Make a little plan Sam. Seriously one needs to get out of the place before releasing a report. Encrypt it and send it into a trusted nation . Destroy any materials that you have in hand and take a long vacation to the elsewhere.
I have no problem with tracking of myself by my bank. I don't go anywhere that I need to keep secret from anyone at all. And yes, being tracked by my bank could save me from being ripped off.
But here is one thing that most people would not consider. A bad guy could have someone else carry their phone or tablet and use the tracking record as an alibi while he commits a crime. I assume that lawyers could acquire the tracking materials for things like civil suits as well. If you are in a traffic wreck and spent five hours in a bar prior to the accident the jury may well be enlightened as to who probably was at fault in the wreck.
OK so i start a site that does searches from within the US and then create a file and send it to a French national. In other words the notion will not work at all and the legal issues will never cease and new businesses will appear to deliver that information to the French. We actually need to make it clear that only US laws are in play for anyone operating in the US.. Think of it as the porno in Podunk problem. A guy in NY send porn to a guy in California but because the message travels through Podunk Podunk claims a right to legal judgement over whether it is "too" graphic. By doing that they push free speech into the trash can and insist that the most radical conservative backwater, hick town can control materials being sent across the nation. Who owns jurisdiction?
Nobody mentions it but a severe water shortage could actually cause the evacuation of California. Much like Florida an economic disaster in California could collapse the economy of the US.
One partial solution is to ban the shipping of any food products abroad. That would keep food affordable within the US and also use less water as the demand for crops would be far less.
Under the belly of this monster is growth. Politicians and businesses always whine about growth. Growth destroys everything good. A ban on new construction for the state of California would limit growth. Imagine how short on water they would be if another 10 million people moved to California. And underneath that growth problem is the ever swelling population bomb that nobody wants to deal with. By law make less babies!
The idea of growth rests upon the notion that locals are worthless and have no money to support businesses therefore we must "grow" to bring new money our way. Detroit is an example of what growth always does. The slums of Memphis are what growth does. Brooklyn and the Bronx are what growth does. Miami Florida is what growth does. And we now are about to pay the piper for all our growth.
Perhaps signs at the entrance of stores could announce that entering the store is an agreement to use electronic investigation of a shopper or visitor. It might have a crushing effect in that a violator might never be able to enter any store, ever, again.
And how about the drunk driver being banned from every place that serves or sells liquor for life? This technology may look the Puritans look like flaming liberals.
In my area people that have a misdemeanor conviction are pretty much unemployable. It doesn't take a felony to keep you out of work. Not to mention that many states now make almost everything a felony. It might be a felony of the 5th. degree and employers don't even ask if you were found guilty. The arrest is all they consider.
All of this may change as unemployment lets up a bit.
The purchase of school AC systems is an arena in which organised crime seems to thrive. I have seen it first hand as a specialist employed for school AC systems. Units that use water towers are particularly suspect. In warmer states any boilers in a public school are highly suspect. For example I have seen a large twin boiler unit that was operated for 40 years that really did next to nothing yet it ran continuously. It only acted to feed a warming tray in the cafeteria and cost a ton of money every year. A simple electrical warmer that cost next to nothing could have easily done the job and since electric warmers warm quickly it could be turned on just before lunch and shut down after lunch. Those boilers probably cost well over one million to install and keep running. The reason why is someone powerful owned a company that got the installation contract. This stuff is continuous. If organized crime can get into county school that often have budgets over one billion per year and simply rake off 5% it can be perpetual and so expensive to investigate and prove that those who want to can't stop it from continuing.
When social conflicts arise there has been a certain reluctance to admit that much of science rests in faith. Obviously the universe as a whole can not be observed. And variables permeate every experiment. Yet those involved as professional scientists are aware that all progress halts if we only comply precisely with scientific methods. Some phenomena simply can not be isolated or studied under controlled conditions. And we are aware of certain chemical reactions created under the most controlled conditions can have several different end results. So we do hear terms like the underlying fabric of space which are not observable to us at all. In some cases we may reason out an issue but the actual proof of the subject may be centuries away. And we also do not know if the physics that we reason with are universal in nature or perhaps just occurring in certain localities in the universe. Even looking at a star in the sky only tells us that that star existed years and years ago and being that gravity bends light who the heck really know how many times that light was bent or redirected. We really only observe the history of what the universe looked like at various times.
Mathematics has always suffered a severe challenge when there are more than two actors in a system. Although one day the problem may be cracked as things stand the motion of multiple objects being attracted and repelled by each other appears to be chaotic.
Actually modifying the genes of female sheep causes the females to make the proteins in their udders. Milking the goats and separating the proteins allows them to be made into spider silk.
We may be seeing some great fishing line and shoe laces might be pretty darned strong soon.
Supposedly we are all secure in our papers etc.. The catch is that when one erases things there is often no knowledge that anything might be of interest in a criminal case. Sometimes one has files that one doesn't even know exist as someone else uses your PC from time to time. These laws get abused in minor local cases quite frequently. For example if you receive a bad check and are disgusted and rip it to shreds and then get arrested because you tried to cash the check they will claim you destroyed evidence. They assume you deliberately presented a bad check. The law has way too much power and what is called a proof is now absurd. For example the old stunt of stuffing a bit of dope under someone's car seat and dropping a dime about dope in their car often puts people in prison. If it is in your car the possession is assumed and possession is then used as a truth that you did possess the dope knowingly and deliberately. Sometimes it is a cop who sticks the dope under the seat. Felony arrests yield promotions in the PD.
No government will ever tolerate free speech. Despite the dreadful power in hand all governments fear the light of day and communications of the public.
Once again the bony fingers of Uncle Walt reach out from the grave and grab as much gold as they can rip from the hands of people who have been good to Disney. In the beginning Disney built an image of loving children and doing wonderful, gentle things for children. Maybe they should have told those children that greed was not a good thing at all and that when those kids grew up Uncle Walt would seek ways to ruin their lives. Compared to Disney a child molesting priest looks great to have as a neighbor.
Some of you may have noticed that large banking chains insist upon very restricted use of characters in passwords. They also insist on short passwords that disallow password phrases. For example ASCi2 symbols are usually not allowed. Many keyboard symbols are also disallowed. All in all the major banks seem to insist upon fairly weak passwords. Since they, in theory, cover any losses made by hackers or crackers invading bank accounts I find their position really weird. Certainly it can not be so difficult to allow really strong passwords. What the heck is going on? The banks themselves use 2500 character passwords and there were experts claiming that they need to go to 5,000 character passwords for bank to bank transfers. Should customers be banned from using the same level of encryption?
Yes I and only I have had a revelation on how cable companies can gain audience shares. In a flash of inspiration it all came to me. Better programs and lower prices ! Wow they should pay me a fortune for diagnosing their problems.
Robotics have been used to design computer circuits without human input for well over a decade. The results are quite shocking. Often a well written program that functions can not be understood by humans at all. Another shocker was that these devices which use Darwinian modes of developing programs exploit tiny differences in the hardware such that a smooth running, ultra compact program, will only run on the machine that wrote the program. And now we have more normal programming actually occurring sans human input.
Robot built or printed homes are already being built and they range from very basic to very upscale and beautiful. As investors smell the profit potential these homes will dominate the housing industry. Even the plumbing and electrical pathways can be printed into the walls. Shapes that are next to impossible to create by traditional methods are easily created with 3d printing. I saw one pictured that had every inch of the wall space covered with sculptures in fine detail.
Right now all American car manufacturers are already using 3D printed parts and the degree to which they are used increases daily. There is now a jet engine that is completely built with 3d printed parts and another built entirely of plastics.
You will see more changes in the next six years than we have seen in the last 50 years.
I went to fill my prescriptions last week. A robotic system retrieved the big bottle from stock, opened it, counted the number of pills, put them in my bottle after printing a label and sticking it on the bottle then applied the lid, put the bottle into a transparent bag, stapled it shut and sent it to the pharmacy clerk. i asked he he told me that automation now takes at least 50% of the labor out of the hand of pharmacists. i forgot to add that the system also did an auto deduction from my debit card as well. Obviously any decent size pharmacy can now lay off 50% of clerks as well as pharmacists.
Meanwhile telemarketers whether human or robotic are about to vanish. simply having an absolute rule that any company soliciting either sales or sales appointments must have a certain prefix or suffix such that no phone will ever ring or allow access to an answering machine without prior consent by the phone owner is sufficient as long as the financial penalties are severe enough to stop this nonsense. And if foreign nations are not willing to use the new suffix or prefix then all calls from those nations will be cut off until they rigidly police their phone systems. I'll bet that 3 million people work as telemarketers in the US.
Really wonderful memory metals have been around for at least 25 years now. Industry really wanted the public to not get products containing memory metal all these years. About the only common use of memory metal that the public can find are the wires in womens' bras that return to shape when placed in the hot water of a washing machine. the chances are that we will see very few products containing memory metal as the stuff threatens to many large industries. For example you could have a car that self removed dents if exposed to either heat or cold.
Anyone can use the Tor browser and that and a tiny bit of common sense will stop anyone from tracking you down and focusing on your emails. And just who in a school board is really qualified to judge who is potentially dangerous? After all psychiatrists readily admit that they can not predict violence in their patients. What it really comes down to is too many kids as well as adults getting a really raw deal in modern America and people who get trapped in bad situations tend to strike back at others. In some cases a life in prison is much better than the life of poverty they endure when free. The perpetrator is one half of the criminal act. The society that surrounds the perpetrator is the other half of the crime. Perpetrators sometimes change their ways for the better. Society rarely changes for the better.
All that is left is for the little critter to learn to reproduce itself. That might be easier than one might think if it only involves assembling components but if is defined as also creating all the components it is much more difficult. Human fetuses do not create their won components by comparison. After that we need to build in a "Darwin Effect". In other words the little robot should find better and better designs for itself which computers and net connections could provide. At some point we must define it as a life form and perhaps reach a point where whether it is sentient or not can be debated. The issues will be similar to what Mr.Data faces in the Star Trek series. My best guess is that less than 20 years will be needed to advance to this point if the social disruption caused by raid changes in technology does not kill us all.
Sadly advertising is not simple. It often involves forms of brain washing. The notion of creating a market is just an insidious way of trying to make someone desire something that they probably should not. There is a certain very lusted after American sports car that in reality is a high priced, rolling death trap that has no reason to exist at all and is a menace to public safety. But ask every high school senior if they want a Corvette and it will get almost a 100% positive response. We see the same in motorcycles. Just why do young people want or even imagine they can handle a stock street bike capable of going 237 mph? Even professional racers are highly frightened to drive these machines but do so as they get huge pay checks. But because of advertising the kids don't want a 100 mpg. motorcycle. They want a bike that can go zero to sixty in two seconds. Yet the human eyeball flattens enough under that kind of acceleration that vision is severely limited. Some modern motorcycles accelerate faster than a military jet accelerates launching off of an air craft carrier. And kids try this with zero training.
The internet was not established to allow or promote businesses. Capitalism is like a cancer that oozes its way into places that it should not touch. Perhaps we could set up a special suffix that any business looking to sell or recruit anyone for any purpose would be open fopr such purposes. I wonder how many eyeballs would be on such a channel. I suspect very few.
I am at the point of saying that almost all insurance should in itself be illegal. Often employees fail to do as they are asked in a business. sometimes the people at the top of the chain of command must simply accept employees statements that work is properly completed. I have been in a situation in which the president of a substantial company went a bit senile as he was past 80 years of age. Frankly many things could slide by the old guy without him understanding that something was wrong. So even if an insurance company claims that something was seriously wrong with a companies security i really have trouble blaming a company unless the entire situation is known and really it never is.
On the other hand I see car insurance as a joke and a bit of theft hoisted upon the public. Auto insurance simply never has high enough limits to actually properly pay a seriously injured person. Requiring people to carry insurance on each other bodies eliminates responsibility as pay outs larger than in the policy are almost unheard of in my state. So if you come out of a wreck and lose both eyes and both legs most peoples' auto insurance will not even cover a helicopter to rush you to a trauma center and all of your medical bills will fall upon you despite the other guy clearly being 100% at fault. And medical insurance allows doctors to bill at absurd rates. In short insurance really needs to be banned.
Sadly due to a very lousy school system in the US many Christians simply can not understand their own faith. They get suckered in by all kinds of nonsense sects that offer teachings about 100% opposite of what Christ asked of us. These sects are the ones clinging to a supposed divide between science and faith centered on creationism. It fails to dawn on them that God could use evolution to create life on this planet.
The powers of a supreme being by definition would enable all kinds of violations of mathematics and physics. If we look at all that surrounds us it is an unbelievable display of supreme artistic creations. For example now and then I see a stunning young girl at 16 or 17 years of age that simply oozes with beauty and grace. It is as if God used his best sculpture and paints to create such a being. Such stunning beauty has no reason de etre at all. It isn't about reproduction at all. Females tend to reproduce even when they look like a wrecked garbage truck. We see the same effect in rocks. Most rocks are sort of dull and unremarkable but then we see opals and rubies and other stones of remarkable beauty. We see it in wildlife as well. So many animals are just plain beautiful even if deadly. It is as if God just could not help but show a glimpse of His artistic skills. So just how does one try to apply statistics or probability to such a situation? And just who created the possibility of mathematics even existing?
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Make a little plan Sam. Seriously one needs to get out of the place before releasing a report. Encrypt it and send it into a trusted nation . Destroy any materials that you have in hand and take a long vacation to the elsewhere.
I have no problem with tracking of myself by my bank. I don't go anywhere that I need to keep secret from anyone at all. And yes, being tracked by my bank could save me from being ripped off. But here is one thing that most people would not consider. A bad guy could have someone else carry their phone or tablet and use the tracking record as an alibi while he commits a crime. I assume that lawyers could acquire the tracking materials for things like civil suits as well. If you are in a traffic wreck and spent five hours in a bar prior to the accident the jury may well be enlightened as to who probably was at fault in the wreck.
OK so i start a site that does searches from within the US and then create a file and send it to a French national. In other words the notion will not work at all and the legal issues will never cease and new businesses will appear to deliver that information to the French. We actually need to make it clear that only US laws are in play for anyone operating in the US.. Think of it as the porno in Podunk problem. A guy in NY send porn to a guy in California but because the message travels through Podunk Podunk claims a right to legal judgement over whether it is "too" graphic. By doing that they push free speech into the trash can and insist that the most radical conservative backwater, hick town can control materials being sent across the nation. Who owns jurisdiction?
Nobody mentions it but a severe water shortage could actually cause the evacuation of California. Much like Florida an economic disaster in California could collapse the economy of the US. One partial solution is to ban the shipping of any food products abroad. That would keep food affordable within the US and also use less water as the demand for crops would be far less. Under the belly of this monster is growth. Politicians and businesses always whine about growth. Growth destroys everything good. A ban on new construction for the state of California would limit growth. Imagine how short on water they would be if another 10 million people moved to California. And underneath that growth problem is the ever swelling population bomb that nobody wants to deal with. By law make less babies! The idea of growth rests upon the notion that locals are worthless and have no money to support businesses therefore we must "grow" to bring new money our way. Detroit is an example of what growth always does. The slums of Memphis are what growth does. Brooklyn and the Bronx are what growth does. Miami Florida is what growth does. And we now are about to pay the piper for all our growth.
Perhaps signs at the entrance of stores could announce that entering the store is an agreement to use electronic investigation of a shopper or visitor. It might have a crushing effect in that a violator might never be able to enter any store, ever, again. And how about the drunk driver being banned from every place that serves or sells liquor for life? This technology may look the Puritans look like flaming liberals. In my area people that have a misdemeanor conviction are pretty much unemployable. It doesn't take a felony to keep you out of work. Not to mention that many states now make almost everything a felony. It might be a felony of the 5th. degree and employers don't even ask if you were found guilty. The arrest is all they consider. All of this may change as unemployment lets up a bit.
The purchase of school AC systems is an arena in which organised crime seems to thrive. I have seen it first hand as a specialist employed for school AC systems. Units that use water towers are particularly suspect. In warmer states any boilers in a public school are highly suspect. For example I have seen a large twin boiler unit that was operated for 40 years that really did next to nothing yet it ran continuously. It only acted to feed a warming tray in the cafeteria and cost a ton of money every year. A simple electrical warmer that cost next to nothing could have easily done the job and since electric warmers warm quickly it could be turned on just before lunch and shut down after lunch. Those boilers probably cost well over one million to install and keep running. The reason why is someone powerful owned a company that got the installation contract. This stuff is continuous. If organized crime can get into county school that often have budgets over one billion per year and simply rake off 5% it can be perpetual and so expensive to investigate and prove that those who want to can't stop it from continuing.
When social conflicts arise there has been a certain reluctance to admit that much of science rests in faith. Obviously the universe as a whole can not be observed. And variables permeate every experiment. Yet those involved as professional scientists are aware that all progress halts if we only comply precisely with scientific methods. Some phenomena simply can not be isolated or studied under controlled conditions. And we are aware of certain chemical reactions created under the most controlled conditions can have several different end results. So we do hear terms like the underlying fabric of space which are not observable to us at all. In some cases we may reason out an issue but the actual proof of the subject may be centuries away. And we also do not know if the physics that we reason with are universal in nature or perhaps just occurring in certain localities in the universe. Even looking at a star in the sky only tells us that that star existed years and years ago and being that gravity bends light who the heck really know how many times that light was bent or redirected. We really only observe the history of what the universe looked like at various times.
Mathematics has always suffered a severe challenge when there are more than two actors in a system. Although one day the problem may be cracked as things stand the motion of multiple objects being attracted and repelled by each other appears to be chaotic.
Actually modifying the genes of female sheep causes the females to make the proteins in their udders. Milking the goats and separating the proteins allows them to be made into spider silk. We may be seeing some great fishing line and shoe laces might be pretty darned strong soon.
Supposedly we are all secure in our papers etc.. The catch is that when one erases things there is often no knowledge that anything might be of interest in a criminal case. Sometimes one has files that one doesn't even know exist as someone else uses your PC from time to time. These laws get abused in minor local cases quite frequently. For example if you receive a bad check and are disgusted and rip it to shreds and then get arrested because you tried to cash the check they will claim you destroyed evidence. They assume you deliberately presented a bad check. The law has way too much power and what is called a proof is now absurd. For example the old stunt of stuffing a bit of dope under someone's car seat and dropping a dime about dope in their car often puts people in prison. If it is in your car the possession is assumed and possession is then used as a truth that you did possess the dope knowingly and deliberately. Sometimes it is a cop who sticks the dope under the seat. Felony arrests yield promotions in the PD.
No government will ever tolerate free speech. Despite the dreadful power in hand all governments fear the light of day and communications of the public.
Instead of industry why not work with home owners whose wells are now rancid with chemicals. All fracking needs to be banned everywhere.
Once again the bony fingers of Uncle Walt reach out from the grave and grab as much gold as they can rip from the hands of people who have been good to Disney. In the beginning Disney built an image of loving children and doing wonderful, gentle things for children. Maybe they should have told those children that greed was not a good thing at all and that when those kids grew up Uncle Walt would seek ways to ruin their lives. Compared to Disney a child molesting priest looks great to have as a neighbor.
Some of you may have noticed that large banking chains insist upon very restricted use of characters in passwords. They also insist on short passwords that disallow password phrases. For example ASCi2 symbols are usually not allowed. Many keyboard symbols are also disallowed. All in all the major banks seem to insist upon fairly weak passwords. Since they, in theory, cover any losses made by hackers or crackers invading bank accounts I find their position really weird. Certainly it can not be so difficult to allow really strong passwords. What the heck is going on? The banks themselves use 2500 character passwords and there were experts claiming that they need to go to 5,000 character passwords for bank to bank transfers. Should customers be banned from using the same level of encryption?
Yes I and only I have had a revelation on how cable companies can gain audience shares. In a flash of inspiration it all came to me. Better programs and lower prices ! Wow they should pay me a fortune for diagnosing their problems.
Robotics have been used to design computer circuits without human input for well over a decade. The results are quite shocking. Often a well written program that functions can not be understood by humans at all. Another shocker was that these devices which use Darwinian modes of developing programs exploit tiny differences in the hardware such that a smooth running, ultra compact program, will only run on the machine that wrote the program. And now we have more normal programming actually occurring sans human input. Robot built or printed homes are already being built and they range from very basic to very upscale and beautiful. As investors smell the profit potential these homes will dominate the housing industry. Even the plumbing and electrical pathways can be printed into the walls. Shapes that are next to impossible to create by traditional methods are easily created with 3d printing. I saw one pictured that had every inch of the wall space covered with sculptures in fine detail. Right now all American car manufacturers are already using 3D printed parts and the degree to which they are used increases daily. There is now a jet engine that is completely built with 3d printed parts and another built entirely of plastics. You will see more changes in the next six years than we have seen in the last 50 years.
I went to fill my prescriptions last week. A robotic system retrieved the big bottle from stock, opened it, counted the number of pills, put them in my bottle after printing a label and sticking it on the bottle then applied the lid, put the bottle into a transparent bag, stapled it shut and sent it to the pharmacy clerk. i asked he he told me that automation now takes at least 50% of the labor out of the hand of pharmacists. i forgot to add that the system also did an auto deduction from my debit card as well. Obviously any decent size pharmacy can now lay off 50% of clerks as well as pharmacists. Meanwhile telemarketers whether human or robotic are about to vanish. simply having an absolute rule that any company soliciting either sales or sales appointments must have a certain prefix or suffix such that no phone will ever ring or allow access to an answering machine without prior consent by the phone owner is sufficient as long as the financial penalties are severe enough to stop this nonsense. And if foreign nations are not willing to use the new suffix or prefix then all calls from those nations will be cut off until they rigidly police their phone systems. I'll bet that 3 million people work as telemarketers in the US.
Really wonderful memory metals have been around for at least 25 years now. Industry really wanted the public to not get products containing memory metal all these years. About the only common use of memory metal that the public can find are the wires in womens' bras that return to shape when placed in the hot water of a washing machine. the chances are that we will see very few products containing memory metal as the stuff threatens to many large industries. For example you could have a car that self removed dents if exposed to either heat or cold.
Anyone can use the Tor browser and that and a tiny bit of common sense will stop anyone from tracking you down and focusing on your emails. And just who in a school board is really qualified to judge who is potentially dangerous? After all psychiatrists readily admit that they can not predict violence in their patients. What it really comes down to is too many kids as well as adults getting a really raw deal in modern America and people who get trapped in bad situations tend to strike back at others. In some cases a life in prison is much better than the life of poverty they endure when free. The perpetrator is one half of the criminal act. The society that surrounds the perpetrator is the other half of the crime. Perpetrators sometimes change their ways for the better. Society rarely changes for the better.
All that is left is for the little critter to learn to reproduce itself. That might be easier than one might think if it only involves assembling components but if is defined as also creating all the components it is much more difficult. Human fetuses do not create their won components by comparison. After that we need to build in a "Darwin Effect". In other words the little robot should find better and better designs for itself which computers and net connections could provide. At some point we must define it as a life form and perhaps reach a point where whether it is sentient or not can be debated. The issues will be similar to what Mr.Data faces in the Star Trek series. My best guess is that less than 20 years will be needed to advance to this point if the social disruption caused by raid changes in technology does not kill us all.
Sadly advertising is not simple. It often involves forms of brain washing. The notion of creating a market is just an insidious way of trying to make someone desire something that they probably should not. There is a certain very lusted after American sports car that in reality is a high priced, rolling death trap that has no reason to exist at all and is a menace to public safety. But ask every high school senior if they want a Corvette and it will get almost a 100% positive response. We see the same in motorcycles. Just why do young people want or even imagine they can handle a stock street bike capable of going 237 mph? Even professional racers are highly frightened to drive these machines but do so as they get huge pay checks. But because of advertising the kids don't want a 100 mpg. motorcycle. They want a bike that can go zero to sixty in two seconds. Yet the human eyeball flattens enough under that kind of acceleration that vision is severely limited. Some modern motorcycles accelerate faster than a military jet accelerates launching off of an air craft carrier. And kids try this with zero training.
The internet was not established to allow or promote businesses. Capitalism is like a cancer that oozes its way into places that it should not touch. Perhaps we could set up a special suffix that any business looking to sell or recruit anyone for any purpose would be open fopr such purposes. I wonder how many eyeballs would be on such a channel. I suspect very few.
I am at the point of saying that almost all insurance should in itself be illegal. Often employees fail to do as they are asked in a business. sometimes the people at the top of the chain of command must simply accept employees statements that work is properly completed. I have been in a situation in which the president of a substantial company went a bit senile as he was past 80 years of age. Frankly many things could slide by the old guy without him understanding that something was wrong. So even if an insurance company claims that something was seriously wrong with a companies security i really have trouble blaming a company unless the entire situation is known and really it never is. On the other hand I see car insurance as a joke and a bit of theft hoisted upon the public. Auto insurance simply never has high enough limits to actually properly pay a seriously injured person. Requiring people to carry insurance on each other bodies eliminates responsibility as pay outs larger than in the policy are almost unheard of in my state. So if you come out of a wreck and lose both eyes and both legs most peoples' auto insurance will not even cover a helicopter to rush you to a trauma center and all of your medical bills will fall upon you despite the other guy clearly being 100% at fault. And medical insurance allows doctors to bill at absurd rates. In short insurance really needs to be banned.
Sadly due to a very lousy school system in the US many Christians simply can not understand their own faith. They get suckered in by all kinds of nonsense sects that offer teachings about 100% opposite of what Christ asked of us. These sects are the ones clinging to a supposed divide between science and faith centered on creationism. It fails to dawn on them that God could use evolution to create life on this planet.
The powers of a supreme being by definition would enable all kinds of violations of mathematics and physics. If we look at all that surrounds us it is an unbelievable display of supreme artistic creations. For example now and then I see a stunning young girl at 16 or 17 years of age that simply oozes with beauty and grace. It is as if God used his best sculpture and paints to create such a being. Such stunning beauty has no reason de etre at all. It isn't about reproduction at all. Females tend to reproduce even when they look like a wrecked garbage truck. We see the same effect in rocks. Most rocks are sort of dull and unremarkable but then we see opals and rubies and other stones of remarkable beauty. We see it in wildlife as well. So many animals are just plain beautiful even if deadly. It is as if God just could not help but show a glimpse of His artistic skills. So just how does one try to apply statistics or probability to such a situation? And just who created the possibility of mathematics even existing?