Targeted Individual

    Its a term I've seen in recent months through a particular social site which I hadn't previously seen used, and generally one in which I would have thought in the context of isolated, or what I mean to say here is that often times someone identified in this manner would generally be in a small minority relative to a larger population set, and generally as far as I could tell this maybe as likely true, although any clear criminology analytic information on this maybe harder to come by?!

First I'd mention that socially orchestrated phenomenon such as rallying, organizing for social events, such as protesting to be heard, for instance, at or near governmental buildings, commercial, and otherwise, are quite known, or that any known group (publicized by media) would act to stage a socially directed protest at the funerals of deceased soldiers (see Westboro Baptist Church), and that this form of 'protest' itself actually in many ways seems to be modeled on a form of psychological warfare tactic.  The problem often that I've seen related, in so far as the descriptions of events concerning those self identified potentially as targeted individuals is that the type of social behaviors often experienced, seem out of sync with the common place experience of any other individual that would neither describe themselves as invariably targeted, while one couldn't claim that social targeting by criminally organized groups of individuals have not possible (e.g., no further then looking to the history of civil rights struggle).  A modern context of this struggle, however, might not be delineated by the more conspicuous attributes of any individual representing such group (e.g., wearing certain types of clothing, or having some conspicuous manner of appearance), that instead they could look more like any individual from any given background, and that the tactics used in staging any organized behavior were more likely guerrilla  style tactics (e.g., a group of protesters that show up out of the blue at a governmental building only to have that much more time in gaining an illegal entrance).  Then coupling this with the other problematic half, if such events were likely taking place domestically, "who would exactly believe that it were possible?"  And how many should be included in on the conspiracy?   And what motive?

     I'd first potentially start with motive on the claim that much violence orchestrated is owing to much other then political motivation, or this could be the most likely suspect cause as for any.  For instance, I'd read yesterday, that hate crimes were dramatically on the incline in the past few months in the UK, attributed to activities of known extreme right groups (or those likely with certain political motivations).  While there could be differences between activities arising domestically here versus there, it seems to me more suspect that some political motivation should exist somewhere for some reason.  Part of this question, however, remains unclear to me, with respect to the some of the readings on this subject matter that I have done.  Firstly that a given victim, offered that mostly that he weren't on the outs in society (e.g., real estate agent) and that generally he hadn't discussed much politics period, although he mentioned he had spoke of a slightly disparaging remark at one particular social event to a coworker about a former president, but generally as he recalled the remark weren't a significant one, more like a joke, or very light in passing.  He himself, felt as thought, his case were almost as if having been randomly picked out of a phone book, or something to this effect, or in other words, if it were like a very sick social experiment, part of a control group.

    Then relatively speaking other accounts, should seem a bit different, while having by definition patterned similarities with respect to the nature of how victimization were taking place.  Gang stalking, illegal surveillance/eavesdropping, forced entry, as some examples.  Then others describe symptoms as exceeding such as suffering bodily pains, sensations, mental/neurological impairment issues (basically things that could run the nebulous gambit of fibromyalgia (pain suffering disorders), clinical depression, schizophrenia, and the list goes on.  Likely I'd simply make the distinction between one social set of suffers, and honestly I could say that potentially fit into both such classes, but for the sake of ease in discussion.  I'd mention the first class as non harassed "electronically" as has been stated versus another class that has claimed otherwise.  Personally, since I hadn't the clear evidence of what clearly should be the cause and/or that my feeling were an arousal of suspicion that any of the 'electronic' tools supposedly mentioned should meet necessary benchmarks for viability of producing any number of symptoms that victims have described.  This is to say mere making the brain as if it were possible with today's radio transmissions technologies, as receptive and producing high level neurological phenomenon as has been suggested seems amiss to me, or that there at least should be something more of sophistication here then has been suggested otherwise of these given potential technologies.  As to the first class of suffers, those that have felt themselves victims of non bodily invasive forms of electronic harassment (e.g., surveillance/eavesdropping) the good news is that such claim is certainly a more viably defended one.  Off the shelf technology readily exists is cheap enough, and detection equipment may be thought less commonplace used in any given home (as a counter measure).  This is to say, socially we may be more likely to put up cameras, then to think ourselves the victims culturally of surveillance/eavesdropping or at least knowing what to do in these circumstances to protect ourselves.  Digital storage is only cheaper, and that camera technologies could be fashioned in the way of design that were found in top notched spy surveillance equipment of the past decades means that the probabilities of increased use by non governmental s alike could be a reality (i.e., to say people have more then mean then ever to spy on each other and have little if anything to do with government).  The second part of this argument has a segway likewise.  Given that we can spy on each other more readily has darker implications here, and this is, that we can logistically mobilize more readily and easily in terms of behavioral pattern identifications.  If we've secretly attached a GPS transmitter to a given victims car, or that we've somehow made use in accessing their coordinate position through a given smartphone, one might now where to do the stalking or make predictive guessing as to where someone might be headed, whom they might be meeting with.  Whereas before, the educated guessing might require a bit more dirty work, such as having someone privately on the ground monitoring someone's whereabouts, and figuring where they might be headed, requiring both stationary and moving forms of surveillance (e.g., following with car or being stationed in a nearby house/apartment for surveillance) costs time and money.  On the other hand where private surveillance means, neither having to live in proximity to an individual, means less cost, and adds to the predictive staging element of social theater when and where it may occur.  This means if a group can know where you might be and when you might be, the weekend warriors (yes, some of these individuals should likely one should guess have some sort of place in life, or a disparaging ratio of 120:1 is very large orchestration for an assembled task of accomplish exactly what...hard to imagine except in the most rare circumstance that any large group of individuals would be paid for exactly the lifestyle to harass just one individual...so you might suspect that they were making rounds in social theater) that they generally might be or easier to co opt for a given social commune at a given time using the sorts of technologies that have allowed them to make predictive guessing as to your whereabouts more likely known.

    Of course, the elements which have conspired against any victim self admittedly, the most populated of social theater that I had witnessed were likely handfuls of individuals (when walking in a more predictive manner everyday or thereabouts in a given locality when I had done that).  When I removed some sort of social predicative element out of this equation and resumed walking in that same given locality, I noticed little or none activity, and I generally remained unresponsive to social behaviors of this type.  Secondly if it weren't electronic surveillance in the house, keeping private information private means neither yielding it readily on social networking sites where guess work could be provided (as stated in a posting before), a recent social theater drop tried to suggest something but likely were yielded from information revealed through social networking sites (someone somewhere that I knew likely said something...or it didn't have to come through surveillance or "mind reading" to make such an inference).   Thirdly, and while I wouldn't suffer saying this as I never attend larger scale social events, like sporting, musical, and so forth, it maybe the impetus of any groups such as these to form a collective in a way at events such as these primarily because of having for that reason alone logistical mobilization, manpower, show of strength, and so forth, to tout in engaging in psych ops style tactics.  Keep in mind while 120 persons sounds like a lot, there are 300 million in this country alone, and that the vast majority in many areas are not engaged in this sort of behavior, but collectively it takes a very small fraction of well organized groups of individuals to do the sorts of behaviors which create the illusion of numbers, creates the illusion of commanding something larger scale then it potentially may be in reality.   A few guards to control a prison, a camp, and/so forth.  The biggest problems that remain, however, are where do any of such persons belong:  what sort of walk in life, and how potentially any should have a given power that effects the outcome of legal recourse, one should imagine.

    The bad news in the way, is that when political operandi appears to be in sway (e.g., lame duck president that is taking heat for past policy making) and opportunism is sensed by it, it seems more plausible to me that the risk assessments and motivations move accordingly for all the political stunts and charades that are presently happening...did I say that the UK were seeing an increase in hate crimes (and that is overseas)?!  Supposedly the pretense is the implicit green light that may be yielded.  If a death of a legally immigrated Ecuadoran in a small New York town, created some manner of mobilization as a backlash to any given hate crime, it seems that it takes hopefully people standing up and saying something about it...which incidentally is what apparently did happen in the New York case (see the PBS documentary Not in our Town).

   In the future, if concern and awareness of surveillance and eavesdropping is on the incline, it may be acknowledged more mainstream, the possibility that people self described as "targeted individuals" receive the recognition deserved legally for what they are as victims.  Part of the problem is in my opinion a crime of an organized social nature, it is also likely a complex sociological problem as well.  I'd mention there have been large cities having past scandals, by the way, with crooked cops involved with organized crime outfits, and someday if proven, hopefully any law enforcement involved are removed.  I was thinking of the film American Gangster where the role of a given detective played by Russell Crowe appears to be hopelessly doomed with respect to any headway given in gaining ground on detective work on a mob boss case.  Here the big issues being corruption and influence so saturated in a given local police force that the detective's work appears next to impossible, but somehow in the plot he manages to keep going.  It seems that while the stories derivative were given to real events and people, likely a lot of fiction to be served, not that real life examples don't already exist today or having existed in the past, or in other words, there is likely truth at times, when potential corruption is so high that juries may be hooded, or that courts are operated with higher levels of secrecy and shielding anonymity to combat social retributions and fear that could be pervasive when organized crime systems have become widely pervasive and strongly influential to inhibiting legal justice systems.  Eventually things change in legal systems, despite money, power, and social influences.  Something to hope for at least.  Leaving off on a bit of the informal ramble on this one, and returning to the subject matter, while in many ways the type of social crime suggested as with Gang stalking may in essence not be entirely new, the morphology of the social crime characteristics themselves may be entirely different relative to the types of crimes having been found in the past.  Of course, when new types of social crimes arise, it may take time for legal systems to acknowledge and catch up likewise in providing new laws in dealing with such offenses and also providing proper training to law enforcement officials in handling cases such as these.  If laws don't, on the other hand, exist in properly addressing it potentially means in appropriate potential handling of those victimized (in so far as legal recourse) as well as poorer handling in so far as prosecution of criminal cases.  A recent small segment documentary in a small town in Illinois, I remember, covered the issue of poor police handling over the course of decades of crime in general, where, for instance, any number of rape cases where left as cold ones.  Much of this likely due to budgetary problems, not enough law enforcement officials trained, or improperly trained in general handling and followup.  Something to keep in mind here likewise.

Who and what may be behind targeting people here in America?  Unfortunately I return to what could only seem more unsettling as speculation.  For the examples that I've mentioned of hate crimes above, one's sense of who and exactly groups of people are defined in this context, parallels more likely how a former vice president Dick Cheney viewed in his own words a known terrorist group, namely, using the words, 'Assymetrical' threat.  Groups of individuals such as these might not be directed in clear organizational patterns, or that is the sense that one might have if following reports of incident, however, more episodic and prominent that these appear given to general popular media.  But as I've posted briefly in mentioning, for instance prominent religious right in the context of recent influences in the passing of legislation in Africa pertaining to anti homosexual laws (to the extent of making a given crime punishable by life in prison....more shocking to see these same 'Christian' advocating for the death penalty for homosexuals over there), we'd know that tangibly social movements are there.    While it may be difficult to link for all we know more isolated groups of individuals, to much else, the pattern and behavioral rise, I argue may not be happenstance, as had been suggested in the PBS documentary, Not In Our Town, its not exactly isolated, but at times fed in times through messaging, however, subtle or otherwise.  If perception on the matter of politics were threshold in such a way, the messages, however, subtle seem to suggest that a social traffic control type system is perceived, that is a perception that may not exactly be true, when conservatives or liberals alike are elected, that alliances potentially is perceived in the subtle ways that widespread belief or anger on an issue, makes right behaviors that would be overlooked even if they were once perceived as criminal, or bringing to the surface, the perception by individual(s) alike that their anger is a shared one, that they are unified by it, and that it is the same one...or in other words a message: might makes right.  The problem with sameness, I imagine is completely overlooked, an unsettled teenager's mind at such a time, might scarcely consider in the same ways the implications of actions relative to an aged population of people, or at least that they may be more likely unhinged owing to problems of maturity.  The problem is that these sorts of behaviors may not only be relegated to teenager's but adults alike.
    There is also another implication to this when the social phenomenon has arisen, where groups of people have been allowed to engage in the sorts of behavior en masse that hadn't existed where laws neither provide self protected social existences, and it is exactly that, it takes law enforcement, legislation, recognition of, and so much more at times to deal with problems.  If the problems of Rwanda were highlighted, not by the at times false perceptions generated in Western media (generally a false racist one relating to something like incidental tribalism gotten way violently out of hand), it were that a lot of ignoring were done by bureaucrats,  politicians, and their a given local media, alongside with organization having taken place by military (and subsidiary paramilitary groups).  Much were ignored, overlooked, while machetes were being handed out to a certain populace of peoples.  If the same could be true in this country here, its that we hold ourselves to a level of ignorance with respect to a given social problem, feed the hate channels of media with more subtle messaging as a tool for resonating violence and likewise directing it logistically, and then lastly ensuring that people are armed and logistically put in the right places at the right times for coordinated mobilization...ostensibly leading the army that 'doesn't really exist'.  Sure it bought Rwanda generals and leaders then a temporary excuse but, yes, it hadn't meant that the trail went cold on the investigation and followup having confirmed high level war crimes having occurred and international prosecution for those alike.  The biggest issues here in the U.S., its not a case of Free Speech alone in protecting social behaviors that attempt to the 'fan the flames' through social resonance of a given populace, and that constitutional laws were merely drawn for the purpose of shielding abominable behavior, but then I'd remind its more then just the 'water tap' faucet of media outlets bearing responsibilities here.  The face of those doing the targeting are not at times easy to see or discern, in theory at least I imagine in so far as a Western society that has enough complexity behind, so that horrific civil liberties depriving laws are passed in societies that transition in night and day type vacillations?!  At least, one hadn't imagined that ghettos would suddenly appear over night where they once hadn't existed, and the radio dj on local radio effectively talking about the populace of 'bugs' in a given neighborhood (not really speaking as entomologist here, or really about insects) could be in time yanked off the air here in the U.S.  These groups of people may suffer from the inherent problems of a complex societal fabric which is sustainability, where they might most typically use backdrop of economic downturns, rise in joblessness to suit their agenda, as had been the perception in times past, it were no coincidence that East Germany still to this day describes potential social differences between the perception of the Berlin Wall and the old social systems surrounding it.  Where economic malaise and long term problems in a given population had given way to knew less chartered territories of freedoms, hate groups suddenly pop up, and the self evident view that western decline and disenfranchisement were one and the same for an often perceived neglect.   The faces of the gang stalking perpetrators, whenever and where ever they exist here in America, are a dilute one, they potentially look like you and I in everyday street clothes, except that they seem to be acting at times by choreography and social script, I've seen enough to where I've felt there were an inset logic behind social behaviors:  like get rid of that person out of this job, we aren't drawing the sort of reaction that we want and need, time to move on to other places.  They might not have the appearances of attending the same church, or really saying the same things, and not even blandly uniform in the same social ways, for instance, liking anything of set literature, arts, culture, or anything of this type...they could claim to like 'new grass' (humored by this one)...sadly a whole South by Southwest Austin, TX phenomenon(?), but scarcely know a thing about Old bluegrass?   They might have known enough about experimental music and things like circuit bending, or at least feigning interests there, or in other words, such a person could appear to share similar backgrounds to anyone, if they had enough social inferences to put themselves into a given position.   Another incident one could recall, of the supposed once 'black hat' guest speaker, whom informally shown up for a computing meet up social whom might have appeared in some ways like another wall flower, a sort thin person that'd look like any other geek...he'd merely drop that he had worked with security relating to Linux computing systems...and (lo and behold!) you were probably one of the few that actually bothered much with Linux in that room (everyone there were using MAC s...more humor).   Of course it didn't help that I have self publications on this blog series for a rather juvenile looking secret Annie decoder ring python encryption/decryption hashing technique, or that somewhere down the line in a previous relationship, I likely had all sorts of silly little profile hits (e.g., Jewelry design...at least with the ex...you know bomb making equipment...moving to a new area of the country without really having so many social contacts like others that you knew while neither having an inkling in so far as to what those others might be doing really...and that by the way were entirely coincidental as I am sure the NSA would directly know themselves...) but it seems that what Snowden coined as the loss in freedom for creativity.  That a whole multitude of things could be suspicious enough.   The face of those perpetrators could be the pot smoker that you know (and sadly I laugh because it sounds like the sort of dialogue you'd hear from a former vice president).  They might have the training of rent a cops, people drafted with little training, little back ground in handling social situations in certain ways, and generally neither consequent for this reason given to the same answer of accountability that would be typified in law enforcement and other legal channels, and sadly enough you might as easily encounter these types nearest to shopping malls, or public spaces of this type, having had likely its own set of privately contracted security.  Your sense might be that they have little clear role in security, however, or that just as likely one were encountering groups that were engaged in some form of unaccounted for 'power trip', and merely serving hostility for that intimidating sake alone, they could hardly be characterized as a law enforcement group or securities related group here, not even operatives engaged in theater to flush out and prevent something actionable that were sensed in the clearest intel sense of the word, showing more in the operations sense of the word juvenile behaviors which feigned cloak and dagger like roles, of unaccounted for and an untrained peoples.  And then you might have faced an old Cold War CIA financial manipulations tactics that were served more to the purpose of vendetta (for squelching speech), then in having worked for actionable intelligence gathering tools.  Which left me wondering at least in this attempted portrait, exactly who and what these people might look like...and the daunting prospect were that it could be decades only before we know a definitive history of what groups of people might have been involved in the targeting of innocent Americans.

Bent - An Ordinary Day

Scenes from Philip K Dick movie...called a Scanner Darkly about a big brother society as related to a War on Drugs movement, and easily applied to other things.
You might like Minority Report
and the other one called the Adjustment Bureau.

Eventually one of these days I might back to a reading of the Naked Lunch by Burroughs.

Boards Of Canada - Peacock Tail

Or campfire in the headphase...however, you might interpret it...

On a whim I picked up this Christopher Beckett book running with the Hera code...

I'd post a youtube link to Tangerine Dreams Journey Through A Burning Brain from Electronic Meditation, but there isn't really an authentic version to that Album that I could immediately find on top search links, and generally too lazy to scour through the search for it.  Definitely like the listen, sort of has that 70ish Apocalypse Now sort of sound of going.  

The Act of Killing recent film release by Joshua Oppenheimer.

I think I only vaguely heard of events relating to Indonesia going back to some brief mentions by Noam Chomsky, although his references I believe were dating to a period later in the given documentary segment that I watched...

Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country

Heavily programmed voices...you get the code Ms. ?

Boards of Canada - Cold Earth

Boards of Canada - Sick Times

The Invasion

   Its that sort of film that apparently is loved for the remake, despite mediocre reviews.  .  Suddenly everyone you thought you knew turned out to be completely different.  Humanity at its finest!  

http://gangstalkingjournal.com/tactics/gaslighting/

Re linking information.  I was thinking of this movie Shutter Island by Martin Scorsese.  Again the theme of ambiguity between is he crazy or is he sane?

The my story section reads for this link is a pretty sick story.  Sadly, if you asked me whether any of that sort of crap were possible years before, I'd say, unbelievable, or sounds like something written entirely for fiction, or the person were not really sane.   By the way I'd say my personal story, while much more tame, includes some of the street theater, and other crap.

Honestly, not really in a professional position to tell, whomever were running this particular blog site, where to go, and exactly what to do in these cases.  Not easy to skip out of town on a moments notice, for instance, and likely while it may be that amnesty cases are granted in the case of neighboring country to the north.  Technically though there maybe some safe havens somewhere in the States...at least, your story is quite extreme relative to mine in many ways, but then it has been always an easy thing to contend with at times.

I've found limiting social contact a big plus (but then I've kept this generally limited always)...sad that you should have to be in a position to vouch safe people that you don't know so well, but its probably a very good idea.  Generally in my experience when you see the sorts of pointed synchronicity, a lot of it while generally harmless (to me at least), but its probably a good idea when you see the behaviors going on to keep distance yourself from those sorts of perpetrators.  I should mention also to those engaged in the behavior for as long as this has been going on...really up to now, I should mention where I've seen the behavior, and I've seen it much...it belongs likely to a real class of amateurs.  :)  One because often times the amount of resources I could imagine spent in the process of creating events, and the likely dividends received, which generally are small enough.  Most synchronicity that I've seen staged are the sort of hit and run causal ones by the way...meaning they are generally fleeting ones (street theater that is organized for that moment in the day but leave the scene and don't really much effort there...likely one would gather they've been maximizing for the digital age where it were a lot easier as opposed to putting feet on the ground doing idiotic work such as this from what I can tell).  The other form of it is where they actors put themselves in positions (e.g., jobs, or possibly in the home...doesn't work so well in my home any more for em).  So if you cut off the potential dividends...yeah, may be better after all to say You Can Take This Job And Shove It....that was the 70s for you.  Finally you may make less predictable some other things, like always going out to such and such at such and such time...I can't claim that I weren't predictable in my own ways, but I can also live like a bear in his hibernation cave if need be.




     

http://www.rttnews.com/2243326/manchin-compares-nsa-surveillance-to-big-brother.aspx?type=gn&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=sitemap

relinked from Google US News headlines.

The problem I think this problem is not only extended to public spheres but also private ones as well.
I've said before technology could be the primary culprit for this, if it weren't easy enough now to find social spheres revealing through social networking information about your private lives (whether accidental or not), it is much easier for anyone, even private individuals/groups to spy on one's activities and whereabouts.  The larger the number of individuals in a social context also yields greater likelihood that someone may know something about any particular intention otherwise.  A birthday party, for instance, where someone says online he so and so is having a birthday, providing some estimable calculation that someone in a given social group related to so and so, is likely to be in attendance.  Social networking is really in many ways an anathema to personal privacy, especially today where some networking sites neither provide or at least have provided privacy to posting in general.  If decades ago, the practicality and legalities aspect of private surveillance and information gathering about information were a concern, today looking people up through social networking or blog (such as this ) makes it only that much more cheap and free...or in other words, it is apparently easier then ever in most cases, to engage in surveillance.

   While in the past I believe I've mentioned the novel "The Light of Other Days", another twist on an emergent Orwellian dystopia, it points to something of another possibility concerning social evolution of our culture...that is, if we weren't there to bludgeon one another into a social conformity and subservience, we might instead enter into a phase, where we are more numbed to the social experiences of others (could care less what others think and do)...of course, this could be an asset given that it makes it harder for anyone person/government/social institutions, so forth to drive social dogmas at any given time, but that also the normative nature of culture might change with it...for instance, where people see more arbitrarily the nature of personal law.

It seems in this day and age to me, and this were wholly personal view, that at times this emerging 'Big Brother' society vacillates paradoxically between apathy and a tool for social bludgeon, then it ever has.  Don't get me wrong I don't sympathize with high paid stars of reality television (as if we need more already to peer into the supposedly private lives of others) that speak openly and publicly to the extent of their particular religious views which digress from religious to personal ones, its the often the quieter lives that are more likely hurt by surveillance/spying.  While on the one hand, that any social campaign is popular waged for the sake anti-bullying, the bullying is being waged, and in its supposed defense everything from Freedom of Speech (there again, a mega star likely to be picked up elsewhere, not likely to lose his job, his livelihood, his freedom, or generally be blacklisted?!  jailed, falsely accused ), or that political correctness were such a problem otherwise, while people literally suffer for any given view and were wholly law abiding?  And how does the problem of Big Brother relate to political correctness and freedom of speech in so far as the defense of the destruction of lives (either in attempt or otherwise), false witness, character assassination, distortions, and utter contempt for personal privacy?

Great movie worth a watch lately called 'The Secret Lives of Others'.  Set in then East Germany prior to the falling of the Berlin wall late 80s early 90ish?!  Film focuses centrally on a Stasi agent, and then playwright and his partner.  Film reminds of the practicalities that apply even where societies have been supposedly more 'closed' in nature, rarely true even, for instance, in ancient Sparta that internal/external exchanges aren't a reality.  Even the most dogmatic/patriotic are human likewise.  Given the probable statistics of information, the volume of peoples working in intelligence gathering, and all the problems that may occur, its not a coincidence that a whistle blower comes forward ensuring revelations of truth are given in time.  One just hopes its sooner rather then later.

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2022496921_apxugandagays.html

See also...for high level U.S. religious/politics activism and relation to anti homosexual legislation and hate crimes in a Central African country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_(Christian_organization)#The_Fellowship_and_Uganda

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/opinion/sunday/douthat-the-daughter-theory.html

Sorry I missed out on this whole theory, as the likes of me at times could be suggested much of the time falsely attributed to the underpinnings of why the right lean more right or excuse others for that purpose alone.  These sorts of movements remind me of why contingent polarization gravitates in this manner, that the purpose of reform economically means that necessarily the social spheres must be abiding (why in Egypt apparently the hookahs are less commonplace on the beach), but of all times one gets to hear these sorts of attitudes, never mind the lot of em' blacklisting if not engaged in social baiting or anything else that apparently goes with it, and generally mindful  to the thought that the most egregious of crap out there has little to do with consensual sex between grown adults.  What I see more suspiciously in the nature of an op-ed such as this, backwater stagnant flow as usual that runs its course ever several years, you know, the same that supposedly co opted the second Bush re election and mustered a "I tried" to change our constitution and worldly perception at that, standing room legacy then found at one time majority Republican's in charge for economic collapse.  No an Icelandic resort to this address is more like a Greek one, sadly given enough corruption, point a gun elsewhere.

As a side note: I see the usual fantastic secret police running the rounds of mall cop security in Anaheim overtly not at Disneyland or there about in general, but at a small satellite mall?!  Is that really a joke?!  :)

     Recent Fox news television Geraldo Rivera interviews Jame Wendell 'Most Accomplished Gamer' (from Kansas City...as if you really needed to know this personal bit of code and all) and the NSA international securities proponent for Game spying, discuss recent WoW and other MMO spying allegations,  neither side addresses or at least implicitly seems to dismiss/diminish the extent of claims given by Snowden documents, but nevertheless called a 'joke' albeit being potentially one of many tactic employed by spying agencies.  I'd still raise the question of 'just how saturated is the "joke" in game'?  Or much the problem that for all one could tell, they are the problem baiting to raise problems that don't really exist, and/or paid to distort statistical truths merely for self serving reasons?  Everything sounds reasonable if it weren't the job and duty of cherry picking, and then it wouldn't surprise me if there were populations saturating a given game being yet another way to get paid?!  And then big brother is there to protect us from ourselves, or one grand baby sitting/bullying job?!

Present happenings...

    Recent ideas and where generally going, or if it seems aimless, likely in a way it is with some direction.

    I hadn't imagined myself in another office environment doing something clerical by nature, but I took the opportunity to apply since this were what I did before even if I hadn't formally worked in a job like this for several years.  While I've hobbied around music and sound synthesis in terms of creations, I've wanted to take a break from this...same for programming.  Although I considered briefly...amusing myself with this possible career field...getting some sort of portable scanning device (you know supermarket handheld price check scanners), and delving into a bit of database programming (SQL) for uploading Amazon used book marketplace prices for used book marketplace salvaging...although I hadn't originally seen an article on the matter (in Slate) on this subject matter, I later found that I weren't the only one whom had this idea.  Which should amount to hopping to garage sales, thrift stores, and the like for resell opportunities.   While it seems other possibilities such as free book donations, could exist, but generally would work better if I had set up shop in more old fashioned brick and mortar confines.  Anyways, sort of studied the idea, but compared to the Slate articles author's city, mine were smaller, and it would seem even in Kansas City there collector hounds all over the place (found this to be true for LP/vinyl at least)?!  Anyways, might provide small income supplementation...Then I've managed to consider digitizing a personal library (personal use only).  Actually not as bad as thought it might be, although it might be nice to have some sort of personal scanner bot setup cheaply enough to flip the pages of a book, Amazon's created apparently flight based delivery drones, why not something like this (if it hadn't already existed on the cheap).  Adobe Acrobat Pro provides nice scanned image to portable document file conversions in batch...which would nicely take a folder of images and process theses (interpreting text, auto page rotating, and so forth) in batch, reducing leg work of creating an e book.  You can do pdf to ebook reader conversions using another program called Calibre (mentioned this in the past).  Sort of wanted to do this for music books since, tablets are now getting cheaper and larger screened, and eventually would like to be able to replace physical paper with a decent sized tablet for electronic reading of sheet music.  Also had the ambition of setting up a database for given sheet music, categorizing by key, artist, song, genre and so forth.  Mostly interested in the idea of creating random set lists of songs, and then given that over the years, tunes are buried in now fairly large sheet music stacks.  My memory isn't so keen for titles at times here.  On the upside with little scanning work experience, managed to scan in a 135 page songbook in less then an hour, and get this compiled into a rough draft pdf e book version in less then one hour (Acrobat).  I spent another hour and half or more getting pages formatted (including crops, page image re size, and so forth).  The book is a still a bit crude looking (as in light discolorations, especially difficult since today working with glossy paper seemed to force me into grey scale imaging as opposed to black and white, even with high contrast settings, and grey scale manages to leave all sorts of light tonal variations on any given  page image).  Still all of this weren't as much work as I thought it might be.   Sort of excited since I have some old out of print stuff falling apart at that the seams literally, that I'd like to have stored digitally.  As to other job/hobby/pursuit interests...not really sure where I might be going from here...

   A sort of social survival guide...hmm I'm not sure if one could write these sorts of things clearly.  I mean I've attempted this before, writing all sorts of practical considerations, like things I've tried to think if caught in certain situations (like a coup d'etat in a more socio-politically turbulent society).  Its sadly easier to write theory down that's generally untested as opposed to a living experience.  If only you felt with a higher degree of certainty threatened, most likely social writing comes to a halt.  At least more there is a more measured approach often times to writing and exactly what you might say to whom and for what ever reasons.

Obviously, while some might be compelled on the point of courage and bravery to stand up for their own sets of convictions, it might be at some greater cost.  If only by way of the circumstance, that not only potentially any one individual (in the more devolved set of circumstances) might face or feel socially or in terms of other things, proximity and fear.

I remember reading some Knol (remember that old google wikipedia like service whose users where redirected only years ago to another service provider) by a Russian writer, not sure if her exact expertise but found something of useful information.  It went along the lines of providing benchmarks to incursion, for lack of better words, for instance, if you happened to be living in one of those more socially turbulent societies.  This is to say, measuring the degree of invasive behaviors of those engaged in varying sorts of socially and politically related hostilities.  Reads like a level of contact criteria:

1.  Are threats and or actions committed relegated to an electronic nature only?
2.  Are you encountering them personally in public spaces?
3.  Are you encountering these in private spaces (e.g., home invasion)?

Of course, the reading goes on further (at some point in my now more vague recollections), to say that there is actually something to be inferred by the level of contact received.  Namely, that often times, when groups of individuals might be motivated to some greater extent, there may be something of informal if not formal risk assessments (logic) behind the perpetration of activities.  Obviously, its higher contact risk when engaged in yet more potentially criminal behavior (if legal systems are able to do their jobs more adequately), and this may provide an individual, at least with a set of decisions to be had in so far as assessing their own personal security at least.

It at least helps to keep, I imagine, composure (in as much as possible), a level head with good reason, and much else.  As I've tried to be in keeping in general to some other advice that I've picked up on over the years, for instance, when making appeal in writing:  it is important to address fundamentally the issue of human rights (i.e., where violations are occurring and exactly what those sorts of violations might be), and then avoiding degenerating the argument to the point of like kind hostility, or at least if engagement in the same sorts of verbal hostilities/threat not only neither potentially aiding in addressing situations often times, but makes a given appeal more likely ignored if not something worse.

I'd mention at times, owing to the limited nature of one's view especially where one might be isolated in varying degrees and without the nature of social communications, might have more difficult time assessing with certainty the clearer nature of one's circumstance, it seems at times difficult making what one might feel were adequate assessments.  For this, of course, there is the nature of precaution at least that one could rely upon, if for instance, the contact criteria above were generally limited to 1-2, it would seem more obvious that limiting one's public social exposure might help, and neither clearly broadcasting intent with respect to one's intent.  More problematic to this circumstance (as I've written before), however, were that one's behavioral patterns in so far as going out and about might be known to some greater degree.  For instance, you frequent the same supermarkets (to the extent that people that you don't clearly know and whom you've generally never met before seem to magically know your name), or that you go to the same set of commercial retailers.  At least if you break from the frequency probabilities of going somewhere or doing something, you contend arguably less with the problems of encountering circumstances?!    The later degree of contact nature, is obviously a more difficult one in dealing with, obviously in a democracy with legal systems, the logical step were resorting to local enforcement regarding a crime, but outside of this, it seems, then getting into another set of issues.  Finally while it might not serve as psychological consolation, at least, for all categories of violence and related causes, political violence, for instance, in the history of the United States, actually topped the charts (grossly), and this is where the center of my writings are guided here.  Often times, the causes while having the appearance of something else in nature may have a higher degree of attribution to these sorts of causes (i.e., whether by social incitements and propaganda alike in some form).  Even while a statistic may be shown high, this hadn't necessarily meant widespread, or more likely often times if related to such a cause, the perpetrators may be in serving to a relative minority of individuals...why often times, risk assessment applies in the first place (as mentioned above).  Even where the worst form of social political violence have taken the form of violence (i.e., genocide), often times has required coordinated planning where governments often suspected right away for the nature of these attacks, and often found guilty right away.  This is to say, while risk assessment might take place with individuals  (relative to groups of individuals), usually as applied to groups of individuals, there may be greater likelihood of risk assessment in so far as the coordination of activities going beyond the boundaries of law.

Upgrading from Windows 8 to 8.1

Make sure you have all updates installed in Windows 8, I noticed I wasn't getting the upgrade option through the Windows 8 store until I had all updates installed oddly enough...also at the time that I did my upgrade process I had to go from Windows 7 (on one laptop) to Windows 8 to Windows 8.1...apparently a Windows 8 upgrade product key installs immediately an upgrade to Windows 8 from Windows 7 to Windows 8, once upgraded to Windows 8 with all updates installed (then provides access to Windows 8.1)...last I checked.

Windows 8.1

  Happier today, for installing the recent windows 8.1 operating system.  I'd only recently note some improvements in terms as of recent days:  firstly past purchases of external sound cards have translated into the functionality of these devices aside from devoted applications for these purposes, the ability to change default sound settings both for system sounds, and applications extending beyond specialized sound production software for these purposes alone.  While generally I had resorted to the traditional windows 8 desktop for running applications and generally stayed away from the tablet style application interface applications, I've recently started to explore Store suggested applications.  Some basic improvement could be desired, for instance, at least in one application that I had worked with are:
    For image processing software, such Adobe Photoshop Express, one would hope for greater ease in accessibility to image library access, namely, through external drive devices, outside of revel for importation options.

Personally, while I hadn't complained or thought in complaint as much concerning the differences between Windows 8's 'tile world' versus desktop functionality.  I hadn't readily attempted to use 'tile world' as much in my general work, mostly because I hadn't understood, then more fluently basics of things like:  switching between applications, closing them,  and/or that applications themselves seemed at a basis so highly minimal in terms of application interfacing, that these should seem limited relative to the desktop versions.  The biggest recent problems that I've noticed are re direction from the 'tile world' version to the desktop versions.  For instance, an amazon application that calls up user account sign-in redirects to a desktop web application, for user sign in process completion, or then if you were a prime user, you might not be able to access (or it appears this way) that web browser provides better prime user account accessibility in resource usages and searches in general.  In another way, the full screen style interfaces, seems to provide something of a different user experience, where site immersion neither contains all the visual distractions contained by the frames, browser interface buttons.  I've recently explored tile worlds, new interface likewise, and generally I've liked something of the reader experience here, relative to more traditional text html style saturation, the feel is more like a polished 'zine like assortment of articles in general containing both larger scaling in text and photos, an approach that seems more like the arrangement of text that I might have found through Amazon Cloud's e-reader.  Generally my feeling is positive towards this type of electronic reading experience, at least different, if at least removing all aspects of form clutter, that often times browser readers might have contained.  On the downside, its still an appreciable differences migrating culture of users used to traditional mainstays regarding applications usage, I'd have to admit these days, however, I am using outside of music production software far less applications that I might have purchased by way of boxed software, and even there cloud based services for boxed applications have been essential, in so far as much of providing upcoming features and accessibility.  Likely, applications may be more a cloud reality, in as much as user experiences are based upon cloud storage services for provisioning applications/settings and other purchased goods.  Here this resolving inter oper ability issues between applications out of the box, that might have once worked on an old operating version of windows (or some operating system), and no longer working on a new one.  Windows 8, in my opinion, hopefully should take the lead not only in promotion of cloud services here, while at once it seems users on the other hand, aren't relating in the same ways to the large scale applications that might have been more readily relied upon in the past.  Even Adobe is providing now cloud based services for their larger scale applications (which entail as opposed to a one time larger purchase in the range of several hundred dollars), a given monthly subscription for photo/image/creative art graphics software.  While the start button, could be argued nominal, and generally speaking a user culture issue (which still could fade in some future), as it were owing to interfaces themselves, its resort seems one based more on psychological comfort, then outright necessity, even those less frequently using Windows 8, after all picked up on the fact that the Start button could be evoked easily by moving the cursor to the lower right corner, and in either case, its existence in one form or another, neither would change the aspect of general operations in so far as application performance, either way, this particular corner would be spatially reserved outside of full screen application usage in a non tile world case.

There's another reason why I have generally liked the generation of new operating systems in general, and this is system performance and security in general.  Even as older operating systems, continue to be supported by Long term support for their given lifetime, as a given compiler code base exists for a given operating system, in theory grows some length with respect to the host of problems that might exist.  This isn't to say that while an operating systems popularity use, and knowledge base increasing, hadn't neglected aspects of security support as long as the software producer maintains support, but at least if knowledge bases have grown, only grows the host of problems that exist.  In theory at least, one should hope as generations of new compilers and code bases have arisen here, represents potentially some diminished code knowledge base while a new learning curve has arisen finding port between old code provisioning inter operability.  Here those utilizing old code bases for ill purposes, have to make this jump, and a new operating system represents a new hurdle arguably if ports in code are required.  Here, I'd suggest if only Microsoft embraced only further the idea of rolling out more frequently new operating system version with not only new compilers which inevitably at times require their own porting processes, we might find only increased security for the change in knowledge bases themselves.  The oper ability issues facing soft ware development in my opinion, might be better reserved facing the reality of application usage as it is trending today, which is that many of application services are of a cloud reality, and that any provider (while having faced the added learning curve of porting code processes) might benefit if channeling processes here.  Of course, this should be at odds for independent small scale developers, but on the other hand, if services could be provided regarding this model, maybe the negatives could be less so.  Only increased frequency in operating system rollouts might increase interests in operating systems themselves, but make easier change and revisions should problems be perceived in the first place.  Here sales models, may prove more dynamic (should one version flop relative another), and only provision more reactive consumer feedback concerning revisions otherwise.  Not to say the Microsoft wouldn't continue (as in the case of operating system development models, Ubuntu coming to mind here) to provide long term support services, but also that Microsoft might shift itself in terms of where its bread and butter might be.  The personal computer user, might be part of this model, but the reality of personal computing has changed in this present day relative the past, somewhere if it could provision in these more frequent operating system roll out models (a smaller consumer charge for a given operating system), it might enjoy something of renaissance in so far as consumer interests?!

While I had at one times, only briefly, delved into desktop applications development, and much to the contrary, argue against myself in this one time complaint, regarding frequent operating system's development and software compatibility, fewer are doing these sorts of things today, and anyways, the learning curve of the new is always there isn't it?!   Its hard to imagine the desktop going away as we know it, but on the other hand something of a reality has arisen, more users with smart phones readily understand separate interfaces and systems that have changed the population of user desktop cultures...Microsoft seems to be facing this with sluggish PC sales at present, and some may still feel comfortable staying on smaller screen resolutions using the sorts of tile world application interfaces while for going the general PC.  Honestly, I don't know how?  I never got into game boys or small console systems or smart phones in any event, but it is a present reality.  The more we use devices changes the arrangement of our perceived spatial environment, the more we grow accustomed to spatial environments the more we grow fond and used to these environments.  Its why the Start button is hard to go away, and why Microsoft appears to be attempting to breach aesthetic cultural divisions likewise.  Then, another solution to this approach may include a non all encompassing approach, if noticeable user complaints of then Ubuntu's leap to the Unity interface, traditions in operating system layouts might be maintained, yet with Microsoft release flavor like systems in general with different design layout approaches.

Continuity, continuum, and causality

    Causality,  causal arrow of time that events are neither proceeded by their causes.
    Continuum as in describing a smooth continuous transition of events...also defined as measurable, or one could think of this in terms of perception which were a form of measurement.
    Continuity, if defined with respect to a point in time and space, that there should be in such space the existence of neighboring points also in such space and time for any given measure defined in such space which includes such point and neighboring point(s) also in such space.  Another way of considering is that there exists and infinity of measures which include such point and neighboring point(s) in such space.
For an closed finite interval, there exists an infinity of points in time and space also in such interval which define the continuum of such finite interval (seems a bit paradoxically absurd?!).  For each moment in time and space, we are passing through an infinity of points in time and space.  We are strangely finite and infinite in time and space all at once, or from each passing moment there is potentiality of an infinite lifetime of points in time representing experience (see time dialation and approaching the speed of light).

Sadly, if I sound crazy, I am really not.  :)

If adequately holed up in the house for periods of years (we'll being running on a ten years in another two years),  you can survive!  Sadly, unlike the sorts of social confrontations that might normally play out, its more as Pink Floyd apparently died much with a previous generation awhile ago while in perpetuation of the 'leaf' from another harvest.

Living in the limbo of test world, or test subject, or more happenstance, because social and political policies were always changing.  This sort of accounting for why on a given day, measured anti social hostilities rise and fall.

And honestly in a large democracy, you might have expected nothing more of name presence.  If you talked of an American dissident such as Bobby Fischer, most would say 'Who?'  This represents or at least seems to represent the truth of any American knowledge regarding the myth of its own existence, or in other words 'What made America so successful in the first place at providing little space in representing those whom might have been marginalized, served wrongly in history?' There could be buzz words in the space of Tuskegee, but did you know the names of those victimized wrongfully?  Or in this regard that Tuskegee actually extended beyond Tuskegee, that were actually other people and places effected by a more generalized social policy?  If it should seem only isolated in mind with respect to the course of history, is this not often times the course of social presentations often times found.  The nature of vocal ism changes itself, if only Chomsky or Zinn were most actively prominent in buzz circles at the heights of certain administration, otherwise, more muted could one say clearly, how one's experience were any better or any worse in these days?!  Certainly, there would be a large percentage of any others whom hadn't shared directly in one's experience alone, and this in a way could be the centerpiece of how social policies play out more clearly.  If it weren't based as it were allowed by the tolerances of populous as a whole, only more pervasive selection on the side of margins.  Wide spread dissent at times could be rarer these days, or where at least it might have been akin to the traditional mainstays of obvious physical presence, only electronic dissent, evoking in mind something of a distrust concerning the matter of reach.  I am left wondering what happened to the springs of a few years back here.  What happened to this generation of people?!  Did they abandon their causes?  Did they find more actively work in non profit or any profitable causes aiding people on the whole regarding concerns of economic and social nature?  It seems if anything something might have been short lived, and in Kansas City, my nearest sojourn nearest in proximity were as a passenger waiting only for the conclusion of where about information of a nearest CSA cooperative (incidentally I might not have seen this very muted rally if hadn't been nearest a Costco which weren't so far then from Liberty memorial).  It were colder that day, and more likely groups of people were huddled in tents, if they hadn't appeared closest to a cook, roasting something like hot dogs.  Their numbers could hardly be described in millions, hundreds of thousands, thousands, or even hundreds, more like a small handful.  In retrospect, often times media portrayals in some circles that might have likened this movement to thugs, rapist, and looters (whose relative social margins) could hardly describe a center whole in so far as complete descriptions, but how much impact and change really amounted here?  Hadn't clear enough contrast existed?

And as to today?!  Today, it seems relative any given day having existed a year or several years past,  if only increased social belligerence weren't on the rise in some manner, a context of present politic conditions should seem proximate enough.  One's perspective being limited enough,  I had shut down some social networking accounts a few months ago, and maybe it were the better course, given so much of the information gathering that were available.  Facebook, I had recently, only made it more difficult to keep postings private (not sure of this present status), and generally as far as e hostilities were concerned, and long enough in running, our civilization is now able to make the scarlet letter true of any for potentially an electronic lifetime...shouldn't this be our modern cause of social ill?  Are we that out of touch with any moral pulse that might have existed?!

I incidentally have tried picking up some autumn reading again, Henry James's Turn of the Screw, and watching a Bela Lugosi collection.  I am not sure what I may do next otherwise.

Sure run a car with a license plate that says little more then what it states except hinting at some fundamentally held and insistent belief never stating any clear reasons why, sure that's the way many propagandists operate and have operated for sometime, preaching like to self serving choirs.  Only with deeper inset faith and views to fundamental truths holding in principle concerning the non transient nature of universal justice, how far does a licence plate moniker go?!  Trying to screw people over for lies only goes so far...

For all these years of unwarranted social harassment wouldn't anyone want to know why?!  Granted on and off, its as if there were something true fundamentally regarding the arbitrary nature of states at times in so far as the condition of one's living existence (what is right in one day seems to be a relative no no on another day), granted one weren't experiencing the literally relativity of time itself as much, and maybe that's a conditional improvement?!

Typically speaking, there isn't much of huge substance, one would imagine, in writing more of daily activities here, in that they were much the same relative a past.  If a day might seem framed with some implicit communications on a given point, never are clearer charges presented on anything really, and that is if a given point could be more clearly made, noting often times if it could generally best be made outside the boundaries of home and electronic territories.  These seem in a way more like the sorts of social orchestrations of one sort or another...a lapse in clearer activity for months seemingly providing headway here, or leaving a certain sense of the matter in mind as often coming and going as it were like the seasons themselves, neither leaving impacting and significant note.  Minding if one is this role could be adequately served to the role Weather underground, so in passing, resolutions regarding budgetary impasses are in evidence being reached...as to who winners and losers are blowing wind, remains to be seen and especially with respect to social orchestrations...hmm, the underground doesn't seem to make any more headway relative to any other days before.

If you wanted to know or really cared, I'm generally much the moderate about anything political these days.

Generally speaking if this sounded like long winded approach to people bashing, I'd offer maybe outside of statistical information (for proof) that people aren't so bad, but this hadn't meant that there weren't those with ill purpose.  Its usually a minority population that apparently bothers to care so much to the extent of malign purpose sometimes to greater ambivalence of a given population of people.  While it should seem the nature of people in these population subsets statistically fluctuate for any number of reasons, its still a concern regarding the matter of privacy (or information phishing) on the part of a given small minority that use it for less the good purposes.  Not sure if facebook reneged on the removal of that keep your postings private for shares options, but one would still hope they reconsidered?!  

And now onto other news

http://www.technologyreview.com/review/520236/so-far-smart-watches-are-pretty-dumb/

   A brief review of the great mmo social life and how people in mmo s in general really in general aren't great people to get to know in general.

   World of Warcraft (mid 2000s):  Social gaming, should mean if you were joining a large scale guild synonymous with listening to really bad shock jock crap, sure a guild might have engaged in it repeatedly enough, sadly if you wanted to use this as a launching point for finding stuff do in game, you had to put up with the Duke Nukem aspects of speech, sorry while living through the late 90s, its not a notable highlight for this generation.  So you end up going to smaller scale guilds or avoiding guilds in general, actually, and then you might have ended up in a larger family organized guild (where generally in fairness, sadly while being less in some ways academically inclined probably one of the best guilds in game...despite some goofy roleplaying and my general trollish insular habits).   If at times, you weren't hounded by individuals that considered it beyond their extra curricular habit to see exactly why you were one of those individuals in game that 'gamed too much', or the seeming perception of it, at least being the sort choosing to stay out of guilds for a lengthy time, should mean content exploration.  That generation apparently moved on...

Eve (mid 2000s):  Generally speaking, few might have seemed to care to know who you were, and generally if you stayed out of the main hubs of tranquility, easy to vanish.  On a very rare occasion, some joker might have showed up with with an info board reading, "I'd like to throw bleach on your gene pool"  But your family was rewarded apparently in the aspect of fertility much to the contrary.  Occasionally, a little bit of small scale pvp for the bored individual trying to think of some clever way for harassing your character in high security space, the sort like steal a can to see if you could provoke a gun in high security space, and then gank your ship before security would show up and deal with the offender back in those days.  But generally easy enough to remain anonymous in Eve in so far as space, and lots of turf to roam around in... 

Warhammer (mid 2000s)...not so long after the dates creation:  You had high hopes for this one, the claimed 'WoW killer', that ended up fitting critics title then a real 'dud' of a game.  Chats easily abused for longer epithets about politics in general...you might have turned off Glen Beck on Fox at this point, literally to listen to him in game.  Of course, the Warhammer franchise didn't have the population numbers really to alienate these types and so catered much to this crowd I could imagine likely (for fear of losing enough a sizable marginal contingent and so likely banked on the aspect that maybe there were enough of a demographic of these sorts in game that should feel more welcomed in a generally less populated game).  Mostly the games, in those days siege mechanics at times seemed to be approaching that of some real life experience, and then given the nature of restrictions present (nothing of level balancing) forcibly restricted players of higher levels from any given area.  Hence running into the problem, not enough players in any given zone to do anything but quest around and try to level.  One of the few games that I hadn't really finished to a level cap.

Guild Wars:  Arguably, if you hadn't minded beautifully flamboyant costumes (more amusing then anything to myself then anything), its a game I actually liked.  Mostly, outside of Lion's Arch being the more populated area, it were hard for any particular group of people to do much and staying anonymous were easier (not unlike Eve), you hadn't need worry as much about lame hostiles.  Sure you might have occasionally been in larger guilds on occasion, but the game were generally quieter and outside the auto bots of Jade Quarry and the other player versus player areas, much content to unlock..aside from experimenting with a myriad of character build types.  It were arguably one of the easiest games to put down and pick back up in those days. 

World of Warcraft (late 2000s):  You sign up your account, and literally there aren't a whole lot of characters in game that you recognize.  You realize its generally a generational social game which recycles itself to some, not sure if one could claim that its the sort that persistently holds out amongst the generation that might have been interested (way back in the mmos inception date).  On one rare weekend day, however, lo and behold, you noticed at least one familiar face, that might have logged on just for that instance alone, and at least in some ways, the new crowd should seem actually a nicer bunch relative to the older game filled with a bit more of the obnoxiously anti socials.  Then WoW made improvements anyways with respect to the looking for group tool finders for dungeon running experience, sure you might have had to put up at times with a mixed bunch of runners (either less knowledgeable, not specified well according to gear), but generally speaking experiences here should tend to be more positive after, the tool matched on an inter server basis and by now WoW had populations in the millions (much larger likely at that time relative to present Guild Wars 2), and the more in the bunch actually might improve watering down the more obnoxious throngs gravitating towards a given game...a problem in my view that might have hurt Warhammer.  Then despite playing WoW on windows, and now being able to play this on Linux, you notice some additional problems creeping, it could be on those problems that an old operating system should suffer from the longer that it endures from...likely because in protest then to WoW going long enough with the same code base for years and then black market copies of the game circulating for advertising (incidentally with easy to find google searches), code hacks might have more easily managed to find game infiltration methods in so far as altering game engine mechanics.  Here my departure point in game, came after numerous operating system reinstallations (and the long standing wisdom) that a Linux game might not suffer from the same problems once having existed under windows.  Wine apparently at least didn't seem to be subject to the same problems that might have existed in so far as malicious code hacking, when game mechanics render a game generally conceived more a balanced 'fair' game, and when it were the opposite, I considered it time to leave.  While in many respects, I liked WoW better then relative to earlier days, it now seemed to suffer from the problem of malicious social hacks in time even given WoW's cataclysm game engine and overall design re vamps (this sort of problem were months in coming only later at least).

Eve (post 2010 or there abouts):  Only a brief resurrection of this game account.  Changes to markets made less lucrative old habits, didn't feel like figuring out anything of new ventures here.  Hard to say much about social aspects of gaming here (since outside of the aspects relating to market exchanges), I generally cared less for it, and I stayed mostly in high security space, excepting some monthly sojourn to the main hub outside of Gallente space (where my reputation weren't bad enough otherwise) to get faction gear.

Guild Wars 2 (post 2010...around inception date to present):  Generally speaking received a few guild solicitations (most went defunct in a matter of months).  Didn't go out of my way, as were customary to solicit myself to active larger guilds and deliberately so because of past experience in high population guilds.  Generally have liked it this way, solicitors and those that deliberately invite especially in larger scale guilds, often more engaged in some sort of social trouble making 1/2 the time that I could tell, but overtly, it would seem for all games combined GW2 were probably the worst for any number of reasons on social fronts, one for guild members at times insinuating knowledge of private information, having access to this, and/or suggesting potentially threatening if not hostile and abusive language (not merely harassing it might seem).  Honestly, relative to many of the mmos played in the past, Guild Wars 2 has won the trophy for stinkiest social mmo experience that I could tell ever.  Why thank you HoD of Devona's Rest hopefully your chat logs are recorded.  :)

Now in fairness to GW2 as a whole, generally outside the more desolated Devona's Rest server, it seems population elsewhere should seem (hadn't really played much on other servers) better, why DR became a server magnet for some clandestine stinky social effort, not exactly certain...although it should seem that venture must be yet another bloat stinky waste of taxpayer time?! 

On the upside of clean up, or what to do if you suspect your system is compromised and windows defender isn't aiding you

On the upside, my laptop battery doesn't drain, in ten minutes flat, running really hot in computational processing while in a generally idle state (laptop closed even) as if it were still running a more intensive PC game.

How might system compromise occur?!  Generally the following are most common in my experience:  Installing a bad program, going to certain bad websites.  Also for those that might engage in torrent sharing (I don't), this also can be problematic...there maybe, for instance, a high probability that a file sharing site has either bad files and programs alike that lead to your system being compromised.

For this firstly in terms of your system usage:  I always recommend using official software from a vendor purchased direct, or in box purchased from a legitimate vendor.  Likewise, for game resources, I always recommend avoiding using third party sites that offer add-ons to a given program that aren't formally approved of by the vendor direct.  This also includes access to information, for instance, from the game vendor direct.  I've read at least of several horror stories where people had used illegally downloaded software, only to find their system hijacked because the program weren't a legitimately purchased and installed game.  Also you might read through your software vendor official sites for warnings of any non legitimate sites that may be problematic to compromising your systems security.   Also I highly recommend, carefully paying attention to the emails received regarding social networking site message...for instance, a phony facebook email message may say something about needed update information, and provide a link redirect to a non legitimate site which attempts then have you re log into their site, only phishing your email username and password and more resource attempting something else.  Solutions to these range from typing in Facebook's url on your url bar direct, using a legitimate book mark to the given social networking site, or google searching and selecting the legitimate link in Google search direct, as opposed to using email links provided to a given site.

What to do in these instances?!  Generally I don't anything sophisticated and likely if dealing with more sophisticated hacking, I've resorted to the old method of obtaining a hopefully clean .iso of a given operating system.  One should dealing in this case, with some low level, in the manner of using a nuclear approach to the system which is format the hard drive from a presumably safe disk, then start over.  Given the nature of cloud storage, in general, its potentially easier in a way, and then one is left making due, simply parting with any existing and generally less used data that one should care little about (if you hadn't used a lame program in months, are you really going to care about that)...anyways, supposedly flickr offers a terabyte of free data storage (or something like that).


First if you felt that the clean up through any number of vendor software weren't entirely adequate at handling the process of fixing issues on your system:

1.  I always recommend that you have access to a standby clean computer that you can rely upon, you should follow steps 2-3 on this clean system (not your old presently compromised system).
2.  Changing passwords, especially on root email accounts.  Have all passwords handy, such as Windows/Microsoft Live for logging into Windows Live for say an upgrade or re installation process (like windows 8 if you hadn't had a windows 8 clean .iso for installation).
3.  Backing up data, you can use free services from Google, for instance, Google drive installing the Google drive application to your desktop and then drag and dropping files to be saved here.  I don't usually save programs but instead back up files like documents, photos, videos, and the like.
4.  Ensuring that you have a clean and legitimate copy of your operating system which can be installed from boot (either in usb or dvd form).  Generally I don't even mess with migrating any additional bloat data or old programs that I could care less about, or any program that couldn't be readily re downloaded and installed for free.
5.  Going to your computing systems hardware manufacturer's site for drivers support.  You'd need everything from Chipset support drivers, Lan drivers, Video card drivers, audio card drivers, and wi fi drivers.  Unlike Linux installations, Windows installations (with a formatted drive) will likely lead to some basic hardware functioning being down (LAN, and wi fi being most common here), video support is very basic here so you'll need to install your system's hardware graphics processing driver to get full video/graphics processing benefits.  Copy these drivers to a usb or some device which can be in turn loaded onto your system.  Generally speaking basic usb support and/or dvd support is at least provided at a minimum upon a new window's installation.
6.  You'll need to upon a cold restart of your system, ensure that you prioritize or select you dvd/usb for boot loading, and have this ready to go in your system prior to such cold boot.  You'll need to make sure how to navigate your system's bios (usually for laptops, hitting the 'ESC' key when prompted for system settings when your reboot should provide either a menu for selecting your bios configuration, or you can select directly from some menu a boot priority option).  You'd need to set your dvd/usb drive as a priority above (sequentially) your hard drive.  That is, reading the boot disk for booting up the operating system before reading the hard drive.
7.  Window's will likely detect your given operating system previously, and may give upgrade or recovery options here, likely you'd choose an advance option instead, and then here you'll need to format and/or delete any previous partitions.  You might want to check in advance to make sure that partitions are generally recoverable by way of your hardware vendor's driver programs (these may create these as necessary for memory management purposes).
8.  Generally follow all prompts otherwise for installation.
9.  Once windows 7 finishes installation and boots successfully, run each driver program, following prompting as necessary.
10.  If you had purchased windows 8 as an upgrade (as I did), obviously you'd need to re install windows 7 and then follow the upgrade process over again.  Here you'd need to make sure that you choose the installation with activation key process through Microsoft direct, this isn't exactly choosing the upgrade process once logging into Microsoft's site (which may generally read your upgrade choice alone as an new upgrade purchase not a re install upgrade).  Here a Google search for 're installation of windows 8', provided a link.  Make sure this is formally Microsoft's site providing instructions to this site.  And then follow the prompts give for upgrade installer.  This should initially by default jump past the upgrade pay options to an 'Enter activation key' prompt.
11.  Once window's 8 re installation is complete, you may want to check with your system's hardware vendor again, for windows 8 drivers and complete installations of these to gain full benefit of these under the new operating system.  Here while migration of windows 7 to windows 8 generally means functionality of most hardware devices (in my experience), migrations may not provide the most up to date drivers.




Obviously, booting from a clean disk (in many cases) should generally for go the problems of most hacks which are included on boot loading.  Which is why I've at times liked the full re installation method for cleaning a system, I wouldn't claim fully this were a complete sure fire way of removing everything (for really high level hacks) that have hidden boots and partitions alike setup on your system, but at least for the more noxious low level crap, it maybe a better bet at eliminating a myriad of problems and/or bloat/malware problems on your system without adding yet more bloat into the system to supposedly clean it up in the first place.  If you get good at systems installations with windows, yeah it takes several hours in some cases, but if you have everything lined up and prepared, just sit back and watch some movies, read a book, and relax.  Its not as bad as it might seem.

I mention aside from relying on Windows 8 system security (such as Windows defender) this doesn't mean you have to put up with having your system slaved in terms of security compromise.  In other other words, for kid hacks you should be able to give em a hardy boot and final farewell pretty easily with a little bit of preparation.

Some signs that I've found commonly for bloat/malware/other system compromises:
1.  Hard drive light is persistently operating all the time.
2.  System is poor and sluggish, poor resolution in graphics, graphics aren't loading properly going to any number of commonly popular web sites.
3.  Your battery drains fast and is quite poor in terms of power management (my system at best were lasting at full charge for ten minutes, running no game application and generally resident idle on googles search bar tab, with no other tabs/web pages loaded).
4.  Applications appear to load without your instruction.  Audible system messages appear to randomly fire off.
5.  Loss of control in key control functions in a given application (seems like a ghost is in your machine...nope).
6.  You notice that you are automatically user logging out of web sites even though you didn't initiate this (clearer symptoms of possible key log intrusion).  Usually when sites detect alternate IP addresses within a certain time frequency are indicating multiple log ins from remote locations (where inferred that a user couldn't direct travel from one location to the other in such time frame) may provide you a warning that your account may be compromised in terms of security.  Here its always recommended you get on a secure system that you can trust and change your user account passwords as soon as possible.  Avoid logging back into your user account on your compromised system, and if you have difficulty with the steps that I've indicated above you can always take your system to a tech center that you can trust, just make sure your windows os product keys lined up for re installations if necessary.

The potential statistical number that you represent to the NSA

  You might be the sort of statistical number that justifies another's desk job in the first place.  Not that you amounted to anything worthy for inspection, but merely something there to justify numbers which feed into the warrant of so many jobs that were created in the first place that always need justification.

So lemme tell you about my more informally speaking since neither being in obvious position to confirm officially that such person were a worker for the NSA, but having indicated that he were a keynote speaker at a 'black hat' convention and having something of experience in Linux.  Which were sort of funny because of the nature of the meeting which were supposedly through some cliquish group of 'python' programmers through some website called 'Meet up'.  Of course, the nature of his having shown up, no more then three meetings into a given session should nothing more then translation to nothing much but a social session in general.  Hard to say whether everyone might deliberately choose in this context nothing much being said for that expressed purpose alone, or whether or not it were merely something such as the rain, airing a bit heavier into the beginning of an otherwise sluggish weekend morning.  In fairness, I seem to recall a bit about JS discussion  but generally very light in conversation on the topic, nothing intensive in so far as for development sake concerned, and little said or initiated on the topic of security.  Assuredly though, my interests in python were for 'creativity', or the sorts of inquiries that shouldn't be above warrant in a supposed democracy?!  In any event, it were the first and last session for me, although in retrospect, at the time, I knew little if anything about 'black hat' and might have been completely oblivious otherwise, if another kinder individual hadn't aptly so pointed out the nature of 'black hat', and especially so prior to any additional information that I might have read of later regarding the nature of national security interests in so far as governmental leaks otherwise.  Something, however, at such point, must have compelled me away from these groups, if it weren't for a general feeling about the nature of these 'meetup' s not being all that they might have seemed, or that one should have yet another of the same rote aptitudes of hashing out another trendy web sites by rote formulation while relegated to the purposes of veneering decorations, or in other words, who'd care for free lancing/hobby interests in other directions of creative programming that had nothing to do with being another asshole hack wannabe or part of the accepted leagues of programming for industries sake?!  In retrospect, all else maybe the warrant of suspicion?!  Democracy for you...
 

So are you still on my system?!

:)

Why do you bother exposing yourself so obviously?! 

Are you that much of an emboldened juvenile?!

Likely relying on the code created for you because you wouldn't have a clue as to how to code on your own?!  Yes?! :)

Come on man you could do better... :)

I mean you know there was a lot on my google account to be discerned, you know, lots of information worthwhile...like I receive emails from who on it?!  :)  Wasn't it a real pointless endeavor, didn't you learn generally nothing much?! :)

Could try and get some goods on me?!  :) 


Not really...so why did you bother?!  To prove you are that great really?!  :)  Really laughing my ass off at you...

As to the roleplaying in guild...hmm so lame, I mean you posit something like a laughable Pink Dye spam like I was supposed to listen to your sounds like those that lame church from Topeka crew, whom honestly managed to anger enough in this area and around the country in general with their defense to first amendment rights would amount to 'we can't get out of the f'ing parking lot because people deliberately drive down our street blocking the intersection all the time when we try to mobilize!'  Come on' what's with the taunts?!  Granted I'd see the church group pleading for a stop light at the intersection for basic clearance here... :)

But I am your poster child so be it...so be it...rofl :)

So by the way, conservatives in Australia failed to get the vote on the point of sending illegal immigrants to Papua New Guinea, isn't that laughable (despite record low illegal immigration in their own country)... a little too obvious scapegoating there?!

Anyways after all its a video game...I've had three beers.  I'm a light weight.  Where's the welfare surfer dude when you need him...

The funny keylogger with his cute amusing little idiotic hack on a dinosaur of an operating system

  So if you stay legitimate in terms of your browsing experience on Windows 8, how are you rewarded...well apparently, Windows 8 not only has browser/application vulnerabilities in terms of keyloggers, but also inter application push key systems...just had my toon remote controlled in Guild Wars 2...what's up Microsoft, can't you encrypt key operations along with integrated securities systems on keystroke use on your operating system is this dinosaur of a problem still in existence?! 

 Sorry Guild Wars 2 if I see this happen and I stay ultra clean in terms of web/application use, I'm out on your game.  I left WoW for the same bullshit reason, and I'll leave yours.

 But thank you hack for making yourself obvious, you not only amusingly make yourself obvious with keystroke controls, but also log onto my google account not once but twice...and then try to conspicuously make yourself obnoxiously clear doing it.  :)

Devona's Rest and character No Blinking
 

Some observations of leadership in Guild Wars 2 world versus world gameplay

     I am writing this mostly from the observations perspective of world versus world which I've participated at times in frequently as of the past the year, and running more so presently.  I add to this caveat neither having served directly in general in specific leadership roles (other then organizing in some very rare instance simple things like tower captures on our server's home turf where ever it is).  Hopefully, somewhere maybe there could be useful feedback for those considering leadership roles in world versus world gameplay.  Before I get started this will be keeping on a positive note, still wanted to thank all of those leading in our battlegrounds today.  We've been in general running at times lower in staff at times, but still managed with contributors to actually have gains, in the previous week, and there's always room for improvement.

So here are the observations:

1.  Enough players not enough supply.   This would be an addendum to previous post mentions.  The biggest killer for groups having lost a borderlands or being wiped generally from a given map in Eternal Battlegrounds.  May not be exactly the numbers.  Sure some morale loss, may have players frustrated at such an experience, but if you've participated enough, you learn the leadership of groups play in different sorts of strategies.  Some opponents like to cap and defend, while other groups, may often leave your side of the map, simply looking for more offensive captures right away.  League systems may have some incentive effect of cap and hold strategies, but at the moment, world versus world systems seem to be more slated towards offensive captures in general.  In terms of experience, monetary rewards and much else, this actually may provide good news, since firstly even if you've spent time trying to defend on your turf and lost, you still have the reward gains of re capturing stuff that were lost in the first place.  The problem here is that most spending the time defending may have burned much supply defending.  If you are more experienced, you may notice others like yourselves immediately looking to re establish a supply camp (at least two of these firstly), while hoping that the timing of your re capture of supply hasn't meant that a large passing zerg hasn't stripped everything in the process.  If you were a leader, you might be inclined to rally people at a given way point (stopping for adequate man power resources), to go ahead with supply camp recapture.  There are also other leadership strategies such as guiding players to inquire on another map (you presently occupy with convenient waypoint) to gain supply.  Whatever the case, a leader may be estimating based upon head counts the amount of supply to replenish a groups supply momentum, otherwise, dropping prints that can't be built at a given objective may prove fruitless.  Thus when losing ground on turf, the important mantra.  Check a groups supply, and rebuild this as quickly as you can.  If you have 20 players with 0 supply keep in mind at 10 units per head, you are looking at 2 supply camp captures to replenish a zergs supply hauling capacity.  In this respect, it might also help, to work capturing supply camps throughout the map, while doing some educated guessing as to where an enemy zerg might be heading if your manpower resources are generally smaller relative theirs.

2.  Time is of the essence.  Sometimes, it may help to lead for recapture right away that an opponent server isn't really interested in defending much they hold on your territory or their likewise.  While other times, when resistance is heavy working towards capturing an alternative objective may be a better option all together.  If you see heavy fortification, and able opponent bodies laying in defensive wait, for some it may be wise to back of right away, while at other times, if you are a leader and sense that there are some well positioned man power in your group to assist and support in terms of heals and manning the rams (with level 4 or above experience) to take the risk in throwing down rams right away.  In the later case (heavy resistance), generally on the more successful ventures, a leader not only drops 2 or 3 rams, but also drops an arrow cart position where it can be used against opponent defensive siege (such as other arrow carts) or generally to ward opponent defenders in numbers of the wall, and fortunately under this years world versus world gameplay revisions it makes it easier then ever despite more formidable arrow cart resistances to capture objectives even with rams at the doors. The quicker that you can capture an objective generally tends to be positive for any number of reasons: opponent servers are slower in mobilizing to defend, and quick captures can be a big morale boost for your group potentially attracting other players on map.   I've seen leaders in some cases, moving rapidly throughout the map generally running on principle to successful capture strategies.  This may be in avoidance to obvious temptations, like capturing this biggest objectives in sight while working more rapidly through a series of smaller ones which may have the effect of off balancing opponent servers strategies of mistakenly staying put at the biggest objectives (while under defending the smaller one's on their turf).  Planning a large scale golem zerg where larger sums of golems end up getting lost in a barrage of defense at the largest fortified objective, may not only de moralize your server for the effort but end up costing a little (unless your server is generally well ahead of the game and care less for the expense), more tight competitive play may result less in this sort of tactic.  Especially if in sum, the reward for doing a capture may have been accomplished in other ways cheaper in terms of prints, and in terms of little man power desire to hold a defensive position at such capture (generally being less consequential to points gained on the timer.  Mostly though, I tend not to see these (as opposed to the more ancient days of yesteryears server), these sorts of tactics.  If you are a leader, generally speaking as you've grown accustomed, you'd likely being making decisions right away, providing adequate pauses (for rally), and generally keeping your groups momentum going with a solid plan.  Enough wipes on your map with a zerg can be a problem to holding a group together while providing an opponent some inkling as to what your numbers are like, where you might be heading, and so forth.  Of course, irrespective of these factors, your leader might have some momentum counter balances, such as attempting to organize in mass players from their respective guild to help maintain a groups critical mass composure, newer less experienced players may be more likely to join in on your zerg if they see bigger numbers in group likewise, and the more the numbers may translate more likely in steadier numbers ranks.  A leader will generally be quickly reactive in decision making to resistances for objectives, while keeping in mind, potential defense on their own server's turf, and knowing any number of offensive capture strategies for a given structure while keeping in mind their opponents ranks.  Faster may be generally better when you need to recoup losses, while slowing down the fight when you are top for the given week's matchup another strategy.

3.  Communication and understanding what happens with your zerg.  Unfortunately, more often then not, it seems zergs that run less tightly often times run into the momentum problem of moving forward towards any potential objective that you seem to be headed but neither paying attention to what their leaders are doing.  Comunication is key here.  In my experience, good leadership may keep organization more tightly running, and quite actively communicating in chat as to what he/she may be doing both in advance and during game play.  While some may resort to voice over the internet services to keep players organized, other leaders do spend the time actively communicating on their given map to let their group know what's going...whether to skip a potential objective nearby, and I've seen our maps big zerg diminish, as the momentum nearby seems to naturally gravitate towards a to be skipped objective.  Use communication, be active, learn to use the auto run toggle while using active communication to let your zerg know what your intentions might be.  Know fluently how to actively switch between map, and local chats.  It may be important to help, especially for new comers and less experienced players alike to at times re iterate keeping together.  Active communicating leaders tend often to fare better then one's that communicate less.  A leader should also pay attention to their groups movement, building a huge tail on a zerg certainly may not help if an opponent's zerg in waiting has the numbers to pick off the head while the tail struggles to catch up, and vice versa.  A little bit of pause for group rally, may pay off as finishers can provide excellent stack buffs to your zerg likewise, and/or those with buffs to be provided.  In these cases, your zerg even in thinner ranks may cost a generally larger zerg a wipe if caught unawares with enough organization.

Thus, in summation some of the big three key ideas, I'd say in my experience when leading keep the following in mind:  have a plan where you are going before you are going, have an array of plans for offensive capture, be well stocked with prints, insist on leadership in dropping prints (so that these aren't haphazardly thrown ...leading to problems in group supply), communicate actively with your group, keep your group well supplied, keep it moving, avoid too many zerg wipes, try to encourage guild participation (if you aren't already in a larger world versus world oriented guild), keep your group moving together, and keep your success momentum going, make note of players that have potential world versus world skills and keep them in mind when allocating manpower to siege resources (if you need you can always take ownership of siege, for instance, to provide space for another player with such skills).

Some groups may enjoy the more long standing bunkered down siege captures, but the longer that you wait around, means potentially the easier for opponents to bunker down likewise, building supply lines (if you haven't adequately managed cutting off theirs), and fortifying structures if you provide incentives (albeit in my experience, I see less of that in recent days).  Rams now (with ram mastery skills) in my opinion, tend to rock, since they are faster then ever for bringing doors down.  If you can stock for the week, any number of superior rams, and superior siege prints (as you can afford), this will likely aid in speeding captures up.  I've seen at times less trending in use of Golems in general for larger scale zergs, while I've seen occasional golem groups tending to be more successful (wee hours of the morning North American time zones).  Generally speaking world versus world populations for our tier tends to increase during certain hours, while diminishing during other hours, and throughout the week.  Weekend gameplay differs from week day population game play, keep this in mind.  Catapults at nearest to walls can make for excellent keep captures where catapult reuse avoids the obvious problems of re stocking a groups supply.  For instance, on your server's borderlands: if you work bay, working catapults literally closest to the south wall west of the south gate) allows for hitting both inner and outer keep walls.  If you run into a resistance on one gate, try another gate, and test for resistances before laying siege if you can (for instance, a bogey print drop may tempt resistances that much more, or sometimes it just takes hitting the door).    The three highest frequent prints that I've seen in use: flame rams, arrow carts, catapults, and ballista s.  There is informally speaking status built from what I can tell with commanders in world versus world, if you are new and show up with a commander tag, it takes time to build an informal reputation likely amongst veteran players that consistently play.  If you are together and generally are well together enough in planning, however, or at least show consistent gains in aptitude in leading successful will likely build better group loyalties, being active well enough (doesn't have to be for long long hours I'd imagine, but with enough consistency so that your name is recognized) on map will likely attract groups of players.  As you gain leadership experience, likely you will recognize with your resources what you can handle even if there is resistance.  We've been able with certain group compositions, for instance, to handle heavier resistances at doors merely by having the assurances (of a healing core) coupled with ram mastery trained players (coupled with adequate player gearing and skills) manage successful captures (opponents with 4 arrow carts and one superior carts), so just because their is resistance doesn't mean always avoidance at all costs...you'll likely learn your groups tuning as you participate as a leader over time.


Obvious new comer leadership mistakes:  leaving a sigil up when there aren't really enough players on a map to sustain the amount commanders there firstly, and too much idle with an active sigil while in battleground.  A more respected leaders is working for the time that they are there and courteous to all in map when going on downtime by removing active commander sigil, and potentially trying to find another leader to sigil up.