I'm still waiting for the day we start making motherboards from hemp plastics.

The biggest source of income for any working musician is still live shows. Be they small 100 crowd venues or large 50,000 crowd venues. There is something special about watching a group of musicians perform together in a live show. Something that can't be replicated by a guy pressing a button (to play pre-recorded tracks). Live DJ shows often involve lots of pyrotechnics and other visual devices in order to engage the crowd. However, any live band, be they rock, hiphop, classical, baroque, deviant, or otherwise, has an instantaneous advantage of an unending "fascination" effect from people who can't play instruments themselves.

It wasn't until recently that I realised why this goes on in America. A friend pointed out the sheer stupidity of some of the arrests happening in USA is an extension of a money making racket the cops have (and given that most prisons over there are privately owned, I'm sure some of those arrests also come with "perks").

So, the cops arrest someone for stealing some electricity, and if they get a fine, they get more funding. I'm pretty sure there's a lot of truth in that statement.

/Stolzy

Is it possible that the USA could start seeding whistle-blower's leaks with information that would put them at further risk of legal prosecution? /Stolzy

I used to hate Bill Gates. Then one day I realised Gates had "grown up". He's still a businessman, but he's using his business "prowess" to increase his ability to help people in Africa with his vaccination programme. Which is why he set up his charity with family, and uses investment in businesses like Monsanto to offset his expenditures (and who's not to say to direct the firm away from GM crops?)

Whether my "naive" optimist side is coming out or not remains to be seen. Either way, what Gates is doing for Africa fits this model perfectly, you'd have to say.

/Stolzy

Bitcoin mining may take a new turn eh? Bitcoin Haxor^H^H^H^H^H^H Recovery?

Can anyone tell me where, in today's world, there is a government that issues its own money? I guess Valenzuela is one country that doesn't have a Central Bank. I can't think of any others. America sure doesn't issue its own money, it loans it (from the Federal Reserve). Just to be fancy I'll throw in a fancy word - Fiat. There you go! Which Bitcoins are also. /Stolzy

Apparently, Mythbusters' presenters Grant Imahara and Tory Belleci were inside LAX when this happened. From the Mythbusters FB page: "Grant and Tory were present in Terminal 3 at Los Angeles International Airport at the time of today's shooting incident. Both were en route to Delaware for the filming of 'Punkin Chunkin'. Grant and Tory are safe and being rerouted." /Stolzy

Does temperature affect gravity? What about light, does heat or cold affect the speed or strength of light beams? /Stolzy

I've been whining about this for years.

It's funny, I had a dream about flying cars, they were being manufactured in a secret factory that no one could locate, and at first they started out only being able to fly at around 2,000 feet, but then they kept getting higher and higher up as time went by, until they were flying above cloud level. It was an awesome dream. I've since thought of a way of making cars fly. Similar concept to the 4 bladed radio controlled helicopter, except with ducted jet fans. It would be controlled by joystick, and I personally would add a 5th jet fan for added manoeuvrability. I'd also position the first 4 on each corner of the vehicle and the 5th I would have sitting inside a sculpted area similarly shaped to a satellite dish, so that it can suck or blow to change the pressures coming into the sculpted area. If only I had a functioning brain, I could actually go to school and learn how to make these. /Stolzy

Drone Posties, nice idea (since letterboxes rarely move).

Thanks for all the replies, I appreciate it very much. My question was derived from thoughts of the "missing universe" (dark matter+energy). I was thinking that waveforms that may have cancelled each other out would still exert gravitational energy.

I feel enlightened by all the replies! Tyvm!

/Stolzy