For the love of your country, write your representative in the house about how you feel on this issue...
and that is going to help how?
According to some very fascinating reading over at wikipedia, "A government is a body that has the authority to make and the power to enforce laws...(6)". Under the "Social Contract Section", "If a majority is unhappy, it may change the social contract. If a minority is unhappy, it may persuade the majority to change the contract, or it may opt out of it by emigration or secession."
I'll come back to that. Meanwhile...
Interestingly, "Authoritarianism often arises from the governing bodies' presumption that they know what is right or wrong for the country and from intolerance of dissent. The government then enforces what it thinks is right, often with use of considerable force and sometimes in blatant violation of human rights. Dissenting voices are ignored, or, more strikingly, are considered to be plotting against the best interests of the country(5). "best interest" Sound familiar? Human rights, Guantánamo (1).
It's in our best interest to make sure this bill passes because we have to "thwart our determined and dangerous terrorist enemies". It's in our best interest "to require ISPs to preserve customer records because "government's lack of access to customer data the biggest obstacle to deterring child porn(2). "We respect civil liberties but... {emphasis mine}" This headline says it all... CCTV Cameras In UK Get Loudspeakers(3)" That's the news from DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED governments, (forget rogue governments) in the last 5 days using only slashdot as a jumping off point! How much more is out there that we didn't get to see on this site?
Let's try to wrap it up. Use Authoritarianism(4) to maintain Social Control(5) to change a Government(6) into a Police State(7). And you want to write a letter to a person who isn't going to read it about an issue which is near and dear to his/her heart (gaining more and more power, the very nature of government) seeking change? Good Yuck(r)
p.s. dear government officials, I am NOT a radical and i did not mean to think about my freedoms, rights and responsabilities. That is your responsability and you are doing great job.
Maybe there should be more (and better) FAQs. You know, sites which answer common questions in easily understandable terms.
perhaps those in the know would do good to point out to new converts, politely, places where they are encouraged to ask quesions. I don't know, how about...
i've been known to pop in and answer questions for noobs. yes, sometimes it's as easy as googling and redirecting but that just makes my contribution easy.
Security Flaws Could Cripple Defense Network Drunk Driving Could Be Dangerous Microsoft Goes Head-to-Head With IBM Mixing Household Chemicals Could Be Dangerous
notice a pattern? none of these headliness says or means anything. they border between "no $hit" and "duh".
instead of that say-nothing giberish how about "group passwords threaten MDA's communications network"? see, now the head line says something.
ps, not to be a jerk, just to point out an area where slashdot can be better than the rest.
bonus: they have a nice, active community that adds books all the time to the collection. you can join and add books if you wish.
did i forget to mention that their books are free. if you go to their sister site you can get recent releases. they have regular sales, backups for your purchaese, etc.
i've read many, MANY classics that would have cost me a fortune otherwise for several years now. extra bonus: many of their books are available in multiple formats.
Well, anyone with bad enough eyesight that they can't see the horizon, anyway. A flat Earth doesn't have a horizon, only a curved one does.
IT ISN'T OFFTOPIC. things that are obvious to you with the (obviously) little education you've had have had to have been studied and written down for posterity.
before i get modded as flame bait for the "little education you've had" line consider that for many centuries just about everyone thought the earth was flat. you might have known that if you studied middle school history.
OF COURSE the earth revolves around the sun. Except this man, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo , risked his LIFE for something you just knew somehow.
Ever read in the bible where if you do this you will be unclean, you do that you will be unclean and you must remain apart from everyone for a certain amount of time for each different event? It was easier for God to give a few rules out than to try to EXPLAIN GERMS. but you knew about germs because anyone with a middle school science course saw bacteria in pond water. You weren't absent that day, were you?
Even the obvious things need written down to minimize redundency in research.
in light of these recent relevations (about the grant proposal) i am seriously considering joining your esteemed organization. please find enclosed a membership application and a bill for 30,000 dollars.
Google is now dictating the way we must design our sites if we want to even hope to get a decent google rank
huh? how about just creating a relevant site? my website is listed first with NO PROMOTION on my behalf on sensible search terms. "anonymous killer" as a search term brings up my site first. heck, i registered my site with go daddy just a few weeks ago and didn't even get it completely finished until a few days ago.
did google, yahoo, etc dictate my choices? NO! just a few minutes to think about what i needed and how to proceed got me listed first. if a one man shop can be this successful why cann't a multinational corporation?
one of the paranoias of hard core christians is that the bible says noone will be able by or sell anything in the time of the beast without the mark of the beast. having implants triggers that fear in bible-thumping people.
I've had a Palm of one flavor or another for years now. One of my favorite programs for the Palm OS is Plucker at http://www.plkr.org/. Here's a bit from their web site:
With Plucker installed on your Palm, you can read any Internet web pages, ebooks, text-files, or other documents you want at any time, simply by converting it with Plucker's desktop tools, and sending it to your Palm for reading on your Palm handheld.
Obviously it's not a real-time browser, but offline only. But not one of my favorite web sites has to restructure their sites for just a handful of users.
It handles images, links, RSS, RDF, text files, HTML PDF, and many other file formats, etc, etc. And it's GNU.
I recommend your client give Plucker a shot. Can't hurt anything, the software has been stable for ages.
I play Command and Conquer - Renegade all the time. Renegade was the only FPS in the C&C universe and it rocked. Wish they'd make a second one.
I bought the game the hour it was released locally (Mechanicsburg, PA, where I was at the time) and was eventually recruited for every clan on the net;^) I always shot down every offer 'cause I liked to kill without prejudice;^)
Yeah, I play as iggy_mon there, too. If you pick up the multipack for around $20(us) join me!
well, i don't like nazi/spelling whores as much as the next guy, but i thing you forgot the "v" and the "i" in that atrocious spelling of yours;^)
--iggy
Slashdot Mirror
I spent some time on a walker after an accident (29 years old at the time), trust me, it's worth watching! lmao :-)
"So, dumbfuck, let me brake it down for you how that hurts YOU."
this sentence passes the spell-checker just fine but there is something wrong with it... i just wish i could just put my finger on it...
hmmm... if i brake my car to fast i'm going to break the windshield with my head.
yup, that did it!
lmao
i understood each and every word you said... if i read them separately
when i read them together... WHOOOSH! what the #$^*(^2)?!
btw, i love that there are people who know more about certain topics than me, it makes life interesting.
I need to brush up on my dumbass-a-nese.
gold... that's such a strong word for a windows release. could we just call it brass?
or cornbread?
or pee?
and that is going to help how?
According to some very fascinating reading over at wikipedia, "A government is a body that has the authority to make and the power to enforce laws...(6)". Under the "Social Contract Section", "If a majority is unhappy, it may change the social contract. If a minority is unhappy, it may persuade the majority to change the contract, or it may opt out of it by emigration or secession."
I'll come back to that. Meanwhile...
Interestingly, "Authoritarianism often arises from the governing bodies' presumption that they know what is right or wrong for the country and from intolerance of dissent. The government then enforces what it thinks is right, often with use of considerable force and sometimes in blatant violation of human rights. Dissenting voices are ignored, or, more strikingly, are considered to be plotting against the best interests of the country(5). "best interest" Sound familiar? Human rights, Guantánamo (1).
It's in our best interest to make sure this bill passes because we have to "thwart our determined and dangerous terrorist enemies". It's in our best interest "to require ISPs to preserve customer records because "government's lack of access to customer data the biggest obstacle to deterring child porn(2). "We respect civil liberties but... {emphasis mine}" This headline says it all... CCTV Cameras In UK Get Loudspeakers(3)" That's the news from DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED governments, (forget rogue governments) in the last 5 days using only slashdot as a jumping off point! How much more is out there that we didn't get to see on this site?
Let's try to wrap it up. Use Authoritarianism(4) to maintain Social Control(5) to change a Government(6) into a Police State(7). And you want to write a letter to a person who isn't going to read it about an issue which is near and dear to his/her heart (gaining more and more power, the very nature of government) seeking change? Good Yuck(r)
(1) http://web.amnesty.org/pages/guantanamobay-index-e ng 2 31253 6 56258
(2) http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/19/2
(3) http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/17/1
(4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
(5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_control
(6) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government
(7) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_state
p.s. dear government officials, I am NOT a radical and i did not mean to think about my freedoms, rights and responsabilities. That is your responsability and you are doing great job.
http://www.comptia.org/certification/a/
Maybe there should be more (and better) FAQs. You know, sites which answer common questions in easily understandable terms.
perhaps those in the know would do good to point out to new converts, politely, places where they are encouraged to ask quesions. I don't know, how about...
http://www.linuxquestions.org/
i've been known to pop in and answer questions for noobs. yes, sometimes it's as easy as googling and redirecting but that just makes my contribution easy .
Security Flaws Could Cripple Defense Network
Drunk Driving Could Be Dangerous
Microsoft Goes Head-to-Head With IBM
Mixing Household Chemicals Could Be Dangerous
notice a pattern? none of these headliness says or means anything. they border between "no $hit" and "duh".
instead of that say-nothing giberish how about "group passwords threaten MDA's communications network"? see, now the head line says something.
ps, not to be a jerk, just to point out an area where slashdot can be better than the rest.
so many classics, so little time.
bonus: they have a nice, active community that adds books all the time to the collection. you can join and add books if you wish.
did i forget to mention that their books are free. if you go to their sister site you can get recent releases. they have regular sales, backups for your purchaese, etc.
i've read many, MANY classics that would have cost me a fortune otherwise for several years now. extra bonus: many of their books are available in multiple formats.
enjoy!
why is that, do you suppose? did something happen in his professional career?
Well, anyone with bad enough eyesight that they can't see the horizon, anyway. A flat Earth doesn't have a horizon, only a curved one does.
IT ISN'T OFFTOPIC. things that are obvious to you with the (obviously) little education you've had have had to have been studied and written down for posterity.
before i get modded as flame bait for the "little education you've had" line consider that for many centuries just about everyone thought the earth was flat. you might have known that if you studied middle school history.
OF COURSE the earth revolves around the sun. Except this man, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo , risked his LIFE for something you just knew somehow.
Ever read in the bible where if you do this you will be unclean, you do that you will be unclean and you must remain apart from everyone for a certain amount of time for each different event? It was easier for God to give a few rules out than to try to EXPLAIN GERMS. but you knew about germs because anyone with a middle school science course saw bacteria in pond water. You weren't absent that day, were you?
Even the obvious things need written down to minimize redundency in research.
in light of these recent relevations (about the grant proposal) i am seriously considering joining your esteemed organization. please find enclosed a membership application and a bill for 30,000 dollars.
well, yeah. the earth is round ;^)
i swear to god i thought you'd be modded +5 hilarious. the irony is as sweeeet as it subtle!
made me smile! (the first one today)
Google is now dictating the way we must design our sites if we want to even hope to get a decent google rank
huh? how about just creating a relevant site? my website is listed first with NO PROMOTION on my behalf on sensible search terms. "anonymous killer" as a search term brings up my site first. heck, i registered my site with go daddy just a few weeks ago and didn't even get it completely finished until a few days ago.
did google, yahoo, etc dictate my choices? NO! just a few minutes to think about what i needed and how to proceed got me listed first. if a one man shop can be this successful why cann't a multinational corporation?
i agree, it was a fair mod (+5 right now ;^).
one of the paranoias of hard core christians is that the bible says noone will be able by or sell anything in the time of the beast without the mark of the beast. having implants triggers that fear in bible-thumping people.
not that it matters much...
wow, i got my first -1 moderation on that last comment. should i be hanging my head in shame or celebrating my first?
by the way, how was your first?
i'm scared that you got modded "+4, Funny".
lines tin foil hat with lead
My daddy named me Sue for a reason.
:^)
do you have pretty blue eyes?
shudders I think i need therapy now
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317676/
from that page - 2.1/10 (6,596 votes). Enough said!
{i did a little more research. his average rating is under 3! lmao}
I've had a Palm of one flavor or another for years now. One of my favorite programs for the Palm OS is Plucker at http://www.plkr.org/. Here's a bit from their web site:
With Plucker installed on your Palm, you can read any Internet web pages, ebooks, text-files, or other documents you want at any time, simply by converting it with Plucker's desktop tools, and sending it to your Palm for reading on your Palm handheld.
Obviously it's not a real-time browser, but offline only. But not one of my favorite web sites has to restructure their sites for just a handful of users.
It handles images, links, RSS, RDF, text files, HTML PDF, and many other file formats, etc, etc. And it's GNU.
I recommend your client give Plucker a shot. Can't hurt anything, the software has been stable for ages.
I play Command and Conquer - Renegade all the time. Renegade was the only FPS in the C&C universe and it rocked. Wish they'd make a second one.
;^) I always shot down every offer 'cause I liked to kill without prejudice ;^)
I bought the game the hour it was released locally (Mechanicsburg, PA, where I was at the time) and was eventually recruited for every clan on the net
Yeah, I play as iggy_mon there, too. If you pick up the multipack for around $20(us) join me!
...pitches a tent every month...
;^)
to whom should i forward this viagra email?
And, for the truly blessed, there is emacs... ;)
;^)
--iggy
well, i don't like nazi/spelling whores as much as the next guy, but i thing you forgot the "v" and the "i" in that atrocious spelling of yours