what's to do when your two biggest free world business competitors make a habit of sticking in puppet government dictators all over? Appeasement? Why should they deign to notice there's much difference? Saddam was an american CIA creation, so was Osama bin Laudin. Hitler got heavily bankrolled by british and US big money interests. The house of saud making it to despotism and control over the arabian peninsula was due to the british finally settling on one particlar warlord to support after supporting a bunch of them for awhile. The shah in iran was put in by the americans, after the spooks helped off his predecessor who wasn't as friendly towards having his nation get ripped off, and he was so dismal to his own people while we supported him and SAVAK that it was a cake walk for the nutjob mullahs like khomeini to take over. On and on, what are the french to do,nowadays the oil is WHERE IT'S AT, they have to deal with those nations, dictators or not. Little to no choice. They already run the worlds largest amount of nukes for their national electric grid, they tried there to be independent, but when it comes to basic transportation and manufacturing, you got oil, then there's your oil, or you can always use *oil*. They ain't got any, and they need some, so they got to play with the dictators that other nations stuck in. In ww2 they fought a lot, just got beat by vastly superior technology and tactics. It's hard to stop getting sucker punched. They got out of the colony business a long time ago and learned their lesson, so they don't do that much any more. What else now are they supposed to do? They've played along with the US in well over 90% of our foreign policy, they disagree 10% so that's enough to completely condemn them and cuss them out.
No wonder the world in general, not just france but all over, is starting to seriously dislike the US, because that's our offical policy now, back us 100% no matter what we say or do no matter how cuckoo it is, or get cussed out and turned into an enemy or get declared a rogue state or something.
Read the first paragraph in the article review. It's not to be introduced until next week.
I'm not an attorney, but I've beaten two of them in court representing myself, one of them being a local DA.
It's because I can read mostly...and am poor and can't afford to pay attention,let alone any member of the bar with those kinda fees, and I really dislike getting screwed over for no good reason, just the attempt makes me quite annoyed, and I am relentless once I decide to do something. Re-lent-less. And I don't scare or intimidate easy. I've helped out some other folks, too, similar situations. Seemed to win there, too.....
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kinda like "open source" law, dissatisfied with what's out there, too expensive, too buggy, too arcane and closed and propietary? Do it your self!
I know the law cabal hates it, but it's still "legal" and I wish more people took advantage of the fact and learned the code and procedure and helped take back the courts from the monopoly intertests that run them now.
... the worlds militaries. Instead of national flags on their uniforms, they can have halliburton corporate logos, and dyncorp and norinco and bofors and whatnot...
oh, wait, we are already 1/2 way there if what I am reading in the news is correct. Seems like "contractors" are a big chunk of all the folks at odds with each other over to whoknowswhere-istan.
"And in todays news, coalition hughes/GE forces suffered a setback in the campaign to roust insurgents in boogooriyah as exxon/general dyanmics launched a counteroffensive using banned weapons of medium destruction and..."
....CD and DVD burners, FTP servers, email, news groups, IRC, instant messenging, proxies, open APS,and etc. all potentially illegal or will be required to be so crippled by law in hardware and software as to be almost useless. And that leaves out being grouped with international blow things up terrorists and child molesters by legal definition. What's it's gonna take to get people to wake up? Wait until AFTER they get "detained" and disappear into some new gulag? Hasn't history been noted yet? If government can't get you to become a criminal normally, they will keep passing laws after laws until such a time as you are a "legal criminal". This has got to be beyond obvious by now you would think.
It's well past time for top to bottom "regime change" in washington DC, replace the entire demon-crap and republi-cons parties. Too corrupt, too much in the pockets of international corporations who got monopoly and command and control and surveillance and some sort of failed "we are the elite so you must obey"-ism on the brain. A technofuedalistic two class global society is NOT a good policy to embrace.
... for my break. I work on a big farm/industrial/residential complex in georgia, I do a lot of the outside grounds maintenance, meaning I push the jungle back. I grew up in rural michingan mostly and always worked on farms, so I can relate to your predicament. I can't tell you how many farmers I have known over the yearsd who just gradually got put in the poor house. I don't think most people realise that the family farmer is about disappeared, and all you have now is international corporations who happen to be into agriculture and developing global food (and shortly water) monopolies. They think real farmers get those subsidies and sit around and don't work, what a hoot! They'll believe every urban newscast drivel they see.
When I came in I had to take my shirt off and wring the sweat out of it and hang it up on the line before I came into the house. I was running fence lines today trimming, and I had to fix a broken steel gate that had popped off it's hinges. Later I will go mow with a diesel mower, and maybe do some trimming with the chainsaw and use the big chipper. I'm only hired part time, but that's all the hours this neogeezer can handle in the georgia heat anymore, although when I was younger I could work double that pretty easily. I admit I just can't now.. I work about 5 hours a day, then another few around my own gratis house (3 room shack really), which I get to live in to work here. For cash I make 30$ a DAY, and MAN, yes, I am tired of hearing weenies moan they can't live on 50 or 70 grand a year, yet they got the scratch for new cars and 35 inch TVs and whatnot. I am *sympathetic* to the plight of the outsourced workers,in general terms, having had two factories shipped out from under me and shipped overseas before, and I keep having to go from job to job, learned a lot of skills before and still learning new ones, but the pay levels keep dropping as opposed to expenses. I've been warning a people about this globalisation scam for YEARS now, but it's only the past two years that any white collar workers have even paid any attention to it because it started hitting them, before when it was only blue collar it was "tough crap to you buddy, I got mine so fug off". I got told that a lot, but I still am sympathetic, because those guys were really faked out it appears. maybe that modd is chaning, I hope so. The globalist goons love setting people against people so they can ALL be ripped off and no one looks far enough uphill to see where the real culprits are.
I am LUCKY that I haven't been replaced by a 20 year old illegal immigrant yet, at least my boss is a true blue american and will only hire legals, unlike most of the brain dead bubba rah rah rah nascar and beer doofuses around here who are wondering why housing costs keep going up and property taxes going up to build schools for the illegals, and why they have to constantly keep adding on to the police departments and why the county hospitals are all running in the red and etc. Yet globalisation was supposed to improve the economy. I sure ain't seen it, and just cheap crap at walmart don't count, because even walmart crap ain't cheap to me anymore. I made more money in the 70's and 80's than I do now.
The government and wall street is doing EVERYTHING it can to destroy rural america economically, and internationally they are doing everything they can to get the rest of the planet to despise us, except for what cash they can still squeeze out of us. My boss was telling me he is one more new law away from the government putting him out of the poultry business, which he has been in since 1953.
I don't know what is happening any longer in the urban areas, but I know we have a lot more in common with fellow struggling to maintain a normal life americans than we do in trying to emulate those government/business globalist crooks and believing their lies. 20 years of globalisation has resulted in nothing more than record deficits, record crime, record bankruptcies, highest debt to savings ratio, highest number of home mort
Then perhaps a little private industry co operation "multi sourcing". If it was just one part, perhaps another company someplace else could have made it. I don't know but it seems possible. I guess my main thought is to use an international distributed effort, whomever can do the job best for the best price gets that piece of it. I'd just like to see politics and governmental bureaucracies stripped out of the efforts as much as possible is all.
Maybe he's not much of an outdoorsman, but almost all animals have a hierarchy of sorts. Look at wolf packs, whale pods, caribou herds, ant and bee colonies, etc. They have "leaders", "workers", "nuturers" of the young, etc, if I can use those human equivalents. And they aren't as much self organising so much as instinctual, it is about half and half actually, and an important part is that they ARE centralised. A beehive without a queen doesn't last long, they become frantic to create a new queen, they lose their organisation, even though they could get by with another way, say if the worker bees were fertile and all reproduced. Self-organising as he states implies they would be dis-organized without conscious effort, and being able to contemplate any alternatives, and for the most part they don't do that, near as scientists can tell, they just "do it" via hard coded DNA.. That's about as centralised and hierarchial as you can get.
Now I'm not saying I totally disagree with this guy, as it applies to the advancing wireless and wired computerised world, I think he makes some observations which are easily accurate to make, but I think he misses a point in that, IMO, we need *all kinds* of organisational structures in order to have a complete civilisation, it is not one or the other.
And when someone comes up with the self organizing desk, please let me know.....
No, they didn't want to use a lot of nukes, because that would have negated their purpose of going in. They didn't go in to liberate the iraqis or to remove terror threats, they went in to STEAL THE OIL and to establish a permanent large military presence on the ground there, which they have done, so they can go from country to country and keep stealing the oil, and make the mideast safe for zionism, as most of the administration is composed of israel-firsters, and are quite racist to boot. They are as crazy and jingoistic as the most radical mullah, IMO. Fundamental nutjobs are the same all over the planet, it doesn't matter which creed they adhere to. They become fundamentally restricted from seeing any point of view other than their own, and their usual reaction is to kill/demonise/whatever those who oppose their particular paranoiacal views.
And they pulled this off by lying about the purpose and about iraq, and they murdered over 11,000 civilians so far in doing it. That makes them liars and murderers. And we know this now because the internet and instant global communications for the average guy has cracked censorship wide open.
It is somewhat relevant as to the "floating in"part. Rather than floating in a tract on a plastic bag, they could float in something useful to help those people liberate themselves, and they could include a tract along with the instruction sheet-graphic. And you use what ammo is readily avaialable in that nation, so the pistol doesn't become useless after the original supply of ammo is exhausted.
I've only seen one of them, the little cartoon showed a soldier in a fritz helmet getting popped. I'm pretty much against almost all the wars lately, a non interventionist, but in the case of north korea, I wish we had gone in there and finished the job way back in the 50's, even if it meant war with china at the time. We waited too long, IMO, now both red china and north korea have nukes and huge amounts of conventional warfare capability, and they haven't changed a bit when it comes to their ideals of world totalitarianism, let alone their obviouspersecutions of various religions beyond "cult of the leader" which is the only religion tolerated in those nations.
The US is outsourcing everything else, what's wrong with space? Contract the russians, they have the best heavy lift capabilities,rusting away, and they got engineers hanging around who will work for a lot less, and they are living where it costs less to live, so it's affordable NOW. Stop subsidising right and left coast extreme cost of living, and stoip spending space money to keep doofuses in meetings in washington and houston and flying around on junkets. It cost millions of dollars inside any random US bureaucracy just to TALK about something, let alone actually *do it*, and even then the political careerists make the decisions-not any smart guys who are actual engineers. Accept that space exploration is riskier than most fields, and get on with it, at greatly reduced cost,by funding the best deal out there. At medium to large scale that is the russians, at small scale that is the US (and a few others) private sector as evidenced by the X-prise entrants, and turn loose the private sector. Look at them not allowing team armadillo to get proper peroxide fuel, all that is is bureaucratic crap, OF COURSE space exploration will be RISKY. Who cares? Certainly not the people who WANT TO DO IT. I got a lot of respect for the actual NASA workers who are able to pull off ANYTHING successful dealing with the crap they have to deal with.
If it was happening today, will and orville wright couldn't fly, first they would need a waiver from the interior department because they might disturb dune grass, then a million dollar permit from the EPA to make sure they didn't dribble any "coal oil" on the wetlands, then the military would stamp TOP FREEKING SEEKRIT on any of their work and steal it from them, then this paper then that permit and...phooie. Bureaucracy and entrenched weenieness and "not designed here so we can't use it" syndrome is as much a hindrance as any of the legitimate technological problems, and you will keep getting that as long as "space" is run by the US congress and career appointed insider good ole boy plutocrats, same as every other agency is now run. Ain't a true statesman or visionary in the whole dang flock of 'em, IMO.
the various people other than americans on the ground over there AREN'T aware of what the troop movements are? The only thing that media censorship does nowadays is to keep US civilian population uninformed and brainweashed by only getting approved propoganda, it doesn't stop one iota of data getting to anyone else who wants it "over there". Think about if they had as complete a lock on media and communications as they had in ww2, we wouldn't know about the torture cases right now. Look how many people are still connecting iraq weith 9-11, because of offical US government FUD, lies, propoganda and the willing compliance of some of the mass media initially. If it was censored completely, they would still be getting away with all the lies they used to start the war, as it is now, because we have cracked censorship, at least some of the truth is getting out and people can be free-er to make some hard choices.
The deal is, the US government is as big a pack of liars and murderers as any other government out there, therefore, people need to know what's going on so they can cease being brainwashed and get some more points of view and some more data to decide if what we are doing as a nation is correct or not. I mean, just how many exposed lies is it going to take to get the point across that they ARE liars and there's a lot more going on than what they admit to? The day after 9-11 we had the worlds sympathy and support, now we have the worlds condemnation and disgust and mistrust, and it's preciely FROM various peoples around the world being able to beat back government censorship that this has come about. It's GOOD to be able to counteract red chinese FUD, lies and cernsorship, and it's GOOD to be able to do it in other places like the USA and england and everyplace else. Enoughs enough on the national jingoism and on wars for profit, and being proud of being brainwashed, save it for the sports games, not for something as important as wars and national policy, no matter who starts them, no matter which "party" says what, more good info = better. Fighting censorship is the best way to start to end this forced madness that infests generation after generation.
Liberator Pistols, as used in ww2. Just make them better than those original ones, and use whichever caliber is most prevalent in north korea. The little comic that came with the original one was pretty stark and to the point. It showed joe oppressed person sneaking up to some local soldier of the heinous regime (back then obviously the nazis), popping him in the head, then taking the now "liberated" rifle.
no, not baseball bats, halloween styled flying critter bats. When the US was contemplating invading the japanese home islands, one of the schemes cooked up was to strap on some tiny incendiary bombs to little bats, drop them over various japanese cities, where they would fly down all over and seek nests under eaves, etc. The idea was to cause thousands of random fires, spread out all over cities, making it impossible to fight them all. The project, according the short review in the link below, came to a halt when ther bats burned down some US air force base, testing I guess.
... the "performance art" weapon spoof from two months ago? The long range "implant" gun supposedly shown at the beijing international arms show? It was a hoked up gun that allegedly shot microchip tags at long distance, and the dude actually managed to fake out a buncha military guys and a significant portion of ye old intarweb audience interested in such things.
With that said, they do have a variety of electronic weapons coming down the pike. You can already get sonic nausea weapons from shomer-tech I think it's called, a mercenary supply outlet, and the military has microwave weapons for "crowd control" that only heat up to what an normal household incadescent light bulb reaches, yet apparently they claim it won't hurt your eyes. Of course they are being cute for public consumption, it's only a matter of an amp to make it lethal. And they got frikkin lasers, some mobile, some static. And I KNOW I've seen these latter weapon discussed here on slasherdotts.
My bottom line is, whatever sort of weapons they admit to in public, they already have for deployment the next generation, and they got two more generations under development.
Just like their aircraft....
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..the big computer assembly companies, who just get deals that change, so what goes inside the case changes a little bit here and there, but it's "the same make and model" when they ship them out. Like the card manufacturers might get a deal on a certain component chip one week, next week that chip runs out or they get a better deal elsewhere's, etc, and it works "good enough" without calling it a new design. Maybe anyway, I don't know. I could see where it could get fairly annoying though, and in this day and age there's no excuse for device manufacturers not coming up with linux drivers. Linux is plenty "big enough" now to have them, because linux is where the next generation of developers is coming from. I mean, I don't even see how this can be debated any longer. You think of end users/consumers, but you-as a company "you" I mean - have to think where your developers and engineers will be coming from as well if you do any sort of long range planning.
I've got 15 right now by count, but before I signoff at night (on dialup here) I always clear it, clear the cache and reload just the home group tab set, which is only 5, so I guess I won't see that sort of bugginess. Hopefully.
Belchfire Motors Inc is proud to announce our new exciting product line with advanced technology features. All Belchfire Motors automobiles, light trucks, and medium and heavy road trucks will now have the option of the latest in technology-wheels!
Yes, wheels.
"It's a concept we have been struggling with for years now" says Lawrence "Larry" O' Toole, CTO for Belchfire, Inc. "We listen to our customers-after tens of engineer hours and feedback from our beta tester, we think we're able to cater to our customers now in a forward looking manner, to bring them this technology which will greatly enhance their motoring pleasure and highway safety and convenience" he adds.
New Belchfire Wheels will be released to dealers as a value add on option for all belchfire vehicles in second quarter 2004, with both subscription AND lease models available, as well as in the exciting designer color, black.
thanks, I'll keep this advice in mind. Bookmarked it as well. Think I am going for a pci card though, not a pcmcia card. I am going to *try* and build my combo ethernet router and AP point out of a junker I got here. That IS a dang nice price on a laptop card though I must say.My nearest alleged computer stores are over 100 clams for a wireless router and around 50 or so for a laptop card. I don't recall the prices on a pci card. My ISP is mumbling about 200 bucks just for the outside antenna, then you need a router and phooie, I got around 50$ for the total project, so it will be a lot of junk and DIY skull sweat instead. I bet the outdoor rated ethernet cable will be the most expensive part of the whole deal. I think I am going for the flat cake pan antenna over a pringles-esque, but I haven't finished researching yet. Cake pan is cheap and can be gotten aluminum or stainless steel, which means "no rust". I DO have an old satellite tv dish, maybe I can use that thing with some hacking.
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broadband, I can smell it coming.... living rural has a lot of advantages, but a few disadvantages. The good news is, building something like this increases personal knowledge base.
I have to get one soon, plus build an outside antenna. My ISP is going to be running a fairly large wifi network that I am pretty sure I will be able to access, which means I can finally get broadband. The tower I will be shooting at is around 6 miles away, I can *see* that baby from my backyard. I am on a sub-beer level budget, not even close to a champagne budget, so I can only get ONE card for this project,plus cobjob the router and antenna just to get the feed. The rest of the home network will be ethernet, I got that covered already with a buncha old NICs. I guess google is my friend on this deal again. I certainly don't want driver hassles or anything, I am barely past click and drool with linux.
that is one of those freebie forums, they have google sidebar advertising that parses the text in the posts and manages to find (most of the time) relevant ads. It's interesting too, to watch it. The forum covers a huge range of subjects, so you see a lot of different ads. It's fairly effective. I guess if you were to limit yourself to only a couple of advertisers, then yes, you show what you have, but the alternative idea seems better, and no harm in partnering with google as an adjunct to your regular advertising. You can also just do amazon links that are relevant as well, a lot of people in the news have books for sale, for another example, it could automagically go to your news websites amazon account where the appropriate book review is located, and etc sort of ideas. And zero of that requires a login to get to the content.
Work it both ways towards the middle, de bloatify your website, provide the steak not the sizzle, news, not flashy stuff, and adjust advertising so it's relevant to the news article as much as possible. The world has a buhzillion products and services, there is bound to be something related to most news articles, and if you can't find an exact match easily, you can still run a generic interest ad for something.
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... not render correctly, but I haven't had an actual crash using mozilla. Is this limited to a specific OS? Do you have any reference URLS where mozilla crashes? 20% seems like a high number to me. I go to quite a few different sites a day, and have yet to see that happen one time. BTW, using moz 1.6 here on FC2.
right at the entrance: "Notice, cell phone useage is prohibited inside the theater. Anyone who's cellphone interrupts the other patrons will be asked to leave immediately"
Something like that. People can set it to vibrate for incoming and go out to the lobby to talk if they want to. If they can use night vision goggles to check for videographers, they can do the same thing to locate cell phone users. They might initally lose some customers from false indignation, but if people knew a local theater was strict on that, they actually might pick up business. I mean, they got all day to yak it up, people go to the movies for a little R&R,to relax and enjoy the flick, enoughs enough already with the thing being glued to people's heads. And if they put up a stink after being asked to leave, no probs, call the heat and have them arrested for trespass or something. I'm a pretty strict personal rights and privacy guy, that means I have to also respect OTHER'S rights as well, and one of them is to be not annoyed basically when you are in public. It sucks we almost have to legislate what used to be known as common courtesy in a lot of instances.
Of course, I boycott movies now, most of them anyway, so the point is moot, I don't drop coin into the MIAAs coffers any longer, but still, I can see where hearing the latest fabulous ringtones in the theater would be teh sux.
... is dependent on the net now. everything. You can't just work all by yourself, it's all interconnected. "Work" implies society around you is functioning adequately. We live daily with a certain small amount of the web/computers, etc borked,say a few small percent, but there's a critical mass there that if poofed would collapse the "system". That was what the whole y2k deal was about,and why it needed to be fixed, if most or all of the infrastructure collapses, we are en-screwed, and very few people have the skills,resources or wherewithal to exist totally independent of the rest of society "working" and that most definetly includes the net working. For a SHORT period of time you could keep bangin away on your computer, eventually there would be no electric of note, no telco, no food production, no shipping, no energy production, etc, because any big failure any place in a chain destroys the chain, it no longer exists then, and our economy is all chained together..
Did you ever read, "I, pencil"? It explains it pretty well, you could probably still find it on the net with a search, it's quite good.
When I was younger I lived almost totally wild-literally feral- for several years, about as far as you can get away with "no technology" and living completely independent of the rest of society, it was a hoot, I learned a lot and glad I did it, but HARD and in a lot of cases DANGEROUS, not "sport" type, temporary dangerous and hard, but eeek, you could starve or whatnot. I'm somewhat of an expert at it, and I tell you, in any massive technological collapse the actual mortality rate would be high, let alone just inconvenient, from a variety of factors. It depends on how much borks and how fast and how long it lasts obviously. We no longer have a non computerised infrastructure like we had in the 40's, there is no backup non-computerised non net enabled civilisation to fall back on. Either the net works, or WE DON'T.
Civilization works as long as it is all working, if a big piece isn't, it rapidly de-evolves. Like for instance after a tornado or hurricane hits, or blizzard or big fire, etc, all normal induistrial type life comes to a halt, and what replaces it is not normal, not regular work, and you wouldn't have the luxury of ignoring it in most cases.
It's a nmatter of time/duration and initial severity. I can't say how exactly much total failure it would take to reach a tip over point, but I would 100% guarantee it's a much lower figure than most people imagine it would take.
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I've been doing my best to expose government corruption, etc for decades. It's one of my main interests. And fake news is certainly one of them, that's why you'll see me chiming in all the time with evidence that refutes major political party and government and globalist corporate FUD and lies, and I'll name anyone or any political side when I see them. Of course for the same amount of decades I keep getting told I am wrong, and when I am proven correct years later I never seem to get much in the way of follow ups in admissions from the previous accusers. The current smarmy response from know-nothings is usually along the lines of "that's tin foil hat". It used to be "oh, you're just a conspiracy theorist", this mostly from people who spend most of their free time with Tv and music/movies and sports watching,entertainments mostly, yet they "know better" on this or that subject compared to someone who has spent x-large amount of hours actually researching the subject at hand.
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what's to do when your two biggest free world business competitors make a habit of sticking in puppet government dictators all over? Appeasement? Why should they deign to notice there's much difference? Saddam was an american CIA creation, so was Osama bin Laudin. Hitler got heavily bankrolled by british and US big money interests. The house of saud making it to despotism and control over the arabian peninsula was due to the british finally settling on one particlar warlord to support after supporting a bunch of them for awhile. The shah in iran was put in by the americans, after the spooks helped off his predecessor who wasn't as friendly towards having his nation get ripped off, and he was so dismal to his own people while we supported him and SAVAK that it was a cake walk for the nutjob mullahs like khomeini to take over. On and on, what are the french to do,nowadays the oil is WHERE IT'S AT, they have to deal with those nations, dictators or not. Little to no choice. They already run the worlds largest amount of nukes for their national electric grid, they tried there to be independent, but when it comes to basic transportation and manufacturing, you got oil, then there's your oil, or you can always use *oil*. They ain't got any, and they need some, so they got to play with the dictators that other nations stuck in. In ww2 they fought a lot, just got beat by vastly superior technology and tactics. It's hard to stop getting sucker punched. They got out of the colony business a long time ago and learned their lesson, so they don't do that much any more. What else now are they supposed to do? They've played along with the US in well over 90% of our foreign policy, they disagree 10% so that's enough to completely condemn them and cuss them out.
No wonder the world in general, not just france but all over, is starting to seriously dislike the US, because that's our offical policy now, back us 100% no matter what we say or do no matter how cuckoo it is, or get cussed out and turned into an enemy or get declared a rogue state or something.
Read the first paragraph in the article review. It's not to be introduced until next week.
I'm not an attorney, but I've beaten two of them in court representing myself, one of them being a local DA.
It's because I can read mostly...and am poor and can't afford to pay attention,let alone any member of the bar with those kinda fees, and I really dislike getting screwed over for no good reason, just the attempt makes me quite annoyed, and I am relentless once I decide to do something. Re-lent-less. And I don't scare or intimidate easy. I've helped out some other folks, too, similar situations. Seemed to win there, too.....
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kinda like "open source" law, dissatisfied with what's out there, too expensive, too buggy, too arcane and closed and propietary? Do it your self!
I know the law cabal hates it, but it's still "legal" and I wish more people took advantage of the fact and learned the code and procedure and helped take back the courts from the monopoly intertests that run them now.
... the worlds militaries. Instead of national flags on their uniforms, they can have halliburton corporate logos, and dyncorp and norinco and bofors and whatnot...
oh, wait, we are already 1/2 way there if what I am reading in the news is correct. Seems like "contractors" are a big chunk of all the folks at odds with each other over to whoknowswhere-istan.
"And in todays news, coalition hughes/GE forces suffered a setback in the campaign to roust insurgents in boogooriyah as exxon/general dyanmics launched a counteroffensive using banned weapons of medium destruction and..."
....CD and DVD burners, FTP servers, email, news groups, IRC, instant messenging, proxies, open APS,and etc. all potentially illegal or will be required to be so crippled by law in hardware and software as to be almost useless. And that leaves out being grouped with international blow things up terrorists and child molesters by legal definition. What's it's gonna take to get people to wake up? Wait until AFTER they get "detained" and disappear into some new gulag? Hasn't history been noted yet? If government can't get you to become a criminal normally, they will keep passing laws after laws until such a time as you are a "legal criminal". This has got to be beyond obvious by now you would think.
It's well past time for top to bottom "regime change" in washington DC, replace the entire demon-crap and republi-cons parties. Too corrupt, too much in the pockets of international corporations who got monopoly and command and control and surveillance and some sort of failed "we are the elite so you must obey"-ism on the brain. A technofuedalistic two class global society is NOT a good policy to embrace.
... for my break. I work on a big farm/industrial/residential complex in georgia, I do a lot of the outside grounds maintenance, meaning I push the jungle back. I grew up in rural michingan mostly and always worked on farms, so I can relate to your predicament. I can't tell you how many farmers I have known over the yearsd who just gradually got put in the poor house. I don't think most people realise that the family farmer is about disappeared, and all you have now is international corporations who happen to be into agriculture and developing global food (and shortly water) monopolies. They think real farmers get those subsidies and sit around and don't work, what a hoot! They'll believe every urban newscast drivel they see.
When I came in I had to take my shirt off and wring the sweat out of it and hang it up on the line before I came into the house. I was running fence lines today trimming, and I had to fix a broken steel gate that had popped off it's hinges. Later I will go mow with a diesel mower, and maybe do some trimming with the chainsaw and use the big chipper. I'm only hired part time, but that's all the hours this neogeezer can handle in the georgia heat anymore, although when I was younger I could work double that pretty easily. I admit I just can't now.. I work about 5 hours a day, then another few around my own gratis house (3 room shack really), which I get to live in to work here. For cash I make 30$ a DAY, and MAN, yes, I am tired of hearing weenies moan they can't live on 50 or 70 grand a year, yet they got the scratch for new cars and 35 inch TVs and whatnot. I am *sympathetic* to the plight of the outsourced workers,in general terms, having had two factories shipped out from under me and shipped overseas before, and I keep having to go from job to job, learned a lot of skills before and still learning new ones, but the pay levels keep dropping as opposed to expenses. I've been warning a people about this globalisation scam for YEARS now, but it's only the past two years that any white collar workers have even paid any attention to it because it started hitting them, before when it was only blue collar it was "tough crap to you buddy, I got mine so fug off". I got told that a lot, but I still am sympathetic, because those guys were really faked out it appears. maybe that modd is chaning, I hope so. The globalist goons love setting people against people so they can ALL be ripped off and no one looks far enough uphill to see where the real culprits are.
I am LUCKY that I haven't been replaced by a 20 year old illegal immigrant yet, at least my boss is a true blue american and will only hire legals, unlike most of the brain dead bubba rah rah rah nascar and beer doofuses around here who are wondering why housing costs keep going up and property taxes going up to build schools for the illegals, and why they have to constantly keep adding on to the police departments and why the county hospitals are all running in the red and etc. Yet globalisation was supposed to improve the economy. I sure ain't seen it, and just cheap crap at walmart don't count, because even walmart crap ain't cheap to me anymore. I made more money in the 70's and 80's than I do now.
The government and wall street is doing EVERYTHING it can to destroy rural america economically, and internationally they are doing everything they can to get the rest of the planet to despise us, except for what cash they can still squeeze out of us. My boss was telling me he is one more new law away from the government putting him out of the poultry business, which he has been in since 1953.
I don't know what is happening any longer in the urban areas, but I know we have a lot more in common with fellow struggling to maintain a normal life americans than we do in trying to emulate those government/business globalist crooks and believing their lies. 20 years of globalisation has resulted in nothing more than record deficits, record crime, record bankruptcies, highest debt to savings ratio, highest number of home mort
Then perhaps a little private industry co operation "multi sourcing". If it was just one part, perhaps another company someplace else could have made it. I don't know but it seems possible. I guess my main thought is to use an international distributed effort, whomever can do the job best for the best price gets that piece of it. I'd just like to see politics and governmental bureaucracies stripped out of the efforts as much as possible is all.
Maybe he's not much of an outdoorsman, but almost all animals have a hierarchy of sorts. Look at wolf packs, whale pods, caribou herds, ant and bee colonies, etc. They have "leaders", "workers", "nuturers" of the young, etc, if I can use those human equivalents. And they aren't as much self organising so much as instinctual, it is about half and half actually, and an important part is that they ARE centralised. A beehive without a queen doesn't last long, they become frantic to create a new queen, they lose their organisation, even though they could get by with another way, say if the worker bees were fertile and all reproduced. Self-organising as he states implies they would be dis-organized without conscious effort, and being able to contemplate any alternatives, and for the most part they don't do that, near as scientists can tell, they just "do it" via hard coded DNA.. That's about as centralised and hierarchial as you can get.
Now I'm not saying I totally disagree with this guy, as it applies to the advancing wireless and wired computerised world, I think he makes some observations which are easily accurate to make, but I think he misses a point in that, IMO, we need *all kinds* of organisational structures in order to have a complete civilisation, it is not one or the other.
And when someone comes up with the self organizing desk, please let me know.....
No, they didn't want to use a lot of nukes, because that would have negated their purpose of going in. They didn't go in to liberate the iraqis or to remove terror threats, they went in to STEAL THE OIL and to establish a permanent large military presence on the ground there, which they have done, so they can go from country to country and keep stealing the oil, and make the mideast safe for zionism, as most of the administration is composed of israel-firsters, and are quite racist to boot. They are as crazy and jingoistic as the most radical mullah, IMO. Fundamental nutjobs are the same all over the planet, it doesn't matter which creed they adhere to. They become fundamentally restricted from seeing any point of view other than their own, and their usual reaction is to kill/demonise/whatever those who oppose their particular paranoiacal views.
And they pulled this off by lying about the purpose and about iraq, and they murdered over 11,000 civilians so far in doing it. That makes them liars and murderers. And we know this now because the internet and instant global communications for the average guy has cracked censorship wide open.
It is somewhat relevant as to the "floating in"part. Rather than floating in a tract on a plastic bag, they could float in something useful to help those people liberate themselves, and they could include a tract along with the instruction sheet-graphic. And you use what ammo is readily avaialable in that nation, so the pistol doesn't become useless after the original supply of ammo is exhausted.
I've only seen one of them, the little cartoon showed a soldier in a fritz helmet getting popped.
I'm pretty much against almost all the wars lately, a non interventionist, but in the case of north korea, I wish we had gone in there and finished the job way back in the 50's, even if it meant war with china at the time. We waited too long, IMO, now both red china and north korea have nukes and huge amounts of conventional warfare capability, and they haven't changed a bit when it comes to their ideals of world totalitarianism, let alone their obviouspersecutions of various religions beyond "cult of the leader" which is the only religion tolerated in those nations.
The US is outsourcing everything else, what's wrong with space? Contract the russians, they have the best heavy lift capabilities,rusting away, and they got engineers hanging around who will work for a lot less, and they are living where it costs less to live, so it's affordable NOW. Stop subsidising right and left coast extreme cost of living, and stoip spending space money to keep doofuses in meetings in washington and houston and flying around on junkets. It cost millions of dollars inside any random US bureaucracy just to TALK about something, let alone actually *do it*, and even then the political careerists make the decisions-not any smart guys who are actual engineers. Accept that space exploration is riskier than most fields, and get on with it, at greatly reduced cost,by funding the best deal out there. At medium to large scale that is the russians, at small scale that is the US (and a few others) private sector as evidenced by the X-prise entrants, and turn loose the private sector. Look at them not allowing team armadillo to get proper peroxide fuel, all that is is bureaucratic crap, OF COURSE space exploration will be RISKY. Who cares? Certainly not the people who WANT TO DO IT. I got a lot of respect for the actual NASA workers who are able to pull off ANYTHING successful dealing with the crap they have to deal with.
...phooie. Bureaucracy and entrenched weenieness and "not designed here so we can't use it" syndrome is as much a hindrance as any of the legitimate technological problems, and you will keep getting that as long as "space" is run by the US congress and career appointed insider good ole boy plutocrats, same as every other agency is now run. Ain't a true statesman or visionary in the whole dang flock of 'em, IMO.
If it was happening today, will and orville wright couldn't fly, first they would need a waiver from the interior department because they might disturb dune grass, then a million dollar permit from the EPA to make sure they didn't dribble any "coal oil" on the wetlands, then the military would stamp TOP FREEKING SEEKRIT on any of their work and steal it from them, then this paper then that permit and
the various people other than americans on the ground over there AREN'T aware of what the troop movements are? The only thing that media censorship does nowadays is to keep US civilian population uninformed and brainweashed by only getting approved propoganda, it doesn't stop one iota of data getting to anyone else who wants it "over there". Think about if they had as complete a lock on media and communications as they had in ww2, we wouldn't know about the torture cases right now. Look how many people are still connecting iraq weith 9-11, because of offical US government FUD, lies, propoganda and the willing compliance of some of the mass media initially. If it was censored completely, they would still be getting away with all the lies they used to start the war, as it is now, because we have cracked censorship, at least some of the truth is getting out and people can be free-er to make some hard choices.
The deal is, the US government is as big a pack of liars and murderers as any other government out there, therefore, people need to know what's going on so they can cease being brainwashed and get some more points of view and some more data to decide if what we are doing as a nation is correct or not. I mean, just how many exposed lies is it going to take to get the point across that they ARE liars and there's a lot more going on than what they admit to? The day after 9-11 we had the worlds sympathy and support, now we have the worlds condemnation and disgust and mistrust, and it's preciely FROM various peoples around the world being able to beat back government censorship that this has come about. It's GOOD to be able to counteract red chinese FUD, lies and cernsorship, and it's GOOD to be able to do it in other places like the USA and england and everyplace else. Enoughs enough on the national jingoism and on wars for profit, and being proud of being brainwashed, save it for the sports games, not for something as important as wars and national policy, no matter who starts them, no matter which "party" says what, more good info = better. Fighting censorship is the best way to start to end this forced madness that infests generation after generation.
Liberator Pistols, as used in ww2. Just make them better than those original ones, and use whichever caliber is most prevalent in north korea. The little comic that came with the original one was pretty stark and to the point. It showed joe oppressed person sneaking up to some local soldier of the heinous regime (back then obviously the nazis), popping him in the head, then taking the now "liberated" rifle.
Here's an amazon page with a book on the subject
... the "performance art" weapon spoof from two months ago? The long range "implant" gun supposedly shown at the beijing international arms show? It was a hoked up gun that allegedly shot microchip tags at long distance, and the dude actually managed to fake out a buncha military guys and a significant portion of ye old intarweb audience interested in such things.
With that said, they do have a variety of electronic weapons coming down the pike. You can already get sonic nausea weapons from shomer-tech I think it's called, a mercenary supply outlet, and the military has microwave weapons for "crowd control" that only heat up to what an normal household incadescent light bulb reaches, yet apparently they claim it won't hurt your eyes. Of course they are being cute for public consumption, it's only a matter of an amp to make it lethal. And they got frikkin lasers, some mobile, some static. And I KNOW I've seen these latter weapon discussed here on slasherdotts.
My bottom line is, whatever sort of weapons they admit to in public, they already have for deployment the next generation, and they got two more generations under development.
Just like their aircraft....
..the big computer assembly companies, who just get deals that change, so what goes inside the case changes a little bit here and there, but it's "the same make and model" when they ship them out. Like the card manufacturers might get a deal on a certain component chip one week, next week that chip runs out or they get a better deal elsewhere's, etc, and it works "good enough" without calling it a new design. Maybe anyway, I don't know. I could see where it could get fairly annoying though, and in this day and age there's no excuse for device manufacturers not coming up with linux drivers. Linux is plenty "big enough" now to have them, because linux is where the next generation of developers is coming from. I mean, I don't even see how this can be debated any longer. You think of end users/consumers, but you-as a company "you" I mean - have to think where your developers and engineers will be coming from as well if you do any sort of long range planning.
I've got 15 right now by count, but before I signoff at night (on dialup here) I always clear it, clear the cache and reload just the home group tab set, which is only 5, so I guess I won't see that sort of bugginess. Hopefully.
Belchfire Motors Introduces New Products
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Detroit/Stuttgart/Tokyo/Seoul
to: assignment desk, day editor
Belchfire Motors Inc is proud to announce our new exciting product line with advanced technology features. All Belchfire Motors automobiles, light trucks, and medium and heavy road trucks will now have the option of the latest in technology-wheels!
Yes, wheels.
"It's a concept we have been struggling with for years now" says Lawrence "Larry" O' Toole, CTO for Belchfire, Inc. "We listen to our customers-after tens of engineer hours and feedback from our beta tester, we think we're able to cater to our customers now in a forward looking manner, to bring them this technology which will greatly enhance their motoring pleasure and highway safety and convenience" he adds.
New Belchfire Wheels will be released to dealers as a value add on option for all belchfire vehicles in second quarter 2004, with both subscription AND lease models available, as well as in the exciting designer color, black.
thanks, I'll keep this advice in mind. Bookmarked it as well. Think I am going for a pci card though, not a pcmcia card. I am going to *try* and build my combo ethernet router and AP point out of a junker I got here. That IS a dang nice price on a laptop card though I must say.My nearest alleged computer stores are over 100 clams for a wireless router and around 50 or so for a laptop card. I don't recall the prices on a pci card. My ISP is mumbling about 200 bucks just for the outside antenna, then you need a router and phooie, I got around 50$ for the total project, so it will be a lot of junk and DIY skull sweat instead. I bet the outdoor rated ethernet cable will be the most expensive part of the whole deal. I think I am going for the flat cake pan antenna over a pringles-esque, but I haven't finished researching yet. Cake pan is cheap and can be gotten aluminum or stainless steel, which means "no rust". I DO have an old satellite tv dish, maybe I can use that thing with some hacking.
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broadband, I can smell it coming.... living rural has a lot of advantages, but a few disadvantages. The good news is, building something like this increases personal knowledge base.
I have to get one soon, plus build an outside antenna. My ISP is going to be running a fairly large wifi network that I am pretty sure I will be able to access, which means I can finally get broadband. The tower I will be shooting at is around 6 miles away, I can *see* that baby from my backyard. I am on a sub-beer level budget, not even close to a champagne budget, so I can only get ONE card for this project,plus cobjob the router and antenna just to get the feed. The rest of the home network will be ethernet, I got that covered already with a buncha old NICs. I guess google is my friend on this deal again. I certainly don't want driver hassles or anything, I am barely past click and drool with linux.
that is one of those freebie forums, they have google sidebar advertising that parses the text in the posts and manages to find (most of the time) relevant ads. It's interesting too, to watch it. The forum covers a huge range of subjects, so you see a lot of different ads. It's fairly effective. I guess if you were to limit yourself to only a couple of advertisers, then yes, you show what you have, but the alternative idea seems better, and no harm in partnering with google as an adjunct to your regular advertising. You can also just do amazon links that are relevant as well, a lot of people in the news have books for sale, for another example, it could automagically go to your news websites amazon account where the appropriate book review is located, and etc sort of ideas. And zero of that requires a login to get to the content.
Work it both ways towards the middle, de bloatify your website, provide the steak not the sizzle, news, not flashy stuff, and adjust advertising so it's relevant to the news article as much as possible. The world has a buhzillion products and services, there is bound to be something related to most news articles, and if you can't find an exact match easily, you can still run a generic interest ad for something.
... wireless linux cards?
... not render correctly, but I haven't had an actual crash using mozilla. Is this limited to a specific OS? Do you have any reference URLS where mozilla crashes? 20% seems like a high number to me. I go to quite a few different sites a day, and have yet to see that happen one time. BTW, using moz 1.6 here on FC2.
right at the entrance: "Notice, cell phone useage is prohibited inside the theater. Anyone who's cellphone interrupts the other patrons will be asked to leave immediately"
Something like that. People can set it to vibrate for incoming and go out to the lobby to talk if they want to. If they can use night vision goggles to check for videographers, they can do the same thing to locate cell phone users. They might initally lose some customers from false indignation, but if people knew a local theater was strict on that, they actually might pick up business. I mean, they got all day to yak it up, people go to the movies for a little R&R,to relax and enjoy the flick, enoughs enough already with the thing being glued to people's heads. And if they put up a stink after being asked to leave, no probs, call the heat and have them arrested for trespass or something. I'm a pretty strict personal rights and privacy guy, that means I have to also respect OTHER'S rights as well, and one of them is to be not annoyed basically when you are in public. It sucks we almost have to legislate what used to be known as common courtesy in a lot of instances.
Of course, I boycott movies now, most of them anyway, so the point is moot, I don't drop coin into the MIAAs coffers any longer, but still, I can see where hearing the latest fabulous ringtones in the theater would be teh sux.
... is dependent on the net now. everything. You can't just work all by yourself, it's all interconnected. "Work" implies society around you is functioning adequately. We live daily with a certain small amount of the web/computers, etc borked,say a few small percent, but there's a critical mass there that if poofed would collapse the "system". That was what the whole y2k deal was about,and why it needed to be fixed, if most or all of the infrastructure collapses, we are en-screwed, and very few people have the skills,resources or wherewithal to exist totally independent of the rest of society "working" and that most definetly includes the net working. For a SHORT period of time you could keep bangin away on your computer, eventually there would be no electric of note, no telco, no food production, no shipping, no energy production, etc, because any big failure any place in a chain destroys the chain, it no longer exists then, and our economy is all chained together..
Did you ever read, "I, pencil"? It explains it pretty well, you could probably still find it on the net with a search, it's quite good.
When I was younger I lived almost totally wild-literally feral- for several years, about as far as you can get away with "no technology" and living completely independent of the rest of society, it was a hoot, I learned a lot and glad I did it, but HARD and in a lot of cases DANGEROUS, not "sport" type, temporary dangerous and hard, but eeek, you could starve or whatnot. I'm somewhat of an expert at it, and I tell you, in any massive technological collapse the actual mortality rate would be high, let alone just inconvenient, from a variety of factors. It depends on how much borks and how fast and how long it lasts obviously. We no longer have a non computerised infrastructure like we had in the 40's, there is no backup non-computerised non net enabled civilisation to fall back on. Either the net works, or WE DON'T.
Civilization works as long as it is all working, if a big piece isn't, it rapidly de-evolves. Like for instance after a tornado or hurricane hits, or blizzard or big fire, etc, all normal induistrial type life comes to a halt, and what replaces it is not normal, not regular work, and you wouldn't have the luxury of ignoring it in most cases.
It's a nmatter of time/duration and initial severity. I can't say how exactly much total failure it would take to reach a tip over point, but I would 100% guarantee it's a much lower figure than most people imagine it would take.
I've been doing my best to expose government corruption, etc for decades. It's one of my main interests. And fake news is certainly one of them, that's why you'll see me chiming in all the time with evidence that refutes major political party and government and globalist corporate FUD and lies, and I'll name anyone or any political side when I see them. Of course for the same amount of decades I keep getting told I am wrong, and when I am proven correct years later I never seem to get much in the way of follow ups in admissions from the previous accusers. The current smarmy response from know-nothings is usually along the lines of "that's tin foil hat". It used to be "oh, you're just a conspiracy theorist", this mostly from people who spend most of their free time with Tv and music/movies and sports watching,entertainments mostly, yet they "know better" on this or that subject compared to someone who has spent x-large amount of hours actually researching the subject at hand.