seasteading idea

i've become a fan of the seasteading movement. personally, i enjoy land too much

anyway, they could use the pacific garbage island as building material

• it floats


• it's free


• it's already on location


• there's lots of it


• it's green (reduce, reuse, recycle)

you just need a compactor to make the floating block sizes uniform, some big zip ties; and a big boat until the first sustainable structure is formed

i for one welcome our new chinese overloards

total rant alert

we may transition from a totalitarian production hating nation to a totalitarian production loving nation. at least that's a move in the right direction

my understanding has been that the chinese strategy has been to acquire technology (means) and produce products more efficiently in a highly controlled system. this removes the r&d cost from production. and this is why they are a manufacturing powerhouse. but ideas for products still originate elsewhere (like the US). why? well imho, it's cuz of our history of freedom. the free market and free people create a wealth of ideas, which then improves competition in the marketplace of ideas - which makes human life more better. but it requires freedom, and freedom isn't free. so, as this situation persists we will continue to see the arbitrage of ideas from the (somewhat) free market to the (mostly) captured market and we'll see calcification, stagnation, and oppression

so, what to do? guard r&d. produce!

oh, and i been thinking that collectivism is good for one thing - group violence. and it's already pervasive and effective in the armed forces. kinda want a one for all attitude there - probably shouldn't change that. that's why those institutions should retain their main mandate: to defend the constitution (a document which was intended to shine freedom through parchment) at minimal cost. to fund the military i recommend a tax on matter at market value (ala geo-libertarianism) which would help insure efficient use of resources. but, imo, we need to cut everything outside of Nozic's night watchman state

oh, and afghanistan is prolly really about fighting china. and china is prolly using tibet as a buffer against india - which is why it's a sore topic. i have some info to suggest that those problems in northern mexico & arizona are the russian/chinese response. and that's why the cia is in the drug business, and that it's illegal. if it's illegal, the gov can easily confiscate any drugs that are not sanctioned by the gov. if they didn't sell them, or make them illegal it would make the gov less strategically viable. that is - if it's not just because they're rotten to the core

energy everywhere

i keep hearing rumors about a new energy solution and i just wanted to rant on it; though i don't have much

there's energy everywhere. mass is energy ala e=mc^2, so you and everything you're in contact with holds immense energy. currently, nuclear reactions are the only way we know of to harness that energy which has rare reactants and severe consequences. but there's energy everywhere: the sun, the gravitational pull of the moon and its effects on tides, waves, wind, thermal, terrestrial and extraterrestrial electromagnetic power including lightning. there's even plenty of the existing legacy energy sources (hydro, coal, oil, natural gas)

there are problems, though, with harnessing, transporting, and translating energy. take hydro - potential energy stored in water is translated to kinetic energy, translated to electric energy by a generator in a dam, then translated to sound and light energy by your bube tube. instead, you could just have a little nuclear reactor built into your tv and never need to plug in

my understanding is that tesla had learned how to transmit energy around the globe and harness it anywhere - and wanted to give receivers to the people (or give the building instructions away for free). my guess is that we can find a way to harness energy already propagating around the world, possibly store it in batteries, and use it as we like

update: we'll probably also soon see genetically modified bacteria and/or yeast that break down common waste or matter (eg poor soil), optionally using (modified) photosynthesis, to produce an easily combustible hydrocarbon (natural gas, oil, etc). they'll probably start with plastic

bulls make money, bears make money

if you're a bull, eventually you'll be right. ditto for bears. the bears have it right now - and for good reason. but if history holds, it is in the depths of a downturn where, if you have the wherewithal to start a new business - you may see the most success. however, knowing that may be delaying people (esp gov) from making the changes needed to allow us to get back on track

my parents wanted me to be a doctor. one of the common sayings i heard from doctors was, "you have to hurry up and cure them before they get better on their own". sticking leeches on, or blood letting makes sense in that context - you get credited with the remedy even when making the situation worse. and that's what, imo, we're seeing right now. some folks expecting the economy to get better because it should be able to heal itself, while others see that the gov is sticking more leeches on, recommending letting another litre of blood, and charging the patient extra for the service. this one may not make it, and anyone who sees bears but pre-emptively predicts and plans for a bull - well they're pigs, and we know what happens to them

Renaissance 2.0 - must watch

from celente