I suspect that if the reason for that dolphin's death were known nobody would buy land or a home anywhere near that area. Is New Jersey now to toxic for human presence?
If we build a large number of reactors we certainly must have a much safer type than currently exist. Large numbers of reactors amplify the chances of a mishap. We also must seriously consider what will be required in the way of waste products and removal of reactors that age.
I like solar and wind and tidal generation but we have seen nothing in regard to how strong a hurricane such units can survive. I'm in florida where hurricanes are a certainty.
I promise you that the US Navy has a great interest in drone ships. Among other considerations, a drone ship can easily be built in such a way that waves do over its decks such that it has very low visibility. One idea is to tow such a vessel to withing a hundred miles or so of a potential target and then release it. It could easily get closer without being noticed and could deliver missiles or other aerial drones quite quickly to the troubled area. These drone ships are capable of going a distance by themselves and could be placed on standby for months or even years. I would not be shocked to see one created that could rest on the bottom until pressed into service and then rise and becoming a battle barge.
Fine guns are collectable. Often people own working guns over 100 years old. Software and electronic systems come and go and in a few short years after being made a smart gun may be worthless and not repairable due to electronic incompatibilities with moe modern electronics or software. Further, the graceful nature of a really good firearm could be made hideous by the addition of safety systems.
If you look at a good six- shooter you will find that many were made with no safety at all. They were perfectly safe if used by a trained shooter. You simply never put a loaded round under the hammer. That way if something slammed into the hammer, such as the gun being accidentally dropped on the hammer, the gun would not fire. So a six-shooter as carried was often actually a five shooter. Dr. Porsche made a great point about the beauty of simplicity and the beauty of utility. Designing a product to be as simple as possible should always be a design goal.
I had an in-law that lived a life of crime.He did have an awareness that the police force had much more experience at catching criminals than criminals had at doing crimes. He got caught and put in prison more than once and in jail a few times as well. The man was paranoid and went to great lengths to keep secrets and keep up appearances. For example, he learned to appear to be Peurto-Rican, including flawless foreign language and slang skills. He was an Italian- American. He was scared silly about getting caught as he hated prison life. But even given all of that he still could not resist getting involved in illegal activity. I asked him why and he replied that a dollar stolen felt far better than a dollar earned. His usual crime was stealing of tractor trailers. Quickly selling the loads and then disassembling the tractors. Those big engines and transmissions are valuable and all kinds of what people call legitimate businesses love the extra money they earn by installing stolen engines etc.. Obviously, the trucks and cargoes could easily be worth more than one million dollars each. I don't know if he took 50 or 100 trucks in total. He also chopped cars which apparently he was good at stealing. I suspect that for him chopping a car was just sort of keeping his hand in. It was sort of a filler between truck thefts. He has passed on now. He did come from a bad environment and obviously hated society enough to feel justified in his actions. Oddly he was even a bit religious and often went to church. To him crime was just part of business.
First the state should require equal funding per child for every student in the state instead of each county having its own funding. Next there should be a ban on most private schools. Exceptions could exist for special purpose schools such as schools that cater to music major types, or people with disabilities, or students who have already shown advanced mathematics or science skills.
When the rich figure out that their kids will get exactly the same education as the poor the standards of the school will suddenly rise. I would expect that private donations to the public school system would blossom and yield fruit.
A system in which the wealth status of grandparents sets the stage for the usual outcome for their grandchildren is not acceptable. And that pretty much is the problem. If the grandparents were rich the grandchildren will tend to be rich. If the grandparents were poor guess where their grandchildren will tend to do. The legal system is a huge part of the problem. When having an arrest makes a family poor, their children and grandchildren will suffer as well. In turn, that anger and poverty, goes down through generations and causes a lot more crime and social horrors. But if you have been chosen to lead a life of poverty don't you think that you might pick up a gun or sell dope or whatever, trying to get even? Allowing misery creates a lot more misery and people do tend to share their misery with those that are suddenly made very unhappy.
Sand dunes may be a huge issue in the Sahara. The darned dunes move around quite a bit and can bury a village rather quickly. Perhaps some solar panels could be dedicated to desalinization so that the deserts could be made to support vegetation sufficient to hold the sands in place.
This over restrictive law is serious bullshit. We might want to get to the point at which more people use drones than use commercial aircraft, and therefore, vote to shut down commercial aviation. I am aware that there are sensitives sites in the DC area but drone laws are sort of like gun laws. A terrorist will not obey drone laws at all and that is surely what the government seeks to prevent with such a law.
This should not turn into a long running battle. Drones are going to be a huge part of life soon. Delivery drones will fly over homes and law enforcement will have a field day with these things. Anything that can be seen by an aircraft at 3,000 feet is already in public view so it is not a privacy issue. We do not need tens of thousands of court cases, at the public expense, while every nut job in the nation tries to limit the use of drones.
Imagine fire detection abilities in the wee hours of the night by drones. Every year, when cold weather hits hard, families perish in house fires in the night. Drones may very well save lives. Recently, by chance I discovered a car, crashed into a pole, with severe damage. I was able to call police and rescue units who quickly arrived. I don't know if there were survivors or not but that car may have been there for several hours. Drones, on patrol may be able to spot these kinds of situations and save numerous lives. Drones could also function as WiFi stations enabling computers to easily communicate over dense neighborhoods.
Any encryption software that you can buy is very likely to be government created or compromised by the government. If you want real security you'll have to be somewhat creative in how you accomplish it.
I also want to know why bank software disallows really good passwords. You would think that banks would be eager to have customers with seriously, strong passwords or pass phrases. It is almost like they want to be hacked.
Every time a rule or law is put in place it costs money for the government as well as the people. How many hundreds of millions of dollars have been squandered in courts over what is or is not, legal, pornography? How many millions have been wasted and still are wasted over the abortion issue? It should be illegal to reconsider some issues for a century or more unless some gross change has occurred to ask for a second vote or a court to interpret the law. Look at how much money was wasted fighting the Affordable Care Act. Now imagine how many billions would be lost if that act were struck down. Further, the House and Senate cost a ton of money to run even for a minute. So how much money do we lose with politicians reading speeches trying to beat down the act?
And the very ones that yelp the loudest about the act are the ones that insist on trying to occupy congress and the courts to get rid of the act, all the while increasing their tax liabilities.
Just imagine how difficult it will become to commit a crime. Pawn Shops would easily be made to not allow the purchase of any item whose chip is not reporting properly. Twisting a door knob could result in a pic being snapped of every home or door in your neighborhood. Every car, motorcycle or bicycle could record everywhere it goes as could every wallet or wrist watch. If we surveil every object, we actually end up surveilling every person 24/7/365. I wonder how much truth we can live with.
And just why might German law have more privacy support than any other European nation? Trying to cover up some wrongs that are still going on, just might be the reason. A few billion dollars might be turned up, that need to be restored to those whose wealth was stolen, would be a great reason for strict privacy laws.
I think releasing an inmate and then trying to put him back in prison due to an error in the system constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
On the other hand, I think illegal drugs and drunkenness are such a huge problem that we should execute all caught driving drunk or possessing any amount of illegal drugs to be executed within 48 hours of their arrest on the first offense. And I include even the very young in that as well. I don't care if it is an eleven year old smoking crack. He should be put to death at once.
Yes, there are always weak minds that can be influenced. But, on the other hand, the terrorists look like rabid dogs caught up in a frenzy or at times look like some sort of clown show. Maybe letting them rant away earns them more disrespect than anything else. So far their revolution has yielded them misery and loss. Maybe if they suffer enough they will get a clue.
Why not let the end user decide what level of advertising they wish to accept? Maybe one, ten- second ad per hour that occupies one- eighth of the screen or less would be acceptable to some people whereas others might allow two such ads per hour. Others might wish zero advertising under all conditions.
The danger is that advertising will destroy the net much as it destroyed broadcast TV. A 30-minute show, with 8-minutes of advertising, made TV unbearable to the point that people stopped watching broadcast TV and the advertisers became ever more desperate as the number of eyeballs that saw the ads fell.
Back in 1985, I dealt with a large number of robotic arms. We had numerous safety features, but the foolish can defeat any safety system. Most of the arms weighed about 300 lbs and could move about the same speed as the tip of a gulf club. These units went to universities to train engineers and scientists. Other firms also supplied robots to the education industry. My understanding is that more than one head exploded upon contact with a fast moving robot arm.
I am very close to a nuke that is right on the beach on Florida's Treasure Coast. Apparently to shut down a reactor and clean up everything that is contaminated is a process that takes years. This nuke has only one road that runs along the beach and if that road is swamped access to the plant would be by helicopter or boat, weather permitting. And that road frequently has challenges with hurricanes and spring tides as it is.
I wonder if any planning is going on in regard to this situation.
This law professor has gone off his nut. For one second follow his logic. We have a long history of terrorists attacking abortion clinics and abortion providers. Following this guy's reasoning, we would have to arrest people for going to web sites that promote anti- abortion feelings or opinions.
This thinking stems from a certain, quite common notion. A person can not be radicalized. A person may be radical, but they can not be radicalized. It is not like getting a flu shot. It is not that someone will whisper magic words in your ear and you will suddenly go off and plant bombs. People who have problems so severe that they can not confront their own issues often fixate upon a belief or behavior that absorbs them to a degree that their own problems simply do not come to mind. Yes, they might fixate on becoming some sort of religious lunatic that just wants to kill someone. Or they might become radical conservationists, running about and destroying anything they feel is not good for nature.
If we identify troubled people, and provide, real and needed help to them, we can limit the number of violent incidents in society. It could stop someone from being linked to ISIS or it could stop a black youth born in such a state that he knows he is better of dead at twenty than living the life he can clearly see before him. If the public is unwilling to fund quality mental health centers it will be even worse on tax payers when they have to pay for the wreck path caused by disturbed people.
Whether one likes it or not socialism is the only form of government that can exist with advancing technologies. Capitalism falls to greed and a lack of morality.
Capitalists do not deal with spin-off effects of their actions. In essence, capitalists are paid not to recognise the harms that they do.
See what happens when penny pinchers dictate smaller budgets. Now the city gets free water from the federal government. And not only do they get that benefit they also don't have to pay their kids college expenses. After drinking in all that lead college is not in those kids future.
Now try and figure out the total cost of saving those pennies and how many millions upon millions will be required to restore the water system.
And, by the way, why did they city not know immediately that lead was in their drinking water? Don't they run tests several times every day?
We have several issues with granting government more power. Why would we not use spying to catch all criminals and not just terrorists? Why do we not have complete reports on incidents that were prevented by use of spying? It is impossible for every case to be so sensitive that it all must be kept hush, hush.
So what would happen if we allow government to spy more? Suppose we catch an overwhelming number of people who commit crimes. Ultimately we would have to be selective and only arrest certain criminals. That gives the government way too much power. It is already a huge problem. Cops can arrest poor people and be assured that convictions will soon follow. Cops can not arrest rich people without a great deal of difficulty. And rich people tend to be found not guilty if it gets to trial.
Our legal system is broken and needs repair. The last thing we want to create is a system that applies selective enforcement to various classes of people. There are many people on Wall St. that caused us more harm tan any nut job, terrorist with a pipe bomb or AK-47.
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I suspect that if the reason for that dolphin's death were known nobody would buy land or a home anywhere near that area. Is New Jersey now to toxic for human presence?
If we build a large number of reactors we certainly must have a much safer type than currently exist. Large numbers of reactors amplify the chances of a mishap. We also must seriously consider what will be required in the way of waste products and removal of reactors that age. I like solar and wind and tidal generation but we have seen nothing in regard to how strong a hurricane such units can survive. I'm in florida where hurricanes are a certainty.
I promise you that the US Navy has a great interest in drone ships. Among other considerations, a drone ship can easily be built in such a way that waves do over its decks such that it has very low visibility. One idea is to tow such a vessel to withing a hundred miles or so of a potential target and then release it. It could easily get closer without being noticed and could deliver missiles or other aerial drones quite quickly to the troubled area. These drone ships are capable of going a distance by themselves and could be placed on standby for months or even years. I would not be shocked to see one created that could rest on the bottom until pressed into service and then rise and becoming a battle barge.
I feel sorry for New Hampshire if these right wing nuts move there in mass.
Fine guns are collectable. Often people own working guns over 100 years old. Software and electronic systems come and go and in a few short years after being made a smart gun may be worthless and not repairable due to electronic incompatibilities with moe modern electronics or software. Further, the graceful nature of a really good firearm could be made hideous by the addition of safety systems. If you look at a good six- shooter you will find that many were made with no safety at all. They were perfectly safe if used by a trained shooter. You simply never put a loaded round under the hammer. That way if something slammed into the hammer, such as the gun being accidentally dropped on the hammer, the gun would not fire. So a six-shooter as carried was often actually a five shooter. Dr. Porsche made a great point about the beauty of simplicity and the beauty of utility. Designing a product to be as simple as possible should always be a design goal.
I had an in-law that lived a life of crime.He did have an awareness that the police force had much more experience at catching criminals than criminals had at doing crimes. He got caught and put in prison more than once and in jail a few times as well. The man was paranoid and went to great lengths to keep secrets and keep up appearances. For example, he learned to appear to be Peurto-Rican, including flawless foreign language and slang skills. He was an Italian- American. He was scared silly about getting caught as he hated prison life. But even given all of that he still could not resist getting involved in illegal activity. I asked him why and he replied that a dollar stolen felt far better than a dollar earned. His usual crime was stealing of tractor trailers. Quickly selling the loads and then disassembling the tractors. Those big engines and transmissions are valuable and all kinds of what people call legitimate businesses love the extra money they earn by installing stolen engines etc.. Obviously, the trucks and cargoes could easily be worth more than one million dollars each. I don't know if he took 50 or 100 trucks in total. He also chopped cars which apparently he was good at stealing. I suspect that for him chopping a car was just sort of keeping his hand in. It was sort of a filler between truck thefts. He has passed on now. He did come from a bad environment and obviously hated society enough to feel justified in his actions. Oddly he was even a bit religious and often went to church. To him crime was just part of business.
First the state should require equal funding per child for every student in the state instead of each county having its own funding. Next there should be a ban on most private schools. Exceptions could exist for special purpose schools such as schools that cater to music major types, or people with disabilities, or students who have already shown advanced mathematics or science skills. When the rich figure out that their kids will get exactly the same education as the poor the standards of the school will suddenly rise. I would expect that private donations to the public school system would blossom and yield fruit. A system in which the wealth status of grandparents sets the stage for the usual outcome for their grandchildren is not acceptable. And that pretty much is the problem. If the grandparents were rich the grandchildren will tend to be rich. If the grandparents were poor guess where their grandchildren will tend to do. The legal system is a huge part of the problem. When having an arrest makes a family poor, their children and grandchildren will suffer as well. In turn, that anger and poverty, goes down through generations and causes a lot more crime and social horrors. But if you have been chosen to lead a life of poverty don't you think that you might pick up a gun or sell dope or whatever, trying to get even? Allowing misery creates a lot more misery and people do tend to share their misery with those that are suddenly made very unhappy.
Sand dunes may be a huge issue in the Sahara. The darned dunes move around quite a bit and can bury a village rather quickly. Perhaps some solar panels could be dedicated to desalinization so that the deserts could be made to support vegetation sufficient to hold the sands in place.
This over restrictive law is serious bullshit. We might want to get to the point at which more people use drones than use commercial aircraft, and therefore, vote to shut down commercial aviation. I am aware that there are sensitives sites in the DC area but drone laws are sort of like gun laws. A terrorist will not obey drone laws at all and that is surely what the government seeks to prevent with such a law.
Slide a strong explosive down that well and blow it up so that the shaft collapses. No more leaks!
This should not turn into a long running battle. Drones are going to be a huge part of life soon. Delivery drones will fly over homes and law enforcement will have a field day with these things. Anything that can be seen by an aircraft at 3,000 feet is already in public view so it is not a privacy issue. We do not need tens of thousands of court cases, at the public expense, while every nut job in the nation tries to limit the use of drones. Imagine fire detection abilities in the wee hours of the night by drones. Every year, when cold weather hits hard, families perish in house fires in the night. Drones may very well save lives. Recently, by chance I discovered a car, crashed into a pole, with severe damage. I was able to call police and rescue units who quickly arrived. I don't know if there were survivors or not but that car may have been there for several hours. Drones, on patrol may be able to spot these kinds of situations and save numerous lives. Drones could also function as WiFi stations enabling computers to easily communicate over dense neighborhoods.
Any encryption software that you can buy is very likely to be government created or compromised by the government. If you want real security you'll have to be somewhat creative in how you accomplish it. I also want to know why bank software disallows really good passwords. You would think that banks would be eager to have customers with seriously, strong passwords or pass phrases. It is almost like they want to be hacked.
Every time a rule or law is put in place it costs money for the government as well as the people. How many hundreds of millions of dollars have been squandered in courts over what is or is not, legal, pornography? How many millions have been wasted and still are wasted over the abortion issue? It should be illegal to reconsider some issues for a century or more unless some gross change has occurred to ask for a second vote or a court to interpret the law. Look at how much money was wasted fighting the Affordable Care Act. Now imagine how many billions would be lost if that act were struck down. Further, the House and Senate cost a ton of money to run even for a minute. So how much money do we lose with politicians reading speeches trying to beat down the act? And the very ones that yelp the loudest about the act are the ones that insist on trying to occupy congress and the courts to get rid of the act, all the while increasing their tax liabilities.
Just imagine how difficult it will become to commit a crime. Pawn Shops would easily be made to not allow the purchase of any item whose chip is not reporting properly. Twisting a door knob could result in a pic being snapped of every home or door in your neighborhood. Every car, motorcycle or bicycle could record everywhere it goes as could every wallet or wrist watch. If we surveil every object, we actually end up surveilling every person 24/7/365. I wonder how much truth we can live with.
And just why might German law have more privacy support than any other European nation? Trying to cover up some wrongs that are still going on, just might be the reason. A few billion dollars might be turned up, that need to be restored to those whose wealth was stolen, would be a great reason for strict privacy laws.
I think releasing an inmate and then trying to put him back in prison due to an error in the system constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. On the other hand, I think illegal drugs and drunkenness are such a huge problem that we should execute all caught driving drunk or possessing any amount of illegal drugs to be executed within 48 hours of their arrest on the first offense. And I include even the very young in that as well. I don't care if it is an eleven year old smoking crack. He should be put to death at once.
Yes, there are always weak minds that can be influenced. But, on the other hand, the terrorists look like rabid dogs caught up in a frenzy or at times look like some sort of clown show. Maybe letting them rant away earns them more disrespect than anything else. So far their revolution has yielded them misery and loss. Maybe if they suffer enough they will get a clue.
Why not let the end user decide what level of advertising they wish to accept? Maybe one, ten- second ad per hour that occupies one- eighth of the screen or less would be acceptable to some people whereas others might allow two such ads per hour. Others might wish zero advertising under all conditions. The danger is that advertising will destroy the net much as it destroyed broadcast TV. A 30-minute show, with 8-minutes of advertising, made TV unbearable to the point that people stopped watching broadcast TV and the advertisers became ever more desperate as the number of eyeballs that saw the ads fell.
Back in 1985, I dealt with a large number of robotic arms. We had numerous safety features, but the foolish can defeat any safety system. Most of the arms weighed about 300 lbs and could move about the same speed as the tip of a gulf club. These units went to universities to train engineers and scientists. Other firms also supplied robots to the education industry. My understanding is that more than one head exploded upon contact with a fast moving robot arm.
Get humans out of driving. Humans tend to break rules and that disqualifies them from being good drivers.
I am very close to a nuke that is right on the beach on Florida's Treasure Coast. Apparently to shut down a reactor and clean up everything that is contaminated is a process that takes years. This nuke has only one road that runs along the beach and if that road is swamped access to the plant would be by helicopter or boat, weather permitting. And that road frequently has challenges with hurricanes and spring tides as it is. I wonder if any planning is going on in regard to this situation.
This law professor has gone off his nut. For one second follow his logic. We have a long history of terrorists attacking abortion clinics and abortion providers. Following this guy's reasoning, we would have to arrest people for going to web sites that promote anti- abortion feelings or opinions. This thinking stems from a certain, quite common notion. A person can not be radicalized. A person may be radical, but they can not be radicalized. It is not like getting a flu shot. It is not that someone will whisper magic words in your ear and you will suddenly go off and plant bombs. People who have problems so severe that they can not confront their own issues often fixate upon a belief or behavior that absorbs them to a degree that their own problems simply do not come to mind. Yes, they might fixate on becoming some sort of religious lunatic that just wants to kill someone. Or they might become radical conservationists, running about and destroying anything they feel is not good for nature. If we identify troubled people, and provide, real and needed help to them, we can limit the number of violent incidents in society. It could stop someone from being linked to ISIS or it could stop a black youth born in such a state that he knows he is better of dead at twenty than living the life he can clearly see before him. If the public is unwilling to fund quality mental health centers it will be even worse on tax payers when they have to pay for the wreck path caused by disturbed people.
Whether one likes it or not socialism is the only form of government that can exist with advancing technologies. Capitalism falls to greed and a lack of morality. Capitalists do not deal with spin-off effects of their actions. In essence, capitalists are paid not to recognise the harms that they do.
See what happens when penny pinchers dictate smaller budgets. Now the city gets free water from the federal government. And not only do they get that benefit they also don't have to pay their kids college expenses. After drinking in all that lead college is not in those kids future. Now try and figure out the total cost of saving those pennies and how many millions upon millions will be required to restore the water system. And, by the way, why did they city not know immediately that lead was in their drinking water? Don't they run tests several times every day?
We have several issues with granting government more power. Why would we not use spying to catch all criminals and not just terrorists? Why do we not have complete reports on incidents that were prevented by use of spying? It is impossible for every case to be so sensitive that it all must be kept hush, hush. So what would happen if we allow government to spy more? Suppose we catch an overwhelming number of people who commit crimes. Ultimately we would have to be selective and only arrest certain criminals. That gives the government way too much power. It is already a huge problem. Cops can arrest poor people and be assured that convictions will soon follow. Cops can not arrest rich people without a great deal of difficulty. And rich people tend to be found not guilty if it gets to trial. Our legal system is broken and needs repair. The last thing we want to create is a system that applies selective enforcement to various classes of people. There are many people on Wall St. that caused us more harm tan any nut job, terrorist with a pipe bomb or AK-47.