I have often said to myself and others... "With so many channels, why is there never a show on worth watching? One would think the cable companies would try to improve their programming, to bring in more customers..." Now I know why there is never anything on: The cable company does not care about the quality of those many channels... they are just filler so the customer has to pay more for the premium channels.
Instead, AOL plans to offer private companies and federal agencies a premium version of the service early next year that will enable employees to send encrypted instant messages that can only be read by designated, registered recipients. America Online is developing the encrypted system in partnership with VeriSign Inc., an online security firm.
Hey isnt this what PGP is for? Well, it works for me, anyway....
16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
I think this station is great, but they need money to keep doing what they are doing. Surely there is some way to raise money for this organisation. Say we start a "friends of the NITV" and donate all of the proceeds to them. Any suggestions?
I don't know how this applies to other Americans, but I consider myself human first, citizen of the world second, American third, Mid-Alantic coast fourth, Marylander fifth... etc. Not the other way around as you described...
"Do they not owe it to their shareholders...?"
That is exactly the point. Corporations are not bound to "higher ideals" because they are controlled by American citizens, and the majority of American citizens don't care about those ideals either.
The fact that American corperations willingly support the Chinese government in its suppression of liberty is witness to the decay of human rights and personal liberty as an American value. LunaKrist, I commend you for you words "One is far too many" Unfortunatly more people do not feel this way. Your resolution to never use cisco products is a good idea, but sadly it is not enough. To have any effect on American corporate values or the state of affairs in China, this effort would require a large number of people boycotting not only cisco, but the other companies involved (IBM, Yahoo, etc.) and all of their parent companies and subsidiaries, and most importantly making these companies aware of the motivations for these actions; otherwise, the tide of dollars delivered by apathetic Americans will nullify the efforts of those who have a social conscience. Yet, perhaps it will never be enough... one could argue that by using the internet we indirectly support and give money to companies we would otherwise boycott and condemn.
I propose that a different solution is necessary. Concerned citizens of the world may take it upon themselves to disable the mechanisms of the Chinese government's subjugation of the internet. Criminals, crackers, and it professionals do this in America everyday; why not turn these skills of cyber-warefare against the Chinese government and it's internet apparatus? Some may say that this is going to far, that we as citizens should not "take matters into our own hands" in vigilante fashion, that we should defer to the accept rule of authority and let the policy makers figure things out. I say that when the law fails, it is people who must do what is right. As Thoreau said, " If the injustice...is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law." The injustices perpetrated against the Chinese people by the Chinses government are of this nature, because American companies that aid the Chinese government in turn force us support that government with our dollars.
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Try playing DnD instead.
I have often said to myself and others... "With so many channels, why is there never a show on worth watching? One would think the cable companies would try to improve their programming, to bring in more customers..." Now I know why there is never anything on: The cable company does not care about the quality of those many channels... they are just filler so the customer has to pay more for the premium channels.
Hey isnt this what PGP is for? Well, it works for me, anyway....
Revelation 13:16-17
16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
I think this station is great, but they need money to keep doing what they are doing. Surely there is some way to raise money for this organisation. Say we start a "friends of the NITV" and donate all of the proceeds to them.
Any suggestions?
I'm glad someone else picked up on this....
maybe Orwell was right, his timing was just off.
I don't know how this applies to other Americans,
but I consider myself human first, citizen of the world second, American third, Mid-Alantic coast fourth, Marylander fifth... etc. Not the other way around as you described...
"Do they not owe it to their shareholders...?" That is exactly the point. Corporations are not bound to "higher ideals" because they are controlled by American citizens, and the majority of American citizens don't care about those ideals either.
The fact that American corperations willingly support the Chinese government in its suppression of liberty is witness to the decay of human rights and personal liberty as an American value. LunaKrist, I commend you for you words "One is far too many" Unfortunatly more people do not feel this way. Your resolution to never use cisco products is a good idea, but sadly it is not enough. To have any effect on American corporate values or the state of affairs in China, this effort would require a large number of people boycotting not only cisco, but the other companies involved (IBM, Yahoo, etc.) and all of their parent companies and subsidiaries, and most importantly making these companies aware of the motivations for these actions; otherwise, the tide of dollars delivered by apathetic Americans will nullify the efforts of those who have a social conscience. Yet, perhaps it will never be enough... one could argue that by using the internet we indirectly support and give money to companies we would otherwise boycott and condemn.
I propose that a different solution is necessary. Concerned citizens of the world may take it upon themselves to disable the mechanisms of the Chinese government's subjugation of the internet. Criminals, crackers, and it professionals do this in America everyday; why not turn these skills of cyber-warefare against the Chinese government and it's internet apparatus? Some may say that this is going to far, that we as citizens should not "take matters into our own hands" in vigilante fashion, that we should defer to the accept rule of authority and let the policy makers figure things out. I say that when the law fails, it is people who must do what is right. As Thoreau said, " If the injustice...is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law." The injustices perpetrated against the Chinese people by the Chinses government are of this nature, because American companies that aid the Chinese government in turn force us support that government with our dollars.