Posted on November 10, 2005, by jank in Premise.

No, seriously.

The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz. According to the FCC, These bands are supposedly reserved for ‘‘radio location’‘ (ie, GPS), and other communications with satellites (see, for example, [3]). The 2.6 Ghz band coincides with mobile phone technology. Though not affiliated by government, these bands are at the hands of multinational corporations.

How cool is that? The VRWC owns the spectrum that tin foil hats amplify.

Posted on November 10, 2005, by etrigan in Rants.

I wasn’t going to outright praise the voters of Dover, PA for voting out the 8 (of 9) school board members who installed intelligent design into 9th grade science curriculum. I think it’s great that the community so overwhelmingly made their voices heard with the most powerful tool available to US citizens. Even though I’ve argued that the question is moot regarding ID(intelligent design) vs. evolution, this is a real bellwether that the voters did the right thing: they are being threatened by God’s doddering blathering idiot, Pat Robertson.

Posted on November 10, 2005, by etrigan in Paranoia.

This is for jank:

America’s gaggle of “Minuteman” long-range nuclear missiles went on line for the first time during the Cuban missile crisis in 1960. But the world was supposedly protected from mutual assured destruction by the “Permissive Action Links” (PALs) which required an 8-digit combination in order to launch. … For seventeen years, during the height of the nuclear crises of the Cold War, the code remained all zeros, and was even printed in each silo’s launch checklist for all to see. The codes remained this way up until 1977, when the service was pressed into activating the McNamara locks with real launch codes in place.