Thought Of The Day...

Walter Kaufmann described Existentialism as, "The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote from life.



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Cold Water....

We were in Charlotte North Carolina all weekend for a Cheer leading contest called The Spirit of Hope National Championship. We stayed at the Hilton Charlotte that was downtown. It was across the street from the Convention Center where the contest was held. It is a 20 story hotel and they are doing some remodeling to the place as well. The elevators took forever to get up and down to the different floors. Also, when we woke up on Sunday morning expecting to take a shower, the water was COLD! No one in all of the 20 floors had hot water, No One!! That sucked!!


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Hellraiser in Charlotte NC...

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Neat Light...

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Yesterday...

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Snowing Today!

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Help, My House Is To COLD!!! BURRRR

What are we? Are we a bunch of robots? Help me please i don't know if it is to cold for my children in here. Can we not control the temperature in our own home? I DAMM SURE DON'T NEED SOMEONE TELLING ME WHAT TEMP TO SET MY thermostat to! What will be next? Will the State of California install a arm to wipe our asses in the bathroom? Those liberal no good dumbasses in California need to grow a brain and stop being such a bunch of little girls. We don't not need the state or country to regulate the thermostats in our homes. The Governator is sounding more like a NAZI(Kennedy) every day!

We are heading straight to the "Big Brother" country like in Fahrenheit 451. Grow a single cell and adjust your own damm temp in YOUR HOUSE!! Get a life!! I can tell if my home is too cold or hot; YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO AS WELL!! If the state of California was not so damm tight on its EPA regulations you could have had more power/light generation facilities 20 years ago. You would not be in the state that you are in now with not enough power to go around. Plan ahead! Many states have upgraded their power grid and do not suffer the same fate of your "Rolling Black-Outs"

Grow Up, Act and Think For yourself. Be Adults and regulate your on damm air conditioners. The other 49 stated do it! We do not need any more governmental regulation in the USA.

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TollBooth Users...

I was on my way to work this morning and was driving my usually way, down the toll road (Powhite 76), and i was coming to the first set of tolls. I was slowing down and i picked my booth to pay at. There are two on the northbound lanes. I picked the left one. I was about a car-length from the cement walls when out a NOWHERE cam this Jeep Cherokee and cut in front of me. IF i had been any closer; the lady and i use that term very loosely, she would have hit me! What was even more funny was the fact that she had to pay just like me and when she came out the other side, she was only two cars ahead of me. What an asshole! We all have some where to be in the morning and there are two pay lanes, two EasyTagg lanes, and two coin lanes, more than enough to accommodate all of the traffic. It only takes a turd to make the punch go bad!


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Thought for today...

In spite of the fact that love is essentially based upon the sensuous, it is ennobled by reason of the consciousness of eternity which it embodies: for what distinguishes all love from lust is the fact that it bears an impress of eternity. Either-Or Vol II Soren Kierkengaard Posted via my LGVX8600 phone.

Deal Or No Deal...Dumbass!

As you, like me and 50 million other Americans are gathered around their Television Sets to watch NBC's Deal Or No Deal. One has to wonder...

We have watched the show since it came to NBC. With Howie Mandel as the host of the show and lots of pretty women to handle the cases it is fun. The participants always give a good show, some more than other with their theatrics and weirdness coupled along with Mandel's seriousness and his germ-a-phobia makes for good TV.

One central theme that i witness on this show is GREED! I like to gamble on the occasion and it is fun taken in context of what it is, a passing fancy. People come to this show and try to strike it rich be playing the odds and betting that the case they pick holds the 1million dollars. They are playing against the odds and they are not in their favor. I have never witnessed a person win the big prize, NEVER. Also when they get greedy by not taking the bankers best and final offer when they have exhausted all of the big prizes and they deiced to go for it, they loose! I saw it tonight. A girl was offered $283,000 and did not take it. She cleared all of the $1,000,000 prizes and was left with $100,000 as the top prize. she left with $55,000, a far cry away from 283. With taxes in California, she would be lucky to get about $20,000.

She took a chance and crapped out like most of the people do. Some get smart and take the Deal with a less substantial offer than the 1,000,000 and have something. They come with lofty goals and bet for the big bucks only to leave with little or no money. DO they not realize that taking the lesser offer, they still come out ahead? Remember it takes money to get there...

They should have made a deal and not taken the "No Deal".

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Thought for today...

People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have, for example, freedom of thought-instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation:1838 Soren Kierkengaard Posted via my LGVX8600 phone.

Bike Stuff...

As i told everyone a while ago, my wife, Sondra, bought me a set of Kenda Tires for my Mountain Bike. I had a set of 2.2inch tires on the bike and the back tire was worn smooth. I went to a set of Kenda 2.35s Much bigger! I feel that they are more stable when i go over obstacles on the trails and they are about as big of a tire as i can go on my bike. The back tire started to rub on part of the frame when i would put a lot of pressure when ridding and the back tire was a little out of true. By true i mean that the rim was not round anymore due to being bent from jumping stuff. I went to Performance Bike yesterday evening and they were able to true the rim of the bike so it is not rubbing anymore. I would have hated for the bakc tire to get destroyed from the rubbing. The Kenda Nevegal tires are great to ride on and they corner very well in my opinion but dont take my word for it, go and get a set for yourself!


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New VXC (VXcasuality) Music!!

Several months ago i posted a few album links from this artist. I just went back to his site and i found several new albums. Here are the links:

Spore - Voyage

VXC - States Of Matter(2007)

Enjoy the music, i have!


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Charlie Wilson's War...A Commentary on the current state of affairs.

“Synopsis  Charlie Wilson's War

Urged on by his staunchly anti-communist friend and romantic interest, Joanne Herring, Wilson leads the effort to provide United States funds indirectly to the Afghan Mujahideen. In the process, the film also reveals Wilson as a Congressman with a gregarious social life of women and partying, which results in a federal investigation into his alleged cocaine use that never resulted in any charges.

Herring persuades Wilson to visit the Pakistani leadership who complains about the inadequate support to oppose the Soviets and insists he visits a major Afghan refugee camp. Deeply moved by their misery and determination to fight, Wilson is frustrated by the regional CIA personnel's insistence on a low key approach against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Wilson leads an effort to substantially increase funding to the mujahedeen in his role as a member of two major Congressional defense committees. As part of this effort, Wilson befriends the maverick CIA operative Gust Avrakotos and his understaffed Afghanistan group to find a better strategy, especially including a means to counter the Soviets' formidable gunship helicopter air support. As a result, Wilson's deft political bargaining for the necessary funding and Avrakotos' group's careful planning using those resources, such as supplying the guerrillas with FIM-92 Stinger missile launchers, turns the Soviet occupation into a deadly quagmire with their heavy fighting vehicles being destroyed at a crippling rate. This effort by Wilson ultimately evolves into a major portion of the U.S. foreign policy known as the Reagan Doctrine, under which the U.S. expanded assistance beyond just the mujahideen and began also supporting other anti-communist resistance movements around the world. The policy was controversial, although some now credit the policy with contributing to the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union and global communism, bringing about the end of the Cold War.."^[2]

Despite the victory, Avrakotos warns that unless there is a serious effort to help Afghanistan rebuild back into a stable society, there could be dire and unpredictable repercussions for both that nation and the U.S. Unfortunately, Wilson finds exceptionally little enthusiasm in the government for even the modest measures he proposes to heed this warning. The film ends with Wilson receiving a major commendation for the support of the U.S. clandestine services, but his pride is sadly tempered by his fears of what unintended consequences his secret efforts could yield in the future and the implications of U.S. disengagement from Afghanistan. The implied warning involves both the rise of the extremist Taliban regime and the September 11th terrorist attacks, though this is never specifically mentioned.”

 

 

Well we saw the movie last night.  I remember as a  child seeing him talk at Kirbyville Elementary when I was about 9 years old.   I totally agree with the synopsis give in Wikipedia.  Had America given just a modicum of interest after they covertly funded 500 million to the Mujahedeen to defeat the Soviet Union, which they did, we would not be having to look over our shoulders at the airports and worry about a building exploding in a major US city.   There was roughly ½ the population under the age of 14 after the war and they were looking for something to follow and the Radical Extremist got their attention.  During the war, we trained Osama Bin Laden and with this training, he was able to grab a major portion of power.  Compared to the 500 million, 1 million or more to help rebuild the infrastructure of Afghanistan would have secured our interests in the Middle East and our security at home.  The USA would have looked as a hero and not imperialists to the Extremists only serving our own interests.  We could have been saviors, not just happy that the USSR was defeated and that we were the big boys on the block.  Their government would have been PRO-US, not  ANTI-US as it was when the Taliban  and Al-Qaeda came to power filing in the vacuum that was created by America’s non-involvement.  To put it bluntly, The USA screwed the pooch and botched their opportunity all to hell! Our non-involvement in this country eventually lead the bombing of the USS Cole in which Clinton did nothing and to 9/11.  At one point, Bin Laden was offered to the USA and Clinton said we do not want him.  Another feather in his (Clinton) inept hat. 

 

Radical Islam can be traced back throughout the centuries, but a great turning point against the USA was fronted  by a man named Sayyid Qutb.  From 1948 to 1950, he went to the United States on a scholarship to study the educational system, receiving a master's degree from the Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado) in Greeley, Colorado. ( I helped build a Dining Hall there in 2004) “Qutb was extremely critical of many things in the United States: its materialism, individual freedom, economic system, racism, brutal boxing matches, poor haircuts, triviality, restrictions on divorce, enthusiasm for sports, "animal-like" mixing of the sexes (which went on even in churches),^[11] and lack of support for the Palestinian struggle^[12] In an article published in Egypt after his travels, he noted with disapproval the sexuality of Americans:

the American girl is well acquainted with her body's seductive capacity. She knows it lies in the face, and in expressive eyes, and thirsty lips. She knows seductiveness lies in the round breasts, the full buttocks, and in the shapely thighs, sleek legs — and she shows all this and does not hide it.

And their taste in music:

Jazz is his preferred music, and it is created by Negroes to satisfy their love of noise and to whet their sexual desires...^[14]

Qutb concluded that major aspects of American life were primitive and "shocking". His experiences in the U.S. is believed to have formed in part the impetus for his rejection of Western values and his move towards radicalism upon returning to Egypt. Resigning from the civil service, he joined the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1950s”

He helped to “stir the pot” so to speak and started the views on America as Imperialists only worrying about ourselves. Well, this is enough about this subject from me.   Have a good night!

 

 

 

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You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite

my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate

from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision.

While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not

unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control.

Which has led you, inexorably, here." - The Architect, The Matrix Reloaded

 

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My Youtube Page

I have a YouTube Page that i started to keep all the mountain biking videos on plus some of my favorite music vids as well. GO and let em know what you think.


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mORNING mOUNTAIN bIKE rIDE...

We ahd a big group today, 10 people to be exact. We rode the Green Trail first then we went to the Blue Trail so we would have access to the Double Red Trail and all of the new stunts that are on it.

Here are a few of the videos that i took today:

Mark:


Rob:


Another Seesaw Ride:



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Faith No More - We Care A Lot

1987 at its best! No Mike Patton on vocals. he joined the band after this album.

Faith No More - Stripsearch

IMO, One of their better songs. Great voice and style...

It's over today
The heat is gone, time is gone
F for fake
I feel no wrong, hide no wrong
I love this place, the lights
Under this face, so dry
Only way to change, give yourself away
Don't be ashamed, next in line
Close one eye, just walk by
In these days
I'm breathing stone, crying is done
I'll win this race
I'll leave alone, arrive alone
Love this place, the lights
Under this face, so dry
Stripped to the bone
I did no wrong
Truth is my name
Give yourself away
F for fake [4 times]
Give yourself away [3 times]

Faith No More/Boo-Ya Tribe - Another Body Murdered

Judgment Night Soundtrack. It is a good paring of bands!!

I'm makin' deals for deals that make a kill
And anyone looking gonna' get that ass killed
I'm livin' like a criminal and criminal I be
And I'm respected in the hood like a 'G'

Faith no More - Everything's Ruined

Things worked out better than we had planned
Capital from boy, woman and man
We were like ink and paper
Numbers on a calculator
Knew arithmetic so well
Working overtime completed what was assigned
We had to multiply ourselves
A bouncing little baby
A shiny copper penny
And he spent himself
Would not listen to us
But when he lost his appetite
He lost his weight in friends
Baby became a fat nickel so fast
Then came puberty
Exponentially
Soon our boy became a million
People loved him so
And helped him to grow
Everyone knew the thing that was best
Of course, he must invest
A penny won't do
But he made us proud
He made us rich
But how were we to know
He's counterfeit
Now everything's ruined

Faith No More - Evidence

King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime...

Faith No More - Midlife Crisis

Classic FNM!! Angel Dust album.

Linkin Park - Bleed It Out?

Why is it that the guy singing in the urban voice sounds so smooth and the other dude sounds like he is MAJORLY CONSTIPATED?? He always sound so pissed off at everyone. I do not really like this song and it sounds rather sophomoric for them. Most if not all of their songs sound the same. The lyrics are really unimaginative and sound like a 3rd rate rap-metal act like Limp Bizket sounded later in their career. That genre is really played out and has been for years...

"Here we go for the hundredth time,
Hand grenade pins in every line,
Throw 'em up and let something shine.
Going out of my f**king mind.
Filthy mouth, no excuse.
Find a new place to hang this noose.
String me up from atop these roofs.
Knot it tight so I won't get loose.
Truth is you can stop and stare,
Bled myself out and no one cares.
Dug a trench out, laid down there
With a shovel up out to reach somewhere.
Yeah someone pour it in,
Make it a dirt dance floor again.
Say your prayers and stomp it out,
When they bring that chorus in...

I always joke with my daughter and sing for the chorus this: Im sitting on the pot just wanting to flush it away!

They should take my advice...





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Soren Kierkegaard "Quoets"

I am just starting to read a book about S.K. Here are a few quotes from him:

1. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

2. Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

3. People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

4. Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

There are many others and i will be posting them as i read more of his work.

From Wikipedia:

Thought:

Kierkegaard has been called a philosopher, a theologian,the Father of Existentialism, a literary critic, a humorist, a psychologist, and a poet. Two of his popular ideas are "subjectivity",and the "leap to faith," popularly referred to as the "leap of faith." The leap of faith is his conception of how an individual would believe in God, or how a person would act in love. It is not a rational decision, as it is transcending rationality in favor of something more uncanny, that is, faith. As such he thought that to have faith is at the same time to have doubt. So, for example, for one to truly have faith in God, one would also have to doubt that God exists; the doubt is the rational part of a person's thought, without which the faith would have no real substance. Doubt is an essential element of faith, an underpinning. In plain words, to believe or have faith that God exists, without ever having doubted God's existence or goodness, would not be a faith worth having. For example, it takes no faith to believe that a pencil or a table exists, when one is looking at it and touching it. In the same way, to believe or have faith in God is to know that one has no perceptual or any other access to God, and yet still has faith in God.

Kierkegaard also stressed the importance of the self, and the self's relation to the world as being grounded in self-reflection and introspection. He argued in Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments that "subjectivity is truth" and "truth is subjectivity." This has to do with a distinction between what is objectively true and an individual's subjective relation (such as indifference or commitment) to that truth. People who in some sense believe the same things may relate to those beliefs quite differently. Two individuals may both believe that many of those around them are poor and deserve help, but this knowledge may lead only one of them to decide to actually help the poor.

Kierkegaard primarily discusses subjectivity with regard to religious matters, however. As already noted, he argues that doubt is an element of faith and that it is impossible to gain any objective certainty about religious doctrines such as the existence of God or the life of Christ. The most one could hope for would be the conclusion that it is probable that the Christian doctrines are true, but if a person were to believe such doctrines only to the degree they seemed likely to be true, he or she would not be genuinely religious at all. Faith consists in a subjective relation of absolute commitment to these doctrines.



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Thought for today...

My whole life is an epigram calculated to make people aware-The Journals:1848: Soren Kierkengaard




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USB 3.0, SuperSpeed!

You will need a new card for this because most MOBOs are USB 2.0, not 3.0 at the moment.

Revealed: USB 3.0 jacks and sockets

By Tony Smith in Las Vegas [More by this author]

9th January 2008 18:37 GMT

CES USB 3.0, the upcoming version of the universal add-on standard re-engineered for the HD era, made a small appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). It wasn't demonstrated in operation, but we did get to see what the new connectors look like.

Not, alas, the optical one, we have to report, but the electrical connectors. On show in public for – we believe – the first time, we got to see the new full-size connector, the socket it slips into and the new mini-socket. You can see the optical port here.

The USB 3 connector...

...and in close-up...

...and in diagrammatic detail

Here's the socket:

The standard USB 3 socket...

...which you can see more clearly in this diagram

And, finally, the mini-socket:

Dubbed SuperSpeed USB, the third major incarnation of the serial bus standard is set to deliver data transfer speeds of around 4.7Gb/s - ten times today's 480Mb/s limit.

The new spec will be compatible with older USB 1.1 and 2.0 products, cables and connectors, and you can see from the diagram of the standard connector how that's achieved: the extra pins are placed behind the USB 1.1/2.0 ones. USB 3.0 connectors and receptacles will be deeper than the current ones.

An initial USB 3.0 spec is due to be reviewed later this month. The full USB 3.0 specification is expected to be completed by the end of June 2008.

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Stupid Celebritie "Quotes"

The Daily Telegraph provides examples of celebrities' fad gaffes and what the experts say.

Scientists warn on celebrities promoting fads "I am challenging these evil genes by natural means. I am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid tumours." Gwyneth Paltrow, actress "Diet cannot prevent cancer. The risks of some of them can be reduced with certain diets, but some cancers, alas, show no link to dietary factors." Ursula Arens, dietician "If you suffer from joint pain it is a good idea to cut out or reduce the amount of tomatoes, aubergines, peppers, white potatoes and paprika that you eat." Gillian McKeith, author "Some rheumatoid patients may improve by omitting certain foods from their diets, but this must be determined on an individual basis and a blanket prohibition is totally unjustified." Margaret Rayman, professor of nutritional medicine "Lots of skin products use the same petrochemicals as the antifreeze in your car." Stella McCartney, fashion designer "Propylene glycol is a very versatile chemical which is used primarily as a base in moisturisers, a solvent in food colouring, a carrier solvent in fragrances and in many anti-bacterial lotions. So it might sound scary, but it isn't." Dr Dominic Williams, pharmacologist "There is no conclusive evidence showing that the continued use of these devices is linked to any measurable and general improvements in cognition. Practice at any task should lead to some form of improvement for that specific task." Dr Jason Braithwaite, cognitive neuroscientist While presenting How toxic are you? on Channel 4, she talked of "lovely make-up and moisturisers which don't have any chemicals in them". Sarah Beeny, television presenter "Chemicals are everywhere and everything. To be chemical free you have to experience a total vacuum." Ian Mabbett, chemist

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FCC to Probe Comcast Data Discrimination

I was waiting for this to happen and i am GLAD that it is going to!

By PETER SVENSSON – 1 day ago

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission will investigate complaints that Comcast Corp. actively interferes with Internet traffic as its subscribers try to share files online, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Tuesday.

A coalition of consumer groups and legal scholars asked the agency in November to stop Comcast from discriminating against certain types of data. Two groups also asked the FCC to fine the nation's No. 2 Internet provider $195,000 for every affected subscriber.

"Sure, we're going to investigate and make sure that no consumer is going to be blocked," Martin told an audience at the International Consumer Electronics Show.

In an investigation last year, The Associated Press found that Comcast in some cases hindered file sharing by subscribers who used BitTorrent, a popular file-sharing program. The findings, first reported Oct. 19, confirmed claims by users who also noticed interference with other file-sharing applications.

Comcast denies that it blocks file sharing, but acknowledged after the AP story that it was "delaying" some of the traffic between computers that share files. The company said the intervention was necessary to improve the surfing experience for the majority of its subscribers.

Peer-to-peer file sharing is a common way to illegally exchange copyright files, but companies are also rushing to utilize it for legal distribution of video and game content. If ISPs hinder or control that traffic, it makes them important gatekeepers of Internet content.

The FCC's response will be an important test of its willingness to enforce "Net Neutrality," the principle that Internet traffic be treated equally by carriers. The agency has a broadly stated policy supporting the concept, but its position hasn't been tested in a real-world case.

The FCC's policy statement makes an exception for "reasonable traffic management." Comcast has said its practices fall under that exception.

"The question is going to arise: Are they reasonable network practices?" Martin said Tuesday. "When they have reasonable network practices, they should disclose those and make those public."

Comcast subscribers who asked the company about interference on their connections before the AP story ran were met with flat denials.

A Comcast spokesman did not have an immediate comment.

Martin also said the commission was looking at complaints that wireless carriers denied text-messaging "short codes" to some applicants. The five-digit numbers are a popular way to sign up for updates on everything from sports to politics to entertainment news.

Verizon Wireless in late September denied a request by Naral Pro-Choice America, an abortion rights group, to use its mobile network for a sign-up text messaging program.

The company reversed course just a day later, calling it a mistake and an "isolated incident."

Verizon Wireless has also denied a short code to a Swedish company, Rebtel Networks AB, that operates a service similar to a virtual calling card, allowing users to avoid paying the carrier's international rates on their cell-phone calls. Verizon Wireless has stuck to that denial, saying it does want to provide an advertising venue to a competitor.

"I tell the staff that they should act on all of those complaints and investigate all of them," Martin said.

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Thought for today...

when the pope kises the feet of the laity he looks like an old toe-queen to some people 'The Illuminatus Trilogy' pg 560 Posted via my LGVX8600 phone.

Southeast morning...

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The Sisters Of Mercy - Custom DVD

Several years ago I did a “custom” DVD by the Sisters Of Mercy.  It took me a long time to get it the way I wanted to and I also did a custom cover using some of their symbols and old album cover. It is encoded in AC3 5.1   with all of their music videos and their concert at Royal Albert Hall back from 1985.  I was think about placing it on the web in an .ISO format and using Bit Torrent to distribute the video. I have shown it to people that really liked it. I am just wondering how some of you feel about this?   Let me know…

 

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The Illuminatus! Trilogy Stuff...

"Current Structure of the Bavarian
Illuminati Conspiracy and the Law of Fives"

The Law of Fives

The Law of Fives is summarized in the Principia Discordia:

The Law of Fives states simply that: all phenomena are directly or indirectly related to the number five, and this relationship can always be demonstrated given enough ingenuity on the part of the demonstrator.
The Law of Fives is never wrong. – Malaclypse the Younger, Principia Discordia, Page 00016

The Law of Fives as quoted uses the word "Five" five times.

Like most of Discordianism, the Law of Fives appears on the surface to be either some sort of weird joke, or bizarre supernaturalism; but under this, it may help clarify the Discordian view of how the human mind works; Lord Omar is quoted later on the same page as having written, "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."

Appendix Beth of Robert Shea's and Robert Anton Wilson's The Illuminatus! Trilogy considers some of the numerology of Discordianism, and the question of what would happen to the Law of Fives if everyone had six fingers on each hand. The authors suggest that the real Law of Fives may be that everything can be related to the number five if you try hard enough. Sometimes the steps required may be highly convoluted.

Another way of looking at the Law of Fives is as a symbol for the observation of reality changing that which is being observed in the observer's mind. Just as how when one looks for fives in reality, one finds them, so will one find conspiracies, ways to determine when the apocalypse will come, and so on and so forth when one decides to look for them. It cannot be wrong, because it proves itself reflexively when looked at through this lens.

The Bavarian Illuminati

History

Adam Weishaupt

This movement was founded on May 1, 1776, in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt (d. 1830),^[2] who was the first lay professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt.^[3] The movement was made up of freethinkers, as an offshoot of the Enlightenment^[4], which some believe was a conspiracy to infiltrate and overthrow the governments of many European states^[5]. The group's adherents were given the name Illuminati, although they called themselves "Perfectibilists". The group has also been called the Illuminati Order, and the Bavarian Illuminati, and the movement itself has been referred to as Illuminism. In 1777, Karl Theodor, Elector Palatine, succeeded as ruler of Bavaria. He was a proponent of Enlightened Despotism and in 1784, his government banned all secret societies, including the Illuminati.

While it was not legally allowed to operate, many influential intellectuals and progressive politicians counted themselves as members, including Ferdinand of Brunswick and the diplomat Xavier von Zwack.^[6] The Illuminati's members pledged obedience to their superiors, and were divided into three main classes: the first, known as the Nursery, encompassed the ascending degrees or offices of Preparation, Novice, Minerval and Illuminatus Minor. The second, known as the Masonry, consists of the ascending degrees of Illuminatus Major and Illuminatus dirigens. It was also sometimes called Scotch Knight. The third, designated the Mysteries, was subdivided into the degrees of the Lesser Mysteries (Presbyter and Regent) and those of the Greater Mysteries (Magus and Rex).

The order had its branches in most countries of the European continent; it reportedly had around 2,000 members over the span of 10 years.^[7] The scheme had its attraction for literary men, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Gottfried Herder, and even for the reigning dukes of Gotha and Weimar. Internal rupture and panic over succession preceded its downfall, which was effected by The Secular Edict made by the Bavarian government in 1785.^{[citation needed]}

Illuminati after 1790

Conspiracy theorists such as Ryan Burke and Morgan Gricar, have argued that the Bavarian Illuminati survived, possibly to this day, though very little reliable evidence can be found to support that Weishaupt's group survived into the 19th century. However, several groups have used the name Illuminati since to found their own rites, claiming to be the Illuminati, including the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) founded by Theodor Reuss and Aleister Crowley (England),^[8] Grand Lodge Rockefeller founded by David Goldman (USA), Orden Illuminati^[9] founded by Gabriel López de Rojas (Spain), The Illuminati Order^[10] and others.

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Thought for today...

Tim Leary - 'People have to go out of their minds before they can come to their senses. 'The Illuminatus Trilogy' pg 113 Posted via my LGVX8600 phone.

Clear morning drive...

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Evening Sky 4.46pm EST

Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
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The Timelords / The KLF - Doctorin' The TARDIS feat Glitter

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu...Doctor Who HEY!! The Tradis...

The KLF - 3AM Eternal(Live At The SSL)

I used to want a phone like the one in the video.

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Sample city, through Trancentral
Basic face kick, elemental
Swings, brings new technology
With K the L the F an' the ology
The force comin' down with mayhem
Lookin at my watch, time 3 A.M.
Got to see that everywhere I turn will
Point to the fact that time is Eternal

KLF - Last Train To Trancentral (Stadium House)

This is a classic from 1992!! Back To The Heavyweight...JAMM!

KLF - America: What Time is Love

Great Track...

Bike Ride Today...

We went to Pocahontas today and rode the Red, Blue and Double Red trail. We parked at the Quala Road Lot and we ended up riding 8.76 miles total. It was very cold this morning about 30 degrees when we started at 9am but it warmed up nicely and was a very good ride. We all took spills today. No one was hurt. It is just part of the riding experience, no pain, no gain.


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Neat Clouds!

Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
From RMStringer

Another morning shot...

It is cold @29 deg. Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
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Cold good morning

Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
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Illuminatus! Trilogy...

"Be hard. . . . Whatever is done for love is beyond good and evil. . . . Above the ape is man, and above man, the Superman. . . . Forget not thy whip. ..." - Neitzsche



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Thought for today...

Ishmael Reed-The history of the world is the history of the warfare between secret societies. 'The Illuminatus Trilogy' Posted via my LGVX8600 phone.

The Dandy Warhols - Every Day Should Be A Holiday

The Dandy Warhols Come Down(1997)
This is a Cool Video!!!

Dandy Warhols - Good Morning

The Dandy Warhols Come Down (1997)
In my good, good morning,
I'm up before what the sun can bring
Early morning, and
Everyone like a shiny thing
All my Angels
Appear before my window saying
"Good, morning,"
My good, good morning.

Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth

I never thought you'd be a junkie
because heroin is so passe...
The Dandy Warhols Come Down(1997)

The Dandy Warhols - The Last High

This is the second track that i liked by them. It is off of Welcome To The Monkey House(2003) Album

The Dandy Warhols- We Used to Be Friends (Music Video)

This was my first song that i heard from them. Well it was a remix of thi tune by Blacksmoke.

Book Stuff...

Well folks, today i finished part 3 of Bush At War called State of Denial by Bob Woodward. They gave some very interesting looks at the events leading up to the war(s) and some of the inter-department fighting that took place. The books really do explain a lot of the inter workings of the White House and Government. He had and used many sources to write these books.

I am now goign to start The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wison. This should be an interesting read. The KLF used this book as a basis for much of the mystique of their works...



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Thought for today...

Unknown - No such thing as bad weather just bad choice of cloths. Posted via my LGVX8600 phone.

The Sisters of Mercy - First And Last and Always...

First And Last and Always(1985)
The video is from "Wake - Live at Royal Albert Hall"
First and last and always: My calling, my time
First and last and always: Mine...

The Sisters of Mercy -- More

It is off Vision Thing(1990) Another classiv track from The Sisters Of Mercy. I wonder how namy of the "EMO" bands owe a big debt to TSOM? They are and always will be the Fathers Of Goth Rock.

Sisters of Mercy - Dominion/Mother Russia

The song is from Floodland (1987)and the album cut is 7.02 long!! How and friend and i used to jamm this in the dorms at SFA in Nacogdoches Texas.

Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion

More Classic SISTERS OF MERCY circa 1987. This is still played at Numbers Club in Houston Texas

The Sisters of Mercy -- Lucretia, My Reflection

I Hear the roar of a big machine...

Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope

Classic 1980s Industrial Dance Music!! I saw them in 1990 at Institute in Dallas TX and then in 1992 in Houston TX.

Lead into Gold - Faster Than Light

This video is from the Wax Trax Black Box VHS tape. stuart zechman-guitar, paul barker-vocals-bass, al jourgenson-guitar-bass,keyboards, martin atkins-drums, trent reznor-guitar. this is also the era when martin atkins drummed for NIN. and just after this everyone left ministry to form pigface with martin atkins, chris connolly and ogre from skinny puppy.

Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis

The Thunderbirds are Go Go Go...

The Shamen - Progen 91 (I.R.P. In The Land Of Oz)

I used to jamm in the Clubs in Southeast Texas, Houston, and Louisiana at Starz, and Club FX to this tune back in the day...

Self Inflicted...

I emailed an old friend around his birthday at the ending of November. This is the person that used to be my friend and that i had a very bad ending of a 18 year friendship with. A lot of stuff went down between us 2 years ago. I felt bad for my part in it so i emailed him and asked him to call me. He did about 2 weeks after the email.

He told me that he wondered if i was just messing with him or did i really mean that i wanted to talk to him as only 3 people called him for his birthday, hip parents, me and an old girlfriend. He berated me for about 30 minutes as was his nature about the occurrence and then tried to talk to me in his usual fashion. I was not at a place that i could talk as we were out shopping. Let me say he used to call at odd hours of the night all the time when we were friends. He was always an odd person but i overlooked that. He called me several other times that evening and i said finally that i could not talk as it was very obsessive to call that many times and could he call the next day.

When i got home, i did another email asking him not to call at odd hours of the day or night which i thought was not a strange request. He replied and said that we would have no more contact and it was left at that...

I started to think about this event and what had been said and exchanged between us during that several calls and i realized that i was not me but that it was him. It struck em very odd that only 3 people called him for his birthday and that one was me an ex friend.

Had no professional colleagues called, had no other friends called? He has or had other friends because i know them as well. Has he so totally fallen off the deep end that he has pushed everyone away from him? I guess that only time will tell but as far as i am concerned am finished with this event.



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A Few [Slashdot] Stories for you on this new year...

Here are a few for you to look at and read. Enjoy!

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| Data Theft Soars to Unprecedented Levels                           |

|   from the never-been-easier-to-be-someone-else dept.              |

|   posted by Zonk on Sunday December 30, @20:17 (Privacy)           |

|   http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/31/0034252           |

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A Wired article reports on data loss in 2007, and the numbers aren't good. [0]Credit card and social security theft was at an all-time high, with even more losses expected in 2008. Information thieves, it seems, are just one step ahead of IT security. "While companies, government agencies, schools and other institutions are spending more to protect ever-increasing volumes of data with more sophisticated firewalls and encryption, the investment often is too little too late. 'More of them are experiencing data breaches, and they're responding to them in a reactive way, rather than proactively looking at the company's security and seeing where the holes might be,' said Linda Foley, who founded the San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center after becoming an identity theft victim herself."

 

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    http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/31/0034252

 

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    0. http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/topheadlines/~3/208658703/DATA_BREACHES

 

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| How To Lose Your Job, Thanks To The Internet                       |

|   from the it's-easy-if-you-know-how dept.                         |

|   posted by Zonk on Sunday December 30, @22:25 (The Internet)      |

|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/31/0111255          |

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The New York Times has up an article discussing the trend of employers tracking the 'free time' activities of their employees via their web presence. "When they do go off the clock and off the corporate network, how they spend their private time should be of no concern to their employer, even if the Internet, by its nature, makes some off-the-job activities more visible to more people than was previously possible. In the absence of strong protections for employees, poorly chosen words or even a single photograph posted online in one's off-hours can have career-altering consequences." The piece [0]likens this activity to the 'Sociological Department' that the Ford Company ran to monitor the home lives of their workers. Overstatement, or the corp as Big Brother?

 

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    0. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/business/30digi.html?ex=1356670800&en=55ef6410d3cac28e&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

 

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| Most Consumers Sitting Out The High-Def War                        |

|   from the might-be-early-to-choose-sides dept.                    |

|   posted by Zonk on Monday December 31, @08:11 (Media)             |

|   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/31/0620249              |

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The New York Times notes that, despite the increasing variety of programs on the Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats, most US consumers are [0]staying out of the DVD format war. This is a wise decision, the article states, because the two formats are essentially at a stalemate. "The two camps are victims of their own earlier success with DVD. The standard DVDs offered a quantum leap in quality from the picture and sound of VHS videotape, and for many that was more than adequate. In addition, DVD players that can convert images to near high-definition quality can be found for under $100, hundreds less than a true high-definition DVD player, further reducing the urgency to upgrade to one of the new formats."

 

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| Wii Hacked for Better Homebrew Games                               |

|   from the playing-with-your-own-toys dept.                        |

|   posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 31, @14:17 (Wii (Games|

|   http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/31/1834204        |

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[0]arbourp writes to mention that hackers Michael Steil and Felix Domke have demonstrated a way to [1]hack the Wii that makes running homebrew code much easier. "The hack advances the possibility of running homebrew code with access to full system resources on the device, not just programs that Nintendo has sanctioned. Such games might be developed to run from a DVD drive, at least in theory. No such games are available as yet and Nintendo may respond by attempting to revoke compromised encryption keys. However history shows such countermeasures are likely to ultimately prove futile."

 

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    0. mailto:paul@paularbour.com

    1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/31/nintendo_wii_hack/

 

 

RMStringer

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IMBA Member: Dec 2007

 

funny

The Herlihy Boy Housesitting Service: Sandler and Farley WHAT A TEAM!!

Adam Sandler - Lunch Lady

Not the same as the SNL skit...

Everlast - What Its Like

It is an oldie but a goodie!!

Everlast - Ends

Stackign Mad Chips...For The Ends

Ending of The Year 2007

I just want to wish each and every one of you Happy New Year!!

 

RMStringer

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IMBA Member: Dec 2007

 

Some Funny IMBA Posters...

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Great Little Application...

I have used this app since way before Microsoft purchased the company. It is called Process Explorer and it was originally created by Sysinternals.

Process Explorer v11.04

By Mark Russinovich

Published: November 5, 2007

Introduction

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.

The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.

Process Explorer works on Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Server 2003, and 64-bit versions of Windows for x64 and IA64 processors, and Windows Vista.

What's new in Version 11.04:

* New treelist control for better UI responsiveness
* Asynchronous thread symbol resolution on threads tab of process properties
* More flags on groups in security tab and SID display
* Thread IDs on threads tab
* On-line search uses default web browser and search engine
* Vista ASLR column for processes and DLLs
* Vista Process and thread I/O and memory priorities in process and thread properties
* Vista Process and thread I/O and memory columns
* PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION support on process permissions on Vista
* Run as limited user runs with low IL on Vista
* Reports information for all object types on Vista
* Show details for all processes elevation menu item on Vista
* Supports replacement of task manager on Vista
* /e to launch elevated
* /s switch to select a process at startup
* Compiled w/ASLR, DEP
* Faster startup
* Miscellaneous bug fixes and minor improveme







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Computer Work Finished...

Well folks i got the computer work finished. I installed a WD500GB SATA300 drive, did away with an 80GIG and a 160GIG drive. I installed 2GIGs of Kingston KVR DDR2700 ram and added a KVR 512MB stick. I also added an Antec Truepower Trio 650watt power supply to the old box and BOY it made a big differeance. I think that i am going to get another 80-100 gig WD drive to change out the 40GIG system drive.



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