People don't dwell on such things. I had a neighbor who passed just a few weeks shy of 100. Things that all of us consider normal were simply impossible for him such as keeping in touch with his school friends or most of his family as they had all passed away. How many people wanted to talk to him about the way life was in 1880? It is as if the man's entire universe left town and moved too far away.
Building an FM transmitter was simple for a 15 year old back in 1960. It was even legal as long as one used a whimp of an antenna which limited the range to about the size of your home. But if you just happened to put a longer antenna on it you could broadcast for miles while using very little electricity. Let us imagine that it was during the Cuban missile crises and that in less than 10 minutes of broadcasting got cars with strange antennas as well as a helicopter landing next to a certain home. We can further imagine that that little FM rig was slapped onto a motorcycle and moved a mile or so and back on the air for about five seconds which was just long enough to confuse the pinpoint triangulation of the broadcast point. That just might have happened in south Florida. i used to enjoy listening to such pirate stations in Brooklyn NY by the way. Today with modern equipment i'll bet a decent FM broadcast radio could be smaller than a pack of smokes and moved every few minutes.
I think facial recognition systems should be deployed all over every town and city as well as roads. People simply have no need to hide where they are or where they are going. And yes there are stalkers in this world but it would also enable stalkers to be swept up rather easily. I do know that many people really want to hide their actions and activities. The problem is that also allows really bad people to get away with all kinds of crimes.
You can bet that a group that announces it is dedicated to destroying a large company is about to be dragged into court and whipped until they break in half and bleed out on the court room floor.
The new technology is wonderful. And some changes are painful. But we still completely fail to deal with consequences of the rapid changes we are seeing. For example we know coal will be shut down. That means that big coal will have no money to repair damaged areas that are unsafe due to pollution. So is anyone doing anything to force big coal to have cash reserves for future clean-ups? Then we have the displaced workers in the coal industry who often live in areas where no other employment options exist. We simply can not abandon those workers and destroy the economy of states like W. Va..
Suppose a twenty year old has no cell phone and no computer and never goes online. To a smart law enforcement agency they would take a look at that person. That person is off the bell curve of normal behavior. It could be that the person is severely handicapped or has some rational reason for being out of step with the world but more likely or not they are trying to be invisible. I'll bet all kinds of criminals could be caught by simply examining eccentric ways of life of individuals. How far does it go? Criminals with outstanding warrants or who are under investigation often flee to large cities with good public transportation as they know that a traffic stop is the most common way of coming into contact with law enforcement. A subway or public bus gets you away from scrutiny. Now if you travel long distance by bus you must get a clearance from Homeland Security. They require a credit card and not cash be used to buy a bus ticket and if you buy a ticket for someone else there is a $19. fee added to the price of a ticket. They call it a guest ticket. The feds also demand that hotels along the major highways only accept credit or debit cards. It makes it harder and harder for criminals to exist.
It is convenient and wards of personal fears to believe that the poor are lazy, have some defect, or behave poorly. But it is a false belief. Mother Teresa spent her life in poverty as did Ghandi, Christ and the Buddha. Many of the best and most worthy people suffer poverty. Ask Mozart! Recently I learned some new ebonics. Getting hemmed was the first term. A hem controls the height of a garment from the ground as well as how far the garment can expand. The trap was the next term. The ghetto is called the trap. Essentially if you are born in the trap you will stay in the trap. Hey, it's only true 95% of the time. The trap is also the area surrounded with cops and in which cops are free to break the law as they know that people who are in the trap can not afford lawyers. So individuals consider themselves as hemmed in the trap. They can only rise off the ground to the regulated degree. They can only expand to the regulated degree. So what happens when people are hemmed in the trap? All too often the city declares the trap a blighted area, pushes the people out, with no place to go and levels the trap. Think of it like it was 150 years ago and the Indian Reservation became an issue for white folks. Boom ! No more reservation, treaties be damned.
The right wing is dangerous. And ordinary, well intended laws can be dangerous as well. That is because the right wing treats laws like a rubber band that can be stretched to enormous sizes and intrude into things the laws were never intended to touch. For example by bringing this to light the right wing is promoting Snowden and reaping the financial benefit of re-election . There fore they are benefiting by the supposed crimes and the right wing should be arrested.
These people are counting on exactly what telephone scam artists counted on for decades. First no phone calls were ever made within your own state. That kept local law enforcement out of the loop. Further, the cop shops took bribes and it was explained to them that a lot of money would be in the town as the workers were well paid. The effect was that state and local laws enforcement only touched about 1% of the phone rooms no matter how crooked they were and they were and they were all crooked, although the employees often could not see how corrupt their employers were. So how about federal cops making arrests? Last year the DOJ prosecuted 13 companies for phone sales fraud. they went after only companies in which huge fines could be assessed. I will bet that at least 30,000 phone sales outfits exist in Florida alone. The message that phone sales people get is that it is open season on the public. Here is another gimmick : The sales man makes the call and gets a yes from the target. Then he tells you to hang on as he transfers you to the verification department so your package gets out to you as soon as possible. When he transfers you it is to another state entirely. So if you manage to file an expensive law suit and drag them into court you will suddenly discover that the sale took place in another place in which the verification department took your charge card number . that means you will have to start the suit over gain in another state and by the time it comes to trial most sales will not allow the case to be heard. I even saw this in a gas station accident. The victim sued the gas station as the mechanic ran over them while working on a car. When it finally got to court the gas station owner remarked he did not know why he was being sued as the repair bay was another company entirely. the time tolled before the victim could get back into the court system.
I hope England is smart enough to not have such an idiotic law. A good policy is never to examine or moderate any traffic on your net or hot spot. If you do not know it is there you can not intend for it to be there.
How is it that simply not wanting something to be true can make people go blind and immune to truth and facts? I wonder if there is any hope for humanity.
Out of 12 months a year that region might have seven months in which construction is possible. Ice and snow take up almost half a year so a one year period is simply not at all realistic. Imagine trying to keep the snow off of those panels to generate power in the cold months over there.
Yes the US has far too many people in jails and prisons and it is largely race based. Then, what must we do about it? But the problem rests in what really are the worst crimes. Every now and then we catch some lunatic who is a serial killer who has taken several lives. But a drug seller can take far more lives than the lunatic with that big, bad life. Ad not only that, casual drug users, by being an example encourage others to use illegal drugs. For example we have Prince, who will be considered a role model by many young people and they will think that if Prince used dope it must be a first rate way to live and behave. So who should rot in a prison for life? I'll bet that Prince's use of drugs will cost more people their lives than any serial killer in American history. And Prince was only a drug user. Considering how few people truly recover from drug addictions maybe we should consider life without hope of parole for any use of any illegal drugs, even on the first offense. I know it sounds crazy to post that but drugs are destroying lives by the millions.
Lawyers can be quite useful in catching people in lies. Many lawyers also have reliable investigators who go out in the field and do fact finding. What is important is that the party that loses pays for all the legal and investigation and court fees for both sides. Let the guilty pay for the entire load.
Airlines solicit people to be 5 miles in the air and thus vulnerable to death. To me that means that zero levels of privacy should be allowed so that all individuals and competitors can study every single detail about anything to do with an airline. For example the pay rates for their mechanics is one indicator of the quality of maintenance performed. How about dollars spent on maintenance per hour of flight? How about the hours in the air for every plane they fly? All these things can be used to judge safety and should be wide open for all inspections at all times.
There is nothing at all about our financial system that i like. However in this case hiring the super expensive CEO may be out of an urgent need to repair a company that is not doing well. Or it could be out of ignorance. But how does one judge? A poorly performing company may be in a position in which growth or profit are simply unrealistic.
In a fair economic situation every company would have total access to a competitor's data. That way they can price compete while both having all the information. In an unfair system what does it mean to cheat? Is it to the players' benefit that all the data is kept secret? After all if all know the truth the pay might be much higher.
I pay $9.50 a month for Netflix and it is better than either HBO, Showtime or Starz. If they jumped up to $12. per month i would not blink an eye. Meanwhile my cable bill is $220. per month.
That means that less money can be made by businesses doing sales in the US. Now combine lower wages with a persistent inflation that is high enough that the public never gets a real number on the rate of inflation and in effect they are saying this new crop of workers will live and die in poverty. Are we having fun yet? Is the US the new Mexico?
First peoples' taxes will not go up as people will not be taxed. Businesses will take on the tax load as well as the rich. Because the masses will have more money to spend the sales taxes and income taxes paid by the businesses will generate more wealth than the wealth formerly garnered from taxing workers. The idea that job programs will work is absurd. The US has had numerous job programs and they have pretty much been worthless both to society and the workers. That is severely compounded as we simply have less and less need for human workers. Every little advance in technology means less and less jobs will be available. Look at it on a simple level. The new Elo car gets 85 mpg.. A Harley motorcycle only gets about 40mpg. Now just how many jobs will be lost driving gas tankers due to the high mileage ability of the Elo cars? The point being that even a bit of a new technology in a car design ripples through other industries and causes job losses along a large chain of businesses. How about gasoline taxes on a vehicle that gets 85mpg? Some states already apply a tax on electric cars as they pay no gas taxes. It is easy to see just how society resists changes even without taking a vote or considering the effect of new laws and regulations designed to cover changes caused by advancing technology. For decades we were told that good Americans would stop using so much energy. Then electric cars come along and the same government applies penalties for doing exactly what they asked people to do. These problems are a strange and perverse corruption that is so built into the system that we have no answers at all. And by the way, who will buy that Harley when an Elo has air conditioning and gets twice the gas mileage. And the Elo is so simple in design that like Tesla they may not need dealerships at all. How many people work in car dealerships?
A lot of good ideas are locked into specific climate zones. I'm in Florida and far enough south that heat and humidity are a problem almost 365 days a year. Just how would such a suit or skin keep a person from death from heat exhaustion? Even some of the velo mobiles that work nicely in other places are no use at all in Florida. A recumbent bicycle puts your fanny closer to the black top. If that blacktop is 180 degrees F being closer is a really lousy idea. Now just imagine a robotic skin and the energy supply it would need to keep one cool in our climate. heck, even a Tee shirt is too much clothing here.
My feeling is that there is a god and that God is the ultimate in efficiency. Just how would a multiverse be created/ To be efficient it would have to be something resembling a computer program so that real space and substance would not be required and multiple or endless multiple universes could all exist in the same computer either being allowed to interact one with the next or disallowed from any interactions. Physical models seem to confirm this. For example a black hole seems to take in truly awesome amounts of matter and energy and put them is some sort of absolute elsewhere. The idea that matter can be compressed to the point that it no longer has any size at all is a proof that matter is some sort of illusion. If one does not accept the notion that we are some sort of program then how does one describe the area in which space exists? Are we to imagine that space floats about in some sort of absolute void? How many spaces could exist within such a void? And just how would we ever hope to explain quantum mechanics? And if there is no God then just why is all the nonsense of the universe going on at all? As our universe ends are we to believe that it was all for nothing as no evidence would exist of what went on in the probable, billions of advanced civilizations and all the hopes, dreams, labors and history of all things is simply worthless fluff destined to vanish without any traces it ever existed?
How severe a hail storm can the panels survive? If the panels are well installed how much wind can they tolerate. In my part of Florida we will tend to have a hurricane every four years. 150 mph winds are common with gusts going even higher. Replacing a system every few years might make solar a really bad choice here. Also how much storm wind can windmills take without damage? It is hard to imagine one of the huge, tall windmills being smacked by the type of tornado so common in Oklahoma.
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People don't dwell on such things. I had a neighbor who passed just a few weeks shy of 100. Things that all of us consider normal were simply impossible for him such as keeping in touch with his school friends or most of his family as they had all passed away. How many people wanted to talk to him about the way life was in 1880? It is as if the man's entire universe left town and moved too far away.
Building an FM transmitter was simple for a 15 year old back in 1960. It was even legal as long as one used a whimp of an antenna which limited the range to about the size of your home. But if you just happened to put a longer antenna on it you could broadcast for miles while using very little electricity. Let us imagine that it was during the Cuban missile crises and that in less than 10 minutes of broadcasting got cars with strange antennas as well as a helicopter landing next to a certain home. We can further imagine that that little FM rig was slapped onto a motorcycle and moved a mile or so and back on the air for about five seconds which was just long enough to confuse the pinpoint triangulation of the broadcast point. That just might have happened in south Florida. i used to enjoy listening to such pirate stations in Brooklyn NY by the way. Today with modern equipment i'll bet a decent FM broadcast radio could be smaller than a pack of smokes and moved every few minutes.
I think facial recognition systems should be deployed all over every town and city as well as roads. People simply have no need to hide where they are or where they are going. And yes there are stalkers in this world but it would also enable stalkers to be swept up rather easily. I do know that many people really want to hide their actions and activities. The problem is that also allows really bad people to get away with all kinds of crimes.
You can bet that a group that announces it is dedicated to destroying a large company is about to be dragged into court and whipped until they break in half and bleed out on the court room floor.
The new technology is wonderful. And some changes are painful. But we still completely fail to deal with consequences of the rapid changes we are seeing. For example we know coal will be shut down. That means that big coal will have no money to repair damaged areas that are unsafe due to pollution. So is anyone doing anything to force big coal to have cash reserves for future clean-ups? Then we have the displaced workers in the coal industry who often live in areas where no other employment options exist. We simply can not abandon those workers and destroy the economy of states like W. Va..
Suppose a twenty year old has no cell phone and no computer and never goes online. To a smart law enforcement agency they would take a look at that person. That person is off the bell curve of normal behavior. It could be that the person is severely handicapped or has some rational reason for being out of step with the world but more likely or not they are trying to be invisible. I'll bet all kinds of criminals could be caught by simply examining eccentric ways of life of individuals. How far does it go? Criminals with outstanding warrants or who are under investigation often flee to large cities with good public transportation as they know that a traffic stop is the most common way of coming into contact with law enforcement. A subway or public bus gets you away from scrutiny. Now if you travel long distance by bus you must get a clearance from Homeland Security. They require a credit card and not cash be used to buy a bus ticket and if you buy a ticket for someone else there is a $19. fee added to the price of a ticket. They call it a guest ticket. The feds also demand that hotels along the major highways only accept credit or debit cards. It makes it harder and harder for criminals to exist.
It is convenient and wards of personal fears to believe that the poor are lazy, have some defect, or behave poorly. But it is a false belief. Mother Teresa spent her life in poverty as did Ghandi, Christ and the Buddha. Many of the best and most worthy people suffer poverty. Ask Mozart! Recently I learned some new ebonics. Getting hemmed was the first term. A hem controls the height of a garment from the ground as well as how far the garment can expand. The trap was the next term. The ghetto is called the trap. Essentially if you are born in the trap you will stay in the trap. Hey, it's only true 95% of the time. The trap is also the area surrounded with cops and in which cops are free to break the law as they know that people who are in the trap can not afford lawyers. So individuals consider themselves as hemmed in the trap. They can only rise off the ground to the regulated degree. They can only expand to the regulated degree. So what happens when people are hemmed in the trap? All too often the city declares the trap a blighted area, pushes the people out, with no place to go and levels the trap. Think of it like it was 150 years ago and the Indian Reservation became an issue for white folks. Boom ! No more reservation, treaties be damned.
A human, animal combo just might explain Trump. I suppose a rat or weasel would be the animal component.
Therefore we have no global warming to worry about even if it adds plutonium to my soup or my grandchildren's playground.
The right wing is dangerous. And ordinary, well intended laws can be dangerous as well. That is because the right wing treats laws like a rubber band that can be stretched to enormous sizes and intrude into things the laws were never intended to touch. For example by bringing this to light the right wing is promoting Snowden and reaping the financial benefit of re-election . There fore they are benefiting by the supposed crimes and the right wing should be arrested.
These people are counting on exactly what telephone scam artists counted on for decades. First no phone calls were ever made within your own state. That kept local law enforcement out of the loop. Further, the cop shops took bribes and it was explained to them that a lot of money would be in the town as the workers were well paid. The effect was that state and local laws enforcement only touched about 1% of the phone rooms no matter how crooked they were and they were and they were all crooked, although the employees often could not see how corrupt their employers were. So how about federal cops making arrests? Last year the DOJ prosecuted 13 companies for phone sales fraud. they went after only companies in which huge fines could be assessed. I will bet that at least 30,000 phone sales outfits exist in Florida alone. The message that phone sales people get is that it is open season on the public. Here is another gimmick : The sales man makes the call and gets a yes from the target. Then he tells you to hang on as he transfers you to the verification department so your package gets out to you as soon as possible. When he transfers you it is to another state entirely. So if you manage to file an expensive law suit and drag them into court you will suddenly discover that the sale took place in another place in which the verification department took your charge card number . that means you will have to start the suit over gain in another state and by the time it comes to trial most sales will not allow the case to be heard. I even saw this in a gas station accident. The victim sued the gas station as the mechanic ran over them while working on a car. When it finally got to court the gas station owner remarked he did not know why he was being sued as the repair bay was another company entirely. the time tolled before the victim could get back into the court system.
I hope England is smart enough to not have such an idiotic law. A good policy is never to examine or moderate any traffic on your net or hot spot. If you do not know it is there you can not intend for it to be there.
How is it that simply not wanting something to be true can make people go blind and immune to truth and facts? I wonder if there is any hope for humanity.
Out of 12 months a year that region might have seven months in which construction is possible. Ice and snow take up almost half a year so a one year period is simply not at all realistic. Imagine trying to keep the snow off of those panels to generate power in the cold months over there.
Yes the US has far too many people in jails and prisons and it is largely race based. Then, what must we do about it? But the problem rests in what really are the worst crimes. Every now and then we catch some lunatic who is a serial killer who has taken several lives. But a drug seller can take far more lives than the lunatic with that big, bad life. Ad not only that, casual drug users, by being an example encourage others to use illegal drugs. For example we have Prince, who will be considered a role model by many young people and they will think that if Prince used dope it must be a first rate way to live and behave. So who should rot in a prison for life? I'll bet that Prince's use of drugs will cost more people their lives than any serial killer in American history. And Prince was only a drug user. Considering how few people truly recover from drug addictions maybe we should consider life without hope of parole for any use of any illegal drugs, even on the first offense. I know it sounds crazy to post that but drugs are destroying lives by the millions.
Lawyers can be quite useful in catching people in lies. Many lawyers also have reliable investigators who go out in the field and do fact finding. What is important is that the party that loses pays for all the legal and investigation and court fees for both sides. Let the guilty pay for the entire load.
Airlines solicit people to be 5 miles in the air and thus vulnerable to death. To me that means that zero levels of privacy should be allowed so that all individuals and competitors can study every single detail about anything to do with an airline. For example the pay rates for their mechanics is one indicator of the quality of maintenance performed. How about dollars spent on maintenance per hour of flight? How about the hours in the air for every plane they fly? All these things can be used to judge safety and should be wide open for all inspections at all times.
There is nothing at all about our financial system that i like. However in this case hiring the super expensive CEO may be out of an urgent need to repair a company that is not doing well. Or it could be out of ignorance. But how does one judge? A poorly performing company may be in a position in which growth or profit are simply unrealistic.
In a fair economic situation every company would have total access to a competitor's data. That way they can price compete while both having all the information. In an unfair system what does it mean to cheat? Is it to the players' benefit that all the data is kept secret? After all if all know the truth the pay might be much higher.
I pay $9.50 a month for Netflix and it is better than either HBO, Showtime or Starz. If they jumped up to $12. per month i would not blink an eye. Meanwhile my cable bill is $220. per month.
That means that less money can be made by businesses doing sales in the US. Now combine lower wages with a persistent inflation that is high enough that the public never gets a real number on the rate of inflation and in effect they are saying this new crop of workers will live and die in poverty. Are we having fun yet? Is the US the new Mexico?
First peoples' taxes will not go up as people will not be taxed. Businesses will take on the tax load as well as the rich. Because the masses will have more money to spend the sales taxes and income taxes paid by the businesses will generate more wealth than the wealth formerly garnered from taxing workers. The idea that job programs will work is absurd. The US has had numerous job programs and they have pretty much been worthless both to society and the workers. That is severely compounded as we simply have less and less need for human workers. Every little advance in technology means less and less jobs will be available. Look at it on a simple level. The new Elo car gets 85 mpg.. A Harley motorcycle only gets about 40mpg. Now just how many jobs will be lost driving gas tankers due to the high mileage ability of the Elo cars? The point being that even a bit of a new technology in a car design ripples through other industries and causes job losses along a large chain of businesses. How about gasoline taxes on a vehicle that gets 85mpg? Some states already apply a tax on electric cars as they pay no gas taxes. It is easy to see just how society resists changes even without taking a vote or considering the effect of new laws and regulations designed to cover changes caused by advancing technology. For decades we were told that good Americans would stop using so much energy. Then electric cars come along and the same government applies penalties for doing exactly what they asked people to do. These problems are a strange and perverse corruption that is so built into the system that we have no answers at all. And by the way, who will buy that Harley when an Elo has air conditioning and gets twice the gas mileage. And the Elo is so simple in design that like Tesla they may not need dealerships at all. How many people work in car dealerships?
A lot of good ideas are locked into specific climate zones. I'm in Florida and far enough south that heat and humidity are a problem almost 365 days a year. Just how would such a suit or skin keep a person from death from heat exhaustion? Even some of the velo mobiles that work nicely in other places are no use at all in Florida. A recumbent bicycle puts your fanny closer to the black top. If that blacktop is 180 degrees F being closer is a really lousy idea. Now just imagine a robotic skin and the energy supply it would need to keep one cool in our climate. heck, even a Tee shirt is too much clothing here.
My feeling is that there is a god and that God is the ultimate in efficiency. Just how would a multiverse be created/ To be efficient it would have to be something resembling a computer program so that real space and substance would not be required and multiple or endless multiple universes could all exist in the same computer either being allowed to interact one with the next or disallowed from any interactions. Physical models seem to confirm this. For example a black hole seems to take in truly awesome amounts of matter and energy and put them is some sort of absolute elsewhere. The idea that matter can be compressed to the point that it no longer has any size at all is a proof that matter is some sort of illusion. If one does not accept the notion that we are some sort of program then how does one describe the area in which space exists? Are we to imagine that space floats about in some sort of absolute void? How many spaces could exist within such a void? And just how would we ever hope to explain quantum mechanics? And if there is no God then just why is all the nonsense of the universe going on at all? As our universe ends are we to believe that it was all for nothing as no evidence would exist of what went on in the probable, billions of advanced civilizations and all the hopes, dreams, labors and history of all things is simply worthless fluff destined to vanish without any traces it ever existed?
How severe a hail storm can the panels survive? If the panels are well installed how much wind can they tolerate. In my part of Florida we will tend to have a hurricane every four years. 150 mph winds are common with gusts going even higher. Replacing a system every few years might make solar a really bad choice here. Also how much storm wind can windmills take without damage? It is hard to imagine one of the huge, tall windmills being smacked by the type of tornado so common in Oklahoma.