It might be good for others to know that I was in the storm. Comcast cable has content delivered by satellite and also has controls for program delivery that use phone lines. During almost every storm cable TV becomes unavailable or the power lines are intolerant to storm conditions and your TV is useless even if the power stays on. But my Roku box avoids that telephone component completely and I was able to watch Netflix on Roku all night without interruption. Those who live in areas that do have hurricanes frequently might really want a Roku unit of their own.
In 1960 I noticed a KKK meeting going on in a field. I parked my car and went to watch the clown show. Men in trench coats were writing down car plate numbers as well as taking pictures of the cars and plates. Oddly for the FBI to be seen doing that is more discouraging to free speech and free association than doing it on the sly. Local folks might have chased the clowns out of the field if they were not frightened to park and get their plates recorded or maybe photos of their faces taken. Watching an event never implies that one approves of an event.
Reduction in CO2 creation simply delays the death sentence for our planet. We need not only to eliminate much of the CO2 already released but also need to stop new creation of CO2. Increasing natural areas as well as taking action like planting large bamboo forests would help quite a bit. Bamboo sequesters CO2 for the first five years or so of its life. Harvest it and use it for products that do not require burning that bamboo and you chain it up for the long term. We must get the S.American governments to stop all slash and burn farming and all nations need to limit birth rates as well. States such as Florida can install solar farms to turn energy into treating fresh water and sending it to areas that are too dry across the nation. My town has been dumping almost one billion gallons a day of fresh water into the ocean for several months in a row. How much Texas desert could be irrigated with one billion gallons per day? One thing is sure. If we do not wage war with global warming and CO2 production we will suffer total economic and political collapse as well as exterminating most of the human race. The discomfort of doing what must be done is nothing at all compared to what will soon be upon us if we take half hearted actions.
OK, so some god or very, very advanced being or race is creating us and our perceived reality. That means that they want us to exist and exist inside this matrix as well. If we somehow could break the jail and get out and still exist wouldn't that risk retaliation for such as escape? Plainly said would we be pissing God off?
All governments repress conversations between citizens. It does not relate to a need to do so. It is not because a nation has enemies or the danger of some potential emergency. It is almost as expected as the fact that a banana will ripen and turn black. It can have to do with corruption and a seeking of ways to make money, a desire to maintain power, or a desire to squash people not liked by an administration. And frankly it is next to impossible to stop. If a spy agency wants to steer certain people to use a particular encryption system there would be one heck of a motive to get refused to break an encrypted product as a lure and announce in a subtle way that the government is frustrated at not being able to penetrate the product. We never know if it is not a spy agency actually creating the encryption programs. This went as far as a very superior cell phone being sold in Miami that was designed to lure drug dealers to use that phone and every conversation went right to the FBI and probably other agencies as well.
Perhaps gold platters with a system much like LP records could contain information that could be retrieved with fairly simple efforts. The problems would include wars and thefts, the deliberate altering of facts, burglaries , and opposition by various governments. Also deciding what is fact and what is opinion in the original proposed data would cause endless strife. issues like who shot JFK or the qualities of current presidential candidates, would include all kinds of disagreements. Can you imagine such a disk that contained "elements within the US government, combined with the military, industrial complex, used resources within the Maffia to kill president John F. Kennedy." being acceptable to the US government?
Hillary skinned trump alive in the first debate. His skin was going to be used to cover the outhouse door but he is fat and the skin stretched almost all the way around the outhouse. Bill Maher pegged it correctly explaining Trump's hair and facial colors. It is simple. His father was an orangutan. It is a national humiliation that a man such as Trump could actually be a candidate for our highest office. Other nations think we have gone stark raving, full Bozo, crazy.
Netflix cut off Linux PCs by demanding Silverlight. I purchased a Roku unit and now I can Netflix myself until I'm silly or my eyes are burned out. However it still bothers me that Netflix does not treat Linux users well.
Being totally brainwashed and deliberately misinformed I know for certain that it is absolutely impossible for the French or anyone other than an American to discover or develop anything. That is why it is so critical that we admit no immigrants so that our glorious superiority can not be contaminated by foreign thoughts. Donnie Trump explained that to me.
So here we have a situation in which supply and demand are balanced by a computer program and in a so-called capitalist nation, it is somehow considered an unfair advantage. Could this be an admission that we really are living in a socialist society.
So now the military puts suicide attempt people in isolation. I am absolutely certain that that will ensure that such a person will not commit suicide in the future. It must follow the logic that a boring dingy cell can somehow make a violator a better citizen.
I have noticed the same circumstance in the building of shopping plazas. It seems to be almost a certainty that the original owners will fail. The second owners will have a real battle and will probably fail. The third owners get a discount as the plaza is no longer spanking new and there are some solid renters in the stores and then a long term, profitable business is at hand. One has to be either very brave or very foolish to be the first owner of a shopping plaza.
Responsibility is a flawed concept. Only a person who can make a meaningful response can respond to anything. For example picture an old fashioned sailing ship heading for a fatal crash due to a bad captain. The crew can do nothing as any disobedience will get them hung from a yard arm. The people that hired the captain are not available as they are on land and can not observe the issue first hand. It all comes down to one and only one person being responsible and it is the ship's captain. The two hundred sailors do not share the blame.
In common life, there are many people who for various reasons can not respond to situations with proper behaviors. Even the law admits some truth in this when it says that a person must be competent to aid in their own defense as well as being aware that what they did was wrong at the time of the offense. In business and in life most people around you are not competent and probably can never achieve any real degree of competency. They did not ask to be in that condition and in fact since you are competent you have the obligation to care for them.
One possibility is that some sort of god-like creature, or creatures, use a matrix like situations to test systems and find potential flaws or benefits.
Another possibility is that humanity exists as a potential AI life force generator. We have seven billion people on the planet. Suppose each person has a computer running a matrix of its own design, complete with things like entirely altered laws of physics, chemistry or even mathematics. After these universes ran for a period of time some would be found to be superior to others. If we can create a matrix better than the one we now live in our true purpose may be at an end. Perhaps we could transfer to the new and better matrix or perhaps that big hand in the sky just hits the off switch on our universe.
In a free society, the people need access to all government activities. If our military status can be threatened by an enemy learning secrets then our military is inferior. Hand the enemy our blueprints and procedures and find out how many years it would take them to actually be able to produce a military product. By the time they can actually do it we should already have a new, superior technology in place. High technology weapons and modes of combat are beyond the ability of other nations to afford or to manufacture.
At this point some of the modern language cracking tools just might make it possible to converse with the dolphins. If the animals really are as intelligent as suspected they might have things like a religion or numerous abilities that we do not expect to find. Do they have any form of mathematics that might be useful to humans? Just what advantage does their intelligence provide for them? Can whales understand dolphins? What are the goals of a pod of dolphins? The real mysteries may be quite shocking to us.
Being afraid or even being offended by new technologies is the usual thing to expect. When people heard that they could go 30 mph on a train many insisted that death would be the consequence of moving that quickly. Now we have people scared to death over drones. If you build it they will fear it !
It certainly would help to provide a basic income as long as people are free to work and earn extra money without loss of that basic income. There are a couple of difficulties as those that work in low paying jobs will resent people earning about what they earn without working. In the US there is a larger issue. We need the public to be able to spend money on more than just the bare basics of life. Businesses need buyers. The US now has way too many people who have to stretch every penny. That excludes them as buyers for numerous products and services. As employment becomes more and more an unusual thing due to technology replacing human labor, more and more people are excluded from the buyer pool. That means less employment and less taxes and more public expenses dealing with the displaced etc.. The one and only thing that can hope to work is to provide an income that not only covers all the basics but also leaves money left over to spend on things that are not basic needs. If we do not do this we will surely face a total economic collapse and a loss of our nation. It is also obvious that we will have to price control some items such as medical care and medications or no amount of income will help to bail us all out of the impending collapse.
Now the people in Flint can have bottled water sent to their door by a driverless vehicle. How about cleaning up the plumbing in Flint? Maybe we need a plumberless plumber to do the work.
Enemies tend to use almost anything they can find against you. The notion that one could sue Twitter is half witted nonsense. A 40 year old, land line telephone could also aid terrorists. Cell phones must be a dandy for terrorists and GPS obviously can aid bad people as well. Any drunk can use an automobile to commit a mass murder. The idea that the selling of a device or service that may, at times, be misused by bad people should not make a company liable. If my neighbor decides to commit suicide with a pistol should I be allowed to file a suit for proximity, traumatic stress syndrome, because i saw his brains on my lawn?
If banks wanted security the first thing that should be allowed is long or complex passwords. Yet many banks have severe restrictions on what characters can be used in passwords as well as insisting upon short passwords. So just why would financial institutions not have software that allowed characters as well as long passwords to be used? Imagine trying to crack }}}}}}}philandbillwentupthehill4444times.
Actually Texas restricts the use of deadly force a great deal more than we do in Florida. For example, in Texas the degree of economic harm is weighed according to the size of a potential loss and the wealth of the property owner. For example if a poor man noticed a thief stealing $5,000 worth of awnings off of his home, deadly force would be acceptable. Whereas if a rich man who could easily afford a $5,000 loss could be convicted as lethal force would not be justified. On the other hand, in Florida protection from loss is almost sacred and the exact point at which deadly force is used can be a very trivial threat of loss. And this is more than just a castle doctrine issue. It is also a legal minefield as our current laws have not yet been clarified and judges have quite a bit of leeway. For example one young fellow had a car radio stolen and was told that some jerk was trying to sell a car radio a couple of hundred feet up the street. The fellow grabbed a kitchen knife ran up the street and killed the thief, taking back his radio. He was found not guilty in court. The judge simply could not tell whether our stand your ground laws covered that behavior or not. My feeling is that our stand your ground laws are making people toe the line quite a bit.
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It might be good for others to know that I was in the storm. Comcast cable has content delivered by satellite and also has controls for program delivery that use phone lines. During almost every storm cable TV becomes unavailable or the power lines are intolerant to storm conditions and your TV is useless even if the power stays on. But my Roku box avoids that telephone component completely and I was able to watch Netflix on Roku all night without interruption. Those who live in areas that do have hurricanes frequently might really want a Roku unit of their own.
In 1960 I noticed a KKK meeting going on in a field. I parked my car and went to watch the clown show. Men in trench coats were writing down car plate numbers as well as taking pictures of the cars and plates. Oddly for the FBI to be seen doing that is more discouraging to free speech and free association than doing it on the sly. Local folks might have chased the clowns out of the field if they were not frightened to park and get their plates recorded or maybe photos of their faces taken. Watching an event never implies that one approves of an event.
Reduction in CO2 creation simply delays the death sentence for our planet. We need not only to eliminate much of the CO2 already released but also need to stop new creation of CO2. Increasing natural areas as well as taking action like planting large bamboo forests would help quite a bit. Bamboo sequesters CO2 for the first five years or so of its life. Harvest it and use it for products that do not require burning that bamboo and you chain it up for the long term. We must get the S.American governments to stop all slash and burn farming and all nations need to limit birth rates as well. States such as Florida can install solar farms to turn energy into treating fresh water and sending it to areas that are too dry across the nation. My town has been dumping almost one billion gallons a day of fresh water into the ocean for several months in a row. How much Texas desert could be irrigated with one billion gallons per day? One thing is sure. If we do not wage war with global warming and CO2 production we will suffer total economic and political collapse as well as exterminating most of the human race. The discomfort of doing what must be done is nothing at all compared to what will soon be upon us if we take half hearted actions.
OK, so some god or very, very advanced being or race is creating us and our perceived reality. That means that they want us to exist and exist inside this matrix as well. If we somehow could break the jail and get out and still exist wouldn't that risk retaliation for such as escape? Plainly said would we be pissing God off?
All governments repress conversations between citizens. It does not relate to a need to do so. It is not because a nation has enemies or the danger of some potential emergency. It is almost as expected as the fact that a banana will ripen and turn black. It can have to do with corruption and a seeking of ways to make money, a desire to maintain power, or a desire to squash people not liked by an administration. And frankly it is next to impossible to stop. If a spy agency wants to steer certain people to use a particular encryption system there would be one heck of a motive to get refused to break an encrypted product as a lure and announce in a subtle way that the government is frustrated at not being able to penetrate the product. We never know if it is not a spy agency actually creating the encryption programs. This went as far as a very superior cell phone being sold in Miami that was designed to lure drug dealers to use that phone and every conversation went right to the FBI and probably other agencies as well.
Perhaps gold platters with a system much like LP records could contain information that could be retrieved with fairly simple efforts. The problems would include wars and thefts, the deliberate altering of facts, burglaries , and opposition by various governments. Also deciding what is fact and what is opinion in the original proposed data would cause endless strife. issues like who shot JFK or the qualities of current presidential candidates, would include all kinds of disagreements. Can you imagine such a disk that contained "elements within the US government, combined with the military, industrial complex, used resources within the Maffia to kill president John F. Kennedy." being acceptable to the US government?
Hillary skinned trump alive in the first debate. His skin was going to be used to cover the outhouse door but he is fat and the skin stretched almost all the way around the outhouse. Bill Maher pegged it correctly explaining Trump's hair and facial colors. It is simple. His father was an orangutan. It is a national humiliation that a man such as Trump could actually be a candidate for our highest office. Other nations think we have gone stark raving, full Bozo, crazy.
Netflix cut off Linux PCs by demanding Silverlight. I purchased a Roku unit and now I can Netflix myself until I'm silly or my eyes are burned out. However it still bothers me that Netflix does not treat Linux users well.
Being totally brainwashed and deliberately misinformed I know for certain that it is absolutely impossible for the French or anyone other than an American to discover or develop anything. That is why it is so critical that we admit no immigrants so that our glorious superiority can not be contaminated by foreign thoughts. Donnie Trump explained that to me.
So here we have a situation in which supply and demand are balanced by a computer program and in a so-called capitalist nation, it is somehow considered an unfair advantage. Could this be an admission that we really are living in a socialist society.
So now the military puts suicide attempt people in isolation. I am absolutely certain that that will ensure that such a person will not commit suicide in the future. It must follow the logic that a boring dingy cell can somehow make a violator a better citizen.
I have noticed the same circumstance in the building of shopping plazas. It seems to be almost a certainty that the original owners will fail. The second owners will have a real battle and will probably fail. The third owners get a discount as the plaza is no longer spanking new and there are some solid renters in the stores and then a long term, profitable business is at hand. One has to be either very brave or very foolish to be the first owner of a shopping plaza.
Throw these people under the jail. It is not their privilege to deny a subpoena.
Responsibility is a flawed concept. Only a person who can make a meaningful response can respond to anything. For example picture an old fashioned sailing ship heading for a fatal crash due to a bad captain. The crew can do nothing as any disobedience will get them hung from a yard arm. The people that hired the captain are not available as they are on land and can not observe the issue first hand. It all comes down to one and only one person being responsible and it is the ship's captain. The two hundred sailors do not share the blame. In common life, there are many people who for various reasons can not respond to situations with proper behaviors. Even the law admits some truth in this when it says that a person must be competent to aid in their own defense as well as being aware that what they did was wrong at the time of the offense. In business and in life most people around you are not competent and probably can never achieve any real degree of competency. They did not ask to be in that condition and in fact since you are competent you have the obligation to care for them.
One possibility is that some sort of god-like creature, or creatures, use a matrix like situations to test systems and find potential flaws or benefits. Another possibility is that humanity exists as a potential AI life force generator. We have seven billion people on the planet. Suppose each person has a computer running a matrix of its own design, complete with things like entirely altered laws of physics, chemistry or even mathematics. After these universes ran for a period of time some would be found to be superior to others. If we can create a matrix better than the one we now live in our true purpose may be at an end. Perhaps we could transfer to the new and better matrix or perhaps that big hand in the sky just hits the off switch on our universe.
In a free society, the people need access to all government activities. If our military status can be threatened by an enemy learning secrets then our military is inferior. Hand the enemy our blueprints and procedures and find out how many years it would take them to actually be able to produce a military product. By the time they can actually do it we should already have a new, superior technology in place. High technology weapons and modes of combat are beyond the ability of other nations to afford or to manufacture.
At this point some of the modern language cracking tools just might make it possible to converse with the dolphins. If the animals really are as intelligent as suspected they might have things like a religion or numerous abilities that we do not expect to find. Do they have any form of mathematics that might be useful to humans? Just what advantage does their intelligence provide for them? Can whales understand dolphins? What are the goals of a pod of dolphins? The real mysteries may be quite shocking to us.
After being bombarded by the words of trump i have no problem in thinking that a dolphin may be more verbal and more intelligent than some humans.
Being afraid or even being offended by new technologies is the usual thing to expect. When people heard that they could go 30 mph on a train many insisted that death would be the consequence of moving that quickly. Now we have people scared to death over drones. If you build it they will fear it !
It certainly would help to provide a basic income as long as people are free to work and earn extra money without loss of that basic income. There are a couple of difficulties as those that work in low paying jobs will resent people earning about what they earn without working. In the US there is a larger issue. We need the public to be able to spend money on more than just the bare basics of life. Businesses need buyers. The US now has way too many people who have to stretch every penny. That excludes them as buyers for numerous products and services. As employment becomes more and more an unusual thing due to technology replacing human labor, more and more people are excluded from the buyer pool. That means less employment and less taxes and more public expenses dealing with the displaced etc.. The one and only thing that can hope to work is to provide an income that not only covers all the basics but also leaves money left over to spend on things that are not basic needs. If we do not do this we will surely face a total economic collapse and a loss of our nation. It is also obvious that we will have to price control some items such as medical care and medications or no amount of income will help to bail us all out of the impending collapse.
Come to the US. It might be a great option here.
Now the people in Flint can have bottled water sent to their door by a driverless vehicle. How about cleaning up the plumbing in Flint? Maybe we need a plumberless plumber to do the work.
Enemies tend to use almost anything they can find against you. The notion that one could sue Twitter is half witted nonsense. A 40 year old, land line telephone could also aid terrorists. Cell phones must be a dandy for terrorists and GPS obviously can aid bad people as well. Any drunk can use an automobile to commit a mass murder. The idea that the selling of a device or service that may, at times, be misused by bad people should not make a company liable. If my neighbor decides to commit suicide with a pistol should I be allowed to file a suit for proximity, traumatic stress syndrome, because i saw his brains on my lawn?
If banks wanted security the first thing that should be allowed is long or complex passwords. Yet many banks have severe restrictions on what characters can be used in passwords as well as insisting upon short passwords. So just why would financial institutions not have software that allowed characters as well as long passwords to be used? Imagine trying to crack }}}}}}}philandbillwentupthehill4444times.
Actually Texas restricts the use of deadly force a great deal more than we do in Florida. For example, in Texas the degree of economic harm is weighed according to the size of a potential loss and the wealth of the property owner. For example if a poor man noticed a thief stealing $5,000 worth of awnings off of his home, deadly force would be acceptable. Whereas if a rich man who could easily afford a $5,000 loss could be convicted as lethal force would not be justified. On the other hand, in Florida protection from loss is almost sacred and the exact point at which deadly force is used can be a very trivial threat of loss. And this is more than just a castle doctrine issue. It is also a legal minefield as our current laws have not yet been clarified and judges have quite a bit of leeway. For example one young fellow had a car radio stolen and was told that some jerk was trying to sell a car radio a couple of hundred feet up the street. The fellow grabbed a kitchen knife ran up the street and killed the thief, taking back his radio. He was found not guilty in court. The judge simply could not tell whether our stand your ground laws covered that behavior or not. My feeling is that our stand your ground laws are making people toe the line quite a bit.