iraqi gun ownership (was Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort?
At 0:55 -0800 2003/03/30, Bill Stewart wrote: At 06:09 PM 03/29/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: Check out http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48331-2003Mar29.html If all the Iraqi farmers/civilians have half this guy's stash... It's probably safer to invade Iraq than, say, Switzerland, because the Iraqi government probably didn't trust all its ethnic minorities with weapons, or at least not enough to buy them for everyone. Bit on BBC a couple of weeks ago listed Iraq as having the highest private gun ownership rate in the world, after the anarchic warlord states in Africa. Had a nice interview at an open-air gun market, one of the sellers said that Smith Wesson was quite popular. -- J. Eric Townsend -- jet spies com buy stuff, damnit: http://www.spies.com/jet/store.html
Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort
FCF is in bed with fine folks like Scaife, Family Research Council, the Eagle Forum. Head of the FCF (Paul Weyrich) founded the Heritage Foundation. Lots more interesting bits here: http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipients/free_congress.htm -- J. Eric Townsend -- jet spies com buy stuff, damnit: http://www.spies.com/jet/store.html
Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort?
At 18:42 -0500 2003/03/29, Declan McCullagh wrote: I went to the Timonium hamfest and computer show today (surprisingly good, even with the rain). On the way back, listened to an NPR Baghdad correspondent report that the mood in the city had subtly changed -- basically that since Saddam didn't seem to be getting his ass kicked, the locals now seem willing to fight, if not for Saddam himself, at least for the sake of their country. Door-to-door: Let's do it! Last week on BBC World, I heard a British military analyst say that while in his teens he was willing to do almost anything to remove Thatcher from office, he would have gladly taken up arms in the defense of Britain if the army of another country tried to remove her from power. -- J. Eric Townsend -- jet spies com buy stuff, damnit: http://www.spies.com/jet/store.html
Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists
At 2:40 + 2003/02/12, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: This one just won't die. People keep repeating it. Not much different from Bush's Time is running out or They hate us because we love freedom. Would you like to show us the part of the twelve page German law of March, 1938 that limits gun permits to members of the Nazi party? Uh huh, I didn't think so. It's been several years since I read the translated copy I purchased from JPFO, so it's possible that I am mistaken. If you've read it recently, I'll take your word for it. -- J. Eric Townsend -- jet spies com buy stuff, damnit: http://www.spies.com/jet/store.html
Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists
At 16:18 -0500 2003/02/12, cubic-dog wrote: The NRA is openly hostile towards the embarrasing 2nd Amendment. The NRA is mostly all about allowing the weathly wingshooters to be the last to fall. The rest of us, like the armed citizens, get bartered off everytime gun control bill comes to a vote. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be any RKBA organization without some sort of right-wing, religious, or loonie ties. The Gunowners of America (GOA) back right-wing Christian loonie causes -- the long-distance-for-RKBA company GOA promotes (Promise Vision) doesn't mention one word about RKBA on their web site (http://www.pvpromisevision.com). Instead, they position themselves as the anti-pornography long-distance company. -- J. Eric Townsend -- jet spies com buy stuff, damnit: http://www.spies.com/jet/store.html
Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists
At 10:44 AM -0800 2/11/03, Tim May wrote: But in postmodern America mentioning guns is simply NOT DONE. Not even on the Fox Network, a more rightward network than the others. (Being right no longer means mentioning guns, as Ashcroft and Cheney and the like would prefer that guns be in the hands of der polizei. There's a reason Hitler confiscated guns held privately by Germans.) Firearms permits were instituted in the late 1920s and were required for ownership of firearms, ammunition, or the legal ability to manufacture either. When Hitler came to power, he had the laws changed so that only members of the Nazi party could obtain a firearms permit. -- J. Eric Townsend -- jet spies com buy stuff, damnit: http://www.spies.com/jet/store.html
Re: How to Stop Telemarketers...
At 12:08 -0800 2002/12/06, Tim May wrote: If you don't wish to be telephoned, keep your number secret. One word: wardialing. -- J. Eric Townsend -- jet spies com buy stuff, damnit: http://www.spies.com/jet/store.html
Re: Onion Self-Censorship
At 23:46 -0800 2002/11/20, Tim May wrote: On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 10:25 PM, jet wrote: At 9:01 -0800 2002/11/20, Eric Cordian wrote: Cable News is reporting that the Onion, America's Finest News Source, has pulled from its Web site an article on the recent siege at the Moscow theatre by Chechen rebels. You got any pointers to that? I'm not seeing any mention of this story searching www.cnn.com, news.google.com or news.yahoo.com. Try searching Google for likely combinations of words. This worked for me: michael bay chechen That finds a cached copy of the story that is no longer up on The Onion's site. I believe that the article existed -- I saw the cached copy myself. I'm still not finding any story, anywhere, that says The Onion pulled this or why they pulled it. That The Onion (www.theonion.com) no longer has the article which Google and other sites linked to is precisely the point of the story. Again, what story? Where is the evidence that The Onion pulled this because of the terrorism content? Maybe someone from Michael Bay's office threatened a defimation suit and The Onion pulled the story because they didn't want to bother with a lawsuit. Or maybe Michael Bay's brother-in-law-half-removed is dating someone at The Onion's step-mother and asked for a friendly favor. Maybe someone at The Onion stole the story from someone else, so it got pulled until they could sort out who actually wrote the piece. But hey, if it makes you feel better to state some sort of conspiracy to silence The Onion given the complete and total lack of information, go for it. -- J. Eric Townsend -- jet spies com buy stuff, damnit: http://www.spies.com/jet/store.html
Re: BBC hijacks TiVo recorders
At 0:24 -0700 2002/06/02, Marc wrote: To be honest, the complaints about this are excessive. The problem isn't that the TiVo recorded a promotional show, it's that it recorded a show that has some semi-adult content in it and parental controls don't restrict promotional recordings. ...and they did this at the request of the BBC who paid them to do it. yeesh. I don't think anyone came out of this looking good. UltimateTV surprisingly is less intrusive, it doesn't have to use the phone at all (except for standard DirecTV PPV calls) and uses the downstream from the dish to verify subscriptions. making it easier to bypass paying for service than it is on the TiVo, just activate the right tier and presto, UTV service. -- J. Eric Townsend -- jet spies com buy stickers: http://www.spies.com/jet/store.html to support the artcar: http://www.spies.com/jet/artcar.html Looking for vets who served with USASSG/ACSI/MACV in Vietnam, 1967-1970.
Re: BBC hijacks TiVo recorders
They were even more surprised to find that they won't be allowed to delete the programme for one week, and that more sponsored recordings are on the way. ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25436.html However, the show didn't take up any user space, but was stored in reserved system space that's kept around for use during software upgrades and whatnot. -- J. Eric Townsend -- jet spies com buy stickers: http://www.spies.com/jet/store.html to support the artcar: http://www.spies.com/jet/artcar.html Looking for vets who served with USASSG/ACSI/MACV in Vietnam, 1967-1970.
