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The Dishwasher's Guide to Politics (or how to tell a libertarian from an anarchist from a...)
by Razer 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

The Dishwasher's Guide to Politics Capitalism: You wash the dishes, the ones who own them profit Libertarianism: You wash the dishes, the one's who own them profit tax-free. Democracy: Even as a dishwasher, you deserve a say as to which politician is best suited to protect the economy that keeps you in the dish room. Reform: Shorter stacks, warmer water, longer breaks--same dishes Anarchism: Everyone shares in the dish-washing Source: Contradictionary https://crimethinc.com/books/contradictionary Also see: http://www.infoshop.org/FakeAnarchistsLibertarians

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No, Assange did not lie.
by jim bell 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

https://westvirginia.forums.rivals.com/threads/comey-confirms-assange-did-n… "This may explain, in part, why the Dems refused to turn over their server to the FBI for analysis. Perhaps, as Assange stated, an insider, was involved. This is not to say the Russians weren't also involved in hacking Podesta or the DNC, but the question is, who gave the emails to WikiLeaks. We do know that 3 IT guys, who were later arrested after being accused of unauthorized access to Congressional computers including Debbie Wasserman Shultz. Could they have been the source of the emails being sent to WikiLeaks? Stranger and stranger. http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/04/e...it-staffers-fired-in-computer-securit… BOMBSHELL=> Comey to Congress: Russians DID NOT Give Podesta’s Emails to WikiLeaks FBI Director James Comey testified in front of Congress on Monday. While the mainstream media (MSM) focused on his statements indicating that the FBI is investigating possible Russian interference in the 2016 US election, the highlight of Comey’s testimony was ignored. Comey mentioned that the FBI is investigating the leaks of secret information to the press and he told the House Intelligence Committee the investigation is still underway and he would be unable to discuss matters linked to the investigation. However, the most important piece of information that Comey disclosed to Congress was that the Russians did not provide WikiLeaks HIllary’s campaign manager John Podesta’s emails. Comey said something interesting today that nobody’s picked up on yet because they’re so distracted by this other stuff, which I can understand. He was asked specifically if WikiLeaks was furnished their information on Podesta and the phone calls by the Russians, and Comey said no. The entire case that Democrats make that ‘Russia stole the election from Hillary’ is based on the premise that Russia supplied Podesta’s emails to WikiLeaks which then somehow led to Hillary’s defeat. Anyone who was halfway interested in the election in the fall of 2016 knows that this is a big lie in so many ways, but specifically because the MSM totally ignored WikiLeak’s dump of Podesta emails before the election. The MSM did not share Podesta’s emails before the election and now the head of the FBI just announced that the Russians did not give these emails to WikiLeaks. This confirms what WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said in November – that his group did not get emails related to Hillary Clinton’s campaign from a “state actor.” The crazy conspiracy that the ‘Russians prevented Hillary Clinton from winning the 2016 election’ is coming apart at the seams. Clearly, she was just a horrible candidate. 1 WVPATX, Yesterday at 10:21 AM Last edited: Yesterday at 10:27 AM [end of quote]

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More Postal Service Cameras
by grarpamp 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

http://kdvr.com/2015/03/11/mysterious-spy-cameras-collecting-data-at-post-o… DENVER -- Within an hour of FOX31 Denver discovering a hidden camera, which was positioned to capture and record the license plates and facial features of customers leaving a Golden Post Office, the device was ripped from the ground and disappeared. FOX31 Denver investigative reporter Chris Halsne confirmed the hidden camera and recorder is owned and operated by the United State Postal Inspection Service, the law enforcement branch of the U.S. Postal Service. The recording device appeared to be tripped by any vehicle leaving the property An alert customer first noticed the data collection device, hidden inside a utilities box, around Thanksgiving 2014. It stayed in place, taking photos through the busy Christmas holidays and into mid-January. Managers inside the post office tell FOX31 Denver they were unaware customers were being photographed outside and that the surveillance was not part of the building’s security monitoring. Staking out Colorado High feeding into the darknet?

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Farmers need cypherpunk help too
by grarpamp 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/why-american-farmers-are-hacking… Right to Repair Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware A dive into the thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking. To avoid the draconian locks that John Deere puts on the tractors they buy, farmers throughout America's heartland have started hacking their equipment with firmware that's cracked in Eastern Europe and traded on invite-only, paid online forums. Tractor hacking is growing increasingly popular because John Deere and other manufacturers have made it impossible to perform "unauthorized" repair on farm equipment, which farmers see as an attack on their sovereignty and quite possibly an existential threat to their livelihood if their tractor breaks at an inopportune time. "When crunch time comes and we break down, chances are we don't have time to wait for a dealership employee to show up and fix it," Danny Kluthe, a hog farmer in Nebraska, told his state legislature earlier this month. "Most all the new equipment [requires] a download [to fix]." The nightmare scenario, and a fear I heard expressed over and over again in talking with farmers, is that John Deere could remotely shut down a tractor and there wouldn't be anything a farmer could do about it. A license agreement John Deere required farmers to sign in October forbids nearly all repair and modification to farming equipment, and prevents farmers from suing for "crop loss, lost profits, loss of goodwill, loss of use of equipment … arising from the performance or non-performance of any aspect of the software." The agreement applies to anyone who turns the key or otherwise uses a John Deere tractor with embedded software. It means that only John Deere dealerships and "authorized" repair shops can work on newer tractors. "If a farmer bought the tractor, he should be able to do whatever he wants with it," Kevin Kenney, a farmer and right-to-repair advocate in Nebraska, told me. "You want to replace a transmission and you take it to an independent mechanic—he can put in the new transmission but the tractor can't drive out of the shop. Deere charges $230, plus $130 an hour for a technician to drive out and plug a connector into their USB port to authorize the part." "What you've got is technicians running around here with cracked Ukrainian John Deere software that they bought off the black market," he added. "I take the hog waste and run it through an anaerobic digester and I've learned to compress the methane," he said. "I run an 80 percent methane in my Chevy Diesel Pickup and I run 90 percent methane in my tractor. And they both purr. I take a lot of pride in working on my equipment." "What happens in 20 years when there's a new tractor out and John Deere doesn't want to fix these anymore?"

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Re: Bitcoin Battle Over Fees and Scaling, Cryptocurrencies Become Politically Bulletproof?
by MARK GORE 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

This is so profound.. BTC ++++ / circle jerk matrix of a read, down the memory hole. (arnt' these beautiful) Theorem. The prime p is a unique prime of period n if and only if is a power of p where is the nth cyclotomic polynomial. It is possible to generalize this to other bases, and the generalized unique primes in base-x (any integer greater than one) are the prime factors of which do not divide x. The Eighteen Unique Primes less than 1050 period prime 1 3 2 11 3 37 4 101 10 9091 12 9901 9 333667 14 909091 24 99990001 36 9999990000 01 48 9999999900 000001 38 9090909090 90909091 19 1111111111 111111111 23 1111111111 1111111111 111 39 9009009009 0099099099 0991 62 9090909090 9090909090 9090909091 120 1000099999 9989998999 9000000010 001 150 1000009999 9999989999 8999990000 0000010000 1 On Mar 20, 2017, at 03:36 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp(a)gmail.com> wrote: Undoubtedly wounded by Cryptome's forum spooks too... " https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/60bwge/gregory_maxwell_in_2011_the_pu… I conclude that the goal of the censorship is not to promote Core's roadmap, per se, but rather to continue to grow the divide in the bitcoin community and foster discontent. Yet another tactic of the disruptor is to label your opposition as "conspiracy theorists" for daring to entertain possibilities like the one you just outlined. Everyone should read this: https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm Literally every single one of these tactics is at play here. Note that I'm not making the logical leap and concluding that this whole charade is a top-down effort to subvert Bitcoin, but we should be able to discuss the possibility (precisely because it is a possibility) without being labeled tinfoil nutjobs for doing so. If there was an attack on bitcoin, what would it look like? "

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Why y'all so serious all the time ;)
by grarpamp 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7bj2p6nbXY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6CtTBe3MEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN1awl2KetM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRXBA5tPwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wGD84j0_t8 Do moar punk shit :)

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

22 Mar '17

From: "\\0xDynamite" <dreamingforward(a)gmail.com> >Keep it to yourself, 'k? why should I? Take your suggestion and shove it up your ass. On 3/21/17, juan <juan.g71(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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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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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