America better do a regime change in America where so many people are unhappy with the current administration. – Iran
I agree…
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It is a holiday of national unity celebrated on June,12. On this day, in 1990, Russian Parliament formally declared its sovereignty. On the 12th of June 1992, the first President of Russia was elected. The holiday was officially established in Initially it was named Day of the adoption of the Declaration of Sovereignty of the Russian Federation , on 1 February 2002 was officially renamed to Russia Day.
Another Holiday and Svetochka and I are busy ignoring the world of chaos and doing our own thing. It is holiday times again in Russia, seems to be holiday time all the time here! As always the huge city of Moscow is half empty again, for everyone goes to the dachas and it is easy to get things done around here…
Yesterday we went to a huge builders market and bought two more windows for the Tiny Russian Village home. Then we shopped for other items to work on the village home and found that life was not bad in Moscow. Everyone is gone, so we had only millions of people to dodge, not billions… 😉
Holidays and Holidays: Russia loves her holidays…
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WASHINGTON, June 8 (Xinhua) — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) said on Friday the country reclaimed the world’s most powerful supercomputer. The computer named “Summit” has a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per second or 200 petaflops, breaking the record of China’s top-ranking Sunway TaihuLight with processing capacity of about 125.4 petaflops, according to ORNL. It is about a million times faster than a typical laptop. For certain scientific applications, it will also be capable of more than 3 billion billion mixed precision calculations per second, or 3.3 exaops.
Source: U.S. says it overtakes China to have world’s fastest supercomputer – Xinhua | English.news.cn
This kind of puts things in perspective: The unfathomable thought that one day our cellphone may be as powerful as “Summit” and held in our hand is not really that far-fetched…
“Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore.” – Nicholas Sparks
Better yet: We will all have a “Summit” in our heads………
The future is going to be such a ride…
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The USA will resort to terrorism against you, for that is why they (USA) is and are the number one terrorist country in the world…
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We’re changing out of our swimsuits and into a whole new era #byebyebikini #MissAmerica2019 pic.twitter.com/08Y7jLFxhs
— Cara Mund (@MissAmerica) June 5, 2018
Good and let society fall down the gutter. Don’t wannabe beautiful do we?
Maybe we should go from…
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- Get rid of the bikini?
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- Maybe this is better?
Oh well!
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Paul Krugman called for and uses the old parable of Frédéric Bastiat on the base that a broken window in theory would increase GDP growth?
The parable of the broken window was introduced by French economist Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas (That Which We See and That Which We Do Not See) to illustrate why destruction, and the money spent to recover from destruction, is not actually a net benefit to society. The parable seeks to show how opportunity costs, as well as the law of unintended consequences, affect economic activity in ways that are unseen or ignored.
Source: Parable of the broken window – Wikipedia
My question is: Would Yellowstone blowing its top help our GDP?
Yellowstone’s supervolcano is essentially a giant, lid-topped cauldron, and it’s so vast that it can only truly be seen from low-Earth orbit. Its crater is 72 kilometers (45 miles) across, and its underlying plumbing contains several tens of thousands of cubic kilometers of magmatic material.By the latest estimate, it would take several centuries for both sides of the Niagara Falls to fill up just its shallow chamber, let alone its far more voluminous deeper reservoir.What would happen if much of this suddenly re-emerged in a horrific supervolcanic eruption? Who would live, who would die – and would the United States of America survive? We spoke to one of the country’s most respected volcanologists to get the most up-to-date low-down on the future of the world’s most famous supervolcano.
Source: This Is What Would Happen To The World If The Yellowstone Supervolcano Erupted Today | IFLScience
What a way to raise GDP….hell of a broken window!
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2015 was just some icing on the cake of stupidity…
But; ~ There I gave you all a way out of this mess. ~
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Scientists design a molecular insulator that may make computer chips smaller…
WASHINGTON, June 6 (Xinhua) — An international research team comprising scientists from Denmark, China and America developed the first insulating molecule more effectively than a vacuum barrier, making transistors in a computer chip potentially smaller and more powerful.They reported in a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature their design of an extremely rigid silicon-based molecule under one nanometer in length that can block tunneling conduction at the nanoscale.The phenomenon called “quantum mechanical tunneling” is the major challenge when the gap between two metal electrodes narrows to the point that electrons are no longer contained by their barriers, causing leakage current. It is a hurdle standing in the way of making transistors smaller, according to the researchers.
We already can exceed 100 million transistors per square millimeter. We will go farther and one day we will exceed our known limitations…
Intel said that it can now pack more than 100 million transistors in each square millimeter of chip
Source: Intel Now Packs 100 Million Transistors in Each Square Millimeter – IEEE Spectrum
One day we will exceed the capacity of our brains in storage abilities and then we will have created the next level of life and intelligence….I wait for the day that we discover that there are smaller limitations than we physically are able to understand. Limitations that make atom sizes seem like mountains and oceans in comparisons…
I feel that there is no limit to how small is small, just limits on our abilities as we perceive things….I have always thought that atoms are made up of something else, just as our universe is an atom in size to something else…
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Hmm….be nice to put a bunch of that military spending to help the USA and her people…
Plenty of “dinero” for crusades, colonizations, pillaging and vexation of any inconveniences…
Not much “dinero” for human convenience…
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