Bush Urges Oil Firms to Reinvest Windfall Profits - Los Angeles Times: "'My attitude is that the oil companies need to be mindful that the American people expect them to reinvest their cash flows in such a way that it enhances our energy security,' the president said during a White House news conference."

Usually I have the perverse feeling that President Bush is the same President as in the Manchurian Candidate. The bobbing head for an evil world of secret power brokers looking to control beyond what they should. There is an evil sinisterness to their actions. The foolish underhanded business deals. The blunt nepotism. The secret society of wealth and mutual benefit through friendship. That world still exists.

But everyonce in a while something intelligent is said. And I don't mean this absolves him for his sins, for Bush has done some foolish things, this certainly is a statement that I can respect. The last thing to do in this world is to have some sort of "windfall" tax placed upon these oil companies. Supply and demand has led to a change in the demand of oil in the world (while the supply has seemed to stay preaty steady even in light of our bumbling actions in Iraq). And honestly, we are way behind the prices in most of the world. We are supposed to be a capitalist nation. One of market values and an industry of knowledge.

Let them make their money. At least some benefit will come to our country as the people will spenfd lavishly on stupid things supporting the minions around them. At best, scientists, salespeople, administrative staff, equipment builders, and technology will benefit as the money enters our economy and drives the machine. Even in the face of an increased cost of fuel we have been able to grow significantly and do allright on a financial level as a nation.

As well...I think this is something we need. These pricing explosions are needed to push us away from changing our planet to an extreme...it makes living tough. Need and circumstance determine change.

Imagine if autism were the next great evolution.

In what world would the traits of an inside the mind thinking slow developing mentality be truly valued so greatly as to be chosen for? Maybe the race of beings that is known to travel the universe in singul unit vehicles that breath in the dust of space for power while mapping all that is. Only to co mingle in very limited and random times as the expanses of space are wide and ranged, the mating of these folks are valued and celebrated.

Who is to say the increased occurrences of autism in the far out west of the USA (California for some reason has VERY high rates of autism compared to the rest of the states) aren’t the human mind attempting to jump ahead to some logical step simply missing due to other parts not catching up just yet. One day someone may be born who is considered mentally faulted and that person may go on to be the next genetic heritage to shape the human race.

I say autism because I know little of real medical diseases and autism is something that interests me with its random incarnations of human mental capabilities…everyone thinks Rain Man and counting cards…most aren’t gifted, but those who are have some amazing traits and mental abilities. That weird creature a long time ago that was able to sense the sunlight and versus the nightlight was a different thing…but that creature did lead to the evolution of the eyeball.

Why Digg.com NEEDS dupes to become all powerful!

Why Digg.com wants dupes.

Basic marketing. Digg is Darwinism to the online world of news. the best rise to the top. A combination of clicks on the article, clicks on diggs, click on the comment section or even hovering over an article will lead to it moving up in the world of the frontpage (i theorize). There are also multiple reasons any particular article moves up on the human side as well.

First, of course, is the big blue title link going across the top. That catches your eye. Boom! Direct marketing hardcore. That is probably the most significant aspect of the article that attracts attention. So people who are good at labeling the top line will probably do well. If someone badly writes a headline and the story flops, it is not only my right to republish it but it is my duty and a proper Digg citizen!!

Secondly, you have the section right below the top article. This one is a little different in how many ways it can be written. There is more flexibility and the forms vary but a trade off is that it must be read (RTFA!!!) and we wll know how patient we are on the internet and all. Again though, a better writer here will get more clicks and attention. So see above for impassioned pleas.

Lastly, what time is it? Different groups of people digg at entirely different times. Any statgeek who has stared at their logs long enough know when traffic moves up and down and can probably identify the genre of person who is poking around (especially those sites who have logons).

Now...my full argument. In order to FULLY realize their market potential Digg must recognize the need and importance of dupes in that all groups of viewers need to get a chance to click on all potential news stories to get the greatest click throughs. Those stories can move on and off the front page quite quickly and who really takes time to click back to the second page (other than the zealots who will read this)? Maybe digg should purposely recirculate stories that had high click rates back into the system after doing a solid study of which groups sign on when and what stories they miss from other time zones. Or even has a system which random shoots the dupes out at random later times in order to feed them to as many Digg Spy'ers as possible.

But who knows...the system of the Digg, with just a few simple rules, may have already created what is the most efficient news rendering system there is. The universe is based upon a few simple rules applied in a myriad of ways. Why complicate it?

So...after enough rambling. Digg.com needs dupes. And a properly regulated recirculation project will not only work well (if executed properly) but will increase the level of traffic digg generates, and in the end, in order for Digg to live long it must be profitable and intelligent.

A people should not fear their government, the government should fear their people. It is not only the right of the people to speak but it is their responsibility. They who give their rights away for temporary solace in exchange for freedoms deserve neither those freedoms nor their solace.

I am fearful at times of the truth of what is going on in our world. In hindsight, our analysations are not always correct. Let alone our simple ideas of what we think we see today. We wonder at times how people allow their leaders to commit grave crimes. The masses have never been known to see the great evils as they arose. The great eyes of a thousand souls glazed over in front of atrocities so unequivocally monstrous that our human soul will be forever tainted by their happenings.

We must remember that this race to live on this planet is not against each other but against things much more powerful than have ever considered. The whole race of who we are is struggling against the universal will that is grinding all that is into their slightest of pieces. We are fighting a focus so sharp and a constant so forever that concepts and words like infinity are unable to engulf the meaning of the existence that we have and are a part of.

Forgive me if I sound melodramatic. But my gift from this world is great and wonderful and beautiful. And I fear for it.

The Road System

Would you give up the control of your vehicle on the nations highways? As well the privacy of being the only one who will ever know where you went within a certain range? Would you allow a combined wireless local and server based system on a remote location communicate and dictate what speeds for you to go? How about if they could make the left two lanes only for cars. As well, all of the cars would travel very close together cutting down on extensive amounts of friction lost to wind. Movement within the lanes would be predictable and efficient. It is always safer for 10 cars to slow five miles per hours then one car slowing 50. Average speed would be increased 50%. Fuel efficiency 25-30%. The total volume that the road can transport at guaranteed speeds would probably increased two-three folds in areas with large populations. As well, police would not have to focus within these lanes. They would be safer less death. Drunks could be driven a majority of the way home safely…and you could probably do some office work or even get lucky. Imagine road trips. Bad ass cars and transnational traveling would become very vogue. Eventually we would apply (or maybe first) this technology to a separate group of highway which are built one on top of another…don’t need lighting…don’t need sign…don’t need any of the traditional amenities of a regular road…because the only vehicles that travel on these roads are the newest breed of tractor trailers engines who roll across the country at 110MPH in ultra efficient clean machines. Some people may call this the railroad…but the railroad can’t drive to the front door of a local mom and pops like a human driven vehicle and converse with the shop owners. As well, the drivers can get some well needed sleep or maybe take online courses…who the hell knows.

 

Go tech!

 

Why have we not programmed life? Why have we not created a piece of software called “Evolution” and installed it on millions of computers. This piece of software will combine all of the things we know about change into an algorithm. Then we would insert something as random as we could to increase the level of mutations to match what is happening in the real world. This software could halfway be written by the folks who are using it and letting it run world wide. The computer network created by this software would also facilitate the software doing the Evolution program to evolve itself. It would fine tune the definition of change through constant questioning of its users or possibly through the constant monitoring of many different statistical sites to study numbers. Who knows…somewhere, there is a relationship.

To define change is to predict the potential. Once the potential is predicted then the future becomes known. To insert randomness allow forever to be unknown. Shake it up.

My next Random Thing To Waste Time Desiring

Why isn’t there a cable package type of thing for all of those great websites with great content who charge X amount of dollars for access? And these cable packages would allow access to tons of shit. Kinda like AOL with Time Warner access. I would pay $20/mo to drop all five of my paper magazines (they kill too many trees anyway) and get access to 100 pay sites or even 20 pay sites if I am interested in them. We could call it the Super Duper Digital Package of Online Knowledge and Other Shit. Free of hydrocarbons…well not really cus we geeks use a lot of resources for our shit.

Ode to what is and what will be for getting there is half the fun.

A blooming genetic string. I don’t know truly how to see this. Does the first flower to bloom really win? Absolutely not. It will whither away on a cold tree with nary a bee in sight and no place for its pollen to land. But are humans like flowers? I can’t make so simple an analogy. The Mesopotamians were the first to blossom on this planet. They built places to live almost 10,000 thousand years ago. Grew crops. Changed the world for their own benefit.

Egyptians. Chinese. Indian. Sumerian. All of these peoples struck out early on and changed the world. They blossomed. The Chinese and Indian have grown to be the largest countries on this planet. And they are enjoying a sort of renaissance. Maybe bloom first, spread and grow later to a new tree. Then came along the other places…the Indians of the Americas…the Greeks and Romans in the western world. Something had to be floating around for the Nordics to be toiling away in the northern reaches of this planet. All over these random versions of human had been mixing away and coming up with thee new formulas for human being. All beautiful amazing formulas. Genetic diversity.

Many societies have hit their stride and fallen away because they sprinted out before the race was decided…unless we already have lost the race. …the race you ask is the race that the various sub species of human are taking to see what human type will survive the longest. There are many human types…all very similar (just like the finches on Galapagos).

Odd little streaks of culture have shot across the planet as well. Religions. Fads. All of these ideas somehow, intrinsically linked, mathematically described and coded into the forever.

Which sets of genes in the end will be spread over the human race. What genetic strengths will begin to arise in our species? Will we get taller? Will our body structures change to support the greater mass? Will we get smaller as we move into space or famines attack? Will our mental capacities continue to advance toward more complex and being better able to understand? Will the next ice age usher in a time of lithe finely toned people who are socially advanced and intelligently fit enough to support themselves though changing times? Will massive humanoids begin to meander through the streets as a torn apart world begins to decay? Possibly a very small group of very specialized people (gold metal gymnasts, NBA all stars, Chess Grandmasters) will survive away on some tiny island in the middle of nowhere after a comet plunges to the surface killing scores while bird flu ravages the world leaving a forever altered sense of where human evolution was.

We could devolve. Mentally. Or not? Will the rogue gene of intelligence always fight its way to sprout out to the world?

wake n bake

Maybe we live inside of a greater something we cannot imagine. Maybe our universe sits, as a speck of sand, outside of a giant cauldron of something. And the big bang was simply a little tear in the outside of that light. And that’s how it grows. Inhaling the energy created in those amazing big bangs which occur when life escapes its walls.