Pocket Projector

Just revealed at MacWorld: the SHOW WX Pico Projector. It's a video projector that can be connected to your phone and is roughly the same size as an iPhone.

Technologies such as these will continue to shrink. We can imagine in the future computer displays built into the lenses of sunglasses or the human eyeball. Or perhaps we could connect a computer directly to the visual cortex of the brain.

In December, 2008 researchers in Japan successfully hacked into the visual cortex, extracting images directly from the brain. Now we just need to figure out how to input them.

Campaign Promises? What Campaign Promises?

It's okay, everything's changed.

President-Elect Obama, in a recent interview with ABC correspondent George Stephanopoulos:

"... I'm not suggesting, George, I want to be realistic here, not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace that we had hoped."

Well, so much for HOPE! It gets worse...

"And eventually sacrifice from everyone?" Stephanopoulos asked.

"Everybody's going to have to give. Everybody's going to have to have some skin in the game," Obama said.

Not me!

During the Great Depression real-estate plummeted, unemployment sky-rocketed, and people could simply not afford to pay burdensome taxes. Some of the largest and most successful tax revolts were organized between 1930-33.

The next institution to go broke will be the U.S. government, and who's going to bail it out then? It's all one great big Ponzi scheme.

The Federal Reserve, fractional reserve banking, and fiat currency are what got us into this mess in the first place. The question is how do we get out. I'm no economist, but 100% reserves, currency backed by gold and silver, and letting the free market determine interest rates all sound like a good ideas to me.

Understanding Central Banks

Surely the whole world would fall apart without the benevolent guidance of central banks, right?



LOLFed.com

Obama's Economic Stimulus Package

From Reason.com

Creating jobs for the sake of creating jobs doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Totalitarian State

Misc.

Bernanke is a genius

If he keeps it up, maybe we'll get to be #7 on this list

It's time to reboot America

And this is just awesome/hilarious

Accelerating into the Future

For those who might be interested, you can view the final term paper of my undergraduate career at Georgia Tech here. Once there, click the down arrow on the right side of the screen to download.

Topics of the paper include: the technological singularity, nanotechnology, the Internet, artificial intelligence, the monetary system, and machine automation.

I welcome any and all comments and questions.

December 21, 2012

On the winter solstice of the year 2012, our sun will align with the center of the galaxy. This astronomical event occurs only once every 26,000 years.

The wobble of the earth will also complete its 26,000 year cycle as well. And the magnetic field of the earth will shift.

More change will occur in the next 4 years than in the previous thousands of years.

That which has no integrity will collapse. It will be a time of chaos, and out of that chaos will emerge a new order. What order that is we must decide individually and collectively.

Conspiracy Theories

No more school

Well, done with college.

B.S. in History, Technology, & Society from Georgia Tech.

Honestly, I would say the majority of it was a waste of time. Rote memorization of meaningless facts and data, busy work, and bullshit papers.

But I did learn how to write, met a lot of cool people, had the occasional light bulb moment.

Based on my experience at just one of thousands of colleges, I would say that there is abundant room for improvement in the way we educate. Young people should be allowed to explore their interests freely, not forced to study irrelevant topics that don't interest them. Why do we retain this method?

Of course, I am content with my decision to earn a degree from this university. I will have better job opportunities and "social respect".

As for now, I have no idea what I want to do. Some money in the bank for a while.

Maybe I'll start a business helping the older generation learn how to get the most out of their iPhones. But I'll probably have to get some sort of job until there is significant revenue from that.

I've got some real thinking to do.

Worry!

In light of the recent economic downturn, many people are losing their jobs and getting laid off.

Could you be next? You never know, they could fire you any day!

In order to deal with this uncertainty, I have one suggestion: Worry!

Worrying is more useful than you might think. Worrying has helped many employees keep their jobs. It raises your stress level, and you can use that to make your boss feel sorry for you.

Worrying is a very valuable, productive activity. My advice is to set aside at least 15 minutes a day to worry.

This may sound hard at first. You're probably thinking to yourself, "I've already got enough on my daily To Do list. Now I have to add worrying?"

If 15 minutes sounds intimidating, start by worrying for just one minute a day. Then you can work your way up to 3 minutes, 7 minutes, and eventually 15 minutes.

With hard work and determination, you can climb your way up to the status of a full-fledged worry-wart. Now get worrying!

END THE FED Atlanta LIVE Webcast

Tune in on Saturday, November 22, 2008 between 12:00 Noon and 2:00 PM for live video from the END THE FED rally at 1000 Peacthree Street in Midtown Atlanta.

I will be streaming live video from my iPhone using Qik. You can watch here.

This technology is still in early development, the video may freeze or cut off for several minutes at a time. Just reload the page if the uplink is interrupted.

And I will likely have to go off air for periods of time to conserve battery life. That way I can get a sampling of different points in time in the rally.

The video will be recorded and available at the same page once the event is over.

Please comment on your viewing experience. Thank you.

We will be rallying at the corner of 10th & Peacthree.

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Opinion: No More Bailouts

America was built on capitalism. The free market is the driving force behind our prosperity.

In the past couple months, government officials and corporate executives have been working together to use taxpayer money to bail out companies that are "too large to fail." What this amounts to is corporate welfare.

The argument in favor of these bailouts is that we need to keep these corporations afloat to prevent even more economic woes. Well, we gave $700 billion to the banks, and did they create more loans? No, they either sat on it, bought up smaller banks, or rewarded executive management. Now GM and Ford have their hands out.

My thoughts on this are in line with Ron Paul's. If a corporation is going bankrupt due to poor management or poor sales, it needs to fail. It is no longer relevant to our economy.
Instead of keeping people employed to create obsolete products (e.g. GM & Ford manufacturing gas-guzzling SUVs and pickups), put them to work in new companies that will produce hybrids and electrics. Keeping out of date companies afloat only postpones the inevitable.

Propping up bad business models does not make any sense. What is a company's incentive to perform if they can bank on the government helping them out if they screw up?

Furthermore, the Federal Reserve is chief cause of this mess in the first place. Business cycles are not some sort of natural occurrence. They are directed by the Fed which through artificially low interest rates and easy credit encourages businesses to make bad decisions. Then, every few years, the Fed raises interest rates back up, credit dries up, businesses fail, and we get recessions.

What this amounts to is central planning, which is not that different that communism. Communists believe a central authority knows best of how much of each item to produce, be it cars, corn, or coal. Nobody, no matter how intelligent, can know the desires and demands of 300 million American citizens. That is why we have the free market.

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