So US citizens living abroad who might want to see canditate information before sending in an absentee ballot can't see the website of one of the candidates?
I just bought Hellboy - the EXTRA SPECIAL EDITION, released a few months after Hellboy the regular special edition.
I've ordered Return of the King - the Extended Edition, released a few months after The Return of the King - the Theatrical Edition.
X-men and Spiderman both had Special Editions relased after millions of fans went out and bought the first version. And I can't even count the number of different versions of Akira I've seen on DVD.
Lucas has only released 1 version of each Star Wars movie has has been getting massive crap - first for NOT releasing the OT (and NOT taking people's money) and then for NOT released the 'Original versions' (and again NOT taking more money from people.
Star Wars was released several time on video tape.... in about 20 years.
How many times was Jaws released on video tape? Or Terminator 2? Or the Godfather?
p.
No one knows because no one pays any attention.
I had a 'friend' who got rooked into calling board in Moldavia.
The board was free but the long distance charges were about $2.50 a minute.
p.
Luckily 'he' was able to talk the phone company into dropping most of the $300 plus bill when it came. Mostly.
Sometimes the simplest explanation are the most accurate IMO, This is purely a case of political repression.
The federal government has a LONG and storied history of illegal attempts to thwart political dissent. cointelprois only one of the most famous examples. The wars agaisnt political dissent continued through the 1990's and continues to this day.
To go from a few random acts of violence to soem conclusion that this justifies seizing IndyMedia's servers is more than a stretch. But luckily, under the Patriot Act, the feds don't actually have to go before a judge or produce any evidence or anything icky like that.
This entire country has recently been through a massive disinformation campaign (WMD's anyone?), most people should be more suspicious of an action of this kind, especially so close to national elections.
I'd wager that in a few months the Indymedia 'investigation' will quietly end with no charges being filed and no explainations given.
Unfortunately for whoever is coordinating this latest governmenteffort, dissent and public disbelief in Official Government Lies has pread far beyond the underground radical fringe. Heck, you can buy Fahrenheit 9/11 at WALMART... where they sell guns and everything.
If the Indymedia people are worth their salt as activists, they'll be able to parlay this government action into increased visibility and increased participation in their efforts.
I'm in the process of putting all of my store bought audio CDs onto MP3 CD collections.
Yeah, I know "the quality isn't as good as the original or as some lossless compression formats", blah blah blah, but in the car on a long trip or on my comupter at work they sound good enough.
I haven't started backing up my DVDs yet, but after I had my house broken into and my 40-50 DVDs stolen, I really see the value of doing this.
Where was Jack Valenti when some punk kid was off selling the DVDs I legally bought? Why isn't the MPAA doing something to develop technology that would ensure that only the legal owner of a DVD, or someone who they've given approval to can use the DVD. How about some technology to track discs so that they would be useless to pawn shops and second hand shops unless it was the legitimate purchaser who was selling them?
The MPAA is pressuring the government to take away additional rights from consumers (no digital copying of HDTV broadcasts, no ability to watch legit DVDs on Linux machines, etc), why is it that they don't to more to also protect their CUSTOMERS - their actual source of revenue?
I think Darl's main goal is to drive the stock price of Slashdot and Groklaw so low that they will cease to function - after the insiders have sucked the companies dry of any cash they have left
I think that the Goodwill Games and Turner's engagement in general did more to help bring Glastnost and end the Cold War than Ronnie Raygun's nuclear bomb spending spree and Star Wars Death Star fantasies ever did.
Turner was spending lots of cash on the Goodwill Games back when all of the Cold War conservative experts constantly expressed their GroupThink opinion that the Soviet Union was the Evil Empire and the only thing to do was to spend money on weapons to protect ourselves from them. Because, as a dictatorship, they could spend any amount of money they wanted on weapons without the need to get the approval of their people. So the Cold War would never end, and all we could do is follow the Peace through Strength policiy of huge war budgets and more bombs, missles and nuclear subs every year.
Even when Gorbachev started letting up on the totalitarins reigns all of the Conservative pundits regularly informed us that 'it's only a trick' and 'they'd never let any REAL change happen in the Evil Empire.
The New Party Line that Raygun cleverly outspent the Soviets because he knew the US would win the Cold War if we did so is a more recent piece of Revisionist history.
Ted Turner's not a right winger. He's a businessman and he may have some conservative opinions but for decades he's taken positions that are definitely on the left side of the spectrum.
During the Raygun administration when the US and USSR boycotted each other Olympic Games, and the nuclear arms race was revving to a fever pitch, Ted Turner came up with the Goodwill Games. Advertised as the only global sporting event where US and Soviet atheletes had an Opportunity to compete against each other. He also did a few other things to keep engaged with the USSR rather than simply demonizing them.
My personal theory is that he realized that rich people might get vaporized along with everyone else if a Nuclear War broke out. But that's just a theory.
He did a lot of programming on TBS focusing on Nuclear War/Peace issues. (back when the only channels he only owned were CNN and TBS.)
He also has consistently engaged with Cuba, even interviewing Fidel Castro a few times when almost no reporters ever to coverage in that country. He didn't do this because he's pro Castro, he did it beacuse, like with the Cold War with the Soviet Union, he believes the right course of action is engagement and dialogue, not jingoistic posturing that's prevelant in both major parties in the US.
Turner has consistenly criticized CNN's "Fox News Lite" cheerleader approach to covering Bush and the War on Terrorism and the War on Iraq since 9/11 when few others have done so.
He also was involved with Jane Fonda for a few years. 'Hanoi' Jane Fonda somone who's almost at the top of the Right Wing Hate List.
...in the last years of the 19th century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurable superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly, and surely,
Slashdot Mirror
That wasn't exactly a glowing endorsement.
That's just sad.
I've ordered Return of the King - the Extended Edition, released a few months after The Return of the King - the Theatrical Edition.
X-men and Spiderman both had Special Editions relased after millions of fans went out and bought the first version. And I can't even count the number of different versions of Akira I've seen on DVD.
Lucas has only released 1 version of each Star Wars movie has has been getting massive crap - first for NOT releasing the OT (and NOT taking people's money) and then for NOT released the 'Original versions' (and again NOT taking more money from people.
Star Wars was released several time on video tape.... in about 20 years.
How many times was Jaws released on video tape? Or Terminator 2? Or the Godfather? p. No one knows because no one pays any attention.
They formed after Wyld Stallions broke up.
and now I'm SOL
Something to watch while you wait.
The board was free but the long distance charges were about $2.50 a minute. p. Luckily 'he' was able to talk the phone company into dropping most of the $300 plus bill when it came. Mostly.
It's a new Orwellian term meaning "unfair and unbalanced".
he should see the beating SCOX takes everyday on the Yahoo SCOX message board:
Very little hierarchy, no central control, collective volunteer efforts towards a central purpose. Is there a problem?
The federal government has a LONG and storied history of illegal attempts to thwart political dissent. cointelprois only one of the most famous examples. The wars agaisnt political dissent continued through the 1990's and continues to this day.
To go from a few random acts of violence to soem conclusion that this justifies seizing IndyMedia's servers is more than a stretch. But luckily, under the Patriot Act, the feds don't actually have to go before a judge or produce any evidence or anything icky like that.
This entire country has recently been through a massive disinformation campaign (WMD's anyone?), most people should be more suspicious of an action of this kind, especially so close to national elections.
I'd wager that in a few months the Indymedia 'investigation' will quietly end with no charges being filed and no explainations given.
Unfortunately for whoever is coordinating this latest governmenteffort, dissent and public disbelief in Official Government Lies has pread far beyond the underground radical fringe. Heck, you can buy Fahrenheit 9/11 at WALMART... where they sell guns and everything.
If the Indymedia people are worth their salt as activists, they'll be able to parlay this government action into increased visibility and increased participation in their efforts.
The moon left orbit in September 9, 1999.
There's at least one.
I'll finally be able to put all my mp3s on 1 disc.
I can boycott Micro$oftf for two things at the same time!
Well when you have a million gun-nuts hating you, you can have a bodyguard with a gun too.
Yeah, I know "the quality isn't as good as the original or as some lossless compression formats", blah blah blah, but in the car on a long trip or on my comupter at work they sound good enough.
I haven't started backing up my DVDs yet, but after I had my house broken into and my 40-50 DVDs stolen, I really see the value of doing this.
Where was Jack Valenti when some punk kid was off selling the DVDs I legally bought? Why isn't the MPAA doing something to develop technology that would ensure that only the legal owner of a DVD, or someone who they've given approval to can use the DVD. How about some technology to track discs so that they would be useless to pawn shops and second hand shops unless it was the legitimate purchaser who was selling them?
The MPAA is pressuring the government to take away additional rights from consumers (no digital copying of HDTV broadcasts, no ability to watch legit DVDs on Linux machines, etc), why is it that they don't to more to also protect their CUSTOMERS - their actual source of revenue?
We are Groklaw
resistance is futile.
I think Darl's main goal is to drive the stock price of Slashdot and Groklaw so low that they will cease to function - after the insiders have sucked the companies dry of any cash they have left
No wait, that's his main goal for SCO.
Does everything tech related in movies have to look like a Mac?
Turner was spending lots of cash on the Goodwill Games back when all of the Cold War conservative experts constantly expressed their GroupThink opinion that the Soviet Union was the Evil Empire and the only thing to do was to spend money on weapons to protect ourselves from them. Because, as a dictatorship, they could spend any amount of money they wanted on weapons without the need to get the approval of their people. So the Cold War would never end, and all we could do is follow the Peace through Strength policiy of huge war budgets and more bombs, missles and nuclear subs every year.
Even when Gorbachev started letting up on the totalitarins reigns all of the Conservative pundits regularly informed us that 'it's only a trick' and 'they'd never let any REAL change happen in the Evil Empire.
The New Party Line that Raygun cleverly outspent the Soviets because he knew the US would win the Cold War if we did so is a more recent piece of Revisionist history.
Ted Turner's not a right winger. He's a businessman and he may have some conservative opinions but for decades he's taken positions that are definitely on the left side of the spectrum. During the Raygun administration when the US and USSR boycotted each other Olympic Games, and the nuclear arms race was revving to a fever pitch, Ted Turner came up with the Goodwill Games. Advertised as the only global sporting event where US and Soviet atheletes had an Opportunity to compete against each other. He also did a few other things to keep engaged with the USSR rather than simply demonizing them. My personal theory is that he realized that rich people might get vaporized along with everyone else if a Nuclear War broke out. But that's just a theory. He did a lot of programming on TBS focusing on Nuclear War/Peace issues. (back when the only channels he only owned were CNN and TBS.) He also has consistently engaged with Cuba, even interviewing Fidel Castro a few times when almost no reporters ever to coverage in that country. He didn't do this because he's pro Castro, he did it beacuse, like with the Cold War with the Soviet Union, he believes the right course of action is engagement and dialogue, not jingoistic posturing that's prevelant in both major parties in the US. Turner has consistenly criticized CNN's "Fox News Lite" cheerleader approach to covering Bush and the War on Terrorism and the War on Iraq since 9/11 when few others have done so. He also was involved with Jane Fonda for a few years. 'Hanoi' Jane Fonda somone who's almost at the top of the Right Wing Hate List.
And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurable superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly, and surely,
they drew their plans against us.
Didn't they see ID4? Now we'll have no way to save the Earth from the Alien invasion!