I'm not sure they are even surplus selling a lot of the parts like they used to, let alone complete rifles sliced in chunks. I believe garands are the last civilian marksmanship products out there, and once they are gone, there won't be anything available as surplus from the government, well, unless you are a cop in some city someplace, but they can get new whatever they want anyways.
wind is close to being a hydroelectric "sort of" method, (cheap flowing media spins blades basically) and can be situated in a lot more places. World wide, the last two years I believe, (maybe three now I'd have to check), more watts of wind production have gone online than fossil fuel burning plants.
yes, I agree, it would do good to work towards eliminating coal, some nasty dirty stuff there, no matter how much they scrub it.
well, you are welcome, glad you like it. I just base my writings when I'm addressing subjects such as that from what any reasonable geek would do, apply my real world experience and expertise, whatever level that is at in the discussion. I've seen it work real time, first person, so my anecdotals reflect that. I've seen conservation work to such an extent it truly is amazing. I think more people would do it if they could just physically see it for themselves in action. And the same with active electrical production on a homeowner scale, it works, it's "their" now, just needs adoption and deployment on a larger scale across the board.
I don't think there's any one silver bullet to solve all the energy needs, but I think the combination of proven methods that are available now would solve a lot of those "problems". The biggest drawback is inertia, and the phenomenon of a few large corporate business interests who can readily see their cash cows evaporating swiftly should these relatively simple steps be adopted universally.
...any income tax at the federal level. Zero. No graduated tax, no fair tax, no VAT tax no corporate tax. And the reason is almost absurdly simple. (and this applies to any other nation with a central bank and artifical fiat currency for their internal use)
We have a NON tangible, fiat cuurency based economic system. ALL the monies currently represented by the "income tax" are based on "money" that is artificially created inside computers and in accounting ledgers. ALL of it. They just decide how much of it to print up or to exist as bytes inside of computers. Our government, in it's non impressive wisdom, allowed a set of 12 private banks to have that power and immense control and opportunity, stripping it from the people in general through their government and treasury.
We could do the same exact thing, but have our own treasury instead of the fed do it, and run the same size government we have now, completely, merely by issuing our own money, and getting it into circulation through normal government business, and with a few more easy to pull off ways. It would require zero income taxes. It would eliminate the necessity of having a phony "debt" and "borrowing" to run government. It's trivially easy to "borrow" money when it's just artificially created, it's just entries on a screen basically, no work required, no tangibles required except as a way to determine amount created, through business productivity indexes which already exist. We can just skip the borrowing part and "interest"and just create it.
It's exactly what we do now, just eliminate two costly steps of gargantuan middlemen skimmers in the picture, the fed and smaller private bank "loans" that are currently allowed via fractional reserve "loaning". We also would eliminate the tax on people and businesses, allow the economy to expand with all the money, not just part of it. The only check needed to keep it under control is to not over inflate the total supply in circulation, just keep it in line with true indexes that represent the actual growth in business productivity.
This is the simple version, but it's an easy to understand concept. What is not easy to understand is why we put up with this convulted mess of a tax system that only goes for command and control of the population and for subsidising a few select private people for generations now.
...for legitmate ID just to get a store card? I have two of them currently, neither one has any sort of real info connected to it. Maybe some places require that, I just haven't seen it. I treat them like online registration just to read some article,ie, give em nonsense. I like Fred Ziffle (from greenacres) myself, go ahead and use him, he's registered at a lot of grocery stores now and maybe several dozen radio shacks. He used to live at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, but he moved, use 1313 mockingbird lane (the munsters), any nearby city.
Ya, I agree it would be nice if they didn't use them, but most stores have them now and unfortunately they are sometimes worth a few bucks a visit, good to pay the gas in the car with.
I can't use the keychain cards, they get smashed too easy on me, stuck with the hip stuffers.
So far the only thing different in the wallet from most of the guys here I have, is I carry two coins, one gold, one silver, to always remind me what real money is supposed to be.
note, I haven't read the thread yet, just something I've seen, maybe it's already mentioned.
They make 3 dimensional maps -I mean textured, the mountains are raised, you can trace rivers, etc, that are NEAT. He could literally feel the maps and have someone explain what he is touching, eventually he'd figure it out. No idea what they cost, but even a few of them, generic US, generic continents, etc, might be of great help.
It was in missouri. Yep, AC goes on once temps hit the 80s for most folks. I lived there for a coupla years. Midwest and southeast heat, heck, most anyplace east of the big muddy, gets real intense from the humidity in the summer. I live in georgia now and work outside, it cracked 80 today. When I come into the house I literally take my shirt off and hang it on the line, because it's soaked, 80 and high humdity is HOT.
I been outwest a few times, and yep, 80 and low humidity is tolerable. I even remember jogging in southern cal when it was pretty hot, never broke sweat that I recall, or put it more accurately, it probably dried almost instantly, you just feel cooler.
The only AC we have here is a huge oak tree, shades the house. We are an exception to the Ac rule around here, everyone else that I know has an air conditioner and it gets used, starting at the high 70s usually. Me, I can't stand them, and I think it wusses you out, once used to them you are never comfortable except inside someplace or in the car where it's blowing.
Anyway, that was a true story to illustrate a point, the family's electrical bill went dramatically lower (and would stay lower almost forever) with two days of a couple guys labor working on their home and some material. Our work at the time was usually around a 3 or 4 year total payback for most of the customers, then it was free money kept in the wallet every month. You just can't beat not incurring a bill to begin with on "saving" money and increasing comfort. That part is important too, better quality insulation efforts make your home much more liveable, not only mellows out the tem-p extrmes, it makes it quieter and more cozy feeling. Helps keeping dust and dirt and bugs out, too, BTW, again, a great +. And we never even figured out the home expensive appliance savings, wear and tear on the Ac or heat pumps and furnace adds up, too, and none of them are cheap nowadays. It's *something* to go from the unit kicking on every hour or so to once in a day and a half, just with simple common sense conservation measures. And you can do an even better job with new construction.
The concept is called "super insulation" and works most any climate with temp extremes. I first learned about it living in the great white north and making folks be able to actually afford to stay in their homes after fuel oil prices skyrocketed in the 70's. I have personal friends who's winter heating bill became greater than their mortgage, and it happened within a few months time frame, went from "acceptable, just the heating bill" to OMG WTF is this!!!11! AAAKKK!!"
I think people in this nation are too complacent, they get set for a certain standard then something weird happens, lose a job, international tom foolery happens, natural weather extremes, whatever, THEN they start to think of alternatives and solutions. To me that's bass ackwards.. Ask the folks in florida now who couldn't or didn't want to "afford" more-sane construction with rafter tie downs and etc, or they though having a fuel genny was unnecessary, or stored water, etc.. I *bet* you'd find a ton of folks with 40 inch TVs and skiboats who neglected their houses infrastructure in favor of pleasurable pursuits,dropping their loot and interest there, now they got a big pile of busted up crap in the yard to deal with, and everyones insurance goes up. Oh well, learn for history or etc....
Same with the nations "energy" bill, just astounds me we even have these conversations when more-sane useage and application of fairly non exotic and available engineering would solve a lot of the "problems". We really don't have as much of an energy problem as we have an ID 10 T problem, IMO. Humans by and large are just not proactive in a few critical areas, once they get used to easy and cheap living they forget it don't always got to stay that way just because they wish it so....
...you convinced me! It's no use for your own juice, might as well wait for government and international corporations to offer me the back yard Mr. Fusion!
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My point of view is, you can have BOTH and sorta slide into energy independence, and help out the R and D along the way by being an early adopter and enthusiast. There's no law says you have to immediately replace your existing grid setup. It's not an immediate either/or situation, yuou can have both. In fact, most of the alternative energy rigs I have seen incorporate the grid, because that's what they started out with. You start with some critical need, something like maybe just enough to power your home office (killer UPS system there), or you living room outlets, or the freezer in the garage, just something. That's what's cool about alternatives, they are immensely scalable and flexible. My own stuff, no way can I run everything, but I can run SOME of everything all the time, and whenever the grid poofs (I live rural, it happens frequently), I still got that "some". And I can add to it as I drop more loot at it. I look at it like upgrading my machine, I don't have to do it all at once, I can buy a better drive, etc, or more ram, etc, and it's an improvement, an upgrade. A properly designed system is like that, it's designed to at first augment what you already have and be upgradeable, and it provides a minimum of guaranteed power that is paid off, you own it, you control it, it's not subject to market shenaingans or political shenanigans.
Anyway, suit yourself, I'm happy with my much less than 8 grand system so far, plan on adding to it occassionaly. I like being a geek and an early adopter of interesting and *useful* technology. I just pick and choose what I like, some guys like fabulously expensive and complex home entertainment systems, or very expensive furniture, or..whatever... I could care less about that stuff, but I like having a good backup of clean power that I control and own outright. Different strokes. I like being part of solutions, in all things. Always been my nature.
"Conservation" is not just a "green buzzword", and it IS relevant to the discussion of whether or not we *need* more nuclear electrical generating plants.
no, six weeks early. Still pretty small though, no fingernails that I saw from what I remember. I don't remember the exact weight either, roughly 4 lbs tops, don't remember any additional ounces. I just remember going "wow! This is a human baby boy! How small, helpless but ALIVE and gonna make it!"
It was quite an experience for me. It honestly did influence me on changing my views a lot.
...solar. Ever hear of solar troughs or heliostats? Look em up, interesting tech, for sale now. No silicon wafers needed. No need for armed guards and surface to air missiles either, to protect them. That's part of the problem with nuclear energy now, and it can't be ignored. If it wasn't dangerous, it wouldn't need triple containment vessels and shifts of guards, etc. Nuclear power makes "hot", that's it, that's what it boils down to. We can get "hot" other places with much less risk. Granted, at TODAYS prices it might be somewhat cheaper, but that's today, tonmorrow? No one knows, stuff happens, things change... Say some goombah gets off a lucky shot with an actual decent attack missile at a nuke plant. I know they can withstand a small plane crashing into them, but a cruise missile or icbm designed to penetrate concrete, etc? Or some plant gets raided by a few dozen serious attackers who have sophisticated weapons?
It could happen, then what? Downwind might be bad news for a long time......
The other good thing about solar (and wind) is that anyone can OWN it, you don't need to be megacorp, it's not just limited to the same billionaire energy monopolies. ain't it time joe user got a chance at that? Going all nukes means you will always be forced into shipping them billionaires a check forever and ever, with no guarantees of pricing. Last I looked, anyone you as joe homeowner can't get a 10 year contract on pricing for juice, you pay what it costs or..no juice. No competition using the energy monopolies as the only source.
The scaling with solar & wind is great, from tiny run-a-single appliance size to industrial / commercial sizes, and everything in between.
To ME it's like the early days of personal computers, back then, only large businesses had computers, big, heavy, expensive, arcane to operate. Now, anyone can get one and do all sorts of stuff, and you can OWN it. And it's only taken roughly 20 years for it to become so common as to be normal in most homes. Personal Energy (I will now coin an acronym, call it PE) needs the same efforts. And it's because the early adopters of personal computers actually went and DID it, ignoring the naysaysers who said it wasn't practical, cost too much, would never work, mainframes were it, the only way to do it, and yada yada yada, same thing we hear now about "energy". They didn't wait for some pie in the sky period in the future when "someone" or "the government" would do it for them.
I'm a geek, I use juice, I want to *own* it, not just accept some lifelong juice "lease" from some billionaire down the other end of the wire. He's got enough of my money now, thankew. Time to move on to something a little more competitive and cheaper and safer, something people can actually own, IMO.
His FIRST reference was to better conservation, and I heartily agree. There's still a ton of things people can do to reduce over all "need" for more energy. We still make brand new homes with dismal levels of insulation for example. These homes "pass inspection", they pass "building codes" and are granted long term mortgages. Nuts! Merely by a few legislative efforts, then following through with the better engineering that is now on the market, nothing really all that radical, just more common sense than anything else, society could greatly benefit, we really don't need more power plants, nuclear or otherwise, at least in the numbers I have seen bandied about.
I used to be in the alternative energy biz, primarily with retrofitting homes to be more energy efficient. We used to do before and after infra red pictures of the homes, as you can really see were the problem areas are that way, and it's a nice show and tell for the customer asd well. Typically, the "before" pictures showed a huge waste of energy, you could see it (by the temp and therefore the color differences around the home) leaking out all over. We would re-seal windows, their framing, and the doors and jams, pipes coming into the home,any leaky trim pieces, add additional plexi windows to the inside of normal windows, etc, a few more tricks, then take new pictures. An amazing difference. Every customer loved what we did. I had one effort we were really tickled with, it was in the summer, the people had air conditioning. After our "treatment", they called us up a few days later, freaked out, they wondered why in the middle of summer (80s I think outside, been a long time now, memory is hazy but call it in the 80s) their air conditioner hadn't come on for a day and a half! They were used to it cycling on and off constantly. It was still cool inside, they just thought it was "broken"! HAHAHAHA!
The only difference I see is age. At a certain age, killing is legal, after some arbitrary age, it is not. Seems rather strange to me.
I used to be pro choice when I was younger, that's before I held a very tiny preemie in my hands and really thought about it. I cannot in good conscious just dismiss such a life as arbitrary "tissue".
...had to go look it up, so far nothing in the thread indicated what it was. It appears from a google search to stand for "utility data center" , some sort of universal server/data/format whosis that can be used on the fly, cross platform, washed the car, walks the dog, etc, all while providing enterpise level clients the rich experience they need in order to maintain customer satisfaction and increase profits...whatever. Maybe someone better in the know will take pity on us and give a better idea of what it was.
Feather Linux 64 megabytes total install (I've run it on a 300mghz with 64 megs RAM, and my regular box with a 200PP at 224 ram) It's a knoppix/debian live CD that is hard drive installable, or can run from a 64 meg flashdrive, etc, that's what it's designed for really, but cool for older systems with minimum resources
Vector Linux A slackware-ish effort: this is from their requirements page, note, I never tried it: VL 4.3 Hardware Requirements
The minimum hardware requirements to run VectorLinux 4.3 are a 166 MHz Pentium class processor with 32 MB of RAM memory, and just 850 MB of hard disc space (*).
To have a more comfortable experience with VectorLinux 4.3 we would recommend a 233 MHz (MMX) processor with 64 MB of memory as a minimum.
(*) 835 MB of space for the installation plus 64 MB of swap space is the very minimum. Extra space would be required for additional applications and / or your personal files.
I run FC2 on my machine, and in my experience, yes, ram is more important than processor speed
Of course, I still got my old mac 512k, runs a GUI environment from a floppy......
Basically, you get what you want and pay for, want a zillion programs and a lot of multitasking and full GUI, you need moah powah, regardless of OS.
My GF is a retired stewardess, and coincidently was in the last airliner allowed to land at your airport (I believe that is the one she mentioned, rings a bell) when it erupted last time. She said it looked like the end 0 de whirrled and stuff.
I hope it doesn't go as bad as last time. Listened to a geologist last night for awhile before I crashed out on george noory coast to coast show, he sounded like he was more than a bit concerned over it.
The US government admits to a bit more than 1,000 official casualties, which seems pretty low considering the nature of the attacks, usually vehicles packed with explosives, or other sorts of roadside explosive devices, or attacks with multiple RPGs, etc. Just today are reports of a huge IED going off right next to a convoy, yet they admit to no casualties, only a large number of civilian casualties. I find this hard to believe. This sort of thing is daily now, sometimes multiple times.
I think the numbers are being skewed downwards drastically for political purposes (and tactical purposes). The war appears to be not going as well as they wish it were. And their actions domestically with guard and reserve units, having a lot of trouble getting people to even show up, basically using all the available assets they have, re-rotating people back to iraq, would also indicate this.
I agree with you on clinton. I even wrote some detailed rants about them supporting the KLA (another al queda offshoot, heavy narco trafficers, human slave smugglers, etc) against the serbs, saying that was going to come back and bite us one day, and it did.
and etc. Yep, I'm pretty much against the US constantly going to war over dubious reasons. Frankly, I see one nation really threatening us and "invading us, and that's mexico right now. Ifg we can spend all this money and waste guys way over yonder in whoknowswhereistan, you *think* they could spend a fraction of that and secure our own borders, but NOOOO, that makes too much sense or something. Millions to strip search old ladies and guys in wheelchairs at the airport, sheer dozens of dollars for actual border security and for enforcing immigration laws on the books.
legal immigration = good idea, worked out well over the generations
illegal massive uncontrolled immigration = insane, unwarranted disaster, colluded to by both major parties
Let me see now... I been "spending the next 4 years" trying to "fix" the two party system for going on NINE OF THEM FREEKING 4 YEAR CYCLES. I QUIT. IT'S NOT FIXABLE LIKE THAT. ENOUGH'S ENOUGH.
Here is my opinion based on the past track record of the two party apologists, the ones who have always said "don't waste your vote, lookout, that other guy is worse" and etc., and any perceived differences in the top levels of the two parties and what REALLY happens in politics.
Here it is---It's UNFIXABLE unless you STOP supporting the TWO PARTY CRIMINAL CARTEL THAT HAS HIJACKED THE GOVERNMENT A LONG TIME AGO. If you vote for them THEY WILL TAKE IT. You can't just every 2 or 4 or six year election cycle say you will do it "someday" but "this time" you need to "get them other bozos out". THE TWO PARTY guys in congress and the executive branch are NEVER going to FIX themselves, because THEY DON'T HAVE TO IF THEY ARE IN POWER AND PEOPLE KEEP VOTING THEM IN. They won't sign a law against themselves, investigate themselves honestly, or do anything different than what they have been doing, which is say anything before the election, then back to good old boy business as usual corrupt politics once they get VOTED BACK IN BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE TOLD TO NOT WASTE THEIR VOTE.
And yes, I was YELLING. It will be just as bad if kerry is in. Bush sucks, kerry sucks, that's another reality. They both lie, both are elitist globalist millionaires. Both cater to special interests behind the scenes and overtly. Both are part of the corrupt "system". I will NOT vote for institutionalised corruption.
Younger folks may be fixated this 4 year cycle on "neocon" Republicans and gulf war 2 as a stupid illegal war, along with all the other strange crap that's going down, but I ALSO remember the combo of eastern corporate elite establishment and running yellow dog DEMOCRATS who maintained another long running devastating illegal war and were responsible for massive corruption, and other sorts of strange crap that went down back then.
That's historical reality and hard facts DATA, YOU deal with it.
What's the difference? If you find xyz news webpage from their news service, or a regular search? Google charges not a penny for a regular search, it's a conveninece they provide for free, both to the ones indexed and ranked, and to the web seartcher.. If some site doesn't want google to list them, then why should they list them? All the news search is is an automated aggregator, it's only slightly different from the regular search. You see, I AGREE, follow what the xyz site wants, and if they choose to not use google services because of text ads on the sidebar, so be it, their choice and googles pleasure. They are a search company, the only product they have is a service, they sell text ads on the side of the public free version of google in order to offer that free for all service. If some company has a problem with that, it seems as if google could just solve the problem by not listing them on THEIR servers using THEIR bandwith and using THEIR software and employees and expense. I would imagine running 100,000 plus internet connected fatpipe servers is SORTA expensive, if these other companies don't recognize the free advertising and exposure google offers them just for having some non obtrusive ads on the side, well, tough noogies to them then. Let them negotiate with yahoo or altavista or fred's discount search engine, it don't matter.
and I don't speak for google of course, just using a little option to speculate here. I have NO idea what google will do, but those are some of the more obvious solutions they have for that "problem" should it arise.
And I haven't even started with googles complete "cache" of copyrighted material. MOST people don't care, google goes with that.
Sorry, I'll be way way WAY more impressed when some white guys in suits and uniforms get indicted by a grand jury for some charges up to and including murder and treason. You can talk about "additional powers" then, once you effectively use the ones you already have, and a LOT more of you come forward like the small handful of TRULY brave and honest agents have,and stop being chicken for your careers over the nations safety. Follow your oath, not your paycheck in other words. Use your brain for something more than to absorb "commands". You're an agent, they are supposed to QUESTION things, not just blindly follow orders, they are supposed to deal in data, not be part of a massive coverup that's destroying a nation and imperiling the entire planet.
Nuhremberg established the precedent, "following orders" is no excuse for helping along high crimes and misdemeanors, and being as it's the internet age and some decent info is available, there's no excuse for remaining so uninformed other than laziness and an uncaring attitude and blind obedience and brainwashing.
Oh, the links? There's hundreds more, THOUSANDS more,just use google, 9-11, government prior knowledge is a good start. I'm not going to do your work for you, and if you had been paying attention even just on slashdot you would have already seen quite a few of them dropped, in many articles and in many comments.
Educate thyself before wanting to make all the US people some "enemy" to "investigate". We have had enough of the surveil/command/CONTROL aspect of this and the recent past US "regimes" and their (mostly) *mercenaries*. Stop being a stooge for them killers and thieves.
Here, I'll give you an easy one. How did WTC building 7 manage to fall down? Here's another easy one, bush and company, including rice, swore to the 9-11 "investigative commission" that they had "no idea that planes could be used for hijacking and then used as weapons" and etc.. uh huh. How do you explain terrorist hijacking scenario drills, one being run the same day as the attacks then? A COINCIDENCE? You smelling a rat yet? I hope so, I really do.. we need more honest cops, less blind order followers. I hope you are one of the former.
Google can tell them dudes if they don't like to be in the news they aggregate, just because they whip a few ads on the side of the page, no probs! Pull em out! They could ALSO stop listing them in their search engine AT ALL. google could even CHARGE MONEY to be in their news aggregator for that matter, at least for for-profit commercial news. They still have a lot of options available to them to combat "copyright" hysteria by the providers. Maybe we could even get rid of "subscription/registration required" news feeds being the top listings most of the time as well. I hates 'em I do. I already wrote google and asked them for a filter for that, I do NOT want to establish a subscription and login/password for one thousand different news websites out there, and eat a thousand more cookies, etc. I just as soon they didn't even show up in the google news feed. I'll take regular old traditional internet rules, "here's my website, go ahead and look at it, that's what it's for".
Anyway, for an alternative to google, may I suggest to anyoneTopix, a similar news aggregator that claims they pull from even more sources than google. I use both myself, about equally.
remember that when you hear someone tell you you will "waste your vote" if you don't vote D or R.
Of course, not to say what any of them other parties would do with it, maybe the same, who knoweth, but at least third parties have actual contentious debates with real live thinking people involved when they hammer out their platforms and policies. The two-for-one party we have now is locked up tight, if you ain't a mega corporation, well, you just "ain't" to them.
I concur with the side to side, head on does seem reasonable as a stabler shot, just still thinking about the up and down angle. Aren't planes coming in nose-up? Seems like it's only the last few seconds they drop flat enough to get a shot off for someone on the ground, but for real I could be wrong on that, been a decade now since I last flew and memory is hazy. And he got hit at five miles from the airport, so he was still at some reasonable small thousands of feet altitude you would think. Of course five miles from the airport doesn't mean five miles from the shooter, and they didn't specify the angle the pilots saw the laser beam at when they noticed it flitting around the cockpit cabin. Just that one pilots recollection would indicate a ground shot or an air to air shot from another plane, or even wilder as has been suggested,and overhead shot from some satellite. I dismiss none of those possibilities yet, except accidental.
This thing stinks. I may not be a cop but I think like a cop all the time, with the twist of not trusting what's been going down with this regime, or the previous few for that matter. Been too many coincidences and odd occurrences to suit me. Anthrax attack using US army anthrax when homeland security bill (or patriot act, one or the other I forget now) up for a vote, excuse me, too cute. And we are getting closer and closer to the "elections" as well, just about everyone been predicting more real or ersatz "terror" incidents. I think we can probably rule out "accidental" at this time,just the odds are fantastical against it, but any other theory is still open.
I don't know if anyone remembers, but back during the klinton regime, just about every time some weird gun bill was coming up for a vote we had "kids n gunz" incidents hit the news. Even columbine had an angle like that to it, what's the odds of an NRA national convention, a law on concealed carry being debated at the state level there, and the "kids n gunz, eek, assault weapon gunz!" shooting incident all occurring at the same time and about the same place? And the waco assault, coincidently when congressional hearings on the BATF and some abuses and their funding where about to start. Plenty of examples of coincidences. the current regime claiming they had no idea that hijackers would take planes and smash them into buildings, yet they were running an exercise that day, playing make believe planes were hijacked and smashed into buildings. uh huh, someone sure lying about that one.
The whole thing stinks, this whole "war on terror" stinks, it's way more reichstagg fire scam than anything else, but now it's all messed up with real terrorists as well. Whattafreekinmess.
I just don't trust or believe in coincidences too much. And this laser deal is another one. I've been seriously wondering when they were going to restrict lasers from civilians, as they are potentially very useful as defensive arms against grossly superior weaponry that only the state possesses. I'll be following it for updates, see if they realease some more details. I guarantee any place that rents heavy duty lasers are getting visits from the feds about now, but I don't know how much good that will do..
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I'm not sure they are even surplus selling a lot of the parts like they used to, let alone complete rifles sliced in chunks. I believe garands are the last civilian marksmanship products out there, and once they are gone, there won't be anything available as surplus from the government, well, unless you are a cop in some city someplace, but they can get new whatever they want anyways.
wind is close to being a hydroelectric "sort of" method, (cheap flowing media spins blades basically) and can be situated in a lot more places. World wide, the last two years I believe, (maybe three now I'd have to check), more watts of wind production have gone online than fossil fuel burning plants.
yes, I agree, it would do good to work towards eliminating coal, some nasty dirty stuff there, no matter how much they scrub it.
well, you are welcome, glad you like it. I just base my writings when I'm addressing subjects such as that from what any reasonable geek would do, apply my real world experience and expertise, whatever level that is at in the discussion. I've seen it work real time, first person, so my anecdotals reflect that. I've seen conservation work to such an extent it truly is amazing. I think more people would do it if they could just physically see it for themselves in action. And the same with active electrical production on a homeowner scale, it works, it's "their" now, just needs adoption and deployment on a larger scale across the board.
I don't think there's any one silver bullet to solve all the energy needs, but I think the combination of proven methods that are available now would solve a lot of those "problems". The biggest drawback is inertia, and the phenomenon of a few large corporate business interests who can readily see their cash cows evaporating swiftly should these relatively simple steps be adopted universally.
...any income tax at the federal level. Zero. No graduated tax, no fair tax, no VAT tax no corporate tax. And the reason is almost absurdly simple. (and this applies to any other nation with a central bank and artifical fiat currency for their internal use)
We have a NON tangible, fiat cuurency based economic system. ALL the monies currently represented by the "income tax" are based on "money" that is artificially created inside computers and in accounting ledgers. ALL of it. They just decide how much of it to print up or to exist as bytes inside of computers. Our government, in it's non impressive wisdom, allowed a set of 12 private banks to have that power and immense control and opportunity, stripping it from the people in general through their government and treasury.
We could do the same exact thing, but have our own treasury instead of the fed do it, and run the same size government we have now, completely, merely by issuing our own money, and getting it into circulation through normal government business, and with a few more easy to pull off ways. It would require zero income taxes. It would eliminate the necessity of having a phony "debt" and "borrowing" to run government. It's trivially easy to "borrow" money when it's just artificially created, it's just entries on a screen basically, no work required, no tangibles required except as a way to determine amount created, through business productivity indexes which already exist. We can just skip the borrowing part and "interest"and just create it.
It's exactly what we do now, just eliminate two costly steps of gargantuan middlemen skimmers in the picture, the fed and smaller private bank "loans" that are currently allowed via fractional reserve "loaning". We also would eliminate the tax on people and businesses, allow the economy to expand with all the money, not just part of it. The only check needed to keep it under control is to not over inflate the total supply in circulation, just keep it in line with true indexes that represent the actual growth in business productivity.
This is the simple version, but it's an easy to understand concept. What is not easy to understand is why we put up with this convulted mess of a tax system that only goes for command and control of the population and for subsidising a few select private people for generations now.
...for legitmate ID just to get a store card? I have two of them currently, neither one has any sort of real info connected to it. Maybe some places require that, I just haven't seen it. I treat them like online registration just to read some article,ie, give em nonsense. I like Fred Ziffle (from greenacres) myself, go ahead and use him, he's registered at a lot of grocery stores now and maybe several dozen radio shacks. He used to live at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, but he moved, use 1313 mockingbird lane (the munsters), any nearby city.
Ya, I agree it would be nice if they didn't use them, but most stores have them now and unfortunately they are sometimes worth a few bucks a visit, good to pay the gas in the car with.
I can't use the keychain cards, they get smashed too easy on me, stuck with the hip stuffers.
So far the only thing different in the wallet from most of the guys here I have, is I carry two coins, one gold, one silver, to always remind me what real money is supposed to be.
note, I haven't read the thread yet, just something I've seen, maybe it's already mentioned.
They make 3 dimensional maps -I mean textured, the mountains are raised, you can trace rivers, etc, that are NEAT. He could literally feel the maps and have someone explain what he is touching, eventually he'd figure it out. No idea what they cost, but even a few of them, generic US, generic continents, etc, might be of great help.
It was in missouri. Yep, AC goes on once temps hit the 80s for most folks. I lived there for a coupla years. Midwest and southeast heat, heck, most anyplace east of the big muddy, gets real intense from the humidity in the summer. I live in georgia now and work outside, it cracked 80 today. When I come into the house I literally take my shirt off and hang it on the line, because it's soaked, 80 and high humdity is HOT.
I been outwest a few times, and yep, 80 and low humidity is tolerable. I even remember jogging in southern cal when it was pretty hot, never broke sweat that I recall, or put it more accurately, it probably dried almost instantly, you just feel cooler.
The only AC we have here is a huge oak tree, shades the house. We are an exception to the Ac rule around here, everyone else that I know has an air conditioner and it gets used, starting at the high 70s usually. Me, I can't stand them, and I think it wusses you out, once used to them you are never comfortable except inside someplace or in the car where it's blowing.
Anyway, that was a true story to illustrate a point, the family's electrical bill went dramatically lower (and would stay lower almost forever) with two days of a couple guys labor working on their home and some material. Our work at the time was usually around a 3 or 4 year total payback for most of the customers, then it was free money kept in the wallet every month. You just can't beat not incurring a bill to begin with on "saving" money and increasing comfort. That part is important too, better quality insulation efforts make your home much more liveable, not only mellows out the tem-p extrmes, it makes it quieter and more cozy feeling. Helps keeping dust and dirt and bugs out, too, BTW, again, a great +. And we never even figured out the home expensive appliance savings, wear and tear on the Ac or heat pumps and furnace adds up, too, and none of them are cheap nowadays. It's *something* to go from the unit kicking on every hour or so to once in a day and a half, just with simple common sense conservation measures. And you can do an even better job with new construction.
The concept is called "super insulation" and works most any climate with temp extremes. I first learned about it living in the great white north and making folks be able to actually afford to stay in their homes after fuel oil prices skyrocketed in the 70's. I have personal friends who's winter heating bill became greater than their mortgage, and it happened within a few months time frame, went from "acceptable, just the heating bill" to OMG WTF is this!!!11! AAAKKK!!"
I think people in this nation are too complacent, they get set for a certain standard then something weird happens, lose a job, international tom foolery happens, natural weather extremes, whatever, THEN they start to think of alternatives and solutions. To me that's bass ackwards.. Ask the folks in florida now who couldn't or didn't want to "afford" more-sane construction with rafter tie downs and etc, or they though having a fuel genny was unnecessary, or stored water, etc.. I *bet* you'd find a ton of folks with 40 inch TVs and skiboats who neglected their houses infrastructure in favor of pleasurable pursuits,dropping their loot and interest there, now they got a big pile of busted up crap in the yard to deal with, and everyones insurance goes up. Oh well, learn for history or etc....
Same with the nations "energy" bill, just astounds me we even have these conversations when more-sane useage and application of fairly non exotic and available engineering would solve a lot of the "problems". We really don't have as much of an energy problem as we have an ID 10 T problem, IMO. Humans by and large are just not proactive in a few critical areas, once they get used to easy and cheap living they forget it don't always got to stay that way just because they wish it so....
...you convinced me! It's no use for your own juice, might as well wait for government and international corporations to offer me the back yard Mr. Fusion!
%^)
My point of view is, you can have BOTH and sorta slide into energy independence, and help out the R and D along the way by being an early adopter and enthusiast. There's no law says you have to immediately replace your existing grid setup. It's not an immediate either/or situation, yuou can have both. In fact, most of the alternative energy rigs I have seen incorporate the grid, because that's what they started out with. You start with some critical need, something like maybe just enough to power your home office (killer UPS system there), or you living room outlets, or the freezer in the garage, just something. That's what's cool about alternatives, they are immensely scalable and flexible. My own stuff, no way can I run everything, but I can run SOME of everything all the time, and whenever the grid poofs (I live rural, it happens frequently), I still got that "some". And I can add to it as I drop more loot at it. I look at it like upgrading my machine, I don't have to do it all at once, I can buy a better drive, etc, or more ram, etc, and it's an improvement, an upgrade. A properly designed system is like that, it's designed to at first augment what you already have and be upgradeable, and it provides a minimum of guaranteed power that is paid off, you own it, you control it, it's not subject to market shenaingans or political shenanigans.
Anyway, suit yourself, I'm happy with my much less than 8 grand system so far, plan on adding to it occassionaly. I like being a geek and an early adopter of interesting and *useful* technology. I just pick and choose what I like, some guys like fabulously expensive and complex home entertainment systems, or very expensive furniture, or..whatever... I could care less about that stuff, but I like having a good backup of clean power that I control and own outright. Different strokes. I like being part of solutions, in all things. Always been my nature.
"Conservation" is not just a "green buzzword", and it IS relevant to the discussion of whether or not we *need* more nuclear electrical generating plants.
no, six weeks early. Still pretty small though, no fingernails that I saw from what I remember. I don't remember the exact weight either, roughly 4 lbs tops, don't remember any additional ounces. I just remember going "wow! This is a human baby boy! How small, helpless but ALIVE and gonna make it!"
It was quite an experience for me. It honestly did influence me on changing my views a lot.
...solar. Ever hear of solar troughs or heliostats? Look em up, interesting tech, for sale now. No silicon wafers needed. No need for armed guards and surface to air missiles either, to protect them. That's part of the problem with nuclear energy now, and it can't be ignored. If it wasn't dangerous, it wouldn't need triple containment vessels and shifts of guards, etc. Nuclear power makes "hot", that's it, that's what it boils down to. We can get "hot" other places with much less risk. Granted, at TODAYS prices it might be somewhat cheaper, but that's today, tonmorrow? No one knows, stuff happens, things change... Say some goombah gets off a lucky shot with an actual decent attack missile at a nuke plant. I know they can withstand a small plane crashing into them, but a cruise missile or icbm designed to penetrate concrete, etc? Or some plant gets raided by a few dozen serious attackers who have sophisticated weapons?
It could happen, then what? Downwind might be bad news for a long time......
The other good thing about solar (and wind) is that anyone can OWN it, you don't need to be megacorp, it's not just limited to the same billionaire energy monopolies. ain't it time joe user got a chance at that? Going all nukes means you will always be forced into shipping them billionaires a check forever and ever, with no guarantees of pricing. Last I looked, anyone you as joe homeowner can't get a 10 year contract on pricing for juice, you pay what it costs or..no juice. No competition using the energy monopolies as the only source.
The scaling with solar & wind is great, from tiny run-a-single appliance size to industrial / commercial sizes, and everything in between.
To ME it's like the early days of personal computers, back then, only large businesses had computers, big, heavy, expensive, arcane to operate. Now, anyone can get one and do all sorts of stuff, and you can OWN it. And it's only taken roughly 20 years for it to become so common as to be normal in most homes. Personal Energy (I will now coin an acronym, call it PE) needs the same efforts. And it's because the early adopters of personal computers actually went and DID it, ignoring the naysaysers who said it wasn't practical, cost too much, would never work, mainframes were it, the only way to do it, and yada yada yada, same thing we hear now about "energy". They didn't wait for some pie in the sky period in the future when "someone" or "the government" would do it for them.
I'm a geek, I use juice, I want to *own* it, not just accept some lifelong juice "lease" from some billionaire down the other end of the wire. He's got enough of my money now, thankew. Time to move on to something a little more competitive and cheaper and safer, something people can actually own, IMO.
His FIRST reference was to better conservation, and I heartily agree. There's still a ton of things people can do to reduce over all "need" for more energy. We still make brand new homes with dismal levels of insulation for example. These homes "pass inspection", they pass "building codes" and are granted long term mortgages. Nuts! Merely by a few legislative efforts, then following through with the better engineering that is now on the market, nothing really all that radical, just more common sense than anything else, society could greatly benefit, we really don't need more power plants, nuclear or otherwise, at least in the numbers I have seen bandied about.
I used to be in the alternative energy biz, primarily with retrofitting homes to be more energy efficient. We used to do before and after infra red pictures of the homes, as you can really see were the problem areas are that way, and it's a nice show and tell for the customer asd well. Typically, the "before" pictures showed a huge waste of energy, you could see it (by the temp and therefore the color differences around the home) leaking out all over. We would re-seal windows, their framing, and the doors and jams, pipes coming into the home,any leaky trim pieces, add additional plexi windows to the inside of normal windows, etc, a few more tricks, then take new pictures. An amazing difference. Every customer loved what we did. I had one effort we were really tickled with, it was in the summer, the people had air conditioning. After our "treatment", they called us up a few days later, freaked out, they wondered why in the middle of summer (80s I think outside, been a long time now, memory is hazy but call it in the 80s) their air conditioner hadn't come on for a day and a half! They were used to it cycling on and off constantly. It was still cool inside, they just thought it was "broken"! HAHAHAHA!
The only difference I see is age. At a certain age, killing is legal, after some arbitrary age, it is not. Seems rather strange to me.
I used to be pro choice when I was younger, that's before I held a very tiny preemie in my hands and really thought about it. I cannot in good conscious just dismiss such a life as arbitrary "tissue".
...had to go look it up, so far nothing in the thread indicated what it was. It appears from a google search to stand for "utility data center" , some sort of universal server/data/format whosis that can be used on the fly, cross platform, washed the car, walks the dog, etc, all while providing enterpise level clients the rich experience they need in order to maintain customer satisfaction and increase profits...whatever. Maybe someone better in the know will take pity on us and give a better idea of what it was.
Feather Linux 64 megabytes total install (I've run it on a 300mghz with 64 megs RAM, and my regular box with a 200PP at 224 ram) It's a knoppix/debian live CD that is hard drive installable, or can run from a 64 meg flashdrive, etc, that's what it's designed for really, but cool for older systems with minimum resources
Vector Linux A slackware-ish effort: this is from their requirements page, note, I never tried it: VL 4.3 Hardware Requirements
The minimum hardware requirements to run VectorLinux 4.3 are a 166 MHz Pentium class processor with 32 MB of RAM memory, and just 850 MB of hard disc space (*).
To have a more comfortable experience with VectorLinux 4.3 we would recommend a 233 MHz (MMX) processor with 64 MB of memory as a minimum.
(*) 835 MB of space for the installation plus 64 MB of swap space is the very minimum.
Extra space would be required for additional applications and / or your personal files.
I run FC2 on my machine, and in my experience, yes, ram is more important than processor speed
Of course, I still got my old mac 512k, runs a GUI environment from a floppy......
Basically, you get what you want and pay for, want a zillion programs and a lot of multitasking and full GUI, you need moah powah, regardless of OS.
My GF is a retired stewardess, and coincidently was in the last airliner allowed to land at your airport (I believe that is the one she mentioned, rings a bell) when it erupted last time. She said it looked like the end 0 de whirrled and stuff.
I hope it doesn't go as bad as last time. Listened to a geologist last night for awhile before I crashed out on george noory coast to coast show, he sounded like he was more than a bit concerned over it.
The US government admits to a bit more than 1,000 official casualties, which seems pretty low considering the nature of the attacks, usually vehicles packed with explosives, or other sorts of roadside explosive devices, or attacks with multiple RPGs, etc. Just today are reports of a huge IED going off right next to a convoy, yet they admit to no casualties, only a large number of civilian casualties. I find this hard to believe. This sort of thing is daily now, sometimes multiple times.
I think the numbers are being skewed downwards drastically for political purposes (and tactical purposes). The war appears to be not going as well as they wish it were. And their actions domestically with guard and reserve units, having a lot of trouble getting people to even show up, basically using all the available assets they have, re-rotating people back to iraq, would also indicate this.
I agree with you on clinton. I even wrote some detailed rants about them supporting the KLA (another al queda offshoot, heavy narco trafficers, human slave smugglers, etc) against the serbs, saying that was going to come back and bite us one day, and it did.
and etc. Yep, I'm pretty much against the US constantly going to war over dubious reasons. Frankly, I see one nation really threatening us and "invading us, and that's mexico right now. Ifg we can spend all this money and waste guys way over yonder in whoknowswhereistan, you *think* they could spend a fraction of that and secure our own borders, but NOOOO, that makes too much sense or something. Millions to strip search old ladies and guys in wheelchairs at the airport, sheer dozens of dollars for actual border security and for enforcing immigration laws on the books.
legal immigration = good idea, worked out well over the generations
illegal massive uncontrolled immigration = insane, unwarranted disaster, colluded to by both major parties
Thanks, good link to that ad revenue/registration article.
Let me see now... I been "spending the next 4 years" trying to "fix" the two party system for going on NINE OF THEM FREEKING 4 YEAR CYCLES. I QUIT. IT'S NOT FIXABLE LIKE THAT. ENOUGH'S ENOUGH.
Here is my opinion based on the past track record of the two party apologists, the ones who have always said "don't waste your vote, lookout, that other guy is worse" and etc., and any perceived differences in the top levels of the two parties and what REALLY happens in politics.
Here it is---It's UNFIXABLE unless you STOP supporting the TWO PARTY CRIMINAL CARTEL THAT HAS HIJACKED THE GOVERNMENT A LONG TIME AGO. If you vote for them THEY WILL TAKE IT. You can't just every 2 or 4 or six year election cycle say you will do it "someday" but "this time" you need to "get them other bozos out". THE TWO PARTY guys in congress and the executive branch are NEVER going to FIX themselves, because THEY DON'T HAVE TO IF THEY ARE IN POWER AND PEOPLE KEEP VOTING THEM IN. They won't sign a law against themselves, investigate themselves honestly, or do anything different than what they have been doing, which is say anything before the election, then back to good old boy business as usual corrupt politics once they get VOTED BACK IN BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE TOLD TO NOT WASTE THEIR VOTE.
And yes, I was YELLING. It will be just as bad if kerry is in. Bush sucks, kerry sucks, that's another reality. They both lie, both are elitist globalist millionaires. Both cater to special interests behind the scenes and overtly. Both are part of the corrupt "system". I will NOT vote for institutionalised corruption.
Younger folks may be fixated this 4 year cycle on "neocon" Republicans and gulf war 2 as a stupid illegal war, along with all the other strange crap that's going down, but I ALSO remember the combo of eastern corporate elite establishment and running yellow dog DEMOCRATS who maintained another long running devastating illegal war and were responsible for massive corruption, and other sorts of strange crap that went down back then.
That's historical reality and hard facts DATA, YOU deal with it.
What's the difference? If you find xyz news webpage from their news service, or a regular search? Google charges not a penny for a regular search, it's a conveninece they provide for free, both to the ones indexed and ranked, and to the web seartcher.. If some site doesn't want google to list them, then why should they list them? All the news search is is an automated aggregator, it's only slightly different from the regular search. You see, I AGREE, follow what the xyz site wants, and if they choose to not use google services because of text ads on the sidebar, so be it, their choice and googles pleasure. They are a search company, the only product they have is a service, they sell text ads on the side of the public free version of google in order to offer that free for all service. If some company has a problem with that, it seems as if google could just solve the problem by not listing them on THEIR servers using THEIR bandwith and using THEIR software and employees and expense. I would imagine running 100,000 plus internet connected fatpipe servers is SORTA expensive, if these other companies don't recognize the free advertising and exposure google offers them just for having some non obtrusive ads on the side, well, tough noogies to them then. Let them negotiate with yahoo or altavista or fred's discount search engine, it don't matter.
and I don't speak for google of course, just using a little option to speculate here. I have NO idea what google will do, but those are some of the more obvious solutions they have for that "problem" should it arise.
And I haven't even started with googles complete "cache" of copyrighted material. MOST people don't care, google goes with that.
When even with the info lower level agents get ignored because "terrorist" actions are merely part of the plan? something like a "new pearl harbor" like event And which is it again, when you are "following orders", do you investigate, or shine it on because some "superior" individual has connections with those you are supposedly investigating, so vital information gets ignored on purpose? Why is it, when someone with the legal and law enforcement cred of David Schippers, successful impeacher of a freekin president, successful chicago area mob prosecutor, can't even get word to ashcroft (I'm sure you heard of that gent) about upcoming bad news scenarios despite repeated and exhaustive attempts? Why is that, an "unfortunate intelligence failure"? Or was it because it was ON PURPOSE. Ignored, avoided on purpose?
Sorry, I'll be way way WAY more impressed when some white guys in suits and uniforms get indicted by a grand jury for some charges up to and including murder and treason. You can talk about "additional powers" then, once you effectively use the ones you already have, and a LOT more of you come forward like the small handful of TRULY brave and honest agents have,and stop being chicken for your careers over the nations safety. Follow your oath, not your paycheck in other words. Use your brain for something more than to absorb "commands". You're an agent, they are supposed to QUESTION things, not just blindly follow orders, they are supposed to deal in data, not be part of a massive coverup that's destroying a nation and imperiling the entire planet.
Nuhremberg established the precedent, "following orders" is no excuse for helping along high crimes and misdemeanors, and being as it's the internet age and some decent info is available, there's no excuse for remaining so uninformed other than laziness and an uncaring attitude and blind obedience and brainwashing.
Oh, the links? There's hundreds more, THOUSANDS more,just use google, 9-11, government prior knowledge is a good start. I'm not going to do your work for you, and if you had been paying attention even just on slashdot you would have already seen quite a few of them dropped, in many articles and in many comments.
Educate thyself before wanting to make all the US people some "enemy" to "investigate". We have had enough of the surveil/command/CONTROL aspect of this and the recent past US "regimes" and their (mostly) *mercenaries*. Stop being a stooge for them killers and thieves.
Here, I'll give you an easy one. How did WTC building 7 manage to fall down? Here's another easy one, bush and company, including rice, swore to the 9-11 "investigative commission" that they had "no idea that planes could be used for hijacking and then used as weapons" and etc.. uh huh. How do you explain terrorist hijacking scenario drills, one being run the same day as the attacks then? A COINCIDENCE? You smelling a rat yet? I hope so, I really do.. we need more honest cops, less blind order followers. I hope you are one of the former.
Google can tell them dudes if they don't like to be in the news they aggregate, just because they whip a few ads on the side of the page, no probs! Pull em out! They could ALSO stop listing them in their search engine AT ALL. google could even CHARGE MONEY to be in their news aggregator for that matter, at least for for-profit commercial news. They still have a lot of options available to them to combat "copyright" hysteria by the providers. Maybe we could even get rid of "subscription/registration required" news feeds being the top listings most of the time as well. I hates 'em I do. I already wrote google and asked them for a filter for that, I do NOT want to establish a subscription and login/password for one thousand different news websites out there, and eat a thousand more cookies, etc. I just as soon they didn't even show up in the google news feed. I'll take regular old traditional internet rules, "here's my website, go ahead and look at it, that's what it's for".
Anyway, for an alternative to google, may I suggest to anyoneTopix, a similar news aggregator that claims they pull from even more sources than google. I use both myself, about equally.
remember that when you hear someone tell you you will "waste your vote" if you don't vote D or R.
Of course, not to say what any of them other parties would do with it, maybe the same, who knoweth, but at least third parties have actual contentious debates with real live thinking people involved when they hammer out their platforms and policies. The two-for-one party we have now is locked up tight, if you ain't a mega corporation, well, you just "ain't" to them.
I concur with the side to side, head on does seem reasonable as a stabler shot, just still thinking about the up and down angle. Aren't planes coming in nose-up? Seems like it's only the last few seconds they drop flat enough to get a shot off for someone on the ground, but for real I could be wrong on that, been a decade now since I last flew and memory is hazy. And he got hit at five miles from the airport, so he was still at some reasonable small thousands of feet altitude you would think. Of course five miles from the airport doesn't mean five miles from the shooter, and they didn't specify the angle the pilots saw the laser beam at when they noticed it flitting around the cockpit cabin. Just that one pilots recollection would indicate a ground shot or an air to air shot from another plane, or even wilder as has been suggested,and overhead shot from some satellite. I dismiss none of those possibilities yet, except accidental.
This thing stinks. I may not be a cop but I think like a cop all the time, with the twist of not trusting what's been going down with this regime, or the previous few for that matter. Been too many coincidences and odd occurrences to suit me. Anthrax attack using US army anthrax when homeland security bill (or patriot act, one or the other I forget now) up for a vote, excuse me, too cute. And we are getting closer and closer to the "elections" as well, just about everyone been predicting more real or ersatz "terror" incidents. I think we can probably rule out "accidental" at this time,just the odds are fantastical against it, but any other theory is still open.
I don't know if anyone remembers, but back during the klinton regime, just about every time some weird gun bill was coming up for a vote we had "kids n gunz" incidents hit the news. Even columbine had an angle like that to it, what's the odds of an NRA national convention, a law on concealed carry being debated at the state level there, and the "kids n gunz, eek, assault weapon gunz!" shooting incident all occurring at the same time and about the same place? And the waco assault, coincidently when congressional hearings on the BATF and some abuses and their funding where about to start. Plenty of examples of coincidences. the current regime claiming they had no idea that hijackers would take planes and smash them into buildings, yet they were running an exercise that day, playing make believe planes were hijacked and smashed into buildings. uh huh, someone sure lying about that one.
The whole thing stinks, this whole "war on terror" stinks, it's way more reichstagg fire scam than anything else, but now it's all messed up with real terrorists as well. Whattafreekinmess.
I just don't trust or believe in coincidences too much. And this laser deal is another one. I've been seriously wondering when they were going to restrict lasers from civilians, as they are potentially very useful as defensive arms against grossly superior weaponry that only the state possesses. I'll be following it for updates, see if they realease some more details. I guarantee any place that rents heavy duty lasers are getting visits from the feds about now, but I don't know how much good that will do..