-A big screen, (twice the size of Noki'a little guy.) -A minimal laptop keyboard which is still super-easy to type on. -No moving parts. -Flash Card ports. -An 8 hour lith-ion battery. -Instant on.
Answer: The discontinued HP Jornada 820, available (on a lucky day) over eBay for about two hundred and fifty bucks.
It won't fit in your pocket, but it's half the size of a normal laptop. You can't really surf the web on the thing, but some of us have been begging the industry to create a device which focuses not on candy, but on serious word-processing power and long battery life. I consider NON-wirelessness to be a highly desired and increasingly difficult to find feature.
Bah, ever since they introduced the written word, it has artificially limited the endless depth and power of the imagination. No words can ever truly encompass the richness of a thought. No language can ever capture the true brilliance of the mind's eye.
"You stand before a mountain."
The mountain you see in your mind's eye will be unique and different from every other mountain experienced by anybody else who reads those words. Where is the limitation there? Compare that to a photograph, or a painting which boxes the person into a narrow, pre-defined experience.
Words are simple tools, yes, but they are designed to spark the deep wells of the imagination.
Only a writer frustrated by the fact that the particular mountain in his head cannot ever be perfectly transcribed to another person would complain. Better to be open to the reality that there are endless perspectives and then use those perspectives to cooperatively cobble together a universe in which to tell one's stories.
the thing is, in computer games, stupid pointless shit like my girlfriend randomly dying doesn't happen.
Dumbest love story ever. Boy falls in love with girl, girl kisses boy, girl randomly dies.
Hm. I had that happen as well, and I'm honestly not kidding.
So. . , how random is it that we should be discussing unfair, random events using that point as the example?
'Random' is an illusion. --And high drama and pain are useful learning tools for advancing souls. The desire to seek solidity and stability in an ever-changing universe and why it doesn't work and how one can exist happily regardless is one of the many lessons we must learn during the various lives we journey through.
Were there patents on the books for the technology which rendered those black, angular American war jets radar-invisible? You know, those whatchamacallit planes the US trucked out during the first Gulf War.
No? No patents on technology which the U.S. Military would without any question want first dibs on and absolute subsequent control over until it became twenty years old and hopelessly out of date?
If Bush and cronies can become the leaders of the U.S., then similarly, another band of psychopaths can become the board members of Google Inc.
Too much power centralized is a disaster waiting to happen.
I've been worried about Google since the beginning, and this only makes the hairs standing on my current goosembumps quiver in the wind.
But rah, rah Google, and all that.
*sigh*
The Medium is the Message. --A multi-layered cross-linked world of enormous knowledge and opportunity all bottle necked through a single authority which has the ability to dictate what our awareness has access to.
If trustworthy individuals were the ones drawn to positions of power and easily corruptible monsters were not, then I'd be waving Google flags like everybody else. But that's not how it works, is it?
The grand solution is Personal Sovereignty. Do your own work, take charge of your own power and don't give your decisions over to somebody else.
You make some great insights for intelligent design there.
I find the argument for Intelligent Design to be one of those ironies which makes me want to shake somebody. --Aspects of the argument are on the right track, but for all the entirely wrong reasons. For instance, when an entity like Monsanto genetically engineers a crop species, such as corn, I wouldn't blame the result on that silly cult version of 'God' the Christians are so hopelessly enthralled with. Being the herd-control program religion is. . .
Hm. Or now that I think about it. . . But then people keep suggesting I invest in tin-foil.
Funny.
The same mechanics of the Intelligent Design argument could be used to argue that Religion is a giant mind-control project. --How could anything so invasive, destructive and wide-spread not be the result of a deliberate effort to curtail human awareness?
The world is already a giant hologram where you can do or undo whatever you feel like.
Plugging your head into an artificial world is like wanting to play space-invaders on a simulated computer interface inside a game of Quake. No thank-you. We already have the perfect interface out here where the graphics and sound are of the highest quality and there is no chumpy, 'Save' button to make things boring. And there are plenty of cheats keys in the structure of reality if you have the courage to seek them.
Anyway, people who crave to 'plug in' are kind of creepy. Being around them makes me vaguely worried that at any moment I'll get shot in the back with a big plasma gun.
WoW! Thats exactly my age! How could you have possibly known that!!?? There must some strage meaning we can assign to this coincidence!
Meaning implies an intelligence attempting to communicate through pattern. Otherwise, patterns simply 'are'.
Even without an attempt to communicate, however, recognizing a pattern in a seemingly chaotic system allows one to become aware of an underlying structure, from which various further insights and knowledge can be obtained.
Sometimes patterns will show up in ways which suggest underlying structures which do not fit into current orthodox thinking. Such patterns challenge people to grow and to consider new possibilities which exist beyond the boundaries of orthodox thinking.
People who feel the need to ridicule all that falls outside the orthodox boundaries of 'reality' (as dictated by the authority figures), are those who will be unable to function when those same boundaries fail to keep out the wolves.
Sticking one's head in the sand only makes one's bottom a juicy target, and severely limits the range one can move, see and explore.
Not all patterns are worth exploring, it is true. But many people hide from extremely significant patterns at their own peril.
what an amusingly little pattern recognition machine we have upstairs.
And because we know that we are able to recognize patterns means that we ought to ignore the patterns we detect without further thought. . ?
Hmm. . .
"What's that? People seem to get horribly sick when they eat rotten shell fish? Bah! That's silly! You're just seeing patterns. Now eat your rotten shell fish and stop thinking so much. It's making the rest of us uncomfortable. What's you're problem, anyway? Didn't you have the courage to explore the world on your own terms tormented out of you during your school years? You've clearly not been ostracized enough. Now shut up and eat or we'll all laugh at you!"
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"Those who have the courage of a lion will not have the fate of a mouse." Both die eventually. By the way, which species numbers in the billions and has the most adaptive, successful, and widely-distributed population? The courageous species is more fun to hunt and kill for recreation. Its other virtues are what?
It was a loose metaphor, but if you want to examine it. . .
The Lion sits at the top of its respective food chain. A mouse lives at the bottom of the food chain. It is food. While numbering in the billions and living in fear are interesting and valid qualities, they are not ones I particularly admire or strive to experience.
Being kept/hunted/farmed by higher beings is a reality we all exist within whether we are aware of it or not, but it is something which can be overcome. To do so requires courage and action. The argument for weakness and timidity and strength by way of rapidly reproducing does not appeal to me.
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What a dumb story. New Scientist is obviously a propaganda mouthpiece if this is the stuff they're reporting.
Every now and again, however, you get leaks in the media net which describe the real state of technology. . .
Ignore the following article's intention, and look at the leaks. . .
-Uh. . , they temporarily did what? (And people still continue to insist that the human nervous system is not affected by EM. "There's not enough power emitted from a cell phone to damage cells!" Uhh, fine. Have you considered what other effects EM might have on the brain, or is that pleasent buzz in your skull keeping you from thinking too much?)
Honestly. Green lasers to blind drivers is just another dumb budget gouge as military contracters try to cash in on the war created by the wealthy. The real state of technology is waaaay beyond green lasers, but don't expect Zionist-owned mouthpieces like, New Scientist to tell you about it any time soon. Or ever.
Sheesh. How dumb do they think we are? (Well, pretty damned dumb actually, and by the number of cell phones I hear ringing. ..)
Not knowing you are being manipulated is ignorance. Choosing to play along with the manipulation once you do know is something else entirely.
Those who have the courage of a lion will not have the fate of a mouse.
A friend of mine worked for a data transmission service in the news sector.
The idea is that his company provided a linkage of satellites which was put into orbit and rented by various customers, (like his company), to transmit news and videos, etc., to different cities in the blink of an eye. For this service, the said company charged a lot of money.
As the internet became a growing reality, and email a popular new service, my friend observed a conversation between the boss and a subordinate who had asked the following question. . .
"Um, one of our clients forgot to request an important file they need right away. But we missed the upload time window and he can't wait. Should I just email the file to him?"
To which the boss man replied, "We run a data tranmission service which costs our clients thousands of dollars a month. Should we sent our client a missed file through a super-cheep email system which shows why our system is not longer competitive? NO, OF COURSE WE SHOULDN'T EMAIL IT TO HIM!!"
While I don't know if it was deliberate manipulation, general incompetence or budgetary concerns which drove Apple's decision, I DO know having witnessed it a few times in a few other industries, that the fear of losing one's viability and relevance (and your pay check) drives people to distraction in a big, big way. That fear can make people do some pretty extreme things. --It sometimes sounds a bit silly until you find yourself in the middle of watching your living fall out from under you, but when it happens, you start acting funny. It's like talking about relationship problems other people might be experiencing, and being right in the middle of your own relationship problems; Fear and Jealousy and similar instincts bubble up from different, older parts of the brain, (the parts we share with reptiles and lower animals), and which fight to overcome the more rational, more evolved elements of the brain.
As such, even with the dumbest, dirtiest jobs, people often fight and scrap and low-blow to keep rather than simply leave for the uncertainty of maybe finding greener pastures. Fear of the unknown makes us do dumb things if we don't exert our will and control our lower impulses.
This is partly why it makes me blink when people cry, "Conspiracies Do Not Exist." I don't think they are being realistic. --Even a humble guy like me has, with the help of others, secretly planned and executed plans designed to create future benefits for small groups. It happens all the time. --It's the reason businesses prize their secrecy and don't share their latest discoveries and marketing plans with their competitors. It's the reason spies are employed by nations. It's the reason there are laws on the books which use the word, "Conspiracy". --Conspiracies are real, and the darker ones have played important roles in defining much of our present state of society and national and personal identity. Indeed, the fear of being a social out-cast which makes some people declare that, "Conspiracies Do Not Exist" is the result of more yet quiet marketing; more conspiracies.
The argument which is most often used against the existence of conspiracies, "People can't keep secrets," I find quite silly. --It is true, people CAN'T keep secrets very well. But what makes that point irrelevant is that the general public has no problem in looking the other way and happily accepting lies at face value. It works like a charm.
People will get high-quality televisions in their phones before they get good reception in their conversations.
Mind-control works best when applied through a clear signal. Mind-fogging works best when the user is straining and slightly annoyed.
It'll be funny when both high and low quality are found in the same package and the cell phone companies tell you with straight faces that there's nothing anybody can do about it.
"West Wing" is 100% mind-control propaganda designed to lull people into a false sense of love for America and a false perspective on reality abroad. Of course you can get that for less than a series which is only full of shit about 50% of the time.
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It is more important that people absorb media mind-control than it is for big companies to make lots of money.
Everybody in industrialized nations will always have access to more than enough medium for their brains to drown in. Money made directly from the sale of media, is in this case, a secondary concern.
The only things people might have a more difficult time gaining access to in our DRM future are positive, un-tainted messages. Though with choice and intent, people can find those easily enough as well.
So don't sweat the reverse psychology; we'll still all be able to listen to the next pop star with relatively little trouble. --In fact, as per usual, it will probably take a degree of concentrated effort to avoid whatever dark-side, soul-draining message of slavery is being broadcast.
"Hit me Baby, one more time."
Ugh. The stuff is like nuclear fall-out. Destructive and near impossible to avoid.
I'm not an electricity guru, but I'll try to answer as best I can. ..
Halogen lighting is absurdly inefficient. Incandescent lighting in general is. Imagine if they used fluorescent lighting in their house? Heck, even LED or HID would be much more efficient.
I agree that I do find LED lighting an exciting technology, but I'd be hard pressed to go with it in a house; it's a very blue and cold light. I dislike fluorescent for those same reasons and because even the special units designed to replace incandescent bulbs where special effort has been spent to make them seem more natural, I still find buzz and make me feel weird.
In the house I'm talking about, in the washroom for example, the toilet and sink would get their own lights pointed at them, and that's it. At first, I found this a bit strange when compared to the whole-lighting experience of a regular house, but it was easy enough to adapt. You can still read on the john and get your business done. The rest of the house took a similar approach.
I can't say if this really did use less energy than a house filled with 100 watt bulbs, but it didn't seem to make much of a dent on the house batteries. Perhaps if the family converted their lighting to AC from the batteries and used regular bulbs it would have been a better solution. I'd like to really study this stuff before I get around to building my own house, which I plan to someday.
I don't get why 12V is considered a good thing here. Power loss in a line is proportional to the current through the line. To deliver the same power at 12V as at 120V, you have to run 10X as many amps and thus lose 10X as much power in line losses.
Again, I don't know. --But I should think the distance being traversed would factor into that. They weren't moving electricity over kilometers. Just meters.
But I also know that not every house is willing to go without refrigeration and ice. What if you have medicines you need to keep?
Medicines were also the only big thing I could think of when pondering the necessities of keeping a fridge. Other than that, it seems more like a device of convenience. And these days, I find myself keeping water out on the counter because I like drinking it at room temp. I keep things like left-overs in the fridge (until they go moldy and get thrown out), and frozen berries and instant pizzas and that sort of thing. Nothing a little less laziness wouldn't do away with. There are other ways of preserving fruits and meats. And in any case, I've never had to keep any medicine in the fridge, nor have I had to keep any real medicine in my home aside from asprine. This was also the case when I was growing up, and with virtually everybody I know. --I realize that it may seem like a broad statement, but it appears to me that many medicines on the market are a product of poor thinking; eating habits and lifestyles and living/working environments which do not encourage good health. A more harmonious approach to living of which eco-friendly housing is a part, probably does away with the need for any number of chilled pharmaceutical solutions.
Finally, having looked lately, it is amazing how much the power coming from the sun varies. Did you know that if the sun is blocked by a cloud the power falling on a panel (and thus the power generated) falles to 10% of full sunlight numbers? And if it's a heavy overcast, it's even worse. This combines to mean that just in much of the country (I think of Michigan, where I grew up), solar power is not viable at this time. We'll know solar power is viable in those parts of the country when people in areas like California and Arizona can't afford not to install cells.
Again, I don't know the technical details about the panels the family in question installed, but I do know that it gets pretty cloudy up here in Nova Scotia. The owner of the house did explain that there are different types of solar cell, and the reason the ones he installed were so expensive was that they w
Where land is plentiful and people are more able to do wacky things.
Even still, it took a lot of work to get the bank to allow a building loan for the house; the bank's concern was that an eco-friendly house would be difficult for the bank to re-sell if the original owner failed to pay back the loan. It took a fair bit of fighting and many phone calls up the chain to bosses of bosses and a bit of threatened media attention. ("What? Your bank doesn't support environmentally friendly housing? What will the public think?") to convince the bank CEO to approve the mortgage.
A family I know built a geo-thermal/solar powered house.
This was not their original plan at the outset. --Basically, they bought a property, and cleared a lot far back from the road. Then they learned that to have AC lines brought to their house from the mains, the local power company would charge them over $10,000 for the job of sinking four poles and running cable.
They thought, "Wow. Ten grand? Sheesh. What other options are there?"
The result was some research and a re-jigged construction plan using alternative energy. They spent about the same amount of money installing Geo-thermal and solar panel solutions.
10 big cells cost them about $8000 CAD. The rest of the money was spent digging trenches and laying thermal transfer pipes, air ducts and house wiring. Now they have all the power they need.
Strategic spot lighting using 12 volt halogen bulbs rather than bathing entire rooms in light minimizes the impact on energy reserves. Laptops are used instead of desktop computers, and various other appliances, like radios and televisions are run with DC to AC converters. Water is pumped from a well to a reservoir at the top of the house which provides pressure. Even while feeding the needs of an active family of four, the array of 5 big chemical batteries which stores electricity from sunlight never dipped below a 95% full charge on any of the days I visited. (The power readings were set on a cool display for all to look at.) --And the house is also absolutely enormous; 5 bedrooms, plus various huge family rooms the size of small churches, etc. A total mansion, and after the initial investment, it costs exactly zero to light and power.
Cooking is done on a big gas range fed from a pair of large propane tanks which contain enough propane to last more than a year. Water is drawn from a well. Refrigeration was the only puzzle still to be worked out, and while pondering it, the family had spent two years eating fresh foods while keeping milk and other such items in a basic camping cooler in the kitchen. Half the things people normally keep in their fridges don't really need to be there; milk and beef doesn't go bad all that quickly, eggs don't need to be refrigerated at all, and chicken and fish are simply bought fresh the day they are intended for consumption. --After realizing that this worked without any problems, the family basically concluded that they didn't really need a fridge in the first place. --Though, they told me that they had found a super-efficient 12 volt DC fridge on the market for homes exactly like theirs, but that they didn't think they really needed it.
Half the problem is not the power source, but the notion that we need so much electricity in the first place. --If we change the parameters of the problem, we can start using different solutions which have already been accepted by industry. Simple.
Despite the opposition, alternative energy is here for anybody who wants it.
What makes me laugh with these electromagnetic therapies that keep poping up is that most of them use fields way in excess in terms of strength than you'll get from powerlines running through your estate but those fields are bad... the same field strapped to you is good???
Indeed. However, this is not to say that ALL approaches to this type of healing are invalid. For instance, Acupuncture employs electromagnetics in order to have its effects, (effects which are well documented and undisputed). --The needles, when set to lightly rotating, create vanishingly small DC electric currents which affect the nervous system. The trick is in using micro-currents. The body certainly does not need to be bathed in high energy fields.
There is definitely snake oil out there, but writing off all alternative ideas because some of them are false makes little sense. --Nor can we expect to sit around waiting for established industry to drop alternative ways of solving problems into our laps. --Any solution which gives us more control over our lives and reduces the amount of money we give to Big Medicine is simply not going to be offered to us by Big Medicine. This is pretty obvious, but many people seem to have a difficult time grasping the details. Such are the results of effective marketing.
Every laughing cry of, "Tin-Foil-Hat," generally comes from another successfully subdued slave. --Usually somebody who eats a lot of wheat products, needlessly gets sick a couple of times each year and can be expected to be diagnosed with an expensive-to-treat ailment before they turn 60, (after they've amassed enough wealth over their working lives to pay for the treatment). That's a lot of Cash Cows.
No mod points today, but you'd get one if I had them to offer.
Unfortunately, scientists have had their professional lives scuttled and have even been murdered for doing far less than suggesting cheep and clean alternative energy sources. As such, I don't remain particularly hopeful about a massive public science break-through in the energy arena, but that doesn't mean we're not winning.
--I spent a week some months ago taking care of a neighbor's off-the-grid house. A big home which ran on geo-thermal energy and solar cells. It had most of the conveniences you'd expect from a modern suburban house, but all on 12 Volts DC. --Lighting and water pumping were not a problem, laptops were used instead of desktop computers, and various other appliances like radios and televisions were run with DC to AC converters. Even while feeding the needs of an active family of four, the array of chemical batteries which stored electricity from sunlight never dipped below 90% on any given day.
Cooking was done on a big gas range fed from a pair of huge propane tanks which contained enough propane to last more than a year. Water was drawn from a well. Refrigeration was the only puzzle still to be worked out, and while pondering it, the family had spent two years eating fresh foods while keeping milk and other such items in a basic camping cooler in the kitchen. --After realizing that this worked just fine, they basically concluded that they didn't really need a fridge in the first place.
Half the problem is not the power source, but the notion that we need so much of it. If we change the parameters of the problem, we can start using different solutions which have already been accepted by industry. Simple.
Despite the opposition, alternative energy is here for those who want it.
So I'm supposed to wander around and provoke fights with creatures so I can kill them....because *sob* someone I know is dead? Perhaps, after the fact, I'll find out that they colossi were really "bad guys", but I don't know many people who would kill as a preemptive strike. They want proof first that someone is a "bad guy". How many people would head out on a killing mission just because they're told to do so...because someone they know is dead?
I stopped playing video games a long time ago exactly because of such attitudes.
Looking at international policy these days, I see little contradiction between what we're being told to do as a nation, and what we're being fed through our 'entertainment'.
I remember when the most popular video games were abstract adventures about eating dots or jumping over mushrooms. The more I was being asked to adopt a perspective of sociopathy, the less I played until the point where I found I had given up altogether on games.
So long as one's desire to listen to intuition remains stronger than the desire to listen to one's pleasure centers, mind control will fail.
While this Amazon thing might be a genuine attempt to farm out real work to people for chump-change, with the site Slashdotted, I can only sit here and wonder. . .
It reminds me of a little semi-scam some company had going in my town a few years back. . .
"You are invited to participate in a screen test of a new television series!"
People would go down and be a test-audience for a television pilot, and then fill out a questionnaire at the end. People, loving their TV culture, were tickled pink to be asked to do this. --Heck, they were even paid something like $15 for their participation!
So, a buddy of mine went to see what it was all about. . .
Basically, some marketing research firm had acquired the rights to an old pilot which never made it to air. They played this for people, and also played a bunch of adverts during the commercial breaks. The questionnaire asked a few boring questions about the pilot, but it also asked a curiously high number of questions about the ad spots. Stuff like, "Which of the two detergent packages in the ad did you find more appealing? The Blue or the Red?"
--Obviously the whole contrivance was designed to test market, uh, marketing.
Either way, by friend was amazed that nobody else seemed to catch on, took his fifteen bucks, and left shaking his head.
So MS wants a wide and varied landscape sucked in and compressed into uniformity and conformity with regard to its mind-laws?
Wasn't Bill Gates invited to the Whitehouse a couple of years back to help the US Administration put together a digitally secure Homeland using his specially designed future products?
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-A big screen, (twice the size of Noki'a little guy.)
-A minimal laptop keyboard which is still super-easy to type on.
-No moving parts.
-Flash Card ports.
-An 8 hour lith-ion battery.
-Instant on.
Answer: The discontinued HP Jornada 820, available (on a lucky day) over eBay for about two hundred and fifty bucks.
It won't fit in your pocket, but it's half the size of a normal laptop. You can't really surf the web on the thing, but some of us have been begging the industry to create a device which focuses not on candy, but on serious word-processing power and long battery life. I consider NON-wirelessness to be a highly desired and increasingly difficult to find feature.
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"You stand before a mountain."
The mountain you see in your mind's eye will be unique and different from every other mountain experienced by anybody else who reads those words. Where is the limitation there? Compare that to a photograph, or a painting which boxes the person into a narrow, pre-defined experience.
Words are simple tools, yes, but they are designed to spark the deep wells of the imagination.
Only a writer frustrated by the fact that the particular mountain in his head cannot ever be perfectly transcribed to another person would complain. Better to be open to the reality that there are endless perspectives and then use those perspectives to cooperatively cobble together a universe in which to tell one's stories.
"You stand before a mountain."
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No. It's a lucky thing I never believed or said that such a thing was true.
What I did attempt to communicate was that if such technologies as anti-gravity exist, they would not be evidenced by public patent records.
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Dumbest love story ever. Boy falls in love with girl, girl kisses boy, girl randomly dies.
Hm. I had that happen as well, and I'm honestly not kidding.
So. . , how random is it that we should be discussing unfair, random events using that point as the example?
'Random' is an illusion. --And high drama and pain are useful learning tools for advancing souls. The desire to seek solidity and stability in an ever-changing universe and why it doesn't work and how one can exist happily regardless is one of the many lessons we must learn during the various lives we journey through.
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No? No patents on technology which the U.S. Military would without any question want first dibs on and absolute subsequent control over until it became twenty years old and hopelessly out of date?
Really? No kidding?
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Too much power centralized is a disaster waiting to happen.
I've been worried about Google since the beginning, and this only makes the hairs standing on my current goosembumps quiver in the wind.
But rah, rah Google, and all that.
*sigh*
The Medium is the Message. --A multi-layered cross-linked world of enormous knowledge and opportunity all bottle necked through a single authority which has the ability to dictate what our awareness has access to.
If trustworthy individuals were the ones drawn to positions of power and easily corruptible monsters were not, then I'd be waving Google flags like everybody else. But that's not how it works, is it?
The grand solution is Personal Sovereignty. Do your own work, take charge of your own power and don't give your decisions over to somebody else.
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I find the argument for Intelligent Design to be one of those ironies which makes me want to shake somebody. --Aspects of the argument are on the right track, but for all the entirely wrong reasons. For instance, when an entity like Monsanto genetically engineers a crop species, such as corn, I wouldn't blame the result on that silly cult version of 'God' the Christians are so hopelessly enthralled with. Being the herd-control program religion is. . .
Hm. Or now that I think about it. . . But then people keep suggesting I invest in tin-foil.
Funny.
The same mechanics of the Intelligent Design argument could be used to argue that Religion is a giant mind-control project. --How could anything so invasive, destructive and wide-spread not be the result of a deliberate effort to curtail human awareness?
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is not my friend.
The world is already a giant hologram where you can do or undo whatever you feel like.
Plugging your head into an artificial world is like wanting to play space-invaders on a simulated computer interface inside a game of Quake. No thank-you. We already have the perfect interface out here where the graphics and sound are of the highest quality and there is no chumpy, 'Save' button to make things boring. And there are plenty of cheats keys in the structure of reality if you have the courage to seek them.
Anyway, people who crave to 'plug in' are kind of creepy. Being around them makes me vaguely worried that at any moment I'll get shot in the back with a big plasma gun.
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Meaning implies an intelligence attempting to communicate through pattern. Otherwise, patterns simply 'are'.
Even without an attempt to communicate, however, recognizing a pattern in a seemingly chaotic system allows one to become aware of an underlying structure, from which various further insights and knowledge can be obtained.
Sometimes patterns will show up in ways which suggest underlying structures which do not fit into current orthodox thinking. Such patterns challenge people to grow and to consider new possibilities which exist beyond the boundaries of orthodox thinking.
People who feel the need to ridicule all that falls outside the orthodox boundaries of 'reality' (as dictated by the authority figures), are those who will be unable to function when those same boundaries fail to keep out the wolves.
Sticking one's head in the sand only makes one's bottom a juicy target, and severely limits the range one can move, see and explore.
Not all patterns are worth exploring, it is true. But many people hide from extremely significant patterns at their own peril.
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And because we know that we are able to recognize patterns means that we ought to ignore the patterns we detect without further thought. . ?
Hmm. . .
"What's that? People seem to get horribly sick when they eat rotten shell fish? Bah! That's silly! You're just seeing patterns. Now eat your rotten shell fish and stop thinking so much. It's making the rest of us uncomfortable. What's you're problem, anyway? Didn't you have the courage to explore the world on your own terms tormented out of you during your school years? You've clearly not been ostracized enough. Now shut up and eat or we'll all laugh at you!"
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Both die eventually.
By the way, which species numbers in the billions and has the most adaptive, successful, and widely-distributed population?
The courageous species is more fun to hunt and kill for recreation. Its other virtues are what?
It was a loose metaphor, but if you want to examine it. . .
The Lion sits at the top of its respective food chain. A mouse lives at the bottom of the food chain. It is food. While numbering in the billions and living in fear are interesting and valid qualities, they are not ones I particularly admire or strive to experience.
Being kept/hunted/farmed by higher beings is a reality we all exist within whether we are aware of it or not, but it is something which can be overcome. To do so requires courage and action. The argument for weakness and timidity and strength by way of rapidly reproducing does not appeal to me.
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Every now and again, however, you get leaks in the media net which describe the real state of technology. . .
Ignore the following article's intention, and look at the leaks. . .
-Uh. . , they temporarily did what? (And people still continue to insist that the human nervous system is not affected by EM. "There's not enough power emitted from a cell phone to damage cells!" Uhh, fine. Have you considered what other effects EM might have on the brain, or is that pleasent buzz in your skull keeping you from thinking too much?)
Honestly. Green lasers to blind drivers is just another dumb budget gouge as military contracters try to cash in on the war created by the wealthy. The real state of technology is waaaay beyond green lasers, but don't expect Zionist-owned mouthpieces like, New Scientist to tell you about it any time soon. Or ever.
Sheesh. How dumb do they think we are? (Well, pretty damned dumb actually, and by the number of cell phones I hear ringing. .
Not knowing you are being manipulated is ignorance. Choosing to play along with the manipulation once you do know is something else entirely.
Those who have the courage of a lion will not have the fate of a mouse.
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The idea is that his company provided a linkage of satellites which was put into orbit and rented by various customers, (like his company), to transmit news and videos, etc., to different cities in the blink of an eye. For this service, the said company charged a lot of money.
As the internet became a growing reality, and email a popular new service, my friend observed a conversation between the boss and a subordinate who had asked the following question. . .
While I don't know if it was deliberate manipulation, general incompetence or budgetary concerns which drove Apple's decision, I DO know having witnessed it a few times in a few other industries, that the fear of losing one's viability and relevance (and your pay check) drives people to distraction in a big, big way. That fear can make people do some pretty extreme things. --It sometimes sounds a bit silly until you find yourself in the middle of watching your living fall out from under you, but when it happens, you start acting funny. It's like talking about relationship problems other people might be experiencing, and being right in the middle of your own relationship problems; Fear and Jealousy and similar instincts bubble up from different, older parts of the brain, (the parts we share with reptiles and lower animals), and which fight to overcome the more rational, more evolved elements of the brain.
As such, even with the dumbest, dirtiest jobs, people often fight and scrap and low-blow to keep rather than simply leave for the uncertainty of maybe finding greener pastures. Fear of the unknown makes us do dumb things if we don't exert our will and control our lower impulses.
This is partly why it makes me blink when people cry, "Conspiracies Do Not Exist." I don't think they are being realistic. --Even a humble guy like me has, with the help of others, secretly planned and executed plans designed to create future benefits for small groups. It happens all the time. --It's the reason businesses prize their secrecy and don't share their latest discoveries and marketing plans with their competitors. It's the reason spies are employed by nations. It's the reason there are laws on the books which use the word, "Conspiracy". --Conspiracies are real, and the darker ones have played important roles in defining much of our present state of society and national and personal identity. Indeed, the fear of being a social out-cast which makes some people declare that, "Conspiracies Do Not Exist" is the result of more yet quiet marketing; more conspiracies.
The argument which is most often used against the existence of conspiracies, "People can't keep secrets," I find quite silly. --It is true, people CAN'T keep secrets very well. But what makes that point irrelevant is that the general public has no problem in looking the other way and happily accepting lies at face value. It works like a charm.
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Mind-control works best when applied through a clear signal. Mind-fogging works best when the user is straining and slightly annoyed.
It'll be funny when both high and low quality are found in the same package and the cell phone companies tell you with straight faces that there's nothing anybody can do about it.
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Everybody in industrialized nations will always have access to more than enough medium for their brains to drown in. Money made directly from the sale of media, is in this case, a secondary concern.
The only things people might have a more difficult time gaining access to in our DRM future are positive, un-tainted messages. Though with choice and intent, people can find those easily enough as well.
So don't sweat the reverse psychology; we'll still all be able to listen to the next pop star with relatively little trouble. --In fact, as per usual, it will probably take a degree of concentrated effort to avoid whatever dark-side, soul-draining message of slavery is being broadcast.
"Hit me Baby, one more time."
Ugh. The stuff is like nuclear fall-out. Destructive and near impossible to avoid.
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I'm not an electricity guru, but I'll try to answer as best I can. . .
Halogen lighting is absurdly inefficient. Incandescent lighting in general is. Imagine if they used fluorescent lighting in their house? Heck, even LED or HID would be much more efficient.
I agree that I do find LED lighting an exciting technology, but I'd be hard pressed to go with it in a house; it's a very blue and cold light. I dislike fluorescent for those same reasons and because even the special units designed to replace incandescent bulbs where special effort has been spent to make them seem more natural, I still find buzz and make me feel weird.
In the house I'm talking about, in the washroom for example, the toilet and sink would get their own lights pointed at them, and that's it. At first, I found this a bit strange when compared to the whole-lighting experience of a regular house, but it was easy enough to adapt. You can still read on the john and get your business done. The rest of the house took a similar approach.
I can't say if this really did use less energy than a house filled with 100 watt bulbs, but it didn't seem to make much of a dent on the house batteries. Perhaps if the family converted their lighting to AC from the batteries and used regular bulbs it would have been a better solution. I'd like to really study this stuff before I get around to building my own house, which I plan to someday.
I don't get why 12V is considered a good thing here. Power loss in a line is proportional to the current through the line. To deliver the same power at 12V as at 120V, you have to run 10X as many amps and thus lose 10X as much power in line losses.
Again, I don't know. --But I should think the distance being traversed would factor into that. They weren't moving electricity over kilometers. Just meters.
But I also know that not every house is willing to go without refrigeration and ice. What if you have medicines you need to keep?
Medicines were also the only big thing I could think of when pondering the necessities of keeping a fridge. Other than that, it seems more like a device of convenience. And these days, I find myself keeping water out on the counter because I like drinking it at room temp. I keep things like left-overs in the fridge (until they go moldy and get thrown out), and frozen berries and instant pizzas and that sort of thing. Nothing a little less laziness wouldn't do away with. There are other ways of preserving fruits and meats. And in any case, I've never had to keep any medicine in the fridge, nor have I had to keep any real medicine in my home aside from asprine. This was also the case when I was growing up, and with virtually everybody I know. --I realize that it may seem like a broad statement, but it appears to me that many medicines on the market are a product of poor thinking; eating habits and lifestyles and living/working environments which do not encourage good health. A more harmonious approach to living of which eco-friendly housing is a part, probably does away with the need for any number of chilled pharmaceutical solutions.
Finally, having looked lately, it is amazing how much the power coming from the sun varies. Did you know that if the sun is blocked by a cloud the power falling on a panel (and thus the power generated) falles to 10% of full sunlight numbers? And if it's a heavy overcast, it's even worse. This combines to mean that just in much of the country (I think of Michigan, where I grew up), solar power is not viable at this time. We'll know solar power is viable in those parts of the country when people in areas like California and Arizona can't afford not to install cells.
Again, I don't know the technical details about the panels the family in question installed, but I do know that it gets pretty cloudy up here in Nova Scotia. The owner of the house did explain that there are different types of solar cell, and the reason the ones he installed were so expensive was that they w
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Even still, it took a lot of work to get the bank to allow a building loan for the house; the bank's concern was that an eco-friendly house would be difficult for the bank to re-sell if the original owner failed to pay back the loan. It took a fair bit of fighting and many phone calls up the chain to bosses of bosses and a bit of threatened media attention. ("What? Your bank doesn't support environmentally friendly housing? What will the public think?") to convince the bank CEO to approve the mortgage.
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This was not their original plan at the outset. --Basically, they bought a property, and cleared a lot far back from the road. Then they learned that to have AC lines brought to their house from the mains, the local power company would charge them over $10,000 for the job of sinking four poles and running cable.
They thought, "Wow. Ten grand? Sheesh. What other options are there?"
The result was some research and a re-jigged construction plan using alternative energy. They spent about the same amount of money installing Geo-thermal and solar panel solutions.
10 big cells cost them about $8000 CAD. The rest of the money was spent digging trenches and laying thermal transfer pipes, air ducts and house wiring. Now they have all the power they need.
Strategic spot lighting using 12 volt halogen bulbs rather than bathing entire rooms in light minimizes the impact on energy reserves. Laptops are used instead of desktop computers, and various other appliances, like radios and televisions are run with DC to AC converters. Water is pumped from a well to a reservoir at the top of the house which provides pressure. Even while feeding the needs of an active family of four, the array of 5 big chemical batteries which stores electricity from sunlight never dipped below a 95% full charge on any of the days I visited. (The power readings were set on a cool display for all to look at.) --And the house is also absolutely enormous; 5 bedrooms, plus various huge family rooms the size of small churches, etc. A total mansion, and after the initial investment, it costs exactly zero to light and power.
Cooking is done on a big gas range fed from a pair of large propane tanks which contain enough propane to last more than a year. Water is drawn from a well. Refrigeration was the only puzzle still to be worked out, and while pondering it, the family had spent two years eating fresh foods while keeping milk and other such items in a basic camping cooler in the kitchen. Half the things people normally keep in their fridges don't really need to be there; milk and beef doesn't go bad all that quickly, eggs don't need to be refrigerated at all, and chicken and fish are simply bought fresh the day they are intended for consumption. --After realizing that this worked without any problems, the family basically concluded that they didn't really need a fridge in the first place. --Though, they told me that they had found a super-efficient 12 volt DC fridge on the market for homes exactly like theirs, but that they didn't think they really needed it.
Half the problem is not the power source, but the notion that we need so much electricity in the first place. --If we change the parameters of the problem, we can start using different solutions which have already been accepted by industry. Simple.
Despite the opposition, alternative energy is here for anybody who wants it.
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Indeed. However, this is not to say that ALL approaches to this type of healing are invalid. For instance, Acupuncture employs electromagnetics in order to have its effects, (effects which are well documented and undisputed). --The needles, when set to lightly rotating, create vanishingly small DC electric currents which affect the nervous system. The trick is in using micro-currents. The body certainly does not need to be bathed in high energy fields.
There is definitely snake oil out there, but writing off all alternative ideas because some of them are false makes little sense. --Nor can we expect to sit around waiting for established industry to drop alternative ways of solving problems into our laps. --Any solution which gives us more control over our lives and reduces the amount of money we give to Big Medicine is simply not going to be offered to us by Big Medicine. This is pretty obvious, but many people seem to have a difficult time grasping the details. Such are the results of effective marketing.
Every laughing cry of, "Tin-Foil-Hat," generally comes from another successfully subdued slave. --Usually somebody who eats a lot of wheat products, needlessly gets sick a couple of times each year and can be expected to be diagnosed with an expensive-to-treat ailment before they turn 60, (after they've amassed enough wealth over their working lives to pay for the treatment). That's a lot of Cash Cows.
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Unfortunately, scientists have had their professional lives scuttled and have even been murdered for doing far less than suggesting cheep and clean alternative energy sources. As such, I don't remain particularly hopeful about a massive public science break-through in the energy arena, but that doesn't mean we're not winning.
--I spent a week some months ago taking care of a neighbor's off-the-grid house. A big home which ran on geo-thermal energy and solar cells. It had most of the conveniences you'd expect from a modern suburban house, but all on 12 Volts DC. --Lighting and water pumping were not a problem, laptops were used instead of desktop computers, and various other appliances like radios and televisions were run with DC to AC converters. Even while feeding the needs of an active family of four, the array of chemical batteries which stored electricity from sunlight never dipped below 90% on any given day.
Cooking was done on a big gas range fed from a pair of huge propane tanks which contained enough propane to last more than a year. Water was drawn from a well. Refrigeration was the only puzzle still to be worked out, and while pondering it, the family had spent two years eating fresh foods while keeping milk and other such items in a basic camping cooler in the kitchen. --After realizing that this worked just fine, they basically concluded that they didn't really need a fridge in the first place.
Half the problem is not the power source, but the notion that we need so much of it. If we change the parameters of the problem, we can start using different solutions which have already been accepted by industry. Simple.
Despite the opposition, alternative energy is here for those who want it.
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I stopped playing video games a long time ago exactly because of such attitudes.
Looking at international policy these days, I see little contradiction between what we're being told to do as a nation, and what we're being fed through our 'entertainment'.
I remember when the most popular video games were abstract adventures about eating dots or jumping over mushrooms. The more I was being asked to adopt a perspective of sociopathy, the less I played until the point where I found I had given up altogether on games.
So long as one's desire to listen to intuition remains stronger than the desire to listen to one's pleasure centers, mind control will fail.
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It reminds me of a little semi-scam some company had going in my town a few years back. . .
"You are invited to participate in a screen test of a new television series!"
People would go down and be a test-audience for a television pilot, and then fill out a questionnaire at the end. People, loving their TV culture, were tickled pink to be asked to do this. --Heck, they were even paid something like $15 for their participation!
So, a buddy of mine went to see what it was all about. . .
Basically, some marketing research firm had acquired the rights to an old pilot which never made it to air. They played this for people, and also played a bunch of adverts during the commercial breaks. The questionnaire asked a few boring questions about the pilot, but it also asked a curiously high number of questions about the ad spots. Stuff like, "Which of the two detergent packages in the ad did you find more appealing? The Blue or the Red?"
--Obviously the whole contrivance was designed to test market, uh, marketing.
Either way, by friend was amazed that nobody else seemed to catch on, took his fifteen bucks, and left shaking his head.
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Wasn't Bill Gates invited to the Whitehouse a couple of years back to help the US Administration put together a digitally secure Homeland using his specially designed future products?
Ugh. No thank you.
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