Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Mata ah-oo hima de
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Himitsu wo shiri tai
You're wondering who I am-machine or mannequin
With parts made in Japan, I am the modren man
I've got a secret I've been hiding under my skin
My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain I.B.M.
So if you see me acting strangely, don't be surprised
I'm just a man who needed someone, and somewhere to hide
To keep me alive-just keep me alive
Somewhere to hide to keep me alive
I'm not a robot without emotions-I'm not what you see
I've come to help you with your problems, so we can be free
I'm not a hero, I'm not a saviour, forget what you know
I'm just a man whose circumstances went beyond his control
Beyond my control-we all need control
I need control-we all need control
I am the modren man, who hides behind a mask
So no one else can see my true identity
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto
For doing the jobs that nobody wants to
And thank you very much, Mr. Roboto
For helping me escape just when I needed to
Thank you-thank you, thank you
I want to thank you, please, thank you
The problem's plain to see: too much technology
Machines to save our lives. Machines dehumanize.
The time has come aat last
To throw away this mask
So everyone caan see
My true identity...
I'm Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy!
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Mata ah-oo hima de
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Himitsu wo shiri tai
You're wondering who I am-machine or mannequin
With parts made in Japan, I am the modren man
I've got a secret I've been hiding under my skin
My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain I.B.M.
So if you see me acting strangely, don't be surprised
I'm just a man who needed someone, and somewhere to hide
To keep me alive-just keep me alive
Somewhere to hide to keep me alive
I'm not a robot without emotions-I'm not what you see
I've come to help you with your problems, so we can be free
I'm not a hero, I'm not a saviour, forget what you know
I'm just a man whose circumstances went beyond his control
Beyond my control-we all need control
I need control-we all need control
I am the modren man, who hides behind a mask
So no one else can see my true identity
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto
For doing the jobs that nobody wants to
And thank you very much, Mr. Roboto
For helping me escape just when I needed to
Thank you-thank you, thank you
I want to thank you, please, thank you
The problem's plain to see: too much technology
Machines to save our lives. Machines dehumanize.
The time has come aat last
To throw away this mask
So everyone caan see
My true identity...
I'm Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy!
This is old news. I personally find it amusing that this thread-slapping has turned some disused UID's from the old days into trolls. We all know that Malda is feeling stressed out by being berated constantly by what ammounts to complete strangers (us trolls). I personally speak for me alone when I say I do it out of boredom. I neither know Rob Malda, nor care anything for him.
It is funny to post offensive content to this site. Period. I enjoy it. I do not care if I or everyone else get modded into oblivion, by the janitors or the other users of this system. I have real issues to care about. If I get banned at home, I post at work (and vice versa).
Another funny concept is community . Community it where you live. I know I am as guilty as many of you. I sit on my expanding ass in front of one of my machines for far too many hours a day. I still do not consider any "place" made totally of bits in a database to be my comunity. I would just as easily waste my time elsewhere like I have since my 1st net connection in 1994, or my pre-/. existance circa late 1999.
Many of us are taking shit WAAAAY too seriously. Kick back, have a bacardi limon and coke and kiss the missus. I know I make my wife a computer widow way too much.
Thank you for your time, and for reposting this shit verbatim.
Hey ooh.
Sheets of empty canvas.
Untouched sheets of clay were laid spread out before me as her body once did.
All five horizons revolved around her soul. As the earth to the sun.
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn.
Ooh, and all I taught her was everything.
Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore.
And now my bitter hands shade beneath the clouds of what was everything.
All the pictures have all been washed in black. Tattooed every day.
I take a walk outside. I'm surrounded by some kids at play.
Oh, I can feel their laughter. Oh, so why do I sear?
Ooh, and twisted thoughts that spin around my head.
I'm spinning. Oh, I'm spinning.
How quick the sun can drop away.
And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.
All the pictures have all been washed in black. Tattooed everything.
All the love gone bad turned my world to black.
Tattooed all I see. All that I am. All I'll be. Yeah.
Uh huh... Uh huh... Ooh.
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life.
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky but why, why, why can't it be, oh, can't it be mine?
Oh... Ohh yeah oh.
Do do do do do do do (x20 total) Yeah... Yeah...
Hi. (x6)
Yeah. (x3)
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Beautiful lie
You can pray
You can pay
Till you're buried alive
Blackmailer blues
Everyone in the room
Owns a part of the noose
Slipknot gig
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Did someone say
Help on the way
Well, I know
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That there's help on the way
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I am not baking with the dead. I have just been a fan since my teenage years. I have a laminated newspaper clipping proclaiming Jery's death that has been in my wallet since that day. I never got into drugs, since bipolar does some interesting things to me anyway... I do drink, but regardless of what I see in PSA's on TV, I do not consider booze a drug. It is also my perogative to not consider mars a planet, or to not consider the pope a catholic. Oh well, my world exists solely in my head.
1. This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552,
for injunctive and other appropriate relief and seeking the disclosure and
release of agency records improperly withheld from plaintiff by defendant
Department of Justice ("DOJ") and its components Federal Bureau of
Investigation ("FBI"), United States Marshals Service ("USMS"), Drug
Enforcement Agency ("DEA"), Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS"),
and defendant U.S. Treasury ("Treasury") and its components Internal Revenue
Service ("IRS"), and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms ("ATF").
Jurisdiction and Venue
2. This Court has both subject matter jurisdiction over this action and
personal jurisdiction over the parties pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(4)(B).
This court also has jurisdiction over this action pursuant to 28 U.S.C.
1331. Venue lies in this district under 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(4)(B).
3. Plaintiff Electronic Privacy Information Center ("EPIC") is a public
interest non-profit research organization in Washington, DC. It was
established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties
issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional
values. EPIC's activities include the review of federal data collection and
data sharing policies to determine their possible impacts on civil liberties
and privacy interests. Among its other activities, EPIC has prepared reports
and presented testimony on privacy issues and has participated in and
organized conferences on privacy.
4. Defendant DOJ is a Department of the Executive Branch of the United
States Government, and includes component entities FBI, USMS, DEA, and INS.
The DOJ is an agency within the meaning of 5 U.S.C. 552(f).
5. Defendant Treasury is a Department of the Executive Branch of the United
States Government, and includes component entities IRS and ATF. The Treasury
is an agency within the meaning of 5 U.S.C. 552(f).
Government Agencies' Acquisition of Private Sector Personal Information
6. On April 13, 2001, the Wall Street Journal reported that executive branch
agencies were purchasing "troves of personal data from the private sector."
Glenn R. Simpson, Big Brother-in-Law, If the FBI Hopes to Get the Goods on
You, It May Ask ChoicePoint, Wall St. J., April 13, 2001 at A1.
7. The article quoted government sources for the proposition that DOJ, FBI,
USMS, INS, and IRS employees had electronic access to citizens' assets,
phone numbers, driving records, and other personal information from their
desktop computers.
8. The article reported that ChoicePoint, a publicly-held company, and its
competitors were supplying citizens' personal information to at least
thirty-five federal government agencies.
9. The use of private sector databases of personal information enables the
government to obtain detailed information on citizens while avoiding the
creation of files that would implicate protections provided under the
Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a.
Plaintiff's FOIA Requests and Defendants' Failure to Respond
10. By separate letters to DOJ, FBI, USMS, DEA, INS, IRS, and ATF dated June
22, 2001, plaintiff submitted Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") requests
for "all records relating to transactions, communications, and contracts
concerning businesses that sell individuals' personal information." A copy
of the news article referenced in paragraphs 6-8, supra, accompanied the
request.
Defendant DOJ's Failure to Timely Comply with Plaintiff's Request
11. By phone call on June 29, 2001, defendant DOJ informed plaintiff that
the request would be forwarded to a component within the DOJ.
12. To date, defendant DOJ has not provided the records requested by
plaintiff in its FOIA request, notwithstanding the FOIA's requirement of an
agency response within twenty (20) working days.
13. Plaintiff has exhausted the applicable administrative remedies with
respect to its FOIA request to defendant DOJ.
14. Defendant DOJ has wrongfully withheld the requested records from
plaintiff.
The FBI's Failure to Timely Comply with Plaintiff's Request
15. By form letter to plaintiff dated July 3, 2001, the FBI acknowledged
receipt of plaintiff's FOIA request.
16. By form letter to plaintiff dated July 27, 2001, the FBI requested
clarification of plaintiff's FOIA request.
17. By letter dated August 8, 2001, plaintiff clarified its request to the
FBI by specifying that the subject matter of the request related to
ChoicePoint, Inc.
18. To date, the FBI has not provided the records requested by plaintiff in
its FOIA request, notwithstanding the FOIA's requirement of an agency
response within twenty (20) working days.
19. Plaintiff has exhausted the applicable administrative remedies with
respect to its FOIA request to the FBI.
20. The FBI has wrongfully withheld the requested records from plaintiff.
The USMS' Failure to Timely Comply with Plaintiff's Request
21. By form letter to plaintiff dated July 11, 2001, the USMS acknowledged
receipt of plaintiff's request.
22. To date, the USMS has not provided the records requested by plaintiff in
its FOIA request, notwithstanding the FOIA's requirement of an agency
response within twenty (20) working days.
23. Plaintiff has exhausted the applicable administrative remedies with
respect to its FOIA request to the USMS.
24. The USMS has wrongfully withheld the requested records from
plaintiff.
The DEA's Failure to Timely Comply with Plaintiff's Request
25. By form letter to plaintiff dated July 26, 2001, DEA requested
clarification of plaintiff's FOIA request.
26. By letter dated August 8, 2001, plaintiff clarified its request to the
DEA by specifying that the subject matter of the request related to
ChoicePoint, Inc.
27. To date, the DEA has not provided the records requested by plaintiff in
its FOIA request, notwithstanding the FOIA's requirement of an agency
response within twenty (20) working days.
28. Plaintiff has exhausted the applicable administrative remedies with
respect to its FOIA request to the DEA.
29. The DEA has wrongfully withheld the requested records from plaintiff.
The INS' Failure to Timely Comply with Plaintiff's Request
30. By form letter dated August 9, 2001, defendant INS acknowledged receipt
of plaintiff's request.
31. To date, the INS has not provided the records requested by plaintiff in
its FOIA request, notwithstanding the FOIA's requirement of an agency
response within twenty (20) working days.
32. Plaintiff has exhausted the applicable administrative remedies with
respect to its FOIA request to the INS.
33. The INS has wrongfully withheld the requested records from plaintiff.
The IRS' Partial Denial of Plaintiff's Request
34. By letter dated September 10, 2001, the IRS provided documents
responsive to plaintiff's request. However, the IRS withheld 324 pages,
relying upon 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4). Plaintiff appealed this withholding by
letter dated November 8, 2001.
35. By form letter to plaintiff dated November 16, 2001, the IRS denied
plaintiff's appeal.
36. Plaintiff has exhausted the applicable administrative remedies with
respect to its FOIA request to the IRS.
37. The IRS has wrongfully withheld the requested records from plaintiff.
The ATF's Failure to Timely Comply with Plaintiff's Request
38. By letter to plaintiff dated August 8, 2001, the ATF acknowledged
plaintiff's request.
39. By letter to plaintiff dated September 13, 2001, the ATF granted
plaintiff's request in part and informed plaintiff that there would be a
delay in locating responsive documents.
40. Plaintiff has exhausted the applicable administrative remedies with
respect to its FOIA request to the ATF.
41. The ATF has wrongfully withheld the requested records from plaintiff.
Requested Relief
WHEREFORE, plaintiff prays that this Court:
A. order defendants to disclose the requested records in their entireties
and make copies available to plaintiff;
B. provide for expeditious proceedings in this action;
C. award plaintiff its costs and reasonable attorneys fees incurred in this
action; and
D. grant such other relief as the Court may deem just and proper.
Respectfully submitted,
___________________________________ CHRIS J. HOOFNAGLE D.C. Bar No.
463182
DAVID L. SOBEL D.C. Bar No. 360418
MARC ROTENBERG D.C. Bar. No. 422825
ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER 1718 Connecticut Ave. NW Suite
200 Washington, DC 20009 (202) 483-1140
Counsel for Plaintiff
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Gemini Observatory Celebrates Historic First for Observational
Astronomy From high atop remote
mountains in Chile and Hawaii, the Gemini Observatory gives astronomers access
to the entire universe with twin state-of-the-art 8-meter telescopes. Today,
Gemini South, the second of the Gemini telescopes to look skyward, was dedicated
on its perch on Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes.
"About a month ago, we reached a milestone when both Gemini North and Gemini
South made observations at the same time but in parts of the sky inaccessible to
each other," said Gemini Director Dr. Matt Mountain. "Today's dedication
celebrates a decade of work by hundreds of people to build these two telescopes
that have now become one observatory."
The Gemini telescopes are located on both sides of the equator to provide
complete sky coverage for astronomers within the seven-country Gemini
partnership. The partnership includes the United States, United Kingdom, Canada,
Australia, Argentina, Brazil and Chile, with each partner receiving research
time in proportion to its level of funding for Gemini.
Today's dedication of the Gemini South telescope brought together over 200
representatives from the Gemini partnership who journeyed up the steep, dusty,
dirt road for the ceremony. Included in the ceremony were Chile's President Sr.
Ricardo Lagos and speakers from
each of the funding agencies that fund the observatory.
Astronomers from
around the world have already sampled Gemini's capabilities with discoveries
from Gemini North on Mauna Kea. These include surprising conditions surrounding
a supermassive black hole at the core of an active galaxy and the gas and dust
encircling stars where early planetary systems might be forming. "With Gemini's
fantastic resolution and light gathering power, we are now able to study dusty
protoplanetary disks in remarkable detail, to trace the first steps of planetary
birth. Our observations at Gemini utilized a technology called adaptive optics
that removes distortions caused by turbulence in our atmosphere," reported Dr.
Ray Jayawardhana of the University of California, Berkeley at the 199th American
Astronomical Society Conference in Washington DC in early January, 2002.
Other early observations from Gemini have revealed the center of our Milky
Way galaxy in unprecedented detail, unexpected conditions at the core of a
distant active galaxy, the closest brown dwarf (or failed star) ever imaged
around a sun-like star, and a spectacular image dubbed "the perfect spiral
galaxy". More about these findings and others can be found at the "Press Release" page.
Dramatic early science images from Gemini South, as well as images of the
observatory facility and dedication ceremony, are available at the Gemini South Dedication page. Watch this web
site for the latest findings from Gemini and additional media resources from
Gemini.
The Gemini Observatory is an international collaboration that has built two
identical 8-meter telescopes. The telescopes are located at Mauna Kea, Hawaii
(Gemini North) and Cerro Pachón in central Chile (Gemini South), and hence
provide full coverage of both hemispheres of the sky. Both telescopes
incorporate new technologies that allow large, relatively thin mirrors under
active control to collect and focus both optical and infrared radiation from
space. Both Gemini North and Gemini South have begun science operations.
The Gemini Observatory provides the astronomical communities in each partner
country with state-of-the-art astronomical facilities that allocates observing
time in proportion to each country's contribution. In addition to financial
support, each country also contributes significant scientific and technical
resources. The national research agencies that form the Gemini partnership
include: the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the UK Particle Physics and
Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), the Canadian National Research Council
(NRC), the Chilean Comisión Nacional de Investigación Cientifica y Tecnológica
(CONICYT), the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Argentinean Consejo
Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and the Brazilian
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). The
Observatory is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in
Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the NSF. The NSF also
serves as the executive agency for the international partnership.
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plays by a different set of rules that you and I do not understand. I personally turned my back on any sort of organized religious activity. Yet I have read the bible in it entirety at least thrice. I enjoy wickedness. I do not love my fellow man, I do not love my neighbor as myself, I covet all the time (then I go shopping!), I swear like a fucking sailor (not an issue for some faiths, but it was in my former one). Screw it I say. If "God" wants to end the world then I am powerless anyway, I might as well be my own man.
Well you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I'm a woman's man; no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm,
I've been kicked around, since I was born.
chorus:
And now it's all right, it's okay
And you may look the other way
We can try to understand
The New York Time's effect on man
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah ha ha ha stayin' alive, staying alive
Ah ha ha ha stayin' alive
Well now I get low and I get high
And if I can't get either, I really try
Got the wings of heaven on my shoes
I'm a dancin' man, and I just can't lose
chorus:
You know it's all right, it's okay
I'll live to see another day
..
Life goin' nowhere
Somebody help me
Somebody help me, yeah
Life goin' nowhere
Somebody help me, yeah
Stayin' alive
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Sugar magnolia, blossoms blooming, heads all empty and I don't care, Saw my
baby down by the river, knew she'd have to come up soon for air.
Sweet
blossom come on, under the willow, we can have high times if you'll abide We
can discover the wonders of nature, rolling in the rushes down by the
riverside.
She's got everything delightful, she's got everything I
need, Takes the wheel when I'm seeing double, pays my ticket when I
speed
She comes skimmin' through rays of violet, she can wade in a drop
of dew, She don't come and I don't follow, waits backstage while I sing to
you.
Well, she can dance a Cajun rhythm, jump like a willys in four wheel
drive. She's a summer love for spring, fall and winter. She can make happy
any man alive.
Sugar magnolia, ringing that bluebell, caught up in
sunlight, come on out singing I'll walk you in the sunshine, come on honey,
come along with me.
She's got everything delightful, she's got everything
I need, A breeze in the pines and the sun and bright moonlight, lazing in the
sunshine yes indeed.
Sometimes when the cuckoo's crying, when the moon
is half way down, Sometimes when the night is dying, I take me out and I
wander around, I wander 'round.
Sunshine, daydream, walking in the
tall trees, going where the wind goes Blooming like a red rose, breathing
more freely, Ride our singin', I'll walk you in the morning
sunshine Sunshine, daydream. Sunshine, daydream. Walking in the sunshine.
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Look out of any window, any morning, any evening, any day.
Maybe the sun is shining, birds are singing,
No rain is falling from a heavy sky.
What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through?
For this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago.
Walk out of any doorway, feel your way, feel your way like the day before.
Maybe you'll find direction,
Around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.
What do you want me to do, to watch for you while you are sleeping?
The please don't be surprised when you find me dreaming too.
Look into any eyes you find by you, you can see clear to another day,
Maybe been seen before, through other eyes on other days while going home.
What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through?
It's all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago.
Walk into splintered sunlight,
Inch your way through dead dreams to another land.
Maybe you're tired and broken,
Your tongue is twisted with words half spoken and thoughts unclear
What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through?
A box of rain will ease the pain, and love will see you through.
Just a box of rain, wind and water,
Sun and shower, wind and rain,
In and out the window like a moth before a flame.
And it's just a box of rain, I don't know who put it there,
Believe it if you need it, or leave it if you dare.
And it's just a box of rain, or a ribbon for tour hair;
Such a long long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.
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This is old news. I personally find it amusing that this thread-slapping has turned some disused UID's from the old days into trolls. We all know that Malda is feeling stressed out by being berated constantly by what ammounts to complete strangers (us trolls). I personally speak for me alone when I say I do it out of boredom. I neither know Rob Malda, nor care anything for him.
It is funny to post offensive content to this site. Period. I enjoy it. I do not care if I or everyone else get modded into oblivion, by the janitors or the other users of this system. I have real issues to care about. If I get banned at home, I post at work (and vice versa).
Another funny concept is community. Community it where you live. I know I am as guilty as many of you. I sit on my expanding ass in front of one of my machines for far too many hours a day. I still do not consider any "place" made totally of bits in a database to be my comunity. I would just as easily waste my time elsewhere like I have sime my 1st net connection in 1994, or my pre-/. existance circa late 1999.
Many of us are taking shit WAAAAY too seriously. Kick back, have a bacardi limon and coke and kiss the missus. I know I make my wife a computer widow way too much.
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Slashdot Mirror
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Mata ah-oo hima de
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Himitsu wo shiri tai
You're wondering who I am-machine or mannequin
With parts made in Japan, I am the modren man
I've got a secret I've been hiding under my skin
My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain I.B.M.
So if you see me acting strangely, don't be surprised
I'm just a man who needed someone, and somewhere to hide
To keep me alive-just keep me alive
Somewhere to hide to keep me alive
I'm not a robot without emotions-I'm not what you see
I've come to help you with your problems, so we can be free
I'm not a hero, I'm not a saviour, forget what you know
I'm just a man whose circumstances went beyond his control
Beyond my control-we all need control
I need control-we all need control
I am the modren man, who hides behind a mask
So no one else can see my true identity
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto
For doing the jobs that nobody wants to
And thank you very much, Mr. Roboto
For helping me escape just when I needed to
Thank you-thank you, thank you
I want to thank you, please, thank you
The problem's plain to see: too much technology
Machines to save our lives. Machines dehumanize.
The time has come aat last
To throw away this mask
So everyone caan see
My true identity...
I'm Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy!
Go for it ;)
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Mata ah-oo hima de
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Himitsu wo shiri tai
You're wondering who I am-machine or mannequin
With parts made in Japan, I am the modren man
I've got a secret I've been hiding under my skin
My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain I.B.M.
So if you see me acting strangely, don't be surprised
I'm just a man who needed someone, and somewhere to hide
To keep me alive-just keep me alive
Somewhere to hide to keep me alive
I'm not a robot without emotions-I'm not what you see
I've come to help you with your problems, so we can be free
I'm not a hero, I'm not a saviour, forget what you know
I'm just a man whose circumstances went beyond his control
Beyond my control-we all need control
I need control-we all need control
I am the modren man, who hides behind a mask
So no one else can see my true identity
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo...domo
Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto
For doing the jobs that nobody wants to
And thank you very much, Mr. Roboto
For helping me escape just when I needed to
Thank you-thank you, thank you
I want to thank you, please, thank you
The problem's plain to see: too much technology
Machines to save our lives. Machines dehumanize.
The time has come aat last
To throw away this mask
So everyone caan see
My true identity...
I'm Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy!
Yes.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
Because.
This is old news. I personally find it amusing that this thread-slapping has turned some disused UID's from the old days into trolls. We all know that Malda is feeling stressed out by being berated constantly by what ammounts to complete strangers (us trolls). I personally speak for me alone when I say I do it out of boredom. I neither know Rob Malda, nor care anything for him.
It is funny to post offensive content to this site. Period. I enjoy it. I do not care if I or everyone else get modded into oblivion, by the janitors or the other users of this system. I have real issues to care about. If I get banned at home, I post at work (and vice versa).
Another funny concept is community . Community it where you live. I know I am as guilty as many of you. I sit on my expanding ass in front of one of my machines for far too many hours a day. I still do not consider any "place" made totally of bits in a database to be my comunity. I would just as easily waste my time elsewhere like I have since my 1st net connection in 1994, or my pre-/. existance circa late 1999.
Many of us are taking shit WAAAAY too seriously. Kick back, have a bacardi limon and coke and kiss the missus. I know I make my wife a computer widow way too much.
Thank you for your time, and for reposting this shit verbatim.
Hey ooh.
Sheets of empty canvas.
Untouched sheets of clay were laid spread out before me as her body once did.
All five horizons revolved around her soul. As the earth to the sun.
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn.
Ooh, and all I taught her was everything.
Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore.
And now my bitter hands shade beneath the clouds of what was everything.
All the pictures have all been washed in black. Tattooed every day.
I take a walk outside. I'm surrounded by some kids at play.
Oh, I can feel their laughter. Oh, so why do I sear?
Ooh, and twisted thoughts that spin around my head.
I'm spinning. Oh, I'm spinning.
How quick the sun can drop away.
And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.
All the pictures have all been washed in black. Tattooed everything.
All the love gone bad turned my world to black.
Tattooed all I see. All that I am. All I'll be. Yeah.
Uh huh... Uh huh... Ooh.
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life.
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky but why, why, why can't it be, oh, can't it be mine?
Oh... Ohh yeah oh.
Do do do do do do do (x20 total) Yeah... Yeah...
Hi. (x6)
Yeah. (x3)
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Beautiful lie
You can pray
You can pay
Till you're buried alive
Blackmailer blues
Everyone in the room
Owns a part of the noose
Slipknot gig
Slipknot gig
Slipknot gig
Did someone say
Help on the way
Well, I know
Yeah, I do
That there's help on the way
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I am not baking with the dead. I have just been a fan since my teenage years. I have a laminated newspaper clipping proclaiming Jery's death that has been in my wallet since that day. I never got into drugs, since bipolar does some interesting things to me anyway... I do drink, but regardless of what I see in PSA's on TV, I do not consider booze a drug. It is also my perogative to not consider mars a planet, or to not consider the pope a catholic. Oh well, my world exists solely in my head.
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
C.A. No. 02-0063
ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER
v.1718 Connecticut Ave. NW.
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20009
Plaintiff,
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
and
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20220
Defendants.
_______________________________________
COMPLAINT FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
1. This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552,
for injunctive and other appropriate relief and seeking the disclosure and
release of agency records improperly withheld from plaintiff by defendant
Department of Justice ("DOJ") and its components Federal Bureau of
Investigation ("FBI"), United States Marshals Service ("USMS"), Drug
Enforcement Agency ("DEA"), Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS"),
and defendant U.S. Treasury ("Treasury") and its components Internal Revenue
Service ("IRS"), and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms ("ATF").
Jurisdiction and Venue
2. This Court has both subject matter jurisdiction over this action and
personal jurisdiction over the parties pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(4)(B).
This court also has jurisdiction over this action pursuant to 28 U.S.C.
1331. Venue lies in this district under 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(4)(B).
3. Plaintiff Electronic Privacy Information Center ("EPIC") is a public
interest non-profit research organization in Washington, DC. It was
established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties
issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional
values. EPIC's activities include the review of federal data collection and
data sharing policies to determine their possible impacts on civil liberties
and privacy interests. Among its other activities, EPIC has prepared reports
and presented testimony on privacy issues and has participated in and
organized conferences on privacy.
4. Defendant DOJ is a Department of the Executive Branch of the United
States Government, and includes component entities FBI, USMS, DEA, and INS.
The DOJ is an agency within the meaning of 5 U.S.C. 552(f).
5. Defendant Treasury is a Department of the Executive Branch of the United
States Government, and includes component entities IRS and ATF. The Treasury
is an agency within the meaning of 5 U.S.C. 552(f).
Government Agencies' Acquisition of Private Sector Personal Information
6. On April 13, 2001, the Wall Street Journal reported that executive branch
agencies were purchasing "troves of personal data from the private sector."
Glenn R. Simpson, Big Brother-in-Law, If the FBI Hopes to Get the Goods on
You, It May Ask ChoicePoint, Wall St. J., April 13, 2001 at A1.
7. The article quoted government sources for the proposition that DOJ, FBI,
USMS, INS, and IRS employees had electronic access to citizens' assets,
phone numbers, driving records, and other personal information from their
desktop computers.
8. The article reported that ChoicePoint, a publicly-held company, and its
competitors were supplying citizens' personal information to at least
thirty-five federal government agencies.
9. The use of private sector databases of personal information enables the
government to obtain detailed information on citizens while avoiding the
creation of files that would implicate protections provided under the
Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a.
Plaintiff's FOIA Requests and Defendants' Failure to Respond
10. By separate letters to DOJ, FBI, USMS, DEA, INS, IRS, and ATF dated June
22, 2001, plaintiff submitted Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") requests
for "all records relating to transactions, communications, and contracts
concerning businesses that sell individuals' personal information." A copy
of the news article referenced in paragraphs 6-8, supra, accompanied the
request.
Defendant DOJ's Failure to Timely Comply with Plaintiff's Request
11. By phone call on June 29, 2001, defendant DOJ informed plaintiff that
the request would be forwarded to a component within the DOJ.
12. To date, defendant DOJ has not provided the records requested by
plaintiff in its FOIA request, notwithstanding the FOIA's requirement of an
agency response within twenty (20) working days.
13. Plaintiff has exhausted the applicable administrative remedies with
respect to its FOIA request to defendant DOJ.
14. Defendant DOJ has wrongfully withheld the requested records from plaintiff.
The FBI's Failure to Timely Comply with Plaintiff's Request
15. By form letter to plaintiff dated July 3, 2001, the FBI acknowledged
receipt of plaintiff's FOIA request.
16. By form letter to plaintiff dated July 27, 2001, the FBI requested
clarification of plaintiff's FOIA request.
17. By letter dated August 8, 2001, plaintiff clarified its request to the
FBI by specifying that the subject matter of the request related to
ChoicePoint, Inc.
18. To date, the FBI has not provided the records requested by plaintiff in
its FOIA request, notwithstanding the FOIA's requirement of an agency
response within twenty (20) working days.
19. Plaintiff has exhausted the applicable administrative remedies with
respect to its FOIA request to the FBI.
20. The FBI has wrongfully withheld the requested records from plaintiff.
The USMS' Failure to Timely Comply with Plaintiff's Request
21. By form letter to plaintiff dated July 11, 2001, the USMS acknowledged
receipt of plaintiff's request.
22. To date, the USMS has not provided the records requested by plaintiff in
its FOIA request, notwithstanding the FOIA's requirement of an agency
response within twenty (20) working days.
23. Plaintiff has exhausted the applicable administrative remedies with
respect to its FOIA request to the USMS.
24. The USMS has wrongfully withheld the requested records from plaintiff.
The DEA's Failure to Timely Comply with Plaintiff's Request
25. By form letter to plaintiff dated July 26, 2001, DEA requested
clarification of plaintiff's FOIA request.
26. By letter dated August 8, 2001, plaintiff clarified its request to the
DEA by specifying that the subject matter of the request related to
ChoicePoint, Inc.
27. To date, the DEA has not provided the records requested by plaintiff in
its FOIA request, notwithstanding the FOIA's requirement of an agency
response within twenty (20) working days.
28. Plaintiff has exhausted the applicable administrative remedies with
respect to its FOIA request to the DEA.
29. The DEA has wrongfully withheld the requested records from plaintiff.
The INS' Failure to Timely Comply with Plaintiff's Request
30. By form letter dated August 9, 2001, defendant INS acknowledged receipt
of plaintiff's request.
31. To date, the INS has not provided the records requested by plaintiff in
its FOIA request, notwithstanding the FOIA's requirement of an agency
response within twenty (20) working days.
32. Plaintiff has exhausted the applicable administrative remedies with
respect to its FOIA request to the INS.
33. The INS has wrongfully withheld the requested records from plaintiff.
The IRS' Partial Denial of Plaintiff's Request
34. By letter dated September 10, 2001, the IRS provided documents
responsive to plaintiff's request. However, the IRS withheld 324 pages,
relying upon 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4). Plaintiff appealed this withholding by
letter dated November 8, 2001.
35. By form letter to plaintiff dated November 16, 2001, the IRS denied
plaintiff's appeal.
36. Plaintiff has exhausted the applicable administrative remedies with
respect to its FOIA request to the IRS.
37. The IRS has wrongfully withheld the requested records from plaintiff.
The ATF's Failure to Timely Comply with Plaintiff's Request
38. By letter to plaintiff dated August 8, 2001, the ATF acknowledged
plaintiff's request.
39. By letter to plaintiff dated September 13, 2001, the ATF granted
plaintiff's request in part and informed plaintiff that there would be a
delay in locating responsive documents.
40. Plaintiff has exhausted the applicable administrative remedies with
respect to its FOIA request to the ATF.
41. The ATF has wrongfully withheld the requested records from plaintiff.
Requested Relief
WHEREFORE, plaintiff prays that this Court:
A. order defendants to disclose the requested records in their entireties
and make copies available to plaintiff;
B. provide for expeditious proceedings in this action;
C. award plaintiff its costs and reasonable attorneys fees incurred in this
action; and
D. grant such other relief as the Court may deem just and proper.
Respectfully submitted,
___________________________________
CHRIS J. HOOFNAGLE
D.C. Bar No. 463182
DAVID L. SOBEL
D.C. Bar No. 360418
MARC ROTENBERG
D.C. Bar. No. 422825
ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER
1718 Connecticut Ave. NW
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 483-1140
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"About a month ago, we reached a milestone when both Gemini North and Gemini South made observations at the same time but in parts of the sky inaccessible to each other," said Gemini Director Dr. Matt Mountain. "Today's dedication celebrates a decade of work by hundreds of people to build these two telescopes that have now become one observatory."
The Gemini telescopes are located on both sides of the equator to provide complete sky coverage for astronomers within the seven-country Gemini partnership. The partnership includes the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Argentina, Brazil and Chile, with each partner receiving research time in proportion to its level of funding for Gemini.
Today's dedication of the Gemini South telescope brought together over 200 representatives from the Gemini partnership who journeyed up the steep, dusty, dirt road for the ceremony. Included in the ceremony were Chile's President Sr. Ricardo Lagos and speakers from each of the funding agencies that fund the observatory.
Astronomers from around the world have already sampled Gemini's capabilities with discoveries from Gemini North on Mauna Kea. These include surprising conditions surrounding a supermassive black hole at the core of an active galaxy and the gas and dust encircling stars where early planetary systems might be forming. "With Gemini's fantastic resolution and light gathering power, we are now able to study dusty protoplanetary disks in remarkable detail, to trace the first steps of planetary birth. Our observations at Gemini utilized a technology called adaptive optics that removes distortions caused by turbulence in our atmosphere," reported Dr. Ray Jayawardhana of the University of California, Berkeley at the 199th American Astronomical Society Conference in Washington DC in early January, 2002.
Other early observations from Gemini have revealed the center of our Milky Way galaxy in unprecedented detail, unexpected conditions at the core of a distant active galaxy, the closest brown dwarf (or failed star) ever imaged around a sun-like star, and a spectacular image dubbed "the perfect spiral galaxy". More about these findings and others can be found at the "Press Release" page.
Dramatic early science images from Gemini South, as well as images of the observatory facility and dedication ceremony, are available at the Gemini South Dedication page. Watch this web site for the latest findings from Gemini and additional media resources from Gemini.
The Gemini Observatory is an international collaboration that has built two identical 8-meter telescopes. The telescopes are located at Mauna Kea, Hawaii (Gemini North) and Cerro Pachón in central Chile (Gemini South), and hence provide full coverage of both hemispheres of the sky. Both telescopes incorporate new technologies that allow large, relatively thin mirrors under active control to collect and focus both optical and infrared radiation from space. Both Gemini North and Gemini South have begun science operations.
The Gemini Observatory provides the astronomical communities in each partner country with state-of-the-art astronomical facilities that allocates observing time in proportion to each country's contribution. In addition to financial support, each country also contributes significant scientific and technical resources. The national research agencies that form the Gemini partnership include: the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), the Canadian National Research Council (NRC), the Chilean Comisión Nacional de Investigación Cientifica y Tecnológica (CONICYT), the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Argentinean Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and the Brazilian Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). The Observatory is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the NSF. The NSF also serves as the executive agency for the international partnership.
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plays by a different set of rules that you and I do not understand. I personally turned my back on any sort of organized religious activity. Yet I have read the bible in it entirety at least thrice. I enjoy wickedness. I do not love my fellow man, I do not love my neighbor as myself, I covet all the time (then I go shopping!), I swear like a fucking sailor (not an issue for some faiths, but it was in my former one). Screw it I say. If "God" wants to end the world then I am powerless anyway, I might as well be my own man.
I scored 18 also. I fucked up on 9 and 14...
This site is a fast mirror. Download away!
Here here!
Exellant claiming of a failed FP attempt!!
Well you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I'm a woman's man; no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm,
I've been kicked around, since I was born.
chorus:
And now it's all right, it's okay
And you may look the other way
We can try to understand
The New York Time's effect on man
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah ha ha ha stayin' alive, staying alive
Ah ha ha ha stayin' alive
Well now I get low and I get high
And if I can't get either, I really try
Got the wings of heaven on my shoes
I'm a dancin' man, and I just can't lose
chorus:
You know it's all right, it's okay
I'll live to see another day
..
Life goin' nowhere
Somebody help me
Somebody help me, yeah
Life goin' nowhere
Somebody help me, yeah
Stayin' alive
Sugar magnolia, blossoms blooming, heads all empty and I don't care,
Saw my baby down by the river, knew she'd have to come up soon for air.
Sweet blossom come on, under the willow, we can have high times if you'll abide
We can discover the wonders of nature, rolling in the rushes down by the riverside.
She's got everything delightful, she's got everything I need,
Takes the wheel when I'm seeing double, pays my ticket when I speed
She comes skimmin' through rays of violet, she can wade in a drop of dew,
She don't come and I don't follow, waits backstage while I sing to you.
Well, she can dance a Cajun rhythm, jump like a willys in four wheel drive.
She's a summer love for spring, fall and winter. She can make happy any man alive.
Sugar magnolia, ringing that bluebell, caught up in sunlight, come on out singing
I'll walk you in the sunshine, come on honey, come along with me.
She's got everything delightful, she's got everything I need,
A breeze in the pines and the sun and bright moonlight, lazing in the sunshine yes
indeed.
Sometimes when the cuckoo's crying, when the moon is half way down,
Sometimes when the night is dying, I take me out and I wander around, I wander
'round.
Sunshine, daydream, walking in the tall trees, going where the wind goes
Blooming like a red rose, breathing more freely,
Ride our singin', I'll walk you in the morning sunshine
Sunshine, daydream. Sunshine, daydream. Walking in the sunshine.
Look out of any window, any morning, any evening, any day.
Maybe the sun is shining, birds are singing,
No rain is falling from a heavy sky.
What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through?
For this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago.
Walk out of any doorway, feel your way, feel your way like the day before.
Maybe you'll find direction,
Around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.
What do you want me to do, to watch for you while you are sleeping?
The please don't be surprised when you find me dreaming too.
Look into any eyes you find by you, you can see clear to another day,
Maybe been seen before, through other eyes on other days while going home.
What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through?
It's all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago.
Walk into splintered sunlight,
Inch your way through dead dreams to another land.
Maybe you're tired and broken,
Your tongue is twisted with words half spoken and thoughts unclear
What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through?
A box of rain will ease the pain, and love will see you through.
Just a box of rain, wind and water,
Sun and shower, wind and rain,
In and out the window like a moth before a flame.
And it's just a box of rain, I don't know who put it there,
Believe it if you need it, or leave it if you dare.
And it's just a box of rain, or a ribbon for tour hair;
Such a long long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.
That is too fucking funny...
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There is always room for one more.
This is old news. I personally find it amusing that this thread-slapping has turned some disused UID's from the old days into trolls. We all know that Malda is feeling stressed out by being berated constantly by what ammounts to complete strangers (us trolls). I personally speak for me alone when I say I do it out of boredom. I neither know Rob Malda, nor care anything for him.
It is funny to post offensive content to this site. Period. I enjoy it. I do not care if I or everyone else get modded into oblivion, by the janitors or the other users of this system. I have real issues to care about. If I get banned at home, I post at work (and vice versa).
Another funny concept is community . Community it where you live. I know I am as guilty as many of you. I sit on my expanding ass in front of one of my machines for far too many hours a day. I still do not consider any "place" made totally of bits in a database to be my comunity. I would just as easily waste my time elsewhere like I have sime my 1st net connection in 1994, or my pre-/. existance circa late 1999.
Many of us are taking shit WAAAAY too seriously. Kick back, have a bacardi limon and coke and kiss the missus. I know I make my wife a computer widow way too much.
Thank you for your time.
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# This code is a part of Slash, and is released under the GPL.
# Copyright 1997-2002 by Open Source Development Network. See README
# and COPYING for more information, or see http://slashcode.com/.
# $Id: bitchslap,v 1.3 2002/01/08 17:22:09 pudge Exp $
use strict;
use File::Basename;
use FindBin '$Bin';
use Getopt::Std;
use Slash::Utility;
use Slash::DB;
(my $VERSION) = ' $Revision: 1.3 $ ' =~ /\$Revision:\s+([^\s]+)/;
my $PROGNAME = basename($0);
(my $PREFIX = $Bin) =~ s|/[^/]+/?$||;
my %opts;
# Remember to doublecheck these match usage()!
usage('Options used incorrectly') unless getopts('hvu:', \%opts);
usage() if ($opts{'h'} || !keys %opts);
usage('Please specify a list of User IDs') if (! scalar @ARGV);
version() if $opts{'v'};
$opts{'u'} ||= 'slash';
# We turn off warnings here because it's distracting.
$^W = 0; createEnvironment($opts{'u'}); $^W = 1;
my $slashdb = getCurrentDB();
my $constants = getCurrentStatic();
# main program logic (in braces to offset nicely)
{
for (@ARGV) {
my $user = $slashdb->getUser($_);
if (! $user) {
print "User ID#$_ is invalid.\n";
next;
}
unless ($opts{'f'}) {
die {karma} > 10;
User $_ has a karma of $user->{karma}. Slap aborted. Use -f to forcibly slap.
ERR
}
print "Bitch Slapping #$_...\n";
print "Karma Reduced\n";
print "Default Score Reduced\n";
$slashdb->setUser($_, {
-karma => $constants->{badkarma},
-defaultpoints => -1,
});
print "ALL live comments moderated down\n\n";
$slashdb->sqlDo("UPDATE comments SET points=-1,reason=1 WHERE uid=$_");
}
}
sub usage {
print "*** $_[0]\n" if $_[0];
# Remember to doublecheck these match getopts()!
print
Usage: $PROGNAME [OPTIONS] ... [UIDs]
SHORT PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Main options:
-h Help (this message)
-v Version
-u Virtual user (default is "slash")
-f Force slap.
[UIDs] Space separated list of IDs to slap.
EOT
exit;
}
sub version {
print
$PROGNAME $VERSION
This code is a part of Slash, and is released under the GPL.
Copyright 1997-2002 by Open Source Development Network. See README
and COPYING for more information, or see http://slashcode.com/.
EOT
exit;
}
__END__
You lose the power to post anon when you start posting at -1...
I take back my slam below... you have been added to my friend list.
How you lika that, fucking WOP stalker mother fucker?
Clicka clicka clicka!!
OHa!
Momma Mia! A gapinga asshola!!
Wait, here is a translation:
Come gradite quello, scopando il fucker italiano della madre dello stalker? Scatto di scatto di scatto!! L'cOh! Momma Mia! Un asshole gaping!!