Thousands of people are MURDERED, and the response is PROFITTERING by the bbc and other companies!
The more accurate statement would be that thousands of people were murdered and our non-elected president used it as an excuse for an insane power grab which completely destroys the constitution upon which our freedoms are based.
On another note, I always read that the Iran-Contra affair was about selling *weapons*, not drugs.
It was about selling drugs to get the money to buy the guns to trade to the Iranians for the return of our hostages. It was illegal to give Iran military weapons. Any government department that has any legal money whatsoever gets that money from Congress since that is one of the major roles of Congress. So since they were not authorized to give weapons to those countries, they had to come up with another source of income. So they imported and sold large amounts of cocaine to fund their illegal operation. This, in a nutshell, is what happened.
Allowing the police to profit from confiscating property only gives them incentive to manufacture crimes where there are none.
Of course there is also a lot of money to be made building prisons to put all of these evil criminals in as well.
Let's not forget how much can be made by selling the drugs which the laws make very profitable. The little Iran/Contra affair we had a while back demonstrated in front of Congress and the world that high ranking members of the US government were deeply involved in the international drug trade. Oh yeah, nobody remembered who really did what in that, did they? I suppose they all quit that and stopped returning the calls. Oh well, at least none of them will show their faces in public again will they?
Except for Poindexter. He will just be in charge of tracking your every action.
This is not a nightmare. Things really are this bad.
Now how exactly is a factual quote and a link Flamebait? The fact that the moderator is too much of a coward to face the reality we're living in does *not* make something flamebait.
Actually my senator, Russ Feingold [senate.gov], was the only one to vote against the USA Patriot Act.
Ah, my mistake. I got them mixed up. The point stands with the names changed.
Another interesting fact that's made even more bizarre by its tragic end is:
In August 2001, FBI Deputy Director John O'Neill resigned from his post over George W. Bush's policy on terrorism and Osama bin Laden. Specifically, O'Neill's department was told to "back off" their bin Laden and Al Queda investigations while the Bush administration negotiated with the Taliban. O'Neill became the security chief of the World Trade Center - where he died during the events of 9/11. Quoted from here.
He's popular to deify right now, of course. Frankly, I wish he'd lived to see his defeat at the polls.
I didn't intend to deify him. I don't know that much about him professionally, and less personally.
The fact that the act of voting in favor of the Patriot Act was, quite literally, an act of treason, and he's the only one that had the courage to vote no does justify offering some respect for his principles IMHO.
Yeah, funny isn't it? You'd think they don't deal with convicted felons or the likes of them.
Yeah, funny like how Poindexter, convicted felon, traitor, high level mover in the international drug cartel is now in charge of Big Brother's database of all information about you.
Putting a bullet in the head of any member of the American government is an act of Patriotism at this point.
While corruption is not unknown in the US, these are usually exceptions
You are deluding yourself if you think that this is even remotely true. Corruption is the absolute rule in our government. Explain DMCA, Patriot act, Mickey Mouse Protection act, Homeland Security (alone and with all the riders) in any other way.
In India, the honest politicians would be the exception.
Here we apparently had one left who is now dead. Wellstone was the one dissenter to the Patriot act. Anyone who voted in favor of that showed their hatred and contempt of the constitution, freedom, and basically everything America says that we stand for. If you disagree try and come up with an actual reason that I'm wrong.
It's sad that you can have proof piled upon proof that the US government is completely owned and corrupt yet you are afraid to face the truth. I'm not singling you out. Most people in America are afraid of facing reality. That is out primary problem.
Slashdot apparently dropped my inclusion of the HTML [table] tag in the text and subject. That's what I meant, NOT all HTML e-mail!
Only a couple of spams make it to my inbox, and only a few legit mails go to my trash. (I do a quick scan before I empty it). I have one mail filter that drops anything containing html.
Well, you only responded to my first sentence, and you didn't deny the truth of it.
You ignored my question:
What else is left to fight with besides evil?
This is a serious question. I am truly disenheartened by this situation and honestly want to know if anyone has any ideas of what else there is to do about it. My post was not a troll in any way. When the system that is supposed to protect you fails miserably for malicious reasons, what options are left to us?
This may be an urban legend, but I read that cops in a California city opposed Photo Radar. Why? Because it kept sending tickets to cops that were speeding off duty.
My cousin is a San Diego detective, and while he didn't say anything about his position on them, he told us as a joke that the captain was pissed at the cops because of that.
I'm opposed to them because they were run by a private company who shared in the profits from them. They decreased the yellow light time to boost profits, and accidents increased something crazy like 150% at just those intersections. Studies showed that an even longer yellow time than was normal before the cameras would decrease accidents a pretty good percentage at the cost of ticket revenue.
I just don't think "whatever the market will bear" is an appropriate philosophy for my government to adopt.
Incidentally, saying that the absence of those things means that your statements are supported, is like saying that if AOL never wrote AIM, an instant messenger would never exist.
Bad example. ICQ came out first, and then AOL made AIM and then bought ICQ.
And, if you want to get picky, the surface representation in 3D does care, you need to define the curvature somehow and you can't do that in 2D - without that, it's just another plane.
The sphere is just the surface. A Ball is the sphere and its interior Just like a circle is the "edge" and a disk is a circle and the interior.
Remove one point from a circle and you can flatten it out into a line. So it's 1 dimensional, but it lives in 2 space. A circle has an arc *length*, but zero area. In 2+ space, it surrounds an area though.
A sphere has a surface area, but zero volume, although it surrounds a volume of 3 space.
If you look at just the sphere by itself, without embedding it in 3 space, there isn't even an interior to worry about. It is by itself, a 2 dimensional object.
Might not be possible since they can't tell the difference between their ass and a hole in the ground. They can, however, tell the difference between their ass and *two* holes in the ground.
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Thousands of people are MURDERED, and the response is PROFITTERING by the bbc and other companies!
The more accurate statement would be that thousands of people were murdered and our non-elected president used it as an excuse for an insane power grab which completely destroys the constitution upon which our freedoms are based.
This is, of course, after he ordered the FBI to back off of Bin Laden.
Who invited the Christian extremists?
Which, of course, is a generalization of a question which could only be answered with:
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
On another note, I always read that the Iran-Contra affair was about selling *weapons*, not drugs.
It was about selling drugs to get the money to buy the guns to trade to the Iranians for the return of our hostages. It was illegal to give Iran military weapons. Any government department that has any legal money whatsoever gets that money from Congress since that is one of the major roles of Congress. So since they were not authorized to give weapons to those countries, they had to come up with another source of income. So they imported and sold large amounts of cocaine to fund their illegal operation. This, in a nutshell, is what happened.
Allowing the police to profit from confiscating property only gives them incentive to manufacture crimes where there are none.
Of course there is also a lot of money to be made building prisons to put all of these evil criminals in as well.
Let's not forget how much can be made by selling the drugs which the laws make very profitable.
The little Iran/Contra affair we had a while back demonstrated in front of Congress and the world that high ranking members of the US government were deeply involved in the international drug trade. Oh yeah, nobody remembered who really did what in that, did they? I suppose they all quit that and stopped returning the calls. Oh well, at least none of them will show their faces in public again will they?
Except for Poindexter. He will just be in charge of tracking your every action.
This is not a nightmare. Things really are this bad.
I kind of like the idea of using the military option for a regiem change in Redmond
Come on now, regime change begins at home.
Now how exactly is a factual quote and a link Flamebait?
The fact that the moderator is too much of a coward to face the reality we're living in does *not* make something flamebait.
Actually my senator, Russ Feingold [senate.gov], was the only one to vote against the USA Patriot Act.
Ah, my mistake.
I got them mixed up. The point stands with the names changed.
Another interesting fact that's made even more bizarre by its tragic end is:
In August 2001, FBI Deputy Director John O'Neill resigned from his post over George W. Bush's policy on terrorism and Osama bin Laden. Specifically, O'Neill's department was told to "back off" their bin Laden and Al Queda investigations while the Bush administration negotiated with the Taliban. O'Neill became the security chief of the World Trade Center - where he died during the events of 9/11.
Quoted from here.
He's popular to deify right now, of course. Frankly, I wish he'd lived to see his defeat at the polls.
I didn't intend to deify him. I don't know that much about him professionally, and less personally.
The fact that the act of voting in favor of the Patriot Act was, quite literally, an act of treason, and he's the only one that had the courage to vote no does justify offering some respect for his principles IMHO.
Yeah, funny isn't it? You'd think they don't deal with convicted felons or the likes of them.
Yeah, funny like how Poindexter, convicted felon, traitor, high level mover in the international drug cartel is now in charge of Big Brother's database of all information about you.
Putting a bullet in the head of any member of the American government is an act of Patriotism at this point.
While corruption is not unknown in the US, these are usually exceptions
You are deluding yourself if you think that this is even remotely true. Corruption is the absolute rule in our government. Explain DMCA, Patriot act, Mickey Mouse Protection act, Homeland Security (alone and with all the riders) in any other way.
In India, the honest politicians would be the exception.
Here we apparently had one left who is now dead.
Wellstone was the one dissenter to the Patriot act.
Anyone who voted in favor of that showed their hatred and contempt of the constitution, freedom, and basically everything America says that we stand for.
If you disagree try and come up with an actual reason that I'm wrong.
It's sad that you can have proof piled upon proof that the US government is completely owned and corrupt yet you are afraid to face the truth.
I'm not singling you out. Most people in America are afraid of facing reality. That is out primary problem.
Indian government runs on bribes and extortion.
Which is different from the US government exactly how?
Show me the Cheater kiddy who knows how to do that to IP.
For this particular case (XBox some particular game),
they probably can't right now, but neither can they cheat with a mod chip.
Once someone with real knowledge figures it out and releases it then it's just clickety click.
The difficulty is the same either way though.
Cheating (AIMbot's and hacks, like what's made FPS online play suck so much) on a X-Box, requires the ability to run Unsigned Code.
No it doesn't.
Have you ever heard of a proxy?
Intercept the data and replace it.
No mods to the XBox are required.
Actually, you are the moron.
This can in no possible way have anything to do with cheating.
That's not what mod chips do.
Cheating is done in other ways which this will not affect in the least.
Oh, and when someone steals my tagged handgun and kills someone, I'll get blamed. But, hey at least someone gets the electric chair right?
Exactly!
Thank you, #76709, for your noble sacrifice in the name of freedom.
Slashdot apparently dropped my inclusion of the HTML [table] tag in the text and subject. That's what I meant, NOT all HTML e-mail!
Only a couple of spams make it to my inbox, and only a few legit mails go to my trash. (I do a quick scan before I empty it).
I have one mail filter that drops anything containing html.
YMMV, but it works pretty well for me.
Well, you only responded to my first sentence, and you didn't deny the truth of it.
You ignored my question:
What else is left to fight with besides evil?
This is a serious question. I am truly disenheartened by this situation and honestly want to know if anyone has any ideas of what else there is to do about it. My post was not a troll in any way. When the system that is supposed to protect you fails miserably for malicious reasons, what options are left to us?
Just because they're after M$ in this case doesn't change that into a Bad Thing. Let's not fight Evil with evil.
Well, "we" already exhausted all possible legal and moral options and got a hearty "go fuck yourself" from the justice system.
What else is left to fight with besides evil?
This may be an urban legend, but I read that cops in a California city opposed Photo Radar. Why? Because it kept sending tickets to cops that were speeding off duty.
My cousin is a San Diego detective, and while he didn't say anything about his position on them, he told us as a joke that the captain was pissed at the cops because of that.
I'm opposed to them because they were run by a private company who shared in the profits from them. They decreased the yellow light time to boost profits, and accidents increased something crazy like 150% at just those intersections.
Studies showed that an even longer yellow time than was normal before the cameras would decrease accidents a pretty good percentage at the cost of ticket revenue.
I just don't think "whatever the market will bear" is an appropriate philosophy for my government to adopt.
This made me think of a great new virus/worm whatever.
Have it take every address from someones address book and sign it up for every spam list you can find.
Yes, it would suck for almost every one for a little while, but it would promote some prompt action.
Of course, given our current government's track record with prompt responses in a crisis (Patriot act anybody) maybe it's not such a good idea.
Incidentally, saying that the absence of those things means that your statements are supported, is like saying that if AOL never wrote AIM, an instant messenger would never exist.
Bad example. ICQ came out first, and then AOL made AIM and then bought ICQ.
And, if you want to get picky, the surface representation in 3D does care, you need to define the curvature somehow and you can't do that in 2D - without that, it's just another plane.
The sphere is just the surface. A Ball is the sphere and its interior
Just like a circle is the "edge" and a disk is a circle and the interior.
Remove one point from a circle and you can flatten it out into a line. So it's 1 dimensional, but it lives in 2 space.
A circle has an arc *length*, but zero area.
In 2+ space, it surrounds an area though.
A sphere has a surface area, but zero volume, although it surrounds a volume of 3 space.
If you look at just the sphere by itself, without embedding it in 3 space, there isn't even an interior to worry about. It is by itself, a 2 dimensional object.
discretely.
Might not be possible since they can't tell the difference between their ass and a hole in the ground.
They can, however, tell the difference between their ass and *two* holes in the ground.
"Coming into a server"?!
I expected some INTELLIGENT commentary
Well, he was probably afraid of being quoted in the paper saying "Microsoft HACKING into my server."
Hell that's grounds for a BSA audit right there.
Disclosure: No, I don't work for them, but I have had lunch with them and they're pretty nice guys!
;-)
OK, full disclosure. Who paid for lunch?