Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment Redux?

Apparently, some closeted racists have discovered a covert way to kill more black people.  Did you really expect government-funded scientists to consider the possibility that sludge from industrial and human waste might contain toxic substances?  Get real…

Related Link:

Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male

The Big Picture

(I know it is April Fools Day… but, I assure you, this post is NOT a joke.)

Unless you live under a rock, you’re aware of the theory of “peak oil”.  Everybody knows this, right?  We’ve been taught since childhood that oil comes from dead dinosaurs.  Well, certainly the notion is a bit more complicated than that… but, for the most part, oil comes from what is left of the decayed organic matter that was around millions of years ago.

 I accepted this believe without question until I was well into my 30s.  But, now… not so much.

 You see, I came to the realization one day that the primary thing governments use to control their masses is fuel and the lubrication that drives the machines that drive our economy.  “Petroleum” means literally “Oil from Rock.”  And, I have come to firmly believe that it is just that.  Oil is created continually by the intense pressures deep inside the earth.  It percolates up through the various layers of crust and picks up organic material along the way.  Thus giving the impression that it is a product of the decay of organic matter.

Don’t believe it?  Is it an assault on the very core of your being?

Good… it should be.  But, you should have the courage to delve a bit deeper.  Don’t just scream and run away.  There is more and more evidence to support this belief.  NASA recently discovered that one of Saturn’s moons – Titan – has more hydrocarbons than Earth’s entire oil reserves.  It freaking rains from the sky!

Obviously, Titan was once teeming with dinosaurs and rain forests!  Wow!

Then there are the deep-water researchers who claim that the hydrogen-rich fluids venting from the Lost City Hydrothermic Fields of the Atlantic Ocean are created by abiotic synthesis of hydrocarbons in the center of the earth.  Imagine that…

What you may not realize is that the governments and oil companies of the world know this already as they gouge us at the pumps.  Oil supplies are a political and social hammer to pound the world with and the handle is about to fall off.  They know that one day they won’t be able to keep it a secret any longer.  When that happens, people will understand that the inflated gasoline prices we pay now are simply a method of control.  A way to make the economy shift generally in one direction or another so that they may control a wide variety of things… from food prices to you-name-it.

They know their time is running out.

However, the primary function of power is to do whatever is necessary to maintain it.  How do they do that?  What other thing could they possibly come up with that could wield such control over billions of people.

Carbon Dioxide.  CO2.

You see, the great myth of man-made global warming is the mechanism the powers-that-be will use to keep us under control once the cat is out of the bag on “fossil fuels.”  It is simply a way for the government of every nation to devise new taxes/penalties on individuals and corporations based on their “carbon footprint.”  Tax on your bar-b-que?  You bet.  How about a “mileage tax” on your car?  How about a 1% Global Warming Tax on everything you buy?

It is all about staying in power.  It is all about control.

Just remember… Hurt not the oil and the wine. 

Related Links:

Truckers Pull Rigs Off Road, Others Slow to Crawl in Loosely Organized Protest of Fuel Prices

Abiotic Oil Debate

Discovery backs theory oil not ‘fossil fuel’

New data: Maybe oil isn’t from dead dinos

Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth

World needs more CO2, environment confab told

Moving SharePoint 2007 to Another Server

Man, I’m really starting to hate SharePoint.

It’s cool and all… in a Marquis de Sade sort of way.  But, it can really make you pull your hair out.

Let me just say this:  If you ever want to move a SharePoint installation from an old, slow server to a newer, faster server – you better make sure that the new server is setup exactly the way the old server was.

I didn’t originally set up our first SharePoint server.  I just built the site.  The person who did set it up created the Shared Service Provider in the same web application where the main site itself resided.  This works, of course, but it isn’t really the ideal way to do it.  It is better if the SSP is setup in it’s own application.  But, if you’re going to move an environment already set up that way – you have to set up the new environment exactly the same way.  Otherwise, you’ll be spinning your wheels when you try to move the site.

To move it, you can use the stsadm.exe command:

stsadm.exe -o backup -url http://server_name/ -filename c:\backups\backup.dat

To backup the old server.  Then copy the backup.dat file to the new server and run the restore command with the overwrite option:

stsadm.exe -o restore -url http://new_server_name/ -filename c:\backups\backup.dat -overwrite

That works well enough… but, if you really want to do it right - restore EVERYTHING - you need a 3rd-party tool.  If you don’t know what I mean by EVERYTHING, then don’t sweat it… you’re probably still scratching your head about the word “SharePoint.”  I used DocAve by AvePoint software.  It’s pricey… but, well worth the green.  It’ll do things that you can’t even think about doing with stsadm.

Convert HD-DVD to Blu-Ray

Wired Wiki has a nice little how-to for converting HD-DVD to Blu-Ray format.  Might be something worth looking into if you’re one of the less-than-visionary people who thought Blu-Ray was going to crap out and HD-DVD would be king.

I think Blu-Ray won out over HD-DVD ’cause the name is just soooo much cooler.  JM2C.

Waiting for Windows 7

Caught an interesting article about a software tool that lets you strip some of the bloat from Windows Vista.  Which is great, since from what I’ve seen of it, it is some seriously bloated OS software.  I won’t run it.  My XP system is stripped down to optimize for pro audio and video.  I could care less about pretty backdrops, system sounds, etc.  I cringe when I see Vista with Aero, or whatever it’s called, running.

I mean, its cool and all…  eye-goodies.  If your running a general purpose system for internet, music, etc., go for it.  Impress your friends.  But, if you’re doing anything serious… forget about it.

One tidbit in the article gives me hope, though, the next version of Windows will be modular and initial developers will have to write code based on a “minimal” installation of the new OS.  Maybe one day I’ll have a 64-bit OS with more than 4 gigs of RAM without having to deal with bloated eye-goody that I don’t need.