Sadly the CIA is right wing as is the military, industrial complex. The one thing we know about the right wing is that they lie and lie and lie. For the CIA job security and advancement, all are related to seeing supposed, great threats to the US. If no threat exists they will create one. Further, wars make some people a lot of money when there are active conflicts,
Why should we allow any foreign laws to have effects upon people in the US? If I wish to hire or associate with another person why should I not be able to dredge up their life history?
Recently a nursing home was pushed by an advocate to hire a woman from a halfway house. I know that she may not have been a criminal, but she did have addictions to alcohol or some other substances. Her motive for taking the job was very likely to steal medications from the elderly. She only worked two nights before she neglected a patient so badly that the woman staggered into a kitchen area and bled to death over a period of at least one hour. That second chance and giving a hand up business has to be combined with common sense. Without being able to get a detailed history of the applicant just how does an employer make sound judgements? I would assume that the death will cost the nursing home a king's ransom.
Engineers spend a lot of time learning math and the sciences and do not get enough liberal arts exposure at all in their educational process. Therefore, you are training a sort of human calculator, who is not well connected with the feelings and hopes of others. On top of that, the frustration of seeing what could be dome as opposed to how little is actually done must frustrate the heck out of engineers.
Millions of workers are always being displaced by technology. It is foolish to assume that, in the near future, computers and machines will replace people at the top of the tech industries. Surely computers will be able to create superior software, vastly reducing the need for programmers as well as many others in the industry.
In the past the US has been restrained by the Supreme Court in situations in which war is not declared. So far we have no declaration of war in regard to the terrorists. We have another term called a police action. Both the Korean War as well as Vietnam were police actions and not wars as such. President Truman tried to take over the steel industry in order to well supply our troops in Korea. The court disallowed that takeover less than 24 hours after Truman announced it. If we had had a declaration of war against N.Korea the decision would probably have been to allow take over by executive action.
Europe seems to have shut down all immigration as a result of the violence in Paris. That means that Syrian refugees trying to get out of Syria and into Europe are now stranded and will suffer more than Paris is suffering and probably for a very long time as well.
Just as we enjoy murdering natural resources on Earth we should now suck the moon dry of water so that we can one day be forced to haul millions of gallons of water to the moon to replace the water we use there. And the way things look we can get plenty of water as it is covering areas of the world right now that should not be under water at all.
This practice of spying on people should be made illegal and with severe penalties for any company that uses this type of method either directly or through a third party.
I have had the concept of a high speed hospice for quite some time. the family or attendant pulls up to what looks like a huge mail slot in a wall and the ill person is dropped through the slot onto a slide which slides them into a pit full of gators. That will cure what ails them. but we could do the same thing with prisoners. immediately after sentencing we could put them on a slide from the courtroom to the pit. As far as appeals go I am sure the gators below will find the convict appealing. We do need to come up with hand cuffs and the like that the gators can easily digest.
By doing this we can convert convicts into lovely luggage and shoes and maybe use the gator hides to make sofas and the like. And we can get rid of drunk drivers once and for all.
I have posted for years that no government wants to allow private communications of any kind. These days they are more brazen about that type of thing. Any claim of a security issue seems to justify endless spying by governments.
College dorms run pretty well but there is a good reason why. Any problems in a dorm can bring down the wrath of Khan upon you. Getting tossed out of college without any refund or even a willingness to credit you for past semesters can come to roost in your gut over a single problem. A thrown punch meant expulsion. In some colleges one beer was enough to get you expelled even if you had that beer at home on New Year's Eve.
A dorm run with a lower level of control may not work at all. And by the way $800 a month rent is far too nasty anywhere for any dwelling.
If it is a right will the poor have to pay for it? The nature of the net is that one needs the connection where they live as ideas like having access to a PC in a library do not work out so well for many computer users.
Simply require the drug companies to do the needed work to develop the new antibiotics and inform them if they do not make a serious and timely effort that their business permits will be denied and their patents will become public property. In essence by executive action make such actions in the very best financial interests of drug companies.
We were required to use slide rules in a college level chemistry course. For complex calculations involving very large numbers and step by step solutions covering multiple pages of formal proofs the slide rule was sort of hell on Earth. It was as if you were trying to drill down through a very skilled use of the slide rule all the while trying to keep your mind on the chemical equations you were dealing with. It could be done but one solid hour of that could drain your mind in such a way that it left you stupid for several hours.
Simply cover the exercise yard or any other portion of the prison using chain link as a roof. That way a drone could not hope to deliver much of anything to the prison yards. And if a drone lowered itself enough to carefully pass an item through that ceiling it would make a good test of the guards use of shotguns.
Finally I am seeing people joining into the issue of future shock and social adaptation. The overwhelming majority of the public is mute to what is happening all around them. They are in denial and are shockingly stupid. Yes, we want every bit of technology and wish it was advancing even faster but we have next to no one considering the upheavals that will surely take place. The elimination of human employment will destroy traditional belief systems and shed light on many false beliefs. When people must be paid by the government for not working it will boil down to the fact that as technology increases socialism becomes an imperative. As technology allows larger world populations the effect will be more and more control of human behavior. It is like the difference between living in a major city and out on a remote parcel with no neighbors. Want to use explosives to blow up an out building? In the country go right ahead. In the city you would rot in prison. The close proximity of others limits the freedom of each individual. Technology tends to push us closer and closer together. All the while the public can't even understand global warming and we expect these same people to understand radically different economies and lifestyles. it's going to be a very argumentative situation.
With this level of recalls and penalties can VW survive? Will they have any funds left for research and product improvement? How many investors and former employees will take an economic blood bath over this?
Perhaps New Zealand could offer Mr. Snowden citizenship as he has shown that he is willing to suffer for the public good. People do have the right to know and the cowardly posture of the US in dreading any potential event is silly. To be part of this world both as individuals and as nations we have to be abl;e to accept some level of risk. No nation has ever had perfect security and the US has gone way too far in that regard.
First unbreakable is a vague term. Just how could the English government know that other spy agencies have not broken a code? So they must mean a code that they can not break that others may have broken. Then there is the issue of not being able to govern other nations. So what their government must really mean or want to do is punish any of their subjects for using an unbreakable code. Really what we are seeing is that no government wants to allow people to freely communicate. The US has gone so far as to declare that very strong codes are munitions and that if such a code gets into public hands it is a serious crime.
What people need to know is that many encryption programs are probably put into public hands by our spy agencies. We can not trust encryption to convey messages at all. Codes that were secure five years ago are probably not secure at all with more modern computers and software testing them. One wonders just how many months or years a spy agency would run a super computer trying to crack one message. Such an effort might generate millions of dollars in expenses and in this twisted world dredge up nothing more than grandma's cookie recipe.
Just how does one estimate the losses of border wars caused by global warming? And how about the secondary effects when some people suffering economic losses from global warming gravitate to crime, drugs or alcohol. Compound that with damage to fisheries such as death of coral reefs and factors killing off fish. In south Florida we now have a lion fish invasion which will probably impact tourism to some degree which is traced to global warming. Slightly warmer seas caused lion fish to thrive.
There are so many variables that i doubt that the real economic losses can be measured even when they actually happen. The cattle industry has been severely afflicted in the western states by warming. Now flooding caused by warming makes the cattle feed expensive so we already know we are five years or more into expensive beef even if warming vanished today. In California there are large areas filled with high end homes that only an idiot would buy as they are so dry that one spark can trigger worse fires than ever before seen in America. Meanwhile our military is already spending money trying to brace for conflicts caused by global warming. We are already in a horrid mess.
It is odd that the New testament speaks of the end times when we will be confounded by our complexity.
Beyond that we have a situation where numerous laws can be applied to many situations and the effect is that a judge can pretty much do anything he likes which in a way is the same as having no laws at all.
Then we have an issue with law makers creating laws which have severely negative effects that were unexpected. A huge example is in the creation of smart guns. The intention was to keep people in our nation a bit safer. But the law that passed actually doomed the sale of smart guns completely. The problem is linked to a law passed in New Jersey that mandated that once available on the market anywhere in the US the residents of NJ would be denied the right to purchase any regular gun and buy only a smart gun. So nobody in the firearms industry and almost zero gun owners will tolerate a smart gun being made or sold. If NJ had simply passed a law saying that a gun store must offer at least one smart gun for sale then we would have smart guns all over the nation while most gun hobbyists would still buy non smart guns.
We also have a lot of laws and customs that are actually causing crimes. Allowing private bail companies and failure to provide money to hire private lawyers are causing people to commit crimes to pay for lawyers and bails. But because money is involved no progress can be made to build a decent criminal justice system.
I wonder to what degree the US does mass surveillance of people in Europe. That homeland security mentality may not be restrained by borders these days.
Obviously the government of Finland is more in touch with certain realities. The days of human employment are ending. Technology will replace both skilled and unskilled workers quite quickly. In order for businesses to survive they must have buyers who can actually buy their products. The only answer is to issue real paychecks by the government. Sales taxes can be slanted such that luxury goods and sin taxes are applied. Businesses will have to make up the tax differences, The public will effectively control businesses by deciding where they will spend their money. Yes, it is a form of socialism. It is also a proof that socialism is hardier than capitalism. Capitalism can not exist with advanced technology changing the playing field but socialism can thrive under the changes.
In Virginia the thrill of the wild berry hunt is often accompanied by a rattlesnake dance where one leaps bout trying not to get bit. If we had machines that would seek and pick wild berries the sale on anti venom would shrink. There could even be a sales slowdown for bear spray.
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Sadly the CIA is right wing as is the military, industrial complex. The one thing we know about the right wing is that they lie and lie and lie. For the CIA job security and advancement, all are related to seeing supposed, great threats to the US. If no threat exists they will create one. Further, wars make some people a lot of money when there are active conflicts,
Why should we allow any foreign laws to have effects upon people in the US? If I wish to hire or associate with another person why should I not be able to dredge up their life history? Recently a nursing home was pushed by an advocate to hire a woman from a halfway house. I know that she may not have been a criminal, but she did have addictions to alcohol or some other substances. Her motive for taking the job was very likely to steal medications from the elderly. She only worked two nights before she neglected a patient so badly that the woman staggered into a kitchen area and bled to death over a period of at least one hour. That second chance and giving a hand up business has to be combined with common sense. Without being able to get a detailed history of the applicant just how does an employer make sound judgements? I would assume that the death will cost the nursing home a king's ransom.
Engineers spend a lot of time learning math and the sciences and do not get enough liberal arts exposure at all in their educational process. Therefore, you are training a sort of human calculator, who is not well connected with the feelings and hopes of others. On top of that, the frustration of seeing what could be dome as opposed to how little is actually done must frustrate the heck out of engineers.
Millions of workers are always being displaced by technology. It is foolish to assume that, in the near future, computers and machines will replace people at the top of the tech industries. Surely computers will be able to create superior software, vastly reducing the need for programmers as well as many others in the industry.
In the past the US has been restrained by the Supreme Court in situations in which war is not declared. So far we have no declaration of war in regard to the terrorists. We have another term called a police action. Both the Korean War as well as Vietnam were police actions and not wars as such. President Truman tried to take over the steel industry in order to well supply our troops in Korea. The court disallowed that takeover less than 24 hours after Truman announced it. If we had had a declaration of war against N.Korea the decision would probably have been to allow take over by executive action.
Europe seems to have shut down all immigration as a result of the violence in Paris. That means that Syrian refugees trying to get out of Syria and into Europe are now stranded and will suffer more than Paris is suffering and probably for a very long time as well.
Just as we enjoy murdering natural resources on Earth we should now suck the moon dry of water so that we can one day be forced to haul millions of gallons of water to the moon to replace the water we use there. And the way things look we can get plenty of water as it is covering areas of the world right now that should not be under water at all.
This practice of spying on people should be made illegal and with severe penalties for any company that uses this type of method either directly or through a third party.
I have had the concept of a high speed hospice for quite some time. the family or attendant pulls up to what looks like a huge mail slot in a wall and the ill person is dropped through the slot onto a slide which slides them into a pit full of gators. That will cure what ails them. but we could do the same thing with prisoners. immediately after sentencing we could put them on a slide from the courtroom to the pit. As far as appeals go I am sure the gators below will find the convict appealing. We do need to come up with hand cuffs and the like that the gators can easily digest. By doing this we can convert convicts into lovely luggage and shoes and maybe use the gator hides to make sofas and the like. And we can get rid of drunk drivers once and for all.
I have posted for years that no government wants to allow private communications of any kind. These days they are more brazen about that type of thing. Any claim of a security issue seems to justify endless spying by governments.
College dorms run pretty well but there is a good reason why. Any problems in a dorm can bring down the wrath of Khan upon you. Getting tossed out of college without any refund or even a willingness to credit you for past semesters can come to roost in your gut over a single problem. A thrown punch meant expulsion. In some colleges one beer was enough to get you expelled even if you had that beer at home on New Year's Eve. A dorm run with a lower level of control may not work at all. And by the way $800 a month rent is far too nasty anywhere for any dwelling.
If it is a right will the poor have to pay for it? The nature of the net is that one needs the connection where they live as ideas like having access to a PC in a library do not work out so well for many computer users.
Simply require the drug companies to do the needed work to develop the new antibiotics and inform them if they do not make a serious and timely effort that their business permits will be denied and their patents will become public property. In essence by executive action make such actions in the very best financial interests of drug companies.
We were required to use slide rules in a college level chemistry course. For complex calculations involving very large numbers and step by step solutions covering multiple pages of formal proofs the slide rule was sort of hell on Earth. It was as if you were trying to drill down through a very skilled use of the slide rule all the while trying to keep your mind on the chemical equations you were dealing with. It could be done but one solid hour of that could drain your mind in such a way that it left you stupid for several hours.
Simply cover the exercise yard or any other portion of the prison using chain link as a roof. That way a drone could not hope to deliver much of anything to the prison yards. And if a drone lowered itself enough to carefully pass an item through that ceiling it would make a good test of the guards use of shotguns.
Finally I am seeing people joining into the issue of future shock and social adaptation. The overwhelming majority of the public is mute to what is happening all around them. They are in denial and are shockingly stupid. Yes, we want every bit of technology and wish it was advancing even faster but we have next to no one considering the upheavals that will surely take place. The elimination of human employment will destroy traditional belief systems and shed light on many false beliefs. When people must be paid by the government for not working it will boil down to the fact that as technology increases socialism becomes an imperative. As technology allows larger world populations the effect will be more and more control of human behavior. It is like the difference between living in a major city and out on a remote parcel with no neighbors. Want to use explosives to blow up an out building? In the country go right ahead. In the city you would rot in prison. The close proximity of others limits the freedom of each individual. Technology tends to push us closer and closer together. All the while the public can't even understand global warming and we expect these same people to understand radically different economies and lifestyles. it's going to be a very argumentative situation.
With this level of recalls and penalties can VW survive? Will they have any funds left for research and product improvement? How many investors and former employees will take an economic blood bath over this?
Perhaps New Zealand could offer Mr. Snowden citizenship as he has shown that he is willing to suffer for the public good. People do have the right to know and the cowardly posture of the US in dreading any potential event is silly. To be part of this world both as individuals and as nations we have to be abl;e to accept some level of risk. No nation has ever had perfect security and the US has gone way too far in that regard.
First unbreakable is a vague term. Just how could the English government know that other spy agencies have not broken a code? So they must mean a code that they can not break that others may have broken. Then there is the issue of not being able to govern other nations. So what their government must really mean or want to do is punish any of their subjects for using an unbreakable code. Really what we are seeing is that no government wants to allow people to freely communicate. The US has gone so far as to declare that very strong codes are munitions and that if such a code gets into public hands it is a serious crime. What people need to know is that many encryption programs are probably put into public hands by our spy agencies. We can not trust encryption to convey messages at all. Codes that were secure five years ago are probably not secure at all with more modern computers and software testing them. One wonders just how many months or years a spy agency would run a super computer trying to crack one message. Such an effort might generate millions of dollars in expenses and in this twisted world dredge up nothing more than grandma's cookie recipe.
Just how does one estimate the losses of border wars caused by global warming? And how about the secondary effects when some people suffering economic losses from global warming gravitate to crime, drugs or alcohol. Compound that with damage to fisheries such as death of coral reefs and factors killing off fish. In south Florida we now have a lion fish invasion which will probably impact tourism to some degree which is traced to global warming. Slightly warmer seas caused lion fish to thrive. There are so many variables that i doubt that the real economic losses can be measured even when they actually happen. The cattle industry has been severely afflicted in the western states by warming. Now flooding caused by warming makes the cattle feed expensive so we already know we are five years or more into expensive beef even if warming vanished today. In California there are large areas filled with high end homes that only an idiot would buy as they are so dry that one spark can trigger worse fires than ever before seen in America. Meanwhile our military is already spending money trying to brace for conflicts caused by global warming. We are already in a horrid mess.
It is odd that the New testament speaks of the end times when we will be confounded by our complexity. Beyond that we have a situation where numerous laws can be applied to many situations and the effect is that a judge can pretty much do anything he likes which in a way is the same as having no laws at all. Then we have an issue with law makers creating laws which have severely negative effects that were unexpected. A huge example is in the creation of smart guns. The intention was to keep people in our nation a bit safer. But the law that passed actually doomed the sale of smart guns completely. The problem is linked to a law passed in New Jersey that mandated that once available on the market anywhere in the US the residents of NJ would be denied the right to purchase any regular gun and buy only a smart gun. So nobody in the firearms industry and almost zero gun owners will tolerate a smart gun being made or sold. If NJ had simply passed a law saying that a gun store must offer at least one smart gun for sale then we would have smart guns all over the nation while most gun hobbyists would still buy non smart guns. We also have a lot of laws and customs that are actually causing crimes. Allowing private bail companies and failure to provide money to hire private lawyers are causing people to commit crimes to pay for lawyers and bails. But because money is involved no progress can be made to build a decent criminal justice system.
I wonder to what degree the US does mass surveillance of people in Europe. That homeland security mentality may not be restrained by borders these days.
Obviously the government of Finland is more in touch with certain realities. The days of human employment are ending. Technology will replace both skilled and unskilled workers quite quickly. In order for businesses to survive they must have buyers who can actually buy their products. The only answer is to issue real paychecks by the government. Sales taxes can be slanted such that luxury goods and sin taxes are applied. Businesses will have to make up the tax differences, The public will effectively control businesses by deciding where they will spend their money. Yes, it is a form of socialism. It is also a proof that socialism is hardier than capitalism. Capitalism can not exist with advanced technology changing the playing field but socialism can thrive under the changes.
In Virginia the thrill of the wild berry hunt is often accompanied by a rattlesnake dance where one leaps bout trying not to get bit. If we had machines that would seek and pick wild berries the sale on anti venom would shrink. There could even be a sales slowdown for bear spray.
So not only am I am monkey's uncle but now i must live with being a dwarf monkey's uncle.