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Steven-- This quote from today's NYT's attributed to the Wis. Gov seems to say it all. “I can handle being a black, disabled, one-armed, drug-addicted, Jewish homosexual on a pacemaker who is H.I.V.-positive, bald, orphaned, unemployed, lives in a slum, and has a Mexican boyfriend, but please, Oh dear God, please don’t tell me I’m a Democrat!” By the way, I am bald, unemployed, have a Mexican girl friend, becoming one-armed, and looking for a pacemaker. I'm suprised he didn't note my religion--pantheism with a touch of U-U'ist. He may have an elitist, rightious bias not unlike some in the established physics community that shun LENR. Bob - Original Message - From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2014 7:35 PM Subject: RE: [Vo]:World of Warcraft Macros Greetings, Blaze, What a pleasant surprise to discover you do other things besides betting - for a living. Or have I got that wrong? Regarding LUA: LUA is an interesting programming language. Reminds me of C++, and C#. I programmed in LUA extensively on and off for a number of years when I was, in the evenings, performing simulation work with an open source software package called FEMM, (Finite Element Method Magnetics), created by David Meeker. It's a free 2-D magnetic modeling simulator for determining forces, torque and what not. For the curious you can download the free software here: http://www.femm.info/wiki/HomePage Give it a whirl. It can be fun! While using LUA I was trying to discern configurations that might reveal an over unity in certain torque configurations brought on by magnetic forces. I was trying to create one of those mythical magnetic motors configurations you hear about every now and then on Vortex. Initially, I created several magnetic simulations that seemed to show definite over unity. For a while I was on cloud 9, believing I had come up with something that would save the world. It is difficult to describe what a horrible responsibility it is to acquire a belief that something you think you've personally discovered could save the world - but more on that later. Fortunately for me, my efforts failed. Unbeknownst to me at the time, I was using the FEMM s/w package in a way that accentuated internal flaws, due to no fault of its own I might add. I was using FEMM in ways that accentuated and compounded tiny flaws in the constant iteration of calculations. As they say GIGO, garbage in, garbage out. Strange as it might seem for me to say this, it one of the most fascinating, educational, and worthwhile experiences in my life. While my ultimate goal of discovering a magnetic motor (to save the planet, I might add) failed miserably I ended up learning so many other priceless things that I wouldn't have traded this tragic failure of mine for anything. Not only did I learn fascinating things about the properties of magnetic fields, I learned far more valuable things about myself - what makes me tick. In the end I was relieved to learn that my failure to create a magnetic motor meant I was no longer personally responsible for saving the entire world. The demotion helped me get back to a more sensible goal of simply trying to improve a smaller and more intimate portion of the grand simulation we all participate in. Just trying to improve a few local domains, well... that's enuf for me. And now, on to something of a much more personal nature. This is a subject that might possibly annoy a few Vorts with conservative leanings. If so, I don't care. Stop reading on if it offends you so. I'm making tenative plans to retire soon. I have worked for the state of Wisconsin for over 36 years. The last couple of years, under the stewardship of an ultra-conservative Wisconsin governor, my supreme employer, a boss which I can assure everyone on this list most state employees didn't vote for, has made it abundantly clear to me that it's time for me to move on to greener pastures. I have no interest in participating in a brave new work environment where management seems to be becoming more and more enthralled in an aphrodisiac of reducing the value of state employees into collections of metrics... statistics loaded into Excel Spread sheets, as if they have finally found the Holy Grail of measuring the ultimate worth of workers. Having worked for state for more than three decades... all I can say is that this is the third iteration I've personally experienced of a self-improvement campaign hell-bent on transforming the entire employee work-force into efficient worker bees for minimum cost. Of course, the current administration thinks they are the first visionaries to have ever thought of implementing something like this. Forgive them, father. They know not what they do. They are enthralled in the rapture of fulfilling the 2nd coming
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Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: . . . unemployed, lives in a slum, and has a Mexican boyfriend, but please, Oh dear God, please don’t tell me I’m a Democrat!” That is a stupid thing for a politician to say. Most elections are close. That means half the voters are Democrats. A politician should never insult voters. You can attack opposing candidates, but you should refer to the voters as our Democratic friends who share so many of our values and aspirations. In recent years, Republicans have taken to denigrating the Democratic party by calling it the Democrat party, which implies it is not democratic in nature. Again, that is a stupid thing to say. It annoys Democrats. It is petty. There must be some number of conservative Democrats who contribute to campaigns and get and vote because they are annoyed by Republican politicians who say things like this. (It matters less when Republican supporters, bloggers and others who are not running for office say things like this.) - Jed
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On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: That is a stupid thing for a politician to say. Most elections are close. That means half the voters are Democrats. A politician should never insult voters. The method of some politicians and radio show hosts is to fire up the base. This often involves speaking to their misconceptions, pandering to their prejudices, and, in the US, talking straight. I imagine it can make the difference in a tight race by bringing out just few more voters to the polls. It is not a winning strategy in the long term when the demographic tide is against you, but political operators are generally focused on the next election. The real failing is a culture in which people are so easily manipulable. That is probably due to a lack of a good education. Eric
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From Bob Cook: To follow up on Bob Cook's commentary, the conservative governor of Wisconsin was caught saying the following comments on a secret wireless router installed in his office “I can handle being a black, disabled, one-armed, drug-addicted, Jewish homosexual on a pacemaker who is H.I.V.-positive, bald, orphaned, unemployed, lives in a slum, and has a Mexican boyfriend, but please, Oh dear God, please don’t tell me I’m a Democrat!” Here's a link to the entire NY article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/us/politics/governor-with-eye-on-2016-finds-his-rise-under-scrutiny.html?_r=0 http://tinyurl.com/m5gwx2l It's a fairly balanced article. The comment was culled from exchanges captured by a secretly installed wireless router used to circumvent Open Records Laws at a time when Mr. Walker, prior to being elected Governor, was Milwaukee County Executive. He made a lot of enemies there as well. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson
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To Jed and Eric: There's been a lot said about how Walker won big at Wisconsin back in 2010, and then won even bigger when he defeated an attempt to recall him a year later. Mr. Walker got the governor's seat by getting 52% of the votes cast back in 2010. What is not discussed is just how many eligible voters actually voted in the race. Understanding the ramifications of that statistic is a far more revealing story about how we are no longer practicing democracy in our country. In Wisconsin approximately 50 percent of eligible voters did not bother to vote. That essentially means Mr. Walker won the governorship by winning approximately 27% of Wisconsin eligible voters. He won because Tom Barrett, the Democratic contender only got about 24% of eligible voters. 50% of voters didn't seem to care one way or another to exercise their civic duty. When 50% of eligible voters don't give a crap about who gets elected to our highest offices it ought to be pretty clear to most that we no longer live in a country that practices democracy. We are instead living in a country where the highest bidder only has to motivate just enough apathetic, ignorant, or gullible voters to top the number of votes that would be cast by the opponent. Considering the fact that Mr. Walker's backer's only had to muster up 27% of eligible voters, I'd say they got a real bargain for the amount of money they spent on attack adds. In corporate terms, it was a successful hostile takeover. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.orionworks.com
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I would add-- The NYT article says that the quote was forwarded to staff apparently by Walker's chief of staff. It implied that the original email was from someone else--likely Walker-- since it was a forwarded email although that is not absolutely stated to be the case. I found the evidence compelling although circumstantial. Bob - Original Message - From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 12:36 PM Subject: RE: [Vo]:World of Warcraft Macros From Bob Cook: To follow up on Bob Cook's commentary, the conservative governor of Wisconsin was caught saying the following comments on a secret wireless router installed in his office “I can handle being a black, disabled, one-armed, drug-addicted, Jewish homosexual on a pacemaker who is H.I.V.-positive, bald, orphaned, unemployed, lives in a slum, and has a Mexican boyfriend, but please, Oh dear God, please don’t tell me I’m a Democrat!” Here's a link to the entire NY article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/us/politics/governor-with-eye-on-2016-finds-his-rise-under-scrutiny.html?_r=0 http://tinyurl.com/m5gwx2l It's a fairly balanced article. The comment was culled from exchanges captured by a secretly installed wireless router used to circumvent Open Records Laws at a time when Mr. Walker, prior to being elected Governor, was Milwaukee County Executive. He made a lot of enemies there as well. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson
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Its always a good idea to, dissolve the people and elect a new one -- well not _always_ but certainly in the case of America for the obvious reason that Americans are so bad and evil and spoiled and lazy, etc. Come on its all -- feminism, anti-racism, multiculturalism -- about lowering wages and centralizing wealth under the guise of political correctness. MLK got assassinated because in his last book he recommended race-neutral citizens dividends. Where would the Southern Poverty Law Center be without race hatred combined with class warfare that demonizes working class whites for trying to protect their interests? Face it -- Americans were just too hard to rule and dominate so it was necessary to destroy them. On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: That is a stupid thing for a politician to say. Most elections are close. That means half the voters are Democrats. A politician should never insult voters. The method of some politicians and radio show hosts is to fire up the base. This often involves speaking to their misconceptions, pandering to their prejudices, and, in the US, talking straight. I imagine it can make the difference in a tight race by bringing out just few more voters to the polls. It is not a winning strategy in the long term when the demographic tide is against you, but political operators are generally focused on the next election. The real failing is a culture in which people are so easily manipulable. That is probably due to a lack of a good education. Eric
[Vo]:World of Warcraft Macros
So I'm a programmer, and you're all probably wondering what this has to do with Vortex and LENR. Well.. I have done a lot of work in second life and I actually created a lot of virtual items and their underlying scripts that brought them to life by interacting with the physics engine. I am also somewhat religious in that I believe our universe is actually a simulation. so what are you guys? You guys are just programmers (like me) trying to interact with the physics engine of this simulation. Anyways, today I just discovered the programming language (lua) for WOW. And I realized that I can create functional products (inventions) for WOW by using the programming language. Sort of what you guys are doing, and rossi is doing, by using the programming language for our universal physics engine to create LENR. Of course, I get a specification of the programming language which makes my life easier. You guys have to reverse engineer the specification.
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Greetings, Blaze, What a pleasant surprise to discover you do other things besides betting - for a living. Or have I got that wrong? Regarding LUA: LUA is an interesting programming language. Reminds me of C++, and C#. I programmed in LUA extensively on and off for a number of years when I was, in the evenings, performing simulation work with an open source software package called FEMM, (Finite Element Method Magnetics), created by David Meeker. It's a free 2-D magnetic modeling simulator for determining forces, torque and what not. For the curious you can download the free software here: http://www.femm.info/wiki/HomePage Give it a whirl. It can be fun! While using LUA I was trying to discern configurations that might reveal an over unity in certain torque configurations brought on by magnetic forces. I was trying to create one of those mythical magnetic motors configurations you hear about every now and then on Vortex. Initially, I created several magnetic simulations that seemed to show definite over unity. For a while I was on cloud 9, believing I had come up with something that would save the world. It is difficult to describe what a horrible responsibility it is to acquire a belief that something you think you've personally discovered could save the world - but more on that later. Fortunately for me, my efforts failed. Unbeknownst to me at the time, I was using the FEMM s/w package in a way that accentuated internal flaws, due to no fault of its own I might add. I was using FEMM in ways that accentuated and compounded tiny flaws in the constant iteration of calculations. As they say GIGO, garbage in, garbage out. Strange as it might seem for me to say this, it one of the most fascinating, educational, and worthwhile experiences in my life. While my ultimate goal of discovering a magnetic motor (to save the planet, I might add) failed miserably I ended up learning so many other priceless things that I wouldn't have traded this tragic failure of mine for anything. Not only did I learn fascinating things about the properties of magnetic fields, I learned far more valuable things about myself - what makes me tick. In the end I was relieved to learn that my failure to create a magnetic motor meant I was no longer personally responsible for saving the entire world. The demotion helped me get back to a more sensible goal of simply trying to improve a smaller and more intimate portion of the grand simulation we all participate in. Just trying to improve a few local domains, well... that's enuf for me. And now, on to something of a much more personal nature. This is a subject that might possibly annoy a few Vorts with conservative leanings. If so, I don't care. Stop reading on if it offends you so. I'm making tenative plans to retire soon. I have worked for the state of Wisconsin for over 36 years. The last couple of years, under the stewardship of an ultra-conservative Wisconsin governor, my supreme employer, a boss which I can assure everyone on this list most state employees didn't vote for, has made it abundantly clear to me that it's time for me to move on to greener pastures. I have no interest in participating in a brave new work environment where management seems to be becoming more and more enthralled in an aphrodisiac of reducing the value of state employees into collections of metrics... statistics loaded into Excel Spread sheets, as if they have finally found the Holy Grail of measuring the ultimate worth of workers. Having worked for state for more than three decades... all I can say is that this is the third iteration I've personally experienced of a self-improvement campaign hell-bent on transforming the entire employee work-force into efficient worker bees for minimum cost. Of course, the current administration thinks they are the first visionaries to have ever thought of implementing something like this. Forgive them, father. They know not what they do. They are enthralled in the rapture of fulfilling the 2nd coming of their own corporate ideology. To be honest, coming to this realization has been a good thing for me. It has given me impetus to get out, and to get on with my real life's work. And what might my real life's work be? Not telling... not quite yet. Embarrassingly, I have made many promises on this list of things I was going to create and/or publish over the last couple of years. Sadly, I have not made good on damned near any of my grandiose promises. Just a few posted hints here and there is about all that I can point others to. The last couple of years working under the ideology of ultra-conservative fiscally retentive administrators has not been pleasant for me nor for many of my colleagues. The battle just to survive annual performance evaluations, such as where two years ago a former supervisor who had only been hired about nine months prior had essentially placed me on
