When the internet ends, information recollection begins.

What will we do as we try to function not only with our machines and devices more often but give up intelligence. When were all dwindling fools not because technology changed us overnight, but because we bred our kids that way, will they learn or will they literally be left with an Eden of time for which to raze with sloth and pestilence?
My friend Micah Knapp brought up several years ago an intriguing story he remembered, known as The Machine Stops. This is quite a similar scenario, but I was curious in looking at humans from the evolutionary standpoint that we don't do much to survive now. We no longer focus on the stars and their positions to gain insight into the timing of the seasons, months and days. Crops are planted with product, not the hybrid seeds past down from generation to generation. Would speech still exist if human machine hybrids were created and we, as man & machine communicated wirelessly our thoughts to each other? I imagine we would become hyper-social and in turn perhaps one ourselves with the networked machine. Each of us only a node of thought, in a wave of change each being received and interpreted before re-transmission.
And what education could prepare both a virtual life and physical life, if there wasn't a separation.

Looks like I'm back to ranting! Or How the 'Right' ignores their basic principles, again and again.

First off I like to declare myself an independent. I don't jump at the idea that the Democratic party is some great estuary for all liberal and progressives to spawn in. I don't like how they blame the Green party for Gore losing in 2000, and Obama's clear ignorance of why he was voted in. What angers me more so than the party that should represent more of me, is the party that ties everything to religion and everything else to catch-words like "Freedom" and "Liberty". I should make note, that I don't consider the Tea Party a political party, rather, I consider it a hijacking of both Libertarian and Republican ideals masked to hide the obvious white-supremacist, conspiracy theory nutjobs, with clear support from industrial polluters seeking a return on their investments.

With that in mind, let me get started.

The Texas GOP has gone on another illogical war against homosexuality as the GOP Convention in Texas clearly shows with a vote to support the idea of Homosexual conversion therapy in the party's platform. This has been proven time and time again to be a waste of time/money. And while they keep bringing up jobs and job creation, clearly their motives are to stop the 'Homosexual steamroller' from converting people to homosexuality. While libertarians really shouldn't care, as liberty is the act of acting freely with one's own will, Neo-Cons are clearly frightened, possibly having had a homosexual urge sometime in their lifetime. I really couldn't give a shit, as these are the same idiots who can't understand why the "Godlessness" excuse doesn't work for states that have no Sex Ed. at all, whereas states with Sex Ed have both lower Teen birth and STD rates. In other words, the states having the most sex are possibly sinning more, but definitely having less abortions as well. The 'Right' has an obsession with sex and abortions so much that they flip numbers (Senators saying Planned Parenthood is 90% abortions) or use word-speak to make Pro-Choice more like Pro-Death as the logical opposition to Pro-Life. Since before I was even in Sex Ed., I've had neighbors and acquaintances that were either Bi-sexual or Homosexual. Yet I, despite my 'exposure' to such things, still do not seek anything other the great natural beauty of the female. So why then, is a party that's supposedly for individual rights and liberties pushing for laws and ideologies that clearly deny even a majority conservative Supreme Court Justice ruling that no law should deny equal rights to 2 individuals in love, regardless of gender. If the Democrats are supposed to be the spending party, what are the 'tax less' party doing wasting tax payer funds pushing laws that are unconstitutional and will certainly be overthrown by the Supreme Court. Besides having a fear of themselves for fear of not being 'Christian', they are going against their own principle of a waste-no-penny gov't.

But of course, in other news, this isn't the last of them flip-flopping and ignoring the Constitutionality or lack there of in their actions.

5 Guantanamo Bay prisoners in exchange of a POW is clearly a hot-point this week, with pro-military actions taking a stand against both law and a US soldier. Terrorist suspects are still defined as being such despite no legitimate court cases pursued to find the prisoners guilty or innocent. Yet, it seems too many Americans regardless of party are tremendously frightened by the fact that we're worrying about the prisoners held without trial for starving themselves. As if this is equivalent to caring about the abuse that convicted child sex offenders supposedly receive in prison. Law is one of those things that sometimes doesn't work in the favor of those on either side of it, but what it's place in society is justice, and in the American society this means limits on the Government or majority as well. If the American system was still based on justice, perhaps those that would be in opposition to such an equivalent for all, would certainly consider this the 'fascist' states of Obama's rule. Which of course, if constitutional law was reigning supreme, would be quite the opposite.

We are on the path to a police state with the precedents set since World War 2 or earlier as proof, but those considering letting the starving Guantanamo prisoners die as the best path in promoting our nations' "righteousness" are clearly the ones hammering the stake of a Nationalist state into the heart of America. Of course the same goes for those who believe that those following the scientific consensus of today, Global Warming, would be burning those at the stake who believed the Earth was round. Clearly a lack of understanding in History and Law, could be our undoing.

P.S. The men of Duck Dynasty and Jesus look Muslim to me.

Money back credit cards are clearly a spending gimmick

If 5% cash back sounds good, remember that by paying month to month by this encouraging 5% back, you're not really saving money. And that 5% back is made to make you think you're saving well 5% on anything you buy. If you spend more than you can pay back by the months end, this really only turns to be a one time 5% reduction in interest on that months purchased goods. Going from 29.9% (Highest rate allowed) to 24.99% isn't much of an decrease. Realistically of course the compounding percentage rate is APR so 24.99% / 12 = about 2% a month. And as I mentioned earlier, this is compounding interest, adding onto itself, each month. Effectively, you aren't saving any money but rather adjusting your immediate rate, which only saves those with the foresight to budget and only buy what they need anyways.

If anyone, has a more precise method of calculating this out and explaining, I'd love to hear it. I truly believe knowledge is power, and wish that more people cared about their finances, time and spending as a consumer.

How well does solar work in the rainy NW

I can't help that my self diagnosed ADHD brain can't keep up with studying several programming languages (I really need to practice rather than reading) for several different ideas, and then this idea.  Almost 2 years ago a friend told me that he had done a report at Whatcom that was about the efficiency of solar panels on cell towers. His conclusion was that no grid input power was needed for day light operation. This intriqued me as one the amount of effort he put into getting sources but for other high-daytime traffic uses for solar like at a mall or other business that closes at or before 9PM. The local mall, just like most other malls doesn't stay open long into the night, and has lots of open roof space. I know several stores in the mall may go almost 24 hours with workers stocking and maintaining, but all the little stores are empty and powered down.
My next quest for answers is to find how much surface area in solar panels would be needed for the expected power of operating daytime businesses.
One thing, stands partially in the way though, what is the cheapest but most efficient brand and type of solar. Wikipedia can tell me the efficiency of different chemistries in panels, but I want at least some market insight on popular and reliable brands.
When I find that information, and have figured the available area of the mall here in Bellingham (I know the name, I'm just not advertising for them at the moment) can I finish a respectable report.
So until then, or if I somehow get sidetracked (on my original idea) and compete with Viking Food, we'll see.