Here in Canada, every time I go to the equivalent of the DMV, usually to get by drivers license renewed, there's less then a couple of people in front of me and I'm seeing someone in minutes, in and out in about 10 minutes. I think the problem is the voters voting in people who believe government is bad and do their best to make it true.
A state has more control of its operations and many of the federal laws are actually just bribes to the state. We will give you an extra billion dollars if you do these actions. A State can choose not to implement the idea and not take the money.
How do you think it works in Canada? Constitutionally, healthcare is mostly a Provincial function with the Feds responsible for a few groups, federal prisoners, veterans, natives on reserve, Inuit, maritime, some refugees as well having quarantine powers. The power the Feds do have is taxation, so, from https://www.canada.ca/en/healt...
The Canada Health Act establishes criteria and conditions for health insurance plans that must be met by provinces and territories in order for them to receive full federal cash transfers in support of health.
Here in Canada, healthcare is a Provincial thing. The Feds mandate certain minimums and do some transfer payments from the rich to poor Provinces (actually more like tax rebates). Then each Province runs their own single payer system. It mostly works though some Provinces do seem to be perennially mismanaged and produce the horror stories you hear.. Something similar could be done in America.
I'm in Canada, right next to the USA. Americans aren't under our jurisdiction but there TV signals etc leak across the border fine. I doubt that they'd extradite over speech so as long as the American leaker doesn't come to Canada, they're not going to be prosecuted and I doubt that they'd be prosecuted even if they came to Canada and the authorities bothered investigating enough to make a case. We've had similar problems as your high profile case, Pickton comes to mind, very high profile serial killer, had a publication ban on the case due to the interests of a fair trial, not tainting the jury. Many Americans were outraged by the censorship and there was no problem finding info about the case on the internet, even close to 20 years back. Most publication bans, automatic in the case of minors, do work because there is no interest but given interest or a "anti-censorship" crusader... The real problem is the culture, especially in America, where to be accused and especially arrested, means you're guilty, unless you're a Supreme Court nominee. How to change that, I don't know, especially since the American BS seems to leak out into the rest of the world. I believe it is illegal here to discriminate based on a simple arrest and the cops etc are supposed to purge most of the info like fingerprints after 6 months or a year. Proving discrimination can be hard.
So do I. Hated it when I lost my friends, my neighborhood where I knew where everything was and how traumatizing it was walking into a different school not knowing anyone and being the object of bullying. I did my best to keep my son in the same school system from kindergarten to grade 12. My wife has similar memories of moving. Perhaps you were the kind of person who found it exciting and easily adapted, we're all different. Anyways, the biggest point was the territories part.
In my limited experience, about half the people don't care about headphones period and so don't care at all about having a headphone jack. Those that do care, mostly use the headphone jack. So, numbers pulled out of my ass, if 50% don't care about headphones and half of those who do care, are happy with Bluetooth or dongles, that means that only 25% care about the headphone jack.
Those outbreaks aren't caused by unclean kitchens or not cleaning the lettuce, at that, short of cooking the lettuce, you can't clean it good enough to make infected lettuce uninfected. That's caused by bad regulations and letting the invisible hand handle food production. Animal farms upstream from the lettuce fields releasing manure into the water that irrigates the lettuce and working conditions that don't include sanitary stuff like toilets with the means to wash hands after using or no time for the employees to make use of the toilets and sinks. Many Americans seem quite happy with this, they have a whole political movement based on it called libertarian-ism as well as a major party that pushes the idea that all government is bad, especially any that hinders profits.
Isn't that an oversimplification? It could be nesting season, those eggs/fledglings didn't move. Some fires move faster then a bird flies. Most importantly, many birds are territorial, there's some common ones around here that won't cross the road or a stream and others that hang around their territory all the time, no seasonal movements and very aggressive to their neigbours. The big thing with some of these species, is when they do move, the new territories are already occupied, causing lots of conflicts which the established bird usually wins as it isn't exhausted from escaping a forest fire and knows the territory. These territories can usually only support a certain population of birds as well. The street food vendors are going to run into similar problems, families that make uprooting and moving hard. A percentage who are just not very predisposed to move and most importantly, moving into already occupied territory, which can often only support so many food vendors. I think your conclusion that birds and street vendors happily move to a new area and do well without an affect on the current inhabitants is largely wishful thinking.
Do we have secret courts then? Here, you get arrested and if the cops decide there's enough evidence, take you in front of a Judge within 1-3 days and at that point any reporters in the court can find out your name and what you're charged with. There is a possibility of a publication ban but the courts are reluctant to use it. OTOH, after doing time and keeping nose clean for a couple of years, it is easy to get a pardon and then it is illegal to discriminate based on previous crimes generally. Things like being put on the sex offenders list or prohibited from owning firearms and such are part of sentencing. So only the actual diddlers are put on the list instead of someone caught pissing or sending pics to their same age underage significant other. Likewise, only banned from owning firearms after doing something stupid with them.
In my experience, the American libertarians just want corporate overlords rather then government overlords. None of that pesky human rights for the proles unless rich enough to sue and enough government to keep their "employees" in line. The whole idea of a right wing libertarian is an oxymoron.
Yes, sub-orbital rockets will probably be the way to go. I'd assume airplanes would need rocket assist for takeoff and a long landing area. The CO powered rocket is an interesting idea, H2O2 might work as well though simple methane and oxygen might be best.
Lots of homeless people around here are couch surfing, living in their vehicles and such rather then living on the street. Rents are expensive and hard to find.
Something I didn't think of, though you still have to be setup correctly. As I see it, you're going to need quite a bit of infrastructure to even operate a science post on Mars, which is probably the way to start.
Much better to have a small interfering, overreaching government right? If you start shrinking government, it'll be the good parts that are removed, not the bad parts. Eventually you'll have a government consisting of 3 letter agencies, federal prisons, corrupt politicians and tax collectors. The problem isn't big government, it's shitty government.
Not the average person, who are free to let off steam just like in the west. Things are worse if you're popular, famous or such and criticize Putin, which makes Trump envious as in America there are fewer loopholes in the 1st Amendment currently, but with all the activist judges being appointed to the Supreme Court, the types of speech that aren't protected is sure to grow beyond the national security, breaking sanctions and think of the children loopholes. At least Russians are more free then ever, whereas here in the west, things are going backwards when it comes to freedom.
Tax returns can be interesting. Just reading about Santa's, seems the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) considers some of it unusual such as getting paid in cookies and carrots. He also claims the Northern Residents Deduction. Good news is that he's put all the email and phone scammers on the naughty list. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politic...
Most of your examples would require the humans to have transport to different parts of Mars. The lava tubes for example are in mountainous volcanic areas with little flat ground to land a rocket on and just generally, Mars is big, almost as much dry land to explore as the Earth. Compare to the Earth, ignoring the oceans, which would be better for exploring, landing at one place or dropping a thousand robots all over the place. That one place might be pretty boring, especially when you consider the requirements for landing, nice flat area for a starts.
Space suits are heavy, the mass of man plus suite at 0.3 gee might not be much lighter then the mass of a man at one gee. There's also the worry about tripping and ripping the suit.
No, people were saying that the Earth was around 25.000 miles around rather then Columbus's claim of 18.000 miles and he'd run out of food and water before arriving in China. He did luck out in finding a continent before starving, perhaps we'll luck out on an inhabitable planet on the way to Mars.
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Here in Canada, every time I go to the equivalent of the DMV, usually to get by drivers license renewed, there's less then a couple of people in front of me and I'm seeing someone in minutes, in and out in about 10 minutes.
I think the problem is the voters voting in people who believe government is bad and do their best to make it true.
A state has more control of its operations and many of the federal laws are actually just bribes to the state. We will give you an extra billion dollars if you do these actions. A State can choose not to implement the idea and not take the money.
How do you think it works in Canada? Constitutionally, healthcare is mostly a Provincial function with the Feds responsible for a few groups, federal prisoners, veterans, natives on reserve, Inuit, maritime, some refugees as well having quarantine powers. The power the Feds do have is taxation, so, from https://www.canada.ca/en/healt...
And there goes the wire less benefit.
Here in Canada, healthcare is a Provincial thing. The Feds mandate certain minimums and do some transfer payments from the rich to poor Provinces (actually more like tax rebates). Then each Province runs their own single payer system. It mostly works though some Provinces do seem to be perennially mismanaged and produce the horror stories you hear..
Something similar could be done in America.
I'm in Canada, right next to the USA. Americans aren't under our jurisdiction but there TV signals etc leak across the border fine. I doubt that they'd extradite over speech so as long as the American leaker doesn't come to Canada, they're not going to be prosecuted and I doubt that they'd be prosecuted even if they came to Canada and the authorities bothered investigating enough to make a case.
We've had similar problems as your high profile case, Pickton comes to mind, very high profile serial killer, had a publication ban on the case due to the interests of a fair trial, not tainting the jury. Many Americans were outraged by the censorship and there was no problem finding info about the case on the internet, even close to 20 years back.
Most publication bans, automatic in the case of minors, do work because there is no interest but given interest or a "anti-censorship" crusader...
The real problem is the culture, especially in America, where to be accused and especially arrested, means you're guilty, unless you're a Supreme Court nominee. How to change that, I don't know, especially since the American BS seems to leak out into the rest of the world. I believe it is illegal here to discriminate based on a simple arrest and the cops etc are supposed to purge most of the info like fingerprints after 6 months or a year. Proving discrimination can be hard.
So do I. Hated it when I lost my friends, my neighborhood where I knew where everything was and how traumatizing it was walking into a different school not knowing anyone and being the object of bullying. I did my best to keep my son in the same school system from kindergarten to grade 12. My wife has similar memories of moving.
Perhaps you were the kind of person who found it exciting and easily adapted, we're all different.
Anyways, the biggest point was the territories part.
My backup, cheapo corded phone that I get out in power failures, has a switch to use pulse. Used to be quite common though I haven't looked in years
In my limited experience, about half the people don't care about headphones period and so don't care at all about having a headphone jack. Those that do care, mostly use the headphone jack.
So, numbers pulled out of my ass, if 50% don't care about headphones and half of those who do care, are happy with Bluetooth or dongles, that means that only 25% care about the headphone jack.
You missed my point that many people, like birds, have families/children which makes moving not a simple get up and move thing.
And I'll also listen to my free FM radio that doesn't eat up my data plan or battery
But the FM radio in the phone uses the headphone wire, plugged into the headphone jack, as an antenna.
Those outbreaks aren't caused by unclean kitchens or not cleaning the lettuce, at that, short of cooking the lettuce, you can't clean it good enough to make infected lettuce uninfected.
That's caused by bad regulations and letting the invisible hand handle food production. Animal farms upstream from the lettuce fields releasing manure into the water that irrigates the lettuce and working conditions that don't include sanitary stuff like toilets with the means to wash hands after using or no time for the employees to make use of the toilets and sinks.
Many Americans seem quite happy with this, they have a whole political movement based on it called libertarian-ism as well as a major party that pushes the idea that all government is bad, especially any that hinders profits.
The birds did not die. They moved.
Isn't that an oversimplification? It could be nesting season, those eggs/fledglings didn't move. Some fires move faster then a bird flies.
Most importantly, many birds are territorial, there's some common ones around here that won't cross the road or a stream and others that hang around their territory all the time, no seasonal movements and very aggressive to their neigbours. The big thing with some of these species, is when they do move, the new territories are already occupied, causing lots of conflicts which the established bird usually wins as it isn't exhausted from escaping a forest fire and knows the territory. These territories can usually only support a certain population of birds as well.
The street food vendors are going to run into similar problems, families that make uprooting and moving hard. A percentage who are just not very predisposed to move and most importantly, moving into already occupied territory, which can often only support so many food vendors.
I think your conclusion that birds and street vendors happily move to a new area and do well without an affect on the current inhabitants is largely wishful thinking.
Publication bans don't work so well in this internet age where info is easily published in another jurisdiction.
Do we have secret courts then? Here, you get arrested and if the cops decide there's enough evidence, take you in front of a Judge within 1-3 days and at that point any reporters in the court can find out your name and what you're charged with.
There is a possibility of a publication ban but the courts are reluctant to use it.
OTOH, after doing time and keeping nose clean for a couple of years, it is easy to get a pardon and then it is illegal to discriminate based on previous crimes generally. Things like being put on the sex offenders list or prohibited from owning firearms and such are part of sentencing. So only the actual diddlers are put on the list instead of someone caught pissing or sending pics to their same age underage significant other. Likewise, only banned from owning firearms after doing something stupid with them.
In my experience, the American libertarians just want corporate overlords rather then government overlords. None of that pesky human rights for the proles unless rich enough to sue and enough government to keep their "employees" in line.
The whole idea of a right wing libertarian is an oxymoron.
Yes, sub-orbital rockets will probably be the way to go. I'd assume airplanes would need rocket assist for takeoff and a long landing area. The CO powered rocket is an interesting idea, H2O2 might work as well though simple methane and oxygen might be best.
Lots of homeless people around here are couch surfing, living in their vehicles and such rather then living on the street. Rents are expensive and hard to find.
Something I didn't think of, though you still have to be setup correctly. As I see it, you're going to need quite a bit of infrastructure to even operate a science post on Mars, which is probably the way to start.
Much better to have a small interfering, overreaching government right?
If you start shrinking government, it'll be the good parts that are removed, not the bad parts. Eventually you'll have a government consisting of 3 letter agencies, federal prisons, corrupt politicians and tax collectors.
The problem isn't big government, it's shitty government.
Not the average person, who are free to let off steam just like in the west. Things are worse if you're popular, famous or such and criticize Putin, which makes Trump envious as in America there are fewer loopholes in the 1st Amendment currently, but with all the activist judges being appointed to the Supreme Court, the types of speech that aren't protected is sure to grow beyond the national security, breaking sanctions and think of the children loopholes.
At least Russians are more free then ever, whereas here in the west, things are going backwards when it comes to freedom.
Tax returns can be interesting. Just reading about Santa's, seems the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) considers some of it unusual such as getting paid in cookies and carrots. He also claims the Northern Residents Deduction. Good news is that he's put all the email and phone scammers on the naughty list.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politic...
Most of your examples would require the humans to have transport to different parts of Mars. The lava tubes for example are in mountainous volcanic areas with little flat ground to land a rocket on and just generally, Mars is big, almost as much dry land to explore as the Earth.
Compare to the Earth, ignoring the oceans, which would be better for exploring, landing at one place or dropping a thousand robots all over the place. That one place might be pretty boring, especially when you consider the requirements for landing, nice flat area for a starts.
Space suits are heavy, the mass of man plus suite at 0.3 gee might not be much lighter then the mass of a man at one gee. There's also the worry about tripping and ripping the suit.
No, people were saying that the Earth was around 25.000 miles around rather then Columbus's claim of 18.000 miles and he'd run out of food and water before arriving in China.
He did luck out in finding a continent before starving, perhaps we'll luck out on an inhabitable planet on the way to Mars.
Luckily there are caves everywhere on Mars, in particular besides the nice flat space port where the rockets land. /s