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by Carl White
Wed May 12, 2010 5:31 am
Forum: General
Topic: Jccarlton posts
Replies: 13
Views: 6015

Re: Jccarlton posts

It's getting to be a flood. I don't understand why he doesn't start up a blog and post them there? I'd really rather read about broader technological issues here. Skip General . I don't understand who is forcing you to read this forum. Could you please explain your lack of self control? Obviously, ...
by Carl White
Tue May 11, 2010 8:49 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Jccarlton posts
Replies: 13
Views: 6015

Jccarlton posts

It's getting to be a flood.

I don't understand why he doesn't start up a blog and post them there?

I'd really rather read about broader technological issues here.
by Carl White
Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:55 am
Forum: News
Topic: Blacklight Power claims validation and due diligence
Replies: 33
Views: 18067

Blacklight Power claims validation and due diligence

Details here: http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/04/blacklight-power-claims-validation-and.html#more with the significant quote being: "Validations and Technical Due Diligence - underway with National Labs, defense contractors, electronics manufacturers, large conglomerates, multi-national energy compani...
by Carl White
Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:01 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Any nature subscribers here?
Replies: 7
Views: 3689

I'm no quantum physicist, but shouldn't the act of observing have forced the selection of one state or the other?
by Carl White
Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:48 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Polywell FOIA
Replies: 475
Views: 201719

EDIT: nevermind. I'm going to try to maintain an open mind.
by Carl White
Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: It's Mine, I'm entitled to it
Replies: 8
Views: 2455

Ida May Fuller worked for three years under the Social Security program. The accumulated taxes on her salary during those three years was a total of $24.75. Her initial monthly check was $22.54. During her lifetime she collected a total of $22,888.92 in Social Security benefits. Alright, I looked h...
by Carl White
Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: It's Mine, I'm entitled to it
Replies: 8
Views: 2455

I'd like to know what you are proposing as an alternative. I think one of the comments sums it up well: "As an individual who paid into SS for 47 years at maximum rate (4.7 times the minimum quarters) and Medicare for 40 years I believe that I should receive, am entitled to, the benefits currently b...
by Carl White
Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:23 am
Forum: General
Topic: Is it just me...
Replies: 39
Views: 10906

I understand what Skipjack is getting at. If you took someone from 1900 America and dropped him into 1950 America, he'd be a lot more disoriented than someone taken from 1950 and dropped into 2000. Some real miracles in biotechnology, medicine, agriculture and even life extension are in the embryoni...
by Carl White
Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:58 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Tax The Rich, Kill Your Paycheck
Replies: 19
Views: 7111

So what does that mean? Prices rise until an object of desire is just barely affordable. You want more disposable income? Live in a smaller house. That can be hard to do actually, at least in some places. The developers are all set on building closely-packed McMansions instead of cottages. And the ...
by Carl White
Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Tax The Rich, Kill Your Paycheck
Replies: 19
Views: 7111

So what does that mean? Prices rise until an object of desire is just barely affordable. You want more disposable income? Live in a smaller house. That can be hard to do actually, at least in some places. The developers are all set on building closely-packed McMansions instead of cottages. And the ...
by Carl White
Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Tax The Rich, Kill Your Paycheck
Replies: 19
Views: 7111

Two lies in two sentences and one sentence without relevance. "Lowering taxes on the rich certainly hasn't worked for us." We've scarcely done it yet, and to the extent we've done it, it worked out just fine. We are plainly on the confiscatory side of the Laffer curve. It was done in the Reagan era...
by Carl White
Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Tax The Rich, Kill Your Paycheck
Replies: 19
Views: 7111

The problem with the dot com boom and later the housing boom was that they were bubbles. They were the creation of the illusion of wealth, not actual wealth.

The U.S. (and Canada) needs to create new industries. Like the manufacture of fusion generators, perhaps? Hopefully.
by Carl White
Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Republicans are stupid thieves.
Replies: 222
Views: 91346

This law should only apply where public transit is a reasonable (repeat, reasonable) alternative.
by Carl White
Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:58 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Tax The Rich, Kill Your Paycheck
Replies: 19
Views: 7111

Lowering taxes on the rich certainly hasn't worked for us. The rich have gotten richer and everyone else has either stagnated (while working longer hours) or lost ground. The concentration of wealth in the country is reaching levels not seen since the twenties. The rich were also quick enough to dem...
by Carl White
Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:59 am
Forum: News
Topic: Sun Catalytix
Replies: 48
Views: 17859

Sun Catalytix

MIT chemist Dan Nocera has formed a startup company, Sun Catalytix, with the aim of applying home solar PV arrays (30 square meters) to the generation of a 30 KWh equivalent of hydrogen during four hours of sunlight. This is apparently done using a cobalt-phosphate catalyst to split water through "a...