It's not the farmers that are killing wild bees and butterflies, because they grow crops that actually need protection (true some of that could wait for protecting the grain when put into storage from bugs, not while it's growing in the open fields, and in the open fields supplying predators are a better natural harmony), but it's the urban sprawl idiots pushing their lawns all over the place, and keeping it pure green, all flowerless. There is simply no fucking reason to mow a lawn, let alone spray it with chemicals. It's a highly distorted sense of beauty, everyone is bankrupt, yet has the time and money for gas and mowers to waste on grascutting! Just let nature be. Leave it the fuck alone. You don't have to mow it. Let the grass grow knee high, then let a farmer cut it for free, or even sell it to him, as hay for his horses, and let him make a nice drying haystack on your "lawn" out of it. Haystacks like you see when you drive through the country side. Make some money on the bitch while sitting back and relaxing on your porch, let alone pumping money and time and effort into it, wasting it all, over your distorted sense of beauty. Money in the bank is beautiful. Bank account empty, financing a lawnmower, paying for gas, and wasting your time, is not.

The true cure of HIV is a genetic mutation in a human, with HIV resistant genes. The highest likelihood of such a mutation emerging is in an area ravaged by HIV deaths, such as South Africa. If HIV doesn't really cause death (i.e. does not really increase mortality) then it's not really a disease worth mutating against. There are probably a gazillion kinds of bacteria and viruses that live in you, that do nothing special, and these HIV FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) spreading people will use one of these standard viruses, and call it the AIDS virus. By the way it's extrememly, extremely difficult, if not impossible, to properly select and filter for a virus - a sodium bloodtest is easy, so is low molecular weight stuff like sugars, etc, but fishing out a virus, staining it with a dye under an electron microscope (because it's too small for optical microscopes, and the electric microscope requires a gold or osmium tetroxide gas layer coating and even then it vaporizes the metal as the electron beam scans, so you can't really dye a metal coating like you can dye the naked virus), then calling it HIV after you stained in with 8 different dies giving you a yes no answer (i.e. 256 bits, as in there are only 256 different viruses out there.) (Notice my recent love of grammatically incomplete/incorrect sentences lacking a verb.) Going for DNA fragment special short chain combination abundance (such as ACTGCTCAACTGACG, a couple of these fingerprint markers specific to each virus) might work, but it's hard to accurately chop DNA to sticks of say 22 units each, and not fully disassemble it to just A, C, T, G, and even then there is a lot of noise, because all life on the planet is based on DNA, and all DNA is made of 2 bit(i.e. 4 variations, 8 bit having 256 variations, and 1 bit 2 variations) A, C, T, G units.

Oh blow some more smoke up my ass with these naive "safety measures", "regulating drones", "areas such as Afganistan." Drones are used today, in areas such as US of A, against citizens who have been declared witches.

By the way next time you feel there is a worm chewing your brain, don't hit the hospital ER, cuz they'll laugh you in the face and tell you to lay off the crack, cuz you're hallucinating. You go there more than once, they take you to the nuthouse and, like good samaritans, help you out by holding you down and shooting you up with Haldol. Good luck keeping a job when you're on Haldol, your hands refuse to follow instructions on it. In fact the worm in your head is a remote cancer-treating-gamma-knife-like x-ray, but because it's coming from a drone up high, it's low powered, and takes friggin forever to cause a boiling hole inside your head, and then when you feel it, all you have to do is move your head faster than the automatic tracker can follow it, or move it back and forth to create an oscillation in the tracker, hopefully resonance, and wear the motor out, at least lower its accuracy from a distance. The real reason why they want regulations public, because they do these things mostly under the cover of darkness at night, and if you work a nightshift job, there is not enough darkness time to remotely lobotomize you enough from a drone, when you're sleeping in a cast iron tub and the high powered appliance x-rays of your neighbors are shielded out, and they have to come at you from above. So under "open regulations" people spotting these things during broad daylight during "routine surveillance operations" is gonna be OK. By the way your brain can be lobotomized quite a bit, if it happens little bit at a time, it will adapt, as shown by surgeries of children with seizures lasting 10 hrs out of 24 in a day, who, after removing the left side, or right side of their brain completely, still function fine. Also people with hydrocephalus - huge water filled holes in their brains expanding their skull to humongous size, and leaving only a micron thin sheath of brain tissue next to the skull - function like other normal people, and show up at the hospitals for a CT scan complaining of "minor headaches." Of course you're not gonna get the real CT scan images, that'd be too scary, there are a bunch of standard files on the computer to show people, some faking a broken arm, so they get a broken arm bone x-ray image, and a cast, with the "manufacturer assuming the warranty repair" on the bone (i.e. the Lord Almighty.) It's the real world, if you see a drone in the sky, so what, if you got holes in your brain, got gassed with anesthetics, infected with all kinds of genetically engineered and trackable things - all to erode your ethics, your humanity - just piss on it and get on with your life and try to make the best of it, enjoy it anyway. Life is like playing cards, sometimes luck in the cards dealt to you is cruel, and you have to play a shitty hand. So what.

And by the way, speaking of CT scans looking at the holes in your brain created by remote gamma knives operating from drones, what's with this naiveness about unlimited coverage requirement in Obamacare? You know what automatically happens? Doctors know the money is coming, so they'll hold the patient forever. It's like free money falling out of the sky, the insurance companies can't resist, and exercise checks and balances, but that does not matter for now, lets get everyone aboard of having mandatory insurance first, then we'll jack up the price to 90% of your income, of course you only have to pay the 10%, and Obamacare will fund the 80% from your taxes. The only proper insurance premium to infinite coverage is infinite premium. Or it's a lie. As in, back in the 90's there were these dialup ISP's who said for $99 you can have free internet for the rest of your life, but they were outcompeted by the ones like juno or netzero who did not even ask for $99 but just gave you free internet if you were willing to watch an ad on your computer, for which there was a hack to hide it (or even have multiple virtual displays, some of your applications like winamp and excel and the netzero ad being on one desktop, and internet explorer and word on another,) so anyway, these isp's asking for $99 then infinite internet forever are lies, as, unlike the advertising netzero, they have no sustainable model, and the whole point is to start up this pyramid-scheme temporary company, pay the CEO a million dollar salary from these one time fees as a business expense, take up all kinds of business loans to keep paying the CEO his salary, then when the company is hopelessly in debt, let it go bankrupt into the oblivion and out of existence, then start up a new one, and repeat. Same deal with insurance companies selling unlimited coverage for a limited fee - I can tell you this, there is a limit, but arguing with doctors why they want to extract $440,000 per patient per hospital visit is difficult, because they think it's fair - start up the insurance company, pay yourself a huge salary, go bankrupt, out of existence, then repeat, start a new insurance company, take the Obamacare premiums, pay yourself a shitload of salary, then go bankrupt again, repeat. It's all fuckin bullshit. Does Obamacare now regulate the salaries of insurance company CEO's too? Or tells them they are not allowed to go out of business? What happens to all the premiums you paid when you get sick and the company is just freshly going out of business, 2 weeks into your 9 month hospital stay? Who's gonna keep paying the hospital bills? Or are they gonna have the FDIC picking up the bill when the FDIC insured insurance companies fail? You might as well just say that the government pays for everybody's health care anyway, if they have to keep picking up the bill every time the insurance companies run away from it.

By the way there are pictures on the web how the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) figured out how to conquer all the hillsides into level terraces to grow more rice and sustain their ever growing population. Problem is once you run out of those unfarmable areas to convert into farmable areas, there is nowhere left to grow. Are you gonna have floating platforms on the sea to have farms on?

Ahh, the twisted web of alliances! Nation 1 is allied with nation 2. Nation 1 goes to war with nation 3, and requests nation 2 to pitch in, due to their alliance. Nation 2 says they cannot since they are also allied with nation 3. The relationship between nation 1 and nation 2 deteriorates, but they are still semi-allies. Add more than 3 actors to this game and it can get really complex. Two superpowers, like USA and USSR during cold war, never going to war with each other, and each other nation in the world allied to either one of them, was a very stable world, besides some Cuban missile crisis.

Now the US economy is plummeting from global competition from places like Bangladesh or Pakistan making all my shirts I buy at Walmart, and soon you can't tell who's who? Who's on top? China? Japan? The British Empire makes a comeback (proving once and for all that Monarchy is better than Democracy after all the democracy issues pile on in the US leading to a Lehman Brother's type collapse, and closing every single mall two, followed by closing every single factory?) Russia? India? I'm sure the muslims like Turks want to bring back some Ottoman empire too. How about the EU becoming militaristic overnight? They have some weapon's capabilities, and economic power, and may be getting low on resources, even with heavy renewable energy investment. I never heard of Indonesia, other than there are lots of people there too.

There are 330 million people in the US. 1300 million in China, 1000 million in India, and only "120" million in Japan. Japan is a tiny country compared to the US, but there is 1 Japanese for every 3 Americans, 9 Indians for every 3 Americans, and 13 Chinese for every 3 Americans. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because the fuel supply to their industry, to their economic livelihood was cut off by the Dutch Indies (Indonesia) oil companies. They were sort of provoked into it. Being outnumbered 3 to 1, the odds are not that greatly against them, most Americans think Japan is a tiny island and we outnumber them at least 10 to 1 or even 100 to 1. Zrinski boldly made his final charge with 600 Croatians/others against 150,000 Turks. Because every time he forcibly took the tax from a serf, he justified it by saying when it's time to defend you, I will put my ass on the line for you. So he couldn't wave the white flag. But that's called being outnumbered, overpowered, and still attacking, as a matter of honor, of duty. The Japanese defenses at Iwo Jima during WW2 showed similar "honor":attitudes and no flag waving til extremely to the end.

In a world where gas prices went from $1/gal to $4/gal in a decade, and are on the rise, eventually something has got to give. But hopefully we can figure out a way to feed everyone, fuel everyone, and avert any kind of war. But there are no guarantees, the future is always uncertain.

Tee hee hee. Do unto others as though would have them do unto thee. Sometimes I'd like someone to explain a joke to me.

In the Soviet Union human life was more expandable than in the USA, Had this attitude been different, it may have reflected itself in the accident rates.

So they could clone their own i386 system, with DR DOS (with source code) or FreeDOS. DOS is not to be underestimated for military use, especially russian mentality type one. DOS is like the ultimate Russian/Soviet design. Retardedly simple, fast, lacks basic features you think you absolutely need til you get used to the workarounds of not having them, it's idiot proof, unbreakable. For one it does not "crash" by sudden power loss, all you lose is whatever data you have in RAM since you last hit the save to disk button, it has no disk cache (other than some disk buffers that are pretty quick), and the way to power off DOS is by cutting the power to it.Even dead simple and barebones commandline linux console is not military enough in behavior compared to DOS, as in some versions it goes through a "Sending all processes the SIGHALT signal", then "Sending all processes the SIGKILL signal" masturbation, let alone Windows displaying a "Please wait", and "Windows is Shutting Down" masturbation in your face process.

Back in the late 90's when I was still a computing fan building custom computers and overclocking the CPU's by a few MHz to get extra speed, I remember when shopping online you had to pay extra based on serial numbers/batches, and origins of the Intel CPU's, and I think it was Malaysia and Puerto Rico Intel fabs that made the price difference for overclockability. That's kinda neat to know they have wafer processing in Ireland and Israel, I always assumed they'd do at least some of it in the US too, if nothing else, keep a pilot flame of production going just in case there is a global war and you can't get to places like Malaysia easily.

The thing about war is that it always bites you in the ass unexpected, it does not come preannounced 10 years before it, so you can prepare for it. Back in the feudal days there was a custom of honor of declaring war between neighbor princes, sending an ultimatum, and waiting for an answer, for an acceptance of war, before committing to any action. By WW2 the German blitzkrieg term's essence was not sending such an ultimatum. So you don't get a letter in the mail declaring war against you, with an adversary patiently waiting for you to reply and accept it, giving you a few years to prepare, and pull your manufacturing base from places like Malaysia.

Hahaha - 30 kg is like 66 lbs for a CPU (you'd need dolly for your military smartphone), consuming 5.4x18=97.2 Watts, from liquid nitrogen 90K to 600K-273.15=327C (327*9/5+32 = 620 Fahrenheit), 3 km/s2=3000 m/s2, divided by 9.806 m/s2 = 306g acceleration, and proton decay has never been observed, but, according to Wikipedia, by most recent grand unified theories of physics calculations the lowest possible limit on half life for proton decay is about 1.29×10^34 years via positron decay. That's a long MTBF, mean time between failures, when the age of the universe since the Big Bang is estimated at 13.8x10^9 years.

Those look like some Soviet/Russian specs. Inefficient as fuck, but when it comes to reliability, they stand up any kind of abuse, unbreakable, and idiot proof. And over engineered with safety factors of 9000x, and that's how you end up with 60+ lbs for a CPU.

Dude it's not openSSL that's really flawed, I mean boo hoo, they hid and passed under everyone's nose some faults then made it blow up in everyone's face, so what, even if you had a perfect OpenSSL, if the hardware itself is fucked, you're out of luck, you can throw any kind of software at it, they can watch the screen as you can watch it when you type, they can log the keystrokes, etc., the hardware itself is rigged. Why wouldn't it be? Duh! Which is what this whole Russian chip article is about, getting secure hardware, but they go about it by yet another anal retentive way, design your own custom code for an Arm processor, then send it off to a chip foundry somewhere (i'm guessing the chip foundries in Korea, Japan or Taiwan, maybe US for IBM, or Puerto Rico and Malaysia for Intel, if IBM and Intel are willing to do subcontracting for Arm), then voilà, get your own secure chip the easy way. Yet another bullshit they are trying to pass by everyone, hey, everyone, your computer is secure, start hiding some secrets in it, we swear we can't see them! By the way Arm is retarded in the way that they are a pure intellectual property company, they own absolutely no physical manufacturing facilities, and most of the Arm chips are made in the East Asian Tiger countries. At least IBM and Intel does have their own fabs and don't trust it to someone else, in fact I was looking to get different commercial versions of Unix instead of Linux on ebay for cheap, and guess what, I got Solaris 8 for like 8 bux for Intel platform, but there is no way to get IBM AIX for intel platform, can you guess why? Because IBM is not retarded enough to trust Intel chips and assume liability over what happens on them. Which is why Microsoft ditches any liability too for their software, because they don't make the whole shebang computer. If you want trustworthy computing, get it from IBM that makes both the AIX Unix software, and the chips, be it RS/6000, or PowerPC, or System/370 Mainframes, but in each case IBM controls both the hardware and the software part, so they can assume liability when the shit hits the fan, as opposed to going after Microsoft or Intel, and they point the finger at each other, saying it's not my fault, it's the other guy's responsibility. Maybe that's why the computing business moved from IBM dominance into the MS/Intel way of doing business, of evading responsibility reasons. Dividing up responsibility between two or more people means no responsibility, the best slogan in a team environment when trying to find who's responsible is the standard answer from every single person: it wasn't me, I didn't do it. In a job environment if you can figure out a way to make people work alone, divide up the work to single person unit stages, with personal responsibility in each, you automatically get a magical improvement in quality, productivity and profitability. If you can't divide up the responsibility, then military style top down command works better than some ad-hoc gang of nobody's in charge and responsible. And in such cases being on the bottom keeps you out of the responsibility most, saying I was just following the command of my superiors, and didn't really care, (care is not the best word, didn't really fight them, didn't really hold up production over an issue i felt was not right) because they were responsible if it didn't work out correctly. Monarchy style top down command if often more efficient than Congress-like debate between a few hundred elected representatives, who take forever to decide, so in time of war the President is like a dictator for the military, and Congress and Senate can criticize or overrule weeks of months later, but they cannot make the on time, millisecond decisions required by war, like a monarch, or dictator-like president. Which is how teamwork in a work environment is often most efficient, we all listen to one guy, and do what he says, not because we agree with it, or he is the smartest, in fact he could be the dumbest of us but we put him in charge and listen to him and do what he says, because if we all voiced our disagreements, it would bog us down to being completely paralyzed. Each ship has one captain, not two, nor ten, nor 100 captains, debating which way to swerve the ship trying to avoid an iceberg. He may not be the smartest of the crew, it'd be nice if he were, but it doesn't really matter as much as following chain of command. It doesn't really matter if you swerve to the left or to the right, but the whole sailor team on deck has to move as one, commanded by the captain, and if it takes you 10 minutes of debating and round table discussions to make up your mind how to steer the ship, because you're not sure, it's too late, you're on top of the iceberg and sinking like the Titanic. By the way in ancient Crete I think there were dual kings, that would debate between themselves over what to do. So according to Sartre and existentialism, when you execute the command of a captain in which way to swerve the ship, to the left or right, you're personally responsible, you can't avoid personal responsibility saying you were simply following orders, but that's what most people end up doing. But such blindly following orders can be a big issue in cases of Nazi holocaust prisoners, or Richard the Lionheart's execution of the civilian population of Tyre during a Holy Crusade to recapture Jerusalem for Judeo-Christians from Muslims.

So anyway, to recapitulate, the present dominant Intel/Microsoft computing world may be set up that way to evade responsibility by each of the duo, or trio with AMD, if you're looking for responsibility you need to find someone like IBM who can make both the chips and the software, and have nobody else to point the finger at, and this idea that a securely coded SSL gives you a secure computing environment when you don't know jack about the hardware, and subcontracting it out to some foreign country's pure IP company, like the British Arm Holdings, headquartered in Cambridge, who subcontract the actual hardware making to a chip foundry in Taiwan or Korea. How is Russia to trust all this, and how are they gonna keep up production if WW3 breaks out? Idiots! Which is what this whole article is testing, how retarded slashdotters are about it.

By the way, back in the late 80's, in the eastern European communist bloc, the highest achievement of the USSR, electronically speaking was a Sokol pocket radio with 7 transistors, unbreakable (anything russian, like cars, radios, guns, is made for retards and has to be unbreakable/uncloggable, and the retards still find a way to break it, or clog it up by dragging it through mud, which is why russian firearms are so highly prized, because they are built to be dragged through mud and still function) and some TV's along the same lines, if they weren't all still tube TV's, while at the same time from the capitalist west you got an IBM XT with a 5 1/4 floppy running MS DOS with GW Basic, with guess how many transistors in the CPU? A whole lot more than 7. So while the Russians beat the west into space flight with Gagarin back in the day right after WW2, they got stuck in innovation, never really having any chip foundries ever at all by the time of the communist government's collapse. And I don't think they can still make any chips even today. So there is not much to worry about at the present about chips coming from Eastern Europe/Russia for a while, If anything the West (i.e. Western Europe (starting at the line of Finland, Germany, Czech, Austria, Italy and more west, the other side of the iron curtain being Russia, Lithuainia, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, old Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece is up in the air), then USA, Canada, Australia, Argentina and used to be South Africa during apartheid) has more to worry about China making their own chips, and as far as Korea, Japan and Taiwan is concerned, they are already making most of the world's chips (like 80%), but India, because of severe overpopulation and rolling blackouts may be behind both China and Russia, if ever, being able to design and their own chips, and India(Pakistan, Bangladesh) may be the first place in the world with major collapse in society over lack of resources and overpopulation. Hopefully not. The future is always uncertain.

You can't capture a 10-20 mile per second asteroid, unless you speed up to that speed, and go along with it, or you ping pong it with weapons/bullets/objects to another desired speed, but if you're not going the same speed, it flies by you off and away like an ambulance with a siren. The best way to capture asteroids is to seek ones with near-miss orbits with the Moon or Earth, like (i'm talking shooting stars in August, when Earth flies through that domain) and modify their path to impact directly into the Moon. Kaboom, captured, even if you have to dig deep for it, and it splashes all over the place in the form of a crater. In fact why bother ping pong-ing asteroids into the Moon, when it already has all these craters. Maybe that's what the most detailed ever survey of the Moon by the Chinese a few years ago was about, heavy metal stuff - osmium (22.6), iridium (22.4), platinum (21.45), rhenium (21.04), Uranium (20.2) (usually combined with oxygen, and then not so dense), tungsten (also with oxygen) (19.35), gold (19.32) (btw archimedes' Eureka! method may not have been accurate if the king's crown was made of tungsten, but then the color would be off, it's hard to forge gold color and forge the density too; you could also try blends of copper and say, uranium (not being a precious metal like gold), but you probably could not get the color and density both right), The list continues, but not that heavy anymore: tantalum (16.65). thorium (15.4), mercury (13.55, but very volatile), hafnium, rhodium, ruthenium, palladium, lead (11.35), silver (10.5), molybdenum (10.22), copper (8.96), nickel (8.9), iron (7.87 sp.gr (specific gravity)),

Apropo who cares, I recently got a shortwave radio again, and guess what, only bible thumpers are available on it anymore. Ehh, even a decade ago you could listen to BBC world news, but they no longer broadcast to Europe or America on shortwave. Can you believe that? Shortwave and BBC used to be inseparable! And you assumed even in an apocalypse you could get at least some somewhat unbiased news from them and know whats going on in the bigger world past your daily local newspaper brainwashing, you'd get a different perspective of the world.

No. My two grandfathers were different persons from my father.

I love Chinese, Japanese and Asians, as nations, like I love tigers, as creatures. I want them to live well and prosper, I admire their culture and beauty, but I would not trust them completely not to eat me, I still need defenses against them. Just watch how they eat live octopus in Korea, that's like the uber definition of unkosher food, ripping limbs off of live animals. And these animals are quite intelligent too. So if we lose our strong military protection, it may become quite enticing to them to attack us. Which is what I'm paying taxes for, military protection, not for even more non-self-sufficient young people to multiply out of control on Social Security money that was meant for the elderly. I mean we don't want anyone starving, but come on man. Put a leash on your dick, it's not her fault, she can't resist dick, it's your fault if she gets pregnant and you can't stay with her to help out raise the baby. Baby momma baby daddy stuff. At least be husband and wife for that welfare money, that's one degree better. But I'm paying tax money mostly for military protection, and Obama is too fucking naive to realize just how important that is. If they introduced a law that the insurance companies getting fat on Obamacare maintain private armies that supplement our defenses in case an invasion happens from Japan, or a united Korea, China and Japan trio, then I wouldn't mind paying them all that dough, as long as they do yearly parades with the tanks, troops and planes for me to see, this is what all that money buys. But I bet the profit goes for dirty old men executives' country club memberships to get sucked by a teenage girl, and golf club memberships, not weapons or supporting private armies. And what's this disarming the nation stuff, gun control? Plus private armies in a democracy? But if they'll say it means zero taxes absolutely, no property, income tax, and even no mandatory insurance, just let private armies coexist with the national military, and if these private armies can defend my country, and I don't have to pay anything into them, that sounds like an alternative to look at.