For a very complete history of the issue going back before the American revolution. It is written by Attorney Larry Becraft. For even more information take a look at his site:
Fact: there are a lot of wierd loonies arround talking utter drivel.
Fact: Article 1 Section 8 Para 5 gives the (exclusive) power to the federal govt to 'coin' money. Art 1 Sec 10 Para 1, limits the states to *only* allowing gold or silver 'coin' as legal tender. Thus the monetary system is illegal because the federal govt ceded it's power to 'coin' money to a seperate (private) entity, and that money is not backed by any hard currency as specifically required by the federal constitution.
Fact: Stupid people find it a lot easier to call someone crazy then to make the mental effort to attempt to understand their point of view.
Who every thought that gold would be more stable than curency.
Fact: Gold has about the same approximate buying power today as it did 100 years ago. US currency has approximately 1/100th the buying power today as it did 100 years ago.
Fact: Since ~1950 the Federal Reserve note has not been backed by ANY hard currency; it is worthless fiat paper.
Fact: 'US Dollars' have not been in existence for 40 years now. (The last of them was the Kennedy era red seal, silver certificates)
Fact: The Federal Reserve is about as 'federal' as Fed Ex; it is a private corporation.
Fact: The current monetary system is illegal according to the US constitution
Point: Tell me again that fiat paper gives us a stable economy when Greenspan can swing our entire economic system with the Federal Reserve's arbitrary change of an interest point?
Obviosuly written by someone that didn't completly understand what was going on.
The 'hacking community'? I've NEVER heard to it refered to in that why. Satellite Pirates have been around since the 80's with C band dishes and cracking the VideoCiper.
The 'H' card was one of the original cards? No it was the first wide spread card swap DirecTV did. The F series was the original, and popped wide up for the longest time, however dealing with periodic attacks. H cards had both and F series and H series processors, and when DirecTV made sure all their customers had new cards, they switched the data stream to H, and of course everything F based went down.
Then they cracked the H cards...same story all over again, except the crackers got greedier, and didn't put any good clone software out. (Which is near impossible to defeat if done right. If I'm wrong email me cause I want it... : >) Now we are in the midst of the 'Football' card distribution. Someday all H cards will go down, and within 6 months from that day the footballs will get popped.
DirecTV destroyed the cards? Who wrote this fucking article? A moron or the DirecTV propaganda machine? Huges can not pump a powersurge through the air to fry a card. What they can do, and have done all the way back with the F and now H cards is to send updates down that perform checks for reprogramming, and if found, activate dorment code putting the card into a hard loop has soon as they are powered up. (Known as 99'ing, since back when they first did this to the F cards, the card would continully transmit '99' if read on a programmer.)
But they beat that and with a really cute concept too. Unloopers worked by a series of timed voltages dips forcing the microcontroller to 'skip' the commands that put it into a loop and proceed to the normal programming there by allowing the card to be cleaned and reprogrammed.
So the H's went down hard (again), just before a holiday or event (again) and DirecTV was cute about it (again). Unless they moved to the 'Football' data stream, H cards will be back up in less then a month. No story here....
Back in the good old days of the dinosours the earth was something like 15 degrees hotter then now on average.
The earth temp's has been fluctuating for as long as they been recording it. (Hey remember that ICEAGE?)
I watched a whole program on C-SPAN with a scientist yanking weather records from the mid 1800's, pointing to graphs, and spouting stats left and right. His basic point was there is NO solid evidence a 'greenhouse' effect is taking place what so ever. Only the normal shift of the tempurature cycle. Knowing the constant stream of bullshit coming out of this government I'd bet he's right.
'Diesel' Dave 'Kill a Cop' Cinege
(Freezing my ass off in S. Florida! Global Warming? Ha!)
--
"Nobody will ever be safe until the last cop is dead."
NH Rep. Tom Alciere - (My new Hero)
I'm telling you guys, I'm been looking high and low for several years now to get the hell out of here. Anything that is remotly good is getting bitch slapped by the US into submission.
My current idea - Let's get a group of pipe hittin' geeks together and take a clandestian boat ride down south and TAKE OUT CASTRO. Then we take over, proclaiming a libertarian society!
The Good:
Casto deserves it.
We can get about 10,000 'recruits' from Miami. (20,000 if we use pictures of Elian)
Beautiful resource rich land.
Unwired area. The sky is the limit to build up an Internet economy.
Close to the US for trade. (Though they'll embargo us...)
Close to carribean financial centers. (To help get around the US embargo : > )
The Bad:
Spanish speaking.
Current populus is mostly brainwashed. (But then the US is too)
The US will have a cow. We'll have to be militarily prepared to fend them off. One word: Nukes (Low grade ones). Only solution unfortunatly; the only thing these punks in DC respect.
Hey I'm about | | this...it's been a shitty week anyway. Who's with me?
--I'm sure any president would veto something like this; if not the courts would likely strike it down.--
Like they'd never authorize a national ID card? BUZZ...that law was passed in 1996, and went into full effect this month. Now you can't even get a fishing licence without it. (AKA social security number)
But this is not the point of my post...
The reason the US is pushing these countries is two fold:
#1 It wants to control the world
#2 There is a 'loophole' in the federal U.S. constitution stating all treaties must be fully recongnized. So what you ask? It allows congress to pass a treaty with another country, that if it was put into effect as a normal law, would be subject to the courts knocking it down as unconstituional. But instead since the treaty is an 'extension' to the constitution, the courts won't touch it.
Dereliction of the courts? Of course...but any excuse they get to weasal into your rights they take.
Are you out of your mind? Take a trip through US customs sometime. Try traveling without a licence to travel. (Drivers Licence) Try doing anything without a social security number and state issued ID.
It's the saddest thing when people live in a police state and don't even know it. It's not the future, it's NOW and it has been for quite awhile!
--Who keeps the corporations in check if there's no strong government?--
Everyone seems to forget: Corportations *exist* by the power of the state alone. They are not natual people.
No govt == No corps
Microsoft was not an abusive monopoly because it had the power to do it alone. It used the courts to *force* people. It used the politicians to *force* people.
---
I really want to go with the Libertarians, but I'm
sorry, the general population is just not smart enough to govern themselves.
---
I agree 100%. But who do you think makes up the government!?!? Those same idiots wandering around that can't even balance their checkbook.
(And in their hands it's a trillion dollar checkbook!)
This is the missing puzzle peice that completly proves anarchism is the only rational path for human beings; only TRUE ABSOLUTE freedom allows progression of the human race.
Ideologically I don't believe in voting. (AKA relinquishing your right of free choice to another)
But Browne gets me pretty damn close to where I want to be, so he's getting my support instead of
me voting all 'None of the above' this year.
As for your drivel about how we are a 'country',
a team, I owe you for something....
It's called dualistic thought. A flaw in human nature, and you've got it bad.
--
Voting for president is not like betting on a horse race. You gain nothing
by choosing the winner. It is about supporting someone that doesn't have
an interest in holding a gun to your head to make you do things you don't
want to do. Harry Browne is the only one that qualifies. http://LP.org/
Nader believes in a *maximum* wage? Face it he's off his friggin bird. Sure he recognizes corporations are out of control, but his solution is HUGE government actting with impunity as it completely FORCES socialization of the econonomy.
Not only does this NOT WORK, it will lead to complete domination of people in every aspect of their lives.
5000 years of history proves this. (The more privledge you give a ruling class the more they will abuse it)
The Linux Router Project is working on a radically different OS as well well as a new packaging system based on neither RPM or DEB.
For the last 3 years I've done nothing but heavy development work and sysadmin. (For self and on contract) I've worked with Solaris, Redhat, and especially Debian, and can honestly say when it comes to 'real world' production systems all of them suck for long term system maintainance.
Out of all of them Debian is still best all around. (System and packaging) But it's packaging system could be a hell of a lot better. (I'm not still running 'slink' on my box because I want to...)
I think when we are done with our new breed OS, all the linux 'vendors' are going to be brought to task to look at how we did our packaging. Probably some of them will be adopting it. (That's is if we don't over take them all first. : >)
This is a feature list of what we are working on:
[name withheld]
==============
Defined:
A Unix type system software managment format, utilizing
a logical hiearchy for root layout, with de-centralized physical data
distribution.
Features:
No centralized package or physical data location
Allows conflicting packages/applications to be installed at the same time.
Package managment tool is able to enable or disable installed packages
dynamically, while preserving package configuration autonomy.
Generic and distributed nature. Multiple hosts can share the same
package installation via network mounts, while preserving package
configuration autonomy.
Allows hand fitting of root components (outside of/usr/local) with no
package conflicts
Logical root extensions for chroot, remote host, or virtual machine operation
'Open' physical packaging format allowing easy creation, extension, and future enhancment.
...spread your buns, look out coders here it comes!
Nothing comes from autocrats without strings. You can be sure they will want special rights, or back doors, or {insert another bullshit idiology here}.
> As a semi-public service, we cannot
> allow ourselves to display porn, since a junior high school is across the
> street.
Why? I fail to see how one relates to the other?
> How do I make a list of keywords that will satisfy that requirement
> yet allow someone to look up breast cancer research, or the recipe to
> chicken Parmesan? My question to Slashdot is "What happens when
> our ideals hit the real world?"
I don't know about 'ours' but when my "ideas hit the real world",
men lose power, governments fall, and blissful anarchy forces people to
deal with each other on a basis of mutiual respect.
> "How do we deal with the censorship issue ourselves, so that we can
> offer constructive solutions instead of ranting, raving, and otherwise
> having fun?
Have resolve, and refuse to do it. I can get three figures an hour for
my time. I've not made quite a lot of $$$$ because I've choosen a path
in my life commanded by MORALITY instead of GREED.
Quite a few times have I refused to do any type of work that conflicts
with my beliefs. Needless to say I refuse to do any work for the government
AT ALL. (Not that I would actually pass security clearance anyway. : > )
http://www.linuxrouter.org/
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It's time for the governments of the world to step aside and let people leave free.
I could argue blurbs all day here with the uninformed. There is no point. Anyone interested in this topic should visit
http://home.HiWAAY.net/~becraft/MONEYbrief.html
For a very complete history of the issue going back before the American revolution. It is written by Attorney Larry Becraft. For even more information take a look at his site:
http://home.HiWAAY.net/~becraft/
Fact: there are a lot of wierd loonies arround talking utter drivel.
Fact: Article 1 Section 8 Para 5 gives the (exclusive) power to the federal govt to 'coin' money. Art 1 Sec 10 Para 1, limits the states to *only* allowing gold or silver 'coin' as legal tender.
Thus the monetary system is illegal because the federal govt ceded it's power to 'coin' money to a seperate (private) entity, and that money is not backed by any hard currency as specifically required by the federal constitution.
Fact: Stupid people find it a lot easier to call someone crazy then to make the mental effort to attempt to understand their point of view.
Who every thought that gold would be more stable than curency.
Fact: Gold has about the same approximate buying power today as it did 100 years ago. US currency has approximately 1/100th the buying power today as it did 100 years ago.
Fact: Since ~1950 the Federal Reserve note has not been backed by ANY hard currency; it is worthless fiat paper.
Fact: 'US Dollars' have not been in existence for 40 years now. (The last of them was the Kennedy era red seal, silver certificates)
Fact: The Federal Reserve is about as 'federal' as Fed Ex; it is a private corporation.
Fact: The current monetary system is illegal according to the US constitution
Point: Tell me again that fiat paper gives us a stable economy when Greenspan can swing our entire economic system with the Federal Reserve's arbitrary change of an interest point?
..we wouldn't have a need for such a thing.
bind, dhcpd, cron. All out of that camp. All with an unreasonable history of security problems.
Obviosuly written by someone that didn't completly understand what was going on.
The 'hacking community'? I've NEVER heard to it refered to in that why. Satellite Pirates have been around since the 80's with C band dishes and cracking the VideoCiper.
The 'H' card was one of the original cards? No it was the first wide spread card swap DirecTV did. The F series was the original, and popped wide up for the longest time, however dealing with periodic attacks. H cards had both and F series and H series processors, and when DirecTV made sure all their customers had new cards, they switched the data stream to H, and of course everything F based went down. Then they cracked the H cards...same story all over again, except the crackers got greedier, and didn't put any good clone software out. (Which is near impossible to defeat if done right. If I'm wrong email me cause I want it... : >) Now we are in the midst of the 'Football' card distribution. Someday all H cards will go down, and within 6 months from that day the footballs will get popped.
DirecTV destroyed the cards? Who wrote this fucking article? A moron or the DirecTV propaganda machine? Huges can not pump a powersurge through the air to fry a card. What they can do, and have done all the way back with the F and now H cards is to send updates down that perform checks for reprogramming, and if found, activate dorment code putting the card into a hard loop has soon as they are powered up. (Known as 99'ing, since back when they first did this to the F cards, the card would continully transmit '99' if read on a programmer.)
But they beat that and with a really cute concept too. Unloopers worked by a series of timed voltages dips forcing the microcontroller to 'skip' the commands that put it into a loop and proceed to the normal programming there by allowing the card to be cleaned and reprogrammed.
So the H's went down hard (again), just before a holiday or event (again) and DirecTV was cute about it (again). Unless they moved to the 'Football' data stream, H cards will be back up in less then a month. No story here....
Back in the good old days of the dinosours the earth was something like 15 degrees hotter then now on average.
The earth temp's has been fluctuating for as long as they been recording it. (Hey remember that ICEAGE?)
I watched a whole program on C-SPAN with a scientist yanking weather records from the mid 1800's, pointing to graphs, and spouting stats left and right. His basic point was there is NO solid evidence a 'greenhouse' effect is taking place what so ever. Only the normal shift of the tempurature cycle. Knowing the constant stream of bullshit coming out of this government I'd bet he's right.
'Diesel' Dave 'Kill a Cop' Cinege (Freezing my ass off in S. Florida! Global Warming? Ha!)
-- "Nobody will ever be safe until the last cop is dead." NH Rep. Tom Alciere - (My new Hero)
"75GB per 30 minutes....4 hours per tape"
That's 600GB per tape. The hell with video, that's a sweet data backup tape!
I'm telling you guys, I'm been looking high and low for several years now to get the hell out of here. Anything that is remotly good is getting bitch slapped by the US into submission. My current idea - Let's get a group of pipe hittin' geeks together and take a clandestian boat ride down south and TAKE OUT CASTRO. Then we take over, proclaiming a libertarian society!
The Good:
Casto deserves it.
We can get about 10,000 'recruits' from Miami. (20,000 if we use pictures of Elian)
Beautiful resource rich land.
Unwired area. The sky is the limit to build up an Internet economy.
Close to the US for trade. (Though they'll embargo us...)
Close to carribean financial centers. (To help get around the US embargo : > )
The Bad:
Spanish speaking.
Current populus is mostly brainwashed. (But then the US is too)
The US will have a cow. We'll have to be militarily prepared to fend them off. One word: Nukes (Low grade ones). Only solution unfortunatly; the only thing these punks in DC respect.
Hey I'm about | | this...it's been a shitty week anyway. Who's with me?
No.
It's time for the governments of the world to step aside, disband, and let the people of earth live free.
--I'm sure any president would veto something like this; if not the courts would likely strike it down.--
Like they'd never authorize a national ID card? BUZZ...that law was passed in 1996, and went into full effect this month. Now you can't even get a fishing licence without it. (AKA social security number)
But this is not the point of my post...
The reason the US is pushing these countries is two fold:
#1 It wants to control the world
#2 There is a 'loophole' in the federal U.S. constitution stating all treaties must be fully recongnized. So what you ask? It allows congress to pass a treaty with another country, that if it was put into effect as a normal law, would be subject to the courts knocking it down as unconstituional. But instead since the treaty is an 'extension' to the constitution, the courts won't touch it.
Dereliction of the courts? Of course...but any excuse they get to weasal into your rights they take.
Are you out of your mind? Take a trip through US customs sometime. Try traveling without a licence to travel. (Drivers Licence) Try doing anything without a social security number and state issued ID.
It's the saddest thing when people live in a police state and don't even know it. It's not the future, it's NOW and it has been for quite awhile!
That is what the U.S. is. I'd leave this fascist shithole, if I could find a place that wasn't gasping for air from the weight of it's heavy hand.
This country DOES NOT and HAS NEVER had a drug problem.
This country has a government problem!
--Who keeps the corporations in check if there's no strong government?--
Everyone seems to forget: Corportations *exist* by the power of the state alone. They are not natual people.
No govt == No corps
Microsoft was not an abusive monopoly because it had the power to do it alone. It used the courts to *force* people. It used the politicians to *force* people.
Weak govt == Weak Corps.
--- I really want to go with the Libertarians, but I'm sorry, the general population is just not smart enough to govern themselves. ---
I agree 100%. But who do you think makes up the government!?!? Those same idiots wandering around that can't even balance their checkbook. (And in their hands it's a trillion dollar checkbook!)
This is the missing puzzle peice that completly proves anarchism is the only rational path for human beings; only TRUE ABSOLUTE freedom allows progression of the human race.
Ideologically I don't believe in voting. (AKA relinquishing your right of free choice to another) But Browne gets me pretty damn close to where I want to be, so he's getting my support instead of me voting all 'None of the above' this year.
As for your drivel about how we are a 'country', a team, I owe you for something....
It's called dualistic thought. A flaw in human nature, and you've got it bad.
--
Voting for president is not like betting on a horse race. You gain nothing by choosing the winner. It is about supporting someone that doesn't have an interest in holding a gun to your head to make you do things you don't want to do. Harry Browne is the only one that qualifies. http://LP.org/
Nader believes in a *maximum* wage? Face it he's off his friggin bird. Sure he recognizes corporations are out of control, but his solution is HUGE government actting with impunity as it completely FORCES socialization of the econonomy.
Not only does this NOT WORK, it will lead to complete domination of people in every aspect of their lives. 5000 years of history proves this. (The more privledge you give a ruling class the more they will abuse it)
I don't want that shit. I want FREEDOM!
Small Government
Personal Freedom
LIBERTARIAN
http://www.harrybrowne2000.org/
I have lost any respect I ever had for Mitnick.
"Standards are great, but aren't the ideals of different distributions what give Linux its flavour?"
If you consider constantly fighting to maintain a machine 'flavor' then yeah. Debian is bloated, Redhat messy, and slackware et al FUBAR.
It's time for a consolidated minimalist core for a standard base, and a unified packaging system.
'nough said.
The Linux Router Project is working on a radically different OS as well well as a new packaging system based on neither RPM or DEB.
/usr/local) with no
For the last 3 years I've done nothing but heavy development work and sysadmin. (For self and on contract) I've worked with Solaris, Redhat, and especially Debian, and can honestly say when it comes to 'real world' production systems all of them suck for long term system maintainance.
Out of all of them Debian is still best all around. (System and packaging) But it's packaging system could be a hell of a lot better. (I'm not still running 'slink' on my box because I want to...)
I think when we are done with our new breed OS, all the linux 'vendors' are going to be brought to task to look at how we did our packaging. Probably some of them will be adopting it. (That's is if we don't over take them all first. : >)
This is a feature list of what we are working on:
[name withheld]
==============
Defined:
A Unix type system software managment format, utilizing
a logical hiearchy for root layout, with de-centralized physical data
distribution.
Features:
No centralized package or physical data location
Allows conflicting packages/applications to be installed at the same time.
Package managment tool is able to enable or disable installed packages
dynamically, while preserving package configuration autonomy.
Generic and distributed nature. Multiple hosts can share the same
package installation via network mounts, while preserving package
configuration autonomy.
Allows hand fitting of root components (outside of
package conflicts
Logical root extensions for chroot, remote host, or virtual machine operation
'Open' physical packaging format allowing easy creation, extension, and future enhancment.
...spread your buns, look out coders here it comes!
Nothing comes from autocrats without strings. You can be sure they will want special rights, or back doors, or {insert another bullshit idiology here}.
Even if you are contracted to sign IP over, in no way can they compel you to commit a faudulent act.
If the patent is overly more broad, or in dispute with with the work you have done, refuse to endorce it on that basis.
> As a semi-public service, we cannot
> allow ourselves to display porn, since a junior high school is across the
> street.
Why? I fail to see how one relates to the other?
> How do I make a list of keywords that will satisfy that requirement
> yet allow someone to look up breast cancer research, or the recipe to
> chicken Parmesan? My question to Slashdot is "What happens when
> our ideals hit the real world?"
I don't know about 'ours' but when my "ideas hit the real world",
men lose power, governments fall, and blissful anarchy forces people to
deal with each other on a basis of mutiual respect.
> "How do we deal with the censorship issue ourselves, so that we can
> offer constructive solutions instead of ranting, raving, and otherwise
> having fun?
Have resolve, and refuse to do it. I can get three figures an hour for
my time. I've not made quite a lot of $$$$ because I've choosen a path
in my life commanded by MORALITY instead of GREED.
Quite a few times have I refused to do any type of work that conflicts
with my beliefs. Needless to say I refuse to do any work for the government
AT ALL. (Not that I would actually pass security clearance anyway. : > )
http://www.linuxrouter.org/
We've been doing this since 1996.