The idea is that if you put people in a monthly payment and bills hamster wheel they can never get ahead in, that they will try harder, and you get a greater productivity in society overall. All you have to do is make them nonindependent, so they can't just go a thousand ways and do whatever they feel like. That's bullshit, I refuse to listen to that argument, and I refuse to get creative until my income to basic expense ratio does not go over 20-50. Barely breaking even with the bills is what hoses the creativity of most people. I for one hate nonindependence. The true old school American ideal was self reliance, wild and free, something along the lines of Westerns and even Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson, or even Brubaker, fighting the system and asserting some kind of independent, common sense, not giving in to the corrupt system of we're all slave to money and power, full of spine morality, and yeoman farmer style equality. In fact that was the founding father's argument for a yeoman farmer democracy, because only an independent yeoman can cast a meaningful vote, all the city dwellers are dependent on their employers for their daily bread, and these days, on their landlords for their housing, and are subject to economic manipulations, and their vote becomes meaningless. In the old days you had horses, but nowadays you have cars, and they are easy to sabotage (but so would be horses too) to where you can't keep up with the fixing up, and a lot of yeoman hillbillies end up as junk car collectors, compared to horse collectors back in the old days, and if a horse is no good no more, you make salami out of them instead of letting them sit and rust on the front lawn of the backyard. Efficient transportation is the biggest issue standing in the way of a successful yeomanry, because of super expensive cars with all kinds of USB and bluetooth bells and whistles nobody really needs, or even automatic transmission, that you don't really need. So the city does have its benefits, such as public transport, and greater abundance of jobs, plus food prices are too cheap, and farming machinery never gets paid off, and it's impossible to break even as a yeoman farmer when faced with giants like ADM to compete with.
"Eventually the system broke down.." The powers that be take those acting in the ways of the Almighty to great heights, but human nature inevitably ruins things in the long run. I never even heard of Cincinnatus, or knew that Cincinnati was named after him, and maybe that's where Washington got his idea from, that made King George say that Washington is the greatest man alive.
PS. By the way on the statue of Cincinnatus at that Wikipedia page it shows that he had a really small dick, just like a lot of ancient Greek and Roman statues do. I feel really bad for the women who couldn't really get satisfied by them, and they ended up becoming lesbians on the island of Lesbos, or homosexuals after they couldn't take the eyes, the looks their women gave them when they couldn't get it up, or they came too early, and left her unsatisfied. In fact that's what probably killed Robin Williams. What the hell was he thinking about marrying a young girl who's taller than him, with really long fingers so a deep rabbit hole too, when he's got a little dick, and impotence from his rampant alcoholism, and drug use. Yeah, I know he was a pervert, like all old men are, and he could get it up better for her than for the previous women he got bored of, which was the root cause of his previous divorces, sexual unhappiness of the women, who are different these days than they used to be 50 years ago when they knew how to just suck it up. (Except of course Hillary.) He was a pervert, but he wasn't perverted enough, because even a woman can get off another woman, without a dick, it's all a mental thing, you might have to resort to some BDSM tie downs and toys and stuff, or even pay some black dudes with huge dicks to get her off doggy style while you sit with a camera close up taking pictures of her face, there are many ways to get a woman off, you don't have to kill yourself over the looks they give you every time you try to fuck them but don't succeed at it, all you gotta do is try harder, or be more creative. I know I know, women can be the cruelest people in this world, and they blame a lot of their personal problems on small dicks, and there is an element of truth to that, but it's not the whole story. And he was such a sensitive little pervert, I think he would have been better off with a cat and some good porn. He does have some gorgeous kids though, so, in the end, it did pay off anyway.
Of course, in any land you happen to be, there are exceptions in how people are compared to the general trend. For instance I bet there are some really picky East Asian eaters, or who are even vegetarian, but the general trend is that Asians eat anything compared to most other cultures with a more limited diet, and some of the stuff they eat alive, not because they cannot afford to cook it, or kill it, but that's just how the culture is. And sometimes you can't really judge someone or a culture for how they are, as they made it to the present day, through lots of hardship, just like you cannot judge a shark or a crocodile for how they are, you have to respect their skill and talent and ability to live, and the contribution they provide to the ecosystem, as long as they've found some kind of balance with their ecosystem. Of all living creatures on the surface of this planet, sharks and crocodiles are some of the most ancient, and most unchanging, and they are still around, unlike the trilobites, for instance. Asians might say that they eat octopus alive because they wanna be like sharks and crocodiles not like vegetarian trilobites. You can choose though who to hang out with, and you might pick a cat, compared to a shark or an alligator, even if the cat itself is a ferocious predator when it comes to small birds and the like just like a shark and an alligator would be, but it's not a predator to you. It's hard to raise a cat on a vegetarian diet, but I've met at least one cat in my life that I became great friends with, who could not eat ham when hungry, did not know how to chew it, kept meowing, giving it a try, then giving up, spitting it out, and I had to go get cat food at Finast/Tops, that's the only thing he knew how to eat. Back in the old country village cats would get really anorexic skinny and sick every time frog season hit, and they stopped eating at the house, lost all their appetite, and spent all their time catching frogs they found irresistible. It's very hard for a cat to resist pouncing on a jumping frog, it's in her veins, every fiber of her being. Then she gets all sick from them, they must have some kind of toxin or what not.
The voices in my head today told me to look up Olga Romanov. She died young, in 1918. Russia or the USSR is a pretty bad place, as regimes come and go, but your neighbors there stay the same. Same with a place like Germany, that elected or allowed somebody like Hitler rise to power. Back in the old country one of my old professors said one time in class, that it did not really matter who really won WW2, if it happened to be the Germans instead of the Russians, we would have been under the same exact oppression, except perhaps more civilized and polite and well mannered. And my grandma told stories of how when the German front advanced across the region, the German soldiers would catch their chickens and cook it and eat it, but they'd pay for it. Not the Russians, and the Russians were so backwards, had lived such a sheltered life before the war, that they ate the shoe polish, not knowing what it was, and let a machine gun round into the alarm clock when it went off ringing. Also barizhnya, barizhnya, they always wanted pussy and the young women had to hide anywhere they could, lest they be raped. But any woman fantasizes about getting raped once in a lifetime, or at least some women have told me that. So it's complicated. But the point is that whoever is at the top, a lot still comes down to how individual neighbors treat each other, and for instance, the British empire could amass such a great power not because it had great monarchs at the top, but because the individual people at the very bottom cooperated so well with each other. At least that's the sense I get from a lot of british people, and their writings, or the way they address me and talk to me, and everytime I void protocol, that comes down to interpersonal respect, they are very sensitive to that, but keep on caring anyway. That's one of the basic cultural problems in Russia, not being thy brother's keeper, not respecting and loving thy neighbors, at least not to the level attained in Britain. Just look at POW deaths in captivity, Russia vs. UK, whatever the regime or whatever the war. It cannot be the regime, it's got to be the people and the culture they carry.
What's keeping a piece of rock that used to be molten lava together? Crystalline ionic attractive forces. Van der Waals forces would not be strong enough to keep such an asteroid together, and that's proof that the whole thing flew off as one piece from some supernova explosion. Maybe that's the idea of catching these asteroids with spacecraft - see what stuff looks like coming straight out of a supernova, as opposed to stuff that has been impact pounded into the Moon's surface, or glowing-hot shooting star thermally remelted on the Earth's surface. The stuff that lands on Earth is mostly remnants of shooting stars that did not completely combust, but there might be some meteorite rocks that were traveling with speed close to that of Earth on rendezvous, and only attained terminal velocity in the atmosphere that's not fast enough to melt them. So some meteorites that land on the Earth could be very similar to a captured asteroid out there, and a lot cheaper. Another aspect of capturing an asteroid is practice: for when we have to capture stuff in space to build space stations out of them. Space is very very empty, huge distances of vacuum with very little stuff sprinkled here and there. Any stuff, any matter, is worth gold in outer space, especially away from a gravity well like Earth or Jupiter, but the Moon is better.
People like to fuck and make babies. But it leads to overpopulation problems, and massive extinction of other species in nature. The solution is to escape to outer space, where it's gonna take a while to run out of room. You can start with sending the prisoners first if people are reluctant to go and lack an adventurous spirit, just like the British did to their penal colonies in Australia. In Australia there were indigenous people, same in the Americas, but such an issue should not arise in outer space, and there are no moral cock blocks against a full invasion of outer space from Earth. The only issue is cost and economics, and for that a Lunar base for materials obtained in a low gravity well is a prime strategic objective. Fuck Mars and the asteroids, the Moon is a lot closer to invade. And unlike on Antarctica, that's nobody's land, there is plenty of high energy sunshine, and energy is the stuff of life, it is convertible to motion like a heartbeat, or to structure, like a green leaf.
One of the issues with vertical takeoff and hydroplane and sand and grass air hockey table things, while at sea, is storm time, so there is an optimum minimum size of an aircraft carrier that efficiently withstands all foreseeable high sea storms. High sea ships are not small contraptions. But you probably should not go much above this minimum when it comes to aircraft carriers, and concentrate all your wealth and power in a few single locations, single targets, where it's possible to efficiently attack them. Distributed power is better, where you are able to make calculated sacrifices.
So the question for women becomes: where are the guys with big dicks who excel at math, and have decent acceptable music skills and sense of humor. Do not seek it with asians, as they all are great at math and technology but have tiny dicks. In fact asian countries could import some big dick improvement bloodlines into their stock, to breed themselves better, if life is good and is expected to be good in the future, so their women are happier, but watch not to sacrifice too much on the intellect part. But if it ever gets really cold again, a short dick comes in handy as protection against frostbites. This whole thing is a topic of eugenics, a very hot and touchy subject with people who feel deficient in any way in the world.
I think they are just trying to better our space future, when Earth is full, with a few ten billions of people, and the rest of the 100 trillion people have to take up residence in outer space, as farmers on space stations. Property tax should be cheap where property value is low, because there is an abundance of it. There is a limited amount of 2D real estate down on this planet, but there is a whole lot of 3D real estate in outer space, if we only had the technology and economic means. And btw, the problem with costs and engineers these days is that everything is overcomputerized, and then you're locked into some stupid little limited world, provided to you by the software, and it's very inflexible. Like it's standard to use MS Office, and Excel for spreadsheets, and it's quick to make a graph, but the graphs look very dull, and lack efficiency, style, flair and spirit compared to the manual do whatever you want paper and pencil ways of 1935, where the graphs are vibrant, full of style, efficiency, flair and spirit. Same goes for all the other super expensive computer 3d modeling bullcrap they must be using at Lockheed and the like, plus the overcomplicated designs they feel they have to come up with simply to look smart, like they are earning their money, like they know what they are doing. Like a whole bunch of scientific articles these days are way overcomplicated, lack a good effective point that everyone cares about, and are loaded with crappy math that even the authors don't understand, but they hope nobody else does, so they look intelligent. Same goes with space design that's too complex just to make the authors look smart. They all give you complexity failure issues. These engineers all need to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
By the way, when the world switched to USB, they forgot to provide for backward compatibility with RS232. As in the USB port to function as a dumb RS232 2 pin (SND/RCV) + ground connector (so that excludes hardware handshake), just like a lot of 3.5 mm headphone connectors do. And they should have included all under one hat, 3.5 mm headphone analog, or USB polling protocol, RS232 dumb protocol. By the way the 3.5 mm or the like audio connectors are some of the most robust ones out there, and they are cost effective too, they can be machined on a lathe as opposed to the other funky shapes. My life would be a whole lot different today if they provided a 3.5 mm plug to a USB port that's able to do oldschool RS232 protocol, such as 9600-8-N-1, or even 480,000-8-n-1. I could almost be a millionaire with a USB connector like that. However that also proliferates sensory computing, and possible appearance of super-artificial-intelligence in the world out in the wild, so the people on top trying to hog and control all computing technologies to benefit their own pocket, they do have that argument on their side for making it difficult to use USB, compared to RS232, or even trying to force everyone off of computers completely and put them onto smartphones where we can monitor every thought, every action, in the name of safety. I for one hate MCMLXXXIV.
"Just don't try to turn them into Nobel laureate scientists just to prove they are better than the supposedly smart people."
Also, do not create a system of government or situation where the retards grow out of control and drown out all the smart and physically strong ones. Balance is the key, not driving to extinction from either the retarded but good music and comedy big black cock or math smart but bad music or sense of humor uber nazi little dick side. In everything, yin - yang, balance is the key.
I said NOT every friggin thing in the world is a conspiracy, or they say, and I said they would be right. But one has to keep the aji, the latent possibility, in the back of one's mind.
Or more like it used to be 14 year - 6 months, or 13.5 years, as the true length, and now it should be 13.5 years plus 2.8 seconds to account for the propagation time of media.
Also, whoever says a patent examination fee should cost $1000, and whatever the yearly maintenance fees are? I might be able to find a corporation in the US who gives me a patent for $25, by jailing a bunch of pHd scientists in Russia over false allegations, and herding them as patent examining slaves, who do a much better job at it than the present examiners the USPTO has. Like the Lloyds of London or whoever give you ISO 9000 auditing certificates for your business. And a competition to them could offer me a coupon to patent something for $22.95 instead of $25, with maintenance fees of $27.50/year, which may still be too much money as far as I'm concerned. And then all the government, or USPTO has to do is maintain a log on various patents on various topics. You mean that would make patents proliferate like crazy, too many patents to read through if you're a business trying to make sure your not trespassing on somebody else's property? As opposed to what? Don't we have too many friggin bullshit patents as it is? Let's turn the situation into an irony of the patent system - anybody with enough money can spam the shit out of it to where there is no way in the world to do anything without violating someone's patents, so every activity everywhere has to come to a grinding halt til the royalty fees can be figured out. I say fuck patents, find a way to live free, nomadically, where all information is free, and you can still have secrets, if you want to. But a secret that two people know about is not a secret, and if only one person goes about it but he's anesthetized and hypnotized, he might blurt it out too.
If anything, limited time should have decreased from the 14 years not increased. As in, back as late as 1860, before the Panama Canal, it took 6 months to cross the Oregon Trail and bring a copyrighted book to the other side, unlike the 100 millisecond or less ping time it takes today via an Internet download. So 14 years/6 months is 28, and 100 ms x 28 is 2.8 seconds, is the fair time that copyright should last today, as a lower limit, if you only consider propagation of information limits. There are of course other considerations too.
I said privatize, create competition to where one agency doesn't have a huge backlog, but know how to reject bullshit patents, and above the 3 top agencies you could have other ones doing similar tasks, but who you obtained your patent from could make a difference, as in where did you get your college education, a run of the mill patent or diploma place, or one that demands quality, and knows how to reject candidates. There could be FBI oversight just like there is with police departments - who are, by the way the master of fuck ups in one sense, not in another, it's a funny world - but you could have competition, and free market competition instead of centralized government is what we believe in in the US, distributed networking like the Internet instead of a central mainframe server that is a critical point and can take everything down with it. Competition in the government between at least 2 parties, such as Democrat and Republican, is better than the one party Nazi or Communist systems of not so long ago, and you're silly to think it's better and these politicians pretending to be competing against each other, and putting up a puppet show for the rest of us, are not really controlled by the same single entity at their balls, called the Almighty US Dollar, or whoever is hogging that entity the best. But even in court we have this make believe antithesis between a conspiring plaintiff-defense legal professionals against you, and some courts do demand you bring along a legal professional, or get yourself certified in passing the bar exam, but it's still better than some arbitrary judge, like it used to be in the old days, even if it turns out to be a puppet show. By the way one of the greatest achievements of Christianity during the collapse of the Roman empire was the providing of religious clergy, like bishops, who truly believed in God, and in absolute truth, and could serve as impartial judges at trials without a prosecutor-defense attorney puppet show. In fact even today we have shows like Judge Judy and the like, where there is an arbitrary despot coming up with decisions, but the US Consitution does not believe in such concentration of power, and gives everyone the right to trial by jury, made up of 12 people, as in distributed power, in internet, or democrat/republican, or prosecutor-attorney, competition in arguments and point of views is better than an arbitrary centralized despot, like the USPTO.
And what's the difference between a corporation or the USPTO doing the same thing? After all, all the people in the government got there through corporate funding, so they are corporate pawns subject to constant corporate lobbying, so saying the USPTO employee is not influenced by corporate interests is boloni. In a - there is a shitload of money to be made (or lost through a lawsuit) through the USPTO, so you better have your people in there - kinda way. Which is why I say fuck patents. The only patent allowed should be a defensive one, that enters straight into public domain on publishing, no 20 year hogging interval. That way nobody can later come sue you over what you practice, that they invented it, 2 seconds before you did, so pay up to them. In fact that does not work either, because that patent is vulnerable the same way. What you need is open publishing of ideas, in a covert sort of way spread all over the place, and leaving them public domain without taking out a patent on them, to cover your ass. However the barriers to publishing are huge, and the price of reading officially published material is huge. Of course this only applies to scientific and technical things, art is a whole different cake. There is only one science that applies to the world, and once you obtain a scientific or technological truth and are hogging it from everybody else, you're committing a crime. Such as the Haber-Bosch process, or saltpeter-sulfur-charcoal gunpowder, or paper printing, or porcelain, or ultramarine, or even such things as the number zero, meaning a positional numbering system invented independently by the Mayans and Hindus, but unknown to the Romans and Greeks- these things can be invented independently around the world - those are one and only, and nobody should have the right to hog science or claim intellectual property in it, and scientific publications should not have such a high price, compared to arbitrary price charged for irrelevant novels, that you can live without for instance. To put it in context, you cannot live without gunpowder in 1600, or very difficultly so, but you can live fine without reading Dante Allighieri's Divine Comedy, which, btw, I haven't read to this day, and I'm doing fine without it, it's not an essential part of life, unlike access to science and technology. And I live just fine without Mickey Mouse, but because of him I have to sit here and twirl my thumbs waiting for most scientific publications after 1923 to enter public domain, until 2020, and I could be at 1937 by now. By the way the military published a lot of NBS(national bureau of standards) gov't documents which are supposed to be public domain, with complex issues around that, but hands down publications from 1937-1950 fly far and above in quality to the ones published starting 1950-1960 and on, and you can still find some gems here and there, but the percentage drops to like 5% gems 95% crap in 1960 compared to 95% gems and 5% crap in 1937.
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In fact even today trade secrets are perhaps a better way of doing business than patents. All you need is a clan that sticks together and protects the collective knowledge, or business methodology, which may entail things practiced to their highest finesse even though they are public domain and expired as far as patents go. Of course with affirmative action you cannot sustain your business clan because here comes a big black cock through your front door, or back door, asking for a job, and if you don't hire him the government shuts you down. I wish there were such a law for businesses that are predominately off-white (i.e. black afro american, hispanic beige, or asian yellow) that'd protect white people, in an affirmative action stance too. But there might just be such a thing, because I had the opportunity to work with cotton, and kept calling off sick every time I had eruptions like cold sore put on my face while I slept, but even with all that calling off sick, they did let me stick around like 6 months. The job was supposed to be guaranteed temp to hire after 90 days, which is not possible when you are late all the time because the downstairs neighbors block the driveway with their cars instead of parking in the garage, and every time you have to wake them up in the morning they take 5 minutes or 7 minutes, or exactly just as long as it takes to make you 1 minute late, it's like they are looking at their clocks. But still, it's my job not to get sick, even if infected and xrayed (and this includes getting xrayed on the job while you are sitting in one place or standing in one place to the point where your body shivers and feels like collapsing), and not to be late. So they did OK. And there were a few other white guys working there too, and the boss was a white dude with a hispanic wife. But inside the business there was constant tension between the black subfactions and the hispanic subfaction, as far as it concerned maintenance people, who were predominantly hispanic, taking too long to answer a maintenance call on a down machine, and ruining the production score of the people running the machine. I say forced mingling and affirmative action hurts American competitiveness compared to having pure hispanic, pure black and pure white clans owning the company from top to bottom, protecting their trade secrets or methods of doing business, and busting ass at work as if it were a family business, not a competition ground against other clans trying to invade it. Fuck affirmative action.
The 1st amendment of the Constitution guarantees Freedom of Speech and Expression, and it trumps intellectual property right laws that seek to subdue it, because it's the very First Law of the Land. Until they revise the system of government, and the constitution thereby. But until then it is the prime directive.
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Residual value is the nonsense in this argument. The government cannot estimate fair free market values, like the commies could not print a fair price on a can of beans at the factory, and expect it to be sold at that price, and have equilibrium of supply and demand, a self managing economy. Without exception, when there is a price printed on an item I buy, I always get it at a discount from that MSRP - I tend not to follow hypes like lemmings when a new product is released and demand is so high and supply scarce that the price is over MSRP. But in general, even then, printed prices on the item are useless, and the government or statisticians cannot predict it accurately. Nobody can predict the free market accurately, or the future accurate, else there would be billionaires on Wall Street made each day, not only over extended periods of years. The government cannot predict value, like they tried to do it under the communist economies. At the city market where peasants came from villages, you could buy eggs for the equivalent of $5/pair, while in the government run grocery store you could buy a dozen eggs for 8 cents. What do you think happened every time eggs arrived to the grocery store? People bought them even if they didn't need it, and a lot went to waste. The government cannot properly establish price, therefore residual value, no matter how many pHd's in statistics they assign to solving the problem, and managing production. In fact any time I see the word statistics, I think of bs and lying. Though I did read an article from the NBS comparing interlaboratory data for testing samples out of a batch, so there are real world situations where saying the standard deviation and outliers, mostly related to past discussions, but when it comes to predicting the future, as statistics is constantly used as a tool, I think of bs and lying first. There are some exceptions there too. As Newton's laws of motion can be used to predict the elastic and inelastic impact of two balls, vaguely. So can the statistical laws of ideal gases in thermodynamics, if you can only get velocity and position measurements on every single atom, and then your gas at hand is truly ideal. But statistics = lying and dazzle you with bullshit in 98% of all cases that try to predict the future. There are lies, damned lies, and statistics is the superlative of them all.
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The idea is that if you put people in a monthly payment and bills hamster wheel they can never get ahead in, that they will try harder, and you get a greater productivity in society overall. All you have to do is make them nonindependent, so they can't just go a thousand ways and do whatever they feel like. That's bullshit, I refuse to listen to that argument, and I refuse to get creative until my income to basic expense ratio does not go over 20-50. Barely breaking even with the bills is what hoses the creativity of most people. I for one hate nonindependence. The true old school American ideal was self reliance, wild and free, something along the lines of Westerns and even Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson, or even Brubaker, fighting the system and asserting some kind of independent, common sense, not giving in to the corrupt system of we're all slave to money and power, full of spine morality, and yeoman farmer style equality. In fact that was the founding father's argument for a yeoman farmer democracy, because only an independent yeoman can cast a meaningful vote, all the city dwellers are dependent on their employers for their daily bread, and these days, on their landlords for their housing, and are subject to economic manipulations, and their vote becomes meaningless. In the old days you had horses, but nowadays you have cars, and they are easy to sabotage (but so would be horses too) to where you can't keep up with the fixing up, and a lot of yeoman hillbillies end up as junk car collectors, compared to horse collectors back in the old days, and if a horse is no good no more, you make salami out of them instead of letting them sit and rust on the front lawn of the backyard. Efficient transportation is the biggest issue standing in the way of a successful yeomanry, because of super expensive cars with all kinds of USB and bluetooth bells and whistles nobody really needs, or even automatic transmission, that you don't really need. So the city does have its benefits, such as public transport, and greater abundance of jobs, plus food prices are too cheap, and farming machinery never gets paid off, and it's impossible to break even as a yeoman farmer when faced with giants like ADM to compete with.
"Eventually the system broke down.."
The powers that be take those acting in the ways of the Almighty to great heights, but human nature inevitably ruins things in the long run. I never even heard of Cincinnatus, or knew that Cincinnati was named after him, and maybe that's where Washington got his idea from, that made King George say that Washington is the greatest man alive.
PS. By the way on the statue of Cincinnatus at that Wikipedia page it shows that he had a really small dick, just like a lot of ancient Greek and Roman statues do. I feel really bad for the women who couldn't really get satisfied by them, and they ended up becoming lesbians on the island of Lesbos, or homosexuals after they couldn't take the eyes, the looks their women gave them when they couldn't get it up, or they came too early, and left her unsatisfied. In fact that's what probably killed Robin Williams. What the hell was he thinking about marrying a young girl who's taller than him, with really long fingers so a deep rabbit hole too, when he's got a little dick, and impotence from his rampant alcoholism, and drug use. Yeah, I know he was a pervert, like all old men are, and he could get it up better for her than for the previous women he got bored of, which was the root cause of his previous divorces, sexual unhappiness of the women, who are different these days than they used to be 50 years ago when they knew how to just suck it up. (Except of course Hillary.) He was a pervert, but he wasn't perverted enough, because even a woman can get off another woman, without a dick, it's all a mental thing, you might have to resort to some BDSM tie downs and toys and stuff, or even pay some black dudes with huge dicks to get her off doggy style while you sit with a camera close up taking pictures of her face, there are many ways to get a woman off, you don't have to kill yourself over the looks they give you every time you try to fuck them but don't succeed at it, all you gotta do is try harder, or be more creative. I know I know, women can be the cruelest people in this world, and they blame a lot of their personal problems on small dicks, and there is an element of truth to that, but it's not the whole story. And he was such a sensitive little pervert, I think he would have been better off with a cat and some good porn. He does have some gorgeous kids though, so, in the end, it did pay off anyway.
"Socialism never took off in the US because the poor see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
Of course, in any land you happen to be, there are exceptions in how people are compared to the general trend. For instance I bet there are some really picky East Asian eaters, or who are even vegetarian, but the general trend is that Asians eat anything compared to most other cultures with a more limited diet, and some of the stuff they eat alive, not because they cannot afford to cook it, or kill it, but that's just how the culture is. And sometimes you can't really judge someone or a culture for how they are, as they made it to the present day, through lots of hardship, just like you cannot judge a shark or a crocodile for how they are, you have to respect their skill and talent and ability to live, and the contribution they provide to the ecosystem, as long as they've found some kind of balance with their ecosystem. Of all living creatures on the surface of this planet, sharks and crocodiles are some of the most ancient, and most unchanging, and they are still around, unlike the trilobites, for instance. Asians might say that they eat octopus alive because they wanna be like sharks and crocodiles not like vegetarian trilobites. You can choose though who to hang out with, and you might pick a cat, compared to a shark or an alligator, even if the cat itself is a ferocious predator when it comes to small birds and the like just like a shark and an alligator would be, but it's not a predator to you. It's hard to raise a cat on a vegetarian diet, but I've met at least one cat in my life that I became great friends with, who could not eat ham when hungry, did not know how to chew it, kept meowing, giving it a try, then giving up, spitting it out, and I had to go get cat food at Finast/Tops, that's the only thing he knew how to eat. Back in the old country village cats would get really anorexic skinny and sick every time frog season hit, and they stopped eating at the house, lost all their appetite, and spent all their time catching frogs they found irresistible. It's very hard for a cat to resist pouncing on a jumping frog, it's in her veins, every fiber of her being. Then she gets all sick from them, they must have some kind of toxin or what not.
The voices in my head today told me to look up Olga Romanov. She died young, in 1918. Russia or the USSR is a pretty bad place, as regimes come and go, but your neighbors there stay the same. Same with a place like Germany, that elected or allowed somebody like Hitler rise to power. Back in the old country one of my old professors said one time in class, that it did not really matter who really won WW2, if it happened to be the Germans instead of the Russians, we would have been under the same exact oppression, except perhaps more civilized and polite and well mannered. And my grandma told stories of how when the German front advanced across the region, the German soldiers would catch their chickens and cook it and eat it, but they'd pay for it. Not the Russians, and the Russians were so backwards, had lived such a sheltered life before the war, that they ate the shoe polish, not knowing what it was, and let a machine gun round into the alarm clock when it went off ringing. Also barizhnya, barizhnya, they always wanted pussy and the young women had to hide anywhere they could, lest they be raped. But any woman fantasizes about getting raped once in a lifetime, or at least some women have told me that. So it's complicated. But the point is that whoever is at the top, a lot still comes down to how individual neighbors treat each other, and for instance, the British empire could amass such a great power not because it had great monarchs at the top, but because the individual people at the very bottom cooperated so well with each other. At least that's the sense I get from a lot of british people, and their writings, or the way they address me and talk to me, and everytime I void protocol, that comes down to interpersonal respect, they are very sensitive to that, but keep on caring anyway. That's one of the basic cultural problems in Russia, not being thy brother's keeper, not respecting and loving thy neighbors, at least not to the level attained in Britain. Just look at POW deaths in captivity, Russia vs. UK, whatever the regime or whatever the war. It cannot be the regime, it's got to be the people and the culture they carry.
The US does pretty good on tolerance but upholding laws too, with common sense.
You hit the nail on the head.
What's keeping a piece of rock that used to be molten lava together? Crystalline ionic attractive forces. Van der Waals forces would not be strong enough to keep such an asteroid together, and that's proof that the whole thing flew off as one piece from some supernova explosion. Maybe that's the idea of catching these asteroids with spacecraft - see what stuff looks like coming straight out of a supernova, as opposed to stuff that has been impact pounded into the Moon's surface, or glowing-hot shooting star thermally remelted on the Earth's surface. The stuff that lands on Earth is mostly remnants of shooting stars that did not completely combust, but there might be some meteorite rocks that were traveling with speed close to that of Earth on rendezvous, and only attained terminal velocity in the atmosphere that's not fast enough to melt them. So some meteorites that land on the Earth could be very similar to a captured asteroid out there, and a lot cheaper. Another aspect of capturing an asteroid is practice: for when we have to capture stuff in space to build space stations out of them. Space is very very empty, huge distances of vacuum with very little stuff sprinkled here and there. Any stuff, any matter, is worth gold in outer space, especially away from a gravity well like Earth or Jupiter, but the Moon is better.
People like to fuck and make babies. But it leads to overpopulation problems, and massive extinction of other species in nature. The solution is to escape to outer space, where it's gonna take a while to run out of room. You can start with sending the prisoners first if people are reluctant to go and lack an adventurous spirit, just like the British did to their penal colonies in Australia. In Australia there were indigenous people, same in the Americas, but such an issue should not arise in outer space, and there are no moral cock blocks against a full invasion of outer space from Earth. The only issue is cost and economics, and for that a Lunar base for materials obtained in a low gravity well is a prime strategic objective. Fuck Mars and the asteroids, the Moon is a lot closer to invade. And unlike on Antarctica, that's nobody's land, there is plenty of high energy sunshine, and energy is the stuff of life, it is convertible to motion like a heartbeat, or to structure, like a green leaf.
They also need to read this page: http://www.spaceacts.com/STARS...
One of the issues with vertical takeoff and hydroplane and sand and grass air hockey table things, while at sea, is storm time, so there is an optimum minimum size of an aircraft carrier that efficiently withstands all foreseeable high sea storms. High sea ships are not small contraptions. But you probably should not go much above this minimum when it comes to aircraft carriers, and concentrate all your wealth and power in a few single locations, single targets, where it's possible to efficiently attack them. Distributed power is better, where you are able to make calculated sacrifices.
So the question for women becomes: where are the guys with big dicks who excel at math, and have decent acceptable music skills and sense of humor. Do not seek it with asians, as they all are great at math and technology but have tiny dicks. In fact asian countries could import some big dick improvement bloodlines into their stock, to breed themselves better, if life is good and is expected to be good in the future, so their women are happier, but watch not to sacrifice too much on the intellect part. But if it ever gets really cold again, a short dick comes in handy as protection against frostbites. This whole thing is a topic of eugenics, a very hot and touchy subject with people who feel deficient in any way in the world.
I think they are just trying to better our space future, when Earth is full, with a few ten billions of people, and the rest of the 100 trillion people have to take up residence in outer space, as farmers on space stations. Property tax should be cheap where property value is low, because there is an abundance of it. There is a limited amount of 2D real estate down on this planet, but there is a whole lot of 3D real estate in outer space, if we only had the technology and economic means.
And btw, the problem with costs and engineers these days is that everything is overcomputerized, and then you're locked into some stupid little limited world, provided to you by the software, and it's very inflexible. Like it's standard to use MS Office, and Excel for spreadsheets, and it's quick to make a graph, but the graphs look very dull, and lack efficiency, style, flair and spirit compared to the manual do whatever you want paper and pencil ways of 1935, where the graphs are vibrant, full of style, efficiency, flair and spirit. Same goes for all the other super expensive computer 3d modeling bullcrap they must be using at Lockheed and the like, plus the overcomplicated designs they feel they have to come up with simply to look smart, like they are earning their money, like they know what they are doing. Like a whole bunch of scientific articles these days are way overcomplicated, lack a good effective point that everyone cares about, and are loaded with crappy math that even the authors don't understand, but they hope nobody else does, so they look intelligent. Same goes with space design that's too complex just to make the authors look smart. They all give you complexity failure issues. These engineers all need to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
I was just gonna post that.
By the way, when the world switched to USB, they forgot to provide for backward compatibility with RS232. As in the USB port to function as a dumb RS232 2 pin (SND/RCV) + ground connector (so that excludes hardware handshake), just like a lot of 3.5 mm headphone connectors do. And they should have included all under one hat, 3.5 mm headphone analog, or USB polling protocol, RS232 dumb protocol. By the way the 3.5 mm or the like audio connectors are some of the most robust ones out there, and they are cost effective too, they can be machined on a lathe as opposed to the other funky shapes. My life would be a whole lot different today if they provided a 3.5 mm plug to a USB port that's able to do oldschool RS232 protocol, such as 9600-8-N-1, or even 480,000-8-n-1. I could almost be a millionaire with a USB connector like that. However that also proliferates sensory computing, and possible appearance of super-artificial-intelligence in the world out in the wild, so the people on top trying to hog and control all computing technologies to benefit their own pocket, they do have that argument on their side for making it difficult to use USB, compared to RS232, or even trying to force everyone off of computers completely and put them onto smartphones where we can monitor every thought, every action, in the name of safety. I for one hate MCMLXXXIV.
"Just don't try to turn them into Nobel laureate scientists just to prove they are better than the supposedly smart people."
Also, do not create a system of government or situation where the retards grow out of control and drown out all the smart and physically strong ones. Balance is the key, not driving to extinction from either the retarded but good music and comedy big black cock or math smart but bad music or sense of humor uber nazi little dick side. In everything, yin - yang, balance is the key.
I said NOT every friggin thing in the world is a conspiracy, or they say, and I said they would be right. But one has to keep the aji, the latent possibility, in the back of one's mind.
Or more like it used to be 14 year - 6 months, or 13.5 years, as the true length, and now it should be 13.5 years plus 2.8 seconds to account for the propagation time of media.
Also, whoever says a patent examination fee should cost $1000, and whatever the yearly maintenance fees are? I might be able to find a corporation in the US who gives me a patent for $25, by jailing a bunch of pHd scientists in Russia over false allegations, and herding them as patent examining slaves, who do a much better job at it than the present examiners the USPTO has. Like the Lloyds of London or whoever give you ISO 9000 auditing certificates for your business. And a competition to them could offer me a coupon to patent something for $22.95 instead of $25, with maintenance fees of $27.50/year, which may still be too much money as far as I'm concerned. And then all the government, or USPTO has to do is maintain a log on various patents on various topics. You mean that would make patents proliferate like crazy, too many patents to read through if you're a business trying to make sure your not trespassing on somebody else's property? As opposed to what? Don't we have too many friggin bullshit patents as it is? Let's turn the situation into an irony of the patent system - anybody with enough money can spam the shit out of it to where there is no way in the world to do anything without violating someone's patents, so every activity everywhere has to come to a grinding halt til the royalty fees can be figured out. I say fuck patents, find a way to live free, nomadically, where all information is free, and you can still have secrets, if you want to. But a secret that two people know about is not a secret, and if only one person goes about it but he's anesthetized and hypnotized, he might blurt it out too.
If anything, limited time should have decreased from the 14 years not increased. As in, back as late as 1860, before the Panama Canal, it took 6 months to cross the Oregon Trail and bring a copyrighted book to the other side, unlike the 100 millisecond or less ping time it takes today via an Internet download. So 14 years/6 months is 28, and 100 ms x 28 is 2.8 seconds, is the fair time that copyright should last today, as a lower limit, if you only consider propagation of information limits. There are of course other considerations too.
I said privatize, create competition to where one agency doesn't have a huge backlog, but know how to reject bullshit patents, and above the 3 top agencies you could have other ones doing similar tasks, but who you obtained your patent from could make a difference, as in where did you get your college education, a run of the mill patent or diploma place, or one that demands quality, and knows how to reject candidates. There could be FBI oversight just like there is with police departments - who are, by the way the master of fuck ups in one sense, not in another, it's a funny world - but you could have competition, and free market competition instead of centralized government is what we believe in in the US, distributed networking like the Internet instead of a central mainframe server that is a critical point and can take everything down with it. Competition in the government between at least 2 parties, such as Democrat and Republican, is better than the one party Nazi or Communist systems of not so long ago, and you're silly to think it's better and these politicians pretending to be competing against each other, and putting up a puppet show for the rest of us, are not really controlled by the same single entity at their balls, called the Almighty US Dollar, or whoever is hogging that entity the best. But even in court we have this make believe antithesis between a conspiring plaintiff-defense legal professionals against you, and some courts do demand you bring along a legal professional, or get yourself certified in passing the bar exam, but it's still better than some arbitrary judge, like it used to be in the old days, even if it turns out to be a puppet show. By the way one of the greatest achievements of Christianity during the collapse of the Roman empire was the providing of religious clergy, like bishops, who truly believed in God, and in absolute truth, and could serve as impartial judges at trials without a prosecutor-defense attorney puppet show. In fact even today we have shows like Judge Judy and the like, where there is an arbitrary despot coming up with decisions, but the US Consitution does not believe in such concentration of power, and gives everyone the right to trial by jury, made up of 12 people, as in distributed power, in internet, or democrat/republican, or prosecutor-attorney, competition in arguments and point of views is better than an arbitrary centralized despot, like the USPTO.
And what's the difference between a corporation or the USPTO doing the same thing? After all, all the people in the government got there through corporate funding, so they are corporate pawns subject to constant corporate lobbying, so saying the USPTO employee is not influenced by corporate interests is boloni. In a - there is a shitload of money to be made (or lost through a lawsuit) through the USPTO, so you better have your people in there - kinda way. Which is why I say fuck patents. The only patent allowed should be a defensive one, that enters straight into public domain on publishing, no 20 year hogging interval. That way nobody can later come sue you over what you practice, that they invented it, 2 seconds before you did, so pay up to them. In fact that does not work either, because that patent is vulnerable the same way. What you need is open publishing of ideas, in a covert sort of way spread all over the place, and leaving them public domain without taking out a patent on them, to cover your ass. However the barriers to publishing are huge, and the price of reading officially published material is huge. Of course this only applies to scientific and technical things, art is a whole different cake. There is only one science that applies to the world, and once you obtain a scientific or technological truth and are hogging it from everybody else, you're committing a crime. Such as the Haber-Bosch process, or saltpeter-sulfur-charcoal gunpowder, or paper printing, or porcelain, or ultramarine, or even such things as the number zero, meaning a positional numbering system invented independently by the Mayans and Hindus, but unknown to the Romans and Greeks- these things can be invented independently around the world - those are one and only, and nobody should have the right to hog science or claim intellectual property in it, and scientific publications should not have such a high price, compared to arbitrary price charged for irrelevant novels, that you can live without for instance. To put it in context, you cannot live without gunpowder in 1600, or very difficultly so, but you can live fine without reading Dante Allighieri's Divine Comedy, which, btw, I haven't read to this day, and I'm doing fine without it, it's not an essential part of life, unlike access to science and technology. And I live just fine without Mickey Mouse, but because of him I have to sit here and twirl my thumbs waiting for most scientific publications after 1923 to enter public domain, until 2020, and I could be at 1937 by now. By the way the military published a lot of NBS(national bureau of standards) gov't documents which are supposed to be public domain, with complex issues around that, but hands down publications from 1937-1950 fly far and above in quality to the ones published starting 1950-1960 and on, and you can still find some gems here and there, but the percentage drops to like 5% gems 95% crap in 1960 compared to 95% gems and 5% crap in 1937.
In fact even today trade secrets are perhaps a better way of doing business than patents. All you need is a clan that sticks together and protects the collective knowledge, or business methodology, which may entail things practiced to their highest finesse even though they are public domain and expired as far as patents go. Of course with affirmative action you cannot sustain your business clan because here comes a big black cock through your front door, or back door, asking for a job, and if you don't hire him the government shuts you down. I wish there were such a law for businesses that are predominately off-white (i.e. black afro american, hispanic beige, or asian yellow) that'd protect white people, in an affirmative action stance too. But there might just be such a thing, because I had the opportunity to work with cotton, and kept calling off sick every time I had eruptions like cold sore put on my face while I slept, but even with all that calling off sick, they did let me stick around like 6 months. The job was supposed to be guaranteed temp to hire after 90 days, which is not possible when you are late all the time because the downstairs neighbors block the driveway with their cars instead of parking in the garage, and every time you have to wake them up in the morning they take 5 minutes or 7 minutes, or exactly just as long as it takes to make you 1 minute late, it's like they are looking at their clocks. But still, it's my job not to get sick, even if infected and xrayed (and this includes getting xrayed on the job while you are sitting in one place or standing in one place to the point where your body shivers and feels like collapsing), and not to be late. So they did OK. And there were a few other white guys working there too, and the boss was a white dude with a hispanic wife. But inside the business there was constant tension between the black subfactions and the hispanic subfaction, as far as it concerned maintenance people, who were predominantly hispanic, taking too long to answer a maintenance call on a down machine, and ruining the production score of the people running the machine. I say forced mingling and affirmative action hurts American competitiveness compared to having pure hispanic, pure black and pure white clans owning the company from top to bottom, protecting their trade secrets or methods of doing business, and busting ass at work as if it were a family business, not a competition ground against other clans trying to invade it. Fuck affirmative action.
I have false witnesses and a bribed judge to prove it differently.
The 1st amendment of the Constitution guarantees Freedom of Speech and Expression, and it trumps intellectual property right laws that seek to subdue it, because it's the very First Law of the Land. Until they revise the system of government, and the constitution thereby. But until then it is the prime directive.
Residual value is the nonsense in this argument. The government cannot estimate fair free market values, like the commies could not print a fair price on a can of beans at the factory, and expect it to be sold at that price, and have equilibrium of supply and demand, a self managing economy. Without exception, when there is a price printed on an item I buy, I always get it at a discount from that MSRP - I tend not to follow hypes like lemmings when a new product is released and demand is so high and supply scarce that the price is over MSRP. But in general, even then, printed prices on the item are useless, and the government or statisticians cannot predict it accurately. Nobody can predict the free market accurately, or the future accurate, else there would be billionaires on Wall Street made each day, not only over extended periods of years. The government cannot predict value, like they tried to do it under the communist economies. At the city market where peasants came from villages, you could buy eggs for the equivalent of $5/pair, while in the government run grocery store you could buy a dozen eggs for 8 cents. What do you think happened every time eggs arrived to the grocery store? People bought them even if they didn't need it, and a lot went to waste. The government cannot properly establish price, therefore residual value, no matter how many pHd's in statistics they assign to solving the problem, and managing production. In fact any time I see the word statistics, I think of bs and lying. Though I did read an article from the NBS comparing interlaboratory data for testing samples out of a batch, so there are real world situations where saying the standard deviation and outliers, mostly related to past discussions, but when it comes to predicting the future, as statistics is constantly used as a tool, I think of bs and lying first. There are some exceptions there too. As Newton's laws of motion can be used to predict the elastic and inelastic impact of two balls, vaguely. So can the statistical laws of ideal gases in thermodynamics, if you can only get velocity and position measurements on every single atom, and then your gas at hand is truly ideal. But statistics = lying and dazzle you with bullshit in 98% of all cases that try to predict the future. There are lies, damned lies, and statistics is the superlative of them all.
Too bad I already posted in this threat and can't mod you up higher.