There was a scifi story -- don't recall the author -- based on the premise that the Second Amendment was actually enforced throughout US history. The US basically retains its Jeffersonian "yeoman farmer" settler culture and urbanization is minimal.
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:34 PM, blaze spinnaker <[email protected]>wrote: > It's like asymmetric warfare. Putting e=mc2 in the hands of the > individual seems like a recipe for, well, something. > > I'm just saying, there's room for fear here. > > On the flipside, we do have this global warming problem... > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> *Consider this thought experiment. If many electric utility customers >> leave the grid to take advantage of personal independent power production, >> then the total cost to build and maintain the grid will fall upon the >> necks of a very few customers. * >> >> * * >> >> *These grid based customers who are stuck on the grid will have to bear >> the entire cost of an underutilized and little used grid made very >> expensive by connectivity to all the far flung shared centralize power >> stations.* >> >> * * >> >> *This will make personal power production increasingly economically >> attractive compared to grid connection.* >> >> * * >> >> *This price competitive advantage will make personal power production >> exponentially accelerated in its adoption.* >> >> * * >> >> * * >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:03 PM, blaze spinnaker < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Cold Fusion isn't necessarily the good news everyone thinks it is. >>> Unfettered access to unlimited fusion energy you can generate in your DIY >>> basement lab probably has a few downsides. >>> >>> Like the chinese say: may you live in interesting times. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Alain Sepeda <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> I already spotted some preacher of fear preparing to scaremonger >>>> peoples on LENR. >>>> >>>> I'm afraid LENR will be forbidden by the preachers of fear before it is >>>> industrial. >>>> >>>> It became so in France for shales, GMO, and few other heretic >>>> researches. >>>> when I mean forbidden, it is FORBIDDEN TO SEARCH. >>>> >>>> we have no lesson to give to the people of middle age. >>>> >>>> >>>> 2013/7/24 Axil Axil <[email protected]> >>>> >>>>> Those decision makers who are scientifically uninitiated are going to >>>>> search around for guidance from some experts in the scientific field that >>>>> they think might cover this Defkalion demo. >>>>> >>>>> Well, they think… it must obviously be some sort of fusion reaction, >>>>> so we should ask the plasma scientists worldwide to evaluate this demo for >>>>> experimental content and theory. >>>>> >>>>> But wait a minute; these experts already have billions of dollars of >>>>> next year’s funding requests submitted to fusion hungry governments all >>>>> over the world. >>>>> >>>>> So now that LENR is verging on respectability, and knowing the >>>>> weakness of human nature, can’t we now rightfully view the pursuit of big >>>>> box hot fusion as a scam to extract unending funding to perpetuate a >>>>> fraudulent science that has little chance of crystalizing into an >>>>> engineering success story? >>>>> >>>>> Can they ever expect to get an honest evaluation from the hot plasma >>>>> folks? What are these poor misguided design makers to do? Where can they >>>>> get the truth? And what to do with scientists that have spent 40 billion >>>>> dollars over all those same years that they ridiculed LENR as a >>>>> possibility >>>>> and actively sought to destroy the people that wanted to advance it, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
