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Don't forget your headwear: https://zapatopi.net/afdb/

Here's a bunch of research on the subject. It's been 20 years since I read it here on /. I think MIT did some research on the subject and found that some hats actually magnify the signal. It's worth reading and one of my all time favorite submissions.

Belgium doesn't exist! It's all one big conspiracy! https://zapatopi.net/belgium/

(But still, I'm glad that my government is taking action against Facebook. Let's hope the other EU nations join in on the fun)

I mean, it's literally only 120 years since people were saying things like "heavier than air flight is impossible, we know the physics, we know the materials, it's just not feasible"

Who the fuck ever said that? Are birds lighter than air? You said "literally" so I expect a quote backing your bullshit up.

Lord Kelvin said some things along those lines within ten years of the Wright Brothers. He also said lots of other silly things on other topics like calling x-rays a "hoax". This page cites sources and has links to scans and such.

"I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we hear of ... I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society." [Source]

"The air-ship, on the plan of those built by Santos-Dumont, is a delusion and a snare. A gas balloon, paddled around by oars, is an old idea, and can never be of any practical use. Some day, no doubt, some one will invent a flying machine that one will be able to navigate without having to have a balloon attachment. But the day is a long way off when we shall see human beings soaring around like birds." [TLWT, vol. 2, p. 1168]

"They never will be able to use dirigible balloons as a means of conveying passengers from place to place. There never was and never can be any commercial value to any such affair. It is all a delusion and a snare. Santos-Dumont is a very bright young man, but an air ship as planned by him is not practicable." [Said to reporters after having arrived in New York on April 19, 1902. Quoted in the New York Times, p.2, the next day.]

http://zapatopi.net/belgium/

So, Microsoft is now deliberately bricking computers, in an attempt to force Windows 10 onto them.

Two points:
1. The computer isn't bricked.
2. Windows 7 doesn't support secure boot. This is an ASUS bug in that it attempts to run Secure Boot after the patch is applied. Prior to this it doesn't work for some unknown reason (probably also an ASUS bug, but one that was cancelled by a now fixed Windows bug). All the user needs to do is change his BIOS setting to the one he should have always been using and everything is fine.

As for the attempt to force Windows 10 onto someone I highly suggest you upgrade to one of these: http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

Bah! You don't fool us! http://zapatopi.net/belgium/

From the /. way (way) back machine...are you familiar with the AFDB?

Not according to the experts.

For certain values of "expert," of course.

Not only New Zealand. I've recently learned to my astonishment that Belgium doesn't exist! Which is weird, given that the EU headquarters is supposed to be located there ...

There are no evidence on youtube so... WTF do you mean exactly?

BTW: http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopu...

you're not wearing your AFDB that's why.

Lord Kelvin smiles upon thee.

Are you not glad that all of those crazy conspiracy theorists were just "crazy conspiracy theorists"? Sarcasm aside, while nothing is currently changing at least myself and others can say "Told ya so!" and watch more and more of the reality we were telling you about unfold.

For everyone now learning how bad reality really is, it may be worth making your own shiny new hat!

You're not familiar with the Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie? You have seven (7) days turn in your geek card at your nearest LUG. Delays will not be tolerated.

I ripped my OnStar box out of my car...

The only thing you ripped out of your car was the portions of OnStar that are for the consumers. The government portion of OnStar is embedded in the ECU and can not be removed without providing an entirely different Engine Control Unit. Just do not ever buy GM products to avoid any of this government tracking nonsense.

Well removing the Satellite transponder is more effective than me starting to wear an AFDB...

How is Russia an enemy? The cold war is over and yes there will always be Nation/Nation Spy vs. Spy shit going on. That the nature of governments and regimes as far back as recorded history. Even the Romans used spies as well as Hannibal who effectively had spies inside Rome. http://www.historynet.com/espionage-in-ancient-rome.htm

What Snowden has done here is opened a view into a world that our government doesn't want us to see. Although I think the majority of what's been publicly produced has been damaging, deep down I think we knew our government was doing these kinds of things. Hey, those guys with the AFDBs weren't completely nuts, right?

It's naive for us to believe that spying won't go on and that covert operations will stop after all these documents have finally been released. Governments will do what governments will do and I seriously doubt that there is one government on this planet that doesn't have some sort of covert operations going on somewhere. Hell, I'll even bet that Vatican City and Lichtenstein has some spy scandal in the wings. What's unfortunate about this situation is that we all learn how deep this goes and how our Constitution has been subverted. Snowden is just the messenger and while we're troubled with the message, we shouldn't shoot the one who brought us the message.

If you had read the website I provided a link to you would find that all the tin has been secured by the Masons and that tin foil hats are banned.

http://zapatopi.net/afdb/tin.html

This is the canonical source of information regarding tinfoil hats:

http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

The information therein is in regards to aluminum foil, not tinfoil. Aluminum and tin are actually different elements with different properties and applications.

I've looked, and have thus far been unable to find a retailer supplier of tinfoil.

This is the canonical source of information regarding tinfoil hats:

http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

Or are you just doubling up on your tin foil?

Tin foil is so 1940s.. it's all about the AFDB

You mean Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanies? http://zapatopi.net/afdb/ I actually am starting to think these will seriously be necessary in the coming years. I'll be ahead of the game then.

Between this and the lawyer that was behind theOatmeal vs FunnyJunk I'm getting this funny impression that lawyers outside silicon valley are actually pretty nice people.

I must be getting brainwashed. Where's my tinfoil hat?

I have my Free Cascadia bumper sticker and my Bureau of Sasquatch Affairs t-shirt.

I have my Free Cascadia bumper sticker and my Bureau of Sasquatch Affairs t-shirt.

I have a really awesome aluminum hat that protects me from the meters as well as other government mind control efforts. Everyone should have one.
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

Fail, fail.

I have a really awesome aluminum hat that protects me from the meters as well as other government mind control efforts. Everyone should have one.
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

gentleman scientists

Is that how one should address the Lord Kelvin?

Anonymous has NOTHING on the Belgians, or maybe they are the Belgians...?

So what you're saying is that Anonymous doesn't exist!?

It's a good thing that practices like these are illegal in Belgium. That's why it took so long for the iPhone to be released here.

Back under your bridge, troll: "Belgium" doesn't exist.

First thing that came to my mind was the Breeding cycle of the black helicopter

I should get out more

No one uses metric Time or Dates is what I meant to say. see here: http://zapatopi.net/metrictime/

Hell, even the French rejected it and it was a French invention.

Note to self: when pulling a similar stunt, claim to be from a fake country, like Lavatruria, Pays-Bonguebongue, or Belgium.

I would love to see the US convert completely to metric. And that includes metric time.

But until the rest of the world is willing to convert to metric time (which they have shown no inclination to do), one can argue that it makes little sense for the US to do a half-conversion to metric, converting distance only. Why should the US set itself up to have to go through two conversion processes?

So the question is, rest of the world, why won't you convert to metric time?

Imagine if we converted all our Speed Limit 30 mph signs to 45 kph, in an effort to "go metric".
First of all, 45 kph (in the half-ass Euro-metric "metric distance, traditional time" ) system is 27+ mph, so we instantly reduced our speed limits by more than 2%.

Second, if 45 kph is interpreted strictly in the metric system (metric distance, metric time), it equates to 11+ mph. So now we have reduced our speed limits by more than 60%.

We have to convert our street signs once (from 30 mph to 45 kph), and then a second time (to 115 kph) for FULL metric conversion. Insanity.

(Yes, this post is somewhat in jest, but highlights a real issue, that the US bashers never consider.)

Take that from the people who brought us MindGuard.

This can't be true.
Everyone knows Belgium doesn't exist:
http://zapatopi.net/belgium/

wouldn't stupid and silly ideas like hard AI and the singularity count as "IT woo"?

IT is not immune to woo, and indeed, it's good that we actively point out how ridiculous IT woo would be. That link is parody, but on a far more serious note, some years ago, I heard of an actual, real software product that claimed to be able to cast spells. (I was, like, "duhhhhhhh, Perl is free, this product is obviously an attempt to take your money and run.") And don't even get me started about all those shady companies that rebrand free and open source software and sell them as new, awesome software products. (I saw one company that rebranded GIMP as "Real Estate Photo Editor for Realtors" or something silly like that. I wish I was kidding.)

But seriously...

Information technology is a tool to facilitate solving real-world problems. It's a mysterious tool in that most people have no idea how it works. As long as mysteries are involved, people can be scammed. It doesn't even have to be a particularly clever ruse, as the rebranded FOSS shows; information technology has a lot of layers, starting from hardware and going all the way to the organisatorial/societal matters, and there's always plenty of mysteries for laymen to figure out.

Things like hard AI and singularity are more in the "plausible but highly impractical - read: bloody impossible in practice, and any claims of success should be scrutinised heavily" category. On one end of the woo scale we have ridiculous crap like the famous cell phone battery-life extension stickers*, on the other end we have heavy-duty stuff like hard AI. It's like a whole spectrum of weirdnesses ranging from funky crap that promises free energy to heavy-duty stuff like cold fusion.

In short: Yes, IT woo exists. Yes, it's ridiculous.

* waiiiit... Slashdot discussion that mentions stickers fixing antenna reception issues - in 2005? This is fascinating.

Well, you and this guy:
http://www.equilibrauk.com/microwaveprotection.shtml

have convinced me. Luckily these guys:
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

have a way to fix the problem. Thanks, brave keyboard warrior! I feel safer already. And braver. And WAY less desperate. Can't wait for the warning labels to come out. Cheers!

It's Belgium that doesn't exist.

Let's be clear that in Brazil, separation of Church and State means "opposite sides of the confession box".

And judges are Maxwell's demons?

Indeed, and only the Lord Kelvin can deliver you from them. Have you accepted the Lord Kelvin as your personal conservator from entropy?

"Belgium"? I call bullshit on that list.

Those of us with the eyes to see have long known that coins are notorious for being psychotronic mind-control amplifiers. That's why I only use my own banknotes, drawn on the First Bank of Rogerborg. Also: Al Gore is completely right about global warming.

It's what we LOLed at before LOLcats.

Belgium ? Belgium is a hoax! :)

http://zapatopi.net/belgium/

try again http://zapatopi.net/metrictime/

Do you mean decimal time? Metric time uses metric prefixes like "kilo" and "milli" with the existing defined second. Decimal time is based on a different unit of measure, the decimal second.

try again http://zapatopi.net/metrictime/

And now that you've exposed the nefarious operations of the Agencies, you can soon expect black vans to pull up to your house and "collect" you for "questioning." That was very brave of you, putting your life to get the information out about how the DOD is putting propaganda in WOW. Why, even as I type this, Echelon is storing your personal information and alerting the appropriate assassination squads that you need to be taken out to preserve their secrets.

And if the vans never come, and you never see the black helicopters; don't fret, it doesn't mean you're wrong. It's just more proof that the government is trying to mess with your head. Thankfully, there is protection!

How can someone become commander of the ISS when he is from a country that does not exist?!?

...not to mention the dozens of satellites beaming down microwave radiation as well

Locally produced tinfoil hats now available here for all you garlic farmers in Nova Scotia

Guess they'll be in big trouble when global warming strikes Belgium!

Don't be silly. Everyone knows that Belgium doesn't really exist.