Human employment is vanishing. Better technology simply eliminates the need for workers. Where I differ from the man is that we don't need a basic income as it will not sustain the system. Each individual must have disposable income above and beyond meeting their basic needs. The simple reason is that businesses can not make sales unless people have extra income. Businesses still have to compete. Suppose for example that fifty different companies in the US make tennis rackets. The buyer wants the best racket at the least price. So no matter what each manufacturer must compete. The buyer will make the best choice that he can. But if the buyer can only pay for the basics in life that buyer will not buy any tennis rackets at all. Businesses will be forced to do better, simply because the businesses will be paying the taxes that the workers used to pay, in order for the government to send out those paychecks to those that do not work. If we do not confront this now we will have upheaval so radical that we may not survive the issue. The fact is that people are not usually willing to starve and suffer silently. At some point poverty reaches out and touches others, often with a brick or a knife or gun.
I am certain that our government has a lot more ability to use common operating systems and popular programs to spy on us. i wonder how there is any hope of keeping government agents from picking up insider tips or innovative ideas and designs and making personal profits from the work of unsuspecting victims.
If a person accidentally accesses child pornography they should never be arrested in the first place. Crime involves an intention to break the law. Without investigators establishing a proof of intent there should never be an arrest in the first place. Next, the issue is who was on that computer. Without proof that the suspect was the one actually using the computer and that the suspect intended to watch or download child pornography an arrest is simply illegal harassment.
The time to establish the facts is before the arrest and not at the point of trial. What has occurred, is a form of power grabbing. States declare state sovereignty in order that doing wrong is shielded from penalties. This allows police to make very sloppy arrests. Any defendant dragged before a jury for child pornography charges is likely to be convicted due to the emotions of jurors rather than the facts of the case. A defense attorney will tend to want a plea bargain rather than a trial, knowing full well that innocent people are frequently found guilty when such emotional charges are brought against a defendant regardless of their innocence or the truth of the situation.
Switzerland has enabled crime for many decades with the supposed privacy laws. The stash of Nazi wealth in Switzerland and a refusal to help return property stolen from the Jews leaps to mind as well as enabling tax evasion for US citizens. So just how can we have privacy and still prevent financial crimes as well as terrorist activities? Perhaps a partial solution would be to allow businesses far less privacy than we allow the public.
Or maybe he just needs a few moments in private to relieve himself. The real question is does he really believe this nonsense or is he saying it to get political power among an unfortunate electorate. This same garbage keeps getting spun over and over again. Go back to 1960 and the loonies were convinced that Playboy Magazine would send us all to hell in a hand basket. Go back to 1930 and some states had laws against hearing saxophone music as the nuts in that era felt that the tone of the saxophone lured women into promiscuity. Or how about a few years further back when women had to make certain their ankles did not show as the sight of an ankle was considered as overly stimulating to males? Will the dirty pee-pee people simply shut up and die already!
Yes, the story was exaggerated in a way, and it should not have been. However, it still is a strong proof that existing nuclear plants are not safe. Make note that this tank requires a continuous servicing and observation that can only take place in a stable nation with a stable environment. The expectation that any nation or political system can exist over long periods of time simply does not exist. governments rise and fall, invasions are the norm, and natural, catastrophic events should always be expected. So assume a war breaks out and no one is assigned or available to take care of a tank farm fro several years. Imagine that stuff getting leaked into the environment. For that matter what would happen if a large meteor or enemy bomb smacked this tank head on? We have already had enough serious incidents to start removing all existing nuclear plants.
Comcast is getting starved for content. They simply have allowed too many bean counters, too much power. Even with numerous premium channels the content that people really want to see is screwed up. For example, Game of Thrones has so few episodes that people will lose interest. Getting away from the year-round program model has butchered TV programming as has advertising run wild destroyed the over the air channels. The idea of having 49 episodes a year is foreign to Comcast and it is killing them. The series like "Deadwood" or Boardwalk Empire were well written and well acted yet they were terminated. Just as theaters
could not get the message we now have Comcast failing to get the message. Lots of great content at very low prices wins the day. It is a put up or shut up situation.
If people can catch cheating partners we may need to develop the automatic, instant, violence response, device that cleans up the blood and mess when the partner returns home. Or maybe we could create a device that has automated, divorce, attorney, notifications.
Not only do we need research in areas likely to be useful we also need the exotic research that has no apparent reason to take place. Those exotic studies somehow tend to yield the best fruit.
All nations need to get off of fossil fuels. Again, people in northern Europe lead the way. And despite the advantage of being a small nation battery power is difficult in cold regions. Batteries simply hate cold weather. Yet it can be done and the Netherlands is leading the way. Less educated nations will drag their feet as they always do. Yet our planet does not have the time to educate the Luddites.
This pointing to an inability to change is the important part. The public massively resists change. The public also fails to appreciate that when we change one thing it often involves changing many others things to accommodate that change. For example, we all know that San Francisco needs to be moved quite a distance. San Francisco is a mega disaster in the making. But you can bet that the financial industry that loaned money for homes, buildings, and utilities to be built will not want to share in the losses incurred if the city was moved inland 150 miles and all buildings currently in place were leveled and returned to an uninhabited are filled with natural plants and animals. The city of Miami Beach is in the same predicament due to rising seas. To level the city and remove anything that would contaminate the sea when the sea swallows the city is next to impossible and without radical changes in government, laws and the assignment of responsibilities will mean that the coming disaster will be far worse.
Each robot could be programmed as if each neighborhood was contained like a campus. That way the individual robot could have far more data about the one campus it serves instead of trying to process data for an entire town or city. So one robot could carry goods from the point of origin to the start point for the "campus", pass the packages to the neighborhood robot and return, leaving the neighborhood robot to finalize the delivery. The "campus" robot could have a local charging station and shelter for the slow periods.
We may be about to find out to what degree the oil and coal industries own governments. You can bet that big oil and big coal will play every evil card on the bottom of the deck to maintain their grip on your wallet.
Then again with an out of control world population problem exploding in our faces we may be using human bodies as fuel to run power plants.
The US economy surged simply because the New World had a very low population and a tremendous amount of natural resources. We no longer have a small population and we have exploited resources to the point that acquiring useful materials is much more difficult. Many of us have also learned that growth is its own kind of horror story. Look at the wastelands that were once the leaders of growth such as Detroit, NYC etc.. Flint Michigan is an example of what growth can do.
Then consider that when we go back 150 years all manufacturing involved tremendous numbers of workers as did farming. Now we don't need workers in those fields and we need less every year. Technology is replacing human effort. That is exactly what technology is supposed to do. It is replacing human effort by elimination of employment. And the price and availability of labor is becoming less and less relevant. Instead of worrying about whether a worker gets paid one dollar an hour or ten dollars an hour the new game is to worry about whether your robots can produce better product, cheaper and quicker than the other nations robots.
It is not like the handwriting is on the wall. It is more like the message has been printed on a baseball and shoved up your nose. Yet the state of denial in the US is such that the changes that must be made to accommodate this entirely new horizon are close to zero. In twenty years the percentage of the public that is employed will be less than 5%. Our laws, our government, our social customs and beliefs all must be altered almost beyond recognition to prevent chaos during this transition. It may well be that authoritarian regimes such as china will have an unbeatable edge as they can order large social changes at the snap of the fingers whereas nations that are more moderate simply can not adapt quickly enough to prevent collapse. Frankly capitalism will become almost unheard of in the near future. The simple fact is that the public will have to be well paid in order for businesses to survive. That means that sales taxes and business income taxes will be the only resource to support both the public and the government. Consider this as a serious example. Driverless cars simply will not get traffic tickets. Your police departments are financed by income from traffic tickets. Without traffic tickets, it may be impossible to have police departments that are effective. Driverless cars are just one change among a host of changes coming at us like a bullet. We need the velocity of adaptation to equal the velocity of change and we are failing miserably.
People may be entitled to keep some things private. Corporations are not people. The public needs vastly more light upon everything that goes on inside businesses. For example, why do we allow the sale or export of tobacco when we now know how deadly tobacco is when used in any form? You can surely bet that money is changing hands to keep tobacco as an available product.
All too often we see people in high places entrusted with power turn into criminals. When spying tools are allowed whether it be decryption or wire taps or keylogging there is a huge problem. Those tactics can be used for all kinds of illegal reasons and be completely covert. Suppose you have developed a product that shows tremendous potential and some jerk in government peeks into your communications and then passes information to a third party to steal your ideas. Or suppose that some creep is seriously attracted to your wife or daughter and tries to get information to leverage her into servicing him? The problem is that tools developed for law enforcement will always tend to leak out and be misused. The threat from crime and terror nuts may be less than the threat of government run wild.
Just about the time that this neural bypass becomes practical there will probably be a way to regenerate broken nerves. Technology floats a lot of new boats and those boats seem to rise about the same time.
So far i'm not convinced that anti-abuse laws have not done more harm than good. How many people have had their homes and marriages busted up by false accusations or a very temporary situation? One example was just on a crime show. A good looking young woman drank too much and refused to leave a casino with her boyfriend. When he tried to take her back to the hotel in his words 'She dug her spiked heals into the carpet and would not leave. Casino security stepped in and escorted him out the door. They liked a sharp looking blond who was on the wild side and drunk as she interested the male customers quite a bit. Her boyfriend returned to the hotel. She walked out of the casino and was seen walking with another male as she left. She was killed, dumped in a dumpster and the dumpster was set on fire. Not much was left and only dental records proved her identity.
Now which was more abusive. For him to drag his drunken, live-in girlfriend out of the casino could be seen as a violation of womens' rights. However, allowing someone who is drinking freedom to do as they please is also abuse by negligence. This is a case of laws that are trying to do some good turning into a deadly consequence for a woman.
JFK was actually presented with a plan from our own military to bomb Miami, Fl. and blame it on Cuba in order to justify a war with Cuba. JFK thankfully rejected the idea. My point being is that even when government has good intentions it can be very, very dangerous. Another example is police agencies handing data to places outside of government such that there is no way to subpoena records. Even local police agencies often have exhaustive yellow sheets on almost everyone in their jurisdiction. Those yellow sheets are illegal. But they absolutely do exist. They may be held by groups such as the Officer's Retirement Council or some other gimmick which is not part of the government. But make no mistake. The cops have vast collections of knowledge about almost everyone. Departments do know how to share that information as well. For example, a machinist that i know was awakened in the wee hours of the night and taken to an interview. A vault had been drilled into and the cops were aware that he had machined armament metals in Hungary and Germany. How's that for a handy yellow sheet directory?
It is also unfair that some kids are born with better brains than others or that rich families can hire highly skilled tutors to get their kids through the SAT process. All in all there is nothing fair at all about the educational process just as there is rarely any fairness in the legal system.
As a matter of fact, the educational system totally misrepresents itself. The young are told that the schools are there to help them over and over again. The reality is that schools are a process dedicated to excluding students from education in numerous ways such as colleges that charge a fortune etc..
Climate change denial will not yield to logic, proofs, measurements or facts. Cowardly personalities fear change and fighting global warming and rising seas mean that many things in our lives must change. But cowards reason that they will surely be dead anyway before total calamity takes place. They could care less about their children or future generations. To then it is better that their children perish than they might be forced to pay a bit more in taxes.
I don't think it is at all difficult to sniff out millions of criminals without using DNAS or other spooky tactics. The problem is that once you grab a bad guy just what have you got? There is a man doing a 20-year sentence in Florida. And they really mean 20 years. He should not be in prison at all. But they say it costs $40,000 per year to keep him in prison. Due to his age, that estimate is actually quite low, as his medical issues are increasing. So that one inmate will certainly cost the public over one million dollars and probably a great deal more than that as he will be a public charge when he is released if he lives that long.
So the question becomes, how many inmates can we afford? I know that some people will jump to the notion of fines and community service. That will never work. The simple reason that most criminals are criminals is that their personal misery is simply too great. Economic penalties or added stress will amplify the frequency of criminal actions.
TYhe only way to break the pattern and perhaps save our nation is to uplioft all of the people so that in their lives there is adequate money to lead a good life without strain and fear. Some will swear that I am wrong yet nothing so far in the US has worked to control criminal activities.
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Human employment is vanishing. Better technology simply eliminates the need for workers. Where I differ from the man is that we don't need a basic income as it will not sustain the system. Each individual must have disposable income above and beyond meeting their basic needs. The simple reason is that businesses can not make sales unless people have extra income. Businesses still have to compete. Suppose for example that fifty different companies in the US make tennis rackets. The buyer wants the best racket at the least price. So no matter what each manufacturer must compete. The buyer will make the best choice that he can. But if the buyer can only pay for the basics in life that buyer will not buy any tennis rackets at all. Businesses will be forced to do better, simply because the businesses will be paying the taxes that the workers used to pay, in order for the government to send out those paychecks to those that do not work. If we do not confront this now we will have upheaval so radical that we may not survive the issue. The fact is that people are not usually willing to starve and suffer silently. At some point poverty reaches out and touches others, often with a brick or a knife or gun.
I am certain that our government has a lot more ability to use common operating systems and popular programs to spy on us. i wonder how there is any hope of keeping government agents from picking up insider tips or innovative ideas and designs and making personal profits from the work of unsuspecting victims.
If a person accidentally accesses child pornography they should never be arrested in the first place. Crime involves an intention to break the law. Without investigators establishing a proof of intent there should never be an arrest in the first place. Next, the issue is who was on that computer. Without proof that the suspect was the one actually using the computer and that the suspect intended to watch or download child pornography an arrest is simply illegal harassment. The time to establish the facts is before the arrest and not at the point of trial. What has occurred, is a form of power grabbing. States declare state sovereignty in order that doing wrong is shielded from penalties. This allows police to make very sloppy arrests. Any defendant dragged before a jury for child pornography charges is likely to be convicted due to the emotions of jurors rather than the facts of the case. A defense attorney will tend to want a plea bargain rather than a trial, knowing full well that innocent people are frequently found guilty when such emotional charges are brought against a defendant regardless of their innocence or the truth of the situation.
Switzerland has enabled crime for many decades with the supposed privacy laws. The stash of Nazi wealth in Switzerland and a refusal to help return property stolen from the Jews leaps to mind as well as enabling tax evasion for US citizens. So just how can we have privacy and still prevent financial crimes as well as terrorist activities? Perhaps a partial solution would be to allow businesses far less privacy than we allow the public.
KIAs seem to be selling quite well. I wonder if they also are involved in this affair.
Or maybe he just needs a few moments in private to relieve himself. The real question is does he really believe this nonsense or is he saying it to get political power among an unfortunate electorate. This same garbage keeps getting spun over and over again. Go back to 1960 and the loonies were convinced that Playboy Magazine would send us all to hell in a hand basket. Go back to 1930 and some states had laws against hearing saxophone music as the nuts in that era felt that the tone of the saxophone lured women into promiscuity. Or how about a few years further back when women had to make certain their ankles did not show as the sight of an ankle was considered as overly stimulating to males? Will the dirty pee-pee people simply shut up and die already!
Yes, the story was exaggerated in a way, and it should not have been. However, it still is a strong proof that existing nuclear plants are not safe. Make note that this tank requires a continuous servicing and observation that can only take place in a stable nation with a stable environment. The expectation that any nation or political system can exist over long periods of time simply does not exist. governments rise and fall, invasions are the norm, and natural, catastrophic events should always be expected. So assume a war breaks out and no one is assigned or available to take care of a tank farm fro several years. Imagine that stuff getting leaked into the environment. For that matter what would happen if a large meteor or enemy bomb smacked this tank head on? We have already had enough serious incidents to start removing all existing nuclear plants.
Comcast is getting starved for content. They simply have allowed too many bean counters, too much power. Even with numerous premium channels the content that people really want to see is screwed up. For example, Game of Thrones has so few episodes that people will lose interest. Getting away from the year-round program model has butchered TV programming as has advertising run wild destroyed the over the air channels. The idea of having 49 episodes a year is foreign to Comcast and it is killing them. The series like "Deadwood" or Boardwalk Empire were well written and well acted yet they were terminated. Just as theaters could not get the message we now have Comcast failing to get the message. Lots of great content at very low prices wins the day. It is a put up or shut up situation.
If people can catch cheating partners we may need to develop the automatic, instant, violence response, device that cleans up the blood and mess when the partner returns home. Or maybe we could create a device that has automated, divorce, attorney, notifications.
Not only do we need research in areas likely to be useful we also need the exotic research that has no apparent reason to take place. Those exotic studies somehow tend to yield the best fruit.
All nations need to get off of fossil fuels. Again, people in northern Europe lead the way. And despite the advantage of being a small nation battery power is difficult in cold regions. Batteries simply hate cold weather. Yet it can be done and the Netherlands is leading the way. Less educated nations will drag their feet as they always do. Yet our planet does not have the time to educate the Luddites.
This pointing to an inability to change is the important part. The public massively resists change. The public also fails to appreciate that when we change one thing it often involves changing many others things to accommodate that change. For example, we all know that San Francisco needs to be moved quite a distance. San Francisco is a mega disaster in the making. But you can bet that the financial industry that loaned money for homes, buildings, and utilities to be built will not want to share in the losses incurred if the city was moved inland 150 miles and all buildings currently in place were leveled and returned to an uninhabited are filled with natural plants and animals. The city of Miami Beach is in the same predicament due to rising seas. To level the city and remove anything that would contaminate the sea when the sea swallows the city is next to impossible and without radical changes in government, laws and the assignment of responsibilities will mean that the coming disaster will be far worse.
Each robot could be programmed as if each neighborhood was contained like a campus. That way the individual robot could have far more data about the one campus it serves instead of trying to process data for an entire town or city. So one robot could carry goods from the point of origin to the start point for the "campus", pass the packages to the neighborhood robot and return, leaving the neighborhood robot to finalize the delivery. The "campus" robot could have a local charging station and shelter for the slow periods.
We may be about to find out to what degree the oil and coal industries own governments. You can bet that big oil and big coal will play every evil card on the bottom of the deck to maintain their grip on your wallet. Then again with an out of control world population problem exploding in our faces we may be using human bodies as fuel to run power plants.
The US economy surged simply because the New World had a very low population and a tremendous amount of natural resources. We no longer have a small population and we have exploited resources to the point that acquiring useful materials is much more difficult. Many of us have also learned that growth is its own kind of horror story. Look at the wastelands that were once the leaders of growth such as Detroit, NYC etc.. Flint Michigan is an example of what growth can do. Then consider that when we go back 150 years all manufacturing involved tremendous numbers of workers as did farming. Now we don't need workers in those fields and we need less every year. Technology is replacing human effort. That is exactly what technology is supposed to do. It is replacing human effort by elimination of employment. And the price and availability of labor is becoming less and less relevant. Instead of worrying about whether a worker gets paid one dollar an hour or ten dollars an hour the new game is to worry about whether your robots can produce better product, cheaper and quicker than the other nations robots. It is not like the handwriting is on the wall. It is more like the message has been printed on a baseball and shoved up your nose. Yet the state of denial in the US is such that the changes that must be made to accommodate this entirely new horizon are close to zero. In twenty years the percentage of the public that is employed will be less than 5%. Our laws, our government, our social customs and beliefs all must be altered almost beyond recognition to prevent chaos during this transition. It may well be that authoritarian regimes such as china will have an unbeatable edge as they can order large social changes at the snap of the fingers whereas nations that are more moderate simply can not adapt quickly enough to prevent collapse. Frankly capitalism will become almost unheard of in the near future. The simple fact is that the public will have to be well paid in order for businesses to survive. That means that sales taxes and business income taxes will be the only resource to support both the public and the government. Consider this as a serious example. Driverless cars simply will not get traffic tickets. Your police departments are financed by income from traffic tickets. Without traffic tickets, it may be impossible to have police departments that are effective. Driverless cars are just one change among a host of changes coming at us like a bullet. We need the velocity of adaptation to equal the velocity of change and we are failing miserably.
People may be entitled to keep some things private. Corporations are not people. The public needs vastly more light upon everything that goes on inside businesses. For example, why do we allow the sale or export of tobacco when we now know how deadly tobacco is when used in any form? You can surely bet that money is changing hands to keep tobacco as an available product.
All too often we see people in high places entrusted with power turn into criminals. When spying tools are allowed whether it be decryption or wire taps or keylogging there is a huge problem. Those tactics can be used for all kinds of illegal reasons and be completely covert. Suppose you have developed a product that shows tremendous potential and some jerk in government peeks into your communications and then passes information to a third party to steal your ideas. Or suppose that some creep is seriously attracted to your wife or daughter and tries to get information to leverage her into servicing him? The problem is that tools developed for law enforcement will always tend to leak out and be misused. The threat from crime and terror nuts may be less than the threat of government run wild.
Coal is going down. It's over barring some new technology that can eliminate the nasty side effects of mining or burning coal.
Just about the time that this neural bypass becomes practical there will probably be a way to regenerate broken nerves. Technology floats a lot of new boats and those boats seem to rise about the same time.
So far i'm not convinced that anti-abuse laws have not done more harm than good. How many people have had their homes and marriages busted up by false accusations or a very temporary situation? One example was just on a crime show. A good looking young woman drank too much and refused to leave a casino with her boyfriend. When he tried to take her back to the hotel in his words 'She dug her spiked heals into the carpet and would not leave. Casino security stepped in and escorted him out the door. They liked a sharp looking blond who was on the wild side and drunk as she interested the male customers quite a bit. Her boyfriend returned to the hotel. She walked out of the casino and was seen walking with another male as she left. She was killed, dumped in a dumpster and the dumpster was set on fire. Not much was left and only dental records proved her identity. Now which was more abusive. For him to drag his drunken, live-in girlfriend out of the casino could be seen as a violation of womens' rights. However, allowing someone who is drinking freedom to do as they please is also abuse by negligence. This is a case of laws that are trying to do some good turning into a deadly consequence for a woman.
JFK was actually presented with a plan from our own military to bomb Miami, Fl. and blame it on Cuba in order to justify a war with Cuba. JFK thankfully rejected the idea. My point being is that even when government has good intentions it can be very, very dangerous. Another example is police agencies handing data to places outside of government such that there is no way to subpoena records. Even local police agencies often have exhaustive yellow sheets on almost everyone in their jurisdiction. Those yellow sheets are illegal. But they absolutely do exist. They may be held by groups such as the Officer's Retirement Council or some other gimmick which is not part of the government. But make no mistake. The cops have vast collections of knowledge about almost everyone. Departments do know how to share that information as well. For example, a machinist that i know was awakened in the wee hours of the night and taken to an interview. A vault had been drilled into and the cops were aware that he had machined armament metals in Hungary and Germany. How's that for a handy yellow sheet directory?
It is also unfair that some kids are born with better brains than others or that rich families can hire highly skilled tutors to get their kids through the SAT process. All in all there is nothing fair at all about the educational process just as there is rarely any fairness in the legal system. As a matter of fact, the educational system totally misrepresents itself. The young are told that the schools are there to help them over and over again. The reality is that schools are a process dedicated to excluding students from education in numerous ways such as colleges that charge a fortune etc..
Climate change denial will not yield to logic, proofs, measurements or facts. Cowardly personalities fear change and fighting global warming and rising seas mean that many things in our lives must change. But cowards reason that they will surely be dead anyway before total calamity takes place. They could care less about their children or future generations. To then it is better that their children perish than they might be forced to pay a bit more in taxes.
I don't think it is at all difficult to sniff out millions of criminals without using DNAS or other spooky tactics. The problem is that once you grab a bad guy just what have you got? There is a man doing a 20-year sentence in Florida. And they really mean 20 years. He should not be in prison at all. But they say it costs $40,000 per year to keep him in prison. Due to his age, that estimate is actually quite low, as his medical issues are increasing. So that one inmate will certainly cost the public over one million dollars and probably a great deal more than that as he will be a public charge when he is released if he lives that long. So the question becomes, how many inmates can we afford? I know that some people will jump to the notion of fines and community service. That will never work. The simple reason that most criminals are criminals is that their personal misery is simply too great. Economic penalties or added stress will amplify the frequency of criminal actions. TYhe only way to break the pattern and perhaps save our nation is to uplioft all of the people so that in their lives there is adequate money to lead a good life without strain and fear. Some will swear that I am wrong yet nothing so far in the US has worked to control criminal activities.
I use nothing but Linux and simply could not stand using any Microsoft products. Linux is fast and stable and can be as secure as you want it to be.