So, now you can brook this up to your hain, vurn up the tolume, and have you Sansui Technics and Pioneer bramplifying the Ain with all scorts of sopes... A truest Stereophile in the truest sense of the word... ummm, signal...
Now, Acid House can lead to a cerebral Acid Bath, and new commercials saying, "This is your ain on bracid..."
"The resolution did, however, include two unique provisions: first, it gave the new state of Texas the right to divide itself into as many as five states (a proposal never seriously considered). Second, Texas did not have to surrender its public lands to the federal government. Thus the only lands owned by the federal government within Texas have actually been purchased by the government, and the vast oil discoveries on state lands have provided a major revenue flow for the state universities."
"Texas does not have the right to secede, any more than any other state does. Which is not to say that Texas, or any other state, can't secede if it has a mind to; after all, 11 states did back in 1861. Many modern Texans have the vague idea - as did most secessionists - that because Texas entered as a former republic, it retained the right to leave the Union if it saw fit. However, no such clause appears in the congressional act authorizing Texas to join the Union. Because it was once independent, because it at one time did secede frmo the Union, and because its ideology is far different from that of the rest of the US, Texas has always clung to the idea of a guaranteed right of secession as a mark of its specialness and as a source of reassurance in case all else fails.
One privelege Texas does reserve, and a condition that appears in the resolution approving its statehood, is the option to subdivide itself into as many as four states (a total of five). But Texas is more likely to leave the Union again than to fragment its identity and its land. "
Q: Doesn't the Texas Constitution reserve the right of Texas to secede?
A:
"No such provision is found in the current Texas Constitution[1](adopted in 1876) or the terms of annexation.[2] However, it does state (in Article 1, Section 1) that "Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States..." (note that it does not state "...subject to the President of the United States..." or "...subject to the Congress of the United States..." or "...subject to the rest of the United States...")
Neither the Texas Constitution, nor the Constitution of the united States, explicitly or implicitly disallows the secession of Texas (or any other "free and independent State") from the United States. Joining the "Union" was ever and always voluntary, rendering voluntary withdrawal an equally lawful and viable option (regardless of what any self-appointed academic, media, or government "experts"--including Abraham Lincoln himself--may have ever said)."
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I wonder if NorCal would consider liming the water it sends downstream to LA, hehehe. I bet SoCal would divide and then try to CONQUER (or, KONK-WAR) NorCal.... Seems the Peripheral Canal is in the news/on the talk show circuit, again...
Did Batman and Batman the Wife get married in San Fransideshow? What happend to Boy Robin?
Where is the Bat Cave? Under the supposed US Mint? Appropriately near Castro, hehehehe. Does Bat Man Cruise Safeway. Does the Bat Cave has a tunnel into Alcatraz? Endquiring mind want to know...
Well, I would NOT want to be Batman... I suspect to be bat MAN you have to accept having a bat DICK. I'd not be able to have purrrrfukt sex with CatWoman.... Gotta make her meeyooowwww...
Now, as for SUPERman... My brother years ago (what, I think around 1978) told me that when he saw Superman with my father and sister (i didn't go cuz I'm not a fan of Superman movies...), Lois and Clark got into bed. He said, "You know what daddy said when Clark Kent got into bed with Lois?" I said, "No, what?" "He said, "She gohn git her sum SOOPERdick toNIGHT!", making some of the attendees laugh uproariously. Of course, some of the audience, not appreciative of some ethnic (black) humor groaned at the defamation of their favorite hero.
But, when I was in or ~ 1980 watching Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, all dressed up proudly in my Army JROTC uniform, and proudly exiting and re-paying to watch STTTWOK, I was intently re-watching the scene of Kirk and Dr. Marcus getting ready to go into the Genesis Cave, where she said, "Jim, Let me show you SOMETHING... that will make you feel YOUNG as when the WORLD was NEW..." Some guy (and I know his ethnicity from his voice, right there in Galveston, at the former Galvez Mall Theater) hollers out, "PUUSSSAYYYY!"
I was shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that someone would defile Star Trek that way. Well, nowadays, the STTNG episodes are EASY to lace with innuendo... (And now I love recounting that mini-episode about the Genesis Cave...)
Will Batman ever have racy dialog? It could be ENTER-RESTING.... to enter the Bat Cave... Any whips and chains down there to titillate Bat Girl or Cat Woman? Or, Alfred and Robin? Would Batman have a bat-attack if he found Alfred & Robin serving and mastering each other up?
Isn't this an opportunity for AMD??? Does AMD partner with Acer and other Taiwan/Korea/Asia-based laptop and desktop makers? If AMD went on an offensive to make ONLY Linux-friendly computer GPU's/cards, it could create a massive shakeup...
I am pretty sure that it was when I initially subscribed.
But, I almost NEVER input my friends' REALL e-mail. FUCK THAT. It's just another lazy-assed, surreptitious harvesting opportunity. I search for my friends by name, or find them in other friend's profiles. If I cannot find a friend without their e-mail address, I give up. Or, I call them, tell them MY e-mail, and let them decide whether or not to tell me/add me, or put themselves on a social site.
Way too many thoughtless/un-thinking people unmindfully add their contacts lists of people who might have been TRYING TO STAY OUT of the marketing mechanism.
I wonder, though, if there is or will be a Do Not Harvest & Retain Me list, compelling facebook, myspace, et al to purge all public/blog/post references. That could really piss off some advert types who "just want that fucking contact info, no matter what"...
Why not do something like mkisofs and turn her 2k/XP/vista image into an iso, and run it in VirtualBox 1.5.6?
If she munges it, then recover her from an ISO, not windoze's own recovery. Be sure to write he home files to a mapped Linux partition unless VB complains that it can't do networked file systems.
What pisses me off, tho is that even in vista, if I yank the power (kill the process or kill VB) via one of the menu commands to do so, vista tends to slam and overlap all the icons to the equivalent of 640x480. Why the hell does it DO that? Why can't msoft do snapshots and then upon reopening the profile do a sanity check that detects insanely-overlapped icons and restores them to a previous, sane level/layout?
OK, here's one (slightly off topic, but since we're discussing windows vs linux vs mac, vs creds, etc...):
Anyone, download one of my.tif files and try to run it in GIMP? Time how long it takes to run. But, first, try running it in the Kodak image tool in Win98.
On Win98 the Kodak tool opens the ship drawing in seconds. GIMP in 2003 took MINUTES and consumed shitloads of RAM. In 2008, oh, on Mdva 2008.1, just a few days ago... GIMP crawled, and then doing only a click or mouse-move made things so horrible I (IIRC) had to go to a console and kill GIMP processes.
Now, I don't know what the hell is going on there, but I've at least once reported to somewhere and then gave up.
Unfortunately, it seems the Kodak tool was removed from 2k, XP, and vista. What is in vista is terrible, too, tho the dwg opens. But, I can't make much use of the.tif in vista. i seriously doubt that doing things in VirtualBox is part of the problem.
When I opened all 4 in vista, that fucking fista consumed over 1.6 GB (yes, GB) of my remaining 1.8 GB on the disk. Even after closing windows vista image tool, it took a WHILE to manually eviscerate that bitch to get back my 1.7 GB, and still 100 MB are gone, probably to that damned image restore crap thing. Heck, the drawings are not that big.
One thing I think MIGHT be part of the problem is that it could be related to the copy shop's scanning software. My sheets are abt 24x36. But, the copy shop said their software wasn't doing anything special nor weird.
I guess I have to seek out a.tif imaging tool that runs in Linux and won't take forever to load nor forever to unload, and which will let me copy and paste without undue system strain.
What might have royally pissed off others was that when facebook asked for the new member's valid email address, it implied or outright expected them to provide to the f/b interface the VALID PASSWORD OF THE VALID EMAIL ACCOUNT.
This royally inFURIATED me. All they needed to say was Give us your valid email of choice, and reply within 5 minutes of receiving it and supply the code we give you, or you'll have to redo this and still try within 5 minutes to validate yourself.
They had NO f*cking business structuring it in such a way that MILLIONS of users would blindly or hopelessly supply their gmail, yahoo, msn, and/or other passwords through a facebook conduit.
Can you IMAGINE how much snooping could be done if facebook were compelled by law or court order to submit subscribtion/memberhship application logs to various agencies that don't want to actually leave traces of intel-snooping? All they have to do is notice whether or not the user is online or not, then log in as them, quickly look at non-viewable things, then log out. Only if friends and bots are somehow tracking friends login/logout activity can anyone be tipped off that something might be amiss.
Even without the conspiracy theory stuff, facebook should NEVER have culled or duped people into giving facebook their other account's passwords, nevermind the fact that there are other means by which other parties could steal or surreptitiously obtain a targeted user's password.
I cannot remember what I did to foil that frackin' attempt, but I think I did foil it.
Put them on PCLinuxOS or Mandriva and VirtualBox, with the latest KDE/Compiz or Metisse, and there, voila! Flashy stuff, with more than one instance of windows running, with LAN access...
Now, maybe VirtualBox might mitigate some of their drivers issues, and give you and your IT staff and the company a reason to brag about Linux.
What I like in KDE Control/Kcontrol is turning off the vendor them, changing the login icon image, adding pics to the changing background, and letting the login screen do its thing. Or, turning on and locking the screen saver, showing off kdesktop....
If there is no statute of limitations on murder, and possibly none on attempted murder, then SCO and microsoft should be found guilty of attempted corporate and non-corporate business murder. They colluded and attempted to not only run out of business but attempted to destroy/murder off Open Source.
So, microsoft and its board and its then-sitting execs should pony up.
Hopefully, Open Source will live long and continue to be disruptive, drag down hegemonic corporations, and free up a lot of people, institutions, companies, and educational facilities needing to save money. But, it'll ONLY get better for Open Source if Open Source gets professional image cleaning on user interfaces and purges lame-ass apps/product names.
"On a side note, if you're willing to drag a floaty toy to the beach and paddle your ass to Florida, I say we turn our heads and let you stay - You're obviously more dedicated to being an American than most of the folks that were born here."
This just helps underscore my assertion that "citizenship" demands by governments upon citizens is somewhat stupid these days. If a person is born here or immigrates to here, the most basic things they should be subject to are reasonable taxes and abiding by most of the sane laws. Ordering them to take an oath to become a citizen, and then subjecting them to put on a uniform to fight on behalf of money-mongers in power is plain stupid.
Now, anyone, mark me Troll if you WANT, but.... I'll go on...
And, I was born here, at Letterman General Hospital, on the Presidio, an army base at the time, delivered by a USMC captain (named Harry C. Beaver... yes, it's on my Certificate of Live Birth), and served in the USN (and did other JROTC stuff before then), and NONE of that makes me blindly feel that just because you're drafted/expected to/are too poor to work as a civilian means you are obligated to swear an oath to a fool or puppet in office.
But, where can I legally drop or deposit or send a dollar in the effort to circumvent the embargo on Internet in Cuba? Oh, wait, I won't get myself into jail. But, since some of the oil the US imports comes from Venezuela, I'll take comfort that SOME of that money is making its way to Cuba.
To (as a US citizen by default/by politi-speak, (but as far as *i* am concerned, I am a citizen of EARTH, and a RESIDENT of where I happen to work and pay my taxes, and if I go overseas and end up working, I'm ONLY paying taxes to the LOCAL authorities, and NO OTHERS outside that country, declared or NOT to IRS... especially if the employer is not a US-based or US-indigenous-remote-located company)) have to live in fear of going to prison if i wee to try to/succeed in a visit to Cuba is just plain stupid. I suspect Cuba's government has committed far fewer external interference than the US has. I think the US government is just pissed that Castro outlived numerous US administrations. Castro may be a despot, but... well, just look at how many "superpowers" ran amok/interfered with "the Americas" and Asia...
Or, maybe this is about ms getting ready to start giving away ms windows vista on CDs in cereal boxes, mini-DVDs on cigarette packs, and on Hot Rod magazine?
Or, maybe they see themselves as the "starter account" newbies go to before graduating to Apple or Open Source...
Wait til NASA starts asking for "Modified Cow Sweat".... After all, milk comes from a mammary gland/sweat gland right? After my plant biology teacher told us that back in 88 (making virtually every girl in the class go "ewwwwww"), I severely cut back on milk. Now, i only use it for cooking or for macaroni, but not for drinking by the glass.
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So, now you can brook this up to your hain, vurn up the tolume, and have you Sansui Technics and Pioneer bramplifying the Ain with all scorts of sopes... A truest Stereophile in the truest sense of the word... ummm, signal...
Now, Acid House can lead to a cerebral Acid Bath, and new commercials saying, "This is your ain on bracid..."
Twikee: Bidee-biddee-biddeee-biddee bee--- That feels GOOD, BUCK!
BR: Twikee... ah, a little to the left... to the right, yess, that's it...
Twikee: Geez, BUCK. You been watching that ancient show "Office Space"?
BR: Shhhh...
Twikee: You wish is MY COMMAND, BUCK...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Texas
"The resolution did, however, include two unique provisions: first, it gave the new state of Texas the right to divide itself into as many as five states (a proposal never seriously considered). Second, Texas did not have to surrender its public lands to the federal government. Thus the only lands owned by the federal government within Texas have actually been purchased by the government, and the vast oil discoveries on state lands have provided a major revenue flow for the state universities."
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http://tafkac.org/politics/texas_secession_rights.html
"Texas does not have the right to secede, any more than any other state does. Which is not to say that Texas, or any other state, can't secede if it has a mind to; after all, 11 states did back in 1861. Many modern Texans have the vague idea - as did most secessionists - that because Texas entered as a former republic, it retained the right to leave the Union if it saw fit. However, no such clause appears in the congressional act authorizing Texas to join the Union. Because it was once independent, because it at one time did secede frmo the Union, and because its ideology is far different from that of the rest of the US, Texas has always clung to the idea of a guaranteed right of secession as a mark of its specialness and as a source of reassurance in case all else fails.
One privelege Texas does reserve, and a condition that appears in the resolution approving its statehood, is the option to subdivide itself into as many as four states (a total of five). But Texas is more likely to leave the Union again than to fragment its identity and its land. "
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http://www.texassecede.com/faq.asp
Q: Doesn't the Texas Constitution reserve the right of Texas to secede?
A:
"No such provision is found in the current Texas Constitution[1](adopted in 1876) or the terms of annexation.[2] However, it does state (in Article 1, Section 1) that "Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States..." (note that it does not state "...subject to the President of the United States..." or "...subject to the Congress of the United States..." or "...subject to the rest of the United States...")
Neither the Texas Constitution, nor the Constitution of the united States, explicitly or implicitly disallows the secession of Texas (or any other "free and independent State") from the United States. Joining the "Union" was ever and always voluntary, rendering voluntary withdrawal an equally lawful and viable option (regardless of what any self-appointed academic, media, or government "experts"--including Abraham Lincoln himself--may have ever said)."
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I wonder if NorCal would consider liming the water it sends downstream to LA, hehehe. I bet SoCal would divide and then try to CONQUER (or, KONK-WAR) NorCal.... Seems the Peripheral Canal is in the news/on the talk show circuit, again...
Maybe they can change their slogan to:
HP: RE-Invent
or
HP: PREVENT
??
Sounds like another shell game. But, where to begin? Oil and farm lands in Africa, or cerveza and shrimp of Guadalajara?
I read that Texas was the only state (smart enough) to negotiate the right to secede if it wants to in the future.
Interesting....
Charlie. Tuna just tastes better with a squeeze of lemon...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_the_Tuna
If the CEO dies there, without breaking, will he DIE BOLD?
Castro? Ass in the tunnel under the US MEnt, a treasury tunnel to Castro? I heard a rumour that Batman sponsored the Hollow Weenie nights near there.
Did Batman and Batman the Wife get married in San Fransideshow? What happend to Boy Robin?
Where is the Bat Cave? Under the supposed US Mint? Appropriately near Castro, hehehehe. Does Bat Man Cruise Safeway. Does the Bat Cave has a tunnel into Alcatraz? Endquiring mind want to know...
Welll.. Rimmer & Smeg.... Interesting.
Well, I would NOT want to be Batman... I suspect to be bat MAN you have to accept having a bat DICK. I'd not be able to have purrrrfukt sex with CatWoman.... Gotta make her meeyooowwww...
Now, as for SUPERman... My brother years ago (what, I think around 1978) told me that when he saw Superman with my father and sister (i didn't go cuz I'm not a fan of Superman movies...), Lois and Clark got into bed. He said, "You know what daddy said when Clark Kent got into bed with Lois?" I said, "No, what?" "He said, "She gohn git her sum SOOPERdick toNIGHT!", making some of the attendees laugh uproariously. Of course, some of the audience, not appreciative of some ethnic (black) humor groaned at the defamation of their favorite hero.
But, when I was in or ~ 1980 watching Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, all dressed up proudly in my Army JROTC uniform, and proudly exiting and re-paying to watch STTTWOK, I was intently re-watching the scene of Kirk and Dr. Marcus getting ready to go into the Genesis Cave, where she said, "Jim, Let me show you SOMETHING... that will make you feel YOUNG as when the WORLD was NEW..." Some guy (and I know his ethnicity from his voice, right there in Galveston, at the former Galvez Mall Theater) hollers out, "PUUSSSAYYYY!"
I was shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that someone would defile Star Trek that way. Well, nowadays, the STTNG episodes are EASY to lace with innuendo... (And now I love recounting that mini-episode about the Genesis Cave...)
Will Batman ever have racy dialog? It could be ENTER-RESTING.... to enter the Bat Cave... Any whips and chains down there to titillate Bat Girl or Cat Woman? Or, Alfred and Robin? Would Batman have a bat-attack if he found Alfred & Robin serving and mastering each other up?
Isn't this an opportunity for AMD??? Does AMD partner with Acer and other Taiwan/Korea/Asia-based laptop and desktop makers? If AMD went on an offensive to make ONLY Linux-friendly computer GPU's/cards, it could create a massive shakeup...
So, either they are cloudy or hazy... Or, they are all trying to think of a way to play misty for the cloud... (Play Misty for Me...)
I am pretty sure that it was when I initially subscribed.
But, I almost NEVER input my friends' REALL e-mail. FUCK THAT. It's just another lazy-assed, surreptitious harvesting opportunity. I search for my friends by name, or find them in other friend's profiles. If I cannot find a friend without their e-mail address, I give up. Or, I call them, tell them MY e-mail, and let them decide whether or not to tell me/add me, or put themselves on a social site.
Way too many thoughtless/un-thinking people unmindfully add their contacts lists of people who might have been TRYING TO STAY OUT of the marketing mechanism.
I wonder, though, if there is or will be a Do Not Harvest & Retain Me list, compelling facebook, myspace, et al to purge all public/blog/post references. That could really piss off some advert types who "just want that fucking contact info, no matter what"...
Why not do something like mkisofs and turn her 2k/XP/vista image into an iso, and run it in VirtualBox 1.5.6?
If she munges it, then recover her from an ISO, not windoze's own recovery. Be sure to write he home files to a mapped Linux partition unless VB complains that it can't do networked file systems.
What pisses me off, tho is that even in vista, if I yank the power (kill the process or kill VB) via one of the menu commands to do so, vista tends to slam and overlap all the icons to the equivalent of 640x480. Why the hell does it DO that? Why can't msoft do snapshots and then upon reopening the profile do a sanity check that detects insanely-overlapped icons and restores them to a previous, sane level/layout?
OK, here's one (slightly off topic, but since we're discussing windows vs linux vs mac, vs creds, etc...):
Anyone, download one of my .tif files and try to run it in GIMP? Time how long it takes to run. But, first, try running it in the Kodak image tool in Win98.
On Win98 the Kodak tool opens the ship drawing in seconds. GIMP in 2003 took MINUTES and consumed shitloads of RAM. In 2008, oh, on Mdva 2008.1, just a few days ago... GIMP crawled, and then doing only a click or mouse-move made things so horrible I (IIRC) had to go to a console and kill GIMP processes.
Now, I don't know what the hell is going on there, but I've at least once reported to somewhere and then gave up.
Unfortunately, it seems the Kodak tool was removed from 2k, XP, and vista. What is in vista is terrible, too, tho the dwg opens. But, I can't make much use of the .tif in vista. i seriously doubt that doing things in VirtualBox is part of the problem.
The .tif files are at:
http://www.dreadyacht.com/4.html
When I opened all 4 in vista, that fucking fista consumed over 1.6 GB (yes, GB) of my remaining 1.8 GB on the disk. Even after closing windows vista image tool, it took a WHILE to manually eviscerate that bitch to get back my 1.7 GB, and still 100 MB are gone, probably to that damned image restore crap thing. Heck, the drawings are not that big.
One thing I think MIGHT be part of the problem is that it could be related to the copy shop's scanning software. My sheets are abt 24x36. But, the copy shop said their software wasn't doing anything special nor weird.
I guess I have to seek out a .tif imaging tool that runs in Linux and won't take forever to load nor forever to unload, and which will let me copy and paste without undue system strain.
sexy as a project/ion... magnetic...
"WhereEVER you GO, whatEVER you DO, whatEVER you're THINKING about, I'll BE WATCHING YOU!"
What might have royally pissed off others was that when facebook asked for the new member's valid email address, it implied or outright expected them to provide to the f/b interface the VALID PASSWORD OF THE VALID EMAIL ACCOUNT.
This royally inFURIATED me. All they needed to say was Give us your valid email of choice, and reply within 5 minutes of receiving it and supply the code we give you, or you'll have to redo this and still try within 5 minutes to validate yourself.
They had NO f*cking business structuring it in such a way that MILLIONS of users would blindly or hopelessly supply their gmail, yahoo, msn, and/or other passwords through a facebook conduit.
Can you IMAGINE how much snooping could be done if facebook were compelled by law or court order to submit subscribtion/memberhship application logs to various agencies that don't want to actually leave traces of intel-snooping? All they have to do is notice whether or not the user is online or not, then log in as them, quickly look at non-viewable things, then log out. Only if friends and bots are somehow tracking friends login/logout activity can anyone be tipped off that something might be amiss.
Even without the conspiracy theory stuff, facebook should NEVER have culled or duped people into giving facebook their other account's passwords, nevermind the fact that there are other means by which other parties could steal or surreptitiously obtain a targeted user's password.
I cannot remember what I did to foil that frackin' attempt, but I think I did foil it.
Put them on PCLinuxOS or Mandriva and VirtualBox, with the latest KDE/Compiz or Metisse, and there, voila! Flashy stuff, with more than one instance of windows running, with LAN access...
Now, maybe VirtualBox might mitigate some of their drivers issues, and give you and your IT staff and the company a reason to brag about Linux.
What I like in KDE Control/Kcontrol is turning off the vendor them, changing the login icon image, adding pics to the changing background, and letting the login screen do its thing. Or, turning on and locking the screen saver, showing off kdesktop....
If there is no statute of limitations on murder, and possibly none on attempted murder, then SCO and microsoft should be found guilty of attempted corporate and non-corporate business murder. They colluded and attempted to not only run out of business but attempted to destroy/murder off Open Source.
So, microsoft and its board and its then-sitting execs should pony up.
Hopefully, Open Source will live long and continue to be disruptive, drag down hegemonic corporations, and free up a lot of people, institutions, companies, and educational facilities needing to save money. But, it'll ONLY get better for Open Source if Open Source gets professional image cleaning on user interfaces and purges lame-ass apps/product names.
"On a side note, if you're willing to drag a floaty toy to the beach and paddle your ass to Florida, I say we turn our heads and let you stay - You're obviously more dedicated to being an American than most of the folks that were born here."
This just helps underscore my assertion that "citizenship" demands by governments upon citizens is somewhat stupid these days. If a person is born here or immigrates to here, the most basic things they should be subject to are reasonable taxes and abiding by most of the sane laws. Ordering them to take an oath to become a citizen, and then subjecting them to put on a uniform to fight on behalf of money-mongers in power is plain stupid.
Now, anyone, mark me Troll if you WANT, but.... I'll go on...
And, I was born here, at Letterman General Hospital, on the Presidio, an army base at the time, delivered by a USMC captain (named Harry C. Beaver... yes, it's on my Certificate of Live Birth), and served in the USN (and did other JROTC stuff before then), and NONE of that makes me blindly feel that just because you're drafted/expected to/are too poor to work as a civilian means you are obligated to swear an oath to a fool or puppet in office.
But, where can I legally drop or deposit or send a dollar in the effort to circumvent the embargo on Internet in Cuba? Oh, wait, I won't get myself into jail. But, since some of the oil the US imports comes from Venezuela, I'll take comfort that SOME of that money is making its way to Cuba.
To (as a US citizen by default/by politi-speak, (but as far as *i* am concerned, I am a citizen of EARTH, and a RESIDENT of where I happen to work and pay my taxes, and if I go overseas and end up working, I'm ONLY paying taxes to the LOCAL authorities, and NO OTHERS outside that country, declared or NOT to IRS... especially if the employer is not a US-based or US-indigenous-remote-located company)) have to live in fear of going to prison if i wee to try to/succeed in a visit to Cuba is just plain stupid. I suspect Cuba's government has committed far fewer external interference than the US has. I think the US government is just pissed that Castro outlived numerous US administrations. Castro may be a despot, but ... well, just look at how many "superpowers" ran amok/interfered with "the Americas" and Asia...
They are thinking of "AOSmell"?
Or, maybe this is about ms getting ready to start giving away ms windows vista on CDs in cereal boxes, mini-DVDs on cigarette packs, and on Hot Rod magazine?
Or, maybe they see themselves as the "starter account" newbies go to before graduating to Apple or Open Source...
(Yeh, go ahead.... mark me "troll".)
DiViSection?
VivDisection?
It starts one way, and ends another?
Wait til NASA starts asking for "Modified Cow Sweat".... After all, milk comes from a mammary gland/sweat gland right? After my plant biology teacher told us that back in 88 (making virtually every girl in the class go "ewwwwww"), I severely cut back on milk. Now, i only use it for cooking or for macaroni, but not for drinking by the glass.