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Okay, let's see if this works for the bookmarks. (Many are years old and may not load.) climate bookmarks.pdf Great, my original post disappeared. Okay, try again, there are two existing links in these forums, take a long time with them. Look for my orange flower icon to know where to jump in on the page; then after all the linked reading go back and read the rest of the original post with fuller understanding. Global Warming Pause never true? - Current Events - Freedomain Radio Message Board The Truth about Global Warming Alarmism - Current Events - Freedomain Radio Message Board Also, a link I didn't realize I had shows that energy trading con artist Ken Lay of Enron infamy, send a front man to Kyoto to get cap and trade passed. He is now a trader of carbon and gets paid by all this somehow. Al Gore is in on the gig. Does anyone else have a new fee on their utility bill for "climate action plan"? Al Gore's Inconvenient Enron | National Review Online In my other post, I put my bookmark list in case anyone is curious.

Will do. I was so angry and exhausted I sort of rushed thru it, tho' even knowing nothing of my case, the two links speak for themselves. Did you look at them yet? Here's the full story, it's long on detail, but PLEASE be on guard for yourselves and learn by it. I grew up in a respectable medical family, and had no attitude, until recent years when twice I have been treated like a billable piece of crap, when admitted with severe distress, once ICU and once ER (results of a clear malpractice injury completely unrecognized; now I AM getting an attitude). I think if I'd worn a Rolex, the personal treatment would've been better, but not the results. I am appalled at modern medicine, ruled by profits and attorneys, and nobody is allowed to think, or do what's best. Only what won't ruffle the feathers on somebody's software. I am disgusted but there's surely plenty already on the net about that. A long time nurse friend is also of this opinion. As I now see the huge con job here, I mention another point which had caught my attention. I learned early that tobacco is a no-no. I smoke pot almost daily, and mentioned that in the exam. My mailed report says SMOKER: DAILY. Curious, I measured, and my average is about 1-1/3 THIMBLES-full per day. For data analysis, I'm lumped together with somebody who does a pack of Camels. Hardly good science. But great for recommending some expensive tests some day. I am 63 and in very good health, often taken as forties. Body scans have shown normal systems and zero defects, virtually insurance claim-free. I was with Kaiser because before ACA, due to age alone, my premiums skyrocketed. I never bothered with the "free" annual exams until December 2014, when I went in mostly to have a couple of minor but annoying skin matters addressed. No digital rectal exam (DRE) was done. I now understand that the medical profession as a whole is seeing DRE's and PSA tests as so unreliable as to recommend avoiding them. At the very end of a boring quick exam, which is a good thing up to that point, I was asked if I'd like a PSA test, since my blood was still on hand. I now wonder if that question was an onscreen prompt for the doc. (My "oh-my-glycerides" and "cruel-esterol" numbers were high, like always, but they don't worry about it as much now…like I'd been saying for years, with clean pliable arteries and a strong heart.) I said yes, and the result was markedly higher than one taken 3 years earlier elsewhere. (I have also learned that PSA numbers will vary somewhat over short times anyway, and vary by lab some. They are not fixed numbers.) This made me worry about getting that DRE, in my innocence, and I ended up calling Urology, with some Kaiser doc email coaxing me along the way. I ONLY wanted a DRE, by presumably a more experienced fingertip, which I now realize is halfway bogus, as to what actually can be felt. I turned out to be boringly unremarkable, again a good thing. HOWEVER, before we got to that, I was given a bladder scan…five seconds to do the whole thing...to find out how much I'd retained in giving a urine sample. I had NO warning of this, no instruction to fully empty…it was a cold weather wave, a cold restroom, and I just wanted out of there quickly, so I didn't…and had to figure out on my own what was actually going on. And getting hit $40 for it later, again no notice of that either. I have no retention problems, it was completely unneeded, and they didn't even ask or tell me it was going to happen. I never saw a urologist, and now I'm glad. The Physician's Assistant during the visit told me…close to exact words as I recall…"the biopsy is low risk," and "it may metastasize into bone cancer." So we have the "oh don't fear us" and "oh maximum fear of not doing what we say." That was the sum total of discussion. I also tried to speak of a unique bench I made for online gaming, and I kneel, because it's great for leg joints. But I also sit sometimes, and even more when I start surfing right after gaming, too lazy to grab a chair, assuming overall bad posture, and the unique layers of my bench construction, great for bones, absolutely mash into my "saddle area" completely unlike any furniture, futon, carpet, or even bike seat. Two years old, and previous PSA was three years, so it seems like at least a topic for discussion. I got ZERO recognition that I'd even tried to speak. I was automatically set up for a biopsy. Mixing my time frames here, it took three calls with a scheduling person to reveal that another driver is recommended to transport the patient (victim), not because of merely a local anesthetic, but because my body would be (my summarizing words) reeling from the physical assault. At various times over three weeks, to try to get ANY information, I got on our beloved internet, and researched one or two starting points, for one or two hours. I've put a total of 6-9 hours intense research on this topic. I had the links above probably in the first two hours, but had bookmarked them without reading, and only got to them at the end of those other hours. It's all you need. And all those other hours reveal that it's very messy information, lots of hems and haws and interpretations, and it's a God-send to have those quotes and images above to take us exactly to our needed destination. I talked on the phone with the P.A. only after a good bit of squawking elsewhere about not being heard. At that time, I didn't know I had these important links, so couldn't mention them. I see now that Kaiser has plentiful parking, lovely buildings, employees happier to see you than even Disney, and we are sure we are with Big Momma And Dadda who will take care of us. Slick. How much for a biopsy? Wasn't mentioned. But I called Financial, and it would be $700+, for two cores. But on that phone call, the PA said 12 cores, six lobes on a side of prostate gland. So maybe it's two thousand. After I figured out what was really going on, I cancelled the appointments. I was to see a urologist after the biopsy, which would be my first contact, no discussion. "Low risk" actually means 1-3% chance of serious complications including hospitalization, and almost certainly a few days of possible pain, bleeding, and no doubt mental anguish. None of this was verbally mentioned. The preparation instructions printout mentions the bleeding and pain part. It was made VERY clear to me, the mental state alone, the fear I described as "wearing a concentration camp" would grind any man's health down, even if it was just a banged toe causing it. They would punch 12 holes into an otherwise quite silent organ, introducing sperm and fecal bacteria into my bloodstream. That last one is so deadly, a major cause of battlefield death, that I'd be given a double dose of an antibiotic so powerful that long term use can cause tendon damage. None of this mentioned. To recap: I was being totally sucked in on horrendous science. It is of primary importance to fully inform a man (see those links), and yet I was given almost zero information, and it was misleading. I was scheduled without discussion. I was going into a major unknown debt, lined up probably for yet more. I would be injured, perhaps seriously. And maybe told to come back for worse. And if I didn't get on the net for hours and hours, BECAUSE I DIDN'T TRUST THEM, it would have happened. So, for you men to avoid all that hell in merely a few minutes, look at the links. And spread them around.

I just had three weeks of mental anguish. Fortunately I kept searching the internet, when Kaiser Permanente had a near total info blackout, in both directions, not telling and not listening. A real con job in retrospect. I didn't realize where I'd end up, and am very glad I stayed on it. Here are two links with the "punchlines" and if you are male, or have male friends or family, PLEASE read these. It will take five minutes, and the value is enormous. The first is some quotes, including the discover of PSA referring to today's practice as "profit driven public health disaster…." imgur: the simple image sharer The second is a cancer.gov info graphic, showing that huge risk and injury (physical, mental, financial) results in virtually zero reward: Infographic: Benefits and Harms of PSA Screening for Prostate Cancer - National Cancer Institute

Earlier two links were created here with tons of info about the fraud that is >alarming< climate change. Those two links are here, and they take a lot of time to read, but are worth it: The Truth about Global Warming Alarmism - Current Events - Freedomain Radio Message Board Global Warming Pause never true? - Current Events - Freedomain Radio Message Board What I have to add are two things. A link I didn't realize I had, showing that con artist Ken Lay of Enron infamy, modus operandi of energy trading, is now in carbon trading. He gets paid for cap-and-trade, and sent a front man to Kyoto to make sure it got passed. Read more here: Al Gore's Inconvenient Enron | National Review Online Also, I have over 120 links re climate fraud, and I'll attach them in case someone is curious. (Hmm, I see the file is not clickable; will work on that.) climate bookmarks.rtf

I'm not surprised at the results. Someone is trying to force nature, instead of following it. A game, by it's very nature, is constantly exploring what the brain can do, including cleverness. Like flowing water, the process will find all possible pathways, and exploit the most useful. A brain trainer is presuming to know in advance a category of skills to train, which strikes me as ossified from the start. It's the difference between working out in a gym, and being an animal in the wild. The animal blends all it's muscles and movements, the gym isolates them. ----------------------------------------- Also, spend time here: Video games good for brain health - UberStrike This all came about because I had a nasty brain injury several years ago, and I stumbled upon a child-friendly online shooter game (no gore, no plot, nothing extra…just unabated merciless skill from over 60 countries Countries/regions master list - UberStrike ). Pumping the deserving ones here: One home game blogger, who wrote paragraphs about other mainstream games, said that when he tried this free game "I had to leave after a short while, because I couldn't survive it." Yes!! I think it was Facebook's #1 game a couple of years ago. I wasn't even intending to play online, being something of a Luddite, and was just looking for a clock app. But when I looked at the game out of curiosity, I found that while I was in that cyberworld, so very nicely done, my frequent brain seizures stopped. So I stayed very long hours there, and eventually noticed that I was almost always first or second place (if certain known masters didn't show up). That was back when the player universe was maybe 10,000's, now it's up to millions, and it's tougher, but if I'm feeling good and loosened up, I can still do it. I became a world class online player due to a brain injury. Funny world. I recommend scanning all the posts in the main link, because valuable parts are scattered. Further links provided by posters are here. Two short articles, and a worthwhile TED talk by a 30-something game designer: Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Talk Video | TED.com Memory Care - Alzheimer's & Dementia Care Video game improves critical cognitive skills in older adults | Alzheimer's Reading Room Also included is this post: "... you sound kind of similar to me. I ended up playing so much due to inner ear damage that made doing regular things impossible. (Major balance issues) I do seem to be recovering now though which means a bit less uberstrike and more real life. It did for a time help me forget I had tons of vertigo and get through a rather difficult time in my life." Amen.

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I delight in finding things to vote NO, thus attempting to eliminate at least that fragment of force.

Ah! We can nebel have too much werfer! I meant that I was researching the issues and candidates for my own voting.

I was just writing to a friend about my online voting research. I got to a place with statements by state attorney general candidates. The Republican made a brief direct statement, which didn't actually have content past the obvious, like saying that the sun is bright, or plants should be healthy. A non-statement, but kindly brief. The Libertarian made a statement that was also brief, but clearly stated a priority of intention, thus having content within the brevity. The Democrat's statement looked like it was written by committee. I wanted to red-pencil about half of it out of existence. What a pandering construction...which in my mind was stated as a pander fest, but being a reader of military history, that immediately morphed to PANDERFAUST. (A German anti-tank shoulder weapon was a rocket called a Panzerfaust. It's warhead was a shaped charge, meaning that all the little molecules of blast were focused on one spot.) I'm certain that I've invented a new word. Quick searching reveals the word Panderfaust only used as a family or online character name. The question is, who cares? Is that a good word to spread around? I think it means a focused blast of essentially hot air, aimed at a target audience that will respond to specific claptrap long enough to be put at bay, at least temporarily. I eagerly await your thoughts...

Yeah, Casey, that is a welcome and massive public service.

Thanks for the thread link. I now have a much fuller understanding. Something occurs to me. I'm not judging it, just noticing it. The BC miners speak of buying expensive special computers, which I understand to be solving complex math, and take so long to make so little BC that the cost of electricity affects the profitability of being a miner in the first place. Doesn't the NSA, and agencies in many major countries, have plenty of budget for electronics and electricity? Could some of the most successful/effective miners be national security agencies, even other types of national agencies? I've seen the comments that BC could be used for gun-running or such, but that cuts both ways. BC would be a great way to fund covert operations or bribes.

Thanks for the links, I now have blurry and crossed eyes from yet another learning curve! Most of the material is about how the BC are used and processed. I can follow that well enough. What puzzles me are elements of the mining. As far as I can tell, BC are created/granted when a pricey bit of hardware runs complex software for long periods of time, then tells a supervisory human that it's done something, thereby getting a gold star called a Bitcoin. How is that different from a number of very expensive printing presses slowly printing a newly named money with a limited stock of special paper from the paper supplier? I understand that there's an ultimate limit in total BC, and thus not the total fiat disaster, which is good. Except isn't the whole thing a fiat declaration? -- "Hi, I made some software which keeps tabs on itself, and after awhile makes something imaginary stored in bits which has whatever value you think it has." It seems that BC, although radically different over time and space, are like an ultimately limited stock of goods, like art by someone dead, and the value is what people think it is. Except again, no actual art. BC value is what people think it is. (Which of course describes the stock market to an extent.) Right now, pun alert, BC has much cache. It's value to merchants and users, as I make it out, is the cache, and the lack of fees, tracking, and gov't seizure, which are good things. It also has electronic ease, yet so does most other stuff now. Won't it eventually find it's level? On the one hand, BC value is what the user base speculates. On the other hand, it's what an online vendor thinks a pair of shoes is worth in BC, which then implicitly ties BC's value to national currencies. Fees now are small or none, will that be always true? Either way, it's a line item which adjusts the value, and again, the BC will find it's level. I'm sure this has been thoroughly worked elsewhere, but I haven't stumbled upon it yet. I'm not trying to shoot down BC. The idea is a currency revolution. I just wonder what it will look like in 2-10 years.

I'm saying that math and algorithms do NOT change human behavior. Bitcoins have a rah-rah to them right now that sounds like "monetary utopia" and any utopia runs into human nature. How are bitcoins purchased anyway? I read something about mining a server, but that makes no sense to me. Sounds like a simple varying conversion of a national currency into a promise with a pretty logo -- which is what most stocks, sales promotions, IPO's. etc., present. Stocks, promotions, IPO's, all have some kind of substance behind them; land, product, etc. The currency we used to (at least somewhat) trust was backed by gold. What's backing bitcoins, except public enthusiasm? Sounds like a reality TV show. Offhand, I can't think of anything at all, that isn't ultimately subjected to human nature, nothing new under the sun. SM mentioned in passing that political influence may someday (and I suspect soon) be paid in untraceable bitcoin. Which will likely lead to some legal backlash. Is bitcoin "backed by the full faith and credit" of a server someplace? I don't have a particular mechanism in mind. I am just suspicious of something that sounds too good.

I've recently been learning about Bitcoin, including SM's conference video. I can follow the very big points along with the supporting smaller points. One thing nags at me: this is a human endeavor. Doesn't that always ultimately suck in the usual tricksters and vipers, in ways never appreciated or foreseen* in the early days? It's the feeling that Bitcoin is saying "we've figured out a way to circumvent human nature!" My intuition isn't buying it. I'm not referring to it's purchase value now, or especially it's revolutionary value. I'm just thinking about any revolution I can think of, what happens a few years down the road.... (*With the internet age, foresight is now in abundance. It can still be ignored.)

Wait, you mean the donators pay protection for someone else? Don't see that happening. Especially as human nature would drift into fewer donators and more free riders. Seems like that would functionally devolve (in a good use of word) into what we now call paid private security service.

Along with the boat incinerator toilets, how do these approaches stack up in energy costs? For what it's worth...Running cables means running expensive copper with insulation, made to exacting standards, special training, having pole installation equipment, etc. The industry required to run in the background just to end up with cables on a spool is extensive, energy intensive, and specialized. Running sewer lines takes attention to detail in planning and installation, but mostly uses backhoes and shovels, and it's material is mostly low-tech concrete. Sometimes the physical size of something belies what else is behind it. I read of a study called Dust To Dust, about the ACTUAL cost of a car model, including all the materials arriving at the car factory, if the workers arrived more by car or public transit, and the cost to dispose/recycle the vehicle. Turns out, the Hummer is the greenest, since it's mostly common iron which has probably a recycled content, basically low tech, and recycles easily. The lightweight body panels of fuel efficiency hide the fact that they are much more energy intensive to mine and transport as raw materials, then blend as alloys. Likewise, recycling is more complex. And the fancier electronics of today's cars trace back to various factories using various metals from various world mines and various world smelters, and which later will be a bitch to recycle.

"difficult" That word strongly resonates with my experience. Red Skelton, in a long ago comedy skit as a cowboy, referred to women as spelled out "t-r-o-u-b-l-e." It got a good audience laugh. This goes back a long way. I have learned that many generalizations have a core of truth. As I'm reading this topic, various sentences shout out to me, as referring to, and somewhat explaining, more incidents than I could count.

Wow. This is my lucky day, too bad it's because others suffer. This is really helpful to this male. I had a >former< female friend, which I triggered thru an admittedly pointed email about how she can be dismissive of males, yet who would be the ones she calls on if a criminal threatened her. I sometimes try to figure out how to approach her, if I even want to, trying to talk to her without triggering another late middle age hissy fit that would get a four year old grounded for a week. (Of course she votes...but discuss topics, why do that when already smug and superior? Oh yeah, when younger, was into N.O.W. Somehow feminism didn't teach her to be grateful to the strangers who would give their lives for her simply because she has ovaries.)

Thanks much for the great videos. I had no idea what this day was to unfold to me. Really cleaned up some loose ends. I feel like a dozen rocks in my (male) shoes just got emptied into a little bowl that is labeled "a bunch of rocks". It's the mental clarity. Probably will help my posture too.

I think the forums are good for you. For one thing you allowed all of us here to reach out and help, in the process finding out more about ourselves. See, you did a public service, but didn't realize it. I also think it's a healthy sign that you put all that stuff in the closet, but saved it. Again, you probably don't realize it, but here's what you did, put into first person wording: "Family and god are too much for my mind to handle at present; I'll put them where they won't clobber me as much now, but can evaluate later." If some laundry stinks, we put it into the washer. What if there's no washer? Then into the hamper, as AN ACT OF FAITH that a usable washer will someday occur. I can't emphasize this enough: I have had horrid circumstances in life, and not just one. I had NO HOPE, could see NO solution. It hurt. Yet, I had Faith. Faith means "I can't see anything good, but I don't know everything, am not a fortune teller, so I must let time (and God for some readers) let it unfold in it's/His way." It's a given that you won't know the future. It's no guarantee of good, but it's not a guarantee of all bad, either. I speak from surprised experience. Is it God or god? You are asking, you are doubting, and that is healthy. Many things feel like crap in the beginning, because it's all question and no answer. But stick with it. Whatever your particulars, stick with it. When it feels too much, look at trees or count sidewalk cracks, some exercise for calming the mind. (A pair of needle nose pliers and some paper clips make an easy to pack sculpture kit; draw a dog or tree using a paper clip as line art, let it be expressive, can you make it stand up on paws or roots? Maybe an art show is in your future. Earrings?) God/TheUnconscious, choose as you will, both work in the background, so don't sweat in your conscious mind what somebody else -- unknown to conscious you -- is already looking into. You might say, yeah right, easier said than done. True, but gotta start someplace. Practice, practice, practice. You can't understand it now, so trying for more complete comprehension will just hurt. That's where Faith enters: "I don't get it, but I'll follow the instructions anyway." A Big Point about that conscious you stuff. You have a liver, doing amazing things, and it never actually tells you, right? I have well discovered that it's true about our brains too. People used to think the Sun revolved around the Earth, and when we finally got our collective egos down to size, figured out that Oh, maybe we're not the center of everything. Our conscious self is just like the Earth. Unless something dramatic shows us otherwise, "we" consciously think of our "selves" as the center of it all. Not true. Our brains are doing an immense amount of, pardon the pun, overhead, and only let our conscious selves know the minimum of what is needed. Not everything there is, just what is needed at the time. Basic info management. That would be completely incomprehensible to myself prior to about ten years ago, so don't worry if it makes no sense. Just know that you have more backup than you realize, and to practice, practice, practice acts of calming and faith. That is how the conscious you helps the supra-conscious you. You may not understand that for years. Another Big Point: you sound young. Your brain, the organ, is in a developmental stage that worked well in tribes, but is clobbered in modern times. Depending on your exact age (I think this starts in mid-to-late teens and runs for maybe 2-4 years), you are right now growing huge amounts of neural connections -- this also happens when we're about two years old -- to be followed by a stage of sorting and trimming. That first part is marked by overwhelming input -- especially so in our complex times -- and a lack of already digested stuff to compare it against. All questions, no answers. There is a medical saying that goes back a long way. It says that the best medicine for something may be "tincture of time." Meaning that, though no guarantees, simply the passing of calendar time often will heal. Which ALSO means, don't take other medicines just because of confusion or desperation. I don't mean to make light of your very real difficulties and injuries, which the outer world provides in abundance. What I'm saying is like advice for a person in a sailboat in a gale. The sailor can't affect the storm, but can batten the hatches, tie down the gear, pull in the sails, run the pumps, etc. Each step seems tiny compared to the gale itself, but clearly make the difference between sinking or not.

For many weeks, Earthlink has been having huge outages. I found this site, which is good for many other site tests. Earthlink.net - Is EarthLink Down Right Now? Readers partway down explain that Earthlink is having problems matching the URL's with their numerical values. It's like a big internet phone book. Google is fine for that task, and in that link, easy and clear instructions are there on how to set your computer to use Google's lookup, and all now is completely fine. Using Google Public DNS - Public DNS — Google Developers (Always record your existing settings.) It's completely transparent in use, and I think actually faster. One drawback, tho' I have cookies and popups blocked, non-site ads work their way into Chrome (but not Safari). I have an ad blocker in Chrome now, so it's mostly unnoticed.

Wellllll...as a nonsmoker, and it stands on it's own anyway...I must disagree. I've been fortunate, thru many laws, that this is a distant memory, but I recall the stink of a random motel room trying to sleep instead of puke, an elevator, rental car, etc., and also the way restaurants used to be. It was gross. Simply put, a person should not be subjected to "gross." And that's the easy part. It can cause for-real respiratory distress for some people. Put a plastic bag over your head for a few YouTube clips, with a hole just big enough to not die, and you'll understand that this is not fashion or fascist. A taxi IS a public workspace, not a private vehicle. What if a hospital scrub took a ciggie break indoors, or a restaurant dishwasher? There'd be a stink about that. And this guy was warned. More or less "You are a professional in a licensed business which has rules. You violated an important rule." And he got a small fine. He snubbed the lesson and got hit with a large fine. Seems straightforward to me.

Applied to various topics, these words REALLY stand out. I feel like I could say "Hey your foot is on fire!" and offer a bucket of water, and the reply would be "You can't tell me anything!" while clouded in smoke. I'm not a parent, but I have the creepy feeling that for some long time, basic critical thinking skills are not taught. I feel like I'm in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Yesterday, I discovered that my tax accountant is NOT a pod person and actually listens. I can't tell you how much I'm relieved.

You guys are blowing this all out of proportion. Fear mongering nonsense, to report an incident? I was reporting a conversation. The speaker gave only minimal information, and I gathered from his wording the officers weren't doing anything provocative. Nobody initiated anything, and I didn't say they did. The only hard info is that the locals, or pick your word, were talking about targeting which officers with which weapons, and I think most people would consider that provocative. I didn't reference any larger issue, since I had no further info. I just said that dangerous words were not detected by the officers. That's it. No different than educating that a particular set of chemical vats with labels are dangerous if you know the chemical names. Gotta know the names to know the danger. Especially as I've never heard of such training. My ONLY point...and it's really simple, so calm down... is that any officer often on calls with another language should learn the words for weapons. Seems obvious. That's it. No larger issues, NONE. Just advice, like learn how to handle a spin on ice, or floss enough. Floss means floss, not the food issues of the world. Handling a spin is not about world car usage.