Bambo is super fast growing and is a carbon dioxide catch basin until it reaches about five years of age. At that point it can be harvested and used in numerous ways and replanting will not be required as it will spring back into action very quickly.
Still the ultimate solution is to limit reproduction of people. Polution is the inevitable result of human activities. Less population means less polution of all types. If we have strick birthing controls we can reduce the current population numbers by 90% if we like.
Florida alone could plant many tens of thousands of acres in bamboo as could rain forest areas already destroyed by burn and slash farming. Cold areas can also grow bamboo. But in South America one might grow a 30 foot bamboo stalk in a single month.
These new school hours are awful. The high school youth need a far longer school day. Programs and services for students have been cut supposedly for economic reasons. They cut the hours as they cut the programs. Students have no worse enemy than their families and neighbors. Getting high school kids absent from their homes is a positive goal. My high school day consisted of getting up at 6am and eating, driving 15 miles to school and being in place at 7:20 am.. The day ended at 3:20 pm. but was far from over. One night a week we had concert band practice or marching band practice from 7 PM unril 10 pm. We also had either a marching event or a concert event about one night a week and sometimes traveled for a weekend for regional contests and the like. Band students tended to go to college and had grades and health reports superior to the school population. That is despite the fact that many of us would be forced to study all night and be on our feet for two days running at times. Musical training and phys-ed are both vital programs that every student should be involved in. And guess what programs got cut the most!
Florida enjoys using ships for reefs to attract fish. Pump all th oil and grease out of the vessel and sink it in 300 feet of water and it makes a great fish habitat. Why use it as scrap?
If we had social justice in the US we would need to get a whole lot of rope. Easy example : The torture of prisoners of war by the US gives every other nation the right to use torture on our own troops when they are captured. How can we object when we clearly tortured some inmates to death? Every soldier in the US should be on baby Bush's door step demanding justice with a rope in hand.
As far as freedom of speech goes the US is better off than the UK. Some Americans still understand that being offended is a defect of the listener and not the speaker. In America we have the right to be mortified and embarrassed beyond all sanity. After all, just why should we be concerned with what others think or say about us? Are we so weak that we can not function without standing in some social group? Being independant really does mean not having to be concerned with the beliefs of others and we have no obligation to avoid insulting people.
This might offer proof of a shattering fact. It looks as if cops are prone to breaking laws and rules whenever they feel they can get away with it. That strongly implies that cops with perfectly clean social and legal status have about the same mentality as most inmates. Although there are a few inmates who have no concern at all for punishments that will quickly follow an illegal act. And that type of inmate in all fairness is insane. If a person who is so far gone as to have no concern over being killed or jailed forever simply can not be capable of intent. But society cheats just like many cops cheat. Society does not want to really understand mental illness so it passes laws that do imprison people who act out as a direct consequence of their illnesses and have no control over their behaviors.
The little guys that hack and crack are a bit of an issue. But if we get aggressive and keep those who make small efforts from bad acts it will be a much more desireable place for big money to start committing computer crimes. Imagine a drug cartel that can spend a few hundred million dollars getting dedicated to draining bank accounts or running up false charge card bills. Think of it like smuggling heroin. Organized crime can smuggle heroin but individuals have very little chance of surviiving such an effort. I have know to couple who went to Columbia to buy cocaine. One saw her husband killed in front of her eyes as the locals stole their money instead of completing the deal. The other couple got robbed and ended up streaking through the counrty side completely nude and lucky to be alive. Yet orgaized crime brings it in by the tons. And just maybe our government is still involved in importing coke.
Cast the chess pieces in lead and make the board cover an acre such that the chess opponents would have to pick up a 100 lb. chess piece and run to put it on the next square.
Seriously chess would not take an upward step by joining the Olympics. It would lower the status of chess players. Or put simply brains are better than muscle tissue unless one is a republican.
Yes we do have a serious problem with the police these days. There is far too much nonsense occuring and we need to have vigilant actions to assure cops stay in line. Frankly we are in a very severe bind as dishonest cops threaten the idea of liberty and justice for all of us. The cops are in a near panic mode as they have come up against a wall and are aware that enforcement can no longer prevent social and economic chaos. So the cops are sort of doubling down with outrageous enforcement policies. All the while the politicians are pushing enforcement in order to collect more money from the public. The financially priviliged also push hard for certain types of enforcement while a population getting closer to poverty often resorts to crime to meet basic financial needs. To make matters worse the DOJ does not tend to prosecute powerful or wealthy individuals nor does it make meaningful enforcement against businesses. The Wall St. nightmare as well as the war crimes committed by the Bush administration are stark examples of people in high places being immune from the law.
Since so many cities are in financial crises these days the income from red light cams to some degree pays for more cops on the beat and that does enhance public safety. However I doubt that it is efficient and it absolutely is unfair to drivers who often are caught in an intersection in urban traffic. The guy in front of you stops suddenly and you can't clear the intersection until after the light turns red is one example.
What the public can do is to insist on a full trial for every infraction and that is expensive enough to force the courts to be a lot kinder to drivers.
Inflation is a similar issue. If the public simply refuses to pay higher prices the prices drop. Inflation is a form of taxation and it is of the compound interest model that effectively removes your savings from your bank accounts.
Sociologists have been working on this issue for over a decade. There are answers but some answers may sting a bit.
First off we will have to rid ourselves of certain cherished beliefs. Since computers can earn money without much human involvement the concept of labor in ezxchange for support hits the trash can. Essentially most beliefs that are associated with capitalism are now proven to be false beliefs. Next we have a concept, quite often false, that the most able will earn and deserve their earnings. The simple truth is that certain professions will fall to computers and robots that have been the exclusive employers of the rich or well off. Then we will be brought to the reality that some form of socialism must be not only accepted but welcomed.
Here is one solution : Every American gets a pay check every week straight from the government. Some form of gambling is mandatory with a controlled portion of that pay check. Those who gamble more intelligently will tend to accumulate wealth whereas those that are foolish or lazy will get no returns on that gambling. Some skill must be involved in the form of the gambling. That maintains the social pecking order. Taxes will be paid by companies but not the population. The reason is super simple. Technology has always rested on the elimination of effort. Now technology is succeeding and replacing the need for all human employment. Without a system like this society will completely collapse.
There is no hope of halting these practices without fines that take far more than the crime generated. The courts have enabled white collar crime by allowing these companies to steal and pay less than the sum stolen in fines. We should also consider a seizure of company assets and a forced shut down of the enterprise as it was an ongoing criminal conspiracy and the RICO Acts should be in play.
Those fools call me at least once a week. I have asked to be removed from their call list many times and it does no good at all. And I tell them that I would never have a Windows machine in my home and even that does nothing to stop them. The one answer to all of this is to require all solicitation calls to use a specific prefix both on PCs and on phone lines. That way any sales call in itself would be a felony if that special prefix is not displayed clearly.
Certainly as far as long distance travel in space robots are the only way to go. No life support required for robots at all. Time need not be an issue for robots either. Traveling for 1,000 years and sending back messages could transmit much useful knowledge without loss of life. Further, at a certain point, robots may be able to reproduce and gather raw materials to extend their "homeland" . Those of us with meat bodies really do have built in faults that will likely mean we are replaced by robotic life forms. Imagine a robot as the ultimate monk, wanting nothing, and doing everything.
I doubt that people already convicted had their sentences altered due to the legalization of pot in Colorado.
And what means are used to detect drivers who are high on pot?
From my point of view any compromise in the belief that it is morally wrong to get high on anything, including alcohol, is not acceptable. This is the stumbling point for youth when they see parents who get high on alcohol, prescription drugs or illegal drugs the kids get the message that getting high is acceptable. The simple truth is that if kids do not see their parents getting high or even taking the risk of using tobacco they are much more able to live a life free of dope, booze, etc.. By using substances we in fact are making a statement that causes many millions of people to live and die in poverty and misery.
AI machines will rapidly eliminate almost all employment and it is coming on quickly. Also effects can be seen to have harsh effects in specific regions as well as in specific ethnic or racial groups. One only needs to have seen what happened to black folks in the deep south when cotton went to mechanical farming. Untold numbers of black people were condemmed to lives of poverty when the cotton fields no longer needed much manual labor. The university is looking at the wrong issue. The real issue is the mode of support we will offer displaced workers. If we fail to make provisions of support of the work force that becomes displaced we will face riot and revolution. In essence the government will pay all of us and industry will pay all of the tax load. There is no alternative. The traditional auto industry is about to vanish. And the home building industry is also posed to be a totally automated industry. The real problem is that people want to be blind as to what we all understand is about to happen.
Have you considered being a tech writer? People with decent writing skills who have a sound knowledge in science and technology should be making a living.
Also advanced programmers do need people who are able to make the development process understandable to management. That gives an opportunity to program but makes you more valuable in that you have verbal and people skills to stop management from making blunders.
Uber has a good idea and it is of use to the public. Many other trades have fallen to progress. Can taxi cabs be any different?
And we have seen nothing yet. Just wait until the housing industry is smacked down by 3D printing of dwellings. Matter of fact how much is there in a Tesla type car that can not be made by 3D printing? The frame and body and interior should be a cinch for 3D printing. I suspect that small boat building will fall to 3d printing as well. There has already been a canoe made by 3D printing. How long before a rugged 3D printed bass boat is available?
Perhaps laws should be put into effect that require gasoline and diesel engines in cars to have the same level of emissions as electric or hydrogen powered cars.
That is total nonsense! The Nazis were not leftests at all. They were right wing extreemists. Germany had a deep fear of the left in the form of communism and that was the reason behind the formation of a rabid dog type of right wind nation. Bothe the communists and the Nazis threw individual human rights under the bus. American liberals operate in the exact opposite way with a very high emphasis on justice and human rights. If you knew a bit about what happens in South America you would get a clue as to the nature of the problem. Many ministers, priests and nuns have been tortured and murdered simply because the teaching of Christianity insists upon basic human rights and condems greed. The wealthy have for many decades hired killers to eliminate anyone who suggests fairness and decency for anyone other than the rich. These aristocrats are highly associated with Nazi beliefs and practices.
Fire them and stop all pension benefits as well. Cops who deliberately violate the law are criminals in every sense of the word. If they control their behavior there would be no problem with cams recording them while they work. The fact is that many cops break the law every day and feel as if they are immune. One answer is for federal agents to pose as civilians and trap cops who are ugly or abusive to the public or to suspects. Frankly the cops are acting up because it is now obvious they can not hold back the wave that is sweeping over the nation. Many people at the lower levels are on the verge of acting out. They have not been rewarded for work or given a fair shot at making a better life. That turns them towards crime. Law enforcement is actually creating criminals these days.
When it comes to those folks who have religious objections to vacination we need to be very cautious. There may be those that argue that the scientific mode should dominate law. In a way they are saying that you must prove your religion is correct in order top follow it. I take all the vacinations that are available to me. But I doubt anyone has the right to force others to do the same. Many other issues have similar disputes. For example any use of alcohol or tobacco harms society in many ways. Should society be able to insist at force of law and arms the right to live a life free of the influence of alcohol or smoke? After all some drunk might run over my kids and some smoker can start a fire that wipes out a hotel with me and my family inside.
There are many people who suffer from a lousy self image. They may feel that they are the only ones who have ever done stupid things. It can be quite theraputic to realise that almost all people have really humbling moments and actually be able to see people that you deal with every day during those moments. If you had the flu and found yourself on the bathroom floor spewing from both ends your mind has a snapshot of what you felt you looked like. How about being able to see your boss under very similar conditions? Or how about the night your banker got drunk and punched his wife and left home in cuffs in a squad car? I doubt there is anyone out there that has not had times when they looked or acted like they belonged in a trash dump.
Sadly if we abbreviate save our backsides we end up with SOB which just won't work well. Maybe a word that means the same that starts with an A would help. We'll call it the SOA association. In order to save our A we need to consider just what actions to take. One is to use our minds and the other is to sit back and quietly wait for science and technology to save our A.
My humble, adled, mind suggests that using our brains is more reliable than waiting for tech to bail us out. Therefore the issue is simple. Pollution is a result of human activity. This includes heat as a pollutant. The more humans, the more pollution. That is very simple to grasp. Less babies means less pollution. Knowing that does very little unless we have enforced, birth control. We have reached a moment in time where many people should not be allowed to reproduce at all and those that are allowed should be limited to one child in one marriage for life. Doing this will reduce world population until we get to a level at which the consequences of human activity have very little effect upon the planet.
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Law suits don't mean much if the plaintiff loses. I doubt that many judges or juries will award a fee for such a complaint.
Bambo is super fast growing and is a carbon dioxide catch basin until it reaches about five years of age. At that point it can be harvested and used in numerous ways and replanting will not be required as it will spring back into action very quickly. Still the ultimate solution is to limit reproduction of people. Polution is the inevitable result of human activities. Less population means less polution of all types. If we have strick birthing controls we can reduce the current population numbers by 90% if we like. Florida alone could plant many tens of thousands of acres in bamboo as could rain forest areas already destroyed by burn and slash farming. Cold areas can also grow bamboo. But in South America one might grow a 30 foot bamboo stalk in a single month.
These new school hours are awful. The high school youth need a far longer school day. Programs and services for students have been cut supposedly for economic reasons. They cut the hours as they cut the programs. Students have no worse enemy than their families and neighbors. Getting high school kids absent from their homes is a positive goal. My high school day consisted of getting up at 6am and eating, driving 15 miles to school and being in place at 7:20 am.. The day ended at 3:20 pm. but was far from over. One night a week we had concert band practice or marching band practice from 7 PM unril 10 pm. We also had either a marching event or a concert event about one night a week and sometimes traveled for a weekend for regional contests and the like. Band students tended to go to college and had grades and health reports superior to the school population. That is despite the fact that many of us would be forced to study all night and be on our feet for two days running at times. Musical training and phys-ed are both vital programs that every student should be involved in. And guess what programs got cut the most!
Florida enjoys using ships for reefs to attract fish. Pump all th oil and grease out of the vessel and sink it in 300 feet of water and it makes a great fish habitat. Why use it as scrap?
If we had social justice in the US we would need to get a whole lot of rope. Easy example : The torture of prisoners of war by the US gives every other nation the right to use torture on our own troops when they are captured. How can we object when we clearly tortured some inmates to death? Every soldier in the US should be on baby Bush's door step demanding justice with a rope in hand.
As far as freedom of speech goes the US is better off than the UK. Some Americans still understand that being offended is a defect of the listener and not the speaker. In America we have the right to be mortified and embarrassed beyond all sanity. After all, just why should we be concerned with what others think or say about us? Are we so weak that we can not function without standing in some social group? Being independant really does mean not having to be concerned with the beliefs of others and we have no obligation to avoid insulting people.
This might offer proof of a shattering fact. It looks as if cops are prone to breaking laws and rules whenever they feel they can get away with it. That strongly implies that cops with perfectly clean social and legal status have about the same mentality as most inmates. Although there are a few inmates who have no concern at all for punishments that will quickly follow an illegal act. And that type of inmate in all fairness is insane. If a person who is so far gone as to have no concern over being killed or jailed forever simply can not be capable of intent. But society cheats just like many cops cheat. Society does not want to really understand mental illness so it passes laws that do imprison people who act out as a direct consequence of their illnesses and have no control over their behaviors.
The little guys that hack and crack are a bit of an issue. But if we get aggressive and keep those who make small efforts from bad acts it will be a much more desireable place for big money to start committing computer crimes. Imagine a drug cartel that can spend a few hundred million dollars getting dedicated to draining bank accounts or running up false charge card bills. Think of it like smuggling heroin. Organized crime can smuggle heroin but individuals have very little chance of surviiving such an effort. I have know to couple who went to Columbia to buy cocaine. One saw her husband killed in front of her eyes as the locals stole their money instead of completing the deal. The other couple got robbed and ended up streaking through the counrty side completely nude and lucky to be alive. Yet orgaized crime brings it in by the tons. And just maybe our government is still involved in importing coke.
Cast the chess pieces in lead and make the board cover an acre such that the chess opponents would have to pick up a 100 lb. chess piece and run to put it on the next square. Seriously chess would not take an upward step by joining the Olympics. It would lower the status of chess players. Or put simply brains are better than muscle tissue unless one is a republican.
Yes we do have a serious problem with the police these days. There is far too much nonsense occuring and we need to have vigilant actions to assure cops stay in line. Frankly we are in a very severe bind as dishonest cops threaten the idea of liberty and justice for all of us. The cops are in a near panic mode as they have come up against a wall and are aware that enforcement can no longer prevent social and economic chaos. So the cops are sort of doubling down with outrageous enforcement policies. All the while the politicians are pushing enforcement in order to collect more money from the public. The financially priviliged also push hard for certain types of enforcement while a population getting closer to poverty often resorts to crime to meet basic financial needs. To make matters worse the DOJ does not tend to prosecute powerful or wealthy individuals nor does it make meaningful enforcement against businesses. The Wall St. nightmare as well as the war crimes committed by the Bush administration are stark examples of people in high places being immune from the law.
Since so many cities are in financial crises these days the income from red light cams to some degree pays for more cops on the beat and that does enhance public safety. However I doubt that it is efficient and it absolutely is unfair to drivers who often are caught in an intersection in urban traffic. The guy in front of you stops suddenly and you can't clear the intersection until after the light turns red is one example. What the public can do is to insist on a full trial for every infraction and that is expensive enough to force the courts to be a lot kinder to drivers. Inflation is a similar issue. If the public simply refuses to pay higher prices the prices drop. Inflation is a form of taxation and it is of the compound interest model that effectively removes your savings from your bank accounts.
Sociologists have been working on this issue for over a decade. There are answers but some answers may sting a bit. First off we will have to rid ourselves of certain cherished beliefs. Since computers can earn money without much human involvement the concept of labor in ezxchange for support hits the trash can. Essentially most beliefs that are associated with capitalism are now proven to be false beliefs. Next we have a concept, quite often false, that the most able will earn and deserve their earnings. The simple truth is that certain professions will fall to computers and robots that have been the exclusive employers of the rich or well off. Then we will be brought to the reality that some form of socialism must be not only accepted but welcomed. Here is one solution : Every American gets a pay check every week straight from the government. Some form of gambling is mandatory with a controlled portion of that pay check. Those who gamble more intelligently will tend to accumulate wealth whereas those that are foolish or lazy will get no returns on that gambling. Some skill must be involved in the form of the gambling. That maintains the social pecking order. Taxes will be paid by companies but not the population. The reason is super simple. Technology has always rested on the elimination of effort. Now technology is succeeding and replacing the need for all human employment. Without a system like this society will completely collapse.
There is no hope of halting these practices without fines that take far more than the crime generated. The courts have enabled white collar crime by allowing these companies to steal and pay less than the sum stolen in fines. We should also consider a seizure of company assets and a forced shut down of the enterprise as it was an ongoing criminal conspiracy and the RICO Acts should be in play.
Those fools call me at least once a week. I have asked to be removed from their call list many times and it does no good at all. And I tell them that I would never have a Windows machine in my home and even that does nothing to stop them. The one answer to all of this is to require all solicitation calls to use a specific prefix both on PCs and on phone lines. That way any sales call in itself would be a felony if that special prefix is not displayed clearly.
Certainly as far as long distance travel in space robots are the only way to go. No life support required for robots at all. Time need not be an issue for robots either. Traveling for 1,000 years and sending back messages could transmit much useful knowledge without loss of life. Further, at a certain point, robots may be able to reproduce and gather raw materials to extend their "homeland" . Those of us with meat bodies really do have built in faults that will likely mean we are replaced by robotic life forms. Imagine a robot as the ultimate monk, wanting nothing, and doing everything.
I doubt that people already convicted had their sentences altered due to the legalization of pot in Colorado. And what means are used to detect drivers who are high on pot? From my point of view any compromise in the belief that it is morally wrong to get high on anything, including alcohol, is not acceptable. This is the stumbling point for youth when they see parents who get high on alcohol, prescription drugs or illegal drugs the kids get the message that getting high is acceptable. The simple truth is that if kids do not see their parents getting high or even taking the risk of using tobacco they are much more able to live a life free of dope, booze, etc.. By using substances we in fact are making a statement that causes many millions of people to live and die in poverty and misery.
AI machines will rapidly eliminate almost all employment and it is coming on quickly. Also effects can be seen to have harsh effects in specific regions as well as in specific ethnic or racial groups. One only needs to have seen what happened to black folks in the deep south when cotton went to mechanical farming. Untold numbers of black people were condemmed to lives of poverty when the cotton fields no longer needed much manual labor. The university is looking at the wrong issue. The real issue is the mode of support we will offer displaced workers. If we fail to make provisions of support of the work force that becomes displaced we will face riot and revolution. In essence the government will pay all of us and industry will pay all of the tax load. There is no alternative. The traditional auto industry is about to vanish. And the home building industry is also posed to be a totally automated industry. The real problem is that people want to be blind as to what we all understand is about to happen.
Have you considered being a tech writer? People with decent writing skills who have a sound knowledge in science and technology should be making a living. Also advanced programmers do need people who are able to make the development process understandable to management. That gives an opportunity to program but makes you more valuable in that you have verbal and people skills to stop management from making blunders.
Uber has a good idea and it is of use to the public. Many other trades have fallen to progress. Can taxi cabs be any different? And we have seen nothing yet. Just wait until the housing industry is smacked down by 3D printing of dwellings. Matter of fact how much is there in a Tesla type car that can not be made by 3D printing? The frame and body and interior should be a cinch for 3D printing. I suspect that small boat building will fall to 3d printing as well. There has already been a canoe made by 3D printing. How long before a rugged 3D printed bass boat is available?
Perhaps laws should be put into effect that require gasoline and diesel engines in cars to have the same level of emissions as electric or hydrogen powered cars.
That is total nonsense! The Nazis were not leftests at all. They were right wing extreemists. Germany had a deep fear of the left in the form of communism and that was the reason behind the formation of a rabid dog type of right wind nation. Bothe the communists and the Nazis threw individual human rights under the bus. American liberals operate in the exact opposite way with a very high emphasis on justice and human rights. If you knew a bit about what happens in South America you would get a clue as to the nature of the problem. Many ministers, priests and nuns have been tortured and murdered simply because the teaching of Christianity insists upon basic human rights and condems greed. The wealthy have for many decades hired killers to eliminate anyone who suggests fairness and decency for anyone other than the rich. These aristocrats are highly associated with Nazi beliefs and practices.
Fire them and stop all pension benefits as well. Cops who deliberately violate the law are criminals in every sense of the word. If they control their behavior there would be no problem with cams recording them while they work. The fact is that many cops break the law every day and feel as if they are immune. One answer is for federal agents to pose as civilians and trap cops who are ugly or abusive to the public or to suspects. Frankly the cops are acting up because it is now obvious they can not hold back the wave that is sweeping over the nation. Many people at the lower levels are on the verge of acting out. They have not been rewarded for work or given a fair shot at making a better life. That turns them towards crime. Law enforcement is actually creating criminals these days.
When it comes to those folks who have religious objections to vacination we need to be very cautious. There may be those that argue that the scientific mode should dominate law. In a way they are saying that you must prove your religion is correct in order top follow it. I take all the vacinations that are available to me. But I doubt anyone has the right to force others to do the same. Many other issues have similar disputes. For example any use of alcohol or tobacco harms society in many ways. Should society be able to insist at force of law and arms the right to live a life free of the influence of alcohol or smoke? After all some drunk might run over my kids and some smoker can start a fire that wipes out a hotel with me and my family inside.
There are many people who suffer from a lousy self image. They may feel that they are the only ones who have ever done stupid things. It can be quite theraputic to realise that almost all people have really humbling moments and actually be able to see people that you deal with every day during those moments. If you had the flu and found yourself on the bathroom floor spewing from both ends your mind has a snapshot of what you felt you looked like. How about being able to see your boss under very similar conditions? Or how about the night your banker got drunk and punched his wife and left home in cuffs in a squad car? I doubt there is anyone out there that has not had times when they looked or acted like they belonged in a trash dump.
Sadly if we abbreviate save our backsides we end up with SOB which just won't work well. Maybe a word that means the same that starts with an A would help. We'll call it the SOA association. In order to save our A we need to consider just what actions to take. One is to use our minds and the other is to sit back and quietly wait for science and technology to save our A. My humble, adled, mind suggests that using our brains is more reliable than waiting for tech to bail us out. Therefore the issue is simple. Pollution is a result of human activity. This includes heat as a pollutant. The more humans, the more pollution. That is very simple to grasp. Less babies means less pollution. Knowing that does very little unless we have enforced, birth control. We have reached a moment in time where many people should not be allowed to reproduce at all and those that are allowed should be limited to one child in one marriage for life. Doing this will reduce world population until we get to a level at which the consequences of human activity have very little effect upon the planet.