The FTC deals with Federal Comm matters. You probably have another office overseeing matters within your State. Take the oppertunity to impose some regulations of your own...
Found your own $familyname Communications Assurance Group. Write up a policy forbidding any unsolicited phone calls. Post that policy on some web server in Kerplunkistan being fed by tcp/ip over tin-can-with-string protocol. Impose $10k fines for any violation. Take the name and number for anyone violating the policy. If they continue to violate your policy, then take them to court.
You have dominion over your home. You can impose any policy you like as long as it is more stringent that existing policies. Anyone violating your policy can be punished within the existing system.
You could even be easy and make sure the fines imposed are below your County's small claims limit. The companies would never even show up to contest the charges. You'd win by default. If they failed to pay, they'd be in violation of a court order.
If you play counterstrike with the new netcode enabled, you get shot around corners pretty often. Don't sweat it. Basicly, his computer does not show you as being behind the corner because of lag compensation. If you run right up to a corner and stop, the server may assume that you kept going. You see yourself behind a corner. He sees you out in the open.
Not to mention that most of the guns can shoot through up to 3 feet of wall. Standing behind a door or right behind a box or a corner is useless for cover.
Well, then you might as well play Progress Quest. The whole point of something like chess or counterstrike is to use a game to test your mind agianst my mind. Sure, you could sit there and let chessmaster plot your moves, but what's the point? Where is the mano-e-mano contest of champions?
Actually, One game that matches your plan is corewars and its' spinoffs. You code a bot that plays a bot I coded.
You should re-read the parent. He worked on Cisco kit for a while and got a CCNA. Using the EXPERIENCE he gained, he applied for a job. The CCNA was just a confirmation that he did know his Cisco stuff.
I could walk into any company today and say that I have 10 years of experience working on Cisco kit. I have worked on everything from 1600s to 7514s. I spent a full year redesigning a network of 20 2500s connected via ADC Paingains to a 7507 core. Yet, no company would hire me because I have no Cisco certification.
I could, probably, walk into a testing center and take a Cisco test cold and pass. I'm willing to bet I could get a CCNA and CCDA in the same afternoon. Probably take me a week to get a CCNP. I have a cow-orker who is a complete tool but got a paper CCIE after 2 months of study.
A CCNA will not get you a job. Experience will not get you a job. CCNA+experience will open up a lot of doors. Once those doors are open, the possibilities are limitless.
If the rods are still radioactive, then why are they considered waste?
The material in these rods has been in the ground for longer than man has been on the planet. Why are they considered waste after a year of being in a reactor?
At the very least, we could have smaller reactors designed to deal with the lower energy output.
If people weren't such tools about plutonium, we could use breeder reactors. Build one amd run it till it produced enough waste to power a second. Then use those to produce enough for 2 more. Of course, what do you do when you have enough reactors and now they are all breeding more plutonium?
He may be an ubergeek, but he's still a shortsighted tool.
Writing your own bootloader is a pointless endeavour.
Writing your own OS is pointless.
Rebuilding a 1970s MOPAR classic is pointless.
In the first days of crude oil refinement, gasoline was considered a waste product. People eventually found a use for it.
There are literally thousands of exapmles in history of a product being completely useless (or producing a useless by-product) that later turned out to be more valuable than what the inventor originally intended.
Even at the very least, the technological advancement needed to observe a single molecule motor is impressive. Add to that the tech needed to manipulate something that small and what you have is nothing less than amazing.
It also designates the user 'Administrator' (or whatever it has been renamed too) as an authorized recovery agent. Anyone with Admin access can recover your files effortlessly. And anyone with physical access to your box can get Admin access within minutes.
Plus, MS/may/ have a master recovery key that can be user remotely to decrypt files.
I dunno. I do not use 192.168.0.0/24 on my internal network. Doing so just gives away a critical peice of security information. I use a/29 (248 subnet mask) in an odd place. I also make sure any unused IPs are taken by dummy NICs to make it harder to get on my internal LAN.
I got a copy of that off of suprnova.org a few weeks back. It played just fine. The copy I got did not have a serial in-place, so you still needed a serial. Then agian, that could have been a trojan to swipe good serialz. I used a keygen, so the joke's on them. NortonAV did not pick up anything out of the ordinary; nor did AdAware.
All in all, Steam has guarenteed that I'll never play another Valve game agian...at least not one I pay for. I love LAN parties. Even though my local gaming group has a T-1, it just isn't worth it to wait 20 minutes while everyone logs into a remote server just to get some quick counterstrike action.
Most Linux games I have played do not require the CD. NWN and UT2k3 come to mind. You install, patch, then enter your CD-KEY. From that point on, the CD can stay in the box.
Daemon tools is entering a 'cold war' with Safedisk. I went out to get SW:KOTOR. I do use Daemon tools so I don't have to find the CDroms for my games. KOTOR installed fine, but then refused to run. I went back and installed from the actual CDROMs. This time, the game refused to load. Why? The error message reported that 'Disk emulation software was detected. Please remove this software and try agian'. Yep, it won't even run from the original media if Daemon tools is installed on your system.
Weren't we always more normal than the goths? And then the goths could always laugh at they guys doing LARP. The bane (pun intended) of the LARP guys was, IIRC, the Vampire: Masquerade wankers.
Personally, I find my experiences as a RPGer to be quite useful. Almost everyone came to me to get help with their NWN and TOEE characters. And don't even get me started on that bastardized KOTOR thingy...
Knoppix has the ability to run with the CDROM unlocked. If you have 1GB of RAM, it will even run completely from memory. I haven't tried it yet, but I bet it blows away any distro installed on a hard drive.
Knoppix will also store your files on a floppy or on a disk partition.
The NVIDIA drivers would probably make the desktop more responsive. If I move a browser window, it gets choppy. Once I install the NVIDIA drivers, the choppiness goes away. Not to mention the CD could have several smaller games requiring 3d acceleration.
I do think it sucks to have to PAY for linux. I agree with the 'download for free, pay for support' models. But with a CD distro, there are no real support options. Acrobat, Real, and Flash are worth having.
1. Guns don't cause violence. 2. US Media instils fear in the populace. 3. Populace fear causes violence.
Basicly, all the USians are afraid of the 'black man' coming to take their posessions. In response to the 'black man' threat, we buy guns. When we buy guns, our kids shoot each other.
Unfortunately, that line of thinking is flawed...or is it? Do the movies we see, the games we play, or the news we watch cause up to be more violent?
I personally wish 10 minutes of the news had to be dedicated to political scandals vice 20 minutes of 'black man' and 5 minutes of local weather.
About 4 years ago, JENS signed a contract with AAFES to provide service to military stations in Japan. I live in Northwest Tokyo and paid, for 3 years, $40/month for 90 hours of dialup service. Going over that limit was very expensive. A lot of 'power users' had several accounts and switched between them every two weeks.
Finally, after twy years of bitching, JENS upgraded to DSL. We now pay $60/month for 1.5mbps down and who knows how much up. Actually, the upstream doesn't matter at all. Why? No global IP addresses. Without a publicly addressable IP, any intention of sharing is crushed.
We cannot host any type of server. No games, no VoIP, no MSN or Yahoo voice/video chat, no filesharing at all. Funny thing is, even though I can't get something like TeamSpeak or NeverWinter Nights to create a server avalible to the internet, BitTorrent still works both ways flawlessly.
Anyway, long story short: I pay $60 for 1.5mbps via a US government-granted monopoly while my Japanese neighbor pays $30/month for 100mbps fiber-to-the-desktop.
On a side note, if anyone has any neat tricks to allow serving a game or VoIP server behind a NAT, I'd be interested in hearing them. The DSL network assigns 255.255.255.252 subnet masks, so even other people on the network cannot see me without going outside the NAT gateway.
If you are caught with regular porn in some places, you'd be flogged or worse.
There is an old saying I'm gonna' paraphrase horribly: The US system is probably the worst system ever put into service...but it's still better than anything else out there.
I just wish the police had more oversight by third-parties. Allowing them to use intimidation and treating citizens like criminals should not be tolerated in a soceity that touts "innocent until proven guilty by a court of your peers."
Your equipment will still sit in a locked evidince room in the basement of whatever agency decides to persue it. Your home will be invaded by men in combat gear with machine guns. You will be led away with your hands tie-wrapped behind your back. Your computer, router, cabling, telephones, VCR, TiVo, DVD player, etc will all be taken. Your books, bank records, credit card records, and family photos will be taken. Any writable media including (but not limited to) CD/DVD-r/rws, floppies, and home video tapes will be taken. Most of your licensed software will also be taken.
The stuff will sit in the evidince room for a LONG time. How long? At least until the investigation is closed. They may claim that they will hold it until they have a chance to do a forensic analasys on it, but they can take forever to do that. Your lawyer will tell the judge to give up your stuff. The cops will claim that a murder, rape, or drug case has precidince and they need more time. The judge will side with the cops.
You will probably never see your stuff agian. If you do, most of the writable media (especially your precious home videos) will have been destroyed by the forensic analasys, which, as far as I can tell, consists of holding a powerfull magnet next to everything you own to see if child porn pics will leap off the disks. Any hardware returned to you will be out-dated and may or may not work as cops have a tendency to turn on your PC and hold the CPU fans still to see what happens.
Claiming ignorance or even being stupid has never been a viable defense. When it comes down to it, they can't prove you downloaded the thing. But if you don't cooperate, they can still make your life suck.
Don't just think the prosicutor will say "Oh! You had an open WAP! Our bad; you are free to go." It's not gonna happen. But hey, I'm not bitter or anything.
tar -zxvf dosbox.tar.gz cd dosbox./configure Spend 30 minutes to resolve dependencies. make sudo make install Spend 30 more minutes resolving a segfault. Rebuild glibc with debugging support. Rebuild dosbox. This time it works with no segfault, but 50 other apps just broke because you rebuilt glibc.
You know, real men suck. Maybe it's time I try out one of these new-fangaled distribution thingies...
> You have such a gun culture (well in some parts at least), and then wonder why shootings occur.
Canada has lots of guns too. Not too many shootings there. Shootings have nothing to do with the number of guns or the number of people. I can't tell you why we shoot each other a lot, but I can sai that the number of guns have nothing to do with it.
>The greatest danger where I live is that after playing GTA, I'll start driving on the wrong side of the road. I have found myself eyeing up some parked vehicles.
The greatest danger with any media is that you get desensitized to horrors. Even if you can seperate real death from fake death, you are still being conditioned not to care.
It's like the school that 'trained' their professor to stand in a specific spot, or the students that 'trained' their dorm mate to jump when he hears the toilet flush. You are bing trained not to care when gang members kill each other. Or maybe even when gangs kill cops. Or maybe you aren't being trained at all.
Personally, I like to inform the guys I work with about my poop. We like to think we are a pretty tight group, but when I come in and let them know that I just dropped a nasty 'chocolate swirl' (poop that leaves marks on the bowl as it goes down), they get all shy.
We also like to hug each other a lot. Everyone needs a hug, even my coworkers. What makes it great is that it just isn't confined to the office. When we see each other in Wal-Mart, we give each other a big hug.
Some other things we talk about are:
Kiddy-porn -- Why is looking at a 13~16yo girl considered 'kiddie porn'? In all honesty, a 14yo girl has everything a guy needs to get turned on. So why pretend that you don't find sucking on the pert nipples of a young teen appealing?
GWB -- I work for the military. Talking about leaders is a BIG taboo. We do it constantly when no one is around. Some good, some bad.
Drugs -- Mainly just how cool drugs are. And how fucked up it is that we can't smoke a blunt while some shithead can drink till his liver falls out.
Useless Policies -- Every office has them. We bitch about having 9 documents that present the same information in 3 different perspectives. Each document has to be updated monthly at least. Then we have to update a document stating that we updated the documents. Finally, a station log has to be updated stating that the update to the update tracking document has been updated.
Piracy -- Fuck i-tunes. Fuck the artists. Fuck the labels. Fuck the developers. Fuck the gaming industry. Just give me free beer/software/music.
Hurting women -- We sit and talk about how we want to hang the Hilton sisters from the rafters and ejaculate on their faces while forcing them to give our dogs a rim job.
Basicly, we start with something simple. Then we progress till someone is like "No way, man! That shit is not cool!" At that point, we just all laugh it off like the joke it is. One day, someone won't find it funny and we will all get fired. But it's still fun to test peoples' ideas of what is cool. And sometimes, it gives them a sense of how fucked our mores are.
>I am not responsible for what others have done, but I am responsible for what I do
I agree completely. But, the US got where it is today by slavery, child labour, pollution, and basicly just being dicks. If you live in the US, you are enjoying a lifestyle brought to you by these things.
>I'm sorry, but I don't inherit the guilt of my forefathers.
How can you inherit the good without the bad. You have to take it all. There is nothing wrong with enjoying your lifestyle. Just understand that the reason you are posting on/. is that it was brought to you by sins committed in the past.
We cannot sit in out comfortable houses sipping our bottled water and reading/. and speak badly of people trying to get where we are by any means possible.
>even those of us whose fathers immigrated a generation or so ago
It doesn't matter when you came to the US. If you live here now, you are reaping the benifits of living in a country built upon the tears of generations past.
>to get ahead using evil means
I never said it was evil. More like inevitable. There was nothing wrong with it when we did it. There is nothing wrong with it today.
>We recognize what was done was wrong, and we now wish to make sure other people aren't victimized in the same way.
We are being manipulated into thinking it is bad. If we can prevent China from growing in the way that we did, then we reduce the competition in the world market. Our government and media outlets want us to think that it is wrong and must be stopped.
Not sure about Canada, but the US got where it is today by:
1. Stealing land from others. 2. Using slave labour on that land. 3. Cutting down the trees to drive the industrial revolution. 4. Employing child labour to cheaply replace slaves.
Now we want to bitch about other countries doing the same thing? If you LIVE in the US, you are partaking of the fruit made sweet by the sins of our fathers. Even if you are an ultra-PETA-Human Rights-hippie-on-a-reservation, you are still reaping the bounty made avalible from the deaths of countless slaves, children, trees, and animals.
Leave the rest of the world alone you fucking hypocrites. Stop trying to be your brothers' keeper. Just live and be happy knowing full well that in several hundred years China will come arround to our way of thinking....Or maybe we to theirs.
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The FTC deals with Federal Comm matters. You probably have another office overseeing matters within your State. Take the oppertunity to impose some regulations of your own...
Found your own $familyname Communications Assurance Group. Write up a policy forbidding any unsolicited phone calls. Post that policy on some web server in Kerplunkistan being fed by tcp/ip over tin-can-with-string protocol. Impose $10k fines for any violation. Take the name and number for anyone violating the policy. If they continue to violate your policy, then take them to court.
You have dominion over your home. You can impose any policy you like as long as it is more stringent that existing policies. Anyone violating your policy can be punished within the existing system.
You could even be easy and make sure the fines imposed are below your County's small claims limit. The companies would never even show up to contest the charges. You'd win by default. If they failed to pay, they'd be in violation of a court order.
If you play counterstrike with the new netcode enabled, you get shot around corners pretty often. Don't sweat it. Basicly, his computer does not show you as being behind the corner because of lag compensation. If you run right up to a corner and stop, the server may assume that you kept going. You see yourself behind a corner. He sees you out in the open.
Not to mention that most of the guns can shoot through up to 3 feet of wall. Standing behind a door or right behind a box or a corner is useless for cover.
Well, then you might as well play Progress Quest. The whole point of something like chess or counterstrike is to use a game to test your mind agianst my mind. Sure, you could sit there and let chessmaster plot your moves, but what's the point? Where is the mano-e-mano contest of champions?
Actually, One game that matches your plan is corewars and its' spinoffs. You code a bot that plays a bot I coded.
A friend of mine had the same job back in the early 90s...
He quit after walking in on a [living]coworker and a [deceased]client.
He drank for about 3 weeks straight then told us all that we were never to speak of that job in his presence.
You should re-read the parent. He worked on Cisco kit for a while and got a CCNA. Using the EXPERIENCE he gained, he applied for a job. The CCNA was just a confirmation that he did know his Cisco stuff.
I could walk into any company today and say that I have 10 years of experience working on Cisco kit. I have worked on everything from 1600s to 7514s. I spent a full year redesigning a network of 20 2500s connected via ADC Paingains to a 7507 core. Yet, no company would hire me because I have no Cisco certification.
I could, probably, walk into a testing center and take a Cisco test cold and pass. I'm willing to bet I could get a CCNA and CCDA in the same afternoon. Probably take me a week to get a CCNP. I have a cow-orker who is a complete tool but got a paper CCIE after 2 months of study.
A CCNA will not get you a job. Experience will not get you a job. CCNA+experience will open up a lot of doors. Once those doors are open, the possibilities are limitless.
What I don't understand is this:
If the rods are still radioactive, then why are they considered waste?
The material in these rods has been in the ground for longer than man has been on the planet. Why are they considered waste after a year of being in a reactor?
At the very least, we could have smaller reactors designed to deal with the lower energy output.
If people weren't such tools about plutonium, we could use breeder reactors. Build one amd run it till it produced enough waste to power a second. Then use those to produce enough for 2 more. Of course, what do you do when you have enough reactors and now they are all breeding more plutonium?
He may be an ubergeek, but he's still a shortsighted tool.
Writing your own bootloader is a pointless endeavour.
Writing your own OS is pointless.
Rebuilding a 1970s MOPAR classic is pointless.
In the first days of crude oil refinement, gasoline was considered a waste product. People eventually found a use for it.
There are literally thousands of exapmles in history of a product being completely useless (or producing a useless by-product) that later turned out to be more valuable than what the inventor originally intended.
Even at the very least, the technological advancement needed to observe a single molecule motor is impressive. Add to that the tech needed to manipulate something that small and what you have is nothing less than amazing.
Firebird does not have to install. It runs fine just by unzipping the archive to your desktop. It also has and IE theme that looks pretty convincing.
It also designates the user 'Administrator' (or whatever it has been renamed too) as an authorized recovery agent. Anyone with Admin access can recover your files effortlessly. And anyone with physical access to your box can get Admin access within minutes.
/may/ have a master recovery key that can be user remotely to decrypt files.
Plus, MS
I dunno. I do not use 192.168.0.0/24 on my internal network. Doing so just gives away a critical peice of security information. I use a /29 (248 subnet mask) in an odd place. I also make sure any unused IPs are taken by dummy NICs to make it harder to get on my internal LAN.
I got a copy of that off of suprnova.org a few weeks back. It played just fine. The copy I got did not have a serial in-place, so you still needed a serial. Then agian, that could have been a trojan to swipe good serialz. I used a keygen, so the joke's on them. NortonAV did not pick up anything out of the ordinary; nor did AdAware.
All in all, Steam has guarenteed that I'll never play another Valve game agian...at least not one I pay for. I love LAN parties. Even though my local gaming group has a T-1, it just isn't worth it to wait 20 minutes while everyone logs into a remote server just to get some quick counterstrike action.
Most Linux games I have played do not require the CD. NWN and UT2k3 come to mind. You install, patch, then enter your CD-KEY. From that point on, the CD can stay in the box.
Daemon tools is entering a 'cold war' with Safedisk. I went out to get SW:KOTOR. I do use Daemon tools so I don't have to find the CDroms for my games. KOTOR installed fine, but then refused to run. I went back and installed from the actual CDROMs. This time, the game refused to load. Why? The error message reported that 'Disk emulation software was detected. Please remove this software and try agian'. Yep, it won't even run from the original media if Daemon tools is installed on your system.
Weren't we always more normal than the goths? And then the goths could always laugh at they guys doing LARP. The bane (pun intended) of the LARP guys was, IIRC, the Vampire: Masquerade wankers.
Personally, I find my experiences as a RPGer to be quite useful. Almost everyone came to me to get help with their NWN and TOEE characters. And don't even get me started on that bastardized KOTOR thingy...
Knoppix has the ability to run with the CDROM unlocked. If you have 1GB of RAM, it will even run completely from memory. I haven't tried it yet, but I bet it blows away any distro installed on a hard drive.
Knoppix will also store your files on a floppy or on a disk partition.
The NVIDIA drivers would probably make the desktop more responsive. If I move a browser window, it gets choppy. Once I install the NVIDIA drivers, the choppiness goes away. Not to mention the CD could have several smaller games requiring 3d acceleration.
I do think it sucks to have to PAY for linux. I agree with the 'download for free, pay for support' models. But with a CD distro, there are no real support options. Acrobat, Real, and Flash are worth having.
Moore had some good points:
1. Guns don't cause violence.
2. US Media instils fear in the populace.
3. Populace fear causes violence.
Basicly, all the USians are afraid of the 'black man' coming to take their posessions. In response to the 'black man' threat, we buy guns. When we buy guns, our kids shoot each other.
Unfortunately, that line of thinking is flawed...or is it? Do the movies we see, the games we play, or the news we watch cause up to be more violent?
I personally wish 10 minutes of the news had to be dedicated to political scandals vice 20 minutes of 'black man' and 5 minutes of local weather.
About 4 years ago, JENS signed a contract with AAFES to provide service to military stations in Japan. I live in Northwest Tokyo and paid, for 3 years, $40/month for 90 hours of dialup service. Going over that limit was very expensive. A lot of 'power users' had several accounts and switched between them every two weeks.
Finally, after twy years of bitching, JENS upgraded to DSL. We now pay $60/month for 1.5mbps down and who knows how much up. Actually, the upstream doesn't matter at all. Why? No global IP addresses. Without a publicly addressable IP, any intention of sharing is crushed.
We cannot host any type of server. No games, no VoIP, no MSN or Yahoo voice/video chat, no filesharing at all. Funny thing is, even though I can't get something like TeamSpeak or NeverWinter Nights to create a server avalible to the internet, BitTorrent still works both ways flawlessly.
Anyway, long story short: I pay $60 for 1.5mbps via a US government-granted monopoly while my Japanese neighbor pays $30/month for 100mbps fiber-to-the-desktop.
On a side note, if anyone has any neat tricks to allow serving a game or VoIP server behind a NAT, I'd be interested in hearing them. The DSL network assigns 255.255.255.252 subnet masks, so even other people on the network cannot see me without going outside the NAT gateway.
If you are caught with regular porn in some places, you'd be flogged or worse.
There is an old saying I'm gonna' paraphrase horribly: The US system is probably the worst system ever put into service...but it's still better than anything else out there.
I just wish the police had more oversight by third-parties. Allowing them to use intimidation and treating citizens like criminals should not be tolerated in a soceity that touts "innocent until proven guilty by a court of your peers."
Your equipment will still sit in a locked evidince room in the basement of whatever agency decides to persue it. Your home will be invaded by men in combat gear with machine guns. You will be led away with your hands tie-wrapped behind your back. Your computer, router, cabling, telephones, VCR, TiVo, DVD player, etc will all be taken. Your books, bank records, credit card records, and family photos will be taken. Any writable media including (but not limited to) CD/DVD-r/rws, floppies, and home video tapes will be taken. Most of your licensed software will also be taken.
The stuff will sit in the evidince room for a LONG time. How long? At least until the investigation is closed. They may claim that they will hold it until they have a chance to do a forensic analasys on it, but they can take forever to do that. Your lawyer will tell the judge to give up your stuff. The cops will claim that a murder, rape, or drug case has precidince and they need more time. The judge will side with the cops.
You will probably never see your stuff agian. If you do, most of the writable media (especially your precious home videos) will have been destroyed by the forensic analasys, which, as far as I can tell, consists of holding a powerfull magnet next to everything you own to see if child porn pics will leap off the disks. Any hardware returned to you will be out-dated and may or may not work as cops have a tendency to turn on your PC and hold the CPU fans still to see what happens.
Claiming ignorance or even being stupid has never been a viable defense. When it comes down to it, they can't prove you downloaded the thing. But if you don't cooperate, they can still make your life suck.
Don't just think the prosicutor will say "Oh! You had an open WAP! Our bad; you are free to go." It's not gonna happen. But hey, I'm not bitter or anything.
Real men prefer:
./configure
tar -zxvf dosbox.tar.gz
cd dosbox
Spend 30 minutes to resolve dependencies.
make
sudo make install
Spend 30 more minutes resolving a segfault.
Rebuild glibc with debugging support.
Rebuild dosbox.
This time it works with no segfault, but 50 other apps just broke because you rebuilt glibc.
You know, real men suck. Maybe it's time I try out one of these new-fangaled distribution thingies...
Like this:
Lego Beretta
> You have such a gun culture (well in some parts at least), and then wonder why shootings occur.
Canada has lots of guns too. Not too many shootings there. Shootings have nothing to do with the number of guns or the number of people. I can't tell you why we shoot each other a lot, but I can sai that the number of guns have nothing to do with it.
>The greatest danger where I live is that after playing GTA, I'll start driving on the wrong side of the road. I have found myself eyeing up some parked vehicles.
The greatest danger with any media is that you get desensitized to horrors. Even if you can seperate real death from fake death, you are still being conditioned not to care.
It's like the school that 'trained' their professor to stand in a specific spot, or the students that 'trained' their dorm mate to jump when he hears the toilet flush. You are bing trained not to care when gang members kill each other. Or maybe even when gangs kill cops. Or maybe you aren't being trained at all.
Personally, I like to inform the guys I work with about my poop. We like to think we are a pretty tight group, but when I come in and let them know that I just dropped a nasty 'chocolate swirl' (poop that leaves marks on the bowl as it goes down), they get all shy.
We also like to hug each other a lot. Everyone needs a hug, even my coworkers. What makes it great is that it just isn't confined to the office. When we see each other in Wal-Mart, we give each other a big hug.
Some other things we talk about are:
Kiddy-porn -- Why is looking at a 13~16yo girl considered 'kiddie porn'? In all honesty, a 14yo girl has everything a guy needs to get turned on. So why pretend that you don't find sucking on the pert nipples of a young teen appealing?
GWB -- I work for the military. Talking about leaders is a BIG taboo. We do it constantly when no one is around. Some good, some bad.
Drugs -- Mainly just how cool drugs are. And how fucked up it is that we can't smoke a blunt while some shithead can drink till his liver falls out.
Useless Policies -- Every office has them. We bitch about having 9 documents that present the same information in 3 different perspectives. Each document has to be updated monthly at least. Then we have to update a document stating that we updated the documents. Finally, a station log has to be updated stating that the update to the update tracking document has been updated.
Piracy -- Fuck i-tunes. Fuck the artists. Fuck the labels. Fuck the developers. Fuck the gaming industry. Just give me free beer/software/music.
Hurting women -- We sit and talk about how we want to hang the Hilton sisters from the rafters and ejaculate on their faces while forcing them to give our dogs a rim job.
Basicly, we start with something simple. Then we progress till someone is like "No way, man! That shit is not cool!" At that point, we just all laugh it off like the joke it is. One day, someone won't find it funny and we will all get fired. But it's still fun to test peoples' ideas of what is cool. And sometimes, it gives them a sense of how fucked our mores are.
>I am not responsible for what others have done, but I am responsible for what I do
/. is that it was brought to you by sins committed in the past.
/. and speak badly of people trying to get where we are by any means possible.
I agree completely. But, the US got where it is today by slavery, child labour, pollution, and basicly just being dicks. If you live in the US, you are enjoying a lifestyle brought to you by these things.
>I'm sorry, but I don't inherit the guilt of my forefathers.
How can you inherit the good without the bad. You have to take it all. There is nothing wrong with enjoying your lifestyle. Just understand that the reason you are posting on
We cannot sit in out comfortable houses sipping our bottled water and reading
>even those of us whose fathers immigrated a generation or so ago
It doesn't matter when you came to the US. If you live here now, you are reaping the benifits of living in a country built upon the tears of generations past.
>to get ahead using evil means
I never said it was evil. More like inevitable. There was nothing wrong with it when we did it. There is nothing wrong with it today.
>We recognize what was done was wrong, and we now wish to make sure other people aren't victimized in the same way.
We are being manipulated into thinking it is bad. If we can prevent China from growing in the way that we did, then we reduce the competition in the world market. Our government and media outlets want us to think that it is wrong and must be stopped.
Not sure about Canada, but the US got where it is today by:
1. Stealing land from others.
2. Using slave labour on that land.
3. Cutting down the trees to drive the industrial revolution.
4. Employing child labour to cheaply replace slaves.
Now we want to bitch about other countries doing the same thing? If you LIVE in the US, you are partaking of the fruit made sweet by the sins of our fathers. Even if you are an ultra-PETA-Human Rights-hippie-on-a-reservation, you are still reaping the bounty made avalible from the deaths of countless slaves, children, trees, and animals.
Leave the rest of the world alone you fucking hypocrites. Stop trying to be your brothers' keeper. Just live and be happy knowing full well that in several hundred years China will come arround to our way of thinking....Or maybe we to theirs.