There are two sets of muscles for eye movement - one for convergence, which rotates the eyes, the other for focus, which reshapes the eyes...

The latter system also reshapes the lens.

Unfortunately, as you age your lenses stiffen up and/or the muscles get weaker, and that system gradually degrades. (This "disease of age" (presbyopia) becomes significant pretty early - about mid 30s.)

(By the way: The eye rotation is actually THREE axis, although the motion around the line-of-sight is pretty limited. {Look in a mirror and rotate your head right-left to see it.} Apparently evolution found matching the image rotation by slightly rotating the eyes to be less expensive than a layer of image-rotation logic in the brain.)

I find that any kind of response time lag between my inputs and the real world, especially when it varies, is what makes me sick ...

My wife has vertigo. Her attacks can be triggered by fluorescent or high-pressure arc lights where the flicker rate is above the flicker-fusion rate of the eye. (This makes trips to warehouse stores problematic - they have to be short or she'll be down for the rest of the day. That's hard at, say, Costco.)

I used to wonder how this could be, and finally realized that the "strobe light" effect produces small, but significant, errors in observed position of the background items (shelves, etc.) that she uses for reference to balance despite the damaged inner ear.

When they first began using fluorescent lights in factories - in the days before guards over moving machinery were common - the worker injury rate went 'way up. Turns out the lights made the AC-powered motors, turning at or near an integer fraction of the line frequency, look like they were stopped or only moving slowly.

The fix was to build the light fixtures in two-tube versions, with a capacitor and an extra inductor in the balast, so the "lead lamp" and "lag lamp" would light at a quarter-cycle offset. In combination with suitably persistent phosphors this made them largely fill in each other's dim times, enough to make fast-moving parts blur and look like they were moving. For large arc lights, a similar fix was to arrange them so adjacent lamps were distributed among the three phases of the power feed, rather than having rows or patches of lights all flickering in unison.

Unfortunately, this lore has apparently been lost - at least outside the specialists wiring factories full of moving parts. Warehouse stores have rows and sections of arc lighting all wired to the same phase. I'm not sure, but I don't think the new electronic ballasts for flourescent lights do the lead-lag thing, OR have enough raw filtering capacitance to power the lamp through the phase reversals. (And then there's LED lamps...)

It's not a safety hazard these days, now that OSHA rules have all the fast-spinning machinery covered with guards. But for those with vertigo it's a big problem.

The human body has three systems for balance - Inner ears (3-axis accellerometers and "rate gyros"), visual modeling, and muscle/tendon position & stress sensors - and needs any two to balance, stand, and walk properly.

It also has a reflex: When two of them disagree (particularly visual vs. ear), it is interpreted as "You just ate a neurotoxin! Get it out NOW and we MIGHT survive it!"

Thus nausea, projectile vomiting, explosive diahrrea, and clothes-soaking sweating if the mismatch is strong. If it's smaller - nausea. ("Whatever you just ate may have been toxic or spoiled. So you're not going to like it anymore.")

Of course other things than being poisoned can trigger it:

Diseases that temporarily incapacitate or permanently damage the inner ear are one class. (For instance, Meniere's Disease, where the pressure-relef valve for the inner ear sticks, the pressure rises, and the membranes with the sensory nerves tear. Result: Sudden extremem vertigo attack - hours on the floor - followed by days or weeks of gradually reduced incapacity until the brain maps out the change to the ear - followed by another tear and repeat indefinitely. Very high suicide rate.)

Vechicles, where you may visually fixate on the accellerating inside rather than the surroundings, are another: Cars, boats, ariplanes (and the corresponding car/sea/air sicknesses) are notorious, as are carnival rides and trains. For relief, make a point of looking at the horizon or otherwise the exterior. Eventually the brain may learn "I'm in a vehicle. Ignore the weird signals from the ears. (That's why vertigo sufferers may NOT have attacks in MOVING vehicles...)

And, of course, VR mismatches - to the point that there is a term of art: "Barfogenisis" (I hear the lengths of some of the rides at Disneyland are calibrated so they end and the crowd is out into the hall just BEFORE the effect would become pronounced.)

It's not artificial because of the details of the technical implementation, it's artificial because it's a scarcity that would not be expensive or difficult to resolve.

Yes, and it's artificial because Verizon made a deliberate choice not to resolve it (rather than it being unresolved only due to ignorance).

The US and the Netherlands are special cases.

I was under the impression that "the Ukraine" was a similar special case, in a way having nothing to do with whether it was a part of the USSR or an independent country.

My main issue is that the overall issue suits the agenda-politics of authoritarian progressives. Carbon taxation being the solution for instance, laughable solution, is merely a means of attacking some industries to benefit other industries, and rake in money for companies that politicians and elites favor at the expense of their political enemies.

Also, the revealed internal attitudes of the 'scientists' that are in the faction that calls anyone who finds fault with their conclusions 'deniers' don't help. The strategies used to politicize the debate and silence dissent fully reveal the authoritarian and indeed totalitarian nature of their chosen political direction. Taints the whole environmental movement in a way that is extremely troublesome too. If you don't much like heavy-metals and pollutants introduced into your ecosystem, you have to share space with global warmists/climate changeists who actually want to engage in drastic pollutant spraying weather modification in some cases.

Yep. The main selling point of "natural" gemstones these days is that the lab-made ones are "too perfect!"

They also got fined 1 Billion dollars in a politically motivated selective prosecution afterward. That'll show them.

It's the echo chamber of messiah love having elected their progressive leader, they conveniently ignore how much more of a tyrant that the already-tyrannical executive he replaced... the poor, played dupes.

IF it was anything other than a bunch of rat-bastard banking elites who currently control the farce you call todays global financial system and currently benefit from the collapse by driving up inflation (real inflation) you might be taken seriously. But you're just a lover of the status-quo. And a consumer of state propaganda. Bush and Obama are both toady financial system figureheads. Your heroic Progressive and Status-Quo congress critters are freely allowed to legislate their immunity to the insider trading laws everyone else (not in a protected class) has to follow.

If a system continues to do the morally wrong thing more often than not the system is broken and voting for either side isn't always the best option. Libertarian Republicans to me Justin Amash, Rand Paul etc. and to some extent Democrats like Kucinich represent the respective wings of the 'two party duopoly' that are pro-reform. Smaller is better in terms of the idea of a lean design with strictly limited functionality... None is actually the best but that would require lots of responsibility that has atrophied in the society that government invariably parasitizes. Keep government to the level of beneficial bacteria, and not the cancerous tumor that it has become is the general idea...

Sorry, but libertarians don't confuse government with society. Progressive Statists tend to rabidly cling to the idea that society cannot function without a certain level of 'accountable'(meaning accountable to their particular 'right thinking' statist agendas) regulatory beuraucracy. Same goes for 'Conservative' Statists like Lindsey Graham and John McCain, they just reserve their authoritarian zeal for Guns more than Butter.

Libertarians are fine with organic bottom up, non-authoritarian rulemaking. For instance, in my libertarian idea of society, a progressive person or group of them could voluntarily arrange for a complete socialistic health care polity provided they all continue to voluntarily agree to do so. If it worked well, and attracted people outside of the progressive ideologues who want that sort of thing they might even be popular in providing that service to others. My only problem is the reasoning (oh so Bush-Like) that you're either with us or against us. You also ignore that your heroes like Soros and others, tend to reveal their intentions to slowly chip away at the republican constitutional government and put in place a perhaps well intentioned (if you're a moron in terms of intentions), authoritarian police state.

You forgot about the other 545 people we also need to impeach. (One vice president, 9 supreme court justices, 100 senators, and 435 representatives.)

Our city imposes (suckered the voters into approving) a 3% tax on utilities - comm, power, gas, ... - and has for several years. I think that includes internet service (which is pretty steep around here). My wife and I have been fighting this law and its renewal. (It is driving businesses out of the city - they can cut their costs substantially by relocating just over the line - and thus both blighting the city and cutting other tax revenue.

I think I need to do a little checking to see if they ARE taxing the internet part of the phone bill and if that's prohibited federally. Zapping them for a refund (for everybody, for several years worth) might get their attention. B-)

Since when was Obama a progressive? Sure, he campaigned as one, but his actions upon taking office revealed that to be a blatant lie.

The problem is that the FCC has limited regulatory power unless it reclassifies Internet access as a telecommunications service, which is considered the "nuclear option."

At this point, reclassification is exactly what pretty much every pro-net-neutrality group (and therefore, every citizen who uses their automated comment-submission systems) is asking the FCC to do.