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originally posted by: cherokeetroy
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originally posted by: pteridine
a reply to: Justoneman
Worse was an undergrad physics final. 0800 start had to finish by midnight of the following day. Five questions. The only restriction was that it had to be your own work -- no consults. Library access granted (when books and journals were the sources of technical information). Slide rules and log tables permitted but not required. As many exam blue books as needed.
Over caffeinated and bedraggled we all discussed the exam. No one could figure it out and we thought we were doomed. Professor Leyn casually explained that no one else had ever figured out the questions, either, and he wanted to see our approaches to the problems.
This is similar to the Q clock. We are discussing the approaches and trying to find the key(s) to unlock the code but there are no answers that we can be sure of. Maybe the code changes with each post or alternates between posts in a cyclical fashion. (In a past life, I often operated a KL-7 encryption machine doing semi-routine secret squirrel stuff and that device, like the Enigma, had a variable substitution code changing the code with each position in the line. It is now old and retired like me as this was a while ago. I was one of the honest people that never claimed to be at Woodstock. It was an ocean away and we had no knowledge of the event until after the fact.)
Maybe some drops are marked that say pay attention to this and ignore the rest or take every third word, etc. We'll crack the coding when we see the answers.
originally posted by: FlyingFox
a reply to: crankyoldman
I bought a decent amount of gold securities on Monday, based on the idea that it's overdue for a gain, and will never "fail" compared the to cheap dollars it replaces, for me. It's a default position that I am comfortable with.
It's just that nobody can create it out of thin air like cash, Bitcoin or similar commodities. Materials and energy, on a war footing, kept me at -3% when S&P went down like 12-14% last month.
originally posted by: FlyingFox
a reply to: Justoneman
All we need is one law, don't bother anyone else.
originally posted by: daskakik
a reply to: PokeyJoe
I was going to add this to my post above but since you asked, the report says it was done under Executive Order 12333. That EO is dated Dec. 4, 1981 so it started under the Reagan admin.
I'm sure you might be able to opine on that better than me if you so desire.
@NEDemocracy
Though Guatemala has been plagued by government corruption & widespread violence, there is an uplifting story in the unprecedented mobilization of its people to take action against corruption.
Now this is one CIA covert operation, and it's interesting to note that the Senate Report said that the Agency conducted over a 14-year period, 900 major covert operations and several thousand minor covert operations, including domestic operations. The CIA, by its charter, is explicitly prohibited from being involved in domestic covert operations. Of course, President Reagan has changed all that with Executive Order 12333. But until that time, this had been explicitly prohibited.
The CIA's Deadly Deceits and the Vietnam War w/ Ralph McGehee (1986)
originally posted by: Gravelbone
a reply to: EndtheMadnessNow
"The financial, banking and economic shadow world...is the dirty little secret of the Western economy. It is a form of money creation that is effectively unchallenged by any form of oversight or accountability as we understand it."
I'll go with Babylonian Money Magic for $500, Alex.
Military Events, [11/02/2022 20:49]
📝 What the Iranian authorities of the Islamic regime are thinking about is just the illusions of their defective minds, and it will be their turn.
You have nowhere to go, those whose hands are stained with the blood of many will be punished, fourteen hundred years of free eating are over ...
originally posted by: FlyingFox
a reply to: crankyoldman
I bought a decent amount of gold securities on Monday, based on the idea that it's overdue for a gain, and will never "fail" compared the to cheap dollars it replaces, for me. It's a default position that I am comfortable with.
It's just that nobody can create it out of thin air like cash, Bitcoin or similar commodities. Materials and energy, on a war footing, kept me at -3% when S&P went down like 12-14% last month.