Personally, I would be upset with both the Newspaper and the State. The only reason the State knows legally that you have a gun is by registering, which is frankly unconstitutional in itself. The State acted irresponsibly with the information releasing it to a Public source. I hope they get sued.
The Newspaper on the other hand should know better. Publishing this was strictly for propaganda purposes to further the current massive push to disarm Americans. I won't tell you if I own guns or how many, but will say this. Any American not concerned with the push for gun bans should be extremely alarmed. Read some fucking history books and notice what happens when tyrants in control have nothing to fear from the peasants. Yeah, it always works out so well, which is why the article is in the US Constitution.
Sue them both, and boycott the Newspaper to put them out of business! I'm sick of propaganda agencies supported by the Government. And bet your ass they got a check from the Government for running that article.
Lets not clear the FBI so quickly. This is worth reviewing before you dismiss them from guilt.
The FBI engaged in political repression almost from the time of the agency's inception in 1908, and antecedents to COINTELPRO operated during the FDR and Truman administrations. Centralized operations under COINTELPRO officially began in August 1956 with a program designed to "increase factionalism, cause disruption and win defections" inside the Communist Party U.S.A. (CPUSA). Tactics included anonymous phone calls, IRS audits, and the creation of documents that would divide American communists internally.[14] An October 1956 memo from Hoover reclassified the FBI's ongoing surveillance of black leaders, including it within COINTELPRO, with the justification that the movement was infiltrated by communists.[15] When the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was founded in 1957, the FBI began to monitor and target the group almost immediately, focusing particularly on Bayard Rustin, Stanley Levison, and Martin Luther King, Jr.[16]
Did you see the part I underlined and put in bold? Kind of obvious perhaps, but collaboration between government agencies is not new.
I have to add another section since you mentioned several things.
and how is it helpful to refer people to the videos of a man who was up to his eyeballs in the birther movement,
There are still questions, if everything was legit there would be no questions. Do you think that someone behind the scenes does not want the questions lingering? Hell, it keeps people from seeing what he's really doing. Jones is looking for answers, as are thousands of others. Nothing wrong with that really, but in my opinion they are being baited. Jones has a good sized staff though, and does not dwell much on this.
thinks that Kennedy was assassinated by The Powers That Be,
Again, this is an obvious inside job if you look at evidence. That was way the movie a couple years ago was so important and a big hit. More simply, the case was botched and people were lied too. Same with Bobby, but he never got the same media attention as John. Was it CIA, Mafia, KGB? Does it matter as much as the fact that you (and everyone else) was lied too?
and sold a video a bunch of worshipers of a Babylonian god (invented by Jones) are running the country?
Huh? Jones invented a Babylonian god? Nope, the worship of the owl goes back to Samaria I believe. He caught the leaders of your country on tape worshiping the owl, sacrificing a symbolic baby, all while wearing what appears to be demonic garb. So I'm not sure what you think Jones invented here. Just like we see Fred Phelps on video doing things we hate to see, I have no problem with people seeing what these people were doing. They should be questioning who was there and what the meaning of those rituals were. Hell, tax payers paid for the salaries of nearly every attendee (there were foreign Government leaders and a few business people there also) . I have never heard of one Government Official in attendance returning their daily salary.
Jones has been "exposing" so many fabulous conspiracies that I wonder how the people who organised 9/11 (including the famous tower 7 spectacular), killed Kennedy, and have been laying plans for the UN/FEMA mass murder of Americans let him continue dishing the dirt.
There are a few theories on why that is, some interesting reading in my opinion. It is obvious that they censor him, just look at Youtube. Some of his videos show 300 hits on some days, on a different account the video shows millions. They don't like the guy, that's for sure. You would have to prove that for yourself though, since anything I could offer would be speculation and conjecture.
We don't need Jones to know that governments lie to their citizens, and that moneyed interests have may too much sway over our lives.
Lets not generalize you as "normal" or average. Look at the "Average" citizen. They only see what Fox, NBC, and ABC show them, and only know what they are told. They have never studied rhetoric, never studied critical thinking, and therefor have no ability to defend themselves against fallacy. So "you" don't need to be woken up, however: In order to effect change, the "Average" needs to be woken up and taught. See where I'm going? Without numbers, there can be no change.
Scarcity of facts is no excuse for outright confabulation.
Sometimes it's critical that you use the enemies weapons against them. Look again at the "Average" person. What will get their attention more? The truth, or treats like demons and devils? The masses have been hypnotized by media, and are being continually brain washed. It takes loud noises to wake some people up. I'm okay with yelling if that's what it takes. After people are awake, they tend to learn and find ways of defending themselves from both sets of fantasy. Asleep, they only get what is being injected into them by controlled media. It takes a shock to the foundation of their beliefs to make them see that they are being duped. They have to be force to question the reality that is being presented to them.
I'll say this also. There are many things on Infowars which are dead on and correct. Not all, sure, but a whole lot of the videos are spot on and 100% accurate. The fabrications and fantasy parts are there, sure.. it's a way for him to sell goods and make a living. Hence, I don't believe that the Fred Phelps analogy is correct. Also, even Alex has been duped by the shams our Government is putting on. He was a believer at first that Osama took down the Twin towers, hell they had us all fooled. After we had conclusive proof of wrong doing in building 7, he started to question the whole thing more.
Why can he accuse Obama of setting-up death camps throughout the US, yet I can't accuse you of being a plant?
You can accuse me, and you did accuse me. I think I did well enough defending myself. I did not say "don't accuse me", I said "either wake people up or shut the fuck up." Not a nice statement I agree, but it was a response to a not so nice accusation. Further, it is a message which I believe to be vital vital. Waking people up is critical. If it means sending them to Alex Jones to wake them up, why not? As I mentioned above, we can not gain any momentum for change without numbers.
Every day, I try to wake at least 1 person up. It's not an easy task, trust me I have been doing this for a long time. Thankfully I'm not alone, but honestly we need more people waking others up. You seem to be awake, so why not join the fight? Society looks pretty bleak rather quickly if we don't get people motivated.
If your work is mostly writing code and sometimes using the browser/email, you won't be pleased with windows. But for those tasks, you don't even need a windowmanager. I changed jobs recently, and now my job is mostly writing code. Almost everyone uses linux as their main DE, (except me and some other weird guys). I deliver more, faster and with better quality than most of the other programmers - which is odd, because we actually develop software to be run on linux servers. I use windows coupled with linux virtual machines and filesystem mapping, plus usually half a dozen ssh terminals. Why, you ask? Because it allows me to focus on my work instead of going out of my way trying to figure out why a specific feature isn't working as expected.
That itself is very narrow minded. How about an Engineer running CAE software that needs to perform meshing or CAD manipulation at the same time? How about people compiling large sets of code that need to work on other code? That's the strength of *nix, in multitasking. I run benchmark testing every year with the latest greatest Windows tuned however our windows admins like, against stock RH installs with no tuning. It's a night and day difference for users that push a computer.
For you, why not do what most *nix guys do and run a TS session on Linux? Gives you word without the limitations of Windows? You choose the alternative for some reason. Seems obtuse to me, but then again I run KDevelop more than Eclipse.
Back to your first point, the reason for the debate regarding Windows is that people stated *nix was inferior in every way. The point in not just my post, but numerous others is to debunk that myth.
To the second point about marketing, the difference is that MS pays a shitload of money to advertise, threatens vendors and BSA audits when people advertise others, and have flat out sued competing products (SCO vs. IBM, follow the money trail). It's yet another shitty business practice by MS, which is honestly a big reason that so many people with IT knowledge hate the company.
I agree that a tool is a tool (not in the diluted snarky sense), but the majority of people only see a hammer (MS). When they find out that there are much more comprehensive tools they enjoy using them.
However, it's easy to back the "Cold War" and the investments we made into the military industrial complex. While some will argue that we created and financed communism, there was a real threat looming for a long time. The US's advancements and spending in the MIC ended the war peacefully. I'm not saying it was not a massive false flag, there are facts showing it as just that.. just that the solution worked.
The other thing with the Cold war, was that it did not help a police state at all. US Citizens were concerned with defending themselves. If anything, it would hurt a police state. The Japanese invasion of California and Pearl Harbor were fresh in people's minds for decades after WW II.
Simplify the messages from Alex a bit. This is a basic teaching in Logic and Rhetoric which you lack or intentionally ignore. Take away the messages about "evil devil worshipers" and see what the facts given show. It's corruption at such a level that you can't begin to comprehend (Nor can I, and I have been digging for 2 decades. Every day am shocked the things I learn). Then again, perhaps you do know, and are just a shill? Your post history does not indicate that you are, but one never knows.
Whether the purpose of the conspiracy is "greed", or "devil worship", or "illuminati", or what ever you want to inject, the facts showing that a conspiracy exists are not deniable. What we "could" argue, but should not argue, is the underlying motive.
Pay attention to that last sentence for a while. If we focus on the underlying motive we'll never get to a point where we can fix anything. This division is what some want. It's being pushed actively by main stream media currently. Class war and race war is being used to keep people looking at everything except for what's going on.
Because facts are sparse, I think Alex Jones is a good place for people to start to wake up. It's kind of like a shock treatment, and works very well for some people. Production is good and people that are only tuned to TV will catch on quickly. Ventura's books are another good starting point, but who the hell reads today? The facts that they both present can not be disputed.
To answer your accusation, the answer is No! I get no benefit from Alex Jones and you should check people's post history before making false accusations. I get moral personal benefit by trying to wake people up, nothing more (if you understand Religion you will understand that statement). You can check my post history, I don't push someone else's agenda. I tell people to wake up and look at the truth, and try to show them the way to find it.
To counter your last statement: I have never taken a Government check with the exception of 2 weeks where I was forced to take unemployment. Since I was 16 years old, and could drive, I have worked full time. I spent 5 years in the US Army, I put myself through College (I was enlisted during VEAP, go study to see the laughable amount of money I received for College). I spent additional time and money after graduation furthering my education. For over twenty years I have built a pretty solid reputation in IT. I built the first 2 secure labs in the US at a non-military complex, built VR systems, developed applications to make peoples lives easier, mentor people, and teach people. All that while, I have been a single parent since my kid was 9 months old.
If you study Socrates, you will find my personal role model.
So you can guess where I'll tell you to cram your personal defamation.
Either help people to wake up, or shut the fuck up. Distortion and false accusations do neither.
Come on people, get with it! You realize that Facebook is owned by a member of the "family" right? Look at who the owner is related to, and what they are doing for the Government. I'll bet that after they get paid by the Government for spying, that US citizens actually pay them to exist and be a business.
Way before 2001, it's been since the 1960s. I served int he US Army, there are always conflicts. Many of which, you never heard of nor ever will. More obscure than Serbia, which they hid from the public for quite a long time. These are of course outside of the most obvious "War on Drugs" which has been a perpetual cesspool of sleaze and scum from both sides of the spectrum. The "war on terror" was just the latest target, and most publicized since the invasion of Iraq in 2001.
Lots of Reichstag history to pay attention to as well, though people will perpetually deny bad people are in government. It can't happen to us right?
Clearly you fail to see the truth, and simply repeat rhetoric spewed by people in power currently. This is not an issue of Democrat or Republican, and your belief that is it shows you are a fool. Both parties support the same corrupt back end.
Anyone that thinks otherwise is refusing to see, or look at the truth. I get it, it's hard on the mind when you start to learn that the beliefs you have are absolutely unfounded and false. It's called cognitive dissonance, and it's been known for thousands of years that people would rather be sheep than see the truth. Have doubts? Go read "The Allegory of the Cave". Plato and Socrates show you exactly what's going on.. you are watching a puppet show and reacting. Stepping outside of the cave is going to hurt your eyes and cause you to panic at first. But you will get better, fresh air and sunshine are healthier than you think!
Let me show you a few clues that I'm correct and you are ignorant. Bush never attempted to fix shit, and your belief that he did is a failure to see facts. Bush invaded Iraq for financial gain, as did Bush 1. Then he gave us the Patriot act, and you lost in a split second all of your rights to privacy. Obama has continued the trend, and the police state continues to increase. Is it accidental that no WMDs were ever found, and the media failed to follow through until anyone was prosecuted? Was building 7 accidental? Is the failure to prosecute any of the bankers guilty of fraud accidental? Nope, it's all intentional and you probably forget already that just 4 years ago our economy collapsed. It's better because you are told it's better? How do you ignore that unemployment is higher and every other standard of living indicator is down for everyone in the US?
If you want to get into other areas, how about we look at NAFTA. It was drafted by Reagan, passed by Clinton, and never argued about by Bush in 8 years or Obama. The obvious destructive nature of NAFTA was not good enough? How about the tax incentives and government programs paying businesses to move overseas? Get it? Outside of the "we are of this party" slogans they are the same thing!
I'm not saying that all Republicans or Democrats are bad, but they are an extreme minority. You won't hear them on main stream media or read about them in main stream news. Wow, just like the USSR we have a controlled media? Yes, we absolutely do.
The controlled media is making sure you vote for who they want. The Republican Caucus leaders in Iowa stated openly last year "We don't care what the public says, Ron Paul will not be on the ticket". That statement was made live on the radio, and of course you probably never heard it or never paid attention. The critical piece of logic is to take Ron Paul's name out of that statement. Anyone that "they" don't want won't be on the ticket. Do you get it? The Democracy is already dead, you are just too ignorant to realize it.
Get over the "them vs. us" and start looking at what's really going on. Read Democrypts and Rebloodlicans by Jesse Ventura, go watch some of the Alex Jones movies and you will start to get it. Wake the fuck up, and start waking other people up! Stop falling for the rhetoric that is pitting you against your brethren and look behind the curtains!
You have injected twice now that I stated it's easy, trivial, or simple to build a hardware hack which is absolutely not true. Is your point that you think building in hardware hacks is impossible? It's not impossible, and that fact has been proven over and over again.
Let me clarify a bit. Would it be harder to modify a CPU as opposed to adding logic to a board? Obviously the CPU mod would be much harder. Adding a sniffer circuit to a board is not impossibly complex. When you no longer control manufacturing, do you think it's impossible that it's done?
Now a valid argument would be that it would require a lot of resources to accomplish. Governments have those kind of resources. This is not about "you" hacking a component or two on to a board, we are talking about a few million dollars of research being able to do this.
It does not matter. I am an engineer, and my configuration of a desktop is conducive to complex engineering/software development work, therefore my requirements are legitimate, and Windows' inability to satisfy them is a flaw. Just because there are plenty of other engineers who have never seen anything other than Windows, does not mean that they do not suffer and do inferior job, or live shorter, more miserable lives, because of the deficiency of the environment forced on them.
You're probably the most desktop-happy person I've ever come across. I know, you can't even conceive the idea that other people - equally bright or brighter than you - opt for different things, or develop in different environment, Just because you probably work surrounded by monkeys, it is naive to assume everyone that doesn't agree with you is one.
Actually it's funny that you make such a claim. Every environment I worked in where I started using Linux had people saying "Damn, how come I can't do that?". Every site has had a percentage of their technical staff switch to either Linux or MacOS over Windows. Currently, I use Redhat and Fedora, the guy next to me uses Ubuntu, the 2 people opposite of us run MacOS. The other 2 guys with Windows have already submitted requests to move to Ubuntu. Hell, I have my mom running Fedora and she loves it. She browses and uses Open Office.
The point is, that most people only know Windows. That is not the same thing as Windows being better. Average users are ignorant, and media ensures that they stay that way. You would be amazed at how much people want to learn about alternatives to Windows and how easily they can pick up KDE.
I used to write apps against libX in the 90s and 00s, what are your credentials?
Oooh, I had a class in college too. In fact I wrote GUI apps for Windows in Borland Delphi (as well as apps in X, VUE, and CDE), but..to be honest I hated GUI coding and went to exclusively back ends.
Fanboi for Unix? haha, probably true.. but you are just as guilty as being a fanboi for MS. Face facts, without Citrix licensing MS would still not have any compression and optimization methods for TS.
The late 70s had some early graphics and experimental windowing systems, and started the development for what became X in 1984. Come now, are you foolish enough to believe that it was developed in in the course of a year? No, hardly. Lets not revise too much history shall we? Windows for Dos was nothing but a MS variant of Geoworks for Commodore, which was an adaptation of what Xerox and several other companies had.
I'm okay with you bashing the backing store for X. It's actually a valid target because it was not intuitive for people to consider. In the early days, not all X servers used it the same either. Then again, we had X, Motif, Vue, etc... etc... It was all being innovated and developed at a pretty quick pace. MS developed.. um, nothing really. I guess in the early 90s you may consider the registry their own, but it killed Windows for numerous people and has been a massive pain in the ass ever since. And don't "but but but", anyone can go to Symantec and read what's required to remove a virus Hint: The majority of the work comes in when trying to hack the Registry back to normal.
And lets keep the history revision at least honest. MS has never innovated anything, they only added marketing and spit to what others had before them. Name any product that MS claims to have innovated and most people that have been in the market for more than 15 years can cite numerous previous products that MS copied or stole from.
Actually, I did read your whole post. Let me say this as nicely as I can in analogy that may be easier to comprehend. If you don't understand the basics of what's happening how can I possibly address other points. Analogy: If you don't understand basic numbers, would I critique your wrong statements regarding integration? No, I would not waste the time. I would tell you that you lack the basic information required to make said statements regarding integration. Therefor, nothing you said can be trusted as truthful or honest.
The most common use case for me, is to have my laptop docked to a larger screen, where I have some applications running on my laptop screen, this could be a browser window on a laptop screen, e-mail client etc., and have my ssh windows open on the bigger screen, since code is more important to me, it gets the larger screen real estate. Linux, (maybe not Unity) but KDE, SUCKS MY BALLS for this
Funny that I do this same exact operation on my Linux laptop all the time with KDE. I have used this same feature on KDE since.. version 3.5 at least. It worked fine with an ATI Mobile chip, the intel chip, and now the NVidia chip. In Windows I have to use the cards driver set to make the same thing work in every case (Windows won't do this properly natively, or magically loses screen placement every few hours after coming out of a screen saver). In KDE, the control panel is all I needed with any chip set. It works every time, and remembers my configuration between boots every time. Windows on the other hand has poor behavioral issues. Un-docking for example sometimes causes a full reset. Sometimes it keeps the 2nd display when it's not attached and I can't see anything.
Yes, lets discount actual working remote desktop over even dialup,and lets trumpet outdated technology requiring a LAN
What the fuck? Come on now, X windows was built for remote connections. That was the reason scaling the resolution was difficult to do, because it changes the whole underlying infrastructure of X.
Terminal services basically stole every concept that X had since.. like.. the 1970s. X worked extremely well over dial up and LAN, and still does today. It's still more secure than MS products, less prone to MiM attacks, and has way more capabilities. Such as displaying an application or a full desktop, where TS is desktop only.
In fact, to go further.. MS had to buy a lot of technology from Citrix to accomplish anything at all with TS.
If you want to tell people how bad X is, at least do 10 minutes of research before doing so. KDE has been superior to Windows since version 3 in every sense (assuming you were using current hardware). Windows 7 in fact was full of gadget ideas stolen from KDE and MacOS (though the selection was and is laughable and it's poorly implemented).
[rant] I tire pretty quickly of the rants against KDE (and any other "Free" software for that reason) because someones one off, special case, old shit does not work. Usually that's followed by "KDE sucks because my special case bullshit works in Unity/Gnome/Xfce, etc..".
Here is a suggestion for people. If you have old special case bullshit, even if you paid a million dollars for it 15 years ago, go buy some new stuff.. or don't have the expectation that a new operating system will work with your old shit!. It is like expecting that your Model T tires fit and function on your 56 T-Bird, it's not sensible or logical. [/rant]
Who said it was easy? I never even insinuated a complexity level. It was recently suggested that MS had some government agents building in back doors in to Windows, which is how Stuxnet and flame were hitting Iran. Those back doors are anything but simple. Considering the lengths they are going to to muck with an OS, you think it's impossible for them to muck with hardware design? Think again.
Wrong! You absolutely don't understand the physical demands on the body based on what you wrote. The way that stereo image viewing works is that your eyes are forced to be used in an alternating pattern. This is not natural, your eyes naturally both work at the same time. Next, your eyes are forced to view these images at a fixed frequency which is much slower than eyes normally work. Lastly, the image being viewed in alternating patterns is not the same image. The camera focus is offset, as you mention, an eye distance apart. If you don't understand that the image is different then you are very slow, and I won't bother explaining.
Are you foolish enough to believe that because it's your eyes there can be no strain? Your eyes are not simply lenses as you portray. Muscles and nerves are required to focus on any image, and process that image. 3D viewing can be very stressful on both the nerves and the muscles. A simple proof is that people have different abilities to process the 3D on different days. Just like some days a person can see more clear than others, or some people can't wear contacts on some days due to stress on the eyes, or wearing glasses one day causes the eyes to be red and painful.
I guess someone thinks Linux needs a piece of shit spying variant to compete with like Apple, Google, and Microsoft. No thanks, I won't touch anything Ubuntu or Canonical ever.
I agree with your opening, however this: "If the image is "in" focus there is no reason for the eye muscles to strain in the first place." is absolutely based on a false premise. You are not looking at a tree with standard vision, you are looking at a simulated 3D image, so there is no "normal" as the eye is not made to view in this way. It's like saying nobody should have issues with artificial limbs because we have gotten better with technology. While one is a simulated physical device and the other is simulated 3D, neither are natural or "normal".
I mentioned that we have gotten better at doing things, even giving several examples of things we learned to change. A healthy percentage of eyes are not healthy, and those people will most often get headaches when trying to view these types of images and video. Even with healthy eyes factors have to be considered outside of the image itself. Numerous other influences can cause discomfort and pain. Increased adrenaline for example, elevated heart rate, being tired, etc...
This here is another point I disagree with, at least in your insinuation that viewing things in stereo is normal. "If your eye perceives light as coming from a particular distance, and the light focuses in a way that matches how light would focus from that distance, it shouldn't be any more stressful on the eye than if the light really were from that far away". Remember that this is a manipulation of your mind to make you think you see things with depth. Read up on what this takes to accomplish this. Remember that the reason you can see simulated depth is that you break down the eyes normal mechanisms for viewing depth, and remove the eyes normal continuous viewing ability.
Is it even safe to buy individual computer components and assemble one's own machine?
Again, usually it would be. It seems like software is typically the vector of attack. Hardware much less often comes with built-in vulnerabilities.
Probably not at all, and it's one of those things I have spoken about for 2 decades. What we see in software attack vectors is just because it's easy and known to be easy. Outsourcing our hardware manufacturing to overseas has opened new doors to hardware compromise. This is in addition of course, to what your own government injects as back doors in to hardware.
Think of the simple: All NIC drivers see a specific code in a buffer and shut down. Do you realize how much damage this would cause if lets say China decides to hit the US with a cyber attack? Worse, all your CPUs go into overclock and burn themselves up, mother boards draw too much power and burn up. This of course could cause fires, as well as the obvious damage to the computer.
Thing is, we simply don't know what has been done to hardware. Just because you don't see hacks does not mean that they are there, just that you have not seen them.
Does that mean you should live in a shoebox? Hardly, at least in my opinion. Business as usual until something happens, no reason to live paranoid. But expect that even the hardware you buy opens back doors, fails, or starts fires if someone so wishes. Nope, I have no trust for anything under "government" control.
Most people get headaches because their eyes can not focus properly on the generated images. Eye muscle health plays a huge role in both comfort and the ability to see 3D. To compensate for "normal" eye damage they can use faster frame rates, reduced depth, and high color separation. There are many studies on this, remember that stereo viewing goes back 30+ years. Longer if you count the old analogue systems. (Analogue is the old cardboard glasses with red and blue plastic lenses).
Government studies on stereoscopic viewing shows that viewing artificially created 3D can lead to a loss of depth perception. I built 2 different 3D CAVE/powerwall systems at the DOD. Engineers were limited to 5 hours per week which was considered the safe exposure rate. Viewing generated 3D can be used in some cases to treat strabismus, but normal eyes it's known to cause strabismus (more easily termed, permanent lazy eye).
Of course Hollywood would never tell you about such dangers since it would hurt their bottom line. Here is a link of note, which is important to note "1 + 2 = if you use stereo 3D routinely and intensively, you will develop strabismus, period. Government studies showed that damage is not always from "routine" and "intensive" viewing. 8 hours a week had a very high rate of eye damage which is why we limited Engineers to 5 hours.
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Personally, I would be upset with both the Newspaper and the State. The only reason the State knows legally that you have a gun is by registering, which is frankly unconstitutional in itself. The State acted irresponsibly with the information releasing it to a Public source. I hope they get sued.
The Newspaper on the other hand should know better. Publishing this was strictly for propaganda purposes to further the current massive push to disarm Americans. I won't tell you if I own guns or how many, but will say this. Any American not concerned with the push for gun bans should be extremely alarmed. Read some fucking history books and notice what happens when tyrants in control have nothing to fear from the peasants. Yeah, it always works out so well, which is why the article is in the US Constitution.
Sue them both, and boycott the Newspaper to put them out of business! I'm sick of propaganda agencies supported by the Government. And bet your ass they got a check from the Government for running that article.
Lets not clear the FBI so quickly. This is worth reviewing before you dismiss them from guilt.
The FBI engaged in political repression almost from the time of the agency's inception in 1908, and antecedents to COINTELPRO operated during the FDR and Truman administrations. Centralized operations under COINTELPRO officially began in August 1956 with a program designed to "increase factionalism, cause disruption and win defections" inside the Communist Party U.S.A. (CPUSA). Tactics included anonymous phone calls, IRS audits, and the creation of documents that would divide American communists internally.[14] An October 1956 memo from Hoover reclassified the FBI's ongoing surveillance of black leaders, including it within COINTELPRO, with the justification that the movement was infiltrated by communists.[15] When the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was founded in 1957, the FBI began to monitor and target the group almost immediately, focusing particularly on Bayard Rustin, Stanley Levison, and Martin Luther King, Jr.[16]
Did you see the part I underlined and put in bold? Kind of obvious perhaps, but collaboration between government agencies is not new.
I have to add another section since you mentioned several things.
and how is it helpful to refer people to the videos of a man who was up to his eyeballs in the birther movement,
There are still questions, if everything was legit there would be no questions. Do you think that someone behind the scenes does not want the questions lingering? Hell, it keeps people from seeing what he's really doing. Jones is looking for answers, as are thousands of others. Nothing wrong with that really, but in my opinion they are being baited. Jones has a good sized staff though, and does not dwell much on this.
thinks that Kennedy was assassinated by The Powers That Be,
Again, this is an obvious inside job if you look at evidence. That was way the movie a couple years ago was so important and a big hit. More simply, the case was botched and people were lied too. Same with Bobby, but he never got the same media attention as John. Was it CIA, Mafia, KGB? Does it matter as much as the fact that you (and everyone else) was lied too?
and sold a video a bunch of worshipers of a Babylonian god (invented by Jones) are running the country?
Huh? Jones invented a Babylonian god? Nope, the worship of the owl goes back to Samaria I believe. He caught the leaders of your country on tape worshiping the owl, sacrificing a symbolic baby, all while wearing what appears to be demonic garb. So I'm not sure what you think Jones invented here. Just like we see Fred Phelps on video doing things we hate to see, I have no problem with people seeing what these people were doing. They should be questioning who was there and what the meaning of those rituals were. Hell, tax payers paid for the salaries of nearly every attendee (there were foreign Government leaders and a few business people there also) . I have never heard of one Government Official in attendance returning their daily salary.
Jones has been "exposing" so many fabulous conspiracies that I wonder how the people who organised 9/11 (including the famous tower 7 spectacular), killed Kennedy, and have been laying plans for the UN/FEMA mass murder of Americans let him continue dishing the dirt.
There are a few theories on why that is, some interesting reading in my opinion. It is obvious that they censor him, just look at Youtube. Some of his videos show 300 hits on some days, on a different account the video shows millions. They don't like the guy, that's for sure. You would have to prove that for yourself though, since anything I could offer would be speculation and conjecture.
We don't need Jones to know that governments lie to their citizens, and that moneyed interests have may too much sway over our lives.
Lets not generalize you as "normal" or average. Look at the "Average" citizen. They only see what Fox, NBC, and ABC show them, and only know what they are told. They have never studied rhetoric, never studied critical thinking, and therefor have no ability to defend themselves against fallacy. So "you" don't need to be woken up, however: In order to effect change, the "Average" needs to be woken up and taught. See where I'm going? Without numbers, there can be no change.
Scarcity of facts is no excuse for outright confabulation.
Sometimes it's critical that you use the enemies weapons against them. Look again at the "Average" person. What will get their attention more? The truth, or treats like demons and devils? The masses have been hypnotized by media, and are being continually brain washed. It takes loud noises to wake some people up. I'm okay with yelling if that's what it takes. After people are awake, they tend to learn and find ways of defending themselves from both sets of fantasy. Asleep, they only get what is being injected into them by controlled media. It takes a shock to the foundation of their beliefs to make them see that they are being duped. They have to be force to question the reality that is being presented to them.
I'll say this also. There are many things on Infowars which are dead on and correct. Not all, sure, but a whole lot of the videos are spot on and 100% accurate. The fabrications and fantasy parts are there, sure.. it's a way for him to sell goods and make a living. Hence, I don't believe that the Fred Phelps analogy is correct. Also, even Alex has been duped by the shams our Government is putting on. He was a believer at first that Osama took down the Twin towers, hell they had us all fooled. After we had conclusive proof of wrong doing in building 7, he started to question the whole thing more.
Why can he accuse Obama of setting-up death camps throughout the US, yet I can't accuse you of being a plant?
You can accuse me, and you did accuse me. I think I did well enough defending myself. I did not say "don't accuse me", I said "either wake people up or shut the fuck up." Not a nice statement I agree, but it was a response to a not so nice accusation. Further, it is a message which I believe to be vital vital. Waking people up is critical. If it means sending them to Alex Jones to wake them up, why not? As I mentioned above, we can not gain any momentum for change without numbers.
Every day, I try to wake at least 1 person up. It's not an easy task, trust me I have been doing this for a long time. Thankfully I'm not alone, but honestly we need more people waking others up. You seem to be awake, so why not join the fight? Society looks pretty bleak rather quickly if we don't get people motivated.
Peace
If your work is mostly writing code and sometimes using the browser/email, you won't be pleased with windows. But for those tasks, you don't even need a windowmanager. I changed jobs recently, and now my job is mostly writing code. Almost everyone uses linux as their main DE, (except me and some other weird guys). I deliver more, faster and with better quality than most of the other programmers - which is odd, because we actually develop software to be run on linux servers. I use windows coupled with linux virtual machines and filesystem mapping, plus usually half a dozen ssh terminals. Why, you ask? Because it allows me to focus on my work instead of going out of my way trying to figure out why a specific feature isn't working as expected.
That itself is very narrow minded. How about an Engineer running CAE software that needs to perform meshing or CAD manipulation at the same time? How about people compiling large sets of code that need to work on other code? That's the strength of *nix, in multitasking. I run benchmark testing every year with the latest greatest Windows tuned however our windows admins like, against stock RH installs with no tuning. It's a night and day difference for users that push a computer.
For you, why not do what most *nix guys do and run a TS session on Linux? Gives you word without the limitations of Windows? You choose the alternative for some reason. Seems obtuse to me, but then again I run KDevelop more than Eclipse.
Back to your first point, the reason for the debate regarding Windows is that people stated *nix was inferior in every way. The point in not just my post, but numerous others is to debunk that myth.
To the second point about marketing, the difference is that MS pays a shitload of money to advertise, threatens vendors and BSA audits when people advertise others, and have flat out sued competing products (SCO vs. IBM, follow the money trail). It's yet another shitty business practice by MS, which is honestly a big reason that so many people with IT knowledge hate the company.
I agree that a tool is a tool (not in the diluted snarky sense), but the majority of people only see a hammer (MS). When they find out that there are much more comprehensive tools they enjoy using them.
However, it's easy to back the "Cold War" and the investments we made into the military industrial complex. While some will argue that we created and financed communism, there was a real threat looming for a long time. The US's advancements and spending in the MIC ended the war peacefully. I'm not saying it was not a massive false flag, there are facts showing it as just that.. just that the solution worked.
The other thing with the Cold war, was that it did not help a police state at all. US Citizens were concerned with defending themselves. If anything, it would hurt a police state. The Japanese invasion of California and Pearl Harbor were fresh in people's minds for decades after WW II.
Simplify the messages from Alex a bit. This is a basic teaching in Logic and Rhetoric which you lack or intentionally ignore. Take away the messages about "evil devil worshipers" and see what the facts given show. It's corruption at such a level that you can't begin to comprehend (Nor can I, and I have been digging for 2 decades. Every day am shocked the things I learn). Then again, perhaps you do know, and are just a shill? Your post history does not indicate that you are, but one never knows.
Whether the purpose of the conspiracy is "greed", or "devil worship", or "illuminati", or what ever you want to inject, the facts showing that a conspiracy exists are not deniable. What we "could" argue, but should not argue, is the underlying motive.
Pay attention to that last sentence for a while. If we focus on the underlying motive we'll never get to a point where we can fix anything. This division is what some want. It's being pushed actively by main stream media currently. Class war and race war is being used to keep people looking at everything except for what's going on.
Because facts are sparse, I think Alex Jones is a good place for people to start to wake up. It's kind of like a shock treatment, and works very well for some people. Production is good and people that are only tuned to TV will catch on quickly. Ventura's books are another good starting point, but who the hell reads today? The facts that they both present can not be disputed.
To answer your accusation, the answer is No! I get no benefit from Alex Jones and you should check people's post history before making false accusations. I get moral personal benefit by trying to wake people up, nothing more (if you understand Religion you will understand that statement). You can check my post history, I don't push someone else's agenda. I tell people to wake up and look at the truth, and try to show them the way to find it.
To counter your last statement: I have never taken a Government check with the exception of 2 weeks where I was forced to take unemployment. Since I was 16 years old, and could drive, I have worked full time. I spent 5 years in the US Army, I put myself through College (I was enlisted during VEAP, go study to see the laughable amount of money I received for College). I spent additional time and money after graduation furthering my education. For over twenty years I have built a pretty solid reputation in IT. I built the first 2 secure labs in the US at a non-military complex, built VR systems, developed applications to make peoples lives easier, mentor people, and teach people. All that while, I have been a single parent since my kid was 9 months old.
If you study Socrates, you will find my personal role model.
So you can guess where I'll tell you to cram your personal defamation.
Either help people to wake up, or shut the fuck up. Distortion and false accusations do neither.
Come on people, get with it! You realize that Facebook is owned by a member of the "family" right? Look at who the owner is related to, and what they are doing for the Government. I'll bet that after they get paid by the Government for spying, that US citizens actually pay them to exist and be a business.
/sigh
Way before 2001, it's been since the 1960s. I served int he US Army, there are always conflicts. Many of which, you never heard of nor ever will. More obscure than Serbia, which they hid from the public for quite a long time. These are of course outside of the most obvious "War on Drugs" which has been a perpetual cesspool of sleaze and scum from both sides of the spectrum. The "war on terror" was just the latest target, and most publicized since the invasion of Iraq in 2001.
Lots of Reichstag history to pay attention to as well, though people will perpetually deny bad people are in government. It can't happen to us right?
Clearly you fail to see the truth, and simply repeat rhetoric spewed by people in power currently. This is not an issue of Democrat or Republican, and your belief that is it shows you are a fool. Both parties support the same corrupt back end.
Anyone that thinks otherwise is refusing to see, or look at the truth. I get it, it's hard on the mind when you start to learn that the beliefs you have are absolutely unfounded and false. It's called cognitive dissonance, and it's been known for thousands of years that people would rather be sheep than see the truth. Have doubts? Go read "The Allegory of the Cave". Plato and Socrates show you exactly what's going on.. you are watching a puppet show and reacting. Stepping outside of the cave is going to hurt your eyes and cause you to panic at first. But you will get better, fresh air and sunshine are healthier than you think!
Let me show you a few clues that I'm correct and you are ignorant. Bush never attempted to fix shit, and your belief that he did is a failure to see facts. Bush invaded Iraq for financial gain, as did Bush 1. Then he gave us the Patriot act, and you lost in a split second all of your rights to privacy. Obama has continued the trend, and the police state continues to increase. Is it accidental that no WMDs were ever found, and the media failed to follow through until anyone was prosecuted? Was building 7 accidental? Is the failure to prosecute any of the bankers guilty of fraud accidental? Nope, it's all intentional and you probably forget already that just 4 years ago our economy collapsed. It's better because you are told it's better? How do you ignore that unemployment is higher and every other standard of living indicator is down for everyone in the US?
If you want to get into other areas, how about we look at NAFTA. It was drafted by Reagan, passed by Clinton, and never argued about by Bush in 8 years or Obama. The obvious destructive nature of NAFTA was not good enough? How about the tax incentives and government programs paying businesses to move overseas? Get it? Outside of the "we are of this party" slogans they are the same thing!
I'm not saying that all Republicans or Democrats are bad, but they are an extreme minority. You won't hear them on main stream media or read about them in main stream news. Wow, just like the USSR we have a controlled media? Yes, we absolutely do.
The controlled media is making sure you vote for who they want. The Republican Caucus leaders in Iowa stated openly last year "We don't care what the public says, Ron Paul will not be on the ticket". That statement was made live on the radio, and of course you probably never heard it or never paid attention. The critical piece of logic is to take Ron Paul's name out of that statement. Anyone that "they" don't want won't be on the ticket. Do you get it? The Democracy is already dead, you are just too ignorant to realize it.
Get over the "them vs. us" and start looking at what's really going on. Read Democrypts and Rebloodlicans by Jesse Ventura, go watch some of the Alex Jones movies and you will start to get it. Wake the fuck up, and start waking other people up! Stop falling for the rhetoric that is pitting you against your brethren and look behind the curtains!
You have injected twice now that I stated it's easy, trivial, or simple to build a hardware hack which is absolutely not true. Is your point that you think building in hardware hacks is impossible? It's not impossible, and that fact has been proven over and over again.
Let me clarify a bit. Would it be harder to modify a CPU as opposed to adding logic to a board? Obviously the CPU mod would be much harder. Adding a sniffer circuit to a board is not impossibly complex. When you no longer control manufacturing, do you think it's impossible that it's done?
Now a valid argument would be that it would require a lot of resources to accomplish. Governments have those kind of resources. This is not about "you" hacking a component or two on to a board, we are talking about a few million dollars of research being able to do this.
"all your bath salts are belong to us."
It does not matter. I am an engineer, and my configuration of a desktop is conducive to complex engineering/software development work, therefore my requirements are legitimate, and Windows' inability to satisfy them is a flaw. Just because there are plenty of other engineers who have never seen anything other than Windows, does not mean that they do not suffer and do inferior job, or live shorter, more miserable lives, because of the deficiency of the environment forced on them.
You're probably the most desktop-happy person I've ever come across. I know, you can't even conceive the idea that other people - equally bright or brighter than you - opt for different things, or develop in different environment, Just because you probably work surrounded by monkeys, it is naive to assume everyone that doesn't agree with you is one.
Actually it's funny that you make such a claim. Every environment I worked in where I started using Linux had people saying "Damn, how come I can't do that?". Every site has had a percentage of their technical staff switch to either Linux or MacOS over Windows. Currently, I use Redhat and Fedora, the guy next to me uses Ubuntu, the 2 people opposite of us run MacOS. The other 2 guys with Windows have already submitted requests to move to Ubuntu. Hell, I have my mom running Fedora and she loves it. She browses and uses Open Office.
The point is, that most people only know Windows. That is not the same thing as Windows being better. Average users are ignorant, and media ensures that they stay that way. You would be amazed at how much people want to learn about alternatives to Windows and how easily they can pick up KDE.
I used to write apps against libX in the 90s and 00s, what are your credentials?
Oooh, I had a class in college too. In fact I wrote GUI apps for Windows in Borland Delphi (as well as apps in X, VUE, and CDE), but..to be honest I hated GUI coding and went to exclusively back ends.
Fanboi for Unix? haha, probably true.. but you are just as guilty as being a fanboi for MS. Face facts, without Citrix licensing MS would still not have any compression and optimization methods for TS.
The late 70s had some early graphics and experimental windowing systems, and started the development for what became X in 1984. Come now, are you foolish enough to believe that it was developed in in the course of a year? No, hardly. Lets not revise too much history shall we? Windows for Dos was nothing but a MS variant of Geoworks for Commodore, which was an adaptation of what Xerox and several other companies had.
I'm okay with you bashing the backing store for X. It's actually a valid target because it was not intuitive for people to consider. In the early days, not all X servers used it the same either. Then again, we had X, Motif, Vue, etc... etc... It was all being innovated and developed at a pretty quick pace. MS developed.. um, nothing really. I guess in the early 90s you may consider the registry their own, but it killed Windows for numerous people and has been a massive pain in the ass ever since. And don't "but but but", anyone can go to Symantec and read what's required to remove a virus Hint: The majority of the work comes in when trying to hack the Registry back to normal.
And lets keep the history revision at least honest. MS has never innovated anything, they only added marketing and spit to what others had before them. Name any product that MS claims to have innovated and most people that have been in the market for more than 15 years can cite numerous previous products that MS copied or stole from.
Actually, I did read your whole post. Let me say this as nicely as I can in analogy that may be easier to comprehend. If you don't understand the basics of what's happening how can I possibly address other points. Analogy: If you don't understand basic numbers, would I critique your wrong statements regarding integration? No, I would not waste the time. I would tell you that you lack the basic information required to make said statements regarding integration. Therefor, nothing you said can be trusted as truthful or honest.
The most common use case for me, is to have my laptop docked to a larger screen, where I have some applications running on my laptop screen, this could be a browser window on a laptop screen, e-mail client etc., and have my ssh windows open on the bigger screen, since code is more important to me, it gets the larger screen real estate. Linux, (maybe not Unity) but KDE, SUCKS MY BALLS for this
Funny that I do this same exact operation on my Linux laptop all the time with KDE. I have used this same feature on KDE since.. version 3.5 at least. It worked fine with an ATI Mobile chip, the intel chip, and now the NVidia chip. In Windows I have to use the cards driver set to make the same thing work in every case (Windows won't do this properly natively, or magically loses screen placement every few hours after coming out of a screen saver). In KDE, the control panel is all I needed with any chip set. It works every time, and remembers my configuration between boots every time. Windows on the other hand has poor behavioral issues. Un-docking for example sometimes causes a full reset. Sometimes it keeps the 2nd display when it's not attached and I can't see anything.
Yes, lets discount actual working remote desktop over even dialup,and lets trumpet outdated technology requiring a LAN
What the fuck? Come on now, X windows was built for remote connections. That was the reason scaling the resolution was difficult to do, because it changes the whole underlying infrastructure of X.
Terminal services basically stole every concept that X had since.. like.. the 1970s. X worked extremely well over dial up and LAN, and still does today. It's still more secure than MS products, less prone to MiM attacks, and has way more capabilities. Such as displaying an application or a full desktop, where TS is desktop only.
In fact, to go further.. MS had to buy a lot of technology from Citrix to accomplish anything at all with TS.
If you want to tell people how bad X is, at least do 10 minutes of research before doing so. KDE has been superior to Windows since version 3 in every sense (assuming you were using current hardware). Windows 7 in fact was full of gadget ideas stolen from KDE and MacOS (though the selection was and is laughable and it's poorly implemented).
I very much agree with you!
[rant] I tire pretty quickly of the rants against KDE (and any other "Free" software for that reason) because someones one off, special case, old shit does not work. Usually that's followed by "KDE sucks because my special case bullshit works in Unity/Gnome/Xfce, etc..".
Here is a suggestion for people. If you have old special case bullshit, even if you paid a million dollars for it 15 years ago, go buy some new stuff.. or don't have the expectation that a new operating system will work with your old shit!. It is like expecting that your Model T tires fit and function on your 56 T-Bird, it's not sensible or logical. [/rant]
Who said it was easy? I never even insinuated a complexity level. It was recently suggested that MS had some government agents building in back doors in to Windows, which is how Stuxnet and flame were hitting Iran. Those back doors are anything but simple. Considering the lengths they are going to to muck with an OS, you think it's impossible for them to muck with hardware design? Think again.
Wrong! You absolutely don't understand the physical demands on the body based on what you wrote. The way that stereo image viewing works is that your eyes are forced to be used in an alternating pattern. This is not natural, your eyes naturally both work at the same time. Next, your eyes are forced to view these images at a fixed frequency which is much slower than eyes normally work. Lastly, the image being viewed in alternating patterns is not the same image. The camera focus is offset, as you mention, an eye distance apart. If you don't understand that the image is different then you are very slow, and I won't bother explaining.
Are you foolish enough to believe that because it's your eyes there can be no strain? Your eyes are not simply lenses as you portray. Muscles and nerves are required to focus on any image, and process that image. 3D viewing can be very stressful on both the nerves and the muscles. A simple proof is that people have different abilities to process the 3D on different days. Just like some days a person can see more clear than others, or some people can't wear contacts on some days due to stress on the eyes, or wearing glasses one day causes the eyes to be red and painful.
I guess someone thinks Linux needs a piece of shit spying variant to compete with like Apple, Google, and Microsoft. No thanks, I won't touch anything Ubuntu or Canonical ever.
I agree with your opening, however this: "If the image is "in" focus there is no reason for the eye muscles to strain in the first place." is absolutely based on a false premise. You are not looking at a tree with standard vision, you are looking at a simulated 3D image, so there is no "normal" as the eye is not made to view in this way. It's like saying nobody should have issues with artificial limbs because we have gotten better with technology. While one is a simulated physical device and the other is simulated 3D, neither are natural or "normal".
I mentioned that we have gotten better at doing things, even giving several examples of things we learned to change. A healthy percentage of eyes are not healthy, and those people will most often get headaches when trying to view these types of images and video. Even with healthy eyes factors have to be considered outside of the image itself. Numerous other influences can cause discomfort and pain. Increased adrenaline for example, elevated heart rate, being tired, etc...
This here is another point I disagree with, at least in your insinuation that viewing things in stereo is normal. "If your eye perceives light as coming from a particular distance, and the light focuses in a way that matches how light would focus from that distance, it shouldn't be any more stressful on the eye than if the light really were from that far away". Remember that this is a manipulation of your mind to make you think you see things with depth. Read up on what this takes to accomplish this. Remember that the reason you can see simulated depth is that you break down the eyes normal mechanisms for viewing depth, and remove the eyes normal continuous viewing ability.
Is it safe to buy a PC from any manufacturer?
Not any, but likely most.
Is it even safe to buy individual computer components and assemble one's own machine?
Again, usually it would be. It seems like software is typically the vector of attack. Hardware much less often comes with built-in vulnerabilities.
Probably not at all, and it's one of those things I have spoken about for 2 decades. What we see in software attack vectors is just because it's easy and known to be easy. Outsourcing our hardware manufacturing to overseas has opened new doors to hardware compromise. This is in addition of course, to what your own government injects as back doors in to hardware.
Think of the simple: All NIC drivers see a specific code in a buffer and shut down. Do you realize how much damage this would cause if lets say China decides to hit the US with a cyber attack? Worse, all your CPUs go into overclock and burn themselves up, mother boards draw too much power and burn up. This of course could cause fires, as well as the obvious damage to the computer.
Thing is, we simply don't know what has been done to hardware. Just because you don't see hacks does not mean that they are there, just that you have not seen them.
Does that mean you should live in a shoebox? Hardly, at least in my opinion. Business as usual until something happens, no reason to live paranoid. But expect that even the hardware you buy opens back doors, fails, or starts fires if someone so wishes. Nope, I have no trust for anything under "government" control.
Most people get headaches because their eyes can not focus properly on the generated images. Eye muscle health plays a huge role in both comfort and the ability to see 3D. To compensate for "normal" eye damage they can use faster frame rates, reduced depth, and high color separation. There are many studies on this, remember that stereo viewing goes back 30+ years. Longer if you count the old analogue systems. (Analogue is the old cardboard glasses with red and blue plastic lenses).
Government studies on stereoscopic viewing shows that viewing artificially created 3D can lead to a loss of depth perception. I built 2 different 3D CAVE/powerwall systems at the DOD. Engineers were limited to 5 hours per week which was considered the safe exposure rate. Viewing generated 3D can be used in some cases to treat strabismus, but normal eyes it's known to cause strabismus (more easily termed, permanent lazy eye).
Of course Hollywood would never tell you about such dangers since it would hurt their bottom line. Here is a link of note, which is important to note " 1 + 2 = if you use stereo 3D routinely and intensively, you will develop strabismus, period. Government studies showed that damage is not always from "routine" and "intensive" viewing. 8 hours a week had a very high rate of eye damage which is why we limited Engineers to 5 hours.