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just wait...

any day now...ALl US citizens still in country who wish to return to the USA, please head to the Russian or (longshot) chinese embassy.

u heard it here first...

so sorry for your loss...a sad day...God bless you and your family now and always...

LOL love that movie and love those scenes...thanks for the chuckles....

as a measure of the man or woman, i tend to use the following.

On a bitterly cold Christmas night in 1776, would he or would he not get on the boat to cross the Delaware ?

Mr Barr has answered, he would not....

he was a giant and was one of the first people to truly explain in very easy to digest pieces why taxes are such a corrupting force.

his story of a guy giving money to a poor person vs a guy who decides to help the poor by taking your money and giving it where he decides was such a crystal clear laser beam focus on the issue behind all leftists...

his chats with Thomas Sowell were nothing short of remarkable. the sheer brain power in the room when they were chatting created its own gravitational field...awesome to behold...

rest easy Sir, you deserve it. Prayers for his family

today however is a terribly sad day for the rest of us...

most excellent point.

you know what is truly scary. i used to love reading conspiracy sites and they always was one nutter banging on about ‘they want us as cattle!’.

it would appear these posters arent as nutty as i thought and maybe having the last laugh...

go ask Al Gore, he has a chakra that needs massaging...;)

kinda amazing ole Al has not popped up in the metoo movement since several ladies complained about his chakra massaging...

There are 2 issues here.

Firstly the famous quote by Julius himself “Events of importance are the result of trivial causes”, which apparently the people studying him were not aware of.

They obviously have the same attention span in English since they do not know what trivial means.

i can only imagine what maths is like. I bet their social skills on facebook and twitter are excellent however.

this is not New Zealand, this is everywhere...

this is de niro’s true intellectual level when no one is writing lines for him.

its called radiated refractionary resonance (RRR)

the suns radiation hits the top co2 layer of earth and is bounced back to the sun thereby a huge % of the suns radiation is turned in on itself and it affects the sun spot activity by reducing it.

okay i totally made all that up...but it has a three letter code so there is that...

cool..thanks for the info...much appreciaed

thanks for the info. i had heard it/they/he/she were thrown off 4chan but honestly i am not aware enough to comment.

just for my clarity, they dont have access to the 8chan version, is that it? (as in thats why they cant post with the current Q tripcode)?

not a trick questions, just curious...

if they do have current access, could they not just post as Q and say...its all a larp...seems pretty simple way of proving they are Q, no?

more interested in the tech side of this than the political aspects tbh.

have to agree, got no dog in this hunt but what Sourcery is saying is exactly correct.

the concept of the trip code is like a username/ password to identify users..

IF this chap is saying he is Q or part of a team, login as Q and post what is asked...if they cant...they aint...

as someone living here, you have no idea... its a takedown and force feeding of leftist agenda from all sections, press, politics...everywhere. disgusting to see. its all due to politicians looking to get on the EU gravy train of non taxed political jobs for themselves. They simply use us as a punch bag to prove their credentials.

LOL, oh sweet Gawd, yes LOL LOL.

i see i have a fellow traveler in the data world!

thanks for the clarification. much appreciated.

just a thing i would raise regarding the tech. not sure if it was mentioned. just keep in mind i could be mixing up servers and not sure who raised win NT.

win nt is really old tech. from memory it ended support way way back in the early 2000’s (replaced by windows server). I dont get why that would be deployed as an email server, there is a lot of far easier and modern (think simple) solutions than that. im guessing this was the famous hillary email server (i realise this could be 2008 timeframe)?

also one of the Q pics shows a mac (well actually the apple logo). win nt never ran on macs (correct me if i am wrong) and i could be correlating 2 things that are totally unrelated. you could run win nt virtually as in create a windows virtual environment in the apple box and deploy it but why would you do that if you have an apple ‘server’ (well at least a box capable of deploying as a server). why not just buy a intel based big pc and avoid the whole mess of apple virtual machines to windows? also you could have an apple environment and server deployed really quickly and easily. why buy an apple box only to make it a really old MS environment? this doesnt make a lot of sense to me.

so there is a hole in the logic there somewhere IMHO. also this is a genuine question, not trolling or trying to stir up issues. this just seems off. of course i could me mixing up servers as there is 4 separate ones. just thought i would ask.

you know when i know the left and the media has lost it...??

when things like this is an issue...

why is it embarrassing exactly? putin gives trump a football and passing a ball since they will be running the tournament is just a business metaphor. if anything it shown putin is not a total knobhead. all he is doing is using the meeting as an advertisement for how they ran the tournament, which (and i aint a soccer guy) they ran exceedingly well.

jeeze in 12 months trump has defused the war in NK and is now defusing the russia tension. he has kicked the chinese in the nuts over trade and will no doubt cut a deal there also he has told nato to start paying for itself, told the wto and UN to stop driving around in a clown car and told merkel to go FH (i will let you figure that out). BUT the issue is a football...

hey Jack,

firstly, some of the stuff below is for all reading this and i in no way am trying to insult your intelligence so please dont misread what i am saying here, it is meant as an interest piece for readers here.

is it possible to ‘bring the internet down’ other than power outages, actually it would be possible. easy no, impossible, nope. but first a little clarification on wording.

its best to clarify here, if by internet you mean the server backbone that services like the web runs on then that is very difficult to disrupt. most people mix the web and the internet. technically they are 2 different beasts. the web ‘runs on’ the internet backbone. shutting ‘the internet down’ would require shutting servers (or denial attacks) down and as you rightly say power outages over a long period of time would be a way of doing that.

you could cause a lot of serious disruption by simply getting behemoth companies like microsoft, apple and google to redirect traffic (and they are both closely integrated into the US government already - well the liberal part at least). if any of these companies was told by the US to ‘stop’ i can guarantee you they would. on a related note in 2010 sen liebermann wanted a internet kill switch bill in congress created for presidential access. not sure how far that went tbh.

for the average user you could quite easily disrupt access. there is 100 to 200 root zone servers situated in hiddenish locations across the globe controlled by a independent org called ICANN. think of these servers as the central source of truth and all info is propagated from them (okay thats a simplification but stay with me). so when you contact a website the text you write is checked against a domain name server for the real address. if you wanted to ‘blind’ a population rerouting these addresses to the point that they never reply would be possible to do. also i would bet a huge percentage of people are pointing their browsers to googles’s dns servers (8.8.8.8), so interfering even at that level would screw up a lot of access. the vast bulk of people have no idea even how to change their dns server address or even what they are.

so by way of example what port number does our inbound email work on, your outbound port number? imagine microsoft, apple, and google closed these ports? email outages for the vast majority of the country would close. by changing 2 areas, email and browsing is down. (it would not be easy but it is definitely doable). another way would be to disable to login server verification process that checks your pwd. if you always got that to send a ‘fail’ notification, you could never login.

so if you wanted to ‘shut it down’ by simply interfering in the core companies would mean a huge swathe of people would suddenly be left with devices that wont ‘work’. lets be honest the average consumer has not a clue how this works...it just does..and they will use that ignorance to control.
in the US the govt has the ability to stop tv transmissions, they can control phones and in most countries even ham radio’s are registered (i.e. they know who and where you are). im not saying this is easy but governments definitely have that ability. its frequently done in dodgier parts of the world. recently turkey ‘killed’ social media access if i recall and so did (is) Iran not to mention chinas own ‘firewall’.

you would not need to shut it down, you can redirect to a server you control. a ‘mini me’ version of this is happening already with conservatives blocked on youtube, twitter, facebook as we speak.

so the definition of shutting the internet down needs to be considered. imagine you typed freerepublic.com and the CNN homepage appeared. imagine all of a sudden all the websites you use for alt-news...gets redirected. sure you could put in the ip address of free republic but how many here know it, i sure dont. will there be an underground, yep, in fact you would probably see the darknet take on a whole new interest. the issue is that is probably, what, say 3-5 % of the population at best.

its not something that would be easy of cheap...but it is doable.

just my opinion.

BAWHAHHAA...

i now have yet another coffee filled keyboard...