When I read the article I was almost concerned - until it mentioned
"according to interviews and a report by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay" - whew no more concern now, just some wack jobs from San Fran - nuff said!
Then I read your post and I almost felt bad for you until your far leftish political garbage came out:
"I'm quite certain at this point, that by running a small-business, esspecially online, you're just asking for reasons to be put into Guantanamo. Not that they need reasons, anymore."
uhm.... WHAT?
Why dont you just put on your tin foil hat (it's in your closet were you left it), drink the kool-aid (you apparently have it by the gallon) then handcuff yourself (I would put sexual reference with the handcuffs, but it's apparent you've never been laid) and turn yourself in, I'm sure the government (or the loony bin) has been waiting (a long time) for you and they have a cell waiting JUST FOR YOU (it happens to be padded), because you are indeed so important.....
"I've come to the conclusion that most governments are designed simply to sustain themselves through the opression of their own people".
LMAO - you just figured that out now? You must have been edumacated in public school. (since I mentioned public school) Has anyone ever noticed that teachers want you to question authority - except theirs. I feel like I'm in Bizzaro world in a Seinfeld episode "NO 'A' FOR YOU!!"
If you're "reporting" a "leak" that says Bush and Co are doing good... no problem.
LMAO!
Please name ONE 'leak' that says Bush is doing good! - I'll wait for the response.....
Hopefully they have also traced the calls of Dana Priest of the Washington Post, who was the reporter that won the Pulitzer for reporting fired ex-CIA agent Mary McCarthy's claim about United States having secret terrorist prisons in Europe that no one can find.
"Why is it that the sort of people who are always warning us against business monopolies never worry about monopolies of government power?"
I'm sorry that is an absurd comment, I believe it is more apt to say that the people who do worry about business monopolies, also worry about "government monopolies" - and then vote!
What you need to worry about are the 'sheep' who just dont care, watch Opera, and listen to Leonardo DiCaprio talk about global warming or Tom Cruise spew off about psychiatry - I'm sorry Entertainers with High School degrees do not classify as "experts" and the people that listen to and then believe them scare me much worse.
First, South Korea isn't known for piracy any more than any other country.
I did a simple google search (piracy in south Korea) and found the following interesting articles. I may be wrong, but it does look like S. Korea is known for a major amount of piracy And is my opinion that we (United States) are no way as close to the piracy in other countries like South Korea as we tend to fear repercussions and law suits more then other countries do...
"Piracy has been on the rebound in South Korea since the economic downturn in
2001 and 2002. Historically, piracy of high quality, counterfeit videocassettes has
been the most prevalent in the market. However, in 2003, there has been a
significant increase in the number of DVD imports and optical disc burner
operations in South Korea. In addition, duplication facilities of videocassette
plants and now burner labs have become larger, more secretive and more
sophisticated with technology. This signals a shift from the historical trend where
piracy duplication facilities had small and medium capacity.
"With a piracy rate of 40 percent to 50 percent, according to various estimates, South Korea has become one of the hot spots for cracking down on illegal software."
Again I may be wrong but it seems that your statement is unfounded. - Cheers!
Oh, I feel your pain, but at least YOU HAD WINDOWS!! I was in a 20 by 20 room with two other guys who never talked!! It drove me nutts. I'd try and start a conversation like "how was your weekend?" and I'd get "it was fine" that was it I was lucky to get a 5 minute conversation through the day if I was lucky. I was going stir crazy. I remember I bitched about not having windows and they put up a microsoft poster in front of me that said "where do you want to do today" - I guess they thought it was funny. My wife came over one day and she tripped out - we started calling it the 'cave' OMG I'm so glad I didnt go perm their!!
It gets even better... I dont have a bachelors only some college as I never had the opportunity to do so (was raising a family when i was 18). I now have over 7 years experience with database development and administration which i was able to do by self teaching myself. I remember working for a small healthcare type company as their DBA. I started doing various VB projects and ASP for their web reporting because no one had the drive to want to learn - as I love new challanges especially when it comes to technology and was eager to learn so i jumped at the chance to do some programming. They hired this guy who was a teacher at Devry as their system administrator, I was excited at first thinking i could finally have a mentor to ask questions to. Low and behold I find that this guy cant even map a network drive! Then to put the icing on the cake I overheard this jackass questioning one of the managers why they hired me because I didnt have a degree. I was so pissed! He was eventually fired (because he was an idiot) but now when I look on the job boards and see requirements for a bachelors I still think of this guy and wonder how many times I have been passed up even though I have the experience to do the job..... frustrating!
I was in agreement with most of what you said until:
Have you noticed that the Republicans are the party that runs these actors, like Sonny Bono, Loveboat's Gopher, Reagan, and Schwarzenegger
Hollywood is the machine that runs the actors and they are very, very far left. If you are going to split hairs with Gohper, Reagan and Arnie you need to also point out the majority of actors or Hollywood industry people who give and donate (aka activists) like the following:
Now that Kerry is the party's likely nominee, activists showed their acceptance of the Massachusetts senator Tuesday night at Greenacres, a 5-acre hillside estate built in 1927 by silent screen comic Harold Lloyd in Beverly Hills. Nearly 1,500 stars and executives from movies, TV and music paid $1,000 to $2,000 a ticket to mingle with Kerry.
The guest list included Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty, Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Lee Curtis and Steven Spielberg.
True, I never liked Clinton to much, and he did some things that I question (the 11th hour pardons pissed me off) but that is just my opinion. I try not to fall into the 'left' or the 'right' to much if I can help it. I think both parties have some good points(and bad points). I am happy about Arnie being the Govenator. It is refreshing to see someone who is not a career politician make it into office (which I believe is what our forefathers had in mind). To bad it usually has to be an entertainer! I also tend to get really tired of hearing the views of 'actors' spew their political views (which tend to be highly on the left) like Ben Affleck discussing the importance of raising the minimum wage (when is the last time Ben Affleck's been paid minimum wage??). Anyway I'll get off my soapbox now....
You being serious? the Smurfs? Hell no!! One chick smurf to 100 guy Smurfs - I'll take a mail ordered Russian bride anyday (at least they'd appreciate it more)
Schwarzenegger has the training to be a politician: he's an *actor*. He says what other people tell him to say. When he knows that his agent's right about the strategic value of a gig to his career, he turns on the empathy. He doesn't care what goes down the drain to fuel his ambition, or how fake his "empathy" to win friends keeping him on camera. Those "sheeple" you deride are foolish enough to believe the Hollywood that produced him. The modern Republican wolves who consort with any predator that looks like one of their pack are the real villains.
#1 Being a yank - I really dont mind that foreign visitors traveling to the United States on a visa have their index fingers digitally scanned and a digital photograph taken. If I were to visit a foreign country I would have no problem being fingerprinted or having a snapshot taken if that country required it (when in Rome you do as the Romans do - or tell you to do) - If you dont like it you dont have to visit. Also if it disturbs you that bad you can just travel to Mexico instead and come across the border like all the other's do! This way you would be helping a third world economy in the process! you could consider yourself a humanatarian!
#2 what about the 1500 people that died in France last year do to heat related incedents? How come this doesnt get mentioned? I'm not trying to play down the deaths of the elderly couple - it is a sad case when anyone dies.
I think you forget to mention that in other countries they just simply kill you or you'll go missing for a loooong time never to be seen again. So of course their incarceration rates are lower, And I'd say you're lucky if you even get a trial. Also not mentioned is how many illegal aliens are in the U.S. prisons? I've heard that many prisons in the south west have a majority population of mexican nationals - go figure. When the U.S. tell the world to "give us your poor and tired" i'd wish it would also include to leave your theiving/killing bastards back in your own country!!
I know you never said such gibberish, but it needed to be pointed out that they are their own independent nation/country/state whatever. But according to Arafat (leader of the PLO terrorist group) he recognizes them as being independent and their own state.
"The PLO recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security."
Basically there are rich and poor areas all over the world and they don't kill each other over it like they happen to do in Israel. It's not a money thing at all - it's all about Jewish hatred plain and simple, and if you think it is anything else you are totally off the mark. If you want to argue this point name one other Muslim Middle Eastern country that accepts Israel as a Jewish state (and there are a lot of 'rich' Muslim's in the Middle East - who by the way supply Palestine with money and arms).
11) Israel has a centrally controlled army.
And there is a problem here because?... The only reason you'd have a problem with that is that they can defend themselves and organize better then the radical Muslims (aka PLO) - so way to go Israel!!
12) Palestine has a lot of splintered militia.
Because radical muslims don't get along with other radiacl muslims.... To bad they're to power hungry I guess.....
I'm going to forgive you since you seem to be high on drugs... but basically what your saying is that because Isreal is rich (it is there country - by the way). That they should let the palestenians (whom it is not their country by the way) Let them do suicide bombings because they are poor? I love your quoute of: "Israel should stop retaliating each and every attack from the Palestinians". your right Isreal should stop retaliating and just wipe them out once and for all - problem solved. How about them apples?
first of all the Palestinians are no way in hell Isreal's 'brothers'. America doesnt have a comparison to that situation - the closest thing would probably be having all the Mexican illegal aliens taking over California and saying "this is ours now". The only thing that is fair in that whole situation is that Isreal shows a lot of restraint when dealing with the palestinians and hasnt kicked the living sh*t out of the PLO with all the 'terrorist' suicide bombings. But in reading your post I just figure you hat Jews - thanks for the compasion.....
With all this Jesus talk I guess it's a good thing that religion(s) don't advocate wars or violence since after all they are all about peace and love and brotherhood...... And another thing, if the bible is the best selling book - how come it never appears on Amazon's top 10? Hmmmm.....
Someone needs to tell these dooms day wacko's that historically the climates have changed and fluctuated - that's what planets do! Besides global warming the planet has had global freezing (ice ages).
I even heard at one point that there wasn't oxygen on the planet until it got polluted by those damn plants and vegetation! - that's what I heard.....
I've read that in the last hundred years the planets average temperature has raised one degree (don't ask for the source, I'm not going to look for it). I don't know about you, but when I hear it has only changed one degree, I tend to believe that is pretty damn constant - considering I cant keep my house the same temperature for an hour let alone a hundred years....
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"according to interviews and a report by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay" - whew no more concern now, just some wack jobs from San Fran - nuff said!
Then I read your post and I almost felt bad for you until your far leftish political garbage came out:
"I'm quite certain at this point, that by running a small-business, esspecially online, you're just asking for reasons to be put into Guantanamo. Not that they need reasons, anymore."
uhm.... WHAT?
Why dont you just put on your tin foil hat (it's in your closet were you left it), drink the kool-aid (you apparently have it by the gallon) then handcuff yourself (I would put sexual reference with the handcuffs, but it's apparent you've never been laid) and turn yourself in, I'm sure the government (or the loony bin) has been waiting (a long time) for you and they have a cell waiting JUST FOR YOU (it happens to be padded), because you are indeed so important.....
LMAO - you just figured that out now? You must have been edumacated in public school. (since I mentioned public school) Has anyone ever noticed that teachers want you to question authority - except theirs. I feel like I'm in Bizzaro world in a Seinfeld episode "NO 'A' FOR YOU!!"
LMAO!
Please name ONE 'leak' that says Bush is doing good! - I'll wait for the response.....
Hopefully they have also traced the calls of Dana Priest of the Washington Post, who was the reporter that won the Pulitzer for reporting fired ex-CIA agent Mary McCarthy's claim about United States having secret terrorist prisons in Europe that no one can find.
I'm sorry that is an absurd comment, I believe it is more apt to say that the people who do worry about business monopolies, also worry about "government monopolies" - and then vote!
What you need to worry about are the 'sheep' who just dont care, watch Opera, and listen to Leonardo DiCaprio talk about global warming or Tom Cruise spew off about psychiatry - I'm sorry Entertainers with High School degrees do not classify as "experts" and the people that listen to and then believe them scare me much worse.
baaaaa!
I did a simple google search (piracy in south Korea) and found the following interesting articles. I may be wrong, but it does look like S. Korea is known for a major amount of piracy And is my opinion that we (United States) are no way as close to the piracy in other countries like South Korea as we tend to fear repercussions and law suits more then other countries do...
http://www.mpaa.org/PiracyFactSheets/PiracyFactShe etSouthKorea.pdf
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117907504?catego ryid=1009&cs=1
Piracy losses (US$ millions) $27 million
Seizures (all items) 231,514
Piracy level (Video & Optical Disc) 25%
"Piracy has been on the rebound in South Korea since the economic downturn in 2001 and 2002. Historically, piracy of high quality, counterfeit videocassettes has been the most prevalent in the market. However, in 2003, there has been a significant increase in the number of DVD imports and optical disc burner operations in South Korea. In addition, duplication facilities of videocassette plants and now burner labs have become larger, more secretive and more sophisticated with technology. This signals a shift from the historical trend where piracy duplication facilities had small and medium capacity.
South Korea's cat-and-mouse with piracy
"With a piracy rate of 40 percent to 50 percent, according to various estimates, South Korea has become one of the hot spots for cracking down on illegal software."
Again I may be wrong but it seems that your statement is unfounded. - Cheers!
Oh, I feel your pain, but at least YOU HAD WINDOWS!! I was in a 20 by 20 room with two other guys who never talked!! It drove me nutts. I'd try and start a conversation like "how was your weekend?" and I'd get "it was fine" that was it I was lucky to get a 5 minute conversation through the day if I was lucky. I was going stir crazy. I remember I bitched about not having windows and they put up a microsoft poster in front of me that said "where do you want to do today" - I guess they thought it was funny. My wife came over one day and she tripped out - we started calling it the 'cave' OMG I'm so glad I didnt go perm their!!
It gets even better... I dont have a bachelors only some college as I never had the opportunity to do so (was raising a family when i was 18). I now have over 7 years experience with database development and administration which i was able to do by self teaching myself. I remember working for a small healthcare type company as their DBA. I started doing various VB projects and ASP for their web reporting because no one had the drive to want to learn - as I love new challanges especially when it comes to technology and was eager to learn so i jumped at the chance to do some programming. They hired this guy who was a teacher at Devry as their system administrator, I was excited at first thinking i could finally have a mentor to ask questions to. Low and behold I find that this guy cant even map a network drive! Then to put the icing on the cake I overheard this jackass questioning one of the managers why they hired me because I didnt have a degree. I was so pissed! He was eventually fired (because he was an idiot) but now when I look on the job boards and see requirements for a bachelors I still think of this guy and wonder how many times I have been passed up even though I have the experience to do the job..... frustrating!
It turned me into a newt!! .......I got better
Take another hit from the bong, it may help your conspiracy theories (or just make you pass out so we dont have to her them anymore) ;-)
Have you noticed that the Republicans are the party that runs these actors, like Sonny Bono, Loveboat's Gopher, Reagan, and Schwarzenegger
Hollywood is the machine that runs the actors and they are very, very far left. If you are going to split hairs with Gohper, Reagan and Arnie you need to also point out the majority of actors or Hollywood industry people who give and donate (aka activists) like the following:
Now that Kerry is the party's likely nominee, activists showed their acceptance of the Massachusetts senator Tuesday night at Greenacres, a 5-acre hillside estate built in 1927 by silent screen comic Harold Lloyd in Beverly Hills. Nearly 1,500 stars and executives from movies, TV and music paid $1,000 to $2,000 a ticket to mingle with Kerry. The guest list included Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty, Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Lee Curtis and Steven Spielberg.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nat ion/president/2004-03-30-kerry-hollywood_x.htm
True, I never liked Clinton to much, and he did some things that I question (the 11th hour pardons pissed me off) but that is just my opinion. I try not to fall into the 'left' or the 'right' to much if I can help it. I think both parties have some good points(and bad points). I am happy about Arnie being the Govenator. It is refreshing to see someone who is not a career politician make it into office (which I believe is what our forefathers had in mind). To bad it usually has to be an entertainer! I also tend to get really tired of hearing the views of 'actors' spew their political views (which tend to be highly on the left) like Ben Affleck discussing the importance of raising the minimum wage (when is the last time Ben Affleck's been paid minimum wage??). Anyway I'll get off my soapbox now....
You being serious? the Smurfs? Hell no!! One chick smurf to 100 guy Smurfs - I'll take a mail ordered Russian bride anyday (at least they'd appreciate it more)
If it's good enough for Clinton.....
#2 what about the 1500 people that died in France last year do to heat related incedents? How come this doesnt get mentioned? I'm not trying to play down the deaths of the elderly couple - it is a sad case when anyone dies.
I think you forget to mention that in other countries they just simply kill you or you'll go missing for a loooong time never to be seen again. So of course their incarceration rates are lower, And I'd say you're lucky if you even get a trial. Also not mentioned is how many illegal aliens are in the U.S. prisons? I've heard that many prisons in the south west have a majority population of mexican nationals - go figure. When the U.S. tell the world to "give us your poor and tired" i'd wish it would also include to leave your theiving/killing bastards back in your own country!!
I tend to agree that anyone who is politics is evil, oh and VOTE BUSH! ;)
I like your sig - who is the quote from?
"The PLO recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security."
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Peace/recogn.html
Basically there are rich and poor areas all over the world and they don't kill each other over it like they happen to do in Israel. It's not a money thing at all - it's all about Jewish hatred plain and simple, and if you think it is anything else you are totally off the mark. If you want to argue this point name one other Muslim Middle Eastern country that accepts Israel as a Jewish state (and there are a lot of 'rich' Muslim's in the Middle East - who by the way supply Palestine with money and arms).
11) Israel has a centrally controlled army.
And there is a problem here because?... The only reason you'd have a problem with that is that they can defend themselves and organize better then the radical Muslims (aka PLO) - so way to go Israel!!
12) Palestine has a lot of splintered militia.
Because radical muslims don't get along with other radiacl muslims.... To bad they're to power hungry I guess.....
I'm going to forgive you since you seem to be high on drugs... but basically what your saying is that because Isreal is rich (it is there country - by the way). That they should let the palestenians (whom it is not their country by the way) Let them do suicide bombings because they are poor? I love your quoute of: "Israel should stop retaliating each and every attack from the Palestinians". your right Isreal should stop retaliating and just wipe them out once and for all - problem solved. How about them apples?
first of all the Palestinians are no way in hell Isreal's 'brothers'. America doesnt have a comparison to that situation - the closest thing would probably be having all the Mexican illegal aliens taking over California and saying "this is ours now". The only thing that is fair in that whole situation is that Isreal shows a lot of restraint when dealing with the palestinians and hasnt kicked the living sh*t out of the PLO with all the 'terrorist' suicide bombings. But in reading your post I just figure you hat Jews - thanks for the compasion.....
With all this Jesus talk I guess it's a good thing that religion(s) don't advocate wars or violence since after all they are all about peace and love and brotherhood...... And another thing, if the bible is the best selling book - how come it never appears on Amazon's top 10? Hmmmm.....
Someone needs to tell these dooms day wacko's that historically the climates have changed and fluctuated - that's what planets do! Besides global warming the planet has had global freezing (ice ages). I even heard at one point that there wasn't oxygen on the planet until it got polluted by those damn plants and vegetation! - that's what I heard..... I've read that in the last hundred years the planets average temperature has raised one degree (don't ask for the source, I'm not going to look for it). I don't know about you, but when I hear it has only changed one degree, I tend to believe that is pretty damn constant - considering I cant keep my house the same temperature for an hour let alone a hundred years....
"Dad, is the moon made of cheese?" "No son, it's made of spam...."