See other 4play Articles
Title: LP NOTICE: Server crash, downtime: donations are needed
Source:
[None]
URL Source: http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/ ... .cgi?ArtNum=270728&Disp=22#C22
Published: Aug 1, 2009
Author: Goldi Robinson
Post Date: 2009-08-01 23:53:12 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: None
Views: 2235
Comments: 96
Hi guys; We had a hardware malfunction, and our sysop has jerry-rigged a repair. One of the fans that cools the system/ motherboard (?) malfunctioned and died. The motherboard overheated and the entire system shut down. We do not know yet if irrepairable damage has occurred on the motherboard. If we have more crashes we will need to replace the motherboard. We did do a memory upgrade which should help the processor from overworking, and with that and the jerry rig, it may hold for a while. The memory was purchased a while back but this is the first time we've been inside the facility to have it installed in our server. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask for donations so if the motherboard crashes we can quickly replace it. Service calls are $300 for one hour and $125 an hour for each additional hour and an appointment has to be made. Having some funds available for these repairs will ensure the downtime is as minimal as possible. Since we have not had a decent fundraiser in sometime due to the system instability (our last fundraiser was disrupted after 2 hours) we need to raise money now. I paid the $425 from my personal funds. If we need a follow up repair visit, we can't depend on me having the funds available from my personal account. I may or may not be able to monitor this thread as a fundraising thread, as I don't want to keep the thread too active - and crash the system. Right now I'm a little concerned about ongoing operations until we get the fan replaced and know if the motherboard was heat damaged. I am sorry for having to ask you all for donations during these hard times. However, we still owe our ISP funds in arrears of about $800 plus a couple months of usage for about $1200 total. They have been very understanding but they have bills too, and we do need to pay them. It's a bit embarrassing to have to ask them for assistance to access the server when we owe them so much. I hope we can raise about $2000 to $3000 to clear our bills, have funds to pay bandwith fees, and have some funds available for necessary repairs. Thanks and I'll keep you apprised of our situation as I get more information...unless the system crashes. At that point, you'll know that repairs will have to be made. Thanks everyone!
Poster Comment: I told you so. She's another Rimmy Robinson.
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
Comments (1-56) not displayed.
.
.
.
#57. To: Hayek Fan (#55)
I'll have to take your word for that. I know more diesel mechanics than I do computer technicians.
Of course, this fails to take into account jew's natural predilection for cheating, but the eggheads had to omit that for PC. Yes, Bernie Madoff, Alan Greenscam, Ben Bernanke, Jonathan Pollard, Larry Franklin, the Rosenbergs, Timmy Geithner, Goldman-Sachs, Lucky Larry, etc. Yep, impressive. What a pantload. PC won't let them say inbreeding, that'd be anti-semitic. I'd say just about anything published about jews after 1960, at the latest, can be dismissed offhand as government propaganda. Real world experience and common sense doesn't support this high jew IQ business. Besides, if jews are such flippin' geniuses, how is it they keep managing to get themselves holocausted?
Real world experience and common sense doesn't support this high jew IQ business. That and they had a hand in formulating the test. This test doesn't bother to define intelligence and restricts the outcome to only two narrow fields: linguistics and mathematics. These tests fail to take into account any notion of common sense. My oldest brother scored a 143 on the IQ test while devoid of common sense necessary to excell in life. He makes a living in the elite "cleaning arts" field these days. He could ace those tests but not balance a checkbook. He's not the lone ranger in this type of high IQ but life skill challenged type.
You left out Legs Diamond, Bugsy SIEGEL, and the rest of the Jewish Mafiosi.
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
Don't forget the notorious kings of the porn industry, making a quick buck off the goyim flesh. Larry Silverstein, insurance cheat extraordinaire. Louis Lepke Buchalter (1897-1944) was nicknamed "Lepkele" (little Louis) by his mother. J. Edgar Hoover called him "the most dangerous criminal in the United States." All those dual citizen traitorous thugs who have infiltrated the US government too, along with all the spies.
Certainly it makes for a long, if not distinguished, list.
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
No,but it saddens me to say I'm not surprised. After all,it's "free" medical care. sneakypete posted on 2009-08-02 13:31:02 ET Reply Trace Private Reply "it's "free" medical care." Yep Free. Right SP, Free. Nobodies paying for, not the taxpayer, for sure. FREE! Really does illustrate your cognitive awareness.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" Witness. You would be a good neighbor.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" Oh they are true. All natural baby, all natural.
You would be a good neighbor. Awww now aren't you sweet. Anything I can do for you, just let me know.
I'll Private Mail you after midnight ;)
"Satan / Cheney in "08" Ooooo, I'll be waiting on the edge of my seat!
Ooooo, I'll be waiting on the edge of my seat! There really has to be something remarkably inappropriate to respond to this but I just can't - nevermind.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" Would you guys like a private booth?
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. No, I know how much you like to watch.
I got the kill button queued up in case my wife walks in.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. People on internet discussion boards are just people you are friendly with,not real friends. There is no reason to get your feelings hurt if some you considered to be friends didn't quit LP in outrage and follow you over here. Many may not even know what happened. I am honestly not trying to be rude,but if you can't understand this you need to spend a little less time in front of a monitor and more time in real life. Not a bad post at all.
Neither one of you seems to understand what I'm about. I am an activist. I've done rallies at the capitol etc. I meet my internet friends in real life if possible. I do things with them. Many people here know who I am and what I do, not just as farmfriend on the internet. It is this interaction that has gotten me in trouble though. There was a member of this forum who accused me of trying to garner personal information for nefarious reasons. I am who I am on and off the web. You don't want to me my friend and just keep it at internet acquaintances, fine. I can live with that. But when I count someone as a friend I hold to the definition you gave for my internet friends as well. I think that is why it hurts so much when others pretend to be friends but really aren't because well it's just the internet after all.
Hmm - sounds Orwellian.
You don't know me, but I'm glad to see you. You got a bad deal there.
LOL!!! Did she really post that? OMG! Too funny... way too funny!!!
Thank you.
You're welcome. tips hat
i can relate to your sentiment, maggie. with the exception of a handful, my closest friends now are all people i first met on internet forums!
I want to be your friend. More than that, I want to be your best friend. And I think through time I have proven that I admire your opinions and considerations as you you strike me as a courageous and bonafide person not just capable of but with ample capacity to suggest honest political opinions with a spirit of individual determinism. Farmfriend, you have more enthuse in a single post than piles of posts by many people exemplfying grand standards of perspective which I love to see and cherish. Never think of me as ever hurting or harming you in any way. I think the world of you; you are beautiful and one of the most creative posters I have run across on the Internet.
I don't know what you did, but Uncle Buck hates your guts.
You see, this is the problem of the Internet.... some wayward, out of pocket BS is steamrolling down the highway which is a GODDAMNED LIE. I have never met Farmfriend although I have always wanted to. I love her for her political wit and enthusiasm not just on Freedom4um but on several other chat sites as well that she and I have discussed politics upon for years before ever seeing your nickname tonight. You are disgusting to me. You know nothing about the history or recent considerations other than making rude and obviously silly remarcks.
Ha, you know who I am, I'm your best friend! Nice to see again too Buck. Goes to bed laughing
Goes to bed laughing You are no friend of mine. But, you have my promise to ferret out your REAL connections.
The high average intelligence of the Ashkenazi Jews (essentially, Jews from Northern Europe whose ancestors spoke Yiddish, ancestors of the great majority of Jewish Americans) has had an enormous impact on the modern world. (Jews from the Muslim world score somewhat lower than Ashkenazis, which leads to a sizable social gap within Israel.) The Economist reported: "Ashkenazim generally do well in IQ tests, scoring 12-15 points above the mean value of 100..." Note the bias in the hypothesis - it is assumed, without proof, that intelligence is a genetically inheritable trait. A hypothesis for which there is no evidence. Because of that assumed bias then it becomes a "self fulfilling prophecy" i.e., that all differences between population groups can be ascribed to genetic cause i.e., nature not nurture. As well, at play, is the fallacy of division i.e., that what is true for an individual is true for a group. One of the known biases of I.Q. testing is literacy level i.e., persons with higher literacy levels have better comprehension of a written I.Q. test and will score higher than those with a lower literacy and/or different vocabulary than that assumed in the writing of the test. A great case study of this was WWII vintage Military I.Q. Tests which used a vocabulary common to city dwellers. Thus recruits coming from rural areas, and small towns, who had a different common vocabulary scored lower, sometimes much lower, not because they were less intelligent but because the test was written in a vocabulary they did not use. Returning to the article and its presumptions: "Interestingly, the Ashkenazi cognitive advantage seems to be mostly in verbal and numeric, rather than visual, skills." So, we return to vocabulary and its affect on I.Q. testing. Given that someone with a richer vocabularly is going to score higher than someone of equal intelligence with a smaller vocabulary then we can begin to understand the data in a different light - that of culture. So, I would offer as a counter hypothesis that one could, and in fact must in order to make an accurate measurement, control for literacy level. To ascribe the differences to any cause other than vocabulary, thus literacy level, is inherently erroneous. One can just as easily, and not without merit, assign the differences noted to the particular cultural bias toward or against education and literacy. That is not to say that there are differences in intelligence from individual to individual but to ascribe those differences to genetics is to assume a conclusion a priori' i.e., to a common genetic characteristic of a human subgroup. Differences between individuals are easily observable - we a all know people who are quick and bright and others who are just a little slow (or even a lot slow). And intelligence, raw I.Q. as measured on I.Q. tests, is not the only factor in evaluating the worth, or survival potential, of another individual. As the article pointed out the occupations open to Jews historically put a premium upon literacy. Throughout Western History one can find that Jews were often used as scribes and accountants. From the fall of Toledo in 1085, where the Muslim rulers used Jews in just that capacity, through the rise of literate Western "Civilization" one can find that Jews were heavily over represented in fields requiring literacy as those were among the few fields open to them. Therefore it became a cultural imperative, a survival necessity, to be literate, and to pursue a literate education. One can find this same trait of prizing literacy common to all of the groups who score high in I.Q. testing as a group. The Chinese, and Japanese, who have for centuries valued scholarship as one of the highest attainments an individual can seek, score highest among all groups. Is this because the Chinese are endowed genetically as a group with higher intelligence or is it because in their culture literacy is pushed almost manically? A quote I am fond of, and have used before, is that what you see is determined in no small part by what you know. So, if someone "knows" that intelligence is solely and only a genetic trait that is what they will "see". That is what their "knowledge" tells them and their viewpoint is established by that knowledge. If one goes through this article one can see that there is an underlying and unquestioned premise of Darwinian Selection i.e., that Darwin was right and that it is simply a matter of nature and not nurture, and yet that is not what the data tells us. It tells us that groups that have a cultural imperative valuing literacy score higher on I.Q. tests and that we also know that I.Q tests are as much a test of literacy as they are of intelligence. So, it seems perfectly natural to see individuals coming from cultural groups valuing literacy score higher on I.Q. Tests. As check on this we should be able to predict that groups that have a cultural bias against literacy would, as a group, score below average. So, is that true? Well we can take the mistaken hypothesis of the "Bell Curve", discarding the conclusion that it is genetic, and look at which groups fare best and worst. The group in America that fares worst are Black Americans, taken as a group, and therein we find a cultural bias against learning i.e., "you actin' white". In fact there is a strong cultural pressure to remain illiterate and poorly educated. Those who do not conform to that sadly twisted cultural bias are picked on, ostracized, and otherwise pressured to conform to the group norm of not valuing education. It is no mystery that with that viewpoint in place that blacks score lower on I.Q. tests - but it is because their group literacy level is lower and thus as a group they do worse on I.Q. tests which do demand literacy. Q.E. D.
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
Take heart buck, you have always been sweet to me and I pay no attention to wayward comments designed to spur contention. Especially now with so many people dropping by from LP.
I think it is possible to get to know people better on the internet as there is more mental interaction to start with.
Lol, the only thing I was trying to spur was some chuckles. Oh well.
Humor is difficult over the internet.
thank you for this excellent analysis and rebuttal to the article.
You are most welcome and I in turn thank you for the kind words. It is a subject upon which I have a great deal of interest. I do wish I had a late "edit" function since I caught another typo, and might tweak the wording here and there. However, I wrote it late at night and it shall stand as is. ;-)
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
I guess it has never occurred to you that I have spent more than a few minutes in military and VA hospitals,and was being sarcastic?
*and her favorite lust object.
There's a huge difference between a diesel mechanic and a computer repair technician. Computer techs are a dime a dozen compared to a factory trained diesel mechanic.
#58. To: christine (#50)
"Ashkenazim generally do well in IQ tests, scoring 12-15 points above the mean value of 100..."
Ashkenazi levels of real world accomplishment are impressive and thus support the IQ studies.
"A team of scientists at the University of Utah has proposed that the unusual pattern of genetic diseases seen among Jews of central or northern European origin, or Ashkenazim, is the result of natural selection for enhanced intellectual ability. The selective force was the restriction of Ashkenazim in medieval Europe to occupations that required more than usual mental agility… Ashkenazic diseases like Tay-Sachs, they say, are a side effect of genes that promote intelligence."
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#59. To: Esso, Christine (#58)
"Ashkenazim generally do well in IQ tests, scoring 12-15 points above the mean value of 100..."
#60. To: Esso (#58)
Yes, Bernie Madoff, Alan Greenscam, Ben Bernanke, Jonathan Pollard, Larry Franklin, the Rosenbergs, Timmy Geithner, Goldman-Sachs, Lucky Larry, etc. Yep, impressive.
#61. To: Original_Intent, Esso (#60)
You left out Legs Diamond, Bugsy SIEGEL, and the rest of the Jewish Mafiosi.
#62. To: abraxas (#61)
#63. To: sneakypete, christine (#28)
By the way Pete, you see that fine hospital that took out a grunts liver and he lost both legs????
#64. To: farmfriend (#33)
Anyone who knows my posting style knows I don't provoke anyone.
#65. To: Hayek Fan (#52)
Hey farmfiend...if the rumors of your double-D's are correct, then I'll be your friend!!!!
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
#66. To: tom007 (#64)
Witness.
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
#67. To: farmfriend (#66)
Awww now aren't you sweet. Anything I can do for you, just let me know.
#68. To: tom007 (#67)
I'll Private Mail you after midnight ;)
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
#69. To: farmfriend (#68)
'll Private Mail you after midnight ;)
#70. To: farmfriend, tom007 (#68)
www.righttokeepandbeararms.com
#71. To: randge, tom007 (#70)
Would you guys like a private booth?
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
#72. To: farmfriend (#71)
www.righttokeepandbeararms.com
#73. To: sneakypete, farmfriend (#51)
Friends are people who visit you,and who you visit. You share things and times together in real life. People who will risk their lives for you if necessary and do all sorts of little things for you even when it isn't necessary. People you have more in common with than just political viewpoints.
#74. To: buckeroo, sneakypete, Original_Intent, Lod, critter, turtle, twenty-twelve, wudidiz (#73)
Friends are people who visit you,and who you visit. You share things and times together in real life. People who will risk their lives for you if necessary and do all sorts of little things for you even when it isn't necessary. People you have more in common with than just political viewpoints.
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
#75. To: IDon'tThinkSo (#32)
Any critical or questioning response to a "special one" constitutes an attack and an attempt at censorship, thus banning is completely justified to allow Free Speech to flourish at LP.
#76. To: lucysmom (#29)
#77. To: Big Meanie (#36)
I recently learned that I have the Ashkenazi Jewish genes (Mitochondria type K), and my IQ was tested at 145 some time ago......"
#78. To: kUSS (#76)
#79. To: lucysmom (#78)
#80. To: farmfriend (#74)
#81. To: farmfriend (#74)
You don't want to [be]
me my friend and just keep it at internet acquaintances, fine. I can live with that. But when I count someone as a friend I hold to the definition you gave for my internet friends as well. I think that is why it hurts so much when others pretend to be friends but really aren't because well it's just the internet after all.
#82. To: farmfriend (#81)
#83. To: kUSS (#82)
I don't know what you did, but Uncle Buck hates your guts.
#84. To: buckeroo (#83)
#85. To: kUSS (#84)
Ha, you know who I am, I'm your best friend! Nice to see again too Buck.
#86. To: christine, Big Meanie, Esso, 2big2fail, Cynicom, IDontThinkSo, abraxas, farmfriend, bluegrass, noone222, Jethro Tull, CadetD, TwentyTwelve, wudidiz, all (#50)
(Edited)
"'It would be hard to overstate how politically incorrect this paper is,' said Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard, noting that it argues for an inherited difference in intelligence between groups. Still, he said, 'it's certainly a thorough and well-argued paper, not one that can easily be dismissed outright.'"
#87. To: buckeroo, kUSS (#83)
You see, this is the problem of the Internet.... some wayward, out of pocket BS is steamrolling down the highway which is a GODDAMNED LIE.
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
#88. To: christine (#80)
my closest friends now are all people i first met on internet forums!
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
#89. To: farmfriend (#87)
comments designed to spur contention
#90. To: kUSS (#89)
Lol, the only thing I was trying to spur was some chuckles. Oh well.
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
#91. To: Original_Intent (#86)
#92. To: christine (#91)
#93. To: tom007 (#63)
Really does illustrate your cognitive awareness.
#94. To: christine, farmfriend (#80)
my closest friends* now are all people i first met on internet forums!
This guy may be prowling 4um: |
Used Tires Amityville, Babylon, Lindenhurst
#95. To: Critter, christine (#94)
Mmmmm I could go for that.
*and her favorite lust object.
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
#96. To: Jethro Tull (#11)
OY Vey!
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest