Time for somebody in neighbouring India and/or Thailand (I wouldn't risk doing it from China), to setup some WiMax that penetrates a few KM into Burma airpspace, then give out wiMAX broadband cards to a few bloggers, and away we go.
Realistically though, might be easier to blog from Satellite connections, hacked long distance AOL accts or Wi-Fi Ad-hock networks.
I feel sorry for these monks, and I sure hope this will not be another Tibetan like slaughter.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to add that inflation calculations don't take into account the following:
1) Rising Energy costs (i.e. Oil @ $84 anyone?) 2) Higher Energy costs increase costs of most consumer goods due to higher cost to transport them 3) War in Afghanistan & Iraq costs a few billion per month that you pay through taxes 4) US dollar deflating for the past year against just about every other currency by 20%+ 5) Crazy Tuition fees in your Universities 6) Even more insane Health Care costs
Time to buy Gold people, cuz your economy is going down the tube.:-/
I blame it in part on your (USA) housing bubble. Wait 2-3 years for the housing market to drop 50% and you should all be very happy! (Assuming you didn't first go bankrupt on your ARM sub-prime mortgage! heh)
Up here in Canada, you're lucky to get 4% raise/Yr in IT. Wages in general have been quite stagnent in the past 3 or 4 years (except Alberta Oil cities), yet our housing prices are climbing in mutliple urban cities at double digit percentage rates/Yr. Don't worry, our bubble will also be popping soon... then maybe we can all go down to Cuba an cry over our losses with cheap Tequilas & Cubans (cigars) in hand.
You just need to google for:WiMAX unlicensed spectrum
These guys back in late 2005 were quoting me a fixed Wireless solution that goes up to 40+ KM for T1+ performance, and it was based on fixed WiMAX technology operating in public spectrum. Price was aprox $5K per side. In retrospect, this may have been some propriatary Pre-WiMAX falvor of the technology, but still, for just point to point, who cares. http://www.rad-direct.com/ProdFam-Fixed-Wireless.htm
In short, WiMAX comes in various flavours. Fixed & Mobile, which we can already see operating in private spectrum. Rogers (large CLEC) in Canada has just completed a 1 year beta testing of these products and is ready to roll out; and the other flavour will be public spectrum versions of the same Fixed and possibly Mobile, though I would venture to say that Fixed will be more popular.
1. DirectPC: There's no excuse to not get satellite Internet Access. Yes latency sucks, but surfing and many aspects of Interneting will be much faster. If you're telling me you can't get it because some tree is in the way, well heck dude, cut the tree - you live in a forest, one tree isn't going to make a difference. And if you love the tree too much, then run the wires UP the tree and install the satellite link securely atop a high tree branch near the trunk (yes you may have to cut a few branches)
2. MultiMode or Single Mode Fiber: Find the closest neighbour with broadband, explain your situation, offer a small monthly fee & install a media converter (CAT5 to Multimode or Single Mode fiber), then higher a wiring contractor to lay fiber all the way back to your shack in boonieland, install another media converter & there you be.
3. Setting up your own WiMax tower may be cheaper. You can setup 2 WiMAX towers these days for $10K USD or less, and they can be a few KM apart. Get your work to pay for 1/2 of the cost. Get your other boonieland neighbours to chip in monthly, and it may even get done for free. The second tower obviously need be where broadband is available... again near that first neighbour that has access to broadband. If he doesn't want to share broadband ADSL/Cable with you, then offer to purchase your own, but it gets delivered to your house & then you connect it to the WiMAX.
Ok, every other week now for the past couple of years we read on slashdot "Government XYZ in country ABC is converting to Linux","Country XYZ schools in XYZ country mandate Linux be in classrooms", "Company DFG has migrated to Linux desktops", etc
It'd be interesting to see some world maps showing which countries have massive deployments and when you mouse-over, it shows you the # population that is using Linux.
Whitelist sites will get Blacklisted...... All that needs to happen is for some white listed computer to get taken over and become of a bot-net/spam network. Then valid email will be sent from a white list PC and accepted everywhere.
Considering the recent Storm Worm with an estimated 1 to 50 Million PCs as part of its bot-net, surely a few of those PCs would have been on a white-list somewhere.
1. Step 1: Download free Eudora: http://www.eudora.com/ 2. Step 2: Unrar the.mbox file from your torrent download 3. Step 3: Rename the.mbox to.mbx, this should cause windows to detect it as a Eudora file 4. Step 4: Simply double click on the.mbx file and Eudora will load it with all the juicy emails!:)
You're either an idiot or probably didn't read the whole article, and hopefully not both.
Part of the moral of the story is that the police was also wrong. Letting police over-extend what they perceive to be rights that in reality don't exist only increases the deterioration rate of the rights of law abiding citizens. That means you, me and Mr. Smith. So many people already fear the police when in theory it should not be necessary.
Mod parent down! This is BS propaganda. Parent must be a brain washed Chinese!
Re: DaiLai Lama "he is undeniably hostile to the Chinese government"
WHAT ?! You tell me just 1 single thing that the DaiLai Lama has done that is "hostile". May I remind you that Buddhism is the ONLY religion without a history of violence?
"And while we are talking about the 'horrible repression of the Buddhists' - do you actually know what it was like in Tibet before? It was a feudal society (like Europe in the middle ages). If you were born into a rich family, you could get away with anything; if you were poor, you could get cruel and absurd punishments for small 'crimes' - like having a foot chopped off or your eyes gouged out."
Having a foot chopped off??! They wouldn't even kill little ants and they are going to chop off somebody's foot? Oh Please, this is too much BS. Where's your proof?
Step1. Get out your laptop & your random MAC address generator toolkit Step2. Drive down some random street until you find... Step3. A neighbour with unprotected WIFI (or just crack their non-WPA2 secure connection) Step4. Carry on & upload your Simpson's episodes to Youtube. Step5. Cause profits (loss) for Simpson's authors
"If the heart stops, it means you're dead. In both a medical and scientific sense. I should know. I'm a doctor."
The people that scare me the most are the ones who claim they know something with absolute certainty! What utter foolishness!
If your heart stops it does not mean you're dead... claiming so; however, does indicate that you might be somewhat brain-dead. How many dozens of thousands of cases of people flat-linning & coming back to life have there been? Seriously, you need to step outside your little box Mr. "I'm a doctor and I know!" Bahahaha!
The esoteric traditions of multiple Eastern spiritual paths have known volumes more about death for thousands of years, than what any medical establishment can even dream of. Don't forget that (medical) Scientists *discover*, which directly insinuate that they do NOT in fact know!
How about you watch this? You know... the Internationally broadcast episode where 22 out of 400 Senior Military, Government & NASA officials admit publicly UFO's are real.
This my friend, might have something to do with it: 22 out of 400 senior Government, CIA & Military & NASA officials went public admitting UFO's and aliens are real.
"These fools also believe in a big magic sky man and baby jesus and a lot of people claim to be watched over by angels or talk with god or have had near death experiences or lived past lives or have knowledge of some uber secret government plot to kill JFK."
These aren't fools, these were the same people you and millions of other Americans highly respected. They were & are your government officials, high ranking military personal & even several scientists. They are only fools now because the suggest 'the Earth isn't flat', and you are of the unfounded belief that it is - which is only backed up by the fact that you haven't seen it yet (Earth = aliens in this analogy).
Seriously, watch the movie, nobody there talks about angels & baby jesus or secret gov plots or JFK. BTW, Near Death Experiences are real...but that's a whole other topic.
You are right though, the vast majority of people are either gullible, unintelligent & want to believe... I don't disagree this UFO field is highly tainted with lunatics, but this video is the first one I've ever seen that sounds pretty serious & credible... assuming of course all these people are legit & are who they say they are.
"I have no doubt that there is a great possibility of advanced life outside of our solar system. However, I see no solid reason to believe that they've come across the universe to earth, crashed here, abducted people and that it's all been covered up by international uber global government conspiracies."
Well if such advanced life did exist & they were here, what motives could governments / individuals possibly have for hiding all this from everyone else?
Hmm let's see.... 1. Technological advance over any other (country) enemy 2. Money 3. Power
You know, the usual motives... mostly power & money. Just follow the money! Unfortunately, it's all black budgets to organizations that are undocumented.
Anyway, watch the movie, then come back and comment something related to it, rather than just debunking something you've never even been witness to.
"Large numbers of people believing something is NOT proof that something is true. What is needed is evidence that can be independently checked/tested."
True it isn't final proof, but when those "large numbers" are also large numbers of the elite intellect & previously seriously respected Government officials (as opposed to just your average joe at home claiming abduction)... and considering several of these people are not yet retired from their high paying jobs, why would they risk looking like idiots in front of National & International TV?
I find it funny how when high ranking people are quiet about their alien experiences they are highly respected. As soon as they even suggest such things exist they are no longer credible.
"Why would a government (or more likely - many governments round the world) want to suppress this over many decades and why would this be agreed by many different colours of political opinion."
Not all governments do, France & Mexico are now disclosing their info. It won't be long now. I give it 10 years max before serious evidence presents itself.
"How could many governments manage to stop all of it's personnel involved from smuggling out any piece of hard evidence ? " It's called BILLIONS of dollars in black budgets & highly top secret military basis reverse engineering alien tech so that we can blow up ourselves... or "the enemy" more efficiently.
Just watch the movie, then come back and post something you've actually contemplated for any length of time.
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We will call this VCD 2.0
(VCD 1 = DVD quality in CD-ROM)
I see.
Thanks for taking the time to explain. You make very sound points. If I had mod points, you'd get them.
Adeptus.
Time for somebody in neighbouring India and/or Thailand (I wouldn't risk doing it from China), to setup some WiMax that penetrates a few KM into Burma airpspace, then give out wiMAX broadband cards to a few bloggers, and away we go.
Realistically though, might be easier to blog from Satellite connections, hacked long distance AOL accts or Wi-Fi Ad-hock networks.
I feel sorry for these monks, and I sure hope this will not be another Tibetan like slaughter.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to add that inflation calculations don't take into account the following:
:-/
1) Rising Energy costs (i.e. Oil @ $84 anyone?)
2) Higher Energy costs increase costs of most consumer goods due to higher cost to transport them
3) War in Afghanistan & Iraq costs a few billion per month that you pay through taxes
4) US dollar deflating for the past year against just about every other currency by 20%+
5) Crazy Tuition fees in your Universities
6) Even more insane Health Care costs
Time to buy Gold people, cuz your economy is going down the tube.
I blame it in part on your (USA) housing bubble. Wait 2-3 years for the housing market to drop 50% and you should all be very happy! (Assuming you didn't first go bankrupt on your ARM sub-prime mortgage! heh)
/Yr. Don't worry, our bubble will also be popping soon... then maybe we can all go down to Cuba an cry over our losses with cheap Tequilas & Cubans (cigars) in hand.
Up here in Canada, you're lucky to get 4% raise/Yr in IT. Wages in general have been quite stagnent in the past 3 or 4 years (except Alberta Oil cities), yet our housing prices are climbing in mutliple urban cities at double digit percentage rates
Adeptus
You just need to google for :WiMAX unlicensed spectrum
These guys back in late 2005 were quoting me a fixed Wireless solution that goes up to 40+ KM for T1+ performance, and it was based on fixed WiMAX technology operating in public spectrum. Price was aprox $5K per side. In retrospect, this may have been some propriatary Pre-WiMAX falvor of the technology, but still, for just point to point, who cares.
http://www.rad-direct.com/ProdFam-Fixed-Wireless.htm
These guys in Oct 2006 announced WiMAX products that work in both 2.4Ghz & 5.8Ghz public Spectrum, the cost I do not know.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200610/ai_n16767942
+
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=EC58D998-F4FD-40D6-840F-BB89D102A59E
In short, WiMAX comes in various flavours. Fixed & Mobile, which we can already see operating in private spectrum. Rogers (large CLEC) in Canada has just completed a 1 year beta testing of these products and is ready to roll out; and the other flavour will be public spectrum versions of the same Fixed and possibly Mobile, though I would venture to say that Fixed will be more popular.
Cheers,
Adeptus
Options:
1. DirectPC: There's no excuse to not get satellite Internet Access. Yes latency sucks, but surfing and many aspects of Interneting will be much faster. If you're telling me you can't get it because some tree is in the way, well heck dude, cut the tree - you live in a forest, one tree isn't going to make a difference. And if you love the tree too much, then run the wires UP the tree and install the satellite link securely atop a high tree branch near the trunk (yes you may have to cut a few branches)
2. MultiMode or Single Mode Fiber: Find the closest neighbour with broadband, explain your situation, offer a small monthly fee & install a media converter (CAT5 to Multimode or Single Mode fiber), then higher a wiring contractor to lay fiber all the way back to your shack in boonieland, install another media converter & there you be.
3. Setting up your own WiMax tower may be cheaper. You can setup 2 WiMAX towers these days for $10K USD or less, and they can be a few KM apart. Get your work to pay for 1/2 of the cost. Get your other boonieland neighbours to chip in monthly, and it may even get done for free. The second tower obviously need be where broadband is available... again near that first neighbour that has access to broadband. If he doesn't want to share broadband ADSL/Cable with you, then offer to purchase your own, but it gets delivered to your house & then you connect it to the WiMAX.
Adeptus
Ok, every other week now for the past couple of years we read on slashdot "Government XYZ in country ABC is converting to Linux","Country XYZ schools in XYZ country mandate Linux be in classrooms", "Company DFG has migrated to Linux desktops", etc
It'd be interesting to see some world maps showing which countries have massive deployments and when you mouse-over, it shows you the # population that is using Linux.
Then we can turn to our bosses and say... "See!"
Anybody up for the challenge?
Adeptus
Whitelist sites will get Blacklisted... ... All that needs to happen is for some white listed computer to get taken over and become of a bot-net/spam network. Then valid email will be sent from a white list PC and accepted everywhere.
Considering the recent Storm Worm with an estimated 1 to 50 Million PCs as part of its bot-net, surely a few of those PCs would have been on a white-list somewhere.
Adeptus
1. Step 1: Download free Eudora: http://www.eudora.com/ .mbox file from your torrent download .mbox to .mbx, this should cause windows to detect it as a Eudora file .mbx file and Eudora will load it with all the juicy emails! :)
2. Step 2: Unrar the
3. Step 3: Rename the
4. Step 4: Simply double click on the
Adeptus
Step by Step with screenshots
http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=6436#500
Adeptus
You're either an idiot or probably didn't read the whole article, and hopefully not both.
Part of the moral of the story is that the police was also wrong. Letting police over-extend what they perceive to be rights that in reality don't exist only increases the deterioration rate of the rights of law abiding citizens. That means you, me and Mr. Smith. So many people already fear the police when in theory it should not be necessary.
Am I the only one who interpreted the title as an announcement that the second .COM era was upon us?
Mod parent down! This is BS propaganda. Parent must be a brain washed Chinese!
Re: DaiLai Lama "he is undeniably hostile to the Chinese government"
WHAT ?! You tell me just 1 single thing that the DaiLai Lama has done that is "hostile".
May I remind you that Buddhism is the ONLY religion without a history of violence?
"And while we are talking about the 'horrible repression of the Buddhists' - do you actually know what it was like in Tibet before? It was a feudal society (like Europe in the middle ages). If you were born into a rich family, you could get away with anything; if you were poor, you could get cruel and absurd punishments for small 'crimes' - like having a foot chopped off or your eyes gouged out."
Having a foot chopped off??! They wouldn't even kill little ants and they are going to chop off somebody's foot? Oh Please, this is too much BS. Where's your proof?
Nuff Said.
-Adeptus
Alright kiddies,
Step1. Get out your laptop & your random MAC address generator toolkit
Step2. Drive down some random street until you find...
Step3. A neighbour with unprotected WIFI (or just crack their non-WPA2 secure connection)
Step4. Carry on & upload your Simpson's episodes to Youtube.
Step5. Cause profits (loss) for Simpson's authors
NEXT!
If I'm going to have to pay a levy, it better hold water against MAFIAA trying to sue me for copyright infringement.
Mod Parent up!
It's because of a small blank CD/DVD tax that we Canadians pay, that we can pretty much download/upload anything we want & not get prosecuted.
Gotta love it when the music MAFIAA screws itself.
Ipod tax? Bring it on!
How many gazillion positions are there for chess?
"If the heart stops, it means you're dead. In both a medical and scientific sense. I should know. I'm a doctor."
The people that scare me the most are the ones who claim they know something with absolute certainty! What utter foolishness!
If your heart stops it does not mean you're dead... claiming so; however, does indicate that you might be somewhat brain-dead. How many dozens of thousands of cases of people flat-linning & coming back to life have there been? Seriously, you need to step outside your little box Mr. "I'm a doctor and I know!" Bahahaha!
The esoteric traditions of multiple Eastern spiritual paths have known volumes more about death for thousands of years, than what any medical establishment can even dream of. Don't forget that (medical) Scientists *discover*, which directly insinuate that they do NOT in fact know!
Adeptus
... if you can't get in on the IPOs for this new multi-touch tech, don't worry, you can still make a killing by buying WINDEX stock now!! ;-)
Adeptus
How about you watch this? You know... the Internationally broadcast episode where 22 out of 400 Senior Military, Government & NASA officials admit publicly UFO's are real.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyVe-6YdUk [youtube.com]
Adeptus
This my friend, might have something to do with it: 22 out of 400 senior Government, CIA & Military & NASA officials went public admitting UFO's and aliens are real.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyVe-6YdUk
Also, France & Mexico governments are supposed to be releasing all the info they have on the subject soon, if they haven't already done so.
Adeptus
"These fools also believe in a big magic sky man and baby jesus and a lot of people claim to be watched over by angels or talk with god or have had near death experiences or lived past lives or have knowledge of some uber secret government plot to kill JFK."
These aren't fools, these were the same people you and millions of other Americans highly respected. They were & are your government officials, high ranking military personal & even several scientists. They are only fools now because the suggest 'the Earth isn't flat', and you are of the unfounded belief that it is - which is only backed up by the fact that you haven't seen it yet (Earth = aliens in this analogy).
Seriously, watch the movie, nobody there talks about angels & baby jesus or secret gov plots or JFK. BTW, Near Death Experiences are real...but that's a whole other topic.
You are right though, the vast majority of people are either gullible, unintelligent & want to believe... I don't disagree this UFO field is highly tainted with lunatics, but this video is the first one I've ever seen that sounds pretty serious & credible... assuming of course all these people are legit & are who they say they are.
"I have no doubt that there is a great possibility of advanced life outside of our solar system. However, I see no solid reason to believe that they've come across the universe to earth, crashed here, abducted people and that it's all been covered up by international uber global government conspiracies."
Well if such advanced life did exist & they were here, what motives could governments / individuals possibly have for hiding all this from everyone else?
Hmm let's see....
1. Technological advance over any other (country) enemy
2. Money
3. Power
You know, the usual motives... mostly power & money. Just follow the money! Unfortunately, it's all black budgets to organizations that are undocumented.
Anyway, watch the movie, then come back and comment something related to it, rather than just debunking something you've never even been witness to.
Adeptus
"Large numbers of people believing something is NOT proof that something is true. What is needed is evidence that can be independently checked/tested."
... or "the enemy" more efficiently.
True it isn't final proof, but when those "large numbers" are also large numbers of the elite intellect & previously seriously respected Government officials (as opposed to just your average joe at home claiming abduction)... and considering several of these people are not yet retired from their high paying jobs, why would they risk looking like idiots in front of National & International TV?
I find it funny how when high ranking people are quiet about their alien experiences they are highly respected. As soon as they even suggest such things exist they are no longer credible.
"Why would a government (or more likely - many governments round the world) want to suppress this over many decades and why would this be agreed by many different colours of political opinion."
Not all governments do, France & Mexico are now disclosing their info. It won't be long now. I give it 10 years max before serious evidence presents itself.
"How could many governments manage to stop all of it's personnel involved from smuggling out any piece of hard evidence ? "
It's called BILLIONS of dollars in black budgets & highly top secret military basis reverse engineering alien tech so that we can blow up ourselves
Just watch the movie, then come back and post something you've actually contemplated for any length of time.
Adeptus.