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Obama and science: The 3% solution

Obama Vows Big Outlays for Research

In a speech on Monday at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, President Obama presented a vision of a new era in research financing comparable to the Sputnik-period space race, in which intensified scientific inquiry, and development of the intellectual capacity to pursue it, are a top national priority.

America #1!

4/16/09

les nouvelles

Kepler gets first glimpse of its planetary hunting ground

A microbial ecosystem has been trapped under an Antarctic glacier for over a million years. Researchers have now figured out what fuels these bacteria thanks to a shift that has brought bright red, iron-rich ice to the surface.

Google Profit and Revenue up in Q1

Budget report: NASA facing shortfalls, launch delays

Stem Cells Promising for Type 1 Diabetes:
Insulin No Longer Needed by Some Diabetic Patients Who Underwent Experimental Treatment

Prostate Cancer Vaccine Meets Goal:
Vaccine's Maker Says Provenge Improved Survival in Pivotal Study

Marijuana Debate Goes Mainstream

3/5/09

I love RuPaul

The top 1% of wealth holders control 39% of total household wealth.

The richest 5% of households own 2/3 of the value of all stock owned in
the our country.

The the top 1% have as many after-tax dollars to spend as the bottom 100 million.

The richest 20% of households received almost 50% of the national income, while the bottom 20% received only 3%.

At a time when 265 people in the United States were billionaires, 32
million people were living beneath the official poverty line.

This inequality gap in the United States is the highest in the
industrialized world.

2/27/09

Anarcho-capitalism, economic slavery, and social collapse

I guess I want to document some of the "less important" news that has been going on lately.

The world economic situation is getting more and more dire. People all over the world are loosing everything, and nothing in this life is free. Unemployment is going up at a staggering pace. The economy continues to worsen, and it's not just in the united states but world wide. The government and economy of Iceland completely collapsed, and it seems like it was just the first of many more potential disastrous social collapses. The government is now trillions in debt, thanks to george w bush, it seems obvious that historians will place him rather unfavorably amongst the ranks of hitler, stalin, and chairman mao as one of the worst political actors in world history. The media has been covering the situation EXTENSIVELY, and now incredibly large sums of money are thrown out in terminology all the time. Trillions here, hundreds of billions there. The government is about to take over banks, and nationalize health care, hundreds of billions of dollars are now everyday conversation for the citizens of this fine country.

I guess I'm still proud to be an American. It was founded on such great principles, yet has still not operated in the right capacity.

Is the golden age of human development over? Looking over the skyline of cultural cities of the world, it seemed like there just had to be more, but perhaps that was the best is was going to get. I try to look towards more optimistic views, and pray that singularity will come to pass in my lifetime. It's just a matter of money being put into the right industries and institutions, who will use the money to evolve society- eliminate war, disease, famine, and every other problem human's frail and inefficient minds create for themselves as a species.

Corporations, in some ways, are changing as well. At first, when everything started to go bad, it seemed as though only the strongest and richest corporations would be able to survive in the current time, mostly from the governments giving them billions in spite of the obvious fact that a lot of them are about to fail and have 0 chance of success- essentially everyone knows that the money the government gives them will basically be wasted on CEO payoffs. It was scary to think that the only surviving institutions would be the most powerful of corporations, and along those lines it seems obvious that the only remaining power would be the only government left, and I don't want proctor and gamble, coca cola, and mcdonalds ruling over me.

These corporations already rule over everyone.

The reality, is that we are all slaves. Looking back at history, we think of slavery as so obviously negative, and obvious to the human eye. Historically, we had people in chains, being whipped, sexually assaulted, and forced into a whole life of servitude. Yet there are millions enslaved right now, in fact wikipedia says there are more people enslaved at this moment in time than at any other time throughout recorded history. If you want to be a part of everything modern society has to offer, then you have to work for a living, and you have become a slave to whomever or whatever profits off you and your work. Today, anarchists, socialists, and communists alike see existence as "wage slavery" or "economic slavery." The reality is that humans are forced to choose between selling their labour and facing starvation, poverty or social stigma and a lack of prosperity. This is related to the notion of economic coercion. If you don't play the game, you can't win- you'll be homeless in 2 months, and that's real. I've never met anyone who always gets to do exactly what they want (except the few people I knew in the past with millions of dollars, and they were miserable because there was nothing left to want or desire, which makes them passionless, but that's another story).

Again, we are all slaves.

I don't understand where all these hundreds of billions of dollars have gone. Somebody has to have it, or at least know where it is! How did all this money disappear. I know that money isn't real, and is in fact based on faith, at least in this country, but just as the government chants money into existence, money is too desirable to be chanted out of existence. Someone is skimming off the top. Someone has it. We should find them and kill them. I always see signs that say "eat the rich" and it sounds like a good idea, because I'm starving.

Overall, people are getting more and more desperate. The social collapse of western civilization is imminent, and has been going on even though our society dwells in ignorance and escapism. Hopefully, now can be a good time to change some things for the positive, instead of pumping tax money into dying industries and institutions that are no longer relevant, and stand no chance of evolving in a free market system. Right now could have been a time of unparalleled prosperity, not just for the united states, but for the whole global community. They did it to themselves, it's not our fault, and we shouldn't feel bad about them failing. That is, essentially, the core idea of free market capitalism- only the strong will survive, ultimately their production becomes the most efficient, and serves the most amount of people the for the cheapest cost. In some ways, it's sad, because it seems like the basis of human achievement, the pinnacle of human development, was all due to corporations, because they were the only institutions with enough money (hence power) to actually create anything.

Humans, I have noticed, are a lot like piranhas in a feeding frenzy. Humans consume, until there's nothing left to consume. If you happen to be weak, or not be the best fit for the environment, the humans around you will feed off you until there's nothing left. It works the exact same way through natural selection in nature; humans are after all, animals. When you're in the middle of the street, screaming fire while being jacked and beaten up by 3 people, nobody will come to help.

Because this is how humans are.

11/28/08

poverty news

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Poverty in the United States is spreading from rural and inner-city areas to the suburbs, according to a study, a situation that can worsen as the economy confronts what may be a protracted recession.

"While the case studies in this report point to unique factors that accompanied rising poverty in each of these communities, the negative consequences ring familiar across places, big and small ... African American, white, Latino and Native American."

-> any news about the death of the american dream makes me happy. Although, I don't know what protracted recession means. It's probably the same thing as stagflation. Does this mean it's impossible to become rich now?

-> I hope the rich loose everything, and become just as ghetto as me! I'm the only one who really understands loss and suffering on such a fundamental level. Money only destroyes relationships in the first place.

OECD predicts protracted recession in developed world

8/19/08

idea

an industry surrounding/based on peace

?

6/18/08

classism is the new racism

I'm not sure if classism is even a word. When I run spell check, it tells me that the word is unrecognizable, so since I like my readers to be on the same page, I'm going to define it as discrimination against a person or peoples due to their class. As in monetary value. As in how much money do you have? I wish these deep seeded problems that are entrenched in our culture would have disappeared from education and/or exposure, offering people the chance to discuss these problems openly in the hopes that talking about it will raise awareness and hopefully mean the end to social ills. However, it's stupid, and more importantly unrealistic to think that homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, discrimination, etc no longer exist, but they do and they're still really common. I just saw a pin yesterday from a republican convention saying "will it still be the white house if we have a black president?" There's not really anything more racist than that. Times are changing, it's easy to see, and it seems like eventually, classism will replace racism as the most common form of discrimination.

One of my friends thinks that it's impossible to talk about class without talking about gender and race- initially as I thought about it, the thought seemed unfocused until I realized I was being overly optimistic, because the truth is that class really is inherently linked to race and gender (although I'd like to pretend like they're unrelated). The cold hard fact remains- life is much more difficult if you're queer, a woman, poor, a person of color, a person of size, disabled, etc. The sad thing is that the list really can go on and on. It's almost the start of a new decade, I'm ashamed to say that humans have hardly evolved. I guess people are trying to pretend like it's still the 90s, because I catch myself doing it too. It was just such an optimistic time, it seems like the Clinton years were the golden age for America. Everything is now falling apart, it's hard to say whether the united states will remain united.

My supposition is that in the future, with all other antiquated distinctions between people being commonly agreed to be left behind along with slavery and torture (oh wait, Bush brought torture back) money will still remain the biggest concern on all humans' minds, so all social ills will only be created and reinforced if they surround money. Money is almost the only form of power left, hopefully marginalized peoples will find a way to come into some before anyone who is less than a millionaire is totally fucked. It seems like people will always find a reason to hate one another, and we're almost out of reasons as funny as that sounds. So what will be left when the law finally says you can't hate other people? I already find myself being classist, and I'm lower class, which is the most ironic part about it.

4/15/08

in favor of robots

Even though there are different countries on different continents, in reality humans make up the country of planet earth, and it seems that it would be a good idea to eliminate poverty on a global level. Making poverty is history is a very real possibility, and it could have happened a long time ago if corporations were all dissolved and the money distributed into relevant areas of study, such as space travel and life extension.

In the nonfiction book The Science of Getting Rich, the author speaks a great deal about emerging industries and since the book was written in the 1800s during the industrialization era, emerging industries were the only current reality. In contemporary times, I have observed that just as there are emerging industries, there are industries that are WAY beyond their way out, such as newspapers and gas fueled cars. There's a reason why nobody wants to be a farmer, janitor, factory worker, or a barrista at a coffee shop. I think it's because every one inherently knows that a robot would do a better job. Since there are so many undesirable and unlucrative jobs all over the whole world, it seems like the most efficient way to eliminate these meaningless positions so all humans could live in "luxury" would be to invest money into AGI to replace human workers. Why is it that Japan keeps leading the world to a new era?

3/28/08

not happy

5/27/07

Attn. Rob:

I am writing this letter to inform you that I am not paying the additional $30 rent, as my lease CLEARLY STATES that I am obligated to pay $600 until September. I have a copy of my lease enclosed. In addition, the bathtub drain is STILL clogged and has NEVER functioned properly. It needs to be routed out. The "hair stopper", as you called it, is obsolete. As for utilities, an "estimate" is unacceptable. I demand to see copies of the PG&E statements. I tried to contact you personally via cell phone but your number directs me to the wrong section of your voice mail. Please give me a call so we can discuss these matters more thoroughly: (925) 209-7911. I am incredibly grateful to have gotten the room in the first place and for all of the furniture you have given me, and I would like to make living here work even in spite of the infestation problem. If not, however, you can get all of the furniture back. I am signing this letter and will send a copy to the Renter's Board if necessary, although I hope that it won't be.

Sincerely,
Dinaz

2/26/08

health news

Health-care spending will devour an expanding share of the U.S. economy during the next decade, accounting for nearly 20 percent of the national gross domestic product by 2017, government officials forecast yesterday

2/22/08

silver platter

My credit score is 692, which means I'm on my way to having good credit again (700). So does this mean I can get that $2,000,000 in cash fronted to me or not? I guess I just thought I would be more successful at this point in my life, how come it didn't get handed to me on a silver platter like I thought it would? But then again, I'm only $600 in debt...

1/24/08

quotes

Today in America the best paid one-fifth of the population receives about one half of all national income, while the bottom one-fifth receives less than 4 per cent.

1/15/08

sell out

I'm earning money from the ads I put on my blog! Please click on them, by the way it really helps me. I'm still a ways away from the minimum amount required to receive a check...

1/11/08

LOVES Roseanne's blog!

praying that

americans will not let themselves be factioned any further than they already have been. These are the facts: race doesnt matter and neither does gender, neither does anybody's beliefs, size or age...there are two kinds of people in the world: THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS!!!

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<333 to Roseanne

11/28/07

deconstructing power

So, I guess I have to call this an opinion piece, even though everything I'm going to type happens to be from a fact I learned in school.

neways,

How to get power. Money can make one more powerful than anything else. If you don't agree with me, then you're wrong. We live in a capitalist society, and the only thing that really makes a difference is money. It's a free country, if you got the money. Basically, money is high on my list. I'll do anything to get it! I'll gladly admit it. Money buys one the time to do whatever one wants, go wherever one chooses, etc etc. We all know how it is.

It seems to me like 2nd would be beauty. For the sake of argument, I'm going to equate beauty with sex. Sex can get you whatever you want (if you're beautiful). Beauty can be a tool one uses to achieve power. Beauty can be described biologically, hence mathematically. So, beauty is just another equation, like everything else.

10/11/07

fake it till u make it!

FAKE IT TILL U MAKE IT
FAKE IT TILL U MAKE IT
FAKE IT TILL U MAKE IT

I maxed out my cc card again. OOPS. And I spent all my CA$H, which means I'm broke. It's temporary, but still.

NEWAYZ,

Today I got a massage. Amazing. Loved it. I went out to lunch. Loved it. This bitch ain't give a shit.

I hung out with Parisa yesterday it was fun! I know I can trust her. Ariel came over and we talked about objectifying men through art, it made me laugh.

West is brushing his teeth right now. I love Mr. Wonderful.

I need to be vegan again. I stopped out of vanity, and that was stupid. I know what's right and wrong, and I chose the wrong thing to do. I'm human.

Even angels make the same mistakes. I was listening to Superpitcher today. Loves it.

The 3 girls closest to me- Dinaz, Solitaire, and Hilary. I have much respect all the girls in my "top friends."

I need to network for Taquila. I want to make her rich. Taquila Taquila Taquila Taquila Taquila Taquila Taquila Taquila Taquila

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