Depending upon just how pissed Lucas is he might sell homes to hood rats only. To qualify maybe a lengthy police record, a history of illegal substance sale or abuse and a proof of long term unemployment might be qualifiers for the new homes.
In the past the rich have often used the poor for revenge even while killing off the poor. Start a war and offer jobs to the really poor fighting in the trenches. You get rid of the enemy and reduce your number of poor folk. maybe that is why so many convicts got early release in exchange for service in the Army. Oops! There goes another convict in that mine field.
I seem to be limited to reason. When space is defined as nothing I have all kinds of issues with nothing having an effect on a big pile of something. Maybe we need to get rid of the word space and go back 150 years and call space the ether or some other mysterious material. Or i could just make up some babble that some people will pretend to understand. Example: Space is the expression of the differential between dark matter and matter acted upon by both energy and dark energy. Now freshmen light your pipes and ponder the truth of my conjecture.
This is an edge of the tide glimpse of what will happen with machine shops. Machining is already in great decline and is about to take the type of hit the printing industry has already suffered by even more so. Who will create the first fully printed, street legal automobile?
NetFlix is wonderful. Every dog has its day and back when theaters were being crushed by cable and over the air stations were dropping like flies the cable industry could have cared less. Now cable TV is in serious trouble with no way to fight back except the one very obvious way. NetFlix delivers a ton of entertainment for $8. per month. Hint to cable : Deliver more for $8 than Netflix instead of charging hundreds per month.
The simple but wrong answer is to cut your links to the power grid and devise ways to be comfortable at night. But even that won't work well. The power companies are going to have to hop scotch power delivery as less and less homes and businesses want a connection to the grid. That will cause an inevitable jump in the price of grid electricity. So those that can not afford to have self powered homes will be forced to pay much higher power bills. It also points the finger at power companies lying and stealing from the public. Supposedly the rise of prices on the grid is caused by the high cost of fuels to feed the turbines. Yet the power companies fight to keep power sent to them by home owners who pay for the systems at home that replace the fuel the power companies supposedly need to generate power. Essentially if i generate excess power my neighbor should see a drop in his electric bills. After all, the power company burned no fuel to supply him with power from my system. And just in case people are clueless big power, big coal and big oil are all in their end of life stages. That suggests that if you own stocks or bonds in those industries sell while you can. Progress will create chaos.
I'll bet that pouring liquid nitrogen down an inmates throat would be even quicker. Or we could just toss the inmate into a barrel filled with liquid nitrogen. Or we could use a barrel of Liquid oxygen and after the inmate is frozen solid the barrel and inmate could be lit on fire to
provide cremation on the spot. No mess, no fuss and nice clean ashes to sweep up a bit as a bonus. Then we could powder the bones just as funeral homes do and use the bone in concrete to make more death chambers. i'm a fun guy!
Freedom of information as well as freedom of speech are ruined when we allow a concept such as copyright to exist. To even suggest that the diary in question was an economic effort on the type of its dead author (may he roast in hell) or that those economic rights could somehow be transferred to other people after the author's death is just wrong. And frankly even the idea that German law can be respected when it once went so far astray is offensive in itself.
I wonder if it would be a better world if every word we ever speak was filmed and available for all to see permanently. We often get to know people as we first see them at their best moments but how low are they in their very worst moments? How stable are they in real life? Shouldn't others know when a person is in a defective state of being? For example the pilot that locked the cabin door and flew his plane into the side of a mountain could have been stopped before he acted out.
Google!!!!! Do not reinvent the wheel. Google can be a wonderful search engine. How in the heck can a new product provide the variety and depth of search that Google can with their enormous data base and ample hardware?
So here we are with our mega-giga-buck super high tech defense system complete with a spy system that the gestapo would admire and we can't stop drones or gyro copters or even people from invading the White House. A couple of alert sentries with shot guns could have dealt with this before either the drone or the gyrocopter made it to the lawn. It reminds me of small people with black pajamas running the US out of Vietnam.
There are many false churches and particularly in the radio and TV ministries. The prosperity doctrine is actually a Satanic doctrine that is foisted upon the ignorant. Christ clearly taught poverty as a part of the faith. The prosperity part is in reference to the next life and not about life in this world. There are a couple of ministers who have gone to prison over their use of money collected and spent for personal use. For some screwy reason ministers going to jail for stealing from the ignorant are about like telemarketers. Very few telemarketers go to prison but almost 100% are crooked. Any real effort by the authorities could result in tens of thousands of phone sales or telemarketer people being swept up and sentenced to decades in prison. Almost everything they do is totally illegal.
The reason that real churches can't be taxed starts with the problem of an audit. How does one audit a church without getting a members' list or contributors' list? Further, in the Christian churches part of the faith involves the silence of your contribution or good works. If you can't audit the income then how do you balance the books?
Other groups have recent history that has taught people to be wary of declaring to be a Jew or whatever as it gives enemies too easy a way to lay hands on you.
It really is absurd that we have people that equate getting groped with a really major horror. It amazes me that people consider this some sort of great threat. As far as religious fanatics go it does not seem to occur to them that god may have a few things to worry about other than their genitals.
Imagine a swarm of baseball size drones all seeking to fly into the air intake of enemy jet engines. One chunk of titanium rod inside the drone should make a real mess out of a spinning engine.
Computers opened the flood gate to a limitless wonderland. Moore's law is simply a method of observing the radical progress in computer power. Frankly I think that five years from now we will marvel at how we got by with today's computers and electronics. I don't think we have even seen the beginning of what is surely going to occur. Maybe I'm a mindless idiot with a foggy grasp of reality but my view is that we will soon have computers capable of writing and testing programs on their own without human input at all. We will no longer design the hardware in our computers either. Computers can be used to create new computer languages that are more exploitable by machine intelligence. We already have a situation in which the game of chess is ruled by computers and even grand masters fall and fail to understand the battle plans of a chess machine. If a computer can play superb chess then how long is it before a computer can design its own software and hardware?
Going back to 1960 or so we have weapons that launched and delivered nuclear pay loads at long distances. From my point of view that is a lot more of a hazard than some robot planted to destroy any tanks that come near by. More recently we have items like the Cruise Missile that can launch and defeat an enemy or erase a city if need be. If automated weapons can keep our soldiers out of harms way I think they are a great development. In the past the ability to win a war somewhat depended upon the size of the population of a nation. In 1950 we saw N. Korea send huge numbers of soldiers into our troops machine guns trying to overwhelm us by being willing to destroy so many of their soldiers. Due to the evolution of weapons we simply are not seeing the huge battles that we saw in prior wars. Lives are being saved by the existence of advanced weapons. Drones leap to mind. We can now kill one enemy whereas in the past we might have bombed an entire town to rubble to eliminate just one important enemy.
Funding opens the door for government intrusion. Even private colleges become agents of the government through funding. Land grant colleges usually have ROTC programs as a requirement of using the land. In order to keep federal money coming in it is rather easy for the government to seek cooperation in various covert programs. State colleges are even easier to push around by the feds. I would bet money that some covert studies have been done in which students were used as guinea pigs and had drugs or bacteria implanted without their knowledge or consent. That flu shot given on campus may have been a flu shot with a little extra added making the kids test subjects.
With the exception of a few ranchers in Texas we all spend our time using public roads. There is nothing private about how one drives on a public road. Anyone is free to study your driving and compile information about your driving habits or where you drive and at what time of day. Whether it's a jealous wife hiring a private detective or an app running on your cell phone it is all public in nature. People are seeking privacy where none has ever existed in the past.
I strongly suspect that if we want to investigate anything in order to help protect our nation we should not be so worried about the terror loonies but instead focus on what goes on in businesses. In order for our nation to survive we need to have a degree of trust in our corporations.. As it stands corporations do not deserve one bit of trust from the public. Whether it is the under handed efforts to hold back the Tesla cars or the outrageous salaries payed to executives or off shoring for tax purposes our corporations betray us hourly. As mistrust of social institutions grows individuals tend to adopt the same psychopathic reasoning as the corporations. The morality of the petty gangster with a gun in a convenience store follows the same logic as big business. That gangster doesn't give a hoot as long as he gets his and the same can be said for almost all businesses that you deal with in your lives. Corruption is the new American way.
Among others the US military took an interest in new or efficient languages back in the 1960 era. Colleges sometimes were used to try out various language experiments without the transparency the English majors should have had as they thought it was simply an educational project. For example try to create a working language with 50 words leaps to mind. If you could get a language with fifty words up and running and the encrypt the language it would offer a very secure language with a built in resistance to being cracked. Keep in mind that you could also create the fifty words yourself. Others might be asked to create languages with 100 or 200 new words. Keep in mind that there are people among us who have a fifty word vocabulary and they somehow get through life.
One of the easy things to observe is the slow and difficult flow of formal languages such as mathematics, chemistry or physics. Imagine if Einstein had delivered the E = MC squared equation without telling anyone what E, M or C represented. How many years would have passed before someone understood that equation at all?
As far as the beauty and utility of English is concerned it may very well be the best language ever conceived. Some would argue that French would be better and many realize that German is highly suited for science and engineering. The one negative for English is for new learners coming from non English speaking nations. Yet English continues to spread around the world as more and more nations find it essential to do business.
Displacement of teachers is already under way. One student I talked to has already had two of his five courses being taught by computer alone. Testing is done by an automated process as well. using cams and what amounts to security guards one guard can now control four or more class rooms at the high school level. And it comes back to the same thing. One seventh grade American history teacher could teach that class for the entire nation. At some point the kids will shift into computer at home education if it is a stable, two parent home. So not only will teachers become more and more absent but schools will have to be closed as the number of students needing an in school education will shrink.
I expect a lot of strife and some sort of class warfare over the education issue.
The demand for oil and other fossil fuels is only a symptom of over population. We can go on endlessly about all of the effects of a population explosion without ever confronting what drives all of the issues. Fraking, coal ash dumping, air pollution, urban sprawl, ruined oceans, water shortages, military threats, illegal immigration, food prices all go back to the same core issue which is too large a population both in the US and around the world. Without strict birth control it will continue to get worse and worse and just maybe end human life on Earth.
Well gosh! If big business can make more money and create just one more minimum wage job what does it matter if thousands are killed and entire cities shaken into dust. I man, where the hack are our values. Maybe some of those tall buildings can TRICKLE DOWN and smack a right winger on top of his head. And with rising seas the dust and corpses will be washed away anyway so businesses do not have to clean up the dead and dying. Oh the joys of capitalism!
Obviously trying to enforce such an idiotic law will cause law suits going all the way to the Supreme Court and Tesla will win. I'm dead certain that W. Va. is so loaded with wealth that a waste of millions of dollars means nothing to them at all. Tesla should be allowed punitive damages for this outrage.
Seriously, those that deliver information to the public are heroes. Our nation must no be so weak kneed that we need secrets. Voting means nothing when the public has no right to know. Example : Does our military need more funding or less funding? How the heck can we know when we do not know the capabilities of our military? Some senator preaching in the senate may make all kinds of claims but that may be based on bringing home the pork chops rather than military needs.
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Depending upon just how pissed Lucas is he might sell homes to hood rats only. To qualify maybe a lengthy police record, a history of illegal substance sale or abuse and a proof of long term unemployment might be qualifiers for the new homes. In the past the rich have often used the poor for revenge even while killing off the poor. Start a war and offer jobs to the really poor fighting in the trenches. You get rid of the enemy and reduce your number of poor folk. maybe that is why so many convicts got early release in exchange for service in the Army. Oops! There goes another convict in that mine field.
I seem to be limited to reason. When space is defined as nothing I have all kinds of issues with nothing having an effect on a big pile of something. Maybe we need to get rid of the word space and go back 150 years and call space the ether or some other mysterious material. Or i could just make up some babble that some people will pretend to understand. Example: Space is the expression of the differential between dark matter and matter acted upon by both energy and dark energy. Now freshmen light your pipes and ponder the truth of my conjecture.
This is an edge of the tide glimpse of what will happen with machine shops. Machining is already in great decline and is about to take the type of hit the printing industry has already suffered by even more so. Who will create the first fully printed, street legal automobile?
NetFlix is wonderful. Every dog has its day and back when theaters were being crushed by cable and over the air stations were dropping like flies the cable industry could have cared less. Now cable TV is in serious trouble with no way to fight back except the one very obvious way. NetFlix delivers a ton of entertainment for $8. per month. Hint to cable : Deliver more for $8 than Netflix instead of charging hundreds per month.
The simple but wrong answer is to cut your links to the power grid and devise ways to be comfortable at night. But even that won't work well. The power companies are going to have to hop scotch power delivery as less and less homes and businesses want a connection to the grid. That will cause an inevitable jump in the price of grid electricity. So those that can not afford to have self powered homes will be forced to pay much higher power bills. It also points the finger at power companies lying and stealing from the public. Supposedly the rise of prices on the grid is caused by the high cost of fuels to feed the turbines. Yet the power companies fight to keep power sent to them by home owners who pay for the systems at home that replace the fuel the power companies supposedly need to generate power. Essentially if i generate excess power my neighbor should see a drop in his electric bills. After all, the power company burned no fuel to supply him with power from my system. And just in case people are clueless big power, big coal and big oil are all in their end of life stages. That suggests that if you own stocks or bonds in those industries sell while you can. Progress will create chaos.
I'll bet that pouring liquid nitrogen down an inmates throat would be even quicker. Or we could just toss the inmate into a barrel filled with liquid nitrogen. Or we could use a barrel of Liquid oxygen and after the inmate is frozen solid the barrel and inmate could be lit on fire to provide cremation on the spot. No mess, no fuss and nice clean ashes to sweep up a bit as a bonus. Then we could powder the bones just as funeral homes do and use the bone in concrete to make more death chambers. i'm a fun guy!
Freedom of information as well as freedom of speech are ruined when we allow a concept such as copyright to exist. To even suggest that the diary in question was an economic effort on the type of its dead author (may he roast in hell) or that those economic rights could somehow be transferred to other people after the author's death is just wrong. And frankly even the idea that German law can be respected when it once went so far astray is offensive in itself.
I wonder if it would be a better world if every word we ever speak was filmed and available for all to see permanently. We often get to know people as we first see them at their best moments but how low are they in their very worst moments? How stable are they in real life? Shouldn't others know when a person is in a defective state of being? For example the pilot that locked the cabin door and flew his plane into the side of a mountain could have been stopped before he acted out.
Google!!!!! Do not reinvent the wheel. Google can be a wonderful search engine. How in the heck can a new product provide the variety and depth of search that Google can with their enormous data base and ample hardware?
So here we are with our mega-giga-buck super high tech defense system complete with a spy system that the gestapo would admire and we can't stop drones or gyro copters or even people from invading the White House. A couple of alert sentries with shot guns could have dealt with this before either the drone or the gyrocopter made it to the lawn. It reminds me of small people with black pajamas running the US out of Vietnam.
There are many false churches and particularly in the radio and TV ministries. The prosperity doctrine is actually a Satanic doctrine that is foisted upon the ignorant. Christ clearly taught poverty as a part of the faith. The prosperity part is in reference to the next life and not about life in this world. There are a couple of ministers who have gone to prison over their use of money collected and spent for personal use. For some screwy reason ministers going to jail for stealing from the ignorant are about like telemarketers. Very few telemarketers go to prison but almost 100% are crooked. Any real effort by the authorities could result in tens of thousands of phone sales or telemarketer people being swept up and sentenced to decades in prison. Almost everything they do is totally illegal.
The reason that real churches can't be taxed starts with the problem of an audit. How does one audit a church without getting a members' list or contributors' list? Further, in the Christian churches part of the faith involves the silence of your contribution or good works. If you can't audit the income then how do you balance the books? Other groups have recent history that has taught people to be wary of declaring to be a Jew or whatever as it gives enemies too easy a way to lay hands on you.
It really is absurd that we have people that equate getting groped with a really major horror. It amazes me that people consider this some sort of great threat. As far as religious fanatics go it does not seem to occur to them that god may have a few things to worry about other than their genitals.
Imagine a swarm of baseball size drones all seeking to fly into the air intake of enemy jet engines. One chunk of titanium rod inside the drone should make a real mess out of a spinning engine.
Computers opened the flood gate to a limitless wonderland. Moore's law is simply a method of observing the radical progress in computer power. Frankly I think that five years from now we will marvel at how we got by with today's computers and electronics. I don't think we have even seen the beginning of what is surely going to occur. Maybe I'm a mindless idiot with a foggy grasp of reality but my view is that we will soon have computers capable of writing and testing programs on their own without human input at all. We will no longer design the hardware in our computers either. Computers can be used to create new computer languages that are more exploitable by machine intelligence. We already have a situation in which the game of chess is ruled by computers and even grand masters fall and fail to understand the battle plans of a chess machine. If a computer can play superb chess then how long is it before a computer can design its own software and hardware?
Going back to 1960 or so we have weapons that launched and delivered nuclear pay loads at long distances. From my point of view that is a lot more of a hazard than some robot planted to destroy any tanks that come near by. More recently we have items like the Cruise Missile that can launch and defeat an enemy or erase a city if need be. If automated weapons can keep our soldiers out of harms way I think they are a great development. In the past the ability to win a war somewhat depended upon the size of the population of a nation. In 1950 we saw N. Korea send huge numbers of soldiers into our troops machine guns trying to overwhelm us by being willing to destroy so many of their soldiers. Due to the evolution of weapons we simply are not seeing the huge battles that we saw in prior wars. Lives are being saved by the existence of advanced weapons. Drones leap to mind. We can now kill one enemy whereas in the past we might have bombed an entire town to rubble to eliminate just one important enemy.
Funding opens the door for government intrusion. Even private colleges become agents of the government through funding. Land grant colleges usually have ROTC programs as a requirement of using the land. In order to keep federal money coming in it is rather easy for the government to seek cooperation in various covert programs. State colleges are even easier to push around by the feds. I would bet money that some covert studies have been done in which students were used as guinea pigs and had drugs or bacteria implanted without their knowledge or consent. That flu shot given on campus may have been a flu shot with a little extra added making the kids test subjects.
With the exception of a few ranchers in Texas we all spend our time using public roads. There is nothing private about how one drives on a public road. Anyone is free to study your driving and compile information about your driving habits or where you drive and at what time of day. Whether it's a jealous wife hiring a private detective or an app running on your cell phone it is all public in nature. People are seeking privacy where none has ever existed in the past.
I strongly suspect that if we want to investigate anything in order to help protect our nation we should not be so worried about the terror loonies but instead focus on what goes on in businesses. In order for our nation to survive we need to have a degree of trust in our corporations.. As it stands corporations do not deserve one bit of trust from the public. Whether it is the under handed efforts to hold back the Tesla cars or the outrageous salaries payed to executives or off shoring for tax purposes our corporations betray us hourly. As mistrust of social institutions grows individuals tend to adopt the same psychopathic reasoning as the corporations. The morality of the petty gangster with a gun in a convenience store follows the same logic as big business. That gangster doesn't give a hoot as long as he gets his and the same can be said for almost all businesses that you deal with in your lives. Corruption is the new American way.
Among others the US military took an interest in new or efficient languages back in the 1960 era. Colleges sometimes were used to try out various language experiments without the transparency the English majors should have had as they thought it was simply an educational project. For example try to create a working language with 50 words leaps to mind. If you could get a language with fifty words up and running and the encrypt the language it would offer a very secure language with a built in resistance to being cracked. Keep in mind that you could also create the fifty words yourself. Others might be asked to create languages with 100 or 200 new words. Keep in mind that there are people among us who have a fifty word vocabulary and they somehow get through life. One of the easy things to observe is the slow and difficult flow of formal languages such as mathematics, chemistry or physics. Imagine if Einstein had delivered the E = MC squared equation without telling anyone what E, M or C represented. How many years would have passed before someone understood that equation at all? As far as the beauty and utility of English is concerned it may very well be the best language ever conceived. Some would argue that French would be better and many realize that German is highly suited for science and engineering. The one negative for English is for new learners coming from non English speaking nations. Yet English continues to spread around the world as more and more nations find it essential to do business.
Displacement of teachers is already under way. One student I talked to has already had two of his five courses being taught by computer alone. Testing is done by an automated process as well. using cams and what amounts to security guards one guard can now control four or more class rooms at the high school level. And it comes back to the same thing. One seventh grade American history teacher could teach that class for the entire nation. At some point the kids will shift into computer at home education if it is a stable, two parent home. So not only will teachers become more and more absent but schools will have to be closed as the number of students needing an in school education will shrink. I expect a lot of strife and some sort of class warfare over the education issue.
The demand for oil and other fossil fuels is only a symptom of over population. We can go on endlessly about all of the effects of a population explosion without ever confronting what drives all of the issues. Fraking, coal ash dumping, air pollution, urban sprawl, ruined oceans, water shortages, military threats, illegal immigration, food prices all go back to the same core issue which is too large a population both in the US and around the world. Without strict birth control it will continue to get worse and worse and just maybe end human life on Earth.
Well gosh! If big business can make more money and create just one more minimum wage job what does it matter if thousands are killed and entire cities shaken into dust. I man, where the hack are our values. Maybe some of those tall buildings can TRICKLE DOWN and smack a right winger on top of his head. And with rising seas the dust and corpses will be washed away anyway so businesses do not have to clean up the dead and dying. Oh the joys of capitalism!
Obviously trying to enforce such an idiotic law will cause law suits going all the way to the Supreme Court and Tesla will win. I'm dead certain that W. Va. is so loaded with wealth that a waste of millions of dollars means nothing to them at all. Tesla should be allowed punitive damages for this outrage.
Seriously, those that deliver information to the public are heroes. Our nation must no be so weak kneed that we need secrets. Voting means nothing when the public has no right to know. Example : Does our military need more funding or less funding? How the heck can we know when we do not know the capabilities of our military? Some senator preaching in the senate may make all kinds of claims but that may be based on bringing home the pork chops rather than military needs.