Very good post. It makes me a little nervous though.
Very soon (40 years or so, according to the economists) the world's oil extraction rate is going to get ve-ery low, and there's going to be a crunch. A big one. And it's going to center around the Middle East, 'cause that's where the oil is. The USA consumes the largest amount of energy in the world (and has an "american lifestyle" that needs protecting, according to Bush) and also spends more on its military than the next four countries combined.
Well, having established that the Phantom Menace was a shitty movie targeted at easily-marketable 7-year-olds, I'd like to bring your attention to a release much worthier of your attention. The Phantom Edit, as it is called, is an underground 'remix' of this movie, a remix that attempts to bring a small level of respectability, plausibility, and intelligence to this poor film.
No-one knows quite where to find a copy (seeing as it is a massive copyright violation), but I'm sure that Direct Connect, Morpheus, and WinMX users will be able to dig up a copy, somewhere.
Thanks for posting this! Sorry no moderators seem to be taking a shining to it.
The cynical part of me would tell you to write a sob story asking how deranged religious madmen who can't be negotiated with would commit such a dastardly, cowardly crime. That'll get some attention.
I, too am sorry that so many civilians and uninvolved people were killed...
I'm certainly not suggesting that everyone in the US of A is maliciously pursuing their personal financial and political interests at the expense of the rest of the world.
But, over the course of history and even now, many in positions of power have and continue to do so.
And allowing yourself to be fooled by silly excuses, turning your attention away from a misdeed the moment an issue gets 'boring', doesn't indeed make you guilty, it just makes you foolish.
I'd like this to be remembered as "The day that foolishness died", but somehow I have a feeling that business will go on as usual.
Don't let it! Be skeptical! Do some critial thinking and *don't* believe everything you hear. The truth will come out later. Everything now is just conjecture.
I just get a little miffed by the title - One thing I have not seen at all on any of the network broadcasts yet is someone talking about "Why would someone want to do this?". When you ask that question, you can find many answers, answers that might shock you. The American government has done some pretty gruesome things in the name of "Democracy", and continues to do so. Innocent? The government, the corporations... no.
Americans are the most genuinely kind people I have ever met. They just seem to be completely oblivious to the world around them, except when wars or terrorists bring it home.
I'm not defending the terrorist attack. I just think that it needs to be looked at in a greater perspective.
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Well-dressed observers plan to attend the arraignment
and nonviolent protests are scheduled in Moscow (Russia),
London (England), Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
and Black Rock City, Nevada.
Gee whiz, they don't mean that *other* Moscow or London, Ontario? Whew, I'm glad for that clarification.
I feel a bit dirty bashing the EFF... I love those boys. Just happens to be one of those pet peeves of mine.
a Russian Submarine has launched a rocket containing a solar sail payload sucessfully.
I also hope a civilian wasn't at the helm at the time...
Note to moderators... the parent post, depending on how patriotic you feel towards the US of A, might just be construed as "Funny", and not as "Offtopic" or "Flamebait"... If it was about Microsoft, it'd be +5 right now and you know it!
"The best way to detonate a nuclear warhead in a major metropolitan area of the United States is to smuggle it across the Canadian border in the back of a pickup truck..."
"...Preferably concealed inside a bale of marijuana."
I feel obliged to do a bit of flag raising for my school ( Not Iowa State ), who thanks to a great group of students and faculty have achieved some notable successes, namely:
Being recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for "Furthest distance traveled by a solar car in one journey", referring to their 7044 km trans continental drive completed last summer
Marvin the Paranoid Android on patrol... he'll get the robbers so melancholy and depressed they'll just go turn themselves in.
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Now go tell a few million parents that their children can grow up without blindess.
Can these parents afford to pay the fair market price for this corn? If not then they will never see a single grain of it beyond free samples, and the world will go on as usual. Or they could get sued like South Africa's government did.
The problem with the ideal of solving world problems through genetic engineering is that research is done by corporations that, like Microsoft, can only operate towards one goal: making money. Preventing child blindness and saving lives DON'T MATTER. They do to the individual people comprising this corporation, but the corporate structure of fiscal responsability to shareholders makes it illegal and irresponsable for the management to give anything away out of charity or humanitarian desires.
Of course, this is also the day that if you're standing on the north pole, the sun will rise, circle around you, and set in the same place. Weird day all over the place.
Actually, there's a three-month long "day" spanning either side of the solstice... The sun just rises, drops really close to the horizon, then starts going up again ad nauseum. Better than the three months of darkness in wintertime though. No wonder the Finns are all alcoholics.
Yeah it can screw things up, but we've already got treaties controlling these things.
Of course we do! It's so good to see that these treaties are still valued and not simply dismissed as relics of the past or some other equally hypocritical notion.
So, netscape.com will become a portal forWeb purists not already using AOL services? These must be some pretty uninformed 'web purists' they're after...
However, at heart those companies are just people. If you want to change the way the company acts, change the way the people act. If its socially unacceptable to drink and drive, make it socially unacceptable to profit from others misery, to act like sheep rather than citizens in the company setting.
The funny thing to me is that this sounds like something you'd delegate off to a PR firm.... "Change people's opinions so that it's socially acceptable to use our product!"
Aye, there's the rub - for every major media source is corporatized in our crazy world. No favorable coverage will be given to anything that might injure the public image of any corporations that might buy advertising on CNNBCBS.
That's why you won't hear anything about the FTAA besides how many sixteen-year-olds were throwing bricks at the police.
That's why the DMCA will never be criticized.
That's why Nader and Browne didn't get any favorable coverage.
And nobody cares.
Dog found hanging off bridge in New Jersey! Film at eleven!
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Very soon (40 years or so, according to the economists) the world's oil extraction rate is going to get ve-ery low, and there's going to be a crunch. A big one. And it's going to center around the Middle East, 'cause that's where the oil is. The USA consumes the largest amount of energy in the world (and has an "american lifestyle" that needs protecting, according to Bush) and also spends more on its military than the next four countries combined.
Shit!
(I'm serious!)
Well, having established that the Phantom Menace was a shitty movie targeted at easily-marketable 7-year-olds, I'd like to bring your attention to a release much worthier of your attention. The Phantom Edit, as it is called, is an underground 'remix' of this movie, a remix that attempts to bring a small level of respectability, plausibility, and intelligence to this poor film.
No-one knows quite where to find a copy (seeing as it is a massive copyright violation), but I'm sure that Direct Connect, Morpheus, and WinMX users will be able to dig up a copy, somewhere.
*insert cheeky commercial software bashing joke here*
*insert typical-comment bashing joke here*
*recurse*
Of course, now I have to put a bunch of text in so that the compression filter will let me post. Fucking filters.
The cynical part of me would tell you to write a sob story asking how deranged religious madmen who can't be negotiated with would commit such a dastardly, cowardly crime. That'll get some attention.
I'm certainly not suggesting that everyone in the US of A is maliciously pursuing their personal financial and political interests at the expense of the rest of the world.
But, over the course of history and even now, many in positions of power have and continue to do so.
And allowing yourself to be fooled by silly excuses, turning your attention away from a misdeed the moment an issue gets 'boring', doesn't indeed make you guilty, it just makes you foolish.
I'd like this to be remembered as "The day that foolishness died", but somehow I have a feeling that business will go on as usual.
Don't let it! Be skeptical! Do some critial thinking and *don't* believe everything you hear. The truth will come out later. Everything now is just conjecture.
I just get a little miffed by the title - One thing I have not seen at all on any of the network broadcasts yet is someone talking about "Why would someone want to do this?". When you ask that question, you can find many answers, answers that might shock you. The American government has done some pretty gruesome things in the name of "Democracy", and continues to do so. Innocent? The government, the corporations... no.
Americans are the most genuinely kind people I have ever met. They just seem to be completely oblivious to the world around them, except when wars or terrorists bring it home.
I'm not defending the terrorist attack. I just think that it needs to be looked at in a greater perspective.
Software evolves? Not in Kansas it doesn't!
and nonviolent protests are scheduled in Moscow (Russia),
London (England), Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
and Black Rock City, Nevada.
Gee whiz, they don't mean that *other* Moscow or London, Ontario? Whew, I'm glad for that clarification.
I feel a bit dirty bashing the EFF... I love those boys. Just happens to be one of those pet peeves of mine.
I also hope a civilian wasn't at the helm at the time...
Note to moderators... the parent post, depending on how patriotic you feel towards the US of A, might just be construed as "Funny", and not as "Offtopic" or "Flamebait"... If it was about Microsoft, it'd be +5 right now and you know it!
Wah!
Wah!
"The best way to detonate a nuclear warhead in a major metropolitan area of the United States is to smuggle it across the Canadian border in the back of a pickup truck..."
"...Preferably concealed inside a bale of marijuana."
Wah!
Please, check out their website! Remember, ( Not Iowa State ).
1Gigabit/s, no? Bet you could still get a good haul off that pipe though!
Marvin the Paranoid Android on patrol... he'll get the robbers so melancholy and depressed they'll just go turn themselves in.
Can these parents afford to pay the fair market price for this corn? If not then they will never see a single grain of it beyond free samples, and the world will go on as usual. Or they could get sued like South Africa's government did.
The problem with the ideal of solving world problems through genetic engineering is that research is done by corporations that, like Microsoft, can only operate towards one goal: making money. Preventing child blindness and saving lives DON'T MATTER. They do to the individual people comprising this corporation, but the corporate structure of fiscal responsability to shareholders makes it illegal and irresponsable for the management to give anything away out of charity or humanitarian desires.
Of course, another way to stop soccer moms from driving their kids to school in an 18 mpg three tonne land zeppelin would be to shame them out of it. Big-game SUV hunting! Someone should tell George Bush senior and Gen. Schwarzkopf....
Actually, there's a three-month long "day" spanning either side of the solstice... The sun just rises, drops really close to the horizon, then starts going up again ad nauseum. Better than the three months of darkness in wintertime though. No wonder the Finns are all alcoholics.
Of course we do! It's so good to see that these treaties are still valued and not simply dismissed as relics of the past or some other equally hypocritical notion.
So, netscape.com will become a portal forWeb purists not already using AOL services? These must be some pretty uninformed 'web purists' they're after...
The funny thing to me is that this sounds like something you'd delegate off to a PR firm.... "Change people's opinions so that it's socially acceptable to use our product!"
That's why you won't hear anything about the FTAA besides how many sixteen-year-olds were throwing bricks at the police.
That's why the DMCA will never be criticized.
That's why Nader and Browne didn't get any favorable coverage.
And nobody cares.
Dog found hanging off bridge in New Jersey! Film at eleven!
Inuit sculpture, please!
Thank you sir! Very lucid and coherent rebuttal. It's too bad no more moderators are floating around these parts.
Sweet, thanks for the correction. I wasn't sure of the exact details, I didn't mean to be trolling.