I hear you, and don't get me wrong. I hate stupid fucked up regulations that seriously are just plain STOOOOOOOOOOOPID! And Sweet Jesus, there are acres of them in paperwork.
BUT!!! On the other hand, throwing out the baby with the bathwater is insane. We need damn regulations to catch the no good dirty rotten fuckers that burn entire populations. Not only that, we need the penalties to have some big ass teeth and there needs to be some fearsome fuckers in charge of it. If we used our heads we could come up with a common ground, common sense, good for everyone but bad guys set of policies.
Damn it people this isn't rocket science!...well it isn't. It's political, and this is slash dot...we should be technical...lol
Sweet Jesus I feel your pain in this post. I seen a quote yesterday that made me think and laugh at the same time. It went something like this. "In the 80s Capitalism defeated Communism. In the 90s Capitalism defeated Democracy." I chuckled at the truth of it.
You are right, there is no "free market" solution, the rich will only get richer and the poor, poorer until there is only two classes at their extremes. The "slash n burn" system of capitalism has trashed this nation and everyone connected to it. We need to revive industrial capitalism and start playing as Team USA. Multinational interests have too much power in our country that compete with our best interests.
It all rests in Washington and the ability to legally bribe politicians. It is the ONE subject you will not hear any damn one of them talk about with any depth or conviction. It's a big fat trough of money and if you get there, you are setting high on the hog. The little people's interests get crushed under these big wheels.
These dumb fuckers forget that their entire nation is build on the little people. If you choke them down and out, you eventually choke yourself down and out as well. But greed and the nanosecond fast computer age, with lightning fast trades has made Wall Street just another Vegas. Wall Street was for long term investments and long term existence. People made a sturdy, dependable system that was solid and provided well for everyone. But the smart kids learned that the easy money was in financial mathematics. If you think engineering physics formulas are convoluted sometimes, you don't want to dabble in the math of finance.
This is where it gets interesting. Factor this: On an average day with all things being equal; the bad guys can sometimes get one over on Regulators. Now lets tweak this formula. Let's diminish the Regulators and boost the bad guys. What do you think the probable outcome that will result from that will be? Take an educated guess if you will.
I know, it's easy to spot, and it's low hanging fruit if you are solving our problems. There is a more serious problem that we have to deal with. This problem needs solved if magically we solved our corrupted financial system. I am referring to our broken trade policies. Our trade negotiations aren't just weak, they are criminally negligent with an ill bent towards the United States. The world has discovered they can just buy our politicians like the corporations can and we allow ourselves to get BURNED in trade deals.
We need a "Mirror Policy" with the world. If we can't sell it to you, then you can't sell it to us. It's simplistic as hell, and would be damn effective and fair. I wish one side would wake up and capitalize on it. They can have it, they can take credit for it. It's theirs, just do it so that we can get back on track.
Lastly we need fewer politicians and more representatives. We need people who are beyond approach to step up and take the wheel. Are you telling me, these nasty things we have in office are the best we can do? I can throw a rock out my window and hit better people than what's "representing" us in Washington these days.
I wish some slash dot contributors and commentators would run for office. There are some damn intelligent people that frequent these pages, this is why I come here and wade through the retards, is for some great gems, some really bright minds come here. Why the fuck aren't some of you running for office?? Yes you could do it, it's not just a dream. Far, far worse people in life have climbed high in political office. We need damn thinkers, intelligent people capable of dealing with the ever shifting playing field of advancing technology. The world is moving at the speed of light these days and you can't be fucking around or it will run you over.
I am more concerned with Pakistan right now in their tizzy fits still. Afghanistan, can we just leave now? Seriously?
We have better things to do with our time and money. We have infrastructure to rebuild HERE and our industrial system needs an overhaul. Unless they are all in canoes and paddling here across the ocean blue, I don't care. Iran is great at sabre rattling, but it's population is all young and modern and not our problem. They patiently are waiting for the old to die off in a polite way, I think.
Peace is cheaper and we can spend the money on the space race. Aerotech and space industry need funding, not just defense. Where is our Star Fleet? This pesky petty war stuff is grating on my last nerve, it's distracting from infinitely more important things.
History they say is wrote by the victors. Would morality be as well? What if they won? They would be known scientists of their day, held with high esteem?
Amazing, if I do say so. I see we need to engineer some better tools for our scientists to use to study brains with. I guess I need more biology classes as well. I should have started this 40 years ago.
Here's what I think of, an array set about the skull to pick up any kinds of RF, something sensitive, then some IR to check any kinds of thermal levels. What other kind of stuff could we monitor and use to project a mathematical graphing of this? Break out the fancy graphing calculator for that.
We need someone in the industry to finance this of course and to produce the helmets. Sony? lol...Nintendo? Microsoft? I'm not a billionaire yet, so I can't just whip them out at one of my many factories and run over to the tournament and pass them out. Think of the applications you could work then! Wow, you could just put a helmet on if you had all this information mapped. Humans work well with biofeedback equipment as it is. Think of the poor handicapped people who could then control about anything you hook up into their control. They could run factories.
I think it would shed lots of new data onto the situation, and give us some retrospect to some of our "human reverse engineering" we have done plenty of in the past. Seriously, we have mapped the human genome... let's get this done.
We need general information, not microscopic at the moment. That's like shooting a mosquito with a bazooka. I am sure we can monitor plenty of brain activity and map some data. With large numbers like this and them all in the same type of brain function format, it's ideal for extrapolating observational data.
Think of it as watching brain functions like one would watch car traffic from above. We hope we could be tree top level, but we are doing good to just watch from orbit. If we can bring it down closer we can gather more data. Eventually we need to be "boots on the ground" with our levels of not only observation but operation, but that seems like a bit down the line. Lets knock out what we can do now while we are here.
So that you can scan all kinds of brain functions while this happens. It would help with brain function mapping as well, which we seriously need to know and understand. Brain surgery needs to go beyond just cutting hunks of meat, it needs to be about helping reroute neural networks in organic units, to include humans.
There is so much that we still don't understand and frankly it's annoying.
Hovercraft technology for the win here. Just go sliding across it at about 300 mph trying to bull's eye bears and moose along the way. Seriously people, adapt or die.
It makes sense in the fact that you don't put it up into obvious traffic lanes and cause a wreck. Being a pilot you should know about these things. It's a safety issue, of course. I think every department should have a fast, quiet, small VTOL drone that's reliable and easy to operate. HQ can dispatch one quickly to access situations if need be, the applications in regards to law enforcement are a multitude.
Commercial applications of it are amazing too. I hate to "drone" on and on.
The problem has been that the FAA and pilots have been holding this up I think. You need a pilots license to fly a drone here and that is sad.
Drone applications don't all have to be draconian in nature. There are a multitude of uses for them and they can help us with a variety to tasks. It will also help open up a high tech market sector for them here in the USA, I hope. This is one of my favorite subjects being I am in school for mechanical engineering stuff. Next year, I think they will turn me loose on working on the RepRap project I proposed my first semester. I would think with that, one could work next on the open source drone that is out there as well, being you can then generate the parts.
People are far too paranoid about the Government and things in general. Drones are America's new best friend. Didn't our mothers tell us to make friends?
Ants zerging you in vast numbers are hard for any Earth life form to deal with, let alone a single spider setting in his web pondering WTF is with these Ants? A bunch of them will drag dead spiders back to the nest. We would destroy a large spider in the house and toss it out the front door on the sidewalk and ants would make off with it.
I have seen some big spiders in my days. One came walking into the kitchen one day in a country rental I was living in. Our dog walked up to it curious, it ran off like a shot. If my wife had seen it, she would have ran off like a shot the other direction. I wasn't worried about it, the dog had it intimidated. I think I could take it. It was every bit the size of my hand spread out. The big ones like that aren't poisonous here, we have the Brown Recluse though that will do some serious biological damage to you.
That is a handy type of repellant, but will the Ants become immune to it after a while and hence wreck the Spiders? I would hope they do a chemical variant that is to a kilter enough in the composition that it warrants the spider's own webs to require these ants to evolve their own defenses against it.
Is that spider a picky eater? Spiders will eat ants; I used to drop big black ants into spider webs as a child to watch the mayhem. Ants panic when they find themselves in the middle of a spider web, it's almost instinctual that they are in serious trouble. The spider wakes up and is like "WTF?" and will dart out and put some serious bites to it.
I don't know about fire ants though, they might be hard to eat, or they might be prime rib for spiders. Just as long as they get the first bite in on them, it's all good.
I think there is more to being "ant repellent" than a chemical, right?
Yahoo is interesting because it offers up categories of things, no? I just Google, so I have no clue. Google has more than enough to absorb my time and world.
Haha! You think they (the officers) will slip through the cracks after that? Seriously? If they do, they are Teflon coated.
As far as Manning is concerned, if they throw him in "the fort", they will eat him like candy. That kind of political heat would be uncool to have to deal with.
It's small potatoes actually. The big potato is the glaring hole in security protocols. If Private Tardsauce can do a core dump onto the net, then even the most fail agent should have a crack at it. I doubt this makes much news, here, or anywhere else we hope.
This dude is "Earl", that some how fell through the system and ended in the military. Hello! This guy was a mistake to be let out of the village unattended. Dig?
You do realize that when we put the Nazis on trial, they would say "we were ordered to do it" and that didn't cut it with the court? The old "I was ordered to do something horrible, doesn't stand up unless those doing the ordering stay in power."
From what I gather about Manning is he's a moron. He wasn't doing it because he was some do good crusader, he was just being an idiot tool. The real crime is those who let him in the service and those who didn't keep him on a choker chain the entire time he was there until they could find a way to a. get rid of him, send him home, or b. send him to the front where his stupidity will be a self correcting problem.
This whole subject reads like a prequel script to Idiocrisy.
It's too big of task to accomplish considering all of the factors competing against hemp. We need the industry, the energy independence and environment purifying technology, far more than we need a buzz. Of course I would love to throw in weed with hemp. But there are interests ranging from "hysterical church ladies" to big industrial pharmaceutical corporations wanting domination over the patents. Let's understand it's largest opponent, Law Enforcement. These fellows depend on this "drug war" just like others we know depend on real war. It's an industry all in its self.
Miss Conceptions, isn't that the new blonde on The View?
We don't need to clutter up the pretty landscape with this if we design it intelligently. This isn't about massive acreage in the conventional sort of thinking. Besides we need to get this tech kicked into high gear, we need oxygen scrubbers for space habitation. The obvious tech is all around us via nature, we just need to understand it and then augment it and it's catalytic environment.
You busted me. The hippie agenda is to fix global warming, petroleum dependencies and created a new sector of growth to hide our weed. Fear that hippie agenda!
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I hear you, and don't get me wrong. I hate stupid fucked up regulations that seriously are just plain STOOOOOOOOOOOPID! And Sweet Jesus, there are acres of them in paperwork.
BUT!!! On the other hand, throwing out the baby with the bathwater is insane. We need damn regulations to catch the no good dirty rotten fuckers that burn entire populations. Not only that, we need the penalties to have some big ass teeth and there needs to be some fearsome fuckers in charge of it. If we used our heads we could come up with a common ground, common sense, good for everyone but bad guys set of policies.
Damn it people this isn't rocket science! ...well it isn't. It's political, and this is slash dot...we should be technical...lol
Sweet Jesus I feel your pain in this post. I seen a quote yesterday that made me think and laugh at the same time. It went something like this. "In the 80s Capitalism defeated Communism. In the 90s Capitalism defeated Democracy." I chuckled at the truth of it.
You are right, there is no "free market" solution, the rich will only get richer and the poor, poorer until there is only two classes at their extremes. The "slash n burn" system of capitalism has trashed this nation and everyone connected to it. We need to revive industrial capitalism and start playing as Team USA. Multinational interests have too much power in our country that compete with our best interests.
It all rests in Washington and the ability to legally bribe politicians. It is the ONE subject you will not hear any damn one of them talk about with any depth or conviction. It's a big fat trough of money and if you get there, you are setting high on the hog. The little people's interests get crushed under these big wheels.
These dumb fuckers forget that their entire nation is build on the little people. If you choke them down and out, you eventually choke yourself down and out as well. But greed and the nanosecond fast computer age, with lightning fast trades has made Wall Street just another Vegas. Wall Street was for long term investments and long term existence. People made a sturdy, dependable system that was solid and provided well for everyone. But the smart kids learned that the easy money was in financial mathematics. If you think engineering physics formulas are convoluted sometimes, you don't want to dabble in the math of finance.
This is where it gets interesting. Factor this: On an average day with all things being equal; the bad guys can sometimes get one over on Regulators. Now lets tweak this formula. Let's diminish the Regulators and boost the bad guys. What do you think the probable outcome that will result from that will be? Take an educated guess if you will.
I know, it's easy to spot, and it's low hanging fruit if you are solving our problems. There is a more serious problem that we have to deal with. This problem needs solved if magically we solved our corrupted financial system. I am referring to our broken trade policies. Our trade negotiations aren't just weak, they are criminally negligent with an ill bent towards the United States. The world has discovered they can just buy our politicians like the corporations can and we allow ourselves to get BURNED in trade deals.
We need a "Mirror Policy" with the world. If we can't sell it to you, then you can't sell it to us. It's simplistic as hell, and would be damn effective and fair. I wish one side would wake up and capitalize on it. They can have it, they can take credit for it. It's theirs, just do it so that we can get back on track.
Lastly we need fewer politicians and more representatives. We need people who are beyond approach to step up and take the wheel. Are you telling me, these nasty things we have in office are the best we can do? I can throw a rock out my window and hit better people than what's "representing" us in Washington these days.
I wish some slash dot contributors and commentators would run for office. There are some damn intelligent people that frequent these pages, this is why I come here and wade through the retards, is for some great gems, some really bright minds come here. Why the fuck aren't some of you running for office?? Yes you could do it, it's not just a dream. Far, far worse people in life have climbed high in political office. We need damn thinkers, intelligent people capable of dealing with the ever shifting playing field of advancing technology. The world is moving at the speed of light these days and you can't be fucking around or it will run you over.
'nuff said.
Haha...I was thinking the same thing only worse.
I am more concerned with Pakistan right now in their tizzy fits still. Afghanistan, can we just leave now? Seriously?
We have better things to do with our time and money. We have infrastructure to rebuild HERE and our industrial system needs an overhaul. Unless they are all in canoes and paddling here across the ocean blue, I don't care. Iran is great at sabre rattling, but it's population is all young and modern and not our problem. They patiently are waiting for the old to die off in a polite way, I think.
Peace is cheaper and we can spend the money on the space race. Aerotech and space industry need funding, not just defense. Where is our Star Fleet? This pesky petty war stuff is grating on my last nerve, it's distracting from infinitely more important things.
History they say is wrote by the victors. Would morality be as well? What if they won? They would be known scientists of their day, held with high esteem?
What lesson can be learned from this, if any?
Amazing, if I do say so. I see we need to engineer some better tools for our scientists to use to study brains with. I guess I need more biology classes as well. I should have started this 40 years ago.
Here's what I think of, an array set about the skull to pick up any kinds of RF, something sensitive, then some IR to check any kinds of thermal levels. What other kind of stuff could we monitor and use to project a mathematical graphing of this? Break out the fancy graphing calculator for that.
We need someone in the industry to finance this of course and to produce the helmets. Sony? lol...Nintendo? Microsoft? I'm not a billionaire yet, so I can't just whip them out at one of my many factories and run over to the tournament and pass them out. Think of the applications you could work then! Wow, you could just put a helmet on if you had all this information mapped. Humans work well with biofeedback equipment as it is. Think of the poor handicapped people who could then control about anything you hook up into their control. They could run factories.
I think it would shed lots of new data onto the situation, and give us some retrospect to some of our "human reverse engineering" we have done plenty of in the past. Seriously, we have mapped the human genome... let's get this done.
We need general information, not microscopic at the moment. That's like shooting a mosquito with a bazooka. I am sure we can monitor plenty of brain activity and map some data. With large numbers like this and them all in the same type of brain function format, it's ideal for extrapolating observational data.
Think of it as watching brain functions like one would watch car traffic from above. We hope we could be tree top level, but we are doing good to just watch from orbit. If we can bring it down closer we can gather more data. Eventually we need to be "boots on the ground" with our levels of not only observation but operation, but that seems like a bit down the line. Lets knock out what we can do now while we are here.
So that you can scan all kinds of brain functions while this happens. It would help with brain function mapping as well, which we seriously need to know and understand. Brain surgery needs to go beyond just cutting hunks of meat, it needs to be about helping reroute neural networks in organic units, to include humans.
There is so much that we still don't understand and frankly it's annoying.
Hovercraft technology for the win here. Just go sliding across it at about 300 mph trying to bull's eye bears and moose along the way. Seriously people, adapt or die.
Why? Because we are in the "We're evil and we suck" club now with them. If you haven't noticed, we are in the "bad guys" now.
It makes sense in the fact that you don't put it up into obvious traffic lanes and cause a wreck. Being a pilot you should know about these things. It's a safety issue, of course. I think every department should have a fast, quiet, small VTOL drone that's reliable and easy to operate. HQ can dispatch one quickly to access situations if need be, the applications in regards to law enforcement are a multitude.
Commercial applications of it are amazing too. I hate to "drone" on and on.
The problem has been that the FAA and pilots have been holding this up I think. You need a pilots license to fly a drone here and that is sad.
Drone applications don't all have to be draconian in nature. There are a multitude of uses for them and they can help us with a variety to tasks. It will also help open up a high tech market sector for them here in the USA, I hope. This is one of my favorite subjects being I am in school for mechanical engineering stuff. Next year, I think they will turn me loose on working on the RepRap project I proposed my first semester. I would think with that, one could work next on the open source drone that is out there as well, being you can then generate the parts.
People are far too paranoid about the Government and things in general. Drones are America's new best friend. Didn't our mothers tell us to make friends?
.... as an attempt to get people used to the idea of the USA invading Iran.
What? We aren't there yet?
Dear Iran,
Thanks for helping our game be more successful and making us more money! Please feel free to ban our products in the future.
Thanks,
The guys who made BF3 and their families.
P.S. You would all get powned anyway.
Ants zerging you in vast numbers are hard for any Earth life form to deal with, let alone a single spider setting in his web pondering WTF is with these Ants? A bunch of them will drag dead spiders back to the nest. We would destroy a large spider in the house and toss it out the front door on the sidewalk and ants would make off with it.
I have seen some big spiders in my days. One came walking into the kitchen one day in a country rental I was living in. Our dog walked up to it curious, it ran off like a shot. If my wife had seen it, she would have ran off like a shot the other direction. I wasn't worried about it, the dog had it intimidated. I think I could take it. It was every bit the size of my hand spread out. The big ones like that aren't poisonous here, we have the Brown Recluse though that will do some serious biological damage to you.
That is a handy type of repellant, but will the Ants become immune to it after a while and hence wreck the Spiders? I would hope they do a chemical variant that is to a kilter enough in the composition that it warrants the spider's own webs to require these ants to evolve their own defenses against it.
Is that spider a picky eater? Spiders will eat ants; I used to drop big black ants into spider webs as a child to watch the mayhem. Ants panic when they find themselves in the middle of a spider web, it's almost instinctual that they are in serious trouble. The spider wakes up and is like "WTF?" and will dart out and put some serious bites to it.
I don't know about fire ants though, they might be hard to eat, or they might be prime rib for spiders. Just as long as they get the first bite in on them, it's all good.
I think there is more to being "ant repellent" than a chemical, right?
Yahoo is interesting because it offers up categories of things, no? I just Google, so I have no clue. Google has more than enough to absorb my time and world.
Watch Google bid it up..lol.
Strawman argument is full of straw.
Haha! You think they (the officers) will slip through the cracks after that? Seriously? If they do, they are Teflon coated.
As far as Manning is concerned, if they throw him in "the fort", they will eat him like candy. That kind of political heat would be uncool to have to deal with.
It's small potatoes actually. The big potato is the glaring hole in security protocols. If Private Tardsauce can do a core dump onto the net, then even the most fail agent should have a crack at it. I doubt this makes much news, here, or anywhere else we hope.
Nothing to see here, move along.
This dude is "Earl", that some how fell through the system and ended in the military. Hello! This guy was a mistake to be let out of the village unattended. Dig?
You do realize that when we put the Nazis on trial, they would say "we were ordered to do it" and that didn't cut it with the court? The old "I was ordered to do something horrible, doesn't stand up unless those doing the ordering stay in power."
From what I gather about Manning is he's a moron. He wasn't doing it because he was some do good crusader, he was just being an idiot tool. The real crime is those who let him in the service and those who didn't keep him on a choker chain the entire time he was there until they could find a way to a. get rid of him, send him home, or b. send him to the front where his stupidity will be a self correcting problem.
This whole subject reads like a prequel script to Idiocrisy.
It's too big of task to accomplish considering all of the factors competing against hemp. We need the industry, the energy independence and environment purifying technology, far more than we need a buzz. Of course I would love to throw in weed with hemp. But there are interests ranging from "hysterical church ladies" to big industrial pharmaceutical corporations wanting domination over the patents. Let's understand it's largest opponent, Law Enforcement. These fellows depend on this "drug war" just like others we know depend on real war. It's an industry all in its self.
Miss Conceptions, isn't that the new blonde on The View?
Let him return, he just wanted to drop off a Coke bottle.
We don't need to clutter up the pretty landscape with this if we design it intelligently. This isn't about massive acreage in the conventional sort of thinking. Besides we need to get this tech kicked into high gear, we need oxygen scrubbers for space habitation. The obvious tech is all around us via nature, we just need to understand it and then augment it and it's catalytic environment.
You busted me. The hippie agenda is to fix global warming, petroleum dependencies and created a new sector of growth to hide our weed. Fear that hippie agenda!