Ever brought your friends over to watch a movie? Due to your blatent misconseption of their arguement I feel I must inform you that what they are saying is that if you buy the dvd, you have the right to translate it (decrypt it) and watch it yourself. They are not saying its ok to redistribute these translated copies.
The Death Bells are Tolling for Privacy.
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Profiling A Nation
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If privacy isn't dead now, it will be very shortly.
Gee, what an interesting time for MS to be entering the console market. I guess it will just be a coincidence that they're system will start to bridge the gap between PCs and Consoles. I bet I can name the company they will choose as they're prefered isp. Whose got 5$ to bet? So now the company makes The OS, forces you to use they're browser, and will now slowly migrate towrd making the entire computer for you. It surprises me that IE5.0 doesn't work for MSN only. What is wrong with the DoJ? Microsoft has become the very definition of a monopoly. All that they have to do next is buy out the telecom/cable companies, perform a hostile take over of AOL, form a militia, and forcefully take over America's beer breweries. They could rule the country in a day:). Well, maby longer, I'm sure we'd fight them over the beer thing. -X
Don't forget to go check out the rest of the article on the cDc page. Its a very worthwhile read, maybe i'll submit the story. Its about 100pages long:)
They pay 21$ for a bedpan worth 25 cents. All in the spirit of making a few companies happy. They waste money on frivillous bunkers. All the while, they stiff their school systems, their future, out of needed money.
They set up supersecret sigint stations. We heard of them, but how many of you heard a damn thing about them in the real world press?
They imprison us without trial, they obliterate our rights on a daily bases, they spend money to make sure that they stay in power, they make sure the rich get richer. All in the name of our safety.
My question is, when will it be enough?. We are the largest collection of brains ever assembled on this earth. Yet, we do nothing. We watch our rights be trampled. When is the point at wich you are willing to say, "No, you can not do that to me."?
Yes this rediculous thing will pass, but it is scary enough that 53? people got together and 47 decided that this would be a good idea. Why do we continue to let the idiots run the government? I laughed as I've seen governers say that they are waiting for the "virus thing" to come out that will fix the y2k bug. I laughed when I learned that New Jersey, a heavily idustrialized state, has the third lowest school budgit in the country, yet their governer has the highest salary of any governer. The only states that beat out New Jersey are Alaska with their one highschool, and some state out in the midwest.
Does the part--Koskinen said the center "should serve as a framework for future cooperation between critical infrastructure industries... and the federal government" -- scare anyone else? I'm not too much of a conspiracy theorist, but.... Anyway, with all the talk about Y2K, I felt this an appropriate quote from a cDc text.
--- So the Mormons honestly believe that The Hour is almost at hand. What are they doing about it? For one thing, each family is under orders to stockpile a year's supply of food. (Don't believe it? Go get the fantastic documentary _Sherman's March_ by Ross McElwee, available at better video rental stores. There's a small segment in McElwee's film where a Mormon woman he's dating explains that the end of the world is coming soon and shows him the food her family has been stockpiling for it.)
When I first read about this, I have to admit that an appealing thought crossed my mind: don't bother stockpiling food and water in case of natural disaster -- instead, plan to wrestle them from the nearest Mormon family. But then I read about their "72-hour kits", the reasoning behind which is explained in the book _In Mormon Circles_ by James Coates:
A primary principle of civil defense is that the key to surviving catastrophe isn't just laying in supplies to tide one over the period during which the irradiated landscape cools down, but rather taking steps to withstand the rigors and dangers of the first three days. It is those initial seventy-two hours of upheaval and rioting as the unprepared struggle to take away the supplies of their more prudent neighbors that pose the greatest threat to long-term survival.
To me, this means one word: GUNS. Suddenly, the thought of forcing my way past the door of a Mormon family's basement-turned-barricade turned from glee to horror. Assuming the Saints survive those first hectic days after the bombs fall, they'll have to lay low for a while, consuming those tasty rations while we Gentiles are wiped off the face of the Earth.
After the smoke clears, however, the Mormons are planning to trek over to Salt Lake City. After taking a head count and giving each other much-deserved mutual high-fives, the Saints will travel en masse to the historical site of Eden, where they will come to dwell in paradise on Earth.
They'll probably take I-70, passing eastward through Topeka, Kansas. The survivors of Armageddon, those chosen few directed by God to dwell in Eden, will find it in the hometown of Harry S. Truman: Independence, Missouri.
--- I guess that means on Dec 31 I will be sitting in my house loading my 12 gauge and getting ready to pick off any mormons I see or maby in a full riot suit(Never can be sure what the locals will get rilled about). Riot Suits, now there is a smart y2k investment.
I have seen many many posts saying that this whole article is BS. I must say that the article is pretty funny.(Esp. the speeding gazelle) But the underlying message has a good possibility. Not in the current world though. In the world invisioned at MIT where Oxygen exits. That is where the technos will be the elite. Not sitting in front of a monitor chating with a 13yr old that thinks its funny to pretend he is a 24yr old bisexual female. In a world were a majority of social functions take place over a highly evolved internet, that is where the techs will be elite. Its the person at a party that can change the incoming caller's body into a speeding gazelle:), such as in Lost in Space (my favorite part:P) that will get attention. Flame the article, but embrace the idea:).
"I have no respect for a man who can only spell a word one way." - Mark Twain
These censorship companies are almost worse then microsoft. They pray on the fact that most parent don't fully understand the technologies that their children use and market it to them as if it is an answer for keeping kids from pornography. All the while they block site for political and personal choice. They block certain religous site, they block many political sites and they block site on things such as breast cancer and they even block the sites of women's rights groups. If someone posts information about these occurences then they just add the site to their blocklist. One of these companies has even gone so far as to mailbomb one old lady because she complained. For more information on the subject try going to http://www.peacefire.com/info/letters.html or peacefire.com to learn how to disable the software if your blindly using it. We need to do something about these companies, but......what?
Dolly's cells were not aging at times normal, they considered them aging abnormally because they acted like cells that were 6 years old (or whatever the age of the mother was) instead of cels however old she was.
Oh and about the cloning and such, I can't wait till companies decide it would be great to patent a creature. "Get your Pepsi Cabbits!", heh. I want a cabbit damnit. Forget beanie babbies, how about living ones that are that size:P. Genetic Engineering is the marketing of the future.
What we are truly missing is that ASSCAP is a collection of Artists, or rather, it is supposed to be. It is not supposed to be some kind of bullying lawyer group. Boycott the artists, all of them, call local stations, tell them to explain to listners that the artist they are playing are part of an organization that bullies girlscouts and that if they want it stoped, to mail their favorite artists and tell them to leave ASSCAP. If the more popular artist get hundred of letters asking them to quick, maby ASSCAP will relize that people know what they are doing.
Sorry that I do not want to write a real reply to this yet, I am too pissed off. But just a word of advice to anyone who has music links on their pages. You know those pop-up contracts that warez sites use to keep government agents out? Course you don't, you don't look for warez, heh:) Well make a pop-up for your site that visitor have to agree that they are no members or affiliates of ASSCAP, I mean ASCAP......I think I had it right the first time.
....umm, Remind me not to give this guy toltarialistic control over any size populace? (Did I spell that right?, would I be eliminated for my spelling mistake genes?)
P.S. Hey Kadamose, you can't have been "thrown away" by the University of Idaho, and what the hell are they teaching over there?
But seriously, this technology would be amazing. These little bots could kill matasticizing cancer cells, fight the aids virus, cure the common cold:), they could also fix failing organs, help your poor ol liver out a little bit, and clean that nasty cholesterol out of your blood system.
Thats nice and all, but don't forget the reverse side of the story, they could be used for lots of nasty things, Conspiracy theorists would have a fieldday going over the possiblities. Don't forget the perfect weapon/torture device. Want some info? Dump the bots in someone's body and have them stimulate pain but keep the body in perfect condition for a week or two. Want to do some ethnic cleansing? Find the genes that code meletonin levels or dominent feature among the ethnic race you don't want, fuel the choppers, spray a little metalic rain on a populace, have the bots go through the skin, scan the dna, and if the person isn't on your ok list, instant/not so instant death.
Also, would you want a government agency the runs sigint operations having access to the bots that you get injected with at birth? Sure the bots might clean drug out of your system, but if you an uptight stuffshirt in a high place, why not just code them to kill anyone with enough of an illegal substance in there body? Pepsi could put it in their drink and have little bots that would detect Coke and alter people's tastebuds to make it taste like shit.
Hope we as a people are ready for these little bots:P
That letter did point out a lot of Red Hat's problems, especially the "tech support" bit. If/When you get a reply, we would all appreciate you posting that too.
You run into analogous problems with frequency-domain schemes (this was a time-domain scheme). You can increase the data rate by increasing power, but the power cost is ugly.
Hello, thank you very much for your opion, but I do have to disagree. You say that the oil company would want to promote products that would help kill their industry? Thats very poor buisness. I do remeber a couple years back (anyone remeber anything about this?) when a guy discovered a way to re-bore and fix up his engine so he got almost three times the miles per gallon. One of the gas companies asked him to buy it saying they could get his wonderful invention to more people more quickly, and he agreed. He signed a non-disclosure agreement and they tucked the info away and never said a word about it again.
I think we can all agree that there does exist just such an obligation (although I'm unconvinced that bombing is the best way to handle the problem.)
I agree that our current bombing is not the best way. I believe carpet bombing would be much better. Incidiary bombs. Milosevec isn't ethnically clensing the country himself, just like Hitler he has help. We are worrying too much about the "civilian" population. I say bomb them till they yield. But this is a mute point, peace is already in the works
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Ever brought your friends over to watch a movie?
Due to your blatent misconseption of their arguement I feel I must inform you that what they are saying is that if you buy the dvd, you have the right to translate it (decrypt it) and watch it yourself. They are not saying its ok to redistribute these translated copies.
If privacy isn't dead now, it will be very shortly.
Gee, what an interesting time for MS to be entering the console market. I guess it will just be a coincidence that they're system will start to bridge the gap between PCs and Consoles. I bet I can name the company they will choose as they're prefered isp. Whose got 5$ to bet? So now the company makes The OS, forces you to use they're browser, and will now slowly migrate towrd making the entire computer for you. It surprises me that IE5.0 doesn't work for MSN only. What is wrong with the DoJ? Microsoft has become the very definition of a monopoly. All that they have to do next is buy out the telecom/cable companies, perform a hostile take over of AOL, form a militia, and forcefully take over America's beer breweries. They could rule the country in a day :). Well, maby longer, I'm sure we'd fight them over the beer thing.
-X
Don't forget to go check out the rest of the article on the cDc page. Its a very worthwhile read, maybe i'll submit the story. Its about 100pages long :)
Our government first broke the constitution when it started printing money, and again when they delegated part of their duties to a seperate organization.
They have suppressed cold fusion.
They pay 21$ for a bedpan worth 25 cents. All in the spirit of making a few companies happy. They waste money on frivillous bunkers. All the while, they stiff their school systems, their future, out of needed money.
They set up supersecret sigint stations. We heard of them, but how many of you heard a damn thing about them in the real world press?
They imprison us without trial, they obliterate our rights on a daily bases, they spend money to make sure that they stay in power, they make sure the rich get richer. All in the name of our safety.
My question is, when will it be enough?. We are the largest collection of brains ever assembled on this earth. Yet, we do nothing. We watch our rights be trampled. When is the point at wich you are willing to say, "No, you can not do that to me."?
Yes this rediculous thing will pass, but it is scary enough that 53? people got together and 47 decided that this would be a good idea. Why do we continue to let the idiots run the government? I laughed as I've seen governers say that they are waiting for the "virus thing" to come out that will fix the y2k bug. I laughed when I learned that New Jersey, a heavily idustrialized state, has the third lowest school budgit in the country, yet their governer has the highest salary of any governer. The only states that beat out New Jersey are Alaska with their one highschool, and some state out in the midwest.
When is it time for change?
- X
I thought Micro$oft had some control now. I pity the person who wants software that microsoft doesn't want them to have. Can you say legal BO?
Does the part--Koskinen said the center "should serve as a framework for future cooperation between critical infrastructure industries ... and the federal government" -- scare anyone else? I'm not too much of a conspiracy theorist, but.... Anyway, with all the talk about Y2K, I felt this an appropriate quote from a cDc text.
---
So the Mormons honestly believe that The Hour is almost at hand. What are
they doing about it? For one thing, each family is under orders to stockpile a
year's supply of food. (Don't believe it? Go get the fantastic documentary
_Sherman's March_ by Ross McElwee, available at better video rental stores.
There's a small segment in McElwee's film where a Mormon woman he's dating
explains that the end of the world is coming soon and shows him the food her
family has been stockpiling for it.)
When I first read about this, I have to admit that an appealing thought
crossed my mind: don't bother stockpiling food and water in case of natural
disaster -- instead, plan to wrestle them from the nearest Mormon family. But
then I read about their "72-hour kits", the reasoning behind which is explained
in the book _In Mormon Circles_ by James Coates:
A primary principle of civil defense is that the
key to surviving catastrophe isn't just laying in
supplies to tide one over the period during which the
irradiated landscape cools down, but rather taking
steps to withstand the rigors and dangers of the first
three days. It is those initial seventy-two hours of
upheaval and rioting as the unprepared struggle to
take away the supplies of their more prudent neighbors
that pose the greatest threat to long-term survival.
To me, this means one word: GUNS. Suddenly, the thought of forcing my way
past the door of a Mormon family's basement-turned-barricade turned from glee
to horror. Assuming the Saints survive those first hectic days after the bombs
fall, they'll have to lay low for a while, consuming those tasty rations while
we Gentiles are wiped off the face of the Earth.
After the smoke clears, however, the Mormons are planning to trek over to
Salt Lake City. After taking a head count and giving each other much-deserved
mutual high-fives, the Saints will travel en masse to the historical site of
Eden, where they will come to dwell in paradise on Earth.
They'll probably take I-70, passing eastward through Topeka, Kansas. The
survivors of Armageddon, those chosen few directed by God to dwell in Eden,
will find it in the hometown of Harry S. Truman: Independence, Missouri.
---
I guess that means on Dec 31 I will be sitting in my house loading my 12 gauge and getting ready to pick off any mormons I see or maby in a full riot suit(Never can be sure what the locals will get rilled about).
Riot Suits, now there is a smart y2k investment.
Good luck to you all.
I have seen many many posts saying that this whole article is BS. I must say that the article is pretty funny.(Esp. the speeding gazelle) But the underlying message has a good possibility. Not in the current world though. In the world invisioned at MIT where Oxygen exits. That is where the technos will be the elite. Not sitting in front of a monitor chating with a 13yr old that thinks its funny to pretend he is a 24yr old bisexual female. In a world were a majority of social functions take place over a highly evolved internet, that is where the techs will be elite. Its the person at a party that can change the incoming caller's body into a speeding gazelle :), such as in Lost in Space (my favorite part :P) that will get attention. Flame the article, but embrace the idea :).
"I have no respect for a man who can only spell a word one way." - Mark Twain
These censorship companies are almost worse then microsoft. They pray on the fact that most parent don't fully understand the technologies that their children use and market it to them as if it is an answer for keeping kids from pornography. All the while they block site for political and personal choice. They block certain religous site, they block many political sites and they block site on things such as breast cancer and they even block the sites of women's rights groups. If someone posts information about these occurences then they just add the site to their blocklist. One of these companies has even gone so far as to mailbomb one old lady because she complained. For more information on the subject try going to http://www.peacefire.com/info/letters.html
or peacefire.com to learn how to disable the software if your blindly using it.
We need to do something about these companies, but......what?
Dolly's cells were not aging at times normal, they considered them aging abnormally because they acted like cells that were 6 years old (or whatever the age of the mother was) instead of cels however old she was.
:P. Genetic Engineering is the marketing of the future.
Oh and about the cloning and such, I can't wait till companies decide it would be great to patent a creature. "Get your Pepsi Cabbits!", heh. I want a cabbit damnit. Forget beanie babbies, how about living ones that are that size
What we are truly missing is that ASSCAP is a collection of Artists, or rather, it is supposed to be. It is not supposed to be some kind of bullying lawyer group. Boycott the artists, all of them, call local stations, tell them to explain to listners that the artist they are playing are part of an organization that bullies girlscouts and that if they want it stoped, to mail their favorite artists and tell them to leave ASSCAP. If the more popular artist get hundred of letters asking them to quick, maby ASSCAP will relize that people know what they are doing.
Sorry that I do not want to write a real reply to this yet, I am too pissed off. But just a word of advice to anyone who has music links on their pages. You know those pop-up contracts that warez sites use to keep government agents out? :)
Course you don't, you don't look for warez, heh
Well make a pop-up for your site that visitor have to agree that they are no members or affiliates of ASSCAP, I mean ASCAP......I think I had it right the first time.
....umm,
Remind me not to give this guy toltarialistic control over any size populace?
(Did I spell that right?, would I be eliminated for my spelling mistake genes?)
P.S. Hey Kadamose, you can't have been "thrown away" by the University of Idaho, and what the hell are they teaching over there?
:P, Why would you even WANT it to run linux?
:), they could also fix failing organs, help your poor ol liver out a little bit, and clean that nasty cholesterol out of your blood system.
:P
But seriously, this technology would be amazing. These little bots could kill matasticizing cancer cells, fight the aids virus, cure the common cold
Thats nice and all, but don't forget the reverse side of the story, they could be used for lots of nasty things, Conspiracy theorists would have a fieldday going over the possiblities. Don't forget the perfect weapon/torture device. Want some info? Dump the bots in someone's body and have them stimulate pain but keep the body in perfect condition for a week or two. Want to do some ethnic cleansing? Find the genes that code meletonin levels or dominent feature among the ethnic race you don't want, fuel the choppers, spray a little metalic rain on a populace, have the bots go through the skin, scan the dna, and if the person isn't on your ok list, instant/not so instant death.
Also, would you want a government agency the runs sigint operations having access to the bots that you get injected with at birth? Sure the bots might clean drug out of your system, but if you an uptight stuffshirt in a high place, why not just code them to kill anyone with enough of an illegal substance in there body? Pepsi could put it in their drink and have little bots that would detect Coke and alter people's tastebuds to make it taste like shit.
Hope we as a people are ready for these little bots
That letter did point out a lot of Red Hat's problems, especially the "tech support" bit. If/When you get a reply, we would all appreciate you posting that too.
You run into analogous problems with frequency-domain schemes (this was a time-domain scheme). You can increase the data rate by increasing power, but the power cost is ugly.
:)
Not if we develope cold fusion
Hello, thank you very much for your opion, but I do have to disagree. You say that the oil company would want to promote products that would help kill their industry? Thats very poor buisness. I do remeber a couple years back (anyone remeber anything about this?) when a guy discovered a way to re-bore and fix up his engine so he got almost three times the miles per gallon. One of the gas companies asked him to buy it saying they could get his wonderful invention to more people more quickly, and he agreed. He signed a non-disclosure agreement and they tucked the info away and never said a word about it again.
Just thought I'd tell some of you, "Cracker" is also what Asians refer to us Meletonin Deficiant Americans as.
I think we can all agree that there does exist just such an obligation (although I'm unconvinced that bombing is the best way to handle the problem.)
g oslavia-leadall
I agree that our current bombing is not the best way. I believe carpet bombing would be much better. Incidiary bombs. Milosevec isn't ethnically clensing the country himself, just like Hitler he has help. We are worrying too much about the "civilian" population. I say bomb them till they yield. But this is a mute point, peace is already in the works
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990603/13/news-yu
However I have to wonder why you believe that it is just the government that if greedy and paranoid. Isn't it human nature?
-Just because your paranoid, doesn't mean that they aren't after you.