Gene Modification is Good For Investors

Silk from goat milk. Doesn't that just sound wrong. If they can modify goats to produce silk, what could they modify humans to do? What if they could modify humans to never be depressed? Your children or parents die and it doesn't effect you at all. What if they could modify us to be always happy? You could be tortured in prison and enjoy it.

With each genetically modified thing comes the opportunity to create a new virus that can skip across species, just like AIDS did. The question truly is not if, it is when. However, there is a lot of money to be made in the meantime. The linked short promotional video below is from Fidelity Investments, it is less than three minutes.

YouTube - Thinking Big: Synthetic Biology - Fidelity Investments

There is a link to their company website just bellow the video.

I Know, I Haven't Written in a Bit

The truth is that I have been socializing. In addition, I haven't seen anything in the news worth writing about yet. Sure the Greeks voted for an austerity government; but, they are far from forming a coalition and quickly running out of time. Microsoft has announced they are coming out with a new tablet computer, eh. I am also aware that the United Nations wants to take over the internet, I already wrote about that. And now the United Nations wants to regulate small arms (handguns). Plenty of people are reporting on that. So, lets listen to music.

YouTube - Jose Feliciano - light my fire

YouTube - Devo - [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction (Video)

YouTube - The Flying Lizards - Money


YouTube - Ray Stevens - Misty


YouTube - Linda Ronstadt Alison

YouTube - The Sex Pistols - My Way

A Dinner With My Ex

It wasn't really dinner, I guess it was Brunch. My ex-wife, two of my children and one their husbands and I all had brunch together. I thought it went very well, I am glad that my children got to see us all together and we had a pleasant time. I wished my ex-wife well with her new boyfriend and told her about a job opportunity for her.

My ex-wife was a triathlete, she is also a fitness trainer. She has been in good shape and lost some weight. She looked a little thin, this is not the Pimpernel being a jerk, she told me she had lost six pounds in two weeks because of her job. The thing is that when you see someone everyday, you don't notice the little changes. If you haven't seen someone in a bit, you notice the changes more. I wondered what changes she noticed in me. I cannot see the changes in me; but, I am sure I have. Perhaps I am slightly balder, perhaps my stomach is slightly larger. I do not know what she saw. I certainly look better than I did three years ago or four years ago, I was at the edge of death and looked it.

While we were eating I told my ex-wife about some technology stuff, she got it. She told me she was going back to school and I am sure she will do well. I think it was good that we all got together, I think it is good that my ex-wife and I can be civil with one another and discuss things, we knew each other for most of our lives. When we departed, I thought I saw a look of sadness on my ex; but, it may have just been my imagination and I have no idea what she was thinking. Perhaps she has regrets, I do not know. She was wrong about something though, I told her I was retiring in two and a half years and she said she had three jobs; she forgot, when I retire she gets half my pension. It won't be much but she gets half of it. She will be able to retire much younger than she thinks.

I had been told that her boyfriend was a Vegan. My ex always wanted to be a vegetarian and I figured this was probably a good thing that they could agree on. I mentioned that all I knew about the guy was that he was a Vegan (actually I also know his first name, age and that he took Yoga classes - nothing meaningful). She told me he wasn't; but, wanted to be one. I hadn't meant to bring up any issues, it was just small talk. I just wanted to wish him and her well.

My ex-wife and I have moved on, our lives have changed and we have moved and we have had a life apart. After brunch, my ex thanked me, for what I do not know. It may have been for buying brunch; but, I bought a whole heck of a lot of meals for us and she should have known I would pay and I am sure she did. She may have said thank you for having us all get together. She may have said thank you for all I did do for us over the past 25 years, I don't know what she was thinking when she said it. I said you are welcome and it applies to all of the reasons I mentioned or another one completely different.

Well, if you have continued reading then lets turn to something completely different. Lets talk about those transhumanists and what they think the future should be. I am going to provide a link to a video, it is about what they think the future should be and you are I are not important to it, we are to be virtual rather than real. They wish to give you immortality in exchange, they want your mind. Sounds crazy; but, it is what they believe. They believe that in the near future they will be able to download your mind onto a computer. This is sci-fi and bad science thinking. They believe that you can be replicated in a computer. This is mainstream science and they think people are nothing more than calculators.

Enjoy the video, YouTube - 2045: A New Era for Humanity

The Weekend and a Hodgepodge of News

First up I thought we might talk about the freeway system of tomorrow. Lets read this from the Huffington Post - V2V: Department Of Transportation's New Communication System Helps Cars Avoid Crashes By Talking To Each Other. The author gushes over the fact that the government wants to put a sensor in every car that allows it to prevent accidents and this thing records everything you do from your speed to where other cars are around you.

This next article is just fun. A strange radar return from the Baltic sea was obtained last year showing what appears to be a UFO on the bottom of the ocean. No big deal, strange returns happen to sonar readings. So right now a team of oceanographers are in the area, a year later, with plans to dive and see whatever it is and they did. Two days ago the group posted the following, "The divers are now down and investigating the circle and reports from the ship say they are really amazed. There is definitely something unusual hiding at the seabed – a Mystery Beneath." Here is a link to their site - The Ocean Explorer. With the movie Prometheus coming out today which assumes that God was an alien race that created us, what a mashup this could make. What if they came back with proof that it was an alien craft that had crashed 50,000 years ago and had "proof" that the aliens had tampered with our DNA to evolve us. Would you believe it? There were also reports that Russian and American navies were in the area.

Then we have this interesting article from Business Wire via Yahoo News - Launches Banking App for U.S. Bank for iPad. Do any of my readers still doubt that we are going to go cashless and fairly soon and guess what, having gold will be meaningless. You cannot eat gold and gold trading is regulated. You will pay your taxes with electronic currency and if you don't pay your taxes, you cannot leave the country. Just some things to keep my dear readers amused.

Tough Call - New Post and a Video

I had to think real hard about posting the link that I am going to post. I found out about a video on YouTube, the video was over two hours long; but, because the Pimpernel does care about his readers, I watched the thing. I skipped maybe 10% after I found some garbage in the middle of the video that was just stupid. The rest of the video had collections of videos and other useful information. The title of the video and the garbage in the middle made me question if I was going to post it and maybe that is the reason why the video is polluted with nonsense in the middle. The bible tells us to be discerning and that means that we must take the junk with the good and figure out which is which.

I trust my readers to think, I trust them to be able to sift out the wheat from the chaff. At a minimum I want them to know what is going on and will critique what I post. Here is the bottom line, the video has some really good information regarding biometrics and RFID chips and even a cashless society; but, some of the video (not much and in the middle) has some idiotic stuff about reptilians. I don't believe that anyone is possessed by reptilian aliens, demons perhaps; but, not aliens. So, I had to ask myself if I would let a little garbage get in the way of posting the link to the video and decided that my readers are smart enough to figure out what is important. I recommend you watch the whole video, even after the nonsense in the middle, the video has some good information regarding the issues. You decide if I was right.

YouTube - RFID CHIP EVERYONE-FEDERAL LAW

Some of the points in the video that were very interesting involved a lady who was investigating RFID use in the world and didn't want it to go down to the item level. Yep, they are looking at tagging everything with an RFID chip, perhaps that could explain why the internet needed so many IP addresses that it could include everything in the universe and more. The second half of the video has a nice little "what if" movie and then some good explanations on how biometrics work with RFID to be a verification. I hope you watch the whole thing and ignore the dumb parts (there are not many), it will give you an idea of just how far along technology is.

Triangles and a Cryptic Pimpernel

Someone that I met on another internet site contacted me once. They wanted to invite me to meet some others, I have reason to believe that they follow this blog as they were told about it. If they are still reading it, I want them to know that I never discussed them or their ways with anyone outside of their group. I made no oaths; but, I say what I mean and I mean what I say and if they still read my blog, they know I never mentioned anything here before. If you do read this, give my best wishes to a lady in Israel and a lady in Mexico.

The Eurozone and the End of Democracy

The difference between freedom and slavery is not the difference between being in chains or running around wherever you want. The difference is whether or not you get a say in the matter, it is about voting. Spain needs a bailout as will Italy and Ireland and Greece again. Germany and France have agreed to help; but, there is a price tag. The price tag is that the debts of all nations will be faced together and backed by Germany. In exchange nations would lose their right to make their own budgets, those would be decided in Brussels by other countries.

Germany is using the economic crisis in order to become the head of Europe. What they could not do through warfare they have achieved through peaceful means and much better intent; however, as one former German Prime Minister pointed out, it could mean the end to all of them. At a minimum, it means the end of true democracy for many Europeans. Imagine if the United States had to ask the United Nations if our budget was acceptable? The economic troubles in Europe are being used to force all of Europe to become a single nation politically, economically and socially without letting the people decide and vote on it themselves.

This is what the world will look like when all of the currencies fail, there will be a call for greater decision making by the United Nations (or the International Monetary Fund) over how much debt countries can have and what they will be limited to if they are bailed out (given even more debt).

The Guardian - Germany weighs up federal Europe plan to end debt crisis