A Parliament of Owls

Sorcha Faal. Won't hurt you to read it. Some interesting things in there.

Birds can visualize the Earth's magnetic field around them in 3-D space. It is reasonable to assume they would be the first creatures to sense a disturbance in it and they might flee to a position on the surface where the field seemed stable ... possibly the same reason someone once chose to build a pyramid on that spot?

Nocturnal creatures are always smarter than diurnal critters.

Owls have been thought mystical harbingers of death by the Romans and were considered to be outside of the flow of time by Cherokees. The Irish felt they were prophetic birds who could see into the future before it happened.

VAULT-OS : I2C DOS Driver Updated

I have been working with starter code I got from the old classic I2CFAQ demonstrating a BASIC code interface for I2C for approximately a year or so. This code was always a bit shonky and debugging it was 50% of my time. Was okay for a single temperature sensor, after I added a couple more I2C devices it was never really much more than experimental. I kept adding time delays and other safety checks until the code was getting utterly slow and kludgy.

It missed ACKs, skipped STOP commands and had to be forcibly reset to lower the line voltage after a glitch. Enumeration of devices with keys sometimes worked perfectly, other times required me to power down the I2C master hub and turn it back on again. It was driving me crazy. Lots of timing issues suspected.

I found the original TMEX3.10 SDK from 1998, a very rare I-Button SDK, on a Russian FTP site a couple weeks ago and had been meaning to have a look. After installing it, I found a truly complete and trustworthy I2C library with all original VBDOS code inside, easily converted to PowerBasic. This code has been integrated into VOS in place of my original hack API and already it is performing much better.

This new library is a lot more stable than my original one. In particular, the enumeration is working way better. This was very important to the functionality of Vault-OS in order to establish a kind of plug-n-play environment that would recognize new devices on the line when it boots up. I almost have the driver to the point where it will prompt you for information about an unrecognized device just like Windows does with USB peripherals.

VAULT-OS : Simplest Possible I2C Interface DB9?

I've traditionally been using an I2C master hub for development, now I want to build the simplest, cheapest possible I2C connection imaginable for PowerBasic DOS output. I think the best design I've been able to come up with is two resistors, two zener diodes drawing +5V off the serial port (.50 cents worth of parts). This will work on machines with standard RS-232 serial, but might not function correctly on some laptops or where the device cuts corners on the DB9 port. In the post-apocalyptic environment, I don't think the design of this circuit would be difficult to replace for anybody anywhere. A dollar buys enough replacement parts for this circuit to build fifty of them. It's not even necessary to use a soldering iron, this basic circuit could be wire-wrapped.

The great thing about the serial port is all the cheap optical isolators that are available for it. I intend to provide drivers for a parallel port I2C interface but I will make the DB9 the "de facto" standard for Vault-OS so anybody can build it in ten minutes if they need to using a serial port cable.

Anybody who can point me to the best design they have seen for I2C through DB9 RS-232 is invited to drop me a link. What I have is working but is not safe until a commercial optical isolator ($20-$30) is connected between the hardware and the I2C output. It has to be EMP proof.

There are parallel port designs with optical isolation built into the circuit but trying to make LPT the Vault-OS "standard" for I2C would be a bad idea since they are getting to be pretty rare legacy ports.

My basic stance in hardware design has been to use DB9 RS-232 as the ultimate failsafe for peripheral control and to use the parallel port (when available) only for crude relay switching circuits which could be constructed from automobile relays ripped out of abandoned cars. If Vault dwellers can't scavenge up a few car relays or a couple of diodes/resistors from the wastelands I can't help them.

This is an expression of the VOS philosophy to keep the entire core system so simple it is foolproof, decentralized, independent, asynchronous and completely maintainable indefinitely.

WW3 : To Make The Earth A Dresden

This article is one of the few I have read in recent years that hints at the scope of the next major conflict and the inhumanity of soldiers attacking civilian populations. In this context, "war" is not war any longer, soldiers are not soldiers and the long arc of human history is revealed to end in a slaughterhouse that extends across the planet.

Nietszche said the good war heralds any cause. Truer words never spoken. The purpose of war is not to kill the enemy. It's ultimately just to kill, period. The perfection of the history of war is found in situations where the killing no longer requires any justification and no longer has the pretext of targeting military objectives at all. If we consider that the root of all military objectives was to remove the obstacles to killing civilians, then this would seem to be the end of military history when the remote controlled drone is deployed. With these innovations the beast inside mankind is liberated to just sit in front of a monitor playing one of the most interesting video games of them all - blowing people up and cutting them to ribbons with gunfire. It doesn't matter if they can't shoot back. That was never anything but an impediment to the practice.

I believe that this kind of loss of limits, this unfurling of all sane guideposts, will prove to be the last stage of the decline of the West that leads to unrestrained global thermonuclear war.

Aspartame : FDA Approved Genocidal Poison

They're changing the name to "AminoSweet" because even the slowest campers are starting to cotton on to "Aspartame" as something that may be bad for them.

In a sane world, there would be a biochemical Nuremberg for the monsters who put this toxic garbage in the food supply. If they had simply used strychnine, the effects would have been too immediate and too obvious. Instead they found a chemical that works more slowly but just as effectively.

Exploring An Abandoned Civil Defense Shelter

Pretty good account of a spelunking expedition into what was formerly a pretty spectacular civil defense shelter built in the 1960's in New Orleans.

Makes you feel sorry for America that such places are merely curiosities on the eve of World War Three. The 'Kwans are to be pitied.

Here is an interesting blog on the history of civil defense in North Carolina.

Fascinating exploration of a Mojave Gypsum Mine once used for civil defense.

Pay attention and marvel at all the ancient relics they find in these places that were once produced by American manufacturing. This was a constitutional republic that was entirely self-sufficient in the year (1963) I was born. They shot John Kennedy and surprise, forty years later the entire nation is just a dried-out dead husk of a country which has been siphoned dry of every single penny and left with debts so crippling they will never be paid. Kennedy was in the way and he served as an example to every President that came after him. Beware the men who would kill your king. Things do not get better afterwards when they go free. These ancient ruins testify to better times.

Most of these ruins exist because of the strong drive by President Kennedy to introduce a substantial, nationwide civil defense program. After they killed him, that was one of the first initiatives they terminated. Those would have been pennies not paid to them.

Modern People Are Inferior To Our Ancestors

It's the truth. Our ancestors made things look easy which modern people cannot even duplicate with all the technological advancements in the world.

It's no surprise that so many idiots are currently busy trying to deny we ever made it to the moon. It is a lot like the Fox and the Sour Grapes. They labor under the delusion they are smarter when in fact they aren't even the equal of the average school child of the 1950's. What other explanation could they come up with to account for this other than to claim the achievements of the former century never happened?

If you homeschool your children you will become acutely aware of this dilemma when you see your kids speaking to grown men and women with far more intelligence and acumen than they will ever possess. All of these things happen so naturally that it is self-evident that somebody would have to be deliberately dumbing down the population for them to end up the way they do.

Ice Ages Kill Leftists Like Flies, Believe It

Read this article. It's so simple, about a subject so pedestrian, that says so much about what human beings are and what kind of human beings survive when the temperature drops.

Ice Ages kill phonies. They kill leftists. They kill poseurs and pretenders. They cull their numbers to respectable percentages or exterminate them altogether.

Our biggest problem during the interglacial is the growth of demographics that otherwise would die in lower temperature climates where social engineering and performance art do not yield positive dividends in terms of food and shelter. Only when the temperature is much warmer can such grasshoppers survive. When the air hits sixty degrees below it is a death sentence for this entire top-heavy class of bullsh*t artists.

Things Are Going To Change Around Here

The elites are the last to know. They soon will. Pity their "god" didn't seem to take the time to issue them a warning. Maybe their "god" doesn't care as much about them as my God does me.

The elites wasted a lot of time and resources promoting globalwarmthinkery, which goes to show how incompetent they are at leadership of any civilization. There's another thing they stink at. All that money and capital right before another Ice Age arrived. They'd be funny if they weren't so utterly destructive.

Half the buildings in New York City are going to collapse under the weight of snow during the next couple of winters if they continue as they are now. Most of them built in the past fifty years are about as strong as the Pal-Lock system.

Give it up already, it's over. Globowarmthinkery is exposed and a dead issue.

8.8 CHILE, TSUNAMI THREAT IN PACIFIC

Stay chilly.

Queensland is right in the shotgun of this one across the Pacific. Supposed to be hitting here in 8 hours. I am going to bed, hope I don't wake up underwater, praise God.

Vault-Co says it for past ten years, we're nuts. It's different when other bipeds say the same thing long after it is patently obvious. Not being nuts means being no brighter than a shiny red button. The cutoff score is being able to walk and chew gum at the same time. Anybody that bright or god forbid brighter is some kind of nut and needs professional help.

It's not the biggest quake ever recorded. It's that we are having them practically every week nowadays and they show no sign of abating. That's because ITZ COMING.

Road To Armageddon : Paul Craig Roberts

The Kwa has gone off the rails and is actively seeking a Third World War with three nuclear powers.

There's a reason they are called "Dark Ages"

It's because they are dark.

Once this process is started, can it be reversed? Realistically, can this sort of blight be turned back?

No. A wise and prudent person knows that this kind of illness is only cured by death. People who don't understand what is being talked about may tell you otherwise. Vault dwellers understand that death for a civilization doesn't necessarily imply the death of an individual. The whole point is for individual survivors, the "remnant," to go through the cycle and come out the other side carrying the values of that civilization forward. The bloom is followed by the nadir, then the decline and the collapse. The ants are supposed to survive when the grasshoppers die as winter approaches. This is the reason that the human spectrum includes ant-like personality types. That is what they are supposed to do.

If it smells like a Depression, looks like a Depression, feels like a Depression, sounds like a Depression, then it's a Depression. Not a "cyclic recession" or "slow starting recovery." Modern people are insane. They think if they all take a vote and get a consensus then they can decide this isn't a Depression, it's actually a boom. They have become too stupid to continue living. You do not pull out of a Depression by pretending it's not a Depression. You first have to recognize the problem correctly, then you can come up with the solution. Anything else is the pathetic flailing of lunatics and similar to the hysterical thrashing of a man who finds himself in quicksand. You'll only make it worse with all that vain unfocused struggling.

U.S. Holds Treasury Auction, Nobody Shows Up

Other than primary buyers who must buy debt bonds, this is the first time since World War II that Kwanzanians have found no buyers for their debts. The smart money is ditching the U.S. dollar and seeking other sanctuaries. The few bidders for highest yields are likely the Fed Government trying to bid up their own debt to make it seem safe. That's final hour desperation.

Shortly before it collapsed, every hegemon in world history has claimed the rest of the world could never live without it. Immediately afterwards they have found out that everybody could do just fine without them.

It's getting so obvious a Kwanzanian could figure it out

"Policy of Encirclement"

Oh, man, this is scary stuff.

Seriously, I thought I knew a lot about China's military outlook but I had no idea they believed they were being deliberately encircled by ballistic anti-missile systems. This is the first I've seen of this and the person being quoted in the article is pretty connected to the top of the Red Chinese military structure. If they honestly feel this way about the recent moves to put ABMs on the continent we're all in deep sh*t. I thought the focus would have been the provision of arms to Taiwan (to be expected) but if the Chinese feel this is only part of a larger strategic plan to surround them and render their own nuclear arsenal ineffective as a deterrent then start worrying about World War III in the very near future, before 2015, maybe in the next year or so.

Sometimes I feel like I could research six hours a day and still miss important things going on in the world. I would have missed this except Rowan offered a link to the article in the comments for the blog post below.

Totally out of left field. Never even knew this was a widespread sentiment in China.

It turns out the communist Mao Tse Tung was a better strategic thinker than anybody in Washington, D.C. ... he advised the Chinese people to "dig tunnels everywhere, store up food and water and seek parity of force but not dominance - for such things lead invariably to war." For those of you who wonder how much damage the collapse of the American educational system could do to the country, consider that it may have led directly to the insanity of these provocations by people who simply don't know better. Building an ABM system directly on a man's border is a good way to get your ass kicked. It's the equivalent of atomic twinking in a rough neighborhood.

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First Rate Fallout Shelter In Montana

Generator room is superbly outfitted.

Britain Moves All Rare Books Into Salt Mine

Just for the next three years, you understand. It's temporary. Sheeple come and go but the nation's literary treasures deserve the kind of deep rock protection from radiation and blast that only a salt mine can deliver.

Nothing to see here, people. Keep moving along and paying those tax revenues, nothing to see here. Just keep up your sheeplish activities right through the next three years without incident. No time to panic now. The best thing you can do is drink and be merry. Keep buying those consumer goods and driving through those takeout windows.

I can't wait until the elites begin vanishing into shelters around 2011. Everybody relax, you fellows hold down the fort up here. Have another Diet Coke and put on a pair of sunglasses so you can watch the show. We'll be sure to check up on you once in a while and good luck with all that.

Monster Icestorms VS. Planet Earth

Preliminaries. Only the warm-up for coming years - or cold-down, as it were.

Remember, predicted every day on Vault-Co going back to 2003 in print where it could be seen by anyone.

Economies suffer (to say the least) during the onset of a new Ice Age

Robert Felix was right. People will be fighting in the streets for food in the very near future. This winter is going to bodyslam Amerikwan agriculture. The harvest is going to be nonexistent if this weather continues well into March.

Russians being buried alive beneath snow and worse is on the way

Sun Basically Silent For Four Years Solid, Then Decides For A Larf To Shoot Out A Million Kilometer Magnetic Filament

Scary, terrifying stuff going on up there. This is called a "Hyder Flare" and it represents a massive surge of magnetic field energy that bursts into an arc on the surface. They are extremely rare ... this one is the most colossal ever recorded. It just came out of nowhere. The Sun has some very weird things going on in the interior. It looks like it is getting ready to kick off a whacky dance number as we approach 2012.

The auroral lights are going crazy, non-stop at night. Check out some of the comments at that page.

Anyhoo, don't worry. At worst it's the preliminaries of a K-T Boundary style extinction event, so don't sweat it.

Doom Watch 2010

Check out the morons interviewing Ron Paul. Chickenhawks endlessly boosting warfare and yet these people probably don't know which end the bullets come out of on a rifle. Classic mass schizophrenia. All nations end this way, their fools clucking like hens in support of the psychopaths who drag them to the abyss and throw them all in. Nothing to see here, folks. Everything is going to be just fine. Emperor Nero is simply having a bad day and is letting off a little steam by burning the entire city to the ground. Nothing to panic over.

World War Three : ITZ COMING #2

Deliberate provocation of Russia underway as a large scale challenge to their sovereignty. The only reason a nation would pursue this strategy was if they wanted to provoke a war with Russia in the near future. Attacking Iran would be the flashpoint required to draw the Russians into the conflict.

Let's poke the Chinese with a stick while we're at it

If that doesn't work we can always stage another false flag