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General / Lawmaker: Post per-taxpayer Afghanistan war costs
« on: May 18, 2012, 12:21:43 AM »
Lawmaker: Post per-taxpayer Afghanistan war costs online http://t.co/HFeLFSCC
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General / Rocks found near Pendleton beach burn woman
« on: May 18, 2012, 12:20:03 AM »
Rocks found near Pendleton beach burn woman http://t.co/n9UrUnuy
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General / DEA Wants To Scan All License Plates In Utah Drug Corridor
« on: May 18, 2012, 12:16:50 AM »
DEA Wants To Scan All License Plates In Utah Drug Corridor http://t.co/jESH8ZkW
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General / America faces organ transplant deficit as donors are too fat to qualify
« on: May 15, 2012, 06:22:47 PM »
America faces organ transplant deficit as donors are too fat to qualify http://t.co/Cdj6azHO
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General / Auto Insurance Site Says Marijuana Users Are Safer Drivers
« on: May 15, 2012, 12:50:37 AM »
Auto Insurance Site Says Marijuana Users Are Safer Drivers http://t.co/ONdQkuIZ
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General / Building the Pentagon's ‘like me’ weapon
« on: May 14, 2012, 07:43:57 PM »
Building the Pentagon's ‘like me’ weapon http://t.co/XWNERQua
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General / Indica vs Sativa
« on: May 14, 2012, 07:41:59 PM »
Indica vs Sativa: How Have The Terms Evolved and Transformed Medical Cannabis? http://t.co/8LjNHDdC
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General / Al-Qaeda's English language magazine, "Inspire"
« on: May 14, 2012, 07:37:55 PM »
"Inspire" Magazine, produced by Al-Qaeda, is available at http://www.cryptome.org
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General / US Army: Afghanistan Counterinsurgent’s Guidebook
« on: May 14, 2012, 06:41:19 PM »
US Army Counterinsurgency Training Center – Afghanistan Counterinsurgent’s Guidebook http://t.co/ESTAYd6d
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General / Bitcoinica Breach Nets Hackers $87,000 In Bitcoins - Slashdot
« on: May 12, 2012, 05:33:22 PM »
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/05/12/202235/bitcoinica-breach-nets-hackers-87000-in-bitcoins
"More than $87,000 worth of the virtual currency known as Bitcoin was stolen after online bandits penetrated servers belonging to Bitcoinica, prompting its operators to temporarily shutter the trading platform to contain the damage. Friday's theft came after hackers accessed Bitcoinica's production servers and depleted its online wallet of 18,547 BTC, as individual Bitcoin units are called, company officials said in a blog post published on Friday. It said the heist affected only a small fraction of Bitcoinica's overall bitcoin deposits and that all withdrawal requests will be honored once the platform reopens."
Reader linhares points out a forum post discussing how the attacker(s) hinted at a 'mass leak' in the near future. This attack comes shortly after a leak of a different sort — an FBI document (PDF) about Bitcoin found it way onto the internet. It seems they're worried about the virtual currency's potential use in criminal activities.
"More than $87,000 worth of the virtual currency known as Bitcoin was stolen after online bandits penetrated servers belonging to Bitcoinica, prompting its operators to temporarily shutter the trading platform to contain the damage. Friday's theft came after hackers accessed Bitcoinica's production servers and depleted its online wallet of 18,547 BTC, as individual Bitcoin units are called, company officials said in a blog post published on Friday. It said the heist affected only a small fraction of Bitcoinica's overall bitcoin deposits and that all withdrawal requests will be honored once the platform reopens."
Reader linhares points out a forum post discussing how the attacker(s) hinted at a 'mass leak' in the near future. This attack comes shortly after a leak of a different sort — an FBI document (PDF) about Bitcoin found it way onto the internet. It seems they're worried about the virtual currency's potential use in criminal activities.
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Episodes & Show Prep / Re: 2012-04-15 Guns
« on: April 16, 2012, 03:14:42 PM »
The Gun is Civilization
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-gun-is-civilization_05262010
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.
The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed.
People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.
The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation… and that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-gun-is-civilization_05262010
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.
The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed.
People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.
The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation… and that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.
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Episodes & Show Prep / Re: 2012-03-30
« on: March 31, 2012, 03:32:25 PM »
In southern California, at least, motels advertising hourly rates are found everywhere. The signs either say "Hourly Rates" or "Siesta Rates." I am pretty sure I have even seen these at some brand-name chain motels.
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Episodes & Show Prep / Re: 2012-03-24
« on: March 25, 2012, 02:41:29 PM »
Regarding the Treyvon case:
Why are killings by police not receiving such attention? Why do everyday street shootings not receive such attention?
Because this case involves a "private cop" or "vigilante" or "armed citizen," who failed.
Police do not like competition. Zimmerman serves to fulfill their prophecies, and is a perfect poster child for gun control and citizen helplessness.
They have created this poster child by making it so dangerous and unpopular for anyone to even think about protecting themselves and others, that only wacko zealots like Zimmerman emerge in such positions. They have effectively trained the population to be both helpless and INCOMPETENT, so that they can say, "See? I told you so," and create a public dependency upon themselves. They even helped nurture this poster child.
Why are killings by police not receiving such attention? Why do everyday street shootings not receive such attention?
Because this case involves a "private cop" or "vigilante" or "armed citizen," who failed.
Police do not like competition. Zimmerman serves to fulfill their prophecies, and is a perfect poster child for gun control and citizen helplessness.
They have created this poster child by making it so dangerous and unpopular for anyone to even think about protecting themselves and others, that only wacko zealots like Zimmerman emerge in such positions. They have effectively trained the population to be both helpless and INCOMPETENT, so that they can say, "See? I told you so," and create a public dependency upon themselves. They even helped nurture this poster child.
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