Interesting. I've watched the video. Here's a synopsis - Some guy working for the government, elects to make a video to help his 'people' get a better layout of Times Square. It seems that him and his 'people' intend to invoke rioting in order to validate a military take over of New York. It's filmed in the style popularized by movies like the Blair Witch Project. So yes, it does feel quite real.
This of course, begs the question of wither the government pulled the plug because they were honestly concerned or if the film may have some basis in fact. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, so I'll just assume they're not planning a military takeover of the US. (Regardless, I have to concede that the New Year would be the perfect time. Civilian police already pre-occupied, many of our legitimate military forces positioned to control rioting. Many of our resources already allocated.) Anyhow, If the FBI was acting in order to protect the people, or even to protect the reputation of the government, does that make their actions correct?
No.
What to do? Mirror the site(I did), distribute it via FTP, mass email. Undermine whatever control the FBI believed that they had over the situation. Call your congressman, the ACLU, your best friend, your mother, tell them about it, send them the movie. Even if this Mike Z. guy was planning a terrorist takeover of the US, or trying to slander the government, we live in a society that is supposed to represent free speech. The government isn't a corporation, slander laws don't apply here, and even complete psychopaths are entitled to free speech. This guy and his ISP need to stand up for themselves, because when one person resigns their rights, we all suffer from it.
"One bullet is all you need to control one hundred people.. So long as they all are afraid of it."
The controller they're pushing with the system is the exact same one available for the Playstation right now. I love that controller dearly, but there's always room for improvement. It seems like if you going to put out a next generation console system, you should update the controller, too.
Not to mention that it's MSRP is 370 US dollars. Apparently Sony is planning to lose the console wars considering the Dreamcast's price tag is 199 and Nintendo is shooting for 99 dollars on their next generation system.
According to doubleclick.net, which is who leases out the ad space on AltaVista, it gets 1.4 Billion hits per month, which breaks down to something like 46 million per day on average? You can actually check out the price of advertising(and the hit average on listed links) of Altavista at..
.. But because of the pricing structure it's impossible to say what their income from it may be. Even if the profit on ad's on their site were marginal, say, one tenth of a cent per hit, thats still 1.4 Million a month. Not to mention the deals they have with RealNames, Shopping.com, and the sales from the search engine.
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Interesting. I've watched the video. Here's a synopsis - Some guy working for the government, elects to make a video to help his 'people' get a better layout of Times Square. It seems that him and his 'people' intend to invoke rioting in order to validate a military take over of New York. It's filmed in the style popularized by movies like the Blair Witch Project. So yes, it does feel quite real.
This of course, begs the question of wither the government pulled the plug because they were honestly concerned or if the film may have some basis in fact. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, so I'll just assume they're not planning a military takeover of the US. (Regardless, I have to concede that the New Year would be the perfect time. Civilian police already pre-occupied, many of our legitimate military forces positioned to control rioting. Many of our resources already allocated.) Anyhow, If the FBI was acting in order to protect the people, or even to protect the reputation of the government, does that make their actions correct?
No.
What to do? Mirror the site(I did), distribute it via FTP, mass email. Undermine whatever control the FBI believed that they had over the situation. Call your congressman, the ACLU, your best friend, your mother, tell them about it, send them the movie. Even if this Mike Z. guy was planning a terrorist takeover of the US, or trying to slander the government, we live in a society that is supposed to represent free speech. The government isn't a corporation, slander laws don't apply here, and even complete psychopaths are entitled to free speech. This guy and his ISP need to stand up for themselves, because when one person resigns their rights, we all suffer from it.
"One bullet is all you need to control one hundred people.. So long as they all are afraid of it."
The controller they're pushing with the system is the exact same one available for the Playstation right now. I love that controller dearly, but there's always room for improvement. It seems like if you going to put out a next generation console system, you should update the controller, too.
Not to mention that it's MSRP is 370 US dollars. Apparently Sony is planning to lose the console wars considering the Dreamcast's price tag is 199 and Nintendo is shooting for 99 dollars on their next generation system.
According to doubleclick.net, which is who leases out the ad space on AltaVista, it gets 1.4 Billion hits per month, which breaks down to something like 46 million per day on average? You can actually check out the price of advertising(and the hit average on listed links) of Altavista at ..
http://www.doubleclic k.net/advertisers/ad_rates/altavista.htm
.. But because of the pricing structure it's impossible to say what their income from it may be. Even if the profit on ad's on their site were marginal, say, one tenth of a cent per hit, thats still 1.4 Million a month. Not to mention the deals they have with RealNames, Shopping.com, and the sales from the search engine.