Both. Do both. Make it easier for them to address the issue than ignore you. Depending on which side of the aisle your MP is on, focus your letter on either “those evil <other side> are doing thus terrible thing, I know you’re bold enough to stand up to them.” or “this policy seems to have the following problems, and it’s leaving you open to attack from <other side>. It’d be a shame if you lost your position over it.”

I prefer wooden pegs with a stainless spring, but plastic has to be pretty much the worst choice.

What I find particularly concerning is that the were able to “hide javascript commands that link the victim’s phone to a new device” in the payload of a qr-code. I can’t see any valid use for javascript in the group joining process, I would expect the code to just be a signal URI with the relevant group ID, so is there sone external javascript interface being exposed?

If they’re anything like the pegs I got, vinegar won’t help, they basically crumbled to dust!

The glue on boxes is almost certainly that strong so that anyone trying to open the box to tamper with it will also rip it, making their attempt obvious. It drives me nuts too, but aparently that’s the sort of world we live in now.

If they’ve got the machinery to tow your machinery then definitely don’t risk it. At this point you can do more good if you’re out of gaol and not destitute. Mind you, if you can get ner their vehicles unnoticed, a squirt of milk in the vent air intakes could provide delayed revenge when it goes off.

Fair point, so maybe take a view on whether they’ve turned up with heavy machinery or just kidnap cars. In the OP’s case they don’t have time to prep, so they’re going to have to play things as they are. If you’re in a situation like this and do have time, you could find better ways to be able to blockade the road as needed. The blockage doesn’t need to last very long, even delaying their entry by minutes might give more people time to escape. Blocking their way out slows this operation and the next one. Once people know they’re in the area they lose the element of surprise.

It’s a real shame when that happens. It’d be terribly unfortunate if they accidentally dropped a few rolls of barbed wire that they were transporting, and they sprang open and got tangled all over the road and verge.

Oops, your tractor, or other large machinery just broke down at the narrowest part of the road. It’s unfortunate that it’ll take days, maybe weeks to fix, and noone can drive past in the interim.

If they can’t get their vehicles in, out back out, they’ll struggle to operate.

Don’t wait to come across it, be the one putting the signs up. Wear high-vis, carry a clipboard, look busy and almost noone will question your right to do it. They’re the sort of sign that would probably get a certain, red hat wearing, section of the population really cross if it wasvhappening to them rather than the ‘others’.

Lies! Look at the picture, they’ve managed to pick up sone coke. It’s a matter of quantity rather than ability.

If they’re lieing to us about that, what else are they lieing to us about?

Wake up sheeple etc…

So their standard hourly rate is $100, but for $75 more they’ll teach you how to do it? That might not be a bad deal, depending on the task, and how frequently you’ll need to do it in future. Even if you had to go to the super delux “do it while I watch” option to really get to grips with it, it might be worth it.

For media to endure, whether we’re talking years or millenia, you need to answer three questions:

• What to record it on.
• Where to store it.
• How to encode it.

The first is, perhaps, the easiest to answer, we have cave paintings from the stone age, velum and parchment that have lasted thousands of years, clay tablets that have similarly endured and various other historical artifacts that could be considered ‘media’. Alternatively, there are more modern techniques, such as etching into plates of non-coroding metal or other substances, or encoding in stable chemical structures such as DNA. Each approach has different benefits, but largely depends on the second question, where to store it?

Storing the media is the next question, and the answer is going to depend on both what media you’ve chosen and how long you want it to last. Somewhere dry, solid and geologically stable probably makes the most sense, but it also needs to be accessible to those you hope will find the information later. The Voyager disks are a good example of long term storage that will probably outlast the human race, but they’re not exactly handy to retrieve. The same goes for the various efforts to send archives to the moon; they’re more for posterity than use. Finding, or digging, a tunnel in a bedrock type mountain, far above current, or expected, sea levels is probably a good bet. Don’t forget to record how to find the repository, and find a way to keep that knowledge available. That could be a record in another repository, or maybe engineered into the landscape such that signs point to it.

The last question is how to encode the information. If you’re aiming to store the information for an extreme duration, you have to assume the entity finding it will have little or no cultural, technological or language connection with you. Pictures may work, we’ve learnt a lot from stone-age cave paintings and Egyptian tomb paintings, but they can only convey so much. For textual information you’re probably going to need multiple layers, the first being illustrated and readable without special equipment or techniques, and showing how to access the latter layers. The next layer should include information about how to read the rest of the layers (do you need magnification? If so, how do you do that? Have you included a lens that could be used? Do you need special illumination, or other techniques? How should the reader do that?), information about the language(s) used (perhaps a Rosetta Stone type artifact to help translate if they know any of the languages) and information about things like the units used (how long actually is a metre? What is a second?). The next layer would explain any envoding used for the rest of the information. If it’s binary stored as pits engraved in stone, or DNA base pairs, or holographically stored in metal plates, how do you extract the data, and how do you convert the naughts and ones to text for example. You must assume the entity processing this has no common base with you to work from, so everythis must be explained in detail. Finally you can store the information you actually wanted to store in the final layer.

These concerns hold whether you’re trying to store information for millenia or just a few decades. For instance, if I handed you an 8" floppy disk containing a Wordstar file, could you read it without more information? Even once you’ve found an appropriate drive (very rare now-a-days) and a machine that can use it (likewise) you need to hope the disk has been stored appropriately.

If you’re trying to store information to be accessible to humans over a timespan of no more than a few lifetimes you’ll probably be better served by arranging for it to be reencoded and tranferred to new, modern, media every few years.