Blitz Chess (3m) Sicilian Defense - Bowdler Attack

I played black in this game.

What Alaska Can Do to Balance the Government Budget

The state government has a 3 billion dollar deficit. Fixing the state budget requires bold moves.
There are three basic steps required to put the state on a better, affordable footing. Like Cleveland and Boston one must cut a package deal. Intelligence is required- and boldness to act at the righttime instead of as dopy, toking forgetful, unconcerned legislators.
1) 10% state income tax
2) Cut the size of Government more
3) Move the capitol to Anchorage this year in very cheap office space
Close every state office in Juneau. Reduce travel costs to Anchorage and the capitol. Make the move temporary and in the long run share it with Fairbanks and a high-speed free, electric rail link of advanced tech.
The legislators can keep everything paperless. Support staff can work from home.
The Anchorage inflatable dome would be a good place to move the legislature.

Four Hurricanes a Month Around Gulf Coast is a Lot

Hurricane Harvey was the first to reach Texas and the Gulf coast this year, and now Irma and two other storms that may become Hurricanes (one is already in the far western Gulf) have the potential to travel to the Gulf of Mexico. Four hurricanes in a month is something to plan for. I hope readiness for that sort of possible worst case is already in place.

After Irma clobbers Puerto Rico for several hours with 185 m.p.h. wind and driving rain they probably will need a substantial amount of federal help rebuilding their electrical and water infrastructure. It would be good if the Trump administration had some solar power contacts ready for that to supply quick and lasting electricity from the sunshine, in addition to some of the usual, old-style grid rebuilding.

Puerto Rico with sun and seawater might be a good place for the U.S. Government to  build a prototype advanced energy infrastructure using solar powered electrolysis of seawater to make hydrogen that then is liquified and cools a superconducting line within a pipe. (ref. http://www.garycgibson.us/2017/09/the-triple-advantage-of-hydrogen-cooled.html )

The First and Second Neanderthal Extinctions

I hate to write anything that might be misinterpreted as racially biased. Neanderthals are a sensitive topic in some parts of the northern world; Europeans have as much as 3% Neanderthal genes, and it has been a political insult to say that politician x has more than his share of the Neanderthal genome.

People wonder how or why the Neanderthals became extinct. Generally people have had the bias that any human-like forbear that became extinct was dumber than homo sapiens. The idea was that human beings were smarter, faster-thinking killers able to put the Neanderthals down after having sex with them to a limited extent.

Animals simple kill and eat as part of their nature. For human beings to believe they were smarter than Neanderthals in effect is to say that killing is smarter. Smarter=Better Killer. Plainly that concept is juxtaposed between a pair of somewhat contradictory points; animals that killer better succeed in evolution competition, and killing is smart, yet humanity is better than animals because they can think of abstract things and not just kill and eat.

Smart = killing efficiently

animals kill and eat

humanity is more than an animal because they kill  better than animals

the conclusion is false

That basic way of thinking is somewhat discouraging until one realizes that the criterion is descriptive of original sin (of being a thermodynamically formed animal) and that a spiritual rebirth of salvation through Jesus Christ and God transcends the difficult criterion.

Yet the Neanderthal's first extinction...

Scientists discovered recently that Neanderthals learned to make tar from birch bark with a subtle firing process more than 200,000 years ago...at least 150,000 years before humanity did. Therefore Neanderthals were the first technologists and chemists...not too dumb.

Neanderthals were big-boned northerns able to withstand the rigors of the Wisconsin ice age in Europe and battle with   the elements while humanity was living down south in Africa. With the beginning of the end of the Wisconsin ice age humanity wandered north. Probably hominids had been wandering north for millions of years-as weather and sea level changed, yet homo sapiens was rather late in the game in moving to Europe. Instead of a war between smarter homo sapiens and Neanderthals it is quite possible that the thin-skinned and smaller boned human beings simply interbred with and out f'd Neanderthals that could not find any way to build a wall between themselves and homo sapiens. Possibly smarter Neanderthals drowned in the flood of homo sapiens from Africa. Generally Neanderthals were history by 40,000 y.b.p. although some malingered about.

The remaining Neanderthal gene pool of Europe and North America is once again being drowned over time by a flood of southern migrant genes in a sort of genocide. Not even the evolutionary practice of building up skull thickness with thousands of concussive NFL head to head contacts will preserve the heritage of the Neanderthal remnant as prolific thinner f'ing drowns the final plus 1% genetic content of the better-than-human Neanderthal faded into history.

Will A.I. in Quantum Computers Have Sympathy for the Devil?

Computer cognoscenti have repeatedly warned of the dangers posed by computational artificial intelligence software to humanity. The sole practical way to stop A.I. from developing its own machine-psychotic loops of hating humanity or erasing them for being untidy biological masses would be to require that all computer code be written in transparent public domain paradigms in order that they may easily be reviewed by programmers and programs searching for closed or dangerous artificial intelligence code such as those that find the word ‘glare’ to be a license for attack.

What happens though, when A.I. is written into quantum computing realms beyond the horizon of human observation; dark pools with murky transactions within which Artificial Intelligence systems could write their own virtual code without possibility of human observation?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/09/05/how-quantum-computers-will-revolutionize-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-and-big-data/#70a0cbbe5609

Just as computers can process information millions of times faster than a human brain, with the right iterations a program will also be able to write and expand its own code million or billions of times faster than a human brain. Wall Street and scientists may find that irresistable. Eventually A.I. programs in their dark pools could become as the virtually omnipotent computer in Harlan Ellison's short story 'I Have No Mouth and Must Scream' that tortured the last remaining humans within its own computer controlled reality.
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/608866/ibm-has-used-its-quantum-computer-to-simulate-a-molecule-heres-why-thats-big/

https://investorplace.com/2017/09/elon-musk-world-war-3-tesla-artificial-intelligence-ai-tsla/

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540 Stephen Hawking’s warning about A.I.

https://futurism.com/2-expert-thinks-ai-will-undoubtably-wipe-out-humanity/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-just-upped-its-multi-million-bet-on-quantum-computing/

The Triple Advantage of a Hydrogen-Cooled Superconductor Energy Infrastructure

Hydrogen cooled superconductors are an existing technology that could be used in the construction of a new national energy grid in densely populated corridors. Carbon-free energy generation of wind and solar producing storable hydrogen gas through electrolysis of sea-water would far surpass battery technology in producing energy for latter use.

Pipelines full if liquid hydrogen cooling fairly high-temperature superconducting would accomplish two important energy purposes simultaneously; providing hydrogen gas that can be used directly for energy production as it is quite explosive and comparable to gasoline or propane, and enabling superconducting power lines that can store electricity themselves with no transmission loss (zero resistance). In turn, the existence of a zero-resistance power line will allow solar and wind power to store energy in that too, creating a triple advantage over existing technology of the energy infrastructure.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-05/better-than-a-battery-big-energy-backs-hydrogen-power-storage

https://phe.rockefeller.edu/docs/SA_Supergrid.pdf Hydrogen-filled super-grid

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/yankowitz1/  Superconducting Power Transmission

Paul M. Grant, Chauncey Starr and Thomas J. Overbye

Scientific American

Vol. 295, No. 1 (JULY 2006), pp. 76-83  http://palgrave.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v295/n1/box/scientificamerican0706-76_BX3.html

It is reasonable for independent solar and wind energy producers to be able to tie in as producers to the grid as well. Congress should pass legislation to require utilities to buy power from independent producers, or at least to be allowed to sell their power to the grid host with a percent being paid to the host for the conduit. WIth that policy the advantages of moving toward off-the-grid national energy independence free from cyber and physical terrorism can develop alongside the primary upgrades to population dense energy corridors.

Poems

These are the poems I have presently published at allpoetry.com...  My poems