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Vermont Bans Fracking
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Yeah it would be great to live in a world where we didn't rely so heavily on coal or fracking, but I don't see the U.S. intalling Solar Panels at nearly the rate of say Germany or making any other serious efforts to get off of coal and cheap carbon rich sources of energy. It gets stalled as a political argument where people who worry about the impact of carbon on our atmosphere are painted as the ones full of shit.
It's very hard to convince people that something that feels good in the short term but has potentially disasterous impact on the long-run is something they shouldn't do, especially once they are addicted. Just look at cigarettes. Fossil fuels are the equivalent of societal amphetamines, they speed everything up and make it so that people sleep less, work more, and generally do more but they over the long-run are wearing out our planet and the extraction is contaminating many parts of our earth, from the plastic debris to the oil spills to the coal residue contaminating fish.
And at the same time I don't really see a way for individuals to prevent this from happening because going against the short-term economic benefit of fossil fuel extraction and use is political suicide for most politicians where people are benefitting from both the consumption and production of fossil fuels. We could provide subsidies and even more credit to encourage the wide-spread adoption of solar energy, and we as individuals could probably afford to install small solar systems onto our houses to help off-set the electrical production even if it were a somewhat expensive investment with a long-term financial payoff.
Actually I think this makes sense and sounds accurate. Why should fracking chemicals be excluded from the clean water act ? Just because they design concrete boxes to try to prevent the fluid from leaching into the surrounding acquifers ? Concrete cracks over time, and there have definitely been some screw ups in the initial designs which caused the contamination that the fracking companies refuse to take accountability for, but instead just offer water treatment systems and trucked in water. More of this will likely happen, hopefully it won't be universal, but really people this is potentially tricky stuff with a lot of variables that are unknown because they are hidden.
Regardless of whether fracking results in the near-permanent contamination of rural water supplies nearby it, it is a rather dreadful noisy and destructive process. I've spoken with someone who got lumped into a settlement and is watching the process unfold around him. Roads being destroyed by heavy machinery, and a 24-hour cacophony of noise. And that is without the potential contamination of the water supply due to concrete breaking down over time or unknown geological variables that result in the leaking of said chemicals somewhere along the line. Perhaps as a result of negligence or economic short-cutting to make more profit as the price of natural-gas plummets thus resulting in a desire to extract it with as little "investment" as possible. Yeah truly a luddite fairy tale, or is it really more of a real-life nightmare.
Exactly. Apple is simply trying to block the use of a free standard because it is competitive with their proprietary nature. The fact that they won't add a free standard video codec to Quicktime is infuriating and makes me want to stage a protest at a Apple store just for fun. Similar to the protests against DRM that people staged a few years ago. I think that we need to stand up and demand accountability for this attempt to muscle out a real positive alternative to a region of software that is dominated by proprietary codecs.
E-waste is a huge problem and I doubt that adding a tax will be the solution, unfortunately most of the e-waste recycling that happens just ends up shipping stuff over to Asia in the containers that import the soon to be junk anyways. A sustainable operation like Freegeek.org where old computers are taken and triaged to determine whether the components on them are fried and then the useful ones are built into linux systems for and by volunteers and the rest are stripped down to their recyclable parts and taken over to a place that actually grinds the curcuit board down and woalah a lot less e-waste.
Gates is a technocrat, he seens no need for renewable resources, he lives in a mansion, he is the fucking richest man in the world, his ego is huge, he thinks humans are going to transcend into machines, of course he thinks cheap laptops that will replace him are a bad idea. Imagine this, if instead of spending their time toiling in sweatshops or producing code for microsoft people were able to participate in the development of open source software, i know many projects that could use help.
Having free communication via linux, these are the anti-thesis of trusted computing, they are a wound in the side of Bill Gate's empire. And the memetic infection of software freedom and secure communications could be spread, and if the technological infrastructure were to fall or if you were in an area without a grid and hyper development as in a rural or mountainous area you could figure out how to use these laptops to pretty much solve any problem if you could maintain access to the internet. Ever hear of relays, wifi extenders, line of site wifi for 2 miles, solar powered hubs that interconnect with the mesh. Obviously these devices would be able to be changed and fixed and customized, something like a bunch of OpenWRT54G hubs could be solar powered and rigged to relay to these laptops. I don't know it seems like a good idea to me and who really likes Bill Gates?
This is very obviously a tool that could be utilized to suppress dissent, perhaps it has to do with the riots and spontaneous insurrections that have been occuring in China as of late. Like the tollbooth riots that occured recently. Just think if they could rewind their tape and then rewatch the incident and pick out who did what when. The problem of government surveillance is obviously not limited to China but indicative of a very negative direction the widespread dissemination of information technology, the subject is a reference to the last chapter of SmartMobs.
why is it that everybody is still waiting for a remake of the ultimate nintendo game bionic commando ? has nobody at capcom realized the potential ?
what about a first person shooter version, I mean come on most of the games ripped off the grapple hook from bionic commando in the first place, why not hit the original with the intriguing plot and missions and non-linear gameplay to a new level..?
I just can't wait until I can waste my life tapped into the Matrix Online, fighting the evil machine which seeks to destroy our lives by forcing us to continue its existence with all of my comrades of the MMORPG revolution...
yah I was thinking the same thing, but it had something to do with the fact that people kept dying during the making of poltergeist, at least one person per film and then the woman who played the oracle died during the making of this one...
woah...
who needs TIA when you have friendster...
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TIA Project to End
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I mean why spy on people when you can get them to spy on themselves? Just wait for the shadow funding for TIA and other analyzing software to come when Friendster starts requiring you to pay.
Otherwise why would the internet exist if it wasn't for DARPA, wasn't it just opened up so that the "Illuminati" as show on the TIA logo could develop the information infrastructure that would be capable of being spied on in such a large scale ?
Nah, they're just a bunch of greyface dimwitted control freaks with bizarre technocratic fetishes and too much social manipulative power in their face and hands.
Goverment is simply the dominant form of hierarchy
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Defining Globalism
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Globalization is the approximation of the process that currently involves the modernization of our world and the assimilation of the "third-world" into the wage slavery of modern capitalism. Of course looking at it from that perspective is truly a negative one, but we need to fucking focus more on putting our own spin on things rather than trying to stop the globe from spinning. Too much energy is put towards trying to stop things like meetings and globalization, which have a huge fucking amount of time and energy put into them, rather than instead either subverting them by liberating people from the wage slavery and working with each other to do things we want to see, or else doing it anarchistically. Setting up our own fucking transglobal anti-corporations that instead of plundering the resources of the globe and the precapitalist "third world", share the resources that we have here, work on creating international solidarity, and instead of fucking setting up industrial slavery as existed in america fucking 100 years ago in some country that is getting robbed of it's subsistence existence, setup mutual aid based economy's that eliminate the cokeheaded profit motive and just help everyone all around rather than pumping up ego headed crackmunching CEOs.
If this doesn't make sense think of it in these terms, the problem is hiearchy, removing responsibilty and interaction from individuals, representing them and making decisions for them, considering them merely a # rather than someone who can contribute to the whole. This is done both by government and by mega-corporations.
All uber-materialist conceptions that ignore methods of interaction besides material transactions are very distasteful to the whole process, they trivialize mutual growth processes and focus merely on a particularly destructive aspect of our evolution. We need to evolve beyond scarcity driven capitalist economics to post-scarcity anarchism. Atleast that is one answer.
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Yeah it would be great to live in a world where we didn't rely so heavily on coal or fracking, but I don't see the U.S. intalling Solar Panels at nearly the rate of say Germany or making any other serious efforts to get off of coal and cheap carbon rich sources of energy. It gets stalled as a political argument where people who worry about the impact of carbon on our atmosphere are painted as the ones full of shit. It's very hard to convince people that something that feels good in the short term but has potentially disasterous impact on the long-run is something they shouldn't do, especially once they are addicted. Just look at cigarettes. Fossil fuels are the equivalent of societal amphetamines, they speed everything up and make it so that people sleep less, work more, and generally do more but they over the long-run are wearing out our planet and the extraction is contaminating many parts of our earth, from the plastic debris to the oil spills to the coal residue contaminating fish. And at the same time I don't really see a way for individuals to prevent this from happening because going against the short-term economic benefit of fossil fuel extraction and use is political suicide for most politicians where people are benefitting from both the consumption and production of fossil fuels. We could provide subsidies and even more credit to encourage the wide-spread adoption of solar energy, and we as individuals could probably afford to install small solar systems onto our houses to help off-set the electrical production even if it were a somewhat expensive investment with a long-term financial payoff.
Actually I think this makes sense and sounds accurate. Why should fracking chemicals be excluded from the clean water act ? Just because they design concrete boxes to try to prevent the fluid from leaching into the surrounding acquifers ? Concrete cracks over time, and there have definitely been some screw ups in the initial designs which caused the contamination that the fracking companies refuse to take accountability for, but instead just offer water treatment systems and trucked in water. More of this will likely happen, hopefully it won't be universal, but really people this is potentially tricky stuff with a lot of variables that are unknown because they are hidden.
Regardless of whether fracking results in the near-permanent contamination of rural water supplies nearby it, it is a rather dreadful noisy and destructive process. I've spoken with someone who got lumped into a settlement and is watching the process unfold around him. Roads being destroyed by heavy machinery, and a 24-hour cacophony of noise. And that is without the potential contamination of the water supply due to concrete breaking down over time or unknown geological variables that result in the leaking of said chemicals somewhere along the line. Perhaps as a result of negligence or economic short-cutting to make more profit as the price of natural-gas plummets thus resulting in a desire to extract it with as little "investment" as possible. Yeah truly a luddite fairy tale, or is it really more of a real-life nightmare.
Exactly. Apple is simply trying to block the use of a free standard because it is competitive with their proprietary nature. The fact that they won't add a free standard video codec to Quicktime is infuriating and makes me want to stage a protest at a Apple store just for fun. Similar to the protests against DRM that people staged a few years ago. I think that we need to stand up and demand accountability for this attempt to muscle out a real positive alternative to a region of software that is dominated by proprietary codecs.
E-waste is a huge problem and I doubt that adding a tax will be the solution, unfortunately most of the e-waste recycling that happens just ends up shipping stuff over to Asia in the containers that import the soon to be junk anyways. A sustainable operation like Freegeek.org where old computers are taken and triaged to determine whether the components on them are fried and then the useful ones are built into linux systems for and by volunteers and the rest are stripped down to their recyclable parts and taken over to a place that actually grinds the curcuit board down and woalah a lot less e-waste.
Gates is a technocrat, he seens no need for renewable resources, he lives in a mansion, he is the fucking richest man in the world, his ego is huge, he thinks humans are going to transcend into machines, of course he thinks cheap laptops that will replace him are a bad idea. Imagine this, if instead of spending their time toiling in sweatshops or producing code for microsoft people were able to participate in the development of open source software, i know many projects that could use help. Having free communication via linux, these are the anti-thesis of trusted computing, they are a wound in the side of Bill Gate's empire. And the memetic infection of software freedom and secure communications could be spread, and if the technological infrastructure were to fall or if you were in an area without a grid and hyper development as in a rural or mountainous area you could figure out how to use these laptops to pretty much solve any problem if you could maintain access to the internet. Ever hear of relays, wifi extenders, line of site wifi for 2 miles, solar powered hubs that interconnect with the mesh. Obviously these devices would be able to be changed and fixed and customized, something like a bunch of OpenWRT54G hubs could be solar powered and rigged to relay to these laptops. I don't know it seems like a good idea to me and who really likes Bill Gates?
This is very obviously a tool that could be utilized to suppress dissent, perhaps it has to do with the riots and spontaneous insurrections that have been occuring in China as of late. Like the tollbooth riots that occured recently. Just think if they could rewind their tape and then rewatch the incident and pick out who did what when. The problem of government surveillance is obviously not limited to China but indicative of a very negative direction the widespread dissemination of information technology, the subject is a reference to the last chapter of SmartMobs.
why is it that everybody is still waiting for a remake of the ultimate nintendo game bionic commando ? has nobody at capcom realized the potential ? what about a first person shooter version, I mean come on most of the games ripped off the grapple hook from bionic commando in the first place, why not hit the original with the intriguing plot and missions and non-linear gameplay to a new level..?
I just can't wait until I can waste my life tapped into the Matrix Online, fighting the evil machine which seeks to destroy our lives by forcing us to continue its existence with all of my comrades of the MMORPG revolution...
yah I was thinking the same thing, but it had something to do with the fact that people kept dying during the making of poltergeist, at least one person per film and then the woman who played the oracle died during the making of this one... woah...
I mean why spy on people when you can get them to spy on themselves? Just wait for the shadow funding for TIA and other analyzing software to come when Friendster starts requiring you to pay. Otherwise why would the internet exist if it wasn't for DARPA, wasn't it just opened up so that the "Illuminati" as show on the TIA logo could develop the information infrastructure that would be capable of being spied on in such a large scale ? Nah, they're just a bunch of greyface dimwitted control freaks with bizarre technocratic fetishes and too much social manipulative power in their face and hands.
Globalization is the approximation of the process that currently involves the modernization of our world and the assimilation of the "third-world" into the wage slavery of modern capitalism. Of course looking at it from that perspective is truly a negative one, but we need to fucking focus more on putting our own spin on things rather than trying to stop the globe from spinning. Too much energy is put towards trying to stop things like meetings and globalization, which have a huge fucking amount of time and energy put into them, rather than instead either subverting them by liberating people from the wage slavery and working with each other to do things we want to see, or else doing it anarchistically. Setting up our own fucking transglobal anti-corporations that instead of plundering the resources of the globe and the precapitalist "third world", share the resources that we have here, work on creating international solidarity, and instead of fucking setting up industrial slavery as existed in america fucking 100 years ago in some country that is getting robbed of it's subsistence existence, setup mutual aid based economy's that eliminate the cokeheaded profit motive and just help everyone all around rather than pumping up ego headed crackmunching CEOs. If this doesn't make sense think of it in these terms, the problem is hiearchy, removing responsibilty and interaction from individuals, representing them and making decisions for them, considering them merely a # rather than someone who can contribute to the whole. This is done both by government and by mega-corporations. All uber-materialist conceptions that ignore methods of interaction besides material transactions are very distasteful to the whole process, they trivialize mutual growth processes and focus merely on a particularly destructive aspect of our evolution. We need to evolve beyond scarcity driven capitalist economics to post-scarcity anarchism. Atleast that is one answer.