"Belief, if you value it at all, must spring from an honest embrace of some purported truth. It cannot spring from a callow desire to avoid consequences."
Since we are in the 21st century, we have to think the same, but different. Rather than dressing as a native american and leaking info, why not stage a faux-hack job? How can you be criminally responsible for the leak if someone "hacked" you?
As a company (business entity), can't Comcast charge WHATEVER it wants for the taps? It's not like the government can just take its business elsewhere for wiretaps....
Long ago taxes were used as a means of getting people not to do things. Why doesn't comcast charge $1,000,000 per tap, to make the government unable to afford it as frequently as they do?
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"What, your TV doesn't have a v-chip?" No, but my hand certainly has a "back".
Japan hasn't heard of manatees?
Wait, you mean next gen games will let us crash galaxies into one another? Sign me up :p
Oh come on!
http://xkcd.com/149/
"Belief, if you value it at all, must spring from an honest embrace of some purported truth. It cannot spring from a callow desire to avoid consequences."
Exactly why I feel that proselytization is wrong.
Except it can't do jack-squat at the edges of geometry...
And you'll have to prove that the putty-like device with circuitry is not a bomb. Should be fun to travel when this thing comes out.
"level 1 suicide bomber"
implies there is a level 2 suicide bomber.
hmmm.
If doctors only prescribed antidepressant drugs to those afflicted with "real" depression you might have a point.
rtobyr wrote: I feel him
You may feel HIM, but knowing Rush and his oxy, I doubt he can feel YOU.
So full of optimism and joy, you must be young.
Oh...wait....
The military is actively seeking to instill fear in its enemies. The military is terrorist? I thought the military was fighting terr-
*head asplode*
The colloquial term is 'cum-guzzling whore', but we can skip the semantics :)
In that case my ex could run a power plant.
Did the founding fathers 'cut and run' from England?
"You have no expectation of privacy in public. Maybe that's why they call it "public". "
So you walk the streets naked then?
Sorry, Howard Stern proclaimed himself the 'King of All Media' almost a decade ago. I hope he sues.
"I collect old DEC computers (PDP...." We know its you, RMS. Let it go man, let it go.
Yes we all know what they say about drugs and memory cards...
Since we are in the 21st century, we have to think the same, but different. Rather than dressing as a native american and leaking info, why not stage a faux-hack job? How can you be criminally responsible for the leak if someone "hacked" you?
How are so you well informed about the business tactics of crack dealers?
So I should drink leaded gasoline in order to score chicks?
As a company (business entity), can't Comcast charge WHATEVER it wants for the taps? It's not like the government can just take its business elsewhere for wiretaps....
Long ago taxes were used as a means of getting people not to do things. Why doesn't comcast charge $1,000,000 per tap, to make the government unable to afford it as frequently as they do?
Basically they are the same thing :)
Great! What's preventing me from turning off my monitor after the call connects?