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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 07:46 AM
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My Paranoid Fantasy That Seems Suddenly Relevant (Internet Honey Pot)
The internet was created by adjuncts of the DOD back in the sixties I think. But it once occurred to me that maybe the WWW was created by the No Such Agency as a way to lure people into a trap to gather all kinds of personal info, to build a giant database (once the computers were powerful enough) to catalog the views, quirks and all personal data on a huge section of the public. Especially that section of the public that felt strongly about issues.

I hope I'm wrong, but I feel confident that I'm not giving any ideas to anyone.
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liberalpress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 07:55 AM
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1. The good news news is...
..they're also being buries by pop-ups and millions of e-mails about curing erectile dysfunction
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Tace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 08:02 AM
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2. Really -- You Think They've Figured Out The Boner Conspiracy?
Those ads are the main form of communication for the notorious Boner Brigade.
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Berserker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 08:09 AM
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4. Are there really people
who still use IE for surfing? And have no spam blockers? strange
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liberalpress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 08:45 AM
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9. Lemme get this straight...
...George W. Bush is elected President twice, and you think no Spam Blockers is strange...
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 08:50 AM
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12. Good one. n/t
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 08:07 AM
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3. Life seems to be a paranoid fantasy right now.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 08:40 AM
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8. It starts when you're always a-fraid,
Step outta' line the man comes and takes you a-way,
You better stop, hey, what's that sound,
Everybody look what's goin' down...

That sound, my friends, is Lady Liberty falling down on her face, because, she's being kicked down from behind by the guys who ARE above the law. The laws do not apply to Bush any longer. Just like when Nixon got caught spying only a much bigger operation. Are we a nation of laws and of honor, or are we a rogue nation, like people in other countries around the world claim we are?

We are in a cold war with the neocons today, how long it will stay cold I can't tell you, but the global warming, the lies, the theft, the killing, the spying and now the total breakdown of trust and of law and order, may thaw this cold war out real soon now.

Be very afraid because, I wrote this without misspelling a word and you can't say things aren't "Normal" when that happens. * Maybe I'm just Paranoid.
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 09:18 AM
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16. you have it about right unfortunately!
:hi:
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 08:55 AM
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14. exactly, who'd have thought Auburn would beat 'Bama four times in a row?
:damn:

:hi:
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 08:17 AM
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5. Sorry,,, WWW was created by the French
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 08:36 AM
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6. I thought it was created by the Swiss
like chocolate and watches.
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 08:38 AM
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7. Cern is in Switerland but
Edited on Sun Dec-18-05 08:39 AM by wakeme2008
a lot of the workers are French.... Very few Texan there :) and people from Fort Meade Maryland
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-19-05 05:00 AM
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18. Well what about chocolate and watches?
The French are good cooks,
but the Swiss are real innovators,
if you ask me - and I know, you didn't ask me.
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 08:47 AM
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11. WWW was created by Tim Berners-Lee
Here's his belated blog:

http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4

I don't know why you are laughing. Are you sure you aren't on his list? :evilgrin:
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 09:25 AM
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17. He ripped it off from Ted Nelson
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 08:47 AM
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10. the WWW is a Police State's Dream come true

the information overload must be a challenge to sift through though :evilgrin:

peace
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 08:52 AM
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13. EXACTLY
That's EXACTLY what I'm saying!

The agency that doesn't exit, plus hundreds of others that don't exist in the government, have the resources to do amazing (automatic) research and keep amazing databases on everyone that posts on WWW message boards (and cross-reference with your e-mail, etc.)
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atommom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 08:57 AM
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15. Just 'cause we're paranoid, that doesn't mean they're not out to
get us. :hide:
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