drunkenmonkey

I just want to point out how funny it is that people are afraid of mass-hysteria.

Where are the adults in the room? Or anywhere, for that matter. Where are the people who make decisions without first considering the Satanic Panic? They certainly are not publicly visible in our global society at the moment. The handling of this issue is an indictment of calm and concerted leadership on the International stage. We are clearly missing our Leaders.

My grandfather was a white male police captain during the civil rights troubles in Birmingham, AL. He also gave King the notebook he would use to write Letter from the Birmingham Jail. His quiet support of King literally enabled King's actions in more ways than I can relate.

To divide a people based on skin color is wrong. King, and my grandfather, were not lovers of one skin color over another; they were lovers of respect. It is respect that will break the chains anywhere they are found.

Sometimes havoc is optimal.

If a culture exists which relies upon distrust, that culture is tightly-controlled, so that such distrust can be usefully exploited by the /elite/ to put the community in check, when required by the elite.

When you combine this with government, you have a recipe for "your life is over" workplace weather conditions. Maybe that storm only blows in once every 10 years, and doesn't take many people... so if you're high-functioning, you might not want to join the island where the heroes are fed to the Minotaur when the political climate goes South, sometimes without warning.

You might want to join the place where the worst-case scenario fail condition is a pink slip and a bad blog post. Naturally.

It's important to keep in mind that false, spontaneous confessions are a well-documented phenomena from revolutionary China, revolutionary Russia...

The same thing could happen to anyone.

it's time for honest people like you to stop interacting with the plebs directly, and to start to educate them through mass-spectacle more. You're of a different breed; remember it.

Wouldn't, for example, set theory, be registered by such a machine as bs, owing to Russell's Paradox?

Defcon is always raising the bar.

At this point, it is a command economy.

It is not a meaningful coincidence.

It's entirely possible he is being set up. Anyone who doesn't see this angle is foolish, and honestly shouldn't say anything publicly about it due to their naïveté.

I believe the crest of Harvard University fits this to a T: the word for truth, Veritas, is chopped-up and spanned across many books. It is only in conjunction that the word becomes evident.

Convert the code to a numbering using modulo arithmetic. Take a movie file, and encode black frames for a full minute for every number in your set. Burn the movie to a DVD and add it to your household collection.

If you need to recover the recovery code, watch the movie with a notepad handy.