It's almost ten o clock see i got a ball of lifted property
so i slid my beenie hat on sloppily
and promenade out to take up a collection
i got game like i read the directions
i 'm wishing that i had an automobile
as i feel the cold wind rush past
but let me state that i am a hustler for real
so you know i got the stolen bus pass
just as the bus pulls up and i step to the rear
this ole lady look like she drank a forty of fear
i see my ole school partner said his brother got popped
pay my respects
can you ring the bell we came to my stop
the street light reflects off the piss on the ground
which reflects off the hamburger sign as it turns round
which reflects off the chrome of the bmw
which reflects off the fact that i am broke
now what the fuck is new
i need loot i sweat the motherfucka
in the tweed suit
and i'm on his ass quicker than a kick from a grease boot
eased up slow and discreet
could tell he was suspicious by the way he slid his feet
didn't wanna fuck up the come on
so i smiled with my eyes said hey how it's hanging guy
bumped into his shoulders but he passed with no reaction
damn this motherfucka had a hella of andrew jacksons
i'm a thief or pickpocket give a fuck what you call it
used to call em fat cats.
i just call them wallets getting federal aint just a klepto
master card or visa i'd gladly accept those
sneaky motherfucka with a scam know how to pull it
got a mirror in my pocket but that wont stop no bullets
story just begun but you already know
aint no need to get down shit i'm already low

My footsteps echo in the darkness
my teeth clenched tight like a fist in the cold sharp mist
i look down and i hear my somach growling
step to burger king to attack it like a shaolin
i never pay for shit that i can get by doing dirt
link up to the girl cashier and start to flirt
all up in her face and her breath was like murder
damn the shit i do for a free hamburger
(girl )"well you got my number you gonna call me tonite"
it depends is them burgers attached to a price
"sorry sorry"
im just kidding i'ma call you write you love letters
"it's all good"
thanks for the burgers emm hook me up with a dr pepper.
(girl)thats cool you want some ice
yeah and some fries will be hella nice
(girl) damn my managers coming play it off okay have a nice day
im up outta here anyway
i use peoples before they use me
cos you could get got by an uzi over an oz
thats what an og told me
gots to find someplace warm and cozy to eat the vittles that i just got
came to an underground parking lot
this place is good as any fuck its all good
walked in found a car hopped itself up on a hood
ate my burger threw back my cola
somebody said hey it was a rented pig i thought it was a roller
"want me to call the cops?"
i dont want them to see me
looked down and saw that i was sitting on a lamboughini
it was rollses ferraris and jags by the dozen
a building door opened
damn it was my cousin
getting offa work dressed up no lie
tux cummerband and a blackbow tie
i was like hey
"who is it"
me
"oh whats up man i just quit this company
they hella racist and the pay was too low "
i said arite what was up in there though
"a party with rich motherfuckas i dont know the situation
i know they got cabbage owning corporations
ibm chryslers and shit is what they seeing"
just then a light bulb went off in my head
they be thinking all black folks is resembling
gimme your tux and i'll do some pocket swindling
fit the change in the bathroom and i freeze off my nuts
lets take a short break
while i get into this tux
grunt zipp
alright i'm ready

Fresh dressed like a million bucks
i be the flyiest muthafucka in an afro and a tux
my arm is at a right angle up silver tray in my hand
may i interest you in some caviar mam
my eyes shoots round the room there and here
noticing the diamonds in the chandelier
background barry manilow copacobana
and a strong ass scent of stoagies from havana
what no place where a brother might been
snobby ole ladies drinking champagne with rich white men
allrite then lets begin this
nights like this is good for business
five minutes in the mix noticed several diffrent cliques
talking giggling and shit
well one mother fucka gave me twits
and everbody else jacking it throttling
found out later you know coca cola bottling
talking to a black man who he's confused
we looking hella bourgie
ass all tight and seditty
recognzed him as the mayor of my city
who treats young black man like frank nitty
mr coke said to mr mayor "you know we got a process like ice t's hair
we put up the fund for your election campaign
and oh um waiter can you bring the champagne"
a real estate fronts as opportunities arousing
to make some condos out of low income housing
immediately we need some media heat
to say that gangs run the street and then we bring in the police fleet
harrasing me everbody till they look inebriated
when we bought the land motherfuckas will appreciate it
dont worry about the urban league or jesse jackson
my man that owns marlboros
donated a fat sum
thats when i step back some to contemplate what few know
sat down wrestle with my thoughts like a sumo
aint no one player that could beat this lunancy
aint no hustler on the street could do a whole community
this is how deep shit can get
it reads macaroni on my birth certificate
poontang is my middle name but i cant hang
i'm getting hustled
only knowing half the game
shit how the fuck do i get out of this place.

Department of Homeland Security. That's reason enough to not hold the Olympics in the USA. I'm a Caucasian male in his mid-twenties with no criminal record and I don't dress like a hippie or a terrorist, yet whenever I arrive at a US airport, I am treated like one.

On my first post-9/11 trip to the US, I was disgusted by the security measures at my departing airport in Düsseldorf, Germany. But compared to the arrival at JFK, it was a fucking breeze. Heavily armed guards on an airport? As if we landed in bloody Beirut.

We traveled in a group of four and one of us, a French of Tunesian heritage, was snatched and detained in a backroom for three hours while the rest of us where searched thoroughly and stripped of all electronic equipment (notebooks, mobile phones, MP3 players). They made an image of the only unencrypted HDD and kept the other three notebooks. They were mailed to our home addresses four months later. All the while we were barked at and ordered around. Now, all four of us spoke English rather well and were well dressed, so I can't even imagine what it's like for many others.

Your DHS demands more information about me in advance to any flight than my own bloody mother knows. And that's from a country that is part of the Visa Waiver Program. Fuck, crossing the intra-German border prior to '89 was more pleasant than travelling into the US as a foreigner. Biometric passport, Orwell would be proud.

Oddly enough, the Travel Promotion Act, intended to lure visitors back into the US, aims to impose a $10 fee upon entry into the US. That's some fucking logic.

Edit: "Data helps prevent crime before it happens. Smarter public safety for a smarter planet." <<-- that's an IBM info tablet on airports and again, Orwell would be proud.

Are you being deliberately obtuse?

The government provided the funding for the research at universities, etc. The government continues to provide a lot of money for research. Your premise is that private individuals and companies would have funded the research. The money "would have appeared." IBM and a few companies did form a nonprofit company for research. It would seem to support your theory; unfortunately, this nonprofit was formed at the request of the government. Have you just recently read Atlas Shrugged and read up on Ayn Rand? Your idea that the money would just show up reminds me of Ayn Rand's "field of dreams"-like theory that there should be should not be any government-sponsored charity, that private investors would fill that void. (Before any admirers of Ayn Rand jump me, great people can be wrong about some things. Just look at Einstein's life. And if you disagree, well, we'll just disagree.) I disagree that the money would have shown up in significant quantities for internet of your hypothesis to be as mature as the internet of today.

Legislation for the backbone? What a complete strawman argument. Sigh... Where did I ever say that legislation or policing of the internet was needed? I didn't. I said that the government provided the funding and direction. It was the government that told telco that if they want funding, they need to hook up lines to the major hubs that the government established. Again, you argue that private investors and organizations would have done this. I strongly doubt that seeing that they all got their money for research and physically laying of the lines and equipment from the government.

The military has had many more advancements than just the nuclear bomb. How can you dismiss the military's intelligence advancements by just saying that private companies could have done it? The simple fact is that private businesses use older military advances because the military got there first. You are ignoring the reality of the situation. It's like saying, "if only other organizations had sat still on their research, private companies would have been able to do the research eventually (once they found the money...)"

You want to argue your point while ignoring how things work in the real world. I am saying that without government funding and direction, we would not the internet we have today or one of relative equivalency.

>> ^LadyDeath:
that guy is a fuckin' psycho ,where is the proof of the others macbooks broken?
Anyway I do not own one but common and IBM lol that is a piece of shit to me lol.

ThinkPad thinks and ThinkPad feels...you made ThinkPad cry.

that guy is a fuckin' psycho ,where is the proof of the others macbooks broken?
Anyway I do not own one but common and IBM lol that is a piece of shit to me lol.

What? But.. I thought everything with an I- in front of it was infallible perfect? Everything with an apple icon on it was beyond better than any of it's competition?

Heh, for the record, the reason the mac book screen looks better is because that IBM is OOOLD. I have the exact same model, it's from like 1998. But it's still in as good a shape as it was the day I bought it a decade ago, works perfectly, has zero issues.

I can definitely confirm how well-made Lenovo (IBM) computers are. My laptop is a Lenovo and it is built like a tank! (wonderful design too, other than the left ctrl key positioning)

*ahem* that's actually a Lenovo, not an IBM. IBM just buys them and puts their name on it. But yes they do ROCK! If by "rock" you mean, "get business done efficiently with little-to-no problems"

IBM actually PUSHED single atoms around to make an IBM logo
http://www.rso.cornell.edu/scitech/archive/95spr/img/ibm.gif

The version I remember was on PC, and it was better because it was VGA, and it could DO things while sounds were playing. None of this take one step, play a sound, take another step once sound is finished crap. But then I don't remember the sounds being quite like this either. It was still better on IBM-PC. *nostalgia anyway. *sniff*

I never like those 5 videos being my top ones. But anyways, here is a list of top videos from people that are no longer active (or as active as before) and are great videosifters

plastiquemonkey

http://www.videosift.com/video/stephen-colbert-swallows-a-banana-and-totally-loses-it

http://www.videosift.com/video/how-she-gets-to-look-that-beautiful

http://www.videosift.com/video/kevin-spacey-is-really-really-good-at-impressions

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Monty-Hall-Problem

http://www.videosift.com/video/the-middle-east-its-not-a-crisis-its-an-opportunity

mlx
http://www.videosift.com/video/This-commercial-will-blow-you-away

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Making-of-the-Shining-pts-1-4-by-Vivian-Kubrick

http://www.videosift.com/video/Johnny-Cash-Hurt-1

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Pale-Blue-Dot-by-Carl-Sagan-Excerpt-read-by-the-Author

http://www.videosift.com/video/White-Stripes-Icky-Thump

benjee
http://www.videosift.com/video/South-Park-Ms-Garrison-explains-Evolution

http://www.videosift.com/video/IBM-Powers-Of-Ten-amazing-9-minute-science-video

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Secret-Life-Of-Brian-Monty-Pythonreligion-documentary

http://www.videosift.com/video/Why-We-Fight-BBC-Storyville-US-war-machine-documentary

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Fog-of-War-11-Lessons-From-The-Life-Of-Robert-McNamara


nickyp
http://www.videosift.com/video/Bill-Hicks-on-dinosaurs

http://www.videosift.com/video/Peter-Bjorn-John-Young-Folks

http://www.videosift.com/video/LCD-Soundsystem-Tribulations

http://www.videosift.com/video/Portishead-All-Mine

http://www.videosift.com/video/Thou-Shalt-always-Kill-dan-le-sac-VS-scroobius-pip

gluonium
http://brain.videosift.com/video/Aluminum-boat-floats-on-nothing

http://brain.videosift.com/video/Quick-Science-Sift-8rapid-vaporization-of-cryogenic-liquid

http://brain.videosift.com/video/Quick-Science-Sift-14-Time-dilation-is-a-real-phenomenon

http://brain.videosift.com/video/What-NOT-to-do-with-metal-objects-and-MRI-machines-10s

http://brain.videosift.com/video/Mmmmmm-64-slices-of-American-cheese

He was shaking Sam Palmisano's hand (IBM CEO) just yesterday. Right when Palmisano was -*secretly*- laying off 4000+ US employees. IBM claimed record 2008 revenues breaking $104 BILLION with profits UP. Stock has gone UP 17%+ since.

Sure, chastise wasteful bankers. But also chastise profitable companies for laying off hard working people for the sole sake of sending high tech jobs OVERSEAS to India and China.

Ok. Wait. It wasn't a layoff. In IBM's own words... "Resource Allocation".

>> ^dag:
I'm not sure RFIDs are the bogeyman that many think. I would love one implanted in my wrist if it took the place of all the cards I now have to lug around.


Be careful what you wish for....

Well.. you're referring to the old RFID technology.. if you put it into that context then sure you're totally correct. Technology gets modified. Limitations get overcome and to reply to you're quote that the information is not usable by anyone without knowledge of the use of the data: I used to work on some of these systems... it's not like someone can't figure out what the information means. It's not like hackers don't try all kinds of ways to obtain information and decipher the meanings and usefulness of such information. Nooo... these things never occur.. just imagining it we are. LOL

Senator Joe Biden telling Justice Roberts that he'll have to rule on microchips being implanted into American that can track their every movement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTknUumxZ8U



>> ^HollywoodBob:
>> ^Krupo:
Sure, but that's not the issue. People can't suck the money out of your wallet with a remote device if it's in physical form.

As I said, there's no implication how the transaction is handled, so there's no evidence of sucking money out of his wallet. If you know anything about RFID, the data on the device is very small, usually only a 128bit (if that) identification number, an account reference number. So unless someone reading the tag knew exactly what system the account number is on, the information is near worthless.
All my dogs and most of my cats have implant RFID tags. The number they contain is only readable from within inches of the tag, and only means anything if the company that registers the animal is known.
Worrying about possible misuses of RFID only shows how little those concerned actually know about how they work.

>> ^Krupo:
Sure, but that's not the issue. People can't suck the money out of your wallet with a remote device if it's in physical form.


As I said, there's no implication how the transaction is handled, so there's no evidence of sucking money out of his wallet. If you know anything about RFID, the data on the device is very small, usually only a 128bit (if that) identification number, an account reference number. So unless someone reading the tag knew exactly what system the account number is on, the information is near worthless.

All my dogs and most of my cats have implant RFID tags. The number they contain is only readable from within inches of the tag, and only means anything if the company that registers the animal is known.

Worrying about possible misuses of RFID only shows how little those concerned actually know about how they work.