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5926
A few things in that infographic irk me a bit...

Turkey? Iran? Seriously?

People need to STFU about "North Korea" and look at what is happening AT HOME!

The surveillance state in North Korea? Is this a joke? It's a bad joke... The real surveillance states are the US and the UK, and their doting bunch of lackey followers, like the sheeple north of the US.

How can anyone possible look to "the west" as any sort of "bastion of freedom" when the US Constitution has been systematically eviscerated over the last 10 years or so, and the lackeys are following suit to one degree or another.

Heck, you don't even have the right to free speech in Australia. Never have.

We need to get our own problems sorted first. And no, neither Syria nor Iran are problems. Killing Syrians and Iranians will NOT bring "freedom and democracy" to anywhere.

The problems are the criminals that have hijacked the system. When they are brought to justice, either in handcuffs or in coffins, THEN things can be put right.

The symptoms are all out in the open. There's nothing controversial there. The ONLY thing that is remotely controversial is that the systemic rape of freedom and liberty is intentional and perpetrated by a sick group through a brilliant system of compartmentalization that makes it all too easy to dismiss...


@IainB - Nice round-up of some of the relevant threads! :)


Regarding skepticism, I would certainly count myself a skeptic. That's where my formal education is. :) However, there is a "jump point" where you eventually have to stop doubting because it's no longer productive. This is going to vary from individual to individual, but that's neither here nor there.

It's all about connecting the dots. Now, if we simply want to doubt, then any drawing can be dismissed as merely a collection of dots, and that the picture isn't there - only the dots are.

So the question really is, "How densely packed do the dots need to be before you hit your 'jump point'?"

In the last couple years we've seen a massive acceleration of attacks on freedom and liberty. The insanity has been taken to entirely new levels.

Each day we have new reports of things that simply defy imagination.

Here's one... And this is just being dismissed as "oh, that's ok. That's normal. That's just business as usual..."

Ready???


Fair Warning -- turn back now if you have a weak stomach...




Seriously... Stop reading if you are in any way squeamish.


I'm not going to stick this in a spoiler...


You've been warned...



Pepsi uses aborted human fetal tissue in their flavouring. Look it up! (I'm not kidding.)



And that's "normal"? This is the kind of thing that the world has come to?

Cannibalism is "normal"? Eating babies is OK?


The sheeple have been so utterly desensitized that anything goes now. There is no level of insanity that is off-limits.

We don't think you need freedom of association, so, we're taking that away now.
Oh, ok.

And, your rights to keep your kids, well, we don't really think that's necessary any more...
Oh, ok.

Dom Portwood: Hi, Peter. What's happening? We need to talk about your TPS reports.
Peter Gibbons: Yeah. The coversheet. I know, I know. Uh, Bill talked to me about it.
Dom Portwood: Yeah. Did you get that memo?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah. I got the memo. And I understand the policy. And the problem is just that I forgot the one time. And I've already taken care of it so it's not even really a problem anymore.
Dom Portwood: Ah! Yeah. It's just we're putting new coversheets on all the TPS reports before they go out now. So if you could go ahead and try to remember to do that from now on, that'd be great. All right!





Freedom of speech is the first casualty. The first in a long line...

We either speak up now, or we graciously accept the gags forced into our mouths later. Though somehow I'm inclined to think that they'll actually be those gag-balls that you see with plastic gimp outfits in S&M stores and... uh... Not that I would know what's in S&M stores... Movies! Yeah! I saw it in Pulp Fiction! :P ;D


But seriously - speak up now, or be shut up later. We have 2 options there. I'll go with the first. And if I'm wrong, hey, it's a lot better than being right. Better safe than sorry.




5927
Living Room / Re: how to find the oldest (=original) file on the Internet?
« Last post by Renegade on March 25, 2012, 10:40 PM »


So the oldest file might be something military.

I would have guessed pron... :-)

5928
Living Room / Re: Kazakhstan's glorious anthem mishap
« Last post by Renegade on March 25, 2012, 08:01 PM »
 :o

What was it that Andrew Dice Clay used to say? :P
5929
Living Room / Re: Old Hard Drives
« Last post by Renegade on March 25, 2012, 07:57 PM »
Playing with magnets! Oooh! Fun! :D

I'm planning on trying to make a Johnson Motor once I have time. Should be fun. But I'll just buy the magnets instead of ripping apart old drives. :D

Probably the best thing to do is to securely wipe the drives then destroy them. And play with the magnets. ;D

5930
General Software Discussion / Re: Whats your preferred web browser?
« Last post by Renegade on March 25, 2012, 07:51 PM »
LYNX!

There's one in every crowd. ;) :P

5931
General Software Discussion / Re: Whats your preferred web browser?
« Last post by Renegade on March 25, 2012, 09:11 AM »
I use Opera and Chrome mostly.

Chrome is going downhill lately. The last few months I've noticed it's being a little greedy bitch and crashing with much higher frequency.

One of the problems is that web designers are for the most part, complete idiots. They seem to think that 500,000 lines of JavaScript is acceptable for 1 web page. WTF? They just destroy the web like that. It shouldn't take a year less a day to scroll down a single page. (Facebook is a major culprit here.)

Opera is far more stable. I've noticed that shitty pages tend to perform better in Opera as well. Opera is, what would you call it, kind of like a helmet for retarded children, just for web designers instead.

Ahhh... That was a rant long over due! :D

5932
Living Room / Re: What are your experiences with payment providers?
« Last post by Renegade on March 25, 2012, 09:06 AM »
Digital River has a huge variety of solutions for software authors. One of them should fit the bill pretty well.

I've used Share-It, RegNow and I forget what else -- they all seemed pretty good.

Avangate is another to check out.

There are many more as well -- Cleverbridge has a client, which is nice. (Or they had a client last I looked.)

Northstar (Northwood?) is a smaller one, but the owner, Jeff, really goes out of his way to help people.

I keep hearing horrible things about Plimus - they seem to go down a lot. But, they're also very popular.

PayPal is one of the most versatile, but you really need to do a LOT of work to get it done right.

5933
Developer's Corner / Re: Does anyone actually care about WinRT?
« Last post by Renegade on March 25, 2012, 04:07 AM »
WinWhaT?

Not in the least bit interested.

MS drops the ball on just about everything. Why invest in another flop?

Silverlight was a brilliant product, but they f**ked up so horribly badly... Like epic F-Up there. You would have to exert herculean efforts to attempt to f-up worse.

5934
Living Room / Re: Google to Spy on Your Phone Calls Now...
« Last post by Renegade on March 24, 2012, 06:45 AM »
What no one has pointed out is that a good quality phone should not pick up the background noise to analyse!
-Carol Haynes (March 23, 2012, 08:32 PM)

With iPhone's popularity everybody is conditioned to know such a thing does not exist  ;D

Not quite.

Remember that Google is writing a mobile OS... Big thing there.

For background noise removal, all that happens AFTER the mic. So it's pretty much trivial to get the full mic, find the background noise and analyse it, then process the sound to remove the background noise for the normal phone call.

Oh, and did you know that the same thing is going on in other consumer electronics? :P (Yeah... the rabbit hole goes down pretty deep...)

5935
Living Room / Re: Google to Spy on Your Phone Calls Now...
« Last post by Renegade on March 23, 2012, 10:21 AM »
Can u blame me for laughing at this insanity?  ;D

Nope.

It gets stupider and stupider every day. It's an accelerating downward spiral. What can you do? Laughter seems like a good way to maintain one's sanity!


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Living Room / Google to Spy on Your Phone Calls Now...
« Last post by Renegade on March 23, 2012, 07:46 AM »
It never stops... Now Google will spy on your phone call background noise... yeah... sure... just the background noise... right...

Well, that and everything else under the sun...

http://www.dailymail...nds-phone-calls.html

Adverts could soon be tailored according to the background noise around you when using your smartphone, if a patent application by Google becomes reality.

The search engine giant has filed for a patent called ‘Advertising based on environmental conditions’.

As that title implies, it’s not just background sounds that could be used to determine what adverts you seen on your mobile phone. The patent also describes using ‘temperature, humidity, light and air composition’ to produced targeted adverts.

I wonder if they'll also be reporting on that to their CIA masters...  :-\

I really want a new mobile OS that doesn't turn my phone into a spy.

5937
Living Room / Re: Flying on Bird Wings - A ****ing Magical Moment! =D
« Last post by Renegade on March 23, 2012, 04:58 AM »
heheh. Brilliant. Yes, set the price high enough to purchase the wings and they'll believe it has to work.

Anyway, the "truth" behind it all...



Hit the CC button for subtitles.

Now, all the more reason to sell it on Wall Street and K Street! ;D

They did a good job. It was certainly fun! :)

Here's another hoax that is rather fun:




Just imagine if it wasn't a hoax~! :P :D


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Living Room / Re: Flying on Bird Wings - A ****ing Magical Moment! =D
« Last post by Renegade on March 23, 2012, 04:47 AM »
Are people getting upset about his video and claims? It's just a bit of fun - isn't it? I mean, he's not trying to sell the wings to people (so that they may jump from the nearest tall building and plummet to their death).

Great idea! Start a special introductory exclusive promotion of 50% off on sale at Wall Street and K Street only! :P

5939
Living Room / Re: Flying on Bird Wings - A ****ing Magical Moment! =D
« Last post by Renegade on March 23, 2012, 04:31 AM »
seems like ppl are getting on to him..

http://www.maximumpc..._video_probably_hoax

Meh... Maybe. Looked pretty convincing. He never flew far, but... I suppose it will eventually come out in the wash.

5940
Living Room / Re: Internet Declared Illegal in France
« Last post by Renegade on March 22, 2012, 03:47 PM »

Moon colony is the only solution  :P


What makes you think for one minute it will be any different?

Same species - same problems. :-\




Ooo la la! These are the choices? Damnation with the French or damnation with the Germans? Nein! :P

But it certainly looks like an entertaining film! Nazis from the moon! ;D



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Living Room / Re: Internet Declared Illegal in France
« Last post by Renegade on March 22, 2012, 02:51 PM »
Yet in reaction to these kind of events people are more likely to vote for more restricted societies (ie vote for Le Pen in France)

Conclusion: The 'normal' people are to blame for what they get.

Why do I have to suffer for the sake of all the normal people!?!?!?!?! :P ;D

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Living Room / Re: Coding Government - (Ted.com video - very good)
« Last post by Renegade on March 22, 2012, 12:50 PM »
Haven't watched or read.. but something like this is the next revolution... direct democracy. However, it is also scary. Just look at Youtube comments if you'd like to be scared.

I'm not sure what you mean there. I looked at this video here:

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=n4EhJ898r-k

I don't see anything particularly scary in the comments. Did I miss something?

5943
Living Room / Re: The Pirate Bay is creating Skynet
« Last post by Renegade on March 22, 2012, 12:43 PM »
Then, if they mashed it up a bit to imply they bumped into some Area-51 or HAARP weirdness that screwed up their drone in order to get some of the real hardcore lunatic conspiracy people in on it...

Oh, c'mon! Everyone knows that HAARP isn't for taking down TPB drones! It's for melting the polar icecaps, causing earthquakes in Mexico and tsunamis in Japan! :P ;D

5944
Living Room / Internet Declared Illegal in France
« Last post by Renegade on March 22, 2012, 12:39 PM »
Ok, I'm exaggerating in the title a little bit, but... still... not by much.

http://www.rt.com/ne...rorism-toulouse-200/

Speaking in a press conference straight after the end of the siege in Toulouse, the French president said anyone regularly visiting websites "justifying terrorism" or "preaching hatred and violence" would be prosecuted.

So just visiting some sites can land you in prison...

Years ago I used to troll the Stormfront site for laughs. If I were to do that now in France, I could be arrested? Seriously? WTF?



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Living Room / Re: Flying on Bird Wings - A ****ing Magical Moment! =D
« Last post by Renegade on March 21, 2012, 11:10 PM »
Pretty much any personal transportation device is uber-cool. Bicycles and motorcycles are about the only popular ones though, and they're so old and common that they've lost that "wow" factor. But flying and submarines? Still lots of coolness there for a long time to come! :)

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Living Room / Re: The Pirate Bay is creating Skynet
« Last post by Renegade on March 21, 2012, 11:02 PM »
I think the guys at TPB were joking. I don't think they were serious.

5947
I was so looking forward to the ads!  :D ::) :lol:

+1

You don't know until you try.

5948
Living Room / Google Working with the CIA?!?
« Last post by Renegade on March 21, 2012, 05:05 AM »
If you haven't already heard... Yep. Google is in bed with the Devil...

http://www.prisonpla...t-regime-change.html

Google is a key component of the spook and military establishment. In 2004, the Director of Technology Assessment at In-Q-Tel, Rob Painter, moved from the CIA to become Senior Federal Manager at Google. In-Q-Tel is the CIA’s technology investment firm. In 2006, Robert Steele, a former clandestine services case officer at the agency, told Alex Jones Google and the CIA are joined at the hip. He said the CIA’s contact at Google is Rick Steinheiser of the Office of Research and Development.

You can link through there to get the dirty details. Here's one exchange:

http://english.al-ak...za-internal-use-only

http://wikileaks.org...ernal-use-only-.html

Date 2011-02-10 20:26:49
From [email protected]
To [email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Others MessageId: <896334253-1297366010-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-2067675027-@bda2049.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>
InReplyTo: [email protected]
Text
Cohen's rabbi is Eric Schmidt and Obama lackey.

My source is trying to find out if the billionaire owners are backing Cohen's efforts for regime change.

I'm thinking about having the Palestinians pick him up.

Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

----------------------------------------------------------------------

From: Korena Zucha
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:22:55 -0600 (CST)
To: Fred Burton
Cc: Secure List
Subject: Re: Goggle Shitstorm Moving to Gaza (internal use only) Why hasn't Google cut ties to Cohen yet? Or is Cohen's activity being endorsed by those higher up in the co. than your contact?

On 2/10/11 1:20 PM, Fred Burton wrote:

Jared Cohen, the Google policy official who met w/the Google Gypo Exec, ONE HOUR before the poor chap was nabbed, is off to Gaza next week....per a very good Google source.

Cohen, a Jew, is bound to get himself whacked....

Google is not clear if Cohen is operating w/a State Dept/WH license, or a hippie activist.

Google may be more important than Obama. Their lefty billionaire owners think they can change the world. I would prefer Google run the world vice the WH.

They even refer to the CIA as "the co.".

Like seriously? What part of "do no evil" did they forget? It doesn't get much worse than hopping into bed with the CIA.


Google evil? Verdict? Guilty.

If there were any doubt before this, it's all been removed.


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Living Room / Flying on Bird Wings - A ****ing Magical Moment! =D
« Last post by Renegade on March 20, 2012, 09:03 PM »
Now, whoever you are, no matter who you are, I KNOW darn well that when you were a kid you wished that you could fly.

We all did.

Many of us still do.

This guys does it. And here's the video to prove it:




More on it:

http://humanbirdwings.net/

I did it! This weekend I brought out my wings again for a second test. And here it is. Do I need to say more? Just watch the video


He sums things up in the video:

A f***ing magical moment!


Now, let's just hope that he posts plans and directions on how to make his wings~! =D


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Living Room / Coding Government - (Ted.com video - very good)
« Last post by Renegade on March 20, 2012, 07:41 PM »
Here's an excellent video that I'm sure many will enjoy.

In here, the speaker talks about writing software for the government machine.

http://www.ted.com/t...tter_government.html

Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open? Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can -- and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new way to connect citizens to their governments -- and their neighbors.

Jennifer Pahlka is the founder of Code for America, which matches software geniuses with US cities to reboot local services.

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