Wednesday, December 28, 2005
What does it mean?
What does the March 2006 discontinuation of the M3 by the US Fed mean? What are they trying to hide? Does it have anything to do with the euro denominated Iranian Oil Bourse which also opens in March 2006? Is the Fed going to monetize the debt?
I'm becoming more and more nervous about things. I am mentally establishing trigger events which would spur me to buy cases of canned goods. I havent planned out much further than that other than the thought that food items could one day be worth more than gold -- and bartering with them would get you whatever you wanted -- like transportation out of the city. But as it has been pointed out to me, if things get that bad, I'll also need the ability to protect my stash, which scares the hell out of me as that means posession of firearms and ammunition.
So the discontinuation of the M3 makes me start thinkging more about guns. Is there something wrong with me?
I'm becoming more and more nervous about things. I am mentally establishing trigger events which would spur me to buy cases of canned goods. I havent planned out much further than that other than the thought that food items could one day be worth more than gold -- and bartering with them would get you whatever you wanted -- like transportation out of the city. But as it has been pointed out to me, if things get that bad, I'll also need the ability to protect my stash, which scares the hell out of me as that means posession of firearms and ammunition.
So the discontinuation of the M3 makes me start thinkging more about guns. Is there something wrong with me?
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Why pay for recorded music?
I have no idea. Just thinking of this stuff after seeing this story on slashdot about the WTO being on Russia's ass about them not giving a whit about American shit "Intellectual Property".
I have a problem with paying for recorded music. Once it is recorded, it is literally just a string of bits, infinitely replicable without any loss in quality. If it costs nothing to manufacture the copy that I want to obtain, which it doesnt if we dont involve any physical media, then what is the value added to the copy that would make me want to pay for it? There simply is none. I dont care to have a physical artifact, I just want to listen to the nice music. People like me will NOT accept the idea of paying for plain recorded music, especially when we also really dont want to have to deal with the physical media.
The only music I've paid for since 1996 has been live, and I expect that arrangement to continue indefinitely.
I have a problem with paying for recorded music. Once it is recorded, it is literally just a string of bits, infinitely replicable without any loss in quality. If it costs nothing to manufacture the copy that I want to obtain, which it doesnt if we dont involve any physical media, then what is the value added to the copy that would make me want to pay for it? There simply is none. I dont care to have a physical artifact, I just want to listen to the nice music. People like me will NOT accept the idea of paying for plain recorded music, especially when we also really dont want to have to deal with the physical media.
The only music I've paid for since 1996 has been live, and I expect that arrangement to continue indefinitely.
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Cogeco bandwidth police
So I had my Cogeco service suspended last night. Didnt find that out until I called tech support this morning to find out WTF was wrong with it. Merry effing Christmas, it was suspended for "excessive bandwidth use". ~30gb down, 80~gb up, which doesnt sound excessive to me. Well turns out their main beef is with the amount uploaded. So much for me trying to be a good seeder on my BT downloads, I'll have to make more of an effort to stop them at close to 1:1 ratio. If I show up on Cogeco's radar again I'll be facing a 72 hour suspension.
Fucking ISPs man. I guess I'm ahead of my time with the amount of data I want to just casually throw around. One day I'll have my dream wireless ultra-wideband high-speed symmetric take anywhere internet connection, and then I wont need Cogeco any more.
Fucking ISPs man. I guess I'm ahead of my time with the amount of data I want to just casually throw around. One day I'll have my dream wireless ultra-wideband high-speed symmetric take anywhere internet connection, and then I wont need Cogeco any more.
Sunday, December 04, 2005
Drop the debt money honey, cuz that shit aint funny.
This important 1996 exposee details the structure of the world money systems and how they operate, chronicling them from the before the founding of the Bank of England up until now. The key is that the money is backed by nothing but debt and the debt is being used as leverage to bleed the country dry. The film discusses monetary policy reform as the key solution. This viewer suggests straight abandonment of these debt money systems in favor of locally operated community currencies and exchnage systems. Both approaches would strike a blow to these money masters.
Set aside 3 hours to watch this film. Buy it on DVD from the link above, or if you are lacking in the area of money suck down a high quality DVD rip via mininova and BT.
Set aside 3 hours to watch this film. Buy it on DVD from the link above, or if you are lacking in the area of money suck down a high quality DVD rip via mininova and BT.
