Will the space missions still be on after the wars for oil eventually lead to World War III? Hmm. How about we use some of the technology that's been around for over three decades to solve our energy problems before we play spaceman again.
buy a few acres of arable land. You might also consider purchasing a quality battle rifle, a 12 gauge shotgun and as much ammo as you can. If you think this thing isn't coming down, you're as stupid as your PHB.
Mod this as troll, or worse. See what I care. It doesn't change the fact that this system is structurally fucked and must come down. Yeah, yeah, you think it's bullshit, well, who will be left to buy the garbage from WalMart? Oh, I guess cops, soldiers and criminal politicians will still have jobs. Hmm.
Back in September of 2002, I wrote an essay entitled, Cyberwar: How Terrorists Could Defeat the U.S., and Why They Won't.
www.cryptogon.com/docs/cryptogon_cyberwar.pdf
This brief essay explains how vulnerable information infrastructures are to very simple attacks. I intentionally removed all company names and locations of the critical assets, not because I was afraid my written-in-one-evening essay would be used by terrorists, but because I was afraid the FBI would think I was a terrorist.
After reading about the pressure that Sean Gorman is under, I am convinced that I would have had a (probably not pleasant) sit down with federal agents if I hadn't sanitized my essay.
Digital Rights Management (DRM) computers are going to be a reality just as certainly as the sun will rise in the morning. The systems will be ubiquitous within two years. But what will they look like?
Microsoft has unveiled (unfurled) its hellish vision of the future of computing: Athens. Never mind the fact that Longhorn sees all and knows all. Never mind the fact that you are not root on Longhorn. Never mind the fact that the system is fully integrated with a thumbscanner, camera, telephone and microphone. Never mind the fact that there will be no way to run a non DRM operating system on Longhorn class hardware. (Cops will show up if you somehow manage to circumvent the DRM mechanisms.)
Make sure you're sitting down for this one:
Would you believe that Microsoft's system of the future has no "Off" state? From HardwareCentral.com:
Speaking of mute, Athens will be a whisper-quiet, small-form-factor machine, whose power button switches between on and standby modes rather than on and off -- resuming work in no more than two seconds. In the event of a power failure, a built-in battery will last long enough to hibernate or save system status to the hard disk.
Here is more on the no "Off" feature from a Microsoft document entitled, The "Athens" PC (Microsoft Word document):
The notion of "off" is confusing to users, because the PC can be in standby, hibernation or true "off" modes, Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) states S3, S4 and S5, respectively. Each of these states has a different latency when the user turns the PC on again: it takes longer to start the PC from S4 than from S3, and still longer to start the PC from S5.
In usability tests, participants preferred a two-state (on/standby) power model over a three-state (on/standby/off) model. They felt the two-state power model was more appealing than the power model used by today's PCs. This research suggests that users would be more likely to put their PCs in standby mode if it were more convenient to do so.
Note: The system checks your email when in standby mode, i.e. the network interface and applications are operational in standby mode. That thing isn't off. Not by a long shot.
Yes, you can pull the plug out of the wall, and let the battery go dead.
Will Microsoft call you, though, wondering if your PC is being tampered with? Is the person who unplugged the PC from the power socket authorized to do so? Maybe you will just learn from habit --- from habit that will become instinct --- to never pull the plug out of the wall.
From 1984, by George Orwell:
The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live --- did live, from habit that became instinct --- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
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Establishment medicine, espcially psychiatry, is a total fraud.
For at least the past 100 years, the world has been trapped
in a prison built out of oil. Indeed, the primacy of oil in the domestic and
foreign affairs of industrialized states is without question. But if one thinks
the petroleum paradigm endures because there are no viable alternatives, one
would be wrong. The barriers to the wide adoption of alternative sources of
energy are political and economic in nature, not scientific or technical. This
essay describes a clean, electrically generated synthetic fuel that could allow
for a grass roots transformation of the global political and economic system; a
system ruled by a corporate oligopoly who's interests are inimical to those of
people everywhere.
Oil: Control the World, Get Rich Doing It
Why oil? Why, after all these years, does the world still
rely on oil and gasoline to power its industrial economies? There are two main
reasons:
1)
Oil, rather, access to oil, can be controlled by a handful of
corporations with profound connections to the governments of the world.
Therefore, oil can be used as a weapon to destroy economies, or allow them to
flourish. Oil is a strategic commodity. No industrial state can function
without large quantities of it.
2)
The corporations that comprise the oil oligopoly make billions
of dollars per year from the trade in hydrocarbons and related services.
Another reason for the importance of oil, from the U.S.
perspective, is the interlocking scam between the oil companies, the Federal
Reserve and U.S. Dollar-As-Reserve-Currency.[1]
The dollar is the de-facto medium of exchange for global oil transactions. When
Japan buys oil from Saudi Arabia, for example, Japan pays with dollars. This
means that even when states other than the U.S. conduct oil related business,
the U.S. dollar gets a boost due to the demand for dollars required to complete
the transactions.
In 2000, Iraq decided to switch from dollars to euros as the
medium of exchange for its oil sales. The U.S. recently invaded Iraq and
thereby seized control of the second largest source of oil on the planet. The
reason given to the public by the Bush administration for the invasion of Iraq
was that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, and that the
situation posed a clear and present danger to the U.S. And despite the faint
echoes of Donald Rumsfeld's assurances that the invasion of Iraq, Has
nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil, Iraq now stands
to become the world's largest producer of oil.[2]
It's probably safe to assume that Iraq will conduct its future oil business in
dollars. In fact, you can bet your life on it.
De-Capitalizing Evil and Other Just Causes
Why use alternative fuels? The reasons will vary from one
individual to another, but here are a few to consider:
Petroleum
is a non-renewable resource. Petroleum extraction has peaked; this means
that it will become increasingly difficult (expensive) to extract what
remains buried in the earth.
Burning
hydrocarbons pollutes the air we all breathe.
Buying
gasoline directly supports violent criminal enterprises and people like
Dick Cheney.
Countries
fight wars for oil. If there was less reliance on---and demand for---oil,
engaging in wars for oil would become unnecessary.
Some
alternative fuels may be produced very inexpensively, allowing individuals
and governments to use funds for other purposes. Note: ExxonMobile
recently reported record earnings.[3]
Hydrogen: Part of the Problem, Not the Solution
Every couple of years, the media makes a great deal of noise
about hydrogen; the wonder fuel of the future, etc. As a fuel, however,
hydrogen has a key flaw. The short explanation is that hydrogen is extremely
difficult to work with. Hydrogen transportation and storage requires very
expensive and specialized equipment. Converting the public refu
Slashdot editors make sure they don't rock the boat too much. They refused to post information on BingoFuel, a vastly superior fuel compared to hydrogen. Check it out for yourself, and submit it to/. editors to be posted as an article:
http://jlnlabs.online.fr/bingofuel/index.htm
This explains problems with hydrogen:
http://www.i-b-r.org/docs/magneh.pdf
Hydrogen is emerging as one of the primary alternative fuels for the large scale replacement of gasoline and other fossil fuels, including its use for internal combustion engines, fuel cells, rocket propulsion and other applications. However, hydrogen is a fuel with the lowest specic weight among all available fuels. In fact, hydrogen has a specic weight of 2.016 atomic mass units (a.m.u.). By comparison, gaseous hydrocarbons can have specic weight which are a multiple of these values, as in the case of natural gas, methane, acetylene and other gaseous fuels. This low value of specic weight and the current high cost for its production, have caused serious technological, logistic and nancial problems which have prevented hydro- gen from achieving a large scale replacements of fossil fuels until now. Among the existing problems, we mention the following ones: 1) The low specic density of hydrogen prevents its automotive use in a compressed form because of the need for excessively large storage requirements, as well as seepage through containers walls. For instance, gasoline contains about 115,000 British Thermal Units (BTU) per American gallon (g) while hydrogen has an energy content of about 300 BTU per standard cubic foot (scf). As a result, the gasoline gallon equivalent of hydrogen is given by 115,000 BTU/300 BTU = 383 scf. Therefore, the equivalent of a 20 g gasoline tank would require 7,660 scf of hydrogen which is a prohibitive volume for storage in an ordinary car. 2) As proved by hydrogen fueled automobiles built by the German automakers BMW, the American automaker GM, and other car manufacturers, the achievement of a su±cient range for ordinary automotive use requires the liquefaction of hydrogen. By recalling that hydrogen liquies at a temperature of 252:8oC close to absolute zero degree, it is evident that the liquefaction of hydrogen, its transportation in a liquied form and the permanent storage of such a liquid state in a car implies dramatic expenditures. It then follows that the current automotive use of hydrogen is excessively more expensive than gasoline. 3) The automotive use of hydrogen implies a loss of about 35% of the power of the same engine when operated with gasoline, as established by available hydrogen powered cars. This is evidently due to the low energy content of hydrogen, with consequential combustion of more moles to reach the same performance as that with gasoline. 4) In view of the above, the automotive use of hydrogen produced from regenerating methods implies an oxygen depletion greater than that caused by the combustion of fossil fuels for the same power and performance, where "oxygen depletion" has been introduced by this author to characterize the permanent removal of breathable oxygen from our at- mosphere [1]. This oxygen depletion persists when hydrogen is produced via electrolytic separation of water and the use of electricity from fossil fuel powered plants. Said oxygen depletion is absent only when hydrogen is produced via the electrolytic separation of wa- ter and the use of electricity produced via solar, hydro and other methods not requiring atmospheric oxygen. 5) The automotive use of liquid hydrogen is dangerous because of the possible transi- tion of state from liquid to gas in the event of a malfunction of the cryogenic equipment or other reasons. The use of hydrogen in fuel cells is aicted by similar problems which are inherent in the low specic weight of conventional hydrogen.
Establishment science is a byproduct of dominant political and economic interests. (Some people don't like to hear that.) So, what kind of energy systems will emerge under a political and economic order that has been controlled, at least for the last 100 years, by corrupt oil money? Wide adoption of viable alternative energy systems would completely subvert the dominant paradigm (the U.S. imposed global economic and political order) and depose long established elites.
The only way that any paradigm breaking technologies will emerge is if we (average people) build them ourselves. This work must be carried out by the non experts among us, the laymen and the backyard tinkerers because the alleged "scientists" are too busy maintaining the status quo on the road to oblivion.
To wit:
I recently came up with an idea that might allow for the creation of a vehicle that burns no non renewable hydrocarbons (gasoline) and in fact runs on solar power and water.
"Whuuuh?" you ask. Forget about what "CAN'T" happen for a few minutes and keep reading!
!WARNING! I have done NO research on actually building this prototype. In fact, I have no experience at all with high voltage electrical systems, generators, explosive gasses or internal combustion engines. Actually attempting to execute the following ideas may be very dangerous.
And if I had the money, I'd be out right now trying to do this.;)
Let's get down to it:
Hybrid gasoline-electric cars use both conventional gas burning and electrical engines. If you want to know more about how hybrid cars work, see howstuffworks.com for an excellent summary. Hopefully, someone out there has a pioneering spirit, a full workshop and access to, and ability to modify, a Toyota Prius or Honda Insight.
In my opinion, the primary problem with hybrid gas-electric cars is that THEY STILL BURN GASOLINE. My idea is primarily concerned with eliminating the need to use any gasoline at all (or any other filthy, proprietary fuel) in a vehicle that is, for all intents and purposes, extremely well engineered and efficient.
The question then becomes: What type of fuel would the vehicle's internal combustion engine burn?
Passing current through carbon electrodes immersed in ORDINARY TAP WATER produces gas that can power conventional internal combustion engines. See Naudin's incredible demonstration in which he powers a 5 kilowatt Honda generator directly with the gas from his BingoFuel Reactor. Ok, class, pay attention: Look at the specification for the type of fuel required to run that Honda generator. It's supposed to run on automotive unleaded gasoline (minimum 86 pump octane). Yep, that's the same automotive unleaded gasoline that you put in your car, or in those Honda and Toyota hybrids.
Obviously, to get that gas out of the water, current must be passed through the carbon electrical array.
To all of you people out there shaking your heads, mumbling, "This is 11th grade chemistry class electrolysis, this takes too much power," stick with me.
It is interesting to notice that in this test of a 1 cell BingoFuel Reactor, the current used is 81.6 Amperes (see Test#1). With a same value of current used in a 1 cell electrolyser the volume of the of H2 is 36 liters per hour (at 20C). There is 46% of H2 in the synthetic gas genera
TR and I were sitting here, casually discussing how simple a matter it would be for a few bozos to completely manipulate the voting and vote tabulation process using closed-source computer systems. You know, eliminate any possibility of a recount or investigation. No paper trail. Then we started looking into some of the electronic systems in use.
HAHAHA! This stuff is off the rails.
Why is a British company (De La Rue, parent of Sequoia Voting Systems) involved with U.S. elections? Take a wild guess at what De La Rue does! This company is a MAJOR vendor of goods and services to governments, international bankers, central banks, and THE Central Bank, the Bank of International Settlements! They manufacture tamper proof I.D. cards, passports and maybe even the cash in your pocket. I find it very interesting that a company with so many connections to elite government and banking circles, a company with access to the most personal information for hundreds of millions of people, would also be involved in producing closed-source, unauditable voting systems for U.S. elections. If this is some sort of nightmare, I've had enough, I want to wake up.
From the De La Rue ABOUT page:
De La Rue is the world 's largest commercial security printer and papermaker, involved in the production of over 150 national currencies and a wide range of security documents such as travellers cheques and vouchers. Employing almost 7,000 people across 31 countries, the company is also a leading provider of cash handling equipment and software solutions to banks and retailers worldwide helping them to reduce the cost of handling cash. We are also pioneering new technologies including tailored solutions to protect the world 's brands through to government identity solutions in secure passports, identity cards and driver 's licences.
Does anyone out there find it interesting that a gas pipeline expert and 15 year employee of British Petroleum was appointed to the De La Rue Board of Directors in September 2001? To the Board of Directors of the same company that is making voting machines for U.S. elections? Yes, as I type this, the Oil Junta in the White House is reveling in their massive (!and historically unusual!) mid term election gains!
Philip Nolan Non-Executive Director
Philip Nolan BSc PhD MBA, 48, was appointed to the Board on 1 September 2001. He is Chief Executive Officer of Eircom, the Irish telecoms operator and was appointed in January 2002. Formerly, he was Chief Executive of Lattice Group plc. Lattice Group is one of three successor companies of British Gas, specialising in the provision, management and servicing of infrastructure networks. The company comprises Britain's gas pipeline business, Transco, as well as telecommunications and other businesses. Dr Nolan joined the then British Gas in 1996, becoming Managing Director of Transco in June 1997. He was appointed to the BG Board in July 1998. He spent 15 years with BP and in 1995 was seconded from BP to the role of Managing Director, Interconnector (UK) Ltd, the consortium formed to construct and operate the pipeline which links the gas network of the UK to that of mainland Europe.
From Elections In America - Assume Crooks Are In Control:
Sequoia is another voting systems company that sends a cold chill down my spine. "Mob ties, bribery, felony convictions, and threats of coercion are visible in the public record of the election services company," according to investigative journalist and filmmaker Daniel Hopsicker, and reported in Spotlight.com. Hopsicker says that Pasquale "Rocco" Ricci, a 65-year-old senior executive with Sequoia, and the firm's Louisiana representative, recently pled guilty to passing out as much as $10 million dollars in bribes over the course of almost an entire decade." According to American Law Education Rights & Taxation (ALERT), Ricci is the president of Sequoia International, which also manufactures casino slot machines.
Over the past two decades, most of the jobs sent overseas were in the manufacturing sector. Not anymore. Companies are increasingly hiring cheap foreign labor for engineering and computer jobs. In case you missed the free trade bullshit propaganda: Those were the types of jobs that were supposed to stay in the U.S.
Think about it! The point of hiring cheap labor is to produce goods at a lower cost. Fine. Who buys these finished goods? There's the problem. Since more Americans are being fired from their jobs, fewer Americans will be buying those Nike shoes. And how many pairs of Nike shoes will be purchased by a Chinese factory worker making a dollar per day?
This is the Oh Shit moment. This is the point at which you come to realize that the entire system is flawed. This system is based on the ability of companies to produce goods at a minimum apparent cost without any consideration of how people are going to get the money to buy the finished goods.
American slaves have allowed their jobs to be exported and are relying on the momentum of the past to be able to afford the goods produced by lower paid slaves abroad. And companies are now trying to export the professional echelons of their staffs to the lowest possible bidders. Again, the simple question: Who's going to be left to buy the finished goods?
I'm beginning to wonder if the elite are planning to destroy the United States, and shift their primary markets to Europe or Asia. Americans may turn out to be too much trouble to be included in the fully locked down, global prison camp.
The Rise of the Technocratic Psychopaths Computers of the future will be built not by factory machines, but by living cells such as bacteria.
Our computers will be built by bacteria? The magic nanobots will amaze and dazzle us. Excellent.
Maybe humans will be able to enhance themselves so they can work 24 hours per day without care or complaint. Wouldn't that be great? Nanotechnology can be used to build anything! Why eat an apple grown the old fashioned way. That's not cool. Surely ADM will just assemble one for you.
In all seriousness, we must be extremely cautious of the new biomolecular and nanotechnologies. Even if you don't heed the words of Bill Joy, with his dire warnings about self replicating nanotechnology, consider the type of world the Them have in mind for the rest of us once control of nanotechnology is achieved. Should private tyrannies, the same corporations that are responsible for the horrific state of the planet, be trusted with what amounts to the power of creation?
Technology is being used to harness our productive and creative energies for the exclusive benefit of an increasingly adept and devious elite. The more advanced technology becomes, the lower wages (and higher taxes) go. Why? Because technology allows the Them to stick it to us in an ever increasing number of ways. Simple. Beautiful. Diabolical. Graph it, in terms of individual buying power, if you doubt what I'm saying. This race to the bottom is a byproduct of technological advancement in the hands of psychopaths. Twenty first century technology, under the command and control of an elite with 19th century attitudes, will almost definitely lead to the destruction of most life on this planet. Interestingly enough, technology is not the problem. The intent of the user is the problem.
Yeah, yeah, Kevin. We know all of that. This has been the case since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. So what, in the name of God, are you on about?
This is the point: Technology is being used to enslave us. If you doubt that, you aren't taking an objective look at modern society. But we are now entering a phase where the technologies under development are more dangerous than anything we have ever dabbled with; and they have lower barriers to entry than, say, nuclear weapons. Humans have only possessed the capability of destroying life on this planet for about the last sixty years. Whether or not we make it another 60 years depends on our ability to show restraint and to reflect on our previous mistakes. Blindly adopting new technology that has the capacity to enslave or extinguish all life on this planet is the height of folly, yet this is standard operating procedure.
What's the difference, really, between primates and humans? Humans can write things in books, create websites and launch rockets into space, but both species basically look to a silverback for guidance and fling their feces when agitated. If you want to get an idea of how successful humans will be with nanotechnology and genetic engineering, place a crate full of hand grenades into a habitat containing several apes or gorillas and watch what happens.
And before you accuse me of being a continual downer, listen to Joe Frank's, An Enterprising Man (RealAudio stream) . Joe Frank's site. This makes me laugh so damn hard I almost forget it's The End.
My friend wrote this: Disarming law-abiding citizens is typical of the criminal court system that only exists to legitimize this tyranny we live under. So only state militias are able to bear arms, huh? Well, maybe they should read the Pennsylvannia Minority Paper; written during the Constitutional Convention Debates by the same people who demanded that a Bill of Rights be added to that document of despotism known as the US Constitution. These quotes, I believe, help set the context for determining exactly who is supposed to bear arms and whose interests the Bill of Rights are intended to serve.
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7. That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and their own state, or the United States, or for the purpose of killing game; and no law shall be passed for disarming the people OR ANY OF THEM, unless for crimes committed, or real danger of public injury from individuals; and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up: and that the military shall be kept under strict subordination to and be governed by the civil powers.
8. The inhabitants of the several states shall have liberty to fowl and hunt in seasonable times, on the lands they hold, and on all other lands in the United States not inclosed, and in like manner to fish in all navigable waters, and others not private property, without being restrained therein by any laws to be -passed by the legislature of the United States.
----- Further down in the same document they talk of the dangers of a state militia and standing army/state police force:
The absolute unqualified command that Congress have over the militia may be made instrumental to the destruction of all liberty, both public and private; whether of a personal, civil or religious nature.
Thirdly, the absolute command of Congress over the militia may be destructive of public liberty; for under the guidance of an arbitrary government, they may be made the unwilling instruments of tyranny. The militia of Pennsylvania may be marched to New England or Virginia to quell an insurrection occasioned by the most galling oppression, and aided by the standing army, they will no doubt be successful in subduing their liberty and independence; but in so doing, although the magnanimity of their minds will be extinguished, yet the meaner passions of resentment and revenge will be increased, and these in turn will be the ready and obedient instruments of despotism to enslave the others; and that with an irritated vengeance. Thus may the militia be made the instruments of crushing the last efforts of expiring liberty, of riveting the chains of despotism on their fellow citizens, and on one another. This power can be exercised not only without violating the constitution, but in strict conformity with it; it is calculated for this express purpose, and will doubtless be executed accordingly.
As this government will not enjoy the confidence of the people, but be executed by force, it will be a very expensive and burthensome government. The standing army must be numerous, and as a further support, it will be the policy of this government to multiply officers in every department: judges, collectors, taxgatherers, excisemen and the whole host of revenue officers will swarm over the land, devouring the hard earnings of the industrious. Like the locusts of old, impoverishing and- desolating all before them.
http://www.constitution.org/afp/pennmi00.htm -- --- Also, Jefferson, in a draft of the Virginia Constitution made it clear what he had in mind:
Note: Arms
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands]. -- Thomas Jefferson, Draft Constitution for Virginia [June, 1776.] FAIR COPY
That post was excellent! I am with you, brother! Everyone needs to start drawing the line. JUST DRAW THE FUCKING LINE. Resist in any way you can, large or small.
Dangerous times in this country:
In 1999, the State of California enacted amendments to its gun control laws that significantly strengthened the state's restrictions on the possession, use, and transfer of the semiautomatic weapons popularly known as "assault weapons." Plaintiffs, California residents who either own assault weapons, seek to acquire such weapons, or both, brought this challenge to the gun control statute, asserting that the law, as amended, violates the Second Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause, and a host of other constitutional provisions. The district court dismissed all of the plaintiffs' claims. Because the Second Amendment does not confer an individual right to own or possess arms, we affirm the dismissal of all claims brought pursuant to that constitutional provision.
I read what this guy has done, and I thought about all the crap I've done/am doing, and, "a van down by the river" doesn't sound half bad. I mean, is it really worth slaving away for PHBs? I'd rather contribute to bringing this absurd system down by NOT contributing tax revenue to the beast. Hey, they can't tax it if I don't earn it.
I've been doing practice runs. Trying to sleep in my car. Taking note of places to park at night. Using the Internet from Kinkos on my laptop. Finding open 802.11 networks. How many Slashdotters are homeless? How is it working out for you?
Before you mod this off topic, consider the fact that it really isn't. It's about updating one's skillset to live outside the PHB reality.
-Kevin
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I just checked and NOPE it won't migrate Outlook crap. I didn't think so. Those files are a nightmare.
From their faq.
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DDOS Attack on Root DNS Systems Called Largest Ever:.
Those of you who actually took the time to read my essay, "Cyberwar: How Terrorists Could Defeat the U.S., and Why They Won't," (requires Acrobat 5, not 4.) might get chill running up your backs when you read this. I'm still sticking to my original thesis, however: The Internet won't be brought down by terrorists because corporations and governments need it, and the terrorists serve the interests of corporations and governments. Regardless, I hope this DNS attack isn't a prelude to a bigger operation. Note how they say that it just ran for an hour and then stopped! Note this story, which detailed the creation of attack zombies with P2P capabilities, allowing them to be targetted at will. Also note that a top infrastructure protection analyst was just killed by the Maryland area sniper! And within a couple of days we see the largest DDOS attack on root DNS systems ever!? (Long Pause) Keep a sharp eye out for weirdness, folks, something BIG might be coming down:
Here's what I wrote back on September 14, 2002:
Maybe the terrorists start taking out some or all of the thirteen root domain name server systems (I think there are still 13) or interrupting communications to those root servers [today's DDOS incident]. (Thankfully, a couple of these systems are located in places that have people with guns guarding them.) These root servers are used by thousands of other lower level domain name systems and receive about 300 million requests per day.
Domain name systems are used to translate human readable URLs, like www.cryptogon.com into machine usable IP addresses like 209.115.132.59. There is much concern about the root DNS systems. Many articles on this topic are easily accessible. Much of the concern, however, is focused on hackers DOSsing the root servers. Again, this misses the point.
What is the physical security like at the non-military root DNS facilities?
I've driven by one of the buildings hundreds of times because I used to live near it. It looks just like any other small office building. How long would this place hold up against a few armed terrorists who were willing to die TO BRING DOWN A ROOT DNS NODE? Think about it. The same goes for the data centers mentioned previously. Surely these places should have armed security. But even if they did, are they prepared to stop terrorists who have no intention of ever getting out alive?
Here's what just happened:
The heart of the Internet sustained its largest and most sophisticated attack ever, starting late Monday, according to officials at key online backbone organizations.
Around 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, a "distributed denial of service" (DDOS) attack struck the 13 "root servers" that provide the primary roadmap for almost all Internet communications. Despite the scale of the attack, which lasted about an hour, Internet users worldwide were largely unaffected, experts said.
FBI officials would not speculate on who might have planned or carried out the attack.
David Wray, a spokesman for the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), said the bureau is "aware of the reports and looking into it."
DDOS attacks overwhelm networks with an onslaught of data until they cannot be used. According to security experts, the incident probably was the result of multiple attacks, in which attackers concentrate the power of many computers against a single network to prevent it from operating.
"This was the largest and most complex DDOS attack ever against the root server system," said a source at one of the organizations responsible for operating the root servers.
Are we about to get smacked by a Perfect Economic Storm? "About to get smacked!? What do you call the last two years?" you say. I know, things have been bad and continue to get worse. But the markets seem to have crossed the rubicon today, headed toward serious doom. Oil prices continue to rise and earnings are going nowhere but down. Many issues are crossing below six year lows. War with Iraq, and God knows where else, is imminent.
And there's another MAJOR story that is not getting much coverage in the establishment media: the longshoremen lockout. Each day the ports are closed takes backlogs a week to unwind until things return to normal. Each day the ports are closed the U.S. economy loses approximately $1 billion. This is not a labor issue, this is a national security issue. If this longshoremen situation is not resolved in very short order, the U.S. government has a contingency plan to use United States Marines to keep the ports open. The government realizes that the longshoremen (the most militant union of them all) will not allow anyone to break any picket lines without a full tilt riot (or worse) ensuing. But even those guys won't stand up to.mil. What does this mean? I don't know how likely this is, but there is definitely a fair chance that all of the ports in the western U.S. may soon be placed under military control.
I don't think the port operators would be this bold unless they "knew" something, if you know what I mean. And all of this nonsense is happening as the major swindlers are gearing up for the critical Christmas shopping season:
In Portland, terminal operators told about 200 dockworkers to leave the Port of Portland's largest container terminal at about 3:15 p.m., in the middle of what union members had expected to be a full day shift.
"I never thought this would happen," said Bruce Holte, president of ILWU Local 8 in Portland. "It affects our whole economy. The Pacific Maritime Association wants to destroy our economy. Who knows how long they'll want to play this game."
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Cut out the sugar and white bread. That's it. I'm not kidding.
Will the space missions still be on after the wars for oil eventually lead to World War III? Hmm. How about we use some of the technology that's been around for over three decades to solve our energy problems before we play spaceman again.
buy a few acres of arable land. You might also consider purchasing a quality battle rifle, a 12 gauge shotgun and as much ammo as you can. If you think this thing isn't coming down, you're as stupid as your PHB.
Mod this as troll, or worse. See what I care. It doesn't change the fact that this system is structurally fucked and must come down. Yeah, yeah, you think it's bullshit, well, who will be left to buy the garbage from WalMart? Oh, I guess cops, soldiers and criminal politicians will still have jobs. Hmm.
http://jlnlabs.imars.com/cfr/index.htm
I was shocked to find no Steve Ballmer rendition of the Star Wars Kid Masterpiece. So I made one myself:
http://www.cryptogon.com/SWK_Ballmer.wmv
Block the bastards:
i nt ext.asp
http://www.simplyclick.org/uploadertest/pg2_pla
Back in September of 2002, I wrote an essay entitled, Cyberwar: How Terrorists Could Defeat the U.S., and Why They Won't.
www.cryptogon.com/docs/cryptogon_cyberwar.pdf
This brief essay explains how vulnerable information infrastructures are to very simple attacks. I intentionally removed all company names and locations of the critical assets, not because I was afraid my written-in-one-evening essay would be used by terrorists, but because I was afraid the FBI would think I was a terrorist.
After reading about the pressure that Sean Gorman is under, I am convinced that I would have had a (probably not pleasant) sit down with federal agents if I hadn't sanitized my essay.
This is a temporary mirror of the complete set of documents. Hopefully, this will seed the material to other permanent mirrors.
Two zip files, 11.6MB and 8.2MB:
RFID Confidential Documents
B Gates is releasing the 1984 telescreen to beta this fall. I'm going to go live in the trees. The End.
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http://www.cryptogon.com/2003_06_15_blogarchive
1984 Telescreen: Microsoft Athens
Digital Rights Management (DRM) computers are going to be a reality just as certainly as the sun will rise in the morning. The systems will be ubiquitous within two years. But what will they look like?
Microsoft has unveiled (unfurled) its hellish vision of the future of computing: Athens. Never mind the fact that Longhorn sees all and knows all. Never mind the fact that you are not root on Longhorn. Never mind the fact that the system is fully integrated with a thumbscanner, camera, telephone and microphone. Never mind the fact that there will be no way to run a non DRM operating system on Longhorn class hardware. (Cops will show up if you somehow manage to circumvent the DRM mechanisms.)
Make sure you're sitting down for this one:
Would you believe that Microsoft's system of the future has no "Off" state? From HardwareCentral.com:
Speaking of mute, Athens will be a whisper-quiet, small-form-factor machine, whose power button switches between on and standby modes rather than on and off -- resuming work in no more than two seconds. In the event of a power failure, a built-in battery will last long enough to hibernate or save system status to the hard disk.
Here is more on the no "Off" feature from a Microsoft document entitled, The "Athens" PC (Microsoft Word document):
The notion of "off" is confusing to users, because the PC can be in standby, hibernation or true "off" modes, Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) states S3, S4 and S5, respectively. Each of these states has a different latency when the user turns the PC on again: it takes longer to start the PC from S4 than from S3, and still longer to start the PC from S5.
In usability tests, participants preferred a two-state (on/standby) power model over a three-state (on/standby/off) model. They felt the two-state power model was more appealing than the power model used by today's PCs. This research suggests that users would be more likely to put their PCs in standby mode if it were more convenient to do so.
Note: The system checks your email when in standby mode, i.e. the network interface and applications are operational in standby mode. That thing isn't off. Not by a long shot.
Yes, you can pull the plug out of the wall, and let the battery go dead.
Will Microsoft call you, though, wondering if your PC is being tampered with? Is the person who unplugged the PC from the power socket authorized to do so? Maybe you will just learn from habit --- from habit that will become instinct --- to never pull the plug out of the wall.
From 1984, by George Orwell:
The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live --- did live, from habit that became instinct --- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
You won't hear that from your doctor, just, "Take more pills."
Establishment medicine, espcially psychiatry, is a total fraud.
For at least the past 100 years, the world has been trapped in a prison built out of oil. Indeed, the primacy of oil in the domestic and foreign affairs of industrialized states is without question. But if one thinks the petroleum paradigm endures because there are no viable alternatives, one would be wrong. The barriers to the wide adoption of alternative sources of energy are political and economic in nature, not scientific or technical. This essay describes a clean, electrically generated synthetic fuel that could allow for a grass roots transformation of the global political and economic system; a system ruled by a corporate oligopoly who's interests are inimical to those of people everywhere.
Oil: Control the World, Get Rich Doing It
Why oil? Why, after all these years, does the world still rely on oil and gasoline to power its industrial economies? There are two main reasons:
1) Oil, rather, access to oil, can be controlled by a handful of corporations with profound connections to the governments of the world. Therefore, oil can be used as a weapon to destroy economies, or allow them to flourish. Oil is a strategic commodity. No industrial state can function without large quantities of it.
2) The corporations that comprise the oil oligopoly make billions of dollars per year from the trade in hydrocarbons and related services.
Another reason for the importance of oil, from the U.S. perspective, is the interlocking scam between the oil companies, the Federal Reserve and U.S. Dollar-As-Reserve-Currency.[1] The dollar is the de-facto medium of exchange for global oil transactions. When Japan buys oil from Saudi Arabia, for example, Japan pays with dollars. This means that even when states other than the U.S. conduct oil related business, the U.S. dollar gets a boost due to the demand for dollars required to complete the transactions.
In 2000, Iraq decided to switch from dollars to euros as the medium of exchange for its oil sales. The U.S. recently invaded Iraq and thereby seized control of the second largest source of oil on the planet. The reason given to the public by the Bush administration for the invasion of Iraq was that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, and that the situation posed a clear and present danger to the U.S. And despite the faint echoes of Donald Rumsfeld's assurances that the invasion of Iraq, Has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil, Iraq now stands to become the world's largest producer of oil.[2] It's probably safe to assume that Iraq will conduct its future oil business in dollars. In fact, you can bet your life on it.
De-Capitalizing Evil and Other Just Causes
Why use alternative fuels? The reasons will vary from one individual to another, but here are a few to consider:
Hydrogen: Part of the Problem, Not the Solution
Every couple of years, the media makes a great deal of noise about hydrogen; the wonder fuel of the future, etc. As a fuel, however, hydrogen has a key flaw. The short explanation is that hydrogen is extremely difficult to work with. Hydrogen transportation and storage requires very expensive and specialized equipment. Converting the public refu
Slashdot editors make sure they don't rock the boat too much. They refused to post information on BingoFuel, a vastly superior fuel compared to hydrogen. Check it out for yourself, and submit it to /. editors to be posted as an article:
http://jlnlabs.online.fr/bingofuel/index.htm
This explains problems with hydrogen:
http://www.i-b-r.org/docs/magneh.pdf
Hydrogen is emerging as one of the primary alternative fuels for the large scale replacement
of gasoline and other fossil fuels, including its use for internal combustion engines, fuel
cells, rocket propulsion and other applications. However, hydrogen is a fuel with the
lowest specic weight among all available fuels. In fact, hydrogen has a specic weight
of 2.016 atomic mass units (a.m.u.). By comparison, gaseous hydrocarbons can have
specic weight which are a multiple of these values, as in the case of natural gas, methane,
acetylene and other gaseous fuels.
This low value of specic weight and the current high cost for its production, have
caused serious technological, logistic and nancial problems which have prevented hydro-
gen from achieving a large scale replacements of fossil fuels until now. Among the existing
problems, we mention the following ones:
1) The low specic density of hydrogen prevents its automotive use in a compressed
form because of the need for excessively large storage requirements, as well as seepage
through containers walls. For instance, gasoline contains about 115,000 British Thermal
Units (BTU) per American gallon (g) while hydrogen has an energy content of about 300
BTU per standard cubic foot (scf). As a result, the gasoline gallon equivalent of hydrogen
is given by 115,000 BTU/300 BTU = 383 scf. Therefore, the equivalent of a 20 g gasoline
tank would require 7,660 scf of hydrogen which is a prohibitive volume for storage in an
ordinary car.
2) As proved by hydrogen fueled automobiles built by the German automakers BMW,
the American automaker GM, and other car manufacturers, the achievement of a su±cient
range for ordinary automotive use requires the liquefaction of hydrogen. By recalling that
hydrogen liquies at a temperature of 252:8oC close to absolute zero degree, it is evident
that the liquefaction of hydrogen, its transportation in a liquied form and the permanent
storage of such a liquid state in a car implies dramatic expenditures. It then follows that
the current automotive use of hydrogen is excessively more expensive than gasoline.
3) The automotive use of hydrogen implies a loss of about 35% of the power of the
same engine when operated with gasoline, as established by available hydrogen powered
cars. This is evidently due to the low energy content of hydrogen, with consequential
combustion of more moles to reach the same performance as that with gasoline.
4) In view of the above, the automotive use of hydrogen produced from regenerating
methods implies an oxygen depletion greater than that caused by the combustion of fossil
fuels for the same power and performance, where "oxygen depletion" has been introduced
by this author to characterize the permanent removal of breathable oxygen from our at-
mosphere [1]. This oxygen depletion persists when hydrogen is produced via electrolytic
separation of water and the use of electricity from fossil fuel powered plants. Said oxygen
depletion is absent only when hydrogen is produced via the electrolytic separation of wa-
ter and the use of electricity produced via solar, hydro and other methods not requiring
atmospheric oxygen.
5) The automotive use of liquid hydrogen is dangerous because of the possible transi-
tion of state from liquid to gas in the event of a malfunction of the cryogenic equipment
or other reasons.
The use of hydrogen in fuel cells is aicted by similar problems which are inherent in
the low specic weight of conventional hydrogen.
Establishment science is a byproduct of dominant political and economic interests. (Some people don't like to hear that.) So, what kind of energy systems will emerge under a political and economic order that has been controlled, at least for the last 100 years, by corrupt oil money? Wide adoption of viable alternative energy systems would completely subvert the dominant paradigm (the U.S. imposed global economic and political order) and depose long established elites.
The only way that any paradigm breaking technologies will emerge is if we (average people) build them ourselves. This work must be carried out by the non experts among us, the laymen and the backyard tinkerers because the alleged "scientists" are too busy maintaining the status quo on the road to oblivion.
To wit:
I recently came up with an idea that might allow for the creation of a vehicle that burns no non renewable hydrocarbons (gasoline) and in fact runs on solar power and water.
"Whuuuh?" you ask. Forget about what "CAN'T" happen for a few minutes and keep reading!
!WARNING! I have done NO research on actually building this prototype. In fact, I have no experience at all with high voltage electrical systems, generators, explosive gasses or internal combustion engines. Actually attempting to execute the following ideas may be very dangerous.
And if I had the money, I'd be out right now trying to do this. ;)
Let's get down to it:
Hybrid gasoline-electric cars use both conventional gas burning and electrical engines. If you want to know more about how hybrid cars work, see howstuffworks.com for an excellent summary. Hopefully, someone out there has a pioneering spirit, a full workshop and access to, and ability to modify, a Toyota Prius or Honda Insight.
In my opinion, the primary problem with hybrid gas-electric cars is that THEY STILL BURN GASOLINE. My idea is primarily concerned with eliminating the need to use any gasoline at all (or any other filthy, proprietary fuel) in a vehicle that is, for all intents and purposes, extremely well engineered and efficient.
The question then becomes: What type of fuel would the vehicle's internal combustion engine burn?
Behold, JL Naudin's Bingo Fuel Reactor.
Passing current through carbon electrodes immersed in ORDINARY TAP WATER produces gas that can power conventional internal combustion engines. See Naudin's incredible demonstration in which he powers a 5 kilowatt Honda generator directly with the gas from his BingoFuel Reactor. Ok, class, pay attention: Look at the specification for the type of fuel required to run that Honda generator. It's supposed to run on automotive unleaded gasoline (minimum 86 pump octane). Yep, that's the same automotive unleaded gasoline that you put in your car, or in those Honda and Toyota hybrids.
Obviously, to get that gas out of the water, current must be passed through the carbon electrical array.
To all of you people out there shaking your heads, mumbling, "This is 11th grade chemistry class electrolysis, this takes too much power," stick with me.
Look at what Naudin says about the BingoFuel system vs. electrolysis:
It is interesting to notice that in this test of a 1 cell BingoFuel Reactor, the current used is 81.6 Amperes (see Test#1). With a same value of current used in a 1 cell electrolyser the volume of the of H2 is 36 liters per hour (at 20C). There is 46% of H2 in the synthetic gas genera
TR and I were sitting here, casually discussing how simple a matter it would be for a few bozos to completely manipulate the voting and vote tabulation process using closed-source computer systems. You know, eliminate any possibility of a recount or investigation. No paper trail. Then we started looking into some of the electronic systems in use.
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HAHAHA! This stuff is off the rails.
Why is a British company (De La Rue, parent of Sequoia Voting Systems) involved with U.S. elections? Take a wild guess at what De La Rue does! This company is a MAJOR vendor of goods and services to governments, international bankers, central banks, and THE Central Bank, the Bank of International Settlements! They manufacture tamper proof I.D. cards, passports and maybe even the cash in your pocket. I find it very interesting that a company with so many connections to elite government and banking circles, a company with access to the most personal information for hundreds of millions of people, would also be involved in producing closed-source, unauditable voting systems for U.S. elections. If this is some sort of nightmare, I've had enough, I want to wake up.
From the De La Rue ABOUT page:
De La Rue is the world 's largest commercial security printer and papermaker, involved in the production of over 150 national currencies and a wide range of security documents such as travellers cheques and vouchers. Employing almost 7,000 people across 31 countries, the company is also a leading provider of cash handling equipment and software solutions to banks and retailers worldwide helping them to reduce the cost of handling cash. We are also pioneering new technologies including tailored solutions to protect the world 's brands through to government identity solutions in secure passports, identity cards and driver 's licences.
Does anyone out there find it interesting that a gas pipeline expert and 15 year employee of British Petroleum was appointed to the De La Rue Board of Directors in September 2001? To the Board of Directors of the same company that is making voting machines for U.S. elections? Yes, as I type this, the Oil Junta in the White House is reveling in their massive (!and historically unusual!) mid term election gains!
Philip Nolan
Non-Executive Director
Philip Nolan BSc PhD MBA, 48, was appointed to the Board on 1 September 2001. He is Chief Executive Officer of Eircom, the Irish telecoms operator and was appointed in January 2002. Formerly, he was Chief Executive of Lattice Group plc. Lattice Group is one of three successor companies of British Gas, specialising in the provision, management and servicing of infrastructure networks. The company comprises Britain's gas pipeline business, Transco, as well as telecommunications and other businesses. Dr Nolan joined the then British Gas in 1996, becoming Managing Director of Transco in June 1997. He was appointed to the BG Board in July 1998. He spent 15 years with BP and in 1995 was seconded from BP to the role of Managing Director, Interconnector (UK) Ltd, the consortium formed to construct and operate the pipeline which links the gas network of the UK to that of mainland Europe.
From Elections In America - Assume Crooks Are In Control
Sequoia is another voting systems company that sends a cold chill down my spine. "Mob ties, bribery, felony convictions, and threats of coercion are visible in the public record of the election services company," according to investigative journalist and filmmaker Daniel Hopsicker, and reported in Spotlight.com. Hopsicker says that Pasquale "Rocco" Ricci, a 65-year-old senior executive with Sequoia, and the firm's Louisiana representative, recently pled guilty to passing out as much as $10 million dollars in bribes over the course of almost an entire decade." According to American Law Education Rights & Taxation (ALERT), Ricci is the president of Sequoia International, which also manufactures casino slot machines.
Enough for now. My head hurts.
http://www.nlcnet.org/report00/walmart.htm
Over the past two decades, most of the jobs sent overseas were in the manufacturing sector. Not anymore. Companies are increasingly hiring cheap foreign labor for engineering and computer jobs. In case you missed the free trade bullshit propaganda: Those were the types of jobs that were supposed to stay in the U.S.
Think about it! The point of hiring cheap labor is to produce goods at a lower cost. Fine. Who buys these finished goods? There's the problem. Since more Americans are being fired from their jobs, fewer Americans will be buying those Nike shoes. And how many pairs of Nike shoes will be purchased by a Chinese factory worker making a dollar per day?
This is the Oh Shit moment. This is the point at which you come to realize that the entire system is flawed. This system is based on the ability of companies to produce goods at a minimum apparent cost without any consideration of how people are going to get the money to buy the finished goods.
American slaves have allowed their jobs to be exported and are relying on the momentum of the past to be able to afford the goods produced by lower paid slaves abroad. And companies are now trying to export the professional echelons of their staffs to the lowest possible bidders. Again, the simple question: Who's going to be left to buy the finished goods?
I'm beginning to wonder if the elite are planning to destroy the United States, and shift their primary markets to Europe or Asia. Americans may turn out to be too much trouble to be included in the fully locked down, global prison camp.
Computers of the future will be built not by factory machines, but by living cells such as bacteria.
Our computers will be built by bacteria? The magic nanobots will amaze and dazzle us. Excellent.
Maybe humans will be able to enhance themselves so they can work 24 hours per day without care or complaint. Wouldn't that be great? Nanotechnology can be used to build anything! Why eat an apple grown the old fashioned way. That's not cool. Surely ADM will just assemble one for you.
In all seriousness, we must be extremely cautious of the new biomolecular and nanotechnologies. Even if you don't heed the words of Bill Joy, with his dire warnings about self replicating nanotechnology, consider the type of world the Them have in mind for the rest of us once control of nanotechnology is achieved. Should private tyrannies, the same corporations that are responsible for the horrific state of the planet, be trusted with what amounts to the power of creation?
Technology is being used to harness our productive and creative energies for the exclusive benefit of an increasingly adept and devious elite. The more advanced technology becomes, the lower wages (and higher taxes) go. Why? Because technology allows the Them to stick it to us in an ever increasing number of ways. Simple. Beautiful. Diabolical. Graph it, in terms of individual buying power, if you doubt what I'm saying. This race to the bottom is a byproduct of technological advancement in the hands of psychopaths. Twenty first century technology, under the command and control of an elite with 19th century attitudes, will almost definitely lead to the destruction of most life on this planet. Interestingly enough, technology is not the problem. The intent of the user is the problem.
Yeah, yeah, Kevin. We know all of that. This has been the case since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. So what, in the name of God, are you on about?
This is the point: Technology is being used to enslave us. If you doubt that, you aren't taking an objective look at modern society. But we are now entering a phase where the technologies under development are more dangerous than anything we have ever dabbled with; and they have lower barriers to entry than, say, nuclear weapons. Humans have only possessed the capability of destroying life on this planet for about the last sixty years. Whether or not we make it another 60 years depends on our ability to show restraint and to reflect on our previous mistakes. Blindly adopting new technology that has the capacity to enslave or extinguish all life on this planet is the height of folly, yet this is standard operating procedure.
What's the difference, really, between primates and humans? Humans can write things in books, create websites and launch rockets into space, but both species basically look to a silverback for guidance and fling their feces when agitated. If you want to get an idea of how successful humans will be with nanotechnology and genetic engineering, place a crate full of hand grenades into a habitat containing several apes or gorillas and watch what happens.
And before you accuse me of being a continual downer, listen to Joe Frank's, An Enterprising Man (RealAudio stream) . Joe Frank's site. This makes me laugh so damn hard I almost forget it's The End.
My friend wrote this: Disarming law-abiding citizens is typical of the criminal court system that only exists to legitimize this tyranny we live under. So only state militias are able to bear arms, huh? Well, maybe they should read the Pennsylvannia Minority Paper; written during the Constitutional Convention Debates by the same people who demanded that a Bill of Rights be added to that document of despotism known as the US Constitution. These quotes, I believe, help set the context for determining exactly who is supposed to bear arms and whose interests the Bill of Rights are intended to serve.
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7. That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and their own state, or the United States, or for the purpose of killing game; and no law shall be passed for disarming the people OR ANY OF THEM, unless for crimes committed, or real danger of public injury from individuals; and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up: and that the military shall be kept under strict subordination to and be governed by the civil powers.
8. The inhabitants of the several states shall have liberty to fowl and hunt in seasonable times, on the lands they hold, and on all other lands in the United States not inclosed, and in like manner to fish in all navigable waters, and others not private property, without being restrained therein by any laws to be -passed by the legislature of the United States.
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Further down in the same document they talk of the dangers of a state militia and standing army/state police force:
The absolute unqualified command that Congress have over the militia may be made instrumental to the destruction of all liberty, both public and private; whether of a personal, civil or religious nature.
Thirdly, the absolute command of Congress over the militia may be destructive of public liberty; for under the guidance of an arbitrary government, they may be made the unwilling instruments of tyranny. The militia of Pennsylvania may be marched to New England or Virginia to quell an insurrection occasioned by the most galling oppression, and aided by the standing army, they will no doubt be successful in subduing their liberty and independence; but in so doing, although the magnanimity of their minds will be extinguished, yet the meaner passions of resentment and revenge will be increased, and these in turn will be the ready and obedient instruments of despotism to enslave the others; and that with an irritated vengeance. Thus may the militia be made the instruments of crushing the last efforts of expiring liberty, of riveting the chains of despotism on their fellow citizens, and on one another. This power can be exercised not only without violating the constitution, but in strict conformity with it; it is calculated for this express purpose, and will doubtless be executed accordingly.
As this government will not enjoy the confidence of the people, but be executed by force, it will be a very expensive and burthensome government. The standing army must be numerous, and as a further support, it will be the policy of this government to multiply officers in every department: judges, collectors, taxgatherers, excisemen and the whole host of revenue officers will swarm over the land, devouring the hard earnings of the industrious. Like the locusts of old, impoverishing and- desolating all before them.
http://www.constitution.org/afp/pennmi00.htm
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Also, Jefferson, in a draft of the Virginia Constitution made it clear what he had in mind:
Note: Arms
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands].
-- Thomas Jefferson, Draft Constitution for Virginia
[June, 1776.]
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That post was excellent! I am with you, brother! Everyone needs to start drawing the line. JUST DRAW THE FUCKING LINE. Resist in any way you can, large or small.
If anyone doubts that a tyranny is being established in this country, check out the following:
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United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit:
"The Second Amendment does not confer an individual right to own or possess arms."
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/6
Dangerous times in this country:
In 1999, the State of California enacted amendments to its gun control laws that significantly strengthened the state's restrictions on the possession, use, and transfer of the semiautomatic weapons popularly known as "assault weapons." Plaintiffs, California residents who either own assault weapons, seek to acquire such weapons, or both, brought this challenge to the gun control statute, asserting that the law, as amended, violates the Second Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause, and a host of other constitutional provisions. The district court dismissed all of the plaintiffs' claims. Because the Second Amendment does not confer an individual right to own or possess arms, we affirm the dismissal of all claims brought pursuant to that constitutional provision.
I read what this guy has done, and I thought about all the crap I've done/am doing, and, "a van down by the river" doesn't sound half bad. I mean, is it really worth slaving away for PHBs? I'd rather contribute to bringing this absurd system down by NOT contributing tax revenue to the beast. Hey, they can't tax it if I don't earn it.
I've been doing practice runs. Trying to sleep in my car. Taking note of places to park at night. Using the Internet from Kinkos on my laptop. Finding open 802.11 networks. How many Slashdotters are homeless? How is it working out for you?
Before you mod this off topic, consider the fact that it really isn't. It's about updating one's skillset to live outside the PHB reality.
-Kevin
Good luck!
Pause...
I just checked and NOPE it won't migrate Outlook crap. I didn't think so. Those files are a nightmare.
From their faq.
Does Move2Mac migrate email?
Move2Mac will move and convert the address book and POP3 settings for Outlook Express on the PC to Mac OS X 10.2 Mail.
Outlook Express DOES NOT MEAN Outlook 2000!
Those of you who actually took the time to read my essay, "Cyberwar: How Terrorists Could Defeat the U.S., and Why They Won't," (requires Acrobat 5, not 4.) might get chill running up your backs when you read this. I'm still sticking to my original thesis, however: The Internet won't be brought down by terrorists because corporations and governments need it, and the terrorists serve the interests of corporations and governments. Regardless, I hope this DNS attack isn't a prelude to a bigger operation. Note how they say that it just ran for an hour and then stopped! Note this story, which detailed the creation of attack zombies with P2P capabilities, allowing them to be targetted at will. Also note that a top infrastructure protection analyst was just killed by the Maryland area sniper! And within a couple of days we see the largest DDOS attack on root DNS systems ever!? (Long Pause) Keep a sharp eye out for weirdness, folks, something BIG might be coming down:
Here's what I wrote back on September 14, 2002:
Maybe the terrorists start taking out some or all of the thirteen root domain name server systems (I think there are still 13) or interrupting communications to those root servers [today's DDOS incident]. (Thankfully, a couple of these systems are located in places that have people with guns guarding them.) These root servers are used by thousands of other lower level domain name systems and receive about 300 million requests per day.
Domain name systems are used to translate human readable URLs, like www.cryptogon.com into machine usable IP addresses like 209.115.132.59. There is much concern about the root DNS systems. Many articles on this topic are easily accessible. Much of the concern, however, is focused on hackers DOSsing the root servers. Again, this misses the point.
What is the physical security like at the non-military root DNS facilities?
I've driven by one of the buildings hundreds of times because I used to live near it. It looks just like any other small office building. How long would this place hold up against a few armed terrorists who were willing to die TO BRING DOWN A ROOT DNS NODE? Think about it. The same goes for the data centers mentioned previously. Surely these places should have armed security. But even if they did, are they prepared to stop terrorists who have no intention of ever getting out alive?
Here's what just happened:
The heart of the Internet sustained its largest and most sophisticated attack ever, starting late Monday, according to officials at key online backbone organizations.
Around 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, a "distributed denial of service" (DDOS) attack struck the 13 "root servers" that provide the primary roadmap for almost all Internet communications. Despite the scale of the attack, which lasted about an hour, Internet users worldwide were largely unaffected, experts said.
FBI officials would not speculate on who might have planned or carried out the attack.
David Wray, a spokesman for the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), said the bureau is "aware of the reports and looking into it."
DDOS attacks overwhelm networks with an onslaught of data until they cannot be used. According to security experts, the incident probably was the result of multiple attacks, in which attackers concentrate the power of many computers against a single network to prevent it from operating.
"This was the largest and most complex DDOS attack ever against the root server system," said a source at one of the organizations responsible for operating the root servers.
Perfect Economic Storm?
.mil. What does this mean? I don't know how likely this is, but there is definitely a fair chance that all of the ports in the western U.S. may soon be placed under military control.
Are we about to get smacked by a Perfect Economic Storm? "About to get smacked!? What do you call the last two years?" you say. I know, things have been bad and continue to get worse. But the markets seem to have crossed the rubicon today, headed toward serious doom. Oil prices continue to rise and earnings are going nowhere but down. Many issues are crossing below six year lows. War with Iraq, and God knows where else, is imminent.
And there's another MAJOR story that is not getting much coverage in the establishment media: the longshoremen lockout. Each day the ports are closed takes backlogs a week to unwind until things return to normal. Each day the ports are closed the U.S. economy loses approximately $1 billion. This is not a labor issue, this is a national security issue. If this longshoremen situation is not resolved in very short order, the U.S. government has a contingency plan to use United States Marines to keep the ports open. The government realizes that the longshoremen (the most militant union of them all) will not allow anyone to break any picket lines without a full tilt riot (or worse) ensuing. But even those guys won't stand up to
I don't think the port operators would be this bold unless they "knew" something, if you know what I mean. And all of this nonsense is happening as the major swindlers are gearing up for the critical Christmas shopping season:
In Portland, terminal operators told about 200 dockworkers to leave the Port of Portland's largest container terminal at about 3:15 p.m., in the middle of what union members had expected to be a full day shift.
"I never thought this would happen," said Bruce Holte, president of ILWU Local 8 in Portland. "It affects our whole economy. The Pacific Maritime Association wants to destroy our economy. Who knows how long they'll want to play this game."
"JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN"