Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments Mitt Romney, Donald Trump and The Theory of Relativity [img]/home/tmv/Pictures/Humor/quantumshitney.jpg[/img] » Posted By Keramos On May 31, 2012 @ 2:49 pm “2000 had one of the highest voter turnouts in history. A lot of good that did. ” Both the 2000 and 2004 elections are absolute proof that the Electoral College needs to be done away with. » Posted By Keramos On April 20, 2011 @ 4:57 pm Where do you get the energy to put all this together? Thank you for your efforts. K » Posted By Keramos On April 7, 2011 @ 8:26 am “what needs to be done is clear: organize, recruit good, honest and competent liberals to run for Congress; get those candidates elected. That is how you get the laws that people say that they want.” Dead on correct. They must also be of the mien of either an Anthony Wiener or Bernie Sanders in that they will stand up for what they believe in, they will not let the continued insults masquerading as legislation go unchallenged and they must start pushing back intelligently. A strong progressive base could help embolden O for the four years of lame duck presidency he should enjoy beginning in 2013. What we have remaining in the two houses now represents the effects of the apathy and disgust the Ds have engendered among their base and among independent voters in general. Almost 59% of eligible voters did not vote in 2010. There’s the target audience. What are they seeking? » Posted By Keramos On April 7, 2011 @ 8:25 am Good morning all The point that should not be lost on anyone is that fully 58% of eligible voters did not elect to exercise this right during the 2010 elections. 42% did. How does this translate in percentage terms? What were the winning margins in states that changed their blue suits for red? Let’s look at Pennsylvania as it was a solidly blue state for some time. In the 2008 election, there were 8,755,588 registered voters – http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/voter_registration_statistics/12725 – of which 68.65% – about 6 million – voted. In the 2010 midterm, the race for US Senator was won by Republican Pat Toomey 2,028,945 or 51.0% ( http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/pennsylvania ) Turnout was off a full 2 million from the 2008 election and represented less than half of PA’s 2008 eligible voters. Here’s another way of looking at it. 51% of (4million/8.8million) = 23% of the eligible voters elected Toomey. Based on this, would anyone like to make a claim of mandate for anything? This is just one example but, based on the overall statistics, probably not to far from being representative of 2010 in many places. What needs to be kept in mind is that the real majority decided to to mimic Nixon’s “Silent Majority” this last election? Why? Well, that’s a question with as many more questions as it has answers. It’s fair to say, though, that this block should be considered in play and the candidate who breaks through here will win the next presidential election. R’s make a lot of noise and seem to have a lot of activity ongoing – especially if noise equates to activity. The Ds, on the other hand, seem to be sinking further into ignominy by not defending their records or that of the President. This really turns the potential voter off (my opinion) and keeps this vast pool of voters on the sidelines. Somehow we need an infusion of energy ala that of our TP brethren. Some candidates who are proud to be progressive and will promote and defend those ideals and platforms. At the same time, these folks need to have serious plans for reducing our deficits and otherwise righting the ship of state. I’m increasingly of the mind that solid progressives could make common cause with the TP to rid ourselves of the Middle East “interventions” as a start and the elimination of corporate welfare. To be sure, there would be more areas of disagreement than agreement but there are many sincere folks on both sides of the ideological divide who can put aside their differences long enough to work through the tough decisions that need to be made now and are instead being used as soundbite material for the next election. I need some more coffee now. » Posted By Keramos On April 6, 2011 @ 5:27 am How Many US Jobs Can You Fit Inside This Cargo Container? It seems that I increasingly find myself in at least partial agreement with Pat Buchanan on this issue – we’ve had our manufacturing sector “hollowed out” over the last 30 – 40 years. This is simply not sustainable and is a form of economic suicide. We’ve outsourced the menial jobs but kept layers of overcompensated executives here in the US doing absolutely nothing to improve the general welfare of this country. This has been aided and abetted by politicians from both sides of the aisle, most notoriously in writing tax legislation that rewards this sort of activity. I personally find this to be treasonous and have stated that opinion many times during these last 30 plus years. Where is the point that money trumps patriotism? » Posted By Keramos On April 6, 2011 @ 6:55 am It’s Official: Huffington Post Is Now Out-Drudging Drudge I still post on HP. There are too many inviting targets to go after and I just cannot resist. Sunday mornings are great fun with the “Eat The Press” blog from Jason Linkins. However, I agree with much of what’s been said here about HP and Mrs. H’s narcissism. » Posted By Keramos On April 6, 2011 @ 6:43 am A Little Truth About Business and Taxes Maybe you could print your own bumper sticker – “Honk if you want to know more about nominal tax rates.” » Posted By Keramos On April 21, 2011 @ 7:17 am From: http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=smaller-cheaper-faster-does-moores-2011-03-15 The sun strikes every square meter of our planet with more than 1,360 watts of power. Half of that energy is absorbed by the atmosphere or reflected back into space. 700 watts of power, on average, reaches Earth’s surface. Summed across the half of the Earth that the sun is shining on, that is 89 petawatts of power. By comparison, all of human civilization uses around 15 terrawatts of power, or one six-thousandth as much. In 14 and a half seconds, the sun provides as much energy to Earth as humanity uses in a day. » Posted By Keramos On April 6, 2011 @ 8:03 am Striking back at the Chamber of Commerce and their dirty tricks squad Newspeak » Posted By Keramos On February 15, 2011 @ 8:06 pm Dark Matter (WIMPS) the other Holy Grail in Particle Physics There was an article within the last six months – I believe it may have been in Scientific American or their sister publication the SA Mind – wherein the human mind was said to contain material similar to the dark matter found throughout the universe. I cannot find the actual citation but if even if I’m wrong, this might still be an entertaining bit of scribbling. What is interesting to me is if true, this would further cement our human ties to the universe as a whole. There has been a lot of development in the quantum realm of physics and, as I understand it, some physicists believe that there are as many as eleven – 11 – actual dimensions. If we take time to be our fourth dimension, that leaves 7 more that we might exist in in one form or another. One of the interesting aspects of quantum physics is that time “cancels out” of the equations at this level. Objects can now appear in two places at one time and the very act of measuring the instantaneous location of a particle causes the measurement to become inaccurate (I don’t understand this one myself). The way this happens is when the particle is at least partially in some of the other dimensions. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity allows one to calculate that time travel would be extraordinarily consumptive of energy, among other problems, and very hard to achieve. We can accept that in the framework that most of us use to view and understand the universe. What happens in the other 7 dimensions? For that matter, what exactly is the nature of time travel? Consider prophetic dreams or that sense of deja vu that we’ve all probably felt at some time or another. What if we’ve actually traveled in time and observed a future event? Can this not be a possible explanation for Time does not flow in a liner fashion, instead, it folds back on itself. Now, here’s a big leap, the human brain also contains many folds and its workings are not well understood. If we are connected to the universe via dark matter in our brain and we know that physical items can indeed be in two places simultaneously, is it unreasonable to conjecture that our dreaming can actually be considered a form of time travel? Perhaps the universe itself is a great big brain? Weird? Perhaps. However, it is fun to contemplate some aspects of physics that might relate more to the human condition instead of the conditions of and positions of quirky quarks. » Posted By Keramos On April 6, 2011 @ 6:37 am It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/arthur_conan_doyle.html#ixzz1IkRhXDe3 I’ve been working on a new product development where we’ve had some interesting preliminary results. We decide to push all the major comparative test work to some independent laboratories because of our perceived advantages of this product relative to the one we’re competing with. Why, to avoid missing something via attacking the critical product parameters relative to the application. To achieve this, we took preliminary data to select customers and had them review and suggest changes to the testing program. In so many words, we revamped our testing program to intentionally disprove the original results. That has been a good decision. » Posted By Keramos On April 6, 2011 @ 6:04 amComments Posted By Keramos
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