Your probably not reading the same Bible. The one you want is the fundamentalist version. It's the one that only includes Leviticus and Revelations . . .
And I can say that all this about MS closing accounts without proper investigation is absolute BS. I send hundreds of messages a day and . . . #$_ACK . . . [carrier lost]
The only way to be totally secure, is to park your monkey ass in a shallow underground bunker and NEVER leave. Ever. Pray that your God delivers you food and water, because actually having someone deliver it is a risk. Going to the store to buy it is a risk. Eating anything ever handled by another human being is a risk.
In other words, welcome back to the dawn of man where just being alive is a security risk!
There is a deeper problem here. Any idoiot that believes if we only collected more information, we'd be a lot more safer, is fooling themselves and ignoring a much greater set of problems.
Terrorism exist because of anger, distrust, and a sense of hopelessness and/or exploitation. Deal with the core issues as they arrive, instead of waiting for them to fester and explode, and it is entirely possible to limit, if not actually eliminate, the rage quite literally blowing back in your face.
But its neither easy or convenient to think like this - in a capitalist society, some would even consider it heresy. It's time consuming - don't think that declaring a Palestinian state would make Osama retire tomorrow. It demands a greater understanding of foreign culture, idealogy, and history - don't assume that global economics will eventually "buy" peace by making all the citizens of the world consumers in a common market. It'll cost time and (get ready to flinch) money.
As a nation, the U.S seems far more attentive to the fear and loathing aspects of human existence, than it does its so-called "Christian" beliefs and values - there is very little of Christ in American christianity right now - and most of the fear is centered on pure and simple economic greed. Blame mass marketing, blame capitalism, blame anything, but this country loves its money and all the toys it can buy more than it has ever loved anything else. Other cultures see this, and resent it, and learn to hate it.
Just stop to think for one second what the goodwill payoff would be if a country like the U.S spent just one-tenth of its defense budget on development programs in third world countries. Millions of people would benefit, and, to give the hard-core capitalists a reality check, would be more likely to invest in U.S products and interests.
Just so my point is clear. Increased data collection will not stop the terrorists.
It will, however, make it easier to market to the families of the victims . . .
Here's a good one. Try visiting the KPMG homepage with Mozilla. You get . . . nothing. Not even a browser compatibility error. Just lovely whitespace and title bar text. There's not a single line of plain text anywhere on the page.
And it's not just the U.S. site - the Australian page only gives you a single site menu and a couple of colored bars. It's absolutely unforgivable for a company that large to be that ignorant about web design.
Don't tell me your site won't work with my browser.
Instead, how about learning some fundamental HTML skills and crafting a page that any user can read. Seesm to me like the more folks that read it, the greater the chances your ads will have an impact.
The distinction was between GUI features vs. CLI features. "Features", as I use the term, refers to all of the additional ways that a program like Word provides to fuck up a document - autoformatting, auto-outlining, Clippy, etc. Some times, I just want to type and not worry about about fancy formatting until later. Also, its just plain silly to have to load a resource hog like word when all I want to do is type a short note.
You know, this reminded me of something that's been tickling the back of my mind for some time now.
At the beginning of my tech career, just about everything was done through the commend line, and of course, I liked it and got somewhat good at it. However, once GUIs arrived, I dutifully switched over like a happy wage slave and gradually learned to forget about some of the more obscure CLI commands as they mostly had a GUI counterpart that at least handled the basic functions.
In the past few years, though, I've since switched a number of servers from NT to either BSD or Linux, and, as there was no need for X-Windows on any of them, I left the GUI off and managed solely from the CLI. The funny thing is, now that I've more or less drifted back into strictly CLI mode, GUI based software drives me absolutely nuts! Now whenever I need to crank out short documents or mail messages, I'm twice as likely to fire up "vi" or even Windows notepad as opposed to something like Word or WordPerfect. It's almost as if my mind has gotten so tired of the extra features found in GUI based software that its beginning to revolt, favoring the old ways over the new.
A capitalist wants to concentrate all of the wealth in one person.
But this begs the one question that not one capitalist will dare to consider: Then what?
Once all the wealth is concentrated in one person (not that this would ever be possible), what happens next? Does the world stop with a victory celebration for the winner? Does Jesus/Allah/Vishnu/Buddha drop by for a congratulatory hug and a champagne shower? Do the people without the wealth cease to exist?
Seriously. What happens next? What is the prize for winning the capitalist game?
I've found that the best way to record my passwords and not have to worry about some nefarious h4x0r types stealing it is to get it reverse tattooed on my ass.
The obvious advantage is they're not visible to the wandering eye, and if I ever forget one, a quick glimpse in the mirror is all I need to refresh my memory. Also, it's not like anyone's going to be trying to steal my ass anytime soon.
That's nothing. Back in my day we didn't have them fancy modem thingies. We sent the site raw binary data through the telegraph. Sure it took awhile to get anything worth reading, but damn, weren't we were satisfied just knowing we'd accomplished something . . .
I say if the companies want personal information for "market research" (translation: "so we can sell it at the end of the quarter to keep our profits up"), let 'em have it. Either give them as much absolute crap as you can dream up so their database is poisoned with enough garbage as to make the exercise unprofitable, or start charging for the privilege of an honest answer. They want a street address? Fine, that'll be $1000 U.S., per financial quarter. Let's call it "an exercise in capitalism".
Either way, the fact that they'll actually have to spend money to get/keep/use the data will drive them bat-shit crazy.
They let Chad make the decision. He wasn't doing anything anyway, just hanging around, dangling his opinions. Some of the women on the panel thought his dimples were cute . . .
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Your probably not reading the same Bible. The one you want is the fundamentalist version. It's the one that only includes Leviticus and Revelations . . .
And I can say that all this about MS closing accounts without proper investigation is absolute BS. I send hundreds of messages a day and . . . #$_ACK . . . [carrier lost]
Yep:
Of course, you may have to actually pay for the stuff this time . . .
I call bullshit.
The only way to be totally secure , is to park your monkey ass in a shallow underground bunker and NEVER leave. Ever. Pray that your God delivers you food and water, because actually having someone deliver it is a risk. Going to the store to buy it is a risk. Eating anything ever handled by another human being is a risk.
In other words, welcome back to the dawn of man where just being alive is a security risk!
There is a deeper problem here. Any idoiot that believes if we only collected more information, we'd be a lot more safer, is fooling themselves and ignoring a much greater set of problems.
Terrorism exist because of anger, distrust, and a sense of hopelessness and/or exploitation. Deal with the core issues as they arrive, instead of waiting for them to fester and explode, and it is entirely possible to limit, if not actually eliminate, the rage quite literally blowing back in your face.
But its neither easy or convenient to think like this - in a capitalist society, some would even consider it heresy. It's time consuming - don't think that declaring a Palestinian state would make Osama retire tomorrow. It demands a greater understanding of foreign culture, idealogy, and history - don't assume that global economics will eventually "buy" peace by making all the citizens of the world consumers in a common market. It'll cost time and (get ready to flinch) money.
As a nation, the U.S seems far more attentive to the fear and loathing aspects of human existence, than it does its so-called "Christian" beliefs and values - there is very little of Christ in American christianity right now - and most of the fear is centered on pure and simple economic greed. Blame mass marketing, blame capitalism, blame anything, but this country loves its money and all the toys it can buy more than it has ever loved anything else. Other cultures see this, and resent it, and learn to hate it.
Just stop to think for one second what the goodwill payoff would be if a country like the U.S spent just one-tenth of its defense budget on development programs in third world countries. Millions of people would benefit, and, to give the hard-core capitalists a reality check, would be more likely to invest in U.S products and interests.
Just so my point is clear. Increased data collection will not stop the terrorists.
It will, however, make it easier to market to the families of the victims . . .
. . . all the Quad Damage power ups? And just who's gonna float around the ocean dropping 'em off as far way from the respawn site as possible?
Here's a good one. Try visiting the KPMG homepage with Mozilla. You get . . . nothing. Not even a browser compatibility error. Just lovely whitespace and title bar text. There's not a single line of plain text anywhere on the page.
And it's not just the U.S. site - the Australian page only gives you a single site menu and a couple of colored bars. It's absolutely unforgivable for a company that large to be that ignorant about web design.
Instead, how about learning some fundamental HTML skills and crafting a page that any user can read. Seesm to me like the more folks that read it, the greater the chances your ads will have an impact.
Not at all.
The distinction was between GUI features vs. CLI features. "Features", as I use the term, refers to all of the additional ways that a program like Word provides to fuck up a document - autoformatting, auto-outlining, Clippy, etc. Some times, I just want to type and not worry about about fancy formatting until later. Also, its just plain silly to have to load a resource hog like word when all I want to do is type a short note.
You know, this reminded me of something that's been tickling the back of my mind for some time now.
At the beginning of my tech career, just about everything was done through the commend line, and of course, I liked it and got somewhat good at it. However, once GUIs arrived, I dutifully switched over like a happy wage slave and gradually learned to forget about some of the more obscure CLI commands as they mostly had a GUI counterpart that at least handled the basic functions.
In the past few years, though, I've since switched a number of servers from NT to either BSD or Linux, and, as there was no need for X-Windows on any of them, I left the GUI off and managed solely from the CLI. The funny thing is, now that I've more or less drifted back into strictly CLI mode, GUI based software drives me absolutely nuts! Now whenever I need to crank out short documents or mail messages, I'm twice as likely to fire up "vi" or even Windows notepad as opposed to something like Word or WordPerfect. It's almost as if my mind has gotten so tired of the extra features found in GUI based software that its beginning to revolt, favoring the old ways over the new.
. . . or the boss's nephew.
You may want to "right-click, Save As" that puppy . . .
...is Oligarchy
I don't know, dude. That was a pretty scary video . . .
But this begs the one question that not one capitalist will dare to consider: Then what?
Once all the wealth is concentrated in one person (not that this would ever be possible), what happens next? Does the world stop with a victory celebration for the winner? Does Jesus/Allah/Vishnu/Buddha drop by for a congratulatory hug and a champagne shower? Do the people without the wealth cease to exist?
Seriously. What happens next? What is the prize for winning the capitalist game?
I've found that the best way to record my passwords and not have to worry about some nefarious h4x0r types stealing it is to get it reverse tattooed on my ass.
The obvious advantage is they're not visible to the wandering eye, and if I ever forget one, a quick glimpse in the mirror is all I need to refresh my memory. Also, it's not like anyone's going to be trying to steal my ass anytime soon.
I was thinking I'd just hang a lifesized painting of someone else's house in front of my house . . .
If they aren't, one of the other groups should put a Godzilla in front of the cam. Or maybe even stage a Dino v. Godzilla stop-motion deathmatch!
That's nothing. Back in my day we didn't have them fancy modem thingies. We sent the site raw binary data through the telegraph. Sure it took awhile to get anything worth reading, but damn, weren't we were satisfied just knowing we'd accomplished something . . .
I say if the companies want personal information for "market research" (translation: "so we can sell it at the end of the quarter to keep our profits up"), let 'em have it. Either give them as much absolute crap as you can dream up so their database is poisoned with enough garbage as to make the exercise unprofitable, or start charging for the privilege of an honest answer. They want a street address? Fine, that'll be $1000 U.S., per financial quarter. Let's call it "an exercise in capitalism".
Either way, the fact that they'll actually have to spend money to get/keep/use the data will drive them bat-shit crazy.
For a brief primer, read this article.
Here's the URL's to some other updates that'll "patch" things up:
Enjoy!
Buy the book and maybe you'll get a CD . . .
Somehow, I just don't see this happening . . .
It's the one with the red "S" on its chest . . .
Ba dum bump.
Naw.
They let Chad make the decision. He wasn't doing anything anyway, just hanging around, dangling his opinions. Some of the women on the panel thought his dimples were cute . . .