southsideirish71

When Paul gets rid of the FBI and the CIA and some of the other federal agencies to pave way for his savings he can have Deputy Dawg and company deal with this. CiA and SANS admit that Cyberattacks have already caused on major power outage.

I have my 1600 dollars earmarked for a quarter horse named Lucky Larry's revenge, he is a long shot but its worth it. Yes its high risk, but I need some sort of strategy to counter the massive increase in my taxes next year when whomever takes over as President.

The only question with Dotel is his health. It allows Bobby to take a day off and maximize his effectiveness. And more importantly, it gives more flexibility. Last year Ozzie was afraid to use Bobby in certain situations and only wanted to use him when we had a lead late do to the crap in the pen. When Dotel is on the mound he is nasty and it gives us a better back end of the bullpen. This is a pretty good signing.

Luckily we don't do large gifts for Valentines day. We go out to eat usually the weekend before to avoid the crowds, and I give her flowers for Valentines day. My wife's birthday is a month later, so thats when I get raked over the coals for the big gift. The charm bracelet works very well. She has some other bracelet looking thing as well where stuff snaps on. The charms for that look like little squares.

QUOTE(shipps @ Jan 17, 2008 -> 03:45 PM) Diet Dr Pepper is the best tasting diet pop.And this is a fat person talking. I second that. From a Diet drink standpoint, Diet Snapple is pretty good as well.

I went out to eat, and had Pot Roast, Mashed Potato's and Green Beans at Culvers. Was looking for a good burger, but the Pot Roast is a person fav of mine. Not bad at all.

A version of this girl is at every single Alumni club I have ever been too. The over-talky cock-blocky type.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jan 16, 2008 -> 08:50 PM) That's the route I'm gonna go this summer I think... I'm gonna build myself a middle-of-the-road laptop running some open source software (Ubuntu, gOS, something) I'd get an Asus, but I want something a little bigger than the 7 inch screen or whatever it's rockin. Actually its the size of the keyboard that has me taking a step away from the EEE. I've got big hands, and have trouble typing on laptop as it is. Anything smaller than the standard 12" laptop keyboard would probably render the thing useless in my hands. Asus got it right, but they still need a couple more iterations (maybe a year or two) before the price of solid state memory makes it viable to have more than just a nominal amount of data on your computer. Though I'm reasonably sure the future of computing will feature server based data storage. If you are going the open source route, keep with Ubuntu, Fedora, or one of the main versions out there. In the Linux world there are so many forks that its hard to keep compatible. Ubuntu is a nice package, has great wireless support. Fedora is Redhat's test bed so I would stay away from it. Its nice and all, but you are more likely to run into bugs based on the fact that they are using it to iron out issues for RHEL.

Northern Illinois visit with friends. Me and my brother went up to visit a friend who was staying at one of the stevenson halls. So after a night of libations and getting thrown out of a party, we crash back where my buddy tells us of lies of women he knows and how he is going to get them over at the dorm, the usual freshman fantasies of being more connected than you actually are. We proceed to put down a lot more libations and now we are good and drunk. My friend gets up and says he has to take a leak. He walks out the dorm door. A few minutes later we hear a loud scream. We run or stagger out of the room to locate where our favorite drunk went. We see a group of people laughing outside a door a few doors down. My buddy is on the floor very groggy. He of course has his pants around his ankles, and his personal best friend out, and he is laying in a pool of urine. The horrified people that were in that dorm room told us of the story the next day. He had wandered into that room, thought it was a bathroom, and proceed to try and pee in a small garbage can. Well his aim was off, and he hit an electrical outlet. Gave himself a jolt, fell back and continued to pee. He knocked himself out. He also cock blocked the guy who lived in that room, because he was in the middle of getting some when my drunken friend decided to visit their room. Moral of the story lock your door when getting busy.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Jan 16, 2008 -> 03:24 PM) Well yeah -- we're obviously talking about two different things with the comparison of a debate and a job interview. In the latter, as NSS has mentioned, I don't see how it helps you to give a cliche, 'weakness that's really a strength'-type answer. Obviously you don't want to incriminate yourself too much by saying something like, "I tend to be tardy" or "I have huge mental lapses throughout the day where I'm completely unproductive" -- but so long as your not going to that extreme, I'd think the interviewer would appreciate an honest response over something he/she's heard 50 times before. Sometimes the best way to see if its BS is to throw out a line of BS yourself. In my tech interviews I use a technique where I ask 2 difficult questions. One is a made up technology that doesn't exist, the other is a question that they should never have an answer for as its far above the level of the job. If they look at me and honestly answer, I dont know or I haven't run into it. Points to them. The minute I see them glance to the ceiling tiles, and then make up an answer just to give and answer or tell me how they revolutionized said made up technology then I drop them. People fluff their resumes and experience whether its an election or a job. But be prepared that someone may call you on it. Over stating your case, and making up experience is a bit more than slightly exaggerating some experience.

My brother in law just received a warning letter from Comcast about his BitTorrent activity with the songs that he had downloaded that day, so I would be a bit careful. ISP's are watching.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 15, 2008 -> 02:37 PM) Given our other hot thread right now, somehow I found this amusing. (Link with the answer) Only a moronic self richeous jackass would attempt to sway a daughter from voting for her father.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jan 15, 2008 -> 07:07 PM) What wireless is faster than a hard line connection? Other laptop companies have tried the no optical drive before, people didnt like it. This air product doesnt seem like a very good direction as other companies have been doing the portable unit for a long time, and have perfected it. And let me tell you, having a thin notebook isnt really a big benefit, it makes it MUCH easier to break, and the screen which is the most broken part of a laptop now has zero protection. I dont see how this is useful to anyone. Also they market this as something you may want to take on a plane? Well I sure as hell am not going to fiddle around with attaching a disc drive to that thing on a small plane. I used to be a big mac user, because I thought it was easier to use, and it never broke or got viruses. I have completely changed my mind with good PC units that have been ultra reliable and ridiculously faster than Macs, in fact its not even close. I have a new Dell, and a brand new Lenovo that outperform 2 of my friends Macbooks. Rock, Someone is buying into the 802.11n draft spec a bit too much. Yes with the MIMO technology it can rate very high and above 100mb. However even with MIMO you can run into interferance and other issues that will drag the connection down. I am using 802.11n at home. Its great for video and other things. By using the 5 gigahertz side I dont see the amount of issues with interference with my neighbors. However when it comes to hard core ripping and moving large files I always fall back to gigabit which is always faster. The only cool thing with my AP is that I have the Extreme with a 500 gigabit buffalo drive attached for my central sharing. These ultra portables like the Mac Air never work out. Sony had a line of them, Dell has a line of them. The problem is what you state, having the peripherals outside the main case. The exec is always forgetting the external CD and then you have docking stations to deal with. Its just becomes a mess. Nice idea by Apple, but I dont know who is going to use it. I have a mac and will never go back. I use a mac as a Unix workstation. Most of the tools of my trade are compiled underneath the hood to take advantage of Unix and open source. For my use, there is no comparison. The Apple is faster for my specific needs. I look forward to more applications being compiled for the Intel chipset. Using Office 2008 will be a dream over the old PPC version of Office 2004. Rosetta while nice for backwards compatibility sucks from a resource standpoint. When I rebuild my system before Leopard I didn't even install Office 2004 because it sucked so bad from a performance standpoint. Now on the kickass side. I have ordered a new workstation for my work. A new Mac Pro dual 8 core system with 32 gigs of memory, and 3 500 drives. It cost a crapload of money, but when I virtualize it its going to amazing.

Tom Cruise on Tom Cruise the scientologists. These cats are so cool, they can sense danger and they are the only ones who can save us. Must be something about theatans, or some scan, or the fact that he is f***ing nuts. Whatever.

QUOTE(BureauEmployee171 @ Jan 15, 2008 -> 11:40 AM) You do have a valid point. But the fact is, that is your opinion. Nothing makes your opinion greater than mine - and that is what the Constitution is about, therefore, if the Southern states had the opinion they did - that is their right. I'm not defending slavery, but I'm defending a state's voting rights to vote as they want to. That is what the Constitution is about, right or wrong in YOUR view - but also right or wrong in MY view as well. So in your view, each State is a separate country/state that only has to answer to their laws. No matter what it is, the state should have the right to make the law. So say the state of Indiana wants to entice some jobs out of a large petroleum company in Whiting, it would be okay for them to lower the standards and allow them to dump large amounts of cancer causing toxic waste into Lake Michigan because their elected officials and their citizens are okay with that. What does Michigan and Illinois and Wisconsin do if they disagree, mobilize the national guard and declare interstate war?

QUOTE(Vance Law @ Jan 14, 2008 -> 01:34 PM) The problem, however, would be the outrageous signing bonus demand. Whats more outrageous, paying a lump sum at the beginning of career of someone who will be cheap for a while after that lump sum. Or paying Juan Uribe 4.5 million a year to swing for the fences and fall over. Right now medicore players are getting large amounts of money, so what would you rather have a possible impact guy or a crappy guy for a few years. I would rather gamble right now on the high end player than save the money for crap later on.

Nice botnets that Ron Paul supporters are hanging out with these days. More of the Anti-Patriot Act crowd thumping for Paul.

QUOTE(rowand's rowdies @ Jan 13, 2008 -> 04:07 PM) ya, i love the patriot act, and the internet being regulated. can't wait to be arrested for talking about illegal activities (non terrorist) on my cell phone and over the internet. maybe there can be a pop up saying "you've been arrested". also, anyone who thinks we shouldn't pull out of Iraq immediatly, talk to (1) a current or recently former member of the military (who supports Ron much more than anyone else) ( ) and (2) go enlist to make sure we leave the "right way". I'm sure they will take you, no matter what age. I'm sure the never will be born children and grandchildren and so on of the US military members who will die before we finally leave thank you for your thoughts into why we should not leave right now. And my theory on who should be President, IF NOTHING ELSE, is that it should be the MOST EXPERIENCED (check) and MOST KNOWLEDGABLE (check) person who wants the job. Simply. Also, Alpha Dog is just trying to stir people up and refute everything just to make them mad. I do this, too. But not over the internet like a 9 year old. Just saying. I love the Orwellian paranoia everytime the Patriot Act is brought up. Criminals who commit crimes or plan them understand the risks of their actions. So I would suggest that if you are planning or you are talking about criminal or illegal activity on your cell phone then you have bigger problem than the feds listening to your calls. You realize that Cell Phone transmissions are relatively easy to crack and that anyone, even thoses outside of the feds can listen to your calls. Those cute little bluetooth headsets and their frightening pin of 1111 or whatever your default pin is, are real hard to defeat as well. I just did a security eval where I was able to intercept all of the keystroke information coming from someone's bluetooth keyboard 200 feet away. Sat out in the parking lot and picked up everything. The same utility allows you to listen to phone calls, and to actively take over the call. And that works pretty well. But make sure you worry about the Feds, not John Q identity thief. I would say the 60% of people who have open access points should worry about war drivers more than the government listening to their phone calls. Its good to be worried about your safety and privacy, its another to be paranoid about the black helicopters and the CIA agent worrying about you, the private citizen. There is an active member of this forum who is currently serving in Iraq namely Nuke. If you wish there is a sticky thread where you can ask Nuke questions. I am sure he will be more than happy to give you his feelings as the career enlisted man on politics. He is far from shy on the subject of politics.

QUOTE(iamshack @ Jan 13, 2008 -> 01:20 PM) This is a little better. And not to nitpick, but it is secession, not succession. I'm not sure I agree with your economics argument. England and other European nations were very much straddling the fence on which side to take at the outset of the War. Had the Union simply allowed the Confederacy to secede, there is a very reasonable chance that the Confederacy's economy could have sustained itself on exports of cotton and other cash crops to Europe, at least for some period of decades. And had that occurred, no one can really speculate what the United States would be today... Damn spellcheck

QUOTE(iamshack @ Jan 13, 2008 -> 01:02 PM) You seriously don't think the American Civil War can be distilled down to this, do you? He is right it was about economics. However the slave part was the issue at hand, because of the economics of it. The southern states had an economy based on the cotton trade. Their built in labor source of slaves was the issue. Imagine the impact to their economy if all of a sudden all of their free laborers had to get paid fair wages. Some tall thin guy from Illinois who sure wasn't a saint, but ran and had some anti-slavery people tied to him. The southern states were so worried about slavery being repealed that when he was elected South Carolina and 6 other states immediately succeeded. What he kind of glosses over is the fact that the slavery issue was something that was at a boiling point. They had tried before to split the country on this issue on a live and let live with the Missouri Compromise of 1820, however the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 was the powder keg of the Civil War. It threw out the Missouri Compromise and started a small civil war. The rest was politicians on both sides aligning themselves with each side. Does anyone believe that Lincoln had the morals in his heart when he ran on this, probably not. But if you think that the civil war was not based on the slavery issue I suggest he should read the succession papers from the states. Thats where the reason for succession is laid out.

QUOTE(rowand's rowdies @ Jan 12, 2008 -> 10:26 PM) listen to bureau, he knows whats going on and went on. Ron Paul is a strict Constitutionalist, which means he first and foremost defers to the Constitution. He then defers to the Congress, which should (but many times does not) listen to the Constitution. Ron has never voted to raise taxes. Ron has never voted for an unbalanced budget. Ron has never voted for the Iraq War. Ron has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership. Ron has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch. Ron has never voted to raise congressional pay. Ron has never taken a government-paid junket. Ron voted against the Patriot Act. Ron votes against regulating the Internet. Ron voted against NAFTA and CAFTA. Ron votes against the United Nations. Ron votes against the welfare state. Ron votes against reinstating a military draft. Ron votes to preserve the constitution. Ron votes to cut government spending. Ron votes to lower healthcare costs. Ron votes to end the war on drugs. Ron votes to protect civil liberties. Ron votes to secure our borders with real immigration reform. Ron votes to eliminate tax funded abortions and to overturn Roe v Wade. Ron votes to protect religious freedom. First off, Ron has taken blame for not proofreading his newsletters. These were released strategically by the powers that be to try and sidetrack his campaign of freedom. He is not a racist, as you should be able to see especially by his push for civil liberties being reinstated. He also does not want to throw a former employee under the bus for their writings, that is not his style. Give him that at least. As far as the messengers go, we are people from all walks of life. We have heard his message (AKA TAKE THE MOTHER FOCKING TIME TO LISTEN TO HIS VIEWS WITHOUT IMMEDIATLY SAYING HE IS A JOKE AND DOESN'T HAVE A CHANCE LIKE SHEEP WHO ONLY LISTEN TO WHAT FOX NEWS AND CNN TELL THEM TO THINK, (my little rant)) and understand the importance of spreading it. We will do whatever it takes. Sure, some of us do it in weird or pushy ways, but when you have all kinds of different people, they will do different things. Would you like to be labeled as a murderer and a theif because one small group of US Soldiers stole and murdered a family in Iraq? How about baby killers because of a bomb that killed a family? When you see what he is pushing for, you will realize that the end usually will justify the means in whatever we do to spread the message of freedom Ron is working on. Let me fill you in on some of his views, because most of you would never look into it. I also did this at the top assuming many of you would not read this whole thing. Go Sox I have taken the time to review him, his site, and his positions on different subjects. I have reviewed what he has said and what you and Bureau have posted on here. I will select another candidate still. You see its point of view. I like the Patriot Act. I like the assistance over the years of the FBI and other federal agencies in various computer crimes committed by individuals in the US as well as those outside the united states. Now I know that the FBI is considered bad by some people, and that my local law enforcement would be just as good with their local computer guy in decoding 10 gig of Unix unallocated disk for a 3 stage attack that started with some zero day exploit that happened to steal some intellectual data. Then again when the State Police computer investigator came in to attempt to take ownership of the investigation and nearly destroyed the evidence because he had no clue, I decided to bring the feds in. Plus their experts dont wrinkle their foreheads when I give them an attack trace that traverses through Tor nodes on the internet. I love the research from the NSA on computer security. Another Ron Paul victim. You see the whole he will bring back the armed forces, and of course cut the defense budget because they are here doesn't exactly make me think of security. We are on the brink of a cyberwar where nation states are taking direct action against country assets as well as company assets. Stacking people on the border isn't going to help that. Hell minding your own business isnt going to help that either. And after you repeal some of the federal statutes like the Patriot act, good luck with trying to do a tap and trace it. It will be nice as well, when each individual states comes up with their own individual laws for cybercrime. So far its been a hoot to look into getting my private investigators license so I can perform digital forensics in certain states. Because some local state government thinks that the PI who is dumpster diving for records of the cheating spouse can handle complex computer evidence by taking a 2 week course in intro to computer evidence. This is something that you should be worried about, because this affects your company that you work for, the utilities, and items like the price of oil. Last time I checked all that crap is connected in some way to the internet. An Sam the accountant and Sally the HR lady is still surfing crap that they shouldnt downloading chinese malware that is removing intellectual property from your company and sending it to mainland china. Dont worry China will stop doing that because we moved our troops back home, oh wait they could give too craps about our military, they want our intellectual data. I like some libertarian ideas and no one like paying taxes. But some items need to be at the government level. And literal thinkers who think only in the constructs of the constitution have to be open minded enough to adapt to a changing world.

I wonder how many countries we would of had in the area of the United States if Paul was president during the time of the Civil War.

QUOTE(Brian @ Jan 12, 2008 -> 07:03 PM) There were 20 people around Gurnee Mills today with "Honk 4 Ron Paul" signs. No Joke. This is what I am talking about, its not the candidate or the message its the messengers.

1 through 5 is ) Greg Walker 6.) Jose Valentin 7.) Jim Parque 8.) Jaime Navarro 9.) Tubby Wells 10.) Jose Canseco

I am starting to think that this is some sort of cult.