How about ushering in some morality? I forget, business and morality don't mix.
If morality and business don't mix, then companies should just quit donating and doing charitable things.
Just this past Friday evening someone tried to assail my anti-ms stance with this weak argument:
"Do you know how many millionairs bill gates made? Do you know of ANY other company or person who donated as much as microsoft or bill gates?"
My standard argument response is: "If my parents donated $10 million to every county in the US and $1 million to every STATE in the US, but they were found connected to a string of animal slayings, child pornography or destruction of peoples's lives, should they be allowed to get off the hook, just because they give a shitload of money? Do YOU know how many companies ms fudded out of existence, still-birthed startups that tried to offer better and fairly-competing alternatives? Do you KNOW that a corporation company is accorded the status of PERSON, and that if a PERSON did to another what bill gates and henchmen/henchwomen did and still do to COMPANIES that would be called corporate murder, PEOPLE would go to jail?"
So, I'd say for morality and good-man points, Linus is more than head and shoulders above gates. I don't give a damn how much money he gives. The big question is: Can those donees take those computers and strip them of windoze and install Linux on them? Can they MIX those environments. Are they pre-conditioned before acceptance of the goods that they are receiving them contingent upon not using, testing, or talking about Linux, Open Source or even weighing in on behalf of any studies?
As for the argument that Linux is costing job, BULLSHIT. CEOs decide they can't cut their own compensation and instead whack salaries, rather than rewrite their staunchly widget-based sales model. If they adjust the model to charge for support, integration, testing, and such, and reduce the software cost to the cost of shipping, rather than fixing development to disks shipped or code delivered, then they could still exist. It also would force them to stop using PAYING customers and users as beta sites.
But, some of them still don't get it. They probaby won't ever, either.
Then, to my mind, this means Linus, Alan, Richard, Manuel and all the others need to be paraded on Oprah, IBM commercials, and more. Have ANY of these been shown as Geek of the Week?
Instead of much of the reality TV bullshit, we need the 5-minute spot of Linux and F/LOSS personalities to be rotated. Not just Linus, tho, but ALL the major voices from the foreground to the average code contributor.
Surely, some will want to lay low for employment reasons, but others who have contributed code could as well be in a Freedom Hall of Fame. By corollary, ms' henchmen/women could be in the Encroachment Hall of Shame.
It would be nice if IBM would sponsore these commercials. I haven't watched much "live" TV, opting for eye-selected DVDs from the local import video shop, but is IBM doing anything lately. I did in the past 2 weeks look at the list
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/tvads/
of commercials IBM ran, but didn't see anything doing "The Average Freedom Lover".
Actually, putting a little cup o' tea in their hands in some tiny French cups, with Mandrake on one side of the table, and tall Lipton on the Red Hat side, with Novell & SUSE sporting Ginseng and a lager, we might get some serious laughs at microshaft's (lower-casing/deprecation of microsoft's name intentional/perpetual with me...) expense. But, it would take IBM's money to make sure the ads ran, or ms' marketing department would preempt all the ads slots...
Off topic, but in response to the signature line of the prior post:
I'd like to know whay Yahoo! sends a butt-load of m2.doubleclick, admt, and a slew of other crap. Not blocking it enables a faster page load or refresh, but even with blocking them, I still tend to access the pages I need/want.
I hate doubleclick, anything with 'ad' in it and anything not germain/germane to getting me the page, no frills. I have my firewall block all their crap. Am I saying anything anyone doesn't want to hear?
Is AOL (or ROL, lol...) distributing those disks in Russia or the FSR states? AOL could defray the cost of Linux or F/LOSSaccession just by distributing the disks with Linux and Open Source software on them.
I think it is possible and viable for companies from European states and even some in the US and China and Japan to offer hardware, AOL/ROL disks, and Wi-FI to Russian citizens to get them off mshaft's (lower-casing/deprecation of ms' name intentional/perpetual with me) warez.
If the world concensus is that ie and outlook and windoze in general are security threats, then when will "better the devil you know" yield to "let's try a new, more readable devil"?
All the PCs that are going to landfills could phenomenally boost the Linux and F/LOSS uptic something FIERCE. Since most of the newere PCs are still to pricey for even some FSR citizens, the older, worn out (to us, at least) computers could be shipped a few freighters here, a few there, and hopefully they don't end up on the black (or even the grey) market.
then you'll seriously blunt the intake of ms' warez. You have an historic opportunity, combined with China and India (if counting populations over 700 million) to rectify a corporate wrong: you can blunt a defacto hook-and-crook convicted monopolist from making further ravaging incursions into your market space. With Open Source, as you should know, you have far fewer legal restrictions on software development. Why base your future social, defense and economic infrastructures on a dependency with a company that at the end of the day just wants your rubles and your blind loyalty?
Go for independence! Technical self-direction or align with global standards, not with a hijackery-based hegemon. Given your history (or rather what is published about it), you should have a distaste for ms as your states forge ahead for economic opportunities.
1. AOL would once and for all develop a Linux-friendly client, make it one with multimedia, and offer content
2. AOL would distribute CDs/DVDs with numerous distros of Linux on them
3. Give Russians and others FREE access or low-cost access
then...
AOL could give microshaft's (lower-casing/deprecation of microsoft's name intentional/perpetual with me...) scaly frenulum a serious shaving.
Then, those AOL disks TRULY could be useful, instead of becoming coasters.
AOL, are you LISTening/READing?
Now is the time, AOL. Strike while the iron is HOT. It's time to ROAST ms' weenie. Skewer that thing. Sear it. Then serate it. Time to get your money's worth out of Netscape, leverage Mozilla, Firefox, and others' assistance. Strike it!
When do these Rutans join together under a newly-formed offshore nation? Imagine between NASA, the US and some other governments, and the various aerospace and satellite companies not wanting competition there is likely to be an "accident" planned.
Now, if foul play is discovered, being an offshore nation means that the conglomeration can declare their meddling an "act of war" and respond in like kind.
It is NOT the right or the business of the US government or any government to hold back civilian, private, commercial flights -- so long as plans a filed, certain orbital lanes are avoided, and no objects are tossed overboard to cause mayhem for other orbiting objects.
It would be interesting to see NASA and the various governments LOSE "their" control over orbital or travel paths. If it is TRUE that NASA has been holding civilians back at the bidding of the government, then RUTAN... more powere to you. Defy them.
Make your next plan long-term orbits.
What I DON'T want to see, though, is governments and companies laying claim to plots of land on the Moon. We've got way too many problems to fix down here before we go that far. Proving we CAN cheaply orbit or return to the Moon is fine, I think, but once we demonstrate that feasibility for the umpteenth time, we need to pull our heads out of the sand and divert that resource of money to building more shelters, ridding us of tuberulosis threats, funding jobless or under-income entrepreneurs, and combatting rampant consumerism.
Oh, I forget... building or subsidizing housing has less glory and bang on the return... What slew of investors would want to unload THAT amount of cash? (A few, but not nearly as many as could...)
I heard that Astronauts and pilots in the late 60s or the 70's were advised of a NASA-learned means of combatting jet lag: LOTS of sex.
I heard it was then a secret or was classified because it would have proved "embarassing" to the nation. This was at a time when the government and military routinely classified even matters of embarrassment or politically sensitive stuff.
Well, if they do that again, but harder, and "kick the shit" out of him, he'll want a toilet AND a cubicle. That might be a "waste" of "space"...
"So...yuz have to take a sheeet, n'yet, n'yet? What now, Comrade? Pleez, do not fire up the Lysol aerosol. It is proy-bih-ted.. We don't need a "hair on fire" day up here, like you have in yur Peen-ta-gon".
"Foale also talked about the Russians: they played 'some sort of Russian folk song. I'm not so sure it calmed me a lot.'"
==== OK, let's "talk some shit"...
Hmmm... I thought those power bars or "High protein, low residue" bars they could be eating would "minimize the shit" or solid waste matter, ahem, issue/purge/whatever. (I saw some at Fry's Electronics a few years ago, claiming to be based on NASA technology: "High Protein, Low residue", implying eat, hike, and "be free"/"freed"... of certain fears...)
Curious: do they purge those waste tanks in orbit, or "pack their shit up" and "bring their shit back" with them, like campers in Yosemite (are supposed to)?
Even if the solids acted like "Klingons" and stuck to the craft the ones returning could burnish or burn the shit off on reentry. And, wouldn't these "Cling-Ons" be the real McCoy? Space Invaders? Alien life forms? Non-sentient, and non-screaming? After all, these arrive from a SPACEport WITHOUT PASSports, visas, stamps, or itenerary of any sorts, like "cast-awayed" stowaways.
As for the orbiting stations tho... too much "irregular" cake-up might have a destabilizing or deleterious effect on centrifugal properties. Things might get centripetal... Having your "shit collapse in on you" would ruin ANY body's day... I guess they'd have to load/pack sand into orbit and sandblast, since it might be hard to collect vacuum for cleaners up there... Especially if "sticking valves" could be an issue...
US-Centered Apocalypse and Recovery Era (UCARE/USCARE) (explained in signature below...)
Well, consider the fact that he continuously harps that jobs are up and jobless claims are down. Yeh, right. Jobs are UP, relative to a specially-selected month. How can they NOT be up?
(Consider the fact that under Clinton, the books show us in a SURPLUS, but now bush has us in a $13 TRILLION deficit, something the cretin refuses to trumpet on his rampage of the land. Who the hell is going to pay for it? Certainly not him or his ilk! WE, the sheep are, or it'll roll over for the next 28 years or longer...)
(Consider that we're likely to suffer a fantastic, agonizing real estate crash, given that a record number of banks and their reckless 105% refi programs are setting us up for foreclosures even WITH layoff insurance on some of these homes. If we crash under these circumstances, it'll make Ivan the Terrible look like a whitecap in a cove. Maybe reverse mortgages for mortgage payers (I avoid "homeowner" since you're NOT a home "owner" until you get the deed. PERIOD!) under age 62 are in order. A cap of 65% of the value/appreciation could be accessed, and used ONLY after a verified layoff has happened. Such persons should have 5 YEARS to recover, considering some career patterns and business cycles. Apartment dwellers, too, deserve such a protection, and home-displaced workers or unemployed need to be under a dignified roof, too. MORE HOMES, fewere TANKS and SHIPS!)
Consider also that he says jobless claims are down. Hell, when you bennies run out, you obviously cannot make a claim!
What we need is a HUGE-assed MySQL database built offshore so the US govt has not authority over it. It would allow anyone so desiring to to: --acknowlege a disclaimer
--enter some distinctly identifying information
--enter city of layoff/termination/separation
--enter severance pay received
--number of employees 1 week, 2 months, 5 months, and 6 months before this person's termination
--city and county of receipt of unemployment benefits
-- benefits starting balance
-- benefits time remaining
-- how many jobs applied for and passed over for
-- how many household members are out of work... and more.
The US Census is SHIT. Even if it now is carried out every 5 years, it's useless if it is only historical by the time it's published.
We need a publicly-trusted, moms-approved, people-used REAL TIME database. Most of the information a person would enter would be a few steps from being published anyway, or public, but filed in a court, press release, or government office.
A public armed with this kind of database could begin to make cold, impassionate, surgical deductions about some CEO's, misinformed candidates, lying incumbents, and more.
Instead of us taxpaysers buying another goddam aircraft carrier, it's aircraft, and accompanying fleet, we should take that 10 BILLION dollar$ and ram it into "Messed Over-Persons and Passed-over Entreprenuers".
Each person with a viable, sane, thorough business plan should be able to get funding, counseling, advertising, and operating expenses for up to 1 year, for up to $10,000 per month.
The cost of it would be to:
-- hire 5 to 10 employees
-- subject the company to government-appointed accountants (not to restrict payroll, but to guarantee as much as possible that fair taxes or income taxes and fees are paid
-- the employer train/equip employees to have alternate skills 6 months prior to any necessary terminations
-- and other things
What the government NEEDS to do, or what BU__SH__ needs to do is:
-- Streamline the IRS
-- Challenge the IRS to scour the IRS cheat database and come up with master templates for various business models and then FOIST those upon EVERY LAST county in the US so that startups and existing moms and pops and any other company can BE IN COMPLIANCE an
"It's the queers. They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay Martians, I swear to God"
said:
"It's the queers. They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay Marines, I swear to God"
So, in "Mars Attacks" would those glass-domed Martians be Jarhead ETs? (LAUGH! I'm the son and nephew of former Marines, and my brother and I both were Sailors, and a cousin is an Army ground pounder.)
If we learned, then why did we NOT follow the Israeli model, where agents capable of putting a bullet between your eyes in 3.4 seconds, and place agents on planes. Fly them ON DUTY. Fly cops coast to coast. The government can afford it by using funny money to get the tickets, let the airlines post the cash in the bank, and then the DOTreas at the end of the day retreives destroys or recirculates the genuine but tightly-controlled bills.
We COULD get the HELL OUT of foreign markets where living ruling elders despise or are are nonplussed by us. We COULD let the living KIDS decide 10 or 15 years from now where they want to be, rather that VOA telling them, trying to sidestep legit or illegit rulers, thereby PISSING them off and inducing them to conspire. While not a leader or elected official, Bin Laden, as twisted as he is, DOES show that some people will do anything to punish their own corrupt governments (adopted or not) for collaborating with America, from their perspective.
If "America learns", then why have we got bushes and rovers running the show? If America learns, why do we have city offices like San Jose costing HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS for taxpayers because cronism and back-scratching determines which vendors' equipment go into an office?
If Americans learn, then when will be the THIRD reported rape/molestation of Okinawa girls by uniformed US personnel? If America learns, why is it that we are so hated to the point that the sitting SElected president steadfastly refused to permit American uniformed personell stand trial in nations where captured and jailed for breaking local laws, and where we can execute criminals here when back home they may not have execution as an option, nor any reciprocal extradition treaties with the US?
We learn MY ASS! Except for tax bodies that figure out every goddamn taxable-transaction scenario, except for arms-deals-continuation, and the like, we learn SLOWLY.
There is a lot to love about America, but we STILL have lot of curdly, funky, inedible matter in the folds of our national skin. Like many molds, it WON'T go away until collectively we come clean, leave "markets" off-limits, stop barging our way into tribes' and villages' mores, and we stop financing corrupt or ineptly run airlines while enriching the CEOs who stay in power and get paid on CIVILIAN TAXES.
We learn? We DO. We do things with strings attached, almost always. We learn how to throw laws and contracts like Alien throws eggs in a hot, steamy cauldron of hell.
Does anyone here wonder if the likes of Sabre or Casto or others are fronts for CIA domestic ops? It is seeming to be more plausible that the ticket info claims are just a smokescreen. The various Intel agencies probably have all teamed up to fund and operate their joint ticket issuing and tracking operations.
That means that despite laws forbidding or not existing to allow them search and seizure powers for LAW ENFORCEMENT purposes, they could collect and analyze information on a business level.
After all, is it (yet) illegal for a person to shoot pics of police and civilian vehicles, timestamp the date and location of observation, and correlate them with any other activities? Just capturing vehicle plate and VIN information, with driver physical details, along with publicly observable whereabouts information is probably all a tracker would need. There wouldn't even be a need to crack into a database of any kind if only in-the-open information is collated.
Who say's he's "my" president? I don't own him, nor would I ever claim his ass. He doesn't speak for me, only commit and condemn many people to global consequences for his inane, dangerous comments or embarrasses the country with his inept cliches. He may be anointed **THEE** president, but he is not **MY** president. (Notice the lack of capitalization here...)
When I was in the Navy, and topics about stupid or corrupt presidents came up, the Chiefs would scowl, "It's not the MAN you're defending and supporting! It's the POSITION!"
Well, that shit has GOT to change. Curious George could be in the seat of the Presidency, but a simian would not be any better nor any worse than what we have now. So, I argue, looking like a human and feigning vestiges of sentience do not a president make!
I'll only respect a president who is not given to arms deals, oil deals, executions-with-glee, or the like. We need a president who is hell-bent on DEFUSING, not destroying our opposers. Every system needs opponents, so long as they act only commensurate to what has been done to them. We tend to forget we did or brokered a SHITload of shady deals. Karma can be a BITCH. And we tend to forget that, too-- and often don't remember or recall that even when we get our asses kicked from time to time...
Too bad most consumers are just sheep at can't relax enough to just drive. Or, too lazy and too spineless to just say no to airlines.
I am sure, though, that bush has done LITTLE to deserve credit for our not being attacked since 9/11. The attackers are just waiting for a good, long lull and the attendent lapses in security, all the while collecting and analyzing patterns, details, and opportunities information.
I am sure that if they attack from freeways and bicycles, we'll have mandatory GPS and two-way insurance company electronics gear attached to vehicles, mopeds, and bikes.
Maybe even those kid tennis with LED's will be the prototype for pedo-powered self-divulging location fixing transponders.
What's next? Revelation that bush and blair and cronies really already negotiated with the terrorists to keep the attacks non-seasonal, low in frequency, and with less "pizzaz" compared to their "going outside the plan" last time? After all, EVERYthing is negotiable, even dealing with terrorists. Only a freakin' FOOL would allow ego, national pride, business, and arrogance to plunder a nation into destruction with stupid "we will not negotiate with terrorists" and "either you're with us or you're against us" when most of the world really could give a RAT's ASS about us as long as we try to remain the vanguard and controller of all things worth doing.
I've been thinking of these for maybe 10 years, but I am sure millions of others may have, too.
Hmmm, come to think of it, maybe some of ms' developers are lysdexic or have Spooner's disease going on in their code. Upon seeing it, a less-afflicted hack probably said "To hell with this shit; I'm gonna work on something else..."
I wonder where in that "V" (shaped runway) their economy is. In our domestic "V" we still have vehicle and human body parts and carnage on the V road ahead...
Really, does that Atoll have any indigenous or or engenuous or even for that matter DISengenuous lawyers. How many rocks are on that rock. If they have no currency, I wonder how they could afford to import or outsource the lawyer who wrote that bit of legalese. That contract sounds like it's got "Made in America" written all over it.
- I suspect the operation is there because there is not county court, no county assessor, no district taxes, no easements... Who's footing their phone bill?
- 2,437 METER runway? What are they landing there.
- Looks like Maxwell Smart drew that map. Maybe Jaime/Haime wrote the database. The Chief approved it, and Agent 99 typed the web page. Siegfried gave the disinformation, and Klip-Klop (the man with the suction cup shoes) has his finger, ummm clops all over it.
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== Around 1997, a few Navy ships, including the T-AGOS types were doing "ecology" or similar sonar sweeps of the area. I wonder what REALLY was going on. Does anyone know the subsurface topography? Is there a spot to hide boomers, fast attacks or even just minisubs? Maybe they were looking for a lost plane, or worse, a lost A-bomb. Maybe in 250 years we'll know.
If this were true, then the way to ruin that type of business would be to convince it to outsource to some country where to local capabilities just don't match US regional dialect or written slang.
I wonder how the Indian tech support lines deal with Cajun or Creole speak. "Zya, mah Splindoz Bzip Bzop cheongwah compu done brokies down." THAT could be funny, two diametrically and diabolically opposed forms of "english".
(I wonder if there'll be another need for Wind Talkers. If so, since that 'code' likely is broken, I recommend sending in the Caj (Cage) Talkers. You'd quantum computing to crack that lingo... (I can tease this since some of that Cajun/Creol chemistry is in my veins...))
"SPAMPERATOR" (think: "operator...", in the wining, carol burnette/sit-com way.)
Hopefully, this is just a gag. Privacy would be in the hands of Internet operators.
OTOH, if ever we have a "Matrix" a way to be "Neo" "conservatives" or conservationists would be to create a "SPATRIX", or "SPAM MATRIX".
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But since he/she/it elicited your response, does that make him/her/it a "master bater"?
DOH!
How about ushering in some morality? I forget, business and morality don't mix.
If morality and business don't mix, then companies should just quit donating and doing charitable things.
Just this past Friday evening someone tried to assail my anti-ms stance with this weak argument:
"Do you know how many millionairs bill gates made? Do you know of ANY other company or person who donated as much as microsoft or bill gates?"
My standard argument response is: "If my parents donated $10 million to every county in the US and $1 million to every STATE in the US, but they were found connected to a string of animal slayings, child pornography or destruction of peoples's lives, should they be allowed to get off the hook, just because they give a shitload of money? Do YOU know how many companies ms fudded out of existence, still-birthed startups that tried to offer better and fairly-competing alternatives? Do you KNOW that a corporation company is accorded the status of PERSON, and that if a PERSON did to another what bill gates and henchmen/henchwomen did and still do to COMPANIES that would be called corporate murder, PEOPLE would go to jail?"
So, I'd say for morality and good-man points, Linus is more than head and shoulders above gates. I don't give a damn how much money he gives. The big question is: Can those donees take those computers and strip them of windoze and install Linux on them? Can they MIX those environments. Are they pre-conditioned before acceptance of the goods that they are receiving them contingent upon not using, testing, or talking about Linux, Open Source or even weighing in on behalf of any studies?
As for the argument that Linux is costing job, BULLSHIT. CEOs decide they can't cut their own compensation and instead whack salaries, rather than rewrite their staunchly widget-based sales model. If they adjust the model to charge for support, integration, testing, and such, and reduce the software cost to the cost of shipping, rather than fixing development to disks shipped or code delivered, then they could still exist. It also would force them to stop using PAYING customers and users as beta sites.
But, some of them still don't get it. They probaby won't ever, either.
David Syes
My eyes are playing tricks on me.
Then, to my mind, this means Linus, Alan, Richard, Manuel and all the others need to be paraded on Oprah, IBM commercials, and more. Have ANY of these been shown as Geek of the Week?
Instead of much of the reality TV bullshit, we need the 5-minute spot of Linux and F/LOSS personalities to be rotated. Not just Linus, tho, but ALL the major voices from the foreground to the average code contributor.
Surely, some will want to lay low for employment reasons, but others who have contributed code could as well be in a Freedom Hall of Fame. By corollary, ms' henchmen/women could be in the Encroachment Hall of Shame.
It would be nice if IBM would sponsore these commercials. I haven't watched much "live" TV, opting for eye-selected DVDs from the local import video shop, but is IBM doing anything lately. I did in the past 2 weeks look at the list
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/tvads/
of commercials IBM ran, but didn't see anything doing "The Average Freedom Lover".
Actually, putting a little cup o' tea in their hands in some tiny French cups, with Mandrake on one side of the table, and tall Lipton on the Red Hat side, with Novell & SUSE sporting Ginseng and a lager, we might get some serious laughs at microshaft's (lower-casing/deprecation of microsoft's name intentional/perpetual with me...) expense. But, it would take IBM's money to make sure the ads ran, or ms' marketing department would preempt all the ads slots...
David Syes
Off topic, but in response to the signature line of the prior post:
I'd like to know whay Yahoo! sends a butt-load of m2.doubleclick, admt, and a slew of other crap. Not blocking it enables a faster page load or refresh, but even with blocking them, I still tend to access the pages I need/want.
I hate doubleclick, anything with 'ad' in it and anything not germain/germane to getting me the page, no frills. I have my firewall block all their crap. Am I saying anything anyone doesn't want to hear?
david syes
Is AOL (or ROL, lol...) distributing those disks in Russia or the FSR states? AOL could defray the cost of Linux or F/LOSSaccession just by distributing the disks with Linux and Open Source software on them.
I think it is possible and viable for companies from European states and even some in the US and China and Japan to offer hardware, AOL/ROL disks, and Wi-FI to Russian citizens to get them off mshaft's (lower-casing/deprecation of ms' name intentional/perpetual with me) warez.
If the world concensus is that ie and outlook and windoze in general are security threats, then when will "better the devil you know" yield to "let's try a new, more readable devil"?
All the PCs that are going to landfills could phenomenally boost the Linux and F/LOSS uptic something FIERCE. Since most of the newere PCs are still to pricey for even some FSR citizens, the older, worn out (to us, at least) computers could be shipped a few freighters here, a few there, and hopefully they don't end up on the black (or even the grey) market.
Russia, Russian/FSR people: if you value:
1. privacy
2. security
3. sovereignty
4. intellectual brainpool
then you'll seriously blunt the intake of ms' warez. You have an historic opportunity, combined with China and India (if counting populations over 700 million) to rectify a corporate wrong: you can blunt a defacto hook-and-crook convicted monopolist from making further ravaging incursions into your market space. With Open Source, as you should know, you have far fewer legal restrictions on software development. Why base your future social, defense and economic infrastructures on a dependency with a company that at the end of the day just wants your rubles and your blind loyalty?
Go for independence! Technical self-direction or align with global standards, not with a hijackery-based hegemon. Given your history (or rather what is published about it), you should have a distaste for ms as your states forge ahead for economic opportunities.
David Syes
In Soviet Russia, AOL coasts to YOU...
Seriously, tho...
If:
1. AOL would once and for all develop a Linux-friendly client, make it one with multimedia, and offer content
2. AOL would distribute CDs/DVDs with numerous distros of Linux on them
3. Give Russians and others FREE access or low-cost access
then...
AOL could give microshaft's (lower-casing/deprecation of microsoft's name intentional/perpetual with me...) scaly frenulum a serious shaving.
Then, those AOL disks TRULY could be useful, instead of becoming coasters.
AOL, are you LISTening/READing?
Now is the time, AOL. Strike while the iron is HOT. It's time to ROAST ms' weenie. Skewer that thing. Sear it. Then serate it. Time to get your money's worth out of Netscape, leverage Mozilla, Firefox, and others' assistance. Strike it!
David Syes
Here we come...
When do these Rutans join together under a newly-formed offshore nation? Imagine between NASA, the US and some other governments, and the various aerospace and satellite companies not wanting competition there is likely to be an "accident" planned.
Now, if foul play is discovered, being an offshore nation means that the conglomeration can declare their meddling an "act of war" and respond in like kind.
It is NOT the right or the business of the US government or any government to hold back civilian, private, commercial flights -- so long as plans a filed, certain orbital lanes are avoided, and no objects are tossed overboard to cause mayhem for other orbiting objects.
It would be interesting to see NASA and the various governments LOSE "their" control over orbital or travel paths. If it is TRUE that NASA has been holding civilians back at the bidding of the government, then RUTAN... more powere to you. Defy them.
Make your next plan long-term orbits.
What I DON'T want to see, though, is governments and companies laying claim to plots of land on the Moon. We've got way too many problems to fix down here before we go that far. Proving we CAN cheaply orbit or return to the Moon is fine, I think, but once we demonstrate that feasibility for the umpteenth time, we need to pull our heads out of the sand and divert that resource of money to building more shelters, ridding us of tuberulosis threats, funding jobless or under-income entrepreneurs, and combatting rampant consumerism.
Oh, I forget... building or subsidizing housing has less glory and bang on the return... What slew of investors would want to unload THAT amount of cash? (A few, but not nearly as many as could...)
David Syes
Actually, you're not supposed to have sex underwater. Its fine for the [other] guy, but keep in mind that...
Yeh, it would not look professional with Astronautics being Associated there...
I heard that Astronauts and pilots in the late 60s or the 70's were advised of a NASA-learned means of combatting jet lag: LOTS of sex.
I heard it was then a secret or was classified because it would have proved "embarassing" to the nation. This was at a time when the government and military routinely classified even matters of embarrassment or politically sensitive stuff.
He can blow, and the capsule-commode can suck, but if they reverse polarity, one of them will be F*&^%d
Well, if they do that again, but harder, and "kick the shit" out of him, he'll want a toilet AND a cubicle. That might be a "waste" of "space"...
"So...yuz have to take a sheeet, n'yet, n'yet? What now, Comrade? Pleez, do not fire up the Lysol aerosol. It is proy-bih-ted.. We don't need a "hair on fire" day up here, like you have in yur Peen-ta-gon".
"Foale also talked about the Russians: they played 'some sort of Russian folk song. I'm not so sure it calmed me a lot.'"
==== OK, let's "talk some shit"...
Hmmm... I thought those power bars or "High protein, low residue" bars they could be eating would "minimize the shit" or solid waste matter, ahem, issue/purge/whatever. (I saw some at Fry's Electronics a few years ago, claiming to be based on NASA technology: "High Protein, Low residue", implying eat, hike, and "be free"/"freed"... of certain fears...)
Curious: do they purge those waste tanks in orbit, or "pack their shit up" and "bring their shit back" with them, like campers in Yosemite (are supposed to)?
Even if the solids acted like "Klingons" and stuck to the craft the ones returning could burnish or burn the shit off on reentry. And, wouldn't these "Cling-Ons" be the real McCoy? Space Invaders? Alien life forms? Non-sentient, and non-screaming? After all, these arrive from a SPACEport WITHOUT PASSports, visas, stamps, or itenerary of any sorts, like "cast-awayed" stowaways.
As for the orbiting stations tho... too much "irregular" cake-up might have a destabilizing or deleterious effect on centrifugal properties. Things might get centripetal... Having your "shit collapse in on you" would ruin ANY body's day... I guess they'd have to load/pack sand into orbit and sandblast, since it might be hard to collect vacuum for cleaners up there... Especially if "sticking valves" could be an issue...
Sigh, the perils of living dangerously...
David Syes
From:
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US-Centered Apocalypse and Recovery Era (UCARE/USCARE) (explained in signature below...)
Well, consider the fact that he continuously harps that jobs are up and jobless claims are down. Yeh, right. Jobs are UP, relative to a specially-selected month. How can they NOT be up?
(Consider the fact that under Clinton, the books show us in a SURPLUS, but now bush has us in a $13 TRILLION deficit, something the cretin refuses to trumpet on his rampage of the land. Who the hell is going to pay for it? Certainly not him or his ilk! WE, the sheep are, or it'll roll over for the next 28 years or longer...)
(Consider that we're likely to suffer a fantastic, agonizing real estate crash, given that a record number of banks and their reckless 105% refi programs are setting us up for foreclosures even WITH layoff insurance on some of these homes. If we crash under these circumstances, it'll make Ivan the Terrible look like a whitecap in a cove. Maybe reverse mortgages for mortgage payers (I avoid "homeowner" since you're NOT a home "owner" until you get the deed. PERIOD!) under age 62 are in order. A cap of 65% of the value/appreciation could be accessed, and used ONLY after a verified layoff has happened. Such persons should have 5 YEARS to recover, considering some career patterns and business cycles. Apartment dwellers, too, deserve such a protection, and home-displaced workers or unemployed need to be under a dignified roof, too. MORE HOMES, fewere TANKS and SHIPS!)
Consider also that he says jobless claims are down. Hell, when you bennies run out, you obviously cannot make a claim!
What we need is a HUGE-assed MySQL database built offshore so the US govt has not authority over it. It would allow anyone so desiring to to:
--acknowlege a disclaimer
--enter some distinctly identifying information
--enter city of layoff/termination/separation
--enter severance pay received
--number of employees 1 week, 2 months, 5 months, and 6 months before this person's termination
--city and county of receipt of unemployment benefits
-- benefits starting balance
-- benefits time remaining
-- how many jobs applied for and passed over for
-- how many household members are out of work
The US Census is SHIT. Even if it now is carried out every 5 years, it's useless if it is only historical by the time it's published.
We need a publicly-trusted, moms-approved, people-used REAL TIME database. Most of the information a person would enter would be a few steps from being published anyway, or public, but filed in a court, press release, or government office.
A public armed with this kind of database could begin to make cold, impassionate, surgical deductions about some CEO's, misinformed candidates, lying incumbents, and more.
Instead of us taxpaysers buying another goddam aircraft carrier, it's aircraft, and accompanying fleet, we should take that 10 BILLION dollar$ and ram it into "Messed Over-Persons and Passed-over Entreprenuers".
Each person with a viable, sane, thorough business plan should be able to get funding, counseling, advertising, and operating expenses for up to 1 year, for up to $10,000 per month.
The cost of it would be to:
-- hire 5 to 10 employees
-- subject the company to government-appointed accountants (not to restrict payroll, but to guarantee as much as possible that fair taxes or income taxes and fees are paid
-- the employer train/equip employees to have alternate skills 6 months prior to any necessary terminations
-- and other things
What the government NEEDS to do, or what BU__SH__ needs to do is:
-- Streamline the IRS
-- Challenge the IRS to scour the IRS cheat database and come up with master templates for various business models and then FOIST those upon EVERY LAST county in the US so that startups and existing moms and pops and any other company can BE IN COMPLIANCE an
Whooa, for a second, I thought the signature:
"It's the queers. They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay Martians, I swear to God"
said:
"It's the queers. They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay Marines, I swear to God"
So, in "Mars Attacks" would those glass-domed Martians be Jarhead ETs? (LAUGH! I'm the son and nephew of former Marines, and my brother and I both were Sailors, and a cousin is an Army ground pounder.)
"America learns from history."
Well, excuse the living hell out of ME.
If we learned, then why did we NOT follow the Israeli model, where agents capable of putting a bullet between your eyes in 3.4 seconds, and place agents on planes. Fly them ON DUTY. Fly cops coast to coast. The government can afford it by using funny money to get the tickets, let the airlines post the cash in the bank, and then the DOTreas at the end of the day retreives destroys or recirculates the genuine but tightly-controlled bills.
We COULD get the HELL OUT of foreign markets where living ruling elders despise or are are nonplussed by us. We COULD let the living KIDS decide 10 or 15 years from now where they want to be, rather that VOA telling them, trying to sidestep legit or illegit rulers, thereby PISSING them off and inducing them to conspire. While not a leader or elected official, Bin Laden, as twisted as he is, DOES show that some people will do anything to punish their own corrupt governments (adopted or not) for collaborating with America, from their perspective.
If "America learns", then why have we got bushes and rovers running the show? If America learns, why do we have city offices like San Jose costing HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS for taxpayers because cronism and back-scratching determines which vendors' equipment go into an office?
If Americans learn, then when will be the THIRD reported rape/molestation of Okinawa girls by uniformed US personnel? If America learns, why is it that we are so hated to the point that the sitting SElected president steadfastly refused to permit American uniformed personell stand trial in nations where captured and jailed for breaking local laws, and where we can execute criminals here when back home they may not have execution as an option, nor any reciprocal extradition treaties with the US?
We learn MY ASS! Except for tax bodies that figure out every goddamn taxable-transaction scenario, except for arms-deals-continuation, and the like, we learn SLOWLY.
There is a lot to love about America, but we STILL have lot of curdly, funky, inedible matter in the folds of our national skin. Like many molds, it WON'T go away until collectively we come clean, leave "markets" off-limits, stop barging our way into tribes' and villages' mores, and we stop financing corrupt or ineptly run airlines while enriching the CEOs who stay in power and get paid on CIVILIAN TAXES.
We learn? We DO. We do things with strings attached, almost always. We learn how to throw laws and contracts like Alien throws eggs in a hot, steamy cauldron of hell.
We have a LOT to learn.
David Syes
Does anyone here wonder if the likes of Sabre or Casto or others are fronts for CIA domestic ops? It is seeming to be more plausible that the ticket info claims are just a smokescreen. The various Intel agencies probably have all teamed up to fund and operate their joint ticket issuing and tracking operations.
That means that despite laws forbidding or not existing to allow them search and seizure powers for LAW ENFORCEMENT purposes, they could collect and analyze information on a business level.
After all, is it (yet) illegal for a person to shoot pics of police and civilian vehicles, timestamp the date and location of observation, and correlate them with any other activities? Just capturing vehicle plate and VIN information, with driver physical details, along with publicly observable whereabouts information is probably all a tracker would need. There wouldn't even be a need to crack into a database of any kind if only in-the-open information is collated.
Who say's he's "my" president? I don't own him, nor would I ever claim his ass. He doesn't speak for me, only commit and condemn many people to global consequences for his inane, dangerous comments or embarrasses the country with his inept cliches. He may be anointed **THEE** president, but he is not **MY** president. (Notice the lack of capitalization here...)
When I was in the Navy, and topics about stupid or corrupt presidents came up, the Chiefs would scowl, "It's not the MAN you're defending and supporting! It's the POSITION!"
Well, that shit has GOT to change. Curious George could be in the seat of the Presidency, but a simian would not be any better nor any worse than what we have now. So, I argue, looking like a human and feigning vestiges of sentience do not a president make!
I'll only respect a president who is not given to arms deals, oil deals, executions-with-glee, or the like. We need a president who is hell-bent on DEFUSING, not destroying our opposers. Every system needs opponents, so long as they act only commensurate to what has been done to them. We tend to forget we did or brokered a SHITload of shady deals. Karma can be a BITCH. And we tend to forget that, too-- and often don't remember or recall that even when we get our asses kicked from time to time...
David Syes
Time to anonymize personal flight info.
Too bad most consumers are just sheep at can't relax enough to just drive. Or, too lazy and too spineless to just say no to airlines.
I am sure, though, that bush has done LITTLE to deserve credit for our not being attacked since 9/11. The attackers are just waiting for a good, long lull and the attendent lapses in security, all the while collecting and analyzing patterns, details, and opportunities information.
I am sure that if they attack from freeways and bicycles, we'll have mandatory GPS and two-way insurance company electronics gear attached to vehicles, mopeds, and bikes.
Maybe even those kid tennis with LED's will be the prototype for pedo-powered self-divulging location fixing transponders.
What's next? Revelation that bush and blair and cronies really already negotiated with the terrorists to keep the attacks non-seasonal, low in frequency, and with less "pizzaz" compared to their "going outside the plan" last time? After all, EVERYthing is negotiable, even dealing with terrorists. Only a freakin' FOOL would allow ego, national pride, business, and arrogance to plunder a nation into destruction with stupid "we will not negotiate with terrorists" and "either you're with us or you're against us" when most of the world really could give a RAT's ASS about us as long as we try to remain the vanguard and controller of all things worth doing.
Some would say "we're cruzin' for a bruzin'".
David Syes
Does' that app process the males in the closet, since it's latent?
Just rename the:
- 4 of hearts the whore of farts
- 2 of clubs with clue of tubs
- 6 of diamonds with the dicks of simon's
- 2 of hearts with the who of tarts
- 6 of clubs with clicks of subs
- 8 of diamonds with date of Iman's
- Ace of spades with space of aids/aides
- 5 of hearts with the hive of farts
- 8 of hearts with the hate of arts
- 10 of hearts with the hen of tarts
- 8 of spades with spate of aids/aides
I've been thinking of these for maybe 10 years, but I am sure millions of others may have, too.
Hmmm, come to think of it, maybe some of ms' developers are lysdexic or have Spooner's disease going on in their code. Upon seeing it, a less-afflicted hack probably said "To hell with this shit; I'm gonna work on something else..."
I wonder where in that "V" (shaped runway) their economy is. In our domestic "V" we still have vehicle and human body parts and carnage on the V road ahead...
... Introduction, Palmyra Atoll, Top of Page. ... The Hawaii Statehood Act of 1959 did not include Palmyra Atoll, which is now privately owned by the Nature Conservancy. ...q .html - 47k - Cached - Similar pages
... Palmyra Atoll, a tiny coral atoll in the vast Pacific Ocean, is the keeper of answers to big questions about the health of our coral reefs and oceans. ...
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Really, does that Atoll have any indigenous or or engenuous or even for that matter DISengenuous lawyers. How many rocks are on that rock. If they have no currency, I wonder how they could afford to import or outsource the lawyer who wrote that bit of legalese. That contract sounds like it's got "Made in America" written all over it.
- I suspect the operation is there because there is not county court, no county assessor, no district taxes, no easements... Who's footing their phone bill?
- 2,437 METER runway? What are they landing there.
- Looks like Maxwell Smart drew that map. Maybe Jaime/Haime wrote the database. The Chief approved it, and Agent 99 typed the web page. Siegfried gave the disinformation, and Klip-Klop (the man with the suction cup shoes) has his finger, ummm clops all over it.
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Palmyra Atoll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Palmyra Atoll. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Map of Palmyra Atoll. Palmyra Atoll is an uninhabited, 12 km 2 atoll in the
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== Around 1997, a few Navy ships, including the T-AGOS types were doing "ecology" or similar sonar sweeps of the area. I wonder what REALLY was going on. Does anyone know the subsurface topography? Is there a spot to hide boomers, fast attacks or even just minisubs? Maybe they were looking for a lost plane, or worse, a lost A-bomb. Maybe in 250 years we'll know.
If this were true, then the way to ruin that type of business would be to convince it to outsource to some country where to local capabilities just don't match US regional dialect or written slang.
I wonder how the Indian tech support lines deal with Cajun or Creole speak. "Zya, mah Splindoz Bzip Bzop cheongwah compu done brokies down." THAT could be funny, two diametrically and diabolically opposed forms of "english".
(I wonder if there'll be another need for Wind Talkers. If so, since that 'code' likely is broken, I recommend sending in the Caj (Cage) Talkers. You'd quantum computing to crack that lingo... (I can tease this since some of that Cajun/Creol chemistry is in my veins...))
"SPAMPERATOR" (think: "operator...", in the wining, carol burnette/sit-com way.)
Hopefully, this is just a gag. Privacy would be in the hands of Internet operators.
OTOH, if ever we have a "Matrix" a way to be "Neo" "conservatives" or conservationists would be to create a "SPATRIX", or "SPAM MATRIX".