It's been said many times that the modern post SEZ chinese industries are the masters of copying, reverse-engineers of considerable ingenuity. Whatever exists, they can replicate. 

All of the internet staples: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr etc. Copied in loving detail.

The thing about design is that it's influenced by what problems you can recognise, you can't start solving them without being aware of them.

This is in many ways a question of fashion: what are the current automatic solutions to problems. People get carried away with these fashions.

In this house, it's fully nuclear. Fully electric. Fully plastic.

Often by following a particular fashion, a particular set of problems with prescription solutions, the world will just teach you what the problems are, the solutions create problems.

The Monsanto House of the Future (also known as the Home of the Future) was an attraction at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, USA from 1957 to 1967. It was sponsored by Monsanto Company. The design and engineering of the house was done jointly by Monsanto, MIT, and the Disneyland Imagineering department. The fiberglass components of the house were manufactured by Winner Manufacturing Company in Trenton, NJ, and was assembled into the house on-site



A future without problems? by Monsanto.

Scary.

This made me laugh:

The building was so sturdy, that when demolition crews failed to demolish the house using wrecking balls, torches, chainsaws and jackhammers. The building was ultimately demolished by using choker chains to crush it into smaller parts. The reinforced polyester structure was so strong that the half-inch steel bolts used to mount it to its foundation broke before the structure itself did.

F**in nutter from the isle of skye.









This is where it originates from.



But TBH, in a city you never know when you might need to bunny-hop a traffic fence.

when you look at a graph, you're seeing potentially all of the data. If the graph is high resolution enough, or it's plotted on an interactive screen. A photoshop image is a graph, for example, a matrix of pixels, a data set. You're not seeing the name of the person whose photo it is, you're looking at a representation.

I quite like the attitude this fellow is exhibiting.

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Holy shit!

I mean this is fucking serious.

OK, so there are these hackers who call themselves trolls. They're a sect of anarchists who basically thrive on deception. They'll impersonate anybody and any thing to ridicule their subject. They're known for popping up on forums & games, and doing just the right thing to really get under the skin of an ideologically motivated scene or individual, and basically shame them to the ground. They operate in loosely formed mobs much like the goths, huns and vandals. These are orchestrated via the classic method of hacker communication: IRC chatrooms and BBS servers. The people gather, and all sign in as "anonymous". It's the reverse panopticon, the masked ball. Nobody has a name here, say what you want. It's one of the scarier sides of urbanisation and big networks: catch the needle in the haystack, we're anonymous and sociopathic. Formless and dangerous. They descend in mobs upon the unsuspecting, and wind them up. Often inciting their subjects into a state of significant terror.

Some of these guys are fully premium grade black hat wizards. Like they'll break into your shit no fuss. Serious. When your security is patched... you're not secure against this lot. Be scared.

So I've been doing my research, these guys are like black hat comedy acts, they do it for the lulz.

But this weev guy...

well, he sometimes comes out with some really well formed ideas:

so the anonymous group busted into sarah palin's inbox. hehehehe. Minor leakage, could have been a prank. When questioned... his answer was:

All this demonstrates is that 4chan knows how to break into peoples' email accounts. 4chan has no coherent ideology ... it's more like a series of memes/trends. It might have some sort of ideology but for the fact that it doesn't have a memory. It erases itself multiple times a day. Moot can't afford to archive stuff. Server space is too expensive. So it's really hard for people to follow 4chan for a long period of time. There's no institutional memory. People drop in and drop out. It's like a mosh pit. But I do thinks it's significant that you can have 4chan and other anonymous people breaking national news.

I like this idea of realtime consensus, it's interesting. Somebody will be stupid not to be sucking all this data up and logging it for posterity though. Say... the NSA?

But to get to the crux. This guy weev is taking it to the next level.

He has set up a media portal with the name "iprophet". It's a born-again christian type channel, upon which he lectures all bearded under the pseudonym "iprophet weevlos".

I'll give you a quick sample of what he's broadcasting via video, these are the synopses:

The iProphet Weevlos discusses various topics related to true christians today. He also responds to users calls and messages.

""""

The iProphet talks about the morality of combat, the nature of reality and memetic combat in this special Memorial Day sermon. Also discussed the the Church of Euthanasia and other self-termination movements.
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The iProphet responds to questions which have been asked via the iProphet line and email. Questions regarding being an Aryan, about Martin Luther, pornography, drugs, and Mazdaism (Zoroastrianism). The iProphet also talks about his current situation and having to flee California due to attacks by the Jews.
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"Jesus was not a Jew, and Jesus wanted you to f*** s*** up." The iProphet talks about why Christians should be armed, use mescaline, and why you need temporary tattoos of dogs named Rocket.


"""""

Oh shit man, I think he's trying to round up these middle american bible belters and incite them to top themselves. Oh lordy. Oh man, what the fuck. Fucking hell.

Thing is, I reckon he'll be lucky to get more than 20 people to top themselves, this is fringe, and it shows.

These american born again machines are big, and glitzy. They fight to keep their customers. He just won't make any headway.

I kinda appreciate the humour of a dude setting himself up as a con-evangelist and getting his flock to self-immolate, or eat arsenic. We've heard of this in the bible belt before.

What we haven't had is somebody doing it "because they're a bunch of twits, and therefore they deserve to die! It's a prank hahahahahaha" I mean that's really quite amusing. In a film, perhaps. This guy is actually going for gold here by the looks of things.

Whooooo.

I mean, that really is taking postmodern cynicism to a whole new level right there. Don't forget that these nutty christian creationists are to be found driving tanks in Iraq, bleating along "freeeee eee eee dom from the USA yes-sireee" like indoctrinated medieval crusaders bopping the saracens. But seriously, duping people into killing themselves... for sport? This is like the Friendz in 2000AD. I mean, I'm quite comfortable with both nihilism and anarchy... but that doesn't necessitate me behaving like a cunt to demonstrate that! (tabula rasa).

But this is fucking unbelievable. I shall continue to witness this guy's maniac progress with a mixture of awe, fear, giggles, and disgust. There is an outside chance that the dude might be serious about this. But I doubt it.

One might suggest that as per usual... this is an exercise in social status and the acquisition of attention by any means possible. Human contact is compelling, pleasure or pain. Just like a babaa. Same old human values, just like shakeshaft had it... but not quite.

Hamlet anybody? It's a cheesy 1970s cigar. Or not.

Today's youth (hahahaha say I getting closer to the senior side) are seriously disaffected. Getting on for clockwork orange disaffected. These 21st century droogies don't like you. They don't like much. The world is fucked, they know it. They're pissed off. REAL pissed off. And they'll laugh and jape while the ship goes down, stamping on the heads of the drowning racing rats.

Ooer

Well I suppose it is 2009 isn't it.

There's a dispute. There always is somewhere. Matter of give & take, it's atomic, man. Predator and prey.

Give and take happens all the time, and when in close to equal measure, change occurs very slowly. Give and take can also reach a mexican standoff, a sudden impetus. One could call this a dispute. Like the change of a season or the state change from liquid to gas, one is dealing with a totally different dynamic when dispute erupts. Quick, and violent, a sudden change, a rapid rearrangement. Precedents are thrown out, and a new type of dealing occurs, more potent and hungry. War is basically national level disputing. While mass murder is horrible, one must really view such horrors as war in the same light as brawling in the street, cats fighting, or suing your neighbour over his overgrown ivy which is leeching the mortar from the bricks, they're equally violent in intention. I'm not saying any of them should be taken lightly, they're some form of breakdown of balance.

One can easily identify the two sides of give and take by the following signs, it works from atoms to starlings:

One side says "you did" the other side says "you are". The one saying "you did" is losing, the one saying "you are" is taking. "well, you are (now), it's just normal give and take, baby!".

Usually you'll find one side making more noise than the other (even matches are terribly rare). The one making the most noise is usually the losing (teeth, money, ground etc). The losing also wants the dispute to continue, whereas the taking will want it all cleaned up sooner.

In a dispute, usually the losing will be noticed first, often seen to be the starter. They'll be making plenty of noise.

Usually in give and take, the giving and taking starts off agreeable until a critical disparity or tension is built up, at which point you have a sudden breakdown or catastrophic failure of the status quo, ie dispute. It's called the breaking point.

It only takes spark to light a match to ignite a firework... but the firework and blue touchpaper is sitting there rather explosively already. You can't blow anything up with a spark. Look for the firework, not the spark to understand a dispute.

Dispute is never really finished, things just subside to give and take, as per usual. Disputes can erupt wherever there is some form of pooled tension, like a catapault, the ammunition is interchangeable. Wind it up, off it goes, being violent.

Every speck of matter just wants to live. That's why it bothers. Reacting and flexing and giving and taking. Assembling itself into vast clouds, sheets of ice and crystal, flowing in lakes and rivers. Burning bright.

Some of this matter has organised itself into vast palaces of orderly give and take, cushioned from the violence of the rowdy bunch. behind the cell walls are the hearts of bacteria, mice, cities with men in.

For these things, overly violent dispute is deadly. To be eaten, chewed up, bones spat out.

The problem is when you reach intelligent life, then you've got the appraisal of the situation. How the orgainsim sees things, what they sense, how they account for matters.

This makes the observation of the disputes between organisms or organisations terribly prone to perceptual distortions, big blethering speeches, falsified evidence, camouflage, intelligence, surveillance.

However, if one starts to see the patterns which lie at the core of the nature of dispute, matters become much clearer.

What's giving, what's taking?

One can pan from micro to macro and see different patterns crossing over in all directions, flowing and kicking up sparks like flames when things don't match up. 3 losing disputes often result in one big fat take, if a person don't want violence, he be well advised to watch out quite carefully for that noisy person who has just split up with their wife of 12 years stumbling out of the pub just looking for that release of aggression. Often fire will just leap to untouched, uninvolved territory and start taking there. Don't even try to hold the ground before him, give it willingly, and peacefully.

That's the thing about this stuff, the stuff that matters, it doesn't really belong anywhere, its all on the move. An entity doesn't want that exact particular X it had back, it's just missing an X. If it can be taken, it can be given back. If one is missing XXXXXX then one is possibly looking to take XXX XXX or possibly XXXXXX all in one go.

That's a ticking bomb. Disparity. Beware of those who express a strong, persistent bias, those who accumulate, since they are the bomb makers. Beware of those persistently on the take. Give a little, in order that a lot is not stolen. Keep the peace. We know that life is exuberant, but let us chill things out rather than fire things up. Offer up a sacrifice when confronted with the violence of dispute, give a little with which to diffuse the disparity.

All the organisations are temporary, a dispute is a crisis of organisation, a challenge. organisms take, give and take, and then are taken in full for all they have to give. There will come a time when the forces of life, those myriad exuberant forces come to take from you that which you call your life, a dispute called death.

But one will indeed leave bones, a remnant organisation. Bones, words, works. A unique sequence of give and take which will, naturally, possess complete symmetry when viewed without bias. The irony of give and take.

A black hole one day gets so f()ng heavy it just blows up. A story of billions of years quickly hops to a new chapter.

Exactly when a volcano will explode is hard to predict. The half-life measurement of the radioactive decay of isotopes to more stable forms is used because you just can't tell when one atom will find the impulse to do it.

When disparity accumulates, it's hard to say which penny will tip the million pound balance, or when. The criminal never knows when the long arm of the law will reach out. But as with the half life's averaging effects, where disparity accumulates, violence breeds.

I particularly find the appropriation of ancient tensions utterly distasteful: digging up the bones of your ancestors, and sucking up their tensions. Something killed them, they're dead now. Let their bones lie. Jewish Holocaust yappers, African-American slavery complainers, and worst of all anything to do with "the holy lands". It's too nutty, you've got your lives to look after, that's quite hard enough a give and take, without lining yourself up for a "righting of the balance" large bullshit take. An excuse to make a lot of noise as a legitimate victim, and stealth up some nice cushy invasion. Claiming to take this stuff personally. Now that is just abysmal.

You'll notice on this blog that I've got plenty on Stalin, plenty on Hitler, and plenty on the nastiness of humanity. I'm not taking sides here, people doing horrid stuff is simply that. I'm not looking for the horrid... I'm looking at it, and trying to figure out how the hell anybody managed to find themselves up to any of that stuff. So often the moralising mealy mouthed arguments are a smoke screen for "we'll be taking that now, and we'll kill your family". Rape and pillage.

Bloody vikings and their bloody spam.

small holding...

small minded...

powerful, but weak.

fearful little despots, crouching in a tenuously controlled mini family sized empire. Defenseless in a military sense, they must rely on the assistance of 999.

No farmland either, the only resources are human. A land-locked trading state.

They were looking for freedom, and didn't quite get it, instead they got a degree of security, tied down. I've often thought that a fortress is a form of prison, it keeps you in, and them out. Law is, as ever, compromised freedom. True freedom is very scary, it's anarchy, you'll have to accept everybody... and rather worryingly, what they'll do with their powers. Small holders have their own little empires, where they can keep them out, and us in. Run things the way they like it. But it always works out rather compromised, not so self-empowering.

It's not what I'd call shaolin method.

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big changes will never happen as a result of the smallholding peoples' situations, their resultant stultifying agenda. The only real way to work with them to change matters is to change their buying habits.

No capital to invest, an anti-productive miniature empire, erected via monthly payments from a capital exploitation society, which is most often completed in old age.

Get off my lawn or I'll call the police, I make the policy here. Twitchy curtains, various vanity projects.

What can one say? Just keep off the grass I guess.

america is a big place. before the railroad... no cars.

horsepower.

these days, GM are going bust. Why? (note toyota cap)

Too many cars for sure. This guy seems to spend pocket money on them and crash them around his farm for a laugh.



Wow! That's a lot of cars!

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks