Actually, what's really scary is that this will allow them to cull data more efficiently, so they can come after people like ME who within a few minutes of reading a headline can see into or past or around some of their expensive, pork-barrel, back-scratching bullshit projects.
Read some of my other comments that despise US policy. Once they collate enough comments of mine and of those like me, who dare to publicly voice our dissent, you won't NEED concentrtion camps. They'll just radar our homes and cause us a rapid onset of cancer. Or, they'll time a hit and run for us. Or something.
This total-awareness program is borne out of the fact that bush and his little power games with rove and the others around the world are going to get a lot more people killed before any prevailing divinity or diety steps in to clean up the mess.
I sure as hell would not want to serve under, for, or alongside a god that allows this cretin, and all the attendent bullshit from other leaders to continue.
--Starving people --cold people --oppressed people --vile maldistribution of nutrition --maldistribution of wealth --squalor and squander
There are so many military projects going on that boondogle taxpayers AND their kids' taxes that it ought to be downright criminal and worthy of execution for people to in the REAL-WORLD keep producing destruction devices rather than just elminate the numerous power-holders who are truly obstructing CHANGE. Change that rids us of greed, pestilence, indifference, broken souls.
Consumerism and mass-consumption are NOT the answer. Nor is allwing mad assholes to run the world.
Databasing all sorts of inconsequential or somewhat unnerving bits of informtion on people and then using it is not new. Using it for ever-widening political dragnets IS very DANGEROUS. Soon, speech would be squelched like never before, and then what?
If Crime decreases dramatically, will it lead to a candy-assed world like Star Trek (minus the US-centric hollywood)? Would police be so reduced in number that we'll find reasons to wip out their early retirement and huge pensions by conjuring up some need for a thought control machine?
Some of the biggest problems not acknowledged are:
--organized religion --manifest destiny --imperialism --conquest --mass genocide --racism --indifference --onerous tax burdens --massive benefits for ranking elected officials while the masses fend for themselves or get reamed by corporate health and medical czars
Yeh, my beloved government. Database the pile of self-loathing, indignation, self-pity, and general incompetence and ineptitude of your offices and clean YOUR shit up instead of trying to run the world.
Yeh, a college-inspired mini-rail gun shooting electric bullets at any azimuth, up to 22 miles.
A proximity-charge version will be out in about 9 months.
Now, the govt will have to either:
-base the platforms higher -increase the scan rate -increase the resolution for the platform in concern -come up with a new aloft-maintenance plan
Oh, boy, why the FUCK doesn't the government unplug the anal probiscus of the rich and powerful and start forcing our businesses OUT of markets where we make enemies.
I'm sure bin Laden and others US-haters would diminish their bent on destruction if we pull out and stop practicing "expand or die" or "god is my pilot" or "manifest destiny".
We're WASTING untold BILLIONS, partly because the current cabal in the WH is IN BED with many of the people following scripts to shake up and keep off balance many of the world's people who are increasingly coming under social, personal, and privacy attack JUST because a too-calm world would undermine the profits gained by defense industry and certain rich types.
About the only thing to sift the targets of the weapons systems sold is to shoot at non-terrestrial visitors or targets. Seeing that that is not coming any time soon, humas are contented to kill other humans.
To HELL with you rich and corrupt politicians and your friends who TRULY have no interest surface or deep, to bring peace to the world and diminished bloodshed of any level.
Since you're KICKING our asses, why not kiss them while you're at it?
Fortunatey for your kind, you have no diety-for-a-day humans like me to contend with.
Whoa! I see my surname in ohyesyesgimmesco.cmo, heheh... "syes".
That's weird, because back in 1985, as a radioman with the sub-specialty of teletype repairmain, I was testing a teletype after after reassembling it. I had to also to a "Red" patch panel and the "Black" patch panel line tests.
As I yanked out and reinserted the short patch cord between the receive and the coupler, the RYSGRYSGRYSG (the "RYSG" test) from the signal generator spat out "SYES" midstream.
Shit! I was scared. I was wondering if this ship (the John A. Moore (FFG-19)) was haunted. It was eery. "SYES" was not part of the signal generator program, nor was anyone locally or remotely using any teletype terminals.
Anyway, that was a digressive-intro...
I thought I ALSO "prosco" was one letter off from sco's true calling: "Self-Protology." Maybe darl and company can open up their own "Church of Self-Proctology" and preach ALL the fake shit they want. Hell, they can even incorporate as a church (heheh, of the poisoned/mined (or, okay, "mind")) and get organized religion tax write-offs.
Alternatively, my mind thought, Pro TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)... reasons to avoid the sco (sinister, conniving, and orgasmic) licensing scheme co-opting (program)).
I guess sco gets the 'scoop'. Now, if only they use that scoop to dig around in their upper and lower colons and their 5 sphyncters and find out what DNA switching set them back, ummm aback.
Well, free speech is not merely vocal activity, but locomotion to a place or activity (organized or not). What good is free speech if one is prevented from traveling? This election will probably be one of THE most important in US history, and ear-bud-using candidates, bunglers, and inept types should not have the chance to incite MORE OUTUS resentment of the US. (Maybe changing our foreign policy will ease things a bit, and if the government sees terrorists as "nits" or mobsters who are the "cost of doing business with a minimum of destruction on either side", then we might not have to raise the topic of Free Speech, travel restrictions for non-terrorists getting onto but being unable to remove themselves from hatched/half-baked Do Not Fly Lists, being subjected to DHLS scrutiny, and such...)
OK...
Let's see how the hell well THIS goes down in a presidential election year, given the past 4 years of events and the two candidates and their respective set pieces poised to either calm down or inflame the world toward the USA.
------ The FEC or the people running the debates, NEED to raise this before the candidates: ---------
Citizens of ANY nation who fear being squelched, have their travel impeded, or be subjected to the US Do Not Fly List should demand that airlines GUARANTEE that if they are for some reason on the DNFL, they can receive a FULL refund on the SAME DAY they are denied flight. NO amount of chicanery, delayed notification, or the like should be permitted whether by collusion or indepent act between or of the flight or travel entities and/or the various governments, particularly the US and the DHLS entities.
This (potentially) will have some side-effects of:
-undermining "gold-digging" agencies from spuriously ore punitively or pugnaciously punishing political activitst
-undermining the ability of DHLS to simply put on the list anyone, anywhere, anytime with impunity and without a requirement to explain WHY said person is on the list or HOW to be extricated
-undermining the ability of DHLS to keep indefinitely on the list anyone who challenges it and demands being removed from it
-forcing airlines to take a stand on what information will and will NOT be shared on so-called security info-hunts, and forcing them to help booking passengers avert the inconvenience of erroneous/no-fault DHLS attachment/listing
-forcing airlines to revise their policy of "once you have the customers'/customer's money never give it back" (an activitiy even BEFORE the Star Trek DS9 Ferengi Rules of Acquisition), for the money should NEVER belong to a company until the goods are DELIVERED and USED, not just "booked", when it comes to DHLS obstruction to using a booked flight
--forcing the public to acknowledge that NO DNFL list of any sort should be used to persecute or intimidate ANY domestic or foreign national who has never even been arrested, never consorted with violent persons, never even killed anyone in self-defense or any other circumstance, never been hand-cuffed, never had called into question their prior or current service with any level of government service, classified work or not; persons with records that don't rise to a level of concern for safety of flying or operational aircraft should also not be on the list: unless they frequent terrorist training camps in a non-journalistic capacity; unless they are by familial, economic, pact or other modes connected to terrorists or terrorism-sponsoring nations (would that mean several members of the current and past US administrations SHOULD be on the DNFL, since we KNOW some of them shook hands with, rendered decisions to or enabled some of these terrorists to rise in power? (Oh, our taxes already pay for their private flights and security entourages...)
Forcing the airlines to face the prospect of losing passengers for inexplicable or nebulous or obscure or ad-hoc/whimsical reasons --other than "subject is on the DNFL for PROVEN, LISTED REASONS" will force them to technologic
This may seem simplistic, but the way I deal with null values is by considering where NULL is necessary to know, but not allowed by bog down my mind or schema. I create an additional column that is a "calculated field" In that calculated field is simlpy a calculation/formula that does something like this:
Example Fields (Yes, the database tool (Lotus Approach, in win98 in Win4Lin, running in Mandrake 10.0) I use lets me have spaces and mixed casing in the field names, AND I can use these in MySQL, too.
First Name | Family Name | DOB | Age |NullAge Txt | Txt | Date | Calc | Calc
The text fields are whatever length I decide to set, usually 35 to 45 chars for family and given name, but sometimes 35 for middle, since some people have UK-like multi-hyphenated, triple/poly-syllabic heritage middle or surnames.
DOB is simply a date field, fixed in size.
"Age" is a calculated field that has a formula such as:
Today()-DOB or Today()-(DOB)
When DOB is NULL (and in this case, today is 10/13/2004), then Approach returns 731867. Since nobody alive will have that number of days in their age, it's easy to have the "Age" field supplemented with yet another field that looks for ages beyond something I think sensible.
Let's suppose a DOB of 4/5/1965.
Age, using the formula:
Today()-DOB
returns 11436 (number of days)
Now, for example, I can have a calculated field called "Age Abnormal" check this.
"Age Abnormal" would have a formula such as this:
If (age >135, 'bad age', Age)
This simply means if the age is over 135 years, substitute text instead of the actualy age. (Astute observers will note that days will return until we fix the issue, further down...)
Alternatively, I can put this formula in the "Age" field instead of creating a separate, space-consuming field called "Age Abnormal". But I sometimes create these extra fields as a way to "parse" my mental logic and make troubleshooting much easier, at the expense of some used space. (When over-parsed, it is possible to use one of these as a dependency for other calculations, and if one is deleted in the name of disk space efficiency, a lot of troubleshooting may be necessary...unless good notes are on hand.)
So, I create another field called "Age Years", just to have it as a raw calculation, sitting there "just in case" I need it for some other calculations. (Yes, 365.25 may not be accurate for all years, and there may be some who'll have separate year tables serving as lookups, probably for financial scenarios where guessing or simple calcs are unacceptable...)
In Approach, this would work (for my purposes):
If ((right(today),4))-Age>135, 5, 2))
But, I really want dates' YEARS calculated on and displayed, not the raw number of days. So, I can use
Also, while I realize that DBAs are accustomed to using "Emp_FN" instead of "Emp FN" or "Emp First Name", I don't, because eventually it's not human friendly. I appreciate that in the early days disk space and performance were major issues, but I despise cryptic field names that end up being a pain for regular users, or for myself. It is pleasing that MySQL doesn't have a problem with my use of spaces in field names, but it did require me to change "Date Created" to something like "DteCreated" or "Dte Created", since date is a reserved or key word. Approach will let you use a keyword or any word you want up to a certain length, when using.dbf as the backend. I use it for.dbf for local desktop, but when I test forms in Approach from within w98 on the same box that MDK10 is running, I use MySQL running out of MDK. I rarely use MySQL as a service or process in win/win98.
Actually, it's a travesty that IBM won't port or allow dual-licensing or
One thing a lot of people don't remember or know is that for over 20 years now, about 19 or 20 before 9/11, the State Department, FBI, CIA, and others have been telling the Senate/Congress (the opposite of PROGress) that Belfast, Khobar, and Israel/Palestine-like terror events would arrive in the US. Not a matter of IF, but WHEN.
Another thing is that peole too lightly let the airlines off the hook. And, when the necessary changes DID take place after 9/11, many passengers and taxpayers who DON'T fly but still have w-2 wages are paying for the PHB, please-the-shareholder airline officials who for so long refused to reinforce cockpit doors. In our country, despite engineering marvels such as rocketry, long-span bridges, tunnels, skyscrapers, deep-diving subs and more, so many disaster-capable things STILL are engineered to the lowest costs despite the great potential for abuse. I'm talking about flimsy-assed cockpit doors that El Al and some other airlines don't allow, and didn't for decades.
More, we still don't truthfully know if the terrorists crashed the plane over PA, or if the pax bungled it after regaining control. I mean, if the Pax got it back, then wouldn't SOMEbody aboard have flown a flight sim and realized that lack of landing skills means stay aloft as long as fuel permits, and then call for help? Didn't anybody on that plane watch "Airport 77" (I think that's the one where Charlton Heston wire-lined into the plane to get back the cockpit after a Cessna struck the cockpit and killed or blinded the flight crew? I don't expect that regular airlines own personnel could do it, but special forces in various nations I believe DO train for the recoverable situation.
I think the pax likely were SHOT down, probably because they couldn't figure out how to use the comms gear. Or, the interceptors's pilots peered into the cockpit and either saw a struggle, or saw non-uniformed people in the P/CP seats. Even if that is not the case, did that PA flight fly erratically, as if recovering people struggled to stay aloft? Some people I talked to suggested the Ts, sensing failure, drove it into the ground to cause SOME sort of loss of life. I honestly don't buy that the pax got into the cockpit, fought like hell to get it back, only to drive it into the ground to prevent it being used as a missile. If they got THAT far into the cockpit with time to fly the thing into the ground, why not beat the shit out of the unauthorized flyers, yank them from the seats, and keep the plane in the air? Were III in the seat, unable to use the radio correctly, I'd at LEAST rock the wings, yaw the thing, and look for the wing/formation lights and make gestures out the window if the fighters formed up off either side of the cockpit.
ID checks will only drive the Ts deeper into the darkest of crevices, which they achieve another side goal: Get the US government to undermine civilians' expectations or long-held rights. By forcing (or encouraging) the government to invade/encroach upon/restrict our "rights", they give the government ammunition to "squelch" dissenting view, for the suspicious or fearful will just avoid rocking the boat.
The fallacy, as I see it, is that by encouraging the US government to rigidize the ID system and squelch opinion, the Ts deny themselves freer anonymity and mobility. That assumption, tho, stirs up a good number of other questions, such as:
-Was 9/11 a deviation from another "script"?
-was 9/11 planned, but only partially carried out, but the result of shitty airline CEOs who couldn't be troubled to spend an extra $200 per door at MANUFACTURE/OUTFITTING time?
-WHY did not the US step back and take a loooong, gooood, haaaard look at it's foreign policy and compare it to Israel and ask, "Well, if ISRALE had only 1 or 2 ATTEMPTED hijackings that to date have never been successfully repeated, and they have a SMALLER footprint of imperialism (by will, power or business practices) then why the HELL are not WE, the USofA, the hated imperialist of imperialists, ordering our airliners to make themselves non-hijackable...
-- will it work for taxes? (We all could use side-stepping some taxation...)
Can it solve hanging chads problems? (We need restored confidence in the voting process...)
Can we go back in time and bring back simpler life (and neatly 'sidestep' the arrival of some of history's most vile bipeds with devious, vile, obtuse, corrupt, malevolent brains? (at the citizen, local, county, municipality/parish/commonwealth/prefecture/provin ce/state, federal levels of human governance?)...)
If only such a machine could be used to alter the course of:
Oktoberfest. (For a sec, I thought Q-bert, hehehe...)
Cause to CELEBRATE!
Where can I find a Q-BIT-Love machine? All 100 or so positions and combinations at once. Rudy "The World's Greatest Lover" Valention, umm, Valentino would be jealous.
Unlike a cat, III could exist in ALL states, in all states, inexhaustibly, right? Come one, Come all, Stay awhile and have a great ball...
(OK, maybe we dont' want Cyrano D in all these states...)
Well, thanks a lot. I guess MotorVoter and Voting and Travel ID cards will be quicker in arrival. Even if you have homes in two or more states, i thought the IRS compels filers to declare only ONE permanent/primary home. (I am sure you're just being silly, right? heheh....)
Anyway, make sure your vote is not via Diebold. One or none of them might be cast in reality.
No, wait, if you DO vote in multiple cities, maybe others will, too. If diebold is undermined, they'll be "DieAgonized"...
Make sure Jeb gets the current convict list so you won't be disenfranchised. Make room in those janitor closets...and relocate the Registrars' offices out of the predicted hurrican paths.
Oh, and don't forget to join hands around the table and conduct the Daily/Morning Prayer in the Oval office/Situation/Briefing room before conducting the taxpayers' work....
Which reminds me... Who is that consumer union that wanted to yank/jerk F9/11 from the theatres?
Where are they now, when one of their own is basically committing trademark infringement AND advertising/slandering a peer-competitor? Maybe they're a union OF conSUMPTION, rather than a union FOR conSUMERS (who, which we are, really just consumption junkies...)
Seems these politicos cannot remember "fair and sports(man)like conduct." Oh, I guess they watch too much football and hockey (if it doesn't bleed it doesn't lead. Played with too many Tonkas and GI Joe dolls or maybe even pelleted cats, birds, and such...
"leaders"? I sure as hell don't claim them. It's time to "delouse the house." (Note: I didn't say 'search and destroy' or 'tag and frag' or the like...)
If any ET's asked me:
"HWhoo/hwhere are your hleeders?"
I'd respond with:
"The ones to be purged or the ones to be reformed or the ones to be decapitated, turned into dogfood? (and, if I'm the measure of humanity's worthiness, I guess we'd all go down the galactic garbage wormhole/target range...)
You see, ET, in case you've missed out on those waves and signals we've been pumping into space the past several decades, the ones worth saving are too few in number to be heard, and too powerless to effect REAL change. But, if you play "Mars Attacks" here and there, and issue some threats that if more progress isn't made, more capitols and "leaders" will be summarily called to answer, maybe, just maybe the world would be grateful. Sometimes, ETthe only way to get rid of cockroaches is to fumigate, bulldoze, and rebuild. Cockroaches are TENACIOUS, hairy, and nasty as hell. More unsavory than crocodiles and snakes. Crocks and snakes CAN kill you, but roaches make you sick, destroy your food, make you unwelcome in your own home... Do you REALLY want to waste time with Earth? Help us or DESTROY us, but don't leave it the way you found it. We're well overdue for an overhaul, maybe a permanent magenetic halo to technologically set us back about 500 years, limit our ability to pollute or manifest-destiny the cosmos..."
(Venting... always in word, not in any action...)
Watch "The Returner"... A sick bad guy with a.357 casually shoots ET in the rib/s, and almost costs Earth her place in existence...
I'm not picking you YOU, TrentL, but I am just seething right now. We could go further and ask:
======== Any politican who uses scare tactics and lies to take a feckless/apathetic nation to war has no credibility with me, and would not be allowed a seat in the same lifeboat with ME. =========
Cretins who tell the world:
"Either you're WITH us or you're AGAINST us!"?
don't deserve to be in office. Their/his/(her, if ever the US GROWS UP and has a female president) kind of rhetoric or bellicose stance endangers many nations not directly targets of politicians.
========= Politicans who GAIN from our screwed up energy policy, who's names go back decades with relatives of terrorists should not even be running or on tickets, for their deep and obvious, non-tangental connections undermine credibility of the wretched incumbent?
==========
Politicians who cannot admit mistakes, who put their person articles of faith ahead of the greater good of the people and of the world deserve NO place in leadership, and deserve no place in power.
(Now, I said all that knowing humans are flawed. Unfortunately, to fight some of these corrupt pricks means engaging them on the same tactics they use. The trick is "How do I do the right thing, and at the end of the day wash that shit of theirs off of me and off of others not deserving to be slung upon?")
A politico decides to use the NAME of his opponent or nemisis in a WEBSITE!? It's not as if his constituents wrote a BOOK. This is an act of pure disengenous conduct. The damned politician should change the name of the site, surrender it, and make restitution. Even IFF Van Hollen himself is a jerk. But, Van Hollen also should not form a site USING an opponent's name. The site name memorability should not confer abuse of a name not owned or described by the content or target. maybe it should be renamed:
"MyCampaignAgainstVanHollenByPrickJerkPolitico"
Why should this asshole be able to do this? If WE did it to some company, they'd use (read: abuse) the DCMA or some other law and force our ISP into complying with a C&D/take-down order.
Pricks like that set a bad example for the masses, and incite and deserve this type of language and sentiment I am using.
To go further, ANY politician like that needs to be WHACKED (across the head with a broom stick a couple of times) and told to apologize.
As for "All's fair in love and war and politics...", the public should not be misled in writing or in audio/visual presentation just to win a goddam election.
This is probably a good reason to:
-- review cutting the salaries of career politicians
-- severing their lobbyist and donor ties
-- prohibiting their riches from being used to mislead the public or procure a seat in office
-- remove their medical/dental/retirement packages
-- forcing them to do non-paid community service
-- removing financial incentive in serving in office.
When elected, umm, SE-lected officials out-earn their "subjects", something is terribly WRONG.
((slighly off topic...)
Too bad Wesley was gimped in the above URL. Some politicians need to be subject to that, considering the number of them signing on to draconian arrest proceedings that set our court and legal system back to the year 1060 or so.)) Selective access to court... Sheesh.
Say, as a test, without WRITING it or "making it so" in word, I'll say in VOICE: Substitute Wesley's name with Floyd's name, with Van Hollen doing the dirty deed. Actually, since floyd is doing the nasty, Van Hollen can HOLLER as he attacks Floyd's pink.
Now, I guess virtually-bleeding pink will come after ME....
(DAMN! Those brownies must still be affecting me... Or, too much MSG in my Miso Soup and Udon Noodles...)
The assholes at the DHLS won't even TELL you what landed you on the list. You're effectively being interfered with without being told of the charges.
If you're TRULY innocent, even a rabble-rouser in word but not in physical act, you could land on that list, never get off, and if they know you're on a flight to points outside the US, they can effectively detain you.
Worse, still, this kind of listing FORCES, COMPELS a subduing of the nations most vocal, outspoken types, for they who have money and time to travel will keep low. Some already have been, long before the DNF List, preferring to use proxies or lobbyists. But, for those like myself who "mouth from the hip" (umm, a poor play on "shoot from the hip"(sucking of any kind is NOT inferred in this context...)), we could be in deep travel-suspension.
THIS is probably what the damned corruptos in office have been plotting, twiddling their thumbs over for months.
Possible resolutions:
If you're on the DNF List, and you have a clean record,
--then an agent could fly with you and threaten to blast you with a TASER or a cyanide-needle, as case needs determine
--the government could TELL you in timely fashion (especially now that they're getting booking information, but ad-hoc/last-minute flyers will be hit hardest) that you have to clear up some things before they un-highlight your name on the list
--the list needs to be made ADAPTIVE: Just because you get ON the goddamned wretched thing doesn't mean you're SUPPOSED to be on it; once they satisfy that in the near term no real corroborative negative information is sticking to you, they can command the DNFL to silently de-highlight your name and maybe you wouldn't even KNOW you're on it; even the airport ticket or counter agents might never know
--offer the DNFL people a group class charter plane, if they're all lucky enough to fly to general points in the general area; the plane could be shadowed, or the occupants could submit to being restrained to seats but that would be harsh, unusual, and cruel if stretches or bowel or bladder relief could not be facilitated; but REINFORCED DOORS between the cockpit and the pax would solve problems (as long as the cabin pressurization is not subject to abuse); hell, if some greedy, PHB airline officials long ago decided to install reinforced doors and electrical grids when they were cheaper (vs under emergency rush orders after 9/11) then 9/11 probably would have NEVER happened with airplanes-- it would have been something else, and we'd probably NOT have the damned No Fly List.
Many of these problems are the result of bean counters not paying close attention to HISTORY. Some assholes tried to hijack El Al, and the Israelis basically said "NOT EVER AGAIN". The US has a few hijackings and some ASSHOLE insurance companies want to raise rates (as they should if screening is lousy) but the airliners negotiate in back rooms and plead (it's unforseeable; it's never happened before (despite prior incidents in other nations where they conveniently remove that incident from reporting cuz it wasnt' on US soil...))
Now, here in the US, supposedly, we don't have enough sky marshalls on the planes. Airlines want to be REactive vs PROactive. The government (the current occupants/cabal and sulliers of the oval office) sees and grabs for more power, rather than FIXING our screwed-up foreign policy, energy policy, and play-favorites treatment of foreign nationals who starve or die daily from civil unrest.
DAMN, too much of the brownies today! But, have I LIED anywhere in my writings?!
When a bomber or some radical FRAGS (from mere threatening whisper to outright ejection from corporeal existence) corrupt members of government, corporation, or capacity, maybe we should look the other way, or egg them on to be VERY, VERY selective and surgical about who they strike.
After all, most of us civilians NO LONGER hold a vote power at the national election level. Our votes have been negotiated, bought, and sold by corporations, rich, and in-the-club investors and credits/favors exchangers.
For terrorists to attack the common person who effectively is national-vote neutered or who faces being arrested, tortured or shot by-- a corrupt oligarchy, monarchy, theocracy or plutocracy pretending to heed the will of the people-- from voicing her/his conscience is to be a waste of limited resources. Just as military strikes aim to be surgical, terrorists could gain a SHIT LOAD of currency by minding whom they go after. Beheading employees is NOT the answer-- IF that employee is some low-level individual. However, insurgents, counter-insurgents, spies, spooks, attaches, and dignitarys carrying pouches, microdots, bugs and chips up their butts, or verbally passing high-level tactical, political, or similar messages are part of the "get-caught-and-you-COULD-die" game of spying. That IS PART OF THE GAME, and they SHOULD accept it and live with it, or not be part of that game. Terrorists' targetting of civilians only undermines their effectiveness because they REAL targets they hope to make capitulate have what WE, the PEOPLE, DON'T have:
Security, body guards, protection, isolation, intel, weapons, frequently-changing-schedules...
For saying this (which obviously is NOT classified, but IS spoken with PASSION, I guess I can look forward to MY conforming license to be "pending" indefinitely, hehhe...
WHEW, that was ONE side of the scale...
On the OTHER hand, (being I'm a Libra and always interested in counterbalancing things), for us civilians to BE (temporarily, but no longer) legit targets, we HAVE to have returned to us the duty and responsibility of being able to FIRE those corrupt C*$@suckers who put us in these precarious situations. (We need to change our mass-consumption habits, too, for this to work...) We need to shift the targetting back UPON ourselves so that we instantly don't want to be randomly chosen targets "going into the disintegration chamber", if you will. Once WE truly, TRULY taste being targetted until we MAKE our so-called "leaders" do OUR bidding instead of the other way around, THEN, we'll see terrorists (not the whacked out ones hating ALL 'merikuns, but mainly those who hate us for making incursions into their markets--EVEN if they let in, say, Japan, or China, or India, or Australia, but discriminate against the U.S. of A...) chill out, maybe because we give them room. If their kids want MTV, Coke, Jordache, and other crap, LET THEM get it AFTER the wonky terrorists/hyper-fundamentalists-gone-overboard, or the super extremists have died off naturally (and I mean NO predators or raprots, umm, raptors seeking them out in the night). I imagine if we lost our big eyes in the sky and rapid mobility, thereby putting us on somewhat equal terms, the US deathcount in Iraq would be more in line with the monthly averages in Vietnam, since surgical striking and laser beams were not NEARLy as accurate as today, and all that "tech" is giving US, the US a helluva tactical and strategic advantage that effectively makes soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen feel "safer" from mortal wounding...)
Oh, hell, I digressed again... Motor Voter....
Maybe the Motor-Voter thing should be MANDATORY, effectively IMMEDIATELY and who GIVES a goddamn what republicans or opponents to MV want. This could prevent the bullshit committed by georgy-porgy and jeb-jethro:
-Citizens (or if that's too sticky, VOTE-ELEGIBLE persons) get a license of one color, consistent across state lines -non-vote-elegible motorists get a DL of ANOTHER color, consistent across st
I understand that China is keenly interested in HYBRID vehicles being given entry priority.
I have harped away off and on over the past 2 or so years, as if I have a Chinese Officials audience, with, essentially, these points for China:
China, PLEASE, PLEASE, for your domestic consumption, national security, and local and global pollution concerns:
--don't let in ANY foreign vehicles which don't offer hybrid or Honda ULEV (ultra low emission vehicle) standards
--don't let your nation have hundreds of thousands or millions of new drivers monthly taking to the roads in pollution-belching, smog-assisting vehicles. If Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Chrysler, GM, and the rest of them drag ass/drag feet and don't want to DO what they technically CAN and KNOW how to do, then to heck with them. Honda and Toyota can give you what you and the world needs: Cleaner vehicles
--DON'T let your nation become more addicted to oil for all those new vehicles coming ashore. If you do, you could find yourself in the position of being AT THE MERCY of the US, should the US decided to grab the oil fields you and Japan and the rest of Asia need to remain opened and unfettered. If you face being starved by the US, it could force your hand and make you precipitate a war, war which no on needs
--Lighter vehicles, particulary the non-allowance of SUVs, would allow your roads to last longer, requiring lest tar, asphalt, cement and other materials which also exude chemicals under harsh sunlight, and material which is worn off and sent into drains or into the air
I rattled on with more details, but these are the salient points. Besides, if more cars are produced locally there, and are cleaner, less maritime/marine fuel would be used shipping all over the place.
So, to me, it seems China WANTS to publicly, if not actually, do a nice part. We'll see, though, in a few years, based on satellite imagery.
The time is NOW for automakers to get off their oil-shackled asses and start mass-producing hybrids and lower-horsepower vehicles so that economies of scale will forever shut down the squealing, lying-assed manufacturers garbage about "we're losing money on hybrids".
First of all, they're outright lying to maintain their comfort zone.
Second, they're being manipulated from within and without to dupe the public into not pressuring them as much.
Third, NO, I repeat NO average citizen joe or jane deserves or has any RIGHT to drive a recklessly irresponsible, gas-swilling vehicle high-horsepower. Why should civilian vehicles (other than the weak argument of allowing citizenry to "blow off steam on occasion) have over 150 horsepower? WHY? Just to pass up somebody? Show off some status? Evade or speed away from a stalker? BS excuses, and poor, weak states of mind, I think.
Horsepower, necessitated by heavier, show-off vehicles, and coupled with mindless demand for ever-increasing "POWER and SPEED" contribute to the production of major gulpers of fuel.
The ONLY I repeat ONLY entities entitled to drive powerful vehicles should be:
-law enforcement -heavy construction -product transportation -mass transit -fire, medical, and rescue teams -agriculture -SOME, but not all, individuals who demonstrate a need to be securely transported from point A to B
and similar.
Individuals who THINK they need a gas-swilling vehicle need to rethink their options, and change their habits. If they think this piece of my mind is an encroachment upon "their rights" then maybe THEY should play chicken in the road to earthmovers that can crush them; maybe THEY should be put into rooms hooked to CO2 and other exhaust by products; maybe THEY should have a greatly higher property tax or use tax on road-wearing, air-heating, intimidation-exuding vehicles.
I don't expect "perfection", but dammit, the progress towards cleaner combustion or pure electric with reduced horsepower needs to be sped up.
-Maybe these bad boys cross-bred with the Apes of India... and supposing this, she hollers, "Yoni-Yoni-Yoni-Yoni.... kamasalila-saspanda..."
--Maybe they wanted "dark meat" that day, rib-less and skinless?
OTHER ANIMALS:
As for "as everyone that hunted once in their life knows, wild animals run like hell at the sight of humans, no matter how 'dangerous' the animals are, like tigers, lions and whatnot.."
Tell that to a co-worker of mine. He told me in that once in his younger days he and friends went hunting. A wild pig appeared and his "Mr.-I'm-Tough" friend confidently takes aim and BLAST! Off goes some pig skin.
Pig keeps charging.
Friends head for the trees.
BLAM! off goes more skin, and a chunk of flesh.
Wild pig keeps charging.
Shooter furiously reloads. BLAM!
Off goes a chunk of pig eye. Pig keeps coming.
Shotgun jams or is ammoless.
Shooter drops shotgun and does what friends did: hauls ass into the neares climbable tree and stays there.
Pig rams tree, squealing, snorting, gushing blood a few minutes or longer. Eventually it dies from bleeding to death more than from that choice of shotgun used for hunting.
Not ALL animals fear and run from humans. Nor should they. They SHOULD chomp, rip or slas our encroaching asses at least ONCE in a while, right? Right!
I don't hunt, on land or at sea, but if I did, I'd only dive if I had a razor-festooned and cyanid-loaded, multi-layer suit that would poison the creature that ate me. I may dive to take pics, but not take a stabe at animal. They do what they have to do to eat. I'll do what I have to do to not be dessert, or deserted.
Maybe a Bruce-Dern-/Black Sunday-like black box filled with needels could "fleschette" an attacking shark and defuse that attack/charge. But, woe be unta any diving partners on the wrong side of the firing line...
"M'lord, that was "Sire Stevie B." chomping the bit on the stage....Damn near demolished the stage to wood-rot, almost got his accident insurance cancelled, and required 2 hectares of fine-grained sand and kitty litter to soak up that stage."
Devel-apers, devel-apers, devel-apers... ahem...
(Aren't chu-glad-- you use Dial!? Aren't chu-glaaaad-- you use Dial!? Aren't chu-glad? Aren't chu-glad? You yoooz-diaaal! Ahh-hren't chuuu GLAD?!
refrain...)
(YIKES! Too goddam much TV in the 70's, hehehe...)
Umm, back to the present...replacing blamer, umm, Ballmer with Linus, but with suave style and candor.
Leenox-aper, leenox-aper, leenox-apers... Linux-opers, Linux-opers, Linux-opers... (grabs a glass o' water... resumes:
Like Vulcans, THIS particular ape has a superprocessor gland which reprocesses fecal matter extremely efficiently. There is efficacy to this this modality. By extraction the most of the moisture, the condensed, ambient-temperature-dried fecal matter is less of a matter for this beast. Being a water-carrying creature, it has no need for humps on its back or breasts, as it can shed the containers as necessary.
Flight or Fight is probably not an issue for this king of the jungle, for if it can take down a full-sized, adult lion, it probably has no need to dump its bowels in one instance while running.
Possibly, the pellets can serve as "bread crumbs" for its own kind to keep up, or as a "bait and switch" lure for its prey. Prey dumb enough to follow THAT shit is prey that better pray.
By exploiting this quirk in nature, the whacky of presidents can authorize expenditures in the effort to have fewer sleepless nights "wond'rin' hwo to pertekt da 'merikun peep-hole"...
Slashdot Mirror
More PHB and bad data queries.
Actually, what's really scary is that this will allow them to cull data more efficiently, so they can come after people like ME who within a few minutes of reading a headline can see into or past or around some of their expensive, pork-barrel, back-scratching bullshit projects.
Read some of my other comments that despise US policy. Once they collate enough comments of mine and of those like me, who dare to publicly voice our dissent, you won't NEED concentrtion camps. They'll just radar our homes and cause us a rapid onset of cancer. Or, they'll time a hit and run for us. Or something.
This total-awareness program is borne out of the fact that bush and his little power games with rove and the others around the world are going to get a lot more people killed before any prevailing divinity or diety steps in to clean up the mess.
I sure as hell would not want to serve under, for, or alongside a god that allows this cretin, and all the attendent bullshit from other leaders to continue.
--Starving people
--cold people
--oppressed people
--vile maldistribution of nutrition
--maldistribution of wealth
--squalor and squander
There are so many military projects going on that boondogle taxpayers AND their kids' taxes that it ought to be downright criminal and worthy of execution for people to in the REAL-WORLD keep producing destruction devices rather than just elminate the numerous power-holders who are truly obstructing CHANGE. Change that rids us of greed, pestilence, indifference, broken souls.
Consumerism and mass-consumption are NOT the answer. Nor is allwing mad assholes to run the world.
Databasing all sorts of inconsequential or somewhat unnerving bits of informtion on people and then using it is not new. Using it for ever-widening political dragnets IS very DANGEROUS. Soon, speech would be squelched like never before, and then what?
If Crime decreases dramatically, will it lead to a candy-assed world like Star Trek (minus the US-centric hollywood)? Would police be so reduced in number that we'll find reasons to wip out their early retirement and huge pensions by conjuring up some need for a thought control machine?
Some of the biggest problems not acknowledged are:
--organized religion
--manifest destiny
--imperialism
--conquest
--mass genocide
--racism
--indifference
--onerous tax burdens
--massive benefits for ranking elected officials while the masses fend for themselves or get reamed by corporate health and medical czars
Yeh, my beloved government. Database the pile of self-loathing, indignation, self-pity, and general incompetence and ineptitude of your offices and clean YOUR shit up instead of trying to run the world.
David Syes
THESE are the
Yeh, a college-inspired mini-rail gun shooting electric bullets at any azimuth, up to 22 miles.
A proximity-charge version will be out in about 9 months.
Now, the govt will have to either:
-base the platforms higher
-increase the scan rate
-increase the resolution for the platform in concern
-come up with a new aloft-maintenance plan
Oh, boy, why the FUCK doesn't the government unplug the anal probiscus of the rich and powerful and start forcing our businesses OUT of markets where we make enemies.
I'm sure bin Laden and others US-haters would diminish their bent on destruction if we pull out and stop practicing "expand or die" or "god is my pilot" or "manifest destiny".
We're WASTING untold BILLIONS, partly because the current cabal in the WH is IN BED with many of the people following scripts to shake up and keep off balance many of the world's people who are increasingly coming under social, personal, and privacy attack JUST because a too-calm world would undermine the profits gained by defense industry and certain rich types.
About the only thing to sift the targets of the weapons systems sold is to shoot at non-terrestrial visitors or targets. Seeing that that is not coming any time soon, humas are contented to kill other humans.
To HELL with you rich and corrupt politicians and your friends who TRULY have no interest surface or deep, to bring peace to the world and diminished bloodshed of any level.
Since you're KICKING our asses, why not kiss them while you're at it?
Fortunatey for your kind, you have no diety-for-a-day humans like me to contend with.
"..but then you're unlikely to encounter a RHIB at 500km offshore.."
Well I saw a modified PT boat attack a luxury liner in the South Pacific in "Deep Rising"...
Maybe this radar will pick up the giant solepoloctifrenoctopus when it goes after an aircraft carrier...
Whoa! I see my surname in ohyesyesgimmesco.cmo, heheh... "syes".
That's weird, because back in 1985, as a radioman with the sub-specialty of teletype repairmain, I was testing a teletype after after reassembling it. I had to also to a "Red" patch panel and the "Black" patch panel line tests.
As I yanked out and reinserted the short patch cord between the receive and the coupler, the RYSGRYSGRYSG (the "RYSG" test) from the signal generator spat out "SYES" midstream.
Shit! I was scared. I was wondering if this ship (the John A. Moore (FFG-19)) was haunted. It was eery. "SYES" was not part of the signal generator program, nor was anyone locally or remotely using any teletype terminals.
Anyway, that was a digressive-intro...
I thought I ALSO "prosco" was one letter off from sco's true calling: "Self-Protology." Maybe darl and company can open up their own "Church of Self-Proctology" and preach ALL the fake shit they want. Hell, they can even incorporate as a church (heheh, of the poisoned/mined (or, okay, "mind")) and get organized religion tax write-offs.
Alternatively, my mind thought, Pro TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)... reasons to avoid the sco (sinister, conniving, and orgasmic) licensing scheme co-opting (program)).
I guess sco gets the 'scoop'. Now, if only they use that scoop to dig around in their upper and lower colons and their 5 sphyncters and find out what DNA switching set them back, ummm aback.
Well, free speech is not merely vocal activity, but locomotion to a place or activity (organized or not). What good is free speech if one is prevented from traveling? This election will probably be one of THE most important in US history, and ear-bud-using candidates, bunglers, and inept types should not have the chance to incite MORE OUTUS resentment of the US. (Maybe changing our foreign policy will ease things a bit, and if the government sees terrorists as "nits" or mobsters who are the "cost of doing business with a minimum of destruction on either side", then we might not have to raise the topic of Free Speech, travel restrictions for non-terrorists getting onto but being unable to remove themselves from hatched/half-baked Do Not Fly Lists, being subjected to DHLS scrutiny, and such...)
OK...
Let's see how the hell well THIS goes down in a presidential election year, given the past 4 years of events and the two candidates and their respective set pieces poised to either calm down or inflame the world toward the USA.
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The FEC or the people running the debates, NEED to raise this before the candidates:
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Citizens of ANY nation who fear being squelched, have their travel impeded, or be subjected to the US Do Not Fly List should demand that airlines GUARANTEE that if they are for some reason on the DNFL, they can receive a FULL refund on the SAME DAY they are denied flight. NO amount of chicanery, delayed notification, or the like should be permitted whether by collusion or indepent act between or of the flight or travel entities and/or the various governments, particularly the US and the DHLS entities.
This (potentially) will have some side-effects of:
-undermining "gold-digging" agencies from spuriously ore punitively or pugnaciously punishing political activitst
-undermining the ability of DHLS to simply put on the list anyone, anywhere, anytime with impunity and without a requirement to explain WHY said person is on the list or HOW to be extricated
-undermining the ability of DHLS to keep indefinitely on the list anyone who challenges it and demands being removed from it
-forcing airlines to take a stand on what information will and will NOT be shared on so-called security info-hunts, and forcing them to help booking passengers avert the inconvenience of erroneous/no-fault DHLS attachment/listing
-forcing airlines to revise their policy of "once you have the customers'/customer's money never give it back" (an activitiy even BEFORE the Star Trek DS9 Ferengi Rules of Acquisition), for the money should NEVER belong to a company until the goods are DELIVERED and USED, not just "booked", when it comes to DHLS obstruction to using a booked flight
--forcing the public to acknowledge that NO DNFL list of any sort should be used to persecute or intimidate ANY domestic or foreign national who has never even been arrested, never consorted with violent persons, never even killed anyone in self-defense or any other circumstance, never been hand-cuffed, never had called into question their prior or current service with any level of government service, classified work or not; persons with records that don't rise to a level of concern for safety of flying or operational aircraft should also not be on the list: unless they frequent terrorist training camps in a non-journalistic capacity; unless they are by familial, economic, pact or other modes connected to terrorists or terrorism-sponsoring nations (would that mean several members of the current and past US administrations SHOULD be on the DNFL, since we KNOW some of them shook hands with, rendered decisions to or enabled some of these terrorists to rise in power? (Oh, our taxes already pay for their private flights and security entourages...)
Forcing the airlines to face the prospect of losing passengers for inexplicable or nebulous or obscure or ad-hoc/whimsical reasons --other than "subject is on the DNFL for PROVEN, LISTED REASONS" will force them to technologic
with it.
.dbf as the backend. I use it for .dbf for local desktop, but when I test forms in Approach from within w98 on the same box that MDK10 is running, I use MySQL running out of MDK. I rarely use MySQL as a service or process in win/win98.
This may seem simplistic, but the way I deal with null values is by considering where NULL is necessary to know, but not allowed by bog down my mind or schema. I create an additional column that is a "calculated field" In that calculated field is simlpy a calculation/formula that does something like this:
Example Fields (Yes, the database tool (Lotus Approach, in win98 in Win4Lin, running in Mandrake 10.0) I use lets me have spaces and mixed casing in the field names, AND I can use these in MySQL, too.
First Name | Family Name | DOB | Age |NullAge
Txt | Txt | Date | Calc | Calc
The text fields are whatever length I decide to set, usually 35 to 45 chars for family and given name, but sometimes 35 for middle, since some people have UK-like multi-hyphenated, triple/poly-syllabic heritage middle or surnames.
DOB is simply a date field, fixed in size.
"Age" is a calculated field that has a formula such as:
Today()-DOB or
Today()-(DOB)
When DOB is NULL (and in this case, today is 10/13/2004), then Approach returns 731867. Since nobody alive will have that number of days in their age, it's easy to have the "Age" field supplemented with yet another field that looks for ages beyond something I think sensible.
Let's suppose a DOB of 4/5/1965.
Age, using the formula:
Today()-DOB
returns 11436 (number of days)
Now, for example, I can have a calculated field called "Age Abnormal" check this.
"Age Abnormal" would have a formula such as this:
If (age >135, 'bad age', Age)
This simply means if the age is over 135 years, substitute text instead of the actualy age. (Astute observers will note that days will return until we fix the issue, further down...)
Alternatively, I can put this formula in the "Age" field instead of creating a separate, space-consuming field called "Age Abnormal". But I sometimes create these extra fields as a way to "parse" my mental logic and make troubleshooting much easier, at the expense of some used space. (When over-parsed, it is possible to use one of these as a dependency for other calculations, and if one is deleted in the name of disk space efficiency, a lot of troubleshooting may be necessary...unless good notes are on hand.)
So, I create another field called "Age Years", just to have it as a raw calculation, sitting there "just in case" I need it for some other calculations. (Yes, 365.25 may not be accurate for all years, and there may be some who'll have separate year tables serving as lookups, probably for financial scenarios where guessing or simple calcs are unacceptable...)
In Approach, this would work (for my purposes):
If ((right(today),4))-Age>135, 5, 2))
But, I really want dates' YEARS calculated on and displayed, not the raw number of days. So, I can use
As a separate field/column, I named it "Age 2"
If(right (today(),4) -Year (DOB) 135, 'bad age', Age/365.25)
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Also, while I realize that DBAs are accustomed to using "Emp_FN" instead of "Emp FN" or "Emp First Name", I don't, because eventually it's not human friendly. I appreciate that in the early days disk space and performance were major issues, but I despise cryptic field names that end up being a pain for regular users, or for myself. It is pleasing that MySQL doesn't have a problem with my use of spaces in field names, but it did require me to change "Date Created" to something like "DteCreated" or "Dte Created", since date is a reserved or key word. Approach will let you use a keyword or any word you want up to a certain length, when using
Actually, it's a travesty that IBM won't port or allow dual-licensing or
"overlookers" of Progress get the "'Darwen' Award"? DOH!!!!!
One thing a lot of people don't remember or know is that for over 20 years now, about 19 or 20 before 9/11, the State Department, FBI, CIA, and others have been telling the Senate/Congress (the opposite of PROGress) that Belfast, Khobar, and Israel/Palestine-like terror events would arrive in the US. Not a matter of IF, but WHEN.
Another thing is that peole too lightly let the airlines off the hook. And, when the necessary changes DID take place after 9/11, many passengers and taxpayers who DON'T fly but still have w-2 wages are paying for the PHB, please-the-shareholder airline officials who for so long refused to reinforce cockpit doors. In our country, despite engineering marvels such as rocketry, long-span bridges, tunnels, skyscrapers, deep-diving subs and more, so many disaster-capable things STILL are engineered to the lowest costs despite the great potential for abuse. I'm talking about flimsy-assed cockpit doors that El Al and some other airlines don't allow, and didn't for decades.
More, we still don't truthfully know if the terrorists crashed the plane over PA, or if the pax bungled it after regaining control. I mean, if the Pax got it back, then wouldn't SOMEbody aboard have flown a flight sim and realized that lack of landing skills means stay aloft as long as fuel permits, and then call for help? Didn't anybody on that plane watch "Airport 77" (I think that's the one where Charlton Heston wire-lined into the plane to get back the cockpit after a Cessna struck the cockpit and killed or blinded the flight crew? I don't expect that regular airlines own personnel could do it, but special forces in various nations I believe DO train for the recoverable situation.
I think the pax likely were SHOT down, probably because they couldn't figure out how to use the comms gear. Or, the interceptors's pilots peered into the cockpit and either saw a struggle, or saw non-uniformed people in the P/CP seats. Even if that is not the case, did that PA flight fly erratically, as if recovering people struggled to stay aloft? Some people I talked to suggested the Ts, sensing failure, drove it into the ground to cause SOME sort of loss of life. I honestly don't buy that the pax got into the cockpit, fought like hell to get it back, only to drive it into the ground to prevent it being used as a missile. If they got THAT far into the cockpit with time to fly the thing into the ground, why not beat the shit out of the unauthorized flyers, yank them from the seats, and keep the plane in the air? Were III in the seat, unable to use the radio correctly, I'd at LEAST rock the wings, yaw the thing, and look for the wing/formation lights and make gestures out the window if the fighters formed up off either side of the cockpit.
ID checks will only drive the Ts deeper into the darkest of crevices, which they achieve another side goal: Get the US government to undermine civilians' expectations or long-held rights. By forcing (or encouraging) the government to invade/encroach upon/restrict our "rights", they give the government ammunition to "squelch" dissenting view, for the suspicious or fearful will just avoid rocking the boat.
The fallacy, as I see it, is that by encouraging the US government to rigidize the ID system and squelch opinion, the Ts deny themselves freer anonymity and mobility. That assumption, tho, stirs up a good number of other questions, such as:
-Was 9/11 a deviation from another "script"?
-was 9/11 planned, but only partially carried out, but the result of shitty airline CEOs who couldn't be troubled to spend an extra $200 per door at MANUFACTURE/OUTFITTING time?
-WHY did not the US step back and take a loooong, gooood, haaaard look at it's foreign policy and compare it to Israel and ask, "Well, if ISRALE had only 1 or 2 ATTEMPTED hijackings that to date have never been successfully repeated, and they have a SMALLER footprint of imperialism (by will, power or business practices) then why the HELL are not WE, the USofA, the hated imperialist of imperialists, ordering our airliners to make themselves non-hijackable...
Those are just a few questions....
(When will the brownies and sugar wear off?)
stream trick.
n ce/state, federal levels of human governance?)...)
e stilence
But:
-- will it work for taxes? (We all could use side-stepping some taxation...)
Can it solve hanging chads problems? (We need restored confidence in the voting process...)
Can we go back in time and bring back simpler life (and neatly 'sidestep' the arrival of some of history's most vile bipeds with devious, vile, obtuse, corrupt, malevolent brains? (at the citizen, local, county, municipality/parish/commonwealth/prefecture/provi
If only such a machine could be used to alter the course of:
-greed
-excess wealth
-jealousy
-racism
-bigotry
-famine
-p
-arms dealers
-drug peddlers
-morose human spirits...
I guess God would be BORED as HELL if life were THAT nice, nice as a butterfly feeding on a plant.
"Diety Absenteesim is running rampantly high" these days. (David Syes)
Oktoberfest. (For a sec, I thought Q-bert, hehehe...)
Cause to CELEBRATE!
Where can I find a Q-BIT-Love machine? All 100 or so positions and combinations at once. Rudy "The World's Greatest Lover" Valention, umm, Valentino would be jealous.
Unlike a cat, III could exist in ALL states, in all states, inexhaustibly, right? Come one, Come all, Stay awhile and have a great ball...
(OK, maybe we dont' want Cyrano D in all these states...)
"TODAY.. is a GOOD day to die!"
C'mon, more b'atleth to the DCMA. And, hit'em with a few pain sticks, too.
HEHEHEHEH...
In BOTH!?
Well, thanks a lot. I guess MotorVoter and Voting and Travel ID cards will be quicker in arrival. Even if you have homes in two or more states, i thought the IRS compels filers to declare only ONE permanent/primary home. (I am sure you're just being silly, right? heheh....)
Anyway, make sure your vote is not via Diebold. One or none of them might be cast in reality.
No, wait, if you DO vote in multiple cities, maybe others will, too. If diebold is undermined, they'll be "DieAgonized"...
Make sure Jeb gets the current convict list so you won't be disenfranchised. Make room in those janitor closets...and relocate the Registrars' offices out of the predicted hurrican paths.
Oh, and don't forget to join hands around the table and conduct the Daily/Morning Prayer in the Oval office/Situation/Briefing room before conducting the taxpayers' work....
(GODDAMN, those brownies are PERSISTENT!)
Which reminds me... Who is that consumer union that wanted to yank/jerk F9/11 from the theatres?
.357 casually shoots ET in the rib/s, and almost costs Earth her place in existence...
Where are they now, when one of their own is basically committing trademark infringement AND advertising/slandering a peer-competitor? Maybe they're a union OF conSUMPTION, rather than a union FOR conSUMERS (who, which we are, really just consumption junkies...)
Seems these politicos cannot remember "fair and sports(man)like conduct." Oh, I guess they watch too much football and hockey (if it doesn't bleed it doesn't lead. Played with too many Tonkas and GI Joe dolls or maybe even pelleted cats, birds, and such...
"leaders"? I sure as hell don't claim them. It's time to "delouse the house." (Note: I didn't say 'search and destroy' or 'tag and frag' or the like...)
If any ET's asked me:
"HWhoo/hwhere are your hleeders?"
I'd respond with:
"The ones to be purged or the ones to be reformed or the ones to be decapitated, turned into dogfood?
(and, if I'm the measure of humanity's worthiness, I guess we'd all go down the galactic garbage wormhole/target range...)
You see, ET, in case you've missed out on those waves and signals we've been pumping into space the past several decades, the ones worth saving are too few in number to be heard, and too powerless to effect REAL change. But, if you play "Mars Attacks" here and there, and issue some threats that if more progress isn't made, more capitols and "leaders" will be summarily called to answer, maybe, just maybe the world would be grateful. Sometimes, ETthe only way to get rid of cockroaches is to fumigate, bulldoze, and rebuild. Cockroaches are TENACIOUS, hairy, and nasty as hell. More unsavory than crocodiles and snakes. Crocks and snakes CAN kill you, but roaches make you sick, destroy your food, make you unwelcome in your own home... Do you REALLY want to waste time with Earth? Help us or DESTROY us, but don't leave it the way you found it. We're well overdue for an overhaul, maybe a permanent magenetic halo to technologically set us back about 500 years, limit our ability to pollute or manifest-destiny the cosmos..."
(Venting... always in word, not in any action...)
Watch "The Returner"... A sick bad guy with a
And, HE is the president.
e le terious
Curious/furious/delirious/injurious/imperious/d
George is his proxy.
Are we still in hurricane season?
Irreverent/irrelevant/unintelligent Question:
Should Florida and Texas votes be counted this year?
I'm not picking you YOU, TrentL, but I am just seething right now. We could go further and ask:
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Any politican who uses scare tactics and lies to take a feckless/apathetic nation to war has no credibility with me, and would not be allowed a seat in the same lifeboat with ME.
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Cretins who tell the world:
"Either you're WITH us or you're AGAINST us!"?
don't deserve to be in office. Their/his/(her, if ever the US GROWS UP and has a female president) kind of rhetoric or bellicose stance endangers many nations not directly targets of politicians.
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Politicans who GAIN from our screwed up energy policy, who's names go back decades with relatives of terrorists should not even be running or on tickets, for their deep and obvious, non-tangental connections undermine credibility of the wretched incumbent?
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Politicians who cannot admit mistakes, who put their person articles of faith ahead of the greater good of the people and of the world deserve NO place in leadership, and deserve no place in power.
(Now, I said all that knowing humans are flawed. Unfortunately, to fight some of these corrupt pricks means engaging them on the same tactics they use. The trick is "How do I do the right thing, and at the end of the day wash that shit of theirs off of me and off of others not deserving to be slung upon?")
Doesn't ICANN have anything to say about this?
Maybe ICANN can create a new Domain Level such as:
-- OOM (Opponent-Originated Material)
-- SLM (Slanderous/Libelous Material)
-- ICP (Idiotic Corrupt Politician)
A politico decides to use the NAME of his opponent or nemisis in a WEBSITE!? It's not as if his constituents wrote a BOOK. This is an act of pure disengenous conduct. The damned politician should change the name of the site, surrender it, and make restitution. Even IFF Van Hollen himself is a jerk. But, Van Hollen also should not form a site USING an opponent's name. The site name memorability should not confer abuse of a name not owned or described by the content or target. maybe it should be renamed:
"MyCampaignAgainstVanHollenByPrickJerkPolitico"
Why should this asshole be able to do this? If WE did it to some company, they'd use (read: abuse) the DCMA or some other law and force our ISP into complying with a C&D/take-down order.
Pricks like that set a bad example for the masses, and incite and deserve this type of language and sentiment I am using.
To go further, ANY politician like that needs to be WHACKED (across the head with a broom stick a couple of times) and told to apologize.
As for "All's fair in love and war and politics...", the public should not be misled in writing or in audio/visual presentation just to win a goddam election.
This is probably a good reason to:
-- review cutting the salaries of career politicians
-- severing their lobbyist and donor ties
-- prohibiting their riches from being used to mislead the public or procure a seat in office
-- remove their medical/dental/retirement packages
-- forcing them to do non-paid community service
-- removing financial incentive in serving in office.
When elected, umm, SE-lected officials out-earn their "subjects", something is terribly WRONG.
((slighly off topic...)
Too bad Wesley was gimped in the above URL. Some politicians need to be subject to that, considering the number of them signing on to draconian arrest proceedings that set our court and legal system back to the year 1060 or so.)) Selective access to court... Sheesh.
Say, as a test, without WRITING it or "making it so" in word, I'll say in VOICE: Substitute Wesley's name with Floyd's name, with Van Hollen doing the dirty deed. Actually, since floyd is doing the nasty, Van Hollen can HOLLER as he attacks Floyd's pink.
Now, I guess virtually-bleeding pink will come after ME....
(DAMN! Those brownies must still be affecting me... Or, too much MSG in my Miso Soup and Udon Noodles...)
"Stumble before you Crawl"
Hmm,
To throw in my own suddenly-contrived Spoonerism, I could say:
"Crumble before you stall"...hehehhe
The assholes at the DHLS won't even TELL you what landed you on the list. You're effectively being interfered with without being told of the charges.
If you're TRULY innocent, even a rabble-rouser in word but not in physical act, you could land on that list, never get off, and if they know you're on a flight to points outside the US, they can effectively detain you.
Worse, still, this kind of listing FORCES, COMPELS a subduing of the nations most vocal, outspoken types, for they who have money and time to travel will keep low. Some already have been, long before the DNF List, preferring to use proxies or lobbyists. But, for those like myself who "mouth from the hip" (umm, a poor play on "shoot from the hip"(sucking of any kind is NOT inferred in this context...)), we could be in deep travel-suspension.
THIS is probably what the damned corruptos in office have been plotting, twiddling their thumbs over for months.
Possible resolutions:
If you're on the DNF List, and you have a clean record,
--then an agent could fly with you and threaten to blast you with a TASER or a cyanide-needle, as case needs determine
--the government could TELL you in timely fashion (especially now that they're getting booking information, but ad-hoc/last-minute flyers will be hit hardest) that you have to clear up some things before they un-highlight your name on the list
--the list needs to be made ADAPTIVE: Just because you get ON the goddamned wretched thing doesn't mean you're SUPPOSED to be on it; once they satisfy that in the near term no real corroborative negative information is sticking to you, they can command the DNFL to silently de-highlight your name and maybe you wouldn't even KNOW you're on it; even the airport ticket or counter agents might never know
--offer the DNFL people a group class charter plane, if they're all lucky enough to fly to general points in the general area; the plane could be shadowed, or the occupants could submit to being restrained to seats but that would be harsh, unusual, and cruel if stretches or bowel or bladder relief could not be facilitated; but REINFORCED DOORS between the cockpit and the pax would solve problems (as long as the cabin pressurization is not subject to abuse); hell, if some greedy, PHB airline officials long ago decided to install reinforced doors and electrical grids when they were cheaper (vs under emergency rush orders after 9/11) then 9/11 probably would have NEVER happened with airplanes-- it would have been something else, and we'd probably NOT have the damned No Fly List.
Many of these problems are the result of bean counters not paying close attention to HISTORY. Some assholes tried to hijack El Al, and the Israelis basically said "NOT EVER AGAIN". The US has a few hijackings and some ASSHOLE insurance companies want to raise rates (as they should if screening is lousy) but the airliners negotiate in back rooms and plead (it's unforseeable; it's never happened before (despite prior incidents in other nations where they conveniently remove that incident from reporting cuz it wasnt' on US soil...))
Now, here in the US, supposedly, we don't have enough sky marshalls on the planes. Airlines want to be REactive vs PROactive. The government (the current occupants/cabal and sulliers of the oval office) sees and grabs for more power, rather than FIXING our screwed-up foreign policy, energy policy, and play-favorites treatment of foreign nationals who starve or die daily from civil unrest.
DAMN, too much of the brownies today! But, have I LIED anywhere in my writings?!
When a bomber or some radical FRAGS (from mere threatening whisper to outright ejection from corporeal existence) corrupt members of government, corporation, or capacity, maybe we should look the other way, or egg them on to be VERY, VERY selective and surgical about who they strike.
After all, most of us civilians NO LONGER hold a vote power at the national election level. Our votes have been negotiated, bought, and sold by corporations, rich, and in-the-club investors and credits/favors exchangers.
For terrorists to attack the common person who effectively is national-vote neutered or who faces being arrested, tortured or shot by-- a corrupt oligarchy, monarchy, theocracy or plutocracy pretending to heed the will of the people-- from voicing her/his conscience is to be a waste of limited resources. Just as military strikes aim to be surgical, terrorists could gain a SHIT LOAD of currency by minding whom they go after. Beheading employees is NOT the answer-- IF that employee is some low-level individual. However, insurgents, counter-insurgents, spies, spooks, attaches, and dignitarys carrying pouches, microdots, bugs and chips up their butts, or verbally passing high-level tactical, political, or similar messages are part of the "get-caught-and-you-COULD-die" game of spying. That IS PART OF THE GAME, and they SHOULD accept it and live with it, or not be part of that game. Terrorists' targetting of civilians only undermines their effectiveness because they REAL targets they hope to make capitulate have what WE, the PEOPLE, DON'T have:
Security, body guards, protection, isolation, intel, weapons, frequently-changing-schedules...
For saying this (which obviously is NOT classified, but IS spoken with PASSION, I guess I can look forward to MY conforming license to be "pending" indefinitely, hehhe...
WHEW, that was ONE side of the scale...
On the OTHER hand, (being I'm a Libra and always interested in counterbalancing things), for us civilians to BE (temporarily, but no longer) legit targets, we HAVE to have returned to us the duty and responsibility of being able to FIRE those corrupt C*$@suckers who put us in these precarious situations. (We need to change our mass-consumption habits, too, for this to work...) We need to shift the targetting back UPON ourselves so that we instantly don't want to be randomly chosen targets "going into the disintegration chamber", if you will. Once WE truly, TRULY taste being targetted until we MAKE our so-called "leaders" do OUR bidding instead of the other way around, THEN, we'll see terrorists (not the whacked out ones hating ALL 'merikuns, but mainly those who hate us for making incursions into their markets--EVEN if they let in, say, Japan, or China, or India, or Australia, but discriminate against the U.S. of A...) chill out, maybe because we give them room. If their kids want MTV, Coke, Jordache, and other crap, LET THEM get it AFTER the wonky terrorists/hyper-fundamentalists-gone-overboard, or the super extremists have died off naturally (and I mean NO predators or raprots, umm, raptors seeking them out in the night). I imagine if we lost our big eyes in the sky and rapid mobility, thereby putting us on somewhat equal terms, the US deathcount in Iraq would be more in line with the monthly averages in Vietnam, since surgical striking and laser beams were not NEARLy as accurate as today, and all that "tech" is giving US, the US a helluva tactical and strategic advantage that effectively makes soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen feel "safer" from mortal wounding...)
Oh, hell, I digressed again... Motor Voter....
Maybe the Motor-Voter thing should be MANDATORY, effectively IMMEDIATELY and who GIVES a goddamn what republicans or opponents to MV want. This could prevent the bullshit committed by georgy-porgy and jeb-jethro:
-Citizens (or if that's too sticky, VOTE-ELEGIBLE persons) get a license of one color, consistent across state lines
-non-vote-elegible motorists get a DL of ANOTHER color, consistent across st
I understand that China is keenly interested in HYBRID vehicles being given entry priority.
I have harped away off and on over the past 2 or so years, as if I have a Chinese Officials audience, with, essentially, these points for China:
China, PLEASE, PLEASE, for your domestic consumption, national security, and local and global pollution concerns:
--don't let in ANY foreign vehicles which don't offer hybrid or Honda ULEV (ultra low emission vehicle) standards
--don't let your nation have hundreds of thousands or millions of new drivers monthly taking to the roads in pollution-belching, smog-assisting vehicles. If Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Chrysler, GM, and the rest of them drag ass/drag feet and don't want to DO what they technically CAN and KNOW how to do, then to heck with them. Honda and Toyota can give you what you and the world needs: Cleaner vehicles
--DON'T let your nation become more addicted to oil for all those new vehicles coming ashore. If you do, you could find yourself in the position of being AT THE MERCY of the US, should the US decided to grab the oil fields you and Japan and the rest of Asia need to remain opened and unfettered. If you face being starved by the US, it could force your hand and make you precipitate a war, war which no on needs
--Lighter vehicles, particulary the non-allowance of SUVs, would allow your roads to last longer, requiring lest tar, asphalt, cement and other materials which also exude chemicals under harsh sunlight, and material which is worn off and sent into drains or into the air
I rattled on with more details, but these are the salient points. Besides, if more cars are produced locally there, and are cleaner, less maritime/marine fuel would be used shipping all over the place.
So, to me, it seems China WANTS to publicly, if not actually, do a nice part. We'll see, though, in a few years, based on satellite imagery.
The time is NOW for automakers to get off their oil-shackled asses and start mass-producing hybrids and lower-horsepower vehicles so that economies of scale will forever shut down the squealing, lying-assed manufacturers garbage about "we're losing money on hybrids".
First of all, they're outright lying to maintain their comfort zone.
Second, they're being manipulated from within and without to dupe the public into not pressuring them as much.
Third, NO, I repeat NO average citizen joe or jane deserves or has any RIGHT to drive a recklessly irresponsible, gas-swilling vehicle high-horsepower. Why should civilian vehicles (other than the weak argument of allowing citizenry to "blow off steam on occasion) have over 150 horsepower? WHY? Just to pass up somebody? Show off some status? Evade or speed away from a stalker? BS excuses, and poor, weak states of mind, I think.
Horsepower, necessitated by heavier, show-off vehicles, and coupled with mindless demand for ever-increasing "POWER and SPEED" contribute to the production of major gulpers of fuel.
The ONLY I repeat ONLY entities entitled to drive powerful vehicles should be:
-law enforcement
-heavy construction
-product transportation
-mass transit
-fire, medical, and rescue teams
-agriculture
-SOME, but not all, individuals who demonstrate a need to be securely transported from point A to B
and similar.
Individuals who THINK they need a gas-swilling vehicle need to rethink their options, and change their habits. If they think this piece of my mind is an encroachment upon "their rights" then maybe THEY should play chicken in the road to earthmovers that can crush them; maybe THEY should be put into rooms hooked to CO2 and other exhaust by products; maybe THEY should have a greatly higher property tax or use tax on road-wearing, air-heating, intimidation-exuding vehicles.
I don't expect "perfection", but dammit, the progress towards cleaner combustion or pure electric with reduced horsepower needs to be sped up.
Sing along: Shoop-a-shoop.. Chup, chup-chup Shoop-a-shoop:
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Some interesting drawings of animals here...
Any humus, umm, humans who look like this?
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Yow-za Yow-za...
http://cryptozoo.monstrous.com/the_yowie.htm
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yeti:
http://cryptozoo.monstrous.com/the_yeti.htm
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SETI:...oops...
Almasti: Eww, that's NASty:
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Serendipity and the Yeh-ren dippity:
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APES and other Animals:
APES:
-Maybe these bad boys cross-bred with the Apes of India... and supposing this, she hollers, "Yoni-Yoni-Yoni-Yoni.... kamasalila-saspanda..."
--Maybe they wanted "dark meat" that day, rib-less and skinless?
OTHER ANIMALS:
As for "as everyone that hunted once in their life knows, wild animals run like hell at the sight of humans, no matter how 'dangerous' the animals are, like tigers, lions and whatnot.."
Tell that to a co-worker of mine. He told me in that once in his younger days he and friends went hunting.
A wild pig appeared and his "Mr.-I'm-Tough" friend confidently takes aim and BLAST! Off goes some pig skin.
Pig keeps charging.
Friends head for the trees.
BLAM! off goes more skin, and a chunk of flesh.
Wild pig keeps charging.
Shooter furiously reloads. BLAM!
Off goes a chunk of pig eye. Pig keeps coming.
Shotgun jams or is ammoless.
Shooter drops shotgun and does what friends did: hauls ass into the neares climbable tree and stays there.
Pig rams tree, squealing, snorting, gushing blood a few minutes or longer. Eventually it dies from bleeding to death more than from that choice of shotgun used for hunting.
Not ALL animals fear and run from humans. Nor should they. They SHOULD chomp, rip or slas our encroaching asses at least ONCE in a while, right? Right!
I don't hunt, on land or at sea, but if I did, I'd only dive if I had a razor-festooned and cyanid-loaded, multi-layer suit that would poison the creature that ate me. I may dive to take pics, but not take a stabe at animal. They do what they have to do to eat. I'll do what I have to do to not be dessert, or deserted.
Maybe a Bruce-Dern-/Black Sunday-like black box filled with needels could "fleschette" an attacking shark and defuse that attack/charge. But, woe be unta any diving partners on the wrong side of the firing line...
Maybe these apes have the Bambi Gene and they smelled that she ate meat?
Maybe she has bad blood and they have keen sense of smell?
Maybe she had one hell of a bad hairdo (like a stormtrooper helmet)?
Maybe she flipped them the bird in (human) sign language?
Maybe she squated and paddled dirt and made noises?
Maybe she pitifully/pathetically cried and wailed and they figured, "Well, we don't have to eat EVERY human we encounter..."?
Maybe she threw something at them?
Maybe, maybe... Monday Monday
Maybe she sang a Cher, a Madonna, a Cindy Lauper, or Ella Fitzgerald song, (maybe the latter, and shattered their ear drums...)?
"M'lord, that was "Sire Stevie B." chomping the bit on the stage....Damn near demolished the stage to wood-rot, almost got his accident insurance cancelled, and required 2 hectares of fine-grained sand and kitty litter to soak up that stage."
Devel-apers, devel-apers, devel-apers... ahem...
(Aren't chu-glad-- you use Dial!?
Aren't chu-glaaaad-- you use Dial!?
Aren't chu-glad?
Aren't chu-glad?
You yoooz-diaaal!
Ahh-hren't chuuu GLAD?!
refrain...)
(YIKES! Too goddam much TV in the 70's, hehehe...)
Umm, back to the present...replacing blamer, umm, Ballmer with Linus, but with suave style and candor.
Leenox-aper, leenox-aper, leenox-apers...
Linux-opers, Linux-opers, Linux-opers... (grabs a glass o' water... resumes:
Linux-opers, Linux-opers, Linux-opers... )
(read this a humorous junk science...)
Like Vulcans, THIS particular ape has a superprocessor gland which reprocesses fecal matter extremely efficiently. There is efficacy to this this modality. By extraction the most of the moisture, the condensed, ambient-temperature-dried fecal matter is less of a matter for this beast. Being a water-carrying creature, it has no need for humps on its back or breasts, as it can shed the containers as necessary.
Flight or Fight is probably not an issue for this king of the jungle, for if it can take down a full-sized, adult lion, it probably has no need to dump its bowels in one instance while running.
Possibly, the pellets can serve as "bread crumbs" for its own kind to keep up, or as a "bait and switch" lure for its prey. Prey dumb enough to follow THAT shit is prey that better pray.
By exploiting this quirk in nature, the whacky of presidents can authorize expenditures in the effort to have fewer sleepless nights "wond'rin' hwo to pertekt da 'merikun peep-hole"...