OCTADE or OCTAD is a retro word that means either an octal digit of three bits, or an octal octet or an eight-bit byte. Thus an octade, depending on its historical use, is either 3 bits or 8 bits.

OCTADE was used to specify eight bits, as opposed to BYTE which is not necessarily eight bits as the word BYTE could signify any of several numbers of bits.

This yields the retro 1337 numbers of 38 and 83. The number 38 is one more than 37 so a bit more elite a bit cooler. Thus it owns cardinally shorter byterz.

83 mod 38 equals 7, the highest octal digit. 838 mod 383 equals 72 or 9 times 8 which is 8 squared plus 8.

8338 mod 3883 equals 572 which is 72 times 8 minus 4 or 71.5 times 8.

8383 mod 3838 equals 707 which is 88 times 8 plus 3.

I prefer the old word OCTADE to the word BYTE. OCTADE sports a Euro-peon dignity and gravitas like an Internet serf ready to surf the worknet like pwnd peons. This is very true when pronouncing OCTADE with a thick Pennsyltucky Dutch or Yinzer accent. The Bostonian pronunciation sounds like bad beginner German or muffled mumbling of 'lactate.'

OCTADE or OCTAD was also used to describe a poem of eight stanzas.

OCTADE was also used to describe a period of eight years, or two leap years.

OCTADECANAL is a pheromone found in butterflies. It is butterfly perfume. I would not wear butterfly cologne. But I would sell it. Who would buy and wear my snobby smell? With wordplay we can call it OCTADE CHANNEL No. 8 . All rights reserved, ye French odor snooties.

Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':

Burroughs B5500 Information Processing Systems REFERENCE MANUAL
https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/burroughs/LargeSystems/B5000_5500_5700/1021326_B5500_RefMan_196705.pdf

Philips Data Systems Product Range - April 1971
https://www.vintage-calculators.nl/Philips%20productoverzicht%201971.pdf

Is there another name for octet that means 8 bits?
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-another-name-for-octet-that-means-8-bits

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"If you want to sell someone something, you first have to convince them that they need it. This rationalization is the likely source of a fundamental myth of the American public school system: that before the proliferation of compulsory, tax-payer funded schooling, Americans were ignorant and mostly illiterate."

"Authority will always try to convince you how helpless and bereft you would be without the authority. Americans were neither illiterate nor ignorant before forced schooling. Compulsory, tax-payer funded education has not been an overall improvement for the population, despite the billions of dollars and wasted hours spent on it. To claim Americans need government schools to learn is a grab for power and control, and ignores centuries’ worth of data and lived experience."

#Education #School #Literacy

The end goal of the 'master plan' is government-required Internet ID just to connect to any socket. They want the user identified at every hop--KYC on meth. The goal is to eliminate anonymity and allow a blacklist switch for any user who says anything inconvenient.

They will probably start by having the banks require Internet ID to use any banking services. If you don't get the Internet ID, you won't be able to cash a paycheck or make a payment. That is what the rulers want--total control of all money and information at the click of a mouse.

1. Briar ... https://briarproject.org/
2. RetroShare ... https://retroshare.cc
3. DarkMX ... https://darkmx.app
4. Hyphanet ... https://www.hyphanet.org
5. I2P Invisible Internet ... https://geti2p.net/en/

All are peer-to-peer and decentralized.

I2P enables hosting hidden services that are faster than TOR hidden services and more secure.

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IPFS is about as user-friendly as a rabid skunk.

I know some people want to be really chatty about everything, but I'm more into just reading and thinking about things. Of course some souls leave the door wide open for the occasional jest or roast, which I sometimes can't resist. No doubt causing others to turn off my boosts!

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'Libertarian' sounds like the opening to a polisci joke.

Democracy is a fascist slave system and it is working exactly as intended. The dumb helots and serfs get to pick sock puppets while the real rulers aren't even mentioned by name.

"America is asleep to the danger that confronts us. Since the 1960s, there has been a concerted effort on the part of radical Islamists to infiltrate our major institutions."

But beware the one Islamic bogey man to the seventy-two actual enemies already entrenched in the system!

"So how many cups a day equate to a serving of vegetables??"

This was done to ensure that the woman and her children would not be destitute or left without good inheritance. The commandment for a 'brother' to take his dead brother's wife does not necessarily mean a fraternal brother from the same parents--any brother in the tribe, or a kinsman, is what is meant there. The words, 'brother', 'sister' and such were more flexible anciently, and that flexibility still exists when using English slang, such as, 'hey my brother' or 'you go sister' ...

"Libertarianism is an appealing idea if you hold human agency and freedom above all else. However, it has its weaknesses. Freedom is certainly worth having, but at what cost?"

The author wrongly asserts that conservatives want to limit personal freedom and that liberals promote personal freedom. This claim is pure horseshit. Conservatives are merely liberal lite, and both crush personal liberty in deference to the worship of the state.

People mistake words for reality, and get jammed up in mental servitude to their idols.

Now take Libertarianism and its words. They are just words. They claim to believe this and that and to promote this and that. But if you look at the operations of their political party, and their different chapters among the states, you see the same bullshit we find in the Democrat and Republican parties.

Libertarians suffer from the same rings of power syndrome that afflicts people who claim other political ideologies. What they say on the surface would never be implemented in real life once they seized the political machinery. It's all just words with no substance, just like almost everything said by liberals and conservatives is just words without substance.

The author states:

"Liberals do this by limiting the ability of some to gain disproportionate power over the group and exploiting that power for their own ends. "

Conservatives obsess with obtaining economic power over others. They mobilize economic pressure to force others to submit to their will. Yet in recent years the liberals have taken this cue and added that tactic to their arsenal of tricks for forcing people and nations into submission.

The political factions want power to rule, plain and simple. They will use whatever words they think are effective in manufacturing your consent to their power over you. Whether they are liberal, conservative, or libertarian, their main goal is to have the power of the state and its police and armies to regulate your life as they see fit. There is no love in what they do. You, your vote, your labor, your taxes are just a means to an end and nice-sounding policies and ideologies are bait for the trap.

"And I see how this looser approach to worship is reactionary to what's perceived as 'dry religion' of more traditional liturgies. But I'm appreciating the richness, thoughtfulness, and depth woven into liturgical worship. I think evangelicalism can gain a lot from it."

I think the Christian religion can gain a lot from the gospel instead of displays of religious fervor.

The Pharisees were picture-perfect at outward professions and shows of 'visible worship'. They had a beautiful temple and a very orderly liturgy. Christ called his disciples to something greater.

"The kingdom comes not with observation."

"Repent" means "turn the mind". Turn the mind from what, to what?

Modern Christians generally say to turn from sin and become religious.

But that is NOT how the bible defines repentance.

Sin is the symptom of the thing men need to repent of. The core cause of sin is idolatry--idols--false gods, false christs, false gospels, false teachings, and false priorities. That's why repentance is a thing of the mind. We have too much religion teaching people to struggle with their sinful flesh or improve their religious optics and not enough raw faith teaching the good news that one man on Golgatha already defeated that monster. We cannot add to Christ's work on the cross and yield right results.

Once repentance comes, outward shows of piety are meaningless.

Repeat that meme a million times and expect protests in front of libraries. In order to protest the imagined censorship the protestors will burn down the libraries in rage, destroying all the books. Then the protestors on the other side can complain about the fire departments failing to save all the books.

A strong man can rise up and promise to save us from undocumented librarians.

And if God bonks you on the head, nobody will believe it, and nobody will care, until it is their turn to get bonked on yon noggin.

People who speak of 'God's plan' and 'God's will usually don't know what they are talking about.

It also doesn't surprise me that someone from China would want God to be against the USA, just as some evangelical in USA would want God to be against China.

Newsflash: God is against all religious partisans because they don't do what he said to do, which is respect your neighbor as yourself. He hasn't destroyed them all yet, so maybe the doomsday prophecies need to stop. Every ounce of energy used to blame others for something is an ounce of energy not used to do something constructive right now.

Tim Hortons: proof that they grow coffee beans in Canada.

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Many men wish to confine His creation to their own mental cages.

I do not agree that Job is a work of fiction. There was an ancient man named Job. Events from his life were re-written and poetically embellished into a new story that tells the future. Think traditional histories meet Aesop's Fables meets Jehovah's long-term plans, and that is a half-decent way to describe the purpose of the Bible. The writers were seized upon by the Holy Spirit, and driven to write the words they produced. None of it was the mere product of a human mind--a greater mind was in those men moving them exactly how to manifest the future on scrolls and parchments.

God's concern is not over teaching history. His concern is the culmination of history, the end of history and the new beginning of a new history described far in advance--showing the pattern of a new reality for man to come in the far distant future. The Book of Job, like the Book of Jonah, is prophecy about the coming of Jesus of Nazareth and the birth of a new creation flowing out from the Nazarene.

In fact, the entire Old Testament is about Jesus of Nazareth:

"And the Father himself, which hath sent me, HATH BORNE WITNESS OF ME. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. And ye have not his WORD abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: AND THEY ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME."

The Old Testament books were not written to instruct us in history. They were written to identify the Son of Man who would come into the world and spread the knowledge of the Father's love abroad into all the nations. Even though there are records of ancient historical people in those books, the way they are presented is so as to tell us who those people foreshadow and symbolize--the man Jesus Christ and the new kingdom he would establish for the ages ahead.

Revelation was dictated to a man named John on the Isle of Patmos. John had visions and he was told what to write in the visions. The book of Genesis was written in the same way. It was visions given to Moses, telling him what to write. The Book of Genesis and the Book of Revelation are the exact same story shown in different idioms of their respective ages.

Genesis uses a pastiche of older ancestral histories organized like lego blocks to build the future God has planned. So although based loosely upon real ancestral histories, Genesis is not meant to be read literally or as a history. It is meant to be read to foretell a far distant future--the day and age that we currently inhabit.

Revelation tells roughly the same plan but is more focused on the time nearer Christ's ministry. Revelation uses more direct symbols for the future as opposed to the Genesis use of ancestral totem patchworked as a future mosaic.

Then of course both Christ and the Father state plainly that they teach in parables.