The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A Natural Swimming Pool That Works for You By John Robb >When I was a pilot, I spent years surveying the built environment from above. One thing that amazed me is how many people own swimming pools. In some areas of the country, it seems that nearly everyone has a pool (in some cases, the …
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How Drones Can Live off the Land for Years Cyberweapons and synthetic biological weapons (GMOs) can self provision. They have the ability to live off the land (hosts, like human bodies and PCs) once they are unleashed. NOTE: In many cases, they can also make perfect copies of themselves (copies in the trillions). But what …
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Life in a Networked Age Posted: 02 Mar 2013 02:08 PM PST Here’s some idle thinking for a sunny afternoon at the end of winter. To access it, let’s make a simple assumption that economics, politics, and warfare are all a function of the dominant technological substrate. A technological substrate is the family of related …
Couple Uses Massive Lottery Payout to Build Community Infrastructure By John Robb Here’s a great story. Mark and Cindy Hill, from Dearborn, Missouri, recently won a quarter billion dollar lottery payout. What makes them different from the typically lottery winner is that it doesn’t look like they will spontaneously combust due to excessive consumption. Instead, from …
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Cyber Deterrence against China? The only route left is an Open Source Approach Is there a way to deter cyber attacks? Yes. Two ways. One takes a moral high ground. I won’t waste any time discussing that option. Why? After flame/stuxnet, and the unilateral escalation of the cyberweapons arms race by the US, that option …
A Smart Way to Finance Local Energy Abundance By John Robb This is a picture of all of the electricity a family will need for the next twenty years: Doesn’t seem like much, does it? It gets even better. If every family in a community had an installation like this, the community would be close …
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Life in a Networked Age Posted: 18 Feb 2013 12:11 PM PST Here’s some idle thinking for a sunny afternoon at the end of winter. To access it, let’s make a simple assumption that economics, politics, and warfare are all a function of the dominant technological substrate. A technological substrate is the family of related …
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