What was the size of a room and millions of dollers 20 years ago can be baught within a small case for a few hundred. Likewise, what is in a small case will surely fit on a dime in 20 years. That is what I was pointing out.
Any moron can figure out "they" refers to the people implimenting and using the technology on the sellers side and governmental side of the affairs. If you interperete that as something else, you need to check your head. If you're insulting it, you are a fool.
I know one thing about the sellers; they are profit driven and they must do so by law. They bribe government officials to pass laws, have no problem knowingly buying goods produced out of slave labour at insane profits, and finally, they have no regard for privacy or human decency, as per evidenced by loyalty cards. In short, their goal is to, quite literally, enslave us. Look at what wallmart does in small towns; they move in and kill the competition, then reduce pay and incrase prices. It's called feudalism; the vassals must work at wallmart and buy from to survive, thus they are slaves.
If we don't make a stand now, and instead of staying alert, allow our senses to be dulled by the consumerist sirens call, they will succeed. I know people like let their guard down or outright reject the obvious in order to be safe; ignore the problem and it won't be there.
Perhaps you didn't notice, but americams have no civil rights left; if the government wasn't evil, they would've left those alone.
You need to do some reading and more importantly, sit down with yourself and logically assess the situation. Prove me wrong; I like being prooven wrong.
No, they really don't. Yes, the culture is different, but essentially the same. The japanese culture is crazy, because their value system is completly, utterly, and totally screwed up. Namely, because of what we did to them after world war 2; destroyed most of their culture with industrialism.
Their society is decaying in much the same way ours is. They are a different people, but all people's on the planet have the same values, but different ways of going about it. You can worship a non-existant god, or a gigantic gold statue; the bible and buddist teachings teach the same thing accept in different respects.
Frankly, if you need to track your kid, you've done a poor job of parenting them. A child by the age of 7 or 8 should be able to watch themselves, and by 12 or 13 they should be capable of taking care of themselves; this is how it worked for a few hundred or thousand years in western culture, and if the westerners can do it so can the easterners. If you find that hard to believe, then you shouldn't have kids.
Some kids need to be watched, I will agree, but they shouldn't. With any luck, they'll wise up or eliminate themselves from the gene pool. Hrm, that reminds me of a quote...
"The gene pool is stagnant and I am the minister of chlorine!" - Postal Dude.
ME: Hey little betty, can I buy that nice tracking wrist watch off of you for $50?
Betty: Sure!
Several hours later, standing around in a dark cold alley way in the middle of perverted paedophile-ville.
Pedophile: Dodedo...hey...a small girl, 7 years old, down that cold dark alley way. Don't mind if I do...dodedodedoooo...
Pedophile: Hrmph, it says she's right here.
*Pedophile turns around to find 5 guys, dressed in black assualt gear, brandishing baseball bats and shotguns, one of the guys steps foward*
Angry dude: Hi! Whatcha doin' here in this dark alley way? What'cha doin' by that little girls RFID watch? Why yer pants buldgen?
Pedophile: I was, uh, er, looking for my daughter.
Angry dude: No, that isn't your daughter. Her last name is Kattin, your's is Briar. It also says here on my PDA, that you're a conviced pedophile. You know what pedophiles make, right?
Pedophile: Um...please don't kill me.
Angry dude: Answer the question. You know what pedophiles make right?
Pedophile: No...
Angry dude: They make good trophies; Sean rather like the skulls, although Bill over there likes collecting hair and bones. *Bill all this time has been caressing a hacksaw* John over there, the one with the shovel; he rather likes femurs though, while James tends to like the skin for stuffing purposes and to fertilize his ground with the blood. They say never ever waste a perfectly good pedophile. You know what I like?
Pedophile: No...
*Angry dude gets out a pair of tree branch cutters, the big kind with the 6 inch blade, and a bottle of hard, round objects*
Angry dude: I enjoy collecting these, do you know what they are?
Pedophile: Um...marbles?
Angry dude: Nope, they're balls.
The group of angry men decend on the poor pedophile.
*That night on the news*
Tonight another freshly neutered pedophile was found on lake and palmer avenue, in a alley way hogtied and gagged.
Police chief: There have been several cases of this in the past few months. Apparently the group likes to pay small girls and boys for their wrist watches, which they use to bait and trap, then nueter previously convicted pedophiles, or severly beat new ones. The police have also recieved a plaque from the supposed vigalante's; here it is.
*Plaque is adorned with several pairs of nuts, with the saying: Na Na Na boo boo, we've got more than youu dooo. - Terrorists"
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If there's anything to say about the japanese, it's "wow, they're screwed up". If tagging your kid everywhere they go says something, it says "I don't trust you"; and the longer kids aren't trusted with responsability, the less they will be responsable, and if the world is filled with irresponsable people....
The major shortcoming of RFID tags is not their rollout in stores, it's that they want to do things like weave them into clothing fabric or hide them so you've got to work to get them out. I don't know about you, but that's a bit excessive. Moreso, the range on the tags is an issue; the tag may be tiny, but you can still get a considerable amount of range out of that, look what's possible with GPS.
Then we've got the registering everything idea. If we put RFID tags on everything that can go for 100 feet, and if everything has a unique identification code, then the government can ask for a list of which codes are associated with which objcts. Then, as stuff is baught, you swipe through your drivers lisence and a database is updated with what you have. Combine this with bank account data, wifi hotspots on poles that are constantly pinging devices, garbage trucks equiped with rfid scanning technology, and other pieces of information, and you've got one hell of a spying system. All those evil laws the people in power dream of would be possible.
If there was a law that said the RFID tags could only be put on removable stickers, and must have a range limited to less than 5 feet, then it'd be ok. It's the "weaving them into products" thing that's got everyone upset. Infact, if that weaving thing didn't exist, I think RFID tags would be pretty neat; you could buy a bunch of food and query it through your house, which could download and update a database of recipe's which could be setup on some kind of whacky algoritm that figures out which is going to go bad first.
The only problem there is that as the chips evolve, we'll be throwing small flash cards on em with advertising or more complicated systems of ensuring produce hasn't been tampered with, which if the laws don't change, will require licensing since you're copying; licensing to eat, not a good thing.
AS far as tracking people is conserned, we all know of the mark of the beast, and we all know that tracking accounts with rfid tags is just plain stupid. If you're going to track a person, have them wear a wrist band or something; even the guys on star trek didn't have that little pin thingy embedded in their forhead.
Good job my ass; sure, the game was massive, but unless you had the fog turned down so you couldn't see more than 20 feet in any direction, achieving decent FPS was impossible. With each patch, it got slower and slower, then there's the loading times.
First, I'm American and my first and only language is English. Second, I'll spell whatever I want however I want you himmler cocksucking hitler warshipping spelling nazi! Shite didn't turn to shit because we listened to morons such as yourself, it turned to shit because people mispronounced and misspelled it.
For fucks sake, what kind of sanity deprived crazy nerd spends their time reading through postings and ridiculing spelling errors? Have you not better things to do, such as, perhaps correct the spelling a cute girl and get laid or a spelling bee for fun or something?
It makes no sense. Why the hell would you want to move everyone onto the same UPC code standard? Ok, fine, you can standardise devices, big freggin deal. Barcode reading software is minimal, as are the readers. Sure, it may also make it easier to streamline shipping; the boxes could arrive at the store pre-upc'd and numbered and ready to go: TP get's it's own bar-code addressing space, whuptiedoo.
Then again, certain ISO standards....*shutter*.
For the tin foil madhatters out there, the standard doesn't provide enough addressing space to address dittly squat. I suppose getting everyone on the same standard is a step in that direction, since the next step could be setting up bar-codes that do have unique addresses (people'll be reading codes off in base-64) for later, but still.
Anyway, this may work in our favor; if the codes are standardised and it looks like there's country codes on them, one can memorise the codes you can tell which products are most likely baught from 3rd world countries via slave labor, and which are local. You can tell when they bring in the big crate of oranges from the big upc sticker weither or not they're from mexico and sprayed with DDT or not.
MMMMMMmmmm...I'v stayed up too late. I need to get some popcorn and coffie, get wired, and do some studying.
Not only the other dude said, but we'd return to darwinistic capitalism instead of corporatly-nepotistic capitalism, and investors would no longer sap up money.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, We build 10,000 Tractor, to have 1 work, and we build 10,000 again! This way, we make tracktors, and we can employ 10,000 Comrades!
Frankly, why the hell do they post up such propaganda? FFS, I should rather see 10,000 programmers working in small businesses and consultancy places doing contract work for linux systems and throwing together code and profit sharing than 10,000 of the same working together on one, big, smelly pile of shit.
Lets put that in perspective for a moment. You don't mind the government putting your reading habits in a database, which can be used to gather statistics and flag books. If a person reads too many "red" books, they go up a few marks on the terrorist charts.
Since you check out computer books, and work with computers, most of the books you check out range from green, to yellow, to red. Say you read too many "red" books. They can also correlate that with, say, how many driving tickets you have, your grades, opinions of teachers, behaivourial records, psychological analyses, drug tests, where you go to and what you buy (can be tracked with your credit card). Each of these things are added up. Say you break the law by speeding too often or buying and importing illegal fireworks; now you're a dangerous hacker, according to their system, and therefore, your rights are restricted; you're not allowed to fly or take buses, you are also not allowed into government buildings or allowed to use electronic voting machines. There is no system of redress.
How does one get on the no-fly list now? Nobody knows, and nobody knows how to get off of it either.
"Well, I don't take busses, and I don't fly, I don't vote"
Ok, say there's another attack. The government freaks, and all of a sudden you and all the "red level" potential terrorists, such as survivalists, real patriots, computer geeks, ect and their families are rounded up into concentration camps at gunpoint. If some corporation absolutely needs you, you might be given a work permit and spared the torture and humiliation. The government has already authorised the torture at Abu Ghraib and at Guantanimo, I don't think they'll have any problem torturing you, raping your wife, or beating your kids or parents/grandparents to reveal any dubious, non-existant potential terrorist plots.
And I love this logic.
If you are doing something that requires you to hide it from the government, your breaking the law, and deserve to be caught.
In texas, it's illegal to have any more than 3 dildo's. Now, I don't think that a person is a criminal for having 4 or 5 dildo's, and frankly, I don't care. It's their choice do do with their body what they please. Not to long ago there was a law on the books making contraseptives illegal. Because I hid my condoms away from the police, I'm a criminal? Here's another one: What's so wrong with growing and smoking pot? People screw up their bodies on beer and ciggarettes every day of the year, but pot is illegal why exactly? Or, since you're a computer user, mabye you should tell me why the DMCA make's it illegal for you to backup your CD's.
To put it succinctly, everyone knows that murder is wrong, and it being illegal is a good and popular idea. Not everyone believes the DMCA is a good idea. Are we to fallow our leaders as mindless robots, or as people with opinions. Everyone fallows their own set of rules; these rules define a what's a good or bad person and how much havok their life will be filled with. I refuse to drop those values for something someone else wants without good reason. I was once told by a teacher that being gay is OK, that doesn't mean I'm going to drop chicks for butsechs. I don't like homo's.
AND I don't have to deal with singing a restrictive lisencing agreement that gives a huge corporation admin access to my machine or keeps me from benchmarking it.
Inotherwords, the firefox people seem trustworthy.
So long as there's a free and open system for people to use, there'll be those that abuse it. We must, as a people, ensure that nobody destroys that openness, government, terrorists, or morons, lest our freedom will be gone. That freedom; the freedom that makes the entire thing great.
Great to see that HP is joining in with building up computers in countries
Same great slave labour policies, cheapier and crappier parts. -HP
Seriously, wouldn't it be more pertinant to get most of the continent to the point where they have food and water and can farm, rather than get them wired? I mean, sure, the nigerian 411 scams ARE a form of foreign aid, but still.
Or, better yet. You tell them that you baught a seasons worth of tickets, and you want a refund if you can't take pictures or video with your camera. If they say you can't get a refund, then you get real pissed, and ask to see the manager.
I hereby patent the letter A: you owe me for using it.
We forget about the blatent abuse the patent system causes? Not only that, but I should think technology is actually slowed down by the patent system, considering nothing stays new and therefore heavily profitable for more than 2 or 3 years.
Yes, they should have the fruits of their labours. However, when your patents are used to exclude competition because they're so general, then you're not good for society or yourself.
Inotherwords, he seems to forget the 2 sayings: "One who keeps information from you, sees himself as your master" and "information people have about you is power they have over you".
Heh, that isn't what I call a slaughter, that's what I call natural selection. If you're dumb enough to go up against an warthog with a glock, you're either really 1337, or really dumb.
1: Go out, buy a rifle and a handgun, a decent knife and some bodyarmor, and learn to use them. While you're doing this, get a good political education and know where you stand, and find people with similar views you can make good friends with.
2: Write your congressman every time they do something stupid. Or, if you don't have enough time, just do #1.
3: Educate people in your community as to what ethics are since most people don't know what ethics are. There are a LOT of teenagers who were raised more by videogames, school, and the media than their parents and are completly confused. These people need the older people who know their heads from their asses to help them. This can be accomplished by handing out rantradio cd's (www.rantradio.com or ftp.) chock full of some of the shows they do.
If the government see's gun sales rising and the american public not liking their programs at all, and in many cases, not going along with them (such as a draft or house-to-house searches), they'll smell trouble, that is, the smell of their own asses being boiled in the pot. If that doesn't happen, and people don't wise up, we're headed for 2 things: a police state, and a civil war fallowing that.
Tell me, do you pay for pop-ups? No? Do you pay for banner ad's or those annoying bouncy gifs and flash animations? No, you don't. And if you did would you be pissed? What you're pretty much saying here is that I'd have to pay for someone to advertise to me. Frankly, they can suck my cock. My mind is already infected with brand names and bullshit I just don't want, why the hell would I be so stupid as to pay for them?
The bottom line is that if you want to advertise to me, if you want to get a message to me, prepare to pay a price and even have me outright ignore you or try to screen you.
Frankly, the internet is free for a damn good reason; because information should be free and the truth should be free. You don't pay to get into a library, the same goes for the internet; there's a fee at the door to get your card or connection, but after that the sky's the limit on what information you can access. Micropayments just make it more inaccessable to those without a lot of money. This is about greed; if others can make some money, why can't I? All of a sudden, it becomes expensive to find the information you want and do research, gather sources. If I'v got to pay $.50 to find good information about aspartame, am I going to do so if I'm poor? Am I going to do repost said information on a free site if someone is going to complain about loosing money? Frankly the idea is appauling.
Nah, I either keep at normal traffic speed or I go 5 or 10 miles over, but I always leave early and arraive early. I only slow down when I don't know the area well and I'v got to see roadsigns for making turns.
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What was the size of a room and millions of dollers 20 years ago can be baught within a small case for a few hundred. Likewise, what is in a small case will surely fit on a dime in 20 years. That is what I was pointing out.
If you want to prevent theft, find another way of doing it without invading my privacy. Surely there are other ways.
Any moron can figure out "they" refers to the people implimenting and using the technology on the sellers side and governmental side of the affairs. If you interperete that as something else, you need to check your head. If you're insulting it, you are a fool.
I know one thing about the sellers; they are profit driven and they must do so by law. They bribe government officials to pass laws, have no problem knowingly buying goods produced out of slave labour at insane profits, and finally, they have no regard for privacy or human decency, as per evidenced by loyalty cards. In short, their goal is to, quite literally, enslave us. Look at what wallmart does in small towns; they move in and kill the competition, then reduce pay and incrase prices. It's called feudalism; the vassals must work at wallmart and buy from to survive, thus they are slaves.
If we don't make a stand now, and instead of staying alert, allow our senses to be dulled by the consumerist sirens call, they will succeed. I know people like let their guard down or outright reject the obvious in order to be safe; ignore the problem and it won't be there.
Perhaps you didn't notice, but americams have no civil rights left; if the government wasn't evil, they would've left those alone.
You need to do some reading and more importantly, sit down with yourself and logically assess the situation. Prove me wrong; I like being prooven wrong.
No, they really don't. Yes, the culture is different, but essentially the same. The japanese culture is crazy, because their value system is completly, utterly, and totally screwed up. Namely, because of what we did to them after world war 2; destroyed most of their culture with industrialism.
Their society is decaying in much the same way ours is. They are a different people, but all people's on the planet have the same values, but different ways of going about it. You can worship a non-existant god, or a gigantic gold statue; the bible and buddist teachings teach the same thing accept in different respects.
Frankly, if you need to track your kid, you've done a poor job of parenting them. A child by the age of 7 or 8 should be able to watch themselves, and by 12 or 13 they should be capable of taking care of themselves; this is how it worked for a few hundred or thousand years in western culture, and if the westerners can do it so can the easterners. If you find that hard to believe, then you shouldn't have kids.
Some kids need to be watched, I will agree, but they shouldn't. With any luck, they'll wise up or eliminate themselves from the gene pool. Hrm, that reminds me of a quote...
"The gene pool is stagnant and I am the minister of chlorine!" - Postal Dude.
Heheheheee. Oh the good I could do...
ME: Hey little betty, can I buy that nice tracking wrist watch off of you for $50?
Betty: Sure!
Several hours later, standing around in a dark cold alley way in the middle of perverted paedophile-ville.
Pedophile: Dodedo...hey...a small girl, 7 years old, down that cold dark alley way. Don't mind if I do...dodedodedoooo...
Pedophile: Hrmph, it says she's right here.
*Pedophile turns around to find 5 guys, dressed in black assualt gear, brandishing baseball bats and shotguns, one of the guys steps foward*
Angry dude: Hi! Whatcha doin' here in this dark alley way? What'cha doin' by that little girls RFID watch? Why yer pants buldgen?
Pedophile: I was, uh, er, looking for my daughter.
Angry dude: No, that isn't your daughter. Her last name is Kattin, your's is Briar. It also says here on my PDA, that you're a conviced pedophile. You know what pedophiles make, right?
Pedophile: Um...please don't kill me.
Angry dude: Answer the question. You know what pedophiles make right?
Pedophile: No...
Angry dude: They make good trophies; Sean rather like the skulls, although Bill over there likes collecting hair and bones. *Bill all this time has been caressing a hacksaw* John over there, the one with the shovel; he rather likes femurs though, while James tends to like the skin for stuffing purposes and to fertilize his ground with the blood. They say never ever waste a perfectly good pedophile. You know what I like?
Pedophile: No...
*Angry dude gets out a pair of tree branch cutters, the big kind with the 6 inch blade, and a bottle of hard, round objects*
Angry dude: I enjoy collecting these, do you know what they are?
Pedophile: Um...marbles?
Angry dude: Nope, they're balls.
The group of angry men decend on the poor pedophile.
*That night on the news*
Tonight another freshly neutered pedophile was found on lake and palmer avenue, in a alley way hogtied and gagged.
Police chief: There have been several cases of this in the past few months. Apparently the group likes to pay small girls and boys for their wrist watches, which they use to bait and trap, then nueter previously convicted pedophiles, or severly beat new ones. The police have also recieved a plaque from the supposed vigalante's; here it is.
*Plaque is adorned with several pairs of nuts, with the saying: Na Na Na boo boo, we've got more than youu dooo. - Terrorists"
If there's anything to say about the japanese, it's "wow, they're screwed up". If tagging your kid everywhere they go says something, it says "I don't trust you"; and the longer kids aren't trusted with responsability, the less they will be responsable, and if the world is filled with irresponsable people....
Dear lord...that'd be one screwed up place...
The major shortcoming of RFID tags is not their rollout in stores, it's that they want to do things like weave them into clothing fabric or hide them so you've got to work to get them out. I don't know about you, but that's a bit excessive. Moreso, the range on the tags is an issue; the tag may be tiny, but you can still get a considerable amount of range out of that, look what's possible with GPS.
Then we've got the registering everything idea. If we put RFID tags on everything that can go for 100 feet, and if everything has a unique identification code, then the government can ask for a list of which codes are associated with which objcts. Then, as stuff is baught, you swipe through your drivers lisence and a database is updated with what you have. Combine this with bank account data, wifi hotspots on poles that are constantly pinging devices, garbage trucks equiped with rfid scanning technology, and other pieces of information, and you've got one hell of a spying system. All those evil laws the people in power dream of would be possible.
If there was a law that said the RFID tags could only be put on removable stickers, and must have a range limited to less than 5 feet, then it'd be ok. It's the "weaving them into products" thing that's got everyone upset. Infact, if that weaving thing didn't exist, I think RFID tags would be pretty neat; you could buy a bunch of food and query it through your house, which could download and update a database of recipe's which could be setup on some kind of whacky algoritm that figures out which is going to go bad first.
The only problem there is that as the chips evolve, we'll be throwing small flash cards on em with advertising or more complicated systems of ensuring produce hasn't been tampered with, which if the laws don't change, will require licensing since you're copying; licensing to eat, not a good thing.
AS far as tracking people is conserned, we all know of the mark of the beast, and we all know that tracking accounts with rfid tags is just plain stupid. If you're going to track a person, have them wear a wrist band or something; even the guys on star trek didn't have that little pin thingy embedded in their forhead.
And, since the magnetic field will be weakened, there'll be a supposed worldwide 24/7 aurora. Now that's kewl.
Good job my ass; sure, the game was massive, but unless you had the fog turned down so you couldn't see more than 20 feet in any direction, achieving decent FPS was impossible. With each patch, it got slower and slower, then there's the loading times.
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First, I'm American and my first and only language is English. Second, I'll spell whatever I want however I want you himmler cocksucking hitler warshipping spelling nazi! Shite didn't turn to shit because we listened to morons such as yourself, it turned to shit because people mispronounced and misspelled it.
For fucks sake, what kind of sanity deprived crazy nerd spends their time reading through postings and ridiculing spelling errors? Have you not better things to do, such as, perhaps correct the spelling a cute girl and get laid or a spelling bee for fun or something?
It makes no sense. Why the hell would you want to move everyone onto the same UPC code standard? Ok, fine, you can standardise devices, big freggin deal. Barcode reading software is minimal, as are the readers. Sure, it may also make it easier to streamline shipping; the boxes could arrive at the store pre-upc'd and numbered and ready to go: TP get's it's own bar-code addressing space, whuptiedoo.
Then again, certain ISO standards....*shutter*.
For the tin foil madhatters out there, the standard doesn't provide enough addressing space to address dittly squat. I suppose getting everyone on the same standard is a step in that direction, since the next step could be setting up bar-codes that do have unique addresses (people'll be reading codes off in base-64) for later, but still.
Anyway, this may work in our favor; if the codes are standardised and it looks like there's country codes on them, one can memorise the codes you can tell which products are most likely baught from 3rd world countries via slave labor, and which are local. You can tell when they bring in the big crate of oranges from the big upc sticker weither or not they're from mexico and sprayed with DDT or not.
MMMMMMmmmm...I'v stayed up too late. I need to get some popcorn and coffie, get wired, and do some studying.
Not only the other dude said, but we'd return to darwinistic capitalism instead of corporatly-nepotistic capitalism, and investors would no longer sap up money.
I read it as...
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, We build 10,000 Tractor, to have 1 work, and we build 10,000 again! This way, we make tracktors, and we can employ 10,000 Comrades!
Frankly, why the hell do they post up such propaganda? FFS, I should rather see 10,000 programmers working in small businesses and consultancy places doing contract work for linux systems and throwing together code and profit sharing than 10,000 of the same working together on one, big, smelly pile of shit.
Lets put that in perspective for a moment. You don't mind the government putting your reading habits in a database, which can be used to gather statistics and flag books. If a person reads too many "red" books, they go up a few marks on the terrorist charts.
Since you check out computer books, and work with computers, most of the books you check out range from green, to yellow, to red. Say you read too many "red" books. They can also correlate that with, say, how many driving tickets you have, your grades, opinions of teachers, behaivourial records, psychological analyses, drug tests, where you go to and what you buy (can be tracked with your credit card). Each of these things are added up. Say you break the law by speeding too often or buying and importing illegal fireworks; now you're a dangerous hacker, according to their system, and therefore, your rights are restricted; you're not allowed to fly or take buses, you are also not allowed into government buildings or allowed to use electronic voting machines. There is no system of redress.
How does one get on the no-fly list now? Nobody knows, and nobody knows how to get off of it either.
"Well, I don't take busses, and I don't fly, I don't vote"
Ok, say there's another attack. The government freaks, and all of a sudden you and all the "red level" potential terrorists, such as survivalists, real patriots, computer geeks, ect and their families are rounded up into concentration camps at gunpoint. If some corporation absolutely needs you, you might be given a work permit and spared the torture and humiliation. The government has already authorised the torture at Abu Ghraib and at Guantanimo, I don't think they'll have any problem torturing you, raping your wife, or beating your kids or parents/grandparents to reveal any dubious, non-existant potential terrorist plots.
And I love this logic.
If you are doing something that requires you to hide it from the government, your breaking the law, and deserve to be caught.
In texas, it's illegal to have any more than 3 dildo's. Now, I don't think that a person is a criminal for having 4 or 5 dildo's, and frankly, I don't care. It's their choice do do with their body what they please. Not to long ago there was a law on the books making contraseptives illegal. Because I hid my condoms away from the police, I'm a criminal? Here's another one: What's so wrong with growing and smoking pot? People screw up their bodies on beer and ciggarettes every day of the year, but pot is illegal why exactly? Or, since you're a computer user, mabye you should tell me why the DMCA make's it illegal for you to backup your CD's.
To put it succinctly, everyone knows that murder is wrong, and it being illegal is a good and popular idea. Not everyone believes the DMCA is a good idea. Are we to fallow our leaders as mindless robots, or as people with opinions. Everyone fallows their own set of rules; these rules define a what's a good or bad person and how much havok their life will be filled with. I refuse to drop those values for something someone else wants without good reason. I was once told by a teacher that being gay is OK, that doesn't mean I'm going to drop chicks for butsechs. I don't like homo's.
AND I don't have to deal with singing a restrictive lisencing agreement that gives a huge corporation admin access to my machine or keeps me from benchmarking it.
Inotherwords, the firefox people seem trustworthy.
So long as there's a free and open system for people to use, there'll be those that abuse it. We must, as a people, ensure that nobody destroys that openness, government, terrorists, or morons, lest our freedom will be gone. That freedom; the freedom that makes the entire thing great.
Great to see that HP is joining in with building up computers in countries
Same great slave labour policies, cheapier and crappier parts. -HP
Seriously, wouldn't it be more pertinant to get most of the continent to the point where they have food and water and can farm, rather than get them wired? I mean, sure, the nigerian 411 scams ARE a form of foreign aid, but still.
Or, better yet. You tell them that you baught a seasons worth of tickets, and you want a refund if you can't take pictures or video with your camera. If they say you can't get a refund, then you get real pissed, and ask to see the manager.
I hereby patent the letter A: you owe me for using it.
We forget about the blatent abuse the patent system causes? Not only that, but I should think technology is actually slowed down by the patent system, considering nothing stays new and therefore heavily profitable for more than 2 or 3 years.
Yes, they should have the fruits of their labours. However, when your patents are used to exclude competition because they're so general, then you're not good for society or yourself.
Inotherwords, he seems to forget the 2 sayings: "One who keeps information from you, sees himself as your master" and "information people have about you is power they have over you".
Heh, that isn't what I call a slaughter, that's what I call natural selection. If you're dumb enough to go up against an warthog with a glock, you're either really 1337, or really dumb.
Heh, there's no I in team, there's no U in asshole, there's no fuckface in go-getter, but there's you're death in my eyes so fuck off.
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You should do 3 things:
1: Go out, buy a rifle and a handgun, a decent knife and some bodyarmor, and learn to use them. While you're doing this, get a good political education and know where you stand, and find people with similar views you can make good friends with.
2: Write your congressman every time they do something stupid. Or, if you don't have enough time, just do #1.
3: Educate people in your community as to what ethics are since most people don't know what ethics are. There are a LOT of teenagers who were raised more by videogames, school, and the media than their parents and are completly confused. These people need the older people who know their heads from their asses to help them. This can be accomplished by handing out rantradio cd's (www.rantradio.com or ftp.) chock full of some of the shows they do.
If the government see's gun sales rising and the american public not liking their programs at all, and in many cases, not going along with them (such as a draft or house-to-house searches), they'll smell trouble, that is, the smell of their own asses being boiled in the pot. If that doesn't happen, and people don't wise up, we're headed for 2 things: a police state, and a civil war fallowing that.
Tell me, do you pay for pop-ups? No? Do you pay for banner ad's or those annoying bouncy gifs and flash animations? No, you don't. And if you did would you be pissed? What you're pretty much saying here is that I'd have to pay for someone to advertise to me. Frankly, they can suck my cock. My mind is already infected with brand names and bullshit I just don't want, why the hell would I be so stupid as to pay for them?
The bottom line is that if you want to advertise to me, if you want to get a message to me, prepare to pay a price and even have me outright ignore you or try to screen you.
Frankly, the internet is free for a damn good reason; because information should be free and the truth should be free. You don't pay to get into a library, the same goes for the internet; there's a fee at the door to get your card or connection, but after that the sky's the limit on what information you can access. Micropayments just make it more inaccessable to those without a lot of money. This is about greed; if others can make some money, why can't I? All of a sudden, it becomes expensive to find the information you want and do research, gather sources. If I'v got to pay $.50 to find good information about aspartame, am I going to do so if I'm poor? Am I going to do repost said information on a free site if someone is going to complain about loosing money? Frankly the idea is appauling.
Nah, I either keep at normal traffic speed or I go 5 or 10 miles over, but I always leave early and arraive early. I only slow down when I don't know the area well and I'v got to see roadsigns for making turns.
Early is on time, on time is late.