Florida is already suffering the consequences of climate change. Donald Trump's mansion is on the beach in my county. The beaches in the area are already having sand added as they have been vanishing. It is sad that so many people can not calculate the damage from just a bit of rising seas and warming. It is also sad that it takes the government so long to catch on to things that are changing. For example, the snakehead fish is considered a serious issue now. But i was catching snakeheads in the Pompano, Fl area as early as 1989. There are also a couple of lakes in the Pompano and Deerfield area that have yielded the red belly piranhas since about 1985. Personally, i enjoy catching invasive species, but they do represent a tremendous threat to native wildlife. Hooking into the banana piranhas is quite an experience. It is like hooking the bumper of a large truck at speed.
Texas A&M is a wonderful and huge university. Why would anyone want to damage their reputation? They are the largest engineering school in the US. By the way they also have a campus in China.
Trump is so twisted and ignorant that I want to run like hell to almost any other nation if he is elected. He is a liar and an egomaniac and will try to turn the uS into a fascist nation. I would also expect a total collapse of the economic system. Recently he ranted about a deliberate devaluation of the dollar to enable us to compete with China. How many people understand, that the path to devaluing the dollar would be deliberate, high, rates of inflation? In essence, he wants to cut your paychecks in half. And if you get raises to compensate for inflation then you will be pushed into a much higher tax bracket. With inflation your property tax will also go way up as suddenly your property will be worth a lot more, low value dollars.
There are numerous people on the forums who promote violence, sedition, treason and revolution as well as race hatred and all kinds of horrors including personal threats. Go waste some time on the forums and you will see it for yourself. Maybe we already have too much freedom on the net. I know if I ran a cop shop I would certainly be very interested in people who promote hatred and violence. I'm a bit glad that big brother snoops a bit.
When these groups spring up they do attract followers for a while. But given a bit of time, the public tends to see through the false face that these groups present and they tend to collapse. Even in the US we have had lunatic movements that almost completely vanish. The KKK is an example. They used to have enormous power and now have only a few scraggly members with next to no influence at all. The prohibition movement is another such group although prohibition if heavy-handed would have been a great idea. And then we had the eugenics movement about 100 years ago as well. As far as the terror nuts go in reality they kill a few people and cause some economic problems but the handwriting is already on the wall for them. They are in meltdown and their leaders certainly know that.
Our seas need a rest from fishing and we need to be feeding many species due to the destruction of their food sources. Give these critters a place to live and breed and a good food supply and they will prosper. We have simply over- used the Atlantic to the point that all species are in danger.
Perhaps the government could find a way to keep them up and running. Alternative energy is in everyone's best interests and a firm aggressively pushing alternate energy is of great public value regardless of their financial abilities.
After that horrid type of surgery, it might be far more pleasant to simply die. Early death was the expected norm not that long ago. I think the difficulty of life as well as the expectation of dying young, made the idea of massive battles more palatable to our forefathers. Too much brutal hard work, as well as too much suffering, make death look like a great vacation from it all.
Sadly the entire system is a mess. Expecting people to prove innocence is just one travesty. Here is another, the illusion of justice may be more important than justice in the eyes of some officials. False arrests, cops planting evidence or certain types of political arrests are all too common. Political arrests would include the cops sweeping up drunks or homeless people due to complaints from taxpayers.
It seems to me that the most blatant example of this is the elderly security guard at the bank or pharmacy. They give the guy a badge and a six shooter and a uniform and have him stand at the entrance to the bank. That insures that he will be useless . Any robber wanting to enter that bank can easily disarm or kill that guard as he is right there at the entrance. He is posted at the entrance to give the illusion of security. If they wanted real security they would have a younger man who was well shielded and able to fire from cover rather than standing at the front like a duck in a shooting gallery. The public is too dumb to realize that the guard is only there create the appearance of security. As a matter of fact, the guards are taught never to step into a situation but are there to observe and report what occurs.
In our courts, the illusion of justice is razor thin. For the poor it is sit in jail and wait for months or years for a trial. The bail system simply forces people to plead guilty in order to go free. Sitting in jail for two years awaiting trial to be found innocent or sentenced to 30 days in jail becomes a foolish option. Further, jails are usually worse than prisons. The hope is that the foolish will assume that prison is far worse than jail and that the person in question had sure as heck better plea bargain or be dropped into a hell pit of a prison. And we don't even want to consider the illusion that a public defender can offer much help against an unlimited budget by the cops as well as investigators and expert witnesses which are not available to those who can not pay.
The bad guys want to be paid with Bit Coins. Is there anything related to Bit Coins that enables criminals to cover their tracks easily? Do Bit Coins enable crime?
Exactly who is going to work in that contaminated environment installing solar equipment or power lines etc.? And how about the hazard of trucking in nuclear waste. There is a river there as well and i wonder what will happen if that river floods. Just think of how many things can go wrong and assume that they really will go wrong given enough time. Nuclear power as it now exists is too dangerous to be allowed at all.
Just because the FBI contracts with a company or individual does not mean that criminal and civil laws do not apply. Breaking the encryption for one iPhone lowers the value of every iPhone as well as damaging the brand name. If it would be illegal for me to crack into a phone then it would be equally illegal for a contractor or even the FBI itself to do the same thing.
John Denver's hanger may be cursed. Unlike John, I hope Boom does not forget to fill up its fuel tanks prior top take-off. AS bit of that mountain dew can make your head funny and fly you right into the ground. But who am i to judge? Maybe it is better to be dead than sober.
Sadly people in the US tend to picture the terrorists as being ignorant savages and maybe some of them are but they also have some very intelligent and resourceful people who develop methods of attack and avoidance of detection. I would hate to know how many dollars it takes to bag and tag just one terrorist, other than the ones at the lowest levels of their organizations. I suspect it would be millions of dollars for every real terrorist we stop.
I would be shocked if the government did not have all kinds of stuff planted in Microsoft products. And that can lead to very dangerous actions. Suppose, as an example that the government becomes informed of a very dangerous criminal due to bugs planted in an OS or browser. But it is obvious that making an arrest would reveal the existence of that bug. People could be made to vanish and never be heard from again. The problem is it could be someone else that used your computer. With no open trials taht could be a very real problem.
It is quite easy to start seeing lesser folk as idiotic, or even a roadblock to a better world. You may also not understand at all why they enjoy many things making you sort of a wet blanket in their eyes.
This drone would also need to be able to keep barnacles, oysters, starfish, plant growth and drifting seaweed off of its surfaces in order to have any ability to fly well. Corrosion is just one issue to be overcome.
In order for this to work all vehicles with human drivers would have to be taken off the roads. Also, classes of vehicles such as motorcycles might have to be eliminated. And I suspect that passengers would have to be blindfolded and the driver unable to interrupt the computer in control. People entering an intersection at 40 miles per hour would be terrified to see another vehicle, at a 90-degree angle that would only miss hitting them by a foot or so. Considering peoples' passions for driving I don't see this happening for many decades.
Yes, that is the same conclusion that old Henry Ford came to before he raised the wages of his workers. If they couldn't afford to buy a car then who could?
What people just can not grasp is that technology is about to replace almost 100% of human employment. And that does not need to be stopped at all. But we absolutely must develop social and economic systems that support humans or we will fall completely apart. And this is another issue that politicians simply can't address. If a politician got on TV and declared that we must change everything we are used to around us due to automation and technology he would be considered a lunatic by most Americans. It is similar to speaking about mandatory birth control due to over population issues. It is a unapproachable subject. This could actually be the downfall of democracy as we can not address serious issues at all with elected officials who can be unemployed simply by mentioning certain topics.
One might have a system that took two strong passwords to unlock. That way even under a court order that forces you to surrender that password the files could not be opened. That second person should have a will or legal document that would send you that password should they become unable to respond. If questioned by a judge your remark should be that you have surrendered your password and are unable to do more. How many judges or prosecutors would think to ask if there is another person with a password. And if working with a lawyer the lawyer could have another party own that second password. It might be legally impossible in the US to force a lawyer to discuss his consultations with a client.
There are numerous sites on the net where people try to rally others to be violent or to revolt against the government. Sedition really is a crime. Maybe it is not so bad to have some of these folks get their chains yanked a bit now and then.
Imagine a drone or model airplane with a piece of tungsten welding rod on board. The wire would be less than one ounce but put in the path of any jet and being sucked into an engine would probably bring down most planes. A drone carrying a strand of copper wire and dropping it over major power lines could create havoc and frankly, even a slingshot can be used to shoot a wire over a line as can a bow and arrow. And even those little tire rippers that the resistance used against the Nazis could easily be deployed in rush hour traffic causing horrific traffic jams and screwing up the functions of major roads. One guy on a motorcycle could slowly drop 100 or more of those while riding along. Imagine trying to get 100 tow trucks through a huge traffic jam. And then there is the deliberate transport of non-native
species in our waterways. For example, there is a battle right now trying to keep foreign carp out of the great lakes. Any fool can carry a few in a bucket and insert them anywhere. Zebra muscles could be deliberately put into many waterways. Down south, the Kudzu plant is an invasive species that is hard to control as are water hyacinths. And there are many more ways people can screw up nations. Technology can be as simple as a plastic bucket to carry fish or as complex as a really nasty computer virus. The way to fight this stuff is to have very happy citizens. When people are put under stress by economics or laws they tend to do nasty things and they really can not be stopped.
We can not even regulate the harm done by commercial fishing which is much easier to observe and regulate. We certainly can not control oil spills nor contaminants from runoff from our rivers and rainfall. So now I am supposed to believe that we can effectively regulate deep ocean mining which pretty much equals dredging the deep ocean bottoms. We can't even deliver lead- free drinking water to Flint. And now there is concern over lead pipes all over our nation. But worse yet the public is not aware of how much asbestos water pipes supply home drinking water as well as water used and sold as bottled water. So I say Bull Pucky to the entire notion of ocean mining.
Consider a mobile installation of such an inverter. Electric cars might be far cheaper if AC power to the wheels was used instead of the DC from the battery packs. Higher powered DC brushless motors seem to be very expensive. Higher powered AC motors seem to be much cheaper but I can't comment on what industrial, bulk buying, prices might be. The weight of AC motors seems to be less as well. So being able to carry a tiny DC to AC converter might be far more efficient in an electric car or truck. Apparently an AC to Dc converter is also called for in regenerative braking systems. Again a tiny box might make that far more efficient as the car must carry the device. I feel that the competition was quite meaningful.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to do that energy conversion outside the home with a tiny box. Keep in mind that the more equipment inside a home the more power the home will consume. In hot weather a big box inside the home would add to the cooling energy load on the home. If installed outside the home a duct could, in cold weather, direct that excess heat from the converter to keep pipes warm or pumps from freezing up.
Most people fail to realize that once power is sent down the power line to the home or industry that that power will be converted to heat again. Whether it is an air conditioner, a TV set, a computer or an electric motor or water heater all of that electricity is converted to heat. To really fight global warming we must control heat generation at both ends of the power line. One way is to reuse the heat emitted from every device to be used by other devices. For example, heat radiated by your hot water heater could be used to heat your home a bit. Heat generated from an air conditioner is already used to heat some hot water tanks. I wonder how many people have even considered this sort of thing.
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Florida is already suffering the consequences of climate change. Donald Trump's mansion is on the beach in my county. The beaches in the area are already having sand added as they have been vanishing. It is sad that so many people can not calculate the damage from just a bit of rising seas and warming. It is also sad that it takes the government so long to catch on to things that are changing. For example, the snakehead fish is considered a serious issue now. But i was catching snakeheads in the Pompano, Fl area as early as 1989. There are also a couple of lakes in the Pompano and Deerfield area that have yielded the red belly piranhas since about 1985. Personally, i enjoy catching invasive species, but they do represent a tremendous threat to native wildlife. Hooking into the banana piranhas is quite an experience. It is like hooking the bumper of a large truck at speed.
Texas A&M is a wonderful and huge university. Why would anyone want to damage their reputation? They are the largest engineering school in the US. By the way they also have a campus in China.
Trump is so twisted and ignorant that I want to run like hell to almost any other nation if he is elected. He is a liar and an egomaniac and will try to turn the uS into a fascist nation. I would also expect a total collapse of the economic system. Recently he ranted about a deliberate devaluation of the dollar to enable us to compete with China. How many people understand, that the path to devaluing the dollar would be deliberate, high, rates of inflation? In essence, he wants to cut your paychecks in half. And if you get raises to compensate for inflation then you will be pushed into a much higher tax bracket. With inflation your property tax will also go way up as suddenly your property will be worth a lot more, low value dollars.
There are numerous people on the forums who promote violence, sedition, treason and revolution as well as race hatred and all kinds of horrors including personal threats. Go waste some time on the forums and you will see it for yourself. Maybe we already have too much freedom on the net. I know if I ran a cop shop I would certainly be very interested in people who promote hatred and violence. I'm a bit glad that big brother snoops a bit.
When these groups spring up they do attract followers for a while. But given a bit of time, the public tends to see through the false face that these groups present and they tend to collapse. Even in the US we have had lunatic movements that almost completely vanish. The KKK is an example. They used to have enormous power and now have only a few scraggly members with next to no influence at all. The prohibition movement is another such group although prohibition if heavy-handed would have been a great idea. And then we had the eugenics movement about 100 years ago as well. As far as the terror nuts go in reality they kill a few people and cause some economic problems but the handwriting is already on the wall for them. They are in meltdown and their leaders certainly know that.
Our seas need a rest from fishing and we need to be feeding many species due to the destruction of their food sources. Give these critters a place to live and breed and a good food supply and they will prosper. We have simply over- used the Atlantic to the point that all species are in danger.
Perhaps the government could find a way to keep them up and running. Alternative energy is in everyone's best interests and a firm aggressively pushing alternate energy is of great public value regardless of their financial abilities.
After that horrid type of surgery, it might be far more pleasant to simply die. Early death was the expected norm not that long ago. I think the difficulty of life as well as the expectation of dying young, made the idea of massive battles more palatable to our forefathers. Too much brutal hard work, as well as too much suffering, make death look like a great vacation from it all.
Sadly the entire system is a mess. Expecting people to prove innocence is just one travesty. Here is another, the illusion of justice may be more important than justice in the eyes of some officials. False arrests, cops planting evidence or certain types of political arrests are all too common. Political arrests would include the cops sweeping up drunks or homeless people due to complaints from taxpayers. It seems to me that the most blatant example of this is the elderly security guard at the bank or pharmacy. They give the guy a badge and a six shooter and a uniform and have him stand at the entrance to the bank. That insures that he will be useless . Any robber wanting to enter that bank can easily disarm or kill that guard as he is right there at the entrance. He is posted at the entrance to give the illusion of security. If they wanted real security they would have a younger man who was well shielded and able to fire from cover rather than standing at the front like a duck in a shooting gallery. The public is too dumb to realize that the guard is only there create the appearance of security. As a matter of fact, the guards are taught never to step into a situation but are there to observe and report what occurs. In our courts, the illusion of justice is razor thin. For the poor it is sit in jail and wait for months or years for a trial. The bail system simply forces people to plead guilty in order to go free. Sitting in jail for two years awaiting trial to be found innocent or sentenced to 30 days in jail becomes a foolish option. Further, jails are usually worse than prisons. The hope is that the foolish will assume that prison is far worse than jail and that the person in question had sure as heck better plea bargain or be dropped into a hell pit of a prison. And we don't even want to consider the illusion that a public defender can offer much help against an unlimited budget by the cops as well as investigators and expert witnesses which are not available to those who can not pay.
The bad guys want to be paid with Bit Coins. Is there anything related to Bit Coins that enables criminals to cover their tracks easily? Do Bit Coins enable crime?
Exactly who is going to work in that contaminated environment installing solar equipment or power lines etc.? And how about the hazard of trucking in nuclear waste. There is a river there as well and i wonder what will happen if that river floods. Just think of how many things can go wrong and assume that they really will go wrong given enough time. Nuclear power as it now exists is too dangerous to be allowed at all.
Just because the FBI contracts with a company or individual does not mean that criminal and civil laws do not apply. Breaking the encryption for one iPhone lowers the value of every iPhone as well as damaging the brand name. If it would be illegal for me to crack into a phone then it would be equally illegal for a contractor or even the FBI itself to do the same thing.
John Denver's hanger may be cursed. Unlike John, I hope Boom does not forget to fill up its fuel tanks prior top take-off. AS bit of that mountain dew can make your head funny and fly you right into the ground. But who am i to judge? Maybe it is better to be dead than sober.
Sadly people in the US tend to picture the terrorists as being ignorant savages and maybe some of them are but they also have some very intelligent and resourceful people who develop methods of attack and avoidance of detection. I would hate to know how many dollars it takes to bag and tag just one terrorist, other than the ones at the lowest levels of their organizations. I suspect it would be millions of dollars for every real terrorist we stop.
I would be shocked if the government did not have all kinds of stuff planted in Microsoft products. And that can lead to very dangerous actions. Suppose, as an example that the government becomes informed of a very dangerous criminal due to bugs planted in an OS or browser. But it is obvious that making an arrest would reveal the existence of that bug. People could be made to vanish and never be heard from again. The problem is it could be someone else that used your computer. With no open trials taht could be a very real problem.
It is quite easy to start seeing lesser folk as idiotic, or even a roadblock to a better world. You may also not understand at all why they enjoy many things making you sort of a wet blanket in their eyes.
This drone would also need to be able to keep barnacles, oysters, starfish, plant growth and drifting seaweed off of its surfaces in order to have any ability to fly well. Corrosion is just one issue to be overcome.
In order for this to work all vehicles with human drivers would have to be taken off the roads. Also, classes of vehicles such as motorcycles might have to be eliminated. And I suspect that passengers would have to be blindfolded and the driver unable to interrupt the computer in control. People entering an intersection at 40 miles per hour would be terrified to see another vehicle, at a 90-degree angle that would only miss hitting them by a foot or so. Considering peoples' passions for driving I don't see this happening for many decades.
Yes, that is the same conclusion that old Henry Ford came to before he raised the wages of his workers. If they couldn't afford to buy a car then who could? What people just can not grasp is that technology is about to replace almost 100% of human employment. And that does not need to be stopped at all. But we absolutely must develop social and economic systems that support humans or we will fall completely apart. And this is another issue that politicians simply can't address. If a politician got on TV and declared that we must change everything we are used to around us due to automation and technology he would be considered a lunatic by most Americans. It is similar to speaking about mandatory birth control due to over population issues. It is a unapproachable subject. This could actually be the downfall of democracy as we can not address serious issues at all with elected officials who can be unemployed simply by mentioning certain topics.
One might have a system that took two strong passwords to unlock. That way even under a court order that forces you to surrender that password the files could not be opened. That second person should have a will or legal document that would send you that password should they become unable to respond. If questioned by a judge your remark should be that you have surrendered your password and are unable to do more. How many judges or prosecutors would think to ask if there is another person with a password. And if working with a lawyer the lawyer could have another party own that second password. It might be legally impossible in the US to force a lawyer to discuss his consultations with a client.
There are numerous sites on the net where people try to rally others to be violent or to revolt against the government. Sedition really is a crime. Maybe it is not so bad to have some of these folks get their chains yanked a bit now and then.
Imagine a drone or model airplane with a piece of tungsten welding rod on board. The wire would be less than one ounce but put in the path of any jet and being sucked into an engine would probably bring down most planes. A drone carrying a strand of copper wire and dropping it over major power lines could create havoc and frankly, even a slingshot can be used to shoot a wire over a line as can a bow and arrow. And even those little tire rippers that the resistance used against the Nazis could easily be deployed in rush hour traffic causing horrific traffic jams and screwing up the functions of major roads. One guy on a motorcycle could slowly drop 100 or more of those while riding along. Imagine trying to get 100 tow trucks through a huge traffic jam. And then there is the deliberate transport of non-native species in our waterways. For example, there is a battle right now trying to keep foreign carp out of the great lakes. Any fool can carry a few in a bucket and insert them anywhere. Zebra muscles could be deliberately put into many waterways. Down south, the Kudzu plant is an invasive species that is hard to control as are water hyacinths. And there are many more ways people can screw up nations. Technology can be as simple as a plastic bucket to carry fish or as complex as a really nasty computer virus. The way to fight this stuff is to have very happy citizens. When people are put under stress by economics or laws they tend to do nasty things and they really can not be stopped.
We can not even regulate the harm done by commercial fishing which is much easier to observe and regulate. We certainly can not control oil spills nor contaminants from runoff from our rivers and rainfall. So now I am supposed to believe that we can effectively regulate deep ocean mining which pretty much equals dredging the deep ocean bottoms. We can't even deliver lead- free drinking water to Flint. And now there is concern over lead pipes all over our nation. But worse yet the public is not aware of how much asbestos water pipes supply home drinking water as well as water used and sold as bottled water. So I say Bull Pucky to the entire notion of ocean mining.
Consider a mobile installation of such an inverter. Electric cars might be far cheaper if AC power to the wheels was used instead of the DC from the battery packs. Higher powered DC brushless motors seem to be very expensive. Higher powered AC motors seem to be much cheaper but I can't comment on what industrial, bulk buying, prices might be. The weight of AC motors seems to be less as well. So being able to carry a tiny DC to AC converter might be far more efficient in an electric car or truck. Apparently an AC to Dc converter is also called for in regenerative braking systems. Again a tiny box might make that far more efficient as the car must carry the device. I feel that the competition was quite meaningful.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to do that energy conversion outside the home with a tiny box. Keep in mind that the more equipment inside a home the more power the home will consume. In hot weather a big box inside the home would add to the cooling energy load on the home. If installed outside the home a duct could, in cold weather, direct that excess heat from the converter to keep pipes warm or pumps from freezing up. Most people fail to realize that once power is sent down the power line to the home or industry that that power will be converted to heat again. Whether it is an air conditioner, a TV set, a computer or an electric motor or water heater all of that electricity is converted to heat. To really fight global warming we must control heat generation at both ends of the power line. One way is to reuse the heat emitted from every device to be used by other devices. For example, heat radiated by your hot water heater could be used to heat your home a bit. Heat generated from an air conditioner is already used to heat some hot water tanks. I wonder how many people have even considered this sort of thing.