If an intergalactic invasion looks like this, possibly with some pulsating electromagnetic propulsion we still don't know much about, it may be STL not FTL, i.e. slower than light not faster than light:
And you could have a couple million years to get your 22 stage Teller-Ulam contraptions ready for a welcome, especially if the convoy of messengers you send ahead for a treaty never signals back at the speed of light, meaning they don't respect the don't shoot the messenger to begin with the basics. The Milky Way is very hazy though, and it's hard to see which way they would be coming from, or even if they arrive, it may be a while til they arrived to get hostile in your neighborhood, if ever. Maybe, like Star Trek officers, they know how to coexist with other life forms without trying to attack everything in their path. But the Dzenghis Khan gang of Mongols taught a very good lesson to any naive douche bags who blindly expect other intelligent creatures to be peaceful. You never know, and because of that skill in defense in important. Even the Native Americans were better off with bows fighting against gunpowder, than if they only had leather strap stone/wood handle battle axes. Though Shaka did win battles against the British with spears and very quick troop movements, but even simple spears used for hunting hogs in the jungle have more action to a distance than a caveman stone/leather strap/wood handle axe. You have a good fighting chance even with inferior technology, not much, but much better than nothing. Neither the Indians nor Shaka said OK, because you have superior weapons, therefore we welcome you as our new intercontinental (as opposed to intergalactic) overlords.
I used to not be a big fan of the Mars program because it's so far compared to the Moon, however no matter how bad you fuck up Mars with your experimenting, it's not gonna affect us on Earth, unlike the Moon. However I'd still like to see minor mining on the Moon for global warming shades to put up at the Lagrange point between the Earth and the Sun, that cover, say 1% of Earth's surface area, possibly be aluminum backed single space grown crystal silicon solar power stations too at the same time. But I would not want the Moon to be gone completely in 500 years, but I have no problem with Mars being ripped to pieces via mining and space stations made out of all of it. Venus is gonna take a while to terraform. I'm thinking 10,000 years to 10 million. But it's never too early to start, especially if near miss incidents out there that occur once every 10 million years, such as a mega asteroid/comet almost knocking one of Jupiter's moons out of orbit, and you could direct that to actually do knock it out, in a way where it goes round the Sun and impact Venus just right to get it spinning and higher up in orbit from the Sun, with possible consequences on Earth's orbit, which I don't know about. However if you could get it in one shot in the same orbit as Earth on the exact opposite side of the Sun, that would be great, or if you had 3 such planets composed running equidistant on a circular Earth-like orbit, that would be cool too, because you'd have line of sight that way too, but otherwise no orbit interactions, like one going faster than the other. And even if you left them alone eventually they would naturally accumulate water, such as captured hydrogen oxygen from solar wind, and not boil/distill it off out of the atmosphere like Venus does, because they would be at the right distance. I think before pounding stuff into Venus, there has to be stable and self sustaining space station life, and then Life from Earth is guaranteed to make it even if some mega comet half the size of Earth comes out of nowhere and slams into it at high speed, and you didn't see it coming. Don't keep all your eggs in one basket if you can afford not to. A possibly very fast way to start terraforming Venus would be to put up semitransparent huge shades for it too. That's what you do at the beach, when he Sun is burning too hot, you put up an umbrella.
Or our present problems of melting glaciers and mountaintop snow, and icebergs, all covered under the global warming issue we blame on rise of atmospheric CO2 levels started around 1700 with the industrial revolution and the move from beast muscle power to coal/steam, then gasoline/diesel. If anything the nuclear things helped in this picture, as they avoid emitting CO2, and the big issue with them was that people kept blowing them up and scattering the emissions into the troposphere constantly, until above ground tests were banned, or even underground tests are no longer conducted much. The biggest function of nuclear today is to cut out CO2 emissions by providing like 20% of electricity needs, and in the future, we have this quack prophecy of cry wolf an asteroid is gonna hit Earth a few days from now on Jan 26, and it's gonna pass like the year 2000 problem, without as much as a fizzle or much smoke, but eventually it's a possibility that a huge collision with another large size meteorite would happen, the chances are minuscule but collisions do occur out there in the Universe, and if one came our way and we had no tools like the Teller-Ulam designs, we'd be sitting ducks. It's like it's better to have a gun when a bear attacks you, or if you're a small sized person a large muscular person attacks you with a knife, it's a great equalizer, and it's better than a knife or a sword or even a stone/wood handle battle axe the caveman had. Facing an asteroid coming at Earth with conventional explosives is like forcing a person in the wilderness of Alaska infested with grizzly bears to carry a stone/wood caveman axe as protection. It's not the weapon that matters, but what you do with it. If you keep making test explosion mushroom clouds and spew the emissions all over the globe, then yeah, you're an idiot. If you make all electric from it, and not emit anything, and only hold these high power weapons for outer space ping pong tasks, or as a defense against some intergalactic invasion of some hostile alien species that try to eat you, then you're not an idiot. But they should add an 11th commandment to Moses' stone tablets, that says "Thou shalt not drop an atomic bomb on thy neighbor's head, especially if he's not dropping one on yours." I don't understand what's so complicated about this stuff?
Yeah like my mother's radio needed one of them 2 prong 110V power cables, because the old one got frayed underneath the plastic jacket, and Radio Shack had it, for like $13, I don't remember, but I could have spent more on gas trying to shop around to see which store has it, like where would it be at Walmart? You'd have to check out alarm clocks or something to see if they come with one, for like 6 or 7 dollars, just for the cable, and you could spend an entire day going from Walmart to Target, while in Radio Shack they have it. Later I ordered some 90W 18V laptop power supplies from China on Ebay, and I won the biddings at like $4 a piece for like 4 of them, and they come with such cable, 2 prong, which she uses now, but they took over 30 days to ship, via free shipping, imagine that. Radio Shack has a place in the world, it's a name like Coca Cola, or HP, or Caterpillar or Harley Davidson, that's American and holds a special place in people's hearts, even if all of the above may be overpriced compared to the competition, except HP, which now is a purely computing company after spinoffs like Agilent that used to be the core of HP before computers, which now spun it off as Keysight Technologies and Agilent became yet another purely biotech company like Monsanto that spun off old school things they used to be involved in, such as rubber science and equipment. It's hard to keep track anymore what's where who's called what, but the traditional high quality military grade measuring equipment that HP used to be before computers appeared on the scene is now called Keysight.
Win2k did not have the glitter and looks of XP, but it came with much less garbage also, like no messenger install that's hard to shoot, and it was also the last version of Windows that worked without activation on specific hardware for retail versions, which fail to work after 3 or so items in your hardware fail and need replacement, then you have to reactivate, and Microsoft may tell you sorry, we no longer support XP, go out and buy a new computer that run Windows 8, or something along those lines. Win2k shines in this respect that it is like a diamond, forever, unlike XP which is meant to die fast, if you bought a retail version per copy license of Win2K that you can carry from dead hardware to dead hardware forever, the OEM copies being more iffy on the legality, but even in an apocalypse where the Internet or phone systems are defunct or Microsoft is simply no longer in business and nobody takes over issuing activation keys for old versions of XP, you can keep running Win 2K if you have a large enough cache of hardware to replace failed ones along the way, and it does not care what it runs on, nor does it monitor or keep track of hardware items that get replaced as they fail and start moaning that it's no longer running on the same computer it initially was installed on, please reactivate. Reactivate with who, in an apocalypse? Reactivate with who 200 years from now? Win2K is forever, XP and later are not. Of course Dell, Hp, and similar versions of XP work without activation, because they check the bios in the computer, and as long as you keep replacing failed motherboards with another from the same vendor, they should keep working. However they tend to be nonstandard cases and don't accept standard motherboards, if you feel like putting something else into them, and also they feel to me like they all have remote kill switches, and not as trustable as a generic motherboard from say Gigabyte, Abit or MSI, and the like. I'm only running XP on this HP Mini 200 (with like a 5W Intel Atom) netbook with 9hr battery life, because that's what HP let me get after I found it to simply crawl too slow in performance with Win 7, and it kinda rocks with XP in speed, but I don't really like XP because it comes with too much snooping garbage hiding in the background when I'm on the internet with it, directly from the HP/Microsoft gang, and for long term I'm digging in my heals with Win2K as the last OS for offline, noninternet home use, and presently lots of people are dumping XP capable computers on Ebay simply because Microsoft end of life'd them on it, and I'm like yeah baby, gimme gimme give it to me this awesome treasure at these unbelievably low prices. Other people's garbage is my treasure, because they don't realize what insane value they are throwing away. Starting with XP life is in the fastlane with Windows, but Windows 2000 and prior are forever, as long as you can find hardware that runs them.
Here, after all this bitching and thinking I came up with something more constructive. If you want to socialize health care, some kind of price control is almost mandatory, as in you can't trust a goat with a cabbage, or a wolf with a goat, when taking them across a river puzzle way, just like you can't trust insurance corporations to come up with fair prices, even if free market competition is supposed to help, but when you remove the buyer's option not to buy, then things are even more dire compared to price fixing and monopoly/oligopoly issues even in the regular free market. For instance back in the 1930's, outside US jurisdiction, I think centered in Switzerland, there was a price fixing scheme where tungsten filament electric lights were tested from different suppliers, and if any of them surpassed the 1000 hr lifetime, the companies were punished, in a sort of cartel agreement that was equivalent to price fixing, or creating lower quality parts on purpose than a free market would have allowed. There are various collusions like this, sometimes tacit, or understood and not openly agreed on between various suppliers whose demand is very hard compared to price, such as gasoline, and often gasoline companies rake in the biggest profits in world history by charging abnormally high prices when the consumers are addicted to or a slave to that purchase. So it's not so silly to create a universal healthcare marketplace where the buyers list their prices, and the corporations get the government aid, like GM or Chrysler but not Ford. You could have a tax table, with a range, such as a 22 year old male can pay between 50-75/mo for health insurance, and list it online, knowing that if he pays 50 the insurance company he buys from will most likely require more government aid because of him, while if he pays 75, then less, and for a 40 year old between 100-150/mo. Then insurance companies would get a chance to pick the higher paying ones fantasy football style one at a time, and when none pick the lower paying ones, then we force them to accept on an equally distributed burden basis, trough lottery picks, or some one at a time in sequence. If a lot of people voluntarily pay at the high end of these spectrums, then you could kind of increase the ranges for the next tax year, and if everyone pays at the low end, then it's like a vote that nobody has that extra money. There could be negotiations between insurance companies and government agents on these ranges, just like weapons suppliers negotiate price too, but there would be better oversight on the costs by knowing how much government aid each insurance company had to get that year. You could still have government agents and insurance CEO's play golf together, or play corruption games, but you would at least have some tax table, like the gas tax, that's equally distributed in the population, and "soft welfare" in the sense that individual citizens would know they are contributing to government aid going to the insurance companies they are buying from if they pay on the low end of the range, but it does not come as a hard direct hit under their individual social security numbers they have for life, and are responsible to care for.
The very idea of a incorporating is irresponsibility, in an effort to enhance entrepreneurial risk taking and business activity, without any of the owner's personal assets being at stake or backing responsibility. Incorporating is like getting a new social security number for a company, who has its own taxes, but it can freely go in and out of existence, and restarted under a different name as a different company, while people with social security numbers don't freely go in and out of existence, because nobody likes to die, and they haven't invented easy reincarnation yet. As a sole proprietor of a business one acts under their own social, and when they get sued, their house and car are at stake, while an LLC is a setup where there is at least one person or officer or owner whose personal belongings is at stake, and everyone else is protected in
Let's have a buyer's Affordable Care Act Obamacare, where we violate free market transaction rights of the seller, of not entering into a transaction they don't find to be a good deal for themselves, instead of the present way it's set up. Where the financial nonperformance dragging the government into further debt over not being able to manage own finances and needing government aid shame gets credited under the campaign contributor insurance company's Federal EIN, instead of the individual taxpayer's social security number. That way tax payers can stay as honest citizens, and we can institute universal coverage by forcing insurance companies to sell at whatever price the buyers feel like paying, and if the insurance companies accrue a loss at the end of the fiscal quarter or year, the trillions of dollars bankrupt government being dragged into further debt is gonna be ascribed as their fault, not the individual taxpaying citizens. Insurance companies will not be allowed to go out of business, because the government will guarantee payments to them to keep them alive, and once some taxpayer lists the price they are willing to purchase health insurance at, such as a 22 year old broke college student listing $5/mo assuming he's not gonna get sick anyway so he's overpaying on the gamble as it is, and then if no government sustained campaign contributor insurance companies are willing to sell at that price, then we roll some dice or take turns on equally distributing the burden, to come up with which insurance company is forced to sell at that price. That's what I'd call fair online marketplace for health insurance where the government forces parties to a deal to transact even at prices they don't find to be a good value for themselves, and ponies up the dough for them when they are unable to live up to those prices. I do not want forced government aid listed under my social security number as much as I can help it, because I want to maintain my freedom, in such things as being able to shop on Ebay, which, when the government pays my bills, I no longer have the right to do. I would have no problem where I keep a clean slate, and the government aid is written off under the insurance companies federal tax EIN instead of my social security number. Let's have a vote on this, see what the taxpayers think?
Bleh. Quack. It's like this: in Canada they have socialized health care, tax supported, but inadvertently they make you wait forever, and do a poor job, like Free Clinics in the US, which have been available even without Obamacare, and if you want really high quality health care, you go to a private for profit hospital in Canada too, that's gonna rape you in the ass with the bill later, and you may spend the rest of your life trying to pay it off, but you can get toppest quality health care in the Milky Way Galaxy, the only issue is that you cannot afford it, but you have choices. Even with socialized healthcare like Obamacare, you're gonna end up with a Canadian like setup, where the socialized insurance bankrupts the country or you through inefficiently directed payments or allocated funds in and economic sense, going into insurance company pockets and kept away from doctors and hospitals who would buy equipment on it, compared to a pure FREE market economy, where the only major abuse is monopolistic competition cutting behavior and price fixing, such as not enough doctors or hospital systems. In a free market a doctor is free to ask for any astronomical amount, and you don't have to buy, or he can refuse service Seinfeld's Soup Nazi style, but he can provide top quality care unheard of in the entire galaxy for these astronomical prices. Once people are forced to make purchases by the government, then the nitpicking at prices starts. Such as doctor salaries, price of goods, and the commies tried running an economy with fixed prices, such as salaries based purely on level of education completed and GPA achieved, without regard to anything else, or even regulating prices of goods, such as every canned vegetable had a factory printed price and it was illegal to sell it for a different one at Walmart where the shelves are hand stacked, or Aldi's where they throw it out before you on a skid like feed to pigs, and you're a pig that loves low prices, so you don't mind, but you'd expect these places to charge different prices based on quality of service delivered to you, but in a price regulated world they can't. The FREE market solves things so much better than the commies did, with government intervention in everything, where you cannot be forced to shop at either Aldi's or Walmart if you feel like shopping at Costco or Sams Club, or vice versa. Even in communism the peasent market at arbitrary free prices sustained the whole show like putting the daily bread on the table, not the government run corrupt red tape machine, where you had party idiots without any skills in charge of companies and factories that were not allowed to be shut down over bad performance, and the whole system collapsed. The government has to butt in with running a military, or police or even roads, but it butting in into mandatory education, law, healthcare or religion purchases will inadvertently cause price issues, or people paying for things, like excessive insurance company profits, and money kept away from the hospital and thereby receiving a bad quality care of bad deal for all that money they spent, as opposed to the way we believe in the FREE market, that ultimately such schemes are doomed to fail and shut down and people will take their money to health care places that give them a better value per dollar, self regulated, in a you can trust a person to get the best deal for himself in everything in life including healthcare and education than the government butting into his purchases. If anything, as a lesser evil, Obama could force people to pick a hospital and make monthly, quarterly or yearly donations to it, like to a Church, to keep doctors in business and available even in absence of a disease, and that way you could cut out the middle man the insurance guy running off with your money for almost no benefit provided to you, other than a gamble, and then every dollar lands in the pockets of the doctors or hospitals that way. Or even having to pick a family doctor. But for one, I don't have a personal family doctor, or a car repair shop,
What you need, before libraries, schools and public infrastructure, is money in the bank and food on the table. Yes health care is a need, but pimping mandatory gambling policies over it is bullshit. I have the right to show up at a doctor uninsured, with an unsure promise that I will make an effort to pay him later, and if he's not willing to work on me like that, that's fine, I don't want him touching me then. I have the right to keep him in suspense whether he's gonna get paid or not, based on the kind of work he does, and I'm the one to decide whether he did a good job or not, not some insurance company. A doctor pokes around in uncertain territory, because the human body is too complicated, and when he's unsure, I definitely want him to err on the side of not doing anything compared to making extra cuts or performing extra procedures, because some insurance will pay for it anyway. Just look at the situation with car insurance paying for repairs, and some corrupt shops having a sledgehammer used as a "moneymaker" between the time a car is dropped off and the insurance adjustor arrives. I'm not saying doctors are that corrupt, but if any doctor is so money focused, then he might be too tempted to make that extra dollar in a way I don't agree to. Having doctors work on you while you're uninsured is like a right, as he will work in a way where the only things he does are ones that are absolutely necessary in his mind and he'd do them for free too, just to save your life, and he will not do "extra." And then I'm willing to exert a lot of effort to pay that doctor later, or more like the hospital, because the healthcare billing bullshit has deteriorated to where you show up at a hospital, and some doctors see you, they send you a "SEPARATE" bill for like $100, while the hospital, performing procedures based on the instructions of that doctor, sends you a $5000 one, for a few hours of stay. Like what the fuck, it's the same fucking brothel, why are they billing separately? Because they can guarantee calibrated results on blood tests and CT scans, but not on doctors opinions, and in case of a lawsuit, you get back the couple cents the doctor charged you in case he turns out to be in error, but the hospital bill is undisputable, even if it was under command of that doctor, under command of that captain. As far as I'm concerned it's the same maffiozo gang sending you the bill, and they rape you pretty bad on it, because they don't tell you an estimate when you show up, unlike with a car repair, where you can take your car from shop to shop for an estimate, in a hospital they don't let you take your body from hospital to hospital for an estimate. As long as we're talking money, right? Btw mandatory insurance policies are pretty much forced gambling policies, as nobody will sell you health insurance over a certain cost procedure that's about to be performed on you in 10 minutes, they'll tell you to pay out of pocket, or pay more for the policy than that certain cost. It has to be a gamble to, if you're lucky, cost less than the actual procedure, but in general, for each dollar invested into such gambles you get back less than 50 cents, like on lottery tickets, which is why gambles like lottery or health insurace are for stupid people who did not pay attention in math class, because they are all horrible investments. If anything the government has more right to force you to invest in the stock market, and make you buy stocks you don't want to buy, where at least they could claim they are looking out for your best interest with some historical track record, with an uncertain future of course, so still being a gamble, while the historical track record with all insurance is that for every dollar invested overall you got back less than 50 cents. Mandatory insurance policies are forced gambling policies at ass raping profit to those selling them, and insurance is just a fancy word for a gamble like royal concubine is a fancy word for a hooker. I demand they use the word gambling policy every time they shove a government document under my nose that has the word insurance policy on it, like Obamacare tax documents, or driver's license corrupt law documents they force me to sign at the license bureau. Corrupt motherfuckers all over in the government.
I have to come back and write all this because I'm attacked on the health front to show up at a hospital and I simply refuse to do it, to the contrary, I write you this litany and lesson in the basics, in Freedom 101:
The problem with universal health care the way it is instilled into law today is that it's unfair. We already have tax supported road care that's universal or police and military, however there is problem with universal care through mandatory insurance purchase from for private corporations at arbitrary price and profit, be it car or health insurance, by individual citizen buyers from for profit corporations at arbitrary price. The other "universal" ways are set up via some equally or fairly levied taxes (such as gas tax you pay as you go for road maintenance per gallon of gas), and it is the government that makes the purchases in bulk from private for profit companies such as road service steam roller brigades or aerospace military weapons purchases, and the government has leverage on the price in these deals and all these private for profit corporations are a bitch to the government in trying to clock a deal, as opposed to hanging out each citizens pockets to dry, in an insurance gambling policy shark infested world where each citizen, by themselves, have no collective bargaining power, and are a bitch to the limited number insurance companies that way. If I show up at the East Side Market and all tomato salesmen are trying to sell their tomatoes at $150/lb, I simply don't have to buy. Duh. How simple is that? Even if one is selling at $120/lb, which sounds like a deal compared to the going price, I don't have to buy, and I can set my price at $0.50/lb, and if I cannot find any willing sellers at that price, I don't have to buy, and they don't have to sell. Duh. This is the very basics of concepts of remedial IQ testing in justice and liberty. Freedom, in that you cannot be forced to act in your own interest, and you are the captain on your soul, or your finances, not some fucking paternalistic government pretending to act in your benefit, Timothy McVeigh Invictus style. Often these pretending to act in your benefit things the government institutes turn out to be acting in the benefit of their own pockets, or constituents pockets they represent, or most likely campaign contributors pockets that got them elected, and it's payback time, by passing laws that benefit them at the expense of everyone else. Government run as a business. Law and Justice run as a business, via mandatory gambling policy purchases at arbitrary gambling profit. Jesus chased the usurers and merchants out of the Temple with a whip, and he got crucified for it. But he was brave. Religion as a business? Health care as a business? Law and Justice as a business? Education as a business? They need somebody with a whip to go through churches, courtrooms, hospitals and schools and chase the folks out who desacrate these things with money. Money is a simple fact of life, and churches and courtrooms etc cannot function without it, but to turn all focus in these institutions on money away from the really important things they are supposed to focus on, is like a crime against humanity. What's with the fucking prices in these places? Like healthcare prices, legal prices and education prices? Somebody needs to go around with a whip like Jesus did in the Temple of Jerusalem, and get the price focused usurers away from such places. He was brave and got crucified for it, but we need more like him in the land of the free and the home of the brave, unless you're willing to change the National Anthem from "Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave over the land of the Free and the home of the Brave" to "Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave over the land of the Slaves and the home of the Chickens."
If insurance companies were all required to be nonprofit - and in that no nonprofit bullshit where the CEO makes millions of dollars with golden parachute plans while his business runs as nonprofit, I'm talking where everyone, from
And I first thought they were talking about some defensive lipstick girls can wear in discos or dance clubs when predators like these approach them: http://imgur.com/gallery/NxLYc... , such as you can find here, https://www.stargazer-products... Now the question is how to make it activate and glow at will in the dark in the disco, such as indium-tin-oxide conductive coating and a small battery hidden inside a hearing-aid-like device behind the ear, and possibly a remote control switch in your pocket.
PS. On another note perhaps it's not a good idea to carve up the Moon into space stations, because so much of terrestrial life has adapted to tides, nocturnal vision, or even the lunar cycles such as women's and other mammal's periods. Possibly it could be turned into a ring orbiting around itself and going around as if the center of gravity of the moon has been maintained, while also providing artificial gravity outward due to spinning and easy life. Most likely some of the Moon will be used to put up like 1% Earth total surface area shades around the Lagrange point between the Sun and the Earth, or even a massive Fresnel lens later if we have mini ice-ages on us again, but the gravitational and light effects of the Moon are depended on by so much of terrestrial life, such as cats hunting at night that it's not worth messing with it. However Mars is a different question, and it may disappear way before the Moon does, and whether it should ever disappear is what I'm talking about here. So the Muslims should probably be safe keeping the new Moon on their flags and top of their mosques and minarets. And all this goes to show that everything I say on here has to be taken with a grain of salt, or two.
- aluminum may be efficiently vacuum distillable out of silicon. Of course more difficult than magnesium.
- ammonia does not combust in air at room temperature, but it may burn fine if the reactants are preheated. Such as via Stirling engine style heat recouperators, possibly used in tandem. Such as a catalytic converter that gets red hot, split into two channels, one for the air intake, the other for ammonia intake, for preheat, while another pair of catalytic converter-like heat exchanger gauze gets heated by the exhaust, then you switch. If you can make the intake-exhaust long, even coiled or zigzag, you could recover even more heat by heat exchange. Such old school preheat the tandem brickwork and switch was common in the 1800's, for air preheat to a furnace. Also in the 1900's when gasifying coal - run air to heat it via exothermic combustion, run water/steam to get hydrogen and extra fuel via endothermic reaction, and switch back and forth.
It's like you're a Jew, and here comes Hitler, and he wants to vaccinate your kids for the best interest of the herd immunity. And when they die he says, well, we tried, we did what we could, but it looks like the vaccine was not successful in fighting off the infection. What arguments would you use against him if you were Jewish, in such a scenario? Would they be philosophical objections along the lines of INDIVIDUAL rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness as opposed to the interests of the CROWN who claims he's a unifying force looking out for the collective interest of the herd he's in charge of? Are you supposed to blindly trust any King or government, elected or otherwise?
Exactly. Doctors don't know what they are doing, they are poking around in the dark. They play a lot of educated guessing games, and statistics, but they have no guarantees. Unlike a car technician, who can make a claim that he thoroughly understands cars, and he can fix any car and any car problem, I have yet to see a doctor who can make such a claim about people. The human body is just waaaay too complicated. Simply accounting for all the enzymes, and predicting their behavior in a disease excreted environment is waaaay beyond their abilities. Even if they can compute on a supercomputer the quantum mechanical behavior of enzymes in chemical reactions while accounting for he complicated snake-venom like antibodies diseases excrete, there is still the role of the nervous system in immune reactions, and predicting its functioning is beyond their abilities. Doctors cannot predict my thoughts. What am I thinking now, and what will I be thinking 2 minutes from now. Unless you can perfectly guess these things from present measurements like blood pressure, heart rate monitors, and EEG and EKG, you have not proven to me you can predict what mood I will be in 2 minutes from now, or how my body will react to a disease, because my thoughts affects my mood and my mood affects my adrenalin levels and such which in turn affect my bodies reaction to a disease. I'm free to think anything I want, and I'm free to control my mood that way, and have a say in how my body reacts to a disease in a way you cannot predict, so you cannot say how my body and immune system will react to a disease, whether it will self cure itself just fine, but should I take your vaccine I might die. You have no clue, you play educated guessing games as a doctor, and cite statistics, but you have no guarantees for individual cases. A way to guarantee it would be like this http://weknowmemes.com/wp-cont... Dr Riviera's If I kill you you don't pay guarantee. That means any person ending up dead even after the hospital tried treating them should get their money back. All dead cancer patients, etc. Which doctor can come up with such a money back guarantee? In a, if you don't reach 150 years old under my care, I'll pay you or your heirs all the money back? It does not work like that. You hire doctors as hopefully better experts for advice and treatment, but ultimately you are responsible for your own health, you are in charge of your own health, not some doctor, or some government.
Inevitably it is some disease that does in every person at old age, but if doctors truly understood what they were doing, they could fix any disease and you'd have at least some people who made it to 150 years old, or 200, etc. Unless a doctor can guarantee to me that he knows what he's doing, I'm in charge of my body, not some doctor, or some government that relies on the opinion of doctors.
I'm not only the captain of my soul, or my mind, Timothy McVeigh Invictus style, but also the captain of my body, and not some government or some doctors. Under the constitution people have INDIVIDUAL rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, and they are not subject to a overwhelming power CROWN or DICTATOR who can make life and death decisions at whim over them, Hitler style, such as genetic cleanups, or mass vaccinations, for the benefit of the herd. It is the herd, and each of its members that has sovereignty over themselves, and they limit government, and institute collective government only inasmuch as necessary, such as for military defense, or even public health issues, but every individual retains sovereignty over their body, and they should have the right to refuse forced injections even in the case of all juries and all appeal deciding against them, even in case they do have an actual, proven disease, such as Ebola (where test results can still be corrupt and faked by a corrupt system, (sometimes by a single author developing a fake test all test technicians believe), and because of thi
Ya own two eyeballs have a continuous wash of tear solution, sometimes activated by a quick blink, to keep a mirror finish or optically perfect surface in the middle of a sea storm or even dust storm. It's not that complicated to think of a continuously flowing rinse, possibly a quick brush zoom-by like a blinked eyelid, to ensure near perfect optical cleanliness of mirror finish military surfaces. There are plenty of improvements you can make to R2D2 and C3PO I posted about above to make them more laser resistant.
Mars is too small to hold a decent pressure atmosphere, or water in a liquid state, which, even at the triple point near 0 deg C sublimes and vaporizes if kept under low partial pressure. Show me a pressure/temperature/gravity to create that pressure parameter condition, and I'll accept that there might have been water on Mars, but otherwise I'd go for liquid methane or oxygen before I'd go for liquid water. The G-spot of Mars to create H2O wetness on it is pounding lots of moons and aseteroids and debris into it to build it up to the size of Venus, which is about the same size as Earth, but not to build it up to the size of Jupiter where it no longer vents or boils off hydrogen, and that means continuous growth at an accelerated rate into a gas giant with a hydrogen/helium atmosphere because the solar wind is mostly hydrogen/helium. It is possible to maintain steady size with a nitrogen atmosphere like earth dynamically replenished by nitrogen from the solar wind, then blown off by solar wind hydrogen sweep, to a steady state size, hydrogen always guaranteed to boil off. It's possible to sweep other things off with hydrogen, but there is nothing lighter than hydrogen, other than (charged electrons or light) that could be used to sweep off hydrogen to a steady state size that does not constantly accelerate in gravity, captures more hydrogen that creates more gravity, etc. The problem with water is that its melting point of 0C is too high, and once you get that temperature, a gas molecule of H2O with a molecular weight of 18 attains terminal velocity and escapes the gravity of Mars at that 0C temperature. Could you keep water liquid at -200C, where its thermal velocity is too low to escape the gravity of Mars, it would be no problem to have liquid water, but otherwise your options are liquid oxygen, liquid nitrogen, liquid methane, and the like, maybe even liquid ammonia, or liquid SO2, I don't know.
I just looked up liquid water, and came up with Europa, one of Jupiter's Moon, about the size of our Moon, supposedly having a liquid ocean. And the way this works is internal heating, not external solar heat, so the surface is much colder than the insides, just like there is lava kept at 3000 C by uranium thorium and potassium 40 decay in minerals that erupts from the insides of the Earth onto a much colder 20C surface. So it is possible, at least in theory, that there has been water on Mars with an ice surface to maintain the required pressure under it, and internal heat generated either by nuclear decay heating, or by some gravitational roundabout close to a strong gravity object that since has been knocked away or who knows what. Europa goes on a highly elliptical orbit near Jupiter, at the perihelion (see wikipedia and Kepler's law) and when it gets close its shape gets distorted away from spherical that it would naturally assume under self gravity into one elongated toward Jupiter, then as it travels to the farthest point, or aphelion, it assumes a more spherical shape. This constant shape shifting, like a rubber ball squeezed and relaxed, causes internal friction heat even without nuclear heat generation, and keeps the water on the subsurface of Europa liquid, with the outer surface crust being thermally insulating ice, and of course you'd get volcanic eruptions of liquid water freezing very fast into solid ice just like how you have volcanic eruptions of molten liquid rock lava on Earth freezing into solid rock and building mountains.
Which means it may be possible to create an artificial arctic sea world on the Moon too, all you need is provide it with low enough temperature, much lower than Earth, to maintain a surface layer of ice, beneath which you can create a liquid water ocean heated to say 4C temperature, and life, including humans, living on it Captain Nemo style. To drop the surface temperature of the Moon it would need to be shaded, with artificial shade from the Sun (such as putting up huge cylindrical stick like "geostationary" umbrellas that cover much of it's surface into shade) and then
I woke up thinking this: 900/mo x 12 =10,800 on 8 x 2080 hrs/yr =16,000 gross minimum wage for a family of 4. Insanity. Out of that 16,000 comes the near 10% sales tax, or 1,600, then social security, medicare, and only then income tax, if any. But still aint no fucking tax gonna take 11,000 from 16000 which is what Obamacare tries to be. It's economic nonsense, and it shows that either the democracy is on its last kicks, and whoever owns the system is abandoning a sinking ship and trying to squeeze whatever wealth they can still extract from it during the last minutes before it implodes, or they want to maintain the system but have an arbitrary tax that takes all your money dependent on how Da Man feels like, what he thinks the government should pitch into your Obamacare aid, whether all 10,800 is "on paper" given to you, meaning you get free health care, or you have to pay it all out of pocket. Bullshit. And if you do not agree, we can make you really sick by force. A hell of a world is coming. All I know people don't rebel as long as the stomach is filled each day, so as long as they can guarantee food on the table for everybody, they can get away with anything, such as making sure everyone has a credit score of less than 50, full of bankruptcies, a mile long criminal record, declared a liar, and 8 million dollar in debt on paper, per person, it's all abrakadabra numbers and letters on pieces of paper or computers and don't really matter as long as there is food on the table every day, that's the only thing that really matters. And as long as that's guaranteed the urban populations grow out of control, and when it's no longer guaranteed and hunger starts, that's when any kind of violence and massive riots begin. Even racial riots don't really happen, unless some races have been kept on really tight food supply for a while. The daily bread, food, is the top priority above almost anything else to all lifeforms, besides of course air and water, which are free or almost, and roof over the head and clothing, roof over the head being the single major cost in a distorted way from what's normal on most of today's list of expenses, far outdoing food cost, for now. That's gonna change, eventually it has to, big time.
Hispanics are the fastest growing ethnic group inside the US, faster than urban blacks. Which is the only thing that counts in long term voting power, rate of population growth. San Francisco CA, San Diego CA, San Jose CA, San Angelo TX, San Antonio TX, San Marcos TX, San Luis, CA, San Clemente CA, San Bernandino CA, San Mateo CA, Santa Rosa CA, Santa Fe NM, Santa Maria CA, Santa Barbara CA, Santa Monica CA, Santa Cruz CA, Los Angeles CA, Los Alamos NM, Las Cruces NM, Las Vegas NV, Amarillo TX, Mesa AZ, Costa Mesa CA, Salinas CA, Sacramento CA, Pueblo CO, Durango CO, Natchez LA, El Paso NM, El Dorado AR, (Baton Rouge LA, french also Laplace and New Orleans too), these non-English names describe the long history of who was there first, of course mixed in and interspersed with English names. In the old days territory was conquered with swords or gunpowder, in these days of peace it's done with the phallus, the horny erect penis getting stuck into moist vaginas that are unable to say no to that dick. The whole world is playing chicken with overpopulation issues, and as long as there is voting, and welfare against starvation, popping babies on welfare as fast as you can is what any sane ethnic group should do, until we drag the government welfare funds so deep into debt that they can no longer send out the welfare checks, and then if we still hit that bootay and pop a new "individual" with equal protection in the eyes of the law, the natural consequence will be starvation if we do it in a non economically conscious way. The capacity of lifeforms to breed is or should be infinite until they hit the economic limitations, which is the normal controlling check on population levels. With free welfare money and equal protection under the law to all individuals regardless of race, skin color, eye color, hair color or lack of hair, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or economic status, the economic check is lifted because everyone is guaranteed unlimited access to inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In the modern days all these terms are monetized, converted into money, which is why I revised the Our Father a few posts back. Money buys you rights, money buys you life, money buys you territory, and money buys you fame, money buys you reputation, money buys you good ethical standing, money buys you youth (through a plastic surgeon), money buys you weapons, money buys you corrupt politicians who can revise your credit history. Most importantly money buys you territory. Which is really at the core of my personal problems, territory, and in that ethnic control of territory. I bough my house for peanuts in Da Hood trying to show how on minimum wage people in desolate urban areas full of opportunity (cheap housing, public transportation, utilities, TV and radio stations, supermarkets, libraries, monuments) can make ends meet and live extremely happily. However I'm a white guy, and I entered a territory as a white person which was conquered by blacks during the race riots in the late 70's away from Czech and Slovak ethnics, who moved on. They put up a fight for it, and they ain't just gon give it back to white people encroaching on their conquered territory. My girl cousin living with her husband in a still fairly upscale territory around 2000 was told in that apartment bldg by some black folk that "this is already ours." Black folk consider an apartment bldg they rent or even a city block as territory. Like Eddie Griffin says it in this flick, west side west side, nigga dyin over a block you don't even own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... But he does own it in the end if he succeed harassing and chasing white people away from it, then taking over the county government, and harassing the landlords away with bullshit things like minimum service fees on utilities. I had a homeless black man who called himself Lloyd move into the junk house I bought, and he'd rip the water line down and flood the basement with a tiny puddle in the depression no
Pristine nature untouched by man looks absolutely gorgeous to me. Let's argue about tastes and beauty and I can promise you that I'll win even if I'm surrounded by a hundred million idiots mowing their lawns around me thinking I should too, including attacking me and charging me insane amounts for it, saying I could have done it cheaper DIY. Fuck all 100 million of you.
My fucking dreams of having my own garage and starting up my own business are smashed too, by the corrupt cunts at the county government destroying my house with a huge ass excavator, because it was not up to code, and putting the demolition cost on my property tax bill, threatening to fuck up my credit with a foreclosure if I don't pay it. And I paid the motherfucking bill off, and now they are openly attacking and locally exterminating my wildflowers and native bugs like butterflies that depend on those flowers, and spiders and dragonflies that depend on catching the bugs that depend on the flowers, and sending me bills over it, again, threatening me with foreclosure, and a messed up credit. Yet at the end of my street there is a public transit train line with all kinds of weeds and bushes left growing freely, without being attacked and cut down constantly, and those areas get a whole lot more train passenger eyeball spectators than my lot does. Even if they have a corrupt law or rule, at least they should enforce it uniformly across the whole fucking county, and as long as I can take a picture anywhere inside county borders of a wildflower or untrimmed, un-"landscaped" bush standing, they can take their fucking time wasting, US-dependence-on-foreign-oil wasting and my fucking money I don't have for this sissy grass cutting bullshit wasting bills and shove it up their asses. I run and urban farm and I grow hay on it, that I could sell to an amish horse or cow ranch, but I never get to complete the job, because they attack my hay constantly, and send me bills over it. Or are we gonna argue about what kinds of plants I'm allowed to grow on the lot? Are we gonna start arguing about tastes and beauty? Good luck with that, all I can say there is no way in hell you can argue to me that nature, pristine, untouched by man is not beautiful, and it requires an assraping amount of cost "human touch" to make it tolerable to human eyeballs, telling me I can fucking do it myself cheaper if I so opt to. If anything, invasive species like urban farm tomatoes have the least right to be grown there, and that native wildflowers with native animals that depend on them have the most right. You with your fucking lawnmowers are the most devastating and invasive species in the whole picture, and you keep threatening me with a foreclosure if I don't pay these bullshit high charges, you telling me I could have done it myself cheaper, and the code requires it. Fuck you and your code. I'll declare your fucking daughters not up to genetic code code, and blast their fucking heads off with the most expensive rocket grenade launching weapons I can up with, and tell you that you could have abated their noncompliance with the code by killing them yourself with a $1 knife you can buy at the dollar store (hell you could get the job done with a plastic knife that costs a lot less than that, might take you a while, but you could get the job done, right?) Or you don't even need weapons, you could have just done it with your bare fists, like I could have gone to my lot and pull the grass out with my bare hands, or cut it to 2" height required by the code with a dollar store pair of scissors myself a lot cheaper. Fuck the government and their 2" code. I lot my grass tall, knee high, flowering, with happy bugs on it.
Yesterday I left a really nasty message to the gas company, threatening them with physical damage to the gas infrastructure, if they don't cut the fucking service off and stop sending me these minimum basic charges even when I don't use any gas or barely use any in the summertime. I did that because they stated they don't take service disconnection requests on line, I have to call them on the phone, and I know if I don't get threatening and nasty, they could just ignore my message. This way they better fucking forward the terrorist threat messages to the authorities, and I'm already on their terrorist watch list, I better be when I talk like this on Slashdot, so they better forwarded the message up and by that acknowledge that they did r
Morse out with a laser pointer "Let's Throw the Teabags into the Sea!" at a traffic camera. You can get in trouble. Or even put your Hancock on the Declaration of Independence. Like signing your own death sentence. It's free speech, with consequences. But with luck, it's protected as the dearest free speech in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Rules and laws are ultimately contraptions created by human minds in order to organize and live happily. Thins includes rules on private property, such as your coat. But when powers arise among you who pervert those rules into a situation where you must rent your coat at all times and you're allowed to own them in theory, but not in practice, people resort to free speech, and "free and rebellious actions" that can get them killed by those who subvert the rules and laws. Such as bullshit insurance purchase requirements regardless of price, from private parties. What kind of bullshit is that? Even with competitors offering a product, like tomatoes, at the East Side Market, what is the price if the law compels you to purhcase? $150 per lb? Hey the going price is 150, but I was able to get a deal at 120! Yay for you, fucking retard. My price is $1/lb, and if nobody is willing to sell me tomatoes at that price, I'll find other ways to feed myself. Like insurance, I'm responsible for my financial well being, to manage risks and funds, and unless someone wants to take over the responsibility of my bankruptcies, they should not tell me to buy something at a price I don't find fit in my budget. Insurance is really the old maffiozo way of making money: Maffiozos go into restaurant, tell the owner 50% of your income in our pocket, we're selling you business insurance. Screw you guys, get the fuck out of here. Next a bomb goes off inside your business, and you're told, see, it would have been a wise idea to purchase that business insurance. If anything, insurance salesmen need to be all jailed for threatening and intimidating people into buying maffiozo style overpriced profit raping insurance policies, because these motherfuckers exterminate a whole lot of more unborn babies that people choose not to have because they cannot afford to, compared to rap artists firing off any fucking kind of talk. IMHO.
After all food expenses rank pretty low on my list of expenses, and the dominant one is still housing cost, and I'm civil disobedience protesting the encroachment of insurance costs that would outdo housing cost in the future with everything I got. These people think I don't pay enough for housing cost and x-ray me over that idea, trying to send me into higher housing cost situations, and trying to teach me lessons over seeking lowered housing expenses. Bullshit, no, trying to attain the daily bread in my mind is or should be the top activity, and as long as I can feed on $50-80/month, housing should be $5-20, and I refuse to accept anything else. What a fucking perversion of costs and expenses the world has turned into? Like I was just watching a western on over the air TV, and argued with someone that cowboys were not forced by law to buy insurance to ride their horses back then, against their horses accidentally kicking some passerbies into the head or biting them. Forced gambling, forced insurance purchases? What a fucking joke. I stopped buying car insurance too. Unless you accept bankruptcy under my name, don't fucking send me bills I don't want to pay for. Soon they are gonna turn water into hard core property, and air too. And if they ask me, I'll say that yes, I like to get air for free, and water for free falling from the sky into my lap, just like I don't like to pay for housing, in my mind housing effort should be a couple weeks activity in a lifetime, not 60% of every day bogged down with trying to come up with housing cost. So yes, I like to get my air and water for free, just like I like to get my housing for free too, but they can probably distort the system where I'll say that I cannot live without air, water, or a roof over my head, and I'm willing to pay quite a bit for them, temporarily, if blackmailed extorted over some bullshit erected new rules, but pretty much my only concern in life then becomes to set things right, the way they should be, meaning air, water and housing costs being minuscule compared to the daily bread. For example I cannot assume the responsibility of a child while threathened with being out on the street the next day, because I'm forced to rent, because the house I was able to acquire was too inexpensive in the opinion of some, attacked and destroyed to help me out, and I got billed for the destruction effort. Just to keep my housing costs high. I literally live free or die, and in that I do not breed in captivity. Rent should be something temporary in life, like when you go off to college, or when you rent a car for a week, not a permanent solution. Being forced to pay rent means I'll never breed and go extinct, so you're pretty much exterminating me with forced rent, and forced insurance gambling. Lots of people have cars with rust on them. You'll argue that rusty cars do not live up to standards of safety, and go attack anyone who drives a car that costs less than a $180,000 Rolls Royce, over safety code violations, and send them a bill, like you send me a bill over the destruction of my house not living up to your housing code standards of beauty and safety. And you tell me it cost that much and I had the option to kill it myself cheaper. How about I declare your preteen daughter not up to genetic code standards, find some fault with her, then show up with some expensive rocket launchers to blast her head off for you, send you a huge bill over it, telling you you could have killed her yourself with a $5 knife instead, but I had to do it for you. Because after all you don't let me have kids threatening me with being out on the street the next day, and with the money you extort from me you had and raised that daughter. How about we set things right, and correct them, when they are not up to code? And above all, cutting my grass, destroying my flowers and insects - butterflies, spiders, dragonflies - locally, saying their are noxious weeds and pests, when they been around for 600 million years and did fine until you and your ancestors showed up on the scene, and started att
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If an intergalactic invasion looks like this, possibly with some pulsating electromagnetic propulsion we still don't know much about, it may be STL not FTL, i.e. slower than light not faster than light:
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~akimba...
And you could have a couple million years to get your 22 stage Teller-Ulam contraptions ready for a welcome, especially if the convoy of messengers you send ahead for a treaty never signals back at the speed of light, meaning they don't respect the don't shoot the messenger to begin with the basics. The Milky Way is very hazy though, and it's hard to see which way they would be coming from, or even if they arrive, it may be a while til they arrived to get hostile in your neighborhood, if ever. Maybe, like Star Trek officers, they know how to coexist with other life forms without trying to attack everything in their path. But the Dzenghis Khan gang of Mongols taught a very good lesson to any naive douche bags who blindly expect other intelligent creatures to be peaceful. You never know, and because of that skill in defense in important. Even the Native Americans were better off with bows fighting against gunpowder, than if they only had leather strap stone/wood handle battle axes. Though Shaka did win battles against the British with spears and very quick troop movements, but even simple spears used for hunting hogs in the jungle have more action to a distance than a caveman stone/leather strap/wood handle axe. You have a good fighting chance even with inferior technology, not much, but much better than nothing. Neither the Indians nor Shaka said OK, because you have superior weapons, therefore we welcome you as our new intercontinental (as opposed to intergalactic) overlords.
I used to not be a big fan of the Mars program because it's so far compared to the Moon, however no matter how bad you fuck up Mars with your experimenting, it's not gonna affect us on Earth, unlike the Moon. However I'd still like to see minor mining on the Moon for global warming shades to put up at the Lagrange point between the Earth and the Sun, that cover, say 1% of Earth's surface area, possibly be aluminum backed single space grown crystal silicon solar power stations too at the same time. But I would not want the Moon to be gone completely in 500 years, but I have no problem with Mars being ripped to pieces via mining and space stations made out of all of it.
Venus is gonna take a while to terraform. I'm thinking 10,000 years to 10 million. But it's never too early to start, especially if near miss incidents out there that occur once every 10 million years, such as a mega asteroid/comet almost knocking one of Jupiter's moons out of orbit, and you could direct that to actually do knock it out, in a way where it goes round the Sun and impact Venus just right to get it spinning and higher up in orbit from the Sun, with possible consequences on Earth's orbit, which I don't know about. However if you could get it in one shot in the same orbit as Earth on the exact opposite side of the Sun, that would be great, or if you had 3 such planets composed running equidistant on a circular Earth-like orbit, that would be cool too, because you'd have line of sight that way too, but otherwise no orbit interactions, like one going faster than the other. And even if you left them alone eventually they would naturally accumulate water, such as captured hydrogen oxygen from solar wind, and not boil/distill it off out of the atmosphere like Venus does, because they would be at the right distance. I think before pounding stuff into Venus, there has to be stable and self sustaining space station life, and then Life from Earth is guaranteed to make it even if some mega comet half the size of Earth comes out of nowhere and slams into it at high speed, and you didn't see it coming. Don't keep all your eggs in one basket if you can afford not to. A possibly very fast way to start terraforming Venus would be to put up semitransparent huge shades for it too. That's what you do at the beach, when he Sun is burning too hot, you put up an umbrella.
Or our present problems of melting glaciers and mountaintop snow, and icebergs, all covered under the global warming issue we blame on rise of atmospheric CO2 levels started around 1700 with the industrial revolution and the move from beast muscle power to coal/steam, then gasoline/diesel. If anything the nuclear things helped in this picture, as they avoid emitting CO2, and the big issue with them was that people kept blowing them up and scattering the emissions into the troposphere constantly, until above ground tests were banned, or even underground tests are no longer conducted much. The biggest function of nuclear today is to cut out CO2 emissions by providing like 20% of electricity needs, and in the future, we have this quack prophecy of cry wolf an asteroid is gonna hit Earth a few days from now on Jan 26, and it's gonna pass like the year 2000 problem, without as much as a fizzle or much smoke, but eventually it's a possibility that a huge collision with another large size meteorite would happen, the chances are minuscule but collisions do occur out there in the Universe, and if one came our way and we had no tools like the Teller-Ulam designs, we'd be sitting ducks. It's like it's better to have a gun when a bear attacks you, or if you're a small sized person a large muscular person attacks you with a knife, it's a great equalizer, and it's better than a knife or a sword or even a stone/wood handle battle axe the caveman had. Facing an asteroid coming at Earth with conventional explosives is like forcing a person in the wilderness of Alaska infested with grizzly bears to carry a stone/wood caveman axe as protection. It's not the weapon that matters, but what you do with it. If you keep making test explosion mushroom clouds and spew the emissions all over the globe, then yeah, you're an idiot. If you make all electric from it, and not emit anything, and only hold these high power weapons for outer space ping pong tasks, or as a defense against some intergalactic invasion of some hostile alien species that try to eat you, then you're not an idiot. But they should add an 11th commandment to Moses' stone tablets, that says "Thou shalt not drop an atomic bomb on thy neighbor's head, especially if he's not dropping one on yours." I don't understand what's so complicated about this stuff?
Yeah like my mother's radio needed one of them 2 prong 110V power cables, because the old one got frayed underneath the plastic jacket, and Radio Shack had it, for like $13, I don't remember, but I could have spent more on gas trying to shop around to see which store has it, like where would it be at Walmart? You'd have to check out alarm clocks or something to see if they come with one, for like 6 or 7 dollars, just for the cable, and you could spend an entire day going from Walmart to Target, while in Radio Shack they have it. Later I ordered some 90W 18V laptop power supplies from China on Ebay, and I won the biddings at like $4 a piece for like 4 of them, and they come with such cable, 2 prong, which she uses now, but they took over 30 days to ship, via free shipping, imagine that. Radio Shack has a place in the world, it's a name like Coca Cola, or HP, or Caterpillar or Harley Davidson, that's American and holds a special place in people's hearts, even if all of the above may be overpriced compared to the competition, except HP, which now is a purely computing company after spinoffs like Agilent that used to be the core of HP before computers, which now spun it off as Keysight Technologies and Agilent became yet another purely biotech company like Monsanto that spun off old school things they used to be involved in, such as rubber science and equipment. It's hard to keep track anymore what's where who's called what, but the traditional high quality military grade measuring equipment that HP used to be before computers appeared on the scene is now called Keysight.
Win2k did not have the glitter and looks of XP, but it came with much less garbage also, like no messenger install that's hard to shoot, and it was also the last version of Windows that worked without activation on specific hardware for retail versions, which fail to work after 3 or so items in your hardware fail and need replacement, then you have to reactivate, and Microsoft may tell you sorry, we no longer support XP, go out and buy a new computer that run Windows 8, or something along those lines. Win2k shines in this respect that it is like a diamond, forever, unlike XP which is meant to die fast, if you bought a retail version per copy license of Win2K that you can carry from dead hardware to dead hardware forever, the OEM copies being more iffy on the legality, but even in an apocalypse where the Internet or phone systems are defunct or Microsoft is simply no longer in business and nobody takes over issuing activation keys for old versions of XP, you can keep running Win 2K if you have a large enough cache of hardware to replace failed ones along the way, and it does not care what it runs on, nor does it monitor or keep track of hardware items that get replaced as they fail and start moaning that it's no longer running on the same computer it initially was installed on, please reactivate. Reactivate with who, in an apocalypse? Reactivate with who 200 years from now? Win2K is forever, XP and later are not. Of course Dell, Hp, and similar versions of XP work without activation, because they check the bios in the computer, and as long as you keep replacing failed motherboards with another from the same vendor, they should keep working. However they tend to be nonstandard cases and don't accept standard motherboards, if you feel like putting something else into them, and also they feel to me like they all have remote kill switches, and not as trustable as a generic motherboard from say Gigabyte, Abit or MSI, and the like.
I'm only running XP on this HP Mini 200 (with like a 5W Intel Atom) netbook with 9hr battery life, because that's what HP let me get after I found it to simply crawl too slow in performance with Win 7, and it kinda rocks with XP in speed, but I don't really like XP because it comes with too much snooping garbage hiding in the background when I'm on the internet with it, directly from the HP/Microsoft gang, and for long term I'm digging in my heals with Win2K as the last OS for offline, noninternet home use, and presently lots of people are dumping XP capable computers on Ebay simply because Microsoft end of life'd them on it, and I'm like yeah baby, gimme gimme give it to me this awesome treasure at these unbelievably low prices. Other people's garbage is my treasure, because they don't realize what insane value they are throwing away. Starting with XP life is in the fastlane with Windows, but Windows 2000 and prior are forever, as long as you can find hardware that runs them.
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Here, after all this bitching and thinking I came up with something more constructive. If you want to socialize health care, some kind of price control is almost mandatory, as in you can't trust a goat with a cabbage, or a wolf with a goat, when taking them across a river puzzle way, just like you can't trust insurance corporations to come up with fair prices, even if free market competition is supposed to help, but when you remove the buyer's option not to buy, then things are even more dire compared to price fixing and monopoly/oligopoly issues even in the regular free market. For instance back in the 1930's, outside US jurisdiction, I think centered in Switzerland, there was a price fixing scheme where tungsten filament electric lights were tested from different suppliers, and if any of them surpassed the 1000 hr lifetime, the companies were punished, in a sort of cartel agreement that was equivalent to price fixing, or creating lower quality parts on purpose than a free market would have allowed. There are various collusions like this, sometimes tacit, or understood and not openly agreed on between various suppliers whose demand is very hard compared to price, such as gasoline, and often gasoline companies rake in the biggest profits in world history by charging abnormally high prices when the consumers are addicted to or a slave to that purchase. So it's not so silly to create a universal healthcare marketplace where the buyers list their prices, and the corporations get the government aid, like GM or Chrysler but not Ford. You could have a tax table, with a range, such as a 22 year old male can pay between 50-75/mo for health insurance, and list it online, knowing that if he pays 50 the insurance company he buys from will most likely require more government aid because of him, while if he pays 75, then less, and for a 40 year old between 100-150/mo. Then insurance companies would get a chance to pick the higher paying ones fantasy football style one at a time, and when none pick the lower paying ones, then we force them to accept on an equally distributed burden basis, trough lottery picks, or some one at a time in sequence. If a lot of people voluntarily pay at the high end of these spectrums, then you could kind of increase the ranges for the next tax year, and if everyone pays at the low end, then it's like a vote that nobody has that extra money. There could be negotiations between insurance companies and government agents on these ranges, just like weapons suppliers negotiate price too, but there would be better oversight on the costs by knowing how much government aid each insurance company had to get that year. You could still have government agents and insurance CEO's play golf together, or play corruption games, but you would at least have some tax table, like the gas tax, that's equally distributed in the population, and "soft welfare" in the sense that individual citizens would know they are contributing to government aid going to the insurance companies they are buying from if they pay on the low end of the range, but it does not come as a hard direct hit under their individual social security numbers they have for life, and are responsible to care for.
The very idea of a incorporating is irresponsibility, in an effort to enhance entrepreneurial risk taking and business activity, without any of the owner's personal assets being at stake or backing responsibility. Incorporating is like getting a new social security number for a company, who has its own taxes, but it can freely go in and out of existence, and restarted under a different name as a different company, while people with social security numbers don't freely go in and out of existence, because nobody likes to die, and they haven't invented easy reincarnation yet. As a sole proprietor of a business one acts under their own social, and when they get sued, their house and car are at stake, while an LLC is a setup where there is at least one person or officer or owner whose personal belongings is at stake, and everyone else is protected in
Let's have a buyer's Affordable Care Act Obamacare, where we violate free market transaction rights of the seller, of not entering into a transaction they don't find to be a good deal for themselves, instead of the present way it's set up. Where the financial nonperformance dragging the government into further debt over not being able to manage own finances and needing government aid shame gets credited under the campaign contributor insurance company's Federal EIN, instead of the individual taxpayer's social security number. That way tax payers can stay as honest citizens, and we can institute universal coverage by forcing insurance companies to sell at whatever price the buyers feel like paying, and if the insurance companies accrue a loss at the end of the fiscal quarter or year, the trillions of dollars bankrupt government being dragged into further debt is gonna be ascribed as their fault, not the individual taxpaying citizens. Insurance companies will not be allowed to go out of business, because the government will guarantee payments to them to keep them alive, and once some taxpayer lists the price they are willing to purchase health insurance at, such as a 22 year old broke college student listing $5/mo assuming he's not gonna get sick anyway so he's overpaying on the gamble as it is, and then if no government sustained campaign contributor insurance companies are willing to sell at that price, then we roll some dice or take turns on equally distributing the burden, to come up with which insurance company is forced to sell at that price. That's what I'd call fair online marketplace for health insurance where the government forces parties to a deal to transact even at prices they don't find to be a good value for themselves, and ponies up the dough for them when they are unable to live up to those prices. I do not want forced government aid listed under my social security number as much as I can help it, because I want to maintain my freedom, in such things as being able to shop on Ebay, which, when the government pays my bills, I no longer have the right to do. I would have no problem where I keep a clean slate, and the government aid is written off under the insurance companies federal tax EIN instead of my social security number. Let's have a vote on this, see what the taxpayers think?
Bleh. Quack. It's like this: in Canada they have socialized health care, tax supported, but inadvertently they make you wait forever, and do a poor job, like Free Clinics in the US, which have been available even without Obamacare, and if you want really high quality health care, you go to a private for profit hospital in Canada too, that's gonna rape you in the ass with the bill later, and you may spend the rest of your life trying to pay it off, but you can get toppest quality health care in the Milky Way Galaxy, the only issue is that you cannot afford it, but you have choices. Even with socialized healthcare like Obamacare, you're gonna end up with a Canadian like setup, where the socialized insurance bankrupts the country or you through inefficiently directed payments or allocated funds in and economic sense, going into insurance company pockets and kept away from doctors and hospitals who would buy equipment on it, compared to a pure FREE market economy, where the only major abuse is monopolistic competition cutting behavior and price fixing, such as not enough doctors or hospital systems. In a free market a doctor is free to ask for any astronomical amount, and you don't have to buy, or he can refuse service Seinfeld's Soup Nazi style, but he can provide top quality care unheard of in the entire galaxy for these astronomical prices. Once people are forced to make purchases by the government, then the nitpicking at prices starts. Such as doctor salaries, price of goods, and the commies tried running an economy with fixed prices, such as salaries based purely on level of education completed and GPA achieved, without regard to anything else, or even regulating prices of goods, such as every canned vegetable had a factory printed price and it was illegal to sell it for a different one at Walmart where the shelves are hand stacked, or Aldi's where they throw it out before you on a skid like feed to pigs, and you're a pig that loves low prices, so you don't mind, but you'd expect these places to charge different prices based on quality of service delivered to you, but in a price regulated world they can't. The FREE market solves things so much better than the commies did, with government intervention in everything, where you cannot be forced to shop at either Aldi's or Walmart if you feel like shopping at Costco or Sams Club, or vice versa. Even in communism the peasent market at arbitrary free prices sustained the whole show like putting the daily bread on the table, not the government run corrupt red tape machine, where you had party idiots without any skills in charge of companies and factories that were not allowed to be shut down over bad performance, and the whole system collapsed. The government has to butt in with running a military, or police or even roads, but it butting in into mandatory education, law, healthcare or religion purchases will inadvertently cause price issues, or people paying for things, like excessive insurance company profits, and money kept away from the hospital and thereby receiving a bad quality care of bad deal for all that money they spent, as opposed to the way we believe in the FREE market, that ultimately such schemes are doomed to fail and shut down and people will take their money to health care places that give them a better value per dollar, self regulated, in a you can trust a person to get the best deal for himself in everything in life including healthcare and education than the government butting into his purchases. If anything, as a lesser evil, Obama could force people to pick a hospital and make monthly, quarterly or yearly donations to it, like to a Church, to keep doctors in business and available even in absence of a disease, and that way you could cut out the middle man the insurance guy running off with your money for almost no benefit provided to you, other than a gamble, and then every dollar lands in the pockets of the doctors or hospitals that way. Or even having to pick a family doctor. But for one, I don't have a personal family doctor, or a car repair shop,
What you need, before libraries, schools and public infrastructure, is money in the bank and food on the table. Yes health care is a need, but pimping mandatory gambling policies over it is bullshit. I have the right to show up at a doctor uninsured, with an unsure promise that I will make an effort to pay him later, and if he's not willing to work on me like that, that's fine, I don't want him touching me then. I have the right to keep him in suspense whether he's gonna get paid or not, based on the kind of work he does, and I'm the one to decide whether he did a good job or not, not some insurance company. A doctor pokes around in uncertain territory, because the human body is too complicated, and when he's unsure, I definitely want him to err on the side of not doing anything compared to making extra cuts or performing extra procedures, because some insurance will pay for it anyway. Just look at the situation with car insurance paying for repairs, and some corrupt shops having a sledgehammer used as a "moneymaker" between the time a car is dropped off and the insurance adjustor arrives. I'm not saying doctors are that corrupt, but if any doctor is so money focused, then he might be too tempted to make that extra dollar in a way I don't agree to. Having doctors work on you while you're uninsured is like a right, as he will work in a way where the only things he does are ones that are absolutely necessary in his mind and he'd do them for free too, just to save your life, and he will not do "extra." And then I'm willing to exert a lot of effort to pay that doctor later, or more like the hospital, because the healthcare billing bullshit has deteriorated to where you show up at a hospital, and some doctors see you, they send you a "SEPARATE" bill for like $100, while the hospital, performing procedures based on the instructions of that doctor, sends you a $5000 one, for a few hours of stay. Like what the fuck, it's the same fucking brothel, why are they billing separately? Because they can guarantee calibrated results on blood tests and CT scans, but not on doctors opinions, and in case of a lawsuit, you get back the couple cents the doctor charged you in case he turns out to be in error, but the hospital bill is undisputable, even if it was under command of that doctor, under command of that captain. As far as I'm concerned it's the same maffiozo gang sending you the bill, and they rape you pretty bad on it, because they don't tell you an estimate when you show up, unlike with a car repair, where you can take your car from shop to shop for an estimate, in a hospital they don't let you take your body from hospital to hospital for an estimate. As long as we're talking money, right?
Btw mandatory insurance policies are pretty much forced gambling policies, as nobody will sell you health insurance over a certain cost procedure that's about to be performed on you in 10 minutes, they'll tell you to pay out of pocket, or pay more for the policy than that certain cost. It has to be a gamble to, if you're lucky, cost less than the actual procedure, but in general, for each dollar invested into such gambles you get back less than 50 cents, like on lottery tickets, which is why gambles like lottery or health insurace are for stupid people who did not pay attention in math class, because they are all horrible investments. If anything the government has more right to force you to invest in the stock market, and make you buy stocks you don't want to buy, where at least they could claim they are looking out for your best interest with some historical track record, with an uncertain future of course, so still being a gamble, while the historical track record with all insurance is that for every dollar invested overall you got back less than 50 cents. Mandatory insurance policies are forced gambling policies at ass raping profit to those selling them, and insurance is just a fancy word for a gamble like royal concubine is a fancy word for a hooker. I demand they use the word gambling policy every time they shove a government document under my nose that has the word insurance policy on it, like Obamacare tax documents, or driver's license corrupt law documents they force me to sign at the license bureau. Corrupt motherfuckers all over in the government.
I have to come back and write all this because I'm attacked on the health front to show up at a hospital and I simply refuse to do it, to the contrary, I write you this litany and lesson in the basics, in Freedom 101:
The problem with universal health care the way it is instilled into law today is that it's unfair. We already have tax supported road care that's universal or police and military, however there is problem with universal care through mandatory insurance purchase from for private corporations at arbitrary price and profit, be it car or health insurance, by individual citizen buyers from for profit corporations at arbitrary price. The other "universal" ways are set up via some equally or fairly levied taxes (such as gas tax you pay as you go for road maintenance per gallon of gas), and it is the government that makes the purchases in bulk from private for profit companies such as road service steam roller brigades or aerospace military weapons purchases, and the government has leverage on the price in these deals and all these private for profit corporations are a bitch to the government in trying to clock a deal, as opposed to hanging out each citizens pockets to dry, in an insurance gambling policy shark infested world where each citizen, by themselves, have no collective bargaining power, and are a bitch to the limited number insurance companies that way. If I show up at the East Side Market and all tomato salesmen are trying to sell their tomatoes at $150/lb, I simply don't have to buy. Duh. How simple is that? Even if one is selling at $120/lb, which sounds like a deal compared to the going price, I don't have to buy, and I can set my price at $0.50/lb, and if I cannot find any willing sellers at that price, I don't have to buy, and they don't have to sell. Duh. This is the very basics of concepts of remedial IQ testing in justice and liberty. Freedom, in that you cannot be forced to act in your own interest, and you are the captain on your soul, or your finances, not some fucking paternalistic government pretending to act in your benefit, Timothy McVeigh Invictus style. Often these pretending to act in your benefit things the government institutes turn out to be acting in the benefit of their own pockets, or constituents pockets they represent, or most likely campaign contributors pockets that got them elected, and it's payback time, by passing laws that benefit them at the expense of everyone else. Government run as a business. Law and Justice run as a business, via mandatory gambling policy purchases at arbitrary gambling profit. Jesus chased the usurers and merchants out of the Temple with a whip, and he got crucified for it. But he was brave. Religion as a business? Health care as a business? Law and Justice as a business? Education as a business? They need somebody with a whip to go through churches, courtrooms, hospitals and schools and chase the folks out who desacrate these things with money. Money is a simple fact of life, and churches and courtrooms etc cannot function without it, but to turn all focus in these institutions on money away from the really important things they are supposed to focus on, is like a crime against humanity. What's with the fucking prices in these places? Like healthcare prices, legal prices and education prices? Somebody needs to go around with a whip like Jesus did in the Temple of Jerusalem, and get the price focused usurers away from such places. He was brave and got crucified for it, but we need more like him in the land of the free and the home of the brave, unless you're willing to change the National Anthem from "Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave over the land of the Free and the home of the Brave" to "Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave over the land of the Slaves and the home of the Chickens."
If insurance companies were all required to be nonprofit - and in that no nonprofit bullshit where the CEO makes millions of dollars with golden parachute plans while his business runs as nonprofit, I'm talking where everyone, from
And I first thought they were talking about some defensive lipstick girls can wear in discos or dance clubs when predators like these approach them: http://imgur.com/gallery/NxLYc... , such as you can find here, https://www.stargazer-products... Now the question is how to make it activate and glow at will in the dark in the disco, such as indium-tin-oxide conductive coating and a small battery hidden inside a hearing-aid-like device behind the ear, and possibly a remote control switch in your pocket.
PS. On another note perhaps it's not a good idea to carve up the Moon into space stations, because so much of terrestrial life has adapted to tides, nocturnal vision, or even the lunar cycles such as women's and other mammal's periods. Possibly it could be turned into a ring orbiting around itself and going around as if the center of gravity of the moon has been maintained, while also providing artificial gravity outward due to spinning and easy life. Most likely some of the Moon will be used to put up like 1% Earth total surface area shades around the Lagrange point between the Sun and the Earth, or even a massive Fresnel lens later if we have mini ice-ages on us again, but the gravitational and light effects of the Moon are depended on by so much of terrestrial life, such as cats hunting at night that it's not worth messing with it. However Mars is a different question, and it may disappear way before the Moon does, and whether it should ever disappear is what I'm talking about here. So the Muslims should probably be safe keeping the new Moon on their flags and top of their mosques and minarets. And all this goes to show that everything I say on here has to be taken with a grain of salt, or two.
Oh, just one more thing, Colombo style. Or two:
- aluminum may be efficiently vacuum distillable out of silicon. Of course more difficult than magnesium.
- ammonia does not combust in air at room temperature, but it may burn fine if the reactants are preheated. Such as via Stirling engine style heat recouperators, possibly used in tandem. Such as a catalytic converter that gets red hot, split into two channels, one for the air intake, the other for ammonia intake, for preheat, while another pair of catalytic converter-like heat exchanger gauze gets heated by the exhaust, then you switch. If you can make the intake-exhaust long, even coiled or zigzag, you could recover even more heat by heat exchange. Such old school preheat the tandem brickwork and switch was common in the 1800's, for air preheat to a furnace. Also in the 1900's when gasifying coal - run air to heat it via exothermic combustion, run water/steam to get hydrogen and extra fuel via endothermic reaction, and switch back and forth.
In other words, opinions are like anuses.
It's like you're a Jew, and here comes Hitler, and he wants to vaccinate your kids for the best interest of the herd immunity. And when they die he says, well, we tried, we did what we could, but it looks like the vaccine was not successful in fighting off the infection. What arguments would you use against him if you were Jewish, in such a scenario? Would they be philosophical objections along the lines of INDIVIDUAL rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness as opposed to the interests of the CROWN who claims he's a unifying force looking out for the collective interest of the herd he's in charge of? Are you supposed to blindly trust any King or government, elected or otherwise?
Exactly.
Doctors don't know what they are doing, they are poking around in the dark. They play a lot of educated guessing games, and statistics, but they have no guarantees. Unlike a car technician, who can make a claim that he thoroughly understands cars, and he can fix any car and any car problem, I have yet to see a doctor who can make such a claim about people. The human body is just waaaay too complicated. Simply accounting for all the enzymes, and predicting their behavior in a disease excreted environment is waaaay beyond their abilities. Even if they can compute on a supercomputer the quantum mechanical behavior of enzymes in chemical reactions while accounting for he complicated snake-venom like antibodies diseases excrete, there is still the role of the nervous system in immune reactions, and predicting its functioning is beyond their abilities. Doctors cannot predict my thoughts. What am I thinking now, and what will I be thinking 2 minutes from now. Unless you can perfectly guess these things from present measurements like blood pressure, heart rate monitors, and EEG and EKG, you have not proven to me you can predict what mood I will be in 2 minutes from now, or how my body will react to a disease, because my thoughts affects my mood and my mood affects my adrenalin levels and such which in turn affect my bodies reaction to a disease. I'm free to think anything I want, and I'm free to control my mood that way, and have a say in how my body reacts to a disease in a way you cannot predict, so you cannot say how my body and immune system will react to a disease, whether it will self cure itself just fine, but should I take your vaccine I might die. You have no clue, you play educated guessing games as a doctor, and cite statistics, but you have no guarantees for individual cases. A way to guarantee it would be like this http://weknowmemes.com/wp-cont... Dr Riviera's If I kill you you don't pay guarantee. That means any person ending up dead even after the hospital tried treating them should get their money back. All dead cancer patients, etc. Which doctor can come up with such a money back guarantee? In a, if you don't reach 150 years old under my care, I'll pay you or your heirs all the money back? It does not work like that. You hire doctors as hopefully better experts for advice and treatment, but ultimately you are responsible for your own health, you are in charge of your own health, not some doctor, or some government.
Inevitably it is some disease that does in every person at old age, but if doctors truly understood what they were doing, they could fix any disease and you'd have at least some people who made it to 150 years old, or 200, etc. Unless a doctor can guarantee to me that he knows what he's doing, I'm in charge of my body, not some doctor, or some government that relies on the opinion of doctors.
I'm not only the captain of my soul, or my mind, Timothy McVeigh Invictus style, but also the captain of my body, and not some government or some doctors. Under the constitution people have INDIVIDUAL rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, and they are not subject to a overwhelming power CROWN or DICTATOR who can make life and death decisions at whim over them, Hitler style, such as genetic cleanups, or mass vaccinations, for the benefit of the herd. It is the herd, and each of its members that has sovereignty over themselves, and they limit government, and institute collective government only inasmuch as necessary, such as for military defense, or even public health issues, but every individual retains sovereignty over their body, and they should have the right to refuse forced injections even in the case of all juries and all appeal deciding against them, even in case they do have an actual, proven disease, such as Ebola (where test results can still be corrupt and faked by a corrupt system, (sometimes by a single author developing a fake test all test technicians believe), and because of thi
Ya own two eyeballs have a continuous wash of tear solution, sometimes activated by a quick blink, to keep a mirror finish or optically perfect surface in the middle of a sea storm or even dust storm. It's not that complicated to think of a continuously flowing rinse, possibly a quick brush zoom-by like a blinked eyelid, to ensure near perfect optical cleanliness of mirror finish military surfaces. There are plenty of improvements you can make to R2D2 and C3PO I posted about above to make them more laser resistant.
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Who said chivalry was dead? It's coming back big time, and you better get your mirror finish polishing skills tuned.
Mars is too small to hold a decent pressure atmosphere, or water in a liquid state, which, even at the triple point near 0 deg C sublimes and vaporizes if kept under low partial pressure. Show me a pressure/temperature/gravity to create that pressure parameter condition, and I'll accept that there might have been water on Mars, but otherwise I'd go for liquid methane or oxygen before I'd go for liquid water. The G-spot of Mars to create H2O wetness on it is pounding lots of moons and aseteroids and debris into it to build it up to the size of Venus, which is about the same size as Earth, but not to build it up to the size of Jupiter where it no longer vents or boils off hydrogen, and that means continuous growth at an accelerated rate into a gas giant with a hydrogen/helium atmosphere because the solar wind is mostly hydrogen/helium. It is possible to maintain steady size with a nitrogen atmosphere like earth dynamically replenished by nitrogen from the solar wind, then blown off by solar wind hydrogen sweep, to a steady state size, hydrogen always guaranteed to boil off. It's possible to sweep other things off with hydrogen, but there is nothing lighter than hydrogen, other than (charged electrons or light) that could be used to sweep off hydrogen to a steady state size that does not constantly accelerate in gravity, captures more hydrogen that creates more gravity, etc. The problem with water is that its melting point of 0C is too high, and once you get that temperature, a gas molecule of H2O with a molecular weight of 18 attains terminal velocity and escapes the gravity of Mars at that 0C temperature. Could you keep water liquid at -200C, where its thermal velocity is too low to escape the gravity of Mars, it would be no problem to have liquid water, but otherwise your options are liquid oxygen, liquid nitrogen, liquid methane, and the like, maybe even liquid ammonia, or liquid SO2, I don't know.
I just looked up liquid water, and came up with Europa, one of Jupiter's Moon, about the size of our Moon, supposedly having a liquid ocean. And the way this works is internal heating, not external solar heat, so the surface is much colder than the insides, just like there is lava kept at 3000 C by uranium thorium and potassium 40 decay in minerals that erupts from the insides of the Earth onto a much colder 20C surface. So it is possible, at least in theory, that there has been water on Mars with an ice surface to maintain the required pressure under it, and internal heat generated either by nuclear decay heating, or by some gravitational roundabout close to a strong gravity object that since has been knocked away or who knows what. Europa goes on a highly elliptical orbit near Jupiter, at the perihelion (see wikipedia and Kepler's law) and when it gets close its shape gets distorted away from spherical that it would naturally assume under self gravity into one elongated toward Jupiter, then as it travels to the farthest point, or aphelion, it assumes a more spherical shape. This constant shape shifting, like a rubber ball squeezed and relaxed, causes internal friction heat even without nuclear heat generation, and keeps the water on the subsurface of Europa liquid, with the outer surface crust being thermally insulating ice, and of course you'd get volcanic eruptions of liquid water freezing very fast into solid ice just like how you have volcanic eruptions of molten liquid rock lava on Earth freezing into solid rock and building mountains.
Which means it may be possible to create an artificial arctic sea world on the Moon too, all you need is provide it with low enough temperature, much lower than Earth, to maintain a surface layer of ice, beneath which you can create a liquid water ocean heated to say 4C temperature, and life, including humans, living on it Captain Nemo style. To drop the surface temperature of the Moon it would need to be shaded, with artificial shade from the Sun (such as putting up huge cylindrical stick like "geostationary" umbrellas that cover much of it's surface into shade) and then
I woke up thinking this: 900/mo x 12 =10,800 on 8 x 2080 hrs/yr =16,000 gross minimum wage for a family of 4. Insanity. Out of that 16,000 comes the near 10% sales tax, or 1,600, then social security, medicare, and only then income tax, if any. But still aint no fucking tax gonna take 11,000 from 16000 which is what Obamacare tries to be. It's economic nonsense, and it shows that either the democracy is on its last kicks, and whoever owns the system is abandoning a sinking ship and trying to squeeze whatever wealth they can still extract from it during the last minutes before it implodes, or they want to maintain the system but have an arbitrary tax that takes all your money dependent on how Da Man feels like, what he thinks the government should pitch into your Obamacare aid, whether all 10,800 is "on paper" given to you, meaning you get free health care, or you have to pay it all out of pocket. Bullshit. And if you do not agree, we can make you really sick by force. A hell of a world is coming. All I know people don't rebel as long as the stomach is filled each day, so as long as they can guarantee food on the table for everybody, they can get away with anything, such as making sure everyone has a credit score of less than 50, full of bankruptcies, a mile long criminal record, declared a liar, and 8 million dollar in debt on paper, per person, it's all abrakadabra numbers and letters on pieces of paper or computers and don't really matter as long as there is food on the table every day, that's the only thing that really matters. And as long as that's guaranteed the urban populations grow out of control, and when it's no longer guaranteed and hunger starts, that's when any kind of violence and massive riots begin. Even racial riots don't really happen, unless some races have been kept on really tight food supply for a while. The daily bread, food, is the top priority above almost anything else to all lifeforms, besides of course air and water, which are free or almost, and roof over the head and clothing, roof over the head being the single major cost in a distorted way from what's normal on most of today's list of expenses, far outdoing food cost, for now. That's gonna change, eventually it has to, big time.
Hispanics are the fastest growing ethnic group inside the US, faster than urban blacks. Which is the only thing that counts in long term voting power, rate of population growth. San Francisco CA, San Diego CA, San Jose CA, San Angelo TX, San Antonio TX, San Marcos TX, San Luis, CA, San Clemente CA, San Bernandino CA, San Mateo CA, Santa Rosa CA, Santa Fe NM, Santa Maria CA, Santa Barbara CA, Santa Monica CA, Santa Cruz CA, Los Angeles CA, Los Alamos NM, Las Cruces NM, Las Vegas NV, Amarillo TX, Mesa AZ, Costa Mesa CA, Salinas CA, Sacramento CA, Pueblo CO, Durango CO, Natchez LA, El Paso NM, El Dorado AR, (Baton Rouge LA, french also Laplace and New Orleans too), these non-English names describe the long history of who was there first, of course mixed in and interspersed with English names. In the old days territory was conquered with swords or gunpowder, in these days of peace it's done with the phallus, the horny erect penis getting stuck into moist vaginas that are unable to say no to that dick. The whole world is playing chicken with overpopulation issues, and as long as there is voting, and welfare against starvation, popping babies on welfare as fast as you can is what any sane ethnic group should do, until we drag the government welfare funds so deep into debt that they can no longer send out the welfare checks, and then if we still hit that bootay and pop a new "individual" with equal protection in the eyes of the law, the natural consequence will be starvation if we do it in a non economically conscious way. The capacity of lifeforms to breed is or should be infinite until they hit the economic limitations, which is the normal controlling check on population levels. With free welfare money and equal protection under the law to all individuals regardless of race, skin color, eye color, hair color or lack of hair, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or economic status, the economic check is lifted because everyone is guaranteed unlimited access to inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In the modern days all these terms are monetized, converted into money, which is why I revised the Our Father a few posts back. Money buys you rights, money buys you life, money buys you territory, and money buys you fame, money buys you reputation, money buys you good ethical standing, money buys you youth (through a plastic surgeon), money buys you weapons, money buys you corrupt politicians who can revise your credit history. Most importantly money buys you territory. Which is really at the core of my personal problems, territory, and in that ethnic control of territory. I bough my house for peanuts in Da Hood trying to show how on minimum wage people in desolate urban areas full of opportunity (cheap housing, public transportation, utilities, TV and radio stations, supermarkets, libraries, monuments) can make ends meet and live extremely happily. However I'm a white guy, and I entered a territory as a white person which was conquered by blacks during the race riots in the late 70's away from Czech and Slovak ethnics, who moved on. They put up a fight for it, and they ain't just gon give it back to white people encroaching on their conquered territory. My girl cousin living with her husband in a still fairly upscale territory around 2000 was told in that apartment bldg by some black folk that "this is already ours." Black folk consider an apartment bldg they rent or even a city block as territory. Like Eddie Griffin says it in this flick, west side west side, nigga dyin over a block you don't even own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... But he does own it in the end if he succeed harassing and chasing white people away from it, then taking over the county government, and harassing the landlords away with bullshit things like minimum service fees on utilities. I had a homeless black man who called himself Lloyd move into the junk house I bought, and he'd rip the water line down and flood the basement with a tiny puddle in the depression no
Pristine nature untouched by man looks absolutely gorgeous to me. Let's argue about tastes and beauty and I can promise you that I'll win even if I'm surrounded by a hundred million idiots mowing their lawns around me thinking I should too, including attacking me and charging me insane amounts for it, saying I could have done it cheaper DIY. Fuck all 100 million of you.
My fucking dreams of having my own garage and starting up my own business are smashed too, by the corrupt cunts at the county government destroying my house with a huge ass excavator, because it was not up to code, and putting the demolition cost on my property tax bill, threatening to fuck up my credit with a foreclosure if I don't pay it. And I paid the motherfucking bill off, and now they are openly attacking and locally exterminating my wildflowers and native bugs like butterflies that depend on those flowers, and spiders and dragonflies that depend on catching the bugs that depend on the flowers, and sending me bills over it, again, threatening me with foreclosure, and a messed up credit. Yet at the end of my street there is a public transit train line with all kinds of weeds and bushes left growing freely, without being attacked and cut down constantly, and those areas get a whole lot more train passenger eyeball spectators than my lot does. Even if they have a corrupt law or rule, at least they should enforce it uniformly across the whole fucking county, and as long as I can take a picture anywhere inside county borders of a wildflower or untrimmed, un-"landscaped" bush standing, they can take their fucking time wasting, US-dependence-on-foreign-oil wasting and my fucking money I don't have for this sissy grass cutting bullshit wasting bills and shove it up their asses. I run and urban farm and I grow hay on it, that I could sell to an amish horse or cow ranch, but I never get to complete the job, because they attack my hay constantly, and send me bills over it. Or are we gonna argue about what kinds of plants I'm allowed to grow on the lot? Are we gonna start arguing about tastes and beauty? Good luck with that, all I can say there is no way in hell you can argue to me that nature, pristine, untouched by man is not beautiful, and it requires an assraping amount of cost "human touch" to make it tolerable to human eyeballs, telling me I can fucking do it myself cheaper if I so opt to. If anything, invasive species like urban farm tomatoes have the least right to be grown there, and that native wildflowers with native animals that depend on them have the most right. You with your fucking lawnmowers are the most devastating and invasive species in the whole picture, and you keep threatening me with a foreclosure if I don't pay these bullshit high charges, you telling me I could have done it myself cheaper, and the code requires it. Fuck you and your code. I'll declare your fucking daughters not up to genetic code code, and blast their fucking heads off with the most expensive rocket grenade launching weapons I can up with, and tell you that you could have abated their noncompliance with the code by killing them yourself with a $1 knife you can buy at the dollar store (hell you could get the job done with a plastic knife that costs a lot less than that, might take you a while, but you could get the job done, right?) Or you don't even need weapons, you could have just done it with your bare fists, like I could have gone to my lot and pull the grass out with my bare hands, or cut it to 2" height required by the code with a dollar store pair of scissors myself a lot cheaper. Fuck the government and their 2" code. I lot my grass tall, knee high, flowering, with happy bugs on it.
Yesterday I left a really nasty message to the gas company, threatening them with physical damage to the gas infrastructure, if they don't cut the fucking service off and stop sending me these minimum basic charges even when I don't use any gas or barely use any in the summertime. I did that because they stated they don't take service disconnection requests on line, I have to call them on the phone, and I know if I don't get threatening and nasty, they could just ignore my message. This way they better fucking forward the terrorist threat messages to the authorities, and I'm already on their terrorist watch list, I better be when I talk like this on Slashdot, so they better forwarded the message up and by that acknowledge that they did r
Morse out with a laser pointer "Let's Throw the Teabags into the Sea!" at a traffic camera. You can get in trouble.
Or even put your Hancock on the Declaration of Independence. Like signing your own death sentence. It's free speech, with consequences. But with luck, it's protected as the dearest free speech in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Rules and laws are ultimately contraptions created by human minds in order to organize and live happily. Thins includes rules on private property, such as your coat. But when powers arise among you who pervert those rules into a situation where you must rent your coat at all times and you're allowed to own them in theory, but not in practice, people resort to free speech, and "free and rebellious actions" that can get them killed by those who subvert the rules and laws. Such as bullshit insurance purchase requirements regardless of price, from private parties. What kind of bullshit is that? Even with competitors offering a product, like tomatoes, at the East Side Market, what is the price if the law compels you to purhcase? $150 per lb? Hey the going price is 150, but I was able to get a deal at 120! Yay for you, fucking retard. My price is $1/lb, and if nobody is willing to sell me tomatoes at that price, I'll find other ways to feed myself. Like insurance, I'm responsible for my financial well being, to manage risks and funds, and unless someone wants to take over the responsibility of my bankruptcies, they should not tell me to buy something at a price I don't find fit in my budget. Insurance is really the old maffiozo way of making money: Maffiozos go into restaurant, tell the owner 50% of your income in our pocket, we're selling you business insurance. Screw you guys, get the fuck out of here. Next a bomb goes off inside your business, and you're told, see, it would have been a wise idea to purchase that business insurance. If anything, insurance salesmen need to be all jailed for threatening and intimidating people into buying maffiozo style overpriced profit raping insurance policies, because these motherfuckers exterminate a whole lot of more unborn babies that people choose not to have because they cannot afford to, compared to rap artists firing off any fucking kind of talk. IMHO.
After all food expenses rank pretty low on my list of expenses, and the dominant one is still housing cost, and I'm civil disobedience protesting the encroachment of insurance costs that would outdo housing cost in the future with everything I got. These people think I don't pay enough for housing cost and x-ray me over that idea, trying to send me into higher housing cost situations, and trying to teach me lessons over seeking lowered housing expenses. Bullshit, no, trying to attain the daily bread in my mind is or should be the top activity, and as long as I can feed on $50-80/month, housing should be $5-20, and I refuse to accept anything else. What a fucking perversion of costs and expenses the world has turned into? Like I was just watching a western on over the air TV, and argued with someone that cowboys were not forced by law to buy insurance to ride their horses back then, against their horses accidentally kicking some passerbies into the head or biting them. Forced gambling, forced insurance purchases? What a fucking joke. I stopped buying car insurance too. Unless you accept bankruptcy under my name, don't fucking send me bills I don't want to pay for. Soon they are gonna turn water into hard core property, and air too. And if they ask me, I'll say that yes, I like to get air for free, and water for free falling from the sky into my lap, just like I don't like to pay for housing, in my mind housing effort should be a couple weeks activity in a lifetime, not 60% of every day bogged down with trying to come up with housing cost. So yes, I like to get my air and water for free, just like I like to get my housing for free too, but they can probably distort the system where I'll say that I cannot live without air, water, or a roof over my head, and I'm willing to pay quite a bit for them, temporarily, if blackmailed extorted over some bullshit erected new rules, but pretty much my only concern in life then becomes to set things right, the way they should be, meaning air, water and housing costs being minuscule compared to the daily bread. For example I cannot assume the responsibility of a child while threathened with being out on the street the next day, because I'm forced to rent, because the house I was able to acquire was too inexpensive in the opinion of some, attacked and destroyed to help me out, and I got billed for the destruction effort. Just to keep my housing costs high. I literally live free or die, and in that I do not breed in captivity. Rent should be something temporary in life, like when you go off to college, or when you rent a car for a week, not a permanent solution. Being forced to pay rent means I'll never breed and go extinct, so you're pretty much exterminating me with forced rent, and forced insurance gambling. Lots of people have cars with rust on them. You'll argue that rusty cars do not live up to standards of safety, and go attack anyone who drives a car that costs less than a $180,000 Rolls Royce, over safety code violations, and send them a bill, like you send me a bill over the destruction of my house not living up to your housing code standards of beauty and safety. And you tell me it cost that much and I had the option to kill it myself cheaper. How about I declare your preteen daughter not up to genetic code standards, find some fault with her, then show up with some expensive rocket launchers to blast her head off for you, send you a huge bill over it, telling you you could have killed her yourself with a $5 knife instead, but I had to do it for you. Because after all you don't let me have kids threatening me with being out on the street the next day, and with the money you extort from me you had and raised that daughter. How about we set things right, and correct them, when they are not up to code? And above all, cutting my grass, destroying my flowers and insects - butterflies, spiders, dragonflies - locally, saying their are noxious weeds and pests, when they been around for 600 million years and did fine until you and your ancestors showed up on the scene, and started att