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Unread postby shortonsense » Thu 23 Oct 2008, 19:40:45

Noticed this recently, comment #18 from the administrator of a site who knows something about the participants involved...

http://survivalacres.com/wordpress/?p=1 ... ment-10972

and at nearly the same time, this announcement ( Editor Comment #2 )

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/breakingnews.html

and suddenly, we have to wonder, whats going on? I would expect in short order lots of denials, explanations, and such as word gets out, but the two events, coming so close together? It just begs the question, can this happen to us here, at our internet community dedicated to something which most of us know better than to venture out in public with? I mean, if the mods have to worry about being black bagged, how long before they are forced to give us up in exchange for their own freedom? Its not like many of us have websites we can just sell, collect the cash, buy some gold and hotfoot it out of town before the ticked off acquaintances/volunteers discover who sold them down the river?

I don't know....I'm going to wait until the expected explanations, denials, stories from the mods themselves, and consequences start to show up, but it sure makes you wonder about risk reward in these places.
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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby seahorse » Thu 23 Oct 2008, 21:14:31

Shortonsense,

There's nothing to the comments on survival acres. I happen to moderate on the LATOC. The guy making the comments was banned from LATOC. Don't want to get into all the details, just nothing to it. As for closing the LATOC site, it is in no way linked to the comments on survival acres. The owner of the site has entertained a few offers to buy the site and is considering taking them and moving onto other things.
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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Thu 23 Oct 2008, 21:26:52

If Matt sells LATOC, it won't be LATOC anymore. Imagine GMAC buys it to make some money on solar ovens. I mean really, car loans down? buy a doomer site and make some cash. First they came for LATOC, then they came for PO.com, then they came for Energybulletin.com then there was no one to say, hey! wait a minute. Doom.com, sponsored by Coca Cola. A refreshing way to enjoy the collapse of civilization.
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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby Loki » Thu 23 Oct 2008, 21:31:07

What exactly would the jackboots hope to learn about me on this site? That I think oil production has either already peaked or will peak in the next 5-10 years? That I don't ascribe to the Jevons' paradox or the dieoff hypothesis? That I'm into gardening? That I've asked questions about how to store walnuts? That I prefer Glocks over 1911s? That I want to have a beer with Smallpoxgirl?

PMS, that's the genius of corporate capitalism. It can co-opt anything.
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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Thu 23 Oct 2008, 21:46:00

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Loki', '
')PMS, that's the genius of corporate capitalism. It can co-opt anything.
In the 70s the advertising biz used hippie imagery to seduce the boomers into consumerism. Ripe for the plucking, just like the Eloi in The Time Machine. Now the Morlocks are coming.
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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby RedStateGreen » Thu 23 Oct 2008, 22:26:39

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I')f Matt sells LATOC, it won't be LATOC anymore. Imagine GMAC buys it to make some money on solar ovens. I mean really, car loans down? buy a doomer site and make some cash. First they came for LATOC, then they came for PO.com, then they came for Energybulletin.com then there was no one to say, hey! wait a minute. Doom.com, sponsored by Coca Cola. A refreshing way to enjoy the collapse of civilization.

If that occurs, I will open Malthusia.com and you can all come there. They can't buy me. I will reserve the right to hawk my husband's books and software, though.

As far as riskiness, you have to assume everything you write or view on the internet is forever kept in a database accessible by TPTB and/or anyone who can afford it. Evaluate your decisions based on that and your assessment of the possible consequences.

I like anchovy pizza. You heard it here first. :wink: :lol:

Malthusia.com is a great name. :-D
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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Thu 23 Oct 2008, 22:47:59

[quote="Shannymara"]
*edit* Maybe these are different times, no Homeland Security test runs for me after all.
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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby mos6507 » Thu 23 Oct 2008, 22:49:12

If "they" wanted to shut down the concept of peak oil they would have muzzled Kunstler, Heinberg, Simmons, Catton, Bartlett, and all the others long before any of us peons. Why should "they" feel threatened when psychological denial has been working so well?
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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby Koyaanisqatsi » Thu 23 Oct 2008, 23:09:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', 'I') see roccman posted in the comments on the survivalacres link above.


Nice eye, Shanny! Roccman is becoming like Bigfoot now. :-D
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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby Plantagenet » Thu 23 Oct 2008, 23:29:51

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', 'I') see roccman posted in the comments on the survivalacres link above.


Roccman posted there on October 22....yesterday.

I thought Roccman said he was sealing himself in his bunker two weeks ago.....He must have had a flat tire on the way or his truck got "booted" for illegal parking or something...he's not in the bunker, anyway.

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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby MattSavinar » Fri 24 Oct 2008, 11:17:29

This is complete fucking bullshit and I am prepared to take legal action against anybody who spreads these lies as they are completely, 100%, to the moon and back, FALSE. Nobody at latoc is under any investigation and certainly not "with Matt's full cooperation". We are talking COMPLETELY FALSE. There's at least 6 different potential torts here and I haven't even put my thinking cap on.

@ ShortOnSense: your anon screename DOES NOT protect you from getting sued for spreading these rumors. Your IP addy and personal info is easily obtainable. Yes, you posting here and contributing to the spread of these lies even though you are not the originator yourself is actionable.

I'm not litigious by nature by any stretch of the imagination but I'm not going to stand by and let 100% LIES like this be spread about me and my work.

Go look me up on the California State Bar Attorney search. I'm licensed and ready to go. This is why I've maintained my license all this time at significant monetary cost even though I have not been practicing. Given the nature of my work I figured it was only a matter of time before people starting spreading TOTAL LIES about me and/or my forum and I would have to put the license to use.

State bar license #228957 Look it up:

http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/mem ... x?x=228957
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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby Aaron » Fri 24 Oct 2008, 11:58:14

I think it's pretty obvious this is all an attempt to give Matt time to complete his clone army bent on world domination.

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Unread postby jasonraymondson » Fri 24 Oct 2008, 20:16:18

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', 'T')his is complete farking bullshit and I am prepared to take legal action against anybody who spreads these lies as they are completely, 100%, to the moon and back, FALSE. Nobody at latoc is under any investigation and certainly not "with Matt's full cooperation". We are talking COMPLETELY FALSE. There's at least 6 different potential torts here and I haven't even put my thinking cap on.

@ ShortOnSense: your anon screename DOES NOT protect you from getting sued for spreading these rumors. Your IP addy and personal info is easily obtainable. Yes, you posting here and contributing to the spread of these lies even though you are not the originator yourself is actionable.

I'm not litigious by nature by any stretch of the imagination but I'm not going to stand by and let 100% LIES like this be spread about me and my work.

Go look me up on the California State Bar Attorney search. I'm licensed and ready to go. This is why I've maintained my license all this time at significant monetary cost even though I have not been practicing. Given the nature of my work I figured it was only a matter of time before people starting spreading TOTAL LIES about me and/or my forum and I would have to put the license to use.

State bar license #228957 Look it up:

http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/mem ... x?x=228957


Stop being a whiny little bitch. You are welcome to come sue me. Slander and porn is why the Internet was created. You have about as much chance of pulling off this lawsuit and winning as I have of sleeping with Jessica Alba
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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby Jenab6 » Fri 24 Oct 2008, 21:51:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'S')top being a whiny little bitch. You are welcome to come sue me. Slander and porn is why the Internet was created. You have about as much chance of pulling off this lawsuit and winning as I have of sleeping with Jessica Alba

Who'd want to sleep with Jessica Alba? She's ugly.

The only thing I see wrong with LATOC is this by Nathan Lewis, "Prepare for the Worst Case Scenario."

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Nathan Lewis', 'E')ven this doesn't get at all the things that have been going on, and the more perceptive have probably noticed that the moon and stars have been misaligned for a number of years now, or that anomalous weather has not just been an Earth phenomenon, but a phenomenon of other planets in the solar system as well.

All you celestial mechanics and astrophysicists are probably dying of laughter. The weather on other planets isn't known well enough to tell when there has been, say, a 10% increase in precipitation in their northern middle latitudes. We can say, though, that there's nothing "misaligned" about the stars, the moon, or the planets. These are all still where they are supposed to be, where they could have been predicted to be a hundred years ago. It was somewhat disorienting to see some otherwise reasonable good Peak Oil prep advice interrupted by this errant astrophysical theory. "Misaligned," my foot.
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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Fri 24 Oct 2008, 22:28:32

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jaysonraymondson', 'Y')ou have about as much chance of pulling off this lawsuit and winning as I have of sleeping with Jessica Alba

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jenab6', 'W')ho'd want to sleep with Jessica Alba? She's ugly.
Thought I'd check her out at google images and see for myself. Maybe her face is a tad bit long but she's hot alright. Ugly? Are you nuts? Here's ugly

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btw, back when I delivered pizzas, I saw a really ugly woman who had class and style. Gracious, friendly, a good tipper, beautifully kept condo, pleasant friends. Puts the lie to the cruel old witticism that beauty is skin deep but ugly is to the bone. I sort of miss that old job that I had for 10 years. I witnessed some amazing things. For instance, once I saw what shitheads lawyers can be. Cripes! Vile creep who threatened to sue because his pizza was late. Another time I saw a good looking yuppie woman going ballistic on her husband and mocking his fondness for their dog. Creepy scene. Never a dull moment.
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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby Aaron » Sun 26 Oct 2008, 09:00:39

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jenab6', '
')Who'd want to sleep with Jessica Alba? She's ugly.


No Jerry... but someone in this thread sure is.


Ugly Jessica
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Unread postby Loki » Sun 26 Oct 2008, 11:40:17

Oh yeah, I wouldn't touch this with a ten-foot pole. Butt ugly. 8O
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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby shortonsense » Sun 09 Nov 2008, 12:13:11

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', 'I')'m not litigious by nature by any stretch of the imagination but I'm not going to stand by and let 100% LIES like this be spread about me and my work.

Really? Can we assume that legal action against the supposed forum adminstrator who made the original assertions has begun?
Could you please keep us appraised of filings and such as they work their way through the court system?
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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby shortonsense » Sun 09 Nov 2008, 12:27:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seahorse', 'S')hortonsense, There's nothing to the comments on survival acres. I happen to moderate on the LATOC.

It strikes me that this fact alone means your opinion should be discounted because of possible bias.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Seahorse', 'T')he guy making the comments was banned from LATOC.

People get banned on LATOC every week, Matt just provided a list not a week ago of 4 or 5 people he decided he didn't like, including ex-moderators from THIS site I believe. As best I can tell, one of them made the horrendous mistake of admitting he was a Muslim.....gone....his judgment on banning people that won't buy into a particular groupthink hardly says something about someone manufacturing a lie of this magnitude.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaHorse', 'D')on't want to get into all the details, just nothing to it.

As a moderator at that site, are you suggesting that you would know if you were being investigated in the manner suggested?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaHorse', ' ')As for closing the LATOC site, it is in no way linked to the comments on survival acres. The owner of the site has entertained a few offers to buy the site and is considering taking them and moving onto other things.

You will admit that the coincidental nature of the 2 announcements is more than a little....interesting? Particularly to those of us who worry about exactly the level of surveillance these sites might be subject to?
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Re: Risky to participate in PO sites?

Unread postby threadbear » Sun 09 Nov 2008, 17:33:26

Why would the feds be interested in anyone on Latoc? I just find the back and forth between Matt and the guy on Survival Acres, high comedy. Though, it may be difficult for them to do, neither of them should take themselves too seriously.
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