Showing posts with label Government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Government. Show all posts

Friday, December 10, 2010

SurvivalBlog's IP Address -- A Modest Insurance Policy

"I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy ... censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

How To Maximize Facebook Privacy

"Facebook's 10 most popular applications are among those transmitting users' IDs to outside advertisers, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The report also highlights the ongoing problem of the 'app gap' -- Facebook users who don't use applications are still at risk of having their personal information shared with third parties if they're Facebook "friends" with people who do.

Best way to prevent Facebook applications from sharing your personal information with behavior-tracking advertisers? Don't play FarmVille or whatever. Don't take that quiz. If you've done it in the past, well, your stuff is probably out there. But it's not too late to lock down your profile from future share-happy apps. You can ditch 'em completely, tweak them individually."

Here's how: Step By Step VIDEO

Saturday, October 23, 2010

The Deficit Trials

Time Magazine

"This 60-second commercial, titled
The Deficit Trials: 2017 A.D., was made for W.R. Grace, an international chemical company, and was rejected for broadcasting by all three networks last winter. Too controversial and far too one-sided, they ruled.

Nonetheless, the ad will air this week on 150 independent stations across the country."

Via
Western Rifle Shooters

Friday, October 22, 2010

When Is It Time?

Oleg Volk
"The end result, which we want to avoid, is the concentration camp. The gulag. The gas chamber. The Spanish Inquisition. All of those things. If you are in a death camp, no one would fault you for resisting.

But when you're being herded towards the gas chamber, naked and seventy pounds below your healthy weight, it's too late. You have no chance. On the other hand, no one would support you if you started an armed rebellion because the government posts speed limits on open roads and arrests people for speeding.

So when was it not too late, but also not too early?"
Unintended Consequences (John Ross)
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"The empirical answer given in the book was 'when the new imposition makes future resistance impossible'. We submit all too often by going unarmed to locations where legal carry is restricted. Some locations also prohibit cell phones, making communication impossible. However, as a people we are still reasonably well armed and disappearance of a few people would put the rest on high alert.

The threat to the American people from its government is a lot lower than the threat from Nazi, Soviet or plain psycho regimes out there...it's our job to keep it that way."

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

"Subordination And Obedience To Government"

"I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation."
--George Washington, circular letter of farewell to the Army, 1783
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No, George what were you drinking when you wrote this? After all, you just fought a war against a government and no man is subordinate to any government.