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38921  Other / Off-topic / Re: How do you want to die? on: November 18, 2014, 10:12:16 PM
I want to die as a successful person, who led a fulfilling life.

Old age isn't exactly fulfilling. So, you want to die young?

Smiley
38922  Other / Off-topic / Re: In the year 3000. on: November 18, 2014, 09:58:02 PM
Try to imagine what ppl from the year 1000 would think about the year 2000, then you will give up any hope of predicting such far away future

This!

Nations rise and fall. If a one-world government takes over in the near future, it will fail by 1000 years from now. Why? The strongest strength is in the minds of people. People will overcome even AI if it comes to rule mankind for a time.

Smiley
38923  Other / Off-topic / Re: Pope Francis declares evolution and Big Bang theory are real. on: November 18, 2014, 05:22:19 AM
The pope does not speak for god.  They're self appointed kings that control people with false religion.  The Vatican is just another financial super power, another government.

“The Vatican has billions of shares in the most powerful international corporations such as Gulf Oil, Shell, General Motors, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric, International Business Machines, T.W.A., etc.”

http://humansarefree.com/2012/03/christian-church-is-biggest-financial.html?m=0

Woop here it comes, I'm waiting for Badecker to denounce him as the devil trying to test their faith lol.

Okay, okay. Just for you.

Popes make mistakes just like anyone else. If the Pope was simply speaking on his own, expressing an opinion, then he simply made a mistake, even if it was an intentional one. If, however, he was acting in his official position as Pope, head of the Papacy, then he was in his role of, as Martin Luther said many years ago, the anti-Christ.

The Pope of the Papacy is the acting anti-Christ of the Bible when he officiates. He's the right hand of the Devil. Each of you little people who support the Pope, and anything else that is against God and His truth, are, as John says in the New Testament, one of many anti-Christs.

Smiley
38924  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How can the U.S. fix Detroit? on: November 18, 2014, 12:39:44 AM
We all know Detroit is the butt of all city jokes in the U.S. The place is in utter disrepair, the city is huge compared to the taxes it receives--so naturally bad things started to happen. Business and economic growth don't exactly thrive in a place declared by the FBI as the murder capital of the U.S. So in your opinion, what can fix Detroit? Other than Robocop of course.

Stop voting for the democrats.



Cuz everyone knows we're a few republicans away from Utopia?  Roll Eyes

I don't know about that. I know the democrats and the unions had a free ride for their ultimate Utopia for the past 50 years. It was called Detroit. We can all see the result. It is basic History 101.



Ditto. Democrats promise everyone free money, free welfare, free hospital, free this and free that. People elect them out of personal greed. They wreck the country. The people are impoverished. Republicans are elected on the idea of people working for a living. Big business gets greedy and won't share the money with their workers. The people are impoverished. Democrats promise everyone free money...

Meanwhile, the wealthy few who understand the cycle quietly rake it in, keeping the people virtually as their slaves.

Smiley
38925  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What will happen to economy once we have technology for Replicators? on: November 18, 2014, 12:30:43 AM
We have replicators in network marketing.

We need duplicators before we can step up to replicators.

The force-field shielding in Star Trek (also written by many sci-fi writers) is overlooked in the real world. The basic force-field shields we have today are made out of material, which is really interlocked atoms and molecules, which are all at their base made out of energy. Like the body armor - kevlar - tanks, the atmosphere for space radiation and smaller meteorites, etc.

Maybe if we started thinking about the fact that all material is energy, we might be able to recognize the many force fields that are all around us.

Smiley
38926  Other / Politics & Society / Re: In police state America, war is peace on: November 18, 2014, 12:22:47 AM
Be happy that Obama's major bombing focus is outside the country.

What happens when he gets some other country to make the machines of war so that he doesn't need us any more? Is anybody so foolish to think that he wouldn't bomb at home if he was sufficiently supplied from elsewhere?

Smiley

I'm always amazed by all the Obama bashing that goes around here. I mean, I certainly don't like his policies, but I'm under no illusion that any other candidate from the two main parties (that typically represent pretty much the same interests) would act any differently on the major issues - maybe with the possible exception of the US likely having attacked Iran by now, if a Republican was in power.

Yes, and it's the same for any other president. Used to be that we didn't have the Internet forums. Ike was a war hero, so we may not have bashed him. Kennedy was assassinated, so we honor him, at least for that. But the rest of them will be bashed in turn as are all leaders.

Smiley
38927  Other / Politics & Society / Re: In police state America, war is peace on: November 17, 2014, 08:32:06 PM
Be happy that Obama's major bombing focus is outside the country.

What happens when he gets some other country to make the machines of war so that he doesn't need us any more? Is anybody so foolish to think that he wouldn't bomb at home if he was sufficiently supplied from elsewhere?

Smiley
38928  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Consciousness and Quantum Physics on: November 17, 2014, 08:27:44 PM
“Random”‐ness is known only to ignorance.

Was about to reply to your apple comment, but I don't quite know what you mean by this.

Are you saying that things only appear random while we are ignorant of their cause? eg. Apples appear to fall at random time intervals to the ignorant, however when we find the causes of the falling apples (wind/deterioration of the stalk/increasing weight/gravity etc.) then what once appeared random now becomes predictable and a pattern can be made?

I agree with this, however many quantum effects are truly random, which is very rare in nature. So (according to current quantum theory) we can never predict these effects with certainty, just with various probabilities.

How do we know that quantum effects are truly random? Space is the 3rd dimension. Time is the 4th. Whatever the 5th is like, we can calculate, but it takes all kinds of mental tricks to hold it in the mind and understand it. 6th? 7th? 8th? How many dimensions are there? Might they even be infinite?

I would suggest that quantum is causal just like everything else. It's just that the causes lie in dimensions where we don't have any practical way of even suggesting, much less determining, what the causes are like, to say nothing of what they might be.

On the other hand, there might be a dimension where cause and effect, and randomness meet, where the come together, where they are the same thing, right?

Smiley
I think we are on sound grounds to say that quantum effects are truly random.  If you speculate otherwise you need to do it at the level of the Uncertainty Principle and the math behind it, not on general philosophical grounds. 

Math easily handles n dimensionalities, example a cube-like object X with volume Z, we can easily compute Z for x^2, x^3, x^4, x^5.  However the last four do not represent physical (3 dimensional) reality.

The fact that people all over the place ask the question, what is it that makes quantum effects random, shows that there is cause and effect behind quantum? Why? Because people in their minds, souls and spirits act quantumly. Yet they ask the question.

Smiley
38929  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What makes a currency meaningful? on: November 17, 2014, 08:21:53 PM
What makes a currency meaningful? Honesty. Privacy. Freedom to use it to grow and accumulate by everyone.

In other words, a currency is a commodity that makes life easier for those who use it. Life gets easier for the honest, naive people. Life gets easier for the crooks.

Making currency meaningful isn't about currency. It's about freedom and honesty... lifestyle among the people.

For example, you hear the preaching of the politicians. So, you vote them into office. Then, they do whatever they want, lie through their teeth, etc. But you keep on believing them. Suckers!

The reason Bitcoin might have success is that it is honest in a way that is difficult to corrupt. The reason Bitcoin might fail is the same one that the whole country fails by. People would rather believe the corrupt government and media, to their own demise, than use something private and honest like Bitcoin.

Somebody might say, But Bitcoin can be used for all kinds of corruption. Fiat currency is corruption incarnate the way it is being used around the world by the big banks and the governments.

Smiley
38930  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How can the U.S. fix Detroit? on: November 17, 2014, 08:11:09 PM
Cut taxes to zero. Require everyone to open carry when not on there own property. Shut down the police department. Let nature take its course from there.

Smiley

EDIT: I might add, send in the homeless from Florida.   Grin
38931  Other / Off-topic / Re: Pictures from Russia. NSFW!!! on: November 17, 2014, 05:00:32 AM
She's been waiting a long time, trying to find a
a scammer who wants her passport to get a loan. I think that she already got enough bills and this passport has been cancelled a long time ago.

U.S. husband who will take her out of that Russian mess.
I guess you're wasting too much time on the dating sites.

http://www.dating-world.net/Russian%20phrases.htm   Cheesy
38932  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 90 year old man gets arrested for feeding the homeless for the third time on: November 17, 2014, 02:29:24 AM
lol living in U.S. those days must suck

Throughout the whole 1900s, different areas of Europe, Russia, and Southeast Asia were racked with wars that killed millions of people. Something like 200 million people in these areas of land were killed by their own governments, often by government leaders doing ethnic or security-for-government cleansings.

The United States was spared most of that kind of thing. Oh sure, we sent our troops here and there in the world to attempt to help certain nations that we called our allies. And many of our boys died. But we never had any kind of government-kills-its-own-citizens outside of the Civil War of the mid-1800s. Even the "Native American cleansings" were considered to be wars between nations, as Native Americans are still considered to be separate nations from regular U.S. citizens.

The worst "cleansing" done in the USA - even worse than the killing of native Americans - was not done by the U.S. or State governments against their own citizens. Rather, the worst in the USA was done (and is still being done) by average, everyday American people. The casualties in this cleansing range in the area of 55 million to date. And I'm not saying that there aren't other nations that have done and are doing worse. I just don't know. But what I am talking about is the killing of our babies by their parents and grandparents through abortions.

Well, it's coming on us, now. We're getting what we have done back on ourselves, both for doing it, and for condoning it.

Makes me sick just to think of it.

Smiley
38933  Other / Off-topic / Re: How do you want to die? on: November 16, 2014, 10:00:50 PM
If I had to die, I would go out by sleeping preferably.

Yes, but I still wonder what it is like to sleep yourself to death.   Cheesy
38934  Other / Off-topic / Re: Pictures from Russia. NSFW!!! on: November 16, 2014, 09:58:08 PM

I wonder who are publishing their passports on the publicly available resource.

She's been waiting a long time, trying to find a U.S. husband who will take her out of that Russian mess.

Smiley
38935  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 90 year old man gets arrested for feeding the homeless for the third time on: November 16, 2014, 09:54:51 PM
Oh, the city is just afraid that the old guy is going to organize the homeless people to start a city of their own.

Too late, Obamavilles are all the rage these days:





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdyI7bJYF30

With 2/3 of the land in the nation locked up in national forest land, etc., to say nothing about the state lands that are similarly administered, there is no need for this. Rebellion is coming.

38936  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 90 year old man gets arrested for feeding the homeless for the third time on: November 16, 2014, 09:41:55 PM
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Put little Susie in jail for sharing her sandwich with little Joanie during 2nd grade recess.

The amazing thing is going by Florida's logic this could actually happen with what they've said because they claimed it was a health issue to share food/feed people in public, so yes, children could actually get arrested in the playground for sharing their food with each other.

Every mother in Florida that packs a lunch for their child should also be locked up.  I doubt all their kitchens are "licensed" and this food is consumed outside the home.
Some schools take lunches prepared at home from children because they deem it "unhealthy".

Because they SAY they deem it unhealthy. They won't even teach the kids how to stand up for their rights according to law. So why would they want the kids to have healthy meals?

Smiley
38937  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 90 year old man gets arrested for feeding the homeless for the third time on: November 16, 2014, 09:39:55 PM
Oh, the city is just afraid that the old guy is going to organize the homeless people to start a city of their own.

 Grin
38938  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Consciousness and Quantum Physics on: November 16, 2014, 09:34:28 PM
“Random”‐ness is known only to ignorance.

Was about to reply to your apple comment, but I don't quite know what you mean by this.

Are you saying that things only appear random while we are ignorant of their cause? eg. Apples appear to fall at random time intervals to the ignorant, however when we find the causes of the falling apples (wind/deterioration of the stalk/increasing weight/gravity etc.) then what once appeared random now becomes predictable and a pattern can be made?

I agree with this, however many quantum effects are truly random, which is very rare in nature. So (according to current quantum theory) we can never predict these effects with certainty, just with various probabilities.

How do we know that quantum effects are truly random? Space is the 3rd dimension. Time is the 4th. Whatever the 5th is like, we can calculate, but it takes all kinds of mental tricks to hold it in the mind and understand it. 6th? 7th? 8th? How many dimensions are there? Might they even be infinite?

I would suggest that quantum is causal just like everything else. It's just that the causes lie in dimensions where we don't have any practical way of even suggesting, much less determining, what the causes are like, to say nothing of what they might be.

On the other hand, there might be a dimension where cause and effect, and randomness meet, where the come together, where they are the same thing, right?

Smiley
38939  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The greener side : Bitcoin being used to heat buildings on: November 16, 2014, 08:39:21 PM
The fiat USDollar money supply has been enlarged by the banks to handle certain situations in the money world. If the money ever gets into the hands of the people, there will be hyper-inflation, the value of the dollar will drop drastically, the only thing left for the banking system will be to print more money, etc. The result will be that a loaf of bread will cost a $million. and everything else will go up correspondingly. You will need a wheelbarrow full of cash just to do your grocery shopping.

This is the thing that has happened in Argentina at least 3 times in the last 40 or 50 years. When it happens with the USDollar, it will be many times worse. Then the dollar will completely flop.

Just before the dollar flops, there will be so much of it that it will be cheaper to use it to heat buildings with, than buying gas or electricity or fuel oil or any other kind of fuel normally used to heat the buildings.

Smiley
38940  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Americans Getting Poorer on: November 15, 2014, 09:03:29 PM
We really need to spread Bitcoin around the world. Why? Because we need to stop getting poorer and poorer.

Read this link over thoroughly, and then find someone to develop it. Wish I had the knowledge to do it. I would have long ago.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=825091.0

Smiley
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