Noun 1. police state - a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)
All the examples you give are places where that surveillance could/would extend into your home (PRIVATE areas) without any due cause. What activities are you doing that are being repressed? What secret police are maintaining control over you?
You are in public - public means just that. If you expect to be PRIVATE in a public area you are living in a fairytale world. There are cameras on everything nowadays (street lights for speeders, people's phones, etc.)
If those surveillance cameras start to extend into your homes that is when the problem starts. The Olympics are covering a PUBLIC venue which has been targeted as a high profile event.
The Olympics were never meant to be just for amateurs. The Greek olympians trained year round and were sponsored. They did not even have a word for amateur.
The idea of amateurs only was foisted by the British gentile society as a way to keep professional laborers from competing in the sports (no day laborers could wrestle for example, working rivermen could not compete in rowing, etc.)
I think A&E had a good story about the whole thing recently...
- members of PLO faction called Black September, believed to be led by Abu Daoud (admitted his role in his autobiography, Memoirs of a Palestinian Terrorist.) (Captured, released by Germans, most others assassinated by Israelis)
April 1995? Angry White Guy.
Valley Militia??? In 1996, federal agents busted 12 members of the Valley militia group, the Vipers due to their bomb making activities. McVeigh was executed.
July 1996? Angry White Guy.
Religious Fundamentalist??? Prison.
Sept 2001? Saudis
Al Qaeda
The specific people are those who associate with the terror groups, those who fund them.
Do we just completely flush our civil liberties to make certain that we catch the bad guys?
No. We live in a surveillance nation. Everyone has video capture devices on everythign from phones to regular cameras. I would rather have PUBLIC places made as difficult as possible for the bad guys blend in with everyone else (those who are living in a civil society AND being civil.)
Great idea: become just like our like our enemies!
WTF? Since when did we start killing non-combatants and destroying civil targets intentionally?
Why are we fighting them again?
I for one wish to live in a civil society and watch my children (and eventually my grandchildren) grow up in one as well. Unfortunately, these people do not wish to allow that civil society to exist outside of their narrow views which conflict with pretty much the rest of the world and common respect for other human beings. Their answer is to kill us without any room for reason. Since they cannot be transported someplace where they won't try to kill us - there is only one choice - Capture and/or kill them.
Negative... I disagree completely when it comes to this event.
The reason they scan the phone lines and land lines is so that people do not use them for remote detonation of devices. I have heard in some events that the military actually jams phone communications during susected terrorist or bomb threats (Spain train bombings come to mind.)
Whatever security measures are deemed necessary by those running the Olympic games should be put in place. People are there to compete, not worry about being killed by some wacko asshole terrorists. Security goes a long way to preventing most terrorist activities or at least makes it that much more difficult.
As someone mentioned in the earlier posts, all it takes is someone willing to die for their "cause". As far as I am concerned that is all the more reason to hunt every last one of the bastards down; before they have a chance to organize anything remotely similar to September 11th anyplace else in the world.
**The E320 CDI Sedan does not meet the emissions requirements of California, Maine, Massachusetts, New York or Vermont and is not available in these states.
I would rather go for the Lexus 400h with all the trimmings and Hybrid Synergy Drive system. The HSD System will also be found in the Toyota Highlander Hyrid.
Toyota has been in the hybrid game longer than Ford and is licensing it's technology to Ford. My take is that Toyota will know how to implement it better.
On the other hand, I am not so sure finding another form of life outside of Earth is such a good idea. We have a hard enough time getting along with people on the other side of our own planet.
Who knows? It will probably give humanity something to unify against and hate other than their fellow humans...
"My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists"
At present, {word} has too many times been hijacked by those who use it for illegal purposes to which the vast majority of our consumers do not wish to be exposed.'
{word} suggestions:
Alcohol - get people drunk to make them do stupid things
Drugs - the abuse of things designed to help you
Planes, Trains, Automobiles - can kill people as a result of items 1 and 2 or terrorism
Microsoft OS - used to trojan peopls machines to send SPAM to everyone
Islam - bastard terrorists who pervert this religion
Christianity - priests and children
You could go on and on. You could put any word in there and come up with soemthing that fits that statement. The method of making the producer of a product responsible for a user's action with that product is assinine.
Bullets kill people. Guns only mediate.
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Between the GIMPS (http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm) and PrimeNet (URL:http://www.mersenne.org/ips/>) projects being public projects on finding large prime numbers publicly, the government must be building on those projects in-house.
Wouldn't you think the government has had some non-public serious hardware dedicated to this for the past decade? If these are the Top 500 "known" supercomputers (http://www.top500.org/list/2004/06/), where are all the Defense Department listings?
October 2nd, 2004 - Wild Fire Mark VI spacecraft reached a new speed record for descent...
For descent as the balloon it was suspended from popped. The crewmen, Doug and Bob, were unharmed. However, they have been relieved from duty after the true cause of the incident was determined.
Here is the transcript of the incident from our on the scene reporter, Troy:
Troy: Close call out there today, ay?
Bob: {sip from beer} belch
Doug: Ay
Troy: What happened?
Doug: We had just opened some beers for our ascent when I remembered we did not sew our Wild Fire patch on our jackets.
Bob: {another sip from beer}
Troy: and?
Bob: Hoser {pointing to Dough} knocked over the beers while I was sewing on my patch. Luckily, some guy named Bert gave us some cool sewing kits. [shows off his Scaled Composites travel sewing kit]
Doug: Ay, swell, ay.
Troy: How did this cause the problem?
Doug: Well, Bob let one and I needed to get some air. I opened the door and a bird flew in. I swatted it out but knocked over the beers, ay.
Bob: Hoser. Burp!
Troy: But what caused the accident?
Bob: Hoser, dropped his needle and it popped the balloon.
Doug: Ay, but I was able to recove my beer.
Alternatively, people could register then use Firefox with the Adblock plugin (awesome plugin) - this will then hose their ad revenues and make it very difficult for them to track what topics of interest you are looking at.
The reason they want to track what you look at and compare it to your register is for their direct targetting of ads and other services.
If they made it free they could still get this information (geographic demographics) by looking at the IP logs.
IBM did this when they launched their free patent database and made it available for everyone to search (lo and behold now IBM knows what stuff your companies are working on... (grin)) Which, of course, the execs did not like when I pointed that out to them.
Doesn't everyone register as bill.gates@microsoft.com when going to these sites?
Also, won't they lose a majority of their traffic which Slashdot and Google users send to them if no one can index their data for search engines or link to the content...
Bought the game this morning. Installed without a hitch... Played for a while...
The game gets stale rather quickly. The monsters appearing out of nowhere are annoying. Poof! There's a monster. BANG! Poof! Another monster. BANG BANG! BTW, how many dead zombies can fit in a maintenance closet anyways... Although, the chubby bastards with the rocket launchers for arms were pretty cool.
Outside of the lackluster gameplay, the graphics are F***ing awesome. The detail and lighting effects on everything are incredible (P4 2.4Ghz, 1GB RAM, ATI 9800 XT at 1280x1024 with AA). Everything looked on par with the Final Fantasy film graphics. Heat sources ripple the air and explosions ripple the air with concussions. The light from your plasma gun turns objects in front of it blue, etc... Interactivity with the environment is okay as well (objects can be shoved and positioned)
The AI is fairly decent with the gun toting SOBs using cover and ducking when you fire at them (at least on the VETERAN setting)
The $50+ I paid for it - not worth it - $30 maybe... I feel sorry for all those teens who plunk down their hard earned funds and realize the mistake too late...
Far Cry was much more interesting and better in game play value. Hopefully, the modders will make up some excellent improvements to the game and everyone can enjoy it even more. Hopefully, multiplayer will be better...
Where's my Beavertooth Chainsaw?
http://www.martianbuddy.com (Wonder how many hits this site got before the official release)
I would like to think that this could solve some of those cold case files which exist in police agencies.
For example, if a murderer/kidnapper takes pictures/video of their victims they could possibly use the images in the victim's eyes to trace where they are, who killed them and who was in the room... Especially since the corneas capture more of the room than what the eye is looking at.
This technology is awesome for law enforcement and solving old crimes where photographs/video were invovled.
Is Apple able to maintain such high satisfaction numbers simply due to:
they are the HW and SW vendor - so they can control what components users stick in their box
they do not have as many component options as PC users have available
do Mac users tweak or customize their BIOS or HW???
if you produce only 10 product a year (only an example) they tend to be a hell of a lot higher quality than someone who produces 10,000 a year. How many Apples are made/sold a year compared to the PC market?
Kind of assinine. Now instead of the criminals trying to track him physically so they can assassinate him - they give the criminals the ability hack the Tracking System and follow him in that fashion and find out his patterns...
Pretty stupid... Gonna suck if someone designs a killer robot that homes in on someone's implanted chip
Possibilities:
In 1985 it was called Crap Booth since everyone would stand in line waiting to play it. Similar to everyone standing in line to use the toilet or waiting for toilet paper when a shipment arrived every month.
After 1989 (Berlin Wall fell) - "Crap Booth" was what everyone called it when they saw the Pong and Colecovision shipments which got dumped on them.
Lastly, people who lost at it all screamed Crap that they wasted a month's salary (in rubles) to play Hase und Wold (a crappy Pac Man rip-off)
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Since you have such a clear vision on this subject... What are the root causes of terrorism and how would you address them?
What did the people who died in the Trade Centers bombings do to bring about their death? How about the plane bombing victims?
You assume that we (collective we as U.S. citizens) have done something to deserve these attacks?
All the examples you give are places where that surveillance could/would extend into your home (PRIVATE areas) without any due cause. What activities are you doing that are being repressed? What secret police are maintaining control over you? You are in public - public means just that. If you expect to be PRIVATE in a public area you are living in a fairytale world. There are cameras on everything nowadays (street lights for speeders, people's phones, etc.)
If those surveillance cameras start to extend into your homes that is when the problem starts. The Olympics are covering a PUBLIC venue which has been targeted as a high profile event.
The idea of amateurs only was foisted by the British gentile society as a way to keep professional laborers from competing in the sports (no day laborers could wrestle for example, working rivermen could not compete in rowing, etc.)
I think A&E had a good story about the whole thing recently...
A snippet of some Olympic myths (I like the one about the wine...) http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/olympic s/games.html
- members of PLO faction called Black September, believed to be led by Abu Daoud (admitted his role in his autobiography, Memoirs of a Palestinian Terrorist.) (Captured, released by Germans, most others assassinated by Israelis)
April 1995? Angry White Guy.
Valley Militia??? In 1996, federal agents busted 12 members of the Valley militia group, the Vipers due to their bomb making activities. McVeigh was executed.
July 1996? Angry White Guy.
Religious Fundamentalist??? Prison.
Sept 2001? Saudis
Al Qaeda
The specific people are those who associate with the terror groups, those who fund them. Do we just completely flush our civil liberties to make certain that we catch the bad guys?
No. We live in a surveillance nation. Everyone has video capture devices on everythign from phones to regular cameras. I would rather have PUBLIC places made as difficult as possible for the bad guys blend in with everyone else (those who are living in a civil society AND being civil.)
Great idea: become just like our like our enemies!
WTF? Since when did we start killing non-combatants and destroying civil targets intentionally?
Why are we fighting them again?
I for one wish to live in a civil society and watch my children (and eventually my grandchildren) grow up in one as well. Unfortunately, these people do not wish to allow that civil society to exist outside of their narrow views which conflict with pretty much the rest of the world and common respect for other human beings. Their answer is to kill us without any room for reason. Since they cannot be transported someplace where they won't try to kill us - there is only one choice - Capture and/or kill them.
The reason they scan the phone lines and land lines is so that people do not use them for remote detonation of devices. I have heard in some events that the military actually jams phone communications during susected terrorist or bomb threats (Spain train bombings come to mind.)
As someone mentioned in the earlier posts, all it takes is someone willing to die for their "cause". As far as I am concerned that is all the more reason to hunt every last one of the bastards down; before they have a chance to organize anything remotely similar to September 11th anyplace else in the world.
**The E320 CDI Sedan does not meet the emissions requirements of California, Maine, Massachusetts, New York or Vermont and is not available in these states.
Sweet looking vehicle though...
Toyota has been in the hybrid game longer than Ford and is licensing it's technology to Ford. My take is that Toyota will know how to implement it better.
I do agree and believe that it is only some priests who abuse children and not all.
Each religion/belief system has those who do good for those around them.
It involves five methods currently (all of which are outlined in the article):
"My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists"
{word} suggestions:
- Alcohol - get people drunk to make them do stupid things
- Drugs - the abuse of things designed to help you
- Planes, Trains, Automobiles - can kill people as a result of items 1 and 2 or terrorism
- Microsoft OS - used to trojan peopls machines to send SPAM to everyone
- Islam - bastard terrorists who pervert this religion
- Christianity - priests and children
You could go on and on. You could put any word in there and come up with soemthing that fits that statement. The method of making the producer of a product responsible for a user's action with that product is assinine.Bullets kill people. Guns only mediate.
Wouldn't you think the government has had some non-public serious hardware dedicated to this for the past decade? If these are the Top 500 "known" supercomputers (http://www.top500.org/list/2004/06/), where are all the Defense Department listings?
The NSA has "worked" closely with vendors supplying encryption equipment since the 1990s (http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9807/27/securit y.idg/
I would believe the government's NSA hardware is probably around 6-10 years ahead of what is commercially available or even known. http://www.hpcc.gov/pubs/blue94/section.4.6.html
If the Navy is funding this project, don't you think they have already found a way of monitoring it?
For descent as the balloon it was suspended from popped. The crewmen, Doug and Bob, were unharmed. However, they have been relieved from duty after the true cause of the incident was determined.
Here is the transcript of the incident from our on the scene reporter, Troy:
Troy: Close call out there today, ay?
Bob: {sip from beer} belch
Doug: Ay
Troy: What happened?
Doug: We had just opened some beers for our ascent when I remembered we did not sew our Wild Fire patch on our jackets.
Bob: {another sip from beer}
Troy: and?
Bob: Hoser {pointing to Dough} knocked over the beers while I was sewing on my patch. Luckily, some guy named Bert gave us some cool sewing kits. [shows off his Scaled Composites travel sewing kit]
Doug: Ay, swell, ay.
Troy: How did this cause the problem?
Doug: Well, Bob let one and I needed to get some air. I opened the door and a bird flew in. I swatted it out but knocked over the beers, ay.
Bob: Hoser. Burp!
Troy: But what caused the accident?
Bob: Hoser, dropped his needle and it popped the balloon.
Doug: Ay, but I was able to recove my beer.
End Story
The reason they want to track what you look at and compare it to your register is for their direct targetting of ads and other services.
If they made it free they could still get this information (geographic demographics) by looking at the IP logs.
IBM did this when they launched their free patent database and made it available for everyone to search (lo and behold now IBM knows what stuff your companies are working on... (grin)) Which, of course, the execs did not like when I pointed that out to them.
Also, won't they lose a majority of their traffic which Slashdot and Google users send to them if no one can index their data for search engines or link to the content...
Stupidity is not a crime so you're free to go
Actually, isn't that every young geek's dream...
&:-P
http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/F/Finn
However, with this bullshit, you wonder how they would fair now...
The game gets stale rather quickly. The monsters appearing out of nowhere are annoying. Poof! There's a monster. BANG! Poof! Another monster. BANG BANG! BTW, how many dead zombies can fit in a maintenance closet anyways... Although, the chubby bastards with the rocket launchers for arms were pretty cool.
Outside of the lackluster gameplay, the graphics are F***ing awesome. The detail and lighting effects on everything are incredible (P4 2.4Ghz, 1GB RAM, ATI 9800 XT at 1280x1024 with AA). Everything looked on par with the Final Fantasy film graphics. Heat sources ripple the air and explosions ripple the air with concussions. The light from your plasma gun turns objects in front of it blue, etc... Interactivity with the environment is okay as well (objects can be shoved and positioned)
The AI is fairly decent with the gun toting SOBs using cover and ducking when you fire at them (at least on the VETERAN setting)
The $50+ I paid for it - not worth it - $30 maybe... I feel sorry for all those teens who plunk down their hard earned funds and realize the mistake too late...
Far Cry was much more interesting and better in game play value. Hopefully, the modders will make up some excellent improvements to the game and everyone can enjoy it even more. Hopefully, multiplayer will be better...
Where's my Beavertooth Chainsaw?
http://www.martianbuddy.com (Wonder how many hits this site got before the official release)
For example, if a murderer/kidnapper takes pictures/video of their victims they could possibly use the images in the victim's eyes to trace where they are, who killed them and who was in the room... Especially since the corneas capture more of the room than what the eye is looking at.
This technology is awesome for law enforcement and solving old crimes where photographs/video were invovled.
I hope someone runs with this.
Hadesan
Kind of assinine. Now instead of the criminals trying to track him physically so they can assassinate him - they give the criminals the ability hack the Tracking System and follow him in that fashion and find out his patterns...
Pretty stupid... Gonna suck if someone designs a killer robot that homes in on someone's implanted chip
Possibilities: In 1985 it was called Crap Booth since everyone would stand in line waiting to play it. Similar to everyone standing in line to use the toilet or waiting for toilet paper when a shipment arrived every month. After 1989 (Berlin Wall fell) - "Crap Booth" was what everyone called it when they saw the Pong and Colecovision shipments which got dumped on them. Lastly, people who lost at it all screamed Crap that they wasted a month's salary (in rubles) to play Hase und Wold (a crappy Pac Man rip-off)