So much to do, so little time. I don’t suppose anybody made it to Marc’s show in New Orleans last night, did they? If so, don’t forget to give us a review. I wonder if there’s any chance we’ll be able to stream the full Maron next week? I certainly hope so. And I hope the show doesn’t lose anything by being pre-recorded, but since it’s pretty much always pre-recorded before I get to hear it, it won’t matter much to me. Except y’all won’t be able to call and blog during the show, I guess, which kinda sucks. But, hey, we’re open 24/7, and there’s free refills on the :joe:
:banana:yay im number 1! :joe:free refills!:banana:
I’m gonna do number two! Ha ha . . . n e way, I tried to record the stream last night, but sirens went off around me twelve minutes into the show. “It’s a tornado and its headed right for us!” So I stopped the recording as the house lights blinked on and off and the wind begin to howl. Luckily, I’m still here. The worst of this hellacious night moved north of here or I’d have been toast, maybe butter too. So I gots bits and pieces of last nights show. I’ll wait for the torrent to listen. Hope everything went well for everyone else here. Have a happy Saturday . . . laters. A question to Sean before I go: “Sean, do you ever sleep?” :tongue:
Evening/Morning to #1 and #2 :yinyang:
Haven’t heard yet from my sis who is in NO. If she went
I’ll post it.
A qute from the last thread:
Let’s hear what went on?
Can’t find the :joe: so I guess I’ll have to go out to :40: cause I have no :bong:
Mornin’, all.
Must . . . get . . . :joe:
MOrning everyone…am trying to dig out before the phon starts. I thought today was a rest day but it appears the grandpa may show up…which is strange because there have been hellacious storms (not like cnick but we did get hail and rain and flashes of light etc…cnick, glad youre ok andyou didnt miss anything because there was no showlast night!)
Did anyone hear the podcast interview of my grandpa on mercradioresearch?
Im trying to figure out if he sounds totally bitter and horrible. I like the way he is because he is so right and isnt afraid to name names, but…I wonder if the professionals who read that blog will think hes just an old guy complaining.
CK- My MOm came up and said “oh silly girl, everyone kows that you make the single mellita cup in the sink!!”
Thanks mom!
If I made a pot I owuld drink a pot!…I try to drink tea until later on and then have a cuppa starbucks dark half caf or decaf, lest I become psychotic from too much UP!
Hey Melina. You’ve got to get the right size of a pot. “Old man tea” here, a pot full would fill half a mug.
KK_ I love the huge mugs and have quite a collection, so probably a pot is a whole mug depending on the pot.
Problem is that I will drink tea and coffee all day long and get just too wired if I dont switch to decaf at some point.
The auto coffee maker is great but I always make it too dark and then have to put more water and IM the only one drinking it…so there is alot of waste.
Will only gets it if its decaf or hes very tired.
He does love coffee already though!
KK- are you drinking chinese tea or japanese tea or plan old black tea?
Gajinda gave me some suggestions and Im gonna order some fancy teas.
I like the pearls the unfurl and have some nice rose teas, but tend to like the old dark irish breakfast (which has been unavailable here for some reason for around 2 months!)
M- most of the tea I drink is grown here. It is usually whole leaf tea. The caffeine varies from ‘none’ to ‘pick a fight with a wall. It may be a flower tea to a te-guan-ying. The great part is most of the tea fields are only a few hours from here.
Your black tea, we call red tea.
:yinyang:
oooh melina starbucks :spank:
D-oh! I didn’t know that, either!
(I have a book called something like, “If I’d Listened to My Mother I’d Know How to Do This.” I bought it because I listened, but my mother never told me things like that . . .)
Hey Melina, I listened to Grandpa’s interview, and I didn’t think it was horrible and bitter at all. I thought it was funny in some places, and I think it’s truly sad that there’s no “market” for producing quality radio drama (or ANY radio drama) these days. I think if people would listen, they’d agree that teevee doesn’t even come close to the radio experience. But then, I’m a big fan. I used to listen to RMT every night when it was on, and (as I’ve mentioned before) I’m a big OTR fan. It’s just a shame that it’s a dying (if not quite dead) art form.
Congrats on finishing your taxes, Melina. We’re filing an extension this year–first time ever. It was just impossible to get them done while Otis was so sick.:cry:
I’m gonna listen to the interview with hubby while we do some much-overdue housework today.
Although, PJ, I think that Morning Sedition Radio Theater came pretty close to quality radio drama. Or at least the first installment did!
We have a regular visitor (not sure if it’s a lurker or a poster) from Celestial Seasonings. I’m rather partial to Emperor’s Choice, myself. It’s may not be fancy-schmancy Japanese tea, but then I’m not a fancy-schmancy kinda guy – I jump into my pants with both feet, just like everybody else.
the first two were killer then for some reason they dropped it for one offs? wtf was that all about? oh yeah malloy doing 1984 is the best radio there is right now!
The funny thing was that when I finally called my tax guy yesterday I left a message saying that I was working on them and that maybe I could get them to him today or Monday….and he called back and left a very funny message, but the gist of it was that if I didnt get em over to him by the end of the day I was gonna have to get an extension….so, I put the petal to the metal, so to speak, and powered through the adding up of receipts. Probably made alot of mistakes but I Have an overriding writeoff of Will’s medically necessary school that trumps any other writeoffs…so, I made it under the wire, and Im so relieved to have it off my list!!
I did it with a baby parrot walking up and down my arm and trying to bite the receipts, so that was fun. This little guy really likes to play.
I agree, CK. I thought it was great. That’s why I think that if people would take a risk and produce it, people would listen. But, as Hi says, these radio execs don’t give shit about the listeners.
I have mine just about set to go, but my government stipend is taxable income, and I don’t have ther heart to add it in and see how much I owe just yet. Since we’ve got until the 17th, I think I’ll let it slide for a few more days.
:banana:sweet bruce lee documentary on a&e!
I like Celestial Seasonings…maybe that lurker can let us know whats up with the Irish Breakfast Tea in the north east. I actually thought it was due to St Patrick’s day at first, then they changed the boxes of twinings…and now there is a place but no boxes…
Meantime, celestial seasonings is great in the basic teas but can get way, way too fancy…such as caramel spice…huh?
I wait in a certain waiting room quite a bit (for Will) and the Dr there who is in charge of the tea is very interested in the most bizarre CS teas…and often there is no regular tea available…not even Lipton!! But then, give me a good coupon and Ill try anything!!
I liked Bill Maher’s idea last night. He said he’s filing a joint return this year. He’s gonna sent them a joint, with a note that says, “if you think I’m paying for this war, you must be stoned.”
My mother-in-law grows her own stuff, and her peppermint tea is pretty good. Unfortunately, the house is usually so damn warm (well, compared to ours; we tend to keep it pretty cool here), I don’t feel like drinking hot stuff.
PJ, do you have the shows on CD?
I just downloaded a bunch…and fans gave me the only Inner Sanctums that exist (from Lipton Tea wax records because the networks didnt save anything in those days and wire and then tape were scarce during the war…?) .
Ive been burning some for Kat and listening to them…theyre great. Stuff form 1945 that holds up great, except for the hokey organ music breaks….
Hes got piles of scripts and I need to try to get into the storage room and see whats there before he gives more archives to some school….
My mother-in-law grows her own stuff
PJ, this intro on the heels of your previous post almost knocked me out of my chair!
:bong:
No, I don’t have the shows saved. My NPR station plays OTR 8 – midnight every night – I should probably use the ReplayAV to record it, since I rarely get to listen these days. They play some great stuff, but some real shit, too. They played this show once (sponsored by Hartz) where what must have been 47,538 freakin’ canaries or something “sang” song after song after song. I can’t believe anybody would actually listen to this shit. It sounded like you were stuck in an Alfred Hitchcock movie. And it went on and on and on.
Lotta singin’ shit in those old radio shows, too. I’m not much for the singin’ shit. I like the funny or the scary or the creepy. Gunsmoke was good, too (way better than the teevee show, which I never really cared for). And Have Gun, Will Travel. And, well, OK, I’ll shut up now.
I wish, CK. She’d probably grow some good stuff, too. But I have a career in the Federal Gubberment ahead of me, so I must remain pure.
Convicted? Nope. Never convicted . . .
It was just a funny segue, is all.
Every time I see the word “teevee” spelled out, I think of that kid from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
:nod:oh hey there is a new buffalo beast up so uh yep go check it out!
Cool pic
i was reading about the homecoming zombie movie joe dante did about the dea soldiers coming back to life and i thought about a zombie movie i remembered seeing once watching late night cable so i finally found it on imdb its called cemetery man i remembered it being different and funny and so i was reading the memorable quotes and these are just great so i thought i would share!
[On discovereing Gnaghi burning old phone books]
Francesco Dellamorte: Just because we’ve got the new ones doesn’t mean we have to throw old ones away . . . these books are classics!
——————————————————————————–
[Francesco is on the phone. There’s a knock at the door.]
Francesco Dellamorte: Hold on a minute Franco.
[He opens the door. A zombie businessman is standing there. Francesco shoots him in the head]
Francesco Dellamorte: You were saying, Franco.
Franco: No, no nothing. Just calling to see how you are.
Francesco Dellamorte: Oh, you know how things are. Life goes on.
Oh yeah, the Oswego NPR station kept playing Hi’s shows after their last deal ended…its been years and we still hear that the shows are playing up there.
He is now dealing with NPR again…and Ive had an ongoing thing with XM which seems to not be happening…
The stuff that they have is drek, like the New Twilight Zone, sponsored by Serlings wife…its just stiff.
huh what about the xm?
:banana:mmmmmmmm food network!
has anybody else seen the cemetery man movie?
They’re playing them illegally? Shame on them. Actually, I haven’t listened in a couple of years, execept a little on my way home from class (I always seem to get 12 minutes of Selected Shorts). I remember they did play the RMTs with Himan instead of EG Marshall, but I don’t know what they’re playing now. I think their schedule is online someplace. I will always be grateful to that show for teaching me how to pronounce “macabre.”
Not Maron on XM, seanie…XM wants to put one of my grandfather’s series on Sonic, but he is disappointed in what theyve got there and hasnt decided if thats where he wants to be…
Melina, does Marc know about your grandfather?
I would think he would be very interested.
Ah, Rod Serling. Yet another fine Central New Yorker. I think we’re going to have to disavow any connection to Tom Cruise now, though.
Back in the 70’s I worked with a couple of guys that would go out to another employees farm (her husband was a farmer) and plant, you know, “seeds” and then go back to harvest their crop. I think she was “hip” to what they were doing but she never let on. Very cool 😎
:omg:oh god they just had the little scumbag im taping my teacher to get him fired kid from colorado on cspan
oh sonic ugh yeah that station isnt very good if it was i wouldnt need to buy audiobooks!
I knew a guy near here who had a ton of land, and he let some guy plant corn on part of it, for part of the crop. One day he was out walking in the corn field, and realized the guy had planted forty rows of something extra along with the corn. He was pretty pissed, what with it being right next to the road and all. Not that he didn’t harvest it, of course. Pretty powerful stuff, especially when accompanied by a mason jar of his home brew. Spent a few nights passed out drooling on his couch.
ha ha bad affleck movies are amusing!
The torrent for Thursday nights show is up at
http://www.mininova.org/tor/275333
here long krugman article good stuff yep
Huh? Home brew and home grown smoke! Wow…:omg: Yeah, that will make ya drool for a while.
What kind of Fed job are we talkin’ about, PJ?
You’re probably going after the homeland security predators:hubba: Um, over the internet.
AAR has yesterdays Springer with Paul Hacket on. He doesn’t like anything. Didn’t sound like he would be for McKinney playing congress a concerto on a Chicago Piano though. Hacket and Rhodes should have a yelling at each other contest. When you have a tightly contested election you should have the democratic candidate be a talk show host on AAR for a day or two. That would bring out a lot of things that wouldn’t be obvious from what they would say in campaign speeches.
oh shit they are gonna use an atomic bomb!
Hey, I wouldnt call any of my friends homeland security and internet in the same sentence…funny how that has bad connotations these days.
Yes, illegal. The deal with NPR back some yars was that Hi would take out EG Marshall and out himself in, which was easy enough to do. The purists were furious, but hell, whatever the reason, having to do with EG’s peple or that Hi just wanted to be out front for once…whatever…
But that one station up there refuses to cease and desist…They certainly dont have all the shows as there are over 1600 so they replay whatever.
If it has EG Marshall on it then they are just plain stealing it form one of the fan groups that shares shows…
Im always of the mind that back when it was feasible, Hi didnt want to sell CDs, and now its so out there that its hardly worth it. The fans have kept the stuff alive and the dont sell it. Its the people on ebay and amazon who sell it for profit that bother me. They are very nasty and the only way to deal with them is to let the inner fraud part handle it.
I prefer for this stuff to be available at this point and it probably wold be except that Hi feels really burned by people who are profitting from it.
Fer instance, Sirius has a channel that is leasing Inner Sanctum from radio Spirits….Now, Radio Spirits tried to buy and lease the shows for years and Hi didnt want to do business with them for a number of reasons. So, they just took the shows and leased them to Sirius…go figure…
Hi just found out and has referred it to his lawyers…but those iner sanctums only exist because Lipton was counting their spots or something…they are still under copyright and Radio Spirits have no business leasing them out, considering they know Hi….whatever…it really sucks…the lawyer bills are worse that the possible loss….and no one cares about honesty anymore..
Case in point, our Prez and Vice-prez…
Why should anyone have any integrity if you can just change the rules to suit you whenever it occurs to you.
:barf:scumbags!
im reading reviews of the larry the cable guy movie!:rofl2:
Well, I dunno. I’m obligated to do two years in the information security area (they call it “Information Assurance”) somewhere in the Federal Government, or for a “quasi” federal agency (for instance, I’m working at the Smithsonian this summer). It’s part of the CyberCorps program, started by Richard Clark. Info Assurance is a pretty broad area. A lot of the “kids” work for the CIA or NSA, or military. Lots work for the GAO. I got some followup calls from the USDOT-HAz Mat agency and the US Senate Sargeant at Arms (which sounded pretty cool, actually), plus the Lawrence Livermore Labs. There a lab out in the Pacific Northwest that does envrionmental reseach (new technologies and stuff) that would be cool, too. Some of these jobs have really intense background checks and stuff (polygraphs, interviews with old neighbors and college roomates, credit checks, all kinds fo stuff).
Right now, I’m thinking the USDA would be cool, since they have offices in every county in the US, and I really don’t see a way I can afford to live in DC – especially if I have to live away from my family. This summer will be bad enough, and I’m gonna really miss my dog. Oh, and my wife, too. 😉
Now that my life has calmed down somewhat, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to our Seditionists reunion.
(Doesn’t look like anyone’s posted to the Seditionists Unite page since January, so I figured I’d muse over here.)
I kinda like PJ’s idea, and I quoteth:
(My one and only camping experience has left me scarred for life, however, so I’m not too keen on the sleeping-in-tents stuff. But we can jump off that bridge when we come to it.)
From my brief (so far) research, I was thinking our best bet (at least on the East Coast) might be in Pennsylvania somewhere. But the big question is, how much money would anyone be willing to spend for accommodations? There are quite a few reasonably priced retreat centers on the NY/PA/NJ border–but reasonable is a relative term and I don’t want to price anyone out.
Anyway, I’m really just musing and wondering if folks are even still interested in this? (I mean, there’s something to be said for the mystery of only knowing one another in cyberspace!)
:rofl2:It’d be tempting to call Larry the Ernest of his generation, but that’d be a grave insult to Jim Varney’s enduring legacy. Compared to Larry—a grating, baby-faced butterball with all the magnetism and charisma of an Applebee’s night manager—Varney was the second coming of Jimmy Stewart. Laughing at this turkey might not necessarily make you a redneck, but it sure does make you easily amused.
Well, I know they have a huge collection of their own, most of it donated from a woman – can’t think of her name; Elaine Robinson, maybe? For years, they’ve been in the process of cleaning them up and getting them into digital format, but all the original stuff is on tape (every now and again, they’d have to do an emergency splice).
:rofl2:When Brian Herzlinger asked one of his mentors what he thought of his quest to have dinner with Drew Barrymore in the documentary My Date with Drew, Brian’s confidant replied, “The dumbing-down of America is now complete.” Perhaps he should have waited until the release of Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, a film providing more than enough evidence to support that argument.
sorry i know you people dont get the perverse pleasure that i do of reading people trash larry the cable guy but then again you people dont have to hear all the boneheaded truck drivers telling you how funny he is and how much they like his comedy because he is so real and its reality comedy blah blah blah fucking stupid redneck fucks!
Well, tent sites at commercial campgrounds are probably in the $20 a day range. Cabins are maybe $50’ish, give or take, and depending and all that. State parks are usually cheaper, often much nicer, and possibly hard to book this close to the season.
I think two whatnots in one paragraph is excessive. I’ll have to go and edit that entry.
I’m too tired to even think, let alone type. Sorry for the delayed response.(shortness too):doh:
Yeah, um, PJ’s going to be part of the MAN.:paranoid: I’ve never been involved in anything illegal, like piracy, ever. Nope. Just throwin’ that out there.
yeah pj’s job is gonna be to monitor seditionists!
You older :sheep:le shouldn’t be sleeping in tents!Wait…Kahn, you can bring your air-mattress from camp Otis.
:rofl2::rofl2:
MORE
via http://www.rawstory.com
:fist:checkout time!
THE IRAN PLANS
Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Hersh unfortunately usually knows what he is talking about.. I think the sale on shovels at ACE Hardware is over.
if only surviving christmas had embraced its spiral into horrible crap happening! ugh would have been classic!
“If we go [to war with Iran], the southern half of Iraq will light up like a candle:cake:,” the adviser is quoted as telling The New Yorker.
A couple days ago I was flipping channels on the ol’ tube (no digital) and I came across some religious nuts on the religious nut’s channel. They were discussing the use of laser guided bunker-buster missles on about 8 or so sites in Iran. One of the Crazzies even said he had sources in “hight places”:bong: in government that confirmed this would happen soon. Like usual there was a book that had to go along with this dis-infomercial on how to save yourself and your “kind”. Anyway, I forgot where I was goin’ with this:doh: Oh, yeah, um…nope. Forgot again.
Could we actually have a progressive hosting the Today Show?
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/003063.html
Gee, you’d think he’d have something a little better.
Hey, do the rest of youse notice the change of yahoo’s homepage, or is that just the hackers messin’ with my computer?
Well, if they do send you young people off to war with Iran, rest assured I’ll put a ribbon magnet on my car to show how much I support you. Just so long as they don’t waste any of my tax dollars on body and vehicle armor fot y’all.
Now that is a brilliant idea!:idea:
Well, that’s why I’m here
How is Missouri, ISI?
Sorry, I’m out! later, sheeple. I don’t know when to stop, I guess. I’ll go peek into the world of Benny Hinn or something. Didn’t mean to clog the blog :bow:
Partly sunny 😎 and 43 degrees.
Ah, it’s not just Internet traffic, but all the voice traffic, too.
Air mattress? I need a real bed and electricity!! I am no camper…but I will go to a cabin or motel! If its hot I will need air conditioning. I hate to sound high maintence but Im just too damned OLD to sleep in a tent!
It just depends on when it is because Will has to have surgery in the beginning of the summer (after the origami convention in NYC at the end of June, of course. He will be in double casts for 6 weeks and then in serious PT for 6 weeks at least….so, in a world where hes never been apart from me and not really ready to start, I have to bring him along…
Usually we get a place on the cape for a week. My uncle lives up there and is an independent commercia fisherman. Its where Ive been goign for my whole life.
The do have rentals that are petty reasonable that sleep like 16-20 people with bunk houses and all. But, my problem with this year is that Will in casts and sand probably doesnt mix. My cousin married a guy last year who owns a place with little rustic cabins on a lake in Chatham. Its not beachfront and its pretty rustic, for my taste….again, I have the problem of Will…who is very sensitive with some sensory integration thing and can be a real complainer because everything feels worse to him…discomfort is not his thing, unless its in lacrosse.
I am horrified by this ATT thing…how can this be possible?..but then how is it possible for Bush to be such an idiot to that guy who questioned him the other day? I was just listening to Thurs Marc Maron show and the part about the guy…unbeleivable. I have to read the blof to see what the godless soldier was saying. Imagine being over there and having the commander in chief acting like a clown idiot monkey (sorry, that gives monkeys a bad name!)?
Doesnt he take anything seriously?
Im gonna listen to MR from last night…
Was the fill in guy for Marc any good? I didnt save it because I have enough content here already…why borrow trouble?
I was just up in Bedford NY and its hailing and snowing there!
My father sent me a Scooba floor washer robot…am gonna set it up and try to put the new HD in the laptop…
Read more here.
As someone who deals with digital data I have to wonder.
1 it seems kind of unlikely that ATT has just one center that deals with all International and domestic traffic routing.
2. The way the digital data is multiplexed onto the fibre cables or the up links to satellites you get a header then maybe five data samples ( probably at like 100us per sample) then there are 200,000 packets for other people then another 100 us sample .. To listen for identifiers in the data stream you would have to reassemble two or three seconds of each call and look for some signature phrase.. That sounds like you would need five CRAY IV’s working on the data in just that one center. ( the Lynde truck filling up the LH2 tanks every 2 days would be a give away).
Then once you found something to listen to you would have to write hundreds of megabytes to disk. Then someone has to play it back to see what was really said.. Sounds like a bunch of hype to me.
hmmmm panera bread wont let me look at the rod serling link it says it is blocked because of cult/occult i think i will see if i can go to scientology sites then!
yep they let me go to scientology sites! hmmmm this stuff doesnt seem so bad………
Blocked access to Rod Serling. Yet, ready access to scientology ? That is total :crap:
im kinda digging this scientology stuff i wonder if i can meet travolta if i join………
“When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia [sic] and bribe the police.”
– L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 12 February 1967, “The Responsibilities of Leaders”
sweet scientology says to kill republicans or make them democrats!well at least that is my interpretation:grin:
“The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.”
– L. Ron Hubbard, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, p. 170
[The “Tone Scale” is Scientology’s measure of mental and spiritual health.]
see^ that says “delete” republicans!
“THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.”
– L. Ron Hubbard, “Off the Time Track,” lecture of June 1952, excerpted in JOURNAL OF SCIENTOLOGY issue 18-G, reprinted in TECHNICAL VOLUMES OF DIANETICS & SCIENTOLOGY, vol. 1, p. 418
“Scientology…is not a religion.”
– L. Ron Hubbard, CREATION OF HUMAN ABILITY, 1954, p. 251
yep im not “enrolling” ever!
“When somebody enrolls, consider he or she has joined up for the duration of the universe – never permit an ‘open-minded’ approach… If they enrolled, they’re aboard, and if they’re aboard they’re here on the same terms as the rest of us – win or die in the attempt. Never let them be half minded about being Scientologists… When Mrs. Pattycake comes to us to be taught, turn that wandering doubt in her eye into a fixed, dedicated glare… The proper instruction attitude is, ‘We’d rather have you dead than incapable.’”
– L. Ron Hubbard, KEEPING SCIENTOLOGY WORKING, 7 February 1965, reissued 27 August 1980
ha someone should tell chef and cruise its not a religion!
Well, according to this witness in the ATT thing, he’s “learned from a co-worker that similar cabinets were being installed in other cities, including Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego.”
That’s just on the West Coast – no doubt there are plenty more. I don’t know how much voice and data they manage to sample and analyze, but they don’t need to get it all – just do the best they can.
Packet shapers can handle a shitload of traffic and make pretty sophisticated decisions about what it is (and they’re relatively cheap – imagine what the NSA can afford). I don’t know what the NSA has, but I bet they have some pretty good shit. Presumably they could fairly easily ferret out, say, e-mail traffic and then analyze it.
As for voice traffic, I don’t know what sort of algorithms they’d need to run against it. Maybe they just grab and analyze a random sampling to see what they get. They can always do more as technology improves.
I remember reading a paper someplace that said there was up to 140,000 TB per month of data traffic on the US backbones in 2002, and it was doubling every year, which (if tht has continued) would get us up to, what about 2 million TB a month at this point. That’s a lot of data, and I’d doubt they could capture and analyze every bit of it – today. Especially in realtime.
Voice traffic (local and interstate) in 2000 was 430,000 TB per month. I’m sure it’s more now, but I don’t think voice traffic has grown at the same rate as Internet data traffic. It’s a massive amount of data to grab and analyze, though.
I don’t see storage as an issue. Hell, I can buy the iZilla for $700 with 4-500MB HDDs in it (imagine what the NSA can buy with our money).
Cisco has what they call the largest extended SAN infrastructure, with four data centers, 64 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces supporting two cross-country Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) links, and 1.5 petabytes (PB) of SAN attached storage. Google supposedly has upwards of 5 petabytes of storage. Imagine what the government has tucked away under a mountain somewhere.
Katie Holmes must be out of her mind!
Yeah, he didn’t learn that Scientology shit here in Syracuse, that’s for sure. We don’t play that. He shoulda gone to Grace Jones’ father’s church.
they have a church of scientology place in downtown buffalo it kinda creeps me out when i think about how many times i walked past it when i was young and impressionable! what if i had gotten curious?
pb’s? how much is that?
A lot. Like, 10 to the 15.
craziness!
SCIENTOLOGY?????
:omg::paranoid::shock:
**runs and hides**
Looks like Bush is going to keep starting wars until he wins one!:eek:
I read that Cruise is next in line for being the grand poobah of Scientology. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a Hale Bopp Comet type excursion from these folks.
Someone should get Katie into deprogramming .:shock:
dude you cant get out they will kill you its one of their commandments or something!
yeah so i decided not to argue with the guy myself and let krugman do the arguing for me because lets face it krugman is an economist and i am a truck driver anyway so uh yep after claiming to be a “libertarian” because it makes him sleep better at night the guy wrote this “I’ll get into a detailed analysis of Mr. Krugman’s blather in a while.” which should be infinitely amusing
:nod:
it might not be that collecting the data is impossible it would be the analysis that’s not possible by humans. We take probably 10 gigabytes of dynamic data on process machinery each month, The data is analysed by canned software and MATLAB programs by three people to try and predict failures in process equipment before they happen. The data taken for each transfer stage, positioning unit, heating/cooling, and pumping system is essentially the same and is all numeric in engineering units of some type. What they end up doing is comparing this weeks data to last weeks data via batch processes and then only do analysis on it if some gross change takes place simply because there is not enough time to allow all of it to be processed. I would think trying to listen to voice or process phrases in email messages in any automated way would be almost impossible so a person would have to listen and translate in many cases to see what was actually said or written. Unless the 33% that still favor Bush are the raving lunatics doing this job I doubt that more than .001% of any data they might collect is ever listened to /read
they have a church of scientology place in downtown buffalo it kinda creeps me out when i think about how many times i walked past it when i was young and impressionable! what if i had gotten curious?
Comment by SeanMS — April 8, 2006 @ 4:04 pm
Sean, if you’re ever in Florida, go to downtown Clearwater, where their headquarters is located. Hang out downtown around lunch time, and you will see hundreds of Scientology workers walking the streets (OK, actually the sidewalks) in their matching blue suits. It’s a little creepy.
Although some of the women do look kinda hot. Sorry, but I had to say it. :hubba:
Pam, I may not be able to get to Sarasota (transportation issues), but any dirt I’m able to dig up concerning the McKinney/Harris wrestling match will be dished on this blog ASAP. Count on it.
And PJ, you know that rack is store-bought, right? (Not that most guys necessarily give a shit, usually including me.)
Insert your own inflation-is-good wisecrack here.
:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
BOUNCE YOUR BOOBIES!!!
IMPEACHMENT!!!
VIGILANCE!!!
:fire::fire::fire:
What they can do today and what they’ll be able to in a few years are two different things. The NSA hires a shitload of people from the CyberCorps program every year (word has it that they offer jobs to pretty much everybody who applies, because only one in five or so make it through the clearance process). You have your hard-core programmer types that write the nifty algorithms and special software, and then you have your analyst types, that sit there and run signals intelligence through to see what they come up with.
More likely than not, they run what they can, and then narrow the focus based on whatever gets flagged. It might not actually flag any real threats, of course, but they’d never admit that. God help you if you happen to get flagged by their stupid software. I mean, nobody ever tells people how they got on the no-fly list, and they can’t ever seem to get off of it, either.
But my concern is more that, with all this in place, let’s say you stand up at a town hall meeting, and say, “Mr. President, you ought to be ashamed of yourself,” and then the preznit goes to the NSA and says, get everything you have on this fucking guy, and take him down. Then your whole life and every thing you write, do, buy, read, or say starts getting intercepted with no court order, no warrant, not even any attempt at a lame justification.
so another fascism fan decided to drop in on my little tax policy dispute this guys a total fucking moron and working towards an mba to boot no scratch that hes a total fucking asshole without compassion!
Personally, I could give a f..k less about economic policies, I focus on my own personal wealth, i.e. getting an MBA so that I can get a better job and also become a better investor.
Manufacturing jobs go to China; sucks if you’re a union worker – great if you own shares in an Xinhua China 25 Index fund.
Gas prices going up; cost of goods goes up and it costs an arm and a leg to fill up -great if you own energy stocks.
I could go on and on. But most people concern themselves with who the next American Idol will be, rather than learning something new. They save their money, or use credit, to buy a bigger television, rather than invest.
I’m sure this rant will receive replies, I will be depicted as a corporate a-hole.
I see the world for what it is and adapt in order to succeed, rather than spend my time fantasizing about what it could be.
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Why is tyhe anti-war movement so lame in the US?
CounterPunch Diary
If Only They’d Hissed Barack Obama
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
What a contrast between the French demonstrations and the vast and exciting marches here against proposed immigration laws, as against the limp turnouts against the U.S. war on Iraq!
Across a few explosive weeks the first two series of protests have surged up in numbers and political impact. In France earlier this week there were a million on the streets. Just in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago, half a million. In Paris Dominique de Villepin, the author of the hated law loosening curbs on employers’ right to fire new hires, is fighting for his political life. In Congress, (U.S. senators revised the language of their bill in step with the magnitude and passion of the rallies.
Meanwhile, though two out of three here in the U.S.A. disapprove of the war in Iraq there’s no energetic political leadership from above, no irresistible shove from below. . .
http://www.counterpunch.org
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:joe::omg::joe::nixon:
ok well im out later sheeple!
courtesy of jeffy the penguin and president bush
the anti-war movement is so lame because you friggin liberals are a bunch of pussy ass surrender monkies ha if you suckers had half the testicles of us republicans you would have a majority in the congress right now! but (switch from jeffy the penguins voice to bush’s voice here) you are too busy conducting studies instead of just letting the marketplace of ideas dictate what you do see thats why we republicans are in the majority we do what the marketplace wants because in a free market when markets are free you can use the ideas and make them better ideas therefore consequentially the ideas will be better and better ideas make you better so then you can be a majority party you see its simple economics of of the heart and when i say heart i mean it with every fiber of my well yes you know i remember there is an old saying ideas can never be destroyed and i think that is apt here because in the marketplace of ideas there is vast capital which i intend to spend that way we can have a budget that more closely reflects my vision because as you all know im a visionary which means that i can see so therefore the future is bright for america god bless america and good night
(after bush thinks the mics are off) hey can you guys get me some good homegrown stuff maybe a jar of moonshine while youre at it ok thx a lot scottie make sure you hurry up!
I’m with Melina on camping. I want a real hotel with a real bed.
Sean, if you become a Scientologist, we will send someone out there to kidnap and deprogram you. I kid you not. :spank:
Uh-oh. A monster rabbit is on the loose in England.
Melina,
Thanks for the Hi Brown interview.