Posts by freeman

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LIBYAN CIVILIANS BEING KILLED BY US AIRSTRIKES

by NeckBeard in

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http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/03/20/libyan-tv-claims-48-killed-us-european-attacks.html.

http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/number-of-libyans-killed-by-western-air-strikes-rises-to-64-afte/.

should obama be tried as a war criminal for crimes against humanity?.

freeman

I don’t see how anyone could possibly entertain the idea that president Obama should be tried for war crimes when what he is doing is not considered warfare. How do we know, because he said so. Good enough for me.

Further, did you not hear what team Obama member deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said while aboard Air Force One, the US is not engaged in war but simply “kinetic military action”. Now y ou have to love Ben, not just a looker but one hell of a tap-dancer.

So what is “kinetic military action”, it is simply military movement, albeit quite violent. It is the military doing what they do best; blowing stuff up and killing people, but remember it’s not war it’s a police action err I mean kinetic military action, kind of a reflex action from the very bowels of the military.

Yes that’s it; it’s BULLSHIT err a military bowel movement!

But what about all the dead innocent civilians? Well, during any bowel movement, shit just happens.

So there you have it folks. Obama did not get us into a third war, no no, the military is not involved in warfare on his orders, no no, the military is involved in “kinetic military action”, a bowel movement; albeit an expensive bowel movement with very deadly results, but at least it's not war.

So Please stop picking on our president, you hate mongering raciest neocons.

“ words and meaning have almost parted company” - George Orwell

Freeman

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Fox News Using Electronic Brain Washing? Hidden Hypnotic Signal Found

by freeman in

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fox news is clearly identified with the republican / conservative camp.

recently i came across a thread where some of our more passionate posters were discussing the latest fox transgression.

it was being alleged that fox was overtly lying about protests occurring in wisconsin while the infamous palm tree smoking-gun video clearly showed otherwise.

freeman

Dr. Nick Begich does indeed present some interesting material. I wonder if using ELF is a new and improved version of something that supposedly was done years ago. I seem to remember something about advertisers clandestinely placing a few frames of a product like a coca-cola bottle and the words “your thirsty” in films playing in theaters to increase sales. This was a long time ago, 50’s or 60’s. You couldn’t spot it because it just flashed by to quickly, but supposedly it was picked up subconsciously. Supposedly this really worked and was ruled illegal and is no longer practiced. Maybe this is the new high tech version of that??? Spooky stuff.

Mad Swenny / RubaDub you may have nailed it, hot chicks have that effect on me too

Freeman

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Fox News Using Electronic Brain Washing? Hidden Hypnotic Signal Found

by freeman in

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fox news is clearly identified with the republican / conservative camp.

recently i came across a thread where some of our more passionate posters were discussing the latest fox transgression.

it was being alleged that fox was overtly lying about protests occurring in wisconsin while the infamous palm tree smoking-gun video clearly showed otherwise.

freeman

Fox News is clearly identified with the Republican / Conservative camp. Recently I came across a thread where some of our more passionate posters were discussing the latest Fox transgression. It was being alleged that Fox was overtly lying about protests occurring in Wisconsin while the infamous “palm tree smoking-gun video” clearly showed otherwise. I clicked on the little YouTube video, and it at first blush it sure looked damming to me. Then I remembered how easy it is to get the wrong impression without the right context. So I did a little research on my own, including watching the entire video, not just the edited clip and came to the independent conclusion that Fox was not lying as was being alleged. I made some posts on the thread suggesting that IMHO Fox should be let off the hook on this one.

Well it seems I did a bad thing. If you voice such a tone of moderation here on this politically charged board, you are besmirched by all sides, particularly the folks on the left who are very passionate in their views and tend to categorize people very quickly; reminds me of my MIL J or perhaps even myself before I matured.

Because I suggested Fox is in the clear on this one, now I’m called ignorant, a fool, or as one posters suggested under authoritative control. Well, I flipped him the bird via my LCD screen as is my custom J , but I don’t believe I even responded with any further comment.

However, his comment stuck with me. Authoritative control. That got me thinking. Fox does so well in the ratings, statistically better then all of their competition combined. How is that even possible? Is their writing and presentation any better or more polished then other broadcasters? I think an objective person would say hell no. So what is the magic of Fox News, why do they attract such a large audience? It’s almost as if the audience is being compelled to watch. Do they have authoritative control?

Just think about some of the personalities at Fox News. Hannity and O’Reilly, not exactly warm and fuzzy lovable guys are they? They often are down right abrasive IMHO. And then there is Glenn Beck. Granted he brings out some interesting points, but when I see him doing his thing with the black boards, flailing his arms about, my eyes just roll in embarrassment. He reminds me of some of the guys I used to work with at NASA before I retired. We called such ones “Space Cadets”.

The Fox news Video Feed has an Unexplained Anomaly

Fox News has a bit of a signal glitch in that when I land on that channel, I noticed that it was taking just a fraction of a second longer for that channel to lock in compared to every other channel on my cable system. Hardly noticeable to most people, but I noticed it happening on one of my older TV’s which seems to have more susceptibly to small signal imperfections.

It didn’t matter if I was watching via the set-top cable box, or using the TV’s own internal tuner. All of this told me that the anomaly, whatever it’s cause, was common to the composite video signal and not the carrier wave. Simply put, this transmission glitch is in fact related to the Fox News video feed itself, and not the cable system.

I had to see for myself what was going on so I pulled the back cover off of the small TV we have in the kitchen and connected an electronic signal monitoring and test instrument called an oscilloscope to a part of the TV’s circuitry called the video detector. The oscilloscope allowed me to see the raw and unprocessed video, revealing precisely what was being broadcast by Fox News.

The Hidden Hypnotic Signal?

Looking at the signal on the scope showed it to be a normal signal, no different then any other TV signal. But it wasn’t the same. Upon further detailed inspection I noticed the trailing edge of the composite video shifting and drifting to the right of the oscilloscope screen. When I switched to any other station, there was no such drifting, only when tuned to Fox News did it shift to the right. When the image drifted over to the hard edge of the scope display, it started to bounce in and out of synchronous lock at a rate varying from about 8hz – 12hz.

This low rate signal was being imposed on top of the normal video signal and as it turns out, it was in fact this small subtle signal that was causing the delay in picture lock-in that I first noticed on one of my older TVs.

Alpha Brain Waves 8hz – 12hz

Now I’m not a big fan of all that conspiracy stuff and I don’t see the boogie man everywhere I look but here is the rub:

FOX NEWS video is being modulated by a very low frequency subcarrier and the frequency range of that subcarrier exactly matches that of Alpha Brain Waves (8hz -12hz)!

Alpha brainwave generation normally occurs in people just before they fall asleep. There are just tons and tons of research showing that people are most susceptible to outside or auto suggestion during this stage of consciousness, the alpha stage just before sleep. This is how hypnotic therapy / weight loss tapes work. You listen to messages just before you fall asleep and your mind is more receptive to the message. Here is some supporting info:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/247802/your_brain_waves_change_when_you_watch.html?cat=5 .

The question is this: has Fox uncovered a way to manipulate people, making their show and its content more believable and desirable to impressionable minds? Could this be the real reason Fox News is so successful?

I don’t know the answers; I’m a retired engineer and an expert in a couple of different technical fields, but I have no expertise whatsoever in the possible effects of imposing alpha wave modulation of visual images feed to the brain and I don’t pretend too.

But WTF is Fox News doing?

Anyone with a technical background in electronics can duplicate my findings for themselves, and I suggest they do. Just remember to pluck of the video feed off before any de-emphasis filtering. *note this is hard to do on the newer TV’s, so it is best to use an older TV to obtain the signal. You can measure the alpha waves for yourself without the need of a scope by just using a good quality frequency counter with an appropriate low-pass filter, but it better to also see it on the scope as well. In my test set-up I used both.

I leave the task for others to follow-up on, I just found the anomaly or hidden signal or whatever the hell it is. I don’t know what it is or why it is there but it is truly creepy that it matches the same frequency range as Alpha waves. If it turns out that nothing nefarious is going on, fine, but I will tell you this. It will be a cold day in hell before I ever give Fox News the benefit of the doubt again on anything, not when I see something this fishy with my very own eyes. My thanks to the posters that inspired me to take a closer look at Fox News, this was a real wakeup call for me.

Freeman

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Nerdy news of the day: Solar energy higher efficiency at parity with fossil fuels?

by darthfader in

http://www.ispyce.com/2011/03/solar-energy-telescopeare-are-efficient.html.

a university of arizona engineering team led by roger angel has designed a new type of solar concentrator that uses half the area of solar (pv) cells used by other optical devices and delivers a light output/concentration that is over 1000 times more concentrated before it even hits the cells.

this comes as a result of a broader goal to make solar energy cost competitive with fossil fuels (target = 1$/w) without the need for government subsidization.. .

freeman

Mad Sweeny:

I’m not sure of the practicality of producing electricity this way but yes it absolutely can be done. Pressure differentials on certain types of materials will in fact produce an electrical current. One such material is quartz crystal. Putting the big squeeze on it will directly make a small amount of DC electricity.

When earthquakes occur, sometimes huge deposits of quartz are compressed; this has resulted in intense electrical discharge at the site of compression and random generations of high voltage ball lighting. A little more power then we’re looking for, but that’s how it works.

I suggest arranging honeycombed sandwiched slices of quartz woven together using flexible carbon fiber thread as the conductor material and to tie it together. The edges of the carpet could be tied down with metal eyelets making contact with carbon fiber conductors as appropriate. Your feed lines would of course be tied from the metal eyelets to your charging / power storage device.

Voila, there you have it, free electricity! It even has the potential to correct an ongoing societal injustice. Yes I’m talking about discrimination against our plus size citizens.

No longer should their weight bring an overcast of darkness to their lives. In fact the more they weigh, the brighter the light will be. Proverbs 4:18

Freeman

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Nerdy news of the day: Solar energy higher efficiency at parity with fossil fuels?

by darthfader in

http://www.ispyce.com/2011/03/solar-energy-telescopeare-are-efficient.html.

a university of arizona engineering team led by roger angel has designed a new type of solar concentrator that uses half the area of solar (pv) cells used by other optical devices and delivers a light output/concentration that is over 1000 times more concentrated before it even hits the cells.

this comes as a result of a broader goal to make solar energy cost competitive with fossil fuels (target = 1$/w) without the need for government subsidization.. .

freeman

I like the idea of a Stirling engine. I believe this is the very same device I experimented with when I was a kid but I didn’t remember it by that name. It works on temperature differentials, so solar powering it is one option, really anything that produced sufficient heat would work.

You are of course correct Dart, natural gas or any other hydrocarbon does produce undesirable emissions and there is a finite supply of it. But the supply we have here in the US is tremendous, more then most nations I believe. It can’t be the final solution for sure, but I could see it as a possible bridge until the technology breakthrough we all long for comes about. If nothing else, it could help us to move away from dirty coal and oil fired power plants right now without the sticker shock. Just a thought.

Freeman

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Nerdy news of the day: Solar energy higher efficiency at parity with fossil fuels?

by darthfader in

http://www.ispyce.com/2011/03/solar-energy-telescopeare-are-efficient.html.

a university of arizona engineering team led by roger angel has designed a new type of solar concentrator that uses half the area of solar (pv) cells used by other optical devices and delivers a light output/concentration that is over 1000 times more concentrated before it even hits the cells.

this comes as a result of a broader goal to make solar energy cost competitive with fossil fuels (target = 1$/w) without the need for government subsidization.. .

freeman

I’ve been a big solar energy fan since I was a kid. I remember having a working solar thermo powered motor, photo voltaic cells wired all over the place and it was neat stuff to play with, but I found out when I wanted to power my bike that it was also not practical in the real world, a lesson that stuck with me. That was years ago when I was a kid, but even now many years latter I find most of the green energy h oopla is still more pipedream then reality.

Jeff is correct, no matter what the efficiency may be in the future; the raw photon energy concentrations per meter of space make sunlight derived power expensive and very limited. As a supplemental form of energy and for use in areas not well served by outside utilities, excellent I say go for it! But as for being any type of viable contender for fossil fuel, no chance whatsoever. It’s a simple matter of physics combined with economics.

IMHO a better idea would be to employ a smart use of old-school green technology combined with cheap and abundant fossil fuels. I suggest the use of proven fuel cell technology which has now advanced to the point of being able to burn not just pure hydrogen as before, but now can convert impure hydrocarbon fuels like natural gas and bio-gas directly into electricity.

Such devices are right now on the job producing electricity at less then the cost of commercial power utilities and with reduced emissions. A unit the size of an average parking space will power about 100 average size homes or one small office building. Such units have been on the job powering the likes of Google, Bank of America, Walmart etc. They report they are saving money.

Considering we have an abundance of natural gas reserves and the price of natural gas is well below that of other fules and trending lower, we could easily cut our dependence on imported fuels quite a bit and reduce our emissions all at the same time. And unlike many green alternatives, this is not a pipe dream, not a promise of some future breakthrough that never seems to come, but a practical working solution with real-world working examples right now.

And should the other green solutions one day become practical in the real world, great! We can always switch over to the new green technology as they become available.

Check out this fuel cell startup company as an example (Bloom Energy). http://www.bloomenergy.com/

Freeman

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What Doctrines or JW Views Did You Not Find Too Believable?

by minimus in

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the thought that a loving creator would violently destroy anyone not belonging to the jehovah's witness religion including billions of babies seemed just not right.. the fact that you could recieve some "acceptable" blood components but could not donate those same lifesaving yourself seemed strange.

you could recieve a blood fraction but you couldn't give it.. any others you can think of?

?.

freeman

I had a hard time with many of the doctrines, especially the ones created from passages that were clearly symbolic, but that they insisted were literal. The scientist within me keep fighting it, but the JWs had the one I loved in their clutches and I felt I could not tell it like it was without loosing her.

One of the projects I worked on at NASA was the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE). A project and satellite which for the first time 100% validated the Big Bang Theory as true and correct, but I could not say anything as they ridiculed the Big Bang at the meetings, as they belittled science fact as if it were science fiction with their sanctimonious and ignorant drivel.

I held it in for 10 years and then I just had to get off the merry-go-round. When I got off the merry-go-round, it was not good, I was not kind or tactful, I had enough and I opened up with both barrels blazing; a big mistake.

We are still together, but things have never been and will never be the same since I told her that I just can’t live the lie anymore.

Freeman

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The fair and balanced reporting of Fox News

by keyser soze in

check out this clip from the bill o'reilly show.

supposedly it's of protesters at the capitol in wisconsin, designed to show how volatile they are becoming.

notice the palm trees in the background.

freeman

"What is truly bothersome, Freeman, is that you cannot see them for what they are."

Villabolo, I do see them for what they are, but unlike some, I don't hold a Fox-Pejorative mindset that limits my vision.

My mother-in-law has a similar thinking process.

I got in all kinds trouble once for saying how nice it was of Rupert Murdock to raise money for Hillary Clinton’s re-election in a fund-raiser put on near my home. That fact just blew her world view of Fox / Murdock, and then the venom flew at me. So I now tread lightly whenever anything related to Fox comes up. Come to think of it, Murdock also raised some money for Charles Schumer, another democrat. Me thinks I shouldn’t tell her that. I also think I should shut-up now.

Freeman

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The fair and balanced reporting of Fox News

by keyser soze in

check out this clip from the bill o'reilly show.

supposedly it's of protesters at the capitol in wisconsin, designed to show how volatile they are becoming.

notice the palm trees in the background.

freeman

Beksbks:

I saw the warm weather short sleeve shirts, I saw the cop on horseback, I saw the palm trees, and understood it was related to the union protests,

I got the context and did not feel manipulated and was able sort it out, I but that’s just me.

Ok I accept that as your honest belief, I don't agree for the stated reason above.

That withstanding, I see a lot of the folks who lean a little left to have a tendency to be overly critical of fox. It is the only conservative leaning news stations we here in the states, so I guess it is a target. But so many see the boogie man in every story they run. I have heard many wishing, hoping, and even praying for its demise. It bothers me to think some people feel that way.

That said, I don’t think it is in any danger of being annihilated anytime soon. Fox does quite well because it fills a need, a vacuum, just like Rush Limburger does, that is why they are both number one at what they do, they fill the void, and I wish both of them well.

Freeman

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Going Door to Door with Scrolls

by VM44 in

does anyone know where this anachronistic and propagandistic picture came from?.

did a watchtower artist draw it?.

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freeman

This picture is the most amazing thing I have every seen from this gang. At first I thought it was a really funny joke, but then I realized they really are selling this stuff as a real factual occurrence.

Door to door service, bothering strangers unannounced, unexpected visits from people trying to change your religion, in that region of the world, during that time period, unbelievable!!

No regard for the prevailing local customs of the day, just so they could try and justify an unbiblical requirement of knocking on strangers doors, UN-F***ING believable!!!

Freeman