College and Canada will not be options. In December 2001, Canada and the US signed a "Smart Border Declaration," which could be used to keep would-be draft dodgers in. Signed by Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Manley, and US Homeland Security Director, Gov. Tom Ridge, the declaration involves a 30-point plan which implements, among other things, a "pre-clearance agreement" of people entering and departing each country. Reforms aimed at making the draft more equitable along gender and class lines also eliminates higher education as a shelter. Underclassmen would only be able to postpone service until the end of their cur-rent semester. Seniors would have until the end of the academic year.
$28 million has been added to the 2004 Selective Service System (SSS) budget to prepare for a military draft that could start as early as June 15, 2005. SSS must report to Bush on March 31, 2005 that the system, which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for activation. Please see website: http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html to view the SSS Annual Performance Plan - Fiscal Year 2004.
The Pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide.. Though this is an unpopular election year topic, military experts and influential members of Congress are suggesting that if Rumsfeld's prediction of a "long, hard slog" in Iraq and Afghanistan [and a permanent state of war on "terrorism"] proves accurate, the U.S. may have no choice but to draft.
Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and H.R. 163 forward this year, entitled the Universal National Service Act of 2003, "To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons [age 18--26] in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes." These active bills currently sit in the Committee on Armed Services.
These people MUST realize that the "War on Terrorism" is a necessarily perpetual one.
Strangely enough, CIA director George Tenet made that exact point only yesterday:
"CIA chief predicts war with no end By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 25/02/2004)
America's assault on al-Qa'eda has scattered its terrorist expertise across the globe, meaning that the United States will be menaced by Islamic extremism "for the foreseeable future", the CIA director, George Tenet, said yesterday.
He offered the Senate intelligence committee a bleak vision of a war on terrorism without end, in which even the destruction of al-Qa'eda would not make America safe."
Rumors have been flying... Some rumors stated... seems to have been... I'd bet... we can assume... The general reputation of Foonet also seemed to be... No doubt there may have been.... they seem to be... it looks to me like... They were evidently... It looks like..."
I hope the FBI's evidence was stronger than yours.
"Mystery of terror 'insider dealers' By Chris Blackhurst 14 October 2001 Share speculators have failed to collect $2.5m (1.7m) in profits made from the fall in the share price of United Airlines after the 11 September World Trade Centre attacks.
The fact that the money is unclaimed more than a month later has re-awakened investigators' interest in a story dismissed as coincidence.
It may be that investors who were able to predict the share price crash so skilfully are reluctant to be seen profiting from tragedy. But investigators now wonder whether there is a more sinister explanation.
The authorities are examining the possibility that if they knew what was coming, traders were intent on taking their profits immediately, before regulators had woken up to any possible scam. But investors failed to foresee that the first response of the US stock markets to the disaster was to suspend all trading for four days, thereby denying them the chance of cashing in their profits.
Further details of the futures trades that netted such huge gains in the wake of the hijackings have been disclosed. To the embarrassment of investigators, it has also emerged that the firm used to buy many of the "put" options - where a trader, in effect, bets on a share price fall - on United Airlines stock was headed until 1998 by "Buzzy" Krongard, now executive director of the CIA.
Until 1997, Mr Krongard was chairman of Alex Brown Inc, America's oldest investment banking firm. Alex Brown was acquired by Bankers Trust, which in turn was bought by Deutsche Bank. His last post before resigning to take his senior role in the CIA was to head Bankers Trust - Alex Brown's private client business, dealing with the accounts and investments of wealthy customers around the world.
There is no suggestion that Mr Krongard had advance knowledge of the attacks.
Between 6 and 7 September, the Chicago Board Options Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 "put" option contracts in UAL versus 396 call options - where a speculator bets on a price rising. Holders of the put options would have netted a profit of $5m (3.3m) once the carrier's share price dived after 11 September. On 10 September, more trading in Chicago saw the purchase of 4,516 put options in American Airlines, the other airline involved in the hijackings. This compares with a mere 748 call options in American purchased that day. Investigators cannot help but notice that no other airlines saw such trading in their put options.
It was not just airlines that were targeted by remarkably canny investors. One of the biggest occupants of the World Trade Centre was Morgan Stanley, the investment bank. In the first week of September, an average of 27 put option contracts was bought each day in its shares. The total for the three days before the attacks was 2,157. Merrill Lynch, anotherWTC tenant, saw 12,215 put options bought in the four days before the attacks, when the previous days had seen averages of 252 contracts a day."
"It really adds nothing to the system, [and] the people who think it will don't understand the history of network intrusions we've had with firewalls."
Nothing like a straw-man argument when you're losing the debate!
Personally, I've never heard an environmentalist advocate growth in the fossil-fuel industry. Normally, the suggested solution is two-fold:
1. Reduce energy usage (by conserving energy, reducing the need for long-distance travel, etc)
2. Develop sustainable, less-damaging form of energy production (solar, wind, tidal power, etc)
Seems sensible to me. But go ahead, feel free to stereotype your opponents as scientifically-illiterate luddites. It's not like you're going to get called on it here, is it?
Good examples are things like the arms races, competing tech companies, etc, etc. These types of conflict or competition-oriented environments almost demand that innovation, invention, and extremely rapid creative thinking and development occur in order to stay in the running or at the top
But these things are the result of group action, not individual action. You are observing conflict and competition between groups, not individuals.
If you look at social animals and non-social animals, man clearly fits the into latter category.
When Terrorists sit down to plan about blowing things up, they have this seemingly brainwashed sense of the need to damage, maim, and kill innocent people *directly*.
Thank God that's definitely not what happened in Hiroshima, Dresden, Mai Lai, etc, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
College and Canada will not be options. In December 2001, Canada and the US signed a "Smart Border Declaration," which could be used to keep would-be draft dodgers in. Signed by Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Manley, and US Homeland Security Director, Gov. Tom Ridge, the declaration involves a 30-point plan which implements, among other things, a "pre-clearance agreement" of people entering and departing each country. Reforms aimed at making the draft more equitable along gender and class lines also eliminates higher education as a shelter. Underclassmen would only be able to postpone service until the end of their cur-rent semester. Seniors would have until the end of the academic year.
US Preparing for Military Draft in Spring 2005
$28 million has been added to the 2004 Selective Service System (SSS) budget to prepare for a military draft that could start as early as June 15, 2005. SSS must report to Bush on March 31, 2005 that the system, which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for activation. Please see website: http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html to view the SSS Annual Performance Plan - Fiscal Year 2004.
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The Pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide.. Though this is an unpopular election year topic, military experts and influential members of Congress are suggesting that if Rumsfeld's prediction of a "long, hard slog" in Iraq and Afghanistan [and a permanent state of war on "terrorism"] proves accurate, the U.S. may have no choice but to draft.
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Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and H.R. 163 forward this year, entitled the Universal National Service Act of 2003, "To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons [age 18--26] in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes." These active bills currently sit in the Committee on Armed Services.
US Preparing for Military Draft in Spring 2005
In fact, by selling on their expertise and experience, they could profit from this in the long term.
Here's an interesting recent example:
British Press Gagged on Reporting MI6's 100,000 bin Laden
These people MUST realize that the "War on Terrorism" is a necessarily perpetual one.
Strangely enough, CIA director George Tenet made that exact point only yesterday:
"CIA chief predicts war with no end
By David Rennie in Washington
(Filed: 25/02/2004)
America's assault on al-Qa'eda has scattered its terrorist expertise across the globe, meaning that the United States will be menaced by Islamic extremism "for the foreseeable future", the CIA director, George Tenet, said yesterday.
He offered the Senate intelligence committee a bleak vision of a war on terrorism without end, in which even the destruction of al-Qa'eda would not make America safe."
CIA chief predicts war with no end
I'm sorry to break this to you all, but this hosting provider is far from innocent.
I believe that is for the courts to decide, not the FBI.
Of course it is good sense to be polite to cops.
But a failure to do so does not excuse an abuse of power.
"while I do not discount the story, I'll start by asking for more information"
Good idea!
Perhaps you could be a little more specific about which slashdot article you mean?
"give the hardware back after copying data wich they don't have to do"
Really?
What crime have these people been charged with, that they can be punished in this manner by the state?
And you think they should be grateful?
Amazing!
Rumors have been flying... Some rumors stated... seems to have been... I'd bet... we can assume... The general reputation of Foonet also seemed to be... No doubt there may have been.... they seem to be... it looks to me like... They were evidently... It looks like..."
I hope the FBI's evidence was stronger than yours.
Deutsche Securities, eh? That sounds familiar...
"Mystery of terror 'insider dealers'
By Chris Blackhurst
14 October 2001
Share speculators have failed to collect $2.5m (1.7m) in profits made from the fall in the share price of United Airlines after the 11 September World Trade Centre attacks.
The fact that the money is unclaimed more than a month later has re-awakened investigators' interest in a story dismissed as coincidence.
It may be that investors who were able to predict the share price crash so skilfully are reluctant to be seen profiting from tragedy. But investigators now wonder whether there is a more sinister explanation.
The authorities are examining the possibility that if they knew what was coming, traders were intent on taking their profits immediately, before regulators had woken up to any possible scam. But investors failed to foresee that the first response of the US stock markets to the disaster was to suspend all trading for four days, thereby denying them the chance of cashing in their profits.
Further details of the futures trades that netted such huge gains in the wake of the hijackings have been disclosed. To the embarrassment of investigators, it has also emerged that the firm used to buy many of the "put" options - where a trader, in effect, bets on a share price fall - on United Airlines stock was headed until 1998 by "Buzzy" Krongard, now executive director of the CIA.
Until 1997, Mr Krongard was chairman of Alex Brown Inc, America's oldest investment banking firm. Alex Brown was acquired by Bankers Trust, which in turn was bought by Deutsche Bank. His last post before resigning to take his senior role in the CIA was to head Bankers Trust - Alex Brown's private client business, dealing with the accounts and investments of wealthy customers around the world.
There is no suggestion that Mr Krongard had advance knowledge of the attacks.
Between 6 and 7 September, the Chicago Board Options Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 "put" option contracts in UAL versus 396 call options - where a speculator bets on a price rising. Holders of the put options would have netted a profit of $5m (3.3m) once the carrier's share price dived after 11 September. On 10 September, more trading in Chicago saw the purchase of 4,516 put options in American Airlines, the other airline involved in the hijackings. This compares with a mere 748 call options in American purchased that day. Investigators cannot help but notice that no other airlines saw such trading in their put options.
It was not just airlines that were targeted by remarkably canny investors. One of the biggest occupants of the World Trade Centre was Morgan Stanley, the investment bank. In the first week of September, an average of 27 put option contracts was bought each day in its shares. The total for the three days before the attacks was 2,157. Merrill Lynch, anotherWTC tenant, saw 12,215 put options bought in the four days before the attacks, when the previous days had seen averages of 252 contracts a day."
Mystery of terror 'insider dealers'
The market isn't free - it's artificially constrained by Microsoft's abusive tactics.
I believe this was proven in court.
Cox on using a firewall:
"It really adds nothing to the system, [and] the people who think it will don't understand the history of network intrusions we've had with firewalls."
Nothing like a straw-man argument when you're losing the debate!
Personally, I've never heard an environmentalist advocate growth in the fossil-fuel industry. Normally, the suggested solution is two-fold:
1. Reduce energy usage (by conserving energy, reducing the need for long-distance travel, etc)
2. Develop sustainable, less-damaging form of energy production (solar, wind, tidal power, etc)
Seems sensible to me. But go ahead, feel free to stereotype your opponents as scientifically-illiterate luddites. It's not like you're going to get called on it here, is it?
Good examples are things like the arms races, competing tech companies, etc, etc. These types of conflict or competition-oriented environments almost demand that innovation, invention, and extremely rapid creative thinking and development occur in order to stay in the running or at the top
But these things are the result of group action, not individual action. You are observing conflict and competition between groups, not individuals.
If you look at social animals and non-social animals, man clearly fits the into latter category.
When Terrorists sit down to plan about blowing things up, they have this seemingly brainwashed sense of the need to damage, maim, and kill innocent people *directly*.
Thank God that's definitely not what happened in Hiroshima, Dresden, Mai Lai, etc, etc.
Terrorism is the specific targetting of civilians for the purpose of inspiring fear.
You mean like Hiroshima or Dresden?
It think the first guy got it right.
"The US is a meritocracy."
Of course it is. Just ask the Bushes.
Or the Kennedys.
Or the Rockefellers.
Or... well, you get the idea.
Also: NEVER EVER ever put a business-card CD in a slot-feed CD drive. You're pretty much guaranteed to fuck it up.
In a free market, profitability is related to competitiveness.
If software companies are unable to compete with OSS, then they must either change or cease to exist.
This is exactly how the system is designed to work.
Compulsory retention of logs is coming. It's happened in Europe, and it's about to happen in the States.
"An early draft of the White House's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace envisions the same kind of mandatory customer data collection and retention by U.S. Internet service providers as was recently enacted in Europe, according to sources who have reviewed portions of the plan."
"After delaying for about two years, U.S. President George W. Bush recently asked the U.S. Senate to ratify the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention, a global agreement apparently created to help police worldwide cooperate to fight Internet crimes."
I'm Irish.
The land-owners WERE the English!
And how do you suppose they got control of the land and it's produce? Free-market ideology?
Is that what they call genocide where you come from?
Interesting idea.
But if the universe is 4-D, then it will indeed (according to your theory) have an 'outside' - just as a teardrop has an 'outside'.
And if it is 3-D, then how can it behave as if it were 4-D?
They're also arresting people for having "WMDs".
Even people who don't have any.