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So I proudly put on a vote Libertarian t-shirt, this morning and wore it all day. I went straight to the polls right after work, the parking lot was crowded, but I only had a 20 minute wait at the polls. Several of the poll workers and others, whom are there to vote, make comments that they like my shirt. I get my ticket from the poll worker, strangely after showing no identification other than my voter registration card made from flimsy yellow poster-board. This is not my first time voting, I always remember having to show at least one additional form of ID.

After I get my ticket, I go stand in line, maybe 15 people in front of me. A poll worker comes up to me, stares blankly at my shirt for at least a minute without saying anything. So I am thinking she must be amused by my shirt, I just stand there waiting for her to say something with this shit-eating grin on my face. Finally, she says, "Sir, I am going to have to ask you to remove your shirt, or turn it inside-out." To which I reply, "I don't think so. Why, would I turn my shirt inside out?" She retorts, "Because it is political." Baffled, I say, "So what, isn't that why we are here?" She says, "Sir, please leave your ticket with a poll worker, go outside, and put on another shirt, or turn your shirt inside-out." I went back and forth with her for a few minutes on this, trying to get more than "it is political" out of her. At one point, I said, "Do I not have a civil right to freely express myself with a corny t-shirt, protected under the First Amendment?" Poll worker would not dignify that question with a response other than rolling her eyes.

After five minutes of this, I give up. I walk up to one of poll workers, hand them my ticket, walk outside and turn my shirt inside-out. I walk back in, grab my ticket and get back in line. At this time, a very cute 18-20 yr. old blonde, turns to me. She, the cute blonde, grins and says, "You know, I can still read it." Which really makes me laugh about this whole situation that was a bit embarrassing.

About 5 minutes later, I go up to vote, hand another poll worker my ticket. This woman, the poll worker at the voting booth, looked like a grizzled old lunchlady. She had fresh stitches in her face, and old monochrome blue-ink tattoos up her arms. In other words, it is probably not a woman you want to mess with. So she is politely showing me how to use this new-fangled electronic voting booth, as I told her, I had only voted with a paper ballot in the past. After she is finished, she laughs and says, "Sorry about your shirt."

I was aware that campaigning outside or near polling places was not legal, otherwise known as electioneering. However, I had never heard of the terms "passive electioneering" for wearing political pins or clothing items, that is until I went home and found it by Google. Is this, in fact, legal in many states? Is this not unconstitutional to deny someone their right to vote for a corny t-shirt. At first, I almost thought the poll worker was going to tell me to cover up my t-shirt, because it said "Libertarian".

Did anyone else have any similar embarrassing or humorous stories from the polls?

Sarah Palin already has her T-shirts printed up

http://www.cafepress.com/jqdesigns.310776532

I don't recall the whacky Right being that smug last election when Bush won somewhat comfortably.

Are you kidding? Didn't you see all the "W. Still the President" stickers? They were all over the place. You can still buy them, as a matter of fact, in many places.

Be VERY RFID http://www.cafepress.com/berfid

So (summarizing article) water vapor as part of a cloud is OK, because the greenhouse effect of the water vapor is counteracted by the albedo of the cloud?

More research is needed. Wider-scale experiments to see if the predicted and unpredicted effects are OK.

BTW, if you want to do something about the Earth's albedo today, you can always order a T-shirt.... or a mouse pad ---- 50 million mousepads should just about cover Texas.
(This is an old Freeman Dyson joke)

http://www.cafepress.com/albedoproject

Blizzard uses Torrent to distribute patches and they had a download available for TBC.

With the new Blizzard Store also having the Account Key storage section, you can purchase & download most blizzard games already.

However, I will be lining up at midnight at our local gamestop to pickup my copy (several at that) of WotLK so that i can begine playing it at 12:15 , which is the time it takes me to get home from gamestop.

I encourage anyone who wishes to do the same, to buy one of my shirts to wear :)
http://www.cafepress.com/bsodergren

Damn, beat me to it. These are excellently designed and very funny T-shirts. I particularly like the 5-element periodic table one.

Also... Intellgunt Desine shirts available at Landover Baptist's Cafepress shop.

Show netflix and the world how you really feel! Spread the word!

I was going to say dress up as: The integral from 10 to 13 of 2x.

Or, in t-shirt form: http://www.cafepress.com/buy/calculus/-/pv_design_prod/p_1893551.71056139/pNo_71056139/id_14094545/fpt_/opt_/c_666/pg_3

http://www.cafepress.com/triplenine.2445706 It's by the Triple Nine Society hence the clock theme. For party idea, look up abstract strategy games on boardgamegeek.com and try those.

NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW would probably work just as well.

Disclaimer: it's my design, and my cafepress shop. I am NOT trying to influence anyone to buy anything, I linked to the shop because it's the only online version I have.

Absolutely agreed. You can't legislate the non-existence of abortion. You can legislate funding to improve the education and lives of people to reduce their risk and their dependence on risky procedures. Show leadership, not censorship. Some Things Won't Go Away

Cafepress?

Here, here, here, here, etc.

I like this one:
Kang/Kodos 2008.

Unfortunately, none of them have a picture of Kodos or Kang, but the first one does have a sort of tentacle design. Including a picture may run into some copyright issues.

Cafepress?

Here, here, here, here, etc.

I like this one:
Kang/Kodos 2008.

Unfortunately, none of them have a picture of Kodos or Kang, but the first one does have a sort of tentacle design. Including a picture may run into some copyright issues.

Cafepress?

Here, here, here, here, etc.

I like this one:
Kang/Kodos 2008.

Unfortunately, none of them have a picture of Kodos or Kang, but the first one does have a sort of tentacle design. Including a picture may run into some copyright issues.

Cafepress?

Here, here, here, here, etc.

I like this one:
Kang/Kodos 2008.

Unfortunately, none of them have a picture of Kodos or Kang, but the first one does have a sort of tentacle design. Including a picture may run into some copyright issues.

Cafepress?

Here, here, here, here, etc.

I like this one:
Kang/Kodos 2008.

Unfortunately, none of them have a picture of Kodos or Kang, but the first one does have a sort of tentacle design. Including a picture may run into some copyright issues.

Open Source? Communist? Never! http://www.cafepress.com/redpenguins :D

google for president!

Been there, got the t-shirt

Seriously, bought good fit and good looking clothes are much better than free ugly ones. Do yourself a favor and get rid of all crap clothes and buy new good ones

I for one got a nice black, free, one. People say it suits me great. OpenSolaris World Tour. No, no online photos available. It doesn't hang lose, not slacking, funny prints, like http://logo.cafepress.com/7/4829055.2658817.jpg.

this guy has a start on it, though nothing on islam, aside from possibly the "jihad-size" joke awhile ago.

http://www.cafepress.com/redring

'I've read slashdot for a long time. And the one thing that irritates me the most is the hatred everyone has towards religion and god. Post after post moderated to +5 insightful for saying "it's stupid to believe in god". What happened to open-minded?'

What people object to is the basic irrationality of all religlous belief systems, in order to be a member of the club, you have to be certifiably insane.

"Now imagine the beginning of time, empty universe or what have you and God begins creation .."

How did 'God' come into existence, if you say 'God' existed forever, then why not say the same for the material universe.

"He puts his finger to the empty 'canvas' and pours out his energy, and matter 'explodes' from his fingertips outward"

Where's the evidence for such an occurrence, can we measure it. If not then it isn't science. Observation, speculation, theory and testing with experiment - that's science. Religion says believe what I say because I say so.

Actually the current scientific thinking puts it as the Universe being created by two multi dimentional branes colliding.

Of course there is only the one true religion the church of Pastafarianism. All hail his immensity the Flying Spaghetti Monster ..

And the shirts that they wear.

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/science/-/pv_design_prod/p_1697668.56556143/pNo_56556143/id_6016809/fpt_/opt_/c_666/pg_14

I'm afraid you are too late

This t-shirt from the Cheapass Games folks pretty much sums up German games. (Zoom in on the image of the back.)

I wonder if it prints yellow dots to encode the redacted text for forensic analysis.

You know, it used to be that a "national security" threat was something that could kill millions, or wipe out the White House. Now a kid with some lighter fluid can be arrested for terroristic threats, and it's the White House that authorizes the killing. Can nobody read the Constitution?

Basically, a ad had a trademark on it ...

An excuse can always be found for censorship — trademark or not. Thousands of blacks coming to Jena a few weeks ago all think, that the speech of hanging nooses off the tree justified the violence against the suspected perpetrator, and that the people suspected of committing the violence ought to be set free "Now!" (No Greenpeace activists were seen chaining themselves to the innocent tree, when the city cut it, either.)

Subsequently, try searching for "Fuck Jena Six" on CafePress.com — the site famous for tolerating seemingly all speech. You can find "fuck Bush", "fuck Mexico", and "fuck Cuba" there, but you will not find "Fuck Jena Six", although merchandise with slogans supporting the six thugs abound.

There were a few such products initially, when the hysteria was just whipping up, but they were promptly removed. By the time I went looking for something, the links to about 10 different products were still present in the CafePress' index, but the actual merchandise was no longer available.

CafePress also suppressed all attempts to discuss the removals on their customer-forums — threads were deleted as "off-topic" or "political". The only explanation for the removals themselves was that the "messages on the merchandise was found to be hateful" (emphasis mine)...

Well, we all disapprove of "hateful" (and I personally strongly disapprove of using the expletives in public discourse), but if you allow shirts with "Fuck Racist Assholes" and "Fuck Police", then — just to be consistent — you ought to allow "Fuck Jena Six" as well.

Basically, a ad had a trademark on it ...

An excuse can always be found for censorship — trademark or not. Thousands of blacks coming to Jena a few weeks ago all think, that the speech of hanging nooses off the tree justified the violence against the suspected perpetrator, and that the people suspected of committing the violence ought to be set free "Now!" (No Greenpeace activists were seen chaining themselves to the innocent tree, when the city cut it, either.)

Subsequently, try searching for "Fuck Jena Six" on CafePress.com — the site famous for tolerating seemingly all speech. You can find "fuck Bush", "fuck Mexico", and "fuck Cuba" there, but you will not find "Fuck Jena Six", although merchandise with slogans supporting the six thugs abound.

There were a few such products initially, when the hysteria was just whipping up, but they were promptly removed. By the time I went looking for something, the links to about 10 different products were still present in the CafePress' index, but the actual merchandise was no longer available.

CafePress also suppressed all attempts to discuss the removals on their customer-forums — threads were deleted as "off-topic" or "political". The only explanation for the removals themselves was that the "messages on the merchandise was found to be hateful" (emphasis mine)...

Well, we all disapprove of "hateful" (and I personally strongly disapprove of using the expletives in public discourse), but if you allow shirts with "Fuck Racist Assholes" and "Fuck Police", then — just to be consistent — you ought to allow "Fuck Jena Six" as well.

No, this is richard nixon's head attached to a robot's body.

yeah, so you can build masterpieces like these: http://www.cafepress.com/phototravel

*NEW!* T-shirts and bumper stickers with the slogan "Your Business Model is NOT My Problem"! Get yours today!!!

Done and done. ;o)

(And yes, I am aware that the parent was being ironic about advertising the shirts with Web advertisements. My use of a Web advertisement builds upon that irony.)

The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions. Moving Dimensions Theory accounts for the aetherless aether.
This simple postulate offers a physical model underlying and unifiying:

RELATIVITY: 1) length contraction 2) time dilation 3) the equivalence of mass and energy 4) the constant velocity of light 5) the independence of the speed of light from the velocity of the source

QUANTUMN MECHANICS 1) action at a distance 2) wave-particle duality 3) interference phenomena 4) EPR paradox

THERMODYNAMICS 1) Time's arrow 2) Entropy

STRING THEORY'S MANY DIMENSIONS / KALUZA/KLEIN THEORY 1) a fourth expanding dimension can be interepreted as many dimensions, each time it expands

THE UNITY OF THE DUALITIES 1) wave/particle duality 2) time/space duality 3) energy/mass duality 4) E/B duality

GENERAL RELATIVITY 1) Gravitational redshift 2) Gravity waves 3) Gravitational attraction

THE SPACE-TIME BACKGROUND 1) quantum foam 2) the smearing of space and time at small distances 3) Hawking's imaginary time

PARADOXES 1) MDT explains away Godel's Block Universe 2) MDT unfreezes time 3) Resolves Zeno's Paradox

ONE GETS ALL OF THIS FROM A SIMPLE POSTULATE:

The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions in a sphereically symmetric manner, in units of the Planck length, at the rate of c.

This means that every point in three dimnesional space is always expanding into a fourth dimensional sphere with a radius of the plank length. A photon is matter caught on the surface of this quantized expansion, and thus energy is quantized. The expansion of the fourth dimension occurs at the rate of c, and thus the velocity of all photons is c.

Check out the t-shirt with a simple proof of MDT:

http://www.cafepress.com/autumnrangers.72464949 [cafepress.com]

"The only way to stay stationary in the fourth dimension is to move at the speed of light through the three spatial dimensions. Ergo the fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimenions."

How sad it is that when truth stares modern physicists in the face, they must close their eyes so as to get a postdoc or raise more funds for String Theory.

Moving Dimensions Theory is in complete agreement with all experimental tests and phenomena associated with special and general relativity. MDT is in complete agreement with all physical phenomena as predicted by quantum mechanics and demonstrated in extensive experiments. The genius and novelty of MDT is that it presents a common physical model which shows that phenomena from both relativity and quantum mechanics derive from the same fundamental physical reality.

Nowhere does String Theory nor Loop Quantum Gravity account for quantum entanglement nor relativistic time dilation. MDT shows these derive from the same underlying physical reality. Nowhere does ST nor LQG account for wave-particle duality nor relativistic length contraction. MDT shows these derive from the same underlying physical reality. Nowhere does ST nor LQG account for the constant speed of light, nor the independence of the speed of light on the velocity of the source, nor entropy, nor time's arrow. MDT shows these derive from the same underlying physical reality. Nowhere does String Theory nor Loop Quantum Gravity resolve the paradox of Godel's Block Universe which troubled Eisntein. MDT resolves this paradox.

Simply put, MDT replaces the contemporary none-theories with a physical theory, complete with a simple postulate that unifies formerly disparate phenomena within a simple context.

THE GENERAL POSTULATE OF DYNAMIC DIMENSIONS THEORY The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. -Albert Einstein

But after thirty years of the absurdity of String Theory, millions of dollars from the NSF, and billions of com

This simple postulate offers a physical model underlying and unifiying:

RELATIVITY: 1) length contraction 2) time dilation 3) the equivalence of mass and energy 4) the constant velocity of light 5) the independence of the speed of light from the velocity of the source

QUANTUMN MECHANICS 1) action at a distance 2) wave-particle duality 3) interference phenomena 4) EPR paradox

THERMODYNAMICS 1) Time's arrow 2) Entropy

STRING THEORY'S MANY DIMENSIONS / KALUZA/KLEIN THEORY 1) a fourth expanding dimension can be interepreted as many dimensions, each time it expands

THE UNITY OF THE DUALITIES 1) wave/particle duality 2) time/space duality 3) energy/mass duality 4) E/B duality

GENERAL RELATIVITY 1) Gravitational redshift 2) Gravity waves 3) Gravitational attraction

THE SPACE-TIME BACKGROUND 1) quantum foam 2) the smearing of space and time at small distances 3) Hawking's imaginary time

PARADOXES 1) MDT explains away Godel's Block Universe 2) MDT unfreezes time 3) Resolves Zeno's Paradox

ONE GETS ALL OF THIS FROM A SIMPLE POSTULATE:

The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions in a sphereically symmetric manner, in units of the Planck length, at the rate of c.

This means that every point in three dimnesional space is always expanding into a fourth dimensional sphere with a radius of the plank length. A photon is matter caught on the surface of this quantized expansion, and thus energy is quantized. The expansion of the fourth dimension occurs at the rate of c, and thus the velocity of all photons is c.

Check out the t-shirt with a simple proof of MDT:

http://www.cafepress.com/autumnrangers.72464949

"The only way to stay stationary in the fourth dimension is to move at the speed of light through the three spatial dimensions. Ergo the fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimenions."

How sad it is that when truth stares modern physicists in the face, they must close their eyes so as to get a postdoc or raise more funds for String Theory.

Moving Dimensions Theory is in complete agreement with all experimental tests and phenomena associated with special and general relativity. MDT is in complete agreement with all physical phenomena as predicted by quantum mechanics and demonstrated in extensive experiments. The genius and novelty of MDT is that it presents a common physical model which shows that phenomena from both relativity and quantum mechanics derive from the same fundamental physical reality.

Nowhere does String Theory nor Loop Quantum Gravity account for quantum entanglement nor relativistic time dilation. MDT shows these derive from the same underlying physical reality. Nowhere does ST nor LQG account for wave-particle duality nor relativistic length contraction. MDT shows these derive from the same underlying physical reality. Nowhere does ST nor LQG account for the constant speed of light, nor the independence of the speed of light on the velocity of the source, nor entropy, nor time's arrow. MDT shows these derive from the same underlying physical reality. Nowhere does String Theory nor Loop Quantum Gravity resolve the paradox of Godel's Block Universe which troubled Eisntein. MDT resolves this paradox.

Simply put, MDT replaces the contemporary none-theories with a physical theory, complete with a simple postulate that unifies formerly disparate phenomena within a simple context.

THE GENERAL POSTULATE OF DYNAMIC DIMENSIONS THEORY The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. -Albert Einstein

But after thirty years of the absurdity of String Theory, millions of dollars from the NSF, and billions

guess she won't be going 'undercover' anytime soon. http://www.cafepress.com/swagofthegeek funny.

You're talking about this one, maybe?

This simple postulate offers a physical model underlying and unifiying:

RELATIVITY:

1) length contraction 2) time dilation 3) the equivalence of mass and energy 4) the constant velocity of light 5) the independence of the speed of light from the velocity of the source

QUANTUMN MECHANICS 1) action at a distance 2) wave-particle duality 3) interference phenomena 4) EPR paradox

THERMODYNAMICS 1) Time's arrow 2) Entropy

STRING THEORY'S MANY DIMENSIONS / KALUZA/KLEIN THEORY 1) a fourth expanding dimension can be interepreted as many dimensions, each time it expands

THE UNITY OF THE DUALITIES 1) wave/particle duality 2) time/space duality 3) energy/mass duality 4) E/B duality

GENERAL RELATIVITY 1) Gravitational redshift 2) Gravity waves 3) Gravitation attraction

THE SPACE-TIME BACKGROUND 1) quantum foam 2) the smearing of space and time at small distances 3) Hawking's imaginary time

PARADOXES 1) MDT explains away Godel's Block Universe 2) MDT unfreezes time 3) Resolves Zeno's Paradox

ONE GETS ALL OF THIS FROM A SIMPLE POSTULATE:

The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions in a sphereically symmetric manner, in units of the Planck length, at the rate of c.

This means that every point in three dimnesional space is always expanding into a fourth dimensional sphere with a radius of the plank length. A photon is mater caught on the surface of this quantized expansion, and thus energy is quantized. The expansion of the fourth dimension occurs at the rate of c, and thus he velocity of all photons is c.

Check out the t-shirt with a simple proof of MDT:

http://www.cafepress.com/autumnrangers.72464949

"The only way to stay stationary in the fourth dimension is to move at the speed of light through the three spatial dimensions. Ergo the fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimenions."

How sad it is that when truth stares modern physicists in the face, they must close their eyes so as to get a postdoc or raise more funds for String Theory.

Moving Dimensions Theory is in complete agreement with all experimental tests and phenomena associated with special and general relativity. MDT is in complete agreement with all physical phenomena as predicted by quantum mechanics and demonstrated in extensive experiments. The genius and novelty of MDT is that it presents a common physical model which shows that phenomena from both relativity and quantum mechanics derive from the same fundamental physical reality.

Nowhere does String Theory nor Loop Quantum Gravity account for quantum entanglement nor relativistic time dilation. MDT shows these derive from the same underlying physical reality. Nowhere does ST nor LQG account for wave-particle duality nor relativistic length contraction. MDT shows these derive from the same underlying physical reality. Nowhere does ST nor LQG account for the constant speed of light, nor the independence of the speed of light on the velocity of the source, nor entropy, nor time's arrow. MDT shows these derive from the same underlying physical reality. Nowhere does String Theory nor Loop Quantum Gravity resolve the paradox of Godel's Block Universe which troubled Eisntein. MDT resolves this paradox.

Simply put, MDT replaces the contemporary none-theories with a physical theory, complete with a simple postulate that unifies formerly disparate phenomena within a simple context.

THE GENERAL POSTULATE OF DYNAMIC DIMENSIONS THEORY The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. -Albert Einstein

But after thirty years of the absurdity of String Theory, millions of dollars from the NSF, and billions of complementary dollars from tax and tuition and endowment

Moving Dimensions Theory -- The New Paradigm

Don't pay attention to all thos cosmologists--they're just in it for the NSF grants.

The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions. Moving Dimensions Theory accounts for the aetherless aether. This simple postulate offers a physical model underlying and unifiying: RELATIVITY: 1) length contraction 2) time dilation 3) the equivalence of mass and energy 4) the constant velocity of light 5) the independence of the speed of light from the velocity of the source QUANTUMN MECHANICS 1) action at a distance 2) wave-particle duality 3) interference phenomena 4) EPR paradox THERMODYNAMICS 1) Time's arrow 2) Entropy STRING THEORY'S MANY DIMENSIONS / KALUZA/KLEIN THEORY 1) a fourth expanding dimension can be interepreted as many dimensions, each time it expands THE UNITY OF THE DUALITIES 1) wave/particle duality 2) time/space duality 3) energy/mass duality 4) E/B duality GENERAL RELATIVITY 1) Gravitational redshift 2) Gravity waves 3) Gravitation attraction THE SPACE-TIME BACKGROUND 1) quantum foam 2) the smearing of space and time at small distances 3) Hawking's imaginary time PARADOXES 1) MDT explains away Godel's Block Universe 2) MDT unfreezes time 3) Resolves Zeno's Paradox ONE GETS ALL OF THIS FROM A SIMPLE POSTULATE: The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions in a sphereically symmetric manner, in units of the Planck length, at the rate of c. This means that every point in three dimnesional space is always expanding into a fourth dimensional sphere with a radius of the plank length. A photon is matter caught on the surface of this quantized expansion, and thus energy is quantized. The expansion of the fourth dimension occurs at the rate of c, and thus the velocity of all photons is c. Check out the t-shirt with a simple proof of MDT: http://www.cafepress.com/autumnrangers.72464949 "The only way to stay stationary in the fourth dimension is to move at the speed of light through the three spatial dimensions. Ergo the fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimenions." How sad it is that when truth stares modern physicists in the face, they must close their eyes so as to get a postdoc or raise more funds for String Theory. Moving Dimensions Theory is in complete agreement with all experimental tests and phenomena associated with special and general relativity. MDT is in complete agreement with all physical phenomena as predicted by quantum mechanics and demonstrated in extensive experiments. The genius and novelty of MDT is that it presents a common physical model which shows that phenomena from both relativity and quantum mechanics derive from the same fundamental physical reality. Nowhere does String Theory nor Loop Quantum Gravity account for quantum entanglement nor relativistic time dilation. MDT shows these derive from the same underlying physical reality. Nowhere does ST nor LQG account for wave-particle duality nor relativistic length contraction. MDT shows these derive from the same underlying physical reality. Nowhere does ST nor LQG account for the constant speed of light, nor the independence of the speed of light on the velocity of the source, nor entropy, nor time's arrow. MDT shows these derive from the same underlying physical reality. Nowhere does String Theory nor Loop Quantum Gravity resolve the paradox of Godel's Block Universe which troubled Eisntein. MDT resolves this paradox. Simply put, MDT replaces the contemporary none-theories with a physical theory, complete with a simple postulate that unifies formerly disparate phenomena within a simple context. THE GENERAL POSTULATE OF DYNAMIC DIMENSIONS THEORY The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions. If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. -Albert Einstein But after thirty years of the absurdity of String Theory, millions of dollars from the NSF, and billions of complementary dollars from

The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions. Moving Dimensions Theory accounts for the aetherless aether. This simple postulate offers a physical model underlying and unifiying: RELATIVITY: 1) length contraction 2) time dilation 3) the equivalence of mass and energy 4) the constant velocity of light 5) the independence of the speed of light from the velocity of the source QUANTUMN MECHANICS 1) action at a distance 2) wave-particle duality 3) interference phenomena 4) EPR paradox THERMODYNAMICS 1) Time's arrow 2) Entropy STRING THEORY'S MANY DIMENSIONS / KALUZA/KLEIN THEORY 1) a fourth expanding dimension can be interepreted as many dimensions, each time it expands THE UNITY OF THE DUALITIES 1) wave/particle duality 2) time/space duality 3) energy/mass duality 4) E/B duality GENERAL RELATIVITY 1) Gravitational redshift 2) Gravity waves 3) Gravitation attraction THE SPACE-TIME BACKGROUND 1) quantum foam 2) the smearing of space and time at small distances 3) Hawking's imaginary time PARADOXES 1) MDT explains away Godel's Block Universe 2) MDT unfreezes time 3) Resolves Zeno's Paradox ONE GETS ALL OF THIS FROM A SIMPLE POSTULATE: The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions in a sphereically symmetric manner, in units of the Planck length, at the rate of c. This means that every point in three dimnesional space is always expanding into a fourth dimensional sphere with a radius of the plank length. A photon is matter caught on the surface of this quantized expansion, and thus energy is quantized. The expansion of the fourth dimension occurs at the rate of c, and thus the velocity of all photons is c. Check out the t-shirt with a simple proof of MDT: http://www.cafepress.com/autumnrangers.72464949 "The only way to stay stationary in the fourth dimension is to move at the speed of light through the three spatial dimensions. Ergo the fourth dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial dimenions." How sad it is that when truth stares modern physicists in the face, they must close their eyes so as to get a postdoc or raise more funds for String Theory. Moving Dimensions Theory is in complete agreement with all experimental tests and phenomena associated with special and general relativity. MDT is in complete agreement with all physical phenomena as predicted by quantum mechanics and demonstrated in extensive experiments. The genius and novelty of MDT is that it presents a common physical model which shows that phenomena from both relativity and quantum mechanics derive from the same fundamental physical reality. Nowhere does String Theory nor Loop Quantum Gravity account for quantum entanglement nor relativistic time dilation. MDT shows these derive from the same underlying physical reality. Nowhere does ST nor LQG account for wave-particle duality nor relativistic length contraction. MDT shows these derive from the same underlying physical reality. Nowhere does ST nor LQG account for the constant speed of light, nor the independence of the speed of light on the velocity of the source, nor entropy, nor time's arrow. MDT shows these derive from the same underlying physical reality. Nowhere does String Theory nor Loop Quantum Gravity resolve the paradox of Godel's Block Universe which troubled Eisntein. MDT resolves this paradox. Simply put, MDT replaces the contemporary none-theories with a physical theory, complete with a simple postulate that unifies formerly disparate phenomena within a simple context. THE GENERAL POSTULATE OF DYNAMIC DIMENSIONS THEORY The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions. If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. -Albert Einstein But after thirty years of the absurdity of String Theory, millions of dollars from the NSF, and billions of complementary dollars from tax and tuition and endowments spent on killing physics and indie physicists, perhaps it's time for something that makes

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So you take the "we can't lose if we never leave" stance? Yes, saving face is clearly more important than saving lives.

Bush's logic that a "date certain" will only embolden the insurgents falls on its face when you realize there already is a date certain: January 20th, 2009. The momentum has already started in Congress to end the war. It's a political certainty that no candidate is going to be elected in 2008 without a clear plan bring the troops home. The Republicans need to ask themselves how many US soldiers and Iraqi civilians have to die between now and then.

Yes, there are *some* people who will not produce information-products (including software, music, images, or what-have-you) if they cannot globally enforce copy restrictions. Agreed. Such people should, IMO, go in to a different line of work. That is perfectly acceptable for a very simple reason: there will be more than enough people who find good reasons to produce such works in the absence of copyright restrictions. Some people will find an alternative means of making money off freely-duplicated works, and others just because they are altruistic.

Remember that people pay good money for their hardware, and copyright restrictions mean they cannot make full use of it. Copyright isn't actually a "freedom" for the person producing a work....people will still be completely free to produce works without copyright restrictions. Copright may be a "benefit" to the producers of a work (though in practice it is not; it is only a benefit to the distributors of the work, but I won't get into that here), but to call it a "freedom" is incorrect. Copyright law is a restriction on freedom to everyone in the world, and if such a freedom is going to be globally sacrificed, there had better be a damn good reason for it.

The only reason you have given is the false premise that without these restrictions, no-one will produce knowledge-products. Not only is this false in theory (since some people will produce stuff for free, and since some people will find ways of making money off knowledge-products in the absence of copyright restrictions), but there are lots of examples of businesses that make money off a free end-product, and of profoundly useful products made without any profit motive. And there are more where those came from.

That last set of links is pretty important. Google gives all of its services away for free, and yet has a market cap of over 100 billion. Not only are there business models built around free products, but they are very profitable and fiercely competitive.

Also check out this and this. Copyright is still there, but it is unenforced upon the consumer. It will be interesting to see how this selective approach to enforcement will pan out.

It is true that a farmer who gives away his crops for free would go broke, and if farmers could not legally force people to pay for their products then there would be no farmers. However, this observation not apply to information products. Information is fundamentally different from physical products, and business models surrounding it wind up taking a different form than traditional business models (a form which includes a free and/or freely redistributable product).

What we are dealing with is a new kind of abundance. Oxygen is an abundant resource, (anyone can get it for free because it just never runs out). Traditional capitalistic wisdom says that it is not possible to build a business around such resources, and further that no one will produce them because of that. Information is also abundant, once it exists (since it can be duplicated at zero cost by anyone). But it is also strangely non-abundant, since it's initial production requires an expenditure of resources. Traditional capitalistic models have a very hard time categorizing it...is it abundant or isn't it? Copyright law is an attempt at forcing it in to the "limited" category so that the traditional models wil

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