I read an amusing review of those "****finder" sites:
many duplicate ads (e.g. the same blond babe lives in Perioa, New York City, Bakersfield, Idaho Falls, Bombay, Nepal, etc)
many "sissy-boys" showing their private parts (publically flashing without risk of arrest)
many woman trolling for extra income
Darwin Award - You Win [Re:My Story ... ]
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You wrote "I've been out of IT for so long my skills are rusty and now I can only land a pizza delivery job" to which I reply
it is your fault and your fault entirely for winning a "Career Related Darwin Award";-);-);-)
As I wrote earlier:
always be learning something new
be willing to relocate... have reasonable salary/wage expectations - a high school diploma and reading "HTML 4 Dummies" does not entitle you to a six-figure salary;-);-);-)
Craft Beer [Re:My Story - A Navy Veteran]
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As a nine-year navy veteran (college physics dropout later finishing a BS Physics), after six-years at the same international semiconductor company in San Diego, having survived six layoffs in six years (3 Clinton, 3 Bush) I recently moved onward and upward to a different international semiconductor company in Silicon Valley. Also accumulated three (?) formal HR letters saying I'm a bad boy for not tolerating idiots;-);-);-)
Pay Raise, Promotion, Relocation Package, Sign-on Bonus, etc... Furthermore, I claim the cost-of-living in Silicon Valley is LESS-EXPENSIVE than San Diego... rent, gas, electricity, burritos, coffee, etc.
So far so good, I have survived every RIF, layoff, down-turn, etc thus far. If I do get 'whacked' then I am prepared for at least one-year of unemployment, psuedo-vacation, Pacific Crest Trail, renewal, etc
Having watched my father loose his job during the Carter Years, never regaining employment due to his age, being the first child in the family to receive college financial aid, I learned early on that if you want a job then YOU have to "hustle"... YOU have to "work for it"... YOU have to "prepare for it"... YOU have to be ready financially/emotionally/physically to be unemployed also... in otherwords YOU have to take charge of your own destiny.
Advice... always be learning something new... always save money (coins and dollar bills add up very very quickly)... avoid debt... avoid buying beer/wine/booze/tobacco/drugs (the money thing again although an occaisional high-end craft beer is OK;-)... be willing to relocate... have reasonable salary/wage expectations - a high school diploma and reading "HTML 4 Dummies" does not entitle you to a six-figure salary;-);-);-)
BTW #1, why do I want to subscribe to Slashdot (grin)??? This SETI potential-find was first posted on Matt Drudge's website very early this morning with a link to the NewScientist article that was "Drudged" vice Slashdotted almost immediately.
It is FUNNY that Al Gore claimed that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet"... the video is there if you watch & listen to the entire interview at time stamp ~ 0:50
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I took the initiative in creating the Internet," Al Gore preposterously claimed (time stamp ~ 0:50) on the March 9, 1999 Late Edition/PrimeTime, but that didn't faze CNN's Wolf Blitzer who just kept tossing softball questions.
EVIDENCE - Al Gore claiming credit
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Balance Through HUMOR You Uptight Moderators
It is FUNNY that Al Gore claimed that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet"... the video is there if you watch & listen to the entire interview at time stamp ~ 0:50
"
I took the initiative in creating the Internet," Al Gore preposterously claimed (time stamp ~ 0:50) on the March 9, 1999 Late Edition/PrimeTime, but that didn't faze CNN's Wolf Blitzer who just kept tossing softball questions.
It is TRUE - Al Gore Was Responsible ;-);-);-)
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Balance Through HUMOR You Uptight Moderators
It is FUNNY that Al Gore claimed that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet"... the video is there if you watch & listen to the entire interview at time stamp ~ 0:50
"
I took the initiative in creating the Internet," Al Gore preposterously claimed (time stamp ~ 0:50) on the March 9, 1999 Late Edition/PrimeTime, but that didn't faze CNN's Wolf Blitzer who just kept tossing softball questions.
Right under the nose of the Slashdot Editors the really BIG story is breaking on the blogosphere and many (e.g. Slashdot readers and the few subscribers) are completely detached from the discussion of the long-term implications
From the Belmont Club blog...
The undercard in the Kerry vs Swiftvets bout is Mainstream Media vs Kid Internet, two distinctly different fights, but both over information. The first is really the struggle over the way Vietnam will be remembered by posterity;.... But the undercard holds a fascination of its own. The reigning champion, the Mainstream Media, has been forced against all odds to accept the challenge of an upstart over the coverage of the Swiftvets controversy. Joe Strupp at Editor and Publisher writes:
"There are too many places for people to get information," O'Shea said. "
I don't think newspapers can be the gatekeepers anymore -- to say this is wrong and we will ignore it. Now we have to say this is wrong, and here is why."
The article is a candid and unconscious description of the actual nature of news. It is not just raw information or pixels pushed onto a screen, but a system of semantic entities: an series of information objects, containing properties and methods containing embedded logic, set loose on society. The power of the Mainstream Media lay in the fact that they controlled the generation of news objects; how they arose, what they did, how they ran their course. They were the news object foundry; able to make them "type safe"; define what they could do, and what they could not. And that power was enormous
Yet for good or ill, the genie is out of the bottle. Before the Gutenberg printing press men knew the contents of the Bible solely through the prism of the professional clergy, who could alone afford the expensively hand copied books and who exclusively interpreted it. But when technology made books widely available, men could read the sacred texts for themselves and form their own opinions. And the world was never the same again.
"The real issue here is the speed and low cost of astroturf attack campaigns via the net, and how easy it's been for the Bush campaign to farm out their attacks and deny that the attackers are controlled by Rove and his gang."
This Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
article has a synopsis of the whole SwiftBoats for Truth internet phenomena.
Money quote... "The biggest unreported story of this campaign is the extent to which the major media are in the tank for Kerry. But media bias -- which has reached comic proportions in the Swift Boat vet controversy -- may be doing Kerry more harm than good."
"If Bush wins again, we can expect the Democrats to lower themselves to the same tactics in future campaigns."
Your comment is very strange in light of the gross disparity between cash on-hand by the competing groups.
SwiftVets for Truth had ~$250 Thousand while MoveOn & Co had $60 Million
Money quote... If the "Republican attack machine" were behind the Swifties, it did a lousy job. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth had barely $250,000 on hand when they launched their first ad in three mid-sized markets in Ohio, Wisconsin and West Virginia. By contrast, the three largest independent committees have raised and spent nearly $60 million on ads attacking Bush.
This must be why John Kerry has taken the
Swift Boat Vets for Truth to court for libel... NOT... instead John Kerry is threatening third-party TV Stations & bookstores instead. I guess the real threat to freedom is Kerry not some scarry "Patriot Act" that has harmed zero US Citizens and zero US Permanent Residents that you or anyone else can name
I'm confused about the Kerry in Cambodia thing... I guess the SwiftVets were telling the turth about Kerry never being in
Cambodia @ Christmas... again you would think Kerry would be taking somebody to court for libel... am I missing something???
Kerry lied to the US Senate... Kerry lied to the People of Massachussettes... Kerry lied to the American People and Kerry may have lied to both of his wives & associated children
"The real issue here is the speed and low cost of astroturf attack campaigns via the net,"
There would appear to be several issues per both the original/. article and the Belmont Club blog article... perhaps the most interesting story is the power of the internet to overcome an entrenched thought police, group think, what have you... Mainstream Media vs Kid Internet.
"and how easy it's been for the Bush campaign to farm out their attacks and deny that the attackers are controlled by Rove and his gang.If Bush wins again, we can expect the Democrats to lower themselves to the same tactics in future campaigns. Then we all lose.
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Convenient how you have forgotten about MoveOn and their infamous Hitler ad???
link #1link #2
(GRIN) Please do not forget to throw
George Soros' millions to MoveOn & Co. down the memory hole (/GRIN) while you focus only on the two $100K contributions by a Texas building contractor to the SwiftVets, will you rememember to mention the over 30,000 additional contributions of ~$64 (average) to the SwiftVets for a total of $2 million???
Over at the Belmont Club blog there is an essay describing how people right now here in the USA are "using the internet to combat censorship and corruption"
The essay (snippets below) also 'attempts' to utilize some Object Oriented lingo to describe what is going on (grin).
The undercard in the Kerry vs
Swiftvets bout is Mainstream Media vs Kid Internet, two distinctly different fights, but both over information. The first is really the struggle over the way Vietnam will be remembered by posterity;... But the undercard holds a fascination of its own. The reigning champion, the Mainstream Media, has been forced against all odds to accept the challenge of an [Internet] upstart over the coverage of the Swiftvets controversy.
"There are too many places for people to get information," O'Shea said. "I don't think newspapers can be the gatekeepers anymore -- to say this is wrong and we will ignore it. Now we have to say this is wrong, and here is why." [in other words the USA/European Mainstream Media has a problem with the internet no longer allowing them to control what geeks read & think]
The article is a candid and unconscious description of the actual nature of news. It is not just raw information or pixels pushed onto a screen, but a system of semantic entities: an series of information objects, containing properties and methods containing embedded logic, set loose on society.
The power of the Mainstream Media lay in the fact that they controlled the generation of news objects; how they arose, what they did, how they ran their course. They were the news object foundry; able to make them "type safe"; define what they could do, and what they could not. And that power was enormous.
So when the
Swiftvets story shouldered its way into the public consciousness despite the best efforts of the "gatekeepers" to consign it to oblivion, it posed an existential challenge to the news foundries. For where one could come, more would follow. The Mainstream Media responded to accusations by Swiftvets that Kerry had misrepresented his combat record in Vietnam by creating their own alternative news object, whose methods were restricted to OutrageAgainstBush( ) and SympathyForKerry( ), with read only properties Responsible and Respectable. They could no longer block the data, but they could still transform it.
Yet for good or ill, the genie is out of the bottle. Before the Gutenberg printing press men knew the contents of the Bible solely through the prism of the professional clergy, who could alone afford the expensively hand copied books and who exclusively interpreted it. But when technology made books widely available, men could read the sacred texts for themselves and form their own opinions. And the world was never the same again.
Crazy thought - is there such a thing as "sweeps" for websites whereby the webmaster would try to generate a positive blip in web traffic so as to be able to justify higher advertizing rates?
If so then are the recent 'non-technical' political stories a sign/symptom of this website sweeps phenomena?
American Victims of Mideast Terrorist Attacks
approximately 700 Americans have been killed
and 1,600 wounded in terrorist attacks since 1970. This list also
includes injured Americans since Oslo 1993
120,000 Americans of Japanese origin who were detained (not
tortured a la Saddam, not abused a la frat party hijinks in Iraq) in American concentraion camps during WWII
One US Citizen you have named (i.e. Jose Padilla) currently is being detained but not under the "big bad scary evil" Patriot Act
'Johnny' Walker (the Marin County Jihad-dude) was actually charged with Federal crimes and did a plea bargin, currently serving ten-years. Was never charged under the "big bad scary evil" Patriot Act. If anything he was treated like a hostile nut case on the Afghan battle field prior to transport to US Federal prisons for trial... did you see the video of him on CNN? A nut case who didn't get his Ritalin dose in high school
Basically your answer boils down to... ZILCH... no one... nobody... in short "no harm no foul"... can we say this is a manufactured crisis?
Give me a jingle when the "shitlist" number reaches the:
American Victims of Mideast Terrorist Attacks approximately 700 Americans have been killed and 1,600 wounded in terrorist attacks since 1970. This list also includes injured Americans since Oslo 1993
120,000 Americans of Japanese origin who were detained (not tortured a la Saddam, not abused a la frat party hijinks in Iraq) in American concentraion camps during WWII
Many mention/imply that the USA is headed in the direction of Orwell's "1984" (perhaps F911 is an example of 1984 techniques in action). However, many are not aware of Orwell's other writings. For example, Notes on
Nationalism:
NEGATIVE NATIONALISM (i) ANGLOPHOBIA. Within the
[pseudo?]intelligentsia, a derisive and mildly hostile attitude towards Britain
[United States? Europe?] is more or less compulsory, but it is an unfaked emotion in
many cases. During the war it was manifested in the defeatism of the
[pseudo?]intelligentsia, which persisted long after it had become clear that the
Axis [Islamo-fascist?] powers could not win. Many people were undisguisedly
pleased when Singapore fell ore when the British were driven out of Greece, and
there was a remarkable unwillingness to believe in good news, e.g. el Alamein
[Iraq? Afghanistan?], or the number of German planes shot down in the Battle of
Britain. English [Liberal Western Democracy?] left-wing [pseudo?]intellectuals did not, of course, actually want the Germans or Japanese
[Islamo-fascist groups/countries?] to win the war, but many of them could not help getting a certain kick out of seeing their own country humiliated, and wanted to feel that the final victory would be due to Russia [UN? 'world-community'], or perhaps America, and not to Britain. In foreign politics
many [pseudo?]intellectuals follow the principle that any faction backed by Britain [United States? Europe?] must be in the wrong. As a result, [pseudo?] 'enlightened' opinion is quite largely a mirror-image of Conservative policy. Anglophobia is always liable to reversal, hence that fairly common spectacle, the pacifist of one war who is a bellicist in the next.
Many mention/imply that the USA is headed in the direction of Orwell's "1984" (perhaps F911 is an example of 1984 techniques in action). However, many are not aware of Orwell's other writings. For example, Notes on
Nationalism:
NEGATIVE NATIONALISM (i) ANGLOPHOBIA. Within the [pseudo?]intelligentsia, a derisive and mildly hostile attitude towards Britain [United States?] is more or less compulsory, but it is an unfaked emotion in many cases. During the war it was manifested in the defeatism of the [pseudo?]intelligentsia, which persisted long after it had become clear that the Axis [Islamo-fascist?] powers could not win. Many people were undisguisedly pleased when Singapore fell ore when the British were driven out of Greece, and
there was a remarkable unwillingness to believe in good news, e.g. el Alamein [Iraq? Afghanistan?], or the number of German planes shot down in the Battle of Britain. English [Liberal Western Democracy?] left-wing [pseudo?]intellectuals did not, of course, actually want the Germans or Japanese
[Islamo-fascist groups/countries?] to win the war, but many of them could not help getting a certain kick out of seeing their own country humiliated, and wanted to feel that the final victory would be due to Russia [UN? 'world-community'], or perhaps America, and not to Britain. In foreign politics many [pseudo?]intellectuals follow the principle that any faction backed by Britain [United States?] must be in the wrong. As a result, [pseudo?] 'enlightened' opinion is quite largely a mirror-image of Conservative policy. Anglophobia is always liable to reversal, hence that fairly common spectacle, the pacifist of one war who is a bellicist in the next.
Slashdot Mirror
Seems to be a good summary of the history and hypocrisy surrounding many of the issues over the last twelve-years.
many duplicate ads (e.g. the same blond babe lives in Perioa, New York City, Bakersfield, Idaho Falls, Bombay, Nepal, etc)
many "sissy-boys" showing their private parts (publically flashing without risk of arrest)
many woman trolling for extra income
As I wrote earlier:
an occaisional high-end craft beer is OK ;-) ... Stone Brewing Beers
Pay Raise, Promotion, Relocation Package, Sign-on Bonus, etc ... Furthermore, I claim the cost-of-living in Silicon Valley is LESS-EXPENSIVE than San Diego ... rent, gas, electricity, burritos, coffee, etc.
So far so good, I have survived every RIF, layoff, down-turn, etc thus far. If I do get 'whacked' then I am prepared for at least one-year of unemployment, psuedo-vacation, Pacific Crest Trail, renewal, etc
Having watched my father loose his job during the Carter Years, never regaining employment due to his age, being the first child in the family to receive college financial aid, I learned early on that if you want a job then YOU have to "hustle" ... YOU have to "work for it" ... YOU have to "prepare for it" ... YOU have to be ready financially/emotionally/physically to be unemployed also ... in otherwords YOU have to take charge of your own destiny.
Advice ... always be learning something new ... always save money (coins and dollar bills add up very very quickly) ... avoid debt ... avoid buying beer/wine/booze/tobacco/drugs (the money thing again although an occaisional high-end craft beer is OK ;-) ... be willing to relocate ... have reasonable salary/wage expectations - a high school diploma and reading "HTML 4 Dummies" does not entitle you to a six-figure salary ;-);-);-)
Overall, stop your whining and start learning.
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"Seared in My Memory - Reclaiming stolen honor this election year."
See also this site
Recall that 9-11 even created a seismic event
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I believe the SwiftVets
BTW #1, why do I want to subscribe to Slashdot (grin)??? This SETI potential-find was first posted on Matt Drudge's website very early this morning with a link to the NewScientist article that was "Drudged" vice Slashdotted almost immediately.
BTW #2, there are actually a bunch of candidate signals
-- ...
I believe the SwiftVets and also
It is FUNNY that Al Gore claimed that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" ... the video is there if you watch & listen to the entire interview at time stamp ~ 0:50
It is FUNNY that Al Gore claimed that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" ... the video is there if you watch & listen to the entire interview at time stamp ~ 0:50
Right under the nose of the Slashdot Editors the really BIG story is breaking on the blogosphere and many (e.g. Slashdot readers and the few subscribers) are completely detached from the discussion of the long-term implications
From the Belmont Club blog ...
The undercard in the Kerry vs Swiftvets bout is Mainstream Media vs Kid Internet, two distinctly different fights, but both over information. The first is really the struggle over the way Vietnam will be remembered by posterity; .... But the undercard holds a fascination of its own. The reigning champion, the Mainstream Media, has been forced against all odds to accept the challenge of an upstart over the coverage of the Swiftvets controversy. Joe Strupp at Editor and Publisher writes:
The article is a candid and unconscious description of the actual nature of news. It is not just raw information or pixels pushed onto a screen, but a system of semantic entities: an series of information objects, containing properties and methods containing embedded logic, set loose on society. The power of the Mainstream Media lay in the fact that they controlled the generation of news objects; how they arose, what they did, how they ran their course. They were the news object foundry; able to make them "type safe"; define what they could do, and what they could not. And that power was enormousYet for good or ill, the genie is out of the bottle. Before the Gutenberg printing press men knew the contents of the Bible solely through the prism of the professional clergy, who could alone afford the expensively hand copied books and who exclusively interpreted it. But when technology made books widely available, men could read the sacred texts for themselves and form their own opinions. And the world was never the same again.
"The real issue here is the speed and low cost of astroturf attack campaigns via the net,"
"and how easy it's been for the Bush campaign to farm out their attacks and deny that the attackers are controlled by Rove and his gang.If Bush wins again, we can expect the Democrats to lower themselves to the same tactics in future campaigns. Then we all lose. "The essay (snippets below) also 'attempts' to utilize some Object Oriented lingo to describe what is going on (grin).
If so then are the recent 'non-technical' political stories a sign/symptom of this website sweeps phenomena?
REPORT FROM THE FIELD: THE USA PATRIOT ACT AT WORK
Evidently the Patriot Act is working on a scale not yet approaching:
~ 3000 murdered on 9-11
American Victims of Mideast Terrorist Attacks approximately 700 Americans have been killed and 1,600 wounded in terrorist attacks since 1970. This list also includes injured Americans since Oslo 1993
120,000 Americans of Japanese origin who were detained (not tortured a la Saddam, not abused a la frat party hijinks in Iraq) in American concentraion camps during WWII
Some moderators appear anxious to slant the debate by moderating downward comments that provide potential balance and/or differing opinions.
'Johnny' Walker (the Marin County Jihad-dude) was actually charged with Federal crimes and did a plea bargin, currently serving ten-years. Was never charged under the "big bad scary evil" Patriot Act. If anything he was treated like a hostile nut case on the Afghan battle field prior to transport to US Federal prisons for trial ... did you see the video of him on CNN? A nut case who didn't get his Ritalin dose in high school
Basically your answer boils down to ... ZILCH ... no one ... nobody ... in short "no harm no foul" ... can we say this is a manufactured crisis?
Give me a jingle when the "shitlist" number reaches the:
~ 3000 murdered on 9-11
American Victims of Mideast Terrorist Attacks approximately 700 Americans have been killed and 1,600 wounded in terrorist attacks since 1970. This list also includes injured Americans since Oslo 1993
120,000 Americans of Japanese origin who were detained (not tortured a la Saddam, not abused a la frat party hijinks in Iraq) in American concentraion camps during WWII
One last thing ... I triple double dare you to watch the Iraq torture
video clip
One last thing ... I triple double dare you to watch the Iraq torture
video clip
sent to "internal" exile (a la freezing starvation Soviet Gulag or Chinese Communist Laogai )
tortured a la Saddam's Iraq vice "abused"
deprived of their civil rights a la Manzanar
sent to "internal" exile (a la freezing starvation Soviet Gulag or Chinese Communist Laogai )
tortured a la Saddam's Iraq vice "abused"
deprived of their civil rights a la Manzanar
- vs -
Saddam-era Iraq Torture Iraq torture video clip
Bottomline? ... Abuse != Torture