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Howard the Duck's "Dark Overlord"
by jim bell 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

I don't know if this is the first usage of "Dark Overlord", but see this clip from the 1984 movie, "Howard the Duck". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXwxYIjqocA Jim Bell

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MacArthur: “Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: ‘Do not march on Moscow'” - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

A reasonable mashup comparison of Napoleon's march on Moscow (courtesy the memoirs of Caulaincourt) and today's USA "Empire of Mug Values"^BMuh Values, & with a link to "the famous graph" which is new to some (speaking for a friend ;) https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http://iaincarstairs.files.wordpress.com… ** The West and Russia: C’est Toujours La même Chose https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2019/01/05/cest-toujours-la-meme-chose/?mc_cid=… … His account begins with a long conversation with Napoleon. Just before he left St Petersburg, Alexander called him in for what was, unmistakeably, a message and warning to be passed on. De Caulaincourt really tries hard – but unsuccessfully – to make Napoleon get the point. He tells him that Alexander said he had learned something from the Spanish resistance to France and that was that Napoleon’s other opponents had given up too early; they should have kept fighting. Napoleon is unimpressed: his generals in Spain are incompetent and and his brother (to whom he had given the Spanish throne) is an idiot; he sees no larger lessons and believes that Spain is not important in the great scheme. De Caulaincourt reiterates that Alexander kept returning to that point, giving other illustrations of giving up too soon and emphasised that, if Napoleon invaded, he would persevere: he would keep fighting from Kamchatka if need be; Russia was very large and the weather very severe. One good battle and they’ll give up insists Napoleon. Napoleon then mentions how angry the Poles are getting with Russia. De Caulaincourt retorts that the Poles he knows, while they would certainly prefer a free and independent Poland, have learned that living under Russia is not as bad as they thought it would be and that real freedom might cost more than it would be worth. De Caulaincourt then, no doubt repeating what Alexander has told him, describes the compromise that would settle the problems between him and Russia; but Napoleon’s not interested. After five hours of this, Napoleon dismisses him but de Caulaincourt asks leave to say one more thing: if you are thinking of invading (now de Caulaincourt realises that he’s set on it) please think of France’s best interests. Oh says Napoleon, now you’re talking like a Russian. …

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Sanity a la Bolsonaro: “is social welfare more important than your kids' dignity? Your kids' honor?” - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

Now here's a position of personal and family responsibility which is close to the hearts of many - the inherent dignity of humans demands some level of will to support one's own survival in this world, and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is thankfully stating this as plain as can be: Brazil's Bolsonaro Blasts Left's "Marxist Indoctrination... Enslaving Kids To Welfare Dependence" https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-14/brazils-bolsonaro-blasts-lefts-ma… … In a November 7 blog post, he wrote that Brazilians have become "hostages of an education system that indoctrinates students into scientism and Marxism." In another post, he said Brazil "should resist politically correct globalism, which has adopted the crazy notion of 'gender education." He continues: "This nonsense must end." http://pensadordelamancha.blogspot.com/ A breath of fresh air - if you have to have politics, you might as well have a little conservative sanity in the picture...

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High Energy Physics Required, and Other Hacks
by grarpamp 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

https://www.wsj.com/articles/only-nuclear-energy-can-save-the-planet-115472… https://fcc-cdr.web.cern.ch/ Fossils https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18914089 RSA https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18913946 https://devhints.io/bash https://sintonen.fi/advisories/scp-client-multiple-vulnerabilities.txt YACL https://securitycheckli.st/ Oaths http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ Tor Funding https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18911010 DPI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18910334 Because... Butterflies https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18912164 https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ag6bkw/cryptopia_hacked/ https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/agb1w6/cz_responds_to_cryp… Not your keys, Not your Cryptocurrency

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give birth while young - future babies won't be with 34+ year old women - fertility decreasing
by Zenaan Harkness 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

To remind us of the obvious, "fertility does not equal birth rate": The Astounding Drop in Global Fertility Rates Between 1970 And 2014 https://brilliantmaps.com/fertility-rates/ Fertility Rate By Country 2019 http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/total-fertility-rate/ Fertility is decreasing, due to environmental (/biological) factors and social factors. Sad stories of older ("middle aged") women going through massive journeys at their local fertility clinic, just to have a first or second child: 44-Year-Old Gives Birth, Urges Younger Women: “Please Don’t Wait. Don’t Go Through What I Did.” https://dailystormer.name/44-year-old-slut-gives-birth-urges-younger-women-… https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6585001/Why-no-woman-wait-40s-ba… … But the past five years of my life have been lost to a horrible rollercoaster of desperate longing, dashed hopes, miscarriage, fertility drugs and pain – both physical and emotional. The Age Your Fertility Really Begins To Decline https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/age-female-fertility-declines_n_481… … the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists emphasized that women's ability to have babies declines gradually "but significantly" beginning around age 32, then more rapidly after age 37 … the new opinion is backed by studies looking at natural fertility within the population, as well as results from hundreds of fertility clinics on thousands of cycles of in vitro fertilization. "I would say it's based on very, very sound evidence," The U.S. fertility rate just hit a historic low. Why some demographers are freaking out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/06/30/the-u-s-fe… https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=why%20is%20fertility%20decreasing Those who do NOT hate themselves still want a future for why-people. Create your world,

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bitcoin floodgates → freedom almost at hand → Yellow Vests playing with “Financial Nuclear Warheads” (by calling for a run on the banks)
by Zenaan Harkness 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

The present world order headed by the USA empire is almost done. The Fed's everything bubbles are just waiting for the right pin prick to catalyze the reset "our" Western oligarch's would rather avoid, yet have no choice in the matter as this system is so unstable it can be kept afloat but a little longer. Russia is set to open the USD → alt currency floodgates via bitcoin and likely a new Rus-national “intermediary cryptocurrency”: Russia Prepares To Buy Up To $10 Billion In Bitcoin To Evade US Sanctions https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-14/russia-prepares-buy-10-billion-bi… With the Yellow Vests calling for a possibly-catalytic run on the banks (the most significant push possible for the yellow vests to make), we may be just around the corner of a full global fiat reset, and not into a One World Currency, One World Government, etc New World Order, but a multi-polar world of competing authorities. For some completely unknown reason the (((current ultra-oligarchs))) ... get this ... overplayed their hand - wherever have we heard this before? Not content with all countries but five in their hegemonic debt noose, and flush with their World War 2 successes, those with a slightly noticeable penchant for "ruling the planet" decided to place everything on the table to grab those last 5 countries: Iraq Libya Syria Iran North Korea and we know how that worked out... with continuous hysterical screeching against our Russkie bros for saying "uh uhh, Syria be our long term partners, feel free to sepuku your silly empire". Now is the time to make any move you planned to make - time is very short people. Good luck and may God speed your righteous journeys, "Financial Nuclear Warheads" - The Yellow Vests Get It Right https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-14/financial-nuclear-warheads-yellow… https://straightlinelogic.com/2019/01/13/the-yellow-vests-get-it-right-by-r… … The Yellow Vest protestors have called for a coordinated run on French banks. Whether they realize it or not, they’re playing with nuclear warheads that could annihilate not just the French, but Europe’s and the entire world’s financial system. Because inextricably linked to the ends of contemporary governments―how much they can screw up the lives of those who must live under them—is the question of means―how do they fund their misrule? The short answer is taxes and debt. Since 1971, when President Nixon  “temporarily” suspended international convertibility of dollars for gold (it’s never been reinstated), the monetary basis of the global economy has been fiat debt. Neither government or central bank debt nor currencies are tethered to any real constraint, like precious metals (see “Real Money,” SLL https://straightlinelogic.com/2015/09/09/real-money-by-robert-gore/ ). Thus, politicians and monetary officials can create as much debt as they want: debt by fiat. Government and central bank debt is at the apex of the global debt pyramid. The next tier is commercial banks that have accounts at central banks. Those accounts are bank assets and central bank liabilities, or debts. Central banks expand their fiat liabilities to banks in exchange for banks’ fiat government debt, an exchange called debt monetization, which is a bit of a misnomer since no “Real Money” is involved. The “monetization” is the central bank’s fiat expansion of banks’ accounts with the central bank in exchange for fiat government debt, which expands banks’ assets available for loans to governments, businesses, and individuals. In “Real Money,” money was defined, in part, as that which has intrinsic value and is not a liability of an individual or entity. This part of the definition is controversial; it invalidates everything we currently think of as money. Popularly accepted definitions are essentially: money is as money does, anything that serves as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account (the other parts of the SLL definition) is money. However, just because something has monetary functions doesn’t mean it’s money, anymore than using a hairbrush to brush your teeth makes it a toothbrush. While there are some metaphysical questions about the notion of intrinsic value (that term was chosen because it’s shorter and more convenient than saying, “Something to which most people would assign a value apart from its potential value as money,” every time) the important point is that by SLL’s definition, using debt as money, including the debt in your wallet known as Federal Reserve Notes, doesn’t make it money. Except for the relatively few instances when gold, silver, or other tangible value is used as a medium of exchange in private transactions, everything that is currently used is debt, including currencies.

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The Completion of Humanity Project
by juan 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6wtDPVkKqI 人類補完計画じんるいほかんけいかく for some reason translated as Human Instrumentality Project

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on feathers in the cap, and the Nobel laureate DNA discoverer stripped of titles - [PEACE] [MINISTRY]
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

'Tis celebration time folks, as we have another day and another hero holding his ground (see below)! Between Sydney and the University of NSW (Australia) is a large public park with a tar-sealed track enough for a car or a few bicycles side by side. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Park,_New_South_Wales Being a very large park (2.2km^2, >500 acres), this track is ideal for cycling and thus folks make their way from all around Sydney to train or simply to enjoy this glorious circuit. Being a somewhat popular place in Sydney, there are often normal non-cycling humans too, walking at one place or another, and often enough with children or toddlers with them, and as such, speed limits have been set at 30km/hr and even 10km/hr in so called "shared zones". https://www.centennialparklands.com.au/visit/things-to-see-and-do/cycling This is all very well, and young males often make much use of this cycling circuit, for training, exercise, and short sprints to prove who is "better" than his cycling buddies because of course, this question must be regularly tested, temporarily answered, and re-tested ad-nauseum. Due to such hormone induced competition, on the rare occasion a traffic cop has been rumoured to set up his mobile radar trap and thus remind the local boys that there is, in fact, a speed limit. The greatest of such rumours was "this one time, at Centennial Park, Joe was absolutely fangin' it round the park and got clocked by a coppa doin' over 60 km/hr!" "Woah! Fakkin awesome, dude!" As in, that is one speeding ticket to frame and hang forever in (in)famy on the family wall - who wouldn't be proud as? Similarly, the more recent and sad (in an "extremely disappointed in Germans obeying their kiked authorities and laws" way) yet gloriously wonderful --true stories-- of Grandma Haverbeck, Ernst Zundel and others slammed in jail for daring to put forth certain rather glaring facts, inconsistencies, impossibilities and of course the logically consequent questions about the holohoax, are truly "feathers in one's spiritual cap", despite the fear and loss of liberty that said jail terms bring personally. Which all leads us to today and the same blight in a new dreary form - those unthinking, anti-science Commies, moronic Marxist social constructionists walking as the Zionist golem we are all so familiar with today as it bludgeons away all facts in its superficial, yet successfully tyrannical exercise of power. This of course is only possible in the face of a mostly subjugated into significant Islam (submission) people of the West: May God Bless You, Mr. Watson. And May God Bless Your Children and Your Children’s Children. https://dailystormer.name/may-god-bless-you-mr-watson-and-may-god-bless-you… This man [90 year old James Watson] literally discovered DNA. But he is evil now, because he thinks the difference in white and black DNA accounts for the difference in performance. Make no mistake about it. James Watson is falling on his sword – all the way on his sword – in the name of truth, science, justice and the future of the white race on planet earth. He is also doing a secular version of the Christian concept of “building treasures in Heaven.” He knows that he will die with people believing in the bizarro world religious doctrine that “race is a social construct.” But he also knows that after his death, the order of truth will be restored, and he will stand vindicated. … Nobel Prize-winning DNA pioneer stripped of titles for insisting IQ depends on race & genes https://www.rt.com/news/448732-james-watson-titles-revoked/ Ninety-year-old Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson has been stripped of his honorary titles by a leading American research institution, after doubling down on his controversial conclusions linking race and intelligence. Despite nearly half a century service to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), Watson, a world-renowned geneticist, lost all of his honorary titles of Chancellor Emeritus, Oliver R. Grace Professor Emeritus and Honorary Trustee, for refusing to retract his own scientific conclusions. In 2007, Watson was suspended from all of his positions held at the Jew York lab following a scandal centering around his claim about the "inherently gloomy" future of the African continent. “All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really,” he told the Times newspaper at the time. … Note that the "scientific entity" at issue, CSHL, abuses the classic domination trope "conflation": [CHSL] “condemns the misuse of science to justify prejudice.” which is a slimy conflation of science exposing facts and the logical/ inescapable conclusions arising therefrom, with their slur upon James Watson that he is allegedly "justifying prejudice". Shame on CHSL for stooping so low as to abuse such Marxist tropes in the name of some constructionist wank about "inclusion" and "equality" - but what else are we to expect from "respectable instutions of science" in this Zionist age? James Watson shall be vindicated, though possibly not before he passes from this world, giving nothing but a superficial and so temporary win to Satan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan#Historical_development Some memes for the glorious taking, to #TriggerAMarxist today: #NotMyFacts #FactsDestroyTruth #LoveIgnoresFacts #FactsAreTheNewConspiracy #ImWithWatson #RealityIsOnlyASocialConstruction #MakeConflationsGreatAgain #TheOnlyFactIsMarxism #LogicIsObsolete #BibiIsKang #DiverseOpinionsIsRacism #NeverTolerateOtherOpinions #VehementlyIntolerant Trigger a Marxist today, present a fact. Yo! Get jailed today in Germany - publicly speak a fact about the "Holocaust".

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Re: Dropgangs, or the future of darknet markets
by jim bell 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

I've decided to post an edited copy of the below posting to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18899207 for further discussion. On Sunday, January 13, 2019, 11:46:38 PM PST, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: On Sunday, January 13, 2019, 7:44:21 PM PST, Mirimir <mirimir(a)riseup.net> wrote: Dropgangs, or the future of dark markets https://opaque.link/post/dropgang/ >Nice. It's cool to see serious tradecraft applied to this stuff. Especially compartmentalization. >And yes, using traditional shipping systems is a serious problem for old-school dark markets. I've thought off and on for several years about the potential for using dead drops with accurate GPS. I mean, geocaching. Many years ago, when I was dealing LSD, it was pretty common to use dead drops. But then, they were typically rental lockers in bus and train stations. >I agree that ubiquitous surveillance is a problem. However, it's ~clueless customers and low-level distributors who'll most likely get pwned. And they won't know anything importnt about the operation overall. Yes, I am also quite impressed at the amount of thought that has been put into this concept, see the link above. I would be quite interested in helping in designing these systems, as I have been following some of the necessary technologies for years. I foresee a stiff plastic or metal pipe, tapered to a point at one end, which can be driven by force into soil or into a lawn, so that it ends up to be approximately flush with the plane of the soil. Once placed, a smaller cylindrical container, as well as active elements, if needed, can be slid into the metal pipe, from above. >From the linked article: https://opaque.link/post/dropgang/ "This challenge is met by Dropgangs in various ways. The primary one is that the documentation of each dead drop is conducted in minute detail, covering GPS coordinates, photos of the surrounding and the location, as well as photos of the concealment device in which the product is hidden (such as an empty coke can). The documentation however increases the risk for the Dropgang since whoever creates it would be more easy to identify by surveillance. In addition, even great documentation still requires the customer to understand it and follow it precisely, which can lead to suspicious behavior around the dead drop location (staring at photos, visually comparing them to the surrounding, etc)." [end of partial quote] Ordinarily, smartphones that use GPS, don't use accurizing features, such as WAAS. (Wide Area Augmentation System). See Wide Area Augmentation System | | | | | | | | | | | Wide Area Augmentation System WAAS uses a network of ground-based reference stations, in North America and Hawaii, to measure small variations... | | | ×× WAAS correction data is probably already available on the Internet. "Accuracy[edit] The WAAS specification requires it to provide a position accuracy of 7.6 metres (25 ft) or less (for both lateral and vertical measurements), at least 95% of the time.[2] Actual performance measurements of the system at specific locations have shown it typically provides better than 1.0 metre (3 ft 3 in) laterally and 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) vertically throughout most of the contiguous United States and large parts of Canada and Alaska.[3] With these results, WAAS is capable of achieving the required Category I precision approach accuracy of 16 metres (52 ft) laterally and 4.0 metres (13.1 ft) vertically. | | | | | | | | | | | Canada Coordinates: 60°N 95°W / 60°N 95°W / 60; -95 | | | ×× | | | | | | | | | | | Alaska Coordinates: 64°N 150°W / 64°N 150°W / 64; -150[1] | | | ×× [end of partial quote] WAAS might be described as a form of differential GPS. If the location as computed by the smartphone was improved by WAAS, the statement above indicates an accuracy within about 1 meter. IR-specific retroreflectors to greatly simplify things. The article describes complicated systems using Bluetooth or WiFi to help locate these dead-drops. While they are certainly innovative, they add cost and complexity to the hardware involved. I have thought of a much-cheaper system that I feel is sufficiently secure and simple for common use. Light-retroreflectors are commonly made from Scotchlite Retroreflective sheeting or plastic molded corner-cubes. If a rather small (say, 1/4 in diameter) sphere covered with retroreflector material was held up from the insert, possibly by a short, thin stiff wire, the sphere could be visible, but not excessively obvious even during the daylight. It would be easy to find this device with a flashlight in the dark. For added security, an infrared-transmitting plastic (such as is often used to cover IR-activating remote controls, such as Infrared Transmitting Plexiglass Sheets In Stock ) could be used to ensure that only IR is retroreflected back to a searcher. | | | | Infrared Transmitting Plexiglass Sheets In Stock Infrared Transmitting Plexiglass Sheets In Stock at ePlastics. Trusted for over 100 years. | | | ×× | | | | | | | | | | | Retroreflective sheeting Retroreflective sheeting is widely used in a variety of applications today, after early widespread use in road s... | | | ×× Ordinary smart-phone camera arrays are not only sensitive to human-visible light (generally described as 400-700 nanometer wavelength), but are also sensitive to near-IR wavelengths. If a smartphone camera was combined with a directional IR LED, substituting for the white light LED lamp used for photography, and aiming in the same direction, a user would be able to see (through the camera display) the IR-specific reflections from an IR-limited retroreflector, and this would probably be doable both during the day and at night. A person operating such a camera would "look like" he was doing photography, or perhaps playing a game. Somebody watching, even at night, could not see the IR. The IR 'searchlight' could be a narrow-beam device, perhaps with a full-angle of 16 degrees or so (typical for a narrow-beam IR LED), so it wouldn't be particularly obvious even if watched through an IR viewer. (If the IR LED itself was shielded from direct view.) One advantage of this technique is that the searcher could identify the target from a very long distance away, perhaps many tens of meters, and thus approach it in a more "innocent" fashion. No obvious "searching" would have to be performed in the open. And, the person who placed the dead drop could ascertain its status without later needing to approach it closely. This technique could be combined with Bluetooth or WiFi techniques, too. The retroreflector could normally be retracted, and only raised if the proper Bluetooth or WiFi signal was heard. Or, perhaps, the target would contain an exposed IR LED, which would activate from an battery only if the proper signals were heard. The resulting dead-drop would be virtually impossible to find. Jim Bell ×

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Humor: The "Internet of Things" reaches an Accord...
by Razer 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

"I recently sat in a 2019 Accord. The dash is an Android device. There's a menu item for sideloading .APK files from USB. Can't imagine anything going wrong." https://twitter.com/egyp7/status/1084527907341512705?s=19 Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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