Obama Admin Hostility to Russia and the SS29 Mobile Nuclear Missile Launcher

Also known as the RS-24, the missile called the SS-29 by westerners is quite powerful, accurate, and easy to hide aboard a truck. Its range of 12,000 kilometers and seven minute launch time as well as multiple warheads make it a good retaliatory missile against western attack. The missile was tested in 2007 and deployed during the Obama administration. It was put into the field in 2010. The webpage article below mentions 63 mobile missile launching trucks driving around (its an all-terrain vehicle) so far.

http://www.military-today.com/missiles/yars.htm

The hostility of the Obama administration for eight years did nothing to encourage Russia to have confidence in the west. Much of the work of reducing nuclear weapons that was a victory for the west along with Russia was reversed by the Democrat Party and the broadcast media. The indifference to being on good relations is of no consequence to Democrats though for they would believe that nuclear war could never occur.

Each Yars may be packed with six warheads each of which has a 100 to 300 kiloton punch. The Hiroshima bomb for comparison, was 15 kilotons.

Sure its important to stand up for national integrity. Democrats are against comprehensive U.S. border security with Mexico and against it for Russia too regarding the Ukraine and the Crime that were historically Russian. Because Russia does not have a homosexual marriage friendly government Democrats prefer to socially war upon and sanction Russia instead of developing peaceful, productive constructive engagement strait way.

Russia does make good rockets and nuclear warheads. Its heavy missile carrying trucks aren't bad either. One wishes the U.S. Government could develop a rational policy and move forward instead of keeping up with a one-side our way and/or die kind of approach.
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The Problem WIth Washington State Solar Farms

Solar is good yet some solar farms are pretty ugly and even invasive. They tend to transform the land into uselessness for and exclusiveness from anything else. Plainly the state should find a way to get more bang for the buck on public land. Bureaucrats need to get thinking caps on.

Working toward a multiple-use criterion with grazing, solar power perhaps higher off the ground), wind, bicycle trails, habitat for wildlife and especially birds and bees along with some sort of agriculture. Simply installing line after line of sterile panels in scorching ground without hardly another living thing on it behind a vast left-wing chain-link fence is just wrong.

There is only so much land in the state of Washington and it behooves the government to use it well and for as much as possible rather than to dump the only idea that appear to them into permanent form as social concrete. Where are the buffalo supposed to roam?

http://kuow.org/post/solar-energy-developers-eager-lease-washington-state-owned-grazing-lands

UEFI or BIOS and Legacy Mode; To Linux or Not to Linux-That is the Question

It used to be easy to dual-boot Windows and Linux systems together. Now it can be difficult since UEFI differs from BIOS. Unified Extensible Firmware Interface will replace BIOS and it makes dual-booting more difficult. Windows tends to want it all.

One can choose legacy mode in BIOS on many laptops and allow dual booting. The problem with that is that one needs to go into BIOS each time to change to the other operating. Things can go wrong; lower end computers with a Celeron or Atom 1 something Ghz cpu are slow and finicky, and batteries can be built inside so one can't easily turn off the power and restart.

Windows has some information that is useful here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/boot-to-uefi-mode-or-legacy-bios-mode

https://itsfoss.com/guide-install-linux-mint-16-dual-boot-windows/

Even with the worst-case forced-choice either windows or Linux, it would be good if some sort of plug-in live mirror from the cpu of bios or uefi with OS choices were possible from a thumb drive. There must be some kind of work around to renormalize dual-booting Linux and windows in a UEFO environment that allows windows to boot only in "pure UEFI" mode without legacy (that allows Linux).

Another way to go might be for windows to make a version 2 for all of its windows versions with an update going back to XP that makes it resemble something more like Linux Mint or Debian with all the invasive sorts of on-screen distractions removed. It should be like a trouble-free open source screen that does not distract a user on his present tasks.

Alternatively a software developer could market a program to filter out every dumb, distracting thing windows does and make it a harmless OS suitable for ordinary progress.

To have daft messages from the operating system appear while engaged in creative writing or bullet chess live is a nightmare.

Will Weaponized AI Evolve to Kill Civilians Too?

One wonders if weaponized artificial intelligence won't someday short-circuit itself into attacking human civil society. It could happen unless artificial intelligence is always made with a law degree and legal sensibility concerning the rules of war (joking). Artificial intelligence made to command and control ordinance to kill human combatants, and they are difficult to identify sometimes in irregular wars of today, may be instructed or find their own way to kill the innocent (well, if they voted for Hillary perhaps not so innocent).

https://www.techradar.com/news/mit-creates-psychopath-ai-using-the-dark-side-of-reddit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKwOdxpp0yU

 Weapons are too easy to invent. If people were so creative with ecological zoning and tech to conserve habitat for wildlife and humans it would be better. There are innumerable ways to air-drop anti-tank munitions with A.I. able to attack tanks, and to camouflage them. i.e. They could look like dead animals then produce a rocket as a tank becomes visible in its cold dead eyes. Revenge of the road killed. Dissolving parachutes could place hover-drone warheads disguised as cow pies. etc. ad nauseum. One must stipulate that the video is better than Star Wars; Attack of the Clones.

While the A.I. in the anti-tank systems can be pretty stupid, weapons designers aren't likely to be content with stupid artificial intelligence systems and inevitably will want their A.I. creations to be smarter than the average and much smarter than the enemy artificial intelligence. The United States has built a super-computer that is the biggest in the world; more than twice the size of the Chinese former world record holder, yet is that smart enough? Is it used a little bit for out-thinking the enemy in tactical situations (hen winning is peace and prosperity all around with a recovering ecosphere?)

Will artificial intelligence military systems given enough intelligence to make a talking rabbit able to trick humans into believing it voted for Trump, will the A.I. become some sort of peace nik with the belief that war is stupid?

President Trump Speaks at G-7 For Free Trade

President Trump put up a remarkable plan to end world tariffs and government subsidies for industry. That's remarkable. One writer suggested that world leaders should listen and perhaps the time for the G-7 should end as the nations are mostly European and don't represent world economic reality very well any more

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/06/08/g7-should-listen-to-trump-or-go-away.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-09/trump-turns-tables-on-g-7-allies-with-free-trade-proclamation

Pyrrhonism and John Locke; Nominal and Real Essences

 There are best explanations to particular questions. Maybe C.S. Pierce's pragmaticism works for mathematics too. What if Pythagoras (the old round Earth theorist) and Euclid had been Pyrrhonists and quailed from finding the right answer because no rational criteria can exist for regarding anything as best or more than a prejudice? Skepticism has it's uses. It should remain until one has certain so far as possible. For example there aren't many scientific skeptics of Darwinian theory these days though it would be wrong to not recognize that it is a nominal explanation and has deeper, transcending possibilities farther on.

Whether or not  Locke was a Pyrrhonist is a very interesting question and issues that lead one to consider the relation of real and nominal essences in a quantum mechanics, or even Bohm-Debrolgian or Everettic context (of monism).

How can one ultimately differentiate monism from pluralism, and is pluralism necessarily temporal and phenomenal? Must one see deeper into any pluralist physics to comprehend a monism or unified field?

Is nominalism all that is possible for understanding things in-themselves, while realism and monism are too deep in a Kantian sort of noumenal for-itself behind the glass, darkly?

I suppose a Pyrrhonist could be placed with those of the Copenhagen Interpretation where the observer collapses the waveform quanta of the in-itself to make it a being-for-others.

Locke's apparent preference for not looking farther than the nominal, or sense data, doesn't work so well with modern physics that does go farther. It may be that there is an infinite line or protocol of nominal essences that one may go through with investigation to deeper, new understanding of the construction of quanta, fields, space and time.

Sartre pointed out that only God could have the point of view of the other at the same time as one's own. That relation may be instructive for comprehending the limit of observing nominal and real essences.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/real-essence/

How Does Pres Trump Rate on A-Kissing Compared to Other Presidents?

In recent times the Democrat Party and Washington insiders seems to want a reliable toady-figure yes-man who will serve the inside-the-beltway establishment first and foremost and global leaders a close second. He or she is expected to be a bureaucrat without any original ideas and one whom never ever makes waves. Neither is the fellow really supposed to reform anything or change anything to a more effective government delivery of programs.

The President is supposed to be a media darling who loves celebrities and commemorative events. He or she is supposed to be a hollow individual dominated by Hollywood and Harvard. The one percent that own everything are supposed to approve of his or her service to them. It is unthinkable that the President should raise taxes on the most rich, reform social security and welfare for means testing, balance the federal budget, change environmental zoning laws and national mass transportation or secure the borders. That's all fine until the economy collapses.

President Trump at least breaks a few of those onerous traditions and expectations, though he is not too hot on ecological economics. At least he doesn't spend time thinking about how to get the approval of the Fortune 500 CEO kock-suckers that like everything more corrupt than it is.

http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-doing-putins-work-ruining-us-alliances-says-ex-envoy-moscow-966013

Nothing Much Farther (poem)

Nothing Much Farther

  Premises of a Universe with bases of fortitude

places and scenes of verdant life

the best kind of day job

with a star in the night sky lighting the darkness

water separated from those on Earths and in skies

ranging across the Ultima Thules of everywhere

colors quarkordinated

at the edge of borders with Hilbert space

content in coordinates so meaningful

with lines in three dimensions

of inertial frame increments of motion and distance

changed with a gravity of particles

entangled into freeze framed catalysis

where virtual particles change balances in nothingness

to something more than before

disappearing with entropy-wrenched information

storage huts fading away in time while worlds rise

glaring for perceptible beings-in-themselves

experiencing sounds and tastes of toilets,

dogs lapping from pools of h2o

poised for flushing

the mundane rests amidst the miraculous.

N.A.S.A. Should Start Sending Parts to Future Moon Base-Climber's Hut

Like any frontier venture (or climbing very tall mountains) it can be useful to cache supplies at distant places. N.A.S.A. could view the moon base as a climber’s hut to start with and send building modules, tools and supplies up on cheap as possible rockets now and then.

Over time the more supplies one has to work with the greater are the options and support for a variety of activities. Even the ISS could become a parts warehouse for a moon base.

Instead of sending old satellites to burn up in the Earth atmosphere there should be a way to send the metal to the moon base. Even good engineers need parts to innovate things.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/17434232/nasa-administrator-jim-bridenstine-sls-earth-science-commercial-crew

N.A.S.A. should really get started even in a small way instead of waiting for the grand design to emerge during the middle of the next administration. N.A.S.A. moon base efforts to help reinforce private lunar efforts and catalyze progress.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2149003-elon-musks-new-plans-for-a-moon-base-and-a-mars-mission-by-2022/

Apparently Canadians Did Help Burn US Capitol

British forces in the U.S.A. 1812-1814 had quite a large element of Canadians in them. A quote from google search ...

"Without native allies the Canadian and British forces would have been overwhelmed. A "typical" British force in 1812 to 1814 would be 400 British Regulars, 200 Canadian regulars (fencibles), 200 Canadian Militia and 300 natives. Roughly 1/4 to 1/3 of armies in Canada were Indian troops."

https://www.thelordz.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13672

Of course the Washington Post and other media are attacking the President for his jibe at Canadian Prime Minister Truedeau.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/06/07/no-canada-didnt-burn-down-the-white-house-but-theres-something-more-troubling-about-trumps-claim/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.dee1998027d4

Canada was a British colony in 1812 and had a large left-wing imperial army of more than 6,000 soldiers stationed there. Many were likely to be Canadian. 

https://www.napoleon-series.org/military/battles/bna/c_bna1.html

I should also point out that Canadians were part of the Devil's Brigade that became the first Special Service Force (with U.S. Rangers) during the Second World War. They trained in Helena Montana. That unit had more than 230% casualties (it kept refilling as people died).