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  • Posted by Stormi 8 months, 3 weeks ago
    Sadly, we have done as Russia predicted in theri 39 year plan, to use schools to dumb u and accept what is not in our best interest, as we are brainwashed into repeating slogans only. Mk`1 used colelges back in the 60a to do the bidding of the CIA to misinform publlic about what they saw. One World Gov., totalitarians.
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  • Posted by nonconformist 8 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    For some reason people think they defeated me by throwing out the tragedy of the commons argument or the radio spectrum allocation argument and mistakenly thinking that there is no possible way to resolve the straw man conundrum. I am going to disappoint you.

    Although I don't agree with all Ayn Rand's views, I was satisfied with Ayn Rand's view on radio spectrum allocation in her book "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal". Basically, she was proposing a system similar to one used in real estate (based on homesteading). Once you start using an unused frequency within a certain geographical domain, it is yours until you sell it to someone else or abandon it.

    I would actually prefer an automated algorithmic collision avoidance system. Maybe even a packet switching one where you pay/get paid for sending/forwarding packets.
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  • Posted by nonconformist 8 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    https://www.etymonline.com/word/anarchy

    If there is no ruler, that doesn't mean there are no rules.

    "order without power"

    I'm an anarchist and I follow rules. The difference is that the rules I follow are logical and self-evident. However, I do ignore rules that don't actually follow from axioms logically and are just proclaimed by some self-imposed authority. That stupid shit needs to fuck off.

    The owner of the road makes the rules. If I am to use their road, it makes sense that I follow their rules. On my own road, I make the rules.

    I would not call those crashing your car anarchists. Those are just criminals. Damaging other people's property is not allowed by the rules.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 months, 4 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Me dino used to have a book about historical quotes my father gave me that I lost to a mobile home fire I was renting while going to college on the GI Bill during about 1974.
    I'm lucky to be here because the source of the fire was an electrical malfunction beneath my bed but I was attending a class before returning to my trailer home just to see it completely gutted.
    Long story not short, the first page's very first and very ancient deep in BC quote in that book was about not ever trusting no one. Writer's country may have been ancient Greece but I can't recall.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 8 months, 4 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, I got one of these. Their scam was that I won money. BUT I had to pay the taxes.
    They said "We will send you the check, and you can wait until it clears... Then we will cash your check for the taxes..."

    I called my bank. They said "Yeah, this is a scam. They got an insurance company check. And they replicate the checks. And print you one. It will clear. UNTIL about 2-4 weeks when it is reviewed, and discovered to be a fraudulent check. And then we have to give the money back, and we take it from your account. Leaving your balance negative..."

    I asked... "Well, if you can do that for the insurance company... Why can't you do that and get my check back?"

    He literally said "Because their fraud was against the insurance company. Not you. You paid them in good faith!" WTF?

    But I quickly learned there are SO MANY scams. And they get better as the public gets educated.
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  • Posted by nonconformist 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They probably utterly wasted it all, so, there isn't going to be much left to confiscate.

    Why waste a perfectly good body when you can force it to work and pay the victims back?
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  • Posted by nonconformist 9 months ago
    Natural increase in predation of society. Get ready for the culling once it causes a societal crash.
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  • Posted by Rex_Little 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'll do German sometimes. If it's an obvious junk call (unrecognized non-local number) I'll answer "Guten Tag". Then, whatever the caller says, I'll answer "Sie haben einen sehr kleinen Schwanz" (You have a very small dick) if male, "Wenn Sie etwas Gewicht verlieren würden, wären Sie ein Landwal" (If you lost some weight you'd be a land whale) if female.
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's why I start right away insulting them in Hindi. Maybe I should also learn some Arabic, more than just salam alaykum. Perhaps "yadkhul fi 'iibtik braghith 'alf bieir" (يدخل في إبطيك براغيث ألف بعير) "May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits."

    Once in a while I'll try something like, "No, you're not James. I know you. You're my uncle's friend Krishna Gupta. I recognize your voice."
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What seems strange to me is the people who call,
    speaking with foreign (and apparently MidEast or
    maybe Asiatic-Indian) accents, who identify themselves by English (or apparently Anglo-Saxon) names, such as "James", "Mark",etc. That sounds very fake.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    More recently, my favorite scam artist is one I led on for almost a week for being retired and enjoying the amusement. Also he had yet to ask for money or my bank account number. I was waiting for that hammer to drop.
    Sounding Caucasian with a deep northern accent, he said I won about half a million bucks from some government surplus bullSciuff plus some expensive sporty care I can't remember the make and model of. Likely because I did not believe it existed.
    Yeah, the scammer was all friendly, asking what I've been doing and what I had for lunch, blah, blah, blah, and all that.
    Finally, he told me I needed to wire $750 from one Walmart to one in El Paso, Texas. I told him that's baloney and hung up on him .
    He called me back to scream, "We need to talk like big men! Big men!"
    I hung up on him again, laughing at his greedy criminal ass.
    Hope he was really upset due to telling his Mafia boss or whomever that he had really hooked a live one.
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I get calls pretending to be Medicare. If I have the spare time I talk to them in Spanish, German or Hindi. All I know in Hindi is a mild bit of cussing, "Your guru is an owl," but one time the scammer in India was overcome by a fit of classic Indian politeness and helped me correct my Hindi pronunciation. Occasionally I'll use Japanese: "Sumi-masen. Eigo-wa wakarimasen." (I'm sorry, I don't understand English.)

    When some caller claims my computer is full of viruses I let them give me the instructions needed for them to mess up my Windows computer. But I'm running Linux here, now far down a road I started with Bell Labs Unix version 6. (Yes, I have the requisite bootleg copy of John Lions' commentary.) Fun, fun!
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  • Posted by Eyecu2 9 months ago
    Over the last 30+ years society has live by a very self involved version of the ethical school of thought of Egoism. The whole "if it feels good do it" and "me generation." This has developed into their children and grandchildren who not only want to live by that (but realize the selfishness of it) but actually do live by those rules. This utter removal from any form of self control, heck a belief of a Right to an utter lack of self control, has brought us to where we are today. Shame is a lost concept. In fact these people revel in what would have immobilized previous generations in abject levels of shame.

    I have no idea of what can be done to move things back in the right direction but identification of the origins of a problem is often helpful in correcting the problem.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov 9 months ago
    The scam can be more subtle than the receiver of the call may realize. The first thing heard on many automated calls is the question "Can you hear me?" The normal response to such a question is a simple "yes," but in this case, that response is being recorded, and even if the receiver then hangs up, the scammer uses that recording to fake false positive responses to whatever scam is being perpetrated.

    Tell elderly relatives not to answer any call from an unknown number, or anyone they don't know. If the caller leaves a voicemail claiming to be from a government agency, threatening to cut off their Social Security or Medicare, tell them to contact that agency and report a fraud call, because those agencies do not communicate by phone.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I remember watching downloaded episodes of "Boston Legal" which spent a majority
    of episodes criticizing the early 2000's Bush.
    They used a surrogate character (who supported Bush) and gave that character "Mad Cow"
    disease, which they treated like dementia.
    (Irony that their man Buydem was the actual dementia patient.)

    I wondered what they'd do for plots after Obama was elected.
    What did they do?
    They cancelled the show.

    Time to cancel D.C. permanently.
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  • Posted by tutor-turtle 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Heh!
    The Three Letter Agencies???
    It's not called a PSYOP because it sounds cool.
    Psychological operations are used on your enemy to affect their thinking and actions.
    If a PSYOP is being used on the American people, that makes us the enemy.
    Wake up people.
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