Drop th eword into modern US or UK conversation and get the "Whatzzat?" look!
I love the reason. I'd been rolling my own deb for years, with unnoficial packages. Ubuntu converted me because of Shuttleworth's vision, and the hot black girl in the original wallpaper.
Vista is pretty much multi-user on the Unix level - even moves home/profile to a "Users" subdir! The problem is applications which still stuff datafiles in folders on the root. I can name some media players and download managers here.
LUA will bring the windows GUI to - at least - SUDO level, with a more granular and flexible access control mechanism than simple *nix permission bits. I wish ACLs and LDAP were better integrated on the *nix side. Sit down, OS X! I wasn't talking about you.
The 9/11 commission was a whitewash, coverup, disinfo-psyop for the stooges.
Christ, did you think after the Warren commission that there'd be a chance in hell that this thing would be other than a stage show? "Official Version"
Traffic Surveillance Cameras To Monitor Personal Behavior Orwell's telescreens arrive in Britain
Not satisfied with over 4 million CCTV cameras already spying on British citizens, the government is now floating proposals to turn the country's 14,000 speed cameras on drivers to monitor their personal habits.
The London Guardian reports,
"Mr Gifford said expanding the use of technology for tracking the movements of cars could lead police to people who had committed other offences in the same way that Al Capone was eventually caught through his income tax evasion. He claimed that for greater safety and "the greater good of society", most people would be prepared to accept "a slight reduction of our liberty"."
As we have warned, the agenda of the expansion of surveillance cameras is not just because the government wants to record your actions.
The fundamental goal is to ram it down people's throats to the point whereby they think they are constantly under suspicion 24 hours a day, resulting in the self-regulation of behavior, a self-imposed prison without bars.
This helps mould a repressed society that shrinks from asking questions, protesting and demanding answers from its government. It redefines the very nature of the intended function of government, to act as a servant to the people. We the people are supposed to watch government like hawk, not the other way around. The abuses of the state throughout history, killing 200 million in the last century alone, have always massively outweighed any threat to the fabric of society from crime, which in itself is largely a product of the state's action.
The blanket smoking ban and ASBO legislation also send the message, we are your bosses, you are the children and you better play nicely because Big Brother is watching at all times.
The age of the telescreen is upon us as surveillance cameras that festoon our streets, shopping malls and airports are now moving into our private homes as the panopticon prison is erected.
The surveillance cameras are there to make a statement. We are the prison guards, you are the prisoners.
As George Orwell described it in 1984,
"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard."
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
This is the prison without bars. This is the panopticon, a prison so constructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen. This is a portrait of the accelerating movement by western governments to erect giant, powerful, all-pervading mass surveillance, tracking and control grids that will keep all populations firmly under the baleful and watchful gaze of Big Brother.
Liberty, the group supposedly tasked with defending privacy rights in the UK, revealed itself to be a shill of the establishment in refusing to oppose the measures.
Published on Monday, February 27, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
When Americans No Longer Own America
by
Thom Hartmann
The Dubai Ports World deal is waking Americans up to a painful reality: So-called "conservatives" and "flat world" globalists have bankrupted our nation for their own bag of silver, and in the process are selling off America.
Through a combination of the "Fast Track" authority pushed for by Reagan and GHW Bush, sweetheart trade deals involving "most favored nation status" for dictatorships like China, and Clinton pushing us into NAFTA and the WTO (via GATT), we've abandoned the principles of tariff-based trade that built American industry and kept us strong for over 200 years.
The old concept was that if there was a dollar's worth of labor in a pair of shoes made in the USA, and somebody wanted to import shoes from China where there may only be ten cents worth of labor in those shoes, we'd level the playing field for labor by putting a 90-cent import tariff on each pair of shoes. Companies could choose to make their products here or overseas, but the ultimate cost of labor would be the same.
Then came the flat-worlders, led by misguided true believers and promoted by multinational corporations. Do away with those tariffs, they said, because they "restrain trade." Let everything in, and tax nothing. The result has been an explosion of cheap goods coming into our nation, and the loss of millions of good manufacturing jobs and thousands of manufacturing companies. Entire industry sectors have been wiped out.
These policies have kneecapped the American middle class. Our nation's largest employer has gone from being the unionized General Motors to the poverty-wages Wal-Mart. Americans have gone from having a net savings rate around 10 percent in the 1970s to a minus.5 percent in 2005 - meaning that they're going into debt or selling off their assets just to maintain their lifestyle.
At the same time, federal policy has been to do the same thing at a national level. Because our so-called "free trade" policies have left us with an over $700 billion annual trade deficit, other countries are sitting on huge piles of the dollars we gave them to buy their stuff (via Wal-Mart and other "low cost" retailers). But we no longer manufacture anything they want to buy with those dollars.
So instead of buying our manufactured goods, they are doing what we used to do with Third World nations - they are buying us, the USA, chunk by chunk. In particular, they want to buy things in America that will continue to produce profits, and then to take those profits overseas where they're invested to make other nations strong. The "things" they're buying are, by and large, corporations, utilities, and natural resources.
Back in the pre-Reagan days, American companies made profits that were distributed among Americans. They used their profits to build more factories, or diversify into other businesses. The profits stayed in America.
Today, foreigners awash with our consumer dollars are on a two-decades-long buying spree. The UK's BP bought Amoco for $48 billion - now Amoco's profits go to England. Deutsche Telekom bought VoiceStream Wireless, so their profits go to Germany, which is where most of the profits from Random House, Allied Signal, Chrysler, Doubleday, Cyprus Amax's US Coal Mining Operations, GTE/Sylvania, and Westinghouse's Power Generation profits go as well. Ralston Purina's profits go to Switzerland, along with Gerber's; TransAmerica's profits go to The Netherlands, while John Hancock Insurance's profits go to Canada. Even American Bankers Insurance Group is owned now by Fortis AG in Belgium.
Foreign companies are buying up our water systems, our power generating systems, our mines, and our few remaining factories. All because "flat world" so-called "free trade" p
What with the use of upstairs window blinds, and one-way polymer coatings, and what not. A bloke's not half as liable to spot a bird on the wing, as in the old days, what?
It is long since time we all forked from Marty, anyway. The Nessus debacle looms, again.
Per Leonid Shebarshin, ex-chief of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Service: Referring to his meeting with an unnamed al-Qaeda expert at the Rand Corporation, a nonprofit research organization in the U.S., Shebarshin said: "We have agreed that [al-Qaeda] is not a group but a notion."
Slashdot Mirror
He said, sheepishly.
LART conservation has drastically reduced the effectiveness of my comany's IT staff. I demand more LARTs!
I know. You know.
Drop th eword into modern US or UK conversation and get the "Whatzzat?" look!
I love the reason. I'd been rolling my own deb for years, with unnoficial packages. Ubuntu converted me because of Shuttleworth's vision, and the hot black girl in the original wallpaper.
It's gonna be called something else, now. That was an MS aquisition - the name came from the Swiss start-up.
Probably - for the DotNet architecture stuff. Legacy land still lives - and will for a LONG time - in Win32 world, which includes Win95 compat. :-(
I'm a big Debian user. Don't get all puffed up, man!
You can always DL the Vista CTP release, and figure things out yourself...
C'mon! "Ekiga?" Is that the sound of a penguin expectorating?
I can deal with some odd-ball names. Heck, I run "Ubuntu" with Gnome and "Sylpheed". But Ekiga - It's not really "Skype" or "Gizmo", is it?
XP is six years old...
Vista is pretty much multi-user on the Unix level - even moves home/profile to a "Users" subdir! The problem is applications which still stuff datafiles in folders on the root. I can name some media players and download managers here.
LUA will bring the windows GUI to - at least - SUDO level, with a more granular and flexible access control mechanism than simple *nix permission bits. I wish ACLs and LDAP were better integrated on the *nix side. Sit down, OS X! I wasn't talking about you.
...It is a threat to America!
In Soviet America, Domestic Spying Programs expose YOU!
less /etc/issue
Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" \n \l
I upgraded from Warty - with dist-upgrade - maybe thats my deal... apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, anyway.
Cui bono?
The 9/11 commission was a whitewash, coverup, disinfo-psyop for the stooges.
Christ, did you think after the Warren commission that there'd be a chance in hell that this thing would be other than a stage show? "Official Version"
They do things like buying enough "put" options on United Airlines to create a market spike - just three days before 9-11.
Traffic Surveillance Cameras To Monitor Personal Behavior
Orwell's telescreens arrive in Britain
Not satisfied with over 4 million CCTV cameras already spying on British citizens, the government is now floating proposals to turn the country's 14,000 speed cameras on drivers to monitor their personal habits.
The London Guardian reports,
"Mr Gifford said expanding the use of technology for tracking the movements of cars could lead police to people who had committed other offences in the same way that Al Capone was eventually caught through his income tax evasion. He claimed that for greater safety and "the greater good of society", most people would be prepared to accept "a slight reduction of our liberty"."
As we have warned, the agenda of the expansion of surveillance cameras is not just because the government wants to record your actions.
The fundamental goal is to ram it down people's throats to the point whereby they think they are constantly under suspicion 24 hours a day, resulting in the self-regulation of behavior, a self-imposed prison without bars.
This helps mould a repressed society that shrinks from asking questions, protesting and demanding answers from its government. It redefines the very nature of the intended function of government, to act as a servant to the people. We the people are supposed to watch government like hawk, not the other way around. The abuses of the state throughout history, killing 200 million in the last century alone, have always massively outweighed any threat to the fabric of society from crime, which in itself is largely a product of the state's action.
The blanket smoking ban and ASBO legislation also send the message, we are your bosses, you are the children and you better play nicely because Big Brother is watching at all times.
The age of the telescreen is upon us as surveillance cameras that festoon our streets, shopping malls and airports are now moving into our private homes as the panopticon prison is erected.
The surveillance cameras are there to make a statement. We are the prison guards, you are the prisoners.
As George Orwell described it in 1984,
"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard."
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
This is the prison without bars. This is the panopticon, a prison so constructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen. This is a portrait of the accelerating movement by western governments to erect giant, powerful, all-pervading mass surveillance, tracking and control grids that will keep all populations firmly under the baleful and watchful gaze of Big Brother.
Liberty, the group supposedly tasked with defending privacy rights in the UK, revealed itself to be a shill of the establishment in refusing to oppose the measures.
"was programming binary load lifters... very similar to your vaporators in most respects."
Apparently not.
O.K., so I read this. The howto can be summarized thusly-
1: Have a Father in the building trades
2: "Dad, help!"
They will just tax you to have ears. Surgical removal for those in violation.
Published on Monday, February 27, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
When Americans No Longer Own America
by Thom Hartmann
The Dubai Ports World deal is waking Americans up to a painful reality: So-called "conservatives" and "flat world" globalists have bankrupted our nation for their own bag of silver, and in the process are selling off America.
Through a combination of the "Fast Track" authority pushed for by Reagan and GHW Bush, sweetheart trade deals involving "most favored nation status" for dictatorships like China, and Clinton pushing us into NAFTA and the WTO (via GATT), we've abandoned the principles of tariff-based trade that built American industry and kept us strong for over 200 years.
The old concept was that if there was a dollar's worth of labor in a pair of shoes made in the USA, and somebody wanted to import shoes from China where there may only be ten cents worth of labor in those shoes, we'd level the playing field for labor by putting a 90-cent import tariff on each pair of shoes. Companies could choose to make their products here or overseas, but the ultimate cost of labor would be the same.
Then came the flat-worlders, led by misguided true believers and promoted by multinational corporations. Do away with those tariffs, they said, because they "restrain trade." Let everything in, and tax nothing. The result has been an explosion of cheap goods coming into our nation, and the loss of millions of good manufacturing jobs and thousands of manufacturing companies. Entire industry sectors have been wiped out.
These policies have kneecapped the American middle class. Our nation's largest employer has gone from being the unionized General Motors to the poverty-wages Wal-Mart. Americans have gone from having a net savings rate around 10 percent in the 1970s to a minus .5 percent in 2005 - meaning that they're going into debt or selling off their assets just to maintain their lifestyle.
At the same time, federal policy has been to do the same thing at a national level. Because our so-called "free trade" policies have left us with an over $700 billion annual trade deficit, other countries are sitting on huge piles of the dollars we gave them to buy their stuff (via Wal-Mart and other "low cost" retailers). But we no longer manufacture anything they want to buy with those dollars.
So instead of buying our manufactured goods, they are doing what we used to do with Third World nations - they are buying us, the USA, chunk by chunk. In particular, they want to buy things in America that will continue to produce profits, and then to take those profits overseas where they're invested to make other nations strong. The "things" they're buying are, by and large, corporations, utilities, and natural resources.
Back in the pre-Reagan days, American companies made profits that were distributed among Americans. They used their profits to build more factories, or diversify into other businesses. The profits stayed in America.
Today, foreigners awash with our consumer dollars are on a two-decades-long buying spree. The UK's BP bought Amoco for $48 billion - now Amoco's profits go to England. Deutsche Telekom bought VoiceStream Wireless, so their profits go to Germany, which is where most of the profits from Random House, Allied Signal, Chrysler, Doubleday, Cyprus Amax's US Coal Mining Operations, GTE/Sylvania, and Westinghouse's Power Generation profits go as well. Ralston Purina's profits go to Switzerland, along with Gerber's; TransAmerica's profits go to The Netherlands, while John Hancock Insurance's profits go to Canada. Even American Bankers Insurance Group is owned now by Fortis AG in Belgium.
Foreign companies are buying up our water systems, our power generating systems, our mines, and our few remaining factories. All because "flat world" so-called "free trade" p
In Soviet America, PATRIOT passes you!
What with the use of upstairs window blinds, and one-way polymer coatings, and what not. A bloke's not half as liable to spot a bird on the wing, as in the old days, what?
But, Cor! Look at the knockers she's got!
"I am the coolest thing in the room".
It is long since time we all forked from Marty, anyway. The Nessus debacle looms, again.
In Soviet America, synthetic fuel burns you!
Expanding Unix'x horizons are we? I'm glad SOMBODY is advancing the state of the art here!