Do you honestly have something to be paranoid about in your phone conversations, or are they as ridiculous as 95% of the blogs out there. I don't think Homeland Security is really interested in the calls about your overdue credit cards.
Can I have your name and social security number? You don't have anything to hide so it shouldn't bother you? Your mother's maiden name is part of the public record so you might as well give that to me as well. Don't be paranoid I won't do anything bad. Honestly.
Trust your government as much as you trust your fellow citizen.
One of the most popular choices for president, among the blogger community, is Bill O'Reilly. He has a populist mindset, not a conservative one.
With the easing of restrictions on blogging in support of candidates, the bloggers will be out in force in 2008. O'Reilly has a good chance of becoming president if the damned leprechaun would just join the damned race.
What would his party platform be?
A hand on every (yah-yah), a vibrator in every (woo-hoo) and a falafel in every (meow)?
I mean c'mon. Is the sample size really large enough to make a call on the average number of years it takes for the onset of cataracts? How many people have walked the surface of the moon?
I did a survey at my cubicle and I conclude that 100% of the Earth's population agrees that the sample size is too small.
Did you hear about the Wembley Stadium roof collapse yesterday? Would they rather have that thing completed on time, filled with 100,000 people and then have the roof drop 1 metre?
Except that the iPod can already play files purchased from other music stores.
Any music store that sells in DRM-free mp3 format is completely compatible with the iPod.
What you mean that the stores won't sell in anything other than locked microsoft formats? How is that Apple's fault?
Good point. Somebody needs to show the French government those silver disks that can be ripped into music files and transferred to the iPod. What are those things called? Oh yeah, CDs.
Propaganda is a promotion of a cause or a particular idea - often times presented with a one-sided or distorted bias. Advertising is a promotion of a product or service - often times presented with a one-sided or distorted bias
Put it another way, advertising may compel me to become fat or poor while propaganda may lead me to the gallows or the gas chamber.
The person to write to is Michael Copps, since he's been leading the charge, since the Janet Jackson "malfunction".
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PS. He's a Democrat. Hope that dose of reality doesn't taint your world view.
Get your facts straight.
Michael Copps is not the head of the FCC, he is one of five commissioners to the FCC. The Chairman of the FCC is Kevin Martin (Republican). The FCC is led by five commissioners with one appointed as the chairman. By law there can't be more than three members of the same party so Bush has to appoint two Democrats. In this case, he finds a couple Democrats In Name Only (DINOs) to fill the job.
The only way these extremely prude, old ass ignorant senators are going to be able to stop kids from looking at porn [...snip...] is to simply ban porn sites.
What an excellent simple solution - just ban porn sites. After we ban porn sites, let's ban drunk driving. Cool! No more drunk driving.
But many states have laws saying that a vote recount can _only_ be done if the votes are within 1-2 percentage points. So they can rig the machines to make sure it's 3 or 4% in their candidates favour and any recount would be illegal.. and your paper receipt is hopelessly lost in the void.
In Washington State, any candidate or party officer can request a recount as long as they come up with the money to pay for the recount ($400,000 to $700,000 for a statewide race).
This is a good countermeasure against massive fraud - as long as there is a paper trail to recount. Hopefully other states have a similar provision in the election laws - be wary if your state is trying to get rid of this provision.
Not only that, but the thing just looks like a big advertisement for the Mac Mini. There are overall two sentences about Windows MCE in the entire 'article'
So if the article was entirely about Windows MCE with only two sentences about the Mac mini - would it be a big advertisement about Windows MCE?
No, ultimately there are a large number of factors which are (probably) contributing to this decline. They've all been said over and over, but here they are again:
* Bad movie theater experience (screaming kids, cellphones, etc.)
* Increasing ticket prices
* Lower quality movies, in general
* Shorter DVD release times
and quite likely the biggest factor:
* The Internet.
I also have to include:
* Laser pointers on the screen. * Too many commercials before the film starts. * Lower quality presentation of the film (dim bulbs, dirty screens, scratched film and shitty seats).
What about black mail? If there's some guy who paid for a gay site they could threaten to reveal this info to family members if they don't get paid. Or some fundamentalist who hates gay people could decide to "name and shame" everyone by posting the list to an open website.
Interesting points but the article didn't mention that website names were included in the stolen database so I am assuming there is no way for the blackmailer to know what sites the blackmailee was visiting.
If a fundy got all righteous and listed names in the stolen database - I could easily deny using the iBill for porn sites - the article states "that pornography made up 85 percent of the business." Just say that I am part of the 15% that didn't use iBill for porn.
Anyway - I am not saying this is a good thing - just not a big deal.
They have names, addresses and phone numbers but no credit card numbers or social security numbers. Isn't this basically the same information you can find in the phone book?
About the only thing one can do with this information is crank calls and spam.
The original article said it would be up through Friday, why the early shutdown? Maybe it stayed up for 38 hours or whatever and then someone got in, so they post-pre-maturely ended the contest the minute before the crack?
More like the campus IT head went ape shit regarding the amount of bandwidth eaten up by this contest.
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Trust your government as much as you trust your fellow citizen.
A hand on every (yah-yah), a vibrator in every (woo-hoo) and a falafel in every (meow)?
:)
Somebody needs to show the French government those silver disks that can be ripped into music files and transferred to the iPod. What are those things called? Oh yeah, CDs.
And if they are imported into the US, we can rename them "FreedomPods" and "FreedomTunes".
I'll be the karma whore.
Propaganda is a promotion of a cause or a particular idea - often times presented with a one-sided or distorted bias.
Advertising is a promotion of a product or service - often times presented with a one-sided or distorted bias
Put it another way, advertising may compel me to become fat or poor while propaganda may lead me to the gallows or the gas chamber.
A virtual sweatshop.
Michael Copps is not the head of the FCC, he is one of five commissioners to the FCC. The Chairman of the FCC is Kevin Martin (Republican). The FCC is led by five commissioners with one appointed as the chairman. By law there can't be more than three members of the same party so Bush has to appoint two Democrats. In this case, he finds a couple Democrats In Name Only (DINOs) to fill the job.
also,
Heh heh heh, you said "taint". Heh heh heh.
I propose a new variation on Godwin's Law - the Engle/Fiala Law .
If the term "fanboy/fanboi" is used in a post, regardless of the author's intention, the entire post must be ignored.
(The Engle/Fiala Law applies to this post.)
This is a good countermeasure against massive fraud - as long as there is a paper trail to recount. Hopefully other states have a similar provision in the election laws - be wary if your state is trying to get rid of this provision.
Just curious.
BTW, I think everyone would agree that the "etc." includes "fuck you very much".
* Laser pointers on the screen.
* Too many commercials before the film starts.
* Lower quality presentation of the film (dim bulbs, dirty screens, scratched film and shitty seats).
If a fundy got all righteous and listed names in the stolen database - I could easily deny using the iBill for porn sites - the article states "that pornography made up 85 percent of the business." Just say that I am part of the 15% that didn't use iBill for porn.
Anyway - I am not saying this is a good thing - just not a big deal.
About the only thing one can do with this information is crank calls and spam.
Big deal.
More like the campus IT head went ape shit regarding the amount of bandwidth eaten up by this contest.
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