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  1. Re:waste on Does the NSA Need More Electricity? · · Score: 1

    Naaah...the increased demand for electricity is what comes of having to spy on the citizenry. I mean, really now, just how big is the Pasto dictionary?????

  2. Re:Clearly a Constitutional Issue on U.S. Senate Ratifies Cybercrime Treaty · · Score: 1
    Wow! You must be absolutely right. The fact that past presidents (Clinton) and present President Bush, have given China missile technology (Clinton) and smart bomb technology (Bush), and all the jobs possible (their corp overseers) gives me absolute confidence in your post.

    And this from the same administration where question is NOT what acttions of theirs have been unconstitutional, but what actions have theirs HAVE been constitutional. Stay well-armed.....

  3. Re:Clearly a Constitutional Issue on U.S. Senate Ratifies Cybercrime Treaty · · Score: 1
    Whoops! Another poor soul out of the loop!

    I'm afraid the WTO charter supercedes everything...stay well-armed.....

  4. Re:INSOLENCE!!! on Tracking the Congressional Attention Span · · Score: 1
    The US Congress spent far too much time this last session on Chinese products, which make money for China but absolutely don't affect the US (why should we care about made-in-China American flags, for instance????).

    It's obvious, Congress is NOT competitive --- they are far overpaid, not to be trusted, poor workers (excepting of course, Senators Menendez (D-NJ), Feingold (D-WI), Byrd (D-WV), and some of the reps. We must offshore their jobs to China!!!

  5. Re:That last bit. on On Entangling and Testing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I would suggest instead that you ask the next question: Who owns the telecoms? And who is buying up as many telecoms as they can???? An interesting indicator as to the future you espouse....

  6. Re:Woah, cool! on Ruling to Make Reporters Act Like Drug Dealers? · · Score: 1
    Aaah...excellent point. The reporters ARE the enemy in a fascist state. Surveillance and control are everything. Now, with strong suggestion that the Busheviks want to illegally extend the military tribunal to the citizenry, their aims should be obvious to even the most brain dead among us.

    (That would entail complete loss of the Bill of Rights accorded us: trial in absentia, hearsay as submissible "evidence", and too many other nasty things to contemplate.....be sure to be well armed.)

  7. Re:The Truth Will Come Out on Ruling to Make Reporters Act Like Drug Dealers? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, they are clearly misinterpreting the existing law, which is the major problem with the courts today, be it the mostly bizarre decisions handed down by our present Supreme Court, or the many, but not all, monkey-staffed federal courts.

    Example: the recent appointment of Kavanaugh to the federal bench to preclude a guilty verdict against Cheney or Rove should either be indicted. (Which is clearly not going to happen since Fitzgerald has obviously been turned....)

  8. Re:Potatoes are a series of tubers on The Real Issue With Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    You know, if you were one of those sex-slave prostitutes in the North Marianas, or one of those Coca-Cola Company gunned-down workers in South America, you just might not feel that way.....

  9. Re:There is no "net" to be "neutral" with. on The Real Issue With Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Excellent post (and BTW, I'm not in the habit of complementing Republicans!). Speaking of telecoms, there's an excellent book by Nomi Prins which covers the telecom situation, Other People's Money.

  10. Re:When Will Politicians Wake Up? on Worst Ever Security Flaw in Diebold Voting Machine · · Score: 1
    Wrong - wrong - wrong!!!

    President Stallman will take a 200% votes out of a possible 100% votes --- Stallman always did everything with real class.

  11. Re:Diebold lobbied slashdot... on Worst Ever Security Flaw in Diebold Voting Machine · · Score: 3, Insightful
    To stick with historical consistency, it also worked for Nixon in that same election in the states of Virginia and South Carolina, which was why Nixon never contested the election.

    But this bunch has taken it to entirely new levels --- and again, the US Constitution states that a close election will be decided by the House of Representatives, while the Supreme Court did decide the 2000 election in a most unconstitutional manner.

  12. Re:NO WAI! on It's OK to keep AIMing · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Thank God!!!!

    If it were otherwise, we might end up with a complete imbecile for president of the USA....whoops...too late....

  13. Re:So much protection... on Cheyenne Mountain Shutting Down · · Score: 1
    Since you brought up "conspiracy theory" let me toss in the latest pattern which keeps appearing just over the horizon:

    Instead of port security, the feds do Marine Infrastructure Recovery Program (MIRP), and SSA Marine - a major port handler announces awhile back it is moving its HQ from Seattle, WA, (USA) to Arizona (USA), presumably to be better positioned for any possibility of port operations in Mexico, when the NAFTA Super Highway gets built; and

    While the Carlyle Group, several years ago purchased Trenstar, Inc., which has expertise in RFIDs with regard to container shipping, while the US-Oman Free Trade Agreement was recently passed, making legal foreign ownership of the ports.....see something suspicious going on here?????

  14. Re:Maybe not engineering's failures... on Big Dig - One of Engineering's Greatest Mistakes? · · Score: 1

    Thank you. I would say it wasn't an engineering failure so much as yet another failure of Bechtel....'nuff said on that count.

  15. Re:SkyNet online on Cheyenne Mountain Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    I believe Skynet has been online for some time now....

  16. Re:Big "OH Brother" on Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later? · · Score: 1
    The funny thing is that people are totally happy with letting companies and goverment track them.

    I know no one who is happy with this and I get tired of hearing this drivel.....

  17. Re:From the Dick files... on Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later? · · Score: 1

    I'd definitely mod this to 10 Plus.

  18. Re:Perspective on Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later? · · Score: 1
    The most excellent point you make is soooooo self-evident (and should be to anyone with a rudimentary education, be they school-educated or erudite) that it isn't even worthy of debate.

    The fact that some choose to debate it with you is proof positive at how far dumbed down portions of this society have become. There have been recent articles of job applicants being turned down for their political beliefs (I have seen this happen to others and it happened to a friend recently with BoA) when the HR googled their names and found "Letters to the Editor," articles on blogs, etc.

    This should simply not be tolerated....but Big Brother is now watching...until that day he is castrated....

  19. Re:Big "OH Brother" on Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later? · · Score: 1
    I suggest you study Henry George for some possibilities. Don't be so accepting of the frauds of our day: Milton Friedman, who thinks "at will" employees are the best thing going, while only living his life as a tenured academic (definitely not walking the talk, that one!). Also, I would ignore everything Thurow at MIT pontificates upon...that guy has not been making any sense since he started in his self-contradictory cycle back in the '90s --- everthing the Mitre Corporation tells him to say, he parrots...

    And sorry, but you haven't been paying attention, they have united quite awhile back, and marching toward the day of One World Corporation....

  20. Re:Big "OH Brother" on Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later? · · Score: 1
    Interesting how you cite that which is now officially known as a Corporate Conspiracy (I know, there's no such thing as conspiracies, only "coincidences" -- and science doesn't REALLY exist..) -- indeed, if the multicorps have their way, everyone will consume highly questionable, untested genetically modified food - which the fundamentalist loonies have deemed safe because those strange voices told them so (How can one be institutionalized today???).

    The point is not to criminalize everything so as to support the prison/industrial complex, such as Corrections Corporation of America and other such sleazoids. Once upon a time in America, there weren't mentally ill people on every street corner yelling to the moon.....

    Book recommendation of the day: Nomi Prins' Jacked: How the Bush Republicans Are Picking Your Pocket

  21. Re:"OH Brother" ... on Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later? · · Score: 1

    Which sounds funny, until one reads the Amnesty International, and UN reports of the Russian Mob doing just that sort of thing in Eastern Europe. Please note: everything that America has done elsewhere, and the organized crime outfits do elsewhere, eventually becomes a reality in North America.

  22. Re:Big "OH Brother" on Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later? · · Score: 1
    HOLY CRAP! Once more the neocons rush in with the lowbrow, mindless propaganda, "Oh, how important are all these sleazy crooked CEOs, who claim expertise when all they have is insider knowledge (and that's all they ever had), whose only response to everything is the impotent, "It's the cost of labor, let's offshore everything."

    Of course, if the minimum wage was still tied to production, as it was until around 1990 (oh...that would be the first Bushie administration), then it should be at least $20.00 per hour. But such math exceeds the intelligence of that office in the Pentagon which spews forth such drivel - and they pay drones high bucks to do such nonsense. 1984?? Try 2006!

    "If you learn economics, you can't be fooled by economists." Harry Truman

  23. Re:More government tax on corporations who outsour on Outsourced Call Centers Losing Feasibility? · · Score: 1

    So all these oil corporations (and so-called energy corporations) that received tax breaks and other special breaks -- here in America by the Bushies -- to built refineries, but instead DID NOT build refineries -- are not receiving welfare????? All the corporations that receive special privileges here and in other countries (Italy under Berlesconi, for instance, UK under Thatcher) are indeed receiving welfare and are rotten examples of your brand of capitalism. Learn and grow... or forever remain ignorant....

  24. Re:Besides rising wages... on Outsourced Call Centers Losing Feasibility? · · Score: 1
    Spot on!!! The last time I was a contractor with Microsoft was back in the '90s at tech support (and rollout) for Windows '95. First they outsourced us to a very unreliable, undependable and sleazy US contracting firm (which now bills itself as a firm to help with your offshoring and outsourcing), before offshoring the jobs completely.

    Now as a developer, going retail tech support was pretty much hitting rock bottom in the tech field (although topnotch tech support are brilliant people indeed!), but the way M$ measured tech support was getting rid of the customers ASAP! Of course, I solved many problems and gave great customer service, so they were only happy to offshore my, and all my team's, jobs! Microsoft has NEVER been concerned with customer service from their inception. They simply want layers and layers of bodies between them and, as they call them, their unwashed masses of customers as are far too many corporations today.....

  25. Re:Literally exploded? on House Passes Ban on Social Site Access · · Score: 1

    Outstanding post, good person! I would only disagree on one point, simply conjecture on my part, that it isn't one world government we are heading towards, but one world corporation. Take care....