You know what would be cool..? Somebody, (with more patience than me), should go back in Slashdot history and find the first story of a big rock buzzing the Earth.
And then work out the frequency of such events after that point.
And note the various distances from the Earth of said 'buzz'. You know. Threat level. Hey, maybe measure in potential megatons!
I'm not convinced that this ebola plague isn't being helped along on purpose by various elitist parties looking to exterminate their least favorite groups.
And, of course they would.
-The same psychopaths have been running the black world since forever. A plague? What a great way to decimate the population without being blamed of wrong doing. Also, the prospect of making a huge profit on the pending cure is a nice bonus. It's Win Win all the way around to the psychopathic mind!
"Disaster Capitalism" -Not just for earthquakes anymore!
However, because they are completely, utterly insane and thus incapable of real forward planning, these catastrophically mad bastards are basing their hopes of surviving the biological embers they're blowing into flame with some as yet undeveloped 'cure'. -And on the fact that they're insane; the psychopath really doesn't believe s/he is in any real danger of the universe not forever spinning around them. They cannot do anything about their condition other than to play it out. It's up to real humans to do something, and.., sadly, that doesn't appear likely.
The solution?
Well, there isn't one. People are too far gone. I'll probably get another negative mod for failing to get in line here, but should you perhaps not happen to have lost your brain to the media and the lemming rot, you might wish to look into what you can do to make the plague a survivable event in your life.
-Because you're going to be facing it soon enough. Ebola is just the beginning; history shows that when empires fall, a lot of other things, (space rocks, environmental shake ups, and plague) come along in unison. -The Black Plague was a stubborn problem which just kept on coming back during the dark ages, and we're entering the New Dark Ages right now. That's not hype.
So.., what do you do? Well, skip the gas masks and bug out tents and survival gear. Toys aren't going to save you. Community might, however.
So look instead into ketogenics, Vitamin C and cold therapies.
Absurdly enough, during the dark ages, old people who ate the disgusting bone broth left over after the good meat was gone, tended to have higher survival rates than the tough young folk. Healthy fat tissues make your cells harder to attack. And that means animal fats in the diet. And lots of all the nutrients life needs to be strong.
Sketchy social networking and twitter twits aren't proof of an invasion. Usually, an invasion is proof of an invasion. They're big, loud and well-populated. Rather hard to miss, really.
What we have here is evidence of nothing more than the West desperately trying to spin something out of nothing in an effort to protect the little Nazi stronghold they installed. What else can they do? Russia doesn't care. The West has no teeth in this matter.
When are people going to click to the fact that the Western media lies about everything? We've seen this side show before, many times over the years. What makes anyone think that this time the same old liars are going to miraculously start singing the truth?
And please don't twitter on about half-empty trucks. Proof? Nothing more than a photo of a truck with some boxes in it and some men standing over them. Was it being loaded? Emptied? We don't know. All we have is a picture and a rumor. That's all the propaganda wing of the Pentagon has to offer.
Amazingly, Macleans has managed to stick to the facts they know without engaging in speculation.
Who knows how long they'll last before Psyops Americana kicks them in the rump for not playing along with the American Dream.
Gonna be a painful day when everybody is woken up with that splash of cold reality coming down the pike. The West has already lost this one. Russia has all the industry and food growing capacity it needs. U.S. sanctions are an idiotic, facile, desperate measure. Pathetic, really, because they mean nothing. They hurt us more than them, by a long shot.
Russia is the natural powerhouse on that side of the ocean; who cares what hissy fits the U.S. throws? The U.S. is irrelevant. They've utterly failed to even get their proxy war via our Kiev Nazis to terrorize people in a straight line without spilling buckets of stupid all over the place. I guess that's what you get when you employ raving psychopaths to do your bidding. Incompetent, butchering gits.
And while we're on the subject of incompetence.., where's the follow up on Malaysian Flight 17? The media dropped that ball faster than any other airline disaster in the history of airline disasters. -I guess the claptrap story started to fall apart under its own weight and threaten embarrassment. Latest material I saw indicated that the cockpit was shot full of bullet holes and that BUK missiles were not capable of bringing the plane down where it came down. No comments, mister media..? Guess not.
We can't even hold our own house of cards together, let alone anybody else's.
But still we see people thronging again to the soda jerk for more froth.
I know you're being facetious, but the computer screen is actually a pretty good example to work with in explaining this point, which I will attempt...
Screens don't damage your retina. (I actually spent a few days digging through this subject in an effort to verify that one way or the other). However, they can have other deleterious physiological/neurological effects, one of which being blue light, which at night can serve to mess up your sleep rhythms and your melatonin levels.
Understanding these effects allows me to modulate my use of screen time intelligently, and if not mitigate the risks, take responsibility for them. I do not pretend that my circadian rhythm isn't being screwed up as I type this at 3:00 AM, for instance. I accept that. I know what I'm doing to myself, and I'm willing to pay for it because the benefits are big enough and the downside is manageable.
The same process can be extended to cell phone EM. After doing the requisite research (which most people simply prefer not to bother with), I found that bad-news effects were such that I consider the appropriate response to be not owning a cell phone and to use ethernet cables where reasonably possible. -Because those are easy measures and I don't consider the benefit of wireless technology to be worth the cost.
I've made an informed decision. Most people cannot make that claim because they avoid truly informing themselves.
Of course, you can't avoid cell phone EM these days. Too many ignorant/compliant people walk around with them, radiating everybody in their vicinity. -I can usually feel it when a bunch of Wifi zoodles cluster around me with their microwave emitters, and that sucks. But I can certainly minimize the pollution in my own space, so I do.
It's all about humanity-killing viruses and includes experimental monkeys, and voluntary human test subjects dying 10% of the time while trying out the new super-vaccine, (so bravely concocted by a cute scientist babe while sailing under the buff, gruff manly man uber-patriotic US navy?)
Now, given the superb timing of that show in conjunction with this latest (opportunist's cash bonanza) virus threat out here in the real world, one can ask quite justifiably...
Is "The Last Ship" an example of willful sculpting of public opinion and receptiveness to what will certainly be a very expensive jab, or was it a subconscious up-bubbling of worries and fears from the collective human psyche? (Kind of like all those zombie films).
I'm leaning towards cynicism, myself. -Heck, it even has Evil Russians. So.., social engineering for the win!
Also I'd advise anyone whining about monopolies to take a good long look at the standard contracts existing publishers make authors sign, as we're on the subject.
Old individual-punishing contracts were the result of the vaunted Free Market model as well. Which suggests to me that the free market model sucks. It rewards psychopaths, results in shitty systems which punish the public and takes the creative principle for ransom.
It would be much better for everybody if we were to rationally decide what kind of system would best serve all of society, (in books as well as any other industry), then agree upon behavior models which encourage a non-random, non-greed aligned growth of said system.
Because if we wait around for greed-based thinking to miraculously create healthy systems which don't result in restrictive, over-priced crap, we're going to be waiting forever. -We unerringly end up with frickin' Amazon. And rolling blackouts. And shitty healthcare. And most of the world living in conditions of slavery. Go "Free Market"!
The only people who sing the praises of the Free Market are idiots who don't realize how they're being used, and budding psychopaths who hope that they can scramble their way up the mountain of bodies and secure some of the top real estate and not have to share. Sharing isn't fun! The psychopath's happiness only comes if somebody else is doing the work and suffering.
The Free Market might work well if a significant portion of the intent going into it wasn't focused on taking at the expense of everybody else. Slavery. Remove the psychopathic element, add some basic requirements, (you have to not be a dick) and it could probably hold some merit. A bit of balance allowing for good ideas to rise to the top while preventing damaging results.
The law of the jungle is an evolutionary throwback favoring tigers and other predators. The monkeys, when they work together for the common good, have the ability to out-smart the free-for-all and do away with the fear of tigers. We have the ability to do much better than the Free Market allows, so long as we don't let tigers dictate the rules. We can, horrors, use our advanced brains to deliberately sculpt systems which favor positive results! Whoa!
Problem is, psychopaths look like us, and they're bent on Winning, which means everybody else loses. They love the law of the jungle because it favors them. They hate socialist practices, because it means they get shot at.
Slashdot Mirror
You know what would be cool..? Somebody, (with more patience than me), should go back in Slashdot history and find the first story of a big rock buzzing the Earth.
And then work out the frequency of such events after that point.
And note the various distances from the Earth of said 'buzz'. You know. Threat level. Hey, maybe measure in potential megatons!
That'd be one awesome cool chart.
I'm not convinced that this ebola plague isn't being helped along on purpose by various elitist parties looking to exterminate their least favorite groups.
And, of course they would.
-The same psychopaths have been running the black world since forever. A plague? What a great way to decimate the population without being blamed of wrong doing. Also, the prospect of making a huge profit on the pending cure is a nice bonus. It's Win Win all the way around to the psychopathic mind!
"Disaster Capitalism" -Not just for earthquakes anymore!
However, because they are completely, utterly insane and thus incapable of real forward planning, these catastrophically mad bastards are basing their hopes of surviving the biological embers they're blowing into flame with some as yet undeveloped 'cure'. -And on the fact that they're insane; the psychopath really doesn't believe s/he is in any real danger of the universe not forever spinning around them. They cannot do anything about their condition other than to play it out. It's up to real humans to do something, and.., sadly, that doesn't appear likely.
The solution?
Well, there isn't one. People are too far gone. I'll probably get another negative mod for failing to get in line here, but should you perhaps not happen to have lost your brain to the media and the lemming rot, you might wish to look into what you can do to make the plague a survivable event in your life.
-Because you're going to be facing it soon enough. Ebola is just the beginning; history shows that when empires fall, a lot of other things, (space rocks, environmental shake ups, and plague) come along in unison. -The Black Plague was a stubborn problem which just kept on coming back during the dark ages, and we're entering the New Dark Ages right now. That's not hype.
So.., what do you do? Well, skip the gas masks and bug out tents and survival gear. Toys aren't going to save you. Community might, however.
So look instead into ketogenics, Vitamin C and cold therapies.
Absurdly enough, during the dark ages, old people who ate the disgusting bone broth left over after the good meat was gone, tended to have higher survival rates than the tough young folk. Healthy fat tissues make your cells harder to attack. And that means animal fats in the diet. And lots of all the nutrients life needs to be strong.
Good luck.
Sketchy social networking and twitter twits aren't proof of an invasion. Usually, an invasion is proof of an invasion. They're big, loud and well-populated. Rather hard to miss, really.
What we have here is evidence of nothing more than the West desperately trying to spin something out of nothing in an effort to protect the little Nazi stronghold they installed. What else can they do? Russia doesn't care. The West has no teeth in this matter.
Paul Craig Roberts sums it up neatly:
how-you-can-tell-whether-russia-invaded-ukraine
When are people going to click to the fact that the Western media lies about everything? We've seen this side show before, many times over the years. What makes anyone think that this time the same old liars are going to miraculously start singing the truth?
And please don't twitter on about half-empty trucks. Proof? Nothing more than a photo of a truck with some boxes in it and some men standing over them. Was it being loaded? Emptied? We don't know. All we have is a picture and a rumor. That's all the propaganda wing of the Pentagon has to offer.
Amazingly, Macleans has managed to stick to the facts they know without engaging in speculation.
Who knows how long they'll last before Psyops Americana kicks them in the rump for not playing along with the American Dream.
Gonna be a painful day when everybody is woken up with that splash of cold reality coming down the pike. The West has already lost this one. Russia has all the industry and food growing capacity it needs. U.S. sanctions are an idiotic, facile, desperate measure. Pathetic, really, because they mean nothing. They hurt us more than them, by a long shot.
Russia is the natural powerhouse on that side of the ocean; who cares what hissy fits the U.S. throws? The U.S. is irrelevant. They've utterly failed to even get their proxy war via our Kiev Nazis to terrorize people in a straight line without spilling buckets of stupid all over the place. I guess that's what you get when you employ raving psychopaths to do your bidding. Incompetent, butchering gits.
And while we're on the subject of incompetence.., where's the follow up on Malaysian Flight 17? The media dropped that ball faster than any other airline disaster in the history of airline disasters. -I guess the claptrap story started to fall apart under its own weight and threaten embarrassment. Latest material I saw indicated that the cockpit was shot full of bullet holes and that BUK missiles were not capable of bringing the plane down where it came down. No comments, mister media..? Guess not.
We can't even hold our own house of cards together, let alone anybody else's.
But still we see people thronging again to the soda jerk for more froth.
I know you're being facetious, but the computer screen is actually a pretty good example to work with in explaining this point, which I will attempt...
Screens don't damage your retina. (I actually spent a few days digging through this subject in an effort to verify that one way or the other). However, they can have other deleterious physiological/neurological effects, one of which being blue light, which at night can serve to mess up your sleep rhythms and your melatonin levels.
Understanding these effects allows me to modulate my use of screen time intelligently, and if not mitigate the risks, take responsibility for them. I do not pretend that my circadian rhythm isn't being screwed up as I type this at 3:00 AM, for instance. I accept that. I know what I'm doing to myself, and I'm willing to pay for it because the benefits are big enough and the downside is manageable.
The same process can be extended to cell phone EM. After doing the requisite research (which most people simply prefer not to bother with), I found that bad-news effects were such that I consider the appropriate response to be not owning a cell phone and to use ethernet cables where reasonably possible. -Because those are easy measures and I don't consider the benefit of wireless technology to be worth the cost.
I've made an informed decision. Most people cannot make that claim because they avoid truly informing themselves.
Of course, you can't avoid cell phone EM these days. Too many ignorant/compliant people walk around with them, radiating everybody in their vicinity. -I can usually feel it when a bunch of Wifi zoodles cluster around me with their microwave emitters, and that sucks. But I can certainly minimize the pollution in my own space, so I do.
It's all about humanity-killing viruses and includes experimental monkeys, and voluntary human test subjects dying 10% of the time while trying out the new super-vaccine, (so bravely concocted by a cute scientist babe while sailing under the buff, gruff manly man uber-patriotic US navy?)
Now, given the superb timing of that show in conjunction with this latest (opportunist's cash bonanza) virus threat out here in the real world, one can ask quite justifiably...
Is "The Last Ship" an example of willful sculpting of public opinion and receptiveness to what will certainly be a very expensive jab, or was it a subconscious up-bubbling of worries and fears from the collective human psyche? (Kind of like all those zombie films).
I'm leaning towards cynicism, myself. -Heck, it even has Evil Russians. So.., social engineering for the win!
Thank-you! It's nice to see people posting sensible thoughts.
Old individual-punishing contracts were the result of the vaunted Free Market model as well. Which suggests to me that the free market model sucks. It rewards psychopaths, results in shitty systems which punish the public and takes the creative principle for ransom.
It would be much better for everybody if we were to rationally decide what kind of system would best serve all of society, (in books as well as any other industry), then agree upon behavior models which encourage a non-random, non-greed aligned growth of said system.
Because if we wait around for greed-based thinking to miraculously create healthy systems which don't result in restrictive, over-priced crap, we're going to be waiting forever. -We unerringly end up with frickin' Amazon. And rolling blackouts. And shitty healthcare. And most of the world living in conditions of slavery. Go "Free Market"!
The only people who sing the praises of the Free Market are idiots who don't realize how they're being used, and budding psychopaths who hope that they can scramble their way up the mountain of bodies and secure some of the top real estate and not have to share. Sharing isn't fun! The psychopath's happiness only comes if somebody else is doing the work and suffering.
The Free Market might work well if a significant portion of the intent going into it wasn't focused on taking at the expense of everybody else. Slavery. Remove the psychopathic element, add some basic requirements, (you have to not be a dick) and it could probably hold some merit. A bit of balance allowing for good ideas to rise to the top while preventing damaging results.
The law of the jungle is an evolutionary throwback favoring tigers and other predators. The monkeys, when they work together for the common good, have the ability to out-smart the free-for-all and do away with the fear of tigers. We have the ability to do much better than the Free Market allows, so long as we don't let tigers dictate the rules. We can, horrors, use our advanced brains to deliberately sculpt systems which favor positive results! Whoa!
Problem is, psychopaths look like us, and they're bent on Winning, which means everybody else loses. They love the law of the jungle because it favors them. They hate socialist practices, because it means they get shot at.
As they ought to be.