We wouldn't have a USA if it wasn't for corporations. But wait, I don't mean because they were so beloved, on the contrary, way back then they realised they were too powerful, and lead to massive abuses. Our "revolt" against the british was more a revolt against exploitation by powerful and monopolistic corporations, who had already co opted british society. We then went on to make a nation founded on the belief that the individual had supreme political power, then the states, then the union. Corporations were regulated back to a government granted charter, and it had to be non abusive and of a benefit to the people as a whole, and not granted *solely* as a boon to some vague shareholders or owners. i.e., they had to follow a guideline to be pro-USA first, not pro profits *only*. Profits were allowed,obviously, but not at the expense of the publics well being, and corporations were watched all the time in case they needed their legality revoked.
some historical reference
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/28/usa.html
"The United States of America was born of a revolt not just against British monarchs and the British parliament but against British corporations.
We tend to think of corporations as fairly recent phenomena, the legacy of the Rockefellers and Carnegies. In fact, the corporate presence in prerevolutionary America was almost as conspicuous as it is today. There were far fewer corporations then, but they were enormously powerful: the Massachusetts Bay Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, the British East India Company. Colonials feared these chartered entities. They recognized the way British kings and their cronies used them as robotic arms to control the affairs of the colonies, to pinch staples from remote breadbaskets and bring them home to the motherland.
The colonials resisted. When the British East India Company imposed duties on its incoming tea (telling the locals they could buy the tea or lump it, because the company had a virtual monopoly on tea distribution in the colonies), radical patriots demonstrated. Colonial merchants agreed not to sell East India Company tea. Many East India Company ships were turned back at port. And, on one fateful day in Boston, 342 chests of tea ended up in the salt chuck.
The Boston Tea Party was one of young America's finest hours. It sparked enormous revolutionary excitement. The people were beginning to understand their own strength, and to see their own self-determination not just as possible but inevitable.
The Declaration of Independence, in 1776, freed Americans not only from Britain but also from the tyranny of British corporations, and for a hundred years after the document's signing, Americans remained deeply suspicious of corporate power. They were careful about the way they granted corporate charters, and about the powers granted therein.
Early American charters were created literally by the people, for the people as a legal convenience. Corporations were "artificial, invisible, intangible," mere financial tools. They were chartered by individual states, not the federal government, which meant they could be kept under close local scrutiny. They were automatically dissolved if they engaged in activities that violated their charter. Limits were placed on how big and powerful companies could become. Even railroad magnate J. P. Morgan, the consummate capitalist, understood that corporations must never become so big that they "inhibit freedom to the point where efficiency [is] endangered."
The two hundred or so corporations operating in the US by the year 1800 were each kept on fairly short leashes. They weren't allowed to participate in the political process. They couldn't buy stock in other corporations. And if one of them acted improperly, the consequences were severe. In 1832, President Andrew Jackson vetoed a motion to extend the charter of the corrupt and tyrannical Second Bank of the United States, and was widely applauded for doing so. That same year the state of Pennsylvania revoked the c
HAHAHAHAHAHA! I will sure agree with you on the televisions part!
As to the bozo politicians we have, can't tell ya exactly what to do with them, but impeachment, conviction, removal from office would be a good start. They aren't following their oaths, clear cut mass ethics violations. they pass out powers to each other like favors at a party, powers that aren't theirs, aren't the people they hand them too, and are reserved for the people. I would like to see all people who just generaly want freedom, rule of sane common sense law, believe the constitution was written in english and the words mean what they say, would just shun the whole government, do every bit of "civil disobedience" they could to shut that sucker down. See a politicians? Laugh at them. Some authority figure from the regime gives you an order, laugh, walk away, ignore them then.
A few people doing that, no, it won't work, if several million do it, it might catch on. Some sort of nationwide strike perhaps. It's gone way too far to try and fix it one little stupidity at a time, needs a thorough scrubbing out. I would hope some where, some place, some time, that some state with a governor with a clue and some courage would start it. the powers reserved to the states and the people have to be taken back, it's gotten too out of control, the federal government in particular is on an orgy of looting powers for itself. It's supposed to be a union of States, not a Union of states like they run it now.
IMO of course.
We know to show the world we can handle our own affairs before we try to "regime change". We should start with our own people, everyone. Sort our crap out FIRST, remove the illegals,remove the crooked pols, then deal with what's left, then re look at everything. If we just followed the simple laws that are important, and get back to limited government with clear cut duties and the normal restrictions they have placed on them by our real laws, it would be a lot better. I just can't take them seriously when they say there's this war on terrorism and the borders are wide open. I can't take them seriously when we go invade other nations on flimsy pretenses, with no declaration of war and investigations into the *real* causes blocked by executive order. That's a dictatorship any way you slice it.
So many of the facets are tied together it's better, again, IMO, to just look at the over all larger picture of what is really broken, and looking at it is, we no longer have representation, we have dictators who dictate to us based on who bribed and blackmailed them and by how much. That's really it, just about anyone can really see that I would think. It's not a "government" it's some weird form of "Inc." that looks like something between a loan sharking operation and a band of mercenaries, all supported by cubic miles of bureaucrats all chanting "just doing my job, not my fault". And the apathy of "the people" is embarrasing and atrocious. 2 or 3 percent of the effort put into professional sports enthusiasm, for example, would completely change this country around, just that much effort.
...to follow your (good) idea, you *already* have a legitimate purchaser of large amounts of software-it's those stores. They are your major force multiplier and our societies normal middleman and representative between you, the end user and the software vendors. They are MOST definetly involved, they make bundlkes of cash as well on selling that stuff. The stores get it wholesale, then retail it.. They start to get lots of complaints and demands for them to sign your acceptable use and full disclosure and acceptance of liability contract to counter the lame EULA nonsense, or *no sale*. THAT will get back to the vendors. Just like going in, hauling crippled cds up to the counter, then saying "no sale if these won't play in all my cdplayers".
It's normal activism, it's a boycott in advance, but they have to SEE that it might affect sales, you leave the store manager standing there with stock to put back on the shelf and a no-sale potential customer walking out the door. One, he'll think it's a crank, a few hundred in any one store, he WILL note this. In hundreds of stores? You just might see some changes, by pass that washington DC nonsense, take em on mano y mano with the cash. That's all they care about, the cash, so that's where you attack.
That way, you don't have to fib and pose as a big buyer, you let the real big buyers transfer complaints. It happens all the time. I can give you an example, where it WORKED,-compleely different but it happened-rosie O donnel and K mart. I know I was part of hundreds of thousands of complaints that went to Kmart over using her in advertising, both written complaints and in person store complaints, direct to the stores managers. told them _no, repeat_no sale until she goes, your choice mr kmart, take it or leave it".
It worked, but it took a lot of people doing it. But it worked. She got the boot, kmart saw dropped sales. they never admited that was the reason, but the timing proved otherwise.
The SAME thing can be done with crippled CDs, crippled players, or stupid software EULAS that force spyware on you and offer no warranty or guarantee, bork your computer, etc, etc, all the things we talk about that happen,and a huge reluctance or denial of any money back on software. It's ridiculous, it's really lame it's been allowed to get so embedded in the industry, it's the only product out there in a major multi billion dollar industry sold like that, with a full skate of liability to the profiteers of same. (that I can think of handily at least)
I understand the necessity when software was the province of only a few thousand people on the planet and was still in the highly experimental phase, but there's no reason to continue to extend that get out of jail free card to them any more, there just isn't. It's "matured" enough as an industry so that the next plateau can be achieved,which is normal liabilities. Closed, non free propietary software is frantically defended as "a product". Swell. Have it their way then. They insist, whine, demand that their IP be treated as a tangible product, swell, no problems, then let normal "product" rules and laws apply. One or the other,they can make up their minds, and the customers can help if they choose to by DEMANDING it happen.
DARE to demand and boycott until you get what you want and what is the right thing to do, "we the software buyers people" have tremendous clout, because the vendors make zero $ without us handing it over, and yes, it's really that simple.
Another example, just happened, a sort of victory, with quicken. They got so many complaints and threats to boycott and whatnot they changed. it CAN be done across the industry, just needs doing, and how hard is it to NOT buy something??? Costs ZERO to boycott!
...how many guys remember the scene where the head alien V babe (sorry forgot her name) opened up for a snack, and scarfed down that entire guinea pig in one bite--and sat there in stunned silence for awhile and thought "man, that is SOME talent there..."
--you have somewhat of an agreement like that with a major credit card now. Easier to dispute a cc bill then to pay cash and have to get a lawyer (unfortunately).
--would be fun and to make a documentary clip, go to a variety of electronics stores and demand the cashiers sign a statement along the lines of the EVLA above before buying any software "because you can't read the eula" so you just want a normal quid pro quo guaranty/warranty that reflects that before you hand over the loot for the product and waste your time with it, and it holds the store itself responsible so they can pass the misery buck on to the software vendor. Hilarity would ensue. Or not. Then the day manager would come over to take over from the now hapless and innocent clerk, and so on. Sort of like michael moores odyssey to interview roger smith, or wethepeople foundation to get the IRS to answer a few questions. Watching fatcats squirm is great sport.
Maybe if all you quark using people/shops would all chip in and pay a couple of programmers to design or work on an open source equivalent? How many current quark customers are there, hundreds of thousands? 100$ a piece per shop towards some core developer programmers might do the trick, doncha think, at least to get it the ball rolling on something just as good and free and open source? Start it on source forge, or something, seems like out there must be something that would do for a start.
first off, I'm part europaen, and part cherokee, one of the "stay behinds" was my great grandmother. Now, how does that work again, kimosabe? Second, NO, HELL NO, it's not anyone's "right" to come here, we are no longer a "frontier" nation there ISN'T ANY "free land" to go homestead on. We ALLOW a controlled number of LEGAL REPEAT LEGAL immigrants and tourists and students to come here, UNDER CONTROLLED ACCESS,with rules, regulations, and responsibilities, and anyone who hasn't followed the procedure is an ILLEGAL INVADER, A CRIMINAL.
I have no problems with a limited number of immigrants and visitors, none, I am not a racist nor a bigot,but I have a BIG BIG BIG problem with illegal criminals by the millions just saying it's their "right" to come here, and the vast majority, as their first official act on our soil, commit a criminal act. It's no more "cool" for them to do that than for me to go over wherever they are from and do similar.
Play by the rules or get out, and I hope you get arrested if you are an illegal and be put to building fences in the hot sun on the border. Enough's enough, this is 2003, not 1703. Those folks can stay home and make something of their own nation, and if that means over throwing their own bogus dictators, and stringing them up and creating their own constituional republics, I'll support them, I'll loan them some rope and a box of bullets. Just for a glaring example, as far as I am concerned invading iraq is and was a waste of time, we should have counter-invaded mexico and liberated those poor people down there and free them from generations of abuse at the hands of their castillian racist billionaire rulers. Mexico has invaded the US, not iraq.
If you are an illegal,from anyplace, and are any color you are, or any religion, I don't care,that means less than zero, could care less, the dividing line is legal OR illegal, so if it's illegal, GET OUT.
You are correct, something like that needs to be on the shelf at retail stores, either from Lindows or any othe other major vendors of hardware or OS software. It's a *good* idea to have bundles that "work" out of the box so joe end user doesn't have to dork around with it. And it needs to be on retail shelves, not "just" mail order.
I'll tell you the one strange one that got me on Linux first install. All through the install the screen was perfect,perfect I tell you, zero wrong with it, THEN it asked to "configure the monitor".
Huh??? what?? It's plugged in, it's working, wazzup with this insanity?? I was stumped, why would it do that if it was already working perfect? So (luckily I have other machines to go online with, lot of people got the one box, that's it) then I had to go find all the specs of this or that, because the *exact* monitor wasn't in the list,the crap on the back was illegible and vague, it honestly didn't mean a lot to me either, so I entered what I thought "might be" correct, never having to do this before,and it slammed the desktop way over in the corner, then had giant fonts from heck and whatnot,not to mention the disco strobe flicker, yeech, and to a raw linux noob, man it was weird. Beyond weird. Took me a long time to fix it too, because it was SO borked you couldn't even see the input boxes to check on, you had to guess. Then the sound didn't work,huh? there's a card in there, been working right along I thinks. I go online, find this sound config, tried that, it still didn't work. Went back, found out (this is days later really) you had to adjust the volume WAY up on the mixer software to "make it work". ((*&$!! It was working, just the volume from default was SO low it didn't matter. That was sure nuts.
Coming from a (almost completely)mac background, I tell you, I came *this close* to not even attempting to use linux at that point. This is only a little more than one year ago, too, BTW. completely spoiled by years of everything *working perfectly well* as soon as it booted up. Upgrading OSs was easy too, never lost hardware compatability or anything of that sort. I was always mystified why I would hear my windows friends even have to have video and audio "cards", I really didn't understand why that was "extra" on a PC initially, I thought that video to a monitor and sound coming out of the machine was just normal common sense, as in "of course it should work right off the bat, duh". heh heh heh, that's what I thought anyway.
Anyway, I have no idea what a "windows only" casual user would have thought of that, but it was real darn close to a "deal breaker" for me. Next was getting the &&**(( modem to work,that was justy WAY too frustrating, then I had the fun of finding out that the default install was insecure as all get out. ((*&^!! Whoops, the too late then syndrome took over, had to re do it, wipe and reinstall. Sheesh. Neither windows nor any linux I ever heard of has the quality of out of the box security that mac classic had. That's just data.
I never had to do anything like that evar, evar, evar since I've been using computers, from the early 90s. Only reason I stuck with it is because I read of the philosophy and goals of linux in general,I totally agree with them, saw that it was still in a serious development stage to get it past unix professionals/gurus CLI only level useage, and really, it was just for fooling around for me at the time, and I have backup boxes that all work.
If someone had really wanted to do something with their computer right that day then, and had 1% less patience, no, I honestly don't think they would have stuck with it, they would have taken it back to the store or their friend or wherever they got it, or let it slide into the trash can, and installed what they were familiar with. Main reason I wandered away from mac was because they switched OSes, completely and totally knocking me out of the market, I couldn't afford-still can't really-any hardware upgrades that will work with OSX adequa
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couple of general starting point URLs for you then:
infowars.com prisonplanet.com
On the former, he has some outstanding videos, which he encourages free copying and distribution, as long as the masters come from one his his tapes or dvd's. I would start with his latest two releases, you'll see link-age there, and various trailers. Good stuff in the home indy mode, fair documentary. Some of what they cover is those protests, how some were protected, setup and housed by the official gendarmeire, but they go way beyond that.
The websites themselves are quite large, really extensive and searchable archives.
That's what I thought, but wasn't sure. I got the idea from remembering about the new russian super torpedoes, that bleed so much air around the torpedoes in the water that they can do like 400 KMH and have huge range. They are literally rockets flying in mostly air now, they have little water friction drag. Major serious breakthrough. I thought that in the air,also, it would be the same reduction with having that plasma act as a film around the aircraft.
I think the russians use that for stealth now,a small plasma bubble around the plane, but not sure if it's extensive enough to offer significant performance boost. They dumped it on the US last year, an overflight over a carrier battle group, undetected until the mark I eyeballs picked them up. I understand it was a bit of an embarrasment.
Unless they "let" them do it and claimed stoopid and acted embarrassed, a reverse sting op.
The military is already involved, and has been for a long time. they got unmanned drones now that are being deployed as "police" scanning drones. They also have that millimeter radar that sees through walls and is being used to map entire cities. I know right after we put up the solar here we got a LOW visit from some military copter. It hung for awhile until I came outside with a LARGE rifle,then they puylled up hard and split fast, because I had no idea what was going on, just all of a sudden some huge noise, scared the crap out of me. Ya, I know I woulda got wasted intolittle pieces if they meant business, it's just a stock response I have to freaking invasion.
I'm older than most slashdotters, I can fully see how this nation has gone absolute fascist, with over half the population just waiting to be issued their brownshirt uniforms. It's depressing. Random roadblocks? that's what we though and were taught was one of the "bad" things about russia or germany. those sorts of places were called "police states" and "dictatorships". masked dressed all in black "swat" teams who serve warrants by tossing in grenades to rooms then charging in and shooting anyone left wiggling?? Huh??? then they put hoods on prisoners now. Have you seen that, it's the latest fuzz equipment, fuzz all over are doing the taser, pepper gas, stomp half to death, then handcuff then slap a hood over the "perp". Sonic nausea weapons, DB level in the 150+ range, and the ability to aim them, saw that one last night, being sold to cops all over. Armored cars going to copshops. Mobile "command cars". Freaking huge empty camps all over, running minimal staffs but built to hold thousands. Don't know about the rest of the nation, but going by those internet lists of camps, a friend and I verified all the ones in georgia, I did the terraserver lookups, he went on fast off road bike for the onsite inspections. Verified, they GOT the camps built. Remember that big hurricane hit north carolina a few years back? Little news blur, they brought in portable creamatoria that were big enough to deal with MILLIONS of drowned hogs and chickens, and do it quickly, then they poofed back into obscurity someplace. Just a few quick news blurbbs, all they said was "they brought in". Who owns them things, what agency? How about blood samples taken right at the cop car when you get stopped? That's happening now, not a "breath test" a blood sample, so they can snag your DNA among other things. And "the homeland"? Isn't that sort of like "the fatherland" or "the motherland"? Wazzup with that nazi nonsense? Having to fingerprint to cash a check, get retina scanned to get a drivers license? Say whut?
I saw ZERO of that crap when I was a kid, never even heard of it, would have caused a revolt IF it had happened overnight, BUT, because they do it this one facet of tyranny at a time, it's ignored, and worse yet-supported! There's millions of people who SUPPORT that fascist stuff.
Aaaak, you get the government and society you deserve I guess. Ain't no stopping the goons now, not when every governor, the entire federal government, and the bulk of the people all support fascism, or are so apathetic they don't care as long as gas and beer and drugs (that the government smuggles in) are cheap, and they can get their latest "entertainments". And look how many are dependent on a government check now? and they think this was accidental or because government is such nice guys. it's to make you dependent on government so that you do what they say. that's all it is. Society. Geez, now ultra violence and blood sport and rape and torture are considered "entertainment", as realistic as possible. It..is...gross. Evil. It's mass conditioning to evil, to not caring, to become.... something I sure don't want to become.
The "mark" again. Well, perhaps, invisible tattoos that only show under infra red or ultraviolet light. I could see them insisting on that as well, but still, not as good as the radio trackers. It's already in peoples cell phones with gps, it's going to
sure does seem like here's a big web based business going begging, some enterprising lads who would make their own updates for the RH 7.x series. They build the RPMs with the corrected whatevers, distribute for nominal fee. I like the 7 series, I tried the 8, not happening, and really not interested in 9 because I'd have to upgrade my still functional old machine that works great now, no probs. I'm sure 9 is a nice distro and all, but for a lot of folks out there,looking down the thread, the 7 series hit a sort of high point, it's nice. It's the same on the windows side, I know quite a lot of people in absolutely no hurry to switch to XP, requiring a new computer and all, they have mostly 98, with all the patches and updates and etc, it works well enough for them.
The economy is starting to bite the big one, notice more and more yard sales and a lot more pretty new looking vehicles sitting on the used car lots and outside peoples houses with for sale signs on them. I trust that more than the 6 o clock news or the stock sellers infotainment spiels.
Most people like the idea of "a company" behind the critical part of their computer, operarting system, businesses hire full time people to maintain their machines, that leaves 95% of the rest of the world on their own. Me, I picked redhat when I switched because they seemed the largest and most stable and most likely to "be there". Not sure what I will do if the 7 series develops some critical flaw that there's no patch for, I am under no illusions of this guy called "me" writing said patch. Most likely just unplug it then.
If that was to happen, I'll switch back to my old macs, they still work, never had any sort of security problem with them-at least nothing that ever effected me. That part was s-o-o-o-o-o nice. Little slow, sure, despite that, no probs. by then maybe the upper end G3s will have dropped in price enough to get one cheap.
I like open source, don't mind paying small fees, but not really if every 6 months my OS and hardware are obsolete. There's good and bad to rapid development.
With that said, I wonder how long enthusiasts will keep mac classic running? Still millions of machines out there chugging away with it.
There's absolutely no comparison (yet, in widespread useage) when it comes to scaling and cost. I can purchase commercial shortwave air time for as little as 25$ an hour side band upto around 100$ or more for full duplex from huge whopper powerful transmitters, the data can be received by millions of people. And if it's non commercial from my own rig, it's upfront hardware cost, then just some electricity cost,that's it. Now,to contrast that, go to any net broadcaster you can find,either MP3 or Real or quciktime, etc, pick any of those,now see what a million streams at even very, very low bit rates (say 16kbps-vocal, talk radio) cost. Go ahead, check it out. Now try it at 128kbps(somewhat decent music quality).
Granted, shortwave hardly ever has that sort of high fidelity quality associated with it, but, it works for inside the parameters for what it's designed for, no way does the ole intarweb come close yet. It has potential, but it ain't there yet. Technically it's possible, cost wise it's just way out of sight. I know there are peer to peer streaming technologies, I have played around with one of them (streamer), but it's very far from even say the level of acceptance of OGG as a generic format standard, ie, "real darn low". I would like there to be more interest and development in that sort of project, but most people only want a clear channel experience, or to download mp3 files..
Shortwave is still most useful, as well as radio in general. The main reason is-it works, doesn't require anything in the way of outside infrastructre to work and reach theoretical millions. Ain't no wirez in the middle anyplace absolutely positively needed, and receivers are as cheap as under 50 dollars new.
... all over the surface of a modern designed aircraft, so that it held back air friction, gee... how fast could it go, and what would the appearance be, a general "glowing" maybe?
All good propaganda uses a bit of the truth and a bit of the lie all mixed together. The totality of it is a lie, but there's always enough truth in there that most people will believe it,they cling to what they believe, so accept what they don't, especially if it's from a father figure, which in our society is "government". So the propaganda works, the target becomes brainwashed, conned, or if it's commercial advertising,which is just another form of propaganda, they've closed a sale or at least embedded the branding somehow.
http://www.kimel.net/goebbels.html
Friend of mine turned me on to this page,it is about a master propagandist. Read some of the things he wrote. Also his background. Now, do a normal substitution, change some proper nouns around, see if it fits the current situation any. To me, there are remarkable parallels. Sorta scary parallels, but, it's reality.
As to the mark? Heck ya. Implantable chips, RFIDs, coming this way. They've been running the grade C models on dotmil bases for a few years now, the base veternarians use them on the various pets there, it's required. Certain of the "elite" forces have them already. There are plans to quite soon now use them on domestic prisoners. They will scare parents to voluntarily have their children chipped. Then will come the big one, I am thinking a major bio terrorist attack (scammed most likely, reichstagg-style event). Shots for "the cure" they come up with will be mandatory, with the chip implanted/injected at the same time as the only way to "prove" you are safe to be around other "approved" citizens who've gone through the procedure previously. No chip, that means you aren't legal, no work, no business, no buying or selling. And etc. You'll be a social and economic pariah, probably be classed as a criminal.
Read some of the fine print in the model states health emergency powers act, you'll see some more that will make it all make more sense. It's written into the law already, and government never passes any laws that aren't in their favor, nor laws that big that they don't use. Never.
I'm probably reading this wrong, because I don't know how this stuff works, but I *think* it said that the javascript code can cause, or create, or manifest automagically somehow a java engine, which is a server on the compromised machine. Also it goes back and sends your porn to your mom or something else. So maybe it's..both?
With that said, I'm glad I never turn that stuff on if I can avoid it. Even if I get a page that insists on script navigation I just view source and see if I can snag the url and just copy and paste it in. me hates the scripting. Old skule, text on a page, some pitchers off to the side if they are needed, that's it, good enough for me.
And power windows are the debble, too....
The other link-auge claimed it was fixed in moz 1.3 whatever, too, but I don't know that for a fact.
phooie. Excuse me,respectfully, but phooie. OK, just a generic rant now, addressed to no one in particular, begin random message about the airlines, government, and "terrorism".
Joe terrorist wouldn't stand a chance if the passengers weren't all dumbed down and scared down into waiting for some over paid government authority figure to "save them" from "boogiemen". And maybe we should re visit this letting any fool into this nation for any reason stuff they have been pushing for years now. It's gone way past stupid into criminal. Visiting and travelling inside our nation is a privelege that we the legit citizens grant to other people, maybe we shouldn't be so open about it, or so lax. It most certainly isn't their "right" to come here, for any reason.
At least a few places now people have learned it's "OK" to fight, too, at least lately I've read some about it. On a plane, joe terrorist tries to hijack it? You got a laptop? Got a PDA? That's two or three good shots you have when he glances some place else for a second, wait your chance, use the battery first, then the PDA, or a cell phone, or a BIG heavy book you are carrying, a hard cover, anything, the laptop itself. We're 'muricans! Anyone ever play baseball? BEAN that sucker, and then follow through, fast! If you follow up on it, take him down, hard, put the boot in to him, all the way, unconsciousness, smash his throat, kick his face in, whatever. There's a slew of other ways, despite the government fools and liars disarming honest americans. boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo, "Lookout! abdul j nasty gonna get ya, steal your freedoms, cuz he's jealous! That's it, he's jealous! Because we got seekrit real intelligent info sources say he said that,yes he did! And we spent one quadzillion dollars to find that out! And he's got a jealous-bomb WMD hidden in his sandals, lookout, here he comes! Guess "we the honest government" will steal your freedoms first, and call it "De war on tarism and it's durn patriotic to de homelands, too!" first, so abdul can't get 'em!". What a pile of manure, but man is it getting sucked down by the rubes.
I don't know what happens,or what happened, near as I can see sometime you just been BSed to enough that you get real cynical about it,ya know what I mean? Some people I guess it never happens too, no matter how old they get,they'll keep getting conned,(someone buys that spam crap afterall, or clicks on.exes) other folks,it happens when they are young(er),, which is good,they learn to judge "real" from "no freekin way" easier. It's a big variable. But I can tell ya, I passed that point on this government "tarist" nonsense a long time ago, it's a crock, there is SO much evidence out there they are lying through their teeth it ain't funny, and I *know* that a slew of links been dropped all over slashdot that point to that stuff.. These juntaistas are milking that boogie man tarist tar-baby for all it's worth. That baby gonna look like a prune all they squeezing out of it.
At least El Al got something right some years back, you wall off the cabin with a piece of steel,you make doors that work and aren't"feux doors", you charge each passenger 25 cents or a buck more a flight to pay for it and the increased fuel costs, you do the obvious thing of arming your crew, and any potential "terr" knows he ain't getting in,that he IS gonna get ventilated, so they don't even try any more. They don't even try. Now I ain't saying nothing about israel this or mideast that or whatever,none of that nonsense, neither, just the hard facts of how you keep YOUR planes under YOUR control. It's called at least semi-common sense. K.I.S.S. Done,and it ain't rocket science.
None of this like we got now in this regime of "well, we don't trust the pilots,oh, no,no,no,well, except when we need to call them off to go fight someplace, then we automagically trust them again and they turn back into "officers" with skeery skeery gunz, or you, or your neighbor, or anyone else really, but we might slap 80- to 120 gr
more or less, generally speaking, stock prices-the "market"- today mean almost zip to any company once they've spent the IPO cash they get for them. This "market" is gambling and rumors and shills and wave this and wave at that theories more than a reflection of a companies actual worth. At best, they are a very rough indicator (see SCOX), at worst, they mean zip except in the face of a takeover. People don't* buy or sell or use macintosh computers based on todays "stock" price in apple.
*probably a very small "few", but really, you know what I am saying here.
Apples big claim to fame (and why I switched to them from dos many moons ago) is their hardware works with the software works with the hardware, and it worked well, was easy to use, and to this day all that stuff still works, I haven't chunked any of of it out.. That philsophy got a premium price, and still does.
This CAN be done on x86 hardware, but apple would have to have the indsiputable world class warranty with it, and support. They would have to pick and choose what commodity hardware to use in their machines before it got slapped with an "apple approved" label and shipped as their brand. They would need a contract with their hardware vendorts that only that production run to apple could be built that way. The OS could be the same,run on generic x86 or the PPC versions, but would have much better support ONLY IF the support was on their own machines, buy from apple, use their boxes, your upgrades and whatnot are freer or cheaper or faster and you have an outstanding warranty. Example, hard drives, and how now most on the IDE side have dropped to one year max warranty,suppose apple trumps the industry, contracts with some manufacturers with design specs of "make it reliable as possible", comes out with a 5 year warranty, because they know it will work. The ram, the mobo, all of it. Every component picked for ruggedness, reliability, ease of use, the most headache free combination they can get, backed by the worlds best warranty and quality and service. Then they could do it, and nothing stopping them from still releasing ppc based machines, other companies do it, use different processors.
The equivalent of playing poker "showdown" in the hardware/software world, combined with their OS, which they could modify the license to something more suitable, make it open, but they reserve exclusivity to the "official" releases, and only the official release gets the warranty and service bennies on their hardware, although it may or may not work on other stuff that joe whitebox slaps together. That stuff is free speech, what apple sells is free beer then in other words. And then you got your ipods and laptops still and eventually there WILL be an ipda or iphone/pod/pda combo, which is the next logical step. Not to mention the idea of their music downloads, they could apply that to various apps as well, people would pay a bit for getting something they know works and itsn't full of haxor crap hosted from a server in whoknowswhereistan, again, security, quality,warranty,ease of use, sell it cheap, make it on volume. They put independent developers on the micropayment fee schedule, they aren't direct contractors or employees, but every time someone downloads a signed app from apple, the developer who runs that app, his little baby, gets a part of the small fee charged, exact same model they do with music now. Share the work, share the money, too. This gives open source "indie" developers an immediate incentive beyond "gee this is fun" to code. What would anyone code for, free as in free, or free as in pretty much free but you get a check every month?
It would take a very large set of brass ones to contemplate and implement these changes, but it IS possible for them to switch and still maintain marketshare, in fact, maybe increase it, by offering choice, compatability, ease of use, ruggedness,warranty length, and service and above all, built in best of breed ease of use security, and people who pay for it get *first dibs* all the time. And maybe if they went a step further, factory hardware upgrades as an option,or factory trade in credits with the old hardware towards a new one,etc, instead of exclusively selling brand new boxes *only*(not counting refurbs that are merely cleaned a little) as upgrades as they do now,they could do BOTH, again, another choice for the consumer. They could keep expanding, too, how about the first really decent and EASY to use and EASY to implement wireless broadband ISP, that worked both mesh nodes peer to peer and normally? I sure as heck would sign with them then, ditch the rural dialup.
There's tons more ideas they could do,to "make money" by being bold and innovative, these are just a few I can think of quickly.
why does it have to be web based? Or can it just be browser based, or some other window based? If you are running the library's lan or wan, can't you just setup your own email server, and include a free email user account with every registered library card? Let them pick out their own passwords and have some small amount megs space. Then you can use any email server that you want that will run on your system/OS, and most likely you can scrounge up an old computer to dedicate to the task. And then you can pick out the most secure one you can find, plain text, no bells or whistles, just email, like snail mail, words, communications between people.
Of course, I am talking thru my nether regions on this, I have no idea how difficult this might be, just seems like an alternative.
With that said, about once a month or so I use my local library, just for the fun of being on broadband, but I wouldn't ever use the email web based stuff on their computers,or even login to any account I cared about that uses cookies or a sign in form for instance, because their computers are so full of spyware and adware and whatnot (who really knows on the whatnot, but I'd give it 99 to one odds of being multiple 0wn3d by now) I wouldn't trust them. Their default setting (I looked)(NT4) is "allow the full rich & complete intarweb experience".
Thanks for the reply! I guess maybe what we are seeing here is the potential not only for the exact type of crypto these guys want, but the slop over/side benefits might help "normal" fiber optics data transmission by making the transmissions more efficient and with less errors.
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We wouldn't have a USA if it wasn't for corporations. But wait, I don't mean because they were so beloved, on the contrary, way back then they realised they were too powerful, and lead to massive abuses. Our "revolt" against the british was more a revolt against exploitation by powerful and monopolistic corporations, who had already co opted british society. We then went on to make a nation founded on the belief that the individual had supreme political power, then the states, then the union. Corporations were regulated back to a government granted charter, and it had to be non abusive and of a benefit to the people as a whole, and not granted *solely* as a boon to some vague shareholders or owners. i.e., they had to follow a guideline to be pro-USA first, not pro profits *only*. Profits were allowed,obviously, but not at the expense of the publics well being, and corporations were watched all the time in case they needed their legality revoked.
some historical reference
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/28/usa.html
"The United States of America was born of a revolt not just against British monarchs and the British parliament but against British corporations.
We tend to think of corporations as fairly recent phenomena, the legacy of the Rockefellers and Carnegies. In fact, the corporate presence in prerevolutionary America was almost as conspicuous as it is today. There were far fewer corporations then, but they were enormously powerful: the Massachusetts Bay Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, the British East India Company. Colonials feared these chartered entities. They recognized the way British kings and their cronies used them as robotic arms to control the affairs of the colonies, to pinch staples from remote breadbaskets and bring them home to the motherland.
The colonials resisted. When the British East India Company imposed duties on its incoming tea (telling the locals they could buy the tea or lump it, because the company had a virtual monopoly on tea distribution in the colonies), radical patriots demonstrated. Colonial merchants agreed not to sell East India Company tea. Many East India Company ships were turned back at port. And, on one fateful day in Boston, 342 chests of tea ended up in the salt chuck.
The Boston Tea Party was one of young America's finest hours. It sparked enormous revolutionary excitement. The people were beginning to understand their own strength, and to see their own self-determination not just as possible but inevitable.
The Declaration of Independence, in 1776, freed Americans not only from Britain but also from the tyranny of British corporations, and for a hundred years after the document's signing, Americans remained deeply suspicious of corporate power. They were careful about the way they granted corporate charters, and about the powers granted therein.
Early American charters were created literally by the people, for the people as a legal convenience. Corporations were "artificial, invisible, intangible," mere financial tools. They were chartered by individual states, not the federal government, which meant they could be kept under close local scrutiny. They were automatically dissolved if they engaged in activities that violated their charter. Limits were placed on how big and powerful companies could become. Even railroad magnate J. P. Morgan, the consummate capitalist, understood that corporations must never become so big that they "inhibit freedom to the point where efficiency [is] endangered."
The two hundred or so corporations operating in the US by the year 1800 were each kept on fairly short leashes. They weren't allowed to participate in the political process. They couldn't buy stock in other corporations. And if one of them acted improperly, the consequences were severe. In 1832, President Andrew Jackson vetoed a motion to extend the charter of the corrupt and tyrannical Second Bank of the United States, and was widely applauded for doing so. That same year the state of Pennsylvania revoked the c
HAHAHAHAHAHA! I will sure agree with you on the televisions part!
As to the bozo politicians we have, can't tell ya exactly what to do with them, but impeachment, conviction, removal from office would be a good start. They aren't following their oaths, clear cut mass ethics violations. they pass out powers to each other like favors at a party, powers that aren't theirs, aren't the people they hand them too, and are reserved for the people. I would like to see all people who just generaly want freedom, rule of sane common sense law, believe the constitution was written in english and the words mean what they say, would just shun the whole government, do every bit of "civil disobedience" they could to shut that sucker down. See a politicians? Laugh at them. Some authority figure from the regime gives you an order, laugh, walk away, ignore them then.
A few people doing that, no, it won't work, if several million do it, it might catch on. Some sort of nationwide strike perhaps. It's gone way too far to try and fix it one little stupidity at a time, needs a thorough scrubbing out. I would hope some where, some place, some time, that some state with a governor with a clue and some courage would start it. the powers reserved to the states and the people have to be taken back, it's gotten too out of control, the federal government in particular is on an orgy of looting powers for itself. It's supposed to be a union of States, not a Union of states like they run it now.
IMO of course.
We know to show the world we can handle our own affairs before we try to "regime change". We should start with our own people, everyone. Sort our crap out FIRST, remove the illegals,remove the crooked pols, then deal with what's left, then re look at everything. If we just followed the simple laws that are important, and get back to limited government with clear cut duties and the normal restrictions they have placed on them by our real laws, it would be a lot better. I just can't take them seriously when they say there's this war on terrorism and the borders are wide open. I can't take them seriously when we go invade other nations on flimsy pretenses, with no declaration of war and investigations into the *real* causes blocked by executive order. That's a dictatorship any way you slice it.
So many of the facets are tied together it's better, again, IMO, to just look at the over all larger picture of what is really broken, and looking at it is, we no longer have representation, we have dictators who dictate to us based on who bribed and blackmailed them and by how much. That's really it, just about anyone can really see that I would think. It's not a "government" it's some weird form of "Inc." that looks like something between a loan sharking operation and a band of mercenaries, all supported by cubic miles of bureaucrats all chanting "just doing my job, not my fault". And the apathy of "the people" is embarrasing and atrocious. 2 or 3 percent of the effort put into professional sports enthusiasm, for example, would completely change this country around, just that much effort.
...to follow your (good) idea, you *already* have a legitimate purchaser of large amounts of software-it's those stores. They are your major force multiplier and our societies normal middleman and representative between you, the end user and the software vendors. They are MOST definetly involved, they make bundlkes of cash as well on selling that stuff. The stores get it wholesale, then retail it.. They start to get lots of complaints and demands for them to sign your acceptable use and full disclosure and acceptance of liability contract to counter the lame EULA nonsense, or *no sale*. THAT will get back to the vendors. Just like going in, hauling crippled cds up to the counter, then saying "no sale if these won't play in all my cdplayers".
It's normal activism, it's a boycott in advance, but they have to SEE that it might affect sales, you leave the store manager standing there with stock to put back on the shelf and a no-sale potential customer walking out the door. One, he'll think it's a crank, a few hundred in any one store, he WILL note this. In hundreds of stores? You just might see some changes, by pass that washington DC nonsense, take em on mano y mano with the cash. That's all they care about, the cash, so that's where you attack.
That way, you don't have to fib and pose as a big buyer, you let the real big buyers transfer complaints. It happens all the time. I can give you an example, where it WORKED,-compleely different but it happened-rosie O donnel and K mart. I know I was part of hundreds of thousands of complaints that went to Kmart over using her in advertising, both written complaints and in person store complaints, direct to the stores managers. told them _no, repeat_no sale until she goes, your choice mr kmart, take it or leave it".
It worked, but it took a lot of people doing it. But it worked. She got the boot, kmart saw dropped sales. they never admited that was the reason, but the timing proved otherwise.
The SAME thing can be done with crippled CDs, crippled players, or stupid software EULAS that force spyware on you and offer no warranty or guarantee, bork your computer, etc, etc, all the things we talk about that happen,and a huge reluctance or denial of any money back on software. It's ridiculous, it's really lame it's been allowed to get so embedded in the industry, it's the only product out there in a major multi billion dollar industry sold like that, with a full skate of liability to the profiteers of same. (that I can think of handily at least)
I understand the necessity when software was the province of only a few thousand people on the planet and was still in the highly experimental phase, but there's no reason to continue to extend that get out of jail free card to them any more, there just isn't. It's "matured" enough as an industry so that the next plateau can be achieved,which is normal liabilities. Closed, non free propietary software is frantically defended as "a product". Swell. Have it their way then. They insist, whine, demand that their IP be treated as a tangible product, swell, no problems, then let normal "product" rules and laws apply. One or the other,they can make up their minds, and the customers can help if they choose to by DEMANDING it happen.
DARE to demand and boycott until you get what you want and what is the right thing to do, "we the software buyers people" have tremendous clout, because the vendors make zero $ without us handing it over, and yes, it's really that simple.
Another example, just happened, a sort of victory, with quicken. They got so many complaints and threats to boycott and whatnot they changed. it CAN be done across the industry, just needs doing, and how hard is it to NOT buy something??? Costs ZERO to boycott!
...how many guys remember the scene where the head alien V babe (sorry forgot her name) opened up for a snack, and scarfed down that entire guinea pig in one bite--and sat there in stunned silence for awhile and thought "man, that is SOME talent there..."
--you have somewhat of an agreement like that with a major credit card now. Easier to dispute a cc bill then to pay cash and have to get a lawyer (unfortunately).
--would be fun and to make a documentary clip, go to a variety of electronics stores and demand the cashiers sign a statement along the lines of the EVLA above before buying any software "because you can't read the eula" so you just want a normal quid pro quo guaranty/warranty that reflects that before you hand over the loot for the product and waste your time with it, and it holds the store itself responsible so they can pass the misery buck on to the software vendor. Hilarity would ensue. Or not. Then the day manager would come over to take over from the now hapless and innocent clerk, and so on. Sort of like michael moores odyssey to interview roger smith, or wethepeople foundation to get the IRS to answer a few questions. Watching fatcats squirm is great sport.
Maybe if all you quark using people/shops would all chip in and pay a couple of programmers to design or work on an open source equivalent? How many current quark customers are there, hundreds of thousands? 100$ a piece per shop towards some core developer programmers might do the trick, doncha think, at least to get it the ball rolling on something just as good and free and open source? Start it on source forge, or something, seems like out there must be something that would do for a start.
first off, I'm part europaen, and part cherokee, one of the "stay behinds" was my great grandmother. Now, how does that work again, kimosabe? Second, NO, HELL NO, it's not anyone's "right" to come here, we are no longer a "frontier" nation there ISN'T ANY "free land" to go homestead on. We ALLOW a controlled number of LEGAL REPEAT LEGAL immigrants and tourists and students to come here, UNDER CONTROLLED ACCESS,with rules, regulations, and responsibilities, and anyone who hasn't followed the procedure is an ILLEGAL INVADER, A CRIMINAL.
I have no problems with a limited number of immigrants and visitors, none, I am not a racist nor a bigot,but I have a BIG BIG BIG problem with illegal criminals by the millions just saying it's their "right" to come here, and the vast majority, as their first official act on our soil, commit a criminal act. It's no more "cool" for them to do that than for me to go over wherever they are from and do similar.
Play by the rules or get out, and I hope you get arrested if you are an illegal and be put to building fences in the hot sun on the border. Enough's enough, this is 2003, not 1703. Those folks can stay home and make something of their own nation, and if that means over throwing their own bogus dictators, and stringing them up and creating their own constituional republics, I'll support them, I'll loan them some rope and a box of bullets. Just for a glaring example, as far as I am concerned invading iraq is and was a waste of time, we should have counter-invaded mexico and liberated those poor people down there and free them from generations of abuse at the hands of their castillian racist billionaire rulers. Mexico has invaded the US, not iraq.
If you are an illegal,from anyplace, and are any color you are, or any religion, I don't care,that means less than zero, could care less, the dividing line is legal OR illegal, so if it's illegal, GET OUT.
You are correct, something like that needs to be on the shelf at retail stores, either from Lindows or any othe other major vendors of hardware or OS software. It's a *good* idea to have bundles that "work" out of the box so joe end user doesn't have to dork around with it. And it needs to be on retail shelves, not "just" mail order.
I'll tell you the one strange one that got me on Linux first install. All through the install the screen was perfect,perfect I tell you, zero wrong with it, THEN it asked to "configure the monitor".
Huh??? what?? It's plugged in, it's working, wazzup with this insanity?? I was stumped, why would it do that if it was already working perfect? So (luckily I have other machines to go online with, lot of people got the one box, that's it) then I had to go find all the specs of this or that, because the *exact* monitor wasn't in the list,the crap on the back was illegible and vague, it honestly didn't mean a lot to me either, so I entered what I thought "might be" correct, never having to do this before,and it slammed the desktop way over in the corner, then had giant fonts from heck and whatnot,not to mention the disco strobe flicker, yeech, and to a raw linux noob, man it was weird. Beyond weird. Took me a long time to fix it too, because it was SO borked you couldn't even see the input boxes to check on, you had to guess. Then the sound didn't work,huh? there's a card in there, been working right along I thinks. I go online, find this sound config, tried that, it still didn't work. Went back, found out (this is days later really) you had to adjust the volume WAY up on the mixer software to "make it work". ((*&$!! It was working, just the volume from default was SO low it didn't matter. That was sure nuts.
Coming from a (almost completely)mac background, I tell you, I came *this close* to not even attempting to use linux at that point. This is only a little more than one year ago, too, BTW. completely spoiled by years of everything *working perfectly well* as soon as it booted up. Upgrading OSs was easy too, never lost hardware compatability or anything of that sort. I was always mystified why I would hear my windows friends even have to have video and audio "cards", I really didn't understand why that was "extra" on a PC initially, I thought that video to a monitor and sound coming out of the machine was just normal common sense, as in "of course it should work right off the bat, duh". heh heh heh, that's what I thought anyway.
Anyway, I have no idea what a "windows only" casual user would have thought of that, but it was real darn close to a "deal breaker" for me. Next was getting the &&**(( modem to work,that was justy WAY too frustrating, then I had the fun of finding out that the default install was insecure as all get out. ((*&^!! Whoops, the too late then syndrome took over, had to re do it, wipe and reinstall. Sheesh. Neither windows nor any linux I ever heard of has the quality of out of the box security that mac classic had. That's just data.
I never had to do anything like that evar, evar, evar since I've been using computers, from the early 90s. Only reason I stuck with it is because I read of the philosophy and goals of linux in general,I totally agree with them, saw that it was still in a serious development stage to get it past unix professionals/gurus CLI only level useage, and really, it was just for fooling around for me at the time, and I have backup boxes that all work.
If someone had really wanted to do something with their computer right that day then, and had 1% less patience, no, I honestly don't think they would have stuck with it, they would have taken it back to the store or their friend or wherever they got it, or let it slide into the trash can, and installed what they were familiar with. Main reason I wandered away from mac was because they switched OSes, completely and totally knocking me out of the market, I couldn't afford-still can't really-any hardware upgrades that will work with OSX adequa
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couple of general starting point URLs for you then:
infowars.com prisonplanet.com
On the former, he has some outstanding videos, which he encourages free copying and distribution, as long as the masters come from one his his tapes or dvd's. I would start with his latest two releases, you'll see link-age there, and various trailers. Good stuff in the home indy mode, fair documentary. Some of what they cover is those protests, how some were protected, setup and housed by the official gendarmeire, but they go way beyond that.
The websites themselves are quite large, really extensive and searchable archives.
That's what I thought, but wasn't sure. I got the idea from remembering about the new russian super torpedoes, that bleed so much air around the torpedoes in the water that they can do like 400 KMH and have huge range. They are literally rockets flying in mostly air now, they have little water friction drag. Major serious breakthrough. I thought that in the air,also, it would be the same reduction with having that plasma act as a film around the aircraft.
I think the russians use that for stealth now,a small plasma bubble around the plane, but not sure if it's extensive enough to offer significant performance boost. They dumped it on the US last year, an overflight over a carrier battle group, undetected until the mark I eyeballs picked them up. I understand it was a bit of an embarrasment.
Unless they "let" them do it and claimed stoopid and acted embarrassed, a reverse sting op.
The military is already involved, and has been for a long time. they got unmanned drones now that are being deployed as "police" scanning drones. They also have that millimeter radar that sees through walls and is being used to map entire cities. I know right after we put up the solar here we got a LOW visit from some military copter. It hung for awhile until I came outside with a LARGE rifle,then they puylled up hard and split fast, because I had no idea what was going on, just all of a sudden some huge noise, scared the crap out of me. Ya, I know I woulda got wasted intolittle pieces if they meant business, it's just a stock response I have to freaking invasion.
I'm older than most slashdotters, I can fully see how this nation has gone absolute fascist, with over half the population just waiting to be issued their brownshirt uniforms. It's depressing. Random roadblocks? that's what we though and were taught was one of the "bad" things about russia or germany. those sorts of places were called "police states" and "dictatorships". masked dressed all in black "swat" teams who serve warrants by tossing in grenades to rooms then charging in and shooting anyone left wiggling?? Huh??? then they put hoods on prisoners now. Have you seen that, it's the latest fuzz equipment, fuzz all over are doing the taser, pepper gas, stomp half to death, then handcuff then slap a hood over the "perp". Sonic nausea weapons, DB level in the 150+ range, and the ability to aim them, saw that one last night, being sold to cops all over. Armored cars going to copshops. Mobile "command cars". Freaking huge empty camps all over, running minimal staffs but built to hold thousands. Don't know about the rest of the nation, but going by those internet lists of camps, a friend and I verified all the ones in georgia, I did the terraserver lookups, he went on fast off road bike for the onsite inspections. Verified, they GOT the camps built. Remember that big hurricane hit north carolina a few years back? Little news blur, they brought in portable creamatoria that were big enough to deal with MILLIONS of drowned hogs and chickens, and do it quickly, then they poofed back into obscurity someplace. Just a few quick news blurbbs, all they said was "they brought in". Who owns them things, what agency? How about blood samples taken right at the cop car when you get stopped? That's happening now, not a "breath test" a blood sample, so they can snag your DNA among other things. And "the homeland"? Isn't that sort of like "the fatherland" or "the motherland"? Wazzup with that nazi nonsense? Having to fingerprint to cash a check, get retina scanned to get a drivers license? Say whut?
I saw ZERO of that crap when I was a kid, never even heard of it, would have caused a revolt IF it had happened overnight, BUT, because they do it this one facet of tyranny at a time, it's ignored, and worse yet-supported! There's millions of people who SUPPORT that fascist stuff.
Aaaak, you get the government and society you deserve I guess. Ain't no stopping the goons now, not when every governor, the entire federal government, and the bulk of the people all support fascism, or are so apathetic they don't care as long as gas and beer and drugs (that the government smuggles in) are cheap, and they can get their latest "entertainments". And look how many are dependent on a government check now? and they think this was accidental or because government is such nice guys. it's to make you dependent on government so that you do what they say. that's all it is. Society. Geez, now ultra violence and blood sport and rape and torture are considered "entertainment", as realistic as possible. It..is...gross. Evil. It's mass conditioning to evil, to not caring, to become.... something I sure don't want to become.
The "mark" again. Well, perhaps, invisible tattoos that only show under infra red or ultraviolet light. I could see them insisting on that as well, but still, not as good as the radio trackers. It's already in peoples cell phones with gps, it's going to
sure does seem like here's a big web based business going begging, some enterprising lads who would make their own updates for the RH 7.x series. They build the RPMs with the corrected whatevers, distribute for nominal fee. I like the 7 series, I tried the 8, not happening, and really not interested in 9 because I'd have to upgrade my still functional old machine that works great now, no probs. I'm sure 9 is a nice distro and all, but for a lot of folks out there,looking down the thread, the 7 series hit a sort of high point, it's nice. It's the same on the windows side, I know quite a lot of people in absolutely no hurry to switch to XP, requiring a new computer and all, they have mostly 98, with all the patches and updates and etc, it works well enough for them.
The economy is starting to bite the big one, notice more and more yard sales and a lot more pretty new looking vehicles sitting on the used car lots and outside peoples houses with for sale signs on them. I trust that more than the 6 o clock news or the stock sellers infotainment spiels.
Most people like the idea of "a company" behind the critical part of their computer, operarting system, businesses hire full time people to maintain their machines, that leaves 95% of the rest of the world on their own. Me, I picked redhat when I switched because they seemed the largest and most stable and most likely to "be there". Not sure what I will do if the 7 series develops some critical flaw that there's no patch for, I am under no illusions of this guy called "me" writing said patch. Most likely just unplug it then.
If that was to happen, I'll switch back to my old macs, they still work, never had any sort of security problem with them-at least nothing that ever effected me. That part was s-o-o-o-o-o nice. Little slow, sure, despite that, no probs. by then maybe the upper end G3s will have dropped in price enough to get one cheap.
I like open source, don't mind paying small fees, but not really if every 6 months my OS and hardware are obsolete. There's good and bad to rapid development.
With that said, I wonder how long enthusiasts will keep mac classic running? Still millions of machines out there chugging away with it.
which has more frisction? air slidingpast air, or air impacting a metal surface?
Don't know, just asking.
There's absolutely no comparison (yet, in widespread useage) when it comes to scaling and cost. I can purchase commercial shortwave air time for as little as 25$ an hour side band upto around 100$ or more for full duplex from huge whopper powerful transmitters, the data can be received by millions of people. And if it's non commercial from my own rig, it's upfront hardware cost, then just some electricity cost,that's it. Now,to contrast that, go to any net broadcaster you can find,either MP3 or Real or quciktime, etc, pick any of those,now see what a million streams at even very, very low bit rates (say 16kbps-vocal, talk radio) cost. Go ahead, check it out. Now try it at 128kbps(somewhat decent music quality).
Granted, shortwave hardly ever has that sort of high fidelity quality associated with it, but, it works for inside the parameters for what it's designed for, no way does the ole intarweb come close yet. It has potential, but it ain't there yet. Technically it's possible, cost wise it's just way out of sight. I know there are peer to peer streaming technologies, I have played around with one of them (streamer), but it's very far from even say the level of acceptance of OGG as a generic format standard, ie, "real darn low". I would like there to be more interest and development in that sort of project, but most people only want a clear channel experience, or to download mp3 files..
Shortwave is still most useful, as well as radio in general. The main reason is-it works, doesn't require anything in the way of outside infrastructre to work and reach theoretical millions. Ain't no wirez in the middle anyplace absolutely positively needed, and receivers are as cheap as under 50 dollars new.
... all over the surface of a modern designed aircraft, so that it held back air friction, gee... how fast could it go, and what would the appearance be, a general "glowing" maybe?
ain't that sumthin...
All good propaganda uses a bit of the truth and a bit of the lie all mixed together. The totality of it is a lie, but there's always enough truth in there that most people will believe it,they cling to what they believe, so accept what they don't, especially if it's from a father figure, which in our society is "government". So the propaganda works, the target becomes brainwashed, conned, or if it's commercial advertising,which is just another form of propaganda, they've closed a sale or at least embedded the branding somehow.
http://www.kimel.net/goebbels.html
Friend of mine turned me on to this page,it is about a master propagandist. Read some of the things he wrote. Also his background. Now, do a normal substitution, change some proper nouns around, see if it fits the current situation any. To me, there are remarkable parallels. Sorta scary parallels, but, it's reality.
As to the mark? Heck ya. Implantable chips, RFIDs, coming this way. They've been running the grade C models on dotmil bases for a few years now, the base veternarians use them on the various pets there, it's required. Certain of the "elite" forces have them already. There are plans to quite soon now use them on domestic prisoners. They will scare parents to voluntarily have their children chipped. Then will come the big one, I am thinking a major bio terrorist attack (scammed most likely, reichstagg-style event). Shots for "the cure" they come up with will be mandatory, with the chip implanted/injected at the same time as the only way to "prove" you are safe to be around other "approved" citizens who've gone through the procedure previously. No chip, that means you aren't legal, no work, no business, no buying or selling. And etc. You'll be a social and economic pariah, probably be classed as a criminal.
Read some of the fine print in the model states health emergency powers act, you'll see some more that will make it all make more sense. It's written into the law already, and government never passes any laws that aren't in their favor, nor laws that big that they don't use. Never.
That's my take on it anyway.
I'm probably reading this wrong, because I don't know how this stuff works, but I *think* it said that the javascript code can cause, or create, or manifest automagically somehow a java engine, which is a server on the compromised machine. Also it goes back and sends your porn to your mom or something else. So maybe it's..both?
With that said, I'm glad I never turn that stuff on if I can avoid it. Even if I get a page that insists on script navigation I just view source and see if I can snag the url and just copy and paste it in. me hates the scripting. Old skule, text on a page, some pitchers off to the side if they are needed, that's it, good enough for me.
And power windows are the debble, too....
The other link-auge claimed it was fixed in moz 1.3 whatever, too, but I don't know that for a fact.
phooie. Excuse me,respectfully, but phooie. OK, just a generic rant now, addressed to no one in particular, begin random message about the airlines, government, and "terrorism".
.exes) other folks,it happens when they are young(er),, which is good,they learn to judge "real" from "no freekin way" easier. It's a big variable. But I can tell ya, I passed that point on this government "tarist" nonsense a long time ago, it's a crock, there is SO much evidence out there they are lying through their teeth it ain't funny, and I *know* that a slew of links been dropped all over slashdot that point to that stuff.. These juntaistas are milking that boogie man tarist tar-baby for all it's worth. That baby gonna look like a prune all they squeezing out of it.
Joe terrorist wouldn't stand a chance if the passengers weren't all dumbed down and scared down into waiting for some over paid government authority figure to "save them" from "boogiemen". And maybe we should re visit this letting any fool into this nation for any reason stuff they have been pushing for years now. It's gone way past stupid into criminal. Visiting and travelling inside our nation is a privelege that we the legit citizens grant to other people, maybe we shouldn't be so open about it, or so lax. It most certainly isn't their "right" to come here, for any reason.
At least a few places now people have learned it's "OK" to fight, too, at least lately I've read some about it. On a plane, joe terrorist tries to hijack it? You got a laptop? Got a PDA? That's two or three good shots you have when he glances some place else for a second, wait your chance, use the battery first, then the PDA, or a cell phone, or a BIG heavy book you are carrying, a hard cover, anything, the laptop itself. We're 'muricans! Anyone ever play baseball? BEAN that sucker, and then follow through, fast! If you follow up on it, take him down, hard, put the boot in to him, all the way, unconsciousness, smash his throat, kick his face in, whatever. There's a slew of other ways, despite the government fools and liars disarming honest americans. boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo, "Lookout! abdul j nasty gonna get ya, steal your freedoms, cuz he's jealous! That's it, he's jealous! Because we got seekrit real intelligent info sources say he said that,yes he did! And we spent one quadzillion dollars to find that out! And he's got a jealous-bomb WMD hidden in his sandals, lookout, here he comes! Guess "we the honest government" will steal your freedoms first, and call it "De war on tarism and it's durn patriotic to de homelands, too!" first, so abdul can't get 'em!". What a pile of manure, but man is it getting sucked down by the rubes.
I don't know what happens,or what happened, near as I can see sometime you just been BSed to enough that you get real cynical about it,ya know what I mean? Some people I guess it never happens too, no matter how old they get,they'll keep getting conned,(someone buys that spam crap afterall, or clicks on
At least El Al got something right some years back, you wall off the cabin with a piece of steel,you make doors that work and aren't"feux doors", you charge each passenger 25 cents or a buck more a flight to pay for it and the increased fuel costs, you do the obvious thing of arming your crew, and any potential "terr" knows he ain't getting in,that he IS gonna get ventilated, so they don't even try any more. They don't even try. Now I ain't saying nothing about israel this or mideast that or whatever,none of that nonsense, neither, just the hard facts of how you keep YOUR planes under YOUR control. It's called at least semi-common sense. K.I.S.S. Done,and it ain't rocket science.
None of this like we got now in this regime of "well, we don't trust the pilots,oh, no,no,no,well, except when we need to call them off to go fight someplace, then we automagically trust them again and they turn back into "officers" with skeery skeery gunz, or you, or your neighbor, or anyone else really, but we might slap 80- to 120 gr
more or less, generally speaking, stock prices-the "market"- today mean almost zip to any company once they've spent the IPO cash they get for them. This "market" is gambling and rumors and shills and wave this and wave at that theories more than a reflection of a companies actual worth. At best, they are a very rough indicator (see SCOX), at worst, they mean zip except in the face of a takeover. People don't* buy or sell or use macintosh computers based on todays "stock" price in apple.
*probably a very small "few", but really, you know what I am saying here.
... and variations inside that middle as well.
Apples big claim to fame (and why I switched to them from dos many moons ago) is their hardware works with the software works with the hardware, and it worked well, was easy to use, and to this day all that stuff still works, I haven't chunked any of of it out.. That philsophy got a premium price, and still does.
This CAN be done on x86 hardware, but apple would have to have the indsiputable world class warranty with it, and support. They would have to pick and choose what commodity hardware to use in their machines before it got slapped with an "apple approved" label and shipped as their brand. They would need a contract with their hardware vendorts that only that production run to apple could be built that way. The OS could be the same,run on generic x86 or the PPC versions, but would have much better support ONLY IF the support was on their own machines, buy from apple, use their boxes, your upgrades and whatnot are freer or cheaper or faster and you have an outstanding warranty. Example, hard drives, and how now most on the IDE side have dropped to one year max warranty,suppose apple trumps the industry, contracts with some manufacturers with design specs of "make it reliable as possible", comes out with a 5 year warranty, because they know it will work. The ram, the mobo, all of it. Every component picked for ruggedness, reliability, ease of use, the most headache free combination they can get, backed by the worlds best warranty and quality and service. Then they could do it, and nothing stopping them from still releasing ppc based machines, other companies do it, use different processors.
The equivalent of playing poker "showdown" in the hardware/software world, combined with their OS, which they could modify the license to something more suitable, make it open, but they reserve exclusivity to the "official" releases, and only the official release gets the warranty and service bennies on their hardware, although it may or may not work on other stuff that joe whitebox slaps together. That stuff is free speech, what apple sells is free beer then in other words. And then you got your ipods and laptops still and eventually there WILL be an ipda or iphone/pod/pda combo, which is the next logical step. Not to mention the idea of their music downloads, they could apply that to various apps as well, people would pay a bit for getting something they know works and itsn't full of haxor crap hosted from a server in whoknowswhereistan, again, security, quality,warranty,ease of use, sell it cheap, make it on volume. They put independent developers on the micropayment fee schedule, they aren't direct contractors or employees, but every time someone downloads a signed app from apple, the developer who runs that app, his little baby, gets a part of the small fee charged, exact same model they do with music now. Share the work, share the money, too. This gives open source "indie" developers an immediate incentive beyond "gee this is fun" to code. What would anyone code for, free as in free, or free as in pretty much free but you get a check every month?
It would take a very large set of brass ones to contemplate and implement these changes, but it IS possible for them to switch and still maintain marketshare, in fact, maybe increase it, by offering choice, compatability, ease of use, ruggedness,warranty length, and service and above all, built in best of breed ease of use security, and people who pay for it get *first dibs* all the time. And maybe if they went a step further, factory hardware upgrades as an option,or factory trade in credits with the old hardware towards a new one,etc, instead of exclusively selling brand new boxes *only*(not counting refurbs that are merely cleaned a little) as upgrades as they do now,they could do BOTH, again, another choice for the consumer. They could keep expanding, too, how about the first really decent and EASY to use and EASY to implement wireless broadband ISP, that worked both mesh nodes peer to peer and normally? I sure as heck would sign with them then, ditch the rural dialup.
There's tons more ideas they could do,to "make money" by being bold and innovative, these are just a few I can think of quickly.
Some big city in florida did it. My first guess without googling is IIRC boca raton, but no idea really.
why does it have to be web based? Or can it just be browser based, or some other window based? If you are running the library's lan or wan, can't you just setup your own email server, and include a free email user account with every registered library card? Let them pick out their own passwords and have some small amount megs space. Then you can use any email server that you want that will run on your system/OS, and most likely you can scrounge up an old computer to dedicate to the task. And then you can pick out the most secure one you can find, plain text, no bells or whistles, just email, like snail mail, words, communications between people.
Of course, I am talking thru my nether regions on this, I have no idea how difficult this might be, just seems like an alternative.
With that said, about once a month or so I use my local library, just for the fun of being on broadband, but I wouldn't ever use the email web based stuff on their computers,or even login to any account I cared about that uses cookies or a sign in form for instance, because their computers are so full of spyware and adware and whatnot (who really knows on the whatnot, but I'd give it 99 to one odds of being multiple 0wn3d by now) I wouldn't trust them. Their default setting (I looked)(NT4) is "allow the full rich & complete intarweb experience".
... the old "Dinosaurs" muppet show, in the school science lab:
"Oh well, I guess we're going to need another little Timmy!"
Thanks for the reply! I guess maybe what we are seeing here is the potential not only for the exact type of crypto these guys want, but the slop over/side benefits might help "normal" fiber optics data transmission by making the transmissions more efficient and with less errors.