Sir, your papers are not in order, please come with us.....
No, this is not happening in 'Soviet Russia' this is happening in the United States of America
One of the things that the US goverment kept on about during the cold war was that in the United States you did not need 'internal travel documents and passports' because it, the United States, was a free country..
In 1969 the Americans first landed men on the moon. Now some people have made names for themselves by saying that this and subsequent landings never happened. Their position is that NASA faked them in order to save face and fool the public. To prove their point they rely on explanations of the reported events using dubious science and lay explanations that any first year science major would and does, laugh at.
However, they always miss or purposely avoid the the one piece of irrefutable proof that it did in fact happen. That is that the Soviet government never refuted the American claims and they were in a unique position to do so. For even after the Americans landed on the moon the Soviets still continued to send orbiters, landers and rovers to the moon.
Now if they wanted to get the goods on the Americans all they had to do was to land, photograph or explore with a rover the American landing sights. Just imagine the embarrassment not to mention the the damage to American credibility, at the height of the cold war no less, that such information would generate. Records even show that they never landed or even explored that areas that that American landings happened. So they did not even go and look to make sure because they knew it really happened.
But they did not. They did not use it to pressure the Americans to stop bombing North Vietnam and Cambodia where Soviet military advisers were being killed as a result. They did not use it to pressure the United States to stop sending military advisers to and providing Stinger missiles to the Afghan fighters during the Soviet occupation. They did not use it to stop the Star Wars program of the Regan administration.
In fact they did not even use it to turn the West's attention away from the Soviet Union during the Soviet Coup of 1991 when members of the Soviet government briefly deposed Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and attempted to take control of the country.
Which every body knew was the last death throws of the Soviet empire. If they did not use the information then to turn the attention of the American, and world public, inward to their own governments lies and thus corruption and force it to ignore the events in the Soviet Union in order to deal with a damaging domestic and international issue. Then the proof of faked moon landings did not and never existed.
One final thought. After the fall of the Soviet Union the Russian economy tanked. People were selling all kinds of stuff owed by the crumbling state, ships, weapons, artworks and knowledge but nobody ever approached any Western news agency or tabloid to sell them this information. And to say that one would buy it but not publish is foolish. The seller could just keep peddling it until some on did and then it would be old news and worthless until then it would still be worth something.
A few years back I was watching a documentary on TV dealing with stone age peoples somewhere in the world. At one point it showed all the the women (white scientists and black natives) and their children in the river bathing. Breasts of all shapes and sizes were visible as they all frolicked in the water. That is, on the black women, on the white women their brests were digitally obscured.
Actually they do not. Check US$ vs CA$ buying power trend against other currencies and you will see it is the US$ that is going down. Every one else is basicly the same.
Except of course for the 45 Million Americans who cannot afford it and have no insurance.
What Cuba has is an excellent 'low tech proactive health care system for every one' as opposed to the United States which does not. It has high tech medicine availible for those who can pay. In Cuba I can go to a doctor as soon as I feel unwell. I will then be treated usually preventing my illness, say pneumonia, from getting worse. I know the visit to the doctor is 'free' as opposed to in the United States where I only go to the Emergency room when I am nearly dead because I cannot afford to go to a doctor at the beginning of the illness and then the state has to pick up the entire cost on my hospital stay.
Not to worry. They will soon buy a law that states that you are not allowed to by an item offshore if an item of equal value can be purchased in the United States. Like the law the bricks and morter casinos bought.
Either that or there will be a special inport duty collected at the border that will be equal to the difference in price and then the monies collected will be given to the US merchants you did not buy from. Sort of like what the US Softwood lumber lobby purchased.
This is becaus the United States would rather deal with and give their oil dollars to middle east regimes that support terrorists than to an American socialist state. You see terrorisum is not the big evil, Socalisum is.
But seriously, sometimes govenment direction can result in good stuff. Just like Brazil and energy selfsuficiancy. They say a problem, no oil, and the govenment of the day said OK, we will go ethynol. Ans now they do not have a relience onf foriegn oil.
Can you patent a scam as a business process? Then once the police catches the fraud artist you can then sue him/her for patent infringment and so long as they still have money left take it as a settlement.
Way back when, you used to be able to pick up the phone and ask for the phone number and the address of a particular place. The nice lady at the other end of the phone would access the proper directory and give you the address. (I know, I am old.)
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Sir, your papers are not in order, please come with us..... No, this is not happening in 'Soviet Russia' this is happening in the United States of America One of the things that the US goverment kept on about during the cold war was that in the United States you did not need 'internal travel documents and passports' because it, the United States, was a free country..
We were discussing 'manned landings', please pay attention. I know it can be hard.
Then why did they not also 'land on the moon' so as not to seem backward losers..
In 1969 the Americans first landed men on the moon. Now some people have made names for themselves by saying that this and subsequent landings never happened. Their position is that NASA faked them in order to save face and fool the public. To prove their point they rely on explanations of the reported events using dubious science and lay explanations that any first year science major would and does, laugh at.
However, they always miss or purposely avoid the the one piece of irrefutable proof that it did in fact happen. That is that the Soviet government never refuted the American claims and they were in a unique position to do so. For even after the Americans landed on the moon the Soviets still continued to send orbiters, landers and rovers to the moon.
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spacecraft_planetar y_lunar.html
Now if they wanted to get the goods on the Americans all they had to do was to land, photograph or explore with a rover the American landing sights. Just imagine the embarrassment not to mention the the damage to American credibility, at the height of the cold war no less, that such information would generate. Records even show that they never landed or even explored that areas that that American landings happened. So they did not even go and look to make sure because they knew it really happened.
But they did not. They did not use it to pressure the Americans to stop bombing North Vietnam and Cambodia where Soviet military advisers were being killed as a result. They did not use it to pressure the United States to stop sending military advisers to and providing Stinger missiles to the Afghan fighters during the Soviet occupation. They did not use it to stop the Star Wars program of the Regan administration.
In fact they did not even use it to turn the West's attention away from the Soviet Union during the Soviet Coup of 1991 when members of the Soviet government briefly deposed Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and attempted to take control of the country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_coup_attempt_o f_1991
Which every body knew was the last death throws of the Soviet empire. If they did not use the information then to turn the attention of the American, and world public, inward to their own governments lies and thus corruption and force it to ignore the events in the Soviet Union in order to deal with a damaging domestic and international issue. Then the proof of faked moon landings did not and never existed.
One final thought. After the fall of the Soviet Union the Russian economy tanked. People were selling all kinds of stuff owed by the crumbling state, ships, weapons, artworks and knowledge but nobody ever approached any Western news agency or tabloid to sell them this information. And to say that one would buy it but not publish is foolish. The seller could just keep peddling it until some on did and then it would be old news and worthless until then it would still be worth something.
A few years back I was watching a documentary on TV dealing with stone age peoples somewhere in the world. At one point it showed all the the women (white scientists and black natives) and their children in the river bathing. Breasts of all shapes and sizes were visible as they all frolicked in the water. That is, on the black women, on the white women their brests were digitally obscured.
Not in civilized parts of the world they don't.
Actually they do not. Check US$ vs CA$ buying power trend against other currencies and you will see it is the US$ that is going down. Every one else is basicly the same.
Has no one told them the Canadian dollar is now almost at par with the United States dollar and may infact surpass it by the end of the year.
It is illegal to club baby seals, unless of course you know the President then you can get off doing it.....No pun intended.
Except of course for the 45 Million Americans who cannot afford it and have no insurance.
What Cuba has is an excellent 'low tech proactive health care system for every one' as opposed to the United States which does not. It has high tech medicine availible for those who can pay. In Cuba I can go to a doctor as soon as I feel unwell. I will then be treated usually preventing my illness, say pneumonia, from getting worse. I know the visit to the doctor is 'free' as opposed to in the United States where I only go to the Emergency room when I am nearly dead because I cannot afford to go to a doctor at the beginning of the illness and then the state has to pick up the entire cost on my hospital stay.
It is all under water. So, what troops would that be, the going to send Navy Seals into the artic to tread water??
Not to worry. They will soon buy a law that states that you are not allowed to by an item offshore if an item of equal value can be purchased in the United States. Like the law the bricks and morter casinos bought.
Either that or there will be a special inport duty collected at the border that will be equal to the difference in price and then the monies collected will be given to the US merchants you did not buy from. Sort of like what the US Softwood lumber lobby purchased.
Because by the time it starts to hurt it is too late.
and you thought it was just a movie........
When the first question out of the DHS pruchasing agent after the demo is 'And the name of your Congressman is?'
Yes, this really happened, it is recorded in my lab book.
Actually I keep thinking of this quote being uttered to Novell et la sometime in the not to distant future.
Darth (Microsoft) Vader: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
Which is why the United States is pillaging other people countries.
This is becaus the United States would rather deal with and give their oil dollars to middle east regimes that support terrorists than to an American socialist state. You see terrorisum is not the big evil, Socalisum is.
But seriously, sometimes govenment direction can result in good stuff. Just like Brazil and energy selfsuficiancy. They say a problem, no oil, and the govenment of the day said OK, we will go ethynol. Ans now they do not have a relience onf foriegn oil.
Can you patent a scam as a business process? Then once the police catches the fraud artist you can then sue him/her for patent infringment and so long as they still have money left take it as a settlement.
and before that they used the regular mail.
So this is news because .... they used computers .... and .....email.
Way back when, you used to be able to pick up the phone and ask for the phone number and the address of a particular place. The nice lady at the other end of the phone would access the proper directory and give you the address. (I know, I am old.)
Exactly, because Canadians by nature are middle of the road and do not believe in absolutes.
They may have had several scandals but at least the were a Canadian govenment not an American proxy.
And you have the list of these patents that are contained in GNU/Linux so that we can remove said code.
Or baring that do you have the Microsoft source codes so that we can look them over and find the infrigments ourselves.
I thought not.