I have remarked in the past that I am not sure that any government can really allow the free flow of information.
And there is little we can do about the nature of government but the second player is big business. We can and should limit the power of corporations and punish them when the work against public interests by doing such things as limiting the flow of the internet. People have rights. Corporations should not enjoy the same rights as people do, For example the directors of a large corporation all have one vote just like the common man. How is it that they are allowed undue influence by hiring professionals to lobby for their interests? Lobbying and bribery and corruption are pretty much identical terms in most cases.
In my humble opinion the claim of carrying a small amount of water to power a car is total nonsense. In the first place a car of half way normal size requires several hundred liters of Hydrogen per minute to travel at 60mph. Even if some whiz bang new process enables more efficient liberation of hydrogen from water we are talking about a lot of water and one heck of a lot of energy to liberate the hydrogen.
As far as this stuff being new there have been jewelers torches that gain their own hydrogen from water and an electrical power supply for decades. There are even some larger torches in industry that make their own hydrogen. But these systems burn lots of power in making their hydrogen. This is old technology with known limits.
There are slide in hard drive trays for individual units that are very inexpensive. Usually the female portion runs about $30. or even less then the trays that slide in and out run only about $5. or $6. dollars each.
You would have the disadvantage of being limited to filling one drive at a time with data. However it is a very secure way of storing data.
You might also have difficulties with the length of time that the female portion of these drives lasts if you are constantly changing the males. There are some slightly more expensive units that may serve you better. TigerDirect.com tends to carry quite a few of these pull out tray systems.
Why not use a more conventional, strong encryption method and then use quantum encryption on top of that? Getting an imperfect copy of a deeply encrypted message ought to be enough to drive anyone to drink including large numbers of enemy spies working in concert.
Sadly we have a plague of poorly educated people who are attempting to do critical thinking. They almost always lack credentials and the results are unbearable. They are generally worse than people heavily involved in magical thinking. The ones involved in magical thinking at least want to keep things a secret and therefore fail to share(annoy) others.
I live in an unusually crime free area. However cars fleeing at high speed from neighboring counties are a very serious problem even in my area. The cops need a switch that will dead stall any car they are chasing.
One of the funnier events was when our tank like building penetrator was out and about when a call came in about a felon in flight in a car. This tank has a long, solid steel nose meant to cave in concrete to get at barricaded suspects. They did a deliberate head on with the car in flight. It did not dent the tank. We won't be paying for any trials for the felon inside what used to be a car either.
How about every bill being publicly posted without alteration for 90 days before any voting is allowed? That would stop a lot of bad legislation from being pushed through congress.
Bush should not only face impeachment he should also be handed over to an international war crimes panel to be tried for the use of torture on prisoners.
It has been obvious that the Cell processor can be really potent when combined with other Cell processors. What bothers me is that we haven't been seeing PCs made with a few Cell processors at their core. Expense isn't much of an issue with the Cell units.
There is also a wicked fast computer built with a few graphics cards that recently made news. Apparently graphics cards can process data faster then conventional CPUs.
So why aren't such things easily available?
The problem rests in the false definition of broadband that Comcast and others are using. There are nations whose nets are race horses who would never consider three or five megabytes per second as broadband.
The real deal is that American service providers are way too greedy and they are neither keeping their equipment and services at a modern level nor are they giving good coverage in more rural areas.
Obviously our government should be protecting us from this third rate net service attitude and it is not.
This is not a teacher quality issue. It is a social policy issue. The greatest enemy is G.E.D.. Because it is easy to drop out and still get a G.E.D. the dropout rate has gone through the roof.Teachers are not allowed to present difficult materials as keeping kids from dropping out is the number one issue and if forced to study even more will leave school.
The next factor is that as schools have suffered from multi cultural stresses wealthier people have removed their kids from the public school systems. It is no secret that the price of the home that a student lives in is by far the best predictor of academic success. As students from lesser economic backgrounds comprise a higher percentage of the student bodies courses must be dumbed down to their ability level.
Then we have another social issue in that weaker students are enabled to avoid more difficult classes. Requiring pre college courses in high math, chemistry and physics would pretty much empty the schools these days.
The fix is available for these woes but parents would riot if we looked them in the eye and told them that their kids were already too messed up to get a real education. Accusations of racial prejudice would occur if we created the best learning systems for all students. And social policy would need to be strong enough to insist that the super rich also put their kids in the same public schools that others attend.
School busing would also need to be halted as higher academic requirements would not leave enough hours in the day for long bus rides to and from school.
As machines become able to write code on their own I seriously doubt that humans will be able to understand the code at all. And as far as how computer circuits will be created for bio implant those circuits should not resemble human circuits anyway. Humans have too many flaws. Further we have already had machine designed circuits that work well but are of logics that resist human understanding. These "evolution" designed circuits may soon start to take over the industry as it now stands.
I would not be shocked to see Obama win the presidency with an overwhelming landslide. There is a lot of resentment towards the republican party at this time.
Yet if Hillary hangs on it just might be that Obama may suffer from a couple of foot in mouth disasters that could cause the delegates to give Hillary the nomination.
As for the race issue I think many whites do not think of Obama as being a black man. Culturally he seems to be white and his skin is not dark. The prejudice against women may well be greater than racial prejudice towards Obama.
Truth is not something that most businesses can live with. Public systems such as school boards and schools themselves also could not survive if they were transparent.
Security, when done right,makes people accountable. And just as that flashy new security system can detect shop lifters or information thieves it can also be used in a court to show black people being searched disproportionately by store security employees, detect illegal workers or perhaps document the level of sexual harassment that a boss is pushing on an employee.
So it comes down to good security being a real hazard to the businesses that install it.
Think positive. I know that the next time I'm at home and feel like climbing the walls I'll have company. Now if these things can handle a paint brush I can change my home decor as often as I like.
I'm not sure that there is any law or anything else keeping you from having a female statue peeing in your garden.
Sadly with the number of perverts extant you just might draw an unwanted guest to that garden. There seem to be a lot of really sick people these days.
Considering the remarkable ability of Chinese vessels in the era before Christ we may have Chinese settlers in early South America. Japanese vessels are another distinct possibility.
If we go back about 14,000 years and get any good information on which of the Asian nations allowed females on board ships we might get a better clue as to early colonization. Or it just might be that only males made it to the Americas in the early days and that they bred with whatever females they could find. In that sense there may have been no distinct cultural colonies in the early times, There may have simply been accidental conglomerates of ship wrecked people combined with a few explorers who never got word back home that they had survived in the New world.
I don't buy a lot of organic produce but I will say that a head of organic lettuce beats the heck out of conventional lettuce. It tastes better. It has less coarse leaves and it tends to stay fresh about twice as long as mega farm lettuce.
And I have about given up on eating conventional McIntosh apples. They have them so messed up its like chewing on the tree instead of the fruit.
Way back in junior high school we were taught that the communists could collapse a nation if as little as five or six per cent of the population was unhappy.
These days we have one heck of a lot more than six percent who are unhappy. First we have those that aren't even counted as unemployed any more. Then we have an abundance of people who are in the process of foreclosure or who have already lost their homes. We have a solid percentage of the public that has trouble buying groceries much less pay for gasoline. Then we have those who live in terror over medical bills and medical insurance issues.
My point is that we have a big chunk of society that is mad as hell or at the very least scared half to death. To me that means our nation is in deep poo.
It's time for the public to throttle the ISPs that cheat us. I suggest fines equal to the raw income for at least two full years. In other words fine them into the graveyard.
I don think it matters a hoot in the US if one deliberately photographs a property and places it all over for public view. There are exceptions for buildings that have a copyright on their image such as the Empire State Building as they do not want their image to be used on all kinds of products around the world. But privacy really attaches to humans and if they are in view of others even that right vanishes. Buildings do not enjoy the rights we assign to human beings nor does land.
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I have remarked in the past that I am not sure that any government can really allow the free flow of information.
And there is little we can do about the nature of government but the second player is big business. We can and should limit the power of corporations and punish them when the work against public interests by doing such things as limiting the flow of the internet. People have rights. Corporations should not enjoy the same rights as people do, For example the directors of a large corporation all have one vote just like the common man. How is it that they are allowed undue influence by hiring professionals to lobby for their interests? Lobbying and bribery and corruption are pretty much identical terms in most cases.
In my humble opinion the claim of carrying a small amount of water to power a car is total nonsense. In the first place a car of half way normal size requires several hundred liters of Hydrogen per minute to travel at 60mph. Even if some whiz bang new process enables more efficient liberation of hydrogen from water we are talking about a lot of water and one heck of a lot of energy to liberate the hydrogen.
As far as this stuff being new there have been jewelers torches that gain their own hydrogen from water and an electrical power supply for decades. There are even some larger torches in industry that make their own hydrogen. But these systems burn lots of power in making their hydrogen. This is old technology with known limits.
There are slide in hard drive trays for individual units that are very inexpensive. Usually the female portion runs about $30. or even less then the trays that slide in and out run only about $5. or $6. dollars each.
You would have the disadvantage of being limited to filling one drive at a time with data. However it is a very secure way of storing data.
You might also have difficulties with the length of time that the female portion of these drives lasts if you are constantly changing the males. There are some slightly more expensive units that may serve you better. TigerDirect.com tends to carry quite a few of these pull out tray systems.
Why not use a more conventional, strong encryption method and then use quantum encryption on top of that? Getting an imperfect copy of a deeply encrypted message ought to be enough to drive anyone to drink including large numbers of enemy spies working in concert.
Sadly we have a plague of poorly educated people who are attempting to do critical thinking. They almost always lack credentials and the results are unbearable. They are generally worse than people heavily involved in magical thinking. The ones involved in magical thinking at least want to keep things a secret and therefore fail to share(annoy) others.
I live in an unusually crime free area. However cars fleeing at high speed from neighboring counties are a very serious problem even in my area. The cops need a switch that will dead stall any car they are chasing.
One of the funnier events was when our tank like building penetrator was out and about when a call came in about a felon in flight in a car. This tank has a long, solid steel nose meant to cave in concrete to get at barricaded suspects. They did a deliberate head on with the car in flight. It did not dent the tank. We won't be paying for any trials for the felon inside what used to be a car either.
I'll believe in Swiftfuel when I see it. Somehow it strikes me as fuel used to power Swift Boats of political infamy.
How about every bill being publicly posted without alteration for 90 days before any voting is allowed? That would stop a lot of bad legislation from being pushed through congress.
Bush should not only face impeachment he should also be handed over to an international war crimes panel to be tried for the use of torture on prisoners.
We have little hope of taking care of people who are emotional wrecks. Maybe we should pass a law that sissies get their act together and toughen up.
It has been obvious that the Cell processor can be really potent when combined with other Cell processors. What bothers me is that we haven't been seeing PCs made with a few Cell processors at their core. Expense isn't much of an issue with the Cell units.
There is also a wicked fast computer built with a few graphics cards that recently made news. Apparently graphics cards can process data faster then conventional CPUs.
So why aren't such things easily available?
The problem rests in the false definition of broadband that Comcast and others are using. There are nations whose nets are race horses who would never consider three or five megabytes per second as broadband.
The real deal is that American service providers are way too greedy and they are neither keeping their equipment and services at a modern level nor are they giving good coverage in more rural areas.
Obviously our government should be protecting us from this third rate net service attitude and it is not.
Keep in mind that there are many, many PC users who don't give a hoot about gaming.
This is not a teacher quality issue. It is a social policy issue. The greatest enemy is G.E.D.. Because it is easy to drop out and still get a G.E.D. the dropout rate has gone through the roof.Teachers are not allowed to present difficult materials as keeping kids from dropping out is the number one issue and if forced to study even more will leave school.
The next factor is that as schools have suffered from multi cultural stresses wealthier people have removed their kids from the public school systems. It is no secret that the price of the home that a student lives in is by far the best predictor of academic success. As students from lesser economic backgrounds comprise a higher percentage of the student bodies courses must be dumbed down to their ability level.
Then we have another social issue in that weaker students are enabled to avoid more difficult classes. Requiring pre college courses in high math, chemistry and physics would pretty much empty the schools these days.
The fix is available for these woes but parents would riot if we looked them in the eye and told them that their kids were already too messed up to get a real education. Accusations of racial prejudice would occur if we created the best learning systems for all students. And social policy would need to be strong enough to insist that the super rich also put their kids in the same public schools that others attend.
School busing would also need to be halted as higher academic requirements would not leave enough hours in the day for long bus rides to and from school.
As machines become able to write code on their own I seriously doubt that humans will be able to understand the code at all. And as far as how computer circuits will be created for bio implant those circuits should not resemble human circuits anyway. Humans have too many flaws. Further we have already had machine designed circuits that work well but are of logics that resist human understanding. These "evolution" designed circuits may soon start to take over the industry as it now stands.
I would not be shocked to see Obama win the presidency with an overwhelming landslide. There is a lot of resentment towards the republican party at this time.
Yet if Hillary hangs on it just might be that Obama may suffer from a couple of foot in mouth disasters that could cause the delegates to give Hillary the nomination.
As for the race issue I think many whites do not think of Obama as being a black man. Culturally he seems to be white and his skin is not dark. The prejudice against women may well be greater than racial prejudice towards Obama.
Truth is not something that most businesses can live with. Public systems such as school boards and schools themselves also could not survive if they were transparent.
Security, when done right,makes people accountable. And just as that flashy new security system can detect shop lifters or information thieves it can also be used in a court to show black people being searched disproportionately by store security employees, detect illegal workers or perhaps document the level of sexual harassment that a boss is pushing on an employee.
So it comes down to good security being a real hazard to the businesses that install it.
The first step should be to study president Bush and his entire staff and find out which ancient pile of brain impaired mutants spawned these people.
Think positive. I know that the next time I'm at home and feel like climbing the walls I'll have company. Now if these things can handle a paint brush I can change my home decor as often as I like.
I'm not sure that there is any law or anything else keeping you from having a female statue peeing in your garden.
Sadly with the number of perverts extant you just might draw an unwanted guest to that garden. There seem to be a lot of really sick people these days.
Considering the remarkable ability of Chinese vessels in the era before Christ we may have Chinese settlers in early South America. Japanese vessels are another distinct possibility.
If we go back about 14,000 years and get any good information on which of the Asian nations allowed females on board ships we might get a better clue as to early colonization. Or it just might be that only males made it to the Americas in the early days and that they bred with whatever females they could find. In that sense there may have been no distinct cultural colonies in the early times, There may have simply been accidental conglomerates of ship wrecked people combined with a few explorers who never got word back home that they had survived in the New world.
I don't buy a lot of organic produce but I will say that a head of organic lettuce beats the heck out of conventional lettuce. It tastes better. It has less coarse leaves and it tends to stay fresh about twice as long as mega farm lettuce.
And I have about given up on eating conventional McIntosh apples. They have them so messed up its like chewing on the tree instead of the fruit.
Way back in junior high school we were taught that the communists could collapse a nation if as little as five or six per cent of the population was unhappy.
These days we have one heck of a lot more than six percent who are unhappy. First we have those that aren't even counted as unemployed any more. Then we have an abundance of people who are in the process of foreclosure or who have already lost their homes. We have a solid percentage of the public that has trouble buying groceries much less pay for gasoline. Then we have those who live in terror over medical bills and medical insurance issues.
My point is that we have a big chunk of society that is mad as hell or at the very least scared half to death. To me that means our nation is in deep poo.
It's time for the public to throttle the ISPs that cheat us. I suggest fines equal to the raw income for at least two full years. In other words fine them into the graveyard.
I don think it matters a hoot in the US if one deliberately photographs a property and places it all over for public view. There are exceptions for buildings that have a copyright on their image such as the Empire State Building as they do not want their image to be used on all kinds of products around the world. But privacy really attaches to humans and if they are in view of others even that right vanishes. Buildings do not enjoy the rights we assign to human beings nor does land.