Lie detectors are naturally attractive to a culture that casually accepts a redefinition of the word "science," that promotes creationism as science, that sprinkles holy water on orange groves in an attempt to retard freezing.
Corry Currently playing: Drs. 4 "Bob," You Cain't Hide From God
"B. prove to everyone that you are better than that---that you don't fall into that stereotype."
Oh, please. I am not obligated to go out of my way to prove myself to you just because you think your biases are justified. Feel free to continue making snap judgements of people you think talk funny, just don't expect your dynamic lectures on prejudice to get very far. You might as well go around yelling: DEATH TO THE INTOLERANT!
Using terms like "tinfoil hat" is a surrrre sign of quality discussion to come. Yipsiree. Besides, "tinfoil hat" is so 1990s. So is aluminum; we've all seen that web page as well. I protect my brain from mind control rays with genuine Line-X (TM) spray-on skull lining. It's good looking, rugged, and helps maintain my resale value. And if some impure unpatriotic thought gets through, I just get it repaired by a certified professional tech and I'm good to go for another week of Hannitization.
Consider an mandatory embedded RF receiver in your (digital or film) camera that would prevent you from taking a photo near certain government buildings if it was in range of a particular transmitted signal. You could probably h4X0r and defeat the circuit, but that could be made illegal justlikethat ($1 to e.e.)
Other organizations known for buying laws could easily arrange for their "intellectual property" to be protected in this manner as well.
At that point, you are at risk of not even owning your camera, nor the pictures you take. It's up to the individual to gauge the threat. Right now, it seems far-fetched. But never forget that the Man wants total control of everything you see, say, hear, and do.
Many Southern states used to welcome with open arms polluting industries banished from other parts of the country to pump up the local economy. The alternative was to improve the education of the citizens and this was considered an unacceptable risk to politicians' careers.
While surrounding states have tried to break out of that trap, Alabama, as usual, lags behind. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management is unabashedly pro-industry.
The history of this state includes the Triana DDT poisoning of the 1970s and the infamous Emelle waste dump. Both of these environmental, uh, "issues" just happen to have taken place in impoverished and/or predominately black areas of the state. While the Monsanto PCB dumping appears to cross racial lines for a change, the overall attitude of willful ignorance on the part of local and state officials and the public makes our state a polluter's dream come true. Which is a shame, for there is still unexpected beauty in Alabama.
Every effective troll needs that certain attention to detail. I appreciate that. But troll or not, stunt-casting Richard Jewell here may not be your best move. I recall that his lawyers ripped the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Several New Ones a few years ago. You may want to review that case. Hope this helps.
From: "Unclaimed Mysteries" Newsgroups: alt.slack Subject: Los Alamos:" You know, back in the old days a courthouse fire... Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 04:35:57 -0500
...might come along at a real bad time, and some records might accidentally get burned that were pertinent to some ongoing investigation, and durn it, the evidence just went up in smoke. Come to think of it, hasn't there been some controversy and what-not at that super-scientific nook-yular research center? Hmmm..."
Okay. I'm assigning this conspiracy theoriette a low probability. But I'm amazed at the fact that I even thought about it for more than 300 milliseconds.
Corry -- C. L. Smith's Unclaimed Mysteries: Future home of the Grand Mal Opry (TM) http://www.unclaimedmysteries.net/ "Positive thinking can kill you." - Rev. Ivan Stang
The increasing fear of free, educated people by the state is an unmistakable sign that it is on the road to despotism. I'm not ready to say how far along that superhighway we are in the USA, but...
Item: That dang ol' printing press was considered a threat to the state at one time. "You mean the serfs are going to learn to READ?"
Item: Old Communist dictatorships forbade unlicensed typewriters.
Item: The biggest fear among 19th Century US slaveholders was that the slaves would become literate. As it was, information on escape routes was ILLEGALLY ENCRYPTED in the lyrics of spiritual hymns and the designs of quilts.
The big deal is poorly shielded computers are the biggest generators of radio frequency trash that other services have to deal with. Not ionizing levels, that's another story, altogether.*
RF interference drives hams crazy (ier). They constantly have to track down leakage from bad casing, bad connectors, cables, etc. Don't care about them? How about hospital patients monitored by sensitive medical equipment? A clean RF environment is important for these devices.
The noise generated by computers already extends well into the VHF range. With the number of computers rising and CPU speeds going up and up, the noise is going to collide with more services such as cell phones.
C. L. Smith's Unclaimed Mysteries http://www.unclaimedmysteries.net/ *All: "That's another story."
My reading of the article tells me that advocates are justifying this mandate by invoking the government-led origins of the internet.
Aren't personal pages also on the government's creature, the internet? Suppose a vision-impared student at a public library researching a report on say, butterflies, comes across an individual's butterfly web page that is Shocked, Flashed, and Java-slide-showed within an inch of its life. The information cannot be handled by a text reader or text-based browser.
Should these pages be made to conform to the government standard as well?
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All the crap that gets posted here and this gets tagged as flamebait. Cute.
Lie detectors are naturally attractive to a culture that casually accepts a redefinition of the word "science," that promotes creationism as science, that sprinkles holy water on orange groves in an attempt to retard freezing.
Corry
Currently playing: Drs. 4 "Bob," You Cain't Hide From God
"B. prove to everyone that you are better than that---that you don't fall into that stereotype."
Oh, please. I am not obligated to go out of my way to prove myself to you just because you think your biases are justified. Feel free to continue making snap judgements of people you think talk funny, just don't expect your dynamic lectures on prejudice to get very far. You might as well go around yelling: DEATH TO THE INTOLERANT!
The basic veracity of your remark should be obvious to even the most casual observer. The rest is left as an exercise for the student. HTH HAND.
Godwin's Law is a quaint relic of a simpler time.
Using terms like "tinfoil hat" is a surrrre sign of quality discussion to come. Yipsiree. Besides, "tinfoil hat" is so 1990s. So is aluminum; we've all seen that web page as well. I protect my brain from mind control rays with genuine Line-X (TM) spray-on skull lining. It's good looking, rugged, and helps maintain my resale value. And if some impure unpatriotic thought gets through, I just get it repaired by a certified professional tech and I'm good to go for another week of Hannitization.
Dear Spackler,
I'll do it if you can just get rid of these damb gophers in my yard!
Yr. Obt. Svt.,
Bill
Consider an mandatory embedded RF receiver in your (digital or film) camera that would prevent
you from taking a photo near certain government buildings if it was in range
of a particular transmitted signal. You could probably h4X0r and defeat the
circuit, but that could be made illegal justlikethat ($1 to e.e.)
Other organizations known for buying laws could easily arrange for their
"intellectual property" to be protected in this manner as well.
At that point, you are at risk of not even owning your camera, nor the
pictures you take. It's up to the individual to gauge the threat. Right now,
it seems far-fetched. But never forget that the Man wants total control of
everything you see, say, hear, and do.
That's funny. My Billy Bass sings "Psycho Killer." Please advise.
Corry
due to presence of A/D converters in spacecraft; Analog Hole in Solar System declared "plugged"; Other craft such as Pioneer to be shut down
Many Southern states used to welcome with open arms polluting industries banished from other parts of the country to pump up the local economy. The alternative was to improve the education of the citizens and this was considered an unacceptable risk to politicians' careers.
While surrounding states have tried to break out of that trap, Alabama, as usual, lags behind. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management is unabashedly pro-industry.
The history of this state includes the Triana DDT poisoning of the 1970s and the infamous Emelle waste dump. Both of these environmental, uh, "issues" just happen to have taken place in impoverished and/or predominately black areas of the state. While the Monsanto PCB dumping appears to cross racial lines for a change, the overall attitude of willful ignorance on the part of local and state officials and the public makes our state a polluter's dream come true. Which is a shame, for there is still unexpected beauty in Alabama.
"Say Megaweapon, have you ever worked with Killdozer?"
73,
Corry K4DOH
Every effective troll needs that certain attention to detail. I appreciate that. But troll or not, stunt-casting Richard Jewell here may not be your best move. I recall that his lawyers ripped the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Several New Ones a few years ago. You may want to review that case. Hope this helps.
You have a problem with that? Just press "send" and run like hell.
Did I call it or did I call it?
EXHIBIT A:
From: "Unclaimed Mysteries"
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: Los Alamos:" You know, back in the old days a courthouse fire...
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 04:35:57 -0500
...might come along at a real bad time, and some records might accidentally
get burned that were pertinent to some ongoing investigation, and durn it,
the evidence just went up in smoke. Come to think of it, hasn't there been
some controversy and what-not at that super-scientific nook-yular research
center? Hmmm..."
Okay. I'm assigning this conspiracy theoriette a low probability. But I'm
amazed at the fact that I even thought about it for more than 300
milliseconds.
Corry
--
C. L. Smith's Unclaimed Mysteries: Future home of the Grand Mal Opry (TM)
http://www.unclaimedmysteries.net/
"Positive thinking can kill you." - Rev. Ivan Stang
"More is the shame that a Socialist party would be the channel for such an egrerious afront to individual freedoms."
Huh? The protection of individual freedom isn't exactly a strong point of socialism to begin with.
Before flaming back, look carefully to see if any part of this post implies that the right is immune from the impulse to suppress individual freedom.
Corry
My bad. I wanted to get them both in. At least I didn't break out the Southern plural variation th'all!
Confusion betweeen Quakers and Amish? A line straight out of the movie "Kingpin."
Actually, thou would not be out of place in the surprisingly contentious newsgroup soc.religion.quaker.
"You are not authorized to view this page
You might not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials you supplied."
I'm sure it's just an oversight. They do a great job up there at the FBI. The NSA too. Grossly underpaid if you ask me. Right? Right.
"genetic Cocaine jihad?" Now THERE'S a band name.
Shut your mouth!
But I'm talking 'bout Torvald!
Then we can dig it!
The increasing fear of free, educated people by the state is an unmistakable sign that it is on the road to despotism. I'm not ready to say how far along that superhighway we are in the USA, but...
Item: That dang ol' printing press was considered a threat to the state at one time. "You mean the serfs are going to learn to READ?"
Item: Old Communist dictatorships forbade unlicensed typewriters.
Item: The biggest fear among 19th Century US slaveholders was that the slaves would become literate. As it was, information on escape routes was ILLEGALLY ENCRYPTED in the lyrics of spiritual hymns and the designs of quilts.
FCC Section 15.102 directly addresses this issue.
The big deal is poorly shielded computers are the biggest generators of radio frequency trash that other services have to deal with. Not ionizing levels, that's another story, altogether.*
RF interference drives hams crazy (ier). They constantly have to track down leakage from bad casing, bad connectors, cables, etc. Don't care about them? How about hospital patients monitored by sensitive medical equipment? A clean RF environment is important for these devices.
The noise generated by computers already extends well into the VHF range. With the number of computers rising and CPU speeds going up and up, the noise is going to collide with more services such as cell phones.
C. L. Smith's Unclaimed Mysteries
http://www.unclaimedmysteries.net/
*All: "That's another story."
My reading of the article tells me that advocates are justifying this mandate by invoking the government-led origins of the internet.
Aren't personal pages also on the government's creature, the internet? Suppose a vision-impared student at a public library researching a
report on say, butterflies, comes across an individual's butterfly web page that is Shocked, Flashed, and Java-slide-showed within an
inch of its life. The information cannot be handled by a text reader or text-based browser.
Should these pages be made to conform to the government standard as well?