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It is very liberal though. Silk Road will consist probably mostly of Liberals with Libertarians a significant minority. Liberals are pro gun control and pro wealth redistribution, but socially they are like a less extreme form of libertarianism. They support gay marriage being legalized and are less concerned about teenage sex than conservatives are but more 'worried about the children' than Libertarians are, particularly when they can use this worry to provide jobs to the larger community. They also lean strongly towards at least marijuana being legalized and quite a few of them are for all drugs being legalized. In contrast to Libertarians they want to heavily regulate and tax the legal distribution of marijuana. Most of them who are against legalization are probably mostly worried about the jobs that will be lost if drugs are legalized. At their more extreme end they are the type of people who support the murder of individuals so that they can provide kidneys to the community in order to save two people. However immorally putting the community over the individual is a common trait of liberals despite its degree of expression varying. Liberals can really be split into two camps, liberal-libertarian and liberal-socialist, where the second description is the ideology that compliments their sort of liberalism. Liberal-libertarians are more in favor of relaxing laws that they think have no chance of harming the larger community so they are more individualistic but they will still put the community over the individual in specific cases, gun control being one of them where they see a large threat to the community for an individual right that they see as being needless in a world without civilian access to guns (however the large majority of them are statist enough to think that the government should be well armed), liberal-socialists struggle with a desire to 'help' the most people leading them to being quite controlling of the life of an individual (so not only should guns be banned, but so should drugs because they hurt individuals even if they will not have much of an impact outside of the community at large. However, gay marriage would still be seen as acceptable to them, and so would stem cell research).

Libertarians are quite liberal in some ways, generally they believe that the rights of the individual outweigh the needs of the community, this means that their opinion on drug legalization coincides more with liberals than conservatives, however unlike liberals they do not think government has a right to tax people for drugs or to regulate the drug trade. Libertarians are also more relaxed than conservatives regarding teenage sex and are fairly close to liberals in regard to their opinions on this, however they are also generally in favor of legalizing possession of all CP and this differs from liberals who are only in favor of CP possession sentences bringing less time than actually molesting children (which contrasts with conservatives). Liberal-libertarians are against the death sentence, in my experience quite a lot of anarcho libertarians are also against the death sentence but largely for different reasons, primarily a distrust of the government rather than seeing human life as too precious to destroy.

So pretty much SR appeals to Liberal-Libertarians and there are a ton more of them than actual Libertarians so they will probably be the largest group on SR. Libertarians are also extremely fond of SR , it resonates even more with their ideology than it does with the ideology of liberals (it is a business, not government regulated, run by an individual, not taxed but paid for as a voluntary service, etc). But libertarians are much rarer than liberals so there will be less of them here but they will still be a much more significant percentage of the people here than they are a percentage of people in the typical population. Conservatives will be the rarest group here, most of them are against drugs and religious, most of them support very strong government regulation of the individual but have little concern for the community either, they are mostly interested in the Rich and corporations. A lot of them seem to be brainwashed, and the fact that they are overwhelmingly religious does show a susceptibility to brainwashing.
   

I should also mention that there are information theoretically secure anonymous encrypted packet header protocols. Mix designs these days are extremely secure and anonymous, having a single good mix on your messages path ensures that some anonymity is provided and path lengths can grow to any size if the resources are provided. These systems are pretty resource intensive though, they consume a lot of bandwidth, are quite CPU intensive and require several servers. But they do scale well enough and cheaply enough to be feasible for fairly frequent communications between significantly large groups of people.

Quote from: farmer1 on December 18, 2012, 04:00 am

Fuck gun control. There is a reason they don't want you to have them: guns are empowering.

To those who live in gun free countries: how prepared are you to rebel against your government?

hahaha this farmer1 faggot watches rambo too much i think. What is your gun going to do against our army, what will 300million gun toting rednecks do against one nuclear bomb genius? You have spent way more money on the governments arsenal than your own you dumb fuck, where do you think the money for our laughably big army comes from?

To be fair the government nuking one of their cities to kill an insurgent with a gun would effectively give every insurgent with a gun an atom bomb. Modern warfare is not traditional warfare. Atom bombs are not effective against the combatants of today.

My first psychedelic experience was on Salvia divinorum. I smoked about .05-.1g of 10x extract (can't remember), held the smoke for 20 seconds and laid down on my bed. Gravity started getting stronger and I began melting into the bed a little bit. I looked around my room until my backpack caught my eye. It seemed like it was a living being and it was communicating with me telepathically. Then the effects subsided.

Every time I smoke Salvia I am transported to Vine Kingdom, which is a land covered with rapidly growing vines ruled over by a princess and filled with very busy personoid cartoonish entities who are very rushed and intently focused on getting various tasks done, and they are somewhat bothered by my presence in their world.

The first psychedelic I tried was 2c-t-2 ten years ago. I remember the body load the most, the first time I did it I felt very sick during the come up and was kind of regretting taking it and even feeling like maybe something bad would happen to me. It is kind of strange because I never got that feeling so intensely from 2c-t-2 again. The pain and sickness faded away into Euphoria. I felt extremely talkative but also mildly dissociated. Honestly it is kind of hard to remember specifics of that trip it was quite a while ago and I have tripped probably a thousand times since then on various psychedelics. I remember that the walls looked like they were melting and everything felt nice and looked nice and I had a very enjoyable time after the initial pain and sickness passed. I remember my first LSD and 2c-i trips the best. Hell I even remember the first time that I smoked weed better.

The people with the motivation to attack Tor generally fall into one of two camps:

A. People who know next to nothing about Tor or computer security / anonymity topics in general, so they are not a serious threat to Tor

B. People who are extraordinarily skilled at breaking anonymity and security, but who don't give a shit about you unless you are a spy or terrorist, and who don't want to reveal to spies and terrorists that they can break Tor

Tor is safe enough to prevent almost all attackers from easily linking your IP address to the websites you visit. Hidden services are harder to locate than servers that are on the clearnet, they are enough to prevent the average person from determining a servers IP address. Tor is not a magic shield, it can be compromised for individual users over time, but there is a very small chance that any attacker is capable of deanonymizing all Tor users in real time. Using a VPN in addition to Tor is not likely to help the situation much, although there are arguments that it could. From a purely technical point of view, your entry guards give you the most anonymity. As long as none of your entry guards are compromised or malicious you are totally safe from purely active attackers. Active attackers are those who insert nodes to spy on traffic, passive attackers are those who spy on links between nodes such as at ISP. The probability that Tor will keep you anonymous directly correlates with the percentage of the Tor network that your attacker can observe, actively and/or passively. Tor has the same major weakness of all other low latency anonymity solutions, including I2P, JAP and VPNs; your traffic is not significantly delayed at any of the points between you and its destination. This allows an attacker who can see traffic at two points to use statistical attacks to link the traffic together based on its time of arrival. This is in contrast to mix networks, where traffic is randomly delayed and reordered to prevent such attacks. This is particularly bad if the attacker is able to see your traffic leaving from you and arriving at its end destination; regardless of the number of nodes in between the attacker can link the traffic together and thus link you to your destination.

 Tor and other low latency solutions take a less secure approach to providing anonymity than mix networks, and in return they offer the ability to surf the internet like normal (compared to mix networks, which are only much good for an E-mail model of communications, where there can be several hours of delay between you sending your data and it arriving at its end destination). The strategy Tor uses is to make it unlikely that any given attacker will be positioned to see your traffic originate AND arrive at its end destination. In the case of Tor this is accomplished by having a massive volunteer run network of nodes distributed through out the world. Since your ISP cannot likely see where you are going, you are no more suspect of breaking the law than any other Tor user is from their perspective. Even if you go to a compromised illegal website, the attacker can only see the traffic coming from your exit node. There is a very slim chance that an attacker will be able to start at your exit node and work their way back to you, they would need to obtain logs from two other nodes that are hopefully not logging. They have no reason to log your traffic at your ISP , at least they have no more reason to log your traffic than they do to log any other Tor users traffic, and Tor is used by millions of people for a wide variety of reasons. The biggest risk to your anonymity is thus that by chance you will use an entry node operated by an attacker, if you do this and they run/monitor your end destination or exit/end node, they will be able to deanonymize you with a timing attack. The probability that you will use such a combination of nodes correlates positively with the duration of time that you use Tor, the amount of surfing you do with Tor over the duration of time that you use it and also with the number of links your attacker actively/passively monitors.

It is quite likely that an attacker with significant resources (ie: tens of thousands of dollars) can deanonymize X Tor users every Y period of time, it is even more likely that they can if they control or monitor the end destination of interest directly rather than via exit nodes (which will only occasionally be selected to send data to an end destination of interest)....the chances that you will fall into that set of X users is much smaller and once again increases over the time that you use Tor and with the amount of surfing you do via Tor to a particular destination.

Quote from: Ballzinator on December 19, 2012, 09:49 pm

Creating backups of one's own mind would be so cool

I would think that with the way things are going now that such a thing could be accomplished before the next century. I'd imagine that the next big advent in storage after SSD's become the norm would be able to hold such information and process it as fast as a human brain could. By that time I'd imagine that RAM would have evolved into something more efficient as well, and then all that would be needed to perfectly integrate a mind inside of it would be an extremely complex GPU/processing unit and wham.

Of course I don't know jack shit about what I'm talking about. These are all suppositions on my part that probably make me sound like a loony. But hey, I want to be a cyborg. That's MY dream. Hahaha.

There are already battery powered RAM disks, those are much faster than SSD.