You haven’t heard from me in a while because… I’m pretty sure… I’m under attack from Apple.com.
For ‘art’ let’s stick with recent chemtrails. This was yesterday here in Parker, Arizona.
Why do I think that?
Remember my mention of Moore’s Law and how it makes no sense that consumer computers (Mac/PC/whatever) are not improving at all, never mind at the exponential rate that Moore’s Law deems it they should. I told you guys that this is no more a detail (that is unimportant in the grand scheme) than space exploration — that we not only have not advanced at an exponential rate since the 1960s, but have regressed. No, this is not an unimportant detail.
Last fall, Bouse, AZ.
A perfect example of the space question is how Spacex had to test docking without astronauts (to make sure it’s safe), given that the Gemini missions of 1968 had already achieved this maneuver. (Yes, for the purposes of this exercise I am assuming that the space program is as it is sold to us.)
Adendum: As a reminder, according to Moore’s Law, computer speed/efficiency has, for the past near-century been doubling every 18 months to two years. Taking the conservative view, this means that my new laptop should be at least 32 times as fast/efficient as my 12 year old one.
Logan will be breathing these heavy metals by nightfall.
Fact is, my new MacBook is slower than my old one. And re storage, my 2008 Mac had 512 gigs, eight. According to Moore (and storage is the best example of his law) my new one should have around 50,000 gigs, but in fact has half, 256.
Point being no one seems to have noticed the failure of consumer computer products to live up to the Moore’s Law paradigm.
No one. Do a search.
Well, not only have I noticed it but over the past four weeks — when I had to return two slow and/or defective MacBooks — I spent many hours on the phone with tech people and for the purposes of research grilled each one on this subject. I may have mentioned that out of a dozen ‘geniuses’ only one had even heard of Moore’s Law, let alone understood the implications thereof. And boy I did not let them off the hook on this. At least two cut off my call, in frustration I assume.
Soooo… Last week, six days ago I found that my Apple I.D. and Password no longer worked, and I was frozen out completely from my iPad. Trying to make a long story less long, one techie admitted that it was nothing I did to freeze up my account; it must have been a tech glitch on Apple’s part.
I went through the process of going to a Verizon store to garner prove I owned the iPad in question. My new laptop worked as long as no Apple crapola was involved. I could not change or use my password from any device, including my phone.
I was told 24 hours to resolve. Then three days. Then two more days, then five hours, then three, two, one hour, then… back to two days — before I would even hear from them, which I never did.
Keep in mind that supposedly this process was to prove I am who I say I am and did not steal the iPad. That is all the bullshit is supposed to accomplish. Period. A simple phone call from them would have done it. Instead, I was on the phone (having had to call them) for like 20 hours over the past five days.
And get this: None of the tech people could contact security in any way, not by phone, not by text, not by email. Totally isolated from customers and their own tech folks.
Does that make any sense at all? Unless, of course, the real motive is to keep me offline or at least inconvenience me.
This morning, after repeated techie-assisted attempts at unlock, we wiped clean my iPad and established a new Apple I.D. and password, using an old Youtube email.
‘This has to work,’ said today’s genius.
‘You cannot unlock using this I.D.’ comes the message box.
This of course is nonsense, if the purpose of the bullshit is to verify that I am me. (I’d already gone through supplying my CC number, mom’s maiden name, name of my childhood best friend, first pet, and on and on.)
I’m asking myself if the A.I. that analyzes my tech calls decided that my ranting about Moore’s Law and consumer non-access to high technology was too close to some important secret truth and why not cut me off as best as Apple can, in this case by freezing my account and gaslighting me about the reason (the need to verify I am ACW and so on).
Addendum: Last night the techie I grilled finally admitted that it very well may end up with my having to dump my three Apple devices (laptop, iPad, and iPhone) and start over with a new company’s hardware. 
Think about that. I dig too deep into TWTWRW and they will do whatever it takes to fuck me, starting with my interfaces to you guys. (Yes, of course they could simply put a bullet in the back of my head or haul me to a re-education camp, but it’s still early…)
We all know that classical fascism is afoot (the blending of government and corporatocracy), in the über-hypocritical guise of ‘saving democracy’; and, further, we all know that the vast majority of Americans will go along with this tyrannical takeover as long as they can get to go back to bar hopping and Super Bowl partying.
I tweaked the contrast in these so you can clearly see what they are doing.
What I’m saying here — based on recent personal experience — is that companies like Apple are a big part of the process, as much of a part as the media, although their role is not as blatantly obvious.
Except for someone like me. For me their role is blatantly obvious.
Allan
Aside from the above, the other reason for my silence is that I’ve had to buy three MacBooks in the past month; the third one, this one, is so slow I’m sending it back too.
I’ll try to be in better touch, especially when the false flag ‘homegrown terror’ events start to really roll out.
Listen: This stuff is important, the implications thereof. Deal with it in your comments or keep silent for this one.
Allan
You always post good info and Pics. The Sky Pics reminded of last weeks snowstorm in SLC.
I attended a Allison McDowell event last Sat. Others there spoke to me about the cars today and the fine residual powder covering them. My car was covered with flour type substance.
It appears they were spraying heavily here too.
Ok, my issue was resolved yesterday afternoon. Also, I went to a small computer shop and the guy said he has a friend who had the same experience. So maybe Apple’s behavior was not related to my ranting about Moore’s Law. I’m not so sure now. Your views on this are welcome.
Hi Allan – so they have managed to unlock that slow pup of a laptop that is still no good??.
Good to hear you are still alive & firing on all cylinders.
Isn’t that chemtrailing a shocker!!.
Yeah, I’m back. More or less…
Who gives a fuck about Apple, or whomever.
All ya’ll need a computer fo’ is buying crypto from a centralised exchange– ETH, preferably–and then transferring that to a blockchain wallet and swapping a portion– say 40%– for a range of other assets about to rocket in value. Including ETH. (Notice the market recently? Some of you did– well done!)
You’re running out of time to make this move. Becoz soon crypto will be unaffordable to your garden variety chump and/or FIAT access ramps will be banned outright.
Don’t say I didn’t warn yallllzzz.
And Allan is hooked up on Apple customer service morons.
Yee couldn’t make it up if yee tried.
U truly are a unique specimen, Allan. And about to be made very redundant.
New pandemic and nationwide lockdowns incoming, ya’ll.
Better hope it’s not Ebola this time.
What?
You think they were running national drills and destroyed the economy for a bioengineered flu?
Guyszzzz. Come awwnnn.
And happy Chinese new year to each and every one o’ ya’ll.
A.
Is this too vague: all the cryptos will survive, and all the fiat banks will die?
So, the few americans in this country that actually have some fiat $$ will crash and burn shortly? Is that about right?
Put it this way: I highly recommend precious metals, ammo, and storable useful stuff. They are very serious about going to a world digital currency, making us desperate enough to accept it.
Digital currencies have nothing to do with crypto assets.
Although digital currencies require some kinds of crypto assets to function. Hence LINK and other technologies.
Jeez, guys. Get up do date.
Yup. 2 words: Blockchain, decentralised.
Research b4 commenting, ya’ll.
It has nothing to do with centralised servers.
Banks are everything to do with centralised servers.
And are close to redundancy.
Ho hum, but it’s not easy to get your head around, granted. As our Brett, below, has displayed over and over.
I made no claim; I was simply asking.
So I like to waffle. Sue me.
OK, so I spent some time at EthHub.
How great is this stuff when the internet is down? Equally bad, no?
So, they kill fiat but keep the internet up for access to their new world tokenized stuff?
Now yer talking. If “they” pull the plug on the internet the world will collapse. Simple as that. Everything runs on the internet, hospitals, government, state + civil services, everything.
So think they’re gonna shut down the world for a trillion dollar crypto “problem”?
Think again.
On the contrary, “they’re” figuring out ways to move everything– EVERYTHING– ONto the Blockchain. Including the stockmarket. Yeah. Let that sink in. And when Morgan Stanly jump in to crypto this summer? ,,,,Well. I’m sure you can use your imagination.
Why do you think “they’re printing money like there’s no 2moro? Because there IS no 2moro– for FIAT that is.
And the trillion dollar crypto problem will be the only show in town. That is: not a problem anymore. (Unless you failed to get in while you could. Like right now.)
Then we WILL see digital money. As Allan predicts. Which you’ll have to buy through CENTRALISED blockchain services at your online bank. Which of course will institutionalise the normie crypto market.
Decentralised crypto markets future is uncertain after this– some form of parallel financial system accessible to those with crypto and techy know how, provided TPTBe dont go total technocratic dystopia.
Then WTF knows what will happen.
Of course, having said all that 😁, WW3 could break out 2moro. Or we could get hit by an EMP pulse. And in that case who in their right mind is gonna give a fuck about crypto– or anything else for that matter? Then you’ll be more concerned about marauding gangs of starving chumps in home-made technicals. In which case Allan’s advice about tooling up is quite simply Spot. On.
Good luck! This will get u started, ya’ll
https://dailyhodl.com/
You said :
“All ya’ll need a computer fo’ is buying crypto from a centralised exchange– ETH, preferably–and then transferring that to a blockchain wallet…”
You seem to be promoting “centralized”
Then:
“Yup. 2 words: Blockchain, decentralised…”
You seem to be promoting “decentralized”
And finally:
“Decentralised crypto markets future is uncertain after this…”
And this is your recommendation?
Obviously I’m missing something in your abbreviated scenario.
Dude, the blockchain IS decentralised– that’s the whole point. It runs off individual nodes. Untraceable. (I’m not going to explain why, sorry.)
After you buy your crypto on a centralised exchange, you transfer it immediately onto a “wallet” (accessible on and off-line with the right skills– look up how to do this) you create on the blockchain.
Yours forever and virtually unhackable unless YOU fuck up the private keys or are dumb enough to store your crypto on a centralised server such as CoinBase. (60-70% of newbie crypto punters are doing this.) Internet goes down? You lose your funds until Coinbase is back online. Ouch!
I’ve said this a number of times before.
Now, blockchain runs off independent PCs all over the world– nodes, which do not require centralised internet servers like Google. People make a lot of crypto in commissions– miners– running these nodes. Many of these nodes are in countries NOT ACCESSIBLE to traditional financial powers. (Countries that have been raped and pillaged by these traditional powers for centuries, mainly.)
Right now, banks are getting their CENTRALISED blockchain tech set up– for which they need various crypto assets in order to do. And THAT’S why the market is rocketing right now.
Becoming clearer?
Blockchain is just a technology. Very new. Can be routed through a centralised server (for control) or off of independent nodes (unhackable and uncontrollable). For good or for evil.
There’ll be a centralised blockchain (controlled by governments and banks) and a decentralised blockchain for a number of years operating independently while the tech develops before everything is transferred onto the blockchain by 2030 latest. Probably much sooner. And can you imagine legacy institutions trying to legislate for this stuff regarding taxes, etc.? They’re barely catching up with mentally ill men wanting access to ladies’ bathrooms, FFSake.
As for the future of Decentralised crypto markets?
Nobody has a crystal ball, dude.
So that’s why you buy crypto NOW (duh!) and sell over the next few years while the tech develops and legacy institutions– and nations– try to catch up with very smart and very organised decentralised developers communicating with each other through unhackable apps ALSO running on the blockchain.
That all clear for ya?
And dude, research this shit b4 you go on. It’s complicated. And won’t be grasped in less than two weeks solid work.
But I guarantee you it will make you rich. Only question is: when do you cash out?
But that’s every players problem though, right?
Thanks.
👍 Start on Medium. Vast amounts of excellent info written by guys who really know their stuff. Everything from newbie ABCs to tips on what to buy to advanced trading techniques.
Good luck.
Outta here b4 Allan has a corrrronnarrry.
Hint: go LINK if you fancy a flutter. Or RSR.
And that’s bonafaaade.
(Don’t 4get to check out Daily HODL regularly. It’s all there. But not a peep on MSMedia, right? Surprise Surprise. “They” dont want you knowing about these big financial moves and changes– better for them you watch YouTube videos on masks and the Great Reset all. Day. Long.)
You will be sweating and relying on the NWO/PTB to not wreck & piss on the crypto parade, while I sell them my expensive equipment I make.
Clearly you know nothing about decentralised finance on the Blockchain, Brett.
Surprise Surprise.
“Decentralised crypto markets future is uncertain after this– some form of parallel financial system accessible to those with crypto and techy know how, provided TPTBe dont go total technocratic dystopia.
Then WTF knows what will happen.” <<< you said this yourself Azzy!.
I'm not trying to be pessimistic, but I had been around long enough to know they Kill anything stone dead, that can help joe bloggs & mom n dad get off the slave train. They already have their hands out for tax as soon as you try and convert the crypto into something useful like food, housing and goods.
Even back in the 1929 depression they suckered everyone in to handing in their Gold for a song.
They can't and wont shut the net down, schools operate on it too now.
Brett, see above. You run a business? You’d wanna start researching ‘smart contracts’– which are, da-dAAA, run of o’ blockchain tech.
Hint: Ethereum.
Oh and by the way, in Indonesia, for example, you can cash out any amount of crypto for a 1% commission. Totally legit. They don’t have their sticky fingers everywhere, Brett– the world’s a big place as you well know. The West is being taken over and destroyed, many other places are free, free, free. And will remain so after the Chinese military defeat of the U.S. Navy.
But according to Sky News they’re 3rd world shitholes, and the defeat never happened, right?
Go figure.
As a very long time Mac user, I can say I observe exactly the same thing..
Allan,
That was scary, you being missing.
We rely on you and your forum very much
especially during man’s manipulated plague on itself.
I use chrome on mac and Google’s Android phone plus an iPhone,
kind of like the Pit and the Pendulum. Also, maybe their ongoing war
will distract them from me. The PTB is pushing 5g. Eventually, the cloud is all that will be available. They already know every stroke we make. So no difference.
There’s a de-humanization going on as AI is taking over.
Will we all be controlled as one? Are they chipping us
now with the vaccine? Will it be boosters every few months? Free thinking is out. If there’s something you’re thinking that they don’t like, they’ll change your mind with a stroke. It’s a dumbing down of the consciousness that we have received from Spirituality. Woke is changing history and putting our children asleep. It won’t work in the very end.
Look at our brilliant Congresspeople and other leaders. Those people are now the mind altered that we the people are supposed to look up to and have them represent us.
Is it the bad aliens in charge who are stealing our Will? Let’s hope the good aliens fight back and we get back to the real ‘Independence Day’. Humans with strong Will and Spirit are decent and eternal. Our connection to the other side is what they are trying to steal from us. It won’t work. ‘Matter’ is not eternal. Quantum theory proved the real web is universal and controlled by nonmatter. We cannot underestimate our Consciousness which is nonmatter. That’s where the Power is, our good Will.
Worthwhile comment as usual, Cat.
While I won’t comment on any of the implications, I feel like, as a professional techie (with degrees to prove it!) I should make a correction as regards to Moore’s law.
While the downstream effect of Moore’s law is to make things faster, Moore’s Law actually states that the number of transistors on an Integrated Circuit (like a CPU) would double every 18 months by creating technology that makes the transistors smaller. This would ideally double the processing power of a CPU every 18 months.
However, built into this prediction is the fact that at some point due to physics (you can’t make transistors less than one atom), at some point Moore’s law will not apply. Moore’s law in this sense has been basically true, up to the past 10 years or so. While more components are able to be built into CPU’s now (in the form of “cores”, or multiple processors on a single CPU), they are limited to the same relative “speed”.
One final note: Software tends to be a cumulative process, each version adding upon the last while not removing anything, leading to effectively slower software. In addition, there are more layers of abstraction in software meaning new layers of software all the way down to machine code. All of this has the effect of slowing things down.
Those who say Moore’s Law has expired agree that it did so in 2019, which nullifies that part of your comment. I would have thought you’d have looked into that.
While you may feel this is an argument worth making, I’m not sure what the validity of that statement says to the rest of my post. I’m not sure that those who think Moore’s law expired are in agreement at all as to when. At very least I would at least like to see your source.
From my experience, and from this article that does a good job of covering the salient points – https://medium.com/@sgblank/the-end-of-more-the-death-of-moores-law-5ddcfd8439dd – the speed of CPUs has actually gone down since 2005. CPU’s used to be roughly 4 Ghz at the peak, but most even high-end CPUs run in the upper 3’s now. Gordon Moore’s quote about the shrinking size of the transister lasted longer but started not keeping up with the 18 month log scale around 10 years ago.
My other point was that there are other complicating factors that end up affecting the “speed of a computer” than meets the eye. Another guy said that Hard Drive choice was a major concern and I totally agree with him. With Apple, they tend to pick hardware that is almost top of the line, but not quite. They value stability and privacy over cutting edge speed.
Mainly I was just trying to add some technological clarity to things without changing any of the implications. Some things speed computers up, and some make them slower. Bloated software, adware, bad programming, etc. tends to slow down computers more than new hardware can keep up so I agree that while Moore’s law specifically has proven true until recently, perceptions are that computers themselves are slower and this could be to other factors.
I didn’t think it necessary to give a source since all you had to do is search Moore’s Law (ML) but here is a quote:
‘We have another 10 to 20 years before we reach a fundamental limit. By then they’ll be able to make bigger chips and have transistor budgets in the billions. In 2016 the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, after using Moore’s Law to drive the industry since 1998, produced its final roadmap.’
Quotes like this are all over the place. However, the article you linked to seems as trustworthy as any of the ones I read, so I dunno… He may be right (ML ended around 2005).
I appreciate your perspective and taking the time to comment. However, here’s what I’ve found: Tech savvy folk (like you) tend to miss the forest for the trees BECAUSE of your knowledge. You get tied up in the details of How as opposed to Why.
Also it’s a matter of perspective. I hadn’t bought a Mac for 10 years so… it was like not seeing someone for 10 years as opposed to seeing them every day. In the former you notice how they have aged… it jumped out at me like Boom!
I grilled about a dozen Apple techies and was shocked that only one said he/she was even aware of ML. When I explained about it they all went off on a tangent about the technical reasons, blah blah blah, which, aside from the PHYSICS (when they reach the ‘spatial barrier’ to more transistors, i.e., sort of a Planck Length issue) is irrelevant.
I told them Apple is distracting us in their tech articles talking about battery life (and heat) and… of all things… making the Macs THINNER. I mean who f-ing cares if it’s a half inch thinner. A joke.
Think of storage, which is easily understood to a luddite like me. My old Mac had 512 gigs, my new one 256. Absolutely no excuse for this that is not fucked up. You can get 128 gigs on a camera chip the size of your pinkie nail. Etc. Etc.
I assume part of the motive is to get us all to HAVE to use the cloud for storage. So you have a financial issue. But I suspect the real issue is access to our data. (Anyone who thinks their data is safely encrypted in the cloud is not thinking clearly, IMO).
I also found it unbelievable that Mac’s have only one port for plug ins and the ones they deleted are the ones we need (!)d, like for external HDs. This nudges you toward the cloud as well. And no slot for SD cards. No DVD drive?! Whatarethey, nuts? Truly.
So I’m on my third Mac in a month and will probably send this one back too: It is soooo slow that I can barely use iMovie or properly edit raw images in Lightroom. (And I have 16gb of RAM.) And I won’t even go into what I went thru updating the OS so I could even USE iMovie (the Mac didn’t come with it!).
We know they are dumbing us down in every way (chemically, with media, etc etc). Apparently they are dumbing down our computers as well. But again, thanks for your perspective. You know more than I do in this arena. But try to step back and look at the issue from afar.
Software can and should be refactored to remove bloat during upgrades. It’s not additive as you describe. For example, Java 1.8 added streams with greatly reduced size of code needed for same processing of collections (of data/“things” etc).
Cannot avoid to say “your own fault”, buying all your stuff from a company with such a long history in customer lock-in techniques … 😉
I’m using PCs/Notbooks with an easy-to-use Linux, for almost two decades now.
But I refrain from giving any recommendations …
No, I’d appreciate your recommendation. Problem is teaching this old dog new ones, etc. I am so used to Mac, etc. But as I say, aside from my problems their is the larger issue to think about.
This is the laptop you should be using –
https://kfocus.org/
And this guy can explain all of the reasons why –
https://youtu.be/YuuQnnWODn0
Ooops, didn’t see this. Thanks for the link!
How is the learning curve for Linnux? Is the… interface or whatever radically different? Others have recommended the same… Also, I find my iPad very valuable especially re my 12 volt lifestyle…
Looks like those chem trails were sent by Mac
Yeah, as I say, I tweaked the contrast for effect. I just got Lightroom and am tweaking my whole portfolio. Will do a series of slide shows for all of them. Many hundreds of images going back many years. Anyone have a suggestion re slide show software. Simple is better!
Uh… Linux!
https://linuxpreloaded.com/
Thanks. (And sorry for misspelling ‘Linux’)
Yep Linux is a option, but for now you have to be skilled to pass through complex process to resolve simple issu
Hi Allan . Yup ! You are 100 % correct . A Dell XP I bought 15 years ago was fantastic until The Microsoft chaps decided to make it obsolete. New PC 4 years ago I fucking hate with a passion waiting for the updates and terrible W -10 to boot up. But bigger plans unfolding for all of humanity , with their agenda spelled out in neat packaging like this.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/G30_Reviving_and_Restructuring_the_Corporate_Sector_Post-Covid.pdf
Ray
Good point. What’s up with the CONSTANT updating? Really has to be something behind that aside from planned obsolescence.
About disk space. the thing is yes the amount of space is reduce but the accces speed, the reading/writing speed have increase by, at least, a factor of ten in the last 10 years. For the reading speed we pass from mechanical HDD around 80-160 MB/s, to SSD around 500 MB/s and now SSD PCIe NVMe is around 3000/s. You can purchase a a SSD or a SSD PCIe NVMe with 1TB but you will pay 3 to 4 time more than a mechanical one. The thing about CPU is right now the computer industry focus more on GPU improvment…the real business is in the graphic cards not in the processing unit anyMoore, just check on amazon the price of best graphic card for gaming…just insane
Prices were supposed to have gone down not up as a correlation to Moore’s Law.
You sort of lost me but if you mean real, practical speed has increased you are very wrong. I can hardly scroll thru my photos without waiting a few seconds for each to upload. No excuse for that.
Allan you don’t own Apple product. Apple own you. Please get ride of all your Apple product. If you want a laptop go with Asus, dont get a Lenevo, HP or Acer laptop
Doubling every two years, for a period of twelve years, would make it 64 times as whatever.
I know you’ve heard this before, and you may be right that it’s too late for you (but you shouldn’t underestimate yourself), but you’d be a little safer with an open source operating system. (Not wishing to appear more naive than I am, I’ll mention that I’ve no idea what Intel builds into its chips and, if the PTB really want to go for you, it’s probably all nicely set up for them.)
Anyway, at least count one person, out here, still appreciating your updates.
Thanks, Denis.
EEEEEEEKKKKKK. Although this is from my PC past (1995) when I first bought a HP, the Microsoft Word program at the time (3.1, I believe) was far better than the “upgrades” over the next 15-16 yrs until I switched to Macs. Pages is much better, period. And I don’t have to shell out $550 or so every other year to get the latest Office upgrade.
Bottom line…is there any other solution? I’ll never go back to PCs, as they would break down every week.
Yeah, I went from PC to Mac after the fucking PCs broke down almost literally every week. Now I’m used to Mac and am up shits creek. There is more to this situation I’m in that you all should take seriously. this is the dialog I’m hoping will take place here. How the hardware is set up to get what the PTB want. We are truly being lied to about everything…
Buy a chromebook. No maintenance at all.speedy and easy. No learning curve
I don’t know if you would consider my tech problem in the same ballpark, but I think it is. A brief description: Starting about 2 months ago, it started with video’s endlessly buffering ..” experiencing interruptions,find out why?” … then a screen message “session has timed out” … vids that came in email would not play, unable to forward/share vids … then I could no longer access the internet.
What is, to me, most telling … the timing … it happened every day about the same time 6:00 PM then restored the following day @ about 8:00 AM. Interesting, right? Of course I contacted my IP Frontier about this problem, jumped through all their hoops and ended with their assurance that the problem was fixed. It was not. Fast forward to call #2 .. now due to current outages we are unable to determine your problem.
Can anyone tell me why this “an nom ily” (can’t seem to spell this word) would be so precise .. access unavailable at exactly the same time, every day, for the past 2 months ? It’s curious, no?
I think I’m being “censored” in a perhaps less obvious way. Any thoughts … ideas … explanations?
Again, thank you Allan for keeping on ……
Yes, I got even worse BS from Apple, re their promises as to when my issue would be resolved. They all lied. And that none of the techies could even contact the security division was truly unbelievable. They really showed me how much I am at their mercy. I see it as a warning.
I think it is also a matter of control … they are in control of when I am able to use my computer in any way, thereby, controlling my time!