The machines most certainly are flipping votes. I watched it myself. I made the Obama touch-screen box X three times. EVERY TIME, it flipped to McCain a millisecond before the next screen came up. How many people do you think would catch that? The printout at the end is rolled up as fast as it can be printed, and you do NOT have the option of reviewing it. How many people can read at the spread of a tape printout? Yes, the computers are hacked to flip D to R, and NO, there are NO cases of it flipping the other way. Wake up and realize that the real world is run by Karl Rove, not Stephen Hawking.
The "hanging chads" were caused by DELIBERATE use of much thicker paper shipped to elderly communities, where the paper wouldn't punch all the way through without force. The "butterfly ballot" was deliberately designed with names not aligning to their box. Do you really not understand that there is NO slimepit which the neocons will not swim in in order to keep power?
OK, one, we need more info. If there really is a way to focus any sort of EM past the diffraction wavelength, this is a serious breakthrough. We should not discount the possibilities of serious breakthroughs -- like Buckminsterfullerene, made by ten drunken grad students and a drunk professor and a drunk sports coach at a cheap wine party with chemistry-department spiked punch at Rice.
Two, if you can actually beat the diffraction limit, then the yellow-light angstroms would be the way to go, not microwave. Or maybe orange. You don't want to increase red with the glaciers melting, and UV or x-ray are probably not a good idea either, what with massive ozone holes already. Sure, microwaves require very little power to transmit, but they're also notoriously inefficient, unless you're frying seagulls with the fire-control radar on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, in which case, who cares?
Three, screw the Heinlein worship. You can't broadcast beamed power from space. It's called "atmosphere." He was wrong about low-G prolonging life, too, remember? Not his fault that he grew up on less science that we teach in third grade now.
Finally, efficiency ratios are the killers. You gotta spend energy to get energy. If you can beat 1.5, you can make money. Otherwise, get used to walking, and hope you can grow enough of your own food to make it worth it.
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The machines most certainly are flipping votes. I watched it myself. I made the Obama touch-screen box X three times. EVERY TIME, it flipped to McCain a millisecond before the next screen came up. How many people do you think would catch that? The printout at the end is rolled up as fast as it can be printed, and you do NOT have the option of reviewing it. How many people can read at the spread of a tape printout? Yes, the computers are hacked to flip D to R, and NO, there are NO cases of it flipping the other way. Wake up and realize that the real world is run by Karl Rove, not Stephen Hawking. The "hanging chads" were caused by DELIBERATE use of much thicker paper shipped to elderly communities, where the paper wouldn't punch all the way through without force. The "butterfly ballot" was deliberately designed with names not aligning to their box. Do you really not understand that there is NO slimepit which the neocons will not swim in in order to keep power?
OK, one, we need more info. If there really is a way to focus any sort of EM past the diffraction wavelength, this is a serious breakthrough. We should not discount the possibilities of serious breakthroughs -- like Buckminsterfullerene, made by ten drunken grad students and a drunk professor and a drunk sports coach at a cheap wine party with chemistry-department spiked punch at Rice. Two, if you can actually beat the diffraction limit, then the yellow-light angstroms would be the way to go, not microwave. Or maybe orange. You don't want to increase red with the glaciers melting, and UV or x-ray are probably not a good idea either, what with massive ozone holes already. Sure, microwaves require very little power to transmit, but they're also notoriously inefficient, unless you're frying seagulls with the fire-control radar on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, in which case, who cares? Three, screw the Heinlein worship. You can't broadcast beamed power from space. It's called "atmosphere." He was wrong about low-G prolonging life, too, remember? Not his fault that he grew up on less science that we teach in third grade now. Finally, efficiency ratios are the killers. You gotta spend energy to get energy. If you can beat 1.5, you can make money. Otherwise, get used to walking, and hope you can grow enough of your own food to make it worth it.