They Want To Steal My Internet!
NOBODY is going to touch it! Period. Especially the inept clowns at the UN. I think now we MUST in the interest of national security (and world secuity) implode the UN building with most of the delegates inside still jabbering.
Posted by Paul "No Fear" Weir
11/15/2005 at 10:08 AM
The UN is like unto a Toy Poodle humping my leg—embarrassing, yet amusing at the same time.
Posted by Oink
11/15/2005 at 11:03 AM
As a matter of fact, there is, OCM. They call them “backbone servers” and I believe that they’re all in the U.S.
I believe that when this movement got underway there was a simple statement from the U.S., I don’t recall it well enough to quote it beyound the phrase “not negotiable”.
I believe some countries, like Nigeria, have “threatened” to start their own internet. I applaud their initiative and wish them well. Go for it, lads, I’ll stick to the one we built here. Keep your scammers and spammers too.
SK: Thank You! The Nigerian Internet -- your log-on is your SS#, your credit card #s, your checking acct #s ...
Very long process, but secure as hell!
Posted by Oink
11/15/2005 at 11:30 AM
what a shame they cant “gain support” on all the bad things going on in this world. EU UN what a fucking waist of time and money,
Bulldog
More like IGNOR-ANUS quote of the day…
Those euro-peons and their UN fellow travellers ought to learn how to properly run their own affairs before butting into ours.
the 
fuq-tards
Since they are mostly spineless (as well as gutless and nutless), they should have no “backbone servers” under their puny control.
Right, Bulldog. I don’t suppose they’ll be doing anything to end the slaughter in Darfur. They just want to try to grab something good that someone else created.
I’ll also mention that there were international contributions, including the Brit who devised the browser, or developed a structure to make browsers possible, and made it available for all to use without charge. I believe that he got a knighthood out of that. Lots of folks have contributed nearly anonymously and have kept the spirit of a free and open internet.
I don’t see it being free or open if these folks get their sticky paws on it.
I know I’ve posted this before but I’m not above posting it again.
Oh, look, OCM has a new site ... and it’s eponymous.
(Sorry, OCM, I couldn’t resist.)
josh the teatcher on OCMs link “32 kids” in class? he should have been in London in the late 70s there was about 400 of us per class,
Bulldog
SK: “eponymous”? You don’t need no stinkin’ dictionary! (for reading OINK’s posts)
My fave eponym—Hooker. I was helping my grade-school son with his homework assignment to list eponyms, told him about it, we were tempted to include it in his homework. Did not! Also crapper and booze. (may or may not be true)
Dog: Class size matters less than parental involvement.
Posted by Oink
11/15/2005 at 02:24 PM
yes but OINK most of us where duck taped to the rads,anyway
your right on that one.
Bulldog
bulldog: ??????? English???? radiator?
P.S. I’ve also boycotted The Oscars since they snubbed “Smokey and the Bandit”
Posted by Oink
11/15/2005 at 02:41 PM
big hot things,radiators,needed wd 40 to get us off, bruce willis, is he the only actor in hollyweird with balls?
Bulldog
I figured it was something like that OCM. You got caught by the automatic features of the software. If it thinks something looks like a link it’ll make it a link.
Bulldog,
When I was a kid in Scotland in the 50’s there were at least 40 pupils in every class. You could hear a pin drop, though. Every teacher had a belt in their desk and were not afraid to use it. After my first experience with the belt I went home and complained. I got whacked again because the teacher had to punish me. Lesson learned. I never told onteachermyself again.For the uninitiated: The miscreant was called to the front of the class and told to stick out their hand. The teacher then whacked the hand with the belt however mahy times they felt necessary. If you moved your hand they would then lay it about your legs. Boys wore short trousers in those days. This was not a good option. If your hand didn’t feel like it was a foot thick when they were done they weren’t doing it right.
These were not clothing belts, these belts were made specifially for the purpose. Some had split tongues for an enhanced effect. These were usually weilded by teachers of higher grades. Sometimes just the sight of some of these would cause a miraculous change in attitude.
discipline i think sk, im not saying you have to smack kids,but like oink said in another post it starts at home, most of the teachers in them days would have made the soldiers at guantanamo bay or Abu ghraib look like nice people, pants on the head is an old one, cutting heads off they never did, still barstards though.
Bulldog
I think that crap would, justifiably qualify as child abuse today, and merit prosecution. Don’t think the old days in education were so great. Teachers were often scumbags who would work cheap, money was grudging from the local authorites. Emphasis was on rote memorization or else. That doesn’t mean today isn’t worse in the opposite direction.
Posted by Oink
11/15/2005 at 04:31 PM
its one extreme to another,but the way its going now is unreal ive seen kids tell a copper to fuck off and they walk away, if i done that 30 years ago i would have been the first kid in space,
Bulldog
Bulldog: As we both seem to be getting more comfortable with our, ahh… “Less-than Upper Class Roots”
—do you just happen to know the response, if someone in one’s group of hoodlums, in the presence of the cops, should just happen to yell
WHAT’S PENNIES MADE OUT OF?Posted by Oink
11/15/2005 at 05:11 PM
In truth, it’s not that they meted out punishment willy nilly. They only had to show that they were willing to do it. Some had to be shown. They served as an example to the rest. A teacher opening their desk was often enough of a gesture to settle down a whole class. I don’t think I saw it more than once or twice a month, really, if that. I can assure you that I did my best to avoid the strap after I got my first dose. I don’t really recall if I got it again after that.
As with all children, you have to prove to them from time to time that you’ll do as you say. Therefore you must be careful of your threats. If you don’t follow through you lose credibility. Just an observation.
SK: Probably mostly true, but read Tom Sawyer and James Clerk Maxwell on brutal schooling. In some schools they’ve started Student Courts with teacher supervision, to judge and mete out punishment for offences not calling for police intervention. Some kids prefer a beating to facing their peers about what they’ve done.
Surprising how most kids know what’s proper behaviour, whether they do it or not.
Posted by Oink
11/15/2005 at 06:04 PM
I never considered any of the teachers I had to be scumbags. Some I didn’t like but usually they had my respect. Usually. I didn’t see any who didn’t merit my respect until I hit high school and even then, I could have been wrong.
Oh yes, I’ve heard it said by older folks that when they feel pain their Latin lessons come back to them clearer than ever.
Owning up to the offense is often difficult, particularly in front of your peers. To be punished by them is even worse. It would seem to be a very good deterrent, at least of a second offense.
Lots of times when young people get away from home to someplace that nobody knows them they’ll behave in a manner that wouldn’t be condoned at home. They forget that there are other authorities in other places. Think about the dumb
that has been pulled on liberty in a strange place. I did a little of that myself. Not really bad, mind you, but it was stuff I’d never do where I was known.
If they want to take over something the U.S. started maybe they should consider
foreign aid.
Posted by piccalo
11/15/2005 at 06:37 PM
Yeah, foreign aid and ... oh, let’s see, keeping the sealanes open for world trade. The U.S. didn’t start that, but most of it falls to us these days.
oink, this type of copperhttp://www.uktv.co.uk/index.cfm?uktv=standardItem.Index&aID=527854
Bulldog
Nice looker. Our Q&A answer was DIRTY COPPER!
Posted by Oink
11/16/2005 at 01:58 AM
Looks like the euro-peons and the frogistanis have lost out again:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051116/pl_nm/tunis_dc
We shall keep the governance, TYVM :rulez:
DARPA invented it
And all this time I thought it was Al Gore. Sheesh…
Actually, I used to work at the long-gone DEC (digital equipment corporation, and WE had it way long ago, in the pre-WWW days of old. My own first exposure was back around 1981.
LC RP
I’m glad we sent people with spine to that “conference” and with the proper instructions.
was this quote about?“I think in claiming a victory the U.S. probably has more in the document than do other people,” said Jeremy Shtern, a University of Montreal researcher. “Nonetheless, I think it represents a move in a direction that the U.S. may or may not want to see come to fruition.”
Quelle Canadien!
I don’t know if keeping control of something we built and freely extended to the rest of the world is a “victory” but I’ll take it. Now, get back to work, you selfish power grabbing bastards, and do what you originally were supposed to be about.
11/15/2005 at 11:56 AM
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