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Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 275

I have also done two years in the US Army...so i consider myself one of the 7% that have earned their citizenship...and those oaths to the Constitution I have not forgotten...but I will not play their games. Had there been but people speaking about the coming police state...or as to why our soldiers are sent overseas to kill others and die while our police at home are bulletproof and backed with free drones and tanks courtesy of DHS...i found no one i thought worth voting for. Thanks for the encouraging words though...

Comment I could understand... (Score 1) 174

Seeing so much information at once and in such a state of spin these days, i could see this leading to more anxiety. I'm also willing to bet that people who use multiple sources of media spend sometimes inordinately long amounts of time on them. We've seen what fury the current propaganda machines can whip up over the last year alone...so it's no surprise really. It's exactly why i can't watch TV anymore...because it just really pisses me off to no end...i can read it on the net...where i can pick and choose my news with no serious considerations, but watching what passes for news really gets to me these days...along with how many people are either believing it outright, or by proxy, by giving it a legitimate discussion. Then there is Social Media...take facebook for example...people go on there to tell the world and show them all how wonderful their lives are...but in actuality these days is easily comparable to talking to an empty room...and with so many people 'fishing' for activity on social media to help them define who they are, when there isn't much interest in anything that they post...over time, that can get to a person with insecurities of one thing or another...then try to put the two together...I've had to take many friends out of my feed over the last election...because i couldn't stand watching otherwise intelligent people be so consumed with such drivel as if it were all true...reciting the talking points as if they were real and had actual meaning...the only thing it's showing me is how much underlying stupidity, selfishness and bigotry that still runs rampant in our 'modern society'...

Comment Re:120 years late? (Score 5, Informative) 253

Tesla's main secret with most of his work was harmonic resonance. The Tesla coil is a resonant coil, and his studies were clear that resonance would increase the distance that wireless transmissions could occur. One of his experiments used this very concept, and caused some damage to a power plant in Colorado Springs...resonating and amplifying the electricity collected from the earth moving through it's own atmosphere and discharging it into the ground in such quantities that it burned out a dynamo at the local power plant... http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_colspr.html

Comment Re:There's that Ego again... (Score 1) 85

given a signal at the source/collector + signal at gate/base = close circuit from source/collector to drain/emitter. This is exactly what I am speaking of...and is seen in intruding in many different parts of our perceptive realities...such things like 'because the neolithic stone builders were alive many thousands of years ago...our first assumption is that they were not as intelligent as us...couldn't possibly be...' In the thread of the transistor/groups you used as an example, one synaptic connection 'can't run the whole human body' yet it's been proven many times, that each has the potential to do so, should it need to step in due to damage, loss etc. While properties do emerge from complex systems, i do think it's stretching it to assume that the building blocks can't do the functions that they specifically contain the rules to build things to do...even in the 'building' process, they have to know when they've finished one and must add instructions to begin another. Multiplication and Division are only simplified versions of more complex Addition and Subtraction...

Comment There's that Ego again... (Score 1) 85

I'm constantly bewildered by the inclination of humans to assign, for various reasons, less than extraordinary capabilities (such as 'not possible to do arithmetic') to such faculties of our bodies that run things like intercellular communication and maintain proper heartbeats and fuel/oxygen mix ratios etc. Why would the framework (the thing that contains all the rules) be something less than that which it produced? SMH... Now if we could begin to look at the sum total of processes as being derivations of both unconscious as well as subconscious, perhaps we could see that the end points are only small parts of the whole to which we could be *shrugs* 'using' should we acknowledge it's existence and learn to work with it as well...i've seen Freud mentioned in a couple comments...unification of the Id, Ego and Superego, by preventing one from looking down on the others...

Comment The Army taught me... (Score 1) 379

What I would do personally is make your own system on the D/L, call it 'making a backup'...or some such...work at home...out of the office...there are entire pages of content management systems out there you can run right on your desktop or to a server...call it 'administrative upgrade'...if you're that worried about your system now, believe me, in the world of data management...it's best to CYOA.

Comment Even Credible Links... (Score 3, Informative) 63

Facebook's sponsored links are no better these days...wrapping you around multiple malware sites for the illusion of free tickets to Dark Knight Rises...takes less than two clicks to find either boobs or 'three of these offers must be completed plus five subsequent offers but never'... Imagine that...people believing everything they read on the internet... Or how i purchased a Hulu account with some thought that it would reduce the number of commercials...which actually increased (i apparently only purchased the ability to watch on my PS3????) Telling people that others will like them if they pay money...SMH

Comment Re:Private Enterprise... (Score 1) 192

You have a different view of 'carving out a niche' than I do, seeing just the possibilities of science in the last two days, profit is not far off to be had. But if you're always trying to sell pictures to the internet...you'll go broke. I'm well aware that none of these things are going to happen...the point I was making was a 'hopeful' idealistic look into alternatives...simple alternatives with numbers to be used as examples. If this were one of my businesses, I would stop only using this telescope for just looking into space...renting out time to look into space...find a practical use for it...engineer a new use for it...take the existing and make it better. If i had access to a visible light telescope that had been decommissioned/closed, it would immediately become a giant experiment in solar power and energy for me...on many different levels and scales...you know, in case I wanted to point it right at the sun...try to ring some crystalline structures with the wavelengths of light...add in the new much more efficient solar cells or a silo of molten salt...and voila...no need for 400 mirrors in the desert to create power...just a rather cloudless day. When you maintain the paradigm, the paradigm will maintain...

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