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   You cannot make this stuff up...

   

   Ajax 4Hire, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 9:49am

   
   

   Now I know what happened to the people in high school who did not go to college.

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   If you thought 9/11 was bad...

   

   ChurchHatesTucker, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 10:31am

   
   

   ...wait 'til they start crashing giant penises into buildings!

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   POWER over you and me

   

   tired of the goverment crap, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 10:41am

   
   

   Just the goverment saying anything to give themselves more power over the people. As everyone knows we cant decide anything for ourselves and need some jack a** to tell us what is right and wrong. I think they want to be everyones parent so they can tell us what we can and cannot do.

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   Re: You cannot make this stuff up...

   

   Anonymous Coward, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 10:46am

   
   

   lol, they are likely more intelligent than you, since you obviously think you're better than them. Stupid comments like yours are the kind of thing you'd expect from THOSE people.

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   How to breed terrorists

   

   Ehren E. Turner, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 10:49am

   
   

   A much, much better way to breed terrorists is to selectively eliminate basic human rights, like free speech (which requires privacy in order to be free) while simultaneously allowing the disenfranchised group to purchase as many fire arms as they please. An even better way: try to take the guns away first.

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   Re: Re: You cannot make this stuff up...

   

   dorpass, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 10:49am

   
   

   Now that makes you stupider than either one of them, since you think you are smarter than Ajax, and with your amazing logic you proved that it's the kind of thinking that proves you are actually stupider. Go you.

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   Wow

   

   Thom, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 11:12am

   
   

   Option 1) Publicly proclaim that Second Life and such are breeding grounds for terrorism, argue the need to monitor all such traffic, and then use literally millions of times more computer resources trying to do so while any terrorists go elsewhere.
   
   Option 2) Get a few second life accounts, send agents in to find and infiltrate existing groups in this anonymous environment or "promote" ideas which will draw such individuals to them.
   
   Government chooses option 1, an expensive, overreaching, unmanageable act of stupidity over option 2, the time tested and proven intelligence tactic. No big surprise, the mark of the beas^k^k^k Bush and Company is all over this one.

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   Article said...

   

   Anonymous Coward, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 11:31am

   
   

   Article said that could be happening, but there was no prove as of yet that it has happened. Part of the CIA's job is to research areas where terrorism could take place, but then again, if it was up to Mike he would just make a SWOT analysis and charge a $1000 bucks to the government for his brilliant analysis.

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   Re: Article said...

   

   dorpass, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 11:40am

   
   

   $1000? Awesome, I bet government spent 100 times that just to buy the staples for the report.

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    Overcast, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 11:41am

    
    

    Yes, we can expect them to start putting this 'spin' on anything they don't like.

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    John Canada, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 11:43am

    
    

    I guess you Americans will have to apply for a "REAL ID" for you Second Life personna

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 11:47am

    
    

    Lol, I wonder if the 'gub-ment' knows people have programmed their avatars to perform sign language in Second-life? Try monitoring avatar movement as well as text exchanges...that should be interesting.

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    nick, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 11:54am

    
    

    I just think that no one should be allowed to talk to each other without direct governmental supervision.

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    Re: john canada

    

    world worry (profile), Feb 7th, 2008 @ 12:02pm

    
    

    You know, I understand the U.S. is making a world-wide a$$ of itself thanks to politician, but to every other net savvy person on the globe, this actually affects you too..These stupid laws are not aimed just at american, but ANYONE that connects to a server that can be claimed to reside in america. These politicians are going to try to use the wonderful 6 degrees of separation by saying if you can pay with american money to join said virtual environment, then that means the finance server is touching american soil, and thus it affects american xenophobia. It is unfortunate that the backlash of narrow minded McCarthyism actors is going to affect not only what one country does, but start the dividing line all over again, all over the globe. The walls are already being built, both real and virtual, and soon border checkpoints will start again, both real and virtual. You can scoff, but take a look at each county's legal system and see how many court cases are influenced but the dictatorship of the U.S.

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    Re:

    

    ResonatorDolo, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 12:25pm

    
    

    This is clearly the correct answer. Nice work, patriot! *salute*

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    My Name Here, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 12:26pm

    
    

    If cocaine can get across the border and poison the people here in the US, and nothing can be done about it. What good is there in spying on people in a virtual world? With the off chance that they find any thing that will make me safer at what cost does this come? More freedoms gone, my tax dollars for this? Annonymity doesn't make somene a terrorist, and apparently being the National intelligence director doesn't make someone intelligent.

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    Oh come on....

    

    Anonymous Coward, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 12:31pm

    
    

    Does anyone here actually think that the US government honestly believes that terrorism is being bred in Second Life? Complete and utter tosh. They just want to monitor everything, and are using the word "terrorism" to scare the average American into not contesting their decisions. Which has already worked several times.

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    Re: Re: Re: You cannot make this stuff up...

    

    Alimas, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 1:05pm

    
    

    LMAO

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 1:05pm

    
    

    Relax, as soon as we boot that boob from the White House a lot of this shit will get rolled back.

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    Re: Oh come on....

    

    Alimas, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 1:14pm

    
    

    Those in charge might not actually believe that terrorists are hiding in "second Life", but they are clearly stupid enough to think that the animosity versus us in the world really does have nothing to do with our foreign policies.
    And so does our pathetic populace.
    And thus the "terrorist" sentence additive works so well.

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    Quit Yur B^@#$

    

    Evil-G, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 1:29pm

    
    

    Then get off yur @$$'s and do something about it.

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    The next great thought....

    

    Whatever, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 1:47pm

    
    

    Trick or Treat must be terrorist activity also. Why, all those midgets in masks could have WMD in their little pumpkin bags....

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    Re: Re: john canada

    

    Sokol, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 2:21pm

    
    

    Why must these wacko's always try to comdem this great country? We continuously aid just about every nation on this planet and have this type of response from the not un educated, but severly miss informed populous. Look at Germany, they complain, we say ok well move our bases out of Germany and they panic, and ask us to stay. IMHO we should stop all aid to yes even canada, and stop helping you people in any way sheesh.

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 3:15pm

    
    

    by nick on Feb 7th, 2008 @ 11:54am
    I just think that no one should be allowed to talk to each other without direct governmental supervision.

    How anyone can not see the crystal clarity of this revelation is beyond me! You sir are a scholar and a patriot, and I salute you!

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 4:31pm

    
    

    I was going to post a comment about this, but my government appointed nanny smacked my fingers with a ruler as I was about to type out the original comment.
    
    Land of the Free (or so we would like you to believe)

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    mikrat, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 7:38pm

    
    

    This has Nothing to do with Terrorists. It has All to do with Control of the sheeple.
    
    Bring it on Government Fucktards, see how far you get.

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    Andrew Yu-Jen Wang, Mar 2nd, 2009 @ 4:24pm

    
    

    Speaking of terrorism:
    
    George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
    
    George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
    
    And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
    
    Many people know what Bush did.
    
    And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
    
    Bush was absolute evil.
    
    Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
    
    Bush is a psychological prisoner.
    
    Bush has a lot to worry about.
    
    Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
    
    In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
    
    Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
    B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
    Messiah College, Grantham, PA
    Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
    
    “GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
    ______________________
    I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memory so it never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off of the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.

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    TERROR in SL?

    

    Alex The Noob, Apr 30th, 2009 @ 1:07pm

    
    

    This whole thing begs the question: Just what are these government workers who are paid at the expense of the tax payers doing screwing around in Second Life instead of actually earning their pay by catching bad guys or something?

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