One right winger down the bowl is not enough. We need to flush all of them down the bowl. On top of that the jerk is almost the same color orange as Trump. It makes me wonder if one lies enough does one turn orange?
The 10,000 injury nonsense is nothing more than corruption whether it is in regard to a motorcycle or a car passenger or driver. A biker with a head injury will go through that $10,000 in the emergency room in less than 15 minutes. That will leave him out of luck on medical bills and loss of income for the rest of his life. In some states it is next to impossible to go beyond the limit of the other driver's policy no matter how dire the injury. On top of that there are places like Miami,Fl. where 40 percent of drivers have no license or insurance at all.
The insurance industry is screwing the public completely and nothing is being done about it at all. Right now the only legitimate function of auto insurance is protecting the bank that actually owns your car in case the sheet metal gets beat up.
Maybe Watson can study people at a depth at which social improvement can take place. Anything from uncovering trolls on social sites to finding out just how a person in Colorado who receives food stamps can be supporting a $40. a day pot habit.
Dying at home can be quite expensive. constant nursing and care in the home may not be paid for by insurance. I know that hospitals now refuse to allow many patients to die in a hospital bed claiming that hospitals are for healing and that healing is not possible. Yet hospice care can be free or low cost and they tend to have more comfortable conditions for death. In a hospice there is no fussing over restraint on pain medications and they will actually get you beer, whiskey or a pack of smokes if you insist. Home can not equal a hospice when one is passing.
Most items start out without a market and then acquire a following. When rifles first existed a bow and arrow might have seemed like a better choice. But as rifles became perfected there was a point at which a bow and arrow was no match at all. 3D printing has a huge potential in creating housing and large objects rather than tiny projects might be where 3D printing first disrupts a major industry.
First we must be willing to build very large facilities capable of storing thousands of tents and food enough to last people for many weeks. And we need to do this in regional centers such that deliveries can take place the day after a storm leaves an area. Areas such as Miami simply can not be evacuated as the population is way too large. A strong storm can knock out roads and rails and put a large area into severe isolation. A few days worth of groceries will simply not help much. In my area our grocery stores were destroyed when three storms hit us back to back. Getting a car on the road was next to impossible and quite dangerous. Gasoline was not available at all as the gas wells were all flooded. I had no power for three solid weeks. A situation like that can get to the point at which people raid each other trying to keep from starving. I see no effective measures at all. If another Katrina hit New Orleans the results would be very much like the original Katrina. The repairs made are not designed to stand up to a class 5 hurricane. And it is only a matter of time before New Orleans gets hit by class 5 storm. Miami is in the same boat. We roll the dice here constantly and count on good luck not to bring on a class 5 storm.
I was shocked to see a garbage truck that had the ability to rip washing machines, mattresses and old cabinets and pull in the shards. It did have human workers but that truck was designed to get rid of anything that a home might have with ease and efficiency.
I would assume that numerous nations as well as buyers could file suit. We must not allow any company to profit by wrong doing. The fines should be several times the profits made from such a violation.
It works like this. First the right wing cuts the funding to a program the right wing doesn't like. Then when the funds are slashed so deeply that an agency or project does a lousy job that is used as an excuse to either eliminate the program completely or slash the budget even more as a punishment. The consequences are not even considered or even admitted. For example if you restrict Medicare or Medicaid a bit you cause deaths and disabilities and a lot of public expense due to emergency room admissions. But the jerk seeking re election know that the data for the wrong doing is hard to assemble and the ignorant public will pay for the jackass who supposedly holds down taxes.
No free market has ever existed. Not even the most primitive tribes have markets that are free of taboos, rules, some form of taxation or regulations. The concept of a free market exists to fool people who really don't think things out. Tell me that some markets are freer than others and I will tell you my sister is a little bit pregnant. It makes no sense at all. She either is pregnant or she is not just as you are free or not.
The crime is in the motives. It is one thing for a person to be ignorant or uneducated. It is quite another thing when an opinion is held in order to feather one's own nest all the while knowing that suffering will be put upon others due to lies. So yes some deniers do belong in prison.
Not only will we have zero choice but we must supply incomes that are reasonably robust to the point that the basic income provides extra spending money. We are quite rapidly replacing human labor in every field. At one time we had animal labor in which animals did a lot of the work. Then we had machines plus human labor. The new wave is machine labor minus humans. Entire trades are vanishing at a rapid rate. People do not wish to sense what is going on. Teaching is an endangered trade. The construction industry is under pressure to automate. Professional drivers are about to vanish. With Tesla cars most automotive employment will cease as they simply need very little maintenance and don't require dealerships at all. High quality robots can now unload trucks for businesses. Mcdonald's is in the process of eliminating human employees. Cashiers are vanishing. The pace of change is getting faster and faster. In the end we must put cash in peoples' hands as businesses will have no working customers available to buy their products. To prevent utter chaos we will simply have to make certain that all citizens are potential customers.
Here we see another example of a trade being wiped out by machines. It is fine and wonderful but society still takes no efforts at all to come up with ways to help people whose careers come to a sudden end. Air controllers are a skilled group but endless retraining is no longer a real answer. We must support workers as technology displaces them.
Cutting communications lines is a particularly difficult type of terror attack to prevent. Anyone who has ever worked around vital communication lines knows where they are and breaking those lines can be quite easy. Catching such a person may take quite some time and expense. Let's hope this is not the scheme of some foreign enemy.
When playing some of the better conventional chess engines I am astounded at how often i get out past fifty moves and discover that I am in a really fatal position. Trading teat for tat with the pieces and having something that looks like a real chess game on my part does not equal being in a good position for the end game. I am impressed and grateful for the fine work that has been done on Crafty,Rebel and Sjeng.
What excuse does the US government have for not having the fastest broadband in the world? I mean here we are with the streets paved with gold and gold can conduct electricity and therefore data at great speeds. So maybe we are not really number one and by the way the streets in front of my home are not made of gold. They are old, decaying asphalt with pot holes.
So far human communications are based upon a signal traveling along a path. In an advanced culture that may no longer exist. Quantum mechanics is weird enough and just maybe information can be made to appear at a target place without traveling in the physical universe. Obviously we could not detect something like that.
One way to be safer is to avoid showing anything that would attract a thief. Do not wear jewelry. When you open your front door the view should show a rather bare interior such that no neighbor will notice much of anything of value. Imply low status to anyone in the building or near by. If you are an engineer tell them you are a clerk. Use a debit card and do not show cash. Make yourself unavailable to your neighbors such that they know little about you. In the bedroom area build yourself a very strong box that is heavy or locked to the floor or buy several of those security boxes and anchor them for your various gizmos that you don't want to lose. Insure everything and keep pics of all the items you insure online.
You forgot baby labor. Once a brat hits four he could be put to use in the mines. There are actually right wingers who want this sort of crap. And they are so very lost they don't even know how messed up they are. Cheap labor will do nothing for America. That tune played out long ago. These days my machines must work cheaper than your machines is the real deal. Can a Chinese production robot do a better job or faster job than an American assembly robot? Human's are getting rare on factory floors. Machines take more and more agricultural jobs every day. Driving for a living already received its death notice. Teaching is falling to automation. Yet the really dumb can't see it coming at all. How many parents on this thread have a kid who takes some school courses with no teacher other than a computer?
That is a very, very difficult issue. Because of the ability of the government to keep so many things secret we have no clue as to what the government does and there is a good chance that much of it is criminal in nature. Nixon's ordering the burglary of Daniel Ellsburg's psychiatrist office is a prime example. The entire Watergate mess was criminal. And Ronnie Reagan's Arms for Contras was criminal in nature as well. And then we have the secret war in Cambodia and the secret war in Laos as further examples of our government running off the rails. There are also problems with monies never delivered to first nations tribes that they have been due for decades. And then to top that off the borders of Indian reservations keep getting altered even though their treaties are defined as permanent. Then we must consider the crimes we commit against other nations such as promising Vietnam that they would never be occupied by a foreign power again and then allowing the French to waltz back in after WW2. And how about our ongoing violations of the Geneva Conventions in handling various groups including terror suspects?
The evidence at hand is that the US is in no way trustworthy and generally any treaties with us are not worth the paper they are written on.
Then the other shoe drops. If all the information the government collects was also shared with all law enforcement as well as the public without anything being held back we would live in a safer and nicer world. As it satnds the government does not share and therefore we should take the powers away that allow them to spy or collect data.
That will get cops killed. If someone fires at them suddenly the cop is going to have to get off more than one shot to make sure they are not turned into a dead cop.
Every tiny little change in everything that we do always has some unintended consequences. And usually it is something that no one sees coming. So yes if we alter a gene in a chicken there is some element of risk. We can not know the long term consequences. But the opposite is also true. We do not know the unintended consequences of not altering that gene either. But saving 48 million food birds is important not only to the farmers but to the public as well. So like everything else in life we roll the dice a tiny bit.
I'm sure that someone on the lunatic right will want to stomp about with protest signs over this huge non issue.
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One right winger down the bowl is not enough. We need to flush all of them down the bowl. On top of that the jerk is almost the same color orange as Trump. It makes me wonder if one lies enough does one turn orange?
The 10,000 injury nonsense is nothing more than corruption whether it is in regard to a motorcycle or a car passenger or driver. A biker with a head injury will go through that $10,000 in the emergency room in less than 15 minutes. That will leave him out of luck on medical bills and loss of income for the rest of his life. In some states it is next to impossible to go beyond the limit of the other driver's policy no matter how dire the injury. On top of that there are places like Miami,Fl. where 40 percent of drivers have no license or insurance at all. The insurance industry is screwing the public completely and nothing is being done about it at all. Right now the only legitimate function of auto insurance is protecting the bank that actually owns your car in case the sheet metal gets beat up.
Just how are we to deal with criminals who steal from us who live in nations that will not arrest culprits? Russia leaps to mind.
Maybe Watson can study people at a depth at which social improvement can take place. Anything from uncovering trolls on social sites to finding out just how a person in Colorado who receives food stamps can be supporting a $40. a day pot habit.
Dying at home can be quite expensive. constant nursing and care in the home may not be paid for by insurance. I know that hospitals now refuse to allow many patients to die in a hospital bed claiming that hospitals are for healing and that healing is not possible. Yet hospice care can be free or low cost and they tend to have more comfortable conditions for death. In a hospice there is no fussing over restraint on pain medications and they will actually get you beer, whiskey or a pack of smokes if you insist. Home can not equal a hospice when one is passing.
Most items start out without a market and then acquire a following. When rifles first existed a bow and arrow might have seemed like a better choice. But as rifles became perfected there was a point at which a bow and arrow was no match at all. 3D printing has a huge potential in creating housing and large objects rather than tiny projects might be where 3D printing first disrupts a major industry.
First we must be willing to build very large facilities capable of storing thousands of tents and food enough to last people for many weeks. And we need to do this in regional centers such that deliveries can take place the day after a storm leaves an area. Areas such as Miami simply can not be evacuated as the population is way too large. A strong storm can knock out roads and rails and put a large area into severe isolation. A few days worth of groceries will simply not help much. In my area our grocery stores were destroyed when three storms hit us back to back. Getting a car on the road was next to impossible and quite dangerous. Gasoline was not available at all as the gas wells were all flooded. I had no power for three solid weeks. A situation like that can get to the point at which people raid each other trying to keep from starving. I see no effective measures at all. If another Katrina hit New Orleans the results would be very much like the original Katrina. The repairs made are not designed to stand up to a class 5 hurricane. And it is only a matter of time before New Orleans gets hit by class 5 storm. Miami is in the same boat. We roll the dice here constantly and count on good luck not to bring on a class 5 storm.
I was shocked to see a garbage truck that had the ability to rip washing machines, mattresses and old cabinets and pull in the shards. It did have human workers but that truck was designed to get rid of anything that a home might have with ease and efficiency.
I would assume that numerous nations as well as buyers could file suit. We must not allow any company to profit by wrong doing. The fines should be several times the profits made from such a violation.
It works like this. First the right wing cuts the funding to a program the right wing doesn't like. Then when the funds are slashed so deeply that an agency or project does a lousy job that is used as an excuse to either eliminate the program completely or slash the budget even more as a punishment. The consequences are not even considered or even admitted. For example if you restrict Medicare or Medicaid a bit you cause deaths and disabilities and a lot of public expense due to emergency room admissions. But the jerk seeking re election know that the data for the wrong doing is hard to assemble and the ignorant public will pay for the jackass who supposedly holds down taxes.
No free market has ever existed. Not even the most primitive tribes have markets that are free of taboos, rules, some form of taxation or regulations. The concept of a free market exists to fool people who really don't think things out. Tell me that some markets are freer than others and I will tell you my sister is a little bit pregnant. It makes no sense at all. She either is pregnant or she is not just as you are free or not.
The crime is in the motives. It is one thing for a person to be ignorant or uneducated. It is quite another thing when an opinion is held in order to feather one's own nest all the while knowing that suffering will be put upon others due to lies. So yes some deniers do belong in prison.
Those wasps are obviously right wingers trying to live for free on the backs of others.
Not only will we have zero choice but we must supply incomes that are reasonably robust to the point that the basic income provides extra spending money. We are quite rapidly replacing human labor in every field. At one time we had animal labor in which animals did a lot of the work. Then we had machines plus human labor. The new wave is machine labor minus humans. Entire trades are vanishing at a rapid rate. People do not wish to sense what is going on. Teaching is an endangered trade. The construction industry is under pressure to automate. Professional drivers are about to vanish. With Tesla cars most automotive employment will cease as they simply need very little maintenance and don't require dealerships at all. High quality robots can now unload trucks for businesses. Mcdonald's is in the process of eliminating human employees. Cashiers are vanishing. The pace of change is getting faster and faster. In the end we must put cash in peoples' hands as businesses will have no working customers available to buy their products. To prevent utter chaos we will simply have to make certain that all citizens are potential customers.
Here we see another example of a trade being wiped out by machines. It is fine and wonderful but society still takes no efforts at all to come up with ways to help people whose careers come to a sudden end. Air controllers are a skilled group but endless retraining is no longer a real answer. We must support workers as technology displaces them.
Cutting communications lines is a particularly difficult type of terror attack to prevent. Anyone who has ever worked around vital communication lines knows where they are and breaking those lines can be quite easy. Catching such a person may take quite some time and expense. Let's hope this is not the scheme of some foreign enemy.
When playing some of the better conventional chess engines I am astounded at how often i get out past fifty moves and discover that I am in a really fatal position. Trading teat for tat with the pieces and having something that looks like a real chess game on my part does not equal being in a good position for the end game. I am impressed and grateful for the fine work that has been done on Crafty,Rebel and Sjeng.
What excuse does the US government have for not having the fastest broadband in the world? I mean here we are with the streets paved with gold and gold can conduct electricity and therefore data at great speeds. So maybe we are not really number one and by the way the streets in front of my home are not made of gold. They are old, decaying asphalt with pot holes.
So far human communications are based upon a signal traveling along a path. In an advanced culture that may no longer exist. Quantum mechanics is weird enough and just maybe information can be made to appear at a target place without traveling in the physical universe. Obviously we could not detect something like that.
One way to be safer is to avoid showing anything that would attract a thief. Do not wear jewelry. When you open your front door the view should show a rather bare interior such that no neighbor will notice much of anything of value. Imply low status to anyone in the building or near by. If you are an engineer tell them you are a clerk. Use a debit card and do not show cash. Make yourself unavailable to your neighbors such that they know little about you. In the bedroom area build yourself a very strong box that is heavy or locked to the floor or buy several of those security boxes and anchor them for your various gizmos that you don't want to lose. Insure everything and keep pics of all the items you insure online.
You forgot baby labor. Once a brat hits four he could be put to use in the mines. There are actually right wingers who want this sort of crap. And they are so very lost they don't even know how messed up they are. Cheap labor will do nothing for America. That tune played out long ago. These days my machines must work cheaper than your machines is the real deal. Can a Chinese production robot do a better job or faster job than an American assembly robot? Human's are getting rare on factory floors. Machines take more and more agricultural jobs every day. Driving for a living already received its death notice. Teaching is falling to automation. Yet the really dumb can't see it coming at all. How many parents on this thread have a kid who takes some school courses with no teacher other than a computer?
That is a very, very difficult issue. Because of the ability of the government to keep so many things secret we have no clue as to what the government does and there is a good chance that much of it is criminal in nature. Nixon's ordering the burglary of Daniel Ellsburg's psychiatrist office is a prime example. The entire Watergate mess was criminal. And Ronnie Reagan's Arms for Contras was criminal in nature as well. And then we have the secret war in Cambodia and the secret war in Laos as further examples of our government running off the rails. There are also problems with monies never delivered to first nations tribes that they have been due for decades. And then to top that off the borders of Indian reservations keep getting altered even though their treaties are defined as permanent. Then we must consider the crimes we commit against other nations such as promising Vietnam that they would never be occupied by a foreign power again and then allowing the French to waltz back in after WW2. And how about our ongoing violations of the Geneva Conventions in handling various groups including terror suspects? The evidence at hand is that the US is in no way trustworthy and generally any treaties with us are not worth the paper they are written on. Then the other shoe drops. If all the information the government collects was also shared with all law enforcement as well as the public without anything being held back we would live in a safer and nicer world. As it satnds the government does not share and therefore we should take the powers away that allow them to spy or collect data.
That will get cops killed. If someone fires at them suddenly the cop is going to have to get off more than one shot to make sure they are not turned into a dead cop.
Every tiny little change in everything that we do always has some unintended consequences. And usually it is something that no one sees coming. So yes if we alter a gene in a chicken there is some element of risk. We can not know the long term consequences. But the opposite is also true. We do not know the unintended consequences of not altering that gene either. But saving 48 million food birds is important not only to the farmers but to the public as well. So like everything else in life we roll the dice a tiny bit. I'm sure that someone on the lunatic right will want to stomp about with protest signs over this huge non issue.
Sometimes there just are not enough grassy knolls available.