So far, your post is the first one I found that wondered why they would be searching a reporter's home for weapons. Normally, such a search would be conducted concerning weapons related violations of the law. Has anyone seen a copy of that warrant?
Check on our activity in Vietnam back in the 1960s and possibly 1970s. The idea was to locally intensify monsoon rain over the Ho Chi Minh trail to slow down their transport. Vietnamese live in the rain for about half the year depending on the location and its just another thing to handle. So, I don't think this operation had any real impact. Maybe someone from the PAVN could comment.
Back in 1999, I watched one being formed by a single aircraft. It was in the late afternoon, about an hour before sunset. When I first saw it, half of the construction had been completed and the aircraft was flying alternating N-S trails and E-W trails. The result looked like a loose rectangular rattan weave. I estimated the altitude somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 feet and the spacing between the trails somewhere between 3000 and 6000 feet. The south end was around McClellan AFB and the north end was close to Beale AFB. Watching this thing was about the same idea as checking on an orb spider doing her thing. The aircraft departed the scene shortly before sunset and the trails slowly merged into a thin overcast. My best guess as to "Why" would be to impair the effectiveness of reconnaissance satellites. It was too thin to change nocturnal IR emission from the ground and the "overcast" was gone by the next day. For some actual pictures of the things, see Art Bell and Coast2CoastAM sites or Google the term. Other than consuming a few thousand pounds of JP-8, I don't see any real impact.
Need to "look around" some more. There are a lot of high rise apartment buildings, especially south of the Han River. The good news is that a lot of the heavy industry is farther south, out of artillery range. One way to figure out things are getting warm: A-10C aircraft show up in Kunsan AB and other air bases to the south.
This comment proves that the interim objective is to register all gun owners and guns. According to a previous statement by Senator Feinstein and a more recent one from Governor Cuomo, the ultimate objective is gun confiscation. In the words of Senator Feinstein, "Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them ALL in."
We've seen where this leads. Recently, in Rwanda, it lead to the slaughter of between 500K and 1M people. Proportionately to their population, it outranked the Nazi Holocaust and the Soviet Gulags but came close to the Killing Fields in Cambodia. According to Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO.org), these Lethal Laws have accounted for over 100M people.
The first use of an automated data file for this kind of purpose was by the 3rd Reich with the machinery supplied by IBM. If you were unfortunate enough to have numbers tatooed on your arm, it related to a data file, not you. Previously, if you had registered a firearm according to the gun control laws, this information was on file in a relational data base that could be sorted by name, address, type of firearm, ethnic group, etc. They may seem quaint today, but that Hollerwith card was the most powerful tool all the way to the 1970s.
Patriotic Duty: If you can get to it, corrupt that data file. People like Eric Holder can't be trusted with it. Politically, defeat the Feinstein Bill (S. 150, not yet posted to Thomas) or anything like it.
Organizations and societies have been trying to develop or select the "ideal" person for the last few millenia. See the various statues and bass reliefs for the evidence. Humans, however, are not uniform but vary in several characteristics. Lysenko and the Nazis are two recent examples of trying to develop or select the ideal person; both failed. The US military height-weight standards favor those with Cromagnon features (long limbs, short torso, slender) and actively discriminate against the rest. So, if the person is built along Neanderthal lines, don't count on a military career. It doesn't matter if he was the fellow who could haul that 1200 pair cable and not be bothered by the cold water he was wading through. One term and he's gone. Buying cloths off the rack? Forget about it!
Helsinki? I thought that was Stockholm Syndrome in which a person put in a strange (new) environment will acquire the characteristics of that environment. The earlier definition was becoming supportive of one's captors, but the concept is broader.
The House passed the "Fiscal Cliff" bill that included, among other things, an extension on Wind and Solar Power support. So, they've got another year to pick my pockets. By the way, on a local level, wind power can work. However, the best application may not be electrical generation. Those windmills can power air compressors and compressed air can be stored indefinitely. They also produce distilled water as a byproduct. The neat thing is that it is scalable. As finances permit, tanks and windmills can be added to the system.
When you have a market based on an imaginary construct (Al Gore's book and the the folks at East Anglia U.), it is ripe for any form of fraud. Or, as the English sailor in Holland put it, "That's a funny tasting onion."
How about an RPB as in remotely piloted blimp? This is a current project by Aeronautics students at Weber State University (WSU), Ogden, UT. So, this will really put some meaning in the term "fly over country". Practical considerations: 1. Once filled, it will weigh a few pounds and maintain that weight for several days but not indefinitely since helium leaks out of almost anything. 2. It can stay aloft for about six hours per battery charge including the snoop load. 3. Spare batteries give this craft a rapid turn-around capability. 4. Both high resolution TV and night vision was mentioned in the Ogden Standard Examiner article suggesting this craft could operate 24/7. Finally, it has a graceful failure mode if it loses power except that it might have to be retrieved from some strange places. The primary limitation is speed; so don't expect this system to work too well in Oklahoma. FAA rules are different for lighter than air devices. Generally, they have right of way except for non-powered balloons. They can operate at lower altitudes. This project will probably cause a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) on the part of the FAA to establish operating rules for RPBs.
Not quite. In addition to the TelCo and Cable, there are two cell phone providers and at least two (maybe more) microwave providers. That means I can vote with my antennas if the land-line services don't cut it. Three of my neighbors already have the antennas.
Pretty good approach. Consider the idea that an entity that has the power to keep someone from impairing a source such as bit torrent can also require the same someone to impair another service such as Heritage.org "for the prevention of hate speak". The opposing side could decide that there is a problem with Daily Kos for their own reasons. Finally, there is a serious legal problem for the FCC that could involve Contempt of Court due to previous court decisions against the imposition of "Net Neutrality" and several previous Congressional decisions against it, too.
In my previous response to an FCC NPRM, I noted that my present service has at least five competitors in the Layton, UT area and that regulation in this area was not warranted. I don't think I was alone in making this observation. The FCC could be required to produce all the comments to their proposal by Congress as part of the preparation for a Hearing under the Federal Records Act. As Nancy Pelosi put it, "Elections have consequences."
Let's see what happens in the next couple of years. If the peak is supposed to happen in 2012 and we are looking at uncharacteristic low activity now, what will the shape of the activity lines show us? There are multiple possibilities and catastrophy theory suggests a violent outcome is not out of the question, but the probability is low. From the comments, I will agree the weather this year has been strange with record lows and highs all over the place and some at the same place. Right now, Florida is just getting over an early cold snap that threatens their agriculture while central and south Texas is unusually warm with some places in the eighties. New England and Europe are both suffering from the cold while, at the same time, Greenland and Ice Land are both well above their average temperatures for the same period. For what it is worth, here in Utah, my heating bill more than doubled from November to December and the December consumption was higher than the previous year by about seven percent. The Summer was cooler and late enough to trash my garden schedule. If this continues, I'll have to build green houses.
Effectively, they did by "upgrading" the PCs to models without floppy drive slots.
Out in the world of the NIPR-net or non-secure lines with access to the internet, the Air Force has banned the use of any form of flash drive for at least a year. People who slip up find out in seconds; then, it turns nasty.
Now, if they ban the use of CD-ROM and DVD disks, it could do more harm to effective mission accomplishment than the possible security gains.
Activity logs should be the answer. When this twerp transferred a quarter million files, it should have set off all kinds of alarms. Why didn't it?
Wonder what it costs to find those parts of the genome? Sounds expensive. There are some ways to find out if this is you (or me) that don't involve drinking "a swimming pool of booze". A couple of the schools my son attended had a dress code that allowed hem lines to extend up to the finger tips. If either one of us tried to use this standard, we'd be arrested for indecent exposure! Short limbs and long torsoe are cold weather adaptations that Neanderthals were good at. The wife is more Cromagnon in this regard. We are the same height but she can grab things on that top shelf I can barely touch. I'm still soaking up the rays (and keeping up with the Vitamin D) while others are bundled up in layers. While others are looking for seconds on desert, I'm looking for another piece of meat. To paraphrase Mark Twain, the pronouncements of Neanderthal extinction may have been premature.
EMP and a CME share one thing in common. They have the capacity to generate large currents in long conductors. Now, here is where it gets interesting: Not all "long conductors" are electrical lines. Railroad tracks and pipelines are two things where surprising things can happen and there are a lot more of them than there was in 1859. Those pipes carry everything from natural gas and petroleum to water. Some moderately long conductors are verticle including tall buildings and antenna towers. How do they tether heliostats? Those are the observation baloons that keep an eye on our borders and other places. Yes, I would prefer the term "Solar Warning" and like the concept. The best part is the early warning starting with seeing a ten minute old event that won't get here for another 8 to 24 hours. Can they do a system shut down and swing shorting bars in that kind of time? Right now would not be too early to start the planning and practicing.
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So far, your post is the first one I found that wondered why they would be searching a reporter's home for weapons. Normally, such a search would be conducted concerning weapons related violations of the law. Has anyone seen a copy of that warrant?
Check on our activity in Vietnam back in the 1960s and possibly 1970s. The idea was to locally intensify monsoon rain over the Ho Chi Minh trail to slow down their transport. Vietnamese live in the rain for about half the year depending on the location and its just another thing to handle. So, I don't think this operation had any real impact. Maybe someone from the PAVN could comment.
Back in 1999, I watched one being formed by a single aircraft. It was in the late afternoon, about an hour before sunset. When I first saw it, half of the construction had been completed and the aircraft was flying alternating N-S trails and E-W trails. The result looked like a loose rectangular rattan weave. I estimated the altitude somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 feet and the spacing between the trails somewhere between 3000 and 6000 feet. The south end was around McClellan AFB and the north end was close to Beale AFB. Watching this thing was about the same idea as checking on an orb spider doing her thing. The aircraft departed the scene shortly before sunset and the trails slowly merged into a thin overcast. My best guess as to "Why" would be to impair the effectiveness of reconnaissance satellites. It was too thin to change nocturnal IR emission from the ground and the "overcast" was gone by the next day. For some actual pictures of the things, see Art Bell and Coast2CoastAM sites or Google the term. Other than consuming a few thousand pounds of JP-8, I don't see any real impact.
Need to "look around" some more. There are a lot of high rise apartment buildings, especially south of the Han River. The good news is that a lot of the heavy industry is farther south, out of artillery range. One way to figure out things are getting warm: A-10C aircraft show up in Kunsan AB and other air bases to the south.
This comment proves that the interim objective is to register all gun owners and guns. According to a previous statement by Senator Feinstein and a more recent one from Governor Cuomo, the ultimate objective is gun confiscation. In the words of Senator Feinstein, "Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them ALL in." We've seen where this leads. Recently, in Rwanda, it lead to the slaughter of between 500K and 1M people. Proportionately to their population, it outranked the Nazi Holocaust and the Soviet Gulags but came close to the Killing Fields in Cambodia. According to Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO.org), these Lethal Laws have accounted for over 100M people. The first use of an automated data file for this kind of purpose was by the 3rd Reich with the machinery supplied by IBM. If you were unfortunate enough to have numbers tatooed on your arm, it related to a data file, not you. Previously, if you had registered a firearm according to the gun control laws, this information was on file in a relational data base that could be sorted by name, address, type of firearm, ethnic group, etc. They may seem quaint today, but that Hollerwith card was the most powerful tool all the way to the 1970s. Patriotic Duty: If you can get to it, corrupt that data file. People like Eric Holder can't be trusted with it. Politically, defeat the Feinstein Bill (S. 150, not yet posted to Thomas) or anything like it.
Organizations and societies have been trying to develop or select the "ideal" person for the last few millenia. See the various statues and bass reliefs for the evidence. Humans, however, are not uniform but vary in several characteristics. Lysenko and the Nazis are two recent examples of trying to develop or select the ideal person; both failed. The US military height-weight standards favor those with Cromagnon features (long limbs, short torso, slender) and actively discriminate against the rest. So, if the person is built along Neanderthal lines, don't count on a military career. It doesn't matter if he was the fellow who could haul that 1200 pair cable and not be bothered by the cold water he was wading through. One term and he's gone. Buying cloths off the rack? Forget about it!
Helsinki? I thought that was Stockholm Syndrome in which a person put in a strange (new) environment will acquire the characteristics of that environment. The earlier definition was becoming supportive of one's captors, but the concept is broader.
The House passed the "Fiscal Cliff" bill that included, among other things, an extension on Wind and Solar Power support. So, they've got another year to pick my pockets. By the way, on a local level, wind power can work. However, the best application may not be electrical generation. Those windmills can power air compressors and compressed air can be stored indefinitely. They also produce distilled water as a byproduct. The neat thing is that it is scalable. As finances permit, tanks and windmills can be added to the system.
When you have a market based on an imaginary construct (Al Gore's book and the the folks at East Anglia U.), it is ripe for any form of fraud. Or, as the English sailor in Holland put it, "That's a funny tasting onion."
How about an RPB as in remotely piloted blimp? This is a current project by Aeronautics students at Weber State University (WSU), Ogden, UT. So, this will really put some meaning in the term "fly over country". Practical considerations: 1. Once filled, it will weigh a few pounds and maintain that weight for several days but not indefinitely since helium leaks out of almost anything. 2. It can stay aloft for about six hours per battery charge including the snoop load. 3. Spare batteries give this craft a rapid turn-around capability. 4. Both high resolution TV and night vision was mentioned in the Ogden Standard Examiner article suggesting this craft could operate 24/7. Finally, it has a graceful failure mode if it loses power except that it might have to be retrieved from some strange places. The primary limitation is speed; so don't expect this system to work too well in Oklahoma. FAA rules are different for lighter than air devices. Generally, they have right of way except for non-powered balloons. They can operate at lower altitudes. This project will probably cause a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) on the part of the FAA to establish operating rules for RPBs.
Not quite. In addition to the TelCo and Cable, there are two cell phone providers and at least two (maybe more) microwave providers. That means I can vote with my antennas if the land-line services don't cut it. Three of my neighbors already have the antennas.
Pretty good approach. Consider the idea that an entity that has the power to keep someone from impairing a source such as bit torrent can also require the same someone to impair another service such as Heritage.org "for the prevention of hate speak". The opposing side could decide that there is a problem with Daily Kos for their own reasons. Finally, there is a serious legal problem for the FCC that could involve Contempt of Court due to previous court decisions against the imposition of "Net Neutrality" and several previous Congressional decisions against it, too. In my previous response to an FCC NPRM, I noted that my present service has at least five competitors in the Layton, UT area and that regulation in this area was not warranted. I don't think I was alone in making this observation. The FCC could be required to produce all the comments to their proposal by Congress as part of the preparation for a Hearing under the Federal Records Act. As Nancy Pelosi put it, "Elections have consequences."
Let's see what happens in the next couple of years. If the peak is supposed to happen in 2012 and we are looking at uncharacteristic low activity now, what will the shape of the activity lines show us? There are multiple possibilities and catastrophy theory suggests a violent outcome is not out of the question, but the probability is low. From the comments, I will agree the weather this year has been strange with record lows and highs all over the place and some at the same place. Right now, Florida is just getting over an early cold snap that threatens their agriculture while central and south Texas is unusually warm with some places in the eighties. New England and Europe are both suffering from the cold while, at the same time, Greenland and Ice Land are both well above their average temperatures for the same period. For what it is worth, here in Utah, my heating bill more than doubled from November to December and the December consumption was higher than the previous year by about seven percent. The Summer was cooler and late enough to trash my garden schedule. If this continues, I'll have to build green houses.
Effectively, they did by "upgrading" the PCs to models without floppy drive slots. Out in the world of the NIPR-net or non-secure lines with access to the internet, the Air Force has banned the use of any form of flash drive for at least a year. People who slip up find out in seconds; then, it turns nasty. Now, if they ban the use of CD-ROM and DVD disks, it could do more harm to effective mission accomplishment than the possible security gains. Activity logs should be the answer. When this twerp transferred a quarter million files, it should have set off all kinds of alarms. Why didn't it?
Wonder what it costs to find those parts of the genome? Sounds expensive. There are some ways to find out if this is you (or me) that don't involve drinking "a swimming pool of booze". A couple of the schools my son attended had a dress code that allowed hem lines to extend up to the finger tips. If either one of us tried to use this standard, we'd be arrested for indecent exposure! Short limbs and long torsoe are cold weather adaptations that Neanderthals were good at. The wife is more Cromagnon in this regard. We are the same height but she can grab things on that top shelf I can barely touch. I'm still soaking up the rays (and keeping up with the Vitamin D) while others are bundled up in layers. While others are looking for seconds on desert, I'm looking for another piece of meat. To paraphrase Mark Twain, the pronouncements of Neanderthal extinction may have been premature.
EMP and a CME share one thing in common. They have the capacity to generate large currents in long conductors. Now, here is where it gets interesting: Not all "long conductors" are electrical lines. Railroad tracks and pipelines are two things where surprising things can happen and there are a lot more of them than there was in 1859. Those pipes carry everything from natural gas and petroleum to water. Some moderately long conductors are verticle including tall buildings and antenna towers. How do they tether heliostats? Those are the observation baloons that keep an eye on our borders and other places. Yes, I would prefer the term "Solar Warning" and like the concept. The best part is the early warning starting with seeing a ten minute old event that won't get here for another 8 to 24 hours. Can they do a system shut down and swing shorting bars in that kind of time? Right now would not be too early to start the planning and practicing.