Episode VII of Star Wars - secret leak preview

Luke Skywalker takes over in Episode VII of Star Wars Saga, Sneak Leaks of Disney's Greatest Movie Ever

It took me many years, almost a lifetime to understand that Darth Vader was the good guy, and really Luke was evil. No, not the reformed mask off dying vader, the powerful suited up black menace Vader.

You see, the federation, aka the Trade Federation, initially allied with the emperor in a fake attack on Naboo. Much like the USA blew up the 911 towers to start a war in Iraq. The Trade Federation did this because? Well to avoid taxes, to loot all the plasma (aka oil in our world) from Naboo, and to ally with Palpatine who would become supreme chancellor.

The Republic, had become like the US Congress, laying taxes upon taxes and regulation upon regulation until the citizens said no more.

Palpatine takes over as Emperorer and divides things up into districts (in our world, Fema regions). Taxes are slashed. Things become efficient. Trade opens up again and Anakin slays the trading big wigs who also were part of the problem with their endless bickering. Now the whole empire was one free trade zone. And with all that they are able to do amazing things.

First off, they are able to assemble star destroyers that are bigger and more incredible than any previous ones. And finally they have such an efficient society that they are able to build massive star destroyers the size of moons.

The rebels are the holdouts from the old ways. They liked the congress and democracy rather than dictatorship of the Emperor. But what if they are the Nancy Pelosi's of the Republic, evil nannies bickering and control monsters wanting nothing more than to take away freedom from the people.

Perhaps America will descend into Empire once there is a strong enough leader to throw out the congress. No not Obama, he is the King of the liberal nellies, it has to come from an opposing force that is sick of their beaurocracy and kleptocratic elitism.

So one has to ask, did Luke fight on the right side? With all these questions, here is my script for Episode VII

------- Star Wars Episode VII : The End of the Sith

The new death star explodes. The rebel forces seize the now confused Galactic Fleet. Luke finally assumes his title as Galactic Commander.

Twenty years has passed. Libertarianism has returned to the Galaxy, not democracy, not the Nancy Peolosi Reid horror, but freedoms for the people. The republic is restored with a constitution. Opening scene is Luke now aged, descending into the vaults on the capital city. He descends deep past many guards. He places he hand on the door and it scans then opens. Inside... his fathers cape and mask.

attendent: are you sure you wish to do this lord skywalker?

luke: yes. today we finish it.

Luke dons his fathers cape, gloves, and carries the helmet in his arm at his side. He is wearing a modified armored breastplate which does not have the life support systems of the original, which also stays in the vault.

Guard: No, that is forbidden, no one can remov.... (gasps as his air is choked off and collapses into the ground)

Luke: This is my inheritance from my father. No one dare deny me again.


Luke walks the length of the star destroyer. Hundreds of white clone troops and fifty red guard stand in respect. None dare move. As he passes all troops bow.

Luke: Is the connection with the Senate ready.

minion: of course  master Skywalker

Luke: Begin

A multi part screen appears and many members of the senate appear.

Luke: I lord Skywalker stand before you to assume the position of Supreme Commander of the Fleet. Do you grant it.

Senator Koplin: It is granted Lord Skywalker. We wish you success in your first battle and your quest. To the senate, please raise your arm in Salute if you agree with the motion - We hereby appoint Luke Skywalker Supreme Commander of all our forces and defenses.

senators: HERE HERE! (arms go up)

slowly Luke puts on Vaders Helmet.

Luke: It is time to destroy those who murdered my mother and stole my father. Begin. Open the ViewPort!

Huge panels pull back revealing a view of the planet Korriban

Attendant on Bridge: Sir, theres a message coming in from the surface

Luke: I'm ready.

HoloMessage: I am Dark Lord Vengence, leader of the Sith. Leave our space or suffer your fate.

Luke: For crimes against my people and my family, the corruption of my father, and the death of my mother, I sentence all of you to ... nothingness. Release the Star Forge.

A huge groaning is heard. Three massive fins rise up from the star destroyer. A huge beam pulses forth. Gravitonic forces slurp up the whole planet and a steady stream of star destroyers is created next to Skywalkers ship. Forty are produced.

Luke: Send the forces to man the new ships. Be sure to have the priests cast out the dark spirits first.

attendent: It will be done lord Skywalker.

Luke: Plot a course for the remaining sith planets. We will absorb them all without warning or discourse. What is the projected time to complete our task?

attendent: 147 worlds, the course is plotted. It will take us two months.

Luke: We will have too many ships. Reprogram a new star destroyer ten times bigger, and equip each of them with a star forge. Convert each planet to 3 major destroyers and 20 regular emperor class destroyers. That will restore our fleet against any force.

Luke removes the helmet and places it in a special secure bay on the deck of the ship.

Luke to himself: My father I have avenged you.

Luke in his quarters. Tired. An alarm goes off

Luke: YES?

Phone: Sir, it's the sixth planet off the Esstran sector, the Daluba system. We were in position to fire the star forge and... and...

Luke: And?

Phone: Well it sorta shimmered, and winked out. Gone.

Luke: It's supposed to be gone

Phone: No, thats the thing sir, we never fired. And, well, there was this face that appeared. A woman wrapped in long cloths. Maitreya.

Luke: Maitreya is a myth. Play it back I want to see. (watches. planet winks out. no face is seen)

Phone: But it was there, it was huge, this huge face all covered but the eyes, the eyes... they had such kindness

Luke runs back to the bridge.

Luke: NOOOOOOoooooo (looks like the mad anakin with wild eyes)

The whole bridge staff is now sitting and meditating. All smiling and happy.

Luke: You will stop this. Your minds have been twisted. YOU WILL STOP!

Luke uses the force and crushes the windpipe of a bridge crew member. he keeps smiling happily even as he dies.

luke: UNACCEPTABLE! Guards remove all of them to the brig. Get new crew up here! And find me MAITREYA!

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luke on capital city in the senate

Vice Chancellor: It is done! The sith is no more! The sith is no more!

crowd cheers

Luke bows and smiles, happily

Luke: The time of war is OVER the time of prosperity is upon us. We have stationed our star forges near black dwarf stars and they are now producing all the equipment to make every planet energy and food self sufficient, building great buildings, all free to everyone. The sith and their treachery are.... (pause)... no wait.... they are ....

Luke closes eyes. He raises his darth vader gloved hand up... then slowly clenches his fingers. Four members of the senate begin to curl up and gasp for breath.

Luke: That was my fathers way. But this is how I deal with the sith

Luke brings his hand into a fist and smashes it into the podium. the four senators shatter into a thousand shards and are gone.

Luke: I care not for war and I care not to lead you. I go to seek my family and to rebuild now. Until the Jedi forces can be rebuilt, I urge all of you to be safe.

Luke walks out slowly, huge applause "our hero!" "hail skywalker!"

A padma looking female: I hear he destroyed two hundred worlds
Mom: No dear, he is a hero, the sith are gone and wont dare come back
aplf: yes but at what cost. at what price. And what a burden he must carry. he was so innocent before now... now.. I don't know what he is.

------ a dusty planet

four bandit soldiers are circling a high ridge in rough terrain. they have their blasters in hand

bandit leader: Circle thirty six, we have them surrounded. Are you in position

radio: Yes circle seven, just past hobbs run.
bandit leader to team: we will get them now. ATTACK!

the teams run around the rock cropping. Thirty soldiers from the south and twenty from the other side. It is a blind canyon with a open area only forty feet across. In the center, wrapped in long white cloths ... are four children.

Bandit leader: FIRE!!!! Kill the Maitreyan Jadsi !

the troops fire. The children close their eyes and begin to hum. The bullets pass through them. One soldier picks up a huge club like piece of wood and is about to swing. But before he moves a child has moved hyper fast and is now steadying his arm. Others are weaving cloth pieces around the soldiers wrapping them up. A few seconds later they are gone.

Top Leader: Sorry they do something new every time. It's like they are learning more and more ways to counter us. They never were able to absorb blasters before.

Bandit leader: It's Maitreya. she is teaching all the children. Soon there will be too many of them. The only way is to go in in huge numbers. They wont be able to stop an army. Radio ahead. We can have five brigades here in two days.

---- a well lit cave full of children in long strip cloths

Jesom: There were so many this time
Katly (a chic): we always best them. soon they will learn.

a white light appears from one side... maitreya is entering...

Maitreya: No children.... (she humbly shuffles in, bent over a little, she is older but not very old) how many times do I have to tell you we do not learn the force so we can fight. We learn the force so we can be true. Now join me in meditation

they join hands and sit and circle a small statue. You cant make it out from behind. But as the camera pans around... it is an unmistakable face, it is Yoda. As the children hum a low rumble, the face flashes green just for a second. and a smiling yoda is seen, not the serious yoda statue.

--- Lukes Destroyer

Emisary: It's a request for battle battalions, they think they have found this Maitreya.

Luke: I don't care about her, I need to find my lost sister. She was taken away by the sith but I didn't sense her on any of the sith planets. They say they had planned on torturing her but she projected such beauty that they could not and instead she taught them jedi secrets in exchange for them teaching her the powers of healing the dead. For six months I went to every planet and searched her out, but she wasn't on any of them I'm sure of it. Now her trail has run cold and there is this new monster creature to deal with it. Send someone else I'm tired of war games.

Luke closes his eyes. ... "Leeiiaaa...."    "Luke? LUKE!" a reply her voice is heard far away "Leia where are you..." "Luke... LUKE!"  "I lost you in the war but I won't lose you again I am powerful now my powers are supreme. I am the supreme jedi. But you are too far. I must get closer to find you"

Luke gets up. Walks down an pathway on the ship and enters a door. It's a dojo. Many teen kids are there with lightsabers practicing. Luke takes a light saber off each side of his belt and with one in each hand dons gentle blows against each kid in amazingly fast succession. The children bow to their master. There is a row of ceramic spheres. Luke looks at one, clenches his fist, and it shatters inwards. The first kid tries, nothing. a second, again nothing. the oldest one tries and his cracks into six pieces. It's progress. Luke closes his eyes and uses the force and all spheres are back together. he walks out of the room without speaking.

Luke on bridge

Luke: Take us to this dust planet. I will kill Maitreya myself. Get five hundred imperial guard ready. Vibroswords, no blasters.

Emisary Jupe: Five Hundred? We will have to rendezvous with many ships to get all of them.  (looks at luke) errr right away sir.

--- On the dusty planet

the huge swath of red as the imperial guard, trained personally by Luke, stands behind him in perfect columns. In front of them is a massive army of ten thousand hell creatures. And in front of that, is a huge creature, a Hutt.

Gorth Hutt: This is my planet under my control you have no right bringing troops here. Leave before we destroy all of you.

Luke: Really Gorth? Are you quite sure you wish to end up like Jabba?

Gorth Hutt: Jabba was weak. I am a match for your jedi trickery. Your mind tricks wont work on me.

Luke: Who said anything about mind tricks.

Luke puts on the darth vader glove. Even Gorth recognizes it and pulls back in fear. Luke extends his hand at Gorth fingers out... then slowly pulls his fingers in. As he does Gorth pulls in from his middle starting to get sucked into a singleton of nothing.

Gorth: ENOUGH STOP! OF COURSE YOU MAY PASS! OF COURSE YOU ARE WELCOME ON MY PLANET. WELCOME WELCOME. TAKE EVERYTHING YOU WISH!!!! But you are a fool to go after Maitreya, you think your jedi powers are enough? She teaches Jedi.

Luke: I am now stronger than my father ever was.There is no jedi or sith who can stand against me.

Gorth:Do not be so sure human. That will be your downfall.

Luke plods forward and the massive dark army parts like the red sea. A rather nasty Krayt dragon 200 feet long lunges forward at Luke. Everyone gasps and backs away. Luke simply climbs on top and rides it, an army following.

Emisary: What are Kryats doing here? there's no record of them here?
Luke: they are attracted to the force. Something powerful is here there can be no doubt. 

Slowly the red army marched up into the mountains passing narrow cliffs.

soldiers: ROCKS!!!
Luke raised his hand and threw the rocks far away. A test attack no doubt.

kids: Nothing stops them!
other kid: try the crystal

a crystal is pulled out and the child concentrates. Waves of energy ring out. It pierces the mind and the red troops recoil in pain

Luke claps his hands together and in the distance the crystall explodes, and the child collapses. The other children drag the child back to Maitreya. Maitreya gathers up the children and they withdraw to the large open field. Soon Lukes army reaches the cave. He gazes briefly at the statue of Yoda not recognizing it. They follow them out onto the open field until finally it is army against army. maitreya standing in front of a hundred small children. Luke with his hundreds of red guard. The red guard stomp their vibro swords onto the ground and their tips begin to vibrate. The children far off, draw light sabres.

Luke: Huh? Light sabres? That's reserved for Jedi and the sith are no more. WHO ARE YOU! WHY did you steal my planet. Why did you deprive me of the death of the final hell bound sith

Maitreya: Because on that planet was one sith only, and he, he is the teacher of the ressurection, he was my teacher. He is a good man and should not die. He saved my life.

Luke: All sith must die (his eyes glowing red). Luke raises his hand and black lightening bolts spring out at Maitreya. Maitreya rejects them but they strike one of the children who falls over dead. The red soldiers scream and charge forward in attack. The children grab their light sabers and run at them. The two forces about to close the distance on the great field.

But then. there. there in the distance, a small green glow. a small man. no. Yoda. Seeing it, the children at once bow. Luke is confused.

Luke: wait... STOP!(he screams to his soldiers).

there can be no mistake now. It is Yoda. Looking out over at the two armies. Luke runs up to it.

"So Much like your father you are now. Did you forget all I have taught you?"

Yoda turns to Maitreya

"And you, so ashamed of yourself you are, that you wont even tell him who you are?"

Maitreya is placing her palms on the dead child. She pulses and a warm glow descends, and slowly the child gets up. She stands up and walks to Yoda and Luke. Slowly she unraps her long white head wraps, the ones the children emulate. And there, badly scarred and disfigured over much of it... is the glowing face of Leia.

Yoda smiles and fades away

Luke pulls Leia into his arms. "My sister, I have searched and searched after the sith took you I I"

Lei looked onto Luke: "I needed to make sure that my teacher from the sith survived to complete my training in the ressurection skill. It is what our father sought out. Now no jedi will ever be tempted by it again, it is among our skills now"

Luke: Your teach is a sith and must die.

Leia: I will take you to him

Luke and Leia went over to a clearing. A small meak man sat, sipping juice.

Sith: Ahh, my student. I knew this day would come. And who has come to destroy me?

Luke: I am luke skywaker, the sith betrayed my father, and as the most powerful of the jedi, so you must die.

Luke strains and lifts a nearby mountain top up and over on top of the sith lord. Suddenly the moountain top the huge mountain shifts away as if a piece of candy

Leia: Who says you are the most powerful jedi!

leias eyes beam bright white. Her scars are burned off her. The children bow and chant Maitreya.

sith lord: she is neither jedi nor sith, nor both. she is something new. The days of jedi and sith and fighting are over. It is my time to leave you. Remember there is good and bad in all teachings (dissapears slowly) 

Leia returns to normal. Luke turns at her.

Luke: Gee sis, and all this time I thought you were just a spoiled princess! But I was the last of the Jedi who could possibly be your jedi teacher?

Leai: Who do you think? (looks over to statue of Yoda. Yoda flashes green and smiles)    



                                                                                 

The Fuji S5 and d7000 colors suck

Well this   month started out with the fuji S5.  It was time to sell my beast pentax 6x7 camera that seems to weigh 30 pounds and Ken Rockwell recommended Adorama for their used equipment. I spoke to their used manager and we had a great talk. It was no risk. we offer 70% of our sale price. No muss no worries. Great! I'll send you two boxes.

At the end lest minute I decided NOT to send my rare manual ais lenses and just kick off the Nikon d7000 and the Pentax and some newer lenses.

Well. the first red herring is that I never got back a clear price list of their offer. The Pentax body goes for about 300 and the lens goes for about 300. Thats 600 bucks just for that. finally I had a phone call with a fellow named Jack. Jack was a fast talker, a wheeler dealer. First he says he evaluated all the stuff I sent and it has a worth of 800 dollars. I had sent them over two thousand dollars worth of stuff so immediately I began to hiccup. The d7000 alone was selling used for 650. So this was quite outrageous low balling. I said no no thats crazy, how much just for the Pentax and it's rare leaf shutter lens (the best lens for that camera and very rare). 210 bucks. In need of some cash, I begrugdgingly accepted it.  It should have been 400 bucks. Not good. when I told him the dollar amount for the rest wasnt even close to reality he asked if they had anything I might trade for.

Therein I commited my error. I stupidly went in for a deal to trade my d7000 a 1`6mp camera that retails for 1200 for a 3 year OLDER fuji S5 which sells used for 500. What the heck!

Well you have to understand after two years of studio portraits I just could NOT get the color right, and yes I did white balancing in studio I even had a special cap for it. I still could not make sense of their colors even in Nikons CapturePlus software.  the fuji had been designed with dual sensors to be like film. with huge dynamic range and no clipping. But more important than all that was it's color rendition.. it made people look like people. Now Nikons d700 was not bad, not as good as the fuji but not vbad, but its selling used for 1500 so I thought that was a goal too high to reach. Well a straight swap of a 1200 camera for a 500 dollar camera doesn't interest adorama they want THREE lenses also. What! THats NUTSO! In the end and only because it was on the phone they got TWO three hundred dollar lenses, a 1200 d7000 new in box, all for a s5 which was promised in good mildly used condition. I hung up. What have I done.

the first horror was I never got all my stuff back. I had towrite and write and write and finally I got two of the lenses. They were still holding a 300 dollar 85mm 1.4 rokinon lens and my d7000's battery grip. I wrote and protested to high heaven saying.. well give me the d700 then if you are gonna hijack my stuff. Eventually I got the 85mm back. But not the grip. I was screwed over. But at least the s5 was pristing and ....

BUT IT WASNT IT WAS JUNK! CRAZY! It looked OK on the outside ONLY because they had repalced the rubber. I knew this cause the color stripe, black on a real s5, was back to nikon RED, aka a nikon replacement kit. And the shutter actuations was 86,000, meaning... all used up. Worse, the viewfinder had beenreplaced with some terrible military one with lines all over it! What the hell!!! at least 60 bucks to replace it. ugh. groan. sigh. life sucks then you die.

Well live and learn. Ken Rockwell please update your web site to no longer recommend selling used equipment to Adorama. I'm stickin with KEH from now on.

SARC Announces Rescue Robots For Nuclear Disasters

1/29/2014

SARC, the Society for Advances and Research in Cybernetics has announced plans to develop robots capable of helping in Nuclear disasters.

"SARC Rescue units go where people cannot. For rescue in Space, Nuclear, Deep Sea, or Thermal disasters." - says SARC founder Gianna Giavelli.

The goal is to design units which are semi-autonomous. They use their own intelligence until they reach the critical situation when human operators take over and direct complex repairs or movements.

SARC Repair Cybertrons (SRCs) are not robots. Instead, as Cybertrons, they are cybernetic beings designed from the ground up to mirror humans skeleton, skin, sensory, visual, muscular, auditory, and brain systems. Other Robot systems look like clumsy machines. The SRC has the flexibility and nimbleness to do splits and gymnastics, flips and hand stands. This level of adaptability  is critical so that SRCs can traverse clumsy terrain and get around barriers in disasters. And move quickly and efficiently. If a human can do it, a SRC can also.

"Learning and real neural systems is a big part of the difference between a Cybertron and the clumsy robots we see from DARPA today." said Giavelli. "Modern robotics has gone down a path that is ugly, clunky, and inefficient. Cybernetics offers potential not just in creation of Cybertrons, but also in many areas that help humans such as cybernetic limb replacement, speech for the impaired, the list is endless."

Other Modern Robots: PetMan from Boston Dynamics (now Google), ASIMO, and a SARC prototype


Petman doesn't look very Human but does use balance. Petman uses servos and motors, big metal hinges for joints.

ASIMO, a wobbly pancake footed prototype robot has hands that can grasp

Robots like ASIMO move slowly and clumsily. Petman can run but looks more like the terminator than a human. The goal with SRCs is to move it to a whole new level of speed and gracefullness by using cybernetic principles both in physical design but also in brain design and sensor array processing. Cybernetic cognition is very different from what ASIMO is doing which is running one simple program. Cybernetic cognition is based on simulating hundreds of millions of neurons which have been trained to handle the tasks they encounter. This is done on chips which have 2,000 - 10,000 individual processing units. The technologies initially created to drive computer gaming now are applied to human braining.

A typical SRC installation consists of a body pod with four units, and a control pod with two control units used by human controllers when necessary. For example, in a nuclear reactor rescue, the SRC unit, loaded with operational blueprints and trained with the plants layout, intelligence to overcome obstacles and barriers, can enter into dangerous chambers. Once in position, a human takes over and  turns off valves, makes complex repairs, or simply uses the SRC for intelligence on the situation. With built in meters for heat, radiation, air quality, and standard tool kits, the SRC can take on complex tasks such as welding a plate over a broken nuclear containment pressure vessel, or working the boom to unload spent fuel rods. In space the SRC is the astronauts perfect companion able to go outside the space shuttle and re-attach that missing critical tile. For space station and sattelite repairs the SRC is key, and guided by a humans touch with sense feedback, delicate instruments and tiny wires can be repaired similar to remote surgery robotics.

Inside the CyberPod:
The cyberpod is the control station that lets humans take over once the SRC reaches its destination. Using commercial off the shelf COTS components like Occulus Rift 3-D headgear with motion capture, and robotic hand sleeves and gloves that the person inserts their arms into like remote surgery controls but more fluid, the operator is able to perform both delicate operations like surgery and skilled but more physical operations like lifting or welding. There is no walking control, simply talk to your SRC and point out where you would like to be. "SARK5 can you move closer to that gas pipe by the window?"  SARK5: "Will do!"  "Get a bit closer to the panel please" "Ok is this close enough"  The cyberpod concept is perfect human and Cybertron cooperation, a model we think is how it should be. While fully autonomous SRCs will no doubt get developed eventually, there is so much to do before we get there we believe strongly in the partially autonomous model. It's also much better than a full control model where really much of the magic is lost as humans are really just playing with a toy at that point.

Give Me Muscle!!!
Ahh Strength! Lifting, Running, Kicking. And breathing (yes Cybertrons breathe). Every other robotics company uses servo motors or hydraulic pressure lines. All very non-human ways of delivering motion. The SRCs muscles come from individual muscle fibers, carefully placed on top of bones and bundled together forming layers, sheaths, and bulges just like in humans. The control system may be thousands of times more complex, but it's also thousands of times more subtle and accurate as well. Our first synthetic muscle uses simple electromagnetic principles of perpendicular helicoids which attract when a small charge is applied. The muscle contracts. Put 100 of them together and you've got a bicep you can arm wrestle (and lose). Skinny slighter versions control face muscles. Why bother with this level of detail? I guess it's all part of the concept of a cybertron, something that is more completely in our world with ways of interacting and expressing and sensing that are closer to human.

Give Me A Voice To Sing!!!
Bi-labial fricatives. Glottal Stops. SRCs have them all. With a real air driven speech box and vocal cords. Consonents formed from the tongue and lips moving together. They also have an electronic internal voice for communicating over mobile or back to the CyberPod.  Laughter, tics, soft singing when bored, a real voice is one step closer to human. Is it overkill? Ask yourself who you want to talk to THOG the death machine or SARC5 who laughs at your jokes?                                                        

Cybernetic Language and Object Recognition:
Modeled on millions of neurons, SRCs have a surprisingly human linguistic response. Language is a big part of the SRC especially object identification and linguistic commands for operational motion.
SRC - "I hear something from the left side of the room, look the steam pipe is leaking"
SRC - "There's a person here, I can hear them breathing. Their heart is still beating. There is a lot of blood"  Human - "lift them over your shoulder and carry them out of there" SRC - "No problem, I'm designed to handle 300 pounds of lift!"

Summary
SRC is science fiction today and will take a lot of effort to bring it together. But all these technologies are viable and close, the problem is that the direction people have taken with robotics building big lumbering machines is way off track. In Japan, the few robots which are built gracefully are more like chuck-e-cheese animatrons with little real motion or function and no brains. What is needed is some new thinking and someone with the vision and skills to make it happen.

Technical Specification

Weight: 160 lbs self contained
Motion: Bi-Pedal Swing and Gymnastics
Motor Function: Synthetic Muscles wrapped in braided carbon nanotubes
Lift Ability: Able to lift 100 pounds
Torque: Able to generate 200 pounds of turning torque
Speed: Able to run on flat surface at 30 MPH for one hour
Distance: Able to traverse 20 miles
Charge: Able to operate for sixteen hours under low exertion  and three hours under load and stress

Design Targets:
    Able to perform a gymnastic tumble
    Able to do 20 pullups
    Able to throw a knife and hit a bullseye
    Able to vault over a 4' high barrier without loss in speed
    Able to climb a vertical ladder at human speed
    Able to jump over a 6' wide hole
    Able to work in 250 degree environments for 30 minutes
    Able to work in -40 C degree environments for 30 minutes
    Able to perform simple tasks autonomously for six hours
    Able to visually recognize faces and greet
    Able to shake hands
    Able to jump onto a board room desk and do a cartwheel
    Able to pinpoint where a sound is coming from (eg a steam leak hiss)
    Able to warn of approaching areas of high temperature or radiation                 

Tantalum-Hafnium-Carbide inner skeleton
       melting point 4,500 degrees celsius
Titanium Alloy Protectors -  form critical elements like skull, abdomin
Synthetic Tendons created from high temperature silicon with embedded carbon fiber
Synthetic Muscle Fibers - Individually attached and woven into bundles. No servo motors
Micro-Skin with embedded point by point touch, pressure, and heat sensors
Naturally aspirated voice using diaphram, air chamber, vocal resonator, and mouth position
Human like muscular definition bundles and fat definition pads provide proper shapes
Facial FlexiMuscular Substrate - Allows full human facial movement and expression but also critical for labial movements and vocal ability
Separate Abdominal and Cranial battery supplies LIPO-Air
Brain
     Vision support system - 5,000 processors Synapse Chip
     Cognitive support system - 10,000 processors dual Synapse Chips. Cranial Battery = LiFePO

     Emotive and Psychological Process, facial expression mgmt
     Neo-Cortex, basic motor control system - 6 dedicated dsp processors 
     touch monitoring system
     auditory monitoring system and pre-phonic analysis
     fast motor learned stability and gymnastic system
     fast twitch emergency response system 

Weight of Components:
    Batteries    65 lbs
    Skeleton    25 lbs
    Muscle       30 lbs
    Tendon        5 lbs
    Skin            20 lbs
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                       145 lbs

Weight of electronics and optics:
   optical system:   5 lbs
   brain system   :   5 lbs
   Maxillofacial
     complex:           3 lbs
   neocortex:           3 lbs
   skin pre proces:  1 lbs
   auditory                1 lbs
   vocation and diaphram
                                  5 lbs
   gyroscopic             3 lbs
   muscle sub contrl  5 lbs
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                           31 lbs
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               total: 176 lbs

Offering / Product:

4 Unit Rescue Team: $100,000,000
    4 SARC Units, May choose any 4 (Regular, RadHard, Bodyguard, Micro, High Temp, HeavyLift)
        Limited to two specialty units. For more add 20M per unit.
    2 Control Pods
        Upgrade to 4 control pods for $20M highly recommended for nuclear installations
    Note: Specialty High Temp and Heavy SARC only available in this package
    If purchasing the High Temp SARC her heat suit is included.
  

Add Ons: 
    Micro Surgery Kit   $500,000
    Cutting Tools For Rescue and Construction $500,000
    Heat Cutting Tool for Rescue: 50,000
    Advanced Lift (shoulder add on increases lift to 450 lbs): $1,500,000
    Radiation Suit: $100,000
    BulletProof-ness: $500,000 (requires enhanced power and musculature)
    Enhanced Vision for Long distance object analysis and IR vision
    Foreign Languages / 2nd Language Installation (English + Japanese)

Sales Analysis
Nuclear Facilities around the world: 500

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Lady Swineburn's Roundet d'etet

that old bum had he napoleans head he surely woulda sung
effegies for fleacers and pre raphaelites
a long stream of sneezes
among the uptights
anactoria's embrace
although lewd made haste
as sappho caught her taste
and history was undone

a screaching parlance a mischevious dance
Poe's passing said he launched in greatness
the last of the enchanced
what meat begins with the letter G?
Ask not old man swineburn
his lady, or the tree

Google Goofs With Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil wrote a book on "How to Create a Mind" and somehow Sergey Brin of Google was so dumb in these areas as to think that Kurzweil had said something significant. He hadn't. All Kurzweil did was rehash 1980s research and ideas by others and add a bit of modern brain imaging. Kurzweil is no more the messenger of how the brain works than Gould was for evolution. Both were huxsters and nothing more.

 Anyone who knows the history of A.I. will recognize that the basic theory (and even the diagrams that are used to illustrate it) is very much in the spirit of a textbook model of vision that was introduced in 1980, known as neocognitron.

Now that isn't to say that Kurzweil didn't start a music revolution with his synthesizer, and his blind reading machine, but that was 1960s technology and theres a big what have you done for me lately.

Sergey specifically hired Kurz to work on natural language processing, an area Ray knows little to nothing about.

I'm reminded of Hinton giving a ted talk about neural network recognition of individual letters. And as I watched I thought HEY this looks familiar. Nothing had changed since the 1980s. These old FRUMPS are not the leaders. Who are? Well people like me who are actually there in the details pushing on the real leading edge and testing mecanisms of neural design. Edelman's younger protege Olaf Sporns -Networks of the Brain

by Olaf Sporns, Edelman's Neural Darwinism and his earlier work - The Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization and the Group-Selective Theory...

by Gerald M. Edelman are still key lighthouses in our understanding.

Even more disappointing is the fact that Kurzweil never bothers to do what any scientist, especially one trained in computer science, would immediately want to do, which is to build a computer model that instantiated his theory, and then compare the predictions of the model with real human behavior. Does the P.R.T.M. predict anything about human behavior that no other theory has predicted before? Does it give novel insight into any long-standing puzzles in human nature? Kurzweil never tries to find out.

From Windows 7 To Linux Mint - The Lenovo Dragon Breathes Peacefully

I've been struggling to do development on my big lenovo dual pentium 3.4 gHz machine using windows 7. When pushed, this box goes into full dragon mode and huge fans scream to life as the CPUs peg 100% usage. The problem is, in Windows 7, it seems like doing almost ANYTHING pegs the CPU at 100% all part of the NSA spying software they've installed no doubt.

When the system would come back from sleep it would animate through all the background images I had missed locking my system for ten minutes.

Countless times the whole thing would just freeze up. Gool ol Indian H-1B engineering no doubt. So, while Windows 7 runs great on a i7 8 core CPU it runs like crap on  a brute of a box that it should be screamingly fast on. What gives? Obviously all the developers hadn't bothered to test it with older boxes.

Well it got so bad I couldn't run a database, a browser, and eclipse at the same time. So I gave up and installed MINT. Unlike PeppermintOS which is ugly MINT is a full 1 Giga distribution so you can't just slap it on a CD. So I put in a DVD and tried to burn it BUT turns out my refurb has only DVD reading capabilities. That sucks. OK so I slapped it on my smart key and used Auto-Load partition to get it recognized as a proper drive. It ran. But unlike when you boot with it and are allowed to test it all out it just asked "do you want to install it into your windows.." and feeling terrified I was about to blow away my boot I paused.

Then I got angry. Hell yeah blow away windows. I don't care I cant take it any more!

So I clicked. And in a few minutes MINT came up. And my windows 7 boot was nicely preserved.

And then it dawned on me. The beautiful silence. Both CPUs were running at 15%. Which was as it should be. In fact I cannot ever get the CPU to run at 100% dragon breath mode on Linux.

American engineers. God bless em.

JSON Exposed Repositories & EclipseLink vs. Linq

There is a devilishly difficult pattern question in java architecture which is emerging as new deviceology throws us to the wolves of mobile devices and cloud beastments which is the ubiquitous need for json-able ORMs and AJAX feeders for data.  After three years pondering a hand hacked and painful repository pattern using hand squaged DAOs floating over Linq For Buggy Entities 3.5 and Linq for almost fixed Entities 4.0 that can now finally expose a property used in a link rather than force you to use a table trigger - I finally came to explore the tough patterns back in the java world which had gotten somewhat better but not completely.

So the first devil sausage says use the beatiful new JPA plugin which does visualization in Eclipse Juno to blast out your db tables and your entity beans then just slam some JSF and some pretty facets and UI wonders into the front end and blammo beaty and beauty for not much cost and time. To put darning on the socks EclipseLink will now also blast out all the JSON you need over rest for your AJAX calls.

But what if you chose the pure route - ditch the JSF and go straight HTML with Javascript and a boofy subslather like Knockout or Angular. Is this heresy to the java world? Moreover will you lose all the pretties that you get with something like PrimeFAces and other nice beasts?

It's a tough one. More and more JSF client workups seem dated and old. But on the other side if you've GOT the power of JSF why not use it. tough tough.

Things are changing as cloud and mobile demand robust ajax servers and tooling to spin json at a mile a minute. the question is can the developers keep up. You would think that after 100 years of this someone would set up a model centric framework that just blasts out all the rest for you. No not Roo. And not stuff that starts with clunky UML either.

In a way I kinda like the new graphical entity modeler in Eclipse. It's def the way to go. Now if they can just include the JAXB annotation properties and intelligent defaulting so you get BOTH XML, JSON and entities all keyed out right. Still it's miles ahead of Linq and .Net.