Soap box, ballot box, ammo box... the great mandala of politics.
Seeing elections as a primary means for citizens to effect basic changes in the political landscape is naive at the very least. Only when people understand and accept that government is not their ally or friend can things change. For those that reach this consensus what can they do?
1 - Deny government their funding. Although a substantial amount of governments are funded by borrowing, taxes are still important. In this situation, income taxes are your friend. Operate off the books and you can snuggly smile since the government will not be spending YOUR tax money.
2 - Help establish and/or participate in anonymous betting pools. Recall just how keen was the interest by U.S. Senators in my Total Information Awareness program when they realized they might be wagered upon. They knew that such markets could provide not just good intel but set the stage for a powerful 'sixth estate' in society, one not under the control of them or their benefactors.
Since the surprisingly easy overthrow in 1951 of Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq by Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., a senior CIA officer and grandson of the former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. has created a massive shadow military through private contractors in order to carry out insurgent activities without any direct linkage to U.S. government employees. Many of these contractors are true mercenaries with little allegiance to any nation and its likely that betting pools offering sufficient and anonymous payouts would find ready take-up by these soldiers of fortune.
I don't know where you are getting your news but there is an incredible amount of discord in China. Though currently its mainly linked with the Party's policy of internal colonialism as a means to exploit natural resources and develop transportation and electrification infrastrcuture. Peasants are being displaced in numbers not unlike Mao's programs and almost daily demonstrations, some quite large, are being held.
It may not be necessary to use bandgap materials at all to produce useful lasing action.
One approach might be to create an array of UV frequency resonant metalized structures on a substrate (perhaps with the aid of electron beam lithography) and apply the data as a puslsed DC signal. This idea was first proposed in a patent in the 1980s by Alvin Marks, the inventor of polarized plastic, with variations promoted under the name Lumeloid. This idea is the inverse variation of Lepcon, his highly efficient, non-bandgap, photovoltaics which are now being seriously investigated worldwide.
A second, more far out, approach might be to create a submicron sized Free Electron Laser with the pumping and traveling wave magnets on the substrate.:)
Anonymous Coward wrote:
"To think the rest of the world looked at the US Constitution with envy and emulated it, only to see it ignored by corruption and ignorance."
According to Charles Adams in his book, "When in the Course of Human Events," none of the nations formed since the Rebellion (incorrectly called the Civil War) adopted the US Constitution as a model. Most chose the British parlimentary system.
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Soap box, ballot box, ammo box... the great mandala of politics.
Seeing elections as a primary means for citizens to effect basic changes in the political landscape is naive at the very least. Only when people understand and accept that government is not their ally or friend can things change. For those that reach this consensus what can they do?
1 - Deny government their funding. Although a substantial amount of governments are funded by borrowing, taxes are still important. In this situation, income taxes are your friend. Operate off the books and you can snuggly smile since the government will not be spending YOUR tax money.
2 - Help establish and/or participate in anonymous betting pools. Recall just how keen was the interest by U.S. Senators in my Total Information Awareness program when they realized they might be wagered upon. They knew that such markets could provide not just good intel but set the stage for a powerful 'sixth estate' in society, one not under the control of them or their benefactors.
Since the surprisingly easy overthrow in 1951 of Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq by Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., a senior CIA officer and grandson of the former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. has created a massive shadow military through private contractors in order to carry out insurgent activities without any direct linkage to U.S. government employees. Many of these contractors are true mercenaries with little allegiance to any nation and its likely that betting pools offering sufficient and anonymous payouts would find ready take-up by these soldiers of fortune.
Since when is it illegal to shout fire in crowded structure?.... if the structure is indeed on fire.
JP
I don't know where you are getting your news but there is an incredible amount of discord in China. Though currently its mainly linked with the Party's policy of internal colonialism as a means to exploit natural resources and develop transportation and electrification infrastrcuture. Peasants are being displaced in numbers not unlike Mao's programs and almost daily demonstrations, some quite large, are being held.
It may not be necessary to use bandgap materials at all to produce useful lasing action.
:)
One approach might be to create an array of UV frequency resonant metalized structures on a substrate (perhaps with the aid of electron beam lithography) and apply the data as a puslsed DC signal. This idea was first proposed in a patent in the 1980s by Alvin Marks, the inventor of polarized plastic, with variations promoted under the name Lumeloid. This idea is the inverse variation of Lepcon, his highly efficient, non-bandgap, photovoltaics which are now being seriously investigated worldwide.
A second, more far out, approach might be to create a submicron sized Free Electron Laser with the pumping and traveling wave magnets on the substrate.
JP