Hahaha. Seriously, why would anyone sane want to put up with the housing costs in the places listed. Somewhere backwoods in the stix you can get a couple acre lot, with woods to cover your public nuisance issues, so you're sabotage safe as far as your wallet goes, for property tax less than 50/month. You can put 3 cheap mobiles homes on it covered with tarp, at $5/mo property tax each, and have plenty of space, and still be within an hour's driving range from a place of employment. Who wants to live in crowded places, where you drive up into your driveway, and the neighbor can see what you bought for food at the grocery store. Plus if someone smashes your windows in while you're away from home, the neighbors complain if you don't have the money to fix it and just wanna put tarp over it, so you're very public nuisance prone through no fault of your own. Gotta have the forest cover you from the neighbors, or you gotta live in a neighborhood where nobody cares about tarp, and that's dangerous, but you can at least get public transport.
By the way Haber Bosch comes from the fossil fuels, so taking away fossils you also have to be careful to keep providing that to the biomass, or biofuel sector. In essence some %-age of a biofuel's heat value has been paid for by fossil heat value through the fertilizers. And plowing diesel tractors, and train locomotive transportation, etc., etc. So whatever biomass we make today, as food or fuel, in absence of fossils or a good replacement energy source, so in absence of nitrogen fertilizer may automatically drop, and you'd have to budget the future for that.
There is a similar picture for the Ewing Family of the classic TV series Dallas, with Larry Hagman, Victoria Principal, etc, but I'm not gonna post that, because it's more depressing. But this is the situation is similar with all fossils, they are nonrenewable, though we do have like 200 years worth of coal in the US, as opposed to almost none in the rest of the world, except Russia, and some other places. Coal is dirty, especially the mercury in it. If they could find a way to not reprocess it, or postprocess it, but preprocess it, as in, use process heat to hydrogenate it, convert it to low molecular mass liquid fuels, then get the mercury out of it with things that really love mercury, like selenium, then mix it with a whole lot of air, and burn it, because once it's really high temperature and really high volume stack gas, it's difficult to scrub. Plus it's a CO2 emission, greenhouse gas, so even pure CO2 emitted is not that great.
As you can see fossil fuels make up a whole lot of the pie chart - oil, coal, natural gas are fossil. The remainder are the good stuff. Out of the remainder nuclear is the only high potential suddenly increasable energy source to compensate for the loss of others, as hydro is great, but anything dammable is already dammed, it's like 99% utilized and it gives nowhere enough to meet everyone's basic energy needs, next there are wind and solar but they are not very energy rich, though more terrorist safe, but cannot be used in a centralized concentrated location, unlike nuclear, and if the yeoman farmers each have a windmill and a solar plant, they could use the free electric they get unmonitored to make well dried and packaged chlorate salt + charcoal - like Oklahoma city bombs against the feds, from plain road deicing salt, something the authorities don't really want, plus they lose the micromanagement tools to the population, that lets them keep everyone on a tight leash. For biofuels, every drop of biofuel comes at the expense of food on the table, and agriculture is already pushed to pretty max (except ocean farming, there is a lot of unutilized "arable in a plastic bag" sea area - hello Japan), and without Haber Bosch nitrogen it would not be able to support the world population already, let alone take away arable area from it for biofuels. Wind can coexist with food farming, but solar blocks the sunshine from food crops on a farm (well, most of it, there might be ways to create semitransparent greenhouses, that both let through enough light for the crops, but harvest a decent amount of electric too.) But the energy density of renewables sucks, compared to high profit nuclear, the only issue being nuclear proliferation around the world and terrorists. But the powers that be might want to create an energy pinch on purpose, as starving the population will create a stop to the population explosion, and set in a competitive environment of the old days, Old World Order, with princes, private armies, and constant non-nuclear feuding between them. And, someone smart said somewhere, it does not comes up on Google as if it were blocked, but it seems that human knowledge, science technology so far have advanced much faster in the footsteps of the sword than the plow. Unfortunately. But bringing back the nobility and Old World system could be a reason for not fixing the energy issue on purpose for now, because that will fix the overpopulation issues, but also bring back mass starvation, similar to the likes of the Irish Potato Famine, where, because of private property rights, the British crown could export grain from Ireland in massive quantities, yet leave the private farmers, the bulk of the subject population, starving.
Or to put it another way, the mercury in the can of tuna or seafood you buy in the store comes from the electric that powers your WIFI devices, through the coal that was burnt to get it. A large fraction of it at least.
Money schmoney. Funny money. Forget about money, do the right thing. Build secure nuclear plants. Security is the biggest cost with them, compared to a coal plant. Not pollution or waste, and if anything, coal plants pollute more mercury than anything in the world. The purpose of money is to make sure everyone got food on the table first, then a roof over the head second, and electric to the home third. Whatever you gotta do to make that happen, without nuclear accidents and terrorists of course, and hopefully without non-carbon-neutral emissions.
Welfare is only fair if everybody gets it equally, not just the needy, and pays for food, and on top of it you can have a job, and buy like a fancier place than provided by welfare, or fancier food.
I still think there may be a need for a 2nd currency for intellectual property. The potential demand for IP, the thirst for knowledge is immense, but one can totally abstain and live just fine. This is different than food. So for food you could have cold hard US $'s, and for intellectual property, something like bitcoin - and I don't even have a clue what bitcoin is, I just know its a 2nd currency. Now with intellectual property besides the consumption part being infinite, such as I'd have no problem downloading 1 billion mp3 songs and have them on my portable harddisk so even if there is an apocalypse, or world war, or rolling blackouts, no internet, internet monthly prices going to $2000/mo that I can't afford, there are many reasons to have off line file backups instead of cloud storage halfway across the globe on some island somewhere, and getting blackmailed over it. See the blackmailing does not really work with information, because you can live without it, it works better with food. Also the incremental cost of production, and distribution, is very near zero, so it's not hard to imagine intellectual property prices between 1 and 2 cents per item, and then you might be able to afford a billion songs to download, or a billion science articles, novels, etc. However a lot of song producers can't scrape out a living with such a low cost, but as emusic shows, even the top of the chart artists pushed by the labels as their cash cows, have a hard time competing against everyday folks, the likes that come to American Idol, who can make decent songs, and when there are very limited dollars to spend, and incremental cost of a sale is zero, the prices tend to zero due to competition be the sellers. That's a basic problem with intellectual property. It's like it needs its own little world of finance, and the exchange value for dollars would be very off, by orders of magnitue. For instance you can assume a fully welfare society, where everyone is on welfare, has guaranteed monthly minimum income that pays for their food, in traditional dollars, and they are free to choose how they spend that, but everyone is busy and preoccupied with intellectual creations - games, game playing, social interaction, tv, movies, music, scientific research, social research, etc. etc., - mostly intellectual property, and there you could have bitcoin manage the situation, and might have like 1 US $ = 1 million bitcoin $, and that's OK, but you may need that level of granularity, or resolution when it comes to intellectual value. If anyone wants to spend their minimal but guaranteed food $ on music, so be it, but you can earn bitcoins and spend bitcoins, like some points in a game, without getting too many dollars for it, but it can manage daily preoccupations, in a world where everyone needs to keep busy, and we cannot trust people to make actual tangible real world things. like gasoline from algae, or nuclear power plant fuel rods, or gun bullets, or even plastic spray nozzles, instead we have to put cameras on every corner, and sort of keep everyone in jail in the real world out there, by putting them into an income pinch, and providing entertainment and books and such. That kind of world would really suck, you'd loose a whole lot of liberties, such as even going to a danceclub on Saturday night and spending real $'s for the entrance fee, and fucking some hoes left and right, who pop babies baby momma style, because you will not be able to afford the entrance fee, or you'd have to starve yourself a couple days to pony up the dough for it from your welfare stipend. In a world where there are no jobs, and everyone is busy buying and selling intellectual property of extremely low value, but keeps busy with it. I'd hate that kind of world. And it's unrealistic in the first place. Overpopulation issues will still arise, together with the apocalypse that would bring on, because, sooner or later something's gotta give, and it usually collapses. I don't wish to live through a world where people are so hungry they eat grass, leaves and each other,
There is also ADHD-gamma coupled usually with Lemperger's syndrome. Back in the 1850's there was this saying amongst peasants that he's contracted a rich person's disease. A poor peasant would have a back ache, a sore throat, a fever, pain the legs, pain in the stomach, headaches, something plain English like that, but a rich person could go to a doctor and get diagnosed for such and such Syndrome, or that and that disorder, of course, in view of today's knowledge that diagnosis being total bologna, just like today's diagnoses centuries from now might be looked as boloni. Poor people have aches and pains, maybe bad or damaged body parts, but they don't have the money to pay for a fancy diagnosis, like any kind of somebdy's name-disease, or syndrome, or disorder.
And I've seen some depressed cats too, mentally tortured to the point where they stopped grooming themselves licking their paws and washing their faces like that, or licking their fur. Cats are born to be very clean animals by nature, it's in their genes, but it's possible to overcome it by sufficient environmental pressure and life experiences. And you can make a cat like that instantly purr too, if you are only nice to them, give them food, and stroke them, and talk to them, they start purring. Sometimes it depends on the breed of cat though, as there are some breeds, that, though completely healthy and sane, and undepressed or unstressed in general, well groomed too, yet are not very "handy" for lack of a better word, hand loving, they don't seek out human interaction, or being stroked, though sometimes it's possible to have them come close to you, and sit in your lap, and even purr for a little while, but they get distracted by things such as monitoring their territory, watching for invader cats, that's just how they are, and that territorialness takes a toll on them as far as other activities go.
Oh and I forgot to get to the people who are constantly eye-shuffling, and constantly mentally overloaded. They really need a change of environment because they are either stuck with toxic people, or they've been through some very horrible experiences, and the solution to the problem is not medication, but love. Love from other people, and love from pets. And time. Time heals everything. Sometimes you see black people stuck in a white world like that, on the bus sometimes, but nobody who comes from the south and grew up completely among black people, never seeing a white person, has issues like that, constant eye movement and mental overload. Or sometimes there might be different "bloods" between black people where they don't self-identify with each other, and then there is a lot of stress. Sometimes it's best for people to be segregated, live in very tight and well cooperating groups that interact along the fringes, and in public life, like in a store, or market, but a job is a touchier subject, and a really difficult one is marriage, which has a very high failure rate between different kinds of people.
"Diagnosing" someone with ADHD is equivalent to eugenics, especially if you act on your "diagnosis," and force them, or pressure them at least, into taking substances into their body that alters their thinking. If they come to you and ask for help, then you can whip out the, well, we have this concept of ADHD, and these are supposed to be the solutions, but we're not sure they really work, but I recommend trying this one first. And let the patient maintain their dignity, and self determination. An eye-movement or ADHD alone is not enough to condemn someone to a lifetime of substance abuse.
By the way I can take completely sane and absolutely normal people, and make them have involuntary eye movements by mental process overload. It usually has to go at something very core in the psyche, like identity, race, survival, honor, justice, or anything they care about, if you can find anything like that. For instance, tell somebody Jewish, a joke like "What's the difference between pizza and a Jew?" Answer: The pizza does not scream when you put it in the oven. That will sure get any sane person get involuntary eye movements, but it has to be told by not somebody they trust, or feel close to, like another Jew, because they might find it funny, but somebody they are weary of, like some German guy. You can crack similar jokes about black people, or there is almost nobody on the planet that could keep it together and not go into an involuntary eye-movement thing, maybe some really expert Buddhist monks or ascetic self denying Hindu, or even some really old Catholic nuns that have been through caring for wounded in wars, they might be hardy enough at the core not to sweat the small stuff. Without exception every person I've ever come across in my life, that I had a chance to have long conversations with, I ended up having them do involuntary eye-movements, just cuz that's the way I am. There were some I deeply respect, and even if they talked to me at length sometimes, it was rarely about topics that would stir emotions, and they avoided long talks on such topics and stuck to the point, or the talks they did were while not facing each other, but like sitting side by side in a car, and I never saw them stir eyes, or loose their cool, in fact their ex training shined through every time there was deep difficulty, even if not being geniuses, they were steadfast and bold headed and unafraid, and that's how they make good leaders, by not stirring their eyes in difficult situations, but almost energized by them, even if their voice shakes and you can tell they are under a lot of stress. It's very easy to make me stir my eyes too, btw, so I'm not as hardened at the core as some people I met. People stir eyes, or have sudden obviously involuntary and slow multiple eye blinks in very quick succession while looking up to the ceiling as if they were going to sleep (as that's the sign of complete mental overload of the psyche with something shocking and not funny, fast but slow repetitive blinking, a funny shocker being relaxing and laugh bursting), even when supposedly relaxed. In fact funny and involuntary eye movement go hand in hand, especially in situations where you walk the fine line between being offensive and being funny, pretending to be funny, but stepping on the offensive side, as anything funny is a brain shocker and creates a bursting of laughter, but anything truly offensive, and also not coming from somebody completely trusted, shocks the brain into involuntary eye movements. In fact that's the way to inspect how much you can trust somebody, by how far you can push the boundaries of offense, and if you can trust them, they will laugh at your bad jokes, if not, then you get the eye movements. Any time they are weary of you. Normal people. Normal in the sense of being virgin-like souls, unhardened by a religion or hard life and suffering through past experiences. And when you talk to these people, you yourself might enter into this mode of the psyche, as in mental overload, as in, why is this person I'm talking to so overlo
Yeah well those are obviously not shortcuts to program icons. Your icons would look all similar, being the same filetype, which is a totally different case, than different colored actual icons pointing to programs. I've been in a habit of putting all recent stuff I work on into C:\000 instead of the desktop (or D:\000 partition labeled DATA when I was dual using linux and windows, but now I don't want to reserve like 10GB for XP in a working partition, when most of that would be empty, because I do fill up the 160 GB harddisk with data so I need those last GB's before having to backup, and reinstall the computer fresh and empty), that way it's easy to find, or archive, and I ended up with C:\000\001\, C:\000\002, C:\000\012, etc. Recently I switched to C:\aaa\a01, a02 as the archive, and C:\000 as the garbage working folder. Anybody is like that, has a temp directory where the garbage piles up, or a desk where the papers pile up, but on a computer there is a difference between stuff you're working on, and has all the same icons, compared to different colored pretty icons, which means you installed some app off the Internet or something, and never bothered to uninstall it. I have yet to meet a person whose computer needs require filling the whole desktop with icons, as opposed to tucking them neatly away in the start menu, and just keeping a few of them on the desktop. It's all a matter of style, and taste, I guess, and you can't really argue about that, but I don't think a desktop completely full of icons looks pretty. But I like searching for things alphabetically in a list format, as in Windows Explorer I always have Show Details, and then I can quickly scan down the filenames if sorted by name, and find what I need, as opposed to zigzagging my eyes side to side across the screen looking for where N ends and O begins in the names, they are not neatly lined up under each other. Though Lighthouse Puppy 4.1.2rc1 besides KDE 3.5.10, which I used like Windows Explorer, it also has the speedy IceWM file manager, which is impossible to use this way, and you have to use it as icons, not via show details list, and I do use it, but I don't like it. I don't think it gets any better than show details in Windows Explorer in XP or Konqueror in KDE 3.5 (which is whole lot slower, but has a bit more features - but when backing up command prompt runs circles around both) when it comes to file management.
Oh no, it's not fucked up at all. I love it like this. But somehow disabling msdrm_v2.dll or something similar named also kills my IDT audio, I mean it acts like it works as far as the drivers are concerned, volume control, etc, but no sound comes through the speakers. Damn drm. I like peace and quiet though, in fact the radio hasn't worked in like my last 3 cars. But that's the only thing I hate about this netbook, the IDT sound chip, but it's a worthy sacrifice in the name of running an Intel Atom ver 2 chipset using like 5 or 8 watts of total power, not just the CPU, but the whole friggin chipset + CPU, and get like 7 hrs on pure batteries at the library, even without a socket. If I could ask for anything, it would be that they make a detachable screen, where I can take the small one on the road, but when I use this thing at home, I could hook up a 21 inch screen to it, of course offset a little farther back. In fact that's what you'd call a docking station, or this thing does have a video out, but the little screen is in the way, else how do I type, with the screen down? Even if I could flip it all the way around back and tuck it under, with a protective cover, that would be nice. And if they had one of these 21 inch screens foldable into 4 where I could put it in my backpack together with the HP Mini 200 with a fully back flippable screen, and fold it open at the library, or anywhere I can sit at a desk, that'd be awesome. I'm the customer after all, and I have needs and wishes.
And by the way your style gave me a really creepy deja vu feeling, then went to read some of your comments, and it got reinforced. But I'll leave it at that. Naw, I can't help it, gotta say this: Lucky you, you got a lower Slashdot id than me. I might have got more than one back in the day, I don't remember, but just like on Ebay, I'm on like the 3rd account after I lost access to email of the previous accounts, but the very first thing I bought on it was a VLB IDE caching controller, with 4 30-pin RAM sockets on it, for my cousin's 486 computer, in like 96? I don't remember, but it was early, and ebay was barely anything, and Google did not appear until 98. So I beat you to Ebay first, for sure, because you were not old enough at that time to have a bank account or a credit card.:) There, I'll leave it at that now.
I absolutely love reading old books and don't care if what they say is wrong, but I can get into their way of thinking. Just like when I observe and kibitz when strong players play Go, I learn to think like they do. I'm a monkey see monkey do kinda person. I learn by imitation, and if those people knew how to do anything right, it was how to do the thinking. But I posted that as an illustration to anyone reading anything today anywhere, just because it's written it's not set into stone, if for nothing else, because, like your case illustrates, someone comes around 100 years later, and it's the same thing all over again, wrong facts that we don't know at the present time, especially at the hot topics, at the boundaries of knowledge that we're pushing. One of the things in science is constant evolution of facts, but there is relatively little evolution in the way of thinking, in fact people 100 to 500 years ago, or even 1500-2500 years ago, might have been better at thinking scientifically than in between, or what we have today.
From the youtube videos I've seen most of the time his audience was laughing, and never seen them boo him. So he made a living at it somehow. In fact if I ever have lots of money, I'm gonna blow it on George Carlin's "All my stuff" DVD released after he died, and get it transcribed to VHS tapes by somebody else, kosher style. As long as I'm not messing with the DVD's it's cool. It's like with chicken, as long as somebody else has to do the killing, I'm cool with eating chicken, but if I had to do it myself, in the present world, in the city, I would opt to eat something else instead. My mother used to buy live chicken back in the old days at the city market, and bring it home and kill it and cook it. The feather cleaning part is really stinky, with hot water. And the guts that get tossed are disgusting. Selling live chicken at places like a farmer's market has the advantages of getting really fresh meat, and not have to sell it at too low a price because it's about to go bad. If a live chicken does not sell at the market, take it back home and let it go in the backyard, and catch it next weekend when you go the market again, and it's still fresh, without refrigeration, and it lasts a very very long time. On the west side I see Halal meats, hand slaughtering, by Arabs. So if people bought live chicken, they still don't have to kill it themselves, but bring it to the professionals who do it for a fee. And it's guaranteed kosher or halal, because it's done by someone you locally know and trust, as opposed to who knows what kind of torture sometimes people put animals through at industrialized butcher places. But you may also become attached to the chicken, and start loving it as a pet, as it's pooping the pet cage full of chicken poop on its way to the halal or kosher butcher shop, and if your life is not in enough dire straits, you might choose to be more vegetarian, and less carnivore.
That too. I agree. But Obama did go after the NASA budget. I mean in his own mind he means well, especially when faced with financial crises around the globe, austerity measures, welfare for corporations, unemployment, and money to feed mouths, in comparison the missions to Mars with a remote control toy, or even the images of distant galaxies from the Hubble telescope, are not really that important when considering austerity measures, and making sure everyone is well fed. As a beautiful picture of a distant galaxy shown to a hungry child is not going to help that child when he's hungry, instead he needs food on the table, so that's how you make decisions on how to prioritize and spend money when the money is tight. As that's the track record of NASA, not an actual, functioning livable independently existing spinning cylinder space station, nor a productive, self sustaining without constant shipments from Earth, Moon base, that keeps expanding. Nobody is gonna pay for a space program that needs constant shipments from Earth for basic needs, such as food, in the long run. But hopefully one day, maybe even in our lifetime, when I look up at the Moon, I will see glittering little lights from the dark portion of the C shaped new moon, the light coming from Moon bases there, similar to what Earth looks like at night, such as http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/imag... Then the muslims with their crescent flags are gonna be upset, because its' not gonna be a true crescent anymore, but maybe they can modify it and combine it with the Subaru logo, of the Pleiades showing the 7 sisters stars, such as Alcyone, Atlas, Merope, Electra, Maia, Pleione, Sterope, Taygeta, Celaeno (that's all 9 of them 7 sisters) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi... and http://www.constellationsofwor... or however many major Moon bases there'll be at the time.
By the way on a rotating space station people jogging in the morning can vary their body weight based on which direction they run. If they run along the straight length of the cylinder, there is no weight chance of course. But if they run along the round circumference against the spinning direction, they lose centrifugal force and become slightly weightless, and start feeling like flying up in the air. If they run in the same direction as the spin, they increase in weight, to where they might build really huge leg muscles or get tired really fast and collapse to the ground. Such is an artificial gravity that's not true gravity, but centripetal acceleration, motion, and on top of it comes the Coriolis force, a sideway pull when you try to walk straight. But life adapts, and the Coriolis force is piece of cake to adapt to compared to having to adapt to some biotech combo virus freshly set loose down below on Earth.
And I see union postings further below, that reminds me, unions are a form of gang, as long as they stay small. When the trans-Alaskan oil pipeline was built in the 70's, it was done by unions. It was both a massive failure and a success at the same time. For one, the budget overruns were huge (I think 3x by the end), there was corruption such as some x-ray tech only x-raying every 3rd weld, and copying and pasting the data for the other ones in the records, so they had to go back and re-x-ray everything. But it was an inhumane job, in an inhumane terrain, sometimes having to cross impassable mountain passes where the unions compete to see who can pony up a guy who's willing to sacrifice his life, and climb some extremely dangerous part, and do a weld, or whatever dangerous things arise. And whoever had a guy like that, made that union proud and left the others in shame. It's like gangs against gangs, like in sports, teams against teams. So in this sense you should not have something like the UAW take over all unions, because then you don't get gang competition, you need lots of gangs, or at the very least two major ones, who can compete against each other, just like you can't have one party like the Communists or Nazis did it, but have at least two dominant ones, democrat and republican, otherwise, with only one, who's gonna watch out for when the other doesn't do his job correctly? By the way the guy in charge of the trans-Alaskan pipeline died very shortly after it was completed, and it's not sure if it was just from the overwork he did, he worked himself to death, never getting enough sleep and always flying about in a chopper, or he got killed, for all the budget overruns and fuck ups that happened. But we did get oil from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, the northernmost seaport which stays unfrozen year round, where the Exxon Valdez spill happened, a big deal at the time, but nothing compared to later spills since then.
Nasa, in view of the global financial crises, is an unnecessary luxury item in the eyes of the leaders. Until you say something that space is gonna be full of Chinese space station, or even Russian, Indian, and Brazilian, and none from the US, and then they all get excited. We can't let that happen. But NASA is a gov't run institution, probably full of red tape and stagnation. The most efficient human organizational unit is the gang (as in drug dealer black gangs from the hood, or maffiozo italian gangs from the 20's), or clan (same as gang, but more used for when white people do it), or Chaebol (such as LG, Samsung, anything South Korean - where, by the way, they discriminate so bad that they advertise a maximum age for a job posting, such as 40 for a pHd R&D scientist, and 25 for a shop floor laborer, but privatized clanist South Korea leaves the communist egalitarian North Korea in the dust when it comes to economic efficiency), which can function as a private company, and get things done. Men in prison tend to form gangs and affiliations with gangs, while women in prison tend to create homes, and small families, where some women role-play the male roles or the babies. Women don't form gangs, but men do. Some women with military and police experience and tradition might be interesting to see how they behave in prison, whether they form gangs too.
There is a long tradition of published material by pseudonym authors, and they did so because they did not want anybody to beat the crap out of them. George Carlin, being a stand up comedian, making a living like that, said that he always puts himself to great personal risk, and the audience too, for the sake of good entertainment, it's worth the risk. Had he published books, he might have gone under a pseudonym instead, which does not eliminate personal risk completely, but lessens it.
Trolling used to be prevalent in published literature too, before the Internet, for anything published under pseudonyms, just like slashdot use names, which give some degree of anonymity to the author, and loosen the boundaries of free speech, to go past those dictated by proper etiquette. Of course the trolling was a lot higher quality when more effort had to be invested into it, such as printed material. Also, of course, usually it's easy to track down who the actual author is, through the book publisher, or through the internet logs for online, but it may not be so easy for say an underground political pamphlet printed in a basement somewhere, and distributed as a flyer. By the way most pseudonym authors did not want to be fully untrackable, in a free and open society, but they wanted to open the minds or provide valuable thoughts beyond the boundaries of etiquette, to the rest of the society. And everyone needs to learn how to ignore things, or even if they read something, to think critically anyway and think for themselves. A lot of very funny things that George Carlin says are very sarcastic, and some may not seem so, such as when he says that the powers that run this country own you, they are not interested in a quality education, and the proper stance is that there is an element of truth to that, but you are not owned, at least not to the level of a freethinking slave, because you can be freethinking and also be able to move about, and be in charge of your life. The proper answer is that there are different degrees of being owned, and nobody is completely independent and free from the rest of the society, even if they wish to be so, unless they live like Yeti with caveman tools in a forest or a deserted island. I don't think anyone wants to be that independent, and not be blessed by the technology benefits provided by society. So nobody wants to be completely free and independent, but nobody wants to be a completely owned dependent being either, and in that, mind control owned by other people. Everybody likes to think for themselves freely, as an individual. Though the Borg come close to mind control ownership, but that ownership is one of equality and mutual benefit of the hive, through the hive, and often people don't mind entering totally dependent service, often in a being completely owned sense, even in thoughts handing over control to someone else to think for them, such as handing over decisions over your life to a military platoon commander, and trusting him, in that by sacrificing yourself, you both act for some common greater good, such as protecting your families back at home.
Yeah, that mycleanpc guy does not even bother me at all, I know how to use the scroll button. And sometimes I find him funny too. After all he did invest a lot of effort trying to be funny, and annoy everybody, so I give him some credit for that, even if it gets boring after a while.
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Hahaha. Seriously, why would anyone sane want to put up with the housing costs in the places listed. Somewhere backwoods in the stix you can get a couple acre lot, with woods to cover your public nuisance issues, so you're sabotage safe as far as your wallet goes, for property tax less than 50/month. You can put 3 cheap mobiles homes on it covered with tarp, at $5/mo property tax each, and have plenty of space, and still be within an hour's driving range from a place of employment. Who wants to live in crowded places, where you drive up into your driveway, and the neighbor can see what you bought for food at the grocery store. Plus if someone smashes your windows in while you're away from home, the neighbors complain if you don't have the money to fix it and just wanna put tarp over it, so you're very public nuisance prone through no fault of your own. Gotta have the forest cover you from the neighbors, or you gotta live in a neighborhood where nobody cares about tarp, and that's dangerous, but you can at least get public transport.
By the way Haber Bosch comes from the fossil fuels, so taking away fossils you also have to be careful to keep providing that to the biomass, or biofuel sector. In essence some %-age of a biofuel's heat value has been paid for by fossil heat value through the fertilizers. And plowing diesel tractors, and train locomotive transportation, etc., etc. So whatever biomass we make today, as food or fuel, in absence of fossils or a good replacement energy source, so in absence of nitrogen fertilizer may automatically drop, and you'd have to budget the future for that.
First of all lets look at this picture, and absorb what it means http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...
There is a similar picture for the Ewing Family of the classic TV series Dallas, with Larry Hagman, Victoria Principal, etc, but I'm not gonna post that, because it's more depressing. But this is the situation is similar with all fossils, they are nonrenewable, though we do have like 200 years worth of coal in the US, as opposed to almost none in the rest of the world, except Russia, and some other places. Coal is dirty, especially the mercury in it. If they could find a way to not reprocess it, or postprocess it, but preprocess it, as in, use process heat to hydrogenate it, convert it to low molecular mass liquid fuels, then get the mercury out of it with things that really love mercury, like selenium, then mix it with a whole lot of air, and burn it, because once it's really high temperature and really high volume stack gas, it's difficult to scrub. Plus it's a CO2 emission, greenhouse gas, so even pure CO2 emitted is not that great.
So let's look at the carbon neutral alternatives at http://mff.dsisd.net/Biomass/B...
As you can see fossil fuels make up a whole lot of the pie chart - oil, coal, natural gas are fossil. The remainder are the good stuff. Out of the remainder nuclear is the only high potential suddenly increasable energy source to compensate for the loss of others, as hydro is great, but anything dammable is already dammed, it's like 99% utilized and it gives nowhere enough to meet everyone's basic energy needs, next there are wind and solar but they are not very energy rich, though more terrorist safe, but cannot be used in a centralized concentrated location, unlike nuclear, and if the yeoman farmers each have a windmill and a solar plant, they could use the free electric they get unmonitored to make well dried and packaged chlorate salt + charcoal - like Oklahoma city bombs against the feds, from plain road deicing salt, something the authorities don't really want, plus they lose the micromanagement tools to the population, that lets them keep everyone on a tight leash. For biofuels, every drop of biofuel comes at the expense of food on the table, and agriculture is already pushed to pretty max (except ocean farming, there is a lot of unutilized "arable in a plastic bag" sea area - hello Japan), and without Haber Bosch nitrogen it would not be able to support the world population already, let alone take away arable area from it for biofuels. Wind can coexist with food farming, but solar blocks the sunshine from food crops on a farm (well, most of it, there might be ways to create semitransparent greenhouses, that both let through enough light for the crops, but harvest a decent amount of electric too.) But the energy density of renewables sucks, compared to high profit nuclear, the only issue being nuclear proliferation around the world and terrorists. But the powers that be might want to create an energy pinch on purpose, as starving the population will create a stop to the population explosion, and set in a competitive environment of the old days, Old World Order, with princes, private armies, and constant non-nuclear feuding between them. And, someone smart said somewhere, it does not comes up on Google as if it were blocked, but it seems that human knowledge, science technology so far have advanced much faster in the footsteps of the sword than the plow. Unfortunately. But bringing back the nobility and Old World system could be a reason for not fixing the energy issue on purpose for now, because that will fix the overpopulation issues, but also bring back mass starvation, similar to the likes of the Irish Potato Famine, where, because of private property rights, the British crown could export grain from Ireland in massive quantities, yet leave the private farmers, the bulk of the subject population, starving.
Or to put it another way, the mercury in the can of tuna or seafood you buy in the store comes from the electric that powers your WIFI devices, through the coal that was burnt to get it. A large fraction of it at least.
Money schmoney. Funny money. Forget about money, do the right thing. Build secure nuclear plants. Security is the biggest cost with them, compared to a coal plant. Not pollution or waste, and if anything, coal plants pollute more mercury than anything in the world. The purpose of money is to make sure everyone got food on the table first, then a roof over the head second, and electric to the home third. Whatever you gotta do to make that happen, without nuclear accidents and terrorists of course, and hopefully without non-carbon-neutral emissions.
Welfare is only fair if everybody gets it equally, not just the needy, and pays for food, and on top of it you can have a job, and buy like a fancier place than provided by welfare, or fancier food.
I still think there may be a need for a 2nd currency for intellectual property. The potential demand for IP, the thirst for knowledge is immense, but one can totally abstain and live just fine. This is different than food. So for food you could have cold hard US $'s, and for intellectual property, something like bitcoin - and I don't even have a clue what bitcoin is, I just know its a 2nd currency.
Now with intellectual property besides the consumption part being infinite, such as I'd have no problem downloading 1 billion mp3 songs and have them on my portable harddisk so even if there is an apocalypse, or world war, or rolling blackouts, no internet, internet monthly prices going to $2000/mo that I can't afford, there are many reasons to have off line file backups instead of cloud storage halfway across the globe on some island somewhere, and getting blackmailed over it. See the blackmailing does not really work with information, because you can live without it, it works better with food. Also the incremental cost of production, and distribution, is very near zero, so it's not hard to imagine intellectual property prices between 1 and 2 cents per item, and then you might be able to afford a billion songs to download, or a billion science articles, novels, etc. However a lot of song producers can't scrape out a living with such a low cost, but as emusic shows, even the top of the chart artists pushed by the labels as their cash cows, have a hard time competing against everyday folks, the likes that come to American Idol, who can make decent songs, and when there are very limited dollars to spend, and incremental cost of a sale is zero, the prices tend to zero due to competition be the sellers. That's a basic problem with intellectual property. It's like it needs its own little world of finance, and the exchange value for dollars would be very off, by orders of magnitue.
For instance you can assume a fully welfare society, where everyone is on welfare, has guaranteed monthly minimum income that pays for their food, in traditional dollars, and they are free to choose how they spend that, but everyone is busy and preoccupied with intellectual creations - games, game playing, social interaction, tv, movies, music, scientific research, social research, etc. etc., - mostly intellectual property, and there you could have bitcoin manage the situation, and might have like 1 US $ = 1 million bitcoin $, and that's OK, but you may need that level of granularity, or resolution when it comes to intellectual value. If anyone wants to spend their minimal but guaranteed food $ on music, so be it, but you can earn bitcoins and spend bitcoins, like some points in a game, without getting too many dollars for it, but it can manage daily preoccupations, in a world where everyone needs to keep busy, and we cannot trust people to make actual tangible real world things. like gasoline from algae, or nuclear power plant fuel rods, or gun bullets, or even plastic spray nozzles, instead we have to put cameras on every corner, and sort of keep everyone in jail in the real world out there, by putting them into an income pinch, and providing entertainment and books and such. That kind of world would really suck, you'd loose a whole lot of liberties, such as even going to a danceclub on Saturday night and spending real $'s for the entrance fee, and fucking some hoes left and right, who pop babies baby momma style, because you will not be able to afford the entrance fee, or you'd have to starve yourself a couple days to pony up the dough for it from your welfare stipend. In a world where there are no jobs, and everyone is busy buying and selling intellectual property of extremely low value, but keeps busy with it. I'd hate that kind of world. And it's unrealistic in the first place. Overpopulation issues will still arise, together with the apocalypse that would bring on, because, sooner or later something's gotta give, and it usually collapses. I don't wish to live through a world where people are so hungry they eat grass, leaves and each other,
There is also ADHD-gamma coupled usually with Lemperger's syndrome. Back in the 1850's there was this saying amongst peasants that he's contracted a rich person's disease. A poor peasant would have a back ache, a sore throat, a fever, pain the legs, pain in the stomach, headaches, something plain English like that, but a rich person could go to a doctor and get diagnosed for such and such Syndrome, or that and that disorder, of course, in view of today's knowledge that diagnosis being total bologna, just like today's diagnoses centuries from now might be looked as boloni. Poor people have aches and pains, maybe bad or damaged body parts, but they don't have the money to pay for a fancy diagnosis, like any kind of somebdy's name-disease, or syndrome, or disorder.
And I've seen some depressed cats too, mentally tortured to the point where they stopped grooming themselves licking their paws and washing their faces like that, or licking their fur. Cats are born to be very clean animals by nature, it's in their genes, but it's possible to overcome it by sufficient environmental pressure and life experiences. And you can make a cat like that instantly purr too, if you are only nice to them, give them food, and stroke them, and talk to them, they start purring. Sometimes it depends on the breed of cat though, as there are some breeds, that, though completely healthy and sane, and undepressed or unstressed in general, well groomed too, yet are not very "handy" for lack of a better word, hand loving, they don't seek out human interaction, or being stroked, though sometimes it's possible to have them come close to you, and sit in your lap, and even purr for a little while, but they get distracted by things such as monitoring their territory, watching for invader cats, that's just how they are, and that territorialness takes a toll on them as far as other activities go.
Oh and I forgot to get to the people who are constantly eye-shuffling, and constantly mentally overloaded. They really need a change of environment because they are either stuck with toxic people, or they've been through some very horrible experiences, and the solution to the problem is not medication, but love. Love from other people, and love from pets. And time. Time heals everything. Sometimes you see black people stuck in a white world like that, on the bus sometimes, but nobody who comes from the south and grew up completely among black people, never seeing a white person, has issues like that, constant eye movement and mental overload. Or sometimes there might be different "bloods" between black people where they don't self-identify with each other, and then there is a lot of stress. Sometimes it's best for people to be segregated, live in very tight and well cooperating groups that interact along the fringes, and in public life, like in a store, or market, but a job is a touchier subject, and a really difficult one is marriage, which has a very high failure rate between different kinds of people.
"Diagnosing" someone with ADHD is equivalent to eugenics, especially if you act on your "diagnosis," and force them, or pressure them at least, into taking substances into their body that alters their thinking. If they come to you and ask for help, then you can whip out the, well, we have this concept of ADHD, and these are supposed to be the solutions, but we're not sure they really work, but I recommend trying this one first. And let the patient maintain their dignity, and self determination. An eye-movement or ADHD alone is not enough to condemn someone to a lifetime of substance abuse.
By the way I can take completely sane and absolutely normal people, and make them have involuntary eye movements by mental process overload. It usually has to go at something very core in the psyche, like identity, race, survival, honor, justice, or anything they care about, if you can find anything like that. For instance, tell somebody Jewish, a joke like "What's the difference between pizza and a Jew?" Answer: The pizza does not scream when you put it in the oven. That will sure get any sane person get involuntary eye movements, but it has to be told by not somebody they trust, or feel close to, like another Jew, because they might find it funny, but somebody they are weary of, like some German guy. You can crack similar jokes about black people, or there is almost nobody on the planet that could keep it together and not go into an involuntary eye-movement thing, maybe some really expert Buddhist monks or ascetic self denying Hindu, or even some really old Catholic nuns that have been through caring for wounded in wars, they might be hardy enough at the core not to sweat the small stuff. Without exception every person I've ever come across in my life, that I had a chance to have long conversations with, I ended up having them do involuntary eye-movements, just cuz that's the way I am. There were some I deeply respect, and even if they talked to me at length sometimes, it was rarely about topics that would stir emotions, and they avoided long talks on such topics and stuck to the point, or the talks they did were while not facing each other, but like sitting side by side in a car, and I never saw them stir eyes, or loose their cool, in fact their ex training shined through every time there was deep difficulty, even if not being geniuses, they were steadfast and bold headed and unafraid, and that's how they make good leaders, by not stirring their eyes in difficult situations, but almost energized by them, even if their voice shakes and you can tell they are under a lot of stress. It's very easy to make me stir my eyes too, btw, so I'm not as hardened at the core as some people I met. People stir eyes, or have sudden obviously involuntary and slow multiple eye blinks in very quick succession while looking up to the ceiling as if they were going to sleep (as that's the sign of complete mental overload of the psyche with something shocking and not funny, fast but slow repetitive blinking, a funny shocker being relaxing and laugh bursting), even when supposedly relaxed. In fact funny and involuntary eye movement go hand in hand, especially in situations where you walk the fine line between being offensive and being funny, pretending to be funny, but stepping on the offensive side, as anything funny is a brain shocker and creates a bursting of laughter, but anything truly offensive, and also not coming from somebody completely trusted, shocks the brain into involuntary eye movements. In fact that's the way to inspect how much you can trust somebody, by how far you can push the boundaries of offense, and if you can trust them, they will laugh at your bad jokes, if not, then you get the eye movements. Any time they are weary of you. Normal people. Normal in the sense of being virgin-like souls, unhardened by a religion or hard life and suffering through past experiences. And when you talk to these people, you yourself might enter into this mode of the psyche, as in mental overload, as in, why is this person I'm talking to so overlo
Yeah well those are obviously not shortcuts to program icons. Your icons would look all similar, being the same filetype, which is a totally different case, than different colored actual icons pointing to programs. I've been in a habit of putting all recent stuff I work on into C:\000 instead of the desktop (or D:\000 partition labeled DATA when I was dual using linux and windows, but now I don't want to reserve like 10GB for XP in a working partition, when most of that would be empty, because I do fill up the 160 GB harddisk with data so I need those last GB's before having to backup, and reinstall the computer fresh and empty), that way it's easy to find, or archive, and I ended up with C:\000\001\, C:\000\002, C:\000\012, etc. Recently I switched to C:\aaa\a01, a02 as the archive, and C:\000 as the garbage working folder. Anybody is like that, has a temp directory where the garbage piles up, or a desk where the papers pile up, but on a computer there is a difference between stuff you're working on, and has all the same icons, compared to different colored pretty icons, which means you installed some app off the Internet or something, and never bothered to uninstall it. I have yet to meet a person whose computer needs require filling the whole desktop with icons, as opposed to tucking them neatly away in the start menu, and just keeping a few of them on the desktop. It's all a matter of style, and taste, I guess, and you can't really argue about that, but I don't think a desktop completely full of icons looks pretty. But I like searching for things alphabetically in a list format, as in Windows Explorer I always have Show Details, and then I can quickly scan down the filenames if sorted by name, and find what I need, as opposed to zigzagging my eyes side to side across the screen looking for where N ends and O begins in the names, they are not neatly lined up under each other. Though Lighthouse Puppy 4.1.2rc1 besides KDE 3.5.10, which I used like Windows Explorer, it also has the speedy IceWM file manager, which is impossible to use this way, and you have to use it as icons, not via show details list, and I do use it, but I don't like it. I don't think it gets any better than show details in Windows Explorer in XP or Konqueror in KDE 3.5 (which is whole lot slower, but has a bit more features - but when backing up command prompt runs circles around both) when it comes to file management.
Oh no, it's not fucked up at all. I love it like this. But somehow disabling msdrm_v2.dll or something similar named also kills my IDT audio, I mean it acts like it works as far as the drivers are concerned, volume control, etc, but no sound comes through the speakers. Damn drm. I like peace and quiet though, in fact the radio hasn't worked in like my last 3 cars. But that's the only thing I hate about this netbook, the IDT sound chip, but it's a worthy sacrifice in the name of running an Intel Atom ver 2 chipset using like 5 or 8 watts of total power, not just the CPU, but the whole friggin chipset + CPU, and get like 7 hrs on pure batteries at the library, even without a socket. If I could ask for anything, it would be that they make a detachable screen, where I can take the small one on the road, but when I use this thing at home, I could hook up a 21 inch screen to it, of course offset a little farther back. In fact that's what you'd call a docking station, or this thing does have a video out, but the little screen is in the way, else how do I type, with the screen down? Even if I could flip it all the way around back and tuck it under, with a protective cover, that would be nice. And if they had one of these 21 inch screens foldable into 4 where I could put it in my backpack together with the HP Mini 200 with a fully back flippable screen, and fold it open at the library, or anywhere I can sit at a desk, that'd be awesome. I'm the customer after all, and I have needs and wishes.
And by the way your style gave me a really creepy deja vu feeling, then went to read some of your comments, and it got reinforced. But I'll leave it at that. Naw, I can't help it, gotta say this: Lucky you, you got a lower Slashdot id than me. I might have got more than one back in the day, I don't remember, but just like on Ebay, I'm on like the 3rd account after I lost access to email of the previous accounts, but the very first thing I bought on it was a VLB IDE caching controller, with 4 30-pin RAM sockets on it, for my cousin's 486 computer, in like 96? I don't remember, but it was early, and ebay was barely anything, and Google did not appear until 98. So I beat you to Ebay first, for sure, because you were not old enough at that time to have a bank account or a credit card. :) There, I'll leave it at that now.
I absolutely love reading old books and don't care if what they say is wrong, but I can get into their way of thinking. Just like when I observe and kibitz when strong players play Go, I learn to think like they do. I'm a monkey see monkey do kinda person. I learn by imitation, and if those people knew how to do anything right, it was how to do the thinking. But I posted that as an illustration to anyone reading anything today anywhere, just because it's written it's not set into stone, if for nothing else, because, like your case illustrates, someone comes around 100 years later, and it's the same thing all over again, wrong facts that we don't know at the present time, especially at the hot topics, at the boundaries of knowledge that we're pushing. One of the things in science is constant evolution of facts, but there is relatively little evolution in the way of thinking, in fact people 100 to 500 years ago, or even 1500-2500 years ago, might have been better at thinking scientifically than in between, or what we have today.
From the youtube videos I've seen most of the time his audience was laughing, and never seen them boo him. So he made a living at it somehow. In fact if I ever have lots of money, I'm gonna blow it on George Carlin's "All my stuff" DVD released after he died, and get it transcribed to VHS tapes by somebody else, kosher style. As long as I'm not messing with the DVD's it's cool. It's like with chicken, as long as somebody else has to do the killing, I'm cool with eating chicken, but if I had to do it myself, in the present world, in the city, I would opt to eat something else instead. My mother used to buy live chicken back in the old days at the city market, and bring it home and kill it and cook it. The feather cleaning part is really stinky, with hot water. And the guts that get tossed are disgusting. Selling live chicken at places like a farmer's market has the advantages of getting really fresh meat, and not have to sell it at too low a price because it's about to go bad. If a live chicken does not sell at the market, take it back home and let it go in the backyard, and catch it next weekend when you go the market again, and it's still fresh, without refrigeration, and it lasts a very very long time. On the west side I see Halal meats, hand slaughtering, by Arabs. So if people bought live chicken, they still don't have to kill it themselves, but bring it to the professionals who do it for a fee. And it's guaranteed kosher or halal, because it's done by someone you locally know and trust, as opposed to who knows what kind of torture sometimes people put animals through at industrialized butcher places. But you may also become attached to the chicken, and start loving it as a pet, as it's pooping the pet cage full of chicken poop on its way to the halal or kosher butcher shop, and if your life is not in enough dire straits, you might choose to be more vegetarian, and less carnivore.
That too. I agree. But Obama did go after the NASA budget. I mean in his own mind he means well, especially when faced with financial crises around the globe, austerity measures, welfare for corporations, unemployment, and money to feed mouths, in comparison the missions to Mars with a remote control toy, or even the images of distant galaxies from the Hubble telescope, are not really that important when considering austerity measures, and making sure everyone is well fed. As a beautiful picture of a distant galaxy shown to a hungry child is not going to help that child when he's hungry, instead he needs food on the table, so that's how you make decisions on how to prioritize and spend money when the money is tight. As that's the track record of NASA, not an actual, functioning livable independently existing spinning cylinder space station, nor a productive, self sustaining without constant shipments from Earth, Moon base, that keeps expanding. Nobody is gonna pay for a space program that needs constant shipments from Earth for basic needs, such as food, in the long run. But hopefully one day, maybe even in our lifetime, when I look up at the Moon, I will see glittering little lights from the dark portion of the C shaped new moon, the light coming from Moon bases there, similar to what Earth looks like at night, such as http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/imag... Then the muslims with their crescent flags are gonna be upset, because its' not gonna be a true crescent anymore, but maybe they can modify it and combine it with the Subaru logo, of the Pleiades showing the 7 sisters stars, such as Alcyone, Atlas, Merope, Electra, Maia, Pleione, Sterope, Taygeta, Celaeno (that's all 9 of them 7 sisters) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi... and http://www.constellationsofwor... or however many major Moon bases there'll be at the time.
By the way on a rotating space station people jogging in the morning can vary their body weight based on which direction they run. If they run along the straight length of the cylinder, there is no weight chance of course. But if they run along the round circumference against the spinning direction, they lose centrifugal force and become slightly weightless, and start feeling like flying up in the air. If they run in the same direction as the spin, they increase in weight, to where they might build really huge leg muscles or get tired really fast and collapse to the ground. Such is an artificial gravity that's not true gravity, but centripetal acceleration, motion, and on top of it comes the Coriolis force, a sideway pull when you try to walk straight. But life adapts, and the Coriolis force is piece of cake to adapt to compared to having to adapt to some biotech combo virus freshly set loose down below on Earth.
Air traffic control is the most subhuman job in the entire world. I think they each should get paid better than the top CEO's anywhere.
And I see union postings further below, that reminds me, unions are a form of gang, as long as they stay small. When the trans-Alaskan oil pipeline was built in the 70's, it was done by unions. It was both a massive failure and a success at the same time. For one, the budget overruns were huge (I think 3x by the end), there was corruption such as some x-ray tech only x-raying every 3rd weld, and copying and pasting the data for the other ones in the records, so they had to go back and re-x-ray everything. But it was an inhumane job, in an inhumane terrain, sometimes having to cross impassable mountain passes where the unions compete to see who can pony up a guy who's willing to sacrifice his life, and climb some extremely dangerous part, and do a weld, or whatever dangerous things arise. And whoever had a guy like that, made that union proud and left the others in shame. It's like gangs against gangs, like in sports, teams against teams. So in this sense you should not have something like the UAW take over all unions, because then you don't get gang competition, you need lots of gangs, or at the very least two major ones, who can compete against each other, just like you can't have one party like the Communists or Nazis did it, but have at least two dominant ones, democrat and republican, otherwise, with only one, who's gonna watch out for when the other doesn't do his job correctly? By the way the guy in charge of the trans-Alaskan pipeline died very shortly after it was completed, and it's not sure if it was just from the overwork he did, he worked himself to death, never getting enough sleep and always flying about in a chopper, or he got killed, for all the budget overruns and fuck ups that happened. But we did get oil from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, the northernmost seaport which stays unfrozen year round, where the Exxon Valdez spill happened, a big deal at the time, but nothing compared to later spills since then.
Nasa, in view of the global financial crises, is an unnecessary luxury item in the eyes of the leaders. Until you say something that space is gonna be full of Chinese space station, or even Russian, Indian, and Brazilian, and none from the US, and then they all get excited. We can't let that happen. But NASA is a gov't run institution, probably full of red tape and stagnation. The most efficient human organizational unit is the gang (as in drug dealer black gangs from the hood, or maffiozo italian gangs from the 20's), or clan (same as gang, but more used for when white people do it), or Chaebol (such as LG, Samsung, anything South Korean - where, by the way, they discriminate so bad that they advertise a maximum age for a job posting, such as 40 for a pHd R&D scientist, and 25 for a shop floor laborer, but privatized clanist South Korea leaves the communist egalitarian North Korea in the dust when it comes to economic efficiency), which can function as a private company, and get things done. Men in prison tend to form gangs and affiliations with gangs, while women in prison tend to create homes, and small families, where some women role-play the male roles or the babies. Women don't form gangs, but men do. Some women with military and police experience and tradition might be interesting to see how they behave in prison, whether they form gangs too.
There is a long tradition of published material by pseudonym authors, and they did so because they did not want anybody to beat the crap out of them. George Carlin, being a stand up comedian, making a living like that, said that he always puts himself to great personal risk, and the audience too, for the sake of good entertainment, it's worth the risk. Had he published books, he might have gone under a pseudonym instead, which does not eliminate personal risk completely, but lessens it.
Trolling used to be prevalent in published literature too, before the Internet, for anything published under pseudonyms, just like slashdot use names, which give some degree of anonymity to the author, and loosen the boundaries of free speech, to go past those dictated by proper etiquette. Of course the trolling was a lot higher quality when more effort had to be invested into it, such as printed material. Also, of course, usually it's easy to track down who the actual author is, through the book publisher, or through the internet logs for online, but it may not be so easy for say an underground political pamphlet printed in a basement somewhere, and distributed as a flyer. By the way most pseudonym authors did not want to be fully untrackable, in a free and open society, but they wanted to open the minds or provide valuable thoughts beyond the boundaries of etiquette, to the rest of the society. And everyone needs to learn how to ignore things, or even if they read something, to think critically anyway and think for themselves. A lot of very funny things that George Carlin says are very sarcastic, and some may not seem so, such as when he says that the powers that run this country own you, they are not interested in a quality education, and the proper stance is that there is an element of truth to that, but you are not owned, at least not to the level of a freethinking slave, because you can be freethinking and also be able to move about, and be in charge of your life. The proper answer is that there are different degrees of being owned, and nobody is completely independent and free from the rest of the society, even if they wish to be so, unless they live like Yeti with caveman tools in a forest or a deserted island. I don't think anyone wants to be that independent, and not be blessed by the technology benefits provided by society. So nobody wants to be completely free and independent, but nobody wants to be a completely owned dependent being either, and in that, mind control owned by other people. Everybody likes to think for themselves freely, as an individual. Though the Borg come close to mind control ownership, but that ownership is one of equality and mutual benefit of the hive, through the hive, and often people don't mind entering totally dependent service, often in a being completely owned sense, even in thoughts handing over control to someone else to think for them, such as handing over decisions over your life to a military platoon commander, and trusting him, in that by sacrificing yourself, you both act for some common greater good, such as protecting your families back at home.
George Carlin did a gig on those 7 dirty words, way back, decades ago. He also did a gig on the bigger dick foreign policy.
Yeah, that mycleanpc guy does not even bother me at all, I know how to use the scroll button. And sometimes I find him funny too. After all he did invest a lot of effort trying to be funny, and annoy everybody, so I give him some credit for that, even if it gets boring after a while.