When I was ten years old I traveled many miles by bicycle and on foot both night and day. The simple truth is that we needed to have no fear of sexual preditors or sadists. In Ft. Lauderdale we had quite a population and it was not a tiny town by a long shot. But crime was simply pretty darned rare. In the 1950s and sixties we only locked the house doors if we were going on vacation. Nobody felt at risk of a burgler in the night.
These days one needs to be right on top of their kids and that goes up to an age of about twenty when one simply can not be present at almost all times. We do have psychopaths stalking and nightmares walking. And if akid goes fishing in remote places there is way too high a probablity of them being molested or murdered.
The question is why. Just why do we have so many depraved people about? We certainly have way too many people in prisons. Then as now we had no real mental health help for most of the population. And back then prison was easy to go to and very hard to survive including forced labor on chain gangs. The one single change that is so striking is the publics acceptance of getting high. Drugs were absolutely absent in our schools and getting caught with a pinch of any drug including pot pretty much was a life ender. Florida had a reform school that murdered many young boys. They are still recovering bodies from that closed facility. One little bit of pot was enough to send you there until you were 21 and you would be unemployable for life. Even at 11 years old we knew not to get sent to Marianna. Getting stoned was simply not an issue. A few teens tried getting drunk in high school. I wonder if the anti-social molesters and creeps are showing some sort of dope related, long term behaviours due to brain injuries from youthful drug use.
Are you one of the people who wants crime to exist? As the use of electronic means expands crimes will become harder and harder to commit without sudden arrest and convictions. Lies will also be hard to tell. Imagine if wives and husbands could study in detail the entire daily life of their mates? Oops! How about chidren being able to observe parents at all times just as simple devices hidden in cars can track teens and give the speeds and routes driven in their cars. Can society survive honesty?
Frankly I think the greatest cause of burglaries is substance abuse or mental illnesses. For example a compusive gambler will turn to theft when he is on a losing streak. A sex addict may steel to be able to get more sex. Drug addicts and alcoholics need money to get by and often are incapable of working. People with usual levels of psycopathy due to mental problems also tend to break rules including rules agaisnt burglary and theft.
We also have a lack of support for the unfortunate that is a cause for money crimes. And oddly the justice system itself is so twisted that it is creating criminals. Businesses also create criminals. For example some companies fire any employee who is arrested even though the employee is later found innocent. Then other businesses will refuse to employ anyone who has been arrested in the past. Then those businesses will whine and cry about customers driven away by street crimes.
For whatever twisted reasons society wants crime to a certain degree and seems to work towards insuring that crime will continue to exist.
There are fields such as chemistry that are now so advanced and exotic that a person needs to be at near genius level to be much good at all. And these days colleges offer a bit of social promotions and give degrees to people who should never have them. So naturally a major employer will seek credentials from select universities as well as other proofs of recognized brilliance. A slightly above average mind who plods along in a very dedicated way has little chance to succeed in certain fields even with decades of training. That is why we see places like CERN with so many students and advanced scientists mulling over problems and getting inputs from hundreds of bright minds as they inch along towards progress. This follows a certain natural order of things. Just as everyone can never hope for success as a pro basketball player everyone can not hope for success in many technical fields and there is nothing that can change that.
I had family members who drove a 1947 Chevy home from the movies. It was identical to their own. The other people made the same error and took our Chevy home. My aunt discovered the problem two days later when she opened the glove compartment. She called the police and they tracked down the car and arranged the swap.
The real answer is to make certain that all people have good quality housing without regard for their ability to pay. More than ever human labor is being replaced and devalued. Work related education is not an answer when jobs do not exist. And for those than can do the math it is cheaper to buy a poor person a home and keep it up for him than to slap him in jail or prison. It is an issue similar to medical care. It is far cheaper to simply give a poor person a whiz bang medical policy for free than to pay his bills when he is sick and at the emergency room door. But if we compromise and give the poor inadequate insurance coverage they will still end up at the emergency room. Oddly the way to save money can be to spend money more freely.
That one is easy. You do not own the lawn around your condo. It is a common element and is maintained in its original condition or by a higher standard assigned by the condo board.
Buildings do not normally have a service life of 100 years. At some point after 50 years has passed the owners will sell the property and with luck a handsome proffit will be made and parceled out to the owners. The land plowed flat with new buildings may be worth ten times what the original owners paid for their units or even more.
I am a Florida HOA and POA president and I agree that there is a huge problem with these orgs having powers over people. There is also a problem with the state of Florida and federal laws not wanting to be of help to condominiums. What it really boils down to is that people don't really get a real deed when they buy a condo. What they get is the right to live in the aprtment if they follow all of the rules. And what rules can and can not be considered are not really controlled by the courts or the legislatures. And there really is insane nonsense in many condo meetings.
Boy what kind of world would it be if all of us had a deep knowledge of each other? I might not hire the wrong person. I might not marry the wrong person. I might know the car salesman or car dealership has a really bad history. Oh and Jee whiz, other people might know my history and might not like me and I am so weak that I give a fig about the opinions of others.
Mountains do have springs. Mountains also contain items like rivers, lakes and ponds. I recall one mountain spring in Virginia that sort of acts like a water fountain. Old hobo camps used to be next to that spring as the men could get clean drinking water as well as rob people who stopped to see the spring.
That fresh mountain water tastes good due to the impurities it carries. Things like desolved iron or a small hint of beaver poop are items to consider.
A modern still can be used to get quite pure water. If it boils below 212F or only boils above 212F. then it is routed away from the end product. So how many chemicals can match that exact boiling point? Further, how many harmful chemicals will pass that boiling point? If somehow a bacteria or virus gets through a distillation process it would tend to be eliminated by UV light or by chlorine.
It seems to me that one way to state this information is that mass can be a variable according to circumstances. And that screws the pooch. Are we entering an era in which every term in an equation is a variable? Can mathematics tolerate multiple variables within an equation? And if so to what degree can variables be the elememts of an equation and yield any useful solutions?
All too often people have suffered due to the listener having a false perception of what a speaker or writer says. A great example are the numbers of priests, nuns and protestant missionairies who have been murdered in south America. It seems the rich land owners tend to equate Christian doctrines with communism. The words of Christ do pretty much condem the rich and they feel that such teachings can inspire the people into a communist revolution. To them bagging someone who preaches the gospel is a fine thing to do.
Corruption is the cause of being able to "teach to the test". Properly done teachers would have no warning about the nature of a test at all. By giving several, short tests a year, the tests could each be specialized such as a narrow focus on geography one month and a focus on plane geometry the next month, the history of a major nation on yet another test and so on and so on . The scores would tell a lot about the general knowledge of a student and the parents could be able to judge the quality of their kids' schools. Reading and retention skills or reading and interpretation skills can be addressed. When a school tests poorly then the next step is to find out why. Usually kids that test poorly come from low income homes. Sadly there is very little a conventional school can do to overcome the the effects of poverty on children. Solutions could be to take kids out of the homes or to provide higher incomes to the poor. Neither of those solutions is likely to occur in the US due to our rather perverse social customs.
The tobacco companies made the point for decades that smoking does not cause cancer. As a simple sentence it is true. The proof is that not all smokers get cancer. The better truth is that some cancer in smokers is caused by smoking tobacco. The potential victims of destruction sort of know this by instinct and it is all too easy to think that I am a good person, people like me and god loves me so smoking can not give me cancer. That is a foolish view. but it is very hard to get thropugh that little pychological trick that tobacco addicts use to retain their addiction.
Aviation does cause way too much pollution as well as attacking all of our immune systems due to the ability to transport bacteria and virii all over the world at high speeds. Prior to avaiation germs were far more localized and therfore people did not have to fight off the large numbers of attacks that they now must do.
Shipping as well as cruise ships also are major polluters and also transport diseases and even invasive wild life species and tragedies like oil spills. It may be time to halt aviation as well as commercial shipping of all kinds.
Have a pair of glasses made for your PC only. I leave mine on t5he keyboard when away from the PC as they are worthless for other wear. Also have an eye doctor check you for dry eyes. You will need the expensive eye drops that are about ten bucks for a tiny bottle and not store brands which are universally of an acid PH and not really safe for long term use.
If you look at elected positions and toss all of them out you will not begin to cure the problem. Salaried civil service types of positions hold far too much power and their actions can be covert and undetected by the elected folks. For example a US senator may vote and act according to reports from workers downstream of his position. The report that the senator works from can be controlled by lower level employees who slant or even invent out of whole cloth the entire report. Organized crime has always found ways to invade and corrupt state and national functions and I seriously wonder how much of this is accomodated by non elected bureaucrats.
Half of the state of Florida stays stinky hot almost 365 days a year. It's 85F outside my door right now. We would need to develope a sleeping box that is well insulated with its own cooler as trying to run an AC to take a home to 66F would bankrupt most people. I usually set my AC at 77F to keep my electric bill at a sane level.
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When I was ten years old I traveled many miles by bicycle and on foot both night and day. The simple truth is that we needed to have no fear of sexual preditors or sadists. In Ft. Lauderdale we had quite a population and it was not a tiny town by a long shot. But crime was simply pretty darned rare. In the 1950s and sixties we only locked the house doors if we were going on vacation. Nobody felt at risk of a burgler in the night. These days one needs to be right on top of their kids and that goes up to an age of about twenty when one simply can not be present at almost all times. We do have psychopaths stalking and nightmares walking. And if akid goes fishing in remote places there is way too high a probablity of them being molested or murdered. The question is why. Just why do we have so many depraved people about? We certainly have way too many people in prisons. Then as now we had no real mental health help for most of the population. And back then prison was easy to go to and very hard to survive including forced labor on chain gangs. The one single change that is so striking is the publics acceptance of getting high. Drugs were absolutely absent in our schools and getting caught with a pinch of any drug including pot pretty much was a life ender. Florida had a reform school that murdered many young boys. They are still recovering bodies from that closed facility. One little bit of pot was enough to send you there until you were 21 and you would be unemployable for life. Even at 11 years old we knew not to get sent to Marianna. Getting stoned was simply not an issue. A few teens tried getting drunk in high school. I wonder if the anti-social molesters and creeps are showing some sort of dope related, long term behaviours due to brain injuries from youthful drug use.
Are you one of the people who wants crime to exist? As the use of electronic means expands crimes will become harder and harder to commit without sudden arrest and convictions. Lies will also be hard to tell. Imagine if wives and husbands could study in detail the entire daily life of their mates? Oops! How about chidren being able to observe parents at all times just as simple devices hidden in cars can track teens and give the speeds and routes driven in their cars. Can society survive honesty?
Frankly I think the greatest cause of burglaries is substance abuse or mental illnesses. For example a compusive gambler will turn to theft when he is on a losing streak. A sex addict may steel to be able to get more sex. Drug addicts and alcoholics need money to get by and often are incapable of working. People with usual levels of psycopathy due to mental problems also tend to break rules including rules agaisnt burglary and theft. We also have a lack of support for the unfortunate that is a cause for money crimes. And oddly the justice system itself is so twisted that it is creating criminals. Businesses also create criminals. For example some companies fire any employee who is arrested even though the employee is later found innocent. Then other businesses will refuse to employ anyone who has been arrested in the past. Then those businesses will whine and cry about customers driven away by street crimes. For whatever twisted reasons society wants crime to a certain degree and seems to work towards insuring that crime will continue to exist.
There are fields such as chemistry that are now so advanced and exotic that a person needs to be at near genius level to be much good at all. And these days colleges offer a bit of social promotions and give degrees to people who should never have them. So naturally a major employer will seek credentials from select universities as well as other proofs of recognized brilliance. A slightly above average mind who plods along in a very dedicated way has little chance to succeed in certain fields even with decades of training. That is why we see places like CERN with so many students and advanced scientists mulling over problems and getting inputs from hundreds of bright minds as they inch along towards progress. This follows a certain natural order of things. Just as everyone can never hope for success as a pro basketball player everyone can not hope for success in many technical fields and there is nothing that can change that.
I had family members who drove a 1947 Chevy home from the movies. It was identical to their own. The other people made the same error and took our Chevy home. My aunt discovered the problem two days later when she opened the glove compartment. She called the police and they tracked down the car and arranged the swap.
The real answer is to make certain that all people have good quality housing without regard for their ability to pay. More than ever human labor is being replaced and devalued. Work related education is not an answer when jobs do not exist. And for those than can do the math it is cheaper to buy a poor person a home and keep it up for him than to slap him in jail or prison. It is an issue similar to medical care. It is far cheaper to simply give a poor person a whiz bang medical policy for free than to pay his bills when he is sick and at the emergency room door. But if we compromise and give the poor inadequate insurance coverage they will still end up at the emergency room. Oddly the way to save money can be to spend money more freely.
That one is easy. You do not own the lawn around your condo. It is a common element and is maintained in its original condition or by a higher standard assigned by the condo board.
Buildings do not normally have a service life of 100 years. At some point after 50 years has passed the owners will sell the property and with luck a handsome proffit will be made and parceled out to the owners. The land plowed flat with new buildings may be worth ten times what the original owners paid for their units or even more.
I am a Florida HOA and POA president and I agree that there is a huge problem with these orgs having powers over people. There is also a problem with the state of Florida and federal laws not wanting to be of help to condominiums. What it really boils down to is that people don't really get a real deed when they buy a condo. What they get is the right to live in the aprtment if they follow all of the rules. And what rules can and can not be considered are not really controlled by the courts or the legislatures. And there really is insane nonsense in many condo meetings.
Boy what kind of world would it be if all of us had a deep knowledge of each other? I might not hire the wrong person. I might not marry the wrong person. I might know the car salesman or car dealership has a really bad history. Oh and Jee whiz, other people might know my history and might not like me and I am so weak that I give a fig about the opinions of others.
Mountains do have springs. Mountains also contain items like rivers, lakes and ponds. I recall one mountain spring in Virginia that sort of acts like a water fountain. Old hobo camps used to be next to that spring as the men could get clean drinking water as well as rob people who stopped to see the spring.
That fresh mountain water tastes good due to the impurities it carries. Things like desolved iron or a small hint of beaver poop are items to consider.
A modern still can be used to get quite pure water. If it boils below 212F or only boils above 212F. then it is routed away from the end product. So how many chemicals can match that exact boiling point? Further, how many harmful chemicals will pass that boiling point? If somehow a bacteria or virus gets through a distillation process it would tend to be eliminated by UV light or by chlorine.
Use the US House of Representatives to test reclaimed poop water.
On the up side you are also breathing the same air as Jesus Christ breathed.
How many rats does it take to match the output of the US Congress?
Anything that eats stars must surely need to take a massive dump. So all we need to look for is a big pile of digested and expelled star materials.
It seems to me that one way to state this information is that mass can be a variable according to circumstances. And that screws the pooch. Are we entering an era in which every term in an equation is a variable? Can mathematics tolerate multiple variables within an equation? And if so to what degree can variables be the elememts of an equation and yield any useful solutions?
All too often people have suffered due to the listener having a false perception of what a speaker or writer says. A great example are the numbers of priests, nuns and protestant missionairies who have been murdered in south America. It seems the rich land owners tend to equate Christian doctrines with communism. The words of Christ do pretty much condem the rich and they feel that such teachings can inspire the people into a communist revolution. To them bagging someone who preaches the gospel is a fine thing to do.
Corruption is the cause of being able to "teach to the test". Properly done teachers would have no warning about the nature of a test at all. By giving several, short tests a year, the tests could each be specialized such as a narrow focus on geography one month and a focus on plane geometry the next month, the history of a major nation on yet another test and so on and so on . The scores would tell a lot about the general knowledge of a student and the parents could be able to judge the quality of their kids' schools. Reading and retention skills or reading and interpretation skills can be addressed. When a school tests poorly then the next step is to find out why. Usually kids that test poorly come from low income homes. Sadly there is very little a conventional school can do to overcome the the effects of poverty on children. Solutions could be to take kids out of the homes or to provide higher incomes to the poor. Neither of those solutions is likely to occur in the US due to our rather perverse social customs.
The tobacco companies made the point for decades that smoking does not cause cancer. As a simple sentence it is true. The proof is that not all smokers get cancer. The better truth is that some cancer in smokers is caused by smoking tobacco. The potential victims of destruction sort of know this by instinct and it is all too easy to think that I am a good person, people like me and god loves me so smoking can not give me cancer. That is a foolish view. but it is very hard to get thropugh that little pychological trick that tobacco addicts use to retain their addiction.
Aviation does cause way too much pollution as well as attacking all of our immune systems due to the ability to transport bacteria and virii all over the world at high speeds. Prior to avaiation germs were far more localized and therfore people did not have to fight off the large numbers of attacks that they now must do. Shipping as well as cruise ships also are major polluters and also transport diseases and even invasive wild life species and tragedies like oil spills. It may be time to halt aviation as well as commercial shipping of all kinds.
Have a pair of glasses made for your PC only. I leave mine on t5he keyboard when away from the PC as they are worthless for other wear. Also have an eye doctor check you for dry eyes. You will need the expensive eye drops that are about ten bucks for a tiny bottle and not store brands which are universally of an acid PH and not really safe for long term use.
If you look at elected positions and toss all of them out you will not begin to cure the problem. Salaried civil service types of positions hold far too much power and their actions can be covert and undetected by the elected folks. For example a US senator may vote and act according to reports from workers downstream of his position. The report that the senator works from can be controlled by lower level employees who slant or even invent out of whole cloth the entire report. Organized crime has always found ways to invade and corrupt state and national functions and I seriously wonder how much of this is accomodated by non elected bureaucrats.
Half of the state of Florida stays stinky hot almost 365 days a year. It's 85F outside my door right now. We would need to develope a sleeping box that is well insulated with its own cooler as trying to run an AC to take a home to 66F would bankrupt most people. I usually set my AC at 77F to keep my electric bill at a sane level.