Given that these people spend upwards of 30 to 40k on "college education" and that I have to pay taxes so that kids can be warehoused in "public schools" so they can come out without even basic writing skills, yeah, I take offense to it. That's wasted money. They could do an equally good job as autodidacts. In fact, some of history's greatest minds were largely self taught on their subjects of fame. Some very famous ones failed their schooling on those subjects. They even had very strong words about schooling. A famous bushy haired Jew even had some words about "schooling being what stood in the way of his actual education"... I think quite a few geeks worship him pretty highly, Slashdot associates his picture with "science"... Oh yeah. Albert Einstein, the patent clerk and physics "genius".
That being said, if you say "I'm a college graduate" but don't even have a basic grasp of the English language, and it is the ONLY language you can barely read and write adequately (and yes, it is a VERY easy language compared to many out there, its a cut and dry contracting language with VERY little nuance compared to some) you had better have some brilliant ideas to show for your lack of ability to express it, or meet with me in person to explain them. I speak (fluently) at least two languages, and several others on and off as need applies. English is my second. If I can do it, and I'm not some great genius (I'm not under that impression anyways) then what's anyone else's excuse?
I've met foreign kids with better command and grasp over the English / American English language and dialect and even SLANG than locals here. That's pretty damn sad. They learn more and better by watching American movies, than kids here paying 50k for a "college education". And you say the language is tough?? Perhaps the education is worthless. The question is, people here watch those same stupid movies, yet learn nothing except the pretty explosions and random fucking scenes. How is this possible that members of one culture could get so much, and locals get nothing?
The beauty of language is something most people don't get. When you strip meaning, you get "newspeak." Look it up. Removing nuance from language has one beautiful benefit for those who rule. Depending on how they shape language depends on how the unquestioning cattle below are able to think. Most of them do not think in images but in words. Forcing them to only have the words you want available, creates exactly the society that is shaping up today.
Removing the meaning and word for theft does not remove theft, it merely makes those who cannot fathom it, remain unaware of its existence.
Plus, with 20 different meanings to each word, you can find out what kind of mind you are conversing with. You are either dealing with an unimaginative serf... or you are dealing with something more. You can't find this out if the mind isn't allowed to play with words. Oh wait... comrade Lenin, is that you?!
I never said government conspiracy, someone else corrected me, yes it was SSH, not GPG... pardon me for that. Yes it was implementation. We're talking about "brilliant people" making utterly reliable software. obviously even a perfect algorithm can be FUBAR'ed by someone commenting out a line in the encrypting program that uses the algorithm. Obviously brilliant people (since IMHO the CVS maintainers are quite brilliant people) do fuck up, and their fuckups, can REALLY cost you, just like Microsoft fuckups really cost lots of paying customers each time. Difference is the mistakes in the OSS side are to be found. Easier... before the victims line up. For that and for accepting that they make mistakes and fixing them, I commend them. I recall the fixed code/executable were available less than a week later.
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Bingo. So long as you make sure never to invent something the NSA might have interest in, like you know, solving the world hunger or fuel problems. Should you be unfortunate to do so, you will be silenced... otherwise you would shift the paradigm and it would cause a lot of thugs and intelligence people to go unemployed, without purpose in life. Professional voyeurs and killers don't like that, you know.
So if you come up with nothing inventive, you don't have to worry. If you do, tough shit for you. The scarcity paradigm is wonderful, so I personally hope that nobody stumbles onto a new idea in my lifetime. The stupid don't deserve free goodies.
People deserve the government they vote for, and they deserve to get it good and hard. (Ye gods I love that quote.) I seem to recall that international espionage was used mostly to acquire business secrets, and steal pending patent work... it was done by Americans, Brits, Russians and Chinese. From Echelon to whatever the hell they're using now. The excuse is "terrorism" the truth is theft... pure outright idea theft. The only reason Piracy concerns them is because some clever geek might steal from them what they've already stolen from others.
Why am I not worried? Because I gave up on any dreams of changing the world. See once you get out of school, you can go directly into the workforce, or go into a family business or start your own... That gives you some time to observe people, and society, and learn what you don't learn in the 9 to 5 life. I've no reason to risk my ass even if I COULD change the world... the people of the world don't deserve the sacrifice of even a single sane man.
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Brilliant minds hear so much praise that they forget they fuck up just like anyone else.
Unless its a "right to work" state, you can't fire people for poor spelling or poor grammar, unless they're language teachers. (Or is that "grammer" I can't tell anymore.) Seriously though, if you fire someone for "can't spell" or "stupid enough to have overpaid for their low grade education," you're bound to get dragged through lawsuits about "well how does that affect his or her duties?" "Did it affect their (there? lol) performance on the job?" Etc etc etc. And while it turns out to be a frivolous lawsuit, its like the hot coffee at Mac Donald's thing. You end up settling or losing so much productive time, that you might as well close the company. Even if you win, you lose if you engage them. You either settle, or lose more money proving you're in the right. Period.
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And what does a total weakling prove? That even those who aren't hardasses can walk all over him? I've known a few when I was in high school. Their girlfriends slept with everyone but them. They were the "nice guys". I even tried being one for awhile. Very depressing existence. I think those who enjoy it, deserve it... and all that comes with it.
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Rules for dealing with government are simple. Do not get involved in their business, do not play their games, do not volunteer anything, do not agree to anything, do not play with them, or for them. Once you do, your ass is theirs. They own you, with your consent at that.
By the same principle, don't fuck around, don't trespass, don't steal, and don't be a crook. Learn the law VERY carefully, keep a copy of Black's Law Dictionary (I think 6th edition is out now) in several different versions. Look up innocent looking terms and verbs in forms. DO NOT consent to anything period. Sign nothing. Be sure you know what is "your name" and what is what someone may call you. Practice your rights. Yes... all of them. A right practiced doesn't need to be infringed, because you already don't have it.
Be very suspicious not of your neighbors but of men in "special" uniforms or funny hats that supposedly give them power over you. Don't let strangers into the house. Homeschool your kids and do a god job, history, law and the local mythology are especially important subjects. Several languages and a good grasp of self defense, tactics and strategy are also quite important. Those with kids who choose to be politically active are extra vulnerable, since kids are the ultimate Achilles Heel.
Never ever trust strangers. Trust people in uniforms even less. Never ever get into a stranger's car, despite what you see in the movies. If they want to talk to you, they can get into yours. If you are confronted by a "friend from high school" and like most average people you can't remember who you met yesterday, nevermind back then, look behind you, you're probably about to get cattle prodded in the back and shoved into a van.
These were simple coping strategies for those who were not average plebeians and who survived the cullings of communism. I lost relatives who were educated, men I could've learned much from. I never met them because they were taught that self defense was for cops and soldiers. And when the king's men were gone, and the cops were coopted to communism... there was nobody to protect the smart, educated, "civilized" (i.e. willingly helpless) men from the cleansings. The ones who weren't "lifted" and sent off to Siberia, were enrolled into a front line regiment and given crap gear and no real training. Very few returned, most scarred for life. All I saw of them while growing up were pictures over mantelpieces. Grandmothers mourning long lost brothers or maimed cousins. That is the fate of the helpless of those who depend on others for their protection...
And what governments are preparing today, the police states being built now, they are so much more insidious, in that they're so much better concealed behind "feel good" intentions and bullshit propaganda about "the good of man". Oh well, fools get what they deserve. There's no stopping it at this point, fools gave up that chance a long time ago. All one can do now is get out of the way and let the Leviathan leap off the cliff with all the fools aboard. Watch the splatter and feel not sorry... they laid their own beds. Trying to save the stupid from their stupidity is what got the world into its sorry state in the first place. The stupid should have been permitted to perish, and Darwin should've been allowed to have his laugh. Instead the stupid were forced to live against their best attempts, so they outbred those who merited survival and to thrive.
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You mean like that incident with Debian recently where some genius commented some lines that were spouting a warning in GnuPG, and it turns out that the keys generated for SSH were MUCH weaker to brute force crack than the usual ones? Yeah, most brilliant minds tend to miss things. Expert worship is a way to get one's self killed or maimed while waiting for the experts to verify that said incident actually COULD cause the maiming or killing to occur.
Be real... nothing is 100% safe. Your only real safety is to be A) a hardass who takes no shit from anyone.. and B) not play the government's game. Don't ask anything of them, do not answer their questions. Play your game... let the serfs get what they got coming. Not your problem. Not mine either. Fuck'em, they wanted nanny state to exist, now let them live with their beloved papa guv'.
I've had to correct memos written by people with "degrees", not just that mythical 8th grade education. Know what? I've met 8th graders from that evil third world where they supposedly can't get by on a dollar a day. Strangely, they also can write coherent sentences... they even know the difference between "they're" and "their". Something most college grads seem to not know. Too bad you can't fire people (lovely government interventions) for having been too stupid to get value for their money when they shopped for "education".
The "shack" I was considering building was not exactly what you probably consider a "shack". But frankly, I've learned to go against the flow... and it has paid massive dividends... as has banking on the stupidity of man. Things haven't gotten better... for the vast majority they just seem to.
Show me "mutual consent" in any building code? Some idiots let others build their homes without supervision, and they built homes that burned easily. Laws were enacted to protect the stupid from their stupidity. (Willful ignorance is called "what" again? Exactly my point.)
I've had the pleasure of realizing that there is a law in Mexico, its just further along the path than ours are. Their cops can drag you out and beat you up and steal what you own and don't have to worry about rote memorization of laws citing WHY they can do it. Give it 12 or 13 more years in the USA, we'll get there... have no fear.
Amazing thing is, people don't CHECK for that kind of crap before moving into an area. Talking about uranium levels "being at a minimum". I moved from a place when they fluoridated the water, and didn't reach "my consent" as you call it. Mutual consent would've involved my agreeing to have my tap water poisoned, right? No code is reached by mutual consent, it is usually imposed upon the unwilling for the benefit of those passing the code, not those voting for it. I would be ALL for mutual consent.
In a barely middle class neighborhood I lived in, several of the locals wanted underground power lines. We got together with our other neighbors and negotiated an agreement amongst each other. It governed ONLY those of us that wanted underground lines. We paid for it, and the others neither got such power lines, nor wanted them. We had to run around two properties who didn't want them, but in the end we got what we wanted, and their power still went out the next time a heavy branch nailed a few of their lines.
And until I left, for the water fluoridation issue, years later, we still didn't have underground "melting" or "fires" as so many claim is common. We did however, pay top dollar for top quality work. Most people abiding by mere regulations do the minimum. The crowd I lived around back then were people who respected themselves, despite nobody making more than 50k a year at the time.
Our neighborhood contract, much like our patrolling during a hurricane while some were out, was a clear and clean issue of "this is OUR ground", we don't need cops to shoot at the ones who live here or arrest innocents we allow to stay here... end state maintenance here means "here" and not "anywhere beyond here". You should put up those placards and gate your community, if you want privacy. Cops have to ask for permission to enter, and bad guys have to remember that robbers can and do get shot...
Of course it also involves "getting to know your neighbors"... it took some effort, since most people prefer to vege out in front of the Tee Vee rather than get outside the house... but there is a fat chance we'll get a drug dealer, gang banger or terrorist buying or renting a house in this area without noticing him, and rightfully either turning him in, or "persuading" him or her to relocate, because we tend to know each other out here. I know Bob, and Rodney and Joe down the road, and they sure as hell know me. We've barbecued and fished together, and at least two of them hunt together when the season opens (and I've fixed their computers before, as a favor exchange of course:). And my neighbors were cool with me building my "shack" in the last place I was at, it was the "county/city" governments that didn't agree with it back there, but down here I don't have that issue... zoning laws seem to not exist at this point, and most people can't stand new comers who try to come and vote for new laws... so this is a good place to live for the time being, without having to pay some bureaucratic scumbag to build a home... how long it stays like this, the gods of hell only know. But
I usually tend to use this angle when it actually applies. If he had already paid for service, they were being scum by denying him a legitimate email and violating THEIR contract. I have a feeling that being Jewish, this fellow would have been educated on the issues of contracts (the Torah seems to be quite specific that contracts are the way things are done, between humans and between them and their god(s), devils, etc). I'm fairly sure it wasn't just dragging them through the mud that did the trick. However, the Constitution has no provisions for "large corporations violating contracts into which they entered voluntarily wanting someone's money but failing in the providing of full service as paid for"... stuff like that. Laws and rules about that precede most national governments, and tend to be grandfathered in, since they work.
This is just your typical bureaucratic monkeys being bureaucratic monkeys, that usually get attracted to bureaucratic jobs (management, government, etc...) and doing exactly what and WHY they are hired. Being bureaucratic monkeys, with just enough firing neurons to be annoying bureaucratic monkeys, but not enough to actually be reasonable men... this is usually why you hear of bureaucratic monkeys, or monkeys obedient to bureaucrats tazering paralized kids 19 times or shooting old ladies full of juice even though they're wheelchair bound. Bureaucratic monkeys are examples of scumbags that would've been aborted (post natal if need be) by any self respecting parent, long before they got to breed more bureaucratic monkeys... until they bred and over bred to the situation we have today.
Again, the Constitution of the USA or for the USA (depending on which one you take an oath to when you get sworn in to your bureaucratic job) has nothing on this issue... this is purely a contract law issue, and that precedes the Constitution by several centuries at the least.
Also, his name containing an expletive can easily be explained as NON expletive, and can be interpreted as such by any lawyer or judge with enough functional brain matter. Why, you ask? Simple. Cultural difference. If a man who is a DOCTOR can carry that name and not change it, you can be fairly sure he has traded on it.
That being said i've seen some screwy names in the past, so while I want to believe this article is bogus, I am unsurprised if it is true. Bureaucratic monkeys make every part of the world miserable, where the locals allow them to infest. Voting has never been a cure. It wasn't when they did it in the name of the king, or the oligarch, or the tyrant (in the greek meaning of word) or the dictator or "the people's party" or any other reason for which bureaucratic monkeys perform their unquestioning duties. People to whom "duty" is a primary prerogative, should concern you, worry you, and scare you. These are the monkeys who shot kids in the back of the head for merely not complying with the new "party" or for their parents being rich (see Che and Cuba literature on this issue). Sure, here they're obeying a different "letter of the law", but its all the same. Monkey see, monkey do. We don't need "less abortions", we need a lot more. They should be looking for bureaucratic monkey genes, but who would be doing the legislating but other bureaucratic monkeys... the sense of survival is strong in the bureaucratic monkeys.
MUD: Thou canst not put this genie back into the bottle. The genie reads a scroll of rules and regulations. Thou art Screwed... royally, and without vaseline.
You're just now starting to look? Sorry bud, the good real estate is already sold. You'll be renting from those who had the sense to look before. Most places royally suck. It makes just as little sense elsewhere. You'll be paying lots and lots of "imposits" they don't call'em taxes, but they have far more of them, and you'll be submitting paperwork far more often for having the right to take a shit or to walk somewhere... or *gasp* try taking the bus while being foreign. The upside is being an English speaker, for the time being, incurs you their mercy. They realize how fucked up the English speaking side of the world really is... the problem, of course, is that they don't notice that shit having been imported into their part of the world also.
Life is good, its fucked up bureaucratic mindsets like these idiots at Verizon that is prevalent through out governing structures. These inflexible "beg me to get your rights abided by, or your service that you pay for fulfilled" type assholes seem attracted to these jobs, while no sane individuals are. Therein lies the issue, schools are such structures, so in time they attract the same type of assholes as the other bureaucracies, ensuring that they raise mostly the same type of assholes. Sure, they turn out sane individuals too, because some of us just don't take well to the programming, but the vast majorities do, so when you see the quietly obedient student in school, who never challenges a rule or bends or breaks one, remember, that will be the mindless aparatchik that will tell you what they CAN'T do for you as A, a paying customer, and B, an honest man or woman who has done nothing wrong and trades on your own name.
That being said, I'm fairly sure this doctor fellow is also doing business on that email address, and people know him because of his unusual name. Put two and two together, this fellow probably gets quite a bit of business because of his rep. That rep is partly based on his name by which people come to know him. To change it now would make him seem like every other mentally emasculated individual that lays claim to the role "man" or "male" but doesn't quite live up to any standard of integrity. Personally I'm glad he, or the enquirer dragged Verizon through the mud. By the same token, I'm not sure why he patronized their service. Speakeasy.net is a MUCH better provider and they reach out and touch his area, and have MUCH better service. Having been a customer while up north, I'd recommend them any day of the week.
I've actually got a better life than most. There is a reason that I'm unwilling to fight over this issue IRL. I didn't say they're related by blood, merely that the same style of scam is being run.
You must mistake the idea of "freedom in words" for actual freedom. Try driving without license plates in a car you've purchased rather than stolen. See if you are treated as a free man or as a bandit. It won't matter if you got papers to prove the sale and the seller is known and can be reached to verify your purchase. It won't matter if you know more about maintaining vehicles than the cop in question. You will be treated as a bandit for breaking "regulations".
I can cite quite a few other examples, but I'm sure none will be enough to sway you. And you're in the majority. Then again, the word "democracy" is nowhere in the Constitution. It wasn't founded as such. It wasn't in the Articles of Confederation that preceded the Constitution of the USA either. Those people really really hated the idea of "democracy". They had their reasons, and the more of the average voters I meet, the more I realize why.
I'm not worried about going poor or being in trouble, I'm just sick of complying with "yet another regulation for my own good"... if it was for my own good, they wouldn't have to threaten me or you with armed thugs and property theft ("democracy" calls it confiscation, just like the communists, nazis and royalists often do) to get me to comply, would they? Tried building a home on a piece of property YOU own? Enjoy the paperwork and nosy inspectors trying to make sure you're "up to code". And I live in one of the more "free" parts of the country with less regulations and less scumbag enforcers. Those of you who live in big cities with TRULY nosy governing forces probably have to "spread'em and take it"... with no other choice in sight.
There is. But neither you, nor I, are willing to shed that much blood or die in the process of regaining that lost ground. Therefore it will likely not happen unless others, aside from the unwilling you and unwilling I, will have to dirty their hands.
I am willing to bet HUGE bucks nobody is willing to fight the level of ground war, globe wide, that would be required to put the insane super governments of today back in their place... "a bunch of bandits enter a village... they kill the elders, kill the hunters and rape the women. To their children later, they pass the power to kill anyone except each other, and tell everyone what to do. They become 'the kings of old' and their children become their heirs. Centuries later they are worshipped as those who 'gave us society and laws'... yep... the codified law... several hundred reasons why they can kill you, and why you're not allowed to kill them when they show up to do it. Fun huh?" Sure, the technologies and the groups of bandits have changed... over time, but its the same groups of bandits or their descendants being "elected" today. Violent bandits were replaced by con artists who employ violent bandits, called cops, but one way or another, its the same ancient scam being perpetuated. Ah well, another drink to their names! They "protect" us... probably only from freedom and true prosperity.
Of course stopping voting en masse, would've been the miracle cure, but that is even less likely than a vast majority of honest citizens getting up in arms and teaching their overreaching governments to keep their hands off and not falling for the same trick the way they always do when they actually rebel... yeah... as if. I gave up hope for my fellow man a year or two ago. I feel better since I stopped caring... or it could just be the numb hopelessness kicking in. On the other hand since I've heavily invested in police state technologies some years ago when I was still stupid enough to employ Americans and bid for jobs and do all kinds of hard work that got taxed heavily, (no joke) and I'm at least making enough to have completely closed my business, quit working and stay at home. Now I'm bored, maybe I'll write a book about the wisdom of investing in the stupidity of mankind. Actually I think Warren Buffett already did. Or maybe I'll go fishing. Reading all this shit keeps confirming just how stupid humanity is. Almost as stupid as fish. "Hey look... worm swimming in the middle of a lake... on a shiny metal thing... quick, lets eat it before someone else does." Wow, that line sounds just like voting campaigns.
Cue in the fucking aliens already, I'm sick of this show.
No, they were whining, IN TFA and small intro that "law enforcement officers security can be undermined if they can be identified".
Question: Are the laws SO EVIL and HATED that officers risk their lives enforcing them? Perhaps it isn't the criminals to blame but those making and enforcing laws that make so many people hate law enforcers? Just because the USA is not 1936 Germany and some Americans won't lie down and get screwed completely without fighting back, doesn't make them evil, or the laws good. I think its time people woke up and started evaluating the world they live in, and whether those they pay with their taxes have the right to tell them what to do at every step, every point, and further fine and rob them of their property for "infractions".
As far as I care, all law enforcers should be on a public list. if they are afraid for their lives, then they are doing soemthing wrong. Isn't their logic, "if you have nothing to hide, why are you afraid?"
perhaps its time their rules applied to them as well.
Using the same idiot logic to justify surveillance of innocent or otherwise "non guilty" private individuals by governing forces.
"If they have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, why are they so eager to hide their faces behind false images and balaclavas/ninja masks? Why is law enforcement so eager to hide from the people whom they supposedly serve... namely the public?"
Could it be that they are doing more harm than good and a LOT of people are sick of them and their abuses? Time will tell, but I for one would not choose such a "dangerous" occupation. After all, when one's "occupation" involves paramilitary "occupation" of the streets of a country, then one can expect to occasionally see one's buddies or ones own self take a bullet or two for its masters. Dangerous "occupation" indeed. And likely to get MORE dangerous as the economy winds down and people stop playing as nice as they do when prosperity abounds.
Like I said, I wouldn't be caught dead IN law enforcement or with friends still in that field. Most of mine have quit to seek actual productive employment. Good for them.
Hey, the "research groups" were among those who bought and sold the idea, but I'm hearing it from all the "green" and "conscientious" people out here. Its like they didn't even bother to see who was influencing their thoughts and getting them to play along. Of course jacking up the price of oil is not quite their fault (they're still losing, per gallon, compared to 80 years ago, if you actually bother to look at inflation, something most "liberals" never notice... and most "conservatives" don't care to see.)
What is ironic is that ALL of the authors you mentioned got RICH off of their writing. They got tenure (Chomsky) and fame, and MONEY... they didn't write anything out of the goodness of their hearts or wanting to better mankind. (Last Chomsky book i've seen was "feel good" material for socialists/communists, and yet it retailed for 39.99 plus tax.) Now if Chomsky was so happy to promote socialism and a truly egalitarian society (where, of course, we're all taxed to provide for the weak or worthless...) then Chomsky would be giving away his books for 100% free... and would be living in a shack, experiencing the "glory" of socialism. Instead, I don't seem to recall him living in poverty, so as to share in "the human condition".
The fact that he was a Klintonite, should tell you a lot about his motivations. Both he and Bill Clinton were (and to my knowledge I haven't heard them denounce) members of the Fabian Socialist club (or the dozen other names its membership has gathered under). You might recall these guys, since their one unifying factor was that they were ALL elite rich, usually of England or America, but with more recent members being drawn from a myriad other kleptocracies.
Sorry man, I don't hold with this Chomsky is a socialist benefactor any more than I see George Bushes or Bill Clinton as the bringers of freedom to the oppressed masses.
What is stopping YOU or a million other environmentalists from buying forested land, throwing your home on it, and declaring it OFF limits to anyone you don't permit to be there... then maintaining it as you see fit, selling lumber, firewood, etc, while tailoring that to be your environmentally "perfect" forest.
Try it... then whine or scream. My lands are setup the way I want them, and short of invasion by federales with guns, nobody else has permission to tresspass. Thinking about it, neither do federales, WITH or WITHOUT guns, but they won't listen to those no tresspassing sings. Laws are for other people. Other than that... however, I don't seem to have issues with anything on my land. Nice trees and deer grow on one lot... only problem is my dog picks up ticks every time I take him out, and they drop off him and wander about the house / yard afterwards since he's on meds and it seems the ticks aren't stupid enough to bite him.
Otherwise, I quite enjoy my old and new growth mixed... and I'm scheduled to build a very NICE log home out of some of those "old growth" on there. I use a lot of the underbrush for kindling when I enjoy my nice fireplace. I use all the fallen limbs after storms for firewood too. I haven't had to cut a tree for firewood since I've had those lots. Amazing? You betcha. Did the government tell me how to do it? Nope, not that I can recall. A few hundred years experience by my farmer/landowner ancestors did. See, the commies back home killed them off to steal their lands, but they passed their knowledge onto their kids before that... and their kids passed it onto me through their various descendants up to my parents. Beauty of "ancient" knowledge. You don't need million dollar studies by government tax fed parasites, or billion dollar 3 letter agencies to figure out how to get optimal use from your land. You just need to HAVE your land, and then to declare it yours and off limits to parasites of all colors, civil or uniformed. After that, take care of that land as no public agency could.
First things first, of course, you have to actually go out and BUY land... you know... forested land, and then live on it.
What I find strange is that the same tree hugging geniuses who come up with "carbon is to blame for global warming" are the idiots who treat symptoms by causing worse symptoms, yet never looking at the cause. For example, they're screaming bloody murder that "trees no longer absorb and store CO2" and blame the heat.
What they fail to note is that the idiot tree huggers came up with this idea that they should replant and cut only new trees... old trees are "majestic". Everywhere else, nature kills the OLD... only in "land management" do the idiots kill the young. Old trees have developed root systems. They don't develop at the same speed as young trees. Carbon is stores in the root system. If no new carbon is needed for young roots to grow, why are the tree huggers noticing? Probably because old trees are "majestic" and its all the SUV's fault. Perhaps instead of loving government intervention, they ought to BUY a wooded lot, cut ALL the old dry trees, sell them off or build a nice home on it, and then replant all the trees they cut and CARE for that lot.
It would be FAR more effective than government intervention, and that's why neither government, nor government worshipping tree huggers will go for it. Why not simply intrude upon the lives of others with regulations and majority knee jerk votes instead?
Marx, Engels, etc... those are your true socialists... you may also look up the Fabians if you wish, a delightful bunch of Machiavellian thinkers if there ever were any.
I've had the dubious pleasure of torturing myself through the two installments of Das Kapital written by Marx. I've read the Communist Manifesto.
From my reading, communism and socialism as you pretend it was "failed" or "poorly implemented" was implemented EXACTLY as designed. Their only failure was to notice that human beings have some value, and therefore some of them may, at some point, resist what you do to them "for their own good". See the whole point is that central control and "people are only of value so long as their services are needed by the state" is exactly the kind of crap that takes into NO account human nature itself.
Marx presumed that people were machines, eager and willing only to die for their masters. He never truly broached the "who gets to run the show" issue.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" sounds joyfully juicy, but in typical socialist manner, fails to mention "who decides what they need, and who decides how much one is able to give? Who decides if the deciders are right?"
People always expect others to think for them. And they get their just rewards for such utter stupidity. Personally I've seen socialism in practice, and it is EXACTLY what the early founding books promoted. Total ownership by the state, over the individual. No thanks. Keep that kind of shit in YOUR back yard, not mine.
Anyone with skill and with a true criminal mindset (as in, REAL criminals with an axe to grind) will be able to fool the feds. As far as I understand, they're no different than the KGB... they have to present a list of victims... AHEM... "apprehended criminals" in order to justify their existence.
Nothing new. They'll keep criminalizing innocent, harmless things and letting real criminals go. The prison industry is bigger than Chinese outsourcing, but you won't hear about it on CNN or even on the alternative news sites. Nobody wants to mention that outsourcing to China is no different in any aspect than outsourcing government furniture (just an example) to prison labor, which undercuts even the Chinese commies on price. Why do you think they are letting out violent felons while taking in white collar boys for shit crimes nobody cares about? Exactly... a violent felon is a liability to a budding industrial power (aka... the new forced labor camps called "corrections facilities"). A meek and easily subdued white collar boy, well he's easy to walk all over and he's afraid of his fellow inmates AND the guards. He'll do as he's told. Why risk angry violent felons incarcerated with the very profitable and nonviolent white collar "criminals" ?
Bingo. You've said it well chief, but missed the "profit" motive, which is what existed under communism, it existed under socialism, under fascism and in this fascist/socialist hybrid system that we have here in America. Nothing new... just different masks on the same old faces.
You would think on a NIC or some form of transmission interface, the status could be checked by simply pinging a known good host/point on the route the service normally takes... yep, and as soon as interface A doesn't provide adequate bandwidth, it is rerouted to B, or a better approach is to evenly share the load and to reroute failed/unconfirmed transmissions via a different interface than the last one used to try. After a certain amount of FAILED transmissions, a simple algorithm to compare how many fail on each NIC could simply update a VISIBLE reliability counter ina control panel available to any operator of the machine who could then say... HMMMM... packet A was resent 200 times through interface A and failed 70 times. Packet A was sent successfully each time through interface B. Packet B failed once or twice on interface B, failed over to interface A, failed once or twice, then went back to interface C and successfully sent through and confirmed.
There's a million samples of verbal flowcharting/pseudocode type stuff we did when I was in comp sci 101 and 102 back in college. Hell we sat around brainstorming server queue ideas for miniature servers to perform stupid little operations with no purpose. Call it "practice" since it was nothing but.
Anyways... it isn't that hard to handle in software as a means to combat subtle hardware failure, especially in a system that SHOULD be redundant and unbreakable. After all, they spent how many trillions on "anti terrorism" ?? And we had ONE plausible airborne terrorist attack in how many decades? Meanwhile we have HOW many fatal airliner wrecks in same decades? Perhaps the money is ill spent by self serving bureaucrats, but I could, of course, be mistaken. After all, we know self serving bureaucrats only have our best interests in mind. 6 figure salaries never figure into it... I'm sure.
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Nice Office Space remark.
Given that these people spend upwards of 30 to 40k on "college education" and that I have to pay taxes so that kids can be warehoused in "public schools" so they can come out without even basic writing skills, yeah, I take offense to it. That's wasted money. They could do an equally good job as autodidacts. In fact, some of history's greatest minds were largely self taught on their subjects of fame. Some very famous ones failed their schooling on those subjects. They even had very strong words about schooling. A famous bushy haired Jew even had some words about "schooling being what stood in the way of his actual education"... I think quite a few geeks worship him pretty highly, Slashdot associates his picture with "science"... Oh yeah. Albert Einstein, the patent clerk and physics "genius".
That being said, if you say "I'm a college graduate" but don't even have a basic grasp of the English language, and it is the ONLY language you can barely read and write adequately (and yes, it is a VERY easy language compared to many out there, its a cut and dry contracting language with VERY little nuance compared to some) you had better have some brilliant ideas to show for your lack of ability to express it, or meet with me in person to explain them. I speak (fluently) at least two languages, and several others on and off as need applies. English is my second. If I can do it, and I'm not some great genius (I'm not under that impression anyways) then what's anyone else's excuse?
I've met foreign kids with better command and grasp over the English / American English language and dialect and even SLANG than locals here. That's pretty damn sad. They learn more and better by watching American movies, than kids here paying 50k for a "college education". And you say the language is tough?? Perhaps the education is worthless. The question is, people here watch those same stupid movies, yet learn nothing except the pretty explosions and random fucking scenes. How is this possible that members of one culture could get so much, and locals get nothing?
The beauty of language is something most people don't get. When you strip meaning, you get "newspeak." Look it up. Removing nuance from language has one beautiful benefit for those who rule. Depending on how they shape language depends on how the unquestioning cattle below are able to think. Most of them do not think in images but in words. Forcing them to only have the words you want available, creates exactly the society that is shaping up today.
Removing the meaning and word for theft does not remove theft, it merely makes those who cannot fathom it, remain unaware of its existence.
Plus, with 20 different meanings to each word, you can find out what kind of mind you are conversing with. You are either dealing with an unimaginative serf... or you are dealing with something more. You can't find this out if the mind isn't allowed to play with words. Oh wait... comrade Lenin, is that you?!
I never said government conspiracy, someone else corrected me, yes it was SSH, not GPG... pardon me for that. Yes it was implementation. We're talking about "brilliant people" making utterly reliable software. obviously even a perfect algorithm can be FUBAR'ed by someone commenting out a line in the encrypting program that uses the algorithm. Obviously brilliant people (since IMHO the CVS maintainers are quite brilliant people) do fuck up, and their fuckups, can REALLY cost you, just like Microsoft fuckups really cost lots of paying customers each time. Difference is the mistakes in the OSS side are to be found. Easier... before the victims line up. For that and for accepting that they make mistakes and fixing them, I commend them. I recall the fixed code/executable were available less than a week later.
Bingo. So long as you make sure never to invent something the NSA might have interest in, like you know, solving the world hunger or fuel problems. Should you be unfortunate to do so, you will be silenced... otherwise you would shift the paradigm and it would cause a lot of thugs and intelligence people to go unemployed, without purpose in life. Professional voyeurs and killers don't like that, you know.
So if you come up with nothing inventive, you don't have to worry. If you do, tough shit for you. The scarcity paradigm is wonderful, so I personally hope that nobody stumbles onto a new idea in my lifetime. The stupid don't deserve free goodies.
People deserve the government they vote for, and they deserve to get it good and hard. (Ye gods I love that quote.) I seem to recall that international espionage was used mostly to acquire business secrets, and steal pending patent work... it was done by Americans, Brits, Russians and Chinese. From Echelon to whatever the hell they're using now. The excuse is "terrorism" the truth is theft... pure outright idea theft. The only reason Piracy concerns them is because some clever geek might steal from them what they've already stolen from others.
Why am I not worried? Because I gave up on any dreams of changing the world. See once you get out of school, you can go directly into the workforce, or go into a family business or start your own... That gives you some time to observe people, and society, and learn what you don't learn in the 9 to 5 life. I've no reason to risk my ass even if I COULD change the world... the people of the world don't deserve the sacrifice of even a single sane man.
Brilliant minds hear so much praise that they forget they fuck up just like anyone else.
Because as we all know, the answer everyone should give is "Yes, I am John Galt."
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Nice one.
Unless its a "right to work" state, you can't fire people for poor spelling or poor grammar, unless they're language teachers. (Or is that "grammer" I can't tell anymore.) Seriously though, if you fire someone for "can't spell" or "stupid enough to have overpaid for their low grade education," you're bound to get dragged through lawsuits about "well how does that affect his or her duties?" "Did it affect their (there? lol) performance on the job?" Etc etc etc. And while it turns out to be a frivolous lawsuit, its like the hot coffee at Mac Donald's thing. You end up settling or losing so much productive time, that you might as well close the company. Even if you win, you lose if you engage them. You either settle, or lose more money proving you're in the right. Period.
And what does a total weakling prove? That even those who aren't hardasses can walk all over him? I've known a few when I was in high school. Their girlfriends slept with everyone but them. They were the "nice guys". I even tried being one for awhile. Very depressing existence. I think those who enjoy it, deserve it... and all that comes with it.
Rules for dealing with government are simple. Do not get involved in their business, do not play their games, do not volunteer anything, do not agree to anything, do not play with them, or for them. Once you do, your ass is theirs. They own you, with your consent at that.
By the same principle, don't fuck around, don't trespass, don't steal, and don't be a crook. Learn the law VERY carefully, keep a copy of Black's Law Dictionary (I think 6th edition is out now) in several different versions. Look up innocent looking terms and verbs in forms. DO NOT consent to anything period. Sign nothing. Be sure you know what is "your name" and what is what someone may call you. Practice your rights. Yes... all of them. A right practiced doesn't need to be infringed, because you already don't have it.
Be very suspicious not of your neighbors but of men in "special" uniforms or funny hats that supposedly give them power over you. Don't let strangers into the house. Homeschool your kids and do a god job, history, law and the local mythology are especially important subjects. Several languages and a good grasp of self defense, tactics and strategy are also quite important. Those with kids who choose to be politically active are extra vulnerable, since kids are the ultimate Achilles Heel.
Never ever trust strangers. Trust people in uniforms even less. Never ever get into a stranger's car, despite what you see in the movies. If they want to talk to you, they can get into yours. If you are confronted by a "friend from high school" and like most average people you can't remember who you met yesterday, nevermind back then, look behind you, you're probably about to get cattle prodded in the back and shoved into a van.
These were simple coping strategies for those who were not average plebeians and who survived the cullings of communism. I lost relatives who were educated, men I could've learned much from. I never met them because they were taught that self defense was for cops and soldiers. And when the king's men were gone, and the cops were coopted to communism... there was nobody to protect the smart, educated, "civilized" (i.e. willingly helpless) men from the cleansings. The ones who weren't "lifted" and sent off to Siberia, were enrolled into a front line regiment and given crap gear and no real training. Very few returned, most scarred for life. All I saw of them while growing up were pictures over mantelpieces. Grandmothers mourning long lost brothers or maimed cousins. That is the fate of the helpless of those who depend on others for their protection...
And what governments are preparing today, the police states being built now, they are so much more insidious, in that they're so much better concealed behind "feel good" intentions and bullshit propaganda about "the good of man". Oh well, fools get what they deserve. There's no stopping it at this point, fools gave up that chance a long time ago. All one can do now is get out of the way and let the Leviathan leap off the cliff with all the fools aboard. Watch the splatter and feel not sorry... they laid their own beds. Trying to save the stupid from their stupidity is what got the world into its sorry state in the first place. The stupid should have been permitted to perish, and Darwin should've been allowed to have his laugh. Instead the stupid were forced to live against their best attempts, so they outbred those who merited survival and to thrive.
You mean like that incident with Debian recently where some genius commented some lines that were spouting a warning in GnuPG, and it turns out that the keys generated for SSH were MUCH weaker to brute force crack than the usual ones? Yeah, most brilliant minds tend to miss things. Expert worship is a way to get one's self killed or maimed while waiting for the experts to verify that said incident actually COULD cause the maiming or killing to occur.
Be real... nothing is 100% safe. Your only real safety is to be A) a hardass who takes no shit from anyone.. and B) not play the government's game. Don't ask anything of them, do not answer their questions. Play your game... let the serfs get what they got coming. Not your problem. Not mine either. Fuck'em, they wanted nanny state to exist, now let them live with their beloved papa guv'.
I've had to correct memos written by people with "degrees", not just that mythical 8th grade education. Know what? I've met 8th graders from that evil third world where they supposedly can't get by on a dollar a day. Strangely, they also can write coherent sentences... they even know the difference between "they're" and "their". Something most college grads seem to not know. Too bad you can't fire people (lovely government interventions) for having been too stupid to get value for their money when they shopped for "education".
The "shack" I was considering building was not exactly what you probably consider a "shack". But frankly, I've learned to go against the flow... and it has paid massive dividends... as has banking on the stupidity of man. Things haven't gotten better... for the vast majority they just seem to.
Show me "mutual consent" in any building code? Some idiots let others build their homes without supervision, and they built homes that burned easily. Laws were enacted to protect the stupid from their stupidity. (Willful ignorance is called "what" again? Exactly my point.)
I've had the pleasure of realizing that there is a law in Mexico, its just further along the path than ours are. Their cops can drag you out and beat you up and steal what you own and don't have to worry about rote memorization of laws citing WHY they can do it. Give it 12 or 13 more years in the USA, we'll get there... have no fear.
Amazing thing is, people don't CHECK for that kind of crap before moving into an area. Talking about uranium levels "being at a minimum". I moved from a place when they fluoridated the water, and didn't reach "my consent" as you call it. Mutual consent would've involved my agreeing to have my tap water poisoned, right? No code is reached by mutual consent, it is usually imposed upon the unwilling for the benefit of those passing the code, not those voting for it. I would be ALL for mutual consent.
In a barely middle class neighborhood I lived in, several of the locals wanted underground power lines. We got together with our other neighbors and negotiated an agreement amongst each other. It governed ONLY those of us that wanted underground lines. We paid for it, and the others neither got such power lines, nor wanted them. We had to run around two properties who didn't want them, but in the end we got what we wanted, and their power still went out the next time a heavy branch nailed a few of their lines.
And until I left, for the water fluoridation issue, years later, we still didn't have underground "melting" or "fires" as so many claim is common. We did however, pay top dollar for top quality work. Most people abiding by mere regulations do the minimum. The crowd I lived around back then were people who respected themselves, despite nobody making more than 50k a year at the time.
Our neighborhood contract, much like our patrolling during a hurricane while some were out, was a clear and clean issue of "this is OUR ground", we don't need cops to shoot at the ones who live here or arrest innocents we allow to stay here... end state maintenance here means "here" and not "anywhere beyond here". You should put up those placards and gate your community, if you want privacy. Cops have to ask for permission to enter, and bad guys have to remember that robbers can and do get shot...
Of course it also involves "getting to know your neighbors"... it took some effort, since most people prefer to vege out in front of the Tee Vee rather than get outside the house... but there is a fat chance we'll get a drug dealer, gang banger or terrorist buying or renting a house in this area without noticing him, and rightfully either turning him in, or "persuading" him or her to relocate, because we tend to know each other out here. I know Bob, and Rodney and Joe down the road, and they sure as hell know me. We've barbecued and fished together, and at least two of them hunt together when the season opens (and I've fixed their computers before, as a favor exchange of course :). And my neighbors were cool with me building my "shack" in the last place I was at, it was the "county/city" governments that didn't agree with it back there, but down here I don't have that issue... zoning laws seem to not exist at this point, and most people can't stand new comers who try to come and vote for new laws... so this is a good place to live for the time being, without having to pay some bureaucratic scumbag to build a home... how long it stays like this, the gods of hell only know. But
I usually tend to use this angle when it actually applies. If he had already paid for service, they were being scum by denying him a legitimate email and violating THEIR contract. I have a feeling that being Jewish, this fellow would have been educated on the issues of contracts (the Torah seems to be quite specific that contracts are the way things are done, between humans and between them and their god(s), devils, etc). I'm fairly sure it wasn't just dragging them through the mud that did the trick. However, the Constitution has no provisions for "large corporations violating contracts into which they entered voluntarily wanting someone's money but failing in the providing of full service as paid for"... stuff like that. Laws and rules about that precede most national governments, and tend to be grandfathered in, since they work.
This is just your typical bureaucratic monkeys being bureaucratic monkeys, that usually get attracted to bureaucratic jobs (management, government, etc...) and doing exactly what and WHY they are hired. Being bureaucratic monkeys, with just enough firing neurons to be annoying bureaucratic monkeys, but not enough to actually be reasonable men... this is usually why you hear of bureaucratic monkeys, or monkeys obedient to bureaucrats tazering paralized kids 19 times or shooting old ladies full of juice even though they're wheelchair bound. Bureaucratic monkeys are examples of scumbags that would've been aborted (post natal if need be) by any self respecting parent, long before they got to breed more bureaucratic monkeys... until they bred and over bred to the situation we have today.
Again, the Constitution of the USA or for the USA (depending on which one you take an oath to when you get sworn in to your bureaucratic job) has nothing on this issue... this is purely a contract law issue, and that precedes the Constitution by several centuries at the least.
Also, his name containing an expletive can easily be explained as NON expletive, and can be interpreted as such by any lawyer or judge with enough functional brain matter. Why, you ask? Simple. Cultural difference. If a man who is a DOCTOR can carry that name and not change it, you can be fairly sure he has traded on it.
That being said i've seen some screwy names in the past, so while I want to believe this article is bogus, I am unsurprised if it is true. Bureaucratic monkeys make every part of the world miserable, where the locals allow them to infest. Voting has never been a cure. It wasn't when they did it in the name of the king, or the oligarch, or the tyrant (in the greek meaning of word) or the dictator or "the people's party" or any other reason for which bureaucratic monkeys perform their unquestioning duties. People to whom "duty" is a primary prerogative, should concern you, worry you, and scare you. These are the monkeys who shot kids in the back of the head for merely not complying with the new "party" or for their parents being rich (see Che and Cuba literature on this issue). Sure, here they're obeying a different "letter of the law", but its all the same. Monkey see, monkey do. We don't need "less abortions", we need a lot more. They should be looking for bureaucratic monkey genes, but who would be doing the legislating but other bureaucratic monkeys... the sense of survival is strong in the bureaucratic monkeys.
MUD: Thou canst not put this genie back into the bottle. The genie reads a scroll of rules and regulations. Thou art Screwed... royally, and without vaseline.
You're just now starting to look? Sorry bud, the good real estate is already sold. You'll be renting from those who had the sense to look before. Most places royally suck. It makes just as little sense elsewhere. You'll be paying lots and lots of "imposits" they don't call'em taxes, but they have far more of them, and you'll be submitting paperwork far more often for having the right to take a shit or to walk somewhere... or *gasp* try taking the bus while being foreign. The upside is being an English speaker, for the time being, incurs you their mercy. They realize how fucked up the English speaking side of the world really is... the problem, of course, is that they don't notice that shit having been imported into their part of the world also.
Life is good, its fucked up bureaucratic mindsets like these idiots at Verizon that is prevalent through out governing structures. These inflexible "beg me to get your rights abided by, or your service that you pay for fulfilled" type assholes seem attracted to these jobs, while no sane individuals are. Therein lies the issue, schools are such structures, so in time they attract the same type of assholes as the other bureaucracies, ensuring that they raise mostly the same type of assholes. Sure, they turn out sane individuals too, because some of us just don't take well to the programming, but the vast majorities do, so when you see the quietly obedient student in school, who never challenges a rule or bends or breaks one, remember, that will be the mindless aparatchik that will tell you what they CAN'T do for you as A, a paying customer, and B, an honest man or woman who has done nothing wrong and trades on your own name.
That being said, I'm fairly sure this doctor fellow is also doing business on that email address, and people know him because of his unusual name. Put two and two together, this fellow probably gets quite a bit of business because of his rep. That rep is partly based on his name by which people come to know him. To change it now would make him seem like every other mentally emasculated individual that lays claim to the role "man" or "male" but doesn't quite live up to any standard of integrity. Personally I'm glad he, or the enquirer dragged Verizon through the mud. By the same token, I'm not sure why he patronized their service. Speakeasy.net is a MUCH better provider and they reach out and touch his area, and have MUCH better service. Having been a customer while up north, I'd recommend them any day of the week.
I've actually got a better life than most. There is a reason that I'm unwilling to fight over this issue IRL. I didn't say they're related by blood, merely that the same style of scam is being run.
You must mistake the idea of "freedom in words" for actual freedom. Try driving without license plates in a car you've purchased rather than stolen. See if you are treated as a free man or as a bandit. It won't matter if you got papers to prove the sale and the seller is known and can be reached to verify your purchase. It won't matter if you know more about maintaining vehicles than the cop in question. You will be treated as a bandit for breaking "regulations".
I can cite quite a few other examples, but I'm sure none will be enough to sway you. And you're in the majority. Then again, the word "democracy" is nowhere in the Constitution. It wasn't founded as such. It wasn't in the Articles of Confederation that preceded the Constitution of the USA either. Those people really really hated the idea of "democracy". They had their reasons, and the more of the average voters I meet, the more I realize why.
I'm not worried about going poor or being in trouble, I'm just sick of complying with "yet another regulation for my own good"... if it was for my own good, they wouldn't have to threaten me or you with armed thugs and property theft ("democracy" calls it confiscation, just like the communists, nazis and royalists often do) to get me to comply, would they? Tried building a home on a piece of property YOU own? Enjoy the paperwork and nosy inspectors trying to make sure you're "up to code". And I live in one of the more "free" parts of the country with less regulations and less scumbag enforcers. Those of you who live in big cities with TRULY nosy governing forces probably have to "spread'em and take it"... with no other choice in sight.
There is. But neither you, nor I, are willing to shed that much blood or die in the process of regaining that lost ground. Therefore it will likely not happen unless others, aside from the unwilling you and unwilling I, will have to dirty their hands.
I am willing to bet HUGE bucks nobody is willing to fight the level of ground war, globe wide, that would be required to put the insane super governments of today back in their place... "a bunch of bandits enter a village... they kill the elders, kill the hunters and rape the women. To their children later, they pass the power to kill anyone except each other, and tell everyone what to do. They become 'the kings of old' and their children become their heirs. Centuries later they are worshipped as those who 'gave us society and laws'... yep... the codified law... several hundred reasons why they can kill you, and why you're not allowed to kill them when they show up to do it. Fun huh?" Sure, the technologies and the groups of bandits have changed... over time, but its the same groups of bandits or their descendants being "elected" today. Violent bandits were replaced by con artists who employ violent bandits, called cops, but one way or another, its the same ancient scam being perpetuated. Ah well, another drink to their names! They "protect" us... probably only from freedom and true prosperity.
Of course stopping voting en masse, would've been the miracle cure, but that is even less likely than a vast majority of honest citizens getting up in arms and teaching their overreaching governments to keep their hands off and not falling for the same trick the way they always do when they actually rebel... yeah... as if. I gave up hope for my fellow man a year or two ago. I feel better since I stopped caring... or it could just be the numb hopelessness kicking in. On the other hand since I've heavily invested in police state technologies some years ago when I was still stupid enough to employ Americans and bid for jobs and do all kinds of hard work that got taxed heavily, (no joke) and I'm at least making enough to have completely closed my business, quit working and stay at home. Now I'm bored, maybe I'll write a book about the wisdom of investing in the stupidity of mankind. Actually I think Warren Buffett already did. Or maybe I'll go fishing. Reading all this shit keeps confirming just how stupid humanity is. Almost as stupid as fish. "Hey look... worm swimming in the middle of a lake... on a shiny metal thing... quick, lets eat it before someone else does." Wow, that line sounds just like voting campaigns.
Cue in the fucking aliens already, I'm sick of this show.
No, they were whining, IN TFA and small intro that "law enforcement officers security can be undermined if they can be identified".
Question: Are the laws SO EVIL and HATED that officers risk their lives enforcing them? Perhaps it isn't the criminals to blame but those making and enforcing laws that make so many people hate law enforcers? Just because the USA is not 1936 Germany and some Americans won't lie down and get screwed completely without fighting back, doesn't make them evil, or the laws good. I think its time people woke up and started evaluating the world they live in, and whether those they pay with their taxes have the right to tell them what to do at every step, every point, and further fine and rob them of their property for "infractions".
As far as I care, all law enforcers should be on a public list. if they are afraid for their lives, then they are doing soemthing wrong. Isn't their logic, "if you have nothing to hide, why are you afraid?"
perhaps its time their rules applied to them as well.
Using the same idiot logic to justify surveillance of innocent or otherwise "non guilty" private individuals by governing forces.
"If they have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, why are they so eager to hide their faces behind false images and balaclavas/ninja masks? Why is law enforcement so eager to hide from the people whom they supposedly serve... namely the public?"
Could it be that they are doing more harm than good and a LOT of people are sick of them and their abuses? Time will tell, but I for one would not choose such a "dangerous" occupation. After all, when one's "occupation" involves paramilitary "occupation" of the streets of a country, then one can expect to occasionally see one's buddies or ones own self take a bullet or two for its masters. Dangerous "occupation" indeed. And likely to get MORE dangerous as the economy winds down and people stop playing as nice as they do when prosperity abounds.
Like I said, I wouldn't be caught dead IN law enforcement or with friends still in that field. Most of mine have quit to seek actual productive employment. Good for them.
Hey, the "research groups" were among those who bought and sold the idea, but I'm hearing it from all the "green" and "conscientious" people out here. Its like they didn't even bother to see who was influencing their thoughts and getting them to play along. Of course jacking up the price of oil is not quite their fault (they're still losing, per gallon, compared to 80 years ago, if you actually bother to look at inflation, something most "liberals" never notice... and most "conservatives" don't care to see.)
What is ironic is that ALL of the authors you mentioned got RICH off of their writing. They got tenure (Chomsky) and fame, and MONEY... they didn't write anything out of the goodness of their hearts or wanting to better mankind. (Last Chomsky book i've seen was "feel good" material for socialists/communists, and yet it retailed for 39.99 plus tax.) Now if Chomsky was so happy to promote socialism and a truly egalitarian society (where, of course, we're all taxed to provide for the weak or worthless...) then Chomsky would be giving away his books for 100% free... and would be living in a shack, experiencing the "glory" of socialism. Instead, I don't seem to recall him living in poverty, so as to share in "the human condition".
The fact that he was a Klintonite, should tell you a lot about his motivations. Both he and Bill Clinton were (and to my knowledge I haven't heard them denounce) members of the Fabian Socialist club (or the dozen other names its membership has gathered under). You might recall these guys, since their one unifying factor was that they were ALL elite rich, usually of England or America, but with more recent members being drawn from a myriad other kleptocracies.
Sorry man, I don't hold with this Chomsky is a socialist benefactor any more than I see George Bushes or Bill Clinton as the bringers of freedom to the oppressed masses.
What is stopping YOU or a million other environmentalists from buying forested land, throwing your home on it, and declaring it OFF limits to anyone you don't permit to be there... then maintaining it as you see fit, selling lumber, firewood, etc, while tailoring that to be your environmentally "perfect" forest.
Try it... then whine or scream. My lands are setup the way I want them, and short of invasion by federales with guns, nobody else has permission to tresspass. Thinking about it, neither do federales, WITH or WITHOUT guns, but they won't listen to those no tresspassing sings. Laws are for other people. Other than that... however, I don't seem to have issues with anything on my land. Nice trees and deer grow on one lot... only problem is my dog picks up ticks every time I take him out, and they drop off him and wander about the house / yard afterwards since he's on meds and it seems the ticks aren't stupid enough to bite him.
Otherwise, I quite enjoy my old and new growth mixed... and I'm scheduled to build a very NICE log home out of some of those "old growth" on there. I use a lot of the underbrush for kindling when I enjoy my nice fireplace. I use all the fallen limbs after storms for firewood too. I haven't had to cut a tree for firewood since I've had those lots. Amazing? You betcha. Did the government tell me how to do it? Nope, not that I can recall. A few hundred years experience by my farmer/landowner ancestors did. See, the commies back home killed them off to steal their lands, but they passed their knowledge onto their kids before that... and their kids passed it onto me through their various descendants up to my parents. Beauty of "ancient" knowledge. You don't need million dollar studies by government tax fed parasites, or billion dollar 3 letter agencies to figure out how to get optimal use from your land. You just need to HAVE your land, and then to declare it yours and off limits to parasites of all colors, civil or uniformed. After that, take care of that land as no public agency could.
First things first, of course, you have to actually go out and BUY land... you know... forested land, and then live on it.
What I find strange is that the same tree hugging geniuses who come up with "carbon is to blame for global warming" are the idiots who treat symptoms by causing worse symptoms, yet never looking at the cause. For example, they're screaming bloody murder that "trees no longer absorb and store CO2" and blame the heat.
What they fail to note is that the idiot tree huggers came up with this idea that they should replant and cut only new trees... old trees are "majestic". Everywhere else, nature kills the OLD... only in "land management" do the idiots kill the young. Old trees have developed root systems. They don't develop at the same speed as young trees. Carbon is stores in the root system. If no new carbon is needed for young roots to grow, why are the tree huggers noticing? Probably because old trees are "majestic" and its all the SUV's fault. Perhaps instead of loving government intervention, they ought to BUY a wooded lot, cut ALL the old dry trees, sell them off or build a nice home on it, and then replant all the trees they cut and CARE for that lot.
It would be FAR more effective than government intervention, and that's why neither government, nor government worshipping tree huggers will go for it. Why not simply intrude upon the lives of others with regulations and majority knee jerk votes instead?
Marx, Engels, etc... those are your true socialists... you may also look up the Fabians if you wish, a delightful bunch of Machiavellian thinkers if there ever were any.
I've had the dubious pleasure of torturing myself through the two installments of Das Kapital written by Marx. I've read the Communist Manifesto.
From my reading, communism and socialism as you pretend it was "failed" or "poorly implemented" was implemented EXACTLY as designed. Their only failure was to notice that human beings have some value, and therefore some of them may, at some point, resist what you do to them "for their own good". See the whole point is that central control and "people are only of value so long as their services are needed by the state" is exactly the kind of crap that takes into NO account human nature itself.
Marx presumed that people were machines, eager and willing only to die for their masters. He never truly broached the "who gets to run the show" issue.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" sounds joyfully juicy, but in typical socialist manner, fails to mention "who decides what they need, and who decides how much one is able to give? Who decides if the deciders are right?"
People always expect others to think for them. And they get their just rewards for such utter stupidity. Personally I've seen socialism in practice, and it is EXACTLY what the early founding books promoted. Total ownership by the state, over the individual. No thanks. Keep that kind of shit in YOUR back yard, not mine.
Anyone with skill and with a true criminal mindset (as in, REAL criminals with an axe to grind) will be able to fool the feds. As far as I understand, they're no different than the KGB... they have to present a list of victims... AHEM... "apprehended criminals" in order to justify their existence.
Nothing new. They'll keep criminalizing innocent, harmless things and letting real criminals go. The prison industry is bigger than Chinese outsourcing, but you won't hear about it on CNN or even on the alternative news sites. Nobody wants to mention that outsourcing to China is no different in any aspect than outsourcing government furniture (just an example) to prison labor, which undercuts even the Chinese commies on price. Why do you think they are letting out violent felons while taking in white collar boys for shit crimes nobody cares about? Exactly... a violent felon is a liability to a budding industrial power (aka... the new forced labor camps called "corrections facilities"). A meek and easily subdued white collar boy, well he's easy to walk all over and he's afraid of his fellow inmates AND the guards. He'll do as he's told. Why risk angry violent felons incarcerated with the very profitable and nonviolent white collar "criminals" ?
Bingo. You've said it well chief, but missed the "profit" motive, which is what existed under communism, it existed under socialism, under fascism and in this fascist/socialist hybrid system that we have here in America. Nothing new... just different masks on the same old faces.
You would think on a NIC or some form of transmission interface, the status could be checked by simply pinging a known good host/point on the route the service normally takes... yep, and as soon as interface A doesn't provide adequate bandwidth, it is rerouted to B, or a better approach is to evenly share the load and to reroute failed/unconfirmed transmissions via a different interface than the last one used to try. After a certain amount of FAILED transmissions, a simple algorithm to compare how many fail on each NIC could simply update a VISIBLE reliability counter ina control panel available to any operator of the machine who could then say... HMMMM... packet A was resent 200 times through interface A and failed 70 times. Packet A was sent successfully each time through interface B. Packet B failed once or twice on interface B, failed over to interface A, failed once or twice, then went back to interface C and successfully sent through and confirmed.
There's a million samples of verbal flowcharting/pseudocode type stuff we did when I was in comp sci 101 and 102 back in college. Hell we sat around brainstorming server queue ideas for miniature servers to perform stupid little operations with no purpose. Call it "practice" since it was nothing but.
Anyways... it isn't that hard to handle in software as a means to combat subtle hardware failure, especially in a system that SHOULD be redundant and unbreakable. After all, they spent how many trillions on "anti terrorism" ?? And we had ONE plausible airborne terrorist attack in how many decades? Meanwhile we have HOW many fatal airliner wrecks in same decades? Perhaps the money is ill spent by self serving bureaucrats, but I could, of course, be mistaken. After all, we know self serving bureaucrats only have our best interests in mind. 6 figure salaries never figure into it... I'm sure.