July 22nd, 2004: ' ' Now Hawking has conceded defeat by saying that information can escape from a black hole and therefore is not lost. "It is great to solve a problem that has been troubling me for 30 years," said Hawking, "even though the answer is less exciting than the alternative I suggested." ' '[http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/19926]
If my calculations are correct, then you can just simulate a black hole on paper, write some formula describing information emitting from the black hole, and perform just as much as these people did with their convoluted, inverse-proof, "white hole".
Besides, none of this matters. The entire reason why the sky is so dark and has more light on one side than the other isn't "broken symmetry" and "gravity bends spacetime" and so on, it's that the planet Earth and the visible "universe" are just a small portion of what actually exists except it's been sucked into a black hole that we can't see out of (information). It's disproportionately tilted to one side because it's vortexing into the center where everything gets crushed simultaneously.
You're right. And, remember, Martha Stewart was tried on:
1. computer evidence that for all intents and purposes never existed. Some geek said "oh, I deleted the files, then deleted the logs to cover my tracks, but the incriminating files WERE there, once. I swear it." -- this was considered substantial!
2. shreds of documents from the same letterhead fixed-width type pieced together arbitrarily -- substantial!
3. the testimony of an agent who, for said testimony, later was sentenced to perjury -- substantial!
Who believes she's guilty? The whole country. Ask anybody.
Now, consider this: some perv gets caught, takes the Stewart trial precedents, takes this trial's precendents, throws a dart and picks a random person (or picks somebody whose dog crapped on his yard) and says "HE did it! HE put these here!" It wouldn't take a whole week for that perv to come up with
a. how he knows YOU did it b. how YOU did it, when c. WHY you did it
Even if he doesn't know you! Think about it! Sometimes, bad is bad!
So can pervs just use this excuse, now, any time they get caught and would like (a) freedom plus (b) an enemy or other arbitrary member of society to take the heat for it? Let's remember something: Martha Stewart's trial hinged on destroyed computer evidence -- DELETED computer evidence -- that there was no proof ever existed because one person claimed to have had access to the computer, to the "logs" that would have tracked the files' existences and deletions, and by way of deleting the "logs" also deleted any trace of the data. And yet, she was convicted. That's a precedent; this is a precedent; straight, normal people beware!
The moral is: computer data should rarely ever be considered evidence. This used to be a given, but for "some reason" over time in America computer data has become more and more "tangible" in courtrooms. Bad! Not good!
The reviewer was actually not Anonymous, they are known as "Pacific Book Review Company", see, they sell these reviews to people who live in caves and eat batshit. Nobody else can figure that out but the people WHO BUY THIS BOOK!
I had to look up Steve Rado, because I'm into controversial physics. The unified theory of Willie Johnson, Jr., for example.
But I couldn't find anybody writing of Rado with anything but mild contempt. There wasn't even a wikipedia entry on him.
So... Is this article's author (anonymous) actually Steve Rado ghost writing a serious book about physics in an insane attempt to bolster the credibility of his other book, Aethro-Kinetimatics (or wtfe), and then showing up on Slashdot to write an anonymous "review" of his own book as part of a grand plot to do some shit or other (who knows)?
Your fellow citizens are asking you for this number every day, day in and day out, like it's nothing. The social security office will tell you not to give it to anyone except official government personnel and so on, but everybody wants it. I think for the most part, businesses are the culprits when it comes to stolen identity, not our government.
Bullshit. The discussion on this particular topic has all rotated around one central concept: that this outbreak occured was stupid as hell and denotes a complete lack of any sort of basic understanding of how computers are used on behalf of people who use computers for very important things not only in their lives but many of our own.
x. Public at-large will be exposed to the details of the patented 'device' and how it works before it's marketed, decreasing a lot of the potential for ambush and other elements of surprise often used in marketing new products on consumers. If people are already familiar with it they tend to have all sorts of second-thoughts before purchasing, whereas if it's "NEW!" people feel aggravated to obtain it, on impulse. Marketers and their client companies would not want it to be public and would continually fight to make it private, again. They would ultimately win because the public at-large isn't paying for the service, the agencies applying for the patents are. Reciprocation, the public wouldn't want to have to pay in order to be part of the process, and if you made people pay for it anyway, it would lessen the effect and make the panel of judges (so to speak) exclusive.
x. Public at-large would use the details to manufacture their own products and never have to buy from the market in the first place. You might say "why doesn't this happen already" but it does, on some level, just on behalf of those who actually carry the technical know-how (and have access to the tools, machines, and materials) to get it done. For instance, a friend of mine is using his own hydrogen source because he bought the platinum needed to do it. Not everybody will be doing that. But this is largely because people aren't exposed to the concepts behind the products. If people are regularly exposed to the concepts at the very point of conception, they're going to be more savvy and more inclined to just make their own. This leads back to the above: it's more marketable if nobody had any idea it was coming until it was ready to market.
x. Part of the above, some people would meet the in-between demand by manufacturing new devices for others who can't do it. This would probably be some kind of breach of patent or whatever, but usually people aren't getting caught. Suddenly they would be, because people would care, because they're part of this big network of eyeballs, and if anything happens when you suddenly empower a bunch of people, a large segment of them, socially inept, semi-retarded, or not, become litle Private Eyeballs and start snitching. So the little machine shop that wants to turn out half a dozen of the new engine or whatever ends up busted if anybody mentions anything about it at all to anyone, which is also inevitable, you go to the bar and you tell a pal or whatever. So all kinds of bad shit will happen, out of the same effect that creates voluntary police at Wikipedia who have no interest in the articles whatsoever but show up and police the fuck out of them anyway.
The whole idea is awesome, but it'll lead to total failure. What I would have to logically argue, then, is that patenting itself, as a process or a function, is a total failure and should be thrown out. It's doing more harm than good to the economy, to the government, to the public, to the Constitution, all of it. Just toss it out, forget about it, find some other more ingenius way that actually involves one's own skills and abilities to capitalise on something. If you can't, you can't, but at least you'll always be able to make the local profit. And look, Edison patented all of Tesla's work as his own, so how gr3at can patenting actually be?
Just releasing a statement like that makes futures immediately more valuable. Any oil they already own is immediately more saleable at increasing profits; if they're trying to actually get out of oil, this is exactly the sort of statement they would want to make to get the most money for the oil they still have in reserve.
You can just cultivate batches of jellyfish cells, you don't need whole, live jellyfish.
In Florida, somebody on a lifeguard staff reached into a cooler and pulled out a coke bottle that looked like it was full of water but was full of water containing a batch of invisible jellyfish stinger cells. He drank it and survived with discomfort.
Anyways you can just grow the shit, you don't need to kill more than probably one jellyfish to get it started, boo hoo if they all die, though. What are you using them for? Biodegradable mosquito nets?
This guy shows styles exemplary of moving mostly your legs and arms and not your head or torso. He does some stuff reminiscent of pop and lock and he does some mohawk stuff. So is he putting the ladies off? Why was he considered so popular, just because he's moving at all, even still alive at that age? People that old are usually dead, right? Is that what's going on, what the fuck? I thought he was just popular. I thought that shit was "cool", more "sexy". People said the old guy's sexy! Clear it up!
This guy shows styles exemplary of moving mostly your legs and arms and not your head or torso. He does some stuff reminiscent of pop and lock and he does some mohawk stuff. So is he putting the ladies off? Why was he considered so popular, just because he's moving at all, even still alive at that age? People that old are usually dead, right? Is that what's going on, what the fuck? I thought he was just popular. I thought that shit was "cool", more "sexy". People said the old guy's sexy! Clear it up!
Increasingly, the only world for techs is run, owned, staffed, and generally populated by techs.
Techs can't be content with a government run by non-techs. They get miffed when patents are granted for things like "clicking on the icon", but non-tech patent clerks grant such patents any way. They get miffed when laws are drafted against breaking rot-13 encryption, even though a nine-year-old can do it, but it happens anyway because non-techs draft and pass the legislation. They get miffed when Governors O.K. networked electronic voting in their states but Governors do it anyway because they have no idea what a transistor is or what security really means. So techs aren't content unless their government is all-tech.
Similarly, techs get miffed when they are asked to be the nervous system of the entire company and are paid just a little more than the janitor. They would have to work in a company entirely owned by techs to get the treatment and compensation they feel they deserve. They get miffed when their coworkers think they're supposed to crawl out of the network closet and fix a pencil sharpener or change a toner cartridge, but the only time that doesn't happen is when all the coworkers are techs, too. And they get miffed when in society in general things go according to what football players and retired military officers want and never the way techs want, so techs get to be the whipping posts of the rest of the population and are never glorified, always misunderstood, and never respected or wanted around by the more glamorous members; but the only way that would change would be if all the members of the population were techs.
So who cares if you can't get a fucking job? Learn how to make your own money, since you're so god-damned smart!!!:)
The trivialized can later become the normalized and even novelized. Just look at "Schindler's List"" and the spots of red, or, Kia Motors hosting "the next YouTube star".
The only way MS could continue to benefit from a proprietary model in an open-source market would be to work toward more or less completely isolating a few markets from open-source (probably U.S., Gr. Britain, Australia).
Didn't Bill Gates already say he wants all of us to store all our "data files" in massive, sub-oceanic storages? While forcing us all to use processors that always ask Microsoft (and/or monopoly "trade" partner microprocessor firm) for permission before executing any set of machine instructions in lieu of perfecting "security"?
In a world where Adobe can try a Russian in an American court and send him back to Russia for imprisonment, where breaking rot-13 or simple substitution can get you a similar conviction for "espionage", where learning about and discussing the "trade" partner microprocessor firm's backroom-deal hidden opcodes is industrial terrorism or some crap, where America's number one terrorist threat are "the homeless" and where veterans are "right wing extremists", where sleeping on the couch while your son is in the backroom downloaded 0-day can get you gut-shot, and basically where owning a 486 will one day be considered an act of treason?
Of course, "being nice" might just equate to "pushing the envelope", i.e. attempting to buy-out "big open source" development.
Where the licenses don't allow for actually purchasing and closing the code, there's always the possibility of just buying up developers for the right price (right price? everybody has one), signing them to non-disclosure and corporate clearance (against "corporate espionage") agreements lasting a decade or longer with huge liabilities attached for leverage (where your options if you did spill the beans or take your "trade secrets" back to open-source would be either live on the street and be "uncollectible" or pay out the ass to a multi-million dollar damages judgement for the rest of your life, which may or may not be the life of a convicted corporate saboteur) giving them their own "department" while simultaneously closing/internally-buying-out the "department" and laying them all off, and considering the unemployment pay to be a small fee compared to losing product sales against the open-source "competitor".
There are plenty of great scientifictions out there that were never made into radio operas let alone screenplays. Egads, why spend all this money just rehashing something that already exists as a complete and finished work? The better investment would be to breech some new subject into being, to expand the artistic collective of scientifictions overall, thus enriching the minds and lives of people who as of yet have absolutely no idea what the amazing future holds in such far-off worlds as the amazing year 2050!
THERE WILL BE:
Personal Rocket-Jet Propulsion Backpack CHECK!
Aerial Autocar CHECK!
Bees the size of small hummingbirds that are so domesticated you can direct them to supple out your nose perfectly clean using their robust and godgiven kneebritches CHECK!
SO MUCH MORE awaits us in the Amazing year Twenty-Fifty that the human race will fail to become aware of if all we manage to do is keep telling the same OLDE-TIMEY TALES over and over and over again! If that's all we ever did then, by golly, we would still believe that mankind is the center of the universe! Or that beans and peas are totally unrelated! We would believe that rockets are only for children to play with, and look at what we know today: "KEEP OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN"! There's no telling what leaps of evolution we may take if we learn to adapt more of the as-yet-unadapted bookwritten scientifiction tales of MARVEL AND WONDER into radio-operas and "talkie" motion pictures!
Or else -- we may NEVER get to see the amazing year 2050!
How amazing is it to have a vibrating belt (of all things) that helps one make up for an astounding lack of reliable directional sense, when there's apparently stuff out there that can help you make up for a far more commonplace lack of reliable ESP?
. . . but the article links to the DARPA publication in question (at http://www.darpa.mil/Docs/StratPlan09.pdf , in case you missed the link that's in the first paragraph of the NetWorkWorld article).
And right there on page 14/57:
Networks: self-forming, robust, self-defending networks at the strategic and tactical level are the key to network-centric warfare; these networks will use spectrum far more efficiently and resist disruption if the GPS time signal is unavailable (Section 3.1).
And on page 18/57:
The DoD is in the middle of a transformation to what is often termed "Network-Centric Operations." The promise of network-centric operations is to turn information superiority into combat power [...] These networks must be at least as reliable, available, secure and survivable as the weapons and forces they connect.
" They were regular Buck Balto's, bringing us our biomedicines faster. Then they fired up the mass-driver and things quickly turned into a 'space opera'. "
Anyways here's more of the same (DARPA programs and funding) but from last year, presented by the CDI, for comparison's sake:
Slashdot Mirror
BlackBerries hanging on for RIM job completion!
July 22nd, 2004: ' ' Now Hawking has conceded defeat by saying that information can escape from a black hole and therefore is not lost. "It is great to solve a problem that has been troubling me for 30 years," said Hawking, "even though the answer is less exciting than the alternative I suggested." ' '[http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/19926]
If my calculations are correct, then you can just simulate a black hole on paper, write some formula describing information emitting from the black hole, and perform just as much as these people did with their convoluted, inverse-proof, "white hole".
Besides, none of this matters. The entire reason why the sky is so dark and has more light on one side than the other isn't "broken symmetry" and "gravity bends spacetime" and so on, it's that the planet Earth and the visible "universe" are just a small portion of what actually exists except it's been sucked into a black hole that we can't see out of (information). It's disproportionately tilted to one side because it's vortexing into the center where everything gets crushed simultaneously.
You're right. And, remember, Martha Stewart was tried on:
1. computer evidence that for all intents and purposes never existed. Some geek said "oh, I deleted the files, then deleted the logs to cover my tracks, but the incriminating files WERE there, once. I swear it." -- this was considered substantial!
2. shreds of documents from the same letterhead fixed-width type pieced together arbitrarily -- substantial!
3. the testimony of an agent who, for said testimony, later was sentenced to perjury -- substantial!
Who believes she's guilty? The whole country. Ask anybody.
Now, consider this: some perv gets caught, takes the Stewart trial precedents, takes this trial's precendents, throws a dart and picks a random person (or picks somebody whose dog crapped on his yard) and says "HE did it! HE put these here!" It wouldn't take a whole week for that perv to come up with
a. how he knows YOU did it
b. how YOU did it, when
c. WHY you did it
Even if he doesn't know you! Think about it! Sometimes, bad is bad!
So can pervs just use this excuse, now, any time they get caught and would like (a) freedom plus (b) an enemy or other arbitrary member of society to take the heat for it? Let's remember something: Martha Stewart's trial hinged on destroyed computer evidence -- DELETED computer evidence -- that there was no proof ever existed because one person claimed to have had access to the computer, to the "logs" that would have tracked the files' existences and deletions, and by way of deleting the "logs" also deleted any trace of the data. And yet, she was convicted. That's a precedent; this is a precedent; straight, normal people beware!
The moral is: computer data should rarely ever be considered evidence. This used to be a given, but for "some reason" over time in America computer data has become more and more "tangible" in courtrooms. Bad! Not good!
The reviewer was actually not Anonymous, they are known as "Pacific Book Review Company", see, they sell these reviews to people who live in caves and eat batshit. Nobody else can figure that out but the people WHO BUY THIS BOOK!
I had to look up Steve Rado, because I'm into controversial physics. The unified theory of Willie Johnson, Jr., for example.
But I couldn't find anybody writing of Rado with anything but mild contempt. There wasn't even a wikipedia entry on him.
So... Is this article's author (anonymous) actually Steve Rado ghost writing a serious book about physics in an insane attempt to bolster the credibility of his other book, Aethro-Kinetimatics (or wtfe), and then showing up on Slashdot to write an anonymous "review" of his own book as part of a grand plot to do some shit or other (who knows)?
Your fellow citizens are asking you for this number every day, day in and day out, like it's nothing. The social security office will tell you not to give it to anyone except official government personnel and so on, but everybody wants it. I think for the most part, businesses are the culprits when it comes to stolen identity, not our government.
The butcher was running around in some person's SKIN the whole time!!?!?!!?!
Bullshit. The discussion on this particular topic has all rotated around one central concept: that this outbreak occured was stupid as hell and denotes a complete lack of any sort of basic understanding of how computers are used on behalf of people who use computers for very important things not only in their lives but many of our own.
I can project various logical failures:
x. Public at-large will be exposed to the details of the patented 'device' and how it works before it's marketed, decreasing a lot of the potential for ambush and other elements of surprise often used in marketing new products on consumers. If people are already familiar with it they tend to have all sorts of second-thoughts before purchasing, whereas if it's "NEW!" people feel aggravated to obtain it, on impulse. Marketers and their client companies would not want it to be public and would continually fight to make it private, again. They would ultimately win because the public at-large isn't paying for the service, the agencies applying for the patents are. Reciprocation, the public wouldn't want to have to pay in order to be part of the process, and if you made people pay for it anyway, it would lessen the effect and make the panel of judges (so to speak) exclusive.
x. Public at-large would use the details to manufacture their own products and never have to buy from the market in the first place. You might say "why doesn't this happen already" but it does, on some level, just on behalf of those who actually carry the technical know-how (and have access to the tools, machines, and materials) to get it done. For instance, a friend of mine is using his own hydrogen source because he bought the platinum needed to do it. Not everybody will be doing that. But this is largely because people aren't exposed to the concepts behind the products. If people are regularly exposed to the concepts at the very point of conception, they're going to be more savvy and more inclined to just make their own. This leads back to the above: it's more marketable if nobody had any idea it was coming until it was ready to market.
x. Part of the above, some people would meet the in-between demand by manufacturing new devices for others who can't do it. This would probably be some kind of breach of patent or whatever, but usually people aren't getting caught. Suddenly they would be, because people would care, because they're part of this big network of eyeballs, and if anything happens when you suddenly empower a bunch of people, a large segment of them, socially inept, semi-retarded, or not, become litle Private Eyeballs and start snitching. So the little machine shop that wants to turn out half a dozen of the new engine or whatever ends up busted if anybody mentions anything about it at all to anyone, which is also inevitable, you go to the bar and you tell a pal or whatever. So all kinds of bad shit will happen, out of the same effect that creates voluntary police at Wikipedia who have no interest in the articles whatsoever but show up and police the fuck out of them anyway.
The whole idea is awesome, but it'll lead to total failure. What I would have to logically argue, then, is that patenting itself, as a process or a function, is a total failure and should be thrown out. It's doing more harm than good to the economy, to the government, to the public, to the Constitution, all of it. Just toss it out, forget about it, find some other more ingenius way that actually involves one's own skills and abilities to capitalise on something. If you can't, you can't, but at least you'll always be able to make the local profit. And look, Edison patented all of Tesla's work as his own, so how gr3at can patenting actually be?
Just releasing a statement like that makes futures immediately more valuable. Any oil they already own is immediately more saleable at increasing profits; if they're trying to actually get out of oil, this is exactly the sort of statement they would want to make to get the most money for the oil they still have in reserve.
YES! NASA ROCKS!!!
Top minds for rizzle!
EVERYBODY in America so SMART!
You can just cultivate batches of jellyfish cells, you don't need whole, live jellyfish.
In Florida, somebody on a lifeguard staff reached into a cooler and pulled out a coke bottle that looked like it was full of water but was full of water containing a batch of invisible jellyfish stinger cells. He drank it and survived with discomfort.
Anyways you can just grow the shit, you don't need to kill more than probably one jellyfish to get it started, boo hoo if they all die, though. What are you using them for? Biodegradable mosquito nets?
Old Guy Dances to Lady Gaga."
This guy shows styles exemplary of moving mostly your legs and arms and not your head or torso. He does some stuff reminiscent of pop and lock and he does some mohawk stuff. So is he putting the ladies off? Why was he considered so popular, just because he's moving at all, even still alive at that age? People that old are usually dead, right? Is that what's going on, what the fuck? I thought he was just popular. I thought that shit was "cool", more "sexy". People said the old guy's sexy! Clear it up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pEho5tqwfE [youtube.com]
--
'Free'. . . as in the reign of Satan.
Negate *me* all you want, you haven't done a thing to rebuff my stance!
"Old Guy Dances to Lady Gaga."
This guy shows styles exemplary of moving mostly your legs and arms and not your head or torso. He does some stuff reminiscent of pop and lock and he does some mohawk stuff. So is he putting the ladies off? Why was he considered so popular, just because he's moving at all, even still alive at that age? People that old are usually dead, right? Is that what's going on, what the fuck? I thought he was just popular. I thought that shit was "cool", more "sexy". People said the old guy's sexy! Clear it up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pEho5tqwfE
I asked him in his blog, so we'll see...
http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2010/09/silicon_valley_is_americas_wealth_engine_not_its_job_engine.html#comments
Increasingly, the only world for techs is run, owned, staffed, and generally populated by techs.
Techs can't be content with a government run by non-techs. They get miffed when patents are granted for things like "clicking on the icon", but non-tech patent clerks grant such patents any way. They get miffed when laws are drafted against breaking rot-13 encryption, even though a nine-year-old can do it, but it happens anyway because non-techs draft and pass the legislation. They get miffed when Governors O.K. networked electronic voting in their states but Governors do it anyway because they have no idea what a transistor is or what security really means. So techs aren't content unless their government is all-tech.
Similarly, techs get miffed when they are asked to be the nervous system of the entire company and are paid just a little more than the janitor. They would have to work in a company entirely owned by techs to get the treatment and compensation they feel they deserve. They get miffed when their coworkers think they're supposed to crawl out of the network closet and fix a pencil sharpener or change a toner cartridge, but the only time that doesn't happen is when all the coworkers are techs, too. And they get miffed when in society in general things go according to what football players and retired military officers want and never the way techs want, so techs get to be the whipping posts of the rest of the population and are never glorified, always misunderstood, and never respected or wanted around by the more glamorous members; but the only way that would change would be if all the members of the population were techs.
So who cares if you can't get a fucking job? Learn how to make your own money, since you're so god-damned smart!!! :)
The trivialized can later become the normalized and even novelized. Just look at "Schindler's List"" and the spots of red, or, Kia Motors hosting "the next YouTube star".
The only way MS could continue to benefit from a proprietary model in an open-source market would be to work toward more or less completely isolating a few markets from open-source (probably U.S., Gr. Britain, Australia).
Didn't Bill Gates already say he wants all of us to store all our "data files" in massive, sub-oceanic storages? While forcing us all to use processors that always ask Microsoft (and/or monopoly "trade" partner microprocessor firm) for permission before executing any set of machine instructions in lieu of perfecting "security"?
In a world where Adobe can try a Russian in an American court and send him back to Russia for imprisonment, where breaking rot-13 or simple substitution can get you a similar conviction for "espionage", where learning about and discussing the "trade" partner microprocessor firm's backroom-deal hidden opcodes is industrial terrorism or some crap, where America's number one terrorist threat are "the homeless" and where veterans are "right wing extremists", where sleeping on the couch while your son is in the backroom downloaded 0-day can get you gut-shot, and basically where owning a 486 will one day be considered an act of treason?
Of course, "being nice" might just equate to "pushing the envelope", i.e. attempting to buy-out "big open source" development.
Where the licenses don't allow for actually purchasing and closing the code, there's always the possibility of just buying up developers for the right price (right price? everybody has one), signing them to non-disclosure and corporate clearance (against "corporate espionage") agreements lasting a decade or longer with huge liabilities attached for leverage (where your options if you did spill the beans or take your "trade secrets" back to open-source would be either live on the street and be "uncollectible" or pay out the ass to a multi-million dollar damages judgement for the rest of your life, which may or may not be the life of a convicted corporate saboteur) giving them their own "department" while simultaneously closing/internally-buying-out the "department" and laying them all off, and considering the unemployment pay to be a small fee compared to losing product sales against the open-source "competitor".
. . . Just Say No to Open Source, Chummer!!!
What kind of ignorant people would marginalise India? That's what they're doing by failing and/or refusing to implement the new symbol.
There are plenty of great scientifictions out there that were never made into radio operas let alone screenplays. Egads, why spend all this money just rehashing something that already exists as a complete and finished work? The better investment would be to breech some new subject into being, to expand the artistic collective of scientifictions overall, thus enriching the minds and lives of people who as of yet have absolutely no idea what the amazing future holds in such far-off worlds as the amazing year 2050!
THERE WILL BE:
Personal Rocket-Jet Propulsion Backpack CHECK!
Aerial Autocar CHECK!
Bees the size of small hummingbirds that are so domesticated you can direct them to supple out your nose perfectly clean using their robust and godgiven kneebritches CHECK!
SO MUCH MORE awaits us in the Amazing year Twenty-Fifty that the human race will fail to become aware of if all we manage to do is keep telling the same OLDE-TIMEY TALES over and over and over again! If that's all we ever did then, by golly, we would still believe that mankind is the center of the universe! Or that beans and peas are totally unrelated! We would believe that rockets are only for children to play with, and look at what we know today: "KEEP OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN"! There's no telling what leaps of evolution we may take if we learn to adapt more of the as-yet-unadapted bookwritten scientifiction tales of MARVEL AND WONDER into radio-operas and "talkie" motion pictures!
Or else -- we may NEVER get to see the amazing year 2050!
How amazing is it to have a vibrating belt (of all things) that helps one make up for an astounding lack of reliable directional sense, when there's apparently stuff out there that can help you make up for a far more commonplace lack of reliable ESP?
http://jointreconstudygroup.blogspot.com/ : "DARPA, Army fund Telepathic Research"
. . . but the article links to the DARPA publication in question (at http://www.darpa.mil/Docs/StratPlan09.pdf , in case you missed the link that's in the first paragraph of the NetWorkWorld article).
And right there on page 14/57:
And on page 18/57:
. . . unless you're suggesting DARPA got hax0r3d?
" They were regular Buck Balto's, bringing us our biomedicines faster. Then they fired up the mass-driver and things quickly turned into a 'space opera'. "
Anyways here's more of the same (DARPA programs and funding) but from last year, presented by the CDI, for comparison's sake:
http://www.secureworldfoundation.org/siteadmin/images/files/file_203.pdf