The only option at this point is to begin militant action against our failed government institution. Unfortunately we would have no backing because the TV still spews its garbage and the people are sated.
I note that you've just advocated for the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government.
I am advocating openly for the violent overthrow of the US Govt.
With Congress' approval rating at 9%, 91% of Americans are either checking "vote them out" or "shoot the bastards."
Yet, somehow, over 95% of our Congress gets "reelected" every time. People are beginning to do the math, and more and more are checking "Shoot the Bastards" every day. I have not hear one person who was not currently a member of the police or military disagree with me.
I'm taking a guess at these numbers, but 200+ people have heard me openly advocating the violent overthrow of the US Govt in the last month. 1 cop and 1 military guy disagreed. 50-65 civilians agreed openly. Everyone else was quietly minding their own business.
There's only one party...The RepublicCrats, They pretend to disagree on minor distractions, but nobody wants real change. After all, a politicians first job is to get reelected. The current system put them in power, and they are not about to change it.
I used to say "If you want real change, vote for Chuck Baldwin with the Constitution party." Then the black box voting machines stopped counting our votes.
Now I say "If you want real change, learn to shoot."
How else can you communicate with a violent state! (like yours)
Good point. War has always been a last resort. You try to talk, negotiate, and deal with a country until you can not get anywhere. At that point, you can give up and take your losses or fight a war.
I believe that there are times when a nation must go to war. For example, if I were to set up schools and teach my kids to go to your country and kill you by blowing themselves up, you would be justified to invade my country to shut down those schools.
In this case, my "government" has abandoned the social contract, and lost all legitimate authority to govern. The situation today (July, 2008) is similar to April, 1775. The government has ceased to be a legitimate government, and is ruling by secret decrees. We the people are arming ourselves. On april 19th, 1775 the Red Coats came to Lexington, Mass to seize arms. Thankfully, SCOTUS has decreed that that would be a bad idea. If not, we might have seen July 19th, 2008 go down in history with another shot heard 'round the world.
Andy S. Sgt, 419th Republic of Texas Militia (MOUT Anti-Armor)
Just a reminder: The legal system is a replacement for violence to settle disputes as long as both parties agree to it. Once one sides refuses to use the legal system, the result is that both parties begin to use violence.
In this case, Congress and the Telcos have refused to use any option other than brute force & violence. Our options are clear.
Congress does have the power to create any federal courts below the level of the SCOUTS, that they may from time to time wish to create. They can abolish all federal courts below SCOTUS tomorrow, before breakfast.
Congress does have the power to set the jurisdiction of all federal courts. If they wanted to ban all abortion, overturn Roe v Wade, and revoke the power of the SCOTUS to decide any constitutional issue or any issue involving abortion, they could do that tomorrow between breakfast and lunch.
All these powers are in Article 3 of the Constitution of the United States.
I'm so sick of Congress stepping outside the Constitution, that I love to see them exercising their legitimate powers. That's true even when they illegally wire tap millions of us, and then object the legitimate use of lynch mobs to get revenge against the corporate wire tapping scum.
The fact that every video you watched on YouTube is now in the hands of a crooked bunch of corporate lawyers should occurr to you.
This finally drives the stake through heart of the Internet. I've stopped using it for meaningful work. I'm off line. Yeah, I'll post a rant on/., but all research, all class work, etc is off-line. USB drives are cheap enough.
The http://www.arrickrobotics.com/ A-Robot is an excellent beginner's bot. It is rugged (can survive 10 years in a drawer and still function) gets you up and running quickly, and is expandable. A 12V, 2A power output, 3 spare RC servos, and a 40 pin I/O header (that takes an IDE cable) will let you play with electronics. Roger Arrick wrote "Robots for Dummies" that shows one project at a time how to breadboard a peripheral and code for it. Buy everything that's in the T1 kit, but don't get the BS2 - get the BS2e. $400.
The closest second for a beginner's bot is the BOE bot fromParallax. It's based on the same processor. The problem with the BOE bot is that when it breaks, it's dead. It's not really expandable like the A-Robot is. you would have to see the A-Robot (1 ft x 1ft) next to the BOE Bot (6in x 6in) to understand.
For less beginning, and more electronics, check out http://www.ere.co.th./ You are trading BASIC for assembly, and no longer have a beginner's book to guide you. You do have http://www.avrfreaks.net./ The really cool thing is all the peripherals on 16 pin headers, so you don't have to spend 3 days to get a stepper motor to spin. You will be able to bread-board parts too, with 16-pin headers on the boards.
A close second in this field would be the boards that accept Atmel STK-style headers. That's what I use when I'm not building a custom board. I'm too entrenched in 10 pin headers to go to 16 pin headers, though I made some 10-to-16-pin-adapter-boards.
I'm guessing that people have heard of the Luxfer, and similar ways to pipe daylight indoors. I'm also guessing they are not talking about that kind of technology.
On my Intel processor / Gigabyte S-series MB, I just don't install SP3. I install all other patches, and it eventually gets what it needs, and stops worrying about SP3.
If a spammer claims to be sending SPAM from your domain, that is at the very least slander, and if you have a trade mark, it's trade mark infringement.
The only other case I can think of where an ad email is that illegal is when it's sexual harassment - a sexually suggestive spam sent to a coprorate email address.
> Solar charged batteries are not very green, you > only do them if there is no other option. That's > because you don't want to keep batteries in > permanent discharge, you want to fill them up > regularly.
I'm not worried about saving the (ahem) "Great Mother Earth." I'm interested in generating my own electricity.
> But once batteries are full, your solar system > is usually just throwing away power unless you > have another load for it (in which case how were > you running that load while charging?)
I understand your point of view. I shared it when I was looking at all this in theory.
Every power generation system will have to be matched to the load. That's not just watts - that's watts at a given time.
In the commercial power grid, there are some plants that run constantly (e.g., nuke plants) and plants that run when we need more power (e.g., natural gas peaking plants.)
In a small scale alternative-energy operation, you will have some windy days to power your windmills, some sunny days to power your solar panels, some days with plenty of water flow to power your micro-hydro, etc. This generation capacity will not match your consumption patterns, so you will have to store energy. You will use batteries or another energy storage mechanism to cache the extra power for when you need it (e.g., batteries, pumping water against gravity, or compressed air.) The energy storage mechanism can be more expensive than the rest of the system put together. This storage is not infinite. At some point, you may be generating so much more energy than what you are using that you are in danger of damaging your storage system. That can mean over pressurizing an air tank or overcharging batteries. If a 12V lead acid battery goes over 15V, you are damaging it. You have to do something with the power that goes over 15V. That's when you kick in your dump load. It's goal is to prevent damage to your storage system.
In my case, 10% of the time by batteries are so low that I'm down to emergency power only. 80% of the time, I'm running normally, and 10% of the time, I'm dumping my power into a dump load. I use an (electric) air compressor to charge a compressed air tank. It's around 80% efficient, and gives me a source or power (compressed air) to power tools that would otherwise drain my batteries. Compressed air is a good way to store power for up to weeks if your tanks have virtually no leaks.
> Solar power only makes sense if you take 100% of > the power the panels make. You can't throw it > away the way battery people do.
How exactly do you propose to build such a system?
1. Hugh Piggott has been building windmills from brake rotors (drum brakes) and plywood for decades. If you have the room, take a look at his books.
2. Savonius windmills also seem to be efficient, according to the Internet, but I have not tried it.
3. If you are lucky enough to have running water, look into micro-hydro-power and micro hydro generation. Water carries a lot more punch than air. Some people even use micro hydro on drain spouts from gutters on their roofs.
4. The real efficiency is not the percentage of the power in the air converted into electricity. The real efficiency is the cost per watt. We only care about efficiently using scarce resources. Land area to put up wind mills or solar cells is abundant. Money to finance these projects is scarce.
5. You use a lot of energy you don't see in water. Try collecting rain water off the roof and trying to use it in selected areas - flushing toilets, for example.
6. Big money people live grid-tie systems. I would rather power a bank of 12V batteries under a computer desk, and run my laptop & accessories off these batteries. If I don't generate enough 12V power, I can always plug in a battery charger.
7. Small-scale (100W) solar systems are available, from Northern Tool, Harbor Freight, Fry's etc.
8. The only economically viable "alternative" energy system I've seen is solar-thermal. 90% of power plants use heat to boil water and create steam, then they run turbines off the steam to generate electricity. You can do the same with solar heat to boil the water, but it's tricky and not safe for idiots.
9. Solar heating & solar hot water are possible. Take a look at the black tanks to pre-heat water that some build.
10. Learn to charge batteries - it's not as simple as it sounds. Learn as much about batteries as you can. I like 3 loads: emergency (red,) normal (yellow,) and dump (green.) The red socket will remain on if I have any power at all left in my 12V battery (i.e., if V > 12.0v.) The yellow socket will remain on if I have normal amounts of power, but it shuts down when I get close to being dead (i.e., V > 13.5v.) The green socket only comes on when I am dumping power (i.e., V> 15.0v.) Of course, you have to build hysteresis into this system or you get crazy on/off flickering. The dump load may be to run an air compressor or to pump water up hill, or to run a space heater / ac unit in an unused shed. If you don't have a dump load, you will overcharge your battery and ruin it. You also need to cut off all power at some voltage to avoid ruining your batteries.
11. Ways to store energy (other than batteries) include compressed air and pumping water.
Membership in MADD is not a game, and it is not a joke. Membership in MADD is a choice, a violent crime and it is also 100 percent preventable.
MADD is a domestic enemy of the Constitution of the United States of America.
(1) MADD demands that cars be towed and impounded before trials, and as a part of "civil forfeiture." This demand that people be deprived of property without due process in violation of the 8th and 14th amendments.
(2) MADD demands searches without warrants, including guestapo-style "checkpoints" in violation of the 4th amendments.
(3) MADD uses tax payer money to demand changes to laws, drowning out my voice, in violation of the 1st amendment.
I demand the execution of every MADD member for crimes against the Constitution of the United States of America.
Andy Out!
Can we get even?
I'd love to see a plug-in for my torrent client that can send a single packet complaint to the DNS servers of anyone who has recently ticked me off every time I start d/lin or u/ling a new block on a torrent.
Andy
I've checked further at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ , and according to the United States Code (USC) using at least 5 forged IPs to send SPAM is illegal. I'm still checking the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR.)
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The only option at this point is to begin militant action against our failed government institution. Unfortunately we would have no backing because the TV still spews its garbage and the people are sated.
Bingo!
It's time to shoot the bastards.
Andy
I note that you've just advocated for the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government.
I am advocating openly for the violent overthrow of the US Govt.
With Congress' approval rating at 9%, 91% of Americans are either checking "vote them out" or "shoot the bastards."
Yet, somehow, over 95% of our Congress gets "reelected" every time. People are beginning to do the math, and more and more are checking "Shoot the Bastards" every day. I have not hear one person who was not currently a member of the police or military disagree with me.
I'm taking a guess at these numbers, but 200+ people have heard me openly advocating the violent overthrow of the US Govt in the last month. 1 cop and 1 military guy disagreed. 50-65 civilians agreed openly. Everyone else was quietly minding their own business.
The revolution will be netcast.
Andy
There's only one party...The RepublicCrats, They pretend to disagree on minor distractions, but nobody wants real change. After all, a politicians first job is to get reelected. The current system put them in power, and they are not about to change it.
I used to say "If you want real change, vote for Chuck Baldwin with the Constitution party." Then the black box voting machines stopped counting our votes.
Now I say "If you want real change, learn to shoot."
Andy
How else can you communicate with a violent state! (like yours)
Good point. War has always been a last resort. You try to talk, negotiate, and deal with a country until you can not get anywhere. At that point, you can give up and take your losses or fight a war.
I believe that there are times when a nation must go to war. For example, if I were to set up schools and teach my kids to go to your country and kill you by blowing themselves up, you would be justified to invade my country to shut down those schools.
In this case, my "government" has abandoned the social contract, and lost all legitimate authority to govern. The situation today (July, 2008) is similar to April, 1775. The government has ceased to be a legitimate government, and is ruling by secret decrees. We the people are arming ourselves. On april 19th, 1775 the Red Coats came to Lexington, Mass to seize arms. Thankfully, SCOTUS has decreed that that would be a bad idea. If not, we might have seen July 19th, 2008 go down in history with another shot heard 'round the world.
Andy
S. Sgt, 419th
Republic of Texas Militia
(MOUT Anti-Armor)
Just a reminder: The legal system is a replacement for violence to settle disputes as long as both parties agree to it. Once one sides refuses to use the legal system, the result is that both parties begin to use violence.
In this case, Congress and the Telcos have refused to use any option other than brute force & violence. Our options are clear.
Andy
Congress does have the power to create any federal courts below the level of the SCOUTS, that they may from time to time wish to create. They can abolish all federal courts below SCOTUS tomorrow, before breakfast.
Congress does have the power to set the jurisdiction of all federal courts. If they wanted to ban all abortion, overturn Roe v Wade, and revoke the power of the SCOTUS to decide any constitutional issue or any issue involving abortion, they could do that tomorrow between breakfast and lunch.
All these powers are in Article 3 of the Constitution of the United States.
I'm so sick of Congress stepping outside the Constitution, that I love to see them exercising their legitimate powers. That's true even when they illegally wire tap millions of us, and then object the legitimate use of lynch mobs to get revenge against the corporate wire tapping scum.
Andy Out!
Just wait for DMCA 2.0.
It's time to shoot the bastards...now.
Andy Out!
This has nothing to do with piracy. It is an attempt to shut down non-corporate users from creating and distributing IP.
Ding dong, the individual is dead!
Long live the corporate fascists!
It's time to bomb share holder meetings.
Andy Out!
The fact that every video you watched on YouTube is now in the hands of a crooked bunch of corporate lawyers should occurr to you.
This finally drives the stake through heart of the Internet. I've stopped using it for meaningful work. I'm off line. Yeah, I'll post a rant on /., but all research, all class work, etc is off-line. USB drives are cheap enough.
Prof Allen
MIS, COSC, BCIS, etc.
One link is broken.
http://www.ere.co.th/
(no dot after th)
And yes, I trust this one company in Thailand to do honest business.
Andy Out!
"It's not time to shoot the bastards, yet."
--Claire Wolfe
"It's time."
--Andy
The http://www.arrickrobotics.com/ A-Robot is an excellent beginner's bot. It is rugged (can survive 10 years in a drawer and still function) gets you up and running quickly, and is expandable. A 12V, 2A power output, 3 spare RC servos, and a 40 pin I/O header (that takes an IDE cable) will let you play with electronics. Roger Arrick wrote "Robots for Dummies" that shows one project at a time how to breadboard a peripheral and code for it. Buy everything that's in the T1 kit, but don't get the BS2 - get the BS2e. $400.
The closest second for a beginner's bot is the BOE bot fromParallax. It's based on the same processor. The problem with the BOE bot is that when it breaks, it's dead. It's not really expandable like the A-Robot is. you would have to see the A-Robot (1 ft x 1ft) next to the BOE Bot (6in x 6in) to understand.
For less beginning, and more electronics, check out http://www.ere.co.th./ You are trading BASIC for assembly, and no longer have a beginner's book to guide you. You do have http://www.avrfreaks.net./ The really cool thing is all the peripherals on 16 pin headers, so you don't have to spend 3 days to get a stepper motor to spin. You will be able to bread-board parts too, with 16-pin headers on the boards.
A close second in this field would be the boards that accept Atmel STK-style headers. That's what I use when I'm not building a custom board. I'm too entrenched in 10 pin headers to go to 16 pin headers, though I made some 10-to-16-pin-adapter-boards.
Finally, you could get an AVR board like I use for my projects from http://www.geocities.com/mengjinsu. Meng's boards are great if you know how to stuff PCBs and solder them. I order them by the dozen. Get the ABR chips from http://www.digikey.com/ and the rest of your stuff from there or http://www.mouser.com./ Also, take a look at http://www.sparkfun.com/
Andy Out!
Are you telling me that after they read all my emails, that even congress can not get their emails?
tick tick tick
When you hear the ding, the revolution has started
tick tick tick
Andy Out!
The govt ISPs want you saddled to their absurdly censored outlets so they get the ad dollars.
"You say you want a revolution?"
Andy Out!
If they outlaw cyberbullying, will DMCA take-down notices be illegal?
If they outlaw cyberbullying, will it be illegal for the MAFIAA to sue college kids?
Andy Out!
I'm guessing that people have heard of the Luxfer, and similar ways to pipe daylight indoors. I'm also guessing they are not talking about that kind of technology.
Andy
The objective is clear: Fed.gov spams you with a single thumbnail that might be kiddie porn, and you disappear to Camp Gitmo.
We have 2 options:
(1) Learn to shoot, then kick in their doors at 3am
or
(2) Stay helpless, and have them kick in our doors at 3am.
Millitia practice Saturday.
Andy Out!
On my Intel processor / Gigabyte S-series MB, I just don't install SP3. I install all other patches, and it eventually gets what it needs, and stops worrying about SP3.
Andy
If a spammer claims to be sending SPAM from your domain, that is at the very least slander, and if you have a trade mark, it's trade mark infringement.
The only other case I can think of where an ad email is that illegal is when it's sexual harassment - a sexually suggestive spam sent to a coprorate email address.
Andy Out!
> Solar charged batteries are not very green, you
> only do them if there is no other option. That's
> because you don't want to keep batteries in
> permanent discharge, you want to fill them up
> regularly.
I'm not worried about saving the (ahem) "Great Mother Earth." I'm interested in generating my own electricity.
> But once batteries are full, your solar system
> is usually just throwing away power unless you
> have another load for it (in which case how were
> you running that load while charging?)
I understand your point of view. I shared it when I was looking at all this in theory.
Every power generation system will have to be matched to the load. That's not just watts - that's watts at a given time.
In the commercial power grid, there are some plants that run constantly (e.g., nuke plants) and plants that run when we need more power (e.g., natural gas peaking plants.)
In a small scale alternative-energy operation, you will have some windy days to power your windmills, some sunny days to power your solar panels, some days with plenty of water flow to power your micro-hydro, etc. This generation capacity will not match your consumption patterns, so you will have to store energy. You will use batteries or another energy storage mechanism to cache the extra power for when you need it (e.g., batteries, pumping water against gravity, or compressed air.) The energy storage mechanism can be more expensive than the rest of the system put together. This storage is not infinite. At some point, you may be generating so much more energy than what you are using that you are in danger of damaging your storage system. That can mean over pressurizing an air tank or overcharging batteries. If a 12V lead acid battery goes over 15V, you are damaging it. You have to do something with the power that goes over 15V. That's when you kick in your dump load. It's goal is to prevent damage to your storage system.
In my case, 10% of the time by batteries are so low that I'm down to emergency power only.
80% of the time, I'm running normally, and
10% of the time, I'm dumping my power into a dump load. I use an (electric) air compressor to charge a compressed air tank. It's around 80% efficient, and gives me a source or power (compressed air) to power tools that would otherwise drain my batteries. Compressed air is a good way to store power for up to weeks if your tanks have virtually no leaks.
> Solar power only makes sense if you take 100% of
> the power the panels make. You can't throw it
> away the way battery people do.
How exactly do you propose to build such a system?
Andy Out!
1. Hugh Piggott has been building windmills from brake rotors (drum brakes) and plywood for decades. If you have the room, take a look at his books.
2. Savonius windmills also seem to be efficient, according to the Internet, but I have not tried it.
3. If you are lucky enough to have running water, look into micro-hydro-power and micro hydro generation. Water carries a lot more punch than air. Some people even use micro hydro on drain spouts from gutters on their roofs.
4. The real efficiency is not the percentage of the power in the air converted into electricity. The real efficiency is the cost per watt. We only care about efficiently using scarce resources. Land area to put up wind mills or solar cells is abundant. Money to finance these projects is scarce.
5. You use a lot of energy you don't see in water. Try collecting rain water off the roof and trying to use it in selected areas - flushing toilets, for example.
6. Big money people live grid-tie systems. I would rather power a bank of 12V batteries under a computer desk, and run my laptop & accessories off these batteries. If I don't generate enough 12V power, I can always plug in a battery charger.
7. Small-scale (100W) solar systems are available, from Northern Tool, Harbor Freight, Fry's etc.
8. The only economically viable "alternative" energy system I've seen is solar-thermal. 90% of power plants use heat to boil water and create steam, then they run turbines off the steam to generate electricity. You can do the same with solar heat to boil the water, but it's tricky and not safe for idiots.
9. Solar heating & solar hot water are possible. Take a look at the black tanks to pre-heat water that some build.
10. Learn to charge batteries - it's not as simple as it sounds. Learn as much about batteries as you can. I like 3 loads: emergency (red,) normal (yellow,) and dump (green.) The red socket will remain on if I have any power at all left in my 12V battery (i.e., if V > 12.0v.) The yellow socket will remain on if I have normal amounts of power, but it shuts down when I get close to being dead (i.e., V > 13.5v.) The green socket only comes on when I am dumping power (i.e., V> 15.0v.) Of course, you have to build hysteresis into this system or you get crazy on/off flickering. The dump load may be to run an air compressor or to pump water up hill, or to run a space heater / ac unit in an unused shed. If you don't have a dump load, you will overcharge your battery and ruin it. You also need to cut off all power at some voltage to avoid ruining your batteries.
11. Ways to store energy (other than batteries) include compressed air and pumping water.
Andy Out!
Membership in MADD is not a game, and it is not a joke. Membership in MADD is a choice, a violent crime and it is also 100 percent preventable. MADD is a domestic enemy of the Constitution of the United States of America. (1) MADD demands that cars be towed and impounded before trials, and as a part of "civil forfeiture." This demand that people be deprived of property without due process in violation of the 8th and 14th amendments. (2) MADD demands searches without warrants, including guestapo-style "checkpoints" in violation of the 4th amendments. (3) MADD uses tax payer money to demand changes to laws, drowning out my voice, in violation of the 1st amendment. I demand the execution of every MADD member for crimes against the Constitution of the United States of America. Andy Out!
Can we get even? I'd love to see a plug-in for my torrent client that can send a single packet complaint to the DNS servers of anyone who has recently ticked me off every time I start d/lin or u/ling a new block on a torrent. Andy
This sucks. Too bad Yahoo shut down their auctions. Andy
I've checked further at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ , and according to the United States Code (USC) using at least 5 forged IPs to send SPAM is illegal. I'm still checking the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR.)
Andy