Here in Seattle we've got Easy Street records. Tons of new and used music, albums, CDs etc. They have a little stage and during the day they have a little cafe in the store with breakfast lunch type diner food but quality ingredients, local food. Bands play there (Pearl Jam). It's small, maybe 40x40 feet with a half loft. They play good music with an excellent sound system. The employees always know what's playing. They have listening stations with good headphones so you can listen before you buy, and eat at the same time. Graffiti is OK in one of the bathrooms. Dog water dish outside. There's more .... fuckin all around cool. I don't mind paying a bit more there.

I've been thinking. I haven't done any math yet. Hurricanes move a lot of heat. Could atmospheric vortex engines (maybe with some kind of enhancement to help more moisture go up) placed in the oceans, maybe at the gyres, move enough energy to help cool the earth while increasing the droplets of water in the atmosphere to help with cooling? Maybe the water would move enough to allow cheap filtering of the micro plastics.

Because then giant corporations can control and profit from them? Unlike the totally distributed and federated nets.

Over at EurekAlert is a summary of some new autism research. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-11/uom-rra103111.php The summary says ... "Research reveals autistic individuals are in fact superior in multiple areas. Scientists must stop emphasizing autistics' shortcomings." This guy is saying that our society is diverse enough that there are niches for autistics to fill which fit their skills well. I'm not sure if he's saying that this is new because of how different our society is compared to our deep past. Maybe autistics would have been eaten or starved in the deep past.

One of the best and easiest ways to use the temperature of the earth is for passive cooling with convection. There are houses built with south facing attached greenhouses that gather solar energy. The houses are built of rammed earth and bermed earth about 5 feet thick surrounded with high value insulation. This entire thermal mass is heated to 70 degrees (or whatever you pick) and can keep the whole home at that temperature for an entire winter even when it is freezing outside. Here's the geothermal part. When the house gets too warm a skylight opens up in the front of the house where the greenhouse is. In the back of the house insulated covers open up on the ends of about 1 foot diameter tubes which are buried in the earth, pass through the heated thermal mass and insulation and run under the cool earth outside for about 30 feet before surfacing in a cover and screened opening for intake. The hot air goes up and out the skylight. Air is drawn through the tubes and cooled by the earth. Convection climate control. These houses also collect all their own water, reuse it four times and have zero water or sewage output. Greywater through indoor planters, flushes your toilet, to outdoor planters, all converted to harvestable plants. Power from the wind and the sun. Earthships. earthship.org

Write your numbers in permanent ink on your arm before you go to protest. Be ready. Read up on activism. Tell someone when you expect to return. Go in groups and all that ...

Is God able to prevent evil, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.

Some folks argue that freedom is the highest expression of love. God loves you and made you free. Free to do anything, good or evil.

There are problems with this argument though. We can use Occam's razor to cut god out of the picture. We can ask if the natural limits of physical forms infringe upon our liberty. We note that many religions claim that God does interfere, and that therefore we are not made free.

Then there are arguments to counter these.

This stuff isn't as clear cut as it seems. The definition, possible existence of and origin of evil are interesting theological questions.

I'd rather spend most of my time acting for the good though instead of thinking about all the abstract stuff. Well, except for posts to slashdot.

-Peace and love-

Some software already does this. But better ... two types of C&C's one that causes kill if it can be contacted (left silent until needed) and one that causes kill if it can't.

Show him how to use I2P and Postman. Slower downloads but way more secure. For those who don't know I2P is a end to end encrypted onion routing darknet. Search for the terms if you need to know more

OT I know, but this is the same guy who did this http://cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7article/article35.htm which together with the Stanford Prison experiment http://www.prisonexp.org/ shed some light on the darker side of human tendencies.

Don't let history disappear ... download now! The file, "insurance.aes256," at 1.4G is ten times the size of the seven other Afghan War diaries files combined. Appears to be encrypted with AES Crypt from www.aescrypt.com Here's the torrent page from The Pirate Bay. https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5723136/WikiLeaks_insurance here's the magnet link magnet:?xt=urn:btih:76a36f1d11c72eb5663eeb4cf31e351321efa3a3&dn=WikiLeaks_insurance&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fdenis.stalker.h3q.com%3A6969%2Fannounce here's the torrent link https://torrents.thepiratebay.org/5723136/WikiLeaks_insurance.5723136.TPB.torrent I tried to post the checksums here but the slashdot filter didn't like them. The AES256 encryption reminded me of this page from cryptome http://cryptome.org/0002/state-aes.htm which says State Department Warns Against AES Crypto page 3 of http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/89272.pdf says "The Bureau of Information Resource Management's Radio Programs Branch (IRM/OPS/ITI/LWS/RPB) provides all overseas missions two-way radios equipped with Digital Encryption Standard (DES) or Advance Encryption Standard (AES). These encryption algorithms provide limited protection from unauthorized interception of voice communications and are only approved for the transmission of Department of State Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) and Department of Defense For Official Use Only (FOUO) communications. Under no circumstances should DES- or AES-equipped radios be used for the transmission of classified information, as defined by Executive Order 12958." What's up with that?