Thousands of years of safe carbon-emission free energy. Working reactors were developed and operated successfully in the 60s. Small scale reactors are currently running in India with plans for larger scale reactors. Nobody put any research effort into it back in the 60s because you can't make nuclear bomb material with it and the government wanted to go with only one design. Anyway, check out the video, it explains all the nitty gritty technical details.
The ice caps are increasing. That's because the gulf stream current is slowing down because of global warming!! If the ice caps were melting that would also prove global warming too. When are you going to face up to the facts global warming deniers! Can't you see! Falsifiability is for republicans and oil executives.
Not magnetic induction charge plate based, actually over the air over medium distances, already here, products available for immediate delivery.... and nobody seems to cares. They've been around for a few years with shipping product and everything.
It's almost like people can't believe their product is real. It's so very strange.
TRUE WIRELESS POWER Powercast’s technology provides true wireless power for continuous charging and power-over-distance for one or more devices. Wireless power transmission is based on commonly used radio waves and Powercast's patented RF-to-DC conversion technology. The combination enables low-power electronic devices to become finally untethered with trickle-charge embedded wireless power.
"In the future, whether it's entering your home, opening your car, entering your workspace, getting a pharmacy prescription refilled, or having your medical records pulled up, everything will come off that unique key that is your iris," says Jeff Carter, CDO of Global Rainmakers. Before coming to GRI, Carter headed a think tank partnership between Bank of America, Harvard, and MIT. "Every person, place, and thing on this planet will be connected [to the iris system] within the next 10 years," he says.
But wait there's more, It will also be the lower 64 bits of your ipv6 address whenever you do anything online. You don't think we made 128 bits of Ip space and wasted all that bandwidth for nothing, do you?
They need to integrate this Iris scanner with the person's location history, recent contacts and online activity and come up with a TerrorScore(tm). If it goes above a certain threshold that a Bayesian algorithm has determined will make them likely to commit criminal acts, the drones can be automatically dispatched to the location of the subject with a hellfire missile to dispose of the threat. It's like spam filtering, but for people!;)
in the classic Collapse Of Complex Societies, Joseph A. Tainter theorizes that societies collapse when they hit a point at which increasing complexity creates negative returns. For instance, the Romans funded their society on plunder of outlying civilizations for a long time. Eventually, each incremental conquest required more and more funds to maintain while not providing enough real wealth in return. Similarly the Mayans collapsed because they farmed more and more marginal lands leading to soil degradation, etc. and tried to fix civil wars through more and more ostentatious temple building. Tainter, in his book profiles more than 20 different significant societies that all collapsed following this pattern in one form or another. He says the only solution is voluntary simplification, which has happened only a few times in history.
Now here in California we have an actual complexity industry, with its own lobbyists! How long can that last when you have an actual industry that makes money off of negative returns on additional complexity.
I know, according to the official story, the original mission was to go to Afghanistan and kick the Taliban out of power and get Osama Bin Laden.
I don't really think that's the mission right now. I haven't heard anything about Osama Bin Laden in quite a while. What exactly are they trying to do? Perhaps these documents can shed some light on that?
Anyone read The Social Animal? This is just the initiation effect. To avoid humiliation people are likely to believe that something unpleasant that used a lot of time it must be valuable.
Meh.. I tried messing around with binaural beats for a while. Didn't really do anything. You'd probably do better spinning yourself around in a circle or sniffing old gym socks.
I am however totally fascinated by people getting into a moral panic over the placebo effect.
The study of social psychology is 100% about understanding why crowds/the public/etc behave the way they do. It surprises me how frequently people attempt to reinvent social psychology via hearsay, recycled folklore or off-the-cuff guessing when there is a 50 year old field of rigorous experimental science and theory devoted to all this.
The irony is that companies that do everything China wants often get little in return. Look at Microsoft. They gave China the source code to their software. Gave them nearly free licensing of Windows and they hardly make any money there at all!
February 28, 2003 By Mark Berniker: More stories by this author: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on a tour in China said his company will allow the Chinese government partial access to the source code of its Windows operating system.
Microsoft said it would only share some details about its proprietary source code, but it's considered a major win for Microsoft to have China join its Government Security Program (GSP). China is one of several countries, including Russia, NATO and the United Kingdom, participating in the recently launched Microsoft program aimed, at part, in trying to reverse negative perceptions of the company.
At issue, is whether Microsoft's software provides adequate security for governments, and their classified data. Piracy of Microsoft software in China is also a huge problem, and the Chinese government and Microsoft are keen to jointly stem its tide.
Microsoft has clearly made a decision that China, the world's biggest market with immense potential for growth over the next decade, is a place it will be putting considerable resources towards. Microsoft has said it will invest $750 million in China from 2003-2005.
Lack of progress in protecting intellectual property has led China, which may overtake the U.S. as the world’s biggest personal-computer market in a year, to generate less revenue for Microsoft than India and South Korea, Ballmer said. China’s gross domestic product is twice the two economies combined.
FYI, cell phone ringtones were a multi-hundred million dollar industry. Farmville sells millions worth of virtual manure. Some technology is for people who don't have a nuanced or particularly intellectual view of the world and just want to yell "OMG! Ponies!" all day. Yes my nerdly friends, there are lots and lots and lots of people like this, that you haven't had the pleasure of meeting nor would you find them particularly interesting if you did. I remember hanging out with "The Cool Kids" in high school for a bit, just to see what it was like. I found them exceptionally boring. There are billions of em though' and there's plenty of money in letting them yell "OMG! Ponies!" to all their friends.
The appointment of senators by the state legislatures was meant to act as a check on the federal governments power by making sure that senators who were elected respected the individual states interests. One of the issues the current system creates is the problem of unfunded mandates, where the federal government will mandate that the states implement a particular policy and don't provide any funds to do so.
Well then Heim Theory is atheism, or some sort of occult school because it does not predict the Higgs Boson.
Empirical confirmation of supersymmetry (for example detecting the hypothetical Lightest Supersymmetric Particle or any other particle predicted by the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model) would falsify all existing versions of Heim theory, which are mutually exclusive with supersymmetry. Also, it is not certain whether Heim theory would be able to accommodate the existence of the Higgs boson, the only undiscovered particle expected in the Standard Model, and one which has not been predicted by the published versions of the Heim mass formula. Heim theory is said to be a Higgs-less theory as it is not dependent on the Higgs mechanism for the concept of mass. The ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider are likely to discover the Higgs boson in the next several years, if it exists.
Outside of computing related technologies it seems that science has really slowed down to a crawl. We haven't invented any new significant sources of energy since Nuclear fission was first developed in the 30s. We have actually gone backwards with regards to space travel, and no longer have the capabilities we once had. Lately, all the drug companies have been panicking because their best drugs are going out of patent and they don't have any new ones to replace them.
Structured finance is the arcane theology of capitalism that piles more levels of complexity, obfuscation and confusion on top of itself, vainly searching for the ultimate truth about risk but never getting anywhere except preventing rational criticism or analysis of itself by making the field far too complex for anyone to analyze. It's the equivalent of the brightest minds of the medieval era endlessly debating and writing about how many angels could fit on the head of a pin when they should have been engaged in improving farming techniques and inventing better water wheels and windmills.
They just need to hook this up to some pagerank like algorithm and they can determine your individual TerrorScore (tm). They can then use this to put you in prison for pre-crime and all that. They could automatically dispatch homeland security drones to keep an eye on you once your terror score exceeded certain thresholds as well! It's all so clever trousers....
When I look at a great photograph, I have an emotional response. It's certainly pleasant when I am at a photo exhibit on the weekend but when I'm just searching for documentation on a jquery plugin it's simply distracting and breaks my concentration.
Don't you think that your "unacceptable variations" might not work out the way you planned? For instance, someone might consider marijuana being legal to be an "unacceptable variation", while the policy leads in the long term to a far more socially harmful and devastating war on drugs. There are also a lot of less controversial things that might benefit from experimentation at the local level, such as the maximum acceptable interest rate on credit cards, the legality of certain financial products such as exotic derivatives, etc. On these two issues mentioned, the federal government came in unilaterally and told the states that they couldn't have any power over these issues.
I think the high point in the history of Microsoft was when they released Windows 2000. Here was an operating system that multi-tasked well, had perfected integrated networking and didn't blue screen. I remember a lot of people who had been using Redhat 9, which was crap, switched back to Microsoft and noticed that it didn't crash that much and they were pretty happy using it.
Then came WindowsXP and IE6, which gave everybody pretty much everything they wanted in an OS. It was easily pirateable and spread all over the world.
Then came malware, botnets, and the ensuing security disaster of science fiction proportions and Microsoft spent the next 10 years plugging security holes. Those were the big feature with Vista and Windows 7 remember-- more secure. This was all the fault of Microsoft demanding that unmanaged x86 code with full access to the win32 api run everywhere. It's an enormous, outlandish security hole just waiting to happen.
Meanwhile, I went to visit a relative in the hospital and all the computers are running Win2k. If you look at OS share online, WinXP still dominates. Nobody really knows what's new in Office 2010, except you can read Office 2010 files and that ribbon thing. China was a total disaster for Microsoft too. They even shared their source code and it's only 1 percent of their revenue.
Meanwhile Apple and Linux really got their act together and improved massively. Then the 3g and portable device boom happened and Microsoft was caught with Windows Mobile, in the face of Android and Iphone. They couldn't leverage their massive x86 code base and had to start over with a new OS from scratch. That's their problem, they have to start over on a new chipset and they just can't get anywhere meaningful without relying on the enormous barrier to entry that is the win32 api legacy.
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Check out this google tech talk on Thorium reactors; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHs2Ugxo7-8
Some Wikipedia Articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor_experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor
Thousands of years of safe carbon-emission free energy. Working reactors were developed and operated successfully in the 60s. Small scale reactors are currently running in India with plans for larger scale reactors. Nobody put any research effort into it back in the 60s because you can't make nuclear bomb material with it and the government wanted to go with only one design. Anyway, check out the video, it explains all the nitty gritty technical details.
The ice caps are increasing. That's because the gulf stream current is slowing down because of global warming!! If the ice caps were melting that would also prove global warming too. When are you going to face up to the facts global warming deniers! Can't you see! Falsifiability is for republicans and oil executives.
http://www.powercastco.com/
Not magnetic induction charge plate based, actually over the air over medium distances, already here, products available for immediate delivery.... and nobody seems to cares. They've been around for a few years with shipping product and everything.
It's almost like people can't believe their product is real. It's so very strange.
Even won a best of CES in 2007: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12760_7-9673092-5.html?tag=ces2007;mcol
But wait there's more, It will also be the lower 64 bits of your ipv6 address whenever you do anything online. You don't think we made 128 bits of Ip space and wasted all that bandwidth for nothing, do you?
They need to integrate this Iris scanner with the person's location history, recent contacts and online activity and come up with a TerrorScore(tm). If it goes above a certain threshold that a Bayesian algorithm has determined will make them likely to commit criminal acts, the drones can be automatically dispatched to the location of the subject with a hellfire missile to dispose of the threat. It's like spam filtering, but for people! ;)
in the classic Collapse Of Complex Societies, Joseph A. Tainter theorizes that societies collapse when they hit a point at which increasing complexity creates negative returns. For instance, the Romans funded their society on plunder of outlying civilizations for a long time. Eventually, each incremental conquest required more and more funds to maintain while not providing enough real wealth in return. Similarly the Mayans collapsed because they farmed more and more marginal lands leading to soil degradation, etc. and tried to fix civil wars through more and more ostentatious temple building. Tainter, in his book profiles more than 20 different significant societies that all collapsed following this pattern in one form or another. He says the only solution is voluntary simplification, which has happened only a few times in history.
Now here in California we have an actual complexity industry, with its own lobbyists! How long can that last when you have an actual industry that makes money off of negative returns on additional complexity.
I know, according to the official story, the original mission was to go to Afghanistan and kick the Taliban out of power and get Osama Bin Laden.
I don't really think that's the mission right now. I haven't heard anything about Osama Bin Laden in quite a while. What exactly are they trying to do? Perhaps these documents can shed some light on that?
Anyone read The Social Animal? This is just the initiation effect. To avoid humiliation people are likely to believe that something unpleasant that used a lot of time it must be valuable.
Meh.. I tried messing around with binaural beats for a while. Didn't really do anything. You'd probably do better spinning yourself around in a circle or sniffing old gym socks.
I am however totally fascinated by people getting into a moral panic over the placebo effect.
First the Neutrino has mass, then they can't find the Higgs Boson and now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_theory
Heim theory also calculated the mass of the proton as greater than measured previously!
The study of social psychology is 100% about understanding why crowds/the public/etc behave the way they do. It surprises me how frequently people attempt to reinvent social psychology via hearsay, recycled folklore or off-the-cuff guessing when there is a 50 year old field of rigorous experimental science and theory devoted to all this.
The irony is that companies that do everything China wants often get little in return. Look at Microsoft. They gave China the source code to their software. Gave them nearly free licensing of Windows and they hardly make any money there at all!
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/1832381/Gates-Lets-China-Peek-Through-Windows.htm
and now in 2010....
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-24/microsoft-s-ballmer-says-china-piracy-is-a-problem-update1-.html
FYI, cell phone ringtones were a multi-hundred million dollar industry. Farmville sells millions worth of virtual manure. Some technology is for people who don't have a nuanced or particularly intellectual view of the world and just want to yell "OMG! Ponies!" all day. Yes my nerdly friends, there are lots and lots and lots of people like this, that you haven't had the pleasure of meeting nor would you find them particularly interesting if you did. I remember hanging out with "The Cool Kids" in high school for a bit, just to see what it was like. I found them exceptionally boring. There are billions of em though' and there's plenty of money in letting them yell "OMG! Ponies!" to all their friends.
The appointment of senators by the state legislatures was meant to act as a check on the federal governments power by making sure that senators who were elected respected the individual states interests. One of the issues the current system creates is the problem of unfunded mandates, where the federal government will mandate that the states implement a particular policy and don't provide any funds to do so.
Well then Heim Theory is atheism, or some sort of occult school because it does not predict the Higgs Boson.
Outside of computing related technologies it seems that science has really slowed down to a crawl. We haven't invented any new significant sources of energy since Nuclear fission was first developed in the 30s. We have actually gone backwards with regards to space travel, and no longer have the capabilities we once had. Lately, all the drug companies have been panicking because their best drugs are going out of patent and they don't have any new ones to replace them.
Structured finance is the arcane theology of capitalism that piles more levels of complexity, obfuscation and confusion on top of itself, vainly searching for the ultimate truth about risk but never getting anywhere except preventing rational criticism or analysis of itself by making the field far too complex for anyone to analyze. It's the equivalent of the brightest minds of the medieval era endlessly debating and writing about how many angels could fit on the head of a pin when they should have been engaged in improving farming techniques and inventing better water wheels and windmills.
They just need to hook this up to some pagerank like algorithm and they can determine your individual TerrorScore (tm). They can then use this to put you in prison for pre-crime and all that. They could automatically dispatch homeland security drones to keep an eye on you once your terror score exceeded certain thresholds as well! It's all so clever trousers....
When I look at a great photograph, I have an emotional response. It's certainly pleasant when I am at a photo exhibit on the weekend but when I'm just searching for documentation on a jquery plugin it's simply distracting and breaks my concentration.
If he had a gyroscope in there it would have to mechanically spin the rotor right? That's kind of weird having a moving part like that in a phone...
Don't you think that your "unacceptable variations" might not work out the way you planned? For instance, someone might consider marijuana being legal to be an "unacceptable variation", while the policy leads in the long term to a far more socially harmful and devastating war on drugs. There are also a lot of less controversial things that might benefit from experimentation at the local level, such as the maximum acceptable interest rate on credit cards, the legality of certain financial products such as exotic derivatives, etc. On these two issues mentioned, the federal government came in unilaterally and told the states that they couldn't have any power over these issues.
I think Steve Jobs is more like the mad hatter from Alice in Wonderland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InSn2BLDwfQ
The Dalton Highway, from Prudhoe Bay to Fairbanks, is unpaved. They might want a little more ground clearance than the car pictured in the article.
Agreed, Javascript only requires notepad and any browser. With HTML5 he can even do graphics and (theoretically) database programming.
I think the high point in the history of Microsoft was when they released Windows 2000. Here was an operating system that multi-tasked well, had perfected integrated networking and didn't blue screen. I remember a lot of people who had been using Redhat 9, which was crap, switched back to Microsoft and noticed that it didn't crash that much and they were pretty happy using it.
Then came WindowsXP and IE6, which gave everybody pretty much everything they wanted in an OS. It was easily pirateable and spread all over the world.
Then came malware, botnets, and the ensuing security disaster of science fiction proportions and Microsoft spent the next 10 years plugging security holes. Those were the big feature with Vista and Windows 7 remember-- more secure. This was all the fault of Microsoft demanding that unmanaged x86 code with full access to the win32 api run everywhere. It's an enormous, outlandish security hole just waiting to happen.
Meanwhile, I went to visit a relative in the hospital and all the computers are running Win2k. If you look at OS share online, WinXP still dominates. Nobody really knows what's new in Office 2010, except you can read Office 2010 files and that ribbon thing. China was a total disaster for Microsoft too. They even shared their source code and it's only 1 percent of their revenue.
Meanwhile Apple and Linux really got their act together and improved massively. Then the 3g and portable device boom happened and Microsoft was caught with Windows Mobile, in the face of Android and Iphone. They couldn't leverage their massive x86 code base and had to start over with a new OS from scratch. That's their problem, they have to start over on a new chipset and they just can't get anywhere meaningful without relying on the enormous barrier to entry that is the win32 api legacy.