No the best validating would be to build a device that produced more energy than you put into it. That you ask the scientific community to prove it don't work leads me suspect that you are bogus.. entirely;)
I don't know. They already have a machine, and it seems to me that there is a legitimate desire for genuine testing. . .
McCarthy itemized three primary facets that will need to be addressed in any validation of the technology. The first thing to prove will be that there is indeed mechanical work being done. The second thing to prove will be that the amount of energy coming from the system is not a function of the amount of energy that went into creating the magnets in the first place. Finally, the last thing to prove will be that the energy is not coming from some unseen environmental source that can be depleted, such as ambient heat in a room or nearby transmission lines.
"We're a technology company, not Physicists. We've shown that it can work. It will be up to the the Physicists to tell us how it works." That answer may be years, if not decades in coming.
But the core question of whether or not it works, and whether or not it is feasible for implementation as an energy-generating technology is the pressing question that will be presented to the international cross-section of scientists, who will make up the jury of twelve.
But the core question of whether or not it works, and whether or not it is feasible for implementation as an energy generating technology is the pressing question that will be presented to the jury of twelve scientists, drawn from an international cross section.
Each jury member will sign a contract that states that Steorn will provide all funding for the review, and that the results will be published, including disclosure of each jury member's name and credentials. Once convened in Dublin, the jury will be presented with the information that Steorn has about the technology.
The scientists will then decide how to proceed with testing. Inasmuch as adequate testing might take several months, the jury is likely to select an independent testing firm to do the actual testing, which they will oversee. This is likely to take several months. Then, when the testing is complete, the jury will reconvene to analyze the results and render their decision.
I recommend we just sit back and wait. Then everybody can argue over the results.
It doesn't look like it could power a factory. --And even if it could, building a factory takes money. That prototype test thingy probably cost a fair bit in parts and time.
Your idea is cool, but without gobs of cash, not applicable.
This is the coolest idea I've read so far on this thread. --Aside from the idea of tapping into sources of free energy. That's very cool. But your idea is newer.
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Okay, but you need to back that up.
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Just don't expect the socialist haters in America see things any other way than "Israel is the lapdog of Imperialist America" and "Bush is Hitler!" and various other ploys taken out of the Islamic Jihad playbook.
You mean like, "There were no WMD's"? And, "Saddam had nothing to do with 9-11"? Or how about the Downing Street Memo fave, "Blair and Bush planned to invade regardless of whether they found WMD's or not."?
And let's not forget about, "Close friends and family of Bush and his cabal benefit directly from arms and oil sales."
This all comes from the Western Press. So what are you talking about?
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Yes, you do have to speak your mind! So do I.
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Regardless of what side of the coin you follow (democrat or republican, liberal or conservative), if you are not putting your life on the line don't criticize others that do.
The problem is that public tax dollars are funding the whole mess. Just because the kids they send over there have been sold on a total lie, (being that the war has any positive moral qualities to it at all and is not largely a money scam/creepy apocalypse cult thing for Bush and friends), doesn't mean that I shouldn't speak my mind about it. In fact, I'd say that the exact opposite is true.
Burglars, rapists and murderers also put their lives on the line in their chosen profession, but I'm certainly not going to withhold my criticism about them.
Sorry. You may be a nice guy, and no doubt you are, but you are still carrying an automatic weapon in a land where you are not and never were wanted. There were no WMD's in Iraq, Saddam had nothing to do with 9-11, and Iraq is a lot worse off today than it was before the American invasion, and the only people benefiting are those selling weapons and oil, and they will keep the war running until the public finally threatens to hang the management. So why on earth are you playing pawn out there? If I were you, I'd get out right smart quick before I got hurt or before my brain short-circuited on too much negative stimulus.
They are notorious propaganda-mongers with no validity as a real news source.
You may as well post an article about how scientists have discovered life on the moon and use the Weekly World News as a source.
CNN and FOX News are any better?
Come on. ALL major news sources are propaganda outlets. That's how it works. The problem only arises when people think that their own country's news agency are above corruption.
As for the article, I'm sure the guy interviewed really believes his studies. How does that reflect on Aljazeera? All they're doing is reporting on recent claims from academia. All newspapers report stupid science news. So what?
The bitterness expressed by the scientists in this article seems to stem from the same pattern whereby a person is filled with emotional disgust by the prospect of others taking comfort in ideas which strike the observer as being based on ignorance. The same behavior can be broadly applied to religion, which is nearly universally disliked by science nerds. Same thing, just more obscure. (I mean, we're talking dolphins.)
--Now aside from the feeling disgusted thing, the real problem starts when those feelings lead to a feeling of superiority as that often prevents further rational discourse. (That is, even if later the original claim turns out to hold merit, the observer's ego fights to prevent any learning or adaptation to such an idea.) Indeed, it often leads instead to bitterness and irrationality.
So are dolphins smart? I've never really taken much interest in the idea, so I don't know. Mostly, I've only seen them on television, which means I know next to nothing personally on the subject.
However, it does appear to be universally understood that Goldfish and other amphibians have no neocortex, whereas dolphins do. There are arguments, from the same people who claim Dolphins are stupid, for why their particular neocortex is no big deal, but having briefly perused those ideas, it seems to me that they are reaching a little much. Yes, it is true that marine mammals are different than land mammals in terms of brain structure, but dolphins are still mammals; they feed their young on mother's milk, they are able to defend against predators using pack tactics and they understand the concept of play. --Such behaviors simply don't happen in the cortex-only reptilian/amphibian world. So I'm thinking that maybe the evolutionary addition of the neocortex in the dolphin might indeed be relevant.
As for intelligence in terms of problem solving. . . I've gotten myself lost in a simple bush-maze which I'm sure a rat could have found its way through easily enough proving, I guess, that I don't like cheese enough to sufficiently motivate me to solve a dumb puzzle.
Maybe the cross section I've seen is a poor representation of the whole, but every iPod user I've encountered has either been a social recluse with reality issues, or appeared to be heavily medicated.
While jamming your head into a personal Pod might seem safe and cozy, your rear-end is still sticking up out of the sand for all to see. And kick.
Any company which uses the word 'Pod' in its product name gets an instant X through it on my shopping list.
You seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that there is such a thing as a "genuine crop circle". All crop circles (or whatever shape they are) are made by people.
You state this with massive assertiveness. Do you know something unique or are you making assumptions and presenting them as facts?
This does little to suggest that genuine crop circles were made by a teams of prankster engineering students.
To create an authentic circle, the makers would have to. . .
1. Create the circle entirely at night without any lighting systems. (In none of the several thousand circles formed have pranksters been observed.)
2. Leave no impressions on the earth at all. (No foot prints or ladder or pole impressions on powder-dry or moist earth.)
3. Create a much more complex formation.
4. Make sure the flattened grains fall in mathematically precise overlapping weaves. (In authentic circles, the multi-layered pattern of the weave is one of the mystifying features.)
5. No plant stalks may be damaged during the process. (Real circles do not interrupt the life-process of the plants; In such formations, the plants eventfully spring back up entirely undamaged.)
6. Bend the stalks, never break them.
7. Create the formation in under 20 minutes. (Probably circles are formed instantaneously, but the only observed time lapse has been by a pilot and photographer flying over an a field without a circle only to see one twenty minutes later on a return flight path).
8. Witness unnumbered black helicopters coming to check things out.
9. Create the phenomenon of seeds from inside a formation growing in a peculiar manner as compared to control seed samples.
Do all of this, and the firefox logo would indeed be special.
Besides money changers in temples, demons, spirits and Satan I don't think there is not a single person Jesus ever smote. He even forgave Peter and Judas, kinda goes with his teachings of "love thy neighbor as thy self"
Cute use of the esteemed double-negative:)
I always wonder why people take the stories in the bible as though they were not written by easily corruptible humans, sometimes decades after the reported 'facts'.
Propaganda existed 2000 years ago just as it exists today.
Jesus was most probably a Christed soul, but honestly. To be a Christian today is to follow a highly distorted version of reality which has distinctly "Kill and Rape your fellow humans" underpinnings.
You don't need to join a church or call yourself a Christian in order to work toward Service to Other ideals. In fact, it's probably a fairly important step. Not following is a key. You cannot grow your spirit unless you think for yourself and learn your own lessons.
Anyhow, Sweden should have been occupied and punished long ago. The WWII wouldn't happened if they refused to sell all their iron ore to Hitler to help build the mighty nazi war machinery.
Perhaps if the Bush family had not helped out German coal production and steel fabrication through American-financed companies which used slave labor from Auschwitz, all that iron wouldn't have posed as much of a problem.
Frogs do jump out before the water boils and they die.
I find it amusing/alarming that somebody actually tried to boil a live frog in order to test a literary metaphor. For the sake of small amphibians everywhere, next time I'll say "human" instead of "frog", "society" instead of "water", and "fascism" instead of "temperature".
I believe that scenario has been tested quite effectively.
I'm sorry to hear your oft-exercised right to in-cabin oral hygiene is being trampled upon. Put your bathroom items in the bags you check in; you may continue to luxuriate in your hypochondria after the plane lands.
It's not that people can't adapt to small shifts. They can and usually do. The problem people have here is that they realize that adapting to each shift is an acceptance of the extra quarter degree of heat. --The eventual result of which, when all those quarter degree increases are added together, is that the water will boil and the frog will die. Why doesn't the frog jump out before the water boils? Because it's easier to pretend that small shifts don't matter than it is to do something to remedy the situation.
Why because we can see what's going on and understand it better than someone of lower intelligence. we are able to put all the oddds and ends together that an average man may miss. We have to remember that unfortunately most people aren't well educated and simply pay no attention to the world around them.
While I agree in part with you, I think the intelligence of Slashdotters is little different than any form of horse power. It can be harnessed, blinded and diverted along narrow pathways. The day when Slashdotters stop limiting their awareness through the repeated tapping of their state-installed biases and accepted belief systems will be the day that the world stops writhing in misery.
For instance. . .
You say Slashdotters don't trust the government and secret services, and yet most Slashdotters I've encountered seem to buy whole-hog into the education and science standards which are entirely controlled by those same agencies, (along with corporate interests, which usually amount to the same thing).
This seems more than a little broken to me in really obvious ways. Until people can use their logic without getting clouded with emotions, (and vice versa!), people won't be effective thinkers. They'll be slaves.
If the UK gouvernment implemented a law where the cops get to kick whomever they please in the tukus for no particular reason, the populace could vote them out.
Wow. You need to do some research beyond what the propaganda tells you. The cops DO get to kick whomever they please for no particular reason, (other than anonymous phone calls and fear propagation), and the people can't vote the government out because the system is made of pretend contenders who all have the same agenda. It's like asking the cows at the slaughter house if they want door number one or two. And like most of the population, they are also fat, dull-witted and fairly content to be cattle.
Benefits of TIA: - Much less crime - No locks or keys to slow you down. Think Single Sign On but for real life. - Accurate accounting/paper trail for everything. This is neccessary for a smooth running civil society. Go to a 3rd world country sometime for an example of the converse.
That's all propaganda. --Crime and its perception are both mostly creations of the state itself. No locks or keys to slow me down? Actually, I live in a town where people don't lock their doors. (I did move, as you suggest, because I didn't like what I saw the government doing.)
And accurate accounting? Again, this is programmed thinking. Why do we need flawless accounting? Who does this serve? You or the corporations/government who want you to be controlled through money and fear? Again, in my town, a full third of the goods I deal with, (food and various technologies), are traded without cash and everybody is happy. How can this possibly be improved by a greedy government which wants me to be afraid knowing everything about me?
So a bunch of 'Me-Too' companies are unhappy with their too-small slice of pie, therefore something must be to blame.
It certainly isn't their inability to come up with exciting new game ideas which people actually want to play. Nooo. --Heck, I've pirated dozens of games, but very few of them were worth the trouble. Curiously, the games I actually forked over cash for were the ones which turned out to be leaders in the industry.
Let's see now. . . Let me think back a few years and count what I actually have receipts for. . .
1. Transport Tycoon. 2. Star Wars, Dark Forces 3. Quake 4. Command & Conquer 5. Balder's Gate 6. Masters of Orion 7. Total Annihilation 8. Grim Fandango (Lucasarts) 9. Fallout I and II 10. Jedi Knight 11. Full Throttle (Lucasarts)
I bought maybe two or three less than inspiring PC games the titles of which I now forget. But the above titles were nearly all highly innovative and entirely worth the money. Several of them also drove the industry and spawned countless copy-cats.
Now. . , by contrast, of the dozens of games I've not paid for, I can only think of perhaps two which were really good. Just two. The rest were so-so at best.
--Oh, and that list doesn't include any of the indy games I've bought. For under $20, a good indy game is a GREAT indy game, and every one I've stolen and enjoyed I've bought an official copy of. Good indy publishers deserve all the support you can give them.
Anyway. . , my point is one which has been stated several times already but it is well worth making again; too many poorly made, lack-luster games filling the signal with noise and spreading the buyer's dollar too thin are why the industry is failing. It's happened before. --It killed the first counsel game market back in the 80's, and it's doing it again now.
Piracy has been around forever. Bloated selections of mostly repetitive junk sink markets, not 'pirates'.
For as long as there is a Western Civilization, there will be distractions to keep people from noticing that Western Civilization is crashing and burning. Count on it.
Because Jobs is feeling sleepy and gives a half-hearted presentation at a developer's conference he's suddenly lost touch with his own creativity?
Come on. The dust hasn't even settled from the super-popular Ipod, and we're back to this.
Every few years Jobs stuns the world with some innovative and effectively produced piece of computer technology, and every few years later he gets sneered at for not coming up with the next brilliant invention in time for the holiday shopping season. His own company fired him, for goodness sake! --Which he says was one of the best things which could have happened to him, because it freed up his time and allowed him to enter one of the most creative periods of his life.
Creativity is not a slave to industrial schedules. It's the other way around. Industry exists because of creativity. If Steve Jobs decides to come up with brilliant new birdhouse designs for the rest of his days, I'll still have more respect for him than the person who wonders if he's "Lost his magic" because he happens to be a sleepy human for ninety whole minutes at some conference.
That's right! The producer of such wonders as the CIA recruitment video, "Alias" Where the guy playing the psychopathic creep father of the main character just 'happens' to looklike Bush when made up and lighted just so, (and always at those emotionally intense points where the insertion of subliminal ideas works best!) Ah, Alias! The CIA boasted merrily of the sudden huge spike in the number of resumes received from young people wanting to look pretty and act like psychopaths for the American government after Abrams' dippy spy show started airing.
And "Lost", Abrams' other wonder-show where, like "Alias" the story idea is kinda neat and fun to watch, (like eating high MSG corn chips), but where the writers' collective grasp of and insight into the human condition is weak and shallow at best and where the emotional hooks are so incredibly obvious and formulaic, I could found myself actively complaining to the television set.
So, Homeland Security sellout and purveyor of shallow Walmart characters. . , do we want this man contributing to Star Trek?
I know a fair number of people who don't know how their browser works and who just accept that using the internet means looking at hundreds of adverts a day.
If MS provided retailers with a cut-rate version of Windows to distribute on their products, how many people, really, would bother uninstalling said OS from their new computer?
Can MS make enough selling adverts to match or overshadow the profits they'd otherwise make from selling a straight system OS?
I'd venture a big fat 'Yes'.
An OS driven ad is very different from an internet ad. --Why? Because the internet ad only comes up if you go to a specific site. An OS ad comes up if you turn on your computer. How easy is that to sell to a company?
And who cares about click-throughs? Click-throughs are for small companies trying to hawk wares on the web. That's small potatoes. When you can guarantee a hundred million pairs of 'eyeballs' you can now get advertisers like Coke and Tide and GM sending checks to your accounts receivable department. Coke and Tide and GM don't care about click-throughs.
And none of the countries you cite can be considered superpowers. None of those countries get involved in the same direct manner that the US does, and has in the past.
'Superpower' is a label which gets attached to those nations which like to maintain high levels of nationalist propaganda and invest heavily in arms. Canada, with its huge land mass and mountains of natural resources, could easily have chosen to play that game. It didn't. --Getting involved in world affairs using nationalist propaganda and weapons seems to lead, in virtually every case, to misery and villainy.
But as my example proves, before WWII, all the nations of Europe got together and tried to be nice to Hitler, and gave him what he wanted. Poland, for instance, was one of those "nice" countries like you mentioned. But Hitler invaded them anyway, and in 5 days, there was no more Poland.
Being nice doesn't mean giving people what they want. --It means choosing not to become the kind of nation which adopts Nazi (or Neo-Con) ideals and activities. Resisting bullies is something nice people should do.
The fact that we DON'T see Latin Americans in general, and Mexicans, Cubans, and Colombians in particular, swarming north, en masse, to blow up our buildings, suicide bomb our nightclubs and pizza parlors, launch rockets at our cities, nerve gas our subways, and kidnap and murder our citizens; when they have FAR more reason to do so than any middle easterner does or ever did; say to me that terrorism is NOT a reaction to out influence in foreign affairs. It's a war between cultures, west vs. middle east. Maybe they don't hate us because of our "freedom", but they definitely hate us because of our culture and our values and the fact that we don't worship allah.
Or perhaps it's just not advantageous to beat American war drums in South America's direction.
9-11 was a deliberately contrived affair, brought to us by a cooperative effort involving the U.S. secret government, Israel and by the puppets who boarded the planes. False Flag attacks are a commonly used tactic, because they always seem to work and with a highly controlled media, they are never, never questioned despite the fact that anybody with a brain in any secret service has been schooled in their usefulness and trained in their execution.
Any Muslims who get pulled along on that eddy current are just dancing to the tune played by American and Zionist interests.
Being nice on the world stage never works - just ask Neville Chamberlain, former British Prime Minister, how far nice got him in Munich. Then read about WWII.
Being nice works just fine, actually.
There are plenty of first world nations which don't go to war, and who nobody bombs. These are the nice countries. Canada, while it has been screwing up more often in recent years with it's indecisive politics (will we support American war drumming and general paranoia or not? I wish we could make up our collective mind. Seems simple enough to me, but nobody's voting for my opinion.), but Canada remains one of the nicer countries, and it does just fine on the world stage.
The British, as per your example, can't be well classified as ever having been a 'nice' nation. Half the world map was a pink piece of the British Empire for much of the 1900's and they've stalked cities with troops ever since I was born, (Ireland). There are numerous first-world nations which can't say the same and probably as a direct result do just fine on the world stage.
You present "truth-of-the-matter", non-attributable, non-provable assertions. You superficially touch on many different and -perhaps- important issues that belittles them by default. You validate your arguments by generic statements.
Yes, well, welcome to the forum of the public opinion soap box. The subjects I touch upon are huge and complex; think of my above post as an abstract. If you are truly interested, I invite you to ask specific questions to which I'll provide what I am able.
Look at the Denver Airport. --It was built and set up to be turned into a prisoner transfer and holding base. It shows the government's hand. There is a LOT of very weird stuff built into that project, including whole buildings buried which have nothing to do with airports, vast underground tunnel networks designed for truck access, huge areas of barbed wire holding areas. --And weird Masonic cryptological artwork spread throughout. Among other things.
When it comes time to start thinning the populace, it won't be done by rail car.
The idea here is that all the Semites are on the chopping block; both Jew and Muslim. This is why the religions were set up the way they have been; specifically to divide and conquer. Semitic DNA lends that human form greater power and awareness after the energetic 'shift' we are getting close to. Our overlords don't want that. This is why the Jews have been persecuted and set up throughout history. This is why they are being set up right now for annihilation. (The world is already getting heavily pissed off with them. It's just a matter of time before they get wiped off the map. If you have friends in Israel, advise them to get out now while they still can.)
The white races are next. The Chinese are the ones earmarked to contain the next race. They are by design more suited to 'obeying' in systems of selfishness. Here's a neat story: The Chinese and Taiwanese were caught up in a difficult political mess. The American diplomatic corps was called upon to comment. They wanted to take a neutral stance on the situation, and they wanted their statement to reflect this. Their translators informed them that this was impossible. "It is not possible to make a statement about a political decision which does not carry a tone which either agrees with or disagrees with the action." This caused the American delegation some consternation. "We want to be NEUTRAL. We do not want our statement to carry any emotional opinion or judgment."
Impossible.
This suggests that the Asian culture is designed in such a way that conflict and hierarchical thinking is built into its basic structure. When language will not allow you to emotionally dissociate yourself from a problem, how will this cause one to grow as an individual? Systems of open networking and sharing are that much more difficult to achieve, and this fits well into the game of the overlords who feed on pain and chaos.
Then there are the Crop Circles and UFO's. Whether people like it or not, these phenomenon not only exist, but are a significant linchpin in the whole picture of human culture as it stands today. To ignore them is shortsighted. The truth of the matter is that we are food for higher beings for whom time and space are not obstacles. --Where it is easy to set up religions and groom the human experience so that we are herded in certain directions. Look at how exquisitely human religion has been set up to create a focal point of fear and chaos. --The whole war in the Middle East is directly a result of religious differences. For aliens, fear and pain are food. When people die in torture, the outflow of negative energy which sustains an energetic being is enormous. Imagine a whole planet's worth of people dying in fear and pain? (But then we have, of course, been taught that such energetic spheres of existence do not exist. That Chi is a falsehood. That TeeVee's James Randi is a man of wisdom.)
It is estimated by some that 97% of the human population will be consumed. As such, it is wise to keep in mind that you are here to grow as souls which are indestructible and which will live again and again. --So focus on that; focus on helping your neighbors. We are here to learn the lessons of love and knowledge. There is nothing to fear except ignorance and the inward desire to act in selfish ways.
Here's a very good book available for download which you might find interesting. . . (it's about 450 kb. Right click to save.) It doesn't mention anything about the above points I noted, but it does offer a way through.
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I don't know. They already have a machine, and it seems to me that there is a legitimate desire for genuine testing. . .
I recommend we just sit back and wait. Then everybody can argue over the results.
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It doesn't look like it could power a factory. --And even if it could, building a factory takes money. That prototype test thingy probably cost a fair bit in parts and time.
Your idea is cool, but without gobs of cash, not applicable.
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You mean like, "There were no WMD's"? And, "Saddam had nothing to do with 9-11"? Or how about the Downing Street Memo fave, "Blair and Bush planned to invade regardless of whether they found WMD's or not."?
And let's not forget about, "Close friends and family of Bush and his cabal benefit directly from arms and oil sales."
This all comes from the Western Press. So what are you talking about?
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The problem is that public tax dollars are funding the whole mess. Just because the kids they send over there have been sold on a total lie, (being that the war has any positive moral qualities to it at all and is not largely a money scam/creepy apocalypse cult thing for Bush and friends), doesn't mean that I shouldn't speak my mind about it. In fact, I'd say that the exact opposite is true.
Burglars, rapists and murderers also put their lives on the line in their chosen profession, but I'm certainly not going to withhold my criticism about them.
Sorry. You may be a nice guy, and no doubt you are, but you are still carrying an automatic weapon in a land where you are not and never were wanted. There were no WMD's in Iraq, Saddam had nothing to do with 9-11, and Iraq is a lot worse off today than it was before the American invasion, and the only people benefiting are those selling weapons and oil, and they will keep the war running until the public finally threatens to hang the management. So why on earth are you playing pawn out there? If I were you, I'd get out right smart quick before I got hurt or before my brain short-circuited on too much negative stimulus.
Best wishes and good luck to you!
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You may as well post an article about how scientists have discovered life on the moon and use the Weekly World News as a source.
CNN and FOX News are any better?
Come on. ALL major news sources are propaganda outlets. That's how it works. The problem only arises when people think that their own country's news agency are above corruption.
As for the article, I'm sure the guy interviewed really believes his studies. How does that reflect on Aljazeera? All they're doing is reporting on recent claims from academia. All newspapers report stupid science news. So what?
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--Now aside from the feeling disgusted thing, the real problem starts when those feelings lead to a feeling of superiority as that often prevents further rational discourse. (That is, even if later the original claim turns out to hold merit, the observer's ego fights to prevent any learning or adaptation to such an idea.) Indeed, it often leads instead to bitterness and irrationality.
So are dolphins smart? I've never really taken much interest in the idea, so I don't know. Mostly, I've only seen them on television, which means I know next to nothing personally on the subject.
However, it does appear to be universally understood that Goldfish and other amphibians have no neocortex, whereas dolphins do. There are arguments, from the same people who claim Dolphins are stupid, for why their particular neocortex is no big deal, but having briefly perused those ideas, it seems to me that they are reaching a little much. Yes, it is true that marine mammals are different than land mammals in terms of brain structure, but dolphins are still mammals; they feed their young on mother's milk, they are able to defend against predators using pack tactics and they understand the concept of play. --Such behaviors simply don't happen in the cortex-only reptilian/amphibian world. So I'm thinking that maybe the evolutionary addition of the neocortex in the dolphin might indeed be relevant.
As for intelligence in terms of problem solving. . . I've gotten myself lost in a simple bush-maze which I'm sure a rat could have found its way through easily enough proving, I guess, that I don't like cheese enough to sufficiently motivate me to solve a dumb puzzle.
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While jamming your head into a personal Pod might seem safe and cozy, your rear-end is still sticking up out of the sand for all to see. And kick.
Any company which uses the word 'Pod' in its product name gets an instant X through it on my shopping list.
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You state this with massive assertiveness. Do you know something unique or are you making assumptions and presenting them as facts?
-FL
To create an authentic circle, the makers would have to. . .
1. Create the circle entirely at night without any lighting systems. (In none of the several thousand circles formed have pranksters been observed.)
2. Leave no impressions on the earth at all. (No foot prints or ladder or pole impressions on powder-dry or moist earth.)
3. Create a much more complex formation.
4. Make sure the flattened grains fall in mathematically precise overlapping weaves. (In authentic circles, the multi-layered pattern of the weave is one of the mystifying features.)
5. No plant stalks may be damaged during the process. (Real circles do not interrupt the life-process of the plants; In such formations, the plants eventfully spring back up entirely undamaged.)
6. Bend the stalks, never break them.
7. Create the formation in under 20 minutes. (Probably circles are formed instantaneously, but the only observed time lapse has been by a pilot and photographer flying over an a field without a circle only to see one twenty minutes later on a return flight path).
8. Witness unnumbered black helicopters coming to check things out.
9. Create the phenomenon of seeds from inside a formation growing in a peculiar manner as compared to control seed samples.
Do all of this, and the firefox logo would indeed be special.
-FL
Cute use of the esteemed double-negative
I always wonder why people take the stories in the bible as though they were not written by easily corruptible humans, sometimes decades after the reported 'facts'.
Propaganda existed 2000 years ago just as it exists today.
Jesus was most probably a Christed soul, but honestly. To be a Christian today is to follow a highly distorted version of reality which has distinctly "Kill and Rape your fellow humans" underpinnings.
You don't need to join a church or call yourself a Christian in order to work toward Service to Other ideals. In fact, it's probably a fairly important step. Not following is a key. You cannot grow your spirit unless you think for yourself and learn your own lessons.
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Perhaps if the Bush family had not helped out German coal production and steel fabrication through American-financed companies which used slave labor from Auschwitz, all that iron wouldn't have posed as much of a problem.
Just a thought.
-FL
I find it amusing/alarming that somebody actually tried to boil a live frog in order to test a literary metaphor. For the sake of small amphibians everywhere, next time I'll say "human" instead of "frog", "society" instead of "water", and "fascism" instead of "temperature".
I believe that scenario has been tested quite effectively.
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It's not that people can't adapt to small shifts. They can and usually do. The problem people have here is that they realize that adapting to each shift is an acceptance of the extra quarter degree of heat. --The eventual result of which, when all those quarter degree increases are added together, is that the water will boil and the frog will die. Why doesn't the frog jump out before the water boils? Because it's easier to pretend that small shifts don't matter than it is to do something to remedy the situation.
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While I agree in part with you, I think the intelligence of Slashdotters is little different than any form of horse power. It can be harnessed, blinded and diverted along narrow pathways. The day when Slashdotters stop limiting their awareness through the repeated tapping of their state-installed biases and accepted belief systems will be the day that the world stops writhing in misery.
For instance. . .
You say Slashdotters don't trust the government and secret services, and yet most Slashdotters I've encountered seem to buy whole-hog into the education and science standards which are entirely controlled by those same agencies, (along with corporate interests, which usually amount to the same thing).
This seems more than a little broken to me in really obvious ways. Until people can use their logic without getting clouded with emotions, (and vice versa!), people won't be effective thinkers. They'll be slaves.
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Wow. You need to do some research beyond what the propaganda tells you. The cops DO get to kick whomever they please for no particular reason, (other than anonymous phone calls and fear propagation), and the people can't vote the government out because the system is made of pretend contenders who all have the same agenda. It's like asking the cows at the slaughter house if they want door number one or two. And like most of the population, they are also fat, dull-witted and fairly content to be cattle.
Benefits of TIA:
- Much less crime
- No locks or keys to slow you down. Think Single Sign On but for real life.
- Accurate accounting/paper trail for everything. This is neccessary for a smooth running civil society. Go to a 3rd world country sometime for an example of the converse.
That's all propaganda. --Crime and its perception are both mostly creations of the state itself. No locks or keys to slow me down? Actually, I live in a town where people don't lock their doors. (I did move, as you suggest, because I didn't like what I saw the government doing.)
And accurate accounting? Again, this is programmed thinking. Why do we need flawless accounting? Who does this serve? You or the corporations/government who want you to be controlled through money and fear? Again, in my town, a full third of the goods I deal with, (food and various technologies), are traded without cash and everybody is happy. How can this possibly be improved by a greedy government which wants me to be afraid knowing everything about me?
Knowledge protects, ignorance endangers.
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It certainly isn't their inability to come up with exciting new game ideas which people actually want to play. Nooo. --Heck, I've pirated dozens of games, but very few of them were worth the trouble. Curiously, the games I actually forked over cash for were the ones which turned out to be leaders in the industry.
Let's see now. . . Let me think back a few years and count what I actually have receipts for. . .
1. Transport Tycoon.
2. Star Wars, Dark Forces
3. Quake
4. Command & Conquer
5. Balder's Gate
6. Masters of Orion
7. Total Annihilation
8. Grim Fandango (Lucasarts)
9. Fallout I and II
10. Jedi Knight
11. Full Throttle (Lucasarts)
I bought maybe two or three less than inspiring PC games the titles of which I now forget. But the above titles were nearly all highly innovative and entirely worth the money. Several of them also drove the industry and spawned countless copy-cats.
Now. . , by contrast, of the dozens of games I've not paid for, I can only think of perhaps two which were really good. Just two. The rest were so-so at best.
--Oh, and that list doesn't include any of the indy games I've bought. For under $20, a good indy game is a GREAT indy game, and every one I've stolen and enjoyed I've bought an official copy of. Good indy publishers deserve all the support you can give them.
Anyway. . , my point is one which has been stated several times already but it is well worth making again; too many poorly made, lack-luster games filling the signal with noise and spreading the buyer's dollar too thin are why the industry is failing. It's happened before. --It killed the first counsel game market back in the 80's, and it's doing it again now.
Piracy has been around forever. Bloated selections of mostly repetitive junk sink markets, not 'pirates'.
For as long as there is a Western Civilization, there will be distractions to keep people from noticing that Western Civilization is crashing and burning. Count on it.
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Come on. The dust hasn't even settled from the super-popular Ipod, and we're back to this.
Every few years Jobs stuns the world with some innovative and effectively produced piece of computer technology, and every few years later he gets sneered at for not coming up with the next brilliant invention in time for the holiday shopping season. His own company fired him, for goodness sake! --Which he says was one of the best things which could have happened to him, because it freed up his time and allowed him to enter one of the most creative periods of his life.
Creativity is not a slave to industrial schedules. It's the other way around. Industry exists because of creativity. If Steve Jobs decides to come up with brilliant new birdhouse designs for the rest of his days, I'll still have more respect for him than the person who wonders if he's "Lost his magic" because he happens to be a sleepy human for ninety whole minutes at some conference.
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That's right! The producer of such wonders as the CIA recruitment video, "Alias" Where the guy playing the psychopathic creep father of the main character just 'happens' to look like Bush when made up and lighted just so, (and always at those emotionally intense points where the insertion of subliminal ideas works best!) Ah, Alias! The CIA boasted merrily of the sudden huge spike in the number of resumes received from young people wanting to look pretty and act like psychopaths for the American government after Abrams' dippy spy show started airing.
And "Lost", Abrams' other wonder-show where, like "Alias" the story idea is kinda neat and fun to watch, (like eating high MSG corn chips), but where the writers' collective grasp of and insight into the human condition is weak and shallow at best and where the emotional hooks are so incredibly obvious and formulaic, I could found myself actively complaining to the television set.
So, Homeland Security sellout and purveyor of shallow Walmart characters. . , do we want this man contributing to Star Trek?
I know my answer.
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If MS provided retailers with a cut-rate version of Windows to distribute on their products, how many people, really, would bother uninstalling said OS from their new computer?
Can MS make enough selling adverts to match or overshadow the profits they'd otherwise make from selling a straight system OS?
I'd venture a big fat 'Yes'.
An OS driven ad is very different from an internet ad. --Why? Because the internet ad only comes up if you go to a specific site. An OS ad comes up if you turn on your computer. How easy is that to sell to a company?
And who cares about click-throughs? Click-throughs are for small companies trying to hawk wares on the web. That's small potatoes. When you can guarantee a hundred million pairs of 'eyeballs' you can now get advertisers like Coke and Tide and GM sending checks to your accounts receivable department. Coke and Tide and GM don't care about click-throughs.
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'Superpower' is a label which gets attached to those nations which like to maintain high levels of nationalist propaganda and invest heavily in arms. Canada, with its huge land mass and mountains of natural resources, could easily have chosen to play that game. It didn't. --Getting involved in world affairs using nationalist propaganda and weapons seems to lead, in virtually every case, to misery and villainy.
But as my example proves, before WWII, all the nations of Europe got together and tried to be nice to Hitler, and gave him what he wanted. Poland, for instance, was one of those "nice" countries like you mentioned. But Hitler invaded them anyway, and in 5 days, there was no more Poland.
Being nice doesn't mean giving people what they want. --It means choosing not to become the kind of nation which adopts Nazi (or Neo-Con) ideals and activities. Resisting bullies is something nice people should do.
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Or perhaps it's just not advantageous to beat American war drums in South America's direction.
9-11 was a deliberately contrived affair, brought to us by a cooperative effort involving the U.S. secret government, Israel and by the puppets who boarded the planes. False Flag attacks are a commonly used tactic, because they always seem to work and with a highly controlled media, they are never, never questioned despite the fact that anybody with a brain in any secret service has been schooled in their usefulness and trained in their execution.
Any Muslims who get pulled along on that eddy current are just dancing to the tune played by American and Zionist interests.
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Being nice works just fine, actually.
There are plenty of first world nations which don't go to war, and who nobody bombs. These are the nice countries. Canada, while it has been screwing up more often in recent years with it's indecisive politics (will we support American war drumming and general paranoia or not? I wish we could make up our collective mind. Seems simple enough to me, but nobody's voting for my opinion.), but Canada remains one of the nicer countries, and it does just fine on the world stage.
The British, as per your example, can't be well classified as ever having been a 'nice' nation. Half the world map was a pink piece of the British Empire for much of the 1900's and they've stalked cities with troops ever since I was born, (Ireland). There are numerous first-world nations which can't say the same and probably as a direct result do just fine on the world stage.
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Yes, well, welcome to the forum of the public opinion soap box. The subjects I touch upon are huge and complex; think of my above post as an abstract. If you are truly interested, I invite you to ask specific questions to which I'll provide what I am able.
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When it comes time to start thinning the populace, it won't be done by rail car.
The idea here is that all the Semites are on the chopping block; both Jew and Muslim. This is why the religions were set up the way they have been; specifically to divide and conquer. Semitic DNA lends that human form greater power and awareness after the energetic 'shift' we are getting close to. Our overlords don't want that. This is why the Jews have been persecuted and set up throughout history. This is why they are being set up right now for annihilation. (The world is already getting heavily pissed off with them. It's just a matter of time before they get wiped off the map. If you have friends in Israel, advise them to get out now while they still can.)
The white races are next. The Chinese are the ones earmarked to contain the next race. They are by design more suited to 'obeying' in systems of selfishness. Here's a neat story: The Chinese and Taiwanese were caught up in a difficult political mess. The American diplomatic corps was called upon to comment. They wanted to take a neutral stance on the situation, and they wanted their statement to reflect this. Their translators informed them that this was impossible. "It is not possible to make a statement about a political decision which does not carry a tone which either agrees with or disagrees with the action." This caused the American delegation some consternation. "We want to be NEUTRAL. We do not want our statement to carry any emotional opinion or judgment."
Impossible.
This suggests that the Asian culture is designed in such a way that conflict and hierarchical thinking is built into its basic structure. When language will not allow you to emotionally dissociate yourself from a problem, how will this cause one to grow as an individual? Systems of open networking and sharing are that much more difficult to achieve, and this fits well into the game of the overlords who feed on pain and chaos.
Then there are the Crop Circles and UFO's. Whether people like it or not, these phenomenon not only exist, but are a significant linchpin in the whole picture of human culture as it stands today. To ignore them is shortsighted. The truth of the matter is that we are food for higher beings for whom time and space are not obstacles. --Where it is easy to set up religions and groom the human experience so that we are herded in certain directions. Look at how exquisitely human religion has been set up to create a focal point of fear and chaos. --The whole war in the Middle East is directly a result of religious differences. For aliens, fear and pain are food. When people die in torture, the outflow of negative energy which sustains an energetic being is enormous. Imagine a whole planet's worth of people dying in fear and pain? (But then we have, of course, been taught that such energetic spheres of existence do not exist. That Chi is a falsehood. That TeeVee's James Randi is a man of wisdom.)
It is estimated by some that 97% of the human population will be consumed. As such, it is wise to keep in mind that you are here to grow as souls which are indestructible and which will live again and again. --So focus on that; focus on helping your neighbors. We are here to learn the lessons of love and knowledge. There is nothing to fear except ignorance and the inward desire to act in selfish ways.
Here's a very good book available for download which you might find interesting. . . (it's about 450 kb. Right click to save.) It doesn't mention anything about the above points I noted, but it does offer a way through.
Good luck.
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