The real pork!

With the current economic ‘crises’ that seem to be prevailing the nation and parts of the world, one has to look the prematurely started presidential campaign and its estimated expenditure over its course. Estimates have already pegged the campaign spending for Obama’s reelection, both through his campaign and outside proponents, at one billion dollars. That is a lot of money that is really going towards one thing, the possible election of one person into a position of ternary power.

Not only should we be looking at how such an affront to the democratic process where the populous is set with determining the officials to be elected is allowed to exist within all manner of legal means but why so much money is being diverted into semi-useless facets when it can be diverted to more important measures. Regardless of how much money is spent on the election campaign, the election will happen and someone will win it, the levels of excess in spending for campaigns is almost pointless in the long run.

In school we are taught about the evils and dishonesty in the old political machines of 100 years ago, where the dead voted, thugs coerced citizens to select their Man and special interests paid handsomely for special favors. All such practices were looked upon with disdain and some elicited legal recourse. Yet here we are after the hay day of the Big Chicago Machine and the same situations are mostly recurring, with full abandon and in the limelight.

The same type of political gerrymandering that occurred at the turn of the last century and was considered, immoral, illegal and unethical, is now protected, supported and encouraged by the legal system. Now instead of having to supply a suitcase of hundreds in a seedy motel you show up at a luncheon and write a check, then turn around and get a break on your taxes for doing your thing to support the candidate of your flavor.

The idea of having the people, the citizens of the nation, elect their officials is farcical when a few hundred extremely wealthy individuals are the ones that provide the most financial support for elections, fill the ears of the officials at all times through their PAC’s while in office and ultimately massage their own agendas into place. While at the same time, having enough money left over to apply the appropriate messages and sounds bites to sway public opinion in their favor.

This is not new, nor has our nation ever been without this sort of influence, what is most disparaging is the fact that it is open, accepted and legally within the bounds of the system and has been building to this point for a long time now.

Regardless of your political bend, the Amerikan ideal of ‘I have mine, so screw you’ needs to end if we are going to survive as a people. I would say it is shocking that so many purported followers of Christ, who taught nothing but acceptance, compassion, sharing and caring for fellow man, are some of the most vocal supporters of this ideology…but that would mean these people would have to be true to their faith every once in a while instead of using it as a weapon for their own hatreds.

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How we can save innocents with greater fire power!

So according to this post, the military has developed an explosive material for munitions that is capable of exerting up to 5x the kinetic damage that the current munitions cause. Yet, by doing this we can decrease civilian casualty levels! It sounds pretty magical to me!!

So what they are saying is...the explosion will be more direct and larger, thus somehow reducing collateral damage while increasing catastrophic damage? I like that logic. So if we can make our rounds explode more forcefully outright instead of just hitting something them exploding for lamer damage totals we not only get to obliterate the target with some button combo power up found in Nintendo Power, but it also emits a Mother Teresa like aura of militant saintism to protect children and women and elderly.

Somehow this logic eludes me...but then again, it's the military. I guess I don't know any better.

I think by that logic...the atomic bomb would only have killed military targets and most of the residents of Nagasaki and Hiroshima would not have been incinerated. That munition too was made of special combinations of different metals that exploded with a concentrated reaction on impact with the target, releasing a great amount of energy compared to a standard munition of similar size...perhaps as much as 1000x more (that's like the 10-string from hell!).

Perhaps I am misunderstanding...maybe the real benefit of this round is that the casing it's self is consumed in the explosion where as normally fragments of the casing would fly everywhere in a hail of shrapnel. So instead when we hit the school on accidentpurpose all of the students/terrorists in training will be vaporized or left completely un-phased...accept for the idea that the round does 5x the explosive damage there by just blowing everyone up instead of hitting the people further away with some shrapnel, possibly causing them to have an uncomfortable existence with various levels of alloy imbedded in them. Yes...this seems much more humane. Just incinerate them and get it over with instead of letting them go through hours of painful surgery and months of painful recovery.

Primer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_history_events

Revenge of the Sith

My original idea was to unplug my connection to a television signal.
That got changed to blocking all of the stations accept PBS and the kids cartoon station. Now...I feel I have to stay in tune and tuned up during the 2012 presidential cycle that began a month ago. For once I want to be as wide eyed during the cycle as much as possible...as I continue to miss things about candidates I end up voting for that would otherwise have caused me to not vote for them.
I want to put an end to voting to stop the other guy from getting in. There is a high chance in 2012 I may just write in a candidate given the historic nature of 'both' parties that typically sit at the top. So, stay tuned...because I'm going to get a bit radical in my dogma.
I have come to the conclusion that the Republicans and Democrats on the national stage are some of the greatest threats to the citizens of the united states of the Bank of America. the rhetoric and policies of the liberals and conservatives do nothing but further capitalism, which only benefits the people who already have all the money, regardless of what all of you believe or think. sure...you can get pretty well off on your own means if you have the correct amount of luck, backing and intestinal fortitude. But, no matter how big your house is in the lot and how much your monthly lease is for your car you still lose.
The reason you lose is because 10 minutes by car from your enclave is a group of youths who are desperate, isolated and resigned enough to their fate to do what it takes to ease their wants and placate their sense of desolation by taking it from you.

A couch by another name is a little bigger than a loveseat or a chaise lounge.

In discussing the horrors of computer disseminated intelligence I got on the subject of semantics and verbiage. There are a number of things that have a variety of names. Like the Eskimos supposedly have 10,000 works for snow.

For about a decade now I ponder ever so often the reason why we have a number of different terms for a ‘couch’. Yet I have not been motivated enough to actually find out why.

Couch

Davenport

Sofa

Divan

Chesterfield

Semantics…but apparently from quick internet based research sofa would seem the most appropriate, but only when the political climate is not controlled by Arab hating zelots, since sofa comes from suffah which is essentially the same thing.

Because the blood of Americans is blue, since red is communist.

The Temple of DOOM

In order to implement this site into its original intent, which I forgot about from the beginning I will begin posting some conversations I generate in life.

I walked up to a coworker and told her that the heart pulling scene from the Temple of Doom popped into my head. Then when I found out she really dug Indiana Jones I asked her opinion on the last movie, which many people didn’t like. She said it was good until the end when it turned into a big cliché. I corrected that idea and saying they are all that way.

The original 3 movies are no so far in the past that we have all romanticized their quality. They are no Gone with the Wind, never have been and never will be great pieces of literature. So sit back, let reality take a back seat and enjoy the ride. Remember also, aliens are just as believable or unbelievable as boxes that melt Nazi’s and Jesus.

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Hmm…so much to talk about, so much to stress about but I want to keep some semblance of coherency with this post…

So lets just go back to one of my original declarations that my life is controlled by robots, some of it by choice some of it not so much.

Earlier this week according to an article in my only semi trusted printed media outlet, BBC, there was this article.

Let me know when you get done reading it…

Done yet?

No seriously, read the fucking article you lazy fuck, because I’m not going to give you the cliff note of a cliff note.

Did you really read it?

Ok, fine forget you them, on with the conversations.

So it’s quite interesting that they have discovered some semblance of evidence for possible organic ‘lifeforms’ on Titan that could be contributing to it’s varied and stable atmosphere. I would love to see what would happen with some implemented terraforming on the moon. Commercial space exploration can quickly get us to a point of this being a viable option…but at the cost of…

OK…if you have read the article I linked to you would be wondering what the fuck I was referencing too…it was a test to see if you actually read the article or not.

Fucking read it!!!!!

Ok, on with the real thing, thanks for spending the same amount of time it would have taken you to originally read the article instead of going through my bait and switch thinking I would do it for you.

The biggest implication I am concerned about is using this advanced artificial processing power to disseminate information for people. Look, I understand when you type in ‘slavery’ in Google it takes a long time to get to an actual article about human slavery in modern and historical applications, as opposed to a bunch of malware Russian sites about bondage. That doesn’t mean we should rely on outside sources to further filter that information for us than it already is. I think the real problem with that concern is proper search etiquette. Just type in ‘slavery in America’ or ‘work conditions in modern China’…just be more specific.

Where my concern comes in is that people are contemplating the idea of using artificial intelligence to figure out what information to disseminate…this is about as promising in accuracy and completeness as asking the government to do the same thing.

The implications I see with this is a further buffering of information to the masses, a way to counteract an educated populace. We are already to the point where the majority of the population in America tunes in to narrow band frequencies to generate their opinions. They do so and are content to take the information at face value because they have decided to arrange their value system around it. This leads to the scenario of women voting for candidates who have histories of incredibly destructive policies towards women.

People choose not to question things that they want to hear, so they never look into the ‘facts’ being presented to them. When they hear thing’s that conflict with their ideals they turn to their trusted information sources to correct the facts for them, instead of researching it themselves. It’s too hard and there isn’t enough time for someone to look up the facts on a simple subject, especially if they consider making a balanced meal too time consuming for them to waste their time on. We have an increasingly growing population of citizens who will abandon everything else for the sake of perceived convenience.

To see what will happen when computers determine how much information we need in relation to what we are looking for view this.

I rest my case.