Obesity, lazyness, heart disease (from eating greasy chips while watching TV) etc...
Not to mention it's many mindscrubbing properties (the aformentioned "what to think, what to buy" effect) and you can see that TV is the greatest threat to human civilization!!!
OK, that's going a bit overboard, but TV surely is Evil (TM).
That's precisely what I'M thinking.
AOL CANNOT BUY LINUX, they can only buy Linux COMPANIES, and DISTRIBUTIONS.
Let's see them try to coax Debian into going closed source...
No big deal guys, it will mean either more funding for cool shit or one less player in the Linux distro market.
If you DIDN'T vote for Nader, this is all your fault.
Don't you realize that most of the harm is being done by incumbent assholes??
Shouldn't we get some FRESH people in office, some people that (*GASP*) have actually read the constitution and the bill of rights??
Gore would have been NO better.
Both parties want to make you a slave.
The right, the left - whatever.
Same shit, different mascot.
Asswipe, recall what I said in the FIRST post.
There IS a balance to be struck, but less freedom does NOT equate with more safety.
Reread the first post, if you have sufficient reading skills you'll see that I pointed YOUR point out.
It does not mean less safety.
There are MANY factors that determine safety, your "freedoms" are just ONE of them.
Do you think that because it is "illegal" to use strong cryptography, that the "bad guys" won't use it??
Are you fucking dense??
Because THIS is what we are discussing.
It was illegal to do ALL of the above BEFORE these attacks.
Now, I eagerly await you reply - either PROVING how these provitions will stop all of the stuff you enumerated above, or "backpedaling".
And please stop trying to be clever - it doesn't suit you.
YOU are full of turds.
READ THE PAST 500 FUCKING POSTS DESCRIBING THE BALANCE OF FREEDOM/SAFETY.
Fucking moron.
Less freedom != more safety.
That is not how things work.
There must be a balance, but we seriously overstepped it - and probably not accidentally.
Wow, people as stupid as you really are rare - I pity you.
Actually, EVERYTHING is a born right.
All of the things that you cannot do, they were given by you to your government.
They are not god - they do not own you.
You own them, our laws are meant to be an agreement among the people of how we can best coexist.
They are the minority, their power is based on us (the little people) - and not just because of votes...
You are quite stupid.
Drivel like this will make slaves of you all.
Keep it up though, stuff like this has driven countries into revolutions.
How happy will you be about your anti-terrorism laws when the AMERICAN people become pissed enought (because your stupid fucking laws are turning the US into a police state) to be MORE dangerous to you and your kind than terrorists are.
What will you do then??
Fucking pussy - you're so afraid to live that you need to be protected from everything.
You and everyone like you - brainwashed sheep AND fucking scared morons.
I'm not a "Mac fan" by ANY perversion of the phrase, and yet I must admit that such a machine would kick much ass.
We'll just have to see where PC's are by then (Claw/Sledge Hammer??) and how they perform in comparison (no mention of serial ATA for the Mac, BTW, and apparently no CMP)
Yeah, and then we send Gorillas to kill the snakes...
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Precisely...
If this is done TOO quickly, future terrorists will think that they can push the US into changing things by just attacking them.
Imagine that, the US being BULLIED into making foreign policy decisions.
It would make things worse.
This has to be done extremely carefully - you can't just give them what they want, they didn't EARN it by killing americans.
I do NOT envy Bush's position right now.
Yes, the balance is tipping away from democracy and towards capitalism.
Let us not forget the DMCA.
Let us not forget UCITA.
Let us not forget the unjust arrest of Skylarov.
Let us not forget that capitalism wants to do away with public domain, and reverse engineering.
Let us not forget the war on drugs, which is really a war on freedom.
Let us not forget that they are trying to take our guns away, so that we won't be able to fight back if necessary.
Let us not forget that they are taking our freedom of speech away, chipping away slowly so people won't notice.
Let us not forget that it is illegal to be poor, because you can't trespass and you can't live on public ground.
Let us not forget that Democracy isn't working, because the choices we are given are not choices at all.
Let us not forget that we didn't pick our last president.
Let us not forget that we cannot achieve infinite growth from finite resources.
Let us not forget that our leaders are pissing other people (countries, sects) off to guarantee our way of life (and obviously their own) - it is a trade off.
Let us not forget Echelon.
Let us not forget that the NSA is probably recording this post.
Let us not forget Carnivore.
Let us not forget restrictions on encryption.
Let us not forget the powers of FEMA under emergency situations.
Let us not forget executive orders.
Let us not forget that the Supreme Court may be bought off.
Let us not forget that our politicians ARE bought off.
Let us not forget that companies don't want libraries to have normal books anymore, they want to sell them subscriptions to electronic information
nothing is holy anymore
If this attack was by Bin Laden, I wouldn't worry.
Most of his attacks have been rather petty, anyways.
If this attack was domestic, the shit will soon hit the fan (and I mean one of those 7000RPM fans).
Domestic means people are pissed.
American people are pissed.
Domestic also means that McVeigh is a martyr (in somebody's eyes) - it means things are escalating.
Domestic means we can't carpet bomb, domestic means your neighbor could be carrying a suitcase nuke.
Domestic means more wiretapping in the US, which may piss MORE people off.
It means more searches, more intrusive searches - which may piss even MORE people off.
Remember what happened when the British pissed people off.
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Obesity, lazyness, heart disease (from eating greasy chips while watching TV) etc...
Not to mention it's many mindscrubbing properties (the aformentioned "what to think, what to buy" effect) and you can see that TV is the greatest threat to human civilization!!!
OK, that's going a bit overboard, but TV surely is Evil (TM).
That's precisely what I'M thinking.
AOL CANNOT BUY LINUX, they can only buy Linux COMPANIES, and DISTRIBUTIONS.
Let's see them try to coax Debian into going closed source...
No big deal guys, it will mean either more funding for cool shit or one less player in the Linux distro market.
Why is everybody making such a big deal about this??
Even more important than looks...
Charm.
If you DIDN'T vote for Nader, this is all your fault.
Don't you realize that most of the harm is being done by incumbent assholes??
Shouldn't we get some FRESH people in office, some people that (*GASP*) have actually read the constitution and the bill of rights??
Gore would have been NO better.
Both parties want to make you a slave.
The right, the left - whatever.
Same shit, different mascot.
WRONG!!!
Sis 735 board - $65 (faster than AMD 760, only a hair slower than KT266A)
DDR SDRAM is within a few bucks of SDRAM (check Crucial.com)
You have made my day.
Thank you.
Eventually, yes.
And then, at the most crucial "moment" - it takes a picture.
Sign me up for 2.
15" monitor.
800x600 progressive scan resolution @ 75Hz.
DVD drive.
WinDVD 2000.
Extra PCI card (or normal AGP card w/VGA switch for Big screen gaming.
ATI line-doubling TV tuner.
Home surround sound system.
Aureal SQ2500 w/optical SPDIF output.
Cool shiny pull-down projection screen.
Dark room.
Long VGA cable.
Wooden box.
Fresnel lens.
Patience.
Joy.
Asswipe, recall what I said in the FIRST post.
There IS a balance to be struck, but less freedom does NOT equate with more safety.
Reread the first post, if you have sufficient reading skills you'll see that I pointed YOUR point out.
It does not mean less safety.
There are MANY factors that determine safety, your "freedoms" are just ONE of them.
Do you think that because it is "illegal" to use strong cryptography, that the "bad guys" won't use it??
Are you fucking dense??
Because THIS is what we are discussing.
It was illegal to do ALL of the above BEFORE these attacks.
Now, I eagerly await you reply - either PROVING how these provitions will stop all of the stuff you enumerated above, or "backpedaling".
And please stop trying to be clever - it doesn't suit you.
YOU are full of turds.
READ THE PAST 500 FUCKING POSTS DESCRIBING THE BALANCE OF FREEDOM/SAFETY.
Fucking moron.
Less freedom != more safety.
That is not how things work.
There must be a balance, but we seriously overstepped it - and probably not accidentally.
Wow, people as stupid as you really are rare - I pity you.
There are (dim) people that could look past that biting satire.
"Yes, we must protect freedom by getting rid of it"
Fucking sheep.
This is not funny.
It is too true to be funny.
I would still mod +1(Depressingly true)
How important will your home be when you have to smile for the telescreen??
When the only thing you will own will be what's inside of your skull??
Actually, EVERYTHING is a born right.
All of the things that you cannot do, they were given by you to your government.
They are not god - they do not own you.
You own them, our laws are meant to be an agreement among the people of how we can best coexist.
They are the minority, their power is based on us (the little people) - and not just because of votes...
You are quite stupid.
Drivel like this will make slaves of you all.
Keep it up though, stuff like this has driven countries into revolutions.
How happy will you be about your anti-terrorism laws when the AMERICAN people become pissed enought (because your stupid fucking laws are turning the US into a police state) to be MORE dangerous to you and your kind than terrorists are.
What will you do then??
Fucking pussy - you're so afraid to live that you need to be protected from everything.
You and everyone like you - brainwashed sheep AND fucking scared morons.
Bullshit, prices won't budge.
They'll probably go up.
I'm not a "Mac fan" by ANY perversion of the phrase, and yet I must admit that such a machine would kick much ass.
We'll just have to see where PC's are by then (Claw/Sledge Hammer??) and how they perform in comparison (no mention of serial ATA for the Mac, BTW, and apparently no CMP)
NOT MIAMI!!!
I live in Miami, damnit...
Maybe LA or something.
Yeah, and then we send Gorillas to kill the snakes...
Precisely...
If this is done TOO quickly, future terrorists will think that they can push the US into changing things by just attacking them.
Imagine that, the US being BULLIED into making foreign policy decisions.
It would make things worse.
This has to be done extremely carefully - you can't just give them what they want, they didn't EARN it by killing americans.
I do NOT envy Bush's position right now.
Just like we were SOOO tolerant towards communists, right??
Oh, wait, we are always right - nevermind.
Yes, the balance is tipping away from democracy and towards capitalism.
Let us not forget the DMCA.
Let us not forget UCITA.
Let us not forget the unjust arrest of Skylarov.
Let us not forget that capitalism wants to do away with public domain, and reverse engineering.
Let us not forget the war on drugs, which is really a war on freedom.
Let us not forget that they are trying to take our guns away, so that we won't be able to fight back if necessary.
Let us not forget that they are taking our freedom of speech away, chipping away slowly so people won't notice.
Let us not forget that it is illegal to be poor, because you can't trespass and you can't live on public ground.
Let us not forget that Democracy isn't working, because the choices we are given are not choices at all.
Let us not forget that we didn't pick our last president.
Let us not forget that we cannot achieve infinite growth from finite resources.
Let us not forget that our leaders are pissing other people (countries, sects) off to guarantee our way of life (and obviously their own) - it is a trade off.
Let us not forget Echelon.
Let us not forget that the NSA is probably recording this post.
Let us not forget Carnivore.
Let us not forget restrictions on encryption.
Let us not forget the powers of FEMA under emergency situations.
Let us not forget executive orders.
Let us not forget that the Supreme Court may be bought off.
Let us not forget that our politicians ARE bought off.
Let us not forget that companies don't want libraries to have normal books anymore, they want to sell them subscriptions to electronic information
nothing is holy anymore
If this attack was by Bin Laden, I wouldn't worry.
Most of his attacks have been rather petty, anyways.
If this attack was domestic, the shit will soon hit the fan (and I mean one of those 7000RPM fans).
Domestic means people are pissed.
American people are pissed.
Domestic also means that McVeigh is a martyr (in somebody's eyes) - it means things are escalating.
Domestic means we can't carpet bomb, domestic means your neighbor could be carrying a suitcase nuke.
Domestic means more wiretapping in the US, which may piss MORE people off.
It means more searches, more intrusive searches - which may piss even MORE people off.
Remember what happened when the British pissed people off.