What Would Reconstruction of North Korea Cost?

If Dictator Kim Jong Un opens the economic and social flood gates billions and billions of dollars of investments in physical infrastructure to support business inevitably will surge into North Korea. North Korea will develop state of the art infrastructure for communications and transportation one might guess because of the lack of contemporary ossified infrastructure. South Korea will probably be as large a factor of investment as was West Germany in East Germany after reunification.

West Germany invested more than $1.7 trillion dollars in East Germany, and bringing North Korea up to speed may cost just somewhat less; perhaps a trillion dollars, over a decade or so. Without South Korean investment in the North with the prospect of reunification, the pace of mass infrastructure would find it difficult to support all the business investments' need for infrastructure. Business is a head with no body to support it in most cases outside pure colonial style exploitation of raw resources with only the most minimal infrastructure needed for resource acquisition.

http://www.dw.com/en/eastern-germany-is-western-germanys-trillion-euro-bet/a-6016271

This may be a blind spot in President Trump's point of view toward creating free markets and trade in North Korea. And it is unlikely that the United States can afford to create a 'Marshall Plan' for North Korea that would develop a new technology of microwave toilet systems and pure drinking water. It may be able to afford some ecological rescue investments and a few billion dollars for reconstruction yet one sees how the Puerto Rico rebuild went; costly and time consuming.

After the four leaders (including Dennis Rodman) win their Nobel Prize for Peace, the reality of the cost of rebuilding the north will set in. Its worth the cost.

California May Split into Three States

A proposal to split California into three states has reached the ballot. Plainly California is a leftist entity that is a rotting place unto-itself politically. It would be far better off with three states more able to distinguish themselves from, and compete politically with, themselves in order to find a better place in the sun.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/13/california-three-states-plan-okd-for-november-ballot.html

Though it is unlikely that Californians would have the initiative to create three states instead of the present giant, unwieldy malfunctioning neon-leftist pseudo-nation since people usually are pacific and like to ride the inertial bureaucratic waves until they break, plainly it would be a good thing i it did.

The three states would need to go through a period of federal control as territories before petitioning to join the union. Probably the Congress would vote to admit at least one or two of the territories into the union.

The billionaire spoored initiative to dump the vast right-wing prisons into states other than the southern coastal counties that would keep the name California, obviously is a good idea to benefit Hollywood and Beverly Hills residents. Initiative arises from the most unexpected sources.

Nobel for Trump, Un and Rodman for Reducing War Games Greenhouse Gassing?

Halting War Games Reduces Greenhouse Gassing in Korea

An unintended collateral benefit of the promise of President Trump to skip holding war games in Korea this year is curtailing emission of copious greenhouse gases from military vehicles. Though the U.S. Army has tried to present a greener motor infrastructure there is still a lot of filthy diesel exhaust from military tailpipes. High performance in power combat platforms can use a lot of gas. Tanks may have thousand horsepower and up engines and all that greenhouse gassing exhaust is added to the atmosphere.

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/391941-trump-stokes-confusion-with-pledge-to-halt-war-games

If you consider the war games as human activities designed to accelerate global warming they are somewhat inefficient. Tens of thousands of soldiers running about and sailors and airmen turning up dust or placing pollution high in the atmosphere. Still, the concatenated effete is substantial. Hence it is good that the President promised to halt the war games this year and allow both North and South Korea to continue developing commercial and family ties.

The Singapore summit of Kim Jong (Rocketman) Un and President Donald Trump was just the start of what could be progress toward normalizing relations and ending the state of war that continues in spite of the recent rapprochement. Korea does not need the threat of nuclear war developing and the North should recognize that and enjoy the benefits of peace instead. The United States does not actually need much practice to launch a variety of stand-off weapons anyway if the North chose to attack the south.

Though the Nobel Committee had to cancel this year because of potential ignoble conflict of interests, if there was a Peace Prize it should go to Dennis Rodman, Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un together for fine work in wild diplomacy.

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