Tyrants use media to brainwash and spread propaganda so we should throw out or TVs and unplug the internet.
Many of us are witness to what the mainstream media has been doing and continues to do regarding the Ron Paul campaign. He just won at least half the delegates in both Iowa and Missouri; the only way I know about this is from reading the comments in "hit piece" articles about Ron Paul's "failing campaign".
During these past few months, my relationship with the television has been changing as well. I'm no longer really interested in the stories that it has to tell me; reality is much more interesting (like that Chinese curse).
I think the pat downs are insane and disrespectful and completely worthless, but no jury would accept that they are equivalent to rape or physical harm [...]
Put me on that jury, and I will accept exactly that. Touching someone in their "private" area uninvited is definitely close to rape, and is physical harm. I agree with the rest of what you wrote.
Why ethanol? It seems like renewable forms would be much better and would not disrupt the food supply (and pricing). If you're talking about automobiles, we should move towards the new IBM "breathable" batteries, which weigh much less because they get some of their power from the atmosphere. Batteries in cars make the most sense, because it decouples "power generation" from "power usage"; the batteries can be filled from energy produced via water, wind, sun, nuclear, coal, fusion, and whatever the next quantum-based energy source is. (Siblings said similar statements, albeit with much more vitriol...)
Since 911 we are living in Jack Bauer land. Better hope the Good Guys never lose their moral compass.
IIRC near the beginning of season 2, Jack Bauer killed a suspect in custody. I think the good guys lost their moral compass years ago... (Besides, what "good guys"? The government is just the last thug standing.)
In the Ron Paulite religion, gold is a sacred and mystical metal that can stave off recessions and makes economies unsinkable. Ron Paulites could be described as something of precious metal fetishists.
You have this backwards. To Ron Paul supporters, centralized banking is a recipe for extracting the wealth from a nation, through continuous boom/bust cycles, the boom being "easy credit" so people who shouldn't qualify for mortgages, do; the bust being "tightening credit" so those who shouldn't have qualified for mortgages are foreclosed on.
A stable currency won't "magically" cause these cycles to disappear. Moving away from centralized banking and fiat currency, will -- not magically, but because those cycles were designed in to the Fed's long con from the start.
IO is one of our primary tools in conflict, and we shouldn't somehow be ashamed of it
Well, I strongly disagree: it doesn't matter what the new label for "lying" is, "lying" is a behavior that I do not want my tax dollars to support. I am ashamed that my government lies to anybody.
Similar experience here: my sister was vegetarian for a number of years (half a dozen or so), and when she came out of it, the first meat she ate was bacon.
But cooking, by breaking down fibers and making nutrients more readily available, is a way of processing food outside the body. Eating (mostly) cooked meals would have lessened the energy needs of our digestion systems, thereby freeing up calories for our brains.
That is so cool. It makes me feel something like a sea cucumber, which extrudes its stomach and begins processing its meal outside its body.:)
Hi, I was adding those books to my Amazon wishlist, and it looks like the authors of "Good Fat, Bad Fat" are William P. Castelli and Glen C. Griffin, 1997. "Why We Get Fat" was 2010, and an earlier book by Gary Taubes was "Good Calories, Bad Calories", from 2008. Just curious which earlier book you were referring to? (Not looking for points for pointing out an error, just looking to correct it -- and read the right references.:)
It's going to look really good if they manage to miss bagging some criminal or terror kingpin because some foreign governement was double checking the paperwork to avoid another Kim Dotcom style mess.
(Emphasis added.) Surely the US government isn't going after themselves?
[...] but a widely respected policy like this should prevent draconian knee-jerk bullshit like shutting down social media sites just because a group of miscreants use them for illegal purposes.
Yeah, let's shut down the oxygen because some criminals are using it to breathe with. Let's cut off our noses, damned face!
Thanks for the memories, and new info! I knew about the Kardashev scale (but re-read it for a refresher), and following a link in that, I read up on star lifting. Neat!
Even better, a few days ago I got an overlay ad when I clicked a Google News link to NYT, which told me that this was the first of my ten free articles for the month. Yeah, like I'm going to start paying them for what Reuters and AP (ad nauseum) put out for "free" (to me).
Exactly! In idle America, Judges vote for the singers.
I think however, SCI-FI authors *should* write about distopias
Of course but there needs to be balance.
I like to think of it in terms of the brain as a planning machine: it evaluates both positive and negative plans, and chooses accordingly. Thus, thinking about suicide is not a sign that you need therapy -- the sign is the thought, "that seems like a good idea" following a thought about ending it.
Which is something every parent should teach their children. I have an ultra-religious aunt who yelled at me to "stop playing my daughter that suicide music!" when I tried to introduce my cousin, who played flute, to the beautiful melodies in Jethro Tull's "Moths", which starts with the (innocent, I thought) lyrics "Oh the leaded window opened, to move the dancing candle flame, and the first moths of summer, suicidal came." It very neatly describes a pattern in nature, that of moths seeking light and being destroyed by their quest. This aunt also destroyed property, burning an audio tape that my sister had given her daughter. To me, this is horrific; she was terrorizing her child, instead of teaching her.
We should be prepared for all eventualities, or at least as many of them as we can adequately prepare for, given time and resources. Thinking about danger, and ways to mitigate the danger, seems like a good use of our societal time left to think. (Last four words from a They Might Be Giants song, "It's not My Birthday", "As I walk I think about a new way to walk, as I think I'm using up the time left to think.")
On the other hand, I can't think of a single reason why I wouldn't want the government to know how much money I have in the bank, unless it's coming from illegal activities. What could a deranged government do with that information? Make me pay taxes?
Government is made of people. People are corruptible. I would prefer not to allow corruptible people to have access to the size and scope of the assets of the citizens, as that tends to reduce the corruption. Sibling poster is accurate, in order to pay for the additional debt for next year we will need to dismantle basically everything -- and then we can't pay for the next year. See this Tony Robbins video regarding our debt.
The only advantages of LCDs are size, weight and power consumption - all of these are not primary features of a monitor, at least for me (the same way that I don't buy a car based solely on the fuel consumption, or a computer based on its power consumption and size - I look for performance and cost first).
The LCD advantage that I prefer? Not irradiating remaining eye.
Heh. I had some doubts about including that part, and here we are.:) I suppose I should have instead used different human tribes: climate forces various layer requirements. Tribes near the equator tend to wear less clothing, sometimes none; tribes closer to the poles tend to wear more clothing, and thus perhaps tend to have societal norms about wearing such clothing. (Not, perhaps, starting from prudishness, but for health -- "if you don't cover that up, you'll catch cold!" may have been the origin.)
First things first. Cut spending enough so that we can at least pay the interest on our loans and not take out any more loans.
The very nature of the loans is that they are designed to be unpayable. The Federal Reserve is the source of all money in circulation; the federal government creates bonds which the Federal Reserve buys in exchange for dollars, i.e., the Federal Reserve loans the government some money, to be paid back with interest. If the Federal Reserve is the only source of these dollars, how can the government ever pay back even the original loan? And it makes sense, as one can see from the historical chart of when America started the Federal Reserve, and the national debt growth since then. Two links: Tony Robbins saying basically "if we dismantle and sell every corporation and rich person to pay the tax increase, we are able to do it -- but then where will the production come from next year?" And another "How Money is Created"
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Currently no mod points; I read the parent because of your post, and am glad that I did, so I'm echoing the sentiment.
Tyrants use media to brainwash and spread propaganda so we should throw out or TVs and unplug the internet.
Many of us are witness to what the mainstream media has been doing and continues to do regarding the Ron Paul campaign. He just won at least half the delegates in both Iowa and Missouri; the only way I know about this is from reading the comments in "hit piece" articles about Ron Paul's "failing campaign".
During these past few months, my relationship with the television has been changing as well. I'm no longer really interested in the stories that it has to tell me; reality is much more interesting (like that Chinese curse).
I think the pat downs are insane and disrespectful and completely worthless, but no jury would accept that they are equivalent to rape or physical harm [...]
Put me on that jury, and I will accept exactly that. Touching someone in their "private" area uninvited is definitely close to rape, and is physical harm. I agree with the rest of what you wrote.
TSA: Government Work Program for the unemployable.
What's weird is to think that these people are the result of unfunded federal mandates like No Child Left Behind...
Why ethanol? It seems like renewable forms would be much better and would not disrupt the food supply (and pricing). If you're talking about automobiles, we should move towards the new IBM "breathable" batteries, which weigh much less because they get some of their power from the atmosphere. Batteries in cars make the most sense, because it decouples "power generation" from "power usage"; the batteries can be filled from energy produced via water, wind, sun, nuclear, coal, fusion, and whatever the next quantum-based energy source is. (Siblings said similar statements, albeit with much more vitriol...)
Since 911 we are living in Jack Bauer land. Better hope the Good Guys never lose their moral compass.
IIRC near the beginning of season 2, Jack Bauer killed a suspect in custody. I think the good guys lost their moral compass years ago... (Besides, what "good guys"? The government is just the last thug standing.)
In the Ron Paulite religion, gold is a sacred and mystical metal that can stave off recessions and makes economies unsinkable. Ron Paulites could be described as something of precious metal fetishists.
You have this backwards. To Ron Paul supporters, centralized banking is a recipe for extracting the wealth from a nation, through continuous boom/bust cycles, the boom being "easy credit" so people who shouldn't qualify for mortgages, do; the bust being "tightening credit" so those who shouldn't have qualified for mortgages are foreclosed on.
A stable currency won't "magically" cause these cycles to disappear. Moving away from centralized banking and fiat currency, will -- not magically, but because those cycles were designed in to the Fed's long con from the start.
IO is one of our primary tools in conflict, and we shouldn't somehow be ashamed of it
Well, I strongly disagree: it doesn't matter what the new label for "lying" is, "lying" is a behavior that I do not want my tax dollars to support. I am ashamed that my government lies to anybody.
Thanks!
Similar experience here: my sister was vegetarian for a number of years (half a dozen or so), and when she came out of it, the first meat she ate was bacon.
But cooking, by breaking down fibers and making nutrients more readily available, is a way of processing food outside the body. Eating (mostly) cooked meals would have lessened the energy needs of our digestion systems, thereby freeing up calories for our brains.
That is so cool. It makes me feel something like a sea cucumber, which extrudes its stomach and begins processing its meal outside its body. :)
though don't try to steal any from the next pregnant woman you see on the subway - that won't go well
For certain: pregnant women aren't lactating. You probably meant "the next recent mother" or something similar.
Hi, I was adding those books to my Amazon wishlist, and it looks like the authors of "Good Fat, Bad Fat" are William P. Castelli and Glen C. Griffin, 1997. "Why We Get Fat" was 2010, and an earlier book by Gary Taubes was "Good Calories, Bad Calories", from 2008. Just curious which earlier book you were referring to? (Not looking for points for pointing out an error, just looking to correct it -- and read the right references. :)
The 99% is the grass under the 1% elephants' feet.
It's going to look really good if they manage to miss bagging some criminal or terror kingpin because some foreign governement was double checking the paperwork to avoid another Kim Dotcom style mess.
(Emphasis added.) Surely the US government isn't going after themselves?
[...] but a widely respected policy like this should prevent draconian knee-jerk bullshit like shutting down social media sites just because a group of miscreants use them for illegal purposes.
Yeah, let's shut down the oxygen because some criminals are using it to breathe with. Let's cut off our noses, damned face!
Thanks for the memories, and new info! I knew about the Kardashev scale (but re-read it for a refresher), and following a link in that, I read up on star lifting. Neat!
Even better, a few days ago I got an overlay ad when I clicked a Google News link to NYT, which told me that this was the first of my ten free articles for the month. Yeah, like I'm going to start paying them for what Reuters and AP (ad nauseum) put out for "free" (to me).
To make matters worse, he rides a recumbent bicycle to work. No lie.
I see what you did there. I won't take this recumbent bike lying down!
You can't sue a school for being too careful [...]
Perhaps we should start. A spanner in the gears; "vote gridlock".
As it turns out we DO NOT vote for judges.
Exactly! In idle America, Judges vote for the singers.
I think however, SCI-FI authors *should* write about distopias
Of course but there needs to be balance.
I like to think of it in terms of the brain as a planning machine: it evaluates both positive and negative plans, and chooses accordingly. Thus, thinking about suicide is not a sign that you need therapy -- the sign is the thought, "that seems like a good idea" following a thought about ending it.
Which is something every parent should teach their children. I have an ultra-religious aunt who yelled at me to "stop playing my daughter that suicide music!" when I tried to introduce my cousin, who played flute, to the beautiful melodies in Jethro Tull's "Moths", which starts with the (innocent, I thought) lyrics "Oh the leaded window opened, to move the dancing candle flame, and the first moths of summer, suicidal came." It very neatly describes a pattern in nature, that of moths seeking light and being destroyed by their quest. This aunt also destroyed property, burning an audio tape that my sister had given her daughter. To me, this is horrific; she was terrorizing her child, instead of teaching her.
We should be prepared for all eventualities, or at least as many of them as we can adequately prepare for, given time and resources. Thinking about danger, and ways to mitigate the danger, seems like a good use of our societal time left to think. (Last four words from a They Might Be Giants song, "It's not My Birthday", "As I walk I think about a new way to walk, as I think I'm using up the time left to think.")
On the other hand, I can't think of a single reason why I wouldn't want the government to know how much money I have in the bank, unless it's coming from illegal activities. What could a deranged government do with that information? Make me pay taxes?
Government is made of people. People are corruptible. I would prefer not to allow corruptible people to have access to the size and scope of the assets of the citizens, as that tends to reduce the corruption. Sibling poster is accurate, in order to pay for the additional debt for next year we will need to dismantle basically everything -- and then we can't pay for the next year. See this Tony Robbins video regarding our debt.
The only advantages of LCDs are size, weight and power consumption - all of these are not primary features of a monitor, at least for me (the same way that I don't buy a car based solely on the fuel consumption, or a computer based on its power consumption and size - I look for performance and cost first).
The LCD advantage that I prefer? Not irradiating remaining eye.
Heh. I had some doubts about including that part, and here we are. :) I suppose I should have instead used different human tribes: climate forces various layer requirements. Tribes near the equator tend to wear less clothing, sometimes none; tribes closer to the poles tend to wear more clothing, and thus perhaps tend to have societal norms about wearing such clothing. (Not, perhaps, starting from prudishness, but for health -- "if you don't cover that up, you'll catch cold!" may have been the origin.)
First things first. Cut spending enough so that we can at least pay the interest on our loans and not take out any more loans.
The very nature of the loans is that they are designed to be unpayable. The Federal Reserve is the source of all money in circulation; the federal government creates bonds which the Federal Reserve buys in exchange for dollars, i.e., the Federal Reserve loans the government some money, to be paid back with interest. If the Federal Reserve is the only source of these dollars, how can the government ever pay back even the original loan? And it makes sense, as one can see from the historical chart of when America started the Federal Reserve, and the national debt growth since then. Two links: Tony Robbins saying basically "if we dismantle and sell every corporation and rich person to pay the tax increase, we are able to do it -- but then where will the production come from next year?" And another "How Money is Created"