people were really conned on this. advertising works, it's a multi billion dollar a year industry. Perople are NOT told it is difficult, or dangerous, to buy and use a computer. They are told it's easy, safe, fun, cheap, new and shiny and they will be losers if they don't jump in the pool with everyone else. When they go to the whitebox sho or back to best buy or whatever, they have never been told to load an alternativ OS, or even a browser, they are just charged for a patch of a fix or sold even more sioftware that alleges cures their computer ills. At work, where their bosses got faked out, they are confronted with the exact same thing. At the store, no choice practically speaking.
Yada yada. Although I think some blame can be laid on the victims,for putting up with it and paying for it for yearsm most of it can go to the actual pepetrators of the scams and cons and on the black hats as well for taking cruel advantage of people because it's easy for them to both do so and to remain anonymous and commit sociopathic actions they normally wouldn't do in meatspace.
but I will of necessity have to be brief, because it's very complex. I can simplify it though, but first a slight background. I am primarily concerned with the over all soundness of the united states. I am by nature a nationalist (benevolent sort) and a populist. This has been a study of mine for many years, and I approached the subject as a skeptic, but with an open mind as well, as much as I was able to given human nature. I was very lucky at an early age to be exposed to government secrets,higher than normal political secrets and realities, with what was spoken in public officially, as compared to what was really going on, and found out young enough to know to always watch for the lies, half truths, and propoganda disguised as news. I was also shown how to "read"what is going on, as a lot of these trends are pretty much open, you just have to do your own work and gather the data and do your analysis, and to never be afraid of using new data.
I have been observing a huge number of seeminly odd occurrences over the years that have lead me to some rather disturbing conclusions. I am not so naieve or paranoid to think I have all the answers, but I believe I have enough of them to form an over all set of postulates that can be demonstrated to be more true than not, given all the data and evidence that is now readily available to the average person via the internet.
One, your observations are correct, the situation is a disaster in th near making, and you don't know why. The answer is simple, it's being done on purpose.
The next question anyone might have is "why?", why is this being done?
That answer is again simple, the world has only enough resources to maintain around a billion souls at something approaching a western nations middle class lifestyle. The worlds leaders, industrialists, high level politicians, and scientists would more or less agree on this, given all the data available. The tip over point into rapid decline is approaching approximately at the end of this decade.
The worlds populations are nearing 6 billion, and in the undeveloped second world and third world nations the populations are increasing at an even faster pace than in the west.
The worlds true rulers, the people who really decide policy, have determined it will be necessary to drastically reduce the worlds populations in the next decade or so, through any means necessary. In the second and third world, it will be primarily by warfare and fast moving diseases. In the developed countries it is being accomplished through what has been termed "stealth" warfare, via "slow" plagues brougt about by poisoned food and water and medicines.
The worlds rulers can run simple sums well enough. The western nations all have what are called a baby boom generation approaching retirement, which will completely swamp any sort of pension schemes, social security, health care, etc. the current elderly have already approached that point, tripling that or more within the next 15 years is quite *impossible*, no economy can sustain it. It cannot be done, it is simply impossible to do so. There simply doesn't exist the raw materials to maintain what we have now, and to actually try to increase it to include the exploding populations in asia, africa, the near and mid east, etc, PLUS, concurrently, keep the same or better quality of life in the western nations, PLUS provide for the retiring populations.
Those populations will be reduced, and while they are at it, their accumulated lifelong wealth will be transferred upstream into the hands of the worlds elite, moreso than now. it's just gravy for them and what they want anyway, anfeudalistic system. it's what the worlds elite have always wanted, and always maintained as much as possible. it is only very near in historical terms that we haven't had an over schismatic two class general society, for most of western mans history it was two basic classes, royals and serfs.
You can see that now in health care and costs with the elderly. Their last f
We could, if we got rid of the income tax and went back to excise taxes levied at the border, and if we just shut down about 3/4ths of the federal government bureaucracy. We are a large enough nation we can primarily trade with ourselves and prosper from it, by keeping the money re circulating inside the borders, and by keeping the jobs home as much as possible. We had the most productive growth and true wealth creation when we actually created wealth, not by redistributing already produced wealth. Our leaders keep claiming all we need to do is to keep rearranging wealth. this is completely erroneous thinking, but man, it sure makes a few fatcats tons of money. Especially outside the nation,and into the hands of transnational loyal to nothing and no one corporationsm, and racking up deficits in government spending, and huge trade imbalances, which according to the gloablists speeches I started listening to 30 years ago, "would never happen". They swore up and down that by shipping jobs overseas that the other nations would re trade back with us and still buy our stuff. Hasn't happened, not even once,not one dollar, we have run a steady trade imbalance not in our favor since the start of massive globalisation and outsourcing, starting with the manufacturing jobs. And they still insist they are correct, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
I have no problems getting rid of buggywhip jobs, that will happen either way, but shipping off manufacturing and R&D and other sorts of IT jobs, while they are still being worked at, is *nuts*,and destroying our domestic agriculture and forestry and mining and fishing is nuts, they are all still useful and necessary for our economy, as in having a large and diversely employed middle class which is primarily engaged in wealth producing activities, instead of what is *actually* happening, the destruction of the middle class and the replacement of it with a two class styled economy with a skewed wealth possession split, in favor of 1% at the top. there's an old fairy tale most adults missed, called jack and the beanstalk and the cow and the magic beans. It applies to this situation completely. We listened to those crooks and they traded off OUR cow for their profits and left us with the magic beans. And we keep electing the same crooks to office, cycle after cycle, and keep rewarding the same economists, cycle after cycle with bonuses and raises, as more and more folks are forced into downgrading and losing jobs, income, benefits that we HAD but no longer exist here.
"money" , and the reality that most people use IE because of illegal monopolistic actions that resulted in MSOS being the defacto install on their computers, so they use what came with the package, which includes IE, and they are encouraged to go onto the internet without adequate instructions, or without adequate protections, both of which are well known to MS and the various vendors who sold them their computers.
When you have the vast bulk of PCs the last decade and a half being shipped with MSOS, they had a responsibility to make sure they weren't violating anti trust laws, which they failed to do, and got convicted of it.
The consumer was long ago denied any reasonable* expectation of free market choice, when the vendors themselves conspired with MS to ONLY include MSOS to such an extent. It's intent, and to my way of seeing it, is an example of RICO action and should have resulted in MS and several large vendors getting charged with criminal violations, not just civil violations, and several billionaires going to jail over it.
Even though IE is a free download, it is easily observed that most people did not have some other OS OR of their free will go "download IE", it came as a bundled app with their monopoly enforced distribution of MSOS, and the product is seriously flawed. Seriously. The EULA should be challeged, and we need to get a determination of when and how any product may be profited from, but still avoid an implied warranty for suitability for purpose. If they get granted a patent and a copyright, they have certain responsbilites when they trade it in some fashion for money. When you receive something for free, it's a different story. That's the major difference there. And if that again causes a shift in free/open source, how it's distributed, it would be worth it to force closed source/propietary and for-profit sodftware to get classed as a product that is sold, and have normal consumer protections. The tradeoffs are worth it, IMO.
* please note, I said reasonable as opposed to technical. Technically yes, they had a choice, reasonably, no, there was little choice, and still not much. Walk into any big computer store, what is the default install on the boxes there? Are any of them safe to go on the net "as is", how they are sold? No, they are not. The EULA basically is an example of a vast huge case of consumer fraud, IMO. People assume their brand new computers will work, and part of their entire computer package they purchase with real money is the software that comes with it. They would sell little if any new computers bundlked with MSOS if they were merely labled truthfully, as in "you will probably get infected with virus, malware, trojans, backdoors, etc within one hour of being on the internet with the default install and configuration if you click accept on the EULA provided for the bundled microsoft software". If that sticker was on the outside of the boxes, the stores wouldn't seel hardly any of them. How many computers and copies of MSOS would they sell then, if they were merely required to tell the truth, even keeping the current EULAs in place, exactly how they are written now?
I personally *do not care* if the entire software industry top to bottom, left to right, inside to outside has to change licensing,thinking, what they do or how they do it, enough's ENOUGH on claiming a 60 year old industry that has raked in untold hundreds of billions of dollars or more isn't mature and sophisticated enough to offer products that can be covered by minimum consumer implied warranties. Time to take the training wheels off, and get rid of the EULA get out of any responsibility "license". If it slows down releases and causes huge shifts in PHB and investors thinkings and stock holders profits, I could care less, and I bet millions more consumers feel the same exact way. Software will still be written and sold or given away, just of much better quality. Releases will be slower, but they will be much better quality. Pressure will shift from get i
my apologies, I shouldn't have assumed a masculine reality when I said "man".
It's still pretty funny though.
Once I was hitch hiking, this was many moons ago, I had my jewelry making kit with me, lot of gold and silver and some stones with the small tools,etc at the time about 400$ worth IIRC, plus my really high quality sleeping bag and tent and alloy frame pack and some other doo dads of importance to me.. We stop at a truckstop, the guy went in to go pay for the gas, I had gone to the mens room then went and got coffees for the both of us. We missed each other walking around. I come back out, he's gone, split, with my pack, which at the time was my entire home. Winter, upnorth, I am not amused.
continue to my destination to go visit friends, got there a couple days later after a very cold extra night out shivering, get a job there, whole nine yards, settled in. 3 months later I get a letter from the guy! He thought I had just split, and hadn't noticed my pack still in the car until way way down the road. he came back but I was long gone on the next ride. He went through the pack, found an old dentist bill with some contact info, and finally tracked me down, and offered to ship me my pack back at his expense. I was thrilled! this is great news! So I give him the address, he ships it greyhound and THEM bozos "lost" the pack, it disappeared into the ether forever and ever. They cut me a check for 50 bucks. grumble.......
This is a side issue but might be tangentially relevant to the whole discussion of software patents and copyrights and various code.
Who OWNS tabbed browsing? Is there a patent on it yet? Compared to a lot of the other ridiculously silly patents out there in IP land,and all these disputes, it seems to be a major big one. It is so useful any innovation (imo) that most people who use it will hardly ever be satisfied again with any non tabbed enabled browser.
very similar deal. The local heat thought this guy was a dealer, turns out they had the wrong apartment. They bust in and ransack this couples apartment(general big mess and destruction,never made right), find nothing. The cops are mad and embarrassed, so they arrested them both for co-habitation based on some ancient law that was still on the books. This was back in the 70's. They both got small fines and a probation that included some community service forced labor, along with a "record".
... in any of the Microsoft anti trust cases? I really don't know, but it sure would be interesting if there was any way to force an audit of their code looking for "stolen" code. Someone who has looked at it under an NDA might have noticed it, but be reluctant to whistleblow on the subject being afraid of getting sued from microsoft for violating the NDA, and having no one to step in and help them with the legal fees. Just a maybe there because I don't know, but I am suspicious of them and their relationship with SCO at this time. It might be one of the reasons behind the SCO suit, perhaps "protect" some code that they are using now. If there was ANY bonafide evidence of code theft at their shop, it might be enough to get a new investigation going.
What say ye, ACs who have seen the code, any wisps of smoke there?
It's not "misplaced luggage" that's the problem, the industry is being coy and cute, it's more like stolen luggage, or luggage broken into, then purposely "lost" to hide evidence of the theft. Happens all the time, been a dodge they been underplaying for years now. Over the years in the US, you are more likely to have your luggage stolen and broken into by airport employees than from random people just taking luggage. Here's a recent example of some of the trusted "homeland security personnel" in action.
If it looks too bad for them, they will rig a really large "terror" strike inside the borders. And by large I mean significant large, not 911 medium large. Personally I think they are going to do it anyway. Just because they can, and cement big brotherism in permanent, stifle dissent, etc. In the meantime they are planning on at least one more nation invasion, probably iran. They will hold off on reinstituting the draft until after the elections if things are going smoothly for them up to election time, but next year they will announce national universal service. All crap is gonna bust loose then, but they don't care. Their motto (one of them) is order out of chaos, so the more chaos they can come up with, the more order they can impose. there's a reason they are deploying all those new anti riot gear inventions like microwave beam heaters and nausea sound wave machines and laser dazzlers and things of that nature, let alone all the surveillance and data mining they are building up now. It's because they know they are going to need them.
The audits. At 40% gold backing they are supposed to have for every "note" loaned, and with what, near 8 or 10 trillion allegedly in circulation? I forget, but it's some huge number. That's a LOT of gold they are supposed to have at a rough 400 oz. Every year poor ron paul introduces a get us away from the fed bill, every year he makes a great speech, outlines the data, and every year they all ignore them. Too bad.
the funding of wars stuff? Goes all the way back to baron das rottenchild at least. The first (semi modern) guy to really take advantage of the bandwith of pigeons. The original inside trader. Pick a war, the info is there, but I know you know that. Any trolls want to ask, depending on how good they are, I might give em an url; or two. Anyone else really interested can find it though. Search engines are the most awesome thing on the net, the number one reason for it's success, IMO. well, besides... you know. Same reason polaroid corporation made so much money way back.
I will agree with you on the rights of ethnic minorities and women, etc. I stated it on another post about the constitution, immediately they allowed slavery, completely making a mockery over the all men being equal righteousness.
It was an experiment in government, and it has been flawed from day one in government itself, being lead by greedy men, being hypocrites and benders of the law for their own profits and desires. The words started out well, the practice not so well, and it has gone downhill "generally speaking" since then. Once in awhile they throw us bone, but that's after kicking us several times and telling us we must have fallen down all by ourselves, despite the boot prints on ourr backs. all the time they are grinning at us.
WE have let it become an "us versus them" thing, when it was supposed to be "We (all of us 'we') the People".
We have an herditary class of professional politicians. We have a class of professional law-yers who control "the law" in all it's aspects for private profit. We allow legal bribery in the form of lobbying, "speaking fees", "campaign contributions" and so on. We have a neoaristocracy, in large part hereditary, who maintain most of the control over the economy, and media, and politics in general. The fix, as theysay, is in. It is not a government "for the people", it is a government "for some of the people". The rest serve them, stay in debt to them, transfer most of their wealth to them, follow their orders, follow their rules and regulations that are mostly designed to profit and serve their interests, not ours, we fight their wars for them, bleed and die for them, get thrown in jail in abeyance to them.
No one in the upper echelons of DVD entertainment pricing has clue one what it means to be an average paid middle economic strata american. They have a vague, theoretical understanding based on marketing reports and surveys, but they actually do not know what stuff costs to joe average. To them, 15-20$ a disk is an incredibly cheap price. That is like the tip they leave at lunch at a cheap place. These are people who drive the best cars, live in homes all over 7 figures in cost, etc. They have no true understanding of pricing, or what cost of living and wages are outside their own frame of existence, which mostly revolves around cost of living and wages in NYC and LA, which are skewed very high-end for the nation as a whole. So, they truly think that is "cheap enough" and they still manage to get a lot of sales, but that is maximum they can charge, too. And yes, I agree, they could have long ago dropped prices drastically, and sold orders of magnitudes more, and completely blocked most interest in downloading. I honestly think they just won't ever understand that. And anyone living in DC? Same deal, skewed upwards cost of everything and correspondigly higher wages. It's artifically "rich" there, being a freebie tax money supported town, it doesn't have to actually produce and beprofitable to get paid there (generally speaking about government in general there, the biggest "employer"), just go through the motions. guaranteed income, always get a raise, always be able to "consult" when you get out of any high office, or medium for that matter. Fat city, so that's the mindset they get, and who they support, other fat city-ers. So this new guy won't have a frame of reference either, nor any incentive to change much of anything. I'll be surpirsed if he does..
The thing is, they violate their own laws. They borrow debt instruments, federal reserve "notes", notes being a legal term for a debt, an IOU, which are created out of thin air. They are supposed to coin money, and use that to conduct the nations business, or only borrow money, which although in general terms can be anything, in our US law has specific meaning, which they vioplate with the act. We can never repay these loans of debt, because we are trying to repay it with another loan, made up of debt. it's a catch 22 physical impossibility to ever pay off this so called debt. Also a great congame for those who profit from it. It was also illegal and unconstitutional as all get out, under a number of previous laws, but it has stuck to this day because they also control the guns and the guys they hire to carry them.
You hit on a lot of high points, good post there, because I can see it's ad hoc. The Fed was created as a non governmental private central banking system in 1913, and it *barely* passed. They had to use the normal way they pass highly questionable things, wait for an opportune moment when people are distracted, then rush it through. happens all the time. Now they are even slicker, they have some huge whopper bill, named the "be kind to small dogs and children and in defense of apple pie act" and in the middle of it buried will be all this hideous stuff, so you can't be "against it" or you are a..whatever, bad person.
J.P. Morgan and a lot of his rich drinking buddies had executed a serious of paper money shuffles leading to currency runs, up to the panic of 07. This was done on purpose to scare people,plus they got to do a lot of punmp and dump in the markets, but it wasn't enough, greedy people by nature just get more greedy. so, they thunked up this scheme to satisfy that grteed, that insane lust, and to force the government into making them the grand poobahs of "money", so they could..well... rule then. Rule. Whomever controls the cash is the real authority, they dictate what REALLY happens. This political scene we have now is mostly psychodrama, it doesn't represent what really happens or who calls the shots, it's to keep people dumbed down and thinking they have any say in matters. The vote was right before christmas congressional vacation with not many voting on it, just the insiders who stood to profit the most from it, I forget now how many but very few. It was ridiculous. Wilson signed it anyway, because they threatened him with more artifical currency runs, leading to..bad news stuff.. The scheme to do this was concocted at a meeting at Jekyll Island Georgia by a handful of wealthy bakers and industrialists, including europaen bankers, who to this day still have a significant control over "our" fed and our government through both stock holdings and by literal marriage and kinship into the various banking establishments known as the Fed. The Fed was instructed they could only create "additional" debt notes to "loan" with interest, if they had at least 40% in gold to back them with. There has NEVER been an audit of the federal reserve 12 private bank consortiums vaults.
And yada yada, a lot of congames ever since, until finally NoXoN took us completely off any sort of real money economic system, in exchange for the combination of using debt as money-strike one, keynesian creation of artifical debt on a whim-strike two, and globalisation, which basically means centralise the capital in fewer hands all the time as you lie about it-strike three, you're out, they win. It's nuts. Makes a relatively few people though just wealthy beyond imagination, wealthy and powerful.
I wish more people would read about the creation of the Federal Reserve, and the IRS. We might have some serious constructive change for the better. Maybe anyway. Maybe not, people are afraid to say no, just brainwshed since birth to be servile and complacent. You are allowed to bitch about stuff, but that's it. You get to "vote" for congame supporter A or B, and if you don't, you are "wasting your vote
there aren't that many sunshine provisions on the really important laws. Just a few. Easy to prove. How many laws on the books in 1904, compared to now? Were we freer then, or are we freer now? Did government run with balanced books then, do we now? What was the individual income tax rate in 1904? What is it now?
I could go on, but I think the point is made.
And it's still a conflict of interest. The lawyers lobby & guild LOVES laws, oodles and bunches and boatloads, as complex, wordy, involved, complex, obscure and arcane as possible, to cover every bit of human minutiae they can think of. We even have a noun for it, called "legalese" a sarcastic noun, meant to ridicule how atrociously wordy and..stupid it is. This gig of letting them create new laws by the thousands every term makes them MONEY. It makes them wealthy and powerful. It KEEPS them wealthy and powerful. It's job security, job #1, "if you are in the law business,make new laws". And government, being an accumulation of law writers, administrators and enforcers, LOVES laws, well beyond what is truly necessary, because then they get to expand and expand and expand to administer and enforce all the new laws. So then they can say "wow, look at all these laws, well, guess we need bigger government then, we toldyaso. Umm, well, it *will* cost a few more dollars, or we can always put YOU in debt for it"
This is just so obvious.
Anyway, if he was around, you could argufy with this guy,himself one of the guild, you might have heard of him, Thomas Jefferson:
"It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour. "
"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. "
"That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves."
"And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."
"Whenever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force."
""Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted totheir own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust.
Whether our Constitution has hit on the exact degree of control necessary, is yet under experiment."
--I think he nailed it. It was an experiment, with a lot of good qualities to it. Some bad though. The constitution was a good attempt, but has become corrupted by weak and greedy men over the years. Now, look at the demographics of who is in congress, what is the number one profession? Look at the corrupt judges, who wouldn't know a constitution if it bit them on the ass, what were they before? How about presidents? Look at the government, is it really working? Or has it betrayed the trust, has it gotten to the point that "these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust."?
I'd say that is a "roger" on that last one.
He nailed it. It's human nature. Power corrupts. It gets out of hand. It got out of hand because of a simple conflict of interest basically. Yes we need people who can *understand* the law to write laws, but we don't need professional lawyers who *profit* from those laws to write them. Two entirely completely different things there. It started out OK, as an experiment, it has gone steadily downhill to the point we have it today, which is basically a two class technofuedalistic society, those above the law, the aristocracy, although they won't admit to it, and those who are subservient to it, and to the dictates of the aristocracy, although they won't admit to it either. Not readily anyway.
last quote for this subject
"I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses nor pursue measures by which they may profit and then profit by their measures."
They just aren't using the correct crops, or techniques. they should be using low maintenance, high yield crops like hemp, or poplar trees, etc, and only harvesting a portion and plowing back under a significant amount to replenish the soil cheaply and easily, and using solar power for the distillation rather than burning fuel. Heliostats or solar trough methods would be adequate to get to 160 F for the distillation in big quantities. I agree though that the corn and soybean efforts as being done now are unsustainable, and the tar sands efforts require too much fresh water.
Brazil is doing better with the renewable liquid fuels right now, it's a major part of their vehicle energy useage. I believe they are using sugar cane, but I could be wrong on that. It helps they are tropical and have a huge land mass and plenty of rain, it's hard to NOT grow stuff there.
We don't have an easyreplacement for easily extracted oil, and I don't think we WILL have one either, but I think we can get by with what we can make, and use what is left for lubrication. The big one no one ever talks about hardly is in manufacturing though, I think we will see the effects of dwindling oil supply there, and once they start hitting will hit faster. Vehicle traffic will adjust, even if we have to drop to two cylinder cars, which is quite possible. People won't like it, but they'll put up with it if the alternative is being a pedestrian.
Me, I keep leaning towards getting a horse, really. I live in the country, got access to a barn and pasture and the space to grow some grain. We have some solar power and a wind genny, and burn wood for heat, and could switch to cooking with wood as well as we already have a solar cooking oven. And we have a huge garden, and not much need for much more manufactured stuff. i got enough computers,tvs,radios, vacuums, yada yada yada to last for quite a while, even if we didn't buy a single new "thing" for years. We don't use the solar oven much but we have it, and it's easy to cob job one if you need one. Easy to cob job a solar hot water system for that matter. I have access to huge quantities of chicken litter, and I built a methane digester before, I know that is easy, so we *could* run say a stove from that fuel, or a lantern, etc. I'm just thinking for the future, the good old days of cheap everything are about over, because ALL of it was based on ridiculously cheap oil. cheap as in dollars, cheap as in BTU's in to get BTUs out. both of them things are long gone, and ain't coming back. My first full tanks of gas I use to fill 'er up ran around me around 2.00$,when I was making a scosh over a dollar an hour, then I hit 18 years old and started making triple that, but it still seemed cheap, never thought about it. So the gas we have now is cheap *relatively speaking*, BUT everything else is so much higher you - I mean anyone generic you - can't see it I think.
All in all canada and russia are sitting the prettiest for the next century, near as I can see. Canada in particular is still natural resource rich as can be, and has a small well educated population to spread it out to, and they have an integrated economic system with a good blend of manufacturing, agriculture, etc. The middle eastern countries I think are screwed. Their cheap oil is the worlds richest stash left, BUT, it's also the most volatile area of the world, so when the nukes go off, and they will,just a matter of when, not if now, the planet will lose a lot of that oil. Pity, but there ya go.
well, a few flaws, but the two main ones are, we have no top end cut off point for new laws. They are under mandate to always create new laws, that's ALL they are supposed to do, so that's what they do, year in and year out. There's no automatic provision for removing old laws, so they add up. I sincerely doubt now there is a single "legal" human inside the US, everyone is guilty of something now, and it will keep getting worse. Even little babies are born into guilt, before they have done much of anything they "owe" a buncha rich guys a lot of money. How they racked up that debt is beyond me, but it's supposedly the "law" someplace.
The second one is we should have made it completely illegal for a lawyer to be elected to congress, it's a clear cut case of conflict of interest. They have *no* incentive to make government simpler, cheaper, less complex. They have *every* incentive to create as many and as convulted and complex laws as possible.
here's every campaign speech boiled down, any party addressing any demographic.
"vote for me, I will help to make government more complex and expensive, except for YOU though, because YOU are special and we need to make the other guys pay for whatever YOU want"
So that is what happens, and people keep voting for them.
it's hard/expensive to make gasoline out of that stuff. It's better suited for asphalt for road building. Not saying it's impossible, obviously they can and do do it, just it's not the same as light sweet crude. Same deal with oil shale, etc. Ya, we got a lot of the stuff, but it ain't the same. It also is still dirty, like all other petroleum products. I think it's better in the long run to develop cleaner renewable liquid fuels like ethanol and methanol from fast growing trees or algae,hemp,kelp, etc.
fine. Just wait for the first serious trojan or virus that mozilla or opera spreads to windows machines, because people are encouraged to stay on windows, just "change their browser and you'll be safe now". You said it, it's what happens between the browser and the OS. The insecure OS is still there. When that virus or trojan hits, it will set back mozilla or opera and the whole deal of alternatives, and people will say "see, it doesn't matter, it's the same as explorer was". The taint will spread, undeserved or not. They are playing with a potential they don't have to. I understand why they are doing a common plug architecture, I don't understand why they are still supporting a company that is the exact opposite of their entire philosophy and goal.
Anyway, that's my prediction, you *will* see some serious worm, trojan or virus nail people running windows but using an "alternative browser", and it will hurt all of open source when it happens,much more so than any normal windows vulnerability, because of all the hype. I don't believe hype, no matter which direction it's coming from.
Not my call, develop for it, use it, I don't care. I'm not a zealot, I am a realist, and a skeptic. My realist nature tells me it will happen, my skeptical nature, based on their track record, says that microsoft will milk that virus or trojan for all it's worth to beliitle open source, and most people and the media and PHBs will go back to believing them. And my skeptical nature is such that I think that just relying on an alternative browser just isn't enough, not when it has that insecure engine underneath it. there are going to be holes, peole will find them-after the fact of needing to do so. Just like what happens now, but the myth of "secure" will be broken then.
...carry this suitcase with you on the flight for me? I have an emergency and had to cancel, but the suitcase has my nephews books for college? He will meet you at the next landing. You will? great! thanks!
~~~~ later on at the security gate~~~~
whoop whoop whoop! I'm sorry mrs. spammer, the machine has detected something in your carry on luggage, we'll have to inspect it.
ok
hmm, seems we have a kilo of heroin here, two grenades, a vial marked botulism, and some kiddie porn and what's this ?? NAIL CLIPPERS!!11
mrs. spammer -BUT I DIDN'T KNOW! I WAS JUST TRAVELING, AND THIS MAN ASKED ME TO CARRY A BAG FOR HIS NEPHEW IN COLLEGE AND...! IT'S NOT REALLY MINE, I AM INNOCENT! OHHHHH SOOOOO SINCERELY AND TRULY INNOCENT! REALLY! IT'S NOT MY FAULT, WAHHHH!
sorry ma'am, have to read you your rights. I guess you should have paid attention to what you were doing, you'll have to sort it out in court with the judge now. You know in todays world you have to *pay attention to what you are doing*, you can't *assume* anything. Traveling is not that hard, but there are some COMMON SENSE things that you should have been doing, like not taking strange packages from strangers, or assuming you know what's in something and..and....... etc etc
No reason this can't happen with compromised machines and their owners in some manner. They download the crap, refuse to use firewalls or antivirus, won't learn how to use a browser, just assume, assume, assume. they carry contraband from strangers, then other people get hurt. Tough love. wake up call. Hello, this is the real world. They are doing it with downloaders of music, they can do it with people who get zombiefied because they lack common sense, refuse to get even a basic knowledge of what they are doing.. Make the users responsible in some form,not just blocking a port, make them actually responsible, maybe a few of them might wake up, see if they can do something different than just blindly trusting what microsoft and the vendors sell them. Then, if a few thousand or tens of thousands go to court, they MIGHT just turn around, get evfen nastier lawyers, and sue the crap out of the perps who sold them the machines and software that came thoroughly pre-borked out of the box, the same smiling rich guys who told them they buy their products, and that they could then get on the internet no probs, and took their money for it.
whenever I go to the library I read a bit each from popular science, popular mechanics and national geographic, and that's about it. When I was younger I read foreign affairs just to keep up with the globalists stuff (before they were really called globalist, but I knew there was something fishy going on). And I agree with several posters on playboys long interviews. I have a couple boxes of them I have saved, newest though is from the late 70s I believe. I used to read mother earth news until they went political and yuppie garden home beautiful upscale pretentious. I want my tech to be tech in a magazine, my tomatoes don't have to be liberal or conservative or have thousand dollar naked statues spewing water around them or anything else in other words. I have considered going back and getting homepower magazine, as I really like alternate energy, but there's no need really as you can get it in pdf and just go lookup any subset topic you might be interested in on the web anyway. Really, all the magazines now have that the online versions don't have is all the classified ads that are sometimes interesting.
With the net now I see no actual need to get dead trees magazines regularly. My girlfriend who barely uses computers gets cooking and gardening and popular culture(?) magazines like people, but I don't look at them ever. I think most of the time she just milks the system, she could care less about snail mail spam, we have a woodstove so that's actually just getting free kindling delivered, and she just keeps putting them off to subscribe to get all the swag they offer she pulls in with the ever decreasing price they want for their whatever subscription.The first price is never the bottom price, they are relentless, will keep sending you free stuff plus dropping the prices until it's almost free it seems. She gets something useful to her in the mail every week or so, and overall is way ahead with cash spent/products received, just being careful with the offers and holding out for the rockiest bottom prices they will eventually offer.
It was being transmitted. There's no set "speed limit" for the transit, therefore, no speed may be used to make a determination. There's no set exact determination of particlar hardware used, either AFAIK. "oops, sorry, your email took one more hop and lasted.009 milliseconds longer than what we feel is transit, it was stored for a short time so now you can look at it". It don't matter if it's milliseconds or minutes, when emailer A mashes send to recipient B, it's "in transit". When you get a package shipped from fedex, even when the truck driver stops for lunch, your package is still "in transit".
Typical corrupt black robed bogusness. More big brother crap. They will use this ruling to let the government do similar, even moreso than they do now. THAT is the reason they ruled as they did. The rest of it is FUD. These goofs get told how to rule now, they are all global big government appointed lackeys at that level, puppets.
Dell or whomever won't replace it NOW if their drive, meaning their computer, is borked because of the microsoft crap that DELL put on the drive in the first place, and sells as "easy to use, no probs mon, just get on the internet". I'm sure those people would think it fine and dandy if dell would fix the crap they sold to these people, but they won't, will they? See all them smiling people in the ads? Just a *wonderful* hassle free computing experience- la da de da. Rubbish. That's dell and microsoft basically selling a total lie. That's FRAUD for ya. REAL fraud, serious bigtime fraud, billions a year fraud. They should be ashamed of themselves, but the money is too good for them, so they ignore it. If DELL sells a blank hard drive, sure, it's their fault and they should replace it if the mechanism breaks. If they sell a LOADED hardrive, then it seems to me they should be responsible for it's TOTAL functionality as well. If I buy a car from the dealer and THEY put bad gasoline in it and forgot to put oil in it and i got down the block and it broke, well, it would be their fault and they would be liable to fix or replace. with computers, nope, it's tough crap buddy to you, even if you just dropped a grand or better on a new machine. that's fraud, and just plain wrong. If the software "breaks" the computer within a day or so of being on the net, that's a defective hardrive then, because they sold a package deal. If the bad gas or no oil breaks the car, that's a defect. Same deal. No difference. You can't buy a car new with a sticker that says "yes, here's your new car with some liquid we put in the tank that may or may not be suitable as gasoline. We don't claim it's gasoline,it looks like gas and smells like gas and we may even calli it gas, but then again, who knows? You are free to drive it away though." Wouldn't happen on the new car lot, but so called respectable businessmen do that everyday with computers, and especially the vendor/microsoft fraud congame axis of maximum profits with zero liability alliance. They want all the profit, and zero of the responsibility for the SIGNIFICANT part of what they are selling as a feature, a pre installed OS and apps which is definetly offered as "working" even though they use weasel worded sham licenses to dodge the issue..
They want to define working as "here it is, no guarantees", which to me is the serious fraud that's been going on for years and years now. No other industry gets away with that, zero.
I think this guy is doing a service. No one asks for their old starter back from the garage when a new one is put in. Yes, he should tell them, I agree, but that fails to address the real issue, which is the software is non functional after just a short time, for most people. It does not work as "implied".. And yes, DELL should replace and "fix" the computer if it fails to function with the default install they sell with the computer then, INCLUDING the crappy software they foist off on people. THEY should take it back as many times as it takes to make it work on the internet, or sell it with internet networking capabilities disabled, one or the other. There needs to be a test case there,a class action suit, and destroy the industry scam congame called the EULA get out of jail free card once and for all time, which is the main reason MS and companies like Dell can get away with what they have been profiting off of for years now.
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people were really conned on this. advertising works, it's a multi billion dollar a year industry. Perople are NOT told it is difficult, or dangerous, to buy and use a computer. They are told it's easy, safe, fun, cheap, new and shiny and they will be losers if they don't jump in the pool with everyone else. When they go to the whitebox sho or back to best buy or whatever, they have never been told to load an alternativ OS, or even a browser, they are just charged for a patch of a fix or sold even more sioftware that alleges cures their computer ills. At work, where their bosses got faked out, they are confronted with the exact same thing. At the store, no choice practically speaking.
Yada yada. Although I think some blame can be laid on the victims,for putting up with it and paying for it for yearsm most of it can go to the actual pepetrators of the scams and cons and on the black hats as well for taking cruel advantage of people because it's easy for them to both do so and to remain anonymous and commit sociopathic actions they normally wouldn't do in meatspace.
but I will of necessity have to be brief, because it's very complex. I can simplify it though, but first a slight background. I am primarily concerned with the over all soundness of the united states. I am by nature a nationalist (benevolent sort) and a populist. This has been a study of mine for many years, and I approached the subject as a skeptic, but with an open mind as well, as much as I was able to given human nature.
I was very lucky at an early age to be exposed to government secrets,higher than normal political secrets and realities, with what was spoken in public officially, as compared to what was really going on, and found out young enough to know to always watch for the lies, half truths, and propoganda disguised as news. I was also shown how to "read"what is going on, as a lot of these trends are pretty much open, you just have to do your own work and gather the data and do your analysis, and to never be afraid of using new data.
I have been observing a huge number of seeminly odd occurrences over the years that have lead me to some rather disturbing conclusions. I am not so naieve or paranoid to think I have all the answers, but I believe I have enough of them to form an over all set of postulates that can be demonstrated to be more true than not, given all the data and evidence that is now readily available to the average person via the internet.
One, your observations are correct, the situation is a disaster in th near making, and you don't know why. The answer is simple, it's being done on purpose.
The next question anyone might have is "why?", why is this being done?
That answer is again simple, the world has only enough resources to maintain around a billion souls at something approaching a western nations middle class lifestyle. The worlds leaders, industrialists, high level politicians, and scientists would more or less agree on this, given all the data available. The tip over point into rapid decline is approaching approximately at the end of this decade.
The worlds populations are nearing 6 billion, and in the undeveloped second world and third world nations the populations are increasing at an even faster pace than in the west.
The worlds true rulers, the people who really decide policy, have determined it will be necessary to drastically reduce the worlds populations in the next decade or so, through any means necessary. In the second and third world, it will be primarily by warfare and fast moving diseases. In the developed countries it is being accomplished through what has been termed "stealth" warfare, via "slow" plagues brougt about by poisoned food and water and medicines.
The worlds rulers can run simple sums well enough. The western nations all have what are called a baby boom generation approaching retirement, which will completely swamp any sort of pension schemes, social security, health care, etc. the current elderly have already approached that point, tripling that or more within the next 15 years is quite *impossible*, no economy can sustain it. It cannot be done, it is simply impossible to do so. There simply doesn't exist the raw materials to maintain what we have now, and to actually try to increase it to include the exploding populations in asia, africa, the near and mid east, etc, PLUS, concurrently, keep the same or better quality of life in the western nations, PLUS provide for the retiring populations.
Those populations will be reduced, and while they are at it, their accumulated lifelong wealth will be transferred upstream into the hands of the worlds elite, moreso than now. it's just gravy for them and what they want anyway, anfeudalistic system. it's what the worlds elite have always wanted, and always maintained as much as possible. it is only very near in historical terms that we haven't had an over schismatic two class general society, for most of western mans history it was two basic classes, royals and serfs.
You can see that now in health care and costs with the elderly. Their last f
We could, if we got rid of the income tax and went back to excise taxes levied at the border, and if we just shut down about 3/4ths of the federal government bureaucracy. We are a large enough nation we can primarily trade with ourselves and prosper from it, by keeping the money re circulating inside the borders, and by keeping the jobs home as much as possible. We had the most productive growth and true wealth creation when we actually created wealth, not by redistributing already produced wealth. Our leaders keep claiming all we need to do is to keep rearranging wealth. this is completely erroneous thinking, but man, it sure makes a few fatcats tons of money. Especially outside the nation,and into the hands of transnational loyal to nothing and no one corporationsm, and racking up deficits in government spending, and huge trade imbalances, which according to the gloablists speeches I started listening to 30 years ago, "would never happen". They swore up and down that by shipping jobs overseas that the other nations would re trade back with us and still buy our stuff. Hasn't happened, not even once,not one dollar, we have run a steady trade imbalance not in our favor since the start of massive globalisation and outsourcing, starting with the manufacturing jobs. And they still insist they are correct, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
I have no problems getting rid of buggywhip jobs, that will happen either way, but shipping off manufacturing and R&D and other sorts of IT jobs, while they are still being worked at, is *nuts*,and destroying our domestic agriculture and forestry and mining and fishing is nuts, they are all still useful and necessary for our economy, as in having a large and diversely employed middle class which is primarily engaged in wealth producing activities, instead of what is *actually* happening, the destruction of the middle class and the replacement of it with a two class styled economy with a skewed wealth possession split, in favor of 1% at the top.
there's an old fairy tale most adults missed, called jack and the beanstalk and the cow and the magic beans. It applies to this situation completely. We listened to those crooks and they traded off OUR cow for their profits and left us with the magic beans. And we keep electing the same crooks to office, cycle after cycle, and keep rewarding the same economists, cycle after cycle with bonuses and raises, as more and more folks are forced into downgrading and losing jobs, income, benefits that we HAD but no longer exist here.
"money" , and the reality that most people use IE because of illegal monopolistic actions that resulted in MSOS being the defacto install on their computers, so they use what came with the package, which includes IE, and they are encouraged to go onto the internet without adequate instructions, or without adequate protections, both of which are well known to MS and the various vendors who sold them their computers.
When you have the vast bulk of PCs the last decade and a half being shipped with MSOS, they had a responsibility to make sure they weren't violating anti trust laws, which they failed to do, and got convicted of it.
The consumer was long ago denied any reasonable* expectation of free market choice, when the vendors themselves conspired with MS to ONLY include MSOS to such an extent. It's intent, and to my way of seeing it, is an example of RICO action and should have resulted in MS and several large vendors getting charged with criminal violations, not just civil violations, and several billionaires going to jail over it.
Even though IE is a free download, it is easily observed that most people did not have some other OS OR of their free will go "download IE", it came as a bundled app with their monopoly enforced distribution of MSOS, and the product is seriously flawed. Seriously. The EULA should be challeged, and we need to get a determination of when and how any product may be profited from, but still avoid an implied warranty for suitability for purpose. If they get granted a patent and a copyright, they have certain responsbilites when they trade it in some fashion for money. When you receive something for free, it's a different story. That's the major difference there. And if that again causes a shift in free/open source, how it's distributed, it would be worth it to force closed source/propietary and for-profit sodftware to get classed as a product that is sold, and have normal consumer protections. The tradeoffs are worth it, IMO.
* please note, I said reasonable as opposed to technical. Technically yes, they had a choice, reasonably, no, there was little choice, and still not much. Walk into any big computer store, what is the default install on the boxes there? Are any of them safe to go on the net "as is", how they are sold? No, they are not. The EULA basically is an example of a vast huge case of consumer fraud, IMO. People assume their brand new computers will work, and part of their entire computer package they purchase with real money is the software that comes with it. They would sell little if any new computers bundlked with MSOS if they were merely labled truthfully, as in "you will probably get infected with virus, malware, trojans, backdoors, etc within one hour of being on the internet with the default install and configuration if you click accept on the EULA provided for the bundled microsoft software". If that sticker was on the outside of the boxes, the stores wouldn't seel hardly any of them. How many computers and copies of MSOS would they sell then, if they were merely required to tell the truth, even keeping the current EULAs in place, exactly how they are written now?
I personally *do not care* if the entire software industry top to bottom, left to right, inside to outside has to change licensing,thinking, what they do or how they do it, enough's ENOUGH on claiming a 60 year old industry that has raked in untold hundreds of billions of dollars or more isn't mature and sophisticated enough to offer products that can be covered by minimum consumer implied warranties. Time to take the training wheels off, and get rid of the EULA get out of any responsibility "license". If it slows down releases and causes huge shifts in PHB and investors thinkings and stock holders profits, I could care less, and I bet millions more consumers feel the same exact way. Software will still be written and sold or given away, just of much better quality. Releases will be slower, but they will be much better quality. Pressure will shift from get i
my apologies, I shouldn't have assumed a masculine reality when I said "man".
It's still pretty funny though.
Once I was hitch hiking, this was many moons ago, I had my jewelry making kit with me, lot of gold and silver and some stones with the small tools,etc at the time about 400$ worth IIRC, plus my really high quality sleeping bag and tent and alloy frame pack and some other doo dads of importance to me.. We stop at a truckstop, the guy went in to go pay for the gas, I had gone to the mens room then went and got coffees for the both of us. We missed each other walking around. I come back out, he's gone, split, with my pack, which at the time was my entire home. Winter, upnorth, I am not amused.
continue to my destination to go visit friends, got there a couple days later after a very cold extra night out shivering, get a job there, whole nine yards, settled in. 3 months later I get a letter from the guy! He thought I had just split, and hadn't noticed my pack still in the car until way way down the road. he came back but I was long gone on the next ride. He went through the pack, found an old dentist bill with some contact info, and finally tracked me down, and offered to ship me my pack back at his expense. I was thrilled! this is great news! So I give him the address, he ships it greyhound and THEM bozos "lost" the pack, it disappeared into the ether forever and ever. They cut me a check for 50 bucks. grumble.......
that's pretty dang funny man! So, how was the beer?
This is a side issue but might be tangentially relevant to the whole discussion of software patents and copyrights and various code.
Who OWNS tabbed browsing? Is there a patent on it yet? Compared to a lot of the other ridiculously silly patents out there in IP land,and all these disputes, it seems to be a major big one. It is so useful any innovation (imo) that most people who use it will hardly ever be satisfied again with any non tabbed enabled browser.
very similar deal. The local heat thought this guy was a dealer, turns out they had the wrong apartment. They bust in and ransack this couples apartment(general big mess and destruction,never made right), find nothing. The cops are mad and embarrassed, so they arrested them both for co-habitation based on some ancient law that was still on the books. This was back in the 70's. They both got small fines and a probation that included some community service forced labor, along with a "record".
... in any of the Microsoft anti trust cases? I really don't know, but it sure would be interesting if there was any way to force an audit of their code looking for "stolen" code. Someone who has looked at it under an NDA might have noticed it, but be reluctant to whistleblow on the subject being afraid of getting sued from microsoft for violating the NDA, and having no one to step in and help them with the legal fees. Just a maybe there because I don't know, but I am suspicious of them and their relationship with SCO at this time. It might be one of the reasons behind the SCO suit, perhaps "protect" some code that they are using now. If there was ANY bonafide evidence of code theft at their shop, it might be enough to get a new investigation going.
What say ye, ACs who have seen the code, any wisps of smoke there?
It's not "misplaced luggage" that's the problem, the industry is being coy and cute, it's more like stolen luggage, or luggage broken into, then purposely "lost" to hide evidence of the theft. Happens all the time, been a dodge they been underplaying for years now. Over the years in the US, you are more likely to have your luggage stolen and broken into by airport employees than from random people just taking luggage. Here's a recent example of some of the trusted "homeland security personnel" in action.
If it looks too bad for them, they will rig a really large "terror" strike inside the borders. And by large I mean significant large, not 911 medium large. Personally I think they are going to do it anyway. Just because they can, and cement big brotherism in permanent, stifle dissent, etc. In the meantime they are planning on at least one more nation invasion, probably iran. They will hold off on reinstituting the draft until after the elections if things are going smoothly for them up to election time, but next year they will announce national universal service. All crap is gonna bust loose then, but they don't care. Their motto (one of them) is order out of chaos, so the more chaos they can come up with, the more order they can impose. there's a reason they are deploying all those new anti riot gear inventions like microwave beam heaters and nausea sound wave machines and laser dazzlers and things of that nature, let alone all the surveillance and data mining they are building up now. It's because they know they are going to need them.
The audits. At 40% gold backing they are supposed to have for every "note" loaned, and with what, near 8 or 10 trillion allegedly in circulation? I forget, but it's some huge number. That's a LOT of gold they are supposed to have at a rough 400 oz. Every year poor ron paul introduces a get us away from the fed bill, every year he makes a great speech, outlines the data, and every year they all ignore them. Too bad.
the funding of wars stuff? Goes all the way back to baron das rottenchild at least. The first (semi modern) guy to really take advantage of the bandwith of pigeons. The original inside trader. Pick a war, the info is there, but I know you know that. Any trolls want to ask, depending on how good they are, I might give em an url; or two. Anyone else really interested can find it though. Search engines are the most awesome thing on the net, the number one reason for it's success, IMO. well, besides... you know. Same reason polaroid corporation made so much money way back.
I will agree with you on the rights of ethnic minorities and women, etc. I stated it on another post about the constitution, immediately they allowed slavery, completely making a mockery over the all men being equal righteousness.
It was an experiment in government, and it has been flawed from day one in government itself, being lead by greedy men, being hypocrites and benders of the law for their own profits and desires. The words started out well, the practice not so well, and it has gone downhill "generally speaking" since then. Once in awhile they throw us bone, but that's after kicking us several times and telling us we must have fallen down all by ourselves, despite the boot prints on ourr backs. all the time they are grinning at us.
WE have let it become an "us versus them" thing, when it was supposed to be "We (all of us 'we') the People".
We have an herditary class of professional politicians. We have a class of professional law-yers who control "the law" in all it's aspects for private profit. We allow legal bribery in the form of lobbying, "speaking fees", "campaign contributions" and so on. We have a neoaristocracy, in large part hereditary, who maintain most of the control over the economy, and media, and politics in general. The fix, as theysay, is in. It is not a government "for the people", it is a government "for some of the people". The rest serve them, stay in debt to them, transfer most of their wealth to them, follow their orders, follow their rules and regulations that are mostly designed to profit and serve their interests, not ours, we fight their wars for them, bleed and die for them, get thrown in jail in abeyance to them.
I think we should *stop doing that*.
No one in the upper echelons of DVD entertainment pricing has clue one what it means to be an average paid middle economic strata american. They have a vague, theoretical understanding based on marketing reports and surveys, but they actually do not know what stuff costs to joe average. To them, 15-20$ a disk is an incredibly cheap price. That is like the tip they leave at lunch at a cheap place. These are people who drive the best cars, live in homes all over 7 figures in cost, etc. They have no true understanding of pricing, or what cost of living and wages are outside their own frame of existence, which mostly revolves around cost of living and wages in NYC and LA, which are skewed very high-end for the nation as a whole. So, they truly think that is "cheap enough" and they still manage to get a lot of sales, but that is maximum they can charge, too. And yes, I agree, they could have long ago dropped prices drastically, and sold orders of magnitudes more, and completely blocked most interest in downloading. I honestly think they just won't ever understand that. And anyone living in DC? Same deal, skewed upwards cost of everything and correspondigly higher wages. It's artifically "rich" there, being a freebie tax money supported town, it doesn't have to actually produce and beprofitable to get paid there (generally speaking about government in general there, the biggest "employer"), just go through the motions. guaranteed income, always get a raise, always be able to "consult" when you get out of any high office, or medium for that matter. Fat city, so that's the mindset they get, and who they support, other fat city-ers. So this new guy won't have a frame of reference either, nor any incentive to change much of anything. I'll be surpirsed if he does..
I think so anyway.
Sort of. Born into *sin* is because of our human nature. Born into *debt* is because of their human nature.
The thing is, they violate their own laws. They borrow debt instruments, federal reserve "notes", notes being a legal term for a debt, an IOU, which are created out of thin air. They are supposed to coin money, and use that to conduct the nations business, or only borrow money, which although in general terms can be anything, in our US law has specific meaning, which they vioplate with the act. We can never repay these loans of debt, because we are trying to repay it with another loan, made up of debt. it's a catch 22 physical impossibility to ever pay off this so called debt. Also a great congame for those who profit from it. It was also illegal and unconstitutional as all get out, under a number of previous laws, but it has stuck to this day because they also control the guns and the guys they hire to carry them.
You hit on a lot of high points, good post there, because I can see it's ad hoc. The Fed was created as a non governmental private central banking system in 1913, and it *barely* passed. They had to use the normal way they pass highly questionable things, wait for an opportune moment when people are distracted, then rush it through. happens all the time. Now they are even slicker, they have some huge whopper bill, named the "be kind to small dogs and children and in defense of apple pie act" and in the middle of it buried will be all this hideous stuff, so you can't be "against it" or you are a..whatever, bad person.
J.P. Morgan and a lot of his rich drinking buddies had executed a serious of paper money shuffles leading to currency runs, up to the panic of 07. This was done on purpose to scare people,plus they got to do a lot of punmp and dump in the markets, but it wasn't enough, greedy people by nature just get more greedy. so, they thunked up this scheme to satisfy that grteed, that insane lust, and to force the government into making them the grand poobahs of "money", so they could..well... rule then. Rule. Whomever controls the cash is the real authority, they dictate what REALLY happens. This political scene we have now is mostly psychodrama, it doesn't represent what really happens or who calls the shots, it's to keep people dumbed down and thinking they have any say in matters. The vote was right before christmas congressional vacation with not many voting on it, just the insiders who stood to profit the most from it, I forget now how many but very few. It was ridiculous. Wilson signed it anyway, because they threatened him with more artifical currency runs, leading to..bad news stuff.. The scheme to do this was concocted at a meeting at Jekyll Island Georgia by a handful of wealthy bakers and industrialists, including europaen bankers, who to this day still have a significant control over "our" fed and our government through both stock holdings and by literal marriage and kinship into the various banking establishments known as the Fed. The Fed was instructed they could only create "additional" debt notes to "loan" with interest, if they had at least 40% in gold to back them with. There has NEVER been an audit of the federal reserve 12 private bank consortiums vaults.
And yada yada, a lot of congames ever since, until finally NoXoN took us completely off any sort of real money economic system, in exchange for the combination of using debt as money-strike one, keynesian creation of artifical debt on a whim-strike two, and globalisation, which basically means centralise the capital in fewer hands all the time as you lie about it-strike three, you're out, they win. It's nuts. Makes a relatively few people though just wealthy beyond imagination, wealthy and powerful.
I wish more people would read about the creation of the Federal Reserve, and the IRS. We might have some serious constructive change for the better. Maybe anyway. Maybe not, people are afraid to say no, just brainwshed since birth to be servile and complacent. You are allowed to bitch about stuff, but that's it. You get to "vote" for congame supporter A or B, and if you don't, you are "wasting your vote
there aren't that many sunshine provisions on the really important laws. Just a few. Easy to prove. How many laws on the books in 1904, compared to now? Were we freer then, or are we freer now? Did government run with balanced books then, do we now? What was the individual income tax rate in 1904? What is it now?
I could go on, but I think the point is made.
And it's still a conflict of interest. The lawyers lobby & guild LOVES laws, oodles and bunches and boatloads, as complex, wordy, involved, complex, obscure and arcane as possible, to cover every bit of human minutiae they can think of. We even have a noun for it, called "legalese" a sarcastic noun, meant to ridicule how atrociously wordy and..stupid it is. This gig of letting them create new laws by the thousands every term makes them MONEY. It makes them wealthy and powerful. It KEEPS them wealthy and powerful. It's job security, job #1, "if you are in the law business,make new laws". And government, being an accumulation of law writers, administrators and enforcers, LOVES laws, well beyond what is truly necessary, because then they get to expand and expand and expand to administer and enforce all the new laws. So then they can say "wow, look at all these laws, well, guess we need bigger government then, we toldyaso. Umm, well, it *will* cost a few more dollars, or we can always put YOU in debt for it"
This is just so obvious.
Anyway, if he was around, you could argufy with this guy,himself one of the guild, you might have heard of him, Thomas Jefferson:
"It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour. "
"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. "
"That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves."
"And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."
"Whenever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force."
""Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted totheir own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust.
Whether our Constitution has hit on the exact degree of control necessary, is yet under experiment."
--I think he nailed it. It was an experiment, with a lot of good qualities to it. Some bad though. The constitution was a good attempt, but has become corrupted by weak and greedy men over the years. Now, look at the demographics of who is in congress, what is the number one profession? Look at the corrupt judges, who wouldn't know a constitution if it bit them on the ass, what were they before? How about presidents? Look at the government, is it really working? Or has it betrayed the trust, has it gotten to the point that "these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust."?
I'd say that is a "roger" on that last one.
He nailed it. It's human nature. Power corrupts. It gets out of hand. It got out of hand because of a simple conflict of interest basically. Yes we need people who can *understand* the law to write laws, but we don't need professional lawyers who *profit* from those laws to write them. Two entirely completely different things there. It started out OK, as an experiment, it has gone steadily downhill to the point we have it today, which is basically a two class technofuedalistic society, those above the law, the aristocracy, although they won't admit to it, and those who are subservient to it, and to the dictates of the aristocracy, although they won't admit to it either. Not readily anyway.
last quote for this subject
"I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses nor pursue measures by which they may profit and then profit by their measures."
They just aren't using the correct crops, or techniques. they should be using low maintenance, high yield crops like hemp, or poplar trees, etc, and only harvesting a portion and plowing back under a significant amount to replenish the soil cheaply and easily, and using solar power for the distillation rather than burning fuel. Heliostats or solar trough methods would be adequate to get to 160 F for the distillation in big quantities. I agree though that the corn and soybean efforts as being done now are unsustainable, and the tar sands efforts require too much fresh water.
Brazil is doing better with the renewable liquid fuels right now, it's a major part of their vehicle energy useage. I believe they are using sugar cane, but I could be wrong on that. It helps they are tropical and have a huge land mass and plenty of rain, it's hard to NOT grow stuff there.
We don't have an easyreplacement for easily extracted oil, and I don't think we WILL have one either, but I think we can get by with what we can make, and use what is left for lubrication. The big one no one ever talks about hardly is in manufacturing though, I think we will see the effects of dwindling oil supply there, and once they start hitting will hit faster. Vehicle traffic will adjust, even if we have to drop to two cylinder cars, which is quite possible. People won't like it, but they'll put up with it if the alternative is being a pedestrian.
Me, I keep leaning towards getting a horse, really. I live in the country, got access to a barn and pasture and the space to grow some grain. We have some solar power and a wind genny, and burn wood for heat, and could switch to cooking with wood as well as we already have a solar cooking oven. And we have a huge garden, and not much need for much more manufactured stuff. i got enough computers,tvs,radios, vacuums, yada yada yada to last for quite a while, even if we didn't buy a single new "thing" for years. We don't use the solar oven much but we have it, and it's easy to cob job one if you need one. Easy to cob job a solar hot water system for that matter. I have access to huge quantities of chicken litter, and I built a methane digester before, I know that is easy, so we *could* run say a stove from that fuel, or a lantern, etc.
I'm just thinking for the future, the good old days of cheap everything are about over, because ALL of it was based on ridiculously cheap oil. cheap as in dollars, cheap as in BTU's in to get BTUs out. both of them things are long gone, and ain't coming back. My first full tanks of gas I use to fill 'er up ran around me around 2.00$,when I was making a scosh over a dollar an hour, then I hit 18 years old and started making triple that, but it still seemed cheap, never thought about it. So the gas we have now is cheap *relatively speaking*, BUT everything else is so much higher you - I mean anyone generic you - can't see it I think.
All in all canada and russia are sitting the prettiest for the next century, near as I can see. Canada in particular is still natural resource rich as can be, and has a small well educated population to spread it out to, and they have an integrated economic system with a good blend of manufacturing, agriculture, etc. The middle eastern countries I think are screwed. Their cheap oil is the worlds richest stash left, BUT, it's also the most volatile area of the world, so when the nukes go off, and they will,just a matter of when, not if now, the planet will lose a lot of that oil. Pity, but there ya go.
well, a few flaws, but the two main ones are, we have no top end cut off point for new laws. They are under mandate to always create new laws, that's ALL they are supposed to do, so that's what they do, year in and year out. There's no automatic provision for removing old laws, so they add up. I sincerely doubt now there is a single "legal" human inside the US, everyone is guilty of something now, and it will keep getting worse. Even little babies are born into guilt, before they have done much of anything they "owe" a buncha rich guys a lot of money. How they racked up that debt is beyond me, but it's supposedly the "law" someplace.
The second one is we should have made it completely illegal for a lawyer to be elected to congress, it's a clear cut case of conflict of interest. They have *no* incentive to make government simpler, cheaper, less complex. They have *every* incentive to create as many and as convulted and complex laws as possible.
here's every campaign speech boiled down, any party addressing any demographic.
"vote for me, I will help to make government more complex and expensive, except for YOU though, because YOU are special and we need to make the other guys pay for whatever YOU want"
So that is what happens, and people keep voting for them.
it's hard/expensive to make gasoline out of that stuff. It's better suited for asphalt for road building. Not saying it's impossible, obviously they can and do do it, just it's not the same as light sweet crude. Same deal with oil shale, etc. Ya, we got a lot of the stuff, but it ain't the same. It also is still dirty, like all other petroleum products. I think it's better in the long run to develop cleaner renewable liquid fuels like ethanol and methanol from fast growing trees or algae,hemp,kelp, etc.
fine. Just wait for the first serious trojan or virus that mozilla or opera spreads to windows machines, because people are encouraged to stay on windows, just "change their browser and you'll be safe now". You said it, it's what happens between the browser and the OS. The insecure OS is still there. When that virus or trojan hits, it will set back mozilla or opera and the whole deal of alternatives, and people will say "see, it doesn't matter, it's the same as explorer was". The taint will spread, undeserved or not. They are playing with a potential they don't have to. I understand why they are doing a common plug architecture, I don't understand why they are still supporting a company that is the exact opposite of their entire philosophy and goal.
Anyway, that's my prediction, you *will* see some serious worm, trojan or virus nail people running windows but using an "alternative browser", and it will hurt all of open source when it happens,much more so than any normal windows vulnerability, because of all the hype. I don't believe hype, no matter which direction it's coming from.
Not my call, develop for it, use it, I don't care. I'm not a zealot, I am a realist, and a skeptic. My realist nature tells me it will happen, my skeptical nature, based on their track record, says that microsoft will milk that virus or trojan for all it's worth to beliitle open source, and most people and the media and PHBs will go back to believing them. And my skeptical nature is such that I think that just relying on an alternative browser just isn't enough, not when it has that insecure engine underneath it. there are going to be holes, peole will find them-after the fact of needing to do so. Just like what happens now, but the myth of "secure" will be broken then.
Anyway, we shall see what we shall see I guess.
...carry this suitcase with you on the flight for me? I have an emergency and had to cancel, but the suitcase has my nephews books for college? He will meet you at the next landing. You will? great! thanks!
~~~~ later on at the security gate~~~~
whoop whoop whoop! I'm sorry mrs. spammer, the machine has detected something in your carry on luggage, we'll have to inspect it.
ok
hmm, seems we have a kilo of heroin here, two grenades, a vial marked botulism, and some kiddie porn and what's this ?? NAIL CLIPPERS!!11
mrs. spammer -BUT I DIDN'T KNOW! I WAS JUST TRAVELING, AND THIS MAN ASKED ME TO CARRY A BAG FOR HIS NEPHEW IN COLLEGE AND...! IT'S NOT REALLY MINE, I AM INNOCENT! OHHHHH SOOOOO SINCERELY AND TRULY INNOCENT! REALLY! IT'S NOT MY FAULT, WAHHHH!
sorry ma'am, have to read you your rights. I guess you should have paid attention to what you were doing, you'll have to sort it out in court with the judge now. You know in todays world you have to *pay attention to what you are doing*, you can't *assume* anything. Traveling is not that hard, but there are some COMMON SENSE things that you should have been doing, like not taking strange packages from strangers, or assuming you know what's in something and..and....... etc etc
No reason this can't happen with compromised machines and their owners in some manner. They download the crap, refuse to use firewalls or antivirus, won't learn how to use a browser, just assume, assume, assume. they carry contraband from strangers, then other people get hurt. Tough love. wake up call. Hello, this is the real world. They are doing it with downloaders of music, they can do it with people who get zombiefied because they lack common sense, refuse to get even a basic knowledge of what they are doing.. Make the users responsible in some form,not just blocking a port, make them actually responsible, maybe a few of them might wake up, see if they can do something different than just blindly trusting what microsoft and the vendors sell them. Then, if a few thousand or tens of thousands go to court, they MIGHT just turn around, get evfen nastier lawyers, and sue the crap out of the perps who sold them the machines and software that came thoroughly pre-borked out of the box, the same smiling rich guys who told them they buy their products, and that they could then get on the internet no probs, and took their money for it.
whenever I go to the library I read a bit each from popular science, popular mechanics and national geographic, and that's about it. When I was younger I read foreign affairs just to keep up with the globalists stuff (before they were really called globalist, but I knew there was something fishy going on). And I agree with several posters on playboys long interviews. I have a couple boxes of them I have saved, newest though is from the late 70s I believe. I used to read mother earth news until they went political and yuppie garden home beautiful upscale pretentious. I want my tech to be tech in a magazine, my tomatoes don't have to be liberal or conservative or have thousand dollar naked statues spewing water around them or anything else in other words. I have considered going back and getting homepower magazine, as I really like alternate energy, but there's no need really as you can get it in pdf and just go lookup any subset topic you might be interested in on the web anyway. Really, all the magazines now have that the online versions don't have is all the classified ads that are sometimes interesting.
With the net now I see no actual need to get dead trees magazines regularly. My girlfriend who barely uses computers gets cooking and gardening and popular culture(?) magazines like people, but I don't look at them ever. I think most of the time she just milks the system, she could care less about snail mail spam, we have a woodstove so that's actually just getting free kindling delivered, and she just keeps putting them off to subscribe to get all the swag they offer she pulls in with the ever decreasing price they want for their whatever subscription.The first price is never the bottom price, they are relentless, will keep sending you free stuff plus dropping the prices until it's almost free it seems. She gets something useful to her in the mail every week or so, and overall is way ahead with cash spent/products received, just being careful with the offers and holding out for the rockiest bottom prices they will eventually offer.
It was being transmitted. There's no set "speed limit" for the transit, therefore, no speed may be used to make a determination. There's no set exact determination of particlar hardware used, either AFAIK. "oops, sorry, your email took one more hop and lasted .009 milliseconds longer than what we feel is transit, it was stored for a short time so now you can look at it". It don't matter if it's milliseconds or minutes, when emailer A mashes send to recipient B, it's "in transit". When you get a package shipped from fedex, even when the truck driver stops for lunch, your package is still "in transit".
Typical corrupt black robed bogusness. More big brother crap. They will use this ruling to let the government do similar, even moreso than they do now. THAT is the reason they ruled as they did. The rest of it is FUD. These goofs get told how to rule now, they are all global big government appointed lackeys at that level, puppets.
Dell or whomever won't replace it NOW if their drive, meaning their computer, is borked because of the microsoft crap that DELL put on the drive in the first place, and sells as "easy to use, no probs mon, just get on the internet". I'm sure those people would think it fine and dandy if dell would fix the crap they sold to these people, but they won't, will they? See all them smiling people in the ads? Just a *wonderful* hassle free computing experience- la da de da. Rubbish. That's dell and microsoft basically selling a total lie. That's FRAUD for ya. REAL fraud, serious bigtime fraud, billions a year fraud. They should be ashamed of themselves, but the money is too good for them, so they ignore it. If DELL sells a blank hard drive, sure, it's their fault and they should replace it if the mechanism breaks. If they sell a LOADED hardrive, then it seems to me they should be responsible for it's TOTAL functionality as well. If I buy a car from the dealer and THEY put bad gasoline in it and forgot to put oil in it and i got down the block and it broke, well, it would be their fault and they would be liable to fix or replace. with computers, nope, it's tough crap buddy to you, even if you just dropped a grand or better on a new machine. that's fraud, and just plain wrong. If the software "breaks" the computer within a day or so of being on the net, that's a defective hardrive then, because they sold a package deal. If the bad gas or no oil breaks the car, that's a defect. Same deal. No difference. You can't buy a car new with a sticker that says "yes, here's your new car with some liquid we put in the tank that may or may not be suitable as gasoline. We don't claim it's gasoline,it looks like gas and smells like gas and we may even calli it gas, but then again, who knows? You are free to drive it away though." Wouldn't happen on the new car lot, but so called respectable businessmen do that everyday with computers, and especially the vendor/microsoft fraud congame axis of maximum profits with zero liability alliance. They want all the profit, and zero of the responsibility for the SIGNIFICANT part of what they are selling as a feature, a pre installed OS and apps which is definetly offered as "working" even though they use weasel worded sham licenses to dodge the issue..
They want to define working as "here it is, no guarantees", which to me is the serious fraud that's been going on for years and years now. No other industry gets away with that, zero.
I think this guy is doing a service. No one asks for their old starter back from the garage when a new one is put in. Yes, he should tell them, I agree, but that fails to address the real issue, which is the software is non functional after just a short time, for most people. It does not work as "implied".. And yes, DELL should replace and "fix" the computer if it fails to function with the default install they sell with the computer then, INCLUDING the crappy software they foist off on people. THEY should take it back as many times as it takes to make it work on the internet, or sell it with internet networking capabilities disabled, one or the other. There needs to be a test case there,a class action suit, and destroy the industry scam congame called the EULA get out of jail free card once and for all time, which is the main reason MS and companies like Dell can get away with what they have been profiting off of for years now.