I DID, and surprisingly it did not work. It's as if Sprint is deliberately stripping out such tags. Maybe the site is doing it. I dunno. But, I can bet Sprint is just waiting for me to throw in the towel and revisit them for that Rumor I almost got. Sure, the A900M is inferior, but there were some "issues" along the way... and I stuck to the A900.
Probably he DOES know, but maybe he used a cell phone.
I use the Samsung A900, and the crappy software in it has NO carriage return/line feed/enter that does NOT act as an upload or download attempt action. I too end up sending 500-character blobs/blocks of text and this is only because i don't have (and don't WANT) Internet at home.
(It's THERE; my house mate uses it, but I choose not to use it. Not that I can't afford to pay him $10 and go get a 50' cable. It's just the frackin' Internet is a vampire, and a tentacular one at that. Search leads to endless returns that are distractions to me. I used to have it at home, over a year ago, but it lead to many a 10-hour surfing day on the weekends.)
I don't think the sites to which i post a blog or enter a message should have to explicitly enable the capability. The cell carriers probably don't WANT to enable it on some or any of their phones on certain or many plans just to be able to keep end-user consumption of bandwidth at an artificial cap. Lately, i've been suspecting my carrier of deliberately hosing my access to drive me to an uprated model of phone. I already pay them ~$70 a month. A spiffier phone would just suck more money, and burn more of the limited time I manage to lose grips on...
i hope Google and Yahoo! DO something truly frackin' painful to mshaft: create a network of Linux and web services and products to blunt msoft forays. Google needs to bundle Sketchup pro and other apps with Linux an Yahoo! users. Laptops. PDAs, cell phones and Walmart as tools and platformr could be what it takes to gut msoft.
Dead think? Has anyone gone, AND returned AND provide irrefutable, non-faith-based PROOF. Some deaths are violent, some peaceful. Death is a transition of SOME sort, and we don't know WHERE the soul/spirit/mind will go. Some believe untimely or painful or wrongful deaths cause the sould to be "hungry", evil, or grounded to Earth. So, depending on the cause of this person, he may or may NOT want people rifling through his computer.
For legal, and mamby-pamby-assed humans-on-Earth reasons, it's either said, "Don't disrespect the dead", don't speak ill of the dead, or dig DEEP for whatever information can be found.
NOT ONE OF US alive knows what the dead/departed/physically-separated think, know, or are located. NONE of us. But, human laws on privacy will generally prevail based on the locality.
In some countries, suicide is (no disrespect intended) a grave insult, and the surviving family members are faced with the bill for dealing with processing the body, recording any facts, and so forth. So, the family may get more than they bargained for. Who knows what family secrets or privacy revelations may occur if information is leaked?
same persuasion, the elements which you seek will be known as "Unobtanium", so, even if you manage to CESiUM and get on you Man Ga Knees, there well be NO Bellium for you... U will just Bohrium... but not be bored...
I know how you feel. I've been mod-bombed enough times i no longer really get discombobulated. There REALLY ought to be a revision to the mod system. Like, any precipitous change in score or category, or any range of change attempting to evade a close-look due to change in score should automatically trigger an e-mail to random, trusted, balanced moderators to out-mod the on-duty moderator to make sure that there is no chance of banging the hell out of inciteful types such as me. I call a spade a spade, as you can probably discern... hehehehe, especially in the political stuff, where i tend to rankle the ire of enough ppl to get my scoring capability limited. Plus, some stuff I say may be so volatile that it's radioactive, and nobody will touch it for fear of the various monitoring intel agencies associating user sympathy toward me for an expression or baseline of their political posture... fraidy cats, i suppose...
I'm thinking of visiting Korea, and boy would I love to live there for more than a year. It would suck to get there with my Linux laptop and not be able to do much. But, as long as it's reading, I might muddle through... But, as you said, submitting official documents might be problematic for me, too, even if it's 2009 or 2010.
I'd like to lay into the mubobui kesekkei who down-modded Daengbo to "1 -offtopic" from 2 informative. I've SEVERAL friends from Korea who have heard of and not yet even used nor played with Linux.
Probably for the very reason you cited: for the idiot who apparently swiftly took Daengbo down, KOREA, unlike the to-a-good-point-bass-ackwards USA, is highly electronic in purchasing and payment options. It is extremely easy in Korea to make loans and payments to not just creditors, but to just about ANYone who has an account into which funds can be deposited. (Down-modder, can you name more than 25 places in the US where the average consumer has had public electronics payment/purchase options that Koreans and Japanese had? Here, in the bay area, tho we have mag readers for BART, the transit system is ancient compared to Korea and Japan, as goes payments and fare control.)
It's important for readers using Linux devices to be prepared to show off their Linux boxen/rigs in places like Korea any chance they get. Public numbers don't mean anything if they're ultimately only coming from university labs and a few thousand unique homes. We need to target USERS at the lowest level and convince them to exploit the value in/of Linux...
That being said, if a bank or some institution refuses to be browser/OS-agnostic, then why would Koreans flock to or shift in even respectable numbers to Linux?
I REALLY REALLY wish the moderators of this site would take to task those who are modding people off topic. ALL off-topic modding should be subject to moderator review. If the MODERATOR is doing the damage, then Slash should rewrite the code to POINT TO THE DOWNMODDER so that others with compassion can try to come to the rescue of the downmodded person.
Knowing about Korea's internet experience is IMPORTANT to me, and Daengbo (assuming he's Korean and not just some 'merkun with a Korean handle) ought to be given some latitude and restored to informative. I myself only about 2 years ago and several times prior (since 2001) read that Korea is heavily windows-centric on the web. It was depressing then, and if Daengbo is correct, then things are not much better. I REALLY REALLY wish Korea would lessen her dependency on msoft.
Well, I for one don't want the FBI boning my back filter with jellyfish-like tentacles... I don't want them ANALyzing me in the analog OR the digital...
When I get enough cash together I want to pay $100 to someone to help me resolve problems with my Gateway P-6301 laptop that Gateway (made in Taiwan, I think) didn't see fit to take care of in advance:
-- enable the multimedia finger-glider panel (yeh, I downloaded driver from alternate sites...) -- enable the screen dimming -- enable the wireless NIC
Audio works, mouse is of course fine, and of course the Ethernet CAT-5 NIC works.
This might be a few months away. Next time, I'm going to spec a laptop that has all this stuff working. But, I fell for this laptop for it's 17":
-- glossy display -- nicely-size keyboard -- dual (but, sadly non-modular) hard drive caddies/slots (which I filled).
It's running PCLinuxOS from 2007, with VirtualBox (pre Sun Micro's claws), and (ahem) vista. Mainly running vista for:
- TurboCAD - (AutoCAD when I want to study work stuff at home, of course abiding by the PLU) - Lotus SmartSuite - Freeship and other things that don't seem to work in WINE on MY installation - other apps that have no Linux equivalents (talking QUALITY not functionality
Vista is in its own partition (and it's getting to be time to reclaim that 20+ GB of C:\ and give it back to/home... ), and i've only booted vista natively maybe THREE times, and never did any REAL work in it.
ass. I say nano, relatively speaking, might be the size of cat turds, or a hair off the ass.
Maybe they are trying to cash in on the cache or cachet of Apple Nano? They should just start out with "Sattlets". (Then, they might curry fayvor from the current praysident and get more budget approval from him.)
I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. When we hear that the NSA and CIA had ordered Facebook to enable backdoor plugins to every profile, every app, and every browser type used to reach FB.
Aggregating the information of a few million users will be NICE input to Visual Analytics...
But, why IS IT that Facebook apps need to KNOW almost everything about the user's profile?
Why cannot FB use some sort of restrictions database (I imagine they do to a POINT, but not as well as could our OUGHT to be...) to control access at not just the friend/profile/info-area level, but specific pieces of information?
Just because someone TAGS a photo shouldn't give them rights to KNOW too much. It would nice if one had an ability to annotate why the tagged or bookmarked a file, but then it could be dangerous if that stuff got scooped up by the various intel agencies. Imagine annotating revulsion or grudge info to someone, then some ill visited upon them and then the agencies demand records of any and all bookmarks attachments to said deceased/harmed person. Might help solve SOME cases, but would open up even more about some people than their profiles might suggest.
for prisoners, they will be implanted with double-inner-outer sphincter gateway THRESH HOLDS to determine which have conjugal relationships that might INspire acts of violets, ummm, violence outside the walls of the pre-sons.
Now, we need to come up with a new ANAL LOGGY for "You've got BLING AROUND THE CALLER". Does that make the prison "bitch" a fish, a thresher, or a threshing fish?
Hmm, that only shows who's being conjugated UPON. So, maybe the guards and administrators need them, too. Bluepoo Chastity Devices.. BCDs... Bad Conduct Detection devices?
Pause for a moment to think about missing people portrayed on the milk cartons. Ponder the possibility that kids and young adults are victims of actual rape and murder scenes in some of the back-woods porn and slasher films that look TOO DAMNED REAL to be makeup and special effects. I don't KNOW if it's true, but years ago i heard that smut/snuff/smaff whatever the heck they're called involved REAL MURDER or RAPE VICTIMS. This could be why the FBI or Customs get involved -- and SHOULD.
BUT, when they run a search, whether cursory or deep, it would be nice if they do it RANDOMLY, not just based on what country you visited or last visited. If deep/invasive, they they might:
-- hook up a STANDALONE (well, even chips might defeat this possible "niceness" offer) disk copier to the laptop in the case of someone traveling with 150 gigs of data on two disks in a laptop (I could fit that scenario, as my l/t has two discs...) -- image the disc/s in question (as a prevention against disc sabotage routines) -- run steg checks -- if no porn, no suspicious-persons contact, etc., then let the inspection target wipe the target copier and be on their way
Ifff someone is dumb enough to carry into or out of the country any porn or unlawful cryptographic material or illegally-obtained trade secrets and so on, they will likely get jail or prison time. That's their problem.
The problem ***i*** have is that we don't have a clear answer on whether or not the Customs or Border Patrol or other agents will simply snatch the laptop and never return it or just "lose" it. At some point, they are going to be overwhelmed by the size of the discs. If it's a disc full of text, they can breeze thru it, and unfortunately, they'll have total dossiers on us based on archiving our love letters, purchases, manuscript ideas, e-books and more. That is WAY too damned invasive.
The Federal courts (decision) should be overthrown for they should be required to:
-- randomly select laptops
-- sign documents stating that in lieu of being able to walk out WITH your laptop - even if criminal-implying evidence is found, you'll sign a release or permission-to-copy form so that while you have potential charges pending, if you're released you can still do OTHER work-related things in your life... until you face arraignment or court date
-- alternatively offer to let the agents delete the criminally-qualifying images and issue an immediate probationary action letter of some sort
We surf, and we sometimes accidentally land in porn sites or blogs that might have illicit data or images we personally don't remove from the cache.
I'd prefer to see the government:
-- work with ISPs/proxies/filters (especially at libraries, where I tend to surf from) to filter porn on a per-subscriber/patron opt-in basis
-- log diligent users who stay away from porn, and exempt them from invasive searches, but not necessarily exempt them from cursory image pattern searches.
-- ignore adult porn, but damned sure nail anyone dealing in kiddie porn or animal abuse
After all, it is the height of hypocrisy for the administration or any office or agency to claim it is trying to exercise its right to control what comes into the country. We have ENOUGH violence here, WITHIN the country.
I have absolutely NO CONCERNS about Al Qaida attacking me specifically and the US in general ----- SO LONGS AS NEITHER *i* nor the US needles or bombs them. Otherwise, you hit someone, expect to be HIT back, you starve or malign someone, expect that. I've not personally attacked them, and so, my right to not have any agency SPEAK FOR ME should not be trampled on. ****i**** should not have to fear that the passport i carry will be my condemnation on the basis that because i pay taxes to said government.
I have no doubt in my ex-military mind that in the US, the odds of persons of color being killed in large numbers by supremacists are vastly greater than any direct or indirect actions by overseas terrorist
Why am I thinking Universal Soldiers meets Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me? Van Dam vs Meyers. Agents Spitz & Swallows take on the Van Dam action...
As for Mil-Spec breasts, do those come with machine guns or toxic injectors?
For the Chinese to pay microsoft for some "compatibility assurance against potential lawsuit" type of thing would be stupid, degrading, and wasteful. It would not be much different from US citizens paying the police insurance against corrupt traffic department officials who tamper with the yellow light timing.
The Chinese need to keep forging ahead with Red Flag Linux, along with Japan and Korea and anyone else looking to not be under the msoft-NSA official foot. If the msoft-NSA/et al foot is in China, then those entities need to WORK THEIR ASSES OFF to BE there. They shouldn't just by de facto sales of computers get there.
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I DID, and surprisingly it did not work. It's as if Sprint is deliberately stripping out such tags. Maybe the site is doing it. I dunno. But, I can bet Sprint is just waiting for me to throw in the towel and revisit them for that Rumor I almost got. Sure, the A900M is inferior, but there were some "issues" along the way... and I stuck to the A900.
Probably he DOES know, but maybe he used a cell phone.
I use the Samsung A900, and the crappy software in it has NO carriage return/line feed/enter that does NOT act as an upload or download attempt action. I too end up sending 500-character blobs/blocks of text and this is only because i don't have (and don't WANT) Internet at home.
(It's THERE; my house mate uses it, but I choose not to use it. Not that I can't afford to pay him $10 and go get a 50' cable. It's just the frackin' Internet is a vampire, and a tentacular one at that. Search leads to endless returns that are distractions to me. I used to have it at home, over a year ago, but it lead to many a 10-hour surfing day on the weekends.)
I don't think the sites to which i post a blog or enter a message should have to explicitly enable the capability. The cell carriers probably don't WANT to enable it on some or any of their phones on certain or many plans just to be able to keep end-user consumption of bandwidth at an artificial cap. Lately, i've been suspecting my carrier of deliberately hosing my access to drive me to an uprated model of phone. I already pay them ~$70 a month. A spiffier phone would just suck more money, and burn more of the limited time I manage to lose grips on...
That's either Upossible or UNpossible...
boobs and butt... Must have something to do with all those images they tested us with in grade /middle school...
i hope Google and Yahoo! DO something truly frackin' painful to mshaft: create a network of Linux and web services and products to blunt msoft forays. Google needs to bundle Sketchup pro and other apps with Linux an Yahoo! users. Laptops. PDAs, cell phones and Walmart as tools and platformr could be what it takes to gut msoft.
i *don't* mean to sound like William 'billy' 'bill' 'willy' 'shat', *SHATNER*, and I *might* be able to follow your sug*gestion*...
*But*, old *friend*... *You've* managed to *train* just about everyone else, but you keep *MISSING* the tar*get*...
OK, *don't* mean to sound *like* Willaim *SHATNER*... I *might* get *used* to your sugg*estion*..
*STILL*, *old friend*... *you've* managed to train just about everyone *else*, but you *KEEP* missing *the* *TARGET*....
Dead think? Has anyone gone, AND returned AND provide irrefutable, non-faith-based PROOF. Some deaths are violent, some peaceful. Death is a transition of SOME sort, and we don't know WHERE the soul/spirit/mind will go. Some believe untimely or painful or wrongful deaths cause the sould to be "hungry", evil, or grounded to Earth. So, depending on the cause of this person, he may or may NOT want people rifling through his computer.
For legal, and mamby-pamby-assed humans-on-Earth reasons, it's either said, "Don't disrespect the dead", don't speak ill of the dead, or dig DEEP for whatever information can be found.
NOT ONE OF US alive knows what the dead/departed/physically-separated think, know, or are located. NONE of us. But, human laws on privacy will generally prevail based on the locality.
In some countries, suicide is (no disrespect intended) a grave insult, and the surviving family members are faced with the bill for dealing with processing the body, recording any facts, and so forth. So, the family may get more than they bargained for. Who knows what family secrets or privacy revelations may occur if information is leaked?
protection if the perp is wearing a Ghillie suit
http://www.sniperghillies.com/
http://www.ghilliesuits.com/
Or otherwise looking like Sasquatch on the way in and a girl on the way out...
same persuasion, the elements which you seek will be known as "Unobtanium", so, even if you manage to CESiUM and get on you Man Ga Knees, there well be NO Bellium for you... U will just Bohrium... but not be bored...
GERONIMO!
(Oh, wrong Indian, umm, Natives..
(BTW, I have Native American blood (possibly Cherokee)in my veins, among French, German, Spanish, and Ethiopian...)
I know how you feel. I've been mod-bombed enough times i no longer really get discombobulated. There REALLY ought to be a revision to the mod system. Like, any precipitous change in score or category, or any range of change attempting to evade a close-look due to change in score should automatically trigger an e-mail to random, trusted, balanced moderators to out-mod the on-duty moderator to make sure that there is no chance of banging the hell out of inciteful types such as me. I call a spade a spade, as you can probably discern... hehehehe, especially in the political stuff, where i tend to rankle the ire of enough ppl to get my scoring capability limited. Plus, some stuff I say may be so volatile that it's radioactive, and nobody will touch it for fear of the various monitoring intel agencies associating user sympathy toward me for an expression or baseline of their political posture... fraidy cats, i suppose...
I'm thinking of visiting Korea, and boy would I love to live there for more than a year. It would suck to get there with my Linux laptop and not be able to do much. But, as long as it's reading, I might muddle through... But, as you said, submitting official documents might be problematic for me, too, even if it's 2009 or 2010.
Part on and part off topic...
I'd like to lay into the mubobui kesekkei who down-modded Daengbo to "1 -offtopic" from 2 informative. I've SEVERAL friends from Korea who have heard of and not yet even used nor played with Linux.
Probably for the very reason you cited: for the idiot who apparently swiftly took Daengbo down, KOREA, unlike the to-a-good-point-bass-ackwards USA, is highly electronic in purchasing and payment options. It is extremely easy in Korea to make loans and payments to not just creditors, but to just about ANYone who has an account into which funds can be deposited. (Down-modder, can you name more than 25 places in the US where the average consumer has had public electronics payment/purchase options that Koreans and Japanese had? Here, in the bay area, tho we have mag readers for BART, the transit system is ancient compared to Korea and Japan, as goes payments and fare control.)
It's important for readers using Linux devices to be prepared to show off their Linux boxen/rigs in places like Korea any chance they get. Public numbers don't mean anything if they're ultimately only coming from university labs and a few thousand unique homes. We need to target USERS at the lowest level and convince them to exploit the value in/of Linux...
That being said, if a bank or some institution refuses to be browser/OS-agnostic, then why would Koreans flock to or shift in even respectable numbers to Linux?
I REALLY REALLY wish the moderators of this site would take to task those who are modding people off topic. ALL off-topic modding should be subject to moderator review. If the MODERATOR is doing the damage, then Slash should rewrite the code to POINT TO THE DOWNMODDER so that others with compassion can try to come to the rescue of the downmodded person.
Knowing about Korea's internet experience is IMPORTANT to me, and Daengbo (assuming he's Korean and not just some 'merkun with a Korean handle) ought to be given some latitude and restored to informative. I myself only about 2 years ago and several times prior (since 2001) read that Korea is heavily windows-centric on the web. It was depressing then, and if Daengbo is correct, then things are not much better. I REALLY REALLY wish Korea would lessen her dependency on msoft.
Well, I for one don't want the FBI boning my back filter with jellyfish-like tentacles... I don't want them ANALyzing me in the analog OR the digital...
but arcing up to be planted in our asses...
Pretty soon, they'll want to embedd blueteeth in our asses...
When I get enough cash together I want to pay $100 to someone to help me resolve problems with my Gateway P-6301 laptop that Gateway (made in Taiwan, I think) didn't see fit to take care of in advance:
/home... ), and i've only booted vista natively maybe THREE times, and never did any REAL work in it.
-- enable the multimedia finger-glider panel (yeh, I downloaded driver from alternate sites...)
-- enable the screen dimming
-- enable the wireless NIC
Audio works, mouse is of course fine, and of course the Ethernet CAT-5 NIC works.
This might be a few months away. Next time, I'm going to spec a laptop that has all this stuff working. But, I fell for this laptop for it's 17":
-- glossy display
-- nicely-size keyboard
-- dual (but, sadly non-modular) hard drive caddies/slots (which I filled).
The sucker weighs 8.34 lbs, tho:
http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/2007/Godzilla/1014776R/1014776Rsp2.shtml
It's running PCLinuxOS from 2007, with VirtualBox (pre Sun Micro's claws), and (ahem) vista. Mainly running vista for:
- TurboCAD
- (AutoCAD when I want to study work stuff at home, of course abiding by the PLU)
- Lotus SmartSuite
- Freeship and other things that don't seem to work in WINE on MY installation
- other apps that have no Linux equivalents (talking QUALITY not functionality
Vista is in its own partition (and it's getting to be time to reclaim that 20+ GB of C:\ and give it back to
ass. I say nano, relatively speaking, might be the size of cat turds, or a hair off the ass.
Maybe they are trying to cash in on the cache or cachet of Apple Nano? They should just start out with "Sattlets". (Then, they might curry fayvor from the current praysident and get more budget approval from him.)
I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. When we hear that the NSA and CIA had ordered Facebook to enable backdoor plugins to every profile, every app, and every browser type used to reach FB.
Aggregating the information of a few million users will be NICE input to Visual Analytics...
But, why IS IT that Facebook apps need to KNOW almost everything about the user's profile?
Why cannot FB use some sort of restrictions database (I imagine they do to a POINT, but not as well as could our OUGHT to be...) to control access at not just the friend/profile/info-area level, but specific pieces of information?
Just because someone TAGS a photo shouldn't give them rights to KNOW too much. It would nice if one had an ability to annotate why the tagged or bookmarked a file, but then it could be dangerous if that stuff got scooped up by the various intel agencies. Imagine annotating revulsion or grudge info to someone, then some ill visited upon them and then the agencies demand records of any and all bookmarks attachments to said deceased/harmed person. Might help solve SOME cases, but would open up even more about some people than their profiles might suggest.
Just my thandom roughts...
It's not too quite unpossible... But
http://lyrics.learnithere.org/lyrics-category-e/eurythmics-lyrics/
Well, maybe that's like asking if having a duo of Annie Lennox and Barbara Steisand, or Annie and Celine Dion would be losing musical ground...
Let's ask Annie...
DOUBLE plusgood....
... or they be Finnished for sure... maybe be flemished, too.
the mayhem...
for prisoners, they will be implanted with double-inner-outer sphincter gateway THRESH HOLDS to determine which have conjugal relationships that might INspire acts of violets, ummm, violence outside the walls of the pre-sons.
Now, we need to come up with a new ANAL LOGGY for "You've got BLING AROUND THE CALLER". Does that make the prison "bitch" a fish, a thresher, or a threshing fish?
Hmm, that only shows who's being conjugated UPON. So, maybe the guards and administrators need them, too. Bluepoo Chastity Devices.. BCDs... Bad Conduct Detection devices?
Pause for a moment to think about missing people portrayed on the milk cartons. Ponder the possibility that kids and young adults are victims of actual rape and murder scenes in some of the back-woods porn and slasher films that look TOO DAMNED REAL to be makeup and special effects. I don't KNOW if it's true, but years ago i heard that smut/snuff/smaff whatever the heck they're called involved REAL MURDER or RAPE VICTIMS. This could be why the FBI or Customs get involved -- and SHOULD.
BUT, when they run a search, whether cursory or deep, it would be nice if they do it RANDOMLY, not just based on what country you visited or last visited. If deep/invasive, they they might:
-- hook up a STANDALONE (well, even chips might defeat this possible "niceness" offer) disk copier to the laptop in the case of someone traveling with 150 gigs of data on two disks in a laptop (I could fit that scenario, as my l/t has two discs...)
-- image the disc/s in question (as a prevention against disc sabotage routines)
-- run steg checks
-- if no porn, no suspicious-persons contact, etc., then let the inspection target wipe the target copier and be on their way
Ifff someone is dumb enough to carry into or out of the country any porn or unlawful cryptographic material or illegally-obtained trade secrets and so on, they will likely get jail or prison time. That's their problem.
The problem ***i*** have is that we don't have a clear answer on whether or not the Customs or Border Patrol or other agents will simply snatch the laptop and never return it or just "lose" it. At some point, they are going to be overwhelmed by the size of the discs. If it's a disc full of text, they can breeze thru it, and unfortunately, they'll have total dossiers on us based on archiving our love letters, purchases, manuscript ideas, e-books and more. That is WAY too damned invasive.
The Federal courts (decision) should be overthrown for they should be required to:
-- randomly select laptops
-- sign documents stating that in lieu of being able to walk out WITH your laptop - even if criminal-implying evidence is found, you'll sign a release or permission-to-copy form so that while you have potential charges pending, if you're released you can still do OTHER work-related things in your life... until you face arraignment or court date
-- alternatively offer to let the agents delete the criminally-qualifying images and issue an immediate probationary action letter of some sort
We surf, and we sometimes accidentally land in porn sites or blogs that might have illicit data or images we personally don't remove from the cache.
I'd prefer to see the government:
-- work with ISPs/proxies/filters (especially at libraries, where I tend to surf from) to filter porn on a per-subscriber/patron opt-in basis
-- log diligent users who stay away from porn, and exempt them from invasive searches, but not necessarily exempt them from cursory image pattern searches.
-- ignore adult porn, but damned sure nail anyone dealing in kiddie porn or animal abuse
After all, it is the height of hypocrisy for the administration or any office or agency to claim it is trying to exercise its right to control what comes into the country. We have ENOUGH violence here, WITHIN the country.
I have absolutely NO CONCERNS about Al Qaida attacking me specifically and the US in general ----- SO LONGS AS NEITHER *i* nor the US needles or bombs them. Otherwise, you hit someone, expect to be HIT back, you starve or malign someone, expect that. I've not personally attacked them, and so, my right to not have any agency SPEAK FOR ME should not be trampled on. ****i**** should not have to fear that the passport i carry will be my condemnation on the basis that because i pay taxes to said government.
I have no doubt in my ex-military mind that in the US, the odds of persons of color being killed in large numbers by supremacists are vastly greater than any direct or indirect actions by overseas terrorist
Why am I thinking Universal Soldiers meets Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me? Van Dam vs Meyers. Agents Spitz & Swallows take on the Van Dam action...
As for Mil-Spec breasts, do those come with machine guns or toxic injectors?
For the Chinese to pay microsoft for some "compatibility assurance against potential lawsuit" type of thing would be stupid, degrading, and wasteful. It would not be much different from US citizens paying the police insurance against corrupt traffic department officials who tamper with the yellow light timing.
The Chinese need to keep forging ahead with Red Flag Linux, along with Japan and Korea and anyone else looking to not be under the msoft-NSA official foot. If the msoft-NSA/et al foot is in China, then those entities need to WORK THEIR ASSES OFF to BE there. They shouldn't just by de facto sales of computers get there.