It's SO much work invading other countries! SUCH a bother! And watching people DIE. People who are merely defending themselves against a global imperial agressor! The NERVE of those people! As if they had families who love them.
And before you go and crank a batch in your shorts about nine eleven, we're not fighting Bin Laden and his bunch. We're fighting his enablers (the thousands in the Taliban) and millions and millions of people who had nothing to do with 9/11, upon whom we so merrily drop tons of ordnance, and then complain when it's too much work or too disgusting to watch.
And don't give me some crap about how "they're defending our freedom", because I frankly don't recall the day the Iraqi air force and army stormed our beaches and bombed our cities and dumped tons of hot lead into our freedoms. I must have been on vacation that day, in this place called REALITY. They aren't defending our freedom. They are defending the reserve capacity for american oil companies, because the rest of the world has the good sense to not turn their molecular patrimony over to a bunch of gangsters.
I don't support the troops or their mission. I never did. They are hired killers for the empire. At the same time, I do not wish them ill or harm. I only wish for them to do the right thing and refuse to fight this war of naked imperial aggression.
so I say GOOD. I'm glad the images of the people they are incinerating BURNS into their minds. Murder shouldn't be easy. If you're going to be some tough dude for the American Imperium, suck it up and deal with the horror you are so intimately a part of.
Not everyone who reads slashdot is in the USA, and many of us who read slashdot have had it up to ^here^ with the American Military Industrial Complex that is raping the planet and holding us all hostage to its insane and paranoid delusions.
I hardly watch television at all. Most of my video comes through youtube and similar sites. when I want to see a recent movie, I have the rental shop down the street. Does BluRay look better? Yes. Do I care? No.
After this I saw multitudes
forced from the land
cleared away for the walls.
Dispossed refugees who were totally free.
Free to starve!
Or to slave!
Free to choose a way of being:
To labour or DIE!
I saw cities explode with this freedom
And covered my eyes.
So, they start cutting a bunch of it into O2, and the next thing you know - KABOOM!!! The planet explodes. Awesome. Can't wait to see THAT go down. I'll swipe a bottle of scotch and watch the fireworks...
That's nice. Science is fun. But since when would we ever find Lithium at the Earth's core? When would Lithium ever come under such pressure? The only Lithium that matters to me is the stuff IN MY VEINS...
Frankly, almost anywhere in the OECD is better. Some are worse in some ways, others are worse in others, but overall, the USA is rapidly approaching the bottom of the barrel in the OECD on almost every metric that matters excluding "consumer item acquisition" bullshit.
The biggest problem is language. If you're stuck only knowing English (like Most Americans) you're kinda fucked. In the English Speaking World, other than the UK, (which had become a bit of a shithole under Blair, and his successor doesn't seem like a great improvement) there are some nicer First World Choices like New Zealand and Australia and Canada. Personally, for all of its problems, Australia has the greatest potential. Canada is a colony of the USA (but still a much safer and more pleasant place to live), and NZ is so small, that strange distortions come into play due to lack of personnel. Still, it is a very sweet country with really great people.
If you speak other languages (at least french) then you ca get by rather well in the Netherlands, Belgium. France is fine, but VERY VERY nationalistic - their language is their religion, and it's very serious - outsiders don't do well there. Denmark is great, and the language (like dutch) is similar to English and Scandanavian languages, but it is a very small place and would be hard to get into and thrive. Germany is doing very well, but the Germans are fucking crazy IMHO. I don't "get them". They all seem very nice and progressive, but after what went down in the 20th century, I am not that groovy about them - neo-nazis abound and I've had some less than inspiring experiences there. At the same time, some of my best friends in Europe are German or Austrian. they also feel odd about their own countries, so I guess I hang out with alienated people.
The further southeast you go, the more xenophobic it gets. The Czechs are great, but forget about "being Czech". Won't happen. The Irish are great, and Irish women are crazy (often in a good way) so that's another possibility, especially if you can prove your grand father or mother is Irish.
The Baltics are a mess, and Russia is run by gangsters. Italy is fun, but very volatile, and nothing seems to get done there. Spain is VERY underestimated, and I have heard some great stories coming out of Spain lately. Portugal is OK, but very small - fine if you want to hide.
Switzerland is IMPOSSIBLE. Don't bother. They are not xenophobic. They are antixeno, period. No fear involved. You cannot be Swiss. They are freaks.
Canada, for example, requires that you have a job there waiting & that the employer has to certify that no Canadian can do the job.
Not entirely true. If you go to Canada and can prove that you have enough money to survive on your own while your immigration gets processed (about 2 years) they will give you a work visa. Still, you need to have that money in the bank - I think it's $15,000k per year (something like $30k per person in family) you can get in. That's all IIRC, and I could be wrong.
I do know that if you have specific (usually high tech) skills NAFTA considers you "special" and it is easier to get into Canada.
However: The winters in Canada ARE formidable, and not to be trifled with, and given that,a href="Canada, for example, requires that you have a job there waiting & that the employer has to certify that no Canadian can do the job.">Canadian nat gas production is set to go below 1:1 EROEI by 2015 things could get cold there Really Soon.
Well, you're being nice. The two words that popped into my mind were:
FASCIST PIGFUCKERS.
Run while you can. If you think Obama's gonna make it all better, you're nuts. The whole imperial mess is rolling into a death spiral. Run while you can.
Perhaps his ignorance of the law is great, but his genuine understanding of the relationship between the UK and its imperial master, the USA is spot on. He should be tried in the UK, period, as the UK has plenty of cyber-laws.
He did not commit any personal crime, he did not defraud anyone, he simply opened something he shouldn't have - US military networks. The Chinese pul this crap all the time - do we demand the extradition of them? Hel no. Why? Because China's not the US's bitch. What you are seeing is an act of imperialism, pure and simple.
Let's revisit what Senator Stevens said, laugh at his imbecility, and shake our heads at the fragility of what little is left of net neutrality, and how it is in the hands of such clueless and ethically challenged people.
Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) offered up this bizarre explanation for why he voted against net neutrality laws. In it, he explains how the internet works...
"There's one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and you change your order but you pay for that, right.
But this service isn't going to go through the internet and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them delivered to you and the delivery charge is free.
Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.
So you want to talk about the consumer? Let's talk about you and me. We use this internet to communicate and we aren't using it for commercial purposes.
We aren't earning anything by going on that internet. Now I'm not saying you have to or you want to discriminate against those people [...]
The regulatory approach is wrong. Your approach is regulatory in the sense that it says "No one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet". No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm not going to take a lot of time.
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?
Do you know why?
Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can't afford getting delayed by other people.
[...]
Now I think these people are arguing whether they should be able to dump all that stuff on the internet ought to consider if they should develop a system themselves.
Maybe there is a place for a commercial net but it's not using what consumers use every day.
It's not using the messaging service that is essential to small businesses, to our operation of families.
The whole concept is that we should not go into this until someone shows that there is something that has been done that really is a violation of net neutrality that hits you and me."
1. NYC (economy / "culture")
2. Wash DC (politics / leadership)
3. The Pentagon (just to make a point...)
4. Los Angeles (remove America's "culture")
5. Palo Alto (bye bye Silicon Valley)
6. Chicago (economics and lots of casualities)
7. Dallas (because it sucks)
8. Redmond (bye bye M$)
9. Las Vegas (because it is evil Evil EVIL)
10. Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center in Colorado (take out a big chunk of their ability to respond)
11. Houston TX (Because it's big and center of oil and aerospace interests)
12. Atlanta (because it sucks, but not as badly as Dallas)
Strike at those 12 targets and you'd cut the US population by a solid 10%, millions would die from radioactivity or cancers later, the economy would collapse, what little remained of the political leadership would declare martial law and probably never permit anything resembling a real election. The data infrastructure would be scrambled from EMP, the leadership class would be vapourised - it wouldn't be the stone age, but millions would die of starvation the following winter. 12 nukes would remove the USA as a world power. Period. You don't need thousands and thousands.
In my opinion, 3 nukes (NYC, LAX, WDC) would be more than sufficient to collapse the American System.
Decentralising / networking the American System would be a good (even GREAT) idea, but that isn't likely to happen given present resource depletion rates and similar material constraints and the ruling class's disinterest in sharing power with people. Real People.
Pretty Vacant.
It looks really nice. I like the layout and the addition of images, etc. Very Pretty.
I did the classic search on my name (which is none-of-your-beeswax). In Google: top of the list, #1 with a bullet: My Website, as expected.
I did it with cuil and the result? Tertiary links REGARDING my work. I had to go 7 pages in to find the link that was top of the list in Google.
So, in terms of searching the obvious, Cuil sucks, verily.
I then searched on the name (in "quotes") of my friend's rather obscure antique furniture biz. It says I got 3,420 hits, but only supplied me with 6 pages of hits, for a total of 72. Stupid Stupid Stupid. What if I really needed the link on #73? Too Bad!
cuil needs a LOT of work before it even comes close to Google.
Some noted above the options, and I have to agree - this is a no-win situation for Apple. They haven't any real options in this, and I was curious how long it would take for someone to pull this off.
If they win the case, it opens up a precedent that I don't think is in anyone's interest, other than Apple's. What if MS sued HP saying they're not allowed to sell machines that run Windows? It would either be suicide or some weird form of extortion.
This could be THE case that forces MacClones into reality. It won't work for Mister John Q Public from Anytown USA who expect their food to be injected into their stomachs predigested. But for those who are willing to sit with a machine for an hour or so, I don't see how this is much of a problem.
This would be a benefit to people who already have one Apple machine, but want another but don't want to pay premium price. They already have the OS disks.
This is much more interesting than PSystar. I could see they were screwed from the gitgo, but these guys have it sussed.
We'd need air to breathe and protection from the sulfuric acid in the atmosphere.'"
Oh - that's all! Suuuure.... Nothing like a daily battle with H2SO4. And no oxygen. Other than that, it's a piece of cake. Al I need is a ceramic space suit, and a ceramic air bottle. That's all I need. And a shuttle. That's all I need...a ceramic space suit, and a ceramic air bottle...and a shuttle and a floating city, something no one has ever made before. Yeah - that's all I need...a ceramic space suit, and a ceramic air bottle, a shuttle, ad a floating city and food. and water. That's all I need...a ceramic space suit, and a ceramic air bottle and a floating city and a shuttle and food and water.
And a remote...and a lamp... and a chair... and a remote...
naaaah - scratch that - 300 sucked giant gobs of poo. I was thinking of Wall-E. Wall-E was cute. I don't know how I got that confused. Prediction: Watchmen will rock the noobs and tards but disappoint the steadfast.
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And before you go and crank a batch in your shorts about nine eleven, we're not fighting Bin Laden and his bunch. We're fighting his enablers (the thousands in the Taliban) and millions and millions of people who had nothing to do with 9/11, upon whom we so merrily drop tons of ordnance, and then complain when it's too much work or too disgusting to watch.
And don't give me some crap about how "they're defending our freedom", because I frankly don't recall the day the Iraqi air force and army stormed our beaches and bombed our cities and dumped tons of hot lead into our freedoms. I must have been on vacation that day, in this place called REALITY. They aren't defending our freedom. They are defending the reserve capacity for american oil companies, because the rest of the world has the good sense to not turn their molecular patrimony over to a bunch of gangsters.
I don't support the troops or their mission. I never did. They are hired killers for the empire. At the same time, I do not wish them ill or harm. I only wish for them to do the right thing and refuse to fight this war of naked imperial aggression.
so I say GOOD. I'm glad the images of the people they are incinerating BURNS into their minds. Murder shouldn't be easy. If you're going to be some tough dude for the American Imperium, suck it up and deal with the horror you are so intimately a part of.
Not everyone who reads slashdot is in the USA, and many of us who read slashdot have had it up to ^here^ with the American Military Industrial Complex that is raping the planet and holding us all hostage to its insane and paranoid delusions.
RS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAPf9V3_li0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYzMrxIlgVg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cBiOTvxXcY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdtPFncgbHo
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7889586355561291332&ei=y1ObSOfCFaOw4QKGidUr&q=adam+curtis
And hundreds of other videos that I prize.
Can't? Oh gee... I wonder why...
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by Art Bears
After this I saw multitudes
forced from the land
cleared away for the walls.
Dispossed refugees who were totally free.
Free to starve!
Or to slave!
Free to choose a way of being:
To labour or DIE!
I saw cities explode with this freedom
And covered my eyes.
RS
I c u d h l w t q a t m r p o r p y
h h t o n s i e g e t d a
t o l e p i h u n u c y t g a h .
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Face it people: it's fascism. Pure and simple. Leave while you can.
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Slashdot editors working on the steam powered interweb...
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The biggest problem is language. If you're stuck only knowing English (like Most Americans) you're kinda fucked. In the English Speaking World, other than the UK, (which had become a bit of a shithole under Blair, and his successor doesn't seem like a great improvement) there are some nicer First World Choices like New Zealand and Australia and Canada. Personally, for all of its problems, Australia has the greatest potential. Canada is a colony of the USA (but still a much safer and more pleasant place to live), and NZ is so small, that strange distortions come into play due to lack of personnel. Still, it is a very sweet country with really great people.
If you speak other languages (at least french) then you ca get by rather well in the Netherlands, Belgium. France is fine, but VERY VERY nationalistic - their language is their religion, and it's very serious - outsiders don't do well there. Denmark is great, and the language (like dutch) is similar to English and Scandanavian languages, but it is a very small place and would be hard to get into and thrive. Germany is doing very well, but the Germans are fucking crazy IMHO. I don't "get them". They all seem very nice and progressive, but after what went down in the 20th century, I am not that groovy about them - neo-nazis abound and I've had some less than inspiring experiences there. At the same time, some of my best friends in Europe are German or Austrian. they also feel odd about their own countries, so I guess I hang out with alienated people.
The further southeast you go, the more xenophobic it gets. The Czechs are great, but forget about "being Czech". Won't happen. The Irish are great, and Irish women are crazy (often in a good way) so that's another possibility, especially if you can prove your grand father or mother is Irish.
The Baltics are a mess, and Russia is run by gangsters. Italy is fun, but very volatile, and nothing seems to get done there. Spain is VERY underestimated, and I have heard some great stories coming out of Spain lately. Portugal is OK, but very small - fine if you want to hide.
Switzerland is IMPOSSIBLE. Don't bother. They are not xenophobic. They are antixeno, period. No fear involved. You cannot be Swiss. They are freaks.
So, that's my take on different countries.
RS
http://www.theoildrum.com/files/can_nat_gas_EROI.PNG
Not entirely true. If you go to Canada and can prove that you have enough money to survive on your own while your immigration gets processed (about 2 years) they will give you a work visa. Still, you need to have that money in the bank - I think it's $15,000k per year (something like $30k per person in family) you can get in. That's all IIRC, and I could be wrong.
I do know that if you have specific (usually high tech) skills NAFTA considers you "special" and it is easier to get into Canada.
However: The winters in Canada ARE formidable, and not to be trifled with, and given that ,a href="Canada, for example, requires that you have a job there waiting & that the employer has to certify that no Canadian can do the job.">Canadian nat gas production is set to go below 1:1 EROEI by 2015 things could get cold there Really Soon.
RS
FASCIST PIGFUCKERS.
Run while you can. If you think Obama's gonna make it all better, you're nuts. The whole imperial mess is rolling into a death spiral. Run while you can.
RS
He did not commit any personal crime, he did not defraud anyone, he simply opened something he shouldn't have - US military networks. The Chinese pul this crap all the time - do we demand the extradition of them? Hel no. Why? Because China's not the US's bitch. What you are seeing is an act of imperialism, pure and simple.
RS
Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) offered up this bizarre explanation for why he voted against net neutrality laws. In it, he explains how the internet works...
"There's one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and you change your order but you pay for that, right.
But this service isn't going to go through the internet and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them delivered to you and the delivery charge is free.
Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.
So you want to talk about the consumer? Let's talk about you and me. We use this internet to communicate and we aren't using it for commercial purposes.
We aren't earning anything by going on that internet. Now I'm not saying you have to or you want to discriminate against those people [...]
The regulatory approach is wrong. Your approach is regulatory in the sense that it says "No one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet". No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm not going to take a lot of time.
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?
Do you know why?
Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can't afford getting delayed by other people.
[...]
Now I think these people are arguing whether they should be able to dump all that stuff on the internet ought to consider if they should develop a system themselves.
Maybe there is a place for a commercial net but it's not using what consumers use every day.
It's not using the messaging service that is essential to small businesses, to our operation of families.
The whole concept is that we should not go into this until someone shows that there is something that has been done that really is a violation of net neutrality that hits you and me."
RS
1. NYC (economy / "culture")
2. Wash DC (politics / leadership)
3. The Pentagon (just to make a point...)
4. Los Angeles (remove America's "culture")
5. Palo Alto (bye bye Silicon Valley)
6. Chicago (economics and lots of casualities)
7. Dallas (because it sucks)
8. Redmond (bye bye M$)
9. Las Vegas (because it is evil Evil EVIL)
10. Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center in Colorado (take out a big chunk of their ability to respond)
11. Houston TX (Because it's big and center of oil and aerospace interests)
12. Atlanta (because it sucks, but not as badly as Dallas)
Strike at those 12 targets and you'd cut the US population by a solid 10%, millions would die from radioactivity or cancers later, the economy would collapse, what little remained of the political leadership would declare martial law and probably never permit anything resembling a real election. The data infrastructure would be scrambled from EMP, the leadership class would be vapourised - it wouldn't be the stone age, but millions would die of starvation the following winter. 12 nukes would remove the USA as a world power. Period. You don't need thousands and thousands.
In my opinion, 3 nukes (NYC, LAX, WDC) would be more than sufficient to collapse the American System.
Decentralising / networking the American System would be a good (even GREAT) idea, but that isn't likely to happen given present resource depletion rates and similar material constraints and the ruling class's disinterest in sharing power with people. Real People.
RS
Pretty Vacant. It looks really nice. I like the layout and the addition of images, etc. Very Pretty. I did the classic search on my name (which is none-of-your-beeswax). In Google: top of the list, #1 with a bullet: My Website, as expected. I did it with cuil and the result? Tertiary links REGARDING my work. I had to go 7 pages in to find the link that was top of the list in Google. So, in terms of searching the obvious, Cuil sucks, verily. I then searched on the name (in "quotes") of my friend's rather obscure antique furniture biz. It says I got 3,420 hits, but only supplied me with 6 pages of hits, for a total of 72. Stupid Stupid Stupid. What if I really needed the link on #73? Too Bad! cuil needs a LOT of work before it even comes close to Google.
If they win the case, it opens up a precedent that I don't think is in anyone's interest, other than Apple's. What if MS sued HP saying they're not allowed to sell machines that run Windows? It would either be suicide or some weird form of extortion.
This could be THE case that forces MacClones into reality. It won't work for Mister John Q Public from Anytown USA who expect their food to be injected into their stomachs predigested. But for those who are willing to sit with a machine for an hour or so, I don't see how this is much of a problem.
This would be a benefit to people who already have one Apple machine, but want another but don't want to pay premium price. They already have the OS disks.
This is much more interesting than PSystar. I could see they were screwed from the gitgo, but these guys have it sussed.
RS
We. Don't. Think. So.
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We'd need air to breathe and protection from the sulfuric acid in the atmosphere.'"
Oh - that's all! Suuuure.... Nothing like a daily battle with H2SO4. And no oxygen. Other than that, it's a piece of cake. Al I need is a ceramic space suit, and a ceramic air bottle. That's all I need. And a shuttle. That's all I need...a ceramic space suit, and a ceramic air bottle...and a shuttle and a floating city, something no one has ever made before. Yeah - that's all I need...a ceramic space suit, and a ceramic air bottle, a shuttle, ad a floating city and food. and water. That's all I need...a ceramic space suit, and a ceramic air bottle and a floating city and a shuttle and food and water.
And a remote...and a lamp... and a chair... and a remote...
naaaah - scratch that - 300 sucked giant gobs of poo. I was thinking of Wall-E. Wall-E was cute. I don't know how I got that confused. Prediction: Watchmen will rock the noobs and tards but disappoint the steadfast.