Tribe.net. Local Connections dj_jackalope http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net/thread/240a11f0-ca9f-4a75-867b-abd050561911 2005-08-02T03:55:40Z 2005-07-11T03:44:01Z

<div>Just wanted to say hey to everyone on here. <br/> <br/>When I was 16 or 17 I figured out how to hobo on Amtrak, but never got to prove it. I still lived in my parents house at that point and they never let me go anywhere. That was pre 9-11 and I dont know how things are now. I would have loved to have visited all my friends then, and especially now.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 1 reply </div>

dj_jackalope 2005-07-11T03:44:01Z bstring http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net/thread/cf6f906b-f0b1-4093-9c3a-3de43c6699c3 2005-01-14T04:58:12Z 2003-11-26T10:44:29Z

<div>Who here has rode on an amtrak? <br/>And if so how far was your trip? <br/>and how many times have you taken trips on the train? <br/>B-</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 13 replies </div>

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<div>http://www.drakeandcavendish.co.uk/flying.shtml</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 0 replies </div>

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<div>yo I just kicked out all the AI's.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 5 replies </div>

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<div>http://www.gism.net/pastdaily/7-14.html <br/> <br/>While the Cult of the Dead Cow holds sway over the entirety of the hacker community, other groups, Dis.org and New Hack City, continually push the limits of acceptible coding. Dis.org, headed by the messiahnic Peter Shipely (widely thought to be one of the most talented professional hacker in the world) is a band of rag tag rebels who spend most of their time exploiting corporate networks, holding extreme bondage parties, and generally living the dark hacker lifetyle. One member in particular, B-String, is widely known to be one of the most prolific hobo's on the west coast. That's right, he steals rides from Amtrak. It's not uncommon for B-String to appear at the 2600 meeting San Francisco, and then head down the coast on a free-ticket to 2600 LA. </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 0 replies </div>

bstring 2004-05-05T08:30:59Z eris http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net/thread/0f1485e8-3536-4749-89e8-0e65a9cc8420 2004-04-10T05:44:29Z 2004-04-10T05:44:29Z

<div>Think your home is where cops have to ask if they can look around, or at least have a warrant? Think again. <br/> <br/>"I want to examine here a single section of the USA Patriot Act –section 213, definitely one of the most sinister provisions of this monstrous statute. <br/> <br/>In euphemistic language that conceals the provision ’s momentous significance, section 213 states that with regard to federal search warrants “any notice required ... to be given may be delayed if ... [1] the court finds reasonable cause to believe that providing immediate notification of the execution of the warrant may have an adverse result ...; [2] the warrant prohibits the seizure of any tangible property ... except where the court finds reasonable necessity for the seizure; and [3] the warrant provides for the giving of such notice within a reasonable period of its execution, which period may thereafter be extended by the court for good cause shown. ” <br/> <br/>Section 213 may be couched in Orwellian terminology, but there is no doubt about what it does. <br/> <br/>Section 213 is the first statute ever enacted in the history of American criminal procedure to specifically authorize an entirely new form of search warrant –what legal scholars call the sneak and peek warrant (also dubbed the covert entry warrant or the surreptitious entry warrant). A sneak and peek search warrant authorizes police to effect physical entry into private premises without the owner ’s or the occupant ’s permission or knowledge to conduct a search; generally, such entry requires a breaking and entering." <br/> <br/>www.law.uga.edu/academics/...iles/dwilkes_more/36sneak.html <br/> <br/>Do a google search, using "surreptitious entry warrant" or "sneak and peek entry". There are NO SET LIMITATIONS that this must be for a terrrorism suspicion, even though it is a statute in those particular new sets of laws. Adopted 2002. <br/> <br/>Police state anyone? <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 0 replies </div>

eris 2004-04-10T05:44:29Z bstring http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net/thread/e92ae52c-a00a-4d3d-81c9-9dee96928305 2004-02-27T09:08:12Z 2004-02-27T09:08:12Z

<div>I just changed this tribe from private to moderated. I kinda want to see what will happen and who might join now that the tribe is available to be seen. In the event I disappear or am incarcerated... please kill anyone we don't know on this tribe. hehehe <br/>B-$tring <br/>"The west coasts most prolific hobo." <br/>Quote courtesy of the barfing yak.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 0 replies </div>

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<div>It was one of those times when I find myself eavesdropping on a conversation not out of prurience but because it's the kind of discussion I'd probably be having if any of my friends were around. A group of academics sat near me on the bus, engaging in awkward intellectual flirtation about neurasthenia, one of my favorite 19th-century diseases of the mind. Neurasthenia was one of those catchall maladies, like depression is now: It referred to any disorder of "the nerves" that caused anxiety, random pain, melancholy, or fainting. <br/> <br/>Somehow, perhaps because the holiday season always makes me think about death, the academics' arch banter about retro psychological problems reminded me of all the things we've lost to what is allegedly scientific progress. I don't care if we leave behind crap like homemade clothes and horseback riding as a mode of transportation and sitting in the parlor next to the fire reading by candlelight. I'm referring to all the cool machines and idealistic theories we've lost in our effort to find "the truth" or get a grant or sell the newest, shiniest widget in the universe. <br/> <br/>For example: I'm sad about trains. I never lived during a time when locomotives were cutting edge, and yet I still miss them. I often imagine a very surly Henry David Thoreau standing next to Walden Pond, out in the bug-infested, hot damp of the mid-19th-century Massachusetts countryside, watching a distant train go by, feeling like he's watching the future rip a hole in his brain. I like to go to museums where you can see the huge, barrel-bodied, old-fashioned train engines that look like Japanese giant monsters. Most of all, I miss a world where public transportation was the only way to get around fast. The train world was a pre-car world, a place where there were no asphalt roads or traffic jams or freeway accidents. <br/> <br/>Of course, I know this is the worst kind of nostalgia; trains were run on coal and belched ridiculous amounts of smoke into the atmosphere. They were crowded and dirty, full of noisy people who snored all the way from Boston to New York City while you tried to ignore them. Nevertheless, I wish we'd stuck with trains instead of getting hooked on those newfangled automobiles. <br/> <br/>I also miss spaceships for humans. The space shuttle is just a glorified airplane compared to the ships that flew to the moon. It's not so much that I wish we could have more of those cramped rockets where life in zero G sucks ass, but rather that we could reawaken our hope that very soon we would be sailing between the stars on great adventures, meeting aliens and discovering new worlds. I guess I miss the idea of spaceships. I know: I've watched too much Star Trek and read too much Amy Thomson. But still, whenever I see one of those pictures of a rocket ship or flying saucer circa 1954, I feel lonely and tired. It's as if the future has been drained out of me. We will never seek out new life and new civilizations. We will only go where we've gone before. <br/> <br/>And that's why I'm in mourning for so many other dying and dead technologies: the Merlin handheld proto-Gameboy I had in sixth grade, Atari game systems, Commodore 64s, reel-to-reel tape players, water pics, lava lamps, flip phones, VCRs, Betamaxes, fax machines, coaxial cable, cable cars, carburetors, electric belts, orgone boxes, and hot water bottles. <br/> <br/>Do you ever feel like there was some future we could have reached if we hadn't gotten sidetracked along the way by blenders and speakers and cars? Maybe in some alternate universe humans didn't waste their time with ICBMs and faxes; maybe those alternate humans are healing themselves with nanotech and using spaceships to explore the galaxy. <br/> <br/>But then again, maybe beauty is in the digression. Perhaps the whole point of scientific progress is to pick things up, stare at them a lot, and put them down again. Without meandering a bit, we'd never have had silly pseudo-diseases like neurasthenia and borderline personality disorder; but neither would we have genomics and the Internet and carbon nanotubes. Progress is not always progress, as it were. <br/> <br/>I suppose that's why I miss the trains. </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 1 reply </div>

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<div>DB_Cooper was kind enough to donate scans of drink coupons for southwest airlines in the photo album area.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 0 replies </div>

bstring 2004-02-06T11:33:31Z shadowvex http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net/thread/2dafd7e0-412e-4dd7-8d6a-58ba8bfb4457 2004-02-06T02:42:35Z 2004-02-06T01:12:21Z

<div>http://news.com.com/2100-7351-5147651.html <br/>BTW anyone have pics of the purple and yellow "yahoo" amtrak trains??</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 1 reply </div>

shadowvex 2004-02-06T01:12:21Z bstring http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net/thread/de09ac36-45a6-4e1b-80ea-420163ee9c1c 2004-01-19T09:55:59Z 2004-01-09T03:29:59Z

<div>All incoming and outgoing trains for Portland, have been cancelled for the past three days. News reports of trains stranded outside Salem and Reno with hundreds of people sitting inside a tin can in the snow... FUN FUN! Don't Hobo in the SNOW.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 1 reply </div>

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<div>Updated Picture Album with Anti-Hobo Pictures and New Seat-Check Colors!</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 0 replies </div>

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<div>I am scared to hobo and get trapped in the snow, alaska airlines for me... woo woo!</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 0 replies </div>

bstring 2004-01-14T19:10:29Z LugNut http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net/thread/74f641a4-1236-40ba-b431-a10bcf43ab5e 2003-12-09T09:58:34Z 2003-12-09T05:15:03Z

<div>So what's the deal with the return trip to pdx after new years?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 2 replies </div>

LugNut 2003-12-09T05:15:03Z Floyd http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net/thread/ad231405-35ea-4531-87b4-d8acb0f234d9 2003-12-03T01:51:07Z 2003-11-30T06:45:01Z

<div>FloydWilliams: Life lives as it will giving us only the illusion of choices we need to make <br/>Friend: i just cant take the feeling that im stuck on a train, and i cant do anything but deal with the ride <br/>FloydWilliams: no no its not liek that <br/>Friend: lol, that's how my love life always is <br/>FloydWilliams: its that all trians go from one place to another <br/>FloydWilliams: you can ride one thats fast or one thats slow one thts scenic or one at ngiht <br/>FloydWilliams: but in the end the train will get where its going <br/>FloydWilliams: wherver that is <br/>FloydWilliams: you can ride it sober <br/>FloydWilliams: you can ride it drunk <br/>FloydWilliams: you can sleep through it or stare out the window <br/>FloydWilliams: you can sip the last swallow look out the window and die in your sleep a succesful gambler <br/>Friend: yeah, but sometimes you get on the wrong train, and have to wait until the next stop to get off, and find that it's an express <br/>FloydWilliams: dont be so concerend with destinations then <br/>FloydWilliams: enjoy the parlor bar and dining cars <br/>FloydWilliams: smoke cigarettes in the bathroom between stops <br/>Friend: lol <br/>Friend: i quit <br/>FloydWilliams: yeah its illegal but what can they do kick you off? <br/>FloydWilliams: youwanted to get off anyway <br/>FloydWilliams: its a symbol <br/>FloydWilliams: dont be so literal <br/>FloydWilliams: ;) <br/>Friend: true <br/>Friend: ;P <br/>FloydWilliams: the amtrak hobo is the ultimate zen master ;) <br/>Friend: how bout i just hitchhike? <br/>FloydWilliams: nope youll get raped and killed and buried in a shallow grave in the desert <br/>FloydWilliams: well actually id jsut have to make up a new anology and im rather fond of the trian one <br/>FloydWilliams: wellI am fond of it now <br/>FloydWilliams: i wasnt so much in the beginning <br/>Friend: ok, i like the train too, i just am afraid to book another ticket <br/>Friend: i think ill sit in the station for a bit and read <br/>FloydWilliams: well they have that nifty northamerica pass <br/>FloydWilliams: travel anywhere on any train for 3 months for 500$ <br/>Friend: i think i just have to pay better attention so i dont end up on anymore express trips <br/>FloydWilliams: im not sure how that fits the anology <br/>FloydWilliams: i think its kind of like the depo shot ;) <br/>Friend: yeah <br/>Friend: cross your fingers and hope it wont suck for the next few months? <br/>FloydWilliams: Iwas thinking hope you dont get stuck with the old smelly hippy guy at the dinner table <br/>Friend: ha ah ah <br/>Friend: i always end up next to him</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 1 reply </div>

Floyd 2003-11-30T06:45:01Z bstring http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net/thread/d47b4cc7-0a77-426a-a713-c2ae6fd6e180 2003-11-23T01:16:52Z 2003-11-21T06:28:01Z

<div>Most people panic thinking how can I get on a train with no ticket. Well I hate to tell you all that it is perfectly legal to do this. The conductors are authorized to sell you a ticket after you are already onboard with either cash or creditcard for the purchase and if you use a dead credit card with a expiration date that is in the future they have no way of verifying it. As Amtrak still on most trains uses carbon paper to make an image of the cards number. However if you are already on the train why buy a ticket at all? You should already know if you have been reading this group where the blanks are kept and you should also be able to print out seat checks from this groups photo gallery or just take one from above an empty seat. Of course you could also hide in the bathroom and get high the whole time but I wouldn't know anything about this kind of stuff. <br/>B-$tring <br/>dis.org</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 4 replies </div>

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<div>Are usually kept by the conductors on interstate trains and on in-state trains (California) are kept in the fire extinguisher compartments next to the doors on all the train cars. LightSticks can also be found there with first-aid kits. <br/>Amtrak Hobo #1 <br/>B-</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 0 replies </div>

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<div>If this is the kind of person you are do not apply. <br/>Date <br/>Sun November 16, 2003 03:34 AM <br/>Subject <br/>Request to join Amtrak Hobos <br/>Message <br/>I would like to join your Tribe! <br/> <br/>This is the greatest! <br/> <br/>I live for my next Amtrak Trip, have an Amtrak credit card, belong to Amtrak Rewards Points program, rented sleeper cars, went from SF to NY to DC to Ontario to New Orleans. Sadly, I might have to skip a year due to credit card debt, so I hope I can read about everyone else's trips until I am financially rehabilitated. <br/> <br/>Truly, <br/> <br/>Melvin. (Shaku) </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 1 reply </div>

bstring 2003-11-16T17:52:16Z Floyd http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net/thread/dc05114c-9539-4a56-a80b-303c2fdefc10 2003-11-16T10:44:44Z 2003-11-16T05:14:23Z

<div>We need to keep our keys up to date and make sure we know where the nice lady wiht the cat who will feed us is ;)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 2 replies </div>

Floyd 2003-11-16T05:14:23Z bstring http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net/thread/f2b0de5f-e14c-424f-abec-651ea702136d 2003-11-16T09:06:09Z 2003-11-16T09:06:09Z

<div>Check the new pictures in the gallery out.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://amtrakhobos.tribe.net">Amtrak Hobos</a> - 0 replies </div>

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