We'll take our children to the viewing corridor and watch the corporations feeding the Congress Critters. Oh, isn't that cute, Look honey, Google just wrote that balding primate in the blue suit a $2,000,000 campaign contribution. Isn't the circle of life miraculous...
Oh! Now you went and done it... Now they're gonna go make "Pigs on a Plane" starring Samuel L. Jackson, and its all your fault. I hope you're happy with yourself.
I had a friend who was an electrical engineer who worked on RF equipment at El Toro Marine air base in CA. This was in the early 80s. He was on a chopper, talking to the lead RF Engineer about jamming gear as they flew over the 405 over Costa Mesa. He did a little demo, he pointed the antenna at different cars and they were able to determine what stations these folks were listening to. Then they pick one guy out on the freeway, jammed his FM and started talking to him.
This is GOD! I'm watching you in your blue Pontiac driving the 405. I'm talking to you, with your short brown hair, there in the 3rd lane, 4rth lane, 3rd lane... The guy started swerving all over the road. Then pulled off at the next exit parked the car and just stared all around.
Create small solar powered 360 degree, 3D imaging devices at street corners, alley ways, sidewalks and store fronts. Have the car road state computer be a node of a network that includes all the other cars in, let's say a 2 mile radius and the imaging devices. Moving bodies are models for position and velocity. Your cloud map of the road includes the information about the 18 years old going 75 mph on a surface street, cutting in and out of traffic and will almost certain run the up coming red light. With sufficient prior information, reaction times could be reduced to under 100 milliseconds and real-time traffic information could be relayed to traffic planning servers to improve flow and alleviate congestion. This is of course a far more complex solution than let's just see what happens and hope for the best. It seems to me we have a solid grasp of what is failing in our society. Perhaps taking the initiative and addressing those failures in the process of transforming how our society functions might behoove us all.
Actually we are using number crunching to improve images. The air waves and wiggle kind of like the light you see at the bottom of a pool (it actually different because the atmosphere's upper boundary isn't the source of the moving refraction, but the effect is pretty much the same. It makes it hard to get a clear image especially if you average the image out over long exposures. The mirrors on modern terrestrial telescopes have thin mirrors and actuators that deform the mirror. So they slightly deform the mirror to accommodate the fluctuations in the atmosphere so the two cancel out. They way they measure the atmosphere, is by shooting a laser straight out from the telescope to create an artificial star upon which to focus.
Yes computers are used to analyze the image to control the deformation, but its the shifting mirror that fixes the unfocussed image.
I find Heinleins spinning in his grave, gives the movie soundtrack an edgy whine that makes it more suspenseful. I would actually change the name of the movie to "RRRRAAAAIIIDDDD!!!"
It depends on who you consider the founding fathers to be. If you include everyone that participated in the Continental Congress and all other activities required to forge a new government, I'd have to admit you're right. On the other hand, if by founding fathers, you mean those few men that were the architects of the American dream, and inside of which were inspired to see all men as equal with inalienable rights, then I could honestly say no you are mistaken. Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, these were men of great intellect and dedication to the dream of liberty and the dignity of the human spirit. They appreciated that their ideals were lofty and that the worldly expressions of those high ideals would be an arduous play by ear fugue taking perhaps centuries to ring out.
What threatens us most these days are intellectual ideologues who have educated nearly two generations in our nations top schools and replaced the WASPs who at least were steeped in a culture of responsibility and service with men and women who believe their positions in life are as they are not by happy accidents of fate but because they are destined to rule the world, and these people are not bothered by facts, evidence to the contrary, history or the laws of nature or economics. We have a nation of 20-40 something business and political leaders who have been indoctrinated into the this fascist fantasy, and this is the heart of the threat against the common man in this country. We need to declare that there is Koolaid, and convince the blind and deluded to stop drinking it.
I'm all for that, but you are talking about the United States of America, and gawd knows between attention deficit, reality television programming and the American diet for dumb and dumber talking heads, the chance of such debates are small, and the chance of them getting more than a dozen viewers who aren't CSPAN junkies on non-election years is small to vanishing.
VOTE? Are you sleeping? The Wall Street Journal was 2 days away from reporting that after buying Florida's ballots and recounting, that Gore had won by a Substantial Margin, when 9/11 made them decide that news wasn't the best thing for the country at that time. The Republican Party is putting Jim Crow laws in a dozen states hoping to ensure victory by keeping Democratic voters from getting to the poll
The whole system stinks to high heaven. Voting is no longer an effective means for keeping this government in check. We need to do something far more impactful. Our government has gone rogue, and it threatens its own citizens. We must muzzle this beast and beat it back into submission.
Great post... would have been timely in... oh, 1984. We live in the fall out of the explosion you describe. Of course things haven't gotten bad yet. But I hear a mighty gurgling sound, and I fear the big flush is coming.
This is a pile of flaming bull dung!!! PEOPLE wake the fsck up. One side takes any stupid thing guaranteed to make the other side feel more righteous, or justified, or closer to their warm and fuzzy Gawd. And uses it as a wedge, a distraction from any freaking thing that actually matters!!! Abortion, Animal Rights, Gay Marriage... its all a bunch of smoke and mirrors designed to hide the fact that your representatives don't. They are bought and sold to the highest bidder. On a planet with 7,000,000,000 homo sapiens, what frigging difference does it make where Slick Willy stick his Slick Willy. Exactly NO DIFFERENCE. Its one more way to make you stop looking at the fact your pockets, pensions and portfolios have all been picked clean.
DID ANY OF YOU NOTICE WHAT HAPPENED ON SEPT. 16th 2012? Ben Bernanke said the Fed would purchase $40,000,000,000 a month in mortgaged back securities. The same hour the price of gold and oil shot up, that was the sound of your dollar instantly being worth less. They're printing money to buy YOUR MORTGAGE, which they will turn around and invest in derivatives (have you been watching the derivatives market over the last few weeks?) And word has it that the banks will return the favor in kind by buying government bonds. This is a Ponzi Scheme, and my darlings you and I are holding the bag. I hope you all have your fall back plans well laid out. Thing are not well here.
You sir are mistaken. You're correct in your statement that the purpose of the government is to serve "The People". Your mistake is presuming you are one of "Those People". "The People" in question have the wealth and power to pay for this government which protects their interests with incredible force and velocity. You may have at one time been one of "The People", but that time has pretty much passed and the only way I can see fit now to drag this festering dung heap back to something even vaguely resembling the intent of the founding fathers, would be to;
1. Eliminate both offending parties and their minions.
2. Eliminate the Federal Reserve Bank.
3. Tell the monied interests of England and its hegemony to eat feces and die.
4. Separate Corporation and State.
5. Reenact Glass-Steagall.
6. Enforce the separation of Church and State.
7. Reconstitute government checks and balances.
8. Prune the Executive Branch right back to the President's eyebrows.
9. Take the profit motive out of government, and teach our children why its important that they do a hitch as a representative.
10. Bury the military industrial complex, it is a dead end and threatens the integrity of the future of the human race.
11. Pay whistle blowers and celebrate them as heroes.
Sorry if I missed anything, I realize this is at best a pipe dream, but a person can dream. We are quick running out of time to take back what is rightfully ours. I'm certain y'all have your own to-do lists. I don't see this as a conservative/liberal problem. I see this as a problem between a vanishingly small plutocracy and the rest of humanity. These are not wise people and they are making knee-jerk decisions that start with culling the herd. I'm not volunteering for a species wide down sizing thanks./p
Apparently you've never met a Scientologist... there are so many religions that inspire an out loud WTF!!!??? Momonism (sounds like something that requires a person end up in institutional care...) Personally I like Dana Carvey's "Cult of the Golden Orb!".
Perhaps you haven't put the line through all the dots yet... that is the plan. Crush the internet as we know it, and replace it with something that resembles phone service. You pay for their service, they give you what they feel like, you pay what they demand, and you shut your mouth and enjoy it, or do without. This wild anything goes hippy-fest, communist plot that we currently call the internet is an unending pain in their collective sides and they must do anything they can to kill it, so when you say you hope it dies, you're in fact serving their interest.
It is time for Americans, to build a completely free and unregulated internet. One not subject to government control, and for the luv-o-jebus utterly inaccessible to large corporate interests. It should be free, open and paid for by donations from users who want to circumvent the increasingly pay-per-screw models being inflicted on the users by the monolithic service providers of the world. Most important, it should route around existing systems of control and manipulation. There is no sane argument against having a free and unrestricted system of communications among people. We've been fed lies and hyperbole by people whose interest is that we keep the masses in line. This isn't about stopping a handful of predators, and it never has been. You don't destroy a $50,000 vehicle to get at a 10 cent fuse. Our entire society has become a means by which wealthy powers have concentrated wealth and power to give them control and authority over the groveling masses. Its about time for the masses to tell the powers to kiss their collective asses, we'll take care of ourselves thanks.
You I don't understand how these sunny optimists can just keep going without noticing the state of the world... Sheeeesh, mayhaps a little Prozac might make you a little less of a Gloomy Guss. There are people out there working on these very issues... its not like the planet is is some kind of suicidal circle jerk. Go, talk to people who are actually doing good things. Report back when you find something happy. Go, scoot!
There apparently are laws regarding criminal stupidity. Should we be neutering these mouth breathers, not as a punishment, but as a means to stem the flood of idiot genes in our society?
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We'll take our children to the viewing corridor and watch the corporations feeding the Congress Critters. Oh, isn't that cute, Look honey, Google just wrote that balding primate in the blue suit a $2,000,000 campaign contribution. Isn't the circle of life miraculous...
Oh! Now you went and done it... Now they're gonna go make "Pigs on a Plane" starring Samuel L. Jackson, and its all your fault. I hope you're happy with yourself.
And what, port and starboard on his balls?
So if his lover(s) messes up, do they have to walk thr plank?
I had a friend who was an electrical engineer who worked on RF equipment at El Toro Marine air base in CA. This was in the early 80s. He was on a chopper, talking to the lead RF Engineer about jamming gear as they flew over the 405 over Costa Mesa. He did a little demo, he pointed the antenna at different cars and they were able to determine what stations these folks were listening to. Then they pick one guy out on the freeway, jammed his FM and started talking to him.
This is GOD! I'm watching you in your blue Pontiac driving the 405. I'm talking to you, with your short brown hair, there in the 3rd lane, 4rth lane, 3rd lane... The guy started swerving all over the road. Then pulled off at the next exit parked the car and just stared all around.
Twisted, but funny.
Create small solar powered 360 degree, 3D imaging devices at street corners, alley ways, sidewalks and store fronts. Have the car road state computer be a node of a network that includes all the other cars in, let's say a 2 mile radius and the imaging devices. Moving bodies are models for position and velocity. Your cloud map of the road includes the information about the 18 years old going 75 mph on a surface street, cutting in and out of traffic and will almost certain run the up coming red light. With sufficient prior information, reaction times could be reduced to under 100 milliseconds and real-time traffic information could be relayed to traffic planning servers to improve flow and alleviate congestion. This is of course a far more complex solution than let's just see what happens and hope for the best. It seems to me we have a solid grasp of what is failing in our society. Perhaps taking the initiative and addressing those failures in the process of transforming how our society functions might behoove us all.
Actually we are using number crunching to improve images. The air waves and wiggle kind of like the light you see at the bottom of a pool (it actually different because the atmosphere's upper boundary isn't the source of the moving refraction, but the effect is pretty much the same. It makes it hard to get a clear image especially if you average the image out over long exposures. The mirrors on modern terrestrial telescopes have thin mirrors and actuators that deform the mirror. So they slightly deform the mirror to accommodate the fluctuations in the atmosphere so the two cancel out. They way they measure the atmosphere, is by shooting a laser straight out from the telescope to create an artificial star upon which to focus.
Yes computers are used to analyze the image to control the deformation, but its the shifting mirror that fixes the unfocussed image.
And you never heard crickets downloading Katydid porn on a warm summer night?
Slash-dotters lead such sheltered lives...
I find Heinleins spinning in his grave, gives the movie soundtrack an edgy whine that makes it more suspenseful. I would actually change the name of the movie to "RRRRAAAAIIIDDDD!!!"
It depends on who you consider the founding fathers to be. If you include everyone that participated in the Continental Congress and all other activities required to forge a new government, I'd have to admit you're right. On the other hand, if by founding fathers, you mean those few men that were the architects of the American dream, and inside of which were inspired to see all men as equal with inalienable rights, then I could honestly say no you are mistaken. Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, these were men of great intellect and dedication to the dream of liberty and the dignity of the human spirit. They appreciated that their ideals were lofty and that the worldly expressions of those high ideals would be an arduous play by ear fugue taking perhaps centuries to ring out.
What threatens us most these days are intellectual ideologues who have educated nearly two generations in our nations top schools and replaced the WASPs who at least were steeped in a culture of responsibility and service with men and women who believe their positions in life are as they are not by happy accidents of fate but because they are destined to rule the world, and these people are not bothered by facts, evidence to the contrary, history or the laws of nature or economics. We have a nation of 20-40 something business and political leaders who have been indoctrinated into the this fascist fantasy, and this is the heart of the threat against the common man in this country. We need to declare that there is Koolaid, and convince the blind and deluded to stop drinking it.
I'm all for that, but you are talking about the United States of America, and gawd knows between attention deficit, reality television programming and the American diet for dumb and dumber talking heads, the chance of such debates are small, and the chance of them getting more than a dozen viewers who aren't CSPAN junkies on non-election years is small to vanishing.
VOTE? Are you sleeping? The Wall Street Journal was 2 days away from reporting that after buying Florida's ballots and recounting, that Gore had won by a Substantial Margin, when 9/11 made them decide that news wasn't the best thing for the country at that time. The Republican Party is putting Jim Crow laws in a dozen states hoping to ensure victory by keeping Democratic voters from getting to the poll
The whole system stinks to high heaven. Voting is no longer an effective means for keeping this government in check. We need to do something far more impactful. Our government has gone rogue, and it threatens its own citizens. We must muzzle this beast and beat it back into submission.
Great post... would have been timely in... oh, 1984. We live in the fall out of the explosion you describe. Of course things haven't gotten bad yet. But I hear a mighty gurgling sound, and I fear the big flush is coming.
This is a pile of flaming bull dung!!! PEOPLE wake the fsck up. One side takes any stupid thing guaranteed to make the other side feel more righteous, or justified, or closer to their warm and fuzzy Gawd. And uses it as a wedge, a distraction from any freaking thing that actually matters!!! Abortion, Animal Rights, Gay Marriage... its all a bunch of smoke and mirrors designed to hide the fact that your representatives don't. They are bought and sold to the highest bidder. On a planet with 7,000,000,000 homo sapiens, what frigging difference does it make where Slick Willy stick his Slick Willy. Exactly NO DIFFERENCE. Its one more way to make you stop looking at the fact your pockets, pensions and portfolios have all been picked clean.
DID ANY OF YOU NOTICE WHAT HAPPENED ON SEPT. 16th 2012? Ben Bernanke said the Fed would purchase $40,000,000,000 a month in mortgaged back securities. The same hour the price of gold and oil shot up, that was the sound of your dollar instantly being worth less. They're printing money to buy YOUR MORTGAGE, which they will turn around and invest in derivatives (have you been watching the derivatives market over the last few weeks?) And word has it that the banks will return the favor in kind by buying government bonds. This is a Ponzi Scheme, and my darlings you and I are holding the bag. I hope you all have your fall back plans well laid out. Thing are not well here.
You sir are mistaken. You're correct in your statement that the purpose of the government is to serve "The People". Your mistake is presuming you are one of "Those People". "The People" in question have the wealth and power to pay for this government which protects their interests with incredible force and velocity. You may have at one time been one of "The People", but that time has pretty much passed and the only way I can see fit now to drag this festering dung heap back to something even vaguely resembling the intent of the founding fathers, would be to;
/p
1. Eliminate both offending parties and their minions.
2. Eliminate the Federal Reserve Bank.
3. Tell the monied interests of England and its hegemony to eat feces and die.
4. Separate Corporation and State.
5. Reenact Glass-Steagall.
6. Enforce the separation of Church and State.
7. Reconstitute government checks and balances.
8. Prune the Executive Branch right back to the President's eyebrows.
9. Take the profit motive out of government, and teach our children why its important that they do a hitch as a representative.
10. Bury the military industrial complex, it is a dead end and threatens the integrity of the future of the human race.
11. Pay whistle blowers and celebrate them as heroes.
Sorry if I missed anything, I realize this is at best a pipe dream, but a person can dream. We are quick running out of time to take back what is rightfully ours. I'm certain y'all have your own to-do lists. I don't see this as a conservative/liberal problem. I see this as a problem between a vanishingly small plutocracy and the rest of humanity. These are not wise people and they are making knee-jerk decisions that start with culling the herd. I'm not volunteering for a species wide down sizing thanks.
The project demo video for this...
Sadly no, the Robot decided to use the Astronauts' GI tracts as filters so it disemboweled them to solve the problem.
As long as there is a SciFi Channel with Twilight Zone marathons... the children of man will remain enlightened...
Wasn't this a "Robot Chicken" episode???
That would be "pie-in-the-Skynet".
s/human/American human/CEO or Political Leader/g
Apparently you've never met a Scientologist... there are so many religions that inspire an out loud WTF!!!??? Momonism (sounds like something that requires a person end up in institutional care...) Personally I like Dana Carvey's "Cult of the Golden Orb!".
Its a shell game... piercing the corporate veil? You're trying to nail jello to the wall, nothing will stick.
Perhaps you haven't put the line through all the dots yet... that is the plan. Crush the internet as we know it, and replace it with something that resembles phone service. You pay for their service, they give you what they feel like, you pay what they demand, and you shut your mouth and enjoy it, or do without. This wild anything goes hippy-fest, communist plot that we currently call the internet is an unending pain in their collective sides and they must do anything they can to kill it, so when you say you hope it dies, you're in fact serving their interest.
It is time for Americans, to build a completely free and unregulated internet. One not subject to government control, and for the luv-o-jebus utterly inaccessible to large corporate interests. It should be free, open and paid for by donations from users who want to circumvent the increasingly pay-per-screw models being inflicted on the users by the monolithic service providers of the world. Most important, it should route around existing systems of control and manipulation. There is no sane argument against having a free and unrestricted system of communications among people. We've been fed lies and hyperbole by people whose interest is that we keep the masses in line. This isn't about stopping a handful of predators, and it never has been. You don't destroy a $50,000 vehicle to get at a 10 cent fuse. Our entire society has become a means by which wealthy powers have concentrated wealth and power to give them control and authority over the groveling masses. Its about time for the masses to tell the powers to kiss their collective asses, we'll take care of ourselves thanks.
You I don't understand how these sunny optimists can just keep going without noticing the state of the world... Sheeeesh, mayhaps a little Prozac might make you a little less of a Gloomy Guss. There are people out there working on these very issues... its not like the planet is is some kind of suicidal circle jerk. Go, talk to people who are actually doing good things. Report back when you find something happy. Go, scoot!
There apparently are laws regarding criminal stupidity. Should we be neutering these mouth breathers, not as a punishment, but as a means to stem the flood of idiot genes in our society?