virtual identities

[Stephen Morgan]

Good luck recruiting an actor to play a man publicly serving a life sentence.

[JackRiddler]

But what do you think?

Don't encourage. Thanks.

[Nordic]

why the snotty attitude? forget what board you're posting on? forget about the long ugly trail of government created patsies over the decades? or did you just wake up on the wrong side of the mattress?

anything involving "bradley manning" i take with a grain of salt, and frankly if you don't you're kind of a fool.

[hava1]

Nordic, just as an "international" reader, i would say that Manning exists, namely, there is too much interest from abroad to create that kind of hoax. However, he might have been handled, or that loads of leaks were dumped on him, which he didnt do.

My post, while not very clear, refered to a case where the case is not so high profile, there is a gag order, and then the suspect turns out (no photos of him as well) to be a person whose last name is the only one of its kind in Israel, nobody evershowed up as parent, friend or some old date who knew him.

[lupercal]

Who has actually laid eyes on him since his creation, I mean arrest?

FWIW:

Weird. Just like the father interview. How many friends refer to their buddies by their first and last names. He keeps calling him "Bradley Manning", not "Brad" or "Bradley" which is now most real friends would refer to their friends.

And the guy seems plastic and rehearsed. And why was this civilian allowed onto a military base at all? And why was he supposedly allowed to visit Manning when no one else has been able to? What is their "friendship?" Basically who the fuck is this guy supposed to be and why are we supposed to take his word for it that he's a "friend" of Bradley Manning.

It stinks.

Dunno about a fully virtual identity but this interview has a funny smell, especially the carefully worded commercial for "events in Tunisianegypt" which friend is clearly reciting from a script. My guess is that BM is a patsy whose brainwashing is taking longer than expected and if they can't get his implanted memories camera-ready soon I suspect he may come to an unfortunate demise.

[Nordic]

Yes, I suspect "Bradley Manning" is getting mighty depressed these days .....

That "friend" interview is downright creepy.

[crikkett]

That "friend" interview is downright creepy.

...Probably his boyfriend...he is pretty.

[hava1]

Anyone seen "Hanna" ? downloaded it, hope its not trash

[LilyPatToo]

I liked Hanna. The director, Joe Wright, and star, Saoirse Ronan, were in San Francisco promoting it at Wondercon a few weeks ago. It's an off-beat action/thriller movie with an unusual young heroine who's an assassin--the product of an intelligence agency-run experimental program. Cate Blanchett plays a sociopathic CIA agent who's out to get Hanna and her father (Eric Bana). Good cast, good story and really cool music by The Chemical Brothers. It's a shame it's gotten so little media coverage, since it's worth seeing. It struck me as an RI sort of film and if I hadn't been so busy I would have posted more about it.

LilyPat

[hava1]

thanks LPT for both film feedbacks. I hope to watch them this weekend ("taken" and "hanna").
I did a crash film marathon this month, and 4 more to complete the annual quota.

[hava1]

I have been slow to respond LPt because it is no secret I have been considering your intentions to me, not to be on the positive side, starting way back. SPecifically, since you had mentioned your connections with Israel, which I found rather murky, and short of breaking the rules of the board, I will not elaborate.
However, since at this stage I have stated already that I do not come here to seek any sort of support, including on the MK situation which we discuss on this board, I see no reason to be less than polite, to anyone.

The usual biases and agendas w/r to Israel, either the "protection" of Israeli PR or the "resentment" of Israel, render me depresonalized here, and I guess that has become mutual, which is at least balanced.

I liked Hanna. The director, Joe Wright, and star, Saoirse Ronan, were in San Francisco promoting it at Wondercon a few weeks ago. It's an off-beat action/thriller movie with an unusual young heroine who's an assassin--the product of an intelligence agency-run experimental program. Cate Blanchett plays a sociopathic CIA agent who's out to get Hanna and her father (Eric Bana). Good cast, good story and really cool music by The Chemical Brothers. It's a shame it's gotten so little media coverage, since it's worth seeing. It struck me as an RI sort of film and if I hadn't been so busy I would have posted more about it.

LilyPat

[82_28]

That interview settles it. Not real, not authentic, total psy-op. Perhaps we need to begin looking at society and its members as running on different run levels.

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"Runlevel" defines the state of the machine after boot. Different runlevels are typically assigned to:

* single-user mode
* multi-user mode without network services started
* multi-user mode with network services started
* system shutdown
* system reboot

The exact setup of these configurations will vary from OS to OS, and from one Linux distribution to another. Example, runlevel 4 might be multi-user, GUI, no-server on one distribution, and nothing on another. Note the difference in the Red Hat and Slackware distributions charted in this article. However, "runlevels" do commonly follow patterns described in this article. When installing Linux, it is best to consult that distribution's available user guides.

In standard practice, when a computer enters runlevel zero, it halts, and when it enters runlevel six, it reboots. The intermediate runlevels (1-5) differ in terms of which drives are mounted, and which network services are started. Default runlevels are typically 3, 4, or 5. Lower run levels are useful for maintenance or emergency repairs, since they usually don't offer any network services at all. The particular details of runlevel configuration differ widely among operating systems, and also among system administrators.

The runlevel system replaced the traditional /etc/rc script used in Version 7 Unix.

The photos of Manning look like photos from an Onion story and that dude, House, looks like the human caricature of an anime character. The last fucking thing Manning cares about is what is going on in egyptunisia, if he is indeed real. And if he was a peace activist, why did he wind up joining the military and decide to leak all that shit right around the same time, whenever the fuck it was a few months ago, the .gov threw out their new gay person policy? If he was his friend, why does he keep referring to him with first name and surname? Why is he not shaken? Why does he offer clinical insight at the beginning of the interview as to Manning's solitary confinement?