This isn't an analog line, genius. The traffic of interest is in the client/ tributary payload, so the logical place to put a tap is where the container terminates or where it is switched. that means a telecom data center, not the bottom of the ocean. Additionally you needen't "splice" into live media ( thereby causing noticeable loss of traffic and noticably increased signal attenuation afterwards) - telecom transmission technology allows switching to protection at speeds 50 milisec, which is not noticable to human hearing...anyway, the data of interest would be on an encrypted data, not voice channel.
80GB is a lot of voice traffic, to sort this out in realtime you'd need a pretty stout set of telecomm eqpt. Consider that a single voice channel is 64kbps, also the fact that voice traffic ( if going over tdm and not voip) is multiplexed into sdh most likely carried over dwdm/wdm. A single e1 ( 2 mb/s) carries up to 32 voice channels, there are 70 e1 worth of payload in an stm1 , which is 155 mb/sec. How are you going to monitor this many discrete ( and multiplexed, encoded ) signals at once? do you even realize how much traffic that is? don't forget that sizable portion of voice goes over data ntwks as voip, and you can have ip using bridged ethernet over sdh, ima over multiple e1, mpls, atm or directly on top of sdh ( short list, there are many more possibilties)... anyway, if you want to listen in, you'd better do it somewhere you can actually do something with that data.
having said all that, i think this is a good low tech way to test their readiness....
geez. Can you find a more tendentious and biased bit if media pap to sell on giving up the remaing vestiges of privacy? IMO a few dead hookers is a small price to pay for not having the feds watch me hugluglug. Come to think of it, alot of dead nobodies still seems a decent deal.
I have a counterproposal - why don't we just fit out everybody with an eeg/ekg/hormone/sereotonin/dopamine level sensors coupled to a gps dongle....make firmware and software upgrades mandatory and on alternate thursdays we can all queue up for an anal laparoscopy exam....
The basic problem with proliferation of technology threatning our privacy is knowing when to stop looking after technological solutions to sociological problems.
1) Almost anyplace in Europe. I've spent roughly half my life in the US, the other half in Europe; from my perspective there are alot of places that are alternatives, it all depends on what you're accustomed to.
Misconceptions about what its like to live here or there abound. Most western EU countries offer an average standard of living superior to that in the US ( a fact most US-ians aren't aware of ), likewise most places in the US aren't staging areas for running gun battles. That being said, I'd prefer to live in a place with minimum government interference into personal affairs & a maximum of personal freedom including a plurality based political system. This pretty much leaves the US out.
- The scandinavian countries are great, if you don't mind the high taxes & the all-pervasive social support systems. You'll likely never get rich there, but you can live happily to a financially secure hale old age in ergonomic comfort & beautifull surroundings.
- Germany is a bit too much like the US. I like Baden Wurtemberg / Bavaria for the high standard of living & income. A bit too authoritarian & germs are totaly anal when it comes to formalities.
- Italy - specifically north italy, more specifically Lombardy,Piemonte, Veneto are very cool. Income sucks - roughly 1/3 - 1/2 of what a germ or a Brit makes for the same effort, but you can't beat the people, the vistas & the atmosphere. I would take a paycut to work there ( and have ).
- Greece is great if you cab find a decent job, I have known people who gave up careers to work as tour guides & hoteliers in Greece, especially the south.
- Netherlands. Great place to work, great place to visit, the wether sucks, but the people & places make up for it ( mostly). A very multi-culti place, recently tightening social permeability sphincters, mostly because of coloured muslims doing naughty things.
- Chech republic - Great place to live ( inexpensive, relatively high standard of living), dynamic economy, friendly people & the best pilsners in the world
- Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia - Steady economic growth, little govenmental control, a bit xenophobic & progressively turning toward authoritarianism, these countries host a great many western expats making oodles of money on local markets and the accession to the EU
- Belgium. Beer, chocolate, trade acumen & high cost of living. Language sounds like a throat infection. The best beers in the world, unqualified.
This holds true for anywhere I've worked. Competence, abiliy, availability, honesty willingness to work hard & other such virtues will only get you assigned more meaningless shitwork. No sane manager will promote an honest, capable man to any position of responsibility ( other than as a sacrifice ) because bastards are easier to control & are more predictable. No one knows what an honest, responsible man may do & in any event honesty and responsibility hardly fit into your standard bussiness model.
for american democracy. Run away federal power, secret prisons, the death of habeas corpus, military courts, checks that bounce instead of balancing and now the effective death of privacy? You have no one but yourselves to blame. At least you still have your beloved second ammendment - you can always blow your head off.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
--Benjamin Franklin
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom."
--Dwight Eisenhower
Is the only way to assure the your own employability, that and not being female, preggers and over thirty. If your management doesn't want to invest in training for you, it's likely because you're viewed as eminently replacable. There are a number of reasons why this might be so:
1) you are percieved as too usefull to promote
2) IT is not a prority and your present skills are seen as sufficient to handle your tasks
3) Windows Admins are a dime a dozen, your employer knows this
You are not alone. Investing in an employee's training is a matter of compliance with corporate standards, why would they hire you to do a job they hae to train you to be qualified for? Human resources want all the employees to be 18, male, posessing 30 years of relevant work experience and training AND willing to work for minimum wage
My suggestion to you is to buy the certifications you need to get a better job, acquire the skills you need to get a real job. MCSE does not an engineer make.
...to say that oss are quite often used a development platforms, but rarely in the boxes themselves. Asterisk is the first real oss alternative in commutation, as to Transmission systems, they run on rt-os'es which are NOT linux ( though i've heard of some initiatives to build boxes on rt-linux). I have seen soho access products which are basically linux-in-a-box, ditto set top boxes, but that ain't where the money is in telco's.
I'm not overly fond of "minority studies" when the delve into the whole "our people did this or that" thing. To me this is no different than listening to some white sumprecists rail off all the things that "white people" have invented as if that somehow meant that their ignorant trash asses where any better.
Well, that's kind of my point. "multiculturalism" in this context means divisive, manipulative verbiage leading to greater alienation between groups which you want to play nice. IF you want the groups to play nice, you find experiences which are held in common. From this point of view, diversity means divisiveness. The idea that the community ( which is a construct requiring some/much negation/suppression of individuality) will benefit from having folks wander off in different directions in search of their "roots" or "heritage" is radiculous. Tribal communities are very homogenous, when they're not you get what happened in Rwanda or papua-new guinea where a local definition of "people" means pretty much "my clan" so that "their baby" is less of a person than "our dog".
and you're missing the point. What does either of these non-issues have to do with a science based curriculum? Why do we have to put up with some prof's personal predjudices which have NOTHING to do with teaching of science? For that matter, why should we put up with pseudo science such as ID or transgendered lesbian history?
Intelligent Design isn't a scientific theory either, but a (particularly lame) attempt at injecting religious dogma into the world of science. What is Multiculturalism? Whatever it is, it fosters the idea that a mulicultural society is somehow better than a monocultural one. As to multicultural societies, there is no guarantee that including various dissatisfied minorities will somehow make race tension disappear.
Neither one of these views is particularly "scientific", neither one stands up to reason and neither one should be a part of a supposedly science based curriculum. Unfortunately US universities nowadays are abandoning the teaching of science ( viz. the college literacy thread). I don't know about you, but for me this is a recipe for tragedy, what with the US already having to import competent scientists and engineers.
Chinese entry into controlled fusion research is hardly the first. Please make an effort to distinguish between headlines and content, especially when quoting form sterling paragons of fact-based reporting such as "People's Daily Online"
While I agree with most of your rant, "pervasive left-wing brainwashing" is a matter of fact in many american universities, just as "pervasive right-wing brainwashing" is a matter fact in many private schools...
I visited the site. Aside from an obvious right leaning bias he makes a number of good points. The american centre-left ( there is no such thing as american left) is as ardent in pushing its agenda as american right is. Multiculturalism and cultural/ethnic diversity are as idealistically daft as intelligent design. If you doubt this, try to have an honest, open discussion of any of these emotionally loaded subjects on an american campus - I'm sure you'll find that the people supporting multiculturalism will be just as ardent and resistant to argument as the supporters of Intelligent Design.. ( Incidentally they'll be just as wrong)
Having said that, I think that what Andrew Jones is doing is despicable, but not unique. Personally I am appalled at what your institutions of "higher learning" are doing to your kids.
of normal market behaviour is one way to get attention... I find it difficult to believe that a DOJ request for proprietary data would have such an impact on Google's stock price. Google is a great resource and this episode ( I'm sure it won't be the last, either) highlights a need for an encrypted, anonymous alternative to search engine access (a'la overnet?) and perhaps another searching/indexing model.
As long as access records to index data are stored centrally, people will want to get at what other people are looking for and that alone is reason enough to deny them the data, especially to corporate and government entities. For legal and security purposes it might be practical to aggregate queries and filter redundant ones at semi-randomly picked proxy sites located outside the area of jurisdiction, then pass the resulting queries on to a distributed engine. This might also serve to reduce network load to the core service.
dumb racist without the saving grace of a sense of humour.
The only way to prevent discrimination ( and I'm sure that I don't want to indiscriminately prevent discrimination) is to not do it. The discriminating faculty exists so that we can excersize it, I for one tend to discriminate against smelly bums sleeping on my doorstep, against child molesters ( am a parent) and against cruelty to animals. Those are just some of the things I discriminate against - there are others - but plainly there are positive as well as negative aspects to "discrimination". As to discriminating against non-caucasians, I fear i have very little experience since there are none in my work and precious few in my general line of work in the EU.
good point. Now how do you explain the flood of dirt poor hindoo and chinese into IT? You can't lay all of this down at the feet of Da Man, rehashing tired old 50's-60's chesnuts about "Da Man keepin' po' folk down" is both fallacious and counterproductive. History is full of examples of put-upon minority populations which nevertheless succeed spectacularly. P'haps it has something to do with culture, or lack thereof in various populations - and it ain't the fault of "da man" either. If one's culture eulogizes professional athletes and criminals, that is all you are likely to produce. How many potential George Washington Carvers are ther out there? Why would we need this much peanut butter anyway?
- the fact that you failed to consider their race. If ignorance of the law is no excuse for braking it, then ignorance with respect to race is no excuse for failing to grant preferment to the racially opressed. Logic is not the answer, reasonable behaviour is inapproperiate in the face of discrimination. You should just feel guilty.
Not being a geek is a serious disadvantage in my job; I can't abide anime. I don't spend my time on anonymous open source projects. When someone mentions a favourite RPG, I think of rocket propelled granades. I don't use messaging apps, I don't blog and don't waste my time on political advocacy. Also, as a side effect, I don't spice up my posts with meaningless references to 100K+ income, japanese wives, snowboarding, intellectual status or favourite linux distributions.
I am European. Aside from the fact that this automagically makes me a sex dynamo, it means that you are wrong. The lot of you. I am tan, svelte, athletic, smart, sexy and immaculately dressed. I drive exotic machines at speeds incompatible with simple reason or american law. My girlfriends never shave their legs or armpits. Whenever i'm NOT being paid radiculously large sums of money for taking advantage of honest ahmurican ingenuity, i spend my time in a cafe, bistro or the ski slope in the high alps. I have a swiss bank account AND an accent which makes your hoo-hoo tingle with anticipation.
After all that is said and done, having worked in my field in several EU countries, I mostly see geeky caucasian men doing what I do for a living. Of course i mostly see geeky caucasian men in most other it/is related positions, but that is likely because geeky white men outnumber geeky coloured men, non-geeky men with IT/IS qualifications in the EU. Is this racism? I'm willing to bet that dark skinned penis gourd wearing hunter-gatherers outnumber caucasian penis gourd wearing hunter-gatherers in Africa, oceania and Asia - is this a coincidence? Should we demand equal opportunity for all penis gourd wearers everywhere? Is the paucity of caucasian penis gourd wearers in Africa, asia and oceania indicative of predjudice and racism practiced by the majority on those continents? What about the average caucasian boy who wants to be a penis gourd wearing hunter gatherer?
If we look to our own Johnny Weismuller, we can readily see that it's not easy being a caucasian hunter gatherer in a coloured hunter gatherer neighborhood. Johhny was reared by apes because the coloured villagers who lived in his immediate area didn't want to care for a caucasian baby ( some say it is because the locals killed his family)and throughout his very successfull stint as tarzan he was more or less constantly accosted by local toughs because he was different and because he stood up in the defence of other, similarly put upon individuals of both sexes and several species. Despite his impressive record as defender of the put-upon, Johnny was a virgin until late in his twenties - merely because he was a caucasian in a non-caucasian neighborhood. Despite the predominance of non-caucasian females in his area, Johnny had to wait for a succesion of caucasian women to fill the role of Jane. Is there a reasonable explanation for why Johnny - a native of africa who grew up to love and defend the same environment his non-caucasian peers were living in - was shunned, rejected, denied the most basic interaction all people deserve? Was he p'haps jewish?
Racism is an ugly word, but not as ugly as the automatic assumption on the part of many that their pet peeve is the linchpin of the world. Get over it - Johnny Weismuller did.
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This isn't an analog line, genius. The traffic of interest is in the client/ tributary payload, so the logical place to put a tap is where the container terminates or where it is switched. that means a telecom data center, not the bottom of the ocean. Additionally you needen't "splice" into live media ( thereby causing noticeable loss of traffic and noticably increased signal attenuation afterwards) - telecom transmission technology allows switching to protection at speeds 50 milisec, which is not noticable to human hearing...anyway, the data of interest would be on an encrypted data, not voice channel. 80GB is a lot of voice traffic, to sort this out in realtime you'd need a pretty stout set of telecomm eqpt. Consider that a single voice channel is 64kbps, also the fact that voice traffic ( if going over tdm and not voip) is multiplexed into sdh most likely carried over dwdm/wdm. A single e1 ( 2 mb/s) carries up to 32 voice channels, there are 70 e1 worth of payload in an stm1 , which is 155 mb/sec. How are you going to monitor this many discrete ( and multiplexed, encoded ) signals at once? do you even realize how much traffic that is? don't forget that sizable portion of voice goes over data ntwks as voip, and you can have ip using bridged ethernet over sdh, ima over multiple e1, mpls, atm or directly on top of sdh ( short list, there are many more possibilties)... anyway, if you want to listen in, you'd better do it somewhere you can actually do something with that data. having said all that, i think this is a good low tech way to test their readiness....
I can only agree with your sentiments. I wish more folks had the presence of mind & selectivity to tune those selfinflated egofreaks out.
geez. Can you find a more tendentious and biased bit if media pap to sell on giving up the remaing vestiges of privacy? IMO a few dead hookers is a small price to pay for not having the feds watch me hugluglug. Come to think of it, alot of dead nobodies still seems a decent deal. I have a counterproposal - why don't we just fit out everybody with an eeg/ekg/hormone/sereotonin/dopamine level sensors coupled to a gps dongle....make firmware and software upgrades mandatory and on alternate thursdays we can all queue up for an anal laparoscopy exam.... The basic problem with proliferation of technology threatning our privacy is knowing when to stop looking after technological solutions to sociological problems.
1) Almost anyplace in Europe. I've spent roughly half my life in the US, the other half in Europe; from my perspective there are alot of places that are alternatives, it all depends on what you're accustomed to.
Misconceptions about what its like to live here or there abound. Most western EU countries offer an average standard of living superior to that in the US ( a fact most US-ians aren't aware of ), likewise most places in the US aren't staging areas for running gun battles. That being said, I'd prefer to live in a place with minimum government interference into personal affairs & a maximum of personal freedom including a plurality based political system. This pretty much leaves the US out.
- The scandinavian countries are great, if you don't mind the high taxes & the all-pervasive social support systems. You'll likely never get rich there, but you can live happily to a financially secure hale old age in ergonomic comfort & beautifull surroundings.
- Germany is a bit too much like the US. I like Baden Wurtemberg / Bavaria for the high standard of living & income. A bit too authoritarian & germs are totaly anal when it comes to formalities.
- Italy - specifically north italy, more specifically Lombardy,Piemonte, Veneto are very cool. Income sucks - roughly 1/3 - 1/2 of what a germ or a Brit makes for the same effort, but you can't beat the people, the vistas & the atmosphere. I would take a paycut to work there ( and have ).
- Greece is great if you cab find a decent job, I have known people who gave up careers to work as tour guides & hoteliers in Greece, especially the south.
- Netherlands. Great place to work, great place to visit, the wether sucks, but the people & places make up for it ( mostly). A very multi-culti place, recently tightening social permeability sphincters, mostly because of coloured muslims doing naughty things.
- Chech republic - Great place to live ( inexpensive, relatively high standard of living), dynamic economy, friendly people & the best pilsners in the world
- Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia - Steady economic growth, little govenmental control, a bit xenophobic & progressively turning toward authoritarianism, these countries host a great many western expats making oodles of money on local markets and the accession to the EU
- Belgium. Beer, chocolate, trade acumen & high cost of living. Language sounds like a throat infection. The best beers in the world, unqualified.
2) Nothing is keeping me, I don't live in the US
This holds true for anywhere I've worked. Competence, abiliy, availability, honesty willingness to work hard & other such virtues will only get you assigned more meaningless shitwork. No sane manager will promote an honest, capable man to any position of responsibility ( other than as a sacrifice ) because bastards are easier to control & are more predictable. No one knows what an honest, responsible man may do & in any event honesty and responsibility hardly fit into your standard bussiness model.
...it's what's for breakfast.
Since when is extremism a race? How can you insult something that does not exist?
for american democracy. Run away federal power, secret prisons, the death of habeas corpus, military courts, checks that bounce instead of balancing and now the effective death of privacy? You have no one but yourselves to blame. At least you still have your beloved second ammendment - you can always blow your head off. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom." --Dwight Eisenhower
Is the only way to assure the your own employability, that and not being female, preggers and over thirty. If your management doesn't want to invest in training for you, it's likely because you're viewed as eminently replacable. There are a number of reasons why this might be so: 1) you are percieved as too usefull to promote 2) IT is not a prority and your present skills are seen as sufficient to handle your tasks 3) Windows Admins are a dime a dozen, your employer knows this You are not alone. Investing in an employee's training is a matter of compliance with corporate standards, why would they hire you to do a job they hae to train you to be qualified for? Human resources want all the employees to be 18, male, posessing 30 years of relevant work experience and training AND willing to work for minimum wage My suggestion to you is to buy the certifications you need to get a better job, acquire the skills you need to get a real job. MCSE does not an engineer make.
...to say that oss are quite often used a development platforms, but rarely in the boxes themselves. Asterisk is the first real oss alternative in commutation, as to Transmission systems, they run on rt-os'es which are NOT linux ( though i've heard of some initiatives to build boxes on rt-linux). I have seen soho access products which are basically linux-in-a-box, ditto set top boxes, but that ain't where the money is in telco's.
and you're missing the point. What does either of these non-issues have to do with a science based curriculum? Why do we have to put up with some prof's personal predjudices which have NOTHING to do with teaching of science? For that matter, why should we put up with pseudo science such as ID or transgendered lesbian history?
Intelligent Design isn't a scientific theory either, but a (particularly lame) attempt at injecting religious dogma into the world of science. What is Multiculturalism? Whatever it is, it fosters the idea that a mulicultural society is somehow better than a monocultural one. As to multicultural societies, there is no guarantee that including various dissatisfied minorities will somehow make race tension disappear. Neither one of these views is particularly "scientific", neither one stands up to reason and neither one should be a part of a supposedly science based curriculum. Unfortunately US universities nowadays are abandoning the teaching of science ( viz. the college literacy thread). I don't know about you, but for me this is a recipe for tragedy, what with the US already having to import competent scientists and engineers.
Chinese entry into controlled fusion research is hardly the first. Please make an effort to distinguish between headlines and content, especially when quoting form sterling paragons of fact-based reporting such as "People's Daily Online"
While I agree with most of your rant, "pervasive left-wing brainwashing" is a matter of fact in many american universities, just as "pervasive right-wing brainwashing" is a matter fact in many private schools... I visited the site. Aside from an obvious right leaning bias he makes a number of good points. The american centre-left ( there is no such thing as american left) is as ardent in pushing its agenda as american right is. Multiculturalism and cultural/ethnic diversity are as idealistically daft as intelligent design. If you doubt this, try to have an honest, open discussion of any of these emotionally loaded subjects on an american campus - I'm sure you'll find that the people supporting multiculturalism will be just as ardent and resistant to argument as the supporters of Intelligent Design.. ( Incidentally they'll be just as wrong) Having said that, I think that what Andrew Jones is doing is despicable, but not unique. Personally I am appalled at what your institutions of "higher learning" are doing to your kids.
of normal market behaviour is one way to get attention... I find it difficult to believe that a DOJ request for proprietary data would have such an impact on Google's stock price. Google is a great resource and this episode ( I'm sure it won't be the last, either) highlights a need for an encrypted, anonymous alternative to search engine access (a'la overnet?) and perhaps another searching/indexing model. As long as access records to index data are stored centrally, people will want to get at what other people are looking for and that alone is reason enough to deny them the data, especially to corporate and government entities. For legal and security purposes it might be practical to aggregate queries and filter redundant ones at semi-randomly picked proxy sites located outside the area of jurisdiction, then pass the resulting queries on to a distributed engine. This might also serve to reduce network load to the core service.
dumb racist without the saving grace of a sense of humour. The only way to prevent discrimination ( and I'm sure that I don't want to indiscriminately prevent discrimination) is to not do it. The discriminating faculty exists so that we can excersize it, I for one tend to discriminate against smelly bums sleeping on my doorstep, against child molesters ( am a parent) and against cruelty to animals. Those are just some of the things I discriminate against - there are others - but plainly there are positive as well as negative aspects to "discrimination". As to discriminating against non-caucasians, I fear i have very little experience since there are none in my work and precious few in my general line of work in the EU.
good point. Now how do you explain the flood of dirt poor hindoo and chinese into IT? You can't lay all of this down at the feet of Da Man, rehashing tired old 50's-60's chesnuts about "Da Man keepin' po' folk down" is both fallacious and counterproductive. History is full of examples of put-upon minority populations which nevertheless succeed spectacularly. P'haps it has something to do with culture, or lack thereof in various populations - and it ain't the fault of "da man" either. If one's culture eulogizes professional athletes and criminals, that is all you are likely to produce. How many potential George Washington Carvers are ther out there? Why would we need this much peanut butter anyway?
- the fact that you failed to consider their race. If ignorance of the law is no excuse for braking it, then ignorance with respect to race is no excuse for failing to grant preferment to the racially opressed. Logic is not the answer, reasonable behaviour is inapproperiate in the face of discrimination. You should just feel guilty.
Not being a geek is a serious disadvantage in my job; I can't abide anime. I don't spend my time on anonymous open source projects. When someone mentions a favourite RPG, I think of rocket propelled granades. I don't use messaging apps, I don't blog and don't waste my time on political advocacy. Also, as a side effect, I don't spice up my posts with meaningless references to 100K+ income, japanese wives, snowboarding, intellectual status or favourite linux distributions. I am European. Aside from the fact that this automagically makes me a sex dynamo, it means that you are wrong. The lot of you. I am tan, svelte, athletic, smart, sexy and immaculately dressed. I drive exotic machines at speeds incompatible with simple reason or american law. My girlfriends never shave their legs or armpits. Whenever i'm NOT being paid radiculously large sums of money for taking advantage of honest ahmurican ingenuity, i spend my time in a cafe, bistro or the ski slope in the high alps. I have a swiss bank account AND an accent which makes your hoo-hoo tingle with anticipation. After all that is said and done, having worked in my field in several EU countries, I mostly see geeky caucasian men doing what I do for a living. Of course i mostly see geeky caucasian men in most other it/is related positions, but that is likely because geeky white men outnumber geeky coloured men, non-geeky men with IT/IS qualifications in the EU. Is this racism? I'm willing to bet that dark skinned penis gourd wearing hunter-gatherers outnumber caucasian penis gourd wearing hunter-gatherers in Africa, oceania and Asia - is this a coincidence? Should we demand equal opportunity for all penis gourd wearers everywhere? Is the paucity of caucasian penis gourd wearers in Africa, asia and oceania indicative of predjudice and racism practiced by the majority on those continents? What about the average caucasian boy who wants to be a penis gourd wearing hunter gatherer? If we look to our own Johnny Weismuller, we can readily see that it's not easy being a caucasian hunter gatherer in a coloured hunter gatherer neighborhood. Johhny was reared by apes because the coloured villagers who lived in his immediate area didn't want to care for a caucasian baby ( some say it is because the locals killed his family)and throughout his very successfull stint as tarzan he was more or less constantly accosted by local toughs because he was different and because he stood up in the defence of other, similarly put upon individuals of both sexes and several species. Despite his impressive record as defender of the put-upon, Johnny was a virgin until late in his twenties - merely because he was a caucasian in a non-caucasian neighborhood. Despite the predominance of non-caucasian females in his area, Johnny had to wait for a succesion of caucasian women to fill the role of Jane. Is there a reasonable explanation for why Johnny - a native of africa who grew up to love and defend the same environment his non-caucasian peers were living in - was shunned, rejected, denied the most basic interaction all people deserve? Was he p'haps jewish? Racism is an ugly word, but not as ugly as the automatic assumption on the part of many that their pet peeve is the linchpin of the world. Get over it - Johnny Weismuller did.