In These Times

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• • 10 May 06
  • 3:49 pm

  I remember a friendly chat I had with a local cell tower technician. He was amiable enough to demonstrate how his standard-issue technician phone could track any powered phone simply by typing in it's number. Kinda cool, kinda creepy. Word to the wise criminal/terrorist: Low-tech is the way to go for those who don't want to be easily tracked. No cellphone, no internet, no credit cards, etc. etc.

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• • 02 May 06
  • 11:34 am

  That's a negative, Marcello.

  Posted to What Ails Us?

• • 02 May 06
  • 1:05 pm

  "Have you tried it?...etc." I have no internet connection at home, only at work, and I spend the majority of my time disconnected. The people I meet in "everyday life" tend to be either: A. Indifferent to anything beyond their own immediate needs and wants. B. Far too proud of their overzealous, overly simplistic analyses of complex socio-political issues. ( "Someone should call Immigration and tell them to get some busses down to those demonstrations." ) C. Too quick to come to a conclusion based on a 60-second television news blurb. That, alone, is enough to give me "Outrage Fatigue," though …

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• • 20 Apr 06
  • 12:40 pm

  So... 1. Indefinite Detention of Non-citizens. 2. Intentionally Misrepresenting the threat of Iraqi WMDs. 3. Domestic spying without suitable warrants. 4. 'Authorizing' media leaks. 5. Being, in general, an incompetent leader. Which of these do you claim to be false? "The Left" must have one hell of a propaganda machine to have caused other Republicans to distance themselves from Bush for fear of the looming backlash.

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• • 23 Apr 06
  • 12:15 pm

  Wolf I'd have ot say the growing disregard for the human rights of non-citizens, a state to which number one is a symptom, is an alarming change in the American mindset. I find it hard to believe, with all of the reports and advice that was blatantly disregarded by Bush's administration, that they could have seriously believed Hussein had anything resembling the weapons program they claimed him to have. It's possible that this was unintentional, but that merely adds to his incompetence. No. I doubt there was full disclosure at the entry of World War 2. I do, however, believe that …

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