Since all 34,000 cases were tainted have the 34,000 convictions been reversed and the victims made whole? And why the heck is a three year sentence issued for such a radical and harmful criminal in the lab work? Or worse yet does this imply that all lab work done in all law enforcement agencies is suspect and should be a matter for appeals courts for every conviction whether for murder or drug crimes?
The displacement of humans in the work force is accelerating and still nobody is getting any public attention as to what to do with excess workers. One thing is obvious in that capitalism can be destroyed by technology. No wages means no buyers in our current system. Right now like the Richard Pryor comedy routine about who has got the damned money. The government says it is broke. The banks and wall Street whine about how poor they are. the public is suffering as well and small business people are in shock but not in awe. One conclusion is that America can not afford itself. But the real conclusion is that the notion of a free market and capitalism is inherently inferior and unworkable. The capitalist system can not stand up to technological advances. We will be forced to pay healthy pay checks to get people not to work or fight over jobs. It will do no good at all to give them miserly pay checks as they will have no money to buy products and keep businesses alive unless they are well paid. So we now have no choice other than to enter into an era of some kind of socialism with a government strong enough to keep people from cheating and keep businesses in line.
Imagine some machines showing up in a robotic truck and building you a new home for free from start to finish. After all machines can mine and process raw materials as well as actually building the home. So the home is yours perhaps with a fee for the electricity consumed by the machines while working for you. So how much is a free home worth if others can get free homes as well? this radical shifting of values and attitudes will be very stressful for many people while others will adapt easily. There is even humor in all of this. Imagine a red neck sitting around spewing hate against brown and black and Asian people suddenly not so worried about job competition from them. So as he drowns in his evening beer he curses the damned robots instead of other races. Technology can really shake up our world and it is going faster and faster. Imagine more change in the next ten years than we have seen from 1875 until the present.
Yes that bank was located in Palm Beach Florida. The bank ignored a summary judgement from the court and the individual showed up with the Sheriffs office in tow. All of a sudden the bank was able to pay the money that they claimed they could not pay that same day. The sheriff gave the bank one hour to either pay or turn over the keys to the bank to the lady. They were not going to allow the bank to move the cash or anything else out of that bank. The lady was owed a small sum due to a bank error and the bank refused to give her her money back. It was roughly $1,500 dollars. That lady could have kept that bank sealed or sold off the contents of the bank easily. I do wonder about the status of the cash and safe deposit boxes inside.
How about a law that states that the sales price is shipped attached to the window and the car can never, ever, be sold for less than the original sticker price and that a dealer may not tack on any other fees?
That would stop the nonsense and the customer can order from the dealer any combination offered by the factory rather than worry about inventories. We might also want to standardize all parts and accessories across all states and dealerships.
People want simple answers yet they don't understand that complex issues or problems often require complex answers as that is the only way to give a true answer.
The IRS defines who is a contractor and who is an employee. A contractor is not under the supervision or command of an employer. For example if you agree to be a delivery contractor the hours that you work are up to you, the clothing you wear is up to you etc.. The most usual case is in phone sales or so-called telemarketing where the employer provides a desk, a phone, leads or hours of access to the phones or regulates the break or meal periods of the so-called contractor. If any of those things exist the person is an employee and not a contractor. contractors may also be required to carry a business permit as well as business insurance and may not be allowed by local government to work from home. If a business is sued the very first question that will be asked is to show me the contract. Less than 1% of businesses that use the false label of contractor can produce a written contract. And if you wish to earn money answer the wanted ads and turn over every business to the IRS that wants to label you an independent contractor. You will get paid for these names. Also your state and county may reward you as the false claim also cheats Workman's Compensation and Unemployment Insurance and finally they may also be cheating the Federal retirement laws for employees that work for several years. The false claim of independent contractor is a form of fraud.
Shooting a drone that is fifty feet above a property is no different than shooting down an airplane at 5,000 feet that might be looking down or taking photographs. If it can be seen by others there is absolutely nothing private about it. The guy that shot at that drone needs to be locked up. And we do not need individuals deciding when it is or is not safe to fire a gun of any type in an area with other people or homes near by. Not every gun owner will make reasonable decisions about where he can fire a gun with the exception of stopping a serious attacker or thief.
If we went back to 1920 and looked at Germany we would see a very rigid government and very rigid social structure both of which placed a strict burden upon youth to succeed. As a consequence we saw a German nation rapidly adopting the best notions of mechanical science and engineering that found the US sorely wanting in 1938. In 1941 we dared to enter that war after beefing up our military and we still were not up to matching Germany in the hardware of war. Their technology enabled them, a small nation, to take on the US and several other major nations.
My point is that if government as well as the community demands with real severity that our youth get a no nonsense education and be willing to suffer to get it that we will advance our technology by leaps and bounds. We have seen Japan with their severe treatment of school aged youth shine bright in industry for the last 40 years. China and many Asian schools are producing scholars with ferocious abilities. It reached the point that many universities had to limit scholarships to Asians as American scholars simply could not compete at all and virtually all scholarships were going to Asian students.
The laws and social traditions of a nation have a great deal to do with how fast technology and industrial abilities grow.
The first problem is that the tests should be created in such a way that the test can not be "taught" to the students. The subjects should come as a complete surprise on test day.
Secondly it is vital to identify sub standard schools. Obviously nobody wants to accidentally move into a suburb with a lousy school system and it sort of compels businesses to insist upon a high quality, local, school system.
Third the no child left behind junk needs to vanish. Should teachers aim at the sharpest kids in a class or cater to the slowest learners? Societies basic needs call for the effort being slanted towards the very best students. those without academic potential need to be diverted into trades types of training such as cooking or learning to paint houses or whatever. As it now stands the presence of slow students is doing great harm to better students. And frankly the reason why the student is slow is not a consideration. I am not saying that the slow students are lesser than faster learners at all but I am saying that a nation will prosper according to the quality of its best students.
The recent hurricane in Mexico managed to miss any large cities. But if it had it had enough power to actually completely level a major city. If one of these super hurricanes smacks Miami, New Orleans or even New York it would bankrupt our nation.. I doubt that much of anything would survive wind gusts over 230 mph. with sustained winds of 200 mph.. But the sick part is that it is only a matter of time. Hurricanes will strike. They always do and with these super storms we all are in danger. So it is not just oil reservoirs but storms that could easily collapse our nation as well as other nations.
And it gets worse. I seriously doubt that unless homes and businesses spent millions to harden themselves that new homes could even be built that could hold up to such storms with any confidence at all. And here we are with nothing at all being done to really protect our nation. We have denial over rising seas, global warming and the hazards of extracting too much water from the ground or fracking. People need to understand that such a strike by a major storm would take down the insurance industry which in turn would bust the banks as well as Wall Street leaving the masses with no pensions and no replacement for their dwellings or businesses. We have a very real chance of a financial holocaust triggered by such an event. And no having gold coins tucked away will do you no good at all. You simply can not eat gold or silver.
Whether it is oil or coal we rarely hear any good news. We are building such a complex and interwoven national structure that we are ever more in danger from minor issues causing a cascade of very harmful events. Obviously we need to get both oil and coal out of our way of life as both lack any way to control their negative effects. Keep in mind that the city always spreads like a cancer ruining the more rural areas. It seems that we must consider making energy consumption a very local affair so that when system failures do occur in order to have an energy system that we can actually protect.
Could it be that so much police work is done illegally or in violation of policy that they have trouble doing their job unless they can commit criminal acts? And it is racist as it can be. How much stop and frisk and the like goes on in wealthy, white neighborhoods? If cops acted the same way with wealthy people that they do with poor people every cop on the force would get fired quite quickly.
So you are rich. You got there either because you were a greedy little piglet or a parent left you a pile of money. And being a wealth addict you know you want more. So where is the best place to get a big pile of money to add to your stash. Mining the poor and wretched is too slow. You just have to manipulate way too many poor people to steal one penny at a time. But hanging out with rich people gets your leads as to where big money might be had. And if you need an investor only a rich guy is any good to you at all. One way to think about it is Donald trump. He is a living proof that a man can be a liar and an idiot and still have a pile of wealth. The wealthy are not smarter or more able they are simply greed bags with feet.
The taxi industry is structured to screw over drivers as well as the public. Taxi drivers are not protected by Workman's Compensation and wrecks and stick ups are an ongoing problem. In my area the driver rents the cab and keeps what is on the meter. They may not get a single fare in an entire shift and if that cab breaks on the way out of the garage the driver is cheated out of the rental fee. The drivers also pay for the gas. A short four or five mile drive will tend to cost $20. without the tip. That drive may last only five or ten minutes. Drivers are setting minimums such that they refuse any fare under $20.. They also want to charge extra for using a charge card. The industry is a pit of corruption and the rides are absurdly expensive. I have been in other areas where the taxis were wonderful and the rates very low. But in south Florida the government needs to step in big time.
Seriously Washington and Jefferson were excellent terrorist and traitors. They turned against the king and sponsored a revolution that chased the greatest power the world has ever seen right out of the country.
Jefferson grew hemp and getting high on that type of pot is very unlikely. Hemp rope was a valuable commodity and i'm sure hemp fabrics were also very desirable. I wonder if the leaves were used to feed cattle or swine.
Since there were far more poor farmers than rich farmers the use of slaves really made poor farmers even poorer. After all the poor farmer could not afford to purchase slaves so that meant that he and his family had to do all the labor and compete against slave produced goods from the richer farms.
Those lab table tops most likely came from the soap stone quarry at Alberine. Soap stone is highly resistant to acids and other chemicals and the quarry is not that far from Charlottesvile.
Seriously it is going to get harder and harder for people to be criminals. Technology is going to catch people that feel secure in the nonsense that they pull off currently with little fear of getting caught. It will also create a situation in which the government appears to be more and more corrupt. For example there are clearly criminal phone sales rooms that cops often leave alone as it brings in money to the town and the calls steal money long distance. The mayors don't want the cops making the arrests as it turns off a money supply and on top of that it costs money to arrest and jail all of the phone salesmen.
It is really wicked that the wealthiest state in the nation can not provide quality, electrical services. One would think that California would have by far the best electrical supply in the nation.
God bless Tesla! The Tesla organization is doing wonderful work.
When you deal with another person or a business privacy is not really in play. My only objection to anyone deeply studying me is that all other people are not deeply studied. My feeling is that if all people were studied in depth I might look pretty darned good compared to many others. The real issue is lack of equality in data collection and analysis.
Further is is all too easy to fool a data mining effort. One might ask Google Maps to give you directions to the local archdiocese or to every major church in the area. Then you might collect addresses and driving directions to every stock brokerage in your area. Then drop some well known names in your emails such as governors with meetings at specific sites and dates and driving directions. One might also make several inquiries into buying the most expensive Mercedes or top of the line Lincolns. You might want to make inquiries about yachts as well. The likely effect is that someone out there may think you buy lots of expensive items and they may butter you up with some gifts designed as incentives. How about yacking about your scholarship fund which does not really exist. Confuse the living daylights out of data mining.
Really the human in charge is the weak link in a car. It is not as simple as common errors but moods, substances, and mental issues as well as family or financial problems can lead to a crash. The entire benefit of robotic autos is getting the humans out of the loop. It is nor quite practical today but it will occur soon enough.
That sticky foam has a lot of potential but will surely cause a few deaths in use. Imagine a gunman barricaded in a home and the foam sprays in and fills the room right to the ceiling. No air is more than a trivial problem. Smaller canisters of foam are bound to go off inside squad cars now and then just as mace and pepper spray have caused lethal wrecks inside squad cars.
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Since all 34,000 cases were tainted have the 34,000 convictions been reversed and the victims made whole? And why the heck is a three year sentence issued for such a radical and harmful criminal in the lab work? Or worse yet does this imply that all lab work done in all law enforcement agencies is suspect and should be a matter for appeals courts for every conviction whether for murder or drug crimes?
The displacement of humans in the work force is accelerating and still nobody is getting any public attention as to what to do with excess workers. One thing is obvious in that capitalism can be destroyed by technology. No wages means no buyers in our current system. Right now like the Richard Pryor comedy routine about who has got the damned money. The government says it is broke. The banks and wall Street whine about how poor they are. the public is suffering as well and small business people are in shock but not in awe. One conclusion is that America can not afford itself. But the real conclusion is that the notion of a free market and capitalism is inherently inferior and unworkable. The capitalist system can not stand up to technological advances. We will be forced to pay healthy pay checks to get people not to work or fight over jobs. It will do no good at all to give them miserly pay checks as they will have no money to buy products and keep businesses alive unless they are well paid. So we now have no choice other than to enter into an era of some kind of socialism with a government strong enough to keep people from cheating and keep businesses in line. Imagine some machines showing up in a robotic truck and building you a new home for free from start to finish. After all machines can mine and process raw materials as well as actually building the home. So the home is yours perhaps with a fee for the electricity consumed by the machines while working for you. So how much is a free home worth if others can get free homes as well? this radical shifting of values and attitudes will be very stressful for many people while others will adapt easily. There is even humor in all of this. Imagine a red neck sitting around spewing hate against brown and black and Asian people suddenly not so worried about job competition from them. So as he drowns in his evening beer he curses the damned robots instead of other races. Technology can really shake up our world and it is going faster and faster. Imagine more change in the next ten years than we have seen from 1875 until the present.
Yes that bank was located in Palm Beach Florida. The bank ignored a summary judgement from the court and the individual showed up with the Sheriffs office in tow. All of a sudden the bank was able to pay the money that they claimed they could not pay that same day. The sheriff gave the bank one hour to either pay or turn over the keys to the bank to the lady. They were not going to allow the bank to move the cash or anything else out of that bank. The lady was owed a small sum due to a bank error and the bank refused to give her her money back. It was roughly $1,500 dollars. That lady could have kept that bank sealed or sold off the contents of the bank easily. I do wonder about the status of the cash and safe deposit boxes inside.
How about a law that states that the sales price is shipped attached to the window and the car can never, ever, be sold for less than the original sticker price and that a dealer may not tack on any other fees? That would stop the nonsense and the customer can order from the dealer any combination offered by the factory rather than worry about inventories. We might also want to standardize all parts and accessories across all states and dealerships.
People want simple answers yet they don't understand that complex issues or problems often require complex answers as that is the only way to give a true answer.
The IRS defines who is a contractor and who is an employee. A contractor is not under the supervision or command of an employer. For example if you agree to be a delivery contractor the hours that you work are up to you, the clothing you wear is up to you etc.. The most usual case is in phone sales or so-called telemarketing where the employer provides a desk, a phone, leads or hours of access to the phones or regulates the break or meal periods of the so-called contractor. If any of those things exist the person is an employee and not a contractor. contractors may also be required to carry a business permit as well as business insurance and may not be allowed by local government to work from home. If a business is sued the very first question that will be asked is to show me the contract. Less than 1% of businesses that use the false label of contractor can produce a written contract. And if you wish to earn money answer the wanted ads and turn over every business to the IRS that wants to label you an independent contractor. You will get paid for these names. Also your state and county may reward you as the false claim also cheats Workman's Compensation and Unemployment Insurance and finally they may also be cheating the Federal retirement laws for employees that work for several years. The false claim of independent contractor is a form of fraud.
Shooting a drone that is fifty feet above a property is no different than shooting down an airplane at 5,000 feet that might be looking down or taking photographs. If it can be seen by others there is absolutely nothing private about it. The guy that shot at that drone needs to be locked up. And we do not need individuals deciding when it is or is not safe to fire a gun of any type in an area with other people or homes near by. Not every gun owner will make reasonable decisions about where he can fire a gun with the exception of stopping a serious attacker or thief.
If we went back to 1920 and looked at Germany we would see a very rigid government and very rigid social structure both of which placed a strict burden upon youth to succeed. As a consequence we saw a German nation rapidly adopting the best notions of mechanical science and engineering that found the US sorely wanting in 1938. In 1941 we dared to enter that war after beefing up our military and we still were not up to matching Germany in the hardware of war. Their technology enabled them, a small nation, to take on the US and several other major nations. My point is that if government as well as the community demands with real severity that our youth get a no nonsense education and be willing to suffer to get it that we will advance our technology by leaps and bounds. We have seen Japan with their severe treatment of school aged youth shine bright in industry for the last 40 years. China and many Asian schools are producing scholars with ferocious abilities. It reached the point that many universities had to limit scholarships to Asians as American scholars simply could not compete at all and virtually all scholarships were going to Asian students. The laws and social traditions of a nation have a great deal to do with how fast technology and industrial abilities grow.
The first problem is that the tests should be created in such a way that the test can not be "taught" to the students. The subjects should come as a complete surprise on test day. Secondly it is vital to identify sub standard schools. Obviously nobody wants to accidentally move into a suburb with a lousy school system and it sort of compels businesses to insist upon a high quality, local, school system. Third the no child left behind junk needs to vanish. Should teachers aim at the sharpest kids in a class or cater to the slowest learners? Societies basic needs call for the effort being slanted towards the very best students. those without academic potential need to be diverted into trades types of training such as cooking or learning to paint houses or whatever. As it now stands the presence of slow students is doing great harm to better students. And frankly the reason why the student is slow is not a consideration. I am not saying that the slow students are lesser than faster learners at all but I am saying that a nation will prosper according to the quality of its best students.
The recent hurricane in Mexico managed to miss any large cities. But if it had it had enough power to actually completely level a major city. If one of these super hurricanes smacks Miami, New Orleans or even New York it would bankrupt our nation.. I doubt that much of anything would survive wind gusts over 230 mph. with sustained winds of 200 mph.. But the sick part is that it is only a matter of time. Hurricanes will strike. They always do and with these super storms we all are in danger. So it is not just oil reservoirs but storms that could easily collapse our nation as well as other nations. And it gets worse. I seriously doubt that unless homes and businesses spent millions to harden themselves that new homes could even be built that could hold up to such storms with any confidence at all. And here we are with nothing at all being done to really protect our nation. We have denial over rising seas, global warming and the hazards of extracting too much water from the ground or fracking. People need to understand that such a strike by a major storm would take down the insurance industry which in turn would bust the banks as well as Wall Street leaving the masses with no pensions and no replacement for their dwellings or businesses. We have a very real chance of a financial holocaust triggered by such an event. And no having gold coins tucked away will do you no good at all. You simply can not eat gold or silver.
Whether it is oil or coal we rarely hear any good news. We are building such a complex and interwoven national structure that we are ever more in danger from minor issues causing a cascade of very harmful events. Obviously we need to get both oil and coal out of our way of life as both lack any way to control their negative effects. Keep in mind that the city always spreads like a cancer ruining the more rural areas. It seems that we must consider making energy consumption a very local affair so that when system failures do occur in order to have an energy system that we can actually protect.
Could it be that so much police work is done illegally or in violation of policy that they have trouble doing their job unless they can commit criminal acts? And it is racist as it can be. How much stop and frisk and the like goes on in wealthy, white neighborhoods? If cops acted the same way with wealthy people that they do with poor people every cop on the force would get fired quite quickly.
This punishment without a trial nonsense needs to be hacked off at the knees and all who caused these punishments should be jailed.
Why is the fine so tiny? One would think the fine would be big enough to bankrupt the offending company.
So you are rich. You got there either because you were a greedy little piglet or a parent left you a pile of money. And being a wealth addict you know you want more. So where is the best place to get a big pile of money to add to your stash. Mining the poor and wretched is too slow. You just have to manipulate way too many poor people to steal one penny at a time. But hanging out with rich people gets your leads as to where big money might be had. And if you need an investor only a rich guy is any good to you at all. One way to think about it is Donald trump. He is a living proof that a man can be a liar and an idiot and still have a pile of wealth. The wealthy are not smarter or more able they are simply greed bags with feet.
The taxi industry is structured to screw over drivers as well as the public. Taxi drivers are not protected by Workman's Compensation and wrecks and stick ups are an ongoing problem. In my area the driver rents the cab and keeps what is on the meter. They may not get a single fare in an entire shift and if that cab breaks on the way out of the garage the driver is cheated out of the rental fee. The drivers also pay for the gas. A short four or five mile drive will tend to cost $20. without the tip. That drive may last only five or ten minutes. Drivers are setting minimums such that they refuse any fare under $20.. They also want to charge extra for using a charge card. The industry is a pit of corruption and the rides are absurdly expensive. I have been in other areas where the taxis were wonderful and the rates very low. But in south Florida the government needs to step in big time.
Seriously Washington and Jefferson were excellent terrorist and traitors. They turned against the king and sponsored a revolution that chased the greatest power the world has ever seen right out of the country.
Jefferson grew hemp and getting high on that type of pot is very unlikely. Hemp rope was a valuable commodity and i'm sure hemp fabrics were also very desirable. I wonder if the leaves were used to feed cattle or swine.
Since there were far more poor farmers than rich farmers the use of slaves really made poor farmers even poorer. After all the poor farmer could not afford to purchase slaves so that meant that he and his family had to do all the labor and compete against slave produced goods from the richer farms. Those lab table tops most likely came from the soap stone quarry at Alberine. Soap stone is highly resistant to acids and other chemicals and the quarry is not that far from Charlottesvile.
Seriously it is going to get harder and harder for people to be criminals. Technology is going to catch people that feel secure in the nonsense that they pull off currently with little fear of getting caught. It will also create a situation in which the government appears to be more and more corrupt. For example there are clearly criminal phone sales rooms that cops often leave alone as it brings in money to the town and the calls steal money long distance. The mayors don't want the cops making the arrests as it turns off a money supply and on top of that it costs money to arrest and jail all of the phone salesmen.
It is really wicked that the wealthiest state in the nation can not provide quality, electrical services. One would think that California would have by far the best electrical supply in the nation. God bless Tesla! The Tesla organization is doing wonderful work.
When you deal with another person or a business privacy is not really in play. My only objection to anyone deeply studying me is that all other people are not deeply studied. My feeling is that if all people were studied in depth I might look pretty darned good compared to many others. The real issue is lack of equality in data collection and analysis. Further is is all too easy to fool a data mining effort. One might ask Google Maps to give you directions to the local archdiocese or to every major church in the area. Then you might collect addresses and driving directions to every stock brokerage in your area. Then drop some well known names in your emails such as governors with meetings at specific sites and dates and driving directions. One might also make several inquiries into buying the most expensive Mercedes or top of the line Lincolns. You might want to make inquiries about yachts as well. The likely effect is that someone out there may think you buy lots of expensive items and they may butter you up with some gifts designed as incentives. How about yacking about your scholarship fund which does not really exist. Confuse the living daylights out of data mining.
Really the human in charge is the weak link in a car. It is not as simple as common errors but moods, substances, and mental issues as well as family or financial problems can lead to a crash. The entire benefit of robotic autos is getting the humans out of the loop. It is nor quite practical today but it will occur soon enough.
That sticky foam has a lot of potential but will surely cause a few deaths in use. Imagine a gunman barricaded in a home and the foam sprays in and fills the room right to the ceiling. No air is more than a trivial problem. Smaller canisters of foam are bound to go off inside squad cars now and then just as mace and pepper spray have caused lethal wrecks inside squad cars.
Economics should be an art but in this world economics is a mess. If the goal of economies is the fair distribution of wealth then economics is a total failure.