Read an article titled "How your Income Stacks Up" written by Kevin McCormally on Yahoo News. It's full of bunk. The IRS statistics are given out by Kiplinger in a highly misinterpretable way. That is, they are bunky; full of the bunk. Mr. McCormally digested that bunk and put it into a highly respected news outlet. I wouldn't expect much more out of any news outlet, much less one called "Yahoo News", of which I am a constant reader (part of the Yahoos that make their news worth printing I guess). Here's my argument. If 23% of the taxes are paid by the 1% of people who make over 410k per year, a number which I calculate to be approximately 42,000 people for each state in the union, (but then we know the weight is on the states where real estate and cost of living is sky-high, so we're probably talking about less than 10k of the super upper class per state), why should you need to show the rest of the funky numbers? Stick with that number. 1% of people are paying 23% of all taxes. Here's why they don't stick with just that number, they can't. The IRS data was designed to reflect how much of all the taxes were paid by groups of higher than 1% at a time. The IRS data was designed to show the broad spectrums of salaries, not just the waypoints and soundbites. And the article fails to note that it just so happens that if you make over 110k you're much more likely to make over 400k because, there's a happy little understanding there which allows companies to nod and give you a fat salary and allow you to live in expensive areas. If you're valuable enough to demand over 110k, you're in the sweet spot where you're allowed a big jump in salary to pay for your yacht, real estate, other real estate, golden parachute, etc. If the chart were in anyway capable of speaking laymans terms with regards to the IRS data, it would show that we have most of the taxes being paid by you and me who make a measly 34k per year. We and the next bracket above us 60k, pay our taxes in leaps of 20%, where-as the super upper classes pay out in leaps of 10% per bracket. The bulk of taxes is paid by you and me because there just aren't enough richy richertons to pay it all. What it means is that richy richerton then swings a deal with the fed to make the stock market pay them just a little more so they can say they're fixing "unemployment", and when the stock market isn't doing so well, richy richerton has to dump more money into us poor saps down here on main street so we can get back to work, because paying us is then worth more to them. And then the pendulum swings the other way. If we were paid more, our leap to the next tax bracket would widen even more and the IRS would have to restore this careful balance and tax them richies again. They walk a fine line in paying us what they bare minimum have to, so that they don't get taxed any more, and so that the market pays them fine returns. Hey, don't anybody worry, we're just cattle right? We don't cause a stir, do we. And we're too dumb to be able to read your handy chart right Kiplinger?

Found an interesting website. This Payscale.com is the chief architect of what you might get paid for the rest of your life. Here is their website. Know your enemy: http://www.payscale.com/about.asp?pg=about&sub=overview

They are well intentioned, I can see that in the Bios of the people that make all the money in this company, but this is a monopoly in every sense of the word. It's actually a worldwide monopoly and no one will ever do anything about it. The ability to access and process data to control business labor pools, worldwide, is so far above the monopoly law it's not even on the radar, but it is the new paradigm in business, stock markets, heck the FED even has a monopoly for controlling data, and when compared to how a traditional monopoly was discovered and dealt with this isn't the same game. You'll never have another company screaming "price fixing". This new thing can only be controlled by other software. Their Computer chips have already won the fight. The humans will serve them well, at designer, customized wages.

Viva La Vida! Just got here. My neighbor, a veterinarian who now holds a purchasing job, had a portion of an apple fritter waiting for me at my desk. Third week in a row. Not sure where she is getting them. Nice of her to share. I like the fritter. The Viva La Vida album was in my head on the way to work on the bus this AM so I played it right away during this my ten minutes before clock-in. The song Lost! is playing now. Great tune. The line "castle was built on pillars of sand" is great. It fits the theme of the rest of this blog which is aimed at strengthening that base. The front page of USA today says Obama is most concerned about Jobs. This isn't news necessarily but the refreshing of the data, and having it on the front page makes it hit home a little more, and the news folk must know that that is the purpose of the front page. It makes me realize, (as I sip my $4.20 sugarfree hazelnut breve from Seattle's Best that I got downtown between bus rides), is being paid for by a careful planning of stock holders and no one else. They create the numbers on the stock market by buying and selling people and I'm one, and that's where my pay comes from. All the equipment in the picture makes it seem like they run businesses and build things and sell things, but in the end the only items in the picture that change the value of their stock are the people, because of our brains and opposable thumbs. These are bought and sold, hired and laid off, in a carefully orchestrated symphony which reaches our ears by the front page of the USA today in a tune that we call "hiring is up" aka good times, and "unemployment is up" aka stocks are down. The rich buy and sell us and we are indentured servants to this grind. There's only the destiny of "some day maybe this will change". I seem Lost! in all this because I can't seem to write a blog without touching on these issues. That's today's theme I guess. Hope I don't take the wrong bus later and self-fulfill this in a physical way. Time for an uprising. Storm the USA Today office and demand that they respect something other than Stock Market strategies. Every news outlet is pushing stock market news as "what happened in your world today that you need to know"... this blog is what you need to know today.

Dollars and Sense

Can't seem to find time or urgency to log in and post to this bloggy, unless it involves a crisis in a financial market, or a quantum boon. We have both recently. The LHC smashed a couple of protons at the same energy level as Fermilab, so welcome to the card table LHC, hope you're holding the cards when you get up to max power. So far my dreams aren't registering anything different because of their work. Changes in magnetism probably register in every brain on the planet in some small way, but we'll see what it does at full power next year. Would be great of the magnetism in the LHC actually changed our brain patterns enough to somehow focus more on the way we manage world economies. Which brings me to the point of discussion regarding Dubai and the money management blip going on there. Like any market they are fighting to earn respect from other labor pools. The thing that will iron out all of these markets and bring them in line is a respect for "fairness" between a dollar here and a dollar there, between a work day here and a work day there. If we institute a worldwide computer system that does nothing except manage valuation of monies, to create a fairness in all labor pools, by assessing then increasing or decreasing the value of money in real time, we would all be speaking the same language with regard to supply and demand. Make the money fair. There' s no way forward without this step in place. The scale of fairness needs to extend from Stock Market on down to "how many grains of sand in the hour glass is my dollar worth, as opposed to your dinari". If there isn't a "fair making system", we're all just swimming around in an unfair system and no one wants to swim in that dirty pool.

Back to the quanta, for a moment (a moment is a measure of time, so it's interesting that pun found it's way into this conversation), so we can discuss heat, and also gyroscopes. Take a look at a couple of burning matches when you bring them in close proximity to one another. The heat engine of each one of these doesn't readily merge into the other, there is a momentary discussion, or even repulsion, of the other for a moment, then they join and create a much larger pool... or quanta, of their energy. The indication is that heat is related to exchange of matter into or out of a quanta. It brings us back to the fact that all things are continually asked by the universe "of what are you capable of being a part?", and that brings us back to the fact that states of matter are what determine what you are capable of being a part of. Picture a block of ice floating in a bath of water. The ice is a different state, a solid, and doesn't participate as readily in surface tensions, but they are the same chemical. This should point us to the periodic table of elements, a table that should be designed to show how any element will react in any environment. The table needs to be more focused on states of matter at all conditions, and could be called a quanta chart of the elements. It should be layed out based on willingness to participate, which will point to further understandings of physical characteristics of elements.
One last example I came across last night while doing the dishes is a small of bowl of water floating inside a larger bowl of water inside a sink full of water. When rocked, some of the water splashes out of the smaller bowl and the water in it sloshes back and forth with the same tensions we see in gyroscopes. This play of quanta choosing their state is probably what creates the force that every gyroscope exerts. A rudimentary gyroscope could be created with a series of pools such as this. - Edit: Did a quick search and found this Loopa gravity defying bowl: http://www.loopabowl.com/loopaDemo.aspx On the right track dudes. Of what are you capable of being a part?

What money?

What can we learn from Pete and Repeat? Pete has been a law abiding American citizen. (The Dude abides.) And he has still found himself short on a dime in the new world economy. The old recession and depression cyclicality of economies has turned Pete into the same old Repeat. It's left poor Pete wondering where's the money? Show me the MONEY!

So, here's a lesson, Pete, about the new way to compete. Ask yourself "What money?".

This is a global economy, baby, you gotta dance around 24 time zones if you want to survive. Your money is not the same as the Aussie Dollar, or the Japanese Yen, or the British Pound. Your money is far different. Your money is an exact reflection of your local economy, right down to the door knocker on your domicile. If you could get the Treasury Department to put a new phrase on the greenback you better tell them you want it to say "This bill is legal tender for all debts within five miles of (insert your home address here)".

The only place your money is good is at your vicinity. If you want the reasons for this, ask the truck driver that brings the groceries to your local supermarket, ask your landlord, ask the neighbor's landlord, and ask the property tax man. All these dudes will tell you that the value of your money is a function of your proximity to these other dudes. They will all say that your money is measured in a widending arc from your front door knocker. For instance, ask the guy who lives in a penthouse on Park Ave in New York what his landlord thinks his rent should be and why? Then ask the Iowa farmer in the middle of a DesMoines sunflower field. The reason the address assigns the value to the legal tender is because you gotta pay to play, and some games cost more than others. It leaves poor Pete without a leg to stand on when he gets his paycheck, because somebody who's legal tender has more worth than his legal tender doesn't care that his buck is worth less... (worthless at this point).

How then, can Pete get more for his bucks? He's either gotta move from a higher area to a lower, and then move again, and then move again. Or he's gotta get his country, and the rest of the world to realize that this is how economies work, and do something to schedule and regulate the value and strength of his legal tender from one locale to other locales. It's creating an ratio in the currency, so a buck is really a buck, is really a similar piece of legal tender anywhere in that country.

Pete likes this because he likes where he lives. It also means he can curtail the practice of slave labor, which is what buying labor in a cheaper area is tantamount to, when a New York size dollar bill pays a person to make a pair of tennis shoes in Indonesia, or a telephone company hires people in India to spend an hour on the phone in America.

What money? Pete's money. Earned here, spent there? No sir. No thank you, sir. Pete says "Legal tender by trade schedule" should be printed on his money. Let's make it happen, Cap'n.

Enough of this Foolishnecessity

Who cares about economies. Here's some more about the way gravity and water interact, which we will take to imply things about matter in general. Back to the example of what it is like when a jet plane is about to touch down onto the tarmac. This is where the human has the best chance of really visually seeing the effect of the gravity-time-matter interaction. This is where the human can see with his or her own eyes, that he or she is part and parcel of a quanta, part and parcel of the jet plane in this example, but then just as the wheels are about to touch down the view out the window changes and time speeds up for the viewer and things go by faster and faster, and then click, you're now part and parcel of Earth by that contact. And that participation, which we know as relativity, is what flows through everything around us in relation to one another, to form our sphere of influence. If you think of a kid blowing bubbles, the surface tension caused by blowing through the bubble wand closes as the bubble forms, then floats away. That surface tension is like all surface tensions, a product of atoms working together to conserve energy by creating a quanta out of themselves, (liquids have an easy time of this because they flow but they're also sticky). A millileter size bubble of mercury pools up with so much surface tension that it's like a small sphere sitting on a table. Take your hand and smack it flat on the surface of a pool or lake or bath tub and you'll spank the surface tension out of the immediate area, and you'll channel that energy out in a wave equivalent to the bouyancy you removed from the equation. As the surface tension of that disturbed area assesses its new situation and bounces back, it will recreate the shared equilibrium it found earlier. But this system of removing the tension and bouncing back is interesting from the gravitational standpoint, because it points out an interaction between human hand and quanta. This is where the advantage over gravity will come from. Fluxuating the surface tension of a quantity of liquid should prove useful tool in causing an unknown state within some of the material, allowing a small win to be made in the fight to conquer gravity. Compounding this scenario could provide enough areas of unknown stability to milk a small amount of lift out of the universe. That amount should equal the number of atoms that don't know where they are, or who they relate to. A moment of lost relativity is weightlessness. Much the same as an electron is an "unknown" place around an atom, this would be akin to "shocking" the atoms into becoming missing, as far as gravity is aware, from the surface tension shared energy pool.