This is going to be a very unpleasant sentence... So what brings you to Attica? My Laser Pointer?... then hilarity ensues! I hope this guy has watched every scene of "Big Stan" about half a million times, and has had something deeply disturbing tattooed on his rectum. You might just want to pull that laser like a gun at the cop in the hopes that he'll shoot you and save you the horror of the State Penal system. Strange that name...
In American history, this would be a fallacy. There have been any number of ways a large powerful player could wipe out competition. Sell a product below cost until the competition went out of business this knows as "Wrapping a buck around it and giving it away." Large companies in American history have resorted to hired thugs to beat and kill striking workers, denial of service to customers unwilling to be bent and then broken by railroads. While its true that governments were involved, there is nothing stopping the wealthy and powerful from flexing such economic muscle in a free market. Save the law of the land... and would you separate state and commerce?
The usage of electricity is a poor example because generator capacity is set by peak need. If you could "average out the need" over a given period of time consistently, we could dramatically reduce the need for extra generators.
Yeah, I love how the Marketing guys take something like DOW Chemical, make it warm and fuzzy and lollipops and teddy bears. I still wanna see how they spin Bhopal, India...
DOW, addressing the horrors of over population one Asian town at a time!
Love; the evolutionary behavior surrounding mating and parenting designed to ensure members of your gene pool proliferate.
Spirituality, the embrionic cognitive appreciate of a finite being and its relationship to a virtually infinite universe.
Science doesn't explain psychics, the Amazing Randy explains psychics.
Auras look up "Phosphenes."
Hhhhmmm, After life there is what? Decomposition? Tea and crumpets with St. Peter?
The power of prayer? Seeing as the Amygdala is the part of the brain doing the heavy lifting during a prayer, let's say the power of a prayer is 15-45 microwatts depending on how hard you pray and whether you are concentrating.
I know I'm being sarcastic, but you just said it yourself, Science doesn't dabble in unreality. That would be the realm of mystics and metaphysicists. I'm not even saying none of these thing may exist. I'm saying that until you can separate the magical thinking from some describable real world phenomenon, there's nothing for science to do, but nod its head and thank you for sharing.
Precisely the quote I was about to use. In the "Gods Themselves" Asimov speaks about an endless source of energy utilizing the flow of energy between a proto-universe at a higher energy state than ours and another ancient universe near heat death. There must be endless possible ways to step outside limits imposed by our presumptions of a closed universe. Each would present opportunities to harness immense energy.
The presumption that an advanced civilization would emit energy anywhere but perhaps microwave seems unlikely. We are just now creating new materials capable of converting infrared into electricity. One would have to presume that an advances society would have designed the means to harness virtually every watt of useable power from its star.
I'm not certain what civilization would mean to a society capable of a Dyson Sphere. As has been mentioned, there might only be one persona/identity. It might be very hard to distinguish a Dyson Sphere from a single stellar mass black hole. Perhaps the low energy emissions plus absorption spectra in a nebula? That little black body might just be visible in an emission nebula. Try looking there!
Yeah, stay away from the Wendy's Soylent Burgers... Their new add campaign focuses on "The familiar taste of Wendy's, just like someone you've always known???"
Aye, there's the rub, when you have a majority on your highest court, hand picked to be suckling the same teat as your legislature, then any law they pass is constitutional by definition... i.e. because the Supreme Court says so. If this were a chess game, it would be mate in 6 moves.
Someone needs to come up with a tool to loosen those tight panties some folks seem to be stuck in.
As for sex discrimination, things are better now than the 50s and 60s. Janet Reno was one of the first class of women to graduate from Harvard Law. Their professors told them, get married, get pregnant and stay out of court. Law is a man's world and women have no place in it. That they were robbing a man somewhere of his job and rather than let that happen they would let no woman graduate with a passing grade. So, yes things are better. There are still however good old boy networks. Male authoritarian biases in most industries and sciences. And, wage issues across the board. Add to that the fact, that the vast majority of poor in this country are single mothers and their children, and it's no surprise that any reasonable analysis would turn up significant sex bias. It wasn't until 1990 that a woman was appointed to Surgeon General of the United States. She did a wonderful interview on radio, and they got into how bad it was for a woman surgeon when she was in her 30s. Literally she would be passed over by men with a 10th of her talents and years of experience. So things have gotten better. But that's a little like saying getting your thumb smashed with a hammer is better that having a red hot railroad spike shoved in your eye. Well that's probably true, but anyone who wants to argue the merits of hammers and thumbs is just living in denial.
There are some that suggest that Kissinger is animetronic, built by the Disney folk and patterned loosely on Dr. Strange Love. I'm glad they got that Nazi salute thing taken care of. It would however, explain his amazing poker face... nobody bluffs like a mannequin.
You mean as opposed to Henry Kissinger who also won a Nobel Peace Prize, while managing Nixon's assassination of Chilean President Salvador Allende, because he wasn't going to have a Socialist in the western hemisphere, even if the socialist was elected democratically. In its place we installed the Junta, who murdered, excuse me, disappeared over 3,000 people. Under the Freedom of Information Act, Whitehouse tapes now available clearly present Nixon and Kissinger discussing Chilean Assassination and CIA incompetence.
Just goes to show you what a Nobel Peace prize is worth.
Seeing as the latest incarnation of Watson is going to advise diagnoses for physicians, I could see and AI administrator managing selections from a library having some kind of Swiss Army Knife selection of medical responses with a human being validating or overriding the selection choices. For instance, the machine arrives on the scene and immediately begins doing a broad spectrum scan to assess the condition and needs of the patient/victim. It takes vitals and identifies potential cause for patient status while attempting to engage the patient. See's if the patient is conscious, responsive, rational, whether patient has contusions, burns, fractures and how severe the injuries are. Exactly the same as a doctor would now, but the machine can look at body heat, pulse rate, respiration, and a wide variety of injuries that would take a physician precious minutes to do. It could apply dressings for wounds, glue severe lacerations shut, cauterize severed arteries and veins, I could administer pain relief, artificial blood replacements, glucose or insulin, even do minor surgeries, tracheotomy, pnuemothorax, etc., in short all the simple life saving measures that would ensure a patient was stabilized until an ambulance arrived or on their way back to the hospital.
As for extreme cases as mentioned above, there would almost have to be some kind of hierarchy of harm and good. Removing a healthy limb is bad, save limb if at all possible, but above saving limbs preserve life. You could actually create a very complex and useful decision tree that physicians might want to employ for their own patients. Because the thing traverses the tree quickly, without hesitation, you save far more patients. Of course, if a person has a virtual certainty of dying, you might want to keep perform life saving actions weighted by not causing pain or further traumatizing the patient, with a doctor making the decisive calls.
Oh, oh, I got one... it could cuddle with you, because under the influence of MDMA, you can have a deep emotional/spritual experience rubbing up against a toaster...
By the way, the L2 point is not on the dark side of the moon (the dark side of the moon travels around the moon every 28 days), it is on the FAR SIDE of the moon, that is the side facing away from earth.
My question is why L2 and not L1? L2 is going to be exposed to more meteoric traffic, it will have a hard time communicating through the moon to the earth (yeah you can put a comm satellites at L4 or L5 but that's complicating things and adding cost and new failure modes.) That and L1 is closer and easier to get to from Earth and easier to get things to from the moon with the gravitational assist of Earth.
There are plenty of interesting designs, but such a resource would need to be built of lunar material. Because you'd need a structure with walls thick enough to protect from solar storms, cosmic rays and all kinds of meteoric debris hitting the structure. You would probably want to have hydroponics plants on board for food, oxygen, and synthetic meat from Soybeans... or even better synthetic meat from a 3D printer, endless Filet Mignon, sushi grade Yellowtail and Salmon, and Turkey White and Dark meat as long as you have cell cultures and your meat printer. By the way, you could dissolve vital minerals in water and then use that water to build radiation proof walls. About 3 feet ft. would get the job done nicely, 6 ft would be spectacular. You'd want to harvest a reasonable sized asteroid with plenty of water or a number of smaller asteroids and use it/them to build your base. You'd want to use a swarm of assembly bots to build things with only a small human presence, most remote from the ground. Robots that could self replicate from materials in the asteroids would be perfect.
You have a team writing a book. Different people responsible for different sections of the book, with a lead editor making certain all the parts are accurate, not loaded with typographical or syntactic errors, and the content is factually accurate.
As people begin submitting work and the outline look more and more like a book, you want to store the latest version on a daily basis. This is important for a few reasons;
1. If you find a problem, for instance inaccurate content or a quote without a legal release, you can just roll your book back to the prior version before the last check in.
2. You can do a partial or full rollback, If the error only effects a small section of the book, for instance the work of only one author, then a partial rollback may be appropriate.
3. The notes containing the metadata for your book, allow you to see how the book is evolving, and make subtle changes in the road map to accommodate new content or features that your book should include.
This structured environment gives you both insight and control of the PROCESS by which your book is created and with a team, is essential to making certain everyone is honoring the conventions of the Books themes and presentation style. It allows you to prioritize, emphasize, reorganize, and expand the scope of the book in ways that a haphazard approach would be completely unable to do. It also let's you measure the metrics of text generation and who your heavy lifters are. In short it gives you the handle on your process to ensure a logical and orderly development for writing your book, while also providing you with the information you need to be able to determine if your original plans hold water or not.
Programming is the process of organizing language into well structured logical blocks to accomplish work. A versioning system allows to apply the same kind of logical process to the development of your application. It provided you with a natural framework upon which to build while giving you the freedom to investigate logical branches and parallel development. It allow you to manage all the dangly bits without letting them drag in the dirt.
Not having 30 pound of bricks strapped to your back doesn't guarantee you will be a great swimmer, but having those bricks strapped on pretty much assures you ain't going anyway but down.
Wow... You gotta loosen up those tinfoil hats every now and then and let some blood in, you'll end up turning your grey matter into cottage cheese. See we know that global climate change is happening because animal migrations are showing signs of shifting latitudes. So this is just about providing north-south corridors through low populated regions to aid those animals who would be endangered by climate change to move someplace more conducive, without ending up road kill. Comprendo? Harrison Ford is spearheading the program to provide north/south corridors throughout the Americas and preserve wild forest. I guess that makes him some kind of commie, eh?
As for taking land that is being farmed unsustainably, The U.S. is currently losing about 3 tons of topsoil, per acre, per year. That's faster than the loss during the 30s dust bowl era. I'm sure Wikipedia is just a commie plot, but the sources on the top soil are pretty good, and since there is plenty of corroboration from different sources, as an American, you should be concerned. This isn't a land grab. Its about protecting resources. Land that is being badly managed is going to be allowed to go fallow until it rebuilds is topsoil through the natural process of wild species intrusion. The did an experiment where they allowed a fenced in region to go wide surrounded by a sea of hungry cattle and sheep, the land went fallow and within weeks grasses and flowers thought to be extinct started showing up. The soil regained its vigor and organic content. New plants and bird species arrived. In short, the land regained its vitality and fecundity.
This isn't about some project to displace people. This isn't some U.N. clusterfsck. This is a simple process of preserving America's resources for future generation because this generation has no right to use the planet up for its own selfish whims. Its vital that we preserve biodiversity and our natural resources until we have mastered the technologies that will allow us to create the resources we all desire without any longer impacting the environment.
NEW! And IMPROVED!!! DRM enabled DICK! But you can call it D-Squared! Your ass will thank you later... much later. And when its not reaming you, it can be used to unclog drains, dig post holes, and break concrete for those do-it-yourself backyard projects. D^2, for a pain in the ass that ends at your tonsils.
Apparently you didn't get the memo... The various recording industries have spent billions globally to ensure that you have no rights, save the right to pay them every time you eye see's and image or your ear hears a second or more of their proprietary IP. Any laws to the contrary are hurdles to be overcome with the proper application of wealth and political manipulation. Fair use in the minds of these men is, you use it you pay any time, every time. Hope that clears up any questions you may have had.
Can you see it yet, up ahead there just beyond the curve? Every infant will be implanted with a technology. It will connect to the brains neural network linking the new person to infinite digital possibilities and it will have amazing abilities. It will help a child learn. It will record a person's life in exquisite detail. It will allow people to share thoughts, experiences, work and collaborate in ways in which we now have no comprehension. The down side is that uninvited others will hear every thought you ever have. No action will go unrecorded. Your position, intention, aspirations and inclinations will all be a matter of public record and nothing you can do, will ever buy you even a moment of privacy. I call this future the "Hotel California" because it may be heaven and could be hell, and no matter how you check out, odds are you'll never leave.
No, not even close. The highest possible level of excitement your nieces/nephews are ever going to have is the excitement of adventure, accomplishment, creation and invention, over coming a great challenge, seeking a great treasure and earning the right to hold it. Junk food doesn't even contain the most important thing that any meal should have and that is a sense of family, bonding, eating, loving, nourishing bodies and souls. That's why food is love. That's why fast food is predigested feces. If you aren't enjoying what you eat with people that you love, you are missing 98% of the point of putting food in your face. We need to bring back civilization, and dining is one of the oldest and most important civil expressions, the culinary arts are unique to each culture, and yet the same pattern abound. It is critically human to eat well, and share the experience with others. By the way, conversation about obesity are so twisted up in this culture. Our sense of what is beautiful is so messed up its disgusting. Here's a great revelation. Bon Appetit.
Ta da!!! Superb call good sir! My friends, until they have pubic hair, NO TV. I know 5 different families whose kids never watched the tube before they were near the end of puberty. The outcome is striking. The kids are brighter, more well balanced, more socially mature, more responsible, more productive and better disciplined. I mean its shocking. I can't say that they are better because the parenting was better, or that the simple lack of TV made such an incredible difference, but it left me with the experience that TV is profoundly destructive to the developing human brain and should simply be eliminated from the childrens' intellectual diet.
I swear the public doesn't get it. For 70 years, advertisers have been doing double blind studies on how to control and manipulate you. They go for your conscious mind, they go for your unconscious mind, they assault your pleasure centers, they know what frequencies in what order trigger certain centers in your brain. They are aware of when to target you by common daily habits and schedules. In short advertizing is a science with a cutting edge that make a scalpel look like a blunt instrument. They go after your biology, culture, demographic, political views, religious beliefs, you social opinions. Its one of the reasons we now see sound bite instead of meaningful campaigns. That my friends if the work of Wall street advertising as applied by politics which has degenerated into just one more product being sold to semi comatose mouth breathing pubic.
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This is going to be a very unpleasant sentence... So what brings you to Attica? My Laser Pointer?... then hilarity ensues! I hope this guy has watched every scene of "Big Stan" about half a million times, and has had something deeply disturbing tattooed on his rectum. You might just want to pull that laser like a gun at the cop in the hopes that he'll shoot you and save you the horror of the State Penal system. Strange that name...
In American history, this would be a fallacy. There have been any number of ways a large powerful player could wipe out competition. Sell a product below cost until the competition went out of business this knows as "Wrapping a buck around it and giving it away." Large companies in American history have resorted to hired thugs to beat and kill striking workers, denial of service to customers unwilling to be bent and then broken by railroads. While its true that governments were involved, there is nothing stopping the wealthy and powerful from flexing such economic muscle in a free market. Save the law of the land... and would you separate state and commerce?
The usage of electricity is a poor example because generator capacity is set by peak need. If you could "average out the need" over a given period of time consistently, we could dramatically reduce the need for extra generators.
Yeah, I love how the Marketing guys take something like DOW Chemical, make it warm and fuzzy and lollipops and teddy bears. I still wanna see how they spin Bhopal, India...
DOW, addressing the horrors of over population one Asian town at a time!
He doesn't like milk and cookies, the Tardis does.
I know Santa's big, but he ain't big enough to bend space time!!!
I dunno, let's give it a try...
Love; the evolutionary behavior surrounding mating and parenting designed to ensure members of your gene pool proliferate.
Spirituality, the embrionic cognitive appreciate of a finite being and its relationship to a virtually infinite universe.
Science doesn't explain psychics, the Amazing Randy explains psychics.
Auras look up "Phosphenes."
Hhhhmmm, After life there is what? Decomposition? Tea and crumpets with St. Peter?
The power of prayer? Seeing as the Amygdala is the part of the brain doing the heavy lifting during a prayer, let's say the power of a prayer is 15-45 microwatts depending on how hard you pray and whether you are concentrating.
I know I'm being sarcastic, but you just said it yourself, Science doesn't dabble in unreality. That would be the realm of mystics and metaphysicists. I'm not even saying none of these thing may exist. I'm saying that until you can separate the magical thinking from some describable real world phenomenon, there's nothing for science to do, but nod its head and thank you for sharing.
Precisely the quote I was about to use. In the "Gods Themselves" Asimov speaks about an endless source of energy utilizing the flow of energy between a proto-universe at a higher energy state than ours and another ancient universe near heat death. There must be endless possible ways to step outside limits imposed by our presumptions of a closed universe. Each would present opportunities to harness immense energy.
The presumption that an advanced civilization would emit energy anywhere but perhaps microwave seems unlikely. We are just now creating new materials capable of converting infrared into electricity. One would have to presume that an advances society would have designed the means to harness virtually every watt of useable power from its star.
I'm not certain what civilization would mean to a society capable of a Dyson Sphere. As has been mentioned, there might only be one persona/identity. It might be very hard to distinguish a Dyson Sphere from a single stellar mass black hole. Perhaps the low energy emissions plus absorption spectra in a nebula? That little black body might just be visible in an emission nebula. Try looking there!
Yeah, stay away from the Wendy's Soylent Burgers... Their new add campaign focuses on "The familiar taste of Wendy's, just like someone you've always known???"
Aye, there's the rub, when you have a majority on your highest court, hand picked to be suckling the same teat as your legislature, then any law they pass is constitutional by definition... i.e. because the Supreme Court says so. If this were a chess game, it would be mate in 6 moves.
Someone needs to come up with a tool to loosen those tight panties some folks seem to be stuck in.
As for sex discrimination, things are better now than the 50s and 60s. Janet Reno was one of the first class of women to graduate from Harvard Law. Their professors told them, get married, get pregnant and stay out of court. Law is a man's world and women have no place in it. That they were robbing a man somewhere of his job and rather than let that happen they would let no woman graduate with a passing grade. So, yes things are better. There are still however good old boy networks. Male authoritarian biases in most industries and sciences. And, wage issues across the board. Add to that the fact, that the vast majority of poor in this country are single mothers and their children, and it's no surprise that any reasonable analysis would turn up significant sex bias. It wasn't until 1990 that a woman was appointed to Surgeon General of the United States. She did a wonderful interview on radio, and they got into how bad it was for a woman surgeon when she was in her 30s. Literally she would be passed over by men with a 10th of her talents and years of experience. So things have gotten better. But that's a little like saying getting your thumb smashed with a hammer is better that having a red hot railroad spike shoved in your eye. Well that's probably true, but anyone who wants to argue the merits of hammers and thumbs is just living in denial.
There are some that suggest that Kissinger is animetronic, built by the Disney folk and patterned loosely on Dr. Strange Love. I'm glad they got that Nazi salute thing taken care of. It would however, explain his amazing poker face... nobody bluffs like a mannequin.
You mean as opposed to Henry Kissinger who also won a Nobel Peace Prize, while managing Nixon's assassination of Chilean President Salvador Allende, because he wasn't going to have a Socialist in the western hemisphere, even if the socialist was elected democratically. In its place we installed the Junta, who murdered, excuse me, disappeared over 3,000 people. Under the Freedom of Information Act, Whitehouse tapes now available clearly present Nixon and Kissinger discussing Chilean Assassination and CIA incompetence.
Just goes to show you what a Nobel Peace prize is worth.
Seeing as the latest incarnation of Watson is going to advise diagnoses for physicians, I could see and AI administrator managing selections from a library having some kind of Swiss Army Knife selection of medical responses with a human being validating or overriding the selection choices. For instance, the machine arrives on the scene and immediately begins doing a broad spectrum scan to assess the condition and needs of the patient/victim. It takes vitals and identifies potential cause for patient status while attempting to engage the patient. See's if the patient is conscious, responsive, rational, whether patient has contusions, burns, fractures and how severe the injuries are. Exactly the same as a doctor would now, but the machine can look at body heat, pulse rate, respiration, and a wide variety of injuries that would take a physician precious minutes to do. It could apply dressings for wounds, glue severe lacerations shut, cauterize severed arteries and veins, I could administer pain relief, artificial blood replacements, glucose or insulin, even do minor surgeries, tracheotomy, pnuemothorax, etc., in short all the simple life saving measures that would ensure a patient was stabilized until an ambulance arrived or on their way back to the hospital.
As for extreme cases as mentioned above, there would almost have to be some kind of hierarchy of harm and good. Removing a healthy limb is bad, save limb if at all possible, but above saving limbs preserve life. You could actually create a very complex and useful decision tree that physicians might want to employ for their own patients. Because the thing traverses the tree quickly, without hesitation, you save far more patients. Of course, if a person has a virtual certainty of dying, you might want to keep perform life saving actions weighted by not causing pain or further traumatizing the patient, with a doctor making the decisive calls.
Oh, oh, I got one... it could cuddle with you, because under the influence of MDMA, you can have a deep emotional/spritual experience rubbing up against a toaster...
By the way, the L2 point is not on the dark side of the moon (the dark side of the moon travels around the moon every 28 days), it is on the FAR SIDE of the moon, that is the side facing away from earth.
My question is why L2 and not L1? L2 is going to be exposed to more meteoric traffic, it will have a hard time communicating through the moon to the earth (yeah you can put a comm satellites at L4 or L5 but that's complicating things and adding cost and new failure modes.) That and L1 is closer and easier to get to from Earth and easier to get things to from the moon with the gravitational assist of Earth.
There are plenty of interesting designs, but such a resource would need to be built of lunar material. Because you'd need a structure with walls thick enough to protect from solar storms, cosmic rays and all kinds of meteoric debris hitting the structure. You would probably want to have hydroponics plants on board for food, oxygen, and synthetic meat from Soybeans... or even better synthetic meat from a 3D printer, endless Filet Mignon, sushi grade Yellowtail and Salmon, and Turkey White and Dark meat as long as you have cell cultures and your meat printer. By the way, you could dissolve vital minerals in water and then use that water to build radiation proof walls. About 3 feet ft. would get the job done nicely, 6 ft would be spectacular. You'd want to harvest a reasonable sized asteroid with plenty of water or a number of smaller asteroids and use it/them to build your base. You'd want to use a swarm of assembly bots to build things with only a small human presence, most remote from the ground. Robots that could self replicate from materials in the asteroids would be perfect.
You have a team writing a book. Different people responsible for different sections of the book, with a lead editor making certain all the parts are accurate, not loaded with typographical or syntactic errors, and the content is factually accurate.
As people begin submitting work and the outline look more and more like a book, you want to store the latest version on a daily basis. This is important for a few reasons;
1. If you find a problem, for instance inaccurate content or a quote without a legal release, you can just roll your book back to the prior version before the last check in.
2. You can do a partial or full rollback, If the error only effects a small section of the book, for instance the work of only one author, then a partial rollback may be appropriate.
3. The notes containing the metadata for your book, allow you to see how the book is evolving, and make subtle changes in the road map to accommodate new content or features that your book should include.
This structured environment gives you both insight and control of the PROCESS by which your book is created and with a team, is essential to making certain everyone is honoring the conventions of the Books themes and presentation style. It allows you to prioritize, emphasize, reorganize, and expand the scope of the book in ways that a haphazard approach would be completely unable to do. It also let's you measure the metrics of text generation and who your heavy lifters are. In short it gives you the handle on your process to ensure a logical and orderly development for writing your book, while also providing you with the information you need to be able to determine if your original plans hold water or not.
Programming is the process of organizing language into well structured logical blocks to accomplish work. A versioning system allows to apply the same kind of logical process to the development of your application. It provided you with a natural framework upon which to build while giving you the freedom to investigate logical branches and parallel development. It allow you to manage all the dangly bits without letting them drag in the dirt.
Not having 30 pound of bricks strapped to your back doesn't guarantee you will be a great swimmer, but having those bricks strapped on pretty much assures you ain't going anyway but down.
Wow... You gotta loosen up those tinfoil hats every now and then and let some blood in, you'll end up turning your grey matter into cottage cheese. See we know that global climate change is happening because animal migrations are showing signs of shifting latitudes. So this is just about providing north-south corridors through low populated regions to aid those animals who would be endangered by climate change to move someplace more conducive, without ending up road kill. Comprendo? Harrison Ford is spearheading the program to provide north/south corridors throughout the Americas and preserve wild forest. I guess that makes him some kind of commie, eh?
As for taking land that is being farmed unsustainably, The U.S. is currently losing about 3 tons of topsoil, per acre, per year. That's faster than the loss during the 30s dust bowl era. I'm sure Wikipedia is just a commie plot, but the sources on the top soil are pretty good, and since there is plenty of corroboration from different sources, as an American, you should be concerned. This isn't a land grab. Its about protecting resources. Land that is being badly managed is going to be allowed to go fallow until it rebuilds is topsoil through the natural process of wild species intrusion. The did an experiment where they allowed a fenced in region to go wide surrounded by a sea of hungry cattle and sheep, the land went fallow and within weeks grasses and flowers thought to be extinct started showing up. The soil regained its vigor and organic content. New plants and bird species arrived. In short, the land regained its vitality and fecundity.
This isn't about some project to displace people. This isn't some U.N. clusterfsck. This is a simple process of preserving America's resources for future generation because this generation has no right to use the planet up for its own selfish whims. Its vital that we preserve biodiversity and our natural resources until we have mastered the technologies that will allow us to create the resources we all desire without any longer impacting the environment.
NEW! And IMPROVED!!! DRM enabled DICK! But you can call it D-Squared! Your ass will thank you later... much later. And when its not reaming you, it can be used to unclog drains, dig post holes, and break concrete for those do-it-yourself backyard projects. D^2, for a pain in the ass that ends at your tonsils.
Apparently you didn't get the memo... The various recording industries have spent billions globally to ensure that you have no rights, save the right to pay them every time you eye see's and image or your ear hears a second or more of their proprietary IP. Any laws to the contrary are hurdles to be overcome with the proper application of wealth and political manipulation. Fair use in the minds of these men is, you use it you pay any time, every time. Hope that clears up any questions you may have had.
Can you see it yet, up ahead there just beyond the curve? Every infant will be implanted with a technology. It will connect to the brains neural network linking the new person to infinite digital possibilities and it will have amazing abilities. It will help a child learn. It will record a person's life in exquisite detail. It will allow people to share thoughts, experiences, work and collaborate in ways in which we now have no comprehension. The down side is that uninvited others will hear every thought you ever have. No action will go unrecorded. Your position, intention, aspirations and inclinations will all be a matter of public record and nothing you can do, will ever buy you even a moment of privacy. I call this future the "Hotel California" because it may be heaven and could be hell, and no matter how you check out, odds are you'll never leave.
No, not even close. The highest possible level of excitement your nieces/nephews are ever going to have is the excitement of adventure, accomplishment, creation and invention, over coming a great challenge, seeking a great treasure and earning the right to hold it. Junk food doesn't even contain the most important thing that any meal should have and that is a sense of family, bonding, eating, loving, nourishing bodies and souls. That's why food is love. That's why fast food is predigested feces. If you aren't enjoying what you eat with people that you love, you are missing 98% of the point of putting food in your face. We need to bring back civilization, and dining is one of the oldest and most important civil expressions, the culinary arts are unique to each culture, and yet the same pattern abound. It is critically human to eat well, and share the experience with others. By the way, conversation about obesity are so twisted up in this culture. Our sense of what is beautiful is so messed up its disgusting. Here's a great revelation. Bon Appetit.
You can, hell, if you belong to the right family, you act 11 and become President.
Ta da!!! Superb call good sir! My friends, until they have pubic hair, NO TV. I know 5 different families whose kids never watched the tube before they were near the end of puberty. The outcome is striking. The kids are brighter, more well balanced, more socially mature, more responsible, more productive and better disciplined. I mean its shocking. I can't say that they are better because the parenting was better, or that the simple lack of TV made such an incredible difference, but it left me with the experience that TV is profoundly destructive to the developing human brain and should simply be eliminated from the childrens' intellectual diet.
I swear the public doesn't get it. For 70 years, advertisers have been doing double blind studies on how to control and manipulate you. They go for your conscious mind, they go for your unconscious mind, they assault your pleasure centers, they know what frequencies in what order trigger certain centers in your brain. They are aware of when to target you by common daily habits and schedules. In short advertizing is a science with a cutting edge that make a scalpel look like a blunt instrument. They go after your biology, culture, demographic, political views, religious beliefs, you social opinions. Its one of the reasons we now see sound bite instead of meaningful campaigns. That my friends if the work of Wall street advertising as applied by politics which has degenerated into just one more product being sold to semi comatose mouth breathing pubic.