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But he never says the same thing twice. He lies; and then he lies about lying. That's not being "honest" it's being incompetent, and dishonest.

Some of Trump's tweets are well... Would we really rather have a president that hides behind closed doors and speaks only via a speech writer or a very strategic press secretary?

A reorganizational bankruptcy, holds off creditors while a business tries to recover... It is a difficult, but usually wise business decision. It is done in the private sector, not via big brother and if it is successful the creditors are satisfied. It is better for everyone than locking the doors and walking away. Study: Lee Iacoca and Chrysler Corp. They get that money from anyone who buys their products. Business tax is a hidden tax, it is a tax on the consumer... All consumers! If it we're eliminated and replaced by a sales tax, how would you feel about paying it? Definitely chapter 11, reference Lee Iacoca.

We will have to wait and see if that is true, however we still need to seek statesman, not politicians to take the reins.

A chapter 13 personal bankruptcy and a chapter 11 company reorganization bankruptcy are as different as bananas and okra. Donald Trump has never declared bankruptcy.

I wholly do not agree with Trump's trade policies, protectionism has been tried and tried and it has failed and failed. I am not a blind follower, I just think we have a chance with Trump.

Absolutely true! That is what politicians do! IMHO Trump might be able to snatch government away from the "big boys". Do any of you realize who pays corporate taxes? You do, for corporations it is just the cost of doing business, it gets passed on to the consumer. If corporations want to avoid that cost, they simply do their business in another country. I did quite well in '07 and '08, I quit playing when the government started pouring money into the markets.

There was a time in this country, when you knew your neighbor, you knew when he needed a hand up and if you could you extended that hand... Now everyone looks to big brother and he really doesn't give a Damn about you.

I am all for socialism on a small level, it is good to have community to do those things... It is not our governments job. He did not change his story, just his actions, he is very anti media... And I don't blame him.

Yeah, I am talking about things like trading futures... In one minute out the next and hope you grabbed a few dollars. If making a dollar we're easy, a dollar would not be worth much. Trump's job is really tough... Really tough, especially when he chooses to stick to his values and he isn't doing it for the money.

This is fun people, everybody getting things out there! By the way Trump is a great believer in science benefitting the world, I think we will see some great things, if he can get them through the hill.

There are those who attended and have done quite well, they don't need their money back. Have you ever played the stock market? I don't mean a 401k, a broker or a Muni. I mean taking the bull by the horns and eking out a profit. He is not afraid for the world to see him as he is, he "ain't" perfect but he is happy in his skin.

Trump does not back off, change his story or start making apologies... He doubles down on what he believes and "Damn the torpedoes!" How would you like to wake up in his shoes everyday? Now tell, why does he even bother.

If you paid tuition for Trump University and expected to learn to become a billionaire without applying yourself, would you be surprised when you failed? I believe Trump is an honest statesman, I also believe he is a dog that will rip out your through with no mercy in the business world. If he wanted to be a politician, he could probably do well. I do believe he chooses to be a statesman.

That is what we all do, if a man speaks his mind and the people agree for the most part... He might become president! Not trying to be sexist, I used the term man only because of Trump's gender. Again, you had better check your facts... Donald Trump has never been bankrupt. Nothing wrong with that.

Draw the diagram. Or write a ray tracing program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing_(graphics) Maybe then it will make sense. Your joking, right? When it comes to sight, the brain plays a larger role than physics.

When I first lost most of the vision in my left eye ( due to PDS glaucoma ), on bright days, I could still see the lane dividers while driving down the highway, and the image from my left eye did not match up with that of my right eye. After an adjustment period my right eye has become dominant and my brain ignores the image from the left eye ( and all sorts of other things that it chooses to ignore ). Things are now a little less confusing, but unless I keep my eyes/head moving, depth perception is a big problem. Are you familiar with ray tracing to put specular reflections on 3d digital objects? They are extremely realistic because they are done backwards; from the viewer, to the object, to the light source. Same as real life. What you see, a reflection of light, is determined by the viewer ( eye ), not the object reflecting the light.

Yes, and i think your interpretation is the more common one. But to my mind that kind of inner peace is just another emotion - or maybe a lack of certain 'negative' emotions. Inner peace isn't itself an emotion or lack thereof, but a way of relating to emotions and experiences. To try to use the rollercoaster ride analogy: inner peace isn't just the fun bits that go down, or the sedate bits that go up (depending on your preference), it's learning to relax and enjoy the entire ride (using the words enjoy and relax in a very loose way).

Yes. It's been happening for years. http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/uranium-resources/military-warheads-as-a-source-of-nuclear-fuel.aspx

There are quite a few differences in performance. For example ICP has higher dynamic range and can run more easily unattended. Also, they differ in sensitivity for different metals. For standard analyses the most important bit are established and certified protocols.

Well, I don't follow his tweets(obviously the media does). I think that someone that speaks off the top of their head, may often speak wrongly, foolishly or unpleasantly... But at least they are speaking honestly.

But that depends on a good education and that has been denied to the poor, successively, as the bank balance is denuded.

Inner peace is quite likely one of those concepts that must be discovered within oneself as opposed to being taught by some other, even though others can often help to better illuminate the path and offer suggestions on avoiding common obstacles.

No probs.....There are many QGTs out there, but the problem is that we are as yet unable to observe at the quantum/Planck level to validate them....string and its many derivatives including LQG, which is why when I mention a QGT I will generally refer to a validated QGT That appears to be the stumbling block at this time.

You might be interested in this article about (negative) results that rule out some possibilities: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v10/119 Short version: we [still] don't know. And here is one that gives a clear view of how dark matter particles behave: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/11/02/what-would-happen-if-you-became-dark-matter/#1d72f94f3fd2

Every society in history has failed; economic model notwithstanding. How the success of a economic model is measured is purely relative. Hundreds of years from now people might look back at present day with dusgust over our unsustainable use of resources and destruction of the environment. The Rapa Nui probably thought they had a good system in place at one point. What we see as an economic model promoting compitetion, ownership, and growth most certainly will be viewed differently in the future just as all things are: manifest destiny, slavery, etc. I believe any economic system can work. I don't think a specific type of model can promote happiness or satisfaction in a society. People must want it to work. Communism, Socialism, Captialism, even a barter system could all work if society embraced it. Ultimately the amount of time, resources, and brain power are equal within any system. The challange is motivating people to be productive. Thoroughout history that motivation has come in a lot of different forms. War has been a very productive motivator. In many ways the economic model of a nation during war most closely resembles communism inthat resources are devoted to the state. In the U.S. we call those who fought WW2 the Greatest Generation. During WW2 factories where turned our to the govt to build military equipment, people were drafted, resources rationed, and etc. Things we wouldn't accpet today. We do not look back on that time period as negative at all. As a society we (U.S.) wanted to make it work. Commitment serving as the most important factor. Fast forward to Vietnam and society wasn't committed. The sacrificed of a daft and govt spending weren't embraced and as a result the time periof is veiwed negatively. How a society feels about what is happening matters nearly much as what is actually happening.

Inner peace is beginning to sound to me like: Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Not exactly, but this does seem to be a component of it, albeit without the deity.

Gee, I think the first level of thought, knowledge and memory, and the second level of awareness, feeling and emotion could be considered, in terms of evolution, as evolving together. That is, for purposes of tying the ideas to Freud's, and together with the actual physical neural correlates, I would say information, and where it is, would have to be traced and kept figuratively in mind, to see what aspects of each level have to coexist, and therefore probably emerge or evolve in some sort of lockstep or reciprocal fashion. Specifically I use the analogy of inside and outside, in terms of where the information is. When the form or pattern exists in the waking world in terms of being the moon or a tree or another human or a neural correlate that science can study, witness, record, test, measure and investigate then this is outside, objective reality. The thing we sense in the first place. Then, when it is internalized, through the senses, and perceived, and stored in the pathways of the brain, it becomes an internal analogy, and has to be now the "illusion" that Bennett talks about, or the shadow that Plato refers to in the allegory of the cave. So the thoughts we have are of the objective world, but they themselves are shadows on the wall, so confusion comes when we talk of the tree, as to whether we are talking of the tree or we are talking about and saying something about the shadow. Then the knowledge runs into the same literal/figurative identification issue when we talk of the stars. Are we talking about what we see, or what we "know" must be there, out in space. "Is" the star shining in our sky now or is it shining in a manner we will not see for 3 years or 10,000 years depending on its distance? And the memory, is of, as you say, not only the thought, but the external object you sensed. These things, in the first level I think are probably binary in the sense that we think in opposites, up and down, left and right, back and forward, and we increment our grain size in discrete lumps. Like in powers of ten for instance. We count in whole numbers. But to get to this binary first level, we need first the analogue input. We might have a particular amount of pixels with which to work in terms of the cones at the back of our eye, but we can move our eye and use the analog level of chemical activation coming off a particular cone, in conjunction with that coming off a neighbor, together with the impression we get as our eyes scan, together with memories of, and expectation, and pattern completion and other activities in the brain, to form a coherent image of the world that corresponds to the input from all our senses, AND with our memory and knowledge and thoughts. These things are all accomplished using the awareness, the emotion the feeling, that we are calling the second level. This level could be considered the analog level, for two reasons. One, the various chemicals involved in the motivation, activation, pleasure system causing our awareness of and interaction with the world, cascade and operate in a nonbinary, accumulating fashion, and two, what we internalize is an analog of the actual world, which is arguably smooth like a sinewave, and not made up of square waves. Regards, TAR

Gees, Was reading a little on DNA. I know you are not interested in the inner workings of the DNA process, but I think within the "magic" of DNA, there are some basic ideas or principles or universal wants, needs, proclivities, or possibilities, that when put together in the right order and orientation, can cause complex entities to emerge and persist. Particularly I am thinking of the copying process. The double helix gets unzipped by some chemical and this creates a replication site, like a Y where the phosphate-sugar backbone is split leaving open binding spots on each side of the now split ladder. A binds with T and C binds with G so everywhere a G is hanging out unbound a free G floating around jumps on board and vice versa, and when a A is open a T binds and when a T is open an A binds, the phosphate-sugar backbone seals along and you wind up, when the whole chain is unzipped and matched, with two of a pattern that before was only one. The exact process we are talking about, in terms of maintaining and passing on one's pattern. It makes a certain amount of sense to further consider that if this arrangement, this particular order of pairs would result in being able to produce or copy certain proteins that would help the collection exist longer in the world, by means of somehow gathering or marshalling more building blocks...then that particular arrangement would survive and other arrangements might not. Of course, since there is no plan, or foreknowledge of what arrangement is the best, it is always a matter of, if something about the arrangement allows it to continue, then the whole chain will be copied and survive, whether or not it has coding or non coding segments, or areas that don't on their own "work" with any purpose. The thing itself is not conscious of its purpose, but the fact that it works, allows it to survive. It fits, because its existence came about because it fits. Seems like a non explanation and some sort of double talk, but I think it goes to what the self is, and it goes to what survival is, and it lays the ground work for self awareness to evolve. Regards, TAR

It shows that you are swaying in the breeze, if you see a story, check your facts, educate yourself... Don't just go along with popular opinion... I am not saying change your opinions, just don't be a blind follower. Trump could be a complete disaster! I just think he was the best option at the time and I hope it shows a change in the attitudes of Americans when we choose our elected officials.

No he dosent he says what he thinks his supporters want to hear. He speaks what he believes and hopes to have the support of the people, that is why they all hate him on Capitol Hill.

Before we get to Trump University, let me ask the students here... Did you pay your tuition and have knowledge injected into your veins... Or did you have to work hard to learn? Trump doesn’t deny that four of his businesses have filed for bankruptcy. He argues, however, that filing for bankruptcy is a common business decision, and he was smart to make the moves when he did. His businesses filed reorganizational bankruptcy, He has never filed any form of bankruptcy. No one can speak for everyone. Politicians are just good at using language so that you believe they are.

That is not true, you had better check your facts, he does not make apologies or change his story for anyone... Remember where he came from, the business world is a lot tougher than the hill! At least he still says it without consideration about who will like it.

I don't believe Trump with his super enormous ego will have anyone speaking for him.

He never does, he says what he thinks, not what he thinks is popular, doesn't mean he isn't wrong... Just means he expresses himself honestly. Politicians have been using office to their own benefit way to long. I don't believe Trump is the best president we ever had, but I do believe he is a statesman who will break up the party on both sides of the fence and give this government back to the people.

Just keep a firm grasp on that feather and flap it has hard as you can. I'm sure you will fly one day. Here is the fact So unelectable that the other person won. That other person was Donald Trump. Is that ever going to sink in for you? Donna Brazile knows. Remember your ideal democratic ticket? Both Warren and Sanders believe Hillary rigged the primary. Don't you respect those two politicians anymore? At this moment the Democratic party is in shambles. Why? I know you struggle to figure it out but the answer for any reasonable thinking person has to be Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and the Clinton wing of the Democratic party. There is no escaping it. The Brizile bombshell is simply icing on the cake.

She was running against Donald Trump and lost. She should have steam rollered over him. Yet she lost. Since then it has been excuse after excuse. Now we learn she rigged the primary to get the nomination. Since you won't answer my question about Sanders and Warren can I assume you don't respect them? Did you ever? Oh please run Hillary again. By the way, it Donna Brazil and Elizabeth Warren that are attacking Hillary now.

C'mon, they are deniers because they're ignorant.. See their age- they are 70-80+ years old grandpas. They don't understand anything from the modern world. Times when the wisest and the most knowledgeable people in the village are grandpas and grandmas, are long time gone. Regardless, climate change is human-made, or it's f.e. natural increase of power of the Sun (when it'll be turning to red giant and burning Helium-4 more extensively), it's in the best human interest to "do something", and f.e. prevent higher radiation of the Sun by placing mirrors in the cosmic space between the Sun and Earth, to decrease radiation.. and being able to remotely control it when needed.. Without such devices this planet will vaporize and sterilize from living organisms much more quicker.. I would split deniers to "denying human-made climate change but accepting climate change" and "denying any climate change".

Perhaps you see the contradiction in your posts, submitted only 5 m8 utes apart