Oh, don't worry. They are well on their way to making free speech illegal. It's a good thing that Bruce didn't express his ideas right before the mid-term elections. It's a good thing that he wasn't speaking officially for a national organization that wasn't "educational".
Because speaking out against a candidate before the election is illegal now if you are paid to do so by those who work 9 to 5.
I'm just waiting for the first candidate to take advantage of this particular law. The one that the incumbents created to protect themselves from voters.
Can you imagine that the following ad will be illegal when elections are heating up:
"Republicans A,B,C,D... and Democrat X sold you down the river. Favoring the 'donations' they received from Military Contractors over the safety and security of the people themselves; in fact, the very people that are sworn to protect the defend the Constitution - John McCain and Hillary Clinton - have voted repeatedly for the same police state laws that are destroying the very concept of participatory democracy in this country."
Now all I need is someone to agree with me and pay me to enter that little diatribe onto any form of mass communication (Internet too) and I spend 5 years in jail.
The name of this wonderful election law is "McCain-Feingold". Do you really want John McCain as President? Do you really want Hillary as President when she could have led the Democrats to stop the same type of war that she campaigned against during Vietnam? Were McCain or Feingold funded by commercial interests who would like to see less competition for powerful incumbent house seats? Has blatantly "Commercial Speech" been banned from the floor of the House or Senate? Why have the voters been banned from using the same techniques as lobbyists? Lobbyists, like Jack Abramhoff and his purchased representatives David Vitter and Jack Dela....
Ooops. Can I say that? Slashdot might be funded by a known group of pro-freedom types, bought and paid for by evil Dell advertising.
Within 4 days of this stuff getting installed, hackers around the world turn millions of computers into zombie machines via this backdoor and DDOS their favorite government networks.
I'm getting this mental image of a cartoon: A german WW2 officer tosses a boomerang-shaped grenade at an allied soldier.
"What the..? Hey, God, check this out! Someone is trying to patent some human chemicals!"
"What?! Those bastards! I have prior art on the human body! I'm going to sue them ten ways 'til Sunday! Nobody screws with God's patents, Michael, my boy! Nobody!"
Anyone else think that this might be MPAA/RIAA bribing the Swedish police to raid their servers and then turn over the logs so that they have tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of American IPs to track down? Then, using their enormous lawyer repertoire, sue a bajillion people into poverty via mass settlements?
I would -not- be surprised. MPAA/RIAA are predator organisms in the big scheme of things, sort of like gelatinous cubes. They're huge, they're always hungry, and they have the resources to get that food. They see that somebody in the Swedish police can be bribed. They have found the food trail. They take that opportunity and bribe the right people. They're told to nab the servers of Pirate Bay and then turn over the logs. Using these logs, they now know many more locations of tasty prey to be consumed.
It's not that outlandish when you think about their track record.
"Let us all make fun of Dick Butkus [wikipedia.org] now for his name."
Dick Butkus is different. Nintendo doesn't expect the masses to buy Dick Butkus and use his body to play video games with. I expect, however, that more people would actually like the Nintendo Dick Butkus more than the Nintendo Wii. At least it sounds like the name of some badass, future-noir cyborg detective.
Napoleon has a better chance of taking Russia during wintertime than the US does going to 'war' with the entire world wide web and winning. How do you even begin a war on the internet?
"My fellow Americans, during these times of tuhr attacks, the threats of the in - innernets have grown too large. We must stand together and keep these innernets from torturing their citizens and invading our beloved country. I've amassed an army of 80,000 marines to invade the innernets and stop the evil man Osama Bin Laden from striking against the American people with tuhr and hate."
"Uh, sir, you can't attack the internet. It's a network of millions of computers."
"My fellow Americans, I've just changed my mind. I'm going to EMP the entire globe. The scientists have dubbed this project 'Project Escape-From-L.A.' God Bless you and God Bless the United States of America."
Well, if you just spin the disk backward, logically it should follow that the artificial gravity will turn into anti-gravity! I have made the greatest scientific discovery since Einstein! Wait... I better be quiet about this before the oil companies and government agencies try to sabotage me, just like they did with my zero-point energy machine and my perpetual engine (I'm still working on getting the lubricant working correctly...)
What people fail to realize is that you're not a bully in the game. Here's the game synopsis:
As a troublesome schoolboy, you'll laugh and cringe as you stand up to bullies, get picked on by teachers, play pranks on malicious kids, win or lose the girl, and ultimately learn to navigate the obstacles of the fictitious reform school, Bullworth Academy.
And since when was this "real-life school violence?" Last I checked, this was a video game.
A program that takes the steps from DDR songs and turns the step notes that appear on screen and make each one turn into spam mail. Then you'll be 'stomping to the beat' and deleting spam with each note hit. Of course, you might accidentally delete good e-mail, but hey, you just make sure that trusted e-mail addresses aren't on there.
Before you know it, Spam Spam Revolution is a worldwide sensation. I can see the newspaper classifieds now..
Need talented DDR player to stomp out huge amounts of spam mail. Will pay for services.
Hey, don't lump us Playstation owners together! I know that Mario 64 has better gfx than FF7. Speaking of FF7, who remembers THOSE commercials? -all- CGI, no gameplay. Just like COD.
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Oh, don't worry. They are well on their way to making free speech illegal. It's a good thing that Bruce didn't express his ideas right before the mid-term elections. It's a good thing that he wasn't speaking officially for a national organization that wasn't "educational".
... and Democrat X sold you down the river. Favoring the 'donations' they received from Military Contractors over the safety and security of the people themselves; in fact, the very people that are sworn to protect the defend the Constitution - John McCain and Hillary Clinton - have voted repeatedly for the same police state laws that are destroying the very concept of participatory democracy in this country."
Because speaking out against a candidate before the election is illegal now if you are paid to do so by those who work 9 to 5.
I'm just waiting for the first candidate to take advantage of this particular law. The one that the incumbents created to protect themselves from voters.
Can you imagine that the following ad will be illegal when elections are heating up:
"Republicans A,B,C,D
Now all I need is someone to agree with me and pay me to enter that little diatribe onto any form of mass communication (Internet too) and I spend 5 years in jail.
The name of this wonderful election law is "McCain-Feingold". Do you really want John McCain as President? Do you really want Hillary as President when she could have led the Democrats to stop the same type of war that she campaigned against during Vietnam? Were McCain or Feingold funded by commercial interests who would like to see less competition for powerful incumbent house seats? Has blatantly "Commercial Speech" been banned from the floor of the House or Senate? Why have the voters been banned from using the same techniques as lobbyists? Lobbyists, like Jack Abramhoff and his purchased representatives David Vitter and Jack Dela....
Ooops. Can I say that? Slashdot might be funded by a known group of pro-freedom types, bought and paid for by evil Dell advertising.
No. Free speech is in fine shape.
No problem here.
Move along.
Or read this...
http://www.reason.com/rauch/100704.shtml
Notice the operative word "can," not "must."
There is a light at the end of the tunnel.
It's a train.
Half-Life 2: Episode 1 lasted me about 9-10 hours. I got my money's worth.
full game = 40-50 bucks paying 20 bucks for half a game sounds about right to me!
Within 4 days of this stuff getting installed, hackers around the world turn millions of computers into zombie machines via this backdoor and DDOS their favorite government networks. I'm getting this mental image of a cartoon: A german WW2 officer tosses a boomerang-shaped grenade at an allied soldier.
We can use blipverts! Just watch out for the exploding diabetics.
Prior art?
I can see it now..
"What the..? Hey, God, check this out! Someone is trying to patent some human chemicals!"
"What?! Those bastards! I have prior art on the human body! I'm going to sue them ten ways 'til Sunday! Nobody screws with God's patents, Michael, my boy! Nobody!"
The better question is: How did the murderer lug around 921,000 rounds of ammuniition without being noticed?
...Launching it into outer space via slingshot? You know how all those little green guys love that molasses stuff with their beef.
Anyone else think that this might be MPAA/RIAA bribing the Swedish police to raid their servers and then turn over the logs so that they have tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of American IPs to track down? Then, using their enormous lawyer repertoire, sue a bajillion people into poverty via mass settlements?
I would -not- be surprised. MPAA/RIAA are predator organisms in the big scheme of things, sort of like gelatinous cubes. They're huge, they're always hungry, and they have the resources to get that food. They see that somebody in the Swedish police can be bribed. They have found the food trail.
They take that opportunity and bribe the right people. They're told to nab the servers of Pirate Bay and then turn over the logs. Using these logs, they now know many more locations of tasty prey to be consumed.
It's not that outlandish when you think about their track record.
The article title looks like "Unique Visitors = 1/10th of Unique PIs?"
"Let us all make fun of Dick Butkus [wikipedia.org] now for his name."
Dick Butkus is different. Nintendo doesn't expect the masses to buy Dick Butkus and use his body to play video games with. I expect, however, that more people would actually like the Nintendo Dick Butkus more than the Nintendo Wii. At least it sounds like the name of some badass, future-noir cyborg detective.
10. Profit! Oh, wait...
Cue Futurama jokes about smelling Uranus.
Napoleon has a better chance of taking Russia during wintertime than the US does going to 'war' with the entire world wide web and winning. How do you even begin a war on the internet?
"My fellow Americans, during these times of tuhr attacks, the threats of the in - innernets have grown too large. We must stand together and keep these innernets from torturing their citizens and invading our beloved country. I've amassed an army of 80,000 marines to invade the innernets and stop the evil man Osama Bin Laden from striking against the American people with tuhr and hate."
"Uh, sir, you can't attack the internet. It's a network of millions of computers."
"My fellow Americans, I've just changed my mind. I'm going to EMP the entire globe. The scientists have dubbed this project 'Project Escape-From-L.A.' God Bless you and God Bless the United States of America."
Well, if you just spin the disk backward, logically it should follow that the artificial gravity will turn into anti-gravity! I have made the greatest scientific discovery since Einstein! Wait... I better be quiet about this before the oil companies and government agencies try to sabotage me, just like they did with my zero-point energy machine and my perpetual engine (I'm still working on getting the lubricant working correctly...)
Ghandi never struck me as the kind of guy who trashtalks others. Well you learn something new everyday, I suppose.
What people fail to realize is that you're not a bully in the game. Here's the game synopsis:
As a troublesome schoolboy, you'll laugh and cringe as you stand up to bullies, get picked on by teachers, play pranks on malicious kids, win or lose the girl, and ultimately learn to navigate the obstacles of the fictitious reform school, Bullworth Academy.
And since when was this "real-life school violence?" Last I checked, this was a video game.
Unfortunately, food supplies and entertainment resources aren't being threatened. So the people will continue to boil like the slowly boiling frog.
If someone gives the wrong knock, the door opens and Leon the Professional pops out of the ceiling to fill their bodies will lead.
A program that takes the steps from DDR songs and turns the step notes that appear on screen and make each one turn into spam mail. Then you'll be 'stomping to the beat' and deleting spam with each note hit. Of course, you might accidentally delete good e-mail, but hey, you just make sure that trusted e-mail addresses aren't on there.
Before you know it, Spam Spam Revolution is a worldwide sensation. I can see the newspaper classifieds now..
Need talented DDR player to stomp out huge amounts of spam mail. Will pay for services.
Hey, don't lump us Playstation owners together! I know that Mario 64 has better gfx than FF7. Speaking of FF7, who remembers THOSE commercials? -all- CGI, no gameplay. Just like COD.
Ghostware is now a new term for everyone to use and enjoy. Enjoy!
I feel like hasta-la-vistaing myself after that joke.