You Think the Skies are Crowded Now? Just Wait for the Autonomous Air Uber Company

Two developments posted on Gizmag.com portend to skies abuzz with more than just camera drones.
Behold below the (respectively) new LiquidPiston Inc rotary engine (boasting a amazing 75% thermal efficiency), rated at 40 bph, and below that the Autonomous Arial Vehicle being developed in China by  Ehang



See it here.


See it here.

You combine the power to weight ratio of that engine with an A.A.V. like the 184 and you will have an air platform that will be able to lift you and your luggage automatically to anywhere within a 100 to 200 mile radius; and all you will have to do is click your phone app to make it land near where you need it.

You don't see it now but FAA officials are experiencing horrendous apocalyptic mental fits in anticipation of figuring out how to keep our air space from becoming one giant kill zone.

A Tragedy We Should All be Concerned About

A Cascade Event is really only another way of saying that shit rolls down hill. And a super tanker load of same may well be on the way for the average Chinese citizen. We think we know what economic suffering is all about but in actuality we know dick compared to what the Chinese have already, and may well come to, suffer in the weeks ahead. My heart, for one, goes out to what are essentially very hard working, decent people.

The thing is, though, that this avalanche of avarice won't stop at the Chinese boarder. As the NBCnews.com post makes clear, just as their smog blows over to us eventually, their economic woes will do the same thing. And just as the elites there won't suffer nearly as much as the average working person, the same will be the case here, as with the rest of the world.

This is an interconnected world not at work, but shaking within the same warped web of contradictions that is Capitalism. And the tragedy will only worsen because the military minds on both sides will be unlikely to let go of their cherished visions of the other being the enemy. As is too often the case the generals, either during, and/or after, their tours of duty, become just another part of the money elites; either dictating policy or lobbying for it at the behest of big arms producers.

The Chinese are not our enemies. They are, however, our competitors, and therein lies the problem; as we are in competition for not only resources, but for markets as well, do we come to butt heads time and again. Two creative, industrious peoples who should be working together to make both the lives of their respective populations better, as well as the rest of the world as well. The real demon here goes by many names but in the end it all boils down to money.

European Shares Fall Sharply as China Halts Trading Again

Product Madness Update

This just in from Wad Master:

Those creative crazies are at it again. Word is that they are about to embark on a new campaign to revitalize education. The program they're going to start promoting calls for the tearing down of all K-12 schools, letting the land be lease out for more localized server farms. In their place would be thousands of multi-purpose learning kiosks set up in every shopping mall across the country. The dual role kiosks would not only help Jack and Jill learn to read and count (you can't buy what you can't read about, and how can you manage more purchases if you can't know how much money you have), but will also quickly convert into 25 person machine gun bunkers in the event of any terrorist attack. Implanted chips specially coded will ensure that only school age children will be allowed into the kiosks during such attacks, with prestocked, short barrel, fully automatic carbines, at the ready on Supremo Ammo Mags. The entire gun and mag assembly would be height adjustable, of course, to make sure every kid can kill with ergonomic ease.

Wad Master is hoping that the more artistic among the population will come up with interesting exterior design approaches to the kiosks, any examples of which will be presented here. The wiz wags at W.M. assure us that prizes of enormous value may well be given away for the best entries so stay tuned.

We Want More Land to Make Money on, And We Don't Want to Pay Any Taxes.

In this standoff do we see a fundamental aspect of the extreme right; they see every aspect of nature as simply another feed stock of enterprise. Letting land, and the life that thrives on it, be is a sin to them precisely because they think of it only as untapped resource going to waste.

The ignorance involved here in not being able to understand the fact that life requires a rich tapestry of many different species threads in order for any of it to hold together, and  survive, is just astounding. Corresponding to the ignorance involved with not appreciating how important that tapestry is to not only our survival, but to our sanity as well. A fact that we will begin to understand a great deal more clearly as we colonize our stellar system; as, without that fabric of life around us, none of our habitats will prosper properly at all. People might barely survive, but not without great cost to their spirit, or Psyche.

The interesting aspect that will be at work here is to what degree any of the remaining presidential candidates will pander to this extremist flaunting of the law. My prediction is that a few will have to or lose whatever credibility they have with their extremist base.

Oregon Standoff: Armed Protesters, Political Reaction and #YallQaeda

The Pros and Cons of Google

Google is certainly far too big, and controls way too much of web advertising. Even someone such as myself who benefits from Google+, as well as Google blogs, has to acknowledge that.

That said, however, one also has to acknowledge that they do spend money on socially relevant things as well. Case in point is the expanding effort to help people gauge whether solar panel installation would be cost effective for them.

On the one hand, of course, is the fact that cost effectiveness should be irrelevant. On the other hand, though, is the simple fact that the cost based system is, for the moment, a fact of life. This will change, one way or another, but the something is better than nothing approach can, if nothing else, at least buy us a bit more time to do what really needs to be done.

In any case, however, I do urge you to check out their online service for solar panel effectiveness. Whatever your circumstances there may still be the chance that you could get a two for one exchange here; better energy costs as well as lowering your carbon foot print.

Are Solar Panels a Good Deal? Google's 'Project Sunroof' Expands

It's Time for Product Madness! The fun show where we spitball open source products from the hip and see what sticks to the bathroom wall of crazy profit.

First up is the Penis Cozy. Basically a strap on dildo for guys that's also a faux vagina on the inside. What you would have then is both a girth enhancer for the girth challenged that would also give hand grip fit whether or not your partner was young, and/or diligent, in kagel exercising. Could you sell a better win-win for the orgasm focused crowd?

I should add that this ought to be sold by a company called Wad Master. They would be a diversified product firm that would also sell gun mags; the top of the line being the Supremo; a clip best described as a fifty gallon drum on pneumatic tires, with the weapon swivel mounted on top. The super sized warranty package, of course, would include a Hispanic immigrant to do the reloading for you, as well as discounted long term financing for the bulk order ammo replacement. Melting barrel insurance would also be available for those in the Platinum Shaft club.

Wad Master will also seek to gain an advanced position in genetic engineering, as one might expect. The interesting thing here, though, will be the emphasis on first increasing not only the size of the male semen reservoir, but of also increasing replenishment rates as well. They are also rumored to be seeking the ability to allow for selectable replacements for sperm, with various hypnotic, euphoric and stimulant molecules that might be absorbable through the vagina. No word yet on whether any automatic vagina counter measures will be developed as well. Stay tuned though. No telling how far this profit center will take us.

Doing More of the Same Will Do What?

Reinvention. It not only has a fairly good ring to it, it is distinctly American. Famous people have been doing it, as well as major corporations, for a long time now.

Keeping that in mind you really need to ask yourself this one simple question. Doing more of the same is what got us here in the first place  Why then is there any need to make America great again?

The fact of the matter is that it is long past time to reinvent how this nation operates. From the ground up, real, comprehensive reinvention. And in that context you don't use a Model T economic operating system to run an information matrix environment; an environment where holistic integration, and complexity management are the facts of life.

The idiots you see on the right here have been selling you on simplistic certainty. Neat, resonating little audio-visual bits of blather that are the hallmark of good sloganeering. They don't commit the pitchman to much of anything concrete so that nothing of substance can actually be expected of them. Is it any wonder then that the only thing that changes is the degree to which things have gotten worse. Even when there are more jobs, and bit more money so spend on needs, or distractions, the list of what hasn't been paid for yet grows. And the final currency of payment will be denominated in pain as opposed to abstract counters.

As we start the last half of the Y2K teens let us reflect upon what must really happen if America is to lead the globe back to a better way of living. This will be something that cannot be sugar coated, or spun with diverting generalities. It will require sacrifice, difficult times, and a great deal of hard work. The alternative, however, is so far beyond imagining, in terms of pain and suffering, that one delves into it with no small amount of risk. We still have the choice to make, but even that will be taken from us eventually.