Posted on 11/17/2019 8:26:37 AM PST by simpson96
We’re not North Mexico, yet.
Flimsey Grahamnesty and Micro Rubio are still working on it, though.
I chuckled when someone starting asking why they were buying a mansion in almost all WHITE Martha's Vineyard. Global Warming is suppose to put that area underwater in about 10 years anyway, RIGHT?
Barack and Michelle Obama Are Buying A $15M Estate In Martha’s Vineyard
Michelle Obama Condemns ‘White Flight’ After Purchasing Home in Martha’s Vineyard
.So, presumably at some point in the future america will be ready for our society to be torn down?
Read some "New Wave science fiction." It's all there. Science Fiction is the science fact of tomorrow. It's really dark stuff.
Don’t forget that Obama, the Nobel Peace Awardee for nothing, destroyed a whole nation, Libya, genocide was committed, the Great Man Made River project , one of the modern wonders of the world, was destroyed and thousands had to emigrate because they had no water.Obama was responsible for the destruction of a whole nation: Libya. It is now just a collection of tribes, without security which now allows the jihadis, like Boko haram, to work their tender mercies down into central and West Africa through Libya.What Obama did was a war crime.Yet he is still a Nobel Peace Prize holder? What a laugh. The dip shit should be stripped of the honor.
Word is that the Libyan gold treasury was looted by Obama operatives and he and Hitlery have it stashed away somewhere in Spain, where Moochelle had independent regional Spanish banks open secret storage accounts for them.
No, Obama was a thorough unAmerican piece of work. This is a good read about his movement, one you don’t want to miss:
Barack Obama, The Quintessential Liberal Fascist:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html
Lefties are like the plague, herpes and a virus; they infect everything everywhere they go. GOPers are mostly absent from gov’ts; they work, raise families etc, and don’t have time for demonstrations and riots, like demonKKKrats do.
LA I can understand; it’s basically a wasteland. VA was sad to see go so far left, back when they elected that McCauliffe azzhole lowlife.
I don’t think those leftist voters know what it’d be like to have the society “overthrown”; nary a clue.
“My reaction, too. He’s as left (and racist and pro-LGBT) as anyone. He just differs on tactics. “Now is not the time,” he counsels.”
It sucks when the community organizer/alinsky orchestrator gets alinsiked by his own jerks.
Also . . . self-made men often make lousy fathers. Too absorbed in their work or ambition. Which is why a lot of these kids have father issues.
I disagree. Science Fiction is mostly very bad at forecasting things. Some people get some things right, but mostly it is wrong.
The thing they are most wrong at is forecasting political futures.
The thing they are best at is extrapolating technological developements.
The still get huge amounts of technological developements wrong.
Examples:
Flying car.
Internet.
Weather control
Nuclear power.
Faster than light drive.
Telepathy.
Very cheap power.
Some societal developments they got wrong:
Famine
Nuclear war
Plague
World government
World totalitarianism.
Soviet United States.
I am glad to know that you have read every science fiction book, article or story ever written.
I have not read them all.
But for about 35 years, I read an awful lot of them. I would go to the book stores and look for new ones.
I did not realize they were indoctrination into Progressivism, mostly.
Slow learner, I guess.
"A Logic Named Joe" is a science fiction short story by American writer Murray Leinster, first published in the March 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. (The story appeared under Leinster's real name, Will F. Jenkins. That issue of Astounding also included a story under the Leinster pseudonym called "Adapter".) The story is particularly noteworthy as a prediction of massively networked personal computers and their drawbacks, written at a time when computing was in its infancy.I distinctly remember, in the book "Ender's Game" (1985), Ender's brother and sister, Peter and Valentine, made themselves famous on the "nexus" writing as the characters Locke and Demosthenes.
https://www.shmoop.com/enders-game/peter-valentine-wiggin.html
That was four years before the World Wide Web was born and over ten years before Internet browsers came into their own.
The thing that makes me keen on this especially, is that I hired on with MCI in 1983 and helped build the bulk of the early Internet backbone routers, servers and carrier systems at the time and retired from what later became Verizon Business after 31 years. I intensely felt the reality of creating what I had already read about way back.
Yes, there are SF writers who made some good technological predictions.
You make enough predictions, some are going to pan out.
Consider Heinlein's prediction of the personal, portable telephone in Space Cadet.
But he was absolutely, insanely wrong with moving roads, and Heinlein was one of the best. He was horribly hoodwinked by the whole Duke "Extrasensory" perception hoax. SF is riddled with "extrasensory" perception nonsense.
SF can serve as a way of considering future technological possibilities, but I think reading technical journals would serve people much better.
Did you ever run across Mark Lauss? He was a genius I worked with at Yuma Proving Ground. He did a lot of network stuff.
Just as I said. ;^)
All The Times Science Fiction Became Science Fact In One Chart
A remote manipulator, also known as a telefactor, telemanipulator, or waldo (after the 1942 short story "Waldo" by Robert A. Heinlein which features a man who invents and uses such devices),[1] is a device which, through electronic, hydraulic, or mechanical linkages, allows a hand-like mechanism to be controlled by a human operator. The purpose of such a device is usually to move or manipulate hazardous materials for reasons of safety, similar to the operation and play of a claw crane game.
Avatar is the graphical representation of the user or the user's alter ego or character.
In Norman Spinrad's novel Songs from the Stars (1980), the term avatar is used in a description of a computer generated virtual experience. In the story, humans receive messages from an alien galactic network that wishes to share knowledge and experience with other advanced civilizations through "songs". The humans build a "galactic receiver" that describes itself:
The galactic receiver is programmed to derive species specific full sensory input data from standard galactic meaning code equations. By controlling your sensorium input along species specific parameters galactic songs astral back-project you into approximation of total involvement in artistically recreated broadcast realities ...[9]
From the last page of the chapter titled "The Galactic Way" in a description of an experience that is being relayed via the galactic receiver to the main characters:
You stand in a throng of multifleshed being, mind avatared in all its matter, on a broad avenue winding through a city of blue trees with bright red foliage and living buildings growing from the soil in a multitude of forms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(computing)#Popular_fiction
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