] Personally, I don't see anything there that raises a red flag
] for me. There are plenty of other things that Bush says or
] does that I find annoying or inexcusable. But this
] 30-years-ago suspected-AWOL non-story is not one of them.
]
] Can we please go back to discussing *real* issues now?

Where I come from lying on your resume gets you canned. Period. I agree with k's earlier comment: this *is* a big deal, this *is* a real issue.

RE: Alabama commander regrets Bush comments

Voice-stress analysis, an alternative to the polygraph as a method for lie detection, is already widely used in police and insurance fraud investigations. Now, however, it is being touted as a powerful and effective tool for an array of new applications -- everything from the screening of potential terrorists in the nation's airports to catching wayward spouses in messy marital disputes. Despite its booming popularity, a number of federally sponsored studies have found little or no scientific evidence to support the notion that existing voice-stress technologies are capable of consistently detecting lies and deceptions.

Research casts doubt on voice-stress lie detection technology

] He went up before a review board today, and read them a
] statement (linked below). After hearing the statement, the
] board then voted unanimously to make the expulsion permanent.

I can feel for this kid, but come on, this statement did him more harm then good. When you scare Joe Sixpack, you get nailed. Is it wrong/stupid/crazy how hard they nail you? Most certainly. However scared people don't act in rational ways, as I learned first hand this last year from my own run ins.

The1 needs to take 2 lessons from this:

1- Talk, draw, teach, but never do anything on a school computer, especially when they are already on to you.

2- Don't let this stop you from being what you are: a smart creative kid. Just be smarter about how you do it. Using Proxy Server means you most likely changed some Admin settings, and that will get you screwed, even if it was just a proxy server.

RE: Statement from Student Expelled for Recommending Web Proxy at School

Last week it went around on Memestreams that Bush never used the phrase "45 minutes" when talking about Iraqs ability to launch WMD. However he did. This is more than nitpicking. He didn't use vague terms but used a specific time period that simply was not true to push Americans to support a war.

] President George W Bush twice said Iraq could launch a
] chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes even
] though the CIA had not verified the claim, it emerged
] yesterday.
]
] George W Bush: facing a political backlash
]
] Although Mr Bush attributed the claim to the British
] government, a White House release issued at the same time
] stated it as fact and did not say where it had come from.
]
] "According to the British government, the Iraqi regime
] could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little
] as 45 minutes after the order were given," Mr Bush said
] in the Rose Garden on Sept 26.

Bush did say '45 minutes' as justification for war

] DramaTech has comisioned original works from Working
] Title Playwrights that will be presented in February. The
] only requirement was that they relate somehow to Mary
] Shelley's Frankenstein, so come see what these
] playwrights have come up with!
]
] Me, Thy Creature runs in DramaTech Theatre February 6, 7,
] 11-14.

This is a really cool show, and I advise any Memestreamers in the Atlanta area to come check it out. One of the plays is really neat: its a about a Russian Scientist who is trying to destory the virus he made. Another play, about the life of Mary Shelly and her mother stars Memestream's own JaneLane. the final one is about a pair of marriage counselors that just can't stop killing there patients.

Check out the website

Me Thy Creature opens at DramaTech!

An equivalent panel in this case might have included experts in a variety of espionage specialties, in the difficulties of piercing secretive governments and terror groups, and in the way other nations have organized their intelligence agencies.

A few days ago, David Brooks highlighted the crucial link between selecting the commissioners and achieving the desired results.

I cannot help but feel disappointed.

Deconstructing the Commission on Iraq Intelligence

] So
] if you're between the ages of 20 and 40, prepare to get
] fucked, because you are the smallest generational demographic,
] and thus you have the smallest amount of democratic political
] power. You will witness the very definition of tyranny of the
] majority in your lifetime.

"A Democracy is a chicken and 2 wolves voting on what's for dinner."

RE: Good news -- and bad -- for baby boomers, says AARP

] Russert: On Friday, you announced a committee, commission to look
] into intelligence failures regarding the Iraq war and our entire
] intelligence community...Prime Minister Blair has set up a similar
] commission in Great Britain....His is going to report back in
] July. Ours is not going to be until March of 2005, five months
] after the presidential election...Shouldn't the American people
] have the benefit of the commission before the election?
]
] President Bush: Well, the reason why we gave it time is because we
] didn't want it to be hurried...

--# I'll BET you don't...oh, and he rambles on about the importance of intelligence (ha! irony!) for quite awhile here, too.

] Russert: Will you testify before the commission?
]
] President Bush: This commission? You know, I don't
] testify? I will be glad to visit with them. I will be
] glad to share with them knowledge. I will be glad to
] make recommendations, if they ask for some.

--# You don't testify? So now you're exempt from the bloody system you work for?! And, yes, he rambles on for quite some time more without actually saying much of anything except that he's "glad"

] Russert: There is another commission right now looking
] into September 11th...Will you testify before that commission?
]
] President Bush: We have given extraordinary cooperation with
] Chairmen Kean and Hamilton. As you know, we made an agreement on
] what's called "Presidential Daily Briefs," and they could see the
] information the CIA provided me that is unique, by the way, to
] have provided what's called the PDB...

--# you guessed right again! He rambles on for much longer talking about truth and how he expects to be personally responsible for the second coming and all that for quite some time. Luckily, the interviewer isn't again so easily distracted...

] Russert: Would you submit for questioning, though, to the 9/11
] Commission?
]
] President Bush: Perhaps, perhaps.

Thus, our illustrious leader who manages to say a lot (and I encourage you to read the full text) without saying much of anything. Wait until _after_ the election so the war commission isn't "hurried"...what a crock of shit. Anger...rising...must...destroy...approval rating.

NBC -- Meet the Press with GWB

] Once upon a time, there was a SPC Schwarz stationed with
] the Army in the Balkans. SPC Schwarz was either very
] clever or very bored; but probably both, since he managed
] to attempt or be warned about 213 things he wasn't
] allowed to do. He collected those things into a
] hillarious list and posted them to the web. The site
] hadn't been updated in a couple of years and has since
] gone away; but the list is classic, so I saved it.

My Personal Favorites:

-I am not authorized to sell mineral rights.
-Not allowed to add 'In accordance with the prophesy' to the end of answers I give to a question an officer asks me.
-Despite the confusing similarity in the names, the "Safety Dance" and the "Safety Briefing" are never to be combined.

213 things you can't do in the Army

Decius wrote:
] ] "The Government must play a greater role in punishing
] ] those who conceal their identities online, particularly
] ] when they do so in furtherance of a serious federal
] ] criminal offense or in violation of a federally protected
] ] intellectual property right," (Lamar) Smith said at a
] hearing on
] ] the topic today.
]
] Congress wants to make it a federal crime to lie on your
] domain name registration.

The actual bill is even scarier. It's a felony for you to "knowingly [provide] material and misleading false contact information to a domain name registrar, domain name registry, or other domain name registration authority in registering a domain name used in connection with the online location, or in maintaining or renewing such registration.".

Check out the details of the bill at:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d108:17:./temp/~bdhFqm::

under "Text of Legislation" (which, BTW, it took me _forever_ to find; it's like they're trying to hide these damn things...). If you're really a glutton for high blood pressure, check out the rest of Lamar Smith's civil "services" at

http://lamarsmith.house.gov/

Before starting your own gov't on a small South Pacific island, you can try mailing letters to your congressmen/-women and reps in the House. And, instead of posting angry rebuttals to the not-not sheep here on Memestreams, you might start a petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/create_petition.html) and spread the word about that. Is there anyone with legal experience (Acidus excluded :-) who'd like to tackle it?

RE: Congress Eyes Idiotic Whois Crackdown