What these guys aren't counting on is the obsolescence of multibillion dollar CPU fabs.
The advent of graphene as the substrate material threatens to turn the whole game on its head with resilient communities routing around the damage with flexible manufacturing and mesh networks.
Disintermediate or die.
Well its nice to see someone catching up with what I was arguing 30 years ago while developing a network operating system for the VIEWTRON rollout to all of the Knight Ridder newspaper chain in conjunction with AT&T.
The most progress toward this end was made when I agreed to come aboard HP's eSpeak project (which didn't make any sense to me) so long as they let me pursue this vision for "Internet Chapter 2". This is as far as we got:
Bit-String Physics: A Finite and Discrete Approach to Natural Philosophy [Hardcover] H. Pierre Noyes (Author), J. C. Van Den Berg (Author, Editor), J.C. van den Berg (Author), is the concluding book of the 27 volume "Series on Knots and Everything" and it, in turn, concludes with "Reflections on PSQM" which contains, on page 548:
"...Relation Arithmetic Revived, was written at Hewlett-Packard as part of the theoretical work that Jim Bowery and I were doing on the design of transactional languages for the Internet. It went much further in developing another idea briefly introduced in Structure Theory, which is that the theory of relations, and indeed the whole of mathematics, can be formulated in a language whose only primitive predicates are identity relations. This new work appears to have good long-range prospects for putting link theory on a deeper logical foundation, but that is outside the scope of the present paper."
This work was cut short when I insisted on retaining Dr. Etter for his mathematical specialty rather than "hiring all the H-1b's from India you want".
For instance, if you take a few BMOD0063 P125 B04/B08s each rated at 63F, 125V and maximum discharge current of 1,800A (energy capacity of (0.5 * [63 * farad]) * (125 * [volt^2]) ? joule = 3937.5 J) and discharged it into a 2000uH air core inductor ((0.5 * [2000 * {micro*henry}]) * ([1800 * ampere]^2) ? joule = 3240 J) might you not get the equivalent of a small car crash discharged at millions of volts by timing the switchout of the capacitor bank correctly?
This guy's "study" is so far from anything that might be considered scientific -- even ignoring the bias and conflict of interest -- that it is almost a paper tiger set up to make legitimate arguments against outsourcing look bad by association.
Look, until there is something along the lines of a humane political economy, I'm going to be one hard-core sonofabitch protectionist. You just can't justify a political economy in which property rights are protected for free by taxing economic activity. Nor can you justify a political economy in which the citizens of the polity have to vie with each other politically to get their entitlement, which should be an equal share of the dividend stream arising from the very existence of a legal infrastructure that protects property rights.
Even with a citizen's dividend funded by use fees for property rights upheld by the existence of government and property rights laws, I don't believe in money as the ultimate measure of virtual dick-length. I don't care whether the guys in other countries are "competitive" or not. He has to have some reasonable expectation that the benefits of his sacrifice (and if you don't believe there is sacrifice involved in invention, you aren't paying attention) will fall disproportionately on himself, his family his community, his state and his nation respectively.
Oh, and, yes, human political economies such as that just described does mean citizenship should require familial connection to the founders of the polity. Such familial connections are, throughout history, a consequence of consanguinity modified by the exchange of FEMALES. Look at the mtDNA distributions by geography vs Y-Chromosome distributions by geography. If your government protects male immigrants that go through some ritual, then it should let local males challenge foreign males to natural duel to the death and, if they are refused, lift protection from any form of legal protection of the foreign males.
Disclaimer: I'm a rank amateur, so be forewarned:
When I was working with Paul Koloc on his erstwhile Plasmak(tm) lightning machine (when I still thought his photographs were real), I came up with a conceptually simple circuit that Paul seemed to think was (conceptually) superior to his simple (DC) capacitor discharge -- except that it was impractical given his mercury switch controls. As usual, you have to have a honking power supply charging a honking capacitor bank with a honking inductor coil ready to roll, but the trick is that at the point in the phase where the capacitor bank has been fully discharged into the inductor, you switch out the capacitor bank and replace it with the spark gap.
This, purely DC system seems to better model actual lightning than AC systems doesn't it?
One of the cons pulled by the Fortune 1000 over the last decade or so has been to employ H-1bs in positions where the company is testing the limits of the law and they don't want that information sopenad -- and simply repatriating the H-1b when time comes to "shred". They do this by pretending to reduce IT salaries, knowing full well that that kind of fraud (using the H-1b provision to lower labor costs) is winked at by the FBI.
However, what they don't count on is that the hapless H-1b IT guy is actually part of a tight-knit ethnic network that, back in the old country, can use that information in, oh, let's just say "jurisdictional arbitrage".
Hookers have a similar problem. The way they deal with it is to die of AIDS.
Seriously (not), the problem with corporate IT hiring is they want young fresh meat but are lousy at animal husbandry. Any farmer will tell you that you breed your top performers. Corporate IT does the opposite. Their attitude seems to be limited to:
Geek can't get a date or can't afford a house in Silicon Valley and form a family? Boo hoo. Why not get your rocks off with each other? Remember the Castro is just a hop skip and a jump away from Silicon Valley. All the sex you want! We'll pay for the AZT. Homophobic? Here's some free psychological counseling.
A more enlightened management would supplement the above wise counsel by taking skin cell samples of their highest performers, freezing the samples and then, around age 35, sending all their workers to another jurisdiction where accidents just happen. Meanwhile, use those same jurisdictions to rent-a-womb, clone the highest performers and then re-import the young fresh meat clones once they hit the age where some of the corporate authorities want to establish a Socratic relationship and Mentor them.
If you are really interested in issues of Constitutionality and electronic technology, the issue most relevant to the original intent of the US Constitution was the establishment of de facto censorship of free speech created by the broadcast networks under the licensing authority of the Federal government. The broadcast licenses thereby issued allows public discourse to be limited to the range of issues and opinion determined by central authorities far from the citizens they were to "inform".
No tyrant in history was ever able to grab such power and the effect over the 20th century has been absolutely devastating to the United States. Even today, with the increasing disintermediation (and consequent slow recovery of freedom) of information, you still have public opinion being molded by the likes of Jeffrey Rosen and NPR. Indeed, no candidate seeking public office at the Federal level has had a hope of winning that office without the support of the broadcast networks, whose unconstitutionality is so ignored by Jeffrey Rosen and NPR (for obvious reasons).
ICANN should hand out domains for _free_ on a first-come first-serve basis BUT maintain escrowed bids for all domain names. The annual fee for retaining control of those domain names should be the 1 year Treasury rate. The escrow accounts should yield to the highest bidder the 3 month Treasury rate. If there are groups of domains that have synergistic value together, they should be considered a composite domain by the bidder. The combination of bids (composite and individual) that yields the highest total annual fee to ICANN should define the highest bidder for each individual domain, hence which escrow accounts are paid the interest at the 3 month Treasury rate.
The composite domain bidding needs some explanation:
As an example, let's say that Joe wants acme.com, acme.biz and acme.xxx as a composite domain. He bids $60 for acme.com, $20 for acme.biz and $10 for acme.xxx making the appropriate deposits in escrow with ICANN. Sam comes along and bids $61 for acme.com but the other bids for individual domains acme.biz and acme.xxx are $19 and $9 respectively. The individual bids (totaling $89) in escrow receive no interest payments; Joe's (totaling $90) do. Moreover, the current owner of acme.com pays the 1 year Treasury rate on the $60 bid by Joe, not on the $61 bid by Sam. Conversely, the owners of acme.biz and acme.xxx pay interest on $20 and $10 respectively. Joe's escrowed bid for the composite domain receives the 3 month Treasury rate on $90. The owner of acme.com can, of course, accept Sam's bid of $61 at any time, in which case Sam starts paying the interest on the $60.
The obvious implication of this is that there would be a dynamic and highly automated flow of money between escrowed bids, but domain domain speculation would be a thing of the past.
If a domain name is defended as a legally recognized trademark, business name, etc. then no ICANN-mediated bidding is allowed and ICANN charges no fees.
What should ICANN do with the revenue arising from the difference between the 1 year Treasury rate and the 3 month Treasury rate?
They were driven from academia into Technova where they did, indeed, replicate the phenomenon but in an environment that demanded a commercial product. This demand for a commercial product drove them to focus on the so-called "heat after death" phenomenon that they originally encountered in 1984 that nearly destroyed their basement laboratory setup -- not from an explosion -- but from a melt-down event. When the Toyota heir backing their work died, and they still hadn't gotten control of the phenomenon, their work terminated. Having been "discredited" by the scientific establishment, they had no further support.
Rational political economic discourse (Georgism being the most prominent exemplar) may arise from a genuine laboratory of the States: Where States can control their borders, control most of the tax revenue and are not burdened by "Federal mandates" except in the area of interstate pollution.
The thing about Ron Paul is he attracts pioneer stock folks: The very sort of folks that made "Progress and Poverty" the most widely read book other than the Bible in the latter half of the 19th century US. That's why his campaign organs (like the Daily Paul) are a good place to call the Austrians on their virulence. Read over my posts there for a good example of ripping Ron Paul a new asshole as loyal opposition.
The over-interpretation of the Constitution's Interstate Commerce Clause (violating the 10th Amendment) might be thought of as an inevitable result of the reaction to Shay's Rebellion that was, itself, the impetus for creating a stronger central government than that provided by the Articles of Confederation. If so, it was clearly not a uniformly held opinion of the Founders that the States should be so limited in their powers.
So practically speaking, it is true that even if the States were able to salvage the Republic, this issue of State sovereignty (indeed, Individual sovereignty) would still need to be addressed in a way as radical as that which addressed the original admission of the slave states to the US.
This kind of "economics" is the sort of epic stupidity that is bringing down the US economy.
Using the US government as your debt-collection agency so you can park your capital somewhere while you golf with Obama or whatever it is you do, is EXACTLY the kind of thing that results in the deindustrialization of the economy.
When TFA says: "banks buy them as low-risk assets" it is betraying the truth of the "economics" profession reflected in Modern Portfolio Theory's so-called "risk free asset". The reality is that this "risk free asset" is the foundation of the centralization of wealth via what classical economists referred to as "economic rent": The portion of return on the economy which is, for all practical purposes, simply the result of there being an economy.
A rational political economy would distribute all economic rent evenly in a citizen's dividend thereby replacing all government transfer programs (with their attendant public sector rent seeking) with market demand for what the people (as opposed to the wealthy or the politically influential with their lobbyists) need..
Since it is clear that the US Federal government is now captured by the rentiers (rent seekers) of both the private and public sectors, it cannot admit rational political economic thought. So the responsibility devolves to the States.
There is a proposal for State legislation to remediate some of the pathology created by a positive feedback loop of centralized power, but realistically, even the State governments are so depleted of resources by this vicious cycle that there is little hope for them to salvage the Republic.
Your team had access to the preliminary notes. If you had a preprint of the the full calorimetry set up published more than a year later in the full paper, then Lewis's critiques certainly didn't reflect it.
When you did your back of the envelop calculation, did you include the statement made by P&F in their original press conference of March, 1989 that the neutron flux was a factor of a billion too small to account for the observed heat by conventional D+D fusion processes?
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Ink-jet printed graphene circuits have been demonstrated. The incentives for cooperative mesh networking are in their physics. Why waste energy just so you can spoil a "commons"? If you want to see an example of how community resilience can effectively deal with aggression, look up the Swiss military.
What these guys aren't counting on is the obsolescence of multibillion dollar CPU fabs. The advent of graphene as the substrate material threatens to turn the whole game on its head with resilient communities routing around the damage with flexible manufacturing and mesh networks. Disintermediate or die.
Oh wait, that was his daughter.
Here is Gene Klein's hot shiksa wife.
Well, ok, maybe his daughter is hotter than her mother. Must be Gene's genes working their magic for the next generation.
Obviously the Arkansas Supreme Court is packed with crackers who let Erickson (probably related to Leif) off because he was white.
The most progress toward this end was made when I agreed to come aboard HP's eSpeak project (which didn't make any sense to me) so long as they let me pursue this vision for "Internet Chapter 2". This is as far as we got:
Bit-String Physics: A Finite and Discrete Approach to Natural Philosophy [Hardcover] H. Pierre Noyes (Author), J. C. Van Den Berg (Author, Editor), J.C. van den Berg (Author), is the concluding book of the 27 volume "Series on Knots and Everything" and it, in turn, concludes with "Reflections on PSQM" which contains, on page 548:
This work was cut short when I insisted on retaining Dr. Etter for his mathematical specialty rather than "hiring all the H-1b's from India you want".
For instance, if you take a few BMOD0063 P125 B04/B08s each rated at 63F, 125V and maximum discharge current of 1,800A (energy capacity of (0.5 * [63 * farad]) * (125 * [volt^2]) ? joule = 3937.5 J) and discharged it into a 2000uH air core inductor ((0.5 * [2000 * {micro*henry}]) * ([1800 * ampere]^2) ? joule = 3240 J) might you not get the equivalent of a small car crash discharged at millions of volts by timing the switchout of the capacitor bank correctly?
Look, until there is something along the lines of a humane political economy, I'm going to be one hard-core sonofabitch protectionist. You just can't justify a political economy in which property rights are protected for free by taxing economic activity. Nor can you justify a political economy in which the citizens of the polity have to vie with each other politically to get their entitlement, which should be an equal share of the dividend stream arising from the very existence of a legal infrastructure that protects property rights.
Even with a citizen's dividend funded by use fees for property rights upheld by the existence of government and property rights laws, I don't believe in money as the ultimate measure of virtual dick-length. I don't care whether the guys in other countries are "competitive" or not. He has to have some reasonable expectation that the benefits of his sacrifice (and if you don't believe there is sacrifice involved in invention, you aren't paying attention) will fall disproportionately on himself, his family his community, his state and his nation respectively.
Oh, and, yes, human political economies such as that just described does mean citizenship should require familial connection to the founders of the polity. Such familial connections are, throughout history, a consequence of consanguinity modified by the exchange of FEMALES. Look at the mtDNA distributions by geography vs Y-Chromosome distributions by geography. If your government protects male immigrants that go through some ritual, then it should let local males challenge foreign males to natural duel to the death and, if they are refused, lift protection from any form of legal protection of the foreign males.
Disclaimer: I'm a rank amateur, so be forewarned: When I was working with Paul Koloc on his erstwhile Plasmak(tm) lightning machine (when I still thought his photographs were real), I came up with a conceptually simple circuit that Paul seemed to think was (conceptually) superior to his simple (DC) capacitor discharge -- except that it was impractical given his mercury switch controls. As usual, you have to have a honking power supply charging a honking capacitor bank with a honking inductor coil ready to roll, but the trick is that at the point in the phase where the capacitor bank has been fully discharged into the inductor, you switch out the capacitor bank and replace it with the spark gap. This, purely DC system seems to better model actual lightning than AC systems doesn't it?
However, what they don't count on is that the hapless H-1b IT guy is actually part of a tight-knit ethnic network that, back in the old country, can use that information in, oh, let's just say "jurisdictional arbitrage".
The global economy is an amoral beast incapable of planning beyond the next rip-off of the increasingly hollowed-out nation states.
A more enlightened management would supplement the above wise counsel by taking skin cell samples of their highest performers, freezing the samples and then, around age 35, sending all their workers to another jurisdiction where accidents just happen. Meanwhile, use those same jurisdictions to rent-a-womb, clone the highest performers and then re-import the young fresh meat clones once they hit the age where some of the corporate authorities want to establish a Socratic relationship and Mentor them.
No tyrant in history was ever able to grab such power and the effect over the 20th century has been absolutely devastating to the United States. Even today, with the increasing disintermediation (and consequent slow recovery of freedom) of information, you still have public opinion being molded by the likes of Jeffrey Rosen and NPR. Indeed, no candidate seeking public office at the Federal level has had a hope of winning that office without the support of the broadcast networks, whose unconstitutionality is so ignored by Jeffrey Rosen and NPR (for obvious reasons).
The composite domain bidding needs some explanation:
As an example, let's say that Joe wants acme.com, acme.biz and acme.xxx as a composite domain. He bids $60 for acme.com, $20 for acme.biz and $10 for acme.xxx making the appropriate deposits in escrow with ICANN. Sam comes along and bids $61 for acme.com but the other bids for individual domains acme.biz and acme.xxx are $19 and $9 respectively. The individual bids (totaling $89) in escrow receive no interest payments; Joe's (totaling $90) do. Moreover, the current owner of acme.com pays the 1 year Treasury rate on the $60 bid by Joe, not on the $61 bid by Sam. Conversely, the owners of acme.biz and acme.xxx pay interest on $20 and $10 respectively. Joe's escrowed bid for the composite domain receives the 3 month Treasury rate on $90. The owner of acme.com can, of course, accept Sam's bid of $61 at any time, in which case Sam starts paying the interest on the $60.
The obvious implication of this is that there would be a dynamic and highly automated flow of money between escrowed bids, but domain domain speculation would be a thing of the past.
If a domain name is defended as a legally recognized trademark, business name, etc. then no ICANN-mediated bidding is allowed and ICANN charges no fees.
What should ICANN do with the revenue arising from the difference between the 1 year Treasury rate and the 3 month Treasury rate?
They played rasta musika during the epilogue. No need to send in the predator drones.
When will they learn?
They were driven from academia into Technova where they did, indeed, replicate the phenomenon but in an environment that demanded a commercial product. This demand for a commercial product drove them to focus on the so-called "heat after death" phenomenon that they originally encountered in 1984 that nearly destroyed their basement laboratory setup -- not from an explosion -- but from a melt-down event. When the Toyota heir backing their work died, and they still hadn't gotten control of the phenomenon, their work terminated. Having been "discredited" by the scientific establishment, they had no further support.
The thing about Ron Paul is he attracts pioneer stock folks: The very sort of folks that made "Progress and Poverty" the most widely read book other than the Bible in the latter half of the 19th century US. That's why his campaign organs (like the Daily Paul) are a good place to call the Austrians on their virulence. Read over my posts there for a good example of ripping Ron Paul a new asshole as loyal opposition.
So practically speaking, it is true that even if the States were able to salvage the Republic, this issue of State sovereignty (indeed, Individual sovereignty) would still need to be addressed in a way as radical as that which addressed the original admission of the slave states to the US.
Using the US government as your debt-collection agency so you can park your capital somewhere while you golf with Obama or whatever it is you do, is EXACTLY the kind of thing that results in the deindustrialization of the economy.
When TFA says: "banks buy them as low-risk assets" it is betraying the truth of the "economics" profession reflected in Modern Portfolio Theory's so-called "risk free asset". The reality is that this "risk free asset" is the foundation of the centralization of wealth via what classical economists referred to as "economic rent": The portion of return on the economy which is, for all practical purposes, simply the result of there being an economy.
A rational political economy would distribute all economic rent evenly in a citizen's dividend thereby replacing all government transfer programs (with their attendant public sector rent seeking) with market demand for what the people (as opposed to the wealthy or the politically influential with their lobbyists) need..
Since it is clear that the US Federal government is now captured by the rentiers (rent seekers) of both the private and public sectors, it cannot admit rational political economic thought. So the responsibility devolves to the States. There is a proposal for State legislation to remediate some of the pathology created by a positive feedback loop of centralized power, but realistically, even the State governments are so depleted of resources by this vicious cycle that there is little hope for them to salvage the Republic.
Your team had access to the preliminary notes. If you had a preprint of the the full calorimetry set up published more than a year later in the full paper, then Lewis's critiques certainly didn't reflect it.
I should, merely, have responded:
WHOOSH!
So let me hereby make amends by so responding to you:
WHOOSH!
When you did your back of the envelop calculation, did you include the statement made by P&F in their original press conference of March, 1989 that the neutron flux was a factor of a billion too small to account for the observed heat by conventional D+D fusion processes?
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Didn't get enough sleep last night?
Or are you just a true believer in the "physcisists"?
Did you just get back from Occupy Wall Street?
Please read Institutional Incompetence v "Conspiracy Theories".