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At least NASA didn't strafe you with minigun fire. I'd prefer more NASA science overflights and less military jets screaming through my airspace.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/01/29/1346237/machine-gun-fire-from-military-helicopters-flying-over-downtown-miami

http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20041105-0045-schoolstrafed.html

Possibly this indicator points to a Republican president in 2012 (or FEAR of a Republican president)?

Zombies/Vampires for Republicans/Vampires

Look, California is one of the largest economies in the world for a reason.

Yes, the policies we had decades ago. Be careful, you are looking backwards, and the GP is looking forwards.

If you don't want to give back to the state that you do business in, bye bye. You won't be missed.

Yes, but up to a point. Both you and the GP may be a little overdramatic but the GP does have a point. For example how much of the economic success you refer to is from the aerospace industry? Bad news on that front:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/examiner-opinion-zone/aerospace-exodus-california

And what of the emerging private space industry that has its roots in Mohave? More bad new:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/apr/14/competitors-are-wooing-california-space-industry/

On a personal note I know some guys who used to shape surf boards. Very small scale shop but respected by locals and profitable for years. They had to give it up due to ever increasing regulations.

Have fun learning the hard way why nobody else is running a software company in South Carolina or whatever.

I don't think US customers know or care where a software company is located, except possibly that it is a US operation. And with the increasing popularity of the digital supply chain -- developer to online store to consumer, no packaged goods or distributors -- this is becoming even more so.


You have to admit the California legislature is out of control and making California a less friendly place to do business than a few decades ago.

Another argument for replacing the sales tax with property taxes is that property taxes encourage cities to make land-use decisions that bolster property values...Sales tax just incentivizes you to put up big-box stores.

All else being equal, I for one prefer higher property values to big box stores.

What about the mysterious hydrocarbon odor wafting through San Diego lately?

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/aug/19/tests-odiferous-air-come-negative/

The scary thing is that it took so long for them to analyze it, and they still don't know what it is. It's hard to believe there isn't a system in place for rapidly identifying airborne contaminants.

The science goes where the money is--identifying the most dangerous things first, like radiation, anthrax, and 'in soviet russia' jokes.

What about the mysterious hydrocarbon odor wafting through San Diego lately?

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/aug/19/tests-odiferous-air-come-negative/

The scary thing is that it took so long for them to analyze it, and they still don't know what it is. It's hard to believe there isn't a system in place for rapidly identifying airborne contaminants.

Maybe they should study some people in Chula Vista California. For about two years they drank some not so completely treated wastewater (meant for grass at golf courses etc).

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070823/news_lz1ed23top.html

Another poster above complains about the saving of GM for the low skill jobs... but that is what the majority of people do. The majority is NOT working on the next generation chip technology or moon rocket (oh wait, that is China isn't it, my bad).

Actually the US has a space industry, for now, but look what the taxation and regulation of California are leading to:

"A big prerequisite for a risky new industry is product liability protection for manufacturers and an enforceable informed consent regime for operators – something New Mexico has addressed. Getting car insurance in California can be hard enough; imagine trying to cover a rocket ship. A space tourist does not demand the same level of protection as a kid boarding Space Mountain at Disneyland. Real spaceflight remains a risky endeavor and anyone who straps themselves into the first generation of vehicles is going to know to fully understand the dangers. All our serious competitors – New Mexico, Virginia and Florida – already have such protection and Texas just passed a similar bill.
In regards to taxes, New Mexico’s top rate of 7.6 percent is a bit lower than California’s flat 8.84 percent. The Land of Enchantment uses a progressive structure far more conducive to nurturing small business and startups and it has created several tax incentives for the space industry. These include tax credits for the wages paid on newly created high-tech jobs, venture capital investments and a sales tax exemption for operations. This is a low-risk subsidy model for an all-or-nothing industry. If the private space businesses take off, thousands of jobs will be created and the state will see a wealth of taxable income. If, however, this industry turns out to be a profitless pipe dream, there is very little to be lost.
If California chooses not to act, the business and tax revenues will surely head elsewhere in any case."
http://m.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/apr/14/competitors-are-wooing-california-space-industry/

Replying to myself -- Hate to say it, but the TSA chief in San Diego held a press conference Monday to confirm that the fine (now $11K) is still on the table and they've opened an investigation on this guy:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/15/tsa-probe-scan-resistor/

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/14/tsa-ejects-oceanside-man-airport-refusing-security/

To encourage drivers to get out of their cars, European countries devote a large portion of their gas-tax revenue to heavily subsidized public transportation systems.

Source

The emergency brake stopped working too? Amazing how so many unrelated things can go wrong at once. Or the driver pushed the wrong pedal and kept doing so as panic set in - something we have seen numerous times in numerous different cars, e.g. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/22/license-suspended-elderly-driver-costco-crash/

In California? Are you serious? California has always rewarded bright, young students interested in the sciences. Here's a recent example:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/15/students-evacuated-school-chollas-view/

There's (anecdotal) evidence that people will "not see" a six-foot person in an orange rabbit suit piloting a reflectorized pedicab and also not avoid it. Oddly enough, even though one might interpret "I didn't see her" as an admission of driving while blind, the only charge that stuck was hit-and-run.

(I have read elsewhere that the rabbit smelled alcohol on the driver's breath, but note that there was no charge of DUI, so legally, not intoxicated.)

Although the way this was handled sounds incredibly stupid, I can guess what was going through the VP's mind: seven months ago, a student in another San Diego school successfully detonated five "bombs" that he made using Gatorade bottles.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/jun/06/1m6bottle00527-student-arrested-3-blasts-school/?metro&zIndex=111931

With that being fairly fresh in authorities' minds, I can easily imagine them worrying that the Millenial Tech student had developed a new and improved version. It still sounds like they overreacted, but at least I can understand why.

Has the current Cybersecurity Czar even made a statement about the recent hacking invasion from the Chinese government?

Hell no. A former C-level executive at Microsoft is not going to touch that, it's an international incident that he helped cause. Look instead for smoke and noise about some other happy horseshit. It's bizarre how he could squeak past the employment interviews. Any background check should have turned up his employment at Microsoft, so either none was done or there is some serious corruption and a serious breach:

Tell that to all the business owners in Alpine, CA. In particular, consider debating the necessity of making a Harley Davidson dealership fully wheelchair accessible, among other things.

Another more detailed article
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/nov/30/hm-recollected-famous-amnesic-launches-bold-new-br/

I had to go through 3 links just to find the poor guy's name. http://www3.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/nov/30/hm-recollected-famous-amnesic-launches-bold-new-br/

CARB "scientists" aren't really considered as scientists by real scientists.
Shoot, even one of the "scientists" from CARB faked his credentials.

CARB's also behind MTBE which nationally was mandated by the Federal Clean Air Act of 1990 but was predated by California's own state law, California Clean Air Act of 1988.
And as early as 1986, there was a scientific report that stated that MTBE was a "bad cookie" (finding the exact copy is a tad difficult but it is referred by the USGS in a 1993 report)

A major local (to the Bay Area) opponent to CARB is Dr. Bill Wattenburg (an older version of his site is here)

And apparently, CARB wants to require particular" paints (PDF) and barring any scientific/engineering breakthrough, that probably means dark colored cars (black, dark blues, etc.)

And dang, CARB's budget for 2009-2010 is over 600 million, just the imagine how many teachers would have been spared lay-offs...or how many professors, TAs, faculty at UC/CSU schools would have been spared from furloughs.

Not to forget the CARB vs Diesel fiasco

CARB "scientists" aren't really considered as scientists by real scientists.
Shoot, even one of the "scientists" from CARB faked his credentials.

CARB's also behind MTBE which nationally was mandated by the Federal Clean Air Act of 1990 but was predated by California's own state law, California Clean Air Act of 1988.
And as early as 1986, there was a scientific report that stated that MTBE was a "bad cookie" (finding the exact copy is a tad difficult but it is referred by the USGS in a 1993 report)

A major local (to the Bay Area) opponent to CARB is Dr. Bill Wattenburg (an older version of his site is here)

And apparently, CARB wants to require particular" paints (PDF) and barring any scientific/engineering breakthrough, that probably means dark colored cars (black, dark blues, etc.)

And dang, CARB's budget for 2009-2010 is over 600 million, just the imagine how many teachers would have been spared lay-offs...or how many professors, TAs, faculty at UC/CSU schools would have been spared from furloughs.

Not to forget the CARB vs Diesel fiasco

I'm not wildly convinced. Obviously, like any cultural artefact, a game is going to reflect its environment to some degree(and the apparent effect of environment will be a lot stronger once you narrow your focus to commercially viable/successful titles, since only things that are resonant with the population at large will sell well); but the effects of technical limitations and the strongly derivative tendencies of the industry are huge confounding variables.

(Boldface emphasis is mine)

It's interesting the PP says that. When I saw the submission, the first thing that came to mind was this article, which claims that more zombie-based horror movies tend to come out when a Republican is president of the US and more vampire-based horrow movies tend to come out when a Democrat is president, and even speculates a little on why that might be.

Here you go, and it looks like they ruled in favor of the corps and not the people. Boy what a surprise. Now any politicians that are "favored" (read play ball) will get millions in free ads to crush their opposition, unless of course the opposition gets their own sponsors (read play ball as well) so yet again the little guy gets fucked by the mega corp. Again, what a surprise, but short of armed revolution we have nowhere to go but down. Your measly vote simply can't compete with treasonous bribery, hell we might as well change the anthem to "mighty mighty dollar bill" and be done with it.

That's because the democrats are in power.

Yeah uh.. this has what to do with anything?

There is a frequently referenced correlation between the political party in power and the popularity of vampires or zombies. Source:

I didn't say anything about anyone pissing in their pants. 20% of returning Marines have serious mental health problems, whatever their performance was on the ground. Until now, they have been mostly recycled back into duty without treatment, since there aren't enough people signing up. So much so, Marines are still subject to stop loss. Doesn't sound like a volunteer force to me.

If there's any other propaganda you'd like to regurgitate, though, please feel free. I mean, as long as you have permission to do so.

And by the way, perhaps I would piss in my pants in that situation. I don't know, since I've never been in a war. But I also wouldn't sign up for any theater the US is engaged in, since it offers no benefit for our security or for anyone else's freedom.

Garvik's sophomore daughter was forced to go home and change before she could enter the dance, although thongs are not barred in the school dress code. The code states that undergarments, including "boxers, tank-top undershirts or underwear" should not be exposed.

Some people with authority(especially those in certain government agencies, but I digress) seem to make up the rules as they go along. That's what makes them dangerous.

>Car travel, by contrast, is largely mundane.

You must never have driven in Southern California in the late '80s ;)

People aren't even compensated for time spent in a jail cell!

They typically are when it is longer periods due to a wrongful conviction.
A man in San Diego, CA awarded $100/day for the time he spent in a jailcell
A man in boston served 18 years, eligible for up to $500,000
An Australian man seeks 7.5 Million in damages from 12 years served, West AU offering 3.25

Not that I dont agree the lost time thing will ever work, just wanted to point out that people are infact compensated for jailtime they didnt deserve

Is anyone else dissapointed? Not that there were no aliens, or super-secret spyplanes, but that the mystery is lost? Area 51 was the fuel for imagination, the "what if" moments that it gave rise to. I, for one, shall miss the curiosity and sence of wonder when looking at the photographs and just imagining....

We're reading about things that were built 50 years ago.

If you want the sense of wonder back, ponder what they're doing now.

And keep your ears open for sonic booms tracking over California in the general direction of Nevada over the past few years.

That's because they fired all their employees and offered to rehire them at a lesser wage. Some Exec somewhere decided that 'knowledgeable' and 'trained' employees were stupid for the kind of job CC did so lets replace them with some HS kid off the street that doesn't know a thing.

I've seen some people attempt to blame CC's decline on this; there was even a news story about it. However Circuit City's decline - at least in stock price - started many months before they pulled this dirty move.

Unfortunately it seems to be a fairly common practice for clueless CEOs and boards (who almost certainly are the real reason for any company's significant decline), when faced with declining profits and stock values, to think "hey, we can solve by firing our "overpaid" current staff and replacing them with low-wage drones!"

That's because they fired all their employees and offered to rehire them at a lesser wage. Some Exec somewhere decided that 'knowledgeable' and 'trained' employees were stupid for the kind of job CC did so lets replace them with some HS kid off the street that doesn't know a thing.

The ONLY reason I set foot in a brick and mortar store is to feel in my hand what I'll be buying online. I did it with my Rebel XT before I pulled the trigger on an awesome online deal.

Best Buy and Circuit City have both appalled me as of late with the prices of their cables. $30 for a 6' USB cable? Sometimes if I know I'm going I'll take a MonoPrice print out and stick it up by the cables.

I have to wear headphones when I go in too because of the insane amounts of stupid spewed by the staff. On more than one occasion I've corrected something they were telling some poor soul.

You mistake the original intent of taxes, with the current use of taxes. It's a common mistake for democrats.

And bail is not a social program. You got it backwards. Don't worry, we forgive you. Bail is supposed to be set by the potential danger posed to the community by the perp and the severity of the crime. Since this guy isn't likely to get his job back, this is 0 risk. He also didn't do any damage.

And the fact that bail is refunded when you show up doesn't help you if you can't produce the funds when you need the bail ;)

This guy is getting screwed by people simply because they are pissed off. It's pretty unprofessional of the prosecutor and judge to set bail that high. You could be a cop charged with murder and get and get a lower bail, like this guy http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/feb/06/ca-train-station-shooting-020609/?zIndex=49309.

That's also a betrayal of trust. Murderers routinely get $1m bails.

This guy is getting f**ked.

If there's a Zero Day exploit to be found, my money is on Dion Rich.

Though the 'legal guardian theory' certainly still holds, if that isn't how they did it, this paragraph makes me wonder:

"Researchers say Molaison happily complied with the demands of science over the years. He was utterly imperturbable, Amaral said, perhaps because of the loss of his amygdala, which regulates emotion." Source http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20081206-9999-1n6brain.html

Was he just willing to go along and sign all the treatment/organ donation papers as a result of the brain surgery? Sounds almost as if he would have gone along with anything at that point. By all accounts I've read so far, he was a wonderful man. But is that because they pithed him? And if so, can we please use this technique on more people?

The evidence indicates overuse of stents may be leading to thousands of heart attacks and deaths each year, whether stents are being used in relatively mild cases where drugs should be prescribed instead, or because patients are receiving drug-coated versions where simpler, cheaper bare-metal devices might work just as well.

Your post is nothing but a succession of bad logic, typos, and off-topic strawmen.

Have you traveled around the United States? In many places we have geology for that too.

Geology is irrelevant. We have highways that go straight through mountains. If we wanted to, we could do the same thing with trains. The problem is that our population distribution is so spread out.

Unfortunately, many of these cutting edge ideas won't get off the ground because of the current deficits and millions of Joe Plumbers who will fight for every cent spent outside their pocket.

Governmental bodies in the U.S. consistently piss away taxpayer money in obscene ways. I don't make much more than my expenses, yet the government takes 30% of my paycheck. And where does it go? A Social Security program that will be insolvent long before I retire. Bridges to nowhere. Bailouts. Pointless wars. And both major party candidates whole-heartedly support these and want more of the same.

will not be surprised to hear that things like high speed trains and ability to use cell phones for purchases will be linked to socialism and "'em Asians."

That's a really weak attempt to inject racism into it. How often do you hear rednecks bashing Asians for having excellent cell-phone service and fast trains?

You can put a train between San Francisco and Los Angeles without fighting the terrain too much. Will Californians do it? Does not look like it because nobody wants to give money.

I don't blame them. California is completely incapable of managing money. Your solution is to give them more and to hope that they manage it responsibly? By the way, I just mailed in my ballot, and it has a very dark square next to the "No" option for Prop 1A.

Hell, even if somebody put a high speed train between Silicon Valley and some place in low Sierra I would love to commute on that every day. If I can spend one hour on a train and live 250 miles away from my place of work, that would be awesome.

You want taxpayers to lay you a high-speed rail directly from an exurb to the place you work? I guess you'll want another track going from your neighbor's house to L.A., and another to Sacramento? This is the exact opposite of what needs to happen. Move closer to where you work.

You make a semi-coherent point after that: High-speed rail would be a viable replacement for airline travel. But it would be better if we waited until the technology is more mature. Let the smaller, denser countries work out the bugs and we can implement it when it works well.

But yeah, leave it to Japan and other socialist countries to leave the world. Let's focus on 9/11, terrorism and THAT ONE with his ties to Arabs and Muslims.

That's an absolutely pathetic attempt to inject U.S. Presidential politics into the discussion. Go back to Digg.

>One way around it could be to locate datacenters at locations with natural cooling available like rivers and larger lakes.

Google has a large data center on the bank of the Columbia River in Oregon now...

(crossposted from Blacknell.net)

Sad.1 David Foster Wallace2, along with perhaps only William Gibson, had a reader in me for everything he wrote. So dedicated was I to his Infinite Jest that I carried it in planes, trains, and autobuses over three continents.3 If you've never read any of his work, maybe you could start with this brilliant 2005 essay on political talk radio.4

1And I say sad in some weirdly personal sense that comes from both finding his writing deeply compelling in itself, and identifying his work with a period of time in my life which is not missed, but stands out as significant in recollection.

2David Foster Wallace (or DFW, as he is popularly known among fans) also provided (albeit completely unknowingly) some of the reason that Blacknell.net exists today. The blog that inspired me to start my own was written by an alumnus of the law school I had just started in. He, in turn, had been motivated to write online (in a format once known as an "online journal") while he read Infinite Jest (nb. This same author once had an essay published in the same collection as DFW). An early autobiography of this online journal community is available here (it is amusing to consider how much energy was expended on the subject of diary v. journal, only to have blog become the accepted appellation).

3 A massive tome of a book with 1200 pages of writing to be relished and consumed (in addition to being read) I took two years to complete it, taking it to Panama, Venezuela, and Britain. I've since reread it (in sections, while it wasn't lent out).

4Even though it isn't entirely representative.

(Ah, for want of a superscript tag . . .)

Water's good for you and necessary to the point that you need it at least every three days. 'Course, too much water, as that Wii seeking Mom found out, can be bad. All thing's in moderation. Why is the rum gone?

Not just south of the border either. There have been over 200 kidnappings in the US this year so far.

But hey don't call for tighter border security or you're a racist!

I was thinking more of articles like this one: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24468-2005Feb14.html I read a great article on the subject a few weeks ago, that detailed how much of the several trillion dollars have been sunk into Iraq have been scammed by big military contractors, but alas I can't find it again. If I recall correctly it was estimated at around 20% of those trillions - so billions of dollars. I could easily be wrong though as I don't have the article to hand and one tends to inflate values in memory. Heres another article as well: http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050930/news_lz1e30cray.html And another: http://www.propublica.org/scandal/military-contractor-abuse/ Companies like Haliburton and Blackwater (and dozens more) are making money hand over fist, screwing the US public out of those dollars, and they have a strong lobby support and friends in government (who will no doubt retire as members of the BOD for these companies by way of thanks). Its a *huge* scam, and the US public are the victims in this. That's why you are at war in Iraq currently. Its also why i expect that if you pull out of Iraq, you will end up somewhere else, because the money has to keep rolling into the hands of these companies. You may think your Medicare system and other social programs are eating up tons of cash, and undoubtedly they are - but at least they improve the lives of American citizens. Contracts to Haliburton and other similar companies merely line the pockets of their corporate owners. The money currently being doled out in plastic wrapped bundles of $100k each could be spent to decrease the cost of the medical system, create jobs for those who are unemployed, start new companies that produce useful services for US citizens at home etc, rather than being spent on wasteful contract services (like paying a company 15m a month to guard flights for a month where no such flights landed etc).

The history of the license plate:

In The Hound of the Baskervilles [1902] by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are found unsuccessfully trying to catch a public hansom cab. Holmes, however, got close enough to the cab to spot its license number, which became a major clue in cracking the case.

This is the reality:

Deputy charged in assault on prostitute, [Aug 1], Mom pleads for daughter's safe return [Aug 1], Police say Sciota man tried to burn bar

You will find stories like these in every newspaper published in the last 100 years.

The license plate is not going to go away and it will be read by the neighborhood watch and the highway patrolman.

The policeman is first and last the successor to the watchman in the night. He needs to know who is out there. He needs to move quickly sometimes.

Now back to our story:

New York became the first state to require vehicle registration [1901] and California followed suit later that year. The first New York issues were homemade plates, bearing the initials of the owner without any numbers. Massachusetts was the first state to actually issue plates, beginning in 1903. By 1918, all 48 of the contiguous United States were issuing license plate. Although they were territories at the time, Alaska and Hawaii began issuing plates in 1921 and 1922.

License plates have changed significantly over the years. Early plates were not fancy -- just the state name or abbreviation, a registration number, and, more often than not, the year. Fancy lettering, reflectorization, slogans, county names, illustrations or logos peculiar to a particular state became more common.

Beginning in 1957, most types of North American plates have been a standard size, six by twelve inches. Prior to that, different sizes and shapes were not uncommon. Plates were normally rectangular, but oval, square, round, and triangular shapes were used. For a number of years, Kansas and Tennessee cut their plates to match the shaped of the state itself. The distinction for the most unusually shaped plates goes to Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada, which have their plates cut in the shape of a bear. Automobile License Plate Buying Guide

I'm not personally in favor of outlawing guns or strict gun control laws, however it is useful to try to see both sides of the argument without bias.

It is incredibly quick and easy for any normal "law abiding" citizen to cause death when a gun is available. You are relying on them making the choice as to when and when not to fire the gun.

Consider "crimes of passion" and similar situations where a person temporarily fails to rationally control their actions due to an overwhelming emotional response. Whether it results from finding your spouse in bed with another lover, getting cut off in traffic or ending up in the express checkout lane behind someone who can't count - there are many everyday situations in which people are prone to overreacting. The availability of a loaded firearm can change the outcome dramatically.

Funny. I thought the Vallejo city council declared bankruptcy because the Fire and Police unions refused to take pay cuts and/or cut staff to bring their allocation from the city fund significantly below 50%. Most solvent cities don't have this figure above 33%.

The steep revenue drop occurred because property values declined steeply and were thus temporarily reassessed sharply lower.

I'm not sure where "legislating economic nonsense" comes into play here. Are you blaming Vallejo's city council for the zoning that allowed developers to build out tracts that added to the total property tax income which is generally a very stable revenue source? Maybe the City shouldn't have allowed the more expensive contracts, but hindsight is 20/20. Many other cities around the Bay Area and the rest of CA are feeling the same pinch and are scrambling to cover deficits. No one expected property values to decline *that* much.

The economy sucks because people who were lending money got burned on bad loans and stopped lending. Regardless of who screwed whom, the banks are lending very little money now. Even Congress changing jumbo loans to ~$700K from ~400K (thus insuring them), and the Federal Reserve who lowered interest rates and shoved money at banks to lend, isn't enough to make the banks lend the money! No lending = no investments = no money. Watch It's a Wonderful Life sometime.

I'm not saying that banks should start making bad loans again. I'm just saying that banks need to start making good loans again which is better than no loans. Even the prime loans are hard to come by today!

And makes use of municipal facilities often, like schools, parks, and community centers.

The California prison guards will beat' em to it.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051109/news_1b9cruise.html

"As two small motorboats approached the Spirit, pirates began firing rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns at the ship, operated by Miami-based Seabourn Cruise Line, a Carnival Corp. subsidiary. No passengers were injured, and just one crew member was wounded. Putnam said he did not know if the ship's crew issued a verbal challenge to the pirates before the LRAD blared more punishing, high-intensity sounds. The crew also fended off the attackers with water hoses as the cruise ship Seabourn Spirit changed course and moved away, using its wake to thwart the pirates' small boats."

OMG! They just wanted to sell you cigarettes, even though they shot rockets and machine guns at you! Those poor pirates! OMG! OMG! You didn't have to use that terrible LRAD weapon on them! You are evil for defending your passengers with the LRAD!

Actually there are a few new things under the sun, with more coming. http://forum.signonsandiego.com/showpost.php?p=3118401&postcount=31

manage[s] to not make more than me. I find myself wondering if they're just lazy, or if we have that many drug addicts, or that many people addicted to government assistance. Are there really people content to run a cash register at the local Quick-E-Mart, who are willing to do nothing to better themselves and improve their family's quality of life?

That may very well all be true but, I would caution you about your tendency to cherry pick from just one scripture. {It looks like cherry-picking and that diminishes your Bible quotes.} Besides, you're killing the gnat but letting a camel stomp ya. What group of people has a Biblical "Right" to take a chance on wiping out mankind because of their beliefs in scripture-promised immortality via a God who always saves us? None. You might as well be arguing a person has a right to change lanes without looking first.

What really gets ya is that while these fellows search for Physicsneedlestoosmallforthehumaneyetosee-level answers, I've already made several designs for desktop fusion-type engines that either one would end any further need for combustion engines. It's a battle that doesn't need to even be fought. According to the other SlashDot article tonite, a French inventor had the phonograph 20 years before Edison and got aced in the history books. The reason? He failed to lay down enough paper trail. I have (albeit for higher purposes than history book notations). http://www.newpath4.com/ and http://www.askinventor.com/ and all over /. posting as imitationenergy and in San Diego and on Reader's Digest posting as "aim4wood". Five years of writing and personal testimony, upsetting people on SlashDot that I post so much be hanged, laying down a footprint larger & wider than the Mississippi River. Soon the "Ford lightbulb" will go off, no matter how much testosterone hay people piled over my combustion-free needles.

I see you're trying to fit all this stuff under a common umbrella, and that's admirable, but the statement you made => "Although each advance in physics brings more and more dangerous knowledge to light, we will be able cope technically." is a blanket statement that is not always true. It's true if you're going the wrong way. Not all are... making your assumption of increasing danger from "each advance in physics" incorrect. Try to avoid making blanket statements.

Search out the living crystals. One of them has made a mechanical heart fluid engine based on the circulatory system of deer => ../2 20 2008 february 20 signs in the heavens public record open source patent engine system for all humankind.pdf . And the only "danger" this deer-like engine ~that was staring Adam square in the face when he named it~ poses is to oil barons thriving on keeping us addicted to fuels that put us all in a cancer ward right where Satan wants us, laying in agony til we breathe our last breath. Such was never intended for us, as I have been blessed to prove.