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On the post: Former TSA Boss Admits Airport Screening Is Broken
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On the post: Former TSA Boss Admits Airport Screening Is Broken
Walks-In-Storms ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2012 @ 05:51am1've wondered since I was a soldier (thirty-six years ago), why it always is that we chose privates to stand guard over us all while we slept. I keep wondering now why we make a McJob of guarding airliners against being blown out of the sky. I guess I could ask the same question concerning the people we choose to run our government - and that at all levels.
For years - matter of fact - part of my professional income was earned by demonstrating that I could make monkeys of security systems and staffs. Not that long ago when a friend realized he still had his PPK in an ankle holster as we were next in line to go through airport scanners, I took the gun, tehn gave it back to him after we had landed at our destination.
My point? Just keep leaving your lives to government protection, and watch what happens to your country. -
On the post: The Rise Of Geek-Focused Online Video Networks
Walks-In-Storms ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2012 @ 08:02am"Entertainment?"
"Entertainment?" Don't you mean technology being used to behaviorally condition - "hook" - the public? Perhaps you ought look up and familiarize yourself with things such as the "Skinner Box." operant conditioning - and, by all means, state-of-the-art propaganda.
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On the post: New York Times Adapts Open Source Mini-Game For Some Meta-Journalism
Walks-In-Storms ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 06:02am"A State which dwarfs (turns them into little boys) its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything, will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly, it has preferred to banish."-- John Stuart Mill, from On Liberty (1859)
Can anyone imagine John Wayne or John Basilone (look it up - it's not likely you'd know who that is) playing "Kick Ass" (whatever the hell kind of kids' stuff crap that may be) computer games. Jesus - being called "man" nowadays is an insult; and having to admit one's gender is humiliating. -
On the post: New York Times Adapts Open Source Mini-Game For Some Meta-Journalism
Walks-In-Storms ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 05:52am"A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile (child-like little boys) instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men (who play kids' computer games) no great thing can really be accomplished; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which in order that the madhine might work more smoothly it has preferred to banish." John Stuart Mill, in the book "On Liberty."
Can anyone (my age, that is) conceive of John Wayne or Sgt John Basilone (look it up) playing computer game. Damn - being identified as male these days is insult. Having to say it is humiliating. -
On the post: Yet Another Story Of A Guy Arrested For Filming Police
Walks-In-Storms ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2012 @ 06:28amAs the guy who first (Waterloo-CedarFalls, Iowa, 1978) bought video and movie cameras and outfitted any member of the public willing to film cops and public official caught in wrongdoing, I love it. My own case had to do with my investigation of police mendacity and prosecutor miss-conduct (faking evidence, for instance), and police retaliation. Caught on camera by persons paid to follow me and film what happened when police stopped me, the state was among other things obliged to return my driving privileges and license; and during the 23 years I was obliged to defend myself against continual war waged by the IRS when the same Iowa prosecutors instigated it, the fact of my never being without a voice recorder and (later) video surveillance coverage kept me out of jail. I wrote a book about it all.
It seems we've now come to bigger and better things.... -
On the post: Yet Another Story Of A Guy Arrested For Filming Police
Walks-In-Storms ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2012 @ 06:22amAs the guy who first (Waterloo-CedarFalls, Iowa, 1978) bought video and movie cameras and outfitted any member of the public willing to film cops and public official caught in wrongdoing, I love it. My own case had to do with my investigation of police mendacity and prosecutor miss-conduct (faking evidence, for instance), and police retaliation. Caught on camera by persons paid to follow me and film what happened when police stopped me, the state was obliged to return my driving priveleges and license.
It seems we've now come to bigger and better things.... -
On the post: Lindsay Lohan's Lawyer's Loopy Legal Argument Laced With Lifted Language?
Walks-In-Storms ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2012 @ 08:02amDitzy Dingbat Lawyers (unless you prefer legalese).
Can I borrow some of this for use as feminist repellant? Or would that be plagiarism?
Better yet, would Ms. Ovada take the case? -
On the post: Forget Home Taping: Evil Robots Are Killing Music!
Walks-In-Storms ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2012 @ 10:28amMan, if there were any way to "kill" the meretrious crap being peddled today as ("popular") music, I'd lead the charge.
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On the post: Teaching Style, Not Computers, Appears To Be Biggest Factor In Classroom Distraction
Walks-In-Storms ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2012 @ 07:04amNonsense
Yay! In other words, I stop listening in class. I'll learn by what - inspiration? This'll also vincidate all the morons I seen "texting" while they drive (like the incredibly fat lady who failed - while texting and eating from a bag of Cheetos on the dash of her pick-up truck - to negotiate a neighborhood intersection turn: she drove up onto a lawn before finishing the message and filling her face).
Man, this is real science! Like the surveys that tell us a man is different from a woman, I mean. -
On the post: Pro Tip: Even If Someone Has Faked A Damaging Memo About Your Organization, Don't Threaten To Sue Anyone Who 'Comments' On It
Walks-In-Storms ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2012 @ 09:08amIntellect, statistics - and lack thereof
Accepted and un-controversial studies tell us that 98 percent of the human species is below genius level, and that the vast majority of people will fail - in the U.S., miserably - any intelligence test. This thread (thanks for the book research material, by the way) is an example consistent with the existing statistics. May I suggest, therefore, a trip to a website (certainly, few here would consider the library or a book) concerned with logic.
For instance, what does "cycle" without further comment mean? The planet's climate just "cycles" - no causes?
And so on. It's also been observed that the most insidious effect of ignorance is that, like insanity, it often disables itself where self-awareness is concerned (too ignorant to know its ignorant). As Russell (Bertrand - look it up) noted, whatever is told to a stupid person by a brighter one must be reduced by the stupid person to the level of his own understanding.
This thread, again - huh? -
On the post: Dear USTR: Want Other Countries To Sign Your Trade Agreements? Stop Letting Hollywood Write Them
Walks-In-Storms ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2012 @ 06:17am"Hollywood" (reality according to, that is)
Don't hold your breath - until Hollywood (and television) stops being American's version of brains and thought. Have you been watching (I've long since worn out the remote - dodging commercials and the latest news on Michael Jackson) the media orgy surrounding Whitney Houston's suicide?
We live in a reality constructed by Hollywood and made for television, my friend - not the real one out there in the woods where I come from.
"'Contrariwise,' said Tweedldee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't it ain't. That's logic.'" (Lewis Carroll). -
On the post: Sky News Tells Reporters Not To Use Twitter To Break News Without Permission
Walks-In-Storms ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 05:49am"News"
Nothing of today amazes me more than a public and television "news" audience that doesn't realize what they are seeing and hearing nowadays is a "Jurassic Park" movie. Today's "information media" is designed to construct a reality that is only virtual, a reality intended to keep the public in a "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest bedlam - helpless, bewilderd, and totally dependent upon their keepers - government.
Folks, these people hold you and your mentality in utter contempt (an add executive told me years ago that, given the right wherewithall, she could have the people of the U.S. "eating a plate of shit for lunch."
It's too late, but just so you know what happening to you, look up "Operation MOCKINGBIRD." And notice the choice of name for the C.I.A., military industrial complex operation YOU paid for. -
On the post: Sky News Tells Reporters Not To Use Twitter To Break News Without Permission
Walks-In-Storms ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2012 @ 05:49am"News"
Nothing of today amazes me more than a public and television "news" audience that doesn't realize what they are seeing and hearing nowadays is a "Jurassic Park" movie. Today's "information media" is designed to construct a reality that is only virtual, a reality intended to keep the public in a "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest bedlam - helpless, bewilderd, and totally dependent upon their keepers - government.
Folks, these people hold you and your mentality in utter contempt (an add executive told me years ago that, given the right wherewithall, she could have the people of the U.S. "eating a plate of shit for lunch."
It's too late, but just so you know what happening to you, look up "Operation MOCKINGBIRD." And notice the choice of name for the C.I.A., military industrial complex operation YOU paid for. -
On the post: Who's Still Backing SOPA/PIPA… And Why?
Walks-In-Storms ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2012 @ 12:28pmSOPA, and law, law, law, law in the Land of the Free.
Just what we need, another law, law "more honored in the breach than the observance" - obeyed by most of us, while the rest get filthy rich by doing what other can't afford to do. Pass a law like this that will put people in jail without fail, I'll not only obey it, I'll support it. Otherwise, do as I did long, long ago - close my businesses, leave the employment pool, and drop out.
When enough people do that - stopped paying taxes, in other words - we'll get our country back. Not before. -
On the post: The Red Light Camera Saga In Houston Continues: Court Lets New Parties Enter The Case
Walks-In-Storms ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2012 @ 06:30amDwayne Boring & Company
So all these people who are against the cameras are really interested in the public's safety? Sure. "I've got some ocean-front property in Arizona,"too. And if you'll buy that, I'll throw the Golden Gate in free.
My god, people, are we going to pretend we don't recognize whatthis is about. Let Mr. Boring tell and the rest tell us about all their other humanitarian efforts. All the charities for the poor, the disabled, and the homeless?
What happens next with these birds? When, for instance, the want to remove traffic cops from the highways (that's a "money grab," too, isn't it?)? How about (other) road signs - speed limit, for instance.
And for "coward," it happens that motor vehicle accident investigation and reconstruction was for seventeen years my business. You're full of it (but you know that don't you; that's not what it's about, now - IS it?!).
I've wondered since I was a soldier (thirty-six years ago), why it always is that we chose privates to stand guard over us all while we slept. I keep wondering now why we make a McJob of guarding airliners against being blown out of the sky. I guess I could ask the same question concerning the people we choose to run our government - and that at all levels.
For years - matter of fact - part of my professional income was earned by demonstrating that I could make monkeys of security systems and staffs. Not that long ago when a friend realized he still had his PPK in an ankle holster as we were next in line to go through airport scanners, I took the gun, then gave it back to him after we had landed at our destination.
My point? Just keep leaving your lives to government protection, and watch what happens to your country.