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Nice find!
I stayed up late looking at network maps/etc trying to figure out any special features of the location, this was the only thing I could find. Likely coincidence, possibly not, but very high chance many people at 3-letter orgs have had a busy 24 hours as they also need to rule out some of the more exotic motives.
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Warnings tend to come with political bombings. But in this case we have a bombing with no manifesto - yet. A lot of effort for unclear purpose.
Don't worry, the script writers will unveil the next chapter soon. Get your popcorn buttered up. If you don't understand the purpose of this attack, look at the effects: * Keeping the populace fearful and terrified and "clamorous to be led to safety" * Increasing police state power * Legislation will be passed making it easy for RV owners to be searched and harassed, when previously they enjoyed some level of legal i…
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What we're seeing is a "stochastic insurgency" where loosely affiliated groups and individuals conceive, plan and execute infrastructure attacks and targeted assassinations. Relatively little operational coordination; but lots of online showing support and post-crime support. I hope all congressional representatives and local government officials are reviewing their safety plans.
I wonder what other crimes have stochastic forms... could violent video games be stochastic murder, if among the thousands of players there is one disturbed person who might be inspired by depictions of violence to act violently? Could songs glorifying violent lifestyles also be called stochastic crime? Folk songs glorifying cartels come to mind. If an unrealistic war movie inspires teenagers to join the army, might…
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Don't worry, the script writers will unveil the next chapter soon. Get your popcorn buttered up. If you don't understand the purpose of this attack, look at the effects: * Keeping the populace fearful and terrified and "clamorous to be led to safety" * Increasing police state power * Legislation will be passed making it easy for RV owners to be searched and harassed, when previously they enjoyed some level of legal i…
Having lived in a country with very real political bombings, I have little time for false flag discourse without evidence.
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"lefties" is a much broader category than anti-government militias. Other than that, no argument from me
Although there is more overlap between the anti-government types and lefties than they would both like to admit, we don't really have a libertarian sect beyond a vague correlation with thatcherism (But even then, outright thatcherism is still a think for the wonks - having any political ideology at all is depressingly rare)
It's illustrative of why simplistic right/left labeling is at best useless. You have to evaluate individuals - and media orgs - at a much more granular level. At minimum, three dimensions - natsec/defense, economics, social.
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How long will the gas grid keep working without electricity? Sure, the pressure is likely maintained from a reservoir, but many of the control systems likely depend on electricity, and I could imagine some being fail-safe (solenoids holding valves open and shutting if power fails).
They deliberately do not use grid electricity, as they don't like sparking and there is no need for it. It's just simple mechanical pressure regulators, along with gas turbine compressors on long supply lines to boost the pressure.
Never sure if it went from theoretical to actual.
https://www.google.com/search?q=natural+gas+pressure+reducer...
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ATT has more debt than the Phillipines, it's no surprise that they're trying to cut costs.
But what are their financing rates? They conceivably could have better long term security due to their position. And thus be fine with a higher debt loading. Utilities, at least those with a monopoly license, are quite close to State-owned-enterprise (SOEs).
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I can't speak for the telco side of the business, but I do know that AT&T leadership has been telling their enterprise IT side of the business to throw out many prior requirements to built HA into things, and to reduce the portion of systems set aside to handle unplanned events. One of the justifications has been that such planning and built-in headroom is virtually never used. They are rapidly shutting down most of…
ATT has more debt than the Phillipines, it's no surprise that they're trying to cut costs.
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No, actually the explosives were placed in the building itself. The "Ryder truck" story is the official lie.
Please provide evidence before spreading crazy conspiracy theories.
You really think a truck-based fertilizer bomb could level a building like that? I bet you think two 737s brought down three towers, also.
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I wonder what other crimes have stochastic forms... could violent video games be stochastic murder, if among the thousands of players there is one disturbed person who might be inspired by depictions of violence to act violently? Could songs glorifying violent lifestyles also be called stochastic crime? Folk songs glorifying cartels come to mind. If an unrealistic war movie inspires teenagers to join the army, might…
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "stochastic forms"? The meaning and usage of the word that I am familiar with don't seem to fit here, so I don't think I'm getting your meaning. Thanks
> A derivation of Dr Woo's stochastic terrorism model was proffered by an anonymous blogger posting on Daily Kos in 2011 to describe public speech that can be expected to incite terrorism without a direct organizational link between the inciter and the perpetrator.[31][32] The term "stochastic" is used in this instance to describe the random, probabilistic nature of its effect: whether or not an attack actually takes place. And, although the actual perpetrator of a planned attack and its timing is not under the control of the stochastic terrorist, their actions nevertheless serve to increase the probability that a terrorist attack will occur.[33] The stochastic terrorist in this context does not direct the actions of any particular individual or members of a group. Rather, the stochastic terrorist gives voice to a specific ideology via mass media with the aim of optimizing its dissemination.[33]
So if 'stochastic terrorism' is speech that will probabilistically inspire acts of violence when it reaches a large number of people, why can't this be generalized to crimes other than terrorism? If the (now banned) subreddit r/shoplifting publishes messages glorifying shoplifting to a large number of people, it will likely inspire some portion of those exposed to commit these crimes themselves. Does that make the subreddit a form of 'stochastic theft'?