We need to think outside the box, or the Dyson Sphere, as it were. Perhaps, most suns are made of the hydrogen and helium we are familiar with, but 2 hat if a star were bombarded with large inert bodies consisting of iron or other materials that would create inconsistent light output as those semisolid bodies materials moved about within the mixture? In the last year or so, there was a comet that struck our sun and, surprisingly, emerged rather intact a few days later. There is precedent for believing that solid or semisolid bodies can survive within such an environment, at least for a while.
You are the WORST of the WORST... a chronic, immature complainer with a chip on your shoulder about all things reasonable and sane. I am not "upper class", or even upper middle class... my ears and lungs are assaulted daily with not only leaf blowers, but police cars and helicopters, Harleys with no pollution controls or mufflers racing down the street just feet from my house, school buses, charter buses, metro buses and trains ruining the quality of life here. Anything to reduce ANY of that noise and pollution is welcome. You would have only the weakest of legs to stand on if the only solution was to ban all leaf blowers or makers of noise and pollution, but as the article clearly states, the answer is to use ELECTRIC blowers that produce only the least of noise and NO pollution at all... and they are far better for the user not only for their own lungs and ears, but for their wallets as well-- they cost nearly nothing to operate as opposed to those pieces of recalcitrant crap that foul out, require constant maintenance, are an explosive hazard. You have NO business trying to force me to put up with that much noise, pollution and Tea Party-type rhetoric. You and those like you should be exiled to a tiny island where you are forced to submit to these terrible offenses daily. I look forward to streets overrun with Teslas, and Bolts, and other near-silent cars, trucks and motorcycles that produce neither pollution nor sound to assault my senses or the senses of those around me.
If you blame everything you do not like on a can of soup, and the soup is actually innocent, you can rant and rave forever and accomplish nothing. What you do not like about the Space Program (as well as the ACA, immigration, etc.), you have to actually finger the real culprit or nothing will improve.
Obama has many issues he is dealing with... in this case, ACA, the economy and a few other issues take a higher priority... the GOP keeps trying to kill Obamacare even though polls show resoundingly that it is working and people want it. As long as GOPs keep wasting their energy and tax dollars insisting it does not work, and all evidence it to the contrary (do you see tens of thousands of people on the street clamoring to overturn ACA?) says otherwise, then other matters such as the Space Program can not be properly addressed.
You disparage SpaceX for not using parachutes-- yes, parachutes were used for smaller components-- mainly capsules-- during early missions with smaller craft, and with tiny model rockets, but if you do not understand the principle of "problems of scale", you need to look it up. The simplest example of a problem of scale would be that if you dropped a glass sphere one-tenth of an inch from a height of 10 feet onto a hard steel surface, it is likely to survive intact. If you drop a glass sphere 20 feet in diameter from a "height" of just one inch, you can be sure it will shatter to pieces. The Dragon booster rocket is more thanca dozen stories tall--the biggest ever-- and would definitely require a rocket firing to slow it down before hitting the ocean, even with a huge parachute, or the entire assembly would be crushed on impact with the water. You are better off doing it as SpaceX did it, landing softly on a pad. This guy succeeded in bringing this huge booster back intact--he does not warrant your sarcastic comments, but enthusiastic cheers for such an incredible feat. In the future 80 you do not have the slightest background in the subject at hand you are best not to be showing how foolish and clueless you are.
Just as the reusable booster is a strategy to reduce costs, they will he looking at other cost-savers. The Dragon launch system is the largest ever built, plus by using super-cooled, denser fuel, they can put more hardware in orbit than anyone could before them. One strategy they may employ would be, as they could have done on this last momentous launch, was to have put a full 12 satellites in orbit rather than just 11 plus one dead weight for balance. When the first of those satellites does go haywire, that 12th satellite could be taken out of hibernation to fill the slot of that first dead satellite. And, going forward, using all excess launch potential to put "spares" in orbit that hibernate until needed.
Tesla is closely monitoring 60 different cell chemistries being developed by a wide variety of universities, corporations and non-profits. None of them have shown themselves close to market yet. As soon as one of them do, you can be sure it will show up in Tesla's immense, 5-billion-dollar Gigafactory in Nevada. Batteries are by far the most expensive element in the composition of an EV, and a major drop in battery price or gain in energy density would be a massive disruption to the auto markets and OPEC... and the oil despots are so terrified of EVs that as more and more EVs appeared on the road-- there are currently about a half-million in use-- OPEC began to drive the price of gasoline down, knowing that when the price of gas is high, more EVs are sold, but when the price of gas drops, those EV owners don't go back to gasoline-- they stay with electric drive. As an EV owner/ driver, I know how much cheaper and satisfying an EV can be: more powerful, quieter, near-zero maintenance, and guilt-free. I don't want my gas money going to terrorists, and love knowing the money I spend driving an EV will stay here In this country.
Racist to the nth. I am not Asian, but your prejudice is glaring... you even try to justify yourself by oddball logic. It's fools such as yourself that have pushed Trump into a position of prominence. I live, in L.A. with lots of Asians of every flavor, and I see no more accidents in Koreatown or Little Tokyo or other Asian centers than elsewhere. I am only glad I do not have a jackass such as yourself as a neighbor.
You are still a fool and an idiot if you think the observation able universe is anything less that tens of billions of light years... the edge as, we know it is about 43 billion light years from us. Of the closest bodies near us-- our own Moon, Venus, Mercury, the Sun and Mars-- the latter is the only one we had any hopes of finding any life, but there are about 40 billion habitable planets in our galaxy, and you are delusional enough to think that in these few short years that we have been looking without success, that that is enough reason to think there is no life. Most scientists today are of the opinion that there is intelligent life out there, and that given enough time, we will find it.
Damned idiotic spell corrector! It should have Carl Sagan's name in its database, as well as a lot of other words that it lacks, such as "its" and "they're"... and it won't even allow you to add such words to its database, forcing you to keep correcting its incorrect corrections. This is despite the fact that if I type "corrrctions", it will add that obvious nonsense to its word list!
Amazing. Is there something so extraordinarily terrifying about the possibility of intelligent life somewhere within a billion light years of us, that, without the slightest background in astronomy or related sciences, and despite the fact that thousands of far more schooled individuals than you are not foolish enough to make such a definitive statement? Carl SSatan's aid that there are only two possibilities, each of which is numbingly profound: that in this enormously vast universe that we, on this tiny blip of a planet, are the only living things. The other possibility is that we are not alone. You cannot prove a negative... to even pretend to do so by professing there is no other intelligent life, makes you look pitifully ignorant.
Who knows how this will play out. If there are already thousands of these cams in use by cops on the beat, we just may find it was someone such as Anonymous that was responsible, and that it will result in lots of dirty laundry being observed by all, even when the cops don't want us to see it, or that they claim the cameras were "inadvertently" not turned on... but, SURPRISE!!! we not only get to see what they wanted to conceal, but we'll be able to catch them in a coverup as well. Ahhh... much more unintended transparency. Then again, if we find out it was the handiwork of organized crime, identity thieves or even worse, we might be in for some really bad times until law enforcement figures out how to put a lid on this and clean up their systems.
Â"So when your fitness band tells you you have run a 4-minute mile â" don't believe it"... actually, based on the data in this blurb, you've likely run even FASTER than a four-minute-mile.
It is quite irritating to see that every time they manage to put the screws to terrorists, or white-collar criminals or whomever, the cops, FBI, Homeland Security et al show, just how, smart they are in using such clever means to cat h their prey. Good going, guys. Now these cretins know that they shouldn't use PlayStation to communicate any more and will find some other pipeline with which to converse. Maybe you might have just kept mum about what you discovered? Yes, we would not have known just how friggin' clever and resourceful you are, but then maybe we just might have found it a lot easier to happen upon the next terrorist cabal.
I really, REALLY do not get it... thank you, Anonymous, for taking aim against these creatures... but why would it take the Paris attacks to spur you to action?! The whole world would have appreciated timelier response on this... like, YEARS ago. And the Taliban and al Qaeda, too, for that matter.
LOL! You beat me to it! I wish people would at least use Spell check, or some kind of spelling corrector. But I am not convinced of the validity of this data... as another commenter mentioned, we CAN learn new skills, such as new languages, video games, new dance steps or, perhaps, how to get up in front of an audience and deliver a joke effectively. I make a point of learning new things regularly, and I am convinced it helps... I do crosswords, too, which other studies have indicated are beneficial.
It has been assumed for some time that optical microscopes cannot resolve features smaller than the wavelength of light, but last year there was a Nobel awarded for chemistry for an optical microscope capable of resolving individual atoms. There were also one or two other optical microscopes based on different designs that could resolve atoms, which were announced around the same time.
For some odd reason I can't cut-and-paste the links for that data (possibly some limitation of my Android device!) but it can be found easily online.
Uggggh... I have no patience for morons such as yourself that take every opportunity to flame anyone such as Musk for his daring, his commitment to ideals, and to producing a good product. Once he started pushing Model Ses out the door he could have just leaned back and done virtually nothing more but rake in the megabucks people were lined up to spend for The Next Big Thing... and, then, when people started to have problems, ignore them, the way many companies do these days, until things got so bad that the company collapsed under its own bad PR. No... he did ' do that... he started spending BILLIONS installing high - speed stations all over the country to enhance the usability, and forging ahead with new and better upgradable software to make the cars safer, better and more user-friendly. He shoveled billions more into the Gigafactory... and when problems did arise on this ultra-high-tech ride, he got right on top of it, replacing anything necessary to make it as exhilarating an experience as he knew how to make it. Where can you fault him? For having a car that was not PERFECT right out of the gate? Let me see YOU produce anything more complex than a yo yo that does not have problems after a hundred thousand copies leave your factory! Ohhhh... let me guess... you live in your uncle's attic cuz you're too insecure to get a job, for fear you'll do something imperfectly, and suffer the same kinds of, abuse you are dishing out right now. Musk shelled out $150 billion to get Tesla up and running... that was all the cash he had... what is the most YOU ever risked on a venture? A buck on a Hi - Flier kite, maybe? You are pathetic.
Just as Tesla appears to be ready to start offering non-leather interior to those with PETA-fied concerns about animal products, perhaps Tesla should also consider taking one step backward by offering knobs and physical switches and maybe mechanical door handles, too... and maybe offer a menu of which high-tech bling they want in their car, for drivers that yearn for retro... or, maybe just greater reliability. As a matter of fact, I am an EV driver already, and want to get a Tesla myself, but with fewer things to go wrong.
What in the world are you talking about?! If there are two widely differing accounts of how good or bad the Kochs are, and the only ones who say they are the "good guys" and, never mention any of the terrible stuff that all other media are exposing, and the Kochs have dozens of websites and political groups such as "Citizens United" that are supposed to look unrelated but are all directly controlled by the Kochs, and everybody else from Huffington Post to The Guardian to the New York Times keep telling you about all the crap they pull... and tou, can check out all their criminal history online... does it make any sense that these megalomaniac despots are really choir boys?!..... (how do we create page breaks for paragraphs?!? My paragraphs never appear!!!) https://youtu.be/3Q8y-4nZP6o
I just ran across this YouTube vid, "Koch Brothers Exposed"... everyone should see this before they are lulled into thinking there is, anything the Kochs are concerned with other than putting more cash in their pockets. Even their own brother, Bill, exposed them for a dirty deal for, which they were convicted.
https://youtu.be/2N8y2SVerW8
This country is growing wealthier and wealthier every year-- the problem is that they are changing all the rules so only the oligarchs profit from it.
You could not be more wrong about the Koch brothers!!! They, are the most malevolent influence in the US today... you must limit yourself to nothing but the incredibly biased dirt from Fox News, and Rupert Murdoch! It is nearly impossible to pay attention to any less biased news sources for a better view of the poison they spew. Just between the two of them, they are spending close to a billion dollars THIS ELECTION ALONE to drown out any other views, and put as many senators and congressmen in their pockets as possible!
http://www.rollingstone.com/po...http://www.kochfaqs.com/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...http://m.dailykos.com/story/20...http://www.juancole.com/2013/0...
There are tons of such reports from nearly every major news source (notably NOT from FOX or Murdoch!).
The only way you can, say they are "pro freedom" is that they don't want any restrictions on what they spend on campaigns, or how they spend it. The Bush administrations loaded the Supreme Court with justices that have been very regressive, such as allowing "Citizens United" to not only out-spend anyone more moderate, but ruling that such news outlets as Fox can report total lies on their broadcasts and it's okay because it's "free press".
The Kochs complain angrily about union spending on political campaigns, but they spend TEN TIMES MORE ON ELECTIONS THAN ALL UNIONS COMBINED!
Read up on the tons of dirty deals they were involved with, and then tell me how innocent and wonderful they are.
The Koch brothers are the most INSIDIOUS siblings on the planet.
Fortunately, not all superrich are as pathological as the Koch Brothers and their monstrously despicable minions, the Koch Suckers. If you keep up on Elon Musk, Bill Gates and his wife, Warren Buffet, Mark Cuban and several other multibillionaires, they're consciously using their money do more than just make more money... the Gateses, for instance, have it as just one of their mega-goals to wipe out malaria worldwide. Imagine if, somehow, the Kochs could someday wake up and realize there are bigger games to play than trying to ruin the entire planet.
My god, what a biased bit of idiocy you spew. All the stuff the far right espoused have been shown not to work, the opposite approach has been shown to work, and they still use their big bucks to shout at the tops of their lungs, attempting to drown out the voices of reason to get their own way. As an example, Reagan's "trickle down" BS... let the rich have what they want, and eventually the poorest will benefit, too, except that was tried, the lower class never benefitted from it, and it has been shown that when companies, states, countries or whatever raise minimum wage, more people have more spendable income, the percentage of people living in poverty shrinks out of proportion to the increase in minimum wage increase, and everyone benefits. People with more money eat less cheap, unhealthy food, there is less money needed to be spent on health care, etc., etc. Stop trying to blame the Democrats for everything... Reagan ran on a platform-- on each of his terms-- of paying off debts and balancing the budget, yet increased the national debt more than all previous administrations COMBINED. Bill Clinton fought and snarled and bullied to get the budget balanced, and yet as soon as Republicans had the chance, we had sky-high deficit spending again. Can it... nothing you have to say makes sense, as history has shown.
Slashdot Mirror
We need to think outside the box, or the Dyson Sphere, as it were. Perhaps, most suns are made of the hydrogen and helium we are familiar with, but 2 hat if a star were bombarded with large inert bodies consisting of iron or other materials that would create inconsistent light output as those semisolid bodies materials moved about within the mixture? In the last year or so, there was a comet that struck our sun and, surprisingly, emerged rather intact a few days later. There is precedent for believing that solid or semisolid bodies can survive within such an environment, at least for a while.
You are the WORST of the WORST... a chronic, immature complainer with a chip on your shoulder about all things reasonable and sane. I am not "upper class", or even upper middle class... my ears and lungs are assaulted daily with not only leaf blowers, but police cars and helicopters, Harleys with no pollution controls or mufflers racing down the street just feet from my house, school buses, charter buses, metro buses and trains ruining the quality of life here. Anything to reduce ANY of that noise and pollution is welcome. You would have only the weakest of legs to stand on if the only solution was to ban all leaf blowers or makers of noise and pollution, but as the article clearly states, the answer is to use ELECTRIC blowers that produce only the least of noise and NO pollution at all... and they are far better for the user not only for their own lungs and ears, but for their wallets as well-- they cost nearly nothing to operate as opposed to those pieces of recalcitrant crap that foul out, require constant maintenance, are an explosive hazard. You have NO business trying to force me to put up with that much noise, pollution and Tea Party-type rhetoric. You and those like you should be exiled to a tiny island where you are forced to submit to these terrible offenses daily. I look forward to streets overrun with Teslas, and Bolts, and other near-silent cars, trucks and motorcycles that produce neither pollution nor sound to assault my senses or the senses of those around me.
If you blame everything you do not like on a can of soup, and the soup is actually innocent, you can rant and rave forever and accomplish nothing. What you do not like about the Space Program (as well as the ACA, immigration, etc.), you have to actually finger the real culprit or nothing will improve. Obama has many issues he is dealing with... in this case, ACA, the economy and a few other issues take a higher priority... the GOP keeps trying to kill Obamacare even though polls show resoundingly that it is working and people want it. As long as GOPs keep wasting their energy and tax dollars insisting it does not work, and all evidence it to the contrary (do you see tens of thousands of people on the street clamoring to overturn ACA?) says otherwise, then other matters such as the Space Program can not be properly addressed.
You disparage SpaceX for not using parachutes-- yes, parachutes were used for smaller components-- mainly capsules-- during early missions with smaller craft, and with tiny model rockets, but if you do not understand the principle of "problems of scale", you need to look it up. The simplest example of a problem of scale would be that if you dropped a glass sphere one-tenth of an inch from a height of 10 feet onto a hard steel surface, it is likely to survive intact. If you drop a glass sphere 20 feet in diameter from a "height" of just one inch, you can be sure it will shatter to pieces. The Dragon booster rocket is more thanca dozen stories tall--the biggest ever-- and would definitely require a rocket firing to slow it down before hitting the ocean, even with a huge parachute, or the entire assembly would be crushed on impact with the water. You are better off doing it as SpaceX did it, landing softly on a pad. This guy succeeded in bringing this huge booster back intact--he does not warrant your sarcastic comments, but enthusiastic cheers for such an incredible feat. In the future 80 you do not have the slightest background in the subject at hand you are best not to be showing how foolish and clueless you are.
Just as the reusable booster is a strategy to reduce costs, they will he looking at other cost-savers. The Dragon launch system is the largest ever built, plus by using super-cooled, denser fuel, they can put more hardware in orbit than anyone could before them. One strategy they may employ would be, as they could have done on this last momentous launch, was to have put a full 12 satellites in orbit rather than just 11 plus one dead weight for balance. When the first of those satellites does go haywire, that 12th satellite could be taken out of hibernation to fill the slot of that first dead satellite. And, going forward, using all excess launch potential to put "spares" in orbit that hibernate until needed.
Tesla is closely monitoring 60 different cell chemistries being developed by a wide variety of universities, corporations and non-profits. None of them have shown themselves close to market yet. As soon as one of them do, you can be sure it will show up in Tesla's immense, 5-billion-dollar Gigafactory in Nevada. Batteries are by far the most expensive element in the composition of an EV, and a major drop in battery price or gain in energy density would be a massive disruption to the auto markets and OPEC... and the oil despots are so terrified of EVs that as more and more EVs appeared on the road-- there are currently about a half-million in use-- OPEC began to drive the price of gasoline down, knowing that when the price of gas is high, more EVs are sold, but when the price of gas drops, those EV owners don't go back to gasoline-- they stay with electric drive. As an EV owner/ driver, I know how much cheaper and satisfying an EV can be: more powerful, quieter, near-zero maintenance, and guilt-free. I don't want my gas money going to terrorists, and love knowing the money I spend driving an EV will stay here In this country.
Racist to the nth. I am not Asian, but your prejudice is glaring... you even try to justify yourself by oddball logic. It's fools such as yourself that have pushed Trump into a position of prominence. I live, in L.A. with lots of Asians of every flavor, and I see no more accidents in Koreatown or Little Tokyo or other Asian centers than elsewhere. I am only glad I do not have a jackass such as yourself as a neighbor.
You are still a fool and an idiot if you think the observation able universe is anything less that tens of billions of light years... the edge as, we know it is about 43 billion light years from us. Of the closest bodies near us-- our own Moon, Venus, Mercury, the Sun and Mars-- the latter is the only one we had any hopes of finding any life, but there are about 40 billion habitable planets in our galaxy, and you are delusional enough to think that in these few short years that we have been looking without success, that that is enough reason to think there is no life. Most scientists today are of the opinion that there is intelligent life out there, and that given enough time, we will find it.
Damned idiotic spell corrector! It should have Carl Sagan's name in its database, as well as a lot of other words that it lacks, such as "its" and "they're"... and it won't even allow you to add such words to its database, forcing you to keep correcting its incorrect corrections. This is despite the fact that if I type "corrrctions", it will add that obvious nonsense to its word list!
Amazing. Is there something so extraordinarily terrifying about the possibility of intelligent life somewhere within a billion light years of us, that, without the slightest background in astronomy or related sciences, and despite the fact that thousands of far more schooled individuals than you are not foolish enough to make such a definitive statement? Carl SSatan's aid that there are only two possibilities, each of which is numbingly profound: that in this enormously vast universe that we, on this tiny blip of a planet, are the only living things. The other possibility is that we are not alone. You cannot prove a negative... to even pretend to do so by professing there is no other intelligent life, makes you look pitifully ignorant.
@ For a Free Internet: are you writing in some kind of secret alien code that I cannot decipher, or are you typing total jibberish?!
Who knows how this will play out. If there are already thousands of these cams in use by cops on the beat, we just may find it was someone such as Anonymous that was responsible, and that it will result in lots of dirty laundry being observed by all, even when the cops don't want us to see it, or that they claim the cameras were "inadvertently" not turned on... but, SURPRISE!!! we not only get to see what they wanted to conceal, but we'll be able to catch them in a coverup as well. Ahhh... much more unintended transparency. Then again, if we find out it was the handiwork of organized crime, identity thieves or even worse, we might be in for some really bad times until law enforcement figures out how to put a lid on this and clean up their systems.
Â"So when your fitness band tells you you have run a 4-minute mile â" don't believe it"... actually, based on the data in this blurb, you've likely run even FASTER than a four-minute-mile.
It is quite irritating to see that every time they manage to put the screws to terrorists, or white-collar criminals or whomever, the cops, FBI, Homeland Security et al show, just how, smart they are in using such clever means to cat h their prey. Good going, guys. Now these cretins know that they shouldn't use PlayStation to communicate any more and will find some other pipeline with which to converse. Maybe you might have just kept mum about what you discovered? Yes, we would not have known just how friggin' clever and resourceful you are, but then maybe we just might have found it a lot easier to happen upon the next terrorist cabal.
I really, REALLY do not get it... thank you, Anonymous, for taking aim against these creatures... but why would it take the Paris attacks to spur you to action?! The whole world would have appreciated timelier response on this... like, YEARS ago. And the Taliban and al Qaeda, too, for that matter.
Sorry, but if it's Republican bashing, it is likely not absurd.
LOL! You beat me to it! I wish people would at least use Spell check, or some kind of spelling corrector. But I am not convinced of the validity of this data... as another commenter mentioned, we CAN learn new skills, such as new languages, video games, new dance steps or, perhaps, how to get up in front of an audience and deliver a joke effectively. I make a point of learning new things regularly, and I am convinced it helps... I do crosswords, too, which other studies have indicated are beneficial.
It has been assumed for some time that optical microscopes cannot resolve features smaller than the wavelength of light, but last year there was a Nobel awarded for chemistry for an optical microscope capable of resolving individual atoms. There were also one or two other optical microscopes based on different designs that could resolve atoms, which were announced around the same time. For some odd reason I can't cut-and-paste the links for that data (possibly some limitation of my Android device!) but it can be found easily online.
Uggggh... I have no patience for morons such as yourself that take every opportunity to flame anyone such as Musk for his daring, his commitment to ideals, and to producing a good product. Once he started pushing Model Ses out the door he could have just leaned back and done virtually nothing more but rake in the megabucks people were lined up to spend for The Next Big Thing... and, then, when people started to have problems, ignore them, the way many companies do these days, until things got so bad that the company collapsed under its own bad PR. No... he did ' do that... he started spending BILLIONS installing high - speed stations all over the country to enhance the usability, and forging ahead with new and better upgradable software to make the cars safer, better and more user-friendly. He shoveled billions more into the Gigafactory... and when problems did arise on this ultra-high-tech ride, he got right on top of it, replacing anything necessary to make it as exhilarating an experience as he knew how to make it. Where can you fault him? For having a car that was not PERFECT right out of the gate? Let me see YOU produce anything more complex than a yo yo that does not have problems after a hundred thousand copies leave your factory! Ohhhh... let me guess... you live in your uncle's attic cuz you're too insecure to get a job, for fear you'll do something imperfectly, and suffer the same kinds of, abuse you are dishing out right now. Musk shelled out $150 billion to get Tesla up and running... that was all the cash he had... what is the most YOU ever risked on a venture? A buck on a Hi - Flier kite, maybe? You are pathetic.
Just as Tesla appears to be ready to start offering non-leather interior to those with PETA-fied concerns about animal products, perhaps Tesla should also consider taking one step backward by offering knobs and physical switches and maybe mechanical door handles, too... and maybe offer a menu of which high-tech bling they want in their car, for drivers that yearn for retro... or, maybe just greater reliability. As a matter of fact, I am an EV driver already, and want to get a Tesla myself, but with fewer things to go wrong.
What in the world are you talking about?! If there are two widely differing accounts of how good or bad the Kochs are, and the only ones who say they are the "good guys" and, never mention any of the terrible stuff that all other media are exposing, and the Kochs have dozens of websites and political groups such as "Citizens United" that are supposed to look unrelated but are all directly controlled by the Kochs, and everybody else from Huffington Post to The Guardian to the New York Times keep telling you about all the crap they pull... and tou, can check out all their criminal history online... does it make any sense that these megalomaniac despots are really choir boys?!..... (how do we create page breaks for paragraphs?!? My paragraphs never appear!!!) https://youtu.be/3Q8y-4nZP6o
I just ran across this YouTube vid, "Koch Brothers Exposed"... everyone should see this before they are lulled into thinking there is, anything the Kochs are concerned with other than putting more cash in their pockets. Even their own brother, Bill, exposed them for a dirty deal for, which they were convicted. https://youtu.be/2N8y2SVerW8 This country is growing wealthier and wealthier every year-- the problem is that they are changing all the rules so only the oligarchs profit from it.
You could not be more wrong about the Koch brothers!!! They, are the most malevolent influence in the US today... you must limit yourself to nothing but the incredibly biased dirt from Fox News, and Rupert Murdoch! It is nearly impossible to pay attention to any less biased news sources for a better view of the poison they spew. Just between the two of them, they are spending close to a billion dollars THIS ELECTION ALONE to drown out any other views, and put as many senators and congressmen in their pockets as possible! http://www.rollingstone.com/po... http://www.kochfaqs.com/ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/... http://m.dailykos.com/story/20... http://www.juancole.com/2013/0... There are tons of such reports from nearly every major news source (notably NOT from FOX or Murdoch!). The only way you can, say they are "pro freedom" is that they don't want any restrictions on what they spend on campaigns, or how they spend it. The Bush administrations loaded the Supreme Court with justices that have been very regressive, such as allowing "Citizens United" to not only out-spend anyone more moderate, but ruling that such news outlets as Fox can report total lies on their broadcasts and it's okay because it's "free press". The Kochs complain angrily about union spending on political campaigns, but they spend TEN TIMES MORE ON ELECTIONS THAN ALL UNIONS COMBINED! Read up on the tons of dirty deals they were involved with, and then tell me how innocent and wonderful they are. The Koch brothers are the most INSIDIOUS siblings on the planet.
Fortunately, not all superrich are as pathological as the Koch Brothers and their monstrously despicable minions, the Koch Suckers. If you keep up on Elon Musk, Bill Gates and his wife, Warren Buffet, Mark Cuban and several other multibillionaires, they're consciously using their money do more than just make more money... the Gateses, for instance, have it as just one of their mega-goals to wipe out malaria worldwide. Imagine if, somehow, the Kochs could someday wake up and realize there are bigger games to play than trying to ruin the entire planet.
My god, what a biased bit of idiocy you spew. All the stuff the far right espoused have been shown not to work, the opposite approach has been shown to work, and they still use their big bucks to shout at the tops of their lungs, attempting to drown out the voices of reason to get their own way. As an example, Reagan's "trickle down" BS... let the rich have what they want, and eventually the poorest will benefit, too, except that was tried, the lower class never benefitted from it, and it has been shown that when companies, states, countries or whatever raise minimum wage, more people have more spendable income, the percentage of people living in poverty shrinks out of proportion to the increase in minimum wage increase, and everyone benefits. People with more money eat less cheap, unhealthy food, there is less money needed to be spent on health care, etc., etc. Stop trying to blame the Democrats for everything... Reagan ran on a platform-- on each of his terms-- of paying off debts and balancing the budget, yet increased the national debt more than all previous administrations COMBINED. Bill Clinton fought and snarled and bullied to get the budget balanced, and yet as soon as Republicans had the chance, we had sky-high deficit spending again. Can it... nothing you have to say makes sense, as history has shown.