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I have managed to download (almost) everything you posted there. I am planning on making a big bulk torrent of all the PDFs, plus others. If/when I do, would you like to distribute the torrent?

This idea wins.

to the thread.

Seriously? Damn...

I wonder if anyone would actually buy squash booze...

NB: If you take politics seriously, you will probably think this is a very bad idea.

Given that town hall meetings have become circuses as-is, in theory, we could up the chaos and make it even more of a mockery of itself. Discordian astroturfing of completely absurd talking points entirely unrelated to health care are recommended. The following are some suggestions, all of which are probably less absurd than the ones currently taken seriously:

- Why does the president own a dog rather than a cat (or whatever other animal)? [perhaps we could turn this into one of these animal rights things, but the problem is that peta might pick up on it for real or something -- maybe just be angry that he didn't adopt a pet from a local shelter?]

- Obama has yet to post to his official twitter account. Does this indicate an actual dislike of twitter? How might that interfere with twitter as a business? (Extensible to his visible usage of a Blackberry and his actual usage of Facebook).

- Why doesn't congress meet year around? They should abstain from vacations given that they already recieve lobbying and don't get much of anything done in terms of working out and passing useful legislation.

- Why hasn't anyone actively armed the congressmen so that they can compete with the armed protesters at town hall meetings? The security guys could have been infiltrated!

- What work has actually been done on net neutrality? Why has the legislation concerning deep packet inspection been enforced in some states but not in others, given that it is working on the federal level? Is this through loopholes? Why haven't they been patched?

- Why hasn't the government switched over fully to open source software yet? We are spending billions in tax dollars to pay microsoft, adobe, etc. when there are systems for free with the same functionality. Surely training shouldn't cost much of anything, given that in most cases the formats are compatible and the user interfaces are nearly precisely the same.

- Why hasn't Diebold been regulated to not being able to manufacture ATMs, since it was caught falsifying votes on the voting machines?

- Why does the Federal Reserve (a private corporation) have sole control over currency? Why can't we have multiple competing currencies? Why does the government condone the Federal Reserve's monopoly, and in fact support it with legislation?

No.
I want him the fuck off my planet.

NOW!

NOT YET IT CAN GET WEIRDER!  WEIRDER!  HOW MUCH CAN YOU TAKE, SQUIDDY, BEFORE YOUR LOVE WILL CRACK?

I'm going to make a dolly of him. In it I will place chicken bones where his bones should be. I will then snap all of these little bones, twist it's neck, drown it in the toilet, stab it stab it stab it stab it stab it stab it stab it, then vomit blood all over it.

You know, just to see what happens.
Oooh, maybe I should take video of this and send it to him as a gift. A gift. Of love.

Remember to stick pins in the crotch.

Which group today would be most susceptible?

Discordians.

I seriously expected Obama to say that throughout the campaign.

Also:  Have we considered old factory space for this commune thing?  It'd be a toss up as far as start up cost whether it would be more / less than some old country joint, and being in a city / industrial area would mess with self - sufficiency.  "Artist's collectives" get us all kinds of slack and subsidized rent from cities that want to artifically inflate their culture penis.  (Usually in one of the not - so good areas of town.)  From there we just need to show product, put on stuff, and paint everything with shitty murals.  Bitching about low carbon footprint, greenhouse, and doing as much as possible out of "Make" or "Instructables" couldn't hurt either.

Does this mean that we'd get tax cuts/subsidies for postergasm?

Do you think they'd let us put up memebombs on one of the big scrolly screens?

hey enki i heard your show on tuesday, loved it. for me in the uk it was on at the right time for listening 5pm onwards, liked the chilled out weird kinda industrial stuff alot,

if i ever did a show it would be similar but with more violent industrial music and alot of synthcore and grindcore D+B ,

I'm going through and adding some more from my collection. Keep tuned in, if you like it. I'll probably focus on the more harshnoise type stuff, since that's the kind of thing I make (sort of).

Another album --> http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/50849

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Cellular/698.html This may explain the blog posts,  to some degree

Well said! The question being the 'degree'... ; what about:

Milgrams '6 degrees'

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Number 6, in The Prisoner? 

X

the Six Clerks, an historical English legal office, which facilitated Chancery claims by impoverished litigants, litigants in forma pauperis, including children and those suffering from mental illness

Does that make Thembela Yawa number two?

Who is number one?

When getting a haircut outside in the summer, twilight is not the appropriate time. If you must, be sure to annoint yourself with enough DDT to make small passing animals cringe on the outskirts of town -- mosquitos appear to be a hardier bunch.

Three hours of sleep is NOT ENOUGH. If you can't trust your circadians and you can't trust your neighbours, pack earplugs.

Meh. I have been more irritated by the idea that these two binary positions are somehow at odds. You may be fully deterministic from the POV of a full understanding of physics, but that doesn't mean it makes sense to think of yourself that way. Determinism is a valid model for physics, but not for vacation planning. The other side is that as soon as you take into account your own deterministic actions, they immediately become more complex since you start feeding into yourself on a higher level of abstraction.

Over the week+ that I was away from the intertubes, I ended up reading a lot. Here's my list:

- John A Keel - The Mothman Prophecies
- Chris Hyatt - Undoing Yourself with Energized Meditation
- Jacques Vallee - Confrontations
- Jacques Vallee - Passport to Magonia
- Jacques Vallee - Revelations
- parts of:
-- Charles Fort - Parade of the Damned
-- Agent 139 - Join My Cult
-- Peter Carrol - Liber Null
-- Anarchy for the masses: The Disinfo guide to The Invisibles
- Pop Magic Zero! by Grant Morrison
- Jacques Vallee - The Physics of High Strangeness