And Marston was into B&D and alternative lifestyles; it showed up constantly in his Wonder Woman strip, in which Diana only lost her powers when she was tied up by a man -- which happened constantly. He lived with two women in an off-the-record arrangement. Marsten, like Hoover, would not have passed his own security check. Nor a science aptitude test, apparently.
Internally, the FBI considered him a crackpot. They did not "believe" in the polygraph, according to a recently released classified dossier.
FYI: Marsten's polygraph was used, IS used, as Scientology's "E-meter" in their Q&A auditing process. The basic ritual in Scientology is to spend hundreds or thousands of hours on Marsten's lie detector, answering personal questions while a tape recorder keeps a permanent record.
According to core drills, we've the highest CO2 levels in over, I think, 60 million years. And the higher levels map precisely to the amount of CO2 and methane we've been pumping into the air, along with the reduction of the ability of the biospher to convert the CO2 to O2 and carbon, due to, oh, cutting all the damned forests down and killing the phytoplankton in the oceans that do the other half of the recycling. We've jacked the greenhouse gases and are slowly crushing the recycling system. It doesn't take an engineer to see what happens after that. We warm up, and warm up catastrophically. That means a lot of things. The Gulf Stream may move. BAD. Europe freezes. Deserts grow. Water dries up worldwide at an increasing rate. Wind patterns change. Storms change. Food supply goes down, and God ain't even providin' for those we have now, sorry Popes.
What else does it mean? WARS. Lots and lots of wars. Wars almost always are about resources, and shrinking resources and accelerating ecological catastrophe means mankind goes apeshit. Hell, we've just killed 600 thousand people just to control the oil spigot to Asia. Imagine what people will do for livable land and a water supply. Hell, water holes worldwide are being PURCHASED by American speculator right now -- Enron was big into water supply futures before the bastards went dead, but others took their place. Raw capitalism may ignite war long before real changes occur, because the truly evil men in this world will start charging fortunes to access water supplies around the world. We're gonna need a really big army to keep off all the people who are going to want to kill us.
Wrong. We don't need Victorian thermometer readings to know what the temperature was at any period in the past. We've tree rings, percentage of carbon-14 absorbed during a year, ice cores, shorelines, fossils, yadda yadda. If you want to get a list from someone who has a good memory and has done his homework, rent Albert Gore's (President, real world) "Inconvenient Truth". He's got it all down, including how we know what we know and what's going to happen. For instance, glacial melt is happening a HELL of a lot faster than we knew possible because we've discovered water flows in melted channels under the glaciers, flows which come from the warmup and themselves speed up the warmup. Now we have some idea how the earth got out of it's glacial phases so often and so quickly.
Unfortunately, we're not in an ice age, so we are in big trouble. There may have been a warmup scheduled, but we've put teflon under the skids with our cow herds and petroleum, wood, and coal burning. Not a good idea to pump kerosene into a forest fire...
It's called "Science". When an asteroid is dead on target to hit the earth, scientists will say that it may hit, and they will not definitely say that it will, but they will not bet you, 'cause they'll be drinking up the bar waiting for the end. A "theory" is not the same in science as it is in your world. A scientist who says "this is so", well, he doesn't exist. He will say the preponderance of evidence is for it. In the absence of any other evidence, he'll bet it is so. Global warming is so.
However, a rightist will have no problems stating God exists and needs to be placated by begging ritualistically and following the writings of genocidal maniacs. Somehow, they don't see themselves as spinning a fantasy.
Gah. This is a complicated subject, and I may have switched terms in my post. Forgive the gaffe. Not a radio maven.
Point is, a short-range radio signal CAN BE picked up at greater distances than "normal" with a powerful receiver and a good antenna. Unless the signal is cancelled out by interference, it always exists, and can be amplified. The industry is not going to promote this fact, but it exists nonetheless.
No. Passive RFID tags can be read at a much greater distance than "a few feet". Boosting a faint signal into readability is 90 year-old science.
The RFID industry claims that the passive tags only work at a distance of a few feet, but such claims have already been refuted. What a motivated technologist can do isn't limited by the opinion of the manufacturer, who you must remember has a vested interest in pretending hacks won't work.
Besides, I'm more worried about the low-frequency semi-active tags. What would stop anyone from replacing passive high-frequency tags with the low-frequency tags that only broadcast when commanded to do so? To boil the frog, you kick the temperature of the water up a few degrees at a time.
What's the difference between passive and active tags?
Active RFID tags have a battery, which is used to run the microchip's circuitry and to broadcast a signal to a reader (the way a cell phone transmits signals to a base station). Passive tags have no battery. Instead, they draw power from the reader, which sends out electromagnetic waves that induce a current in the tag's antenna. Semi-passive tags use a battery to run the chip's circuitry, but communicate by drawing power from the reader. Active and semi-passive tags are useful for tracking high-value goods that need to be scanned over long ranges, such as railway cars on a track, but they cost a dollar or more, making them too expensive to put on low-cost items. Companies are focusing on passive UHF tags, which cost under a 50 cents today in volumes of 1 million tags or more. Their read range isn't as far -- typcially less than 20 feet vs. 100 feet or more for active tags -- but they are far less expensive than active tags and can be disposed of with the product packaging.
What is the read range for a typical RFID tag? There really is no such thing as a "typical" RFID tag, and the read range of passive tags depends on many factors: the frequency of operation, the power of the reader[EMPHASIS MINE], interference from other RF devices and so on. In general, low-frequency tags are read from a foot (0.33 meter) or less. High-frequency tags are read from about three feet (1 meter) and UHF tags are read from 10 to 20 feet. Where longer ranges are needed, such as for tracking railway cars, active tags use batteries to boost read ranges to 300 feet (100 meters) or more.
2.2 Read ranges Industry claims around the security of RFID devices often hinge on their short read ranges. Some cautionary notes are in order, however. As discussed in [32], RFID tags do not have a single, definitive read range. While the nominal read range of an RFID tag may be quite short, on the order of several centimeters, for example, a non-standard reader or large antenna can provide a significant boost in range at which an attacker can skim an RFID tag. Hancke [22] has recently demonstrated skimming ranges of over 20cm for RFID systems in which most readers operate at a distance of only several centimeters, while Kfir and Wool have hypothesized a possible skimming range of up to 50cm for ISO 14443-B [35]. Furthermore, while skimming requires that a reader power the targeted tag, an attacker performing passive eavesdropping on a session between a legitimate reader and RFID tag can
Those "with privacy" will never give it up. Where's Cheney? Bill Gates?
We can place more and more cameras out there to even the score, but somehow there will always be those who don't get monitored. This fact negates the advantages of an transparent society, because there never can be a transparent society. There simply will be publicly monitored proles, and the elite upper class, jealously guarding their privacy.
Simplest way for the wealthy and powerful to operate outside the transparent society is to buy up large tracts of land and simply ban cameras not operated by themselves. Private roads in corporate towns. Purchase a few laws based on property rights, and bang-o, they're off the radar.
No... such information has never been available, not in a prepackaged, instantaneously available and organized form.
I mind my mother once worked in a Public Aid office in the seventies. Two of her co-workers spent their lunches openly using the cases database to determine who was, and was not, home at lunchtime.
They'd then burglarize the likely targets.
This was information that was not available on a citywide basis to an individual before, and they made use of it in approximately, um, no time at all. Since there was no way to determine a common characteristic of the burglars, ie access to the database at a government office, they'd get away with it.
The free market has failed us for twenty years on this one. The free market says: buy a proprietary cable, or don't buy at all.
The free market dictates that nothing works together, so that the businesses maximize profit. This is an automatic collusion. Smith said that no two businessmen ever met that didn't immediately collude to fix their market; he might have added that some markets require no actual collusion, that some exploitation is just obvious.
This is one of the reasons we have governments. It's also why we don't have dozens of different power companies and dozens of power connectors in our home.
Present businesses have failed us, so now some other nation's government will step in and impose some order, as we are ideologically incapable. Profits will diminish for the manufacturers, but spending power will increase for the consumer, the Broken Window fallacy refuted.
Nope. Polls show the vast majority wanting out of Iraq, are in favor of abortion rights, minimum wage increases, equal rights and pay for women, are concerned about global waring and all, ALL environmental issues, sex education, universal health care, on and on.
The majority are liberals. The insane thing is that they've been convinced they are "centrists".
Gee, Senator, this wouldn't have anything to do with the netroots exposing the Iraq "war" fallacies, or helping the Republican party and you towards the egress last election, would it?
But the prosecutors were so CERTAIN I was guilty!
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And Jay Leno made jokes about me getting set on fire in prison. And all the inmates were so aglow with inner certainty as I was gang raped to death. Gosh, I guess no harm, no foul.
Try taking a picture of the Bean down in Millenium Park. The guards will swarm you and maybe take away your camera, for taking shots of a publically funded artwork on public land. The city claims the visual of the Bean is copyrighted.
A few years ago, when they were filming the road chase scene for "Batman Begins" on Route 41 by Waukegan, the cops were *confiscating cameras* of anyone taking pictures of the filming. I don't think they claimed any legal justification other than the director told them they should. Copyright again.
And it requires a massively intrusive police state along with a vast prison system and court docket to criminalize table copying. Almost everyone would be a criminal at some point, if copying ideas becomes a felony for all intents and purposes.
All art is based on building on previous ideas. Crafts as well. God knows science is based on godless socialist sharing. IP will bring the growth of our culture to a crawl.
"Foreign government secret services kills man. film at 10. Seriously why is it a big deal"
He was a British citizen, or at least was granted asylum.
I know that Bush has played into the whole Gen-X apathy towards politics and history, but you have to understand that poisoning another country's citizen is called "an act of war". Really.
He said that the government, Putin, deliberately bombed the apartment blocks in 1999 to create a pretext to start a war with Chechnya. He also said Putin was a secret pedophile. That should do it.
Which indicates VERY strongly to a government/intelligence source. I doubt very much that the restaurant cook had some in his back pocket. Also indicates that the government was sending a message: "Da. It was us. What do you intend to do about it? Go do your mother, kooltyoorni."
You don't need electricity to run heaters. Use electricity to pump heat out of the ground. Works for cooling, too. Free energy, mostly. Instead of creating the heat, you just move it from one place to another.
Seriously, the hell you are in is based on your reliace on fossil fuel. Pebble based reactors are damned safe in counterpoint to bowing before a polonium poisoner in the east.
It's evidence that it came from Russia. I assume that the fact is being leaked to put pressure on the Russians. And I'd guess that is being done because the UK government is fairly sure that the new KGB (new acronym) did it on orders. The bitch of course is that they can TRACK THE RADIATION TRAIL, and eventually will find that it leads to Russia's famously immoral spy agency and the Russian government. I assume Putin didn't like being accused of bombing his own people in 199 to start a war, and also the whole pedophile thing would be a kicker, if true...
"he polonium trick almost worked, because the half-life would have made it disappear in a month."
Well, half of it. oops. Guess that point doesn't hold up in physics. Damned science. A small amount still would have been present for an indefinite period. Still, damned lucky someone grabbed a counter. I assume the hair falling out and the leukemia was a screaming pair of clues.
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And Marston was into B&D and alternative lifestyles; it showed up constantly in his Wonder Woman strip, in which Diana only lost her powers when she was tied up by a man -- which happened constantly. He lived with two women in an off-the-record arrangement. Marsten, like Hoover, would not have passed his own security check. Nor a science aptitude test, apparently.
Internally, the FBI considered him a crackpot. They did not "believe" in the polygraph, according to a recently released classified dossier.
FYI: Marsten's polygraph was used, IS used, as Scientology's "E-meter" in their Q&A auditing process. The basic ritual in Scientology is to spend hundreds or thousands of hours on Marsten's lie detector, answering personal questions while a tape recorder keeps a permanent record.
According to core drills, we've the highest CO2 levels in over, I think, 60 million years. And the higher levels map precisely to the amount of CO2 and methane we've been pumping into the air, along with the reduction of the ability of the biospher to convert the CO2 to O2 and carbon, due to, oh, cutting all the damned forests down and killing the phytoplankton in the oceans that do the other half of the recycling. We've jacked the greenhouse gases and are slowly crushing the recycling system. It doesn't take an engineer to see what happens after that. We warm up, and warm up catastrophically. That means a lot of things. The Gulf Stream may move. BAD. Europe freezes. Deserts grow. Water dries up worldwide at an increasing rate. Wind patterns change. Storms change. Food supply goes down, and God ain't even providin' for those we have now, sorry Popes.
What else does it mean? WARS. Lots and lots of wars. Wars almost always are about resources, and shrinking resources and accelerating ecological catastrophe means mankind goes apeshit. Hell, we've just killed 600 thousand people just to control the oil spigot to Asia. Imagine what people will do for livable land and a water supply. Hell, water holes worldwide are being PURCHASED by American speculator right now -- Enron was big into water supply futures before the bastards went dead, but others took their place. Raw capitalism may ignite war long before real changes occur, because the truly evil men in this world will start charging fortunes to access water supplies around the world. We're gonna need a really big army to keep off all the people who are going to want to kill us.
Wrong. We don't need Victorian thermometer readings to know what the temperature was at any period in the past. We've tree rings, percentage of carbon-14 absorbed during a year, ice cores, shorelines, fossils, yadda yadda. If you want to get a list from someone who has a good memory and has done his homework, rent Albert Gore's (President, real world) "Inconvenient Truth". He's got it all down, including how we know what we know and what's going to happen. For instance, glacial melt is happening a HELL of a lot faster than we knew possible because we've discovered water flows in melted channels under the glaciers, flows which come from the warmup and themselves speed up the warmup. Now we have some idea how the earth got out of it's glacial phases so often and so quickly.
Unfortunately, we're not in an ice age, so we are in big trouble. There may have been a warmup scheduled, but we've put teflon under the skids with our cow herds and petroleum, wood, and coal burning. Not a good idea to pump kerosene into a forest fire...
It's called "Science". When an asteroid is dead on target to hit the earth, scientists will say that it may hit, and they will not definitely say that it will, but they will not bet you, 'cause they'll be drinking up the bar waiting for the end. A "theory" is not the same in science as it is in your world. A scientist who says "this is so", well, he doesn't exist. He will say the preponderance of evidence is for it. In the absence of any other evidence, he'll bet it is so. Global warming is so.
However, a rightist will have no problems stating God exists and needs to be placated by begging ritualistically and following the writings of genocidal maniacs. Somehow, they don't see themselves as spinning a fantasy.
I'm afraid there won't be any polar bear overlords anymore.
Gah. This is a complicated subject, and I may have switched terms in my post. Forgive the gaffe. Not a radio maven.
Point is, a short-range radio signal CAN BE picked up at greater distances than "normal" with a powerful receiver and a good antenna. Unless the signal is cancelled out by interference, it always exists, and can be amplified. The industry is not going to promote this fact, but it exists nonetheless.
The RFID industry claims that the passive tags only work at a distance of a few feet, but such claims have already been refuted. What a motivated technologist can do isn't limited by the opinion of the manufacturer, who you must remember has a vested interest in pretending hacks won't work.
Besides, I'm more worried about the low-frequency semi-active tags. What would stop anyone from replacing passive high-frequency tags with the low-frequency tags that only broadcast when commanded to do so? To boil the frog, you kick the temperature of the water up a few degrees at a time.
http://www.dynamicbarcode.com/rfid/rfid_faq.htm
http://www.rfidjournal.com/faq/18
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Xw0bOrVpWVQJ:p risms.cs.umass.edu/~kevinfu/papers/RFID-CC-manuscr ipt.pdf+rfid+passive+range+boost+hack&hl=en&gl=us& ct=clnk&cd=3
Those "with privacy" will never give it up. Where's Cheney? Bill Gates?
We can place more and more cameras out there to even the score, but somehow there will always be those who don't get monitored. This fact negates the advantages of an transparent society, because there never can be a transparent society. There simply will be publicly monitored proles, and the elite upper class, jealously guarding their privacy.
Simplest way for the wealthy and powerful to operate outside the transparent society is to buy up large tracts of land and simply ban cameras not operated by themselves. Private roads in corporate towns. Purchase a few laws based on property rights, and bang-o, they're off the radar.
"the information is available anyway. "
No... such information has never been available, not in a prepackaged, instantaneously available and organized form.
I mind my mother once worked in a Public Aid office in the seventies. Two of her co-workers spent their lunches openly using the cases database to determine who was, and was not, home at lunchtime.
They'd then burglarize the likely targets.
This was information that was not available on a citywide basis to an individual before, and they made use of it in approximately, um, no time at all. Since there was no way to determine a common characteristic of the burglars, ie access to the database at a government office, they'd get away with it.
Don't shoot the deer. That's all you have to not do.
A little bit of stress reduction goes a long way. Stress ages you, stress will kill you. Alcohol reduces stress, QED.
The free market has failed us for twenty years on this one. The free market says: buy a proprietary cable, or don't buy at all.
The free market dictates that nothing works together, so that the businesses maximize profit. This is an automatic collusion. Smith said that no two businessmen ever met that didn't immediately collude to fix their market; he might have added that some markets require no actual collusion, that some exploitation is just obvious.
This is one of the reasons we have governments. It's also why we don't have dozens of different power companies and dozens of power connectors in our home.
Present businesses have failed us, so now some other nation's government will step in and impose some order, as we are ideologically incapable. Profits will diminish for the manufacturers, but spending power will increase for the consumer, the Broken Window fallacy refuted.
Woo-hoo! Laws made for consumers! It makes me want to tear up.
Nope. Polls show the vast majority wanting out of Iraq, are in favor of abortion rights, minimum wage increases, equal rights and pay for women, are concerned about global waring and all, ALL environmental issues, sex education, universal health care, on and on.
The majority are liberals. The insane thing is that they've been convinced they are "centrists".
Gee, Senator, this wouldn't have anything to do with the netroots exposing the Iraq "war" fallacies, or helping the Republican party and you towards the egress last election, would it?
And Jay Leno made jokes about me getting set on fire in prison. And all the inmates were so aglow with inner certainty as I was gang raped to death. Gosh, I guess no harm, no foul.
-signed, dead guy who was obviously guilty
Try taking a picture of the Bean down in Millenium Park. The guards will swarm you and maybe take away your camera, for taking shots of a publically funded artwork on public land. The city claims the visual of the Bean is copyrighted.
A few years ago, when they were filming the road chase scene for "Batman Begins" on Route 41 by Waukegan, the cops were *confiscating cameras* of anyone taking pictures of the filming. I don't think they claimed any legal justification other than the director told them they should. Copyright again.
And it requires a massively intrusive police state along with a vast prison system and court docket to criminalize table copying. Almost everyone would be a criminal at some point, if copying ideas becomes a felony for all intents and purposes.
All art is based on building on previous ideas. Crafts as well. God knows science is based on godless socialist sharing. IP will bring the growth of our culture to a crawl.
This is what happened:
They asked for the galaxy, and they "settled" for the sun and the moon.
They haven't back down from what they really wanted. They have what they really wanted.
"Foreign government secret services kills man. film at 10. Seriously why is it a big deal"
He was a British citizen, or at least was granted asylum.
I know that Bush has played into the whole Gen-X apathy towards politics and history, but you have to understand that poisoning another country's citizen is called "an act of war". Really.
He said that the government, Putin, deliberately bombed the apartment blocks in 1999 to create a pretext to start a war with Chechnya. He also said Putin was a secret pedophile. That should do it.
Which indicates VERY strongly to a government/intelligence source. I doubt very much that the restaurant cook had some in his back pocket. Also indicates that the government was sending a message: "Da. It was us. What do you intend to do about it? Go do your mother, kooltyoorni."
You don't need electricity to run heaters. Use electricity to pump heat out of the ground. Works for cooling, too. Free energy, mostly. Instead of creating the heat, you just move it from one place to another.
Seriously, the hell you are in is based on your reliace on fossil fuel. Pebble based reactors are damned safe in counterpoint to bowing before a polonium poisoner in the east.
It's evidence that it came from Russia. I assume that the fact is being leaked to put pressure on the Russians. And I'd guess that is being done because the UK government is fairly sure that the new KGB (new acronym) did it on orders. The bitch of course is that they can TRACK THE RADIATION TRAIL, and eventually will find that it leads to Russia's famously immoral spy agency and the Russian government. I assume Putin didn't like being accused of bombing his own people in 199 to start a war, and also the whole pedophile thing would be a kicker, if true...
"he polonium trick almost worked, because the half-life would have made it disappear in a month."
Well, half of it. oops. Guess that point doesn't hold up in physics. Damned science. A small amount still would have been present for an indefinite period. Still, damned lucky someone grabbed a counter. I assume the hair falling out and the leukemia was a screaming pair of clues.