Skylark

Yeah, but can we still play violent games?
Will tactical gamer get governmental support?!?!!

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INSUNABULA

Dear Mentholated, while perhaps your notion of becoming the next president of the United States of America is well intentioned I would like to comment on the policies you outlined earlier in this thread:

Dakka-Dakka-Dakka - Booooooooooooom - EEEEEERRRRRrrrrrrroooooonnnnnnn - KABLAAAAAAM !!!!

Thank you for your interest in the well-being of mankind

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mentholated

Maybe I forgot to type it, but I meant DRUG educational facilities. Teaching you what substances you can ingest to treat yourself for whatever symptoms. Also educating and providing heroin addicts with fresh needles.

I highly suggest everyone home school their kids until college age.

TacticalGamer will receive government suds.

TheSkudDestroyer

Who would be your cabinet?

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mentholated

Jack Daniels, Smith, Wesson, and Mary Jane.

Acreo Aeneas

Hold up a minute. When did we become a "nation state with exactly 50 states"? I thought a nation state was just that, a state that was a nation. So are you saying you'd be some sort of federation/commonwealth head of state with 50 individual and autonomous nation states under your thumb?

So TG gets government produced soap bubbles? Huh?


Special note: I mean both of the above with partial seriousness and a mixture of sarcasm and humor.

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mentholated

Since the founding fathers decided thats how it should be. They didn't anticipate the states would give birth to a malignant brain that seeks to control all and consume everything.

(the brain would be the fed)

And yes, you do! You guys need a shower!

Special Olympics: me too

Tonk

you never stated your point tho...

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ScratchMonkey

Before you push maglev, check out the technical problems. China has one and it's kinda scary: You need good magnets (permanent or electromagnets, either way expensive) at frequent intervals on the track. The gap between the train and the magnets is extremely close. Failure of a magnet is likely to result in a catastrophic crash. And if you're talking about putting them on private vehicles, look at the quality of maintenance on most cars on the road. You want those tearing up your expensive road magnets?

I just had lunch with a customer who had a honeymoon in China and described what he saw. My coworkers and his coworkers are all servo motor people, so know a lot about linear motors (which is what a maglev is).

Santa

All this thread has done is show how horrible the education system is. I sincerely hope you are just high mentholated.

mentholated

I was thinking electromagnets, and you're right. My solution to that was to decrease the size and power consumption of each individual magnet, while increasing the field amplification. Haven't figured out how to do that. So instead of a bunch of large magnets you'd have a whole lot of tiny superefficient ones turning on and off in (continuous) waves to propel the train forward.

ScratchMonkey

Where maglev might be interesting is in orbital launch of mass payloads. There have been proposals to set one up on Pike's Peak to lob a load of some bulk material into orbit for construction. The old L5 organization proposed setting them up on the moon for the same function. You can get huge acceleration from the thing.

mentholated

I was thinking a more efficient way would be to create a space elevator powered by a laser induced plasma channel (to distribute the energy) fed by superefficient printable solar collectors.

Essentially its just a big vertical maglev train powered by the sun that transmits power through electrified channels of plasma. It would even work so logically that when the car is at the earth's surface, with the beam emitter being attached to a heavy weighted satellite that anchors the end of the elevator and keeps it taut by the inertia of the satellite + the mostly frictionless vacuum of space. (well, I guess gravity is the ultimate friction.. but that can be overcome quite easily via electrogravitics).

The car would get slightly less efficient reception of the LIPC at sea level, and move move slower, but as it rises it would recieve the channel more clearly causing it to speed up, receiving a clearer signal, causing it to speed up more, etc, etc. If this tether had no end, we could theoretically build ships in orbit, create a maglev runway in space and launch them from that using ZERO fuel. It could all be done via the sun's radiation, all that we need are super efficient photosynthesizing organic solar cells that would function as the entry point of an energy cascade.

We would also need very small, very powerful, very fast electromagnets that would be capable of switching phase hundreds of thousands of times per second.

Switchcraft

I like that you get rid of the department of commerce, but then want someone to go make sure there's net neutrality. Deregulation good, as long as you get to regulate the stuff you like, right?

Also, how did you pick the first 15 Amendments as okay, but the rest are going to be re-examined? And WTF does an amendment have to do to comply with the "virgin" Constitution? The document was designed to be amended, and it has...those latter amendments are part of the Constitution, period, unless you're somehow arguing that they weren't procedurally proper?

Switchcraft

Also, since you're legislating the invention of hyperefficient energy sources, could you also legislate chocolate to taste a little better and fried chicken to make people lose weight and gain cardiovascular endurance?