taint.org: Justin Mason’s Weblog

Argh, it’s never easy.

After this post, the consensus was that nowadays, Eircom have a pretty good quality of service for their DSL offerings, taking both price and service into account. I was happy enough to go with that, so I ordered their “Eircom broadband always on 2MB and Eircom talktime anytime bundle”, back around the middle of April.

I had a great call with the sales agent, Hazel. Everything went swimmingly, we were all set for the modem to be delivered and the service to be up and running in 10 working days — by May 1st April 30th. I asked for an order reference number and she said I didn’t need one, it was all handled in their system. Great!

Unfortunately it seems the call centre staff never got that quality-of-service memo.

Come May 1st, there was no sign of the modem, so I rang Eircom’s order line to see how things were going. To my horror, the staff I talked to told me that there was no record of my previous order, or call… it was as if that call had never taken place at all. No part of the order had even started.

As a result, I’ve had to reorder from scratch. The previous 10 working days we’ve waited counts for nothing. (The agents lie through their teeth about this, though — one agent says they’ll send it out in the “next 3-5 days”, the next agent insists that we have to wait the full 10 days, and the next says somewhere in between — anything to get us off the line within 4 minutes.)

This is bad news, since we’re waiting on the broadband to move in — since I work from home, we can’t move in until we have a good ‘net connection.

We can’t even make a complaint to Eircom about this fuckup, because they refuse to take complaints without the original order number to reference — the one that “Hazel” told me wasn’t needed anymore. Now that’s bureaucracy. Attempts at escalation just wound up with a dead end, where supervisors had no names and had left the office at 10am anyway. >:(

Best of all, their online complaints system now takes a maximum message length of 400 characters, so you can’t even provide a detailed written complaint online anymore. (That is, not unless you submit the complaint in 15 separate parts…)

What a fiasco.

So we now have to wait until May the 15th. We’ve submitted the complaint via the aforementioned 15 parts, and postally; if they don’t take action on those, we’ll complain to Comreg (and let’s see what that’s worth).

But here’s a question — assuming they fail to deliver the second order within time this time around, can we cancel at that stage? There’s a minimum contract length of 6 months, but since the service hasn’t been delivered, I would hope that hasn’t started yet. The terms and conditions document says:

“Ready for Service date” (otherwise “RFS date”) means the date on which eircom establishes the Facility for the Customer.

3.1 This Agreement shall commence on the Ready for Service date and shall be for the Initial Period. Provided that this Agreement has not been terminated in accordance with its terms or in accordance with the Regulations, this Agreement shall thereafter automatically renew for successive six-month periods. For the purposes of this clause 3, a six-month period will be calculated from the anniversary of the RFS date.

3.2 The Customer may cancel its order for the Facility at any time prior to the RFS date. In the event of such cancellation by the Customer it shall be obliged to return any Kit, which may have been provided to it by eircom. Any Kit shall be returned to eircom by posting it to the freepost address detailed in the welcome pack. In the event of any Kit not being returned to eircom within fourteen (14) days of the cancellation of the Order for the Facility, the Customer shall be charged by eircom and shall pay to eircom such sum as is set out in the Regulations as being the charge payable in respect of the non-return of any Kit.

So I guess as long as the facility — the ADSL line — is not up and running, I’m clear to cancel, right? It’s a little worrying that the “facility” doesn’t include the “kit” — ie. the broadband modem, though; if they fuck up sending out the modem, but the line is up, am I liable for 200 Euros?

In terms of who are viable options to switch to — in my opinion it’s got to be fixed wireless, since everyone else now would have to go via Eircom’s exchanges anyway, and be delayed there. So — Irish Broadband. I know they had some pretty massive problems 2 or 3 years ago, but recently I’ve been hearing good things about them, Boards.ie has some reasonably good-sounding recent experiences, and half of my new neighbours (srsly!) are using them with great results. Anyone got recent news about how useful they are with service quality and install speed for their Breeze product in the D9/D11 area?

Alternatively, Ripwave might make a reasonable stop-gap option? 120 euros is the minimum fee (6 months at 18.95 per month), which is better than the money I’m paying now to live in two houses…

Alternatively anyone know an Eircom engineer in D9/D11 that can nip over to the exchange and plug in my connection on the DSLAM? ;)

Tags: broadband, bureaucracy, comreg, eircom, home, ibb, incompetence, ireland, irish-broadband, ripwave

I’m moving house. Naturally, first priority after getting the keys is getting the broadband set up ;)

Current broadband: BT DSL. Supposedly “up to” 3Mbps — however, as with most DSL connections in Ireland, it’s rate-adaptive RADSL, which means it trades off connection speed against distance to exchange and line quality.

Sadly, this has really deteriorated since the last time I checked! A “bing” test between the BT-supplied DSL router and the far end looks like this:

BING    10.18.72.1 (10.18.72.1) and 193.95.142.243 (193.95.142.243)
        44 and 108 data bytes (1024 bits)
193.95.142.243: minimum delay difference is zero, can't estimate link throughput
193.95.142.243:  6.966Mbps 0.147ms 0.143555us/bit
193.95.142.243: minimum delay difference is zero, can't estimate link throughput
193.95.142.243: 19.692Mbps 0.052ms 0.050781us/bit
193.95.142.243:  4.697Mbps 0.218ms 0.212891us/bit
193.95.142.243:  3.261Mbps 0.314ms 0.306641us/bit
193.95.142.243:  3.170Mbps 0.323ms 0.315430us/bit
193.95.142.243:  2.479Mbps 0.413ms 0.403320us/bit
193.95.142.243:  2.723Mbps 0.376ms 0.367187us/bit
193.95.142.243:  2.688Mbps 0.381ms 0.372070us/bit
193.95.142.243:  2.716Mbps 0.377ms 0.368164us/bit
193.95.142.243:  2.065Mbps 0.496ms 0.484375us/bit
193.95.142.243:  1.984Mbps 0.516ms 0.503906us/bit
193.95.142.243:  1.270Mbps 0.806ms 0.787109us/bit
193.95.142.243:  1.017Mbps 1.007ms 0.983398us/bit
193.95.142.243:  1.002Mbps 1.022ms 0.998047us/bit
193.95.142.243:  1.008Mbps 1.016ms 0.992187us/bit
193.95.142.243: 983.670Kbps 1.041ms 1.016602us/bit
193.95.142.243: 993.210Kbps 1.031ms 1.006836us/bit
193.95.142.243: 987.464Kbps 1.037ms 1.012695us/bit

--- 10.18.72.1 statistics ---
bytes   out    in   dup  loss   rtt (ms): min       avg       max   std dev
   44   762   758          0%           2.524     3.858    19.083     2.194
  108   762   762          0%           2.639     4.187    58.273     3.079

--- 193.95.142.243 statistics ---
bytes   out    in   dup  loss   rtt (ms): min       avg       max   std dev
   44   762   761          0%          13.061    20.025    78.689     8.226
  108   762   760          0%          14.213    17.954    61.137     4.697

--- estimated link characteristics ---
host                              bandwidth       ms
193.95.142.243                      987.464Kbps      10.536

987Kbps is not 3Mbps any more, not by a long shot. I’d say I now have a lot of new friends adding contention at the ol’ DSLAM. I’m paying way too much money for what I’m getting :(

(Update: actually, it may not be contention. Judging by boards.ie traffic, high-contention situations in Ireland are usually faster in the mornings and daytime, then slower from 4pm-9pm as the commuters and kids get home — however, this slowdown is pretty consistent across all times of day.)

(Update 2: as of right now, late afternoon on Apr 12, it’s the worst I’ve seen it — packet rates of 600Kbps, and packet loss of 5%-20%.)

On top of this, they have the really annoying daily disconnection policy, which I have hacked around with IPv6 and a VPN, but which still manages to waste my time and cause aggravation, even after frickin’ months of pissing about.

For this, and the packaged phone service, I’m paying just under EUR 60 per month, including all call charges and VAT.

At that price, Eircom are offering a pretty good bundle — free connection, free modem, 2Mbps downstream, 256Kbps upstream, unlimited free local and national calls at all times, 5% off calls to mobiles, 10c/min calls to the UK and US.

Now, a drop to 2Mbps may seem a lot, but bear in mind I’m getting just under 1 right now! I’m pretty sure the new gaff will have similar-quality lines and exchanges. Also, if I get the 2Mbps line, and the attenuation and S/N statistics indicate that it can support 3Mbps, I can always upgrade pretty easily.

The only problem now is getting over my revulsion at buying from Eircom, ugh…

Am I missing something? Does that Eircom bundle not include line rental maybe?

Tags: broadband, bt, dublin, eircom, esat, esat-bt, home, ireland, lazyweb.ie

Greetings from sunny Dublin, Ireland! (really!)

I’m now back in taint.org’s native timezone, although precariously set up and experiencing occasional interruptions. If you’re waiting for a mail from me, it may take a little more time.

I did have time to be interviewed last week by Karlin Lillington for this Guardian story:

To make sure customs agents could read his cat’s chip to match him to his Pet Passport on return to Europe, Mason bought his own scanner at a cost of some £200. “I didn’t want to risk the cat being impounded for six months’ quarantine at Heathrow,” he sighs.

It’s true.

Happy to be back — I think. Looking forward to my first pints, in over a year, of creamy Guinness in its native habitat. I also have a couple of half-written weblog entries I wrote on the plane, too…

Tags: bubba, cat, dublin, guardian, guinness, home, meta, rfid, travel

UNIX: a quick recap of a good tip combo picked up from ILUG recently. To paraphrase Conor Wynne’s original question:

What’s the best way to set up a secure connection between two hosts, possibly over the internet, using SSH, suitable for use from cron so that it can run via crontab without entering authentication manually?

Barry O’Donovan replied:

I suggested ssh keys without passphrases … in
http://www.barryodonovan.com/publications/lg/104/ and it includes instructions. … You can invoke rsync over ssh and specify a specific key with:

rsync -a -e ’ssh -i /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa-serverbackup’

Colm MacCárthaigh followed up with:

You can restrict what commands an ssh account can run in the ssh public key. This is how some of our more important projects (like Debian, FreshRPMS, and a few more) push us updates. The key looks like (jm: all on one line, no space between ‘no-pty,’ and ‘command’):

no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-pty, command=”/home/ximian/rsync-ximian-nolog &”
ssh-dss keydata username@blah

So, create a passwordless public key like so, and just change the command to whatver rsync runs.

Combined, that’s a useful tip — I knew about the ssh command restriction technique, but being able to use a specific single-purpose key from the ssh client is very useful.

(updated: mbp mailed to note some missing quotes in Barry’s command above; they’d been eaten by WebMake. drat.)

Tags: combo, command, home, ilug, key, recap, rsync, ssh, tip, unix, username

Meta: You might have noticed things being a bit quite around here recently. Unfortunately, it wasn’t for good reasons.

A close family member in Ireland died suddenly on Good Friday. Once we found out, being in Death Valley (of all places) that weekend, we made a mad dash back home for the removal, funeral, and so on. The past two weeks have been not so much fun, all in all.

I’m torn between eulogising here, and keeping it offline. All in all, I think it’d be better to not use this weblog for that; I don’t think it’d be appropriate. But he’ll be greatly missed.

Tags: bit, dash, family, friday, fun, good, home, member, meta, removal, weekend

UNIX: I’ve just made the first change to my core bash configuration in years, to add -b to the set command-line. It triggered some thinking about when the last one was.

It turns out, that apart from writing scripts and aliases frequently, I haven’t changed my commandline UI in any respect, since about 2 years ago. By contrast, I’ve been hacking about with GUI settings continually, new desktop backgrounds, themes, colours, etc. Odd!

Anyway, here’s the tip — it’s very handy, I find.

I changed to using a 2-line prompt, with the first line containing the time and the full working directory, in a ‘magic’ cut-and-pasteable format:

        : exit=0 Thu Jun 24 17:55:29 PDT 2004; cd /home/jm/DL
        : jm 1203...; 

Note that the prompt starts with “:”, which means that bash/sh will ignore the line until it hits “;”. The end result is that the entire line evaluates to “cd /home/jm/DL” when pasted. Hey presto, cd’ing several terminals to the same dir just involves triple-clicking in one, and middle-button-pasting into the others. nifty! Similarly, the second line has a little bit of prompt, but that snippet will be ignored when cut and pasted.

Having the exit status of the last command (bash var: $?) is useful too. The code:

  do_prompt () {
    echo ": exit=$? `date`; cd $PWD"
  }
  PROMPT_COMMAND='do_prompt $?'   # executed before every prompt
  do_prompt 0                     # set up first prompt
  PS1=": `whoami` \!"
  PS2="... >>; "            # continuation prompt
  PS1="$PS1...; "

Tags: bash, change, command, commandline, configuration, core, exit, home, line, respect, unix

Censorship: This is pretty funny — a friend writes that SonicWall’s ‘Content Filter’ has judged my home page and FOUND IT WANTING:

  The URL
  http://jmason.org/
  is currently rated as:
  category 4 - Pornography

w00t! It’s true, I have some pretty hot pics up there — the accuracy of their content filtering product amazes me!

Tags: category, censorship, content, filter, found, friend, home, page, sonicwall, url, wanting

Spam: WSJ: For Orlando Soto, No Day Is Complete Without Some Spam.

Mr. Soto routinely comes home to some 150 e-mail pitches, and he loves getting them all … he buys stuff pitched in spam e-mail — again and again. He buys spam-pitched aromatherapy oils for his wife and pharmaceuticals for himself. … He buys stuff via spam for himself and to resell on Web sites he sets up — a business idea he got from a spam pitch. …

It’s mind-blowing — leaves you wondering how one man could be so gullible, and hand over so much money to some of the world’s dodgiest vendors, without even any concept of comparison shopping (and without falling victim to identity theft and a cleared-out bank account). Until you get to this line:

In the past, Mr. Soto says he has sent out spam himself,

Aha.

but he doesn’t any more for fear of the increasing multitude of federal and state spam regulations now on the books.

Of course. (link via Craig)

Tags: aromatherapy, business, day, home, orlando, spam, stuff, web, wife, wsj

Funny: The IKEA Walkthrough: ‘IKEA is a fully immersive, 3D environmental adventure that allows you to role-play the character of someone who gives a shit about home furnishings. In traversing IKEA, you will experience a meticulously detailed alternate reality filled with garish colors, clear-lacquered birch veneer, and a host of NON-PLAYER CHARACTERS (NPCs) with the glazed looks of the recently anesthetized. … with practice (and this IKEA Walkthrough!) you will soon be able to muster the sense of numb resignation necessary for victory.’ (defectiveyeti)

Tags: adventure, birch, character, funny, garish, home, ikea, reality, shit, someone, walkthrough

Spam: The new hash-busting, Bayes-avoiding, spam evasion trick: inserting random dictionary words into the middle of another word. Like so:

Subject: SPAM(30.8) Be your own bovertigoss…

and

Subject: SPAM(29.6) Earn huge monteleostey quickly from home…

I’m not sure exactly why increasing monteleosity (something to do with the intensity of light emitted on a mountain, I think), and becoming a bovertigoss (a kind of antipodean rodent) would help me, though. It certainly isn’t helping the spammers — both messages were autolearned as spam on arrival.

Tags: bayes-avoiding, earn, evasion, home, middle, monteleostey, spam, subject, trick, word

Bizarre: Given some historical context, it’s funny how absolutely insane this sounds: Guardian: At Home with the Fuhrer.

My discovery was an article headlined ‘Hitler’s Mountain Home’ - a breathless, three-page Hello!-style tour around Haus Wachenfeld, Hitler’s chalet in the Bavarian Alps. In it, the author, the improbably named Ignatius Phayre, tells us that ‘it is over 12 years since Herr Hitler fixed on the site of his one and only home. It had to be close to the Austrian border’. It was originally little more than a shed, but he was able to develop it ‘as his famous book Mein Kampf became a bestseller of astonishing power’.

The great dictator, it seems, was quite the interiors wizard: ‘The colour scheme throughout this bright, airy chalet is light jade green. The Führer is his own decorator, designer and furnisher, as well as architect… has a passion about cut flowers in his home.’

And he is seldom alone in his mountain hideaway, as he ‘delights in the society of brilliant foreigners, especially painters, musicians and singers. As host, he is a droll raconteur… ‘

Oh, and look who’s practising his archery in the garden: ‘It is strange to watch the burly Field-Marshal Göering, as chief of the most formidable airforce in Europe, taking a turn with the bow-and-arrow at straw targets of 25 yards range.’

And on it gushes, all accompanied by various photos of Hitler and friends admiring the view, examining plans for the house, and one delightful shot of Adolf relaxing on a deckchair with ‘one of his pedigree alsatians beside him’.

Next time you read an over-excited ‘inside the home of’ article, bear in mind that the subject might be a psychopathic dictator bent on world domination and mass murder.

(The article then descends into a convoluted mess of copyright claims and counterclaims, BTW, in case you’re interested. But the bizarre stuff is what got me ;)

Tags: article, bizarre, chalet, context, dictator, discovery, fuhrer, guardian, hitler, home, mountain

Patents: MS patents ‘phone-home’ failure reporting.

There’s a catch, in that it’s not just plain old ‘phone home’, as seen in probably a hundred products since 1960 — they’ve added a ‘match the reported error messages against a db of known issues on the server side’ step. So that’s vaguely inventive — well, no, it’s totally obvious, but at least nobody I can think of off the top of my head has done that before. (Well, I lie, it sounds a bit like KDE’s crash reporting tool which does a similar search before reporting a bug.)

The notable comment, though, is
this:

There is a significant institutional culture issue that has a strong influence on how the Office functions that took root several decades ago and has, regretfully, increased, monotonically, over time. The management attitude, in a nutshell, is that patents aren’t ‘examined’, they are ‘processed’. The examination process is driven by production ‘goals’; to be rated in the key rating category of ‘Production Goal Achievement’ as ‘fully successful’ you must have at least 95%; less than that you are marginal; less then 90% you are ‘unsatisfactory’, meaning your entire rating is ‘unsatisfactory’ meaning a ‘90 day letter’ to get it ‘fully successful’ else you are fired. Also there are other time related requirements to meet, such as no amended application pending more than two months without an action. Persons get fired (yes, this does happen) almost always for low production or exceeding time limits for actions, almost never for improperly allowing claims.

Great.

Tech: It seems it’s stunningly easy to rip off GPRS customers. Another well-designed system I don’t think.

Tags: catch, failure, home, match, patents, phone, production, rating, reporting, time, unsatisfactory

MS patents ‘phone-home’ failure reporting.

There’s a catch, in that it’s not just plain old ‘phone home’, as seen in probably a hundred products since 1960 — they’ve added a ‘match the reported error messages against a db of known issues on the server side’ step. So that’s vaguely inventive — well, no, it’s totally obvious, but at least nobody I can think of off the top of my head has done that before. (Well, I lie, it sounds a bit like KDE’s crash reporting tool which does a similar search before reporting a bug.)

The notable comment, though, is
this:

There is a significant institutional culture issue that has a strong influence on how the Office functions that took root several decades ago and has, regretfully, increased, monotonically, over time. The management attitude, in a nutshell, is that patents aren’t ‘examined’, they are ‘processed’. The examination process is driven by production ‘goals’; to be rated in the key rating category of ‘Production Goal Achievement’ as ‘fully successful’ you must have at least 95%; less than that you are marginal; less then 90% you are ‘unsatisfactory’, meaning your entire rating is ‘unsatisfactory’ meaning a ‘90 day letter’ to get it ‘fully successful’ else you are fired. Also there are other time related requirements to meet, such as no amended application pending more than two months without an action. Persons get fired (yes, this does happen) almost always for low production or exceeding time limits for actions, almost never for improperly allowing claims.

Great.

Tech: It seems it’s stunningly easy to rip off GPRS customers. Another well-designed system I don’t think.

Tags: catch, failure, home, match, phone, production, rating, reporting, time, unsatisfactory

IP: a Hong Kong physician reports on SARS, the ‘atypical pneumonia’ that’s in the news. It’s quite scary stuff.

Masks are worn throughout the hospital. Staff are not going home to children. Please take the warning below seriously. My impression is that even with minimal contact with an infected person people have been becoming ill.

Tags: home, hospital, news, physician, pneumonia, sars, staff, stuff, the, warning

BBC - the Great Smog of 1952 recalled. “Fifty years ago, a choking cloud enveloped much of London and the Home Counties - a toxic fog which killed at least 4,000 people. Here, Barbara Fewster, 74, recalls the Great Smog of 1952.” A very Ballardian tale of this environmental disaster:

After a long time we arrived at Kew Bridge - that’s at least 10 miles from Hampstead - when my fiancé called out to me, ‘I’ve lost you, where have you got to?’ I must have veered off out of range of the sidelights.

At that point, a milk float passed by and my fiancé told me to get in so we could follow its taillights. He put his foot down. Well, then the milkman disappeared and we could hear the float bouncing over the grass on Kew Green. All I could do was get out of the car and continue walking. We later came across a car that had overtaken us earlier on in the journey - it was up a tree, crashed, and no sign of the occupant.

Tags: bbc, car, cloud, fianc, fifty, float, great, home, kew, smog

the FoRK list comes through with some truly classic high wierdness:

If one wants to purge the sources of malice of say a black magician, then purge his dinosaurs and his dinosaur eggs. Unfortunately most of our religions are based on dinosaur protection of eggs and thus mind control, regardless of the front they put out to the public.

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 22:11:10 -0700
From: “Mr. FoRK” (spam-protected)
To: (spam-protected)
Subject: Dinosaurs Eggs and the Origins of Good and Evil

One of the most bizarre pages I’ve seen on the Web. At first I thought it might be some sort of back-story to a RPG, but, nope, it looks like somebody believes this.

===

http://www.viking-z.org/r20i.htm

M09. Dinosaurs Eggs and the Origins of Good and Evil.

DINOSAURS. Reptoid ETs are reported to be 12 foot high crocodiles walking on their hind legs. This is a description of a dinosaur. It now appears in Remote Viewing that the Reptoid ETs, dinosaurs and dragons are all linked together and that they all originated on Earth. The Erideans who are Reptoid derivatives have a home planet (in the Eridanus system) like all other ETs. The Reptoids have no reported home planet. They also come over as entities with little brain who control their bodies directly by spirit. This is a description of a ghost or disincarnate entity regardless of how people see them. Thus it could be that the Reptoids, Erideans, Nordics, Anunnaki, but not the Greys, all have origins on Earth and have a strong link to Earth even if they choose to live elsewhere. The Greys do not appear to have a renal or urinary system and this points to them not originating on Earth. The definitive work on dragons is “The Flight of Dragons” by Peter Dickinson. If dragons did exist in the flesh, they did not survive the long bow. Targets do not come much bigger.

Truth is stranger than fiction. Thus the writer’s current scenario is that there were a race of dinosaurs which developed psychic intelligence to guard their eggs and young, and who probably preferred to live underground. They survived the wipe out of the dinosaurs 50 million years ago with difficulty. They evolved into the Erideans and transferred to a more hospitable planet (for them) possibly with the help of another race of ETs who wanted slaves but otherwise had no interest in Earth or mind control.

Thus it appears that the current Reptoids are the Spirits or ghosts of the dinosaurs. They must have been powerful to survive 50 million years and also to appear to some people. They have appeared to the writer in remote viewing. They are living on as vampire entities. Such immortal minds are contagious and can easily jump race and species barriers. If they can be encouraged to reincarnate, then the power sources of the black magicians and mind controllers will disappear. Encouraging them to reincarnate will help so called immortal minds to disappear as immortal minds have great difficulty surviving reincarnation. Purging people’s dinosaurs should remove all perverse psychic abilities not under their control. They are a source of Satanic Guardian Angels and demons. They control us by owning our psi. Thus if we regain ownership of psi, we must relinquish their control and that of all other mind controllers. Encourage people to regain ownership of their psi.

THE ORIGINS OF LOVE, HATE AND PURE MALICE. The following scenario appears to hold water and can account for the origins of our Universal Subconscious.

Dinosaurs laid their eggs and buried them either underground or in piles of rotting vegetation (a good source of beetles and grubs for young hatchelings). They did not sit on their eggs to keep them warm, which made them very vulnerable to drastic climate and temperature change. In order to keep away predators some at least developed psychic mind control. To do this they had to capture ownership of the psi of potential predators. This is an act of hatred and outward looking. While a few dinosaurs did develop the ability to bear living young, most did not. The dinosaurs got in first and so their mind control tends to override all other latter minds. They have become the source of all Satans, devils and demons.

Birds on the other hand developed the ability to sit on their eggs and keep them warm. A hen bird normally lays a series of eggs (say one per day) and only starts sitting when the clutch is completely laid. Thus all eggs tend to hatch together as they all have an equal period of warmth. This is primarily an act of love but inward looking. Bearing live young is not suitable to a bird of the air. A pregnant pigeon would not fly very far. Antarctic penguins tuck a single egg between their legs to keep it warm, even if they are standing on ice.

Mammals developed live bearing of their young which is also primarily an act of love and inward looking. This is especially true as a mammalian female can not desert her young in the womb in case of emergency as can a bird sitting on a nest.

Dinosaurs developed hate and mind control of others to protect their young, while birds and mammals developed love. Birds and mammals certainly do hate all enemies of their young, but this is secondary.

If one wants to purge the sources of malice of say a black magician, then purge his dinosaurs and his dinosaur eggs. Unfortunately most of our religions are based on dinosaur protection of eggs and thus mind control, regardless of the front they put out to the public. Religion tends to concentrate on “How to Brainwash your Neighbour”. Conscious thought has built many mighty empires, theologies and slave control systems out of using “How to care for and protect one’s young” as a foundation.

Thus the foulest form of abuse possible is to call something “A load of dinosaur’s eggs”. Purging the dinosaurs and dinosaur’s eggs of any entity tends to purge all malice back to its roots.

It looks as if mighty immortal minds have built up from small beginnings, aided and abetted by various occultists and other. As they will insist on vampiring the living for energy to avoid reincarnation and disturbing the serenity of the writer, he encourages them to reincarnate.

ITEMS FOR INSPECTION. For mind control to take place, then someone must take control or ownership of the target’s psi and pleasure centres. Check for the following.

Nest of dinosaur’s eggs, holy dinosaurs, etc.

Eggs, controllers or owners in peoples psi, pleasure centres, pain killing hormones, abilities, etc.

Mind machines.

The original engraving or engram.

GOD and SATAN appear to be job titles and not entities in their own right. T hey appear to be dinosaur engravings or engrams. No doubt dinosaurs were the first job holders.

TIMETRACKS are worth investigating as our complete history from the start of time.

My, our, Man’s timetracks, etc.

The time tracks of the Universe, Universal Subconscious, Galactic Subconscious, etc.

EXTINCT RACES of ETs can cause problems when they live on in vampire mode. Their virtues may known to channelers but they can also have vices. Whenever one hears of races which have evolved on to higher planes, suspect that the higher plane is a vampire one. One may never know what they looked like or other basic characteristics, which makes linking back a trifle difficult. Every extinct race, etc.

BLOOD ANCESTORS are also worth investigating as minds can be passed down via genetic linkages. Some of these can be over 2,000 years old. Every blood ancestor, ancestral mind, genetic mind, etc.

Tags: dinosaur, dinosaurs, earth, eggs, ets, evil, home, origins, planet, reptoid

The BBC World Service has for the last 8 years, apparently been broadcasting an Afghan version of The Archers, called “New Home, New Life”:

There is Nazir, the buffoon of a security guard based on Eddie Grundy, who in a recent episode set fire to his neighbour’s haystack. There is Rabiya Gul, the bolshie wife in the mould of Jennifer Aldridge who the Taliban routinely complain embarrasses their efforts to subdue women. And there is Rahimdad, the village barber, a solid Sid Perks type character whose shop is the meeting place - much like the pub in western soaps. In the seven years since the show’s birth, the fortunes of these characters have become so vital to national morale that it is thought not only to have saved radio from banishment, but to have encouraged the Taliban to soften their line on a range of other issues.

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Some interesting recollections about high-power radio transmissions causing toasters to sing and the like.

Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 09:21:51 -0000
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Subject: Singing Toasters - Just for Starters!

Back in the middle 1930s, Cincinnati’s clear channel radio station WLW broadcast at hi-power - 500,000 watts, ten times today’s standard - and measured its DAYTIME audience to include Hawaii and Scotland. (Mrs. Simpson, the future Duchess of Windsor, listened for a little touch of home and sent fan mail.)

People who then lived around WLW’s Mason, Ohio, transmitter received WLW programs over electric toasters, light bulbs, vacuum sweepers, electric AND gas stoves, clocks, COAL (!) furnaces, water and gas pipes and right up out of kitchen and bathroom drains! (Shades of Stephen King’s IT!) One woman - personally known to me three decades later - listened to WLW out of the kitchen drain all day, but the signals always stopped just before her husband came home from work. He merely assumed that his young wife was going nuts, but the real explanation was that WLW changed its directional antenna array at night.

During World War Two the transmitter was retuned to shortwave and became known as WLWO (WLW Overseas), broadcasting programs especially to Nazi-occupied Europe. After the War it became the anchor transmitter for Voice of America broadcasts to the Iron Curtain countries.

George Wagner (spam-protected) (spam-protected)

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A year or more ago during a discussion of odd EMF effects, etc , I mention that as a teen I remembered that one Summer my family rented an isolated camp. That camp had an old style toaster in it and on quiet nights you could clearly hear a local radio station from the toaster.How ??? beats me ! Resonating wires sounds good but I think it’s an oversimplification.

Puca

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