Random Thought

Well, I wonder what kind of evidence do the police need to secure...

Panthers it is.

I think Trump will have the best outcome because he will constantly get at least 2nd place. Hence, in the sum he will win. Besides imho due to him having 50/50 this very uncertainty due to voters the likelihood of him winning accidentally is high.

Eh? there's a third runner for the Dems? I think Hillary will win even though Sanders will get votes to remind her of dissatisfaction.

A new crypto scandal is making the rounds due to someone introducing a fixed and non-prime number into a widely used security tool (open source). It's unclear who did it because the person who committed the code update claimed it came from someone else who's unreachable atm.

there was a "serious joke" written on the wall which said, with much better wording and some math to back it up, that the difference between a mathematician and an engineer is that the former was more concerned that a probabilistic primality test could inherently fail while the latter was more concerned that even a guaranteed algorithm was actually more likely to return the wrong answer because the computer was hit by a cosmic ray while it was determining if the number were prime.

Sounds familiar

A new image showing the wealth of the 62 people who are as wealthy as 50% of the world compared to african countries.
http://www.statista.com/statistics/203941/countries-with-the-highest-wealth-per-adult/
http://www.statista.com/statistics/203941/countries-with-the-highest-wealth-per-adult/
New shuffling! Minor change in the top 20...well Germany fell out I dunno who rose up instead.

Wendelstein 7-X, it's now officially online and running. Will keep an eye on it.

"Soft Machines" is showing new CPUs (Shasta and Tahoe) that seem to be faster in simulation than current ones. With AMD as good as second player only this might be a new game changer.

Well Bill Gates lives in the Seattle area so we have one of the richest people in the world in Washington State.

So now they are saying that too much oil drilling is causing more earthquakes in California. It has something to do with the way they dispose of the waste water, I think.

And...looks like I was right about Manziel going down the Ryan Leaf path as he has now been
questioned for beating up his girlfriend.

Too bad the guy was talented but seems to have no discipline and the attitude that the world owned him a living.

Tuesday on Finding Your Roots they're featuring John McCain. That ought to be interesting.
(I wonder if Dr.Gates would do either Obama or Bush? They should do a Presidential Special for that show as it would be fun and interesting.)

Yep, water is the problem because it makes things fluid as well as dissolves. In a way I think more minor Earthquakes might "disarm" the larger ones as the tension gets released somewhat. It makes not much difference for California.

I dunno if John McCain turns out interesting.

So now all the congressional science reports lead to "concerns" about the mars endeavor.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/space-experts-warn-congress-that-nasas-journey-to-mars-is-illusory/
Why am I not surprised? Anyway, Imho the initial purpose was to instigate China into a race and or get there before them. Now that it's obvious economy won't allow China to keep spending on military and space as before it has become less urgent. As I have said all along this would happen.

It looks like OB is about ready to tell the public we will do Saudi Arabia's biding and send troops to Syria and eventually deal with Iran.

This friday the neo-nazis staged a Europe wide demonstration including organized live broadcast. It's just things didn't work out as planned and censorship kicked in time.¹

Australia is cutting off climate research because global warming is proven.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/australia-guts-government-climate-research/
Looks more like censorship as global warming is only one direction of research.

Looks like we got the first victim of a meteorite strike.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/one-dies-as-meteorite-falls-in-vellore/article8204671.ece

Computer simulation show possible answer to riddle on neanderthal extinction.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/computer-simulation-fills-in-the-blanks-of-neanderthal-extinction/
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/01/25/1524861113
It's just a way to prove based on more or less hard simulation instead of "guessing".

Now we got new evidence of population extinction in Europe 14500 years ago.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/there-was-a-massive-population-crash-in-europe-over-14500-years-ago/
Not really surprising since we know for a long time Europeans come from only 5 or 7 mitochondrial genetically different women.

So the poor man was in the wrong place at the wrong time. If he had waited 5 minutes more to get his drink of water perhaps he would still be alive?

I read today in the sports page about Trump and the USFL. It stated that it was the first time that his name became well known outside of financial circles. It would have been interesting what would have
happened if the jury had awarded the USFL more than the dollar they did,even though they did prove that the NFL was and is a monopoly.

(Of course the same goes with MLB , NBA and NHL)

John McCain on Finding Your Roots tommorrow. Should be good.

Well congrats to the Broncos for winning the Superbowl, although I expected that the Panther would make it closer than it was.

Probably. It depends on how fast he moves around there. The hole seems to suggest quite a big impact or blast for killing a human. Some distance to stay save from the blast is required. There shouldn't be much fragmentation since it impacts on mud and water. It was probably painful.

Imho Trump became world known since a certain TV show.
Apropos Trump, without relying on hard math calculations I've played a bit in my mind on the estimations. If he gets constantly 2nd place and we only consider percentages then he would end up with about 50% more in votes to anybody else in the GOP. He would need to place 1st in about 12 states to have absolute lead and lose in about 30 states to be the same as everybody else. So all his chances comes down to 1.4:1 in his favor. After the 3rd state voting my confidence with this estimate will be 66% and after the 10th state voting it will be 100%.

Yeah, somewhat surprising the Broncos did it. Things appeared to be set since they scored the first touchdown.

There's been a new wave of talking about the F-35 again. Well, due to already committed investments things are set, so complaining now won't do any good.
And as I have been saying for years the arsenal/bomb-wagon aircraft idea has become a real concept and is now official.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/dod-aims-to-back-up-underarmed-fighters-with-networked-arsenal-planes/

Christie looks like dropping out now. Kasich made a good showing so he's probably still in. Only time will tell when Fiorina will drop out. I think she's done now that she wasn't able to make it on the last
debate.

So I tried to renew my health insurance with the state of Washington today. Short story is now they need a copy of my birth certificate and so I will have to fax it in some time before the end of March.

And now Cam Newton knows how Russell Wilson felt after The Interception in the previous Superbowl.

I went to the eye doctor yesterday and will have to wait for a week to a week and a half before I get my new glasses. As you would expect my eye sight has gotten worse over the years(the last time I went to the eye doctor was in '08!).

Watched Finding Your Roots yesterday. It was interesting when Dr. Gates revealed to Sen. McCain that he had an ancestor who had been a POW like the Senator, except unlike McCain his
ancestor had died in prison( he was a Confederate who was placed in one of the most notorious
Union POW camps. It was so bad that Lincoln ordered it closed down.)

And apparently McCain descends from John Washington of Westmoreland co. Va.
My Washington line is through John Washington of Surry co. Va.

Well, when you need new glasses depends on many factors. If there is no change no need for new one. Many years in between isn't so rare unless you are pushed into...

So since McCain is still around doesn't it mean some time traveler saved the child(ren) a la return to the future?

After waiting for rumors to be lifted it's official : Gravity waves detection proved!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/12150944/Gravitational-waves-Einstein-was-right-and-this-announcement-is-the-scientific-highlight-of-the-decade.html
http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102
Despite lots of skeptics it's finally showed up. After two decades of running 4 detectors in German, Italy and Japan nothing showed up. Even the current new and larger LIGO detectors (Washington,  Louisiana) took a decade for this. It seems the detection was as far back as last year but it took so long to get a second data set to prove it. They all run the software from the german Einstein institute (Einstein@Home). Based on the specs it seems the waves are more difficult to detect than thought before. The LIGO upgraded with latest detectors was able to see. The first was the german GEO600 had tunnels of 600 m *2 =1200 m effective distance; the LIGO has 4000 m *75= 300000 m=300 km (!) distance...far far more sensitive.

Just recently media is reporting an increase in shark attack due to global warming. Heh, nothing new. The real concern is actually the decrease in sharks (-100 million a year due to shark fin hunting) and turtles and the increase in big deep sea squids and jellyfish. Both of these creature are far more dangerous in various ways.

A new Harry Potter novel comes out. Obviously they are forcing a continuation with the children of the original children. Like long running manga etc. I bet it's won't be that long before people get tired.

Tesla Motors is taking loses but their share is increasing in values. All due to plans for mass production. It seems the age of e-car is coming world wide even though still struggling. China is pushing hard in their own country for obvious reason...

So Trump has 30.96% , Cruz 18.01% , Rubio 15.55%
Trump has as good as won. He would have to lose 10 times to get about level with the others.
http://www.electionprojection.com/latest-polls/republican-presidential-nomination-polls.php

Seriously?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/embattled-copyright-lawyer-uses-dmca-to-remove-article-about-himself/

Physics in Star Trek: common it's outdated
http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/02/how-time-travel-works-in-star-trek/
As to the book "the physics of Star Trek" was written by a student who's now a professor. But that guy at the time has no clue about engineering or deep math or physics. He didn't know about radar imaging e.g. SAR from the 70's scanning africa and said subspace imaging is a crazy thing and the subspace light has to there long before. Heh, stupid.

The Philae probe is officially dead as ESA stops reception work.

Yeah, I suspect anything written about physics back then would be rather dated, especially with the way science keeps advancing.

I'm not surprised about Trump. I think Rubio pretty much put himself out of the running by repeating the same phrase over and over again in the last debate. It showed that he's nothing but an empty suit.

AFAIG with the lawyer: I guess that shows what you can do when you know how to work the system.

While I got the confirmation of my last order for GITS: Arise Part 1 and Ikki-tousen: Dragon Destiny DVD 2

Can't wait...more Ryomou...Hmmm...

Also started watching Season 8 of the New Doctor Who. It was a lot more fun than the
first Matt Smith one. I really like Clara. And that's just from the first episode!

Finally Playbuzz had a poll yesterday of whether or not people thought that Fox News Channel was
targeting Trump. Not surprise that the vast majority or 91% polled voted yes.

President's Day today so didn't go to the library.

I looked up Lincoln's Family Tree on the internet on Friday. Interesting enough there's a question of whether or not a lawyer in Florida may be Lincoln's great great grandson. Officially all descendants of Lincoln died out with his great grandson who was married to the lawyer's mother. The claim is that
the supposed father had an vasectomy before he was born so couldn't be his son. Though it does get a bit suspicious in that there was a deal made with the estate when he was 17 in which he publicly
denounced any link to the Lincoln name and heritage.
Basically he was paid off.

Jeb getting a slight boost from W but I doubt if it will be enough for him to get past fourth right now in SC. They say he needs more than a fourth place finish to be viable past SC. Maybe a little too late.
Bush family should have been on the stump for Jeb from the get go,which was their major blunder.
I think really he wanted that way so he could campaign as himself. Now that Trump looks like the
nominee they're putting out all the stops but as I said a little too late.

So ISIS is now cutting salaries and even getting rid of their fighters' Snickers and energy drink rations.
Yeah, they must be hitting the bottom when they have to cut Snickers rations like that.
Though on a more serious note it doesn't mean they're beaten yet. It's gonna take a lot more to do that and a lot more time as well.

I'm getting my new glasses some time next week probably as they should be in around Friday or Monday. Should get a message about when they come in.

My new glasses came in today and the bifocals are higher than on the old ones so better to read with.
Though I think I spend too much time playing around with them.

Our pastor is leaving for Pennsylvania. He'll be here until late April. So sad as he was such a good guy to have around.

It's reported that they found a complete Bronze Age Wheel in England. It was part of a find that they have been excavating for some time. The place where it was found was near a swamp so they're still trying to put it all in proper context as to what it was doing and what it's use was.
One theory was that it was part of a cart since they found the remains of what they think is a horse near it.

And now it looks like Caitlyn Jenner (of all people) is getting it from the Left for voting Republican!
This is getting weird...Though I guess it also shows that just because some one decides to chance
their gender doesn't make them an instant Democrat or Lefty!

Forget Jeb, Cruz gained some but Trump is still ahead. Wonder if people will panic sometime when they realize it.

It seems the Brits are doing lots of local digs these days....something "rare" in Europe.

It looks like Ukraine's government party might be in trouble again now that their coalition is crumbling. Putin has been "investing" lots in various parties around Europe and the ex-east-blocs and on all fronts, too. He just wants to sow chaos, weaken the EU etc.

Germany is about to ratify a new immigration law called "asyl packet 2" it's meant to reduce the numbers, by delaying (2 years) family reunions. It all only shows the hypocrisy and or unpreparedness otherwise they wouldn't have trouble. AFAIK they did worse things for people before and who weren't european/middle-east. People in the past got as good as no help other than language classes, no healthcare, no help in housing or job, had to wait for 10 years for naturalization. For middle-easterners practically had dual nationality (only into law recently) and only had to wait for 5 years. To be fair these people are will organized and have connections compared to any other ethnic group.

The German city of Hamburg has banned coffee pods from state-run buildings.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35605927
Well, coffee, alcohol, cigarette addition is an example of human enforced (genetic) evolution and economy...piling up trash is just a side effect.

On the other side of the globe New Zealand offers to take Australia's unwanted refugees. Yet, New Zealand has toughen immigration laws for quite a while.

Looks like the anti-war movement in Japan is steadily growing not that it matters. The “What Happens Before War” novel got a short film made.

Japan, so the five opposition parties have come together to fight/reverse the recent "security" laws.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/5-opposition-parties-submit-bills-aimed-at-scrapping-security-laws
This will be interesting. Perhaps in response, Abe tries to reduce number of seats in the Diet.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/abe-keen-to-have-electoral-reform-bill-passed-in-current-diet-session
Also an old law may come out of use as the Justice Ministry is looking into allowing female divorcees to remarry right after the divorce (100 days instead of 180) without proof of pregnancy.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/japan-eyes-allowing-divorced-women-to-remarry-faster-with-non-pregnancy-proof
It appears a Germany produced film about Fukushima won a German film prize.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/film-on-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-wins-berlin-film-festival-award
Makes me curious.
In 2015 Japan faced 54.5 billions cyber attacks. Imho still less than the others.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/record-54-5-bil-cyberattacks-detected-in-japan-in-2015

Apropos, it appears the crypto trojan "Locky" is mass attacking German computers pushing Germany to first place of most attacked followed by the Netherlands and the USofA. Most of these originate from eastern.

It seems arstechnica gets more and more advertising articles these days. Most recently was about scifi novel series. There's also more about computer games but can't say that's outlandish.

Anyway, a recent tourist incident that killed a dolphin is causing a stirr but I'm not really surprised. Poor thing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/12162352/Baby-dolphin-dies-after-being-paraded-on-beach-for-photographs.html
Fish have feelings proven... of course this refers to the mind.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160220-do-fish-have-feelings

Sex research for the n-th time
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160217-what-is-a-normal-sex-life
This of course applies to western & developed countries.

No more Jeb! He unwisely spent a lot of his money too soon and also didn't use the resources on hand, i.e. his family, sooner. Conventional Wisdom is dead in this race. It's now all but certain that Trump will be the GOP nominee. Unless things change drastically in the Super Tuesday Primary. I think though
that Trump has managed to press a sore point on most Americans buttons which is why he probably will win.
One thing I agree with him on: Paul Ryan was a terrible choice for VP nominee back in 2012.
He couldn't even win a debate against a lackluster VP like Joe Biden!

Some of my ancestors came to America from Hamburg.

Just saying.

I've been enjoying Season 8 of the New Doctor Who a whole lot.

Well now that I have been to the eye doctor time to go to the dentist tommorrow. More 'fun' since I have to have x rays taken...ugh! Though it's not as bad as having to go and get braces.

My Aunt had an accident walking home up the hill yesterday. She fell down and hit her head. Fortunately a kind stranger stopped by to help her and volunteered to take her to the hospital.
The doctors said she'll have to be in the hospital for three days to be examined. The problem is she
doesn't drink enough water or other liquids and so is dehydrated most of the time.

Looks like unless Trump really looses bad on Super Tuesday that he will be the GOP nomination. The
Establishment are of course doing all they can to stop it. They just don't get it though; the average
voter is "Mad As Hell And Not Going To Take It Any More!" to quote the movie Network.
Basically they are tired of Loosing on the Republican side and want some one who will not only win
but also reflect what everyone is thinking.

Reading A Dairy From Dixie again. Never been able to get through the entire book before.
Mainly because too impatient I guess.

I hope your aunt didn't break anything. I've seen lots of people at that age break their bones from falling. I know habits are bad but there are things you should train yourself like always putting keys in one place etc. As you get older these things can save you lots of trouble.

Trump is going to win. The only way to for him to loose is for everyone to quite except one.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-35649252
"Funny" thoughts of ways to beat him and why reality supports him.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/amnesty-slams-japan-over-secrecy-law-refugee-policy-in-annual-report
Heh.

Currently a bunch of conferences are going on e.g. ICOE 2016, environment etc.
The honey bees get a lot of attention with over 1000 papers to be evaluated/discussed. As they are responsible for 80% of pollination, yet, only 9 of 20000 species are useful the crisis has become serious.

Cruz and Rubio punching the Donald, finally a fight!
So Trump sees himself among the likes of Patton and McArthur, and see himself as some great... I feel offended. Imho, they said their minds but are not as dump as him. And they were respected for their care of their men not because of their running mouth.

Well my Aunt has been in the hospital for observation and such for the past 3 days and is supposed to come out today. The doctor simply repeated what everyone else has been trying to tell her, which is basically to drink a lot of water and be more careful when she walks.

Yeah, Rubio and Cruz were apparently trying to tag team Trump yesterday when they weren't attacking each other. Poor Dr. Carson felt out of it because no-one was attacking him!

Though it is still be seen how much this will affect Super Tuesday. Trump will need to do really badly
to loose at this rate. But even if he only ends up in second in some of the States that shouldn't hurt his chances.

New flash just came in that Christie endorse Trump. Wierdness continues!

And did you read where Japan's population is in decline again?

Yeah, Japan's population is declining by 947,305 from 128,057,352 in 2010 to 127.11 million in 2015. Well, remember they had the elderly pension fraud in that time frame. So some 130000+ (?) of those missing were excess for years...skewing the real statistics. Then there was the great earth quake & tsunami & Fukushima disaster with a high death toll. It's still #10 most populated country in the world!
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/japans-population-at-127-11-mil-in-2015-down-for-1st-time-since-1920
Abe intends to raise incentives and the average child per family to 1.8 (generally 2.0 needed for developed countries)
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/japanese-govt-unveils-plan-to-increase-fertility-rate-to-1.8
Since 40% of Japanese will be over 65 by the year 2060 they plan to hire outside caretakers. Similar to what's been done in Europe where east-bloc & chinese offer qualified caretakers.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/govt-panel-calls-for-allowing-foreign-caregivers-to-provide-home-care
The first student returnee with the Zika virus showed up, Japan promptly provides 1 million in aid.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/japan-to-provide-1-mil-aid-to-combat-zika-virus-in-latin-america
And they restarted the 4th reactor! They just can't live without.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/japan-restarts-another-reactor-4th-since-tsunami-disaster-shutdown


Anyway, the IF scifi Magazine is now available for free!
https://archive.org/details/ifmagazine
I dunno how much the contents are worth it today...but certainly a wealth to research scifi history and ideas.

Bio computer could solve NP complete problem
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/02/17/1510825113

Old Tevatron data turns up new four-quark particle
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/old-tevatron-data-turns-up-new-four-quark-particle/
Huh? What? This is kind of hard to believe...

Decade old news but it seems NASA needs support...
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/meet-nasas-new-x-planes-quiet-sonic-booms-and-engines-at-the-back/
It will probably take two decades before anything gets mass production simply because Boeing/Airbus are still selling their 5-10 year old latest models .

I heard Wicked is gonna get a movie release this year but haven't heard anything for months. I wonder...
Maleficent was great. I wish it was made when I was younger.

Well with Maleficent Disney did a good job of turning the villianess until a sympathetic character.

There's supposed to be a new Death Note movie coming out in couple years. This one takes place ten years after the original. Apparently one of the antagonists is played by a former J-Pop Idol.

So this March not only is Barry coming to Supergirl but we also are getting a mysterious female
Speedster on The Flash. Gee with Harrison Wells 2.0 calling his daughter by a certain name
I wonder if initials for this myserious Speedster might be Jesse Quick?
(I hope so as she was my favorite in the 90s Flash comics.)

Then what about this Death Note remake?
http://www.comingsoon.net/movie/death-note-0000


Trump has won!!!! *all teary*
So the country is going to be richer ... yeah, right. All the gains gonna to a small number of people. And Joe will provide some of it, too. *sigh*

It appears the FBI changed the password on a certain iphone and forgot it, hence, they asked for apple to "crack"/hand over the key. Pft. I figured it had to be something like this.

It seems there's a move in Germany to forbid pork or swine meat in public (restaurant) in consideration of the newcomers. I bet the industry will be happy to export it all to higher prizes. After all the german meat industry is very popular in asia (china, korea, japan etc.) and elsewhere.

I bet though that the Japanese movie gets made first. As per usual it seems that Hollywood is all talk.
Though I'd be interested in seeing what an American version would be like.

And how are they going to ban pork, ham and other pig meat in public? Maybe they ought to have
separate kosher style restaurants for both observant Jews and Moslems. That is the only thing I can think of. I mean you don't want to deprive poor Sergeant Schultz of his beloved wienerschnitzel!

Trump: 7, Cruz : 2 and Rubio : 1.
Well I guess Rubio did better than expected. It looks though like the Neo-cons are really their hardest to keep both Trump and Cruz from getting the nomination. As The Donald would say though, they're
pretty pathetic in how they're going about it.

I can now see Trump as the nominee and possibly either Christie or Cruz as Veep.