The WELL: inkwell.vue.417: John Robb on War, Peace, and Resilient Communities

#195: Brian Slesinsky (bslesins) Sun 16 Oct 11 20:51

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:51:00 PDT

I am all for protests that leave places cleaner than they found them. [Read entire topic]

#194: Gail Williams (gail) Sat 15 Oct 11 09:41

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:41:00 PDT

The comments are interesting too. Even better is what really happened, detailed on his next blog entry, here: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/10/bloomberg-vs-occupy-a-knock-out-decision-ows.html

His recap from that page includes:

> To block the bank protest, Mayor Bloomberg initiated a plan to evict the Occupation from Liberty Square on the 14th of October. He claimed the city needed to "clean" the park. > In recognition of the threat, the Occupy movement gathers its strength. It makes a widely reported call to come to the park on the morning of the 14th to block the eviction. > Occupy then rapidly delegitimizes the complaint. It starts to deep clean Liberty Square with powerwashers, brooms, and mops (they even hired a dump truck). It even offers to let cleaners into the square to clean 1/3 of it at a time. > With the complaint delegitimized, the Occupy movement goes on the offensive. It personalizes the eviction move (already inside Bloomberg's OODA). It finds Bloomberg. He's at a gala dinner at Ciprianis (a Wall Street restaurant). They surround the restaurant and try to enter it to deliver a petition with 310,000 signatures. Bloomberg hides, departs from the rear.

... Again, the discussion is interesting. [Read entire topic]

#193: J. Eric Townsend (jet) Thu 13 Oct 11 20:16

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:16:00 PDT

John Robb's advice for the "cleanup" of #occupywallstreet:

<http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/10/bloomberg-vs-occupy.html> [Read entire topic]

#192: J. Eric Townsend (jet) Mon 10 Oct 11 07:57

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:57:00 PDT

There are apparently other producers, but this one plant manufactured over %75 of what the US consumed, according to some of the trades that I've read.

I'm guessing the big "move to a service economy" thing has a lot to do with this. Reading some of the fabrication trades, it looks like "open a welding school" is the current way to print money. Westinghouse went so far as to buy a school as a way of making sure they get first crack at the graduates. [Read entire topic]

#191: Christian De Leon-Horton (echodog) Mon 10 Oct 11 01:32

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 01:32:00 PDT

I wonder how many basic industrial products are tied up under industrial structures that maximize profit rather than decreasing vulnerability. Helium, for example, which is a non-renewable resource, has become the production responsibility of the oil and gas industry. But as a sideline product, it's often vented and wasted. We're selling off the United States helium reserves, and it's often considered non-profitable to recover helium from gas and oil fields. So what are we doing to do to support the requirement for helium in various industrial and scientific fields if we don't keep an eye on the stockpile now?

I wonder how many other such products there are out there. [Read entire topic]

#190: didn't practice being married in class (thansen) Sun 9 Oct 11 21:06

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 21:06:00 PDT

There is simply no reason, except monopoly capitalism run amok, for the United States to have only one Calcium Carbide manufacturer. [Read entire topic]

#189: Mark McDonough (mcdee) Sat 8 Oct 11 19:07

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:07:00 PDT

Whoopsie! [Read entire topic]

#188: J. Eric Townsend (jet) Sat 8 Oct 11 10:49

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:49:00 PDT

Example of an single-failure point at the national level. It's gotten very little press, but the main manufacturer of calcium carbide in the US had a factory shutdown and there's been a shortage of acetylene, one of the most common gases for gas welding:

<http://www.praxair.com/praxair.nsf/78f8cb7dc1379181852569730069e75d/59ccfafdf3e8f7fd8525789a0059d2a8?OpenDocument> [Read entire topic]

#187: Ted Newcomb (tcn) Mon 3 Oct 11 04:52

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:52:00 PDT

I've been reading up on SCADA and IPv6 security problems. I get the impression it's not so much hackers as code errors themselves that can cause serious damage.

Is that right?

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread757563/pg1

http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-18/dc-18-speakers.html

http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/oeprod/DocumentsandMedia/22-Impacts_of_IPv6_on_CS.pdf [Read entire topic]

#186: Mark McDonough (mcdee) Sun 2 Oct 11 09:40

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 09:40:00 PDT

As I understand it, Jack, that sort of thing only happens in banana republics. [Read entire topic]