This is your reminder that the reason the government is shutdown is because they want it shut down.

They could reopen it tonight, if they wanted to, and do all this shit they’re wanting to do, too.

They’re not doing that because they want it closed.

that’s just it… any vulnerable system lets them get their nose in the door, then the camel starts snooping around the tent for whatever it can get. Eventually, they find away to something juicy.

The thing is, whether we’re talking about digital or physical security, the weakest thing in any system is the humans. The sloppy passwords (c’mon it should have been Louvre25! lol.) is a human thing. clicking that phising scam is a human thing. kipping off to the egyption bedroom for tryste with receptionist is a human thing.

the simple password isn’t the problem. The people being complacent is.

the Target hack went in through the HVAC system.

At least it wasn’t the default password.

I’ve known clients that have never removed the default admin account, with a default admin password… and looked at me like I had a horn growing out my ear…

Usually, there’s a network for IP cameras, with a central server holding the video. There’s then, usually, a firewall to anything outside that, and frequently just a hardline to a monitoring system. (another computer with lots of monitors, typically.)

Most modern systems can VPN to the firewall and run a client there via remote desktop, and then access the monitoring system that way; but the server itself is not.

As to the complexity of the password, typically there’s different levels of permissions. The basic ones would just let you monitor real time, probably review recordings, and maybe rip those recordings. (but not change settings, or otherwise delete anything.) A place like the Lourve would have multiple guard stations connecting in on the local network; with dozens of guards watching cameras at any given time; and would each need their own account/logins if you wanted to make the password actually complex.

a large part of the problem is just the sheer amount of people that would need to have acounts- the lourve says they have ~1300 ‘reception and security’ staff. (for the record, reception would also be part of the security envelope… though they probably wouldn’t need the password.)

anyone dialing in from off sight would likely have their own password (and have elevated permissions to allow that.). Frequently, by remote desktoping into a system on the local network.

You’ll also notice theyre not saying the security system was actually compromised- even if the cameras were pointed the right way, they’d still have gotten in and out because the windows were a point of vulnerability. They might have been able to respond faster, but they were in and out in ten minutes. a camera wouldn’t be able to stop that, if you account for normal human reaction times… if they’d even notice the ‘contractors’.

… Do you think they will let me play on the field with that? Lol

that would depend on whose field, how far away from people you are and how “serious” the match is. Tournaments? lol. no. guys mucking about? maybe.

As for the rest of that… same. same. probably my favorite aircraft is actually (technically) a thermal airship. I used nichrome wire to heat it up. I say technically because Buoyant Bob is basically a giant floaty beachball that passes out candy on Halloween. (I may have used a nano MPx rotor for his propeller. I’m sure I just offended some heli snobs, but it’s vectored thrust and he waddles through the air)

mostly just eyeballed it. to be honest, the nozzle/water tank were both pressurized to about 50psi, and it didn’t take a lot of accuracy. I used a pump-and-spray canister that I made a new top for, to take a pneumatic line coming off a pancake air canister as the charging bottle.

the nozzle itself was at the end of boom that could point straight down (it could elevate between 0 and -90 degrees,) (the line to the nozzle was just the flexible hose coming off the weed sprayer normally.)

The hardest part is dealing with the constantly changing CoG as you spray.

If I hadn’t already had the big boi, I’d have figured something else out, but i did, and it worked well.

As for noise… its’ a freaking huge helicopter… so yeah. it’s noisy. it wasn’t a gasser though, so there’s that. (It was a homebuild thing that happened because my hobby shop had a deep clearance on the rotor blades and hubs- the disk is 1m,)

if your goal was hitting flock cameras, I’d recommend strapping a paintball marker to a 250. (or a quad if you prefer, but I’ll save that rant for elsewhere.) just stay away from systems that go through the internet or are made by companies that ‘automatically’ register you for a sUAS license with the FAA. They typically nark. (Especially DJI.) And a lot of those systems will frequently prevent you from flying in “sensitive” areas, even if it would be otherwise legal.

I used a bregen clone (it’s a big R/C helicopter, sometimes used for aerial photography/film) to deal with a box elder infestation that was causing problems.

Soapy water, inside a sprayer that may or may not have been based on ww2 era flamethrowers. (The water tank was charged from a pressurized air tank.)

A paintball marker is just as effective.

Immigration laws are civil, not criminal. Undocumented immigrants aren’t criminals.

At least I’m not actively part of the fucking problem.

your original statement:

Yes many of the mainstream Protestant churches that permit clergy to have sex lives and marry do not share this problem to the same degree.

Because when I pointed out that your comment was irrelevant- the AG allows it’s pastors to marry- you decide they’re not “mainstream” enough.

Then you insist that the baptists, methodists, and lutherans aren’t abusers at the same rates the catholics are… which is also false.

Then you insist that I’m being ‘ignorant’ and ‘rude’.

even if my comments have no value here… at least my comments aren’t harming people. being a bystander harms everyone except the abusers.

This is yet another example of you not thinking about what you are saying and looking ignorant as a result. Nice try, though.

Yet, you’re the one who has yet to drop sources, or actually address anything I’ve said. I find it extremely difficult to believe you have honestly evaluated just how prevalent a problem it really is. Because the overwhelming evidence is that, yes, it’s in fact a huge problem.

Sorry to be so fucking candid, but we’re talking about kids (and others) being sexually abused. your bullshit is just enabling that abuse.

And lets not forget this entire conversation started off with a bald faced lie, that you’ve probably been told so many times you don’t question it:

Yes many of the mainstream Protestant churches that permit clergy to have sex lives and marry do not share this problem to the same degree.

Which I had already addressed with. Sources. which you still cling to as a lifeline.

You’re also wrong about the AG not being mainstream. You would be correct if you limited that claim to the US, but globally, the World Assemblies of God Fellowship is the second or third largest protestant denomination; behind the Anglican church at #1 and jockeying WCRC for second- that comes down to whose numbers you use.

And yet also, dropped sources up there showing that what you presumably would consider mainstream… you conveniently ignore those. I stand by calling you irrational. I don’t need to know you, to know that your beliefs on this matter do not comport with reality. Because the evidence is literally overwhelming.

More sources for you, because you can’t be bothered to find your own:

https://www.notinourchurch.com/statistics.html

https://www.qualitativecriminology.com/pub/osa148h6

https://www.manlystewart.com/articles/how-common-is-clergy-sexual-abuse

https://www.levinsimes.com/blog/sexual-abuse-in-churches-statistics

https://baptiststandard.com/equip/child-sexual-abuse-church-widespread-problem/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/06/23/evangelical-leaders-sexual-abuse-gateway-church-sbc/74127494007/

https://www.christiantoday.com.au/news/nearly-one-in-10-protestant-americans-left-church-over-sexual-abuse-concerns-study.html

https://www.wuft.org/special-reports/2025-08-14/q-a-with-sexual-violence-expert-how-churches-and-schools-get-away-with-grooming-and-how-to-stop-abuse

The baptists don’t have a problem? or Methodists? or Lutheran?

Your claim that allowing clergy to marry is a bald faced lie designed to make you complacent. Of course it’s the catholics who have the problem- and of course it’s beause their priests aren’t allowed to marry and vent their perversion.

I know rational thinking is hard when it goes against everything your taught, so allow me to repeat my edit: if that claim were true, then when you step outside the church, you would see a disproportionate number of sexual harassment and other forms of sexual misconduct in the workplace among single men and disproportionately less among married men. The reality is, when it comes to sexual abuse; being married has almost no statistical effect on who is a sexual abuser.

the reality is that sexual abuse and misconduct among clergy and lay leaders is a problem in every religion, and every sect of every religion. If your particular flavor of religion doesn’t have a problem… it’s because your flavor doesn’t see it as a problem. But it is going on. Quite probably in your own church.

I know. that’s hard to hear. You’re told that your pastors are to be trusted with everything, and that leaders are good and righteous… And that’s exactly why sex pests seek those positions.

Uhm. AG is fundamentalist evangelical. Their pastors are encouraged to marry. (And the spouse is basically free labor.)

Nice try, though.

Edit to add; if that were true then you’d see a disproportionate number of sex pests outside the church being single- yet most are in fact married (because most people marry.)

At a denominational level, every group has a sex pest problem.

At an individual church, if it doesn’t, then it’s probably not been around long for a long time.

Sex pest pastors/priests/rabbi/imams/whatever-cleric are in fact super common.

The AG didn’t wear vestments. At most, it’s a suit and tie; and that’s only in the super old school churches or the mega churches like James River Assembly.

They like to pretend it’s because they’re not super judgey, but the reality is if you don’t walk in looking exactly like what ever that particular church does… you clearly have some repenting to do.

(I should know. I grew up in an AG church. They’re allergic to diversity and critical thinking.)

Who’s replacing him? It’s hard to imagine someone who is worse, but I bet MAGA can.

Biden was one of the largest recipients pro-Israel bribes in us politics.

It’s unsurprising that this was true. It’s also unsurprising that it’s coming out now, after it’s too late to do anything with it.

Dude had his kids in the truck. No excuses- lock his ass up.

Also charge him with threatening a police officer. Because he fucking did.

and it’s not going to go straight to them.