PHAEDRUS you have redeemed yourself in my eyes, i was once as cynical as you are, think of where i work…
What changed me was finding the chinks in the armor…
Perhaps David and Goliath rings more true than you can believe. Oh and i’ll email you sometime and tell you about Y2K, the sinister plot was so muchworse than the imagined reality…LOL, yet they failed.
Mike
OH and Felice… The secured net computer I was using in in my vehicle, so yes it took me 3 minutes to walk from my driveway to the living room… as far as i saw it, that was 2 minutes longer than usual, but such attention to detail makes me ask, ever applied for gov’t work?? <wink>
What’s your favorite SF TV show, other than “Star Trek”? (Audience line at RHPS)
Pariah, welcome, guy - it’s really good to see you over here - and a terrific first post here, btw, whether or not it actually was your first. Dr Pepper, A&W, and a few Corona longnecks in the cooler, take your pick…
Enough to observe three things: Secured network connections are,to the best of my knowledge, always found INSIDE heavily secured buildings, where an air-gap and physical security can maintain protection over and above encryption,
I am not familiar with any cell-modems or other vehicle-transportable network communication mediums that support secured connections, and
I hate the thought of people sending email from their cars. That’s even worse than people using cell phones while they drive.
If you all knew as much as you all think you do, would you all have to be here, talking about it?
Secured connections can be maintained from man portable field satellite radios, as well as any government issued cellular modem connecting to satellite links… the hard tap, and protection is in that No one can intercept the signal between a moving vehicle and the satellite… so UM where are experts?? damn cynical people who would question me if i said the sky were blue, if it mean they could start a fight or try to make someone look stupid… you guys are sad.
Now that everyone’s stopped yelling, I’m calling dibs on the Space Program Refom. I prefer to be addressed as “Minister of the Cosmos”. I’ll start doing the requisite research and number crunching.
Wish me luck - I’m up against a real Goliath!
I am beginning to think we could make a difference here! Oh, yeah, I also call dibs on the leadership of the Constitutional Congress that will most certainly take place. I’m a great public speaker and naturally charismatic.
Serious, FORMERAGENT? You want Serious??
Serious is telling a nation of fleece-wearing, nugget-eaters that they can’t have their MTV 'cause you’re going to change all the rules and legislate morality.
Serious is when The Great Unwashed Masses rise up and drag squared-away, dead ahead haircuts like you out of your offices and ride you out of town on a rail before The Simpson’s comes on.
When ever I here anybody talk about “changing everything”, I start listening for the sound of jackboots in the night. Sure, a lot of this country is screwed up, but positive change happens slowly and inexorably to the rhythm of cultural evolution. You barge in and change everything, the little guys get spooked for sure, and Bruddah, you don’t want that. Like it or not, his country works as well as it does because the delicate balance between oppression and gratification is the only thing between My Three Sons and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
And that’s serious.
TT
“Believe those who seek the truth.
Doubt those who find it.” --Andre Gide
OK, formeragent. You’re right. Everyone here is just sad. But face it, we don’t need to try to make you look stupid. You’re doing just fine yourself. (Hey, fight ad hominem with ad hominem, I always say.
I’m sorry, but that is patently false.
. . . is not an email address, and I daresay the Director of the FBI wouldn’t have much to say about whether you’re using caps or not. Further, your name is “FORMERagent.” Does that mean you’re no longer in the FBI? Or were you ever?
If you are FBI (which you aren’t), and you were given a magic secured cell modem (which you weren’t), you would not be posting on a public message board using Government property. Period, end of statement. The feds get reeeeally cranky about abuses like that.
Just admit you had the caps lock on, apologize, and continue with your pseudo-libertarian wannabe ramblings.
Three minutes and 5 miles. Or 20 yards with a freqsneak and your keystrokes are mine, Baby.
As to you goal, I consider it laudable, though to bring about the kind of change you’re talking about would pretty-much require a Constitutional Convention to be called…and that won’t happen.
(Sidesteps the urge to launch off this potential springboard of whimsy. Flips coin. Opts for straightforward response.)
Harsh assessment. I myself would have a difficult time trusting anyone who took on good faith that I was a government operative (and now one working from a secured computer from my car) and immediately decided to follow my lead over the internet in stating ‘This government is faulty, let’s do something BIG.’ I dunno. That’s just me.
You might want to re-read your initial posts from an objective standpoint before you dismiss the cautious yukkers as ‘gutless turds.’ You have no idea who your audience is.
But if you wish to assess these initial responses in such a negative light, I might suggest you hold to the adage, ‘Keep your friends close, your enemies closer,’ and keep a straight face until you know for certain who your allies are and who are mere scree and detritus.
RTFirefly, I almost posted as Captain Spaulding just to see how long it’d takeya. Again, I opted for the better part of candor. Now forget the cold stuff–gimme coffee. Lots an lotsa coffee.
Andros, how can you take with all that horseshit rolling out of your mouth?
what are you a drop out of high school?
Jesus if they would verify half of the shit you preach or say on here, you wouldnt be allowed. Second, who are you to say what I have and dont, or where i work or dont, or who i work for? Former agent refers to the fact that I was, and in my new position i am not referred to as an agent any longer…
you silly little computer administrator…
thats the problem with the internet, no accountability for the silly little bitches who play on it all day long… assign a face and a place to yourself, and someone may be forced to kick your narrow ass…
So again I say, continue to hide, for someday , somewhere, someone will find you and remember you.
I hate the internet sometimes… and most of the people on it. Question everything, be cynical about everything. Look just stay home, believe nothing, and die quietly and we can all just get along fine, otherwise… show me you know me…
i’m new here, trying to get fixed what i have seen firsthand… WHO ELSE may i ask would know what the governement hides, and how it works, but those that work within it???
or better yet… why do i care about my job, its just a job, not my passion, not my life, but a job, and with my stocks and retirement, i dont even need it…
so what do i have to lose??
Exactly, nothing, and everything to gain, so why not preach reformation of the government, you all want it and need it, whether you know it or not…
Really, Formeragent, there’s no call for such language. Or threats, for that matter. Andros and I each pointed out some inconsistencies in your posting: it is now in your court to respond by clarifying, correcting, or rebutting us.
No where is there an inconsistency, just a failure in your assumed knowledge of everything. I havent given you 100% of my life, job, and then verified it all, nor do I owe it to you. Nor will I.
You all think you know everything… again I’ll say WHATEVER…
I have no reason to lie, I could truly care less about you all, and have much better things to do than lie to Internetlings… but I was told this place had intellectuals, motivators, educators… all the tools needed to rebuild a dying country, one I have often been asked to be willing to die for, now I’d like to save or savor what I have worked for.
This isnt an online University class, where I must have a thesis, and rebuttals, and all that “faked education” to speak, nor will I conform to your standards, as you are not my equal, nor my friend, nor do I feel you are worth my effort, you have already shown your true colors, and in this did I make judgement.
All others… I welcome your thoughts, and invite you to help me with this great undertaking.
Mike
TO HAVE WORKED FOR THE GOVERNMENT WAS NO WORK AT ALL,TO REFORM AND REBUILD THE GOVERNMENT, THEREIN LIES THE CHALLENGE.
