ndingWhat is a clown car ? depends where you are standing

Quiz question.... Who is a bigger fool ?

a) Someone who fakes a war weapon by using Photoshop ?  
      ( Cost maybe $9.95 )
b) Someone who fakes a war weapon by spending 
                  maybe 0.5 Trillion dollars

from : http://www.ecnmag.com/blogs/2013/03/top-10-must-read-posts-february

1. Iranian "stealth fighter" looks like a clown car
By Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor
When Iran released pictures of a new stealth fighter called the 'Qaher 313', they were almost immediately debunked as either a full-scale mockup or completely photoshopped images. Rudimentary wiring, commercial-based control and an apparently non-existent engine all raised suspicion about the “clown car” of a fighter.
http://www.ecnmag.com/blogs/2013/02/iranian-stealth-fighter-looks-clown-car
http://www.ecnmag.com/blogs/2013/02/iranian-clown-car-flies-help-photoshop



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 http://www.ecnmag.com/blogs/2013/01/enfeebled-f-35-could-impede-military-readiness
 Picture a Swiss Army Knife with a blunted knife, rusty screwdriver, and a broken can opener. That’s what the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has become — a jack of all trades and master of none.

The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) has — over the course of a highly tumultuous development period that personifies the phrase "requirements creep" — become the poster child for bloated government programs.

 2,443 @ $304.15 million each  ==>   $$$ 742 Billion

 Rueters says it will cost only...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/15/us-usa-fighter-f35-insight-idUSBRE92E10R20130315
 ~ $$$ 400 Billion    .... heck.....  that is much less than the war in Iraq

 99guspuppet          777WARisCHEAP

Cheesy Liars List of out and out lies

Cheesy Liars    List of out and out lies

Reward is offered ( Dorner ) and then reneged on
http://blog.simplejustice.us/2013/03/31/the-dorner-reward-lets-get-tecnical.aspx



999guspuppet    777lies   777liars

Marriage should be designed by consenting adults

Marriage should be designed by consenting adults


I cannot figure out why society or the state should determine what a standard marriage is .... or is not.

Marriage should be a contract between adults.  It should include as much commitment or as little commitment as the participants desire.  Marriage should be about individuals joining together for self-defined purposes.

The state should not get involved.   Not to dispense goodies ( benefits ) .... not to define the marriage contract.

If there are disputes.... resolve them in court or with arbitration.  Power hungry politicos will not like this.

99guspuppet     777marriageDesign

Politicians are ID 10 T s ... as usual

DEA targets FedEx, UPS in online-pharmacy probe

U.S. Rep. John Mica, R-Winter Park, weighs in on issue, asks DEA to work with the industry.

As usual ,  a politician deliberately or through stupidity... misses the whole point of a government versus private compnay tussle.

 There is no liberty loving reason for having drugs laws... I repeat... There is no liberty loving reason for having drugs laws.

Therefore ... there is no reason for the DEA to exist... no reason for the DEA to waste somebody's money [ taxpayers ].  No doubt DEA employees will have to be given some new job ( non-liberty threatening ) to keep them busy..... maybe counting the grains of sand in Florida.

There is no reason for FedEx or UPS to waste their time dealing with ID 10 T s from the DEA.

The DEA is less than useless.  Every move they make is a net loss for humanity and sophonts.

99guspuppet                      99DEAidiots

Focus on #1

Focus on #1

That would be you ... of course  .... the universe is built around individual atoms.... it exists to provide a space for them... you are one of them   The universe exists to serve you, to fascinate you , to nurture you.


My focus is this entry is to ask... what is the biggest, , most profound , most compelling , issue facing humans today ?  Where can the biggest dent in the universe be made ?

I would love to hear your thoughts on this ... what do you think is #1 big picture issue for humans to deal with..... ????

Here is mine

With more and more abundance available to humans .... with the world becoming less violent every day ....  what can be done to provide a fulfilling existence for each and every human ( and sophont ? ) ?


The problem of boredom and idle viciousness
the Clockwork Orange effect

Things that would help...
Interstellar travel

Can we use fewer police and cheaper police ?

Can we use fewer police and cheaper police ?

Why are police force personnel generalists ?
A policeman issues tickets , arrests people , kicks down doors and eats doughnuts.

Why can't these functions be specialized ? and contracted out on occasion ?

Speed traps can be roboticized.  They are not about safety anyway.  They are revenue generators.  Police should not spend time pursuing victimless crimes.  Prostitution , drug use and sales, .... are none of the police's business.

Plus a *real policeman* should have job description as follows:

Protects the public from danger... risks life if necessary.... held responsible for mistakes made ...

Who am I kidding ???? Such people do not exist.....

Anyway... everytime you read about the police... ask yourself... did this action need to be done ?  If it needed to be done : what kind of professional ( or non-professional ) was required.

99guspuppet     99cheappolice

What do you do if asked to *Stomp Jesus*

Stomp Jesus
http://townhall.com/columnists/toddstarnes/2013/03/23/university-apologizes-for-stomping-jesus-n1546901?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

The above link references a class where students were asked to stomp Jesus.  This exercise was in poor taste and probably steps over the line regarding the power balance between teacher and student.

I think the important part is that many people have learned to be professional victims.  They have brought being offended to a fine , fine art.  I find it tiresome.  Don't participate if you don't want to.  Walk away.  They are stomping on a piece of paper.  If Jesus exists ( which I doubt ) .... then Jesus can take care of the infidels.

I don't think the university should have apologized.

99guspuppet   99stomponjesus

What if Human Caused Global Warming is real ?

What if Human Caused Global Warming is real ?

Let me hasten to say that I feel that human knowledge is too sparse for GW to be acted on.  There is too much uncertainty.  And there is even less certainty about HCGW ( Human Caused Global Warming ).

Thought Experiment
Let us pretend that GW is caused by humans.  That the sea level is going to rise and cover NYC.  That hurricanes and tornadoes will ravage the lands.  That sweltering heat will kill all the plants ..... What should a thinking person do ? ( Assuming it is not too late )


#1  Stop having babies.  Each new human is a massive addition to the HCGW effect.  We are not likely to run out of existing babies any time soon.  And no more pets.

#2   Stop using energy.  Stop driving.  Stop buying big refrigerators.  Don't heat or cool your house.  Get lots of leaves to build a nest to cuddle up in.

#3  Stop having wars.  This one is so obvious I have nothing to say.

#4  Stop raising farting cows, doing so much farming, .....

#5  Stop celebrities, pundits, green activists from flying all over the world and using limos.

What fun !


99guspuppet     99earthismelting   99globalwarming

Stupid Laws in America and around the globe

I will be updating this from time to time as I think of even more stupid laws and regulations..... stuff a sophont2 would laugh their head off about.....  maybe life is a comedy to keep us entertained...

most of these laws have an element of *IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN*
I do not believe children are more or less important than any other sophont ... so this particular chant pisses me off....  *It's for the children*

Society cares what you ingest...
Yes .... stupid laws about drugs... possessing drugs, injecting drugs , eating Big Macs , drinking a large slurpee,

Society groups you
These are laws about protecting woman or compensating blacks or making gays especially protected.  Bah Humbug.... every sophont is entitled to life , liberty , the pursuit of happiness , own property ( including their own body )

Racism would be on it's way to extinction if I could short circuit all these groups that claim special privileges.

Society freaks out about sex   over and over
Sophonts should be protected from violence , force , fraud......  not what they do with their bodies, or who they consensually interact with, or how many they have in the pile-up,

Society cares about Marriage
Why ?

Guy marries a guy , a cow , a tribe of pygmies.... I don't care...
Woman marries 16 guys , a cow , a tribe of pygmies, a girl scout troop....   I don't care

Society says babies are cute
Maybe... So what ?  They should be protected the same way everyone else is.  They contribute much less than a 30 year old physics genius.   We are not going to run out of babies anytime soon.  If humans cause global warming, babies are the main factor.

99guspuppet     99stupidlaws

How to fix U.S. manufacturing ? Big Picture

I read a blog entry by Paul J.Heney with interest ....
http://www.pneumatictips.com/2769/2013/02/featured/looking-down-the-road-at-manufacturing/

Paul is a smart good looking guy and has lots of influence.... so I was worried when he said that we should look to the government for solutions.



#1 Government programs have a high failure rate... often the only winners are the friends of the politicians...     The record of the government is pretty mediocre and most of the folks who take government jobs are at the low end of the bell curve.


#2 Academics are a major source for great ideas.  They often suffer from the myopia of having a safe job..... no *skin in the game* so to speak....  Check out what  Nassim Nicholas Taleb ( author of *The Black Swan* )  has to say...

#3 Why focus on U.S. manufacturing ?  We are now a world economy and should look at what is best for all of humanity... the greatest good for the greatest number.  This is not at odds with making people in the U.S. successful. Not in the long term anyway.  It is time for sophonts to escape tribalism and thinking controlled by the amygdala.   Free individuals........  free information ....... allow the flow of ideas, money , creativity unimpeded by nation states and grasping politicians.

#4 Please consider directing your readers to look at privately funded efforts such as Singularity University or Khan Academy. or similar.  This is the age of the internet, the cloud.....

99guspuppet

Unlocking Cell Phones see the big picture

Unlocking Cell Phones  see the big picture

Read this link for some background.
 http://www.zdnet.com/white-house-its-time-to-legalize-cell-phone-unlocking-7000012106/?s_cid=e550

A cell phone is hardware.... it really exists in meat-space.  It can be owned.  The owner should be able to use it as a cell phone.  The owner should be allowed to saw it up with a chainsaw.  The owner should be free to drop it in a spinning food processor.  The owner should be able to move the phone to another network.

If the phone is leased... then someone else owns the phone.  They can dictate how the hone is used.

If someone has signed a contract ... then they should be held to it's terms.  The terms should be made very , very clear and not be designed to trick the customer.  If trickery is employed... then it is fraud.  I have heard a salesman say ...... "don't worry about the small print.. you will not have to abide by the small print"   This is fraud because the saleswoman is not going to be around later to absolve you of any agreements you violate.

The government ( at any level ) does not have to have a dog running in this contest.  There is nothing here for the government to have to sort out.  And many of us know that the government makes issues more convoluted and poisonous than they were to start with.

Free people are polite , courteous , honest ........   anarchists are free

99guspuppet   striving to be Sophont2    wanting to be an omegadog

There are Alpha dogs ( control freaks ) , Beta dogs ( sheeple ) and Omegadogs ( I want to be free and extend that courtesy to others )


999omegadog  999sophont2

When will police be penalized for lying ?

When will police be penalized for lying ?
I mean *personally* penalized... as in having to financially compensate victims of their perjury ????  Not money that comes from the taxpayers.... it should be money right out of their own pockets.....  forget about suspensions or hand slaps or firing.....   make them pay $$$ every time.... nothing will get their attention more quickly and forcefully than this.......

It should happen here ....
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/03/jury_finds_occu.php

Nothing justifies lying... ever

999guspuppet   

keywords    999lying   99perjury

Government operates roads like a pinball machine

PINBALL MACHINE
Lots of flashing lights and holes where you can lose your game ball.  Ball gets batted around a lot.


I sometimes drive north on Santa Fe in the Denver, CO metro area.  The powers that be have set up a speed trap.  It is a photo radar van.  It is located right after the speed limit drops from 50 mph to 25 mph with a few blocks.  The added bonus for the revenue collectors is that it is a *fines doubled* area.  Another added bonus is that is located in the chaos of a construction zone.  Picking out small signs advising the speed limit and the presence of a radar trap are is unlikely in the welter of competing visual cacophony.  Road construction in the Denver area most resembles western cow patties ( excrement ).   #1 Located randomly over the landscape  #2  Suddenly appears ... gooey and hardens into an intractable mess.  #3  Stinks  #4  Never cleaned up   #5 Sustenance for vermin

Government employees and VIPS are self-selected.  They love to push people around.  They love to be officious. What could be grander than a road project that gives everything they want plus they get to SOPM.

The above is unconscionable and chips away at the happiness of the planet's sophonts.


Update 2013m03d31
      Returning from Littleton, CO on a Sunday ( Easter ... no less ) I encountered the same speed trap on Santa Fe.  This is set up to collect fines ( $$$ ).  There are no workers on the ( endless ) project... no equipment ... other than the radar van.  I was going 40 mph.  I do not know if I was one of the lucky ones.  I am dropping a note to Hickenlooper and whatever city that speed trap resides in.
      Later....... on the very same return trip.... I exited I-70 at Lowell ( going west ).   I wanted to turn left at Lowell.  No way I could do that.  There were 7 cop cars blocking the ramp.  I had to turn right.  Everyone looked relaxed.  I could not discern if there were civilians involved.  No apparent reason for 7 cars to be clustered unless they were waiting for a doughnut order.  I stopped and asked them why they were lounging around.  ( That last sentence was a lie & joke. )  I am writing this from my office and not from jail.

99guspuppet       99roads  99speedtrap

99SOPM   spend other people's money  99waitingForDoughnuts

*FREE* internet from the government is not free

http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/2369?n=17139527.IOruAm

Above is a link to a petition asking the USG ( US Government ) to provide free internet....

Such a scheme is NOT free......

#1  It costs the taxpayers... it reduces choices
#2 It is implemented by the most mediocre and incompetent organization on the plant
#3 The USG has a long history of bait and switch... of offering some goodies and then adding so many strings to the offer that people lose freedom , they lose their health and some of them lose their lives.

I am 61 years old as of 2013 and I have long watched the USG make the world a sadder , less exuberant place.  The USG teaches children to become slaves to the state.

Remember... goodies from the government are never free... there is always a catch....

99guspuppet  

Note:  the petition mentioned at the top does NOT give you a chance to vote against it.  Typical...

All speech should be free

http://www.indystar.com/article/20130224/NEWS/302240067/?nclick_check=1
Call Star reporter Tim Evans at (317) 444-6204 and follow him on Twitter @starwatchtim.

Above is an example of someone who is punished physically for his speech.  By physically, I mean hands were laid upon this gentleman and he was incarcerated.  I probably would not like this guy.... it does not matter.  Speech does not harm.  Those who claim it does are assuming that the idiots who react physically to speech are somehow the responsibility of the speaker.

Yes Virgina...... this includes someone yelling "Fire" in a crowed theatre.... only idiots  ( and there are so many of them ) will run in a panic without finding out what the true situation is.

The world ( and the U.S. in particular ) is filled with thuggish people who think everyone ( except themselves ) should be incarcerated , fined , controlled .....  bah humbug on them.   I dream of the day Sophonts 2.0 proliferate.


99guspuppet  99sophont2.0

Good luck when trying to do the right thing

2013m02d23

Today a friend of mine found an iPhone on the street.  He brought it back to my place and was playing with it.  "What's that ?" , I said.

He said he found it and he was messing around with it.  I said it looked like a working phone.  Did he intend to contact the owner and return it ?  Nah.... he said.

Why don't you take care of it ?  he said
Okay, I will....
I tried various things and eventually called AT&T ( the service for the phone ) and gave them the number of the phone.  AT&T said they would connect me with the owner.  What I got instead was the Denver Police .... who started badgering me.  I don't want to deal with the police .... I want to give the phone to the owner.  A woman on the phone starts crying, claims to be the owner, and calls me a son of a bitch.  She says I am being mean to her because I am not interested in her crying jag.  She says her car was broken into.  I do not care.  I will leave the phone on my front porch in a box.  Come get it.

So I wait outside alongside the box and 2 police cars and a black SUV arrive.  A woman gets out of the SUV.  "Here is your phone" , I say.  I hand her a bag with the phone in it.  "Don't ever bother me again."

Then..... Hurray.... they all leave.   I hope this is the end of it.

99guspuppet  99crying

Drones terrorize America

Below is a post from Jack Douglas    ........

 

February 21, 2013

Drone Blowback?

Posted by Lew Rockwell on February 21, 2013 07:50 PM

Writes Jack Douglas:

The US plans to use drones to spy and kill everywhere. They forget that something so simple and cheap can become a deadly weapon against  a Global Empire that is exposed worldwide, maybe a guerrilla war-winning weapon like the IED's in Iraq and Afghanistan, but much smaller, hard to detect, and cheap.

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Writes 99guspuppet ....

I have sketched out the bare outlines to a book that stole ideas from a number of people....  One of my inspirations is *Ender's Game* by Orson Scott Card.    In my story, some youngsters are raised on video games that are similar to MicroSoft Flight Simulator.  They are kept largely ignorant of the world outside their enclave.  What they are not told is that they are being trained to fly manned drones on suicide missions.  When they actually go on a mission, they will not realize it is any different than any other day of their life.  It will be the last day of their life.  Using GPS information, they will fly in under the radar , disguised as something benign.  They will fly to their target and crash the drone.  BOOM ..... They are dead and lots of collateral damage is achieved.  Way cooler than strapping explosives around your chest.

I abhor violence.... so I will not be organizing this ... for sure , someone will do this.

Refuge for Hitlers big and small

Utility demonstrates .... is it the right hand or the left hand
or the back of the hand ???

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/09/handicapped-woman-refuses-smart-meter-has-power-cut-in-the-dead-of-winter/

The link above fleshes out a story about a woman who objected to wireless smart power meters.  I am not writing here to discuss the pros or cons of wireless radiation.  Instead, I think this story illustrates how large organizations can be dis-functional and serve as a refuge for large & small power mongers .... for people practicing to be *hitler spawn*.

Lucky for these butt-inskies.... busy bodies ... that there are places for them to hang out,..... like at utilities , government agencies, the police and religious organizations.... to name a few

Joanne Yamaguchi adds .......   It is hilarious that *essential services* are treated so cavalierly ...... the company violates it's own mandate... or did it ? 


99guspuppet

Is automation a job killer ?

I am commenting on the following online aticle....
http://www.motioncontroltips.com/2013/01/18/is-automation-a-job-killer/

History shows us that increased technology leads to more goodies and more leisure.  This may or may not be a good thing.  For most it is good... for the ditch digger out of a job... it is a bummer. 

Taken to it's logical conclusion...  in the future a lot of humans will not have any real purpose in life other than to consume.  We see this happening already.  In the U.S. , many people do nothing all day.  Many of them are in government.  Abundance brings boredom in some cases.

I vote that we let technology proceed.....

99guspuppet

Obama's healthcare ... greatest good ?

Is Obama's healthcare program 'utilitarian' -- does it provide the greatest benefit for the greatest number?



I guess that the greatest number of people being permitted to withstand multi-layers of bureaucratic paper-shuffling, and physically shuffling to multiple offices is “good” in the way that “no child left behind” is “good”. The question then becomes, what exactly does that ‘greatest good healthcare’ consist of? It consists of multi-layers of government workers getting or keeping jobs to “administer” this leviathan of a “program”. It consists of physicians and other healthcare workers buried under paperwork that clutters the path toward providing healthcare. In the end, “the program” dominates over actual benefit to people in need of good healthcare. But I guess it at least spreads the obstacles to great health benefits to “the greatest number”.

Joanne Yamaguchi

99jbentham  99guspuppet  99obamacare

If space shuttle is doomed, do you tell the crew?

If space shuttle is doomed, do you tell the crew?

NASA has twice had space shuttles that disintegrated .... one going up and one coming down...  both times, some members of NASA believed there was a problem before the disaster occurred.  Should the crew be told about these concerns ?

If your answer is NO.... then I think your are a moral monster.  Ever thinking creature should always be told the truth... all the truth as it is best understood at the time.  At least they should be asked.....* do you want to hear the bad news ? *

99guspuppet

Victims Of Gun Violence

Led By Pelosi Dems To Bring Victims Of Gun Violence To State Of The Union Address

 http://cowboybyte.com/18706/more-than-20-house-dems-led-by-pelosi-to-bring-victims-of-gun-violence-to-state-of-the-union-address/
The link above is a commentary on Gun violence... I am commenting on it below


Will all victims be invited ?  from Pakistan ?  from Iraq ?  from Waco, Texas ?  Randy Weaver ?   SWAT team victims ?   Others ?


99guspuppet   99gunviolence

A false Axiom says sophonts

Obama Wants To Reward Illegals With Citizenship, But Not Necessarily Secure Our Borders

http://lastresistance.com/1169/obama-wants-to-reward-illegals-with-citizenship-but-not-necessarily-secure-our-borders/
The above link is a story by Tim Brown and presumes that it is a prize to be a U.S. citizen.  I don't agree.  I will make a list of pros and cons for U.S. citizenship........  comments below

Pro
Marines might storm a terrorist compund to rescue you.
US operates biggest prison system in the world  ( or is that a con ? )
Get to vote for POTUS   ( or is that a con ? )

Con
Terrorist might kidnap you  ( blowback )
Terrorist might demand your money... I mean the IRS will
Thugs may spy on you .... I mean the USG
Thugs might confiscate your property .... I mean the USG
Whistleblowers are held without trial for 1000 days
Need passport to leave country and get back in


It is great to live in America... but be a citizen ?????  Not so great.

99guspuppet     99uscitizenship

CIA in transition What to do ?

Here is a link where the CIA is discussed.  The topic is who should be the next director of the CIA......   This is an example of being unaware of a fundamental axiom.  In this case, the axiom is .... the CIA is necessary and inevitable ;  How shall we proceed.

http://cowboybyte.com/14915/5-possible-picks-for-director-of-the-cia/

My thought is that this a great time to roll the CIA up and give them all retirement packages.  Saves money  .... saves lives and best of all ..... supports human liberty.

Best
99guspuppet           99cia      2012m11d101