Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Work Or Riot: YOU CHOOSE!!!!
From time to time I come across pictures that I feel are worth sharing so here one is.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
You thought rich was a good thing?
--Ali-- I've recently taken a job as an appliance technician. The job is simple. Fix what is broken, right what is wrong, and in some cases, convince people that coffe served at 150 degrees F. is hot enough. I did about 7 calls a day with my teacher. And of the so far 21 calls I've been to, 14 of them were to clients worth over $500,000. Nine car garages, silverware made of actual silver, Aunt Jemima maids, walls covered in artwork, and appliances worth more than my car were the norm. And, the most consistent factor of all of these people is a friendly nievety. Like they floated on a cloud above regular mortal men. Most of these people aquired weath not through hard work (which decreases the trade deficit and brings actual money to the country), but through the buying and selling of things already made. Most of these people had no clue about the things god honest working men and women know: Ohms, torque, amps, volts, psi, order/serial numbers, lead time, working time (for composites), time sheets. When this country shifted to a bunch of desk jockeys banking on demand of assets (like stock market traders) we lost the strength to create new assets and products. Ford has gone to shit selling ideals of grandure rather than making cars and trucks that fit our actual needs. Do ya get it yet? The GNP will keep going down as long as Americans don't build cars for export, make toys for export, make shirts, make anything at all! Selling value, and creating value are two very different things. Lets get back to work America.
Buy A Gun With Your Stimulus Check??
maybe a little over the top but interesting none the less.
_NorthSide_
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Feds consider searches of terrorism blogs
By Thomas Frank, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department may soon start scouring the Internet to find blogs and message boards that terrorists use to plan attacks in the USA.
The effort comes as researchers are seeing terrorists increasingly use the Internet to plan bombings, recruit members and spread propaganda. "Blogging and message boards have played a substantial role in allowing communication among those who would do the United States harm," the department said in a recent notice.
Homeland Security officials are looking for companies to search the Internet for postings "in near to real-time which precede" an attack, particularly a bombing. Bombings are "of great concern" because terrorists can easily get materials and make an improvised-explosive device (IED), the department said.
"There is a lot of IED information generated by terrorists everywhere — websites, forums, people telling you where to buy fertilizer and how to plant IEDs," said Hsinchun Chen, director of the University of Arizona's Artificial Intelligence Lab. Chen's "Dark Web" research project has found 500,000,000 terrorist pages and postings, including tens of thousands that discuss IEDs.
Chen and others aren't sure how helpful blogs and message boards will be in uncovering planned attacks.
"I just can't envision a scenario where somebody posts to a message board, 'I'm getting ready to launch an IED at this location,' and the government will find that," said terrorism analyst Matt Devost. A lot of postings about attacks are "fantasy, almost role-playing," Devost said.
Internet searches are used routinely by government agencies, such as the Defense Department, in gathering intelligence, said Chip Ellis of the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism.
The searches use methods similar to a Google query and can be helpful in uncovering the latest IED technology, Ellis said.
Steven Aftergood, an intelligence expert at the Federation of American Scientists, praised Homeland Security for "trying to develop innovative approaches" and said its effort would not jeopardize privacy because the department would be scanning public websites.
The department, which declined comment, has made no decision about using Internet searches and is reviewing statements that companies submitted last month describing their ability to do the searches.
WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department may soon start scouring the Internet to find blogs and message boards that terrorists use to plan attacks in the USA.
The effort comes as researchers are seeing terrorists increasingly use the Internet to plan bombings, recruit members and spread propaganda. "Blogging and message boards have played a substantial role in allowing communication among those who would do the United States harm," the department said in a recent notice.
Homeland Security officials are looking for companies to search the Internet for postings "in near to real-time which precede" an attack, particularly a bombing. Bombings are "of great concern" because terrorists can easily get materials and make an improvised-explosive device (IED), the department said.
"There is a lot of IED information generated by terrorists everywhere — websites, forums, people telling you where to buy fertilizer and how to plant IEDs," said Hsinchun Chen, director of the University of Arizona's Artificial Intelligence Lab. Chen's "Dark Web" research project has found 500,000,000 terrorist pages and postings, including tens of thousands that discuss IEDs.
Chen and others aren't sure how helpful blogs and message boards will be in uncovering planned attacks.
"I just can't envision a scenario where somebody posts to a message board, 'I'm getting ready to launch an IED at this location,' and the government will find that," said terrorism analyst Matt Devost. A lot of postings about attacks are "fantasy, almost role-playing," Devost said.
Internet searches are used routinely by government agencies, such as the Defense Department, in gathering intelligence, said Chip Ellis of the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism.
The searches use methods similar to a Google query and can be helpful in uncovering the latest IED technology, Ellis said.
Steven Aftergood, an intelligence expert at the Federation of American Scientists, praised Homeland Security for "trying to develop innovative approaches" and said its effort would not jeopardize privacy because the department would be scanning public websites.
The department, which declined comment, has made no decision about using Internet searches and is reviewing statements that companies submitted last month describing their ability to do the searches.
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