since he'll be working in Unicore, Federal Prison Industries. He'll be making at most $180/month, and they'll take half of that as mandatory for his restitution. And it'll take him six months or more to get to that point. He'll start at around $36/month for a couple months, then $54/month (IIRC) for a couple months, then $108/month and so on until he gets to $180. He might get more if he gets to work overtime or has what they call a "Premium" job...
And they won't let him touch a computer if he has any background at all with them...
1) Capitalism != free market, at least not in the US or anywhere else in the existing world that I am aware of. Corporations are creations of the STATE, NOT a free market. Chomsky repeatedly emphasizes this in his lectures.
2) Anarchy does not mean chaos. Read the philosophy of anarchism before misrepresenting. (And don't bother quoting Webster's definition or some other dictionary to prove your point...they're probably equally ignorant of the concept.)
"If America really is true to the principles of the Founders"
Well, that ruins your argument right there, doesn't it?
America hasn't been since, oh, maybe ten years or less after the Founders...even some of the Founders weren't, since one of the Adams suspended habeus(sp?) corpus in Massachusetts during one of the "after-Revolution revolutions" so he could detain rioters indefinitely...
The Constitution is a worthless piece of paper that has done nothing to prevent the United States from becoming and acting as a fascist dictatorship of the corporate/political elite...
"Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Stephen Breyer, in separate opinions, said the government's interest in protecting young library users from inappropriate material outweighs the burden on library users having to ask staff to disconnect filters."
The GOVERNMENT'S interest - not yours, not the young person's, not their parents...
Not to even go into the FACT that NO ONE can be harmed by a porn site (unless they hurt themselves laughing...). "Protecting" people from "inappropriate materials"...
How about protecting Iraqi kids from cluster bombs, assholes? Recently, several young girls were brought to a US soldier in Iraq suffering from severe burns as a result of setting some explosive powder left over from the war on fire. The US soldier summoned US Army doctors who refused to examine the children, stating that the injuries were not inflicted by US troops and did not involve the loss of limb or life so did not qualify for US military medical aid. One of the doctors said they didn't have burn medicine. The US soldier involved said the hospital was fully stocked. He was devastated by this incident as he kept seeing his own daughters in that situation. The Pentagon, informed of this incident, predictably blew it off...
Meanwhile, the same gang of black-cloaked thugs who let Bush steal the election sit in their expensive chairs and suggest that the government has an "interest" in "protecting" children from "inappropriate materials"...
Some years ago, I heard a story about a Siebel Systems account that ended up costing $100 million before it stalled because nobody had any more money to budget for training the end users after the crap was installed.
My immediate reaction was:
1) If Siebel is this incompetent, he should be out of business.
2) If his client was that stupid, they should be out of business.
3) Who authorized $100 million for a software project without budgeting for training end users?
4) I should go to the client and tell them, "Hey! For a fixed fee of $10 million to me personally, I'll solve ALL your software problems!"
It also reminds me of the story in (IIRC ComputerWorld years ago) that Travelers Insurance was suing the Cobol standards people for coming out with a new standard when the company had yet to finish converting from the OLD standard to the LAST standard. This was a company that had a TWO HUNDRED FIFTY MAN COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT WITHIN their IT organization and they couldn't convert their millions and millions of lines of COBOL from one COBOL standard to another in less than something like ten years... My immediate reaction was, "Who is the moron running their IT department - and why isn't it me?"
Reference: " SCO employes came out and joined the event holding pre-prepared signs saying things like 'I love software piracy' and 'Try communism - use Linux.'"
The Secret Service is already the enforcement arm of the Telcos, as many hackers have discovered and as has been commented on many times before in the literature.
So it is no surprise that the FBI will become the enforcement arm of the RIAA...
Just like a recent post here about how the FBI responds quickly to kiddie porn cases, but ignores cases of ISP hacking unless the loss is in the tens of thousands of dollars...
Not to mention overlooking Al Qaeda pilot training and requesting other agencies to pull out their undercover agents from radical groups plotting the destruction of the Murrah building...
Probably the two agents who shelved the report they were working on about the Al Qaeda pilot training when they got the kiddie porn call...
I remember back in the '60's when I was working in the Adjutant General's office at Fort Rucker, Alabama handling personnel files of soldiers who had gone AWOL or deserted. After a certain amount of time gone, the Dothan, Alabama, FBI office would send out one or two agents to take the files and sit in the office writing out a report on the soldier which would then be sent to his home town police department. On one occasion, two FBI agents showed up at the same time. I overheard them asking each other what their case load was. One said something like 40, the other said something like 50 or 60...
Which is why nothing gets done...They're too busy investigating bullshit and harassing the American Indian Movement, or Waco religious cultists, or whoever...
Another example is my arrest for bank robbery. I was arrested by San Francisco police on a Friday shortly after the robbery, spent the weekend in the County Jail, and was turned over to two FBI agents on Monday for transport to the US Marshal's holding cell in the Federal Building. So here were two FBI agents basically doing nothing useful for an hour except moving one guy between buildings...
As an amusing aside, one FBI agent, noting that I had carried a Glock 19 on the robbery, told me that was his second choice for a handgun, and showed me his handgun, stating that was his first choice. I couldn't see well because my contacts were out, so I asked him what make it was. He said Sig (i.e., Sig-Sauer). I didn't say it, but I should have told him, "Yeah, you're a Federal agent, you can afford an $800 handgun, I had to rob a bank to afford to buy a $500 handgun..."
No, tell them you know where the Texas legislators are - that's what Homeland Security has been spending its time on, according to some reports at the time...
He totally and utterly LIES LIKE A RUG about Iraq WMD, starts a war, kills thousands of people, whereas Clinton committed perjury about a sex scandal! (And I do agree, Clinton should have been impeached.)
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that there is no honesty in management?
Heh, heh.../. geeks need to get out more...
No - that's the kind of conversation you hear from live soldiers, not mines...
The funny thing is: can they hop fast enough to avoid an enemy bullet that sets them off in order to clear the mine field?
"Hopping mines"...stupidest thing I've heard yet...
$1K/week is "serious cash"?
You on Welfare?
Well, that dictator is still around...Unfortunately, he's out of the country right now, apparently vacationing in Russia...
Besides the job has been taken by an American on-site...
YOUR FREND SADDAM...
since he'll be working in Unicore, Federal Prison Industries. He'll be making at most $180/month, and they'll take half of that as mandatory for his restitution. And it'll take him six months or more to get to that point. He'll start at around $36/month for a couple months, then $54/month (IIRC) for a couple months, then $108/month and so on until he gets to $180. He might get more if he gets to work overtime or has what they call a "Premium" job...
And they won't let him touch a computer if he has any background at all with them...
I thought someone was OFFERING $180 million for a piracy conspiracy and I was ready to step up...
Oh, well, back to temping...
was the one about the hacker breaking into Microsoft, obtaining Gate's credit card, and ordering him a case of Viagra with his own card!
There are two problems with your argument:
1) Capitalism != free market, at least not in the US or anywhere else in the existing world that I am aware of. Corporations are creations of the STATE, NOT a free market. Chomsky repeatedly emphasizes this in his lectures.
2) Anarchy does not mean chaos. Read the philosophy of anarchism before misrepresenting. (And don't bother quoting Webster's definition or some other dictionary to prove your point...they're probably equally ignorant of the concept.)
"If America really is true to the principles of the Founders"
Well, that ruins your argument right there, doesn't it?
America hasn't been since, oh, maybe ten years or less after the Founders...even some of the Founders weren't, since one of the Adams suspended habeus(sp?) corpus in Massachusetts during one of the "after-Revolution revolutions" so he could detain rioters indefinitely...
The Constitution is a worthless piece of paper that has done nothing to prevent the United States from becoming and acting as a fascist dictatorship of the corporate/political elite...
"Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Stephen Breyer, in separate opinions, said the government's interest in protecting young library users from inappropriate material outweighs the burden on library users having to ask staff to disconnect filters."
The GOVERNMENT'S interest - not yours, not the young person's, not their parents...
Not to even go into the FACT that NO ONE can be harmed by a porn site (unless they hurt themselves laughing...). "Protecting" people from "inappropriate materials"...
How about protecting Iraqi kids from cluster bombs, assholes? Recently, several young girls were brought to a US soldier in Iraq suffering from severe burns as a result of setting some explosive powder left over from the war on fire. The US soldier summoned US Army doctors who refused to examine the children, stating that the injuries were not inflicted by US troops and did not involve the loss of limb or life so did not qualify for US military medical aid. One of the doctors said they didn't have burn medicine. The US soldier involved said the hospital was fully stocked. He was devastated by this incident as he kept seeing his own daughters in that situation. The Pentagon, informed of this incident, predictably blew it off...
Meanwhile, the same gang of black-cloaked thugs who let Bush steal the election sit in their expensive chairs and suggest that the government has an "interest" in "protecting" children from "inappropriate materials"...
Pathetic...
Some years ago, I heard a story about a Siebel Systems account that ended up costing $100 million before it stalled because nobody had any more money to budget for training the end users after the crap was installed.
My immediate reaction was:
1) If Siebel is this incompetent, he should be out of business.
2) If his client was that stupid, they should be out of business.
3) Who authorized $100 million for a software project without budgeting for training end users?
4) I should go to the client and tell them, "Hey! For a fixed fee of $10 million to me personally, I'll solve ALL your software problems!"
It also reminds me of the story in (IIRC ComputerWorld years ago) that Travelers Insurance was suing the Cobol standards people for coming out with a new standard when the company had yet to finish converting from the OLD standard to the LAST standard. This was a company that had a TWO HUNDRED FIFTY MAN COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT WITHIN their IT organization and they couldn't convert their millions and millions of lines of COBOL from one COBOL standard to another in less than something like ten years... My immediate reaction was, "Who is the moron running their IT department - and why isn't it me?"
Management morons...'nuff said...
as of Monday morning...
Reference: " SCO employes came out and joined the event holding pre-prepared signs saying things like 'I love software piracy' and 'Try communism - use Linux.'"
The Secret Service is already the enforcement arm of the Telcos, as many hackers have discovered and as has been commented on many times before in the literature.
So it is no surprise that the FBI will become the enforcement arm of the RIAA...
Just like a recent post here about how the FBI responds quickly to kiddie porn cases, but ignores cases of ISP hacking unless the loss is in the tens of thousands of dollars...
Not to mention overlooking Al Qaeda pilot training and requesting other agencies to pull out their undercover agents from radical groups plotting the destruction of the Murrah building...
I have news for you - fascism IS law - and vice versa...
"The DVD CCA has never tried to reach the VideoLAN team about our development of the libdvdcss library," developer Sam Hocevar wrote in an e-mail. "
Until now...
No, anybody who pays WILL see the dupes - every time they look in the mirror...
It's his big move on July 17th!
He's gonna put a big picture of his mug on the White House Web server with his tongue out and an MP3 playing, "Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah"!
George will have apoplexy and croak! And Saddam beats another George Bush again!
This is the lead-up to the massive attack promised for July 17th!
He's gonna fry the White House Web server! And post a picture of George getting butt-banged by Rumsfeld!
Oh, wait, somebody did that last week...
downloading nekkid chicks off Usenet and Web sites...
Are there other hobbies?
Yeah, tell them you saw documents about planes and buildings...
Of course, once they found out that wasn't the case, they'd start investigating YOU - and they'd get you...one way or the other, for something...
Probably the two agents who shelved the report they were working on about the Al Qaeda pilot training when they got the kiddie porn call...
I remember back in the '60's when I was working in the Adjutant General's office at Fort Rucker, Alabama handling personnel files of soldiers who had gone AWOL or deserted. After a certain amount of time gone, the Dothan, Alabama, FBI office would send out one or two agents to take the files and sit in the office writing out a report on the soldier which would then be sent to his home town police department. On one occasion, two FBI agents showed up at the same time. I overheard them asking each other what their case load was. One said something like 40, the other said something like 50 or 60...
Which is why nothing gets done...They're too busy investigating bullshit and harassing the American Indian Movement, or Waco religious cultists, or whoever...
Another example is my arrest for bank robbery. I was arrested by San Francisco police on a Friday shortly after the robbery, spent the weekend in the County Jail, and was turned over to two FBI agents on Monday for transport to the US Marshal's holding cell in the Federal Building. So here were two FBI agents basically doing nothing useful for an hour except moving one guy between buildings...
As an amusing aside, one FBI agent, noting that I had carried a Glock 19 on the robbery, told me that was his second choice for a handgun, and showed me his handgun, stating that was his first choice. I couldn't see well because my contacts were out, so I asked him what make it was. He said Sig (i.e., Sig-Sauer). I didn't say it, but I should have told him, "Yeah, you're a Federal agent, you can afford an $800 handgun, I had to rob a bank to afford to buy a $500 handgun..."
No, tell them you know where the Texas legislators are - that's what Homeland Security has been spending its time on, according to some reports at the time...
What the hell was THAT story about?
Don't leave us in suspense!
INTEGRITY TO THE WHITE HOUSE???
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
He totally and utterly LIES LIKE A RUG about Iraq WMD, starts a war, kills thousands of people, whereas Clinton committed perjury about a sex scandal! (And I do agree, Clinton should have been impeached.)
Get real...