(cut down to rrs, because I don't have the alt groups on my server,
and yes there is some radio and related stuff in my ramblings)


Day Brown wrote:
If what you want is the Earth to return to its natural healthy state
fastest, then you need to ramp up the birth rate of the talented problem
solvers so they can even faster slow down the rate of the client class
expansions.

No you don't. There are plenty of potential talented problem solvers born,
but most of them never end up in a position of solving any problems.

Some countries channel them into those positions, some channel them into
positions where they can not harm society, some just ignore them and let
them flounder, where most do not do anything "useful" in terms of problem
solving.

Sputnik scared the heck out of the US and the 1960's was a time of great
growth in the US twoard channeling the problem solvers into solving problems.
Unfortunately that has pretty much burnt out, and the current generation
in power and comming up can't enhance, or even reproduce the work of their
parents.

If you want an example, Popular Science recently released their archives
to public viewing. Look at their December 1941 issue. On December 6, 1941
the US was a booming economy, with lots of consumer items in production
and being developed. By December 8th, it was not, it had become almost
overnight focused on war production.

The US economy never really recovered, post war recovery for Europe and Japan
included the technological edge the US had being moved overseas.

Because of Sputnik, that trend was IMHO accelerated because the US went from
farther and farther into tech development, while moving the actual manufacturing
overseas. New things were being developed, but as soon as they could be, they
were moved from US production to Germany and Japan.

Japan became too expensive, so they were moved to Tiawan, then Korea, now the
PRC and India. Technology development went elesewhere too.

To keep this radio related Ten-Tec just announced at Dayton that they will
be selling a designed and made in China radio. They will keep the high end
products in the US, but this is the first of their low end ones. It's not
technicaly outsourcing, it's OEMing (in the computer useage of the term)
they bought the rights to an existing product.

Now most of the manufacturing in the world is in China and tech development
is down outside of the US. If you looked at anything in your house or office
and ignored the name on it, just looked at where it was made, where the
components where made, the software inside (almost anything that uses
electricity these days has a microprocessor in it) was developed, you
would find it concentrated in 3 countries, and the US is NOT one of them.

The other problem is industrialization and growth in the poorer but more
populated countries. Due to the success of the global warming carbon credit
farce, less developed countries are being forced to delay or stop development
to offset the demands of the less populated but more idustrialized ones.

This would be fine the carbon credit fees actually made it to these counrties
and were used (and sufficient) to industrialize using "green" methods and
materials, but they are not. So the poor are stuck using the same crap
the richer countries gave up 50 years ago, but are penalized for doing so.

Why aren't there thousands of wind farms, solar farms, hydro power plants,
millions of electric buses and cars in Africa, India, etc? Why do people
still dry their **** to have fuel to cook their meals in clay huts with
no clean water, heat, plumbing or electricity?

Why do a million people a year die from malaria, because DDT was banned to
make some rich environmentalists happy, and no one cares enough to replace
it? You don't need to replace it with another pesticide (dangerous or not),
the cost of prevention and cure is about $10 a "client".

For about the cost of an olympic sized swiming pool in most places,
you could prevent a MILLION deaths. Pardon me if I am not impressed by
the EU buying one for Hamas.

Why don't these children have schools? Why don't they have universities?
They don't need genius professors, there is enough on line material
to educate them. They just need teachers, which there would be a surplus of
if they did not die of malaria, AIDS, starvation, etc in childhood.

It does not have to cost a lot, back when I had a blog going, I discussed
a satellite system for information delivery, which could deliver eBooks,
audiobooks, etc for the cost of the uplink and about $500 a ground station.
They could be delivered to low cost audio players, such as the stick of gum
USB ones, run by AA rechargable batteries.

The players retail for less than $10, and cost a few dollars at the factory.
The batteries cost about $1 each and will run a player for a day on a charge,
and last for 3 years if recharged every day.

They could be used to provide news, entertainment and education to individuals
without them having to be able read.

While most of them are not going to be the movers and shakers of their
people nor their generation, there are millions (billions if you include
China and India), how many do you need?

If they all have a basic education, and are not starving in the cold and
dark, they will produce their leaders and problem solvers, even if one in
a thousand or one in ten thousand, or one in a million.

As quality of life goes up, life expectancy goes up, and so on, they
will volunteraly reduce their birth rate.


As women all over the world gain power, even in poor areas, the birth
rate is falling. And the smart women themselves have the moral authority
to deal with it. As well as the more talented eggs.


Exactly, why not spread that ability to what are now the poor and starving,
by making them less poor and not starving.


The silence following this presentation is remarkable.

That's because it's so full of racist bull**** that no one can read it
long enough to figure out you do have something in it.

Instead of extending the benefits of your gene pool to the masses as it were,
extend the benefits of your inteligence and ability to them. Improve their
lives to the point where they by natural selection go through the same
processes your ancestors went through to make you the superior human being
you are.

It will take longer, and but it will get rid of those you want to anyway.

As Mark Twan said: "Soap and education are not as sudden as a
massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."

Geoff.

--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM
New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or
understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation.
i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.