Hey everyone,
I've written a few more articles that have not been reported on this blog.
One theory I advance on how to reduce gasoline prices. This theory has a lot of side benefits as well, but it is unlikely to be explored by our culture. People have this feeling that they are better than that here in the US. Plus it would change the places people would live (implied) because you wouldn't be able to live so far away from work. I think I have more to say on this subject. I did get two e-mail comments on this article - which is great. They both had criticisms - that I think are not necessarily deal-breakers - but certainly should be noted in any plan to implement my idea.
The Solution To High Gasoline Prices
I wrote an article on the cartoon that I enjoy watching - with my son as well - InuYasha. I don't know why - because I wasn't heavy in to romantic notions when I was younger - but I really like the romance theme in the InuYasha series. I've also seen a movie called Urusei Yastura "Beautiful Dreamer" - that had a heavy romance theme in it. There are lots of moral themes in both shows as well. InuYasha has a heavier candy coating of blood, guts and battles than Urusei Yatsura - but then again that is partially a result of the context of where the shows occur.
I will be renting as much of Urusei Yatsura and InuYasha as I can from Netflix in the coming months and hope to write more about both series - and perhaps television and movies in general and the answer to the question "Why are they important to us?" It would deal a lot with the idea that similarity of experience allows people to understand each other.
InuYasha
It seems that Useless-Knowledge news commentary website has been delisted as news from both yahoo and google news reporting aspects. This is unfortunate. It appears that some articels that people found offensive about Natalee Holloway irked people in to complaining to Yahoo and Google for listing it as news. Censorship works - even from commercial resources. So, now useless-knowledge will have a smaller readership. This is unfortunate.
If everything in society is removed because a small number of people complain about it - there will be very little left. These people have a right to say what they want no matter how offensive it might be to some people. If it really offends you - you have to take action in a just and moral way - not in an immoral way that limits the abilities of other people. The appropriate reaction to people offended by the Natalee Holloway articles is to write articles defending her and her mother and stating that these people are not like that.
But not, oh things are offensive - we need to take free expression from these folks the only way we can. By complaining and having them removed from a forum that allows free expression.
So, anyway, anyone reading this - if you have any news websites or commentary websites that allow people to write articles for them where you wouldn't mind seeing my articles and they might gain some readership - please tell me or put it in the comments here.
I have certainly decided that I like writing in public forums and having my voice heard - when I get good or bad reactions. The reactions in themselves provide with information and learning about our human society and exposure to people that I would not normally (in my working and social life)
Alexander Flynn
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Talking to Meme
Meme is the name that my wife and her siblings applied to their grandmother many years ago. That name continues on for her in her role as great-grandmother to my son.
It is good talking with her on the days that she watches my son. It helps me to kick out ideas and she certainly has a different perspective on technology - having lived through the times when technology was such a smaller part of our lives.
There are many things that we have done to our society that reflects back onto us that if we had thought about it - we would have designed things different. Some things as simple as the housing development - need to be re-thought and re-designed for safety, efficiency and reduction of waste.
I'll be writing an article in the future about my design for a community - that would be a better place to live. Something that could be instituted in the hurricane ravaged New Orleans area - if people stop and think instead of run and just rebuild what was once there. Rebuilding what was once there is simply planning for the next event that will destroy the area again.
It is good talking with her on the days that she watches my son. It helps me to kick out ideas and she certainly has a different perspective on technology - having lived through the times when technology was such a smaller part of our lives.
There are many things that we have done to our society that reflects back onto us that if we had thought about it - we would have designed things different. Some things as simple as the housing development - need to be re-thought and re-designed for safety, efficiency and reduction of waste.
I'll be writing an article in the future about my design for a community - that would be a better place to live. Something that could be instituted in the hurricane ravaged New Orleans area - if people stop and think instead of run and just rebuild what was once there. Rebuilding what was once there is simply planning for the next event that will destroy the area again.
Article: iPODs disposable culture
Hi everyone I have written an article about iPODs and focused specifically on the non-user replaceable battery.
People send Apple accolades about design, but neglect the fact that the design could be better, and the focus of apple's design of the iPOD is style and not utilization.
http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/sept/article304.html
People send Apple accolades about design, but neglect the fact that the design could be better, and the focus of apple's design of the iPOD is style and not utilization.
http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/sept/article304.html
Friday, September 16, 2005
Easy as riding a bike
Or not.
I am concerned about my health again. It isn't a persistent thing - it is a mostly long term worry that I'll be one of those guys that goes outside and plays with his children and dies shortly afterward from a heart attack.
I can't run without getting horrible shin-splints. So, my thought is, why don't I buy a bicycle and take it out every day to get in to shape.
Only problem is it isn't as simple as go and buy a bike.
#1 at the moment - I do not want to have to assemble the bike. So, perhaps, I will buy one assembled - as many are at Target, Walmart, Toys R us, Dick sporting goods. The problem is that do I really trust any of these guys to put together a bike correctly? At Dick's there was a bike I was almost willing to purchase, but there were things that were not working on it - and that was the case for someone else that rode another bike in the store. That's not good. I do remember as a kid and on to my teens getting bikes from Toys R Us and they all worked appropriately, but I'm not a kid and they may not have a bike for my size (average human male 5' 9" and overweight 190 pounds).
So, I could go to a bike shop. But frankly they scare the crap out of me. I just want to ride something that isn't going to fall apart and will work correctly. I don't want something that weighs 6 ounces and costs 6K? I don't even want something that costs $500 for that matter.
Bleh, we, we'll see if I actually find something to ride. And then... We'll see if I actually ride it enough for it to have been a good purchase. The problem with these expensive bikes is that if I end up riding it only a few times - that could end up being $5 a ride - pretty pricey. If I get a cheap bike and don't ride it - then it will have cost me less per ride.
Of course, the whole point is that I ride the bikes and get in to better shape.
Abwägen
I am concerned about my health again. It isn't a persistent thing - it is a mostly long term worry that I'll be one of those guys that goes outside and plays with his children and dies shortly afterward from a heart attack.
I can't run without getting horrible shin-splints. So, my thought is, why don't I buy a bicycle and take it out every day to get in to shape.
Only problem is it isn't as simple as go and buy a bike.
#1 at the moment - I do not want to have to assemble the bike. So, perhaps, I will buy one assembled - as many are at Target, Walmart, Toys R us, Dick sporting goods. The problem is that do I really trust any of these guys to put together a bike correctly? At Dick's there was a bike I was almost willing to purchase, but there were things that were not working on it - and that was the case for someone else that rode another bike in the store. That's not good. I do remember as a kid and on to my teens getting bikes from Toys R Us and they all worked appropriately, but I'm not a kid and they may not have a bike for my size (average human male 5' 9" and overweight 190 pounds).
So, I could go to a bike shop. But frankly they scare the crap out of me. I just want to ride something that isn't going to fall apart and will work correctly. I don't want something that weighs 6 ounces and costs 6K? I don't even want something that costs $500 for that matter.
Bleh, we, we'll see if I actually find something to ride. And then... We'll see if I actually ride it enough for it to have been a good purchase. The problem with these expensive bikes is that if I end up riding it only a few times - that could end up being $5 a ride - pretty pricey. If I get a cheap bike and don't ride it - then it will have cost me less per ride.
Of course, the whole point is that I ride the bikes and get in to better shape.
Abwägen
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Article: Gay Marriage
I have created a new article that was posted on www.Useless-Knowledge.com .
It is about gay marriage - and references (indirectly) some of the articles that have been on Useless Knowledge on the subject.
Here it is:
Secular Marriage Revisited
Of course, I had my wife edit it and I made some changes - but did I ask my wife to check the edits? No, of course not, that would be the reasonable thing to do.
So, I changed a sentence in the beginning from referencing activities in one state to two states.... But I didn't change the word state to states in the article...
Bleh, first thing I read in the article is something that looks like a grammatical error. Oddly enough, when I read it with the word state it seems to flow ok. I probably would have changed it to states in that first paragraph if I had followed my age-old habit of reading the article out loud before posting it - or have my wife read it to herself and tell me I'm a putz.
It is also the first article I have written that refers directly back to this blog. Hey maybe it will bring in some visitors!
I like seeing that I have had visitors almost as much as I like it when visitors leave a comment behind.
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It is about gay marriage - and references (indirectly) some of the articles that have been on Useless Knowledge on the subject.
Here it is:
Secular Marriage Revisited
Of course, I had my wife edit it and I made some changes - but did I ask my wife to check the edits? No, of course not, that would be the reasonable thing to do.
So, I changed a sentence in the beginning from referencing activities in one state to two states.... But I didn't change the word state to states in the article...
Bleh, first thing I read in the article is something that looks like a grammatical error. Oddly enough, when I read it with the word state it seems to flow ok. I probably would have changed it to states in that first paragraph if I had followed my age-old habit of reading the article out loud before posting it - or have my wife read it to herself and tell me I'm a putz.
It is also the first article I have written that refers directly back to this blog. Hey maybe it will bring in some visitors!
I like seeing that I have had visitors almost as much as I like it when visitors leave a comment behind.
Abwägen
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
New Article on Useless-Knowledge
Hey folks.
I have written an article which speaks of my incredible disappointment regarding the ROKR phone created by Motorola and Apple.
Clearly an incremental step (backward) instead of a generational step forward in phone MP3 playing technology.
Apple and Motorola ROKR
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I have written an article which speaks of my incredible disappointment regarding the ROKR phone created by Motorola and Apple.
Clearly an incremental step (backward) instead of a generational step forward in phone MP3 playing technology.
Apple and Motorola ROKR
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Another Article Posted to Useless-Knowledge
Here it is:
Katrina's Lesson Responsibility
Hi everyone. I have written an article from a different perspective - about Katrina and responsibility. Responsibility is different than blame. Blame in reality comes from external forces (people and organizations) applied to other forces (other people and organizations). Responsibility is the self - looking at the end results of a situation and understanding that - hey - things wouldn't be this way - at least in part - without my own participation.
I didn't want to make the article partisan - so I left out another aspect of responsibility. The kind of responsibility that comes with being a leader. Just like the Star Trek Movie where Kirk and Bones go to jail because members of their crew assasinated a Klingon leader - our leaders are responsible even if their specific actions were not to blame for the unnecessary deaths, injuries and harm that has come to people.
In a sense though I do not completely accept the "captain is responsible for everyone on the ship". Because everyone on the ship is capable of thinking and taking action. We live in a time where large number of people make fun of George W Bush because of his relative intelligence - nobody anywhere in our government took the intiative to do the things that had to be done.
So, personally, I do not blame the President. This could have happened to any president. The problems in the New Orleans area are based in a tradition - a tradition of ignoring the relatively low-probability events that can cause large amount of damage - because guess what - it didn't happen this year!!!
So, I guess we are all idiots. The point is can we learn from this - or will we just jump back in to the mold afterwards and do the same blame game next time there is a major natural disaster.
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Katrina's Lesson Responsibility
Hi everyone. I have written an article from a different perspective - about Katrina and responsibility. Responsibility is different than blame. Blame in reality comes from external forces (people and organizations) applied to other forces (other people and organizations). Responsibility is the self - looking at the end results of a situation and understanding that - hey - things wouldn't be this way - at least in part - without my own participation.
I didn't want to make the article partisan - so I left out another aspect of responsibility. The kind of responsibility that comes with being a leader. Just like the Star Trek Movie where Kirk and Bones go to jail because members of their crew assasinated a Klingon leader - our leaders are responsible even if their specific actions were not to blame for the unnecessary deaths, injuries and harm that has come to people.
In a sense though I do not completely accept the "captain is responsible for everyone on the ship". Because everyone on the ship is capable of thinking and taking action. We live in a time where large number of people make fun of George W Bush because of his relative intelligence - nobody anywhere in our government took the intiative to do the things that had to be done.
So, personally, I do not blame the President. This could have happened to any president. The problems in the New Orleans area are based in a tradition - a tradition of ignoring the relatively low-probability events that can cause large amount of damage - because guess what - it didn't happen this year!!!
So, I guess we are all idiots. The point is can we learn from this - or will we just jump back in to the mold afterwards and do the same blame game next time there is a major natural disaster.
Abwägen
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
The most recent articles on Useless-Knowledge.com
Hello everyone.
I have had a lot to say on the topic of Katrina and its impact on people, society and events. This is the second article I have written on the topic. I have written the third and already sent it in to Useless-Knowledge and eagerly await for user commentary. I have received comments from people and even professionals regarding my articles. Not all of it good, of course, but that is ok.
Anyway, here is the link to my most recent article. Perhaps I'll write more on the topic if there is more to be said, but for now I think I've written enough. :)
Abwägen / Alexander Flynn
A Lesson of Hurricane Katrina - A Hardened Communication Infrastructure Would Have Prevented Death, Suffering and Sorrow
I have had a lot to say on the topic of Katrina and its impact on people, society and events. This is the second article I have written on the topic. I have written the third and already sent it in to Useless-Knowledge and eagerly await for user commentary. I have received comments from people and even professionals regarding my articles. Not all of it good, of course, but that is ok.
Anyway, here is the link to my most recent article. Perhaps I'll write more on the topic if there is more to be said, but for now I think I've written enough. :)
Abwägen / Alexander Flynn
A Lesson of Hurricane Katrina - A Hardened Communication Infrastructure Would Have Prevented Death, Suffering and Sorrow
Time, writing and blogs
Hello everyone - including one day my son perhaps.
I have not written in this blog for some time, but that does not mean that I have been inactive. I have written many articles on a website called Useless-knowledge.
It is a great site and I encourage anyone that feels strongly about something to test their writing skills by writing an article on Useless-knowledge.
In showing my connection with Useless-knowledge I expose my real-world identity and connect it to this blog.
I have some concerns that this blog certainly talks about my philosophical beliefs - which are atheist - and that in some future I might be looking for a job and the potential employer might do a web search and find this blog and my articles and decide they do not want to hire an atheist.
Well, if that is the case with some future employer - so be it.
I will at times write some more on this blog - things that I will not write on Useless-knowledge. After all the topic of this blog is something eventually for my son to read and understand who his father was. Even if I am alive in the future it seems likely that the me of the future will not be the me of the present.
Alexander Flynn
List of Articles written on Useless-knowledge:
(20 articles and Over 20,000 words)
In Regard To Skip And Jack
We Live On A Planet Where There Are Many Religions
The List Of Right Questions
Atheists Are No Joking Matter [I Fear Them]
Faulty Airplane Defense
The Unparalleled Movie Experience
The Unparalleled Movie Experience Part 2
Science Education Controlled By Politics Is Worthless
The Future: Stem Cells
John Bolton: Job Applicant
The Good Man Noah
The Return of the Airship
Toy Review: Teen Titans
City in the Air/ Wherever I May Roam
Terrorism: Source and Solution
The Unparalleled Movie Experience: Coda
Tuberculosis in Africa - an evolutionary danger to us all
Toy Review: Toys You Build With Your Child
Wheelchairs: Inadequate for the Handicapped
Rebuilding New Orleans – The Legacy of Hurricane Katrina
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I have not written in this blog for some time, but that does not mean that I have been inactive. I have written many articles on a website called Useless-knowledge.
It is a great site and I encourage anyone that feels strongly about something to test their writing skills by writing an article on Useless-knowledge.
In showing my connection with Useless-knowledge I expose my real-world identity and connect it to this blog.
I have some concerns that this blog certainly talks about my philosophical beliefs - which are atheist - and that in some future I might be looking for a job and the potential employer might do a web search and find this blog and my articles and decide they do not want to hire an atheist.
Well, if that is the case with some future employer - so be it.
I will at times write some more on this blog - things that I will not write on Useless-knowledge. After all the topic of this blog is something eventually for my son to read and understand who his father was. Even if I am alive in the future it seems likely that the me of the future will not be the me of the present.
Alexander Flynn
List of Articles written on Useless-knowledge:
(20 articles and Over 20,000 words)
In Regard To Skip And Jack
We Live On A Planet Where There Are Many Religions
The List Of Right Questions
Atheists Are No Joking Matter [I Fear Them]
Faulty Airplane Defense
The Unparalleled Movie Experience
The Unparalleled Movie Experience Part 2
Science Education Controlled By Politics Is Worthless
The Future: Stem Cells
John Bolton: Job Applicant
The Good Man Noah
The Return of the Airship
Toy Review: Teen Titans
City in the Air/ Wherever I May Roam
Terrorism: Source and Solution
The Unparalleled Movie Experience: Coda
Tuberculosis in Africa - an evolutionary danger to us all
Toy Review: Toys You Build With Your Child
Wheelchairs: Inadequate for the Handicapped
Rebuilding New Orleans – The Legacy of Hurricane Katrina
End
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Playful destruction of electronic products
This is just purely informational for my son - if he ever gets the chance to read these blogs when he gets older.
I have always loved to tinker with electronic gadgets. Owning a gadget is just not enough. I want to see what's inside - change what is inside and all sorts of things like that.
I have spent time with RC Cars - and while I couldn't say I'm a cheif engineer or anything like that - I have fun with it.
It seems you like doing stuff like that too. You have tried helping me work on momma's computer on a few occasions and are always quick to grab the screwdriver - even if you don't quite know what to do with it yet.
In the future - who knows what things you'll be able to tinker with. One hopes that you'll have more time to do the things you want than I do.
Abwägen
I have always loved to tinker with electronic gadgets. Owning a gadget is just not enough. I want to see what's inside - change what is inside and all sorts of things like that.
I have spent time with RC Cars - and while I couldn't say I'm a cheif engineer or anything like that - I have fun with it.
It seems you like doing stuff like that too. You have tried helping me work on momma's computer on a few occasions and are always quick to grab the screwdriver - even if you don't quite know what to do with it yet.
In the future - who knows what things you'll be able to tinker with. One hopes that you'll have more time to do the things you want than I do.
Abwägen
PC Case Mod
I have found a new hobby that I enjoy doing. Who knows maybe I'll eve become good at it someday. It is PC case modding. I might even try my hand at overclocking CPU chips if I can get the cooling to work well enough through case mods.
The ultimate mod right now that I want to do - would be to add water cooling to my wife's shuttle computer. There certainly isn't enough room on the inside of the case for the extra equipment, but that doesn't mean that I couldn't mount the radiator, pump and reservoir outside of the case and just send the tubing in to the computer.
There are also complete external units that I might be able to purchase - and just sit it on top of my wife's computer and send the tubing in to do the cooling job. :)
Let's just hope I don't blow anything up.
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The ultimate mod right now that I want to do - would be to add water cooling to my wife's shuttle computer. There certainly isn't enough room on the inside of the case for the extra equipment, but that doesn't mean that I couldn't mount the radiator, pump and reservoir outside of the case and just send the tubing in to the computer.
There are also complete external units that I might be able to purchase - and just sit it on top of my wife's computer and send the tubing in to do the cooling job. :)
Let's just hope I don't blow anything up.
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Living Will - Living Dead
In recent events a woman who has been brain-dead for 15 years has been part of a vicious struggle between her husband and her parents on pulling the life-support equipment and allowing her to die.
Some people know who I am as I write these blogs. There is little doubt in my mind – that should I become PVS (Persistently Vegetative State) that I should not be kept alive with extreme measures. I would never want the resources of my family to be dedicated to me if there is little chance that I would return to beneficial life.
There have been cases where people have been misdiagnosed with PVS. So, I would hope that people should be certain with multiple doctors’ opinions and backed up with medical proof that certain parts of my brain are no longer functioning and are in fact reduced in capabilities. Even with the possibility of return – I am not sure that after 15 years I would want to return – with probable diminished capacity and likely a family who is in debt for thousands to millions of dollars just keeping me alive.
So, a bunch of laws were made in the hopes of keeping Terri Schiavo alive beyond her body’s ability to keep her alive. Her mind has long since been gone. An opportunity for laws that make sense has been lost.
If enough people think this is an issue – then a law should be made requiring people to indicate their wishes in terms of a living will. Then there would be clarity – at least in regards to the person who is in a coma – of what they would want in those kinds of circumstances. And if you do not fill out a living will there should be defaults in place – in favor of life.
Abwägen
Some people know who I am as I write these blogs. There is little doubt in my mind – that should I become PVS (Persistently Vegetative State) that I should not be kept alive with extreme measures. I would never want the resources of my family to be dedicated to me if there is little chance that I would return to beneficial life.
There have been cases where people have been misdiagnosed with PVS. So, I would hope that people should be certain with multiple doctors’ opinions and backed up with medical proof that certain parts of my brain are no longer functioning and are in fact reduced in capabilities. Even with the possibility of return – I am not sure that after 15 years I would want to return – with probable diminished capacity and likely a family who is in debt for thousands to millions of dollars just keeping me alive.
So, a bunch of laws were made in the hopes of keeping Terri Schiavo alive beyond her body’s ability to keep her alive. Her mind has long since been gone. An opportunity for laws that make sense has been lost.
If enough people think this is an issue – then a law should be made requiring people to indicate their wishes in terms of a living will. Then there would be clarity – at least in regards to the person who is in a coma – of what they would want in those kinds of circumstances. And if you do not fill out a living will there should be defaults in place – in favor of life.
Abwägen
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Thank ???
Whenever people thank god for someone surviving some biological malady - it makes me sick.
There is indeed reason for thanks when anti-biotics save a life.
There is indeed reason for thanks when an air-bag prevents a person from dying in a car accident. An accident that might have killed a person 20 years ago might not even send that person to the hospital now.
There is indeed reason for thanks when a surgery prevents an infected appendix from taking a life.
There is indeed reason for thanks when thousands of people survive and live healthy lives after cancer has struck at them.
There is indeed reason for thanks when computers are used in research that lead to life saving medicines or models of the human body that increase our understanding of our biological selves.
There is indeed a group of people, not god, gods or other supernatural creatures that should be thanked every time a life is saved, injury is prevented or our lives are in general better than they were in the past.
Thanks the scientists - who work every day to learn more about everything. Some of that everything is learning about the human body and creating new defenses for humanity against the many maladies that can strike at the human body.
Thank the engineers who work together as a group to create airbags in cars, safety glass, reflectors on the roads, better signal lights and tires that have better traction in the rain.
You can even thank the people that make laws for mandating that there be fire escapes on buildings.
Thank the computer scientists and engineers that constantly wear away at the barriers of computing speed.
But don't thank god. God and religion have always sided squarely on the side of keeping things they way they are. Knowledge is not something to be feared. In fact, it is unfortunate that Adam had to be tricked in to eating the apple from the tree of Knowledge of Good And Evil. Adam and every person should make the choice willingly to eat from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil - to do otherwise is to be a child - and earn only the responsibilities of a child.
Knoweldge - has a Good and Evil side to it. It all depends on how we apply it. Knowledge of Quantum Mechanics which travels down through Albert Einstein has enabled humanity to make remarkable computers. Knowledge of the General and Spacial Theory of Relativity endowed us with the ability to make nuclear weapons.
Increasingly in our society people are becoming anti-technology. They are becoming Luddites and are against scientific progress.
To them I say - you are hypocrites. It is only by the existence of technology that we live at all. The logistics of getting food from place to place, the engineering of tractor-trailer trucks to carry that food efficiently, the designing of traffic light systems that work appropriately. All of this is due to technology.
If you remove technology from our current context - many things would fail. Our ability to have food. Distribution of medicines that extend our lives. Our governments ability to communicate with itself, our people and other governments.
There is increasingly only one path for us to follow - as our population grows. Technology and Science.
So, thank a scientist the next time you go to the doctor and they provide you with medicine to quell high blood pressure.
Thank an engineer for making your car safe, relatively efficient and capable.
Thank the existence of computers for the many advances in science, engineering and design that make our lives safer.
But do not thank god, gods or other supernatural entities. They did not want this. We are responsible for ourselves and our future. The best way for us to take care of ourselves in the future is to become more knowledgeable about ourselves and our universe. And there is only one path to more knowledge of this sort - science and technology.
No amount of praying is going to produce an anti-biotic. No amount of praying is going to help us ensure that everyone in the world has the capability of having a meal when they need it.
But scientists can produce anti-biotics and medicines.
And people, like you and me are responsible for making it so everyone that wants to eat, can (unless of course they are a fashion model and have no wish to eat on a regular basis).
So, I say my thanks for my Thanksgiving Turkey pre-maturely this year.
Thank the truck driver for bringing the turkey to the supermarket.
Thank the engineer who designed the truck to be more efficient, safe and reliable now than they have ever been in the past.
Thank the scientists for creating medicines helping the people I love live longer lives and more thanksgivings to enjoy.
Thank the computer engineers and scientists for designing computers to help us better understand ourselves and make sure there are even more Thanksgivings to enjoy.
Thank the people who make laws for allowing traffic lights to regulate traffic - so that there is not anarchy on the streets and unnecessary deaths on the roads.
And god who is a supernatural, omnipotent, omniscient entity can take care of himself.
Abwägen
There is indeed reason for thanks when anti-biotics save a life.
There is indeed reason for thanks when an air-bag prevents a person from dying in a car accident. An accident that might have killed a person 20 years ago might not even send that person to the hospital now.
There is indeed reason for thanks when a surgery prevents an infected appendix from taking a life.
There is indeed reason for thanks when thousands of people survive and live healthy lives after cancer has struck at them.
There is indeed reason for thanks when computers are used in research that lead to life saving medicines or models of the human body that increase our understanding of our biological selves.
There is indeed a group of people, not god, gods or other supernatural creatures that should be thanked every time a life is saved, injury is prevented or our lives are in general better than they were in the past.
Thanks the scientists - who work every day to learn more about everything. Some of that everything is learning about the human body and creating new defenses for humanity against the many maladies that can strike at the human body.
Thank the engineers who work together as a group to create airbags in cars, safety glass, reflectors on the roads, better signal lights and tires that have better traction in the rain.
You can even thank the people that make laws for mandating that there be fire escapes on buildings.
Thank the computer scientists and engineers that constantly wear away at the barriers of computing speed.
But don't thank god. God and religion have always sided squarely on the side of keeping things they way they are. Knowledge is not something to be feared. In fact, it is unfortunate that Adam had to be tricked in to eating the apple from the tree of Knowledge of Good And Evil. Adam and every person should make the choice willingly to eat from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil - to do otherwise is to be a child - and earn only the responsibilities of a child.
Knoweldge - has a Good and Evil side to it. It all depends on how we apply it. Knowledge of Quantum Mechanics which travels down through Albert Einstein has enabled humanity to make remarkable computers. Knowledge of the General and Spacial Theory of Relativity endowed us with the ability to make nuclear weapons.
Increasingly in our society people are becoming anti-technology. They are becoming Luddites and are against scientific progress.
To them I say - you are hypocrites. It is only by the existence of technology that we live at all. The logistics of getting food from place to place, the engineering of tractor-trailer trucks to carry that food efficiently, the designing of traffic light systems that work appropriately. All of this is due to technology.
If you remove technology from our current context - many things would fail. Our ability to have food. Distribution of medicines that extend our lives. Our governments ability to communicate with itself, our people and other governments.
There is increasingly only one path for us to follow - as our population grows. Technology and Science.
So, thank a scientist the next time you go to the doctor and they provide you with medicine to quell high blood pressure.
Thank an engineer for making your car safe, relatively efficient and capable.
Thank the existence of computers for the many advances in science, engineering and design that make our lives safer.
But do not thank god, gods or other supernatural entities. They did not want this. We are responsible for ourselves and our future. The best way for us to take care of ourselves in the future is to become more knowledgeable about ourselves and our universe. And there is only one path to more knowledge of this sort - science and technology.
No amount of praying is going to produce an anti-biotic. No amount of praying is going to help us ensure that everyone in the world has the capability of having a meal when they need it.
But scientists can produce anti-biotics and medicines.
And people, like you and me are responsible for making it so everyone that wants to eat, can (unless of course they are a fashion model and have no wish to eat on a regular basis).
So, I say my thanks for my Thanksgiving Turkey pre-maturely this year.
Thank the truck driver for bringing the turkey to the supermarket.
Thank the engineer who designed the truck to be more efficient, safe and reliable now than they have ever been in the past.
Thank the scientists for creating medicines helping the people I love live longer lives and more thanksgivings to enjoy.
Thank the computer engineers and scientists for designing computers to help us better understand ourselves and make sure there are even more Thanksgivings to enjoy.
Thank the people who make laws for allowing traffic lights to regulate traffic - so that there is not anarchy on the streets and unnecessary deaths on the roads.
And god who is a supernatural, omnipotent, omniscient entity can take care of himself.
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Scope and reduction Part II
Our energy consumption - is partly due to inefficiency.
One of those inefficienies is regarding transformer power-supplies. If if they are not plugged in to anything or the item they are plugged in to is not in use - turns out that many of them continue to draw power.
A simple mandate that all transformers for electronic devices - not draw power when they are not plugged in to a device or when that device is turned off - would reduce our power draw - and in the end our consumption of fuels to create electricity and the corresponding pollution created by consuming those fuels.
But once again, this kind of thing does not work - unless the entire industry complies - and typically the industry does not comply unless there is a governmental mandate that they must make transformers that do not draw power when they are not feeding an electronic object power is created.
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One of those inefficienies is regarding transformer power-supplies. If if they are not plugged in to anything or the item they are plugged in to is not in use - turns out that many of them continue to draw power.
A simple mandate that all transformers for electronic devices - not draw power when they are not plugged in to a device or when that device is turned off - would reduce our power draw - and in the end our consumption of fuels to create electricity and the corresponding pollution created by consuming those fuels.
But once again, this kind of thing does not work - unless the entire industry complies - and typically the industry does not comply unless there is a governmental mandate that they must make transformers that do not draw power when they are not feeding an electronic object power is created.
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Scope and reduction Part I
The environment is affected by the many things that we do. Even small things that we do - we do en masse - millions of people.
Millions of people buy computers.
Millions of people leave them on all the time.
Just a slight modification to our behavior patters and a slight increase of cost of computers and resources that are used and gone forever could be resources - well never used or vastly reduced in usage.
Consider, that the average computer really uses about as much power as 1 to 3 lightbulbs. Not including the monitor.
There are solar cells that produce enough power computers a significant portion of the time. And they could potential have surplus power during the day to charge batteries to run the computer on in to the night.
One person a lone doing this is not enough to affect our energy usage.
A small group of people or even a large group of people implementing this kind of existing technology is not enough to change our environment footprint and our energy usage.
But an executive mandate - that all new computers be sold with an adequate solar cell and that cell must be used to power the computer (not the monitor) - would really reduce the power usage of our society.
In fact, such a reduction could reduce power demands to the extent of affecting prices by reducing demand for fuel to create electricity.
Something to think about anyway. It is fairly unlikely that anyone would take any action on such an idea. Certainly not to the level of actually changing our society to make things better for everyone.
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Millions of people buy computers.
Millions of people leave them on all the time.
Just a slight modification to our behavior patters and a slight increase of cost of computers and resources that are used and gone forever could be resources - well never used or vastly reduced in usage.
Consider, that the average computer really uses about as much power as 1 to 3 lightbulbs. Not including the monitor.
There are solar cells that produce enough power computers a significant portion of the time. And they could potential have surplus power during the day to charge batteries to run the computer on in to the night.
One person a lone doing this is not enough to affect our energy usage.
A small group of people or even a large group of people implementing this kind of existing technology is not enough to change our environment footprint and our energy usage.
But an executive mandate - that all new computers be sold with an adequate solar cell and that cell must be used to power the computer (not the monitor) - would really reduce the power usage of our society.
In fact, such a reduction could reduce power demands to the extent of affecting prices by reducing demand for fuel to create electricity.
Something to think about anyway. It is fairly unlikely that anyone would take any action on such an idea. Certainly not to the level of actually changing our society to make things better for everyone.
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Sunday, March 13, 2005
Things I would like to see in the future Part IV
And end to organized religion.
People have the right to believe in whatever it is that they want to believe. That needs t o be straight. I do not advocate and never will advocate the destruction, ethnic cleansing, or any other terms that essentially mean the elimination of people that do not believe whatever the ruling group of people believe or do not belong to the group that is appropriate at that time.
People can read their scriptures and decide what they believe and what they do not believe and how that impacts how they should act in regards to other people on their own.
The only reason for the existence of organized religion is so that 'mouthpieces' of god/goddess/gods can make their will apparent to the populace.
Well, I say that if any of these gods are worth their salt they should have no trouble making it clear to their adherents what exactly they want without the middle man present.
Too often have I heard and seen the actions of people that are either directed or influenced by the so-called representatives of god(s) cause harm to people.
It seems at present that the sole purpose of organized christians in the United States of America is to limit everyone else in the country to doing only what the organized christians think is right.
They attempt to 'persuade' people that they have a higher moral ground and that is why we need to do things their way instead of the secular way.
There have been many times when the populace has allowed the organized religions to have power in their governments. Devine right rules litter the historical landscape.
And our little devine right president is making our government more of a tool for the organized religions every day.
He has made it so that every department of our government can give money to organized religions while at the same time removing the restrictions on the use of that money for only one purpose - to increase the strength of the organized religions in the United States of America.
You say - hey that is not a bad thing? Well, yes it is...
1) Organized religion is on the decline in the United States - while the religiousness of the population is on the rise. The reasons for this are complex, but it is quite clear that people do not need to be part of an organized religion to be religious. This effort by Bush Jr. has the goal of putting as many of those religious people under his umbrella to make the great white Christian America that people seem to think existed in the 1950's (it didn't).
2) There was a time where religion caused riots in the major cities in the United States - because the local governments were controlled by protestants and there were catholic minorities that were affected. Is this the kind of behavior we want to encourage? But the past is being 'cleansed' and it gets harder and harder to find information on these riots that occurred in Philadelphia not too long ago, historically speaking.
3) You may be a religious person, but which religion is exactly going to be in control when the United States becomes a divine right state? Well, judging by the current president - better be ready for a fundamentalist state.
4) Religion and science are rather unfortunately on organizational levels - incompatible. The stronger religion is in the world (organized religion) the more they squelch research. The reason is quite clear - with every scientific breakthrough - at least on an organization level - it seems that science leaves less space for a god or gods to be necessary. I am not saying that a person cannot be religious and a scientist. I am saying that a dogmatic member of organized religion has no interest in they why things work or how they work - after all god did it and if we needed to know why or how god would explain it to humanity.
Organizations are particularly dumb, and religious organizations are worse. There is nothing in any of the religions that actually says you need some hierarchical structure in reference to how people worship on Earth. But heirarchy is inherent in organizational structure - as is the inability of people that are members of organized religions to question their leaders decisions and perhaps appeal them. I fear that one day some religious leader will say 'I have a list of unbelievers - go forth and convert them or else!' and well, I'd be up a creek at that point.
And this isn't some kind of irrational fear. Religious leaders make all kinds of weird statements - sometimes that they are forced to take back - like 'Satan is on Earth now and he is a Jew' some famous fundamentalist preacher said and then recanted.
But like any recantation - people can read quite squarely that if he didn't mean it - he wouldn't have said it. He recanted so that he would avoid being demonized by the rest of the population.
http://slate.msn.com/id/45483/
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Just imagine idiots like this in control of our government - and using vast amounts of government money for their own pursuit of religious 'freedom' - where you are free to be what they want you to be and that is final.
http://www2.davidduke.com/index.php?p=6
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People have the right to believe in whatever it is that they want to believe. That needs t o be straight. I do not advocate and never will advocate the destruction, ethnic cleansing, or any other terms that essentially mean the elimination of people that do not believe whatever the ruling group of people believe or do not belong to the group that is appropriate at that time.
People can read their scriptures and decide what they believe and what they do not believe and how that impacts how they should act in regards to other people on their own.
The only reason for the existence of organized religion is so that 'mouthpieces' of god/goddess/gods can make their will apparent to the populace.
Well, I say that if any of these gods are worth their salt they should have no trouble making it clear to their adherents what exactly they want without the middle man present.
Too often have I heard and seen the actions of people that are either directed or influenced by the so-called representatives of god(s) cause harm to people.
It seems at present that the sole purpose of organized christians in the United States of America is to limit everyone else in the country to doing only what the organized christians think is right.
They attempt to 'persuade' people that they have a higher moral ground and that is why we need to do things their way instead of the secular way.
There have been many times when the populace has allowed the organized religions to have power in their governments. Devine right rules litter the historical landscape.
And our little devine right president is making our government more of a tool for the organized religions every day.
He has made it so that every department of our government can give money to organized religions while at the same time removing the restrictions on the use of that money for only one purpose - to increase the strength of the organized religions in the United States of America.
You say - hey that is not a bad thing? Well, yes it is...
1) Organized religion is on the decline in the United States - while the religiousness of the population is on the rise. The reasons for this are complex, but it is quite clear that people do not need to be part of an organized religion to be religious. This effort by Bush Jr. has the goal of putting as many of those religious people under his umbrella to make the great white Christian America that people seem to think existed in the 1950's (it didn't).
2) There was a time where religion caused riots in the major cities in the United States - because the local governments were controlled by protestants and there were catholic minorities that were affected. Is this the kind of behavior we want to encourage? But the past is being 'cleansed' and it gets harder and harder to find information on these riots that occurred in Philadelphia not too long ago, historically speaking.
3) You may be a religious person, but which religion is exactly going to be in control when the United States becomes a divine right state? Well, judging by the current president - better be ready for a fundamentalist state.
4) Religion and science are rather unfortunately on organizational levels - incompatible. The stronger religion is in the world (organized religion) the more they squelch research. The reason is quite clear - with every scientific breakthrough - at least on an organization level - it seems that science leaves less space for a god or gods to be necessary. I am not saying that a person cannot be religious and a scientist. I am saying that a dogmatic member of organized religion has no interest in they why things work or how they work - after all god did it and if we needed to know why or how god would explain it to humanity.
Organizations are particularly dumb, and religious organizations are worse. There is nothing in any of the religions that actually says you need some hierarchical structure in reference to how people worship on Earth. But heirarchy is inherent in organizational structure - as is the inability of people that are members of organized religions to question their leaders decisions and perhaps appeal them. I fear that one day some religious leader will say 'I have a list of unbelievers - go forth and convert them or else!' and well, I'd be up a creek at that point.
And this isn't some kind of irrational fear. Religious leaders make all kinds of weird statements - sometimes that they are forced to take back - like 'Satan is on Earth now and he is a Jew' some famous fundamentalist preacher said and then recanted.
But like any recantation - people can read quite squarely that if he didn't mean it - he wouldn't have said it. He recanted so that he would avoid being demonized by the rest of the population.
http://slate.msn.com/id/45483/
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Just imagine idiots like this in control of our government - and using vast amounts of government money for their own pursuit of religious 'freedom' - where you are free to be what they want you to be and that is final.
http://www2.davidduke.com/index.php?p=6
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Things I would like to see in the Future Part III
Three words. Adjustable Penis Size.
You know, I suspect that a lot of the nudity taboos come from insecurity among males due to penis size or the lack thereof.
It is very weird because rarely do females base their mate decision solely on the basis of penis size.
And right now, there are women out there with adjustable breast sizes. Instead of silicone implants - they actually have inflatable breast implants.
Some men that are older and need a little help, actually have an adjustable penis already. Although perhaps this is not so much adjustable as inflatable to their appropriate size.
So, all I am saying is that society in general would improve if we were a little less sensitive about nudity and penis size were less of a perceived factor with males.
Skin is very adaptable and stretches. There was a case where a kid was hit by a car while on rollerblades. It shattered both of his legs. Some of the surgery they were performing was to restore some of his lost height - by stretching the legs and replacing the lost bone. This implies that at least as much could be done with the penis.
I do suspect that it was a painful process for the boy to go through. And it would probably be even more painful due to the sensitivity of the penis.
But hey, some people would think it is worth it.
http://www.mentorcorp.com/breastsurgery/augmentation/cs_ba_prod_adjust.htm
http://kyw.com/health/local_story_040192402.html
http://abcnews.healthology.com/webcast_transcript.asp?b=abcnews&f=erectile_dysfunction&c=urology_pumpdecision&spg=FID
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You know, I suspect that a lot of the nudity taboos come from insecurity among males due to penis size or the lack thereof.
It is very weird because rarely do females base their mate decision solely on the basis of penis size.
And right now, there are women out there with adjustable breast sizes. Instead of silicone implants - they actually have inflatable breast implants.
Some men that are older and need a little help, actually have an adjustable penis already. Although perhaps this is not so much adjustable as inflatable to their appropriate size.
So, all I am saying is that society in general would improve if we were a little less sensitive about nudity and penis size were less of a perceived factor with males.
Skin is very adaptable and stretches. There was a case where a kid was hit by a car while on rollerblades. It shattered both of his legs. Some of the surgery they were performing was to restore some of his lost height - by stretching the legs and replacing the lost bone. This implies that at least as much could be done with the penis.
I do suspect that it was a painful process for the boy to go through. And it would probably be even more painful due to the sensitivity of the penis.
But hey, some people would think it is worth it.
http://www.mentorcorp.com/breastsurgery/augmentation/cs_ba_prod_adjust.htm
http://kyw.com/health/local_story_040192402.html
http://abcnews.healthology.com/webcast_transcript.asp?b=abcnews&f=erectile_dysfunction&c=urology_pumpdecision&spg=FID
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Things I would like to see in the Future Part II
There is something that I hold particularly close in my mind that I would be enthusiastic about.
I want to be able to change the color of my skin. My skin color is currently a fairly generic brown. Few things do I find more interesting if I could have green skin for a year or blue or red or even multiple different colors for all over my body.
I am not talking about tatoos. Way too permenant.
It would be interesting to see people that look truly different - from day to day. And I am talking about change that would be on the temporary but genetic level. Or even technological level but not something that washes off.
Some people might choose to have skin embedded with Chlorphyll and be green - so that they would not need to eat as many calories during the summer.
If the color change of skin could be managed quickly and without high health risks I could imagine a time where due to politics people would change the color of their skin to show devotion to or for a cause.
In the end, when we have this level of mastery over our appearance discrimination on the basis of race would rapidly become history. Who could tell what race you were if you could change the way you look on a daily or even hourly basis?
Overall, though, order is so oppressive in a species. I mean, how boring can humanity be - the way it is now? Ooooh I think he's a slightly browner brown than he is. Or oohhhh that person has really white skin (not really though) or that person has really black skin (but not really, though).
In the beginning though it might spur off a new discrimination - those for and against changing the colors of your skin. I'm sure they'll have things like - oh its gonna damage your skin and stuff like that on the side of the against. Probably some religious freaks running around telling people how they shouldn't mark their skin because its the mark of the devil (even though many of those people will be wearing tatoos).
Later, though, when it is proven that such changes are not harmful (because if they are harmful what good are they?) - humanity might be a somewhat interesting species to observe and be a part of than the humdrum species that it is now.
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I want to be able to change the color of my skin. My skin color is currently a fairly generic brown. Few things do I find more interesting if I could have green skin for a year or blue or red or even multiple different colors for all over my body.
I am not talking about tatoos. Way too permenant.
It would be interesting to see people that look truly different - from day to day. And I am talking about change that would be on the temporary but genetic level. Or even technological level but not something that washes off.
Some people might choose to have skin embedded with Chlorphyll and be green - so that they would not need to eat as many calories during the summer.
If the color change of skin could be managed quickly and without high health risks I could imagine a time where due to politics people would change the color of their skin to show devotion to or for a cause.
In the end, when we have this level of mastery over our appearance discrimination on the basis of race would rapidly become history. Who could tell what race you were if you could change the way you look on a daily or even hourly basis?
Overall, though, order is so oppressive in a species. I mean, how boring can humanity be - the way it is now? Ooooh I think he's a slightly browner brown than he is. Or oohhhh that person has really white skin (not really though) or that person has really black skin (but not really, though).
In the beginning though it might spur off a new discrimination - those for and against changing the colors of your skin. I'm sure they'll have things like - oh its gonna damage your skin and stuff like that on the side of the against. Probably some religious freaks running around telling people how they shouldn't mark their skin because its the mark of the devil (even though many of those people will be wearing tatoos).
Later, though, when it is proven that such changes are not harmful (because if they are harmful what good are they?) - humanity might be a somewhat interesting species to observe and be a part of than the humdrum species that it is now.
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Saturday, March 12, 2005
Firefox browser
I've just loaded this web browser over the past week. It is fairly easy to use - and has some bonuses compared to IE 6.0. Primarily this involves security. But as a very good second, I have notices that the memory footprint of Firefox is about half that of Internet Explorer and the download to install Firefox was 5 MB, where I think I have loaded patches to IE 6.0 that were that large.
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Things I would like to see in the Future Part I
Just a list here - of things I would like to see in the future. Perhaps my son in some future might read it and get some ideas of what his father was like. These are in no particular order.
1. Humanity travelling to other planets in the solar system as easily as we now travel across oceans to other continents.
2. Humanity meeting an alien species in some form. Alien being specific to non-Earth solar system organisms containing a similar or higher intelligence than humanity.
3. People check their religious beliefs at the door when applying for actions the government of everyone will be a party.
4. People to look up to scientists and hope that the scientists can do things to help make the future a better place.
5. People to understand in general that there is no such thing as perfection. Especially in regard to the human genome. There might be perfect in some particular aspect, but in reality perfect is a paradoxical word - nothing can be perfect because perfect implies perfect in all circumstances. A human who has been genetically modified to live underwater would not be the perfect human design to run a 100 meter race. Genetic modifications to make humanity better should be allowed. If we can improve ourselves on the individual level there is a chance that as a species we can improve.
6. A president that understands the ecological problems confronting our world - and is willing to use presidential orders to ensure that we minimize our impact on the environment.
a) A presidential order that states if inventions are created that would clearly improve the standard of live for people in general or vastly reduce the environmental impact of humans on Earth - these items are part of the publics best interest and cannot be purchased by a company and squelched from existence. I remember a ultrasonic clothes washer that I saw on the TV show beyond 2000 - and the fact that it would not be coming to the United States because some major manufacturer purchased the design and had no designs on bringing the chemically free clothes washer to market. Imagine, all the clothes detergent that would go not made, and not pollute our environment if it was brought to market. Al the fuel savings because none of those detergents would need to be transported. Waste of pollution, of time and lives for things that are not necessary - and for what - so people can make money helping other people have clean clothes.
b) A presidential order mandating that significant fuel savings via new technology must be implemented by automotive companies within a specific time frame. I do not see why 90% of consumer vehicles at this point in time cannot be hybrids. The savings goes beyond individual households saving money on fuel. Imagine millions of households not consuming as much gasoline this year as they did last year - vastly reducing the demand for gasoline. Prices would go down of gasoline, there would be less pollution in the air and the United States would be on the road to gasoline independence.
c) A presidential mandate that employees not go to physical workplaces whenever possible - to be enforced and audited by the government. Programmers, accountants and other people should almost never go to the work place. Businesses should help defray the costs of home offices and help people be able to work the vast majority of the time from home. This would also combine with the fuel savings mandate for hybrid vehicles to reduce the demand for gasoline in the United States.
That's all for now.
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1. Humanity travelling to other planets in the solar system as easily as we now travel across oceans to other continents.
2. Humanity meeting an alien species in some form. Alien being specific to non-Earth solar system organisms containing a similar or higher intelligence than humanity.
3. People check their religious beliefs at the door when applying for actions the government of everyone will be a party.
4. People to look up to scientists and hope that the scientists can do things to help make the future a better place.
5. People to understand in general that there is no such thing as perfection. Especially in regard to the human genome. There might be perfect in some particular aspect, but in reality perfect is a paradoxical word - nothing can be perfect because perfect implies perfect in all circumstances. A human who has been genetically modified to live underwater would not be the perfect human design to run a 100 meter race. Genetic modifications to make humanity better should be allowed. If we can improve ourselves on the individual level there is a chance that as a species we can improve.
6. A president that understands the ecological problems confronting our world - and is willing to use presidential orders to ensure that we minimize our impact on the environment.
a) A presidential order that states if inventions are created that would clearly improve the standard of live for people in general or vastly reduce the environmental impact of humans on Earth - these items are part of the publics best interest and cannot be purchased by a company and squelched from existence. I remember a ultrasonic clothes washer that I saw on the TV show beyond 2000 - and the fact that it would not be coming to the United States because some major manufacturer purchased the design and had no designs on bringing the chemically free clothes washer to market. Imagine, all the clothes detergent that would go not made, and not pollute our environment if it was brought to market. Al the fuel savings because none of those detergents would need to be transported. Waste of pollution, of time and lives for things that are not necessary - and for what - so people can make money helping other people have clean clothes.
b) A presidential order mandating that significant fuel savings via new technology must be implemented by automotive companies within a specific time frame. I do not see why 90% of consumer vehicles at this point in time cannot be hybrids. The savings goes beyond individual households saving money on fuel. Imagine millions of households not consuming as much gasoline this year as they did last year - vastly reducing the demand for gasoline. Prices would go down of gasoline, there would be less pollution in the air and the United States would be on the road to gasoline independence.
c) A presidential mandate that employees not go to physical workplaces whenever possible - to be enforced and audited by the government. Programmers, accountants and other people should almost never go to the work place. Businesses should help defray the costs of home offices and help people be able to work the vast majority of the time from home. This would also combine with the fuel savings mandate for hybrid vehicles to reduce the demand for gasoline in the United States.
That's all for now.
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