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It makes you feel like your muscles are melting off of your body into relaxation bliss. You feel light. You have only a dim awareness of what is going on but it is awesome because any problems in your life are completely out of your mind. You could sleep easily and heavily if you wanted to. You are completely relaxed and moderately dulled, mentally physically and emotionally. You are somewhat disassociated, but not to the same extent or in the same way as you would be from, say, ketamine. You may have black outs and amnesia especially on higher doses, and you are also prone to acting like an asshole because your ability to filter your behavior and empathize with others is significantly hindered. Xanax makes you not care about things.

It is pretty much the exact opposite of LSD. LSD enhances senses, abstract thinking, emotions, xanax dulls them. LSD stimulates the body, xanax relaxes it. It is really perfect for the come down of LSD or MDMA or anything like that, it really helps a ton especially if you want to sleep but otherwise would have trouble doing so. It also pretty much terminates all but the visual aspects of many psychedelics, LSD + xanax = LSD visuals - LSD mental effects. You need to get used to the effects and build a bit of a tolerance to it to truly appreciate its recreational value imo, if you take 2mg for your first time and without any tolerance you are likely to black out and not remember shit, and to not be able to appreciate the subtle effects it has. It is also very nice to mix with marijuana, especially if you are prone to paranoia or panic attacks. If you take Xanax prior to smoking weed, you will be able to smoke a fuck ton without any worries about becoming paranoid or having a panic attack.

Don't get hooked though, the withdrawals can kill you and it is hell to get off of it without tapering.

Let's just cut to the root of the morality issue. Governments war on drugs results in heroin being used to fund terrorism. Governments war on drugs results in money spent on MDMA going to people involved in human trafficking and other fucked up shit. The moral of the story is that it is immoral to support the government so stop paying taxes to them.

TEMPEST doesn't specify that the transient signals are transmitted through any particular medium.

A. Are there transient electromagnetic signals that are leaking information?
B. If so, someone gathering and analyzing those signals is engaged in a TEMPEST attack

TEMPEST is a codename referring to investigations and studies of compromising emission (CE) (see Van Eck phreaking). Compromising emanations are defined as unintentional intelligence-bearing signals which, if intercepted and analyzed, may disclose the information transmitted, received, handled, or otherwise processed by any information-processing equipment. TEMPEST is a codename only and is not an acronym.

Compromising emanations consist of electrical, mechanical, or acoustical energy intentionally or by mishap unintentionally emitted by any number of sources within equipment/systems which process national security information. This energy may relate to the original encrypted message, or information being processed, in such a way that it can lead to recovery of the plaintext. Laboratory and field tests have established that such CE can be propagated through space and along nearby conductors. The interception/propagation ranges and analysis of such emanations are affected by a variety of factors, e.g., the functional design of the information processing equipment; system/equipment installation; and, environmental conditions related to physical security and ambient noise. The term "compromising emanations" rather than "radiation" is used because the compromising signals can, and do, exist in several forms such as magnetic- and/or electric field radiation, line conduction, or acoustic emissions.[1]

Honestly I just glanced at the paper, maybe you are right, but it seemed like they were working with electromagnetic emissions, if it were only power consumption data being used then it wouldn't be TEMPEST but this doesn't seem to be the case from my quick scan of that paper.

TEMPEST attacks don't even require access to power lines, transient electromagnetic emanations leak through the air. Displays can be reconstructed from significant distance, even through multiple walls, even with no connection to the power grid. The simple fact of the matter is that once you are physically located you are totally fucked if you have a competent attacker, unless you are inside of a shielded room or using shielded equipment. All of the encryption in the world isn't going to save you, your plaintexts will be pulled from the signals that your monitor leaks, what you type will be determined from the noise of your keystrokes. Local police don't even know what TEMPEST is, DEA may or may not, FBI counterintelligence have used this sort of attack against spies though so they certainly know about TEMPEST and have the equipment required to carry out such attacks.

Seems they can monitor individual keystrokes from up to 50 feet away. I wouldn't be worrying too much about this. Unless you are very paranoid.

They can monitor individual key strokes if they can get audio intelligence of typing, considering laser microphones can get audio from (something like) a mile away if they can target vibrating glass windows, I think 50 feet is a major underestimate of how far keystrokes potentially leak. Especially if they have the laser microphone hovering up in the sky on a mini UAV. Or maybe they have a dozen laser microphones on a mini UAV all targeting different windows as it goes from neighborhood to neighborhood hoping to catch something interesting . 

don't underestimate spies and spy catchers. Then again I have not heard of this sort of attack being carried out by police other than FBI in cases of counter espionage and counter terrorism, so it isn't standard operating procedure yet.

The most depressing thing is that most of the antidepressants from pharmaceutical companies are as effective as placebos and more dangerous than many of the more effective illegal drugs. Life becomes more bearable when you learn to fully accept that you live in the twilight zone.

First you need to find someone stupid enough to pay for software

Both of these mixes are the same type, the only (potential) difference is who runs them. I would go with the one that gets more traffic since that will increase your anonymity.