Flamebait

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 20:05 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2008 7:44 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 19:12 -0700, JT Moree wrote:
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> > > Craig White wrote:
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> > > > as for off-topic/on-topic inflammatory statements that tend to generate
> > > > long off topic discussions...
> > > >
> > > > KDE rules!          GNOME sucks!
> > > I agree
> > >
> > > > Emacs rules!        vi sucks!
> > > I prefer vi
> > >
> > > > Fedora rules!       SuSE sucks!
> > > I prefer DEbian based distros but even the latest kubuntu is giving me fits.
> > >
> > >
> > > > You get my point - if you had merely laughed and let my comment pass, we
> > > > clearly would have had 5-10 less discussions on this topic.
> > >
> > > and you get my point?  if you had not posted the flamebait then we would
> > > not be having this discussion.  :/
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> > as I've already stated, that wasn't flamebait.
> >
> > This is flamebait...
> >
> > A president who proposes a record 3.1 trillion dollar budget for FY-2009
> > including $515 billion for the defense department, $70 billion dollars
> > for bridge spending in Iraq/Afghanistan (for only the 1st quarter of
> > 2009) yet knowing that Congress has yet to act upon it's current
> > 'emergency war funding request' of $110 billion while cutting Medicare
> > and Medicaid benefits in the same proposal.
> 
>   I think it was called 'The Omnibus Screw Middle Class Americans Bill'.
> 
>   Anyway, every single person on PLUG should be aware of the Telecom
> Immunity issue.  We are all connected to this industry and capable of
> understanding this issue.  It is extremely important that YOU, as an
> American understand what is happening to your rights to privacy.  The
> level of privilege (economically and politically) that such powers of
> surveillance afford to small, and often unnamed parties is perhaps the
> greatest threat to American liberty in decades.
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just a few minutes ago...

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/05/swire-black-boxes/

Craig