Sonny, in the rare event you actually ever decide to begin reading (reading is, after all, fundamental) I would recommend the 21st Century Reading List below. (But I'm guessing reading - or any pursuit of the truth - ain't your thing....)
Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota, The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Jacked and also Other People's Money by Nomi Prins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World by Melissa L. Rossi, Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal, War Is A Racket by General Smedley Butler, USMC
Good Citizen fyngyrz, while I agree fully with your excellent post, I think all such posts at this point in time are a complete waste of time.
These cretins, after all the facts have been presented, are simply bad, bad people, not open to anything even remotely of a cognitive nature - the same exact, intrinsically disingenous clowns who dodged the draft - or would have dodged it were it still in place - and then later in life claim to be "super patriots" - you know them, the dopeheads and cowards like Rush Limbaugh, that simplistic simpleton and master of circuitous reasoning (how blatantly tedious), Michael Medved, and all the rest of that scum.
Never count on those riff-raff when America is truly in trouble.....
I believe Shihar is correct, and you, good Citizen GeffDE, are off the mark, as much as I would truly like to agree with your assertion. Our brains are most definitely hardwired to sustain us by seeking food, shelter and most important of all, SEX! All else is fuzzy thinking.
I hate to rain on this clown's parade, him being an official "genius" and all - but rather obviously not current - as the predictable trend is the death of democracy (already happened, of course) and the ascendency of the global corporate dictatorship (this would be China - leading the planet to the One World Corporation) so all such all knowing predictions go by the wayside....
Outstanding post, 19thNervousBreakdown! I don't read Bruce Sterling. I don't know of any intelligent and knowledgable people who do. Sterling is not particularly well-read and readily accepts the stupid newsy drivel spewed forth on a regular basis by CNN and Fox.
Is there anyone who truly bothers to read Bruce Sterling? Othan than Orson Card?
Mucho thanks for the highly intelligent post, modeless.
When I first read the story post - I thought it pertained only to the death of Ted Stevens. Then, upon reading to the ending (I'm a glacially slow reader) I thought: "Oh rats! He's still alive!"
Exactly so! Besides, how many hackers do the two major criminal organizations in the US hire (i.e., the Pentagon and the Blackstone Group)? And it sure beats offshoring....
I also don't trust the U.S. census of 2000 due to the damage it did in my state.
I'm afraid I must heartily agree you, Good Citizen eno2001. The US Census Bureau is such complete sham, all data deriving from it must be considered falsehood until verified by at least three reputable sources.
I once temped at a major city Census Bureau office during a census - the concept of alphabetic and/or alphanumeric order was strictly beyond their comprehension and from that point they went downhill.....
No..no..no..that article must be wrong! Every Indian I've heard speak over the past 5 years claims they INVENTED computer science and every app we're using today! No..they are all super geniuses - isn't that what M$, Amazon and Adobe proclaim (Think India and China) Bill's mantra that incredibly stupid newsies repeat for free!
Of course, I've never worked with any Indian "programmer" who ever successfully compiled a program, even when they are (supposedly) triple Ph.D.s, but hey, who's counting.....
Wow, dudes and dudettes, it's just like "You are now on the Frequency (Global Frequency, that is). How very cool - organizations which offshore jobs want your free labor - how very, very WTO. Cheers!
Well...he does "teach" at Malibu U. (a k a Pepperdine University). Seeing as how it is almost on top of Malibu Beach, he's probably massively frustrated from scoping out hot-looking babes all day long with those long-distance binoculars of his.....
21st Century Reading List:
Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota, The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Jacked and also Other People's Money by Nomi Prins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World by Melissa L. Rossi, Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal, War Is A Racket by General Smedley Butler, USMC
Big deal - the infinity transmitter has been around for ages - at least dating back to the early '70s (I believe it was first invented at the CIA labs, but I could be mistaken on that point). A simple update to send a signal to any cell phone to go off-hook without sounding a ring tone, etc. Now OnStar is one of the 53 commercial firms having contracts to the Bush Administration which comprise part of Poindexter's Total Information Awareness (Big Brother Organization) - An excellent read on this matter is Robert O'Harrow's No Place To Hide. O'Harrow, a Washington Post investigative reporter, does an outstanding job of presenting the facts to the reader without coming to any obvious and leading conclusions - but upon finishing the book it should be obvious to all.
Along with those commercial intel firms and comm firms (everything from tollbooth tracking, the aforementioned OnStar, and Pay-Per-View data, to ChoicePoint, of course[former directors on ChoicePoint's board: Richard Armitage and Vin Weber - get the picture?]) there is also the intel streams coming from NSA and NGA - truly a formidable combination. That movie, Enemy of the State, is now a reality.....
Robert Fisk, my favorite foreign correspondent along with Greg Palast (of course, I don't have ANY favorite American-based correspondents as they seem to no longer exist) is always a must-read. Thanks for the heads up. (Excellent recent article in the Guardian on the RFK assassination. Shame we don't have reportage like that in the USA!)
Zonk says: Some might view internet pornography as morally wrong but I wouldn't think it to warrant a lifetime sentence."
Why the hell should it warrant any time?? This from a country that uses slave labor? This from a country that purloins the organs from political prisoners for sale to decadent westerners? This from a country where the factories almost routinely hire underage girls as workers, then bury them alive when they are injured so as not to incur any government penalties?
WTF?? And insipid comments from any Americans when the Chinese government is making money from the preserved remains of its murdered (by the government that is) dissidents so that dufus Americans (perhaps Americanskis would be a more applicable term) can view them at the Bodies Exhibitions in New York City, Las Vegas, Miami and Seattle venues? AND BTW, one of those bodies bears a remarkable resemblance to one of the Chinese "dissidents" who was pulling that model of the Statue of Liberty on that fateful day in Tiananmen Square.....
The best thing for arthritis, rheumatoid or otherwise, is any form of aerobic exercise (that would be cardiovascular to the RX set) - but the suggestion of cod liver oil is most excellent - have always taken it almost daily and am now well into my fifth decade and still running the 220 in under 23 seconds and doing gymnastics' exercises daily. And I'm very sorry to hear that 44 is considered "old" - which means I must now be dead???
21st Century Reading List:
Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota, The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Jacked and also Other People's Money by Nomi Prins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World by Melissa L. Rossi, Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal, War Is A Racket by General Smedley Butler, USMC
I suspect the attitudes may be somewhat different in India in respect to nerds (having bummed around the Near East and Asia after military service many eons ago). Therefore, I would humbly suggest they move it to Amazon.com - home to many transplanted Indian nerds and lowbrow American riff-raff.....
Also this is the prevailing reason why this is all sooooo much B.S. The higher the financial level, the absolutely more insider trading occurs. Don't think so? Just investigage the funding for the private equity firms such as the Blackstone Group (and anyone who is over 30 years of age and isn't aware of this bank, has a mental age of 16), the Carlyle Group, etc. Plus there's that strange financing which is funneled through the Federal Reserve Banks.....Also, if you own the software firm that creates and updates the NASDAQ software (Blackstone Group) it could be a really big edge....
While I agree that Religion sucks it is not evil of and by itself, simply another artificial construct of humanity to control and enslave the nonthinking remainder of humanity. When the individual attains a modicum of intelligence and knowledge, said individual realizes that knowledge, beauty and pleasure are the only true things which count in life - all else fall into that "artificial construct" category.
Thus, the nonthinking component of humanity believes in "just" wars of imperial aggression, phony invasions and occupations falsely mislabeled as "wars" and the corporate pop culture media which, not too many years ago, would have been correctly labeled as that wacko fringe (Fox, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.).
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Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota, The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Jacked and also Other People's Money by Nomi Prins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World by Melissa L. Rossi, Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal, War Is A Racket by General Smedley Butler, USMC
These cretins, after all the facts have been presented, are simply bad, bad people, not open to anything even remotely of a cognitive nature - the same exact, intrinsically disingenous clowns who dodged the draft - or would have dodged it were it still in place - and then later in life claim to be "super patriots" - you know them, the dopeheads and cowards like Rush Limbaugh, that simplistic simpleton and master of circuitous reasoning (how blatantly tedious), Michael Medved, and all the rest of that scum.
Never count on those riff-raff when America is truly in trouble.....
I believe Shihar is correct, and you, good Citizen GeffDE, are off the mark, as much as I would truly like to agree with your assertion. Our brains are most definitely hardwired to sustain us by seeking food, shelter and most important of all, SEX! All else is fuzzy thinking.
Well, not quite, rudeboy1, it is "mitochondrion," after all.
I hate to rain on this clown's parade, him being an official "genius" and all - but rather obviously not current - as the predictable trend is the death of democracy (already happened, of course) and the ascendency of the global corporate dictatorship (this would be China - leading the planet to the One World Corporation) so all such all knowing predictions go by the wayside....
Is there anyone who truly bothers to read Bruce Sterling? Othan than Orson Card?
Hmmm...so you're saying they don't understand life in pre-Google times...
When I first read the story post - I thought it pertained only to the death of Ted Stevens. Then, upon reading to the ending (I'm a glacially slow reader) I thought: "Oh rats! He's still alive!"
Hey there! We've got Apple Script. Who needs inferior wannabes???
Exactly so! Besides, how many hackers do the two major criminal organizations in the US hire (i.e., the Pentagon and the Blackstone Group)? And it sure beats offshoring....
None of the researchers could be reached for comment as they had been recently hospitalized for a peculiar form of brain cancer.
I'm afraid I must heartily agree you, Good Citizen eno2001. The US Census Bureau is such complete sham, all data deriving from it must be considered falsehood until verified by at least three reputable sources.
I once temped at a major city Census Bureau office during a census - the concept of alphabetic and/or alphanumeric order was strictly beyond their comprehension and from that point they went downhill.....
Of course, I've never worked with any Indian "programmer" who ever successfully compiled a program, even when they are (supposedly) triple Ph.D.s, but hey, who's counting.....
Wow, dudes and dudettes, it's just like "You are now on the Frequency (Global Frequency, that is). How very cool - organizations which offshore jobs want your free labor - how very, very WTO. Cheers!
21st Century Reading List:
Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota, The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Jacked and also Other People's Money by Nomi Prins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World by Melissa L. Rossi, Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal, War Is A Racket by General Smedley Butler, USMC
Along with those commercial intel firms and comm firms (everything from tollbooth tracking, the aforementioned OnStar, and Pay-Per-View data, to ChoicePoint, of course[former directors on ChoicePoint's board: Richard Armitage and Vin Weber - get the picture?]) there is also the intel streams coming from NSA and NGA - truly a formidable combination. That movie, Enemy of the State, is now a reality.....
Just a minute now...Dr. Bashir! Wasn't he a time-traveler from a Star Trek series - hmmm...the one on that space station....is this about slackers???
Yup, and I just heard M$ is planning on changing their logo to a genetically-modified apple. Kinda doubt it will work....
Robert Fisk, my favorite foreign correspondent along with Greg Palast (of course, I don't have ANY favorite American-based correspondents as they seem to no longer exist) is always a must-read. Thanks for the heads up. (Excellent recent article in the Guardian on the RFK assassination. Shame we don't have reportage like that in the USA!)
Why the hell should it warrant any time?? This from a country that uses slave labor? This from a country that purloins the organs from political prisoners for sale to decadent westerners? This from a country where the factories almost routinely hire underage girls as workers, then bury them alive when they are injured so as not to incur any government penalties?
WTF?? And insipid comments from any Americans when the Chinese government is making money from the preserved remains of its murdered (by the government that is) dissidents so that dufus Americans (perhaps Americanskis would be a more applicable term) can view them at the
Bodies Exhibitions in New York City, Las Vegas, Miami and Seattle venues? AND BTW, one of those bodies bears a remarkable resemblance to one of the Chinese "dissidents" who was pulling that model of the Statue of Liberty on that fateful day in Tiananmen Square.....
21st Century Reading List:
Blood Money by T. Christian Miller, Hostile Takeover by David Sirota, The Bush Agenda by Antonia Juhasz, Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Jacked and also Other People's Money by Nomi Prins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World by Melissa L. Rossi, Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal, War Is A Racket by General Smedley Butler, USMC
I suspect the attitudes may be somewhat different in India in respect to nerds (having bummed around the Near East and Asia after military service many eons ago). Therefore, I would humbly suggest they move it to Amazon.com - home to many transplanted Indian nerds and lowbrow American riff-raff.....
Also this is the prevailing reason why this is all sooooo much B.S. The higher the financial level, the absolutely more insider trading occurs. Don't think so? Just investigage the funding for the private equity firms such as the Blackstone Group (and anyone who is over 30 years of age and isn't aware of this bank, has a mental age of 16), the Carlyle Group, etc. Plus there's that strange financing which is funneled through the Federal Reserve Banks.....Also, if you own the software firm that creates and updates the NASDAQ software (Blackstone Group) it could be a really big edge....
No, we have plent of un-named Tertiary institutions in America as well.....
Thus, the nonthinking component of humanity believes in "just" wars of imperial aggression, phony invasions and occupations falsely mislabeled as "wars" and the corporate pop culture media which, not too many years ago, would have been correctly labeled as that wacko fringe (Fox, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.).