And just for sh!tz and Googles, how many generations of hardware and/or software away before deep data tools will be able to provide the Government with anything they want to know about anyone they want to know it? If they can now identify possible terrorists by emails and phone calls today, how long before they can spank you for bringing pencil erasers home from work or passing gas in a crowded elevator?
I used to be slightly creeped out by by folks who were always suggesting the government was out to get us and that people's fillings were being bugged. Arriving at the day when the apparently paranoid and delusional have been vindicated is clearly not a happy thing. There's no extra room for Washington D.C. in my colon. I respectfully request they evacuate my bowel the next time I do the same.
I;m sorry, but anyone who wants to get 3D designs can go to Autodesk for FREE (as in beer) 3D modeling tools, then shoot them off to Cubify's cloud printing service. The open folks can use Blender and a wide host of other tools to create STLs from their various 3B models (of which there are huge numbers online, the Sketchup Library alone is chock full of 3D model goodness.)
I don't know a single Maker who hasn't got 8 ways to skin this cat, and there are a plethora of groups forming daily sharing information. Why would you need a kiosk at this point in time when you can do everything you need right from your PC? I guess maybe it's for the Literary Students who want to print busts of Shakespeare or Keats?
Time and time again its been shown that the very act of policing changes human behavior, the impact it has on human psychology is profound and predictable. People who are responsible for "controlling", "managing" or "policing" groups of people that have been psychologically "Othered", tend to use unacceptable force, show dramatic loss of sympathy, empathy and compassion, and in general commit the kind nasty primate behavior we all have taboos against doing in normal polite society.
The requirement is to first weed sociopaths and psychopaths out of police work, not doing that is a recipe for disaster. Next police education should include STRONG training in human behavior with a healthy shot of brain science and an appreciation for how the human brain (and its impact on the human mind) is impacted by a steady diet of "Keeping the Bad Guys at bay." There should be regular counseling, absolutely should be recorded police behavior, if nothing else to get a better handle on keeping our police mentally healthy and operationally effective. By the way, the police don't happen in a vacuum. The same ultra moralistic, hyper vigilant, religious rite (spelling intended) American subcultures that have put express lanes on their death rows and don't even blink twice at the fact that they've done a piss pour job of sorting the innocent from the guilty (the common heard refrain is let Gawd sort them out), leads to police that shoot first and worry about your human rights maybe later? I'm not saying that a New York officer who decides to break a broom handle off in some poor innocent Haitian's rectum isn't an atrocity deserving of some version of human life sacrifice. I am saying that there seem to be entire regions of the U.S. where public attitudes point to seriously questionable ethics and commonly result in atrocious behavior as common course, particularly by authorities.
Others have mentioned public Ombudsman Programs, awesome ideas. Recording people's behavior to enhance accountability, equally awesome. Holding society at large to greater responsibility, makes me tear up with happiness. We get the services we manage, and take accountability for. No accountability, no service (or worse, disservice.) Most of all, we train people to be great. We explain that correction isn't being judged as wrong, its the control process required to get anything from point A to point B (its simply steering.) Treat the police great, their work is difficult, dangerous and seldom appreciated. Manage their humanity, the good, the bad and the ugly. Take care of them, so they can take care of us. By the way, while you're getting the police perfect, you also want to start working on the political system, education, public sector employees, the legal justice system and doctors.
We've pretty much proven self regulation is virtually no regulation at all. I welcome the day we have an IBM Watson for the general administration of large professional/government bodies. By all means leave the disposition of people to people, but put a computer in the mix looking out for misconduct and dirty deeds done cheap . Adding that and systemic transparency suggests a golden age of rational human services right around the corner! And yes, expect foot dragging, nobody willing relinquishes control.
One would think that with a good model of the gravitational light bending effect, it would be possible to convert Alpha Centauri into the objective lens of the largest telescope in history. Of course with a distance of 4+ ly, we may be well beyond the focal length of the star gravitational lens, In which case it might be a better microscope than a telescope.
Of course you have to eclipse the star to remove its light, but it would still prove a fascinating experiment. Has anyone thought of using the Sun to image distant solar systems at its focal point (and does anyone here know if that's even inside the solar system?)
So should I expect that a technology is going to become ubiquitous that might play hobb with people's pacemakers???
Should I be expecting to see Grandmas all over the country breaking out into unplanned gymnastics at airports, malls and coffee shops? I can see it now, Lady ordering at a Starbucks... "I'll have whatever she's having!"
You misunderstand, ferrets are the very best animal models they have, their ability to look cute on cue, and playfully weasel about make them almost perfect models, pure fashion gold. Top modeling houses world wide are simply screaming for more ferrets.
During the last bird flu I stocked up on Tamiflu, you can get a script for it from your doctor provided you're on good terms. Of course Roche has done an excellent job of hiding a great deal of information about the efficacy of Tamiflu, and there is more than fair cause to doubt its effectiveness in a serious outbreak of influenza. That and its best taken within the first 48 hours of infection.
Come up with a new form of socially available media that has a life expectancy. Built in bit rot. Stop making the cloud the cesspool for society's irresponsibility. You want a family archive, archive it at home. Also give people the right and power to purge any or all of their social content from the internet. With the advent of IPv6, give every piece of social media its own unique IP, and if the owner says its no longer available, poof, it goes away. A content owner should have that right. We have the technology, it would just take bucking controlling governments and avaricious corporations to make it so. Anyone for a really cool Open Source projects... a new Open Privacy standard... well who's interested?
Being a little older its interesting to see the arc of human behavior. Younger people don't question the way it is, it's just the way it is and they rationalize why it's that way and they thing it's normal, even good. There was a time when people actually mattered as people and not interchangeable widgets in a service based industrial engine that consumes people in precisely the same way it consumes paper or water or raw materials.
When people mattered, their human needs mattered. How the company was loyal to the employee just the way an employee was supposed to be loyal to a company. My Father worked for the same company for 30 years and got a generous retirement from them. Today the shrinking bone and the increasing number of ever hungrier dogs forces us to be happy to give away all our human time, with our families, with our interests and personal joys and passions, or we are forced to do work that leads to living a life that is hungry and wanting.
The problem isn't and can't be cell phones. It is a ceaselessly ravenous industry that wants all of you, and when it is done will spit you out sans vital juice. The future bodes that human labor is coming to an end. But the industries are the only recipient of the changing world. We must begin to look at how we will deal with a human population that no longer can compete in the market place with robot labor Or society itself will unravel.
That and they can add G23 Paxeline Hydrochloride to the food powders to calm the population and weed out aggression. I wonder if there'll be any side effects? Nah!
On the contrary, They'd come up with a whole new bunch of GenMod crops to corner the Ag part of printable foods and then lobby Congress to make certain that only their crop could be used in the making of printed food.
Yeah, instead you want to lay down fine layers of ingredients the expose it to a high frequency standing wave to mix materials at the antinodes. You introduce fibers and sheets of material this way and create all kinds of density changes giving it very complex structure. I want something that could print Sushi!
I won't argue there's a lot of turds floating in the Country & Western pool... but there are also some gems. You just gotta root around a little. I don't know if you consider Blue Grass/New Grass as a part of, an off shoot, its own genre or a part of Folk, but there's some amazing music in Blue Grass. There are country fusions that are more than acceptable. Lyle Lovett has some amazing stuff like for instance Here I am. Kathy Mattea has a voice like an angel and she sings songs that are deeply touching. "Raising Sand" a collaboration between Alison Krauss of Union Station and Robert Plant of Lead Zeppelin fame is inspired (and pulled down a bevy of Grammy Awards for its inspiration.)
So yeah the old joke about the guy who played the Country song backwards and got sober, and got his dog, truck and girlfriends back, is probably closer to the truth than anybody in the genre would care to admit. That said, you can find crap in any genre, and besides C & W, I'd be happy to point out a vast POP wasteland, or a Rap culture bloated with posers and derivative artists. Anyway, just saying...
Actually, the whole point of fast breeders, is that they "Burn" the fuel at a tremendously accelerated pace, rendering relatively benign in a few years what would have been a nightmare for millennia. The problem as mentioned is safety, and sadly in business there are two opposing (sometimes mutually exclusive) forces at work.
1. Invention/Production; Engineer a working solution, which engineers are only too thrilled to do. They even give you specifications with explicit built in safety limits, and limits for nominal and optimal performance, they also include sane operating life expectancies.
2. Profit Making; Bean counters will continue to forever ask how much can we carve off and not have it explode/implode. You can be certain that with poor management creeping in at some time in the future a bean counter doing his or her job will carve off one thing too many and as is want to happen, let the smoke out. There are dozens of smoking holes in Texas (the most recent barely a week old), a gulf full of spilled oil, and the San Onofre Nuclear Power plant, now operating 20 years beyond its designed life expectancy and falling apart faster than Charlie Sheen.
So fast breeders have a bunch of ways to go horribly wrong, and are perfectly capable of serious criticality events up to and including big bangs. There are some really interesting possibilities for designing a safer fast breeder, and as mentioned liquid salt and/or sodium remain possibilities (though the corrosive effects of molten sodium on a whole host of piping make using it as a heat exchange fluid a challenging engineering problem. That, and if it should ever cool, i.e. freeze, remelting it is going to be a solid gold nightmare.) We won't even discuss the problems involving a red hot sodium leak into a second stage steam turbine system. The Pucker Quotient is very high. Still, if you trade off finding nucleotides in your ground water, food, house dust, against the threat of one big nasty event, you may find the fast breeder is still the better bet. Problem is finding an insurance company to hedge the bet, and the government bailout that'll cost us all out the whazooly if anything nasty ever happens. Or maybe the corporations will get one of those get of jail free "You can't sue us" laws passed.
The European model of bifurcating education between college and trade seems like a very useful model for maximizing employment and having a healthy supply of skilled labor. Sadly, many companies now require a college degree for everything from janitorial work to sorting mail. It's time to set sane standards and bring back meaningful trade apprentice programs.
Am I hearing "This is threatening my world view" in the background? It's a satellite view, the satellites available in 1984 had a dramatically lower resolution than the amazing birds flying today... sheesh!
The key point here is that you can easily see important medium to large scale changes to the earth's surface. Glacial retreat, human development, the strip mining of Canada for tar oil and the Amazon for resources. Anybody not familiar with these events over the last 30 years has either had their head buried in the sand (tar sand?) or has a political agenda that verges on fundamentalist religion (complete with belief system that displaces logic or clear and irrefutable scientific evidence.)
We are drowning in corporate stories of unbridled greed and the wholesale destruction of society, Nestle is trying to push a global patent on the medicinal use of Fennel Flower, a curative that has been well documented for thousands of years. Disney was trying to trademark "Dia de los Muertos" and only when the Hispanic community howled with outrage did they change their minds. Even now the American Supreme Court is hearing whether or not corporations should be able to OWN as patents HUMAN GENES. This has grown into a full on disaster. Because there are companies that have been patenting genes in cows and pigs for years now (think transgenic livestock) and many of those very same genes exist in human being so guess what, somebody owns a piece of you. If fact the best guess is that at this point in time every bit of your genome belongs to somebody. You've been chopped up (like those real estate loan bundles) and your bits now belong to a variety of corporations. You might say so what, here's an example of the problem, Myriad Genetics owns the patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2. They saw a gold mine in the human genome and have been cashing in for over a decade. Because they have patents, the only tests for these two oncogenes you can get are their tests. They've been able to keep the price of these tests incredibly high (because they have a corner on the market) and there are now tests that are BETTER, FASTER and infinitely less expensive, but you can't use them because of the patent. The result is that many thousands of women have screened with false negatives and died of breast and ovarian cancers, with a better test in plain sight, that they can't get.
I liked Atlas Shrugged as much as the next person, but for every visionary Dagny Taggart out there, there are ten Gordon Gekkos. Greedy, self serving, money grubbing bastards who'd part their own Moms out for seed capital. You can't swing a stick any more without hitting the damage done to our society or our government by greedy people bent on inflicting their wealth and egos on society. So I say to the Libertarians, by all means, please shrink government to its logical minimum (but no more please), ensure the greatest amount of civil liberties (but remember while exercising your Second Amendment rights, that your bullets don't recognize property lines), and please take off the rose colored glasses with regards to rampant, unbridled capitalism. It's rapacious, and prone to cannibalizing the very society in which it lives. Even Adam Smith warned of the dangers of monopolies and erosion of the middle class. Control rods like Glass Steagall aren't just niceties, they're full on necessities. The banks are mainlining OE, they're clearly addicted, the economy is inflating again, property values just had their highest jump in a single month in living memory, we just set a new record on the Stock Exchange and you can already smell the smoke from the fire that will set off the next blowout, and you best believe it will dwarf the previous economic blowouts. Its time far sanity children, because the craziness is getting life threatening.
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And just for sh!tz and Googles, how many generations of hardware and/or software away before deep data tools will be able to provide the Government with anything they want to know about anyone they want to know it? If they can now identify possible terrorists by emails and phone calls today, how long before they can spank you for bringing pencil erasers home from work or passing gas in a crowded elevator?
I used to be slightly creeped out by by folks who were always suggesting the government was out to get us and that people's fillings were being bugged. Arriving at the day when the apparently paranoid and delusional have been vindicated is clearly not a happy thing. There's no extra room for Washington D.C. in my colon. I respectfully request they evacuate my bowel the next time I do the same.
I;m sorry, but anyone who wants to get 3D designs can go to Autodesk for FREE (as in beer) 3D modeling tools, then shoot them off to Cubify's cloud printing service. The open folks can use Blender and a wide host of other tools to create STLs from their various 3B models (of which there are huge numbers online, the Sketchup Library alone is chock full of 3D model goodness.)
I don't know a single Maker who hasn't got 8 ways to skin this cat, and there are a plethora of groups forming daily sharing information. Why would you need a kiosk at this point in time when you can do everything you need right from your PC? I guess maybe it's for the Literary Students who want to print busts of Shakespeare or Keats?
Time and time again its been shown that the very act of policing changes human behavior, the impact it has on human psychology is profound and predictable. People who are responsible for "controlling", "managing" or "policing" groups of people that have been psychologically "Othered", tend to use unacceptable force, show dramatic loss of sympathy, empathy and compassion, and in general commit the kind nasty primate behavior we all have taboos against doing in normal polite society.
The requirement is to first weed sociopaths and psychopaths out of police work, not doing that is a recipe for disaster. Next police education should include STRONG training in human behavior with a healthy shot of brain science and an appreciation for how the human brain (and its impact on the human mind) is impacted by a steady diet of "Keeping the Bad Guys at bay." There should be regular counseling, absolutely should be recorded police behavior, if nothing else to get a better handle on keeping our police mentally healthy and operationally effective. By the way, the police don't happen in a vacuum. The same ultra moralistic, hyper vigilant, religious rite (spelling intended) American subcultures that have put express lanes on their death rows and don't even blink twice at the fact that they've done a piss pour job of sorting the innocent from the guilty (the common heard refrain is let Gawd sort them out), leads to police that shoot first and worry about your human rights maybe later? I'm not saying that a New York officer who decides to break a broom handle off in some poor innocent Haitian's rectum isn't an atrocity deserving of some version of human life sacrifice. I am saying that there seem to be entire regions of the U.S. where public attitudes point to seriously questionable ethics and commonly result in atrocious behavior as common course, particularly by authorities.
Others have mentioned public Ombudsman Programs, awesome ideas. Recording people's behavior to enhance accountability, equally awesome. Holding society at large to greater responsibility, makes me tear up with happiness. We get the services we manage, and take accountability for. No accountability, no service (or worse, disservice.) Most of all, we train people to be great. We explain that correction isn't being judged as wrong, its the control process required to get anything from point A to point B (its simply steering.) Treat the police great, their work is difficult, dangerous and seldom appreciated. Manage their humanity, the good, the bad and the ugly. Take care of them, so they can take care of us. By the way, while you're getting the police perfect, you also want to start working on the political system, education, public sector employees, the legal justice system and doctors.
We've pretty much proven self regulation is virtually no regulation at all. I welcome the day we have an IBM Watson for the general administration of large professional/government bodies. By all means leave the disposition of people to people, but put a computer in the mix looking out for misconduct and dirty deeds done cheap . Adding that and systemic transparency suggests a golden age of rational human services right around the corner! And yes, expect foot dragging, nobody willing relinquishes control.
One would think that with a good model of the gravitational light bending effect, it would be possible to convert Alpha Centauri into the objective lens of the largest telescope in history. Of course with a distance of 4+ ly, we may be well beyond the focal length of the star gravitational lens, In which case it might be a better microscope than a telescope.
Of course you have to eclipse the star to remove its light, but it would still prove a fascinating experiment. Has anyone thought of using the Sun to image distant solar systems at its focal point (and does anyone here know if that's even inside the solar system?)
So should I expect that a technology is going to become ubiquitous that might play hobb with people's pacemakers???
Should I be expecting to see Grandmas all over the country breaking out into unplanned gymnastics at airports, malls and coffee shops? I can see it now, Lady ordering at a Starbucks... "I'll have whatever she's having!"
You problem with subways isn't air anyway... its the urine you're standing in
Many politicians also have snout and tail compatibility, in fact its darn hard to distinguish them from pigs.
You misunderstand, ferrets are the very best animal models they have, their ability to look cute on cue, and playfully weasel about make them almost perfect models, pure fashion gold. Top modeling houses world wide are simply screaming for more ferrets.
During the last bird flu I stocked up on Tamiflu, you can get a script for it from your doctor provided you're on good terms. Of course Roche has done an excellent job of hiding a great deal of information about the efficacy of Tamiflu, and there is more than fair cause to doubt its effectiveness in a serious outbreak of influenza. That and its best taken within the first 48 hours of infection.
Ah... a killer flu that's nothing to sneeze at... I see what you did there.
Come up with a new form of socially available media that has a life expectancy. Built in bit rot. Stop making the cloud the cesspool for society's irresponsibility. You want a family archive, archive it at home. Also give people the right and power to purge any or all of their social content from the internet. With the advent of IPv6, give every piece of social media its own unique IP, and if the owner says its no longer available, poof, it goes away. A content owner should have that right. We have the technology, it would just take bucking controlling governments and avaricious corporations to make it so. Anyone for a really cool Open Source projects... a new Open Privacy standard... well who's interested?
That $9.7 million per meter over-run cost to millions of dollars per negative IQ point? Thanks!
Being a little older its interesting to see the arc of human behavior. Younger people don't question the way it is, it's just the way it is and they rationalize why it's that way and they thing it's normal, even good. There was a time when people actually mattered as people and not interchangeable widgets in a service based industrial engine that consumes people in precisely the same way it consumes paper or water or raw materials.
When people mattered, their human needs mattered. How the company was loyal to the employee just the way an employee was supposed to be loyal to a company. My Father worked for the same company for 30 years and got a generous retirement from them. Today the shrinking bone and the increasing number of ever hungrier dogs forces us to be happy to give away all our human time, with our families, with our interests and personal joys and passions, or we are forced to do work that leads to living a life that is hungry and wanting.
The problem isn't and can't be cell phones. It is a ceaselessly ravenous industry that wants all of you, and when it is done will spit you out sans vital juice. The future bodes that human labor is coming to an end. But the industries are the only recipient of the changing world. We must begin to look at how we will deal with a human population that no longer can compete in the market place with robot labor Or society itself will unravel.
I think he's talking about that chemist's wet dream that is the label of most heavily processed junk food.
That and they can add G23 Paxeline Hydrochloride to the food powders to calm the population and weed out aggression. I wonder if there'll be any side effects? Nah!
On the contrary, They'd come up with a whole new bunch of GenMod crops to corner the Ag part of printable foods and then lobby Congress to make certain that only their crop could be used in the making of printed food.
Yeah, instead you want to lay down fine layers of ingredients the expose it to a high frequency standing wave to mix materials at the antinodes. You introduce fibers and sheets of material this way and create all kinds of density changes giving it very complex structure. I want something that could print Sushi!
Here's a little extrusion... just for you!
"If you close your eyes, it almost feels like your eating runny eggs." -- Mouse
"It's a single cell protein combined with synthetic aminos, vitamins, and minerals. Everything the body needs." -- Dozer
Talk about explosive flatulence!
I won't argue there's a lot of turds floating in the Country & Western pool... but there are also some gems. You just gotta root around a little. I don't know if you consider Blue Grass/New Grass as a part of, an off shoot, its own genre or a part of Folk, but there's some amazing music in Blue Grass. There are country fusions that are more than acceptable. Lyle Lovett has some amazing stuff like for instance Here I am. Kathy Mattea has a voice like an angel and she sings songs that are deeply touching. "Raising Sand" a collaboration between Alison Krauss of Union Station and Robert Plant of Lead Zeppelin fame is inspired (and pulled down a bevy of Grammy Awards for its inspiration.)
So yeah the old joke about the guy who played the Country song backwards and got sober, and got his dog, truck and girlfriends back, is probably closer to the truth than anybody in the genre would care to admit. That said, you can find crap in any genre, and besides C & W, I'd be happy to point out a vast POP wasteland, or a Rap culture bloated with posers and derivative artists. Anyway, just saying...
Actually, the whole point of fast breeders, is that they "Burn" the fuel at a tremendously accelerated pace, rendering relatively benign in a few years what would have been a nightmare for millennia. The problem as mentioned is safety, and sadly in business there are two opposing (sometimes mutually exclusive) forces at work.
1. Invention/Production; Engineer a working solution, which engineers are only too thrilled to do. They even give you specifications with explicit built in safety limits, and limits for nominal and optimal performance, they also include sane operating life expectancies.
2. Profit Making; Bean counters will continue to forever ask how much can we carve off and not have it explode/implode. You can be certain that with poor management creeping in at some time in the future a bean counter doing his or her job will carve off one thing too many and as is want to happen, let the smoke out. There are dozens of smoking holes in Texas (the most recent barely a week old), a gulf full of spilled oil, and the San Onofre Nuclear Power plant, now operating 20 years beyond its designed life expectancy and falling apart faster than Charlie Sheen.
So fast breeders have a bunch of ways to go horribly wrong, and are perfectly capable of serious criticality events up to and including big bangs. There are some really interesting possibilities for designing a safer fast breeder, and as mentioned liquid salt and/or sodium remain possibilities (though the corrosive effects of molten sodium on a whole host of piping make using it as a heat exchange fluid a challenging engineering problem. That, and if it should ever cool, i.e. freeze, remelting it is going to be a solid gold nightmare.) We won't even discuss the problems involving a red hot sodium leak into a second stage steam turbine system. The Pucker Quotient is very high. Still, if you trade off finding nucleotides in your ground water, food, house dust, against the threat of one big nasty event, you may find the fast breeder is still the better bet. Problem is finding an insurance company to hedge the bet, and the government bailout that'll cost us all out the whazooly if anything nasty ever happens. Or maybe the corporations will get one of those get of jail free "You can't sue us" laws passed.
The European model of bifurcating education between college and trade seems like a very useful model for maximizing employment and having a healthy supply of skilled labor. Sadly, many companies now require a college degree for everything from janitorial work to sorting mail. It's time to set sane standards and bring back meaningful trade apprentice programs.
Am I hearing "This is threatening my world view" in the background? It's a satellite view, the satellites available in 1984 had a dramatically lower resolution than the amazing birds flying today... sheesh!
The key point here is that you can easily see important medium to large scale changes to the earth's surface. Glacial retreat, human development, the strip mining of Canada for tar oil and the Amazon for resources. Anybody not familiar with these events over the last 30 years has either had their head buried in the sand (tar sand?) or has a political agenda that verges on fundamentalist religion (complete with belief system that displaces logic or clear and irrefutable scientific evidence.)
We are drowning in corporate stories of unbridled greed and the wholesale destruction of society, Nestle is trying to push a global patent on the medicinal use of Fennel Flower, a curative that has been well documented for thousands of years. Disney was trying to trademark "Dia de los Muertos" and only when the Hispanic community howled with outrage did they change their minds. Even now the American Supreme Court is hearing whether or not corporations should be able to OWN as patents HUMAN GENES. This has grown into a full on disaster. Because there are companies that have been patenting genes in cows and pigs for years now (think transgenic livestock) and many of those very same genes exist in human being so guess what, somebody owns a piece of you. If fact the best guess is that at this point in time every bit of your genome belongs to somebody. You've been chopped up (like those real estate loan bundles) and your bits now belong to a variety of corporations. You might say so what, here's an example of the problem, Myriad Genetics owns the patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2. They saw a gold mine in the human genome and have been cashing in for over a decade. Because they have patents, the only tests for these two oncogenes you can get are their tests. They've been able to keep the price of these tests incredibly high (because they have a corner on the market) and there are now tests that are BETTER, FASTER and infinitely less expensive, but you can't use them because of the patent. The result is that many thousands of women have screened with false negatives and died of breast and ovarian cancers, with a better test in plain sight, that they can't get.
I liked Atlas Shrugged as much as the next person, but for every visionary Dagny Taggart out there, there are ten Gordon Gekkos. Greedy, self serving, money grubbing bastards who'd part their own Moms out for seed capital. You can't swing a stick any more without hitting the damage done to our society or our government by greedy people bent on inflicting their wealth and egos on society. So I say to the Libertarians, by all means, please shrink government to its logical minimum (but no more please), ensure the greatest amount of civil liberties (but remember while exercising your Second Amendment rights, that your bullets don't recognize property lines), and please take off the rose colored glasses with regards to rampant, unbridled capitalism. It's rapacious, and prone to cannibalizing the very society in which it lives. Even Adam Smith warned of the dangers of monopolies and erosion of the middle class. Control rods like Glass Steagall aren't just niceties, they're full on necessities. The banks are mainlining OE, they're clearly addicted, the economy is inflating again, property values just had their highest jump in a single month in living memory, we just set a new record on the Stock Exchange and you can already smell the smoke from the fire that will set off the next blowout, and you best believe it will dwarf the previous economic blowouts. Its time far sanity children, because the craziness is getting life threatening.
All of human civilization (the Anthropocene)...
I think you mean: All of human civillization (the Anthroporcine)...
This little Piggy went to market...