The most obscene bunch of terrorists are our own law enforcement, for using this terrible tragedy to take away rights that took HUNDREDS OF YEARS to get! THESE are the true terrorists...the police state that's being created by ASScroft et al!
They could take Hilary Rosen and do the same to her...
But wait...what would they do with all the tapes of her wth her (female) lovers???
Mayber sell them on the internet or hook them up to a 900 number??
There's been a sense of hopelessness in the world for quite some time. The sense is that there is a 'great divide' between the haves and the have nots. The Internet and all its dot coms was looked upon as a savior, a hope that the playing field might level a bit. It didn't happen and that made things even worse. Couple this with all that's been going on since September, and many feel really bleak and depressed. I saw a story on the news last week that said use of antidepressants now is over double what it was in August.
It's almost as if a 'dark cloud' has settled over the world. People are going through the (day to day) motions but no one is really enjoying themselves any more. No one's really happy.
I wish I had the answers to fix this; I think that only time will. Also, the greedy (read:rich) need to become less greedy and more charitable.
I realize that this runs contrary to capitalism but I think that unrestrained capitalism is partly to blame for our funk. Maybe it's time that the pendulum swung back to the middle instead of between the two extremes of pure capitalism and pure socialism.
It accomplishes very little. Microsoft pretty much can continue with the status quo.
I wonder how much $$ G.W. Bush has in a Swiss bank account thanks to Microsoft.
Our only hope now is the states. Let's hopew that Microsoft can't bribe them like they did the Feds!
Don't tell Novell users DOS is dead.....
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There's a direct correlation between the amount of freedom in a country and the ability of terrorists to get around. Why? Terrorists are people too! See, since terrorists are a subset of
humanity, if you take away EVERYONE'S freedom(s) by default you also take away the freedom of the terrorists. See, it's called throwing the baby out with the bathwater and our representatives sure soom to be good at doing it!
The only problem is this: These criminals and assholes WANTED us to change our ways because of them. By defination, that's what's terrorism sets out to do. In their paranoid fear, our 'leaders' have played right into the hands of the terrorists! The really scary thing is that only one Senator out of hundreds of those in Congress is/was smart enough to figure this out. In other words: The United States of America is being run by a bunch of morons!
Finally, here's a copy of a FAX I sent my U.S. Senators last night (for them to NOT read and reply to of course)......
Dear Mr. McCain and Kyl,
I'm most disappointed in both of you for voting to take away part of my freedom today. Under the guise of "Uniting and Strengthening America" you
have in reality weakened America. Our country is supposed to be the land of freedom and liberty not a place where fear reigns supreme.
Unfortunately both of you seem to have succumbed to this fear and as a result our freedoms are less tonight. As Republicans, both of you have
spent your careers keeping our government's foot off the throat of the people. Today's bill allows that foot to smother us. It seems that out of
100 of you, only Senator Feingold understands what I mean. That's too bad. Tonight, the only metaphor I can think of that fits is: "We have found the enemy, and it is us". Sadly, today's vote proves how true this is. Mr. Mc Cain, I heard you on the radio Wednesday morning talking about how proud you were of the people of Tucson and the unity they showed by making a
huge human flag. What you seem to have missed is the reason they did: to show the world that people of the United States of America will NOT let criminals and terrorists get in the way of the freedom it's taken over 200 years to get! Unfortunately, both your votes Thursday shows them just the opposite, and that's sad.
Sincerely,
They listen to the hand(s) that feed them! If you're Hilary Rosen or Bill Gates, I'll sure bet that you get a personal response. The question really is: do they listen to their constituants, ie: those that elected them? Again I say yes..to Sony, the National Association of Broadcasters, Microsoft, RCA, etc., etc.
What people don't understand is that THOSE CORPORATIONS and others are responsible for their being elected!! No Congressman or Senator can get elected these days without television. Television costs LOTS OF MONEY. Anyone who thinks that the people elect them is sadly mistaken. The people only cast the votes. How they vote is determined by what they know about the person, ie: what the candidates' 'spin consultant' wants them to know. They learn about the candidate(s) on television.
The bottom line: To get elected to national office you need TV.
TV costs money..
The people and corporations that give them the money therefore, are the most important to them.
These entities don't give away $$ to be charitable. They EXPECT a good 'bang for their buck'.
Until things change, ie: campaign reform, limits on TV advertising and/or free advertising for all candidates, expect nothing to change. Since these laws have to be voted in by CONGRESS, expect NOTHING to change!
We have found the enemy and it is us!
Why is this case 'not ripe' while the whole Napster/file sharing/copyright thing is??
I mean we haven't had ONE SINGLE challenge to the (probably unconstitutional) DMCA yet.
Why is the DMCA then considered 'ripe'?
Is the Internet (at a whole 5 years old as a 'mass medium') ripe?
Seems to me that 'the man' wants it both ways...They want the 'net to be considered 'mature' when it suits them..and 'not ripe' when it suits THEM!
We are in a very dangerous time....a time where the tables seem about to turn. A time where the Russians advise THEIR citizens to be wary of the U.S.! A time where most of the world (and many of our own citizens) fear and distrust OUR government. A time where law enforcement can propose whatever they want (Constitution/Bill of Rights be damned) and Congress and the President say: "yup, yup, yup". A time where citizens' rights are secondary to corporate greed.
Finally, the obscenity of terrorism isn't just what happened on September 11th, 2001. It's what has happened in Congress since then.
My only hope is that the citizens of our great country wake up to what their 'leaders' are really doing TO them! If not, then we're truly screwed.....
My BBS began its life as a 386-40 running five nodes of PC Board under Deskview with 14.400 modems (very expensive at the time). Later we upgraded it to a 486 SX-25 with a whole 16 megs of RAM and two hard drives: a 202 meg WD Caviar and a HUGE 1.275 meg Conner (that cost me over 400 bucks on big sale at the time!). I had a five disk CD rom (1X) changer and even internet email/newsgroups/fido using a UUCP connection that dialed the ISP five times a day.
We called it Board 25 because of its access number: 252-5252. It was based just outside of Providence, RI in Massachusetts. The BBS was a local call from most of southern RI (thank you permissive dialing!). It had about 500 members and got at it's peak about 700 calls a day.
It covered it's expenses (mostly) and all profit went into equipment upgrades. A true labor of love. Chat was the most popular feature followed by email and the local town forums (moderated by people from the towns).
Alas, we shut it down four years ago today....a victim of AOL and the Internet. It sits collecting dust below a table in my partner's cellar. We will never dispose of it.
Hil baby, if you didn't spend so much time on your back with your legs over multiple sex partners' shoulders, you'd have heard of the term: "shopping with your feet".
What this means is that if you burn someone, or try to screw them with a bad deal, or get GREEDY, they will walk away from your store, product, etc., etc. and get what they need elsewhere.
Hilslut, you're not going to "get your customers back" (with the possible exception of those who pay you for sex) by suing all their alternatives out of business. How you can do that is by giving them what they want at a reasonable price. It's called capitalism, babe and it means that those other whores down on the street have as much right to earn a buck for (bad) sex as you do.
It still amazes me how arrogant the United States is! Are the members of Congress, the Attorney Ggeneral,The President,the FBI,CIA, and NSA REALLY THAT STUPID??!! The Internet is GLOBAL! The United States doesn't own it; no one owns it! That's the trouble as far as I can see...the government CAN'T control it, no matter how they try. Sure, they can try to regulate U.S. websites, but what about the sites in the OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD??!!
Do we really think that we're so powerful that they'll tow OUR line?
My boss told me: "Forget whatever you learned in college. THIS is where your education begins".
I asked him why hire someone with an EE degree then. His reply: "Getting the degree proves that you can start and finsih something. Nothing more".
He was right....
College "prepares" you for nothing. What college DOES is teach you how to think, how to interact with others, how to FIND what you need to know....
and yes, it can help some grow up.....
My mentor (a true genius, now deceased) once told me that he believed that schooling can INTERFERE with your education. I think that he was right too...
In many states(including the one I live in),headshops are illegal. The government apparently believes that they can regulate product based on what they THINK you're going to do with it.
My question is then, why is this done selectively? It would seem to me that since guns and ammo can be (and frequently are)used to commit violent crimes, why aren't they illegal as well??
1. Yes the list is legit. It came out last Thursday.
2. They did not ban the songs. They suggested that individual program directors exercise judgement in playing these songs because of the recent terrorist bombing.
3. Originally the list was much smaller. It was added to by the program directors and others at the individual stations.
4. The list was supposed to be internal and confidential. It went out over our private WAN email system.
5. From what I can see, Clear Channel has 'stepped up to the plate' with regard to the
terrorism. They're giving a lot of $$ to the Red Cross and others. They have a link on their web page. They're allowing employees to contribute via a deduction in their paychecks. For days after the hijackings they ran information and talk programming about the disaster on practically every station totally commercial free.
Though I don't agree with all of CC policies (trust me on this!), I feel that criticizing them fhr the job they've done for the public the past week is ludicrous!
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The most obscene bunch of terrorists are our own law enforcement, for using this terrible tragedy to take away rights that took HUNDREDS OF YEARS to get! THESE are the true terrorists...the police state that's being created by ASScroft et al!
Or were the reports of Northern Lights seen as far south as San Diego false?
Hmmm....seems to me that the satellite is still working just fine....
They could take Hilary Rosen and do the same to her... But wait...what would they do with all the tapes of her wth her (female) lovers??? Mayber sell them on the internet or hook them up to a 900 number??
There's been a sense of hopelessness in the world for quite some time. The sense is that there is a 'great divide' between the haves and the have nots. The Internet and all its dot coms was looked upon as a savior, a hope that the playing field might level a bit. It didn't happen and that made things even worse. Couple this with all that's been going on since September, and many feel really bleak and depressed. I saw a story on the news last week that said use of antidepressants now is over double what it was in August.
It's almost as if a 'dark cloud' has settled over the world. People are going through the (day to day) motions but no one is really enjoying themselves any more. No one's really happy.
I wish I had the answers to fix this; I think that only time will. Also, the greedy (read:rich) need to become less greedy and more charitable.
I realize that this runs contrary to capitalism but I think that unrestrained capitalism is partly to blame for our funk. Maybe it's time that the pendulum swung back to the middle instead of between the two extremes of pure capitalism and pure socialism.
D.M. Thomas When a body catch a body coming through the rye...
could happen.....
It accomplishes very little. Microsoft pretty much can continue with the status quo. I wonder how much $$ G.W. Bush has in a Swiss bank account thanks to Microsoft. Our only hope now is the states. Let's hopew that Microsoft can't bribe them like they did the Feds!
Because Novell uses DOS to run a very powerful, superbly reliable networking protocol.
This company (Future Tech) commits fraud by not paying an employee for his work, and then THEY sue HIM when he tells them to pound sand??!!
Something seems very wrong here.....very wrong indeed.
without a court order thanks to the new laws they are passing now.
There's a direct correlation between the amount of freedom in a country and the ability of terrorists to get around. Why? Terrorists are people too! See, since terrorists are a subset of humanity, if you take away EVERYONE'S freedom(s) by default you also take away the freedom of the terrorists. See, it's called throwing the baby out with the bathwater and our representatives sure soom to be good at doing it! The only problem is this: These criminals and assholes WANTED us to change our ways because of them. By defination, that's what's terrorism sets out to do. In their paranoid fear, our 'leaders' have played right into the hands of the terrorists! The really scary thing is that only one Senator out of hundreds of those in Congress is/was smart enough to figure this out. In other words: The United States of America is being run by a bunch of morons! Finally, here's a copy of a FAX I sent my U.S. Senators last night (for them to NOT read and reply to of course)...... Dear Mr. McCain and Kyl, I'm most disappointed in both of you for voting to take away part of my freedom today. Under the guise of "Uniting and Strengthening America" you have in reality weakened America. Our country is supposed to be the land of freedom and liberty not a place where fear reigns supreme. Unfortunately both of you seem to have succumbed to this fear and as a result our freedoms are less tonight. As Republicans, both of you have spent your careers keeping our government's foot off the throat of the people. Today's bill allows that foot to smother us. It seems that out of 100 of you, only Senator Feingold understands what I mean. That's too bad. Tonight, the only metaphor I can think of that fits is: "We have found the enemy, and it is us". Sadly, today's vote proves how true this is. Mr. Mc Cain, I heard you on the radio Wednesday morning talking about how proud you were of the people of Tucson and the unity they showed by making a huge human flag. What you seem to have missed is the reason they did: to show the world that people of the United States of America will NOT let criminals and terrorists get in the way of the freedom it's taken over 200 years to get! Unfortunately, both your votes Thursday shows them just the opposite, and that's sad. Sincerely,
They listen to the hand(s) that feed them! If you're Hilary Rosen or Bill Gates, I'll sure bet that you get a personal response. The question really is: do they listen to their constituants, ie: those that elected them? Again I say yes..to Sony, the National Association of Broadcasters, Microsoft, RCA, etc., etc. What people don't understand is that THOSE CORPORATIONS and others are responsible for their being elected!! No Congressman or Senator can get elected these days without television. Television costs LOTS OF MONEY. Anyone who thinks that the people elect them is sadly mistaken. The people only cast the votes. How they vote is determined by what they know about the person, ie: what the candidates' 'spin consultant' wants them to know. They learn about the candidate(s) on television. The bottom line: To get elected to national office you need TV. TV costs money.. The people and corporations that give them the money therefore, are the most important to them. These entities don't give away $$ to be charitable. They EXPECT a good 'bang for their buck'. Until things change, ie: campaign reform, limits on TV advertising and/or free advertising for all candidates, expect nothing to change. Since these laws have to be voted in by CONGRESS, expect NOTHING to change! We have found the enemy and it is us!
Why is this case 'not ripe' while the whole Napster/file sharing/copyright thing is??
I mean we haven't had ONE SINGLE challenge to the (probably unconstitutional) DMCA yet.
Why is the DMCA then considered 'ripe'?
Is the Internet (at a whole 5 years old as a 'mass medium') ripe?
Seems to me that 'the man' wants it both ways...They want the 'net to be considered 'mature' when it suits them..and 'not ripe' when it suits THEM!
We are in a very dangerous time....a time where the tables seem about to turn. A time where the Russians advise THEIR citizens to be wary of the U.S.! A time where most of the world (and many of our own citizens) fear and distrust OUR government. A time where law enforcement can propose whatever they want (Constitution/Bill of Rights be damned) and Congress and the President say: "yup, yup, yup". A time where citizens' rights are secondary to corporate greed.
Finally, the obscenity of terrorism isn't just what happened on September 11th, 2001. It's what has happened in Congress since then.
My only hope is that the citizens of our great country wake up to what their 'leaders' are really doing TO them! If not, then we're truly screwed.....
beacuse the RIAA won't allow it. And since the RIAA controls everyone and everything, forget it.
My BBS began its life as a 386-40 running five nodes of PC Board under Deskview with 14.400 modems (very expensive at the time). Later we upgraded it to a 486 SX-25 with a whole 16 megs of RAM and two hard drives: a 202 meg WD Caviar and a HUGE 1.275 meg Conner (that cost me over 400 bucks on big sale at the time!). I had a five disk CD rom (1X) changer and even internet email/newsgroups/fido using a UUCP connection that dialed the ISP five times a day.
We called it Board 25 because of its access number: 252-5252. It was based just outside of Providence, RI in Massachusetts. The BBS was a local call from most of southern RI (thank you permissive dialing!). It had about 500 members and got at it's peak about 700 calls a day.
It covered it's expenses (mostly) and all profit went into equipment upgrades. A true labor of love. Chat was the most popular feature followed by email and the local town forums (moderated by people from the towns).
Alas, we shut it down four years ago today....a victim of AOL and the Internet. It sits collecting dust below a table in my partner's cellar. We will never dispose of it.
Here's to the good old days.......*clink*
"We have to get out customers back"
Hil baby, if you didn't spend so much time on your back with your legs over multiple sex partners' shoulders, you'd have heard of the term: "shopping with your feet".
What this means is that if you burn someone, or try to screw them with a bad deal, or get GREEDY, they will walk away from your store, product, etc., etc. and get what they need elsewhere.
Hilslut, you're not going to "get your customers back" (with the possible exception of those who pay you for sex) by suing all their alternatives out of business. How you can do that is by giving them what they want at a reasonable price. It's called capitalism, babe and it means that those other whores down on the street have as much right to earn a buck for (bad) sex as you do.
Get it??
I have a patent titled: "Concurrent drawing in and exhausting of air by living things" SO PAY UP OR STOP BREATHING!!!
It still amazes me how arrogant the United States is! Are the members of Congress, the Attorney Ggeneral,The President,the FBI,CIA, and NSA REALLY THAT STUPID??!! The Internet is GLOBAL! The United States doesn't own it; no one owns it! That's the trouble as far as I can see...the government CAN'T control it, no matter how they try. Sure, they can try to regulate U.S. websites, but what about the sites in the OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD??!! Do we really think that we're so powerful that they'll tow OUR line?
My boss told me: "Forget whatever you learned in college. THIS is where your education begins".
I asked him why hire someone with an EE degree then. His reply: "Getting the degree proves that you can start and finsih something. Nothing more".
He was right....
College "prepares" you for nothing. What college DOES is teach you how to think, how to interact with others, how to FIND what you need to know....
and yes, it can help some grow up.....
My mentor (a true genius, now deceased) once told me that he believed that schooling can INTERFERE with your education. I think that he was right too...
In many states(including the one I live in),headshops are illegal. The government apparently believes that they can regulate product based on what they THINK you're going to do with it.
My question is then, why is this done selectively? It would seem to me that since guns and ammo can be (and frequently are)used to commit violent crimes, why aren't they illegal as well??
1. Yes the list is legit. It came out last Thursday. 2. They did not ban the songs. They suggested that individual program directors exercise judgement in playing these songs because of the recent terrorist bombing. 3. Originally the list was much smaller. It was added to by the program directors and others at the individual stations. 4. The list was supposed to be internal and confidential. It went out over our private WAN email system. 5. From what I can see, Clear Channel has 'stepped up to the plate' with regard to the terrorism. They're giving a lot of $$ to the Red Cross and others. They have a link on their web page. They're allowing employees to contribute via a deduction in their paychecks. For days after the hijackings they ran information and talk programming about the disaster on practically every station totally commercial free. Though I don't agree with all of CC policies (trust me on this!), I feel that criticizing them fhr the job they've done for the public the past week is ludicrous!
at Tigerdirect.com Problem solved (and no I don't work for them!)
The plane thet went down over PA was shot down according to my source at the Pentagon.
ya think?
This is the answer.....