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Living Room / Re: Early Politicians

« Last post by Renegade on November 01, 2012, 08:31 AM »

Why would you agree to allow anything you say or do to be used against you?

-Renegade (November 01, 2012, 12:49 AM)

Most attorneys will tell you, if you're ever actually placed under arrest, to sign nothing - and say nothing beyond: I do not consent to any searches. And I do not consent being interviewed. I wish to speak to an attorney.

Say this to the remanding officer(s) each time you're asked a question -  and whenever being handed over to a "supervisor" or other officer - and then once again very clearly when you're being formally "processed" at the police station.

After that, shut up - don't even keep repeating the above statement. Just clam up completely, let your brain go blank, and wait for the guy or lady wearing a gray suit and carrying a briefcase to show up. (If you're being "uncooperative," they'll likely try to make you wait as long as they possibly can. But an attorney will eventually show up. Just remain completely silent and wait for one to arrive.)

Note: doing this this is even more important if you are innocent of what you're being charged with than if you're guilty.
 

-40hz (November 01, 2012, 08:05 AM)

Excellent advice!

As I'm constitutionally incapable of ever shutting up, I'd like to add one little bit of, well, fun for me anyways.

I do not consent to being forcibly confined or kidnapped.

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Living Room / Re: Hurricane Sandy Discussion Thread

« Last post by Renegade on November 01, 2012, 07:52 AM »

This time it's Bill Finch, the mayor of Bridgeport ("The Park City"), our lovely neighboring post-industrial city, who made a public statement yesterday blaming the power utilities for favoring the surrounding "wealthier" communities when restoring power. This has neatly turned the ongoing outages into a class warfare issue. Hardly surprising since Bridgeport politicians have been spinning that line since the 80s. Point the finger outside - always outside - the city's borders. It plays well with certain constituencies they answer to.

-40hz (November 01, 2012, 07:40 AM)

Oh! I know about that game! I heard it somewhere else... where was it? Oh, yeah. Here:

Very brief prediction for the near future

Watch very carefully over the next few days & weeks. We will have the politicians/think tanks come out with "solutions". Each and every one will strip just a little more freedom away... just a little bit... ever so "tiny"... because we all want to be "safe", right?

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Living Room / Re: Disney acquires Lucasfilm for 4.05 billion dollars. Star Wars Ep VII due in 2015

« Last post by Renegade on November 01, 2012, 06:58 AM »

For me this is money based lie.
And now 7th is coming. Really?

-fenixproductions (November 01, 2012, 05:55 AM)

Lucas... sigh... I'm not so sure you're right about it being just about money... I think it's more about...

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Living Room / Re: Early Politicians

« Last post by Renegade on November 01, 2012, 12:49 AM »

Hahahah~!

Very cute!

Makes me wonder what the world would be like if people that actually knew what they were doing, e.g. machinists, truck drivers, farmers, engineers, programmers, physicists, doctors, etc., filled the positions that politicians try to. (One of the words that I really and truly loathe is "policy". The image above nicely explains why. )

-Renegade (October 30, 2012, 10:27 PM)

  The election process is set up where only the rich or well connected can get elected.  If the common man was to get elected, he/she would most likely be like a rat in an unescapeable maze, lost in the legalese.  Lawyers have everything so encrypted with all the lagalese that no one can decipher it or discover the holes without being an expert in legalese.  Hiring a lawyer would be his/her only solution, and can anyone really trust a lawyer?     Lawyers are why our written laws are so screwed up to begin with.
  Only way I could see a regular ol' Joe (or Joan) ever being able to understand things as written would be to have it all re-written at a high-school level of understanding, and they ain't gonna let that happen.  They don't want the average guy to be able to understand the laws.  Knowledge is power, and knowing the holes can make you more money...

-Tinman57 (October 31, 2012, 08:29 PM)

+1

The language used in "law" excludes people from understanding it. The volume of laws precludes the possibility of anyone actually reading the laws.

As an interesting little aside... The word "understand" in a legal context also means "agree". So, whenever you are asked whether or not you "understand", your only answer should be "no". e.g.

You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say or do can and will be held against you in a court of law.
You have the right to an attorney.
If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you.
Do you understand these rights I have just read to you?

Why would you agree to allow anything you say or do to be used against you?

"Hey, if you're going to beat me, why don't you use my baseball bat? And why don't I give you a nice lead pipe while I'm at it?"

Complete insanity.

The same goes for other jurisdictions.

(I don't have the reference for that ["understand"] handy at the moment - I found it in a legal dictionary somewhere, though I forget which one.)

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Renegade on November 01, 2012, 12:41 AM »

Is the platypus proof that beavers and ducks once interbred with each other?

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Living Room / Re: Internet freedoms restrained - SOPA/PIPA/OPEN/ACTA/CETA/PrECISE-related updates

« Last post by Renegade on October 31, 2012, 11:33 PM »

Oh I'm sure there are lots of evil geniuses out there. I guarantee Monsanto has a few!

But of the industries that are leading directly to measures which "conveniently" overstep the stated mandate, it's Entertainment that keeps showing up, along with the War On Terror and Protect the Kiddies finishing the triumvirate. Gene patents are icky, but they don't seem to immediately lead to "we must examine blood samples daily to be sure you are not eating illegal corn."

-TaoPhoenix (October 31, 2012, 05:20 PM)

I think the media reports on the MAFIAA are simply much more accessible to people, and easier to understand. Consequently, they receive a lot more attention.

For other places where the evil geniuses overstep the bounds of law and morality, things often get pretty murky pretty quickly. The problem is that what they are doing is much more difficult to understand, and it then receives much less media attention.

For example, take Monsanto's BT corn. It's a biological weapon. It is not food. But they pass it off as food.

BT corn is engineered as a hybrid with the BT bacteria (from which it gets its name). The BT bacteria creates a toxin that ruptures the stomachs of insects, which kills the insect. This is now in "corn", and insects that eat that corn, die. But the corn doesn't stop producing the toxin, and when you eat it, it still creates that toxin. The really scary part is that the "corn" can infect the natural flora in your stomach, causing them to adopt that same trait, and to start producing the BT toxin. Now, the natural flora in your body produces the same toxin that ruptures the stomachs of insects and kills them. Nice.

There are lots of studies on this showing how GMOs are toxic. There is also a massive effort on the part of Monsatan to discredit any and all research on GMOs that doesn't say exactly what they want.

So, you're left with the situation where you are being sold chronic bio-toxins that self-replicate inside your body, and you have governments that fully support you being poisoned, and even trying to deny you the right to know which "foods" contain the toxins. (Check out "prop 37" in California.)

I'll leave out the obvious connections for how poisoning people is profitable. (You don't make money from people that are healthy.) And leave out the connection for how a sick population is less likely to be involved in public life, e.g. politics. etc. etc. etc.

The difference between the evil geniuses in the MAFIAA and Monsatan are really only a matter of *how* they are evil. They approach things very differently, but the net effect is the same: Your destruction.

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Living Room / Re: The Free Videos Thread

« Last post by Renegade on October 31, 2012, 10:29 PM »

^ you're good Ren ;-)


(that one's working, thanks!)

-tomos (October 31, 2012, 11:00 AM)

It is? Sigh... Must be losing my mojo~!

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Living Room / Re: Don't You Want to be "Safe"?

« Last post by Renegade on October 31, 2012, 09:49 PM »

Watch them get you with a sentence of first degree murder of a police officer on duty! 

-TaoPhoenix (October 31, 2012, 05:15 PM)

That reminds me of this:

http://www.copblock....uld-you-shoot-a-cop/

When Should You Shoot A Cop

That question, even without an answer, makes most “law-abiding taxpayers” go into knee-jerk conniptions. The indoctrinated masses all race to see who can be first, and loudest, to proclaim that it is NEVER okay to forcibly resist “law enforcement.” In doing so, they also inadvertently demonstrate why so much of human history has been plagued by tyranny and oppression.

In an ideal world, cops would do nothing except protect people from thieves and attackers, in which case shooting a cop would never be justified. In the real world, however, far more injustice, violence, torture, theft, and outright murder has been committed IN THE NAME of “law enforcement,” than has been committed in spite of it. To get a little perspective, try watching a documentary or two about some of the atrocities committed by the regimes of Stalin, or Lenin, or Chairman Mao, or Hitler, or Pol Pot, or any number of other tyrants in history. Pause the film when the jackboots are about to herd innocent people into cattle cars, or gun them down as they stand on the edge of a ditch, and THEN ask yourself the question, “When should you shoot a cop?” Keep in mind, the evils of those regimes were committed in the name of “law enforcement.” And as much as the statement may make people cringe, the history of the human race would have been a lot LESS gruesome if there had been a lot MORE “cop-killers” around to deal with the state mercenaries of those regimes.

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Living Room / Re: Disney acquires Lucasfilm for 4.05 billion dollars. Star Wars Ep VII due in 2015

« Last post by Renegade on October 31, 2012, 10:57 AM »

Still a huge Star Wars fan but ...
I am in the camp that believes Episode I was too much 'video game' and Episode II too much 'soap opera'
And speaking of missteps he personally picked Hayden Christensen, correct?

-rgdot (October 31, 2012, 10:25 AM)

I find your lack of faith, disturbing...

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Living Room / Re: The Free Videos Thread

« Last post by Renegade on October 31, 2012, 10:21 AM »

^ link looks okay, but I get
 
uWSGI Error
Python application not found

will try again later.

-tomos (October 31, 2012, 10:01 AM)

That's because everyone loves this thread, and all flocked to the Vodo site and crashed it. Wow... Am I powerful or what?

Let's see if I can crash the movie site now~!

http://www.themanifestomovie.com/

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Living Room / Re: The Free Videos Thread

« Last post by Renegade on October 31, 2012, 08:35 AM »

Well, this one kind of surprised me a bit...

WARNING: I should warn that it is relatively graphic (though far from the most graphic out there), and not suitable for kids or those that haven't been sufficiently desensitized to human suffering.

I got an email from Vodo, and while I usually delete most, it caught my eye with an interesting title - "The Manifesto".

http://vodo.net/Manifesto



The movie is about a serial killer, which was all I looked at before downloading it. Anyways, it was VERY different from what I was expecting.

Now, I'm not going to give any real spoilers, but just some general comments about the topic...

General stuff - don't read if you like complete surprises

The film is a mix of horror, conspiracy, gore (very mild gore), and black comedy. Just when you're being grossed out, you'll laugh yourself off your seat.

It has a lot of WTF?!? moments.

If you like gore/horror, you'll probably like this as well.

If you hate "conspiracy theorists", you'll probably like it.

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Living Room / Re: Disney acquires Lucasfilm for 4.05 billion dollars. Star Wars Ep VII due in 2015

« Last post by Renegade on October 31, 2012, 07:35 AM »

^^ Only one of those chicks killed a Hutt. She's not moving up in the world here.  

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Living Room / Re: Confusing Apple Promo (Spoof)

« Last post by Renegade on October 31, 2012, 06:56 AM »

BWAHAHAHAA~!


That was very cute! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: record webinar

« Last post by Renegade on October 30, 2012, 11:46 PM »

That would be VERY handy. Most often I'm not available for any of the webinars I see advertised, and can't watch them.

Even a piece of software to do it would be great.

I'm a bit skeptical about a web site doing it though. It seems a bit intense for a web site, and more like something that a piece of client software could handle better, though you have those nasty bandwidth considerations there... pros & cons...

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Living Room / Re: Early Politicians

« Last post by Renegade on October 30, 2012, 10:27 PM »

Hahahah~!

Very cute!

Makes me wonder what the world would be like if people that actually knew what they were doing, e.g. machinists, truck drivers, farmers, engineers, programmers, physicists, doctors, etc., filled the positions that politicians try to. (One of the words that I really and truly loathe is "policy". The image above nicely explains why. )

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Living Room / Re: Mass Social Engineering in Forums

« Last post by Renegade on October 30, 2012, 08:57 PM »

This is not desirable as it then leaves the enforcement agencies unable to track the percentage of those in the population who always resist attempts for control against them .

So standing up for yourself is bad.. Lovely (and rather subtle) pitch for weakness is strength there ain't it Ren?

-Stoic Joker (October 30, 2012, 12:16 PM)

Yes. Exactly. It's entirely about spreading disinformation. A "how to" if you will.

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Living Room / Re: Data Breach Lawsuits

« Last post by Renegade on October 30, 2012, 11:54 AM »

So, please won't somebody tell these lawyers to force my bank to ALLOW SPECIAL CHARACTERS in our login passwords... 

(true story, my bank only allows numerals and uppper/lowercase letters  )

-Edvard (October 30, 2012, 11:52 AM)

I know of one that allows only digits. Could be worse. (But not much!)

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Living Room / Re: Mass Social Engineering in Forums

« Last post by Renegade on October 30, 2012, 11:44 AM »

Oh, cripes...

As if trolls weren't enough 

-Edvard (October 30, 2012, 11:11 AM)

Hahahahaha~!

Yep. Pretty much.

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Living Room / Mass Social Engineering in Forums

« Last post by Renegade on October 30, 2012, 10:42 AM »

I just saw an interesting article/paste on mass and individual social engineering techniques (COINTELPRO actually, but 6 of 1):

http://www.globalres...ternet-forum/5309987

COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum.

There are several techniques for the control and manipulation of a internet forum no matter what, or who is on it. We will go over each technique and demonstrate that only a minimal number of operatives can be used to eventually and effectively gain a control of a ‘uncontrolled forum.’

Do check the Pastebin link as well:

http://pastebin.com/irj4Fyd5
or here
http://pastebin.com/3q7fCrtR

Interesting.

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Living Room / Re: Internet freedoms restrained - SOPA/PIPA/OPEN/ACTA/CETA/PrECISE-related updates

« Last post by Renegade on October 30, 2012, 10:25 AM »

I'm just amazed, of all the sources of oppression, it's ... music and motion pictures? Really?! Not to commend an evil job well done, but really?! Of all the moneyed sources out there, it's those two that have managed to totally lock all of politics?!

-TaoPhoenix (October 30, 2012, 07:54 AM)

Well, in all fairness... It's not just the entertainment industry that is led by a gang of evil geniuses. There are many other industries that have equally evil or more evil geniuses in them. (Gotta give them credit too~! ) E.g. NBC, part of the media there, is really just GE's bitch/mouthpiece. So, there's a food-chain in the empire of evil geniuses.

As for locking politics... I think entertainment and freedom of speech are just 2 of the popular things for people to focus on. There are other issues, like food & water, that other evil geniuses are dominating. Why is it that a 500 ml bottle of water is (can be) more expensive than a 3 L bottle of milk? (I'm not making that up.)

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Living Room / Re: Data Breach Lawsuits

« Last post by Renegade on October 30, 2012, 03:44 AM »

^It would be even better if regulatory agencies stopped allowing companies to get off with paying a fine but not admitting to wrongdoing. That's the loophole that makes half of the nonsense out there possible.

-40hz (October 29, 2012, 12:26 PM)

Speaking of...

http://www.globalres...inal-charges/5309945

But the record speaks for itself. Not a single high-level banker has been prosecuted, let alone jailed, since the Wall Street crash of September 2008. Not one major civil case has actually been brought to trial. Instead, the government has allowed the culprit banks to work out settlements in which they paid token fines and admitted no wrongdoing.

The former head of Countrywide, Anthony Mozilo, was let off by the Securities and Exchange Commission with a fine of $67.5 million and no admission of guilt in October of 2010. The following year, the Justice Department quietly dropped its criminal probe of Mozilo.

Last month, Bank of America agreed to pay $2.48 billion to settle claims it misled investors about its acquisition of Merrill Lynch at the height of the financial crisis in late 2008. In February of this year, the government allowed the bank to settle fraud allegations involving Federal Housing Administration loans for $1 billion, also without admitting wrongdoing.

Just another day...

If the same standards applied to us, we could run around robbing and killing people, then just pay a fine.

Why is the theme music to "The Twilight Zone" running through my head?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Stop Zombie Mouth - Free Plants vs Zombies game giveaway codes for everybody!

« Last post by Renegade on October 30, 2012, 02:22 AM »

No love for non-US residents? 

-rsatrioadi (October 30, 2012, 01:01 AM)

Check here for a solution:

https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=32689.0

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Living Room / Re: Internet freedoms restrained - SOPA/PIPA/OPEN/ACTA/CETA/PrECISE-related updates

« Last post by Renegade on October 29, 2012, 08:40 PM »

@Renegade: Some people (not me, you understand) might say that when people use terms like "my 110%...", it is proof that there are three kinds of people in this world - those who can count, and those who can't. However, I couldn't possibly comment.     

-IainB (October 29, 2012, 03:02 PM)

I thought it was funny!

Oh. and there aren't 3... There are 10.

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Living Room / Re: Data Breach Lawsuits

« Last post by Renegade on October 29, 2012, 08:32 PM »

Hahahahha~! Seeing those 2 words in the same sentence is just hysterical!

-Renegade (October 29, 2012, 01:36 PM)

Hey!   I run a company. An actual C corporation. We care. And we act accordingly.

(Sorry. Couldn't resist! )

-40hz (October 29, 2012, 02:14 PM)

Oh, c'mon now 40!~ You know that's not what I meant. I wasn't talking about caring about profit! <ducks>Just kidding!</ducks>

I run a company too. LLC mind you, but still a valid legally-recognized company.

It's the big brothers that don't care, most of the little guys do because their reputations are at stake.

-SeraphimLabs (October 29, 2012, 02:54 PM)

Yep. That's it.

I meant "company" purely in the pejorative sense.

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Living Room / Re: TUNLR.net - "proxying" service ($FREE) - access region-blocked online content.

« Last post by Renegade on October 29, 2012, 01:52 PM »

I was wondering about the whole free thing... Then...

http://tunlr.net/forums/topic/donations/

We don’t take donations because this is a fun project. It’s a great learning experience in many ways. Taking donations would make us feel obliged to run the service. People would come up and say “damn I just donated and now they dropped support for zombieapocalypselive.com, I want my money back”. It would most definitely lessen the fun. We’re kind of our own angel investors.

Still. Sounds pretty good.