Comments by "Colonel K" (@Paladin1873) on "Joe Scott" channel.

  1. None of the technology you mentioned from the past invades the human body. Helping those who cannot move, see, or hear is a laudable goal. Artificially enhancing one's IQ or importing thoughts not our own, not so much.
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  2. From what I read long ago, Stalin was keen to support Pavlov because he saw the potential use of his research to control and shape human behavior under the Soviet system. In other words, he wanted everyone trained to love Big Brother. Good comrade..there's a good comrade...who love Big Brother? Good boy, here's a treat.
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  3. We made chlorine gas in organic chemistry class one day and we all began to feel the effects despite the air ventilation fan at our workstations. Some of us complained to the instructor, but he ignored us, so en masse we walked out of the classroom and into the yard for fresh air. The teacher finally realized we were serious (he had been in the front of the room and unaffected), so he came outside to help us. It was frightening at first because we could not breath. I'm glad we never got around to making phosgene or TNT, though we did have the formulas for both.
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  4. As much as I like "Kelly's Heroes", Oddball and his crew really date the movie. Don Rickles and Telly Savalas were much more believable, but they were genuine WWII veterans.
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  5.  @cassidy5099  , wasn't that the theme of Spielberg's first TV movie "Duel"?
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  6. And don't forget that other timeless TV classic "Killdozer!".
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  7. If you want to live at 10,000 feet, just buy a large balloon.
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  8. Letting machines decide everything for us. What could possibly go wrong?
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  9. Idiot, wasting your time searching for make-believe ghosts when there are so many werewolves, vampires, and zombies out there to catch! Now get to it!
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  10.  @Desertfox92308  It does beat a dog biscuit, plus the sound of rifle and machine gun fire eliminates the need for a bell.
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  11. I want a flying sub.
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  12. It's actually caused by the John Wick effect.
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  13. Maybe the universe is just one big thick pudding with no space between anything. That way, for any quantum particle to move, it would have to displace another particle. If I'm correct, should I be able to detect a butterfly flapping its wings in another galaxy?
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  14. Spicey meat-a-balla! You can't be that old.
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  15. Perhaps the nurse already had bone generation issues and her sudden collapse provided an unexpected opportunity to discover a preexisting problem.
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  16. I think Casey was sincere because he did not profit from his predictions, but I agree with Randi that he was a quack, perhaps an unintentional one, but a quack just the same.
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  17. The hate is strong in this one.
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  18. My mind's made up by the way that I feel, There's no beginning, there'll be no end
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  19. Where can I get one of those round sand & liquid mirrors you used to simulate fluid dynamics? Can I get one in multiple colors?
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  20. If asteroids were the only matter traveling in and out of black holes and white holes would we rename them as-holes?
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  21.  @MarcillaSmith  You are assuming they will get saner as well. More than likely they will look at you and me as untermenschen.
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  22. If the consortium of governments want to build a way-station near the moon, do they plan to create artificial gravity for it? From a physiological standpoint this would be of great benefit to the health of people spending extended periods in space and on the moon colony.
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  23. No surprises here. The federal government did not seriously regulate or restrict opiates before 1914, and marijuana was not initially banned until 1937.
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  24. Electric engines do show much promise, but there are some major hurdles left to jump before they can takeover from the internal combustion engine. The biggest of them appear to be the battery and the energy source. Hybrids are an attempt to get around both of these problems by using the engine and braking to charge the battery, but in so doing one is left with the most complex car of all. A similar situation existed in the late 1940s and early 50s when hybrid jets were built that combined traditional reciprocating engines with small jets to boost the aircraft's power and speed. A much more practical solution than hybrids, charging stations, and battery swaps must be found before electric motors can supplant other engines in the transportation world.
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  25. As a kid I was taught to distinguish motors from engines the same way you described. Even though the two words are really interchangeable, it is a useful contrivance much of the time, though this policy is often violated. For instance, have you see the latest car models being offered by General Engines?
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  26. Man has long had the ability to share information around the globe. It's called the news. What has changed is the way it is controlled and accessed. We are no longer tied to a handful of news outlets that determine in advance what information we access and how it will be presented. Such legacy systems still exist, but hey are being challenged by millions of new sources of information. Dystopia remains an ever present threat despite these changes because of two primary problems. The first is the individual person's ability to sift through the existing noise and clutter to determine what information is most accurately presented and what information is largely false or misrepresented. The second is our ability to find this information. Censorship and software algorithms impair our ability to access some data, whether done intentionally or not. YouTube is a classic example of this dilemma. It has become an internet within the internet and reflects the usual problems of a noncompetitive data platform. It can control anything and everything within its domain, and there's nothing to challenge it. I long for a world where there are no such monoliths as Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.
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  27. Back in the 60s or early 70s somebody made a cartoon just like what you described.
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  28.  @yosefmacgruber1920  I was referring to the comment about people living in their cars. As for machines replacing man in the workplace, I doubt it will happen the way many suspect. People will find new types of jobs, perhaps acting as overseers of their machines (instead of the other way around). I very seriously doubt people will suddenly become altruistic when they don't have to work, and there already exists ample evidence of the detrimental effect of not earning your keep. Just look at what our failed social programs have created - broken families, drug abuse, and crime. If the machine does manage to satisfy the first two rungs of Maslow's hierarchy of needs (physiological, safety), will man really focus on the top three (love, belonging/esteem, self-actualization)? I suspect he'll just spend more time in bed or on his computer viewing videos and posting comments on YouTube like us. For those who find even this too taxing, there's always Pornhub.
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  29. So Heaven may not be nearly as crowded as we thought.
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  30. You can't fool the men who mind the minutes.
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  31. Milking the topic for all it's worth I see.
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  32. Maybe God uses a microwave to heat his lunch.
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  33. Dangerously high risk space based operations (if humans are present) and extremely high upfront cost with no guarantee of any return on you investment. Sounds like a plan...a really bad plan.
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  34. At first I thought the1700 deaths were college kids taking the Coke - Mentos challenge.
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  35. Changing technology propels new social behavior, new industries, and new ways of doing business. Many obvious examples include the wheel, the plow, the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, nuclear power, and the internet. What will the next wave entail? Artificial Intelligence, micro-machines, fusion power, DNA manipulation, anti-gravity propulsion, 3D food printing? Whatever they are, the impact will change the world in ways we cannot know. As long as man meets his basic needs (remember Maslow), anything else is possible. If these basic needs are not met, dystopia becomes a real possibility for a while.
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  36. We learned all of this in grade school in the 1960s. Don't they teach history anymore?
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  37. The decade does not end until 2021.
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  38. Feng Shui
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  39. It sounds like the cost of both programs is prohibitive. Is there a third alternative in the works?
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  40. Cogito Ergo Sum (I think, therefore I am) - Rene Descarte, 1637
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  41.  @GrockGrocksner  The most accurate interpretation was provided years ago by Doctor Seuss. I AM SAM. I AM SAM. SAM I AM. THAT SAM-I-AM! THAT SAM-I-AM! I DO NOT LIKE THAT SAM-I-AM!
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  42. I heard it from Barney Fife that Einstein failed math. Who you gonna believe, Barney or some guy on YouTube?
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  43. For one person (or element) to travel back in time, it would be necessary for the entire universe to go back in time. I think that's a show stopper right there. In any case, time is a necessary human concept that allows us to measure relative changes in our perceptions. If the entire universe were in stasis, there would be no time. Simply being left suspended in a dark room, we still age and we still consume energy, so it does not qualify as stasis. It does qualify as a boring tedium that, without other external cues, causes us to lose our relative sense of time.
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  44. One thing you did not mention is what UBI will do to the value of the currency. I strongly suspect it will accelerate the inflation rate, especially as people start to complain a $1000 a month is not enough and demand more money. The government will respond with higher taxes and the printing of more currency, which will make matters even worse.
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  45.  @kaseyboles30  Businesses do not control the inflation rate. They respond to it by raising their prices so they do not sustain a loss.
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  46.  @kaseyboles30  I've owned a business for well over 30 years. If I don't recoup enough to maintain replenishment of my inventory and pay my bills, I go out of business. And that's before I even consider a salary for myself. If the government decides to print several trillion dollars so everybody gets a grand a month, this devalues our currency and its buying power, so the price of everything rises dramatically. If giving a thousand dollars a month to every citizen is a good idea, then giving them a million a month should be a great idea, except that it isn't. This cannot be compensated through taxation because every dollar taken from a company is one less dollar available for investment in the company. There is nothing efficient or effective about the government seizing my money, then redistributing it to each citizen. It's a shell game with a high cover charge.
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  47.  @kaseyboles30  All money gets spent, but not all money gets invested. What is needed is the creation of wealth, not money. The two are not synonymous. In 1925 Germany you could have a great deal of money but very little wealth. The idea of a minimum wage is fundamentally flawed. As with the UBI concept, if it is such a good idea, why not increase it so everyone makes at least $100 per hour?
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  48.  @kaseyboles30  There is no objective definition of the term "living wage". The cost of living depends upon the size of the family and where they live. Those who endorse a minimum wage are assuming every employer can afford to pay it. The result is many people are never hired in the first place. When the minimum wage rate is raised, many employers respond by firing people, reducing their full-time hours, or hiring part-time employees. In addition, the minimum wage has never applied to all jobs in this country.
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  49.  @kaseyboles30  One size does not fit all. When under a crunch, be it from forced wage increases, taxes, or market factors, companies tend to retain their best workers and dispose of those who prove to be less able or motivated. Summertime and entry level jobs for teenagers become scarcer as a result. You say you'd rather have 12 happy workers than 20 semi-functional ones. This means eight people are now unemployed. Frankly, I do not see this scenario as desirable, but no business exists to hire employees. They hire employees because they exist and wish to grow. I find it preferable to let each company run itself as it sees fit, even if it means running itself into the ground. There is more than one road to success and to failure. I do not believe government should prop up companies or be allowed to pick the winners and losers, directly or indirectly, but if you force wages up, the likeliest winners will be the larger businesses and chain stores, not the "Mom and Pop" operations. Now that brick and mortar operations are seriously threatened by online retail giants such as Amazon, a curious new wrinkle is developing, the closing of once popular chain stores. The impact tends to be a local one because the jobs and tax revenue lost are local in nature. The SCOTUS decision to legalize out-of-state taxation will have some negative effect on internet based businesses, but again, it will most affect those who are least able to track, collect, and pay those taxes to the thousands of affected state, county, and city governments. Like you, I would very much like to see young mothers raising their children through their formative years rather than dropping them off at a daycare center. But we now have several generations of women who consider child rearing somehow demeaning, and a professional career as necessary to high self-esteem even when the father's income is sufficient. One possible solution that has gained traction over the last few decades is working from home. Obviously it won't suffice for all jobs, but a surprising number of careers can adapt to the newer technologies now available. As an example, several years back a friend came to visit from Florida in his RV. He was on a two month vacation from teaching college, but still managed to interact with his students over the summer via satellite. My own sister spent 20 years working two days out of five from home in a state government job, and linking into her office via a computer connection. I suppose what I am driving at is the idea that there is more than one way to skin a cat. I'm far from convinced that minimum wage laws or UBI are the wisest courses of action. In a nation where there is more opportunity for work than there are willing or able candidates, much better solutions are available. It does require folks to break with tradition and think outside the box, but in so doing they may find they have much more potential than they ever realized before. Giving them permanent cocoons tends to dull the drive within many people. One need only look at our failed inner city government housing projects to know this to be true. On the other hand, a little hunger can reignite that drive if they are shown better opportunities await them. Call it the carrot and the stick approach if you like, but it does work.
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