A Sunday Silly – Okay A Day Late, BUT… This Just Can’t Wait!
Preface: I’ve been accused of being paranoid, even by shrinks, but that’s for another time. Also I’ve always wanted to be thought of as eccentric, but I am NOT a millionaire so just NUTS is what I get called.
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I think I’ve found my Presidential candidate folks. He has it all!
“The ‘doomsday’ weapon that could wipe out 90% of Americans: Eccentric tech millionaire and presidential candidate John McAfee says country is ‘ill prepared’ for electromagnetic attacks”
In case you don’t have the time or inclination to read the whole article I’ll offer one more quote to demonstrate his empathy for a cause most here feel strongly about:
“But if it is then surely weighing the possible deaths of 90% of our citizens due to cyber warfare against gun violence which causes fewer deaths per year than traffic accidents, seems that possibly our president is suffering an acid flashback rather than myself.”
Doesn’t that pique your interest?
Now, EMP weapons do constitute a very real threat. However, he might be exaggerating the fallout a bit. Or maybe not? Mr McAfee make an almost cogent argument methinks. BUT he didn’t mentions aliens once in this piece so I kinda doubt his sincerity.
He does have one attribute that sets him apart from the field, and that alone makes him MY candidate if he shows up on my ballot next year.
He ain’t gonna be trying to court voters with clear half-truths and BS. He is what he is and that makes him MY candidate. A President that uses deception as readily as a thief or one that is “eccentric” but honestly eccentric? There it is.
Category: Geezer Alert!
Okay, Zero, I can read most of the psychobabble that comes from people who suffer from mental diarrhea. I can even wade through “Finnegan’s Wake” without going completely made.
But this stuff is almost as opaque as the message from from the Skarrens, who can melt you brains with their breath.
You’re right, however – he is clear and straightforward, even if he is full of run-on verbal diarrhead.
What. The. FUCK?
McAfee? As I recall, he’s still wanted for questioning in Belize regarding a suspicious death there. And then there’s this from 2 months ago:
http://www.wbbjtv.com/news/local/John-McAfee-arrested-in-Haywood-Co-320668232.html
There appear to be serious questions regarding this guy’s “headspace and timing”, regardless of whether he’s correct about the EMP issue.
Rather my point Hondo… I was sorta giggling as I was typing. In a campaign that has a Trump and a Clinton is he THAT bad?
Um, yes. Both Trump and Clintoon are capable of rational behavior. They may perhaps be mistaken, inconsistent, and/or mendacious at times, but they act rationally. Presumably either would continue to act rationally if elected.
Based on his conduct to date, I have grave doubts whether or not McAfee is always capable of rational thought. And I don’t want someone who isn’t capable of rational thought, even sporadically, as CinC – whether or not I happen to agree with them on a number of points.
IMO “teh krayzee” is a disqualifying condition for election as POTUS.
“Now, EMP weapons do constitute a very real threat. However, he might be exaggerating the fallout a bit.”
I think the worst fallout from an EMP would be the planes, not the radioactivity.
Think of a blind squirrel.
The guy’s crazy, but he has a point.
EMP weapon detonation altitudes appear to vary from about 30 miles to about 100 miles. The damage potential appears to relate to a factor called volts per square meter and range from about 25,000 to about 50,000 V/m**2. A 20 KT weapon detonated about 35 miles above north-central PA would produce 25kv/m**2 damage across DC and up the coast almost to Boston. A megaton weapon detonated 65 miles over Detroit would produce a 37.5kV.m**2 smile extending north to Canada, south to Atlanta, and back north again to Maine with special attention to the eastern seaboard and include most of the US east of the Mississippi. A link for your viewing pleasure: http://www.empcover.com/example-emp-attacks.html Mil-spec electronics are designed and tested to be less susceptible to EMP than consumer electronics so the primary victims here would be the average citizen. However, the troops wouldn’t get paid because that work runs on ordinary general purpose computers – probably most logistic operations would also fail for the same reason – assuming that anyone could make a train or truck run or a forklift or traffic lights or rail switches und so weiter. Toughbooks don’t stand a chance. Imagine our two closest friends, North Korea and Iran, these days both regularly launching missiles and both possessing nuclear weapons. How hard would it be to sail a ship into the Great Lakes heading for Chicago or off the Jersey shore or into the Caribbean. Aim is not particular important – “up” from Detroit, “north” from the Caribbean, “northwest” from the Jersey shore. It could navigate with a hobby GPS – both can do better than that. It could be detonated by remote control or with a altitude detection app, again using the GPS. North Korea’s Taepodong has a range of 6,200 km. I think that they could fire it from a ship in international waters, have it travel 300 KM, and set off the weapon. The weapon doesn’t have to be sophisticated or small or lightweight. In 2013 North Korea set off a weapon that the Germans estimated at 40 kt. How long before the Iranians are… Read more »
Then all of us hillbillies will be sittin at home going “yep, that hunting and fishing, and having a woodstove in the house doesn’t seem so backwards now”
Hmmm, I wonder if the EMP would take out the ignition system in a 64 Chevy truck.
Only if you convert it to electronic ignition. Newer electronics would permanently go south for the winter, but there are survivalists who advocate building shielded Faraday cages around the alternators. Keep a few spares of points and condensers, headlight and horn relays, and figure you can do without that CD player you hung in there.
Actually a real interting book is called “One Second After:, about an EMP attack on the US. Believe at the end o fthe book the US lost something like 80% of its population, mainly due to starvation.
I think the most susceptible items regarding non-solid-state ignition would be ignition coil, solenoids, alternator, and starter. Points and condenser I think would be okay. From what I understand, anything with windings is susceptible. The thing about keeping spare parts around is that you would have to keep them in a metal box(s), otherwise your spare parts inventory could be taken out too.
Does anyone remember that Popular Mechanics article that described in detail how to make a homemade EMP pulse cannon? I think it was published a couple of years before 9/11/2001. It has since been stricken from the archives. I can find references to it, but no source article. It was a great article.
McAfee is moonbat crazy. Beyond that, I always thought his anti-virus product sucked bad. I guess IBM owns the product now and is in the process of re-branding it away from the McAfee name.
The next gen EMP weapon in our inventory will apparently come from Boeing. They describe it as a direction, focused, microwave beam capable of taking out electronics in various targeted buildings. I have always wanted to build something like that on a smaller scale, capable of taking out the fucking hip-hop stereo amplifier in the car next to me at the red light. If it kills his ignition system too, oh well.
Also, if this Boeing technology is scalable and effective, high speed (and low speed) chases by LE should become a thing of the past.
And now that I went back and saw his picture in the article: Did Frank Zappa and Walter White have a love child?
Heisenberg lives…
Not post-Felina. (smile)
Not to worry, I completely backed up all of TAH on stone tablets that will be buried in upstate New York in the event of a global disaster.
Surviving generations will have the wisdom of HONDO to guide them.
The Canticle of Hondowitz?
But they will also have the crazy of Bernath and Lars.
Everyone has a purpose in life. For some, that purpose appears to be to serve as a counterexample to others.
Golden tablets right Dave? Has to be golden tablets for upstate New York.
I know it’s been done before but it was really successful first time out and a second time might be more so…I would rework the multiple wives thing to be mandatory though this time out…
McAfee is journalism’s answer to what to do if you get bored at work. Having a slow news day? Just call up ol’ John and see if he’s been in the Peruvian marching powder again.
He’s like the low-hanging fruitcake…
Boy,I can see where this blog is going to go, and right now I have’nt the time to either read or send any bullshit in, what Jonn should do is have an open Thread this weekend for everyone to send in their jokes for the week, McAfee you say????? you have to be off your rocker.
Where the tall corn grows
The whole point of an air burst/EMP attack is that it *doesn’t* dredge up tons of debris and coat it with glowy bits and then toss the whole mix into the atmosphere.
OK, the guy is probably somewhat batshit. That said… I think cyber is a very real threat, and our adversaries seem to realize it while this administration sits around with its thumbs up its ass and can’t even come up with a coherent cyber warfare strategy. Hell, we only a few months ago finally passed an executive order dealing with cyber attacks! We’re way behind on this.
True. But as I said above: “teh krayzee” is not a point in a candidate for POTUS’s favor.
And yet, Trump is still in the lead. 😉
LOL!
Yeah, I had wanted to be rich enough to be “eceentric” if I went nuts myself.
or “eccentric” even.
I was worried about EMPs and EMTs and Ents and Ants, too. You never know. Seems like they show up right when you need them the least.
But I had a dream. It was a dream about… stoves and refrigerators. I can’t account for it. It just happened. It seemed so real. And I paid a visit to a store to get a movie, and there they were, big as life – stoves and refrigerators. It was like… well, like magic… if you believe in that stuff.