I think it's heavily sex-oriented because the same chemicals in the brain that cause us to "feel good" are the same chemicals that play a heavy role in addiction. (Seritonin, if I remember right)
Basically, my thinking here is that they're trying to prove some sort of link between sex addiction and internet addiction (via similar responses to the same chemical.)
Ya know, it's ridiculous, America used to be touted as "The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave"... yea right.
My Dad remembers the radio broadcast when Social Security Numbers were introduced... and as I've often heard him quote..
"..Social Security Numbers will never be used for identification purposes.."
Nowadays, look around... you can't get practically anything without a SSN.. everything from Credit Applications, Licenses, Checking/Savings Account, all of it requires an SSN.. One fo the guys I work with, never had a SSN until he was 16 and needed it to get a job.
As if the information that they get from Project Echelon isn't enough, now they want us to carry around "smart cards" with our SSNs, fingerprints, name, address, date of birth, and "other personal information"...
Personal Information like what? how many times we've gotten pulled over? how many times you made a bill payment a day late? how many times you were rejected for a credit card? how many times you've been to the doctors and gotten a persciption?
Think of all the things that a SSN goes on? then think about how all those little pieces of information can be dumped into one huge database...
It'd be even easier than ever to track anyone world-wide..
The history behind the word "fuck" is quite interesting. A friend of mine who was a linguistics student was doing some research and found this, (and a few other that are quite interesting out...)
After the Black Death had ravaged Europe, the economy was dismal, due to a majority of the peasants having died. This is not the only reason, however, as some of the local barons and lord (and such forth) were afraid that the peasants might actually be able to rise up against them, or, that other land owners would come, and attack them for the peasants..
In any case, (if I remember right, it was the King of France) sent word amonst the entire land, commanding everyone to fornicate..
ie: Fornicate Under the Command of the King or, fuck.
Also, just thought some fellow/.'ers would get a kick out of this.. Apparently, they had more than a few Linux Users out there...
One of the projects, I think it was Project Pyramid, when you installed the drivers for it, if the copier crashed, it would eat your operating system as well.. strangely enough, this only happened on Microsoft products.
Why, you may ask? The driver developers decided to thread the driver through the Operating system.
If your W2K embedded in your Xerox product crashes, several processes will take place, all in an easy to follow manner. They are:
1) Product will fall off of desk/table/etc., in hopes on landing on the user.
2) Product will then take control of any computer nearby, and start to duplicate it's programming onto it. (read: eat up all the disk space and ram, then print a message saying that the computer requires several upgrades, to insure "Futureproofing, compatibility, and that Freedom to Innovate will succeed."
3) Product then starts playing the default windows "start sound", while simultaniously spewing forth blue sheets of paper.
4) Product then holds your data/printout for ransom, demanding all non-microsoft products be either A) burned at the stake or B) thrown out.
5) Finally, Product will send an E-Mail to Bill Gates praising him for his "Forsight in the Computer Industry", cc'ing Rick Thoman.
Project Echelon basically involves series of discreet listening posts placed world wide. These listening posts are capable of intercepting Infared signals, Radio Waves (RF Transmissions, ie cordless phones), ANYTHING sent via telephone lines (land lines, or cellular based)...
In short, they basically listen in on anything we can do, crypto or not...
On a side note, we all remember the Clipper Chip, right? The one that the NSA banned because they couldn't crack it, and the designer wouldn't allow the NSA to "put a back door in.. for the interests of National Security."
As stated somewhere previously, the problem lies with the distribution of food, not the production... and for that matter, did you know that the state of Iowa produces enough grain to feed the world for a year (or at least their requirements for grain.)
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The DOJ did go after Intel for some anti-trust/unfair business practices, right after the DOj took MS to court..
Intel settled out of court.
"The Secret of Nimh"
I think it's heavily sex-oriented because the same chemicals in the brain that cause us to "feel good" are the same chemicals that play a heavy role in addiction. (Seritonin, if I remember right)
Basically, my thinking here is that they're trying to prove some sort of link between sex addiction and internet addiction (via similar responses to the same chemical.)
Ya know, it's ridiculous, America used to be touted as "The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave"... yea right.
My Dad remembers the radio broadcast when Social Security Numbers were introduced... and as I've often heard him quote..
"..Social Security Numbers will never be used for identification purposes.."
Nowadays, look around... you can't get practically anything without a SSN.. everything from Credit Applications, Licenses, Checking/Savings Account, all of it requires an SSN.. One fo the guys I work with, never had a SSN until he was 16 and needed it to get a job.
As if the information that they get from Project Echelon isn't enough, now they want us to carry around "smart cards" with our SSNs, fingerprints, name, address, date of birth, and "other personal information"...
Personal Information like what? how many times we've gotten pulled over? how many times you made a bill payment a day late? how many times you were rejected for a credit card? how many times you've been to the doctors and gotten a persciption?
Think of all the things that a SSN goes on? then think about how all those little pieces of information can be dumped into one huge database...
It'd be even easier than ever to track anyone world-wide..
"People won't miss what they never had."
Wasn't it the Navy that the guy was enlisted in? (yeah, nit-picky, I know...)
I wonder if the experiments that they've done proving that light isn't always at a constant speed can figure into this somehow..? =)
Shad
it was a rough translation, and the explanation in short form. *shrug*
The history behind the word "fuck" is quite interesting. A friend of mine who was a linguistics student was doing some research and found this, (and a few other that are quite interesting out...)
After the Black Death had ravaged Europe, the economy was dismal, due to a majority of the peasants having died. This is not the only reason, however, as some of the local barons and lord (and such forth) were afraid that the peasants might actually be able to rise up against them, or, that other land owners would come, and attack them for the peasants..
In any case, (if I remember right, it was the King of France) sent word amonst the entire land, commanding everyone to fornicate..
ie: Fornicate Under the Command of the King
or, fuck.
history is an odd, odd thing...
ShadowStar
Also, just thought some fellow /.'ers would get a kick out of this.. Apparently, they had more than a few Linux Users out there...
One of the projects, I think it was Project Pyramid, when you installed the drivers for it, if the copier crashed, it would eat your operating system as well.. strangely enough, this only happened on Microsoft products.
Why, you may ask? The driver developers decided to thread the driver through the Operating system.
As a Xerox Support Engineer, I must say this...
If your W2K embedded in your Xerox product crashes, several processes will take place, all in an easy to follow manner. They are:
1) Product will fall off of desk/table/etc., in hopes on landing on the user.
2) Product will then take control of any computer nearby, and start to duplicate it's programming onto it. (read: eat up all the disk space and ram, then print a message saying that the computer requires several upgrades, to insure "Futureproofing, compatibility, and that Freedom to Innovate will succeed."
3) Product then starts playing the default windows "start sound", while simultaniously spewing forth blue sheets of paper.
4) Product then holds your data/printout for ransom, demanding all non-microsoft products be either A) burned at the stake or B) thrown out.
5) Finally, Product will send an E-Mail to Bill Gates praising him for his "Forsight in the Computer Industry", cc'ing Rick Thoman.
Hope this answers your questions. =)
Project Echelon basically involves series of discreet listening posts placed world wide. These listening posts are capable of intercepting Infared signals, Radio Waves (RF Transmissions, ie cordless phones), ANYTHING sent via telephone lines (land lines, or cellular based)...
In short, they basically listen in on anything we can do, crypto or not...
On a side note, we all remember the Clipper Chip, right? The one that the NSA banned because they couldn't crack it, and the designer wouldn't allow the NSA to "put a back door in.. for the interests of National Security."
As stated somewhere previously, the problem lies with the distribution of food, not the production... and for that matter, did you know that the state of Iowa produces enough grain to feed the world for a year (or at least their requirements for grain.)
Well, yea, but that won't do us any good, only the NSA. Heh
It's the guy from Vault 13... damn small monitors.. ;)