A most excellent point you make, Good Citizen brian0918. One might suggest that the FBI didn't intentionally break the law when they did that false op a year or so ago against Scott Ritter (the one falsely accusing him of child molestation; the case being quickly thrown out of a federal court and the FBI receiving yet another - among thousands - serious rebuke from the judge); nor did the FBI intentionally break the law when the FBI did that false op against the Reverend Martin Luther King (where they tried to destroy his family and reputation, etc.); nor did they intentionally break the law when certain FAA tapes were illegally destroyed covering aspects of FAA communications on that day of 09/11/01; nor did they intentionally break the law when an assassination team (which is cutely now referred to as a Hostage-Rescue team) to destroy Randy Weaver and his family (unfortunately his wife and child and dog were gunned down, but the remaining people were saved by the arrival of one feisty Wyoming lawyer who brought a gaggle of news reporters with him; nor did they intentionally break the law when an FBI team supposedly believed they were running a Chinese double agent, when in fact, said Chinese double agent (an attractive lady if news reports were accurate) was in fact running that pitable FBI counter-intel team; nor did they...Geez, one could go on forever in this vein.....
This article in the Moonie Times (a k a Washington Times) is pathetically goofy. As any American In The Know will tell you, ADVISE IS part of T.I.A. (not simply a similar system) and can be found at INSCOM down at Ft. Belvoir, VA, and elsewhere.
T.I.A. is also composed of over 57 commercial data bases under contract to the federal government, including OnStar, the company with surveillance cameras at tollbooths, that company (whose name escapes me at the moment) owned by the European subsidiary of Reed-Elsevier, LexisNexis, First Data (they have ownership of most financial transactions throughout America), along with far too many others.....PLUS inputs from NSA and NGA.....
"Frankly, I think people [at Sandia] should go to jail' for ignoring some of the security issues that Carpenter was trying to highlight with his investigation."
And to question this comment, if Cheney and the Bushies aren't being prosecuted under the Treason Act for shutting down that Brewster Jennings operation by exposing team leader Valerlie Plame because their investigation of nuke materiel being smuggled to the terrorist organization and al Qaeda affiliate, M.E.K., inside Iran (a trail which led directly back to Doug Feith in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans), then I really doubt anyone at Sandia is going to jail......(and BTW, now that nuke materiel is in al Qaeda's hands, placed there by Cheney's M.E.K. op)
I would agree with everything you posted, Good Citizen Vicissidude, and add several items: (1) I was a contractor off and on at the Redmond Campus and I ran into more than a few submediocre employee types (Blue Badge Bozos) that I would have never even considered hiring, so all that urban legend stuff about the innate superiority of the M$ employee is such a complete crock; (2) whenever M$ has Borged another company, the programming talent they pick up in the purchase stays on the average only several months before jumping ship, definitely M$ is not a true technoid magnet; (3) the HR process begins with scanning the resumes sent in, so they choose from those conventional zombie types who always follow the exact rules according to witless HR books and articles; and, (4) don't forget, this is the company who's first internal security system is described as the reverse-Polish security system (popularly once implemented at NSA): only the contractors and temps wore badges, while the employees didn't - therefore, if one took off their badge, suddenly every area was open to them.......[and the last time - after a six year period when I couldn't get any work through them - the contract and pay wasn't worth the trouble of prepping and showing up to do the job.]
Of course, Good Citizen qfxguy, that is correct, but taken with the layoffs and already existing pool of CS talent from previous layoffs and downsizing, and the non-H-1B technical immigrants who come here also, there is considerably more than a 22k surplus. But then a shortage was never the reason Bill Gates started offshoring soooooo many jobs - it was about quick and dirty labor savings. Ergo, Gates, as usual and in keeping with the other male members of his extended family, is full of crap.....(And never forget the mantra over the past 6 years ag M$: "Think China and India.")
And also don't forget how they, M$, stealthily laid off over 1,000 employees on 9/12/01 - now tell me that isn't the essence of opportunistic behavior.....
"Sir Richard Dalton, told the BBC that, if confirmed, such a move could destabilise the Middle East.."
Huh? Has this Dalton character been living under a rock or something? The USA's invasion and illegal occupation of Iraq, support of ongoing terrorist operations inside a sovereign nation, Iran, not too mention a number of other operations (such as supporting the AQ Khan nuke/materiel spreading network) has done a damn good job of destabilising the Middle East and fomenting religious warfare there. Does this Dalton clown belong to the Council on Foreign Relations, by any chance......
Unfortunately, Microsoft has a lengthy history of this sort of behavior. Certainly, it's no coincidence that a long-time legal firm in Seattle which boasts a number of labor sweatshops as clients (and formerly employed one Jack Abramoff as their Washington, D.C., lobbyist) was named Preston, Gates, Ellis (they have merged with another firm and now go under a different name).
One repeatedly hears M$ touted as an example of postive capitalistic behavior. Puuhlease....Bill Gates is the one who was behind a state labor law passed in Washington back in 2000 by their Department of Labor and Industry which puts an earnings cap on independent contractors!!! Why they should care when they are offshoring soooo many jobs - I guess it's just spite plus amorality......
But on the plus side, their new media stuff sure looks just like Apple's....
Gee whiz....I guess we have all those multinational, transnational corporations (can you spell Microsoft?) to thank for shipping all those jobs and technology transfers to China - and now they are going on a buying spree with 200 billion dollars to buy up various American companies, real estate and natural resources. So what? Who cares? [Remember, Dubai now owns 6 of America's ports - in case you weren't paying attention - and is rumored to have a controlling interest in those companies controlling another 12. Anyone remember someone named Osama? The Repubes only remember him when a democrat has name rhyming with his!!!]
First, the corporate goons and their neocon lackeys ship the jobs and tech stuff to them - now they want to paint them as the great enemy and boogeymen? Screw those clowns (the corps and their lackeys, that is)! Again, if they arm someone, what right do they then have to take up valuable media space (which no one who is actually informed pays any attention to) to then complain of those they have employed, enriched and armed?
Come on???? Next you'll claim that Senator Obama is dangerous because his name rhymes with Osama??? Oops, sorry, that's a neocon talking point - the only time they remember about someone named Osama bin Laden is when a dem's name rhymes with it??? Guess that's what they mean by security and what the feebs of the FBI mean by security, huh????
The problem with your train of though, fluffy99, is that this organization is one plagued by past turncoats who's sold information, be it to foreign powers or to organized crime, has resulted in numerous murders and deaths.
No, this is a REAL problem when unknown data has fallen into unknown hands. While the "it's just the government at work excuse" has worked in the past for Reaganites and assorted neocons, it just doesn't suffice where life and death are concerned. Accountability should not be a thing of the past. An investigative piece by US News and World Report, back in 2002 or 2003, on the US Secret Service also shed light on some very troubling events and circumstances with that organization. Try not to forget Ruby Ridge, Robert Hanssen, and various other turncoats at the FBI. Who knows the sensitive data about an ordinary and innocent citizen, removed from their e-mail or telephone calls being monitored by the feebs, might fall into the hands of identity thieves.
And keep in mind the official wiretap report - the number of wiretaps officially filed by the feds is miniscule, but the number of eavesdropping electronic bugs they purchase daily is in the astronomical numbers.....the numbers simply don't correspond.....
Good Citizen otacon, what the hell kind of question is that??? I mean, after all, the next question you'll probably be asking is why didn't the FBI release any of the many tapes showing a visual of that commercial flight that was supposed to have flown into the Pentagon? Could it be because it wasn't that specific flight they claimed, but the one which was supposed to have flown into one of the WTC towers, but instead was tracked by NY ARTCC to the Pentagon's airspace???
Oh no....that might be in the realm of, dare I say it...conspiracy!!!
Lordy, as long as those G-boys and girls know enough to cash their hefty paychecks, we should all be satisified......Can't they be replaced with H1-B Sikh police???
Yeah, I remember old Galileo (or old Leo, as we used to call him - I'm a pretty old dude, myself!). He was a scientist, and those neochristianists at that time didn't believe in science either. Now how about that?
WOW! I'm impressed...so you actually remember who Osama is? Are you a Repube or neocon? They all seemed to have conveniently forgotten that Bush family friend...wasn't he supposed to have had something to do with 9/11/01 and the murder of over 3,000 Americans??? Did someone in the Bushie Wushie administration forget that??? Oh, I'm sorry - the Bushies are ONLY CONCERNED with killing American soldiers (those whistle-blowing soldiers recently murdered by private security contractors, the Lt. Col. who was investigating Carlyle Group-owned USIS in Iraq, and that Delta team who was ordered to stand down after spotting Osama at Tora Bora, then witnessed the Pak helicopter transport him out of there).
Why yes, there is an Osama, Virginia, but the Bushies don't know it......
Remember where Biden is from and who he represents? He doesn't have an ice cube's chance in Hell of getting on ANY ticket! Best possible ticket (from a realist's POV, not necessarily mine) is Obama and Webb for 2008. Please, troll gods, not Hillary, this nation can't afford having the presidency handed back and forth between the Bushies and the Clintons every few years - that's how we ended up under martial law (the less than 1% of the American population will comprehend that we ARE NOW LIVING under martial law - and no, tanks don't have to be stationed on every street corner for martial law to exist - although they may soon be....)
Venezuela IS NOT a military dictatorship, you idiot! Read a book! Read the news, for gosh sakes, and start thinking for yourself and quit letting Fox Newsies define who the enemy is and what your politics are...
Everyone going through boot camp has it clearly explained to them about the following of illegal orders - it is against the UCMJ. Period. It is not a debatable point. Nor is it a debatable point that George Weasel Bush, Rumsfeldstiltskin, Dickhead Cheney and Kindasleazy Rice are anything other than domestic enemies of the US Constitution. Grow the f up....And I, for one, am proud that my relatives fought on the side of America in WWII, not the side of the Nazis as did Rove and Rumsfeld's(and Prescott Bush, in a manner of speaking)....
Gee...I wonder if they list their donor information along with it so they can then do the usual: arrest and execute the involuntary donor for the rich recipient....
As a former Yankee Running Dog, drafted into service during Vietnam, I heartily agree with everything you said. That Gulf of Tonkin "incident" has been soundly proven to be nothing more (by the US Navy pilots who were there at that time) than a complete fabrication - designed to provide "justification" for America going to war against North Vietnam - after the American-supported (make that the Dulles brothers) French failure to recolonize that people.
There was no justification for American, nor French, imperialism - and that was what it was - simply barbaric imperialism. I'm ashamed of my service in Vietnam - although I took no life unless fired upon - it was their country and America had absolutely no right whatsoever to be there.
And congratulations to a Real American, Lt. Ehren Watada, a man of honor and integrity, who fully believes in following the UCMJ - wish all those other phony occifers (misspelling intentional) had enough balls and brains to follow suit......
You a recent hire at M$, by any chance?? Geeez! Too much functionality - come on....the long term major complaint about M$ products has been that they are coded by completely inexperienced recent college grads who are clueless as to how offices, financial services, and other areas of corporate and American business operate. The only decent thing - over the longhaul - about Word was the equation editor. And it took HOW MANY versions of Excel until they finally started getting it right??
Kurzweil enjoys an unparalleled record of being way off with his predictions - and rightly so! Only Kurzweil would see sitting "..at the bottom of a swimming pool for 4 hours" as something to look forward to.....
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A most excellent point you make, Good Citizen brian0918. One might suggest that the FBI didn't intentionally break the law when they did that false op a year or so ago against Scott Ritter (the one falsely accusing him of child molestation; the case being quickly thrown out of a federal court and the FBI receiving yet another - among thousands - serious rebuke from the judge); nor did the FBI intentionally break the law when the FBI did that false op against the Reverend Martin Luther King (where they tried to destroy his family and reputation, etc.); nor did they intentionally break the law when certain FAA tapes were illegally destroyed covering aspects of FAA communications on that day of 09/11/01; nor did they intentionally break the law when an assassination team (which is cutely now referred to as a Hostage-Rescue team) to destroy Randy Weaver and his family (unfortunately his wife and child and dog were gunned down, but the remaining people were saved by the arrival of one feisty Wyoming lawyer who brought a gaggle of news reporters with him; nor did they intentionally break the law when an FBI team supposedly believed they were running a Chinese double agent, when in fact, said Chinese double agent (an attractive lady if news reports were accurate) was in fact running that pitable FBI counter-intel team; nor did they...Geez, one could go on forever in this vein.....
T.I.A. is also composed of over 57 commercial data bases under contract to the federal government, including OnStar, the company with surveillance cameras at tollbooths, that company (whose name escapes me at the moment) owned by the European subsidiary of Reed-Elsevier, LexisNexis, First Data (they have ownership of most financial transactions throughout America), along with far too many others.....PLUS inputs from NSA and NGA.....
"Frankly, I think people [at Sandia] should go to jail' for ignoring some of the security issues that Carpenter was trying to highlight with his investigation."
And to question this comment, if Cheney and the Bushies aren't being prosecuted under the Treason Act for shutting down that Brewster Jennings operation by exposing team leader Valerlie Plame because their investigation of nuke materiel being smuggled to the terrorist organization and al Qaeda affiliate, M.E.K., inside Iran (a trail which led directly back to Doug Feith in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans), then I really doubt anyone at Sandia is going to jail......(and BTW, now that nuke materiel is in al Qaeda's hands, placed there by Cheney's M.E.K. op)
I would agree with everything you posted, Good Citizen Vicissidude, and add several items: (1) I was a contractor off and on at the Redmond Campus and I ran into more than a few submediocre employee types (Blue Badge Bozos) that I would have never even considered hiring, so all that urban legend stuff about the innate superiority of the M$ employee is such a complete crock; (2) whenever M$ has Borged another company, the programming talent they pick up in the purchase stays on the average only several months before jumping ship, definitely M$ is not a true technoid magnet; (3) the HR process begins with scanning the resumes sent in, so they choose from those conventional zombie types who always follow the exact rules according to witless HR books and articles; and, (4) don't forget, this is the company who's first internal security system is described as the reverse-Polish security system (popularly once implemented at NSA): only the contractors and temps wore badges, while the employees didn't - therefore, if one took off their badge, suddenly every area was open to them.......[and the last time - after a six year period when I couldn't get any work through them - the contract and pay wasn't worth the trouble of prepping and showing up to do the job.]
And also don't forget how they, M$, stealthily laid off over 1,000 employees on 9/12/01 - now tell me that isn't the essence of opportunistic behavior.....
So...who did LockheedMartin offshore the software development to?????
Not to worry...the next generation, the F-35 fighter cures this problem....at only a cost of a few billions of dollars or more.....
OK, so if you wake up with a Beowulf Cluster in your bed....would that be a Beowulf Cluster F**K????
"Sir Richard Dalton, told the BBC that, if confirmed, such a move could destabilise the Middle East.."
Huh? Has this Dalton character been living under a rock or something? The USA's invasion and illegal occupation of Iraq, support of ongoing terrorist operations inside a sovereign nation, Iran, not too mention a number of other operations (such as supporting the AQ Khan nuke/materiel spreading network) has done a damn good job of destabilising the Middle East and fomenting religious warfare there. Does this Dalton clown belong to the Council on Foreign Relations, by any chance......
Finally...a robot I can relate to....
One repeatedly hears M$ touted as an example of postive capitalistic behavior. Puuhlease....Bill Gates is the one who was behind a state labor law passed in Washington back in 2000 by their Department of Labor and Industry which puts an earnings cap on independent contractors!!! Why they should care when they are offshoring soooo many jobs - I guess it's just spite plus amorality......
But on the plus side, their new media stuff sure looks just like Apple's....
First, the corporate goons and their neocon lackeys ship the jobs and tech stuff to them - now they want to paint them as the great enemy and boogeymen? Screw those clowns (the corps and their lackeys, that is)! Again, if they arm someone, what right do they then have to take up valuable media space (which no one who is actually informed pays any attention to) to then complain of those they have employed, enriched and armed?
The answer: none whatsoever.....
Come on???? Next you'll claim that Senator Obama is dangerous because his name rhymes with Osama??? Oops, sorry, that's a neocon talking point - the only time they remember about someone named Osama bin Laden is when a dem's name rhymes with it??? Guess that's what they mean by security and what the feebs of the FBI mean by security, huh????
No, this is a REAL problem when unknown data has fallen into unknown hands. While the "it's just the government at work excuse" has worked in the past for Reaganites and assorted neocons, it just doesn't suffice where life and death are concerned. Accountability should not be a thing of the past. An investigative piece by US News and World Report, back in 2002 or 2003, on the US Secret Service also shed light on some very troubling events and circumstances with that organization. Try not to forget Ruby Ridge, Robert Hanssen, and various other turncoats at the FBI. Who knows the sensitive data about an ordinary and innocent citizen, removed from their e-mail or telephone calls being monitored by the feebs, might fall into the hands of identity thieves.
And keep in mind the official wiretap report - the number of wiretaps officially filed by the feds is miniscule, but the number of eavesdropping electronic bugs they purchase daily is in the astronomical numbers.....the numbers simply don't correspond.....
Oh no....that might be in the realm of, dare I say it...conspiracy!!!
Lordy, as long as those G-boys and girls know enough to cash their hefty paychecks, we should all be satisified......Can't they be replaced with H1-B Sikh police???
Best sites for truth hackers:
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164.109.56.45
209.27.54.67
Why yes, there is an Osama, Virginia, but the Bushies don't know it......
Remember where Biden is from and who he represents? He doesn't have an ice cube's chance in Hell of getting on ANY ticket! Best possible ticket (from a realist's POV, not necessarily mine) is Obama and Webb for 2008. Please, troll gods, not Hillary, this nation can't afford having the presidency handed back and forth between the Bushies and the Clintons every few years - that's how we ended up under martial law (the less than 1% of the American population will comprehend that we ARE NOW LIVING under martial law - and no, tanks don't have to be stationed on every street corner for martial law to exist - although they may soon be....)
Everyone going through boot camp has it clearly explained to them about the following of illegal orders - it is against the UCMJ. Period. It is not a debatable point. Nor is it a debatable point that George Weasel Bush, Rumsfeldstiltskin, Dickhead Cheney and Kindasleazy Rice are anything other than domestic enemies of the US Constitution. Grow the f up....And I, for one, am proud that my relatives fought on the side of America in WWII, not the side of the Nazis as did Rove and Rumsfeld's(and Prescott Bush, in a manner of speaking)....
Gee...I wonder if they list their donor information along with it so they can then do the usual: arrest and execute the involuntary donor for the rich recipient....
As a former Yankee Running Dog, drafted into service during Vietnam, I heartily agree with everything you said. That Gulf of Tonkin "incident" has been soundly proven to be nothing more (by the US Navy pilots who were there at that time) than a complete fabrication - designed to provide "justification" for America going to war against North Vietnam - after the American-supported (make that the Dulles brothers) French failure to recolonize that people.
There was no justification for American, nor French, imperialism - and that was what it was - simply barbaric imperialism. I'm ashamed of my service in Vietnam - although I took no life unless fired upon - it was their country and America had absolutely no right whatsoever to be there.
And congratulations to a Real American, Lt. Ehren Watada, a man of honor and integrity, who fully believes in following the UCMJ - wish all those other phony occifers (misspelling intentional) had enough balls and brains to follow suit......
Yeah, exactly...this same exact thing happened in Ghostbusters, after all.....
You a recent hire at M$, by any chance?? Geeez! Too much functionality - come on....the long term major complaint about M$ products has been that they are coded by completely inexperienced recent college grads who are clueless as to how offices, financial services, and other areas of corporate and American business operate. The only decent thing - over the longhaul - about Word was the equation editor. And it took HOW MANY versions of Excel until they finally started getting it right??
Oops! Sorry! That was Physics 101.....
Kurzweil enjoys an unparalleled record of being way off with his predictions - and rightly so! Only Kurzweil would see sitting "..at the bottom of a swimming pool for 4 hours" as something to look forward to.....