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In many cases, our views of reality are not based on personal experience.  We find politicians personable or despicable, even though we have never met them in person.  And we feel intimately familiar with landmarks in foreign countries even though we have never visited them.  For many of us, the same is true for scientists working in a lab.  We have mental images of how they act or what they look like, even though few of us have never been in a lab watching a scientist at work. The tricky part: Many of those images may have little to do with reality.

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Retro images of the future, from various sources.

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Now of course I don't believe the citizens of a democratic country should blindly trust their government. I don't even believe that the citizens of a democratic country should blindly trust in their own ability to control their government. But I do believe that such citizens can control -- and restrain, and direct -- that government. That is, by definition, what it means to be the citizens of a democratic country.

Democracy isn't automatic, and it's usually not easy, but it is possible. And if we have a government of the people and by the people, then we have the power to ensure that it is also a government for the people.

In other words, we -- we the people -- are Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam is US.

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Welcome to the McIDAS Website. In existence since 1973, McIDAS (Man computer Interactive Data Access System) is a suite of sophisticated software packages that perform a wide variety of functions with satellite imagery, observational reports, numerical forecasts, and other geophysical data. Those functions include displaying, analyzing, interpreting, acquiring and managing the data.

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