Paranoia

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: Jeri
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 08:58 PM

Oh, you're still gonna get blamed.
On the internet, logic is a goldfish.

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: BTNG
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 09:03 PM

and on the internet non one knows you're a dog...

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: gnu
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 09:26 PM

Brilliant.

I think.

I hope.

I have faith.

We'll see, eh?

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: Max
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 09:29 PM

Ahhh yes, but this time they won't be able to find me.

(megalomania filter)

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: gnu
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 09:35 PM

They?

Hehehehehehee. Sorry... I had to!

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 09:40 PM

Imagine the paranoia of a German Jew in 1934.
The mood is omninous but still attributable to silly paranoia.

Gradually it feels more real until overnight on Krystalnacht there is longer room for doubt for victims and perpetraors alike.

Year seven of the Bush administration felt similar to 1936 Germany;

caged pens for free speech, homeland security researching the books people checked out of my local library, warrantless wiretaps, secret break ins to homes, personal firebombs found in yard, sick and evil rumor campaigns, patriotic war cries ad absurdum. with us or against us, tip lines, focused hate campaigns on the radio 24/7, no travel bans, push for national IDs and birth certifide passports to visit Canada, jailing people without rule of law but by Presidential order, TORTURE...

Yeah it was getting hairy here. Then they took all the money supply away and gave it to the Uber rich.

Suddenly the super patriot saw himself as a target and victim of der leader and wised up at least to the point of suspicion. Then he lost his job, his house, his [ension, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and all the talk radio shock troops had a different ring to it. Mr uber patriot was mad but twisted into a neurotic pretzel.
At least his guns and Bible remained unchanged. But then a BLACK man is President? This was the fault of those socialist intellectuals for sure. Then a rumor that Obama would take away the ammunition led to an all time hoarding and mass sales of bullets the country has ever seen. Now the former Bush patriot had all the guns and ammunition but not their kids, they still went to war. Some did not return. All the Hope and all the change did not bring jobs back to Bush patriots again.

If the economic collapse did not occure until after the election, McCain and Palin would in fact be in office and corporate fascism would have devoured even more to the point of 50% unemployment, no auro companies left and no means to counter actual stark starvation in America. Believe me, the current Depression could have been much worse. The form of fascist corporate dictatorship during the Bush years would have evolved into something similar to 1938 Germany.

We are not out of the Bush woods yet. Today America has more factory prisons than Germany.

Thank God OWS has spread. If it had waited another year, the crack down by authority would possibly be similar to Syria.

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: Max
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 09:44 PM

This isn't the internet, this is the mudcat.

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: Max
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 09:49 PM

Dark stuff Donuel, what a buzz-kill, cheer up. :)

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 05:09 AM

Max - You are a genius!

My plan ahead is the grandest yet to not please more.

I'm going to make it my mission statement

:D tG

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 10:15 AM

my Google Chrome home page with the recently visited pages screen shots still shows the paranoia eyes for Mudcat. How do I get rid of it?

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 12:45 PM

I'm with Janie...scratching my head.
I'm not paranoid, 'cause I KNOW what I say makes little difference in the long run.

I'm not sure how *I* would handle it if I had created and had to maintain something that does make a difference.

I do know I just spent a delightful 20 minutes reading a thread on "Ricky-do-dum day" and playing videos posted.

(I can't say that I ever a serious problem in my 16 years here with anything Max 'inflicted' on me....including self-referential commentaries that read like M.C. Escher doing Emily Dickenson on LSD.... what ever THAT means.)

May I have some more, please?

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 01:19 PM

No, this has to be a trap, you see, because right above this section it says that this section is closed. It's a variant of the logic-game "Ignore this instruction". Those who enter this section and follow the rules will enter oscillatory feedback.

Well I think it's funny.

But in other areas of life negative feedback is performing its desired role of reducing undesirable manifestations.

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: GUEST,999
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 01:33 PM

Well, that's the last time I have a psilocybin-mushroom omelet for breakfast.

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: BTNG
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 01:53 PM

"undesirable manifestations."

Oh...? is that what it is? and here's me thinking I was having flashbacks caused by drugs I didn't take...Whew!!

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 02:16 PM

"oscillatory feedback" Is that like kissing a mirror?

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: GUEST,999
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 03:29 PM

"A two transistor CMOS inverter has the two transistor gates coupled together by a coupling capacitor. D-C gate bias is supplied to each transistor through high value resistors. The P-channel transistor is biased one threshold below V.sub.DD and the N-channel transistor is biased one threshold above ground. The biasing voltages are developed through the use of a current mirror so that the biasing is independent of processing variables and temperature. This form of biasing renders the circuit class B regardless of the source to drain voltage and ensures low current operation. A crystal oscillator created using such an inverter and biasing will operate at voltages substantially below sum of P and N thresholds and at a current level about one-fifth of that of a conventional CMOS oscillator.

Inventor: Rapp; A. Karl (Los Gatos, CA)"

Looks like it, Bill. Rapp uses the term mirror in his abstract; however, he don't say nothin' 'bout no kissin'!

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: Max
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 03:35 PM

Nice backhand Richard. Sharp.

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 03:44 PM

♫ "As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!"♫

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 05:24 PM

Can that be sung to the tune of The Deserter?

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 05:28 PM

Trespassers W

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 07:57 PM

MAXimum respect!

Subject: RE: Paranoia
From: Max
Date: 06 Nov 11 - 05:57 AM

"This is a mournful discovery.
1)Those who agree with you are insane
2)Those who do not agree with you are in power."
― Philip K. Dick, Valis