... delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness.

Though I'm as much against stupid governments following the policies of other stupid governments, I think you citizens of the US need to take responsibility for your own privileges of citizenship, such as the casual way in which you can provide arguments such as the above. Sometimes, our crappy governments dare to oppose your crappy government, and we end up having to experience certain problems such as "foreign"-funded assassinations, military coups, "sanctions", economic interferences (eg IMF, WB), covert "operations," or even "civil" wars or pretty much outright military attacks, wars, and invasions...

If you live in Iraq, Afghanistan, or even some poor Latin American countries, this argument might have some validity.

If you live in Canada, UK, any Western European or NATO-member country, Russia, China, Australia, or similar country, then you're full of shit. The idea of the USA bringing about a military coup in Australia to pass silly IP laws is just ridiculous. And with these IP laws, it's not the poor, backwards middle eastern and Latin American countries that Slashdotters are complaining about these dumb IP laws being passed in. It's countries like Australia, Canada, and the UK; countries that are completely free to give the US the finger if they wanted to, and more than strong enough to get away with it. As someone else here pointed out, the French give our government the finger all the time; maybe the rest of you need to start acting more like them.

So basically, your argument is full of shit.

How is any of that flushing your 4th amendment rights down the toilet? Show me anywhere the 4th amendment give you the right to drive. Show me anywhere the 4th amendment says that the government cannot restrict what/how/where/when we drive?

Driving is not a right.

The only reason people think so is because we have built our country, our cities, and our system in such a way that makes it very inconvenient to not drive. But if you don't like the licensing requirements, or you don't like the license plates, or you don't like insurance requirements or whatever - you are always completely free to not drive....

Because you see, your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. And a car is a 4000lb fist, and I don't want to be hit with it.

I'm also from California, where it has been illegal to drive while on a cell phone for some time now. The problem is that not only is the fine only $20, but it is also only a secondary offense, meaning that you can only be cited for cell phone use in conjunction with some other ticket, such as speeding or reckless driving. That means that even if the police see you talking while driving, they can't do anything about it short of checking if your tail lights are both working and trying to get you on that. Not only that, but it seems to me that not everyone thinks the law applies to them. Take Maria Shriver for example, she was caught by paparazzi (yes I normally hate them) talking on her cell phone, and although Arnold threatened to "punish her," I know that it certainly doesn't make me want to stop using my cell phone in the car. Maybe it's because I'm part of the younger generation who learned to drive when cell phones were already prevalent. Nothing against older people, but it seems to me that most of the accidents are caused by them on cell phones, not by the younger one that grew up with cell phones...

They're virtually identical to what I usually hear about dealing with US cops: Reduce any interaction to the neccessary minimum, never mention anything you don't absolutely need to mention, never get out of or into a car unless told to, never touch them under any circumstances. Deviating from that behavior means you're fair game to either arrest or to have a criminal investigation constructed against out of anything you said.

The US border is rights-less. You're not inside the USA proper and have no rights under US law. In short: Be double-careful or the border guards can screw you over in ways that would get their asses put in jail were you inside the country. Unless they manage to commit a gross human rights violation, expect the border guards to get away with everything they do.

In short: Only cross the US border when really neccessary, in either direction.

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Your childlike naiveté wrt how ATT thinks is actually heartwarming. You will of course end up paying more and getting less, but chin up! Someday ATT will see how badly they've used you and feel just awful about it. Except that will never, never happen.

Deliberately not going to RTFA because it sounds like a buzzkill in the name of overanalysis. Also, "duh!"

i feel like the only think freenas had over openfiler was ZFS. i've been running openfiler for 2 years now and it has been rock solid.

without zfs why not go for the more mature linux based NAS?

The new project called OpenMediaVault is linux based, as iXsystems takes up FreeNAS...

http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freenas/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4959

I like this relatively new cookie control mechanism. It is simple but effective.

selectivecookiedelete; https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11044

I love the part in "It's a Wonderful Life" when you sucker punch George Bailey and Martini kicks you out of his bar. You were totally believable.