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I think mods needs a few more pounds.... J/k Looks great Scummy

Thats from where I copyed it at the ACLU site, the bottom half was bullets and you cant copy bullets into the forum, but it is kind of repetative, but its for a good reason, althought the constitution does not state privacy at all, the supreme court ruled in Roe Verses Wade that it is our constitutional right to privacy.

[A dangerous program â€" ominously called the Matrix â€" is being proposed by a handful of states in conjunction with the federal government. Unfortunately it's no Hollywood invention -- this Matrix would compile your personal information into a giant database that law enforcement agents and government contractors can use to search through information about your private life and investigate your activities. Our elected officials must stop this program from being implemented. They also need to ensure that our federal tax dollars will not continue to fund such invasive initiatives.According to news reports and internal government documents, the Matrix (which stands for “Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange”) is an effort to combine state government records, such as driver's license information, with commercially available data to create a vast database capable of compiling and analyzing a profile of every American. While the private company that runs the program has been very secretive about what data MATRIX contains, government sources report that it includes names and address of family members, property ownership, marine vessels, bankrupcies, liens and judgments, voter registrations, and criminal offender information. However, given the amount of information that is available in today's commercial databases, even more details of our private lives might be captured and catalogued. Indeed, the Matrix materials boast of having access to 20 billion records. Only a handful of states are currently participating in this program. However, its implications are dire and we must ensure that our tax dollars are not being used to fund this dangerous program. The database will collect and centralize an amazing array of your personal information. News reports indicate that the database would include driver's license photographs, the names and addresses of family members, gun licenses, voter registration, court records and a vast array of other private details. And, just as there are errors in credit reports, this giant database will be compiled with information from a multitude of error-prone sources. Incorrect information could bring you to the attention of the authorities even if you have not done anything wrong. The program is expensive, soaking up badly needed funds from more worthy causes.At a time when state and federal budgets are facing hard times, there is little justification for spending scarce funds on this spying program. With an unknown total cost, this program diverts funds from more effective anti-terrorism initiatives. The information will not only be used for fighting terrorism. Contrary to its proponents assertions, internal documents have shown that Matrix will be used for “datamining” of our personal records for law enforcement fishing expeditions. Creating a program to combine separate, independently available databases of information on innocent Americans is not merely a “technological advancement,” but a body blow to the core American principle that the government will leave people alone unless it has good reason to suspect them of wrongdoing.]

Alright, first watch this humerous flash animation on the proposal entitled "Matrix"
http://www.adcritic.com/interactive/view.php?id=5927

The following statement is from the ACLU

A dangerous program â€" ominously called the Matrix â€" is being proposed by a handful of states in conjunction with the federal government. Unfortunately it's no Hollywood invention -- this Matrix would compile your personal information into a giant database that law enforcement agents and government contractors can use to search through information about your private life and investigate your activities. 

Our elected officials must stop this program from being implemented.  They also need to ensure that our federal tax dollars will not continue to fund such invasive initiatives.

According to news reports and internal government documents, the Matrix (which stands for “Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange”) is an effort to combine state government records, such as driver's license information, with commercially available data to create a vast database capable of compiling and analyzing a profile of every American.

While the private company that runs the program has been very secretive about what data MATRIX contains, government sources report that it includes names and address of family members, property ownership, marine vessels, bankrupcies, liens and judgments, voter registrations, and criminal offender information. However, given the amount of information that is available in today's commercial databases, even more details of our private lives might be captured and catalogued. Indeed, the Matrix materials boast of having access to 20 billion records.

Only a handful of states are currently participating in this program. However, its implications are dire and we must ensure that our tax dollars are not being used to fund this dangerous program.   


  The database will collect and centralize an amazing array of your personal information.
News reports indicate that the database would include driver's license photographs, the names and addresses of family members, gun licenses, voter registration, court records and a vast array of other private details.  And, just as there are errors in credit reports, this giant database will be compiled with information from a multitude of error-prone sources.  Incorrect information could bring you to the attention of the authorities even if you have not done anything wrong.

The program is expensive, soaking up badly needed funds from more worthy causes.
At a time when state and federal budgets are facing hard times, there is little justification for spending scarce funds on this spying program.   With an unknown total cost, this program diverts funds from more effective anti-terrorism initiatives.

The information will not only be used for fighting terrorism. Contrary to its proponents assertions, internal documents have shown that Matrix will be used for “datamining” of our personal records for law enforcement fishing expeditions. Creating a program to combine separate, independently available databases of information on innocent Americans is not merely a “technological advancement,” but a body blow to the core American principle that the government will leave people alone unless it has good reason to suspect them of wrongdoing.

So what do you think? I am currently opposed to this. It is a blatent invasion of privacy which was in my oppinion gaurunteed in the 1973 case Roe Vs Wade. I believe that giving and in fact collecting this information would cost too much and jeoprodize peoples futures on actions or problems from their past. This is in fact one step closer to tryany. What do you guys think?

Im confused as to why its not in gen gen with the rest of the crap, there is nothing to criticize but your sence of humour twords people you dont know.

NO, dont raise resolution, that is probably the dumbest thing I have ever heard. That tutorial is even smaller. Going to a resolution you dont know is like learning to draw with your bad hand, it takes a long time. But back on subject, Im not really into that back wall, why dont you use the same texture as the sides?

Glad to see your back for a weekend soldier. Tell a story or two, I would love to hear a bit about the expierience so far.

Ug, I should of searched a little more, sorry guys and girls.

http://rainbow.arch.scriptmania.com/rainbow.swf
Do you play with your twangers???

This is actual footage from a late 70's child show called Rainbow, This footage is full of double entandras and is hillarious, so heres my question, do any of you actually use dialog like that?

Id have to say my faveorite chars are Q and Riker

Band of brothers, although not a film, was much better then the book by ambrose. You can feel the mening until you see the grusome recreation.

We can do the muslim thing and require everyone to go to mittens at least once before they die. We could even pray facing the location of the next mittens five times daily.

Close but its:

Cornelia and Flavia sit under the tree and watch Marcus fall in to the fishpond.

or we could gather around and drink peackocks blood...

Thats a big publication, Incredible how even the pros could mistake an amatuer game for the real deal, go ags and lucasfan

Would satan be phil rogers or the rpg creator? 

Arboris is the ablative plural case of arbor which is tree in latin. Cornelia et Flavia sub arbore sedet et video marcus cadit in piscinam!

I love the screens aswell, gives me an erie alone feeling, Good job!

America's Army, I think thats kind of self explanatory

Ya, Dave pretty much nailed what I was trying to say. Thanks Dave

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Your wrong about the oil supplys buddy, in 10 to 20 years we will hit peak production. Peak production is when half of the available supply has been exhausted. the economy does not feed on oil, but rather cheap oil. Plastics, gas, almost everything runs on oil. The problem is not the supply but rather the price. When peak production hits, people are going to realize that there needs to be more alternatives such as nuclear power, hyrdoelectric, maybe even wind and geothermal. Yes, nuclear can be dangerous, but as was coal mining in the beginnig of the industrial revolution. 65% of our power comes from coal currently. If investments went into nuclear power, then it to could become as safe, if not safer, than coal power. Peak production will lead to some hardships, but oil will be available long enough to get into the alternatives. Its more ofÃ,  scientific revolution then a problem.

Now to the issue at hand. I supported the descision to go to war. There is hardly any causaltys on our side, in our only six months in ww1 over half a million died. Im not trying to put the war into retrospect but rather to bring it to a reasonable level, a successful removal of a dictator, securing valuable resources, and granting a foothold into the middle east. Did the lives of VOLUNTEERS get taken away just for personal gain? NO, they did what they were trained to do, these people were trained, payed, profesionals, if they dont want to do their duty they shouldnt be taking tax dollers. As to personal gain, I dont know about you, but I use oil and plastics, the consumer gained from this, not the bush regime.