Re: OT: Chinese tokamak

The real concept there is not "food", it's "dominate."

A lot of the US homeless problem is caused by Chinese drugs. By design.

The you need to explain Gorbachov, who wasn't any kind of psychopathic thug.

Please explain how the Chinese satisfying the US demand for drugs of addiction is part of some cunning Chinese plan to over-throw the US.

The US homelessness problem is caused by the US addiction to gross economic inequality. The bottom end of the US economic pyramid lead miserable lives which does make them susceptible to drugs of addiction, but that market is supplied by the whole world, not just China.

It is essentially created by well-off Americans insisting on being much more well-off than their poorer neighbours, and that isn't a feature that was designed into the US system - rather it's a fundamental flaw of a system designed on the basis that the people that owned the country should control the country.

A large market for drugs of addiction - as well as weakness for lying demagogues like Donald Trump - is part and parcel of the US constitutional set-up, which always was the MS/DOS of modern political system, and is severely in need of an up-grade.

The German constitution of 1948 is probably the best example around. The French constitution from 1956 is ostensibly more modern, but De Gaulle fudged it to suit his own silly ideas, and it really doesn't work all that well.

That's not a bad idea if the bar is full of EEs, which some are. We had a great brainstorm session yesterday, but I forgot to bring beer.

You are a Sloman clone. Switch discussions to insults.

That's easy. Thinking is harder.

Actually, that would make him a a Larkin clone. Except that John Larkin doesn't discuss, he merely pontificates, and feels hurt when his pontifications are questioned (which is what discussion is all about).

And John avoids it like the plague, always assuming that he could do it in the first place.

Pot and kettle.

RL

It's the mass, parallel, quantum cross-correlation machine looking for connections across an impossibly large solution space.

I have ideas in the shower. Or when I'm asleep.

Some people have ideas when they are walking.

Yes, they need pots and kettles and stuff to cook in them.

I was just reading about lots of people in Cuba scrounging through garbage dumps looking for something to eat. Cuba used to be the richest place in the carribean, before Castro liberated it.

Or in John Larkin's case, a random noise generator.

Lots of people report that ideas emerge when they weren't consciously thinking about the subject. The process doesn't seem to be subject to introspection.

The quality of the ideas is also variable. John Larkin claims to have lots of ideas, but he doesn't seem to have many patents.

One of my colleagues at EMI Central Research had the lab record for patent queries - 53 in one year - but no patents.

It made a lot of money out of growing sugar-cane, before the price of sugar crashed. Under Batista the rich were very rich and the poor were remarkably poor.

Once Castro took over the US imposed drastic economic sanctions, and the Cuban economy declined in direct consequence.

The USSR then provided generous subsidies, but when the USSR fell apart in 1990 these stopped.

In large measure John Larkin is gloating about the effectiveness of the US economic sanctions - Trump did ramped them up when he was in power - and ignoring the fact the Castro regime did a much better job of looking after the poor than Batista ever had. The US doesn't look after the poor all that well either - the relatively low US life expectancy is a side effect of it's remarkably high income inequality.

Yeah.

Put the screws to them, or set up pet kleptos in charge, then bitch when refugees start pounding on the door.

RL