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Comment: The judge must be a Star Trek fan: (Score 2) 134

by sageres (#43651719) Attached to: Judge Refers Prenda Copyright Trolls To Criminal Investigators

Quote:
Third, though Plaintiffs boldly probe the outskirts of law, the only enterprisethey resemble is RICO.The federal agency eleven decks up is familiar with their prime directive and will gladly refit them for their next voyage. The Court will refer this matter to the United States Attorney for the Central District of California.

The Military

Ukrainian Attack Dolphins Are On the Loose 99

Posted by Unknown Lamer
from the ecco-wants-blood dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "The Ukrainian Navy has a small problem on their hands. The Atlantic reports that, after rebooting the Soviet Union's marine mammal program last year with the goal of teaching dolphins to find underwater mines and kill enemy divers, three of the Ukrainian military's new recruits have gone AWOL. Apparently they swam away from their trainers ostensibly in search of a 'mate' out in open waters. It might not be such a big deal except that these dolphins have been trained to 'attack enemy combat swimmers using special knives or pistols fixed to their heads.' Dolphins were trained at Sevastopol for the Soviet Navy as far back as 1973 to find military equipment such as sea mines on the seabed as well as attacking divers and even carrying explosives on their heads to plant on enemy ships. The U.S. has its own dolphin program in San Diego with 40 trained dolphins and sea lions and another 50 in training. U.S. Navy dolphins were deployed in Bahrain in 1987 during a period when Iran was laying down mines in the Persian Gulf to disrupt oil shipments. No word yet on whether 'sharks with frickin' laser beams attached' have been added to the U.S. arsenal." Update: 03/14 14:55 GMT by T : Note that (as the Atlantic has updated their story reached via above link) while there really are militarized dolphins in use around the world, this particular story turns out to be an elaborate prank.

Comment: Re:And (Score 1) 93

by sageres (#42577837) Attached to: Vietnam Admits Deploying Bloggers

Funny I did an experiment once on Huffington Post. One of the regular left-wing liberal posters have caught my eye: posting too fast and always too often. So good thing HP allows for the message history. That person was posting non-stop for 8 hours per day every day! A new post every five to ten minutes.
I am more than positive that it was one of the "paid" organizations specifically designed to shape a public opinion, and this was their representative.

The problem with the internet is that you can never put a face to the message. What you think might be a mob of people could actually be a mob of one.

Comment: Re:peaceful protesters? (Score 1) 584

by sageres (#42436849) Attached to: New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street

That depends on the type of socialist system used.
In Soviet Union we were not allowed to own property. Well some did. Well some absolutely did. Well you see, in Soviet Union some people are more equal than others.
In Best Korea too.
But it really all depends on the country.
Marxist-Leninist socialism most likely does not allow private ownership. And there are only four countries right now.
China, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam. China has limited shared ownership (many companies are owned or co-owned partially by the state or state-based organizations such as the Chinese Red Army), Cuba -- none, Laos -- none, Vietnam -- I don't know.

Comment: Re:peaceful protesters? (Score 0) 584

by sageres (#42436785) Attached to: New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street

Heck no. I am capable of holding an argument without need to resort to violence. But considering the cases of people being beat up and women being raped at the camp -- we did not DARE to go down to the camp alone. In truth my friends and I wanted to tell them exactly what we think of their dirty hippy flea-bagging ways without being molested by someone like you and your friends for speaking our mind.

Comment: Re:peaceful protesters? (Score 1) 584

by sageres (#42436741) Attached to: New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street

I know, it is something like it is not the speech that you said. Someone else said it before. It is OK, I'll help deal with your plagiarism by giving the source (as you should have)
Barack Obama, July 13, Roanoke, Va
But he was wrong. Just like you ripped off his quote without giving him a credit, you are ripping off other people's money without giving them credit claiming that government did it.
And He was wrong too.
There are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there but remember that 47 percent of the population still do not pay the income tax, and the top 10% of the population pays more than 50% of the income tax.
I am successful, and I did not ask for anyone's help. Asking for help would be "gimme food-stamps", "gimme money", "gimme welfare". My family came in America with literally 1 dollar in our pockets and twenty years later we own two houses four cars and successfully multiplied.
Yes there was a great teacher somewhere in my life. She, he and many others of them got paid for their work and retirement. My parents paid for it.
The "Somebody" who helped to create this unbelievable American system is capitalism that produced and maintain this place of opportunity where anyone can make a business and be successful. Try that in the old Soviet Union, the "Best" Korea, the handful of the socialist states that still exist. You can not create your own business in many of them unless it allows for private ownership. Many of the old Socialist states did not allow for private ownership.
Yes somebody invested in the roads and bridges. Many of them are toll roads and many are built on a tax money collected by the state or the federal government. We are still paying with our tax money to maintain them. Every time we renew our driver licenses and license plates we pay for their maintenance. Don't make me feel guilty for a service that I have paid for.
When you come to a five star hotel, receive a great service for a waiter and tip them generously for it you do not come around and say, "We should be ashamed for even thinking that we bought the stay at that hotel room and that food and that food service for that night because the waiter really did us a favour by bringing in that food." Makes sense? not to me.
And another reason why Obama is wrong. He said, " If you've got a business -- you didn't build that . Wrong, this is the exact same way that the Soviet system were telling us that in capitalist-based system every single business owner became rich by exploiting the working class. Now you understand what Obama was really trying to say by that?
Yes, of course if you got your own business -- you absolutely built that.
I know of a certain Korean immigrant who came into this country 10 years ago. For the first three years he was breaking his back trying to feed kids and save up. He worked probably 16 hours a week, later on paying for their education.
Eventually he had 100,000 dollars that he saved up and bought a laundry-mat with adjacent dry-cleaning store. His family, his extended family is now working in that store. He bought nearby office spaces and opened a restaurant. His family now works that restaurant too. He also just bought another building space, and from what I heard it will be a drugstore. The guy now lives in a big house, his children are going to school, and all-in-all he is employing at least fifty people, including some natural born Americans who are not part of his family. He absolutely built that business, and paid for building it. Not by exploiting the working class, not by anything that the President is trying to make us guilty for.
The Internet case is special, was invented by the Army. But the individual networks existed way before the Internet. There were many different networks prior to the Internet and in alternative to the Internet as well. Also US universities were the first websites to expand into the internet.
The government had very little to do with the Internet, only by sponsoring the initial implementation of Darpa-Net. Everything else was done by individuals, consortium, universities, free-software foundation, commercial software and communication companies. All for the sake of money.
Here is the list of companies that really contributed to the internet you know today:
CISCO (routers, switches, backbone hardware)
AT&T and all the little "Bells" -- backbone, routing.
SUN, HP, IBM -- stable UNIX hardware and software for running nntp, smtp, http, etc.
Microsoft, Apple -- Personal computers to access the Internet.
Microsoft, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera -- web browsers.
GNU/Linux, BSD (all Berkley-based UNIX variants), GNU tools -- open source contributions and research
Apache foundation, Sendmail Co, etc.
And finally University-based researches in programming languages and releases of enthusiasts. (Perl, PHP, Python, Java, etc.)
Government had very very very little to do with the Internet on the grand scheme of things except their censorship prerogative.

Comment: I'd rather deal with fiscal cliff (Score 0) 98

by sageres (#42434737) Attached to: US Firms Race Fiscal Cliff To Install Wind Turbines

than see Obama administration blow the money into the air in order to pay-off their political base by diverting the United States investment on the failed bankrupted green-energy companies such as Solyndra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra) and many others. If the energy source is non-viable economically and market can not support it -- let it die.

Comment: Re:peaceful protesters? (Score 0) 584

by sageres (#42434691) Attached to: New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street

I had a few friends ready to back me up really severely standing next to me if they were to lay a finger on me. However if I were to meet you I would not need a few friends near me to express my constitutional right of free speech and a natural right to punch your smug liberal face, were you try to even mention a trash can, Steve.

Comment: Re:peaceful protesters? (Score 0) 584

by sageres (#42434633) Attached to: New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street

Sure, I do not belong to 1%, but I belong to the top 53% of the people. The working people (thank you very much) who work and support the bottom 47% of the population (who really do not pay taxes).
I do not want you to identify me as part of YOUR group. I worked hard to get where I am today without taking a dime from the government.
If you want a system where the wealthy do not control the government -- I think you should just go away and establish your own social country or move to the "Best" Korea because even in the best days of the Soviet Union, those in power were those who were in the power of controlling the money (go figure).

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. -- Carl Sandburg

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