I have to agree with OP, how is this a troll? China =is= a communist dictatorship. And I could care less about the communism, keyword is/dictatorship/. This isn't a troll, it just happens to be true.
I have to say that this is true. Although Best Buy most definitely is a horrible company for a geek to work at, sometimes its the only realistic choice. Especially for those of us starting young with no degree or certification to back it up. I hate the company that is best buy, and its managers. I empathize with those who have (and do) work there. Some idiot on here a long time ago said it was better to be homeless than to work at Best Buy... Someone's never been homeless before I guess..*rolls eyes*.
Jesus Christ. Look, for the last fragging time. I worked for best buy, store #323 in Chicago on North Avenue. I will state, in a goddamn court if I have to, that not a single non managerial retail employee of bestbuy is on any sort of commission. If anyone has ANY =reliable= information to the contrary, I would like to hear it. Until then, put your money where your mouth is or shut up. AS for Jareds411. I stopped working for best buy over 2 years ago, so I can't speak as to whether my store ever used winternals, but there was more than enough pirated software floating around. However, I can also attest that store #323 used a reformat whenever it was the easiest solution. It wasn't the fix that was always used but if it was going to take more than about an hour, the machine was reformated 90% of the time. Customers were charged $90 for up to 2 DVDs of their data to be backed up. Now to me, that sounds like a push for more really high margin back up costs. "Hey, ya, we have to erase everything, can we interest you in our overpriced backup service?" Scared Customer, about to lose all their data: "Um..yes..please! how much is it?!"
So maybe Jareds411 just happened to work in a slower store, but I can tell you, we were directly instructed by our area manager to do this every time it would take more than an hour. And being the busiest store in the country, we had a ton of times where this would happen every day. We reformated maybe 15 machines per day. Also note that they refused to let us even take the time to put back the customer's drivers. I can't count the number of times I had to write a little text file on the desktop, trying to write out to some poor guy how to get his sound working. The line was "they don't pay enough to have us do all the driver work" Then the same customer would come in the next day "the sound doesn't work!" to which we would have to charge them for an hours worth of labor (it was a minimum) to install the drivers.
Oh, by the way, I thought I might say who was in charge of all this stupidity. The General Manager for store #323 is currently (as of a month ago anyways) Kevin Dahm. He has his head in the sand.
This is entirely true. We were often told to "solve the problem however you can" by managers. Why? Because there pretty much =wasn't= a "geek squad" budget. It is treated as an extension of the PC/Home Office department and basically is used to placate customers who have had their machines screwed up at the service centers. We weren't technicians, we were negotiators. We HAD no budget. In fact, Store 323, North Avenue in Chicago uses pirated software for its diagnostics, on every machine that comes in. It is copied and distributed to the technicians, the other employees, their friends, ANYBODY. The passcode to get it to work, is, ironically "323". The "Geek Squad" agents have shitty jobs, utterly shitty. It wasn't "we're provding you with pirated software to do your job because we're cheap" it was "find your own pirated software to do your job because we're too cheap to buy any AND too lazy to even do the pirating"
Why am I not posting anonymous coward when Im giving them such obvious information as to who I am? Because I'm not afraid of telling the truth. Fuck you, best buy
This is entirely false. I have worked for Best Buy and their Tech Bench (later rechristened Geek Squad) First of all, everyone that's going to immediately lambaste me for working for them. STFU. I was 16, and they gave me a chance to actually work without dismissing me because of my age. I did well and left when another job opened up elsewhere (thank god...that place sucked so bad). However, let me tell you, it didn't matter HOW well you did, what you sold, or even how many of their demonic service plans you sold. You got the same low hourly wage. Now...the managers...THEY got a service plan bonus...based off the employee's sales. Here's an idea, do some fucking research.
I entirely disagree. Although excercise does, obviously, keep you in better health, the problem for most geeks is that it is so tedious and boring. A lot of the discussion here has been on how to make excercise more enjoyable for the (if you'll pardon the pun) overclocked mind of your average geek.
Some suggestions. 1. Read a book while you excercise on a stationary machine. 2. Listen to an mp3 player (preferably in conjunction with #1) 3. Some people describe excercise as a "mental vacation". Some geeks (including myself) don't want a mental vacation, we =like= our brains churning at full speed thank you very much. So take this time to look at some problems you're dealing with in your job, personal projects, personal life etc and reevaluate them from the beginning. You'll be suprised how often this can help solve whatever problem you're facing. 4. This may seem horribly fundamental, but make sure you're breathing deeply. If you don't breathe properly, you're just going to be in a lot of pain and the whole experience will be miserable. 5. If all else fails, remember that in the end, your body is a machine and needs regular maintanence. Just like a neglected computer will fail, so will your body if it is not cared for.
Not quite, even with the phone off it can be tracked. The only way to stop this is to entirely remove the battery. This is what got CIA Agents caught in that job in Italy involving the kidnapping of a radical muslim. (If I got the Italy story wrong here, forgive me...it's 2:30 AM and I'm tired as hell)
Unfortunately, I've never had mod points so far. If I did sir, this would be modded up. A lot of parents it seems these days don't care about teaching their children to think and to love learning. I was introduced to a computer at a young age (about 5). Given my own at 8 with no inet with this restriciton "Whatever you break, you have to figure out on your own. All my father would give me was the tech support number. So at the ripe old age of 8, I was calling tech support, learning to speak clearly and concisely describe problems, learning to curb frustration and work with the person on the other end of the phone to fix my problem (this is back in the day when tech support would stay on chatting with you about other problems, chat about tech, they were just general great guys) Computers made me love learning, they taught me a love of creation and of solving new problems with innovative ways, a desire to learn.
I see so many posts on this topic about not getting a kid a computer until they are in their teen years. That isn't a solution in my humble opinion. Start them young, but teach them! Be there with them! Don't turn something like a computer into a babysitter or another "magic box". Take them under the hood, show them how it all works. A computer is a tool, it is neither good nor bad, it depends on how it is presented, and whether or not it is described as a profound tool, or "it lets you chat online". Here's to hoping that there are more parents in the world like I see on this topic, people who really want their children to shine. -- Unlikely_Hero
Is anyone able to explain why in the world we can't see this video in the US? I know google censors in china, please for the love of god tell me they aren't censoroing in the US. Just why IS this video "not playable"?
Excuse me while I think of the proper diction to express my disgust with your narrowminded idiocy.
I'll be clear and honest. I was raised in a neocon, ultrachristian household. And I have developed into a Libertarian with odd religious leanings (Christian/Buddhist?)
You sir, need to let go of whatever misguided hatred is causing you to insult people you have never met based on something they (generally) keep to themselves. Freedom of speech applies to EVERYONE! Not just those who you decide should have it. I'm sure you have parts of your own life you wish to keep to yourself. Or, god forbid, you might be proud of whatever makes you different, or want to show that to the world. I applaud the GLBTs who decide they are going to be in a parade and risk the wrath of your pathetic ilk. To compare GLBTs to bank robbers and child molesters... To quote Simon from Firefly "I'm trying to think of how you could be more crude...but it's just not comin!"
Well the comment "I'm not really an RPG fan myself, so I don't know if they're out of line or not in making you change your name" Kind of sums up the stupidity you must possess to be so angry about an issue you don't understand.
This IS Taco's journal, it just happens to be a ginormous journal that he lets everyone read. He can post whatever he wants here.
YOU, on the other hand, are getting it for free. FREE
And the ads are even non-intrusive.
1. Don't bitch about a free service
2. If you're GOING to bitch, at least have the stomach to post non-anonymously.
And if you had read the article, a lot of people care
So *clears throat* I must say.
In the spirit of slashdot.
Before you tell us to STFU, we ask that you RTFA
Definitely a good response. I'm sorry I didn't see that you DID know the technical term. I've just seen a lot of people ask "How do you poison DNS? Its a computer!"
I guess the socialistic comment is more of a "by comparison" issue. For instance, I see the european setups as EXTREMELY socialistic.
And again, my apologies for erupting, I'm just sick of the "americans are ignorant brutes" comments I hear on here so much. Forgive me ^_^
I wasn't just referring to the internet however when I asked what Europe has done lately
Referring more to economic developments, inventions etc.
Yes it was shameless to bring up WWII. Sorry.
as for what I said about no one should control DNS, I stand by that statement. Ideally I don't think the US should either. However, the US has done quite a bangup job basically leaving ICANN alone.
well, sorry I misunderstood some of the stuff
Cheers ^_^
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There's something you don't see often, someone on/. admitting he was wrong!
He's not saying "poison" in the poetic sense you dunce, he's saying it in the technical sense.
You completely misunderstood what the poster was referring to and went off on a sort of "You're an ignorant American" rant regarding "US Values" and the idea that Americans think that Europeans are all "Socialist Cheese-Eating Europeans".
Several things.
First of all, look around in Europe, they have some of the most socialistically set up economies around, so that's a valid point. Also, the internet has nothing to do with values, or America, so please stop trying to turn this into an "Americans think they're so good, blah blah blah" argument. The simple fact is, it ain't broke, so stop tampering with it.
WE NEED DISTRIBUTED DNS.
No government should have a control over DNS at all due to the threat of censorship. This especially applies to China, Governments with Religious Law sets (Sharia, et al) and other authoritarian regimes. My personal vote goes for Switzerland.
As for Europe, here's my issue. Just what have your countries contributed recently compared to the US? Not a threat, not an insult, just a simple question. Name some positive things you have done that come close to what the US has done. I won't even bring up the issue of WWII etc. Or WWI for that matter. What have you folks done lately?
Yes Brazil and Europe and others will force a global netsplit...I givem 6 months before they want to rejoin once they realize they're going to have to actually pay for their own fscking infrastructure now.
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I really do think you have it all wrong here. First of all you can still spank kids depending on the severity of the marks left (in almost all states) Second of all unless you really go off the deep end no one is going to charge you with psychological abuse.
The Klutztown 13 aren't "defiant children", that conjures up 8 year olds who are running into the street when they are being told not to. They are teenagers with minds of their own who are probably never given an explanation for anything by the administrators. Think about this, they are rational human beings, so they expect rational reasoning for decisions. Now, if you remember high school, you probably remember that it was almost all bullshit. Or at least if you had gone recently you'd know that it has become entirely bs. You can simply use logic with teenagers, most of them WILL actually follow it give them a damn chance instead of just chalking it up to "defiance".
Yes one needs to learn to respect authority, but one also needs to learn how to react when authority is acting like a bunch of special olympics finalists. Granted their actions were wrong, but what does it say about the admins that the children were able to spy on them without their noticing? I'll say this, the school system stores important documents, student information, teacher information, pay information; and unless the kids had proved these admins incompetent NO ONE WOULD HAVE. That's the way these school systems work, all the administrators and higher-ups protect each other in a strange polygarchy. These admins would NEVER have been exposed. Better now that Kutztown High has to learn how to secure the network that assuredly has valuable information on it.
If we make examples out of these kids it will most assuredly NOT change the path for millions of other kids out there. Well, at least not the way you're thinking. It will instill in the kid's minds that adults are a group of heavy-handed assenine individuals that respond to questioning of their authroity with legal charges. Also, if you've noticed, most kids don't read or follow the news (a problem in itself), so in reality all one is doing is ruining the lives of 13 children.
So in the end let's be logical with our teenagers (I'll admit that children can not often follow logic as well...heh) And not just expect them to blindly follow authority.
As for your children, and I'm not making accusations here, how often do you lie? To them? To your spouse? To Authority figures? I'm not accusing you of it, just trying to show the point that children practice what they see. And it's not fair to say "well I don't lie now" but what about when they were growing up? When they were so young, you thought they didn't notice but they did.
And of course I'm not saying that leading an exemplary life will lead to exemplary kids, just that it helps.
Sir, the final line of your post sums up the reason why I find your line of reasoning unsuitable for anyone.
"Respect, in general, should be restored as a key value in our culture and at the core of respect is fear of what might happen if you don't."
If I recall correctly the quote went like this
"Do not rule with force but with the fear of force"
If you rule with fear, enjoy your sheep.
ShatteredDream makes a very good point. Just why does this government need such broad powers? And what happens when (and if) this war never ends? These laws/acts just become another weapon for the government to use against those citizens that disagree with it. This is a post that has said SO much that I want to say. If you're going to fight terrorism, use the tools you have and kick the crap out of it, don't just give yourself broad powers over the populace and then go off talking about how we're "fighting terror" when we're still best of friends with a country that supplied a majority of the 9/11 Hijackers and whose state religion is Wahabi Islam!? I mean talk about being in bed with the devil...
Seriously, someone with mod points mod parent UP
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I have to agree with OP, how is this a troll? /dictatorship/.
China =is= a communist dictatorship. And I could care less about the communism, keyword is
This isn't a troll, it just happens to be true.
I have to say that this is true. Although Best Buy most definitely is a horrible company for a geek to work at, sometimes its the only realistic choice. Especially for those of us starting young with no degree or certification to back it up.
I hate the company that is best buy, and its managers. I empathize with those who have (and do) work there.
Some idiot on here a long time ago said it was better to be homeless than to work at Best Buy...
Someone's never been homeless before I guess..*rolls eyes*.
What kind of changes are we talking about? I mean there were the =constant= reorganizations, but those were really just delaying the inevitable.
Jesus Christ.
Look, for the last fragging time. I worked for best buy, store #323 in Chicago on North Avenue.
I will state, in a goddamn court if I have to, that not a single non managerial retail employee of bestbuy is on any sort of commission. If anyone has ANY =reliable= information to the contrary, I would like to hear it. Until then, put your money where your mouth is or shut up.
AS for Jareds411. I stopped working for best buy over 2 years ago, so I can't speak as to whether my store ever used winternals, but there was more than enough pirated software floating around. However, I can also attest that store #323 used a reformat whenever it was the easiest solution. It wasn't the fix that was always used but if it was going to take more than about an hour, the machine was reformated 90% of the time. Customers were charged $90 for up to 2 DVDs of their data to be backed up. Now to me, that sounds like a push for more really high margin back up costs. "Hey, ya, we have to erase everything, can we interest you in our overpriced backup service?" Scared Customer, about to lose all their data: "Um..yes..please! how much is it?!"
So maybe Jareds411 just happened to work in a slower store, but I can tell you, we were directly instructed by our area manager to do this every time it would take more than an hour. And being the busiest store in the country, we had a ton of times where this would happen every day. We reformated maybe 15 machines per day. Also note that they refused to let us even take the time to put back the customer's drivers. I can't count the number of times I had to write a little text file on the desktop, trying to write out to some poor guy how to get his sound working.
The line was
"they don't pay enough to have us do all the driver work"
Then the same customer would come in the next day "the sound doesn't work!"
to which we would have to charge them for an hours worth of labor (it was a minimum) to install the drivers.
Oh, by the way, I thought I might say who was in charge of all this stupidity.
The General Manager for store #323 is currently (as of a month ago anyways) Kevin Dahm. He has his head in the sand.
This is entirely true. We were often told to "solve the problem however you can" by managers. Why? Because there pretty much =wasn't= a "geek squad" budget. It is treated as an extension of the PC/Home Office department and basically is used to placate customers who have had their machines screwed up at the service centers. We weren't technicians, we were negotiators. We HAD no budget. In fact, Store 323, North Avenue in Chicago uses pirated software for its diagnostics, on every machine that comes in. It is copied and distributed to the technicians, the other employees, their friends, ANYBODY. The passcode to get it to work, is, ironically "323". The "Geek Squad" agents have shitty jobs, utterly shitty. It wasn't "we're provding you with pirated software to do your job because we're cheap" it was "find your own pirated software to do your job because we're too cheap to buy any AND too lazy to even do the pirating"
Why am I not posting anonymous coward when Im giving them such obvious information as to who I am?
Because I'm not afraid of telling the truth.
Fuck you, best buy
This is entirely false. I have worked for Best Buy and their Tech Bench (later rechristened Geek Squad)
First of all, everyone that's going to immediately lambaste me for working for them. STFU. I was 16, and they gave me a chance to actually work without dismissing me because of my age. I did well and left when another job opened up elsewhere (thank god...that place sucked so bad).
However, let me tell you, it didn't matter HOW well you did, what you sold, or even how many of their demonic service plans you sold. You got the same low hourly wage. Now...the managers...THEY got a service plan bonus...based off the employee's sales.
Here's an idea, do some fucking research.
Oh come on, be generous, can't Bin Laden kill =all= of congress?
It would make this problem so much simpler...
I entirely disagree.
Although excercise does, obviously, keep you in better health, the problem for most geeks is that it is so tedious and boring. A lot of the discussion here has been on how to make excercise more enjoyable for the (if you'll pardon the pun) overclocked mind of your average geek.
Some suggestions.
1. Read a book while you excercise on a stationary machine.
2. Listen to an mp3 player (preferably in conjunction with #1)
3. Some people describe excercise as a "mental vacation". Some geeks (including myself) don't want a mental vacation, we =like= our brains churning at full speed thank you very much. So take this time to look at some problems you're dealing with in your job, personal projects, personal life etc and reevaluate them from the beginning. You'll be suprised how often this can help solve whatever problem you're facing.
4. This may seem horribly fundamental, but make sure you're breathing deeply. If you don't breathe properly, you're just going to be in a lot of pain and the whole experience will be miserable.
5. If all else fails, remember that in the end, your body is a machine and needs regular maintanence. Just like a neglected computer will fail, so will your body if it is not cared for.
Not quite, even with the phone off it can be tracked. The only way to stop this is to entirely remove the battery. This is what got CIA Agents caught in that job in Italy involving the kidnapping of a radical muslim. (If I got the Italy story wrong here, forgive me...it's 2:30 AM and I'm tired as hell)
Unfortunately, I've never had mod points so far.
If I did sir, this would be modded up. A lot of parents it seems these days don't care about teaching their children to think and to love learning. I was introduced to a computer at a young age (about 5). Given my own at 8 with no inet with this restriciton "Whatever you break, you have to figure out on your own. All my father would give me was the tech support number. So at the ripe old age of 8, I was calling tech support, learning to speak clearly and concisely describe problems, learning to curb frustration and work with the person on the other end of the phone to fix my problem (this is back in the day when tech support would stay on chatting with you about other problems, chat about tech, they were just general great guys) Computers made me love learning, they taught me a love of creation and of solving new problems with innovative ways, a desire to learn.
I see so many posts on this topic about not getting a kid a computer until they are in their teen years. That isn't a solution in my humble opinion. Start them young, but teach them! Be there with them! Don't turn something like a computer into a babysitter or another "magic box". Take them under the hood, show them how it all works. A computer is a tool, it is neither good nor bad, it depends on how it is presented, and whether or not it is described as a profound tool, or "it lets you chat online". Here's to hoping that there are more parents in the world like I see on this topic, people who really want their children to shine.
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Unlikely_Hero
Is anyone able to explain why in the world we can't see this video in the US?
I know google censors in china, please for the love of god tell me they aren't censoroing in the US.
Just why IS this video "not playable"?
Um...wait...you actually looked for the story? YOU TRIED TO RTFA?!? ......
Are you trying to destroy al that makes slashdot holy and good?...
Excuse me while I think of the proper diction to express my disgust with your narrowminded idiocy.
I'll be clear and honest.
I was raised in a neocon, ultrachristian household. And I have developed into a Libertarian with odd religious leanings (Christian/Buddhist?)
You sir, need to let go of whatever misguided hatred is causing you to insult people you have never met based on something they (generally) keep to themselves. Freedom of speech applies to EVERYONE! Not just those who you decide should have it. I'm sure you have parts of your own life you wish to keep to yourself. Or, god forbid, you might be proud of whatever makes you different, or want to show that to the world.
I applaud the GLBTs who decide they are going to be in a parade and risk the wrath of your pathetic ilk.
To compare GLBTs to bank robbers and child molesters...
To quote Simon from Firefly
"I'm trying to think of how you could be more crude...but it's just not comin!"
Speakeasy naked DSL (also called Onelink) to the home (without telephone
service!). Then run VoIP from them. Works like a charm ^_^
Well the comment "I'm not really an RPG fan myself, so I don't know if they're out of line or not in making you change your name" Kind of sums up the stupidity you must possess to be so angry about an issue you don't understand.
This IS Taco's journal, it just happens to be a ginormous journal that he lets everyone read. He can post whatever he wants here. YOU, on the other hand, are getting it for free. FREE
And the ads are even non-intrusive.
1. Don't bitch about a free service
2. If you're GOING to bitch, at least have the stomach to post non-anonymously.
And if you had read the article, a lot of people care
So *clears throat* I must say.
In the spirit of slashdot.
Before you tell us to STFU, we ask that you RTFA
Definitely a good response. I'm sorry I didn't see that you DID know the technical term. I've just seen a lot of people ask "How do you poison DNS? Its a computer!" /. admitting he was wrong!
I guess the socialistic comment is more of a "by comparison" issue. For instance, I see the european setups as EXTREMELY socialistic. And again, my apologies for erupting, I'm just sick of the "americans are ignorant brutes" comments I hear on here so much. Forgive me ^_^
I wasn't just referring to the internet however when I asked what Europe has done lately
Referring more to economic developments, inventions etc.
Yes it was shameless to bring up WWII. Sorry.
as for what I said about no one should control DNS, I stand by that statement. Ideally I don't think the US should either. However, the US has done quite a bangup job basically leaving ICANN alone.
well, sorry I misunderstood some of the stuff
Cheers ^_^
----- There's something you don't see often, someone on
He's not saying "poison" in the poetic sense you dunce, he's saying it in the technical sense. You completely misunderstood what the poster was referring to and went off on a sort of "You're an ignorant American" rant regarding "US Values" and the idea that Americans think that Europeans are all "Socialist Cheese-Eating Europeans".
Several things. First of all, look around in Europe, they have some of the most socialistically set up economies around, so that's a valid point. Also, the internet has nothing to do with values, or America, so please stop trying to turn this into an "Americans think they're so good, blah blah blah" argument. The simple fact is, it ain't broke, so stop tampering with it.
WE NEED DISTRIBUTED DNS. No government should have a control over DNS at all due to the threat of censorship. This especially applies to China, Governments with Religious Law sets (Sharia, et al) and other authoritarian regimes. My personal vote goes for Switzerland.
As for Europe, here's my issue. Just what have your countries contributed recently compared to the US? Not a threat, not an insult, just a simple question. Name some positive things you have done that come close to what the US has done. I won't even bring up the issue of WWII etc. Or WWI for that matter. What have you folks done lately?
Seriously
Anything?
Yes Brazil and Europe and others will force a global netsplit...I givem 6 months before they want to rejoin once they realize they're going to have to actually pay for their own fscking infrastructure now. ---
I will give a cookie to anyone who explains wtf that means
I really do think you have it all wrong here. First of all you can still spank kids depending on the severity of the marks left (in almost all states) Second of all unless you really go off the deep end no one is going to charge you with psychological abuse. The Klutztown 13 aren't "defiant children", that conjures up 8 year olds who are running into the street when they are being told not to. They are teenagers with minds of their own who are probably never given an explanation for anything by the administrators. Think about this, they are rational human beings, so they expect rational reasoning for decisions. Now, if you remember high school, you probably remember that it was almost all bullshit. Or at least if you had gone recently you'd know that it has become entirely bs. You can simply use logic with teenagers, most of them WILL actually follow it give them a damn chance instead of just chalking it up to "defiance". Yes one needs to learn to respect authority, but one also needs to learn how to react when authority is acting like a bunch of special olympics finalists. Granted their actions were wrong, but what does it say about the admins that the children were able to spy on them without their noticing? I'll say this, the school system stores important documents, student information, teacher information, pay information; and unless the kids had proved these admins incompetent NO ONE WOULD HAVE. That's the way these school systems work, all the administrators and higher-ups protect each other in a strange polygarchy. These admins would NEVER have been exposed. Better now that Kutztown High has to learn how to secure the network that assuredly has valuable information on it. If we make examples out of these kids it will most assuredly NOT change the path for millions of other kids out there. Well, at least not the way you're thinking. It will instill in the kid's minds that adults are a group of heavy-handed assenine individuals that respond to questioning of their authroity with legal charges. Also, if you've noticed, most kids don't read or follow the news (a problem in itself), so in reality all one is doing is ruining the lives of 13 children. So in the end let's be logical with our teenagers (I'll admit that children can not often follow logic as well...heh) And not just expect them to blindly follow authority. As for your children, and I'm not making accusations here, how often do you lie? To them? To your spouse? To Authority figures? I'm not accusing you of it, just trying to show the point that children practice what they see. And it's not fair to say "well I don't lie now" but what about when they were growing up? When they were so young, you thought they didn't notice but they did. And of course I'm not saying that leading an exemplary life will lead to exemplary kids, just that it helps. Sir, the final line of your post sums up the reason why I find your line of reasoning unsuitable for anyone. "Respect, in general, should be restored as a key value in our culture and at the core of respect is fear of what might happen if you don't." If I recall correctly the quote went like this "Do not rule with force but with the fear of force" If you rule with fear, enjoy your sheep.
ShatteredDream makes a very good point. Just why does this government need such broad powers? And what happens when (and if) this war never ends? These laws/acts just become another weapon for the government to use against those citizens that disagree with it. This is a post that has said SO much that I want to say. If you're going to fight terrorism, use the tools you have and kick the crap out of it, don't just give yourself broad powers over the populace and then go off talking about how we're "fighting terror" when we're still best of friends with a country that supplied a majority of the 9/11 Hijackers and whose state religion is Wahabi Islam!? I mean talk about being in bed with the devil... Seriously, someone with mod points mod parent UP
There are few posts on slashdot that I would give a 5 to. This is one of them (IF I HAD MOD POINTS DAMMIT!)