The correct answer for "How would you move mount Fuju?" is not "I wouldn't - it's fine right where it is." that is the correct answer for "Would you move mount Fuji?" Nobody asked if you wanted to.
Take that Iraq, Iran, and North Korea!
Nobody in the "axis of evil" can touch our incarceration rate! If we are to preserve our lead we must start incarcerating file traders. American will win the war on freedom! Other regimes think they are oppressive, but nobody has the jail capacity of the United States. So you can gas Kurds with your American made anthrax Iraq, and you can test your missiles North Korea, and you can oppress women Iran, but you will never be able to compete with the prison state that is the United States of America!
Has anyone else seen the old documentaries on how pollution was going to lead to another ice age? Before there was global warming there was global cooling and all of it was blamed on pollution. Don't get me wrong, eventually pollution will catch up with us, but it's important to think about the implications of blaming global temperature changes on the cause of the hour. The earth is always either warming up or cooling down. That's what it does, always has, always will (hopefully). Nature doesn't stay constant.
Whenever I tell people I don't buy global warming they look at me like I just sprayed DDT on the Galapagos Islands. Not buying global warming != supporting global pollution. I may not believe that pollution is increasing our temperature, but I do believe that it is increasing our cancer rate, which in my mind is much worst. Maybe if I hadn't seen those documentaries on global cooling my perspective would be different.
And one more thing. OH COME ON! The day the war started in Iraq we had THOUSANDS of US soldiers fighting in Afghanistan against the remains of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, but for you know that, you'd have to know what you are talking about... and that doesn't seem to be happening.
By "know what your talking about" do you mean buy every headline that CNN passes off as news? I know the headline your talking about. Thousands of troops begin a major military action in Afganistan or something like that. The headline was aired as we were just beginning our invasion of Iraq. It was meant to "prove" that Afganistan and the real war on terror was still a priority. What the headline left out was that U.S. troops were taken out of Afganistan to fight in Iraq. Next time you see a headline like this on CNN dig a little deeper. CNN is not reality; it is a communication tool.
My point was where our priorities are. Right now, Afganistan is not a priority. There may be some soldiers still fighting, but not as many soldiers are fighting to keep the peace in Afganistan as are fighting to wage war in Iraq. If we are going to invade a country and replace its government, we have to be willing to DO IT RIGHT. The U.S. claims all these altruistic goals when it justifies war, but once we convince everybody that we are fighting for civilian "freedom" we just persue our own goals. We claimed to give Afganistan freedom, but left civil war. Is Iraq going to attack us within the next year or two? Of course not, so why don't we spend the next year or two devoting our energy to helping the people of Afganistan in a serious way? Because we don't really care about them. We killed who we needed to kill. We moved on. Sure, we still have operations in Afganistan, but nowhere near enough to actually keep the peace. Peace for civilians is not a high priority to the Bush administration. Not when you compare it to invading Iraq.
I have a CDMA cell-phone, and when I leave the country you know what I do? I LEAVE MY CELLPHONE IN MY HOUSE. If you want the Iraqis to be able to take their phones outside of their country, how about you use your money to build GSM towers... until then, there are these things called pay phones.
I have a CDMA phone and when I leave the country, I also leave it at home. As I rome Europe, staring at the advertisments for cell phones plans I think of how convenient it would be to have my trusty cell phone with me. I guess its my fault for buying a CDMA phone, but what I can't understand is why a military campaign meant to bring "freedom" to a country would actually force the country to use a cellular standard that would so limit their cellphones' usefulness. Then again maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. Maybe its more convenient to leave my cellphone in my house.
If the US didn't care at all, I would imagine that they would bomb all of Iraq to utter destruction kill every citizen they saw and only secure the oil wells and create military compounds around them. That would be easiest, cheapest, and the greatest return on the investment.
Please rememeber this part of your post 1-2 years from now. In Afganistan, the U.S. installed government only controls the capital. The rest of the country has fallen in to civil war. Fortunately Iraq has a very lucrative black substance peppering its land, so we can expect a bit more stability there. But the same priorities.
This forcing of a cellular standard that the rest of the region doesn't use demonstrates our concern about the Iraqi people. What do you say about a government that forces an impovrished people to buy 2 cellphones if they want to travel outside of iraq so that U.S. companies can make more money?
"Fair and Balanced" isn't just a lie. It is a conditioning system. If they repeat "Fair and Balanced" enough times, people will believe that "Fair and Balanced" really means blatant propaganda and the two minutes hate every 15 minutes. "Today Iraq cut off humanitarian aid to..." You know how it goes "...while the United States heroically attacked Saddam Hussein to bring humanitarian aid..."
The loss of Al Jazeera is a big deal. It is the loss of information about what is happening in Iraq that doesn't make it on the sanitized nightly news. We know our news is censored. Now, they (the U.S. government is obviously behind this) want to remove foreign sources of news from our televisions and computers. Whether you think the war is right or wrong, this kind of blatant censorship is contrary to fundamental American principles.
The U.S. also took out Iraqi TV yesterday morning, or at least "their satellite broadcasting dish." That leaves the United States press office as the only source of news about Iraq. Finally, we can get "fair and balanced" news on the air with no cumbersome contradictory information. Besides, questioning the war is unpatriotic.
I guess it's psy-ops media domination week in the Iraqi theater.
I think it is because pay per view is a service. You aren't paying for the movie, you are paying for the ability to watch it for a certain period of time, for a price. Thats the deal. There are alternatives, but few offer the same convenience.
On the other hand, there are no alternatives to buying crappy cds at high prices. You have 2 legal choices: pay too much for a cd that has only 2 good songs, which you may not even be able to burn to your own compilation cd, or don't listen to music. Yes there is free radio, but I personally prefer silence over idiot dj prattle and commercials for metabolife. Also the music sucks.
That pretty much only leaves people with one option for music: p2p. If it sends the record companies out of business that is a positive side effect. $20 for a cd?!?! How about $0 for every cd ever made. Most of them suck anyway but its nice to have the music around, just in case I ever want to listen to them. "Stealing" from record companies is like beating up the school bully.
Support real artists by buying their cd if it is not on a major label. If it is on a major label, download all of their tracks, burn them to CDs, and send the artists what you think a cd should cost in the mail. Chances are its more than they get per cd from the record company.
In response to Japan's cahsfree smart card, the Bush administration is unveiling the cashfree school. The main difference from the old system is the replacement of funding with tax breaks. No longer will you have to attend a properly funded school. Instead you can stop paying taxes on dividends, and send your kids to a private school. This is sure to help American workers' employers' CEO's rich uncles. And fight terrorism.
Change Lincoln Navigator to Honda Civic and your in the clear. Pot and piracy doesn't fund terrorism, but oil funds wars.
If you live in Houston, then the only thing hazier then the air in you Navigator, is the air outside you Navigator.
The United States funded Al-Qaeda and the Taliban with, you guessed it, Taxpayer money. Al-Qaeda (not Iraq) took town the WTC using CIA training. When you pay your taxes you fund terrorism, repressive regimes, and reduction of civil liberties. That means that you can't get around funding terrorism, even if you wanted to. Don't pay your taxes, go to jail. Don't agree with the government, get labeled a terrorist, go to jail without a trial.
How can we avoid funding terrorism? I'm glad you asked! All it takes is one country. If only one country in the world refused to fund terrorists, prohibit marijuana (you couldnt even lie about it funding terrorists if it was legal), allow fair use of music and software, become energy independent, and generally not turn victimless activities that you disagree with into crimes which create black markets and violence we could all move there.
Seriously, if we spent half as much money solving social problems at home as we do creating problems abroad there is no telling where we would be. We need a country with a carbon copy of the U.S. constitution that would respect it so that freedom loving citizens of the world could finally live in peace. I am tired of funding the slaughter of (mostly dark skinned) civilians both here and abroad every time I pay my taxes.
Now, Whose coming with me?
The FTC has limited authority to police telemarketing calls from certain industries, including airlines, banks and telephone companies. The Federal Communications Commission, which oversees calls made by those industries, has been working with the FTC and is considering adding its clout to the program.
The FTC is CONSIDERING adding its clout?!?! Banks and telephone companies are the biggest telemarketers in the first place. If I get one more call about changing my phone company, credit card, or morgage (after I get on the list), I will [insert unlikely and irrational threat] the FTC!
Does the TiVo change the channel itself to record the program or does it just get the signal from the digital cable settop box and record whatever channel it is on? Does TiVo have any way of interacting with the digital cable settop box? Can it read the digital cable signal directly?
What do you think the chances are of digital cable being compatible with TiVo any time soon? Do you think the cable companies want you to be able to skip commercials and watch programs at you leisure? T.V. networks tried to ban tivo. Cable companies display T.V. networks. I think that the cable companies will adopt Mystro, if for no other reason then because they retain complete control of the content.
America is no longer the country it once was. We are living under a totalitarian regime. Do you really think this bullshit, "threat assessment" is going to really improve air travel safety? The obvious answere is no. They are just going to keep searching dark skinned people, just like the have been since the Reichstag, I mean World Trade Center went down.
CAPPS is not meant to prevent terrorism. It is meant to keep dissidents under control, and if possible out of our country. It is also meant to justify the massive amounts of information that the government is now compiling on every one of us.
This is part of an obvious trend of policies that eliminate privacy and freedom. Fun activity: Next time the terrorist threat level goes from yellow to orange watch C-Span to learn about what new laws the Big Brother has planned to make us safer. There is a direct correlation between the "terror alert color" and how Orwellian government proposals get. Last time it was orange, Bush told us that we had to attack Iraq because they support terror, subtlely implying that by attacking Iraq we would reduce our terrorist threat.
Our president claims that invading a middleastern country will reduce our threat of terrorism. CAPPS is not about terrorism, just like Iraq is not about terrorism, just like (fill in the blank) is not about terrorism. Wake up and smell the government.
By the way, did anyone else see the news story about how hacked Direct TV cards support terrorism? Nothing supports terrorism more than paying your taxes.
I think if he and Al Quaeda (sp?) have a common enemy, they might join forces. AND, can you really take Bin Laden's word that he doesn't like Saddam?
Ok, so Iraq sells weapons to terrorists. Lets think about how this justifies a war for a minute. The U.S. has funded, trained, and supplied terrorists (Al-Qaeda). Im sure we still are and in 20 years we will be catching it in the ass from the same people who we are now funding, supplying, and training to fight the "war on terror". Shouldn't the rest of the world attack the U.S. for funding terrorists?
Also, please stop calling the US a freedom loving country. We are a freedom loving people, but the government is not freedom loving. Every day our freedoms are reduced even more and eventually they simply will not exist. Think about this: you can read whatever you want on the Internet, even if it is counter to U.S. policy, BUT you will be watched and logged by the FBI, CIA, etc...Now think about those agancies' record on civil liberties and you can judge for yourself wether or not the US is a freedom loving country.
Do yourself a favor and read 1984. Note that "Big Brother" is always at war with somebody, and then look back on the last 50 years of U.S. history. Its just one war after another, and the "war on terror" is by defenition never going to end. Surveilance of every citizen is just the tip of the iceburg.
Your right; games are being played. A reporter asks Ari Fleisher (sp?) why Americans should believe the Governemnt about Iraq considering how we been defrauded in the past (Gulf of Tonkin). His response: Its not about wether you can believe our government. Its about wether you can believe Saddam Hussein. That statement shows that the government thinks that we have been conditioned to believe anything. How can trust in our government not be an issue?
The Bush administration is dangerouse. The U.S. is now a rogue state, working outside of the United Nations. Disarm George W. Bush in 2004!
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The correct answer for "How would you move mount Fuju?" is not "I wouldn't - it's fine right where it is." that is the correct answer for "Would you move mount Fuji?" Nobody asked if you wanted to.
shake the shit out of it.
NYTimes and other websites that require a free account have begun limiting the number of people that can be logged in to a single account at once.
Take that Iraq, Iran, and North Korea! Nobody in the "axis of evil" can touch our incarceration rate! If we are to preserve our lead we must start incarcerating file traders. American will win the war on freedom! Other regimes think they are oppressive, but nobody has the jail capacity of the United States. So you can gas Kurds with your American made anthrax Iraq, and you can test your missiles North Korea, and you can oppress women Iran, but you will never be able to compete with the prison state that is the United States of America!
Has anyone else seen the old documentaries on how pollution was going to lead to another ice age? Before there was global warming there was global cooling and all of it was blamed on pollution. Don't get me wrong, eventually pollution will catch up with us, but it's important to think about the implications of blaming global temperature changes on the cause of the hour. The earth is always either warming up or cooling down. That's what it does, always has, always will (hopefully). Nature doesn't stay constant.
Whenever I tell people I don't buy global warming they look at me like I just sprayed DDT on the Galapagos Islands. Not buying global warming != supporting global pollution. I may not believe that pollution is increasing our temperature, but I do believe that it is increasing our cancer rate, which in my mind is much worst. Maybe if I hadn't seen those documentaries on global cooling my perspective would be different.
And one more thing.
OH COME ON! The day the war started in Iraq we had THOUSANDS of US soldiers fighting in Afghanistan against the remains of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, but for you know that, you'd have to know what you are talking about... and that doesn't seem to be happening.
By "know what your talking about" do you mean buy every headline that CNN passes off as news? I know the headline your talking about. Thousands of troops begin a major military action in Afganistan or something like that. The headline was aired as we were just beginning our invasion of Iraq. It was meant to "prove" that Afganistan and the real war on terror was still a priority. What the headline left out was that U.S. troops were taken out of Afganistan to fight in Iraq. Next time you see a headline like this on CNN dig a little deeper. CNN is not reality; it is a communication tool.
My point was where our priorities are. Right now, Afganistan is not a priority. There may be some soldiers still fighting, but not as many soldiers are fighting to keep the peace in Afganistan as are fighting to wage war in Iraq. If we are going to invade a country and replace its government, we have to be willing to DO IT RIGHT. The U.S. claims all these altruistic goals when it justifies war, but once we convince everybody that we are fighting for civilian "freedom" we just persue our own goals. We claimed to give Afganistan freedom, but left civil war. Is Iraq going to attack us within the next year or two? Of course not, so why don't we spend the next year or two devoting our energy to helping the people of Afganistan in a serious way? Because we don't really care about them. We killed who we needed to kill. We moved on. Sure, we still have operations in Afganistan, but nowhere near enough to actually keep the peace. Peace for civilians is not a high priority to the Bush administration. Not when you compare it to invading Iraq.
I have a CDMA cell-phone, and when I leave the country you know what I do? I LEAVE MY CELLPHONE IN MY HOUSE. If you want the Iraqis to be able to take their phones outside of their country, how about you use your money to build GSM towers... until then, there are these things called pay phones.
I have a CDMA phone and when I leave the country, I also leave it at home. As I rome Europe, staring at the advertisments for cell phones plans I think of how convenient it would be to have my trusty cell phone with me. I guess its my fault for buying a CDMA phone, but what I can't understand is why a military campaign meant to bring "freedom" to a country would actually force the country to use a cellular standard that would so limit their cellphones' usefulness. Then again maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. Maybe its more convenient to leave my cellphone in my house.
If the US didn't care at all, I would imagine that they would bomb all of Iraq to utter destruction kill every citizen they saw and only secure the oil wells and create military compounds around them. That would be easiest, cheapest, and the greatest return on the investment.
Please rememeber this part of your post 1-2 years from now. In Afganistan, the U.S. installed government only controls the capital. The rest of the country has fallen in to civil war. Fortunately Iraq has a very lucrative black substance peppering its land, so we can expect a bit more stability there. But the same priorities.
This forcing of a cellular standard that the rest of the region doesn't use demonstrates our concern about the Iraqi people. What do you say about a government that forces an impovrished people to buy 2 cellphones if they want to travel outside of iraq so that U.S. companies can make more money?
"Fair and Balanced" isn't just a lie. It is a conditioning system. If they repeat "Fair and Balanced" enough times, people will believe that "Fair and Balanced" really means blatant propaganda and the two minutes hate every 15 minutes. "Today Iraq cut off humanitarian aid to..." You know how it goes "...while the United States heroically attacked Saddam Hussein to bring humanitarian aid..."
The loss of Al Jazeera is a big deal. It is the loss of information about what is happening in Iraq that doesn't make it on the sanitized nightly news. We know our news is censored. Now, they (the U.S. government is obviously behind this) want to remove foreign sources of news from our televisions and computers. Whether you think the war is right or wrong, this kind of blatant censorship is contrary to fundamental American principles.
The U.S. also took out Iraqi TV yesterday morning, or at least "their satellite broadcasting dish." That leaves the United States press office as the only source of news about Iraq. Finally, we can get "fair and balanced" news on the air with no cumbersome contradictory information. Besides, questioning the war is unpatriotic.
I guess it's psy-ops media domination week in the Iraqi theater.
I think it is because pay per view is a service. You aren't paying for the movie, you are paying for the ability to watch it for a certain period of time, for a price. Thats the deal. There are alternatives, but few offer the same convenience.
On the other hand, there are no alternatives to buying crappy cds at high prices. You have 2 legal choices: pay too much for a cd that has only 2 good songs, which you may not even be able to burn to your own compilation cd, or don't listen to music. Yes there is free radio, but I personally prefer silence over idiot dj prattle and commercials for metabolife. Also the music sucks.
That pretty much only leaves people with one option for music: p2p. If it sends the record companies out of business that is a positive side effect. $20 for a cd?!?! How about $0 for every cd ever made. Most of them suck anyway but its nice to have the music around, just in case I ever want to listen to them. "Stealing" from record companies is like beating up the school bully.
Support real artists by buying their cd if it is not on a major label. If it is on a major label, download all of their tracks, burn them to CDs, and send the artists what you think a cd should cost in the mail. Chances are its more than they get per cd from the record company.
In response to Japan's cahsfree smart card, the Bush administration is unveiling the cashfree school. The main difference from the old system is the replacement of funding with tax breaks. No longer will you have to attend a properly funded school. Instead you can stop paying taxes on dividends, and send your kids to a private school. This is sure to help American workers' employers' CEO's rich uncles. And fight terrorism.
Change Lincoln Navigator to Honda Civic and your in the clear. Pot and piracy doesn't fund terrorism, but oil funds wars.
If you live in Houston, then the only thing hazier then the air in you Navigator, is the air outside you Navigator.
The United States funded Al-Qaeda and the Taliban with, you guessed it, Taxpayer money. Al-Qaeda (not Iraq) took town the WTC using CIA training. When you pay your taxes you fund terrorism, repressive regimes, and reduction of civil liberties. That means that you can't get around funding terrorism, even if you wanted to. Don't pay your taxes, go to jail. Don't agree with the government, get labeled a terrorist, go to jail without a trial.
How can we avoid funding terrorism? I'm glad you asked! All it takes is one country. If only one country in the world refused to fund terrorists, prohibit marijuana (you couldnt even lie about it funding terrorists if it was legal), allow fair use of music and software, become energy independent, and generally not turn victimless activities that you disagree with into crimes which create black markets and violence we could all move there.
Seriously, if we spent half as much money solving social problems at home as we do creating problems abroad there is no telling where we would be. We need a country with a carbon copy of the U.S. constitution that would respect it so that freedom loving citizens of the world could finally live in peace. I am tired of funding the slaughter of (mostly dark skinned) civilians both here and abroad every time I pay my taxes.
Now, Whose coming with me?
The FTC has limited authority to police telemarketing calls from certain industries, including airlines, banks and telephone companies. The Federal Communications Commission, which oversees calls made by those industries, has been working with the FTC and is considering adding its clout to the program.
The FTC is CONSIDERING adding its clout?!?! Banks and telephone companies are the biggest telemarketers in the first place. If I get one more call about changing my phone company, credit card, or morgage (after I get on the list), I will [insert unlikely and irrational threat] the FTC!
Does the TiVo change the channel itself to record the program or does it just get the signal from the digital cable settop box and record whatever channel it is on? Does TiVo have any way of interacting with the digital cable settop box? Can it read the digital cable signal directly?
What do you think the chances are of digital cable being compatible with TiVo any time soon? Do you think the cable companies want you to be able to skip commercials and watch programs at you leisure? T.V. networks tried to ban tivo. Cable companies display T.V. networks. I think that the cable companies will adopt Mystro, if for no other reason then because they retain complete control of the content.
America is no longer the country it once was. We are living under a totalitarian regime. Do you really think this bullshit, "threat assessment" is going to really improve air travel safety? The obvious answere is no. They are just going to keep searching dark skinned people, just like the have been since the Reichstag, I mean World Trade Center went down.
CAPPS is not meant to prevent terrorism. It is meant to keep dissidents under control, and if possible out of our country. It is also meant to justify the massive amounts of information that the government is now compiling on every one of us.
This is part of an obvious trend of policies that eliminate privacy and freedom. Fun activity: Next time the terrorist threat level goes from yellow to orange watch C-Span to learn about what new laws the Big Brother has planned to make us safer. There is a direct correlation between the "terror alert color" and how Orwellian government proposals get. Last time it was orange, Bush told us that we had to attack Iraq because they support terror, subtlely implying that by attacking Iraq we would reduce our terrorist threat.
Our president claims that invading a middleastern country will reduce our threat of terrorism. CAPPS is not about terrorism, just like Iraq is not about terrorism, just like (fill in the blank) is not about terrorism. Wake up and smell the government.
By the way, did anyone else see the news story about how hacked Direct TV cards support terrorism? Nothing supports terrorism more than paying your taxes.
I think if he and Al Quaeda (sp?) have a common enemy, they might join forces. AND, can you really take Bin Laden's word that he doesn't like Saddam? Ok, so Iraq sells weapons to terrorists. Lets think about how this justifies a war for a minute. The U.S. has funded, trained, and supplied terrorists (Al-Qaeda). Im sure we still are and in 20 years we will be catching it in the ass from the same people who we are now funding, supplying, and training to fight the "war on terror". Shouldn't the rest of the world attack the U.S. for funding terrorists? Also, please stop calling the US a freedom loving country. We are a freedom loving people, but the government is not freedom loving. Every day our freedoms are reduced even more and eventually they simply will not exist. Think about this: you can read whatever you want on the Internet, even if it is counter to U.S. policy, BUT you will be watched and logged by the FBI, CIA, etc...Now think about those agancies' record on civil liberties and you can judge for yourself wether or not the US is a freedom loving country. Do yourself a favor and read 1984. Note that "Big Brother" is always at war with somebody, and then look back on the last 50 years of U.S. history. Its just one war after another, and the "war on terror" is by defenition never going to end. Surveilance of every citizen is just the tip of the iceburg. Your right; games are being played. A reporter asks Ari Fleisher (sp?) why Americans should believe the Governemnt about Iraq considering how we been defrauded in the past (Gulf of Tonkin). His response: Its not about wether you can believe our government. Its about wether you can believe Saddam Hussein. That statement shows that the government thinks that we have been conditioned to believe anything. How can trust in our government not be an issue? The Bush administration is dangerouse. The U.S. is now a rogue state, working outside of the United Nations. Disarm George W. Bush in 2004!