Just a friendly reminder to put things in perspective, they proposed that stupid "Clipper" initiative under the Clinton Administration. Also, Janet Reno, Bill Clinton's Attorney General made some very anti-encryption statements. One of them was invoking a hypothetical case where a criminal used encryption to hide after kidnapping a child, if I'm not mistaken.
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Does this quotation not come to mind. It seems a bit strange to dredge it up now, but if you think about it, it seems that the governments fear the people and the people fear the governments at the same time.
I was reading the paper this afternoon, there was a caricature of Usama Bin Laden with the caption, "I hablo espanol, too." I suppose that means that the FBI will need an interpreter for when Usama Bin Laden sends out his message, Fu|X0r teh 3\/IL cru54d3rz. 0ea7h 2 4m3r1ka!!!
I j5st tried thiJ out wi_* my MAXTOR 80YB 7&00 RPM hard dFDve. It's ju7t amazifg; it says that I have over 200 GB unfoFGatted, with almosF 190 GB for3atted. I'm sure that the risks are all overstated. Who needs Gga3 for error correcGion and bad blocks, or whatever. It's just paranoia. If you want mor6 stFrage space, go try this out right sgrGREG][2fFS3g4
It just didn't work out. My dad views me as a LINUX zealot; I view him as a MS sycophant. It was my grandmother's computer I set it up on. Everyone but my grandmother would boot it back into Windows so it was never running LINUX.
Oh, by the way, in SOVIET RUSSIA, your parents' computer protects YOU.
Oh God no, I'll never let them put one of their mind control thingies in me. I swear, if I ever found out that they tried to put something like that in my head, I would take their stupid implant and#FA3T32FEAFf3#r325[NO CARRIER]
Put the gun down and walk away. Immediately place your hands behind your head and lay face down on the ground. Your life is at risk if you do not comply.
English-Spanish-English
Put the weapon down and you walk far. Immediately put its hands behind its head and put the Earth face down. Its life is in the risk if you it is not satisfied.
English-Japanese-English Put in place the gun, walk. Immediately, put your hand in the rear of your head, on the land put the surface. Your life is if you do not follow dangerously.
English-Korean-English The gun let in lower part and walk far. Your hand let immediately after your head and in ground put the face in lower part. When you do not follow and your life is dangerous.
English-German-English The rifle, those in the lower part is let go and far. Their hand, which was left immediately after your head and in the soil, inserted the face into lower part. If you do not follow and your life are dangerous.
English-Chinese-English Lays down the gun and gets out of the way. Places your hand immediately after yours head and the laying aside face gets down in the ground. Your life is in the danger if you do not comply.
I'm never going to buy anything from the Babelfish's "Systran" sponsor for that.
Actually, it was stated emphatically by the Eolas guy that he wouldn't license his technology to Microsoft because he wanted to hurt their position in the browser wars.
I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one. My younger brother, when he had a problem with his computer, replaced a genuine copy of Windows with a frickin w4r3z copy. I don't like Microsoft any more than the next/.er, but I got totally pissed off when he wanted me to make the odd prompts to insert the original Windows XP CD go away. I don't know how that crap works. I use LINUX and I don't deal with that, and most of my proprietary software is legit and paid for. We have three computers at my family's place and now only one of them works. I think it has to do with the fact that my father and I demanded that no one install Kazaa on my grandmother's laptop machine.
I am the computer guru in the family, but my father even distrusts me when it comes to computers. At first, he insisted that I did touch his mother's computer because he was afraid I might try to put that LINUX crap that nobody knows how to use on her machine or fuck it up in God knows what way. I guess it's ironic that my grandmother and I are the only ones in the family now who have a computer that works. Of course, I've trashed mine a number of times tinkering with system files, but I knew the risks when I did that and was prepared to do a new system reinstall.
The thing that is so pathetic ( or so funny, depending on your point of view ) is that my brother at one point was almost like a coke addict when I suggested that we get rid of Kazaa. DAMN YOU, you freaking panzie; you wanna pay for everything; you stupid !@#@, we can get the stuff for free; you blame every #@!$@1 problem on Kazaa, you $!@#-faced liar. However, the ultimate irony was when he got hosed when he tried to download Norton Anti-Virus from Kazaa. I think he finally bit off more than he could chew with that one, and then the computer went to the shop because I'm thousands of miles away now;)
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why not make a 'Do not spam' registry and have the whole spaming industry regulated?
How about because most of the spammers are crooks and criminals anyways, and many aren't under US jurisdiction.
If you had told us a year ago that we were going get a $50M investment from Baystar, we would have given anything for that. And you know something, Mr. Stallman, you wanna know something?
Not only are we going after IBM; we're going after Daimler-Chrysler. We're going after AutoZone, and we're going to go after Bank of America. And then we're going to go to Finland to take back the source code. Yeeaaarrrghhh!!!!
For a second there, I was afraid that I might be about to click on a goatse mirror, since you were talking about him placing his pinkie over his MOUTH.
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I heard this funny story about those dumb chirping signals. Here it is:
A friend from Vermont came to visit last week. When he heard the signal chirping, he asked me what it was for. I expained that the signal chirps so that blind people will know when the signal changes. He said, "Wow, that's awfully odd. In Vermont, we don't let blind people drive!"
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Just a friendly reminder to put things in perspective, they proposed that stupid "Clipper" initiative under the Clinton Administration. Also, Janet Reno, Bill Clinton's Attorney General made some very anti-encryption statements. One of them was invoking a hypothetical case where a criminal used encryption to hide after kidnapping a child, if I'm not mistaken.
Does this quotation not come to mind. It seems a bit strange to dredge it up now, but if you think about it, it seems that the governments fear the people and the people fear the governments at the same time.
I was reading the paper this afternoon, there was a caricature of Usama Bin Laden with the caption, "I hablo espanol, too." I suppose that means that the FBI will need an interpreter for when Usama Bin Laden sends out his message,
Fu|X0r teh 3\/IL cru54d3rz. 0ea7h 2 4m3r1ka!!!
I, for one, welcome our new Robotcop overlords.
I'll show them. I'm fighting back. I'm going to launch my own persoFEAgfe523}';fw[NO CARRIER]
I thought that Windows (R) is a Weapon of Mass Distraction.
Thanks for sharing with us how you like to spend your spare time!!!
I j5st tried thiJ out wi_* my MAXTOR 80YB 7&00 RPM hard dFDve. It's ju7t amazifg; it says that I have over 200 GB unfoFGatted, with almosF 190 GB for3atted. I'm sure that the risks are all overstated. Who needs Gga3 for error correcGion and bad blocks, or whatever. It's just paranoia. If you want mor6 stFrage space, go try this out right sgrGREG][2fFS3g4
Oh, by the way, in SOVIET RUSSIA, your parents' computer protects YOU.
I suppose that Darl McBride is trying to further his claims that his enemies are out to kill him, eh?
That has already been done.
Oh God no, I'll never let them put one of their mind control thingies in me. I swear, if I ever found out that they tried to put something like that in my head, I would take their stupid implant and#FA3T32FEAFf3#r325[NO CARRIER]
English-Spanish-English
Put the weapon down and you walk far. Immediately put its hands behind its head and put the Earth face down. Its life is in the risk if you it is not satisfied.
English-Japanese-English
Put in place the gun, walk. Immediately, put your hand in the rear of your head, on the land put the surface. Your life is if you do not follow dangerously.
English-Korean-English
The gun let in lower part and walk far. Your hand let immediately after your head and in ground put the face in lower part. When you do not follow and your life is dangerous.
English-German-English
The rifle, those in the lower part is let go and far. Their hand, which was left immediately after your head and in the soil, inserted the face into lower part. If you do not follow and your life are dangerous.
English-Chinese-English
Lays down the gun and gets out of the way. Places your hand immediately after yours head and the laying aside face gets down in the ground. Your life is in the danger if you do not comply.
I'm never going to buy anything from the Babelfish's "Systran" sponsor for that.
Actually, it was stated emphatically by the Eolas guy that he wouldn't license his technology to Microsoft because he wanted to hurt their position in the browser wars.
Oops, I meant spyware, not spam.
Seriously, I'm not trolling, but has Bill Gates or Steve Balmer made any kind of statement of what the Microsoft Way of dealing with spam might be?
I am the computer guru in the family, but my father even distrusts me when it comes to computers. At first, he insisted that I did touch his mother's computer because he was afraid I might try to put that LINUX crap that nobody knows how to use on her machine or fuck it up in God knows what way. I guess it's ironic that my grandmother and I are the only ones in the family now who have a computer that works. Of course, I've trashed mine a number of times tinkering with system files, but I knew the risks when I did that and was prepared to do a new system reinstall.
The thing that is so pathetic ( or so funny, depending on your point of view ) is that my brother at one point was almost like a coke addict when I suggested that we get rid of Kazaa. DAMN YOU, you freaking panzie; you wanna pay for everything; you stupid !@#@, we can get the stuff for free; you blame every #@!$@1 problem on Kazaa, you $!@#-faced liar. However, the ultimate irony was when he got hosed when he tried to download Norton Anti-Virus from Kazaa. I think he finally bit off more than he could chew with that one, and then the computer went to the shop because I'm thousands of miles away now ;)
How about because most of the spammers are crooks and criminals anyways, and many aren't under US jurisdiction.
Not only are we going after IBM; we're going after Daimler-Chrysler. We're going after AutoZone, and we're going to go after Bank of America. And then we're going to go to Finland to take back the source code. Yeeaaarrrghhh!!!!
Don't be so closed minded. They could easily be both evil and stupid.
For a second there, I was afraid that I might be about to click on a goatse mirror, since you were talking about him placing his pinkie over his MOUTH.
Perhaps they are fighting back for Microsoft in the same style that we attacked them.
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A friend from Vermont came to visit last week. When he heard the signal chirping, he asked me what it was for. I expained that the signal chirps so that blind people will know when the signal changes. He said, "Wow, that's awfully odd. In Vermont, we don't let blind people drive!"
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