Actually there is a medical tool that can do nearly as well as the bleach solution without killing the patient. Specifically if you take a 910nm YAG pulsed 1/10,000 sec 10 times per sec at about 250 watts for a duration of about 30 seconds and applied locally to the site of the infection, very nearly any virus or bacteria known and even some other agents can be blasted into oblivion while assisting the life processes of the human tissues surrounding.
No this isn't an American technology. No it isn't fiction or fantasy. The process has been tested against even HIV and Hep C. It works. The WOW that it is applies to a wide range of medical problems. The specific process is known as cold lasers in sports medicine. Yes you could have the flu and be treated in a few seconds without drug side effects. I personally have seen this technology resolve a MRSA cyst about 1/2 the size of a large egg over night. The amount of treatment time was 30 seconds. The cyst was in an 82yo female who had acquired this post surgical and it was treated unsuccessfully with 30 day of intense IV medication including Vancomycin and other meds.
This works by driving the life function of the human cells directly by photosynthetic process. It would appear that the process also overdrives the material in the infectious agents. Thus the process causes health in 2 ways. It will remove edema (swelling) in a few seconds. It causes very fast healing. It relieves most pain issues in seconds of at most over a course of 3 or 4 treatments a few hours apart. It is so effective it should be required as a post-op treatment for patients. It is a treatment that is so effective it can literally stop the flu or even destroy deep in tissue infections like those hard to treat sinus infections with nearly instant effect. As such the Bird Flu and any other flu epidemic should be a few laser pulses from oblivion.
There is a problem in measuring units. It has to do with physical space. Despite the efforts of the Metric crowd to say otherwise, the USA is measured off in a physical system that will be here forever. Miles are obvious even from space. The issue is that many things if you shift systems will remain in fact. This is the famous question, "Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?"
I have worked extensively in metric and in the US Standard system. Inches and Feet are space division systems and frankly they have a lot of reality behind them. Metric on the other hand is pure arbitrary. Metric works with calculators. It is fine but it has no reality behind it. The famous fractions complained about so loudly actually are ratio and proportion related number systems.
Changing the USA to metric distance measurement would only confuse billions of legal records, cause immense cost in new traffic signs and confuse the US citizenry for no good cause. Changing form SAE thread systems on bolts would comply with the rest of the world, but it causes the thread strength to drop nearly in half. SAE Bolts are really much more effective because of the space division rules in the math that enforced their construction. It actually works out to proper ratios for force dissipation over distance in physical materials. Sorry for the Metric fans but it is true. Changing the USA from its bulk commodity measurement is also just silly. I have been elsewhere in the world where the metric was emphasized. 454 grams of salt is sold. It is still a pound. Sure 1 liter bottles of Coke abound. This stuff really has no reality. Consumer goods will be sold at whatever size the market wants no matter what. Change the numbers and it will move right back to the original size. Just the markings will change. Evidence those funky 4.5 ounce bottles of stuff and the strange quantities of grams as well.
As to the USA going Metric, our money was nearly the first in the world to go metric. The USA seems to be quite able to be metric when it wants to be and not when it doesn't want to be.
In construction I have seen the buildings with walls 2 meters tall. The problem I have is that I am 1.88 meters tall. I don't fit. 96 inches is a minimum for me. Play your 2.5 meters if you want but USA buildings are 96 inches standard. Air flow in the smaller buildings suffers from serious Geometric problems. It causes illness. Enforcing stupid rules on people who don't want them is arrogant. Enforcing measurement that doesn't fit the world of a people doesn't work either.
Do they really expect the Wall Street Journal to do an objective story on immigration and other issues? NOT BLOODY LIKELY!
As to persons studying here in the technical area, has anyone thought that if business wasn't getting their cheap foreign blood, they might have to cough up and pay for the highly taxed American students and they might actually find rewards for their hard work and study. This whole issue is nothing more nor less than the US Government is running a trade war against its on citizens by taxing the hell out of them (No wonder they are disappearing from the market!) and then it is flooding the market with tax free labor and businesses who of course wipe the American domestics from the market. Hey WSJ how about some stories on this reality????
An American BS degree grad has US Taxes in him to the tune of about $200,000 that he must charge out in the market to warrant the effort. The foreign grads don't have anything to match this from even the most expensive foreign states. Strangely enough the US businessmen are starting to realize that cheap labor comes at a price too high to pay because of some major cultural differences between Americans and their competition particularly in the area of ethics.
Having actually reviewed the software (Yes the source code) for 7 major voting machine systems....,. I might have something to say on the topic. First!!!!! a verified voting machine software package means exactly nothing! The verification is if there are enough comments in the code and if all case statements have a default exit and things like that. It has nothing what so ever to do with if the system correctly handles an election. I got paid for this people so I know the facts here!
Out of the 7 major packages I reviewed I found only one I felt was secure enough to consider it worthy of use. I did look at the software. Major flaws included the ES&S systems have flash drives! They could have their data and their "brains" completely changed at will during an election and they never would tell! Other flaws included Internet hookups to the machines where data files could be addressed remotely...........
I am not telling the name of the supplier I felt was good but let it assure you that their system had paper read and their system had several other safeguards of the voting tally.
Why do public officials want such systems. Simple. They can steal elections and they can prevent absolutely any record of the event. Why should voters get mad and demand open source software on such systems. The reasons are many They include prevention of defalcation on the election. They include being hardware independent so that users are not locked into a system for buying their supplies. They include KNOWING what is going on. They include voter oversight. Take your pick folks.
If you are DOD and you want to get Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) products to resolve your problems without hiring the massively expensive solutions of 1 off stuff built to design, you must be able to accept attachments such as.zip and html mail. Sorry but the commercial guys cannot even tell you what they are doing anymore without this stuff. DOD costs just got higher!
I worked one DOD site where we had to email files of code. The volume of the attachments was beyond the Email limits so we had to zip the files. The filters blocked.zip. So we renamed the files.aaa or something like that. Then the filters didn't catch the files. That way we could get the emails. We had to break our own security just to do our job. This stuff is a real problem.
The US DOD needs to can Microsoft. If they were to run Linux or Apple systems and then to sandbox all emails and web browser stuff under the OS a lot could be done and things would be much more secure. The basic problem is a Microsoft logical design construct. Microsoft thought that they should own your computer and you should rent it from them. Under these conditions they wanted "their" computers to be remotely controlled by various means. The means they designed into their constructs also leave sucking security holes which hackers and other malware designers just walk right through.
There is a real reason most DOD people stick like glue to Microsoft. For Network security people in the DOD they are as worried that some subordinate might actually control his machine as they are of having foreign control. (Foreign to their system) As such they must keep central control. This is the Microsoft construct at a second level. The DOD system I worked on had an entire base having one root password that didn't change folks because of this demand. Linux etc doesn't conform to this as naturally as MS systems. Another level of this sticking like glue to MS systems comes from the fact that most of the people who program (contractors etc) for the Government like to keep their jobs. MS systems do not support legacy software well. As such they are continually "re-inventing the wheel" so to speak and it makes for lots of jobs that last a lifetime. It holds the DOD hostage to continually hiring the same contractor because his software is proprietary and cannot be easily "reverse engineered" without risk of software copyright violations. In the end this synergy of profits and control leaves the US DOD bleeding money, never able to do its job as effectively and wedded to MS systems.
If the taxpayers get involved they will ban such OS like Microsoft because this is completely contrary to the interest of the taxpayers. It however; requires the US DOD to recognize that its only true security lies in the loyalty of its people. In doing so it will have to retract from foreign (non-USA) suppliers and contractors. It will have to seriously look into who it is hiring and it will have to weed out those it has on payroll who are being more selfish than loyal. Let me assure you that if this situation is dealt with properly it will be a top to bottom 10 on the Richter Scale earthquake in US Government operations. Imagine if you will actually not being able to have the management read every document in someones computer without them knowing. Imagine having someone who works for you who you actually have to be able to trust! Imagine real government security! (WOW!)
Here is another reality regards these CME's and flares. The matter in them leaves the sun and accelerates rapidly upon exiting the sun. This isn't like the acceleration of a gun. In a gun once the bullet leaves the gun, it begins slowing down. In a CME the matter gets faster and faster on the way out like it was riding a railgun track all the way out. The matter in these X-Class flares left the sun and in about 16 hours are reaching the earth. They left the sun at a velocity that was a few thousand miles per hour. By the time they get to the earth they are going many times that. In the case of these flares the matter is traveling about 10% of the speed of light when it passes earth. We have had flares like this which have passed earth going nearly 30% of the speed of light in 2004 and 2005. These were measured at Saturn by space craft to be going nearly 50% of the speed of light.
The reality is that had the solar system been ruled by gravity as certain people who always find their "troll" moderation say, this could not have happened. If the sun were the nuclear furnace proposed in the popular solar models of today it is also impossible to have had this happen. The cosmology of today is busted. It is wrong.
Don't worry be happy! This game will in a few years if not sooner be used to make up like this was the way all Christians acted. This is just like the western gunslinger movies and TV shows of the 1960's have become most people's idea of what really happened in the old west of the USA. Both of course will have equally as much to do with reality as the Santa Clause and Rudolph cartoons every Christmas do. (i.e. NONE!)
Of course they will be used by delusional people to line up on both sides and act really stupid. My question here is, "What about insanity don't you understand." Quit trying to make logic of the insane behavior of the fringes of humanity it isn't going to work. Insanity is insane. Please do not make what I have to say here as support or opposition to any religious or other ideology group. It isn't such. As to a stupid video game where people try to kill each other... I have no support for that what so ever, but a lot of people seem to like them and demand them. Honestly I wish they didn't like such behavior but they do.
At risk of being called a troll ---> I am going to do a decent kind open discussion of what is known. This usually gets called troll on this forum. ---> It isn't troll rest assured!
There has been developing a serious discussion in the IEEE and in other groups of scientists who work with really hard science that cosmology as we have been generally told is just wrong. In particularly the electrical engineering technology provides accurate scalable and reliable methods and models to predict what is going on in the universe. These methodologies and quite well proved models run directly cross of a favorite theory of many scientists. The Einstein Theory of Special Relativity is the primary theory that runs cross of these results. Every time the SR theory is tested it fails. As the IEEE types theories are tested they not only predict what will be seen before hand, they do it every time.
There is a set of mathematically determined equations known as the Maxwell Equations which are standard engineering tools. These have never been found wrong. They are as close to "Facts" as we have in science. They are the basis of this new work in cosmology. Special Relativity is conversely a theory that reliably and always fails. If a decent respect to science is given, Special Relativity is a busted theory. This isn't disrespect of General Relativity. General Relativity is pretty good. It isn't 100% but it is pretty good. No disrespect of those who like Special Relativity is intended here. They just need to take a look in the context of good scientific methodology and trash the bad thinking. In all fairness these guys have a lot to contribute if they will let go of the mistakes of the past.
The relationship to the weather in space and on the earth is as connected as the electrical circuits in your house are to the lights in your house. To assume some disconnect or that the systems are in fact different systems is mistaken. The parent of this post is a pretty good posting, but it makes the mistaken assumption that these systems are disconnected. A considerable appreciation for the fact that the parent poster has at least begun the disconnect from the old broken theories of the past is in order though. It is very hard to imagine the scale and complexity involved. I would hope that maybe some good scientific thinking will begin to start and with respect for the fact that the reality is at best poorly understood and we have many past mistakes blinding us to what is going on.
Get your head out of thinking like this. You need to quit matching rate and distance and volume. They are not the same thing. The US has its economy suppressed by this total. What you would be seeing if this money did not go over seas is a massive growth in the domestic economy. The argument of the "Free Traders" is that we are better off trading a job which could have paid $200,000 a year for one which only pays $20,000 a year. Obviously a bad choice.
In just 10 years the USA is going to have 1/3 of its labor force retire. At that time you get the following choice. Pay for it on the depressed wages of the "Free Trade" economy or cut of the "Free Trade" guys and pay for it on wages that are much higher. I think that asking a man for 1/3 of his paycheck either as taxes or by capitalist machinery (dividends, interest or such) is a lot easier when he is earning $200,000 a year than when he is earning $20,000 a year. (This should be obvious) The alternative is to dump grandma and grandpa in the ditch.
A fair discussion of the realities of Free Trade needs to come up. I am a US Citizen. I will shortly travel through about 10 US States. During this trip I will pass no border stations and see no imposts or tariffs on my action. I LOVE FREE TRADE it is the American Dream! The whole world should want this! There is a nightmare called "Free Trade" out there that ignores the needed prerequisites that allows free trade to exist. The American Free Trade exists under common laws and respect for each state having their own laws. The American Free Trade is under rule of law and all parties are subject to a common load to pay for the nation.
The "Free Trade" that is so popular now days is nothing of the sort. It proposes that if a state has a law that is unique to it, that is a "Non-Tariff Barrier to Trade." The WTO gets rid of such a law, not requiring its respect as is the case between US States. These "Free Traders" want free access to my border as if they were crossing a US State Line but they want nothing of paying the common taxes or carrying the common responsibilities of defense, health and safety or such. The "Free Traders" are nothing but pirates. They want to trade in an economy that benefits from Universal Education yet they want to loot it without paying for the education. They want to trade with US Armed Forces guarding their trade, but they don't want to pay for the army. They want to have the profits but not the responsibilities. They are persons of no account and they deserve no respect.
The US Army has been very much at the fore front of modern medicine. Obviously the future list of benefits isn't in yet but here is a short list of a few benefits I can think of right off the top.
Coumadin - Primary anticoagulation and colt prevention drug used in medicine -- Developed as Sodium Warfarin to kill RATS.
Most Skin Grafting and venous grafting technology arose from combat surgery and recovery. This includes the modern advances heading towards organ replacement that began as tissue replacement efforts under US Army funding.
Most Rehabilitation technology (No comment needed here)
Most Nutrition Research -- Yeah folks they were from the 1860's on the primary research effort into human nutrition
Vaccinations of nearly all types. -- Yes I know there is some history before and outside the Army but most of the efforts to contain disease are US Armed Forces based this is world wide.
Water Purification -- Most of the efforts at good potable water development are US Armed Forces developments.
Mapping - Not just GPS folks the US Armed forces have been involved in this to the limit and it benefits all mankind including those around the world who use the Satellite technology for such. This is cheaply available because of the US Armed Forces.
Weather -- The US Armed Forces provide a very large part of the weather research around the world and millions owe their lives to it. This is on going research
Electrical and Magnetic Technology advances. -- Funny how those typing on computers can complain so about the US Armed Forces. Computers wouldn't be hear and that famous OS Microsoft sells wouldn't be here either.
Education -- You know all those kids from the far East who are knocking us Americans out of a job because their schools work? Well they learned in schools largely patterned after US Armed Forces Schooling technology. The contribution of the US Armed Forces to Human Learning is very deep.
I know it may not be popular to say so but the US Armed Forces have done a lot of good.
To be fair, in this "Free Trade" world, the new technology is more likely to displace an American from his job than it is to make him one. But that is a matter of US Tax and Trade policy it is not one of the US Armed Forces. The US Armed Forces are in their R&D beyond belief. Here is a short list of what is coming: [1] Cars that drive themselves saving millions of lives and billions of barrels of oil and stopping much damage to the environment. [2] Faster and better computers. [3] New Energy Technologies. [4] More disease control. Are there bad things? I am sure some things will always go wrong. But on the whole, the loss of US Armed Forces Research is nailing the lid on the casket of the USA in future generations.
I wish this troll's complements were true. Not! Yes I am an RN holding a current license. Yes I have at one time or another contributed to NASA Research. (On Weather too!) As to claiming to be a creationist, I have never said what I was, only discussed points of view. What we just saw (Post above) is a classic case of I don't care what you said it is I am going to resort to rhetoric. For those fools who cannot think outside of one area I am sorry for you. I think and do a lot of things, if you lack such capacity don't expect me to lack it. If you chose not to believe me, that is fine, but maybe you should wake up to the fact that what I said on trade and education is the truth and maybe guys like you just can't stand the truth.
This is assassination of character by rhetoric rather than confronting the fact that something I said you disagreed with and maybe you couldn't answer because the truth hurts... Stop being a troll and answer if you have anything true to say. Oh this isn't a scientific forum so I don't supply footnotes unless I feel like it. Supply your own if you feel like it.
I challenge you to refute by point what I have posted. You may have some trouble though. When an American is expected to pay 1/2 of his income in taxes and his foreign competition is not, it is a trade war by the US Government against its own people. The rest are axiomatic outfalls of that fact. How about trying the facts instead of how being a troll?
Tariffs are a compensation for the domestic tax burden. They equalize the taxes on the imported goods and services with those levied domestically. All that happens when you get rid of tariffs is that your tax system becomes a trade war against your own citizens. The USA is currently bleeding to death at the rate of nearly 1/2 trillion dollars a year in its trade deficit. The resulting situation is destroying our competitive situation and our education situation and for that matter our bank balances. The loss to our economy of about 1/2 trillion dollars represents the loss of about 100,000,000 jobs (Yes one hundred million) annually. Add it up in paychecks if you cannot do anything else. The failure to have tariffs will keep this bleeding going. The US Economy is in serious trouble where people now believe that their credit rating is their prosperity rather than their bank balance. In the past 6 years Americans have borrowed equal to 3 years income. We are broke. This situation is going to collapse if we do nothing about it.
The USA collapse might seem fun for the rest of the world but it will be followed by anarchy and economic troubles such that nobody would want them. This catastrophe was courtesy of the "Free Traders." They built this disaster brick by brick. Never in their entire history have they made one prediction on the economy or promise that has been fulfilled. In fact the opposite happens every time they come up to bat. More trade and more prosperity is their promise. The rows of closed factories and import trucks tell how big a liars they are.
The very existence of this discussion thread owes to the fact that the "Free Traders" are wrong.
Just for the record, I am a real free trader, I like my money as good in one US State as another. I will travel without restriction in the Federation. My problem is with those who want to allow people to trade here without paying the bills.
Now as to suggestions regards moving funds or cutting military. I like all proposals for savings. As to US Defense Spending, I sincerely doubt you could cut a dollar at this time. I wish it were so. Our army is 660,000 and it was 2.3 million only 6 years ago. Get real!
America made a choice a long time ago to allow people to live in a mobile society. This made a necessity of supporting the infirm and the elderly as a collateral project under what was chosen long ago to be Social Security. For the Trolls who run around this place who cannot get it right, the deal is already struck. If you chose to not pay the bill, you chose to become the most uncivilized of countries on the earth. It is after all the most basic part of civilization that it supports the infirm and the elderly. This is if someone will read Thomas Payne's "Common Sense" from 1776 the very reason the USA exists! Get real. You are going to have to support the aged, dependent and infirm. Don't think the price is too high either. If you don't like it remember when you become aged or infirm, you may be the one who gets dumped by some uncaring troll who thinks Social Security is not the proper business of government.
The whole choice facing the USA is will it buy off on the completely uncivilized solution or will it hoist the load and harness up trolls like those who complain about the bill. The choice is really quite personal. If you chose against helping the aged and infirm, you have chosen to dump yourself in the trash when you become less than the top race horse in the economy. If the choice goes to hold up the load then the answers are clear. If the choice is to dump the load the choices are also quite clear.
As to the question of how much money. It is going to be about 50% of the US Economy taken for Government operations and the support of Social Security or the USA goes out of business. That is what the choice is. If the country leaves the door open to being looted by foreigners, the country will go broke. If it closes the door it can support itself and grow. The out of business option might seem a bit enticing but the alternatives are about ten times as gruesome as the "Cut and Run" option in Iraq. I am not and don't mistake me for making your choice for you. I merely laid out what the choice does and the consequences. Failure to believe it isn't important the facts will rule here. If you chose to do one way or the other and the country does the same, your choice and your consequences will rule.
You are somewhat correct in the concept. Yes lowering the debt is the proper solution in part. However; if you merely transfer the debt to the public as a whole via taxes or national debt you just load down the whole economy. The raising of taxes to pay for college just accelerates the collapse of US Jobs. The solution here is much more basic. We have to protect the economy with tariffs and we have to pay down our debt and at the same time support 35% of our population for about 20 years. This isn't as hard as it seems. Productivity will cover this if we don't allow the foreigners to loot our economy. This problem is a conceptual problem of understanding what a nation is and how they work with other nations. The "Free Traders" have it wrong. Lowering tariffs only denuded the USA in the world. We are now walking about with no clothes freezing and the whole world is laughing at us and deriding us for being fools. Once well clothed again, we can easily get about supporting ourselves and growing out power.
This also isn't a problem of R&D or University funding. The USA funding here is actually a problem. University tuition is now too high because they live in an economy isolated from the real one. R&D is now almost entirely US Government funded because it has just swamped the capital market for such by high interest rates, high taxes and by funding it. Honestly we need to get out of the game of funding that. USA dominance of the world actually is better explained by Thomas Paine in his book "Common Sense" (Published Feb 14, 1776). I suggest you browse the net and read it. In particular read the chapter on the cost of the war and US Defense.
Serious saving of the USA is not in R&D or in the University that is at issue. The USA has been graduating more graduates in the fields than were needed for the jobs that were present. The problem is best seen in the Computer Science area. The USA has been generating about 50,000 CS and similar Degree type jobs a year now for the past 5 years. That looks very good. It stinks! The reason is that the USA has been importing about 60,000 similar persons a year to fill them. This means that the domestic workers are being displaced. Why?
This is quite simple. If you grow up in the USA and get a CS type degree whether you use debt or income you have to pay for your degree by using DOMESTICALLY TAXED income that equals about $250,000 of taxes by the time you graduate from time of birth. A foreign born person from many countries will see their tax burden in the same period be on a meager $5000 or so dollars. You have to pay this back by higher wages. You also graduate averaging debt of about $40,000. You have to pay this back too. A simple bankers rule of thumb will come into play here. You have to earn 2x your debt in order to live on it. That means a US Graduate needs a starting salary for a BS Degree of about $80,000 to live. Only an idiot couldn't see the impossibility here.
What is going on is a pure and simple trade war by the US Government against its own citizens. The result is that US Based persons have to pay massive taxes to pay for many US Government operations while their foreign competition arises without this load. The result is that the US Government is degrading the US Citizens functionality and it it working. Solutions: "The Fair Tax" it makes those who play here pay here. Even that will not fix the tremendous load and discrimination by taxes that is coming as the "Baby Boom" retires. We have to protect the US Market with trade limitations that compensate for this or the USA is toast. Its that simple people.
If you push the classic educate etc and R&D solution you only accelerate the decline of the USA as all new products displace the old the trade goes to the location over seas displacing the domestic work. It is a suicide pill. Drink the cool aid folks if you doubt this one!
When one considers the absolute fact that mathematics is a MODEL OF REALITY and not reality then one has to understand that null or nullity is the answer. This really should not be weird to C++ types. They hit this creature all of the time as an error that requires a try/catch.
To understand this you need simply to start with a reaction. This is that famous widget thing from Accounting so don't get messed up here. Supposing you take 1 of something and react it against 1 of another. This is division of 1 by 1. Try reacting a Billion of something against 1 of it. Now that is always 1,000,000,000/1. A little factor here comes into play called vector. I know the math types out there who have died and become GOD will object but you always get this fraction because all reactions are many divided by the fewer. Its a natural law that seems to have been forgotten in math. Now try reacting 1/2 of something against a 100. This is a fiction. Because the smallest number of something you can ever have in the real world is 1. If you don't have 1 of it, you have none of it. Another model limitation that got forgotten in math. All natural math is integer math. Computer types should understand this! So lets try a reaction where we react a billion of something against none of it. This is 1,000,000,000/0. The model answers back with that natural law limitation that there is no reaction. NULL is the answer. There is no address to dump a non-reaction.
The reality is that this professor is right but I really wish he wouldn't try to invent a new term for it. Try the famous computer science C++ solution that has been around for years NULL! Its right! Its right for the very same reason it has been showing up for years in C++. Now this leads to a very serious reality. Those who have been hanging out in their Floating Point approximation world are going to have to realize that it is an Approximation --- Literally a close error but not the truth. I don't hate floating point math, but what we need to do is understand this.
There are profound conclusions this leads to. It limits reaction predictions in math. This eliminates -- (For those who don't understand -- I mean entirely wipes out) the Cosmological conclusions about the Speed of Light being a limit on velocity. It eliminates the illogical conclusions of the age of the Universe and sorry for those trucking the load for Special Relativity, but it clobbers them in the teeth and removes the entire calculation set that infers the Big Bang. Of course had you checked with the IEEE - cosmology section and their discussions you might have found out that the science had departed and gone somewhere else a long time ago. The electrical universe is but one of the things that arrives fully fledged if you accept NULL. (non reaction with nothing) Cosmology is but one science area that really gets hit in the face by NULL. There are a lot of others.
Pardon me while I direct your attention to what is really going on. I couldn't help bombing in and pointing out that the reality is that the super rich have decided that the rest of the human race is to be disposed of and they are working on the project. Please don't shoot the reporter. I just reported the truth. -- I know that is politically incorrect but truth has to be faced someday.
Unless we quit our arguments over the ideology and see what is really going on, we might well just be overtaken by reality.
Well since I was making Hurricane forecasts by July of 2006 that said the season was essentially over for the USA... (Not bragging just I did) The forecasting of events really isn't a hard or difficult thing. In the case of prisoners, you would do better to give a small reward system for accuracy and do a survey system similar to Iowa Prediction Markets. (do your own lookup) It is often a reality that we can predict who is going to steal the most or who is going to kill and quite accurately.
Having worked in a prison as RN, I know pretty well what is going on with the crime scene. It isn't a mystery. The domestic ignorance of what is causing crime, and how to deal with it is mostly the problem. People really just don't like the factor set being told. So I will just to get some really low moderation (by telling the truth) tell approximately what is the profile of violent criminals.
A violent criminal usually falls either below 85 IQ or above 185 IQ. The frequency of this below IQ 85 is about 85% of the population of such persons with about 13% above IQ 185. Only a tiny fraction falls in the middle. Essentially a person who is violent is one who cannot adapt to their world due to low mental state and who rashly reacts to situations they are unable to handle. The very bright criminals of this type are in fact vicious cunning predators. The unique and common link of both groups is their unwillingness to defer gratification of desires for extended periods of time. The want something now and they demand it now and they get it now. They brush anything out of their way on the way including other human beings. If this profile matches to the behavior of some other groups of people we all know and love (CEO's) It isn't an accident. They fall out of this group as well. Essentially we have a party who is willing to force the system rather than work with it. This profile does have racial components. Certain (Nameless deliberately -- I am not suicidal) racial groups tend to do this more than others by wide margins. You could just as well determine these people by their credit rating. It would be just as accurate or more so than the networks.
Actually the most uniform behavior seen in prison is that the persons are ones who "flunked out of kindergarten." The reality here is that successful anti-crime programs generally teach people to defer gratification and to do things like saying those 3 magic words, "Please" and "Thank you." I know this sound simple. It really is. The Church of Scientology (I am not a member and don't intend to be one) has a very successful program that teaches this sort of stuff. It empties prisons when tried. The reality is that when people are taught how to actually deal with their desires and how to communicate with others and how to handle situations, most of them actually do so. This is a damning statement against our modern public schools who think that such teaching is not their duty. Frankly it is their only duty.
Thumb print biometrics is for better or worse nothing more nor less than a password that never changes. All that will be needed to steal it it to cause someone to get their thumb print or finger prints read once, like offering a cheap toy or a prize if you sign on with your thumb print. Then either a fake thumb or a code signal intercept will be done and instantly Identity theft will hit a new stride. Warning for anyone using biometrics as ID, this is a sucking security hole!
Amen or whatever phrase you want brother! I want to end this stupidity and I am an American.
Oh on that carding (passport) for a drink. That is just one more in a long line of stupidity going on in the name of not seeing or making any judgments based on observation. It constitutes a form of resistance to a law by over enforcement of its provisions.
Please do on Alcohol be a slight bit charitable to Americans. There are other issues going on domestically that you from Europe would not know about and surely it might seem a bit strange. Due to the Racial makeup of the USA, we tend to have some more serious problems with Alcohol than do the North European Countries. It makes for some curious solutions that surely would seem strange to you. There are a very large number of people in the USA who genetically have a much lower ability to handle or metabolize alcohol than in Northern Europe. In many of these people it takes less than 1/4th the dose to have the same effect. It makes us handle alcohol differently even from US State to State. Also our history of Alcohol consumption has seen a considerable problem set that is different from the European set.
I think the parent of this post should be moderated up to about a 25 or 30. (Yes I know 5 is the limit now) The subject of a solution becoming a serious problem recently came up regards to Bucky tubes. It turns out these things are dangerous to life in the first degree. We need to be careful... damn careful when we do something new. It may have unforeseen consequences and they can really get out of hand in the nanotechnology area.
I don't want to hear from the classical libertarian arguments about "freedom" here. This stuff has to be carefully watched and decisions cannot be made by simple decision of one person. They have to be worked on carefully.
I have a job reviewing the software that runs the elections. As a result I have several of the packages in question on my machine. The auditing I do has nothing to do with the election security. It is technical. None the less; I have looked at the security issue. I agree with the critics entirely. Electronic Voting without a proper paper trail is a sucking security hole. The Diebold software has several leaks in it including USB drive access. I have reviewed on package I would trust and it does use a paper trail. In general the critics of this methodology of voting without paper trails are more than correct.
Any election even with a paper trail, should have several other controls built in. The development of regionally accessible voting is a good step. This is where you can vote anywhere the election is being held. It makes stuffing boxes kind of hard. Another method needs to be 3 way tally. The voting totals need to be local, reported to a regional and to a central authority and the results compared. The paper ballots should automatically be recounted by machine and a certain number of them sampled for hand recount. The custody of the paper ballots should be under ARMED WITNESSED GUARD at a central location such as the State Agency. It should not be under the control of local officials. In general the election oversight agency of a State should be most carefully constructed with agents who are not subject to political whim for employment.
I have worked as an election official in the past. The number one concern of any citizen in an election should be that the election tally's and results are properly handled. A Former County Commissioner from my district was wrongly not certified for election because of probate Judge who was dishonest and it took a federal suit to over turn his ruling. He was placed in office about 13 months late after the hack the judge certified wrongly had pretty well looted the office. Election stealing is a very real issue and one of the highest concern for people with an elected government. In the election in question, the Probate Judge certified a box as valid when it had 1100 more votes (all cast were for one candidate) cast than the box had voters.
I cannot emphasize enough that any machine voting system that does not track with a proper receipt system and with other major controls is simply a machine to steal elections more efficiently. Such a system makes stealing easy and removes all evidence that it was stolen.
It is times like these that we need to know history. The USA was forged in the forge of terrorism. The bill of rights was established to prevent state sponsored terrorism that showed up in France as the Reign of Terror. Frankly the Bill of Rights is not out of date, it was build just for these times and to act as a tripwire for citizens to detect the real terrorists,... ones who come in the guise of protection from terror.
Excellent warning for the arrogant. The lesson may be funny but is just as important.
With the nature of US Defenses, we are progressing rapidly to the day where a single strike might well take the USA out of the game and it might be pretty simple at that. I worked at Ft. Rucker Alabama. There a strong fleet of Helicopters existed with 18 hrs fuel supply. The whole base would have been worthless in a war footing if the fuel supply were out for a few hours.
Oops! Hurricane Katrina took that supply out for nearly 3 months. If it were not for the European backup the US Military would have been out of action by Katrina. Katrina proved that 1/2 of the national supply of oil and gas could be taken out by failing about 3 pumping stations. I really don't think Americans should be so arrogant about their strength. It might just wilt in a pinch.
Well I know that the general opinion of the genetic code has been some sort of simple weight of the 4 letters of the code or some pure sequencing data. Well now for the geeks on Slashdot comes a decent translation.
The genetic code of a person is like a computer program that builds and runs a person. It is the firmware and OS if you will. Without getting too complicated the old method of comparing the code would have been like counting all the instructions in a assembly language program. Then by adding up the sum of the times each instruction appears and weighing the number of them we compared programs. (obviously an idiotic way to measure how a program works) The new method its starting to find the sub routine loops and complex operations steps in the program. It still is far less than the final result but it is a long way along the way from where we have been. Remember the alteration in position of a single code item in a program may be minor or major depending upon position. Anyone who has chased down a missing period in COBOL should surely understand.
The comparison to firmware and OS is more solid than one might think. Yes your code gets edited from time to time. Yes you get updates. Did you ever wonder what comes in when you get a cold or the Flu. You are a much more fluid system than you might think. Yes mods... I do have the microbiology studies to back me up!
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Actually there is a medical tool that can do nearly as well as the bleach solution without killing the patient. Specifically if you take a 910nm YAG pulsed 1/10,000 sec 10 times per sec at about 250 watts for a duration of about 30 seconds and applied locally to the site of the infection, very nearly any virus or bacteria known and even some other agents can be blasted into oblivion while assisting the life processes of the human tissues surrounding.
No this isn't an American technology. No it isn't fiction or fantasy. The process has been tested against even HIV and Hep C. It works. The WOW that it is applies to a wide range of medical problems. The specific process is known as cold lasers in sports medicine. Yes you could have the flu and be treated in a few seconds without drug side effects. I personally have seen this technology resolve a MRSA cyst about 1/2 the size of a large egg over night. The amount of treatment time was 30 seconds. The cyst was in an 82yo female who had acquired this post surgical and it was treated unsuccessfully with 30 day of intense IV medication including Vancomycin and other meds.
This works by driving the life function of the human cells directly by photosynthetic process. It would appear that the process also overdrives the material in the infectious agents. Thus the process causes health in 2 ways. It will remove edema (swelling) in a few seconds. It causes very fast healing. It relieves most pain issues in seconds of at most over a course of 3 or 4 treatments a few hours apart. It is so effective it should be required as a post-op treatment for patients. It is a treatment that is so effective it can literally stop the flu or even destroy deep in tissue infections like those hard to treat sinus infections with nearly instant effect. As such the Bird Flu and any other flu epidemic should be a few laser pulses from oblivion.
There is a problem in measuring units. It has to do with physical space. Despite the efforts of the Metric crowd to say otherwise, the USA is measured off in a physical system that will be here forever. Miles are obvious even from space. The issue is that many things if you shift systems will remain in fact. This is the famous question, "Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?"
I have worked extensively in metric and in the US Standard system. Inches and Feet are space division systems and frankly they have a lot of reality behind them. Metric on the other hand is pure arbitrary. Metric works with calculators. It is fine but it has no reality behind it. The famous fractions complained about so loudly actually are ratio and proportion related number systems.
Changing the USA to metric distance measurement would only confuse billions of legal records, cause immense cost in new traffic signs and confuse the US citizenry for no good cause. Changing form SAE thread systems on bolts would comply with the rest of the world, but it causes the thread strength to drop nearly in half. SAE Bolts are really much more effective because of the space division rules in the math that enforced their construction. It actually works out to proper ratios for force dissipation over distance in physical materials. Sorry for the Metric fans but it is true. Changing the USA from its bulk commodity measurement is also just silly. I have been elsewhere in the world where the metric was emphasized. 454 grams of salt is sold. It is still a pound. Sure 1 liter bottles of Coke abound. This stuff really has no reality. Consumer goods will be sold at whatever size the market wants no matter what. Change the numbers and it will move right back to the original size. Just the markings will change. Evidence those funky 4.5 ounce bottles of stuff and the strange quantities of grams as well.
As to the USA going Metric, our money was nearly the first in the world to go metric. The USA seems to be quite able to be metric when it wants to be and not when it doesn't want to be.
In construction I have seen the buildings with walls 2 meters tall. The problem I have is that I am 1.88 meters tall. I don't fit. 96 inches is a minimum for me. Play your 2.5 meters if you want but USA buildings are 96 inches standard. Air flow in the smaller buildings suffers from serious Geometric problems. It causes illness. Enforcing stupid rules on people who don't want them is arrogant. Enforcing measurement that doesn't fit the world of a people doesn't work either.
Do they really expect the Wall Street Journal to do an objective story on immigration and other issues? NOT BLOODY LIKELY!
As to persons studying here in the technical area, has anyone thought that if business wasn't getting their cheap foreign blood, they might have to cough up and pay for the highly taxed American students and they might actually find rewards for their hard work and study. This whole issue is nothing more nor less than the US Government is running a trade war against its on citizens by taxing the hell out of them (No wonder they are disappearing from the market!) and then it is flooding the market with tax free labor and businesses who of course wipe the American domestics from the market. Hey WSJ how about some stories on this reality????
An American BS degree grad has US Taxes in him to the tune of about $200,000 that he must charge out in the market to warrant the effort. The foreign grads don't have anything to match this from even the most expensive foreign states. Strangely enough the US businessmen are starting to realize that cheap labor comes at a price too high to pay because of some major cultural differences between Americans and their competition particularly in the area of ethics.
Having actually reviewed the software (Yes the source code) for 7 major voting machine systems....,. I might have something to say on the topic. First!!!!! a verified voting machine software package means exactly nothing! The verification is if there are enough comments in the code and if all case statements have a default exit and things like that. It has nothing what so ever to do with if the system correctly handles an election. I got paid for this people so I know the facts here!
Out of the 7 major packages I reviewed I found only one I felt was secure enough to consider it worthy of use. I did look at the software. Major flaws included the ES&S systems have flash drives! They could have their data and their "brains" completely changed at will during an election and they never would tell! Other flaws included Internet hookups to the machines where data files could be addressed remotely... .... ....
I am not telling the name of the supplier I felt was good but let it assure you that their system had paper read and their system had several other safeguards of the voting tally.
Why do public officials want such systems. Simple. They can steal elections and they can prevent absolutely any record of the event. Why should voters get mad and demand open source software on such systems. The reasons are many They include prevention of defalcation on the election. They include being hardware independent so that users are not locked into a system for buying their supplies. They include KNOWING what is going on. They include voter oversight. Take your pick folks.
If you are DOD and you want to get Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) products to resolve your problems without hiring the massively expensive solutions of 1 off stuff built to design, you must be able to accept attachments such as .zip and html mail. Sorry but the commercial guys cannot even tell you what they are doing anymore without this stuff. DOD costs just got higher!
I worked one DOD site where we had to email files of code. The volume of the attachments was beyond the Email limits so we had to zip the files. The filters blocked .zip. So we renamed the files .aaa or something like that. Then the filters didn't catch the files. That way we could get the emails. We had to break our own security just to do our job. This stuff is a real problem.
The US DOD needs to can Microsoft. If they were to run Linux or Apple systems and then to sandbox all emails and web browser stuff under the OS a lot could be done and things would be much more secure. The basic problem is a Microsoft logical design construct. Microsoft thought that they should own your computer and you should rent it from them. Under these conditions they wanted "their" computers to be remotely controlled by various means. The means they designed into their constructs also leave sucking security holes which hackers and other malware designers just walk right through.
There is a real reason most DOD people stick like glue to Microsoft. For Network security people in the DOD they are as worried that some subordinate might actually control his machine as they are of having foreign control. (Foreign to their system) As such they must keep central control. This is the Microsoft construct at a second level. The DOD system I worked on had an entire base having one root password that didn't change folks because of this demand. Linux etc doesn't conform to this as naturally as MS systems. Another level of this sticking like glue to MS systems comes from the fact that most of the people who program (contractors etc) for the Government like to keep their jobs. MS systems do not support legacy software well. As such they are continually "re-inventing the wheel" so to speak and it makes for lots of jobs that last a lifetime. It holds the DOD hostage to continually hiring the same contractor because his software is proprietary and cannot be easily "reverse engineered" without risk of software copyright violations. In the end this synergy of profits and control leaves the US DOD bleeding money, never able to do its job as effectively and wedded to MS systems.
If the taxpayers get involved they will ban such OS like Microsoft because this is completely contrary to the interest of the taxpayers. It however; requires the US DOD to recognize that its only true security lies in the loyalty of its people. In doing so it will have to retract from foreign (non-USA) suppliers and contractors. It will have to seriously look into who it is hiring and it will have to weed out those it has on payroll who are being more selfish than loyal. Let me assure you that if this situation is dealt with properly it will be a top to bottom 10 on the Richter Scale earthquake in US Government operations. Imagine if you will actually not being able to have the management read every document in someones computer without them knowing. Imagine having someone who works for you who you actually have to be able to trust! Imagine real government security! (WOW!)Here is another reality regards these CME's and flares. The matter in them leaves the sun and accelerates rapidly upon exiting the sun. This isn't like the acceleration of a gun. In a gun once the bullet leaves the gun, it begins slowing down. In a CME the matter gets faster and faster on the way out like it was riding a railgun track all the way out. The matter in these X-Class flares left the sun and in about 16 hours are reaching the earth. They left the sun at a velocity that was a few thousand miles per hour. By the time they get to the earth they are going many times that. In the case of these flares the matter is traveling about 10% of the speed of light when it passes earth. We have had flares like this which have passed earth going nearly 30% of the speed of light in 2004 and 2005. These were measured at Saturn by space craft to be going nearly 50% of the speed of light.
The reality is that had the solar system been ruled by gravity as certain people who always find their "troll" moderation say, this could not have happened. If the sun were the nuclear furnace proposed in the popular solar models of today it is also impossible to have had this happen. The cosmology of today is busted. It is wrong.
The solar system is operating as I write a massive particle accelerator that is operating at scales and forces beyond imagination. Millions of tons of matter are going out from the sun right now at speeds which will very shortly approach the speed of light. This means in the words of "Doc" from the movie back to the future---"This sucker is electrical." The electrical universe is real and it is very much happening around us. The Gravity hypothesis for solar system operation provides no model to allow any such activity. Acceleration of matter in this fashion cannot occur in a gravity driven universe.
Don't worry be happy! This game will in a few years if not sooner be used to make up like this was the way all Christians acted. This is just like the western gunslinger movies and TV shows of the 1960's have become most people's idea of what really happened in the old west of the USA. Both of course will have equally as much to do with reality as the Santa Clause and Rudolph cartoons every Christmas do. (i.e. NONE!)
Of course they will be used by delusional people to line up on both sides and act really stupid. My question here is, "What about insanity don't you understand." Quit trying to make logic of the insane behavior of the fringes of humanity it isn't going to work. Insanity is insane. Please do not make what I have to say here as support or opposition to any religious or other ideology group. It isn't such. As to a stupid video game where people try to kill each other... I have no support for that what so ever, but a lot of people seem to like them and demand them. Honestly I wish they didn't like such behavior but they do.
At risk of being called a troll ---> I am going to do a decent kind open discussion of what is known. This usually gets called troll on this forum. ---> It isn't troll rest assured!
There has been developing a serious discussion in the IEEE and in other groups of scientists who work with really hard science that cosmology as we have been generally told is just wrong. In particularly the electrical engineering technology provides accurate scalable and reliable methods and models to predict what is going on in the universe. These methodologies and quite well proved models run directly cross of a favorite theory of many scientists. The Einstein Theory of Special Relativity is the primary theory that runs cross of these results. Every time the SR theory is tested it fails. As the IEEE types theories are tested they not only predict what will be seen before hand, they do it every time.
There is a set of mathematically determined equations known as the Maxwell Equations which are standard engineering tools. These have never been found wrong. They are as close to "Facts" as we have in science. They are the basis of this new work in cosmology. Special Relativity is conversely a theory that reliably and always fails. If a decent respect to science is given, Special Relativity is a busted theory. This isn't disrespect of General Relativity. General Relativity is pretty good. It isn't 100% but it is pretty good. No disrespect of those who like Special Relativity is intended here. They just need to take a look in the context of good scientific methodology and trash the bad thinking. In all fairness these guys have a lot to contribute if they will let go of the mistakes of the past.
The Nebular Hypothesis for stellar formation etc, is also a completely busted theory. It simply has no data to stand on. We now have a strong mechanism for the formation and development of the universe. It is the EM Force. We even have good reason to believe that the G force is actually related and produced by the EM Force and is not a unique force.
The relationship to the weather in space and on the earth is as connected as the electrical circuits in your house are to the lights in your house. To assume some disconnect or that the systems are in fact different systems is mistaken. The parent of this post is a pretty good posting, but it makes the mistaken assumption that these systems are disconnected. A considerable appreciation for the fact that the parent poster has at least begun the disconnect from the old broken theories of the past is in order though. It is very hard to imagine the scale and complexity involved. I would hope that maybe some good scientific thinking will begin to start and with respect for the fact that the reality is at best poorly understood and we have many past mistakes blinding us to what is going on.
Get your head out of thinking like this. You need to quit matching rate and distance and volume. They are not the same thing. The US has its economy suppressed by this total. What you would be seeing if this money did not go over seas is a massive growth in the domestic economy. The argument of the "Free Traders" is that we are better off trading a job which could have paid $200,000 a year for one which only pays $20,000 a year. Obviously a bad choice.
In just 10 years the USA is going to have 1/3 of its labor force retire. At that time you get the following choice. Pay for it on the depressed wages of the "Free Trade" economy or cut of the "Free Trade" guys and pay for it on wages that are much higher. I think that asking a man for 1/3 of his paycheck either as taxes or by capitalist machinery (dividends, interest or such) is a lot easier when he is earning $200,000 a year than when he is earning $20,000 a year. (This should be obvious) The alternative is to dump grandma and grandpa in the ditch.
A fair discussion of the realities of Free Trade needs to come up. I am a US Citizen. I will shortly travel through about 10 US States. During this trip I will pass no border stations and see no imposts or tariffs on my action. I LOVE FREE TRADE it is the American Dream! The whole world should want this! There is a nightmare called "Free Trade" out there that ignores the needed prerequisites that allows free trade to exist. The American Free Trade exists under common laws and respect for each state having their own laws. The American Free Trade is under rule of law and all parties are subject to a common load to pay for the nation.
The "Free Trade" that is so popular now days is nothing of the sort. It proposes that if a state has a law that is unique to it, that is a "Non-Tariff Barrier to Trade." The WTO gets rid of such a law, not requiring its respect as is the case between US States. These "Free Traders" want free access to my border as if they were crossing a US State Line but they want nothing of paying the common taxes or carrying the common responsibilities of defense, health and safety or such. The "Free Traders" are nothing but pirates. They want to trade in an economy that benefits from Universal Education yet they want to loot it without paying for the education. They want to trade with US Armed Forces guarding their trade, but they don't want to pay for the army. They want to have the profits but not the responsibilities. They are persons of no account and they deserve no respect.
The US Army has been very much at the fore front of modern medicine. Obviously the future list of benefits isn't in yet but here is a short list of a few benefits I can think of right off the top.
Coumadin - Primary anticoagulation and colt prevention drug used in medicine -- Developed as Sodium Warfarin to kill RATS.
Most Skin Grafting and venous grafting technology arose from combat surgery and recovery. This includes the modern advances heading towards organ replacement that began as tissue replacement efforts under US Army funding.
Most Rehabilitation technology (No comment needed here)
Most Nutrition Research -- Yeah folks they were from the 1860's on the primary research effort into human nutrition
Vaccinations of nearly all types. -- Yes I know there is some history before and outside the Army but most of the efforts to contain disease are US Armed Forces based this is world wide.
Water Purification -- Most of the efforts at good potable water development are US Armed Forces developments.
Mapping - Not just GPS folks the US Armed forces have been involved in this to the limit and it benefits all mankind including those around the world who use the Satellite technology for such. This is cheaply available because of the US Armed Forces.
Weather -- The US Armed Forces provide a very large part of the weather research around the world and millions owe their lives to it. This is on going research
Electrical and Magnetic Technology advances. -- Funny how those typing on computers can complain so about the US Armed Forces. Computers wouldn't be hear and that famous OS Microsoft sells wouldn't be here either.
Education -- You know all those kids from the far East who are knocking us Americans out of a job because their schools work? Well they learned in schools largely patterned after US Armed Forces Schooling technology. The contribution of the US Armed Forces to Human Learning is very deep.
I know it may not be popular to say so but the US Armed Forces have done a lot of good.
To be fair, in this "Free Trade" world, the new technology is more likely to displace an American from his job than it is to make him one. But that is a matter of US Tax and Trade policy it is not one of the US Armed Forces. The US Armed Forces are in their R&D beyond belief. Here is a short list of what is coming: [1] Cars that drive themselves saving millions of lives and billions of barrels of oil and stopping much damage to the environment. [2] Faster and better computers. [3] New Energy Technologies. [4] More disease control. Are there bad things? I am sure some things will always go wrong. But on the whole, the loss of US Armed Forces Research is nailing the lid on the casket of the USA in future generations.
I wish this troll's complements were true. Not! Yes I am an RN holding a current license. Yes I have at one time or another contributed to NASA Research. (On Weather too!) As to claiming to be a creationist, I have never said what I was, only discussed points of view. What we just saw (Post above) is a classic case of I don't care what you said it is I am going to resort to rhetoric. For those fools who cannot think outside of one area I am sorry for you. I think and do a lot of things, if you lack such capacity don't expect me to lack it. If you chose not to believe me, that is fine, but maybe you should wake up to the fact that what I said on trade and education is the truth and maybe guys like you just can't stand the truth.
This is assassination of character by rhetoric rather than confronting the fact that something I said you disagreed with and maybe you couldn't answer because the truth hurts... Stop being a troll and answer if you have anything true to say. Oh this isn't a scientific forum so I don't supply footnotes unless I feel like it. Supply your own if you feel like it.
I challenge you to refute by point what I have posted. You may have some trouble though. When an American is expected to pay 1/2 of his income in taxes and his foreign competition is not, it is a trade war by the US Government against its own people. The rest are axiomatic outfalls of that fact. How about trying the facts instead of how being a troll?
Tariffs are a compensation for the domestic tax burden. They equalize the taxes on the imported goods and services with those levied domestically. All that happens when you get rid of tariffs is that your tax system becomes a trade war against your own citizens. The USA is currently bleeding to death at the rate of nearly 1/2 trillion dollars a year in its trade deficit. The resulting situation is destroying our competitive situation and our education situation and for that matter our bank balances. The loss to our economy of about 1/2 trillion dollars represents the loss of about 100,000,000 jobs (Yes one hundred million) annually. Add it up in paychecks if you cannot do anything else. The failure to have tariffs will keep this bleeding going. The US Economy is in serious trouble where people now believe that their credit rating is their prosperity rather than their bank balance. In the past 6 years Americans have borrowed equal to 3 years income. We are broke. This situation is going to collapse if we do nothing about it.
The USA collapse might seem fun for the rest of the world but it will be followed by anarchy and economic troubles such that nobody would want them. This catastrophe was courtesy of the "Free Traders." They built this disaster brick by brick. Never in their entire history have they made one prediction on the economy or promise that has been fulfilled. In fact the opposite happens every time they come up to bat. More trade and more prosperity is their promise. The rows of closed factories and import trucks tell how big a liars they are.
The very existence of this discussion thread owes to the fact that the "Free Traders" are wrong.
Just for the record, I am a real free trader, I like my money as good in one US State as another. I will travel without restriction in the Federation. My problem is with those who want to allow people to trade here without paying the bills.
Now as to suggestions regards moving funds or cutting military. I like all proposals for savings. As to US Defense Spending, I sincerely doubt you could cut a dollar at this time. I wish it were so. Our army is 660,000 and it was 2.3 million only 6 years ago. Get real!
America made a choice a long time ago to allow people to live in a mobile society. This made a necessity of supporting the infirm and the elderly as a collateral project under what was chosen long ago to be Social Security. For the Trolls who run around this place who cannot get it right, the deal is already struck. If you chose to not pay the bill, you chose to become the most uncivilized of countries on the earth. It is after all the most basic part of civilization that it supports the infirm and the elderly. This is if someone will read Thomas Payne's "Common Sense" from 1776 the very reason the USA exists! Get real. You are going to have to support the aged, dependent and infirm. Don't think the price is too high either. If you don't like it remember when you become aged or infirm, you may be the one who gets dumped by some uncaring troll who thinks Social Security is not the proper business of government.
The whole choice facing the USA is will it buy off on the completely uncivilized solution or will it hoist the load and harness up trolls like those who complain about the bill. The choice is really quite personal. If you chose against helping the aged and infirm, you have chosen to dump yourself in the trash when you become less than the top race horse in the economy. If the choice goes to hold up the load then the answers are clear. If the choice is to dump the load the choices are also quite clear.
As to the question of how much money. It is going to be about 50% of the US Economy taken for Government operations and the support of Social Security or the USA goes out of business. That is what the choice is. If the country leaves the door open to being looted by foreigners, the country will go broke. If it closes the door it can support itself and grow. The out of business option might seem a bit enticing but the alternatives are about ten times as gruesome as the "Cut and Run" option in Iraq. I am not and don't mistake me for making your choice for you. I merely laid out what the choice does and the consequences. Failure to believe it isn't important the facts will rule here. If you chose to do one way or the other and the country does the same, your choice and your consequences will rule.
You are somewhat correct in the concept. Yes lowering the debt is the proper solution in part. However; if you merely transfer the debt to the public as a whole via taxes or national debt you just load down the whole economy. The raising of taxes to pay for college just accelerates the collapse of US Jobs. The solution here is much more basic. We have to protect the economy with tariffs and we have to pay down our debt and at the same time support 35% of our population for about 20 years. This isn't as hard as it seems. Productivity will cover this if we don't allow the foreigners to loot our economy. This problem is a conceptual problem of understanding what a nation is and how they work with other nations. The "Free Traders" have it wrong. Lowering tariffs only denuded the USA in the world. We are now walking about with no clothes freezing and the whole world is laughing at us and deriding us for being fools. Once well clothed again, we can easily get about supporting ourselves and growing out power.
This also isn't a problem of R&D or University funding. The USA funding here is actually a problem. University tuition is now too high because they live in an economy isolated from the real one. R&D is now almost entirely US Government funded because it has just swamped the capital market for such by high interest rates, high taxes and by funding it. Honestly we need to get out of the game of funding that. USA dominance of the world actually is better explained by Thomas Paine in his book "Common Sense" (Published Feb 14, 1776). I suggest you browse the net and read it. In particular read the chapter on the cost of the war and US Defense.
Serious saving of the USA is not in R&D or in the University that is at issue. The USA has been graduating more graduates in the fields than were needed for the jobs that were present. The problem is best seen in the Computer Science area. The USA has been generating about 50,000 CS and similar Degree type jobs a year now for the past 5 years. That looks very good. It stinks! The reason is that the USA has been importing about 60,000 similar persons a year to fill them. This means that the domestic workers are being displaced. Why?
This is quite simple. If you grow up in the USA and get a CS type degree whether you use debt or income you have to pay for your degree by using DOMESTICALLY TAXED income that equals about $250,000 of taxes by the time you graduate from time of birth. A foreign born person from many countries will see their tax burden in the same period be on a meager $5000 or so dollars. You have to pay this back by higher wages. You also graduate averaging debt of about $40,000. You have to pay this back too. A simple bankers rule of thumb will come into play here. You have to earn 2x your debt in order to live on it. That means a US Graduate needs a starting salary for a BS Degree of about $80,000 to live. Only an idiot couldn't see the impossibility here.
What is going on is a pure and simple trade war by the US Government against its own citizens. The result is that US Based persons have to pay massive taxes to pay for many US Government operations while their foreign competition arises without this load. The result is that the US Government is degrading the US Citizens functionality and it it working. Solutions: "The Fair Tax" it makes those who play here pay here. Even that will not fix the tremendous load and discrimination by taxes that is coming as the "Baby Boom" retires. We have to protect the US Market with trade limitations that compensate for this or the USA is toast. Its that simple people.
If you push the classic educate etc and R&D solution you only accelerate the decline of the USA as all new products displace the old the trade goes to the location over seas displacing the domestic work. It is a suicide pill. Drink the cool aid folks if you doubt this one!
When one considers the absolute fact that mathematics is a MODEL OF REALITY and not reality then one has to understand that null or nullity is the answer. This really should not be weird to C++ types. They hit this creature all of the time as an error that requires a try/catch.
To understand this you need simply to start with a reaction. This is that famous widget thing from Accounting so don't get messed up here. Supposing you take 1 of something and react it against 1 of another. This is division of 1 by 1. Try reacting a Billion of something against 1 of it. Now that is always 1,000,000,000/1. A little factor here comes into play called vector. I know the math types out there who have died and become GOD will object but you always get this fraction because all reactions are many divided by the fewer. Its a natural law that seems to have been forgotten in math. Now try reacting 1/2 of something against a 100. This is a fiction. Because the smallest number of something you can ever have in the real world is 1. If you don't have 1 of it, you have none of it. Another model limitation that got forgotten in math. All natural math is integer math. Computer types should understand this! So lets try a reaction where we react a billion of something against none of it. This is 1,000,000,000/0. The model answers back with that natural law limitation that there is no reaction. NULL is the answer. There is no address to dump a non-reaction.
The reality is that this professor is right but I really wish he wouldn't try to invent a new term for it. Try the famous computer science C++ solution that has been around for years NULL! Its right! Its right for the very same reason it has been showing up for years in C++. Now this leads to a very serious reality. Those who have been hanging out in their Floating Point approximation world are going to have to realize that it is an Approximation --- Literally a close error but not the truth. I don't hate floating point math, but what we need to do is understand this.
There are profound conclusions this leads to. It limits reaction predictions in math. This eliminates -- (For those who don't understand -- I mean entirely wipes out) the Cosmological conclusions about the Speed of Light being a limit on velocity. It eliminates the illogical conclusions of the age of the Universe and sorry for those trucking the load for Special Relativity, but it clobbers them in the teeth and removes the entire calculation set that infers the Big Bang. Of course had you checked with the IEEE - cosmology section and their discussions you might have found out that the science had departed and gone somewhere else a long time ago. The electrical universe is but one of the things that arrives fully fledged if you accept NULL. (non reaction with nothing) Cosmology is but one science area that really gets hit in the face by NULL. There are a lot of others.
Pardon me while I direct your attention to what is really going on. I couldn't help bombing in and pointing out that the reality is that the super rich have decided that the rest of the human race is to be disposed of and they are working on the project. Please don't shoot the reporter. I just reported the truth. -- I know that is politically incorrect but truth has to be faced someday.
Unless we quit our arguments over the ideology and see what is really going on, we might well just be overtaken by reality.
Well since I was making Hurricane forecasts by July of 2006 that said the season was essentially over for the USA... (Not bragging just I did) The forecasting of events really isn't a hard or difficult thing. In the case of prisoners, you would do better to give a small reward system for accuracy and do a survey system similar to Iowa Prediction Markets. (do your own lookup) It is often a reality that we can predict who is going to steal the most or who is going to kill and quite accurately.
Having worked in a prison as RN, I know pretty well what is going on with the crime scene. It isn't a mystery. The domestic ignorance of what is causing crime, and how to deal with it is mostly the problem. People really just don't like the factor set being told. So I will just to get some really low moderation (by telling the truth) tell approximately what is the profile of violent criminals.
A violent criminal usually falls either below 85 IQ or above 185 IQ. The frequency of this below IQ 85 is about 85% of the population of such persons with about 13% above IQ 185. Only a tiny fraction falls in the middle. Essentially a person who is violent is one who cannot adapt to their world due to low mental state and who rashly reacts to situations they are unable to handle. The very bright criminals of this type are in fact vicious cunning predators. The unique and common link of both groups is their unwillingness to defer gratification of desires for extended periods of time. The want something now and they demand it now and they get it now. They brush anything out of their way on the way including other human beings. If this profile matches to the behavior of some other groups of people we all know and love (CEO's) It isn't an accident. They fall out of this group as well. Essentially we have a party who is willing to force the system rather than work with it. This profile does have racial components. Certain (Nameless deliberately -- I am not suicidal) racial groups tend to do this more than others by wide margins. You could just as well determine these people by their credit rating. It would be just as accurate or more so than the networks.
Actually the most uniform behavior seen in prison is that the persons are ones who "flunked out of kindergarten." The reality here is that successful anti-crime programs generally teach people to defer gratification and to do things like saying those 3 magic words, "Please" and "Thank you." I know this sound simple. It really is. The Church of Scientology (I am not a member and don't intend to be one) has a very successful program that teaches this sort of stuff. It empties prisons when tried. The reality is that when people are taught how to actually deal with their desires and how to communicate with others and how to handle situations, most of them actually do so. This is a damning statement against our modern public schools who think that such teaching is not their duty. Frankly it is their only duty.
Thumb print biometrics is for better or worse nothing more nor less than a password that never changes. All that will be needed to steal it it to cause someone to get their thumb print or finger prints read once, like offering a cheap toy or a prize if you sign on with your thumb print. Then either a fake thumb or a code signal intercept will be done and instantly Identity theft will hit a new stride. Warning for anyone using biometrics as ID, this is a sucking security hole!
Amen or whatever phrase you want brother! I want to end this stupidity and I am an American.
Oh on that carding (passport) for a drink. That is just one more in a long line of stupidity going on in the name of not seeing or making any judgments based on observation. It constitutes a form of resistance to a law by over enforcement of its provisions.
Please do on Alcohol be a slight bit charitable to Americans. There are other issues going on domestically that you from Europe would not know about and surely it might seem a bit strange. Due to the Racial makeup of the USA, we tend to have some more serious problems with Alcohol than do the North European Countries. It makes for some curious solutions that surely would seem strange to you. There are a very large number of people in the USA who genetically have a much lower ability to handle or metabolize alcohol than in Northern Europe. In many of these people it takes less than 1/4th the dose to have the same effect. It makes us handle alcohol differently even from US State to State. Also our history of Alcohol consumption has seen a considerable problem set that is different from the European set.
I think the parent of this post should be moderated up to about a 25 or 30. (Yes I know 5 is the limit now) The subject of a solution becoming a serious problem recently came up regards to Bucky tubes. It turns out these things are dangerous to life in the first degree. We need to be careful ... damn careful when we do something new. It may have unforeseen consequences and they can really get out of hand in the nanotechnology area.
I don't want to hear from the classical libertarian arguments about "freedom" here. This stuff has to be carefully watched and decisions cannot be made by simple decision of one person. They have to be worked on carefully.
I have a job reviewing the software that runs the elections. As a result I have several of the packages in question on my machine. The auditing I do has nothing to do with the election security. It is technical. None the less; I have looked at the security issue. I agree with the critics entirely. Electronic Voting without a proper paper trail is a sucking security hole. The Diebold software has several leaks in it including USB drive access. I have reviewed on package I would trust and it does use a paper trail. In general the critics of this methodology of voting without paper trails are more than correct.
Any election even with a paper trail, should have several other controls built in. The development of regionally accessible voting is a good step. This is where you can vote anywhere the election is being held. It makes stuffing boxes kind of hard. Another method needs to be 3 way tally. The voting totals need to be local, reported to a regional and to a central authority and the results compared. The paper ballots should automatically be recounted by machine and a certain number of them sampled for hand recount. The custody of the paper ballots should be under ARMED WITNESSED GUARD at a central location such as the State Agency. It should not be under the control of local officials. In general the election oversight agency of a State should be most carefully constructed with agents who are not subject to political whim for employment.
I have worked as an election official in the past. The number one concern of any citizen in an election should be that the election tally's and results are properly handled. A Former County Commissioner from my district was wrongly not certified for election because of probate Judge who was dishonest and it took a federal suit to over turn his ruling. He was placed in office about 13 months late after the hack the judge certified wrongly had pretty well looted the office. Election stealing is a very real issue and one of the highest concern for people with an elected government. In the election in question, the Probate Judge certified a box as valid when it had 1100 more votes (all cast were for one candidate) cast than the box had voters.
I cannot emphasize enough that any machine voting system that does not track with a proper receipt system and with other major controls is simply a machine to steal elections more efficiently. Such a system makes stealing easy and removes all evidence that it was stolen.
It is times like these that we need to know history. The USA was forged in the forge of terrorism. The bill of rights was established to prevent state sponsored terrorism that showed up in France as the Reign of Terror. Frankly the Bill of Rights is not out of date, it was build just for these times and to act as a tripwire for citizens to detect the real terrorists, ... ones who come in the guise of protection from terror.
Excellent warning for the arrogant. The lesson may be funny but is just as important.
With the nature of US Defenses, we are progressing rapidly to the day where a single strike might well take the USA out of the game and it might be pretty simple at that. I worked at Ft. Rucker Alabama. There a strong fleet of Helicopters existed with 18 hrs fuel supply. The whole base would have been worthless in a war footing if the fuel supply were out for a few hours.
Oops! Hurricane Katrina took that supply out for nearly 3 months. If it were not for the European backup the US Military would have been out of action by Katrina. Katrina proved that 1/2 of the national supply of oil and gas could be taken out by failing about 3 pumping stations. I really don't think Americans should be so arrogant about their strength. It might just wilt in a pinch.
Well I know that the general opinion of the genetic code has been some sort of simple weight of the 4 letters of the code or some pure sequencing data. Well now for the geeks on Slashdot comes a decent translation.
The genetic code of a person is like a computer program that builds and runs a person. It is the firmware and OS if you will. Without getting too complicated the old method of comparing the code would have been like counting all the instructions in a assembly language program. Then by adding up the sum of the times each instruction appears and weighing the number of them we compared programs. (obviously an idiotic way to measure how a program works) The new method its starting to find the sub routine loops and complex operations steps in the program. It still is far less than the final result but it is a long way along the way from where we have been. Remember the alteration in position of a single code item in a program may be minor or major depending upon position. Anyone who has chased down a missing period in COBOL should surely understand.
The comparison to firmware and OS is more solid than one might think. Yes your code gets edited from time to time. Yes you get updates. Did you ever wonder what comes in when you get a cold or the Flu. You are a much more fluid system than you might think. Yes mods... I do have the microbiology studies to back me up!