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  3. White Fragility

    in General Discussion - Any topic is welcome here!!!

    Posted · Edited by Sim_Player

    I actually, never knew my father and was curious.

     

    Through Ancestry.com, I may have found him, in just the last 24 hours.

     

    Found the marriage license, using their tools.

     

    Found his middle name and his birthdate.

     

    I ran it through a search engine that found a match (same name and birthday) in the state that my parents seperated

     

    My parents married at 17 and 18.

     

    What if you met your son, for the first time, 45 years later?

     

    WAY OFF TOPIC, SORRY.

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  7. Well, duh

    in General Discussion - Any topic is welcome here!!!

    Posted · Edited by Sim_Player

    Honestly concepts like registration and the ATF's database are child's play. They've been obsolete for years.

     

    With what has been leaked, we know that the NSA can monitor call records, SMS/MMS records and content, EXIF and GPS location data, both embedded in photos taken electronically by your device, as well as in real time while the device is powered on. (Ever wondered how Google Maps knows there's traffic in a certain spot on I-95 or Pokemon GO knows where to make that Pikachu appear? The device streams real-time location data to Google unless opted out...if you think I'm making this up, visit Your Google Maps Timeline ) On top of this your home broadband and all social media and web use are also capable of being monitored.

     

    And it's not a forcible effort, either. Cell/Broadband providers such as AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner, as well as content companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Skype, Twitter, and countless other companies all willingly hand over your personal identifiable proprietary information to the NSA. Some are happily complicit, others are powerless to say no, but publish the volume of requests publicly to try and draw attention to the matter. For example, Facebook gave out the information of 21,000 US users in the first half of 2013. Google gave out 41,000.

     

    At the end of the day, anything you've typed, said, posted, viewed, sent, received, has or at least can be viewed. So you can say you sold your guns but that pic you posted on the Saiga boards last week has your GPS coordinates in the EXIF data.

     

    I guess for now, the saving grace is that there is simply so much data being collected by so many massive agencies, that it's all just noise, static. But one day, when the compiling gets better and the data more organized, that will be the end of privacy as you know it.

     

    This is why Digital Privacy is, in my opinion, the #1 issue of our time. You know how they say there's no First Amendment without the Second? Well there's no Fourth Amendment (and the first and second gone soon after) with modern technology unless things change.

    I usually use three more layers of protection, when I'm not visiting here.

     

    VPN

    TOR

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    1984, what was that about??

     

    No face-space or twit-wit here.

  9. Model Building. let's see some pics...

    in General Discussion - Any topic is welcome here!!!

    Posted · Edited by Sim_Player

    Cool thread, I have been building models for many years but my newest hobby is "Fly By Video" RC model Airplanes and Racing Quads for an adrennalin push

     

    I have a video camera installed in the plane and a wireless video transmitter that will send a live video signal to a wireless LCD video screen inside Virtual Reality goggles....Its a total immersion experience you think your are in the plane flying it, I also have a second set of goggles to take a co-pilot for a ride, watch the video you may find it interesting

     

    video signal transmits farther than I can fly the plane so I am limited to 1.5 kilometers.... at this time

     

     

    fpv.jpg

    THIS THREAD HAS JUST BEEN OFFICIALLY HIGHJACKED BY....

     

    A badass new hobby! That is cool beyond fun!

     

    (I wasn't satisfied by my last model, an F-16C because.... I was currently crewing an F-16 and could not include all of the detail that I saw everyday!)

     

    In the 90's, before I joined, a buddy of mine gave me a model that he finished of an A-10.

     

    It was very nice.

     

    I finished it by piercing it with hot needles to add battle damage, LOL (it was during the first Gulf War).

     

    The look on my friend's face was shock, at first.

     

    Plastic models never look look real because, the paint is different.

  21. New gun rush???

    in General Discussion - Any topic is welcome here!!!

    Posted · Edited by Sim_Player

    AK availability is spotty because imports are still being impacted by military contracts.

     

    Good news is that IO and RAS47 rifles are available pretty much everywhere. :haha2:

     

    I remember seeing ads for the WASRs, with single stack mags. Users had to cut the receiver, to use regular mags.

     

    Was it a stupid import restriction?

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