I'm not really sure I understand this, especially why police should "be on alert" if they see someone who owns an almanac. What a bunch of freakin' idiots. Read more here:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...s/fbi_almanacs
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I'm not really sure I understand this, especially why police should "be on alert" if they see someone who owns an almanac. What a bunch of freakin' idiots. Read more here:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...s/fbi_almanacs
Heh heh, beware cartographers, you are being watched and j00 will be 0wn3d. Freakin' silly.
OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The farmers are srtriking back!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn it! Why did I have to pee on that damn corn field :( Damn it!
I can see it now, I'll be driving to the store for a nice refreshing Mountain Dew in an hour and a tractor will try and whack me off the road like that car chase in the original 1931 version of Scarface. Then They will all jump out with weapons of mass corn growing and kill me :mad:
Jehn, dude, it was cool knowing you. If I don't make it, I want you to know.....****...It's not worth even trying on this one, to damned easy.
lmao gore, you're crazy man. :-p
Hrm... Interesting. I wonder if after this, when you go to a library you'll need to sign off to use the reference material that you don't even get to take home (almanacs, and other huge books)... :confused:
I guess that anyone with an encrypted almanic on their PC faces 10 years in jail minimum... This is freaky stuff. You never know, but this guy's predictions could come true... I hope not though... :eek:
Edit (Check this out):
U.S. blurs high-tech images of Washington
http://www.globetechnology.com/servl...ory/Technology
Now I've heard everything. What ****ing FBI agent is so stupid that he or she has not heard of an almanac?
I can see it in my head now: "OH MY GOD! A LISTING OF THE 10 TALLEST BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD! TERRORISTS COULD USE THIS! AND THE SOLAR ECLIPSES! GOD HELP US!"
News for you ****tard - terrorists already know that.
The extent of human stupidy will never cease to amaze me.
This has to be, without a doubt, the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Not only is it not a threat, it also makes the FBI look like retards. It also causes a whole country full of panic when every farmer suddenly becomes a terrorist. I could feel my IQ dropping as I read it. I was getting stupider with every word. Yes, I am now stupider for having read that.
Stupidity knows no limit.
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Just remembered. I own two or three. Guess I better call the US Terrorism Joint Task Force and tell them I must be a terrorist.
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Well, I don't use any thing but Google. Its better than anything else.
OMG........Now I am being targeted by the FBI,CIA,NSA, and even NASA.......OMG. I am a Google user.
You wanted to know why they would be worried :
That seems a good amount of info for any wannabe terrorist or small terrorist group to use. But I'm pretty sure that terrorist already have that type info.Quote:
The FBI said information typically found in almanacs that could be useful for terrorists includes profiles of cities and states and information about waterways, bridges, dams, reservoirs, tunnels, buildings and landmarks. It said this information is often accompanied by photographs and maps.
;)Quote:
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Crime Lab 2A-3356N, Wash DC
DNA Test Results: Clinton, William Jefferson
Dear Mr. Starr:
The test on the dress came back inconclusive.
Everyone in Arkansas has the same DNA.
Sorry,
The FBI
Yeah Agent, but an Almanac is a tool that has been available since the Stoned Age. . .I mean C'mon. . .next I won't be able to use 1411 becasue I could get the address of the Whitehouse and learn where to plant me explosives. . .bleh.
Oh great. Now ever Arab American with reading skills can have rocks thrown at them and be beaten half to death because everyone is afraid of books again.Quote:
Originally posted here by Agent_Steal
You wanted to know why they would be worried :
That seems a good amount of info for any wannabe terrorist or small terrorist group to use.
*In a far away land known as "Government Central".
The motto on the door reads "We **** you for less".
Agent 1: Hmm, they seem to be calming down, we need to do something to scare them into the dark ages again. Then we can do whatever our power greedy money grubbing bastard peice of **** asses' want! I bet we could turn this into Nazi Germany. Hell we already got them begging for freedom of speech again.
Agent 2: Oh the new almanac has such pretty pictures!
Agent 1: THAT'S IT! We can say everyone carrying these tourist **** hole books are bad people! They will think they are a form of tourorism!
Agent 3: Duuuuuuhhhhhhh Don't mess with Texas....Has anyone seem my intelligence?
Agent 1: You hush King George or it's back to school with you! And NO paying your way through it this time! You damned first grade drop out.
Agent 3: Yes Dad.
And so it started.
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**** the farmers, I just want the keys to the pharmacy.
Besides, if a terrorist group is so stupid that they do not already know of a suitable target, then are they really a threat anyway?
Re-Wording myself :
The FBI just seems to take things a little too far sometimes. Sound a little better??
I apologize the 2nd joke that I posted was uncalled for so therefore I decided to remove it. My apologies if I offended anyone in anyway.
Humor in a completly utterly moronic and disgustingly nerve killing situation.Quote:
Originally posted here by Agent_Steal
I understand gore and bludgeon. But it just always amazes me how the FBI likes to make idiots of themselves.
I dont agree with what they are doing cause well it's really stupid. But oh well that's the FBI for you.
EDIT:
Your name has nothing to do with the little story I made. I used the word "Agent" because it sounded better than "officer".
That which you have quoted gore was intended in no way humurous my apologies if you took it that way.
No prob. Don't worry about it. Just trying to have some fun.Quote:
Originally posted here by Agent_Steal
That which you have quoted gore was intended in no way humurous my apologies if you took it that way.
I can see it now...
"FBI suspects 9 year old in Terror Ring... Among the items found in his procession were a 2003 World Almanac and other reference books. He is being held without bail"
God Damn it please the damned Terrorist Bomb Freaks are at it again! What is this world coming to? The next thing you know they'll try to outlaw pellet guns especially the ones with scopes! You know there are alot more things to do with a pellet gun than an almanac.
OK here is my £0.02 of paranoia.......
The ultimate terrorist weapon is the computer........think what could be done with professional grade malware?
Screw up payrolls
Mess with disqualified drivers data
Add people to sex offenders data
Put people on credit card blacklists
We tend to be a selfish lot........20 people killed in suicide bombing.."oh dear, how sad".....can't get any gas at the station because credit card has been stopped..£$$%^&^*&(*
Hits where it hurts?
I guess I am cynical as well as paranoid......but it is possibly as well that terrorists are still in the world of AK-47s and C4?
Happy New Year
I think if you read between the lines it says - if you find an arab acting suspicious and has an almanac ,call us
If i was in law enforcement that is how i would interpet it, as they cannot openly racially profile. Any other way it sounds moronic.
I agree - I've said this before, but I'll say it again....Quote:
Originally posted here by nihil
OK here is my £0.02 of paranoia.......
The ultimate terrorist weapon is the computer........think what could be done with professional grade malware?
Large cities can only exist because of the transport logistics and infrastructure required to bring the food in to feed the population.
These logistics systems need computers to function - Kill the computers with your 'professional grade malware' and you can't get the food in - Now if that occurs in alomost every computer simoultaneously you'd loose a lot more then just logistics. Power, banking, you name it -
Food riots begin in 7 days, civilization completely breaks down in 21 days.
Steve
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Revelation, Chapter 13, Vs 16-17
Quote:
17 and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is the windows activation key.
I always carry a large 20 pound almanac while on vacation.
Terrorist.Quote:
You have insulted my ancestors one thousand years ago!!!
JIHAD!
lol
Wait doesn't "JIHAD" mean that villagers can attack buildings? :confused:
Oh and is it the World Almanac or the Farmers Almanac that there are talking about? :hiphop:
I think there may be more to the story then what we read in the press... because on the surface it does seem, well, silly.
One interesting theory I heard on the radio today was the use of almanacs as "decrypting" tools. The terrorist gets a message something like "2-13 1-0 15-2 2-0" would read "page 2, 13th word, first letter; page 15, second word, second letter, etc" As long as all involved had the same almanac, then all would get the same message... so my guess would be that someone somewhere has some kind of information relevant to the warning.
If that is indeed the case (not that I think it is), what would police do if instead of an almanac, we were to be on the lookout for people reading the bible? or the Koran, etc.
I think what is meant is this.... a dude carrying an almanac through the airport or standing outside the white house is an alert machanism. Meaning, you might ask the guy a few more questions while at the gate about his passport you may not normally ask. It's an alerting mechanism that's all. Or perhaps you have a chap hanging outside Downing Street in London with an almanac that has the surrounding areas sticky noted. It's just not normal, thus my sarcastic response. When's the last time anyone seen a dude lofting a heavy almanac around town?
What you would see in London is an "A to Z" which is a book about the size of a paperback novel. It would not arouse suspicion, as most tourists carry one. London is about 30 miles across, so ordinary fold up maps are not very practical.
Cheers
I have a Lonon A to Zed with all the old "Firkin" Pubs on it with the nearest Tube stop highlighted along with some good kebab shops. That way I could stumble around absolutely pissed and find my way home via the Picadily line and get a nice big kebab on the way.... hapiness.
In that evironment the idea is silly. The city is just too big and there are millions of little roads and alleyways full of lovely pubs and pancake roll establishments.
Ahhhh, the old Firkin Pubs... Before things got overly commercialQuote:
Originally posted here by RoadClosed
I have a Lonon A to Zed with all the old "Firkin" Pubs on it with the nearest Tube stop highlighted along with some good kebab shops. That way I could stumble around absolutely pissed and find my way home via the Picadily line and get a nice big kebab on the way.... hapiness.
<homer>Dogbolter mmmmmmmm</homer>
A blast from my uni days.
A couple of years ago I went back to the Phoenix but it was just an ordinary pub.
Steve (Phoenix my pint I'll Firkin thump him)
Oh sweet. Dogbolter, puked it up once with some fish and chips. Heavy Gravity, used to get it at the Flounder and the Phoenix was my favorite! I was a member of the club in the old days when you got a t-shirt for doing the rounds in one day. I hear they don't even have their own brew anymore and they are not even brewed on the sites. :mad: WANKERS
I also opened up a couple where I have my treasured stolen pint glasses on display. Just for memory sake....favorites: Flounder, Pheasent, Pheonix, Phantom, Fox, Ferret, good old Frog, Falcon etc... OLD School. Some newish ones like Fusileer and Fiddler but not the same. Cheers to Bruce when it was Bruce's Brewery back when.... I have one of those "Pheonix my pints I'll Firkin Thump em" shirts and a Dog Bolter blurred dog one. :)
I can see it now...
A 5 day waiting period on an Almanac or a topographic map purchase.
I hope they don't find out that I have that Delome Map it CD.
THose little GPS things are next!