Stop calling it a conspiracy THEORY. There were tons of put options put up in the week before 9/11 on the airline industry, and the insurance for the whole wtc complex changed hands less than 2 months before. There most certainly was a conspiracy, now the only theories are trying to figure who perpetrated this dastardly deed.
OK, let's suppose a sprinkling of jet fuel DID bring the buildings down with perfectly cut 45 degree angle I beam cuts (of which there are several pictures). Please explain:
1. Who killed Kennedy.
2. The role of the Federal Reserve, and IRS, and how it is constitutional.
3. The electoral college, and the reliability of Diebold voting machines.
4. Why we can't get candidates not bought and paid for by mega-corporations.
5. How there is a free press, when every newspaper, magazine, radio station, TV station, book publisher and movie publisher is owned by five corporations: Viacom, AOL/Time, News Corp, Disney, and Bertellsmann.
6. Why Marvin Bush was in charge of security for the WTC for only one month prior to 9/11.
7. Why there is no footage publicly released that shows the plane hitting the Pentagon, arguably the highest security building in the world.
8. Why the Bush family and Bin Laden family are so cozy.
I mean, even if some stripper loving drunkard muslims did bring down the buildings and live to tell about it later, how do you explain the complete lack of transparency and latent fascism encroaching whats left of our democracy?
Well, actually, the payment of the hijackers was done by high levels of the ISI, Pakistani CIA run largely by our own. The 9/11 commission report suggested this funding and tracing it was "of little practical value." All the Al Quaeda members involved were not on flight manifests. They were out drinking at strip clubs, and some are still alive. Besides which, the CIA has been funding Al Quaeda all along, including during the time we were fighting the cold war in Afganistan against the Soviets.
But you know, when the mob pays a hit man, police rarely bother chasing the money trail, right?
Those examples are not connected in any way. Making that connection is fallacious.
Holocaust deniers and ID proponents are most often politically, spiritually, and scientifically opposed to the 9/11 truthers I've met.
Most of them seem like godless atheists who want to talk about the burning point of jet fuel and thermate, evidence of which has been found in the dust and wreckage.
There is clearly a cover-up going on, no matter WHAT you might suppose actually happened.
I keep saying this over and over. Hell, I think these problems are important enough, so let's just build an exact WTC7 replica and see what it takes to duplicate the collapse.
I've been a fan of iD from day one. But this just REEKS Of idiocy.
Computer hardware has been becoming cheaper exponentially since the dawn of the silicon age. When you can get a new super computer for the equivalent of 20% of the previous price, how do expect the consumer to pay almost twice as much for the latest software? Especially when the software is bloated, slower, more complicated, and there is an Open Source version that is superior?
iD is no exception. The last EXCELLENT iD game I played was Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Besides the fact that all their sequels are less fun than the previous one, the gameplay has stayed almost exactly the same for a decade.
You want me to pay for software? Good luck, especially when your software is repetitive, boring, over-priced, and a rehash of a previous game that was better.
But thank you for Open Sourcing the original quake engines, honestly, you could over-charge for tons of more boring rehashes, and you would still be saints in my eyes. Just STFU about piracy already. The corporations have already lost that battle, and let's be real, here, software is never going to be paid for in the end. It is inevitable reality of the new world we live in. You just look stupid fighting that fact.
It is essential that your webcam only have the lens visible in the the wall, to complete the illusion. Be sure to smooth and Spackle the rest of the wall around your webcam installation to a solid smooth, uniform white.
I recommend two mid-grade logitech webcams, and a projector on either end. Install the webcam in the middle of a large blank white wall, with the USB cable exiting the wall in a distant corner to connect to the machine. Then project your screen fullscreen directly on the same wall.
If you use the entire wall, and get a good enough connection (I often do in Skype), you will have a wall that opens up virtually to another house with the identical setup.
Setting this up for a full time connection with a cheap extra PC is a no-brainer. I recommend MicroXP, since it is fast, stable, and has all the additional BS removed. I seem to get better skype performance under windows than under Linux.
In this way, your home can be connected to another home with the illusion of presence in a way that is natural to the human mind.
As much as China's censorship is abhorrent in every sense of the word, we have similar problems in this country with corporate control. Look at comcast.
A much better idea would be free and open ad hoc wifi, not just in China, but globally. You can communicate with any router in range of another router, and we could use fiber or parabolic dishes for the long hops.
I'm really tired of paying $80 a month for crap Net service.
Now can ATI submit a kernel patch so we can use our FPU in cuda like fashion for all tasks? That would be nice. Can we also get a kernel patch that can automagically detect other local computers and automagically use their CPUs/FPUs real time in addition to the local terminal like a beowulf cluster?
These are things that should've already happened a couple years back.
"Yes, my cell phone is slow, but when I'm on my wifi-N network, it has the power of my desktop quad 4 extreme, and I can even play farcry 2 and run Vista in a VM simultaneously, if my laptop is also on and idle. Or I can log on automagically VNC style with hi speed video to either system."
"I can put each of those desktops on different sides of my compiz cube in fullscreen, and the computer feels completely local, but with additional clustering processor and memory performance, all of which I can back up as a.VDI on a USB stick".
Seriously, make a really bitchin' system. Some monster multi-core hi speed interfaced to a powerful GPU or 2, tons of cache, and a big giant chunk of ram. Make one that is awesome, and then make 80 billion more of them. They obviously have tons of production capability. Don't make it x86 at all, Make it a Field-programmable gate array, with so many CPU and GPU cores that it can perform like a multi-core x64 x86 chip. Do that and release a machine with a custom built Ubuntu derivative, complete with Pidgin, VLC, Open Office, Virtualbox, Iceweasel, Rhythmbox, Brasero, Gimp, and Milkdrop. The FPS could be insane. Put that massive chip in an iphone form factor, with a USB 3.0 out that connects to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and utilizes wifi VOIP and Speex and H.264 for real time video chat. Sell it for $100 with all FOSS software, and the upgrade option to buy an XP license to run as a VDI. Meanwhile you could include an improved ReactOS VDI for free out of the box, including all the most popular FOSS Windows apps and games. Work on customizing the hardware for improved Wine performance. Take down Apple and Tom Tom and Microsoft and Intel and ATI/AMD all at once.
Give the device ad hoc p2p wifi capabilities, and remove ISPs out of the equation while you're at it (at least for short hops). Put Zsnes on there out of the box, with touch screen buttons, or an option for a real honest USB gamepad, or even wiimote. Sell a docking station with surround sound speakers and an LCD projector.
We should be farther along than we are right now. Really where are the technical or practical difficulties in eliminating all these Cyber-monopolies with technology that frees us and is cheap, abundant, and open source?
Why doesn't Canonical or some other corporations step up to the plate and deliver us?
And while they're at it, why don't they LOSE THE BROWN:
Vista is abysmal. It's slow, it's buggy, it's bloated, it's over-priced. It's the worst OS out of Redmond since ME, which I've been trying hard to forget.
Ubuntu is so many light years ahead of Vista, it's hard to fathom.
That being said, for most enterprise uses, XP is still the number one choice:
Clean simple layout, start menu quick launch taskbar systray clock.
NOT BROWN.
Ctrl Alt Del opens task manager.
If Ubuntu solved that and the GIMP and Open Office were just SLIGHTLY better at integrating with the PS and MS Office world, I would not recommend any version of Windows for any user, ever.
If you feel the same, here are the brainstorms about fixing Ubuntu:
.... and if you think I paid $500 for Photoshop, or $100 for Windows XP, you are deluding yourself in the extreme. I actively loathe having to use either, ever, and certainly would not pay for the experience. Further, I would much rather have the cracked versions of either than the stock retail ones which are always slow, buggy, and full of DRM.
I'm a big fan of TinyXP, rather than stock Windows, and in particular it is VERY snappy under Virtualbox. If you haven't tried it out, install Virtualbox, and give it a whirl. Faster, smaller, cleaner, and easier than any other stock Windows install, by several orders of magnitude.
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Stop calling it a conspiracy THEORY. There were tons of put options put up in the week before 9/11 on the airline industry, and the insurance for the whole wtc complex changed hands less than 2 months before. There most certainly was a conspiracy, now the only theories are trying to figure who perpetrated this dastardly deed.
OK, let's suppose a sprinkling of jet fuel DID bring the buildings down with perfectly cut 45 degree angle I beam cuts (of which there are several pictures). Please explain:
1. Who killed Kennedy.
2. The role of the Federal Reserve, and IRS, and how it is constitutional.
3. The electoral college, and the reliability of Diebold voting machines.
4. Why we can't get candidates not bought and paid for by mega-corporations.
5. How there is a free press, when every newspaper, magazine, radio station, TV station, book publisher and movie publisher is owned by five corporations: Viacom, AOL/Time, News Corp, Disney, and Bertellsmann.
6. Why Marvin Bush was in charge of security for the WTC for only one month prior to 9/11.
7. Why there is no footage publicly released that shows the plane hitting the Pentagon, arguably the highest security building in the world.
8. Why the Bush family and Bin Laden family are so cozy.
I mean, even if some stripper loving drunkard muslims did bring down the buildings and live to tell about it later, how do you explain the complete lack of transparency and latent fascism encroaching whats left of our democracy?
Who wants to volunteer for a water-boarding?
Well, actually, the payment of the hijackers was done by high levels of the ISI, Pakistani CIA run largely by our own. The 9/11 commission report suggested this funding and tracing it was "of little practical value." All the Al Quaeda members involved were not on flight manifests. They were out drinking at strip clubs, and some are still alive. Besides which, the CIA has been funding Al Quaeda all along, including during the time we were fighting the cold war in Afganistan against the Soviets.
But you know, when the mob pays a hit man, police rarely bother chasing the money trail, right?
Those examples are not connected in any way. Making that connection is fallacious.
Holocaust deniers and ID proponents are most often politically, spiritually, and scientifically opposed to the 9/11 truthers I've met.
Most of them seem like godless atheists who want to talk about the burning point of jet fuel and thermate, evidence of which has been found in the dust and wreckage.
There is clearly a cover-up going on, no matter WHAT you might suppose actually happened.
I keep saying this over and over. Hell, I think these problems are important enough, so let's just build an exact WTC7 replica and see what it takes to duplicate the collapse.
I've been a fan of iD from day one. But this just REEKS Of idiocy.
Computer hardware has been becoming cheaper exponentially since the dawn of the silicon age. When you can get a new super computer for the equivalent of 20% of the previous price, how do expect the consumer to pay almost twice as much for the latest software? Especially when the software is bloated, slower, more complicated, and there is an Open Source version that is superior?
iD is no exception. The last EXCELLENT iD game I played was Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Besides the fact that all their sequels are less fun than the previous one, the gameplay has stayed almost exactly the same for a decade.
You want me to pay for software? Good luck, especially when your software is repetitive, boring, over-priced, and a rehash of a previous game that was better.
But thank you for Open Sourcing the original quake engines, honestly, you could over-charge for tons of more boring rehashes, and you would still be saints in my eyes. Just STFU about piracy already. The corporations have already lost that battle, and let's be real, here, software is never going to be paid for in the end. It is inevitable reality of the new world we live in. You just look stupid fighting that fact.
It is essential that your webcam only have the lens visible in the the wall, to complete the illusion. Be sure to smooth and Spackle the rest of the wall around your webcam installation to a solid smooth, uniform white.
I recommend two mid-grade logitech webcams, and a projector on either end. Install the webcam in the middle of a large blank white wall, with the USB cable exiting the wall in a distant corner to connect to the machine. Then project your screen fullscreen directly on the same wall.
If you use the entire wall, and get a good enough connection (I often do in Skype), you will have a wall that opens up virtually to another house with the identical setup.
Setting this up for a full time connection with a cheap extra PC is a no-brainer. I recommend MicroXP, since it is fast, stable, and has all the additional BS removed. I seem to get better skype performance under windows than under Linux.
In this way, your home can be connected to another home with the illusion of presence in a way that is natural to the human mind.
Ha! Less than a quarter of YOURS! XD Change my depends, n00bie!!!
As much as China's censorship is abhorrent in every sense of the word, we have similar problems in this country with corporate control. Look at comcast.
A much better idea would be free and open ad hoc wifi, not just in China, but globally. You can communicate with any router in range of another router, and we could use fiber or parabolic dishes for the long hops.
I'm really tired of paying $80 a month for crap Net service.
That will never happen because the natural brown of Ubuntu is so beautiful:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/12326/
But I don't think I use javascript for ANYTHING. I do however use Flash. Any word on a flash fix?
It's called Cannabis Sativa, Northern Lights.
83. The fact that you care means you are probably a Pisces.
Remind me never to play Quake at YOUR family's house!!!!
uid 327 ?!?! What, are you like a bacteria from the Archean?!?
You insensitive clod! I'm a cyborg and will out live my other low ID compatriots!
And of course all of this happens in our parent's basement, near our bed with Star Wars sheets.
I have a low ID, but I signed up for /. when I was 5, so......
You meant, "insensitive clod".
Now can ATI submit a kernel patch so we can use our FPU in cuda like fashion for all tasks? That would be nice. Can we also get a kernel patch that can automagically detect other local computers and automagically use their CPUs/FPUs real time in addition to the local terminal like a beowulf cluster?
These are things that should've already happened a couple years back.
"Yes, my cell phone is slow, but when I'm on my wifi-N network, it has the power of my desktop quad 4 extreme, and I can even play farcry 2 and run Vista in a VM simultaneously, if my laptop is also on and idle. Or I can log on automagically VNC style with hi speed video to either system."
"I can put each of those desktops on different sides of my compiz cube in fullscreen, and the computer feels completely local, but with additional clustering processor and memory performance, all of which I can back up as a .VDI on a USB stick".
Why are we eternally stuck in XEROX parc c.1982?
Seriously, make a really bitchin' system. Some monster multi-core hi speed interfaced to a powerful GPU or 2, tons of cache, and a big giant chunk of ram. Make one that is awesome, and then make 80 billion more of them. They obviously have tons of production capability. Don't make it x86 at all, Make it a Field-programmable gate array, with so many CPU and GPU cores that it can perform like a multi-core x64 x86 chip. Do that and release a machine with a custom built Ubuntu derivative, complete with Pidgin, VLC, Open Office, Virtualbox, Iceweasel, Rhythmbox, Brasero, Gimp, and Milkdrop. The FPS could be insane. Put that massive chip in an iphone form factor, with a USB 3.0 out that connects to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and utilizes wifi VOIP and Speex and H.264 for real time video chat. Sell it for $100 with all FOSS software, and the upgrade option to buy an XP license to run as a VDI. Meanwhile you could include an improved ReactOS VDI for free out of the box, including all the most popular FOSS Windows apps and games. Work on customizing the hardware for improved Wine performance. Take down Apple and Tom Tom and Microsoft and Intel and ATI/AMD all at once.
Give the device ad hoc p2p wifi capabilities, and remove ISPs out of the equation while you're at it (at least for short hops). Put Zsnes on there out of the box, with touch screen buttons, or an option for a real honest USB gamepad, or even wiimote. Sell a docking station with surround sound speakers and an LCD projector.
We should be farther along than we are right now. Really where are the technical or practical difficulties in eliminating all these Cyber-monopolies with technology that frees us and is cheap, abundant, and open source?
Why doesn't Canonical or some other corporations step up to the plate and deliver us?
And while they're at it, why don't they LOSE THE BROWN:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/12326/
Instead of "weights" they should use flywheels or batteries, or fuel tanks, or water tanks. Something potentially useful.
Vista is abysmal. It's slow, it's buggy, it's bloated, it's over-priced. It's the worst OS out of Redmond since ME, which I've been trying hard to forget.
Ubuntu is so many light years ahead of Vista, it's hard to fathom.
That being said, for most enterprise uses, XP is still the number one choice:
Clean simple layout, start menu quick launch taskbar systray clock.
NOT BROWN.
Ctrl Alt Del opens task manager.
If Ubuntu solved that and the GIMP and Open Office were just SLIGHTLY better at integrating with the PS and MS Office world, I would not recommend any version of Windows for any user, ever.
If you feel the same, here are the brainstorms about fixing Ubuntu:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/12326/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/11784/
(And yes, I'm shamelessly promoting my own ideas, even though they are dupes... :P)
.... and if you think I paid $500 for Photoshop, or $100 for Windows XP, you are deluding yourself in the extreme. I actively loathe having to use either, ever, and certainly would not pay for the experience. Further, I would much rather have the cracked versions of either than the stock retail ones which are always slow, buggy, and full of DRM.
I'm a big fan of TinyXP, rather than stock Windows, and in particular it is VERY snappy under Virtualbox. If you haven't tried it out, install Virtualbox, and give it a whirl. Faster, smaller, cleaner, and easier than any other stock Windows install, by several orders of magnitude.