Reading this way really does work. You will absorb the information as pictures and be able to go back through the pictures later.

There is however a catch to reading like this. Because you are reading so fast your mind doesn’t have time to associate what you have read with random things in your head. So everything you read will only exist in short term memory unless you review the information.

Best way to do this is to photo read a chapter and immediately make a “mind map” of the major topics in the chapter. List the chapter name and then have arrows pointing to the key points made and then your mind will fill in the crap you absorbed to the mind map.

It will still be temporary unless you review the mind map a week later then a month or so later again so that you strengthen the new paths you made to the information.

Without some sort of structure you most likely won’t be able to recall the info at all before it leaves your short term memory.

They may very well try it.  But fear not!  To launch a person across the ocean would require a trajectory that would take them outside of Earth’s orbit.  Humans are usually vaporized upon reentry.  They would go up, but not come down.

I think you need to be more concerned about a people torpedo system.

You can download a few shitty emulators that play a couple of games at 6 frames per second. I have never been impressed by them though. There are however some fantastic PSX emulators like PSXe that once you configure them properly run better than on a real playstation (graphics smoothing / speed up etc…).

I decided the best way to eat cheese is grilled up w/bread. So I made a grilled cheese sandwich. I was going to save half the sandwich for you, but I freaked out when I saw that it was actually the Virgin Mary looking back at me with her nasty burnt hair.

Officially IT = Information Technology, however people who refer to themselves as IT guys are normally low level twat-waffles who just like having a big bad title that makes them sound like they are smart. If they were really smart their title wouldn’t bother with saying they worked in Information Technology and instead would say something like “I design computer programs that map the human genome” etc… Now that guy is in IT but he wouldn’t want to tell somebody that because it sounds way less impressive than what he actually does.

I always have a Beer Can laying around… lets use that…

Odd question. I mean you want to remind me how the nose should be turned in order to complete this, yet you still need to ask the question…. Odd.

Anywho, condition=human condition (also known as stupidity). Mortar isn’t designed to go back down it’s tube head, but on the one in a million chance that it would the damn thing would have had to be pointed straight up with no wind and then came back down, yet there is no guarantee that it would turn in the air. Seriously who cares if it turns head down, if it goes up and then comes back down and smacks something it’s going to fuck it up pretty good. If you are dumb enough to fire that shit straight up in the air you deserve to have it come back down on you.

If the CIA wants to get into your shit, they will. I mean say you created a codec, or an entire programming language. I mean in the end it can still be mucked with by a hex editor and ultimately goes back to 010101010. I am not enough of an Uber Geek to be able to understand things that are broken down into this data but believe me, there are people who are.

If you still want to make a codec despite knowing that somebody else could still use it (and knowing what a pain in the ass it would be to convert all your shit to it) then you can just pick up on some open source codec and edit it from there. For video I think DivX used to be, I am not sure if XviD still is. I think X.264 has source code somewhere… though that one might not be legal, not sure if that matters, currently it’s the best…

Back in the day when DivX was being made people mucked with it and made stuff like “Angel Potion” which people started using even though it was just a crappy broken version of DivX. But it’s like anything else. Find some source code, muck with it, compile it, install it, walah your own codec.

—-Note, I really went off on an unrelated tangent below, don’t read this next part as I am not responsible for you or your actions if you do—

What you should really do if you are paranoid is create a Thermite Box with a switch. I mean the only data they can’t do decode is data that no longer exists. I actually made this once. It’s a really simple design. Thermite is a hardcore fire accelerant that will INSTANTLY heat things to a couple thousand degrees. It does this so fast that some magicians have used this to create a hold in the bottom of floors and objects to escape inescapable situations, yet unless you start it on fire it’s pretty much harmless. To make it you can break your Etch-a-Sketch or go to a machine shop and ask to sweep their floor…. : ) Either way will give you the Aluminum. Then you just need Iron Oxide (um… it’s rust. that’s it) Lots of ways to get rust, but if you are in a hurry just go to a paint store and ask for iron oxide (it’s used to give pigment to paint). Mix 8 grams rust and 3 grams aluminum.

Once the thermite exists you can (not joking) mix 4 parts thermite with one part Play-Doh… This will make it moldable thermite. Then you just find a box big enough to hold your external hard drives (you could use your entire computer, but airflow would be a bitch… ) and mold your super play-doh to the inside of the case.

Now Thermite needs a lot of heat to light, so get some magnesium ribbon or an old sparkler that is laying around the garage and run that outside of the case. If it’s a sparkler or something just stick it outside the case and have a torch nearby to light it. You could fashion a basic switch onto your case with the magnesium ribbon if you want it to look nice…

Basically if you ever need to destroy all your evidence in a matter of SECONDS this will do it. I came up with this idea myself when I was having fun playing with thermite a few years ago. Then Kevin Rose did it on the Screen Savers to burn up a PC. Honestly you probably don’t need the box to be ready at all as I said thermite is fairly safe so long as you don’t have it somewhere it might ignite. Just keep your thermite / play-doh inside of the play-doh container and have a butane lighter and a sparkler laying around if you ever need to start this on fire. It will burn so quickly that there will probably be a hole in your floor, but it’s fairly controlled. I mean a fire extinguisher isn’t a bad idea either to put out sparks that come off of it…

Shit, I shoulda just wrote that as a Smartass Education article since you didn’t even ask how to do this… Maybe I’ll convert it to one later… hahaha. To think I got to this from you asking about a codec!

I am more interested to know how you plan to achieve this where others have failed.

I mean the Kellogg’s company tried to rid the world of EMO’s with a breakfast cereal but alas… EMO’s were just posers and wouldn’t use the free toy that was included.

You also couldn’t put suicidal subliminal messages in their music because they already spend 83% of their day thinking of ways to kill themselves, but again… No follow through.

Still, If you were to achieve this I do not think you would need to wait around for me to compensate you. Many other people would donate to you. I personally could give you nothing more than a pat on the back, follow by a kick to the junk for having that ability and then NOT also killing all the Rednecks/Hicks at the same time. I mean at least the goths/emo’s have some decent quality music unlike the country folk.