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Controlled demolition of the world trade center
by juan 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

oh and by the way, by far the biggest troll in this list is rayzer : a commie, anti-libertarian shitbag, who's also an apologist of theocracy, and a recording machine for US military propaganda. and he spams the list with his twitter garbage and links to his own shitty blog. He's so full of himself to the point of self-quoting... troll, spammer and government agent rayzer. Barf.

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US: Forced Decrypt, Right to Remain Innocent, Rubber Hosing
by grarpamp 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/03/20/207244/sorry-ive-forgotten-my-decr… https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/20/appeals_court_contempt_passwords/ The US Third Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a lower court ruling of contempt against an ex-cop who claimed he couldn't remember the password to decrypt his computer's hard drives. In so doing, the appeals court in Philadelphia avoided addressing a lower court's rejection of the defendant's argument that being forced to reveal his password violated his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. In the case under review, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held the defendant – referred to in court documents as "John Doe" because his case is partially under seal – in contempt of court for willfully disobeying and resisting an order to decrypt external hard drives that had been attached to his Mac Pro computer. The defendant's computer, two external hard drives, an iPhone 5S, and an iPhone 6 Plus were seized...... Don't Talk to the Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE You Have the Right to Remain Innocent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FENubmZGj8 More Hosed fighting back... http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/arti…

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Shut Up, Be Happy!
by grarpamp 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/20/norway-ousts-denmark-as-world… https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shut+up+be+happy Happiness in the US is declining and is expected to continue on a downward path, with Donald Trump's policies forecast to deepen the country's social crisis. The US has slipped to 15th place in the World Happiness Report 2017, produced by the United Nations. The world's economic superpower is well behind top-ranked Norway, although it remains above Germany in 17th place, the UK in 19th, and France in 32nd. Norway knocked Denmark off the top spot as the world's happiest country, with Iceland and Switzerland rounding out the top four. The report's authors stress, however, that the top four are so close that changes are not statistically significant. The next tier of countries are regular leaders in international happiness surveys: Finland is in fifth place, followed by the Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Sweden. The world's "unhappiest" countries are all in the Middle East and Africa: war-stricken Yemen and Syria feature in the bottom 10, with Tanzania, Burundi and Central African Republic making up the final three.

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Controlled demolition of the world trade center
by juan 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

here's more material for US military propagandists and agents like "rayzer" and james donald to do their 'job'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvAv-114bwM

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Re: Governance vs Decentralised Systems, Gold, Cash, Bitcoin
by grarpamp 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

There's certainly lots of real world governance models to try to draft and execute. Then there's another problem 1) Governance in the first place. and / or 2) That it's run by humans who are by nature corrupt. There could simply be some type of free for all network, new block refer to prior block, fork at will, solicit trust and longest chain adoption rather than sell it. Networks could be made to simply refuse to transact if parameters ever change... design it, launch it, and forget it, sink or swim. Users move their value from ship to ship. AI bots could execute within a novel network to - provide governance over humans, acceptance of patches. and or - adjust network paramaters by trial and error thus learning to solve its own problems. Some new networks may be created anonymously, where changes are locked to the anonymous creator by the AI. If creator disappears without key handoff, the net goes sink or swim at that point. Benevolent creator can quietly in safety cherry pick from some git repo community. Some users may just trust creator, or choose various creator nets that have some high vote% rollback and creator freeze options. Some many unexplored models and new ideas to yet come up with.

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Great Barrier Reef apocalypse (93% damaged) is .. fake news
by Zenaan Harkness 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Australia's billion $ a year reef tourism industry, not quite as at risk as previously thought... DELINGPOLE: Great Barrier Reef Still Not Dying, Whatever Washington Post Says… http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/20/delingpole-great-barrier… “We have got to the point where a large fraction of the science we see cannot be relied upon.”

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Join The Revolution of Money
by grarpamp 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLUHT8Ss9rI What better incentive to onboard users than to give away free money :)

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Ritual Magic might "takes out" 'self-driving' cars soon
by Razer 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Not soon enough. > Is it a silly prank, a Pagan ritual, or a genius discovery about the > next era of mass transit? In a picture posted to Flickr by artist > James Bridle—known for coining the term, "New Aesthetic"—a car is > sitting in the middle of a parking lot has been surrounded by a magic > salt circle. In the language of road markings, the dotted white lines > on the outside say, "Come On In," but the solid white line on the > inside says, "Do Not Cross." To the car's built-in cameras, these are > indomitable laws of magic: Petrificus Totalus for autonomous automobiles. > > Captioned simply, "Autonomous Trap 001," the scene evokes a world of > narratives involving the much-hyped technology of self-driving cars. > It could be mischievous hackers disrupting a friend's self-driving > ride home; the police seizing a dissident's getaway vehicle; highway > robbers trapping their prey; witches exorcizing a demon from their > hatchback. https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/meet-the-artist-using-ritual-magic-…

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FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers to Hire Because They All Smoke Pot
by Razer 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Maybe that's why they hire Used Furniture Salesmen > http://www.salon.com/2014/07/13/fbi_cyber_expert_is_ex_discount_furniture_s… > The agency's current regs say that the lawmen won't hire someone who > has "smoked" marijuana in the last three years. (No word on dabs, > edibles and other forms of marijuana consumption.) https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-fbi-cant-find-hackers-that-d…

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US: Constitutional Convention?
by grarpamp 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUYYohMZak4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj9DJej3Zi8 https://www.youtube.com/results?q=constitutional+convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_Unite… Gov. Abbott calls for Convention of States, offers amendments to U.S. Constitution FOX 7 Austin Streamed live on Jan 8, 2016 At Texas Public Policy gathering, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called for a Convention of States to pass nine amendments to the U.S. Constitution. It's part of Abbott's Texas Plan to "restore the Rule of Law and return the Constitution to its intended purpose." The plan offers nine amendments to rein in the federal government and restore the balance of power between the States and the United States. The amendments are: -Prohibit Congress from regulating activity that occurs wholly within one State. -Require Congress to balance its budget. -Prohibit administrative agencies—and the unelected bureaucrats that staff them—from creating federal law. -Prohibit administrative agencies—and the unelected bureaucrats that staff them—from preempting state law. -Allow a two-thirds majority of the States to override a U.S. Supreme Court decision. -Require a seven-justice super-majority vote for U.S. Supreme Court decisions that invalidate a democratically enacted law. -Restore the balance of power between the federal and state governments by limiting the former to the powers expressly delegated to it in the Constitution. -Give state officials the power to sue in federal court when federal officials overstep their bounds. -Allow a two-thirds majority of the States to override a federal law or regulation.

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