What's the deal with battery chemistry, anyway?

I mean, correct me if I'm wrong or if I'm missing information, but the whole idea behind a battery is that there are more electrons in the plate of metal at one end than there are at the other, right? The electrolyte just frees up the electrons and lets them move from one end of the battery to the other. So any fluid which allows a metal to break down and which can transport electrons is doing the job; even potato or lemon juices work.

So what exactly is so special about Lithium? What's wrong with salt water? Or lemon juice? --I'm not saying that I have some superior insight here, I'm honestly asking. And please don't jump in with the assumption that just because it is in use means it's the best idea and that I need to be punished for not agreeing with the herd; I need thinkers and skeptics here, not true believers.

Also, I've heard that regular Alkaline batteries can be recharged if you rig a charger to do it in stages with cool-down periods in between. That Alkaline chemistry doesn't fart out like Lithium does.

The conspiracy guy inside me is very dubious about all of this and wants to say that the industry is deliberately picking battery chemistry in order to maintain sales. (I mean, when you do the math, these rechargeable lithium batteries end up costing quite a lot more than alkaline in the long run.)

So what gives? Is there a valid reason for Lithium to sit between the metal plates rather than any other medium?

And. . .

Wouldn't it also make sense to just replace the plates and mineral water to a battery rather than try to recharge them? I'm not saying it should be done that way, but is there anything about that which makes it a poor option? Metal and minerals are pretty darned portable and water is pretty abundant. . .

-FL

You think I've not considered this? Trust me; I've given it long hard thought.

Psychopaths are not people. They never were. This is entirely new. It's not racism, or nationalism or jingoism or propaganda or class warfare. No. This is a medical, clinically measurable reality. This is NEW.

It appears that you have done no real thinking or research on this subject whatsoever. You need to inform yourself. Also look up "Stockholm Syndrome" whilst you're at it. Do you understand who you are protecting here? Monsters. Abusers. Rapists. Murderers. And yes, those masquerading as fanatic idealists who, really, are just more sociopathic egomaniacs using chaotic social climates to find personal benefit.

Saying that sociopaths stop at "What benefits ME, personally" as though this were some sort of consolation or that it means they do not have a hand in the political sphere is, I'm sorry, entirely wishful and naive. Did you not read the article this story is attached to? Go back and read it and ask yourself if that psychopath stopping at "What benefits ME, personally" would have been a valid excuse to not identify and deal with him. If he had decided, as many clearly do, to seek "personal benefit" through the climbing of political ladders, (where there is great wealth, ego-power and the opportunity to bully and torment people to be gained), then do you think that, "What benefits ME, personally" will allow a real human standing in the way to escape unscathed? Or entire populations?

Apply some deductive reasoning please.

That's because you are not using reason yet. How would you know where the line of reason is if you don't even understand what basic sociopathy encompasses?

I know that suggesting that we identify and destroy certain individuals is upsetting. Society has followed the road of dehumanizing people in order to justify genocide before. It's horrific. And that is what a purge looks like at the hands of a political psychopath. This is very different. For one thing, I am not dehumanizing anybody. If compassion is an essential part of the human equation, as I believe it is, then psychopaths were not human to begin with. Further, I have no desire to torment or extract punishment or pain. I just want to identify and remove non-humans from circulation because they are KILLING us. -Not metaphorically. Not in some jar-headed racist notion of the term. I mean Directly. They are directly responsible for the destruction of humanity both in the small sphere and the large. It is a plain fact that psychopaths cause harm as a basic function of their being, they cannot be rehabilitated, and they will not stop if they do not have to. If you don't want to kill them, then that's fine. Identify and contain them. That alone would prevent enormous suffering. We wouldn't have to go to war anymore. This is a world-wide issue.

This is what you need to understand. . . All of the old models of thinking about managing society fail because they assume that all the participants are Human Beings capable of compassion. We KNOW now that this is NOT the case. If we solve this oversight, then we solve just about everything.

-FL

You didn't finish your sentence, but I'll go ahead and assume you meant to imply that not having a certificate in a given field means that I am not allowed to think or speak about a subject. That's bullshit. If you disagree with me, go for it, but I'm afraid pulling the idiotic, "Are you a doctor?" argument isn't going to work here. Are you a mathematician? No? Then you're not allowed to discuss math. Are you an astrophysicist? No? Then you're not allowed to discuss the solar system. This is a PUBLIC discussion forum, not a court of law.

In any case, the term "Psychopath" "sociopath" "Narcissist" are indeed labels which have numerous definitions depending on who you read. I'm only talking about those who were born incapable of experiencing compassion. Those who CHOOSE to suppress emotion are a whole other ball of wax, and I feel comfortable leaving them in the purview of the legal system. (Though, I'd feel a lot better if we purged the legal system of psychopaths first.)

You're both wrong and you're splitting hairs at the same time. I would recommend a battery of "Diagnostic" (See? I used your word. Happy?) personality tests which look for warning flags, followed up with imaging scans which would determine whether or not the frontal lobe is active in a given subject.

I agree. It's a huge hair ball of a challenge and one which is not best serviced by error-capable humans. But it is necessary. We identify child molesters and track them, we don't let them become teachers, etc. The issue here is that we are talking about a non-treatable genetic condition resulting in shrewd calculating biological machines with no community value, who by default, are highly destructive. AND we can start tracking from the moment of detection. We should make such tests mandatory for high public offices and law-enforcement professionals. (At which point, who cares about the label you choose? If there the person is only wearing the mask of sanity, they should be prevented from entering any office, period.) Further, if we prevented these types of biologicals from infesting our community systems, (including the medical and medical insurance fields), then I suspect misuse of these kinds of regulatory powers would be nowhere the problem it is today.

Of course it's unethical. But I'm not talking about killing people. If you are a calculating shark in human form with no possibility of understanding ethics, let alone compassion, then you are not a person. You are a dangerous animal which should be treated as such. Extending compassion to biological Turing machines (which would kill you if they got the chance to do it and get away with it) is foolhardy. But I DO understand the difficulties you are expressing, and those difficulties are exactly why the psychopath has been able to flourish and destroy our world. We are fooled into having compassion for them, over and over. What I am suggesting is that we inject clinical reason into the equation. This can absolutely be done without sacrificing our human qualities. Through education and study, we can learn to understand the problem and solve it. If we don't, we continue to suffer.

Yup. This is absolutely true. Which is why people involved in the process would have to be among the very first to undergo a battery of tests. This problem is not beyond our ability to understand and solve.

No. If you knew the subject, you would recognize that this particular behavior trait is well-recognized among those who study and write about the condition. I'd urge you to do some reading on the subject. Hare and Cleckley are two good starting points.

Yes, seriously. And by the way, a point is not invalidated simple by repeating a claim with your eyebrow raised. You write well enough to know better than that, I think.

You must agree that diagnostics are best performed when there is a large amount of sample data to work with, right? After 8 years in office, the sample of publicly available observed behavioral data for Bush and Cheney is absolutely enormous. And no, I am not a psychologist, but I am smart and informed, and I am wise enough to consider the opinions of those who DO hold such training and who have made exactly the determinations I am reporting here. Again, it sounds like you could benefit from researching the subject.

You're right. Executing mentally ill people is wrong. But Psychopaths are not ill. They are functioning perfectly according to their nature. I'm advocating controlling a predator population, like wolves or coyotes. Just because they look human, doesn't mean they are. Don't be fooled; that's exactly how they work, by exploiting the assumption that real humans make about them. This isn't make-believe. This is a real situation and it has been studied extensively. It is now time to use that knowledge. We need to test our politicians and power brokers. If you don't want to kill them, then fine. But maybe it would be a good idea at the very least to prevent them from crashing the economy, starting wars for profit, and filling the Gulf with oil and toxins and ignoring/harassing those who are dying as a result?

I'll go away when people like you wake up and start taking the problem seriously. Start by learning about the subject you are reacting against. You'll find it helps. Knowledge does that.

-FL

I'm not surprised at all. While this is an extreme example, it remains standard practice.

The system, and by that I mean, "ALL HUMAN CULTURE" is designed to allow psychopaths to ply their trade. We are pre-programmed to let this kind of shit go, to avoid it, to assume that the aggressor really IS the victim. We think, "Nobody would behave so utterly contrary to the unspoken social laws which govern the tribe, therefore we must be perceiving this incorrectly." The bigger the lie, the easier the sell. It's true.

The truth is also, and yes, it does seem surprising but it's just the way of a psychopathic society, (and Yes, America the Competitive, IS a society based on the rules of the psychopaths who we allowed into politics and business). -That an innocent man can wind up in prison for not lifting his drawers for the airport security while a true monster can roam free for years before finally being locked up.

And this Borker freak is basically a failed model. His psychopathy was too extreme. There are MANY successful ones, who torment their victims and climb the success ladder without even a spark firing in their Frontal Lobes, all because they have better learned how to manipulate. Even Borker had learned how to extract the maximum amount of psychological pain from his victims while evading the traps of the law.

The psychopath always blames the victim of the very crimes committed against them. In the case of Bush and Cheney, they blamed the Iraqis and Afghans while merrily singing "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb. . , Bomb, Bomb Iran." The lies are huge and ridiculous and the crimes are sickening, and because the rest of us are programmed to be human, we go along with it.

And that, folks, is why the world is as it is today. Because we haven't learned how to identify and put down our human waste.

There are tests, you know. Both brain scans and personality tests which are very accurate. We could have prevented the collapse of the economy and of several wars with ease, but we didn't. Consider that. There are people who are living on the street, starving in America and all over the world because we simply didn't know about the Psychopath. The false humans walking around among us who feed on the creation of misery.

Read that original article again, and recognize that this kind of behavior is happening everywhere, that you have encountered it many times in your life, and that the psychopath wishes to create a culture which is friendly toward psychopaths. That's why the banks are insane, why the government is insane, and why we have been killed by BP. (The Gulf is still leaking, folks.)

-FL

Stupid, fluffy escapism gets big.

"Fred and Ginger" for ninety minutes beats focusing on the gnawing hunger in your gut.

You mean like Life? And isn't there a money component to these games as well? Like, if you have cash, you can leapfrog the third world?

The only difference is that the dangers are imaginary and the rewards are fake. But the energy wasted is quite real.

-FL

Did you not get your degree? ;> According to this (half-baked) article, we're supposed to fear death less than others if we went to University.

Me, I'm looking forward to dying one day. Not yet; I've got lots of stuff to try to iron out, but heck, living forever in this pattern would be really tiresome after a while.

When you start to see the repeating cycles and you realize that NOTHING changes except your own emotional reactions to a repeating series of events, (people seem to revisit an event stream about five or six times at the most before the body or some other aspect becomes untenable and the soul releases), then you realize just how incredibly limited a single life is. Really, like a cog in a very big machine. It's fun and educational to visit and be one gear for a few cycles, but I think it's pretty vital that we move from body to body. It'd get incredibly tedious to be stuck in one cycle of events for freaking ever!

But hey, no worries. It takes a lot of prep-work to even figure out that the machine exists let along how we interact with it. Most never will this time around, that's for sure!

-FL

Wow. I just re-read what I wrote here.

Please pardon me. That was altogether too mean and not in the least bit encouraging.

You're not stupid. Just ignorant, and ignorance is not a crime.

-FL

Because the health and strength of your nation are less important than the enjoyment you derive from teasing and upsetting people.

That's fucked up.

Sociopaths should be shot for treason.

-FL

I don't know about everybody else, but I think people like you are dangerously stupid because. . .

A) You are apparently capable of saying patently ridiculous things without noticing. Example: "Conservatives outnumber you and then in the very same paragraph, "We don't like your advocacy of tyranny against the individual by the majority". That's stupid.

B) You mince words attempting to reconcile that Palin is not a smart person. (The short term, actually, is, "Retard"; A rose by any other name. And no, I don't say that in hatred. It's simply a cold fact. The woman is very, very dumb.) -And YET in spite of this recognition, you believe she has somehow managed to choose a core ideology which is NOT dumb? Newsflash: Stupid people do in fact believe stupid things. Those things are not stupid because I happen to disagree with them; they're stupid because they are demonstrably and logically flawed. I'm sure you've lost many an argument but simply re-booted your head and carried on as though nothing had changed because the core ideology was what mattered, not whether or not it actually works.

C) You evidently STILL have not yet worked out that it's not about Left or Right. ANYBODY who still falls for the divide and conquer technique of population control is a retard who deserves to suffer. You just happen to be the Republican variant.

D) You are capable in seriousness of saying things like, "You believe that Assange is a hero of some sort. While this may be the case if he were solely releasing secret information from tyrannical governments, he is more focused on damaging the credibility and security of nations in the west, most specifically the United States. "

No, no, no. Assange is an Israeli tool designed to sell lies about Arab nations sandwiched between irrelevant, previously known non-secrets, so as to better manipulate the West into bombing its enemies for them. Yes, people falling for Assange's hero bullshit are chumps. But you are a double chump because you haven't figured out yet that the entire U.S. leadership has been effectively blackmailed into playing along. Please research child prostitution rings in Washington to get a clue how this all works.

E) You are among those who think "Elitism" means "Educated", thereby exposing your low self-esteem which is probably why you use big words incorrectly throughout your little treatise. Sorry, (that's a low blow), but seriously. Funfact: The "Elite" are the banker families and their multi-billionaire managers of society who manipulate retarded people into playing the Liberal v.s. Conservative game in order to distract and rob them blind, (And build FEMA camps in the wings, among other things you don't have the emotional maturity to consider.)

Now. . .

You may go and re-boot.

"America is Great. Palin will give us back a nation we can be proud of."

Just repeat that idiocy three times and shut your eyes. You'll soon feel much better.

And for heaven's sake, try not to ask yourself how the world is supposed to pay back the debt accrued through fractional banking when all the money in existence was borrowed at interest from the banking cartels.

-FL

Is it just me, or does this story make No Damned Sense Whatsoever?

I mean. . , what the hell?

The governments all want Wikileaks dead, so clearly the obvious tack is to arrest and punish those who, um, support the government?

I guess vigilantism, people displaying any kind of power or initiative rather than staying meekly inside their little assigned boxes, is an even bigger crime than leaking state secrets. -Even IF you're doing it with your own Bat Computer and a snappy Gotham City identity handle.

And seriously? "The Jester" spelled with numbers? That's like my grandma's perception of computer hacking. Which is appropriate, as this whole performance is being put on for the benefit of retarded people. That's why it plays out like something from a (very) badly written Bruce Willis script. -As was the entirety of 9/11. (Planes into skyscrapers? Come on.) I suppose the trailer park Americans just won't accept anything as real if it doesn't feel like a WWF match.

And this latest twist is like the reality TV version of one of those extra Oswalds running around to confuse and complicate the issue; a favorite tactic of the creeps who organize this kind of psychological warfare bullshit. (And yes, this whole Wikileaks thing utterly stinks to me of psyops, through and through).

So please, after all this jumping up and down is over with, can we all still try to remember that this is about Israel looking to manipulate other countries into destroying the Arab populations for them?

After all is said and done, when you clear out all of the bullshit from these "Leaks", we note that nothing being touted in the media as significant is anything we didn't already know, but that in amongst the driftwood, the "New" intelligence happens to paint Iran and Pakistan and the various other people on Israel's hit-list in a bad light. It's the lie seeded in with the truth. People are being played like an entire string section to love and trust Wikileaks, so that when the warmongers who want to "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb. . , Bomb, Bomb, Iran" (Remember that sick little Bushism?) want to offer up proof, they need only point to any of the lies being included in the Wikileaks fiasco which people will simply assume are part of the pre-existing landscape of established fact. That's what Israel does. The American Army School of Advanced Military Studies in a study drafted to examine the Palestinian/Israeli problem noted of the Mossad: "Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capablility to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act."

THAT is what is going on with all of this shit.

The simple surface movie-reality we've been trained to accept is totally script driven. It's a lie.

Thank-you.

-FL

It hasn't been taken down yet because it serves Israel.

And anybody who bases what is and isn't appropriate simply on what happens to be 'Legal' without paying due respect to what is Right has failed to understand the purpose of the legal system.

-FL

I wonder if this will be big enough news to distract people from the scandals arising from the Wikileaks thing.

Also, look for Octo-Moms to lead police on high-speed chases in Black SUVs over the coming days. Down a well.

-FL

Come on! Is EVERYBODY asleep today? The spy rings are not a fantasy; they're documented right out there in the open. The blackmail via child prostitution rings in Washington are not a fantasy; they're documented right out there in the open. The Zionist machinations to manipulate the U.S. and the world to achieve their own ends are not a fantasy; TONS of that shit is right out there in the open, documented. Just because it's done at a whisper doesn't make it not there. Just because the term, "Sayanem" has been scrubbed from Wikipedia doesn't make it not there.

For goodness sake. The Israeli press even says it right out loud:

As always, it is profitable to apply the age-old wisdom of asking; "Who Benefits?"

Wikileaks is Israel.

There is a TON of information available on this subject, but you are not going to hear it on your TV. The article below summed it up before it happened. . .

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/11/27/gordon-duff-wikileak-predictions-sticking-my-neck-out-2/

-FL

Wow. A perceptive person among a flock of the blind. Good for you. That's a very hard thing to achieve these days.

But I would suggest that you are off just a bit. (Seeing as the U.S. isn't managed by the U.S.)

As always, it is profitable to apply the age-old wisdom of asking; "Who Benefits?"

Wikileaks is Israel.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/11/27/gordon-duff-wikileak-predictions-sticking-my-neck-out-2/

-FL

This is why people who study finance need to pull the camera back a bit.

Credit ratings are a bank rule. What we're suggesting here is that we FUCK the banks before they kill us all.

If this is done in time, their rules won't matter any more.

If governments started printing their own money, rather than borrowing it at interest from international bankers, then none of this bullshit would have occurred in the first place. You understand math, so work it out; Interest cannot be paid back, because all the money in existence was borrowed at interest; the only way to pay it back is to borrow more. Nobody sees it happening, because the pool of money is so big and always in flux, but there's a reason everybody is increasingly feeling the squeeze. It's a control scam, and that really is how it works. No industrialized nation on the planet prints their own money; it all comes from the banking cartel through one convoluted scheme or another, and it's all about rendering populations powerless. It's about slave creation.

They don't teach that in finance school, and there's a reason for it. The Elite need managers of slaves, so they teach a small sandbox of ideas which only work in the sandbox while ignoring reality.

So you can either be a slave, a manager of slaves, of if you find the wherewithal to get out of the sandbox and start thinking for yourself, you might instead get to be free.

I'd think carefully about talking loudly in support of the current financial structure. The world is waking up to the scam, and we are much closer to the point where people are going to be skinned alive and set on fire. Keep an eye on Ireland; it's the test model for the rest of the world; what happens there will be happening everywhere quite soon.

-FL