The US has been accused of a variety of antisemitic activities
in history -- including the rejection of a boat load of Jewish refugees
during the Nazi era, and a variety of industrial relationships with the
Nazis that could be taken as condoning if not aiding the rise of the Nazis.
Plenty of american universities did not accept jews; the same went for
clubs and other social organizations. Mc-Gill University in Canada, as
well as Queens University in Toronto had, until the 1960's, very strict
quotas towards the jews. And plenty of canadian clubs (in the british sense)
has "NO JEWS" signs in plain view on their doors.
Isaac Asimov was not accepted in Columbia University, even though he
had perfect grades. It was simply because he was a jew.
Say a pornographer places a billboard of a beautiful naked
woman near the border between his agnostic nation with its liberal sex
and speech laws, and a fanatically religious one with censorious blue laws
and no freedom of speech. But he covers it up during the day and uncovers
it only on cloudy, moonless nights.
Then say a person from the tyrannical nation starts showing up at
the border on those nights with a flashlight and a pair of binoculars.
(setting: a Sheriff's office, whose occupant is busy whittling a piece
of wood, his feet comfortably lodged besides the telephone)
[PHONE RINGS] - Sherrif picks it up
- Sheriff's office... Yes... Yes miss Smedley, how are you... What?
Oh, the kids are swimming naked in Sawmill Creek besides your house? Fine,
I'll go tell them. That's fine. Thank-you.
* * *
(One day later, same setting, same phone, same sheriff, piece of
wood has dwindled to a lone splinter).
[PHONE RINGS] - Sherrif picks it up
- Sheriffs's office... Hi, miss Smedl... Hey, hey, cool off!!! What?... You say that the kids are *STILL* swimming naked in the
creek? But that's impossible: they promised me yesterday that they would
move a quarter of a mile downstreams.... That's what they did?
Well, you should not see them anymore! What?... With binoculars
you can see them?
That's rocket age. Not space age. The space age began in
1957 with the launch of Sputnik.
Nah, the ROCKET AGE began some 2000+ years ago, when some
hapless Chinese fucked-up rolling his firecracker; an end was loose, and
the rapidly burning gases managed to propel the thing away, probably scaring
a couple of horses, or better yet, the mother-in-law in the process.
Perhaps you mean the LIQUID-FUELED ROCKET AGE? Well, no
luck either, because it is totally meaningless, given that the largest
payloads launched today (including the Space Shuttle) are launched in part
by SOLID-FUELED rockets...
I don't know of any country that does not have to deal with
individuals or groups that engage in unethical practices for personal gain
without fear of repercusions because of some clever loophole or a vacuum
in existing legislation.
Indeed. In France, someone was able to patent a "machine that proves
the existence of god"...
What is a nation state and how is it different from a nation?
A nation-state is a nation which has it's own state, say, like Denmark,
which is a country populated with Danish people.
Some nations are incorporated (either willingly or by force) into a
larger state (or country) that has other nations alongside; like Switzerland,
who has a German, a French, an Italian and a Romansh nations.
We don't have a paperless world; work isn't easier, or even
demonstrably more efficient; nation-states are not disintegrating;
the new global economy hasn't improved the lot of the vast majority of
the world'
When will people learn that the STATE is NOT the worse thing out there? Private entities are far more dangerous to people, simply because they only have to answer to their shareholders, and that people have been proven again and again that greediness will not stop people from hurting other people.
It is time for the americans to extend their much beloved constitution to the private sector!!!!
The foundation of the US is that the people have the power
and right to replace their government, through the use of force if ncessary,
when the government is corrupt. If you take away the guns, you take away
the last illusion that this right still exists.
The fact that, despite that they can CHANGE their corrupt government by
democratic, that is, non-violent means, that they haven't done it, means
that the american people have lost the right to even have arms, because
they won't use the peaceful means they have at their disposal.
The answer is simple. Get a Cellphone jammer, and you can
walk around undetected.
If the picture on the site is anything to go by, the cameras are
lowish quality, and look mosly down, and thus can not see people at long
distances.
How about a camera jammer?
CCDs in nowadays cameras are sensitive to IR radiation. Have a test:
fire-up that webcam of yours, grab your trusty TV remote control and fire
away.
Chance is that you'll see light coming from the remote. That's the IR
beam, boys.
So, now make yourself a canvas hat studded with IR LEDs, wire them all
up, and just walk around. The IR will simply outshine whatever ambiant
light is reflected off your face, and you won't be identifiable on camera,
as you will look with a saint with a halo of light...
There are a number of serious issues, particularly those
arising from emergency legislation pertaining to the Troubles in Northern
Ireland and our lack of a constitution.
If the fuckin' limeys butted-out of Northern Ireland, there'd be no trouble
there.
Whenever the fuckin' limeys stick their stinkin' noses somewhere in
the world (India, Kuwait), there's ALLWAYS trouble to follow.
Here is a guy with the ultimate privacy: absolutely NO RECORD AT
ALL, and when the President of the United States asks the FBI to do
a background check on him, and when they come back totally empty-handed,
the big-shots really start to shit in their pants, and some even think
of having him run for president (I guess that's a prophecy of Ronald Reagan)...
Napster will likely be remembered not so much for enabling
music piracy as for starting a revolution that changed the way
the Internet worked.
Napster is the pioneer of a technology known as peer-to-peer
networking, or P2P for short. The core idea of P2P is to allow
individual computers to communicate directly over the Internet.
Er? Am I missing something here? Isn't "The Internet"
already a peer-to-peer network???? Hasn't it always been????
Not only that, but the government could then use that key
to impersonate you, forging any document they want and digitally signing
it.
Now, can someone explain to me why anglo-saxons are so fucking paranoid
about their democratically-elected governments to the point that
they are afraid that those same governments would go to the length
of impersonating them????
Why the fuck would a government impersonate it's citizens????
Why the fuck a government attempt to screw it's citizens (unless,
of course, it's been totally subverted) ???? And why citizens instead of
ranting about that would actually do something about it, like vote them
out of office????
Why those incredible assaults come from countries where individual rights
are paramount???? France doesn't have as high a reputation for individual
rights as anglo-saxon countries, yet there are no widespread perception
of wholesale government spying on and impersonating their citizens!!!!
The short summary. Yes, it is possible using various techniques
(flexible/segmented sections of monorail beam, beam replacement,
etc.).
The page also explains that the "monorails can't switch"
myth was due to a particularly bad and bulky implementation at
Wuppertal, and that the myth has since been perpetuated by various
shady sources such as Microsoft Encarta.
Monorail switches are *STILL* more complex than "normal"
bi-rail switches. Their moving parts are such an important proportion
of the total infrastructure that their mechanism will always be
more onerous, complex, slow-moving and cumbersome than bi-rail
switches.
This has profound impacts on many aspects, who all eventually
touch safety:
It takes longer to turn a switch. A mainline bi-rail switch can be turned
and secured in less than 30 seconds.
Since monorail switches have to move the whole track about,
the length of the switches is necessarly restricted to practicability,
and this has a direct bearing on the speed they can be negociated
in reverse position (the shorter they are, the slower you have
to go through). The French Train à Grande Vitesse
switches can be taken as fast as 150 miles per hour in reverse
position.
Derailments on monorail will very often send the whole train
flying through the air, crashing below. Birail derailments can be as benign
as a wheel on the ground that can be re-railed within minutes
by the train crew using a re-railer frog (the
yellow Y-shaped tool near the rear of the engine - sorry,
that's the best I could find in 10 minutes on Google). And
birail viaduct tracks are
required to haveguard
rails inside the track anyway to prevent derailed cars to
leave the track.
Signalling systems must take account of this by having a
longer safety margin where a train can be brought to a safe stop
in case a switch doesn't turn properly.
This means a greater distance between trains and thus a lower
capacity for each track.
By being more complex, switches are more expensive. In turn,
there will be less switches on the network, making it less efficient
and more difficult to go around a problem (like a disabled train).
The single-beam track may seem sleek and more efficient than
a heavy viaduct, but you *NEED* to have a way of quickly evacuating
a train in case of emergency. So you will need a catwalk that
is parallel to the tracks, the structure of which will destroy
much of the sleekness of the beam track.
Re:This ought to really catch on with Americans
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Unfortunately while it makes sense, yuppies won't touch
it. An SUV made for rails is an SUV that's not "made to
go off the beaten trail". Therefore, it's not any great
show of excess when you get one and proceed to keep it on city
streets. If it's not a show of excess, what's the point?
Well, they could very well be enticed with roller-coaster like
t^hrails in the mountains... They could then buy their SUV by
the G-rating they have rather than engine power or whatnot...
w h e r e S c i e n t o l o g y
a c c u s e s P a n o u s s i s o f
c o p y r i g h t i n f r i n g e m e n t o f
r e l i g i o u s t r a d e s e c r e t s
Now I will ask the question again: how can a religion have trade
secrets?
The proper question should rather be: "how can a trade secret
be copyrighted???".
There's a critical difference between Tianamen and Kent
State. The National Guardsmen at Kent State were not acting under
orders when they opened fire. They were simply a bunch of nervous
kids who reacted poorly in a situation they were not adequately
trained to handle. One of them started shooting, and the others
got spooked and did the same
Totally irrelevent. That national guard was acting on
behalf of Authority, and as such, the Authority is just as responsible
for the Kent State massacre as the chinese Authority is of the
Tienanmen square massacre.
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Isaac Asimov was not accepted in Columbia University, even though he had perfect grades. It was simply because he was a jew.
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[PHONE RINGS] - Sherrif picks it up
- Sheriff's office... Yes... Yes miss Smedley, how are you... What? Oh, the kids are swimming naked in Sawmill Creek besides your house? Fine, I'll go tell them. That's fine. Thank-you.
* * *
(One day later, same setting, same phone, same sheriff, piece of wood has dwindled to a lone splinter).
[PHONE RINGS] - Sherrif picks it up
- Sheriffs's office... Hi, miss Smedl... Hey, hey, cool off!!! What? ... You say that the kids are *STILL* swimming naked in the
creek? But that's impossible: they promised me yesterday that they would
move a quarter of a mile downstreams. ... That's what they did?
Well, you should not see them anymore! What? ... With binoculars
you can see them?
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(Invited to the same TV show as Von-Braun, Isaac Asimov refused to shake a hand that shook Hitler's...)
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Perhaps you mean the LIQUID-FUELED ROCKET AGE? Well, no luck either, because it is totally meaningless, given that the largest payloads launched today (including the Space Shuttle) are launched in part by SOLID-FUELED rockets...
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Some nations are incorporated (either willingly or by force) into a larger state (or country) that has other nations alongside; like Switzerland, who has a German, a French, an Italian and a Romansh nations.
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It is time for the americans to extend their much beloved constitution to the private sector!!!!
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Forth like you if honk then
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The fact that, despite that they can CHANGE their corrupt government by democratic, that is, non-violent means, that they haven't done it, means that the american people have lost the right to even have arms, because they won't use the peaceful means they have at their disposal.
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CCDs in nowadays cameras are sensitive to IR radiation. Have a test: fire-up that webcam of yours, grab your trusty TV remote control and fire away.
Chance is that you'll see light coming from the remote. That's the IR beam, boys.
So, now make yourself a canvas hat studded with IR LEDs, wire them all up, and just walk around. The IR will simply outshine whatever ambiant light is reflected off your face, and you won't be identifiable on camera, as you will look with a saint with a halo of light...
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Whenever the fuckin' limeys stick their stinkin' noses somewhere in the world (India, Kuwait), there's ALLWAYS trouble to follow.
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Remember that wonderful movie with Peter Sellers, Being There ? (here, too).
Here is a guy with the ultimate privacy: absolutely NO RECORD AT ALL, and when the President of the United States asks the FBI to do a background check on him, and when they come back totally empty-handed, the big-shots really start to shit in their pants, and some even think of having him run for president (I guess that's a prophecy of Ronald Reagan)...
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Er? Am I missing something here? Isn't "The Internet" already a peer-to-peer network???? Hasn't it always been????
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Why the fuck would a government impersonate it's citizens????
Why the fuck a government attempt to screw it's citizens (unless, of course, it's been totally subverted) ???? And why citizens instead of ranting about that would actually do something about it, like vote them out of office????
Why those incredible assaults come from countries where individual rights are paramount???? France doesn't have as high a reputation for individual rights as anglo-saxon countries, yet there are no widespread perception of wholesale government spying on and impersonating their citizens!!!!
Must be some collective neurosis...
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Monorail switches are *STILL* more complex than "normal" bi-rail switches. Their moving parts are such an important proportion of the total infrastructure that their mechanism will always be more onerous, complex, slow-moving and cumbersome than bi-rail switches.
This has profound impacts on many aspects, who all eventually touch safety:
A mainline bi-rail switch can be turned and secured in less than 30 seconds.
Birail switches mechanisms are wholly contained within the track cross section, and their actuating mechanism be very unobtrusive.
The French Train à Grande Vitesse switches can be taken as fast as 150 miles per hour in reverse position.
Birail derailments can be as benign as a wheel on the ground that can be re-railed within minutes by the train crew using a re-railer frog (the yellow Y-shaped tool near the rear of the engine - sorry, that's the best I could find in 10 minutes on Google). And birail viaduct tracks are required to have guard rails inside the track anyway to prevent derailed cars to leave the track.
Well, they could very well be enticed with roller-coaster like t^hrails in the mountains... They could then buy their SUV by the G-rating they have rather than engine power or whatnot...
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(What was the title of that story, by the way?)
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Totally irrelevent. That national guard was acting on behalf of Authority, and as such, the Authority is just as responsible for the Kent State massacre as the chinese Authority is of the Tienanmen square massacre.
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