Friday, September 7, 2018

Quotes by Nicholas Johnson *Oh Shit (Damn... Where did I come from?)



- The sun may rise in the morning and then again, it may not.     There’s peace to be found in being prepared for either event.
- I don’t define my x’s faults; to define those faults would be to define my judgment at that time.
- If your following of tradition is correct; perhaps being in this social malfunction is correct as well.
- Success does not and can not exist outside the realm of practicability.
- Humans do not see reality; we interpret our perception of it.
- To err is human; to continue to err is ignorant.
- Marriage is beautiful; having it authenticated by your state is legalized prostitution.
- You believe you’re intelligent yet a dog in New Guinea understands the phrase to, “roll over” and you do not.
- As you equate money to wealth; a man living in a tent may be wealthier than you.
- You hate that he lies to you about where he goes; you loved when he lied to you about your irresistibility.
- She’s not “your” wife! She’s someone that decided to share her life with you. She can’t cheat. She just decided to share a portion with someone else. Do like the Brooklyn Bridge and get over it!

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- Public affectionate expressions may be inappropriate unless it’s “you” that are in the act.
- Societies are not held together by benevolence; the bond can be found in the agreement upon a perceived enemy.
- Your idea of love may be another’s idea of possession.
- America was the greatest country in the world; did your view vanish with your 401K and pension.
- You may dislike Islam & Jews but you dislike people in your church so what does it matter?
- You won’t eat pork but you’ll eat a woman that just had a ham sandwich.
- Most Americans want to stop illegal aliens and they also want cheap produce.
- The world has all these problems yet no one admits any responsibility.
- When I want to confuse people, I tell them the truth.
- White supremacy groups are hiring but I have a criminal record.
- I wasn’t born Godly or Un-Godly; I was born imminent to be.
- As I struggle to update and affirm my definitions of “me”, someone that has never saw me already has defined my being.


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- You gave your dog a name that is not his name at all. The pup’s mother made noises, postures, growls, etc. to get the animals attention; that was the combination of his name. You gave the animal a label that would never compare to its name.
- America will never recover from its actions, that’s why we have oxycodone.
- Credibility = When a group of people (Intelligent or not) agree upon a topic. I.E. Having money means you’re successful.
- I will remain undefinable.
- If you’re seeking infallible dependability, search deities.
- Looking for someone to answer the questions? When is it your turn?
- I don’t believe the “words” of anyone. Who can speak the truth beyond their perception of it?
- I love a liar; I never have to question their honesty.
- Perhaps “Game” started with the cavemen when one short changed another for a piece of meat. Your hustle isn’t new, it’s just an adaptation to an old game.
- Say something stupid & I won't reply. I don't keep spare "attention" in my mental bank account.
- It's easy to get along with women when you fully interpret that they answered your question 15 minutes before you asked it.
- Answers make little difference in comparison to the paths we take to get them.
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- Live, love & laugh is cool...but..I'm more the study, attack & succeed type...just my priorities.
- Americans are similar to abused women. The Government and Central Bank keeps their foot in your ass yet you remain loyal.
- The most difficult prisons to escape from have no walls or steel bars. Some will get that...
- It's not that I'm a "good" guy; I simply can't see putting all the effort in to telling u a lie.
- You’ll tip a stripper or masseuse yet you won't tip the educator of your children...stuck on stupid and can't push the other button.
- You wanted a man with worldly knowledge and ability yet you wanted to limit him within your belief system...conflicting aspirations.
- Hey genius, street crime is finished. You have to attend college to be of consideration in the crimes of today.
- Whites are getting closer to Blacks, Christians closer to Jews. It seems the fear of the Islamic world has you seeking new bed fellows.
- People that never contributed to where you’re at will still try and tell you how to get where you’re going.
- I made my life; you really think I’m going to ask your permission to live it?
- I did it all and lived to talk shit about it!
- I need unquestionable loyalty; that’s why I’m buying a dog.
- A man that watches, "The View"...nah...your not light in the slippers...u just got a little sand in it...
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- If the US monetary system goes pop; farmers and hookers will be running the show.
- 95% of Americans are in a war unbeknownst to them so the question becomes: How can we win?
- I know people that if it cost a dime to go around the world; they couldn’t make it out of the fuckin room.
- I’m single because no one seems to want a dog that doesn’t come when you call his name.
- Everything has a price. All prices are negotiable. Look inside yourself and make sure the offer is valid.
- The best things "of substance" in life required NO advertisement or promotion.
- Your father came by and picked up your dad to go to the bar.
- God gave me the whole world to live in. You only received a city? Different God or different perception?
- Leaders & followers? I may be headed to hell if my belief system is in error, but I won’t be following you.
- I argue for humanitarian efforts, grants, funding, etc. What prize is there in an argument with you?
- If you understood fractional reserve banking & The Jekyll Island Duck Hunt; You’d understand where we are.
- I can readily agree on a serious relationship however; our opinions on substance and time frames may differ.
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- There are about 3,635,000,000 women on earth & AM I to let 1 call all the shots?
- If you care to rest in peace; it only stands to reason that you must live in peace.
- There is no winning "in" the game. To win the game; simply walk away from the table.
- I'm no more free than you. I feel as though I have sense of choice where others do not.
- I have many things that I hold sacred & would like to live for. Your approval rating isn't one of them.
- It’s no longer about making money; it’s about hiding wealth. The game has changed.
- God has denied me many things yet he’s provide me with all my needs. Understanding the difference is where I find my blessings.
- Meeting assholes online has its benefits; better here than in real life right?
- I don't fit n boxes, limits elude me, expectations are nil and I'm damn good with it.
- I tend not to lie because I don't need anything..BUT..if you pay all my bills; I'll tell you some WHOPPERS!
- We tend to reach substance in life when the word, "Why" is placed before every thought.

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- By the time I had attained enough degrees to be a successful criminal; I no longer needed to be one.
- You really want to be a criminal in 2012'; you'll need a 4 year degree, resume & $ flow for starters!
- Care to understand how complicated someone’s life is? Count the keys on their key ring.
- You’re offering me some ass? I live on the beach; care to offer me some sand as well?
- A nocka told me that a real man can fry slab bacon buck naked....yeeeaaahh, I’m a bitch.
- I use to get angry with my x's until I began to understand that I was actually angry at the reflection of "me" I saw in them.
- Don't waste time trying to get them in the bed; that will come if you get them in the head.
- Emotions are an investment! Why invest when you see there's little or no positive return?
- Stupidity is quite like masturbation. Lock your door & do it alone, no need to share.
- Your life complicated? Missing 2nd gear isn't good and not having reverse plain ole sucks.
- The greatest misconception of my life was thinking, "If I hadn't seen it, it didn't exist or effect me".
- The only things I deserve in life are those which I create. Bite it, taste it, get it & spit it.

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- You’re not God/Allah/Willy Wonka; not edible; not my enclosure; not H20; not precious metals...there for not in my food chain.

- Prostrated, allowing myself to be emasculated by individuals adhering to nonexistent doctrines is not a quality I possess.
- If u can recognize that we know nothing & understand even less than that; bring ur mind to 718...
- No one has ever "made" my life complicated. During moments of poor judgment, I allowed it.
- When one takes full responsibility for all their thoughts, actions & deeds; accolades are no longer needed & blame no longer exists.
- Don’t be bound by another’s standards, Individuality of Spirit suggests that you are the standard.....for you!
- Basic Concept of Chaos - X^{2} : X^{n} :: X^{10} X^{n}.
- I do have a cruel streak; as others try and sell me crap I often pretend I'm going to purchase.
- I don't understand this to be true yet I do interpret the concept of, "The bigger the bear; the bigger the gun required".
- You trapped a bear huh? I dare say it’s a bit late to think about food & a cage.
- When I came to interpret that all answers to all questions were within my reach; study is not what I do, it's the joy in all I do.
- It's not difficult & I'll "help" you but I don't need you...social sites are simply sociology 101...don't get it twisted.

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- I won't tell anyone to, "Be real" with the interpretation that perpetrating a fraud is their real.
- There is no power outside me! God made me "complete" & society / indoctrination had me looking the wrong way.
- When people tell me "x" is doing this and "y" is doing that, I can trust to be true, "u" aren't doing anything.
- Do unto others as u would have them do unto you. Nah, screw that! I do unto "self" and leave others no choice.
- Crack kills but so does Micky D's and Taco Bell. I guess it depends on how fast you choose to die & who makes $$$.
- 1-39,000th to 1-57,000th of an inch. When you understand that there is much more light...
- My answer is correct; your question was incorrect. Keep asking me until my answer fits.
- What you see with your eyes is false and needs to be remembered. What you see with your mind through the lens of manifestation of “Self” through your Spirit requires no memory and most aren't even aware they have it.
-  I, being a divine god created, and Him being God the Divine Creator. Read what he told the Jews before his crucifixion.
- If you could see the offers of ass in Cocoa Beach on a daily basis; you'd offer me golf lessons to get my attention.
- You're Black & celebrating the 4th of July? Yeeeaaah, you put the "N" in igger!

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- You’re the bear and yep, I'm the badger. Do u fully understand the spirit of the beast you wish to consume? Nuff, fuk me said!
- Playa? The game has already been played! Those still here are simply watching your solo performance.
- Fellas, you may think ur getting some ass; my observations indicate that the ass is getting you.
- I'm no saint & think of crime. Crime, as I interpret it, requires a disposable 3 Mil to BEGIN! If I had a disposable 3 Mil?
- I find no favor in creating a vortex where one might "need" me. My thoughts are to show you how to not need me.
- Being labeled, "Smart" is not an accolade. It simply symbolizes that, "Your responsibility of contribution is of greater magnitude".
- It must be far beyond the individual believing themselves superior (Innate due to sociological invariance) would ever come to understand how a "supposed" inferior would think in such ways.
- It's very much how I once believed a child could never teach me anything yet I was incorrect. I had been viewing the child with inadequate depth of perception. I was not teaching the child to eat; the child was teaching me what he desired.
- These same feelings of superiority is a greater portion of the reason why, "The great white hope" is in a total state of - X^{2} : X^{n} :: X^{10} X^{n}
- I'm changing my name to Vladamire Muhammad Pupopskovich....people can talk shit in every country I visit.
- It is of minute significance what I’ve done in life; it is of Divine Significance what I do “Now”.
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- A man that adheres to principles may find it hard to vote as choices of either candidate will align with none.
- Shouldn't the amount of pork be proportionate to the fork?
- God, yes. Faith, no. AM I to have faith in the bridge upon which I stand. HE IS so I AM.
- Human Beings "want" "to" set themselves apart from the "rest" of the animal kingdom viz. the "ability" "to" reason. Since "this" "ability" "seems" "seldom" utilized; what "then" "remains" to portray this separation? ...yessums..that was My Thought...
- ...in this symbiotic, multiplicity, dioramic, personalized, specified of the impersonal... I find an Absolute...

    Nicholas J.

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People are being victimized by a terrifying new email scam

Where attackers claim they stole your password and hacked your webcam while you were watching porn — here's how to protect yourself




  • Did you recently receive an email with one of your old passwords in the subject line and a request for bitcoin?
  • It's a new kind of scam.
  • The attacker probably took your password from a publicly available database of old leaked passwords and email addresses.
  • Here's how to keep yourself safe.
There's a new scam going around that would terrify most people if it ever landed in their inbox.
The emails are slightly different depending on who's being attacked, but they all have a few similar features:
  • The subject line includes a password that you probably have used at some point.
  • The sender says they have used that password to hack your computer, install malware, and record video of you through your webcam.
  • They say they will reveal your adult-website habits and send video of you to your contacts unless you send them bitcoin, usually $1,200 or $1,600 worth.
Here's one example of these scam emails, sent in the past month:
Ian Kar, a New York-based product manager who was sent the scammy email, said that after he received this threat, he spent an entire day changing all his passwords and buying 1Password, a password manager.
He said he was pretty sure his password was included in one of the big leaks in the past few years — databases have been stolen from LinkedIn, Yahoo, and eBay, for example. You can check whether your password is in one of these leaked databases over at the website Have I Been Pwned.
Basically, the attackers don't actually have video of you or access to your contacts, and they haven't been able to install malicious code on your computer. In reality, they're taking a password from a database that's available online, sending it to you, and hoping you're scared enough to believe their story and send them bitcoin.
Some scammers have even made over $50,000 from the blackmail scheme, based on an analysis of bitcoin wallets, Bleeping Computer reported.
As Brian Krebs, a leading security journalist, writes, this scam is probably automated, meaning you haven't been specifically targeted:
"It is likely that this improved sextortion attempt is at least semi-automated: My guess is that the perpetrator has created some kind of script that draws directly from the usernames and passwords from a given data breach at a popular Web site that happened more than a decade ago, and that every victim who had their password compromised as part of that breach is getting this same email at the address used to sign up at that hacked Web site."
For now, the scammers seem to be using really old passwords — maybe one you haven't used in years. But as the scam develops, there's a good chance it may include credentials from a fresh breach, according to Krebs.
Other good ideas to keep yourself safe: use long and strong passwords, get a password manager to ensure each account has a unique password, and turn on two-factor authentication on your important accounts. The FBI also recommends you turn off or cover any web cameras when you're not using them to prevent sex-based extortion schemes, even if this kind of scam ends up being a hollow threat.


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I'm always speaking of freedom

 There is always the concrete and abstract which few consider. It is easy to see that a man trapped in a jail cell has lost many freedoms yet he may be more free than you. Some would imagine Bill Gates as free as anyone that you could imagine but that's not "necessarily true.
 Hypothetically, the man lying in a hospital bed only being able to think "basic" thoughts would be as trapped as I can imagine. *This doesn't have to be true, he might be happy? I also would imagine the man that received funding to study all things would be as free as a person could ever become. *This also doesn't have to be true depending on his disposition about his responsibilities.


 I went to the doctor today and it was a pleasant little ride "but" I had too much time to think. Taking a good look at myself and life, I'm almost trapped in freedom.

 How can this be?

 I have evaluated many things that would bring me grief, financial ruin, emotional hardship or physical harm. I have set all these things in a "life" folder I call "Heroin" because it's immediate self-destruction and death.
 So for the "now", I'm trapped in my sense of freedom because to proceed in any other direction would be a step into the posteriori sense of a "lesser amount of freedom".

I believe you've been forgotten

 In this modern age, I believe the US citizens have been placed last in priorities. Pull all your emotions out of your political belief and doesn't it seem more about "winning the fight" between Republicans and Democrats than it is about you?


Thursday, September 6, 2018

Another liveaboard boat for sale cheap

 55' 1965' ChrisCraft Live Aboard
$4,000
Daytona Beach, FL
I'm just getting this boat as I post and I'm hammering out the details in the morning but it has a title and it's docked in a liveaboard slip. The boat is old yet livable with front and aft berthing areas. It has a kitchen, full-sized working fridge, small dining area and a spacious living or central area. I can let the boat go as low as $2000 but you'd have to take it elsewhere and remove the engines. It's a long story.














Are Americans just stupid? National Observer


How is the United States such a powerful superpower and yet Americans seem to be so stupid?
I mean, seriously, haven’t we all pondered this at one time or another – or just about every frickin’ day since November, 2016, when 63 million Americans walked into voting booths and pulled the lever for Donald Trump? No matter how dreadful and flawed a candidate Hillary Clinton was, only a simpleton could imagine Trump would turn out to be a better president.
But even before that low point, evidence of American stupidity has been in abundance for decades.
So, for instance:

Electing Republicans who want to dismantle their health care system

The U.S. is the only wealthy industrialized nation without a universal health care system. Instead, Americans have a system run by profit-making insurance companies – which costs 17 per cent of their GDP, despite the World Health Organization (WHO) recommending countries spend no more than 10 per cent (Canada spends 10.4 per cent). Countries that spend in excess of 10 per cent of their GDP on health care are wasting money – cash better spent on innovating your economy, education and infrastructure.
Prior to Obamacare, if your employer didn’t provide you with health insurance, or you couldn't pay it from your own pocket, you had extremely limited health care, if any at all. Thus, by 2010, nearly 50 million Americans did not have health coverage – which meant going into debt if an operation was needed, or simply not having the procedure. Forty-five thousand Americans were dying every year by 2009 because they had no health insurance. And even those who do have coverage, insurance companies – not your physician – decide on whether you get an operation or not, based on cost. If they feel it’s too expensive, then you’re shit out of luck.
This awful system led to Obamacare, which is far from perfect, but clearly better than what existed before. Obamacare prevents insurers from denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, offers subsidies for poor people, expanded Medicaid and forced insurers to cover certain services. Since its adoption, the number of Americans without health coverage has fallen to 28 million. Yet, despite Obamacare clearly being a vast improvement, Americans have elected Republicans to the presidency and both houses of Congress – whose number one priority is destroying Obamacare and replacing it with nothing. That’s how dumb Americans are.

Tolerating a corrupt, undemocratic electoral system

Americans like to pride themselves on being a truly great democracy. This is utter nonsense. The US is unique among Western democracies for having only two political parties. When Bernie Sanders decided to run for president two years ago, this lifelong socialist was forced to join the Democratic Party in order to have any chance of being heard.
Yet the Republican and Democratic parties are often indistinguishable from one another. The neoliberalism of Reagan and the Bushes is no different from the neoliberalism of the Clintons and Obama (all of whom, for example, support free trade agreements, which have devastated the American working class). And both parties have supported military interventions abroad and massive defense spending.
Meanwhile, in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton beat Trump by nearly three million votes. In the 2000 election, Al Gore received about 500,000 more votes than George W. Bush. But due to the archaic electoral college system, Bush and Trump “won” those elections. Moreover, the U.S. system has no barriers for rich people and corporations pumping money into the system – ensuring only people who support the rich and corporations get elected. And the Republicans have gerrymandered Congressional and Senate districts so effectively that while more people can vote Democratic than Republican, the Republicans win more seats, which is one reason they control both houses of Congress. And yet Americans are not in the streets protesting the fact their democracy is a sham. That’s how dumb Americans are.

No gun control


Americans love guns. They own 357 million of them, according to one estimate, or more guns than actual US citizens (by 40 million weapons). And because there are no restrictions on buying a firearm, any whack job can get their hands on them with ease. Every year, about 33,000 Americans are killed with guns – of which 12,000 are homicides, or about 25 times the average of other high-income countries. On an average day, 93 Americans are killed with a gun (most are suicides).
There were 372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870. One study found that the annual rate of mass shootings has tripled since 2011. In 1982, a mass shooting occurred an average of every 172 days. Now they happen every 64 days.
Overall, the number of gun murders per capita in the US in 2012 - the most recent year for comparable statistics - was nearly 30 times that in the UK, at 2.9 per 100,000 compared with just 0.1. Of all the murders in the US in 2012, 60 per cent were by firearm compared with 31 per cent in Canada, 18.2 per cent in Australia, and just 10 per cent in the UK.
Countries with strict gun controls have much fewer gun-related fatalities than countries with no or poor gun controls. This is incontrovertible. Yet Americans continue to vote for politicians and donate money to the National Rifle Association (NRA) to ensure gun controls are never implemented. That’s how dumb Americans are.

Jailing more of their citizens than anywhere else

With only five per cent of the world’s population, the U.S. has more than 20 per cent of the world’s prison population. The U.S. imprisons around 730 out of every 100,000 people – by far the highest incarcerated population in the world (Canada by comparison is 139 people). There are currently around 2.3 million Americans behind bars, or "equal to a city the size of Houston," as Bloomberg News once noted. There are 4,575 prisons in the U.S. – more than four times second-place Russia at 1,029. In fact, no other society in human history has imprisoned so many of its own citizens.
Yet the US has one of the highest crime rates among industrial countries – suggesting locking up all of those people is no deterrence whatsoever. That’s how dumb Americans are.

They watch Fox News

For those who have never experienced watching Fox News, it’s the equivalent of getting a steady stream of bigotry, stupidity and misinformation vomited on you by a bunch of smug, angry, white, rich people.
In last year’s presidential election, 40 per cent of Trump’s voters said their main source of news was Fox News - which reaches 100 million U.S. households. Owned by Rupert Murdoch, one of the most morally depraved people of our time, Fox was created by the sexual predator and former Nixon operative Roger Ailes – who was forced out of the network in 2016 when his long history of sexual harassment was finally exposed. Internally, Fox fostered a culture of sexism and harassment towards women, culminating in the news that its biggest star, Bill O’Reilly, had shelled out (US) $45-million to settle sexual harassment claims – before he too was fired earlier this year.

8 Ways The World Will Change By 2052




Let me answer some of your likely questions about the next 40 years as I expect them to unfold.

1. WILL I BE POORER?

Some of us will, others will not.


In order to give a clearer answer, the question must be asked more precisely. The question must be: Will I be poorer compared to x? And you must decide whether x should be (a) today, (b) what you would have been if humanity rose to the occasion and ran a rational world, or (c) relative to your peers.
Furthermore you must be precise about what future time you are asking about. Is it 2052? Or the halfway mark, 2032? You do remember, I hope, that the average income path to 2052 will not be a straight line. Per capita consumption in my forecast grows to a peak sometime within the next 40 years and is in decline in 2052—details depending on where you live.
If we’re willing to sacrifice some precision, though, I can provide this general answer: As long as you are not a citizen of the United States, you will be richer in 2052 than you are today. But only slightly so, unless you live in China or BRISE. I can add some detail: you will be much poorer than you would have been in 2052 if a benevolent dictator took control in 2012 and forced through the necessary investments to keep everyone employed and global warming below plus 2°C.


And I can add: Unless you do something very stupid (or very unconventional) during the next 40 years, you will be in the same position vis-à-vis your neighbors and peers as you are now. Both you and your peers will experience the same parallel development over the next 40 years. The only exception is if you are presently very affluent. Then it may be that your social rank will have declined through the processes of redistribution, which I believe will occur during the next 40 years in order to reduce some of the tension implicit in the rapid increase in inequity in the capitalist world.
Finally, I will give you a piece of uninvited advice: Yours is the wrong question. You should not ask, “Will I be poorer?” You should rather ask, “Will I be more satisfied?” Whether you are satisfied with life is more important (for you) than whether you are somewhat richer or poorer. Empirically, for some, income is the sole determinant of life satisfaction. But for the majority, a whole host of factors influence our well-being—job, health, family, community, prospects for the future—in addition to income. It is the sum total of all aspects of life that determine your well-being, both now and in the future.
So when you privately assess the implications for yourself of my global forecast, try to judge what it will mean for your well-being, not only what it will mean for your income.

2. WILL THERE BE ENOUGH JOBS?

Yes.
Or to be slightly less flippant: there will be as many jobs in the future as there have been in the past—relative to the workforce, that is. Or to be more scientific: there is little reason to expect that underemployment will be much higher (or lower) in the future than it has been over the last generation. This means that 10% of those who would like to get a paid job won’t get it overnight. The number will be closer to 5% during business upturns and closer to 15% during downturns. In the future, like in the past.


The reason is simple. A job is absolutely crucial from the point of the individual in industrial and postindustrial urbanized society. It is the only way in which the individual can get part of the societal pie–without engaging in theft. Since a job is crucial, the individual will do his utmost to obtain one. And society–at least in the long run–will do its utmost to ensure there are jobs, typically by seeking rapid economic growth. But we know from recent history that this is a taxing task, and that politicians often fail. As a result we do experience lengthy periods of excessive unemployment, even in the advanced economies. And the task of securing full employment may become harder in the future, since I forecast lower growth rates in GDP.
But given the importance of employment for societal peace and order, and given the real fear among the elite about a reshuffling of the cards, the necessary effort will be applied–sooner or later. The reason why I am willing to state this so blatantly is that the task is solvable in principle. When the unemployment problem is not solved in the short term, it is because society is not immediately willing to use the tools that the ruling elites actually have at hand. Because these tools imply taking from the rich (those with a job) and giving to the poor (those without a job).
For in the end the rulers can print paper money and pay unemployed people to do what society needs to get done, in return for the paper money. For example, politicians can decide that society needs to build dikes to protect against rising sea levels, or remove litter from public places and highways, or paint all roofs white (in order to reflect more sunlight and reduce global warming), or create new pieces of art for public enjoyment. And they can print the necessary money to pay for this work. The new money will boost demand for everything that the workers need–food, shelter, energy, vacation–and have the traditional expansionary effect. The cost will be higher inflation, but that bothers the rich more than the poor. As long as there are underutilized resources in the economy, deficit financing of compulsory work for the state is sustainable. It is possible to lower unemployment by printing new money. But the rich will scream. Because they will see this for what it is: namely, a transfer of wealth and income from the rich to the poor.
If the elite is stupid enough not to solve the unemployment problem within reasonable time, revolution (or at least sufficient rattling of the system to get crisis work going) will result. Such disruption will lower incomes in the short term, but it will distribute the cards in new ways in the longer run and therefore provide new opportunity for the formerly unemployed. Disruption makes unemployment more bearable, and probably gets it back down into the 10% range.
So I see little reason why there should be higher levels of unemployment in the future. But that is not the same as saying there will be smooth sailing. Unemployment figures will continue to fluctuate between the barely acceptable and the totally unbearable. And all along there will be unnecessary suffering.


3. WILL THE CLIMATE PROBLEM HURT US?

Yes, but not critically before 2040.
My forecast shows in quantitative detail how I believe the global average temperature will increase over the next couple of generations. The average temperature will go from plus 0.8°C relative to preindustrial times in 2012 to plus 2.0°C in 2052, and a maximum of plus 2.8°C in 2080.
The forecast maximum in 2080 is above the threshold that world leaders agreed would place us in the danger zone for runaway climate change; but it is important to realize this is a politically negotiated goal. Views differed, and still differ, on what will be safe. Or in other words, what will hurt us.


There is a large body of literature about what will happen at plus 2°C. Science agrees on the broad lines–more drought in drought-prone areas, more rain in rainy areas, more extreme weather (strong winds, torrential rains, intense heat spells), more melting of glaciers and the Arctic sea ice, somewhat higher sea levels, and a more acidic ocean, in addition to the higher temperature and the higher CO2 concentration in the atmosphere that will boost food and forest growth in higher northern latitudes. Ecosystems will move poleward and uphill.
But science cannot yet predict the detailed strength and regional distribution of these impacts. Thus it is impossible to forecast what will be the effect on your surroundings over the next generation. But you can get a strong indication if you start looking slightly beyond science. By asking locals in daily contact with nature, you will get to know what has changed over the last 20 or 40 years. You can do worse than assuming that these changes will strengthen during the rest of your life.
Let me give a concrete example. The only rational reason to live in a cold, northern city like my hometown of Oslo during the dark subfreezing period from mid-November to mid-March is the great opportunity for cross-country skiing (ideally on moonlit white glades in the pine forests just north of the city) on the one meter or so of cold fluffy snow that covered the ground until the last real winter in 1986.
But over the last 25 years, the average winter temperature in Oslo has gone up by plus 2°C. This has shortened the period of stable cold weather from four to two months. Instead, we now have two months of good skiing and two months of wet, gray, and cold slush, which keeps the forest dark and makes it impossible to even go jogging there after work. One-half of the Oslo winter is gone, sacrificed on the altar of climate change. This is clearly visible in the eyes of someone who has been skiing regularly over the last fifty years. It is discernable in the snow statistics, but it is not yet an established fact in the urban public mind. And certainly not institutionalized in a strong Norwegian climate policy.


This loss of skiing is a nuisance, but not catastrophic. As is the prolongation of the dry period in the western United States, or the increased number of very hot days in Provence. But they do constitute a loss. And a longing, among the grown-ups, for the good old days. A little more problematic, to say the least, is the slow rise of the ocean level around those Pacific islands that will be submerged if the ocean actually rises by a meter—just twice the expected sea-level rise by 2052.
So if you want to find out how climate change will hurt you, ask a local elderly outdoorsman or old farmer what he believes is going on. And then try to answer the question “Will I be more satisfied?” under the conditions that he thinks are emerging. But please be aware how subjective the answers you get will be: Most Norwegian farmers living next to my moonlit skiing forest are delighted at the prospect of higher temperatures, better forest growth, and the opportunity to clear-cut more often, with less snow bothering the cutting operations.

4. WILL ENERGY BE MORE EXPENSIVE?

Yes.
But once more, the precise answer depends on the detail in your question. Let us start by deciding what cost you are thinking about. Is it your total energy bill (in hard-earned dollars per year)? Or the national bill? Or the cost per unit of energy (in dollars per kWh of electricity or gallon of gasoline)? Or is it the share of the economy that is engaged in getting hold of all the energy that is needed to run the economy (measured as the percent of GDP in the energy sector—which should include those export sectors that are required to finance the importing of energy, if there is importing)?
I can answer only some of these questions, and the answers differ with the precise questions asked. The average per-person use of energy will increase. But only for a while–energy use per person peaks around 2040. So we will each have more energy available to us for some decades, until growth slows and growing energy efficiency leads to reduction in our annual use of energy.
So we will use more energy–more tonnes of oil equivalents of energy per person per year–until the 2040s. But will this cost more? I can’t predict in detail. My spreadsheets tell me that the energy intensity of the economy will decline monotonically from 300 kilograms of oil equivalents per $1,000 of GDP in 1970 to 180 in 2010, and some 120 in 2050. This means that the value created per unit of energy used will increase dramatically, which also means that the share of total value creation that is expended on energy is likely to decline. But I can’t say for sure, for it depends on whether the new forms of energy, replacing increasingly the old fossil sources, will prove to be very much more costly than power and heat based on coal, oil, and gas.

This is my notebook, my study hall

 Every now and then I get an email about my language or content here at "Sys Nica" and I take what's written into consideration "lightly".
 This is my electronic notebook and study hall. It also serves as a growth meter because I can go back months or years to see what I was thinking on any given day. *I certainly don't want to be today where I was "mentally" last year on this day.



 I format the posts in a way to create the sense of urgency for my visitors to simply ask themselves, "Why am I doing what I'm doing and what false importance have I placed on these tasks"?

 Long story short, I'll curse when I please, I'll shoot down anything that I feel is in error, I'll be sarcastic or humous as the feeling hits me and "my" show will go on.

 You're always welcome not to come back. I was once told that the only things that changes people are time and tragedy, the jury is still out on that one.

 But here, do yourself a big favor with what I call my "Smorgasbord Philosophy" - "Feel free to sample all the mental foods on the table, eat as much as you like of what suits you. The things you find distasteful, simply leave them as there are bound to be others that will enjoy what you have left".

You have a lot more in common with your computer than you may realize

 Your computer has a finite amount of space for storage, processes, power, etc. and so does your brain.
 Pile a bunch of crap on your desktop like worthless apps and programs that you never use and it will run markedly slower. So fill your brain with what your nighbors are doing, Wendy Williams, porn, chatting for sex etc. and you will run markedly slower as well.


Quick Example of How Backward America Really Is

 A college NFL draft pick gets, on average, multimillion dollar contracts right out of the gate while the teacher of your children won't see a "single" million dollars if he or she worked 5 lifetimes.


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