Science touches critical social issues and trust is vital Rising seas and global warming are huge examples. It is obvious that we all will suffer a tax burden greater than at any time in history as we try to prevent economic disasters being already caused by rising seas. Every nation surely has its own reasons why its citizens fail to trust their government. In the US i strongly believe that the refusal to release all of the JFK assassination materials, whole and unedited, have created a massive distrust of the US government that simmers and boils beneath the surface. At a certain point distrust becomes a mood and sort of constant mode of thinking. I don't think many people actually believe that there is anything in the JFK files that could substantially effect national security nor do I believe that embarrassment for anyone involved has much merit at all as most of the people involved are dead or simply too old to be embarrassed by anything at all. Secrecy about the JFK assassination has done us more harm than the assassination itself. Supposedly the documents will be released in 2017 but you can bet that that will not really take place. The truth is that large numbers of people in government had to do with that assassination. Both Nixon and Johnson are highly suspect as well as some of the CIA spooks, organized crime, and the military industrial complex. JFK wanted out of Vietnam and there were billions of dollars in war money involved.
Learning is always good so let the light shine in.
It is far better that we teach poor kids a good way to make a living rather than have them discover a far easier and less social way of making a living. One way or the other they will earn a living. Nobody just sits and starves to death quietly.
We live in a nation that was fool enough to elect Baby Bush and in my state the notorious Rick Scott as governor. In such a warped society I do not find it unthinkable that recruits for a nut job cult that enjoys suicides and murders would be here for the asking.
The public will never want to face human nature. Any little thing that is upsetting or challenging in any way is always a victim of prejudice and law. Look at the issue of rising seas right now. Many in congress are in denial or avoidance of the issue. any reminder that we send people into really nasty and savage death or injury will be glossed over one way or another if not flat out banned by law. A great example is in not allowing photographs of coffins being shipped back from the war. Our politicians seek to make war look better for our side than it is. If we see no coffins and no bodies and are not allowed to know the true expense of a conflict we are prone to supporting the military action. The truth may set us free but our government in no way wants us to be free.
Many people have no reason at all to respect society or its laws. If you take a young person living in stark, dire and urgent poverty and realistically help them only to the point that they can move up to the level of grinding poverty then expect them to live in rebellion and act out their rage. On the other hand if you find a way for them to make upper middle class earnings and have a stable future you just might be shocked at how good a citizen they might become.
A second issue is just plain rude cops and officials. I have met some nice cops but i have also met some really rude cops. Instead of simply being cold and business like maybe being friendly and even courteous would get a lot more positive response from the community. And when dealing with a mentally ill person or someone in a rage quite often they could call for numerous backup forces so that the chasing, wrestling stuff would be less common and more respectful to people being taken into custody. I understand that many times violence must be in play. But often a situation could be made less serious just by the presence of numerous officers. Jail and prison guards need new training as well. As they represent society to the inmates if they are rude or uncaring the inmates see this as reasons for revenge on society in general. Frankly I am astounded that men kept in some of our jails and prisons do not come out dedicated to deliberate mayhem upon all members of society.
Insanity by officials in Texas seems like an ever repeating issue. Why is this principal still in his job and why has the kid not sued the principal into the next universe? Kids getting threatened like that is a huge violation of their rights.
Maybe I'm too hard on people but i don't worry one bit about a group of nuts committing suicide. Frankly some personalities are so mush like that suicide is justified for them. I also could care less that people misuse prescription drugs and over dose at rates higher than the yearly combat losses in Vietnam. If people are dumb enough to get high and perish from it so what? But for tax payers to be funding government officials who sit around and get big pay for worrying about people going nuts over popular TV shows and movies offends me.
As far as conspiracies we really do suffer from some. I have no doubt that JFK's death was a government conspiracy. I don't like that. But it certainly should not cause people to have nervous breakdowns.
I do wonder if some ape or monkey type of creature might have occupied the same spot for centuries and made these primitive tools. Chimps keep surprising us with their use of tools.
My area has frequent hurricanes. I do wonder how durable windmills are in a storm and how quickly they can be repaired and made to function after a storm. To me it seems like some way to fold the blades against the mast would be required. I've never seen any articles about high winds and windmills. Near me we need the type of strength that can survive near 200 mph. gusts and battering that can last for several days.
Despite civil service protections public employees are well aware that pointing out anything unpleasant or defective to the chain of command can cost you your job. They will fire you not for what you do but create situations with which what you do will be unacceptable. After all some big shot selected the security system and he has friends in high places. Rock his canoe by reporting a security issue and you are dead meat. The only protections for workers rest in strong unions and a legal system willing to punish public institutions.
The issue is whether the kid should adapt or whether the school should adapt. The ability to print with a pen or pencil or even a finger in the mud can be crucial. The issue goes back at least 100 years when some people noticed that educated kids had far less memory ability than kids who did not learn to read and write. We have made certain mistakes and classes to simply increase memory as well as classes designed to require fixing on a topic with deep concentration have been severely lessened in the educational system.
Even radical practices that have no place at all in modern life had some value. The great Samuel Johnson was asked about new laws (about 1630) that stopped teachers from torturing or even killing students. Dr. Johnson remarked that if one student is lost the entire school is lost. What he meant was that any student who displayed behavior problems or learning problems was like a rotten apple in a barrel of apples and would ruin the quality of the school for everyone. To that extent beatings and even killing should not be banned.
First the state sets up car pool lanes and asks people to share rides in the name of patriotism, monetary benefit and conservation. Then Uber comes along and creates a way to share a ride and the driver benefits a little bit as well. Then the state turns around and say oh no!
This is rather like the politics of sex. Sex is sort of ok as long as one hides it away but God help anyone who charges money for sex.
Going back to cars these laws have failed to take into account social media. Many people scour social media looking for people who commute to work and make deals to get a ride. I have a friend who goes to college about 100 miles from me. She takes classes three days a week. She slips the drivers $10 per day and she gets dropped off and picked up when they get off work. That is $30. a week for her and that $30. can help the driver pay for gas and enable the car pool lane use as well. And she has three different drivers just in case one is sick or on vacation or has a broken car. I see no moral difference between that and Uber and oddly where I live there is no way to travel county to county that is not massively inconvenient or expensive.
Honda of China makes and sells a nice 125cc motorcycle there for $900. Here that bike would probably cost $3,000 but Honda won't even ship that bike to the US as it would screw up sales of other models. We have tons of riders in the US shelling out $25,000 or even more for a motorcycle.
Oddly the creepy little 50cc bikes are the smartest deal of all right now. The weed eater like motors cost $100. so one need not worry much about a motor breaking. The transmission is the type with pulleys that swell and shrink and are super easy and cheap to replace. A new carb costs about $15. These engines have even been used to power a highly collectible mini car in decades past and at this time actually produce as much as 7.5 horsepower and that is more than twice what a Vespa 125 produced in 1960. Plus it is such a lite motor and transmission the bike needs less power than ever before. And we are talking greater than 100 mpg..
Sales people usually do not have to track down customers. Normally we have people who specialize in lead generation. Most tiny businesses either do not have time nor the money to hire lead generators. A simple example is that you go into a Pizza joint and pay a few bucks to the owner to put a prize box on the table offering free vacations. customers waiting for their meal to cook casually fill out the win a vacation form. A week later they get a phone call congratulating them for filling out the form. They are then told that the motel is free except for the taxes. The cruise ship is free except for tax and port charges and that the hotel in the Bahamas is free except for the taxes. It usually stacks up to about $350. which is a bargain and some people actually enjoy the vacation. They are required to attend a two hour presentation of a time share in the Bahamas. The cruise ships have casinos. the hotel in the Bahamas has some gaming as well. Both the cruise ships and the hotel pay the marketing firm and the sales person is the one on the phone that completes the deal. The sales person usually gets about $10. per hour and $100 per person sold. As these schemes are always on the edge of being illegal the sales room is not in the same state as the confirmation room which takes the charge card and finalizes and records the conversation. using two states confuses jurisdiction and creates a legal barrier to investigation. You could easily go out and put up a prize box with your cell number making a special offer for PC repairs. You'll need boxes and slips printed and you'll need to bribe a pizza joint a bit to display your box on every table. You could also go to hotels and motels and leave cards with front desk workers such that when a resident has an issue with hooking up from their room you can quickly come out and set up a better connection to the net for them. Offer the desk clerks $10 for each job you get from them.
Laissez faire has really never been actually tried. It is rather like capitalism which also has never been tried. If you think about it a bit some terms are absolute. It is like my sister being pregnant. She either is or is not. There is no in between. Free markets have never, ever existed. All kinds of taxes, rules, regulations and controls always exist to some degree. Even primitive tribes have taboos that restrict freedom of trade. The simple reason is that no group or nation has ever been dumb enough to allow a free market or trade. In the US we have a mixed economy and always have. We have social and religious customs regulating business or trade. We have taxation and we have laws designed to protect the public in place as well. Many of these controls are socialist in nature. We have no way to judge whether pushing more towards socialism or capitalism would be better for us. But due to technology beginning to eliminate human employment we have no choice but to shift towards socialism. But the worst of it is that society and government are not adjusting for what will soon be upon us. Rising seas in America will cause more social disruption in the next ten years than we ever saw in WW2. Your taxes are already being altered by planning for rising sea resistance.
Harvard does give extra credit for children of Harvard graduates and they surely are also appreciative of wealthy graduates who donate large sums who have sons and daughters seeking admission. Also athletes may get some extra consideration and some areas of the world emphasize sports other than what we play in America. Factors like that may well completely explain the apparent disparity in admissions. There is also the matter of comparing grades when the quality of high schools in foreign nations may not be recognized or known. I would not want to be a lawyer attacking Harvard for discrimination based solely on the items in this complaint. I also wonder if Harvard reserves a certain number of seats for in state applicants.
I have been hammering this point for at least a year and daily on Slashdot. Taxi drivers are also about to be eliminated. Fast food workers will rapidly almost vanish. School teachers are even more prone to no longer being employable. After all one Algebra 1 teacher can serve the entire nation.
The challenge is not unemployment . Massive unemployment is a given. But as jobs vanish businesses will fold quickly. The REAL CHALLENGE is a complete change in social and economic policies so that people are well payed, not to work. Sales taxes will have to support the system as income taxes will be quite restrained except from the investment sector. If we do not do this quickly we are a dead nation. If we believe in survival of the fit over the weak then what we are seeing is that socialism is fit to survive under conditions that capitalism can not.
There is no doubt that whether it is for education, socialization, entertainment or even life saving medical research computers are a blessing. But the other shoe must also drop. Disruption took place as well as all of the good that was done. That disruption is increasing rapidly and elimination of jobs and trades is now a pressing problem. The next leap with a quantum computer breakthrough may well cause even greater levels of disruption as well as bring fourth new blessings. But the horror is that despite the critical need to do so there has been no social or economic policy adjustment to help with the disruptions. We will need and entirely new economic model for society or we will have chaos. Yet we lag behind in very basic ways. For example we can not afford for urban neighborhoods to have second rate schools. We can not afford for any ethnic group to be locked out or disadvantaged. We need all the educated minds that we can create to have any hope of sustaining ourselves in international trade. We need large numbers of engineers, scientists and top drawer artisans to have any hope of competing with other nations. China, Japan, Taiwan and others are turning out very potent scholars and we must turn out scholars who are even more deeply educated in large numbers. this is very challenging as we are essentially low in population compared to China and India.
Humans fry up pretty well. Humans are much like pork. And we don't have to scour the ocean depths to snag humans. Sadly most of my neighbors are simply too old to make a decent meal so when hard times come i'll have to get out of my neighborhood to find a young tenderonni.
I can see that it would be illegal if the teaching was aimed at a person under investigation for a specific crime and that the instructor knew that he was teaching that suspect.
But if the guy wanted to reach the whole world how to beat a polygraph without knowing who or why people wanted such training i don't think it should or could be illegal.
Really nobody should be playing football. Brain injuries are just one of the numerous medical problems caused by football. One might consider why one has hostile moods in the first place rather than trying to control that demon by feeding it.
It was assumed that anyone using AOL was park of a herd of lesser minds and I suppose it still is. Apple products pretty much were taken as i am a fool type of signal as well.
When companies steal from their customers or anyone else they should be forced to pay far, far more than what they took in. If they stole two million fine them two hundred million and the nonsense will stop. Allowing any profit from wrong doing cause more crime.
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Science touches critical social issues and trust is vital Rising seas and global warming are huge examples. It is obvious that we all will suffer a tax burden greater than at any time in history as we try to prevent economic disasters being already caused by rising seas. Every nation surely has its own reasons why its citizens fail to trust their government. In the US i strongly believe that the refusal to release all of the JFK assassination materials, whole and unedited, have created a massive distrust of the US government that simmers and boils beneath the surface. At a certain point distrust becomes a mood and sort of constant mode of thinking. I don't think many people actually believe that there is anything in the JFK files that could substantially effect national security nor do I believe that embarrassment for anyone involved has much merit at all as most of the people involved are dead or simply too old to be embarrassed by anything at all. Secrecy about the JFK assassination has done us more harm than the assassination itself. Supposedly the documents will be released in 2017 but you can bet that that will not really take place. The truth is that large numbers of people in government had to do with that assassination. Both Nixon and Johnson are highly suspect as well as some of the CIA spooks, organized crime, and the military industrial complex. JFK wanted out of Vietnam and there were billions of dollars in war money involved.
Learning is always good so let the light shine in. It is far better that we teach poor kids a good way to make a living rather than have them discover a far easier and less social way of making a living. One way or the other they will earn a living. Nobody just sits and starves to death quietly.
We live in a nation that was fool enough to elect Baby Bush and in my state the notorious Rick Scott as governor. In such a warped society I do not find it unthinkable that recruits for a nut job cult that enjoys suicides and murders would be here for the asking.
The public will never want to face human nature. Any little thing that is upsetting or challenging in any way is always a victim of prejudice and law. Look at the issue of rising seas right now. Many in congress are in denial or avoidance of the issue. any reminder that we send people into really nasty and savage death or injury will be glossed over one way or another if not flat out banned by law. A great example is in not allowing photographs of coffins being shipped back from the war. Our politicians seek to make war look better for our side than it is. If we see no coffins and no bodies and are not allowed to know the true expense of a conflict we are prone to supporting the military action. The truth may set us free but our government in no way wants us to be free.
Many people have no reason at all to respect society or its laws. If you take a young person living in stark, dire and urgent poverty and realistically help them only to the point that they can move up to the level of grinding poverty then expect them to live in rebellion and act out their rage. On the other hand if you find a way for them to make upper middle class earnings and have a stable future you just might be shocked at how good a citizen they might become. A second issue is just plain rude cops and officials. I have met some nice cops but i have also met some really rude cops. Instead of simply being cold and business like maybe being friendly and even courteous would get a lot more positive response from the community. And when dealing with a mentally ill person or someone in a rage quite often they could call for numerous backup forces so that the chasing, wrestling stuff would be less common and more respectful to people being taken into custody. I understand that many times violence must be in play. But often a situation could be made less serious just by the presence of numerous officers. Jail and prison guards need new training as well. As they represent society to the inmates if they are rude or uncaring the inmates see this as reasons for revenge on society in general. Frankly I am astounded that men kept in some of our jails and prisons do not come out dedicated to deliberate mayhem upon all members of society.
Early versions of Windows are like remembering a rotten tooth aching and oozing. I'm still not using Microsoft products.
Insanity by officials in Texas seems like an ever repeating issue. Why is this principal still in his job and why has the kid not sued the principal into the next universe? Kids getting threatened like that is a huge violation of their rights.
Maybe I'm too hard on people but i don't worry one bit about a group of nuts committing suicide. Frankly some personalities are so mush like that suicide is justified for them. I also could care less that people misuse prescription drugs and over dose at rates higher than the yearly combat losses in Vietnam. If people are dumb enough to get high and perish from it so what? But for tax payers to be funding government officials who sit around and get big pay for worrying about people going nuts over popular TV shows and movies offends me. As far as conspiracies we really do suffer from some. I have no doubt that JFK's death was a government conspiracy. I don't like that. But it certainly should not cause people to have nervous breakdowns.
I do wonder if some ape or monkey type of creature might have occupied the same spot for centuries and made these primitive tools. Chimps keep surprising us with their use of tools.
My area has frequent hurricanes. I do wonder how durable windmills are in a storm and how quickly they can be repaired and made to function after a storm. To me it seems like some way to fold the blades against the mast would be required. I've never seen any articles about high winds and windmills. Near me we need the type of strength that can survive near 200 mph. gusts and battering that can last for several days.
Despite civil service protections public employees are well aware that pointing out anything unpleasant or defective to the chain of command can cost you your job. They will fire you not for what you do but create situations with which what you do will be unacceptable. After all some big shot selected the security system and he has friends in high places. Rock his canoe by reporting a security issue and you are dead meat. The only protections for workers rest in strong unions and a legal system willing to punish public institutions.
Make it available to everyone and not just schools for free!
The issue is whether the kid should adapt or whether the school should adapt. The ability to print with a pen or pencil or even a finger in the mud can be crucial. The issue goes back at least 100 years when some people noticed that educated kids had far less memory ability than kids who did not learn to read and write. We have made certain mistakes and classes to simply increase memory as well as classes designed to require fixing on a topic with deep concentration have been severely lessened in the educational system. Even radical practices that have no place at all in modern life had some value. The great Samuel Johnson was asked about new laws (about 1630) that stopped teachers from torturing or even killing students. Dr. Johnson remarked that if one student is lost the entire school is lost. What he meant was that any student who displayed behavior problems or learning problems was like a rotten apple in a barrel of apples and would ruin the quality of the school for everyone. To that extent beatings and even killing should not be banned.
First the state sets up car pool lanes and asks people to share rides in the name of patriotism, monetary benefit and conservation. Then Uber comes along and creates a way to share a ride and the driver benefits a little bit as well. Then the state turns around and say oh no! This is rather like the politics of sex. Sex is sort of ok as long as one hides it away but God help anyone who charges money for sex. Going back to cars these laws have failed to take into account social media. Many people scour social media looking for people who commute to work and make deals to get a ride. I have a friend who goes to college about 100 miles from me. She takes classes three days a week. She slips the drivers $10 per day and she gets dropped off and picked up when they get off work. That is $30. a week for her and that $30. can help the driver pay for gas and enable the car pool lane use as well. And she has three different drivers just in case one is sick or on vacation or has a broken car. I see no moral difference between that and Uber and oddly where I live there is no way to travel county to county that is not massively inconvenient or expensive.
Honda of China makes and sells a nice 125cc motorcycle there for $900. Here that bike would probably cost $3,000 but Honda won't even ship that bike to the US as it would screw up sales of other models. We have tons of riders in the US shelling out $25,000 or even more for a motorcycle. Oddly the creepy little 50cc bikes are the smartest deal of all right now. The weed eater like motors cost $100. so one need not worry much about a motor breaking. The transmission is the type with pulleys that swell and shrink and are super easy and cheap to replace. A new carb costs about $15. These engines have even been used to power a highly collectible mini car in decades past and at this time actually produce as much as 7.5 horsepower and that is more than twice what a Vespa 125 produced in 1960. Plus it is such a lite motor and transmission the bike needs less power than ever before. And we are talking greater than 100 mpg..
Sales people usually do not have to track down customers. Normally we have people who specialize in lead generation. Most tiny businesses either do not have time nor the money to hire lead generators. A simple example is that you go into a Pizza joint and pay a few bucks to the owner to put a prize box on the table offering free vacations. customers waiting for their meal to cook casually fill out the win a vacation form. A week later they get a phone call congratulating them for filling out the form. They are then told that the motel is free except for the taxes. The cruise ship is free except for tax and port charges and that the hotel in the Bahamas is free except for the taxes. It usually stacks up to about $350. which is a bargain and some people actually enjoy the vacation. They are required to attend a two hour presentation of a time share in the Bahamas. The cruise ships have casinos. the hotel in the Bahamas has some gaming as well. Both the cruise ships and the hotel pay the marketing firm and the sales person is the one on the phone that completes the deal. The sales person usually gets about $10. per hour and $100 per person sold. As these schemes are always on the edge of being illegal the sales room is not in the same state as the confirmation room which takes the charge card and finalizes and records the conversation. using two states confuses jurisdiction and creates a legal barrier to investigation. You could easily go out and put up a prize box with your cell number making a special offer for PC repairs. You'll need boxes and slips printed and you'll need to bribe a pizza joint a bit to display your box on every table. You could also go to hotels and motels and leave cards with front desk workers such that when a resident has an issue with hooking up from their room you can quickly come out and set up a better connection to the net for them. Offer the desk clerks $10 for each job you get from them.
Laissez faire has really never been actually tried. It is rather like capitalism which also has never been tried. If you think about it a bit some terms are absolute. It is like my sister being pregnant. She either is or is not. There is no in between. Free markets have never, ever existed. All kinds of taxes, rules, regulations and controls always exist to some degree. Even primitive tribes have taboos that restrict freedom of trade. The simple reason is that no group or nation has ever been dumb enough to allow a free market or trade. In the US we have a mixed economy and always have. We have social and religious customs regulating business or trade. We have taxation and we have laws designed to protect the public in place as well. Many of these controls are socialist in nature. We have no way to judge whether pushing more towards socialism or capitalism would be better for us. But due to technology beginning to eliminate human employment we have no choice but to shift towards socialism. But the worst of it is that society and government are not adjusting for what will soon be upon us. Rising seas in America will cause more social disruption in the next ten years than we ever saw in WW2. Your taxes are already being altered by planning for rising sea resistance.
Harvard does give extra credit for children of Harvard graduates and they surely are also appreciative of wealthy graduates who donate large sums who have sons and daughters seeking admission. Also athletes may get some extra consideration and some areas of the world emphasize sports other than what we play in America. Factors like that may well completely explain the apparent disparity in admissions. There is also the matter of comparing grades when the quality of high schools in foreign nations may not be recognized or known. I would not want to be a lawyer attacking Harvard for discrimination based solely on the items in this complaint. I also wonder if Harvard reserves a certain number of seats for in state applicants.
I have been hammering this point for at least a year and daily on Slashdot. Taxi drivers are also about to be eliminated. Fast food workers will rapidly almost vanish. School teachers are even more prone to no longer being employable. After all one Algebra 1 teacher can serve the entire nation. The challenge is not unemployment . Massive unemployment is a given. But as jobs vanish businesses will fold quickly. The REAL CHALLENGE is a complete change in social and economic policies so that people are well payed, not to work. Sales taxes will have to support the system as income taxes will be quite restrained except from the investment sector. If we do not do this quickly we are a dead nation. If we believe in survival of the fit over the weak then what we are seeing is that socialism is fit to survive under conditions that capitalism can not.
There is no doubt that whether it is for education, socialization, entertainment or even life saving medical research computers are a blessing. But the other shoe must also drop. Disruption took place as well as all of the good that was done. That disruption is increasing rapidly and elimination of jobs and trades is now a pressing problem. The next leap with a quantum computer breakthrough may well cause even greater levels of disruption as well as bring fourth new blessings. But the horror is that despite the critical need to do so there has been no social or economic policy adjustment to help with the disruptions. We will need and entirely new economic model for society or we will have chaos. Yet we lag behind in very basic ways. For example we can not afford for urban neighborhoods to have second rate schools. We can not afford for any ethnic group to be locked out or disadvantaged. We need all the educated minds that we can create to have any hope of sustaining ourselves in international trade. We need large numbers of engineers, scientists and top drawer artisans to have any hope of competing with other nations. China, Japan, Taiwan and others are turning out very potent scholars and we must turn out scholars who are even more deeply educated in large numbers. this is very challenging as we are essentially low in population compared to China and India.
Humans fry up pretty well. Humans are much like pork. And we don't have to scour the ocean depths to snag humans. Sadly most of my neighbors are simply too old to make a decent meal so when hard times come i'll have to get out of my neighborhood to find a young tenderonni.
I can see that it would be illegal if the teaching was aimed at a person under investigation for a specific crime and that the instructor knew that he was teaching that suspect. But if the guy wanted to reach the whole world how to beat a polygraph without knowing who or why people wanted such training i don't think it should or could be illegal.
Really nobody should be playing football. Brain injuries are just one of the numerous medical problems caused by football. One might consider why one has hostile moods in the first place rather than trying to control that demon by feeding it.
It was assumed that anyone using AOL was park of a herd of lesser minds and I suppose it still is. Apple products pretty much were taken as i am a fool type of signal as well.
When companies steal from their customers or anyone else they should be forced to pay far, far more than what they took in. If they stole two million fine them two hundred million and the nonsense will stop. Allowing any profit from wrong doing cause more crime.