the services of a Mitnick for less than ethical, moral, or dare I say scrupulous endeavors.
It is completely morally and ethically wrong to reward people for crimes they have committed. And yet, they speak Spaninsh in Mexico.
I believe that a convicted felon is a convicted felon
Bruce here teaches logical positivism...
and they shouldn't be able to use their crimes as the basis for seeking employment.
Unfortunately, your belief system has been hacked to death by Conquistarores for about 500 years. I'm sorry, really, because like you I'd much rather live in the islands drinking fruity drinks served inside of other fruits.
Worked himself out of a job because his brushes lasted too long. He never had a repeat sale because the things lasted forever -- which was their selling point in the first place.
So no, things aren't built like they used to be. This makes no sense, save from a capitalist perspective, where money in a fat cat's pocket today justifies all the landfills and toxic waste dumps of tomorrow.
My belief is that the Internet has just as much capability to transform civilization as did Gutenberg's invention some 500 years ago. The potention for Internet-connected people to share just about any information that can fit down the wire seems like a revolution in the making. And, as was the case a half millenia ago, it will surely take decades for society to wrestle with and eventually adapt to this new paradigm.
Napster was the first time most people became aware of this potential sea change, but the combatants had been positioning their forces for some time -- for example the No Electronic Theft Act of 1997 that made copyright violations a federal criminal offense rather than a civil matter presaged the rise of P2P sharing.
You have been an outspoken critic of the DMCA, and my question for you is this: How important is that particular battle in what might someday be called the Internet Revolution? Do you think that other cyber-controversies, such as scandals at ICANN, Uzi Nissan's defiance of corporate power, and mandatory Internet filtering in public libraries, are other fronts in a larger war being waged? Or is your struggle contstrained more narrowly to the specifics of copyright law and fair use, and the Internet is just a tangent? What might be the important battles in the years to come, and what is our best strategy for victory?
I apologize for using such jingoistic language, current events have taken their toll on me.
Why did it take thirty minutes to figure out how to install VS.NET?
I don't know if you've ever installed VS.NET (or a few other products like VFP 7) but the installer is a 3-step process. 1 is update system components, 2 is install the sw, 3 is check for updates. Every time I ran the installer it kept never making it to step 2.
There was probably something funny in the registry, not really sure. The solution was to run setup.exe/nobaseline or something like that. That switch as it turns out is documented in some KB article somewhere, and it makes setup skip the "update system components" step.
most of the thirty minutes was spent waiting for the installer to do Step 2, actually install the sw.
You've obviously never worked with PSS. If you want this hotfix, they will give it to you for free. You call PSS, say "I'm calling a known issue, Q so-and-so." They email you the hotfix in WinZip format and the password to unzip it.
They also helped me for free when I couldn't get Visual Studio.NET to install. About a thirty minute call there, including my callback to the support engineer.
That's a hundred billion dollars plus of American taxpayer money, friend. Money that we could spend on ourselves, but that we're spending on Iraq instead for no other reason than because it's the right thing to do
Have you ever heard of Corporate Welfare?
Taxpayer money will be given to American companies to rebuild Iraq. It's the "right thing to do," indeed, if you happen to be an elected official whose campaign contributions come from those very same companies who will be getting the handouts to do the rebuilding.
Do you even live in America, Twirlip? You seem to have a very idealistic notion of what America is all about; you remind me of the sort of person who would confuse Emma Lazarus' poem on the Statue of Liberty with our actual immigration policy.
It's a little of both. If you can't see the imperialism, here's a clue from your own post:
When the Iraqis form a government-- one to two years hence, probably
Newsflash: Iraq currently has a government. This government is being supplanted by an invading army, to make way for a Kindler, Gentler ruler who will be our Ally. That's Imperialism, Twirlip.
I say we give those Frogs back the Statue of Liberty, and while we're at it let's give them back the Louisiana Purchase as well. We don't need your stinkin' territory!
In answer to your question, the line "cheese eating surrender monkey" is from the Simpsons..
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LOL I love that sig, EggTroll. It's so....meaningless.
The lives lost on 9/11 pale in comparison to the number of civilian casualties brought about by the Pentagon's "dual-use" classification. My sig is a childish attempt to establish a parallel between civilian casualties incurred in America and civilian casualties created by America.
I think civilians everywhere will be better off if the military guys on both sides stop finding excuses to target them. No disrespect is intended.
I feel like you're hiding behind a UN-sanctioned dictionary with a lot of your language. "War is exclusively the province of Nations."
Does that mean the French-Indian war wasn't really a war? How about the American Revolutionary War? Name the two nations involved at the start of that conflict, please.
You should take a look at who is fighting the "War on Drugs." It's the United States Army and the CIA. I don't think their involvement is intended to underscore the metaphorical aspect of the War on Drugs; rather they provide reconaissance and targeting information to other nations, and have been involved in combat on occasion. Surely it's a small-scale contained engagement, but it's much more of a war than, say, the War on Poverty.
And since when has targeting civilians fallen out of favor? Must have been after Dresden, after Vietnam, after we bombed Libya and blew up Khadaffi's adopted child, after Waco for that matter. War includes a rich history of civilan casualties, and I think your attempts to encapsulate and constrain war to the realm of nation-states and their materiel is asinine, self-serving, and shortsighted.
You paint the picture that Al Qaeda only targets civlians; this is inaccurate. Khobar Towers was a military target, as was the Cole. The embassies and the WTC were not, though an embassy's role in a nation's affairs make it less "civilian" a target than, say, a shopping mall, in my mind.
I'm reminded of that Monty Python episode, where the British generals face crumbling morale in their troops because "The enemy just isn't taking this war seriously!"
I find it interesting that you are offended by my sig, and ask that I change it. I am not Donald Rumsfeld; and though I did once stroll through the Pentagon, I and have little influence on the Pentagon's target list. So long as the gray area of the dual-use target exists, the truth remains that the WTC would likely be on the list. You agreed to as much in your first post, when you said it might be bombed under cover of darkness so as to minimize civilian casualties.
If in fact you're offended by the use of "dual-use" classification, which, for example, prevents Iraq from importing the chemicals necessary to provide a safe drinking water supply, then I would encourage you to do take action. What I've chosen to do is to tell the world about it in my sig. Not much, but it's a start.
The "hook" is that I'm using the imagery of the horror of 9/11. I can firmly say, though, that the past twelve years in America have been far kinder than the last twelve years in Iraq.
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Just this morning the wife and I were talking about canceling our VZ land-line (we both have VZW phones and a cable modem).
DO IT!
I have cable modem, cell phone, and no land line. No complaints here!
The plan is reduce the population by 80% [infowars.com] so that the elite can have their life-extention technology to themselves and rule over a more managable and sustainable populace.
Well at least someone is thinking about the future. We can't go on breeding forever.
Why not just attach the word terrorism to everything we don't like?
Why not just go to war with everything you don't like? (Drugs, Poverty, Terrorism...)
http://biz.yahoo.com/fin/l/q/q.html
Qwest, my local phone company, has revenues of about five billion per quarter. My original figure isn't that far off.
wow, I hope you found a better job or something.
I would never blatantly scam from work like that, that's horrible.
So, someone who served the sentence for their crime still can't be trusted to never do it again. And for his hubris, Kevin will never be on your payroll.
Similarly, then, you would never employ the services of a Mitnick for less than ethical, moral, or dare I say scrupulous endeavors.
It is completely morally and ethically wrong to reward people for crimes they have committed.
And yet, they speak Spaninsh in Mexico.
DO you want to debate with anti-MS logged in people? I'm feeling feisty.
Fuck your ten thousand dollar a day fine. The phone system pulls down two billion a month*.
Who else gets to hear your conversations?
*Adjusted to pre-JFK-assassination rate of inflation
Bah, you have no idea how we think and act...
I believe that a convicted felon is a convicted felon
Bruce here teaches logical positivism...
and they shouldn't be able to use their crimes as the basis for seeking employment.
Unfortunately, your belief system has been hacked to death by Conquistarores for about 500 years. I'm sorry, really, because like you I'd much rather live in the islands drinking fruity drinks served inside of other fruits.
Worked himself out of a job because his brushes lasted too long. He never had a repeat sale because the things lasted forever -- which was their selling point in the first place.
So no, things aren't built like they used to be. This makes no sense, save from a capitalist perspective, where money in a fat cat's pocket today justifies all the landfills and toxic waste dumps of tomorrow.
Hi Dr. Felten
My belief is that the Internet has just as much capability to transform civilization as did Gutenberg's invention some 500 years ago. The potention for Internet-connected people to share just about any information that can fit down the wire seems like a revolution in the making. And, as was the case a half millenia ago, it will surely take decades for society to wrestle with and eventually adapt to this new paradigm.
Napster was the first time most people became aware of this potential sea change, but the combatants had been positioning their forces for some time -- for example the No Electronic Theft Act of 1997 that made copyright violations a federal criminal offense rather than a civil matter presaged the rise of P2P sharing.
You have been an outspoken critic of the DMCA, and my question for you is this: How important is that particular battle in what might someday be called the Internet Revolution? Do you think that other cyber-controversies, such as scandals at ICANN, Uzi Nissan's defiance of corporate power, and mandatory Internet filtering in public libraries, are other fronts in a larger war being waged? Or is your struggle contstrained more narrowly to the specifics of copyright law and fair use, and the Internet is just a tangent? What might be the important battles in the years to come, and what is our best strategy for victory?
I apologize for using such jingoistic language, current events have taken their toll on me.
Actaully I'm only MCP but thank you for the compliment!
You seem like the kind of person who pronounces "GIF" like "Jif."
Why did it take thirty minutes to figure out how to install VS .NET?
.NET (or a few other products like VFP 7) but the installer is a 3-step process. 1 is update system components, 2 is install the sw, 3 is check for updates. Every time I ran the installer it kept never making it to step 2.
/nobaseline or something like that. That switch as it turns out is documented in some KB article somewhere, and it makes setup skip the "update system components" step.
I don't know if you've ever installed VS
There was probably something funny in the registry, not really sure. The solution was to run setup.exe
most of the thirty minutes was spent waiting for the installer to do Step 2, actually install the sw.
You've obviously never worked with PSS. If you want this hotfix, they will give it to you for free. You call PSS, say "I'm calling a known issue, Q so-and-so." They email you the hotfix in WinZip format and the password to unzip it.
.NET to install. About a thirty minute call there, including my callback to the support engineer.
They also helped me for free when I couldn't get Visual Studio
Knock MS all you want, PSS is pretty effective.
That's a hundred billion dollars plus of American taxpayer money, friend. Money that we could spend on ourselves, but that we're spending on Iraq instead for no other reason than because it's the right thing to do
Have you ever heard of Corporate Welfare?
Taxpayer money will be given to American companies to rebuild Iraq. It's the "right thing to do," indeed, if you happen to be an elected official whose campaign contributions come from those very same companies who will be getting the handouts to do the rebuilding.
Do you even live in America, Twirlip? You seem to have a very idealistic notion of what America is all about; you remind me of the sort of person who would confuse Emma Lazarus' poem on the Statue of Liberty with our actual immigration policy.
Without this piece of infrastructure in place, the relief and reconstruction effort will be severely hampered.
Golly, how did relief and reconstrucion ever occur before the invetion of the cell phone!!??
I think you've overplayed your hand.
Imperialism? No, just pragmatism.
It's a little of both. If you can't see the imperialism, here's a clue from your own post:
When the Iraqis form a government-- one to two years hence, probably
Newsflash: Iraq currently has a government. This government is being supplanted by an invading army, to make way for a Kindler, Gentler ruler who will be our Ally. That's Imperialism, Twirlip.
We're not nearly done killing people, and we're already planning ways to fuck them by pushing inferior wireless standards on them.
Not only that, Iraqis will be forced to get their Internet access from either AOL or MSN, depending on which gets me better karma for this post.
I say we give those Frogs back the Statue of Liberty, and while we're at it let's give them back the Louisiana Purchase as well. We don't need your stinkin' territory!
In answer to your question, the line "cheese eating surrender monkey" is from the Simpsons..
LOL I love that sig, EggTroll. It's so....meaningless.
Just wondering what your thoughts are on the Citrix ICA protocol, as compared to RDP and the rest.
The lives lost on 9/11 pale in comparison to the number of civilian casualties brought about by the Pentagon's "dual-use" classification. My sig is a childish attempt to establish a parallel between civilian casualties incurred in America and civilian casualties created by America.
I think civilians everywhere will be better off if the military guys on both sides stop finding excuses to target them. No disrespect is intended.
Peace!
I feel like you're hiding behind a UN-sanctioned dictionary with a lot of your language. "War is exclusively the province of Nations."
Does that mean the French-Indian war wasn't really a war? How about the American Revolutionary War? Name the two nations involved at the start of that conflict, please.
You should take a look at who is fighting the "War on Drugs." It's the United States Army and the CIA. I don't think their involvement is intended to underscore the metaphorical aspect of the War on Drugs; rather they provide reconaissance and targeting information to other nations, and have been involved in combat on occasion. Surely it's a small-scale contained engagement, but it's much more of a war than, say, the War on Poverty.
And since when has targeting civilians fallen out of favor? Must have been after Dresden, after Vietnam, after we bombed Libya and blew up Khadaffi's adopted child, after Waco for that matter. War includes a rich history of civilan casualties, and I think your attempts to encapsulate and constrain war to the realm of nation-states and their materiel is asinine, self-serving, and shortsighted.
You paint the picture that Al Qaeda only targets civlians; this is inaccurate. Khobar Towers was a military target, as was the Cole. The embassies and the WTC were not, though an embassy's role in a nation's affairs make it less "civilian" a target than, say, a shopping mall, in my mind.
I'm reminded of that Monty Python episode, where the British generals face crumbling morale in their troops because "The enemy just isn't taking this war seriously!"
Peace!
I find it interesting that you are offended by my sig, and ask that I change it. I am not Donald Rumsfeld; and though I did once stroll through the Pentagon, I and have little influence on the Pentagon's target list. So long as the gray area of the dual-use target exists, the truth remains that the WTC would likely be on the list. You agreed to as much in your first post, when you said it might be bombed under cover of darkness so as to minimize civilian casualties.
If in fact you're offended by the use of "dual-use" classification, which, for example, prevents Iraq from importing the chemicals necessary to provide a safe drinking water supply, then I would encourage you to do take action. What I've chosen to do is to tell the world about it in my sig. Not much, but it's a start.
The "hook" is that I'm using the imagery of the horror of 9/11. I can firmly say, though, that the past twelve years in America have been far kinder than the last twelve years in Iraq.