To all our soldiers who fought and suffered in that war a few more sunken U-Boats would feel better yet. Wretched wars that did nothing but evil should never have existed.
In the west we tend to reason with words internally. It is difficult to get most people to a real skill level with words and reasonable thoughts. If we tried to deviate and put school hours into spatial reasoning we might cause a loss of verbal cognition and internal dialogues. One would think that games like basketball and baseball would give young people pretty good spatial reasoning as knowing where to be when the fly ball lands involves spatial skills.
I once took a very high priced battery of tests and can tell you that they have tests with blocks printed with different patterns that are really mind stretching. Very few people will ever have that kind of testing. It tied up a specialist for three full days and in today's money would probably exceed 20K in costs.
Although the tactics used were unreasonable the individual remains the one who decided to commit suicide. There is usually no way to know if you are dealing with a person whose grasp of life is positive. When people are depressed they can kill themselves over the slightest, momentary, occurrence. We will never know how the charges and trial would have played out.
Big bankers really are an issue. Just as one man said if we start arresting crooks in business there might be no nation left at all. Detroit city employees are about to become severely harmed victims. Why we have a system that allows pension funds not to be transferred every pay day in such a way that the failure of a city or business is in itself corrupt. After all if any interest is earned at all on those pension funds it should all go to the pensioner. Therefore the city never had any reason not to fund the pensions every pay day. Frankly pensions should be beyond bankruptcy.
Another awful, corrupt fact is that Detroit was done in by growth and industry. Therefore it makes no sense at all that they seek growth and more industry. Think about it. The growth stuff is exactly why hell holes like Flint Michigan and Brooklyn New York exist. How wonderful those places would be if they had not encouraged businesses and people to move there.
Court verdicts and punishments normally are irrational. At times the system has deliberately used irrationality as a supposed method of crime control. For example you might have ten people charged with exactly the same crime with very similar life histories. One defendant gets a fine. Most of the other defendants get fines of various sizes and one gets 30 days plus a fine. But the last defendant gets 1 year in jail plus 2 years probation with a hefty fine on top of that.
So just why would judges act that way? It clears the court calendar. When a lawyer tells a defendant that the punishment can be serious more people plea bargain and it saves the state time and money.
And we all understand that if you can not afford a really good defense, expert witnesses and investigators that you may be dead meat before the trial even starts. Those who can not come up with big money take a huge beating in the courts. It is a CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. There are times I think that it is a worse crime to send a man to jail than any crime he could have possibly committed.
You are referring to a search of private property. That which is in plain sight of the public can hardly be defined as private.
For a real thriller imagine a lawyer getting a warrant for husbands or wives and getting a compilation of where their car has been all year or a report on all phone calls made and the locations from which they were made. wives might not be really thrilled with phone records from No Tell Motel when the husband was supposedly at work. And detailed charge card records could store motel phone charges and numbers on the credit card history.
I just gotta say, what they heck can a criminal do? A guy just can't get away with stuff any more.
I realize that the public in the US is sort of zoned out, brain dead or zombie like. But really we just can not keep pretending that other nations are backwards or poorly governed when they so frequently do things that the US can not. If any claims about American superiority are true we should be more than able to do things like provide solar power for the poor, medical care, and countless other items such as decent educations for poor students.
We are appearing clown like to the world.
Really we do need to use less energy world wide despite the growth of population and industry. Our cities are heat islands already and global warming is serious business. No matter how clean the generation process the user ultimately converts all power received into heat. The answer is not in figuring out how to keep creating and storing more and more energy.
It falls back to over population. When we look down at our nation as well as many other nations we have too much concrete, too much area squandered in roof tops and too much black top covering our land. If we had a total of 60 million Americans instead of 350 million Americans our energy issues, our pollution issues, and most of our social issues would vanish quickly. We simply can not roll the dice and think that technology will always bail us out. It will not.
Usually cars are a bad example simply because they are mobile and adding weight and complexity usually negates most new devices from having value. Stationary engines are a better fit for such notions. So it will tend to boil down to the cost of installing and maintaining these thermopiles. I can imagine a turbine engine in which the hot side of the unit is internal near the combustion area and the cool side is in the air stream outside the engine casing. Or even water pumps and large air compressors might serve as a good spot to use these devices. Even the vents over the grills in commercial cooking might yield meaningful amounts of electricity.
It is certainly true that our medical care system could not deal with patients held because they will probably but not certainly commit violent crimes. Our legal system would also suffer a crash and burn shock if they ever had to admit that some violence is caused by physical defect. There is very little recognition that violence can be compelled by psychological demands. Even the issue of intent and free will would struggle to exist in law.
We already know that inmates admit to being under the influence of drugs or alcohol for 85% of the crimes for which they are sentenced. If we combine that with histories of inmates, unable to complete school, or unable to hold a job, or simply illiterate then we have every reason to think that depression or other mental defect is almost certainly behind almost all crime. People who are ill do not do well at school usually and they do not do well in employment. The fact that they turn to drugs or alcohol indicates a very strong need to feel better. People in reasonable states of mental health simply do not have such a great need to feel better.
Florida governor Rick Scot is a nightmare from the right wing. He had no business ordering a trial or arrest of Mr. Zimmerman. The county sheriff refused to arrest Mr. Zimmerman as it was clear that no crime had taken place. The county prosecutor had no interest in causing an arrest of an innocent man. The sheriff was fired and the governor assigned a special prosecutor. A criminal investigation is already under way and there is a serious violation of Mr. Zimmerman's civil liberties. Governor Scot belongs in prison.
Try this one out for size. You need employees. You need customers to visit your company. Now do you think that the Treasure Coast of Florida just might attract people like a magnet whereas Texas, with its difficult climate and barbaric legal system, will attract next to no one at all. And it doesn't hurt one bit that from the Cape to Disney is a minor drive.
I have ranted endlessly, like a rabid dog, that we need to raise the bar for every high school student by a huge increment. The days of lite mathematics or dumbed down courses in any subject need to be dealt a death blow. If we want skilled people we must have great expectations and demands upon the youngsters. Any young person allowed to graduate from high school should easily make it at the better colleges.
Those children who are not able to have a full academic experience should be sorted out and taught trades after the sixth grade ends.
I had a relative, by marriage, who took a high school class in physiology. After a full six weeks he was under the illusion that he was in a psychology class. How can a junior in high school be that far gone?
Since the only computer connection for millions of Americans is the one at school, the one at work or the one at the library that puts the US in third world status as well. Not to mention that we have millions of people with zero net access at all. Net access of reasonable quality is expensive in the US as well. We have not touched the edge of getting America up and running yet.
Considering the rarity of Indium I look at this as only a first step. Perhaps a droplet of some aluminum or other common metal might be sprayed through a cloud of very cold nitrogen such that it maintains its structure upon landing might be next.
I do expect 3D printing to alter society as much as the invention of the automobile over a few decades. Imagine most of the items that you purchase being created by 3D printers. The first home is soon to be printed and it will work. You'll see it this fall.
You need not worry any longer. In honor of George Zimmerman we are forming a new neighborhood patrol that we will call the waltzing Zimmermans.
We will simply waltz with an invisible partner all about the community in the evenings.
It is easy for the media to create an issue by making reports about printed guns. It would be more difficult for the media to report on 3D printers causing radical shifts in society. Right now 3D printing is a bit more than a gimmick but not really a technology ready for prime time. This fall the first home will be printed by a 3D printer. You can bet that the rush is on to find ways to print all consumer goods. Perhaps we will have 3D printed bicycles soon. The point being that we are seeing the end of human employment. I know that sounds strange to almost everyone but it is already happening. The stock market booms while workers are idle and paid less and less every year. These days a business may need no employees at all and it is quite possible that businesses soon will not even need an owner. It is going to be one heck of a ride.
All of the weight of guilt falls upon the criminal. For example if you fail to lock up your bicycle and it is stolen the thief is not less guilty. And if i put it all over youtube that you never lock up your bicycle the thief still bears all of the guilt.
President Lincoln faced an entirely different situation. The nature of the Civil War put the existence of the nation at great risk. Current conflicts pose almost no risk at all of a calamity great enough to destroy our nation. Next the telegraph wires were the only way to quickly command attacks from troops over a distance. It was also the only fast way to send information out of the north to southern agents. The northern forces would probably have been better off if all telegraphs were locked down until the war was over.
In the current world situation the US might be better to pull out all troops and embassies and tell the Arab region to rot. I wonder if the US would suffer at all if the nations in the mid east simply went into total war and chaos. As it stands now the expense of stopping this foolishness is a burden. As far as wars go this war has not taken many of our soldiers' lives. But if we assume that the ultimate totals might come to 20,000 dead American troops why should we be willing to allow this risk to climb? The entire mess very much resembles the problem in Vietnam. We could have won that war with great ease by going to maximum technology on the first day. We would have suffered no loss of troops at all and the financial component would have been trivial. Huge numbers of innocents would have been killed but at least it would all be over in a few minutes. So our kinder gentler mode of war cost the lives of 50,000 US soldiers and billions of dollars. The other part of the issue is that if we had crushed Vietnam with a full technology attack I seriously doubt that the Arab nations would ever have dared to offend us. Many nations perceive a lack of violent aggression to be a signal of weakness. Look at the threats made by N. Korea today. N.Korea threatens simply because they know we will not bomb them into oblivion.
It is a complex problem. As we now have very large populations, some of which have technology in the hands of citizens, and are more sophisticated, the need to know becomes more vital. It is like living in a high rise apartment. You need to know a bit about people in the building for everyone's sake. So governments as well as companies and individuals find more and more innocent reasons to study us and much of it is to our benefit. That leaves people with bad intentions a way to do harm. So far the good outweighs the bad. But for how long?
The catch is that they may not bother with red flags. You might suddenly discover that you are very, very ill with a limited time left. You'll never know the how or why of the illness. Or maybe you'll discover that you committed a crime that you have no memory of and that you suddenly get free housing for life. Those secret prisons we have in remote nations sometimes get new inmates. If a government gets nasty it can be severely nasty.
We do know that England controlled and possessed the coastal areas of France for several hundred years. Later we see Normandy become a separate entity and invade England. One way to conceive of it would be to consider the Norman invasion as part of a civil war. The resolution of the long time conflict was England suffering loss of coastal Europe. Considering the modern history of Europe a loss of territory in coastal Europe might be considered a blessing.
Tradition normally holds that a person who does a bad act is the guilty party. These days that is becoming rather twisted. If a person steals data then doesn't the guilt fall upon the thief? What they are doing is similar to the rather absurd gun law that can find a person negligent for simply using one lock to secure a gun. A home owner locks his windows and doors and drives off to the market. Mr. bad guy breaks in the back door and steals the gun and later that day shoots someone. Out of the blue the law also comes down hard on the home owner for not using enough security of that firearm. Frankly it is not good policy. All of the guilt falls upon the bad guy who broke in according to me. If anything the police department shares some of the guilt as they failed to protect my home. The general public also shares the guilt when they pass laws that make it next to impossible to deal with bad people. But whether it is data or guns I think the thief is the one who should pay.
If there is room for guilt it would be in situations such as a finance company dumping records in a dumpster completely neglecting to shred the records. As it is understood that dumpster diving is legal and a common practice.
Society seems to avoid punishing the guilty.
For those that don't know the Florida keys are only a few inches above ocean levels even before the 1800 era. An 18 inch rise in sea levels would put the keys under water. these keys stretch for well over 100 miles and involve hundreds of islands. The area is also vital as a nursery for sea life. A slight rise in ocean levels is a clear cut disaster.
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To all our soldiers who fought and suffered in that war a few more sunken U-Boats would feel better yet. Wretched wars that did nothing but evil should never have existed.
In the west we tend to reason with words internally. It is difficult to get most people to a real skill level with words and reasonable thoughts. If we tried to deviate and put school hours into spatial reasoning we might cause a loss of verbal cognition and internal dialogues. One would think that games like basketball and baseball would give young people pretty good spatial reasoning as knowing where to be when the fly ball lands involves spatial skills.
I once took a very high priced battery of tests and can tell you that they have tests with blocks printed with different patterns that are really mind stretching. Very few people will ever have that kind of testing. It tied up a specialist for three full days and in today's money would probably exceed 20K in costs.
Although the tactics used were unreasonable the individual remains the one who decided to commit suicide. There is usually no way to know if you are dealing with a person whose grasp of life is positive. When people are depressed they can kill themselves over the slightest, momentary, occurrence. We will never know how the charges and trial would have played out.
Big bankers really are an issue. Just as one man said if we start arresting crooks in business there might be no nation left at all. Detroit city employees are about to become severely harmed victims. Why we have a system that allows pension funds not to be transferred every pay day in such a way that the failure of a city or business is in itself corrupt. After all if any interest is earned at all on those pension funds it should all go to the pensioner. Therefore the city never had any reason not to fund the pensions every pay day. Frankly pensions should be beyond bankruptcy.
Another awful, corrupt fact is that Detroit was done in by growth and industry. Therefore it makes no sense at all that they seek growth and more industry. Think about it. The growth stuff is exactly why hell holes like Flint Michigan and Brooklyn New York exist. How wonderful those places would be if they had not encouraged businesses and people to move there.
Court verdicts and punishments normally are irrational. At times the system has deliberately used irrationality as a supposed method of crime control. For example you might have ten people charged with exactly the same crime with very similar life histories. One defendant gets a fine. Most of the other defendants get fines of various sizes and one gets 30 days plus a fine. But the last defendant gets 1 year in jail plus 2 years probation with a hefty fine on top of that.
So just why would judges act that way? It clears the court calendar. When a lawyer tells a defendant that the punishment can be serious more people plea bargain and it saves the state time and money.
And we all understand that if you can not afford a really good defense, expert witnesses and investigators that you may be dead meat before the trial even starts. Those who can not come up with big money take a huge beating in the courts. It is a CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. There are times I think that it is a worse crime to send a man to jail than any crime he could have possibly committed.
You are referring to a search of private property. That which is in plain sight of the public can hardly be defined as private.
For a real thriller imagine a lawyer getting a warrant for husbands or wives and getting a compilation of where their car has been all year or a report on all phone calls made and the locations from which they were made. wives might not be really thrilled with phone records from No Tell Motel when the husband was supposedly at work. And detailed charge card records could store motel phone charges and numbers on the credit card history.
I just gotta say, what they heck can a criminal do? A guy just can't get away with stuff any more.
I realize that the public in the US is sort of zoned out, brain dead or zombie like. But really we just can not keep pretending that other nations are backwards or poorly governed when they so frequently do things that the US can not. If any claims about American superiority are true we should be more than able to do things like provide solar power for the poor, medical care, and countless other items such as decent educations for poor students.
We are appearing clown like to the world.
Really we do need to use less energy world wide despite the growth of population and industry. Our cities are heat islands already and global warming is serious business. No matter how clean the generation process the user ultimately converts all power received into heat. The answer is not in figuring out how to keep creating and storing more and more energy.
It falls back to over population. When we look down at our nation as well as many other nations we have too much concrete, too much area squandered in roof tops and too much black top covering our land. If we had a total of 60 million Americans instead of 350 million Americans our energy issues, our pollution issues, and most of our social issues would vanish quickly. We simply can not roll the dice and think that technology will always bail us out. It will not.
Usually cars are a bad example simply because they are mobile and adding weight and complexity usually negates most new devices from having value. Stationary engines are a better fit for such notions. So it will tend to boil down to the cost of installing and maintaining these thermopiles. I can imagine a turbine engine in which the hot side of the unit is internal near the combustion area and the cool side is in the air stream outside the engine casing. Or even water pumps and large air compressors might serve as a good spot to use these devices. Even the vents over the grills in commercial cooking might yield meaningful amounts of electricity.
It is certainly true that our medical care system could not deal with patients held because they will probably but not certainly commit violent crimes. Our legal system would also suffer a crash and burn shock if they ever had to admit that some violence is caused by physical defect. There is very little recognition that violence can be compelled by psychological demands. Even the issue of intent and free will would struggle to exist in law.
We already know that inmates admit to being under the influence of drugs or alcohol for 85% of the crimes for which they are sentenced. If we combine that with histories of inmates, unable to complete school, or unable to hold a job, or simply illiterate then we have every reason to think that depression or other mental defect is almost certainly behind almost all crime. People who are ill do not do well at school usually and they do not do well in employment. The fact that they turn to drugs or alcohol indicates a very strong need to feel better. People in reasonable states of mental health simply do not have such a great need to feel better.
Blaming Apple for porn addiction is about like me trying to sue a grocery store for failing to protect me from beer and wine.
Florida governor Rick Scot is a nightmare from the right wing. He had no business ordering a trial or arrest of Mr. Zimmerman. The county sheriff refused to arrest Mr. Zimmerman as it was clear that no crime had taken place. The county prosecutor had no interest in causing an arrest of an innocent man. The sheriff was fired and the governor assigned a special prosecutor. A criminal investigation is already under way and there is a serious violation of Mr. Zimmerman's civil liberties. Governor Scot belongs in prison.
Try this one out for size. You need employees. You need customers to visit your company. Now do you think that the Treasure Coast of Florida just might attract people like a magnet whereas Texas, with its difficult climate and barbaric legal system, will attract next to no one at all. And it doesn't hurt one bit that from the Cape to Disney is a minor drive.
I have ranted endlessly, like a rabid dog, that we need to raise the bar for every high school student by a huge increment. The days of lite mathematics or dumbed down courses in any subject need to be dealt a death blow. If we want skilled people we must have great expectations and demands upon the youngsters. Any young person allowed to graduate from high school should easily make it at the better colleges.
Those children who are not able to have a full academic experience should be sorted out and taught trades after the sixth grade ends.
I had a relative, by marriage, who took a high school class in physiology. After a full six weeks he was under the illusion that he was in a psychology class. How can a junior in high school be that far gone?
Since the only computer connection for millions of Americans is the one at school, the one at work or the one at the library that puts the US in third world status as well. Not to mention that we have millions of people with zero net access at all. Net access of reasonable quality is expensive in the US as well. We have not touched the edge of getting America up and running yet.
Considering the rarity of Indium I look at this as only a first step. Perhaps a droplet of some aluminum or other common metal might be sprayed through a cloud of very cold nitrogen such that it maintains its structure upon landing might be next.
I do expect 3D printing to alter society as much as the invention of the automobile over a few decades. Imagine most of the items that you purchase being created by 3D printers. The first home is soon to be printed and it will work. You'll see it this fall.
You need not worry any longer. In honor of George Zimmerman we are forming a new neighborhood patrol that we will call the waltzing Zimmermans.
We will simply waltz with an invisible partner all about the community in the evenings.
It is easy for the media to create an issue by making reports about printed guns. It would be more difficult for the media to report on 3D printers causing radical shifts in society. Right now 3D printing is a bit more than a gimmick but not really a technology ready for prime time. This fall the first home will be printed by a 3D printer. You can bet that the rush is on to find ways to print all consumer goods. Perhaps we will have 3D printed bicycles soon. The point being that we are seeing the end of human employment. I know that sounds strange to almost everyone but it is already happening. The stock market booms while workers are idle and paid less and less every year. These days a business may need no employees at all and it is quite possible that businesses soon will not even need an owner. It is going to be one heck of a ride.
All of the weight of guilt falls upon the criminal. For example if you fail to lock up your bicycle and it is stolen the thief is not less guilty. And if i put it all over youtube that you never lock up your bicycle the thief still bears all of the guilt.
President Lincoln faced an entirely different situation. The nature of the Civil War put the existence of the nation at great risk. Current conflicts pose almost no risk at all of a calamity great enough to destroy our nation. Next the telegraph wires were the only way to quickly command attacks from troops over a distance. It was also the only fast way to send information out of the north to southern agents. The northern forces would probably have been better off if all telegraphs were locked down until the war was over.
In the current world situation the US might be better to pull out all troops and embassies and tell the Arab region to rot. I wonder if the US would suffer at all if the nations in the mid east simply went into total war and chaos. As it stands now the expense of stopping this foolishness is a burden. As far as wars go this war has not taken many of our soldiers' lives. But if we assume that the ultimate totals might come to 20,000 dead American troops why should we be willing to allow this risk to climb? The entire mess very much resembles the problem in Vietnam. We could have won that war with great ease by going to maximum technology on the first day. We would have suffered no loss of troops at all and the financial component would have been trivial. Huge numbers of innocents would have been killed but at least it would all be over in a few minutes. So our kinder gentler mode of war cost the lives of 50,000 US soldiers and billions of dollars. The other part of the issue is that if we had crushed Vietnam with a full technology attack I seriously doubt that the Arab nations would ever have dared to offend us. Many nations perceive a lack of violent aggression to be a signal of weakness. Look at the threats made by N. Korea today. N.Korea threatens simply because they know we will not bomb them into oblivion.
It is a complex problem. As we now have very large populations, some of which have technology in the hands of citizens, and are more sophisticated, the need to know becomes more vital. It is like living in a high rise apartment. You need to know a bit about people in the building for everyone's sake. So governments as well as companies and individuals find more and more innocent reasons to study us and much of it is to our benefit. That leaves people with bad intentions a way to do harm. So far the good outweighs the bad. But for how long?
The catch is that they may not bother with red flags. You might suddenly discover that you are very, very ill with a limited time left. You'll never know the how or why of the illness. Or maybe you'll discover that you committed a crime that you have no memory of and that you suddenly get free housing for life. Those secret prisons we have in remote nations sometimes get new inmates. If a government gets nasty it can be severely nasty.
We do know that England controlled and possessed the coastal areas of France for several hundred years. Later we see Normandy become a separate entity and invade England. One way to conceive of it would be to consider the Norman invasion as part of a civil war. The resolution of the long time conflict was England suffering loss of coastal Europe. Considering the modern history of Europe a loss of territory in coastal Europe might be considered a blessing.
Tradition normally holds that a person who does a bad act is the guilty party. These days that is becoming rather twisted. If a person steals data then doesn't the guilt fall upon the thief? What they are doing is similar to the rather absurd gun law that can find a person negligent for simply using one lock to secure a gun. A home owner locks his windows and doors and drives off to the market. Mr. bad guy breaks in the back door and steals the gun and later that day shoots someone. Out of the blue the law also comes down hard on the home owner for not using enough security of that firearm. Frankly it is not good policy. All of the guilt falls upon the bad guy who broke in according to me. If anything the police department shares some of the guilt as they failed to protect my home. The general public also shares the guilt when they pass laws that make it next to impossible to deal with bad people. But whether it is data or guns I think the thief is the one who should pay.
If there is room for guilt it would be in situations such as a finance company dumping records in a dumpster completely neglecting to shred the records. As it is understood that dumpster diving is legal and a common practice.
Society seems to avoid punishing the guilty.
For those that don't know the Florida keys are only a few inches above ocean levels even before the 1800 era. An 18 inch rise in sea levels would put the keys under water. these keys stretch for well over 100 miles and involve hundreds of islands. The area is also vital as a nursery for sea life. A slight rise in ocean levels is a clear cut disaster.