Understanding Bit Coins in one simple lesson.
I put 20$ in the bitcoin machine. I get 17$ and change back. I can now go spend that 17$ and change.
If I'm a money launderer , who doesn't want the police tracking my transactions just by reading off the serial numbers on the bills , this is a pretty good exchange rate. I'm losing 15% value in exchange for anonymity. I can live with that. In fact, it's a cheaper surcharge than many other forms of money laundering.
Simple. Really.
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Monday, April 07, 2014
Man wrongfully convicted of rape tells court he never gave statement to RCMP
Article
HALIFAX - A man wrongfully convicted of raping a 14-year-old Nova Scotia girl in 1969 testified today that at the time he was charged he never gave a statement to the RCMP and did not plead guilty at a trial, even though that's what the record shows.
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Those documents also say it wasn't until 2008 that his accuser admitted to the RCMP that her brother had repeatedly sexually assaulted her in the late 1960s, which led to DNA testing proving he was the father of her child.
So in 1969 , this 14 year old girl had sex with her brother , got knocked up , and blamed it on this guy.
39 years later , when she was 52 , and the brother passed away , she finally admitted she lied and the guy was innocent.
39 years later ?
What kind of witch was this woman ? What kind of society do we live in where she's allowed to walk free after forcing a man to live h is entire life under her false accusation , a criminal record and everythign , and oh , now that you're life is over , now that you're about to retire , which doesn't care about what you did or didn't do , now that you no longer have to deal with an employer and explain "Yes , I'm a rapist" even though you're not , now that the maximum possible harm has been inflicted upon you and there is nothing but old age left , I'll clear your name. Just to twist the dagger in a bit deeper and add a little bit more to your suffering.
This kind of woman is not a victim. she needs to go to jail. she is a threat to every single man out there. A shining example that a woman can get you thrown in jail just on her word alone , no evidence at all required. And guess what , all the people that helped her ? They were men as well.
They were idiots. And they're next in line to have their lives ruined by some woman with a complete lack of scrupels , of which there is an abundance.
She's going to walk free, she's going to cry a river of false tears . She's going to claim she's a victim, raped for all the days of her life , as if he kept her in a basement and she had no chance to sneak off to the cops. She isn't the victim. she's the criminal. Her whole flipping life she was humping her brother. She loved it , and just needed a patsy to blame the child on. She didn't give a crud about anyone but her own lusts.
She should spend the rest of her days in jail.
But she wont.
Instead , she'll serve as a shining example to every woman in canada as to what you can get away with.
And the males who helped her have inspired women everywhere to ruin their lives. Because they're idiots.
Disgsuting.
HALIFAX - A man wrongfully convicted of raping a 14-year-old Nova Scotia girl in 1969 testified today that at the time he was charged he never gave a statement to the RCMP and did not plead guilty at a trial, even though that's what the record shows.
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Those documents also say it wasn't until 2008 that his accuser admitted to the RCMP that her brother had repeatedly sexually assaulted her in the late 1960s, which led to DNA testing proving he was the father of her child.
So in 1969 , this 14 year old girl had sex with her brother , got knocked up , and blamed it on this guy.
39 years later , when she was 52 , and the brother passed away , she finally admitted she lied and the guy was innocent.
39 years later ?
What kind of witch was this woman ? What kind of society do we live in where she's allowed to walk free after forcing a man to live h is entire life under her false accusation , a criminal record and everythign , and oh , now that you're life is over , now that you're about to retire , which doesn't care about what you did or didn't do , now that you no longer have to deal with an employer and explain "Yes , I'm a rapist" even though you're not , now that the maximum possible harm has been inflicted upon you and there is nothing but old age left , I'll clear your name. Just to twist the dagger in a bit deeper and add a little bit more to your suffering.
This kind of woman is not a victim. she needs to go to jail. she is a threat to every single man out there. A shining example that a woman can get you thrown in jail just on her word alone , no evidence at all required. And guess what , all the people that helped her ? They were men as well.
They were idiots. And they're next in line to have their lives ruined by some woman with a complete lack of scrupels , of which there is an abundance.
She's going to walk free, she's going to cry a river of false tears . She's going to claim she's a victim, raped for all the days of her life , as if he kept her in a basement and she had no chance to sneak off to the cops. She isn't the victim. she's the criminal. Her whole flipping life she was humping her brother. She loved it , and just needed a patsy to blame the child on. She didn't give a crud about anyone but her own lusts.
She should spend the rest of her days in jail.
But she wont.
Instead , she'll serve as a shining example to every woman in canada as to what you can get away with.
And the males who helped her have inspired women everywhere to ruin their lives. Because they're idiots.
Disgsuting.
Sunday, April 06, 2014
An NSA kind of day
I think the NSA is blocking certain posts these days. You know , someone says yahoo has this really great encryption that's going to stop the NSA dead , you try to post a comment that this all started because the FBI showed up at Lavabit's front door with a court order for the encryption keys so they could read not just Edward Snowdens email , but everyone elses too , and suddenly you can't post.
You try to read this article on the various (useless) plans the USA has for doing nothing but looking like they're doing something , meanwhile in the back ground there's this video going on of Obama repeating over and over again that America has no interest in what the common man is doing (despite 10 months of news of the NSA trying to "get it all" , every byte of information from everywhere) and you can't turn it off no matter what you do ... Gawd I really cant stand listening to that lying plick another second !
Then the artical about Black Berry breaking up with T-Mobile , and they're saying it's because Blackberry is having an unreasonable hissy fit , but I'm thinking (and trying to comment) that it's because the NSA broke their encryption and is trying it again , and is probably demanding they hand over the encryption keys or you can't sell Black Berries anymore in the USA, but don't tell anyone that or it's 10 years in jail thanks to the American "Secret" laws that have been in the paper soon. But can I post that ? No ... the post button suddenly doesn't work.
And now they're threatenning to sue Europe because Europe wants to build a network that's just for themselves and doesn't pass through America. Apparently , trying to stop americans from spying on you is a violation of american free trade agreements.
And then theres those idiots who think that by selling off parts of the internet to private parties America is giving up too much of it to foriegners. Hello ? We don't want your NSA infested internet. We don't trust it. We want to start our own that doesn't go anywhere near your junk.
I think they deliberately want to piss off the whole world. Normally , when a criminal gets caught , he lays low for a while. He doesn't stand up and give you the middle finger and say "Screw you ! I aint gonna stop ! "
Which seems to be exactly what the americans are doing.
You try to read this article on the various (useless) plans the USA has for doing nothing but looking like they're doing something , meanwhile in the back ground there's this video going on of Obama repeating over and over again that America has no interest in what the common man is doing (despite 10 months of news of the NSA trying to "get it all" , every byte of information from everywhere) and you can't turn it off no matter what you do ... Gawd I really cant stand listening to that lying plick another second !
Then the artical about Black Berry breaking up with T-Mobile , and they're saying it's because Blackberry is having an unreasonable hissy fit , but I'm thinking (and trying to comment) that it's because the NSA broke their encryption and is trying it again , and is probably demanding they hand over the encryption keys or you can't sell Black Berries anymore in the USA, but don't tell anyone that or it's 10 years in jail thanks to the American "Secret" laws that have been in the paper soon. But can I post that ? No ... the post button suddenly doesn't work.
And now they're threatenning to sue Europe because Europe wants to build a network that's just for themselves and doesn't pass through America. Apparently , trying to stop americans from spying on you is a violation of american free trade agreements.
And then theres those idiots who think that by selling off parts of the internet to private parties America is giving up too much of it to foriegners. Hello ? We don't want your NSA infested internet. We don't trust it. We want to start our own that doesn't go anywhere near your junk.
I think they deliberately want to piss off the whole world. Normally , when a criminal gets caught , he lays low for a while. He doesn't stand up and give you the middle finger and say "Screw you ! I aint gonna stop ! "
Which seems to be exactly what the americans are doing.
Saturday, March 22, 2014
What are you doing that you're so concerned with NSA listening in on your calls ?
Article = none, personal opinion
"What are you doing that you're so concerned with NSA listening in on your calls ? "
This is the kind of question that you normally dismiss as a debating trick. It's an ad hominen attack (attack on the person giving the argument , not the argument itself) , accusing him of some secret wrong doing and thats why he's taking this side of the debate.
But I suppose it is also a fair question. What am I doing that this whole Edward Snowden NSA thing bothers me so much ?
In 2011 I received a phone call from a machine. The call went roughly like this "Press One if you support the Liberals. Press Two if you support the Conservatives. Press three if you support the NDP" . My first reaction was ... arn't you supposed to tell me who you are ? Who's running this poll ? It didn't even do that. I looked at my phone and I said "Who the (bleep ! ) are you ? " and I hung up on it without entering any response.
Six or eight months later , the news broke in Canada of the Robocall Scandal. Apparently , someone had programmed a machine to call up lots and lots of people and ask them who they were going to vote for . Apparently anyone who indicated they were going to vote for some particular party got a call back from a human being telling them the polls had moved. And when they went to the new polling station , they were told this is not your polling station , you can't vote here. Most of them didn't bother going back to the old polling station , they just went home and forgot about it.
Which means that one particular party got robbed of a lot of votes , enough to cost them the election.
This happened because some politicians got themselves a list of voters , their phone numbers, and their political affiliation. I'd say some untrustworthy politicians , but that would be redundant. Politics is a dirty game and they're all untrustworthy.
How does this relate to the NSA / Edward Snowden thing , you ask ?
NSA now has a big honking list of voters, their phone numbers , and their political affiliations. But not just for America. They have it for lots and lots of other nations. And they're shooting for every nation in the world.
If some politician came along and started running on an "I hate the NSA" platform , and NSA has a list like this for that district , do you really trust them *NOT* to interfere in that election ? Keep in mind this is the organization that by Fisa rule 702 has been granted permission to spy on every non-american in the whole wide world , just because they're not an american. Do you think they'll hesitate for an instant before deciding to rig some election in some foreign country in their favor ?
What am I doing that I'm so concerned with the NSA listening in on my calls ? On everyone's calls as a matter of fact ?
I'm casting my vote for who will rule my country. And I'm expecting it to actually be worth something.
That's what I'm doing.
"What are you doing that you're so concerned with NSA listening in on your calls ? "
This is the kind of question that you normally dismiss as a debating trick. It's an ad hominen attack (attack on the person giving the argument , not the argument itself) , accusing him of some secret wrong doing and thats why he's taking this side of the debate.
But I suppose it is also a fair question. What am I doing that this whole Edward Snowden NSA thing bothers me so much ?
In 2011 I received a phone call from a machine. The call went roughly like this "Press One if you support the Liberals. Press Two if you support the Conservatives. Press three if you support the NDP" . My first reaction was ... arn't you supposed to tell me who you are ? Who's running this poll ? It didn't even do that. I looked at my phone and I said "Who the (bleep ! ) are you ? " and I hung up on it without entering any response.
Six or eight months later , the news broke in Canada of the Robocall Scandal. Apparently , someone had programmed a machine to call up lots and lots of people and ask them who they were going to vote for . Apparently anyone who indicated they were going to vote for some particular party got a call back from a human being telling them the polls had moved. And when they went to the new polling station , they were told this is not your polling station , you can't vote here. Most of them didn't bother going back to the old polling station , they just went home and forgot about it.
Which means that one particular party got robbed of a lot of votes , enough to cost them the election.
This happened because some politicians got themselves a list of voters , their phone numbers, and their political affiliation. I'd say some untrustworthy politicians , but that would be redundant. Politics is a dirty game and they're all untrustworthy.
How does this relate to the NSA / Edward Snowden thing , you ask ?
NSA now has a big honking list of voters, their phone numbers , and their political affiliations. But not just for America. They have it for lots and lots of other nations. And they're shooting for every nation in the world.
If some politician came along and started running on an "I hate the NSA" platform , and NSA has a list like this for that district , do you really trust them *NOT* to interfere in that election ? Keep in mind this is the organization that by Fisa rule 702 has been granted permission to spy on every non-american in the whole wide world , just because they're not an american. Do you think they'll hesitate for an instant before deciding to rig some election in some foreign country in their favor ?
What am I doing that I'm so concerned with the NSA listening in on my calls ? On everyone's calls as a matter of fact ?
I'm casting my vote for who will rule my country. And I'm expecting it to actually be worth something.
That's what I'm doing.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Fisa : Section 702
Article
Passed in 2008, Section 702 retroactively gave cover of law to a post-9/11 effort permitting the NSA to collect phone, email, internet and other communications content when one party to the communication is reasonably believed to be a non-American outside the United States. The NSA stores Prism data for five years and communications taken directly from the internet for two years.
Apparently it is perfectly legal , in america , to spy on non-americans. Just because they're non americans. Not because you suspect they're terrorists or anything , but simply because hey , they're not americans , go for it.
I'm going to store this little tibit here where I can find it any time I need.
Passed in 2008, Section 702 retroactively gave cover of law to a post-9/11 effort permitting the NSA to collect phone, email, internet and other communications content when one party to the communication is reasonably believed to be a non-American outside the United States. The NSA stores Prism data for five years and communications taken directly from the internet for two years.
Apparently it is perfectly legal , in america , to spy on non-americans. Just because they're non americans. Not because you suspect they're terrorists or anything , but simply because hey , they're not americans , go for it.
I'm going to store this little tibit here where I can find it any time I need.
Friday, March 14, 2014
(Video) Live Crabs
Taken at the Kowloon food mart in Ottawa, Canada.
Yep. They're live.
Isn't that against some kind of Animal Rights thingy or something , selling live animals in a market down on Sommerset ?
Monday, March 03, 2014
Internet Cable from Brazil to EU
article = none , personal opinion
In the age of NSA ticking off all the non-americans greatly (especially Brazil, they got caught helping an american company try and win a bid on a contract ... we call that industrial espionage , not fighting terrorists) , Brazil has decided to run an internet cable from Brazil to Europe directly , without going through the USA at all, and thus avoiding NSA.
There have been several responses to this , on the web , recently , one being the USA will just tap the new wire and continue business as usual (apparently a Sub named Jimmy Carter has already been trained and equipped for this particular mission) , another being that this is just a smoke screen , the cable through the USA has degraded to the point that it can only support voice calls so they would have had to replace it anyways, and a third objection commonly raised is that the lowered latency for a direct cable means data centers in brazil will be very useful to people in europe, very responsive, able to move a lot of data ,etc , thus they're competing for USA business.
As a Canadian who doesn't much like the NSA , and openly confesses to feeling shame over the actions of NSA and it's little tiny Canadian brother CSEC who apparently is following faithfully in the footsteps of NSA , I would like to make a few comments.
One . You can't just go tap an undersea data cable. In this day and age of outrage at NSA ? They are watching you. What exactly do you think is going to be the political consequences of you getting caught tapping a brand new cable ? They won't be war, USA is the largest military power in the world, but you can expect trade boycots galore.
Having already been caught red handed in industrial espionage , in helping americans win commerical contracts , USA is not far from a situation where European (and Brazliian) Governments simply start adding a clause to their contracts that USA based corperations need not bother to submit a bid , they are not eligable to win this contract.
If the fight for contracts is not a fair fight , if one side is cheating so that they always win , and everyone else always loses, everyone else is going to pick up their marbles and go play somewhere else , and leave the "winner" to go play with himself.
I would like to say Canada will follow this tactic , but I'm probably wrong. The government and both major opposition political parties (ie: all three front runners) have been amazingly quiet on the entire issue. The only hint we have is one of the governments ministors bad mouthing Snowden as a traitor and saying he deserves to be thrown in jail for a really long time.
If this is the Canadian Government's opinion , it's pretty obvious they're obediently falling in line behind big brother USA and arn't going to lift a finger to protect even their own population. And threatenning to vote for the opposition gets you no where.
So what do you do ?
You must assume the attitude "If it's electronic , it's bugged" , "If you're competing with an american corperation , NSA is helping them". "If the product manufacturer is based in the USA , NSA owns their little behind and there's probably a back door, though they will deny that. They are legally required to for the first two years of any new prodect they come out with " (Obama's great "compromise" with american corperations ... not much of a compromise if you're non-american)
Put dirt on your face book. Claim to love knitting , make friends with a few people you hate , mess up their metrics , and if the cops come calling , tell them you deliberately threw dirt in your profile because you knew they were watching. What can they do ? They're on your doorstep because they're watching ...
Confusion to the enemies !
And stop buying American. We can't really stop them from spying on us , but we can at least hit them in the pocket book.
In the age of NSA ticking off all the non-americans greatly (especially Brazil, they got caught helping an american company try and win a bid on a contract ... we call that industrial espionage , not fighting terrorists) , Brazil has decided to run an internet cable from Brazil to Europe directly , without going through the USA at all, and thus avoiding NSA.
There have been several responses to this , on the web , recently , one being the USA will just tap the new wire and continue business as usual (apparently a Sub named Jimmy Carter has already been trained and equipped for this particular mission) , another being that this is just a smoke screen , the cable through the USA has degraded to the point that it can only support voice calls so they would have had to replace it anyways, and a third objection commonly raised is that the lowered latency for a direct cable means data centers in brazil will be very useful to people in europe, very responsive, able to move a lot of data ,etc , thus they're competing for USA business.
As a Canadian who doesn't much like the NSA , and openly confesses to feeling shame over the actions of NSA and it's little tiny Canadian brother CSEC who apparently is following faithfully in the footsteps of NSA , I would like to make a few comments.
One . You can't just go tap an undersea data cable. In this day and age of outrage at NSA ? They are watching you. What exactly do you think is going to be the political consequences of you getting caught tapping a brand new cable ? They won't be war, USA is the largest military power in the world, but you can expect trade boycots galore.
Having already been caught red handed in industrial espionage , in helping americans win commerical contracts , USA is not far from a situation where European (and Brazliian) Governments simply start adding a clause to their contracts that USA based corperations need not bother to submit a bid , they are not eligable to win this contract.
If the fight for contracts is not a fair fight , if one side is cheating so that they always win , and everyone else always loses, everyone else is going to pick up their marbles and go play somewhere else , and leave the "winner" to go play with himself.
I would like to say Canada will follow this tactic , but I'm probably wrong. The government and both major opposition political parties (ie: all three front runners) have been amazingly quiet on the entire issue. The only hint we have is one of the governments ministors bad mouthing Snowden as a traitor and saying he deserves to be thrown in jail for a really long time.
If this is the Canadian Government's opinion , it's pretty obvious they're obediently falling in line behind big brother USA and arn't going to lift a finger to protect even their own population. And threatenning to vote for the opposition gets you no where.
So what do you do ?
You must assume the attitude "If it's electronic , it's bugged" , "If you're competing with an american corperation , NSA is helping them". "If the product manufacturer is based in the USA , NSA owns their little behind and there's probably a back door, though they will deny that. They are legally required to for the first two years of any new prodect they come out with " (Obama's great "compromise" with american corperations ... not much of a compromise if you're non-american)
Put dirt on your face book. Claim to love knitting , make friends with a few people you hate , mess up their metrics , and if the cops come calling , tell them you deliberately threw dirt in your profile because you knew they were watching. What can they do ? They're on your doorstep because they're watching ...
Confusion to the enemies !
And stop buying American. We can't really stop them from spying on us , but we can at least hit them in the pocket book.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Scrap Mexican visa rule, Canadian CEOs to urge Harper
Article
"Canada's senior business leaders will urge the Harper government to lift its "intrusive" visa on Mexican travellers ahead of the prime minister's own visit there next week, The Canadian Press has learned.
A forthcoming report from the Canadian Council for Chief Executives calls the visa, imposed in 2009 to curb bogus asylum claims, an impediment to reinvigorating the Canada-Mexico relationship."
Dear prime minister , we the richest canadians in Canada , the Canadian Council for Cheif Executives , insist that you allow us to continue to hire people from Mexico , because it is a "dollar a day" country , and the workers will be happy to work practically for free , and we can then fire all those Canadian Workers who dare to demand the minimum wage.
PS: We'd love to kick some funding into your election war chest to convince you to help us , but you seem to have made that illegal.
Sincerely , Rich Fat Cats
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Dear Prime Minister,
We the Editers of the CBC , are continuing to persue our policy of publishing only articles that sling mud at you. The above article where someone , anyone (Fat Cat Rich Men) complain bitterly about your actions and no commenting is permitted for people to point out the obvious (Temporary Foreign Workers are stealing Canadian jobs !!!!) is all part of our decision to drown the Canadian public in news about how awful and evil you are , even when you get things right.
Please be advised we don't care if you get things right , we are a large corperation and we want to to partake of the Temporary Foreign Worker pie as well , and like any other corperation we don't give a hoot about the average Canadian. So you may expect that our "dirty tactics" will remain unchanged.
Sincerely , the Management of the CBC
Ps: April 13 ...CBC just got their budget cut again from the federal government. Gee ... I wonder why ?
"Canada's senior business leaders will urge the Harper government to lift its "intrusive" visa on Mexican travellers ahead of the prime minister's own visit there next week, The Canadian Press has learned.
A forthcoming report from the Canadian Council for Chief Executives calls the visa, imposed in 2009 to curb bogus asylum claims, an impediment to reinvigorating the Canada-Mexico relationship."
Dear prime minister , we the richest canadians in Canada , the Canadian Council for Cheif Executives , insist that you allow us to continue to hire people from Mexico , because it is a "dollar a day" country , and the workers will be happy to work practically for free , and we can then fire all those Canadian Workers who dare to demand the minimum wage.
PS: We'd love to kick some funding into your election war chest to convince you to help us , but you seem to have made that illegal.
Sincerely , Rich Fat Cats
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Dear Prime Minister,
We the Editers of the CBC , are continuing to persue our policy of publishing only articles that sling mud at you. The above article where someone , anyone (Fat Cat Rich Men) complain bitterly about your actions and no commenting is permitted for people to point out the obvious (Temporary Foreign Workers are stealing Canadian jobs !!!!) is all part of our decision to drown the Canadian public in news about how awful and evil you are , even when you get things right.
Please be advised we don't care if you get things right , we are a large corperation and we want to to partake of the Temporary Foreign Worker pie as well , and like any other corperation we don't give a hoot about the average Canadian. So you may expect that our "dirty tactics" will remain unchanged.
Sincerely , the Management of the CBC
Ps: April 13 ...CBC just got their budget cut again from the federal government. Gee ... I wonder why ?
U.S. law firm ensnared in NSA surveillance: NYT report
Article
"(Reuters) - An unnamed U.S. law firm was caught up in the global surveillance of the National Security Agency (NSA) and its overseas partners in Australia, according to a newspaper report on Saturday.
A top secret document obtained by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden shows the firm was monitored while representing a foreign government in trade disputes with the United States, according to The New York Times."
Spying on the lawyers for someone involved in a trade dispute.
Have you ever heard of the phrase "Industrial Espionage" ? It doesn't just cover stealing commercial secrets. Peeking at your opponents hand during trade negotiations is also part of the package.
Apparently , as far as NSA is concerned , winning contracts for american corperations is all part of the fight against terrorism. Isn't that interesting ?
I wonder if anyone (Any non-US person or organization) will be willing to hire a US Law Firm for ... anything , after this ? Knowing that you might as well be turning over everything you say to whatever US firm or government branch you're dealing with so they can spy on you ?
Every action has a reaction. You use US Corperations as the minions of NSA , and you start using NSA and it's minions for Industrial Espionage , they're going to stop doing business with you. They're going to find some other place to cut a deal with, because of Plato.
Who's Plato ?
An ancient Philosopher reputed to be able to talk anyone into anything. Until people decided the solution to that problem was to simply not talk with him anymore, and not have any dealings with him anymore. If you can't get a fair deal , you'll settle for no deal , kind of thing. You'll just go somewhere else.
Friday, February 14, 2014
Is anyone listenning ?
NSA tells Congress: Snowden copied co-worker's password
WASHINGTON -- Former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden
gained access to at least some classified documents he later disclosed
by copying a password from a co-worker who has since resigned, the NSA
reported to Congress. Snowden has previously said he did not steal any
passwords.
Hello , is anyone listenning ?
These guys lied their butts off to congress , the general public , and pretty much every one else in the whole wide world , and you're still listenning to them ? Are you stupid or what ?
These guys purjured themselves right to congress itself. Who knows what they're really doing or what really happened ? The only thing we know for certain is they are prolific liars and they do not hesitate to pile on a few more.
Friday, February 07, 2014
Crystal Ball 2014
My Crystal Ball for 2014
Ingredients
So what am I basing my predictions on ? What is my list of ingredients ?
Predictions
1... My first prediction is that China , which is already spending billions on hacking , will toss in another billion dollars to try and hack this "vault " of information where all the spying records on everyone in the world NSA is gathering will be kept. A billion dollars ? Yeah , I'm basically going to assume they'll succeed. If you gather it , they will steal it , supena it , write laws to let themselves use and abuse it , and all that stuff.
2... I predict , that the chinese will make it standard proceedure to go through their stolen data about every american that they got from the NSA , and look for the weak links to convert and coopt. You know , the ones with the gambling problems, the three mistresses, the cocaine addiction , etc etc.
3... I predict sometime in the next few years this "Vault" of information will be used to try and assassinate the president. Not likely by China or Russia , they don't want a war , but if NSA can't keep it a secret , why would you think anyone else could. Some rich Shiek in the middle east will get ahold of it and use it to conscript the pizza boy down the street , and possibly one of the secret service agents . No prediction on whether or not it will work , just that they'll try it.
4...I'm going to stick with last years prediction that manufacturing is dying and 3D printing will rule the world, though at this point most people would count this as more of a sure thing than a psychic's prediction.
5... This current trend of hiring forien workers on a temporary work permit to replace regular canadian workers will be shut down. Might take a year or two ... but the current outrage by the canadian public , and leaked remarks by Prime Minister Harper indicating he's not in favor of it either , seem to indicate a lot of movement in this direction.
6... I predict our smart phones will become "multi devices" . They all have micro-usb jacks , they all have blue tooth (meaning newly invented devices can be plugged in via these ports) , and we're pretty much at the point where most everyone has a smart phone. Adding an app and possibly a piece of hardware to slip into your cell phone case is pretty much all you need. This nonsense about a special phone for the job just that. Infrared ports to turn it into "TV Remotes" Or any other remote control device , is next on the list. Along with radio controlling toys (like those toy helicopters that are popping up everywhere) . Yes , the blue tooth transmitter is a radio transmitter. Not to mention the whole dang cell phone is a radio transmitter.
7... The internet will be broken into national internets. There may be back bones connecting them, or not , but the USA /NSA abusing it's monopoly on the internet has pretty much guarenteed people don't want nsa listening on their every phone call . This one may take several years though , thats a lot of internet structure to re-wire.
8... New phones, computers , and other gadgets will burst upon the market. And by "new" I mean "Not Made In The USA" . Sorry Obama , but when you publically tell everyone you've coopted every single american company to serve your spy agencies and you have no intention of ever stopping , you did this to yourself. This trend may not be as catastrophic as some people would imagine , since a lot of people don't care that everyone in the world is watching them (yeesh ... hasn't the facebook generation burned their fingers enough ? ) but still , it will have an impact. Microsoft is still going to be king for a little while longer.
9... Google , Microsoft , Yahoo , and most any USA company is going to take a hit on forien sales in 2014 , as contracts begin to run out and security advisors point to recent news articles . Anything to do with security will be the first not to be renewed. Later on , this trend will increase to a massive anti-USA ban . US Companies are already parading to the presidants office to try and get him to assure forieners that their secrets are safe with him , but after his previous statements on the matter , it's a little bit late.
10... There is a prediction floating aorund out there , in a CNET article , that the internet desperately needs to expand capacity by eleven fold to deal with the coming flood of "wearable" devices. I say to this prediction "No Chance" Why ? Because people are already struggling with 100$ internet bills (if you're a bell or rogers subscriber , and being ripped off) , they're not going to pay eleven fold to increase their bandwidth eleven fold.
No , they're going to cut back .They're going to decide I have a smart phone that's connected to the internet. I don't need a smart watch as well. I don't need to pay for my blue jeans to go online and tell everyone where I am. My fridge doesn't need to go online and automatically order groceries on my credit card without my permission , etc etc.
Ingredients
So what am I basing my predictions on ? What is my list of ingredients ?
- President Obama basically giving the world his middle finger and telling them (us ! ) He has no intention of stopping his spying on the whole wide world
- President Obama publically stating he's going to "lock up" all that information his various spy agencies are gathering on every citizen of the world , in one big place to limit access
- "Two People Can Keep a Secret , but only if one of them is dead" , a saying that frequently occurs in Heinlien novels indicating the likelyhood of any secret you're keeping , actually being kept.
- The Usual MIx of 3D printers , Internet , and the fact that even a guy on disability like me now has a smart phone , probably everyone in the world will have one soon enough
- The notion that the internet needs to explode it's capacity by eleven fold in four years to handle all the "wearable" devices coming down the pipe.
Predictions
1... My first prediction is that China , which is already spending billions on hacking , will toss in another billion dollars to try and hack this "vault " of information where all the spying records on everyone in the world NSA is gathering will be kept. A billion dollars ? Yeah , I'm basically going to assume they'll succeed. If you gather it , they will steal it , supena it , write laws to let themselves use and abuse it , and all that stuff.
2... I predict , that the chinese will make it standard proceedure to go through their stolen data about every american that they got from the NSA , and look for the weak links to convert and coopt. You know , the ones with the gambling problems, the three mistresses, the cocaine addiction , etc etc.
3... I predict sometime in the next few years this "Vault" of information will be used to try and assassinate the president. Not likely by China or Russia , they don't want a war , but if NSA can't keep it a secret , why would you think anyone else could. Some rich Shiek in the middle east will get ahold of it and use it to conscript the pizza boy down the street , and possibly one of the secret service agents . No prediction on whether or not it will work , just that they'll try it.
4...I'm going to stick with last years prediction that manufacturing is dying and 3D printing will rule the world, though at this point most people would count this as more of a sure thing than a psychic's prediction.
5... This current trend of hiring forien workers on a temporary work permit to replace regular canadian workers will be shut down. Might take a year or two ... but the current outrage by the canadian public , and leaked remarks by Prime Minister Harper indicating he's not in favor of it either , seem to indicate a lot of movement in this direction.
6... I predict our smart phones will become "multi devices" . They all have micro-usb jacks , they all have blue tooth (meaning newly invented devices can be plugged in via these ports) , and we're pretty much at the point where most everyone has a smart phone. Adding an app and possibly a piece of hardware to slip into your cell phone case is pretty much all you need. This nonsense about a special phone for the job just that. Infrared ports to turn it into "TV Remotes" Or any other remote control device , is next on the list. Along with radio controlling toys (like those toy helicopters that are popping up everywhere) . Yes , the blue tooth transmitter is a radio transmitter. Not to mention the whole dang cell phone is a radio transmitter.
7... The internet will be broken into national internets. There may be back bones connecting them, or not , but the USA /NSA abusing it's monopoly on the internet has pretty much guarenteed people don't want nsa listening on their every phone call . This one may take several years though , thats a lot of internet structure to re-wire.
8... New phones, computers , and other gadgets will burst upon the market. And by "new" I mean "Not Made In The USA" . Sorry Obama , but when you publically tell everyone you've coopted every single american company to serve your spy agencies and you have no intention of ever stopping , you did this to yourself. This trend may not be as catastrophic as some people would imagine , since a lot of people don't care that everyone in the world is watching them (yeesh ... hasn't the facebook generation burned their fingers enough ? ) but still , it will have an impact. Microsoft is still going to be king for a little while longer.
9... Google , Microsoft , Yahoo , and most any USA company is going to take a hit on forien sales in 2014 , as contracts begin to run out and security advisors point to recent news articles . Anything to do with security will be the first not to be renewed. Later on , this trend will increase to a massive anti-USA ban . US Companies are already parading to the presidants office to try and get him to assure forieners that their secrets are safe with him , but after his previous statements on the matter , it's a little bit late.
10... There is a prediction floating aorund out there , in a CNET article , that the internet desperately needs to expand capacity by eleven fold to deal with the coming flood of "wearable" devices. I say to this prediction "No Chance" Why ? Because people are already struggling with 100$ internet bills (if you're a bell or rogers subscriber , and being ripped off) , they're not going to pay eleven fold to increase their bandwidth eleven fold.
No , they're going to cut back .They're going to decide I have a smart phone that's connected to the internet. I don't need a smart watch as well. I don't need to pay for my blue jeans to go online and tell everyone where I am. My fridge doesn't need to go online and automatically order groceries on my credit card without my permission , etc etc.
Creation Debate
I love this cartoon because it sums up the whole Creationism vs Science debate.
If you are a "believer" in science , the guy with the huge stack of documentation and supporting evidence is the winner of the debate.
If you are a "believer" in religion , the guy with his one holy book is the winner.
The interesting point here is that the battle for believers is not won or lost at these debates. It's won or lost in the schools. The only function these debates serve is as a poll to see what each sides standing is, because no one is going to change their mind on a debate.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
Spy Panel : Fox News
Did you know there are still people out there that don't believe America is spying on the whole wide world , that think we who say this all wear tin foil hats and should be locked away as crazies ?
To you I say , where have you been hiding ? It's been headline news since the summer of 2013. In fact , here's a little clip of Fox News , a major american news station , talking about it.
http://youtu.be/ZCSBqYee5IQ
Interesting things .
1. The figure 200 000 000 (two hundred million) text messages a day ,from around the world , being captured by NSA , was mentioned.
2. The collection of phone data (they still refuse to state they're listening in on your calls , and it's still illegal for the phone company to tell anyone what information exactly they are giving over to the NSA) will now be held by a third party organization , and you'll have to go to an "american" judge to get it. Oh , if you're a foriener , because they listen in on the whole wide world , there's a council of (american) advocates that will decide if it's ok for americans to listen in on non-american information . (phone calls , email , text messages, anything they dig up )
3... The entire speach and discussion after words can be translated as "We're still doing it , we aint gonna stop"
4... Edward Snowden broke the law and should go to jail for it. Breaking Laws is not allowed.
Other than the usual shock at the whole sale violation of every human beings privacy on the entire planet , the following thoughts occured to me.
A council of americans deciding which phone calls / other internet traffic of a non-american can be listenned to is about as dubious and unreliable as it gets. I am not assured of anything by this move. But of course, not being an american , I don't get to vote against Obama , do I ?
The NSA is already a government agency full of "trustworthy non-criminals with security clearnances" . Creating another agency to do the same job , full of the same kind of people , is little more than shuffling chairs on the deck of the titanic. A cosmetic feel good change with no actual effect.
At least they mentioned american businesses are going to take a hit because no one trusts them anymore. I knew that was coming.
As for Edward Snowden breaking the law , so was every single escaped slave in American back when slave keeping was legal. Such statements are without meaning. We are not talking about how the americans decided to make their activities perfectly legal (by american law) . Such a discussion is meaningless in the context that their activities range far , far far outside their borders and deep into the privacy and rights of the citizens of other countries. Canadians really don't care that the americans think it's perfectly legal to spy on them.
Anyways ... this video pretty much recaps the whole nsa spying on the world situation , for those of you who have been asleep the last 10 months.
Monday, January 06, 2014
The Future of Intelligent Appliances
Dear Insured Party ,
We understand and sympathise with your recent automobile accident and your application for compensation for injuries and depression.
Unfortunately , as per your agreement , we have examined your facebook account and internet access patterns and have determined you do not meet our standards of disabled, dispite your inability to go back to work , and so your application , as you have already been informed, has been denied.
since you have decided to continue legal action in this matter , as per our written agreement , we have turned over all information from your internet , and your intelligent appliances , to various authorities. We have noticed more than a thousand illegally copied mp3 songs and amost two hundred movies on your external hard drive , and your television seems to be set exclusively to pornographic channels. As this may be a technical error , we have also sent your wife a copy of this report , along with pictures taken from your computer's camera while you were unclothed, watching those pornographic movies.
You can expect letters of copy write violation from the RSA shortly.
Also , we have informed your credit card corperation of your lack of employment and the decision to deny your application , thus resulting in you having no income. You have no doubt noticed they cancelled the cards already.
Since the appartment building you live in is one we have a financial interest in (ie: we've insured it) we have informed your land lord as well that you have no income and are unlikely to make next months rent.
Thank you for your business.
Your Insurance Company.
(They're already getting lawyers to get access to your face book account. This isn't as far a stretch as you think)
We understand and sympathise with your recent automobile accident and your application for compensation for injuries and depression.
Unfortunately , as per your agreement , we have examined your facebook account and internet access patterns and have determined you do not meet our standards of disabled, dispite your inability to go back to work , and so your application , as you have already been informed, has been denied.
since you have decided to continue legal action in this matter , as per our written agreement , we have turned over all information from your internet , and your intelligent appliances , to various authorities. We have noticed more than a thousand illegally copied mp3 songs and amost two hundred movies on your external hard drive , and your television seems to be set exclusively to pornographic channels. As this may be a technical error , we have also sent your wife a copy of this report , along with pictures taken from your computer's camera while you were unclothed, watching those pornographic movies.
You can expect letters of copy write violation from the RSA shortly.
Also , we have informed your credit card corperation of your lack of employment and the decision to deny your application , thus resulting in you having no income. You have no doubt noticed they cancelled the cards already.
Since the appartment building you live in is one we have a financial interest in (ie: we've insured it) we have informed your land lord as well that you have no income and are unlikely to make next months rent.
Thank you for your business.
Your Insurance Company.
(They're already getting lawyers to get access to your face book account. This isn't as far a stretch as you think)
Friday, December 20, 2013
The Evilness of CBC News
Article = none , personal opinion
I want to discuss NSA / PRISM and how the united states wants to spy on the whole wide world, and how , maybe , if they feel like , they might possible slow down , a little , on american citizens, possibly maybe make some token of apology that probably means nothing and does nothing , but the rest of the world is out of luck.
I want to discuss the new changes to the prostitution laws.
I have no interest in the Mike Duffy ex Newsie and the gang and his 90k in lawyer fee's that Harper decided he wasn't going to pay.
I want to discuss how Harper's foreign minister Baird thinks the americans are totally right about wanting to throw Edward Snowden in jail for his "crimes" and how this pretty much puts Harper in the same boat as Obama , selling out the canadian population to a foreign nation , since he's staying absolutely quiet on the matter and not promising anything.
I want to discuss why the heck are we trying to increase trade with China when they frequently violate human rights, and copy rights, and along with the USA are hacking away at the world to a fair thee well. And harpers staying quiet on that front as well.
But CBC doesn't want to discuss this.
They just want to talk about the "Duffy Scandle" and who said what , and what an evil person Harper is , and the rest gets scant , or no , treatment at all.
There are real stories, real issues out there, and no one care what the Canadian Public things. They're trying to tell the canadian public what to think, to dictate to us.
And I'm not too happy about that.
I want to discuss NSA / PRISM and how the united states wants to spy on the whole wide world, and how , maybe , if they feel like , they might possible slow down , a little , on american citizens, possibly maybe make some token of apology that probably means nothing and does nothing , but the rest of the world is out of luck.
I want to discuss the new changes to the prostitution laws.
I have no interest in the Mike Duffy ex Newsie and the gang and his 90k in lawyer fee's that Harper decided he wasn't going to pay.
I want to discuss how Harper's foreign minister Baird thinks the americans are totally right about wanting to throw Edward Snowden in jail for his "crimes" and how this pretty much puts Harper in the same boat as Obama , selling out the canadian population to a foreign nation , since he's staying absolutely quiet on the matter and not promising anything.
I want to discuss why the heck are we trying to increase trade with China when they frequently violate human rights, and copy rights, and along with the USA are hacking away at the world to a fair thee well. And harpers staying quiet on that front as well.
But CBC doesn't want to discuss this.
They just want to talk about the "Duffy Scandle" and who said what , and what an evil person Harper is , and the rest gets scant , or no , treatment at all.
There are real stories, real issues out there, and no one care what the Canadian Public things. They're trying to tell the canadian public what to think, to dictate to us.
And I'm not too happy about that.
Sunday, December 01, 2013
Store Bought Bread = Evilness
article = none , personal opinion.
Normally , I can eat a whole loaf of store bought bread in a day (with peanut butter or jam or whatever was on sale ) . And I'm still hungry ,and I will wolf down potatoe chips or whatever .
But now , with the bread making machine , two huge slices did me for the whole day.
Weird ... or is it?
There have been news articles of corperations doing research to make their food stuff more attractive , not just labelling but changing the ingredients (typically adding more sugar ) . Taste , texture , amount of lard or other ingredients ... all in search of making you almost addicted to their product , like it was a drug. I already know they're doing it to potatoe chips and I try to avoid the stuff , but I hadn't expected them to be doing it
to bread.
They're messing with the ingredients of store bought bread to make you eat it like a starving wolf ?
I'm sitting here trying to lose weight , going on long walks , the works, and these bozo's are sabataging everything I eat and making me gain weight just for a fast buck?
Yeah , I'm a little ticked at them.
I should have guessed when a plate of rice fills me right up but store bought meals (McDonalds) I'm hungry an hour later. The grocery stores are literally a battle ground, as several news articles have reported, with competing brands trying any dirty trick , and we are the casualties.
Am I going to have to home make everything from now on? Do they have machines for that ? Because I'm a computer techie, not a cook. Put the ingredients in the machine and press start is pretty much all the effort I want to spend on this kind of thing.
Wonder if there's a machine for making soda pop, I drink a lot of the stuff.
Normally , I can eat a whole loaf of store bought bread in a day (with peanut butter or jam or whatever was on sale ) . And I'm still hungry ,and I will wolf down potatoe chips or whatever .
But now , with the bread making machine , two huge slices did me for the whole day.
Weird ... or is it?
There have been news articles of corperations doing research to make their food stuff more attractive , not just labelling but changing the ingredients (typically adding more sugar ) . Taste , texture , amount of lard or other ingredients ... all in search of making you almost addicted to their product , like it was a drug. I already know they're doing it to potatoe chips and I try to avoid the stuff , but I hadn't expected them to be doing it
to bread.
They're messing with the ingredients of store bought bread to make you eat it like a starving wolf ?
I'm sitting here trying to lose weight , going on long walks , the works, and these bozo's are sabataging everything I eat and making me gain weight just for a fast buck?
Yeah , I'm a little ticked at them.
I should have guessed when a plate of rice fills me right up but store bought meals (McDonalds) I'm hungry an hour later. The grocery stores are literally a battle ground, as several news articles have reported, with competing brands trying any dirty trick , and we are the casualties.
Am I going to have to home make everything from now on? Do they have machines for that ? Because I'm a computer techie, not a cook. Put the ingredients in the machine and press start is pretty much all the effort I want to spend on this kind of thing.
Wonder if there's a machine for making soda pop, I drink a lot of the stuff.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Adventures in Bread Making
I watched a video on break making.
Cover a table with flower, kneed for 8 minutes, let sit for an hour , need again , sit again 40 min ... very messy , very long , looks like hard work too. Why would I possibly want that ?
I've had my eye on a Bread Maker for a while now, and I finally scraped together the cash to buy one. The fact that "Black Friday" , traditionally an american only sales event , has migrated north and this 80 $ bread maker only cost me 50$ was a big help as well.
Apparently , you just pour the ingredients in , push the button , and walk away. An hour later, you come back to a nice freshly baked loaf of bread.
And the current price of a loaf of bread is $2.50 Canadian. But baking it yourself is considerably cheaper. I estimate the 2.5kg of flour I bought will do me for at least 5 loaves of bread , and it cost $2.99 . The rest will last considerably longer than 5 loafs.
What the heck is that duck taped to the front of the bread maker you ask ? Funny thing about the recipie book that comes with this bread maker. It has 10 really complex recipies for really strange and bizarre loaves of bread. But it doesn't seem to have a "simple loaf of bread" recipie. I had to go find one on the internet and tape it to the front so I wouldn't lose it.
And because I eventually plan on moving into public housing , and I seriously don't trust neibours on public housing vis a vis cock roaches , I put all the ingredients in a nice sealed plastic container.
I love sealed containers. Especially air tight ones. If I could , I'd put all my worldly possessions in them.
Note to self : Blow 10$ and get another one, there's still room on my shelves. And even if there isn't , they stack ok.
So ..inventory all the ingredients, check the recipie ...
ouch. Forgot the yeast.
Back to the grocery store. Luckily it's only a block or so away. Wait in line ...buy my one single item ...
Put ingredients in the "bucket" inside. Heed the warning in the instruction manual that the yeast always goes last.
Interesting thing about the bucket. There's a paddle in it that goes round and round and round ... is that going to leave a hole in the back of the bread? Hmmm....
Plus ... there's a heating wire ....you know, you look in your oven and there's this big wire that when you apply power heats up and turns red and gives off heat like crazy , there's one of those circling the bucket that I put all the ingredients in. I guess it automagically kneeds and cooks. Cool.
Hmm...one hour and still not done. Note to self. Get a pic when it's done.
Cost Per Loaf
Total cost of start up ingredients (salt,surgar , vegetable oil , flour , yeast) was 15$ (yeah I cheaped out and bought only the smallest packages of each. Cost efficiency is terrible for the first experimental batch ).
But at 3 cups per loaf, Flour is the one controlling the cost , really. The rest of the stuff I just took a little tiny bit out of each , they'll obviously last 50 loaves or something ridiculous. So 10$ divide by 50 is 20 cents a loaf for all of that. And the flour is 3 dollars for 5 loaves (at a guess, I'll likely get six or seven , but we'll say five) is 60 cents , so the total is 80 cents a loaf.
80 cents a loaf , compared to 2.50$.
And thats using the most cost inefficent bag of flour (you get discounts for buying larger bags). If this works , I can see that 80 cents becoming 40 cents , and me carrying home 8kg bags of flour once a month...or larger. :)
Edit : Cost per loaf
The loaf this thing produces is freaking huge. Worth about two store bought loaves. So that 80 cents a loaf is really 40 cents for store bought sized loaf equiviliant.
One Loaf of Bread (3 hours later)
Yes , as you can see , the paddle does leave a little hole in the back of the loaf.
That is a standard sized dinner plate , to give you an example of how big a 1 1/2 pound loaf of bread is.
It tastes ... like a store bought loaf of bread. Nothing special , nothing terrible , nothing wonderful. Perfectly edible.
Note to self : Get a proper bread cutting knife. The pruning knife you see in the pic just mangles it , and trying to eat peanut butter of a huge thick slice of fresh bread , still warm , that would put a slice of texas toast to shame , is a messy business.
Also , stand it up and cut it horizontally , seperating top from bottom . The loaf is freaking huge and you'll never be able to hold on to a full slice unless you chop it down to size.
Cover a table with flower, kneed for 8 minutes, let sit for an hour , need again , sit again 40 min ... very messy , very long , looks like hard work too. Why would I possibly want that ?
I've had my eye on a Bread Maker for a while now, and I finally scraped together the cash to buy one. The fact that "Black Friday" , traditionally an american only sales event , has migrated north and this 80 $ bread maker only cost me 50$ was a big help as well.
Apparently , you just pour the ingredients in , push the button , and walk away. An hour later, you come back to a nice freshly baked loaf of bread.
And the current price of a loaf of bread is $2.50 Canadian. But baking it yourself is considerably cheaper. I estimate the 2.5kg of flour I bought will do me for at least 5 loaves of bread , and it cost $2.99 . The rest will last considerably longer than 5 loafs.
What the heck is that duck taped to the front of the bread maker you ask ? Funny thing about the recipie book that comes with this bread maker. It has 10 really complex recipies for really strange and bizarre loaves of bread. But it doesn't seem to have a "simple loaf of bread" recipie. I had to go find one on the internet and tape it to the front so I wouldn't lose it.
And because I eventually plan on moving into public housing , and I seriously don't trust neibours on public housing vis a vis cock roaches , I put all the ingredients in a nice sealed plastic container.
I love sealed containers. Especially air tight ones. If I could , I'd put all my worldly possessions in them.
Note to self : Blow 10$ and get another one, there's still room on my shelves. And even if there isn't , they stack ok.
So ..inventory all the ingredients, check the recipie ...
ouch. Forgot the yeast.
Back to the grocery store. Luckily it's only a block or so away. Wait in line ...buy my one single item ...
Put ingredients in the "bucket" inside. Heed the warning in the instruction manual that the yeast always goes last.
Interesting thing about the bucket. There's a paddle in it that goes round and round and round ... is that going to leave a hole in the back of the bread? Hmmm....
Plus ... there's a heating wire ....you know, you look in your oven and there's this big wire that when you apply power heats up and turns red and gives off heat like crazy , there's one of those circling the bucket that I put all the ingredients in. I guess it automagically kneeds and cooks. Cool.
Hmm...one hour and still not done. Note to self. Get a pic when it's done.
Cost Per Loaf
Total cost of start up ingredients (salt,surgar , vegetable oil , flour , yeast) was 15$ (yeah I cheaped out and bought only the smallest packages of each. Cost efficiency is terrible for the first experimental batch ).
But at 3 cups per loaf, Flour is the one controlling the cost , really. The rest of the stuff I just took a little tiny bit out of each , they'll obviously last 50 loaves or something ridiculous. So 10$ divide by 50 is 20 cents a loaf for all of that. And the flour is 3 dollars for 5 loaves (at a guess, I'll likely get six or seven , but we'll say five) is 60 cents , so the total is 80 cents a loaf.
80 cents a loaf , compared to 2.50$.
And thats using the most cost inefficent bag of flour (you get discounts for buying larger bags). If this works , I can see that 80 cents becoming 40 cents , and me carrying home 8kg bags of flour once a month...or larger. :)
Edit : Cost per loaf
The loaf this thing produces is freaking huge. Worth about two store bought loaves. So that 80 cents a loaf is really 40 cents for store bought sized loaf equiviliant.
One Loaf of Bread (3 hours later)
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| Back of Loaf |
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| Side View |
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| Top View |
That is a standard sized dinner plate , to give you an example of how big a 1 1/2 pound loaf of bread is.
It tastes ... like a store bought loaf of bread. Nothing special , nothing terrible , nothing wonderful. Perfectly edible.
Note to self : Get a proper bread cutting knife. The pruning knife you see in the pic just mangles it , and trying to eat peanut butter of a huge thick slice of fresh bread , still warm , that would put a slice of texas toast to shame , is a messy business.
Also , stand it up and cut it horizontally , seperating top from bottom . The loaf is freaking huge and you'll never be able to hold on to a full slice unless you chop it down to size.
Friday, November 22, 2013
A day for a retired techie
A stunning day of adventure in the life of a retired techie....
So I'm playing wow , and I get this quest to go rescue a goblin,
but when I open the flight point map , it's just blank ..for a bit,
and then it loads.
Girlfriend , are you running anything heavy ? No , how about the
room mates ?
Oh right , I can check that on my router. so I close the game,
go to the router's control page, and what do I see ? Seven
devices. Two named android (probably phones) , one named playbook
(Probably a black berry playbook) and a couple or three computers.
Do you know your room mates have hooked up two phones and a
black berry hooked up , and you're only charging them 15$ a
month ? I could ban the mac addresses.
No , don't do anything tonight. She doesn't feel like fighting with them.
Back to the game. I'm in Northrend , in that quest where
you get transformed into a female Vylkul giant, evil creatures
because THEY'RE FULLY CLOTHED ! I mean like , even a priest has
less clothing than they do ! What kind of game is this where
you can't stop and look down the shirt of your own charactar
and admire her breasts ?
Oh , and they enslaved all their males and have them working
in a mine, and I get a quest to go kill the rebels who don't
like being slaves to women. But thats just par for the course
in a video game.
*Sigh* Now girlfriend is pissed. What do you mean two phones
and a play book ? what the heck is a playbook (it's the
blackberry version of an iPad) . Ok ok , I'll ban the mac's
after midnight when they're all asleep. Sheesh .
Back to the game. Kill the male rebels , become best friends
with the cruel dominatrix who's running the mine , sent off
to kill a female Vylkul this time. I'm supposed to "do it
gently, she is a female after all " .
Playbook is 600$ - 1000$ . Android phones start at 200$ and go
up. And room mate complains at the 15$ / month she's supposed
to pay for her share of the internet. And she's using so much
that my game is lagging. Invasion of privacy knowing all this ?
Well...she's cheating us and interfering in our enjoyment of
our internet. She's lucky we don't just lock her out entirely.
We'll leave her lap top connected , that's all we agreed to.
Now where is that stupid goblin I'm supposed to rescue ?
The List of Evil Companies
I'm going to keep a list of Evil Companies. Companies that lie , or do nasty things that a large number of their customers would find offensive. In order to make the list , a company has to go above and beyond the call of profiteering. Screwing you over with cheap flimsy products isn't enough.
LG , a Division of Samsung
Why : News Reports , nov 2013 , of their Smart TV not only tracking the viewing habits of it's users (despite having internal controls that could be set to "off" , they tracked you anyways) , but they were also tracking anything else on the local network the TV was connected too (file names from USB sticks , from any disks put into the cd / blue ray players, etc)
Google , Microsoft , AOL , most USA Corperations
Why : Homeland Security in the United States Requires them not only to turn over all information they have on every user who uses their services, they are legally forbidden to tell anyone just how much information they're turning over. President Obama publically admitted to this in the summer of 2013 . In the face of their restriction of telling just how much they're reveiling to the NSA via the infamous PRISM program , declarations that they're not listening in on your phone calls , reading your emails , listening to your skype calls , etc (for anyone in the world) are non-credible.
Google Corperation (Again !)
Why : I have an android phone. Anytime I try to use anything from Google it demands I activate Google tracking and let them track my exact location all day long. I tried to download and use a program to learn french , and they want to know my exact location. I see no reason for this. Deleted the App.
Microsoft , re: XBox :
Why : The XBox has a camera on it (the kinect device to detect hand / arm motions) and Microsoft is legally requried , like all USA Corperations, to spy for the US Government. Ergo : Pictures of you in your home while many people are likely partially or completely unclad are being submitted to NSA whether you like it or not.
Microsoft , re: Windows Updates :
Why : The combination of automated Windows Updates and US Government requiresments for any US corperation to spy for them mean that they can include a trojen to spy on you at any time through an automated update. The fact that there wasn't one there yesterday doesn't mean there isn't one there today. Also , given the history of companies like LG for including opt out features that don't actually opt you out of anything , the fact that you've disabled updates doesn't mean a thing.
Apple iPhone re: Fingerprint scanner
Why : Because Apple is a USA Company , and is legally required to hand over all information it gathers to NSA . And it's getting the fingerprint of anyone who buys one of their fancy new finger print secured iPhones, and thus passing it on to the USGovernment. Yes, they totally deny it. Yes, they are forbidden to tell you just how much information they are giving to NSA by US Law , no their denials are not credible.
This list will continue to be updated as new evidence and news articles come to light.
LG , a Division of Samsung
Why : News Reports , nov 2013 , of their Smart TV not only tracking the viewing habits of it's users (despite having internal controls that could be set to "off" , they tracked you anyways) , but they were also tracking anything else on the local network the TV was connected too (file names from USB sticks , from any disks put into the cd / blue ray players, etc)
Google , Microsoft , AOL , most USA Corperations
Why : Homeland Security in the United States Requires them not only to turn over all information they have on every user who uses their services, they are legally forbidden to tell anyone just how much information they're turning over. President Obama publically admitted to this in the summer of 2013 . In the face of their restriction of telling just how much they're reveiling to the NSA via the infamous PRISM program , declarations that they're not listening in on your phone calls , reading your emails , listening to your skype calls , etc (for anyone in the world) are non-credible.
Google Corperation (Again !)
Why : I have an android phone. Anytime I try to use anything from Google it demands I activate Google tracking and let them track my exact location all day long. I tried to download and use a program to learn french , and they want to know my exact location. I see no reason for this. Deleted the App.
Microsoft , re: XBox :
Why : The XBox has a camera on it (the kinect device to detect hand / arm motions) and Microsoft is legally requried , like all USA Corperations, to spy for the US Government. Ergo : Pictures of you in your home while many people are likely partially or completely unclad are being submitted to NSA whether you like it or not.
Microsoft , re: Windows Updates :
Why : The combination of automated Windows Updates and US Government requiresments for any US corperation to spy for them mean that they can include a trojen to spy on you at any time through an automated update. The fact that there wasn't one there yesterday doesn't mean there isn't one there today. Also , given the history of companies like LG for including opt out features that don't actually opt you out of anything , the fact that you've disabled updates doesn't mean a thing.
Apple iPhone re: Fingerprint scanner
Why : Because Apple is a USA Company , and is legally required to hand over all information it gathers to NSA . And it's getting the fingerprint of anyone who buys one of their fancy new finger print secured iPhones, and thus passing it on to the USGovernment. Yes, they totally deny it. Yes, they are forbidden to tell you just how much information they are giving to NSA by US Law , no their denials are not credible.
This list will continue to be updated as new evidence and news articles come to light.
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