The speed at which NASA gets things done depends upon how deeply they are funded. Since funds come from the US government they have power over the progress of NASA. They have cut funding deeply and left NASA in a hole for a couple of decades. Now, due to Trump's insanity the tax revenues for the US will decline. Obviously when firms like Harley Davidson and Ford effectively leave the US all together the hand writing is on the wall. Trump's trade policies were stated as the reason Harley was leaving the US.
Technology comes in waves of vast improvements. The notion that a job is not so easy to automate can vanish in a few months when breakthrough X takes place. The greatest buffer to rapid change is financial as the cost of change in investments creates some pain and anxiety. How many machine shops would be so much better off buying a $500,000 five axis milling machine that cuts using water with precise results? The catch is that so far smaller shops just can't buy the good stuff.
I would not mind this tactic if it was used on some of the more brutal governments in this world but have reservations about using it on common criminals and drug lords. In the US we desperately need to know about all kinds of things going on in government. But considering our being the greatest nation in regards to putting people in jails and prisons, the huge economic divide and racial issues we just might be classified as one of the brutal nations. We do not even have a legitimate president in office.
Trump will be charged and convicted of numerous crimes. Keep in mind that the investigation could be re-opened or that the Congressional investigation will impeach him. Trump does not have a chance. If he leaves office or is impeached he will be hit with a list of crimes that will bury him. The only hope he has is on the question of intent. I am not at all certain that he is not so ill that he is not capable of forming an intention. His reactions are more spastic than intentional. He also has over 40 civil suits to deal with and more are on the way. I do not see how anyone could fight 40 law suits and still have any kind of job at all, much less as POTUS.
Private information is information that is never shared with any other person or entity. When you give out information expect it to be collected and used. The concept of privacy is being bastardized beyond all reason. there are people who claim that no one can make note of a license plate of a car on a public road. The entire reason for a license plate is to allow others to easily identify the drivers.
They change phone numbers quicker than many people change their under ware. Catching them involves a bit more. Pretend to go through with the deal and get their phone number and location or delivery address or make an appointment for them to come do their thing such as a carpet cleaning solicitation. When they show up record all that you can and get the plate numbers off of their vehicles. Now you have a way to get at them. Police may not be at all helpful but a lawyer might get quite a few settlements for people who fight back like this.
Coral Springs Fl. is so whacko that one must get approval for any paint used on a home before painting. We have so many homeless here that we need to allow all kinds of nonsense in order to shelter the homeless and also not restrain where they can camp as they essentially try to drive the poor away by making life impossible for them. A tent or cardboard box is a whole bunch better than nothing at all.
Here we have a situation in which officials consider rules more important than reality. All of the rules must be designed to serve people. When a rule does not serve it must be taken down.
In the 1950s and 1960s we had several students in my school that had either enormous wealth or power or both. A teacher would be out of his blooming mind to not make certain these kids had really high grades as power and a telephone call could surely end a teacher's employment. I have no way to know if any contact or incentives between teachers and wealthy parents. I believe the system is such that things can happen without anyone ever speaking a word. I do know that our high school football team had one pro player as he tried to recruit me with mention of apartments and cars etc.. He was 21 years old.
Some people are slow learners when it comes to scooters and even on brands like Vespa which have had gasoline engines for 70 years or so will have new riders flop over sideways at times. It is a balance and perception problem and has nothing to do with the scooters themselves.
The larger wheels seen on bicycles is a myth. If you look back to the penny farthing bicycles huge wheels and full size wheels have been common. Today we see that sustaining a speed as well as pedal input effort on a touring bike requires large diameter with very narrow tires. Yet mountain bikes do better with a bit smaller and fatter wheels. Small, 20 inch wheels work fine and can be very strong but they are also slow and require more pedal effort at higher speeds.
The best answer for new scooter riders is to dress to crash. Hand, elbow and knee protection and quality head gear make all the difference and the least experienced riders need more safety gear.
Somewhere i got the impression that the US Navy is already building an automated war ship. i would be shocked if they have not done so. There is and has been one civilian helicopter making daily deliveries back and forth across the Mexican border for several years. It has no pilot.Obviously if a device can carry mail or whatever it can carry any number of military devices. One good use for automated helicopters is picking up wounded warriors from battlefields far to dangerous to end in a piloted craft. We can only hope that such devices prevent wars.
The human body is the failure point in modern fighters. G forces must be limited for a human to survive. The human can not be on that plane. Further human life support systems take up a lot of space. With robotic warriors no cock pit is required. That space can be used for fuel and weapons. Then there is another cost factor. Ruined or dead airmen and their survivors cost a fortune. No more mangled men and bodies to deal with at all. No human operated aircraft will be able to compete in combat. And it gets better. Ships also are better without sailors. Imagine a mother ship launching a smaller ship for the last 300 miles into a combat zone. The zombie ship needs no humans etc.. Once that zombie is on site it can wage all kinds of war more effectively than a human occupied vessel. In essence the conventional warship becomes a tow boat and fuel and weapons hauler that stands outside the battle arena. These days a small unmanned zombie warship could easily have more fire power than weapons of all types, used by all sides during WW2. And we don't even have to worry about radiation in the combat zone.
So far air and water are the easy places for automatons. Land has far more challenges but we will soon see the Army soldiers become a historic oddity. These things are already taking place.
Having DNA of all of us would solve crimes in numbers we can't appreciate. Imagine if the 11,000 children now held illegally by the border patrol could have their parents located by DNA testing. Charging people to post their own DNA however is the wrong way to go. it is the process of deduction rather than surveillance that gives DNA collecting do powerful. If the individual appears to have disappeared being able to quickly find his children and relatives may prevent a criminal from hiding and thus actually prevent crime. If you know you can't get away with it the chances are you'll never do that crime.
Sadly there are people who exist only on dollar store foods. The US grocery system is a mess and unable to provide food at sand prices. On top of all of that, sadly the US economic system is based upon competition and here we have a situation in which competition is stood on its ear. Normally if you are sharp enough to put a competitor out of business you are doing a really good job. Now if we want a start in fixing things simply disallow all export of produce and meats from US businesses and that would push down grocery prices quite a bit. For example sea food is now so expensive that we no longer have staff in the sea food department at my local Publix. If one wants a seafood section product usually one has to ask someone from the butcher section to meet you in the seafood department. Sea food is so expensive that very few patrons will purchase it.
We need a number number added to our phones which blocks 100% of all charities, appointment setters, and any sales related call . It must carry a serious prison sentence for the person that dials, the room manager and the owners of a business if even one call is made. In other words a total death for all types of phone sales and solicitations is what I seek.
Why would I seek that? At 7:20 this morning I was awakened by a stupid call with the Microsoft services scam.This is despite the fact that i have not touched a Microsoft product of any type for over 20 years. Following that i received four more calls trying to send me Medicaid braces before noon. That particular day i received over 12 bullshit phone calls. I now sometimes explode and use the most vile tactics that i can to get rid of these creeps.
We are about to see a major squashing of teachers in the US . Kids can be taught by computer and we will see 99% of teachers eliminated in this country. Those in training to become teachers had best change their college majors right now.
If China made less money would cruelty decrease or increase ? Can we effectively demand more civil liberties in China by threatening loss of trade with the US? And although communism sucks can anyone name a time in which any other form of government in China has been better than communism ? Vietnam is now far better off as a communist nation than it ever was under different kinds of government. In the US we are not supposed to notice these things. But can it be that in certain places under certain conditions that communism is the best real choice for a nation?
So what do we get by putting this young man in prison for ten years? Maybe he will find Jesus and come out of prison with a glowing and honest personality. Well don't bet on that ! a man put away for ten years is much more likely to come out of prison with a serious does of rage and anger and a single minded dedication to destroying the system. Now we can make it worse very easily by using boredom, menial labor assignments and rather nasty and threatening living conditions to make certain that when he is not hacking away in the future he doesn't also slit a throat now and then to release his rage.
Seriously ! Think about it. The American justice system is a ruptured duck supported by idiots.
More affluent families tend to have women at home who can afford maids and cooks and have way too much time on their hands. Among other things they have oodles of time to contact mayors, principals, senators etc.. The also have time to read absurd books and magazines and watch the latest idiotic feel good shows on TV. What they get is directly opposite being educated and it implies a fairly weak mind to believe the nonsense. They also accept no responsibility for the deaths and horrors that they cause. The flaw in the system is that everyone has a right to an opinion yet no one has responsibility for the great harms done by their opinions. The lower class could be manipulated by Trump. This upper middle class falls victim to junk science. So if they get cancer they may just read the National Inquirer rather than rushing to an oncologist. And why not ? The National Inquirer seems to have a new cancer cure every fifteen minutes or so.
The path of AI is fascinating. It already is giving us next years products today and that will get stronger and stronger. But there is no ultimate quality to a product. Although difficult better product can always be made. Sometimes game changers are not yet dreamed of. For example graphene and carbon fiber products are in their infancy and 15 years ago would not even be a question in one's mind. For example you might be producing the best canoe ever made but if carbon fiber is in your hands you can cut the weight of your canoe, make it difficult to damage and totally age resistant. But often it is the human will that fails and not the advancing technology. For example a row boat that is quite superior can be made from the same plastic that the common milk jug is made of yet almost no one has chose to do so. A very, very durable row boat that is lite in weight can be made from this type of plastic. Yet it just is not happening.
I have been busy trying to find the purple mountain's majesty across the fruited plains. First as far as I can tell there are no purple mountains. The plains are hardly blessed with any fruit at all. But missing something in a song is acceptable as I am convinced we are holding a guided light so that the poor and the wretched around the world can cross our borders. But the idea that Germany can get rid of coal faster than the US has no chance at all. That is just silly. After all our streets are all paved with hold just so we can easily sweep up the coal dust that covers them. Now we do know that coal duct contains Mercury and probably lead as well and just maybe gold dust is in that soot as well.
Either way the shock wave will be enormous. Vast areas of work will be almost eliminated such as school teachers. An eighth history class could be broadcast to every eighth grade student in the US. Professional drivers will be hit really hard. Meanwhile, other tasks that have variables may require only a human attendant. For example a lawn cutting robot might be super efficient with one human attendant in case something odd takes place rather than a three or four man crew. Lawyers are already being hit by machines that can take care of basic legal forms and the like. Automated guard and police services are already somewhat in play. The entire reason for technology is replacement of human labor and now technology is winning.
To me anything that can be seen or heard from a public space is fare game. If I make notes on whose car is parked at the local brothel, for my own purposes, it is fair and reasonable that I do so. Right now we have people who feel that everything they do or say in public is somehow private information and we must avoid falling into this trap. For example stealing money from someone's account must always be a crime the idea of recording their charge card data when they order pizza over the phone should be legal. When you have a means of proving where a person was at a certain time it can be of great use in stopping crimes or even breaking up marriages of cheating spouses. By the way quite a few card numbers are stolen by cell phones ability to record conversation within its hearing range.
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The speed at which NASA gets things done depends upon how deeply they are funded. Since funds come from the US government they have power over the progress of NASA. They have cut funding deeply and left NASA in a hole for a couple of decades. Now, due to Trump's insanity the tax revenues for the US will decline. Obviously when firms like Harley Davidson and Ford effectively leave the US all together the hand writing is on the wall. Trump's trade policies were stated as the reason Harley was leaving the US.
Technology comes in waves of vast improvements. The notion that a job is not so easy to automate can vanish in a few months when breakthrough X takes place. The greatest buffer to rapid change is financial as the cost of change in investments creates some pain and anxiety. How many machine shops would be so much better off buying a $500,000 five axis milling machine that cuts using water with precise results? The catch is that so far smaller shops just can't buy the good stuff.
I would not mind this tactic if it was used on some of the more brutal governments in this world but have reservations about using it on common criminals and drug lords. In the US we desperately need to know about all kinds of things going on in government. But considering our being the greatest nation in regards to putting people in jails and prisons, the huge economic divide and racial issues we just might be classified as one of the brutal nations. We do not even have a legitimate president in office.
Trump will be charged and convicted of numerous crimes. Keep in mind that the investigation could be re-opened or that the Congressional investigation will impeach him. Trump does not have a chance. If he leaves office or is impeached he will be hit with a list of crimes that will bury him. The only hope he has is on the question of intent. I am not at all certain that he is not so ill that he is not capable of forming an intention. His reactions are more spastic than intentional. He also has over 40 civil suits to deal with and more are on the way. I do not see how anyone could fight 40 law suits and still have any kind of job at all, much less as POTUS.
Private information is information that is never shared with any other person or entity. When you give out information expect it to be collected and used. The concept of privacy is being bastardized beyond all reason. there are people who claim that no one can make note of a license plate of a car on a public road. The entire reason for a license plate is to allow others to easily identify the drivers.
They change phone numbers quicker than many people change their under ware. Catching them involves a bit more. Pretend to go through with the deal and get their phone number and location or delivery address or make an appointment for them to come do their thing such as a carpet cleaning solicitation. When they show up record all that you can and get the plate numbers off of their vehicles. Now you have a way to get at them. Police may not be at all helpful but a lawyer might get quite a few settlements for people who fight back like this.
Coral Springs Fl. is so whacko that one must get approval for any paint used on a home before painting. We have so many homeless here that we need to allow all kinds of nonsense in order to shelter the homeless and also not restrain where they can camp as they essentially try to drive the poor away by making life impossible for them. A tent or cardboard box is a whole bunch better than nothing at all.
Here we have a situation in which officials consider rules more important than reality. All of the rules must be designed to serve people. When a rule does not serve it must be taken down.
In the 1950s and 1960s we had several students in my school that had either enormous wealth or power or both. A teacher would be out of his blooming mind to not make certain these kids had really high grades as power and a telephone call could surely end a teacher's employment. I have no way to know if any contact or incentives between teachers and wealthy parents. I believe the system is such that things can happen without anyone ever speaking a word. I do know that our high school football team had one pro player as he tried to recruit me with mention of apartments and cars etc.. He was 21 years old.
Some people are slow learners when it comes to scooters and even on brands like Vespa which have had gasoline engines for 70 years or so will have new riders flop over sideways at times. It is a balance and perception problem and has nothing to do with the scooters themselves. The larger wheels seen on bicycles is a myth. If you look back to the penny farthing bicycles huge wheels and full size wheels have been common. Today we see that sustaining a speed as well as pedal input effort on a touring bike requires large diameter with very narrow tires. Yet mountain bikes do better with a bit smaller and fatter wheels. Small, 20 inch wheels work fine and can be very strong but they are also slow and require more pedal effort at higher speeds. The best answer for new scooter riders is to dress to crash. Hand, elbow and knee protection and quality head gear make all the difference and the least experienced riders need more safety gear.
Somewhere i got the impression that the US Navy is already building an automated war ship. i would be shocked if they have not done so. There is and has been one civilian helicopter making daily deliveries back and forth across the Mexican border for several years. It has no pilot.Obviously if a device can carry mail or whatever it can carry any number of military devices. One good use for automated helicopters is picking up wounded warriors from battlefields far to dangerous to end in a piloted craft. We can only hope that such devices prevent wars.
The human body is the failure point in modern fighters. G forces must be limited for a human to survive. The human can not be on that plane. Further human life support systems take up a lot of space. With robotic warriors no cock pit is required. That space can be used for fuel and weapons. Then there is another cost factor. Ruined or dead airmen and their survivors cost a fortune. No more mangled men and bodies to deal with at all. No human operated aircraft will be able to compete in combat. And it gets better. Ships also are better without sailors. Imagine a mother ship launching a smaller ship for the last 300 miles into a combat zone. The zombie ship needs no humans etc.. Once that zombie is on site it can wage all kinds of war more effectively than a human occupied vessel. In essence the conventional warship becomes a tow boat and fuel and weapons hauler that stands outside the battle arena. These days a small unmanned zombie warship could easily have more fire power than weapons of all types, used by all sides during WW2. And we don't even have to worry about radiation in the combat zone. So far air and water are the easy places for automatons. Land has far more challenges but we will soon see the Army soldiers become a historic oddity. These things are already taking place.
Having DNA of all of us would solve crimes in numbers we can't appreciate. Imagine if the 11,000 children now held illegally by the border patrol could have their parents located by DNA testing. Charging people to post their own DNA however is the wrong way to go. it is the process of deduction rather than surveillance that gives DNA collecting do powerful. If the individual appears to have disappeared being able to quickly find his children and relatives may prevent a criminal from hiding and thus actually prevent crime. If you know you can't get away with it the chances are you'll never do that crime.
Is it possible that this new form of neural communication could be received by another person? Maybe they are really on to something.
Sadly there are people who exist only on dollar store foods. The US grocery system is a mess and unable to provide food at sand prices. On top of all of that, sadly the US economic system is based upon competition and here we have a situation in which competition is stood on its ear. Normally if you are sharp enough to put a competitor out of business you are doing a really good job. Now if we want a start in fixing things simply disallow all export of produce and meats from US businesses and that would push down grocery prices quite a bit. For example sea food is now so expensive that we no longer have staff in the sea food department at my local Publix. If one wants a seafood section product usually one has to ask someone from the butcher section to meet you in the seafood department. Sea food is so expensive that very few patrons will purchase it.
We need a number number added to our phones which blocks 100% of all charities, appointment setters, and any sales related call . It must carry a serious prison sentence for the person that dials, the room manager and the owners of a business if even one call is made. In other words a total death for all types of phone sales and solicitations is what I seek. Why would I seek that? At 7:20 this morning I was awakened by a stupid call with the Microsoft services scam .This is despite the fact that i have not touched a Microsoft product of any type for over 20 years. Following that i received four more calls trying to send me Medicaid braces before noon. That particular day i received over 12 bullshit phone calls. I now sometimes explode and use the most vile tactics that i can to get rid of these creeps.
We are about to see a major squashing of teachers in the US . Kids can be taught by computer and we will see 99% of teachers eliminated in this country. Those in training to become teachers had best change their college majors right now.
If China made less money would cruelty decrease or increase ? Can we effectively demand more civil liberties in China by threatening loss of trade with the US? And although communism sucks can anyone name a time in which any other form of government in China has been better than communism ? Vietnam is now far better off as a communist nation than it ever was under different kinds of government. In the US we are not supposed to notice these things. But can it be that in certain places under certain conditions that communism is the best real choice for a nation?
So what do we get by putting this young man in prison for ten years? Maybe he will find Jesus and come out of prison with a glowing and honest personality. Well don't bet on that ! a man put away for ten years is much more likely to come out of prison with a serious does of rage and anger and a single minded dedication to destroying the system. Now we can make it worse very easily by using boredom, menial labor assignments and rather nasty and threatening living conditions to make certain that when he is not hacking away in the future he doesn't also slit a throat now and then to release his rage. Seriously ! Think about it. The American justice system is a ruptured duck supported by idiots.
More affluent families tend to have women at home who can afford maids and cooks and have way too much time on their hands. Among other things they have oodles of time to contact mayors, principals, senators etc.. The also have time to read absurd books and magazines and watch the latest idiotic feel good shows on TV. What they get is directly opposite being educated and it implies a fairly weak mind to believe the nonsense. They also accept no responsibility for the deaths and horrors that they cause. The flaw in the system is that everyone has a right to an opinion yet no one has responsibility for the great harms done by their opinions. The lower class could be manipulated by Trump. This upper middle class falls victim to junk science. So if they get cancer they may just read the National Inquirer rather than rushing to an oncologist. And why not ? The National Inquirer seems to have a new cancer cure every fifteen minutes or so.
The path of AI is fascinating. It already is giving us next years products today and that will get stronger and stronger. But there is no ultimate quality to a product. Although difficult better product can always be made. Sometimes game changers are not yet dreamed of. For example graphene and carbon fiber products are in their infancy and 15 years ago would not even be a question in one's mind. For example you might be producing the best canoe ever made but if carbon fiber is in your hands you can cut the weight of your canoe, make it difficult to damage and totally age resistant. But often it is the human will that fails and not the advancing technology. For example a row boat that is quite superior can be made from the same plastic that the common milk jug is made of yet almost no one has chose to do so. A very, very durable row boat that is lite in weight can be made from this type of plastic. Yet it just is not happening.
I have been busy trying to find the purple mountain's majesty across the fruited plains. First as far as I can tell there are no purple mountains. The plains are hardly blessed with any fruit at all. But missing something in a song is acceptable as I am convinced we are holding a guided light so that the poor and the wretched around the world can cross our borders. But the idea that Germany can get rid of coal faster than the US has no chance at all. That is just silly. After all our streets are all paved with hold just so we can easily sweep up the coal dust that covers them. Now we do know that coal duct contains Mercury and probably lead as well and just maybe gold dust is in that soot as well.
Either way the shock wave will be enormous. Vast areas of work will be almost eliminated such as school teachers. An eighth history class could be broadcast to every eighth grade student in the US. Professional drivers will be hit really hard. Meanwhile, other tasks that have variables may require only a human attendant. For example a lawn cutting robot might be super efficient with one human attendant in case something odd takes place rather than a three or four man crew. Lawyers are already being hit by machines that can take care of basic legal forms and the like. Automated guard and police services are already somewhat in play. The entire reason for technology is replacement of human labor and now technology is winning.
To me anything that can be seen or heard from a public space is fare game. If I make notes on whose car is parked at the local brothel, for my own purposes, it is fair and reasonable that I do so. Right now we have people who feel that everything they do or say in public is somehow private information and we must avoid falling into this trap. For example stealing money from someone's account must always be a crime the idea of recording their charge card data when they order pizza over the phone should be legal. When you have a means of proving where a person was at a certain time it can be of great use in stopping crimes or even breaking up marriages of cheating spouses. By the way quite a few card numbers are stolen by cell phones ability to record conversation within its hearing range.
OK, the government quit us so now lets get a decent president in place. What an opportunity !