User talk:Betaclamp

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Saving Earth:

It says here "If we want to save the planet, we have to get rid of all those noble metals and work with cheap minerals like iron to catalyze reactions." ! ~ Betaclamp (talk) 03:25, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Foreshadowing:

Color, 1953, "The Blob." In the last scene, after The Blob is frozen by CO2 'extinguishers' and 'deposited' in the Arctic, Steve McQueen's very last line in this movie is - we'll be OK "as long as it (the Arctic) stays cold." Ouch. ~ Betaclamp (talk) 05:22, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

D-Day:

Wow, I just heard and saw on PBS's "The War" that the soldiers on the landing crafts could look overhead AND SEE THE [fired from the battleships] FOURTEEN INCH DIAMETER shells in transit!

Privacy, why-not and why:

This comes from one of my favorites, the better-late-than-never category/department. I don't know why it took so long to put 2 & 2 together unless it was because 2 & 2 & 2 are involved. First, privacy - acknowledged as a new addition to Human Concerns - has long been highly valued. Second, we must answer those who purport that if you have nothing to hide you have no need for privacy. Third, because our information is freely offered, Data Mining and the activities of Marketers must be considered OK to tolerate.

Yet no-one on-line wishes their personal information to be accessed and Acted-Upon by the cRIMINAL eLEMENT.

So if the government and Police want total access to peruse our personal information to make sure that we have nothing to hide then they had better prioritize protecting US from pREDATORS. ~ Betaclamp (talk) 03:26, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Contemplation;

I heard that a Mentor from Greece - [I think it was] Aristotle - said "Contemplation is the Highest Form of Activity." This was followed by the [source unsure; modified by me] clincher - "All items ever produced, utilized and improved by Humankind began and ORIGINATED as a conception that resulted from the Applied Contemplation of a Human Mind". ~ Betaclamp (talk) 06:46, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Pete Segar:

said, or more probably sang, this: "When the King puts the Poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the Poet." ~ Betaclamp (talk) 05:35, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Sadly true:

Through study, experience, and my own volition I have deduced this: "Civilization is Life's Greatest Hoax." ~ Betaclamp (talk) 07:49, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

In a sincere effort to mollify the above: Sir Winston Churchill said: "Democracy is the worst form of government that we have, ... except for all of the others"; so to extend this to the above, that is, 'to paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill (!)' -  : substitute 'Democracy' with 'Civilization' and we get "Civilization is the worst of our cultural inventions, except for everything else that we have created."

To focus on my actual meaning: look at 'Hoax' - the feeling that all is OK when actually is is not. In other words, Civilization is a very thin veneer layered upon the Wild World, and as such it is very fragile and highly subject to disruption - meaning that when disruptions surface, Civilization just might submerge. ~ Betaclamp (talk) 08:23, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

re: Justice:

From The Radio, summer of 2007: "Publicity is the Hallmark of Justice." {Sure, why not?}. ~ Betaclamp (talk) 09:02, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Notice Wall:

Seen painted on a wall near Main Street, Vancouver B.C. [and Seventh Avenue][2008]: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the World! Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." ~ Betaclamp (talk) 05:03, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Not Happy to relate this:

From the radio: "95% of the West's economic activity has nothing to do with the production of Food, Shelter and Clothing." Means that in a catastrophe 95 % of workers loose their jobs. ~ Betaclamp (talk) 05:17, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Our First Radio Transmission:

A True Story from CBC Radio: probably from As It Happens - say 25 years ago: In the earliest Days of Radio the U. S. authorities found that they had to regulate the maximum broadcast power output from broadcasting stations to 5,000 Watts maximum of broadcasting power, so that all of the 'other' local broadcasting stations would NOT 'blast each other off of the airwaves'.

So then, THEY, i. e. the - let us benefit mostly ourselves clan, moved their broadcasting equipment to Mexico where there were no such restrictions, and then they set up a 50,000 Watt broadcast station! and proceeded to transmit their commercial info.

Meaning that, the First most powerful radio signal that is propagating {from Earth} through the inter-stellar medium, at the speed of Light, in at least the various directions that Mexico was pointing to at at the time, is a 50,000 Watt commercial for hemorrhoid creme! ~ Betaclamp (talk) 07:36, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Expansion of a Comparison:

Comparing extrovertism - interest directed outwards, a propensity for finding one's satisfaction in external things - and introvertism - interest directed inwards, a propensity for finding one's satisfaction in the inner Life of thought and fancy - it seems to me that in the former, all of these external activities require almost constant attention for planning and carrying-out, with little concern for what has taken place in the Past. Introvertism mainly puts priority on learning about the Past, our Origins, and with 4.6 billion years of Past that needs examination, not very much Time is available to make plans. ~ Betaclamp (talk) 06:29, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Another {Ahead of It's Time} Point of View -

Over heard within the Week, Quirks and Quarks; a fellow purports that a potentially valid reason for leaving fossil fuels in the ground is that they may be required or needed [in the 50,000 to the 100,000 upcoming year time frame] to Edge-Off the threat of global cooling. He said that "We Must Not Take The Means of Executing That Decision Out Of Their Hands." ~ Betaclamp 02:57, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Clarification Needed:

It seems to me CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT NO-ONE WOULD EVER DESIRE A CUT IN PAY; in what way, shape or form do those who support Tax-Cuts consider such cuts as not being a Cut in Our Government's Pay? ~ Betaclamp (talk) 04:10, 14 April 2011 (UTC) It seems that this miserly attitude [that we fully expect to be Sustained (because this is Necessary), yet we expect the Entities-of-Sustenance to be Self-Sustaining - no Help from Us] applies equally to our treatment of both The Government and The Earth. ~ Betaclamp (talk) 05:22, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

re: Hearts and Minds;

Movie, B&W, 1957, {Major} "Drango". After the Civil War, a Tale of just how difficult it was to 'win-over' the remaining People of the defeated South; the renegade Leaders and their Soldiers, the Businessmen, the Officials, the Women, the Teens and the Children ~ Betaclamp (talk) 06:02, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

WW II

Bc says: Germany and Japan both STARTED and ENDED the War for the Same Identical Reason: ARROGANCE. They both began by saying "This Area (Europe and Asia respectively) must be controlled by The Strong - and We are The Strong-"; yet on the fine-points, they failed. The prime example is CODES. Both Germany and Japan arrogantly Assumed that their Codes were Unbreakable. Being Wrong in this enabled the Allies to be in receipt of all of Hitler's Top-Secret directives, and to deprive Erwin Rommell of his Supplies, and, when Germany gave "a new and improved" version of the Enigma Machine to the Japanese, the Allies were in receipt of all of Japan's Top-Secret directives; which enabled them to kill Admiral Yamamoto; and to Win WW II. See "The Ultra Secret" and "The Enigma Machine". ~ Betaclamp 08:51, 9 May 2011 (UTC)