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Funny, but living here I see things completely differently. Frances' 'attitude' in this group seems not to be ruffling any serious feathers, just providing weather for trade warfare between the states. Normal, healthy stuff.
Not to mention the fact that the EU keeps getting bigger - i.e. more states are added, ex-eastern-bloc, etc.
... in games, snipers are given a ludicrous advantage over everyone else."... in real life. Snipers are a bitch. It takes very real work to take out a sniper in a battlefield, especially a good one. Snipers are hated in reality because of the real, significant damage they can do to a battle scenario.
Welcome to realism. Killing people is not as easy as your average Game-Junkie might think it is.
I find it moderately ludicrous that such an analysis can be made, in all seriousness.
If anything, this article demonstrates just how big the fantasy world most gameplayers live in can be... the 'detached delusion' of opiated players looks to have some interesting consequences... of course snipers suck. That's reality!
Its irrelevant who -signed- it. It takes at least a year, maybe two, before a bill such as DMCA starts to roll out and its effects start to be felt in society.
Whose administration is currently -implementing- it, enforcing it, using it, and at whose behest? The Bush Administration, thats who, and the answer to the latter part of this question is "for the IMF/WB conditions on loan guarantees".
DMCA wasn't rolled out, properly, and fully enforcable, until 2000, and it wasn't until Bush and his cronies got the DHS together that it actually started to have significant weight in the relationship between the US Gov't and US Industry.
Clinton may have created it, but it is Bush who is using it to ill effect, and the same may very well be true of the next administration. The Bush Administration has done more with the DMCA than Clinton did.
(Oh, and I know this might short-circuit your dialectics, but just because I'm anti-Bush doesn't mean I'm pro-Clinton, nor a leftie...)
First, lets just clear up the 'they' part. 'They' are the US Government, enforcing this in the industry. Target Adobe over this, and you're targetting the wrong entity.
As to who is driving this, its not just the US gov't. Its The World Bank, and International Monetary Fund, who require these sorts of actions, regardless of the laws, traditions and policies of the countries involved.
Because they are required to enforce DRM and currency control as a condition for the billions of [insert_currency_here] ($, Eu, Yen) which the IMF is pumping into failing economies, world governments are degrading civil rights.
If your country has a loan from the World Bank (very few -don't-), then WB and IMF policies have priority over all local laws, by default, and governments found to not be in compliance will find themselves facing heat.
You don't want to be on the end of the WB/IMF heat stick, believe me...
You will find your politicians in the hallowed (inaccessible) halls of the Church of the International Monetary Fund pretty much any day of the week...
Its a good point. I'd really like to know how to create an image which cannot be opened in Photoshop, legally. This could be a *significant* means of civil disobedience over this issue.
Hell, give me a 'no-open' watermark, and I'll go ahead and add it to -every- image I have write access to...
Is this a precursor to DRM in scanners, CD drives, and output devices?
I would say definitely yes.
Currency control is 'digital rights managment' on not just a government level, but also at The World Bank level, as well. Do not underestimate how significant this is!!
That this is now happening on a broad, industrial basis, means that it would've had to have been implemented at least 6 months to a year ago, as an initiative, and I think thats fairly concurrent with all the DRM/DMCA shenanigans which have been going through the American system since King Bush, El Fascisti, started signing parchment.
There can no longer be any doubt about the new order of the world. If governments such as that of America continue down the path they are on, then the world will be a very different place in a very short period of time.
The World Bank and IMF have very stringent doctrine regarding property and rights management in their slave^H^H^H^H^Hdebtor countries. Governments such as America are quite happy, given their financial situation, to bend over and let the rights fly...
The original posters *ASSERTION* that Iraqi's hate Americans comes from his observation of Iraqi's through American Media.
*That* is my point. Iraqi's hating Americans == a meme of the American Propaganda Machine.
(Not to say Iraq and most Middle East nations don't have a propaganda machine, mind... and I'm sure that more than a few Iraqi's actually do hate America, and Americans, and frankly I think they have good cause to.)
As for your lame understanding of the structure of American Media, this is from a couple years back:
Maj. Thomas Collins, U.S. Information Service has confirmed that "psyops" (psychological operations) personnel, soldiers and officers, have worked in the CNN headquarters in Atlanta. The lend/lease exercise was part of an Army program called "Training With Industry." According to Collins, the soldiers and officers, "... worked as regular employees of CNN. Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. They helped in the production of news."
When asked if the introduction of military personnel into a civilian news organization was standard operating procedure, one source said, "That question is above my pay grade... but I hope so. It's what we do."
The CNN military personnel were members of the Airmobile Fourth Psychological Operations Group, stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. One of the main tasks of this group of almost 1200 soldiers and officers is to spread 'selected information.' Critics say that means dissemination of propaganda.
The Pentagon has agents in -every- major American news corporation. It is an operational and key part of the PATRIOT Act, and the various bills which created the Department of Homeland Security, which also has agents in all major media outlets in the US.
Stupid fucking cowards can't reply with anything so they just mark down shit they don't agree with (or, most likely, don't comprehend).
Fascist:
defn. : A reactionary or dictatorial person.
American Fascism. It exists. It is real. You can observe its effects in 10 minutes of discussion with any American Teenager.
I never said Americans hate Iraqi's, only that their opion of them is gleaned from CNN and other fascist tools of the American propaganda machine, such as video games.
Well, I didn't say the fascist part, but responses like yours prompt me to break out such wonderful vernacular.
... the *worst* thing for SPAM, and the *best* thing for e-mail.
sure, we can get spammed a lot now. but then again, since its a delivery mechanism, we can also get an e-mail dump as we drive by too.
hey. now there's a nifty idea. what if a mailqueue scheme was implemented using this idea, where peoples cell phones could be used to give and receive msg's at different physical locations - i.e. train station newsstand, and coffee shop.
ermm, never mind slashdot./off to find the perlkit for my nokia...
Yeah, don't kid yourself, the Secret Service have very long arms... no Western society is currently safe from their gaze, nor their interest. The Agents look like Secret Service people for a reason.
Its the New World Order Version 3.0-beta2, kiddies! Just remember, if you didn't do anything wrong, you have nothing to fear... except maybe losing the primary tools of your livelihood for months on end, innocent or not, irrespective of guilt proven or unproven at a future point in time determined by individuals who previously had no bearing on your existence whatsoever... until they decided on having some in the name of the protection of society.
bonk! thats the sound of a human fist saluting its temple, over and over and over again, forever and ever, millions and millions of times.
It seems like antagonism appears to be your #1 problem-solving technique, though... and, well, that fits the general picture of human by-products from states such as yours.
I am not an anarchist. I'm the anti-christ, trying to destroy your Police Religion.
You know, as much as you may think life is polar, it isn't.
How do you know a crime was committed in this circumstance?
How does -he- know he's -actually- a suspect, and this wasn't just a con job?
The cops shouldn't be able to just walk into someones house, un-chaperoned, un-watched, hand over some official documents, and charge off with his posessions while the guy just walks around in the street, in a daze, like some sheep.
Instead, the cops should bring public representation -with- them, who will observe all activity until the innocent person is able to arrange their own representation to have all details of the incident witnessed.
That public representative should be there for two reasons: one, legitimacy at face value, of the government in this action, and to provide witness of the entire event -for the innocent person, and for the investigation. Hey, why not give TV camermen a real job and require all police activity of this nature to be taped and archived to absolutely -ensure- justice?
Then, its no longer a police state, where the cops can do anything they want to any citizen under their suspicion, it is instead a public state where witness is borne, and facts are revealed and recorded every step of the way, from both the investigation and the 'protection of the innocent' perspectives.
The primary intent of those people walking into that guys house at 6:30am in the morning was to find evidence to prove him guilty of wrong-doing. That was their job, thats what they were there to do. They had gotten up bright and early in the morning, gotten their coffee at Starbucks on the way into work, and went off to interrupt that persons life on the basis of suscpicion.
There should -also- have been someone there, at the same time, to ensure justice is served to the innocent. These two roles cannot be trusted to a single person.
It is an open society which promotes the rigorous protection of the innocent more stringently than it prosecutes as completely as possible the guilty.
Incidentally, a policy of non-secrecy like this one would be good for the whole 'data records' issue too. If there is an item in a database with my name on it, it belongs to me and should be visible to me at any time I request it. Since I believe that the rights of some corporation are not greater than my individual rights, issues of 'business trade secret' are irrelevant.
Another sign of a 'police state' is 'secret files'. The fact that so many corporations have so many amazingly detailed facts about citizens, none of whom have -any- access to this information, nor recourse over its use and influence on their daily lives, leads to just a few more alarm bells about the current situaton in the US of A, Inc...
The problem is rank and file Slashdotters like you cannot seem to comprehend that hackng and stealing code is a REAL crime that needs to be investigated and prosecuted.
The problem with you Americans is that you think that a police force is the only way to solve your problems.
ummm.... no. a police state is any country where the cops come over, refuse to let you confirm their identity, show you some papers, take all your shit... and you let them!!!
dude just walked off, left his whole apartment to the cops, people he will probably never see again, whose identities he is not allowed to confirm.
*that* is a police state. when the populace are so apathetic on the subject, that they're willing to just bend over and take it in the ass.
What, pray tell, is America #1 at? Its economy is in a shambles, its deficit is out of control, the national debt is sky-rocketing, and the average American has -no idea- just how bad things are for their country, and whats worse: no interest in it.
The only thing America is good at is making war and movies.
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Funny, but living here I see things completely differently. Frances' 'attitude' in this group seems not to be ruffling any serious feathers, just providing weather for trade warfare between the states. Normal, healthy stuff.
Not to mention the fact that the EU keeps getting bigger - i.e. more states are added, ex-eastern-bloc, etc.
... in games, snipers are given a ludicrous advantage over everyone else." ... in real life. Snipers are a bitch. It takes very real work to take out a sniper in a battlefield, especially a good one. Snipers are hated in reality because of the real, significant damage they can do to a battle scenario.
... the 'detached delusion' of opiated players looks to have some interesting consequences ... of course snipers suck. That's reality!
Welcome to realism. Killing people is not as easy as your average Game-Junkie might think it is.
I find it moderately ludicrous that such an analysis can be made, in all seriousness.
If anything, this article demonstrates just how big the fantasy world most gameplayers live in can be
Where did I say he didn't sign it?
...
I said "DRM/DMCA shenanigans". At no point did I say that Bush signed the DMCA - just that his current administration is using it fervently
Big difference, monkeylove, big difference...
Its irrelevant who -signed- it. It takes at least a year, maybe two, before a bill such as DMCA starts to roll out and its effects start to be felt in society.
Whose administration is currently -implementing- it, enforcing it, using it, and at whose behest? The Bush Administration, thats who, and the answer to the latter part of this question is "for the IMF/WB conditions on loan guarantees".
DMCA wasn't rolled out, properly, and fully enforcable, until 2000, and it wasn't until Bush and his cronies got the DHS together that it actually started to have significant weight in the relationship between the US Gov't and US Industry.
Clinton may have created it, but it is Bush who is using it to ill effect, and the same may very well be true of the next administration. The Bush Administration has done more with the DMCA than Clinton did.
(Oh, and I know this might short-circuit your dialectics, but just because I'm anti-Bush doesn't mean I'm pro-Clinton, nor a leftie...)
Question is, who are they obeying, and why?
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First, lets just clear up the 'they' part. 'They' are the US Government, enforcing this in the industry. Target Adobe over this, and you're targetting the wrong entity.
As to who is driving this, its not just the US gov't. Its The World Bank, and International Monetary Fund, who require these sorts of actions, regardless of the laws, traditions and policies of the countries involved.
Because they are required to enforce DRM and currency control as a condition for the billions of [insert_currency_here] ($, Eu, Yen) which the IMF is pumping into failing economies, world governments are degrading civil rights.
If your country has a loan from the World Bank (very few -don't-), then WB and IMF policies have priority over all local laws, by default, and governments found to not be in compliance will find themselves facing heat.
You don't want to be on the end of the WB/IMF heat stick, believe me
And it ain't pretty.
You will find your politicians in the hallowed (inaccessible) halls of the Church of the International Monetary Fund pretty much any day of the week...
Its a good point. I'd really like to know how to create an image which cannot be opened in Photoshop, legally. This could be a *significant* means of civil disobedience over this issue.
...
Hell, give me a 'no-open' watermark, and I'll go ahead and add it to -every- image I have write access to
Is this a precursor to DRM in scanners, CD drives, and output devices?
...
I would say definitely yes.
Currency control is 'digital rights managment' on not just a government level, but also at The World Bank level, as well. Do not underestimate how significant this is!!
That this is now happening on a broad, industrial basis, means that it would've had to have been implemented at least 6 months to a year ago, as an initiative, and I think thats fairly concurrent with all the DRM/DMCA shenanigans which have been going through the American system since King Bush, El Fascisti, started signing parchment.
There can no longer be any doubt about the new order of the world. If governments such as that of America continue down the path they are on, then the world will be a very different place in a very short period of time.
The World Bank and IMF have very stringent doctrine regarding property and rights management in their slave^H^H^H^H^Hdebtor countries. Governments such as America are quite happy, given their financial situation, to bend over and let the rights fly
Investigate them, but always with an eye on their innocence.
It's ironic. By so blatantly highlighting the Euro-ticity of this mission, they sound very American.
... thats a bad thing right?
...
wait
welcome to the new order, anyway. europe is a superpower on the rise, or so it would appear
No, listen, you sad human being.
... but I hope so. It's what we do."
The original posters *ASSERTION* that Iraqi's hate Americans comes from his observation of Iraqi's through American Media.
*That* is my point. Iraqi's hating Americans == a meme of the American Propaganda Machine.
(Not to say Iraq and most Middle East nations don't have a propaganda machine, mind... and I'm sure that more than a few Iraqi's actually do hate America, and Americans, and frankly I think they have good cause to.)
As for your lame understanding of the structure of American Media, this is from a couple years back:
Maj. Thomas Collins, U.S. Information Service has confirmed that "psyops" (psychological operations) personnel, soldiers and officers, have worked in the CNN headquarters in Atlanta. The lend/lease exercise was part of an Army program called "Training With Industry." According to Collins, the soldiers and officers, "... worked as regular employees of CNN. Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. They helped in the production of news."
When asked if the introduction of military personnel into a civilian news organization was standard operating procedure, one source said, "That question is above my pay grade
The CNN military personnel were members of the Airmobile Fourth Psychological Operations Group, stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. One of the main tasks of this group of almost 1200 soldiers and officers is to spread 'selected information.' Critics say that means dissemination of propaganda.
The Pentagon has agents in -every- major American news corporation. It is an operational and key part of the PATRIOT Act, and the various bills which created the Department of Homeland Security, which also has agents in all major media outlets in the US.
Stupid fucking cowards can't reply with anything so they just mark down shit they don't agree with (or, most likely, don't comprehend).
Fascist:
defn. : A reactionary or dictatorial person.
American Fascism. It exists. It is real. You can observe its effects in 10 minutes of discussion with any American Teenager.
I never said Americans hate Iraqi's, only that their opion of them is gleaned from CNN and other fascist tools of the American propaganda machine, such as video games.
Well, I didn't say the fascist part, but responses like yours prompt me to break out such wonderful vernacular.
... and of course the same could be said for Americans whose only contact with Iraqi's is through CNN, Desert Warrior, et al.
Its actually not a funny observation, in my opinion. If only there were a "naive" tag.
... the *worst* thing for SPAM, and the *best* thing for e-mail.
/off to find the perlkit for my nokia ...
sure, we can get spammed a lot now. but then again, since its a delivery mechanism, we can also get an e-mail dump as we drive by too.
hey. now there's a nifty idea. what if a mailqueue scheme was implemented using this idea, where peoples cell phones could be used to give and receive msg's at different physical locations - i.e. train station newsstand, and coffee shop.
ermm, never mind slashdot.
right, therefore iron wouldn't actually be in the newspeak dictionary.
...
it'd be more like 'doubleplusmalread', wouldn't it? thus illustrating orwells' point that newspeak was the tofu^H^H^H^Hsoylent green of language
Yeah, don't kid yourself, the Secret Service have very long arms... no Western society is currently safe from their gaze, nor their interest. The Agents look like Secret Service people for a reason.
Its the New World Order Version 3.0-beta2, kiddies! Just remember, if you didn't do anything wrong, you have nothing to fear
bonk! thats the sound of a human fist saluting its temple, over and over and over again, forever and ever, millions and millions of times.
It seems like antagonism appears to be your #1 problem-solving technique, though ... and, well, that fits the general picture of human by-products from states such as yours.
I am not an anarchist. I'm the anti-christ, trying to destroy your Police Religion.
You know, as much as you may think life is polar, it isn't.
How do you know a crime was committed in this circumstance?
How does -he- know he's -actually- a suspect, and this wasn't
just a con job?
The cops shouldn't be able to just walk into someones house, un-chaperoned, un-watched, hand over some official documents, and charge off with his posessions while the guy just walks around in the street, in a daze, like some sheep.
Instead, the cops should bring public representation -with- them, who will observe all activity until the innocent person is able to arrange their own representation to have all details of the incident witnessed.
That public representative should be there for two reasons: one, legitimacy at face value, of the government in this action, and to provide witness of the entire event -for the innocent person, and for the investigation. Hey, why not give TV camermen a real job and require all police activity of this nature to be taped and archived to absolutely -ensure- justice?
Then, its no longer a police state, where the cops can do anything they want to any citizen under their suspicion, it is instead a public state where witness is borne, and facts are revealed and recorded every step of the way, from both the investigation and the 'protection of the innocent' perspectives.
The primary intent of those people walking into that guys house at 6:30am in the morning was to find evidence to prove him guilty of wrong-doing. That was their job, thats what they were there to do. They had gotten up bright and early in the morning, gotten their coffee at Starbucks on the way into work, and went off to interrupt that persons life on the basis of suscpicion.
There should -also- have been someone there, at the same time, to ensure justice is served to the innocent. These two roles cannot be trusted to a single person.
It is an open society which promotes the rigorous protection of the innocent more stringently than it prosecutes as completely as possible the guilty.
Incidentally, a policy of non-secrecy like this one would be good for the whole 'data records' issue too. If there is an item in a database with my name on it, it belongs to me and should be visible to me at any time I request it. Since I believe that the rights of some corporation are not greater than my individual rights, issues of 'business trade secret' are irrelevant.
Another sign of a 'police state' is 'secret files'. The fact that so many corporations have so many amazingly detailed facts about citizens, none of whom have -any- access to this information, nor recourse over its use and influence on their daily lives, leads to just a few more alarm bells about the current situaton in the US of A, Inc...
The problem is rank and file Slashdotters like you cannot seem to comprehend that hackng and stealing code is a REAL crime that needs to be investigated and prosecuted.
The problem with you Americans is that you think that a police force is the only way to solve your problems.
America is a corporate-fascist police state.
ummm .... no. a police state is any country where the cops come over, refuse to let you confirm their identity, show you some papers, take all your shit ... and you let them!!!
dude just walked off, left his whole apartment to the cops, people he will probably never see again, whose identities he is not allowed to confirm.
*that* is a police state. when the populace are so apathetic on the subject, that they're willing to just bend over and take it in the ass.
i lived in LA for 15 years man, so i know how 'good' it can get. LA sure looks like rome from griffith...
and i'm not hating, just trolling for whitey.
offsite, man, offsite. preferrably in an out-of-our-jurisdiction locker in some foreign country.
As if there were ever doubt any longer that America were a police state ...
Do backups people! BACKUPS!!!
no .. no ... its you ... its YOU!!! ;)
/., nige ...
i didn't think you read
What, pray tell, is America #1 at? Its economy is in a shambles, its deficit is out of control, the national debt is sky-rocketing, and the average American has -no idea- just how bad things are for their country, and whats worse: no interest in it.
The only thing America is good at is making war and movies.