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Re: Internet FunBux Follies Report
by g2s 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

-------- Original message --------From: Steven Schear <schear.steve(a)gmail.com> Date: 2/9/18 10:23 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Razer <g2s(a)riseup.net> Subject: Re: Internet FunBux Follies Report > It's easy to use your CC account to buy anything you can with cash. Every month almost every cardholder gets these checks in the mail which can be used to pay and common debt. If you can't deposit one into your checking account (the simplest solution), overpay one your other cards with a zero balance and next month request the issuer send you a check for the overage. Voila, cash to buy cryptocurrencies. You DO realize how much this sounds like a pitch from those credit card junk mails I throw in the trash? Rr On Feb 9, 2018 2:25 PM, "g2s" <g2s(a)riseup.net> wrote: "Bitcoiners, previously declaring their internet funbux will destroy all banks, are mad that banks are forbidding them to buy funbux on credit." https://twitter.com/gerikson/status/960461472009805824

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AFRICAN HISTORY MONTH
by Barry Gibbs Me Dats 10 Feb '18

10 Feb '18

> jamesd at echeque.com jamesd at echeque.com > Fri Feb 9 10:39:57 PST 2018 > slaves were black > because criminals are black Most criminals are "poor". > for the same reason > there are a disproportionate number of "blacks" > in San Francisco prisons Cannabis was not "illegal" then. Neither were "firearms".

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Not all "Blacks"
by Barry Gibbs Me Dats 10 Feb '18

10 Feb '18

> juan juan.g71 > Fri Feb 9 09:36:06 PST 2018 > who writes this shit IDK. Last one. - - - They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children. Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. They were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives. The Irish slave trade began when 30,000 Irish prisoners were sold as slaves to the New World. The King James I Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves. Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white. >From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade. Families were ripped apart as the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children. Britain’s solution was to auction them off as well. During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers. Many people today will avoid calling the Irish slaves what they truly were: Slaves. They’ll come up with terms like “Indentured Servants” to describe what occurred to the Irish. However, in most cases from the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle. As an example, the African slave trade was just beginning during this same period. It is well recorded that African slaves, not tainted with the stain of the hated Catholic theology and more expensive to purchase, were often treated far better than their Irish counterparts. African slaves were very expensive during the late 1600s (50 Sterling). Irish slaves came cheap (no more than 5 Sterling). If a planter whipped or branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never a crime. A death was a monetary setback, but far cheaper than killing a more expensive African. The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit. Children of slaves were themselves slaves, which increased the size of the master’s free workforce. Even if an Irish woman somehow obtained her freedom, her kids would remain slaves of her master. Thus, Irish moms, even with this new found emancipation, would seldom abandon their kids and would remain in servitude. In time, the English thought of a better way to use these women (in many cases, girls as young as 12) to increase their market share: The settlers began to breed Irish women and girls with African men to produce slaves with a distinct complexion. These new “mulatto” slaves brought a higher price than Irish livestock and, likewise, enabled the settlers to save money rather than purchase new African slaves. This practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed "forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale". In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company. England continued to ship tens of thousands of Irish slaves for more than a century. Records state that, after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia. There were horrible abuses of both African and Irish captives. One British ship even dumped 1,302 slaves into the Atlantic Ocean so that the crew would have plenty of food to eat. None of the Irish victims ever made it back to their homeland to describe their ordeal. These are the lost slaves; the ones that time and history books forgot. As if to (unlike the African one) have the Irish story utterly and completely disappear as if it never happened.

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Internet FunBux Follies Report
by g2s 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

"Bitcoiners, previously declaring their internet funbux will destroy all banks, are mad that banks are forbidding them to buy funbux on credit." https://twitter.com/gerikson/status/960461472009805824

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AFRICAN HISTORY MONTH
by Barry Gibbs Me Dats 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

> juan juan.g71 > Fri Feb 9 09:32:07 PST 2018 > total number of slaves? > how many of those slaves were "white"? Do you mean to say that, in America, the word "slavery" has a specific legal meaning and, by definition, Indo-Europeans are not included in it ? Pic related. > poor white slaves Indo-European slaves were sent to British territories in the Caribbean. They were categorized as "indentured" workers and "servants" of the English colonial elites. For other words, Slave (slav).

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Not all "Blacks"
by Knee Grow 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

Black people in early America weren’t slaves. After this lawsuit, they were. The only date definitely connected to John Casor’s life is this day in 1654 or 1655. It’s not when he was born, when he achieved something or when he died. It’s when he became a slave. Casor was originally an indentured servant, which meant he was practically a slave in some senses. But what was bought or sold wasn’t him, it was his contract of indenture, which obligated him to work for its holder for the period it set. At the end of that time, indentured servants—who could be of any race—were considered legally free and sent out into the world. This might sound like a rough deal, but indenture was how the British colonizers who lived in what would later become the United States managed to populate the land and get enough people to do the back-breaking work of farming crops like tobacco in the South. People who survived their period of indenture (many didn’t) went on to live free lives in the colonies, often after receiving some kind of small compensation like clothes, land or tools to help set them up. That was the incentive that caused many poor whites to indenture themselves and their families and move to the so-called New World. But Africans who were indentured were often captured and brought over against their will. That's what happened to the holder of Casor’s indenture, Anthony Johnson. Johnson served out his contract and went on to run his own tobacco farm and hold his own indentured servants, among them Casor. At this time, the colony of Virginia had very few black people in it: Johnson was one of the original 20. After a disagreement about whether or not Casor's contract was lapsed, a court ruled in favor of Johnson and Casor saw the status of his indenture turn into slavery, where he—not his contract—was considered property. Casor claimed that he had served his indenture of “seven or Eight years” and seven more years on top of that. The court sided with Johnson, who claimed that Casor was his slave for life. So Casor became the first person to be arbitrarily declared a slave for life in the U.S. (An earlier case had ended with a man named John Punch being declared a slave for life as a punishment for trying to escape his indentured servitude. His fellow escapees, who were white, were not punished in this way.) Of course, as Wesleyan University notes, “the Transatlantic slave trade from Africa to the Americas had been around for over a century already, originating around 1500.” Slaves, usually captured and sold by other African tribes, were transported across the Atlantic to the Americas. Around 11 million people were transported from 1500 to 1850, mostly to Brazil and the Caribbean islands. If they arrived in America, originally they became indentured servants; if they arrived elsewhere, they became slaves. Casor’s story is particularly grim in hindsight. His slip into slavery would be followed by many, many other people of African descent who were declared property in what became the United States. It was a watershed moment in the history of institutional slavery. “About seven years later, Virginia made this practice legal for everyone, in 1661, by making it state law for any free white, black or Indian to be able to own slaves, along with indentured servants,”. The step from there to a racialized idea of slavery wasn’t a huge one, she writes, and by the time Johnson died in 1670, his race was used to justify giving his plantation to a white man rather than Johnson’s children by his wife, Mary. He was “not a citizen of the colony,” a judge ruled, because he was black.

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Google's location tracker works with no SIM, Wifi disabled, and even in Airplane mode
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

Tucker Carlson and crew discover what the average plebe would up to this point have found hard to believe, let alone suspect - even with your SIM card removed, Wifi disabled, AND the Android phone in Airplane mode, that little data sucker in your pocket is gleefully wringing its fingers together, covetting your data on a second by second basis. Impressive stuff (for "Holy firetruck, are you shirting me?!" values of "impressive". youtube-dl -f best http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s8ZG6HuLrU How much info is Google getting from your phone-0s8ZG6HuLrU.mp4

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In just 24 hours, 5, 000 Android devices are conscripted into (monero) mining botnet
by Razer 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

"So far, the attackers have generated 0.0171757089 XMR, which at current prices is worth about $3..." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/out-of-nowhere-curre…

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Dell to merge with subsidiary VMware
by Ryan Carboni 04 Feb '18

04 Feb '18

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/02/dell-confirms-its-considering-combining-w… What is VMware doing that Qubes is not?

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Sorry, HTTP Cats! + FOSDEM (was Re: HTPP Cats)
by Cecilia Tanaka 04 Feb '18

04 Feb '18

Thank you very much for the heads up, Isaac! <3 Sorry, dear all... I was feeling very lazy and sleepy. :P Still feeling deeply slow, but trying to watch some of FOSDEM's videos. One of my friends wrote saying he is watching an awesome talk about Monero right now. I am jealous, snif! :( <https://fosdem.org/2018/news/2018-02-04-first-videos-online> Not disponible yet, but there will be more interesting stuff pretty soon, yay! :D Kisses, hugs and a lovely day, dear all... <3 c. On Feb 4, 2018 07:00, "Cecilia Tanaka" <cecilia.tanaka(a)gmail.com> wrote: A cat for every status code: http://http.cat Hope you are feline pawsome, dear me-all! :3 Wish each one of you live long and prospurrr! <3 Ceci, pro-cats-tinating in a lazy Sunday morning, puurrrr... ~(=^‥^) ---------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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