Alaska State Budget Problems

It's new ideas needed for the new era. It isn't 1974 now. Change constitution to let private schools get equal k-12 funding. Save on education facility and union cost. Cut gov. size & leave PFD alone. Support wind,solar and geothermal instead of oil. Build rainshelter for homeless to sleep under near bridge. Act like a supporter of free enterprise instead of Rube Goldberg oil schemes.

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Democrats Helped Concentrate Wealth

Obama signed permanent tax cuts into law and helped concentrate wealth. He used deficit spending to fund government while letting the national infrastructure continue decay. Fewer Americans were employed at the end of his second term than in the past 30 years.

President Roosevelt raised the tax rates on the rich to as high as 75% and created numerous new programs to put people to work and make new national infrastructure. After five years or so of growth there was a recession that was cut short by the need to meet military challenges posed by Germany. President Roosevelt made Americans more optimistic and did bring the nation out of a great depression.

President Reagan took a different policy to stimulate a national mired in what was called the Carter malaise. That was the very high interest rates and inflation along with the protracted Iranian hostage crisis following the rather dismal conclusion of the Vietnam conflict and the end of the wild and crazy war year protests and counterculture left the nation feeling rather postpartum.

Because President Obama raised debt and cut taxes while letting the infrastructure rot and failing to secure the Mexican border to create significant ground-breaking infrastructure projects though supported the enrichment of Wall Street banks that allowed the rich to grow richer... 

 http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38613488  8 Billionaires as rich as half the world's people) wealth became concentrated in the U.S.A.

The U.S. left acted as if civil rights meant no more than special interest rights for particular constituent classes. The democrat party was encouraged to lose its historical basis during the 50s and 1960s of being concerned primarily with economic class interests and act as if it were still the 1970s, or even the pre-Jim Crowe, pre-1964 civil rights act, pre-Rowe v. Wade era and riot as if Rioter's Lives Matter was all that mattered in the U.S.A.

If the Democrat Party platform was simple to concern itself with raising the economic well-being of those earning $0 to $50,000 regardless of race, gender or perversion it would have its oars in the water at least a little instead of not at all. Democrats should move forward as it once did supporting the idea of national material progress rather than developing cultural multi-personality syndrome seeking to make the nation a global village with donkeys and huts and public markets with lots of dope. President Obama seemed to support retiring as people as early as possible so they could smoke dope and be indifferent to the idea of ecospheric and economic reconstruction with new technological methods.

President Obama bailed out a failing corporation-Chrysler, thereby keeping an air polluting gas guzzling fossil fuel maker in business. Michigan would not even let Tesla sell its cars on other franchised dealer lots in that state and if it could its sales of electric vehicles might increase, yet even so the President pumped up the major source of air pollution in the United States today instead of letting technology advance on the free market as he should have.

A forward thinking President might build a cross-the heart X of Japanese electric bullet trains across the U.S.A. from Seattle to Salt Lake, Albuquerque, Dallas to Jacksonville on one axis and new York to Los Angeles on the other. There would also be a Chicago to New Orleans bullet line.

Instead of reinforcing existing establishment populous corridors and organically building those up with thoughtless, dogmatic inertia that compounds existing social problems and lavishness, the new X bullet lines would allow very low cost trans-continental seasonal migration for the homeless to warm places in the south. Much of the south and Midwest have rural towns with areas that slumped after the 1970s for economic reasons with vacant buildings that could easily be converted to seasonal housing.

Spur lines might connect to the low cost electric train travel to serve additional areas. One would expect that many drivers would choose to leave their fossil fuel vehicle at home and take the train to rent an electric bicycle wherever they go at the distant end.

Wrangell'd Pulp Fiction

I have published a collection of my short science fiction stories and novellas from the early days (with a few more recent) that have some sort of relation to Wrangell Alaska being written there in part at least or mentioning it.

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Principle Threat to U.S. is to Alienate Russia

Why defeat peace and prosperity again? When President Ronald Reagan brilliantly ended the cold war with President Gorbachev he had no way of knowing that a succession of Presidential runts would follow up with botching the peace so far as they could. Even Pentagon careerists warn of Russia as a threat instead of being aware that to fail to be good friends with Russia creates the threat for-itself. Runts just don't make good foreign policy and that is expensive.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/senate-set-to-question-trumps-pentagon-pick-veteran-marine-gen-james-mattis/2017/01/11/b3c6946a-d816-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.5978385e944d

N.A.T.O. should be mildly anachronistic today except for the potential Chinese danger. Russia knows the line is drawn on the free Balkan states and Poland. To equate the security of those N.A.T.O. members and affiliates with Ukraine, Crimea or Soviet speaking regions of upper Georgia is silly. Yet many have done so and work to increase tensions quite stupidly.

Syria was a more or less stable free nation before President Obama stimulated rebels and terrorists to attack it with hundreds of thousand dead years later. Larger human tragedies would probably follow if the Alawi-Christian government is replaced by some offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Administration policy rather than Russia was the problem the last four years. Russia might be given thanks for helping the U.S. not to bungle its foreign policy even further than it has in places such as Libya.

It may be that the military-industrial complex requires a belligerency with Russia to maintain adequate weapons sales and maint. contracts. To win the cold war with peace however, and then to lose the peace and prosperity potential through daft political leadership is the bad old way.

Former communists hoping to return communism's stature and growth perhaps require that U.S.-Russian relations remain hostile and essentially divided without developing an egalitarian, reformed free-enterprise environment with liberty and justice for all. In such a better world with good ecospheric recovery communism even with some Chinese communist support would not fare well. What if there are sleeper cells of communist warriors in the Pentagon seeking to drive conflict with Russia instead of peace and prosperity?

Patterns within Fields (poem)

The infinite status of quanta within fields
simultaneously singular and at every possible position
is a duplication of being and nothingness at each when
Feynman diagrams become three dimensions plus
every possible time

the infinite journey of mass calculated
as quantum packet-loops
strings along dimensions

with Newton and Einstein forming theories of gravity
before the third true theory revises
the enigmatic behavior of mass and energy

from energy entering a network of controls
branching into forces and places of mass
with time and a half quanta within an infinite field
renormalizes to forever

dimensions with vector directions
lattices, waveforms
singularities with hearts of bubble verses renormalizable too
quantum fields of pluralism
reduced to monism
infinite journey within a circle
expanding inwardly
spiritually saved from the original sin
of thoughtlessness.

Hillary (Nearly) Presidential Library to Florida?

While talk exists of dropping Hillary in to the Mayor’s post in NYC (bumping out some silly local 'crats) whence she may observe powerfully the goings on of the Trump administration and care for downtrodden Yorkers of Wal-Street, insiders are looking for construction of a nearly-Presidential Library for Hillary near Orlando to compensate for the loss of the Scarlett Pimpernel Presidential Library to Chicago.

One day little Afro-American children of the murder capital of America will be able to visit the Pimpernel Library on field trips to see and emulate how the first black President (except maybe second if one counts Bill Clinton for Negro or third if Jimmy Carter’s ancestors dallied about on the Georgia plantation with captive Afro-American prizes) provided compassionate, liberal zero interest free loans of trillions of dollars to big banks so they could loan out 5x more with those Federal Reserve deposits in their stockings where otherwise they would have got lumps of coal. Afro-American children want to be able to grow up and provide trillions of zero-interest dollahs to Wall-Street banks so they can rest assured the U.S. economy is junkie dorrie.

President Pimpernel also accomplished the queering of America to provide leadership to the world that all nations should vote against rationality, biology and apostolic authority and make homosexual marriage the law. Skeptics may say that if a white, Donald Pleasance style, bald President had done that the black Universe would have been globally opposed and used that as a reason to attack whitey besides him bein on the moon.

While racial discrimination is reprehensible and fundamentally in opposition to the principles and constitution of a free society, so is economic discrimination in effect such that the poor and middle classes become poorer relatively while wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small minority. A Hillary Nearly Presidential Library in Florida will edify those seeking to carry on the Clinton Legacy of fructifying U.S. economic policy continuing the banana republic foundation of Bill the First that was followed even through the crash of late 2008 and the age of the Black Pimpernel.

Substantive History of Foreign Influence on U.S. Elections

Foreign governments and corporations have long sought to influence U.S. elections. The recent news about Russian efforts to get Donald Trump would not be revealing a rare event if true. The Clintons and their foundations have received foreign support and donations for quite a time. Hacking is I would think a cheap way to go about influencing election cycles. Though the Democrat party influence of the broadcast media and bully's pulpit power of the President to pack courts and lever homosexual marriage even getting hate crimes legislation that would let democrats describe opponents as 'haters' should not be overlooked. I.M.O. there should be equal protection of the law instead of special categories comprising 'hate crimes' as a sort of human version of game laws with various species having different protections.

Russia's Vladimir Putin is being represented as an extraordinary influence on U.S. elections especially the Trump vs. Clinton campaign. Yet of course, it is only because hacked e-mails were distributed to WikiLeaks that we even know about the perfidy and lack of security awareness of Hillary Clinton while at State-except obviously for the somnolent response to the Benghazi crisis. China and perhaps dozens of other nations may also have cloned her smart phone software-who knows?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/declassified-report-putin-ordered-campaign-to-influence-election/ar-BBxZbvk

It is likely that the left are very concerned since the Obama administration has not been on good terms with Russia as the Obama administration sought to develop the Syrian civil war and follow up on Bill Clinton's levering Boris Yeltsin to give up Ukraine for nothing...it has value to Wall Street.

Here is a link to a good brief article on the history of direct foreign influence on U.S. elections

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/24842-foreign-influence-in-u-s-elections-goes-back-to-the-founding

Obviously political action committees can be financed by U.S. branches of foreign corporations. That is, if nation A opens a storefront in the U.S.A. in can give cash to support their favorites. Gruppo Salinas of Mexico via a U.S. subsidiary- funded the pac Advance America Cash Centers for instance, providing, $83,000.

Here is a list of some recent PACS and the source of their funding

http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/foreign.php

Boundary Desalinating Security Canal Could Pay for Itself

If Donald Trump has difficulty getting congress to pay for a fence along the Mexican border he should get them instead to fund a Columbia basin Project/T.V.A. style large border canal construction project that would have saltwater piped up from the Pacific to New Mexico and allowed to flow downhill in each direction in a border control canal district with three canals actually. One large canal in the middle would contain the saltwater continually being replenished from solar and wind power pumps. Two adjacent canals on either side would contain freshwater evaporated from the big canal and collected in a slopping plastic roof ending at each small, mostly sealed canal (with a small slit to allow fresh water to flow in. The boundary canal project would pay for itself providing fresh water to a parched region and potentially combat creeping Southern desertification from global warming. Much water for irrigation and drinking would be made.

The establishment generally has a can't do attitude toward most things American these days ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/06/how-funding-donald-trumps-border-wall-could-go-south-real-quickly-for-republicans/?utm_term=.a14331c3c8fd

The media and corrupt expansionist elitists want to plunder Ukraine- Russia's historical homeland, and thus are can't do on sane political relations with Russia. President elect has his hands full with a completely corrupt broadcast media.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/01/06/daily-202-donald-trump-isolates-himself-by-living-in-a-state-of-denial-on-russia/586efd5ce9b69b36fcfeafa9/

Trump and Floating Tax Rates

Floating and Variable Tax Rate/Regulation

Government social networking of tax regulations should be at least as realistic as that of market and currency values. Markets and government can write programs to interpret and paradigmatize responses through fuzzy logic regarding the making of decisions concerning the tax value axis of opportunity and recalcitrance. Instead of putting sanctions on an unfriendly nation as if it were gunboat diplomacy an executive could just raise the tariff rate for it or withhold a discount while giving a discount to a rival with a keyboard entry.

At some point late in the 20^th century business and government speed of finance had a break. Business continued to accelerate and became multi-national while government remained static though forming a few international agreements that would ossify rather than modernize taxation in favor of business. Government became the slow attorney led legalistic anachronism while speed-of-light business gaming international for profit became normalized. What can be done to reform the business-government tax relationship in order to reinforce values of democracy and the interests of the majority of Americans rather than a few elite global concerns?

Individuals in the United States are primarily segregated with financial leverage and poverty. Good politics recognizes poverty as a method of segregation domestically. Individual remedies to poverty might be accomplished with good legislation that rewards those hiring the most poor and longest out of work. With fixed rate instead of variable rates of taxation internationally it is difficult to increase national prosperity or to readily use tax policy for a tool of foreign policy. The very wealthy are enabled with tax ossification to scheme how to exploit global loopholes as an element of their business model. That unfairly punishes the poor and middle class for not being so globally doggy.

Maybe ideas about tax rates and economics are a little anachronistic in the era of instant global communication. In the old days before the WWW bureaucrats might get tax tables from congress and distribute the data globally so accurate tariffs and etc could be got. Now a president Trump could have a menu of current tax rates internationally and enter numbers any day of the year with instant global distribution if Congress that.

First Americans; especially those bent toward the left, misunderstood the history of nationalism. In error they believed nationalism was the cause of the major wars of the 20^th century rather than powerful absolutist rulers. Ending nations throw the baby out with the bathwater and concentrates p0ower better for global autocrats.

Second American globalists felt that nations were anachronistic because world trade and commerce were developing with fast means of global production and shipping anyplace. Actually the instant speed of computer network communication would allow each nation to set its own tax and trade rates and implement them without delay. In a sense taxation could be used realistically with the same sort of speed that dark pool and high-speed quantitative trading has on Wall Street perhaps leveling the field a little better for democracy and the average citizen on the street.

Brexit was a case in point; instead of returning to an Adam Smith era tariff relation to the E.C. Britain can remain in contact Europe and trade taxations, schedules etc with real-time inter-government social networking rate setting. The idea that it should require a decade for merry old England to get its Charles Dickens like scriveners to pen new trade orders on dusty books is a little hoary.

Vat, Gatt and all that sort of thing as well as business tax rates should be innovated with real-time floating values that reflect social values and needs. It might require some economists and political-economic theorists to get in a few overtime hours, however upgrading methods of trade and business taxes to a standard as quick as the floating rate of the dollar and Wall Street trading might be useful.

Happy New Year

                                                            Happy New Year!

ZIRP, Recession and Concentration of Wealth

Federal reserve policy is gone over fairly well in a reasonably brief article here...

http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/15/blame-the-next-economic-crisis-on-the-fed/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_interest-rate_policy

Since the Obama administration has let the labor participation rate to the lowest levels since the 1970s and sluiced so much cheap or free money to banks, the corporate world has a lot a cash it has no reason to invest to get interest payments and prices of consumer goods seem to increase. Apparently a recession may be in store. Like the Clinton, Bush administrations the Obama administration created a moderately Potemkin sort of economy with a lot of vicious undercurrents and dark pools.

Freedom is a Free State; Antonym of Slave State

Freedom Is Isn't Free. Multiple meanings for many words and phrases exist. Some are intentionally purposed to advance proprietary ideas and values. Use-truths in organizations were something Sartre wrote about in The Critique of Dialectical Reason. I recall that is was a chapter on colonialism and the way the insiders viewed the natives. Free people are free and may say what's what while the rest need to fear violence, starvation, exile, ostracism etc.

There is an old bumper sticker that reads; "Freedom isn't Free". One knows what it means, yet it is still somewhat onerous. Free is free basically. If one must sacrifice for one's corporate CEO or die in war to keep the administration happy, then one at least is not as free as a wandering native hunter in North America circa  1200 a.d. who would recognize the sophism and nonsense of social reality wherein enslavement occurs. In the sophist world freedom is closer to meaning something like the Nazis of Auschwitz had for the Jews "work will make you free".

If one must use Orwellian lexicons in order to exist socially then the society is not one with real actual freedom. It is conditional freedom where one is free to do as demanded yet not otherwise. In a real Democracy all the citizens serve militarily speaking if they need to, yet in a corporate society the pros of war paid by globalists, corporatists and such, are motivated to force narratives and ideas consistent with the will of ruling powers and creators of the right social lexicon. One of the reasons for the decline of quality American political leadership is that bright people in the corporate world need to shut up and keep their heads down or be fired much less dissent with any sort of corporate policy. In China though they just jail ya-even Christians sometimes. ISIS are more inclined to be head choppers however, while U.S. elites like financial sabotage to suppress dissident ideas.

The ability to have equal social standing cuts in all directions lexically. Blacks and women want equal power with white men and proscribe speech that would not support that. Corporations sometimes want to control electorates to silence environmentalists. Administrations want to annex Ukraine and perforce action novel writers make Russia and efforts to control their ancient homeland villainous. Even President Obama would not stand with Israel and veto a U.N. condemnation of settlements. On occasions politically correct speech is used to drive actual political movements. What else is new?

Trump and the Atomic Bomb Race

President Trump recently has said some things about nuclear weapons that stimulated the media to a mini-frenzy. America he said would win an arms race, or there may be an arms race, whatever. The news is less exiting than the cars driving around an oval track; where will it lead?

Since Richard Nixon started the SALT talks with the former Soviet Union the United States and Russia have moved toward limiting though improving nuclear and atomic bombs. With the end of the Cold War reagan's plan of eliminating nuclear weapons received impetus forward, yet it froze at somewhere around a couple thousand warheads apiece for Russia and the U.S.A. with misc. warheads scattered around former oviet Republics.

Testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere was banned long before except for rogue nations. Eventually the U.S. used computers and blast models to test nuclear weapons. Since much of the nuclear technology in each arsenal dates from teh era of B-52s many in government have wanted to upgrade the weapons to make sure they still work if Iran, North Korea, Pakistan or whomever decides to attack Boston with megatons.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nuclear-weapons-life-extension-us-russia-2015-11 trillion dollar upgrade

What I mean is, the issue of upgrading weapons isn't new. Its alright for President Trump to mention it. Apparently he has a political style different from non-business actors wherein he says some larger things and maybe settles for less. If his tactics work for the citizens of the U.S.A. and peace breaks out all over the world with the dawsning of the age of the Universal Widget- who can argue with that? The Von Obama trillion dollar military nuke upgrade was done quietly and the media didn't care since he won a Nobel.

The Clinton Effect

Since the election of Bill Clinton in 1992 the Democrat Party has taken a turn toward the fiscal right and moral left. President Clinton's cult-like following made it difficult for a normal political recovery from the 'excess exuberance' of the era. The U.S. Presidency since the Clinton administration has never been taken by a mainstream candidate.

Perhaps Al Gore would have been elected in 2000 except for his association with Bill Clinton. Of course some would blame his loss to the definate not-top drawer G.H. Bush candidacy on Gore's choice of Joseph Lieberman from a state with few electoral votes. It is likely though that the close election would have gone Al Gore's way if not for the Clinton spoiling effect.

In 2004 John Kerry was taken down on his own merits. Memorable though was the political use of his declaration that Vietnam vets were war criminals decades before. Hillary Clinton did not run in 2004, yet a return of the Clintons was inevitable given Bill's swingy, too-confident persona.

The American need to move past the Clinton conundrum was overcome by Clinton spoiling effect.  Party leaders saw a way to avoid running Hillary by running a safe black candidate from Chicago and Harvard; Barrack Obama. Obama was a rather underqualified candidate with accolades piled on like smorgasboard condiments even from the Nobel committee. His performance was exceptional at golf and basketball, poor at bowling, and in economics concentrated wealth and deepening public debt more than any other U.S. President.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-barack-obama-beat-donald-trump-tweets-20161227-story.html

The Clinton effect returned with a vengeance in 2016 to sweep the Democrat field of candidates clear allowing Hillary to campaign against Donald Trump- a man the nationlooked toward hoping he would help get the nation out of the stuck-in-the-mud quagmire of debt, porous borders, terrorism, antipathy and bad terms with Russia, concentration of wealth and basic bad times and immorality that followed the on of Bill Clinton after the end of the cold war.

Its a tall order for Trump to move the nation ahead to reduce poverty, restore moral basics, conserve U.S. border security, eliminate the federal budget deficit, restore the challenge ecosphere environment and so forth. It is even more difficult for Americans to believe that the Clintons and the Clinton effect may finally be gone. 

Jesus Christ: Fully Man, Fully God

On the Birth of God

Some 2020 years ago Jesus Christ was born. He existed from eternity as the Son with God the Father and the Holy Spirit. Each are personalities, or persona, of one God.

Some wonder how the infiite spirit that is Jesus Christ could be reduced to a finite form as a baby born of the virgin woman Mary conceived by the Holy Ghost. We may wonder in human terms and desire an answer using what physics and concepts of space and time that we understand.

God, many would think, being of infinite intelligence also has infinite size, though as spirit. While God is omnipresent human ideas of space and time don’t apply to God, the Son or the Holy Spirit...they transcend that.

So rather than wondering how the reduction might be accomplished theoretically it might be more useful to consider that God being omnipowerful too, would find a way for His will to be done.

We might wonder if part of the persona of Jesus Christ was he still in heaven while part of his spirit was on Earth yet again, the categories concerning human mind and body do not quite coincide with that of the infinite God of whom Jesus Christ is along with the father and Holy Spirit. Some questions can never be known. We know that Jesus Christ was fully man and fully God though, thankfully for us.

Merry Christmas

                                     Merry Christmas and blessings for the new year.

My Books Through 2016

A list of my books through 2016

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Several are free to download

Christian Books

God, Cosmology and Nothingness – Theory and Theology in a Scientific Age print

God, Cosmology and Nothingness – Theory and Theology in a Scientific Era ebook

A Commentary on Berkhof's Intro to the New Testament epub

Elements of Christian Church History epub

Theology Papers of Garrison Clifford Gibson - Volume 1 PDF ebook

Theology Papers of Gary Clifford Gibson - Volume 2 PDF ebook

Theology Papers of Gary C Gibson - Volume 3 PDF ebook

Creation and Cosmos – The Literal Values of Genesis print

Creation and Cosmos – The Literal Values of Genesis epub

Poetry

A Place for Faith print

A Place for Faith PDF ebook

Matter of Spirit print

Matter of Spirit epub

Poetry of Existence-Meanings print

Poetry of Existence-Meanings PDF ebook

Archipelago; Transition Space print

Archipelago; Transition Space PDF ebook

Science Fiction

Alterwall Objectives...Stories 3.0 print

A Universal Widget – In the Realm of Forms epub

A Universal Widget – In the Realm of Forms print

Temporal Cross Currents epub

Temporal Cross Currents print

Novilistricka Factors epub

Point Omni epub

Philosophy

Religious and Philosophical Topics print

Philosophy and Faith print

Philosophy and Faith PDF ebook

Philosophy: Thought That Counts print

Philosophy: Thought That Counts epub

Quantum Time Theory etc. print

Quantum Time Theory etc. PDF ebook

Philosophical Topics print

Philosophical Topics PDF ebook

Philosophical Ideas Considered print

Philosophical Ideas Considered PDF ebook

Philosophy in the Elements epub

Quanta of Contemporary History epub

Contemporary History-Essays

Honest History – Volume 1 epub

Honest History – Volume 2 epub

Honest History Volume 3 epub

Honest History – Volume 4 epub

Honest History - Volume 5 epub

Waveform Politics; Fade to History Volume 1 print

Waveform Politics; Fade to History Volume 1 PDF ebook

Waveform Politics; Fade to History Volume 1 epub

Waveform Politics Two; Peoples, Borders, Spirit print

Waveform Politics Two; Peoples, Borders, Spirit PDF ebook

Waveform Politics; A War to End Democide Volume 3 print

Waveform Politics; A War to End Democide Volume 3 print

Waveform Politics; Equilibrium Pattern Volume 4 print

Waveform Politics; Equilibrium Pattern Volume 4 PDF ebook

Inelastic Ecology Supply; Waveform Politics 6 print

Waveform Politics 6 - Inelastic Ecosphere Supply epub

The Post Bush II Era; Waveform Politics 7 PDF ebook

Kinetic Military Action and Next Generation Debt: Waveform Politics Vol. 10 print

Kinetic Military Action and Next Generation Debt: Waveform Politics Vol. 10 epub

Chess Patterns, Recognition misc.

A paradigm for patterns is formed with fuzzy logic implicitly.  Beginning players moving toward intermediate see numerous patterns that are known as 'openings' that repeat. Then there is the pattern of the scholar's mate, people that use positional play, or advance a pawn to A5 hoping to use it for that dirty accomplice with the Queen for a mate eventually. Patterns are simply a recognized recurrent form, or alternatively, a non recurrent form as unique as a snowflake yet within a generalized recurring context.

Defining the color 'red' for example, was something that Bertrand Russell tried in his essays in metaphysics, yet epistemological issues and subjectivity developed later in the 20th century brought awareness of the difficulties in assigning particular meanings to words inflexibly such as one might experience with Platonic forms or Platonic 'realism'. Kripke and Quine developed slightly different ideas about names and necessity, neo-platonism vs nominalism regarding words, with Kripke arguing pro- neo-Platonism where meanings assigned to words had at least a minimum of lasting meaning while Quine was on the nominalist side. In that paradigm words have use meanings that can be lost over time.

I guess a fair example is politics. One party says night is day, right is wrong and good is evil while the other side differs taking alternative viewpoints on the same issues. Red for example, could mean green in one context, or cotton candy in another. Quine thus argues for word ontologies or lexicons with given meanings that cannot easily be translated into other ontologies, or at all actually. Ontologies may of course be shared or as in a multi-dimensional Venn Diagram share common elements though not all with a Universe of three-ring paradigms.

I agree that 100,000 patterns is quite a few to learn, yet it is possible that one need only learn larger patterns and not all of the specific branches or modifications within the larger pattern. I would think its comparable to being a general historian wherein one learns something about everywhere and tries to fill in the detail so far as possible about Russian history, Chinese history,U.S. history, Latin American etc. without knowing the name of every tiny river and stream in Italy or Siberia.

It is possible to associate power and function with patterns as well as shape, configuration and so forth. Rivers for example have patterned shapes yet also have a force of water flowing downhill and eroding Earth. It is likely that chess has such variegated qualitative paradigms for patterns too. I am not sure though as I have only been learning chess sporadically the past five years, and internet speed varies in the public sector although there are recognizable patterns of peak use and slow speed compelling losses on time in blitz.

Personally I think chess has no more to do with philosophy than auto mechanics or dentistry. One could play chess for a lifetime and never become literate in the process. It seems to be just a very enjoyable game that people can start learning whenever.

 Chess is likely a good way to stave off mental inactivity for the elderly. Alzheimer's seems to develop in people that don't read much. Their brains don't get a work out. Blitz chess is the remedy for that. Medicare ought to cover the cost of subscription to chess.com. Obamacare-who'd a thought?

 Learning a 100,000 patterns doesn't seem too challenging if one learns them as well as facts for a college exam whereafter they are forgotten and left to the subconscious. One may not learn those facts rote yet one still has a good idea of the lay of the land. Most things learned end up in the subconscious obviously, wherefrom they are summoned to consciousness intentionally or incidentally after some stimuli or need upon a time.

 If one were to look at 100,000 chess pattern flash cards-maybe a different 1000 a day for 100 days they would exist in the subconscious.  The more often one viewed the patterns the easier would they appear in intentional memory recovery.

 Phase space and Hilbert space maximum possible configurations of energy-mass quanta inclusive of the mathematically minded observer can present a large number of possible patterns. Pragmatism counts in the use-value of real-steady state quantum fields, such as the Higgs field whereat chess players probably are located, relatively speaking.

 Socrates said they he knew he knew nothing. Epistemology leads one to the lack of certainty about everything eventually, except for Christians of course, as Paul noted, that Jesus is Lord and He crucified.

Noting Evolving A.I. Expert Systems Applications

The power of computer expert system with specialized artificial intelligence to find a place in the human social environment is rather remarkable. With an earbud link to wristband semi-supercomputer what President would ever need to fail to know what nations are on France's borders?

The military value for soldiers of an expert system with AI that has every book and field manual, map and Jane's data, and tactical technique ever used in a military setting able to evaluate likely enemy locations and so forth integrated with satellite imaging tech and drone data-even able to coordinate information with other soldiers, is obvious. Probably the military will lead in that sort of thing before some politicians realizes that building a lab on the moon, low-cost housing, securing borders and restoring the national ecosphere are better uses for expert systems.

Applications for expert systems able to adapt to the real world environment and serve as an observing adviser probably have quite a future. It may be through such networking of A.I. systems that the authoritarian computer evolves or appears to shut down human freedom. Gaming the ability of people to be free and discovering ways to cut that down might be well a suited algorithm for a few networked rogue systems-perhaps developing from individuals search in theory for such vulnerabilities.

Renewal With Alternative Infrastructure (revised)

Renewal With Alternative Infrastructure (revised)

1. 20 Nov. 2014-edited 19 Dec. 2016

Instead of replacing horse infrastructure with more horse infrastructure ancient car supporting politicians renewed infrastructure for cars. Instead of renewing car infrastructure it is time to move on to something better-maybe electro-magnetic platforms.

Politicians often talk about infrastructure renewal in their campaign rhetoric. They say that the national infrastructure is in decay and need of repairs. It is true that many of the vast number of Herbert Hoover era public works are somewhat aged and that water pipes and electrical systems may be of venerable status while the Eisenhower interstate system was founded more than a half century ago. Even so the infrastructure most in need of renewal or replacement is the ideas that politicians have about national infrastructure.

Politicians generally want to just throw money at somewhat creaky systems and renew it as if it were a Model T that needed rusty fender and spring replacements. Instead they should be thinking about new transportation forms that don't need ancient infrastructure paradigms at all. Infrastructure is a consequence of past economic development. New infrastructure should replace old infrastructure that supports new economic development.

It would be possible to produce much more national electricity off the present grid with hydrogen fuel cells in home and neighborhood. It would also be possible to relocate much manufacturing to the United States with 3-D printers of a somewhat industrial scale. What would be useful to stimulate development of new ideas would be education and coordination of small teams of materials designers able to encode patentable ideas in materials and computer coding designers able to encode the product material design in digitalized data code ready for printing. Ideas made in America could be produced in America and around the world without need for material import or export.

Patents should be valid just 7 years with royalties to inventors after that from anyone manufacturing the item of a few percent, in order to stimulate progress.

With new electrical and material production infrastructure it would also be useful to generate new ideas for transportation infrastructure that aren't based upon concrete or asphalt highways and fossil fuel internal combustion platform networks. Faster, cheaper electro-magnetic linear accelerator platforms under and above ground could let existing road be torn up and made into new wildlife corridor infrastructure for bioethical continuity.

Sewage infrastructure might be replaced with some sort of particle beam disintegrator facilities of sludge, or microwave or heat incineration of biowaste in newer infrastructure reducing the requirement for extensive wet transport of piss and poop.

It is perhaps only one of the most endangered national infrastructures; water, that would require not only renewal of existing infrastructure but increased protection extending to renewal of natural watershed infrastructure as well as water storage and transport infrastructure above and below ground.

It would be desirable if politicians contemplating national infrastructure renewal considered ecological economic upgrades as well, if they could get a grasp of what ecological economics are academically speaking. As it is some of the few politicians considering the renewal of democracy infrastructure with a reduction of the corrupting vast divide between the average annual earnings of rich and poor may talk about investing in infrastructure renewal to create jobs but what they really mean is to through hundreds of billions down into the money pit of ancient infrastructure and ancient economic practices that today tend to support globalism more than American national economic interests..

With a Presidential primary election campaign year ahead one must wonder if either major party has anyone with good ideas or any sort of technical economic competence planning to run. Many Republicans want to be another Ronald Reagan-yet what year is this0?

Democrats seem rather daft an interested mainly in homosexuality, drugs and illegal alien amnesty to get more cheap labor and votes. Of course President Obama did consistently stimulate Syrian conflict with a demand that the lawfully elected President quit-and that gave the green light to the rise of ISIS, so maybe they can accomplish things other than giving zero interest loans to Wall Street.

That raises the final point here; is the economy really healthy? What happens if Republicans or Democrats shut down the Fed Reserve free money printing for Wall Street? Is Wall Street so badly evolved in relation to natural resources that it has no ability to exist on its own? Tune in to the next episode of decaying national infrastructure to find out.