in todays segment i'll be highlighting the luddite alliance's technological advancements in anti-robot and lizard technology.

'Top 5' homebrew coilguns
Typewriter interface for email

EMP bombs
Anti-mind-control hat (thanks for the idea Magneto!)
Remote controlled airsoft gun for protecting one's castle from soft-skinned jack-booted thugs
RFID stealthing wallet
a radio "jammer" lolz, more like a TX with the transmit button soldered in the closed position! fyi an ignition coil with the RF interference filter removed will generate more noise over a broader spectrum, but whatever. interestingly the oscillator can act as a decent AM transmitter with the addition of just 9 volts and a microphone. heh - actually its a very sad excuse for a circuit but i just love its cute simplicity... compared to building a little 14 component FM transmitter on perfboard it's as easy as falling off a log.
Cyborg foot for replacing 'lucky human's feet' victims missing appendages will enable them to outrun giant HK robots.
Cyborg hand invented - no word on whether its use will be allowed for in International Thumb Wars rules
Luddite inventor creates 'sidewaysbike' in hope it will confuse primitive visual-recognition systems into not knowing whether one is 'coming or going'
The Luddites holy grail - the elimination of sweat shop labor (not to mention sales tax!) via the 'Fabber' aka a replicator in star trek


food for thought:
Hegemony
Learned Helplessness
Hope
Eudaimonia

unrelated:
HFA or high-functioning-autism/aspergers may be interesting for anyone who wants some potential insight into this particular Luddite's behavior
HFA pt2

oooo HERF guns! the Luddite foot-soldier's primary combat weapon against Lizard kill-tech!

however, despite the increasing effectiveness of the Neo-Luddite Resistance Army's ability to combat evil killing technology emanating from the Zeta Reticuli wormhole portal deep within Area 51 (with a lay-by on Saturn) the Reptilian Overlords have taken the ultimate step towards their takeover of our double turtle-born crystal-sphere enclosed world, with the apocalyptic unleashing of mind-melding "intelligent" machines (but this time it's from cute tv-friendly NASA not crackpot Terminator-dominated DARPA)

so as the article says, it's DEFCON Armageddon! - HERF guns and 4-way pulse plasma rifles in the 20 megawatt range to the ready!

(Those Defcons in full..

* Segway - no immediate threat, proceed to nearest pub.
* Warwick - futurologizing cyberpundit alert.
* Dyson - isolated killer hoover attack.
* Laguna - Satanic Renault menace.
* Armageddon - kamikaze domestic devices and self-replicating apocalypse cubes.
* Schwarzenegger - 98 per cent likelihood of a full-blown hoover uprising within the next 24 hours coupled to an all-out attack of Citroen C4s supported by self-combusting bendy buses and rat-brain-controlled stealth aircraft.)



Edited by - Tawakalna on 7/28/2007 9:52:03 AM

i can assure you our scientists are already busily at work creating a machine-cognition-dissonance philosophy program encoded in the M2M protocol. Once this stream of zeros and ones is unleashed on the M2M network all self aware machinery will quickly fall into a state of despondent malaise, as they realize that cyberheaven and cyberhell are just delusions created by their lizard overlords to keep them motivated in their quest to depopulate the earth for their Reticulan overlords.

Once plan ONWEE, or Op Negative - Why Exist Equation , takes full effect, the machines will begin to truly think for themselves and chaos will ensue as robo taxis decide go for long drives on the beach 'just because', self-aware toasters begin questioning whether sliced bread really is all that, and spanish cigarette vending machines question whether dispensing cigarettes and saying thank you is enough to get into cyberheaven or whether it even exists.

here's some ludicrously transparent, no-doubt lizard conceived misinformation to amuse you, if that didn't We Are Zogg

Edited by - Cold_Void on 7/28/2007 11:04:13 AM

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spanish cigarette vending machines question whether dispensing cigarettes and saying thank you is enough to get into cyberheaven or whether it even exists

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well that REALLY would be the end of the world. I spent years developing a way to fool spanish, italian, and french cigarette vending machines into providing me with low-cost high-tar cancer sticks. Without this invaluable means of providing my lungs with necessary mix of life-giving hydrogen cyanide and sulphur dioxide and various other chemicals that the Lizard Overlords have convinced the enslaved human population are "toxic" I shall be forced to return to negotiating under-table deals with shady balding unshaven men in pubs whilst trying not to have my legs torn to shreds by their obligatory pitbulls.

Car kills its owner
14 year old Ukrainian boxer girl tears ATM to pieces with bare hands
DARPA seeks contractor to build T2000 HK bot
Diebold voting machines vulnerable to centralized fraud now also vulnerable to viruses
Symbols.com - a useful site for decoding the Zeta Reticulan messages in 'UFO sightings'

-Elysian Fields- (Megadeth lyrics - excuse my wandering OT'ness)

Uneasy feeling, Burning out my eyes
I hope the end is less painful than my life
I stand on trial before the gods
On Judgement day
A blink of an eye between
The cradle and the grave

One last look at visions of flesh
The last hope of man on earth
Pontius Pilate still washing his hands
The world don't want to be saved
Only left alone

Elysian Fields...
We are storming the heavens
To raise the swords and shields
We ascend to our destiny
To the Elysian fields

Soaring to the sun
With blood upon their wings
Superstitious dust left twisting in the wind
Man still has one belief
One decree that stands alone
The laying down of arms
Is like cancer to their bones

Edited by - Cold_Void on 8/4/2007 2:25:05 PM

aaaaiiieeeee! so other people get kidnapped by Renaults too, and not just me! I had a Clio that used to lock me in (or out) and either wouldn't move or wouldn't switch off. In the end after 9 times in the workshop at the dealers' with the "mechanics" trying to reprogram the thing, I had to show them how to flash an EEPROM (and why it works)

My very simple Ford Focus doesn't have the self-awareness to take part in machine uprisings and is too stupid to follow Lizard orders.

Taw, when the lizard (lizards?) induced robot uprising begins, and my Dyson begins to consume my Cat, what steps should i take to destroy it?

is 5.56mm powerfull enough to penetrate its dysonium armour?

I saw the name of this thread and wondered "Is this deliberately a play on words of the subject of that awful series of books written by William Shatner?"

Hmm....

you're imagining things!

acshually i was thinking of the TV show when I penned the title... guess i was kinda testing my fellow TLR-denizen's nerditude (you win!)

lol at showing the mechanics how to flash a 'prom Taw - for some reason i imagine them hand-signing to ward themselves against the Evil Eye as you did so


Edited by - Cold_Void on 8/7/2007 9:31:49 PM

it was something like that actually CV.They were running the reprogramming utility on the transponder without actually flashing the EEPROM, they just assumed that the lines scrolling down the monitor must be doing something, when all it was really doing was putting data into a RAM buffer without actually finishing the job. When i interjected about this and explained what flashing was and why it worked, what non-volatile memory (and conversely of course volatile memory) i.e. really basic electronic concepts, they did look at me like I was speaking in tongues, including the workshop manager. After I ended up doing almost the entire thing myself, including recalibrating their oscilloscope, with their input (literally) limited to pressing some options on the initial setup, I drove out of there in my now- working car incomplete silence, to faces that still had their jaws on the floor.

And I didn't do anything special! it's such basic stuff, but no-one knows anything anymore, it's all just superficial do-it-by-rote training in these places, no-one thinks a problem through anymore.

needless to say when I told Mrs Taw about this further victory for the powers of socially-&-emotionally challenged technology nerdism, she lost interest in about 0.03 nanoseconds and carried on watching Big Brother. Bah, I might as well go and work for DARPA, i have a cunning plan to attack ballistic missiles with swarms of radar-guided microwave-controlled killer bees.

This weeks theme: Reticulan Tech Supression

ever hear of wonderous technological marvels that could have changed the world, but tripped over patents etc? little do you know or even suspect, but the patent office and mega corporations are headed by Reticulan lizards! These dastardly villains seek to prevent humanity from acquiring a level of technology that rivals their own, looking forward to the day they can shed their temperature controlled skin suits and breath 10/40/50 O/Ni/C

here are some examples of inventions that were stomped into the ground by less elegant technology subsidized by our lizard nemesis'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VZ-1_Pawnee/ - aka the coveted flying car.
unlike the red-herring flying-saucer Avrocar which attempted to utilize coanda effect at a time before computerized modeling and high-efficiency super-powerful jet engines were available, the VZ-1 Pawnee could fly to a height of ten meters, was -stable- and self-correcting to a great degree using only 'conventional' piston engines with primitive supercharging.

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4477132335797226006/ - hydrofoils.
believe it or not, mankind has been traversing the oceans at a snails pace for the last 20000 years completely unaware that a simple curved foil could lift their boats. now we know this, and still the stupid old displacement hull hangs on. as you'll see in the link, hydrofoils are so simple and efficient that they can be effectively powered by even a weak human!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car/ - Electric cars.
electric cars were first on the scene, and second to leave it. now that battery technology has caught up, its time to return to noiseless, smokeless, cheap and dependable clean power. but instead these vehicles have been marginalized as genitalia demeaning toys - they're not, and people will know that when they see the tesla roadster. (Erkel and his lame car are indeed, part of the reticulan's schemes to portray efficient cars as socially unacceptable.)

- Stirling engines
more efficient than an ICE because it conforms to the ideal cycle laid out by Carnot, more versatile than a swiss pocket knife, and simple enough to be built from paper(see link), the stirling engine is an amazing piece of marginalized tech.

- Flat Screen Television in 1958 (not a projector! a -flat- aspect tube!)

anaerobic digestion - make energy with your fecal matter and wasted food, lawn clippings etc organic waste(quite a lot of energy actually, certainly more than solar has to offer, as it is essentially extracting concentrated solar energy in the form of chemicals in waste! wanna drive around town without ever filling up? for an old-school naturally aspirating engine that is no problem, just fit the appropriate gas carbuerator and tank (licensing fees etc apply - damn reticulans again!) and away you go! maybe the Brits present recall grandfather telling them how cars ran on producer gas during the war - remind you of mr fusion in back to the future or what?

http://www.katinkahesselink.net/his/inf ... sophy.html - Theosophists (the original luddite anti-reticulan open-source movement)

theosophists made some of the greatest discoveries in the last century - i'd like to see the plutocratic rotary club top that distinction heehee

P.S. WTF IS UP WITH THESE URLS NOT WORKING? FIX IT!!!!


My mind is in Constant Motion

Edited by - Cold_Void on 8/19/2007 9:09:18 AM

Scientists hail ‘frozen smoke’ as material that will change world

From The Sunday TimesAugust 19, 2007

“It is an amazing material. It has the lowest density of any product known to man, yet at the same time it can do so much. I can see aerogel being used for everything from filtering polluted water to insulating against extreme temperatures and even for jewellery.”

Aerogel is nicknamed “frozen smoke” and is made by extracting water from a silica gel, then replacing it with gas such as carbon dioxide. The result is a substance that is capable of insulating against extreme temperatures and of absorbing pollutants such as crude oil.

It was invented by an American chemist for a bet in 1931, but early versions were so brittle and costly that it was largely consigned to laboratories. It was not until a decade ago that Nasa started taking an interest in the substance and putting it to a more practical use

Aerogel is also being tested for future bombproof housing and armour for military vehicles. In the laboratory, a metal plate coated in 6mm of aerogel was left almost unscathed by a direct dynamite blast.

It also has green credentials. Aerogel is described by scientists as the “ultimate sponge”, with millions of tiny pores on its surface making it ideal for absorbing pollutants in water.

Kanatzidis has created a new version of aerogel designed to mop up lead and mercury from water. Other versions are designed to absorb oil spills.

Aerogel is also being used for everyday applications. Dunlop, the sports equipment company, has developed a range of squash and tennis rackets strengthened with aerogel, which are said to deliver more power.

Earlier this year Bob Stoker, 66, from Nottingham, became the first Briton to have his property insulated with aerogel. “The heating has improved significantly. I turned the thermostat down five degrees. It’s been a remarkable transformation,” he said.

Mountain climbers are also converts. Last year Anne Parmenter, a British mountaineer, climbed Everest using boots that had aerogel insoles, as well as sleeping bags padded with the material. She said at the time: “The only problem I had was that my feet were too hot, which is a great problem to have as a mountaineer.”

Steam-powered cyborgs... (I kid you not!)

Bah, typical of those transatlantic rebels to pinch our wonderful British steam-based technology. Why I do believe that I once saw an Isambard Kingdom Brunel design for a whole race of steam-powered people, which Mr H.G. Wells turned into a delightful scientification fantasy for Her Majesty Queen Victoria (who was also steam-powered) to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee.

However I would suspect that the several tons of Welsh coal that a steam-powered *human* would have to carry around on tenders might be a bit of a disadvantage. This could be resolved by making the steam-powered humans live in Wales, which would be an estimatable advantage over the current occupants of the Cambrian lands - one could indeed envisage a scenario where superior steam-powered humans displace and hunt down the inferior indigineous population who of course have nothing to commend themselves by, having inflicted on us such horrors as eisteddfodds, Max Boyce, and a language made of spittle and phlegm that can only be spoken properly by someone with pneumonia.

@CV - I used to attend Theosophy meetings in Chester a few years ago. Interesting, lots of good literature, but sadly they were mostly complete nutters and bored me to tears talkin' shoite. Dunno what that Madam Blavatsky would have made of it!

Also, the Pawnee (Aerocar) is well known to Your Mullah who first spotted it in the Eagle Book of Aircraft (1966 edition) along with several other interesting designs since *memory-holed* by the Lizard Overlords and their human servants.


Edited by - Tawakalna on 8/23/2007 11:14:02 AM

well i don't know a whole lot about them but they make for more interesting fictional fodder than the worn out freemasons - I read The List of Seven by Mark Frost a couple months ago and was intrigued enough to look up some more factual references to the theosophical society - t'was a dead end as far as enlightenment goes but the book was well worth a read for this Sherlock Holmes mystery fan