Post #194,133
2/11/05 9:48:22 AM
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911 and the Society of the Spectacle
911 and the Society of the Spectacle:
[link|http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/140816/index.php|http://nyc.indymedia.../140816/index.php]
mirror:
[link|http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/02/309914.shtml|http://portland.indy...5/02/309914.shtml]
Everytime this article gets posted to the New York Indymedia site their editorial committee hides it without explanation. However, if the ideas behind it are that ridiculous why not let other people see them?
The author argues that the progressive media is not what it seems, and that fake video was aired on 9/11/01. Any comments from this crowd?
related link: [link|http://www.911Hoax.com|http://www.911Hoax.com]
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Post #194,135
2/11/05 10:00:46 AM
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Well, the author is an idiot
Well, the author of the article is an idiot. A good example is this bit. Close your eyes and imagine a largely aluminum plane striking a steel building at 450 mph. Imagine the noise the impact makes. Watch the wings break off. Then see the fuselage crumple and quickly become a shower of metallic confetti. If the building had an external wall that was solid steel that might happen. But the WTC, like all modern tall buildings, had a verty different construction. The internal frame was a complex interlocking structure of steel, with the individual floors largly hanging from the frame at the appropriate points. This is why they can make these buildings with every exterior wall consisting mostly of window, the exterior wall doesn't hold the building up. Thus the plane smashed right through the exterior. The point you mentioned about Indymedia not being nearly as open as they like to pretend is valid though. They like to act as if they are a totally free and open news source, but there are certain things they remove if anybody brings them up. Jay
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Post #194,137
2/11/05 10:05:29 AM
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Re: Well, the author is an idiot
I'm an idiot? Harsh.
"Thus the plane smashed right through the exterior."
Actually, no. There was no metallic confetti produced as one might expect when the aluminum fuselage struck the steel exterior. On this site you'll see some pics of what we expect to see when a plane strikes a wall like this:
[link|http://www.911-strike.com/missing-confetti.htm|http://www.911-strik...sing-confetti.htm]
Instead of "smash[ing] right through the exterior" what we see when examining the video is a plane entering a steel building like a hot knife through butter.
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Post #194,156
2/11/05 11:38:29 AM
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Re: Well, the author is an idiot
I'm an idiot? Harsh. Heh, sorry. I wouldn't have said that if I had known it was you. Of course, you wrote the top level post in a way that obscures the fact that you where linking to an article that you wrote. Actually, no. There was no metallic confetti produced as one might expect when the aluminum fuselage struck the steel exterior. On this site you'll see some pics of what we expect to see when a plane strikes a wall like this:
[link|http://www.911-strik...sing-confetti.htm|http://www.911-strik...sing-confetti.htm]
Instead of "smash[ing] right through the exterior" what we see when examining the video is a plane entering a steel building like a hot knife through butter. I don't know what you mean by instead here. What I meant was that the plane would smash right through the exterior surface of the WTC before breaking up, which is same thing as entering like a hot knife through butter. Which is exactly what you would expect when the plane hit the WTC. The exterior of the building was more glass then steel. The page you link to for support is talking about the pentagon, which is a vastly different building then the WTC. The exterior of the Pentagon was hardened for security reasons, and as expected the impact of the plane was very different and did not do nearly as much damage to the Pentagon. There are a lot of questions that have not be adequately answered in relation to the events of 9/11. An interesting argument can be made that parties inside the US had a hand in the events of 9/11, but the evidence to back it up is lacking. A better argument can be made that parties inside the US government ignored some very blunt warnings for one reason or another. But the idea that the whole thing was faked is simply absurd. Jay
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Post #194,159
2/11/05 11:47:37 AM
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Re: Well, the author is an idiot
Jay, understood about the way the first post is written. Here's some quick points back at you.
"What I meant was that the plane would smash right through the exterior surface of the WTC before breaking up, which is same thing as entering like a hot knife through butter. Which is exactly what you would expect when the plane hit the WTC. The exterior of the building was more glass then steel."
The exterior of the building had steel cross-pieces. The windows fit between the steel columns. It still doesn't make sense that the plane would enter a building with steel columns without any part of either wing breaking off.
"The page you link to for support is talking about the pentagon, which is a vastly different building then the WTC."
The point is that every clip of a plane crash that I think has ever been made shows the fuselage disintegrating at the point of impact. I've seen video with planes striking the ground that show this. In addition, the pics on that page show a plane striking a wall. We expect to see a shower of metallic confetti and disintegration of the aluminum tube that comprises the fuselage when it crashes into something solid. We didn't see that in the video.
"There are a lot of questions that have not be adequately answered in relation to the events of 9/11. An interesting argument can be made that parties inside the US had a hand in the events of 9/11, but the evidence to back it up is lacking."
I would say that the evidence is overwhelming. There are a lot of resources that indicate this.
"A better argument can be made that parties inside the US government ignored some very blunt warnings for one reason or another."
That's actually the government's own story. They are saying that they were merely negligent over the matter.
Thanks for the cordial reply.
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Post #194,310
2/11/05 11:44:36 PM
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Why would the wing break off?
Sam writes: It still doesn't make sense that the plane would enter a building with steel columns without any part of either wing breaking off. Why doesn't that make sense to you? You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of mechanics. The wings are attached to the body of the plane. They're traveling at the same speed and made from the same material. Why do you think the wings would "break off"? The exterior walls of the WTC towers had steel supports that were much closer together than the diameter of the fuselage of the 767. You don't seem to dispute that the fuselage could have entered the building. If the fuselage could penetrate the building, the wings would too. And since there isn't a skyscraper in existence that could prevent a jet airplane from penetrating it, it follows that the wings would as well. The 767s continued on their path as a result of the laws of physics. It is physically impossible for a wing made from high-strength aluminum that is going 440 mph (WTC1) or 545 mph (WTC2) to "break off" when it hits something. It keeps going until it loses all of its momentum. Or do you believe that aluminum can not cut steel? We know that water can cut steel (see a previous post), we know that lead can cut steel (see the sword versus machine gun movie), and aluminum is used in all sorts of [link|http://www.key-to-metals.com/Article102.htm|military equipment] including armor and ammunition. It's an amazingly tough material when used appropriately. Going fast enough, it would have no trouble cutting steel beams, as it did on 9/11/2001. Cheers, Scott.
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Post #194,314
2/12/05 12:31:48 AM
2/12/05 12:33:59 AM
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Aircraft aluminum
The aluminum used for commercial aircraft is nothing like the soft aluminum people see in other applications. It is strong, hard and brittle - and not that much softer than architectural steel On impact, this stuff doesn't bend and break, it shatters like glass.
There is no correlation whatever between fighter planes and commercial aircraft. Fighter planes generally have very large amounts of titanium and cobolt alloys. These materials are extremely tough. They will crunch into a compressed ball before they'll break. Fighter planes are designed to withstand extreme stress in daily use.
Fighter planes are hard, dense and heavy. The only reason they get off the ground is that with engines powerful enough a brick will fly. Seeing a few come into Burbank mixed in with 737s, you can see there isn't the slightest resemblence. It's like comparing a beer can to a rock crusher.
Disclaimer: I used to be a manufacturing engineer (designing manufacturing processes) in the aircraft industry, so I have at least a passing knowledge of the subject.
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Post #194,316
2/12/05 12:35:53 AM
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While I appreciate this info
WHY IS ANYONE BOTHERING TO ANSWER THIS WHACKJOB??????
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Post #194,317
2/12/05 12:38:23 AM
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marlowe doesn't stick around to argue, so Sam's standing in.
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Post #194,319
2/12/05 12:52:15 AM
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Well, because . . .
. . having different kinds of whackos here generates interest.
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Post #194,336
2/12/05 8:31:54 AM
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It IS hard
I've never seen it shatter, though I have seen it cracked.
We use it for our shields.
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- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #194,341
2/12/05 10:13:40 AM
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Re: Aircraft aluminum
"The aluminum used for commercial aircraft is nothing like the soft aluminum people see in other applications. It is strong, hard and brittle - and not that much softer than architectural steel
Yes, aluminum can offer far superior strength to steel in ratio to weight. Yes, indeed. However, when the aluminum plane strikes the steel building, the weight of the steel is going to render the much lighter aluminum into fine metallic confetti.
Carmakers understand the heavier their cars the safer they are:
[link|http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/YanaZorina.shtml|http://hypertextbook.../YanaZorina.shtml]
"On impact, this stuff doesn't bend and break, it shatters like glass."
yep. And, we saw nothing like this in the videos.
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Post #194,342
2/12/05 10:22:06 AM
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Evidence please.
However, when the aluminum plane strikes the steel building, the weight of the steel is going to render the much lighter aluminum into fine metallic confetti. Evidence please. Note that video of a fighter hitting a reinforced concrete monolith isn't evidence to support your claim. Cheers, Scott.
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Post #194,343
2/12/05 10:27:31 AM
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Bah. You simply don't listen.
but then, your credibility is already zero. You have nothing to lose. Ben lived in NYC. I lived in 'Jersey when it happened, with close personal friends working in NYC.
We have MANY credible witnesses, you have - what? An assertion that there should have been 'metallic confetti'? Then you don't see it, so rather than question your assertion we should disbelieve multiple credible witnesses and physical evidence?
Go preach to those that believe the holocaust didn't occur, or that the moon landings were faked. You bore me.
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] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #194,349
2/12/05 11:10:52 AM
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Actually, that's complete nonsense.
One of the safest cars on the road is the Toyota Avensis, which is not only considerably safer than most SUVs but considerably lighter.
Peter
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Post #194,353
2/12/05 11:19:06 AM
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If heavier is safer . . .
. . . then why does the National Transportation Safety Board list pickup trucks and SUVs as the vehicles most likely to kill their occupants in an accident?
As to your metalic confetti, confetti going 400 miles per hour isn't going to just stop and bounce off the surface, it's going to keep on going.
You get a goose down pillow in your face at 400 miles per hour it's going to hurt like hell at least and probably kill you.
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Post #194,161
2/11/05 11:48:05 AM
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"911" - isn't that a phone number, to you Yanks? (new thread)
Created as new thread #194160 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=194160|"911" - isn't that a phone number, to you Yanks?]
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Post #194,165
2/11/05 11:59:31 AM
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Not harsh
You show a fighter (made lighter/smaller for maneuvering) hitting a solid brick wall and expect the results to be the same as a much more rigid vehicle hitting essentially 3-4 inches of glass.
Perhaps the jet engine that was shown coming out of the trade center that was found 6 cross blocks over was part of the hoax?
In addition, your Pentagon mock-up assumed the plane hit in level flight. If you look at the satellite photos you would see that the plane hit (damage shows this) with its wings planed at nearly 90 degerees (it was sideways and nose down).
Take it with your obviously large grain of salt.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #194,181
2/11/05 12:40:18 PM
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To support some claims...
I recall the ValuJet crash in Florida some years ago. Damn near no wreckage in that one either.
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Post #194,187
2/11/05 1:04:56 PM
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Further
[link|http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/03/07/gen.pentagon.pictures/index.html|http://archives.cnn....ctures/index.html]
Video is there. But...it must be a fake.
Elaborate hoax.
riiight.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #194,191
2/11/05 1:14:44 PM
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Re: Further
BePatient, it would be nice if you could explain the video anomalies that are addressed in the initial post. Thanks.
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Post #194,194
2/11/05 1:34:38 PM
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As opposed
to your ingnoring just how much evidence?
Talk about presumptuous.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #194,184
2/11/05 12:57:23 PM
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butter plane
"You show a fighter (made lighter/smaller for maneuvering) hitting a solid brick wall and expect the results to be the same as a much more rigid vehicle hitting essentially 3-4 inches of glass."
No, actually we all saw on television the plane, made largely out of aluminum, entering a building with an exterior that has steel columns. (The windows were between the columns.) The plane's wings and fuselage are making contact with the steel buildings. How does the plane enter the steel building like a hot knife through butter?
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Post #194,188
2/11/05 1:07:54 PM
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Easy. It's simple physics.
Go read [link|http://wtc.nist.gov/media/P2BaselineStrucPerf&AircraftImpact.pdf|this] 96 page .PDF from NIST that discusses the 767 impacts on the towers. Come back if you still have questions.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #194,190
2/11/05 1:13:15 PM
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Re: Easy. It's simple physics.
The NIST report is kind of a laughingstock on the Net. However, it has nothing to do with the current thread.
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Post #194,192
2/11/05 1:24:38 PM
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Wave your hands all you like...
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Post #194,195
2/11/05 1:37:12 PM
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Correct...
disproving your silly article has nothing to do with this thread.
We now return to (which exactly I'm not sure) your alternate reality...already in progress.
Who needs physics.
Gravity just sucks.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #194,200
2/11/05 1:46:57 PM
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"The Net"?
What "Net"?
Peter
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Post #194,201
2/11/05 1:48:32 PM
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Re: "The Net"?
The Internet.
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Post #194,203
2/11/05 1:53:56 PM
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I repeat.
What "Net"?
The NIST report may well be a "laughingstock" on the conspiracy-oriented web sites, but on the web at large (the Internet is a network, as noted; as such it's lower-level than the WWW and carries services such as SMTP and NTP; sadly "The Internet" has become a synonym for "The World Wide Web". But I digress.) it's not fair to say that it's a "laughingstock".
Please note that I don't give a shit what the "blogosphere" thinks, either.
Peter
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Post #194,202
2/11/05 1:53:15 PM
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That thingie Al Gore invented, remember?
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #194,228
2/11/05 3:46:46 PM
2/11/05 3:48:01 PM
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Re: Easy. It's simple physics.
Well, if you're asking us to take "kind of a laughingstock on the net" as sufficient grounds for dismissal of an article, I hate to tell you, but yours seems to have achieved that here, and in record time! Is that what you really intended to say?
Giovanni
Have whatever values you have. That's what America is for.
You don't need George Bush for that.
Edited by GBert
Feb. 11, 2005, 03:48:01 PM EST
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Post #194,229
2/11/05 3:49:49 PM
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Well, there was that universal peace guy..
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Post #194,189
2/11/05 1:09:58 PM
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Well..
...there are much more skilled folks here to describe the physics of the issue.
Stuff like mass, inertia, tensile strength.
Send it to mythbusters. I don't think you'll get many takers here.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #194,218
2/11/05 2:31:26 PM
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'Cause we all know steel beats aluminum
Just like rock beats scissors. It's common knowledge.
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Post #194,284
2/11/05 9:13:05 PM
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Your expectations are wrong.
I'll play along for a little longer.... Sam writes: There was no metallic confetti produced as one might expect when the aluminum fuselage struck the steel exterior. On this site you'll see some pics of what we expect to see when a plane strikes a wall like this: 1) Fighters are very different from commercial aircraft. 2) Hitting a rigid concrete wall is different from hitting a building that is designed to flex in hurricane-force winds. The WTC wasn't covered with rigid steel. The WTC wasn't built from concrete walls that were ~20' thick. 3) I didn't expect "confetti" - whatever you mean by that. There was a lot of debris from the planes outside the buildings, as BP pointed out. You're aware, aren't you, that [link|http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20020311/opinions2.shtml|water can cut through steel]. Materials with a lot of momentum can do a lot of damage. You seem to want to make a big deal about a grainy video tape, while ignoring the physics, the eyewitnesses, and the forensic analysis. Why is that? Is everyone who has studied this professionally lying? Since you cited [link|http://www.911-strike.com/siding-scam.htm|this] site, do you actually believe it? Eyewitness testimony establishes quite definitively that a Boeing 757 was seen flying over Washington and then approaching the Pentagon along a flight path near the Sheraton Hotel in Arlington, and over the Naval Annex of Arlington National Cemetery. Thus, the perpetrators of the attack had this 757 at their disposal, and could easily have crashed it into the Pentagon. We are arguing that they chose not to do so, but rather that they might have perpetrated an elaborate hoax -- thus taking the risk that their deception might have failed, or been detected. Why would they do this?
Our analysis suggests three possible albeit highly speculative motives, if in fact the perpetrators were working for New World Order intelligence agencies :
[...] Why should we regard "Richard Stanley & Jerry Russell" and their opinions more highly than people with demonstrated competence in physics, metallurgy, forensics and other relevant fields? Inquiring minds... Cheers, Scott.
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Post #194,186
2/11/05 1:01:47 PM
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Have you been to the Pentagon web site?
We've been through a lot of this already. See, e.g. [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=31944|#31944]. That post includes excerpts from [link|http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2001/t09152001_t915evey.html|this] Pentagon briefing.
There's no mystery about what happened to the planes.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #194,231
2/11/05 3:53:44 PM
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You are a complete, f*cking idiot
I was in NYC on 9/11. When the second plane hit I was still in shock from hearing about the first one so I wasn't at work yet, but fully a third of my workplace was on the balcony outside the office and actually watched the second plane hit.
Am I now part of the conspiracy?? One small problem with that theory, this group knows me well and will have trouble believing that I'm a government agent, and knows you not at all and has no trouble dismissing you as a crazy nut.
Feel free to leave anytime you want. Do not pass go.
Regards,
Ben
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Post #194,232
2/11/05 3:56:10 PM
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Thank you, Agent Tilly. Please return to base.
Oops. Feline out of receptacle.
Peter
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Post #194,234
2/11/05 3:56:58 PM
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ROTFL
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Post #194,235
2/11/05 3:57:53 PM
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All your base are be- ! <crash, bump, ungh, drag>
Nothing to see here, move along...
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Post #194,239
2/11/05 4:08:53 PM
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I met the french guys...
...that made the film from up the street...the ones doing the documentary about Ladder CO 1.
They wore black trenchcoats.
Its all part of Hillary's vast right wing conspiricy.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #194,240
2/11/05 4:10:08 PM
2/11/05 4:17:43 PM
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Trenchcoat mafia, eh?
You sure they were... French? The French, they mostly come from France, you know. And their fries? They come from Belgium.
Think about it.
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Feb. 11, 2005, 04:17:43 PM EST
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Post #194,246
2/11/05 4:30:25 PM
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Semi-seriously
The Naudet brothers were at an event that I was invited to attend. Since I parle francais, I was able to have a short conversation with them.
They were there with some of the guys from the ladder company,
Nice guys. So maybe they aren't french after all ;-)
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Post #194,344
2/12/05 10:33:19 AM
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Non, je suis sur qu'ils sont tres sympathique
et qu'ils sont francais. Pour le plupart, plusieurs des francaises que j'ai rencontre sont tres agreable. Egalement, on peut dire le meme chose sur la majorite des americains... depit les marlowes; leurs essais isoler le US des monde ne suffit pas.
Damn... how do you tell xp that you want to be able to switch keyboard layouts? Doesn't seem to be in the keyboard object, nor in the languages and settings object... you just gots to, gots to have funk^Wfun with accents when you're trying to write in French.
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Post #194,537
2/14/05 10:11:16 AM
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Control Panel, "Regional and Language Options" applet, on...
...the "Languages" tab, press the "Details" button; in the "Text Services and Input Languages" dialog[|ue] that appears, juggle the "Language" setting in the upper combo-box and the keyboard selection in the lower tree/list-box.
I *think* that if you have more than one keyboard (or was it more than one language?) installed, the "Language Bar" and/or "Key Settings" buttons down just above the lower edge become enabled; IIRC, the "Language Bar" is what you want: A quick-switchy-thingy for these settings that you can leave visible on your "Task Bar".
HTH!
Oh, and BTW... Aren't you glad we've got a nice simple GUI to do this in, so we don't have to use a horridly complex command line?
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(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
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Post #194,604
2/14/05 3:54:44 PM
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Thanks, I'll have to try to remember that
next time I'm booted into xp. Right now I'm in warp, and it's a nice simple "keyb cf" at the prompt and I'm good to go.
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Post #194,546
2/14/05 10:31:05 AM
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That has been my experience as well.
The issue is that most associate that attitude with random encounters in Paris..and as with any other major city (like New York)..folks are most often just plain rude.
All of "les francaises" that I have been blessed with meeting in more personal settings have been wonderful people, with limited exception being some of the more "noble" folks that I met in professional settings..and having not studied at "the correct schools" was viewed poorly. (I did not attend l'Ecole Polytechnique)
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #194,602
2/14/05 3:53:46 PM
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Yeah, l'ecole polytechnique
A lot of quebecois think the output of that school has their heads up their asses so far they're seeing daylight too.
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Post #194,241
2/11/05 4:20:30 PM
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Mass hysteria?
Hallucenogenic gas combined with audio suggestion and holographic projectors?
WHERE ARE YOUR 'THEY LIVE' SUNGLASSES, MAN?
Or are you wearing one of those watches?
They're so damned fun...
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- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
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As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
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Post #194,244
2/11/05 4:24:56 PM
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Dogs and cats, living together
'nuff said.
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Post #194,249
2/11/05 4:31:42 PM
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I'm here to chew bubble gum...
...and kick ass.
And I'm all out of bubble gum.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #194,251
2/11/05 4:32:29 PM
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What's the watches reference?
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Post #194,254
2/11/05 4:43:52 PM
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They Live
I love that movie!
You haven't seen it? Total paranoid flic - and it has a GREAT fight scene.
Starring Rowdy Roddy Piper... ROFL!
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] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #194,259
2/11/05 4:58:01 PM
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Oh, I saw it...
...I just don't remember the watches.
"Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal hundred megawatt laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his 'SMITE' button for our fire control system."
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Post #194,263
2/11/05 5:28:49 PM
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Teleport away in emergencies...
[link|http://forfree.sytes.net|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #194,247
2/11/05 4:30:53 PM
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You sure it was Jets and not Black Helicopters?
bcnu,
Mikem
Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer.
God Bless America.
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Post #194,250
2/11/05 4:31:55 PM
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A hint for you
You are wondering why NYC indymedia would consider your article something that isn't even worth considering.
Here's a hint for you. NYC stands for New York City. A place where a substantial fraction of the population saw with their own eyes what happened to the WTC.
Most people do tend to reject out of hand conspiracy theories that contradict what they saw with their own eyes. And when they know that an entire city observed the same disputed event, it is fairly obvious that any theory which doesn't explain all of the eyewitnesses isn't going to go very far.
Regards,
Ben "covert ops?" Tilly
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #194,260
2/11/05 5:03:09 PM
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Re: A hint for you
"A place where a substantial fraction of the population saw with their own eyes what happened to the WTC."
Actually, a lot of people describe seeing missiles.
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Post #194,261
2/11/05 5:03:52 PM
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Then they weren't there.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #194,262
2/11/05 5:21:24 PM
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Evidence, please.
Peter
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Post #194,266
2/11/05 5:52:10 PM
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Nobody that I know
And I <b>lived there</b>.\r\n\r\nOTOH I know a lot of people who described a big plane flying down over Manhattan, making sure that everyone who was looking at that spectacle got a good chance to realize what it was doing, before it slammed into the building.\r\n\r\nChallenge for you. Go to NYC. Walk the streets. Stop random strangers and ask them whether they saw with their own eyes what happened to the second building. The ones that say "Yes", ask them what they saw. I'll bet that you get to 10 who saw a plane before you find any that think they saw missiles.\r\n\r\nReally. Your theory doesn't even pass the giggle test for anyone who actually lived in that city on September 11, 2001. And it doesn't hold water for anyone with a brain and the ability to talk to strangers who is willing to visit NYC. I know a lot of people who watched it happen. They very consistently describe a plane.\r\n\r\nNobody that I know says that they saw anything else.\r\n\r\nRegards,\r\nBen
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #194,270
2/11/05 6:38:22 PM
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Re: Nobody that I know
"...Go to NYC. Walk the streets. Stop random strangers and ask them whether they saw with their own eyes what happened to the second building..."
Been there. Done that.
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Post #194,271
2/11/05 7:12:01 PM
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Uh huh.
[link|http://forfree.sytes.net|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #194,274
2/11/05 7:51:15 PM
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Let's examine the possibilities
At this point there are 4 possibilities.\r\n<ol>\r\n<li> I am lying.\r\n<li> You are lying.\r\n<li> I am delusional.\r\n<li> You are delusional.\r\n</ol>\r\nThese are the only possibilities because I'm telling you flat out, I'm from NYC and there is no way that your story is true. I also believe that everyone else here will have no trouble ruling out options 1 and 3 because they know me.\r\n\r\nWhether you're lying or delusional doesn't much matter to me. (I suspect lying.) I know that you're doing one or the other, and that doesn't leave much room for productive conversation. So I'm not going to bother trying any more.\r\n\r\nFeel free to say anything you want. I won't bother responding again. You aren't worth the effort.\r\n\r\nSincerely,\r\nBen
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #194,276
2/11/05 8:04:17 PM
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OT - did you whack your user prefs or something?
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #194,322
2/12/05 1:56:19 AM
2/12/05 2:07:57 AM
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Not intentionally...
I think I have it figured out. When I previewed, the page hung. I finally said to save without changes.
I'm guessing that I never got the part of the page at the bottom that included the hidden form fields with my preferences for the post, so they got lost for one post.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Edited by ben_tilly
Feb. 12, 2005, 02:07:57 AM EST
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Post #194,275
2/11/05 8:01:05 PM
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No you haven't.
And you didn't live there.
Nor did you know anyone who died in the buildings.
Nor do you know anyone who spent 2 months on the ground zero cleaning crew.
Nor have you met or spoken to anyone that directly witnessed the event.
But you sure do know your confetti.
I'll be sending you a postcard. On it will be a picture of this planet. On the back it will say..."Wish you were here".
We now re-join reality...already in progress.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #194,277
2/11/05 8:04:37 PM
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You need to get out more.
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Post #194,280
2/11/05 8:23:02 PM
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Question for you
What do you think about the shuttles Challenger and Discovery? Did one really explode on lift-off and the other burn up on re-entry? There's a reason I ask. Those events and this one have a surprising number of similarities. - Dramatic events with worldwide coverage.
- Loss of life.
- Live TV coverage.
- Huge government investigations with:
- Some finger-pointing.
- Evidence of beureaucrats ignoring warnings.
- Recommendation for reforms, some of which were enacted.
Oh, and one other thing: Some people don't believe any of it happened. There are people who believe -- or profess to believe -- that the entire space program is a fraud. They write books and websites claiming to "debunk" the "lies". Do you agree with these people? If you think that those people are nutters, but you are rational, consider one of the most compelling arguments against what they say: Just how many people would have to be lying for the fraud to be perpetuated? Your pet conspiracy theory is in for a rougher road than the NASA-is-a-fraud one, though. There's one key ingredient a good conspiracy theory needs that yours is sorely lacking: the people in a position to know aren't talking. At least when it comes to NASA, while there are thousands of people who worked on various projects, there are only a couple of dozen who claim they were actually on the moon, and the ones who don't were still on the payroll. But people who saw the planes hit the towers are all over the damn place. ===
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Post #194,286
2/11/05 10:00:12 PM
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head up ass time
weight mass and speed vs a thinb skin tower check here
[link|http://multimedia.tbo.com/multimedia/flash/0105planecrash.swf|http://multimedia.tb...105planecrash.swf] dont say it was faked because I saw it with my own eyes, Now tell me if that plane was x amount heavier and going 5 times the speed it would not have penetrated the tower. Bullshit. Nicely presented though, you me and marlowe could get together some time.
regards,
daemon
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Post #194,288
2/11/05 10:06:01 PM
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Oh by the way welcome and stop in anytime :-)
I love her dearly, far beyond any creature I've ever known, and I can prove it, for never once in almost seventy years of married life have I taken her by the throat. Mind you, it's been a near thing once or twice.
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Post #194,312
2/12/05 12:05:39 AM
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Re: 911 and the Age of Illiteracy and Innumeracy
Let us swill 20 cans of Coors/horsepiss play Matrix movies and imagineer our Captain Clarity uniform: gotta break the news to the masses from a suitedly impressive Authority Figure.
If this was an IQ test of the readers -?- they passed.
If it was anything else: you didn't.
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