We have a medical field that is mostly government and a a little bit free market and look at the complete shambles it is. Tell me you honestly believe that we can spend our way out of debt and I will leave you alone. If we don’t make drastic cuts and limit Federal spending we are going to follow Argentina and the USSR, both created hyper inflation and a complete loss of any value in their “Fiat” currency. The facts are there, and we are almost there, it’s time to admit we failed cut the credit cards, or file for Bankruptcy… which would make our “way of life” very unpopular with pretty much everyone. You become the worlds scape goat when you are the worlds bank and the worlds police. (2 things that many American’s hate as well…)
Time for all of us to face the music, and many people are going to lose, but Health Care is already out of control and horrible, and the baby boomer generation is the burden we are all going to have to bare. So let’s get on with the proceedings rather than keep making it worse by borrowing more…
The premise of this point is that we are all human, we are all citizen’s of the US and we are all being screwed by the people that run the government. It’s pretty simple, and it’s pretty sad. To say that one of us 99% actually has the power to look down on one the other 98% means pretty much nothing. The reality is that we are pawns fighting for the scraps while the upper crust cuts and runs with our freedoms and our our money. Black, white, brown and yellow we are all fellows. So let’s get this cultural revolution started and vote in someone who sounds like a nut because he is challenging the status quo. Newt to Obama, no one is offering a solution that makes any sense. Don’t give more power to the same people that got us here. They have proven themselves to be failures.
At least the Ronulan’s are willing to fight for what they believe in, and understand who’s to blame. Some of the occupiers understand as well, but don’t know where to focus their frustration. The best place to do it is the ballot box, the twitter pages, the blogs. We don’t need guns we need peaceful resistance with a unified mind and a fire in our souls. Don’t right off your brother because he has a different opinion. Ask him to explain it and set him right if you feel compelled to do so. No need to insult him with names or belittle his race… Look to MLK and Gandhi for inspiration.
Here is an example of a young man that really understands the political pressures of our culture. Read the comments for extra credit: If Ron Paul is Racist then…
You may here something about inflation being almost 95%? That sounds bad right?
Except…..
Per capita disposable personal income, adjusted for inflation, increased
566% from 1933 to 2008, and has more than doubled since 1971. A dollar
invested in the stock market at the beginning of 1933 would have been
worth $2,513 at the end of 2008 – adjusted for inflation, that’s a real
increase of 15,660%. A dollar invested at the beginning of 1971 would
have been worth $33 at the end of 2008, or a 525% inflation-adjusted
increase.
I guess if you discount wage growth for the general
population, a rise in living expectations for the population, and a
general enlargement of the economy.
Who is “The Fed?” A private bank that owns the right to print US money in the interest that is all American. Below is the list of the current functions of the Federal Reserve System, which include:[7][31]
To address the problem of banking panics
To serve as the central bank for the United States
To strike a balance between private interests of banks and the centralized responsibility of government
To supervise and regulate banking institutions
To protect the credit rights of consumers
To manage the nation’s money supply through monetary policy to achieve
the sometimes-conflicting goals of maximum employment stable prices,
including prevention of either inflation or deflation[32]
moderate long-term interest rates
To maintain the stability of the financial system and contain systemic risk in financial markets
To provide financial services to depository institutions, the U.S.
government, and foreign official institutions, including playing a major
role in operating the nation’s payments system
To facilitate the exchange of payments among regions
In summary, the GSM Association spokeswoman writes, “The overall advice
for GSM calls and fixed line calls is the same. Neither has ever offered a
guarantee of secure communications. The great majority of users will make calls
with no reason to fear that anyone might be listening. However users with
especially high security requirements should consider adding extra, end to end
security features over the top of both their fixed line calls and their mobile
calls.”
And finally this gentleman teaches you how to setup a VPN to your home computer which is the only way to protect yourself from the above mentioned WIFI Sniffing airplane.
The author of this article in Forbes is a very intelligent man. His name is Peter Schiff and he accurately predicted the Economic deflation that was 2008. His words are well chosen, he is an alarmist but with good reason. He is an Austrian economist who has proven his self through his own wealth accumulation in the international market.
Needless to say things don’t look good, but at least we are paying attention:
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The man that makes your phone just a little cooler than the next guys is outed by a reporter in this Forbes story. With a little intrusion of privacy the veil of secrecy of the Iphone “Jailbreaker” is pulled away.
Jailbreaking is basically a nice way to to say you are throwing all of the restrictions of the Apple enforced iPhone limits to the wind. Through a stroke of “Genius” and more than a few Red Bulls a 19 year old kid named Nicholas Allegra, has been able to stay one step ahead of Apple. Amazingly enough he is from the US.
a snippet from the linked Forbes article:
“To appreciate JailbreakMe’s brilliance, consider how tightly Steve Jobs locks down his devices: Since 2008, Apple has implemented a safeguard called “code-signing” to prevent hackers from running any of their own commands on its mobile operating system. So even after an attacker finds a security bug that gives him access to the system, he can only exploit it by reusing commands that are already in Apple’s software, a process security researcher Dino Dai Zovi has compared to writing a ransom note out of magazine clippings.”
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The idea of Face Book having a half life of 2 years sound ridiculous, but it is plausible with the finicky public. Is FaceBook really a revolution or just part of an evolution? They do know how to turn a profit selling other people data. But is the market really $1 Billion? Does elephant in the room (Google) have the next big “wave” with their platform? The idea of monetizing ad content is a big task, Google figured out the secret sauce, but most haven’t. The consumer is a very slippery fish, always moving to the next shiny object. It’s what propels our country ahead. So it’s about to be a showdown in cyber town as these 2 monoliths scramble to gain your hard earned demographics.
In the following video from Forbes, Vivek Wadhaw throws his hat into the speculators ring with this these statements:
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Jesse T. Sturgis I’d like to applaud the city of Missoula for going with more sidewalks and less Higgins!! May I suggest handing out sidewalk chalk when the work is done?
What are we referring to here? Did they eliminate another lane on some important street so that it makes it even more impossible to get around with out a 15 minute rush hour? I am all for bikes, in the summer, but we live in Montana so that only works for 4 months out of the year…Or I’m just sticking my foot in my mouth and you are referring to the Milwaukee trail build out… lol
Oh, I am indeeeeeeed happy about less Higgins. In fact, I think they should just make the whole thing into a sidewalk from the Xs all the way to Main. Sorry – park and walk, sucker!
It just seems to me that being unreasonable (forcing people to walk in knee deep snow or wait in 30 minutes of traffic to shop) doesn’t seem to make any sense.
People drive; denying that fact doesn’t make it go away. And confining hundreds of people into one lane while all the stores are going out of business on Higgins seems counter intuitive. I don’t see them spending the money on projects that would bring in more business only spending money on unnecessary changes. What about tax relief to new stores, so we could rent out some of those empty spaces? Or a national campaign that will bring in visitors to our local shops? With no stores and even less jobs for people to shop with I am afraid they are rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic. Just because some appointed official and some short sightedness want to push their agenda we are now all punished to give up technology and dodge long boarders and bums on the only main street we have. Let me guess the next step is to remove the middle lanes on Reserve and and setup a hippy commune at Target? hehehe Ok I am just being outlandish but I am serious that this is a bad thing for the economic prosperity of the community. We aren’t Boulder, (we are much cooler) so maybe we should stop trying to emulate them…OK that was my 32 cents, you want frys with that shake?
I’m gonna land somewhere in the middle. Higgins is essentially a dead end street. Making it into a walking mall from Main to the Xs makes total sense. Removing lanes, however, will only make the traffic on what’s left of it more congested.
Broadway is a perfect example of how stupid eliminating lanes can be. Arguably, the old fat Broadway was lacking in bike lanes and it was a lot of pavement for Trail’s End patrons to navigate on foot while stumbling home. However, we now have ridiculously dense, stupidly slow-moving traffic on the skinny part of Broadway, cars racing one another to merge at either end where fat meets thin, and increased traffic on Toole/Pine which is more lacking in bike/ped accommodations than the old Broadway was.
But that’s just my opinion. I’m about as lefty as you can get, but I just can’t generally get behind road diets unless they are supported by robust increases in public transportation options.
Yeah Ben has added a little sense into my rant. Broadway scares me, they keep reducing our pavement for a growing number of cars and have cut off entire sections of route that served a purpose in hopes of pushing us out of our cars and into rickshaws. Now that traffic has been pushed off Broadway and onto Russel and 3rd street. And honestly my biggest issue is that they are spending this money on “upgrades” while we have 3rd street turning into almost a 1 lane pot hole that is incredibly scary to drive down on a bike. (I know I do it all the time) But with no Path to get from here to Higgin’s without taking 3rd on I have to risk being crushed in the name of progress. (Honestly there is enough room to add a feasible bike path and safer road edges, just not the money, gosh where did it go…?)
Sure you say, it worked at Malfunction Junction and they have the numbers to prove it. Until you drive down it, its a cluster where you can’t ever turn left, ask the stores that have gone out of business since the enacted the Loopdydoops. Yes we all drive through BlackJack Pizza to get to our Massage School and Tanning salon… lol
And now, my tax dollars at work mean that I now can’t run to Taco Del Sol because I would have to park 10 minutes away and still pay for it. Does anyone know how much this “progress” costs us local tax payers?
wow. Not a single mention of public transportation. I know it isn’t really on the table, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be.
I don’t remember the last time we had knee deep snow.
Bicycles are an option 12 months a year-don’t give me the we live in MT bs- I’ve been biking everywhere 365 days a year for 6 years on a 40-year old cruiser. I’m not a hippy. Pedestrian friendly higgins helps keep it from becoming north reserve and north reserve is why higgins has empty stores. Money that goes into north reserve, leaves the state, I don’t see how anyone, especially community focused conservatives, think that’s a good idea.
If you don’t like third, take fourth-it’s very pleasant.
Don’t knock roundabouts they’re better for your car and the environment and safety.
Not that I’m a total fan of the higgins project. Bike lane between parked cars and the sidewalk? So pedestrians have to dodge bicyclists and vise versa? How about a bike that has to turn left at an intersection?
On the taxpayer note: I’m pretty sure the Farmers’ Market, People’s Market, and Clark Fork Market generate more revenue for Missoula then a lot of downtown businesses, and they’re growing bigger every year. I don’t like to see local business close any more than anyone else, but I don’t think narrowing Higgins will hurt them that bad, and it will help out the street markets and other downtown community events immensely. I do agree with Ben that it would be better to just turn the whole thing into a walking mall – maybe one day!!
And yes, Steve, public transportation and bikes all the way.
yep, i’m with steve guy and jesse guy on this one. parking downtown is a bitch. that’s why i don’t do it. parking just outside of downtown and walking a few blocks is NOT THAT BAD 99% of the time (unless of course you have a handicap, in which case you should get first dibs as usual). we will never accomplish anything (ie. getting people to drive less) by just accepting it. and i’d also like to give a shout out, while we’re on the subject, to my fellow bernice’sians for winning the commuter challenge and earning our free cones at big d, what?!
Steve, I appreciate were your coming from… But i have to say you take a very narrow view of the situation. First, I frequently purchase groceries at Worden’s and after 2 six packs and 2 bags of groceries a bike is no longer and option. (Please don’t say that I can add racks and tow it around using a child carrier in the snow all the way back to Reserve and 3rd, I’m just not that skilled at biking…)
Second, I live by third and work in Lolo, I am not going to risk my life to ride a bike on 93 and take 2 hours out of every work day to bike home in a suit in the rain. My job requires that I look presentable, biking wouldn’t provide me that option, so as you can see it’s just not reasonable for me.
Third which to me is the biggest: I have two cyclist friends who bike all weather. One hit a patch of ice and broke both of his forearms on a curb, the second was hit by a car on a side street like 4th. (He has since recovered after the hit and run.) Call it BS but saying that you can Bike 12 months out of the year is BS. Perhaps you can because of your location and your no doubt superior biking skills can pull you through, but alas that isn’t viable for the the mass majority of others who have to work a full time job outside of their general area.
Mass transportation is a viable option… Except that we already have a Propane Powered Bus system and it’s subsidized because they aren’t profitable, simply because people don’t use it. Perhaps you are thinking of light rail or trolley? Our town isn’t big enough to support a Bus much less a light trolley, but I am open to ideas.
As for the Reserve issue, you say that most of the money from Reserve goes out of state. Without those jobs and those companies paying taxes on wages locally, this whole discussion would be moot. Without these stores there wouldn’t be enough money to support this idea, because Missoula wouldn’t have enough money without raising property taxes, making it even more expensive to live here…which is a major issues for locals already. (Which of course would have detrimental effects on businesses and persons.
As for the Markets, once again, most of those people don’t pay taxes on the goods they sell there. I was there this weekend and bought some belt buckles and jewelery for $25 total. I didn’t see a cash register, I just saw the booth gals put the money in their pocket. I’m sure they will claim that on their W2 though… lol. And in addition several farmers markets don’t pay rent, they lease a booth for a day. Hardly enough revenue to support the entire downtown renovations, but perhaps I am wrong and the Sausage guy is making a killing and reporting correctly! (I honestly don’t know…)
Lastly I am not sure where people are going to park outside of downtown, with the removal of all the parking from downtown, those people have to park somewhere… I guess by the skate park in that open lot. I’m open to that, but once again, no popping by Wordens for a quick jelly bean run, it would add 30 minutes to the walk time. I guess I just need more time in the day and none of this would be a problem…
TED Talks Craig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they’ve created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He explains how they did it and why the achievement marks the beginning of a new era for science.
Imagine an algae that consumes carbon dioxide and emits hydrogen or some other compound that we could use as fuel. But yes creating super fine PMS free women is the ultimate goal.
Yeah but you need a Barbie doll or something to scan, so you can program the Ginormous Tata’s and huge lips. Lol Hmm this is starting to arouse and scare me at the same time!
Or start from scratch! GCATTACGATGA (repeat a few billion times) getting the sequence just right and boot that Ginormous Tata, big liped biotch up literally. It is now possible though very very very far in the future before you could see ultraviolet or breathe underwater or have eye in the back of your head.
Yeah I just like how they did a little meta tag editing so you can search up this on Google.com by using the Website/email they embedded in its DNA. lol i guess far in the future when we have millions of these it will be important to know who’s virus/bacteria is whose. It will break down like this:
“I think I got a rash on my junk from Julia Stevens.”
“How do you know?”
“Electron microscoped it and her Facebook address is on it.”
“I wonder if she knows?”
“Umm she programmed the thing, I hope so!”
Ahh the future is so bright, I have to wear shades! And a rubber!
INBOX: <%You%> the rash found on your back on 06/10/2073 was identified as Rickrolled01012015 please load the attached file into your DNA sequencer and apply for 3 days.
In essence a Virus is basically doing the same thing but on the fly, it replaces your cell’s DNA with it’s own and starts producing itself using your cell’s Mitochondria and RNA. This is simply doing it with a human interface. So Chris if you receive a vial from Montana with a letter that reads open and brief deeply, DO IT! It’s for your own good, and it will enlarge your Ganglia!
A virus does not really fall into the kingdom of Life. It can’t replicate itself on its own as you pointed out. We have synthesized virus’s for quite a while now, but creating self replicating living organisms from code and the four base chemicals is something totally new for us. The possibilities are just as endless and the variety of life on this planet and more. And since it is possible to be created by man it has to be occurring so frequently throughout the universe that we have to conclude that life is just as common as noble gasses.
Sure with the right EVERYTHING in place, (food, air, etc…) and intelligent life creating it we all knew it would be eventually possible to do it. The fact that it happened without intelligent design which I think your stating is pretty much incredible and damn near impossible almost, (dare i say it?) A miracle! hehe I like the fact that we understand enough to create miracles now!
This is certainly one step further from the magical man in sky explanation for how life began. Miracle? If research, extensive trial and error and hard work are your definition of a miracle, then a miracle it is. If the instruction to replicate life were written in clouds for all to see, then i would call that pretty miraculous and unexplainable.
It appears it took life to create life didn’t it? Therefore this is an act of god if humans were created by god. This appears to be a great example of how well God made us. We were able to replicate some of his practices. Once I see how new threads of life is “magically/accidentally” created outside of a lab I’ll be a nonbeliever! hehe.
This Proof of Concept is certainly not the elegant solutions we will see coming in the future. If you look back on early attempts at flight you will see we mimicked what was found in nature. As we proved it possible, we refined our techniques and now man can attain altitudes that no other creatures on this planet can match. If we are going to keep going back to this god issue, let me just say. I do not want to follow your god, but rather the god that created him, nay the god the created the god that created your god. This infinite regress is the core problem with gods. Attributing everything to a god and stopping there, is just intellectual laziness and does our species no favors. I do not believe because the evidence does not support the existence of one. Believing or not believing in gravity does not allow you to fly, in fact your beliefs on the matter no matter how much you wish, pray or insist will not change gravity’s affect on you. Only using science (rockets, space suits, fuels) can we escape gravity’s effects.
Hehe, I don’t want you to follow my God, or your God or any other God, in fact I don’t really care what your beliefs are. The nice thing about your argument is that you don’t have to prove anything. You can just say any statement because you don’t have any belief except “Magically/Accidentally” we are here.
But: Your logic is flawed in several places. God made man, therefore when we build rockets and reach the heavens, HE created beings that can reach space. So if he made us and we made rockets, he made a being that can go to space.
And your also assuming he didn’t create the heavens and therefore our very limited knowledge of our surroundings, you assume that he didn’t create other beings that we don’t know about. Very human centric, I thought you believed in Aliens!?
I’m not sure what your rant about God’s creating gods is all about, I never claimed that your god created my God or anything of the sort. But I’ll let you continue on that path, but I won’t join ya…
I have seen miracles in my life that were very tangible and evidence for enough for me. Granted you haven’t but you also haven’t prayed, and if one did happen you would attribute it to luck, so that’s a non starter as well.
And Gravity is a great example. What is it? You can prove that it works after it has an effect but you and science can’t explain anything more than it seems to be affected by mass…Although you know it exists you can’t touch it, smell it, or anything else but observe its effect on your life and others, but you assume it exists…Kind of like God.
I don’t even know where to start, you used to be a pretty rational thinker. Believing something to be true because a great number of people do, is a logical fallacy.
A sure sign sure sign of a logical fallacy is starting a sentence with ” God made man, therefore”.Where is the Proof of this? Reducing every explanation of why things are to “Well god made” is lazy and begs the question.
Who created god? God’s just don’t create themselves right? So for a god to exist a god of greater power must have created it. Right? This concept is called an infinite regress.
Keep believing in your god, unicorns, flying teapots, magical supernatural beings, Aliens etc. Let me guess….. All those billions and billions fossils are just there to test our collective faiths? And we and the universe are only 6 thousand years old as the book that serves as the basis for your universe are written on?
Yes gravity is a great example, science has not mastered it and therefore it is a working theory and not a fact. You can observe gravity as follows 1. look directly up. 2. form a mouthful of spit. 3. attempt to spit straight up. 4. observe the effects of gravity.
Now that I have helped you with gravity. Please provide some methods to test and observe “the theory of god”?
It’s clear your skimming and not reading the whole thread before you decide to answers questions nobody asked.
And then yo did avoid my questions and then spent your last 10 minutes writing a diatribe about how to test gravity, ignoring the fact that I said it’s observable in everyday life but still you can’t prove or show what it is. Then you argue that there must have been a god creator because you want to use regressive logic to disprove something. But I am not claiming immaculate conception, but you are claiming that life somehow was created out of nothing. Which has never ever been seen, proven or created in a lab. even this life you think proves something was created with 1000′s of scientific minds working to create something. Not some primordial goop that had some elements in it that happened to start life. That is an even farther stretch than knowing that a creator put in place the things that created us. He created dinosaurs, and all the other things that you listed off. They just prove the incredible being that he is. And before you go Darwin on me, evolution happens. Even inter species evolution can happen, but not once has a new species just popped up on it’s own they are all traced back to other sources…unless you have some evidence to the contrary. in which we need to get you a PHD and a Nobel.
If you were to ever embrace the Judeo/Christian god you would know that he is everything, and if he is everything (earth, water, space…) then he has no start or end. I know its difficult for some people to embrace the idea that somethings don’t have a start or an end. I’m pretty sure you believe in Time and that it exists: but you have to realize that time has no start or end, just points at which we place significance. Even if we didn’t keep track of it, time would exist for eternity whether you are around to observe it or not.
Lack of discovery doesn’t prove that something doesn’t exist. (Gravity) And just to be clear, I don’t believe that Heaven and hell exist, so I don’t subscribe to Believe in God or your damned to hell. You will simply die like everyone else!
What I am sensing here is that you have clearly become a reverse evangelical and decided to force your beliefs on me, while I am able to accept the fact you think that life was an accident and created itself against all logic and just appeared in a pond somewhere. You can’t even entertain the idea that maybe there is something out there bigger than you and me…
