The RFID tag makers are (somehow) spurning on the fundamentalists, so anyone who expresses concern over the implants will be made fun of and derided as "one of those religious wackos".
The guy who made the dumb quip, and admitted in the subject line it was dumb and a repetition, or the anonymous cowards who are so emotionally unstable they can't just ignore the quip but have to post a bile filled, invective laden diatribe which is even moire pointless than the original quip?
Now, a time out for you, young man, and no dessert tonight. If you behave, Mistress might give you a spanking.
Seriously, if it weren't for Tivo I'd never catch my fix of Twilight Zone reruns and Enterprise.
It was Cartoon Network's airing of Cowboy Bebop that soured me on Enterprise. After witnessing the gritty exploits of Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed and even Ein, I could no longer stomach the goody two-shoes of Enterprise. All I could remember was Captain Puss^H^H^H^H Archer curling up into a little ball as a bunch of Andorans stole his lunch money or something.
I own the DVD boxed set of Bebop (and the movie, which was a better SF film than any recent Trek, Star Wars or Matrix film). Don't think I'll be owning any Enterprise.
And, actually, I commend TechTV for showing some of the odder stuff, like Serial Experiment Lain, that CN might shy away from. The Starz Action Channel shows some anime as well, and it's completely uncut there. They just ran through Hellsing and Bubblegum Crisis 2040 both of which I liked more than I expected to.
The saddest part is that no one in any position with any influence or power will stand up against things like this. Everyone, including the vendors, will bend over and take it hard and long. The marching morons will forever triumph as long as ideology rules the mind of humanity.
We can make fun of it all day here on Slashdot, but nothing will be done about it. The idiots will win this one, just like they win all the others.
It's far past the point of not being funny anymore.
Blah blah blah big evil Bush. Whatever. Let's hear some shooting already, Che.
Or can't your flabby ass back up the checks your fingers are typing, Mr. Computer Chair Revolutionary? Hey, make sure those big scary guns you buy don't have RFID tags!
or we will have no problem shooting you as well as the other traitors who sold out our country.
Woof woof woof. That the best you got, pussy? The underpants gnomes laugh at you. Ha!
Millenium Militia
LOL! I have your slogan: "The Millenium Militia: We're So Anarchist, We Don't Even Bother To Spell Our Big Scary Name Correctly!"
It's millennium, Fidel.
Hey, you're not related to the Millennium Group, are you? Didn't Frank Black expose you guys already?
No, it was the *futures* market that was the model, and an entirely different animal that the basic stock exchange.
And, for the last goddamn blessed time (see what I mean about the yellow part of the journalism?), it was not someplace a person could actually wager real money on events. That was just the statistical model.
Congratulations. You're a perfect example of what I was complaining about.
It's absolutely disgusting in the most horrifying sense of the word.
What is? The yellow journalism, or the fact that you are STILL trapped in the fanatsy world it constructed? You haven't the faintest idea what you are talking about, and you don't have a single scrap of the truth in you possession in this matter.
I'll grant you that. Poindexter was the last person I would have chosen, management skills or not. I'd have found some unknown project manager with a decent record and ample experience.
As you may remember, the former DARPA project, under retired admiral John Poindexter's office, was shut down after being roundly condemned by politicians on both sides, leading to Poindexter's resignation.
Possibly one of the single most misreported stories in the history of journalism. A potentially valuable and brilliant analysis tool was scrapped becase mankind is composed of mainly ignorant, spewing pustules masquerading as evolved bipeds. Most people I talked to thought it was an actual market for betting on terrorism. When I told them I knew one of the guys who did some early work on the idea, and that it was just a tool to try and predict the ever elusive human threats, they simply would not listen. Everyone just followed their ideological bias, and the truth be damned, as usual.
We have the most unrestrained press in civilization's history, and we're lucky if we can find an actual scrap of truth with a magnifying glass.
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Man, the FBI is going to have to interview *every* *single* *fish* in the area for Al-Queda connections.
No one will even suspect the dolphins because they are supposed to be, like, higher mammals or something.
The RFID tag makers are (somehow) spurning on the fundamentalists, so anyone who expresses concern over the implants will be made fun of and derided as "one of those religious wackos".
Now, a time out for you, young man, and no dessert tonight. If you behave, Mistress might give you a spanking.
But you can't. Ha! You are utterly impotent and powerless! :-P
*.Dar-al-Kufr
*.Dar-al-Harb
What more do you need? :-)
I'm sorry. Man, I really need this 4 day weekend coming up.
It was beta, though, so I couldn't talk to them.
It was Cartoon Network's airing of Cowboy Bebop that soured me on Enterprise. After witnessing the gritty exploits of Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed and even Ein, I could no longer stomach the goody two-shoes of Enterprise. All I could remember was Captain Puss^H^H^H^H Archer curling up into a little ball as a bunch of Andorans stole his lunch money or something.
I own the DVD boxed set of Bebop (and the movie, which was a better SF film than any recent Trek, Star Wars or Matrix film). Don't think I'll be owning any Enterprise.
And, actually, I commend TechTV for showing some of the odder stuff, like Serial Experiment Lain, that CN might shy away from. The Starz Action Channel shows some anime as well, and it's completely uncut there. They just ran through Hellsing and Bubblegum Crisis 2040 both of which I liked more than I expected to.
We can make fun of it all day here on Slashdot, but nothing will be done about it. The idiots will win this one, just like they win all the others.
It's far past the point of not being funny anymore.
Besides, it takes a silver bullet to kill me. :-D
Or can't your flabby ass back up the checks your fingers are typing, Mr. Computer Chair Revolutionary? Hey, make sure those big scary guns you buy don't have RFID tags!
or we will have no problem shooting you as well as the other traitors who sold out our country.
Woof woof woof. That the best you got, pussy? The underpants gnomes laugh at you. Ha!
Millenium Militia
LOL! I have your slogan: "The Millenium Militia: We're So Anarchist, We Don't Even Bother To Spell Our Big Scary Name Correctly!"
It's millennium, Fidel.
Hey, you're not related to the Millennium Group, are you? Didn't Frank Black expose you guys already?
You want to revolt, then grow a spine and do it. Stop yapping and act already.
Each television season gets increasingly boring, so we could do with a good high farce or slapstick comedy, even if its on the news.
Oh, and I already own lots and lots of guns, so watch your back for the counter-revolutionary terror, Sparky. ;-)
Then he'd only be facing about a year in jail.
It was in California, but they were linked heavily back to the East Coast, as far as I ever gathered from my friend.
And, for the last goddamn blessed time (see what I mean about the yellow part of the journalism?), it was not someplace a person could actually wager real money on events. That was just the statistical model.
A friend of mine ran deliveries for mobster types in college. It was contracts (the paper kind) and banking/financial crap for the most part.
It's absolutely disgusting in the most horrifying sense of the word.
What is? The yellow journalism, or the fact that you are STILL trapped in the fanatsy world it constructed? You haven't the faintest idea what you are talking about, and you don't have a single scrap of the truth in you possession in this matter.
I'll grant you that. Poindexter was the last person I would have chosen, management skills or not. I'd have found some unknown project manager with a decent record and ample experience.
Possibly one of the single most misreported stories in the history of journalism. A potentially valuable and brilliant analysis tool was scrapped becase mankind is composed of mainly ignorant, spewing pustules masquerading as evolved bipeds. Most people I talked to thought it was an actual market for betting on terrorism. When I told them I knew one of the guys who did some early work on the idea, and that it was just a tool to try and predict the ever elusive human threats, they simply would not listen. Everyone just followed their ideological bias, and the truth be damned, as usual.
We have the most unrestrained press in civilization's history, and we're lucky if we can find an actual scrap of truth with a magnifying glass.
Um, I think I'm mixing up two things there.
But anyway, buy practical gifts. Nothing wrong with that. Why does it have to be junk or nothing? Why always the two extremes?
I know that *I* simply cannot get enough socks.
So give it to her right after sex, then, when she wants to "cuddle"?
Why, it's that's scientific holiday known as Christmas! :-)
Don't *make* me sing Christmas carols at you!
Same old, same old.
And, *NO*, PDAs or PocketPCs are not adequate substitutes.
And were Carly Fiorina and Edie Falco separated at birth?
No.