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| Richard |
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On 22 Sep 2004 00:46:03 -0700, leeroth@my-deja.com (Lee Roth) wrote:
Quote: Article in Honolulu paper: http://starbulletin.com/2004/09/09/news/story3.html
(short URL for same link: http://tinyurl.com/67vlb)
I'm certainly a big fan of the TV show, but am skeptical that a worthwhile
movie will result. Jack Lord's role would be a mighty tough one to cast I
would think... and, in general, movies that spring forth from TV shows
are usually a dud - the only really good one that I can think of at the
moment is The Fugitive, which was greatly helped by the lead actor
and a strong story.
Chris Rock as Steve McGarrett, Lucy Lui as Chin Ho,
and John Kerry as Danno.
-Rich |
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| Richard Crowley |
| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:38 am |
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"Blue_Iron" wrote ...
Quote: Okay. I don't know much of PAL beside it is an international
version i think. But would it really be recommendable to a guy
in the u.s. who has never owned digital camcorder?
Simply: No. Unless you are producing video only for PAL
territories (Europe, Australia, etc.) The problems of shooting,
recording, editing PAL in NTSC-land are overwhelming for
the beginner. They are not trivial even for professionals that
do it all the time. There is no practical benefit and a ton of
disadvantages. Strongly discouraged.
PAL is no more (or less) "international" than NTSC (or SECAM).
They each have their own well-established territories. Several
websites feature maps that show which video standard is used in
which country.
Quote: Also, Audio and video with Sony vx2100 compared to Canon
GL2 and xl1s: What brand has better stock audio and video?
Read some reviews. Particularly the review about the audio
capabilities of current video cameras by Jay Rose. Available
at the DV magazine website (www.dv.com) |
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| Tony |
| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:26 pm |
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If you can't write - please don't write!
We get enough crap from crossposting morons that we really don't want
their feeble attempts at fiction too.
Your gobble-gobble is a classic example of wasted bandwidth. |
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| Ubiquitous |
| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 4:29 am |
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Milly Roberts <mill1223@yahoo.com> wrote:
: 1. A post called, "My Dad is a damned idiot," with examples.
: 2. Describing a movie, so people can tell me the title.
It certainly isn't this newsgroup...
NB: Followups to suitable newsfroups. |
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| Evan Platt |
| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 12:05 am |
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On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 11:32:48 GMT, "Guy L. Mayer"
<glmayer34@earthlink.net> wrote:
Is SPAM appropriate for this group?
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To reply, remove TheObvious from my e-mail address. |
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| Guest |
| Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 3:44 am |
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| Guest |
| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:06 am |
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The California Supreme Court threw out the arrest.
Not carrying ID was a primary part of the police complaint.
It is impossible for the government to issue a National ID Card without
its use eventually becoming required. That is simply how it goes with new
tools for the government.
See how the uses of the Social Security number have grown, wildly beyond
what the government ever said it would be used for?
# Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, October 1986 issue
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# Tax reform bill HR 3838 requires effective January 1988 that any taxpayer
# claiming a dependent five years or older have a Social Security number.
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# This is to prevent divorced parents from simultaneously claiming the
# same child.
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# The requirement means that, for the first time, large numbers of children
# who have not reached employment age will need Social Security numbers.
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# Its use has been expanding the past fifteen years by regulations under
# the Bank Secrecy Act, requiring all bank account holders to be enumerated,
# and by the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 and subsequent legislation
# requiring children who receive public assistance to be enumerated.
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# Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, April 1990 issue
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# State legislatures are forced to enact legislation by November requiring
# all parents to provide their Social Security numbers before a birth
# certificate will be issued for a newborn.
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# The Family Support Act of 1988 forces a state to forfeit a portion of
# federal funds if it does not impose the requirement, which is intended
# to lead parents to believe the government will be able to chase them
# down later if they do not support th |
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| Guest |
| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:11 am |
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As far as I know, this is the only documented instance of someone
attempting this; deploying cybernetic controls nationwide.
* "Brain of the Firm", Stafford Beer, 1986, ISBN 0 471 27687 1
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* All of this involved a massive and continuing exercise in (what I should
* call, in the original World War II sense) operational research. That is
* exactly what it was: research by highly qualified interdisciplinary teams,
* into operations, namely production companies, with the prospect of
* discovering models and sets of measures.
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* We needed a group who understood the operational research techniques of
* data capture that were needed for project Cybersyn. As a Briton I knew
* whom I wanted --- they were a group of consultants within the London
* branch of the international firm of Arthur Anderson and Co.
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* Project Cybercyn objective: To install a preliminary system of information
* and regulation for the industrial economy that will demonstrate the main
* features of cybernetic management and begin to help in the task of actual
* decision-making by March 1st 1972.
Under the circumstances of a nationalized economy, it was a positive thing.
It was a massive application of cybernetic feedback to help each industry
and each factory keep track of itself through a central location. All
communications flowed through the central location.
This is what Stafford Beer refers to as 'Brain of the Firm'. It was located
in Santiago, Chile.
For NSA, it is Fort Meade in Maryland, USA.
* "Brain of the Firm", Stafford Beer, 1986, ISBN 0 471 27687 1
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* Project Cybercyn consisted of four major tools:
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* Cybernet, a national network of indu |
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| Guest |
| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:22 am |
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plate if no transponder!!!
DAMN. I hope the government doesn't have any
massive deployment of this technology in mind.
* SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION FEDERICO PENA
* TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD
* WASHINGTON, D.C.
* January 10, 1996
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* So, today I'm setting a national goal: To build an Intelligent
* Transportation Infrastructure across the United States...
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* I want 75 of our largest metropolitan areas outfitted with a complete
* Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure in 10 years. And let us make a
* similar commitment to upgrading technology in 450 other communities, our
* rural roads, and interstates, as the need warrants...
*
* The vehicles of the future, whether cars, planes, or trains, will have
* state-of-the-art communications systems. We must ensure that our roads
* and highways and transit systems are able to keep pace with them.
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* Today, I'm announcing the award of five contracts to standards development
* organizations to begin fast tracking the development of those standards.
* They are: AASHTO, IEEE, ITE, ASTM, and SAE. [So the standards of hardware
* and information are interchangeable and global.]
Yep.
# Subject: ---> Big Bro and the Intelligent Transportation System <---
# From: 99@spies.com (Extremely Right)
# Date: 1997/06/03
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# If you live in a big city you will find that there is an interesting
# proliferation of cameras pointed at the freeway. Do you know what they
# are, what they can do, and what is their potential for abuse?
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# The System is called the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) and you
# may find it everywhere on the net. The cameras are linked to a city
# control room, who are supposed to use them to improve traffic flow. The
# cameras are "uplinked" to the net, to satell |
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| Guest |
| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:38 am |
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FISA statute as well as the surveillance court all interceptions received
from the British GCHQ or any other non-NSA source.
Thus it is possible for GCHQ to monitor the necessary domestic circuits
and pass them on to the NSA through the UKUSA Agreement, giving them
impunity to target and watch-list Americans.
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P475: Three decades after its creation, the NSA is still without a formal
charter. Instead, there is a super hush-hush surveillance court that is
virtually impotent; the FISA, which has enough loopholes and exceptions to
render it nearly useless; and an executive order that was designed more to
protect the intelligence community from citizens than citizens from the
agencies. In addition, because it is an executive order, it can be changed
at any time at the whim of a President, without so much as a nod toward
Congress.
P471: On January 24, 1978, President Jimmy Carter issued an executive order
imposing detailed restrictions on the nation's intelligence community. The
order was designed to prevent the long list of abuses of the 1960s and 1970s.
But four years later President Ronald Reagan scrapped the Carter order and
broadened considerably the power of the spy agencies to operate domestically.
P473: Under the Reagan executive order, the NSA can now, apparently, be
authorized to lend its full support - analysts as well as computers - to
"any department or agency" in the federal government and, "when lives are
endangered," even to local police departments.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:50 am |
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and Conquer, state by state.
It is the beginning of the end.
Don't think the biometric driver's licenses are the exact equivalent of a
National ID Card? Check out this phrasing from an unimplemented law:
# Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, October 1983 issue
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# Senator Bob Dole wants the government to conduct a three-year study to
# unify federal and local requirements for personal identity.
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# The bill, S1706, would amend the Federal False Id Act of 1982, to require
# a comprehensive identity scheme for the U.S., either THROUGH UPDATING
# EXISTING IDs TO BE MORE SECURE, UNIFYING THEM, or creating a new identity
# document for all Americans.
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People will "demand" it...
Texe Marrs knows about politicians beating the Drum of War to control us...
* "Project L.U.C.I.D.", by Texe Marrs, 1996, ISBN 1-884302-02-5
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* These changes are necessary, we are reminded each day by our mind control
* jailers in the media, to solve the immigration crises, to institute gun
* control, to counter domestic terrorism, to fight pornography [Texe Marrs
* is now a Christian preacher!], to find deadbeat dads who don't pay child
* support, to "Save Mother Earth",
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"The Feds Under Our Beds", By James Bovard, The New York Times, 9/6/1995
The Superfund program epitomizes the Government's contempt for fairness.
E.P.A. lawyers have gone after Boy Scout troops, public schools and pizza
parlors, claiming the organizations can be held responsible for multi-
million-dollar cleanup costs of Superfund sites---even though they may
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| Guest |
| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:51 am |
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Gawd he didn't become President.
* July Fourth, 1997, C-SPAN Congressional Television
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* Mark Klaas, father of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, who was murdered by a
* repeat-offender that was paroled from prison, said in support of prevention
* programs: "Building more prisons to fight crime is like building more
* cemeteries to fight the spread of AIDS. It's a bad quick fix. Police
* chiefs across the country support [me] this 4 to 1. Unfortunately, Congress
* can't act "soft" on crime, and is about to pass a very bad bill on
* juvenile crime."
More bizarre distortions in our social fabric due to Zero Tolerance:
6/10/97 MSNBC: California: a ten-year-old girl who reported a classmate
for having a joint was also suspended by the principal, under the school's
Zero Tolerance for drugs policy. Her offense: handling the joint to see if
the other student was kidding her before reporting the other student. The
principal said "too bad, that's what 'Zero Tolerance' means". The little
girl and her mother are shocked. [I am not making these up!!!!!]
6/18/97 NBC News Channel 4 NYC: A career teacher is forced to resign because
she thought her student was kidding about having a baggie of pot. Students
and parents are stunned. The teacher said she believed her students had better
sense than that, and since she inspected it and it smelled like oregano she
was sure they were kidding her. Students and their parents protest, the school
board asks her back, but she says no, she is too disgusted at her treatment.
Zero Tolerance vi |
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| Guest |
| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:40 am |
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computer---a system 'through which anyone could consult
anyone else'.
I used keyword monitoring to filter "information" from "noise" in
Salomon's HUGE email traffic. What I did, of course, was small potatoes;
what Stafford Beer did was a serious cybernetic attempt to control an
entire nation's economy.
In order for him to do that, he needed to set
up a (cybernetic) monitoring infrastructure.
The nation's banks, factories and industrial companies.
It would have given Allende maximum control over the nations
industrial infrastructure, real-time monitoring of everything.
Everything had a computer monitoring it.
* "The Future of War - Power, Technology, and American World Dominance in
* the 21st Century", by George & Meredith Friedman, 1996, ISBN 0-517-70403-X
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* McNamara's revolution built on an idea that was central to operations
* research and propounded by many nuclear strategists, that war was not
* methodologically distinguishable from economics. The process whereby you
* analyzed, managed, and controlled an economy was not essentially different
* from the way you managed a war, except that one was an economy of produc-
* tion and the other was an economy of force. The principal underlying both
* was the doctrine of efficiency: maximizing the benefits received from the
* efforts and expenditures---a cost benefit analysis.
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| Guest |
| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 7:27 pm |
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Man thats a bit scary, i've been a projectionist (called technical
manager for the past two years) i kinda hope i exist. As for the
question what do i do
1)I ensure that the projection equipment (no it's not on disk or tape)
is properly maintained.
2) The prints are clean, scatch and damage free
3) I ensure that all areas of the cinema are safe and maintained
(includes boiler, electrical and safety systems are up to date)
4) Carry out all health and safety checks including risk assessments
and drills
5)I ensure all shows are on time, in rack and focus, the sound is crisp
and clear (we use both dolby srd and dts) |
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| Ian J. Ball |
| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 1:14 pm |
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In article <e9Sdnf3ufNBvMFTcRVn-hg@wideopenwest.com>,
"Ed Stasiak" <estasiak@att.net> wrote:
Quote: "Pam or C. Wayne Owens" <pnwowens@sbcglobal.net> wrote
Wonder Which Woman?
I'd suggest Jennifer Connelly but maybe she's too old for a movie
that's kinda directed at kids?
They'd have to feed her again.
But, yeah. Not bad.
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Ian J. Ball | "So long, you miserable hypocrites!"
TV lover, and | - Barbara Ryan, ATWT, 08/27/04
Usenet slacker |
ijball@macDOTcom | http://homepage.mac.com/ijball/TV.html |
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