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This is whack. Anti-American propaganda from North Korea. Worse then junior high schooler's rap. Entertaining regardless...

Fucking USA

Decius wrote:
] Rattle just observed to me that Verisign's actions toward the
] Internet community were sort of like Bush's actions toward the
] UN. There may be more to that then you think. The moral
] standards of acceptable behavior are set by the leadership. If
] the leader says its ok to do a certain thing, then people will
] rationalize away any natural inhibition that they might have
] toward it. "He thinks its ok to do this and he is obviously
] smarter then me, so I'm going to ignore that nagging little
] voice and go ahead..."
]
] The way we've been throwing our weight around and doing things
] that are of dubious responsibility simply because we can and
] the people who ought to check us really aren't in a position
] to do that.... Well that rubs off. A manager thinking of doing
] something this dramatic might have thought twice about it in a
] time when one feared reprisals from millions of angry people.
] That fear is the heart of democracy. You can't screw the
] people because they are collectively more powerful then you.
] You respect them.
]
] I think we are in the process of loosing that fear.

] We just went through the new age of "boom," where everyone
] forgets that booms always bust. Now we begin the new age of
] empire, where everyone forgets that empires are always
] violently overthrown.

Indeed.

] The reason we still have wars is that greed is more powerful
] then reason.

What? Did you say something about SCO?

RE: Verisign and Bush

] "You drink tap water? Are you crazy?" asks a 21-year-old
] radio producer from the Chicago area. "I only drink
] bottled water." In a trendy nightclub in New York City,
] the bartender tells guests they can only be served
] bottled water, which costs $5 for each tiny pint
] container. One outraged clubber is stopped by the
] restroom attendant as she tries to refill the bottle from
] the tap. "You can't do that," says the attendant. "New
] York's tap water isn't safe."

Hartford Advocate: What's in your Bottled Water?

] An anonymous reader writes "Mike Benham of
] thoughtcrime.org has started a cool project for sharing
] information and building community in San Francisco.
] From the website: "Unfortunately, the traditional library
] system doesn't do much to foster community. Patrons come
] and go, but there is very little opportunity to establish
] relationships with people or groups of people. In fact,
] if you try to talk with someone holding a book you like -
] you'll probably get shushed. The Distributed Library
] Project works in exactly the opposite way, where the very
] function of the library depends on interaction." It
] looks like the software is now available for other
] cities."

Slashdot | The Distributed Library Project

] When it comes to political truth, I think many Arab
] citizens today can have a more informed perspective than
] Americans. Don't get me wrong - that's not because my
] country is more democratic, has better journalists, or
] more intelligent analysis. None of these is true (not yet
] - but I remain hopeful for Bahrain's new democracy). But
] we do see your news as well as our news as well as
] Israeli news. In my (so far limited) experience of
] American life, Americans are extremely sheltered in the
] news that they see. When I read Haartez, I learn about
] Isrealis suffering from the conflict, I learn what they
] are worrying about, I learn how they deal with their own
] extremists, and I learn about their many citizens that
] would like to see peace. And I learn all this from an
] Israeli perspective, so I hear a positive human side.
] Americans do not seem to be learning such things about
] Arabs. Reading British commentary does not count as
] getting "a different perspective".

[IP] In the Arab world today, we get a more informed perspective than you.

] This is the worst-case scenario for identity theft
] victims. Losing your clean credit history is one thing;
] losing your freedom is another. And victims of America's
] fastest-growing crime are discovering they often have
] much more to worry about than the hundreds of hours of
] paperwork necessary to clean up the financial mess
] associated with ID theft. Sometimes, they have to worry
] about ending up in jail — again and again.

The darkest side of ID theft

] Command-and-control organizations, Hock says, "were not
] only archaic and increasingly irrelevant. They were
] becoming a public menace, antithetical to the human
] spirit and destructive of the biosphere. I was convinced
] we were on the brink of an epidemic of institutional
] failure."

This is a starting point for some extremely rich and interesting ideas.

The founder of Visa on Corporations

] Witness to centuries of bloodshed, the ancient walls of
] Jerusalem's Old City saw only white Tuesday as
] Palestinians and Israelis traded snowballs instead of
] stones and bullets.

Yahoo! News - Snowballs Replace Bullets as Snow Hits Holy Land

These folks linked MemeStreams as well... Another Blog directory...

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Seeing these all over their site.. Looks like someone make a booboo.

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