ZIn your router (if your use one) or your windows networking, assuming you use DHCP or even static IP, there is an option for the DNS server.

You have to give two. If it is DHCP then it gets it straight from the ISP (type ipconfig /all at a command prompt)

You can make the first one the OpenDNS ip address and the second one your ISP. The second one is only used if the first DNS server does not respond or cannot find "hotgerbilaction.org"

Anyways, the reason to use your ISPs is that is it technically closer so less hops to resolve a name and tell you an IP address. But then again it depends on how many customers are using it and how dumb they are and if they have infected spam running tons of DNS requests. So use OpenDNS and it will probably be faster etc. Now I don't technically knwo they are not some marketing/ FBI operation recording all your websurfing, but then again I know AT&T and verizon ARE in fact doing this anyways, so it really doesn't matter much anymore.


In reply to this comment by silvercord:
You are a wealth of knowledge regarding the Internet. Is this what you do for a living? I always appreciate your input even though I don't understand all of it. Thanks.




In reply to this comment by joedirt:
Here's a tip.

I recommend using OpenDNS to circumvent your ISP. One, they are faster, two they have much better caches, three they don't block sites at random.

https://www.opendns.com/start
Our nameservers are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220.

It's free, just make sure your ping/tracert is pretty low to get to their servers.

You are a wealth of knowledge regarding the Internet. Is this what you do for a living? I always appreciate your input even though I don't understand all of it. Thanks.




In reply to this comment by joedirt:
Here's a tip.

I recommend using OpenDNS to circumvent your ISP. One, they are faster, two they have much better caches, three they don't block sites at random.

https://www.opendns.com/start
Our nameservers are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220.

It's free, just make sure your ping/tracert is pretty low to get to their servers.

Here's a tip.

I recommend using OpenDNS to circumvent your ISP. One, they are faster, two they have much better caches, three they don't block sites at random.

https://www.opendns.com/start
the nameservers are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220.
just change your DNS servers in Windows Networking TCP/IP options

It's free, just make sure your ping/tracert is pretty low to get to their servers.

I opened tons of ports and even put my computer in the DMZ so it could send/receive anything unmolested. The problem, though, is not one of access, but location. No matter how your router allows the computer to communicate, there's nothing it can do to give the computer itself a public IP.

That's really the sole problem, the lack of a public IP on your computer. So you know what else I've tried: I attempted to specify my public ip on the srcds.exe commands line (-ip 111.222.333.444) but srcds will not run because it cannot bind your to that address because it is not associated with your ethernet adapter. So I manually added my public IP as an address on my adapter. Then srcds would startup and report my public IP as defined on the command line, but it could not communicate with the Steam servers. After a couple of hours I found that it was because the packets where coming from a computer reporting the public IP and not a LAN IP (192.168...).

So it's a bit of a catch 22.

Fyi, a hub is an extremely simple/cheap piece of dumb hardware. It's basically equivalent to a splitter you would use for your TV or an electrical power strip, except for CAT5 cables.

Yaroslavvb - quite an interesting point you have, that the impact of a horrible insurance system/health care system should show in the national death rates.

Just for your information, this one comment of yours sparked a call this morning, a call by myself to the department in charge of the CIA's World Factbook to inquire about the representation of the figures you quoted. I will post a CSV file, along with a SQL database when I am finished, but I recommend that you do not blindly use figures that you have not actually looked into the relevance of.

In other words, by your logic, we have the 104th, out of the 222 countries surveyed within the CIA World Factbook, WORST health care system in the world, or the 118th best(again, out of the 222 countries surveyed within the CIA World Factbook) healthcare system in the world(please note that Canada and Cuba, which do have "free, universal healthcare" have a lower death rate than we do - although their healthcare system is irrelevant to that statistic.).

As I've stated above, I will post the CSV and SQL tables of the CIA's World Factbook when I am done. The CSV's analysis, which I intend to contain with the SQL file, as a PDF in the package, will explain just what the death rate DOES correlate to. You shouldn't be surprised to know that it has literally NOTHING whatsoever to do with the quality of health care in a nation.

Now, as for "Given your anti-tax stance...," - you misconstrue my words again - I am not "anti-tax" as you generalize, I am "anti"(or rather, "opposed to") illegal taxes. If you'd gladly turn to U.S.C. Title 26, you can read who IS actually taxable, and if you read through the entire Title, and all subsections, you'll find that it does NOT define the majority of American workers as being taxable - only those that engage in international commerce, which is within the bounds(defined by the United States Constitution) of the Federal branch of the government to do.

Besides that fact, alone - had the Federal branch of the government chosen to spend much of my tax dollars on Universal Health Care, and had actually amended the Constitution as per the methods outlined within it, to ALLOW them to do so(with the consent of the other member states, of course), I doubt that I, or much of anybody else, would have looked into the technicalities of Title 26 to find out how it defined a taxpayer...

...but the Federal branch did NOT. INSTEAD, what they did was use the money gained from my paychecks to pay the interest on loans to a bank that should be under their control(as per the Constitution, and within their power), and to send my brother and sister to Afghanistan, Iraq, Bahrain, and Egypt.

At this point, you could say that I am quite dissuaded with civilization(I imagine, quite like the Anasazi, even).

I have never stated anything about going "without access to modern medicine and nutrition" - again, you generalize the terms I am using.

I imagine that, in your mind, you see tribalism as a form of societal organization to be feared, that it would somehow mean struggling and strife, and a "new age-ist return to nature" - in that case, you are more than misguided - you have not actually considered tribalism to be nothing more than a form of societal organization.

You are generalizing, from the same history books that you have been taught by, to believe that, somehow, tribalism = life of mud, hunting, gathering, and strife.

That is so far from what I am saying, that I will not address your "hunter-gatherer groups" reference, but instead will point you to a book you should read.

The book is named "Beyond Civilization" by "Daniel Quinn." In it, he outlines ways that the human race can return to forms of tribalism, and still be able to utilize, and even expand upon, the knowledge we have gained in our misguided attempt to hold up a civilization that does not help us.

If you can not yet see, I reference "tribalism" and "civilization" without innuendo, as precisely the things they are - methods of organizing humans to work together.

In one, namely "civilization," there is very little room for individual advances and exploration of interest, except by years of standardized testing, that spend more time testing the things a person is NOT interested in.

In the other, namely "tribalism/new tribalism," the tribes themselves are formed of individuals that are tasked to advance and explore things that they ARE interested in, of their own individual choice.

Neither of them would be a "utopia," but only one of them allows room for the individual to do the advancement of self and exploration they CHOOSE to do, in most of the cases.

In our current system, only one student out of every generation of students in a given school district ever gets to the point that they are accredited enough to perform the role they have chosen. That statistic is from the Department of Education's own website, cited as though it were something GOOD!

I know of very few people that want to become a cashier for Wal-Mart or K-Mart or Home Depot when they get into the workforce, even though much of them don't have a choice in the matter. That is the way the "civilized" method of organization works.

That is why it is such a tremendous failure, for most of the individuals participating in it.

As I have stated above, when I am finished with the statistics within the CIA World Factbook, I will post them here, most likely as a zip package. Until then, you may either do the same, as the statistics within the factbook are public and updated on the CIA's website once every 2 weeks, or you may wait for my package to be posted, and refute my analysis then.

"The child eats 10,000 calories a day, she cannot walk or bear physical strain and his cardiovascular system is at risk.

Seven-year-old Jessica Gaude differs greatly from her pals. With 222 kilograms, she is the fattest child in the world.
She eats 10,000 calories each day in Coca-Colas, 15 hamburgers with fries and several kilograms of chocolate. What she eats in one day some children eat in half a year. Her breakfast consists of white bread, potato chips and two litres of coke. And she wants more...."

http://www.fun-on.com/weird.php

I couldn't find an English version

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but then calvados could so i replaced it with his/her find
props to calvados!!

Authorized illegal wire taps:
Latest News: 8/18/06 - In response to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU, US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled that the wiretaps are unconstitutional.

1. The Bush wiretaps violated US law because he was required to get approval from FISA. He can start a wiretap of a suspected terrorist at any time but must then seek approval to continue within 72 hours.
2. Attorney General Gonzales claims HJR114 gave Bush authority to conduct the wiretaps. But HJR114 only grants use of the "Armed Forces". HJR114 does not explicitly suspend the Constitution. Also HJR114 requires "The President shall, at least once every 60 days, submit to the Congress a report on matters relevant to this joint resolution, including actions taken pursuant to the exercise of authority granted in section 3". Congress was not notified of these wiretaps. [HJR114]
3. Bush may have bypassed FISA because he wanted to listen to and analyze all international signals, not just those of suspected terrorists. He knew this was blatantly illegal so he hid it. Bush says "We use FISA still. But FISAs is for long-term monitoring. What is needed in order to protect the American people is the ability to move quickly to detect." Then later "There is a difference between detecting, so we can prevent, and monitoring. And it's important to note the distinction between the two." The distinction is that "detecting" requires listening to lots of calls with a computer to see if someone says certain keywords like "bomb" in Arabic, or maybe even "impeach Bush" in English. Monitoring is listening to a specific suspected terrorist. The problem with detection is that you have to listen to all calls, including yours and mine. [This NY Times article confirms this interpretation. Also CNN.]
4. More evidence that Bush wants to listen to all signals is in Bob Woodward's book "Bush at War," on page 303. " Bush summarized his strategy: 'Listen to every phone call and close them down and protect the innocents.'" [WaPost]
5. Investigators may have found that Bush applied for an expansion of wiretap capability from FISA, was rejected, and then went ahead and did it anyway. [FindLaw] [FAS]
6. Bush claims going through FISA is too slow but legal emergency wiretaps helped capture terrorist Mosquera.
7. According to a report in USA Today, the NSA is collecting the phone records of tens of millions of Americans - most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within the nation's borders. The stated goal is to be able to identify who is involved in a network of terrorists. But this same technique can be used to determine who is involved in a network of political activists who might, for example, oppose the Bush administration. Under Section 222 of the Communications Act, first passed in 1934, telephone companies are prohibited from giving out information regarding their customers' calling habits. All of the major telecommunications companies cooperated with this program except for Qwest. Joe Nacchio, CEO of Qwest, was troubled by the fact that there was no FISA approval and that the program was so pervasive.
8. 8/18/06 - In response to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU, US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled that the wiretaps are unconstitutional.

Other crimes:
# Bush violated the Geneva Convention by torturing prisoners of war.
# Bush violated International Law by invading a sovereign country for illegal purposes.
# Bush held prisoners without formal charges and without legal representation. [CNN]
# Bush illegally used government funds for domestic political propaganda related to the administration's Medicare package, paying commentator Armstrong Williams, etc. [NYT, requires free registration] TruthOut: [1] [2] [3]
# Bush used uniformed military personnel for Republican party political purposes. [TalkingPointsMemo] [Coloradoan]
# Bush was negligent in his slow response to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.
# Bush shows contempt toward our Constitution and our democratic ideals.

-- compiled by anonymous source

This is a modified Fan Based Remix/Opening Sequence which being an original AIRWOLF fan, I really enjoyed. For those who wonder what ever did happen to the beautiful Helicopter... It was stripped of its weapons and gadgets and sold to a German leasing company. They leased it as an Air Ambulance that saved lives up until 1991 where during a thunderstorm, she met her fate and was destroyed in a helicopter crash.

Rumor has it that rabid fans have bits and pieces of the original and are rebuilding an exact model to have on display in a museum.

For those wondering, It's a Bell Triple 2B (222) designed by Nasa & the US Army back in the early 1980's.