Divemedic

COMSEC

J6 participants are being charged with crimes, and supposedly encrypted communications are being used as evidence against them.

Either participants in the conversation are informants, or the Fed’s are reading encrypted mail.

  • Assume that all communications methods are compromised. Don’t discuss sensitive issues in the clear, even on an encrypted network. Use code words and phrases.
  • Any code can be broken, given enough money and computer power.
  • The easiest way to break a code is to break someone with the decryption key. Everyone has a weakness and this weakness WILL be used to break them.
  • In any organization, the chances of an informant increase exponentially with the size of that organization. Keep things small, close knit, and organized in cells of no more than 8 people. That way, potential informants only compromise the members of their cell.

Big brother is watching. For now, those who fail to learn go to jail. Soon, slow learners will be killed by government agents.

By Divemedic, ago

Free Markets?

Twitter restricts a person’s ability to post something that the company disagrees with, so Twitter censors it. A company sells a product that Amazon web hosting doesn’t like, so the company finds out that its webhosting has been shut down. Many companies take punitive actions against their customers because they CAN. This can be done as a form of political or social engineering, or it can be done as a form of manipulating the marketplace to maximize profitability. No matter why it is done, one thing that you always hear is “If you don’t like it, you can start your own company. That’s capitalism.”

No it isn’t. Let me explain why. What a person means when they say “that’s capitalism” is actually referring to a free market where private parties own the means of production and commerce, and market forces dictate what happens in the marketplace. That isn’t what we have here.

Let me use my recent experience with my LGS as an example. Let’s say that I decide that I am so unhappy with how they do business that I want to open my own gun store with a shooting range. What would it take to make that happen?

  • I need to get a license from the Federal Government to sell firearms
  • I need to get a permit from the state to collect sales tax
  • I need to get zoning approval
  • I need to get building permits
  • In order to have an indoor range, I need special ventilation in order to meet indoor air quality regulations
  • I need a business license.

In all, I need permission from more than 10 Federal, state, and local government entities in order to run my business. On top of that, I have banks, credit card processors, shipping companies, and other suppliers of services to deal with. All it takes is for your competitor (that existing LGS) to have friends at one of those entities, and your quest to open your own gun range just got exponentially harder and more expensive.

That isn’t a free market. This is why someone can’t simply “Start their own YouTube” or go out and build whatever business they want. I own three different businesses. The regulatory hoops are incredible, and don’t just come from government. You can’t be a lawyer without being a member of the bar association, for instance. (The bar isn’t a government agency, but they decide who can be a lawyer, and by extension, a judge.)

An example: One business that I own is a travel agency. I have memberships in industry organizations like CLIA, ATA, and IATA. Many hotels, cruise lines, resorts, and other entities that I do business with won’t talk to you unless you are a member of one or more of these organizations at a cost of thousands of dollars per year. If you don’t kiss their rings, you won’t have a travel business. They decide who sells travel and who doesn’t. That isn’t free market.

Amazon is another example. Amazon is the 800 pound gorilla in the room when it comes to Internet commerce. As many conservative businesses are discovering, it is difficult to have a significant Internet presence if Amazon is opposed to it. That is one reason why I started this blog on its own server, a server that is located outside of the country. It’s why I share that server with other blogs. For being an entity that makes no money, it’s expensive, but it is the only way to be free to say what we want.

One thing I have learned from running a business- this country isn’t even close to having a free market.

On a side note- donations are always appreciated to keep the lights on here. I pay out of pocket to keep this place open, and any help is appreciated. I have a Patreon, the link is below.

By Divemedic, ago

Discounting the Enemy

Many of us on the right are discounting the enemy, creating memes, and generally chest thumping. The claim is, “just you wait until we actually get involved in the fight. Those leftys won’t last a week.” The claims are usually accompanied by pictures like these, intended to be proof that the insurgents are not manly enough:

I think that we are grossly underestimating their preparedness, training, and subsequently, the threat that they pose. They have training manuals, they are organized, and are being backed by our own government. They are winning by the only metric that matters: they are out doing it, while the right is sitting around talking about it on the Internet.

For all intents and purposes, the communist insurgents own the entire I-5 corridor from the Canadian border down to Eugene, Oregon. They own a virtual lock on I-94 from St Cloud east to Milwaukee. They are in control of cities in California, some of the DC suburbs, as well as areas around the country.

There is talk of mandatory, forced vaccinations in Washington state.

The voting rights act will probably be passed in the next few weeks. Our nation is about to be taken over, permanently. Stop thinking that they aren’t manly enough, and begin taking a good, hard look at what they are accomplishing. I have been warning of this for nearly two years, and have had many of those on the right laugh at me. They haven’t been laughing as much since the election. It’s long past time for people to wake up and realize that we are losing.

By Divemedic, ago

TB Rays catcher dies

Twenty eight year old Tampa Bay Rays catcher Jean Ramirez died unexpectedly on Monday. I’m sure that this unexpected, unexplained death had nothing whatsoever to do with the vaccination. 28 year old athlete millionaires are always dying under mysterious circumstances.

In other not COVID vaccine news, the Army is now desperate for recruits and paying $50k sign on bonuses because they didn’t just kick out a bunch of trained soldiers for not being vaccinated. But hey, the ones they get now will be loyal little lefty bots, so there is that.

By Divemedic, ago

The Great Resignation

I keep hearing about how the 90% have tired of playing a losing economic game while watching the top 10% get rich at their expense, so those 90% are quitting their jobs and refusing to pay. I don’t understand how.

How are they paying for housing? Food? Utilities? I understand wanting to quit your job and lie about with no job. What I don’t understand is how they can afford to. Can anyone explain this? Are the government handouts really that great?

By Divemedic, ago

Skidmarks

Miguel posts about the Norwegian military reissuing the used underwear of discharged service members. One memory of my own time in the military makes me cringe to think about having to share skivvies.

When I first reported to the fleet, everyone who was E4 and below had to report for 90 days of “coop cleaning.” The coop was the compartment where about 200 of the sailors in the engineering department lived. There was one E4 and three sailors E3 and below who were assigned as coop cleaners. It was their job to clean the berthing compartment and its attached head.

Inside of that compartment were two laundry receptacles: one for dark clothes, one for whites. Twice a week, the coop cleaners would put the clothes into 60 pound bags and take those 5 or 6 bags down to the laundry to be washed. When those clothes came back clean, the coop cleaners would place them on each person’s rack (bunk). It was rather nasty. Imagine what 300 pounds of laundry that was worn in a hot, humid environment by 200 sweaty guys for a 16 hour workday smelled like after fermenting for three days in a common laundry locker. Yeah, it smelled like a mixture of ammonia, grilled onions, cheese, and farts.

One of the funniest traditions we had was to pin the skivvies with the largest skid mark to the bulletin board that was located next to the laundry bin. Since your name was on the skivvies, you were subject to ridicule. We had one guy, his name was Crenshaw, who regularly had skidmarks that were 6 inches long and two or three inches wide. He didn’t care one whit about the ridicule he was subjected to. Every laundry day, his underwear and its large skidmarks would go on display.

So no, I would rather go commando.

By Divemedic, ago

Gaston Update

As regular readers know, I recently completed project Gaston– an 80 percent Glock compatible pistol frame. Today was the day that I finally got to take it out to turn some money into noise.

I got to put a single magazine through it. Accuracy was fine. Here is the target from 10 yards, rapid fire.

The problem was reliability. Out of 16 rounds, there was one stove pipe, three failures to feed, one round with a dented primer but no PEW!, and one where the fire control group didn’t reset.

I didn’t even get a chance to troubleshoot before the RSO came over and forced me to stop shooting because my ammo was steel cased.

I am wondering if the problems were caused by too heavy of a recoil spring. The slide is a lightweight one, and perhaps changing out the standard 15 pound spring with a 13 pound one will work.

In the meantime, I need to buy some brass cased ammo and save the steel cased stuff for the outdoor range. More on this later.

By Divemedic, ago

Need a Lawyer to Get Laid

A proposed bill in Florida will change the law concerning rape. Now in Florida, a man and a woman can have couple of drinks followed by a sexual romp, and if one of them later decides that sex was a bad idea, have the other charged with rape.

Why? Because the old law required that the victim had been drugged without their consent. Now the law will be changed so if one or both of them are intoxicated of their own free will, they are considered mentally incapacitated, and the other is guilty of rape.

The only way to get laid is to have any potential paramour sign a legal release with at least two witnesses certifying that the signatories do not appear to be impaired by any intoxicating substances.

By Divemedic, ago