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Re:ALT+0255 and Windows XP
nah just ignore me, but it rocked:
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Re:I don't understand the big deal here.
Thorium (specifically Th-232) doesn't fission.
I am well aware of that but using "thorium fission" as a shorthand for "thorium cycle fission" seems common enough that I thought it would not need explanation. I assumed that people that knew what LFTR was would know what I meant and everyone else could search on "thorium fission" in Google, Wikipedia, or wherever and figure it out by clicking on the first link that shows up.
This breeding-fission process is a bit knife-edge compared to regular PWRs, BWRs and other uranium-fuelled reactors where only one neutron is required to fission a U-235 nucleus and produce 2+ more.
A lot of nuclear engineers seem to disagree with you. There are several techniques to make thorium cycle viable, the most popular are molten salt variations. Molten salt allows poisons that would normally accumulate in solid fuel to boil out. Iodine and xenon are the biggest concerns and those simply cannot remain in solution for long, and there are techniques to speed the removal from the core adding efficiency.
What recent developments in "thorium fission" can you point us at?
Here's a good place to start:
https://www.youtube.com/user/g...There's a lot of Powerpoint presentations and glossy brochures being waved around by folks looking to make a buck from research funding and subsidies but no-one is bending metal and pouring concrete right now on anything based on thorium as a primary source of nuclear energy.
I believe that China and India would disagree with you. Right now in the USA and Canada thorium fission is being held up by regulators that don't know what to do with thorium yet. I suspect we'll see a boom in LFTR and DMSR shortly after China demonstrates their first MSR. It used to be that the USA was first in technology, now we race to be second place.
Previous attempts to commercialise pebble-bed reactors capable of using some thorium such as the German THTR-300 were not a success.
Let's see, steam turbines, helium cooled core, small manufactured fuel pebbles, and a one off design. What could possibly go wrong? Water creeping into the helium coolant. Pebbled fuel breaking in the reactor and getting lodged in piping. Difficulty in sourcing fuel. Not a high point of thorium as a fuel.
LFTR uses molten salt as coolant and fuel carrier, any leaking between them does cause contamination but it will not stop operation. Leaks can be repaired and operation resumed. There is no water cooling to create concerns over flash boiling, corrosion of metals, or contamination of fuel. LFTR does not require "manufacture" of the fuel, it's a stable salt with very low chemical and nuclear reactivity. Once melted it can be simply poured into the core. Waste products are removed as part of normal operation, they won't accumulate to levels that would cause massive release if there is a catastrophic failure. Any kind of large failure would be limited to destruction of the core, it can't "blow it's top" like water cooled and solid fuel reactors of the past.
This design was tested and operating fifty years ago. However, because we've learned a lot in the last fifty years in material science, manufacturing, and so forth that design would not be considered viable today. What it does do is show the physics work and if we can only get the DOE to get their assess off their thumbs then maybe we can see thorium as a fuel before another fifty years pass.
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Re:Good
Show me a video of a cop gunning down someone who is calm and following directions
Sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You have a strange sense of reality.
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Robots @ Warehouses
Several if not all of the Amazon warehouses now use robots to move shelves to the pickers, instead of the pickers running to the shelves. The sad story of a hard-working Joe who wanted to feed his family & died on the job is becoming the sad story of even the crappy jobs disappearing.
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This video explains this law very well
This video explains the evidence in a recent study. It shows why what Americans want has practically no effect on what American politicians do.
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Re:So to summarize...
"This is yet another example of idiot governments rolling over and giving corporations everything they want, and utterly failing to serve the people who voted for them."
You're under the dangerous idea that they ever worked for you.
First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Why you can't have capitalist democracy
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket.
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/
Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.
What happens when government tries to help its people - greece
US distribution of wealth
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Re:So to summarize...
"This is yet another example of idiot governments rolling over and giving corporations everything they want, and utterly failing to serve the people who voted for them."
You're under the dangerous idea that they ever worked for you.
First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Why you can't have capitalist democracy
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket.
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/
Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.
What happens when government tries to help its people - greece
US distribution of wealth
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Re:So to summarize...
"This is yet another example of idiot governments rolling over and giving corporations everything they want, and utterly failing to serve the people who voted for them."
You're under the dangerous idea that they ever worked for you.
First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Why you can't have capitalist democracy
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket.
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/
Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.
What happens when government tries to help its people - greece
US distribution of wealth
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Re:My favorite Redd Foxx joke
Nah. The funniest Redd Foxx moment was when he fell over dead from a grabber IRL.
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Electricity. Lots and lots of it.
what promising technologies --- in generating, storing, and saving energy, and in storing greenhouse gases or removing them from the atmosphere --- show most potential to help the world come to terms with global warming?
I'd wait for more proof that Temperature follows CO2 before I'd rearrange civilization.
I'd let CO2 get even higher, because plants love it and I love plants. Do you love plants?But with enough carbon-neutral electricity and heat anything is possible, even CO2 sequestration on a grand scale.
But only bring CO2 down to pre-industrial levels if you really hate plants."Every time mankind has been able to access a new source of energy it has led to profound societal implications. Human beings had slaves for thousands of years, and when we learned how to make carbon our slave instead of other human beings, we started to learn how to be civilized people. Thorium has a million times the energy density of a cabon-hydrogen bond. What could that mean for human civilization? Once we've learned how to use it at this kind of efficiency, we will never run out. It is simply too common."
CONTENT:
[00:00] LFTR in 5 minutes; [06:05] dialogue on Energy sources & conservation; [08:29] Elizabeth May (Green Party of Canada) on why nuclear 'fails', response; [13:40] Kirk Sorensen's time at NASA, discovering molten salt research; [17:30] on Glenn Seaborg's discovery of Thorium's fissile properties in 1942; [20:05] What nuclear fission is, decay chains, half life; [26:45] neutron absorption, cross section, Xenon poisoning at Hanford; [30:06] isotopic enrichment, Thorium/u233 rejected for weapons; [32:45] Atoms for Peace, absorption propensity and performance of nuclear fuels, thermal & fast spectrum, Thorium/Plutonium debate; [36:28] Alvin Weinberg focuses on Thorium and liquid fuels, Oak Ridge Labs, Aircraft Reactor Experiment, the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, Fluoride Salts; [44:40] two-fluid molten salt reactor; [48:18] light water reactors, Watts Bar, reactor safety and containment systems, issues with water, Fukushima Daiichi hydrogen explosions; [01:01:38] solid fuel & rod assemblies, Eugene Wigner & liquid fuels; [01:04:38] PWR efficiency, Weinberg's quest for near-100% utilization, AEC's choice to pursue Plutonium fast breeders; [01:06:46] Weinberg's concerns about LWR safety, Congressman Chet Hollifeld's inquiry, Weinberg leaves Oak Ridge, WASH-1222, Integral Fast Reactor, Traveling Wave; [01:11:26] Fusion is hard; [01:14:12] Thorium in a CANDU; [01:18:12] Colonel Paul Roege on military reactors, Robert Hargraves: prosperity is related to energy, Robert F. Kennedy on mercury from coal; [01:21:42] transuranics, LFTR active processing, electricity & isotope production from LFTR, Pu-238 and RTGs, Molybdenum-99 & Bismuth-213 in medicine; [01:27:48] cost to build LFTR; [01:30:26] proliferation concerns; [01:31:50] hysterical news coverage of radiation, LNT; [01:40:02] coal & natural gas radioactive emissions, Thorium & Uranium decay in the Earth, magnetosphere, Hargraves on CO2 emissions & ocean acidification & energy density, one-sided press coverage for 'renewables'; [01:50:07] various approaches to nuclear power, the 'reason why not' (LFTR), LWR business model; [01:54:40] China and LFTR, Sorensen's visit to Oak Ridge to obtain access to LFTR documents, the Chinese visit Oak Ridge; [01:58:01] Thorium and rare earths, China's domination of rare earths market, China's LFTR program; [02:06:39] transitioning energy sources, without plentiful energy we will revert to slavery, energy cheaper than from coal; [02:10:44] process heat applications, desalinization, synfuels, Brayton Cycle, managing transuranics, gas & oil working against nuclear, closing remarks and recap. -
Low-Information American Voters
This is why this country is f*cked --
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There ain't no sanity clause!!!
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Re:"says Burt P. Flickinger III"
Not the most FAMOUS Robert Smith.
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Exactly. Converted my ext family KPX
Everyone has too many password to remember. I have it down to just 3 with ZERO online accounts memorized.
Explained password manager to a sister and showed her KeePassX on Linux, KeePass v1 on Windows and DroidPass on android all using the same DB. Suggested she try it for a week a few years ago at Thanksgiving. By Xmas, she'd become hooked and was teaching the other members of the family how as well.
Hearing it was easy from a non-nerd helped the others accept it.
A few tricks are needed:
a) think of all the different platforms/devices as read-only, except 1. That is the only place where edits should be made. This keeps confusion to a minimum.
b) Having the latest copy of the DB on each device "now" isn't really that important unless an important password/account change just happened. If you never use the lifehacker.com account on your phone, having a new password on the phone isn't really important.
c) The rest are good password strategies.
** use a different email/contact for important/financial accounts than for all the social stuff
** always different passwords
** always random passwords
** always as long as allowed by the online service
** 22-55 characters - they will never type them anyway.
** use any character the keyboard can enter. Not just alphabetic characters-this stuff is automatic if using the keekassX generator.Since Mom died, we've also started sharing half/3rd of our KeePassX DB credentials with different family members. This way if there is an emergency, then family can work together to access the accounts. At death, this isn't important, but if you are in a coma-wouldn't it be nice if family could let your friends know via social media?
Think I'll be giving YubiKeys to everyone for Xmas this year.
Funny video about password management: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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And a what is theese one?
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Brain surgery?
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Re:Capitalism
"Which monopolies exist without the force of law?"
Capitalism has never obeyed the law and was always lawless, this is ahistorical bullshit.
First, you need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Next capitalism has always been lawless:
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket.
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]
General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/">War is a racket
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Re:Capitalism
"Which monopolies exist without the force of law?"
Capitalism has never obeyed the law and was always lawless, this is ahistorical bullshit.
First, you need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Next capitalism has always been lawless:
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket.
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]
General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/">War is a racket
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Re:Capitalism
"Which monopolies exist without the force of law?"
Capitalism has never obeyed the law and was always lawless, this is ahistorical bullshit.
First, you need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Next capitalism has always been lawless:
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket.
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]
General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/">War is a racket
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Re:Password1
at least one symbol and at least 8 characters Password1~
This leads to extremely common patterns, or classes of passwords such as ULLLLLLLDS, which can be pre-computed for cracking.
Knowing the 30 most common such topologies and allows an attacker to crack 90% of all passwords (according to leaked password lists).
Smart password checkers like the one of Kaspersky take that into account https://blog.kaspersky.com/pas...
Here is a talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and some material here: https://blog.korelogic.com/blo....
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Re:FEC put pressure on Intel
John came out with this instructional video on the removal of McAfee Antivirus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Well worth watching.
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There's only one thing to do now
Now Intel needs to produce their own version of this informative video explaining how their customers can remove the MX Logic/McAfee/Intel Security/Partridge-in-Pear-Tree product.
I believe that Treasure, Carmella and Sasha are available for consultation although Bianca and Diamond have left the IT support industry.
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Re:CISA is a "done deal"
"How do you know this?"
You need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY
Brezinski at a press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket.
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]
General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/">War is a racket
US distribution of wealth
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
The Centre for Investigative Journalism
Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.
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Re:CISA is a "done deal"
"How do you know this?"
You need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY
Brezinski at a press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket.
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]
General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/">War is a racket
US distribution of wealth
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
The Centre for Investigative Journalism
Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.
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Re:CISA is a "done deal"
"How do you know this?"
You need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY
Brezinski at a press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket.
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]
General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/">War is a racket
US distribution of wealth
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
The Centre for Investigative Journalism
Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.
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Re:CISA is a "done deal"
"How do you know this?"
You need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY
Brezinski at a press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket.
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]
General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/">War is a racket
US distribution of wealth
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
The Centre for Investigative Journalism
Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.
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United Nations Has Already Solved This
According to this talking llama, the UN already has a plan to defeat climate change, and everyone has already agreed to it. So I'm not sure why people think climate change is still an issue...
If I understand correctly, poverty is also going to be eliminated.
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Re:Texas is the wrong place to be a minority
There was a survey, of sorts.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... A sense of humor about bombs will get you detained at airports... and schools. Heck, bring an aspirin or butter knife to school and get sent home. Chew a pop-tart into the shape of a gun, or point your fingers and say "pew pew" and get suspended. Plugging an unsafe contraption (with exposed electrical components) in during English and having it make noise is grounds to be sent to the principal.
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Re:Joe Biden 2016!
No, he means the Joe Biden who isn't running for president.
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Devo had this sorted out 35 years ago
In ancient Rome
There was a poem
About a dog
Who found two bones
He picked at one
He licked the other
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Re:Our friends up north are just like us apparentl
I can't tell if your being serious or not. Compared to the alternative? The largest mass incarceration of Canadians in history:
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TED talk on Choices
A couple years ago - I stumbled on this. Seems very relevant to the discussion.
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Re:Well now
The officials have explained (in the article, if you had cared to read it) that it would only be in certain situations, where the president would be killed if they didn't use it. Something like if this happened, you wouldn't really worry about warrants. The real question is whether they've ever actually used that power or not.
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Re:Kimber
Too heavy
Weight is a sign of reliability
Heavy's good. Heavy's reliable. If it doesn't work, you can always hit him with it.
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Re:Liberal Party?
"Don't try to focus on "left" or "right," it is a way to divide us. Instead focus on specific issues."
It would be the right approach except the government is structured so it doesn't work for you anyway.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
The real news:
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/
http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/
The Citibank memo
http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html
US distribution of wealth
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Re:Liberal Party?
"Don't try to focus on "left" or "right," it is a way to divide us. Instead focus on specific issues."
It would be the right approach except the government is structured so it doesn't work for you anyway.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
The real news:
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/
http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/
The Citibank memo
http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html
US distribution of wealth
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Re:Liberal Party?
"Don't try to focus on "left" or "right," it is a way to divide us. Instead focus on specific issues."
It would be the right approach except the government is structured so it doesn't work for you anyway.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
The real news:
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/
http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/
The Citibank memo
http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html
US distribution of wealth
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Re:Locked out of tenders
This explains it pretty concisely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Re:Too soon
Other in the fairy-tale world of slashdot's nuclear fanboys, we know nothing like that. In fact, we have a lot of confirming evidence
that the LNT holds to very small doses.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
http://www.solarstorms.org/Thr...
And a video for the layman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...This is a fallacy. That we adapted to radiation doesn't mean that radiation is good for us.
As a reference.. How come some areas with a higher background radiation show a lower amount of lung-cancer cases? http://webecoist.momtastic.com...
Water is good for us... but not if we drink 10 liters of it.. I can imagine the same is true for radiation where small doses will result in a immune-response that trains the body to kill cells that starts misbehaving... but i'm not a doctor..
The problem is people having opinions about science without being able to read the relevant scientific literature.
I completely agree.
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Re:Dude, we're in the 21st century.
Can they be as durable as the metal firearms?
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FYI
If you just love the actors, like me, they are also on the Tested youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channe... though i haven't seen either of them lately.
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Re:No.
Samples collected from gutters around my office (Kanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) already light up the Geiger counter, and the soles of shoes right after make nice images when placed on photographic film.
Ah yes, Nuclear myth #3: All radiation is caused by nuclear power and nuclear bombs.
Fact: Nearly everything in the world is naturally radioactive. You're horrified that that stuff around your office lights up Geiger counters, because you never pointed a Geiger counter at that stuff before the accident. Thus you are incorrectly attributing natural radiation to the accident. Your largest annual radiation dose actually comes from your own body. Potassium has a relatively common naturally occurring isotope (K40) which is radioactive, and your body needs potassium to survive (it's essential to how your nerves function). Your second largest dose comes from cosmic rays. Most of these are filtered out by the atmosphere, so in a twist of irony many of those who fled Japan by plane after the accident unwittingly exposed themselves to more radiation during their flight (planes fly above most of the atmosphere) than if they'd just stayed put in Japan.
This myth is so prevalent and pernicious that we screen our nuclear plant workers with detectors which would be screaming if placed at the exit of a drugstore or supermarket. K40 is common enough that most of the false alarms from the "dirty bomb" detectors at our borders are caused by shipments of food which are high in potassium - bananas, avocados, cocoa, etc.
Perhaps most damning with respect to TFA, burning coal releases radiation. Coal contains trace amounts of uranium. The uranium in coal actually contains more energy than the coal itself, but because people who believe this myth are staunchly opposed to nuclear power, they end up breathing in those minute traces of uranium released by burning coal instead. (Burning coal is also the current major contributor to mercury in our oceans which makes fish like tuna dangerous to consume. Historically the biggest contributor was mining, but that's been regulated enough that the primary mercury source is now coal pollution.) -
Law enforcement bias
Another huge issue is their close ties to law enforcement and the resulting biased conclusions.
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Re:More news
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Re:Distance?
Except there are observations supporting what we'd expect to see if it were a simulation. Kinda. It's highly speculative and involves string theory, but still.
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Re:Free market, anyone?
"The idea behind free market has always been that whenever there is a buck to be made somebody will endeavor to make it"
The free market is a myth that never existed, people who believe it don't know any history at all behind war and empire.
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Trillions in energy subsidies
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm
Propaganda in democratic societies
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Re:Free market, anyone?
"The idea behind free market has always been that whenever there is a buck to be made somebody will endeavor to make it"
The free market is a myth that never existed, people who believe it don't know any history at all behind war and empire.
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Trillions in energy subsidies
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm
Propaganda in democratic societies
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Re:Qatar
Some guy in a tower
Forgot to add this.
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RaspberryPi 2 + OpenELEC
I started with an XBMC build for the RaspberryPi long ago. It was slow and the interface was painful to use due to the limited hardware in the Pi, but it ran movies flawlessly. An upgrade to the RaspberryPi 2 and switching from RasBMC (XBMC) to OpenELEC (a different build of XBMC or now as it's called KODI) and I have a smooth as butter interface.
Media is stored on a NAS and all TV series and movies are cataloged on OpenELEC.
To interface with the media centre I use an app called Yatse. It stores an offline catalog as well so at any time I can open up my phone, browse through what I want to watch, click the show, the RPi automatically turns on the TV and start playing. It also supports CEC so once the TV is on I can use the TV remote to control the media centre and play / pause etc.
Because the RPi 2's CPU has enough grunt I also added a DIY ambilight style system using the Hyperion plugin. For those who don't know what Ambilight is here's an example. It may look weird but in my opinion it enhances the movie experience quite a lot.
OpenELEC also acts as a good UPNP target and supports Airplay too, so with the RPi attached to my sound system I can stream music to it from any device without having to turn on the TV. Works great at parties.
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Re:America the Police State
"These vans are just the latest in a long line of law enforcement abuse and complete disregard for the Constitution."
You need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.
"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."
This is the natural outgrowth of private property + military industrial complex coupled with allowing small groups of people unlimited accumulation of wealth. It's the rich and corporations vs everyone else. We're seeing the true face of class war, aka the cold war never really ended and anyone who isn't rich is being impoverished in a one sided class war where the rich are going for full on slavery. See what happened to greece here:
"American historian D.F. Fleming, writing of the post-World War II period in his eminent history of the Cold War, stated that “Greece was the first of the liberated states to be openly and forcibly compelled to accept the political system of the occupying Great Power. It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example, in Bulgaria and then in Rumania, though with less bloodshed.”
http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137
The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11
Brezinski at a press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY
States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":
https://youtu.be/0kmUS--QCYY?t=246
Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.
https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6
The real news:
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/
http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/
The Citibank memo