Kerry and Edwards voted for the temporary (5 years) version of the Patriot Act that is set to expire in Kerry's term as President. It was inacted as an emergency measure with the intention it would expire when the crisis was over or at least more managable with existing laws.
Both Kerry and Edwards have stated they want, support and will work toward making sure the Patriot act does in fact expire when it's supposed to.
However, because they will not be enacters of new law in their role as President/Vice President (unlike our present administration) they will need the support of Congeress to not get this law renewed when it comes up for vote.
So, along with my vote for their ticket, I will also be voting a stright Democratic ticket for Congress as well.
Right or wrong this is just my opinion and I'm not looking to Flame or Troll. It's just my honest opinion.
It seems to me you have experience, maybe even enough for what they're looking for. All they want is confirmation that you've done what you've said you've done. If you've really done it, setup a network of confirmations your hiring company can check out.
I've given my own recommendation before. Once a company I was interviewing with called the company I was currently working at. I just happened to answer the phone. They didn't ask my name and really didn't ask a lot of questions except to confirm what I had put on my application. I didn't lie on the application and honestly didn't and still don't see it as lying to confirm what I wrote. I got the job and worked for that company 15 years.
Don't lie, don't over exaggerate. If you have 3 years experience setting up networks (SOHOs for family and friends) with a Linux server, establish a validation network for the companies you're interviewing with. If you really do know xyz or have done 123 then have someone the hiring company will trust confirm that. That could be a $5 a month 800 number that a significant other answers.
I see it this way (and differenty than most) I start a job with the hiring company from the beginning assuming that I'm a lier who cannot be trusted. They demand I make availible others who will confirm my experience. I don't lie about what I know or can do. My word alone should and is enough. So, if they want confirmations, I make sure they get confirmations.
He needed to go to trial. Unless there's evidence the article didn't mention. I would have gone to trial. He would have never been convicted on any jury I sat on. I don't know if he's guilty or not. But, I would not convict in the presence of doubt.
The evidence of doubt is overwhelming. There are hundreds of thousands, even millions of people who have been victims of viruses and Trojans. All these are things outsiders downloaded onto someone else's computer without permission.
I would have liked to run ad-aware on the prosecutor's or judge's laptop and entered the results into evidence. How may times have/.ers cleaned off crap from our families PCs.
Guilty or not, there's too much doubt. And, that doubt is reasonable. I will not convict if I am ever a jurist on one of these trials. I guess I wouldn't qualify though. I've pre-judged. Oh well, I guess I'll act stupid until after I get picked.
As a card carrying member of the local chapter of the Atlanta Georgia Tin Foil Hats of America (AGTFHA), I have absolutely no problem with your proposal. So long as it's voluntary. In fact I have even a low-tech solution. Put up weather protected boxes on poles. Let them (who don't have a GPS) write their name, date and time on a sign in sheet. You don't have to spend a bunch of tax payers money (we need it all for Bushies holy war), they (your backpackers) don't have to have high-tech equipment. Simple solution. Participate if you want. Sign in at strategic points and if you get lost we'll have an idea of where to start looking.
This is assuming your campers do what I've had to do every time I've gone to the back country. Is to sign in, give member counts, get fire permits, etc... Inform them to sign in at each box and explain why. They do or they don't.
Somehow this isn't a tin hat problem for me and I'll even show you my card.
Although I think they've denied it in public, Delta Airlines was also brought down over the weekend by this worm. I have a friend who came to Church panting, out of breath because he was late and had to rush. He works at Delta and said he had been there since Saturday patching and cleaning machines. Right after services he was going back.
The system effected was one that calculates passenger and cargo weight so it can be distribuited evenly through out the aircraft. It's one of those systems that's easy to forget. It's not like air traffic control or reservations or something people would consider "critical".
It's scary but ironic that a small forgotten local sub-system can bring down a billion dollar corporation and inconvience tens of thousands of people. It was local to Atlanta, used at the ticket counter and for flights leaving Atlanta but, bring down the hub and the entire operation is effected.
You might consider looking into, downloading and installing Kerio Personal Firewall ( http://www.kerio.com ). It's usually more than a "home" user can handle. You have complete control of both inbound/outbound traffic on all ports for all protocols for all services and programs. It's free too. I've been using it for years.
"In accordance with the DMCA and Comcast's Acceptable Use Policy, Comcast request that you immediately remove the allegedly infringing works from the Service or Comcast will be forced to remove or block access the the works."
Comcast is demanding the file be removed from (The "Service"). I use Comcast and when did my personal Hard Drive contents become under the control of their Acceptable Use Policy?
If the file was placed on rented Web space on one of their servers, maybe... But to demand I remove a file off my personal hard drive because it is in violation of their Acceptable Use?
This seems to me to be a line crossed. If they've now declared that the contents of my personal hard drive are covered under their "Service" then I say Bring it on! That's a fight I'd morgage the house to pay for!
I'm going to install BitTorrent just so I can get one of these letters. I'm mad.
I keep seeing posts about punishing the victom. Isn't that a little like slashing up a pretty girls face because she got raped?
To take it further, ya maybe it wasn't too bright for her to walk down that dark alley but she's still a victom of a crime. Ya maybe she was dressed sexy but that still doen't give someone the right to victomise her.
It's easy to blame victoms. But how can we justify causing even more harm to them when it is the criminal who comitited the act?
Our FBI and others can track these people down in a heart beat. Just read www.grc.com to see how easy it is for someone smart enough to do it.
So I think we're stuck. I believe we can and do track these people and know who they are. But to expose that fact would compromise their ability to do so.
But in the absence of putting these people away, to then turn around in frustration and cause even further harm to the victom isn't the answer either, the way I see it.
What I wonder is the lever of risk companies have taken outsourcing their databases to another country. I read a government statistic that 90% of companies that irrecoverably loose their database are bankrupt within 18 months. A company cannot operate without their data. I'm incredulous that a company would put their database in the hands of a foreign entity. Just the matter of industrial espionage would cause me pause. It's a level of risk I would not take it were my decision.
I wonder if some catastrophe might happen that will cause companies to pull it all back in. Maybe they find that their financials have been secretly emailed to their competitors. Or that back doors allow competitors' access to their R&D. How much would it take to bribe a foreign employee with no ties to the company or accountability to install a back door or worse, maybe a worm. $5k? $10k? Cheep in the espionage community. Taking off my tin hat how about just plain mistakes? How can a foreign worker who has no accountability provide the level of dedication to preserve the company's assets? And data is probably the most important company asset it has. Outsourcing to me just seems to be a level of risk that's over the top. Who knows.. Maybe in a few years it will all come back.
If she is the one who cut his hair, I wonder what her writings must be like. Einstein, even on portrait day, looked worse than I do on my worst bed head day. It took so long to transcribe her notes because of her shaky hand?
So many posts complaining that this won't solve the problem...
Blacklisting the entire ISP does not solve the problem in a technical sense. It's designed to achieve one thing. It gets the attention of top management who can fix the problem.
As in human nature, the problem isn't important until it affects you. This is especially true in large organizations, and becomes more and more true the further up in management one gets. It's a given in political jobs at any level.
Polite emails are not an affect; I doubt top management even knew about them. The decision makers at TDE haven't cared because they haven't had to care.
If AHBL is large enough to have an effect, now the top management has something to care about. Since their positions at the top are governed by politics, this notoriety is exactly what's needed to get their attention.
Blacklisting like this solves the problem by affecting the top management in a way that motivates them to act. Now policies will be enacted, procedures will be followed, closing down forwarding on port 25 will happen, so on and so forth... And those changes do help fix the SPAM problem.
I've given up allowing the law in the U.S. to define common sense. If I work an hour, I get paid an hour.
Even without this new law, HR has already classified me as exempt from overtime. I have no non-exempts reporting to me, I am not a manager of non-exempts. I'm just a regular joe, working to making the company successful. Yet they do not, or will not, pay me overtime even though I work beyond my 40 hours a week.
My company has side-steped the law by not paying me overtime. Somehow I'm classified as exempt from overtime even though I meet none of the federal requirements for exemption. What difference does it make when additional new laws are defined. I'm getting screwed out of the overtime I'm working. I'm going to to get screwed out of overtime under whaterver new law or re-definition of my job that is sent down the pipes.
I rotate being on call. 24/7 for one week out of 10. When I am on call, I am under the control of the company. I cannot leave the pager area because I am expected to respond to pages. I cannot do this or that because I am expected to to respond to the pages... It is not voluntary. So, as long as they control me, I am on the clock. As long as they dictate that I do this or that... I am on the clock. Paid or not.
What I do is keep a personal log of the money they owe me. They pay me the normal 40 hours for that week. I subtract the 40 hours they paid me from the 24/7 I actually worked. The math says I'm left with about 16 days of pay they didn't give in my check for that week.
So, when I surf the net all day instead of doing work, that's one day... subtract 8 hours from what they owe me. Now they only owe me 15 more days of compensation. When I order memory simms on my corporate account and install them in my home personal computer instead of my work computer, that's two or three more days off the tab. Now they only owe me, let's say, ten more days of pay. When I accept corporate assets like laptops, servers or routers in exchange for money... I consider it a barter agreement. I can only assume my company would rather I walk out with armfulls of equipment, supplies, whatever... Rather than to pay me the money I've earned. It's a win - win. They don't have to pay taxes on the payroll; I get compensated for the hours I work.
I doubt my company would see it this way. But, they're blind. Not only are they blind, but they also think I'm stupid. That's okay. I get compensated for the hours I work. So what if the compensation isn't in the form of an hourly wage. That's a choice "they" made.
I went on a week vacation and the regional secretary who relied on my technical support made sure that I knew she'd call me at home if there was anything she needed.
I never got personal calls at home during working hours. So, on my first day of vacation, I forwarded my phone to her.
She tried all week to get a hold of me. When she called me her line two would start ringing. Waiting and waiting finally she'd hang up and answer line two but no body was there.
She'd try again and line two would start ringing. She'd try putting me on hold to answer the other line. No one was there, so she'd hang up and come back to me, but because she had answered and disconnected, the line she was calling me on was now a dial tone. She figured I had probably answered and hung up.
Apparently this went on all week. Every time she'd call me her other line would ring and then all the stuff with disconnects and no one on the other line... She never figured it out and by the end of the week was very frustrated.
When I got back she went on and on about how she tried to call me. Then all the stories about how every time she did the other line would ring and then the disconnects.
I fessed up and told her what I did. Everyone in the office was laughing their ass off, except for her. She was stunned. I could see her thinking back and then putting two and two together. She finely got over it, probably after spitting in my coffee for a week or something to get even.
Last year our group moved from a satellite office into the corporate building. Gone are the parking lot BBQs, etc.
Last month our manager turned 40. We spent 3 hours after work decorating her office with black balloons, streamers, static stickers with over the hill slogans, a walker... You know the drill.
The next morning we were all called into human resources and for 45 minutes admonished for what they perceived as "age discrimination".
The Constitution guarantees to every state a Republican form of government (Art. 4, Sec. 4). No state may join the United States unless it is a Republic. Our Republic is one dedicated to "liberty and justice for all." Minority individual rights are the priority. The people have natural rights instead of civil rights. The people are protected by the Bill of Rights from the majority. One vote in a jury can stop all of the majority from depriving any one of the people of his rights; this would not be so if the United States were a democracy. (see People's rights vs Citizens' rights) http://www.chrononhotonthologos.com/lawnotes/pvcri ght.htm
In a pure democracy 51 beats 49[%]. In a democracy there is no such thing as a significant minority: there are no minority rights except civil rights (privileges) granted by a condescending majority. Only five of the U.S. Constitution's first ten amendments apply to Citizens of the United States. Simply stated, a democracy is a dictatorship of the majority. Socrates was executed by a democracy: though he harmed no one, the majority found him intolerable.
Even a better link: http://www.wealth4freedom.com/Republic.html
Either way, I haven't lost your point. I agree with the spirit of your complaint. I don't think we're (the people) are being as represented as large corporations are.
That's because the United States is NOT a Democracy. The United States is a REPUBLIC. We live in a Republic, a representive form of government. Completely different from a Democracy.
And, for me, I'm glad we are. If you consider history, republics are far more stable than a democracy. And, every democracy in history has fallen only to be replaced with a dictator.
In a republic, the passions of the masses are buffered by a representive elected to speak for them. The cool head, in a way.
I'm sure you can take it from here and do your own reading... But I cringe when even our own president calls us a democracy. We are a republic. Remember the pledge?
A better article? This is a joke, right? From number 8 that your son is a hacker.
I didn't make this up... This is a quote for this "better" article:
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8. Is your son obsessed with "Lunix"?
BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called "xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people's computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people's stereos to steal their music, using the "mp3" program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as "telnet", which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone.
Your son may try to install "lunix" on your hard drive. If he is careful, you may not notice its presence, however, lunix is a capricious beast, and if handled incorrectly, your son may damage your computer, and even break it completely by deleting Windows, at which point you will have to have your computer repaired by a professional.
If you see the word "LILO" during your windows startup (just after you turn the machine on), your son has installed lunix. In order to get rid of it, you will have to send your computer back to the manufacturer, and have them fit a new hard drive. Lunix is extremely dangerous software, and cannot be removed without destroying part of your hard disk surface.
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This was waaaay too good not to post, ROTFL. You just keep reading your "better" articles. Go on now...
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Kerry and Edwards voted for the temporary (5 years) version of the Patriot Act that is set to expire in Kerry's term as President. It was inacted as an emergency measure with the intention it would expire when the crisis was over or at least more managable with existing laws.
Both Kerry and Edwards have stated they want, support and will work toward making sure the Patriot act does in fact expire when it's supposed to.
However, because they will not be enacters of new law in their role as President/Vice President (unlike our present administration) they will need the support of Congeress to not get this law renewed when it comes up for vote.
So, along with my vote for their ticket, I will also be voting a stright Democratic ticket for Congress as well.
Right or wrong this is just my opinion and I'm not looking to Flame or Troll. It's just my honest opinion.
It seems to me you have experience, maybe even enough for what they're looking for. All they want is confirmation that you've done what you've said you've done. If you've really done it, setup a network of confirmations your hiring company can check out.
I've given my own recommendation before. Once a company I was interviewing with called the company I was currently working at. I just happened to answer the phone. They didn't ask my name and really didn't ask a lot of questions except to confirm what I had put on my application. I didn't lie on the application and honestly didn't and still don't see it as lying to confirm what I wrote. I got the job and worked for that company 15 years.
Don't lie, don't over exaggerate. If you have 3 years experience setting up networks (SOHOs for family and friends) with a Linux server, establish a validation network for the companies you're interviewing with. If you really do know xyz or have done 123 then have someone the hiring company will trust confirm that. That could be a $5 a month 800 number that a significant other answers.
I see it this way (and differenty than most) I start a job with the hiring company from the beginning assuming that I'm a lier who cannot be trusted. They demand I make availible others who will confirm my experience. I don't lie about what I know or can do. My word alone should and is enough. So, if they want confirmations, I make sure they get confirmations.
"Let's hope others begin to take his lead."
My first hope is that his apology is sincere. Then I'll worry about the others.
He needed to go to trial. Unless there's evidence the article didn't mention. I would have gone to trial. He would have never been convicted on any jury I sat on. I don't know if he's guilty or not. But, I would not convict in the presence of doubt.
The evidence of doubt is overwhelming. There are hundreds of thousands, even millions of people who have been victims of viruses and Trojans. All these are things outsiders downloaded onto someone else's computer without permission.
I would have liked to run ad-aware on the prosecutor's or judge's laptop and entered the results into evidence. How may times have
Guilty or not, there's too much doubt. And, that doubt is reasonable. I will not convict if I am ever a jurist on one of these trials. I guess I wouldn't qualify though. I've pre-judged. Oh well, I guess I'll act stupid until after I get picked.
As a card carrying member of the local chapter of the Atlanta Georgia Tin Foil Hats of America (AGTFHA), I have absolutely no problem with your proposal. So long as it's voluntary. In fact I have even a low-tech solution. Put up weather protected boxes on poles. Let them (who don't have a GPS) write their name, date and time on a sign in sheet. You don't have to spend a bunch of tax payers money (we need it all for Bushies holy war), they (your backpackers) don't have to have high-tech equipment. Simple solution. Participate if you want. Sign in at strategic points and if you get lost we'll have an idea of where to start looking.
This is assuming your campers do what I've had to do every time I've gone to the back country. Is to sign in, give member counts, get fire permits, etc... Inform them to sign in at each box and explain why. They do or they don't.
Somehow this isn't a tin hat problem for me and I'll even show you my card.
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This reminds me of a Steve Martin skit (in his early days) about "How do you make 6 million dollars and not pay any taxes?".
Minus, of course, the elongating of words, the knocking sound effects and of course the setup and body language.
His answer? Just two words. When the tax man arrives at your door. Just say... "I forgot".
Although I think they've denied it in public, Delta Airlines was also brought down over the weekend by this worm. I have a friend who came to Church panting, out of breath because he was late and had to rush. He works at Delta and said he had been there since Saturday patching and cleaning machines. Right after services he was going back.
The system effected was one that calculates passenger and cargo weight so it can be distribuited evenly through out the aircraft. It's one of those systems that's easy to forget. It's not like air traffic control or reservations or something people would consider "critical".
It's scary but ironic that a small forgotten local sub-system can bring down a billion dollar corporation and inconvience tens of thousands of people. It was local to Atlanta, used at the ticket counter and for flights leaving Atlanta but, bring down the hub and the entire operation is effected.
You might consider looking into, downloading and installing Kerio Personal Firewall ( http://www.kerio.com ). It's usually more than a "home" user can handle. You have complete control of both inbound/outbound traffic on all ports for all protocols for all services and programs. It's free too. I've been using it for years.
"In accordance with the DMCA and Comcast's Acceptable Use Policy, Comcast request that you immediately remove the allegedly infringing works from the Service or Comcast will be forced to remove or block access the the works."
Comcast is demanding the file be removed from (The "Service"). I use Comcast and when did my personal Hard Drive contents become under the control of their Acceptable Use Policy?
If the file was placed on rented Web space on one of their servers, maybe... But to demand I remove a file off my personal hard drive because it is in violation of their Acceptable Use?
This seems to me to be a line crossed. If they've now declared that the contents of my personal hard drive are covered under their "Service" then I say Bring it on! That's a fight I'd morgage the house to pay for!
I'm going to install BitTorrent just so I can get one of these letters. I'm mad.
I keep seeing posts about punishing the victom. Isn't that a little like slashing up a pretty girls face because she got raped?
To take it further, ya maybe it wasn't too bright for her to walk down that dark alley but she's still a victom of a crime. Ya maybe she was dressed sexy but that still doen't give someone the right to victomise her.
It's easy to blame victoms. But how can we justify causing even more harm to them when it is the criminal who comitited the act?
Our FBI and others can track these people down in a heart beat. Just read www.grc.com to see how easy it is for someone smart enough to do it.
So I think we're stuck. I believe we can and do track these people and know who they are. But to expose that fact would compromise their ability to do so.
But in the absence of putting these people away, to then turn around in frustration and cause even further harm to the victom isn't the answer either, the way I see it.
In the old days of webcamming I used Inetcam software. Does/did everything the article talks about
What I wonder is the lever of risk companies have taken outsourcing their databases to another country. I read a government statistic that 90% of companies that irrecoverably loose their database are bankrupt within 18 months. A company cannot operate without their data. I'm incredulous that a company would put their database in the hands of a foreign entity. Just the matter of industrial espionage would cause me pause. It's a level of risk I would not take it were my decision.
I wonder if some catastrophe might happen that will cause companies to pull it all back in. Maybe they find that their financials have been secretly emailed to their competitors. Or that back doors allow competitors' access to their R&D. How much would it take to bribe a foreign employee with no ties to the company or accountability to install a back door or worse, maybe a worm. $5k? $10k? Cheep in the espionage community. Taking off my tin hat how about just plain mistakes? How can a foreign worker who has no accountability provide the level of dedication to preserve the company's assets? And data is probably the most important company asset it has. Outsourcing to me just seems to be a level of risk that's over the top. Who knows.. Maybe in a few years it will all come back.
If she is the one who cut his hair, I wonder what her writings must be like. Einstein, even on portrait day, looked worse than I do on my worst bed head day. It took so long to transcribe her notes because of her shaky hand?
So many posts complaining that this won't solve the problem...
Blacklisting the entire ISP does not solve the problem in a technical sense. It's designed to achieve one thing. It gets the attention of top management who can fix the problem.
As in human nature, the problem isn't important until it affects you. This is especially true in large organizations, and becomes more and more true the further up in management one gets. It's a given in political jobs at any level.
Polite emails are not an affect; I doubt top management even knew about them. The decision makers at TDE haven't cared because they haven't had to care.
If AHBL is large enough to have an effect, now the top management has something to care about. Since their positions at the top are governed by politics, this notoriety is exactly what's needed to get their attention.
Blacklisting like this solves the problem by affecting the top management in a way that motivates them to act. Now policies will be enacted, procedures will be followed, closing down forwarding on port 25 will happen, so on and so forth... And those changes do help fix the SPAM problem.
I've given up allowing the law in the U.S. to define common sense. If I work an hour, I get paid an hour.
Even without this new law, HR has already classified me as exempt from overtime. I have no non-exempts reporting to me, I am not a manager of non-exempts. I'm just a regular joe, working to making the company successful. Yet they do not, or will not, pay me overtime even though I work beyond my 40 hours a week.
My company has side-steped the law by not paying me overtime. Somehow I'm classified as exempt from overtime even though I meet none of the federal requirements for exemption. What difference does it make when additional new laws are defined. I'm getting screwed out of the overtime I'm working. I'm going to to get screwed out of overtime under whaterver new law or re-definition of my job that is sent down the pipes.
I rotate being on call. 24/7 for one week out of 10. When I am on call, I am under the control of the company. I cannot leave the pager area because I am expected to respond to pages. I cannot do this or that because I am expected to to respond to the pages... It is not voluntary. So, as long as they control me, I am on the clock. As long as they dictate that I do this or that... I am on the clock. Paid or not.
What I do is keep a personal log of the money they owe me. They pay me the normal 40 hours for that week. I subtract the 40 hours they paid me from the 24/7 I actually worked. The math says I'm left with about 16 days of pay they didn't give in my check for that week.
So, when I surf the net all day instead of doing work, that's one day... subtract 8 hours from what they owe me. Now they only owe me 15 more days of compensation. When I order memory simms on my corporate account and install them in my home personal computer instead of my work computer, that's two or three more days off the tab. Now they only owe me, let's say, ten more days of pay. When I accept corporate assets like laptops, servers or routers in exchange for money... I consider it a barter agreement. I can only assume my company would rather I walk out with armfulls of equipment, supplies, whatever... Rather than to pay me the money I've earned. It's a win - win. They don't have to pay taxes on the payroll; I get compensated for the hours I work.
I doubt my company would see it this way. But, they're blind. Not only are they blind, but they also think I'm stupid. That's okay. I get compensated for the hours I work. So what if the compensation isn't in the form of an hourly wage. That's a choice "they" made.
I went on a week vacation and the regional secretary who relied on my technical support made sure that I knew she'd call me at home if there was anything she needed.
I never got personal calls at home during working hours. So, on my first day of vacation, I forwarded my phone to her.
She tried all week to get a hold of me. When she called me her line two would start ringing. Waiting and waiting finally she'd hang up and answer line two but no body was there.
She'd try again and line two would start ringing. She'd try putting me on hold to answer the other line. No one was there, so she'd hang up and come back to me, but because she had answered and disconnected, the line she was calling me on was now a dial tone. She figured I had probably answered and hung up.
Apparently this went on all week. Every time she'd call me her other line would ring and then all the stuff with disconnects and no one on the other line... She never figured it out and by the end of the week was very frustrated.
When I got back she went on and on about how she tried to call me. Then all the stories about how every time she did the other line would ring and then the disconnects.
I fessed up and told her what I did. Everyone in the office was laughing their ass off, except for her. She was stunned. I could see her thinking back and then putting two and two together. She finely got over it, probably after spitting in my coffee for a week or something to get even.
Last year our group moved from a satellite office into the corporate building. Gone are the parking lot BBQs, etc.
Last month our manager turned 40. We spent 3 hours after work decorating her office with black balloons, streamers, static stickers with over the hill slogans, a walker... You know the drill.
The next morning we were all called into human resources and for 45 minutes admonished for what they perceived as "age discrimination".
Yep... Isn't corporate fun?
Lycra is a privilege, not a right.
What ever happend to Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof?
... I wonder sometimes if I'm actually awake and that this is not all a bad dream.
How can McBride be faulted when our entire thought process in this country says that reality is what you say it is. That reality can be manipulated.
We have patents on clicking the mouse button once.
I hope I'm never infected with their insanity.
If you are a conservative at 20 you have no heart. If you are not a liberal at 40 you need more education.
In other news... No one will ever need more than 512k of memory. Also, comming up at 6, the Internet is a passing fad.
I'm showing my age reminding everybody about Pet Rocks.
People would complain how stupid they were as they stood in line to get one.
The inventer retired a multi-millionare.
Strap that Adonomizer to your head and while it zaps your brain repeat... I - will - not - buy - stupid - shit - for - no - reason...
Do some more reading.
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The Constitution guarantees to every state a Republican form of government (Art. 4, Sec. 4). No state may join the United States unless it is a Republic. Our Republic is one dedicated to "liberty and justice for all." Minority individual rights are the priority. The people have natural rights instead of civil rights. The people are protected by the Bill of Rights from the majority. One vote in a jury can stop all of the majority from depriving any one of the people of his rights; this would not be so if the United States were a democracy. (see People's rights vs Citizens' rights) http://www.chrononhotonthologos.com/lawnotes/pvcr
In a pure democracy 51 beats 49[%]. In a democracy there is no such thing as a significant minority: there are no minority rights except civil rights (privileges) granted by a condescending majority. Only five of the U.S. Constitution's first ten amendments apply to Citizens of the United States. Simply stated, a democracy is a dictatorship of the majority. Socrates was executed by a democracy: though he harmed no one, the majority found him intolerable.
Even a better link: http://www.wealth4freedom.com/Republic.html
Either way, I haven't lost your point. I agree with the spirit of your complaint. I don't think we're (the people) are being as represented as large corporations are.
That's because the United States is NOT a Democracy. The United States is a REPUBLIC. We live in a Republic, a representive form of government. Completely different from a Democracy.
And, for me, I'm glad we are. If you consider history, republics are far more stable than a democracy. And, every democracy in history has fallen only to be replaced with a dictator.
In a republic, the passions of the masses are buffered by a representive elected to speak for them. The cool head, in a way.
I'm sure you can take it from here and do your own reading... But I cringe when even our own president calls us a democracy. We are a republic. Remember the pledge?
A better article? This is a joke, right? From number 8 that your son is a hacker.
I didn't make this up... This is a quote for this "better" article:
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8. Is your son obsessed with "Lunix"?
BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called "xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people's computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people's stereos to steal their music, using the "mp3" program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as "telnet", which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone.
Your son may try to install "lunix" on your hard drive. If he is careful, you may not notice its presence, however, lunix is a capricious beast, and if handled incorrectly, your son may damage your computer, and even break it completely by deleting Windows, at which point you will have to have your computer repaired by a professional.
If you see the word "LILO" during your windows startup (just after you turn the machine on), your son has installed lunix. In order to get rid of it, you will have to send your computer back to the manufacturer, and have them fit a new hard drive. Lunix is extremely dangerous software, and cannot be removed without destroying part of your hard disk surface.
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This was waaaay too good not to post, ROTFL. You just keep reading your "better" articles. Go on now...