Thursday Typothetae Typhonic And David Letterman's last Late Show

The Hycopter uses its frame to store energy in the form of hydrogen instead of air. With less lift power required, it's fuel cell turns the hydrogen in its frame into electricity to power its rotors.

 The drone can fly for four hours at a time and 2.5 hours when carrying a 2.2-pound payload. 

“By removing the design silos that typically separate the energy storage component from UAV frame development - we opened up a whole new category in the drone market, in-between battery and combustion engine systems,” says CEO Taras Wankewycz.

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 While debate swirls in Washington D.C. about new encryption laws, the consequences of the last crypto war is still being felt.

 Logjam vulnerabilities making headlines today is "a direct result of weakening cryptography legislation in the 1990s," researcher J. Alex Halderman said. 

"Thanks to Moore's law and improvements in cryptanalysis, the ability to break that crypto is something really anyone can do with open-source software. 

The backdoor might have seemed like a good idea at the time

Maybe the arguments 20 years ago convinced people this was going to be safe.

 History has shown otherwise. 

This is the second time in two months we've seen 90s era crypto blow up and put the safety of everyone on the internet in jeopardy."

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 No one really questions the privacy issues that this raises. It is obvious that some kind of a GPS locator needs to be installed on all of the vehicles and of course big brother will know your vehicles where~abouts at all times. A really great way to monitor citizens and take control in one sense...

Oregon will become the first U.S. state to test a program to replace their gas tax with a fee for each mile citizens drive on public roads. 

 The 5,000 people voluntarily participating in the test will be charged 1.5 cents per mile.

 Revenue from gas tax has been on the decline as vehicles get more fuel efficient and as hybrids and electric cars become more popular.

 This measure is an attempt to raise the amount of money the state takes in to pay for infrastructure projects.

 Many owners of those hybrid and electric vehicles are upset, saying it specifically targets them and discourages environmentally-friendly transportation.

 Others point out that those who drive electric vehicles need the roads maintained just as much as people still driving gas-powered cars. 

 Oregon can't tax the miles you drive outside Oregon--the US Constitution explicitly forbids state taxation of anything outside the state.

 They *have* to know not only how far you've driven but where you drove it to impose this tax. Thusly the GPS unit installed in Oregon cars and there goes your freedom from governmental surveillance of where you go and when you go.

That will be just another source of data on you.

 I believe that California is getting ready to implement the same kind of a system, or at least the infrastructure will be in place when they do.
 
If you live in California, start looking at the freeways and you will see those round circles embedded in the road that you see at traffic lights appearing along the freeways every mile or so, one in each lane.

They are the magnetic sensors embedded in the pavement.

They have been quietly installing them on all of our freeways.

Watch this topic drift into what vehicles do more damage to the roads. They will point at the trucking industry because trucks do a lot of damage to the roads. But they also pay a lot more in road taxes. The argument is that electric cars and hybrids are now paying less taxes at the pump because of their lower 'gusoline' usage.

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As Jessie Ventura always says, "follow the money!"
Who benefited from it's construction?


This is a story about how the U.S. military built a lavish headquarters in Afghanistan that wasn’t needed, wasn’t wanted and wasn’t ever used — at a cost to American taxpayers of at least $25 million.

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Very Ugly

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Back during the Hippie days of the 60's a lot of us could survive anywhere in the USA by "dumpster diving." Behind any super market were dumpsters full of eatable food that was thrown out because of expiration dates.

Speaking of such, here is a statement by Connie Frisbee...

Connie Bremer-Murray: 

"As a woman, you worry about bread. You worry about meals. I'd see all these people eating when Calvary's coffers were full.

 And we were poor. [Calvary founder] Chuck Smith never paid Lonnie.

 One day, Lonnie came home and said, "You'll never believe it: they hired somebody full-time to help (Romaine) pastor Chuck." 

That blew him away. 

Chuck and Kay Smith never came by to ask if I needed food.

 I went to the same grocery store she did; it's just that she went through the front door, and I went to the dumpster in the back so that I could feed people. 

There was a disparity between what people believed to be happening and what was happening. 

I think Lonnie paid a huge price for that disparity. 

 But it's not like what happened to Jesus on the cross. It's like we used to say: we haven't bled yet."

 “In the U.S. about 40 percent of all the food never gets eaten and that’s everything from food lost on the farm all the way to the potatoes left on your breakfast platter,” says Dana Gunders, a staff scientist and food waste expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).