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Pexpect version 2.3
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Description of Pexpect
Pexpect is a pure Python module that makes Python a better tool for controlling and automating other programs. Pexpect is similar to the Don Libes `Expect` system, but Pexpect as a different interface that is easier to understand. Pexpect is basically a pattern matching system. It runs programs and watches output. When output matches a given pattern Pexpect can respond as if a human were typing responses. Pexpect can be used for automation, testing, and screen scraping. Pexpect can be used for automating interactive console applications such as ssh, ftp, passwd, telnet, etc. It can also be used to control web applications via `lynx`, `w3m`, or some other text-based web browser. Pexpect is pure Python. Unlike other Expect-like modules for Python Pexpect does not require TCL or Expect nor does it require C extensions to be compiled. It should work on any platform that supports the standard Python pty module.
Send questions to: email@example.com Put 'pexpect' in the subject.
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Download and Installation
Download the current version here from the SourceForge site here: pexpect current
The Pexpect tarball is a standard Python Distutil distribution. Running the following commands should get you a working Pexpect module. Note that you have to have root access to install a site package.
wget http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/pexpect-2.3.tar.gz tar xzf pexpect-2.3.tar.gz cd pexpect-2.3 sudo python ./setup.py install
Project Status
Automated pyunit tests reach over 80% code coverage on pexpect.py. I regularly test on Linux and BSD platforms. I try to test on Solaris and Irix.
Requirements for use of Pexpect
Pexpect was written and tested with Python 2.5. It should work on earlier versions that have the pty module.
pty module
Any POSIX system (UNIX) with a working pty module should be able to run Pexpect. The pty module is part of the Standard Python Library, so if you are running on a POSIX system you should have it. The pty module does not run the same on all platforms. It should be solid on Linux and BSD systems. I have taken effort to try to smooth the wrinkles out of the different platforms. To learn more about the wrinkles see Bugs and Testing.
Pexpect does not currently work on the standard Windows Python (see the pty requirement); however, it seems to work fine using Cygwin. It is possible to build something like a pty for Windows, but it would have to use a different technique that I am still investigating. I know it's possible because Libes' Expect was ported to Windows. If you have any ideas or skills to contribute in this area then I would really appreciate some tips on how to approach this problem.
Source Code
You can browse the source code in SVN online here: SVN trunk
Note that all PyUnit tests are under the tests/ directory. To run the unit tests you will need to source the test.env environment file:
source test.env
then you will need to run the testall.py script under the tools/ directory:
Under the distribution tarball directory you should find an "examples" directory. This is the best way to learn to use Pexpect. See the descriptions of Pexpect Examples.
This runs `netstat` on a local or remote server. It calculates some simple statistical information on the number of external inet connections. This can be used to detect if one IP address is taking up an excessive number of connections. It can also send an email alert if a given IP address exceeds a threshold between runs of the script. This script can be used as a drop-in Munin plugin or it can be used stand-alone from cron. I used this on a busy web server that would sometimes get hit with denial of service attacks. This made it easy to see if a script was opening many multiple connections. A typical browser would open fewer than 10 connections at once. A script might open over 100 simultaneous connections.
This script creates SSH connections to a list of hosts that you provide. Then you are given a command line prompt. Each shell command that you enter is sent to all the hosts. The response from each host is collected and printed. For example, you could connect to a dozen different machines and reboot them all at once.
This implements a command similar to the classic BSD "script" command. This will start a subshell and log all input and output to a file. This demonstrates the interact() method of Pexpect.
This is for cleaning up binary files improperly added to CVS. This script scans the given path to find binary files; checks with CVS to see if the sticky options are set to -kb; finally if sticky options are not -kb then uses 'cvs admin' to set the -kb option.
This demonstrates an FTP "bookmark". This connects to an ftp site; does a few ftp tasks; and then gives the user interactive control over the session. In this case the "bookmark" is to a directory on the OpenBSD ftp server. It puts you in the i386 packages directory. You can easily modify this for other sites. This demonstrates the interact() method of Pexpect.
This runs a sequence of commands on a remote host using SSH. It runs a simple system checks such as uptime and free to monitor the state of the remote host.
This will login to each given server and change the password of the given user. This demonstrates scripting logins and passwords.
This starts the python interpreter and prints the greeting message backwards. It then gives the user iteractive control of Python. It's pretty useless!
This is a wizard for mencoder. It greatly simplifies the process of ripping a DVD to Divx (mpeg4) format. It can transcode from any video file to another. It has options for resampling the audio stream; removing interlace artifacts, fitting to a target file size, etc. There are lots of options, but the process is simple and easy to use.
This lists a directory on a remote machine.
This starts an SSH tunnel to a remote machine. It monitors the connection and restarts the tunnel if it goes down.
This will run the uptime command and parse the output into variables. This demonstrates using a single regular expression to match the output of a command and capturing different variable in match groups. The grouping regular expression handles a wide variety of different uptime formats.
API Documentation
pexpect - This is the main module that you want.
pxssh - Pexpect SSH is an extension of 'pexpect.spawn' that specializes in SSH.
experimental extensions
fdpexpect - fdpexpect extension of 'pexpect.spawn' that uses an open file descriptor. You can pass it any file descriptor and use pexpect commands to match output from your fd.
screen - This represents a virtual 'screen'.
ANSI - This parses ANSI/VT-100 terminal escape codes.
FSM - This is a finite state machine used by ANSI.
Pexpect can be used for automating interactive applications such as ssh, ftp, mencoder, passwd, etc. The Pexpect interface was designed to be easy to use. Here is an example of Pexpect in action:
# This connects to the openbsd ftp site and # downloads the recursive directory listing. import pexpect child = pexpect.spawn ('ftp ftp.openbsd.org') child.expect ('Name .*: ') child.sendline ('anonymous') child.expect ('Password:') child.sendline ('firstname.lastname@example.com') child.expect ('ftp> ') child.sendline ('cd pub') child.expect('ftp> ') child.sendline ('get ls-lR.gz') child.expect('ftp> ') child.sendline ('bye')
Obviously you could write an ftp client using Python's own ftplib module, but this is just a demonstration. You can use this technique with any application. This is especially handy if you are writing automated test tools.
There are two important methods in Pexpect -- expect() and send() (or sendline() which is like send() with a linefeed). The expect() method waits for the child application to return a given strong. The string you specify is a regular expression, so you can match complicated patterns. The send() method writes a string to the child application. From the child's point of view it looks just like someone typed the text from a terminal. After each call to expect() the before and after properties will be set to the text printed by child application. The before property will contain all text up to the expected string pattern. The after string will contain the text that was matched by the expected pattern. The match property is set to the re MatchObject.
An example of Pexpect in action may make things more clear. This example uses ftp to login to the OpenBSD site; list files in a directory; and then pass interactive control of the ftp session to the human user.
import pexpect child = pexpect.spawn ('ftp ftp.openbsd.org') child.expect ('Name .*: ') child.sendline ('anonymous') child.expect ('Password:') child.sendline ('email@example.com') child.expect ('ftp> ') child.sendline ('ls /pub/OpenBSD/') child.expect ('ftp> ') print child.before # Print the result of the ls command. child.interact() # Give control of the child to the user.
Special EOF and TIMEOUT patterns
There are two special patterns to match the End Of File or a Timeout condition. You you can pass these patterns to expect(). These patterns are not regular expressions. Use them like predefined constants.
If the child has died and you have read all the child's output then ordinarily expect() will raise an EOF exception. You can read everything up to the EOF without generating an exception by using the EOF pattern expect(pexpect.EOF). In this case everything the child has output will be available in the before property.
Lists if patterns
The pattern given to expect() may be a regular expression or it may also be a list of regular expressions. This allows you to match multiple optional responses. The expect() method returns the index of the pattern that was matched. For example, say you wanted to login to a server. After entering a password you could get various responses from the server -- your password could be rejected; or you could be allowed in and asked for your terminal type; or you could be let right in and given a command prompt. The following code fragment gives an example of this:
child.expect('password:') child.sendline (my_secret_password) # We expect any of these three patterns... i = child.expect (['Permission denied', 'Terminal type', '[#\$] ']) if i==0: print 'Permission denied on host. Can't login' child.kill(0) elif i==2: print 'Login OK... need to send terminal type.' child.sendline('vt100') child.expect ('[#\$] ') elif i==3: print 'Login OK.' print 'Shell command prompt', child.after
If nothing matches an expected pattern then expect will eventually raise a TIMEOUT exception. The default time is 30 seconds, but you can change this by passing a timeout argument to expect():
# Wait no more than 2 minutes (120 seconds) for password prompt. child.expect('password:', timeout=120)
Find the end of line -- CR/LF conventions
Matching at the end of a line can be tricky. In general the $ regex pattern is useless. Pexpect matches regular expressions a little differently than what you might be used to. The $ matches the end of string, but Pexpect reads from the child one character at a time, so each character looks like the end of a line. Pexpect can't do a look-ahead into the child's output stream. In general you would have this situation when using regular expressions with a stream. Note, pexpect does have an internal buffer, so reads are faster than one character at a time, but from the user's perspective the regex pattern test happens one character at a time.
The best way to match the end of a line is to look for the newline: "\r\n" (CR/LF). Yes, that does appear to be DOS-style. It may surprise some UNIX people to learn that terminal TTY device drivers (dumb, vt100, ANSI, xterm, etc.) all use the CR/LF combination to mark the end of line. UNIX uses just linefeeds to end lines in files, but not when it comes to TTY devices! Pexpect uses a Pseudo-TTY device to talk to the child application, so when the child application prints a "\n" your TTY device actually sees "\r\n". TTY devices are more like the Windows world. Each line of text end with a CR/LF combination. When you intercept data from a UNIX command from a TTY device you will find that the TTY device outputs a CR/LF combination. A UNIX command may only write a linefeed (\n), but the TTY device driver converts it to CR/LF. This means that your terminal will see lines end with CR/LF (hex 0D 0A). Since Pexpect emulates a terminal, to match ends of lines you have to expect the CR/LF combination.
child.expect ('\r\n')
If you just need to skip past a new line then expect ('\n') by itself will work, but if you are expecting a specific pattern before the end of line then you need to explicitly look for the \r. For example the following expects a word at the end of a line:
child.expect ('\w+\r\n')
But the following would both fail:
child.expect ('\w+\n')
And as explained before, trying to use '$' to match the end of line would not work either:
child.expect ('\w+$')
So if you need to explicitly look for the END OF LINE, you want to look for the CR/LF combination -- not just the LF and not the $ pattern.
This problem is not limited to Pexpect. This problem happens any time you try to perform a regular expression match on a stream. Regular expressions need to look ahead. With a stream it is hard to look ahead because the process generating the stream may not be finished. There is no way to know if the process has paused momentarily or is finished and waiting for you. Pexpect must implicitly always do a NON greedy match (minimal) at the end of a input {### already said this}.
Pexpect compiles all regular expressions with the DOTALL flag. With the DOTALL flag a "." will match a newline.
Beware of + and * at the end of input
Remember that any time you try to match a pattern that needs look-ahead that you will always get a minimal match (non greedy). For example, the following will always return just one character:
child.expect ('.+')
This example will match successfully, but will always return no characters:
child.expect ('.*')
Generally any star * expression will match as little as possible.
One thing you can do is to try to force a non-ambiguous character at the end of your \d+ pattern. Expect that character to delimit the string. For example, you might try making thr end of your pattrn be \D+ instead of \D*. That means number digits alone would not satisfy the (\d+) pattern. You would need some number(s) and at least one \D at the end.
Matching groups
You can group regular expression using parenthesis. After a match, the match parameter of the spawn object will contain the Python re.match object.
If you get the string value of a pexpect.spawn object you will get lots of useful debugging information. For debugging it's very useful to use the following pattern:
i = child.expect ([pattern1, pattern2, pattern3, etc])
print "Exception was thrown" print "debug information:" print str(child)
It is also useful to log the child's input and out to a file or the screen. The following will turn on logging and send output to stdout (the screen).
child = pexpect.spawn (foo) child.logfile = sys.stdout
Note that two flavors of EOF Exception may be thrown. They are virtually identical except for the message string. For practical purposes you should have no need to distinguish between them, but they do give a little extra information about what type of platform you are running. The two messages are:
End Of File (EOF) in read(). Exception style platform.
End Of File (EOF) in read(). Empty string style platform.
Some UNIX platforms will throw an exception when you try to read from a file descriptor in the EOF state. Other UNIX platforms instead quietly return an empty string to indicate that the EOF state has been reached.
Expecting EOF
If you wish to read up to the end of the child's output without generating an EOF exception then use the expect(pexpect.EOF) method.
The expect() and read() methods will also timeout if the child does not generate any output for a given amount of time. If this happens they will raise a TIMEOUT exception. You can have these method ignore a timeout and block indefinitely by passing None for the timeout parameter.
child.expect(pexpect.EOF, timeout=None)
Q: Isn't there already a Python Expect?
A: Yes, there are several of them. They usually require you to compile C. I wanted something that was pure Python and preferably a single module that was simple to install. I also wanted something that was easy to use. This pure Python expect only recently became possible with the introduction of the pty module in the standard Python library. Previously C extensions were required.
Q: The `before` and `after` properties sound weird.
A: This is how the -B and -A options in grep works, so that made it easier for me to remember. Whatever makes my life easier is what's best. Originally I was going to model Pexpect after Expect, but then I found that I didn't actually like the way Expect did some things. It was more confusing. The `after` property can be a little confusing at first, because it will actually include the matched string. The `after` means after the point of match, not after the matched string.
Q: Why not just use Expect?
A: I love it. It's great. I has bailed me out of some real jams, but I wanted something that would do 90% of what I need from Expect; be 10% of the size; and allow me to write my code in Python instead of TCL. Pexpect is not nearly as big as Expect, but Pexpect does everything I have ever used Expect for.
Q: Why not just use a pipe (popen())?
A: A pipe works fine for getting the output to non-interactive programs. If you just want to get the output from ls, uname, or ping then this works. Pipes do not work very well for interactive programs and pipes will almost certainly fail for most applications that ask for passwords such as telnet, ftp, or ssh.
There are two reasons for this.
First an application may bypass stdout and print directly to its controlling TTY. Something like SSH will do this when it asks you for a password. This is why you cannot redirect the password prompt because it does not go through stdout or stderr.
The second reason is because most applications are built using the C Standard IO Library (anything that uses #include <stdio.h>). One of the features of the stdio library is that it buffers all input and output. Normally output is line buffered when a program is printing to a TTY (your terminal screen). Everytime the program prints a line-feed the currently buffered data will get printed to your screen. The problem comes when you connect a pipe. The stdio library is smart and can tell that it is printing to a pipe instead of a TTY. In that case it switches from line buffer mode to block buffered. In this mode the currently buffered data is flushed when the buffer is full. This causes most interactive programs to deadlock. Block buffering is more efficient when writing to disks and pipes. Take the situation where a program prints a message "Enter your user name:\n" and then waits for you type type something. In block buffered mode, the stdio library will not put the message into the pipe even though a linefeed is printed. The result is that you never receive the message, yet the child application will sit and wait for you to type a response. Don't confuse the stdio lib's buffer with the pipe's buffer. The pipe buffer is another area that can cause problems. You could flush the input side of a pipe, whereas you have no control over the stdio library buffer.
More information: the Standard IO library has three states for a FILE *. These are: _IOFBF for block buffered; _IOLBF for line buffered; and _IONBF for unbuffered. The STDIO lib will use block buffering when talking to a block file descriptor such as a pipe. This is usually not helpful for interactive programs. Short of recompiling your program to include fflush() everywhere or recompiling a custom stdio library there is not much a controlling application can do about this if talking over a pipe.
The program may have put data in its output that remains unflushed because the output buffer is not full; then the program will go and deadlock while waiting for input -- because you never send it any because you are still waiting for its output (still stuck in the STDIO's output buffer).
The answer is to use a pseudo-tty. A TTY device will force line buffering (as opposed to block buffering). Line buffering means that you will get each line when the child program sends a line feed. This corresponds to the way most interactive programs operate -- send a line of output then wait for a line of input.
I put "answer" in quotes because it's ugly solution and because there is no POSIX standard for pseudo-TTY devices (even though they have a TTY standard...). What would make more sense to me would be to have some way to set a mode on a file descriptor so that it will tell the STDIO to be line-buffered. I have investigated, and I don't think there is a way to set the buffered state of a child process. The STDIO Library does not maintain any external state in the kernel or whatnot, so I don't think there is any way for you to alter it. I'm not quite sure how this line-buffered/block-buffered state change happens internally in the STDIO library. I think the STDIO lib looks at the file descriptor and decides to change behavior based on whether it's a TTY or a block file (see isatty()).
I hope that this qualifies as helpful. Don't use a pipe to control another application...
Pexpect may seem similar to os.popen() or commands module. The main difference is that Pexpect (like Expect) uses a pseudo-TTY to talk to the child application. Most applications do no work well through the system() call or through pipes. And probably all applications that ask a user to type in a password will fail. These applications bypass the stdin and read directly from the TTY device. Many applications do not explicitly flush their output buffers. This causes deadlocks if you try to control an interactive application using a pipe. What happens is that most UNIX applications use the stdio (#include <stdio.h>) for input and output. The stdio library behaves differently depending on where the output is going. There is no way to control this behavior from the client end.
Q: Can I do screen scraping with this thing?
A: That depends. If your application just does line-oriented output then this is easy. If it does screen-oriented output then it may work, but it could be hard. For example, trying to scrape data from the 'top' command would be hard. The top command repaints the text window.
I am working on an ANSI / VT100 terminal emulator that will have methods to get characters from an arbitrary X,Y coordinate of the virtual screen. It works and you can play with it, but I have no working examples at this time.


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I'm Just A Little Curious About Some Things
Post: #31
RE: I'm Just A Little Curious About Some Things
Nick, the nerve you hit is the one where the majority of what you say contradicts your own words in your last post -
Quote:I can't stop the intake of Kool-aid completely because to a certain degree it is being forced on me.
Everyone here sees things in a different way... most people who are here have ideas that are unpopular to the vast majority of the American populace, and that's because the American populace has the Kool-Aid forced on them. I see your point, but I don't agree with it - you can't blame them for doing what even the most enlightened to the bastard's agenda are forced to do, in the same way that you are.
I'm frustrated by the many of the same things you are: the most annoying of which is the fact that people won't wake the hell up, but I can't expect them to because it's so rare in mainstream society to have a metaphorical alarm clock sound... Where would an average person get the impetus to check out all the conspiracies and frauds being perpetrated? You'd have to have lost and tried to rebuild in order to do so, and people are conditioned to fear that very occurrence - that's why they have their credit-cards, bank accounts in predatory outlets of deception, and chose to believe their used-car salesman bankers when they're sold an ARM. They fear losing what they have and being forced to rebuild from the ground up like you have had to do. I'm sure you don't relish the though of doing that all over again, do you?
So it boils down to this: It's frustrating that most won't demand their rights and take back their individual sovereignty; but then again, we can't blame them because the system has also forced us into a position where we're unable to do it ourselves without drastic self-harm befitting only the worst of masochists. Our personal security is important to us the same way it's important to them, so we all wander around with metaphorical Kool-Aid smiles as we rant about how we're being fucked over. And we are being fucked over simply because our personal security is interwoven with a predatory system that feeds on us giving up our rights. Those who run the system are to blame for perpetuating it, not the people who are simply trying to exist in a relatively normal way. "We The people" include the people who perpetuate the system, but they think of us as sub-human resources to be abused for their profit. They seek power and raging excess, where as most simply don't want our roofs to come crashing down on our heads.
Post: #32
RE: I'm Just A Little Curious About Some Things
Unwilling and/or unwitting participants - but it is because we wanted to let someone else handle things. It is because we didn't say NO. Had the people just said NO and MEANT IT and kept saying it until the powers that be had no choice but to deal with it - things would be much different. But it has gone down the road to the point that the only way to recover it is to start all over. But those that would be left behind to restart would after a couple of generations revert back to the same damn thing.
You are right, it is a predatory system but the system is so vast, interwoven and convoluted that no individual or group of individuals can do anything about it.
If the people rose up against the King of England (if they really did) and came here to America to live a freer life then why are they not rising up now to do the same thing? The obvious answer is that they can't. I still haven't heard a relevant argument about why the people aren't at fault.
If the people did what they did to sever their ties to the King of England, why have they given away all their rights and priviledges to live like slaves? It isn't anyone elses fault if the people lose their freedom, it has not been forceably taken away. Nobody came along and forced freedom away. People give up their rights every single day in one form or fashion. I don't see how it can't be seen that way. Laws are being passed all the time. No one is stopping them, instead they are being encouraged to pass more. Take the guns away, stop people from saying certain words, don't let people do this or do that, you can't go here or there. These are the things that the citizens are demanding. Demands are being met everyday. The people are the ones who are responsible for losing their freedoms. They beg the government to do it. I can't believe that people can't see it, unless the people have a problem in recognizing just how bad they have really screwed up.
We are living in a society where EVERYONE is offended. Everything that is said and done will almost always offend someone in ear or eye shot of what you do. We live in a society where the people want everyone else to shut up and be quiet and leave them alone but they themselves want the freedom to say and do whatever they want. I see that everyday. "You can't tell me but I WILL tell you" syndrome. I'm positive that anyone here that works a regular job sees this go on all the time in one form or fashion to some degree.
I will say this much about my personal experiences. The first time that I lost everything I was scared shitless because I had never been there before. BUT once I went through it the first time I had less problem the next. To the point that if I was forced to start over again from scratch I would shrug my shoulders and deal with it. When you get to the point that most everything in your life is meaningless and replaceable then your attitude becomes much more realistic about what is important. Make no mistake, I am talking about THINGS here, not people. But I have suffered loss of relatives too. I know death as most do. I would have to say right now, where I am spiritually and intelligently and realistically that if the building that I am in were to be completely destroyed and I lost everything that I have and only escaped with the clothes on my back and my life - I would consider it a good day.
What I have come to believe over time is that the less that I have the easier it is for me to get by day to day. The less junk I have around my neck the less hampered I am to do for myself.
For those people with families, they would be best served if those members understood how to take care of themselves in times of hardship. This doesn't mean stockpiling. Certainly it is nice to have but if you have to live by your wits and on the run you won't be taking it with you anyway. The bad guys get it. I have always seen stockpiling as providing little caches of goodies for the bad guys when they raid your place. Have everything you NEED on your person and be able to move when needed. It's that simple with me. I take very little for granted and assume trouble around every corner.
Always remember and never forget: No plan, no matter how well laid survives first contact. (Those that understand this will know where it came from and know what it means).
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. H. L. Mencken
04-16-2010, 01:17 AM (This post was last modified: 04-16-2010 01:20 AM by Deathaniel.)
Post: #33
RE: I'm Just A Little Curious About Some Things
Wonderful and refrshing from this site!!!!
and his (Nick- harry one) level of enlightenment is not easy come by...
but he is right and we don't need to be consumers from day to death! We choose to walk the slave path with our compeate with the jones mentality, but it's truly nice to see another voice here who realizes it's what you know not what you have that makes one superior...
and YES it does i can say that and not feel guilty....
cause I know I am!!!
survivle of the fitest is truly just that! Not just a theory!!!
Remember Knowledge is the only thing THEY can't take from you, and Knowledge is Know how, and Know how is Power!!!
Live long and Prosper!!!! Have a plan beyond words, and worry not of why the storm is coming as to how you're going to survive in it!!!!
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Post: #34
RE: I'm Just A Little Curious About Some Things
No plan, no matter how well laid survives first contact ....
flexicution can make all the difference in the ultimate outcome. Best to have a situational playbook so you aren't scrambling. Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.
Your best asset is not only you but those that you surround yourself with. Their skills, knowledge, companionship, trust and loyalty. I must also add that a positive outlook is vital, never ever give in to despair, attitude is an often overlooked and underestimated intangible.
Quote:People give up their rights every single day in one form or fashion.Every time we punch into work we are under the rule of the company. We comply to servitude in exchange for bribes. Our thoughts are shaped by media and group-think. We are not even free to explore our own consciousness through plants.
Perception is reality and a great many people are drawn into the system and fed the reality presented unaware the pot is boiling and they are the proverbial frog. Many are locked into situations where there is little choice or at least they perceive no alternative. Choice is getting harder to come by but those residing in the US, Canada, UK .. are still relatively free. This is offset by a greater realization of the schemes that enslave us, many of the 'sheep' are evolving to the point where they are aware that something needs to be done. Unfortunately many are being railroaded into dead end causes or driven to the point of hopelessness because of a fear based campaign that overwhelms many. People are getting restless and impatient leading to the creation of networks that minimize the system that promotes the superficial illusion that supports the agendas of the billionaires. Don't be so quick to judge.
Wilful ignorance is quite another scenario. Once I realized the depth and urgency of the situation I felt a duty to do all I can for my children and future generations. Anyone who is aware has the responsibility to be the shepherd for those who are still asleep. Intelligent and creative persistence is key. Our fates are intertwined with the masses that haven't taken the leap. We need them whether we care to admit it or not. Their ignorance is our failure.
There are no others, there is only us.
Post: #35
RE: I'm Just A Little Curious About Some Things
(04-16-2010 04:05 AM)FastTadpole Wrote: Your best asset is not only you but those that you surround yourself with. Their skills, knowledge, companionship, trust and loyalty. I must also add that a positive outlook is vital, never ever give in to despair, attitude is an often overlooked and underestimated intangible.
FastTadpole Wrote: Wilful ignorance is quite another scenario. Once I realized the depth and urgency of the situation I felt a duty to do all I can for my children and future generations. Anyone who is aware has the responsibility to be the shepherd for those who are still asleep. Intelligent and creative persistence is key. Our fates are intertwined with the masses that haven't taken the leap. We need them whether we care to admit it or not. Their ignorance is our failure.
4 sure but so few will be of use... a whole generation which can't grow foods, or fix things, totally dependent on tech of the idiot persuasion...
Remember Knowledge is the only thing THEY can't take from you, and Knowledge is Know how, and Know how is Power!!!
Live long and Prosper!!!! Have a plan beyond words, and worry not of why the storm is coming as to how you're going to survive in it!!!!
Deathanyl @gmail!!!!!!
Post: #36
RE: I'm Just A Little Curious About Some Things
I agree fasttadpole and h3rm35
" metaphorical alarm clock sound" heehee sweet
(04-15-2010 06:17 PM)NickHedge Wrote: Mea Culpa to all the above.
maybe you should get a new job, if these are the only ppl that you seem to meet, bc I can meet quite a variety right here in the hood.
not everyone is all about gluttony and greed, certainly you have some examples of others that are positive. How sad to think that the whole country of humans suck, I feel quite certain that if you tried you could see some good in others.
I know first hand how crappy ppl can be but won't share any of those stories now bc we all have some, so here are a couple of my good experiences like -
the time my friend and i brook down.We were in out early 20's looked like long hair no good punks, the alternator went out so we crashed in it till daylight after a fishing trip, we were awoken by man with coffee and homemade muffins - no joke.
He asked us the dilemma & said that his family was on there way to church but he would leave his house open so we could go in shower and use the phone. Then he opened his garage, helped push the truck into his driveway, and hooked us up to his battery charger so we could drive to a mechanic - honestly I was stunned, we could of robbed him blind.
Then there was the time when this couple invited me in there home and fed me, just saw me on the street and said come on over. - What they didn't know was that I was really hungry, hadn't eaten for two days. These folks shared their dinner with me, hamburger helper, it tasted as good as my favorite meal at the time, tho I really don't like the stuff. They were poor and probably could of eaten it all themselves, but no they decided to share with the person that was just sitting over yonder on the corner. I had no where to go, needed a shower, literally no money and was getting pretty down, it turned out to be a great evening.
I could keep going but why - point is there are lots of decent ppl here.
Quote:No one's making you react to this thread, you do so of your own accord.
that's right you didn't make me react, I reacted/constructively criticized bc I wanted to & had some free time, - I think you need to hear a message that is not getting trough to you, jmo
Quote:When I see reactions like this to this thread I know that I have hit a nerve and that is not my intention. My intention is to point out what WE ARE ALL guilty of. This country has had a bad reputation for many years and it will not get any better or worse with what I am posting. I can only speak for the country that I live in.
It's not the thread, it's that I am sick & tired of all the mass labeling of all groups of ppl, or labeling the masses for things that the government does.
These fat, lazy, greedy, stupid american comments are getting to me, often they seem to come from europeans.
Have they been here ? if so where ? how did they get here, why ?
I don't have the resources to go there, so I assume that many are wealthy maybe privileged and or spoiled, my point in saying such is - they are highly unlikely meeting americans such as myself, and there are millions of others like me, that do not fall into the negative stereotype.
It's even more annoying to me how many americans seem to hate the others in the same country that they live, it bugs me > I know full well just how many sorry clowns are here, but it isn't all of us.
Many travelers from others countries never meet ppl like me bc they are here as tourists. Ppl whom haven't been here get there impressions from what the see & hear from print and screens, and let me tell you, all of us millions of decent but rather boring americans, - we don't get any airtime.
Who wants to hear stories of ppl that live within their means, and are not committing heinous or interesting crimes. I can see the headlines now of the most boring stories ever. -
"Mrs. Smith spends the day canning tomatoes from her garden, gives some to neighbors."
"Ms.Williams reads children a story after bicycle trip to library then mends a pair of jeans."
"Mr. Green saves hundreds by replacing his own roof with the help of his teenager son."
"OK Corrales helps neighbor fix car, while their wives play with the kids."
"The Dennisons have 4 grown children that are aren't addicted to drugs, never caught a std and didn't procreate until their mid to late 20's." - story at 11.
All groups and nations have more & less desirable ppl and many in-between. Plus it's a matter of perspective -
- a person might think Q is an unproductive citizen bc they do not have a job, but Q might be making a contribution that the person is unaware of, could be even Q doesn't even know the part that they are playing in the big picture - or maybe Q is well respected in some circles but not the ones that the person is connected to - perhaps the person doesn't even understand that Q is playing a role that is just as important or more so than themselves, bc they don't understand the big picture as much as they think they do.
you aren't the only one doing this labeling, it happens in many threads, and I felt like bringing it up, if hadn't been with you it would of been with one of the others.
I understand your point of "everyone" philosophically, but for "everyone" to change despite of the manipulation is a bit of a pipe dream
and no I don't think it is or was as easy as "we let them" yes, to a point but HUGELY over simplified.
when you label whole nations/groups in a negative light you feed the same problems that you address and don't reach anyone, + still have a problem yourself , don't you see this ?
Quote:But you misunderstand the point of my post. The point that I am making is NOT that everyone else is responsible, but that WE are ALL responsible, not just the politicians (for their lies/deceptions/chicanery), but WE the people for our failure to stand up and put a stop to it, to take back OUR control. But more so, WE the people are responsible because WE allowed it to progress to a point that WE lost OUR control. And we lost that control because as "the people" we got lazy, we "let someone else do it". We didn't want to take care of it ourselves, we abdicated our responsibility. WE failed to maintain vigilance and somewhere along the line lost our backbones and sold ourselves into slavery. Because basically what are we? Slaves. The economy is in shambles because our control was usurped and WE did nothing to stop it.
if we are to go with the "everyone" in the manner of which you speak then you are placing yourself on the outside of & better than them, regardless of your claim to have been there.
If you would of truly learned from "being there" then you would have more understanding and less negative labeling, even tho you know that there are some sorry clowns out there.
I get frustrated with them too sometimes, bc I am frugal and get tired of hearing complains over lack of cash when I know that they've bought all kinds of shit they didn't need, but so what, others don't complain at all. > Few ppl destroy themselves knowingly (even tho they should of known better) or with blatant disregard to responsibility.
don't you think that most ppl at least think that they will be able to be responsible but then find that they were wrong ?
- blasting them won't help.
Quote:Now that I see things differently this automatically makes me unpopular. Because those who are still taking their "recommended daily allowance" of Kool-aid don't want to know.
you are not unpopular bc you think that you know "truth" or for your opinions but bc of the hypocritical way that you express them as tho you are perfect and all the rest of us are beneath you.
no worries tho just because you picked an avatar that I think suits your personality doesn't mean that you are really a caveman, NOR do I think that you are, - just playing with you
I'm quite sure that you are just as flawed or flawless as all the rest of us.
Deathanyl Wrote:and his (Nick- harry one) level of enlightenment is not easy come by...
hey look, see your not unpopular
&Alice laughed, &There's no use trying,& she said: &one can't believe impossible things.& &I daresay you haven't had much practice,& said the Queen. &When I was your age I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.&
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&Things are seldom as they seem ... Skim milk masquerades as cream.&
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At NASA, it really is rocket science, and the decision makers really are rocket scientists.
But a body of research that is getting more and more attention points to the ways that smart people working collectively can be dumber than the sum of their parts. .. Irwin Janis? &Groupthink:& is a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' striving for unanimity override realistic appraisals ? It is the triumph of concurrence over good sense, and authority over expertise.&
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Interesting site.... but mostly just commentary....
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and well spoken jack...
i think the difference between us and them is the base attitude of self sufficiency, and resourcefulness that has been dumb down in the "general population"
It's the two hands theory:
One hand the public hand controls media, and sets up moot issues and spirals them out of control, or at least to a big issue. i laughed my ass off when i saw in the Ottawa Sun for sat april 18th a huge story bout the "rapelay game" i only first learned about here... but now people r goin crazy locally... and not that it's a game of rape, but thats it's an attack on Japanese culture, and that lefty tripe!!!! or the other "rights issues" people go on wild rants bout.... yet same people know they live in controlled fake gov?!
But the other hand is the real dangerous one, the one that in america has built many a facility (now empty) to house 10,000's, or the massive money one figures into the war machine, but really it's funneled into extension black programs (bunkers, resource stockpling, hidden tech's), this hand the real power hand the one which in time of disaster will leave90% of us to "fend for our own!"
guys like nick and me care not for the distraction hand, but are well aware of what is and of the other hand totally unseen by the"sheep"
so r we better.....?
guess we'll let Darwin decide and see who survives if the lights go out!
natural selection is not dead it's hibernating, and when it wakes up only those aware will have a chance of not being culled
Remember Knowledge is the only thing THEY can't take from you, and Knowledge is Know how, and Know how is Power!!!
Live long and Prosper!!!! Have a plan beyond words, and worry not of why the storm is coming as to how you're going to survive in it!!!!
Deathanyl @gmail!!!!!!
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I was always a little scared about the Thinline guitars, thinking that less mass meant less tone. But, boy, was I wrong. This little dude is an incredible instrument. It's one of the finest sounding telecasters I've ever played. Twang, bite, punch, whatever you're looking for, you'll find it right here. DO NOT hesitate to pick this thing up, wherever you may see one, and give it a spin. You won't be disappointed, I promise. 5 Stars across the board from me.
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How to improve on a '53 blackguard Tele? Answer: Make it more reliable in terms of tuning, take the gloss off the neck and sweeten rather than change the tone of Leo's magic, single-coil Telecaster pickups.
Lighten the whole deal by making it semi-hollow bodied and give each string a pukka bent-steel saddle and you have, in this writer's opinion, perhaps the only - certainly the most effective - real improvement on the timeless design of the Tele.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, says the old adage. For that very reason serious guitar players too numerous and talented to name have sought out "original" Teles i.e. anything up to either 1959 (when rosewood fretboards were first specified on Fenders) and/or 1965 (the point at which Fender became CBS property) since 1949 and the advent of the world's first production electric Spanish guitar.
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