http://videosift.com/video/Anonymous-Announces-Siege-on-the-Banks-Communique-1

http://ampedstatus.org/acts-of-resistance-what-are-you-going-to-do-on-june-14th-to-rebel-against-economic-tyranny/

http://ampedstatus.org/june-14th-economic-rebellion-update-%E2%80%93-this-is-what-decentralized-resistance-looks-like/

This Flag Day, Tuesday June 14th, we will launch a non-violent movement with this list of demands:

* End the campaign finance and lobbying racket
* Break up the Fed & Too Big to Fail banks
* Enforce RICO laws against organized criminal class
* Order Ben Bernanke to step down

>> ^honkeytonk73:

The middle east was once a center for science and knowledge. A cradle of knowledge that we owe MUCH to. Then the fundies gained in power. Now the middle east is in the technological and social outhouse with a grim outlook indeed. The US at this point can go either way. Go fundie and return to the middle ages, or come to it's senses and realize this mythology shit isn't the path to follow if society and science wants to evolve into something better for all mankind.


the decline and current state of the middle east has little to nothing to do with religion and practically everything to do with the Golden Horde, particularly the siege of baghdad in 1258. but we gotta demonize something right? religion it is

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>> ^Unaccommodated:

Hrrmm, doesn't feel right. "Restore rule of law"? I've always seen Anonymous as Chaotic Neutral, someone's not playing their character right.

I'd argue chaotic good.

>> ^Unaccommodated:

Hrrmm, doesn't feel right. "Restore rule of law"? I've always seen Anonymous as Chaotic Neutral, someone's not playing their character right.


Anonymous is nothing in particular. Its constituent parts are far too disparate in quality, intention, motivation, philosophy and character for any particular label or orientation to be correct.

Think of it like a cross-section of the internet. You've got some libertarian marxists, some catholics, some hacktivists, some pen-and-paper roleplayers, a sprinkling of psychopaths and more paedophiles than you'd ever want. Also, different "sorts" of Anonymous tend to gravitate towards different imageboards and a lot of the hacks down to a relatively small subsection of Anonymous which, generally, knows what it's doing. 4chan is less relevant than you'd think... It's just the biggest and, since 2007/8, is populated mostly by mental cases and children.

Now for some facts. I am a fan of facts. I just got this email from my extremely conservative Mormon brother, as part of an email exchange about the topic of scaling back the rhetoric:

I have a friend at Church who is pursuing his PhD in Political Science at UC Davis. I asked the question about the level of rhetoric because of your observations.

Poly Sci guys find ways to collect metrics and quantify everything. He stated that their metrics suggest this is the most divisive dialogue since the civil War.

I honestly didn't expect that answer. I thought it had always been bad and I was just not sensitive to the issue.







>> ^SuperHotbUNZ:

I couldnt agree more with the comment below
Look, we need to get some things straight:
1. There is no proven link between the shooter and any group. ANY group.
2. One can denounce the "gun targeting" fund raiser from an a priori standpoint.
3. The shooter met the Representative in 2007 long before Palin was on the national scene.
4. The shooter was from an economic class under siege, esp. in Arizona after the housing bust. He was booted from school for disruptive behavior, his economic future was bust.
5. If Palin et al. had such a potent effect, we should see daily if not multiple shootings per day, bombings, etc. given the 100s of millions of people she reaches via the media. These things happen for very personal reasons; politics, if it is involved, is just a fig leaf.
Bottom line: trying to score points off of a tragedy like this is the very mindset that puts us where we are as a nation. We need to unplug from the 24 hour news cycle and focus on our own here and now, and the people who are hurting and going unhelped.

I couldnt agree more with the comment below
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Look, we need to get some things straight:

1. There is no proven link between the shooter and any group. ANY group.

2. One can denounce the "gun targeting" fund raiser from an a priori standpoint.

3. The shooter met the Representative in 2007 long before Palin was on the national scene.

4. The shooter was from an economic class under siege, esp. in Arizona after the housing bust. He was booted from school for disruptive behavior, his economic future was bust.

5. If Palin et al. had such a potent effect, we should see daily if not multiple shootings per day, bombings, etc. given the 100s of millions of people she reaches via the media. These things happen for very personal reasons; politics, if it is involved, is just a fig leaf.

Bottom line: trying to score points off of a tragedy like this is the very mindset that puts us where we are as a nation. We need to unplug from the 24 hour news cycle and focus on our own here and now, and the people who are hurting and going unhelped.

This is NOT about taking sides. This is about the absurdity of using this kind of political rhetoric in campaigns. Any kind of calls to violence of this sort should be frowned upon. People need to be responsible for their words, and in this case, Palin's words just happened to be related to a random act of violence. This is not directly Palin's fault because both sides are at fault, but this is an example of what this kind of rhetoric can lead to and how dangerous it actually is.

>> ^TangledThorns:

The Left trying to pin this on Palin will only blow back in their face. Besides, the left have used this kind of imagery and rhetoric many times, see below, so stop the hypocrisy!
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/112823/


>> ^COriolanus:

Look, we need to get some things straight:
1. There is no proven link between the shooter and any group. ANY group.
2. One can denounce the "gun targeting" fund raiser from an a priori standpoint.
3. The shooter met the Representative in 2007 long before Palin was on the national scene.
4. The shooter was from an economic class under siege, esp. in Arizona after the housing bust. He was booted from school for disruptive behavior, his economic future was bust.
5. If Palin et al. had such a potent effect, we should see daily if not multiple shootings per day, bombings, etc. given the 100s of millions of people she reaches via the media. These things happen for very personal reasons; politics, if it is involved, is just a fig leaf.
Bottom line: trying to score points off of a tragedy like this is the very mindset that puts us where we are as a nation. We need to unplug from the 24 hour news cycle and focus on our own here and now, and the people who are hurting and going unhelped.

Look, we need to get some things straight:

1. There is no proven link between the shooter and any group. ANY group.

2. One can denounce the "gun targeting" fund raiser from an a priori standpoint.

3. The shooter met the Representative in 2007 long before Palin was on the national scene.

4. The shooter was from an economic class under siege, esp. in Arizona after the housing bust. He was booted from school for disruptive behavior, his economic future was bust.

5. If Palin et al. had such a potent effect, we should see daily if not multiple shootings per day, bombings, etc. given the 100s of millions of people she reaches via the media. These things happen for very personal reasons; politics, if it is involved, is just a fig leaf.

Bottom line: trying to score points off of a tragedy like this is the very mindset that puts us where we are as a nation. We need to unplug from the 24 hour news cycle and focus on our own here and now, and the people who are hurting and going unhelped.

Staircar!>> ^ryanbennitt:

I wonder how long it'll take for an enterprising Mexican to mount a staircase on a 4x4, with one of them explosive chutes they use to evacuate people from aircraft mounted on top. We've been building such siege engines to scale larger walls for thousands of years.

I wonder how long it'll take for an enterprising Mexican to mount a staircase on a 4x4, with one of them explosive chutes they use to evacuate people from aircraft mounted on top. We've been building such siege engines to scale larger walls for thousands of years.

Deuteronomy 28:53-57 (also Lev 26:29)

Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you. Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. The most gentle and sensitive woman among you - so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot - will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For she intends to eat them secretly during the siege and in the distress that your enemy will inflict on you in your cities.

Archimedes of Syracuse was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. The solar powered heat ray he is credited with inventing is thought by some to be a myth - but it may well have functioned based on the results of several experiments over the years.

Archimedes' heat ray was supposedly used in the Siege of Syracuse to focus sunlight onto approaching Roman ships, causing them to catch fire. Some have theorised that highly polished shields may have been used to focus the sunlight, much in the same way modern solar thermal farms use parabolic collectors.

Parabolic mirrors were described and studied by one of Archimedes' contemporaries, mathematician Diocles in his work "On Burning Mirrors", so their existence and possible application was known in the same time period as the Siege of Syracuse.

Over the ensuing centuries, various parties have attempted to prove or disprove the existence of Archimedes' heat ray using materials Archimedes would have had available to him at the time - and also with more modern materials.

A test in the 1970's by Greek scientist Ioannis Sakkas using 70 mirrors measuring 1.5 metres by 1 metre set fire to a mock wooden ship at a distance of around 50 metres. In 2005, an experiment by students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology using 127 small mirror tiles at a distance of 30 metres from a wooden target resulted in a fire after 10 minutes of perfect conditions. A repeat of this experiment for the Myth Busters television series found Archimedes' solar powered "death ray" was unlikely to have performed as reported and that other weaponry available at the time with the ability to set fire to ships, such as catapults, would have been far more effective and likely used.

More recently, the authors of Green Power Science have demonstrated the solar powered death ray was indeed possible. Using just 27 ordinary flat mirrors of various sizes, they were also able to set fire to a model wooden ship. Under ideal conditions, the mast of the model caught fire in under a minute. They believe Archimedes could have had access to many parabolic mirrors made of highly polished metal that would have provided a more focused reflection than flat glass mirrors; and also the necessary manpower for a substantial manual "solar tracking" system to keep sunlight focused on the ships for long enough to set them ablaze.

http://www.energymatters.com.au/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=1006

See Siege Mentality. Lose/lose for everyone. Criticize them and they get worse. Don't criticize them, and well, they get worse by themselves.

I mean it is probably going to be pretty generic with a couple of interesting scripted scenes thrown in the mix, but most FPSs which aren't simultaneously RPGs are. I've always felt that Crysis was on the better side of average with the different paths you can take and the variety of ways you can use your suit abilities. That and the consistently jaw dropping graphics have always warranted a play through of Crytek's games for me.>> ^gwiz665:

Color me not as impressed as I'd like to be. Feels more generic now, I dunno.