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lma writes "Lyle Zapato, best-selling author (well, maybe just author) of Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie: Practical Mind Control Protection for Paranoids , and developer of MindGuard, personal anti-psychotronic software for Amiga and Linux, is trying to find as many references to AFDBs or similar devices prior to 1991 as possible. Please help this important part of our cultural heritage from being lost, and email him with any references you can find." Well, there was my Uncle Milt..I mean...well, nevermind.
They're watching me through satelites to make sure I don't make any first posts.
I like to image this comic strip: Two agents are hunched over a console at NSA HQ, one says to the other, "Dammit, I had a positive lock on his brainwave sync'd with the thought projector, but then he put that darn foil hat on again!"
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now I dont get to read some article about someone else's interest in tinfoil hats. Drat.
I think they need another symbol for 'slow news day articles'...
It's Major League baseball! They're watching from the skies!
:)
You guys want to see what's in here or want to see me hit some dingers? DINGERS! DINGERS!
Simpsons reference.
I think he needs anti slashdot aluminium foil protection for his server, its all gone a bit 503.
Trying to use slashdot as a cheap way to do a patent search.
At least that is what the aliens told me.
Ran this article recently which says tinfoil just isn't enough, and to construct a faraday cage to be impervious to alien influence.
Personally I think that they really need professional help if they believe in aliens, but if it keeps the government from reading my mind I'm all for it!
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
He's looking for these devices for"reference" yeah sure. He's obviously trying to take over the world.
With MindGuard, you can rest assured that your most valuable possession -- your mind-- is safe from the nefarious tinkering of evil-doers.
I am so glad this software is available, now we can get even more of the right kinds of folks advocating the use of Linux. Is there a large untapped market for Linux use in mental hospitals?
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
McGwire stuffs data sheets from satelite under his cap and runs away.
No, Vern. They just let him in.
1. Invent Alu-beanie concept.
2. Wait for the Bush administrations to implement New World Order version 2.0
3. Patent Alu-beanie
4. Profit!
In Soviet Russia, they didn't have Alu on the free market, so they just used mud...
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
No, the server just put a foil hat on.
Were are we going to watch you go today? Score : -1, Unfunny.
... or he would be able to tell us about them!
TC - My Photos..
...or I would have been able to see that there should be a negation somewhere in the last part of that sentence. My bad.
Arg! It's an evil plot to make me look silly. Hand me that roll of tinfoil please....
TC - My Photos..
Stop Abductions are trying to pass it off as Michael Menkin's 1998 invention. What a scandal. Maybe he just popularized it for the masses?
... CowboyNeal uses cow brains to cover up his thoughts.
I had a few calls from this one when I worked as a sysadmin at her ISP.
You can also see her with a sign standing outside the mall in downtown Hamilton, or at the side of the road by the highway.
This falls under that stuff that matters part, I think you haven't been wearing your hat enough and the government has gotten to you!
Funny thing on this Amazon page.
Customers who wear clothes also shop for:
Clean Underwear from Amazon's Target Store
Ladybug Rain Boots from Amazon's Nordstrom Store
Pet Socks from Amazon's Urban Outfitters Store
Puppy Footed One-Pieces for Newborns from
Do we really want to remember this as "important part of our cultural heritage?"
Ah yes... Mind control devices through radio and micro waves, CIA conspiracies, drugs slipped into the water and food supplies, and of course contrails. It warms my heart to see that there are people more insane than I am...
Ceci n'est pas une sig.
sounds a little far-fetched
Great stuff:
"Customers who wear clothes also shop for:
* Clean Underwear from Amazon's Target Store"
What a friggin concept.
Get paid to code OSS
I have two sisters who are identical twins. It was always required for them to wear aluminium foil hats if they wanted to be partners in our family games of spades. Otherwise, we would all end up beaten by them two terrible cheaters!!!
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
Annie Hall 1977
Woody Allen
ALVY:
(Looking at Rob who is wearing a foil covered suit and hood)
Why are you wearing that? Worried about thought control from space aliens?
ROB:
(Pulling the hood over his head)
Gamma rays, Alvy. Gamma rays. Wear this and you'll live forever.
I bet MindGuard is actally a mind control program. It sends out signals that can easily take advantage of the weak minded (read: anyone dumb enough to use it).
Hah, and we thought that all anonymous cowards were controlled by Microsoft. It has proven to be more sinister. Microsoft, in conjunction with the Whitehouse, and funded by the telaxians use secret moleman mind control to spread disinformation throuhought the internet intelligencia.
/. the internet intelligencia. Oh well...
The one flaw with the plan is that they consider
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
You got an affiliate commission link into a front-page Slashdot story! You rock!
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I just checked out the amazon.com link.
And right under the blurb on the book it said
How could they possibly know???
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Have tin hat.
Looking for matching codpiece.
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Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!
See a wide variety of them in use in this image of the 1314 battle of Bannockburn. The alleged "speaker stand" in this image is, of course, a pyschotronic warfare device. Stalkers and Three Letter Agencies take note: I am in this picture, wearing my own AFDB (well, steel, which is heavier but provides excellent shielding).
Kudos to Lyle for bringing the protection of AFDB's to the attention of the common man. While nothing beats a well made AFDB, I also recommend running Mindguard (link unavailable due to zapatopi.net being taken down by Miniature Black Helicopters and/or Slashdotting) 24/7, for those head scratching moments.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
So that is the story as I heard it. My dad knows the name of the detective in S.F.
"The most sensible request of government we make is not, "Do something!" But "Quit it!"
That Fact that this book is sold by amazon (funny although it is) or the fact that the biggest (or first listed) search by customers there after was for clean undearwear :)
I've heard of pissing yourself with laughter but that takes teh cake
Kingdom of Loathing (www.kingdomofloathing.com) Addicted is me
C'mon, he's just looking for prior art before he patents his device!
So long, and thanks for all the Phish
just look at Osama! Trying to hide his level 5 tinfoil hat inside his traditional head garb.
Back in 1985 (while in High School) I worked at a Big Boy Restaurant and I became friends with the manager. He invited me over to his house one afternoon for a Christmas gathering and on my way to the bathroom, I snooped a little and peeked in his bedroom.
The room was extremely dark except for this strange reflective shine. I turned on the light and the entire inside of the room was covered with restaurant grade aluminum foil. Even the TV and radio equipment were wrapped in foil.
I write this anonymously to protect the innocent, but believe it or not, there were people that lined the rooms of their homes with aluminum foil to protect themselves from "mind control" and I was a witness to this bizarre behaviour.
I will dig through some of my old Omni magazines from this era and see if there are any articles on this topic, I think Omni had at least one.
You finally have a chance to use the Beanie icon and blow it! http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=157
For more info than you could ever want on this, some of which is interesting, and some of which is questionable, check out this page of related links
be sure, for a good laugh, to check out
http://www.lessemf.com/personal.html
which has the more exotic forms of RF protective clothing, including hats, vests, dress shirts, etc. Pricey, too!
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
This is the origion of the term: http://www.trilobyte-mag.com/tinfoilhat.htm
(You could probably try to turn around the politics, but that would just show that your tinfoil hat had fallen off.
so much stuff that's, like, super top secret - if you know this we'll have to kill you, you'ld think she would have come across the concept of *page two.*
But Noooooooooooooooooooo!
KFG
Occasion: Birthday
Time: Middle of a party at fraternity
Event: "10 Men in Tinfoil"
Desctription: Wrap head and groinal area in tinfoil (extra wide food services stuff preferred). Run through party yelling. Endure dumb looks from patrons. Cognoscenti attempt to snatch foil from nether regions.
Effectiveness against mind control: N/A - no one was doing much thinking at the time, or we wouldn't have been running around in aluminum foil.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
In order to mind control you, "they" need you to wear an aluminum foil hat, so they start these stories...
Yeah, a good inflatable sheep will do that for you.
KFG
Don't forget to buy your earplugs, in addition to your foil hats! I mean, how else are you going to protect yourself from *superluminal* attempts at mind control?
And remember.... Yvan eht nioj!
... is trying to find as many references to AFDBs or similar devices prior to 1991 as possible.
Why, is Amazon going on a patent-spree again?
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.
They don't need mind control devices. Anybody watch "Crest of the Stars" and see how well the Baron controlled the minds of his vassals. (They should be showing that episode sometime this week again and again one last time on Friday on TechTV). That's how it's done, not with devices, but with social engineering. (Is that the right category- not absolutely sure.) Promoting those lower than you in the social structure into menial jobs.
The old Dragnet series in the 1960's had a beanie reference when Friday was working the probation desk one night....
The Village Voice issue from '94 interviewed several federal agents about the handling of the Waco mess, and one of them went on record as saying they were considering a Russian mind control device for dealing with the Davidians.
Its real, folks, and the government has got it.
You can tell they are Kings because they aren't all covered in shit.
My wife and I went there to look at floor tile and the whole store was full of customers pushing around shopping carts with a tub in it and filling it with stuff, like mindless drones.
I really badly wanted to buy stuff on the sale, but I did not want to be manipulated like this. My wife pointed out that every form of sales promotion could be taken to be manipulation, including shopping carts, which encourage customers to fill it full of stuff to buy. But my wife thinks I buy too much stuff at Menards anyway, and I felt like I had to pass on the tub like an alcoholic needs to stay away from drinks.
Reynolds Wrap commercial. 1000 and 1 uses.
To bypass the resonant properties of aluminum.
Get a different beanie, one made with
a blend of rare earth elements and a
thin Uranium coating.
Am I the first to read the submission as a request for a new Beanie Baby?
I should go buy a Beanie and make a tin hat for it, just for fun...
The anti-radar coatings used by many US military vessels consists of essentially a piece of foil sandwiched between two thin pieces of foam. When I first saw it, I thought that somebody at Reynolds was making a killing on a government contract, but then I saw that it actually works - not to the point of making a vessel radar-invisible, but it significantly reduces the footprint (surfaces that are not perpendicular to the ground/sea/horizon greatly aid in this, as well, which is why newer ships look like the Cadillac CTS).
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The only nearby intelligence worth considering (about 8 light/minutes away) is watching over everything with quantum-entangled neutrinos. The whole planet (or solar system for that matter) isn't enough to shield anything from those. When the time is right, She'll take care of enlightening the people that think they can screw around with your head (and the planet) with impunity. You can run, but you can't hide. Be good for goodness sake and don't mess around with other beings lives.
Everyone knows that aluminum did not exist before 1992. It was at that time that the Reynolds corporation made a bid to take over the US Government. Reynolds, an alliance between the city of Marina Del Rey and Tom Arnold (look it up, I don't use Google because they track my searches) began producing "anti Illuminati medium" or a-lumin-um by extracting the "conductivity" from steel, a naturally occuring mineral.
Reynolds knew that the CIA and FBI were using mind control through the "cable networks" to persuade the population to upgrade to HBO, the mouthpiece for the Masonic Order of the Illuminati.
You all just think you remember aluminum existing before 1992 because you do not wear your beanies, and have been influenced by HBO. Still need proof? Consider these facts:
1. If you travel outside the US, you will find that no other countries use or have heard of aluminum. (England has something similar called aluminium, which was developed in tandem by Margaret Thatcher's shadow government.)
2. If you travel to another country and they say that they have aluminum, you have not actually travelled to another country, but are on a HBO-enduced mind control trip.
3. Aluminum does not get hot in the oven. I've made thousands of fish sticks in the years after 1992, and no matter how badly I burn them, I can always lift them by the corners of the aluminum foil I placed them on.
Scalar/Longitudinal E.M. Thought Control Waves Go Straight Through Tinfoil.
Fact!
Tom Bearden says it, so it MUST be true!
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:xwAgFF7OF10C: zapatopi.net/afdb.html+mind+control+protection&hl= en&ie=UTF-8
no karma whoring here, folks.
There is a song called "Helmet" that I first heard by an acapella group called "The Bobs" that mentions the use of similar devices.
"I've got my helmet on, nothing can do me wrong..."
"My mother feared I was abnormal
I'd take out the colander and put it on my head
People are happy when they know that they're protected
Just let me tell you why I'm smiling"
So you can see this culture is pervasive!
TTFN
first listed) search by customers there after was for clean undearwear
Since they added clothing I've notice that Clean Underwear from Amazon's Target Store is always listed first in the "Customers who wear clothes also shop for:" section. Unfortunately, what I want to know is the most shopped for items of customers who don't wear clothes - especially attactive female college students who don't wear clothes. In fact if they could break down that information by zip code, then I think Amazon would find themselves generating a lot more traffic.
Work for Change & GET PAID!
The oldest microwave-mind-control-ish item I recall is an original series twilight-zone episode.
Young lady (heiress?) living in a penthouse appartment is hearing voices. About to be dumped into the loony-bin - involuntarily. Turns out her penthouse apt is on the path of a new phone-company or something microwave link and she's picking up the traffic. A little shielding saves the day.
Interestingly, this sort of thing would be entirely plausible with a non-multiplexed AM link. Something similar once happened quite a lot (and may still happen): A bit of corrosion on defective metal dental work will sometimes demodulate broadcast AM signals and pass enough of the current through the auditory nerve to stimulate it (or otherwise couple it to the hearing system somehow). Result: an untuned crystal set. In an area with a single strong AM station - hearing the program material (or at least the lower-frequency portions of it, which is good enough to recognize voices). In an area with multiple strong AM stations, a cacophony - like being in a crowd with everybody talking (or playing a transistor radio tuned to a different station) at once.
And, yes, sometimes people with such a problem end up under medical supervision for paranoia, rather than (or until) having their dental work fixed.
While there may have been a few one-channel AM microwave links in the early days, things quickly evolved. Phone company links were digital and multiplexed by the '60s (and I'm not sure they were EVER unmultiplexed AM), and studio-to-transmitter links were FM ditto.
I have often wondered how much of the tinfoil-hat mind-control mythos got started by the broadcast of that Twilight Zone episode. (See! The media ARE controlling people's minds with hidden broadcast signals...)
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Didn't you read your TEMPEST doco?
The place I work for took over an old DEC installation in New Castle, Delaware some years ago. The drywall in several of the rooms had thin copper sheeting under the first layer of paper - made it a bitch to push a thumbtack into!
Just let us know when you order, (there's a comment field, and no, we will not forward your comments to the CIA) and we will wrap your precious beanie in gorgeous aluminum foil, exceeding both the USA and Canadian Paranoid Association Standards.
Note: Gold foil will be a special order.
8(|:-)
There's a slight reference in "Signs" which happens to be released on video tomorrow... not prior to 1991 but it's a cool movie so I thought I'd mention it
--- If we knew half the things we shouldn't we'd stop wishing we knew it all
Some of the psycho links aren't actually as insane as you may think...
I used to play the game Majestic online, and I know for a fact they set up a lot of "pseudo-pages" of companies, home pages, etc. to go along with the storyline, and some of these links that have been given are directly from that game, and a few may be from further down the road (then I was in the game), because they seem to read almost exactly the pages I saw when I was playing.
Sure there are psychos online, but there's also a lot of pages set up for other less insiduous or insane reasons.
Just something to think about.
~ kjrose
You could have taken one of the tubs (20% off!) and put another tub in it! (40% off)
And then put another one inside that (60% off)!
If you nested five of them, anything that you could fit inside would be free !
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
When I first opened my law practice, I shared a legal secretary with another lawyer.
Part of my real-world education in solo practice was that, from time to time, I would get calls from prospective clients who were aggrieved by (alleged) mind-control rays and who wanted me to represent them against the U.S. Government or whomever. I would patiently listen to their stories, and offer to take their cases for $10,000 up front. (Mercifully, no one bit, or the state bar would have had my ass.)
I had fun, but I got tired of being so patient a listener as I had other (billable) demands on my time. I mentioned my surprise (at the number of such calls) to my secretary, who said, "Oh. You just have to tell them to make a tinfoil hat and they'll go away. Works every time." And it did!
100% of prospective mind-ray clients who were instructed to make tinfoil hats went away, presumably satisfied. I even got one or two nice notes in the mail, and a couple of referrals.
Moral: There's no substitute for an experienced legal secretary.
.. Lyle Zapato is not a looney, or a weirdo - if you actually take time to read his stuff, you'll find that he is a master of satire and irony. Stop taking things so damned seriously....
What I find most interesting is what Amazon recommends others as having shopped for... "Customers who wear clothes also shop for:" is humorous in and of itself, but that they're also buying "clean underwear", "Ladybug Rain Boots", "Pet Socks", and "Puppy Footed One-Pieces for Newborns" is unsettling to say the least.
The truth about Scientology, Xenu, and you: Operation Clambake
Here in Canada the average citizen watches three hours of television a day. Why do we need secret radio waves to control the population?
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. -Oscar Wilde
You may not be aware of 42 USC 405(c)(2)(B)(i):
It is the law which shows who has to get a social security number [my notes added].
--cite--
(B) (i) In carrying out the Commissioner's duties under subparagraph (A) and subparagraph (F), the Commissioner of Social Security shall take affirmative measures to assure that social security account numbers will, to the maximum extent practicable [This is the key here - "maximum extent practicable" still does not mean "required"], be assigned to all members of appropriate groups or categories of individuals by assigning such numbers (or ascertaining that such numbers have already been assigned):
(I) to aliens at the time of their lawful admission to the United States either for permanent residence or under other authority of law permitting them to engage in employment in the United States and to other aliens at such time as their status is so changed as to make it lawful for them to engage in such employment; [We see here that citizens are not required to get the number for "employment", only aliens. Also, since this is the Social Security Act, the term "employment" is a defined term in the law, and does not have the same meaning as the same term that you and I might want to convey during normal speech.]
(II) to any individual who is an applicant for or recipient of benefits under any program financed in whole or in part from Federal funds including any child on whose behalf such benefits are claimed by another person; and [We see here that someone is getting some benefits. It could be a citizen, it could be an alien, it doesn't matter. Read Ashwander v. TVA and Bowen v. Roy and you will see that someone who receives benefits cannot complain about paying for them.]
(III) to any other individual when it appears that he could have been but was not assigned an account number under the provisions of sub clauses (I) or (II) but only after such investigation as is necessary to establish to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Social Security, the identity of such individual, the fact that an account number has not already been assigned to such individual, and the fact that such individual is a citizen or a noncitizen who is not, because of his alien status, prohibited from engaging in employment; [All this does is make the Secretary responsible to find everyone in class I and II above.] and, in carrying out such duties, the Commissioner of Social Security is authorized to take affirmative measures [Notice that it is no longer "maximum extent practicable". Does that mean less than "not required"?] to assure the issuance of social security numbers:
(IV) to or on behalf of children who are below school age at the request of their parents or guardians [This is how most folks got enumerated. Tell your parents, "Shame on you!" from me.]; and
(V) to children of school age at the time of their first enrollment in school. [Which is an important consideration, as many state schools are receiving federal funds and so need to get this number in order to collect. However, schools within the states of the Union are not technically not eligible for these funds.]
--end--
So can it be more clear from this that citizens are not required to get an SSN? It is required of aliens in order to work in the U.S., and of anyone else only in order to participate in a voluntary benefits program.
RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD v. ALTON R. CO., 295 U.S. 330 (1935)
"In final analysis, the petitioners' sole reliance is the thesis that efficiency depends upon morale, and morale in turn upon assurance of security for the worker's old age. Thus pensions are sought to be related to efficiency of transportation, and brought within the commerce power. In supporting the act the petitioners constantly recur to such phrases as 'old age security,' 'assurance of old age security,' 'improvement of employee morale and efficiency through providing definite assurance of old age security,' 'assurance of old age support,' 'mind at ease,' and 'fear of old age dependency.' These expressions are frequently connected with assertions that the removal of the fear of old age dependency will tend to create a better morale throughout the ranks of employees. The theory is that one who has an assurance against future dependency will do his work more cheerfully, and therefore more efficiently. The question at once presents itself whether the fostering of a contented mind on the part of an employee by legislation of this type is in any just sense a regulation of interstate transportation. If that question be answered in the affirmative, obviously there is no limit to the field of so-called regulation. The catalogue of means and actions which might be imposed upon an employer in any business, tending to the satisfaction and comfort of his employees, seems endless. Provision for free medical attendance and nursing, for clothing, for food, for housing, for the education of children, and a hundred other matters, might with equal propriety be proposed as tending to relieve the employee of mental strain and worry. Can it fairly be said that the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce extends to the prescription of any or all of these things? Is it not apparent that they are really and essentially related solely to the social welfare of the worker, and therefore remote from any regulation of commerce as such? We think the answer is plain. These matters obviously lie outside the orbit of congressional power. The answer of the petitioners is that not all such means of promoting contentment have such a close relation to interstate commerce as pensions. This is in truth no answer, for we must deal with the principle involved and not the means adopted. If contentment of the employee were an object for the attainment of which the regulatory power could be exerted, the courts could not question the wisdom of methods adopted for its advancement."
Liberty is not a concept... Liberty is a way of life!!!
I too, am on a quest for the beginning of a pop-culture reference. I'm looking for the origins of the phrase "Nice shoes, wanna fuck?" I've found a usenet posting from 1991 of pickup lines, but then I stall out. PLEASE let me know if you can move this date back any earlier.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
I wonder if former AZ Governor Evan Meacham is aware of this. He used to tune multiple radios to different stations and point them at the window to foil (no pun intended - well, maybe a little) eavesdroppers. I think I saw a picture of him somewhere with an aluminum contraption on his head that was supposed to prevent his brain from being accessed (which seems to have worked pretty good since he often didn't seem to have access to it).
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
My story stems from a congressional intern (don't laugh) under Frank Wolfe in 1986. She was a friend of mine, and told us one day that part of her job was to answer the mail that the congressman got. Everything had to be logged, filed, and in most cases, given a standard form answer. One day, she got one that went something along the lines of:
Or something along those lines. My friend was not exposed to much weirdness in her upscale little life, so she got very scared, and showed the congressman. He simply said (deadpan), "Type up a response telling him to wear tinfoil on his head, take his personal medications, eat more natural vegetables and thank him for being a loyal citizen." She thought he was kidding, he winked at her, and assured her that it would be okay to type that letter. "I don't want him to 'take action' or do whatever he feels necessary if we don't respond. Type it up, and I'll sign it." She did, he did, and they never heard from him again.We may hate politicians, but they have to put up with this kind of stuff a lot.
Dildos, of course!
Which you would already know if you actually read your spam like a good consumer.
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
Wow, it was prescient for the late-1950s cartoon series Ruff and Ready to have robots from Munimula, which was aluminum spelled backwards. Now you've got me wondering why people call Reynolds Wrap tinfoil when it's really made out of aluminum. Was there an earlier product actually made out of tin?
I should think hearing voices would be the least of her problems. Wouldn't it get a little warm in there?
We're talking roughly the amount of power emitted by an 802.11 card, coming from an antenna miles away, not sitting next to a major radar antenna (or inside a microwave oven).
Does your lap get hot when you're Wi-Fiing on your laptop? Maybe you need an aluminum foil jockstrap. B-)
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
He probably just wants to save research money for his patent application.
Pull my finger for my public key.
Whoever modded the previous post off-topic doesn't understand the issue involved and probably didn't read down, although the previous post could have done a better job of explaining to make the relevancy clear.
Anybody have any comments to make this clearer? I'm having trouble making a go at it.
Can the beanie cap protect from this ? http://sucs.swan.ac.uk/~cmckenna/humour/computer/m rml.html
I am the unwilling control for my Origin.
In other words, there may be a very good health reason for the ubiquity of self-medicinal aluminium headware. Perhaps we should be attempting to investigate the link between tin hats and improvement in certain forms of mental illness, rather than simply mocking the subject (and QED anyone attempting to study it)?
This Sig is a mnemonic device designed to allow you to recognize this author in the future.
Today is the anniversary of Jimmy Carter's UFO sighting.
Denver Isuzu Suzuki
You don't add the percentages. Let's buy $100 worth of light bulbs and put it them in the innermost tub.
Here we go:
1st bin: 20% off $100 = $80 + $3 for the bin
2nd bin: 20% off $83 = $66.40 + $3 for bin 2
3rd bin: 20% off $69.40 = $52.52 + $3 for bin 3
4th bin: 20% off $55.52 = $42.02 + $3 for bin 4
5th bin: 20% off $45.02 = $36.02 + $3 for bin 5
For a grand total of: Not Free. (39.02 or 33% of the 115 you would've spent) Even if you don't take into account the bin prices, you still will never hit zero, no matter how many bins you stack. Still a great deal, though.
Anything you can do, I can do meta.
- Clean Underwear from Amazon's Target Store
- Ladybug Rain Boots from Amazon's Nordstrom Store
- Pet Socks from Amazon's Urban Outfitters Store
- Puppy Footed One-Pieces for Newborns from Amazon's Old Navy Store
I think that's one hell of an ensemble, there.Tom Geller
Here's a guy who doesn't want a tinfoil hat. Straigt from the "Communicating with aliens for fun and profit" dept.:
According to my local newspaper, Rael's weird hairdo is supposed to enhance communication with the aliens from the Elohim race. Come to think of it, the little stub on his head has more than a passing resemblance to the GSM antenna on my car roof, hmmm....
I'm still not sure if I'm supposed to laugh or cry about this guy and his followers ("sweeping the world with the most politically incorrect and fearlessly individualistic philosophy of non-confirmism").
"There are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." - Blair Houghton
there is evidence that the increasingly pervasive electrical fields we are exposed to every day may not be having a neutral effect on our mental states.
Not unlike the situation in Robert Heinlein's 1940s SF/fantasy story "Waldo," where human-produced radiation was making people physically weak (excepting those [wise/paranoid] enough to wear lead clothes).
Except in Waldo the problem was solved when electromagnetic-based power and communication were replaced by the strange magic of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Well you could email the man who has interviewed more wackos than anyone else, ever. If there's an expert on the experts of tinfoil hats it has to be him. artbell@aol.com
MindGuard protects your mind by jamming and/or scrambling psychotronic mind-control signals and removing harmful engrammic pollutants from your brain. It also has the ability to scan for and decipher into English specific signals so you can see exactly Who wants to control you and what They are trying to make you think. With MindGuard, you can rest assured that your most valuable possession - your mind - is safe from the nefarious tinkering of evil-doers. This port is cleverly hidden in the games category rather than sysutils where it belongs, so the forces of evil are less likely to find it.
...like parabolic reflectors, because the real mind control projectors are buried underground.
may be relevant. i haven't read it in 25 years so can't remember the details. but the protaganist is having paranoid delusions and believes someone is beaming 'electric rays' at his brain. he takes (as i so fuzzily remember) to wearing tinfoil on his head.
Why was I reading this tripe? Well, it was on the bench at the train station while I was waiting for the train, and the newspaper headlines had looked boring...
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"Customers who wear clothes". Hmm.. As opposed to the other kind?
Ask anybody who was at Georgia Tech circa 1960 about the Batman...I thought the foil thing was unique to him for many years.
Seems bats emit a brain-rotting radiation, and he wore a derby lined with lead foil (no cheap aluminum for him; he was an engineer). This had a tendency to build up lethal static charges, so he had all his clothes equipped with sewn-in wires and alligator clips that would ground the hat to a nail in his shoe.
You can guess how respectful and understanding we were.
rj
Dudley plays therapist. One of his patients wear's aluminum foil on the inside of his toque, claiming that it keeps aliens from taking over his brain. When mocked he points at his case worker as says "I'm not crazy. Look what they did to HER" High point of movie, really.
Sound. Words. Motion.
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Guys, I think there is something to this. I saw a webcam fixed on Admiral Poindexter's house. Several Alcoa trucks have shown up today and begun wrapping the entire building in aluminum. He must know something, he's like Total Information Awareness, man! Sorry, I gotta go before Kroger closes.
When I checked the story out all of the links worked. I got the book at amazon, the author's name took me to Google, the AFDB is the african development bank and MindGaurd is a german metal band.
Where's the story?
Clearly They are altering the content of the internet to prevent my learning about Them.
I'm going to the kitchen to make a hat now.
Your mind guard link is a german metal band.
The wonderful "MindGuard Psychotronic Mind Control Protection" software is at
http://zapatopi.net/mindguard.html
Damn! You have to see the add for the Linux version!
Rocky J. Squirrel
I'm in college, and I can tell you for a fact that all the attractive college students, male or female, wear clothes. The naked people are kinda funny looking - they got all these floppy bits on 'em.
Following a few of the "loonie" links, I stumbled upon a call for a global ban:
30. Calls in particular for an international convention for a global ban on all research and development, whether military or civilian, which seeks to apply knowledge of the chemical, electrical, sound vibration or other functioning of the human brain to the development of weapons which might enable any form of manipulation of human beings, including a ban on any actual or possible deployment of such systems;
Go see for your self: A4-0005/99
Why does the AFDB link on this story redirect to to the "AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP" !?
Is this a sneak attempt to insert Nigerian SPAM?
The first reference I saw to aluminum-foil hats as protective gear was in a book by Arthur Janov's books about his primal therapy. It may have been "The Primal Scream". Some patient of his was trying to avoid being beamed up to a flying saucer every night and had to wear this hat to stop it, but it didn't help much.
Seastead this.
In order for aluminum foil to act as a shield, it needs a physically wired connection to a grounded source to drain any electrical signals. Otherwise, if not grounded, the foil acts as an antenna, amplifying any signals, transmitted and recieved.
Taken directly from MindGurard's home page...
The technology to implant ideas and images into a person's mind using electromagnetic and sonic waves was invented more than sixty years ago and has been growing more sophisticated yearly.
So I guess the only way to prevent such waves from penetrating my mind would be to remove my video card and my sound card. While I'm at it I should just unplug my TV and radio, crawl into a hole and die. Just a thought.
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