There is a misunderstanding here. Light does not behave both as a wave and a particle. Light behaves only as a wave, with peculiar properties, called quantum waves. Light is always a wave-packet extended out in space, not localized into a very limited domain as a particle would be, but it always interacts or collapses and disappears as a particle, at a single location, as a quantum jump or quantum transition of suddenness a pointlike point in space. That's all. They only way to get a continuous-like energy transmission out of light is to have many such "atoms" of energy act like they are an infinitesimal and continuous phenomena, just like pressure on an engine cylinder piston might seem like some smooth, continuous uniform function, but in reality, according to the kinetic theory of gases, or even observable under the microscope as the Brownian motion, the force on the cylinder piston is actually quantized and happens in jumps, in a sort of non-smooth, non-differentiable mathematical function way, when you inspect the devil in the details part.
Light is a quantum wave, not a quantum particle, nor a continuous smoothly variable wave. Which is what Max Planck came up with as the only possible answer to solve the ultraviolet catastrophy paradox. He never said light was a particle, in that it is limited to a point like region of space. That's all the double slit experiment proves: Light or electrons or all quantum waves (we customarily call quantum particles) are: 1. Extended and spread out in space as they travel about as spread out waves in between quantum interactions, including they self diffract, i.e. they only interact with themselves. 2. Every time they interact with other particles, or in ways we call "quantum transitions" they seem to pick a seemingly random point to do it at, based on probabilities as far as we can describe, and they interact in a very sudden way in a very limited infinitesimal point like point in space, which causes their wave function collapse suddenly everywhere else, including halfway across the galaxy and all come together concentrated in on local point, and as a consequence give birth to another quantum thing, which may be spread out in space freely traveling about, like the electron was before in the double slit electron, or it may give rise to a "captured", limited to a very local domain of vibration, but still not infinitesimally small along the lines of a wavefunction collapse interaction, but still somewhat extended in space, such as stuck in an electron shell in an atom, or inside the nucleus in a weird way, an electron joined with a proton and antineutrino giving a neutron, but it's more complicated than that, instead we ascribe it as quarks, an electron is one configuration of quarks, a proton another, etc, quarks being 1/3, 2/3 in value, and only combinations of quarks that yield whole numbers are allowed, or something like that.
So there is no wave-particle duality, in that quantum particles have wave tasting properties such as diffraction, and they have particle tasting properties, such as momentum, or quantumness. All there is is a single contraption called a quantum wave, which is neither a quantum particle limited in space as it gets around, nor a continuous wave that spreads out as it gets around, including it interacts in a spread out and continuous fractional way. Not possible. Quantum waves travel about spread out, and every time they interact with something other than themselves, they do so suddenly, at an infinitesimal local point which withdraws the spread out parts and annihilates them suddenly even from halfway across the galaxy distance, at speeds faster than the speed of light. We don't know what triggers a collapse, the most we know is statistics and probabilities. For now.
Yeah. But how can you ascertain that? Have laser detectors? What if they used focused microwave heating? You'd have to get the full EM spectrum, with a sensor different than temperature, as you already know the temperature went high.
Often though, such "mysterious practice attacks" are staged, and used as a pretext to start a war. That's what the Germans did when blitzkrieging Poland, and that's what the Japanese did in Korea before attacking China. I think it was train sabotages staged in both cases, which triggered a retaliation along the lines of 911, though it would be a hard sell to say 911 was a staged thing to give the US an excuse to enter war and improve or jump start its economy by giving people a job, if you have no market demand for anything, start a war, and have people make weapons, then these people who earned that money in turn will take it to a barber, then the barber takes it to a restaurant, then the waitress takes it to a grocery store, etc, etc. Still, 911 was not staged quite to the level that the WW2 igniting fake train sabotages were.
So you never know the true actual cause, and you have to take all "news" with a grain of salt. This is my ultraparanoid side speaking. Hello.
But when tensions get high around the world, and everyone worries about the other guy and wants to stay one step ahead in the military game, sometimes they irk to test out their gadgedts, with micro-skirmishes, so it's like you have a fuzzy conflict with 0.004% engagement as opposed to all or nothing 1.0000 we are at war, or 0.0000 we are at peace, and in such conflict and tension even fake news are that, a micro-skirmish in psychological warfare.
So who knows? Even if someone knows, when something is released as news, it may still be fake. And lots of stuff go down in the world that are important and never make it to be public news, so the question is sometimes how or why who decided to make this a news and why?
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I used to make a living working with organophosphates (basically octyl phosphoric like acids) to run chemical process lines, and I had a hunch of the whole thing being an experiment for getting gassed with less than lethal weapons, of possibly phosphate nature, different from the above mostly benign chemicals, me being the lab rat getting gassed, and should I show at a hospital, detected organophosphates can be ascribed to exposure on the job to the benign stuff, possibly allergy to it. That was the only place I ever worked at by buying COBRA health insurance from my previous job, it was obvious during the interview tour that it would be needed. Second time around I wasn't as chicken, went without insurance. Third time around they talked me into it when I said I did not want to waste their money. Still, I got sick three times and they let me quit three times, they emphasized, they emphasized that I came there out of my own good will and nobody was forcing me to come there. I did not even have to do the two week notice. It's kinda like making a living through stealing the cheese from the mousetraps, if you're a mouse. The rewards are high. Yeah. Whatever. At least the rewards were high, unlike at the very next job, getting near minimum wage where I got a whole lot sicker from mandatory hand sanitizer use, and some kind of floating fuzz airborne infection, plus being left all alone sitting in a chair working with nobody for yards around me, for 12 hrs, and just got insanely sick sitting there, even without hand sanitizer, felt kinda like a deep sunburn, my best guess was xrays. So it's like, what's the difference, it's mousetraps everywhere anyway, except some traps have cheese, and some have some bitter green grass. Which one do you prefer choosing? So they say fourth time is a charm.
I just got hit with some grey goo, war is evolving, throat yeast infection, I wonder why, I guess posting on slashdot the way I do has consequences. Whatever, is this all you got? Bring it on motherfuckers, keep'm coming. I'm on it. Ha ha ha.
After a lot of ways have failed, including shocking the tooth gums with 3V electric - ouch, it's like nothing, nothing, nothing, then an avalanche pierces through and burns like hell, and it doesn't work - so what seems to work and the way I'm fighting it right now is:
1. Soak in saliva 10 mg solid salt salty tasting sodium bromide from Walmart pool chemical. 2. Once nicely soaked, inhale some bleach chlorine gas that should generate elemental bromine by driving the redox potential oxidizing inside the cells, even from outside the cell walls with all channels shut, and bromide, is there to accept it in a Trojan horse behind the cell wall kinda way. 3. Hit it with a UV blue light LED that should activate elemental bromine into free radicals, kinda like methane reaction with bromine is initiated. Once you brominate the crap out of the yeast's internal enzymes, iodine based hormones and DNA, it's done, it's better and faster than trying to drink a lot of mountain dew with brominated vegetable oil that only releases bromine related stuff on digestion by the fungus. 4. Into the cleared, sterile spot lick and then swish with saliva around some green lemon fungus, that produces penicillin-like stuff. I think the true penicillin mold is white, and this green one produces some antibiotic that tastes sweet, somewhat like penicillin but it's not penicillin. When I was a kid every time I got really sick my snot turned green, that's how I knew I was sick, or maybe that's the right color when I'm sick. So you have to pack something friendly into the sterile fungus conduits, else if you leave it empty, the remnants on the disease yeast in other parts of your body will flow back into the dead conduits and repopulate and you're back to square one. Once the green fungus from citrus that knows how to make penicillin takes a foothold, then enjoy the fight between it and the disease. If not successful, and the disease wins, then try again.
The green fungus from citrus is friendly. Citrus fungus was discovered by A. Fleming. Fleming did not discover penicillin. Fungi did billions of years ago. What Fleming discovered is how to infect yourself with penicillin making fungus, and have a controlled substance regulated by law in your body for free, without breaking the law, plus as an active live culture that makes other antibodies besides penicillin and really knows how to fight in the highly acidic sour conditions of the grey goo, war is evolving scenario. Biowarfare. Happening as I'm typing above my right wisdom tooth, and the grey goo is losing, until I fall asleep from anesthetics, or eat something tainted, then start over.
PS. A selenium sulfide shampoo soak, that any fungus grabs onto and can't say no to, even in overdose, is best prior to the bromide/chlorine/UV treatment. I think even selenium sulfide is UV reactive and activated, not sure. With light, no matter how much crystal clear glass like goo the fungus ejects, it's not like a chemical that gets purged, though you do deplete the internal bromine stores, so you might have to repeat the above for a while until it tires out.
Microsoft is fucking up. I thought Linux or the GPL was their antichrist. Their job is to maintain and sustain their own genetic variability in the computing genepool, without going extinct or exterminating others completely. Microsoft is fucking up on both fronts. All they have to do to compete with Linux (that used to run google.com) or BSD (that used to run yahoo.com) is to drop that fucking stupid ass client access license from Windows Server. People hate and despise getting screwed like that. Client access license? Are you kidding me? Sell me a server that takes up to 10 connections, up to 100, up to 1000, or up to 10,000, or up to 100,000, or up to 1,000,000 concurrently, and don't fucking make me hoard a pile or these certificates per seat with the woven thread and funky official holier than thou humbug about them. All people wanna do with those CAL certificates is wipe their shitty asses. That's Microsoft's only problem on the server front. Their job is not to accept Linux, because now they can no longer attack it like they used to, once they give it their blessing, but to push their own shit, and push it in balance and harmony with the rest of the ecosystem. Your job is 1. to survive, or go down fighting for something that you care about to survive 2. to not exterminate other varieties in your vehement competition against them Microsoft has and still is fucking up royally on both fronts. We don't want them running Linux. We don't want them to give their blessing to Linux. And especially we don't want no fucking cloud with blackmailed monthly access fees to our data held hostage. What we want is something better than a "Vista sucks" on the desktop, a better and improved Win2K or XP, leaner and meaner, with less garbage and snooping piled on into it.
Intellectual property rights were erected during the founding father's days out of nothing, to create a better world, to create and enhance creativity, but intellectual property, unlike, say, land or chattel property, was always meant to be temporary, and ultimately enter the public domain, where all human knowledge and information ultimately belongs, including all GPL stuff after copyright expiration should enter public domain. Initially the terms were 14 years renewable to 28. These days we have temporary intellectual property, but it just got extended to 90 years from 70 around 1999. Why stop there? Why not have a 547 year and 6 month term? What's fair? Just how much more extra incentive did Walt Disney have to create Mickey Mouse if he knew that in 1999 the terms on his property were gonna be 90 years not 70?
Intellectual property was not erected to create a world of extorting or hogging property then blackmailing everybody for access to it. Such as music artists that get paid 3 cents out of a dollar for a song, the rest goes to the labels or publishers that extorted a signature to sign the property rights over. Yes, marketing, distribution, being a merchant is hard work that does deserve a fair cut. But fair is all a matter of price. Yes, sometimes people throw stuff away for peanuts because that's their perceived value, and then whoever buys it and resells it, to someone who values that item much more, yes, there is this winning, or lottery effect, or money for free effect in the world, because perceived values are allowed to fluctuate widely. But there are situations like music artists, who would like a bigger cut of the price, but they are strongarmed into deals, and there are consumers who want a lower price on the music, and both these tendencies tend to cut into the profit of the middle man, the publisher, or intellectual property right hogger. Just cuz the rules on intellectual property have artifacts that can be technically abused, you should not forget about the good will or good intentions of why they were erected in the first place: to spur creation of new material. How is the richest guy on the planet fit in with this picture? Obviously he carries a lot of bad will, just like Carnegie and Rockefeller did, but not because peo
You could add batteries to either kind of sub, moreover coolant pumps can be converted to inefficient but very quiet Tesla pumps used to pump pieces of chicken or live fish, because they work by friction.
The only giveaway for a sub is the sound echo pinging, but even that could mimic a whale or similar, recorded sounds, or it can be at a level low enough where the signal to noise ratio of the echo is near the detection limit, so it does not spread very far and gets absorbed. When anchored such a sub could stop pinging, and nothing penetrates large bodies of water, such as electromagnetic waves or xrays or gamma rays, with the exception of neutrinos, which are on the other hand very hard to detect.
With full recycling of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, and even extraction of it from seawater, a submarine could exist indefinitely self sufficient, closed circle (i.e. if all the seawater is polluted with radiation, it can recycle everything internally, using its reactor as an artificial sun to live off, in an abstract sense) and undetected, except when it runs out of fuel. And then the key strategic thing becomes mining the fuel on the sea floor, or extraction from seawater. But yeah, hiding of humans from even artificial intelligence that got out of hand on Earth would be possible better deep within the ocean, than anywhere in nearby outer space, even 70,000 years trip away, where it's easy to see, unless the spaceship there too finds a body of liquid water at tolerable pressures and enough dilute concentration of fuel to hide in.
I keep talking about how exodus to space stations is a simple solution from global biotech warfare getting out of hand or even a nuclear holocaust getting out of hand, with the exception of artificial intelligence getting out of hand, however now I realize that there is a chance to hide even from that. However, robots that could replicate, could all be submarines themselves, and produce enough units of themselves to do a one time clean sweep of all ocean waters, including mapping out the crevices surveyor style, so I guess, against 200 trillion robots patrol sweeping the oceans it would be difficult to hide, so one would have to hide behind a block of mountain, even deep within the sea, assuming robots are not interested in patrolling through solid rock and magma, but then you'd be stuck there, inside an totally isolated world or solid rock beneath the earth, maybe with a tap to a volcano magma from which to extract the fuel to live off of, and you could never come out of there or risk getting detected, so you could sit there indefinitely, at least until the Sun turns into a red giant and gobbles up earth, a few billions years from now, but on outer rocky planets like the Moons of Jupiter or Pluto or the Rock-ring of Saturn you might be able to hide out for a long long time, because the Sun will not swallow those, as far as we can tell, and then your time limit becomes the natural decay of the fuel which disappears little by little as the billions of years tick by, and eventually you'd starve, unless you come up with better physics and technology.
So the way the Navy, with the best nuclear engineers on the planet, and their ships running on reactors that are fueled once and last for 15-20 years before refueling or scrapping the whole ship, they could use ice bullets as the low cost do it all ammunition, and, during say a beach assault or even carrier planes and helicopters or drones running on lithium batteries recharged from the reactor, they could also load them with electric powered railguns and shoot ice bullets at things. True they are not as bad as grenade launchers that detonate on impact, but at least you could reserve the explosives for on impact things, as opposed to propulsion duties which you could do with a railgun, and some kind of camera flash charging setup charging a flywheel or supercapacitor for the instant high drain shooting part. So during a beach assault, if you run out of the metal bullets, you don't need a resupply and you can keep pounding the enemy, including with cannonball weight objects (and ice is 8x less dense than bronze or steel, so you need 8x the volume of cubic root of 8=twice the diameter of ice crystal ball to create the same weight of impact as a cannon ball. During a beach assault they could have a generator running on either gasoline, or ammonia from aboard a ship, or just a mobile lithium or whatever battery they can easily keep making out of seawater, including sodium air battery, or sodium sulfur, or sodium chlorine, and have one mobile car provide electricity to the troops in the trenches via powerchords. That would put a severe strain on operations and fighting abilities, being tethered to a power source with a cable, or even soldiers microwaved and fried from the accidents and errors of tracking via a cable-less wireless delivery of power (unless they look like R2D2 and C3PO and wear reflective clothing), but on the upside, on economics, you have a fully autonomous Navy unit able to function even if all of it's resupply lines have been cut, other than having to obtain its food from the sea also, like nothing to eat but fish and crabs and seaweed all year long. That way the tax payers would not even have to support them, but they'd be self sufficient, including making their own bullets, and all you gotta do is give them a new reactor loaded every 20 years.
But this idea of ice bullets is not novel, I think it was invented in the 70's in practical form during the height of espionage between the USSR and USA, where spy guns would shoot poisoned ice bullets, that leave a very tiny mark at the point of entry, and then they melt and dissolve in the body, leaving no trail for the autopsy. They contain frozen heart attack poison and the whole thing looks like a natural death from a heart attack, or pneumonia, anyeurism, etc. I think George Carlin died that way, after pissin off Da Man too much when he got really bold toward his old age no longer scared of dying, and said shit like there is a gang or club that own our country, they own you and me, there is a club oppressing everybody, and you and I are not in it. Which sounds very much along the lines of anticapitalist communist instigators propaganda messages about the factory owning burgeoisie exploiting the wage earning proletariat through property hogging of power without contributing much, and of course neither extreme view is correct, but whoever shot him, did it over no, we're tired of listening to this, this kind of talk is why we went into Vietnam, to stop the spread of communism, that, like Obamacare, takes all your private property from you and gives it to another guy, taking away your incentive to go to work and bring home the money because it's not yours anyway. It's like why should I go to work under Obamacare, all these billing agencies want a piece of me like I'm a James Brown sample, and then I can stay home, not have any money, and tell anyone sorry, we're closed today, out of samples, you gotta find another sucker to bum your next dollar out of because i don't have any. Why should I not just sit home and rest and sleep, why should I bust my ass br
I think the lasers idea came about the Reagan star wars, as armed GPS or similar satellites can gather a lot of solar power energy and shoot it off as a laser beam anywhere on the planet, but they don't have a supply of matter, or mass, to shoot, and even if they did, there is the shooting stars issue of combusting up in the atmosphere. True there are lots of easy ways to defend against lasers, like the posts above mentioned, but their advantage in space, where matter is scarce, is cost of the bullet rounds. In the Navy, energy is more expensive than matter, and if necessary they can shoot ice bullets if they have plenty of energy such as a reactor powering the ship. In such cases shooting ice bullets does bigger damage than laser beams for the same energy consumed, still cheaper on the budget overall.
On the issue of rail guns, yeah, they are a viable technology as long as you have a reactor attached to them and powering them, the problem with them is portability, like an assault rifle is never gonna be a railgun, because of energy density and reaction rate considerations. Chemical energy density is by far the most energy dense among those used in everyday weaponry, and energy storage like a flywheel, which can deliver energy fast, is low in density and has to constantly be charged, better on energy densities are supercapacitors, slower delivery but higher storage density, then you got batteries like lead acid cranking cars delivering 800 Amps instantaneous, which still falls short of the rate of power delivered by supercapacitors or flywheels, but much higher energy density, and the lithium batteries, which are the best rechargeable portable chemical energy storage things, suffer from low discharge rates, charging rate issues and self combustion, as the boeing and airbus planes found out when switching from nicads to lithium batteries. So who's gonna lug around a superheavy lead acid, nicad, nizn, mn/mn, or li-ion battery with an assault rifle? The bullets with gunpowder in them are robust, compact, and ergonomically portable, the problem is explosives storage as the Battle of Jutland proved for the Navy. So for portable guns, such as needed for a beach assault performed by the navy, there are no present battery technologies with fast enough drain rates required for sudden bursts of energy, but a battery + supercapacitor or flywheel combo might fix that, but the overall energy density of the best Li-ion might be 1MJ/kg, for bullets with explosives maybe 4-7 MJ/kg, and then you have Li-air batteries with slow drain rates but possible at 10+ MJ/kg in the future, and possibly even gasoline/diesel/polyethylene powered generators that spin a flywheel or charge a supercapacitor required for the next burst, kind of like camera flashers do, that might outdo the number of rounds a soldier is able to carry, even if you have to wait say 5 seconds between rounds to charge the flasher, compared to a machine gun assault rifle where the gunpowder bullets are ready and charged. This is only when portability issue is at hand, while back on a battle ship with a reactor and a freezer/cnc unit you can never run out of ice bullet rounds you can cnc-sculpt out of frozen seawater and shoot in an electric coil gun.
But in an all out war, other than chasing down pirates in Somalia where you need conventional guns, or hillbillies in Afganistan, in a world war 3 of all out war scenario only nukes prevail, as the Castle Bravo and other tests have proved. You do not want to have a WW3 and must do everything possible to avoid one, by any means necessary, but if you have to be ready for one, there is almost no point for gunpowder to actually win a battle and only nukes can do it, if anyone loses their cool, and when they do, nobody wins, which is called the doctrine of mutually assured destruction. Things are not so gloomy though, there is hope for life by running away from the problems, which in case of biotech terrorist disease inventions computer virus style or a nuclear holocaust WW3 between say East Asia+India vs the EU and US st
All politicians ever talk about is the economy economy economy. Why is the economy so fucking important? In my mind everyone should be able to live in absence of an economy, yeoman farmer style, and only participate in one if they find it is a good deal for them, because it's worth it economically, and otherwise they can abstain from participating in an economy DIY everything themselves. That means no mandatory bills of any kind other than voluntary ones such as cell phones or internet access, but no rent, no sewer/gas/electric bill, no food cost. And in this city dwellers who are gotten by the balls or by the stomach on the food supply and food cost issue, unable to DIY because of not enough area per person, are most vulnerable, and almost cannot be trusted on voting, just like the founding fathers said it, but then also, no great civilization or technology existed without cities. It's like mayan stargazing priests that invented zero and with that a positional numbering system equivalent to the hindus we call arabic as opposed to having to do math with roman numerals, so the priests of the mayans were like city dwellers we have today, without whom great technology and great weapons are impossible, and you need cities, even if city dwellers like the mayan priests are held by the balls on the food supply issue by the farmers. But you get what I'm trying to say. Fuck the economy, and I don't have to work or buy anything unless it's a good deal, and that's the only way to ensure fair prices. Mandatory sewer bills, mandatory electric bills, mandatory grocery prices are open to abuse in cities, and might require government regulation of monopolies just like in the old days. I used to get like $17 gas bills 7 years ago, when the local gas company was regulated, and now that they have been deregulated, and got all the city dwellers by the balls, they started charging a 25/mo minimum charge. 25/mo for nothing? You're out of your mind, that's an insane amount of money, not in the $25/hr for a GED union wage economy of the 90's, or even to the $30/hr nurses blackmailing people out of their livesavings they gathered for 40 years within 10 minutes, which they are willing to turn over to get a heart surgery and live for 2 more minutes, so that has a good and a bad side to it, but with the level of unemployment, and businesses going empty all around me, 25/hr is insane, in the present general circumstances, and all I can do is give the the finger if they are unwilling to be flexible on charges to me, such as when I don't have money, I could still spend $5/mo for hot water and not heat the home much, instead of all or nothing 25/mo, in which case they get nothing, or a crash like Detroit is coming their and the whole US economy's way. Life adapts to new circumstances, and if it cannot, it goes extinct. Businesses and economies adapt and if not they do not, they go extinct too. And in this adaptation game my way of fighting Da Man on top constantly seeking to put a collar around my neck and a chain to yank on, threatening me with this, threatening me with that, is to give Da Man the finger and tell him to give me liberty or give me death, and when the circumstances around me are artificially modulated to create an incentive to make me do something I hate doing, like becoming an intellectual property slave to some intellectual property generation company slave owner, I go head against the wall and make sure that the opposite effect is achieved, as far as my behavior is concerned. I'm like a cat that you try to put a yoke on, I throw it off and hiss at you, but if you set me free and I feel free, I might come rub up against you and purr to you. Above anything else I don't breed in captivity, and willingly go extinct in circumstances of captivity, such as a 1.002 income to expense ratio. Give me liberty or give me death, and in that I don't need you to give me a high income, but I'd love to divide by zero to create infinite luxury on peanuts of an income. My goal is not a high salary, but a zero cost, in the long run. And nothing can change that.
I'm sick, income to expense ratio is too low in America for businesses to be profitable, and when I try to fix my expense to create a division by zero infinite luxury condition for myself on minimum wage, I get attacked by the people who have a lot of wealth and their life savings or even decades long education and experience presently invested into those cost of living things - i.e. utility companies and utility stocks, real estate investments, intellectual property investments, insurance businesses, legal services and healthcare services, or even food - and are extremely vehement when you talk about DIY in everything above, including legal, health, housing, utility, food, you DIY everything and have zero bills except property tax which you cannot escape, other than living in the most worthless and piece of crap place nobody else wants to live in, yet there is plenty of green and plenty of rain and life you can eat. Food is my top daily necessity, besides air and water that I get for near free, they fall out of the sky, but no biblical manna falls out of the sky and I cannot live without food, and everything else is optional, or not a daily cost - like you build a shelter once, it takes you a couple days or maybe months then it's good for 30 years. I don't understand how the shelter cost is so friggin high? It's only so because of corrupt bldg code sustaining the artificially high prices attacks low cost shelters to cater to the favors of those on top, who tend to hold most property possessions, and it's in their interest to distort laws in their own favor. All I know stubbornness like that only leads to a Detroitish appearance world. Unless they are willing to erect skyhigh tariffs on international trade to where artificially high labor prices can be maintained within the US, and from that artificially high cost of living prices, we have to compete for our own dollar with Chinese engineers earning 3K a year, when minimum wage of approx 8/hr comes to 8 x 2080hrs/yr approx 16K salaries. And people in America think that we're better than the rest of the world, that Chinese people are stupid because they don't know the American Way and can't speak English correctly - why don't you try learning Chinese and see how far you get or how stupid you are too - and all I can say is that they are not stupid, and the American Way is shopping at Walmart for stuff Made in China, and everyone works at companies in the US making products nobody can afford to buy. Unlike in the days of Ford T-model assembly lines, where the workers got paid enough to buy the products they were making, or even in the 90's when 25/hr GED union jobs could let people not really care because money was plenty, these days, when I work on a Toyota part at a job, the company owner has a meeting and orders or strongly suggests everyone to buy a Corolla and credit. Let's use our credit to buy Corollas. Yeah right, nobody has $20K for a new Corolla and they buy used cars. If you want a global economy without tariffs which has lots of benefits, you have to be willing to compete, and in that, on the cost of labor, and in that, on the cost of living. If you are unwilling to adapt your cost of living, such as housing cost to the economic realities, you create an all or nothing crash situation, like Detroit buildings going empty. The only thing those buildings failed to do properly is adjust their free market prices. Such as if nobody wants to pay 1500/mo for an office space you drop it to 500, and if nobody pays that, I'm sure people would be interested at 50, and in turn the building property has to adjust their cost of living expenses too. It's like I can't find a way to exist in the US making 7.85/hr if the cost of living takes 7.83/hr and I'm left with 0.02 wiggle room, or the income to expense ratio is 7.85/7.83=1.0026, with a 0.2% excess I can use to save up money from, and compete like that with China where people make $1/day, not 14 hr workdays x 7.85/hr. It's like if I can cut all my expenses to zero, or close to it, so say $0.10/hr while making $7.85/hr, I'd
So my mother with a failed marriage, with both her mother and father dead by her 30's, I was pretty much her only hobby besides work, and some church. At the local library they told her there are no more children's books, she has borrowed them all and read them to me. She might have hated my father over her being starved as a child by people who believed in what he believed in, and was ambivalent love-hate about me especially after I stopped looking like nobody's kid and became a near exact copy of my father, and he started paying child support after me, but then my mother's attitude changed too, no longer her top hobby but busy trying to run a larger household like running a mini farm trying to make ends meet, and she'd often leave and be gone with the bus far away me all by myself for many hours, with a blue crayon and a notebook and told me to draw and amuse myself, and I was bored out of my mind with a stupid blue crayon for hours, but then a cat we had befriended me, and took care of me. Cats are masters of body language of their prey with phd's in psychology and interpersonal respect, and if you treat them right, they treat you right, if they sense you are down and depressed they rub up against you purring and boost your ego back up, then they abandon you and go about their own business like you mean nothing to them.
So anyway when and where I grew up it never even occurred to kids to show up to school with a gun, and parents provided a fairly decent education in church, religion and just plain basic humanity that gave teachers something to work with, unlike around here, where to teach, or sometimes even to go to work, like a recycling business, school, airport or government office, you have to go through a metal detector. It's like freedom and freedom of mind is important to me, and I'm not interested in working where they force me to sign intellectual property agreements or have to go through metal detectors, and that includes not interested in teaching.
Where I grew up I had insanely good teachers with great reputation among the parents - including my all time favorite teacher, the high school math professor, who retired like three times and the parents begged him back into teaching, - and general education you did not have to pay for, but even if you did, it would have had to have been extremely expensive before I, if I had to walk a mile in my parents shoes, would have decided not to purchase the awesome quality education they were providing. It's like a free market, if the price is too high you DIY or buy elsewhere, and even if it's cheap but you're getting a crappy education, you can also DIY, like on Ebay price determines whether something is a good deal or not, and you can often have an amazing education pretty much for free (such as state supported), or you can overpay for private school for the quality and value you get there. DIY homeschooling is always an option, and individual citizens have to decide for themselves what's best for them and their children. For instance, in 2nd grade, when I took my homework home and asked my mother to help me solve a system of 2 simultaneous linear equations of two variables, my mother was unable to help, and my 2nd grade teacher when I was 8 years old could not believe how stupid all the parents were, because almost none could solve two simultaneous equations of two independent variables, which to her was piece of cake, and she found it easier to teach it to us, the kids, than to the stuck in an old muddy rut brained parents who were like you can't teach an old fox new tricks. That was the time my mother gave up teaching me, having taught me all the numbers, letter, how to read write way before 1st grade, and my teacher telling her to quit teaching me stuff in advance because I'm extremely bored out of my mind and naughty in class and disturbing. So for homeschooling, parents have to decide whether they can teach their kids simple stuff like a system of simultaneous linear equations of two independent variables, as a taste for what's required to begin with to home school, and otherwise they are at the mercy of professionals to provide the basics to their children.
Some people in the US are like I'm supposed to teach their kids. And my answer to that is that if you knock my house down, cut my grass, bust up the trunk and smash the windows of my car in where I bought a junk house and tried to make a go of it and parked an old car there, then teach your own fucking kids and I don't have to do it.
These days I am forced to do whatever it takes not to show up at a hospital, even when they infect the fuck out of me and xray the fuck out of me, because I oppose forced insurance purchases, such as Obamacare is trying to introduce, which would devastate the financial life of any responsible family, and pretty much amounts to nothing but mass extermination of the responsible middle class by draining their financial resources they could use to have another child and live on in the next generation, it takes the breast milk money out of middle class tits and starves those babies and gives them to the upper and lower classes. They are trying to make an example case out of me for Obamacare and have me show up at a hospital sick and uninsured, and my answer to that is that I'm willing to make an example case out of Obamacare out of me and die over this shit so other people, who are responsible, and I care about, can live.
No, but with the right technology (like greenhouses, solar power, air conditioners, and atmospheric moisture extractors) it could be turned into one. Unfortunately that, like the loss of snow caps on mountaintops like Kilimanjaro, would reduce solar reflectivity and increase global warming, because jungle green reflects less visible light penetrating the atmosphere into outer space and coverts it to infrared that bounces back to the planet from the atmosphere, compared to bright desert yellow sand. One must wait until there is tangible evidence of the mofos on top running the show putting up umbrella like solar panels (that beam the power via microwave down to Earth or maybe to the ISS or the Moon) at the Lagrange point in sufficient amount (say 1% of total Earth surface area) to compensate for loss of reflectivity and cool the planet the fuck back down until the snow on top of Kilimanjaro reappears in same quantity as it was in 1950. Until then areas like Death Valley or Death Saudi Arabia or Death Sahara Desert must wait. And we're talking a lot of real estate: http://whiteafrican.com/wp-con... Then go look up the land area of the Sahara Desert to realize how much opportunity to expand jungles is wasted presently as wind blown desert sand dunes with death and nothing in them. From that picture it looks like the Sahara Desert is bigger than the entire continental US not including Alaska, and Alaska might be by far the biggest state by land area, but it's pretty empty from people (except shotgun wielding hot as fuck air heads like Sarah Palin that everyone, including all the women have a crush on and want to see naked) because it does not get enough sunlight, or enough temperate temperature days to allow for farming to proliferate, unlike the jungles of India, Congo, Brazil, or Vietnam that are bursting with life and genetic variability. Alaska does get forests and safe habitat for rare or near extinct animals like grizzlies, polar bears and wolves. For comparison in land areas, Russia tops the list, for instance look at this picture: http://alphadesigner.com/wp-co...
Btw I came across another good picture worth soaking up. We all know about China being the most populous, and people in Japan being perverts who fuck like rabbits, but besides them two check out India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, VietNam, Mexico and compare to US, Russia, Canada, Australia and Saudi Arabia, or even Yemen to Saudi Arabia, or even Ukraine to Russia, to find out where the most coitus is going down on the planet and where people are most strictly religious in the non-kama-sutra way and keep a leash on their dick. http://i.imgur.com/HhqlkMK.png Based on this picture a Pearl Harbor attack by a tiny country like Japan on a humongous country like the US is not really that insane, and should a war happen between Japan and Australia alone, or even Vietnam and Australia, and it's obvious who the immediate winner would be, right? When you could human soldiers which are cheaper, more expandable and more robust than robots.
It would be nice to see a similar breakdown for the US along racial lines. For instance in the 1990's there were 17% African Americans in the US, supposedly, in the days of $25/hr union wages with a high school diploma. These days all I see is white women with black kids and everyone on welfare and white guys not having children over not having a job, or not having a job that pays well, and I'm starting to think that the racial makeup is more like 30% Black, 20%Hispanic and 10% Asian, and out of these Hispanics are the fastest breeding. As long as there is guaranteed welfare checks that leave no child left behind and starving, there is no reason not to pop as many as you possibly can, right? How you gonna tell somebody not to hit that booty, not to fuck, and not to have children,
Or releasing genetically modified mind blowingly hot humans into areas with human overpopulation issues, so that all the offsprings or grandkids are infertile. Come on, y'all know where this genetics technology is heading to why do I have to be the first one to say it?.. first mosquitoes, then your human declared enemies.. then your human competitors in business.. especially if you are tribal, gang-like or clan like in your mindset.. Thank you Monsanto Laboratories and Agilent Bioscience for these miraculous tools to fix "problems" in biology.
Why would you want to waste all that precious gas it has successfully collected, every bit of which is worth treasure in the vast emptiness and nothingness of space. Even if you have to run nuclear processes to convert them say from oxygen toward iron, or from lead toward iron, via solar panel harvested star energy and an inefficient Hirsch fusor, it's stuff, tangible matter in your hands in the vast vast vast vast vast emptiness and nothingness of space. Stuff you can transform to make bodyparts for life out of. You cannot make children out of vacuum, you need matter, like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, etc. Do not waste a single drop of matter, and you can live just fine on rotating cylinder artificial gravity space stations around it, such as in orbit around a Neptune. Venus is different - you want to ping pong it to a region or shade it right where it is where its surface temperature is such that collects water from the nearby and relatively abundant solar wind. You're not wasting a lot of matter, in absolute terms or relative terms, unlike in the not so deep solar gravity well case of the humongous Neptune, where matter is hard to come by, and it's also humongous amount, in absolute terms, compared to the size of Venus.
Ok, well I see nobody came up with this, and I've thought about it more. The whole point of putting up a huge ring instead of a huge lens, is again, to save weight. But with astronomy it is usually not the triangulation accuracy that matters, as in, 3d-vision of knowing the distance, but light collection and image sharpness. So what I said about partial outer fresnel lens rings, binocular style, is not correct, the very purpose of the ring is increased light collection surface area all focusing to a single point to create the image, doing it at minimum weight possible, and if they carried on along the lens, it would get prohibitively heavy in the center. However, this problem of increased surface area without increasing the weight has been already solved, and it's called the Fresnel lens itself. And in fact, the central rings of the Fresnel are the lightest, because they can be made flat and nearly parallel, so super thin, while the outermost rings are the heaviest, because of the steep angle requirements for diffraction there, unless you are willing to increase the frequency of the rings making them each skinnier and narrower, compared to pretty fat stripes of glass in the center. Also the achromatic requirement for the materials near the outer rings increases - meaning the prism-like refracting glass cannot split the colors of the rainbow, but the material has to be accurately achromatic for all frequencies, possibly UV and infrared too, or whatever you can get. So as far as astronomy goes, and light collection surface area just an opaque disk in the center is no better than a traditional Fresnel lens, other than the requirement on the accuracy of shape and accuracy of focal point manufacturing, which may be slightly less of a problem with a single outer ring, but why not pay attention and tune it to the max you can tune it, instead of putting up an opaque disk. Even with an opaque disk the opaque part needs to be closer to the lens, so that when you have to steer the gigantic ring contraption with rocket fuel, you only have to move the ring, not the opaque disk which is close to the camera or focal point, and if you go with a Fresnel lens, you could have locally installable and removable filters that could block out certain rings at a time if needed, and only allow the outermost one, or innermost-ones to collect the light, or if you allowed slight achromaticity, varying the focal point could collect the blue, red, yellow, etc portions along the rainbow individually, including UV and infrared by themselves too, which then you can computer compound to reconstruct the image.
So in the astronomy sense of looking at distant galaxies, the binocular 3D vision sense, kind of like looking out into the sea for ships from a port, and seeing the distance with binoculars which is not possible with a single telescope, so for astronomy sense the 3D effect is not important, because the base of the triangle you use in your computations to get your 3D view is so minuscule compared to the hypotenuse and other sides of the triangle, that the math still spits out error, and you cannot tell how far a galaxy is with a couple hundred mile binocular spacing, maybe a spacing that spans the entire solar system between two telescope looking at the exact same thing might work. However what a 3D vision can do in space is see nearby objects, or search for nearby objects. You simply put your eyeballs into a cross-eye for near range, such as looking between Neptune and Pluto, or just behind Pluto, and then whatever you're looking at, if any objects come into intense focus while everthing before them and behind them blurs out, you can instantly find meteorites, even if they are extremely small, headed for Earth. We just had a near miss of a fairly gigantic meteorite that whizzed by Earth and missed, on Jan 26, and the non omnipotent lifeforms on Earth that split the Red Sea during Exodus could have altered its course to make it slam into Earth, precipitating a global catastrophe that would instantly put an end to stupid lawn mowing that peopl
No, they are normally black, as long as you're talking about the huge ones. The white ones, like the one I carry around between my legs, only come S and M sizes only, maybe L if she's lucky, but not XL, XXL or XXXL. And women are addicted to XXXL. Like even in the Bible, God: Adam, why did you eat the apple from the forbidden fruit tree? Adam: because Eve told me to do it. God: Eve, why did you eat the apple from the forbidden fruit tree? Eve: because the black snake, that looks like one huge dick, told me to do it, and I'm addicted to huge dicks and could not resist. That pretty much sums up the rest of history that followed ever since.
So how long til they turn this thing around toward Earth, and now I'll get to watch nature documentaries about how the moist egg exits from the anus when a spider lays her eggs, in high definition, filmed directly from a geostationary orbit.
The whole thing is like putting a huge lens into orbit, and if you kept the center parts it would be heavy, but it would collect more light, but if you cut it out, you can still get the resolution except with less light collection. It's all about saving weight and sacrificing light intensity in the name of maintaining high resolution. That's what binoculars with spread out sighters via internal prisms do, they do not increase the light collection area, just the accuracy in the triangulation math when you increase the base. In fact they don't even need a whole disk, just two partial disks, separated at a distance, and leave the rest of the circumference out too, black that out too. Make it like a big binocular. Or spread it out, say 6 fresnel refractors spaced around the imaginary circumference at 60x6=360 degree angles. Or 4 each at 90 angles. And you could play games at reorganizing these things, and the blocking out of the central light part you could do closer, at the camera, like 2 inches before it at 2 inch opaque disk diameter, or 200 yards at 200 yard opaque disk diameter, whatever is necessary to get a good image out of the zoo of your interacting fresnel things miles or hundreds of miles ahead. It's kind of like a desert tracking mirror focusing solar tower, where you can move your mirrors about to miles away if you want to, and play around with the settings depending on what you're looking at, a high light intensity thing where you can spread out farther to collect the light and get huge resolution, or something barely tinkle tinkle little star, where you have to regroup closer together to get some minimal light intensity to work with, but sacrificing resolution. And if you have these all over the place, you could vary the blocker size in the center by moving it from 2 inches to 200 yards and back. Most high quality cameras have flexibility on adjusting focus via a movable lens and light intensity via a shutter, what they don't have is the spread out interpupillary distance of a binocular.
But if they do put it up as it is, maybe they gain experience for when they have to put up a couple thousand square miles of opaque things, like movable solar panels, at the Lagrange point between Earth and the Sun to regulate global warming, because I already got enough bills on my plate to figure out where the hell I'm gonna get the money for them to pay, and I'm tired about the world leaders wasting their breath at conferences thinking up new ways to tax me, like a stupid carbon tax, when the solution is simple, when it's too bright, you put on some shades, or, like at the beach, if the sun is burning you too hot, you put up an umbrella. Doh! I don't understand what's so complicated about this. Fuck these idiots and their stupid carbon tax and carbon trading. Life loves carbon, like the Dead Sea is the most productive area on the planet in nongreenhouse circumstances, where tomatoes grow the fastest, because it has the highest CO2 partial pressure, other than not having enough water that you have to import and irrigate with. Life hates deserts but loves CO2 in the atmosphere, and the problem with CO2 in the atmosphere is that it ma
Actually I love mass surveillance, where I get to constantly bitch about how I hate it, and they do it "illegally" as in catching somebody speeding on cameras, or knowing someone is cheating on their wife, etc. It used to go under the term "gossip" in villages without which village communities cannot self regulate, and same should go for mass surveillance. It should be done to the maximum possible extent, but should be kept illegal to the maximum possible extent too, such as its recordings without warrants never holding up in court, not allowed to be broadcast on tv or internet, etc. Like traffic cams without a police officer present, no. The tv show COPS is a different story, you see what an officer sees, but this omnipresent surveillance machine of bugs and spying and secret cameras invade too much on privacy, without warning, without effort on the part of invaders, and create an unhealthy balance for power abuse. Like I don't want no traffic camera issued speeding tickets, but I love police officer issued ones, and in all this I still want them to see if anyone speeds on cameras. But they gotta be like a catholic priest with a vow of silence after a confession. He can pedal things in the village to mend the situation without openly being able to discuss what exactly he heard. That's what this surveillance technology creates, high tech confessions and only specially selected people taking a vow of silence should be able to perform it and review it. I do not go to confessions much, but say, if I made a mistake, and got drunk and got a girl pregnant without my wife and kids knowing about it, and that girl wants to go through with the pregnancy and does not want to abort, the best thing to do is to tell the priest, who summons the elderly women and subtly guides them or hints what the task is, who love such a task of descending on your wife and taking care of her if she happens to ever find out, as an emotional support network, without actually telling her, and also arrange for the illegitimate out of wedlock child to be born, and to be well taken care of. That child is not a waste, a precious being, and also a stable family should not be broken up over it. The situation is known by many, it is cared for by many, and it's a complex situation that's very difficult to manage without the support network initiated by a confession booth and the elderly women who are not isolated off or shipped off to nursing homes. If anything, I think as soon a woman hits post menopause, she instantly qualifies to be a surveillance person of traffic cameras, cellular trackings, etc, and take that vow of silence that priest do about confessions, and their findings and recordings should always be considered illegal, not to hold up in court or broadcast on TV, other than maybe as statistics.
Well the US Government started in 1776, so it's done fairly well so far, and I have these postal stamps that say USA Forever, aka forever stamps, if that's any kind of omen.
Run away to space stations - unlike the Bible Exodus across the divided Red Sea running away from the big dark Egyptian cock your women find resistible and can't stop sucking, this time it's gonna be an Exodus into outer space (using Mt. Everest as a ramp) running away from the GMO contraptions that are gonna kill us all that your profit greedy purely biotech focused corporations (like Monsanto or Agilent, both of which used to focus on other technology, like rubber or electronics) can't resist popping out one after the other, telling you it's safe, and it's Roundup resistant, unlike all the 1 billion year old "weeds" or 4 billion year old e-coli bacteria "germs" they will displace. Oh well, at leaast biotech is not as scary as AI research, like self driving cars that can tell the difference between a deer or a plastic deer lawn ornament 500 yards ahead, because Exodus into outer space is an easy solution against it, same with nuclear holocaust, you can simply run away from the problem your exploration and curiosity created Star Trek style leaving behind a big mess, but AI is gonna be smarter than you and screw you over with tricks and chase you down, come Exodus after you, no Exodus for you foolish earthling. Just watch Screamers 1996 movie for a dose of reality to lose your naiveness about these advancements in progress, or progress in advancements. You can't hold back progress. That's the argument commies used against "obsolete" capitalists.
The only thing that ultimately guarantees "publicly accountable" is the 2nd Amendment, once your 1st Amendment rights to bitch have been squashed by corrupt conspirators. If it can be called corrupt in a moral sense, but not in a legal sense, then there is something wrong with the law and the legislators that pimp it. Such as a customer does not have to buy anything such as insurance or lottery tickets he does not want to buy for any reason, most often that is price, or benefit returned for that price, but even simple things, like when shopping for a TV, some sales clerk offends you, you have the right to not buy a TV, even if you get an extreme bargain, even if you get the TV for free. He can walk out of the store and not do business with them and the lesson is that if they do it to the other customers too, they too don't have to buy, the customer is king in the Land of the Fre and the Home of the Brave and he does not have to do business with you unless he feels like he is getting a deal, or becase he likes you, or whatever his reasons are. If you offend a customer he has the right to walk out of your business and boycott it as far as removing his life from yours goes, he does not have the right to come back and bomb that business maffiozo style, but he has the right to shun you. That's how Amish people treat each other - they shun each other when circumstance require. They don't beat you with a stick, they don't hang you, they don't bomb you with explosives, they don't shoot you with a gun, they simply remove the benefit of what their life provides to you from you, called shunning. Usually you can take it for a while but the end result is most often just the person shunned leaving. I have the right to shun counties that have been abusive to me. Such as cutting my wildflowers. For instance, look at this picture http://commons.wikimedia.org/w... and look around at the girl's feet. A butterfly or other bugs would find this terrain absolutely gorgeous, because they could easily survive on the nectar collected from the abundant, natural wildflowers. If your sense of beauty is distorted when the only beautiful thing is a perfect green 8 millimeter tall grass lawn devoid of any red, yellow, blue or white, then I think you need to go to a shrink to get your head checked out, but in any case you have the right to be the best way you see fit for you, including cutting you grass, and I have the right to be the best way I see fit, such as not cutting mine. The argument that nature untouched by man is ugly does not fly. Nature does not need a constant human touch to be beautiful. Ask all the jungle people around the world what they think. And even if you cut the grass and steal it from my land, don't send me bills that cost more than $10 for the 20 minutes it takes to cut it per incident, which would come to $30/hr when going from neighboring lots to neighboring lots. We have a clash here over what's beautiful, and a couple hundred feet away at the end of he street there are a ton of standing wildflowers behind the fence on the lot of the public rail transit system and that is not attacked or constantly cut, so it's also a discrimination case. Under the circumstances I have the right to refuse accepting a job within county borders, over corrupt county government abuses, and withdraw the benefit my existence would provide to them, such as paying taxes. If the county attacks me financially to devastate me, I have the right to try to shun them financially in return. And then after considering the attacking from the county on the financial front, here comes Obamacare, a direct attack on my financial world straight from the Federal Government, trying to force me to go on government aid under my social holding me responsible for the bankrupt government's financial problems too, while making enormous payments on arbitrary prices on this on line Health Insurance Marketplace puppet show. I'm a customer and the basic rule is that I don't ha
Aluminum beats copper on a weight basis in electric conductivity, and is used exclusively for intercity high voltage overhead cables. At household voltages is does have contact oxide coating resistance overheating and corrosion issues compared to copper, but internally it's an excellent conductor, especially when you consider the price too. So an aluminum siding should successfully block out the whole electromagnetic spectrum, other than very low frequency that goes around it like through the roof what's not covered with metal, or the sides of the attic not covered with metal, i.e. holes in the Faraday-cage, and at the other end, beyond microwave, terahertz, infrared, visible, UV, only x-ray and gamma-ray can penetrate aluminum siding, so for imaging you cannot really use diffracted waves like FM or AM radio ones that go along unpredictable paths, so these guys must surely be equipped with x-ray and gamma-ray cameras, otherwise they are wasting their precious time for every house they pass which is covered in aluminum, or garage doors which are aluminum. And it's all a minor issue on the radiation exposure front, except when one of your neighbors gets one of these cameras and constantly keeps it on you, and the radiation dose keeps adding up, giving you cancer, or just simply suppressing your immune function, and then they call it AIDS, as in Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and what it really means is that you Acquired a Neighbor who Acquired a portable or non-portable X-ray camera or just the X-ray gun part of it, and constantly keeps it on you, for, oh, I don't know, trying to own the block reasons to chase other people of different ethnicity away, kind of like intentionally littering the grounds around your home, trying to make you move, this is now ours too, you gotta go, take over time. Welcome to America, where if you're a homosexual or we just don't like what you do, like you have a problem signing our intellectual property slave contracts, you have an increased chance of acquiring what we call AIDS, which has nothing to do with infections or biology other than radiation exposure.
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There is a misunderstanding here.
Light does not behave both as a wave and a particle.
Light behaves only as a wave, with peculiar properties, called quantum waves.
Light is always a wave-packet extended out in space, not localized into a very limited domain as a particle would be, but it always interacts or collapses and disappears as a particle, at a single location, as a quantum jump or quantum transition of suddenness a pointlike point in space. That's all.
They only way to get a continuous-like energy transmission out of light is to have many such "atoms" of energy act like they are an infinitesimal and continuous phenomena, just like pressure on an engine cylinder piston might seem like some smooth, continuous uniform function, but in reality, according to the kinetic theory of gases, or even observable under the microscope as the Brownian motion, the force on the cylinder piston is actually quantized and happens in jumps, in a sort of non-smooth, non-differentiable mathematical function way, when you inspect the devil in the details part.
Light is a quantum wave, not a quantum particle, nor a continuous smoothly variable wave.
Which is what Max Planck came up with as the only possible answer to solve the ultraviolet catastrophy paradox.
He never said light was a particle, in that it is limited to a point like region of space.
That's all the double slit experiment proves:
Light or electrons or all quantum waves (we customarily call quantum particles) are:
1. Extended and spread out in space as they travel about as spread out waves in between quantum interactions, including they self diffract, i.e. they only interact with themselves.
2. Every time they interact with other particles, or in ways we call "quantum transitions" they seem to pick a seemingly random point to do it at, based on probabilities as far as we can describe, and they interact in a very sudden way in a very limited infinitesimal point like point in space, which causes their wave function collapse suddenly everywhere else, including halfway across the galaxy and all come together concentrated in on local point, and as a consequence give birth to another quantum thing, which may be spread out in space freely traveling about, like the electron was before in the double slit electron, or it may give rise to a "captured", limited to a very local domain of vibration, but still not infinitesimally small along the lines of a wavefunction collapse interaction, but still somewhat extended in space, such as stuck in an electron shell in an atom, or inside the nucleus in a weird way, an electron joined with a proton and antineutrino giving a neutron, but it's more complicated than that, instead we ascribe it as quarks, an electron is one configuration of quarks, a proton another, etc, quarks being 1/3, 2/3 in value, and only combinations of quarks that yield whole numbers are allowed, or something like that.
So there is no wave-particle duality, in that quantum particles have wave tasting properties such as diffraction, and they have particle tasting properties, such as momentum, or quantumness. All there is is a single contraption called a quantum wave, which is neither a quantum particle limited in space as it gets around, nor a continuous wave that spreads out as it gets around, including it interacts in a spread out and continuous fractional way. Not possible. Quantum waves travel about spread out, and every time they interact with something other than themselves, they do so suddenly, at an infinitesimal local point which withdraws the spread out parts and annihilates them suddenly even from halfway across the galaxy distance, at speeds faster than the speed of light. We don't know what triggers a collapse, the most we know is statistics and probabilities. For now.
Yeah.
But how can you ascertain that? Have laser detectors? What if they used focused microwave heating? You'd have to get the full EM spectrum, with a sensor different than temperature, as you already know the temperature went high.
Often though, such "mysterious practice attacks" are staged, and used as a pretext to start a war. That's what the Germans did when blitzkrieging Poland, and that's what the Japanese did in Korea before attacking China. I think it was train sabotages staged in both cases, which triggered a retaliation along the lines of 911, though it would be a hard sell to say 911 was a staged thing to give the US an excuse to enter war and improve or jump start its economy by giving people a job, if you have no market demand for anything, start a war, and have people make weapons, then these people who earned that money in turn will take it to a barber, then the barber takes it to a restaurant, then the waitress takes it to a grocery store, etc, etc. Still, 911 was not staged quite to the level that the WW2 igniting fake train sabotages were.
So you never know the true actual cause, and you have to take all "news" with a grain of salt. This is my ultraparanoid side speaking. Hello.
But when tensions get high around the world, and everyone worries about the other guy and wants to stay one step ahead in the military game, sometimes they irk to test out their gadgedts, with micro-skirmishes, so it's like you have a fuzzy conflict with 0.004% engagement as opposed to all or nothing 1.0000 we are at war, or 0.0000 we are at peace, and in such conflict and tension even fake news are that, a micro-skirmish in psychological warfare.
So who knows? Even if someone knows, when something is released as news, it may still be fake. And lots of stuff go down in the world that are important and never make it to be public news, so the question is sometimes how or why who decided to make this a news and why?
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I used to make a living working with organophosphates (basically octyl phosphoric like acids) to run chemical process lines, and I had a hunch of the whole thing being an experiment for getting gassed with less than lethal weapons, of possibly phosphate nature, different from the above mostly benign chemicals, me being the lab rat getting gassed, and should I show at a hospital, detected organophosphates can be ascribed to exposure on the job to the benign stuff, possibly allergy to it. That was the only place I ever worked at by buying COBRA health insurance from my previous job, it was obvious during the interview tour that it would be needed. Second time around I wasn't as chicken, went without insurance. Third time around they talked me into it when I said I did not want to waste their money. Still, I got sick three times and they let me quit three times, they emphasized, they emphasized that I came there out of my own good will and nobody was forcing me to come there. I did not even have to do the two week notice. It's kinda like making a living through stealing the cheese from the mousetraps, if you're a mouse. The rewards are high. Yeah. Whatever. At least the rewards were high, unlike at the very next job, getting near minimum wage where I got a whole lot sicker from mandatory hand sanitizer use, and some kind of floating fuzz airborne infection, plus being left all alone sitting in a chair working with nobody for yards around me, for 12 hrs, and just got insanely sick sitting there, even without hand sanitizer, felt kinda like a deep sunburn, my best guess was xrays. So it's like, what's the difference, it's mousetraps everywhere anyway, except some traps have cheese, and some have some bitter green grass. Which one do you prefer choosing? So they say fourth time is a charm.
I just got hit with some grey goo, war is evolving, throat yeast infection, I wonder why, I guess posting on slashdot the way I do has consequences. Whatever, is this all you got? Bring it on motherfuckers, keep'm coming. I'm on it. Ha ha ha.
After a lot of ways have failed, including shocking the tooth gums with 3V electric - ouch, it's like nothing, nothing, nothing, then an avalanche pierces through and burns like hell, and it doesn't work - so what seems to work and the way I'm fighting it right now is:
1. Soak in saliva 10 mg solid salt salty tasting sodium bromide from Walmart pool chemical.
2. Once nicely soaked, inhale some bleach chlorine gas that should generate elemental bromine by driving the redox potential oxidizing inside the cells, even from outside the cell walls with all channels shut, and bromide, is there to accept it in a Trojan horse behind the cell wall kinda way.
3. Hit it with a UV blue light LED that should activate elemental bromine into free radicals, kinda like methane reaction with bromine is initiated. Once you brominate the crap out of the yeast's internal enzymes, iodine based hormones and DNA, it's done, it's better and faster than trying to drink a lot of mountain dew with brominated vegetable oil that only releases bromine related stuff on digestion by the fungus.
4. Into the cleared, sterile spot lick and then swish with saliva around some green lemon fungus, that produces penicillin-like stuff. I think the true penicillin mold is white, and this green one produces some antibiotic that tastes sweet, somewhat like penicillin but it's not penicillin. When I was a kid every time I got really sick my snot turned green, that's how I knew I was sick, or maybe that's the right color when I'm sick. So you have to pack something friendly into the sterile fungus conduits, else if you leave it empty, the remnants on the disease yeast in other parts of your body will flow back into the dead conduits and repopulate and you're back to square one. Once the green fungus from citrus that knows how to make penicillin takes a foothold, then enjoy the fight between it and the disease. If not successful, and the disease wins, then try again.
The green fungus from citrus is friendly. Citrus fungus was discovered by A. Fleming. Fleming did not discover penicillin. Fungi did billions of years ago. What Fleming discovered is how to infect yourself with penicillin making fungus, and have a controlled substance regulated by law in your body for free, without breaking the law, plus as an active live culture that makes other antibodies besides penicillin and really knows how to fight in the highly acidic sour conditions of the grey goo, war is evolving scenario. Biowarfare. Happening as I'm typing above my right wisdom tooth, and the grey goo is losing, until I fall asleep from anesthetics, or eat something tainted, then start over.
PS. A selenium sulfide shampoo soak, that any fungus grabs onto and can't say no to, even in overdose, is best prior to the bromide/chlorine/UV treatment. I think even selenium sulfide is UV reactive and activated, not sure. With light, no matter how much crystal clear glass like goo the fungus ejects, it's not like a chemical that gets purged, though you do deplete the internal bromine stores, so you might have to repeat the above for a while until it tires out.
Microsoft is fucking up. I thought Linux or the GPL was their antichrist. Their job is to maintain and sustain their own genetic variability in the computing genepool, without going extinct or exterminating others completely. Microsoft is fucking up on both fronts. All they have to do to compete with Linux (that used to run google.com) or BSD (that used to run yahoo.com) is to drop that fucking stupid ass client access license from Windows Server. People hate and despise getting screwed like that. Client access license? Are you kidding me? Sell me a server that takes up to 10 connections, up to 100, up to 1000, or up to 10,000, or up to 100,000, or up to 1,000,000 concurrently, and don't fucking make me hoard a pile or these certificates per seat with the woven thread and funky official holier than thou humbug about them. All people wanna do with those CAL certificates is wipe their shitty asses. That's Microsoft's only problem on the server front. Their job is not to accept Linux, because now they can no longer attack it like they used to, once they give it their blessing, but to push their own shit, and push it in balance and harmony with the rest of the ecosystem.
Your job is
1. to survive, or go down fighting for something that you care about to survive
2. to not exterminate other varieties in your vehement competition against them
Microsoft has and still is fucking up royally on both fronts. We don't want them running Linux. We don't want them to give their blessing to Linux. And especially we don't want no fucking cloud with blackmailed monthly access fees to our data held hostage. What we want is something better than a "Vista sucks" on the desktop, a better and improved Win2K or XP, leaner and meaner, with less garbage and snooping piled on into it.
Intellectual property rights were erected during the founding father's days out of nothing, to create a better world, to create and enhance creativity, but intellectual property, unlike, say, land or chattel property, was always meant to be temporary, and ultimately enter the public domain, where all human knowledge and information ultimately belongs, including all GPL stuff after copyright expiration should enter public domain. Initially the terms were 14 years renewable to 28. These days we have temporary intellectual property, but it just got extended to 90 years from 70 around 1999. Why stop there? Why not have a 547 year and 6 month term? What's fair? Just how much more extra incentive did Walt Disney have to create Mickey Mouse if he knew that in 1999 the terms on his property were gonna be 90 years not 70?
Intellectual property was not erected to create a world of extorting or hogging property then blackmailing everybody for access to it. Such as music artists that get paid 3 cents out of a dollar for a song, the rest goes to the labels or publishers that extorted a signature to sign the property rights over. Yes, marketing, distribution, being a merchant is hard work that does deserve a fair cut. But fair is all a matter of price. Yes, sometimes people throw stuff away for peanuts because that's their perceived value, and then whoever buys it and resells it, to someone who values that item much more, yes, there is this winning, or lottery effect, or money for free effect in the world, because perceived values are allowed to fluctuate widely. But there are situations like music artists, who would like a bigger cut of the price, but they are strongarmed into deals, and there are consumers who want a lower price on the music, and both these tendencies tend to cut into the profit of the middle man, the publisher, or intellectual property right hogger. Just cuz the rules on intellectual property have artifacts that can be technically abused, you should not forget about the good will or good intentions of why they were erected in the first place: to spur creation of new material. How is the richest guy on the planet fit in with this picture? Obviously he carries a lot of bad will, just like Carnegie and Rockefeller did, but not because peo
You could add batteries to either kind of sub, moreover coolant pumps can be converted to inefficient but very quiet Tesla pumps used to pump pieces of chicken or live fish, because they work by friction.
The only giveaway for a sub is the sound echo pinging, but even that could mimic a whale or similar, recorded sounds, or it can be at a level low enough where the signal to noise ratio of the echo is near the detection limit, so it does not spread very far and gets absorbed. When anchored such a sub could stop pinging, and nothing penetrates large bodies of water, such as electromagnetic waves or xrays or gamma rays, with the exception of neutrinos, which are on the other hand very hard to detect.
With full recycling of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, and even extraction of it from seawater, a submarine could exist indefinitely self sufficient, closed circle (i.e. if all the seawater is polluted with radiation, it can recycle everything internally, using its reactor as an artificial sun to live off, in an abstract sense) and undetected, except when it runs out of fuel. And then the key strategic thing becomes mining the fuel on the sea floor, or extraction from seawater. But yeah, hiding of humans from even artificial intelligence that got out of hand on Earth would be possible better deep within the ocean, than anywhere in nearby outer space, even 70,000 years trip away, where it's easy to see, unless the spaceship there too finds a body of liquid water at tolerable pressures and enough dilute concentration of fuel to hide in.
I keep talking about how exodus to space stations is a simple solution from global biotech warfare getting out of hand or even a nuclear holocaust getting out of hand, with the exception of artificial intelligence getting out of hand, however now I realize that there is a chance to hide even from that. However, robots that could replicate, could all be submarines themselves, and produce enough units of themselves to do a one time clean sweep of all ocean waters, including mapping out the crevices surveyor style, so I guess, against 200 trillion robots patrol sweeping the oceans it would be difficult to hide, so one would have to hide behind a block of mountain, even deep within the sea, assuming robots are not interested in patrolling through solid rock and magma, but then you'd be stuck there, inside an totally isolated world or solid rock beneath the earth, maybe with a tap to a volcano magma from which to extract the fuel to live off of, and you could never come out of there or risk getting detected, so you could sit there indefinitely, at least until the Sun turns into a red giant and gobbles up earth, a few billions years from now, but on outer rocky planets like the Moons of Jupiter or Pluto or the Rock-ring of Saturn you might be able to hide out for a long long time, because the Sun will not swallow those, as far as we can tell, and then your time limit becomes the natural decay of the fuel which disappears little by little as the billions of years tick by, and eventually you'd starve, unless you come up with better physics and technology.
So the way the Navy, with the best nuclear engineers on the planet, and their ships running on reactors that are fueled once and last for 15-20 years before refueling or scrapping the whole ship, they could use ice bullets as the low cost do it all ammunition, and, during say a beach assault or even carrier planes and helicopters or drones running on lithium batteries recharged from the reactor, they could also load them with electric powered railguns and shoot ice bullets at things. True they are not as bad as grenade launchers that detonate on impact, but at least you could reserve the explosives for on impact things, as opposed to propulsion duties which you could do with a railgun, and some kind of camera flash charging setup charging a flywheel or supercapacitor for the instant high drain shooting part. So during a beach assault, if you run out of the metal bullets, you don't need a resupply and you can keep pounding the enemy, including with cannonball weight objects (and ice is 8x less dense than bronze or steel, so you need 8x the volume of cubic root of 8=twice the diameter of ice crystal ball to create the same weight of impact as a cannon ball. During a beach assault they could have a generator running on either gasoline, or ammonia from aboard a ship, or just a mobile lithium or whatever battery they can easily keep making out of seawater, including sodium air battery, or sodium sulfur, or sodium chlorine, and have one mobile car provide electricity to the troops in the trenches via powerchords. That would put a severe strain on operations and fighting abilities, being tethered to a power source with a cable, or even soldiers microwaved and fried from the accidents and errors of tracking via a cable-less wireless delivery of power (unless they look like R2D2 and C3PO and wear reflective clothing), but on the upside, on economics, you have a fully autonomous Navy unit able to function even if all of it's resupply lines have been cut, other than having to obtain its food from the sea also, like nothing to eat but fish and crabs and seaweed all year long. That way the tax payers would not even have to support them, but they'd be self sufficient, including making their own bullets, and all you gotta do is give them a new reactor loaded every 20 years.
But this idea of ice bullets is not novel, I think it was invented in the 70's in practical form during the height of espionage between the USSR and USA, where spy guns would shoot poisoned ice bullets, that leave a very tiny mark at the point of entry, and then they melt and dissolve in the body, leaving no trail for the autopsy. They contain frozen heart attack poison and the whole thing looks like a natural death from a heart attack, or pneumonia, anyeurism, etc. I think George Carlin died that way, after pissin off Da Man too much when he got really bold toward his old age no longer scared of dying, and said shit like there is a gang or club that own our country, they own you and me, there is a club oppressing everybody, and you and I are not in it. Which sounds very much along the lines of anticapitalist communist instigators propaganda messages about the factory owning burgeoisie exploiting the wage earning proletariat through property hogging of power without contributing much, and of course neither extreme view is correct, but whoever shot him, did it over no, we're tired of listening to this, this kind of talk is why we went into Vietnam, to stop the spread of communism, that, like Obamacare, takes all your private property from you and gives it to another guy, taking away your incentive to go to work and bring home the money because it's not yours anyway. It's like why should I go to work under Obamacare, all these billing agencies want a piece of me like I'm a James Brown sample, and then I can stay home, not have any money, and tell anyone sorry, we're closed today, out of samples, you gotta find another sucker to bum your next dollar out of because i don't have any. Why should I not just sit home and rest and sleep, why should I bust my ass br
I think the lasers idea came about the Reagan star wars, as armed GPS or similar satellites can gather a lot of solar power energy and shoot it off as a laser beam anywhere on the planet, but they don't have a supply of matter, or mass, to shoot, and even if they did, there is the shooting stars issue of combusting up in the atmosphere. True there are lots of easy ways to defend against lasers, like the posts above mentioned, but their advantage in space, where matter is scarce, is cost of the bullet rounds. In the Navy, energy is more expensive than matter, and if necessary they can shoot ice bullets if they have plenty of energy such as a reactor powering the ship. In such cases shooting ice bullets does bigger damage than laser beams for the same energy consumed, still cheaper on the budget overall.
On the issue of rail guns, yeah, they are a viable technology as long as you have a reactor attached to them and powering them, the problem with them is portability, like an assault rifle is never gonna be a railgun, because of energy density and reaction rate considerations. Chemical energy density is by far the most energy dense among those used in everyday weaponry, and energy storage like a flywheel, which can deliver energy fast, is low in density and has to constantly be charged, better on energy densities are supercapacitors, slower delivery but higher storage density, then you got batteries like lead acid cranking cars delivering 800 Amps instantaneous, which still falls short of the rate of power delivered by supercapacitors or flywheels, but much higher energy density, and the lithium batteries, which are the best rechargeable portable chemical energy storage things, suffer from low discharge rates, charging rate issues and self combustion, as the boeing and airbus planes found out when switching from nicads to lithium batteries. So who's gonna lug around a superheavy lead acid, nicad, nizn, mn/mn, or li-ion battery with an assault rifle? The bullets with gunpowder in them are robust, compact, and ergonomically portable, the problem is explosives storage as the Battle of Jutland proved for the Navy. So for portable guns, such as needed for a beach assault performed by the navy, there are no present battery technologies with fast enough drain rates required for sudden bursts of energy, but a battery + supercapacitor or flywheel combo might fix that, but the overall energy density of the best Li-ion might be 1MJ/kg, for bullets with explosives maybe 4-7 MJ/kg, and then you have Li-air batteries with slow drain rates but possible at 10+ MJ/kg in the future, and possibly even gasoline/diesel/polyethylene powered generators that spin a flywheel or charge a supercapacitor required for the next burst, kind of like camera flashers do, that might outdo the number of rounds a soldier is able to carry, even if you have to wait say 5 seconds between rounds to charge the flasher, compared to a machine gun assault rifle where the gunpowder bullets are ready and charged. This is only when portability issue is at hand, while back on a battle ship with a reactor and a freezer/cnc unit you can never run out of ice bullet rounds you can cnc-sculpt out of frozen seawater and shoot in an electric coil gun.
But in an all out war, other than chasing down pirates in Somalia where you need conventional guns, or hillbillies in Afganistan, in a world war 3 of all out war scenario only nukes prevail, as the Castle Bravo and other tests have proved. You do not want to have a WW3 and must do everything possible to avoid one, by any means necessary, but if you have to be ready for one, there is almost no point for gunpowder to actually win a battle and only nukes can do it, if anyone loses their cool, and when they do, nobody wins, which is called the doctrine of mutually assured destruction. Things are not so gloomy though, there is hope for life by running away from the problems, which in case of biotech terrorist disease inventions computer virus style or a nuclear holocaust WW3 between say East Asia+India vs the EU and US st
All politicians ever talk about is the economy economy economy. Why is the economy so fucking important? In my mind everyone should be able to live in absence of an economy, yeoman farmer style, and only participate in one if they find it is a good deal for them, because it's worth it economically, and otherwise they can abstain from participating in an economy DIY everything themselves. That means no mandatory bills of any kind other than voluntary ones such as cell phones or internet access, but no rent, no sewer/gas/electric bill, no food cost. And in this city dwellers who are gotten by the balls or by the stomach on the food supply and food cost issue, unable to DIY because of not enough area per person, are most vulnerable, and almost cannot be trusted on voting, just like the founding fathers said it, but then also, no great civilization or technology existed without cities. It's like mayan stargazing priests that invented zero and with that a positional numbering system equivalent to the hindus we call arabic as opposed to having to do math with roman numerals, so the priests of the mayans were like city dwellers we have today, without whom great technology and great weapons are impossible, and you need cities, even if city dwellers like the mayan priests are held by the balls on the food supply issue by the farmers. But you get what I'm trying to say. Fuck the economy, and I don't have to work or buy anything unless it's a good deal, and that's the only way to ensure fair prices. Mandatory sewer bills, mandatory electric bills, mandatory grocery prices are open to abuse in cities, and might require government regulation of monopolies just like in the old days. I used to get like $17 gas bills 7 years ago, when the local gas company was regulated, and now that they have been deregulated, and got all the city dwellers by the balls, they started charging a 25/mo minimum charge. 25/mo for nothing? You're out of your mind, that's an insane amount of money, not in the $25/hr for a GED union wage economy of the 90's, or even to the $30/hr nurses blackmailing people out of their livesavings they gathered for 40 years within 10 minutes, which they are willing to turn over to get a heart surgery and live for 2 more minutes, so that has a good and a bad side to it, but with the level of unemployment, and businesses going empty all around me, 25/hr is insane, in the present general circumstances, and all I can do is give the the finger if they are unwilling to be flexible on charges to me, such as when I don't have money, I could still spend $5/mo for hot water and not heat the home much, instead of all or nothing 25/mo, in which case they get nothing, or a crash like Detroit is coming their and the whole US economy's way. Life adapts to new circumstances, and if it cannot, it goes extinct. Businesses and economies adapt and if not they do not, they go extinct too. And in this adaptation game my way of fighting Da Man on top constantly seeking to put a collar around my neck and a chain to yank on, threatening me with this, threatening me with that, is to give Da Man the finger and tell him to give me liberty or give me death, and when the circumstances around me are artificially modulated to create an incentive to make me do something I hate doing, like becoming an intellectual property slave to some intellectual property generation company slave owner, I go head against the wall and make sure that the opposite effect is achieved, as far as my behavior is concerned. I'm like a cat that you try to put a yoke on, I throw it off and hiss at you, but if you set me free and I feel free, I might come rub up against you and purr to you. Above anything else I don't breed in captivity, and willingly go extinct in circumstances of captivity, such as a 1.002 income to expense ratio. Give me liberty or give me death, and in that I don't need you to give me a high income, but I'd love to divide by zero to create infinite luxury on peanuts of an income. My goal is not a high salary, but a zero cost, in the long run. And nothing can change that.
I'm sick, income to expense ratio is too low in America for businesses to be profitable, and when I try to fix my expense to create a division by zero infinite luxury condition for myself on minimum wage, I get attacked by the people who have a lot of wealth and their life savings or even decades long education and experience presently invested into those cost of living things - i.e. utility companies and utility stocks, real estate investments, intellectual property investments, insurance businesses, legal services and healthcare services, or even food - and are extremely vehement when you talk about DIY in everything above, including legal, health, housing, utility, food, you DIY everything and have zero bills except property tax which you cannot escape, other than living in the most worthless and piece of crap place nobody else wants to live in, yet there is plenty of green and plenty of rain and life you can eat. Food is my top daily necessity, besides air and water that I get for near free, they fall out of the sky, but no biblical manna falls out of the sky and I cannot live without food, and everything else is optional, or not a daily cost - like you build a shelter once, it takes you a couple days or maybe months then it's good for 30 years. I don't understand how the shelter cost is so friggin high? It's only so because of corrupt bldg code sustaining the artificially high prices attacks low cost shelters to cater to the favors of those on top, who tend to hold most property possessions, and it's in their interest to distort laws in their own favor. All I know stubbornness like that only leads to a Detroitish appearance world. Unless they are willing to erect skyhigh tariffs on international trade to where artificially high labor prices can be maintained within the US, and from that artificially high cost of living prices, we have to compete for our own dollar with Chinese engineers earning 3K a year, when minimum wage of approx 8/hr comes to 8 x 2080hrs/yr approx 16K salaries. And people in America think that we're better than the rest of the world, that Chinese people are stupid because they don't know the American Way and can't speak English correctly - why don't you try learning Chinese and see how far you get or how stupid you are too - and all I can say is that they are not stupid, and the American Way is shopping at Walmart for stuff Made in China, and everyone works at companies in the US making products nobody can afford to buy. Unlike in the days of Ford T-model assembly lines, where the workers got paid enough to buy the products they were making, or even in the 90's when 25/hr GED union jobs could let people not really care because money was plenty, these days, when I work on a Toyota part at a job, the company owner has a meeting and orders or strongly suggests everyone to buy a Corolla and credit. Let's use our credit to buy Corollas. Yeah right, nobody has $20K for a new Corolla and they buy used cars. If you want a global economy without tariffs which has lots of benefits, you have to be willing to compete, and in that, on the cost of labor, and in that, on the cost of living. If you are unwilling to adapt your cost of living, such as housing cost to the economic realities, you create an all or nothing crash situation, like Detroit buildings going empty. The only thing those buildings failed to do properly is adjust their free market prices. Such as if nobody wants to pay 1500/mo for an office space you drop it to 500, and if nobody pays that, I'm sure people would be interested at 50, and in turn the building property has to adjust their cost of living expenses too. It's like I can't find a way to exist in the US making 7.85/hr if the cost of living takes 7.83/hr and I'm left with 0.02 wiggle room, or the income to expense ratio is 7.85/7.83=1.0026, with a 0.2% excess I can use to save up money from, and compete like that with China where people make $1/day, not 14 hr workdays x 7.85/hr. It's like if I can cut all my expenses to zero, or close to it, so say $0.10/hr while making $7.85/hr, I'd
So my mother with a failed marriage, with both her mother and father dead by her 30's, I was pretty much her only hobby besides work, and some church. At the local library they told her there are no more children's books, she has borrowed them all and read them to me. She might have hated my father over her being starved as a child by people who believed in what he believed in, and was ambivalent love-hate about me especially after I stopped looking like nobody's kid and became a near exact copy of my father, and he started paying child support after me, but then my mother's attitude changed too, no longer her top hobby but busy trying to run a larger household like running a mini farm trying to make ends meet, and she'd often leave and be gone with the bus far away me all by myself for many hours, with a blue crayon and a notebook and told me to draw and amuse myself, and I was bored out of my mind with a stupid blue crayon for hours, but then a cat we had befriended me, and took care of me. Cats are masters of body language of their prey with phd's in psychology and interpersonal respect, and if you treat them right, they treat you right, if they sense you are down and depressed they rub up against you purring and boost your ego back up, then they abandon you and go about their own business like you mean nothing to them.
So anyway when and where I grew up it never even occurred to kids to show up to school with a gun, and parents provided a fairly decent education in church, religion and just plain basic humanity that gave teachers something to work with, unlike around here, where to teach, or sometimes even to go to work, like a recycling business, school, airport or government office, you have to go through a metal detector. It's like freedom and freedom of mind is important to me, and I'm not interested in working where they force me to sign intellectual property agreements or have to go through metal detectors, and that includes not interested in teaching.
Where I grew up I had insanely good teachers with great reputation among the parents - including my all time favorite teacher, the high school math professor, who retired like three times and the parents begged him back into teaching, - and general education you did not have to pay for, but even if you did, it would have had to have been extremely expensive before I, if I had to walk a mile in my parents shoes, would have decided not to purchase the awesome quality education they were providing. It's like a free market, if the price is too high you DIY or buy elsewhere, and even if it's cheap but you're getting a crappy education, you can also DIY, like on Ebay price determines whether something is a good deal or not, and you can often have an amazing education pretty much for free (such as state supported), or you can overpay for private school for the quality and value you get there. DIY homeschooling is always an option, and individual citizens have to decide for themselves what's best for them and their children. For instance, in 2nd grade, when I took my homework home and asked my mother to help me solve a system of 2 simultaneous linear equations of two variables, my mother was unable to help, and my 2nd grade teacher when I was 8 years old could not believe how stupid all the parents were, because almost none could solve two simultaneous equations of two independent variables, which to her was piece of cake, and she found it easier to teach it to us, the kids, than to the stuck in an old muddy rut brained parents who were like you can't teach an old fox new tricks. That was the time my mother gave up teaching me, having taught me all the numbers, letter, how to read write way before 1st grade, and my teacher telling her to quit teaching me stuff in advance because I'm extremely bored out of my mind and naughty in class and disturbing. So for homeschooling, parents have to decide whether they can teach their kids simple stuff like a system of simultaneous linear equations of two independent variables, as a taste for what's required to begin with to home school, and otherwise they are at the mercy of professionals to provide the basics to their children.
Some people in the US are like I'm supposed to teach their kids. And my answer to that is that if you knock my house down, cut my grass, bust up the trunk and smash the windows of my car in where I bought a junk house and tried to make a go of it and parked an old car there, then teach your own fucking kids and I don't have to do it.
These days I am forced to do whatever it takes not to show up at a hospital, even when they infect the fuck out of me and xray the fuck out of me, because I oppose forced insurance purchases, such as Obamacare is trying to introduce, which would devastate the financial life of any responsible family, and pretty much amounts to nothing but mass extermination of the responsible middle class by draining their financial resources they could use to have another child and live on in the next generation, it takes the breast milk money out of middle class tits and starves those babies and gives them to the upper and lower classes. They are trying to make an example case out of me for Obamacare and have me show up at a hospital sick and uninsured, and my answer to that is that I'm willing to make an example case out of Obamacare out of me and die over this shit so other people, who are responsible, and I care about, can live.
No, but with the right technology (like greenhouses, solar power, air conditioners, and atmospheric moisture extractors) it could be turned into one. Unfortunately that, like the loss of snow caps on mountaintops like Kilimanjaro, would reduce solar reflectivity and increase global warming, because jungle green reflects less visible light penetrating the atmosphere into outer space and coverts it to infrared that bounces back to the planet from the atmosphere, compared to bright desert yellow sand. One must wait until there is tangible evidence of the mofos on top running the show putting up umbrella like solar panels (that beam the power via microwave down to Earth or maybe to the ISS or the Moon) at the Lagrange point in sufficient amount (say 1% of total Earth surface area) to compensate for loss of reflectivity and cool the planet the fuck back down until the snow on top of Kilimanjaro reappears in same quantity as it was in 1950. Until then areas like Death Valley or Death Saudi Arabia or Death Sahara Desert must wait. And we're talking a lot of real estate: http://whiteafrican.com/wp-con...
Then go look up the land area of the Sahara Desert to realize how much opportunity to expand jungles is wasted presently as wind blown desert sand dunes with death and nothing in them. From that picture it looks like the Sahara Desert is bigger than the entire continental US not including Alaska, and Alaska might be by far the biggest state by land area, but it's pretty empty from people (except shotgun wielding hot as fuck air heads like Sarah Palin that everyone, including all the women have a crush on and want to see naked) because it does not get enough sunlight, or enough temperate temperature days to allow for farming to proliferate, unlike the jungles of India, Congo, Brazil, or Vietnam that are bursting with life and genetic variability. Alaska does get forests and safe habitat for rare or near extinct animals like grizzlies, polar bears and wolves. For comparison in land areas, Russia tops the list, for instance look at this picture: http://alphadesigner.com/wp-co...
Btw I came across another good picture worth soaking up. We all know about China being the most populous, and people in Japan being perverts who fuck like rabbits, but besides them two check out India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, VietNam, Mexico and compare to US, Russia, Canada, Australia and Saudi Arabia, or even Yemen to Saudi Arabia, or even Ukraine to Russia, to find out where the most coitus is going down on the planet and where people are most strictly religious in the non-kama-sutra way and keep a leash on their dick. http://i.imgur.com/HhqlkMK.png
Based on this picture a Pearl Harbor attack by a tiny country like Japan on a humongous country like the US is not really that insane, and should a war happen between Japan and Australia alone, or even Vietnam and Australia, and it's obvious who the immediate winner would be, right? When you could human soldiers which are cheaper, more expandable and more robust than robots.
It would be nice to see a similar breakdown for the US along racial lines. For instance in the 1990's there were 17% African Americans in the US, supposedly, in the days of $25/hr union wages with a high school diploma. These days all I see is white women with black kids and everyone on welfare and white guys not having children over not having a job, or not having a job that pays well, and I'm starting to think that the racial makeup is more like 30% Black, 20%Hispanic and 10% Asian, and out of these Hispanics are the fastest breeding. As long as there is guaranteed welfare checks that leave no child left behind and starving, there is no reason not to pop as many as you possibly can, right? How you gonna tell somebody not to hit that booty, not to fuck, and not to have children,
Or releasing genetically modified mind blowingly hot humans into areas with human overpopulation issues, so that all the offsprings or grandkids are infertile. Come on, y'all know where this genetics technology is heading to why do I have to be the first one to say it?.. first mosquitoes, then your human declared enemies.. then your human competitors in business.. especially if you are tribal, gang-like or clan like in your mindset.. Thank you Monsanto Laboratories and Agilent Bioscience for these miraculous tools to fix "problems" in biology.
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Why would you want to waste all that precious gas it has successfully collected, every bit of which is worth treasure in the vast emptiness and nothingness of space. Even if you have to run nuclear processes to convert them say from oxygen toward iron, or from lead toward iron, via solar panel harvested star energy and an inefficient Hirsch fusor, it's stuff, tangible matter in your hands in the vast vast vast vast vast emptiness and nothingness of space. Stuff you can transform to make bodyparts for life out of. You cannot make children out of vacuum, you need matter, like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, etc. Do not waste a single drop of matter, and you can live just fine on rotating cylinder artificial gravity space stations around it, such as in orbit around a Neptune. Venus is different - you want to ping pong it to a region or shade it right where it is where its surface temperature is such that collects water from the nearby and relatively abundant solar wind. You're not wasting a lot of matter, in absolute terms or relative terms, unlike in the not so deep solar gravity well case of the humongous Neptune, where matter is hard to come by, and it's also humongous amount, in absolute terms, compared to the size of Venus.
Ok, well I see nobody came up with this, and I've thought about it more. The whole point of putting up a huge ring instead of a huge lens, is again, to save weight. But with astronomy it is usually not the triangulation accuracy that matters, as in, 3d-vision of knowing the distance, but light collection and image sharpness. So what I said about partial outer fresnel lens rings, binocular style, is not correct, the very purpose of the ring is increased light collection surface area all focusing to a single point to create the image, doing it at minimum weight possible, and if they carried on along the lens, it would get prohibitively heavy in the center. However, this problem of increased surface area without increasing the weight has been already solved, and it's called the Fresnel lens itself. And in fact, the central rings of the Fresnel are the lightest, because they can be made flat and nearly parallel, so super thin, while the outermost rings are the heaviest, because of the steep angle requirements for diffraction there, unless you are willing to increase the frequency of the rings making them each skinnier and narrower, compared to pretty fat stripes of glass in the center. Also the achromatic requirement for the materials near the outer rings increases - meaning the prism-like refracting glass cannot split the colors of the rainbow, but the material has to be accurately achromatic for all frequencies, possibly UV and infrared too, or whatever you can get. So as far as astronomy goes, and light collection surface area just an opaque disk in the center is no better than a traditional Fresnel lens, other than the requirement on the accuracy of shape and accuracy of focal point manufacturing, which may be slightly less of a problem with a single outer ring, but why not pay attention and tune it to the max you can tune it, instead of putting up an opaque disk. Even with an opaque disk the opaque part needs to be closer to the lens, so that when you have to steer the gigantic ring contraption with rocket fuel, you only have to move the ring, not the opaque disk which is close to the camera or focal point, and if you go with a Fresnel lens, you could have locally installable and removable filters that could block out certain rings at a time if needed, and only allow the outermost one, or innermost-ones to collect the light, or if you allowed slight achromaticity, varying the focal point could collect the blue, red, yellow, etc portions along the rainbow individually, including UV and infrared by themselves too, which then you can computer compound to reconstruct the image.
So in the astronomy sense of looking at distant galaxies, the binocular 3D vision sense, kind of like looking out into the sea for ships from a port, and seeing the distance with binoculars which is not possible with a single telescope, so for astronomy sense the 3D effect is not important, because the base of the triangle you use in your computations to get your 3D view is so minuscule compared to the hypotenuse and other sides of the triangle, that the math still spits out error, and you cannot tell how far a galaxy is with a couple hundred mile binocular spacing, maybe a spacing that spans the entire solar system between two telescope looking at the exact same thing might work. However what a 3D vision can do in space is see nearby objects, or search for nearby objects. You simply put your eyeballs into a cross-eye for near range, such as looking between Neptune and Pluto, or just behind Pluto, and then whatever you're looking at, if any objects come into intense focus while everthing before them and behind them blurs out, you can instantly find meteorites, even if they are extremely small, headed for Earth. We just had a near miss of a fairly gigantic meteorite that whizzed by Earth and missed, on Jan 26, and the non omnipotent lifeforms on Earth that split the Red Sea during Exodus could have altered its course to make it slam into Earth, precipitating a global catastrophe that would instantly put an end to stupid lawn mowing that peopl
No, they are normally black, as long as you're talking about the huge ones. The white ones, like the one I carry around between my legs, only come S and M sizes only, maybe L if she's lucky, but not XL, XXL or XXXL. And women are addicted to XXXL. Like even in the Bible, God: Adam, why did you eat the apple from the forbidden fruit tree? Adam: because Eve told me to do it. God: Eve, why did you eat the apple from the forbidden fruit tree? Eve: because the black snake, that looks like one huge dick, told me to do it, and I'm addicted to huge dicks and could not resist. That pretty much sums up the rest of history that followed ever since.
So how long til they turn this thing around toward Earth, and now I'll get to watch nature documentaries about how the moist egg exits from the anus when a spider lays her eggs, in high definition, filmed directly from a geostationary orbit.
The whole thing is like putting a huge lens into orbit, and if you kept the center parts it would be heavy, but it would collect more light, but if you cut it out, you can still get the resolution except with less light collection. It's all about saving weight and sacrificing light intensity in the name of maintaining high resolution. That's what binoculars with spread out sighters via internal prisms do, they do not increase the light collection area, just the accuracy in the triangulation math when you increase the base. In fact they don't even need a whole disk, just two partial disks, separated at a distance, and leave the rest of the circumference out too, black that out too. Make it like a big binocular. Or spread it out, say 6 fresnel refractors spaced around the imaginary circumference at 60x6=360 degree angles. Or 4 each at 90 angles. And you could play games at reorganizing these things, and the blocking out of the central light part you could do closer, at the camera, like 2 inches before it at 2 inch opaque disk diameter, or 200 yards at 200 yard opaque disk diameter, whatever is necessary to get a good image out of the zoo of your interacting fresnel things miles or hundreds of miles ahead. It's kind of like a desert tracking mirror focusing solar tower, where you can move your mirrors about to miles away if you want to, and play around with the settings depending on what you're looking at, a high light intensity thing where you can spread out farther to collect the light and get huge resolution, or something barely tinkle tinkle little star, where you have to regroup closer together to get some minimal light intensity to work with, but sacrificing resolution. And if you have these all over the place, you could vary the blocker size in the center by moving it from 2 inches to 200 yards and back. Most high quality cameras have flexibility on adjusting focus via a movable lens and light intensity via a shutter, what they don't have is the spread out interpupillary distance of a binocular.
But if they do put it up as it is, maybe they gain experience for when they have to put up a couple thousand square miles of opaque things, like movable solar panels, at the Lagrange point between Earth and the Sun to regulate global warming, because I already got enough bills on my plate to figure out where the hell I'm gonna get the money for them to pay, and I'm tired about the world leaders wasting their breath at conferences thinking up new ways to tax me, like a stupid carbon tax, when the solution is simple, when it's too bright, you put on some shades, or, like at the beach, if the sun is burning you too hot, you put up an umbrella. Doh! I don't understand what's so complicated about this. Fuck these idiots and their stupid carbon tax and carbon trading. Life loves carbon, like the Dead Sea is the most productive area on the planet in nongreenhouse circumstances, where tomatoes grow the fastest, because it has the highest CO2 partial pressure, other than not having enough water that you have to import and irrigate with. Life hates deserts but loves CO2 in the atmosphere, and the problem with CO2 in the atmosphere is that it ma
Actually I love mass surveillance, where I get to constantly bitch about how I hate it, and they do it "illegally" as in catching somebody speeding on cameras, or knowing someone is cheating on their wife, etc. It used to go under the term "gossip" in villages without which village communities cannot self regulate, and same should go for mass surveillance. It should be done to the maximum possible extent, but should be kept illegal to the maximum possible extent too, such as its recordings without warrants never holding up in court, not allowed to be broadcast on tv or internet, etc. Like traffic cams without a police officer present, no. The tv show COPS is a different story, you see what an officer sees, but this omnipresent surveillance machine of bugs and spying and secret cameras invade too much on privacy, without warning, without effort on the part of invaders, and create an unhealthy balance for power abuse. Like I don't want no traffic camera issued speeding tickets, but I love police officer issued ones, and in all this I still want them to see if anyone speeds on cameras. But they gotta be like a catholic priest with a vow of silence after a confession. He can pedal things in the village to mend the situation without openly being able to discuss what exactly he heard. That's what this surveillance technology creates, high tech confessions and only specially selected people taking a vow of silence should be able to perform it and review it. I do not go to confessions much, but say, if I made a mistake, and got drunk and got a girl pregnant without my wife and kids knowing about it, and that girl wants to go through with the pregnancy and does not want to abort, the best thing to do is to tell the priest, who summons the elderly women and subtly guides them or hints what the task is, who love such a task of descending on your wife and taking care of her if she happens to ever find out, as an emotional support network, without actually telling her, and also arrange for the illegitimate out of wedlock child to be born, and to be well taken care of. That child is not a waste, a precious being, and also a stable family should not be broken up over it. The situation is known by many, it is cared for by many, and it's a complex situation that's very difficult to manage without the support network initiated by a confession booth and the elderly women who are not isolated off or shipped off to nursing homes. If anything, I think as soon a woman hits post menopause, she instantly qualifies to be a surveillance person of traffic cameras, cellular trackings, etc, and take that vow of silence that priest do about confessions, and their findings and recordings should always be considered illegal, not to hold up in court or broadcast on TV, other than maybe as statistics.
"my hand categorically rejects two button mice — the dangling ring finger causes me genuine physical discomfort"
guess what mine rejects categorically?
Well the US Government started in 1776, so it's done fairly well so far, and I have these postal stamps that say USA Forever, aka forever stamps, if that's any kind of omen.
Run away to space stations - unlike the Bible Exodus across the divided Red Sea running away from the big dark Egyptian cock your women find resistible and can't stop sucking, this time it's gonna be an Exodus into outer space (using Mt. Everest as a ramp) running away from the GMO contraptions that are gonna kill us all that your profit greedy purely biotech focused corporations (like Monsanto or Agilent, both of which used to focus on other technology, like rubber or electronics) can't resist popping out one after the other, telling you it's safe, and it's Roundup resistant, unlike all the 1 billion year old "weeds" or 4 billion year old e-coli bacteria "germs" they will displace. Oh well, at leaast biotech is not as scary as AI research, like self driving cars that can tell the difference between a deer or a plastic deer lawn ornament 500 yards ahead, because Exodus into outer space is an easy solution against it, same with nuclear holocaust, you can simply run away from the problem your exploration and curiosity created Star Trek style leaving behind a big mess, but AI is gonna be smarter than you and screw you over with tricks and chase you down, come Exodus after you, no Exodus for you foolish earthling. Just watch Screamers 1996 movie for a dose of reality to lose your naiveness about these advancements in progress, or progress in advancements. You can't hold back progress. That's the argument commies used against "obsolete" capitalists.
The only thing that ultimately guarantees "publicly accountable" is the 2nd Amendment, once your 1st Amendment rights to bitch have been squashed by corrupt conspirators. If it can be called corrupt in a moral sense, but not in a legal sense, then there is something wrong with the law and the legislators that pimp it. Such as a customer does not have to buy anything such as insurance or lottery tickets he does not want to buy for any reason, most often that is price, or benefit returned for that price, but even simple things, like when shopping for a TV, some sales clerk offends you, you have the right to not buy a TV, even if you get an extreme bargain, even if you get the TV for free. He can walk out of the store and not do business with them and the lesson is that if they do it to the other customers too, they too don't have to buy, the customer is king in the Land of the Fre and the Home of the Brave and he does not have to do business with you unless he feels like he is getting a deal, or becase he likes you, or whatever his reasons are. If you offend a customer he has the right to walk out of your business and boycott it as far as removing his life from yours goes, he does not have the right to come back and bomb that business maffiozo style, but he has the right to shun you. That's how Amish people treat each other - they shun each other when circumstance require. They don't beat you with a stick, they don't hang you, they don't bomb you with explosives, they don't shoot you with a gun, they simply remove the benefit of what their life provides to you from you, called shunning. Usually you can take it for a while but the end result is most often just the person shunned leaving. I have the right to shun counties that have been abusive to me. Such as cutting my wildflowers. For instance, look at this picture http://commons.wikimedia.org/w... and look around at the girl's feet. A butterfly or other bugs would find this terrain absolutely gorgeous, because they could easily survive on the nectar collected from the abundant, natural wildflowers. If your sense of beauty is distorted when the only beautiful thing is a perfect green 8 millimeter tall grass lawn devoid of any red, yellow, blue or white, then I think you need to go to a shrink to get your head checked out, but in any case you have the right to be the best way you see fit for you, including cutting you grass, and I have the right to be the best way I see fit, such as not cutting mine. The argument that nature untouched by man is ugly does not fly. Nature does not need a constant human touch to be beautiful. Ask all the jungle people around the world what they think. And even if you cut the grass and steal it from my land, don't send me bills that cost more than $10 for the 20 minutes it takes to cut it per incident, which would come to $30/hr when going from neighboring lots to neighboring lots. We have a clash here over what's beautiful, and a couple hundred feet away at the end of he street there are a ton of standing wildflowers behind the fence on the lot of the public rail transit system and that is not attacked or constantly cut, so it's also a discrimination case. Under the circumstances I have the right to refuse accepting a job within county borders, over corrupt county government abuses, and withdraw the benefit my existence would provide to them, such as paying taxes. If the county attacks me financially to devastate me, I have the right to try to shun them financially in return. And then after considering the attacking from the county on the financial front, here comes Obamacare, a direct attack on my financial world straight from the Federal Government, trying to force me to go on government aid under my social holding me responsible for the bankrupt government's financial problems too, while making enormous payments on arbitrary prices on this on line Health Insurance Marketplace puppet show. I'm a customer and the basic rule is that I don't ha
Aluminum beats copper on a weight basis in electric conductivity, and is used exclusively for intercity high voltage overhead cables. At household voltages is does have contact oxide coating resistance overheating and corrosion issues compared to copper, but internally it's an excellent conductor, especially when you consider the price too.
So an aluminum siding should successfully block out the whole electromagnetic spectrum, other than very low frequency that goes around it like through the roof what's not covered with metal, or the sides of the attic not covered with metal, i.e. holes in the Faraday-cage, and at the other end, beyond microwave, terahertz, infrared, visible, UV, only x-ray and gamma-ray can penetrate aluminum siding, so for imaging you cannot really use diffracted waves like FM or AM radio ones that go along unpredictable paths, so these guys must surely be equipped with x-ray and gamma-ray cameras, otherwise they are wasting their precious time for every house they pass which is covered in aluminum, or garage doors which are aluminum. And it's all a minor issue on the radiation exposure front, except when one of your neighbors gets one of these cameras and constantly keeps it on you, and the radiation dose keeps adding up, giving you cancer, or just simply suppressing your immune function, and then they call it AIDS, as in Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and what it really means is that you Acquired a Neighbor who Acquired a portable or non-portable X-ray camera or just the X-ray gun part of it, and constantly keeps it on you, for, oh, I don't know, trying to own the block reasons to chase other people of different ethnicity away, kind of like intentionally littering the grounds around your home, trying to make you move, this is now ours too, you gotta go, take over time. Welcome to America, where if you're a homosexual or we just don't like what you do, like you have a problem signing our intellectual property slave contracts, you have an increased chance of acquiring what we call AIDS, which has nothing to do with infections or biology other than radiation exposure.