The Great Match, an excellent movie on Netflix.

This is well worth watching in a similar spirit as "The gods must be crazy".  Great fun for kids and the whole family.

The Great Match also know as La gran final (2006)

In this unconventional comedy, tracks the individual journeys of three far-flung groups of soccer fans: a tribe of Amazonian indios, a family of Mongolian nomads and a caravan of Tuareg people in the Sahara Desert. Overcome with a desire to watch the 2002 World Cup between Brazil and Germany play out on television, these unlikely soccer buffs make a 500-kilometer trek to find a town with a working TV set.

On Netflix The Great Match

And Amazon The Great Match

بارك الله تلك التي كنت في ليبيا وعبر الشرق الأوسط. آمالنا وصلواتنا معكم.

بارك الله تلك التي كنت في ليبيا وعبر الشرق الأوسط. آمالنا وصلواتنا معكم.

ونحن جميعا اخوة في نظر الله. رؤية نضالكم يدمع عيني. سوف نجاحك تحويل هذه إلى دموع الفرح. لنجاحكم هو نجاح للجميع نوع رجل. حريتك من الألغام كذلك.
ونحن قد يعيش جميع في نهاية المطاف في السلام والصداقة.

Rushkoff Proposes We Fork the Internet

From Slashdot:

"Douglas Rushkoff: 'The moment the "net neutrality" debate began was the moment the net neutrality debate was lost. For once the fate of a network — its fairness, its rule set, its capacity for social or economic reformation — is in the hands of policymakers and the corporations funding them — that network loses its power to effect change. The mere fact that lawmakers and lobbyists now control the future of the net should be enough to turn us elsewhere.' And he goes on to suggest citizens fork the Internet & makes a call for ideas how to do that."

The problem is the Monopolies that are forming. (Score:3)

by John Sokol (109591) writes: on Tuesday January 04, @07:07PM (#34760346) Homepage Journal

Most of you don't know the history, and are therefor doomed to repeat it.
For much of my life I have spent fighting the Ma Bell / AT&T monopoly. From the monopolistic control over Unix to all long distance services, to hicap pipes.
It wasn't until there breakup in the 80's that direct physical connection of modems was even allowed on to the phone networks.
Well we are down to the last few companies controlling the last mile, and many of the backbones. Legislation will just further this till we are all locked down to a few Internet services and the rest will be squeezed out or severely hampered.
IP TV and Cable TV over IP will be the largest changes coming. And companies like Cox and AT&T find themselves in a conflict of Interest.
Providing last mile Internet while at the same time watching it eat away at their cash cow, cable TV.
I think we can provide a VPN like tunneling service across the public Internet over to a private network. Most corporations already do this for their employees.
Getting that last mile has always been the hard part.
We could then make this private network host content only available on that network, but would anyone want too?
I mean if you are going to invest in a web server you'd want it to be accessible to as many users as possible.
Still I have some ideas I may be willing to discuss with an NDA.
For an interesting read checkout my ecip.com

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 Burz (138833) writes: Alter Relationship on Wednesday January 05, @12:04PM (#34766352)

I think we can provide a VPN like tunneling service across the public Internet over to a private network. Most corporations already do this for their employees.

Getting that last mile has always been the hard part.

See I2P link below. It's completely decentralized so even if the creators wanted to compromise it, they couldn't. Addresses cannot be censored and end-to-end security is assured (unless you are using an outproxy to access regular Internet sites).
It isn't a speed-demon but its much faster than Tor and its friendly to P2P and general-purpose traffic.

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I2P : Anonymous, quick network with built-in web, torrent [geti2p.net]

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by John Sokol (109591) writes: on Wednesday January 05, @01:30PM (#34767416) Homepage Journal 

 

I have thought about P2P based VPN like networks, but there are political/legal issues with that.
Without a "legal entity" in charge they can just block it. Also it's not possible to grow it as a real network.
By copying the private corporate network model your afforded some legal protections and if they where to block it, they would also have to block every major corporations VPN's that they use for there employees to telecommute.
Another nice benefit is that it would be considered a private network and therefor free of public scrutiny to some extent. So pirated content could be argued to be view completely differently then on the open internet.
In addition as a real physical network, other networks could join, and people could become directly physically connected. T1's etc.
There are some real advantages.
I am thinking that replacing the protocol though would be the strongest way to differential it. Not sure how viable that is though.
But it could be free of the current DNS IETF system.

 

The spoon

The spoon:  A lesson on how consultants can make a difference in an organization.     Last week, we took some friends to a new restaurant, 'Steve's Place,' and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket.     It seemed a little strange. When the busboy brought our water and utensils, I observed that he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket.     Then I looked around and saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets. When the waiter came back to serve our soup I inquired, 'Why the spoon?'     'Well, 'he explained, 'the restaurant's owner hired Andersen Consulting to revamp all of our processes. After several months of analysis, they concluded that the spoon was the most frequently  dropped utensil. It represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour.     If our personnel are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift.'     As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon and he replaced it with his spare.. 'I'll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now.' I was impressed.     I also noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter's fly.     Looking around, I saw that all of the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies. So, before he walked off, I asked the waiter, 'Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string right there?'     'Oh, certainly!' Then he lowered his voice. 'Not everyone is so observant. That consulting firm I mentioned also learned that we can save time in the restroom.     By tying this string to the tip of our you-know-what, we can pull it out without touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands, shortening the time spent in the restroom by 76.39%.     I asked quietly, 'After you get it out, how do you put it back?'     'Well,' he whispered, 'I don't know about the others, but I use the spoon.'

Dear Sir/Madam Attached to this email is my proposal, kindly read through

Hello
I am Mr. Alfred Mzanzi, a member of Independent Committee of Eminent Persons (ICEP), South Africa. ICEP is charged with the responsibility of finding bank accounts in South Africa belonging to Non-South African indigenes, which have remained dormant since South African apartheid was resolved in 1994.

It may interest you to know that in July of 1997, the South African Reserve Bank published a list of dormant accounts originally opened by non- South African citizens.

These accounts had been dormant since the end of apartheid (27 April 1994). Most belonged to apartheid victims. The continuing efforts of the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons (ICEP) have since resulted in the discovery of additional dormant accounts - 14,000 in December 1999. The published lists contain all types of dormant accounts, including interest-bearing savings accounts, securities accounts, safe deposit boxes, custody accounts, and non-interest-bearing transaction accounts. Numbered accounts are also included. Interest is paid on accounts that were interest bearing when established.

The Claims Resolution Tribunal (CRT) handles processing of all claims on accounts due to non-South African citizens. I discovered a dormant account of Walter Ackerman with a credit balance of US$ 45,000,000 (Forty Five Million United State dollars) plus accumulated interest. The beneficiary was murdered during the apartheid era, leaving no WILL and no possible records for trace of heirs.
The Claims Resolution Tribunal has been mandated to report all unclaimed funds for permanent closure of accounts and transfer of existing credit balance into the treasury of South African government as provided by the law for management of assets of deceased beneficiaries who died interstate (living no wills).

Being a top executive at ICEP, I have all secret details and necessary contacts for claim of the funds without any hitch. The funds will be banked in a Very Reliable Bank here in South African, safe heaven for funds and we can share the funds and use in investment of our choice. Due to the sensitive nature of my job, I need a foreigner to HELP claim the funds.

All that is required is for you to provide me with your details for processing of the necessary legal and administrative claim documents for transfer of the funds in your name. Kindly provide me with your full name, address, and telephone/fax. I will ensure all procedures to see that the fund is transferred to a secure, numbered account in your name here in South Africa, of which you will be capable of accessing the funds and transferring gradually to your country and other banks of our choice in the world. My share will be 75% and your share 25% percent of the total amount. THERE IS NO RISK INVOLVED.
The Claims Resolution Tribunal has put funds in Escrow awaiting submission of valid claims for necessary disbursement. I find myself privileged to have this information and this may be a great opportunity for a lifetime success without risks. Due to security reasons, reply to my private emails: alfredmzanzi400@luckymail.com call +27 71 038 1688
The reason why I choose South Africa is that they have one of the best Internet Account Facilities, whereby you can access the account online and make transfers online to your account in your country.
This transaction is not a Child’s Play and should not be treated as such, if you are capable then reply, if not delete from your Inbox.
Best Regards,

Alfred Mzanzi
Member (ICEP)
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What a load of crap.

419 Eater - The largest scambaiting community on the planet!

Advance-fee fraud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nigerian Email Scam Victim Sues Bank, Loses Appeal - Slashdot

Welcome to the year 0+1*2345*6/7-8+9

2011 is a Prime number and is the sum of 11 consecutive primes.

The next prime date is 2/2/2011


Here are a few 80 year old predictions that were accurate:

Physicist and Nobel laureate Arthur Compton's prediction from 1931 was pretty dead on:

With better communication national boundaries will gradually cease to have their present importance. Because of racial differences a world union cannot be expected within eighty years. The best adjustment that we can hope for to this certain change would seem to be the voluntary union of neighboring nations under a centralized government of continental size.

It's not quite there yet, but there certainly has been some movement in that direction. There is much better communication, and more widespread travel between countries. Europe and the EU certainly demonstrates -- to a limited extent -- his prediction of a voluntary union of neighboring nations with a centralized government of continental size.


Sociologist William F. Ogburn,  prediction froms 1931 were also impressive.

Technological progress, with its exponential law of increase, holds the key to the future. Labor displacement will proceed even to automatic factories. The magic of remote control will be commonplace. Humanity’s most versatile servant will be the electron tube. The communication and transportation inventions will smooth out regional differences and level us in some respects to uniformity. But the heterogeneity of material culture will mean specialists and languages that only specialists can understand. The countryside will be transformed by technology and farmers will be more like city folk. There will be fewer farmers, more wooded land with wild life. Personal property in mechanical conveniences will be greatly extended. Some of these will be needed to prop up the weak who will survive.

Inevitable technological progress and abundant natural resources yield a higher standard of living. Poverty will be eliminated and hunger as a driving force of revolution will not be a danger. Inequality of income and problems of social justice will remain. Crises of life will be met by insurance.

The role of government is bound to grow. Technicians and special interest groups will leave only a shell of democracy. The family cannot be destroyed but will be less stable in the early years of married life, divorce being greater than now. The lives of woman will be more like those of men, spent more outside the home. The principle of expediency will be the dominating one in law and ethics.

Thanks to Jonathan Vos Post for the Math parts of this post.

Project - Mc Lab / Magic Chemist, in a Box.

Magic Chemist, in a Box is the simplest way to explain something that is right out of Star Trek. Magic Chemist is a supercomputer that explores chemical space and detects new chemicals, and formulas then catalogs them in a database.
Once complete, Magic Chemist is capable of performing; a quantum simulation of the atoms in the chemicals interacting, determine the properties, existence and variation of these molecules, how they interact with other molecules. It can report their physical properties, chemical changes and stability.

Read post on my other blog thegreentank:
Project - Mc Lab / Magic Chemist, in a Box.

I need help with Java Audio Capture

I need to find someone who can help me with Java Audio Capture, I wish to capture and stream Audio from a microphone using a java applet a within a Browser and send and audio stream back to a web server.

If anyone knows anybody, please put me in touch.

"How to 'profit' from Big Brother"

Traitorware

When you personally buy a new technological toy, then it's yours to do with as you please. Right? Wrong! What if your new device were activated on the sly and used against you? That's a step beyond spyware. In fact, the EFF coined a new term, "traitorware."
EFF slams Apple patent as traitorware: Jobs is spying on you?
From one friend.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-patent-identification-heartbeat-tracking,news-7835.html
See  john this   what you  posted  is  exactly what i am speaking  about ..encouraging  people to  invade some life under this new laws of snooping 


From another Friend.

"How to 'profit' from Big Brother"  .... with your phone...  buy and sell information ... 

http://www.talkandroid.com/24737-new-android-app-snoops-live-calls-turns-on-mic-to-listen-to-surroundings-all-without-user-knowledge

Works with many phones....   In Summary .... cut and pasted: 

• Call Intercept – Listen to live calls
• Spy Call – Remote Bugging Device
• Read SMS, Emails & GPS Locations
• Email Relay – Forward all events to your inbox
• Call records – linked to address book
• SIM change notification – find out new number
• Full remote control – via SMS commands
• Web based full text keyword searches
• Download reports in CSV, PDF & RTF formats
• Full remote control
• Remote uninstall

How it Works

Whenever activity is identified on the device Flexispy records the event and uploads the data via WiFi or GPRS to a secure web account for discrete viewing and analysis by the monitoring party. The application is so discrete that once it’s installed it never requires the monitoring party to access the device for tuning or settings. All features and settings are controlled remotely.
FlexiSPY is invaluable as a legitimate tool used by thousands of concerned spouses, parents, law enforcement agencies and corporations around the globe, and is available for download at http://Flexispy.com

DNS Registration scam!

 I have a domain that expired in the middle of next year, I pay less then $10 per year to Godaddy for it.

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: OROVALLE.COM
Created on: 09-Aug-04
Expires on: 09-Aug-11

So I get this E-mail below from some company that has nothing to do with my domain, sounding very official.

F-ing  Scammers SPAMMERS. 

If you get an E-mail like this DON'T Fall for it.



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Domain Expiration Notice  <dristisanderson@registerservicedomain.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: OROVALLE.COM Registration
To: sokol

Attention: Important Notice

Domain Name: OROVALLE.COM Bill To: Sokol, John      Invoice # 1293503603 9839 Vernon Ave. Invoice Date Dec 27, 2010 Montclair, California Terms Net 15 91763 - US Due Date Jan 11, 2011 P.O. # SECURE ONLINE PAYMENT

Domain Name Registration Price Term OROVALLE.COM Dec 27, 2010 - Dec 27, 2011 $75.00 1 Year

Attn Sokol, John This letter is to inform you that it's time to send in your search engine registration for OROVALLE.COM. Failure to complete your search engine registration by Jan 11, 2011 may result in the cancellation of this offer (making it difficult for your customers to locate you using search engines on the web). Your registration includes search engine submission for OROVALLE.COM for 1 year. You are under no obligation to pay the amount stated above unless you accept this offer by Jan 11, 2011. This notice is not an invoice. It is a courtesy reminder to register OROVALLE.COM for search engine listing so that your customers can locate you on the web.

This Offer for OROVALLE.COM will expire on Jan 11, 2011. Act today! For Domain Name: OROVALLE.COM SECURE ONLINE PAYMENT

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You Won't Recognize the Internet in 2020

Based on a response attached to Slashdot: You Won't Recognize the Internet in 2020
 

Being 40+ years old now and watching technology my whole life starting computers at 7 it's something I am very in tune with.
If you want to see how it's going to change in the future you can just extrapolate from the past.
First let's point out that the internet is a common method for moving datagrams (IP packets, block of data up to 1500 bytes at a time), much like the postal service ships individual letter. On top of this stream connections using (TCP) are created and most of what we see is built on this.

The point is, there are no limitations over what can be sent, or the format.

So telepresence, virtual reality, haptics, Remote control of UAV's, skys the limit on what can be sent over this network.

I remember the Internet clearly as it was 30 years ago. As a hacker breaking in to it was the most LEET thing you could do back in 1980.

I wasn't till 1987 before I finally got my first legitimate access to the Internet.

Let me put a little time line down to put things in to perspective.

1969 CompuServe started.
1972 C Programming Language invented.
1980 -- there was no TCP/IP even is was NCP, no unix servers and it was the DARPANET. It was all 300 Baud Modems! UUCP and Email was there.
1983 BSD 4.2 Unix came out with first tcp/ip stack in . C++ first developed.
    Modems and BBS's ruled at this time (sort of like when dinosaurs roamed the earth)
1984 Apple Macintosh first released.
1985 "thin" Ethernet first comes out (uses BNC Coax)
1987 Perl released.
1988 Linksys founded. First Internet Worm get's loose, create massive panic! (Robert Tappan Morris)
1990 -- there was no www, html, , it was telnet, ftp, gopher, Archie First Internet search engine starts.
          10Base-T first comes out.
1992 Wais search engine starts.
1992 Tim Berards Lee came out with www and html.
1993 Mosaic the first "graphical" web browser. Before this it was all console text based !!!!!
                  WiFi was invented. Linux and FreeBSD first Released. Lycos search engine starts.
1994 14.4K modems first started to appear. WebCrawler search engine starts. VRML web based virtual reality.
1995 Yahoo and Altavista search engines start. Vocaltec first VOIP comes out. JAVA released.
1995/6 is when the internet boom started. 28.8K modems appear.
1997 Google & E-Bay started. 36.6K and 56Kmodems appear. PHP first comes out. Netflix starts. 100Base-T first comes out.
1998 Voip is 1% of all phone traffic.
1999 Napster first comes out. DSL & Cable Modems first become available. Metricom Ricochet service comes out. Blogger.com goes online.
            Gigabit Ethernet first comes out.
2000 Dot com Crash.
2001 Metricom dies.
2002 Bit Torrent takes off. Wifi Starts to take off for consumers.
2003 Skype first comes out.
2004 Facebook goes online.
2005 Youtube goes online.
2006 Twitter founded.
2007 Hulu Starts
2008 Netflix start streaming video.
2009 HD videos are being streamed from Youtube.
2010 Apple TV and Google TV.

Next 3D Video Steaming., Free Video Point Video, telepresents, and augmented reality

Well as you can see things in the past 10 haven't changed all that much.
I expect the next 10 will not bring any radical surprises unless your living under a rock (Which most people are).



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by MrNatas
You forgot two things. First, technology tends to grow exponentially. It reaches a limit at one moment, but overall, the faster it goes, the faster it gets. Second, the impact of the social media is extremely huge, I live in Asia, and in my city nearly everybody who can access a computer owns a facebook account, that's a LOT of people. Online presence will not be more different for the generations born in the last 10 than phone calls are for us, that's a major change.
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Actually if you look at the grown curve for any technology it's not exponential but sigmoidal. Which can very much look like an exponential when it's curve first starts to rocket upwards.

If you want to see the trend for the Internet look at the phone.

First was just connecting over a single pair of wires, then plug panels, and then automated electron mechanical switching. A monopoly was given by the government to the third largest company! Still Bell Labs drove so much technology R&D. The transistor, the Laser, Fiber Optics.

Development and growth was very rapid for it's time, but it then slowed down and leveled off.

Still developments occurred. touch tones, Muzac, Teletype, PBX's, modems, fax, answering machines, and voicemail, IVRU's, 1-800, 911, Video Conferencing, Caller ID, ISDN, DSL.

Around 1980 though Ma Bell became an obstacle to progress and did all they could to limit modems and computer communication without paying exorbitant rates.  Progress was only made after the government broker the phone company up and opened up a whole new explosion of competition and progress.

I am sure the same will be for the Internet. At some point it will level off, and development will slow. Limited by the pace of other technologies and powerful Monopolies that are already beginning to take a stronghold on the Internet. 

Panspermia

This is soft of a Sci-Fi idea, I was toying with.

Attached to Slashdot: Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking

The theory of panspermia is where microbes transmit life to habitable bodies in space in for form or comet's and asteroids. If a planet such as earth were to be impacted by something large, fragments would be launched in to space, these would immediately freeze and preserve microbes almost indefinitely. A few cubic meters of frozen sea water from earth would contain a soup of trillions of single celled microbes and be in a perfect delivery system to survive reentry on another planet. Given the large numbers of fragments ejected in to space from such an impact and the small number of microbes needed to populate a planet, there is a good chance that our DNA has evolved across the whole of our galaxy.

So If you believe that which I think is far easier to believe then faster then light travel. The idea of a Christopher Columbus scenario doesn't make sense. Any intelligent aliens arriving by craft would have a few problems. They are 10's of thousands of years from home. The idea of arriving with an Attack fleet is completely impractical given the times and distances involved. Even the resources just for a small group to make such a journey is more then the whole Human race can generate right now.

The one group that does arrive would be more like Robinson Crusoe trapped on an island with no technology other then what they can scavenge off the ship they arrive in. The some of the more Advanced technologies from back home would be impossible to replicate. Imagine trying to make a semiconductor fab with a small group stranded on an island, it's not going to happen.

They also probably wouldn't be well adapted for our environment. The temperature, mixture of gasses, food etc. I think the first order of business would be like the Avatar movie scenario. To evolve hybrid creatures that can think like them and know their culture but would be bio-compatible with earth. They would have to do this by mixing their DNA with earth creature DNA, which probably would work because of microbial panspermia providing some level of commonality between xenoDNA's. Mostly likely they would want their hybrids to fit in and rise to power based on their technological advantage and then leverage the local population to do the work for them.

Also if it happened with one race of aliens then it's could probably happened with several races, each one landing and hybridizing local populations independently.

The other alternative is they have become a machine race, with their whole beings becoming entirely data. At which point our planet would be little more then a curiosity. As mining would be impractical with such a gravity well and there is little here they would need or want other then scientific curiosity.  Maybe study us and how we evolved much the way humans study apes in the jungle. We don't come in to take over the ape civilization, just try to leave then as undisturbed as possible to learn how they think and interact with each other.

An Android OS Tablet PC for $35??

This is an exceptional gadget! The price at which it is promised to be delivered is a mere 35$ (Rs. 1700+). Has 2 Gb RAM, runs on android platform ( which is open source and has massive support for wide scale improvements, addon-developments).
I-pad is way too costly as compared to this! and guess what??? it has 2 USB 2.0 ports, wifi, SD card slot, a TV out and what not!!
A revolutionary step from INDIAN HRD ministry, in collaboration with IIT and IIST.

If you don't see the video then click here

Stating the obvious

I re-posted this, but I am noticing the hair in the photo is quite visible, This is a clear indicator the photo's are not from the Millimeter wave or Xray scanners because hair would vanish just as much as clothing would.

I think this was a nude photo of a woman wearing a clear plastic belt.
It's been doctored to look like a scanner image.

Still there is a lot of merit in the argument in that once you have someone's scan it can be used as the basis for a 3D model, it would be possible to produce photo-realistic nude images.

UPDATE:
 Another after tough here is they could fingerprint your whole body making an unforgeable biometric.


Sent to my by Anonymous friend:

Finally someone is pointing out that those TSA naked body scans can be EASILY manipulated by Photoshop to produce EXTREMELY realistic naked photos - you can literally do it in one step by keeping in mind the very obvious: the naked body scans are negative images, so all you have to do is switch it to a positive image. That's it. Take a look:

http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2010/11/reverse-image-scanners-show-everything-tsa-patdowns-touch-everything/

http://mcself.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/is-tsa-lying-about-anonymous-scanners/

With Fergie, Paris Hilton, Kim Kardassian, Baywatch babe/Playboy centerfold Donna D'Errico and others having gone through the naked scans recently (and a gazillion other celebs I can't remember off
hand), you know the pedophile pervert subhumans of the TSA are amassing quite a collection of scans - there must be MILLIONS of them by now on home computers and in their cell phones.

And with a little photoshop magic, now you know what they're seeing.

When one of these deviants finally realizes that all he has to do is sell his collection of naked celebrity photos to TMZ, he'll retire a billionaire!

phases of work

6 Phases of Working (Which stage are you at???)

Phase 1

You are listening to jazz -- Your first day at work is great..
Your co-workers are wonderful, your office is cute, you love your boss.


Phase 2

You are listening to pop music -- After a while you are
so busy that you are not sure if you're coming or going anymore.


Phase 3

You are listening to heavy metal --
This is what happens after about SIX Months!


Phase 4

You are listening to hip hop -- You become bloated due to stress,
you're gaining weight due to lack of exercise because you are so tired
and have so much work to do and when you get home you have more work to do.
You feel sluggish and suffer from constipation. Your fellow co-workers are
too cheerful for your liking and the walls of your cubicle are closing in.


Phase 5

You are listening to GANGSTA RAP --
After more time passes, your eyes start to twitch,
you forget what a 'good hair day' feels like as you
just fall out of bed and load up on caffeine.


Phase 6

You are listening to THE VOICES IN YOUR HEAD --
You have locked the office door to keep people out,
You wonder WHY you are even here in the first
place and WHY did I come to work today!

Santa Barbara 12/22/2010 Storm, Tree Smash new car.

 I didn't think the storm last night was so bad, till I stepped outside this morning and saw my neighbors car smashed!

MasterImage linked to my Videotechnology blog article.

MasterImage is one of the 3 companies providing the 3D Cinema technology to theaters.

http://masterimage3d.com/category/news

http://masterimage3d.com/848

It's so nice to see a little professional recognition.

The cops disappear ....

I'm going to perform a magic trick.  Just wave my hands and voila!
ALL the police disappear . . .

Detroit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/17/detroit-shrinking?CMP=twt_fd

Oakland:
http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/great-news-for-criminals-in-oakland-oakland-police-will-no-longer-respond-to-44-types-of-incidents/

http://www.businessinsider.com/oakland-police-chief-threatens-to-cut-911-service-if-layoffs-go-as-planned-2010-7

http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-06-29/bay-area/21930012_1_police-union-police-groups-public-safety-program

EVERYWHERE:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/26/news/economy/cops_state_budget_cuts/index.htm

I mean, EVERYWHERE!:
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/24-signs-that-all-of-america-is-becoming-just-like-detroit-a-rotting-post-industrial-post-apocalyptic-wasteland

And keep in mind, this is BEFORE oil hits $150-200/barrel, which will happen in 2011:
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/did-the-price-of-oil-help-cause-the-financial-crisis-of-2008-will-surging-oil-prices-soon-spark-another-financial-crisis

And let's not forget the food prices I've been tracking which, in some cases, have ALREADY gone up by 100% (or more!) in the last year, and as of November, basic commodity prices for essentials like wheat (i.e., bread) had already gone up by 62% in one month (!!) so guess what that means for food in the early months of 2011?

Yeah.

And, of course, with increases prices for basics, even MORE cops will be laid off.

Translation:  in 2011, you will lose all police protection, and the soon-to-be-starving criminals will recognize that fact.

The Road Warrior time is here.

Prepare accordingly.

(From an Anonymous friend)
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Mind if I blog this?
John
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PLEASE blog this (but don't identify me as your source).

Get this out to as many people as possible.

Put it all over Facebook.

Put it EVERYWHERE.

Simple logic:  I put all the pieces together, and once you calculate the out of control increasing cost of doing any kind of business or providing for basics, it's clear we're about to go to zero cops while simultaneously taking away everyone's food (or ability to buy food or pay rent) which gives some really basic survival incentives to the violent criminal class to take really basic violent action to survive
. . . and not a cop to be found.

It's not an accident.

Who needs to send in army to control us when we can so easily be manipulated into slaughtering each other?

Of course, once the slaughtering and population decimation has gone on long enough, THEN the armies will step in.  OUR armies.  But not working for us.

Checkmate.

The game's already over.

2011/2012 should be fun.
(From an Anonymous friend)

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P.S. Tipping Point: 25 Signs That The Coming Financial Collapse Is Now Closer Than Ever
 Yes, driving the last nail into coffin, perhaps a bit overkill, but
you might as well see the truth for yourself:
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/tipping-point-25-signs-that-the-coming-financial-collapse-is-now-closer-then-ever

 (From an Anonymous friend)
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Overblown speculation & hyperbole on the authors part.
  (From a different friend)


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Now from a different thread

Well, at least he's honest ...

 A Republican politician openly admits that our politicians' job is to literally "serve the banks" - finally, someone admits the obvious truth:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/incoming-gop-chairman-congress-exists-serve-banks/

Also, my usual apologies about Alex, but I thought this was important
- according to this guest, the dollar will cease being the international currency of choice for trade across the world, or, in other words, it pretty much becomes worthless, quite possibly within months.  Here's what economic forecaster Porter Stansberry has to say about that:

Porter Stansberry: The Economic Implosion of America is Here! - Alex Jones Tv 1/5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS5Ce41oF1s

Porter Stansberry: The Economic Implosion of America is Here! - Alex Jones Tv 2/5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSE6Ms6otzE

Porter Stansberry: The Economic Implosion of America is Here! - Alex Jones Tv 3/5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ELfwL_CLfU

Porter Stansberry: The Economic Implosion of America is Here! - Alex Jones Tv 5/5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5imPLv57Jg

And his movie, The End of America:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI-BIVWlc7A

I believe it's the same movie direct from his website:
http://www.endofamerica3.com

And from the same Alex show, my favorite economic forecaster, Gerald Celente:

pt 1/3 Gerald Celente on The Alex Jones Show 14 Dec 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3826MPjdOVU

pt 2/3 Gerald Celente on The Alex Jones Show 14 Dec 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMtrVqr-x_0

pt 3/3 Gerald Celente on The Alex Jones Show 14 Dec 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owUwpmzw4MI

 (From an Anonymous friend)
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the first five videos of Porter Stansberry have been removed.
 (From an Anonymous friend)
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the video labeled  "The End of America" is fiction. The guy spends the first 6 1/2 minutes saying "life will be terrible, awful, believe me".
The quotes, "national inflation association" (http://www.inflation.us/) about a fictitious 100% debt. After that he never seemed to get to any point, he just reported known facts, and
inflated all the outcomes. Not sure what his game is, but don't think its worth my time.
  (From a different friend)
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Interesting.  So what do you think of these statistics?:

16 Nightmarish Economic Trends To Watch Carefully In 2011:
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/16-nightmarish-economic-trends-to-watch-carefully-in-2011

Or this?:

10 Signs That Confidence In U.S. Treasuries Is Dying And That Financial Armageddon May Be Approaching:
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/10-signs-that-confidence-in-u-s-treasuries-is-dying-and-that-financial-armageddon-may-be-approaching

Just curious.
  (From an Anonymous friend)
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I don't doubt we have sh*t in pipeline. Crying wolf is not the solution, getting ready is.

My booksellers motto: Yes we are in business to make money, but we are also the keepers and wardens of knowledge. We more than anyone else decides on what gets passed on.
  (From a different friend)

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Then, are you ready?  Sometime next year, oil will go to somewhere in the area of $150 to $200/barrel and gasoline, of course, will then go to $5.00/gallon minimum and, with food transportation costs going up accordingly (food commodities up by 62% in November alone), food costs at the stores could rise by hundreds (plural) of percent above current prices (and that doesn't even count for hyperinflation caused the the continuing devaluation of the dollar, which will also get worse next year) ... and since no one is getting cost of living raises on their salaries or welfare or unemployment, food riots are inevitable.  It's simple logic based on current verifiable data. So, yes, having information on what to do if this should occur is a good thing.  And it is something to think about and to prepare for.  2011 should be a very interesting year.  (From an Anonymous friend)
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Oil won't make it to that price, but it will go up. The Saudis will not allow it. It will ruin their virtual monopoly. It also keeps the Chinese from keeping us in check. There is no one to keep out bankers in check. I am far more worried the will try to hold the currency hostage, much as Enron tried to hold California hostage for energy. As prices going up, yes I expect that. Inflation is being held at bay by the Reserve, but it is a lost cause. Remember, Gold is not an effective lubricant for transactions, or Gold is a slow lubricator of economic transfer.
You can read my blog on this: http://bernankesgold.blogspot.com/   (From a different friend)

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