"...That's not true. You cannot give away your constitutional rights, no matter what you sign.
Well, now that's not true, in California at least. Many criminals whom are tried, and convicted, or simply plead guilty, sign a "4th waiver" resigning their fourth amendment constitutional right to freedom from illegal search and siezure in exchange for sentencing leniency. Essentially, the tried and convicted criminal signs away his 4th Amendment rights and the Police from that point on can search his person, car, home, even his business without a court order or search warrant for the duration of that convicted criminals probation period. There are some certain minor restrictions assigned to the Police, all legal mumbo-jumbo stuff, but essentially, the Police can search wherever they want to, whenever they want to, without a warrant, if the person has freely signed a 4th waiver.
In the case of a traffic stop for example, Police can search the vehicle of a 4th waiver convicted criminal during a traffic stop when the sole violation is something as simple as failing to use a turn signal. All the Police are responsible for is knowing before the search that a 4th waiver exists (a simple computer wants & warrants check reveals that information), and they can't destroy any property. So, yes you can sign away your constitutional rights, in exchange for a lenient sentence, or in exchange for the priviledge of attending the school you choose too, I'd imagine.
A sure sign of a weak mind. Name calling... that's both sad and pathetic. Good luck in your life. I hope things get better for you so you're not so weak in the future.
Well, I haven't professed that we should "stop all pure science". You're mistaken to assume that is what I meant. I'm referring to examining asteroids (and comets), at the moment. I think we should undertake those studies, but at a different time. We're probably not going to find out anything we don't already know. We have moon rocks already, why do we need chunks of asteroids?
I'm all for missions to Mars, and any other planet out there, but wasting so much money sending probes to rocks and chunks of ice in space seems hardly warranted given that the money spent on that type of 'pork barrel' space research could be gathered together and combined to do much more good to help the human race right now. For example, we're not even able to finish the space station at the moment, and the Space Shuttle is about to get scrubbed. The station is very important for research and development, but getting the damn thing finished and developing a replacement transport vehicle seems to me to be a higher priority.
But we'll send probes to rocks and icebergs in space, gather nothing Earth shattering from it all more than likely, and flush those billions of dollars down the toilet... what a shame.
Multi-Billion dollar spelunking expeditions in outer space. What could we all POSSIBLY do with billions of dollars right here on Earth to benefit us all right now? Hmmm... alternative energy research? Nah. Cures for debilitating and deadly diseases? Nah. Improving the infrastructures of impovershed nations? Nah. Teaching people how to farm and improving their ability to do so to help keep them from satrving to death? Nah. Let's use it to study big rocks that are floating around in a vacuum and are composed of minerals & metals found right here on Earth already.
Screwed up priorities by people and governments with billions of dollars to throw around on rock hounding in outer space while watching fellow humans suffer and die due to curable and stoppable causes at this very moment.
More conspiracy theories, more Chicken Littles screaming "the sky is falling!" Don't you folks get tired of always being wrong?
... just so you know, you're not really there in your chair reading this. You're buried deep inside the Earth, housed in a membrane capsule and immersed in organic fluid while being fed intravenously with your sole purpose for your existence being to provide power to Google Robots who took over the Earth thousands of years ago and enslaved the human race. When your usefulness is depleted, you'll be flushed from your capsule like a giant turd in a toilet bowl, minus the corn. However, there is hope for your freedom, all you need to do is find The One! Believe and you shall be set free!
If they can purge even ONE whacko from society and it may save even one citizens life or stop other imaginable attacks on government and/or its people, what's the problem with the FBI or anyone scanning weblogs for IP's of those most vocal, vehiment, and serious about attacking people, the country or any aspect of our lives? If you're stupid enough to vomit your excrement on a PUBLIC webpage, and you're serious about what you say, then you deserve close scrutiny.
By most of you peoples standards, NAMBLA should be free to condone and freely discuss lewd and lascivious acts on young boys, the Lolita websites should be free to condone and discuss lewd and lascivious acts with female children, and Racist Hate sites should be free to condone and freely discuss killing people and destroying property because it ain't white.
If you're not a terrorist or violent anarchist, then you have no worries. You have no standing to argue this is George Orwell's 1984, you have no standing to say that "Democracy is a scam". This isn't peace time government intrusion. This isn't being done when all is peachy with the world. Get over it and don't spout off about overthrowing governments or killing people on public websites!
I bet that 95% of the machines that cross your workbench are due to PEBCAK, not IE (or scumeware... whatever), give us all a break. I've never had a single problem with IE, and I've tried all the 'rebel' browsers out there. Nothing could beat IE, nothing was supported like IE, and nothing will. IE works, it's supported, stop trying to be nerd 'cool' and just use what's proven to be the best browser there, IE.
Some monkey in a zoo gets sick, has lasting affects from it, has to change it's way of doing things... and that's a sign that illness caused us to evolve from monkeys? Wow... thank the powers that be our ancient ancestorial monkey brothers & sisters didn't develop a propensity for giant hemmorhoids and just stopped sitting down for the rest of eternity. Our feet would be big ol' elephant feet (and our butts would hurt everyday of our lives from birth). Maybe this monkey will develop a chronic limp. That'll explain why so many people evolved the "I can't work so I just live off welfare and limp around so I look like I can't work", limp. If we're "evolved" from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys? Wouldn't monkeys have evolved into humans then disappeared because they were now homosapeans? Oh, it's that there are different species of monkeys, some species didn't evolve... right? Yet this present day sick maqaque is a possible sign we did? Then we didn't evolve from monkeys at all, we evolved from something that was "monkey-like", but not monkeys... right? Then please explain the fact that fossils have been found of "monkeys" that are way, WAY older than our oldest human fossils found to date. Plus, we are the ONLY species that is "self aware". Explain that. Perhaps we didn't evolve into homosapeans at all. We've always been homosapeans. We may have evolved certain characteristics or lost some characteristscs (hair, heigth, girth, skin tone, eye socket shape, etc) due to ever changing climactic and topographical needs, but we were never monkeys. It stands to reason so.
Now we'll start seeing pink "Dino" the pet dinosaur from the Flintstones on remote webcams all over the globe... seeing how everyone on Earth surfs/. Dino will soon be photoshopped into all the famous photos on the web, replacing the "Tourist Guy" at the scene of the famous disasters of history. I can't wait to see the pics. Rock on Dino!
Simply put, since you are not an American, you have no say in American politics. You cannot vote... sucks to be you. If you think someone else will be a better President, whoopty doo for you. If someone else is elected, and he sucks as a President and causes much damage, it will only serve to satisfy your sick need to see America suffer because that's obviously what you want and enjoy. It's fodder for your festering contempt of anyone and/or anything better than you. Jump on the bandwagon and be a hater, if that shoe fits you, wear it. Be that as it may, keep telling yourself "I'm willing to wager that I know a hell of a lot more about the U.S. (and the rest of the world for that matter) than you know about anything outside your state", because it seriously shows what a droll idiot you truly are. One other thing, what is this "handbasket" you keep refering to? Is that some kind of witty intellectual Canadian analogy of some kind? Because, i r stoopid end donte ghet it. (pssst... by the way, just between you and me, you already "dragged" yourself down to my "depth" with your reply... I won't tell anyone though, your secret's safe with me) What's the difference between Canadian men and Canadian Savings Bonds? Canadian Savings Bonds mature!
Oh brother... give it a rest already. The topic of the thread is about oil, the reserves, and the inevitable shortage coming forthwith. This isn't a soap box for you to yap about politics in a country to which you have no claim. You obviously read too much internet. Get off your duff, go outside, and enjoy that large warm yellow orb in the sky, peewee, and be glad you're not speaking Russian or Nazi. On a side note though, I don't know where you're from, but I'm guessing you're from somewhere that sucks so bad, you obviously have a giant envy problem, much akin to that nagging penis envy that I'm sure you have been dealing with since you were about 13 years old. I am flattered how you think that in 4 short years, my American President got a "stranglehold on the world", which proves... WE KICK ASS! YES! WOO-HOO! WE BAD! WE BAD! And besides, if you're a Michael Moore fan, then you definitely are a loon and shouldn't be taken seriously in any event. I'll do you a favor, watch "THIS VIDEO", and ask yourself why MiraMax/Disney won't distribute this film. There's a good reason he's trying to release his tin-can of celluloid lies when he is, and there's nothing honorable about it either. Oh, and don't worry, it's hosted at homepage.mac.com, so that should play just fine on your uber rebel leet Mac at home. Ciao!
I mean, Lucass totally and completely destroyed the Star Wars fantasy with his last two feeble attempts to make a fortune, er, to make a Star Wars movie. Considering it costs about $10 to get in the theater, $3.75 for a small coke, $4.00 for a small popcorn, and $3.00 for a small box of Butterfinger Bites (yummy)... I'll wait and rent the damn thing on DVD and watch it on my 45" Flat Screen with the Bose Surround. Between me and my kid, $50 bucks to see a movie. The first time we got hosed by Lucass, shame on him. The second time we got hosed by Lucass with the latest Episode, shame on me. I'll be damned if I'll let that fairy hose me a third time. Hell, with any luck I'll be able to leech it off EfNet before it even hits theaters (like I did the last one). I'll burn it to DVD and invite all my non-famous friends over to my house for the Southern California Premier and it won't cost me a dime... except for the 50 bucks worth of Steak, Beer, Popcorn and Butterfinger bites for me and my friends.
How soon the mongoloids in this country forget.... one word: WACO As in Waco, Texas. The right to keep and bear arms? Pfffft.... is your church U.S. Government approved?
Yup... they'll use Gestapo tactics and the fear factor to make you too paranoid to P2P your music. Nevermind that we buy from and give to China BILLIONS of dollars every year and those commie bastards pirate infinitely more music and movies and software than all of the free-world combined. And they do jack squat to stop them, but we'll sick the former Director of the BATF on you if you download a song. I use the RIAA Radar to determine who is and isn't a member of RIAA. Then, DO NOT BUY music or ANYTHING associated with RIAA. I leech my tunes here and there and P2P isn't even a concern. I get all the latest releases at and sometimes before official release without any worries whatsoever. The BATF (Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms) tortured and then executed women and children in Waco because their religion wasn't BATF approved. Now, the psycho BATF Director is going to be the RIAA's head-hunter... great. To hell with them, all. The BATF, the RIAA, all the power trippin' freaks. DO NOT BUY ANYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH RIAA.
"-i was quite naive in assuming ATI cared about the Linux market". Funny stuff. Why should they care about the "Linux market"? There is no "Linux market" worth the extra money, time, and effort to R&D anything for Linux users. You are naive. "Don't ignore your current and potential future market. Do support Linux, or you may find that your company has developed an unsavory reputation along with way...". Current & potential market? You mean like when they used to sell Yugo's? That kind of "current and potential market"? Um, like they care if they develop an "unsavory reputation" amongst the whole 4,350 Linux users in the world? sheesh... make me laugh
Wow... they found the Ark of the Covenant. Great Halloween story. Sort of like War of the Worlds, only real, except for the 4 fingered slippery tentacled aliens and the flying saucers. How can such a thing exist and it actually be used without the World knowing about it or even making a fuss over it? Especially in todays World climate. Where toleration supercedes common sense in the face of the stark reality that if these Country owning thugs and murderous thieves aren't eliminated, we (in the so-called Free World), may become subserviant to a dictator and his regime too. I don't doubt that type of weapon can exist, either in the present or near future. For it to vaporize "...500 to 600 civilians and soldiers", in a single engagement with so many embedded reporters as there were, it would have been big legitimate Headline News. That reads more like National Enquirer tabloid news.
What's surprising is that this story even got posted. Is this supposed to be a 'tongue-in-cheek' sort of deal? I'm confused... I wouldn't consider anything this Bum writes about in relationship to the benefits of being unemployed as being "Surprising benefits...". Everyone already knows you can sleep till noon, scratch your backside and watch TV all day when you're unemployed. What is surprising is when someone who cares about anything or anyone other than themselves becomes unemployed, gets off their duff, and finds comparable new employment within a month with the current U.S. job market.
Um... yeah, what they said. You're not less free because the item you purchased is the only thing they can track, not you. And if a transmitter is in your clothing then it won't last long after a few washing machine/dryer trips. They already use a sort-of GPS tracking system in shopping carts at many grocery stores world wide to track where shoppers go to in the store and where they spend most of their time while they're in the store. If you're really that worried, don't go to the Dentist and get a filling. If you just can't stand the thought of being tracked everywhere you go, try making yourself an "AFDB" (unfortunately, the original AFDB site is dead and gone... *sniff*). I think it'll be alot of fun for the fortunate few who actually find a "spiked" can or bottle or whatever it's going to attached to.
Maybe they should work on getting everyone all home intact rather than in itsy bitsy pieces first. If a piece of friggin' foam no bigger than your head can incinerate a billion dollar Space Plane and they're too st00pid out the gate to realize that, I sure as hell don't want nuclear reactors and ION engines raining down on me.
Yup, that's Jon Stewart. It's a still from a movie called "The Faculty". It's a little bit like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" , in a loose sort of way. He has a bit part as a high school science teacher who gets snatched. http://www.jonstewart.net/bio/film/faculty.html
Chickens with teeth. Now they'll turn into meat eating carnivores. The cows and pigs won't be safe anymore... or the farmers infant children either for that matter. If they try really hard, scientists could make them grow lips too. I guess the chicken vacuum's have come just in the nick of time. I wouldn't want to be one of them chicken herders chasing after pissed-off carniverous chickens with gnashing teeth and lips like Mick Jagger *shudder* Does the name "Frankenstein" ring a bell? Actually, imagine what it could do for the nations with insect plague problems, and food shortages. Like China for instance. They already employ killer chickens. "Specially trained" killer chickens. But with this new breed, their efficiency in erradicating insect plagues would be amazing. With grasping lips and gnashing teeth they could save millions or perhaps even billions in costs of fighting insect plagues. Give them fingers and opposable thumbs and hey, it's on! If they can be trained properly and even more specially, they could become Chicken Warriors. China has trained an army of 10,000 chickens to battle locusts in northwestern Xinjiang, Xinhua news agency reported last month.
The chickens, with gnashing teeth, grasping lips, and fingers with opposable thumbs, backed by tens of thousands of starlings with bat ears and sonar, are a last desperate attempt to erradicate swarms of the hungry insects that have infested grasslands, housing complexes and offices. Attacks on humans and aircraft are minimal according to Chinese authoritys.
The chickens receive a special 60-day training program, the report explains, but it doesnt give specific details of the young birds' training regimen. It is rumored that Chinese Spec-ops and Psycorp conduct the training in special camps inaccessible except by air.
Thousands of nests made by old Chinese women and small children in Chinese sweatshops were placed in the worst infested areas to attract the starlings to the areas they are needed most. Xinjiang's worst locust infestation in a decade has affected 174,500 hectares of grassland.
This stuff is cool. I just hope they're considering the effects of too much human like behavior and are working on emotions as well. I don't think we need a real-life Terminator.
blah blah blah... all you anarchists and conspiracists are no better than the news media. Throw them a bone and they gnash at it like its actually got meat on it. So Washington State is restricting sales of certain types of video games to children (that's CHILDREN) under 18yo... big deal. Should we let children under 18 buy porn too? They'll still get it. It's only illegal to SELL it to minors, not to possess it. Relax, go smoke more dope and imagine what you could be doing if you weren't so busy contemplating how the government is to blame for all your woes and ruined lives.
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"...That's not true. You cannot give away your constitutional rights, no matter what you sign.
Well, now that's not true, in California at least. Many criminals whom are tried, and convicted, or simply plead guilty, sign a "4th waiver" resigning their fourth amendment constitutional right to freedom from illegal search and siezure in exchange for sentencing leniency. Essentially, the tried and convicted criminal signs away his 4th Amendment rights and the Police from that point on can search his person, car, home, even his business without a court order or search warrant for the duration of that convicted criminals probation period. There are some certain minor restrictions assigned to the Police, all legal mumbo-jumbo stuff, but essentially, the Police can search wherever they want to, whenever they want to, without a warrant, if the person has freely signed a 4th waiver.
In the case of a traffic stop for example, Police can search the vehicle of a 4th waiver convicted criminal during a traffic stop when the sole violation is something as simple as failing to use a turn signal. All the Police are responsible for is knowing before the search that a 4th waiver exists (a simple computer wants & warrants check reveals that information), and they can't destroy any property. So, yes you can sign away your constitutional rights, in exchange for a lenient sentence, or in exchange for the priviledge of attending the school you choose too, I'd imagine.
A sure sign of a weak mind. Name calling... that's both sad and pathetic. Good luck in your life. I hope things get better for you so you're not so weak in the future.
Well, I haven't professed that we should "stop all pure science". You're mistaken to assume that is what I meant. I'm referring to examining asteroids (and comets), at the moment. I think we should undertake those studies, but at a different time. We're probably not going to find out anything we don't already know. We have moon rocks already, why do we need chunks of asteroids?
I'm all for missions to Mars, and any other planet out there, but wasting so much money sending probes to rocks and chunks of ice in space seems hardly warranted given that the money spent on that type of 'pork barrel' space research could be gathered together and combined to do much more good to help the human race right now. For example, we're not even able to finish the space station at the moment, and the Space Shuttle is about to get scrubbed. The station is very important for research and development, but getting the damn thing finished and developing a replacement transport vehicle seems to me to be a higher priority.
But we'll send probes to rocks and icebergs in space, gather nothing Earth shattering from it all more than likely, and flush those billions of dollars down the toilet... what a shame.
whoopty friggin' doo
Multi-Billion dollar spelunking expeditions in outer space. What could we all POSSIBLY do with billions of dollars right here on Earth to benefit us all right now? Hmmm... alternative energy research? Nah. Cures for debilitating and deadly diseases? Nah. Improving the infrastructures of impovershed nations? Nah. Teaching people how to farm and improving their ability to do so to help keep them from satrving to death? Nah. Let's use it to study big rocks that are floating around in a vacuum and are composed of minerals & metals found right here on Earth already.
Screwed up priorities by people and governments with billions of dollars to throw around on rock hounding in outer space while watching fellow humans suffer and die due to curable and stoppable causes at this very moment.
More conspiracy theories, more Chicken Littles screaming "the sky is falling!" Don't you folks get tired of always being wrong?
... just so you know, you're not really there in your chair reading this. You're buried deep inside the Earth, housed in a membrane capsule and immersed in organic fluid while being fed intravenously with your sole purpose for your existence being to provide power to Google Robots who took over the Earth thousands of years ago and enslaved the human race. When your usefulness is depleted, you'll be flushed from your capsule like a giant turd in a toilet bowl, minus the corn. However, there is hope for your freedom, all you need to do is find The One! Believe and you shall be set free!
-Ignorance is Bliss- says the naysayer
If they can purge even ONE whacko from society and it may save even one citizens life or stop other imaginable attacks on government and/or its people, what's the problem with the FBI or anyone scanning weblogs for IP's of those most vocal, vehiment, and serious about attacking people, the country or any aspect of our lives? If you're stupid enough to vomit your excrement on a PUBLIC webpage, and you're serious about what you say, then you deserve close scrutiny.
By most of you peoples standards, NAMBLA should be free to condone and freely discuss lewd and lascivious acts on young boys, the Lolita websites should be free to condone and discuss lewd and lascivious acts with female children, and Racist Hate sites should be free to condone and freely discuss killing people and destroying property because it ain't white.
If you're not a terrorist or violent anarchist, then you have no worries. You have no standing to argue this is George Orwell's 1984, you have no standing to say that "Democracy is a scam". This isn't peace time government intrusion. This isn't being done when all is peachy with the world. Get over it and don't spout off about overthrowing governments or killing people on public websites!
I bet that 95% of the machines that cross your workbench are due to PEBCAK, not IE (or scumeware... whatever), give us all a break. I've never had a single problem with IE, and I've tried all the 'rebel' browsers out there. Nothing could beat IE, nothing was supported like IE, and nothing will. IE works, it's supported, stop trying to be nerd 'cool' and just use what's proven to be the best browser there, IE.
Some monkey in a zoo gets sick, has lasting affects from it, has to change it's way of doing things... and that's a sign that illness caused us to evolve from monkeys? Wow... thank the powers that be our ancient ancestorial monkey brothers & sisters didn't develop a propensity for giant hemmorhoids and just stopped sitting down for the rest of eternity. Our feet would be big ol' elephant feet (and our butts would hurt everyday of our lives from birth). Maybe this monkey will develop a chronic limp. That'll explain why so many people evolved the "I can't work so I just live off welfare and limp around so I look like I can't work", limp. If we're "evolved" from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys? Wouldn't monkeys have evolved into humans then disappeared because they were now homosapeans? Oh, it's that there are different species of monkeys, some species didn't evolve... right? Yet this present day sick maqaque is a possible sign we did? Then we didn't evolve from monkeys at all, we evolved from something that was "monkey-like", but not monkeys... right? Then please explain the fact that fossils have been found of "monkeys" that are way, WAY older than our oldest human fossils found to date. Plus, we are the ONLY species that is "self aware". Explain that.
Perhaps we didn't evolve into homosapeans at all.
We've always been homosapeans. We may have evolved certain characteristics or lost some characteristscs (hair, heigth, girth, skin tone, eye socket shape, etc) due to ever changing climactic and topographical needs, but we were never monkeys. It stands to reason so.
eleventy?
Now we'll start seeing pink "Dino" the pet dinosaur from the Flintstones on remote webcams all over the globe... seeing how everyone on Earth surfs /.
Dino will soon be photoshopped into all the famous photos on the web, replacing the "Tourist Guy" at the scene of the famous disasters of history. I can't wait to see the pics.
Rock on Dino!
Simply put, since you are not an American, you have no say in American politics. You cannot vote... sucks to be you. If you think someone else will be a better President, whoopty doo for you. If someone else is elected, and he sucks as a President and causes much damage, it will only serve to satisfy your sick need to see America suffer because that's obviously what you want and enjoy. It's fodder for your festering contempt of anyone and/or anything better than you. Jump on the bandwagon and be a hater, if that shoe fits you, wear it. Be that as it may, keep telling yourself "I'm willing to wager that I know a hell of a lot more about the U.S. (and the rest of the world for that matter) than you know about anything outside your state", because it seriously shows what a droll idiot you truly are.
One other thing, what is this "handbasket" you keep refering to? Is that some kind of witty intellectual Canadian analogy of some kind? Because, i r stoopid end donte ghet it. (pssst... by the way, just between you and me, you already "dragged" yourself down to my "depth" with your reply... I won't tell anyone though, your secret's safe with me)
What's the difference between Canadian men and Canadian Savings Bonds?
Canadian Savings Bonds mature!
Oh brother ... give it a rest already. The topic of the thread is about oil, the reserves, and the inevitable shortage coming forthwith. This isn't a soap box for you to yap about politics in a country to which you have no claim. You obviously read too much internet. Get off your duff, go outside, and enjoy that large warm yellow orb in the sky, peewee, and be glad you're not speaking Russian or Nazi.
On a side note though, I don't know where you're from, but I'm guessing you're from somewhere that sucks so bad, you obviously have a giant envy problem, much akin to that nagging penis envy that I'm sure you have been dealing with since you were about 13 years old. I am flattered how you think that in 4 short years, my American President got a "stranglehold on the world", which proves... WE KICK ASS! YES! WOO-HOO! WE BAD! WE BAD!
And besides, if you're a Michael Moore fan, then you definitely are a loon and shouldn't be taken seriously in any event. I'll do you a favor, watch "THIS VIDEO" , and ask yourself why MiraMax/Disney won't distribute this film. There's a good reason he's trying to release his tin-can of celluloid lies when he is, and there's nothing honorable about it either. Oh, and don't worry, it's hosted at homepage.mac.com, so that should play just fine on your uber rebel leet Mac at home.
Ciao!
is the way to go. More channels, costs less, lots of reasons why.
I mean, Lucass totally and completely destroyed the Star Wars fantasy with his last two feeble attempts to make a fortune, er, to make a Star Wars movie. Considering it costs about $10 to get in the theater, $3.75 for a small coke, $4.00 for a small popcorn, and $3.00 for a small box of Butterfinger Bites (yummy)... I'll wait and rent the damn thing on DVD and watch it on my 45" Flat Screen with the Bose Surround. Between me and my kid, $50 bucks to see a movie.
The first time we got hosed by Lucass, shame on him. The second time we got hosed by Lucass with the latest Episode, shame on me. I'll be damned if I'll let that fairy hose me a third time.
Hell, with any luck I'll be able to leech it off EfNet before it even hits theaters (like I did the last one). I'll burn it to DVD and invite all my non-famous friends over to my house for the Southern California Premier and it won't cost me a dime... except for the 50 bucks worth of Steak, Beer, Popcorn and Butterfinger bites for me and my friends.
How soon the mongoloids in this country forget.... one word:
WACO
As in Waco, Texas. The right to keep and bear arms? Pfffft.... is your church U.S. Government approved?
Yup... they'll use Gestapo tactics and the fear factor to make you too paranoid to P2P your music. Nevermind that we buy from and give to China BILLIONS of dollars every year and those commie bastards pirate infinitely more music and movies and software than all of the free-world combined. And they do jack squat to stop them, but we'll sick the former Director of the BATF on you if you download a song.
I use the RIAA Radar to determine who is and isn't a member of RIAA. Then, DO NOT BUY music or ANYTHING associated with RIAA. I leech my tunes here and there and P2P isn't even a concern. I get all the latest releases at and sometimes before official release without any worries whatsoever. The BATF (Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms) tortured and then executed women and children in Waco because their religion wasn't BATF approved. Now, the psycho BATF Director is going to be the RIAA's head-hunter... great. To hell with them, all. The BATF, the RIAA, all the power trippin' freaks. DO NOT BUY ANYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH RIAA.
"-i was quite naive in assuming ATI cared about the Linux market". Funny stuff. Why should they care about the "Linux market"? There is no "Linux market" worth the extra money, time, and effort to R&D anything for Linux users. You are naive. ... make me laugh
"Don't ignore your current and potential future market. Do support Linux, or you may find that your company has developed an unsavory reputation along with way...". Current & potential market? You mean like when they used to sell Yugo's? That kind of "current and potential market"? Um, like they care if they develop an "unsavory reputation" amongst the whole 4,350 Linux users in the world? sheesh
Wow... they found the Ark of the Covenant. Great Halloween story. Sort of like War of the Worlds, only real, except for the 4 fingered slippery tentacled aliens and the flying saucers.
How can such a thing exist and it actually be used without the World knowing about it or even making a fuss over it? Especially in todays World climate. Where toleration supercedes common sense in the face of the stark reality that if these Country owning thugs and murderous thieves aren't eliminated, we (in the so-called Free World), may become subserviant to a dictator and his regime too.
I don't doubt that type of weapon can exist, either in the present or near future. For it to vaporize "...500 to 600 civilians and soldiers", in a single engagement with so many embedded reporters as there were, it would have been big legitimate Headline News. That reads more like National Enquirer tabloid news.
What's surprising is that this story even got posted. Is this supposed to be a 'tongue-in-cheek' sort of deal? I'm confused...
I wouldn't consider anything this Bum writes about in relationship to the benefits of being unemployed as being "Surprising benefits...". Everyone already knows you can sleep till noon, scratch your backside and watch TV all day when you're unemployed.
What is surprising is when someone who cares about anything or anyone other than themselves becomes unemployed, gets off their duff, and finds comparable new employment within a month with the current U.S. job market.
Um... yeah, what they said.
You're not less free because the item you purchased is the only thing they can track, not you. And if a transmitter is in your clothing then it won't last long after a few washing machine/dryer trips. They already use a sort-of GPS tracking system in shopping carts at many grocery stores world wide to track where shoppers go to in the store and where they spend most of their time while they're in the store.
If you're really that worried, don't go to the Dentist and get a filling. If you just can't stand the thought of being tracked everywhere you go, try making yourself an "AFDB" (unfortunately, the original AFDB site is dead and gone... *sniff*).
I think it'll be alot of fun for the fortunate few who actually find a "spiked" can or bottle or whatever it's going to attached to.
Maybe they should work on getting everyone all home intact rather than in itsy bitsy pieces first. If a piece of friggin' foam no bigger than your head can incinerate a billion dollar Space Plane and they're too st00pid out the gate to realize that, I sure as hell don't want nuclear reactors and ION engines raining down on me.
Yup, that's Jon Stewart. It's a still from a movie called "The Faculty". It's a little bit like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" , in a loose sort of way. He has a bit part as a high school science teacher who gets snatched.
http://www.jonstewart.net/bio/film/faculty.html
Chickens with teeth. Now they'll turn into meat eating carnivores. The cows and pigs won't be safe anymore... or the farmers infant children either for that matter. If they try really hard, scientists could make them grow lips too. I guess the chicken vacuum's have come just in the nick of time. I wouldn't want to be one of them chicken herders chasing after pissed-off carniverous chickens with gnashing teeth and lips like Mick Jagger *shudder*
Does the name "Frankenstein" ring a bell?
Actually, imagine what it could do for the nations with insect plague problems, and food shortages. Like China for instance. They already employ killer chickens. "Specially trained" killer chickens. But with this new breed, their efficiency in erradicating insect plagues would be amazing. With grasping lips and gnashing teeth they could save millions or perhaps even billions in costs of fighting insect plagues. Give them fingers and opposable thumbs and hey, it's on! If they can be trained properly and even more specially, they could become Chicken Warriors.
China has trained an army of 10,000 chickens to battle locusts in northwestern Xinjiang, Xinhua news agency reported last month. The chickens, with gnashing teeth, grasping lips, and fingers with opposable thumbs, backed by tens of thousands of starlings with bat ears and sonar, are a last desperate attempt to erradicate swarms of the hungry insects that have infested grasslands, housing complexes and offices. Attacks on humans and aircraft are minimal according to Chinese authoritys. The chickens receive a special 60-day training program, the report explains, but it doesnt give specific details of the young birds' training regimen. It is rumored that Chinese Spec-ops and Psycorp conduct the training in special camps inaccessible except by air. Thousands of nests made by old Chinese women and small children in Chinese sweatshops were placed in the worst infested areas to attract the starlings to the areas they are needed most. Xinjiang's worst locust infestation in a decade has affected 174,500 hectares of grassland.
This stuff is cool. I just hope they're considering the effects of too much human like behavior and are working on emotions as well. I don't think we need a real-life Terminator.
blah blah blah ... all you anarchists and conspiracists are no better than the news media. Throw them a bone and they gnash at it like its actually got meat on it. So Washington State is restricting sales of certain types of video games to children (that's CHILDREN) under 18yo... big deal. Should we let children under 18 buy porn too? They'll still get it. It's only illegal to SELL it to minors, not to possess it. Relax, go smoke more dope and imagine what you could be doing if you weren't so busy contemplating how the government is to blame for all your woes and ruined lives.