Or perhaps Frank sucked just as much as nsync. It was corporate marketed media crap and the people who think he was some kind of genius are the same people who glamorize puff daddy or the kennedy's. People who are spoon fed their culture. Those people were told that Frank was some kind of singing genius. I personally think high school freshman choir singers have more talent, but thats just me. Its the same story over and over. James Dean. Marilyn Monroe. Elvis. Crap Crap Crap. Not trolling here just an observation that you hinted at. This isn't a new culutural phenomena, not at all. Its a tried and true formula for making money. The sheeple of western nations love the fantasy of what is spoon fed to them. Thats why people love Bill Gates and Microsoft. Thats why people hate Osama Bin Laden. Thats why people watch baseball. Its all a big distraction to keep you from realizing you are just a slave in a big machine that profits a select few. And the few crumbs we do have we give right back in order to further inflate our fantasy idolization of what we can never have. And then we go buy another lottery ticket and talk about what we would do if we won.
"I hate to make generalizations, but these radical anarchist types are all alike. "
Yeah like the radical anarchists who founded the united states of america. You hate to make generalizations yet you do so because you know ONE person who you have some beef with.
You know, protesting, and preparing for being assaulted because of the protesting (carrying shields) is not illegal nor is it a sign of anything more then wanting to have your voice heard despite the physical danger inherent in speaking up.
I dont know enough about this kid or his intentions but I do know that from the court record of this particular hearing, he was being held based on his practicing his first ammendmant rights. The judge used the statements on his web page to make that decision, not any of the evidence presented by the fbi. Of course, I don't think that the first ammendmant exactly applies in this hearing since it was not a trial, it was simply a hearing to determine this fitness of the accused to abide by a court order. And his statements made on the web page are decidedly against this.
However do not judge a person based on some stereotype you have in your head based on VERY limited experience in this matter. If it weren't for people doing similar things to what you find so abhorant, we'd still be a british colony.
It could also be 3 dimensional and would only be limited to your entire current line of sight. A tiny laser tracking your eyes on a billboard could make it appear that a car is about to smash into you via your peripheral vision, or put something 2 feet in front of you when the laser is actually 100 yards away. It could place a person walking towards you that would be indistinguishable from the real thing. That is much more then a 2d billboard could ever do. And much more intrusive.
Anyone remember the advertising in Diamond Age where images were broadcast directly into the eyes of passersby on the street? I can imagine this on a scale where these are placed in strategic locations in supermarkets, on the street, heck even the freeway. Scary, that you could have images directly placed onto your retina that are beyond your control (other then closing your eyes) Talk about mucking with reality, but then there's a whole new market for special sun glasses that reflect this kind of bombardment... Oakley Ad Blockers!
Well.. Yeah but you are talking hundreds of millions of years. I'd think that even if we don't do this in the next 10,000 years, we will still eventually colonize space. Its not like we have to plan for escaping the earth any time soon, not even geologically soon.
Something like this wouldn't be built for at least 20 years from now. By then simple nanomachines should be available, since much of the construction of this would probably be done at a nanoscale. If there were swarms of nanomachines all up and down the cable and if they were made to detect any abnormalities in the structural integrity of the elevator, they could simply deconstruct it. Billions of micron length strands of bucky tubes should not have that much of an impact on the ground due to friction in the atmosphere. It would simply be dust particles floating around. I'd think the deconstruction of the cable could be done in a relatively short amount of time as well. The only problem with this would be false alarms, but then again with that kind of technology it wouldn't take too long to reconstruct a new cable.
I was also thinking, for some types of projects wouldn't the code come out quite similar if it was done correctly? If you are teach C++ classes, and were implementing some simple program to test the knowledge of the students, then a correctly written program would be very similar to another correctly written program. Otherwise you are not teaching standard techniques very well, imho. A shell sort is a shell sort, not much difference between properly implemented versions.
I use code I find on the internet all the time, first thing I do when I start a new routine as a matter of fact. I search for preexisting code and use/modify that accordingly. Of course only freely available code but there are tons of sources for that. How would this program detect that? I would trust some code I got from the net over something another person in class wrote, but then again I know enough to be able to see if the code is good or not and to modify it if I need to.
Well perhaps some people use stego and might actually have used strong passwords that could not be guessed by a dictionary attack. If I were communicating secretly using the internet, I would first encrypt the message with pgp, then place the encrypted text into a large jpeg WITH a strong password, and post to a half dozen groups. How would any kind of attack (well any reasonable attack) be able to detect my message? Even if the dictionary attack worked, how would you know the result was the real message, since it would appear to be random garbage, just like all the incorrectly passworded dumps? Just doesn't seem like this is something you can do, its taking distributed.net several years to crack ONE message. How would you go about finding a needle in a haystack, and THEN decoding it? We are talking tens of millions of images. What is the point of this? I'm sure people use stego, for whatever reason, why wouldn't they? Some hacker group, or warez group, or terrorists or whatever, somewhere, at some time, posted stego'd images to usenet.
Hmmm... well the hobbits did take a back seat to their company in the first book. They had no idea about anything of the world, they were like wide eyed children being led into a dark and scary nightmare. Its not until they have been on the road some time, seen scary things, been in battle, etc. that they started to shine as true heroes. At first they were ignorant of the world, clumsy, trusting, and naive. At the end of the story they are warriors and heroes, the stuff of legends. Thats the whole point I think. Take ordinary, minor players in world events, and show how they shape the world to come through seemingly innocuous acts of self preservation and dogged determination to do what they must.
The first book IS all about Gandalf and Aragorn. They provide the mechanisms for the hobbits to grow and become what they are at the end of the story. And eventually they depart from the company and the hobbits do just fine on their own. When they were ready.
It is rather simple, actually. It has nothing to do with business, it has to do with ethical behavior on the behalf of a government. How can we call Iraq evil and use their human rights violations as a reason to implement sanctions and yet prop up their just as heinous neighbor? Its a double standard, which leads to the utter hatred of America in that region. Either show your true nature and stop the bullshit "saddam is hitler" and osama bin laden crap, or cop to the fact that human rights has never had anything to do with our position in that region. We dont care about corrupt regimes that hate america. We dont care about terrorism. American politicians only care about one thing, and one thing only: getting reelected. PERIOD. Do whatever is popular, do whatever keeps gas prices down, do whatever CNN polls tell you to do. Get those poll results in your favor. PERIOD. Stop the morality act and be honest about what the motives are. Its not a complicated capitalism and morality play. Its a simple tv soap opera played out on scrolling banners on MSNBC. No wonder middle eastern people think our culture is sick and twisted. That doesn't mean the american people are, they are just ignorant sheep being spoon fed their opinions and thoughts via cable tv and talk radio. Bomb the taliban!! Why? Because tv said so!! WOOHOO, america is #1, bomb everybody else, and GO LAKERS. Talk about twisted...
Woz probably had the biggest impact on the computer industry via hacking. Err phreaking... But anyway, a history of Apple cannot leave out Woz and his blue box. Dont know of any book about apple but thats the most major "hacking" event in computer science I know if.
I dont think it was alarmist. A possibly airborn version of one of the worlds most deadly virii shows up in a washington suburb. Army and CDC personal tasked with dealing with the virus make mistakes on numerous occasions. And the virus did apparently spread between rooms after the building was locked down by USAMRID. It was SCARY is what it was, if you think the danger was overstated then you are downplaying what was almost a huge disaster.
Anybody ever read Hotzone? The airborn version of ebola (Hemmoraghic fever) that was discovered in a washington suburb a decade ago LUCKILY only infected monkeys. Normally ebola infects both humans and monkeys, but luckily is only transmissible via contact with bodily fluids. An airborn version was discovered and since this disease is 90% fatal, if a strain is found that can infect humans and has the structure to live in aerosol form, would be FAR FAR worse then smallpox. Most people have no idea how close we came to global oblivion of over 90% of the human race during that infection at the monkey quarantine house. Scary stuff. Stephen King wrote that Hotzone was the scariest book he had ever read. Its terrifying. And all it would take is one guy to walk into an international airport with an airborn version of the virus. 36 hours later the world is in deep doo doo.
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Except that the perpetrators of this atrocity are all dead.
Just because Osama *might* be involved does not mean he actually was, though he obviously has been roasted in the media before being allowed to be proven guilty. They are even censoring his comments to the media so we dont know what his opinion is, except for the sound bites that he thinks we deserve this. So what? Is being sympathetic to a cause mean you are guilty of it? If you are an anti-semite and think the holocaust was a good thing, does that mean you should be executed?
You know, most of the methods of how to affectively perpetrate terrorism on a populace was taught around the world by our own CIA. So does the fact that our own information was used against us make us culpable? Nope.
Remember: the taliban offered to turn over Osama if we provided compelling evidence that he had direct involvement in the Sept 11 attack.
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Both sides are guilty. I am simply stating that we support the terrorism of one side, while others support the terrorism of the other side.
Why is it when "terrorism" is involved, one side is bad and the other good? I do not believe in the concept of terrorism, I am simply using the current propaganda definitions as they are defined in the media.
War is War, and maintaining imperial power means waging war on people. And it means those people will retaliate. Killing people is never a good thing. I dont think Isreal is any more or less evil then Libya, or Britain, or Afghanistan. I think our biased attitude IS a problem however. Lets call it what it is. American IS performing terrorist action in Afghanistan. We are using the threat of civilian casualties to persuade the poeple that the better course is to overthrow their current regime. Using death as a tool to achieve an end IS terrorism. According to our skewed point of view that is. We just cannot point that insight at ourselves.
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The two biggest falacies in America today are:
1. That our leaders are stupid.
2. That they mean well.
When in reality they are not, and they don't. It doesn't matter that they paint a rosy picture of being the good samaritan on the block so you can rest easy at night. History speaks otherwise. You do not prop up an empire on good intentions and peaceful watchdog-ing. You prop an empire on fear, control and economic slavery.
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Ummm.... We have supported terrorism in foreign countries for decades. East Timor. Afghanistan. Vietnam. Guatemala. Argentina. Iran. Iraq. Korea. Bosnia. RUSSIA. What, you dont think the CIA had any involvement in the power struggles in post-USSR Russia? The CIA wrote the BOOK on terrorism!! We supported, financed and armed the terrorists in Afghanistan for YEARS. We have supported the terrorist regime of Isreal for YEARS. We have supported the terrorist regime of Pakistan for YEARS. Ever hear of the death squads in Guatemala? Who trained them? Armed them? Stood by while they dropped "terrorists" and "subversives" from airplanes into the ocean?
The United states has done all the things you say we are against. Ethnic cleansing (the most successful and ignored ethnic cleansing in modern times - the american indian.) WAR. We make war all the time, and we even make war on abstract concepts like "drugs" and "terrorism." And we do not ask that anyone follow our rules. We DEMAND they follow our rules, which means do not encroach on american interests. Are we intervening in Chechnya? Did we intervene in East Timor? Nope. You know why? Because no american interests (economic) are involved. Osama Bin Laden is the boogey man of the month because he openly advocates the overthrow of the brutal, corrupt Saudi regime. Do you think we want an anti-western freedom fighter (errr... that term only applies if we support their actions, so "terrorist") taking power in Saudi Arabia? Do we want a muslim fundamentallist regime in control of our oil? HELL NO!!!! You think this is about people? The world trade center? Then why do we not bomb isreal when they shoot rockets into a refuge camp to kill a couple of "terrorists" whilst killing hundreds of innocents? Or for shooting teenagers for throwing rocks? Why didn't we bomb Iraq when Saddam used chemical weapons on his own people? The Shah of Iran had public executions of children and we gave him sanctuary in our country. And the Marcos family of the Philipines. Oh yeah, we trained, armed and financed Hochi Minh in his war against france.
Get off the high horse. The US is no saint. At least countries like Russia do not hide the fact that they are out for their own interest and will take any brutal act to see to that end. Remember when the Iranian revolutionary regime killed several russian diplomats? The russians shipped them the heads of several iranian diplomats that were in russia. The HEADS. At least they do not hide behind a smiling face.
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Its not WAR. Its called Imperialism. And yes it is as old as humans. Everybody just refuses to see that the US Empire has expanded to all corners of the globe. I for one think its deplorable, but its the truth. Its been going on for a hundred years or more. The US has a total lack of regard for the national rights of other countries. They don't exist unless we approve.
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At least thats what it means to me when I hear it. We are basically talking about US-centric ideology and economy. It means that things like this invasion of Afghanistan should be accepted by the rest of the world, because sooner or later it may happen to them. Forget that nations have their own sovereign right to determine their own internal affairs. They only have that right insofar as the US does not feel the need to interfere. And this does not apply equally across the board. Would we allow France to bomb our cities because we are harboring a political fugitive they are seeking? Would we allow Russia to arm and finance groups in America that advocate overthrowing the US government? Yet that seems perfectly acceptable for the US to do in other countries. Of course when the US does it, its not called "state sponsored terrorism".
How do they define harm in things like this? Is a description of what marijuana is count as harm? How about descriptions of the biological functions of humans, such as menstruation? They teach that in school, yet some bible thumpers might consider that to be harmfull. So its up to the parents to decide. So if I am a christian mother and I feel my child was harmed by reading Islamic scripture, thus poluting their pure religious experience, I can sue under these provisions?????
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Or perhaps Frank sucked just as much as nsync. It was corporate marketed media crap and the people who think he was some kind of genius are the same people who glamorize puff daddy or the kennedy's. People who are spoon fed their culture. Those people were told that Frank was some kind of singing genius. I personally think high school freshman choir singers have more talent, but thats just me. Its the same story over and over. James Dean. Marilyn Monroe. Elvis. Crap Crap Crap. Not trolling here just an observation that you hinted at. This isn't a new culutural phenomena, not at all. Its a tried and true formula for making money. The sheeple of western nations love the fantasy of what is spoon fed to them. Thats why people love Bill Gates and Microsoft. Thats why people hate Osama Bin Laden. Thats why people watch baseball. Its all a big distraction to keep you from realizing you are just a slave in a big machine that profits a select few. And the few crumbs we do have we give right back in order to further inflate our fantasy idolization of what we can never have. And then we go buy another lottery ticket and talk about what we would do if we won.
"I hate to make generalizations, but these radical anarchist types are all alike. "
Yeah like the radical anarchists who founded the united states of america. You hate to make generalizations yet you do so because you know ONE person who you have some beef with.
You know, protesting, and preparing for being assaulted because of the protesting (carrying shields) is not illegal nor is it a sign of anything more then wanting to have your voice heard despite the physical danger inherent in speaking up.
I dont know enough about this kid or his intentions but I do know that from the court record of this particular hearing, he was being held based on his practicing his first ammendmant rights. The judge used the statements on his web page to make that decision, not any of the evidence presented by the fbi. Of course, I don't think that the first ammendmant exactly applies in this hearing since it was not a trial, it was simply a hearing to determine this fitness of the accused to abide by a court order. And his statements made on the web page are decidedly against this.
However do not judge a person based on some stereotype you have in your head based on VERY limited experience in this matter. If it weren't for people doing similar things to what you find so abhorant, we'd still be a british colony.
It could also be 3 dimensional and would only be limited to your entire current line of sight. A tiny laser tracking your eyes on a billboard could make it appear that a car is about to smash into you via your peripheral vision, or put something 2 feet in front of you when the laser is actually 100 yards away. It could place a person walking towards you that would be indistinguishable from the real thing. That is much more then a 2d billboard could ever do. And much more intrusive.
Anyone remember the advertising in Diamond Age where images were broadcast directly into the eyes of passersby on the street? I can imagine this on a scale where these are placed in strategic locations in supermarkets, on the street, heck even the freeway. Scary, that you could have images directly placed onto your retina that are beyond your control (other then closing your eyes) Talk about mucking with reality, but then there's a whole new market for special sun glasses that reflect this kind of bombardment... Oakley Ad Blockers!
Well.. Yeah but you are talking hundreds of millions of years. I'd think that even if we don't do this in the next 10,000 years, we will still eventually colonize space. Its not like we have to plan for escaping the earth any time soon, not even geologically soon.
Something like this wouldn't be built for at least 20 years from now. By then simple nanomachines should be available, since much of the construction of this would probably be done at a nanoscale. If there were swarms of nanomachines all up and down the cable and if they were made to detect any abnormalities in the structural integrity of the elevator, they could simply deconstruct it. Billions of micron length strands of bucky tubes should not have that much of an impact on the ground due to friction in the atmosphere. It would simply be dust particles floating around. I'd think the deconstruction of the cable could be done in a relatively short amount of time as well. The only problem with this would be false alarms, but then again with that kind of technology it wouldn't take too long to reconstruct a new cable.
Just some thought anyway..
I was also thinking, for some types of projects wouldn't the code come out quite similar if it was done correctly? If you are teach C++ classes, and were implementing some simple program to test the knowledge of the students, then a correctly written program would be very similar to another correctly written program. Otherwise you are not teaching standard techniques very well, imho. A shell sort is a shell sort, not much difference between properly implemented versions.
I use code I find on the internet all the time, first thing I do when I start a new routine as a matter of fact. I search for preexisting code and use/modify that accordingly. Of course only freely available code but there are tons of sources for that. How would this program detect that? I would trust some code I got from the net over something another person in class wrote, but then again I know enough to be able to see if the code is good or not and to modify it if I need to.
I dont think MS-DOS ever had any patches, just new versions. (not a troll, just an observation..)
Well perhaps some people use stego and might actually have used strong passwords that could not be guessed by a dictionary attack. If I were communicating secretly using the internet, I would first encrypt the message with pgp, then place the encrypted text into a large jpeg WITH a strong password, and post to a half dozen groups. How would any kind of attack (well any reasonable attack) be able to detect my message? Even if the dictionary attack worked, how would you know the result was the real message, since it would appear to be random garbage, just like all the incorrectly passworded dumps? Just doesn't seem like this is something you can do, its taking distributed.net several years to crack ONE message. How would you go about finding a needle in a haystack, and THEN decoding it? We are talking tens of millions of images. What is the point of this? I'm sure people use stego, for whatever reason, why wouldn't they? Some hacker group, or warez group, or terrorists or whatever, somewhere, at some time, posted stego'd images to usenet.
Hmmm... well the hobbits did take a back seat to their company in the first book. They had no idea about anything of the world, they were like wide eyed children being led into a dark and scary nightmare. Its not until they have been on the road some time, seen scary things, been in battle, etc. that they started to shine as true heroes. At first they were ignorant of the world, clumsy, trusting, and naive. At the end of the story they are warriors and heroes, the stuff of legends. Thats the whole point I think. Take ordinary, minor players in world events, and show how they shape the world to come through seemingly innocuous acts of self preservation and dogged determination to do what they must.
The first book IS all about Gandalf and Aragorn. They provide the mechanisms for the hobbits to grow and become what they are at the end of the story. And eventually they depart from the company and the hobbits do just fine on their own. When they were ready.
Just my two cents...
More likely it would be "Hey, here's how you can make 250,000 dollars!" People are easily pursuaded by money.
I wonder how long it will take... Probably sometime today.. heh
It is rather simple, actually. It has nothing to do with business, it has to do with ethical behavior on the behalf of a government. How can we call Iraq evil and use their human rights violations as a reason to implement sanctions and yet prop up their just as heinous neighbor? Its a double standard, which leads to the utter hatred of America in that region. Either show your true nature and stop the bullshit "saddam is hitler" and osama bin laden crap, or cop to the fact that human rights has never had anything to do with our position in that region. We dont care about corrupt regimes that hate america. We dont care about terrorism. American politicians only care about one thing, and one thing only: getting reelected. PERIOD. Do whatever is popular, do whatever keeps gas prices down, do whatever CNN polls tell you to do. Get those poll results in your favor. PERIOD. Stop the morality act and be honest about what the motives are. Its not a complicated capitalism and morality play. Its a simple tv soap opera played out on scrolling banners on MSNBC. No wonder middle eastern people think our culture is sick and twisted. That doesn't mean the american people are, they are just ignorant sheep being spoon fed their opinions and thoughts via cable tv and talk radio. Bomb the taliban!! Why? Because tv said so!! WOOHOO, america is #1, bomb everybody else, and GO LAKERS. Talk about twisted...
Woz probably had the biggest impact on the computer industry via hacking. Err phreaking... But anyway, a history of Apple cannot leave out Woz and his blue box. Dont know of any book about apple but thats the most major "hacking" event in computer science I know if.
Making it open source does not mean that it is only now available for use. It was always available via buying a license. You just had to pay for it.
I dont think it was alarmist. A possibly airborn version of one of the worlds most deadly virii shows up in a washington suburb. Army and CDC personal tasked with dealing with the virus make mistakes on numerous occasions. And the virus did apparently spread between rooms after the building was locked down by USAMRID. It was SCARY is what it was, if you think the danger was overstated then you are downplaying what was almost a huge disaster.
Anybody ever read Hotzone? The airborn version of ebola (Hemmoraghic fever) that was discovered in a washington suburb a decade ago LUCKILY only infected monkeys. Normally ebola infects both humans and monkeys, but luckily is only transmissible via contact with bodily fluids. An airborn version was discovered and since this disease is 90% fatal, if a strain is found that can infect humans and has the structure to live in aerosol form, would be FAR FAR worse then smallpox. Most people have no idea how close we came to global oblivion of over 90% of the human race during that infection at the monkey quarantine house. Scary stuff. Stephen King wrote that Hotzone was the scariest book he had ever read. Its terrifying. And all it would take is one guy to walk into an international airport with an airborn version of the virus. 36 hours later the world is in deep doo doo.
Except that the perpetrators of this atrocity are all dead.
Just because Osama *might* be involved does not mean he actually was, though he obviously has been roasted in the media before being allowed to be proven guilty. They are even censoring his comments to the media so we dont know what his opinion is, except for the sound bites that he thinks we deserve this. So what? Is being sympathetic to a cause mean you are guilty of it? If you are an anti-semite and think the holocaust was a good thing, does that mean you should be executed?
You know, most of the methods of how to affectively perpetrate terrorism on a populace was taught around the world by our own CIA. So does the fact that our own information was used against us make us culpable? Nope.
Remember: the taliban offered to turn over Osama if we provided compelling evidence that he had direct involvement in the Sept 11 attack.
Both sides are guilty. I am simply stating that we support the terrorism of one side, while others support the terrorism of the other side.
Why is it when "terrorism" is involved, one side is bad and the other good? I do not believe in the concept of terrorism, I am simply using the current propaganda definitions as they are defined in the media.
War is War, and maintaining imperial power means waging war on people. And it means those people will retaliate. Killing people is never a good thing. I dont think Isreal is any more or less evil then Libya, or Britain, or Afghanistan. I think our biased attitude IS a problem however. Lets call it what it is. American IS performing terrorist action in Afghanistan. We are using the threat of civilian casualties to persuade the poeple that the better course is to overthrow their current regime. Using death as a tool to achieve an end IS terrorism. According to our skewed point of view that is. We just cannot point that insight at ourselves.
The two biggest falacies in America today are:
1. That our leaders are stupid.
2. That they mean well.
When in reality they are not, and they don't. It doesn't matter that they paint a rosy picture of being the good samaritan on the block so you can rest easy at night. History speaks otherwise. You do not prop up an empire on good intentions and peaceful watchdog-ing. You prop an empire on fear, control and economic slavery.
Ummm.... We have supported terrorism in foreign countries for decades. East Timor. Afghanistan. Vietnam. Guatemala. Argentina. Iran. Iraq. Korea. Bosnia. RUSSIA. What, you dont think the CIA had any involvement in the power struggles in post-USSR Russia? The CIA wrote the BOOK on terrorism!! We supported, financed and armed the terrorists in Afghanistan for YEARS. We have supported the terrorist regime of Isreal for YEARS. We have supported the terrorist regime of Pakistan for YEARS. Ever hear of the death squads in Guatemala? Who trained them? Armed them? Stood by while they dropped "terrorists" and "subversives" from airplanes into the ocean?
The United states has done all the things you say we are against. Ethnic cleansing (the most successful and ignored ethnic cleansing in modern times - the american indian.) WAR. We make war all the time, and we even make war on abstract concepts like "drugs" and "terrorism." And we do not ask that anyone follow our rules. We DEMAND they follow our rules, which means do not encroach on american interests. Are we intervening in Chechnya? Did we intervene in East Timor? Nope. You know why? Because no american interests (economic) are involved. Osama Bin Laden is the boogey man of the month because he openly advocates the overthrow of the brutal, corrupt Saudi regime. Do you think we want an anti-western freedom fighter (errr... that term only applies if we support their actions, so "terrorist") taking power in Saudi Arabia? Do we want a muslim fundamentallist regime in control of our oil? HELL NO!!!! You think this is about people? The world trade center? Then why do we not bomb isreal when they shoot rockets into a refuge camp to kill a couple of "terrorists" whilst killing hundreds of innocents? Or for shooting teenagers for throwing rocks? Why didn't we bomb Iraq when Saddam used chemical weapons on his own people? The Shah of Iran had public executions of children and we gave him sanctuary in our country. And the Marcos family of the Philipines. Oh yeah, we trained, armed and financed Hochi Minh in his war against france.
Get off the high horse. The US is no saint. At least countries like Russia do not hide the fact that they are out for their own interest and will take any brutal act to see to that end. Remember when the Iranian revolutionary regime killed several russian diplomats? The russians shipped them the heads of several iranian diplomats that were in russia. The HEADS. At least they do not hide behind a smiling face.
Its not WAR. Its called Imperialism. And yes it is as old as humans. Everybody just refuses to see that the US Empire has expanded to all corners of the globe. I for one think its deplorable, but its the truth. Its been going on for a hundred years or more. The US has a total lack of regard for the national rights of other countries. They don't exist unless we approve.
At least thats what it means to me when I hear it. We are basically talking about US-centric ideology and economy. It means that things like this invasion of Afghanistan should be accepted by the rest of the world, because sooner or later it may happen to them. Forget that nations have their own sovereign right to determine their own internal affairs. They only have that right insofar as the US does not feel the need to interfere. And this does not apply equally across the board. Would we allow France to bomb our cities because we are harboring a political fugitive they are seeking? Would we allow Russia to arm and finance groups in America that advocate overthrowing the US government? Yet that seems perfectly acceptable for the US to do in other countries. Of course when the US does it, its not called "state sponsored terrorism".
How do they define harm in things like this? Is a description of what marijuana is count as harm? How about descriptions of the biological functions of humans, such as menstruation? They teach that in school, yet some bible thumpers might consider that to be harmfull. So its up to the parents to decide. So if I am a christian mother and I feel my child was harmed by reading Islamic scripture, thus poluting their pure religious experience, I can sue under these provisions?????
I sure hate living in a police state. Do you?