Most of the posters write comments about social and environmental contexts that nanotech will make obsolete - something Drexler warned against in his first book.
Smalley's comments are on a par with the IBM guy who said back in the fifties or early sixties that the world would only need, what was it, X (where X was an extremely small value) computers.
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You give somebody a specific job title and they then try to make it the center of the universe, to the detriment of everyone else in the universe.
This is standard human nature. Every human is at primate war with every other human. No one - and I mean NO ONE - not your parents, your "friends" (what's that, "friends"?), you spouse, your kids, NO ONE - must be allowed to get ahead of you in any way. The only way to survive - to get the limited amount of life delegated to mere mortals by "the gods" - is to be above and beyond all other humans.
Therefore YOU and YOUR job title MUST be the center of the universe. All other humans and their job titles MUST bow before you and yours.
YOU must make the rules for everyone - or somebody else might make the rules for you.
And Tog says the same thing when he says any security procedure "must be comprehensive" - in other words, MY security procedure MUST rule YOUR life - TOTALLY!
And so it goes.
Which is why the product packaging people seal all sorts of food in such protective packaging that no consumer can get the package open without a jackhammer.
And the product packaging people are proud of this achievement - and they get bonuses for their achievement. And they get written up in product packaging magazines for it. And their methods get used by everyone else.
And everybody starves because you can't get the damn package open.
For the last thirty years, the US Army has not fought a guerrilla war. All the troops in Iraq are trained in SASO - Stabilization And Security Operations - which entails driving around in tanks between two warring factions in order to keep the peace. Except that's not what's going on in Iraq. What's going on in Iraq is guerrilla warfare - and not a single US commander in Iraq has a clue how to deal with it. But all those commanders MADE commander because they got great marks in implementing SASO operations in Kosovo or wherever.
So you want to know what's going on in Iraq? The Peter Principle, that's what. All the US commanders in Iraq have reached their level of incompetence based on their training and the actual situation on the ground.
But they'll KILL you before they admit that their performance of their job title is irrelevant.
The amusing thing about this is the ones cheering and dancing were a number of Israeli Mossad agents arrested when they were seen by a woman filming the collapse of the WTC and high-fiving each other. The arrested persons were connected to, IIRC, a New Jersey firm, the owner of which suddenly closed up shop and ran back to Israel. At least one or two of the arrested persons admitted to being Mossad.
Reports from the media indicate a massive Israeli spy ring operating in the US, some of whose agents were following the alleged WTC hijackers around - and presumably knew of their plans. Israel deigned to send a warning to the US, IIRC, about two weeks before 9/11.
Can you say agents provocateurs? I knew you could.
The neocons wanted a "Pearl Harbor" in order to foist their world conquest plans on a panicking public. Their Israeli co-conspirators obliged.
Simple as that. A "false flag" operation - you give some bozos an idea, make sure they get what they need, ignore any warnings passed up from counterintelligence, and - you'll pardon the phrase - "Wallah!" You have your "Pearl Harbor" - "the day when everything changed". Yeah, right.
Ann Coulter is one of the biggest frauds around - next to pill-popping, pill-dealing Rush Limburger Cheesehead.
There's a sucker born every minute. And they all vote.
Oct. 23, 2003 Army has plan to expel Arafat By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN
The IDF is ready to carry out the cabinet's decision to remove Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat the moment the orders are given, a senior military source told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday.
"We have presented plans showing the risks and the chances of the operation itself, including the options to remove him alive or not," he said. "The government has to make a decision to allow the army to act. The army is ready. The army always plans for all possibilities," he said.
He said the near constant deployment of forces in the territories since the violence erupted three years ago is not fatiguing troops.
"I'm not worried. The battalions are strong and have high standards and are working well. Every four months, new soldiers are added to the fighting and officers are rotated. The standing army can keep this up for years," he said. He added that the current conflict will not end with a major military measure.
"We can stage a major operation again, like Defensive Shield. We can do one in the Gaza Strip," he said.
"But this conflict is one of stamina between the Palestinian and Israeli societies. What concerns me is the resilience and stamina of the Israeli society," he added.
He presented a pessimistic view of reaching any agreement with the present Palestinian Authority leadership, which he said is continuing to reject a two-state solution. He said Arafat chose terror to avoid making an agreement.
"Arafat thinks that by demographics and terrorism there will be one state and it won't be Jewish," he said.
"Arafat doesn't care about what to do with the Palestinians. He cares about his place in history. "Now, as we mark the 30th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, I suggest we examine ourselves to make sure we are not prisoner to the conception that we have a formula for a solution," he said. "It could be we have it, but the Palestinians are not cooperating."
[SEE BELOW}
He said Israel is capable of violent rage against an enemy and warned that there could be a point at which the Palestinians could certainly spark it. "[Dresden] or Nagasaki or Hiroshima?" he sighed, referring to allied bombing of German civilians and the two US atomic bombs that ended World War II. "I don't think we are at that point, but it could be that the Palestinians will bring us to this at some point.
[SEE ABOVE]
"If it becomes clear to us that even after Arafat, the leadership that takes over is not a partner for any kind of solution or arrangement, I presume Israeli society will start to discuss other options. It wouldn't go without the legitimacy of society [behind a military solution]."
Regarding Syria, he said President Bashar Assad is currently "embarrassed" by the IAF attack on an alleged terrorist training camp two weeks ago. "You have an army with 450,000 men in Syria, but we have been able to open a gap in relative advantage which has been translated into deterrence," he said. "We can deal with the Syrian threat. It is not existential.
"Israel has significant deterrence over Syria today. We see it. We struck at a terrorist target in Syria and there is embarrassment there. If we had not been deterring the Syrians and Hizbullah, then I think that the northern front would have been a lot hotter.
"The Syrians have this deterrence out of fear that escalation in the North would put the Syrian army to the test," he said. "If they felt the Syrian army was strong enough to stand up to the IDF, they would have let Hizbullah be more daring. They prefer the Palestinian front and are responsible for a lot of what is happening here. They prefer this because they thought we would not link the two fronts. Our last strike put the responsibility on them for what is happening here."
He said $40,000 was transferred from Syria to a terrorist cell in Nablus which attempted to carry out four attacks which the se
In fact, it's likely that 9/11 was ALLOWED to happen (I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories that say that the CIA directly caused it to happen - that's not necessary) for precisely these reasons.
If you don't comprehend how far a US government will go for pretexts for war, Google for the "Northwoods Documents". And that's back in 1962.
And recently Harold MacMillan and Eisenhower were revealed to be using the CIA to fake border incidents to invade Syria - back in the 1950's.
The only reason 95% of Americans wouldn't like Hitler is because they KNOW about Hitler. If Hitler was starting today, he'd be Bush's campaign director, or Secretary of Defense (since he came from the military initially - and with the Iron Cross to boot).
A large number of Americans supported Hitler in the 1930's - including Prescott Bush, George's grandfather who eventually had his bank taken away from him by the US government for supporting the Nazis.
Bush is at least as much a raving rightwing religious lunatic as Hitler was (he has allegedly been found face down on the Oval Office floor praying) - and he has much more power and much less control and much less opposition in this country than Hitler did in Germany.
Finally, Bush's cronies, the neocons, are mostly neo-Troskyites. It's amusing to me that the rightwing Christian Zionists are all supporting people who follow other people who were essentially ex-Communists! It doesn't get more bizarre than this.
versus conventional property rights, NASA has the better claim since they are actually "using" the asteroid whereas Orbdev hasn't done anything but claim it.
Orbdev is based on the feudal property notion that simply riding around a piece of land for a day gives you some legitimate claim to it.
This is NOT a correct or workable concept of property.
I bought a copy of NTI Backup Now I found cheap at a computer show.
I tried to use it to make an image backup of my C: drive. The thing does two CD's worth, gets near the end, then stops, saying backup finished with write errors!
Even DOS had "Abort, Retry, Ignore" capability! These morons at NTI don't simply tell you the CD has write problems, eject it, put in a new one and keep going?
This piece of crap doesn't even tell you how many CDs you'll need to back up the data!
And this a company that also produces a CD BURNER SOFTWARE!! The engine of which is IN their backup software! They don't know the fucking media is not reliable???
So now it's back to freeware backup utilities that have more capability (except the one that's really needed - to back up directly to CD - for that, I have to go back to my Nero Burning ROM.)
I downloaded the documentation for BackupMyPC (which used to be Veritas Backup Exec for the desktop) and it doesn't seem to be much more flexible or user-friendly.
Somebody get their head out of their ass and write some backup software that makes sense.
Israeli has been threatening to use nukes for years.
Just a short time ago, a government official said the time could come when the Palestinians would force them to do something "drastic" - like Hiroshima, he said.
Besides, how many times has the US "threatened" to use nukes? Just having them is threat enough and everybody knows it.
Having Tel Aviv (and Haifa and most of Israel's military) glow in the dark would be the solution to the Middle East's problems, most of the US's problems, most of Europe's problems, and probably some of the US's economy problems (if we did it, the Arabs would give us the oil for $10 a barrel).
tha while there is a tremendous amount of information in the Documention Project's output, the critics who say much of it is obsolete seem to be correct.
It may not be exactly obsolete since in many cases, you can still do what the documentation says.
However, as an example, when I went to set up my DSL line to work in Linux, I read through the DSL howto and the network howtos, etc. What I failed to realize is that Red Hat already had SCRIPTS set up in 7.3 to handle all that. I ended up doing manually what Red Hat had already automated.
Of course it's my fault for not reviewing the Red Hat docs first. And even a magazine that came out about two years ago with an article on DSL was out of date. But you'd think someone could review some of these critical documents and update them at least a little. Or a process could be put in place when users and reviewers could add addendum to them in the form of comments or whatever that could redirect new users to more current information.
I have news for you. The PNAC crowd have every intention of having the US develop these weapons, just as Israel is known to be working on such weapons. And we all know how the PNAC just love Israel.
Anybody who believes the PNAC group are opposed to biological warfare simply hasn't a clue as to the attitudes of these people.
Try reading the phrase "politically useful tool" in its proper context, why don't you?
Yeah, we all know these people have nothing but good intentions for everybody, yeah, right...
The VAST BULK - probably 99 percent - of the people blowing up US troops are IRAQI, you moron.
And the vast number of attacks - at least 95 percent - are deliberately targeting US TROOPS, not civilians.
Try looking at something other than Faux News.
Try Colonel David Hackworth's site, or the www.iraqwar.ru site where news stories from all the major media are posted to enable you to see what is actually going on.
The ignorance of the average American is astounding. I suppose you are one of the millions of Americans who think the 9/11 attackers were all Iraqi, courtesy of Fox News.
Excellent idea. Issue phone-cameras and recorders to all students. Allow them to videotape and record all the stupid shit they put up with from teachers, staff and other students. Post everything on the Net.
If you don't care about privacy for students, why should anybody care if every stupid thing people do gets posted on the Web?
Time to get back to the original idea of the Web - to proliferate information in a simple, straightforward way.
Which means no "flash", no minutia about positioning elements, and the rest of this stuff. More concern about usability and content than presentation.
We need a layered OSI model for Web content, maybe.
And maybe we need to redesign HTML more on programming language principles where interpretation is more constrained and thus can be interpreted one way and one way only. Some enforced discipline.
Wait until Bush gets his new Korean War next year.
After that chaos, you'll see laws being passed you won't believe. Or maybe not - most of them have already been passed, the government is just quietly ratcheting up the use of them.
I posted an article just yesterday at the www.iraqwar.ru site about how the US Justice Department is using Patriot Act provisions in a whole slew of cases including putting some lovesick twenty-year-old girl in prison for two years because she put threatening notes on a cruise ship she was on with her family so she could go back home to be with her boyfriend! This was prosecuted under the provision calling it terrorism to threaten commercial vessels.
You haven't seen anything yet. Like I said before, first it was terrorists, then it was drug dealers, then it will be drug users, then it will be alcoholics, then it will be gun owners, then it will be cigarette smokers, then it will be jaywalkers.
The State is a protection/extortion racket. Period. Until you idiots realize that, you are nothing but their slaves.
I'm not blaming Jews for anything except the Judaic religion (I'm an atheist) and being nationalist assholes 2000 years ago until they ran into the Romans who were really GOOD at conquering other nations which is what started the mess to be described below.
What I am blaming are Zionists who pop up two thousand years later, conspire to seize a country from its present occupants for no rational reason other than their religious documents tell them they're supposed to have it (and most of the rest of the Middle East, if you haven't heard of the concept of "Greater Israel"), and then proceed to spy on, bribe, influence, and otherwise force the United States to support their lame economy, sell them billions in weapons, turn a blind eye to the illegal possession of nuclear weapons, support their efforts to engage in ethnic cleansing of the previous inhabitants of the country they're in, and as a result of these policies (and the constant meddling of the US in the Middle East over oil), we end up being attacked by Middle East terrorists, which is then used by OUR morons in government to throw this country into economic and military chaos.
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The individual has NOT been "wronged".
"Harmed", maybe, if his business model depended on charging high prices for something easily copied.
But that's his problem, not society's.
why no audit trail was included, I don't know what to tell him.
Seems obvious to me.
Most of the posters write comments about social and environmental contexts that nanotech will make obsolete - something Drexler warned against in his first book.
Smalley's comments are on a par with the IBM guy who said back in the fifties or early sixties that the world would only need, what was it, X (where X was an extremely small value) computers.
You give somebody a specific job title and they then try to make it the center of the universe, to the detriment of everyone else in the universe.
This is standard human nature. Every human is at primate war with every other human. No one - and I mean NO ONE - not your parents, your "friends" (what's that, "friends"?), you spouse, your kids, NO ONE - must be allowed to get ahead of you in any way. The only way to survive - to get the limited amount of life delegated to mere mortals by "the gods" - is to be above and beyond all other humans.
Therefore YOU and YOUR job title MUST be the center of the universe. All other humans and their job titles MUST bow before you and yours.
YOU must make the rules for everyone - or somebody else might make the rules for you.
And Tog says the same thing when he says any security procedure "must be comprehensive" - in other words, MY security procedure MUST rule YOUR life - TOTALLY!
And so it goes.
Which is why the product packaging people seal all sorts of food in such protective packaging that no consumer can get the package open without a jackhammer.
And the product packaging people are proud of this achievement - and they get bonuses for their achievement. And they get written up in product packaging magazines for it. And their methods get used by everyone else.
And everybody starves because you can't get the damn package open.
For the last thirty years, the US Army has not fought a guerrilla war. All the troops in Iraq are trained in SASO - Stabilization And Security Operations - which entails driving around in tanks between two warring factions in order to keep the peace. Except that's not what's going on in Iraq. What's going on in Iraq is guerrilla warfare - and not a single US commander in Iraq has a clue how to deal with it. But all those commanders MADE commander because they got great marks in implementing SASO operations in Kosovo or wherever.
So you want to know what's going on in Iraq? The Peter Principle, that's what. All the US commanders in Iraq have reached their level of incompetence based on their training and the actual situation on the ground.
But they'll KILL you before they admit that their performance of their job title is irrelevant.
Why?
The amusing thing about this is the ones cheering and dancing were a number of Israeli Mossad agents arrested when they were seen by a woman filming the collapse of the WTC and high-fiving each other. The arrested persons were connected to, IIRC, a New Jersey firm, the owner of which suddenly closed up shop and ran back to Israel. At least one or two of the arrested persons admitted to being Mossad.
Reports from the media indicate a massive Israeli spy ring operating in the US, some of whose agents were following the alleged WTC hijackers around - and presumably knew of their plans. Israel deigned to send a warning to the US, IIRC, about two weeks before 9/11.
Can you say agents provocateurs? I knew you could.
The neocons wanted a "Pearl Harbor" in order to foist their world conquest plans on a panicking public. Their Israeli co-conspirators obliged.
Simple as that. A "false flag" operation - you give some bozos an idea, make sure they get what they need, ignore any warnings passed up from counterintelligence, and - you'll pardon the phrase - "Wallah!" You have your "Pearl Harbor" - "the day when everything changed". Yeah, right.
Ann Coulter is one of the biggest frauds around - next to pill-popping, pill-dealing Rush Limburger Cheesehead.
There's a sucker born every minute. And they all vote.
From The Jerusalem Post:
Oct. 23, 2003
Army has plan to expel Arafat
By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN
The IDF is ready to carry out the cabinet's decision to remove Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat the moment the orders are given, a senior military source told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday.
"We have presented plans showing the risks and the chances of the operation itself, including the options to remove him alive or not," he said.
"The government has to make a decision to allow the army to act. The army is ready. The army always plans for all possibilities," he said.
He said the near constant deployment of forces in the territories since the violence erupted three years ago is not fatiguing troops.
"I'm not worried. The battalions are strong and have high standards and are working well. Every four months, new soldiers are added to the fighting and officers are rotated. The standing army can keep this up for years," he said.
He added that the current conflict will not end with a major military measure.
"We can stage a major operation again, like Defensive Shield. We can do one in the Gaza Strip," he said.
"But this conflict is one of stamina between the Palestinian and Israeli societies. What concerns me is the resilience and stamina of the Israeli society," he added.
He presented a pessimistic view of reaching any agreement with the present Palestinian Authority leadership, which he said is continuing to reject a two-state solution. He said Arafat chose terror to avoid making an agreement.
"Arafat thinks that by demographics and terrorism there will be one state and it won't be Jewish," he said.
"Arafat doesn't care about what to do with the Palestinians. He cares about his place in history.
"Now, as we mark the 30th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, I suggest we examine ourselves to make sure we are not prisoner to the conception that we have a formula for a solution," he said. "It could be we have it, but the Palestinians are not cooperating."
[SEE BELOW}
He said Israel is capable of violent rage against an enemy and warned that there could be a point at which the Palestinians could certainly spark it.
"[Dresden] or Nagasaki or Hiroshima?" he sighed, referring to allied bombing of German civilians and the two US atomic bombs that ended World War II. "I don't think we are at that point, but it could be that the Palestinians will bring us to this at some point.
[SEE ABOVE]
"If it becomes clear to us that even after Arafat, the leadership that takes over is not a partner for any kind of solution or arrangement, I presume Israeli society will start to discuss other options. It wouldn't go without the legitimacy of society [behind a military solution]."
Regarding Syria, he said President Bashar Assad is currently "embarrassed" by the IAF attack on an alleged terrorist training camp two weeks ago.
"You have an army with 450,000 men in Syria, but we have been able to open a gap in relative advantage which has been translated into deterrence," he said. "We can deal with the Syrian threat. It is not existential.
"Israel has significant deterrence over Syria today. We see it. We struck at a terrorist target in Syria and there is embarrassment there. If we had not been deterring the Syrians and Hizbullah, then I think that the northern front would have been a lot hotter.
"The Syrians have this deterrence out of fear that escalation in the North would put the Syrian army to the test," he said. "If they felt the Syrian army was strong enough to stand up to the IDF, they would have let Hizbullah be more daring. They prefer the Palestinian front and are responsible for a lot of what is happening here. They prefer this because they thought we would not link the two fronts. Our last strike put the responsibility on them for what is happening here."
He said $40,000 was transferred from Syria to a terrorist cell in Nablus which attempted to carry out four attacks which the se
And Gore is wrong about this exactly how?
That's exactly what did happen.
In fact, it's likely that 9/11 was ALLOWED to happen (I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories that say that the CIA directly caused it to happen - that's not necessary) for precisely these reasons.
If you don't comprehend how far a US government will go for pretexts for war, Google for the "Northwoods Documents". And that's back in 1962.
And recently Harold MacMillan and Eisenhower were revealed to be using the CIA to fake border incidents to invade Syria - back in the 1950's.
You think somehow things have changed?
The only reason 95% of Americans wouldn't like Hitler is because they KNOW about Hitler. If Hitler was starting today, he'd be Bush's campaign director, or Secretary of Defense (since he came from the military initially - and with the Iron Cross to boot).
A large number of Americans supported Hitler in the 1930's - including Prescott Bush, George's grandfather who eventually had his bank taken away from him by the US government for supporting the Nazis.
Bush is at least as much a raving rightwing religious lunatic as Hitler was (he has allegedly been found face down on the Oval Office floor praying) - and he has much more power and much less control and much less opposition in this country than Hitler did in Germany.
Finally, Bush's cronies, the neocons, are mostly neo-Troskyites. It's amusing to me that the rightwing Christian Zionists are all supporting people who follow other people who were essentially ex-Communists! It doesn't get more bizarre than this.
If you take a videocamera into a movie theater, you get three years or whatever in prison?
If you loot Enron, how much do you get?
versus conventional property rights, NASA has the better claim since they are actually "using" the asteroid whereas Orbdev hasn't done anything but claim it.
Orbdev is based on the feudal property notion that simply riding around a piece of land for a day gives you some legitimate claim to it.
This is NOT a correct or workable concept of property.
I bought a copy of NTI Backup Now I found cheap at a computer show.
I tried to use it to make an image backup of my C: drive. The thing does two CD's worth, gets near the end, then stops, saying backup finished with write errors!
Even DOS had "Abort, Retry, Ignore" capability! These morons at NTI don't simply tell you the CD has write problems, eject it, put in a new one and keep going?
This piece of crap doesn't even tell you how many CDs you'll need to back up the data!
And this a company that also produces a CD BURNER SOFTWARE!! The engine of which is IN their backup software! They don't know the fucking media is not reliable???
So now it's back to freeware backup utilities that have more capability (except the one that's really needed - to back up directly to CD - for that, I have to go back to my Nero Burning ROM.)
I downloaded the documentation for BackupMyPC (which used to be Veritas Backup Exec for the desktop) and it doesn't seem to be much more flexible or user-friendly.
Somebody get their head out of their ass and write some backup software that makes sense.
Israeli has been threatening to use nukes for years.
Just a short time ago, a government official said the time could come when the Palestinians would force them to do something "drastic" - like Hiroshima, he said.
Besides, how many times has the US "threatened" to use nukes? Just having them is threat enough and everybody knows it.
Having Tel Aviv (and Haifa and most of Israel's military) glow in the dark would be the solution to the Middle East's problems, most of the US's problems, most of Europe's problems, and probably some of the US's economy problems (if we did it, the Arabs would give us the oil for $10 a barrel).
tha while there is a tremendous amount of information in the Documention Project's output, the critics who say much of it is obsolete seem to be correct.
It may not be exactly obsolete since in many cases, you can still do what the documentation says.
However, as an example, when I went to set up my DSL line to work in Linux, I read through the DSL howto and the network howtos, etc. What I failed to realize is that Red Hat already had SCRIPTS set up in 7.3 to handle all that. I ended up doing manually what Red Hat had already automated.
Of course it's my fault for not reviewing the Red Hat docs first. And even a magazine that came out about two years ago with an article on DSL was out of date. But you'd think someone could review some of these critical documents and update them at least a little. Or a process could be put in place when users and reviewers could add addendum to them in the form of comments or whatever that could redirect new users to more current information.
Oh, really?
I have news for you. The PNAC crowd have every intention of having the US develop these weapons, just as Israel is known to be working on such weapons. And we all know how the PNAC just love Israel.
Anybody who believes the PNAC group are opposed to biological warfare simply hasn't a clue as to the attitudes of these people.
Try reading the phrase "politically useful tool" in its proper context, why don't you?
Yeah, we all know these people have nothing but good intentions for everybody, yeah, right...
Syrian, Jordanian and Iranian?
What planet are you on?
The VAST BULK - probably 99 percent - of the people blowing up US troops are IRAQI, you moron.
And the vast number of attacks - at least 95 percent - are deliberately targeting US TROOPS, not civilians.
Try looking at something other than Faux News.
Try Colonel David Hackworth's site, or the www.iraqwar.ru site where news stories from all the major media are posted to enable you to see what is actually going on.
The ignorance of the average American is astounding. I suppose you are one of the millions of Americans who think the 9/11 attackers were all Iraqi, courtesy of Fox News.
Idiot.
IANAP.
Thank heaven.
YANI. (You Are An Idiot)
And some rob a bank to buy guns to do it.
Unfortunately some also get caught robbing said bank and spend eight years in the joint.
But don't assume anything.
People who do a thing usually do talk about it first, to themselves if no one else.
Or didn't you see "Taxi Driver"?
Excellent idea. Issue phone-cameras and recorders to all students. Allow them to videotape and record all the stupid shit they put up with from teachers, staff and other students. Post everything on the Net.
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If you don't care about privacy for students, why should anybody care if every stupid thing people do gets posted on the Web?
After all, look at
a NEW "security initiative"!
It's deja vu time!
It's January 2001!
I'm so disoriented!
Microsoft plans Windows overhaul to fight hackers
Jodie Foster signed the letter.
She's not an artist? She doesn't support independent film?
Time to get back to the original idea of the Web - to proliferate information in a simple, straightforward way.
Which means no "flash", no minutia about positioning elements, and the rest of this stuff. More concern about usability and content than presentation.
We need a layered OSI model for Web content, maybe.
And maybe we need to redesign HTML more on programming language principles where interpretation is more constrained and thus can be interpreted one way and one way only. Some enforced discipline.
we will remember our nausea!
Wait until Bush gets his new Korean War next year.
After that chaos, you'll see laws being passed you won't believe. Or maybe not - most of them have already been passed, the government is just quietly ratcheting up the use of them.
I posted an article just yesterday at the www.iraqwar.ru site about how the US Justice Department is using Patriot Act provisions in a whole slew of cases including putting some lovesick twenty-year-old girl in prison for two years because she put threatening notes on a cruise ship she was on with her family so she could go back home to be with her boyfriend! This was prosecuted under the provision calling it terrorism to threaten commercial vessels.
You haven't seen anything yet. Like I said before, first it was terrorists, then it was drug dealers, then it will be drug users, then it will be alcoholics, then it will be gun owners, then it will be cigarette smokers, then it will be jaywalkers.
The State is a protection/extortion racket. Period. Until you idiots realize that, you are nothing but their slaves.
I'm not blaming Jews for anything except the Judaic religion (I'm an atheist) and being nationalist assholes 2000 years ago until they ran into the Romans who were really GOOD at conquering other nations which is what started the mess to be described below.
What I am blaming are Zionists who pop up two thousand years later, conspire to seize a country from its present occupants for no rational reason other than their religious documents tell them they're supposed to have it (and most of the rest of the Middle East, if you haven't heard of the concept of "Greater Israel"), and then proceed to spy on, bribe, influence, and otherwise force the United States to support their lame economy, sell them billions in weapons, turn a blind eye to the illegal possession of nuclear weapons, support their efforts to engage in ethnic cleansing of the previous inhabitants of the country they're in, and as a result of these policies (and the constant meddling of the US in the Middle East over oil), we end up being attacked by Middle East terrorists, which is then used by OUR morons in government to throw this country into economic and military chaos.
That answer your question?
If not, fuck off.