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  1. my woman rented this awhile ago...i had seen a little krumping before but it didn't really do much for me. then i saw the guy who was sort of the head of the other team(not the clown team) dance and i was fucking amazed. since i can't dance worth a shit to begin with i have huge respect for good krumpers now.
  2. "although you probably won't"...whoa, checkmate! listen, i rarely post around here, but i notice lately everytime i post something, you get your ass cramped up and decide to quote me, then proceed to use it as an excuse to tell me exactly what i really meant, which as it turns out is complete bullshit and of course fits snugly with your own political stance. it's a wonderfully cheap tactic you use on alot of people in crossfire. i couldn't give a fuck about any of your posts, but if you quote me, you might just get a reply(imagine that!). don't quote me and you can keep on being crossfire's king dick with impunity. now for the last paragraph of my book report, i'd just like to say that maybe it's me, but it seems you need to relax or somethin'...like...you've got quite the chip on your shoulder..i dunno, go shoot some M16's, get laid, have a puff, whatever pops your acne and lets you not get so worked up about a handful of opinions on a graffiti forum. oh, and of course you're free to reply with more of the same. bye for now.
  3. *sigh*..i'm so glad to see this back and forth shit never gets old for you..... i'd accept, but the sincerity is too much(same with the accuracy). i know, it's alot more fun to yank your panties way up your ass so you can foist your shit on somebody else rather than ask for clarification of some sort, but it seems that wouldn't allow you the opportunity to make yourself feel superior and special on this here bastion of scholarly prose called crossfire. i understand you really have an issue with my generalised statements pretty much all the time(and i'm sorry i can't spend the same amount of time on my posts as you do, laying down the law and all), but in the future, you could ask for some clarification/specifics instead of trying to tell me that what i was really trying to do was make a specific, black and white assertion of logic about ww2 or rwanda, 2 really great examples you conveniently plucked from the mud. that'd be swell for the inevitable next instance where you just can't stand not to quote me and continue this positive exchange of (imaginary) words.
  4. <!--QuoteBegin-BURLAP@Mar 31 2006, 03:50 PM the favoured truth is that american intervention is "defense"..protecting democracy and all those sorts of cheery things..which in a way is sort of true, but in a completely twisted and brutal way. Quoted post By this logic, World War II was also an illegal action and wasn't in self defense. The Germans never attacked or held any of our soil. The Japanese only held a remote piece of Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and we fought them across the Pacific until we obliterated two of their cities (way overkill brah). This logic would also call any preventative military actions illegal and imperialist ect, like what we could have done in Rwanda to prevent genocide or what many of you have suggested we do in Darfur. (I can hear it already "No Janjaweed neva called me a nigga! Bring our troops home!") On a side note, the condescension, ignorance, and self righteousness that is literally dripping off many of you in this thread on the views of US servicemen are amazing and also exactly what I expected to hear. God bless America, home of the selfish and land of the ungrateful. Enjoy your right to talk shit about the government, your oil and your SUVs, your food, your cozy warm beds, your colleges, your Prozac and your weed, and the fact that you don’t speak German… because the very same poor redneck, inferior to your massive intellectual prowess, misinformed, and stupid, who got suckered into murdering the other team in such an arbitrary way, have gave you those rights with his blood. Speaking of Orwell, there is some quote that your reactions are bringing to mind. Something about sleeping safe in your beds at night? Eh, must be a misquotation because it disagrees with what I use his politics for. Quoted post [/b] oh cool, you can speak for my logic, then extrapolate some convenient examples that fit your political point of view into a nice and neat black and white portrait...how great, now i can sleep well tonight knowing you bothered to take time out of your busy day job as a librarian at the pentagon to get all..'condescending' and 'self righteous'.
  5. that's funny..i guess it would depend on what time period you're referring to because if you look at US invasions and meddling over the last, at least, couple of decades, the favoured truth is that american intervention is "defense"..protecting democracy and all those sorts of cheery things..which in a way is sort of true, but in a completely twisted and brutal way. same goes for terrorism...the US is never the one doing the terror because they call it "counter-terrorism". it's a fun little game. in case people haven't noticed, US elites have a thing for orwell.
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    Cyborg Insects

    how about this action... http://news.com.com/Bacteria+could+power+t..._3-6050161.html Bacteria could power tiny robots By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: March 15, 2006, 1:02 PM PST A strain of bacteria that releases electrons as a waste product could become the secret ingredient for developing fuel cells for spy drones and other small robots. Researchers at Rice University and the University of Southern California have embarked on a project to harness the power of Shewanella oneidensis, a microorganism that essentially spits lightning. Rather than consume oxygen to turn food into energy, Shewanella consumes metals. The waste product of its metabolic process comes in the form of excess electrons stripped from the metals but not recombined in subsequent chemical reactions. The bacteria lives in soil, water and other environments and can extract its necessary nutrients from a variety of materials. In a fuel cell, the idea is that colonies of Shewanella will attach themselves to the anode, a component inside fuel cells and batteries that gathers electrons, and produce electrons. "You can feed them pretty much what is available," said Andreas Luttge, an associate professor of earth sciences and chemistry at Rice. "The goal would be to feed them waste water and produce energy." Hybrid fuel cells--where one strain of bacteria feeds off the waste product of another to produce electricity--are also possible. Microbes could become one of the crucial ingredients in the future of the energy industry. Researchers at Stanford University have isolated a microbe that turns light into hydrogen, which could become a fuel source. Meanwhile, Craig Venter, the first person to map the human genome, has formed a company that will try to develop energy-producing microbes. While the concept is feasible, researchers now have to figure out how to optimize the processes involved in creating a fuel cell. Kenneth Nealson, the USC Wrigley chair in environmental studies and professor of earth sciences and biological sciences, will head up the research on altering the genetic pathways of Shewanella for maximum electron production. Nealson is one of the pioneers of geobiology and has conducted extensive research on how microbes survive in oxygen poor environments. Luttge and others at Rice will experiment with the anode to improve bacterial attachment and other parameters. In the next five years, the team wants to develop a fuel cell that can propel itself. The research is funded by $4.4 million from the Department of Defense's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative. The Defense Department is determined to put more robots in the field to transport equipment, conduct battle operations, or serve as reconnaissance vehicles. Conceivably, a small robot powered by a bacteria fuel cell could shuttle a camera or listening device unobtrusively next to someone.
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    Cyborg Insects

    soooo...what about that cat casek? is there a newer improved version of the 60's CIA fuzzer?
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    Cyborg Insects

    the cat is an old school cia thing...it had an antennae in it's tail and was supposed to eavesdrop on the russians, but i believe it got smucked by a car in the process.
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    Cyborg Insects

    i haven't heard, and i don't think i want to know.
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    Cyborg Insects

    U.S. military plans to make insect cyborgs By SHAUN WATERMAN UPI Homeland and National Security Editor http://www.upi.com/inc/view.php?StoryID=20...12-073227-3194r WASHINGTON, March 12 (UPI) -- Facing problems in its efforts to train insects or build robots that can mimic their flying abilities, the U.S. military now wants to develop "insect cyborgs" that can go where its soldiers cannot. The Pentagon is seeking applications from researchers to help them develop technology that can be implanted into living insects to control their movement and transmit video or other sensory data back to their handlers. In an announcement posted on government Web sites last week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, says it is seeking "innovative proposals to develop technology to create insect cyborgs," by implanting tiny devices into insect bodies while the animals are in their pupal stage. As an insect metamorphoses from a larva to an adult, the solicitation notice says, its "body goes through a renewal process that can heal wounds and reposition internal organs around foreign objects, including tiny (mechanical) structures that might be present." The goal is to create technology that can achieve "the delivery of an insect within five meters of a specific target located at hundred meters away, using electronic remote control, and/or global positioning system." Once at the target, "the insect must remain stationary either indefinitely or until otherwise instructed ... (and) must also be able to transmit data from (Department of Defense) relevant sensors ... includ(ing) gas sensors, microphones, video, etc." The move follows challenges the agency says it has encountered in its efforts to train insects to detect explosives or other chemical compounds, and to mimic their flight and movement patterns using small robots. Several years ago, DARPA launched a $3 million project to train honeybees to find landmines. According to a report by the American Forces Press Service, scientists used sugar-soaked sponges treated with explosives to get the bees to identify the smell as a possible food source. But last week's solicitation says the project didn't work out. "These activities have highlighted key challenges involving behavioral and chemical control of insects... Instinctive behaviors for feeding and mating -- and also for responding to temperature changes -- prevented them from performing reliably," it says. As far as the development of purely robotic or mechanical unmanned aerial vehicles -- so-called micro-UAVs -- the solicitation says that developing energy sources both powerful and light enough "present(s) a key technical challenge." Both sets of challenges "might be effectively overcome" by the development of insect cyborgs, says the solicitation. The devices DARPA wants to implant are micro-electro-mechanical systems, or MEMS. MEMS technology uses tiny silicon wafers like those used as the basis for computer microchips. But instead of merely laying circuits on them, MEMS technology can actually cut and shape the silicon, turning the chip into a microscopic mechanical device. The solicitation envisages the implanted device as a "platform" onto which "various microsystem payloads can be mounted ... with the goal of controlling insect locomotion, sens(ing) local environment, and scaveng(ing) power." "Possible methods of locomotion control may be sensory manipulation, direct muscle interface, or neural interface to the insect," says the document, known as a Broad Agency Announcement. It goes on to say that sensory manipulation, for instance by projecting ultrasonic vibrations or ejecting pheromones, is likely to be species-specific, whereas technology to directly control insect muscles or brains "may be more general." DARPA believes that the heat and mechanical power generated by the insects themselves as they move around "may be harnessed to power the microsystem payload" eliminating the need for batteries or other power systems. The objective is to transform the insects into "predictable devices that can be used for various micro-UAV missions requiring unobtrusive entry into areas inaccessible or hostile to humans." Among potential missions, says the solicitation, would be the collection of "explosive signatures from within buildings, caves, or other inaccessible locations." Although flying insects like dragonflies and moths are "of great interest," the document says, "Hopping and swimming insects could also meet final demonstration goals." Implanting the devices during pupation is key, says the document, because "the insects are immobile and can be manipulated without interference from instinctive motion." As part of their honeybee training project, DARPA glued tiny radio transmitters to the bees, to help track their movement. The solicitation says that the healing processes which insects go through as they change from larvae into adults "are expected to yield more reliable bio-electromechanical interface... as compared to adhesively bonded systems to adult insects." Inserting the devices in pupae could also "enable assembly-line like fabrication of hybrid insect-MEMS interfaces, providing a considerable cost advantage," says the solicitation. DARPA will hold a day-long conference for contractors interested in submitting proposals on March 24. © Copyright 2006 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved
  11. i find felony fights repulsive.
  12. uh, aren't dyncorp the guys that were also caught trafficking young sex workers to saudi royals awhile back..?
  13. well i can only take so much jones before he starts getting a little too kooky. you gotta admit he gets pretty revved up and kooky casek.. anyway, i've said it before, his scene in waking life is one of the best in that whole movie. his worldview isn't so much an issue for me, it's how he fills in the blanks. and i'm sorry, but he does not have documents to prove all of his claims. besides, since when are news articles official documents....
  14. don't worry bob, i'm sure your prayer will be answered one of these days. either that or there will be a massive and deep rooted shift in human conscience whereby hippy culture will once again flourish and peace will be upon us all....either way you're fucked.
  15. alex jones, is that ^you? anyhooey..this stuff gets a little hard to stand behind after you read through 50 different web sourced articles by people that you have really no way of verifying how legitimate they are and such..especially when the claims get demonstrably outrageous. i mean, i learned about northwoods by reading james bamford books, but at least he's got some credentials that mean something. alex jones is a dude who uses kinda shitty tactics in his presenting his theories, which is interesting. like i noticed he likes to use kinda creepy/spooky ambient soundscapes for some of his docs, implying quite effectively some inherently nefarious and deeply disturbing reality that pretty much resembles a fearmongering sort of angle. i remember hearing some radio show and they had some callers phone in and they were defending jones with just hilarious shit...like 'how do you know jones is telling the truth maam?'...'he just is-HE JUST IS DAMMIT!'. if people have these deep urges to question the govt, wicked-awesome, they and everybody should on a regular basis. as i mentioned earlier though, if you're going to spend 25 minutes of detailed debunkery on say, the pentagon hit, don't follow it up with a completely ridiculous and unverifiable 10second soundbyte accusation it was actually a patriot missile. it just undermines what probably took months in about the 1 second it takes to absorb the accusation.
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