We fade in on a low lit smoky government war room.
Many high ranking CIA operatives are seated around a circular table.

Task force chairman: Gentlemen, we have our network completely set. Operatives are in place and the funding is acquired.
                                          All we need now is . . .a name.

[CIA Director walks in]

Director: Well Hey Howdy boys! What are we all up against this time?!

Task force chairman: Director, we just learned about the release of numerous secret diplomat cables from a website called Wikileaks.

Director: WHAT THE F@$K?!! NEOTHEONENSFWBBQ?!!

Task for chairman: Hmmmm. . . WTF. W. . .T . . .F . . .That's it! Gentlemen, we have our name! Congratulations, Director!

[Cheers go out. Scotch is poured and toasts are made.
Screen fades to black.]

[Fade in on Julian Assange sitting in a British pub. A CIA operative, a couple MI5 operatives with some British Bobbies come
walking in the door.]

MI5 Operative: Julian Assange?

Julian: Yes?

MI5: You are being held for extradition to Sweden under allegations of rape. Please come with us.

Julian: WTF?!

CIA Operative: [Takes off sunglasses] Exactly.

[Fade to black. Cue Credits. Roll End Theme]

OK. I must do this.

In Soviet Russia, joke fools you!

Isn't it Ionic?
Dontcha think?
A little too Ionic.
Yeah, I really do think.

It's not Covalent boooooonds
On your Wedding Day

It's the free electrooooooon
that ya just couldn't take.

Nobody ever suspects the butterfly!

Actually, knowing a wee bit about the PA System of Higher Education. Stacy Synder had probably signed a Code of Conduct
agreement with Millersville University
http://www.millersville.edu/services/judicialaffairs/files/StudentCodeofConduct20102011.pdf

There are passages that state any offense that occurs either on or off campus can be
cause for punishment.

This is mere speculation, but I'm betting they saw her drunken pirate picture as "Public Drunkenness"
and punished her by suspending her for the semester. With no ability to complete her student teaching
should couldn't get her degree. Either that or she may have been expelled. Considering the rulings
are determined somewhat arbitrarily it still appears to be heavy handed. Yet again another lesson
in reading and understanding what you sign.

[Hide the childrens' ears. I'm going to say bad words! : ) ]

Oh for fucks sake! It's like established authoritarian sources are trying to find something.
Does listening to this cause severe dependence in a majority of users? No? Then leave it -the fuck- alone.

I saw this having beneficial uses with helping calm people down who have pre-op anxiety. Or Anxiety in general.
Also in the opposite, instead of downing coffee in the morning. Crank up the tunes and wake up!

I don't think it's a mystery that music and sound have mood altering properties.

Who isn't stirred by a rousing Sousa march during a 4th of July parade? Who feels sorrow or reverence when Amazing Grace is played for a fallen hero?

Well son! That's all druuuuuugggggsss! You're usin' drugs when ya feel that way.

Tell that to every damn fundie out there who is going to get into an absolute uproar over this.
Just for once, can't people find out about this themselves without the FUD slant?
Maybe find some real clinical studies or perform some long term studies
and find out how beneficial or detrimental this sound usage is.

BTW, I am a damn fundie. Even I think this is absolutely inane.

It was in-between all the talky talk and the ass kicking.

We Agents don't really like to talk about it. Grr. . .

But it is exactly like the quote.

There's no escaping reason, no evading purpose, because we both know, that without purpose there is no reason to exist. It is purpose that created us, purpose that connects us, purpose that pulls us, that guides us, that drives us, that defines us, it is purpose that binds us.

Good and Evil are engines of purpose that sustain people longer than purpose for a given project or timespan.

Legalize them and their fear of cops will disappear.

Tried doing that in 1986 (actually 1985)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control_Act_of_1986

You open the borders and we might as well just annex Mexico and most of Central America.
I'm not against that, but I think the people of those nations might have issue with it.

People are going to continue to pour in and pour in.
There is nothing wrong with immigration, but even the most hard working illegal immigrant is still illegal.

Again, make them legal, give them something to lose and they'll care a lot more.

Like they cared about our laws in the first place and went through the legal process eh?

Before I came to my views on immigrations I actually talked to legal immigrants of all kinds.
My college roommate - From Poland
My coworkers - some from Delhi and New Delhi India, some from poorer locations in India I can't even pronounce.
My next door neighbor - from Jamaica
People in my church - some from Russia. Some from Romania
My college roommate's one co-worker - from Ireland

I talked with some protesters in a suburb I lived in just outside of Philadelphia. One guy was from
Mexico the other guy was from Guatemala

I even talked to a guy from Bolivia on my vacation to Utah who was travelling around the US.

I got two opinions.
1) Illegal immigration has to stop. Amnesty or lack of immigration of enforcement is a slap in the face to the
time I waited and suffered to get my legal citizenship.

2) Citizenship and Amnesty should be granted to all immigrants, because they are just as hard working and law abiding as anyone else. The country will (and does) benefit from the labor they produce.

Guess how many had each opinion.

As a result, I'm of opinion 1.

The federal government has done very little to secure its borders. Citizens who are rightly concerned do not get any action.
Arizona's law is frankly a band-aid to the problem. We know it's not just to profile. That law states as much, but let's not kid ourselves that any action done under this law isn't going to go under a legal microscope.

The real solution for controlling immigration.
Anyone who performs a real, honest-to-God crime and is illegal should be deported. Driving-while-brown or funny lookin' doesn't count. Checking for employment of illegal workers should be done on a nationwide basis. This includes the homes of every damn rich business man and congressman along borders states (Oh sorry, my bias is showing).

Frankly, detaining and deporting illegal immigrants is only the first step.
Proper and dedicated fencing and border checks need to be done on all borders. Not just the one with Mexico!

On the other side, we need to put our money where our mouth is and build up immigrations approval fast tracking.
If you are a hard-working person from another country and wish to be a legal citizen then it shouldn't take 5-10 fricking years to do it!
Put in the funding for more Naturalization services. Get the hard workers and thinkers in. Do it right. Make them legal!
Anyone deported for non-criminal reasons should be able to immediately get in line.

If you have a problem with encouraging legal immigration within the bounds of our resources then you are a fucking racist.

Trying to provide amnesty again is wrong. It is another band-aid in the opposite direction of the current Arizona law.

Personally, I'd have used a photo of a client demanding IE6 compatibility for their new web app.

AUUUUUGGHGHGHGH!! AUUUUUGGGHHH!! AAAAAAAAAHHHH!!

[Goes running down the hall. Jumps out of a window.]

Later autopsy concludes the decedent had an increased immune response.
Congratulations gentlemen! We've found the ultimate control stressor!

Woo!

Many Bothans died to get us this April Fool's joke early.

OK, all arguments aside about what Apple has or hasn't done. This what you do.

Wait.

Wait until either Apple provides an iPAD with the features you require or the technology becomes more mature.
This speculating and armchair techno quarterbacking makes my feet itch.

I waited until a 5th gen Video iPOD before I bought one. Why?
Honestly, it was expensive as hell. I'm sure I could have bought other mp3 players, but this device could play video
and had a legal content provider available in iTUNES. It gave me direct access to content until I got up to speed with getting content from other areas. Not to mention a great deal of third party support for accessories.

It could be that someone else beats Apple to the punch. Buy their offering instead and integrate it into
your existing Mac or PC infrastructure.

I've been off an on with Apple since the Apple II days. When they started to jump the shark with the Performa
series I looked elsewhere. When products looked more promising I bought from Apple again. One of the benefits
with buying Apple is that their products usually last quite a while.

If you are trying to buy on the bleeding edge with Apple you will get cut. How bad you get cut depends on
how far away the device meets your expectations.

Oh no!

The government has a glitch with an insanely complex missile system.
Good to know, but *Yawn* "Film at 11" me and wake me when it's fixed.

The Matrix will never accept Lumbergh as an Agent.

He's too . . .stuffy.

You had me until you misused 'pour' as 'pore'.

Only a unemployed Haitian astroturfing blogger would make such a mistake.

It's not so much the driving locally as the driving to get out of town. Want to visit the relations in Burlington or New York?
You have to drive out of the town. That might be solved by having parking lots at the inside edge of the dome. So the air quality problem still exists.

My big problem is when a domed town would need to expand. Unless you account for that in the initial dome build there still is the possibility of running out of room.