"Clinton & co swept all 3 houses of the government and tried to ramrod"
I'll try saying it again. Maybe it will "stick" this time.
1. I can imagine (and have seen) lots of things I would deplore from a Dem-controlled govt.
2. But I'm saying that the evils likely to result from such, differ not only in degree but also in *kind*.
3. The evils likely to be perpetrated by Dem-controlled govt are a lot less frightening, and a lot more likely to be eventually reversible.
Encroachments to civil liberties threaten the very mechanisms and structures and institutions which are necessary to reverse those encroachments. Socialized medicine does nothing to make it harder (judicially threatening) to work towards reversal of socialized medicine.
Nothing about socialized medicine, confiscatory taxes, affirmative action, political correctness, etc., impairs or intimidates my ability to decide to go somewhere else where I like it better. But now I'm living under a regime which is planning (and starting to implement) procedures to detain / interrogate / "validate" me when I want to EXIT MY OWN COUNTRY.
Crashmarik & bluGill -- YOU'RE talking about one politician (Kerry) and his campaign cohorts. I'M talking about the likely behavior (and overall consequences) of an entire Dem-controlled govt, VERSUS a govt controlled by the CURRENT OVER-ALL make-up and mentality of the Reps.
And yes, everyone is guilty of getting carried away immediately after 9/11. But it's MAINLY Dems who are now trying to pass bills correcting Patriot excesses. And it's MAINLY Reps who are trying to extend Federal powers even further, far beyond fighting terrorism.
Also, I'm having difficulty conceptualizing the perspective and overall political philosophy of a person who opposes the govt restricting his right to bear arms, but is unconcerned about -- the govt's new powers to secretly grab his library records, gag the librarian, deny ALL public overview of the entire judicial procedure, -- attempt to detain *citizens* INDEFINITELY without right to counsel or any other contact with someone outside of law-enforcement -- etc.
I say this in all sincerity: don't you remember WHY the right to bear arms was traditionally so important in our national mentality?
I'm not saying "Right=Evil, Left=Pure", or anything like that. I can imagine (and have seen) lots of things I would deplore from a Dem-controlled govt.
But I'm saying that the evils likely to result from such, differ not only in degree but also in *kind*.
I wasn't saying that filibustering is a traditional right, etc. I'm saying that, if the Right -- i.e., THIS right, the CURRENT Right -- succeeds in confirming a large number of pro-Federal-power judges (which, by the way, is NOT an example of "conservative" political values), the consequences of *that* success will be diminishment of civil liberties, etc.
The evils likely to be perpetrated by Dem-controlled govt are a lot less frightening, and a lot more likely to be eventually reversible, than this PARTICULAR, CURRENT threat from the Right.
And FYI, I supported Bush, until all the anti-civil, anti-openness, anti-tolerance, elitist big-brother stuff started.
..."no big deal, it has happened before", "it really doesn't matter which party", etc.:
see today's/. story, "Republican Senators May 'Go Nuclear'"
We're talking about consequences which may persist for an entire generation (or longer), quite possibly leading to permanent public acceptance of frightening and dangerous encroachments upon our civil liberties, traditional freedoms, and constitutional rights.
I wouldn't envision these same risks from Dem-controlled government.
If I perceive it as arbitrary PHB-induced pressure, I resent it and don't respond well. I don't "crack", but I *have* been known to wash my hands of it and just walk away, or to deflect the pressure's internal effects by deciding to ignore it and to proceed stolidly.
OTOH, if I perceive it as situational -- "can't be helped, shit happens, no one's fault" -- then it's "hey, time to be a hero", and I thrive.
"Our country is hardly different from where it was four years ago".
Wow. The complacent inaccuracy of this view is stunning. Just one example of many (and not even the saddest): today (versus four years ago) your library and bookstore records can be seized without traditional search-warrant safeguards, and the librarians can be imprisoned for revealing it.
Organize with other students who want to use wifi. Agree to use only the frequency not being used by the university. The moment that the university tries disciplianry action: -- start DoSing their wifi (especially effective if you're using hard/software that allows you to fake your MAC) -- use portable APs to start falsifying "violations" at inconvenient locations all over campus, such as profs' offices, the main Admin building, etc.
1. PUBLICITY... Find out which other workplaces (near yours) are/aren't doing the same as your employer. Even better, get friendly with people at other jobs who have the same problem. Then all of you call the local TV news shows, radio talk-shows, and newspapers, and ask them to do a story publicizing the situation and the names of the offending employers.
And after the storm is over, DO post the names of those employers anonymously on some very public forums, and then anonymously email links (to those threads) to the head of personnel and the CEO.
If it's a publicly-traded company, find out which socially-conscious funds are investors -- especially union pension funds, California state employee pension funds, etc. Anonymously tell the funds about the story, and cc your message to your CEO, AND to your corporation's department of investor relations.
2. Ask your doctor to give you some sedatives because of the extra "anxiety" caused by the coming storm. Call in sick because you're impaired by the tranquilizers. They can't deny your sick-pay.
3. Have a slip-and-fall injury in their parking lot, due to the bad weather. Get sick-time off. Better yet, get disability pay and workmen's-comp. Better yet, sue their asses if you're hurt badly enough (btw, this is another idea for point #1: tell the company's liability insurer about what the company is doing).
If *I* really wanted to steal something, the only way you could stop me is to disable access to ***ALL*** i/o -- including sealing the serial / parallel/audio ports, AND hard-wiring the mouse, keyboard, ethernet, and monitor connections -- at BOTH ends.
Leave ANY of those open, and I'll be able to write to magnetic media, UNDETECTABLY to anyone who isn't standing next to me at the moment when I'm connecting my evil capture device.
And even after you do all that, I can STILL transmit data -- encoded (e.g., barcode) in high frame-rate video -- from one tiny innocent-looking window, to a button-hole video lens in my shirt.
Then there's EM emissions recording.
IOW, if you don't strip-search me, your data is "gone in 60 seconds".
"...a dialog between him and his manager after showing him a rough 20-page draft:
Manager: "This is really good. You could probably make some money off this someday -- but you did it while employed by us, so now it belongs to us. Cough up the rest. You have a month."
There are already provisions for denying FOIA requests for security reasons, on a CASE-BY-CASE basis. This is just another John Assfuck excuse for denying all request in bulk in advance.
The best revenge you can get is to make them regret and change their ways. And the best way to do that is to help as many other people as possible to leave, preferably the most valuable employees.
BEFORE YOU GIVE NOTICE, make sure you have emails/phones for all those people: one reason bosses rush you out the door after quitting, is so you won't "hurt morale" (meaning, telling other people how much better your new job is).
After you leave, do all you can to let all those people know how GREAT your new job is (without EXPLICITLY slamming your old job). And (anonymously) send them promising-looking job notices and head-hunters' phones.
This way, you get the referenced sweetest revenge, and get to punish the old boss, and simultaneously do good for others who are still stuck there.
what a hare-brained idea. And for $260 million. Can you imagine suggesting to your boss, or a VC, or in a foundation funding proposal, that they spend even $260 THOUSAND on such a high-probability-of-total-failure scheme?
It would be useless unless it was later discovered by sufficiently intelligent beings. And it "they" did discover it, why should they consider us so special as to be worth regeneration? For that matter, why should they consider it SAFE to regenerate us? "Good riddance!" I say; let them regenerate everything except the primates.
"If I was spending endless time tweaking and running a PC based DVR, it would be ironic"
Harv, what I meant is that, strictly speaking, watching TV (and arranging not to miss out) is a waste of time, and the true time-saver is simply to unplug the tube -- not that I'm any more likely to do it than you are.
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"Clinton & co swept all 3 houses of the government and tried to ramrod"
I'll try saying it again.
Maybe it will "stick" this time.
1. I can imagine (and have seen) lots of things I would deplore from a Dem-controlled govt.
2. But I'm saying that the evils likely to result from such, differ not only in degree but also in *kind*.
3. The evils likely to be perpetrated by Dem-controlled govt are a lot less frightening,
and a lot more likely to be eventually reversible.
Encroachments to civil liberties threaten the very mechanisms and structures and institutions which are necessary to reverse those encroachments.
Socialized medicine does nothing to make it harder (judicially threatening) to work towards reversal of socialized medicine.
Nothing about socialized medicine, confiscatory taxes, affirmative action, political correctness, etc., impairs or intimidates my ability to decide to go somewhere else where I like it better.
But now I'm living under a regime which is planning (and starting to implement) procedures to detain / interrogate / "validate" me when I want to EXIT MY OWN COUNTRY.
Do you sincerely claim not to see the difference?
Crashmarik & bluGill --
YOU'RE talking about one politician (Kerry) and his campaign cohorts.
I'M talking about the likely behavior (and overall consequences) of an entire Dem-controlled govt, VERSUS a govt controlled by the CURRENT OVER-ALL make-up and mentality of the Reps.
And yes, everyone is guilty of getting carried away immediately after 9/11.
But it's MAINLY Dems who are now trying to pass bills correcting Patriot excesses.
And it's MAINLY Reps who are trying to extend Federal powers even further, far beyond fighting terrorism.
Also, I'm having difficulty conceptualizing the perspective and overall political philosophy of a person who opposes the govt restricting his right to bear arms, but is unconcerned about
-- the govt's new powers to secretly grab his library records, gag the librarian, deny ALL public overview of the entire judicial procedure,
-- attempt to detain *citizens* INDEFINITELY without right to counsel or any other contact with someone outside of law-enforcement
-- etc.
I say this in all sincerity:
don't you remember WHY the right to bear arms was traditionally so important in our national mentality?
brown, you've missed my point entirely.
I'm not saying "Right=Evil, Left=Pure", or anything like that.
I can imagine (and have seen) lots of things I would deplore from a Dem-controlled govt.
But I'm saying that the evils likely to result from such, differ not only in degree but also in *kind*.
I wasn't saying that filibustering is a traditional right, etc.
I'm saying that, if the Right -- i.e., THIS right, the CURRENT Right --
succeeds in confirming a large number of pro-Federal-power judges
(which, by the way, is NOT an example of "conservative" political values),
the consequences of *that* success will be diminishment of civil liberties, etc.
The evils likely to be perpetrated by Dem-controlled govt are a lot less frightening,
and a lot more likely to be eventually reversible, than this PARTICULAR, CURRENT threat from the Right.
And FYI, I supported Bush, until all the anti-civil, anti-openness, anti-tolerance, elitist big-brother stuff started.
..."no big deal, it has happened before",
/. story,
"it really doesn't matter which party",
etc.:
see today's
"Republican Senators May 'Go Nuclear'"
We're talking about consequences which may persist for an entire generation (or longer),
quite possibly leading to permanent public acceptance of frightening and dangerous encroachments upon our civil liberties, traditional freedoms, and constitutional rights.
I wouldn't envision these same risks from Dem-controlled government.
If I perceive it as arbitrary PHB-induced pressure, I resent it and don't respond well.
I don't "crack", but I *have* been known to wash my hands of it and just walk away,
or to deflect the pressure's internal effects by deciding to ignore it and to proceed stolidly.
OTOH, if I perceive it as situational -- "can't be helped, shit happens, no one's fault" -- then it's "hey, time to be a hero", and I thrive.
"Our country is hardly different from where it was four years ago".
Wow.
The complacent inaccuracy of this view is stunning.
Just one example of many (and not even the saddest):
today (versus four years ago) your library and bookstore records can be seized without traditional search-warrant safeguards, and the librarians can be imprisoned for revealing it.
"I'm not entirely sure if there was a Democratic Senate, House and President that they wouldn't do the same."
but the Dems would be much less likely to trample civil liberties as the Gang Of Bush is doing.
what would you have to do to make the OS owner-accessible?
what about hacking the hardware?
what about hacking the hardware?
what would you have to do to make the OS owner-accessible?
what would you have to do to make the OS owner-accessible?
Organize with other students who want to use wifi.
Agree to use only the frequency not being used by the university.
The moment that the university tries disciplianry action:
-- start DoSing their wifi (especially effective if you're using hard/software that allows you to fake your MAC)
-- use portable APs to start falsifying "violations" at inconvenient locations all over campus, such as profs' offices, the main Admin building, etc.
..."panem et circenses".
Or, in more contemporary terms, it's Neo's red-pill / blue-pill choice.
...(or, "Can you say 'passive-aggressive'?")
1. PUBLICITY...
Find out which other workplaces (near yours) are/aren't doing the same as your employer.
Even better, get friendly with people at other jobs who have the same problem.
Then all of you call the local TV news shows, radio talk-shows, and newspapers, and ask them to do a story publicizing the situation and the names of the offending employers.
And after the storm is over, DO post the names of those employers anonymously on some very public forums, and then anonymously email links (to those threads) to the head of personnel and the CEO.
If it's a publicly-traded company, find out which socially-conscious funds are investors -- especially union pension funds, California state employee pension funds, etc.
Anonymously tell the funds about the story, and cc your message to your CEO, AND to your corporation's department of investor relations.
2. Ask your doctor to give you some sedatives because of the extra "anxiety" caused by the coming storm. Call in sick because you're impaired by the tranquilizers. They can't deny your sick-pay.
3. Have a slip-and-fall injury in their parking lot, due to the bad weather. Get sick-time off. Better yet, get disability pay and workmen's-comp.
Better yet, sue their asses if you're hurt badly enough (btw, this is another idea for point #1: tell the company's liability insurer about what the company is doing).
"I am an insultant."
;-)
I don't doubt it for a second.
the clown was BOZO.
boNzo was a chimp.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0043325/
If *I* really wanted to steal something, the only way you could stop me is to disable access to ***ALL*** i/o -- /audio ports,
including sealing the serial / parallel
AND hard-wiring the mouse, keyboard, ethernet, and monitor connections -- at BOTH ends.
Leave ANY of those open, and I'll be able to write to magnetic media,
UNDETECTABLY to anyone who isn't standing next to me at the moment when I'm connecting my evil capture device.
And even after you do all that, I can STILL transmit data -- encoded (e.g., barcode) in high frame-rate video -- from one tiny innocent-looking window, to a button-hole video lens in my shirt.
Then there's EM emissions recording.
IOW, if you don't strip-search me, your data is "gone in 60 seconds".
...you would expect to go more like this:
/ 22 5217
"...a dialog between him and his manager after showing him a rough 20-page draft:
Manager: "This is really good. You could probably make some money off this someday --
but you did it while employed by us, so now it belongs to us.
Cough up the rest.
You have a month."
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/03
There are already provisions for denying FOIA requests for security reasons,
on a CASE-BY-CASE basis.
This is just another John Assfuck excuse for denying all request in bulk in advance.
The best revenge you can get is to make them regret and change their ways.
And the best way to do that is to help as many other people as possible to leave, preferably the most valuable employees.
BEFORE YOU GIVE NOTICE, make sure you have emails/phones for all those people:
one reason bosses rush you out the door after quitting, is so you won't "hurt morale" (meaning, telling other people how much better your new job is).
After you leave, do all you can to let all those people know how GREAT your new job is (without EXPLICITLY slamming your old job).
And (anonymously) send them promising-looking job notices and head-hunters' phones.
This way, you get the referenced sweetest revenge, and get to punish the old boss, and simultaneously do good for others who are still stuck there.
... the "illicit" third-party toner cartridges.
Whether it lives, or limps, so what?
IT'S JUST TELEVISION, not Shakespeare or Wagner or Impressionism.
what a hare-brained idea.
And for $260 million.
Can you imagine suggesting to your boss, or a VC, or in a foundation funding proposal, that they spend even $260 THOUSAND on such a high-probability-of-total-failure scheme?
It would be useless unless it was later discovered by sufficiently intelligent beings.
And it "they" did discover it, why should they consider us so special as to be worth regeneration?
For that matter, why should they consider it SAFE to regenerate us?
"Good riddance!" I say; let them regenerate everything except the primates.
what about Replay?
"If I was spending endless time tweaking and running a PC based DVR, it would be ironic"
Harv, what I meant is that, strictly speaking, watching TV (and arranging not to miss out) is a waste of time, and the true time-saver is simply to unplug the tube --
not that I'm any more likely to do it than you are.
btw, have you any thoughts re my kits question?