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General / Re: Bored and stuck in school-Help!
« on: January 30, 2006, 07:29:11 PM »it seems like I could do more for liberty by recruiting people outside of NH.
Good point! College campuses are full of idealistic people with time on their hands.
Be sure to check for the college's LP chapter, and/or if there's an Objectivist group there.
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General / Re: Bored and stuck in school-Help!
« on: January 30, 2006, 02:01:08 PM »I've still not heard anything that would encourage me not to attend.
Don't let anybody talk you out of college. If it's not for you, you'll know soon enough. On the other hand, if you leave off your formal education and enter the Real World, and later want a degree, it will be a hell of a lot harder to go back to the no-money, fake-work environment. (Yes, "fake-work". No term project is ever as real as a product you sell to paying customers!)
What I would strongly suggest, though, is that you consider attending a college in New Hampshire:
http://freestateproject.org/community/nh_info.php#schools
If I rush I might be able to get a 4 year degree in two years, with all the experience I have already.
Sounds like a good topic for FTL: why you don't need college! *calls roll in*
fourthgeek, I know you are a computers & software guy.
I will say that I am a manager for a large software company, and I never, never hire people with PhD's from Ivy-league schools. In my experience, they are 100% useless, having only theoretical knowledge. In contrast, some of the most productive developers I have ever hired had a 2-year tech-school certificate, and taught themselves how to code.
The Ph.D's invariable tell me how something cannot be done -- while the ex-auto mechanic is coding up something that may be pretty dirty, but gets the job done.
Then again, I'm not exactly the "typical" hiring manager. Your Mileage Will Vary.
2583
General / freestateblogs.net : Chronicles of Progress Toward Freedom in New Hampshire
« on: January 30, 2006, 01:47:31 PM »
I moved to New Hampshire last year, in search of Freedom.
Since moving, I have learned many things.
There is something I'd like to share with people who listen to Free Talk Live and who are thinking about coming to NH:
You don't need to be and "activist" or even "politically active" when you move to New Hampshire!*
There are plenty of people already here who have done the ground-laying work, connecting to existing in-state organizations and building new ones from scratch. All we need are people who are passionate, and who are willing to spend at least a few hours each month working with the pro-liberty organization(s) that best suit them.
That may involve as little as an afternoon making scripted phone calls on behalf of RLCNH, distributing flyers for LPNH, all the way up to going to jail in a creative act of activism like Mike Fisher or Russel Kanning. But involvement is the key.
You don't need to be an activist: you need to be willing to be active, and you need to be in NH. The sooner, the better!
Just yesterday, I unveiled a website with the express purpose of showing FSP members (and friends) what groups already exist in NH, and the positive steps they are taking:
http://freestateblogs.net
Have a poke around and see all the dedicated, pro-Freedom organizations that are already here in New Hampshire. If you care about Freedom, at least one or two of these organizations will be a great fit for you.
Please, feel free to share the URL with everyone you can.
* Of course, if you are already a self-described, pro-freedom activist, get yourself out to NH ASAP!
Since moving, I have learned many things.
There is something I'd like to share with people who listen to Free Talk Live and who are thinking about coming to NH:
You don't need to be and "activist" or even "politically active" when you move to New Hampshire!*
There are plenty of people already here who have done the ground-laying work, connecting to existing in-state organizations and building new ones from scratch. All we need are people who are passionate, and who are willing to spend at least a few hours each month working with the pro-liberty organization(s) that best suit them.
That may involve as little as an afternoon making scripted phone calls on behalf of RLCNH, distributing flyers for LPNH, all the way up to going to jail in a creative act of activism like Mike Fisher or Russel Kanning. But involvement is the key.
You don't need to be an activist: you need to be willing to be active, and you need to be in NH. The sooner, the better!
Just yesterday, I unveiled a website with the express purpose of showing FSP members (and friends) what groups already exist in NH, and the positive steps they are taking:
http://freestateblogs.net
Have a poke around and see all the dedicated, pro-Freedom organizations that are already here in New Hampshire. If you care about Freedom, at least one or two of these organizations will be a great fit for you.
Please, feel free to share the URL with everyone you can.
* Of course, if you are already a self-described, pro-freedom activist, get yourself out to NH ASAP!
2584
General / Re: Freely Downloadable DVD: "Free State Project Video Clips"
« on: January 05, 2006, 12:37:36 PM »I glommed and subsequently passed out a few DVDsBy the way... the DVD on the .torrent is a slightly newer, updated version of the ones I passed out last month.
Also, if you can download the torrent and leave it up to seed, that will help make it more available and faster to download for everyone else worldwide who might want a copy....
2585
General / Re: Freely Downloadable DVD: "Free State Project Video Clips"
« on: January 05, 2006, 03:54:57 AM »Free Talk Live flyers ... I am thinking about that still, and can't find the right artworkHere's the one I used (from another thread on this very BBS)
http://img525.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ftl1ro.jpg
Now, screw FTL flyers, when are your getting your butt out to the Free State???
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General / Re: Advocating libertarianism via media bs FTL
« on: January 05, 2006, 03:47:29 AM »As a person coming in from the left, "progressive," aspect, it seems to me, many of those "progressives" are a viable harvest for the libertarian community.
Just have them click on this link. It instantly converts bleeding-heart liberals into Libertarians willing to move to the Free State!
http://isil.org/resources/introduction.swf
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General / Re: Freely Downloadable DVD: "Free State Project Video Clips"
« on: January 04, 2006, 05:20:38 PM »
It's possible that some people who think they are seeding, really aren't, most commonly due to NAT errrors.
If you're using Azureus, there should be two little green dots at the bottom of the main Azureus window.
If either of them is Yellow, possibly you should read this:
http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/NAT_problem
If you have a Linksys WRT54G router (very very common), you need to:
Now go to Azureus, click "Tools -> NAT/Firewall test", and enter in port 62112
Click the 'Test' button and you should see "Testing port 62112 ... OK!"
Click the 'Apply' button
You now should, after about 30 seconds, see the Green button at the bottom of the Azureus window for "NAT OK / TCP"
Good luck!
If you're using Azureus, there should be two little green dots at the bottom of the main Azureus window.
If either of them is Yellow, possibly you should read this:
http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/NAT_problem
If you have a Linksys WRT54G router (very very common), you need to:
- Open up http://192.168.1.1/ in your browser. This takes you to the LinkSys setup page. By default there's no password, and you should really change that for security purposes, but that's not this issue at hand
- Click the 'Applications & Gaming' tab at the top of the screen
- Click 'Port Range Forward' (should already be selected) You will enter in two lines of information.
- Application=Azureus; Start=62112; End=62112; Protocol = Both; Check 'Enable'
- Enter your local IP address. On Windows, open up a DOS prompt and type "ipconfig /all" to find out that that is Second line:
- Application=Azureus; Start=6969; End=6969; Protocol = TCP; Check 'Enable'
- Enter your local IP address on this line as well (same as on the previous line)
First line:
Now go to Azureus, click "Tools -> NAT/Firewall test", and enter in port 62112
Click the 'Test' button and you should see "Testing port 62112 ... OK!"
Click the 'Apply' button
You now should, after about 30 seconds, see the Green button at the bottom of the Azureus window for "NAT OK / TCP"
Good luck!
2588
General / Re: Freely Downloadable DVD: "Free State Project Video Clips"
« on: January 04, 2006, 06:15:01 AM »Just surfed the DVD tonight, good job Denis. My only gripe is that we haven't had another TV spot for FTL, that one is so old. I'll have to call the reporter in May and see if he'll do an update.
Well, growing by 800% in 1 year should be newsworthy! Do let people know if there's a new spot and I'll include it in the next DVD.
I feel the same way about the Chronicle spot, it's getting old. Maybe as we start influencing the NH legislators this year, that will make news.
Speaking of which, now it's off to the State House!
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General / Re: Freely Downloadable DVD: "Free State Project Video Clips"
« on: December 31, 2005, 05:22:04 PM »
Once your download completes, please leave your BitTorrent application open!
Since at that point you have a whole copy of the file, leaving it open acts as a "seed".
This has many virtues:
Let the freedom bits flow in an ever-increasing torrent....
Since at that point you have a whole copy of the file, leaving it open acts as a "seed".
This has many virtues:
- Makes downloads faster for everybody else who is still waiting
- Keeps an extra "redundant" copy up on the Internet, so if any other full "seed" copy goes down, people can still keep on downloading
Let the freedom bits flow in an ever-increasing torrent....
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General / Re: Freely Downloadable DVD: "Free State Project Video Clips"
« on: December 31, 2005, 10:17:14 AM »You are getting connects because it is only working in the Azeurus type environment. You did not properly register the torrent with a tracker.
Drat! That could well be.
I confess I've never hosted a spanking-new torrent before, to say nothing of doing so off a public tracker.
I originally created the torrent via Azureus and probably took too many "default cause I don't know what the hell I'm doing" options.
I then re-created the .torrent with MakeTorrent, which has the benefit of letting one pick "Pirate Bay" as the tracker off a list without knowing what the hell one is doing. The one I uploaded to PirateBay and mininova is the one I created via MakeTorrent.
Checking the .torrent, it does look like it's using "http://tracker.prq.to/announce" as the tracker URL.
I've just now re-retried making a spanking fresh torrent from MakeTorrent, and uploaded to PirateBay as: http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3426328
Can you try that one, and also please try using the one off using my private tracker: http://ippon.dnsdojo.net:6969/
If those fail, I'm open to suggestions... what am I likely doing wrong?
What should I to to make a properly-functional torrent for a wider range of clients?
If all else fails, I'm happy to just burn you a physical DVD and send it via post if you can put up a more well-formed .torrent!
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General / Re: Freely Downloadable DVD: "Free State Project Video Clips"
« on: December 31, 2005, 09:13:52 AM »I'm connecting and see that it's an ISO image!Yeah, I figured "just burn the .ISO to a DVD-R" would be the most easy procedure for the most people.
I'd recommend that you (also) offer it as an AVI. [...] I'll extract the AVI from the image and what it on my PC which as true HDTV (1920x1440 x 32 bits).An AVI would be awesome. Let me know if you run into any trouble; I can try recoding as an AVI as well.
Though if you watch on HDTV you'll be sorely disappointed; many of the video clips are pretty low-res, having been snarfed from TV station broadcast streams, then recoded, they're pretty grainy.
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General / Re: Freely Downloadable DVD: "Free State Project Video Clips"
« on: December 31, 2005, 07:08:02 AM »this torrent isn't working.
Can you be more specific?
"not working" doesn't give me much to go by for troubleshooting purposes:
What client are you using? Azureus or something else?
What version of the client?
When you click the .torrent, does it fail to try to download?
Does it try download, but fail to find any peers?
Does "not working" mean it stands around holding up signs saying "we demand better pay"?
I see that mininova.org shows 46 downloaders; my Azureus shows 11 peers actively downloading.
The peers are a mix of Azureus, BitComet, Shareaza, and ABC clients.
I really suggest downloading Azureus, it's got some great documentation, like this FAQ
Under Azureus you also have the "last-ditch" option of trying the alternate "Azureus Magnet" link style:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:R26PJLL3D3GMCXSSZFUBL25VKWY4IYJG
As one more thing to try, you can connect to the tracker running on my own PC,
though this may disappear from time to time as I reboot, etc.:
http://ippon.dnsdojo.net:6969/torrents/Free+State+Project+Video+v1.3.torrent?8EBCF4AD7B1ECCC15E52C96815EBB555B1C46126
Please let me know which of the above you've tried, and whether they've worked.
I want you to have this DVD!
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General / Re: Freely Downloadable DVD: "Free State Project Video Clips"
« on: December 30, 2005, 04:58:31 PM »Are you seeding?
You bet!
There are two full seeds at the moment. Others are still in the process of downloading.
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The Show / Re: Archive Torrent Discussion
« on: December 30, 2005, 03:55:06 PM »
For the record, I've been seeding Nov and Oct for the past 2 weeks
Thanks ceb for introducing me to Azureus and giving me the .torrent bug;
resulting in me playing around with the FTL archive torrents, and then playing around with Azureus,
and then playing around with port forwarding on my router, and then playing around with public trackers...
The upshot of all of which is, I've put together a .torrent of my DVD of Free State Project (and Free Talk Live) video clips.
Sorry for the crosspost, but I thought folks tracking this thread would find it interesting/useful:
http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=4432
Thanks ceb for introducing me to Azureus and giving me the .torrent bug;
resulting in me playing around with the FTL archive torrents, and then playing around with Azureus,
and then playing around with port forwarding on my router, and then playing around with public trackers...
The upshot of all of which is, I've put together a .torrent of my DVD of Free State Project (and Free Talk Live) video clips.
Sorry for the crosspost, but I thought folks tracking this thread would find it interesting/useful:
http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=4432
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General / Freely Downloadable DVD: "Free State Project Video Clips"
« on: December 30, 2005, 02:14:25 PM »
UPDATE: New June '06 release info is below!
Be sure and download this new edition
I've compiled a new DVD consisting of the latest video clips relating to the Free State Project:
TV news shows, footage of protests in New Hampshire, etc.
Everyone is welcome to download it, and burn as many copies as you like!
The DVD image is freely available via BitTorrent.
First, you need a BitTorrent client. I've found Azureus to be the best one:
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php
Once you've downloaded and installed Azureus (or if you already have a BitTorrent client), just click on any of the following:
http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3499037
http://www.torrentbox.com/torrents-details.php?id=51736
http://www.mininova.org/tor/352509
This being BitTorrent, the more people that download, the faster it goes for everyone
Please, once you have finished downloading, leave your BitTorrent application running, as this speeds up the download for everyone else.
If you run into any trouble, or have any feedback, please post here.
I'll answer questions as best I can, and am always looking for suggestions for the next cut of the DVD.
Share and Enjoy!
Be sure and download this new edition
I've compiled a new DVD consisting of the latest video clips relating to the Free State Project:
TV news shows, footage of protests in New Hampshire, etc.
Everyone is welcome to download it, and burn as many copies as you like!
The DVD image is freely available via BitTorrent.
First, you need a BitTorrent client. I've found Azureus to be the best one:
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php
Once you've downloaded and installed Azureus (or if you already have a BitTorrent client), just click on any of the following:
http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3499037
http://www.torrentbox.com/torrents-details.php?id=51736
http://www.mininova.org/tor/352509
This being BitTorrent, the more people that download, the faster it goes for everyone
Please, once you have finished downloading, leave your BitTorrent application running, as this speeds up the download for everyone else.
If you run into any trouble, or have any feedback, please post here.
I'll answer questions as best I can, and am always looking for suggestions for the next cut of the DVD.
Share and Enjoy!