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Philosophy, Economics and Justice / Re: Why we will never win the war on drugs
« on: July 30, 2013, 09:39 pm »
Quote from: envioso on July 30, 2013, 05:22 pm
Quote from: Psytanium on July 30, 2013, 02:49 pm
Quote from: kmfkewm on July 30, 2013, 08:26 am
Your idea of the ideal world sounds like everybody is chained to a desk 24/7 for the good of the economy. Why do you even care if other people are productive? If somebody wants to get high all day and do jack shit else it should have no effect on you and only have an effect on them. Your fear of drugs hurting the economy makes it seem like you think everybody should be a slave to the community.
Why you are seeing life this way? a society is the gathering of all individuals, each one have a specific ability to serve others, doctors, developers, farmers, this is not slavery.
Everyone must offer his skills for a better future, for example, i'm pushing hard to migrate all those malls, shopping centers, libraries, groceries to the online presence... this will help reserve green zones, save huge amount of energy and construction materials... you can imagine the other benefits.

Here you have what happened to me. I have a very creative friend, he is a graphic designer, we smoke weed together and have fun time. so we decided to work together as partners, he manage the graphic requirements then i do the development phase, so together we can offer a complete online service for the market. he didn't put limits for his drug abuse, he lost the ability to learn on new software, difficulty to wake up, difficulty to achieve the job in a timeline and so on. He turned his life, thus my life, thus the society structure to chaos.

I'm not blaming drugs, i'm just saying that some people are not responsible, we can't give them easy access to everything. some say "Guns don't kill People, people do"
everything must be controlled, ranging from weapons and drugs to food and water, but the question is, who we will chose to control all those issues?

If you think that we are and must remain as ONE, then you can't give individuals their own freedom.


everyone else should not be penalized because your friend is irresponsible. i have friends like that too. they dig their own grave and they know they are doing it but just don't care. it's their own fault. there is plenty of hard working productive members of society that must live in fear because of people like your friend. why should society care about people who don't even care about themselves?


on another note, why do we even need congress anymore? what is the point? this is an outdated lawmaking model. a few hundred people with personal, religious, and financial agendas making laws for millions? this is absurd.
we have the internet. we have the ability for every citizen to place their own vote. we could EASILY make our OWN laws with the correct website/software. don't have any opinion on an issue? don't vote. but at least we would get the majority vote from the majority of citizens who care about certain issues. sure, there would need to be certain protections in place, and much much code verification by experts, but it is possible to get verified bug-free software (think bitcoin, it's never had an exploit against the code itself). a web-voting system would be much simpler to code than bitcoin.

Plus some of the brightest cryptographic minds have already created proven as secure voting systems that are both anonymous (you cannot tell what a certain person voted for) and verifiable (you can make sure that your vote had an influence and was correctly counted).

Personally I think that the best system says to hell with voting and rather enforces libertarianism in a totalitarian fashion. The second best system is probably direct overwhelming democracy, which means that everybody votes but laws are only passed if 80% of people voting vote in favor of them.

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Philosophy, Economics and Justice / Re: Why we will never win the war on drugs
« on: July 30, 2013, 08:57 am »
Quote from: zxydwx3 on July 30, 2013, 08:26 am
I'm not sure what the anti-Christian bigotry adds to your argument. in my opinion, it doesn't add any more than railing against Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy would.

I realize that you view society as ruled by an elite with an agenda, rather than as a large collection of individuals with free will. I'm just not willing to put that much tinfoil on my head.

Criticisms aside, I always enjoy reading your posts.

Oh I don't hold anything in particular against Christians, despite the fact that they are one of the most oppressive forces in the western world. I mean, I know there are plenty of good Christians. Even though a huge number of them rally against homosexual equality, rally against drug legalization, rally against pornography, rally against education, rally against science, rally against medical progress, rally against safe sex and sex education and generally control many parts of the world like a fucking organized mafia, infiltrate the police forces and the political world and covertly and not so covertly force their religious sense of morality onto the entire world (not to mention they are responsible for about a two thousand year period in which not only was no progress made, but civilization went backward, so essentially thanks to religious people we are about two thousand years less technologically sophisticated than we would be without them). I also have nothing against muslims, even though some of them shoot children in the head for trying to learn to read. I actually have met and befriended several Muslims and several Christians who are nothing like that at all, despite such a substantial portion of people holding to such faiths being totalitarian nut jobs to one degree or another. I mean, if I could press a button and cure all of these people of their mental illness I would do so in a split second, and the effect this would have on the world would be massively positive and we would likely experience a massive shift toward freedom across the entire world as well as massive scientific improvements, but it isn't like I am so stupid as to hate Christians or other religious people, it isn't like all of them are completely vile and in fact I know many of them are quite nice!

My argument was not meant to be taken seriously. I don't think that we should burn all of the churches and send Christians to slave labor camps, people should be free to practice whatever religion they want (of course they shouldn't be free to shoot children in the heads for trying to learn to read, even if they think their religion says that they should), just as people should be free to use whatever drugs they want (of course they shouldn't be free to get coked out and rob a gas station). It is just that in my experience most of the people who are in favor of the war on drugs tend to fall into two camps, either they are religious or they are communists. Of course the elite people who are really behind the war on drugs tend to not actually be in either of these two camps, although they often pretend to be (like the communists in the USSR, I mean the political leaders sure were not living under the same sort of communism as the common people, right?). But the two most common arguments from the common TRUE BELIEVER (ie: not government propaganda brainwashed) people tend to boil down to

A. Drugs should be illegal because they are immoral because The Bible

B. Drugs should be illegal because they are immoral because we should have socialized health care and if drug users require medical expenses then it will be paid for by society so we must make it so nobody uses drugs to decrease the amount of money society needs to spend on health care, and also drug use could effect productivity and since we feel we have the right to 60% of the money you earn you should definitely not do anything that could theoretically cause you to earn less money because that means you have less money for us to steal from you

So I don't really feel bad about calling out religious people in the way that I did. They want to trample on my rights to use drugs and I want them to see what things would be like if the tables were turned. They think it is okay to send drug users to prison and confiscate our drugs, and I want them to think about a world where religious people are sent to prisons and we confiscate their Holy Books and burn their temples. I guess since the argument from the other poster centered around the economy it would have been more pertinent for me to say we should enslave all of the communists and burn the Communist Manifesto.

But really my intention was not to trash talk Christians but rather to point out the absurdity of making something illegal because people cannot do other work while they are doing it. I was pointing out that using this absurd logic it would make sense to ban people from going to church as well. So actually I was defending the Christians right to go to church, it just isn't so obvious since they already have the right to do that but I don't have the right under the law to use LSD on Sunday, and according to the poster I argued with this is great because if I use LSD on Sunday I cannot be working on things for the economy!

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Off topic / Re: Killing government officials with pipe bombs and ar-15's
« on: July 30, 2013, 08:35 am »
Quote from: 2marijuanaman on July 30, 2013, 07:22 am
This is all just me fantasizing. In reality, Ill likely find the single most foul politician/cop I can, kill that single person, and commit suicide on the spot.

I wont kill many, but Im not going alone. Ill grab whoever I see fit, after thinking and planning, and drag them down with me.

Cops are replaceable and if one dies another will take its place. Politicial leaders are replaceable as well, but if one dies it is possible for one with different ideas to take its place. Police are just soldiers they have little political value. Changing the balance of a political structure from one party to another would have much more effect on society. Unfortunately all political parties are shit.

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Off topic / Re: How to blow up a car?
« on: July 30, 2013, 08:28 am »
Put a really big bomb in it.

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Philosophy, Economics and Justice / Re: Why we will never win the war on drugs
« on: July 30, 2013, 08:26 am »
Quote from: Psytanium on July 30, 2013, 07:16 am
Quote from: kmfkewm on July 30, 2013, 02:02 am
Quote from: Psytanium on July 28, 2013, 09:40 pm
They are growing fears in people's mind, which is defenitely a wrong method, only education is the key.
Whatever is the method, it is good to keep this war active to slow down the use of drugs.

Not everyone deserve the freedom of doing drugs.

Some drugs are physically dangerous and highly addictive, just few have a good safety profile.

Frequent use of any drug can lead to a weak economy, for eg, when i'm under the effect of marijuana, i'm unable to run a project (as a web developer), while on LSD i'm useless to write a small html code or even to turn on my computer.

i vote for the war on drugs but i dislike the method.

I agree and I can't even imagine how much more productive people would be if they didn't go to church on Sunday. I can never manage to get any coding done at church, and certainly cannot run any projects. The things they teach at church are highly dangerous, and the thought of eternal life is one of the most addictive things out there. Just a few religions have a good safety profile. Frequently going to church can lead to a big loss for our economy, in some states I think they still force businesses to close on Sunday, and corporations are always giving people Sunday off. I vote that we burn all of the churches and round up all of the christians and put them into slave labor camps, for the good of the economy of the fatherland.

very good comparison... what drugs mean ? searching for god in "several substances described as possessing unusual properties".
Some religions are aggressive just like cocaine, others promote love and forgiveness like mdma, some are cosmic and magical like psychedelics, etc...

As for my situation, i use psychedelics every ~1 month as a religious experience and to find problems deep in my spirit and fix them.
I can't go far from this, because i have a family therefor i have daily duties.

Now imagine people practicing any religion on a daily basis, we will have extremists, terrorists, and above all, we will have those religious leaders who manipulate people for their interests (just like drug lords) where power and wealth are the primary motivations.

That's why i vote for war on drugs while i'm a regular-drug-user, just to protect the balance in societies.

BTW, i mean by war, educational campaigns, rehab centers, parental guidance etc.. but not jail, fear and salve labor camps.
So, this war is essential as harm reduction, but we are against the applied methods. right ?

I was actually being sarcastic. So what people cannot do things when they are high? People cannot do work while they are sky diving either, should we ban that? Or should we ban playing baseball because you cannot work on html while trying to hit a ball? Your idea of the ideal world sounds like everybody is chained to a desk 24/7 for the good of the economy. Why do you even care if other people are productive? If somebody wants to get high all day and do jack shit else it should have no effect on you and only have an effect on them. Your fear of drugs hurting the economy makes it seem like you think everybody should be a slave to the community. This is actually a standard Democrat party train of thought. They love tax, and the more money people make the more tax dollars go back to the community, so if they think drug use will cause people to stop working and getting as much money that means less money for them to take, therefor drugs should be illegal. So essentially they think we are not good enough slaves while we are high, and if we want to get high we should be enslaved even more extremely by being forced to give their friends with no skills (drug abuse specialists) a chance to earn tax dollars when we are sentenced to re-education classes after the gestapo kicks our doors down.

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Security / Re: Tor dns socket
« on: July 30, 2013, 06:36 am »
Oh now I see what you are saying. In the past there was a DNS leak associated with this being set to true, and setting it to false fixed the DNS leak. In the current TBB this has been fixed already and it can remain set on true without risk of DNS leaks, and it probably should be left on true.

http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/May-2012/msg00038.html

This was fixed over a year ago.

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Security / Re: Tor dns socket
« on: July 30, 2013, 06:28 am »
not a problem if you use tor browser bundle. Also I think your advice is just flat out incorrect, you would change network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to be true.

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Off topic / Re: Killing government officials with pipe bombs and ar-15's
« on: July 30, 2013, 04:54 am »
Not everybody wants to spend their lives hiding in an attic.

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Off topic / Re: Killing government officials with pipe bombs and ar-15's
« on: July 30, 2013, 02:10 am »
I think it is funny that people care about the children and wives of the politicians who want to take you from your children and wives and throw you in prison. The politicians are not our friends, and violence against them can lead to more change than a million votes. Not that I advocate the OP does anything, he is probably just a troll or very possibly he is LE.

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Philosophy, Economics and Justice / Re: Why we will never win the war on drugs
« on: July 30, 2013, 02:02 am »
Quote from: Psytanium on July 28, 2013, 09:40 pm
They are growing fears in people's mind, which is defenitely a wrong method, only education is the key.
Whatever is the method, it is good to keep this war active to slow down the use of drugs.

Not everyone deserve the freedom of doing drugs.

Some drugs are physically dangerous and highly addictive, just few have a good safety profile.

Frequent use of any drug can lead to a weak economy, for eg, when i'm under the effect of marijuana, i'm unable to run a project (as a web developer), while on LSD i'm useless to write a small html code or even to turn on my computer.

i vote for the war on drugs but i dislike the method.

I agree and I can't even imagine how much more productive people would be if they didn't go to church on Sunday. I can never manage to get any coding done at church, and certainly cannot run any projects. The things they teach at church are highly dangerous, and the thought of eternal life is one of the most addictive things out there. Just a few religions have a good safety profile. Frequently going to church can lead to a big loss for our economy, in some states I think they still force businesses to close on Sunday, and corporations are always giving people Sunday off. I vote that we burn all of the churches and round up all of the christians and put them into slave labor camps, for the good of the economy of the fatherland.

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Security / Re: HOW TO ENCRIPT MY COMPUTER?
« on: July 30, 2013, 01:57 am »
Quote from: photonsounds on July 29, 2013, 05:50 am
@nightcrawler

I get what you're saying, I really do. But I have to oppose that and say encryption isn't just a fallback but it literally as important, if not MORE important, as being anonymous.

For instance in the cases I have read about our counterparts from other dark corners of Tor (you know, the pedophiles) somehow being caught out in public with their encryption mounted and their sicko porn open to customs agents. They go to court but their laptops have since been powered down and they 'forgot' the key.

Not so anonymous and guilty as all hell. But that damn encryption saved their ass.

Regardless. Always encrypt and be anonymous at all costs. If you're in a panicky situation, destroy that shit.

I know I've microwaved hard drives in drug-induced paranoia spells.
And god damn it did I regret that a couple days later.

Did you regret it because it wasn't helpful at all and fucked up your microwave? I agree with nightcrawler, anonymity trumps drive encryption. In the case of message encryption, in some cases it is required to maintain anonymity, such as if you are sending a shipping address to a vendor. If you are crossing customs then FDE could be just as important as using Tor, but most people do not randomly have their computers seized and searched by the feds, and for them it is way more important to not be located in the first place than it is to have their drive encrypted. If you are putting yourself in a situation where you know your computer is subject to arbitrary searches then of course using encryption is very important, but for every other scenario it is indeed a fallback strategy.

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Security / Re: Masking TOR traffic with clearnet streams
« on: July 30, 2013, 01:54 am »
Browsing two sites at the same time with Tor should really fuck up fingerprinting attacks if they are both being loaded through the same circuit at the same time. Some people download a big file in the background over Tor while they are surfing with Tor to try to fuck up fingerprinting attacks. I think that this would be useful but I have heard others argue that an attacker can filter this and still fingerprint you. I don't know for certain in either case but I certainly lean toward thinking that it will add protection from fingerprinting attacks. Surfing the clearnet directly and Tor at the same time will not help you though.

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Security / Re: "Security Alert" box popped up on SR site in messages - should I be concerned?
« on: July 30, 2013, 01:42 am »
are you using .onion.to

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Security / Re: IS it safe to use tor using your home network?
« on: July 28, 2013, 01:34 am »
I wouldn't go so far as to say that VPN's are useless, but they certainly are much less beneficial than a naive user would think (most such users think adding more hops always means more anonymity, hence the 'good luck I am behind 7 proxies meme'). If you are monitored by your ISP, using a VPN can hide that you are using Tor, but your ISP is still able to do one half of a timing attack against you. The biggest advantage of using a VPN is that it hides that you use Tor from your ISP. It also gives you a static entry node in most cases, so if you happen to form a compromised Tor circuit the Tor internal attacker is only capable of tracing you back to your last VPN node. Of course if your VPN entry node is malicious the attacker can still do a timing attack against you (and your ISP always can). Using a VPN prior to Tor is not really insecure per-se, the primary effect it has is changing it from trusting your Tor entry guard the most to trusting your VPN provider the most. I think that this can be beneficial, I don't think many people trying to attack Tor would run VPN services taking into consideration that some Tor users might enter through a VPN first, but I don't put it past the feds to be running several commercial VPN providers (and they definitely have operated VPN's in the past for criminal stings, but usually advertised on criminal forums, which is why you *NEVER* use a VPN that you first heard about on a criminal forum). On the other hand, if your entry node of Tor is bad, and your Tor circuit falls to a timing attack, the VPN is the only thing keeping you safe, which is better than nothing but historically most VPN's are broken by the feds after enough time in court. VPN's tend to buy time at best, tho I have heard of a few cases where the feds failed to trace targets through VPN's, in the majority of the cases the VPN only slows them down though and after enough months they will be able to trace you, and most people keep using the same VPN indefinitely so.

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Security / Re: Other vectors of attack
« on: July 27, 2013, 11:07 pm »
Once your anonymity is broken, if they want to get you they probably can. It isn't like any of us are operating out of SCIF's. Do your best to maintain anonymity (use Tor, hardened OS, isolation, yada yada), and if that fails hope that your attacker is incompetent. Being untraceable is 9/10ths of the game.

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