If you let people self-assess their assets and tax them on their assets its trivial. You pay them what they demand to leave and they pay tax on what they demand to stay.
Cities may bulldoze people's homes to make way for shopping malls or other private development, a divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday (Kelo v. New London), giving local governments broad power to seize private property to generate tax revenue.
Aside from the fact that it is big news anytime the Federal government forgoes a chance to wrest power from localities, this particular ruling has subtle but profound geopolitical ramifications. There is a fundamental tension in geopolitics between two competing principles:
1. Self-determination vs
2. Territorial integrity
Recent geopolitical fashion, driven largely by the US Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, has subordinated self-determination to territorial integrity. Specifically, territorial boundaries may not be changed in service of self-determination of minority groups or even majority groups. Self-determination has been limited to mean the ability of residents of a territory, whatever their background, beliefs or preferences, to impose their will on other residents of that territory. To address the objection that this results in tyranny, a long, ambiguous and, in practice, selectively enforced list of "human rights" has been declared by the United Nations -- rights that are supposed to prevent tyranny. Part of the rhetoric for this sort of territorial integrity is the prevention of forced migrations.
By allowing eminent domain compensation to eject residents from their homes in service of other private uses, Kelo et al v. City of New London states that civil authorities may find it necessary to force the migration, with just compensation, of some of their private citizens, for the benefit of other private citizens, so long as the greater public good is served.
The logical consequence of this is that pressure will build allow changes in borders to support the self-determination of displaced peoples. If this happens, it will dramatically reshape geopolitics for the better since self-determination will no longer be an empty phrase hiding tyranny of the majority beneath a sophistic laundry-lists of so-called "human rights" -- territorial boundaries will be changed to uphold self-determination of those displaced with just compensation, as well as those who stay.
There is no right to immigrate. Therefore, there is no tradeoff between civil rights and immigration.
Just shut down immigration and provide incentives for those hostile to the nation's culture to emigrate. This is where eminent domain can be used with justification.
People talk a lot about taking responsible for the environmental effects of their decisions but when it comes to genes people go all haywire trying to ignore the fact that their decisions have dysgenic or eugenic consequences.
Yes, evolution is still going on, and no one wants to take responsibility for what their decisions are doing to distort evolution because to even think about it gets the Church Ladies of Political Correctness pursing their lips and asking "Could it be... HITLER!?!?!?!?"
So the Church Ladies of Political Correctness are dooming the world to a Hell where hypocrites thrive and spread their genes to the point that words become meaningless -- humanity slowly disappearing to be replaced by gibbering humanoid zombies that use words the way insects use pheromones.
When I say "guvvie" in this context I am of course alluding to companies like Haliburton who receive the buddy-buddy pork from FEMA et al. I don't call checks for bounties pork since its a fair contest to decide who gets the check and there's no favoritism for people who share the same preferences as other guvvies.
Basically if people are serious about fixing the problems with New Orleans, as I said, their volunteerism should be directed at correcting the behavior of FEMA/FCC and the rest of the guvvie/buddy-buddy system with all due urgency -- that means NOW.
FEMA is a disaster when it comes to recovering from a real disaster. As nearly as I can tell all they do is write checks and hand out pork post disaster.
Precisely, so let the write checks for meeting objectives, such as "$1000/day for each first responder equipped with a working wireless phone in the critical areas".
stay out of New Orleans because it was to dangerous so the normal channels for providing water and food sat outside the city letting people suffer inside
Again, the objective can be reduced to "writing checks" as in "A $1000 check for each person delivered out of the danger area to a FEMA checkpoint."
Bottom line, the guvvies just can't relate to anything but micromanaging everyone to death. It goes with the turf these days. Your taxpayer dollars at work funding Dominance/Submission pervs destroying the country if not the world with their sexual preference.
First, you don't understand what I was saying should be done. I said the bounty should be for telecom services delivered.
Second, yes this does require the authorities on the ground to communicate their needs but if the authorities on the ground can't even communicate their needs then how the hell can the FCC say the needs are critical let alone (if you RTFA) "coordinate these efforts with private industry, with wireless technology groups, FEMA, and state governments in Mississippi, Louisiana, etc".
Indeed, you just describe exactly what the FCC is asking to do except replace words like "buy" with "donate.
Reverse that and you have a much more robust laboratory of the states and even laboratory of the counties localities with far more sovereignty, responsibility and capability of responding to their own problems.
Huge amounts of money can be made by small agile companies as well as big companies if the prize award system is set up property.
The reason something like this might not work is because big government and big corporate cultures are now so buddy-buddy that the very idea of a fair competition where little guys could just get bounty for solving the problem first is anathema.
You don't get around that by hoping that the big government guys can collect a bunch of volunteers and equipment and coordinate the allocation of those resources. What you end up with is some bureaucrats who can just sit on their butts being important in an emergency.
when you have a critical issue such as this, which is holding back aid in crisis areas you can not just wait for agreements and meetings between vendors/corporations or whatever
If the guys whose job it is to rake in huge amounts of money deploying telecom equipment can't mobilize themselves to grab that money then I seriously doubt any amount of volunteers can. The agreements aren't complicated and any time urgency can be overcome with enough profit motive.
Like it or not, this whole transition from tribalism to nationalism to globalism has heightened the role of money and if money can't solve the problem then it can't be solved short of abandonment of the direction things have been going and that is much bigger and longer term than any emergency such as this.
The problem is much bigger than volunteers can handle. This is not a tribal crisis it is a Federal emergency. Mobilization requires money and I don't see the money. The Feds certainly have exercised the privilege of collecting enough money supposedly for the responsibility to use it to solve domestic problems such as this.
The solution is simple:
Volunteerism should be directed toward getting various vendors of telecom equipment to agree on a set of rules that they consider fair for awarding a bounty for telecommunications area coverage and then sign a petition to the FCC or preferably FEMA which would administer the FCC's role, presenting the rules.
For example, let's say there's a tent city with estimated population 10,000. There is an estimated need for 1% peak load or 100 virtual circuits each capable of carrying a SIP call. FEMA pays $1000/day for each circuit. Right-of-ways are rented from FEMA with the highest bidder gaining control of the right-of-way for some minimum lease period, say a week. In the case of 802.11* this would mean spectrum allocation would operate as "land rent" system.
"The argument for recombination is based on the observation that the pattern of polymorphism in mtDNA is incompatible with a single genealogical tree and unique mutations."
One theory is that when neanderthals mated with modern humans the offspring would survive if the father was a modern human and mother was a neanderthal because the neanderthal woman's birth canal was wider. However, if a neanderthal man mated with a modern human the mother and child could die in labor due to the fact that the birth canal was too narrow for the hybrid child. There has been speculation on differing gestation periods as well.
The reason this results in extinction of one of the races is due to the fact that when there is consistent gender bias in inter-racial mating, if there is any degree of polygyny or serial monogamy (de facto polygyny) then the gene flow tends to be from the race whose males are successfully mating to the population whose males are not as successfully mating. If there is any substantial inter-racial mating under such circumstances it could easily be that a millenium or so is all it would take to destroy the existence of the race whose males are experiencing lower fertility.
The question is what was the trigger that resulted in the presence of modern humans midst neanderthals?
When I was working on the PLATO system doing some of the first networked games something that seemed to get people's attention was the idea of a per-contact-hour royalty. We worked this idea to our advantage in a meta-game called "Meta" which let you accumulate Metas -- a unit of currency -- which you could take between games. The player would accumulate Metas when the author of the game accumulates pennies (basically a gain of 100 to 1) -- however the player can also accumulate (or lose) Metas during play and can take Metas so accumulated to other games. Now the rules of each game are different, of course, but the idea of getting people to pay by the contact-hour with Meta is that you can get a group of game authors setting up an ecosystem of sorts, with the goal of making the whole ecosystem more valuable per contact-hour.
Ultimately, there has to be a tax imposed by the Meta system to remove Metas from circulation just as governments control demand for fiat currency by demanding said fiat currency for legal tender (primarily tax payment) -- but the principle should work to let small game authors get a presence and make money if the rules of their game are more appealing to the players than other games.
People are arguing about the significance of this grammar generator but they don't have a metric to compare it to anything else.
That metric is compression.
If there were funding for the C-Prize these guys might have walked away with a large chunk of it but then they might not have been able to acquire the monopoly rights they're pursuing via the patent application. The C-Prize description follows:
Since all technology prize awards are geared toward solving crucial
problems, the most crucial technology prize award of them all would be
one that solves the rest of them:
The C-Prize -- A prize that solves the artificial intelligence problem.
The C-Prize award criterion is as follows:
Let anyone submit a program that produces, with no inputs, one of the
major natural language corpora as output.
S = size of uncompressed corpus
P = size of program outputting the uncompressed corpus
R = S/P (the compression ratio).
Previous record ratio: R0
New record ratio: R1=R0+X
Fund contains: $Z at noon GMT on day of new record
Winner receives: $Z * (X/(R0+X))
Compression program and decompression program are made open source.
ExplanationA very severe meta-problem with artificial
intelligence is the question of how one can define the quality of an
artificial intelligence.
Fortunately there is an objective technique for ranking the quality of artificial intelligence:
Kolmogorov Complexity
Kolmogorov Complexity is a mathematically precise formulation of
Ockham's Razor, which basically just says "Don't over-simplify or
over-complicate things." More formally, the Kolmogorov Complexity of a
given bit string is the minimum size of a Turing machine program
required to output, with no inputs, the given bit string.
Any set of programs which purport to be the standards of
artificial intelligence can be compared by simply comparing their
Artificial Intelligence Quality. Their AIQs can be precisely measured
as follows:
Take an arbitrarily large corpus of writings sampled from the
world wide web. This corpus will establish the equivalent of an IQ
test. Give the AIs the task of compressing this corpus into the
smallest representation. This representation must be a program that,
taking no outside inputs, produces the exact sample it compressed. The
AIQ of an AI is simply the ratio of the size of the uncompressed
writings to the size of the program that, when executed, produces the
uncompressed writings.
In other words, the AIQ is the compression ratio achieved by the AI on the AIQ test.
The reason this works as an AI quality test is that compression
requires predictive modeling. If you can predict what someone is going
to say, you have modeled their mental processes and by inference have a
superset of their mental faculties.
Mechanics
The C-Prize is to be modeled after the Methusela Mouse Prize or M-Prize
where people make pledges of money to the prize fund. If you would like
to help with the set up and/or administration of this prize award
similar to the M-Prize let me know by email.
In 1991 I went to work at E'Prime Aerospace as VP of Public Affairs getting the first Ka-band satellite license issued. While doing that work it occurred to me that the MX-missile warhead bus we were using as the basis of the Norstar satellite could, with minor modifications, be turned into a lunar lander that could hop around the lunar surface.
We did a study of the tankage sizing changes required and a few other features and actually got some quotes back from some of the contractors. It would have been a relatively cheap mission, about the same as a geostationary satellite launch.
I don't recall whether Raytheon was one of the contractors we contacted for pricing.
"There is a very dark, black cloud in this game. It's not in the hands of kids who live next door to you; it's organized groups and organized crime." Why are they suing bitorrent users then?
Because the organized groups of criminals are the Hollywood moguls and they have the lawyers.
producing nuclear fusion on small tabletop-scales...it does not look like a method which can be scaled up to ignition or even anywhere near break even
Uh... if scaling the laser pulse duration down to picoseconds allows one to scale the power down to 10 joules and get fusion events not even dreamed of by the ITER project, then why would you talk of it being "scaled up"?
It seems the next step is to scale down to femtosecond pulses to get the yeild up and the energy input down so you can approach break-even.
Depending on the scalng laws, you could end up with micro optical electronics systems that produce net-positive energy.
A p-B11 rocket engine might look more like a solar array producing a very bright light than a nozzle spewing mach diamonds.
People talk about "the cost of living" but what they don't talk about is "the cost of reproduction". Some people think this difference is subtle but really it is enormous.
Why do you think all the open-borders, guest-worker and outsourcing advocates continually talk about the "greying of America"?
The "leaders" responsible for cramming the boomers into the sterilizing cities, frequently touting the value of "Zero Population Growth" and the "ecological footprint of US citizens" are the same "leaders" who opened the borders and threw middle-aged programmers out on the street to find jobs competing with illegal Mexican laborers in Home Depot and Walmart.
Just wait till the bird flu mutates. It will give the phrase "pacific rim business" a whole new meaning.
Already, a preliminary ecological correlation, with by-State aggregation, shows a significant probability that IT guest workers from India are strongly associated with the epidemic of autism. If the by-county ecological correlation turns out to be higher I wonder if Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy will be paying damages to all those programmers I know whose first born sons can't even talk and are a serious disability for their younger siblings as well as the communities that must support their costly remedial education and treatment.
My favorite variable geometry aerodynamic structure is R. T. Jones' oblique all wing (PDF warning). Its basically just a highly eccentric elipse that flies. At 0 its angle of attack is 0. At Mach 1.6 its angle of attack is 60 degrees. As an SST topping out at Mach 1.6 it can achieve per-passenger fuel economy similar to a subsonic jumbo jet.
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If you let people self-assess their assets and tax them on their assets its trivial. You pay them what they demand to leave and they pay tax on what they demand to stay.
From the referenced blog entry on eminent domain:
Thursday, June 23, 2005
SCOTUS Eminent Domain Decision Subtly Revolutionizes Geopolitics
The Washington Post reports that:
Cities may bulldoze people's homes to make way for shopping malls or other private development, a divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday (Kelo v. New London), giving local governments broad power to seize private property to generate tax revenue.
Aside from the fact that it is big news anytime the Federal government forgoes a chance to wrest power from localities, this particular ruling has subtle but profound geopolitical ramifications. There is a fundamental tension in geopolitics between two competing principles:
1. Self-determination vs
2. Territorial integrity
Recent geopolitical fashion, driven largely by the US Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, has subordinated self-determination to territorial integrity. Specifically, territorial boundaries may not be changed in service of self-determination of minority groups or even majority groups. Self-determination has been limited to mean the ability of residents of a territory, whatever their background, beliefs or preferences, to impose their will on other residents of that territory. To address the objection that this results in tyranny, a long, ambiguous and, in practice, selectively enforced list of "human rights" has been declared by the United Nations -- rights that are supposed to prevent tyranny. Part of the rhetoric for this sort of territorial integrity is the prevention of forced migrations.
By allowing eminent domain compensation to eject residents from their homes in service of other private uses, Kelo et al v. City of New London states that civil authorities may find it necessary to force the migration, with just compensation, of some of their private citizens, for the benefit of other private citizens, so long as the greater public good is served.
The logical consequence of this is that pressure will build allow changes in borders to support the self-determination of displaced peoples. If this happens, it will dramatically reshape geopolitics for the better since self-determination will no longer be an empty phrase hiding tyranny of the majority beneath a sophistic laundry-lists of so-called "human rights" -- territorial boundaries will be changed to uphold self-determination of those displaced with just compensation, as well as those who stay.
Read my blog entry on eminent domain.
Just shut down immigration and provide incentives for those hostile to the nation's culture to emigrate. This is where eminent domain can be used with justification.
Yes, evolution is still going on, and no one wants to take responsibility for what their decisions are doing to distort evolution because to even think about it gets the Church Ladies of Political Correctness pursing their lips and asking "Could it be... HITLER!?!?!?!?"
So the Church Ladies of Political Correctness are dooming the world to a Hell where hypocrites thrive and spread their genes to the point that words become meaningless -- humanity slowly disappearing to be replaced by gibbering humanoid zombies that use words the way insects use pheromones.
Basically if people are serious about fixing the problems with New Orleans, as I said, their volunteerism should be directed at correcting the behavior of FEMA/FCC and the rest of the guvvie/buddy-buddy system with all due urgency -- that means NOW.
Precisely, so let the write checks for meeting objectives, such as "$1000/day for each first responder equipped with a working wireless phone in the critical areas". stay out of New Orleans because it was to dangerous so the normal channels for providing water and food sat outside the city letting people suffer inside
Again, the objective can be reduced to "writing checks" as in "A $1000 check for each person delivered out of the danger area to a FEMA checkpoint."
Bottom line, the guvvies just can't relate to anything but micromanaging everyone to death. It goes with the turf these days. Your taxpayer dollars at work funding Dominance/Submission pervs destroying the country if not the world with their sexual preference.
Second, yes this does require the authorities on the ground to communicate their needs but if the authorities on the ground can't even communicate their needs then how the hell can the FCC say the needs are critical let alone (if you RTFA) "coordinate these efforts with private industry, with wireless technology groups, FEMA, and state governments in Mississippi, Louisiana, etc".
Indeed, you just describe exactly what the FCC is asking to do except replace words like "buy" with "donate.
If there is $10.6 billion available and telecom is so critical then why the begging for charity rather than offering of bounites for telecom service?
The result?
Idiocy such as you just described.
Reverse that and you have a much more robust laboratory of the states and even laboratory of the counties localities with far more sovereignty, responsibility and capability of responding to their own problems.
The reason something like this might not work is because big government and big corporate cultures are now so buddy-buddy that the very idea of a fair competition where little guys could just get bounty for solving the problem first is anathema.
You don't get around that by hoping that the big government guys can collect a bunch of volunteers and equipment and coordinate the allocation of those resources. What you end up with is some bureaucrats who can just sit on their butts being important in an emergency.
THAT is a PROVEN path to failure.
If the guys whose job it is to rake in huge amounts of money deploying telecom equipment can't mobilize themselves to grab that money then I seriously doubt any amount of volunteers can. The agreements aren't complicated and any time urgency can be overcome with enough profit motive.
Like it or not, this whole transition from tribalism to nationalism to globalism has heightened the role of money and if money can't solve the problem then it can't be solved short of abandonment of the direction things have been going and that is much bigger and longer term than any emergency such as this.
The solution is simple:
Volunteerism should be directed toward getting various vendors of telecom equipment to agree on a set of rules that they consider fair for awarding a bounty for telecommunications area coverage and then sign a petition to the FCC or preferably FEMA which would administer the FCC's role, presenting the rules.
For example, let's say there's a tent city with estimated population 10,000. There is an estimated need for 1% peak load or 100 virtual circuits each capable of carrying a SIP call. FEMA pays $1000/day for each circuit. Right-of-ways are rented from FEMA with the highest bidder gaining control of the right-of-way for some minimum lease period, say a week. In the case of 802.11* this would mean spectrum allocation would operate as "land rent" system.
How fast would those 100 SIP circuits go up?
Innan and Nordborg
The reason this results in extinction of one of the races is due to the fact that when there is consistent gender bias in inter-racial mating, if there is any degree of polygyny or serial monogamy (de facto polygyny) then the gene flow tends to be from the race whose males are successfully mating to the population whose males are not as successfully mating. If there is any substantial inter-racial mating under such circumstances it could easily be that a millenium or so is all it would take to destroy the existence of the race whose males are experiencing lower fertility.
The question is what was the trigger that resulted in the presence of modern humans midst neanderthals?
Are you talking about M1, M2 or M3? Or don't you know what you're talking about at all?
Ultimately, there has to be a tax imposed by the Meta system to remove Metas from circulation just as governments control demand for fiat currency by demanding said fiat currency for legal tender (primarily tax payment) -- but the principle should work to let small game authors get a presence and make money if the rules of their game are more appealing to the players than other games.
That metric is compression.
If there were funding for the C-Prize these guys might have walked away with a large chunk of it but then they might not have been able to acquire the monopoly rights they're pursuing via the patent application. The C-Prize description follows:
Since all technology prize awards are geared toward solving crucial problems, the most crucial technology prize award of them all would be one that solves the rest of them:
The C-Prize -- A prize that solves the artificial intelligence problem.
The C-Prize award criterion is as follows:
Let anyone submit a program that produces, with no inputs, one of the major natural language corpora as output.
S = size of uncompressed corpus
P = size of program outputting the uncompressed corpus
R = S/P (the compression ratio).
Award monies in a manner similar to the M-Prize:
Previous record ratio: R0
New record ratio: R1=R0+X
Fund contains: $Z at noon GMT on day of new record
Winner receives: $Z * (X/(R0+X))
Compression program and decompression program are made open source.
ExplanationA very severe meta-problem with artificial intelligence is the question of how one can define the quality of an artificial intelligence.
Fortunately there is an objective technique for ranking the quality of artificial intelligence:
Kolmogorov Complexity
Kolmogorov Complexity is a mathematically precise formulation of Ockham's Razor, which basically just says "Don't over-simplify or over-complicate things." More formally, the Kolmogorov Complexity of a given bit string is the minimum size of a Turing machine program required to output, with no inputs, the given bit string.
Any set of programs which purport to be the standards of artificial intelligence can be compared by simply comparing their Artificial Intelligence Quality. Their AIQs can be precisely measured as follows:
Take an arbitrarily large corpus of writings sampled from the world wide web. This corpus will establish the equivalent of an IQ test. Give the AIs the task of compressing this corpus into the smallest representation. This representation must be a program that, taking no outside inputs, produces the exact sample it compressed. The AIQ of an AI is simply the ratio of the size of the uncompressed writings to the size of the program that, when executed, produces the uncompressed writings.
In other words, the AIQ is the compression ratio achieved by the AI on the AIQ test.
The reason this works as an AI quality test is that compression requires predictive modeling. If you can predict what someone is going to say, you have modeled their mental processes and by inference have a superset of their mental faculties.
Mechanics The C-Prize is to be modeled after the Methusela Mouse Prize or M-Prize where people make pledges of money to the prize fund. If you would like to help with the set up and/or administration of this prize award similar to the M-Prize let me know by email.
We did a study of the tankage sizing changes required and a few other features and actually got some quotes back from some of the contractors. It would have been a relatively cheap mission, about the same as a geostationary satellite launch.
I don't recall whether Raytheon was one of the contractors we contacted for pricing.
Because the organized groups of criminals are the Hollywood moguls and they have the lawyers.
The outcome will certainly provide evidence for or against the sloagan "Diversity is our strength."
Uh... if scaling the laser pulse duration down to picoseconds allows one to scale the power down to 10 joules and get fusion events not even dreamed of by the ITER project, then why would you talk of it being "scaled up"?
It seems the next step is to scale down to femtosecond pulses to get the yeild up and the energy input down so you can approach break-even.
Depending on the scalng laws, you could end up with micro optical electronics systems that produce net-positive energy.
A p-B11 rocket engine might look more like a solar array producing a very bright light than a nozzle spewing mach diamonds.
People talk about "the cost of living" but what they don't talk about is "the cost of reproduction". Some people think this difference is subtle but really it is enormous.
Why do you think all the open-borders, guest-worker and outsourcing advocates continually talk about the "greying of America"?
It's because there has been a demographic collapse caused by movement to the cities. The early boomers surfed the wave of real estate and lots of cheap younger labor from their younger cohort but the mid to late boomers were hit by a crushing confluence of circumstances that effectively sterilized them. No profession was hit harder by this de facto sterilization than programmers who worked in male-saturated ghettos.
The "leaders" responsible for cramming the boomers into the sterilizing cities, frequently touting the value of "Zero Population Growth" and the "ecological footprint of US citizens" are the same "leaders" who opened the borders and threw middle-aged programmers out on the street to find jobs competing with illegal Mexican laborers in Home Depot and Walmart.
Already, a preliminary ecological correlation, with by-State aggregation, shows a significant probability that IT guest workers from India are strongly associated with the epidemic of autism. If the by-county ecological correlation turns out to be higher I wonder if Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy will be paying damages to all those programmers I know whose first born sons can't even talk and are a serious disability for their younger siblings as well as the communities that must support their costly remedial education and treatment.
My favorite variable geometry aerodynamic structure is R. T. Jones' oblique all wing (PDF warning). Its basically just a highly eccentric elipse that flies. At 0 its angle of attack is 0. At Mach 1.6 its angle of attack is 60 degrees. As an SST topping out at Mach 1.6 it can achieve per-passenger fuel economy similar to a subsonic jumbo jet.