are our futurists, because they are basically science nerds who write novels and short stories from their perspective. And it's really that simple. It doesn't mean they are all bang-on accurate prophets, but the really good ones and the good examples tend to have a nice track record so far on extrapolating technology trends and societal patterns.
..but you can still get cars that don't have all the tracking crap in them. It will be hard to keep your tires free of rfid tags though, they are going in all of them soon.
I think being concerned over the very real potential of living in a constantly tracked and surveilled society isn't tin foil hat paranoia, just observation and analysis. Given governments basic past track records, they embrace any technology that will expand their command and control functions. Seems a reasonable assumption that they will continue to do so. Also seems reasonable to note that this "we the people" deal has gotten lost, now "government" is not "of the people" but of "the career politicians, bureaucrats and people who profit from the energy/pharmco/military, etc industrial complex", something a president-eisenhower-warned the people of the US definetly *would* happen unless we stopped it-back in the 50's, and we didn't. The warning was in his farewell speech as he was leaving the presidency, and it's quite a good read.
I'll give his thoughts on the matter a scosh more credence here I think.
...and some of the current regime's heavyweights outlined their plans before they even got into office. Then they did it, they followed through with their plans. Hmm, also, they sorta indicated they needed a "pearl harbor-like" event for an excuse to invade. Hmm, I seem to recall something along those lines back.. when was it? Oh ya, 9-11-01. What a coincidence..
Honestly, to think that sea of oil under Iraq had nothing to do with it......it's silly. They have been planning this strike for years, well before 9-11. Personally I think if we had used the OPEC embargo fiasco wake up call way back in the 70s and had done a manhattan project level crash national program to significantly reduce our dependence on oil, it would have been a good thing.
As to this LUG guy stepping down, seems just as silly to me as being naieve about the oil, or over the WMD that the US and other western nations helped saddam develop and deploy. Saddam had big quantities of them, vast majority were destroyed during the fiirst gulf war, they were blown up inside the bunkers they were stored in then by US troops, and the main reason they don't make a big deal out of it in the controlled press was potential national embarassment over violating of various treaties we have signed, and to help limit the governments exposure to the vet's from that war claims of sickness that were denied, the ones who breathed that stuff.
All despotic regimes follow a similar formula. they use both an external threat and an internal threat for the excuse to completely take over and become..well, more despotic over their people. If the threats don't exist, they MANUFACTURE the threats. It's a formula that works. Problem -reaction -solution.
it was a fairly good signal, and not attached. Once I saw it running on the tv and figured out that I was getting cable and not over the air, I opened the window and looked down the ledge, you could plainly see it was not attached, but ran next to some other lines. Yoyu could see the other end of it hanging free, quite visible air gap there. And that's all I remember (real early 70's here), and I never played spiderman to go attach the thing, and it worked anyway so I didn't care. Why it worked, I dunno. I understand it shouldn't have, but it did.
...think what parking meters are connected to, their purpose. Cars. they regulate cars. Now think what they are putting in cars. NeoConStar devices and various RFID tags and other big brother doo dads. Sometime in the future I am guessing these same devices will keep track of WHICH VEHICLE parked there and for how long, etc, and add further data to the governments big data gathering and surveillance systems. That's why the system seems more robust than it needs to be, they are planning for it to do "more" sometime soon.
... be self defeating, a form of cyber suicide? If you had more than one person or group doing it, and some core routers starting misdirecting or dropping, that in turn would mean the injected code from the next group of exploiters might not have a chance to get through to the target router. What would be a critical number to be effected before serious degradation occurred, enough to the point that further exploits couldn't even start to be implemented?/me obvious don't know much, but still wondering
and time to have a regulated opt in system of mutual emailers who all agree up front to not spam, never send un requested commercial email, and to voluntarily never run insecure systems that act as an open relay, and etc. No email *ever* gets into the new paid system from outside the system, there's a definite boundary there somehow. If your machine is detected as a relay, you get 24 hours (whatever, some practical time period) to fix it or out ya go, back to the unregulated email system like it is now. It will cost some cash to join and per month or per year to be in the closed system, and ISPs could take the lead there, offer both kinds of email addys. If you run your own server and you are your own host, same deal, you have got to pay to get inside the cool guys email system,and every email address you want to operate with is registered,and each one costs folding money. If you spam or spew forth trojans and viruses, tough noogies, you get the boot, and you CAN'T get back in, not 2 or 3 strikes, one strike and you are out. Not perfect, but the best I can come up with.
Technically I don't know if this could happen, I am not hip enough on the making of funny headers and whatnot, but seems to me something along these lines should be possible, and I am guessing if you gave people the option of opting in at a nominal fee per year, 20 bucks maybe,whatever, it would be a huge hit and widely used. Like who WOULDN'T want a virtually spam free email address for such a fee? You could still, of course, have your "ordinary" open to the world email addy and protocol as it is now if you wanted to, especially useful during a transition period, but I think email addresses should be treated the same as domain registrations are now. It's the ease of creation and lack of any major expense that makes it so hard to control.
We live with the hassle of domain names and registration, it's not perfect but it's a LOT better than any alternative,and we could do the same with email addys. Make each individual email address cost actual folding money,it has to be a high enough fee to make it prohibitive for spammers and virus exchangers to not want to do it, that would tip over the costs so far into the negative that spam wouldn't pay much if anything any longer. I would love such a system, and would care less about receiving email from outside such a system.
...why public lending libraries exist? Following the same line of reasoning, libraries should only be able to lend out (share) *incomplete works* (fair use partial quotations/references), just enough to whet the appetite, then make you individually purchase a copy of the book if you want to read the entire thing. But they don't, you get the use of it in it's entirety, and the only fee paid is the one time fee paid for the book in question, with no individual fees assessed per user transferred back to the copyright holders. this is true facts, correct? Yes, I know it's not *exactly* the same, but that's only from advances in technology *not being implemented when they could be*, which are almost right there now with publishing on demand, and soon to be even cheaper. Follow the book industry progression from hand scribed to pretty expensive hand printed with hand set type to lithographs to now it's possible for on demand, even to very very cheap to make all digital copies.
The law on copyrights is still back two generations now, and it's getting worse, not better, it's not keeping up and following technology and is keeping buggywhips in business way past the need for everyone to purchase a buggy whip. We don't need buggywhips to make our cars go.
I think that's the major bone of contention here. This music and movie industry insists on using all the latest and best technology to make themselves money,and they do make use of it, technology that society as a collective whole makes avaialable to them to use, yet they *insist* on retaining this monopoly on technology, and absolutely refuse to lower costs appropriately following general technological advances that are available to almost everyone now with an interest in it. You can see the result, millions of people said "that's crazy, heck with that, screw them gougers" and it has happened.
The "law" is not even followed exactly to the letter, and right there is enough common-practice evidence with the libraries to prove it is not harmful to the "book" industry. And libraries certainly doin't harm society, they enhance it. And much cheaper books have enhanced society, and last I looked people who chose to make money off of books aren't insisting that every copy be hand scribed. In essence, the movie and music industry is insisting on this freeze in technology for everyone but themselves! That sucks! Obvious as all get out!
Music and movie industry need to enter the modern age and just stop being such luddites when they complain about something they themselves do, ie, make use of modern technology to enrich their lives. I say they should put up or shutup,one or the other, they should voluntarily(or be forced by the law to, which would serve them right) go back to the way of making movies and recorded music at the technological level where their current pricing modalities and mindset came from, like 50 years ago or even longer back, and be *forced to only use technology that was available back then*. Then it would be "fair" for them to charge what they are charging.
If it's good for the goose it's good for the gander is the old expression that comes to mind here.
...seeing as how it's slashdot and it don't matter... I'll take a stab at it, and it's simple.
Everyone gets back a total project for free, classed under this morphing "linux" label. No single coder could possibly code an entire operating system and set of thousands of applications for themselves. But, by contributing what they can for free, knowing that lots of others feel the same way,and are doing the same thing, they all benefit. They know that when the big corporations use it, they pay people to make it even better and in more common useage, so again, we all get something from it. That's worth a LOT, whether it immediately translates into cash in the pocket, cash is by itself mostly useless, it's just a temporary medium of exchange to eventually GET YOU STUFF, it's THE STUFF you want, whether a good or a service. Linux is getting you stuff, either cyber world stuff or meat world stuff. Stuff that is getting better, cheaper, more features, does things never done before..ya know, neat stuff. The more people dig on this and understand it and chip in, the more STUFF everyone gets.
It's like road fuel taxes kinda sorta maybe, we all pay them so we can have common roads, we all get to use them. Some pay more, they use the roads more, but even the person who only contributes a small amount and drives little, still gets access to the roads, and it takes the big guys to actually build the roads, it would be a bear to go out and build your own road all the time. Instead, we take a lot of little stuffs, the road tax small monies, all given into the pool,it gets transferred to the big road distro makers and the road hardware guys, and they build the big entire package, the roads. Ya, they getpaid for that, and make some serious clams, but the alternative is every individual would have to build their own roads, or we would have toll roads all over,evry single inch of road (which would bel ike every single program and line of code being paid for into infinity, IP law taken to absurdity) which concept hardly anyone likes because they suck it. And that's why propietary stuff is steadily losing ground, and free/open source whatever is gaining so fast, toll roads every single inch of travel suck.
Basically, it's just a good idea to voluntaruly share, especially when it'suniversal. It works out better. FORCED "voluntary" doesn't work very well.
In the olden days, neighbors chipped in to build each others big barns, because it sucked to do it yourself, and no one then could afford to individually hire it out, way too expensive, so they bingoed to the fact if they all contributed, they all got barns, barns that worked well, and cost very little, and cut out the middle man usurers and skimmers in the bargain, always a good idea, IMO..
please explain why they cooked the books here then, on the unemployment figures, taking the people off of it last year when they exhaust unemployment insurance checks, but remain unemployed? Why did they do that? Or do you deny that happened? If so I can go find the references again to prove it. That's an indicator that they delibarately are skewing the numbers to make things look rosier than they really are, at least to mostpeople who consider it. And why did they remove cost of energy and food from most cost ofliving indexes a few years ago? Again, only really one credible reason, to make things look better than what they are.
Explain why property taxes are going up all over to pay for new schools that are now required to school all the illegal immigrants children, and why a lot of hospitals are now running in the red, when they were in the black for a long time before the mass immigration of the past few years? Both those things happened in the last county I lived in. It's the main reason I was forced to move, I simply lostmy ability to get any housing there, when I needed to get another job. It went from "I can find a place, but I have one now and it works with my income level" to EGADS, I'M SKREWED! And they publically admit there that it's because the county got a 1/3 population increase in THREE YEARS,13,000 to 21,000 primarily from illegal immigrants coming in. It sure affected ME and what zi do for a living and what I need in the way of even bare minimum housing. Low income housing costs skyrocketed, because the illegals quite literally would and still do live ten or 12 to a single bedroom apartment, and the landlords quite willingly raised the rents knowing that they could accomodate the increases from so many people paying for what was before, a single persons or small family's housing. And forget entry level ownership, in those same three years even raggy old single wides went from what you expect for a price for them to YA GOTZ TO BE KIDDING.
This and similar has happened all over the nation. when it started 20 years ago with manufacturing I lived in a town that lost a few factories, it devastated the economy there, all sorts of people lost their homes with years equity, etc, because they were forced to sell at less than what they still owed prices just to get SOMETHING. It caused huge numbers of bankruyptcies, but, even with the press at the time, no one cared, especially white collar workers and the government and industry said that ITwas going to be the wave of the future and to "not worry". sorry, it HURT millions of people. And you can't just ignore it down in mexico and other nations, NAFTA DID put millions of the poorest out of work, literally from ultrapoverty level right to panic and leave got nothing to lose now mode. In some areas in mexico, 1/7th of the residents have immigrated already. In fact,some figures I have read indicate as high as 10% of the entire population has immigrated in the last decade. C'mon, that's not indicative of a system working, that's a huge figure. Even cut that in half it's still huge.
Free trade has some merit to the concept, but it has a lot of demerits to it as well, and the anecdotal proves it. You can't just throw people away in your mind and think it's this vague "nation" here or there, it's real humans you are talking about. It DOESN'T MATTER if one or two people make more money, if 7 or 8 make a huge amount less or make ZERO because of it. You can't just look at one side of any argument, it has to be taken in totality to be relatively honest and accurate.
And I'll wait for an answer on the US unemployment figures, why they modified how they do the count. Details, please.
First, step back and approach ther subject from a neutral standpoint. Start with the statement "virtually every economist". OK. Now realise that what you hear, and I will agree with you, virtually all economists make their own personal fortunes working *inside the con* I am referring to. They profit most handsomely from this. Start with the biggest con, wherein "banks" are allowed to create money on demand. Fractional reserve banking on a local level, to international currencies that are not backed by any tangible produced wealth, but create "money" into existence via large computer generated loans. They go from nothing, to something, with no intervening honest steps of true wealth production. They is a currency based on immediate debt creation, not on wealth production, and all(most, very broadly speaking now) these fellows personal fortunes are based around that concept, which on a smaller scale is prosecuted around the world as a form of buncoism, but on a national scale and above is called "business". It is impossible to loan that which you do not possess, violates laws of physics so therefore it usually violates 'the law", but taken on a huge scale, it's exactly how this money gets created, and I'm sure you know this, it's just established fact. Small scale=illegal, it's fraud, on a large scale it's "legal".
Now ask yourself, how many of these fine fellows who make their living on what is in essence a huge variation of the 419 scam will point out the obvious fraud involved here?
A few specifics, random here to support my claims.
Here's one we discussed on slashdot before, Bolivia. Bolivia was in a "financial crisis". We won't get into that really far, but even there there's some linkages to how this crisis came about, but let's get to this "loan". They get approached by the world bank, who will "loan" them an instant debt, in the form of poof created "money". The loaners demanded collateral for their created money(sweet deal for them obviously), in this case control-or ownership basically- of the nation's water supplies as a condition for the loan. Then they passed their new ownership of the water up the daisy chain of interconnected corporations to bechtel corporation. You'll have to dig out the daisy chained ways that bechtel is involved, but basically it's worldbank figures and figures from bechtel are the same guys. Serious conflicts of interest, or insider trading of a sort. Now, then bechtel immediately raised water rates back in bolivia as soon as they "owned" the water, to, in some instances, the bulk of a lot of the peoples there normal income, which was very low to being with. They basically created a huge serf class-literally serfs now- who overnight now "owed" most of their labor to bechtel on a national scale, over something as critical as water, a necessity of life.. It lasted awhile, the people righteously rebelled against it, your normal rioting, government "crackdowns" on the rioters, some lawsuits, your normal indications of some big kickbacks to local government corrupt guys, etc, who worked to get this loan, etc.etc. If you want the whole skinny there, google has it with a few keywords, so I won't try to pick one page as a link, diverse sources of intel are better anyway, probably we both agree on that. Just keep looking, you'll find more examples along those lines.
OK, I'll provide one more for fun, I just picked a random google reference to a case I hadn't heard about before, a famine in sierra leonne. This article at this URL http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,73 69,1032345,00.html comes from an actual insider intimately involved from the world banks side, who decided to speak out about it-become a whistleblower- and try to stop the famine in the making that was coming from a loan based on forcing "free trade" with a nations food crop into an economy not even near ready to free trade on the international market, because they had not yet gotten to the point they could afford it. It's an example of my assertion in that FIRST
--no, they will have to get primarily mid east oil. That's it for the big pools that are useful,where they can use their surplus petro dollars and exchange manufactured goods for crude, although they are contracting for siberian natural gas now. siberian oil isn't in the ball park for what they need, ithas to be BIG amounts and easy to get. They will reluctantly cooperate with russia at this time and for the next little while, as they are milking russia R&D-they have top-shelf thinkers there. The chinese are are negotiating now with venezuela on getting their oil as a stop gap, and they might get it unless uncah sugah pops chavez, which I am sure is past the planning stage now.
My guess is they will use a coterie of influenced younger radicals in a few mideast nations, get them bought off enough so those elements can stage a normal coup, with china being the big winner. I would watch sudan in particular, has great potential for a staging area (they are already the largest group of foreign "engineers" there,thousands of them, cross trained of course), along with iran, which has some really great fields left and a younger generation ready for a change and not big fans of the US anymore.
They have NO choice in the matter. None. Zero. that's why it will happen. Population pressures of 1 and a third billion, huge manufacturing needs, needs for energy in all it's forms, combined with other global oil consuming pressures with more and more big fields already past peak production. It's inevitable, and why the design and direction of their new military colossus that on all accounts bears little resemblance to a domestic self defense force, it'ssimply not structured correctly for that, and absolutely no one wants to invade china, so you are left with "force projection".
Coincidentally, I've always thought they were fudging the public oil figures, and right now it's breaking news on royal dutch shell REALLY fudging the figures on known and proven reserves. The only place I think they are fudging to the low ball end is in the arctic, but they want to wait and hold that until it's worth a "lot more" than it's worth now, plus they have to make sure they get ownership of it, because it's really the US and canadian citizens property now for the most part. Everywhere else, nope, they have been proven to be inflating reserve numbers, which to me sets up the time table of major mideast moves by china by two years maybe, if they think they are ready enough. That would put the tip over part at around 8 years from now entering the highest starting- probability time frame, and increasing after that. My guess is they will try to bluff it at first, failing that selective strikes to take out potential retaliatory measures, although I don't think we are looking at full armageddon scenario,not quite yet, it could still get quite brutal and global in nature. And they also don't know what the status is in ethnic trait specific biowarfare agents, and they can't take the risk until they have an adequate weapon of their own as a counter threat. SARS wasn't a fluke, it was a WHOOPS. All the larger nations are developing bioweapons, this is so obvious.
Interesting times, yes?
Also, for what it's worth, the banksters have really fudged above ground reserves of precious metals. They've hedged so far into the future that it's unreal, and pressure is on globally to produce physical, and they are hemming and hawing about it. Take if from there.
...of poor campesinos out of work in mexico and some other central american countries, oddly enough, and not much known to the US public I think. All of a sudden these campesinos couldn't compete with the larger american corporate mechanized farms. whoops. They could still grow their families food of course, but their cash crops became undervalued in their own countries. Result was they streamed north, literally by the millions, in search of work. Once here, they flooded the labor pool,already increasing in size from the blue collar manufacturing jobs being outsourced, and those blue collars trying to compete with each other for replacement jobs, many in service, agriculture, and so on. wham, the two forces hit, result, big drop in pay and increased living costs all around.. Dropping wages for those already here, making a mockery of national soverignty and "borders" and putting a huge strain on suddenly over whelmened local government support structures, such as public schools and community hospitals, water supply and sewerage treatment, etc. One of the results here was that already poor or semi poor rural areas got even poorer, as property taxes had to be raised to pay for all this increased infrastructure cost, the speed of influx overwhelemed slower, planned growth, at the same time the previous residents found massive increased competition for low income housing in a shrinking job market.
In short, it's been an almost complete disaster for all the countries involved, because of the speed of the changes. Even manufacturing facilities transferred to mexico, only lasted a few years when they were moved again to yet another nation, leaving more workers stuck with no jobs after getting their hopes up for a few years.
It's nuts, and has been pointed out, it's really only gone to benefit* the top 1 or 2% of the worlds richest.
*temporary cheaper consumer goods "advantages" are offset by longer term economic decline caused by loss of actual purchasing power due to job loss, underemployment or shrinking wages accompanied by inflationary monetary policies and over extended credit all around. In many nations, the IMF/world Bank conmen have had a hand in it, by loaning "money" they poof create out of thin air and using the borrower's nations natural resources and other assets as collateral. It's international loan sharking on a massive scale, usury gone amok.
The whole deal is interconnected, quite complex, but the gestalt is, yanking around the worlds economies to here and there instead of concentrating on *each nation building a core vertically-integrated, diverse and self-supporting economy FIRST* is causing severe global economic problems that will in a lot of cases lead to even more severe "boom and bust" scenarios that historically, once again, only go to benefit you know who, the connected string pullers who are already rich as croesus..
In short, it's a scam. They rotate around the bones they throw to the various populations then move on to the next set of suckers.
Newsflash for the editor there: my old mac boxes all came with sound built in, before 95. I used to get quite a chuckle over my windows friends saying they had to fuss with their sound cards, or even go out and BUY an extra card to get sound! I was always "wazzup with that..lack o noise from those companies, how cheap can you get, no sound? Huh?"
With that said, I have had good luck with sound on linux, but will admit to some rather strange looking "screens" before a lot of adjusting. Hardest part for me wasn't looking up specs to use with the configurator, but the dang monitor company not labeling the monitor what it really was, like a "public" model# slapped on the back, and the "real model #" that was hard to find.
..which I first developed around 5 years ago, indicates to me china will be forced to go agressive expansionist before 2010, at least to the point of insurung an adequate oil supply. and I don't think they intend to pay for it, of if so, they will be swapping goods for oil. they are increasing their military at 10% a year, all geared towards force-projection capabilities, and consider assymetrical warfare to be a tight integrated component to their entire battleplans.
Not a whole lotta places with oil around then, either...
...demand from overseas now, in particular, the next economic powerhouse of the world, china. At least that is what I understand it to be. From what I have read china will surpass the US within ten more years or so, and I am betting it will be sooner than that. Especially when you consider the federal reserve funny buck is dropping in international "worth" as fast as it is.
I'm sitting on several tons now,back to metals, looks like crap, to me, cash in the bank making interest. I like metals, save them, precious to mundane and common, they are all valuable. Don't own a single paper or electronic stock though.....
... are on a computerised system and if they can't get your used part on the spot, they can search a mutual database and find it for you and get it shipped in. There's even some online sources for that last I looked.
ME, you couldn't give me an expensive new car to use. I would take it of course and sell it as fast as possible. I'd rather own a 60's or 70's vehicle that is simpler and I can work on myself, and for what they want for some sort of average new car you can rebuild most of the older models to better-than new condition, probably for 1/2 that price actually.. I think more people would do that, too, if you could get the same 60 month note on them that they only offer for new or almost new models.
I just can't see in the future any sort of coolness factor to WOW I GOTZ ME A 92 COROLLA, ALL CHERRY!!1!! as opposed to-f'instance- WOW, I GOTZ ME A 69 BOSS MUSTANG, ALL CHERRY!!11!1.
New cars are disposable in some respects because they are so... undistinguishable, no character to most of them. That and what the article says.
Yes, I know, mileage and whatnot. That could be addressed with some newer technology being ported to the older cars, in particular they should have intakes/heads that make use of the variable activated solenoid valve systems, etc., and they really could re explore the adiabatic engine designs of smokey yunick and pogue for mileage increases. that stuff just worked and wasn't pie in the sky. That and just burn cleaner fuel to start with, and not pure petroleum products. Methanol and ethanol in particular are much cleaner burning without resorting to expensive doo dads that once b0rken are near impossible to fix cheaply, or even get analysed correctly. They make propane carbs now and are quite common, that could be used in conjunction with a methane system, burn that, get it from any biomass that can rot anaerobically.
SOME of the new technology is nice, a lot of it is busy work with little gain to it at huge expense.
And DON'T get me started on NeoConStar technology. Last I knew, the borg were the BAD GUYS.
Well, my opinion anyway. I'm gonna stick with my oldies for as long as possible. I LIKE 30 buck starters and 5 buck headlights, they work perfectly fine for a long time, then easily replaced. Stuff like that. If it really starts to suck,gas costs, enviro hassles, cost of vehicles, etc..well... I'll will quite literally switch to horses. Grow your own fuel, more or less environmentally friendly exhaust, and you can grow your own replacement vehicles. Something to be said for advanced bioengineering technology like that.
we didn;t have them either when I was a kid until I was a young man, then they started creeping in. firstcame "dui" checkpoints. Then "car inspection" cherckpoints to check for your insurance and registration and license. Then came "seat belt" checkpoints. Now they just have "checkpoints" in general,they actually have the balls to call them "courtesy" checkpoints, and they check for everything, and if you dare to say no to any of it, it gets bad, and quickly. Real, real bad.
Tell you another thing that is going to be common, and soon, and they ALREADY have done it a someplaces, and that is taking a FORCED BLOOD SAMPLE at the checkpoints. And we also have numerous examples of both US military and FOREIGN military personnel running these "random courtesty checkpoints", usually with just a single alleged "civilian" police officer present, and sometimes not even that.
Me, I have no idea why this is allowed to go on, other than the obvious reason and which I insist is the main truth, and that is a long range plan to institute a complete two class society,eventually globally, a return to feudalism with the connected elite, then everyone else.
In my estimation, we are 2/3rds (or so) there already in practical terms. The children in public schools now are even worse off, they have been radically conditioned since entering schools to accept this. They are taught group think, the real answer (or their opinion) isn't as important as the politically correct answer and the state's opinion, that the state provides all and should provide all, that you always obey the state, that you always "obey orders", and that individualism and contrarianism is not only discouraged, but it is disallowed in most cases. They are training a full generation to be total serfs, and the next two generations older are going along with it, content with their carrot and stick mass conditioning which is the duality of bread and circuses distractions, and the threat of puinishment from loss of "permission" to do something in your life to the very real threat of immediate ultra violence to their person on the spot or delayed somewhat as they are funnelled through the justice "system" quagmire.
Carrot and stick, just like how draft animals of the herd are "broken".
I do have to ask though, what about your secret police and state run informers and political crimes, etc? This is not an accurate representation of what was going on? And did you not have an uber political/economic elite who were totally above the law?
... and the new class of technofuedalists have been working with this concept for quite a long time now, and are hugely successful with it.
Main reason I spend so much time writing on it and working against it all my life, it's too dang important to ignore it. And it IS possible to win back some freedoms and to win against the state, it just takes a little dedication, courage, some righteous indignation, and building support via networking and promoting self education to people by providing them with enough information so that they can go forward and getmore information and work on their pet causes. It is too hard to try and get back all your rights for a single individual, but by working in concert and specialising in this or that, we can hold back further impositions of restrictions and roll back previously imposed restrictions.
That's the theory I go on anyway, I have no desire to "go along to get along" with despotism, because that is a most hideous form of society.
..those CRACK ME UP! Freespeech zones at political rallys, with the contrarians being shuffled off to the side and herded into an area and kept away from the autocrat du juor.
If you want to do your lady friend the almost cop a BIG favor, and do society a favor, turn her on to Officer Jack Mclamb's "aid and abet" organization and newsletter. Organization by cops and military, for cops and military, dedicated to insuring that they get constitutional training and information, to help insure that they don't become unwitting pawns of the autocrats, something they do NOT get at POST or military academies for the most part.
hmm, guess it would be prudent of me to provide some links.
... and he didn't have a license or permit from the state, they weren't required back then. True facts there.
Obviously I would agree that training is needed to drive adequately. I think the point being missed here is the useage of the license beyond an adequacy permit, you see it's "state" issued, and you cannot drive without it. This definetly indicates that you have a default position of having no right to travel, using your own property, on the public roads, which you partially own even if you are a competent driver. Even if you have taken and passed a private training program that might be even harder and stricter than the state's. Even if by your own efforts you have taught yourself well enough to at least be of median level in driving skills. You may STILL not driver lawfully without their permission, ie, the right to travel no longer exists.
You see, our society was set up completely different from any other society, for various reasons, that's why the fundamental "born-with" rights issue was supposedly carved in stone and delineated as the first ten amendments, so they wouldn't be messed with by the state. We, by "we" I mean our founders, had a notion to accept more risk as a society in order to insure more freedoms for all the individuals, and to place severe restrictions on the state instead.
We definetley did NOT want to trade-off security-or a false sense of security-for loss of individual freedoms, which was the basic governmental model in the other governments of the time, those they had to look at and compare to. That is quite clear from the earlier writings, documents and discussions of the period. We decided to freely accept the potential risks in order to guarantee the reqwards that freedom to the individual offered.The common usage slang term of those sorts of governments they were comparing against were either feudal with an "aristocratic" class that had most of the rights, even to power of life and death over their "subjects", or a blend of feudalism with "some" rights being metered out to the population. the latter form in our modern (slang) terminology would include "the nanny state". They set up, designed, created and implemented the NON-nanny, NON-feudal, NON-aristocratic, NON-autocratic state on purpose,fully knowing of any potential risks, judged the benefits would outweigh those risks, and wrote the words in some decent detail to outline that philosophy.
This is why we had "free speech" because they concluded the potential "risks" of free speech outweighed the loss of benefit to the free man, the individual, once any state imposed restrictions, because they saw that restrictions WOULD be imposed and gradually expanded upon until there were little to no "free" speech allowed.
This is why they insisted in the very next carefully worded delineation of a "born with" right that the population as a whole, of all the individuals, could, should and always should be of equal armed capacity as any "official" grouping under the header of "government", as they saw that the risks of everyone being armed were worth the risk as compared to the obvious results and risks of when only the state has arms, it leads always to despotism,always,the only variable being a time factor.
and so and and so forth, right down the list.
Travel as an inherent born-right is not supposed to be a default denial-which it is now, until you get the states permission. That is backwards from the original intent and is extremely obvious if one employs honest candor. Are there risks? Why es, no one would deny that. And also, there are GREATER risks to start dissolving/ignoring/taking away born with rights, and do they out weigh the previous risks we agreed upon on our founding, of the original design? I will assert yes, and we are seeing them now. this discussion, the "license" or the states permission to travel, you may not be "allowed" to drive, you may not be "allowed" to enter an airplane if you are on a "secret government li
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are our futurists, because they are basically science nerds who write novels and short stories from their perspective. And it's really that simple. It doesn't mean they are all bang-on accurate prophets, but the really good ones and the good examples tend to have a nice track record so far on extrapolating technology trends and societal patterns.
..but you can still get cars that don't have all the tracking crap in them. It will be hard to keep your tires free of rfid tags though, they are going in all of them soon.
I think being concerned over the very real potential of living in a constantly tracked and surveilled society isn't tin foil hat paranoia, just observation and analysis. Given governments basic past track records, they embrace any technology that will expand their command and control functions. Seems a reasonable assumption that they will continue to do so. Also seems reasonable to note that this "we the people" deal has gotten lost, now "government" is not "of the people" but of "the career politicians, bureaucrats and people who profit from the energy/pharmco/military, etc industrial complex", something a president-eisenhower-warned the people of the US definetly *would* happen unless we stopped it-back in the 50's, and we didn't. The warning was in his farewell speech as he was leaving the presidency, and it's quite a good read.
I'll give his thoughts on the matter a scosh more credence here I think.
taker yer pick, google page for Project For a New American Century, the neocon battleplan website. Their plans were published, still there, you can find extracts and anlysis at the other links here from google, or you can go to that website and read all the extensive documentation yourself. they don't hide it, it's just TV doesn't cover it, so that makes it "invisible" I guess.
Honestly, to think that sea of oil under Iraq had nothing to do with it......it's silly. They have been planning this strike for years, well before 9-11. Personally I think if we had used the OPEC embargo fiasco wake up call way back in the 70s and had done a manhattan project level crash national program to significantly reduce our dependence on oil, it would have been a good thing. As to this LUG guy stepping down, seems just as silly to me as being naieve about the oil, or over the WMD that the US and other western nations helped saddam develop and deploy. Saddam had big quantities of them, vast majority were destroyed during the fiirst gulf war, they were blown up inside the bunkers they were stored in then by US troops, and the main reason they don't make a big deal out of it in the controlled press was potential national embarassment over violating of various treaties we have signed, and to help limit the governments exposure to the vet's from that war claims of sickness that were denied, the ones who breathed that stuff.
All despotic regimes follow a similar formula. they use both an external threat and an internal threat for the excuse to completely take over and become..well, more despotic over their people. If the threats don't exist, they MANUFACTURE the threats. It's a formula that works. Problem -reaction -solution.
it was a fairly good signal, and not attached. Once I saw it running on the tv and figured out that I was getting cable and not over the air, I opened the window and looked down the ledge, you could plainly see it was not attached, but ran next to some other lines. Yoyu could see the other end of it hanging free, quite visible air gap there. And that's all I remember (real early 70's here), and I never played spiderman to go attach the thing, and it worked anyway so I didn't care. Why it worked, I dunno. I understand it shouldn't have, but it did.
...think what parking meters are connected to, their purpose. Cars. they regulate cars. Now think what they are putting in cars. NeoConStar devices and various RFID tags and other big brother doo dads. Sometime in the future I am guessing these same devices will keep track of WHICH VEHICLE parked there and for how long, etc, and add further data to the governments big data gathering and surveillance systems. That's why the system seems more robust than it needs to be, they are planning for it to do "more" sometime soon.
... be self defeating, a form of cyber suicide? If you had more than one person or group doing it, and some core routers starting misdirecting or dropping, that in turn would mean the injected code from the next group of exploiters might not have a chance to get through to the target router. What would be a critical number to be effected before serious degradation occurred, enough to the point that further exploits couldn't even start to be implemented? /me obvious don't know much, but still wondering
FTP programs do this already?
and time to have a regulated opt in system of mutual emailers who all agree up front to not spam, never send un requested commercial email, and to voluntarily never run insecure systems that act as an open relay, and etc. No email *ever* gets into the new paid system from outside the system, there's a definite boundary there somehow. If your machine is detected as a relay, you get 24 hours (whatever, some practical time period) to fix it or out ya go, back to the unregulated email system like it is now. It will cost some cash to join and per month or per year to be in the closed system, and ISPs could take the lead there, offer both kinds of email addys. If you run your own server and you are your own host, same deal, you have got to pay to get inside the cool guys email system,and every email address you want to operate with is registered,and each one costs folding money. If you spam or spew forth trojans and viruses, tough noogies, you get the boot, and you CAN'T get back in, not 2 or 3 strikes, one strike and you are out. Not perfect, but the best I can come up with.
Technically I don't know if this could happen, I am not hip enough on the making of funny headers and whatnot, but seems to me something along these lines should be possible, and I am guessing if you gave people the option of opting in at a nominal fee per year, 20 bucks maybe,whatever, it would be a huge hit and widely used. Like who WOULDN'T want a virtually spam free email address for such a fee? You could still, of course, have your "ordinary" open to the world email addy and protocol as it is now if you wanted to, especially useful during a transition period, but I think email addresses should be treated the same as domain registrations are now. It's the ease of creation and lack of any major expense that makes it so hard to control.
We live with the hassle of domain names and registration, it's not perfect but it's a LOT better than any alternative,and we could do the same with email addys. Make each individual email address cost actual folding money,it has to be a high enough fee to make it prohibitive for spammers and virus exchangers to not want to do it, that would tip over the costs so far into the negative that spam wouldn't pay much if anything any longer. I would love such a system, and would care less about receiving email from outside such a system.
...why public lending libraries exist? Following the same line of reasoning, libraries should only be able to lend out (share) *incomplete works* (fair use partial quotations/references), just enough to whet the appetite, then make you individually purchase a copy of the book if you want to read the entire thing. But they don't, you get the use of it in it's entirety, and the only fee paid is the one time fee paid for the book in question, with no individual fees assessed per user transferred back to the copyright holders. this is true facts, correct? Yes, I know it's not *exactly* the same, but that's only from advances in technology *not being implemented when they could be*, which are almost right there now with publishing on demand, and soon to be even cheaper. Follow the book industry progression from hand scribed to pretty expensive hand printed with hand set type to lithographs to now it's possible for on demand, even to very very cheap to make all digital copies.
The law on copyrights is still back two generations now, and it's getting worse, not better, it's not keeping up and following technology and is keeping buggywhips in business way past the need for everyone to purchase a buggy whip. We don't need buggywhips to make our cars go.
I think that's the major bone of contention here. This music and movie industry insists on using all the latest and best technology to make themselves money,and they do make use of it, technology that society as a collective whole makes avaialable to them to use, yet they *insist* on retaining this monopoly on technology, and absolutely refuse to lower costs appropriately following general technological advances that are available to almost everyone now with an interest in it. You can see the result, millions of people said "that's crazy, heck with that, screw them gougers" and it has happened.
The "law" is not even followed exactly to the letter, and right there is enough common-practice evidence with the libraries to prove it is not harmful to the "book" industry. And libraries certainly doin't harm society, they enhance it. And much cheaper books have enhanced society, and last I looked people who chose to make money off of books aren't insisting that every copy be hand scribed. In essence, the movie and music industry is insisting on this freeze in technology for everyone but themselves! That sucks! Obvious as all get out!
Music and movie industry need to enter the modern age and just stop being such luddites when they complain about something they themselves do, ie, make use of modern technology to enrich their lives. I say they should put up or shutup,one or the other, they should voluntarily(or be forced by the law to, which would serve them right) go back to the way of making movies and recorded music at the technological level where their current pricing modalities and mindset came from, like 50 years ago or even longer back, and be *forced to only use technology that was available back then*. Then it would be "fair" for them to charge what they are charging.
If it's good for the goose it's good for the gander is the old expression that comes to mind here.
...seeing as how it's slashdot and it don't matter... I'll take a stab at it, and it's simple.
Everyone gets back a total project for free, classed under this morphing "linux" label. No single coder could possibly code an entire operating system and set of thousands of applications for themselves. But, by contributing what they can for free, knowing that lots of others feel the same way,and are doing the same thing, they all benefit. They know that when the big corporations use it, they pay people to make it even better and in more common useage, so again, we all get something from it. That's worth a LOT, whether it immediately translates into cash in the pocket, cash is by itself mostly useless, it's just a temporary medium of exchange to eventually GET YOU STUFF, it's THE STUFF you want, whether a good or a service. Linux is getting you stuff, either cyber world stuff or meat world stuff. Stuff that is getting better, cheaper, more features, does things never done before..ya know, neat stuff. The more people dig on this and understand it and chip in, the more STUFF everyone gets.
It's like road fuel taxes kinda sorta maybe, we all pay them so we can have common roads, we all get to use them. Some pay more, they use the roads more, but even the person who only contributes a small amount and drives little, still gets access to the roads, and it takes the big guys to actually build the roads, it would be a bear to go out and build your own road all the time. Instead, we take a lot of little stuffs, the road tax small monies, all given into the pool,it gets transferred to the big road distro makers and the road hardware guys, and they build the big entire package, the roads. Ya, they getpaid for that, and make some serious clams, but the alternative is every individual would have to build their own roads, or we would have toll roads all over,evry single inch of road (which would bel ike every single program and line of code being paid for into infinity, IP law taken to absurdity) which concept hardly anyone likes because they suck it. And that's why propietary stuff is steadily losing ground, and free/open source whatever is gaining so fast, toll roads every single inch of travel suck.
Basically, it's just a good idea to voluntaruly share, especially when it'suniversal. It works out better. FORCED "voluntary" doesn't work very well.
In the olden days, neighbors chipped in to build each others big barns, because it sucked to do it yourself, and no one then could afford to individually hire it out, way too expensive, so they bingoed to the fact if they all contributed, they all got barns, barns that worked well, and cost very little, and cut out the middle man usurers and skimmers in the bargain, always a good idea, IMO..
please explain why they cooked the books here then, on the unemployment figures, taking the people off of it last year when they exhaust unemployment insurance checks, but remain unemployed? Why did they do that? Or do you deny that happened? If so I can go find the references again to prove it. That's an indicator that they delibarately are skewing the numbers to make things look rosier than they really are, at least to mostpeople who consider it. And why did they remove cost of energy and food from most cost ofliving indexes a few years ago? Again, only really one credible reason, to make things look better than what they are.
Explain why property taxes are going up all over to pay for new schools that are now required to school all the illegal immigrants children, and why a lot of hospitals are now running in the red, when they were in the black for a long time before the mass immigration of the past few years? Both those things happened in the last county I lived in. It's the main reason I was forced to move, I simply lostmy ability to get any housing there, when I needed to get another job. It went from "I can find a place, but I have one now and it works with my income level" to EGADS, I'M SKREWED! And they publically admit there that it's because the county got a 1/3 population increase in THREE YEARS,13,000 to 21,000 primarily from illegal immigrants coming in. It sure affected ME and what zi do for a living and what I need in the way of even bare minimum housing. Low income housing costs skyrocketed, because the illegals quite literally would and still do live ten or 12 to a single bedroom apartment, and the landlords quite willingly raised the rents knowing that they could accomodate the increases from so many people paying for what was before, a single persons or small family's housing. And forget entry level ownership, in those same three years even raggy old single wides went from what you expect for a price for them to YA GOTZ TO BE KIDDING.
This and similar has happened all over the nation. when it started 20 years ago with manufacturing I lived in a town that lost a few factories, it devastated the economy there, all sorts of people lost their homes with years equity, etc, because they were forced to sell at less than what they still owed prices just to get SOMETHING. It caused huge numbers of bankruyptcies, but, even with the press at the time, no one cared, especially white collar workers and the government and industry said that ITwas going to be the wave of the future and to "not worry". sorry, it HURT millions of people. And you can't just ignore it down in mexico and other nations, NAFTA DID put millions of the poorest out of work, literally from ultrapoverty level right to panic and leave got nothing to lose now mode. In some areas in mexico, 1/7th of the residents have immigrated already. In fact,some figures I have read indicate as high as 10% of the entire population has immigrated in the last decade. C'mon, that's not indicative of a system working, that's a huge figure. Even cut that in half it's still huge.
Free trade has some merit to the concept, but it has a lot of demerits to it as well, and the anecdotal proves it. You can't just throw people away in your mind and think it's this vague "nation" here or there, it's real humans you are talking about. It DOESN'T MATTER if one or two people make more money, if 7 or 8 make a huge amount less or make ZERO because of it. You can't just look at one side of any argument, it has to be taken in totality to be relatively honest and accurate.
And I'll wait for an answer on the US unemployment figures, why they modified how they do the count. Details, please.
First, step back and approach ther subject from a neutral standpoint. Start with the statement "virtually every economist". OK. Now realise that what you hear, and I will agree with you, virtually all economists make their own personal fortunes working *inside the con* I am referring to. They profit most handsomely from this. Start with the biggest con, wherein "banks" are allowed to create money on demand. Fractional reserve banking on a local level, to international currencies that are not backed by any tangible produced wealth, but create "money" into existence via large computer generated loans. They go from nothing, to something, with no intervening honest steps of true wealth production. They is a currency based on immediate debt creation, not on wealth production, and all(most, very broadly speaking now) these fellows personal fortunes are based around that concept, which on a smaller scale is prosecuted around the world as a form of buncoism, but on a national scale and above is called "business". It is impossible to loan that which you do not possess, violates laws of physics so therefore it usually violates 'the law", but taken on a huge scale, it's exactly how this money gets created, and I'm sure you know this, it's just established fact. Small scale=illegal, it's fraud, on a large scale it's "legal".
Now ask yourself, how many of these fine fellows who make their living on what is in essence a huge variation of the 419 scam will point out the obvious fraud involved here?
A few specifics, random here to support my claims.
Here's one we discussed on slashdot before, Bolivia. Bolivia was in a "financial crisis". We won't get into that really far, but even there there's some linkages to how this crisis came about, but let's get to this "loan". They get approached by the world bank, who will "loan" them an instant debt, in the form of poof created "money". The loaners demanded collateral for their created money(sweet deal for them obviously), in this case control-or ownership basically- of the nation's water supplies as a condition for the loan. Then they passed their new ownership of the water up the daisy chain of interconnected corporations to bechtel corporation. You'll have to dig out the daisy chained ways that bechtel is involved, but basically it's worldbank figures and figures from bechtel are the same guys. Serious conflicts of interest, or insider trading of a sort. Now, then bechtel immediately raised water rates back in bolivia as soon as they "owned" the water, to, in some instances, the bulk of a lot of the peoples there normal income, which was very low to being with. They basically created a huge serf class-literally serfs now- who overnight now "owed" most of their labor to bechtel on a national scale, over something as critical as water, a necessity of life.. It lasted awhile, the people righteously rebelled against it, your normal rioting, government "crackdowns" on the rioters, some lawsuits, your normal indications of some big kickbacks to local government corrupt guys, etc, who worked to get this loan, etc.etc. If you want the whole skinny there, google has it with a few keywords, so I won't try to pick one page as a link, diverse sources of intel are better anyway, probably we both agree on that. Just keep looking, you'll find more examples along those lines.
OK, I'll provide one more for fun, I just picked a random google reference to a case I hadn't heard about before, a famine in sierra leonne. This article at this URL http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,73 69,1032345,00.html
comes from an actual insider intimately involved from the world banks side, who decided to speak out about it-become a whistleblower- and try to stop the famine in the making that was coming from a loan based on forcing "free trade" with a nations food crop into an economy not even near ready to free trade on the international market, because they had not yet gotten to the point they could afford it. It's an example of my assertion in that FIRST
... me, too. It's about that time.
--no, they will have to get primarily mid east oil. That's it for the big pools that are useful,where they can use their surplus petro dollars and exchange manufactured goods for crude, although they are contracting for siberian natural gas now. siberian oil isn't in the ball park for what they need, ithas to be BIG amounts and easy to get. They will reluctantly cooperate with russia at this time and for the next little while, as they are milking russia R&D-they have top-shelf thinkers there. The chinese are are negotiating now with venezuela on getting their oil as a stop gap, and they might get it unless uncah sugah pops chavez, which I am sure is past the planning stage now.
My guess is they will use a coterie of influenced younger radicals in a few mideast nations, get them bought off enough so those elements can stage a normal coup, with china being the big winner. I would watch sudan in particular, has great potential for a staging area (they are already the largest group of foreign "engineers" there,thousands of them, cross trained of course), along with iran, which has some really great fields left and a younger generation ready for a change and not big fans of the US anymore.
They have NO choice in the matter. None. Zero. that's why it will happen. Population pressures of 1 and a third billion, huge manufacturing needs, needs for energy in all it's forms, combined with other global oil consuming pressures with more and more big fields already past peak production. It's inevitable, and why the design and direction of their new military colossus that on all accounts bears little resemblance to a domestic self defense force, it'ssimply not structured correctly for that, and absolutely no one wants to invade china, so you are left with "force projection".
Coincidentally, I've always thought they were fudging the public oil figures, and right now it's breaking news on royal dutch shell REALLY fudging the figures on known and proven reserves. The only place I think they are fudging to the low ball end is in the arctic, but they want to wait and hold that until it's worth a "lot more" than it's worth now, plus they have to make sure they get ownership of it, because it's really the US and canadian citizens property now for the most part. Everywhere else, nope, they have been proven to be inflating reserve numbers, which to me sets up the time table of major mideast moves by china by two years maybe, if they think they are ready enough. That would put the tip over part at around 8 years from now entering the highest starting- probability time frame, and increasing after that. My guess is they will try to bluff it at first, failing that selective strikes to take out potential retaliatory measures, although I don't think we are looking at full armageddon scenario,not quite yet, it could still get quite brutal and global in nature. And they also don't know what the status is in ethnic trait specific biowarfare agents, and they can't take the risk until they have an adequate weapon of their own as a counter threat. SARS wasn't a fluke, it was a WHOOPS. All the larger nations are developing bioweapons, this is so obvious.
Interesting times, yes?
Also, for what it's worth, the banksters have really fudged above ground reserves of precious metals. They've hedged so far into the future that it's unreal, and pressure is on globally to produce physical, and they are hemming and hawing about it. Take if from there.
... that the globalists elite have in mind for the next generation, after the US has been free-traded to a "global fair average"
1) soldier/mercenary
2) prostitute
...of poor campesinos out of work in mexico and some other central american countries, oddly enough, and not much known to the US public I think. All of a sudden these campesinos couldn't compete with the larger american corporate mechanized farms. whoops. They could still grow their families food of course, but their cash crops became undervalued in their own countries. Result was they streamed north, literally by the millions, in search of work. Once here, they flooded the labor pool,already increasing in size from the blue collar manufacturing jobs being outsourced, and those blue collars trying to compete with each other for replacement jobs, many in service, agriculture, and so on. wham, the two forces hit, result, big drop in pay and increased living costs all around.. Dropping wages for those already here, making a mockery of national soverignty and "borders" and putting a huge strain on suddenly over whelmened local government support structures, such as public schools and community hospitals, water supply and sewerage treatment, etc. One of the results here was that already poor or semi poor rural areas got even poorer, as property taxes had to be raised to pay for all this increased infrastructure cost, the speed of influx overwhelemed slower, planned growth, at the same time the previous residents found massive increased competition for low income housing in a shrinking job market.
In short, it's been an almost complete disaster for all the countries involved, because of the speed of the changes. Even manufacturing facilities transferred to mexico, only lasted a few years when they were moved again to yet another nation, leaving more workers stuck with no jobs after getting their hopes up for a few years.
It's nuts, and has been pointed out, it's really only gone to benefit* the top 1 or 2% of the worlds richest.
*temporary cheaper consumer goods "advantages" are offset by longer term economic decline caused by loss of actual purchasing power due to job loss, underemployment or shrinking wages accompanied by inflationary monetary policies and over extended credit all around. In many nations, the IMF/world Bank conmen have had a hand in it, by loaning "money" they poof create out of thin air and using the borrower's nations natural resources and other assets as collateral. It's international loan sharking on a massive scale, usury gone amok.
The whole deal is interconnected, quite complex, but the gestalt is, yanking around the worlds economies to here and there instead of concentrating on *each nation building a core vertically-integrated, diverse and self-supporting economy FIRST* is causing severe global economic problems that will in a lot of cases lead to even more severe "boom and bust" scenarios that historically, once again, only go to benefit you know who, the connected string pullers who are already rich as croesus..
In short, it's a scam. They rotate around the bones they throw to the various populations then move on to the next set of suckers.
Newsflash for the editor there: my old mac boxes all came with sound built in, before 95. I used to get quite a chuckle over my windows friends saying they had to fuss with their sound cards, or even go out and BUY an extra card to get sound! I was always "wazzup with that..lack o noise from those companies, how cheap can you get, no sound? Huh?"
With that said, I have had good luck with sound on linux, but will admit to some rather strange looking "screens" before a lot of adjusting. Hardest part for me wasn't looking up specs to use with the configurator, but the dang monitor company not labeling the monitor what it really was, like a "public" model# slapped on the back, and the "real model #" that was hard to find.
..which I first developed around 5 years ago, indicates to me china will be forced to go agressive expansionist before 2010, at least to the point of insurung an adequate oil supply. and I don't think they intend to pay for it, of if so, they will be swapping goods for oil.
they are increasing their military at 10% a year, all geared towards force-projection capabilities, and consider assymetrical warfare to be a tight integrated component to their entire battleplans.
Not a whole lotta places with oil around then, either...
...demand from overseas now, in particular, the next economic powerhouse of the world, china.
At least that is what I understand it to be. From what I have read china will surpass the US within ten more years or so, and I am betting it will be sooner than that. Especially when you consider the federal reserve funny buck is dropping in international "worth" as fast as it is.
I'm sitting on several tons now,back to metals, looks like crap, to me, cash in the bank making interest. I like metals, save them, precious to mundane and common, they are all valuable. Don't own a single paper or electronic stock though.....
... are on a computerised system and if they can't get your used part on the spot, they can search a mutual database and find it for you and get it shipped in. There's even some online sources for that last I looked.
ME, you couldn't give me an expensive new car to use. I would take it of course and sell it as fast as possible. I'd rather own a 60's or 70's vehicle that is simpler and I can work on myself, and for what they want for some sort of average new car you can rebuild most of the older models to better-than new condition, probably for 1/2 that price actually.. I think more people would do that, too, if you could get the same 60 month note on them that they only offer for new or almost new models.
I just can't see in the future any sort of coolness factor to WOW I GOTZ ME A 92 COROLLA, ALL CHERRY!!1!! as opposed to-f'instance- WOW, I GOTZ ME A 69 BOSS MUSTANG, ALL CHERRY!!11!1.
New cars are disposable in some respects because they are so... undistinguishable, no character to most of them. That and what the article says.
Yes, I know, mileage and whatnot. That could be addressed with some newer technology being ported to the older cars, in particular they should have intakes/heads that make use of the variable activated solenoid valve systems, etc., and they really could re explore the adiabatic engine designs of smokey yunick and pogue for mileage increases. that stuff just worked and wasn't pie in the sky. That and just burn cleaner fuel to start with, and not pure petroleum products. Methanol and ethanol in particular are much cleaner burning without resorting to expensive doo dads that once b0rken are near impossible to fix cheaply, or even get analysed correctly. They make propane carbs now and are quite common, that could be used in conjunction with a methane system, burn that, get it from any biomass that can rot anaerobically.
SOME of the new technology is nice, a lot of it is busy work with little gain to it at huge expense.
And DON'T get me started on NeoConStar technology. Last I knew, the borg were the BAD GUYS.
Well, my opinion anyway. I'm gonna stick with my oldies for as long as possible. I LIKE 30 buck starters and 5 buck headlights, they work perfectly fine for a long time, then easily replaced. Stuff like that. If it really starts to suck,gas costs, enviro hassles, cost of vehicles, etc..well... I'll will quite literally switch to horses. Grow your own fuel, more or less environmentally friendly exhaust, and you can grow your own replacement vehicles. Something to be said for advanced bioengineering technology like that.
... have you tried any of those audits against a test machine running FC2 (whatever RC it is now, haven't looked) to see if you get similar warnings?
And if I understand this correctly, the code works fine for you,but you just get a lot of what in essence are false positives with the auditing?
heh, if so, treat it as a training feature, keep them boys on their toes!
we didn;t have them either when I was a kid until I was a young man, then they started creeping in. firstcame "dui" checkpoints. Then "car inspection" cherckpoints to check for your insurance and registration and license. Then came "seat belt" checkpoints. Now they just have "checkpoints" in general,they actually have the balls to call them "courtesy" checkpoints, and they check for everything, and if you dare to say no to any of it, it gets bad, and quickly. Real, real bad.
Tell you another thing that is going to be common, and soon, and they ALREADY have done it a someplaces, and that is taking a FORCED BLOOD SAMPLE at the checkpoints. And we also have numerous examples of both US military and FOREIGN military personnel running these "random courtesty checkpoints", usually with just a single alleged "civilian" police officer present, and sometimes not even that.
Me, I have no idea why this is allowed to go on, other than the obvious reason and which I insist is the main truth, and that is a long range plan to institute a complete two class society,eventually globally, a return to feudalism with the connected elite, then everyone else.
In my estimation, we are 2/3rds (or so) there already in practical terms. The children in public schools now are even worse off, they have been radically conditioned since entering schools to accept this. They are taught group think, the real answer (or their opinion) isn't as important as the politically correct answer and the state's opinion, that the state provides all and should provide all, that you always obey the state, that you always "obey orders", and that individualism and contrarianism is not only discouraged, but it is disallowed in most cases. They are training a full generation to be total serfs, and the next two generations older are going along with it, content with their carrot and stick mass conditioning which is the duality of bread and circuses distractions, and the threat of puinishment from loss of "permission" to do something in your life to the very real threat of immediate ultra violence to their person on the spot or delayed somewhat as they are funnelled through the justice "system" quagmire.
Carrot and stick, just like how draft animals of the herd are "broken".
I do have to ask though, what about your secret police and state run informers and political crimes, etc? This is not an accurate representation of what was going on? And did you not have an uber political/economic elite who were totally above the law?
... and the new class of technofuedalists have been working with this concept for quite a long time now, and are hugely successful with it.
Main reason I spend so much time writing on it and working against it all my life, it's too dang important to ignore it. And it IS possible to win back some freedoms and to win against the state, it just takes a little dedication, courage, some righteous indignation, and building support via networking and promoting self education to people by providing them with enough information so that they can go forward and getmore information and work on their pet causes. It is too hard to try and get back all your rights for a single individual, but by working in concert and specialising in this or that, we can hold back further impositions of restrictions and roll back previously imposed restrictions.
That's the theory I go on anyway, I have no desire to "go along to get along" with despotism, because that is a most hideous form of society.
If you want to do your lady friend the almost cop a BIG favor, and do society a favor, turn her on to Officer Jack Mclamb's "aid and abet" organization and newsletter. Organization by cops and military, for cops and military, dedicated to insuring that they get constitutional training and information, to help insure that they don't become unwitting pawns of the autocrats, something they do NOT get at POST or military academies for the most part.
hmm, guess it would be prudent of me to provide some links.
Generic google search,conincidentally several hits on the right to travel on the first page.
His website with the info for his newsletter, a bio, and linkages and info to hear his various radio shows and scheduling information
We definetley did NOT want to trade-off security-or a false sense of security-for loss of individual freedoms, which was the basic governmental model in the other governments of the time, those they had to look at and compare to. That is quite clear from the earlier writings, documents and discussions of the period. We decided to freely accept the potential risks in order to guarantee the reqwards that freedom to the individual offered.The common usage slang term of those sorts of governments they were comparing against were either feudal with an "aristocratic" class that had most of the rights, even to power of life and death over their "subjects", or a blend of feudalism with "some" rights being metered out to the population. the latter form in our modern (slang) terminology would include "the nanny state". They set up, designed, created and implemented the NON-nanny, NON-feudal, NON-aristocratic, NON-autocratic state on purpose,fully knowing of any potential risks, judged the benefits would outweigh those risks, and wrote the words in some decent detail to outline that philosophy.
This is why we had "free speech" because they concluded the potential "risks" of free speech outweighed the loss of benefit to the free man, the individual, once any state imposed restrictions, because they saw that restrictions WOULD be imposed and gradually expanded upon until there were little to no "free" speech allowed.
This is why they insisted in the very next carefully worded delineation of a "born with" right that the population as a whole, of all the individuals, could, should and always should be of equal armed capacity as any "official" grouping under the header of "government", as they saw that the risks of everyone being armed were worth the risk as compared to the obvious results and risks of when only the state has arms, it leads always to despotism,always,the only variable being a time factor.
and so and and so forth, right down the list.
Travel as an inherent born-right is not supposed to be a default denial-which it is now, until you get the states permission. That is backwards from the original intent and is extremely obvious if one employs honest candor. Are there risks? Why es, no one would deny that. And also, there are GREATER risks to start dissolving/ignoring/taking away born with rights, and do they out weigh the previous risks we agreed upon on our founding, of the original design? I will assert yes, and we are seeing them now. this discussion, the "license" or the states permission to travel, you may not be "allowed" to drive, you may not be "allowed" to enter an airplane if you are on a "secret government li