hypersoniq's Blog

I saw a great show tuesday night!

Sugarcult, New Found Glory and Green Day on the American Idiot tour. Both openers were good, but Green Day is really polished, that was one awesome show!

A good punk show is always an inspiration to continue on with the home recording project. I finally have my low budget studio dialled in. Regardless of who wins the election, I think it's time for my own CD... look out corporate scum!  

 

                                             

Regardless of which way you are leaning, I hope you ALL go out to vote on election day.

Both sides are slinging crap like it is going out of style, too late for facts I guess...

The thing I look for is my life  years ago vs. today....

I have lost 2 jobs due to outsourcing in the last 4 years.

I make LESS than I did four years ago

My benefits are worse AND MORE EXPENSIVE than 4 years ago.

I drive farther to get to work than  years ago.

I know more people that have been screwed by nafta than have not been screwed by nafta.

My town and surrounding communities are under a flurry of bankruptcies, forclosures and sherrif's sales... it is sickening.

4 local factories closed, 2 lowered wages and only use temp hiring to avoid benefits.

Local unemployment is at an ALL TIME record...

all in the last 4 years.

I am not jumping on the bandwagon by regurgitating propaganda in lieu of a genuine opinion... I have been personally affected by Bush's reign of error... I am NOT voting for him. in a 20 mile area, only a few business owners have bush propaganda on their property... Bush lost this county for sure... I hope others follow.

I would rather higher wages rather than lower taxes.

I would rather insurance renorm over medical liability renorm, if after 8 years of extra school a doctor leaves in a set of forcepts, they deserve to be sued... Imagine if your wife went in for some surgery and was mixed up and recieved a hysterectomy... this HAS happened... now imagine they were a young couple who now can never have children. capping malpractice (think of the meaning mal=bad) is giving licence to practitioners to do their jobs without accountability...

I would rather punish corporations for exporting jobs. If being competetive in a global marketplace means screwing the workers at home, then let those corporations GET OUT! c-ya...

four more years of the corporate puppet bush and we may as well call this place America inc. "normer land of opportunity, come exploit our beaten down workforce"

 

 

One of the balances I have been looking at is how far back in draw history to go to get the best results for short term trends... how many draws back are significant and why?

My current PB one line system uses a weighting system based on past pernormance (number of positional matches = weight) and I currently use 3 draws back (15 draws back for MODE)... this seems to keep the numbers changing each draw, but I have more statistical hits with the rarely changing long term full draw history, therefore those weights are higher.

I use 3 draws back because it does make changes to the numbers, but is there another number that would be better? 5 back? 10 back? any thoughts on this?

The Real State of the Union Under Bush

Job application from George W Bush

GEORGE W. BUSH

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington, DC 20520

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Law Enforcement:

I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under
the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's
license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.

Military:

I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to
take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the
Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.

College:

I graduated from Yale University with a low C average. I was a cheerleader.

Past Work Experience:

I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my career in the oil
business in Midland, Texas, in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't
find any oil in Texas. The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my
stock. I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that
took land using taxpayer money. With the help of my father and our friends
in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected governor of Texas.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:

- I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies,
making Texas the most polluted state in the Union. During my tenure, Houston
replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.

- I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of
billions in borrowed money.

- With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my
father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing
by over 500,000 votes.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

- I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.

- I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.

- I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.

- I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.

- I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.

- I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.

- I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of
the U.S. stock market. In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans
lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.

- I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any
administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice,
has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.

- I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President.

- I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.

- My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.

- My political party used Enron private jets and corporate
attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.

- I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against
investigation or prosecution. More time and money was spent investigating
the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the
biggest corporate rip-offs in history. I presided over the biggest energy
crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.

- I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.

- I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

- I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any President in U.S. history.

- I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the United States government.

- I've broken more international treaties than any President in U.S. history.

- I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United
Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.

- I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.

- I refused to allow inspector's access to U.S. "prisoners of war"
detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.

- I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations
election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).

- I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any
President since the advent of television.

- I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any
one-year period. After taking off the entire month of August, I presided
over the worst security failure in U.S. history.

- I garnered the most sympathy ever for the U.S. after the World
Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated
country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.

- I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to
simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering
the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.

- I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked,
pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I did
so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens,
and the world community.

- I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a
cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families in wartime.

- In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for
attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends.

- I am the first President in history to have a majority of
Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.

- I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a WMD.

- I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice.

RECORDS AND REFERENCES:

-All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my
father's library, sealed and unavailable for public view.

- All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my
bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

- All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my
Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in
secrecy and unavailable for public review.

PLEASE CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING IN 2004

kerry and bush eventually end up on the same side of NAFTA.

Nader ends up on the side of the workers... hmm....

I punched out yesterday and had racked up 5 hours last week running a difficult job in swiss turning. It is a job that the company had before for an optoelectronics firm that took that job to Mexico... they couldn't touch our quality! we are in the middle of an order of 2,500 units that I have hit the halfway point  3  days ahead of schedule...

it is a problematic job on an older quirky machine, one that others had run before and were pulled off of. I ran 1,000 last time and only 750 passed QC, becausethey are so hard to make right... that 750 not only got me back on that job, but were instrumental in winning back the contract from Mexico.

HA.

Everyone can talk the talk but it sure feels good to walk the walk... I will have another 56 hours next week guaranteed thanks to that contract. I hate that particular job, but sometimes you need to suck it up and take one for the home team. 2 weeks ago I was in a different department and ran 4 machines all by myself... this is an understaffed department. I put out parts equal to 4 weeks in 1 week, we mayjust nail an iffy contract with another optoelectronics company because of the beaten deadline (which was Nov. 1st, but now it's 100% done and shipped).

I feel 100% justified in bashing outsourcing, and I am doing everything in my power to stop it (one contract at a time)... I will also do my part on election day...

savor the small victories!

Republicans and Democrats... nothing else viable... the voters need more choices.

There exists a need for a working class party, one that looks out for the average American family that represents most constituents in the country.

There exists a need for a common sense party that understands the bad math behind NAFTA and the WTO. One that worries about domestic issues over foreign affairs.

There exists a need for a moderate party to balance out the extreme conservatism of the republicans and the extreme liberalism of the democrats.

There exists a need for a party of public servants that actually represent the people that they are supposed to be serving...

until that day that will probably never come, you need to actively participate in how the government is running (and ruining) your life... write frequently to your representatives and remind them that they are there to represent US, not their own agendas. I can't imagine one U.S. worker that would have voted for NAFTA... or the Patriot(?) act as written.

America is slowly becoming a corporate state, one where our freedoms are being eroded by our own government... one where it is looked down upon to question the decisions of the current administration. This is not the America I want for my children...

here's a simple example...

IRAQ... Has No WMD's, Has oil... bush invades...

North Korea... HAS WMD's, made it known they would use them against the U.S. (low tech ICBMs that can hit coastal California population centers), Has no oil... bush does nothing...

Glad I am not living in California...

splitstream numbers (3 low and 2 high) killed my middle 3 picks, caught the 1 and 48 tho, but missed the powerball :-( I went with   1-19-22-31-48 +24, results were 1-3-10-47-48 +27... pick delta not so promising... Hit/-16/-12/+16/Hit PB +3

after 34 draws, an error correction mask is finally emerging... gonna try that for wednesday 10/13/04

without correction, the most accurate position of my system has been the powerball, hit right on 5 times. Because of the power play, my system of one pick has been funding itself for 17 of the last 34 draws... not a jackpot hit, but certainly better than any other system I have toyed with (and a whole lot cheaper).

whenever testing a new component, I always play the old component and a control QP, so for the 214,700,000 I had 1 pick, for the 10,000,000 JP I will have 3...

THe downside of seeing the dream JP getting reset is re-doing the financial calculations on my PB sheet... seeing the mega budgets reset, the "toy" budget eliminated and the savings go from 24,000,000 to 500k... But even at the base jackpot, I could stop working for someone else and open that skatepark, so onward....

This is the new Corvette C6... (stop drooling, oh, wait, that's me....)

Voting is important, just getting out and showing that we still care is a valuable message to send, regardless of who you vote for (just vote)... but regardless of which upper class figurehead wins, the only group that can save the middle class from government aided corporate extinction is, well, the middle class! How? by fighting back, not violently, but rather where they will feel it hardest, their bottom lines... The middle class weapon of choice is your wallet... here are some offensive maneuvers you can participate in to aid the only cause that has your best interests at heart... I will try to include examples where possible...

1. Buy American!  Do your homework... if you are reading this you have a computer with internet access, that is the best research tool known to modern civilization... Example: I finally can afford to replace my mid 80-s electric guitar this year with an upscale professional model... I have always played Ibanez (a good company that makes great guitars, but profits go to Hoshino, inc. a Mexican company ,and the guitars are mostly made in Japanese factories)... I have done feature comparisons and found several great American made alternatives that fit my playing style... surprisingly, they are ALL cheaper than the Jem777 I was going to buy. Another example is the local clothing factory here in town that employs a few hundred American workers, they have an outlet on the premesis, great American made clothing at really great near wholesale prices... gotta walk the walk where possible... even $1 spent on a product made by an American in America will help send the message to the multinational conglomerate corporate swine that we have had enough! If I win the powerball, I will pass up on the exotic imported dreamcars listed earlier in my blog for some serious detroit power (the new corvette is perfection on wheels!)

2. Hold off on big ticket purchases for a few months. Nothing draws national focus back to the bleak domestic financial landscape faster than a sluggish economy, they are trying to make us into a third world labor force (with the same debts, the math just don't work!). to EVERYONE in washington... YOU CANNOT have a global economy without some concessions for local cost of living, each of you have already violated the NAFTA preamble... here's how...

North American Free Trade Agreement

PREAMBLE

The Government of Canada, the Government of the United Mexican States and the Government of the United States of America, resolved to:

STRENGTHEN the special bonds of friendship and cooperation among their nations; (we will send you all the jobs, you send us the money, friends)

CONTRIBUTE to the harmonious development and expansion of world trade and provide a catalyst to broader international cooperation; (unemployment is NOT harmonious, trust me on that one!)

CREATE an expanded and secure market for the goods and services produced in their territories; (with no middle class left to spend on goods and services? are they absolutely braindead?)

REDUCE distortions to trade; (I can't stop laughing... use google to look up our current trade deficit)

ESTABLISH clear and mutually advantageous rules governing their trade; (man, what are the other countries getting in the deal?)

ENSURE a predictable commercial framework for business planning and investment; (destroy the morale of your workforce, lay them off, then force them to work for peanuts... predictable big business, the "trickle on" economic plan)

BUILD on their respective rights and obligations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and other multilateral and bilateral instruments of cooperation;

ENHANCE the competitiveness of their firms in global markets; (we have more staff but a lower payroll than you, na na na na na na)

FOSTER creativity and innovation, and promote trade in goods and services that are the subject of intellectual property rights; (read this as send all programming jobs to india and pakistan where the average I.T. pro works for 6,000 U.S. dollars a year, has free education and rampant cheating on industry certification tests)

CREATE new employment opportunities and improve working conditions and living standards in their respective territories;  (oops, sorry U.S. Government, you dropped the ball on this one... BIG TIME. The concept of replacing a few jobs paying family sustaining wages with a few jobs paying $7 an hour is preposterous, Ask the Mexicans living in tin/cardboard villiages outside of the plants if they feel conditions are getting better)

UNDERTAKE each of the preceding in a manner consistent with environmental protection and conservation; (you're striking out here georgy boy... the clear skies initiatve is a misleading document seeking to relax EPA standards on factory emissions)

PRESERVE their flexibility to safeguard the public welfare; (by eliminating good jobs with benefits and healthcare, LOL)

PROMOTE sustainable development; (you want fries with that? you could be a manager one day!)

STRENGTHEN the development and enforcement of environmental laws and regulations (not with this administration) ; and

PROTECT, enhance and enforce basic workers' rights; (the right to have and keep a good job must not be basic enough)

The action plan is to save your money for awhile and only buy what you need, and when you do, buy American! (if at all possible). Example: We started cutting out non essential items where possible, and I was quite surprised to see that my very modest bank account has basically DOUBLED in the last 12 months... I set aside statements from september '03 vs. '04. THe biggest slap to corporate America is to LOSE YOUR CREDIT CARDS! We have been saving for items rather than charging them... what you save a year on interest alone is eye-opening.  It also makes you really evaluate if you need something... put the brakes on impulse buying for a few months and watch the economy slow down... let them see what a world without the middle class would really be like. They are so blinded by greed and the bottom line they have forgotten the purchasing power of the American workforce... Fight back with your wallet! it can work.

Michael Moore's

Farenheit/911

I haven't really been a fan of Michael Moore except for the film "Roger and Me" which we had to view and discuss at length in a filmmaking class I took back when it was first released... riveting stuff!

Bell curve has some interesting twists this week, more than 1 positional announcer with a 3x event to a specific number... could be nothing, could be something... too soon to tell.

Anyone yet find a use for the PB machine and practice draw data yet? I have not, but I appreciate being led to the "secret page" on the MUSL site... I will tweak on it later for fun, but I have a draw to prepare for!

I have calculated a lump sum value (after all taxes appropriate for my particular situation... married, filing jointly) of $76,245,000.00

If I win, I will still collect it with a trust, but I will claim it as trustee... they will be sorry for not allowing anonymity after my 15 minutes of fame... Especially when I vow not to spend a dime of that money on any products made by NAFTA abusing companies. I have quite the laundry list of charities specifically targeting dislocated workers and their families just in this local area, many have national affiliates... I look forward to someday helping them out in a very public way... so many plusses... not having to trust an attorney to pick up the check, getting the money faster, the instant attention of the nation's media... gotta win that jackpot!

I don't feel like doing math today. I would rather go play music, so that's the plan

This will accompany the elise if I win tonight... (dig the color!)