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Arthur Ganson’sMachine with Concrete. The YouTube blurb says
This machine was inspired by dreaming about gear ratios and considering the unexpected implications of exponential powers.
Each worm/worm gear pair reduces the speed of the motor by 1/50th. Since there are 12 pairs of gears, the final speed reduction is calculated by (1/50)12. The implications are quite large. With the motor turning around 200 revolutions per minute, it will take well over two trillion years before the final gear makes but one turn. Given the truth of this situation, it is possible to do anything at all with the final gear, even embed it in concrete.
Corporate socialism, that is. I don’t usually rant, but it’s tiring to see and hear these angry mobs screaming obscenities and lobbing grenades in the form of teabagging and birthing and pro-for-profit health insurance. Their kneejerk reaction to healthcare reform is especially puzzling. Yes, health care providers should reasonably expect a profit for their work, but the insurance companies don’t provide health care, they take our money and dribble some to the health care givers and keep the rest for themselves. Name another developed country that permits that kind of thing! This must be a big reason that annual health care spending in OECD countries breaks down like this:
United States: $7290
Switzerland: $4417
France: $3601
United Kingdom: $2992
Average of OECD developed nations: $2964
Italy: $2686
Japan: $2581
What these mobs are really protesting is democracy, because the majority of Americans are tired of being looted (and that goes for the investment banking industry too). Like Bush 2, the protesters appear to prefer dictatorship.
Yesterday, Bill Maher interviewed New York Congressman Anthony Weiner about our nation’s health care situation. Mr. Weiner proceeded to give a most articulate and constructive view, and he touched on all the important points. The money quote, near the end: “the health insurance industry shouldn’t exist at all.” Exactly! I was sorry when his time ran out. Unfortunately the beginning of the interview was marred (Mahered) by a lame joke about his name, but Weiner just smiled and noted that he hasn’t heard his name treated like that since 5th grade. Ha! His comments are well worth hearing.
(the video was pulled from another site I had linked to; I’ll try to keep tabs on this one)
Emily Green at the Chance of Rain blog is providing continuous updates on the status of the various water-related bills facing a Friday deadline for passage in the California Legislature. Here’s the link.
So the La Mesa-Spring Valley School District called a special Labor Day meeting and banned Obama’s back-to-school speech from being aired live in district schools. Instead, they said, teachers could make it an “educational experience” by showing it later (with “viewer discrection advised” commentary, no doubt). This morning the San Diego Union-Tribune joined the mass hysteria with a front-page headline editorializing that the “speech puts school districts in a delicate spot” (although that subhead is missing from the online version of the headline).
