New York Post : Pamela Anderson makes 11th-hour pardon plea for WikiLeaks' Julian Assange
New York Post : Pamela Anderson makes 11th-hour pardon plea for WikiLeaks' Julian Assange. https://nypost.com/2021/01/02/pamela-anderson-makes-11th-hour-pardon-plea-for-julian-assange/ Jim Bell's comment:I've been waiting for many months to be directed to legal filings by Assange's legal defense team. Jennifer Robinson is the Barrister, I believe. I want to find out if the valid arguments I'm aware of are being raised. (Limitations period;. American jurisdiction over statutes which don't claim extraterritorial jurisdiction.)
Al Jazeera English: Killing Julian Assange
Al Jazeera English: Killing Julian Assange. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/1/3/killing-julian-assange
Encrypted Backup Shootout
https://acha.ninja/blog/encrypted_backup_shootout/
NBC News: Insecure wheels: Police turn to car data to destroy suspects' alibis
NBC News: Insecure wheels: Police turn to car data to destroy suspects' alibis. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/snitches-wheels-police-turn-car-data-destroy-suspects-alibis-n1251939C
BBC News: Hacked home cams used to livestream police raids in swatting attacks
Hacked home cams used to livestream police raids in swatting attacks - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55499164
Aljazeera.com: The world of surveillance: Who does ‘Big Brother’ answer to?
Aljazeera.com: The world of surveillance: Who does ‘Big Brother’ answer to?. https://www.aljazeera.com/program/upfront/2020/12/25/the-world-of-surveillance-who-does-big-brother-answer-to
Space.com: Capella Space unveils super-sharp radar images of Earth (photos)
Space.com: Capella Space unveils super-sharp radar images of Earth (photos). https://www.space.com/capella-space-radar-imagery-earth Jim Bell's comment:. Synthetic Aperture Radar.
Hackaday: Indoor Antennas Worthy Of 007
Hackaday: Indoor Antennas Worthy Of 007. https://hackaday.com/2020/12/26/indoor-antennas-worthy-of-007/ Hidden antennas
WIRED: The Secret History of the First Microprocessor, the F-14, and Me
WIRED: The Secret History of the First Microprocessor, the F-14, and Me. https://www.wired.com/story/secret-history-of-the-first-microprocessor-f-14/
TechRadar: Signal’s famous encryption may have been cracked
TechRadar: Signal’s famous encryption may have been cracked. https://www.techradar.com/news/signals-famous-encryption-may-have-been-cracked
The Intercept: Powerful Cellphone Surveillance Tool Operates in Obscurity
The Intercept: Powerful Cellphone Surveillance Tool Operates in Obscurity. https://theintercept.com/2020/12/23/police-phone-surveillance-dragnet-cellhawk/
WWLP.com: Report: License plate surveillance system was inaccurate
WWLP.com: Report: License plate surveillance system was inaccurate. https://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/report-license-plate-surveillance-system-was-inaccurate/
SlashGear: Old Android phones no longer affected by Let’s Encrypt’s big change next year
SlashGear: Old Android phones no longer affected by Let’s Encrypt’s big change next year. https://www.slashgear.com/old-android-phones-no-longer-affected-by-lets-encrypts-big-change-next-year-21652127/
Encryption Lava Lamps – San Francisco, California - Atlas Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/encryption-lava-lamps Sounds like a PR stunt. Very slow data rate. Mix this with output from a modern chip-based RNG, and you won't be doing any harm. Just an example:https://www.idquantique.com/random-number-generation/products/quantis-qrng-chip/
Re: Ivermectin: Was: Re: Chloroquine is "highly effective" at inhibiting reproduction of Novel Coronavirus nCov in cell...
Even more information on Ivermectin: https://rebelem.com/covid-19-update-ivermectin/ Suggested treatment: - - If you believe the evidence thus far, which are severely flawed: Dosing of Ivermectin Used in Trials - Prophylaxis: 0.2 mg/kg on day 1 and day 3 followed by one dose/month - Treatment 0.2mg/kg o day 1 and day 3 followed by Days 6 and 8 if not recovered - Suggested Dosing of Ivermectin Based on Weight [1] [end of partial quote] On Friday, December 18, 2020, 11:17:08 PM PST, jim bell wrote: On Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 11:59:30 AM PST, jim bell wrote: >Yes, I first became aware of Ivermectin in maybe 2014, when I saw that it was >the main ingredient in 'ant-bait', ant-killer. So, I noticed it when many >months ago, they started talking about it against COVID-19. I just bought a >dozen tubes from Amazon, in a form intended as a horse-de-wormer. It says it >tastes like apples! Yum! https://www.amazon.com/Durvet-Duramectin-Equine-Wormer-Paste/dp/B01EP4TPPC/ref=sr_1_20?dchild=1=ivermectin=1608148501=8-20 >Would I take anything else? I say, "Nay!!!" (Neigh!!!) > Jim Bell More information on Ivermectin: | | Jim b | | 11:07 PM (4 minutes ago) | | =I recently sent a reference that says to prevent COVID-19, a person should take about 0.2 mg of Ivermectin per kilogram of body weight weekly, after a couple of quick treatments This is probably a different cite: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/#:~:text=The%20half%2Dlife%20of%20ivermectin,for%20up%20to%20three%20days Partial quote follows: .Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci. 2011 Feb 10; 87(2): 13–28.doi: 10.2183/pjab.87.13PMCID: PMC3043740PMID: 21321478 Ivermectin, ‘Wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective Andy CRUMP*1 and Satoshi ŌMURA*1†Editor: Satoshi ŌMURAAuthor information Article notes Copyright and License information DisclaimerThis article has been cited by other articles in PMC.Go to: Introduction There are few drugs that can seriously lay claim to the title of ‘Wonder drug’, penicillin and aspirin being two that have perhaps had greatest beneficial impact on the health and wellbeing of Mankind. But ivermectin can also be considered alongside those worthy contenders, based on its versatility, safety and the beneficial impact that it has had, and continues to have, worldwide—especially on hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people. Several extensive reports, including reviews authored by us, have been published detailing the events behind the discovery, development and commercialization of the avermectins and ivermectin (22,23-dihydroavermectin B), as well as the donation of ivermectin and its use in combating Onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis.1–6) However, none have concentrated in detail on the interacting sequence of events involved in the passage of the drug into human use. When it first appeared in the late-1970s, ivermectin, a derivative of avermectin (Fig. (Fig.1 )1 ) was a truly revolutionary drug, unprecedented in many ways. It was the world’s first endectocide, forerunner of a completely new class of antiparasitic agents, potently active against a wide range of internal and external nematodes and arthropods. In the early-1970s, a novel international Public Sector–Private Sector partnership was initiated by one of us (Ōmura, then head of the Antibiotics Research Group at Tokyo’s Kitasato Institute), forming a collaboration with the US-based Merck, Sharp and Dohme (MSD) pharmaceutical company. Under the terms of the research agreement, researchers at the Kitasato Institute isolated organisms from soil samples and carried out preliminary in vitro evaluation of their bioactivity. Promising bioactive samples were then sent to the MSD laboratories for further in vivo testing where a potent and promising novel bioactivity was found, subsequently identified as being caused by a new compound, which was named ‘avermectin’.7) Despite decades of searching around the world, the Japanese microorganism remains the only source of avermectin ever found.1) Originating from a single Japanese soil sample and the outcome of the innovative, international collaborative research partnership to find new antiparasitics, the extremely safe and more effective avermectin derivative, ivermectin, was initially introduced as a commercial product for Animal Health in 1981. It is effective against a wide range of parasites, including gastrointestinal roundworms, lungworms, mites, lice and hornflies.7–12) Ivermectin is also highly effective against ticks, for example, the ixodid tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, one of the most important cattle parasites in the tropics and subtropics, which causes enormous economic damage. Indicative of the impact, in Brazil, where some 80% of the bovine herd
ABC News: Hacked networks will need to be burned 'down to the ground'
ABC News: Hacked networks will need to be burned 'down to the ground'. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/hacked-networks-burned-ground-74812106
Re: Ivermectin: Was: Re: Chloroquine is "highly effective" at inhibiting reproduction of Novel Coronavirus nCov in cell...
On Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 11:59:30 AM PST, jim bell wrote: >Yes, I first became aware of Ivermectin in maybe 2014, when I saw that it was >the main ingredient in 'ant-bait', ant-killer. So, I noticed it when many >months ago, they started talking about it against COVID-19. I just bought a >dozen tubes from Amazon, in a form intended as a horse-de-wormer. It says it >tastes like apples! Yum! https://www.amazon.com/Durvet-Duramectin-Equine-Wormer-Paste/dp/B01EP4TPPC/ref=sr_1_20?dchild=1=ivermectin=1608148501=8-20 >Would I take anything else? I say, "Nay!!!" (Neigh!!!) > Jim Bell More information on Ivermectin: | | Jim b | | 11:07 PM (4 minutes ago) | | =I recently sent a reference that says to prevent COVID-19, a person should take about 0.2 mg of Ivermectin per kilogram of body weight weekly, after a couple of quick treatments This is probably a different cite: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/#:~:text=The%20half%2Dlife%20of%20ivermectin,for%20up%20to%20three%20days Partial quote follows: .Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci. 2011 Feb 10; 87(2): 13–28.doi: 10.2183/pjab.87.13PMCID: PMC3043740PMID: 21321478 Ivermectin, ‘Wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective Andy CRUMP*1 and Satoshi ŌMURA*1†Editor: Satoshi ŌMURAAuthor information Article notes Copyright and License information DisclaimerThis article has been cited by other articles in PMC.Go to: Introduction There are few drugs that can seriously lay claim to the title of ‘Wonder drug’, penicillin and aspirin being two that have perhaps had greatest beneficial impact on the health and wellbeing of Mankind. But ivermectin can also be considered alongside those worthy contenders, based on its versatility, safety and the beneficial impact that it has had, and continues to have, worldwide—especially on hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people. Several extensive reports, including reviews authored by us, have been published detailing the events behind the discovery, development and commercialization of the avermectins and ivermectin (22,23-dihydroavermectin B), as well as the donation of ivermectin and its use in combating Onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis.1–6) However, none have concentrated in detail on the interacting sequence of events involved in the passage of the drug into human use. When it first appeared in the late-1970s, ivermectin, a derivative of avermectin (Fig. (Fig.1 )1 ) was a truly revolutionary drug, unprecedented in many ways. It was the world’s first endectocide, forerunner of a completely new class of antiparasitic agents, potently active against a wide range of internal and external nematodes and arthropods. In the early-1970s, a novel international Public Sector–Private Sector partnership was initiated by one of us (Ōmura, then head of the Antibiotics Research Group at Tokyo’s Kitasato Institute), forming a collaboration with the US-based Merck, Sharp and Dohme (MSD) pharmaceutical company. Under the terms of the research agreement, researchers at the Kitasato Institute isolated organisms from soil samples and carried out preliminary in vitro evaluation of their bioactivity. Promising bioactive samples were then sent to the MSD laboratories for further in vivo testing where a potent and promising novel bioactivity was found, subsequently identified as being caused by a new compound, which was named ‘avermectin’.7) Despite decades of searching around the world, the Japanese microorganism remains the only source of avermectin ever found.1) Originating from a single Japanese soil sample and the outcome of the innovative, international collaborative research partnership to find new antiparasitics, the extremely safe and more effective avermectin derivative, ivermectin, was initially introduced as a commercial product for Animal Health in 1981. It is effective against a wide range of parasites, including gastrointestinal roundworms, lungworms, mites, lice and hornflies.7–12) Ivermectin is also highly effective against ticks, for example, the ixodid tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, one of the most important cattle parasites in the tropics and subtropics, which causes enormous economic damage. Indicative of the impact, in Brazil, where some 80% of the bovine herd is infested, losses total about $2 billion annually.13) Today, ivermectin is being used to treat billions of livestock and pets around the world, helping to boost production of food and leather products, as well as keep billions of companion animals, particularly dogs and horses, healthy. The ‘Blockbuster’ drug in the Animal Health sector, meaning that it achieved annual sales in excess of over US$1 billion, maintained that status for over 20 years. It is so useful and adaptable that it is also being used off-label, sometimes, illegally, for example to trea
ScienceAlert: Quantum Experiment Reveals Particles Can Form Collectives Out of Almost Nothing
ScienceAlert: Quantum Experiment Reveals Particles Can Form Collectives Out of Almost Nothing. https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-simulator-reveals-that-phase-transition-can-begin-with-just-six-atoms Jim Bell's comment:"Commie particles"
How to destroy a hard drive and all of its contents - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-destroy-a-hard-drive
IBM launches experimental homomorphic data encryption environment for the enterprise | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/ibm-launches-experimental-homomorphic-data-encryption-environment-for-the-enterprise/
Input: Capella Space's new satellite can see into your house at any time
Input: Capella Space's new satellite can see into your house at any time. https://www.inputmag.com/tech/capella-spaces-new-satellite-can-see-into-your-house-at-any-time
Input: Capella Space's new satellite can see into your house at any time
Input: Capella Space's new satellite can see into your house at any time. https://www.inputmag.com/tech/capella-spaces-new-satellite-can-see-into-your-house-at-any-time
Phys.org: New type of atomic clock could help scientists detect dark matter and study gravity's effect on time
Phys.org: New type of atomic clock could help scientists detect dark matter and study gravity's effect on time. https://phys.org/news/2020-12-atomic-clock-precisely.html "Does anybody really know what time it is?"
Business Insider: Amazon's satellite-internet dish is 34% as big as SpaceX's antenna - Business Insider
Business Insider: Amazon's satellite-internet dish is 34% as big as SpaceX's antenna - Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-kuiper-satellite-internet-customer-terminal-antenna-vs-spacex-starlink-2020-12
The Washington Post: Nearly 40 states sue Google alleging search manipulation, marking the third antitrust salvo against the tech giant
The Washington Post: Nearly 40 states sue Google alleging search manipulation, marking the third antitrust salvo against the tech giant. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/17/google-search-antitrust-lawsuit/
A quantum experiment suggests theres no such thing as objective reality
https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/03/12/136684/a-quantum-experiment-suggests-theres-no-such-thing-as-objective-reality/ "I'm not living in the real world..." https://youtu.be/tjHOk77d4po
Scientists think they've detected radio emissions from an alien world
https://www.space.com/exoplanet-radio-emissions-tentative-detection "Sorry, we are all off-planet. At the beep, please leave a message..."
Ars Technica: Amazon's answer to SpaceX Starlink delivers 400Mbps in prototype phase
Ars Technica: Amazon's answer to SpaceX Starlink delivers 400Mbps in prototype phase. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/amazons-answer-to-spacex-starlink-delivers-400mbps-in-prototype-phase/
Tech Xplore: Fujifilm, IBM unveil 580-terabyte magnetic tape
Tech Xplore: Fujifilm, IBM unveil 580-terabyte magnetic tape. https://techxplore.com/news/2020-12-fujifilm-ibm-unveil-terabyte-magnetic.html
Re: Tom's Hardware: Intel Debuts 'World's Fastest SSD,' the PCIe 4.0 Optane SSD P5800X
On Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 08:59:14 AM PST, jim bell wrote: >Tom's Hardware: Intel Debuts 'World's Fastest SSD,' the PCIe 4.0 Optane SSD >P5800X. >https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-debuts-worlds-fastest-ssd-the-pcie-40-optane-ssd-p5800x "Intel is taking Optane to the next level with its SSD P5800X, which it bills as the fastest SSD in the world. The next-gen Optane SSD leverages the PCIe 4.0 interface, second-gen Optane media, and a new SSD controller to deliver truly astounding performance and endurance specifications." "Compared to the first-gen Optane DC P4800X, Intel says the 5800X offers an impressive 3X performance improvement in random read/write workloads, peaking at 1.5 million 4K random IOPS, and 3X more sequential performance at a peak of 7.2 GB/s." "The drive also delivers up to 4.6 million IOPS in random 512B workloads (useful for certain types of caching workloads) and up to 1.8 million IOPS in mixed workloads."=My 1982 SemiDisk (a whopping 512 kilobytes in storage: That's 0.00512 Terabytes for you slacker millennials) was lucky to do 1 megabytes/second in transfer rate. http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/SemiDisk/SemiDisk.htm Jim Bell
Re: Ivermectin: Was: Re: Chloroquine is "highly effective" at inhibiting reproduction of Novel Coronavirus nCov in cell culture.
On Tuesday, December 15, 2020, 08:31:59 AM PST, coderman wrote: ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, December 14, 2020 6:36 AM, jim bell wrote: >>New Developments regarding Ivermectin. (not to be confused with "Avermectin". >>https://www.healio.com/news/primary-care/20201208/this-was-a-gift-to-us-ivermectin-effective-for-covid19-prophylaxis-treatment >i've de-wormed horses with this :P >glad to know i can head to the feed store in a covid pinch... Yes, I first became aware of Ivermectin in maybe 2014, when I saw that it was the main ingredient in 'ant-bait', ant-killer. So, I noticed it when many months ago, they started talking about it against COVID-19. I just bought a dozen tubes from Amazon, in a form intended as a horse-de-wormer. It says it tastes like apples! Yum! https://www.amazon.com/Durvet-Duramectin-Equine-Wormer-Paste/dp/B01EP4TPPC/ref=sr_1_20?dchild=1=ivermectin=1608148501=8-20 Would I take anything else? I say, "Nay!!!" (Neigh!!!) Jim Bell
Tom's Hardware: Intel Debuts 'World's Fastest SSD,' the PCIe 4.0 Optane SSD P5800X
Tom's Hardware: Intel Debuts 'World's Fastest SSD,' the PCIe 4.0 Optane SSD P5800X. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-debuts-worlds-fastest-ssd-the-pcie-40-optane-ssd-p5800x
Chip comb
https://phys.org/news/2020-12-elusive-effect-captured-chip-technologies.html
Ivermectin: Was: Re: Chloroquine is "highly effective" at inhibiting reproduction of Novel Coronavirus nCov in cell culture.
New Developments regarding Ivermectin. (not to be confused with "Avermectin". https://www.healio.com/news/primary-care/20201208/this-was-a-gift-to-us-ivermectin-effective-for-covid19-prophylaxis-treatment In a press conference, researchers said that ivermectin is an FDA-approved anti-parasitic drug that has been available for approximately 40 years and previously earned researchers a Nobel Prize. | | | | | | | | | | | Both ivermectin, permethrin yield high clearance rates in scabies In scabies treatment, oral ivermectin at 200 µg/kg may be associated with slightly lower rates of complete clear... | | | Ivermectin is a key factor in the alliance’s I-MASK+ protocol for prophylaxis and early treatment of outpatients with COVID-19. In the protocol, those at high risk for COVID-19 infection receive ivermectin at 0.2 mg/kg on day 1 and day 3, and weekly for 4 weeks; those who were exposed to COVID-19 receive the same dose at day 1 and day 3; and both groups receive daily doses of vitamin D3, vitamin C, quercetin, zinc and melatonin. For early outpatients with COVID-19, the protocol calls for one dose of ivermectin at 0.2 mg/kg at day 1 and day 3, along with the same daily vitamins and 325 mg per day of aspirin. During the press conference, Marik said that much of the data available on ivermectin in the treatment and prevention of COVID-19 has been published since August, which was the last time the NIH updated its recommendations for the novel coronavirus. Thus far, Marik said, studies have indicated that ivermectin has demonstrated efficacy in preventing COVID-19 infection prior to and after exposure to COVID-19. He also said that it has been shown to effectively treat the virus in the early symptomatic stages and among patients hospitalized with COVID-19. | | | | | | | | | | | New trial evaluates potential COVID-19 treatments in high-risk patients Researchers from the University of Kentucky are conducting a clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of azi... | | | On Friday, April 3, 2020, 06:28:51 PM PDT, jim bell wrote: Anti-parasitic drug kills coronavirus cell cultures in just 48 hours A team of Australian researchers at Monash University in Melbourne have found that Ivermectin — an FDA-approved anti-parasitic drug that has been used to effectively fight viruses including HIV, Influenza, and Zika — was able to stop the SARS-CoV-2 virus from growing in cell cultures. While promising, the drug has yet to be shown to have the same effect inside the human body, because the Australian research was conducted “in vitro,” meaning it was in a Petri dish at a lab. The researchers are still trying to nail down funding for pre-clinical testing and clinical trials, after which they’d have to start the long approval process for the trials themselves. The results, though, are promising. In just 48 hours, the scientists say, all genetic material of the virus was eradicated. “We found that even a single dose could essentially remove all viral RNA by 48 hours and that even at 24 hours there was a really significant reduction in it,” Kylie Wagstaff, lead researcher and co-author of the study published today in Antiviral Research, said in a statement. “Ivermectin is very widely used and seen as a safe drug,” Wagstaff said. “We need to figure out now whether the dosage you can use it at in humans will be effective — that’s the next step.” “As the virologist who was part of the team who were first to isolate and share SARS-COV2 outside of China in January 2020, I am excited about the prospect of Ivermectin being used as a potential drug against COVID-19,” Leon Caly, senior medical scientist at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL) at the Doherty Institute, said. A vaccine for COVID-19 is likely still at least a year out, despite research teams across the world fast tracking work on potential vaccines. But that doesn’t mean we’re doomed. “In times when we’re having a global pandemic and there isn’t an approved treatment, if we had a compound that was already available around the world then that might help people sooner,” Wagstaff said in the statement. “Realistically it’s going to be a while before a vaccine is broadly available.” --- https://www.poison.org/articles/ivermectin-your-dogs-heartworm-medicine-173 The Full Story Sometimes new drugs are found in unusual places. The antiparasitic drug ivermectin was discovered in the 1970s in bacteria isolated from the soil on a Japanese golf course. Ivermectin was called the first "endectocide" since it was active against both endoparasites (parasites that live inside the host) and ectoparasites (parasites that live on the outside of the host). Ivermectin was initially developed as a veterinary antiparasitic drug. Of particular importance today is ivermectin's ability to prevent h
Cointelegraph: Snowden and human rights advocates talk internet surveillance in the era of BLM
Cointelegraph: Snowden and human rights advocates talk internet surveillance in the era of BLM. https://cointelegraph.com/news/snowden-and-human-rights-advocates-talk-internet-surveillance-in-the-era-of-blm
Gizmodo: Someone Managed to Overclock a 14-Year-Old Intel Processor to 8.36 GHz
Gizmodo: Someone Managed to Overclock a 14-Year-Old Intel Processor to 8.36 GHz. https://gizmodo.com/someone-managed-to-overlock-a-14-year-old-intel-process-1845862632 Jim Bell's comment:. "Liquid nitrogen and 97 volts VDD...)
Tom's Hardware: Intel Based Hackboard 2 Priced To Compete With Raspberry Pi
Tom's Hardware: Intel Based Hackboard 2 Priced To Compete With Raspberry Pi. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-based-hackboard-2-priced-to-compete-with-raspberry-pi
New York Post: Zodiac Killer’s 1969 cipher ‘puzzle’ finally solved
Zodiac Killer’s 1969 cipher ‘puzzle’ finally solved https://nypost.com/2020/12/11/zodiac-killers-1969-cipher-puzzle-finally-solved?utm_source=Yahoo%20Mail
Re: Foundations for treason against MSM executives ? -- ONE lousy vote, every 4 years! - treason - USA 2020 Elections: Thread
s likewise geared to raising the bar to prosecution, applying “at least to all acts of the defendant which are used to draw incriminating inferences that aid and comfort have been given.” While there was no dispute in Cramer’s case that he had met with a man who turned out to be a German soldier in the United States, the Court concluded that these facts alone failed to establish Cramer had actually given that enemy soldier aid and comfort. The Court accordingly reversed Cramer’s treason conviction. "The Constitution also narrowed the scope of punishment for treason as compared to English common law. The final clause of this Section establishes that, while Congress has the general power to establish the penalties for committing treason, Congress may not “work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person” convicted of treason. “Corruption of blood” is a reference to English common law, which prohibited family members from—among other things—receiving or inheriting property from a person convicted of treason. Under the Constitution, that punishment may not extend beyond the life of the person convicted of treason. On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 2:29 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Jim, do you know if treason is defined in the USA constitution? On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:19:38PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > To what extent could charges of treason be sustained in the SCOTUS against > executives of CNN, MSNBC, AP and other fake news "MSM" corporations? > > We want to see actual treason, actually sustainable in SCOTUS cases (you must > always target the highest court, not the lower courts, even though you begin > by filing in lower courts). > > Treason, leading to executions. > > It ain't real if it ain't real. > > The game needs to be real. > > > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 08:11:16PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > With all the graft, nepotism, corruption, lies, hypocrisy, taxation, and > > endless bad (to terrible) laws and regulations, "we the people" get, in > > "our" democracy, ONE lousy vote every 4 years! > > > > That tiny, almost insignificant right to have the most minimal say in > > "our" system. > > > > But for the demon rats (of any colour, any team) even that was too much > > to allow us. > > > > No, the demon rats had to steal that one last final minimal and almost > > insignificant dignity too... > > > > > > This has to be the downright nastiest, condescending, destructive way to > > destroy that final shred giving even the 'purport' of legitimacy to the > > system that the demon rat grifters profit so highly from for year after > > year, decade after decade! > > > > > > Think about THAT for a moment - the last bastion of the smallest > > dignity, a man's vote, just one amongst 100s of millions, and only once > > every four years - that final "democratic legitimacy" justifying all the > > corruption, and that tiny little vote also had to be stolen - thrown > > mercilessly to the highest bidder and thereby smashing on the rocks the > > last and final bastion of legitimacy for the whole system. > > > > > > Blood lust? Executions for treason: > > > > Is it any wonder that congressional Democrats are rushing to condemn > > execution - even of a man who brutally raped and buried a girl alive? > > > > Congressional Democrats condemn execution of man who brutally raped > > and buried a girl alive > > https://www.rt.com/usa/507429-democrats-condemn-death-penalty/ > > High-profile Democratic representatives came out against the > > death penalty on Saturday after a man who brutally raped and > > buried a 16-year-old girl alive was finally executed in Indiana > > under the Trump administration. … > > > > > > > > Bring on the executions for all those directly involved in the treason, > > and substantial jail for the rest involved. Make it big, keep it real. > > > > It ain't real if it ain't real.
Good-bye ESNI, hello ECH!
https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-client-hello/
CNN: SpaceX gets almost $900 million in federal subsidies to deliver broadband to rural America
CNN: SpaceX gets almost $900 million in federal subsidies to deliver broadband to rural America. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/tech/spacex-starlink-subsidies-fcc-scn/index.html Jim Bell's comment:Presumably they didn't actually need the subsidies.Also, given that the transceiver antenna costs $500, I can see that there will be a big demand for an add-on router/WiFi system to allow many houses to share a single antenna.
REALLY weird quantum communication
https://phys.org/news/2020-12-elementary-particles-ways-properties.html
Hiding transistor type.
New transistor design disguises key computer chip hardware from hackers https://techxplore.com/news/2020-12-transistor-disguises-key-chip-hardware.html
Re: My new patent on Gallium Nitride (GaN) blue LEDs. $6 billion market for white LEDs.
On Monday, December 7, 2020, 11:15:28 AM PST, coderman wrote: ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, December 6, 2020 11:06 PM, jim bell wrote: [snip] Zinc, similarly, is made up of isotopes. https://www.webelements.com/zinc/isotopes.html Only 4.1% of natural, stable zinc is Zn-67 and it has a nuclear 'spin'. The rest is Zn-64, Zn-66, Zn-68, and Zn-70, and none of them have nuclear 'spin'. And I notice that some early work on GaN LEDs used Zinc as a p+ dopant. It worked, I suppose, but somehow it was abandoned early on, since magnesium worked better. Why? Could that be because 10% is greater than 4.1% ? Well, THAT can be fixed! "Doing some more research, I also notice that the radius of gallium atoms is 130 picometers. https://www.webelements.com/gallium/index.html The radius of zinc atoms is 135 picometers. https://www.webelements.com/zinc/ And the radius of magnesium atoms is 150 picometers. https://www.webelements.com/magnesium/ So I can certainly understand the difficulty they had packing a 150 picometer-radius magnesium atom into a position for suitable for a 130 picometer gallium atom. They must have used a shoe-horn to pack the magnesium into the spot! Zinc's 135 picometers looks far more easily matched! Merry Christmas. And you're welcome! >Jim, it would be interesting to focus on isotope separation techniques. i get >the impression that lack of affordable options precludes the use of enriched >elements in most manufacturing. By far the cheapest method of separating isotopes involves the gas centrifuge. But in order to employ the gas centrifuge, it is necessary to find a compound containing the target element that is reasonably stable and volatile, and hopefully well-behaved. Zinc can be separated by Gas Centrifuge: I think one compound is dimethyl zinc. Although, if you actually saw dimethyl zinc you wouldn't label it "well-behaved"! In air, it's not only flammable, it's also self-igniting! (This video is actually diETHYL zinc, but it behaves similarly!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99wPiMb-k0o At 2:15 Wow! Fortunately, gas centrifuges are nicely-sealed systems. And, there is a huge excess of otherwise-unused gas centrifuge capacity in the world. Why? They built them to separate uranium isotopes, and when you've separated all the uranium you need, they don't (currently) have anything to do with them. So, when the need for separated isotopes explodes, some day, there will be no lack of gas centrifuges to make them. This shows separation of Silicon Tetrafluoride using a column distillation system. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01496399008050336 In this one, a method is described to exchange silicon isotopes using exchange. https://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0136407.html The 'worst' (costliest) way to do separations is by the Calutron, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC8LUTisqPQ which can be thought of as a huge mass-spectrometer that has 'buckets' that collect the isotopes that get deflected by the magnetic fields. A few years ago, I was quoted a price of about $17,000 per gram for Hf-177 and just about the same price for Hf-179. A few years ago, I wondered if it was possible to do Hafnium isotope separation using a gas centrifuge. I found a reference to a study in Russia where they used a Hafnium isotope (Maybe it was Hf-174?), still mixed with other Hafnium isotopes, to study its radioactive decay. They used a relatively large amount of Hafnium, maybe a kilogram, which was said to have been separated from zirconium years ago (in the Soviet Union era). The researcher who is currently using that Hafnium said that they really didn't know how or why this particular element, hafnium, was separated. This was NOT an isotopic separation, just a separation of two elements of rather large mass-difference. But it tells me that it is possible do form a gaseous compound containing hafnium that can be centrifuged. The reason they don't do that, yet, is presumably because the demand for Hafnium isotopes is (so far) quite miniscule. I calculated that it would take about a milligram of hafnium to cover a 300 millimeter silicon wafer with 2 nanometers of a hafnium dielectric. (Assuming no wastage.) Or, $17 per wafer, which I think the industry will find economical. Thus: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/much-better-than-hafnium-zirconium-higher-dielectric-constant-bell/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_post_details%3BxeeGiuvxQNWq3pTrTBkrLg%3D%3D >have you given this aspect consideration? Extensively! Repeatedly! Over and over again! I have understood, for well over 11 years, that the main limitation to isotope inventions is there it is necessary to get more than the cost of the isotopes separated in order to make an isotopic invention 'work'. Fortunately, as of now I have figured out many
Quantum device performs 2.6 billion years of computation in 4 minutes – Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/un-computable-quantum-maze-computed-by-quantum-maze-computer/
Re: My new patent on Gallium Nitride (GaN) blue LEDs. $6 billion market for white LEDs.
On Sunday, December 6, 2020, 04:19:13 PM PST, grarpamp wrote: Yet another interesting potential application. How is the takeup on validation research, test runs, production methods, etc? I just started informing people associated with the Gallium Nitride LED industry a couple of days ago. The big companies are Nichia, Osram, Samsung Electronics, and Everlight https://www.imarcgroup.com/led-bulb-manufacturing-plant The substitution will be quite simple. Just put in the relevant isotope instead of the natural-mix of isotopes. >Is isotope separation going to run into nuke centrifuge dual use issues? Zinc is currently centrifuged in relatively limited quantities for use as a corrosion-inhibitor for nuclear reactors. The problem is (was) that the lightest zinc isotope, Zn-64, reacts with a thermal neutron to form Zn-65, which emits dangerous gamma rays. So, decades ago they began separating out the Zn-64 from the other zinc isotopes. I think the market for this is about 2 tons per year. It's called "depleted zinc". >ie: How will bulk manufacturing of pure glass, silicon, etc be different... These blue LEDs are made with gallium nitride crystals. The critical issue is the p+ (hole) doping, which has been done using magnesium atoms. The problem is that most magnesium atoms don't create a 'hole', but a few do. Similarly, Zinc does a weak job because only 4.1% of natural isotope zinc is Zn67. Most are other isotopes.
My new patent on Gallium Nitride (GaN) blue LEDs. $6 billion market for white LEDs.
| | | | LED Bulb Market Share, Size, Research Report and Forecast (2020-2025) The global LED bulb market reached a value of nearly US$ 6 Billion in 2019. The market is further projected to r... | | | https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-do-you-make-new-gallium-nitride-blue-led-isotopes-jim-bell How do you make a new Gallium Nitride blue LED? With isotopes. - Published on December 6, 2020 - Edit article - View stats Status is online jim bell CEO at Daltonium Isotopics. Better living through Isotopes.3 articles First, I would like to congratulate those who have been working on blue GaN blue LEDs for so long, in some cases neary 50 years, for their progress so far. These days, there is virtually no reason at all to buy a tungsten-filament incandescent bulb (at least of the common globular shape), and even compact-fluorescents (CFL's) are hard to justify. Ever since 2008, I have been considering isotopes, and how to use them to improve processes and devices. It's been a lonely task, because virtually every chemist or physicist views "isotopes" as merely atoms with a different number of neutrons, and thus a different atomic weight. Yes, they are indeed that, but they are so much more. I scan the literature, recently phys.org, to figure out how to modify the makeup of isotopes in ordinary-isotope materials to enhance characteristics and behaviors. Until a few weeks ago, I simply didn't realize how much trouble that the GaN blue LED industry was having doping crystalline GaN with magnesium to provide 'holes'. I should give credit where it is due: It was only a few weeks ago that I was reading the Quora.com system, and I saw that on October 1, 2015, a person named Karan Mehta had answered a question about "What was so difficult in making a blue LED?" https://www.quora.com/What-was-so-difficult-in-making-a-blue-LED I had long wondered how blue LEDs were made, but I wasn't really aware of how 'difficult' it was. My first exposure to 'blue LEDs' was in about 1985, when I had purchased a silicon carbide blue LED from Digi-Key, as I recall for $10. Nice color, not especially bright. The third paragraph of Mehta's answer said: "2)P-type doping: An LED uses a diode to inject charge carriers into quantum wells. A diode has a p-type material in contact with an n-type material. However, for a long time, no one could find a suitable p-type dopant for GaN. Nakamura managed to use magnesium as a p-type dopant by finding the right conditions (temperature and pressure). Even today, Mg doping is not ideal, due to the high activation energy. Only 10% of the Mg is activated. So, if your Mg concentration is 1e19, only about free 1e18 holes are generated. " Aha! I saw his statement that "Only 10% of the Mg is activated". I wasn't quite sure what "activated" meant, but I assumed that meant, "did the job". But THAT 'rang a bell', so to speak. I've long been aware that elemental (stable) magnesium isn't merely "magnesium". Magnesium in nature consists of 78.99% Mg-24 isotope, 11.01% Mg-26, and 10.00% Mg-25. https://www.webelements.com/magnesium/isotopes.html Moreover, I was well aware that it was only the Mg-25 isotope whose nucleus posses 'nuclear spin': Mg-24 and Mg-26 have both an even number of protons, and an even number of neutrons. But Mg-25 is different: its nucleus contains an odd (not even) number of neutrons, and so it has a slight 'wobble'. The unpaired neutron can be thought as orbiting around the positively-charged rest of the nucleus, so that rest of the nucleus behaves like a positive electric charge, itself spinning around the center-of-mass of the whole structure. And as every physicist should know (my degree is in Chemistry, from MIT), a charge travelling in a circle causes a magnetic dipole to exist. >From reading Mehta's description, I concluded that the problem is that not all >of the magnesium 'worked'. I'll let you guess which one did. It seems fairly >obvious to me. Zinc, similarly, is made up of isotopes. https://www.webelements.com/zinc/isotopes.html Only 4.1% of natural, stable zinc is Zn-67 and it has a nuclear 'spin'. The rest is Zn-64, Zn-66, Zn-68, and Zn-70, and none of them have nuclear 'spin'. And I notice that some early work on GaN LEDs used Zinc as a p+ dopant. It worked, I suppose, but somehow it was abandoned early on, since magnesium worked better. Why? Could that be because 10% is greater than 4.1% ? Well, THAT can be fixed! Doing some more research, I also notice that the radius of gallium atoms is 130 picometers. https://www.webelements.com/gallium/index.html The radius of zinc atoms is 135 picometers. https://www.webelements.com/zinc/ And the radius of magnesium atoms is 150 picometers. https://www.webelements.com/magnesium/ So I can certainly understand the difficulty they had packin
Re: CNN: 'Sonic attacks' suffered by US diplomats likely caused by microwave energy, government study says
I see a 12.4 GHz spectrum analyzer here for $2175. USB-SA124B • 12.4 GHz Spectrum Analyzer | Signal Hound | | | | | | | | | | | USB-SA124B • 12.4 GHz Spectrum Analyzer | Signal Hound The Signal Hound USB-SA124B is a 100 kHz to 12.4 GHz Software Defined Receiver (SDR) optimized as a narrow-band ... | | | Spectrum Analyzers and SDR Receivers | Signal Hound | | | | Spectrum Analyzers and SDR Receivers | Signal Hound Signal Hound offers the best prices on quality spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and signal generators. Fin... | | | On Sunday, December 6, 2020, 02:50:43 AM PST, Karl wrote: I am part of the civilian community that has been watching this and similar issues, if anyone hasn't figured that out, or wants more connections. On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 9:25 PM jim bell wrote: > > CNN: 'Sonic attacks' suffered by US diplomats likely caused by microwave > energy, government study says. > https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/05/health/head-injuries-us-diplomats-government-study/index.html > >
CNN: 'Sonic attacks' suffered by US diplomats likely caused by microwave energy, government study says
CNN: 'Sonic attacks' suffered by US diplomats likely caused by microwave energy, government study says. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/05/health/head-injuries-us-diplomats-government-study/index.html
Ars Technica: New RISC-V CPU claims recordbreaking performance per watt
Ars Technica: New RISC-V CPU claims recordbreaking performance per watt. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/new-risc-v-cpu-claims-recordbreaking-performance-per-watt/
NBC News: FBI can't open indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas' phones
NBC News: FBI can't open indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas' phones. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-can-t-open-indicted-giuliani-associate-lev-parnas-phones-n1250076
Father of fibre optics and patron of Sikh arts Narinder Singh Kapany dies at 94
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/diaspora/father-of-fibre-optics-and-patron-of-sikh-arts-narinder-singh-kapany-dies-at-94-179849
RISC-V, the Linux of the chip world, is starting to produce technological breakthroughs | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/risc-v-the-linux-of-the-chip-world-is-starting-to-produce-technological-breakthroughs/
Magnetic skrymions
https://phys.org/news/2020-11-scientists-cipher-magnetic-skyrmions.html
The countries that trusted bugged Swiss encryption devices
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/crypto-spying-scandal_the-countries-that-trusted-bugged-swiss-encryption-technology/45593918
Lightning as a weapon.
Popular Mechanics: These Scientists Say They Can Control Lightning. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a34648125/controlling-lightning-with-lasers/
Hackaday: Literally Tearing Apart A SpaceX Starlink Antenna
Hackaday: Literally Tearing Apart A SpaceX Starlink Antenna. https://hackaday.com/2020/11/25/literally-tearing-apart-a-spacex-starlink-antenna/ Phased array antenna!
Helicopter pilot finds 'strange' monolith in remote part of Utah | Utah | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/23/helicopter-pilot-finds-strange-monolith-in-remote-part-of-utah Jim Bell's comment:. 1-4-9 ?
Watch "Honest Government Ad | Julian Assange" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/1efOs0BsE0g "The United Bitches of America".
Tom's Hardware: Asus Release Raspberry Pi Competitor Tinkerboard 2 and 2S
Tom's Hardware: Asus Release Raspberry Pi Competitor Tinkerboard 2 and 2S. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tinkerboard-2-and-tinkerboard-2s-announced
Decrypt: Ethereum Flowing Out of Exchanges and Into Smart Contracts
Decrypt: Ethereum Flowing Out of Exchanges and Into Smart Contracts. https://decrypt.co/?p=48884
Decrypt: Someone Just Made a $47,000 Mistake With Bitcoin
Decrypt: Someone Just Made a $47,000 Mistake With Bitcoin. https://decrypt.co/?p=48730
The Verge: Google is rolling out end-to-end encryption for RCS is in Android Messages beta
The Verge: Google is rolling out end-to-end encryption for RCS is in Android Messages beta. https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/19/21574451/android-rcs-encryption-message-end-to-end-beta
Ars Technica: FCC takes spectrum from auto industry in plan to “supersize” Wi-Fi
Ars Technica: FCC takes spectrum from auto industry in plan to “supersize” Wi-Fi. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/fcc-adds-45mhz-to-wi-fi-promising-supersize-networks-on-5ghz-band/
Decrypt: Inside the Competition That Will Save Bitcoin From Quantum Computers
Decrypt: Inside the Competition That Will Save Bitcoin From Quantum Computers. https://decrypt.co/?p=48107
Re: From Fox News - Facebook, Twitter take heat over Hunter Biden story during hearing; Dorsey admits 'this action was wrong'
On Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 12:38:34 PM PST, Karl wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 2:40 PM jim bell wrote: On Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 11:23:41 AM PST, jim bell wrote: Facebook, Twitter take heat over Hunter Biden story during hearing; Dorsey admits 'this action was wrong' https://www.foxnews.com/politics/facebook-twitter-grilled-hunter-biden-story-hearing-dorsey Jim Bell's comment:. Facebook and Twitter manipulated the 2020 election far more effectively than Russia (which spent $1.5 million per month, for about 4 months) did for the 2016 election.But...I still want to know who delayed the leak of the news of Hunter Biden's laptop from mid-December, when the FBI received that device, until late September 2020. Who had THAT motivation?Biden wasn't selected as nominee for many months after Dec 2019. But certainly by the time of that nomination, the time would have been ripe to leak this material. Why wait much later than that? A stereotypical pro-Trump partisan [for some reason, my comment was unintentionally cut off at this point]might be expected to want to wait until Biden's nomination, to ensure that the Democrats commit to Biden. But instead, somebody waited until late September 2020 to spill the beans. WHO benefits from that further delay? Jim Bell >The democrats? (And whoever benefits from two balanced primary parties?) >Do you use an open source email editor to debug editing issues with? Most of my news or article postings, including the one above, I send from my Android smartphone, which allows me to 'share' the item by email and send it to the CP list. Usually, that seems to work well, although I often do not include many comments with them. THIS time, it cut off the end of my comments; I don't know why that happened, I don't recall seeing that before. Jim Bell
Re: From Fox News - Facebook, Twitter take heat over Hunter Biden story during hearing; Dorsey admits 'this action was wrong'
On Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 11:23:41 AM PST, jim bell wrote: Facebook, Twitter take heat over Hunter Biden story during hearing; Dorsey admits 'this action was wrong' https://www.foxnews.com/politics/facebook-twitter-grilled-hunter-biden-story-hearing-dorsey Jim Bell's comment:. Facebook and Twitter manipulated the 2020 election far more effectively than Russia (which spent $1.5 million per month, for about 4 months) did for the 2016 election.But...I still want to know who delayed the leak of the news of Hunter Biden's laptop from mid-December, when the FBI received that device, until late September 2020. Who had THAT motivation?Biden wasn't selected as nominee for many months after Dec 2019. But certainly by the time of that nomination, the time would have been ripe to leak this material. Why wait much later than that? A stereotypical pro-Trump partisan [for some reason, my comment was unintentionally cut off at this point]might be expected to want to wait until Biden's nomination, to ensure that the Democrats commit to Biden. But instead, somebody waited until late September 2020 to spill the beans. WHO benefits from that further delay? Jim Bell
From Fox News - Facebook, Twitter take heat over Hunter Biden story during hearing; Dorsey admits 'this action was wrong'
Facebook, Twitter take heat over Hunter Biden story during hearing; Dorsey admits 'this action was wrong' https://www.foxnews.com/politics/facebook-twitter-grilled-hunter-biden-story-hearing-dorsey Jim Bell's comment:. Facebook and Twitter manipulated the 2020 election far more effectively than Russia (which spent $1.5 million per month, for about 4 months) did for the 2016 election.But...I still want to know who delayed the leak of the news of Hunter Biden's laptop from mid-December, when the FBI received that device, until late September 2020. Who had THAT motivation?Biden wasn't selected as nominee for many months after Dec 2019. But certainly by the time of that nomination, the time would have been ripe to leak this material. Why wait much later than that? A stereotypical pro-Trump partisan
Re: Use of assassinphone's recommended
On Monday, November 16, 2020, 02:59:25 PM PST, professor rat wrote: >A quote from All Quiet on the Western Front >Its just silly to say Hackers alone created the basis for AP One inspiration for my AP essay was the Wizard of Oz: Dorothy and her friends approach the Wizard, asking for the various things they want. His response? "Bring me the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West, and I'll grant your request!". One of the friends observes, as I recall, 'to do that, we'll have to kill her!'. So, giving a reward for killing a common enemy might have come from this. Many decades ago, the movie was shown on television, yearly, I think in the late fall. My mother once observed that I first saw it, perhaps when I was 18 months old, perhaps October 1959. She said that this showing was the first time I'd been quiet for 2 straight hours since I was born. I probably watched that movie for 20 years in a row for the next two decades. Jim Bell
Phys.org: CCNY team in quantum algorithm breakthrough
Phys.org: CCNY team in quantum algorithm breakthrough. https://phys.org/news/2020-11-ccny-team-quantum-algorithm-breakthrough.html
Re: USA 2020 Elections: Thread
On Thursday, November 12, 2020, 10:46:33 AM PST, grarpamp wrote: On 11/12/20, jam...@echeque.com wrote: >> psywar is likely to become hot war. >As in history, so it shall be. >> We now, predictably, have psywar between the media and the Republican >> Party, which, in the face of extraordinary and unprecedented fraud, has >> uncucked, and moved solidly into the Trump camp. [snip] I for one think these allegations of vote fraud need to be investigated, even if they are not expected to change the outcome of the race. The Democrats cried "Russian collusion!!!" for 3 years, based on claims that were (eventually) proven not merely false, but in fact intentionally phony. If a similar amount of effort is put into looking into vote fraud in 2020, we will learn something. I previously pointed out that all ballots should be publicized, minus the name of the voter of course. This should including the images of the actual ballots, at least the rectangles that are filled out and their immediate vicinity: Maybe 1/10 of an inch outside the rectangle. Possibly even multi-spectral analysis (infrared, ultraviolet) of the ink, to detect ballots filled out with more than one pen. Manufacturing fraudulent ballots would be much harder if statistical analysis is done on the pattern of votes: Did the vote for President match up with the vote for the House, or Senate?? The 'simplest' kind of fraudulent ballot would be one in which only one race gets voted: That kind of fraud would be easily spotted. In addition, we need a full accounting of Hunter Biden's now-famous laptop. If Joe Biden is a crook, we need to learn this. It might put some spine into the narrow Republican majority in the Senate to resist whatever Biden is intending to do. Jim Bell
The Washington Post: Swiss report reveals new details on CIA spying operation
The Washington Post: Swiss report reveals new details on CIA spying operation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/swiss-report-reveals-new-details-on-cia-spying-operation/2020/11/10/c93ca7fc-2386-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html
Tech Xplore: Alphabet harnesses light beams to bring Internet to Africa
Tech Xplore: Alphabet harnesses light beams to bring Internet to Africa. https://techxplore.com/news/2020-11-alphabet-harnesses-internet-africa.html
Ars Technica: Intel SGX defeated yet again—this time thanks to on-chip power meter
Ars Technica: Intel SGX defeated yet again—this time thanks to on-chip power meter. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/11/intel-sgx-defeated-yet-again-this-time-thanks-to-on-chip-power-meter/
Re: 2012
Well over 10 years ago, I heard of an idea that the fine-structure constant might not be "constant": It might be slowly varying over a period of billions of years, or by location. I believe I recall reading a study that this had been determined by telescope analysis of light emitted from galaxies maybe 10 billion years ago. And, I just found this by google ' "fine structure constant" "varying" ' https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/fine-structure-constant-may-vary-with-space-constant-in-time/ There was a proposal that using new kinds of clocks, the kind that seem to be becoming available (lattice clocks, ion clocks, etc) with accuracies of around 1 part in 10*18, it should be possible to compare the frequencies of two such clocks that use different atoms or ions. If the ratios of clock frequencies can be monitored over periods of months or years, it should be possible to see a variation in a reasonably short period. Jim Bell On Sunday, November 8, 2020, 12:11:37 PM PST, professor rat wrote: Cryptographic Theoretical Calculation of the Fine-Structure Constant Unique Physically Anchored Cryptographic Theoretical Calculation of the Fine-Structure Constant α Matching both the g/2 and Interferometric High-Precision Measurements | | | | Unique Physically Anchored Cryptographic Theoretical Calculation of the ... The fine-structure constant α, the dimensionless number that represents the strength of electromagnetic coupling... | | | 24 Dec 2012 Direct Cryptographic Computation of the Cosmological Constant ΩΛ Charles Kirkham Rhodes A direct cryptographic computation of the Cosmological Constant https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5941 2010 - Fine structure constant. Cosmological constant - 2012
South American drug cartels launch fleet of narco subs
South American drug cartels launch fleet of narco subs https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8915121/South-American-drug-cartels-launch-fleet-narco-subs.html?ito=native_share_article-top
World's fastest open-source intrusion detection is here
jim bell recommends the following story from Science X: World's fastest open-source intrusion detection is here https://techxplore.com/news/2020-11-world-fastest-open-source-intrusion.html -- NOTE: This e-mail was sent by jim bell by filling e-mail form at https://sciencex.com/. If you do not know this person you may choose to disregard this e-mail or report it to i...@sciencex.com
VICE: Police Are Tapping Into Ring Cameras to Expand Surveillance Network In Mississippi
VICE: Police Are Tapping Into Ring Cameras to Expand Surveillance Network In Mississippi. https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7memd/police-are-tapping-into-ring-cameras-to-expand-surveillance-network-in-mississippi
Ars Technica: San Diego’s spying streetlights stuck switched “on,” despite directive
Ars Technica: San Diego’s spying streetlights stuck switched “on,” despite directive. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/san-diegos-spying-streetlights-stuck-switched-on-despite-directive/
The new "First Worthless Son"
EXCLUSIVE: National security nightmare of Hunter Biden's laptop https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8901193/National-security-nightmare-Hunter-Bidens-laptop.html Clearly, Hunter Biden used the password "Hunter02" because he realized that "Hunter01" wasn't secure enough.
Re: That's not a peaceful protest ... THIS is a peaceful protest -- Coup not yet Averted.
On Thursday, November 5, 2020, 01:08:26 PM PST, Zenaan Harkness wrote: [snip] More obvious targets for audit: > Why Does Biden Have So Many More Votes Than Democrat Senators In Swing >States? https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-does-biden-have-so-many-more-votes-democrat-senators-swing-states > ..In Michigan, for example, there was a difference of just 7,131 votes between Trump and GOP candidate John James, yet the difference between Joe Biden and Democratic candidate Gary Peters was a staggering 69,093. > In Georgia, there was an 818 vote difference between Trump and the GOP Senator, vs. a 95,000 difference between Biden and the Democratic candidate for Senator. > ..Yet, in two non-swing states, there was "no massive flood of mysterious empty Biden votes," leading US Rebel to suggest "It's fraud." > In Wyoming, the difference on the Democratic side is is just 725 votes, while in Montana the difference is 27,457. > .. Stable numbers for GOP, and when you factor in 3rd party vote, no mysterious Biden-only ballots like the swings. pic.twitter.com/d6QLpGqiI7 — US Rebel (@USRebellion1776) November 5, 2020 >[We can imagine the pen markings and ink analysis might show "votes" made by the same vote scribers... >Seems a natural target for local militia declaration of fraud. >NOTE the difference between a "Declaration of fraudulent votes" and a "charge" of fraudulant votes. The gov authorities generally have to lay a charge, whereas YOUR militia in its original authority can simply declare (others may challenge your declaration in the courts if they choose). So we start to see the POWER inherent in a militia in its original jurisdiction and in its original authority ;) ---Jim Bell's comment: This suggests to me that all ballots (absent the names of the voters, of course) should be recorded and publicized. Not just the vote for the President, of course, but all the votes cast by the specific voter in a given ballot, for all the other races included. Statistical analysis is quite powerful. Patterns in seemingly suspicious ballots could be easily detected. Jim Bell
U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1 Billion in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akdgz8/us-feds-seize-1-billion-in-bitcoin-from-wallet-linked-to-silk-road?utm_source=reddit.com Dark Markets are a great idea. But, the people who run Dark Markets need to learn from their mistakes. Even in 2013, I pointed out that Dark Markets should be protected from seizure and prosecution with an AP-type system, where a small portion of the 'profits' are retained and offerred to anybody who "predicts" the date of death of anyone who attempts to prosecute any Dark Market. Judges, prosecutors, witnesses, even jurors if that should turn out to be necessary. And, perhaps, a rather serious reward for any jurors that participate in an acquittal or even 'hung jury'. What if $1 million was offerred, to be split between all jurors who vote to acquit, and if none of them do, $1 million was offered on the heads of those same jurors? This news item indicates that $1 billion in bitcoin (today's value) was available in 2015. If a person is now resigned to lose it, he should have been willing to lose it in 2015, or even earlier, in order to avoid having his Dark Market taken down. Unlike my 'traditional' proposed AP system, this kind of system wouldn't name specific names, since no names would be immediately known: It would only be known who the targets will be once the prosecution begins.
Re: Coup Averted.
Well, it looks like I spoke too soon! However, the 'consolation prize' is that it is so obvious that a 'coup' is attempted that I am satisfied that a segment of the public will be outraged. The people at the FBI and DOJ who deliberately failed to properly investigate Biden's fraud, and failed to publicize it, can be investigated by hearings in the Senate. Jim Bell On Tuesday, November 3, 2020, 11:02:35 PM PST, jim bell wrote: Fortunately, "the coup" was stopped. But it wasn't the coup some people anticipated. In 2016, the leadership of the FBI attempted a coup, by the trick of refusing to prosecute Hitlery Clinton for violations of the Espionage Act. Comey knew that if Hitlery had been indicted, she definitely would have lost. He hoped that by not indicting Hitlery, she might win. He chose the only path available to him that might let her win. Yet, she didn't win, anyway. That's why I called that an "attempted coup". In December 2019, the FBI was given a computer laptop which contained Hunter Biden's hard drive information. The public only learned of this information in late September 2020, which seemed to be too late to expose what Joe and Hunter Biden had been doing, playing footsie with Ukraine and China. So by concealing this information, once again the FBI tried to stage a coup, hoping that the public would only learn, too late, how this crook had been foisted on them. I can only assume that the public smelled a rat, and decided that they didn't dare give control of the Federal government to Joe Biden for four years. Not incidentally, on Election Day, Joe Biden confused the names of his two granddaughters, and introduced one of them as his dead son, Beau Biden. And this guy wanted us to give his finger authority over the nuclear button! What unmitigated gall! I'm proud to have voted...for Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian candidate. (I live in Washington state, which as I write this Yahoo/AP said went 61% for Biden.) No, Jo didn't win, but the public didn't lose nearly as badly as it could have. Coup averted. Jim Bell
Coup Averted.
Fortunately, "the coup" was stopped. But it wasn't the coup some people anticipated. In 2016, the leadership of the FBI attempted a coup, by the trick of refusing to prosecute Hitlery Clinton for violations of the Espionage Act. Comey knew that if Hitlery had been indicted, she definitely would have lost. He hoped that by not indicting Hitlery, she might win. He chose the only path available to him that might let her win. Yet, she didn't win, anyway. That's why I called that an "attempted coup". In December 2019, the FBI was given a computer laptop which contained Hunter Biden's hard drive information. The public only learned of this information in late September 2020, which seemed to be too late to expose what Joe and Hunter Biden had been doing, playing footsie with Ukraine and China. So by concealing this information, once again the FBI tried to stage a coup, hoping that the public would only learn, too late, how this crook had been foisted on them. I can only assume that the public smelled a rat, and decided that they didn't dare give control of the Federal government to Joe Biden for four years. Not incidentally, on Election Day, Joe Biden confused the names of his two granddaughters, and introduced one of them as his dead son, Beau Biden. And this guy wanted us to give his finger authority over the nuclear button! What unmitigated gall! I'm proud to have voted...for Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian candidate. (I live in Washington state, which as I write this Yahoo/AP said went 61% for Biden.) No, Jo didn't win, but the public didn't lose nearly as badly as it could have. Coup averted. Jim Bell
ExtremeTech: Starlink Beta Speed Tests Put Traditional Satellite Internet to Shame
ExtremeTech: Starlink Beta Speed Tests Put Traditional Satellite Internet to Shame. https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/316819-starlink-beta-speed-tests-put-traditional-satellite-internet-to-shame?source=opera
Fox News: Ted Cruz grills Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for 'censoring' Hunter Biden story
Fox News: Ted Cruz grills Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for 'censoring' Hunter Biden story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhg4dtuhvNk Jim Bell's comment:. Twitter does a 'belly-flop' into the pool of MSM bias.
CNBC: SpaceX prices Starlink satellite internet service at $99 per month, according to e-mail
CNBC: SpaceX prices Starlink satellite internet service at $99 per month, according to e-mail. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/27/spacex-starlink-service-priced-at-99-a-month-public-beta-test-begins.html
Re: USA: Rubio: "Last night a working mother of 7 was confirmed by the Senate and then sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court by an African American associate justice. What a country!"
On Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 04:45:01 PM PDT, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >Marco Rubio, USA Senator: > Marco Rubio @marcorubio > Last night a working mother of 7 was confirmed by the Senate and then sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court by an African American associate justice. > What a country! > 10:13 PM · Oct 27, 2020 https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1321047430209671169C >Found here: > Watch: Leftists melt down as qualified, faithful, successful woman appointed to Supreme Court https://notthebee.com/article/leftists-across-nation-shriek-as-qualified-faithful-loving-woman-appointed-to-supreme-court We should all remember that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was confirmed in 1993 by a vote of 96–3 vote on August 3, 1993. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg At the time, the Democrats had about 56 Senators, and 60 votes were necessary to confirm, so the Republicans would have been able to engineer her loss easily, had they wanted to do that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divided_government_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Combined--Control_of_the_U.S._House_of_Representatives_-_Control_of_the_U.S._Senate.png Nobody expected ALL of the Democrat Senators to vote to confirm Barrett, but the fact that NONE of them did shows their complete dishonesty. Jim Bell
Cointelegraph: Exit scams and regulations disrupt global darknet markets
Cointelegraph: Exit scams and regulations disrupt global darknet markets. https://cointelegraph.com/news/exit-scams-and-regulations-disrupt-global-darknet-markets
Re: USA 2020 Elections: Thread
e Presidency. Indeed, if Joe Biden had been indicted pre-2020, he almost certainly would not have won the Democrat nomination. He would have been replaced by...somebody else.The laptops apparently found their way to the FBI around mid-December 2019. I suppose that delay is reasonable: this was about six months after they were dropped off to the computer repair shop. The people who had access to that information apparently didn't break the story then, or else we would have heard about it, right? And I don't think it would have been unreasonable for them to give the FBI a couple months to investigate and only then publicize this material. If they hadn't, they would probably have been criticized for not giving that FBI 'time to do their job'. Okay. But I _DO_ seriously wonder why those people who were aware of this matter (the repair-shop staff and owner(s), AND the people to whom they sent the information, apparently Giuliani) waited until October 2020 to tell us what they found. The only 'extra' piece of information we've discovered now, as a consequence of this delay, is that the FBI must be serioiusly corrupt to have 'sat on' these hard-drives as long as they did. But the people who delivered the hard drives, or maybe the copies, to the FBI knew that the FBI was trying to cover-up Biden's fraud. And they must have known the FBI was delay, as early as February 2020. So far, it certainly looks like this story would easily have kept Joe Biden from winning the upcoming election...but that was only true if the story had been released in 'enough time' to have it permeate through the resisting media and the public. And be checked and re-checked. I'm wondering whether 'we' (meaning the people who want to rescue the country from Joe Biden) shouldn't not only be angry at Biden himself, and the FBI, and probably the Department of "Justice", but also angry at the people who apparently intentionally delayed the release of this story from February to October 2020. Is there a credible reason for this astonishing delay?Biden's allies would certainly want to have the story delay at least until after the election. And they almost got that. ALMOST. WHO made the decision to only release this story until October? It can now be called the "October Surprise". But it could just as easily have been the "February Surprise". Who screwed up? Jim Bell
Re: Coronavirus: Thread
On Monday, October 26, 2020, 03:25:41 AM PDT, grarpamp wrote: https://nerdhaspower.weebly.com/ratg13-is-fake.html Full disclosure: While I consider myself conversant with many sciences and technologies, 'biology' is probably my area of least knowledge. I rapidly skimmed this article, but was doubtful when I saw this: > "RaTG13 looks like a “close cousin” of the Wuhan coronavirus – the two are > 96% identical throughout the whole sequence of the viral genome. If RaTG13 is > a nature-borne virus, one can comfortably conclude that the Wuhan coronavirus > must very likely also come from nature and must share a recent common > ancestor with RaTG13." [end of quote] My impression is that if two viruses are ONLY "96% identical" "throughout the whole sequence of the viral genome", they shouldn't be described as a "close cousin". Should it be called a "not-so-close cousin"? I don't know.
Re: Trump: "I can't help some [Republican senate candidates]" "You lose your soul if you do" -- USA 2020 Elections: Thread
On Sunday, October 25, 2020, 01:51:29 AM PDT, Zenaan Harkness
wrote:
>Trump will not sell us out.
>He is doing his best. Let's pray Trump's best is good enough to please
the gods.
>#DrainTheSwamp
>#SeizeTheReins
> 'Senate is Very Tough': Trump Doubts Republicans Will Keep Majority in
Upper Chamber, US Media Says
https://sputniknews.com/us/202010251080872004-senate-is-very-tough-trump-doubts-republicans-will-keep-majority-in-upper-chamber-us-media-says/
Myself, I wonder why Hitlery and her cronies, and Obama and his cronies, have
virtually never been subjected to the extensive prosecution that many of us
wanted, at least as early as mid-2016. I happen to have the major of
advantage of having extensively learned Federal law during my time in the
clink, and it was obvious to me as early as mid-2015 that Hitlery was guilty of
violations of the Espionage Act, and the Federal Records Act as well. From
the first day of her time as Secretary of State, she refused to use the
official email and server that she was provided: This established that she
made a deliberate choice to NEVER put classified information and emails into an
approved system.
Hitlery merely having a private server was not, itself, a problem. Her choice
to do government business on that server, without arranging for it to be backed
up by the National Archive (Federal Records Act) was a problem. And, her
choice to allow classified emails to remain on that server, even if she didn't
put them there herself, was an amazing violation of the Espionage Act. And, of
course, her attempt to commit Obstruction of Justice, by deleting those 33,000
ostensibly 'personal' emails, was also an obvious crime.
James Clapper should have been prosecuted, having committed a crime by lying to
the Congress, and the public, saying that the Federal Government did not keep
large amounts of information on Americans, when in fact it did so. Edward
Snowden revealed that. Trump should pardon Snowden, if for no other reason
that Clapper didn't get prosecuted. The likely limitations period ("Statute of
Limitations") for Clapper was 5 years, meaning that he could have been
prosecuted up to May 2018, well over 1 year after Trump took office. Why did
that not happen? Did they just 'forget' it?
One reason for the poor showing of the Republicans during the 2018 election, I
have no doubt at all, was because of this amazing lack of prosecutions! Trump
appointed that fool Jeff Sessions, who accomplished exactly 'zero', at least to
my recollection. Why should Trump's fans be encouraged by an almost complete
failure to go after obvious criminality, even after two years, let alone four
years, after having taken office?
Jim Bell
Re: USA 2020 Elections: Thread
On Saturday, October 24, 2020, 10:17:54 PM PDT, grarpamp wrote: >The Internet has collected evidence of bias among individual debate moderators, their moderation strategies and departures from simple moderation into being anti/pro actors, and has now even counted their "mute button" hits and duration. >The Internet has also been adding up all the hours minutes and seconds each news channel is spending on the corruption topic. One Media Giant did its version of that here... >https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/technology/fox-news-hunter-biden.html >From that: "A month before the 2016 presidential election, WikiLeaks released hacked emails from John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman." Was it ever actually established that the emails which WikiLeaks published were obtained from Russians? Jim Bell
Re: Internet censorship, including extorted by government, must cease.
On Thursday, October 22, 2020, 11:19:55 PM PDT, Zenaan Harkness
wrote:
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 06:01:46AM +, jim bell wrote:
>> This article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzqniEaXwQg=youtu.be
>> has the headline: "Congressional Democrats Threaten Big Tech To Censor
>> Americans Or Else"
>> If this kind of government-threat can exist, then one solution is to declare
>> that communications over the Internet within wires (and fibers) located
>> within the United States are governed by the First Amendment of the US
>> Constitution. Private companies are availing themselves of a system
>> initiated by a relatively small amount of government research, and developed
>> by other designers and manufacturers.
>Unfortunately as Juan correctly points out so often, gov is usually in
>partnership with BigCorp.
True. Which is why I think we need to disable BOTH the Government(s) AND those
companies making up "The Internet" from colluding with each other to enable
censorship, as much as we now know they'd want to do! People could talk in the
"Town Square", and now that has migrated to virtual space. I think it's
important to maintain that status.
Keep in mind that what I am describing here is NOT the (libertarian) endpoint,
but it's in fact a process that starts with today's non-libertarian world.
>The money behind the scenes - debt based (rather than credit based) banking,
>and the funnelling of money to create trillion $$ companies, is a very
>powerful enemy of the people.
>Combine that with the Shut It Down censorship of the trillion $$ tech
>companies, and we have a very formidable adversary.
Under today's Constitution and laws, the Federal Government apparently has at
least some authority over the Internet: The (Interstate) Commerce Clause.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause
Article I, Section 8, Clause 3:[3]
[The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and
among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
What we know as the Internet crosses both State lines and national boundaries.
The Internet also crosses and passes through various rights-of-way that are
Federally regulated, for example beside Interstate Highways and beside railroad
tracks. (For just one example, the Sprint company got its start in the late
1970's, taking advantage of its rights-of-way in the railroad business:
"Souther Pacific Railway Internal Networking Telephony"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_Corporation
The Internet as most people knew it in the mid-1990's was only available
because they used high-speed modems (9600 bps, 14.4Kbps, 28.8Kbps) and
Federally-regulated telephone lines to connect to ISPs all over the country.
Those ISPs relied on telephone lines to make their business: Without that,
they would have had to make something else, but they chose not to do so.
The First Amendment to the US Constitution says this:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or
of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the Government for a redress of grievances.
I focus on this:
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the
press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
Government for a redress of grievances."
Yet, Federal law presumably controls many aspects of the Internet, at least
that portion within the United States. Federal law ("Section 230") currently
grants a certain level of immunity for businesses which structure their
services in some way, which those businesses have apparently requested.
"Freedom of speech" has long been exercised by people, over hardware systems
and software owned and controlled by those businesses, with the knowledge,
intent, and consent of those businesses. There is nothing inherent in those
businesses which REQUIRE shutting down some speech, as evidenced by how little
such control and censorship has occurred until relatively recently.
These businesses have begun to impede people's use of that Federally-regulated
medium, used for purposes of exercising their 'freedom of speech", accessing
"the press", and "assembling".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzqniEaXwQg=youtu.be They have also
used that Federally-regulated medium to "petition the Government for redress of
grievances". It would be astonishing if the Federal Government were claimed
(at least under 'conventional' political philosophy) to be unable to act to
protect against the denials of these usages which have long (well over 25
years) been exercised without substantial interference.
All this says is that the American F
Re: USA 2020 Elections: Thread
On Friday, October 23, 2020, 08:37:30 PM PDT, grarpamp wrote: On 10/22/20, grarpamp wrote: > Biden Crime Family https://www.baldingsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/KVBJHB.pdf https://www.baldingsworld.com/2020/10/22/report-on-biden-activities-with-china/ Report on Biden Activities with China Posted on October 22, 2020 [snip] >According to Hunter’s attorney, he did not invest his $400,000 in the company until 2017. Even assuming the veracity of this statement, this raises a major problem. Founded in 2013, the firm had large amounts of revenue and assets under management by 2017. In other words, his $400,000 stake would have already been worth far more than what he paid for it. This paltry $400,000 investment worth more than $50 million now would have realized a gain of more than 12,400% in three years. ----- Jim Bell's comment:I seem to recall that Bill and Hillary Clinton had a similar thing going on, a $1,000 investment that turned into $100,000 relatively shortly. I just found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_cattle_futures_controversy My vague understanding about 'futures' and/or 'options' is that it is easy to fake gains in order to give somebody something. I think the idea is that a broker makes two 'opposite' futures transactions, in a trade that is supposed to change value greatly. It doesn't matter in which direction the commodity goes, one side wins big, the other side loses big. The 'bribee' gets the winning side, after the fact, and the 'briber' owns the losing side. This allows the briber to make the bribe, but isolates the two sides so it isn't apparent who is paying off. >From Wikipedia: >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_cattle_futures_controversy "Likelihood of results[edit] Various publications sought to analyze the likelihood of Clinton's successful results. Clinton made her money by betting mostly on a market downturn at a time when cattle prices actually doubled.[13] The editor of the Journal of Futures Markets said in April 1994, "This is like buying ice skates one day and entering the Olympics a day later. She took some extraordinary risks."[3] Her activities involved exposure to losses that could have been greater than her family's net worth if the market had turned sharply against her.[14] The former head of the IRS chief counsel’s Commodities Industry Specialization Team expressed skepticism that a novice trader could make such a return.[15] One analysis performed by Auburn University and published in the Journal of Economics and Finance claimed to find that the odds of a return as large as Clinton obtained during the period in question were about one in 31 trillion.[16][17][18] " Jim Bell
Internet censorship, including extorted by government, must cease.
This article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzqniEaXwQg=youtu.be has the headline: "Congressional Democrats Threaten Big Tech To Censor Americans Or Else" If this kind of government-threat can exist, then one solution is to declare that communications over the Internet within wires (and fibers) located within the United States are governed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Private companies are availing themselves of a system initiated by a relatively small amount of government research, and developed by other designers and manufacturers. If 'private companies' wish to communicate over systems OTHER THAN the "internet", they are free to design that system, implement it, and the First Amendment WON'T apply to them. I'm not sure that this would really qualify as a "libertarian solution", but it is dangerous that "government" is trying to extort organizations like Facebook and Twitter to engage in censorship. This possibility must cease. Jim Bell
Re: "That's a colossal ethical failure" - Jordan Peterson returns -- Re: Censorship: Instagram (Facebook) Bans Qanon, Lets ISIS Freepost
On Thursday, October 22, 2020, 03:13:13 AM PDT, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >Worse than that - FB censors call to weigh SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett >against a duck to prove she's not a witch. I mean, what's the world coming >to when you can't do a quick duck check against a possible witch? >Shocking! >Facebook really should be ashamed of themselves, interfering in a SCOTUS >election in this way - and after a challenge by the BabylonBee, FBook doubled >down on their eleckshun interference. >(Oh, and free speech right to satire - but that's -so- mundane.) : > Netizens Slam Facebook’s ‘Woke Police’ For Banning Babylon Bee Satire on >Grilling of Judge Barrett https://sputniknews.com/us/202010211080834168-netizens-slam-facebooks-woke-police-for-banning-babylon-bee-satire-on-grilling-of-judge-barrett/ > Last Wednesday, the news satire website Babylon Bee ran a story with the headline, "Senator Hirono Demands ACB Be Weighed Against A Duck To See If She Is A Witch," in reference to the grilling Judge Amy Coney Barrett faced from a Hawaii senator, who asked the judge if she had ever "sexually assaulted" anyone. > Facebook has removed an article published by the conservative satirical site The Babylon Bee, mocking the grilling that Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett came under from Hawaii's Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono during last week's confirmation hearing. > Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon slammed the decision by the social media giant, revealing on Twitter the heated debate the satirical piece had triggered. > So after a manual review, Facebook says they stand by their decision to pull down this article and demonetize our page. I'm not kidding. They say this article "incites violence." It's literally a regurgitated joke from a Monty Python movie! — Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) October 20, 2020 https://t.co/U9B6tTOj6N While it may seem obvious to many of us, I think we should explicitly identify "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" as the movie this joke comes from. There aren't as many advantages to being "old" as I'd like, but one key one is that we've heard and seen A LOT. Which is great, as long as we've still got a good memory to go with it. My memory used to be truly astounding, but then Amy Coney Barrett turned me into a newt. But I got better... Jim Bell
Re: james donalds 'political philosophy'
On Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 10:37:07 PM PDT, jam...@echeque.com wrote: On 2020-10-21 07:10, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > I'll be waiting for any actual 'cypherpunk' or libertarian to shred > donalds 'philosophy' to pieces. I think I'm going to wait a looong time. [snip] >We do not in fact have equality before the law, because actual equality before the law leads to intolerable consequences, because individuals, groups, and communities are not in fact equal, and require different laws.----- Jim Bell's current Comment:The following is a recent draft that I had not yet completed and sent: ---About February 6, 2015, Michael Bloomberg gave a kinda-sorta-public speech in Colorado. This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bbjB3jVGRU=1794s may be it. I believe that he asked that it not be recorded, but the fact that the audio recording is here apparently resulted from someone sneakily doing just that. The audio is a bit weak, but it's there. The news item from that time said that Bloomberg had proposed that young racial minorities shouldn't be allowed to own guns, maybe younger than 30 years old. Google ' "bloomberg" young blacks guns ' He believed in that idea enough to state it out loud. https://www.nraila.org/articles/20150213/bloombergs-comments-add-to-a-long-tradition-of-racially-charged-gun-control-rhetoric I was not surprised that Bloomberg BELIEVED this, but I was very surprised that he said it, more or less openly, out loud and in front of strangers. Clearly, this put others, gun-control advocates, into a major quandary. If those 'liberals', or 'progressives' actually BELIEVED that anti-gun nonsense, they ought to be in favor of measures that might actually save lives. But they don't, or at least their level of belief doesn't rise to the level of overcoming their loathing of 'discrimination', the idea that people are treated differently as a consequence of race. But are human lives less important than Political Correctness? This is somewhat of a self-inflicted version of the meme, "Islam is right about women". https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/09/26/the-genius-of-the-islam-is-right-about-women-stunt/ "First, they acknowledge – usually with irreducible simplicity – that something that went without saying a moment ago has suddenly become unsayable. Secondly, the outrage they provoke does not come from any epithet, caricature or insult, but rather from having the nerve to draw the viewer’s attention to an act of cognitive dissonance that we are all engaging in, but would rather not acknowledge." "The result is that those who attempt to explain why the act is offensive end up simply tying themselves in knots, while revealing that they have never given a moment’s thought to the position they find themselves defending. This seems to generate even more anger, with the inevitable online mob quickly joined by politicians, journalists and other public figures, eager to see that the heretic is made an example of." [end of quote] On Friday, October 16, 2020, 08:26:48 PM PDT, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 11:14:06PM -0300, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 11:30:24 +1100 > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > Given how vehemently, persistently (even "religiously") that "the left" > > targets the removal of guns, the removal of the second amendment, it looks > > to some like guns ARE a thawn in the side of the empire.
Re: USA 2020 Elections: Thread
On Monday, October 19, 2020, 09:56:48 AM PDT, grarpamp wrote: >> Am I right that this is an emergency situation? > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaka77ACszs https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkpNJTfXEAMv2Z5.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLfh6lYWzPw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LuSpHJNPe0 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkoRqsSWMAMLGGy.jpg >Forget popcorn, get some stogies and cognac :) I would have much preferred that the people who recently leaked this material have done so a few months ago, because all this will take a considerable amount of time to unpack. The main thing this extra time will reveal is it proves the FBI had no intention of releasing this PRIOR to the upcoming election, and they would have allowed the election to occur while keeping the American public ignorant of everything the Bidens have done. Jim Bell
Re: USA 2020 Elections: Thread
On Monday, October 19, 2020, 09:04:41 AM PDT, grarpamp wrote: On 10/18/20, jim bell wrote: >> Am I right that this is an emergency situation? >For the Democrats... yes... Bidens, Clintons, Obama, News and Social >Media Heads... they're all done. Adios pendejos ;) >https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ratcliffe-hunter-biden-laptop-emails-not-russian-disinformation-campaign Yes, I saw that. It's hilarious that Schiff (and the other Democrats) are trying to push the "more Russia disinformation" story. A typical hard drive of a laptop computer will contain hundreds of gigabytes of potentially-verifiable information, all of which would have to be created somehow to make a believable fake. Even if somebody got hold of a genuine computer owned and used by Hunter Biden, adding faked material to it would be amazingly difficult. What's the current status on the NSA copying emails to/from foreign nations? Any challenged email either exists in that archive, or it doesn't. >From that cite: "Ratcliffe is 100% correct," the senior intelligence official told Fox News. "There is no intelligence at this time to support Chairman Schiff's statement that recent stories on Biden's foreign business dealings are part of a smart campaign that 'comes from the Kremlin.' Numerous foreign adversaries are seeking to influence American politics, policies, and media narratives. They don't need any help from politicians who spread false information under the guise of intelligence." [end of quote] The most telling thing is the reaction (or, mostly, the LACK of reaction) from the Biden camp. If the laptop was theirs, why not admit it now? The FBI should admit they've had it since December 2019: Why didn't they either confirm its apparent genuineness, or establish that it's a forgery? This inexplicable delay screams "Deep State!!!" Jim Bell
