A wind turbine or water turbine could continue for decades. Since part of the power generated is fed back to coils within the turbine they both use and create electricity. I do wonder how much of a windmill farm can survive one good tornado.
Miami Beach Florida is already having rising seas flooding in some streets. I ask you to consider the massive economic impact on the entire nation that the loss of Miami Beach would create. The investments in Miami Beach structures and land is enormous. A loss of Miami Beach would be enough to wipe out numerous insurance companies and banks with perhaps enough losses to totally crash the US economy. Consider that even way back in 1950 land on Miami Beach was valued in the hundreds of dollars per square foot.
Most of Miami Beach is about 30 inches above sea level. A high tide is already enough to create some flooding. The area is also prone to hurricanes. Storm surges can reach 20 feet. Even a very minor storm could easily have a five foot surge. But storms also have huge waves so you might have a 30 ft. wave on top of the surge water. Plainly said a decent storm with rising seas could erase Miami Beach from the face of the Earth. Miami is only one example. But rising seas are a much more immediate threat to all of us than what we see in the news media. We can have a hell of a price to pay right now. For climate deniers we did not face this much of an issue fifty years ago. Right now people really should be very afraid.
Employers should have nothing to say about what employees do off the time clock. The sick part is that if she left the phone at work the employer would insist that they had the right to contact her to report to work suddenly if required. I've been there. The employer says i am to stay near my phone all weekend in case an emergency comes to pass. I told the employer i would be off shore fishing and would keep fishing with or without an emergency unless I was paid to stay near my phone. I never allowed employers to pull that kind of crap on me.
So what I am reading is that our federal and state governments have policies designed to squash solar energy while putting on a public posture of encouragement of solar energy. Sometimes humans are so depressing it makes a man want to jump off a ledge.
So pay your friend for the companionship while he happens to haul your new sofa. You know how it is. If you buy her a fancy meal for $100. you may be her lover but if you hand her $100. you are a John and she is a hooker. Sometimes law is composed by idiots.
So can some sort of underwater vehicle ride those waves and travel long distances? Or maybe we can stick some sort of power generator down there that will spin from those waves. What can mankind screw up next? What if we find a way to dampen all of those deep waves? We could have a planet suffering from deep wave deprivation.
These days quite a bit of the more expensive equipment comes to you on a lease and is serviced by techs in the field as part of that lease. What individuals are allowed to service on a machine is governed by contract. Large farm equipment is now handled this way in many cases. Frankly I'm not so certain that these types of situations benefit farming or the public. It is astounding to watch just how much work some of these mega machines can do but it also allows new players to get involved in food production and delivery and each new player gets a slice of the pie. High food prices are the consequence.
Since we apparently have a seriously large system that is flat what are the forces that would cause a flat universe to perpetuate itself? Rotation might offer an explanation but there is also the notion that some force pressing from the top and another force pressing from below might cause a flat universe. Let the speculation begin! If the universe is like a flat sea can the universe cascade over the edge?
If we docked seven or eight cruise ships or super tankers that would stop more pollution that all the autos in the US cause. How much pollution does burning coal amount to? Yes, beat up cars pollute more than newer, better cars. But even the elimination of all cars will not get us to where we need to be in regard to pollution.
Obviously no one wants global warming. If the UN was involved in some crazy sort of conspiracy to take over the world just why would they want a severely damaged world? If I wanted to take over the world I would want every inch of it to be lovely, healthy and productive. Many people simply can not face the reality that global warming is going to slam us really hard. All of our best efforts can only take a bit of the edge off of the tribulations that warming and rising seas will heap upon us.
Driving will soon be a historic trade. Computers really can do the job. And what people fail to mention is that the shortage of drivers has a lot to do with DUI or DWI laws that keep a lot of truckers locked out of the industry. Many people get one DUI ticket in a car or on a motorcycle but for a trucker that one incident can lock him out for quite a few years. Tickets are another issue as driving constantly usually means more tickets and tickets can make a driver an insurance nightmare for a trucking company.
But big rigs are the least of it. Taxi cabs and Uber types as well as those that operate farm equipment are also being replaced by robotic devices. Yet no plans are being made to aid people whose trades are eliminated by technology.
Paired drivers are common in the trucking industry. One can sleep while the other drives. There are regulations concerning hours in the cab and hours at the wheel but most truckers know exactly how to work their logs to get them more hours driving and less hours resting. Imagine two trucks working together such that drives can change trucks at rest stops. The truck log may show them at the wheel for only eight hours but they are driving the other truck for eight hours as well. The second drivers can also swap trucks. These drivers often earn by the pennies per mile driven so you can see why they want to cover such large distances every day.
Law is one thing and order quite another. My view of the cops is that they are aware that they can no longer hold the line and are in a sort of panic. What is orderly is often confusing and very subjective whereas what is legal is usually more sharply defined.
Part of the problem is money. Tax payers don't like to pay taxes and as a consequence we do not require college degrees for cops. The consequence is that we end up with some pretty primitive personalities working as cops. Sloppy language results in sloppy thinking. For example police have to be instructed on how to stay safe and stay alive. But the cops on the receiving end of the training falsely translate that training into an idea that they must have absolute safety. Absolute safety is not available for any type of employment much less being a cop. That is why we are seeing cops that are a bit quick to get violent and their training amplifies the problem. For example if they shoot a suspect one time should they really be trained to keep shooting until the subject is down and not moving at all? The public is also at fault as in days gone by any person who ran for any reason was subject to being shot so very few people tried to run. Now running from cops is common and the cops do not shoot simply because a person is running and that exposes cops to a lot more risk. And these three strikes laws cause a lot of violence as well. A bad guy has nothing to lose by running if a third incident will get him life without hope of parole. Cruel and unpleasant jails also assure and create violence as resisting arrest is sort of logical if one is about to be dropped into some kind of degrading hell pit. There is plenty of guilt to go around and as much guilt falls on the tax payers as upon the criminals.
NYC and the areas near NYC are so badly thought out that fixing the city can't be done. One would need to start with a giant wrecking ball and remove everything ever built there and then set a population cap on an entirely new city to be built in its place. If one looks at NYC and considers things like trees per acre then the problems become more obvious. One can spend months in NYC and never touch land. the land is covered with concrete and black top. Zero nature pretty much equals zero quality of life. And worse yet you really can't use that wrecking ball. how many millions of tons of asbestos are in the old buildings in NYC. How many other toxic issues would occur in that rubble? How many caskets and bodies would have to be moved or burned? My impression of NYC is that it appears as if some psychopath dedicated to horror for humanity designed and built the city.
Really the discrimination stuff is a pretense of fairness rather than an actual effort to be fair. Look at it this way. You have 20 applicants for one position. You sort through the pile and discriminate until you find the person that matches what you seek. You have your own values that you have established which are probably quite misleading. For example most of us consider past accomplishments as a signal of what to expect from a person. That is nonsense. People change and the fellow that was behind may have made special efforts to make sure they are superb at the tasks at hand. Even former convicts, who most people consider bad, may well be top drawer people who were placed in such a difficult circumstance that crime was the best or only choice for them a couple of years ago.
All of us like to feel comfortable and assured that we are not hiring some sort of freak but when you think about it those nuts who run back into a building and gun down people that they worked with all passed interviews and probably back ground checks as well. We even had a Florida cop who enjoyed dragging young women into the woods and taking them apart with an ax. He had passed muster at more than one Florida police force.
I am shocked that more people do not see what is happening. Big power is in deep doodoo. And some consumers who are slow to change over to new ways will get hit with super expensive power bills.
If big power wants to stay in place they will need to provide very cheap electricity compared to current rates. Chances are big power can't do that.
There are certain disorders that cause potential patients to shy away from mental health providers. Any hint of scandal will result in numerous people with serious disorders to avoid seeking help. That sets the stage for serious consequences. And it can be an indirect excuse. For example people who suffer from manic depression are notorious for finding excuse not to be effectively medicated. They are willing to take medications but any medication that starts to lessen their mania will be rejected and often the health care provider is avoided as well. People who deal with paranoia will claim the the case worker is in league with their fantasy enemies. All in all any thing that lowers the perception of the value of mental health care is actually causal to avoidance of treatment.
I have found that owners can frequently be worse than managers. There is also a trend for the main office to put conditions into effect that cause local mangers to be complete idiots. Quite often owners are so far out of touch with what it takes to get a job done that they create chaos and failure and managers and employees scramble to try to keep the business alive.
One of the funnier things that I have seen is a meeting to plan the future meetings because the firm was having too many meetings.
Obviously these robotics will displace a huge number of workers, permanently! Yet no social or political action is being taken to form a quality way of life for the millions about to become permanently unemployed. This issue is urgent and threatens to bring down modern governments. There is a point at which no business can survive if enough people have no money to spend. And counter to what one might suspect the faster we can go into a total non human worker environment the easier it will be. We will have no choice but to pay people not to work soon and the calamity will exist because some human workers will be needed yet the labor supply will be so overwhelming that wages will decline like a crashing rocket. People will resent it if they are the only one on the block required to work for a living. We need an entirely new socio-economic system to be up and running right now. The same problem exists with the rising seas issue. So far the bulk of the public is not suffering from rising sea issues but they are in for a big shock. Tax funding for the massive and numerous projects that must be undertaken are already starting to take place. Imagine the funds it will take just to keep a place like Brooklyn protected from rising seas. yet nobody seems aware that tax dollars must be collected to fund the planning and beginning of the huge changes that must take place. Consider US HWY 1 and how many hundreds of miles of that highway must be elevated as quite a bit of that major highway are only two or three feet above sea level. High tides or storms will easily swamp many portions of US1 as well as A1A.
We have seen too many incidents of outrageous police conduct lately and it surely indicates that a lot more outrageous police conduct takes place. Maybe it is high time for the public to invest in a lot more hidden cams designed not just to catch criminals but bad cops as well.
The single most vital thing we could do as a society is to allow voice recording almost everywhere. bribes and corruption flourish when laws exist making it illegal to record conversations. If we simply had access to every single conversation that our people in congress have we would have a much better nation. The same is true inside businesses. A great deal of evil goes on in businesses. How useful would it have been to be able to recover conversations going on in the tobacco companies back in the 1950s? Millions of lives could have been saved in that one example alone. In the end the public really doesn't want justice.
Even in more modern times we see unusual abilities in those on the edges of society. One famous Hatfield from the famous Hatfield and McCoy feud era complained that people who could read had awful memories as they tended to always look things up.
We are seeing the effect of electronics on the exposure of bad cops. It certainly looks like a sizable chunk of our cops belong in prisons. I wonder if society will try to bury the ability to detect bad cops.
Around 1969 the military operated what were called fixed syphoning stations. The idea was to secretly listen in on communications and to insert false commands at critical moments. Turn left in a foreign language could be changed to turn right for example. And it had to duplicate all of the intonations and accents of the sender's voice. And that was 1969 technology. One can only wonder just how signals can be altered these days and worse yet the altered conversations could be saved as evidence of wrong doing. It is sort of like being able to produce the smoking gun in a murder case even though the gun never existed.
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A wind turbine or water turbine could continue for decades. Since part of the power generated is fed back to coils within the turbine they both use and create electricity. I do wonder how much of a windmill farm can survive one good tornado.
Miami Beach Florida is already having rising seas flooding in some streets. I ask you to consider the massive economic impact on the entire nation that the loss of Miami Beach would create. The investments in Miami Beach structures and land is enormous. A loss of Miami Beach would be enough to wipe out numerous insurance companies and banks with perhaps enough losses to totally crash the US economy. Consider that even way back in 1950 land on Miami Beach was valued in the hundreds of dollars per square foot. Most of Miami Beach is about 30 inches above sea level. A high tide is already enough to create some flooding. The area is also prone to hurricanes. Storm surges can reach 20 feet. Even a very minor storm could easily have a five foot surge. But storms also have huge waves so you might have a 30 ft. wave on top of the surge water. Plainly said a decent storm with rising seas could erase Miami Beach from the face of the Earth. Miami is only one example. But rising seas are a much more immediate threat to all of us than what we see in the news media. We can have a hell of a price to pay right now. For climate deniers we did not face this much of an issue fifty years ago. Right now people really should be very afraid.
Employers should have nothing to say about what employees do off the time clock. The sick part is that if she left the phone at work the employer would insist that they had the right to contact her to report to work suddenly if required. I've been there. The employer says i am to stay near my phone all weekend in case an emergency comes to pass. I told the employer i would be off shore fishing and would keep fishing with or without an emergency unless I was paid to stay near my phone. I never allowed employers to pull that kind of crap on me.
I can see NYC to LA costing $80. but in state trips should be far, far cheaper by train. How about LA to San Francisco for $6.?
So what I am reading is that our federal and state governments have policies designed to squash solar energy while putting on a public posture of encouragement of solar energy. Sometimes humans are so depressing it makes a man want to jump off a ledge.
So pay your friend for the companionship while he happens to haul your new sofa. You know how it is. If you buy her a fancy meal for $100. you may be her lover but if you hand her $100. you are a John and she is a hooker. Sometimes law is composed by idiots.
So can some sort of underwater vehicle ride those waves and travel long distances? Or maybe we can stick some sort of power generator down there that will spin from those waves. What can mankind screw up next? What if we find a way to dampen all of those deep waves? We could have a planet suffering from deep wave deprivation.
These days quite a bit of the more expensive equipment comes to you on a lease and is serviced by techs in the field as part of that lease. What individuals are allowed to service on a machine is governed by contract. Large farm equipment is now handled this way in many cases. Frankly I'm not so certain that these types of situations benefit farming or the public. It is astounding to watch just how much work some of these mega machines can do but it also allows new players to get involved in food production and delivery and each new player gets a slice of the pie. High food prices are the consequence.
Since we apparently have a seriously large system that is flat what are the forces that would cause a flat universe to perpetuate itself? Rotation might offer an explanation but there is also the notion that some force pressing from the top and another force pressing from below might cause a flat universe. Let the speculation begin! If the universe is like a flat sea can the universe cascade over the edge?
If we docked seven or eight cruise ships or super tankers that would stop more pollution that all the autos in the US cause. How much pollution does burning coal amount to? Yes, beat up cars pollute more than newer, better cars. But even the elimination of all cars will not get us to where we need to be in regard to pollution.
Obviously no one wants global warming. If the UN was involved in some crazy sort of conspiracy to take over the world just why would they want a severely damaged world? If I wanted to take over the world I would want every inch of it to be lovely, healthy and productive. Many people simply can not face the reality that global warming is going to slam us really hard. All of our best efforts can only take a bit of the edge off of the tribulations that warming and rising seas will heap upon us.
Driving will soon be a historic trade. Computers really can do the job. And what people fail to mention is that the shortage of drivers has a lot to do with DUI or DWI laws that keep a lot of truckers locked out of the industry. Many people get one DUI ticket in a car or on a motorcycle but for a trucker that one incident can lock him out for quite a few years. Tickets are another issue as driving constantly usually means more tickets and tickets can make a driver an insurance nightmare for a trucking company. But big rigs are the least of it. Taxi cabs and Uber types as well as those that operate farm equipment are also being replaced by robotic devices. Yet no plans are being made to aid people whose trades are eliminated by technology.
Paired drivers are common in the trucking industry. One can sleep while the other drives. There are regulations concerning hours in the cab and hours at the wheel but most truckers know exactly how to work their logs to get them more hours driving and less hours resting. Imagine two trucks working together such that drives can change trucks at rest stops. The truck log may show them at the wheel for only eight hours but they are driving the other truck for eight hours as well. The second drivers can also swap trucks. These drivers often earn by the pennies per mile driven so you can see why they want to cover such large distances every day.
Law is one thing and order quite another. My view of the cops is that they are aware that they can no longer hold the line and are in a sort of panic. What is orderly is often confusing and very subjective whereas what is legal is usually more sharply defined. Part of the problem is money. Tax payers don't like to pay taxes and as a consequence we do not require college degrees for cops. The consequence is that we end up with some pretty primitive personalities working as cops. Sloppy language results in sloppy thinking. For example police have to be instructed on how to stay safe and stay alive. But the cops on the receiving end of the training falsely translate that training into an idea that they must have absolute safety. Absolute safety is not available for any type of employment much less being a cop. That is why we are seeing cops that are a bit quick to get violent and their training amplifies the problem. For example if they shoot a suspect one time should they really be trained to keep shooting until the subject is down and not moving at all? The public is also at fault as in days gone by any person who ran for any reason was subject to being shot so very few people tried to run. Now running from cops is common and the cops do not shoot simply because a person is running and that exposes cops to a lot more risk. And these three strikes laws cause a lot of violence as well. A bad guy has nothing to lose by running if a third incident will get him life without hope of parole. Cruel and unpleasant jails also assure and create violence as resisting arrest is sort of logical if one is about to be dropped into some kind of degrading hell pit. There is plenty of guilt to go around and as much guilt falls on the tax payers as upon the criminals.
NYC and the areas near NYC are so badly thought out that fixing the city can't be done. One would need to start with a giant wrecking ball and remove everything ever built there and then set a population cap on an entirely new city to be built in its place. If one looks at NYC and considers things like trees per acre then the problems become more obvious. One can spend months in NYC and never touch land. the land is covered with concrete and black top. Zero nature pretty much equals zero quality of life. And worse yet you really can't use that wrecking ball. how many millions of tons of asbestos are in the old buildings in NYC. How many other toxic issues would occur in that rubble? How many caskets and bodies would have to be moved or burned? My impression of NYC is that it appears as if some psychopath dedicated to horror for humanity designed and built the city.
Really the discrimination stuff is a pretense of fairness rather than an actual effort to be fair. Look at it this way. You have 20 applicants for one position. You sort through the pile and discriminate until you find the person that matches what you seek. You have your own values that you have established which are probably quite misleading. For example most of us consider past accomplishments as a signal of what to expect from a person. That is nonsense. People change and the fellow that was behind may have made special efforts to make sure they are superb at the tasks at hand. Even former convicts, who most people consider bad, may well be top drawer people who were placed in such a difficult circumstance that crime was the best or only choice for them a couple of years ago. All of us like to feel comfortable and assured that we are not hiring some sort of freak but when you think about it those nuts who run back into a building and gun down people that they worked with all passed interviews and probably back ground checks as well. We even had a Florida cop who enjoyed dragging young women into the woods and taking them apart with an ax. He had passed muster at more than one Florida police force.
I am shocked that more people do not see what is happening. Big power is in deep doodoo. And some consumers who are slow to change over to new ways will get hit with super expensive power bills. If big power wants to stay in place they will need to provide very cheap electricity compared to current rates. Chances are big power can't do that.
There are certain disorders that cause potential patients to shy away from mental health providers. Any hint of scandal will result in numerous people with serious disorders to avoid seeking help. That sets the stage for serious consequences. And it can be an indirect excuse. For example people who suffer from manic depression are notorious for finding excuse not to be effectively medicated. They are willing to take medications but any medication that starts to lessen their mania will be rejected and often the health care provider is avoided as well. People who deal with paranoia will claim the the case worker is in league with their fantasy enemies. All in all any thing that lowers the perception of the value of mental health care is actually causal to avoidance of treatment.
I have found that owners can frequently be worse than managers. There is also a trend for the main office to put conditions into effect that cause local mangers to be complete idiots. Quite often owners are so far out of touch with what it takes to get a job done that they create chaos and failure and managers and employees scramble to try to keep the business alive. One of the funnier things that I have seen is a meeting to plan the future meetings because the firm was having too many meetings.
Obviously these robotics will displace a huge number of workers, permanently! Yet no social or political action is being taken to form a quality way of life for the millions about to become permanently unemployed. This issue is urgent and threatens to bring down modern governments. There is a point at which no business can survive if enough people have no money to spend. And counter to what one might suspect the faster we can go into a total non human worker environment the easier it will be. We will have no choice but to pay people not to work soon and the calamity will exist because some human workers will be needed yet the labor supply will be so overwhelming that wages will decline like a crashing rocket. People will resent it if they are the only one on the block required to work for a living. We need an entirely new socio-economic system to be up and running right now. The same problem exists with the rising seas issue. So far the bulk of the public is not suffering from rising sea issues but they are in for a big shock. Tax funding for the massive and numerous projects that must be undertaken are already starting to take place. Imagine the funds it will take just to keep a place like Brooklyn protected from rising seas. yet nobody seems aware that tax dollars must be collected to fund the planning and beginning of the huge changes that must take place. Consider US HWY 1 and how many hundreds of miles of that highway must be elevated as quite a bit of that major highway are only two or three feet above sea level. High tides or storms will easily swamp many portions of US1 as well as A1A.
So good old uncle Walt would not hire himself these days. Greed can exist far beyond the graveyard.
We have seen too many incidents of outrageous police conduct lately and it surely indicates that a lot more outrageous police conduct takes place. Maybe it is high time for the public to invest in a lot more hidden cams designed not just to catch criminals but bad cops as well. The single most vital thing we could do as a society is to allow voice recording almost everywhere. bribes and corruption flourish when laws exist making it illegal to record conversations. If we simply had access to every single conversation that our people in congress have we would have a much better nation. The same is true inside businesses. A great deal of evil goes on in businesses. How useful would it have been to be able to recover conversations going on in the tobacco companies back in the 1950s? Millions of lives could have been saved in that one example alone. In the end the public really doesn't want justice.
Even in more modern times we see unusual abilities in those on the edges of society. One famous Hatfield from the famous Hatfield and McCoy feud era complained that people who could read had awful memories as they tended to always look things up.
We are seeing the effect of electronics on the exposure of bad cops. It certainly looks like a sizable chunk of our cops belong in prisons. I wonder if society will try to bury the ability to detect bad cops.
Around 1969 the military operated what were called fixed syphoning stations. The idea was to secretly listen in on communications and to insert false commands at critical moments. Turn left in a foreign language could be changed to turn right for example. And it had to duplicate all of the intonations and accents of the sender's voice. And that was 1969 technology. One can only wonder just how signals can be altered these days and worse yet the altered conversations could be saved as evidence of wrong doing. It is sort of like being able to produce the smoking gun in a murder case even though the gun never existed.