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Unfortunately, there will always be idiotic trials. This reminds me of the infamous Judas Priest trial where "experts" tried to present evidence that an album by the heavy metal band Judas Priest contained subliminal messages that drove two youngmen to suicide.

I seem to recall it being rather dubious who actually did it, why and what their intentions were.

Less than ten minutes after watching the second tower get hit, I proposed that the suicide bombers were attempting to bring attention to the West's role in funding persecution of the Palestinians and propping up dictatorships in the Middle East.

Over one million children were killed in Iraq. The killing is continuing. As for what is taking place in Palestine these days, I can only say we have no one but God to complain to.

What is taking place cannot be tolerated by any nation. I do not say from the nations of the human race, but from other creatures, from the animals. They would not tolerate what is taking place.

A confidant of mine told me that he saw a butcher slaughtering a camel in front of another camel. The other camels got agitated while seeing the blood coming out of the other camel. Thus, it burst out with rage and bit the hand of the man and broke it.

How can the weak mothers in Palestine endure the killing of their children in front of their eyes by the unjust Jewish executioners with US support and with US aircraft and tanks? -- Usama bin Ladden, "Hypocrites who Decieve God"

If I sold my neighbor a car and he used it to run over children's pets, and then a bunch of children TP'd my house, I'd guess these things were related.

Furthermore, who cares what they want to do! Do they (whoever they may be) have the power to do anything? They cannot do that by knocking down buildings.

Testify, brother! Only cowards and fools are afraid of terrorism, glad to see you're neither. Fuck bin Ladden, fuck Ronald Reagan's al Quaeda thugs, and fuck our home-grown torturers too. They're all a bunch of whiny, sadistic losers who oughta be run out of town on a rail.

But there is a fair amount of clinical evidence from observers that MDMA in particular does facilitate a beneficial experience. See this

If you haven't been through the experience of a hallucinogen, the tendency is to think it's like getting drunk, only seeing cartoons. It's not. Depending on the dosage, it's in many ways a much more clear headed experience. Particularly in the latter stages of the experience, the thoughts and philosophizing are an important and, IMO, valid part of the experience.

There's no need to be hypothetical. Anyone here have an unmodified AVG 8? Congratulations: you have just downloaded a page on how to home-brew all the most illegal drugs in the USA. Enjoy!

Their copyrightability is questionable. The U.S. Copyright Office will not register them.
My 2 second google search brings up this. Disclamer: I haven't read that page though other than the title.

Better billions invested to make more wealth than feeding the icky flock, which job is that of the nations the evil tax cheats are depriving of sweet, sweet loot.

The Vatican perspective on money is interesting. Some background on what they were willing to do to get it while advancing their agenda. The background of the current Pope fits well with this:

http://www.shoahrose.com/vatican.html

http://www.totse.com/en/politics/the_world_beyond_ the_usa/163217.html

sizzerb.com/images/images/pavelic_degenerate.pdf

http://www.srpska-mreza.com/Yugoslavia/views/savin g-Nazis.html

Dont know about Apple/PC viruses but I had two of them on Amiga.
One was the Lamer Exterminator that formatted 3 of my favorite floppies one of them with programs I have made myself. Fucker filled every byte on the floppy with LAMERLAMERLAMERLAMER...
The other one was Byte Bandit a variety that clones self after soft reset. So each time one press CTRL+leftAMIGA+rightAMIGA on the keyboard, mofo clones every instance of itself, eating away the RAM, and considerably slowing the Amiga. After just a few resets Workbench starts to run slow because it has to multitask hundreds of virus instances. After few more resets it is impossible to run the workbench since there are no free RAM at all. Just one or two resets away is Guru Meditation ( Amigas internal debugger ) with an error code that shows insufficient ram to initialize and kick-start form ROM.
If one wanted to cleanse the RAM of that pest powering off the Amiga longer than usual was needed, as it could survive in DRAM for longer than 30 seconds.
More info on http://www.totse.com/en/viruses/virus_information/ amigvir1.html including tips on how to disable some of them without using the anti viral tools.

I guess Amiga viruses were written for two purposes, to kill runaway Xcopy disks owned by the users (more profit for the pirates), and to harm the users just by erasing their software (even more profit)...

I cant imagine the similar scheme on modern computers ... oh wait

The International Science Trust

For the enhancement of scientific knowlege and the required development of advanced technology, A International Science Trust shall be established, with funding authorized by participating governments, for the purchase of information about the natural world from Eligible Parties (private entities owned and controlled by other such entities in the participating countries or their unified free- trade partners). No less than 2/3 of the components and services used by the Eligible Parties to acquire this information must be obtained from other Eligible Parties.

The International Academy of Sciences shall identify areas of scientific interest in which the quality of research results are quantifiable -- primarily in terms of information content. Examples of these kinds of research results are: DNA sequencing (human genome project), digital imaging of various phenomena (astronomical, planetary, terrestrial ozone-layer monitoring), quantitative behavior of systems in microgravity, quantitative mineral assay of various sites (terrestrial and nonterrestrial), etc.

A dollar amount, to be established in conjunction with participating governments, shall be associated with each informative item and with varying degrees of accuracy of the information. That dollar amount will then be appropriated to The Trust to be paid out only in the event that an Eligible Party has delivered new information on the associated item of interest to a designated recipient. When a measurement has already been made, payout will be limited to information value corresponding to the increased confidence level of the measurement (e.g. additional significant bits or fractions thereof). In areas where an information flow is required (periodic sampling) the value of various sampling frequencies at the various degrees of accuracy (significant bits) will be included in the valuation of the measurement. Duplicate information flows will share the cash flow evenly. For superior information flows, the incremental increase in accuracy will enjoy less diluted access to funding flows allocated to those incremental increases in accuracy.

Income on The Trust will be used to adjust The Trust for inflation. Additional income from The Trust may be used to fund items within The Trust. In the event that an item is measured by a Party which is not an Eligible Party, and that information is available to the designated recipient -- the corresponding funding will be redistributed within The Trust. After-inflation losses will be redistributed within The Trust, deactivating items which are not currently being pursued by any Eligible Party.

Google helpfully turned up that exact phrase on this site, from the "Temple of the Screaming Electron":

http://www.totse.com/en/politics/political_documen ts/univrite.html

The "Universal Bill of Rights", as "promulgated under the authority of the Universal Supreme Law; the Law of God; the Law of Nature; the Law of the Constitution; and the Law of Common Sense". Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Batman.

Did you take more than you were supposed to? "Junkies" take much more than a hospital gives.

Just like cough syrup. What the label says to take doesn't do anything. It's only fun when you "abuse" it.

Some reading material for you all:

The Al Qaeda Manual: http://www.disastercenter.com/terror/
The Terrorist's Handbook: http://www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/irresponsible_ac tivities/168593.html
The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook: http://www.thedisease.net/arcana/nbc/chemical/Muja hideen_Poisons.pdf
The Dragunov Sniper Rifle Technical Description and Service Manual: http://kalashnikov.guns.ru/manual/english/svd/

Now don't go reading this stuff and getting yourself arrested.

you write:
"And your understanding of what the Gold Standard did is not at all accurate. Congress was able to sell debt in 1970 in the same exact way it's able to sell debt today. Remaining on the gold standard would've done nothing but limit the growth of the economy and liquidity of the US currency over the past 30 years. Every country in the world has followed us off of the gold standard. The Free Trade we have today would've been severely impaired if this step hadn't been taken. Fiat currency allows for exchange rates to be set naturally based on the millions of things that affect it, rather then supporting it artifically."

An opposing viewpoint from http://www.totse.com/en/politics/international_ban king_money_laundering/fedpwer.html :

FEDERAL RESERVE POWER

Below is quote from Representative Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency for 12 years as quoted from the Congressional Record

The Federal Reserve Board, ..., has cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt...Our people's money to the extend of $1,200,000,000 has within the last few months been shipped abroad to redeem Federal Reserve Notes and to pay other gambling debts of the traitorous Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks...............

SUMMARY OF QUICK FACTS

1a. The Federal Reserve (FED) is a PRIVATELY OWNED, organization. unbelievable? Check the ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA.

b. Below is the list of the owners of the 12 Central Banks:

- Rothschild Bank of London
- Rothschild Bank of Berlin
- Lazard Brothers of Paris
- Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy
- Warburg Bank of Amsterdam
- Warburg Bank of Hamburg
- Lehman Brothers of New York
- Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York
- Goldman, Schs of New York
- Chase Manhattan Bank of New York
In all, there are about 300 VERY POWERFUL, partly foreign individuals that owns the FED.

2. Although the FED is required to give back most of its PROFITS back to the Treasury Dept., there is NO ORGANIZATION that has the power to AUDIT the FED (not even the Congress or the IRS). This creates a HUGE opportunity for "creative accounting" to hide the profit that ROBS the US Tax Payers Hundreds of Billions of Dollars annually.

3. Every year, a few Congressmen introduced a legislation to AUDIT the FED, and every year, the legislation is defeated. The owners of the FED is the most powerful, invisible lobbying power there is.

4. The owners of the FED own the controlling interests in ALL major media in the US. Rockefeller, through Chase Manhattan bank, controls CBS and ABC and 28 other broadcasting firms. Each of the other owners of the FED also have controlling interest in the US media. This explain why the media have been silent about the FED scam. The FED fraud is the biggest and longest cover-up in the US today.

5. According to Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, the US Congress has the power to print money (The Congress shall have the power... ...to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, ...). According to the Supreme Court, the Congress can not transfer its power to other organization like the FED.

HISTORY OF THE FED

After several attempts to push the Federal Reserve Banking Act through Congress, a group of bankers funded and staffed Woodrow Wilson's campaign for President. In 1913, Nelson Aldrich, maternal grandfather to the Rockefellers, pushed the Federal Reserve Act through Congress just before Christmas, when most Congressmen were on vacation. Naturally, president Wilson passed the Act when he was elected as a pay back to the bankers.

HOW THE OWNERS OF THE FED PROFIT AT OUR EXPENSE

The US goverment runs a $400 billion deficit annually. To cover this, the US goverment issues bonds

Tapes of such importance don't just "get lost." According to some of the astronauts involved on that and other Apollo missions as well as people who have seen the original SSTV (superior to what was broadcast in quality) there were artifacts and other things that cannot be explained by conventional theories. http://www.totse.com/en/fringe/cydonia_and_moon_mo untains/cornet-a.html http://www.enterprisemission.com/Missing-Apollo.ht ml Some people like to just dismiss these sort of things because they have been conditioned to do so, but if you look at the evidence it is clear that something isn't right - between the missing tapes and photos, the censored (either manipulated or stright blacked out in sections) photos, the way that NASA handles real time communications from the shuttle and other spacecraft it is clear that they are hiding things. I am not saying I know what for sure, but I do know that there has been a lot of obfuscation, and that it is being done for a purpose.

Amazing little quote you have there. Taken almost verbatim from one of the UltraSonics conspiracy sites. This is the exact description of the weapon the "UltraSonics" Secret Police group uses to harras its "Targets"
Here is one of many copies of this drivel.

Second - Cyber security is about securing information, which the department of homeland security has a lot of and are doing a poor job protecting it.

Third - Iraq was not terrorist free. http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/20124. pdf

Sorry, have to differ with you there. I don't want a tac nuke in private hands, because I don't believe you're capable of only hitting those who are actually posing a threat to you personally. I also wouldn't let you have land mines, pursuant to the common law principle of prohibiting reckless endangerment.

An idea for the aspiring mad scientists among us:- Combine these sound files with this, and the techniques contained here for a potentially highly effective, DNI free software mind control device.

Good for corporate politicians, dissenting family members, etc. They'll end up craving Linux without even knowing why!

The jurors are supposed to and expected to vote based on the laws.

No they're not.

This is one of the biggest lies that Judges and Lawyers to this day try and convince jurors.

It's unfortunate that Judges aren't required to take an oath before instructing the Jury on legal matters.

Jurors are following the law - whether they or you know it or not, when they decide whether the Judge is being a cockhead, the law is stupid, or that dumb slut had it coming.

The jury is purely a finder of fact,

No they're not.

This is one of the biggest lies that Judges and Lawyers to this day try and convince jurors.

Jurors not only have the right, they have the duty to decide whether the Judge is being a cockhead, the law is stupid, or that dumb slut had it coming.

Next time you think Jurors are required to decide on facts, or don't have the ability to rewrite law from the box, I urge you to pay attention at the next Michael Jackson molostation case, or if ever OJ Simpson decides to remarry.

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:7n-Uwr5UNeEJ:w ww.corvus.com/documents/reference/orangebooksummar y+mandatory+access+control+orange+book&hl=en&lr=la ng_en

and (for more detail)
http://www.totse.com/en/privacy/encryption/orange. html

Read up on Division B2 and B3 security controls as specified by NSA in the Orange Book from the Rainbow Series (no, those aren't the official names but it's what everyone uses) -- the U.S. Government knew more about implementing impossible-to-bypass DRM years ago than Microsoft will be able to implement before 2010.

If a statement isn't falsifiable, it is impossible for it to be true.

Some magical, unknowable force is at work designing all the creatures on the planet.

There is no conceivable statement (true or false) I can make that can disprove the above statement. Therefore it is not falsifiable. It is not a statement of fact, but rather of subjective opinion.

This is a great article on the subject of Critical Thinking. Here is another.

Just wanted to add that in response to media attention to the Bork episode, we did get the Video Privacy Protection Act.

So media attention can help, at least when there is high-profile abuse.

Talk about self-defeating logic. You say it's not then lead into this next sentence:

"The mostly Arab fighters who inhabit the Iraqi battlefields use whatever Islamic mythology suits them at the moment, be it Mongol, Moorish, or Arab."

So which is it? They are culturally influenced or are they not? Secondly, what has this to do with combative methods and strategic thought? You have failed to elaborate about this mythology makes the bound from myth to combative action.

"Of the 50% of them who can read, I doubt they know who Sun Tzu is other than an infidel."

How does this refute my point? I said they were culturally influenced and they are. Look at the history. Much of the chinese classicists writings on warfare spread throughout the silk road from as far south as Indonesia and as far west as Turkey. Take a look at this map of the silk road. The methods of Middle Eastern fighting stem from Eastern fighting methods that had its roots in a mix of the Steepes people and ancient chinese strategists. For proof of this read up on Thomas X. Hammes, Van Creveld, Keegan , and most importantly Poole.

Oh, if you don't believe that middle eastern groups are not reading current strategy you are entirely mislead. Here is an up-to-date news article from a Kurdish website that analyzes Turkey's war against extremist groups and quotes the American strategist John Boyd Boyd. His material is based on a lot of Sun Tzu. It states that what Turkey is doing is what Boyd has suggested all along, which suggests that the cultural influence of Chinese military thought holds true.

"Furthermore, if what you say is true, then the 'insurgents's support base would be much larger. They would be winning after all."

How did you come to that conclusion? Do you know how large the insurgents support base is? There is suggestions that is up to 184,800. And that is just the Sunni insurgency and support base. That doesn't count the influence from the Iranians .

Temperature can be fooled too with this technique, and it allows one to lift a fingerprint from just about anywhere, including the fingerprint scanner they just used.

Actually he was listing the ingredients for Crystal Meth.

You can find out how to make it here:
http://www.neonjoint.com/drug_recipes/chapter3.htm l
or through a quick google search.

Crack is much more simple to make though. It's mostly coke and baking soda. You can find out how to make it here:
http://www.totse.com/en/drugs/speedy_drugs/crackr. html

http://www.totse.com/bbs/Forum23/HTML/000673.html

There are all kinds of folks there from hams, amateures, pirates, radicals and 'straight-laced-types' ;)

Yup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_ the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works

And this shows that Japan, producer of most Anime-style animation, is a signatory of the Berne Convention, along with the US. Thus copyrights must be mutually respected across both countries.

After a few beers, I played it and got pulled over for a 502!

http://www.totse.com/en/media/radio_free_amerika/c opcodes.html

For those that haven't seen it, there is a "review" comparing a Mac 128k vs. a brick. It's available here (Google cache).

I'm tempted to say 'point and click' my arse, but might it might give you the wrong idea :)

Yes on the surface in some areas Linux might look a bit like a GUI spatchcock, but its heart is golden, engendered by thirty years of evolution and stress testing, windoze has nowhere near the pedigree.

We live in a black box society where people think all that is necessary, is to have the correct label for everything and to know which button to press. There has the inherent danger in this process, of dumbing everyone down.

Truth to tell, it is not about UNIX Linux or Micro$oft, it is about open source versus closed source, this has nothing to do with GUI/CLI.

Read the man (Richard Stallman)

May be very nice but THC is soluble in alcohol, so it can lessen the effect ;)

I know 3.5 stripes (578410) said it first but there's a link for ya, give 'im any mod points tho ;)

OOOK!

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To some people money doesn't matter. Time and time again the military and intelligence communities attract hugely talented individuals because of the work environment. Dave Grossman talked about this in his book On Killing. There is a small minority of people who are talented warlike mischeif makers who given the right environment, ethical and monetary backing can go a long way to louse up the enemies day. Bruce Schneier says the same thing in Secrets and Lies. Examples of this in history are myriad. Google topics like the Tunnel Rats in vietnam. The bad guy mentality in the right environment attracts these guys.

You don't have to have to be a "bad guy" but being/thinking so is what separates the best intelligence and military personnel from the average. Obviously, you still need a 'good' value system but the 'bad guy' psyche still is needed.

It's even written in the vast majority of intelligence literature out there that the best overall intelligence guys are borderline 'bad guys'. Examples are myriad:

The original detective Eugène François Vidocq was the founding father of criminal investigation. He was a notorious bad guy whose innovations bolstered police intelligence gathering.

Michael Levine who was one of the top undercover agents ever assigned to the Drug Enforcement Agency said in an interview that "The secret to my success was ..... A police lieutenant, with whom I worked many years later, looked at me, after I had done, in one day, something like four or five undercover buys from different groups -- from Hispanics, from Blacks, from Whites -- and he was covering me along with my group. He said: "You know what the thing is about you, Levine? You're a guy who should've gone bad. You should have been a gangster. You should have been in jail. But somehow you turned out right. And that's why you're so ..." [convincing]. And I thought about it, and I thought about my youth and about the way I grew up, and I realized that there was a lot of truth in what he said. I was FROM the streets. The streets were in me. There was a thin line between me and the guys who I was working against. And that line was so thin that drug dealers couldn't see it. Do you understand? The line that separated them from me as a suspected agent was so thin that drug dealers could NEVER believe that I was an agent. And that's an attitude .... that's something you can't teach."

The CIA Case officer Gust Avrakotos who ran the covert operation arming the Mujahideen by proxy through Pakistan in the 1980's Afgan-Russian war was nicknamed 'Dr Dirty' by his CIA peers because he was such an aggressive rule-breaking intelligence operative who had an inherent 'bad guy' view of intelligence operations which helped him numerous times in executing deals inside and outside the CIA.

Ex US Army intelligence analyst Ralph Peters Essay "The Black Art of Intelligence" speaks that the best intelligence analysts have a specific talent for the job and that talent is an underlying understanding of the dark side of humanity and this talent is born not made.

I could go on and on. Of course, you don't have to be a bad guy or empathise to be good at the job. In fact having an organisation filled with these guys would be counter-productive. But, like I stated, what separates the good from the brilliant is this 'bad guy' mentality.

"The best soldiers have a seasoning of devilry." General A.P. Wavell

Myth #9. SURGE PROTECTORS ARE PERMANENT DEVICES. Most point-of-use surge protectors use metal oxide varistors as their primary protection component. Despite all its strengths, this inexp- ensive (15 cent) component wears out a little with each surge above a very modest threshold... a threshold that is exceeded mant times a day in most environments. Unfortunately, the race among surge protector manufacturers to provide the "best" protection (i.e., the lowest let- through voltage) has led them to use lower voltage MOVs which age faster and fail sooner. The normal failure mode for an MOV is overheating, and they have been known to cause fires. Thus MOVs wear out and should be replaced periodically. Unfortunately, equipment to test MOVs is very expensive (on the order of $20,000). Indicator lights purporting to show that protection is operational ,are not always reliable; in fact, those are sometimes wired across the power line and thus only indicates that the power line is live.

and surge protectors work the same way:

Surge suppressors eventually wear out, but the better quality ones have an indicator light that flashes when they have been damaged. If you are subject to frequent storms or brownouts, it's best to replace them every three or four years.

Actually, polycrystalline diamonds ( made by the likes of P1 Diamond ) have many uses including high temperature chemical resistant coatings, abrasion resistant coatings and also huge thermal conductivity. While polycrystalline diamond properties fall short of monocrystalline diamond, they are still tremendous.

" There are two important points here - first is that the strength of something made up of multiple short fibres is going to be less than than the theoretical strength of the same thickness of continuous fibres. The second point is that is you could make continous fibres the full length (up to geostationary, then double it to balance and keep it up there) the material isn't quite strong enough yet. We'll get there someday, just don't buy any space elevator shares yet without realising that there is a long way to go. "

"A single stage chemical rocket can't reach orbit." (a few numbers to go) Fortunately, creativity has prevailed in the form of multi stage rockets for going to orbit and multi strength cables for a space elevator. The cable is thicker that the points of greatest tension and thinner to reduce weight elsewhere.

Fonts can't be copyrighted (at least, they can't in the US). Seems like the same argument could be made against Copyleft:

http://www.totse.com/en/law/justice_for_all/sf-leg al.html/

Ah, yes. Reminds me of the classic TOTSE, The Theory of Dark Suckers

probably true. and probably moot. the real musical revolution, though, isn't "electronic" music, but digital music.

i personally count the begining of digital/electronic music to peter samson who, while at mit in the early 60's, prgrammed the tx-0 to play an entire fugue by bach. the entire piece was written in assembly!

my source is here... although you'll have to dig through a lot of text to find it.

Dear Pat,

I wanted to make you aware of a possible cause for the chest pains and other symtpoms you've been suffering.

What you are suffering may be a simulated illness.

I am a victim of involuntary human experimentation. I am being used in research to develop technology for secretly and remotely harassing a target and influencing human behavior. I have a web site that describes my situation at http://www.geocities.com/mrmistermicko .

I have seen instances in which the technology being tested on me has been used to simulate an illness in a target. Also, on a number of occasions powerful, debilitating chest pains have been inflicted on me through this technology.

Your situation fits a pattern of victimization by this technology. I can't really give a better reason for my suspicions than that. Having been a victim of involuntary experimentation and harassment for many years, and having seen many other victims -- only a very few of which realized that they were being intentionally attacked -- your experiences triggered my "pattern recognition circuits".

The symptoms you've described, their sudden onset, the inability of doctors to diagnose them, your position as really the ultimate authority for the Slackware Linux Distro., and the fact that there is a concerted effort to undermine and destroy the open source community, your age -- I believe I read somewhere you're in your mid-thirties, which seems to be a typical age when victims begin to suffer a high level of harassment.

The fact your latest update says that your new cardiologist at the Mayo clinic "with no planting of any suggestion from me whatsoever came to the conclusion that it seemed to be infective endocarditis". The very best medical doctors are often the ones most likely to cooperate with these involuntary experiments, and to participate in the research. I have had many cases in which the group harassing me has used knowledge of my beliefs in an attempt to influence me -- by parroting my beliefs back to me in a context that they hoped would lead me to adopt additional beliefs, or adopt a course of action that they wanted.

One of the early goals, when this group begins attacking a victim, is to deprive the victim of all resources for self-defense -- to make the victim unemployed, penniless, if possible homeless, and to sever all their relationships with friends and family. Your comments about your savings fit that pattern. You might look at http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/mind_control/mc micro.html with regards to this.

Anyway, from my experiences, I just recognized a pattern in what you described that made me think you might be a victim of electronic harassment or involuntary human experimentation (usually it's both) with the kind of technology that's been used on me.

Perhaps you'll find the information in my web site, and the links, make for interesting reading. If you do ever think you are being victimized like I have been, you might consider having your heart condition examined in Cuba. Cuba doesn't seem to mind taking an openly hostile attitude towards the US and the West, and has good medical services. But don't wait until you've spent your last dime.

(You could also try seeing if electromagnetic shielding improves your condition, but it's tricky. Any holes in imperfect shielding can be exploited, and it is very difficult to shield against close-proximity alternating magnetic fields. Usually victims are implanted, and simply stimulating the implant can cause many symptoms, including chest pains. Such an implant is an antennae, so shielding yourself would be as difficult as shielding, say, a radio to the point it can no longer pick up any stations.)

Who changed Democrats to blue and Republicans to red?

I remember when it was the other way around (I know it was in 1980 - Carter v. Reagan).

It made more sense. Especially with the other meaning of "Red", and what party most "blue blooded" people would be in. Also it fits nicely with this theory. :)

Nonsense. Many Niven stories cover characters who're far older than 300. One story discusses an obsessive schizophrenic who, by virtue of his intense self-care regimen, lives over 10 000 years on an endless space-chase.

Niven admitted himself - he wants to live a long time, so he likes writing story about old but healthy people - wasn't Louis Wu 200 years old in "Ringworld"?

I suspect Niven's reasoning is also the reason that so many characters in the Bible last so long - everyone would like to think that it's possible.

And for people who think "no, people really used to live that long"...

this is what you sound like.

I suspect Mr Raymond Jackson could be in for a visit from the proverbial Men In Black by the end of the week. *evil grin*

They don't need your finger, just your fingerprint, from any surface. Then they make a fake finger from your fingerprint, as described in this article.

One of my favorite corners of the internet has always been http://www.totse.com/ Plethora of random subjects to peruse, with or without my tinfoil hat.

As another respondent posted, Sarin is a liquid at room temperature. Its density is a little bit greater than that of water, which is something like 250 gallons per Imperial ton (2000 lbs). Assuming the 740 tons is also Imperial, that's 740*250 = 185000 gallons.

Now, tanker truck capacity: 6000 gallons is reasonable. Using trucks with 6000 gallon capacity would take 31 trucks to move the entire store of Sarin. That already reduces the problem by an order of magnitude below what you came up with. And it probably wasn't necessary to move all of it, certainly not all to the same place. Send them out one at a time, put scaffolding over them to make them look like a different kind of truck, etc.

You mean, like this trick?

I didn't mean to insinuate that it is difficult to take over an ISP (ours had a server owned about once every four months, and we weren't a windows shop), but rather how easy it is to tap, as well as otherwise modify, a phone line. As Mitnick proved, it's easier to convince the phone company to switch a line or add a tap for you than it is to do the legwork yourself.

I didn't mean to insinuate that it is difficult to take over an ISP (ours had a server owned about once every four months, and we weren't a windows shop), but rather how easy it is to tap, as well as otherwise modify, a phone line. As Mitnick proved, it's easier to convince the phone company to switch a line or add a tap for you than it is to do the legwork yourself.