...certainly in the UK, and I don't see it being different elsewhere
No, this is definitely a UK-only thing. Then again, you guys actually have competition for newspapers whereas in the U.S. most cities have only one major daily.
-Russ
Re:Proves strength of Google
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Exactly.
The Blogs are great and their increasing popularity is exactly the thing that Google needs to keep improving it's search results.
Blogging is the constant posting of your thoughts about news items and websites. Usually it's a lot of hot air, and many times as not, they are posting links to OTHER Blog posts about blogging which has this navel-gazing affect of increasing how boring the blog is (I digress...). But in general there's some good stuff out there.
The thousands and thousands of blogs out there are constantly adding fresh links into the net. This is GREAT for Google, because as we all know Google relies on the links between pages as its "intelligence" about the web. Without blogs, Google would be relying more and more on three year old vanity pages on Geocities with links that are the oldest, most stale links possible. Blogs keep the links fresh and the results on Google accurate.
This is a good thing, even if there's some colusion once in a while.
The Nokia 7210 and 3410 will both most likely be using Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) which is a subset of Java that runs on low power devices. They'll be able to run "midlets" which are like applets in the sense that they run in a sandbox, but don't derive from the Applet class and are made to run in low memory and be connected via wireless connections. It'll be good for small connected apps like stock quotes, email, and games. But with no support for multimedia now (sound) don't expect these games to be anything amazing.
The Nokia 9210i runs on Symbian which is a full-fledged 32 bit OS derived from the EPOC platform. The Java integration in Symbian is based on Personal Java, but the Symbian guys have integrated Java deeply in the OS, which means you can access all the same APIs and functionality as you can with C++ programming. These will run pretty much full-fledged Java apps (based on a modified JDK 1.1 spec) and can't be compared to applets at all.
HEYEHEHEYEEHEY! Where'd those little icons come from!?!?
I don't want the Full Screen effect, but I do want THOSE TOOLBAR BUTTONS!! I hate how the themes I've seen so far take up so much room at the top of my screen... like a 1/10th of my screen real estate is taken up by the address bar, buttons and throbber! I mean, they look nice to a newbie, but I don't need them so big. I really liked IE's small icons option... And since I can't live without tabs now, I want that 1/8 of an inch back at the top of my screen.
But, let me just say, even without, Mozilla ROCKS. I've been using it for 3 or 4 months now and it rules. And even the email client is passable enough now for daily use...
It just feels GOOD having an M$ free web experience...
Edit -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Fonts -> Display Resolution at the bottom.
You can click the button and measure the line, adjusting your resolution to better fit your monitor. Not sure about Macs, but on my Dell Lattitude it seemed to help quite a bit.
What the hello are you talking about? Could you please post a link with a PocketPC device with a built in camera? I'd be surprised if there is one, let alone being "standard."
Go back to Redmond, you bozo...
-Russ
Oooh. Grumpy, grumpy. I need to eat more bran I think...
$1 billion, that's all? Hell, Microsoft has something like $36 billion cash in the bank right now... they should just write a check and get on with it. Hell, they could "settle" for $500 million and still not have it affect their bottom line.
If anything, this shows how much of a true monopoly Microsoft is...
I HATE HATE HATE when people put quotes around the word discovery. Yes, I understand that the Americas were here before the rest of the world stumbled upon it, but that's what discover means. Dis-cover. It was hidden, then found. Get it?
When I lose my glasses and discover them under a pillow, I don't put the word discover in quotes. When I discover that putting a CD into a microwave causes sparks, I don't quote the word either since it's obvious to me that I'm not the first to do this. When Columbus ran into a couple continents that the rest of the world had forgotten existed, he discovered it. No quotes needed.
I'm waiting for this bad-boy from Sony Ericsson. All the same type of functionality in a more phone like shape. Color screen, etc. I need a PDA AND a phone. Clam shells don't do it for me. I'm also in love with the trillian, but I'm betting that Symbian kicks Palm ass in the phone dept.
-Russ
Re:I was looking for a C book...
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Hmmm. Got me.
This is why I NEED A BOOK you asshole.
Why don't you put your ego back in your pants and answer the question if you're the fucking expert.
-Russ
I was looking for a C book...
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I was just getting into C programming (specifically for a project on my Palm, but also in general using GCC like for my GBA and Linux)... And I was looking for a good C book the other day but wasn't sure (there are quite a few). I'm an experience programmer in Java and other languages, so I don't need a basic tutorial on how C works.
What I need is a book that talks about how to use C in real projects. Gochyas, how to use the STL, etc. Also, I don't really feel like using C++ which seems like too much - even though it's more similar to Java - it looks like the vast majority of apps that I want to explore and use are written just in C...
Any suggestions?
-Russ
There goes my brainstorm...
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I had this great "million-dollar" wireless idea a few months ago that I quickly emailed to all my friends and got all excited about. The idea was to provide software and a service that would let anyone with a wireless access point set up a custom access server where they could easily charge for use of their bandwidth. Not just businesses, but anyone with a good network connection and a WiFi hub. Any wireless users that wanted to use the network could sign up to service where they could buy hours or credits. Then the local server keeps track of the time spent using its bandwidth and the proceeds are split between the server owner and the billing service. The idea is that instead of relying on "free" networks to sprout up, this would give incentive for people to open up their wireless connections by allowing them an easy way to charge for it (making them franchisees in a sense). Also it would give users a bunch more access points for reasonable charges.
However, according to this quote from the TechReview article, I've got the business model upside down:
One of the most surprising things we learned from launching our Internet startup was that providing wireless Internet service is really cheap. What ended up bankrupting the company were all the ancillary services we had to develop--credit card billing, technical support, the corporate Web site and the various security measures we had to put in place to prevent unauthorized use of the network by nonsubscribers. Organizations that aren't trying to make money providing wireless Internet service can do away with all of these measures and offer the service for free.
It seems that providing the infrastructure is the cheap part (the part that I was trying to solve) and doing all those "extras" is where the costs come in. Doh! Was really excited about it for a while though...
What I don't get is that Music City/Streamcast/Morpheus has licensed their code from FastTrak which is now this other company. Licenses usually involve cash. Why would you fuck one of your only 2 customers/partners? Are ads really worth that much? I don't think so... and can't Streamcast sue for breach of contract (I mean, if they could find this other shadow company that is...)
Along with my email address and phone number, etc. which I included to make sure that someone could verify that I was a real person... Didn't dawn on me that my personal info was going to be available in an easy to SPAM collection of addresses.
Also, I guess I won't think about applying to work at Microsoft now... this is like the ultimate anti-MS blacklist. And I won't be surprised to find various upgrade problems in the future if I ever decide to buy M$ products again...
You're right. Bill fucked up and the rest of the dems were sleeping. Wasn't the first or last time.
But generally, Republicans suck and they're only interested in what helps the rich. Which is great if you're rich. But I'm not. And since I'm very also liberal, I have to pick a side and bash the other when ever possible... Lesser of two evils, really.
Anyways, name ONE Republican Congressman or Senator that's against the DMCA. I can give you a couple Dems who think it sucks (and more if I did some research). But I would bet that not one Republican thinks that the DMCA is bad or the SSSCA either for that matter.
-Russ
P.S. I almost ignored this post because of your user name...
We can all fight this, but it's coming so we might as well get used to it and get some sleep.
The fact is that technology is created by giant corporations. Can you manufacture a Pentium in your garage? Nope. Hard drives? Monitors? Network cards? Cable? Infrared mice? Nope, nope, nope. Basically the only thing that we have control of is the software, the rest is made by multinational corporations who have very little of our best interests in mind.
No one really respected computers before 1995. Only office workers used them and NO one used them for entertainment. The same argument can be made for most digital devices. Now suddenly, everyone gets the clue and realizes what sort thing of thing that Greek chick has let out of the digital box. In the coming years every book, every piece of music, every movie, every television show EVER CREATED will be available digitally. And as it is now every piece of this copyrighted material is free to be transferred between people without cost.
Everyone gets the idea now. And they're going to do something about it.
So, multinationals are going to do what they can to protect their own and the government (especially a Republican led government) will let them. Companies like Sony who once pushed for BetaMax openness will now push for DRM on everything. Even little companies like Blizzard get it and pushes for complete control over it's product and how it's used on the Internet. It won't be long before Microsoft does the same for Windows (want to use the net? You have to use the Microsoft Internet Protocol TM - or you go to jail.)
And what are we, the people, going to do when the corporations do this? Nothing. Because again, we can't create our own fiber-optic cable in our bathroom, we can't create DRAM in our kitchen, etc. We are at the bottom end of the line waiting for whatever digital product these corporations produce.
Normally we would not buy such horrible products and then we would go to our government for protection from such strongarm tactics, but the government is not on our side (and hasn't been for a while). In FACT, they are ASKING the corporations to COLLUDE! PLEASE restrict choice. PLEASE come to an agreement on how to best restrict digital freedoms. PLEASE make it so the status quo can be maintained. THAT is best for the country.
The corporations and the government know NOW that the technology user only has as much power as they GIVE them, so they're going to come to an agreement on the best way to restrict this power.
I got my first piece of spam on my phone the other day, but it was the same piece I got in my unrelated email inbox. I was like "How'd they do that?" It took me a couple seconds to realize that I've included a mail link to my provider's SMTP->SMS gateway on my homepage (so anyone can send me a SMS message via normal email) and obviously it was scraped off by some idiot spammer...
And, well, make sure that 250,000 line program is written in something marketable like Java, C or C++. Your offers will diminish if you're playing around with non-corporate languages like Perl. Or you'll be forever banished to maintaining 5 year old CGI scripts...
20 years later, when differential cryptography was "discovered", it turned out those changes made it more resistant to differential cryptography...
Wait, I don't understand that. Is this good or bad? Resistant meaning that you couldn't use DES for this type of new and better cryptography or the opposite that the DES was made stronger by the NSA changes... I'm confused.
The same thing happened to me, sort of. I had an email address that I was using through Mail.com and besides the fact that it's a horrible service, the amount of spam I was receiving was nuts - I just used it too much on the web during the 90s not realizing what I was doing.
So I changed email addresses and I set up the Mail.com email system to auto-respond with a message that said that it was an old email account and to check my website for the new one (thus not sending my email to Spammers... Yes I know about web-scrapers... what can I do). Anyways, now I have to go into the mailbox every week or so to check for bozos who still email me at the old address and to clean out all the SPAM I receive AND all the Bounced Mail messages. It seems that every single instance of Spam uses a fake email address or an address at Yahoo or Hotmail which fills up in 10 minutes.
So trying to figure out why the hell would anyone send me a message from a fake address, I determined it was obvious if you read the email. They always include a link to some random website (.ru anyone?) and when you arrive, there's absolutely no contact info, but always a pitch for some product or service and a form to put your credit card info in. Fuckers. I HATE SPAMMERS.
From this experience I thought I'd really like to implement a sort of "thank you note validation" system on my mail server where every message that comes in would be responded to automatically with a "thank you note". Any response email that bounced would automatically mark the original message as spam. This of course would bring the Internet to it's knees if everyone did this (here's a thank you note for your thank you note) and temporary mail server or router outages would also cause false-readings, but still...
My COMPLETELY INEXPERT opinion is this: We're all using SMTP - SIMPLE message transport protocol. It's now time for a NON-SIMPLE solution. The CMTP if you like (c for complex). If you want to send mail, you have to register your email address with an officially sanctioned registrar (yes, I know, it'd be like ICANN except worse) and then those messages would be digitally signed and your mail server could be set up with levels and filters. You could still receive unsolicited mail, but if it was from a known corporate entity, you could acurately filter it out.
I remember when I set up my first SMTP server and email system and found out that you can basically lie in all the to and from fields and IT DOESN'T MATTER, I thought, that's sort of weird. Now I realize it's completely broken, not weird.
In light of recent events and world circumstances I find it deeply disturbing that you are promoting civilized thought concerning one of the "Axis of Evil." Do you want the terrorists to win?
As we are in an ongoing war against Evil Regimes like these it is advised that we think of their populations not as unwashed TV-loving hoards such as in America, but only as evil-doers and potential terrorists. Promoting news stories in this manner is unamerican as it will not allow us to kill thousands of innocent civilians (as in Afghanistan) without burdoning the general population with uncomfortable feelings of guilt or shame - feelings which will undoubtedly affect our economy. Do you want the recession to continue?
By publishing news items such as this and allowing "free" discussion, you are only making it much harder for the government to start more wars, the military to recieve more monies and the Republicans to stay in office. I urge you, in the future, to respect this time of national crisis and return to covering your normal subjects such as useless news about technology, science and Anime.
Yours,
Nona Yurbidness Propaganda Office of the Resident of the United States of America.
P.S. Since you obviously have problems being American, the NSA has been assigned to monitor your internal communications and shopping patterns for more anti-government activities such as these. You have been warned.
Re:And when you fall on your ass...
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Ever see the opening to the Jetsons where George falls on the treadmill? Like that, except with snow.
Slashdot Mirror
Does this guy EVER take a SHOWER?!?!?!
-Russ
No, this is definitely a UK-only thing. Then again, you guys actually have competition for newspapers whereas in the U.S. most cities have only one major daily.
-Russ
Exactly.
The Blogs are great and their increasing popularity is exactly the thing that Google needs to keep improving it's search results.
Blogging is the constant posting of your thoughts about news items and websites. Usually it's a lot of hot air, and many times as not, they are posting links to OTHER Blog posts about blogging which has this navel-gazing affect of increasing how boring the blog is (I digress...). But in general there's some good stuff out there.
The thousands and thousands of blogs out there are constantly adding fresh links into the net. This is GREAT for Google, because as we all know Google relies on the links between pages as its "intelligence" about the web. Without blogs, Google would be relying more and more on three year old vanity pages on Geocities with links that are the oldest, most stale links possible. Blogs keep the links fresh and the results on Google accurate.
This is a good thing, even if there's some colusion once in a while.
-Russ
Let's use 6 year old terminology shall we?
The Nokia 7210 and 3410 will both most likely be using Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) which is a subset of Java that runs on low power devices. They'll be able to run "midlets" which are like applets in the sense that they run in a sandbox, but don't derive from the Applet class and are made to run in low memory and be connected via wireless connections. It'll be good for small connected apps like stock quotes, email, and games. But with no support for multimedia now (sound) don't expect these games to be anything amazing.
The Nokia 9210i runs on Symbian which is a full-fledged 32 bit OS derived from the EPOC platform. The Java integration in Symbian is based on Personal Java, but the Symbian guys have integrated Java deeply in the OS, which means you can access all the same APIs and functionality as you can with C++ programming. These will run pretty much full-fledged Java apps (based on a modified JDK 1.1 spec) and can't be compared to applets at all.
-Russ
HEYEHEHEYEEHEY! Where'd those little icons come from!?!?
I don't want the Full Screen effect, but I do want THOSE TOOLBAR BUTTONS!! I hate how the themes I've seen so far take up so much room at the top of my screen... like a 1/10th of my screen real estate is taken up by the address bar, buttons and throbber! I mean, they look nice to a newbie, but I don't need them so big. I really liked IE's small icons option... And since I can't live without tabs now, I want that 1/8 of an inch back at the top of my screen.
But, let me just say, even without, Mozilla ROCKS. I've been using it for 3 or 4 months now and it rules. And even the email client is passable enough now for daily use...
It just feels GOOD having an M$ free web experience...
-Russ
Did you mess with the Display Resolution option?
Edit -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Fonts -> Display Resolution at the bottom.
You can click the button and measure the line, adjusting your resolution to better fit your monitor. Not sure about Macs, but on my Dell Lattitude it seemed to help quite a bit.
-Russ
What the hello are you talking about? Could you please post a link with a PocketPC device with a built in camera? I'd be surprised if there is one, let alone being "standard."
Go back to Redmond, you bozo...
-Russ
Oooh. Grumpy, grumpy. I need to eat more bran I think...
$1 billion, that's all? Hell, Microsoft has something like $36 billion cash in the bank right now... they should just write a check and get on with it. Hell, they could "settle" for $500 million and still not have it affect their bottom line.
If anything, this shows how much of a true monopoly Microsoft is...
-Russ
I HATE HATE HATE when people put quotes around the word discovery. Yes, I understand that the Americas were here before the rest of the world stumbled upon it, but that's what discover means. Dis-cover. It was hidden, then found. Get it?
When I lose my glasses and discover them under a pillow, I don't put the word discover in quotes. When I discover that putting a CD into a microwave causes sparks, I don't quote the word either since it's obvious to me that I'm not the first to do this. When Columbus ran into a couple continents that the rest of the world had forgotten existed, he discovered it. No quotes needed.
Case closed. Un-PC yourself.
-Russ
I'm waiting for this bad-boy from Sony Ericsson. All the same type of functionality in a more phone like shape. Color screen, etc. I need a PDA AND a phone. Clam shells don't do it for me. I'm also in love with the trillian, but I'm betting that Symbian kicks Palm ass in the phone dept.
-Russ
Hmmm. Got me.
This is why I NEED A BOOK you asshole.
Why don't you put your ego back in your pants and answer the question if you're the fucking expert.
-Russ
I was just getting into C programming (specifically for a project on my Palm, but also in general using GCC like for my GBA and Linux)... And I was looking for a good C book the other day but wasn't sure (there are quite a few). I'm an experience programmer in Java and other languages, so I don't need a basic tutorial on how C works.
What I need is a book that talks about how to use C in real projects. Gochyas, how to use the STL, etc. Also, I don't really feel like using C++ which seems like too much - even though it's more similar to Java - it looks like the vast majority of apps that I want to explore and use are written just in C...
Any suggestions?
-Russ
However, according to this quote from the TechReview article, I've got the business model upside down:
It seems that providing the infrastructure is the cheap part (the part that I was trying to solve) and doing all those "extras" is where the costs come in. Doh! Was really excited about it for a while though...
-Russ
What I don't get is that Music City/Streamcast/Morpheus has licensed their code from FastTrak which is now this other company. Licenses usually involve cash. Why would you fuck one of your only 2 customers/partners? Are ads really worth that much? I don't think so... and can't Streamcast sue for breach of contract (I mean, if they could find this other shadow company that is...)
-Russ
Nope, my comment is there no problem.
Along with my email address and phone number, etc. which I included to make sure that someone could verify that I was a real person... Didn't dawn on me that my personal info was going to be available in an easy to SPAM collection of addresses.
Also, I guess I won't think about applying to work at Microsoft now... this is like the ultimate anti-MS blacklist. And I won't be surprised to find various upgrade problems in the future if I ever decide to buy M$ products again...
-Russ
Here's a news item at InfoSync about the new Nokia GSM, GPRS, HSCSD, and WiFi PCMCIA card.
Pretty freakin' cool. I want one.
-Russ
Damn. You got me on that one. So much for being partisan...
That bastard! They aught to revoke his Demo membership.
-Russ
You're right. Bill fucked up and the rest of the dems were sleeping. Wasn't the first or last time.
But generally, Republicans suck and they're only interested in what helps the rich. Which is great if you're rich. But I'm not. And since I'm very also liberal, I have to pick a side and bash the other when ever possible... Lesser of two evils, really.
Anyways, name ONE Republican Congressman or Senator that's against the DMCA. I can give you a couple Dems who think it sucks (and more if I did some research). But I would bet that not one Republican thinks that the DMCA is bad or the SSSCA either for that matter.
-Russ
P.S. I almost ignored this post because of your user name...
We can all fight this, but it's coming so we might as well get used to it and get some sleep.
The fact is that technology is created by giant corporations. Can you manufacture a Pentium in your garage? Nope. Hard drives? Monitors? Network cards? Cable? Infrared mice? Nope, nope, nope. Basically the only thing that we have control of is the software, the rest is made by multinational corporations who have very little of our best interests in mind.
No one really respected computers before 1995. Only office workers used them and NO one used them for entertainment. The same argument can be made for most digital devices. Now suddenly, everyone gets the clue and realizes what sort thing of thing that Greek chick has let out of the digital box. In the coming years every book, every piece of music, every movie, every television show EVER CREATED will be available digitally. And as it is now every piece of this copyrighted material is free to be transferred between people without cost.
Everyone gets the idea now. And they're going to do something about it.
So, multinationals are going to do what they can to protect their own and the government (especially a Republican led government) will let them. Companies like Sony who once pushed for BetaMax openness will now push for DRM on everything. Even little companies like Blizzard get it and pushes for complete control over it's product and how it's used on the Internet. It won't be long before Microsoft does the same for Windows (want to use the net? You have to use the Microsoft Internet Protocol TM - or you go to jail.)
And what are we, the people, going to do when the corporations do this? Nothing. Because again, we can't create our own fiber-optic cable in our bathroom, we can't create DRAM in our kitchen, etc. We are at the bottom end of the line waiting for whatever digital product these corporations produce.
Normally we would not buy such horrible products and then we would go to our government for protection from such strongarm tactics, but the government is not on our side (and hasn't been for a while). In FACT, they are ASKING the corporations to COLLUDE! PLEASE restrict choice. PLEASE come to an agreement on how to best restrict digital freedoms. PLEASE make it so the status quo can be maintained. THAT is best for the country.
The corporations and the government know NOW that the technology user only has as much power as they GIVE them, so they're going to come to an agreement on the best way to restrict this power.
Get used to it.
-Russ
I got my first piece of spam on my phone the other day, but it was the same piece I got in my unrelated email inbox. I was like "How'd they do that?" It took me a couple seconds to realize that I've included a mail link to my provider's SMTP->SMS gateway on my homepage (so anyone can send me a SMS message via normal email) and obviously it was scraped off by some idiot spammer...
It's only just beginning...
-Russ
And, well, make sure that 250,000 line program is written in something marketable like Java, C or C++. Your offers will diminish if you're playing around with non-corporate languages like Perl. Or you'll be forever banished to maintaining 5 year old CGI scripts...
Go ahead, mod me down. It's true though...
-Russ
20 years later, when differential cryptography was "discovered", it turned out those changes made it more resistant to differential cryptography...
Wait, I don't understand that. Is this good or bad? Resistant meaning that you couldn't use DES for this type of new and better cryptography or the opposite that the DES was made stronger by the NSA changes... I'm confused.
-Russ
The same thing happened to me, sort of. I had an email address that I was using through Mail.com and besides the fact that it's a horrible service, the amount of spam I was receiving was nuts - I just used it too much on the web during the 90s not realizing what I was doing.
... Yes I know about web-scrapers... what can I do). Anyways, now I have to go into the mailbox every week or so to check for bozos who still email me at the old address and to clean out all the SPAM I receive AND all the Bounced Mail messages. It seems that every single instance of Spam uses a fake email address or an address at Yahoo or Hotmail which fills up in 10 minutes.
So I changed email addresses and I set up the Mail.com email system to auto-respond with a message that said that it was an old email account and to check my website for the new one (thus not sending my email to Spammers
So trying to figure out why the hell would anyone send me a message from a fake address, I determined it was obvious if you read the email. They always include a link to some random website (.ru anyone?) and when you arrive, there's absolutely no contact info, but always a pitch for some product or service and a form to put your credit card info in. Fuckers. I HATE SPAMMERS.
From this experience I thought I'd really like to implement a sort of "thank you note validation" system on my mail server where every message that comes in would be responded to automatically with a "thank you note". Any response email that bounced would automatically mark the original message as spam. This of course would bring the Internet to it's knees if everyone did this (here's a thank you note for your thank you note) and temporary mail server or router outages would also cause false-readings, but still...
My COMPLETELY INEXPERT opinion is this: We're all using SMTP - SIMPLE message transport protocol. It's now time for a NON-SIMPLE solution. The CMTP if you like (c for complex). If you want to send mail, you have to register your email address with an officially sanctioned registrar (yes, I know, it'd be like ICANN except worse) and then those messages would be digitally signed and your mail server could be set up with levels and filters. You could still receive unsolicited mail, but if it was from a known corporate entity, you could acurately filter it out.
I remember when I set up my first SMTP server and email system and found out that you can basically lie in all the to and from fields and IT DOESN'T MATTER, I thought, that's sort of weird. Now I realize it's completely broken, not weird.
My thoughts...
-Russ
In light of recent events and world circumstances I find it deeply disturbing that you are promoting civilized thought concerning one of the "Axis of Evil." Do you want the terrorists to win?
As we are in an ongoing war against Evil Regimes like these it is advised that we think of their populations not as unwashed TV-loving hoards such as in America, but only as evil-doers and potential terrorists. Promoting news stories in this manner is unamerican as it will not allow us to kill thousands of innocent civilians (as in Afghanistan) without burdoning the general population with uncomfortable feelings of guilt or shame - feelings which will undoubtedly affect our economy. Do you want the recession to continue?
By publishing news items such as this and allowing "free" discussion, you are only making it much harder for the government to start more wars, the military to recieve more monies and the Republicans to stay in office. I urge you, in the future, to respect this time of national crisis and return to covering your normal subjects such as useless news about technology, science and Anime.
Yours,
Nona Yurbidness
Propaganda Office of the Resident of the United States of America.
P.S. Since you obviously have problems being American, the NSA has been assigned to monitor your internal communications and shopping patterns for more anti-government activities such as these. You have been warned.
Ever see the opening to the Jetsons where George falls on the treadmill? Like that, except with snow.
-Russ