20150330

Governance of a functional economy

Governance is not "Government Intervention."  Governance of a functional economy, when done honestly by the markets (industry, banks, commerce, persons ...), not gamed for profits/greed, will not require "Government Intervention" to govern the economy.  
 
A healthy meritocracy economy, in a Democracy, provides a standard bell-shape-curve distribution of wealth, benefits, and quality of life (health, education, community [indigent...affluent] ...) inclusive fairness.  Markets' stewards (C*Os, BoTs, and groups/families) fail at ethical private-sector governance when income disparities exist, as indicated by a skewed wealth-curve of income, property, community....  When markets' stewards fail at economic governance, the results are depressions, recessions, resource diaspora....  When economic failures occur, "We The People" as a Government and community must ethically act and economically intervene for the welfare of the Nation.  For US (the public-sector) this is Governance, for the private-sector this is Government intervention/interference.

Economic failure upon failures is not an issue of negatives cancelling.  All failures are debt additive, until good (Private/Public) governance can liquidate the debt.  Present private-sector pseudo-capitalism relies on Government bailouts and protectionist laws (AKA: Corporate-Welfare Laws) that prevent private-sector corrections of functional economic incompetence.  Good public-sector Governance emplaces laws that control the private-sector participation in antitrust, monopolies, fraud, bribery... activities, which cause a dysfunctional economy with contemptible private-sector debt being shifted to the public sector. 

Government economic involvement/intervention is always caused by private-sector economic failures.  When a Government is the cause of economic failure, the private-sector will move to another country; Hence, The "National Security" interest in preventing private-sector manipulation of national politics and elections is essential to good governance and stable economy.  There is not much difference between private-sector fervor and religious faith, the irrational faith/fervor dogma is circular, and participation will debase Democratic Governments.  Beware all special fervor/faith interest with resolutions and truths, because they will not have verifiable/reproducible facts and solutions.

A nation's economic model must promote socio-economic balance or risk collapse.  An unbalanced cost of living burden on labor-hands [AKA: wage-slaves] offers XYZ... benefits, under faux-capitalism.  Market advocates will unethical and amoral cheer their good fortune without concern for National Interest or the public-sector impact and resultant debt.  Wealth disparity (US, EU, global ...) is an economic functional deficiency problem.  National resources/wealth removed from circulation in an economy assures some form of capital collapse within market sectors (S&L, Tech, Housing ...).  Governance is the method required to pump money into the failed economy with hope for economic stabilization that will eventually kick-start the functionally deficient economic model.

The USA Republic initially was a timocracy-isocracy democracy mix, with a monetized agrarian-barter economy.  The USA Republic presently has a more plutocracy-timocracy democracy mix, with a flour-paper mashie economy.  The USA Republic must mature into an isocracy democracy and a capitalist meritocracy economy with the Nations' wealth circulating.  IOW: All the wealth belongs to US.  If you want to move to another country; then PLEASE, pack your bags and go.  FACT: "We The People" do not need greedy wimps whining about their economic value to US.
 
Laissez-Faire, Laissez Rôle Dés a/o Bonne Chance, are irrational and dysfunctional economic models that dishonestly removes resources from economic circulation into a few private hands.  Capitalism must be meritocracy, not aggregation, based.  Capital/resources hording has no merit in any economy, unless some folks are seeking civil unrest without consideration of historical events.

20150311

Just a comment on new economics

Why: http://www.alternet.org/education/how-activist-college-kids-are-taking-high-priests-money

A new economics model must study and address the historical, present, and persistent economic problems.  A new model needs to emerge from present model failures/weaknesses, and have an objective economics system clearly defined providing the legacy to objective system lifecycle roadmap.  The lifecycle roadmap would be to assure that there is not another "sit on your laurels" model, because the objective system must always progressively mature and address socio-economic and human-cultural developments. 

IMO, a progressive economics model provides a commons for a society to reasonably distribute community (global...local) resources and wealth/value [1st] Welfare that universally delivers stability (food, housing, health, learning), [2nd] Enfranchisement that provides participatory meritocracy (justice, governance, occupation, options/opportunity), [3rd] Assurance that economics is building an egalitarian society (global...local).   

PseudoMarxist, FauxCapitalist, Classical/NeoClassical and other totalitarian oligarch economics (aristocracy, plutocracy, noocracy, epistocracy ...) are reliably consistent failures that lead to slavery, exploitation, corruption ....   

Future economics models require strong public participation, commitment, and governance.  Because, there will always be a few greed-sick micromaniacal plutocrats trying to by gods of wealth.

20150210

Gothic Geek, Freak, and Nerd Toddlers' Future Careers: Balisage Markup Conference

Why Go...Attend the Balisage Markup Conference?The world of tomorrow will pass you by like your grandparents in the 1980s, unless ....
1980s Workplace networks, computers, and software
1990s Home computers, modems, email, and web-browsers
2000...Present most politicians remain lost and intransigent C*O gophers
 
2020...Future most of US will benefit from Information, but only a few will know and do.
Revelation: Information [affect] induces implicit cultural change.
Reminisce: Technology [effect] enables explicit cultural change.
 
 
Extensible Markup XML / XHTML Language, W3C Standard
   http://www.w3.org/XML
Web Ontology Language (OWL), W3C Standard
   http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-rdf-owl
Unified Modeling Language, OMG Standard
   http://www.uml.org
Business Process Modeling Notation, OMG Standard
   http://www.bpmn.org
Universal Business Language, OASIS Standard
   http://ubl.xml.org
National Information Exchange Model, Standards Compliance W3C, OMG, ISO ...
   https://www.niem.gov
   http://www.omg.org/spec/NIEM-UML/1.0
 
Well, it is just IMO? Information (Digital/Computer) Sciences, Informatics, Library Sciences, Ontological Theory/Algorithms ... Information Sharing Environments (ISE) make US & EU strong, smart, and PDFC00!

20150209

Science Fiction Physics Course-110


The Standard Model [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model] of particle physics is a theory concerning the electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear interactions, as well as classifying all the subatomic particles known. It was developed throughout the latter half of the 20th century, as a collaborative effort of scientists around the world.[1] The current formulation was finalized in the mid-1970s upon experimental confirmation of the existence of quarks. Since then, discoveries of the top quark (1995), the tau neutrino (2000), and more recently the Higgs boson (2013), have given further credence to the Standard Model. Because of its success in explaining a wide variety of experimental results, the Standard Model is sometimes regarded as a "theory of almost everything".

Although the Standard Model is believed to be theoretically self-consistent[2] and has demonstrated huge and continued successes in providing experimental predictions, it does leave some phenomena unexplained and it falls short of being a complete theory of fundamental interactions. It does not incorporate the full theory of gravitation[3] as described by general relativity, or account for the accelerating expansion of the universe (as possibly described by dark energy). The model does not contain any viable dark matter particle that possesses all of the required properties deduced from observational cosmology. It also does not incorporate neutrino oscillations (and their non-zero masses).

The development of the Standard Model was driven by theoretical and experimental particle physicists alike. For theorists, the Standard Model is a paradigm of a quantum field theory, which exhibits a wide range of physics including spontaneous symmetry breaking, anomalies, non-perturbative behavior, etc. It is used as a basis for building more exotic models that incorporate hypothetical particles, extra dimensions, and elaborate symmetries (such as supersymmetry) in an attempt to explain experimental results at variance with the Standard Model, such as the existence of dark matter and neutrino oscillations.

The Standard Model of elementary particles, with the three generations of matter, gauge bosons in the fourth column, and the Higgs boson in the fifth.


SciFicPhyCrs110 ScienceFictionPhysics Course110 — This is not professional science anything, and dogma/godma fantasy is less authoritative. 

DarkEnergy is generated at the edges of TimeSpace.  DarkEnergy, in SpaceTime, is observable at our known universe edges and BlackHoles' event horizons.  Different manifestations of DarkEnergy occur as the Quantum-Horizon dissipates with TimeSpace.  All frequencies/waves are distorted/displaced by matter.  All frequencies/waves in TimeSpace are distorted/displaced by Micro-particles (atoms, molecules ...) and macro-objects (stars, planets ...).
 
SpaceTime is kept coherent by gravity.  DarkEnergy insulates/delays SpaceTime dissipation into the Quantum-Horizon.  Gravity makes SpaceTime coherent providing energy for quanta coalescing into atomic elements...universe.
 
The Quantum seeks a quiescent (smooth fabric) state, but energy is never inert, energy is a potential waiting for release, differences ….  A portion of the fabric knotted with potential, maybe nothing happens, maybe another knotted potential on the fabric creates a potential difference and a Singularity of energy released creating another Universe.  Maybe two Universes collide causing a Singularity.

More edit and ownership is needed, with fabled math skills, but SciFicPhy does not require proof or faith, just fun.

20150121

UX, HF, MaMa and People need far better ...?

Vision: Information [affect] induces implicit cultural change.
  View: Technology [effect] enables explicit cultural change.
   IOW: Technology ain’t Information. Technology exist because of Information.
I consider information a raw material for an ISE & NetNeutral future.
Information (Data/Content) products are the cargo transported on the Infrastructure Technology (IT) [AKA: Telecommunications Infrastructure]. Processes that produce information products [Data/Content/…] use information as a raw material. Data products are for machines, automation, simulations … science, engineering, industrial … consumption. Content products stories, reports, movies, music … are for human consumption (learning, entertainment …). Data and Content are information products created for and applied to needs/requirements. Are there other basic information products, IDNK? Information obtained by human or electronic sensors are raw until processed (collect, aggregate, analyze …) by automation or human core functions. So, IMO, there is no information symbiosis/processes. Technology symbiosis like industrial processes require information to be functional for performing requirements; Hence, data or content are basic information products transported as cargo on IT (as defined above).
UX/HF/MaMa… are data-derivative processes needed for designing digital/computer and personal interactivity. UserX (a person) is not the UX/HF/MaMa… or information. UserX intransigence (I think) is not due to information, processes, or technology. UserX intransigence (I suspect) is due to frustration with no durable or substantial improvement in work experience a/o environment. The UX/HF/MaMa… provides a product designed (environment, system, hardware, software …) experience, which is not a SME/Work environment experience. During my +30y work experience the environment has always been a Megalithic Human Inference Engine (MHIE) that morphs I/O by apparent caprice inducing errors, which requires a redo-recheck-loop. IMO: UserX intransigence is due to relearning the same SME/work experience for new IT products that result in the same SME/work environment and experience. Science Academia and industry Technology at present levels of capabilities can do far more than industry-only has provided to US.
Collapse of the MHIE technology will not be a crash, IT as defined today (IMO) can cause a catastrophic failure for US (not just a system crash). Our focus on IT as defined today for security (information assurance) has been IMO a failure, because (IMO) the focus should be on “Information Governance” for security of the information.
ISO, W3C, OASIS, IEEE …, Open…Agile concepts … standards/protocols/specifications compliance does solve information interoperability and infrastructure integration requirements. Lack of forced compliance across hardware, software, services, and industry providers causes ISE … extensible lifecycle sustainment and innovation havoc for US (IMO).
Industry (the creators) frequently provides what is required with hooks, warts, and nightmares for the sustainment lifecycle follow-ons. We get what we pay for, which IMO is always less than we need for an innovative strategic lifecycle.

‘With all the varieties of program languages, service busses, signals, and the disparate user base (from novice to super experts, and everything in between...). The mysterious middle-ware provided by the Captains of Industry (CoI) in their interest as the Centers of Influence. IT is bound to get threating-cloudy and war-foggy.’ ISO, W3C … standards compliance resolves even these problems at the point of I/O for data/content information products and often at the point of committed-action.
Cyber-warfare two basic components Infrastructure Security and Information Governance. I suspect that solid Information Governance could sometimes prevent infrastructure breaches. Cyber-warfare is an infrastructure attack, but an information spill, is just bad information governance. Cyber-attacks on industry and government IMO have little noticeable impact on the public. Cyber-attacks IMO do cause politicians and industry to write unenforceable cyber-laws that create criminals and do little to stop cyber-crime/attacks. Government and industry cyber-sloth (easy not better) solutions do cause internet-access and web-services disruptions.
POTUS SOTU stand on Net-Neutrality is of interest. Net-Neutrality protects US from TelCo & CableCo Internet Access Provider (IAP) domination of UserX and Internet Services Providers (ISP) like libraries, news, entertainment, banks …. IAPs charge monthly/yearly internet data-rate fees, which can increase on a whim. ISPs and UserX pay their agreed upon data-rate utility fees for homes and businesses. When ISP or UserX want a higher data-rate (more upload/download bandwidth) they will pay higher fees. The IAPs (IMO) just want to run another swindle on US. Most of the POTUS SOTU stands on social and economic topics, I already knew.

20150106

Future/History: The transition process a/o nexus may happen in many possible ways.

The transition process a/o nexus may happen in many possible ways. The episodic human culture transition events, in history, have been heroically and tragically poignant or surrealistically unremarkable surprises. IOW: Sometimes the most documented person/event is insignificant to what happened next. Example: Hitler and Napoleon are well-documented megalomaniacs, but both are very inconsequential to human culture advancements beyond their plus/minus 100 years. Example: Gutenberg’s Printing Press or Aristotle’s Alchemy prime-mater and elements/states. Gutenberg delivered significant cultural advancements well in to this digital publishing age (Plus 600 years). Aristotle (and others in India-Math, China-black powder …) started the theoretical math, physics…astronomy and applied engineering…chemistry sciences (Aristotle Plus 2400 years). Primary/Public schools globally and historically teach local cultural-political history [Who smote whom, in the last war or political …?]. Rome: Gloria Fluxa – Today: Glory is fleeting is the summary for the above examples [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sallust].
The transition process from the present labor-intensive production and feudal economy variants [AKA: Capitalism, Communism …] will be frequently disruptive (change), but not necessarily destructive (war). Humans are very adaptable to change (adjust/comply), but intransigent when threatened (flight/fight). Aristotle and Gutenberg, with shared reason, helped us adjust and comply with actualities in human history. Alexander and Stalin, by shared threat, dictated authoring of history/documents and murdered many people. I sometimes think we are taught from a very young age that blood-lust is the only way to fame and fortune (Why?).
Okay, having stated (above) the looming reality. How do we (globally) transition from the present-threat to the post-scarcity culture and economy? Very carefully with meticulous planning, that requires species-preservation altruistic governance by pluralist-democracy [not republic-democracy]. If we had time, I would say colonize the Moon and Mars before forming a pluralist-democracy, but some research suggest that we may be very short on time, due to climate and natural resources (water, iron …).
Rather than continuing this run-on SciFic alternate-culture …. Let me know, if you/others want me to continue. I am getting old … it would take me many breaks and days to get to the probable two beginnings/endings.
I hope and expect the best, but I never ignore any probable. Best of all, if it ain't the best, I'll be dead of old age before the worst happens (I hate seeing folks suffer!).

20141229

Why not ... Double-Blind Justice?


In DoubleBlind-Justice:

(1) The Grand Jury works a docket (prioritized on severity of infractions Treason, Murder, Slavery, Torture, Corruption … Fraud, Theft, DWI …) of all arrest without accessing non-relevant information (age, sex, race, religion, cultural heritage, socio economic background, past criminal record …).

(2) Trial Jury, Defenders and Prosecutors, and Judges do not know non-relevant information (age, sex, race …) of persons on trial a/o victims of crime.

(3) All public sessions (Deliberations, Trial, Sentencing … proceedings) are viewable by Trial Jury, Defenders, Prosecutors, Judges, and remote-viewable by Defendants and Victims.

(4) Only after all proceeding are final, can persons (criminal and victim) identity/information be publically released and used by news/broadcast/….

(5) The Innocent (Non-Guilty) suspect and jury, victims, and public members identity/personal information cannot be used by public record a/o by news/broadcast/….

(6) Double-Blind extensible application (determined by) to unique locations, persons, and conditions.  IOW:  Judges, Prosecutors, Killer-Cops and Cop-Killers are treated equally in an intelligent, unbiased, and blind justice system.

(7) ...?

20141215

The Whitehouse Coup by the Gang Of Plutocrats (GOP) in 1933 is still alive in the USA

The Whitehouse Coup 1933

Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American oligarchs and plutocrats. The alleged plotters were from famous American oligarchs’ families and companies (Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell House, Prescott Bush George’s Grandfather, Ford, Lindbergh …) believed that the USA should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini. The coup aimed to topple POTUS Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml 
http://bit.ly/1svooeu

The Whitehouse Coup never ended, no traitors prosecuted/executed, and GOP keeps hope alive for The National Security State toppling Pluralist Democracy for US.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-engelhardt/the-national-security-state_b_6326658.html 
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/snowden-lessons-security-state

A republic governed by a pluralist democracy is rational.
A republic governed by an oligarchy democracy is dogmatic.

20141201

To: All Technology BizBuzz Acronym Dominions (BBAD)

Putting responsibility on the end user is Luddite-101 Silly.

To say: “Who knows better than the user what information is important to them?” is a smart way to avoid responsibility and blame-storm after failures.

Too say: “What better way to share that information than to own it yourself?” ignores the communal scope of collaboration, standards, and interoperability in Information Sharing Environments (ISE).

Telecommunications — AKA: Internet, AKA: Infrastructure — Integration: Internet Access Provided (IAP) — Against Net-Neutrality
W3S — WorldWideWeb Services — Interoperability: Internet Services Provider (ISP) — Pro Net-Neutrality

NOTE: User/Internet connection into the infrastructure by an IAP requires Standards compliant PHYSICAL integration (includes wireless/radio links) for flawless communications.
NOTE: Services require Standardized VIRTUAL interoperability to deliver flawless services (web, phone, email, VTC ...) across the internet connections.
NOTE: Standards exist to make FLAWLESS possible for all USERS (.Gov, .Mil, .Com ...).
NOTE: HUA is an acronym pronounced “HooYah!” HUA is not the HUYA BBAD acronym. Such as; You got your HUYA if you think Standards do not dominate all acronym dominions.

IM — Information Management
CM — Content Management (XML)
DM — Data Management (GIEA)
RM — Records Management

KM — Knowledge Management
PM — Process/Procedure Management (UML/BUML)
OM — Operations Management

LS — Library Science
IS — Information Science
...

If you do not know how “Standards” and the above acronyms relate to FLAWLESS functionality a/o think any of the above acronyms mean the same thing, then PLEASE go back to school before you muck many things up (IMO).

 

20141117

What's the difference between gun-nuts and US?

A gun owner is not a gun-nut.  A member of the NRA is not a militia member.  I am a gun owner and a USMC (69...71) veteran, but I ain’t a member of the NRA.  I do go to shooting clubs/ranges, and I have been deer and dove hunting.

Gun-nut militia members do have agendas, rights, and rhetoric, but no reason; Hence, "Gun-nut" is a correct description, though politically and psychologically incorrect, of people that sometimes belong to a militant militia within the USA.  I consider all gun-nuts and militia members a threat to US in public and private places (like banks, work, restaurants, schools, movies ... hunting, traveling ...).  

Gun owners (like me) and NRA members should patriotically (like veterans) be interested in preventing gun-nut ownership of weapons, and fully support the disbandment and prosecution of militant militia members/groups that have documented or recorded militant agenda and rhetoric seeking the violent overthrow of The USA Government. 

As long as our VOTE and RIGHTS (gun ownership) are secure and protected, militant militias are not acceptable to US.  I know the facts; too many dead innocents and victims, there are many (a majority) gun owners everywhere in the USA.  I choose, because of (mainly recent) US history, to oppose the NRA their members that use dead innocents and victims as justification for arming gun-nuts and militias, and as excuses for supporting radical gun-nut/militant rhetoric and fear mongering.

I once heard a Jesuit and Rabbi (agree on) say there are two commandments one was about gods and the other was about some golden rule covering the other nine.

I can say (I think, the Jesuit and Rabbi would agree) all RIGHTS in The Constitution of The United States are covered by The RIGHT to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

20141103

NRA Gun-nuts' militia rights agenda harms US.

I never advocate waiting for first responders, do something appropriate, saving lives is good; playing gun-nut hero is bad!  Gun-nut attacks on “prepared and unsuspecting” first responders, children, and citizens is the carnage wreaked upon armed and unarmed people in the USA.  NRA gun-nuts’ militia rights are a dogmatic red-herring by plutocrats, fools, politicians ... to distract US from our duties as citizens, which are protect People and Rights (not just gun-nut interpreted rights). NRA gun-nuts are  plutocrats' fools and politicians ... distracting US from our duties as citizens to build a better US with education, healthcare, infrastructure, innovation, jobs ....

Disarming/restricting gun-nut owners/militias, of our right, to carry weapons is responsible protection of US who are responsable gun owners.  Sadly, NRA gun-nuts don't like the majority of US insisting on responsible behavior in the exercise of USA Citizen Rights.

The discussion about gun carry in/out of town is not squelched. You have many places to voice the gun-nut theory of all USA Civil Rights; So, go and preach in your own house, or the NRA Gun-nuts Militia convention where weapons are not allowed, the NRA does not allow Gun-nuts’ rights in their country/convention.

Gun-nuts' militias and the NRA are disgustingly supporting gun-nuts’ rights that kill and infringe on first responders', children's, and citizens' legitimate USA Constitutional Civil Rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 

I would not discuss this topic with any gun-nut anyplace, it would be like discussing science with a creationist, a waste of both our time. Yep, it might get me shot by a gun-nut.

Gun-nuts’ agenda, rights, and rhetoric make US the casualties, while those of us who are willing to do something good are insulted by gun-nuts’ reasoning for killing first responders, children, and citizens. 

As a person who has served in the USMC (69...71) deployed as a DoD civilian (DS/DS 91), and spent years overseas, I will not threaten others by supporting NRA gun-nuts’ rights, laws, agenda in the USA.  I have taken action to protect other, from death and physical harm, in foreign countries and the USA. 

Taking chances by saving folks should be our commitment to US.  The NRA gun-nuts’ rights campaign is killing US.  Unfortunately, those of you who follow the plutocratic NRA guy-nuts’ rights propaganda do "whine" attempting to deny US  our USA Constitutional Civil Rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

20141006

Civilizations' Disruptive Tehnologies

     Disruptive Manufacturing:  Customized, Curio, and Massive “Cottage Industry” potential does prove we can Change, we can Make, we can be Better, more Open and extremely Agile (maybe forget Foreign Imports and Military Sales).  If there is a global “AAA” Threat of Atypical (no prior example), Asymmetric (uneven impact), Asynchronous (not when, where, what dependent) manufacturing industry, then either a boon-boom or threat-boom exist to US, EU, RU, CN, IN ... IMO.
     Disruptive Leveraging of Distributed Manufacturing:  Distributed/Local production a/o manufacturing is a decentralized Enterprises of Interest (EoI) model that can use a network of geographically dispersed manufacturing facilities (homes, schools, hospitals ...) that are coordinated using telecommunications (Cell, WWWeb ...) for just-in-time production and logistics (There are WWII Vietnam ... examples).
     When the AAA threat cannot be mitigated (as in WWII, Vietnam ...) then you (US, EU ...) must lead the future of “Disruptive Manufacturing” AAA Boon-Boom.  The “AAA” Threat (IMO) cannot be addressed by present national/international governments/laws, military, economic, social structures ...; Hence, national/international ... structures, institutions, strategy, tactics ... change will happen (I hope) by and for US.  NOTE:  I could be wrong and this is all a SciFic-101 book/lesson/movie concept.

Disruptive Manufacturing Technology Enabler:  “Arduino” [https://twitter.com/arduino] is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for anyone making interactive projects.  The Arduino Board senses the environment by receiving inputs from many sensors, and affects its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators.  The Arduino Software can tell your Arduino maker product what to do, by writing code in the Arduino programming language and using the Arduino development environment.  Arduino developer kits and software programming interface make it easier for artists, designers and other do-it-yourself enthusiasts – who often don’t have technical backgrounds – to create interactive objects or environments.  The community of Arduino enthusiasts is vast, and includes region specific groups and special interest groups.  http://www.arduino.cc/

Disruptive Manufacturing Technology Enabler:  “SparkFun” [https://twitter.com/sparkfun] is an online retail store that sells the parts and devices to make your electronics projects possible. Whether it's a robot that can cook your breakfast or a GPS cat tracking device, SparkFun products and resources are designed to make the world of electronics more accessible. In addition to products, SparkFun also offers classes and online tutorials to help educate individuals in the wonderful world of embedded electronics.  https://www.sparkfun.com/

Disruptive Manufacturing Technology Enabler:  “LittleBits” [https://twitter.com/littleBits] is making hardware limitless and has one mission: to put the power of electronics in the hands of everyone. littleBits makes a library of electronic modules that snap together with magnets to allow anyone to learn, build, and invent with electronics—no soldering, wiring, or programming required. The company was founded in 2011 by MIT Media Lab graduate, TED Senior Fellow, and cofounder of the Open Hardware Summit, Ayah Bdeir.  http://littlebits.cc

Disruptive Manufacturing Technology Enabler:  “Adafruit” [https://twitter.com/adafruit] founded in 2005 by MIT engineer, Limor Fried.  Her goal was to create the best place online for learning electronics and making the best designed products for makers of all ages and skill levels.  Adafruit has tools, equipment and electronics that are personally selected, tested and approved before going in to the Adafruit store.  Limor Fried was the first female engineer on the cover of WIRED magazine and was recently awarded Entrepreneur magazine's Entrepreneur of the year.  http://www.adafruit.com 

Disruptive Manufacturing Technology Enabler:  “3DPrint” [https://twitter.com/3dprintindustry] is a process for making a three-dimensional object in any shape of any material from a computer based data source where successive layers are applied to make the product.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing

Additional “Maker” Information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_design
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fablab
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MakerBot_Industries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_manufacturing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_Faire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_education)

Asymmetric warfare is the least of our worries. What about asymmetric industry, logistics, fielding, training in a theater of operations? We will not be able to order parts/weapons and filed innovations from home fast enough in the future battlefields.  Don’t worry US, EU, RU, CN ... industry have the same problems. NOTE: Small companies and underdeveloped countries have a cottage-industry potential to leap-ahead of our megalithic stovepipe institutional cultures.

20140818

Bigots (Black/White...Christian/Moslem...1st/4th Amendment...Poor/Rich) are a pox on US.

Elitist privilege-bigots and their bigotry minions are not free to divide US with hate-mongering impunity. Bigots like any malady can be treated very aggressively for the health of US.

The entitled-elitist GOPlutocrats have purchased many news outlets, legislatures, politicians, school-boards ... even some SCOTUS members.

We are a Nation of People, not property a/o institutions. We are a Nation of Justice, not victims a/o criminals. We are a Nation of Civil Rights, not elitist-privileges. We are a Nation of US, not them and those.

In any class-war (civil war) the majority will always be US, and the minority will be damned by their hate-mongering (Black/White...Christian/Moslem...1st/4th Amendment...Poor/Rich) bigotry.

We are a Democracy (all citizens fully enfranchised and voting). We are a meritocracy not a crony-capitalist republic of elitist. We are a Nation builder for US, not foreign-friendly militarized puppets.

Bigotry is wicked to US. If you are of US, then you cannot be a bigot.

PLEASE! If you are a bigot, then take yourselves, families, friends, and businesses offshore, never pay US taxes, and stay far...far away from US. Also, don’t ask US to pay for your infrastructure, government, military, education, services and privileges after you leave ... your bigot-citizenship is revoked [your progeny can apply for immigration and study for citizenship after their age of emancipation].

I am an old white man (1950s...Present) from Alabama. I served US in the USMC at 17yo (1969...71). I served US as a civilian in Saudi, Kuwait and Iraq in 1991. I will defend The US Constitution and all the Civil Right for all US. I have never been free from repercussions for my decisions and actions.

Elitist privilege-bigots and their bigotry minions are not free to divide US with impunity and hate-mongering.

We The People of The United States Sovereign Republic (USSR)


We the Plutocrats of the United States Sovereign Republic (USSR), in Order to form a more perfect Rule, institute Laws, insure public Dominion, provide for nationalist defense, promote Corporate-Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Suppression to Ourselves and our Progeny, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the united states of America.

20140811

Pedantically, I seek the street that falls beneath my feet, but once.
Intransigent, I proceed, upon a path seeking fleeting nonce defeat.
Catastrophic, I remain recondite within the official sycophant bosom.
Insufferable, I comply and fly the burgee of plutocrats’ amoral state.

Reality is self-induced hallucination. Reality ain't actuality.

Past Comments ....

 

All of US are being forced to clean up problems caused by GOP politicians and other damn-dumb plutocrats.

America is for sale, not for US. Money can buy laws and court decisions, why not buy beers for elections.

America-US are fatigued by lies, dogma, failures, and deaths caused by ALL politicians. Disgusting Congress.

Any war is a human atrocity. Justify atrocities with any gods' dogma is misanthropic reasoning.

Because, the GOP-TP gets what it pays for, voters that will serve their betters better.

Bigot-genocide is not anti-human when done with marriage, sex, and births. WTF is the dang problem if we begot a human child.

Change a fed-holiday! Move Columbus Day to the USA Election Day! Until there is a mandatory Election Day, we are all full of BS.

Corporate, religious, political ... dogma hate rhetoric are the incendiaries of plutocrats’ fanatics/terrorist.

Dogma hate rhetoric is directly inciting murder and inhumanities in the USA, but it ain’t a crime? WhyTFNot?

Dogma/godma is an irrational cult agenda, which has nothing to do with science.

Dogma/godma Republic citizens' reality is always opposed to public/community reason and democracy actuality.

Fools POTUS Reagan did not end cold-war. FDR & GC Marshall post WWII plan caused the wall to fall!

GOP dogmatic reality ain't democratic, capitalist, sensible ... actuality for US. Reagan & Bush2 are fools, stupid a/o minions.

GOP-economics for 30+ years destroyed more of US (roads, banks, jobs ...), than all foreign enemies together. GOP-Taliban kills US.

GOP-economics for 30+ years destroyed more of US (roads, banks, jobs ...), than all foreign enemies together. GOP-Taliban kills US.

GOP-Economics is plutocrat-dogma. Like other religions the road is paved with mythic-faith and fluid-lies.

GOPlutocrats are fear-mongering treasonous bigots allied with the Chinese to destroy US from within with fear & hate.

GOPlutocrats dogma is the antithesis of Ayn Rand. GOP dogma oppresses individual/authentic thought/action.

GOPlutocrats like vampires suck the life from US, and expect US to pay for corporate-welfare taxes, wars, infrastructure ....

GOPlutocrats' OldCrow civil war to enslave & disenfranchise US from Government is treasonous totalitarian tyranny.

GOPlutocrats' trickle-down economics model was never about wealth. Trickle-down has always been about subjugation.

GOPlutocrats want US to be the #1 third world country, because it make US folks easy to exploit.

Governance of institutions (politic, commerce, religion) is good. Tyranny and Slavery the governance of people is bad.

I hope we find intelligent life in The USA Congress, prior to the extinction of US.

In a Republic of plutocrats, gerrymander-rigged elections, money, and lies, well actually it is probable.

Institutions/corporations/governments ... have no life, ethics, honor. Institutions are good or evil humans.

Most of US are embarrassed by SCOTUS & Congress members acting like draconian Muslim clerics.

Past bigots started a civil war. Congress bigots started a subversive class war in 1980. Open class warfare started in 2001.

Proselytize: Religion seeks to feed...educate the poor, not hold government responsible for starvation ....

Reagan like Bush2 were both POTUS front-men for treasonous puppet-masters of GOP.

Real patriotic US Americans are not Atheist, Christians, Jews .... They are free idealistic builders of a better future.

Religions destroy nothing, but most dogma-clerics & minions are guilty of murder, genocide, theft, slavery....

Science requires facts for rational decent. Dogma (gods … politics) truths/views are lucid regurgitation of myth; Hence, no sane decent.

The cast system in the USA is about cast slavery ... not meritocracy. Preservation of wealth is a means to an end.

The GOP services US chattel with gerrymander-rigged elections, money, and lies. Not Really Authentic (NRA) elections for US!

The GOPlutocrats don't hate. Plutocrats are irrational xenophobes. IOW: GOP fears US as a dangerous species; Hence, gun & laws.

The USA is a democratic Republic, much like old Greek City States. The USA is not a Democracy assuring 100% emancipation of US.

The USA is big-government by the Plutocrat-Executives, Dogma-Legislature, and Hive-Judiciary not just the GOP-TP, gods, and NRA

True, I do not doubt that the behavior of many in Congress, though darkly/sickly funny, are the acts of surreptitious bigots.

Unaccountable leaders are masters. Unrepresented people are slaves. Emancipation is never free or secured for posterity.USA

Wrong, gerrymandering, money, and lies elects bad politicians in the USA, and keeps them elected for decades.

20140721

Drugs are bad, War is far damn worse!

War on drugs causes and sustains:
               Criminal underground economics
                              Government corruption financing / bribes.
                              Bank crimes of money laundering and tax evasion
                              Law enforcement personnel deaths and disabilities
                              Low income communities’ exploitation / enslavement
                              More ....

               Public health / welfare catastrophes
                              Spreads diseases HIV, hepatitis, most STDs ...
                              Gang, paramilitary, gun ... violence
                              Long-term hospitalizations / care
                              More ....

               Political / Cultural inequality, excuses, bigotry
                              Excuses for underfunding schools
                              Depressed neighborhood economics
                              Bad teachers ... few police ... no jobs ....

               Criminal exploitation of citizens ....

20140714

Hubris in US Government is blatantly against US

My Question: 
Are the below URLs atypical with some petty political purpose? What other .Gov websites ...?

Armed Services Republicans
     URL:  http://armedservices.house.gov
U.S. House of Representatives, House Armed Services Committee
     URL:  http://democrats.armedservices.house.gov/

Summary:  A house pathologically divided ..., perhaps this hubris should not survive within US.

Typical URLs would be:
U.S. House of Representatives, House Armed Services Committee
     URL:  http://armedservices.house.gov
House Armed Services Committee, Republicans
     URL:  http://armedservices.house.gov/republicans
House Armed Services Committee, Democrats
     URL:  http://armedservices.house.gov/democrats

20140708

RFC: What about cyborgs(human-machines)?

Louis Del Monte is rather parochial in estimates that machine intelligence will exceed the world's combined human intelligence by 2045.  "Most of the human race will have become cyborgs by the end of this century, is a probability.  The allure will be evolution, because “immortality” is demigod hubris and delusion, because all demigods are mortal. 

Human-machines (cyborgs) will make breakthroughs in science (theoretical) and engineering (applied), most of the human race “MIGHT” have more leisure time, be enslaved a/o dead, and a few or all will have it better.

The concern, I'm raising is that cyborgs are human-machines, but silly legacy science-fiction has cyborgs as the future Frankenstein’s monsters unpredictable and dangerous.  "Human-machines (cyborgs) are self-conscious and have the capabilities to protect themselves and protect, love, help ... others and evolution. 

The cyborgs IMO will view us/others in the same way any human does, very naturally.  "Humans/Cyborgs are synergistic species that can save the world twice over, and make us humans far better." 

Appealing roommates to me consider unknowns essential sustenance for synergy and evolution of intelligent species.  Fear is a four letter word that is actually obscene to humans/cyborgs.

20140609

Militias in the USA

Organized militia consists of “State” (non-federal) militia forces; the “State” National Guard is a Militia.  The “State” National Guard is not to be confused with the USA (Federal) National Guard of the United States, which is a US Army reserve military force.

Reserve militia are “State” (non-federal) militia forces, unorganized militia consisting of “Every” able-bodied citizen (Men & Women) of ages 17yo to 45yo.

Unorganized militia includes all USA former members of the Federal armed forces that may be called back to Federal Service (No Age Limits).

Past “Corporate, Federal, State and local” historical tyrannical massacres in the 1900s; such as’ “Ludlow, Colorado” by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company militia (many others in US History), Army Chief of Staff “General Douglas MacArthur” in command of US Army infantry, cavalry, and tanks despotically attacked the Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children on the Washington, DC Mall, State militia on Kent State ... just a few examples of our History [We must get better for all US!].  Militias indicate rights/laws are compliant with Corporate, Federal, State and local powers of the time and place.  A well regulated Federal “National Guard and Reserve” militia is essential to US and assures Citizens protect US Citizens from unlawful orders of elite plutocrats.

The 50 States of the USA do have the right to have a militia, but when any militia (non-LEO) organized group attacks US Citizens we are in a State of Civil War.  Federal, State, and Local controlled Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) and Emergency Responder personnel have the right to lethal force protection of life when arresting law breakers and preventing property destruction.

I would like to avoid the next massacre of USA Citizens by USA Citizens, because of foolish dogmatic agendas that you, I, or politician/cleric may espouse as some sort of personally-appropriate fact to justify a private militia.