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Use an iPod Mini to Broadcast Pirate Radio
StJefferson writes "Ever want to silence the urban assault vehicle beside you at the stop light, pounding out gangster angst at orthodontia-rattling volumes? Now you can, and here's how, courtesy Engadget."
This isn't even a clever hack. 'Take your iPod antenna and put an even bigger antenna on it! Then--get this--find somebody listening to a radio and use your iPod to broadcast on the same station that radio is tuned to! Pwn3d! OMGWTFBBQ!'
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propz to my mini ipod homez
As a side note, living in Oakland I've developed the viewpoint that it's far better to just ignore the boom cars and go about your business. It might be cool with the wannabes in Nebraska, but around here you're just begging to need an appointment with your local auto body shop to get a bunch of 9mm holes Bondo-ed.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Haha, I've already got my "*beep* *beep* *beep* This radio station's music playing rights have been revoked because of repeat violations of the musical taste law. We are sorry for any inconvienience you may suffer *beep* *beep* *beep* silence....." track made up. With a 50 foot radius on my iTrip, theres no end to the possibilities >:)
Arrrrr, I be broadcastin' on IPOD radio with only the finest of pirate MP3s....
Seriously, it's a fun idea. Right along with Jamming other driver's cell phones and the police radar detectors and the MIRT system to give me all the green lights!
Alright! A whole new way to piss people off behind the wheel! My fog horn idea is nothing compared to this! ;)
Red Bull gave me wings and I flew into the ceiling fan.
the people playing gangsta rap at insane volumes are NOT using the radio to do it. CDs and/or mp3s.
After all, this can be done with just about any source. An iPod is not required. In fact you can get parts to make a much stronger FM transmiter at radio shack for far less that can be used with any MP3/tape/record/8track player.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
How-To Tuesday: Make your own Pirate Radio Station with an iPod
Posted Jun 15, 2004, 11:07 AM ET by Phillip Torrone
Related entries: Portable Audio, Wireless
This was going to be "How-To increase the range of your iTrip mini". But after playing around with the new iTrip mini, the FM broadcasting accessory for the iPod (our review here) our little minds got working on some ideas. We thought we might be able to make the range of Griffin's iTrip mini a little better if took it apart and exposed the antenna, turns out we could. And then we thought, hey- we could use a couple iPods to broadcast something we wanted to get out there, perhaps not "should" that is, but could. So that was our motivation, and here's the How-To.
Ingredients:
* 1 iPod mini
* 1 iTrip mini
* Optional: Addition iPods, iTalks and iTrips
Getting Started
First, to become your own pirate broadcast station you'll need to increase the range and signal of your iTrip mini. Turns out, there is an antennae built inside the iTrip mini. All you need to do is remove the top sticker-like protection which hides the antennae and then using tweezers or your fingernail, pull the antennae out. We've found a 20% to 30% increase of range on average. This likely voids the warranty, so there, we said it.
Next up, if you're using the iTrip mini, then you know that you can install all the stations on the dial to broadcast on. At first we we're really sure we'd ever use them, but now we have good reason. So make sure you've installed all the stations, on the go you might need them to switch to. Remember, the iTrip is a FM broadcasting device, intended to broadcast 10 to 30 feet to a FM radio.
Next, choose your broadcast, it can be any song or a spoken word MP3, don't worry we have a few suggestions. A lot depends on the situation you're in.
Pirate Broadcasts
We usually keep a couple tracks of silence ready to go, ever get stuck at a stop light for like 10 minutes and the dude in the next car is blasting the radio? With the super easy iPod interface you can quickly get to the station he's on and send over whatever you want, a couple gentle ocean waves or birds usually works out great.
If you've ever gone to the Gym, or starred in to one from the outside- you'll notice the TVs are muted and set to broadcast on specific FM frequencies, folks then tune in their radio headsets to whatever station to listen to the audio as they exercise. Now we're not suggesting you go around and broadcast over CNN or anything, but we think broadcasting "Aliens have landed today, the President and UN will be making an announcement immediately" could be quite fun. We'll be trying this out with our gym pals who are usually up for a good gag.
There are other times where you simply need to broadcast back. Let's say you're at the park, enjoying a nice quiet day with your family- then comes along someone blasting the radio. We've found broadcasting a silent track tends to work nicely, sure you need to be within 30 to 40 feet, but no one will even suspect that their FM broadcast is getting usurped by you.
Advanced Pirate Radio Broadcasting techniques
We've also discovered another fun example. If you use the iTalk, Griffin's voice recorder accessory with 2g/3g iPod you can record your pirate broadcast on the fly, pop in the iTrip and start broadcasting. Usually pretending to be an omnipotent being and asking folks to build a water proof car, drive across the English Channel with two of every gadget gets some interesting reactions.
Now, if you really get in to this- you could easily increase the range even more, google around for ways to do this- we're working on a few and will let you know too. You can additionally use multiple iPods, when you're broadcasting something like a silent track, you and a pal can cover more area and really surround the FM receiver. And finally, there are also a lot of other things which use FM that you can discover and broadcast to, happy hunting.
This concludes our broadcast. Send comments and ideas to torrone@gmail.com
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Broadcast as hard as you can, but I doubt you'll be insinuating you signal into their CD-player's wiring. Good luck.
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here's how.
I was not touched there by an angel.
Very cool idea but somebody when it works on Harley-Davidsons
.sure . . whatever you say ;)
Umm . . yea .
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urban assault vehicle beside you at the stop light, pounding out gangster angst
This is why I come to slashdot: news without bias or snide remarks
Ever want to silence that urban assualt website? You can now, here's how!
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It's a shame that this doesn't work to silence CD players and tape decks. Or sattelite radio, for that matter.
The Cheese Stands Alone.
These kids gotta spend iPod levels of bling to best good old Mr. Microphone.
Use the cached Google version while the site is being /.ed.
He's right on - this isn't a clever hack, it's inane.
#!/usr/bin/english
use my portable directional EMP generator that fries their rig. Then I can enjoy the silence while pointing and laughing as I drive away.
What's the point of transmitting crappy quality music in a 50 or so foot radius? If your friends want to listen to, just hook up some speakers. Some people are just so lazy...
frequencies jamming is a very serious offence.
it will kill all electronics in its path - regardless of radio, CD, tape, 8-track ;-)
[EMF=elecro-magnetic frequency]
Not to mention the fact that it's probably illegal. DMCA, FCC, RIAA - need I go on?
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Ipod mini
Ever want to silence the urban assault vehicle beside you at the stop light, pounding out gangster angst at orthodontia-rattling volumes?
What if I am that guy?
The Dept. of Homeland Security has banned the iPod (all versions) and the iPod mini for reasons of national security. Citizens are encouraged to take their iPod to their local government office for destruction.
At. General Ashcroft was quoted saying, "We will be releasing a new line of portable media players called 09-DRM-SCO-4758KM. This new portable media player will also feature a built in GPS navigation and broadcast feature to keep YOU out of trouble"
Excuse me, I don't mean to impose, but I am the ocean
Must be running their server off an iPod mini.
Everybody can we please all form a line? Stop clicking on the site!
/.ed. No mam we don't know how long it will take.
Yes, mam the site is currently
Please can we all form a line and click in consecutive order?
Hey you, I heard you! You clicked before you time! Stop it!
Here we go! Number 54? 54 in the house? 54 can click now! OK! 53? 53?
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more often than not, at least in my experience (speaking as somebody who also has a stereo worth 3x the value of his car and can shake fillings out of your teeth), when people roll up next to you and have their systems cranked, their windows tend to be rolled up. All I hear next to them is the bass, which sounds TERRIBLE by itself. As their fellow human being, they should do me the courtesy of at least letting me listen to Petey Pablo with them during the 30 seconds it takes for the light to change from red to green.
-Rylfaeth
Here ya go.
There are definite legal issues with that. I advise not getting caught.
However, I generally find that most people who drive in my area use CDs or MP3s, as the radio simply sucks in this area. While they may play Viagra and penis-enlargment ads in D/FW, in Houston, they just babble incoherently...or play nothing but Britney Spears or Crap-Country. Even more, they're killing our sole classical station to make way for a Christian contemporary station (something else we don't need). Given this situation, it's highly unlikely that this plan would affect that many people around me.
Haec merda tauri est. Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
Dammit! It was so cool IN MY HEAD!
Carousel is a lie!
My name is Timmy O' Toole I've fallen down a well!
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/8F11.html
I'm surprised that /. isn't using this as a means to pick up girls. You'd want to pick out the one or 2 stations that you like, then during the breaks between songs, insert your "dating ad."
Remember to do this to only the stations that you like!
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Now that took a fucking slashdot genius to figure out!
a 100 milliwatt transmitter vs a 100MegaWatt 300ft RF tower
good luck with that
and if iam a gangster and i spot whos doing it, what do you think will happen ?
Take the iPod and an RF amplifier and plug it into some unsuspecting soul's power jack, in range of another unsuspecting soul's WAN. Send it a music stream via some distant proxy server. Presto, a pirate radio station that'll broadcast for weeks, if not months, before it was discovered, and the FCC would almost certainly never trace it back to you.
That's GREAT! And I know just the tune I'm going to broadcast into those ghetto blasters: The Asshole Song, by Dennis Leary.
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
I think it would be very interesting to be able to broadcast internet radio stations over fm signals, and probably more useful. I mean some Shoutcast stations play far better music without the commercials then the standard legal FM stations. I mean given a strong local signal you could pipe internet radio throughout your house without having to wire all kinds of cat5 or have a computer hooked up to every radio.
"Use an iPod Mini to Broadcast Pirate Radio"
Heh. I love stories like this. Makes me feel like Evil MacGuyver.
"Derp de derp."
...you really wanted to silence their raidio you would use an directed EMP to take out the radio, car computer and the rest of the street. This is also usefull when some has their cell phone on the high way.
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Here's a cool idea: take your laptop, hook it up to an fm transmitter, program the transmitter to cycle through radio stations (start on 85.1 and add .2 until you hit 105.9 or something) and then play a sound byte in sync with each station, once. (example: gov'ner arnold saying "who is your daddy, and what does he do?") If you were sitting in traffic, watch other drivers start laughing or get weirded out.
I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted.
Ever want to fill the Volkswagen Bug beside you at the stop light with pounding out gangster angst at orthodontia-rattling volumes?
It's a shame that people still have to resort to the Google cache when there is a great caching service, FreeCache provided by the Internet Archive. Just make your link like http://freecache.org/http://whatever...
I'm offended, but my car stereo is LOUD!
Where do I need to be driving in Oakland with my iPod?
I live in Atlanta now.
... how many people with those huge stereos didn't have the money left over for the CD player and so are actually using the radio? (Not many.)
I do security
The above post is an editorial, the poster cannot and will not be held responsible for all or in part for it's contents
here is google's cache click here
How the fvck did that get posted?
Let's forget about the fm capture effect for a minute (the most powerful station on a signal will be the only one de-modulated) and think. Don't most people with loud amps just have a CD player with "Ultrabass volume IX" or something rather than actually listening to the radio?
Is this slashdot or some shitty zine put together by highschool age "hackers"?
+++ ATH0 +++
What the poster really wants is anti-sound.
Silence Machine Article 1
Silence> Machine Article 2
Well, not all the stations obviously, but the only one that was playing a good song at the time. It got replaced by gastah crap.
with the band i ran sound for i'd use an FM trasmitter designed for CD players (as this was before ipods ever came out) and i put the transmitters on stage witha coat hanger wrapped around the the small antenna the trasmitters had and it increase the range form about 5 feet to 20 feet which as perfect for use on stage. The singers would get cheap-o head fm radios with ear buds, and presto dirt cheap in ear monitors. whole setup (minius expensive music gear and musicians of course) about $25.00. $20.00 for the transmitter (best buy) and about $5.00 for teh fm radio with ear buds (walgreens) worked like a charm. Later i was able to get a an FM transmitter kit from radio shack and that put out a stronger signal, as as long as i was within sec 15 part ...umm i forget but either way stay under .1 watts and not broadcast over a licensed frequency and the FCC couldn't say a thing.
;)
yeah the ipod deal is a nice little trick, but let me tell you the FCC are bastards about violations of their rules, specially if they can bully around little people, after i left the band my firend decided to run a pirate radio station out of his dorm rom and got busted for broadcasting over frequencies he shoudl not have. So i suggest if you do this have a very fast car and know how to drive
you convince everyone that little timmy's fallen into the well.
just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand!
we even built our own tv station with simple modification of some anntena back in college, which covers our dorm building.
guess ipod user doesnot know much about modern techonology.
Step 1: Build this amplifier1 .htm] (or somethink like it) but with mods to make it transmit on either 61.25MHZ (channel 3) or 67.25MHZ ( channel 4).
[http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f6itv/p203200
Step2: Take 1 VCR - set it to channel 3 or 4 depending on your amplifier configuration.
Step3a: Put a VHF TV antenna up on your roof (or a high place, higher the better).
Step3b: connect VHF output from the VCR to the input of the VHF amplifier.
Step3c: connect the output of the VHF amp to the TV antenna.
Step4: Turn on the VCR and the VHF amp.
Step5: Put a tape in a push play.
Step6: Enjoy your new TV station until the FCC tracks it down. But you can be smart and clever and that kind of thing and hide from them.
NOTE: This will cause severe repercussions on your life if you do this and get caught.
Oh, and if you want audio for your TV station you will need to build another VHF amplifier that transmits 4.5 MHz above video transmitter.
To call this pirate radio is insulting to real radio hackers. Increase the iTrip's range 20 or 30 percent, ooooh wow. That's what a whole 100 feet? When you can get 20 mile range by putting a hand made antenna in a tree connected to a hand soldered rig causing no interference to any other spectrum users (like you can learn to do from these people) I'll be more interested. And I won't care whether or not it involves purchasing the current fad consumer device like the iPod.
So I take it that Dallas / Fort Worth has a couple Clear Channel stations then?
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that the person is listening to in the car next to you? So this only works if they happen to play the radio too loud and you scan around to find that same station? What am I missing?
Watch out, you could get in trouble if you broadcast into the car of someone working for the RIAA. Since you probably aren't paying royalties on pirate radio, insted of suing you by IP address, they'll try to sue you by your license plate number.
This guy made up a kinda cool ipod pirate radio bumper sticker for his car. Course, the range isn't great.. I guess that's what this is for. I wonder how many people have tuned in having no idea what it is. They'd lose the signal pretty quickly depending on traffic.
Hey, I know! Let's find motorists with sociopathic tendencies and piss 'em off! What could possibly go worng?
Sociopathic, and antisocial, but most likely moronic as well. 9 times out of 10. These are cases...like the Hummer blaring "Methodman" at jaw shattering levels...that might better suit the use of a silent 10 minute track that loops to be even safer, rather than "baring the same shit back at 'em". As a tinnitus sufferer, I couldn't do this anyway.
So for the moron in the SUV listening to to rap, they will most likely be stupified by the silence. Of course, if he changes channels, your shit out of luck, until you again find the one he's on again (if you have time and the chance, like following someone who is unawares).
Like I said, 9 times out of 10 they would likely be stupified were you successfull in your chicanery. What about the 10th time? Probably good to have a black belt or not risk the other 9 times. After all, without risk, is anyone EVER truly satisfied? Clever hack or no, this is a good empowerment to have in your personal aresenal.
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
Sorry, folks, but if you put your little iPod transmitter up against the giant commercial transmitters, the giant commercial one is going to win.
Bear with me, I'm not going to go into details when I can't draw pictures.
If you have two signals at the same frequency arriving at the radio at the same time, they'll overlap, not cancel. Let's say you're broadcasting the "blank" signal at, say, 100 MHz. The radio will receive a constant 100MHz signal.
The way FM works is by changing the phase of the broadcasting signal in relation to the unmodulated signal. So, you'll get the silent signal (which will be unmodulated) and the real signal (modulated). The radio will process BOTH signals - they use processors to decode the signals. I don't know if you know this, but they're kind of fast now. They can handle multiple singals.
If you broadcast another audio signal, you'll get the two audio signals overlapping. Keep in mind that you're putting your tiny little iPod wire up against a great big dirty commerical broadcasting antenna. If you win, I'd wager that the Feds are going to want to ask you a few questions.
They haven't done this in real life. If you say you have, then you're lying. Of course, I'm just an Electronics Engineer - what do I know?
What's next, accepting articles from weekly world news? This isn't fark.
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"Not to mention the fact that it's probably illegal. DMCA, FCC, RIAA - need I go on?"
Isn't that the point of one of the earlier posts? What they do is illegal and nothing is don about it. Yet the only thing that the government seems to want to do is make sure that the people do not take the law into their own hands.
It really isn't remotely clever. You could probably do this with a Mr. Microphone.
We used to be able to buy these little Archer-Kit 100mw FM transmitters from Radio Shack, which ran off a 9v battery. You could do all sorts of crap with that, like play voice over the station they're listening to: "I suck d!ck, come bl0w me.", etc. Though I'd be more inclined to find the noisiest little 1.5v DC motor I can find and feed, through like a 0.01 ufd cap, the brush noise. I'm sure that'd be a big hit.
Problem is, most of these jerks you want to mess with are listing to a CD or MP3.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
This already happened to me!
I was driving along Tuesday listening to NPR and all of a sudden rap started coming out my radio.
I thought this was odd, because it cut in suddenly and clear as a bell.
I then noticed that the closer I came to the Cadillac in front of me the clearer the signal became, and at certain distance from the car NPR would cut back in.
I just thought it was some new annoying technology that I hoped wouldn't catch on too soon.
It's a great way for kids to annoy other people with their music without the cops catching on and citing them for noise ordinances.
Small world.
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How hard would it be to add one of those mini fm transmitters to each node of an 802.11b mesh. Instant community radio.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
The idea that you are going to foil someone blasting their music in most cases is absurd. Who spends the money on an aftermarket sound system, only to listen to FM radio? Nobody wants to hear the latest furniture store jingle blasted at them, and who are they going to impress with that anyhow?
A better use would be to take this in a store that plays a radio station acorss their PA sytem (non sat-based radio of course).
All we need now is an attachment for the iPod to block those tossers who leave their cellphones on in theatres, restaurants etc and think that everyone else wants to hear their conversations.
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It's called prioritizing. "Deal with shooting or deal with guy who's being followed by some teenager punk. Hmm." "I am not sh1tting you", 911 is heavily abused. Sample calls, according to dispatchers I've spoken with: "Hi, do you know the number for ____?" "I lost my dog..." "Can you give me directions to...", then the ever-popular hangups, which of course they have to investigate, tying up an officer's time. Then there are shut-in bitches who tell war+peace about the neighbor's [dog barking/yard mess/porch lights on/you name it]. The list goes on, and on, and on.
Most police departments are also pretty short-staffed these days. Bush is mostly responsible on two counts; 1, for cutting back on federal funding for local emergency staff- police, EMS and fire all have been hit hard in almost every town throughout the US. 2, a large percentage of Guard and Reservists are (surprise!) also town/city fire fighters, police, EMS, etc.
I later went back to look at the laws in my state governing self-defense.
How about looking up the noise ordinances, instead? Most cities and towns have 'em. NY, for example, is getting very tough on noise complaints (I believe you dial 311, ie the non-emergency number?) Borrow a neighbor's video camera (they'll be happy to oblige if it's annoying them as well) and videotape the clown going by- be sure to get a closeup of his face, and his plates. Call the NON EMERGENCY ie business number for the local station, ask to set up an appointment with an officer or detective. Problem solved and out of your hands.
Next thing I know the guy is chasing me around trying to run me off the road.
Um- duh. Get away from him, file a police report later with the plates and vehicle description. You've also hit upon why I carry a Bronx Calling Card, aka 3-D-cell Maglight, in my front door pocket. I have been doing so ever since someone told me they'd "fucking kill me" at a stoplight when I told him he his highbeams were stuck on. This was, incidentally, in downtown Larchmont, NY(very swanky neighborhood), the guy was not driving a riced out POS, and he was white.
One of many reasons I moved out of NY state- everyone's a prick out to kill you at the drop of a hat.
Please help metamoderate.
I was doing this 20 yeas ago in my college doorm room, with an amplifier here, RF generator there I could just put them together in a couple seconds notice. Every time my neighbor cranked up the music at 2:00AM he just wound up turning it back down as not to be "embarrased" playing what ever suited my fansy at the time. Of course, at 2:00AM I didn't have a "conventional" sense of humor either!
;-)
Oh, then I learned all about directional high gain antena's; they really helped for the dorm across the street too.
If my goal was to shut those loud-assed rude-some-bitches down, then why not do it right? Shut your car off and set off a huge EMP to kill his equipment?
Sounds like fun doesn't it? Sure does... now how can I create an EMP big enough to do it? Anyone got plans and a parts list for Radio Shack?
I haven't listened to broadcast radio while driving in years. Except to check traffic reports.
I have an mp3 player. (not and iPod, though FM transmitters are available COTS for anything with an 1/8" jack at CompUSA)
Get with the times.
The REAL jabber has the user id: 13196
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It's called prioritizing. "Deal with shooting or deal with guy who's being followed by some teenager punk.
I think I made it clear that I was in fear for my life. That's not a priority? Maybe I should have just crashed into him. An accident is bound to draw at least one police officer (I hope).
How about looking up the noise ordinances, instead? Most cities and towns have 'em. NY, for example, is getting very tough on noise complaints (I believe you dial 311, ie the non-emergency number?) Borrow a neighbor's video camera (they'll be happy to oblige if it's annoying them as well) and videotape the clown going by- be sure to get a closeup of his face, and his plates. Call the NON EMERGENCY ie business number for the local station, ask to set up an appointment with an officer or detective. Problem solved and out of your hands.
The first thing I did was look at the laws regarding noise and their enforcement. In essense, a police officer must both see and hear the noise for himself before he can issue a citation. No second hand accounts.
Um- duh. Get away from him, file a police report later with the plates and vehicle description.
Look. I don't know what you drive, but I've got a 94 Ford Escort Wagon. He was in a muscle SUV. He didn't want me to get away.
You've also hit upon why I carry a Bronx Calling Card, aka 3-D-cell Maglight, in my front door pocket.
Excellent idea.
- MASH-style Public Address horn speaker on your eaves (or possibly pole-mounted in your yard)
- Large, power-hungry amplifier
- Barry Manilow CD
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This type of transmitter generates at or below the 100 mw permitted for completely unlicensed radio transmissions by FCC regulations. It is not "pirate" as this form of unlicensed radio transmitter is completely legal.
The lessons of history teach us - if they teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
In all honesty, all it does is piss someone off if you hit them with it. Someone swings at you, parry with a forearm at the moment it won't hurt and then they are on you. Honestly go for the night club or the small law enforcement nightsticks, work alot better.
Sure they are bright, but that doesn't work all that well as a weapon.
Now on pirate radio, you can hear such classics as
"A pirate's life for me"
and other classics you've seen in all the pirate films! LISTEN TODAY!
Here's a link to another little low power FM broadcasting setup, using higher quality hardware.
I have a crowbar under by seat.
Why are there only 19 people folding@home for slashdot?
Sorry, I couldn't hear you with all that distortion.
Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
It's simple and cheap: Let the red-faced, screaming asshole pull up along side you, and start shaking up you can of Coke. As soon as s/he opens the side window to start yelling at you, pull the ring and throw it through into their car. I've found they find it difficult to follow you with a windscreen splattered with foam and a spinning can erupting all over the interior of their car ;-)))
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
Even better, use old cable TV modulators.
When the modulator's power supply goes bad, the cable companies will throw away the *entire* modulator. These can be use as real, high-quality low power TV transmitters. They are on fixed frequencies though. It's also possible to salvage them as 45 MHz IF rigs.
I've put them up on the 440 MHz and 900 MHz amateur radio TV bands a couple of times. Use a cable TV converter connected directly to an antenna to receive the signal.
Cable channel 59 corresponds to the 440 MHz amateur radio TV frequency.
i really think it is great how versatile an ipod is... you can store pictures from memory cards, play music, record music, and now you can even broadcast music to piss people off, the possibilities are endless. Kudos to apple for making a great product
It's called prioritizing.
No, it's called dealing-with-sympotomes-instead-of-real-cause. Instead of curbing personal violence right in it's roots, they will have to deal later with that driver shooting people.
fucktard is a tenderhearted description
Ever want to silence the urban assault vehicle beside you at the stop light, pounding out gangster angst at orthodontia-rattling volumes?
Indeed, but my secret fantasy involves a directional EMP.
But instead I just sit back and cherish the thought that in 20 years they'll be deaf as snake.
They are too busy chasing me down because I don't have a front license plate.
I've been pulled over twice in the past seven days so I think it's time to finally give in and install a bracket and the plate.
The second officer was very authoritative but seemed respectful enough so I asked him what the purpose of a front plate was and if it was suppossed to make it safer for officers. His response was something like, I have no idea, I think they're silly but the law states you have to have it so you do.
Seemed like a fair enough answer to me.
The problem is though when I call the police because someone has broken into my car or vandalized, etc. The two of three times I've had to do this I am completely blown off. Not that there is a huge success rate at catching the people that do these things but there's going to be a ZERO success rate if no effort is attempted at all.
I would have much rather had the officers there filling out police reports and taking fingerprints when I needed them instead of pulling me over and reminding me that our state requires a front license plate.
That's what I get for living in an area with too low of a crime rate. They make up unecessary legislation so that the police will have something to do during their down time.
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
Use one of some underpowered FM radio, get something that transmits the reverse sound waves just as loundly. It would be great to have someone pull up and suddenly come into your silent zone. I'm not sure if you can buy the devices for a car radio, but I've seen them in headsets, and train/pilot chairs.
Silence International is one maker I know of, but no car audio.
100000 dB (assuming dBm standard) is 10 to the 9997th power Watts of power! That's way beyond even big bang levels. It makes a Xeelee Starbreaker look like a half-dead firefly. And then some. Enough to create/destroy a few trillion universes...
you can buy a NeurosAudio mp3 player to do everything that that article talks about, without buying addons for it
You have GOT to be shitting me.
Bush is mostly responsible on two counts; 1, for cutting back on federal funding for local emergency staff- police, EMS and fire all have been hit hard in almost every town throughout the US.
"cutting back on FEDERAL funding for LOCAL emergency staff"
While you were smugly typing in your oh-so-wise critique of Bush, did it ever even occur to you how inane this is? It's the central frickin' principal of federalist government, you idiot!
Also, as far as the Guard and Reserve go, did it ever occur to you that this would happen, and has, WHENEVER Guardsmen and/or reservist are activated? Including World War II? Would you have said "It's all Roosevelt's fault?" I mean, really, what would you suggest, telling policemen and emergency responders that they can't serve in the Ready Reserve? Vice versa? Disbanding the reserves?
Sorry to go ballistic, but it's not too far off to say that people like you are what's wrong with this country. You have no clue (or just don't care) about the principles of limited and local government on which this country was founded. You just want more, more, more from an increasingly centralized, monolithic government.
Want a *real* FM Transmitter that can pull this off? The iTrip is fine but it doesn't compare, even closely, to the power of the Crane.. especially when tweaked. Crane FM Transmitter http://www.ccrane.com/fm-transmitter.aspx Tips on Tweaking (shh, don't tell the FCC): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 0E6I1N/104-6157464-0778362?v=glance&vi=faq&me=ATVP DKIKX0DER
4-D cell maglight in "holster" seatside.
18" crecent wrench and CDF issue Fire Axe behind the seat. Used the axe once, the maglight twice.
(changed an old ladies tire w/ the wrench when it turned out her lug wrench was not for her car and no way my trucks wrench was gonna work)
-nB
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Being semi deaf (the upper db ranges... it was an AC/DC concert in the early eighties...), these a**holes drive me crazy. The low bass pretty much washes out any other sound when I am around it. Horrible... But look on the bright side, when the revolution comes, we old guys may not be able to out run those guys, but we will be able to sneak up on them...
Remain lost in hidden worlds where I reign. Head engine and caboose in my toy train...
Your're not gonna silence the other guy's loud car stereo, instead you're gonna launch him about 40 feet into the air! The FCC might tend to frown on you if they see you doing it; If you want to rule the airways for several blocks around your vehicle on all frequencies AM and FM simultaneously, and even screw up the guys CD audio, just build a spark gap transmitter and transmit either CW or voice (if you could call it that). The more RF output power the better! You could even connect a dynamotor to your auto fan belt (run it in tandem with your generator) and pump out 1000 watts+ RF! Then you'll bring the whole bay area to its knees! I think you might want to place your iPod in a well shielded box or just leave it at home while using the spark gap. This is technology from the 1920's !! Here's a sample schematic: http://w1.859.telia.com/~u85920178/tx/sparky.htm Oh yeah, be real careful - RF burns are no fun.
Mod this man up - b/c no one else seems to have noticed that the idea beihnd the submission is retarded. When I bump my gantser angst, it's from a CD or MP3.
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The reason it doesn't happen in Nebraska is because you have, what, 14 people total living in the whole state? Figure one is the governor, two senators, a house rep, a cop and that's down to 10 potential suspects.
Clearly, you are the all mighty and therefore know exactly what we need to think! Our opinions are WRONG! All hail Alaska Jack!
What if that Oaf is listening to XM radio?
I see no reason why you can't do the exact same thing with an off the shelf FM transmitter (about $30), and a cheapo MP3 CD player ($50).
It makes quite a smaller dent in the wallet than any iPod could, and is ideal for those true bootstrap guerrillas.
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
I'd like to create a corollary to Godwin's Law, called Skater's Corollary:
/. discussion grows longer, the odds someone will somehow blame George W. Bush for the current topic approach one."
"As a
--RJ
I very muich agree if they looked at the real surce a lot of things could be better.
no actually, YOU are wrong. During the 90s there was substantial federal funding for local law enforcement- remember "100,000 more police on the street"? That funding expired and was not renewed by Bush.
Please drop dead.
Federalist government? Like: 1. Spending millions of tax dollars to hire federal employees to strip search granny at the airport. 2. Opposing Oregon's right to die law with federal dollars. 3. Opposing local medical marijuana laws with federal dollars. 4. Having the US Supreme Court overrule the State of Florida's right to choose its own electors in the 2000 election. Federalism, bullshit. About the only time the conseervatives have favored states' rights is when it was an excuse to support slavery.
Er, possibly... go wrong. Heh, that's the first thing that's ever gone wrong.
The first thing? I seriously doubt that. Nothing is so smiple that it can't be screwed up.
(Yes, that was intentional.)
SIG: 11
Most of the idiots around my area that play that crap use CD players, not FM stereos.
But its a nice idea..
'round here, EMP devices would be more effective.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Bedder do subthing for thad code. :)
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Second, not that you'll even read this let alone actually make the attempt to comprehend it: part of the idea of having a federal government is that the states are not all equal. Should a poor state have lousy law enforcement and end up with ten times the crime rate of a rich one? In your world, yes, it should. In my world, no, the rich states should subsidize essential services, such as law enforcement, for the poorer ones. In much the same way that richer areas in a state should subsidize the poorer areas' schools, so that people who grow up in the poorer areas only have a terribly lousy chance at escaping poverty, instead of none at all.
It's a pity I mostly have to live in your world.
-fred
Sign #11 of Slashdot overdose: You see the phrase 'moderate Republican' and you wonder if that would be a +1 or a -1.
In boston, we're told to call 911 for all police dispatches.
If you try to call, say, a local police station to report a barking dog, they tell you to call 911.
If you try to call a station to tell them your neighbor is Bin Laden, they tell you to call 911...
As they say, if the reporting wasn't slanted, it'd be |.
And no, they don't use processors to decode the signals. And even if they did, you cannot decode two signals that are over one another, they interfere. You lose data.
FM is decoded generally by locking a PLL to the carrier (after mixing with an intermediate frequency). The output of the phase detector which corrects the PLL changes by an amount equivalent to the amount the PLL has to change frequency in order to remain on track. This change in frequency is due to the fact that the carrier was frequency modulated. Thus, this phase detector output is (roughly) the signal that was encoded on the carrier.
Using a processor would be far more complex and less efficient.
As to your transmitter winning out, the massive commerical transmitter is far away, the signal falls off with the cube of the distance, so if you are 100 times closer to the receiver, you only need to be 1/1,000,000th as strong to even the odds.
You've also hit upon why I carry a Bronx Calling Card, aka 3-D-cell Maglight, in my front door pocket.
WTF is a three dimensional flashlight?
oohhhhh....
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
You have no clue (or just don't care) about the principles of limited and local government on which this country was founded.
The United States wasn't founded on those principles. I like them, but think federalist interpretation of the Constitution won in most early Supreme Court rulings.
Limited government my culo.
I find that the "woop-woop...woop-woop...woop-woop" in "Tie Me Kangaroo Down" when played at a decent volume works pretty well, too.
'course this method usually results in my ears hurting... (shrug)
Most of these guys are probably listening to CDs. Who the hell would spend thousands on a sound system and use it to listen to the radio. I've never heard any loud bass that matched anything on the radio.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I think there's a limit on how loud an FM broadcast can be. And what's the point of changing the frequency of a square wave? A square wave is the sum of all frequencies already, IIRC. I also doubt it would cause much damage to the system.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Umm...How would that work, exactly? Mind-control? Prozac? The hurting-and-killing-people impulse is deeply ingrained in humanity.
And the l33t shall inherit the 34r7h.
Well of course, he's the current White-Guy du-jour who is responsible for most of the world's present ills. :)
While you were smugly typing in your oh-so-wise critique of Bush, did it ever even occur to you how inane this is? It's the central frickin' principal of federalist government, you idiot!
Yup. It's absolutely inane to place the lives and safety of citizens above 'states rights'.
Not that many state governments complain about federal funding, that I've seen.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
You're right. Loud cars are the reason for widespread crime! WE MUST DO SOMETHING!
That was a scam that the people who love big government play. They make these great plans to buy off votes prior to an election. People like you think "that's great, my govment luv me". That spending was enacted with the plan that the Feds pay for a couple of years and then force the states to find a way to keep it going. It happens all the time for medicaid as well.
Crumb's Theorem:
The chances that George W. Bush actually is to blame is directly proportional to the number of months he has been in office.
Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
Naa, more like: As Bush stays in office, the odds Bush will be responsible for something bad approach one.
Not a sentence!
The role of the federal government is to take care of external relations with foriegn states, and regulate those powers that if they were left to the states would cause trouble. (trade wars and tarrifs to import things between new york and new jersey, (yes this happened) private wars between states (almost happened too!) etc. )
Unlike you, our founding fathers were not socialist. They would have shot down any such nonesense in a hurry. They called us the United states of America (yes, I got the capitalization right!) 'state' here is synonymous with 'nation' Learn some history please.
Laws are horrible moral guides, moral guides make even worse laws.
I keep a hand crossbow and one of the(discontinued) 8 D cell maglites. HERE for the appropriate CA penal code section. Crossbows aren't illegal. Nor are swords. It is perfectly legal to walk around with a sword, naginata, spear, pike, halberd, etc, but a dirk is a no-no. Also, death threats are illegal in the US. If you recieve one, report it as such. The sender can be put in jail.
Not a sentence!
You're right. Loud cars are the reason for widespread crime! WE MUST DO SOMETHING!
Loud cars represent an adversarial outlook towards the rest of society. It's obvious that loud music irritates others, yet it continues. For some this is their very object. They wish to disturb others.
Now, what sort of person does such a thing?
It's that outlook towards others that can translate into criminal behavior and conflict with others.
Try a HERF instead.
Not a sentence!
This would seem to be what would be an violation that nasty INDUCE act. SO then the RIAA and govt should go after everyone up the food chain for something like this?
Welcome to the high-tech dark age.
Is that Prince Markie-D of the Fat Boys?
The light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
Here is yet another misunderstanding perpetrated by the inability of traditional English punctuation to group things! I propose that curly braces be used as grouping delimiters, since it's not like we're using them anyway except in TeX. Behold: "3-{D-cell} Maglight". Better? YES! JOIN THE HOLY CRUSADE!
'moron' + 'irony' = moran
Moran: the new black.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
You've also hit upon why I carry a Bronx Calling Card, aka 3-D-cell Maglight, in my front door pocket.
Fuck that! Wait 'till he gets out and hit him with your car!
I once had some angry asshole get out of his car, wanting to fight after I expressed my outrage at his piss-poor driving. He got out and came towards me, so I just backed up a little to give myself room to swing and gunned the engine. It was amazing how quickly he clued in and scuttled back into his car!
You're using her as bait, Master!
in addition to the many other problems with this that have been posted like, most people playing really loud music in a car are using a CD player and the iTrip cant overpower a radio station that is tuned in well, there is another problem.
unless you can see into the other person's car and see the radio station they are tuned into, its gonna be a real pain to go through a bunch of stations on your iTrip to try to figure out which one they are listening to. Chances are the person bothering you will be long gone before you can figure this out. Plus because this so called "hack" doesn't increase the iTrip's broadcasting power, just its range (and only slightly) you might never be able to find out what station tehy are on because as stated elsewhere, the main radio station will probably overpower the iTrip.
I think someone was just really excited that they found an antenna under the 'special tape' and this was a way to let everyone know about it.
Flamebait my ass. Try "dead on balls accurate".
And only YOU pay taxes on it, right?
actually it's the niggers driving the loud cars that are responsible
Road rage?
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
didn't you get the memo from the libs? Bush = Hitler
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Sorry, but I am failing to see where this is either cool, tech, neat, different, or even anywhere remotely newsworthy.
Sorry, but I was a little disappointed. I went to the site expecting to find perhaps some hardware hacking info on the iTrip for boosting its output, or something like that... but come on now... has slashdot really gotten to the point where "if you pull the antenna out of the case, your signal will improve!"
I mean, really. That whole thing did not take any bit of genious, or even the slightest bit of creativity. Geez... thats what the iTrip is for. Broadcasting... and it isnt the best around for that either... there are better version, and in fact, you can even get fm broadcaster kits with a good deal more transmit power than the iTrip has...
But still, I dont see whats so special here. They are using an iPod and an FM broadcaster to do exactly what they were meant for... nothing new or special here.
Maybe just a slow news day or something...
"Our funds have never taken part in toxic or death spiral convertible financings of any sort" -BayStar's managing partne
If your state decides to pass concealed carry then only the "good guys" will have them?
You're the only ex-military guy in the country? Nobody who's pissing you off could have possibly been in the military and had as much training as you did?
Sociopaths and thugs can't "put three rounds center mass and not shed a tear"?
I don't see how any of this is going to solve your problems.
Try taking some martial arts classes. I think that will solve your self-defense issue AND your intimidation issues.
Debunking the "59 Deceits"
And obviously you did NOT read his post. How can you call someone wrong if you don't know what he said.
Now if you did read it, then try to say something related to what he said.
Funding for local should be local. This cuts out the middleman (fed gov) and thier 'share' of the pie. Frankly I don't wan't the feds taking any of the money I pay towards local police and paying for porkbarrel projects with it. They can not take the money in the first and let my local gvt collect taxes to support the local police, FireFighters, and so on. This way we can get a few more of each for the same amount of $$.
Bush didn't re-do somthing stupid, so it's his fault? Bush has issues don't get me wrong, but this idiocy of adding an extra step and overhead to police funding isn't one of them.
Mycroft
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Guesse what, you have the same option every one of your examples is answered by. Move out.
Seriously if you think socialism is such a great idea there are several countries that surviveing on it. Of course you'll only get to keep 1/3 to 1/2 of the money YOU earn, and have few to no choices other than the state system even if that system isn't so good.
For some people this a fine way to just drift through life, and having the state take on many of thier responsibilies for them is worth the lower standard of living.
If you cap the bottom end of a nations standard of living you also cap the top end (excepting the 'leaders' who of course get the best). You also all but elliminate any chance of those ends moving up faster than dead slow without outside help.
Mycroft
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No it's not states rights vs the peoples safty. It's more about the federal government NOT cutting itself in for a share of the $$.
How on earth is putting the federal government in the loop to take it's slice of the funding pie gonna do anything but REDUCE the funding.
Mycroft
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Thank you, not great, but this thread was in dire need of humor, any humor.
Mycroft
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This car is equipped with a directional EMP device. Please turn down your stereo. Thank you.
That's the last time I run code posted in somebody's sig...
It's an awful good thing you didn't actually charge; if you had hit him, you'd be in prison for assault with a deadly weapon, and face civil remedies. With essentially the sole exception if he had a gun.
thats what i do i got a good set of boomers but i raly use them. all i do when they pull up beside at full bass is crank up my radio and turn on the amps and wala worlds greatesr country hits are overwhelimg his gangster rap. boy they get pissed but there to inbaresed to say anything couse his system got outdone by a white man lol.
The question is: is the statement "If all
firearms are made illegal, then only criminals
will have firearms." a reasonable position to
take for self-defense? The criminals have far
more rights than any law-abiding citizen in the
USA:-- just get used to it. If they break your
door down, beat you up, and rape your wife, the
best you can do without the risk of legal action
(criminal or civil) is to politely ask them to
leave. Anything more, and you may wind up paying
for your mistakes much longer than they would.
I would recommend talking to your local NRA
representatives, local gunshop owners, firearms
trainers, and sheriff's department: get a CCW
(concealed carry weapon) license and the largest
caliber firearm you can manage (bigger holes
have a tendency to "anchor" the target.)
Are you, or have you consulted, a lawyer on this subject? I strongly suspect there is SOMTHING they can nail you on if they want (your link is to a blank page btw). I had a friend going somwhere where a sword would be appropriate (someplace where a fantasy costume made sense) and he was told that a sword, in scabbard, was a concealed weapon. When he offered to carry it out, the cop said that would be 'brandishing' a weapon.
Now I've seen cops make stuff up to stop someone from doing somthing problematical and likely stupid, yet leagle, and that may have been the case.
My point is that assumptions here can land you some serious problems.
You'd be suprised how things can be interpreted in the law if you are not already familiar with said.IANAL but I have read some of the crazy things in the law books.
I repeate IANAL
Mycroft
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Since they probably sink all their dough into their cars, they might lose their cars in the settlement. :)
Do it now.
I have a lot of the loud bass guys driving through my neighborhood on a regular basis. Since I started recording my band with microphones, I did not appreciate the extra $300 in dynamics control equipment, I had to buy, to keep their noise out of the record (as much as possible). And, forbid that they blast those things through the neighborhood at night (often).
(a) Overloading their system with RF. Me and my dad--at the time--had a 600 watt RF amp for ham radio. I could hear him on my telephone when he was transmitting (and my stereo). I would bet that a signal well below the F3 parameter of their speaker boxes--usually ported--would ruin the drivers, if they got enough of it. Just add it to the signal...most radio receivers--and the speaker--will filter that, anyway.
(b) For the "extreme edition"...make sure you get all your computers 20 miles a way, along with everything else you care out (even pictures on the wall). I heard a story of someone shorting out a cyclotron magnet...or the power supply that went to it.
Rules are: You have to ramp them up slowly, and down slowly, in regards to the magnet input current. A fast change will create an expanding or collapsing field, which can store quite a bit more than a capacitor can; and is not limited to an electrical connection. The magnetic field can effect a lot of devices, just as a nearby lightning strike can.
In the case of the cyclotron magnet. The power supply shorted...All wiring, in the immediate area, was vaporized. This included the thick stuff thay used to hang the pictures on the walls.
In a bang everything melted, or fell to the floor.
Interesting to see how one of those would do, if configured for that very purpose.
On the original post...this works great if they are "listening" to the radio (bothering the neighborhood with the radio). But, if they use a CD player, jamming the frequencies just won't help, unless you pick option (b)...and please make sure you get your TV, computers, video games, wife's jewery, etc. out of the house, beforehand.
And, I can provide (c):
If you have a car of your own...get a few high SQL to input power treble drivers (and MONSTROUS ear protection). Put those in your car, with an oscillator you can tune from 3 to 18 kHZ. Find one of them? Pop on the protection, and give them 800 watts of something that will make you sick or give a headache at 1 watt or less.
You'd be in prison if you cracked his skull with a maglight too!
At this point, my concern is self-preservation, not adhering to the niceties of the law.
And if he had been empty-handed, I probably would have simply locked the doors and let him bash his hands bloody on my car, while calmly dialing my phone...
You're using her as bait, Master!
Hassle the Hoff?
You're using her as bait, Master!
(nonserious) What about pulling the Pepsi commerical thing (the guy plays classical music to get the shoppers out so he can run and buy a Pepsi) - use your money to buy a bigger system than him, and play music that drowns them out. (I know, it will only escalate things to much worse)
(semiserious) The opposite approach - why not build a noise cancellation system? You might even be able to put a wireless microphone on your car down near the source, and then properly delay and amplify the signal to cancel out their music. Car sterios do this, why couldn't you? You could even filter it and just correct the bass frequencies, which in my experience can be the worst.
Worst comes to worst, build a study chamber inside a larger chamber. Have the inner chamber magnetically supported by the outer chamber and a vacuum in between. (You guys may laugh, but I remember seeing an odd ad for an egg-shaped solitude chamber, maybe in Popular Mechanics, designed for the man of the house to seclude himself from his family. I wonder if any of these ever were sold.)
You'd be in prison if you cracked his skull with a maglight too!
Much less likely. If he was in range of your maglight, you'd have a much better claim of self-defense. It's hard to claim an immanent threat when the guy is 20 feet away and outside of your car (unless he has a gun).
As it seems your antagonists are possibly African American, a somewhat ontopic issue that I just ran across in searching is that Bill Cosby has been harshly criticizing black youth for their street behavior. (A washington post article is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A245 94-2004Jul2.html, but I don't know how to do the google partner thing. The google search is here.)
Unlike you, our founding fathers were not socialist.
Right on, brother! What pisses me off is this socialist road-building, subsidizing the construction, operation, and maintenance of highways and roads. (No crap about gas tax, that tax isn't anywhere near enough to pay for building roads, maintaining bridges, having cops patrol them, paying for the meat wagon to go out and scrape idiots up off of them, cleaning up 100% of the pollution and runoff caused by the users, etc.)
Not to speak of spending billions attacking other countries that haven't done anything to us, to nail down the oil supply for gasoline for the morons who don't want to pay the full costs of driving their Hummers to work. Loonies want to attack Iraq, let 'em buy an M16 and a ticket and do it on their own dime.
My bad
Axe hande: 40" of flame hardened Hickory, complete with purchase tag. It's stuffed along the driver side rear door.
Anyone fucks with me and they're going to be messed up.
Subcorollary: Bush will eventually defend himself by blaming Clinton.
Violence just causes more violence.
Read "Hegemony or Survival", by Noam Chomsky, and educate
yourself to the truth that there are many good reasons why some people in other parts of the world are angry with the US.
I doubt you have the balls to read a book which doesn't agree with your worldview, but I could be wrong.
I hate to tell you the bad news, but : there IS no end.
As long as the US fucks with other countries there will be reprisals.
The far better course of action would be for the US to begin doing truly admirable things for the less advantaged countries, and lead by example.
Force isn't going to work, ever.
follow the noise makers to the point where they stop, and shoot them dead.
I know, this isn't politically correct, but someone has to say it.
These scum will NEVER be any benefit to the world, and the sooner they leave it the better the world will be.
Speak for yourself.
Can I be an editor too? Puh-leeeaaze?
Sleep is futile.
A lightbar with takedown lights, and a PA
Sig: I stole this sig.
Perhaps it was a bad idea to have one phone number for emergencies? In many countries there are separate numbers for police, ambulance, etc. For example, in Russia there is "01" for fire department, "02" for police, "03" for ambulance and "04" for gas service (to report leaks). So, unless you have a fire, a criminal/security situation, a medical emergency or a gas leak, you don't have a reason to call emergency. It's not like anyone would be stupid enough to call "02" to ask the number he forgot. In addition to that, there is no reason not to fine people who waste the time of operators.
Future Wiki -- If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.
It's called prioritizing.
It's called bullshit. We had a case here recently in England, a farmer was being terrorized by local gangs, his property stolen or destroyed, receiving threats. He asked the police for help and they did absolutely nothing. So, one evening, in desperation, he fought back with his shotgun. Yeah, the police rushed straight to the scene and arrested HIM.
The police are basically lazy. Dealing with gangs who don't give a fuck anyway is a lot of hassle for them, and they might get hurt themselves. Dealing with a law-abiding old man, that's something they can handle, even tho' the situation would never have arisen if they'd put the donuts down and actually done their jobs in the first place.
Prioritizing, my arse. The police, like any civil servants, couldn't care less about doing their jobs, they're just sitting around waiting to collect their fat pensions.
In Soviet Russia, the emergency numbers dial you!
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Ground Control to Major Tom...
Right, silly equation time... If a neutron star has a density of 3x10^17kg/m^3, and it hits you travelling at the speed of light (call it 3x10^8 m/s for ease), to cause a force per square metre of 20x10^4994 means it would have to stop in... 0.45x10^-4969 seconds.
OK, we're dead. But on the plus side, it'll be over quick.
I have two methods for dealing with punks like this who feel the world needs to hear the Top 5 rap songs as dictated to them by MTV every waking minute.
Method 1: Generally, these punks simply get some subs and park them in the trunk and call it a system. Overall their system sounds like shit. I have a system. I don't blast it in city driving but when I hit the country I'm all about it. It's set up for rock (good subs, good highs, good mids and several amps) and so the entire system is good and extremely loud. Give them a dose of their own. Roll down your windows, crank up some Metal, and watch them roll their windows up.
Although this method is childish, it's quite funny to watch them cringe when they hear something that isn't about slapping bitches and hos and rollin', holla'in', or whatever the hell these suburbanite white kids are into these days.....
Method 2: I just graduated from Purdue in CS and haven't found a "real" job yet so I'm doing the whole pizza delivery thing until something comes up (Hell, it pays damn good and I wouldn't mind making $150/night in tips alone next semester if I don't find something by then). Anyway, I know the speed traps extremely well. There are just certain places that the police set up shop. There is one coming into Campus right by the football stadium that is the first real shot they have at getting you. It's residential before that and they have nowhere to really set up shop. SOOOOO, when I get some jackass that pisses me off either by tailgating, or bumping their tunes, which seems to occur hand in hand I do this.....
I star slowing down and they try to pass, but I won't let them pass. I'll keep changing lanes to keep them behind me. I will finally let them by me right as we approach the well known speed trap. They will, in a show of ultimate badassness, floor it and blaze by me at about 50-60 or more in a 35 zone. I call it "asshole fishing." Right now I'm two for about 20 tries, as in two people nailed for about 20 or so attempts at this.
Anyway, that's how I deal with it.....Gives me more satisfaction than wasting my time trying to jam their CD player with an FM signal.....
These guys, the ones in the cars etc, are the scum of the planet. They're the shitheads who get kicked out of school, the scumbags who've been born into money and whose parents buy them everything their spoiled asses want. See it all the time here, at least twice I know of in the last year people have been hit and killed by streetracers in my city. Oh, and to top it all off the guys who hit them are like 17-18, just got a car for their birthday too, because after all, who needs to do anything useful when mommie and daddie are paying for a $40000 machine to play with? They're the steroid pumped drug dealers (and I know this one for 100% sure, seen it a lot) that believe the pumped music is announcing to everyone in range that THEY are the BADDEST. Never mind that it's 2:30AM in a residential Suburb full of geriatric chinese people. Nope, to them, they're cruising the 'hood and they're just as bad as they can be with their tunes pumping. Makes them feel slightly less insecure about having such a small dick.
The people that get irate at someone who actually does anything about it (not that this guy actually did anything, he just pissed on off... Heh) are a bunch of weak willed little pansies. They'd rather have their secure little world where nothing changes, and nobody rocks the boat. After all, what would life be without comically shaking one's fist at the jackasses who rove about in their cars, speeding through school zones.
Anyway, this is the point:
(Aggression)=(Small Brain)
Honestly, I think the
Death to Reefer Addicts.
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Yeah, we Dutch have seen the commercial and now you can too:
The boombox car
Sometimes thumpers listen to their own CD's/ipods, not broadcast radio. A HERF weapon made from a powerful microwave oven's magnatron and a big parabolic antenna can work wonders! If that doesn't shut them up I squeeze off a few seconds of my car mounted gatlin gun. If they're armored (like some of the gang kids are) I use a sidewinder missle. Since the sidewinders are a bit expensive, I'm currently experimenting with a bumper-mounted railgun. When I'm feeling particually nostalgic, I keep a bazooka in the trunk.
Either that or practice good writing and use the verbal form of numbers below 100 when writing in a nontechnical context or describing something such as a person's age. (i.e. Three D-cell Maglite)
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
So finally I follow one of these guys to see where he ended up. I honked my horn rythmically as I drove by.
You stopped too soon. Once you've lured the boob out of your neighborhood, you could use several of the other techniques mentioned here such as the HERF gun to disable the electronics in his car leaving him stranded (without the solace of music) or the suggestion of using a combination of 2.5k candlepower flashlight pointed in the offender's face and maybe an airhorn (while wearing ear-protection)
MjM
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"Hi, I'm Steve-O, and in Arizona, this is totally legal..."
(opens huge fucking spring loaded swiss army knife)
"Dude, it's, like, a sword!"
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Spoilsport.
While you do have the right to use reasonable force to defend yourself, I don't think the Tony Martin case was as clear cut as it first seemed to be.
He was not acting out of self defence, but vengence. The shooting was premeditated. He did not shoot out of panic or fear. Without warning, shot three times. That's not self defence.
He did not have a licence for the shotgun. Self defence or not, it's not acceptable for people to have unlicenced firearms.
I can only imagine the grief he must've gone through being repeatedly burgled, but excessive force was used. Note that I am in no way defending those yobs who broke in. They should've been locked up ages ago.
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WTF was flamebaitish about what I posted?
Debunking the "59 Deceits"
holy shit!!! i dont own an IPOD but this is the coolest thing i've heard about all year... god how i'd love to pull this stunt on all the fucking niggers blasting hip hop...
I answered your question and backed it up with facts. You just lacked the ability to understand, driven by a lack of historical understanding if I had to guess.
... only then will you understand and appreciate the need in unleashing the four horsemen. It may not be the only way, but I'm willing to give it a chance - you honestly don't need to drop too many nukes before 'the bad guys' decide to give peace a chance, once again a 100% known fact as proved in 1945. We tried the peaceful approach, and it was taken as weakness, actually encouraging the terrorists to attack us; we are dealing with a group that only respects force.
... Ronald Reagan (as he was in 1980), however, would be handling the current issues a lot more like anyone I might have hoped for - compare and contrast how Iraq handled the hostage situation when they were dealing with Jimmy Carter, and how they handled it when they were dealing with Reagan. (Answer, saving us a round trip to AC land : Reagan was eager to drop some serious shit on anybody fucking with us, and Iraq knew it. The hostages came home the day that Reagan took office.) The Islamic extremists that were at work then are the same Islamic extremists at work today. If 25 years of peaceful dealings with them didn't convert them to a peaceful group, maybe peace isn't the answer. It took about 15 seconds to convert Japan from warmongers to peaceful - maybe that's what it is going to take with the Islamic extremists.
a) Do you think that what America did in August 1945 was effective?
You were supposed to understand (acknowledge) that yes, it was very effective, and because it was effective (fact) I was in effect saying it was what was going to be necessary to convert the unconvertables from terrorists into peaceful people. Until you have a firm grasp of that the Quran (Koran) says about 'the Infidels' (that's the US) and how the groups that make up Al Qaeda believe on a fundamental level, a show of force of Hiroshima proportions can't be justified. Once you have a firm grasp of the forces at play and what it will take to convert the unconvertables from terrorists into a peaceful people, understanding that no lesser force will suffice and until the US plays its 'we are not fucking around anymore' card the world will live in fear of terrorism
b) Evaluate the economic environment in America in the two decades following August 1945.
The good (factual) answer I was looking for from you, in support of my hypothesis, was that the US experienced a most incredible buildup in economic power in the 20 years following Hiroshima. Advances in medicine, science, art, and engineering at unprecedented levels propelled the US into an economic prosperity unheard of in global history, allowing us to put men on the moon, eradicate smallpox, and create several polution free sources of energy to drive the next generations of the world. The US would be so lucky as to go through that sort of economic revival again, living in a world free of fear, fear of terrorism.
Uday and Qusay are not my role models, at least not that I'm aware of
If you disagree with me, what do you suggest will be a 100% effective way to bring peace to the Middle East? I am sure Israel would listen, maybe even GWB would take it under consideration.
What this has to do with iPods I have no clue. Mods, feel free to hammer on these as off topic.
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
Ack shit. Substitute Iran for Iraq in the third big paragraph. I'm pretty eager to admit it when I make a mistake, and that was a pretty good one.
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
And in this way, a low-income, high-crime area will have an excellent, local source of funding for their police? Talk about vicious circles!
While that was a lame stab at Bush, you don't seem to get the point of the comment about the Guard. The National Guard is supposed to be defending us at home, not overseas. If Bush - or rather, the fuckwit neocons pulling the strings - had deployed the much larger force we needed to take and stabilize Iraq in the first place, maybe we wouldn't be so short. My coworker is in the Florida National Guard, and I haven't seen him since 9/11 (2001).
While it may be the central principal of federalism, associating that term with Bush, or anyone in the modern incarnation of the Republican party, is ridiculous. Politicians these days pick and choose when it suits their agenda. Sure, when you want to attempt to keep handguns out of the hands of criminals they're all for state's rights, but then they'll push for a constitutional amendment to outlaw gay marriage. Fucking hypocrites, it makes me sick.
And saying that "people like him are what's wrong with this country" is a bit of a stretch, unless you just mean people who make uneducated polemics, which comes from both sides of the aisle.
Half the time it's made next to impossible to call the police without calling 911. A year back, I got rear-ended by some idiot girl. The police stopped, took all the requisite notes, statements etc. However, I'd forgotten to put my new insurance card in the glove compartment. The police officer said it wasn't a problem, since I wasn't at fault, but that I needed to provide some sort of documentation, and said that I should just drop it off at the police station some time when he was there and he'd take care of it.
So I go home, find the insurance info, and the next day I go to call to find out if he's there. There is absolutely no listing for the police in the phone book for the police station except 911. I try online. 911. I call information. 911. I even called the city hall, figuring they would having dealings with the police. They told me 911. I told them it wasn't an emergency. Oh, well then don't call 911. Well, what should I call? They didn't know.
Eventually I just drove down there, paid a fortune in parking fees, and stood around forever while they tried to figure out if Officer Whatever was there.
The best is I got to do it all again a month later, when my garbage can was stolen. The trash pick-up people wouldn't give us another one of the super-special trash receptacles until we got a police report. Of course, they didn't have a number. This time I just called 911 about it and got a lecture. And the best is, the 911 operator, after lecturing me, didn't know what number I should have called.
Low income, high crime areas seldom cover an entire state or even city.
Besides you can not expect the police to do everything to get rid of crime. In fact the supreem court has even ruled that the police have a duty to the community as a whole, not to specific individuals, If you expect the police to save you everytime, sooner or later your going to find out they can't be everywhere at once and are not expected to be.
If the local citizens aren't involved it won't go away anyway. This is part of what the second amendment helps with. Gun ownership deters crime.
I don't want to live in a nany state where the federal government wipes my nose for me and tells what to eat, think, and do.
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If the local citizens aren't involved it won't go away anyway. This is part of what the second amendment helps with. Gun ownership deters crime.
Are you saying I should be required to learn how to kill people in order to feel safe walking on the street? I think I would rather let trained professionals kill criminals when necessary.
Besides, while bank robbers already have guns, muggers and agressive beggers generally don't. If everyone just walks around with weapons, some will inevitibly get stollen. Do you really want me to shoot a homeless guy knocking on my car window because his face looks crazy and I have to assume he is armed?
Not necessarily you. Just that fact that an area has a high gun ownership tends to scare crooks away. they don't want to get shot, and when they can't tell who's armed and who's not why would they risk it?
If you are going to depend on 'trained professionals' everytime to deal with violent criminals you had best hope not to ever meet violence of that sort face to face. Unless of course you plan on hiring a body guard. Police, by the nature of thier job, only deter crime as a side effect. Thier main purpose is to solve crimes after the fact and arrest people.
Crooks who steal guns do NOT generaly go after people carrying them, slight problem with getting shot for trying. And again even if a few get stolen, do you think most crooks are stupid enough to try and use one in a crime when any number of passersby just might be able to put an end to thier ways suddenly? And if they do what are thier odds of surviving for a second try.
A disarmed populace on the otherhand is easy pickings for criminal, because they will still have thier guns. Even if they didn't odds are they will have some sort of advantage. Guns are called the great equalizer for reason, they enable a 60 year old grandma to stop a husky 25year old from beating her up for her tv and spare cash.
So even if your not willing to defend yourself and your familly, please don't argue the rest of us shouldn't be allowed to. Especially since you'll benifit from our willingness to do so.
Mycroft
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