Re: [Vo]:Nordberg's fusion reactor patent
Howdy Thomas, Doesn't matter whether it works or not cuz it's just a patent. The patent industry is in business to publish patents. Anyone that wishes to have a patent to put in a frame and hang on their wall may do so. Like printed money, it's only of value if someone else accepts it. However, a closer study of the wording in Nordberg's patent reveals a glaring flaw that surprises me that it slipped past the patent examiner's scrutinity. Technically, it does not make a claim. It only claims to make a claim. Very shrewd work by an accomplished patent attorney. All of which demonstrates that with time, brains and money, one can do wonders with numbers while eating cucumbers. Richard Thomas wrote, What do you think about the possibility of it's working?
Re: [Vo]:Nordberg's fusion reactor patent
Hmm ... sounds a bit like the Farnswoth Fusor, which does work, only not well enough for commercial use. The second image on this page illustrates the spherical grids of the Fusor: http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=163 --- thomas malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vortexians; My neighbor John T Nordberg of www.grandunification.com got this patent. What do you think about the possibility of it's working? http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PALLp=1u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htmr=1f=Gl=50s1=6888434.PN.OS=PN/6888434RS=PN/6888434 --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! ---
[Vo]:PetroMafia Anecdotes
Hi All, You may find the below article interesting. By their works you shall know them. Jack Snith -- http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n20/holt01_.html ARTICLE from The London Review of Books, cover date 18 October 2007, by Jim Holt ``It's the Oil Iraq is `unwinnable', a `quagmire', a `fiasco': so goes the received opinion. But there is good reason to think that, from the Bush-Cheney perspective, it is none of these things. Indeed, the US may be `stuck' precisely where Bush et al want it to be, which is why there is no `exit strategy'. Iraq has 115 billion barrels of known oil reserves. That is more than five times the total in the United States. And, because of its long isolation, it is the least explored of the world's oil-rich nations. A mere two thousand wells have been drilled across the entire country; in Texas alone there are a million. It has been estimated, by the Council on Foreign Relations, that Iraq may have a further 220 billion barrels of undiscovered oil; another study puts the figure at 300 billion. If these estimates are anywhere close to the mark, US forces are now sitting on one quarter of the world's oil resources. The value of Iraqi oil, largely light crude with low production costs, would be of the order of $30 trillion at today's prices. For purposes of comparison, the projected total cost of the US invasion/occupation is around $1 trillion. Who will get Iraq's oil? One of the Bush administration's `benchmarks' for the Iraqi government is the passage of a law to distribute oil revenues. The draft law that the US has written for the Iraqi congress would cede nearly all the oil to Western companies. The Iraq National Oil Company would retain control of 17 of Iraq's 80 existing oilfields, leaving the rest, including all yet to be discovered oil, under foreign corporate control for 30 years. `The foreign companies would not have to invest their earnings in the Iraqi economy,' the analyst Antonia Juhasz wrote in the New York Times in March, after the draft law was leaked. `They could even ride out Iraq's current instability by signing contracts now, while the Iraqi government is at its weakest, and then wait at least two years before even setting foot in the country.' As negotiations over the oil law stalled in September, the provincial government in Kurdistan simply signed a separate deal with the Dallas-based Hunt Oil Company, headed by a close political ally of President Bush. How will the US maintain hegemony over Iraqi oil? By establishing permanent military bases in Iraq. Five self-sufficient `super-bases' are in various stages of completion. All are well away from the urban areas where most casualties have occurred. There has been precious little reporting on these bases in the American press, whose dwindling corps of correspondents in Iraq cannot move around freely because of the dangerous conditions. (It takes a brave reporter to leave the Green Zone without a military escort.) In February last year, the Washington Post reporter Thomas Ricks described one such facility, the Balad Air Base, forty miles north of Baghdad. A piece of (well-fortified) American suburbia in the middle of the Iraqi desert, Balad has fast-food joints, a miniature golf course, a football field, a cinema and distinct neighbourhoods, among them, `KBR-land', named after the Halliburton subsidiary that has done most of the construction work at the base. Although few of the 20,000 American troops stationed there have ever had any contact with an Iraqi, the runway at the base is one of the world's busiest. `We are behind only Heathrow right now,' an air force commander told Ricks. The Defense Department was initially coy about these bases. In 2003, Donald Rumsfeld said: `I have never, that I can recall, heard the subject of a permanent base in Iraq discussed in any meeting.' But this summer the Bush administration began to talk openly about stationing American troops in Iraq for years, even decades, to come. Several visitors to the White House have told the New York Times that the president himself has become fond of referring to the `Korea model'. When the House of Representatives voted to bar funding for `permanent bases' in Iraq, the new term of choice became `enduring bases', as if three or four decades wasn't effectively an eternity. But will the US be able to maintain an indefinite military presence in Iraq? It will plausibly claim a rationale to stay there for as long as civil conflict simmers, or until every groupuscule that conveniently brands itself as `al-Qaida' is exterminated. The civil war may gradually lose intensity as Shias, Sunnis and Kurds withdraw into separate enclaves, reducing the surface area for sectarian friction, and as warlords consolidate local authority. De facto partition will be the result. But this partition can never become de jure. (An independent Kurdistan in the north might upset Turkey, an independent Shia region in the east might become a
[Vo]:OT: Word of the Day
Let me admit up front: My Bad ! As a professional political cynic, it is just too hard not to spot an amiable fool with lofty ambitions, and to make some light humor out of what he has said, in the public record, contrasted with the 'spin' that his high-paid advisers want to push, years later. OK My-bad is trendy (or hated) in cultural lingo these days... which will gradually fade away in appeal (like bad itself - in the connotation of 'good')... but it is technically a phrase of several nuances, and technically this post is not merely word-phreakishness, nor just a Review of 'My Bad' the book, but comes replete with another stab at geek-oriented, cynical political humor, and with has something to offend everyone of any affiliation. But most of the political commentary today focuses on WHY John McCain has ZERO chance of being elected President ... even if he is running against an opponent with the middle name of Hussein. BTW, I personally like McCain the-person, as opposed to the-politician, but resent that the GOP has in recent days become vocal with this desperation tactic of name-gaming with Obama... as if a family name with Islamic roots is somehow anti-American. McCain's real problem is not just that there are more women voters than men, since some are Republicans, nor that women take special offense at being called unattractive, nor what could be evidence of a touch of misogyny, but relates especially to a mother's resentment for having a child picked-on by a big-shot Senator. All of that is emblematic of an emerging image problem which the other side will jump on; and the GOP should offer the undecided voters of the land, a better choice than this. Even if Hillary, the darling of NOW, will not be the choice to run against McCain (in all likelihood) a female Clinton may nevertheless be a part of this poor bloke's downfall. This all gets back to the same reason that Bill Clinton has become so hated by the right- aka foot-in-mouth disease or The remarks that come back to haunt you and this is partly thanks to the elephantine memory of the internet ... You know, like I didn't have sex with that woman. That quote from her husband is/was a part of Hillary's electability problem vis-a-vis Obama, whether she would admit it or not, but Bill C is no match for John M in terms of the my-bad-remarks department. BTW there is a nuance in that famous quote in which Bill was careful to say that woman and not that girl... although his daughter of nearly the same age was never called a woman then. That daughter, Chelsea, will ironically now become the Clinton-payback to old John M, instead of her mom's popularity. The Book behind all of this ranting is called My Bad by by Paul Slansky Arleen Sorkin: subtitled: 25 Years of Public Apologies and the Appalling Behavior That Inspired Them http://www.amazon.com/My-Bad-Apologies-Appalling-Behavior/dp/158234521X It is quite a hoot, unless you are so-tied-in to one side or the other (politically) that you cannot laugh at how ridiculous American politics and PC in general (political correctness) has become. SIDE NOTE For any vorticians who may be too removed from kid-culture to have heard it: 'My bad' is a modern day version of 'mea culpa' which may derive from black 'gangsta' rap or ghetto slang, or else just somehow hit a popular nerve from kid-talk (especially now that Latin is no longer being taught in most schools- most kids today think 'Latin' only has something to do with Mexico). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_bad_%28expression%29 My Bad came into widespread use in the late 1990s following a sound-byte in the 1995 cult movie Clueless, but in the new Book of the same name, the point comes out that ... Ah - public apologies are never enough, especially when in hindsight- say a decade later, circumstances change drastically. Case in point: John foot-in-mouth McCain... man, does this good-old-boy have a closet full of unopened baggage (maybe that's one reason I like the guy) which the Dem-wits are just sitting-on for now, hoping that he gets the nod. He will be lucky to carry his own state if it all comes out. McCain, who himself was a very handsome man years ago, profusely apologized for harmlessly quipping to Republican fund-raisers a decade ago that Chelsea Clinton was so ugly ... because ... get this: because she's the child of Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton Ha-ha-ha, all of which of course was intended to be a stab at Hillary's supposed sexual preference. It was water off a duck's back for Hill, but Chelsea was deeply hurt and cried for weeks. This stuff all happened long before the GOP, in the wake of several high profile homosexual closet-cases like Larry Craig (who also made it into the 'My Bad' top 10) had the tables-turned and has now become known as the Gay Old Perverts... making Ann Coulter so uncomfortable that McCain may even lose her vote. http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=215187 Anyway, among the 10 Most
Re: [Vo]:Global Warming anecdotes
On Mar 1, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Jones Beene wrote: Anecdotes about global warming are a waste of time- especially to confront the naysayers - because there will always be tales of record cold somewhere, with which to balance out the picture ... and in the end, almost everyone can believe in what serves their own agenda best. Never mind that here on the left coast, we have already gone through an early Spring in Northern California, and the plum trees and daffodils which bloomed in mid-February are almost gone of color. Say what you will glaciers melting, it's still cold in Alaska. But with the famous Iditarod 1,150-mile dog-sled race starting up soon, they are actually having to truck in snow ! Actually, snow has to be trucked almost every year. That's because the Ceremonial Start is held on 4th Avenue in downtown Anchorage, and the race winds through a system of roads, bike trails, and off- road trails for 20 miles to Eagle River. Some snow is almost always needed because the streets are plowed. However, when there is little snow cover, like now, even the trails require trucked snow. Eagle River is now a suburb of Anchorage, but still occasionally attempts to incorporate itself independently. The race used to then restart the next day in Wasilla, about 50 miles North of Anchorage. However, low snow falls and higher temperatures have repeatedly forced the restart out to Willow, which is even further away from the warming effect of the Japanese current. Horace is probably getting his team clipped and groomed so that they don't overheat ;-) I don't have a team, but could use some clipping and grooming myself. 8^) but I find it more than amusing that this story is apparently true- that snow had to be trucked in to cushion the streets of Anchorage for the race's ceremonial start on Sunday. I wonder if any of the musher will be wearing shorts... It could theoretically happen. The weather is now in the 20s to low 30s, and I've been out in a short sleve shirt myself. Some car dealers have problems with auto computers here because Alaskans turn on their air conditioners at 65. We recently had a heat wave of 30 to 40 degree weather here, including rain, which is the reason for lack of snow cover. It followed a spell of -30 to -15 degree weather, so was pretty dramatic. Birds are singing in the mornings now. KDF - a line of great computers in its day; at least Chris Tinsley thought the KDF9 was. KdF - not a venerable line of computers: http://www.feldgrau.com/KdF.html Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
[Vo]:Nordberg's lightballs
Vortexians, and Frank Znidarsic in particular; I'm hoping that this paper will stimulate some discussion. Nordberg seems to link lightballs to stars. One can only speculate what would happen if he succeeded in creating one of them. I'd probably be getting new windows for my house, if I still had a house. http://www.grandunification.com/PDFs/BallofLightParticleModel.pdf --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! ---
[Vo]:OT: 9/11 encore une fois
I read where Marion Cotillard is a believer in the 9/11 conspiracy theory. It's important that those with the crediblity to do so express their insights publicly. The sheer mental force brought by such a well-known French intellect is probably more convincing close up. I suspect even a common sense skeptic such as myself could be convinced by Mlle. Cotillard in a private conference lasting two hours or even less. Cinq-à-sept, peut-être. Il faut épater les grenouilles. M. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
