College sophomores tend to get all messed up on what they think is logic. Many atheists do as well. Because there is a limit to the depths that can be reached in science there is always an element of faith or trust that creates a condition similar to a worshiper in church. Science is able to shift beliefs a bit faster than most religions and set sail on a slightly different course. Religions are usually slower to adopt the latest beliefs. But in the end neither science nor religion is free of the irrational. Philosophy students are easily sucked into this as well. They would be well served to remember the quote that philosophy begins where language ends. Make note of philosophies that must create special words or alter the meanings of existing words or strangle the very nature of language in order to maintain an absurd belief system. Scientology leaps to mind.
The US is just a wee bit different. When a wonderful new technology becomes available we immediately call moral wizards with pointy hats designed to keep witches from sitting on their heads. Their job is to get new technologies made illegal or somehow prevent them within the US. That gives every nation on Earth a chance to make money except the US. In the US we like to sit around and whine that we are falling behind. Stem cells were like that. genetic therapy and crop creation are like that as well. Once the rest of the world gets all the potential profits locked away then and only then can the US to allow the same thing that all other nations have already gotten up and running. It is rather like we did with computers. We can market computers but design and building were pretty much taken by foreign companies. You see we dare not do anything here in America. That is because we are superior.
Made simple some people want a monarchy. The government would then be entitled to absolute power and the public left powerless. In order to preserve some measure of equality the people, the government and businesses need to operate under exactly the same laws and restrictions and we all know that will never happen. As it stands the government can do a great job of watching me from many miles away by plane and by satellite. So why should I or my neighbor be allowed less?
The fact that the retina actually has intelligent functions is very important. There has been some long running beliefs that in psychiatric patients who have visual hallucinations that the patient actually sees something generated by the brain in the eye. If the retina is performing intelligent functions then perhaps some components of mental diseases do reside in the eyes. Perhaps it explains the rigid insistence by the patients that the visions are more real than normal sights.
I have seen the effect that location has on cab fares. In some places cab fares are reasonable while in other areas a cab ride is ultra expensive. In my area some cabs want a twenty dollar minimum and do not accept charge cards at all. The situation has reached the point at which we need new business models that force cabs to behave sanely in their rates. Some of the problems are due to individual drivers and not the companies that own them but the drivers have such a miserable situation that simply getting their permits pulled is more a blessing than a punishment.
If this technology can become common place the suffering of the multitudes could be greatly reduced. I don't have a clue as to how many chronic diseases might be eliminated but I suspect that many diseases could be eliminated in the afflicted. For example can we roll back the clock for a person afflicted with Parkinson's disease to a time before the disease expressed itself in the patient? Think what that could mean for people like Michael J. Fox and many millions of folks.
Small hydrogen from water units have been common for decades to power jewelers torches. In industry much larger gear exists to provide fuel for welding and it all works great. Yes, electricity is consumed in liberating the hydrogen but so what. If that electricity comes from solar, wind or tidal generation all the transaction involves is using electricity that would be wasted to generate hydrogen. Obviously that same hydrogen could be used to power turbines at night or on windless days.
Hydrogen will play a big role in the Future Shock that is already beginning to slap people right in the face. Imagine big oil and coal and what could happen to investment funds when they collapse. How many mutual funds would crash if oil, gas and coal stocks imploded and how well would pension and retirement funds survive? Yet our political system is not in tune with these escalating breakthroughs in technology at all.
How would the economies of the Arab states, Russia and others survive if oil and coal became effectively worthless? Why is it that people see future shock as a pie in the sky notion when it is already creating some chaos? Will real leaders please step forward!
In order to issue a fine the action should have required the courts and appeals process up even unto the Supreme Court before any fine could be started.
Frankly the loss of 4,000 people, several buildings and and three aircraft did not and does not constitute a threat to national security. The US is strong enough to take quite a few similar attacks without collapse of the nation. All that was really proven was that some clever Arab lunatics managed to do some harm. It shows that they have no real ability to mount a serious attack. Conversely we have the ability to exterminate the entire Arab region with relative ease if we like, Perhaps these people should consider the fact that the efficient way to handle them is to kill all and let God sort the good ones from the bad ones.
Playing silly little battlefield games uses up money and American lives. Maybe we simply need to do a demo and just eliminate one nation down to the last living creature.
Cops are being forced to generate income for cities and counties. By putting pressure on the cops they are forced to concentrate on trivial traffic violations rather than catching people who are really menacing in traffic. The housewife who is five miles over the speed limit may get lots of tickets. But laying in weight for the person that drag races at very high speeds takes too much time so the cops are sort of encouraging extreme violations. One red light cam can grab over one million dollars a year for the city. Local policy is to not take points away for cam caught offences. They just want the money and keeping people driving means more tickets. The average good driver does create enough minor violations to suffer loss of license every year.
In order for Germany to turn Nazi a situation of deep, moral depravity was required. The collapse of the economy created terror and panic and the Soviets gathering strength also menaced Germans. A state of great fear was key to dumping all sane morality into the crapper. Belief in God among the masses took a hit as well. After all in poverty and panic it is all too easy to claim that there was no God as God would never allow such a state of affairs to exist.
There is another unpopular fact that the world doesn't want to admit. German science and art was the pinnacle and no nation came close to doing what Germans had done. They actually had something to loose. And the Soviets did threaten to erase German culture completely while a failed economy mean building a competitive military was very unlikely.
The effect was that the German masses sent their morals to the dump and were very aware of the mass murders taking place, Keep in mind that concentration camps were railroad depots and travelers could easily see Jews at forced labor, starving and without protection from the cold, laboring on the tracks near the camps. These inmates were walking ghosts who were obviously being starved. One American GI that I met was laboring in the cities in public view with complete nudity as his clothing had decayed on his back and fallen away, He was forced to defuse bombs that had not exploded. A German housewife was offended by his male organs showing and tossed him a used pair of pants, The notion that Germans did not know is bullshit.
In this nation one is supposed to be punished only when one is convicted in court of a crime. Everyone else is innocent. Further in the era mentioned we were in shock in finding that recent president Nixon was indeed a criminal in every sense of the word and equal justice for all was in the toilet as Nixon did not go to prison. Further we had very ugly dealings with other nations suggesting that our government was an enemy of humanity. With events like arms for the Contra and the importation of cocaine to pay for guns provided by our government as well as the crushing of a few really good governments it is no wonder that many citizens were not ready to take up arms against the government.
Today we still see treasonous filth called the republican party doing wrong as fast as they can and filling the public ear with lies and propaganda. A House of Representatives dedicated to doing nothing during a financial collapse deserves whatever the public gives it. A Supreme Court that claims that corporations are people is enough to drive most normal folk to rage. Too big to fail is another thriller. Equal justice for all is rotting in the city dump and no longer applies in America. Allowing privileges to corporations denied to poor people is enough reason to put people into a revolutionary spirit. Revolution is almost always the wrong thing to do but what else can be done when the system refuses to correct itself?
If genes did not matter we would not see a few children born with IQs so low that they can not breath without mechanical aids. I suspect that genetics are less varied when the samples come from a population that is out and about and functioning as the low end of the generic pool is absent for those not housed in institutions.
There is also the point that the way each ethnic group behaves has an effect on the unborn in the womb. For example one ethnic group might display social skills or musical skills which imply some genetic selection of values. Another group might display a gift for areas such as chemistry which require a very narrow and deep focus.
We simply do not have all of the tools to make good measurements and conclusions yet.
Cuba is a complex nation with both good and bad points and we should not adopt just the American view towards Cuba. First the revolution in Cuba went astray and many good people were killed or had their lives ruined. There is also no doubt that Cuba backed a hostile Soviet Union during the cold war.
There is also no doubt that prior to Castro American organized crime ran rampant in Cuba and the public in Cuba was being raped by corruption. Some Cubans did better after the communist gained power just as some lost their lives, property or freedom.
Meanwhile we all act like blissful idiots by avoiding the real issues. Island nations often lack enough natural resources to provide a decent life for their populations. The type of government does very little to change that. For example if Haiti were to go communist today they would still be a very poor nation. If Cuba adopted the government and laws of Sweden or Switzerland or the US Cuba would still be a suffering nation.
Natural resources shrink when used. Every year Cuba has less natural resources. With strict birth control and population control such as allowing no immigration at all Cuba could shrink its population and there would be more natural resources per person which can cause more wealth per person. Civil unrest and revolution are all expressions of over population which we tend to see as poverty.
Picture it this way. We give each form of government a resting place in its own paper bag. We place each paper bag in a coffin full of fish guts and seal the coffin. We come back after a month and each form of government will have the same wretched stink. The form of the government does not control the prosperity of a nation. If we try to judge nations by their ability to survive we would be talking about strong monarchies in Egypt or China where concepts of fairness simply were not in play and a monarch with crushing powers determined every little thing.
I have a mini home made of candle wax. By heating it it flows down into the very mold that made it, cools, hardens and regenerates.
Have i just done easily what a high tech firm conceptualizes? Have the broken my patents?
Data collection and spying are going to force society to take all kinds of steps. As the ability to detect increases the number of violations will become ever more obvious. So now we are left with a very serious issue. It is impossible to enforce the laws when you can catch all the violations. Suppose as a simple example that we can catch ten million Americans cheating the IRS. There is simply no way to process and convict ten million people with any kind of fair judicial system. So most people would effectively be allowed to continue cheating while others would be punished. How does nepotism, racism, bribery and all manner of wrong do under such conditions.? We already detect far more people than we dare imprison and imagine what cops can do simply by sweeping up people and demanding even more people be reported by those detained ?
I have already seen a situation in which a drug house was untouchable operated on the border of a public high school. The cops as well as the school were all very aware of the busy drug house and it was simply untouchable. It had reached the point at which an arch shaped window was in stalled so buyers could by dope in a drive through in plain view of everyone. Why authorities allowed that drug house to operate in plain sight I do not know but if they arrested everyone that purchased drugs in that drive through it might have bankrupted the city.
What will happen when the slumbering public becomes aware that society gives some criminals a free pass?
The fact that school bands create much better students has been well understood for many decades. That doesn't mean that our screw ball society has done anything with that information.
First music breaks up boredom. Apparently having something to do stops a lot of drug use and other crimes in general. Then a school band relies upon cooperation. Obviously a band will not sound very good with a lot of kids out of tune or playing the wrong note so every band member has a serious incentive to help every other member. Basic behaviors are also taught. Showing up on time with your instrument, your music and your complete uniform are all part of school band programs.
And if you look at playing an instrument as a very competitive action things become even more obvious. What other form of performance in which competition takes place also completely avoids violence? Football, soccer and even track events all involve pain and certain forms of violence. For minority groups the individuals become valued for their ability and performance. The white student can highly value and respect the brown black, red or yellow student who stands out for excellence. There is no student that could not help themselves through being in a rigorous band and concert group all the way from 3rd. grade through college.
Then we have a world dynamic as well. If Americans are illiterate for math, science and the arts they are even more in worse shape with their knowledge of music. Ask your next door neighbor why Chopin is so highly respected and there is a 99% probability that all you will get is duh. That leads to a life long lock down on the ability to associate with truly educates people. So our dullard students are left with a life of drinking beer and getting into all kinds of negative lives with high mortality rates.
The Romanian army used to have each field gun machined individually with the bolt that acts as a hinge for the breach have a unique thread. In the event of a position being compromised in battle simply removing the bolt made the weapon useless. Sometimes simple traditional methods are pretty darned effective.Oddly since each bolt was unique traditional machinists could not make that many unique threads. They actually had gypsies that were admitted into the factories at night that somehow knew just how to make each thread unique.
If we help Tesla to grow fast we are also helping everyone else by getting fossil fuel vehicles off the road sooner. Since global warming and pollution threaten all life on Earth such actions are more important than the usual capitalist diatribes.
Mental health related actions also have legal restrictions just as physical disabilities do. Unless a crime is committed I can't see a way that a school board can force mental health treatment or examination. Frankly many people choose to be mentally ill even when effective treatments are available for their particular condition. If a person controls their actions even though their affect may be disturbing to others I'm not so sure that this school board has not taken a very bad and expensive path for itself. With the stigma applied to the mentally ill even a 48 hour hold for observation can ruin a person's career permanently even if the evaluation shows him to be in fine health.
Somehow no matter how hard they try there is simply that Germanic compulsion to get everyone goose stepping in perfect order. The world changes and sometimes new ideas work better than older ideas. But the economics are such that any change hurts someone. Winning does not imply unfair competition.
One excuse for a taxi commission has always been a need to know roads in a city. Now we have GPS and punching in the address routes the driver. On top of that we are about to eliminate human drivers anyway. Change is painful and when everything gets monetized there is a tendency to lock down any hope of change for the better.
There is already one full size helicopter, drone, making a daily repeat run from The US to Mexico. It is able to fly at any altitude that a human piloted helicopter can fly. For that matter the average commercial aircraft flying passengers is effectively a drone with a pilot only as backup these days.
We will need a new label for low flying drones to distinguish them from larger drones. We also need to gain knowledge on items like fuel consumption for heavy lifter type drones. For example my super market gets a tractor trailer load a day or more from a central warehouse about 50 miles away. A drone lifting the same weight and bulk just might be fuel efficient due to slow highway traffic. Cost may determine use more than legal issues. Other items need to be considered as well. If i order a bulldozer to a job site there is a huge issue with parking the tractor and lowboy that transports the dozer. A flying drone could deposit the dozer and wait nearby in many cases where a large truck and trailer could not fit in well. Or we may see the air ambulance effect ruin it all. It seems that a rescue helicopter for a trauma victim ads about 5K per mile over a car type ambulance.
Why would anyone have a windows machine around? My tribe does not support monsters nor evil doers. Freedom insists that I run Linux. Freedom is my buddy and you should get to know about Freedom.
When a person chooses to use a cell phone or other device while driving there is clearly a reckless disregard for the life of others and it is criminal.
The right wing may have ruined any hope of the family using the civil courts. In some states there is a concept that only financial dependence justifies a right to sue for damages. In other words if it was a student who requires support rather than a parent supporting a wife and child then no suit may be allowed. Conservatives have actually created a right to murder without penalty in some states.
The theory that travel was motivated by finding new sources of fish and game and was commercially sensitive goes a long way in explaining the lack of records of the contacts with the new world. One gets to Iceland and brings back prize catches and obviously hides information about where the game was taken. As more vessels figure out where the new gathering grounds are located more adventurous vessels reach out further trying to maintain better yields. Maps were either nonexistent or well hidden.
And then we have the ship wrecked folks. Life at sea has always involved survivors being stranded on unknown shores. Chances are that people from many nations and regions were ship wrecked somewhere in the Americas from time to time. Breeding with locals was sure to follow.
Then we also have the issue of records. Many races did not recognize native people as human kind. If they brought back a native to Europe they might be recorded as livestock or property rather than as persons. It is next to impossible that many hundreds of ship wrecked soul were not washed up on American shores over the centuries. Native Americans did capture and keep people as slaves and chances are it was common for ship wrecked survivors to be taken into bondage.
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College sophomores tend to get all messed up on what they think is logic. Many atheists do as well. Because there is a limit to the depths that can be reached in science there is always an element of faith or trust that creates a condition similar to a worshiper in church. Science is able to shift beliefs a bit faster than most religions and set sail on a slightly different course. Religions are usually slower to adopt the latest beliefs. But in the end neither science nor religion is free of the irrational. Philosophy students are easily sucked into this as well. They would be well served to remember the quote that philosophy begins where language ends. Make note of philosophies that must create special words or alter the meanings of existing words or strangle the very nature of language in order to maintain an absurd belief system. Scientology leaps to mind.
The US is just a wee bit different. When a wonderful new technology becomes available we immediately call moral wizards with pointy hats designed to keep witches from sitting on their heads. Their job is to get new technologies made illegal or somehow prevent them within the US. That gives every nation on Earth a chance to make money except the US. In the US we like to sit around and whine that we are falling behind. Stem cells were like that. genetic therapy and crop creation are like that as well. Once the rest of the world gets all the potential profits locked away then and only then can the US to allow the same thing that all other nations have already gotten up and running. It is rather like we did with computers. We can market computers but design and building were pretty much taken by foreign companies. You see we dare not do anything here in America. That is because we are superior.
Made simple some people want a monarchy. The government would then be entitled to absolute power and the public left powerless. In order to preserve some measure of equality the people, the government and businesses need to operate under exactly the same laws and restrictions and we all know that will never happen. As it stands the government can do a great job of watching me from many miles away by plane and by satellite. So why should I or my neighbor be allowed less?
The fact that the retina actually has intelligent functions is very important. There has been some long running beliefs that in psychiatric patients who have visual hallucinations that the patient actually sees something generated by the brain in the eye. If the retina is performing intelligent functions then perhaps some components of mental diseases do reside in the eyes. Perhaps it explains the rigid insistence by the patients that the visions are more real than normal sights.
I have seen the effect that location has on cab fares. In some places cab fares are reasonable while in other areas a cab ride is ultra expensive. In my area some cabs want a twenty dollar minimum and do not accept charge cards at all. The situation has reached the point at which we need new business models that force cabs to behave sanely in their rates. Some of the problems are due to individual drivers and not the companies that own them but the drivers have such a miserable situation that simply getting their permits pulled is more a blessing than a punishment.
If this technology can become common place the suffering of the multitudes could be greatly reduced. I don't have a clue as to how many chronic diseases might be eliminated but I suspect that many diseases could be eliminated in the afflicted. For example can we roll back the clock for a person afflicted with Parkinson's disease to a time before the disease expressed itself in the patient? Think what that could mean for people like Michael J. Fox and many millions of folks.
Small hydrogen from water units have been common for decades to power jewelers torches. In industry much larger gear exists to provide fuel for welding and it all works great. Yes, electricity is consumed in liberating the hydrogen but so what. If that electricity comes from solar, wind or tidal generation all the transaction involves is using electricity that would be wasted to generate hydrogen. Obviously that same hydrogen could be used to power turbines at night or on windless days. Hydrogen will play a big role in the Future Shock that is already beginning to slap people right in the face. Imagine big oil and coal and what could happen to investment funds when they collapse. How many mutual funds would crash if oil, gas and coal stocks imploded and how well would pension and retirement funds survive? Yet our political system is not in tune with these escalating breakthroughs in technology at all. How would the economies of the Arab states, Russia and others survive if oil and coal became effectively worthless? Why is it that people see future shock as a pie in the sky notion when it is already creating some chaos? Will real leaders please step forward!
In order to issue a fine the action should have required the courts and appeals process up even unto the Supreme Court before any fine could be started. Frankly the loss of 4,000 people, several buildings and and three aircraft did not and does not constitute a threat to national security. The US is strong enough to take quite a few similar attacks without collapse of the nation. All that was really proven was that some clever Arab lunatics managed to do some harm. It shows that they have no real ability to mount a serious attack. Conversely we have the ability to exterminate the entire Arab region with relative ease if we like, Perhaps these people should consider the fact that the efficient way to handle them is to kill all and let God sort the good ones from the bad ones. Playing silly little battlefield games uses up money and American lives. Maybe we simply need to do a demo and just eliminate one nation down to the last living creature.
Cops are being forced to generate income for cities and counties. By putting pressure on the cops they are forced to concentrate on trivial traffic violations rather than catching people who are really menacing in traffic. The housewife who is five miles over the speed limit may get lots of tickets. But laying in weight for the person that drag races at very high speeds takes too much time so the cops are sort of encouraging extreme violations. One red light cam can grab over one million dollars a year for the city. Local policy is to not take points away for cam caught offences. They just want the money and keeping people driving means more tickets. The average good driver does create enough minor violations to suffer loss of license every year.
In order for Germany to turn Nazi a situation of deep, moral depravity was required. The collapse of the economy created terror and panic and the Soviets gathering strength also menaced Germans. A state of great fear was key to dumping all sane morality into the crapper. Belief in God among the masses took a hit as well. After all in poverty and panic it is all too easy to claim that there was no God as God would never allow such a state of affairs to exist. There is another unpopular fact that the world doesn't want to admit. German science and art was the pinnacle and no nation came close to doing what Germans had done. They actually had something to loose. And the Soviets did threaten to erase German culture completely while a failed economy mean building a competitive military was very unlikely. The effect was that the German masses sent their morals to the dump and were very aware of the mass murders taking place, Keep in mind that concentration camps were railroad depots and travelers could easily see Jews at forced labor, starving and without protection from the cold, laboring on the tracks near the camps. These inmates were walking ghosts who were obviously being starved. One American GI that I met was laboring in the cities in public view with complete nudity as his clothing had decayed on his back and fallen away, He was forced to defuse bombs that had not exploded. A German housewife was offended by his male organs showing and tossed him a used pair of pants, The notion that Germans did not know is bullshit.
In this nation one is supposed to be punished only when one is convicted in court of a crime. Everyone else is innocent. Further in the era mentioned we were in shock in finding that recent president Nixon was indeed a criminal in every sense of the word and equal justice for all was in the toilet as Nixon did not go to prison. Further we had very ugly dealings with other nations suggesting that our government was an enemy of humanity. With events like arms for the Contra and the importation of cocaine to pay for guns provided by our government as well as the crushing of a few really good governments it is no wonder that many citizens were not ready to take up arms against the government. Today we still see treasonous filth called the republican party doing wrong as fast as they can and filling the public ear with lies and propaganda. A House of Representatives dedicated to doing nothing during a financial collapse deserves whatever the public gives it. A Supreme Court that claims that corporations are people is enough to drive most normal folk to rage. Too big to fail is another thriller. Equal justice for all is rotting in the city dump and no longer applies in America. Allowing privileges to corporations denied to poor people is enough reason to put people into a revolutionary spirit. Revolution is almost always the wrong thing to do but what else can be done when the system refuses to correct itself?
If genes did not matter we would not see a few children born with IQs so low that they can not breath without mechanical aids. I suspect that genetics are less varied when the samples come from a population that is out and about and functioning as the low end of the generic pool is absent for those not housed in institutions. There is also the point that the way each ethnic group behaves has an effect on the unborn in the womb. For example one ethnic group might display social skills or musical skills which imply some genetic selection of values. Another group might display a gift for areas such as chemistry which require a very narrow and deep focus. We simply do not have all of the tools to make good measurements and conclusions yet.
Cuba is a complex nation with both good and bad points and we should not adopt just the American view towards Cuba. First the revolution in Cuba went astray and many good people were killed or had their lives ruined. There is also no doubt that Cuba backed a hostile Soviet Union during the cold war. There is also no doubt that prior to Castro American organized crime ran rampant in Cuba and the public in Cuba was being raped by corruption. Some Cubans did better after the communist gained power just as some lost their lives, property or freedom. Meanwhile we all act like blissful idiots by avoiding the real issues. Island nations often lack enough natural resources to provide a decent life for their populations. The type of government does very little to change that. For example if Haiti were to go communist today they would still be a very poor nation. If Cuba adopted the government and laws of Sweden or Switzerland or the US Cuba would still be a suffering nation. Natural resources shrink when used. Every year Cuba has less natural resources. With strict birth control and population control such as allowing no immigration at all Cuba could shrink its population and there would be more natural resources per person which can cause more wealth per person. Civil unrest and revolution are all expressions of over population which we tend to see as poverty. Picture it this way. We give each form of government a resting place in its own paper bag. We place each paper bag in a coffin full of fish guts and seal the coffin. We come back after a month and each form of government will have the same wretched stink. The form of the government does not control the prosperity of a nation. If we try to judge nations by their ability to survive we would be talking about strong monarchies in Egypt or China where concepts of fairness simply were not in play and a monarch with crushing powers determined every little thing.
I have a mini home made of candle wax. By heating it it flows down into the very mold that made it, cools, hardens and regenerates. Have i just done easily what a high tech firm conceptualizes? Have the broken my patents?
Data collection and spying are going to force society to take all kinds of steps. As the ability to detect increases the number of violations will become ever more obvious. So now we are left with a very serious issue. It is impossible to enforce the laws when you can catch all the violations. Suppose as a simple example that we can catch ten million Americans cheating the IRS. There is simply no way to process and convict ten million people with any kind of fair judicial system. So most people would effectively be allowed to continue cheating while others would be punished. How does nepotism, racism, bribery and all manner of wrong do under such conditions.? We already detect far more people than we dare imprison and imagine what cops can do simply by sweeping up people and demanding even more people be reported by those detained ? I have already seen a situation in which a drug house was untouchable operated on the border of a public high school. The cops as well as the school were all very aware of the busy drug house and it was simply untouchable. It had reached the point at which an arch shaped window was in stalled so buyers could by dope in a drive through in plain view of everyone. Why authorities allowed that drug house to operate in plain sight I do not know but if they arrested everyone that purchased drugs in that drive through it might have bankrupted the city. What will happen when the slumbering public becomes aware that society gives some criminals a free pass?
The fact that school bands create much better students has been well understood for many decades. That doesn't mean that our screw ball society has done anything with that information. First music breaks up boredom. Apparently having something to do stops a lot of drug use and other crimes in general. Then a school band relies upon cooperation. Obviously a band will not sound very good with a lot of kids out of tune or playing the wrong note so every band member has a serious incentive to help every other member. Basic behaviors are also taught. Showing up on time with your instrument, your music and your complete uniform are all part of school band programs. And if you look at playing an instrument as a very competitive action things become even more obvious. What other form of performance in which competition takes place also completely avoids violence? Football, soccer and even track events all involve pain and certain forms of violence. For minority groups the individuals become valued for their ability and performance. The white student can highly value and respect the brown black, red or yellow student who stands out for excellence. There is no student that could not help themselves through being in a rigorous band and concert group all the way from 3rd. grade through college. Then we have a world dynamic as well. If Americans are illiterate for math, science and the arts they are even more in worse shape with their knowledge of music. Ask your next door neighbor why Chopin is so highly respected and there is a 99% probability that all you will get is duh. That leads to a life long lock down on the ability to associate with truly educates people. So our dullard students are left with a life of drinking beer and getting into all kinds of negative lives with high mortality rates.
The Romanian army used to have each field gun machined individually with the bolt that acts as a hinge for the breach have a unique thread. In the event of a position being compromised in battle simply removing the bolt made the weapon useless. Sometimes simple traditional methods are pretty darned effective.Oddly since each bolt was unique traditional machinists could not make that many unique threads. They actually had gypsies that were admitted into the factories at night that somehow knew just how to make each thread unique.
If we help Tesla to grow fast we are also helping everyone else by getting fossil fuel vehicles off the road sooner. Since global warming and pollution threaten all life on Earth such actions are more important than the usual capitalist diatribes.
Maybe I'm really wrong but wasn't a similar idea around during the Carter administration and halted due to potential dangers?
Mental health related actions also have legal restrictions just as physical disabilities do. Unless a crime is committed I can't see a way that a school board can force mental health treatment or examination. Frankly many people choose to be mentally ill even when effective treatments are available for their particular condition. If a person controls their actions even though their affect may be disturbing to others I'm not so sure that this school board has not taken a very bad and expensive path for itself. With the stigma applied to the mentally ill even a 48 hour hold for observation can ruin a person's career permanently even if the evaluation shows him to be in fine health.
Somehow no matter how hard they try there is simply that Germanic compulsion to get everyone goose stepping in perfect order. The world changes and sometimes new ideas work better than older ideas. But the economics are such that any change hurts someone. Winning does not imply unfair competition. One excuse for a taxi commission has always been a need to know roads in a city. Now we have GPS and punching in the address routes the driver. On top of that we are about to eliminate human drivers anyway. Change is painful and when everything gets monetized there is a tendency to lock down any hope of change for the better.
There is already one full size helicopter, drone, making a daily repeat run from The US to Mexico. It is able to fly at any altitude that a human piloted helicopter can fly. For that matter the average commercial aircraft flying passengers is effectively a drone with a pilot only as backup these days. We will need a new label for low flying drones to distinguish them from larger drones. We also need to gain knowledge on items like fuel consumption for heavy lifter type drones. For example my super market gets a tractor trailer load a day or more from a central warehouse about 50 miles away. A drone lifting the same weight and bulk just might be fuel efficient due to slow highway traffic. Cost may determine use more than legal issues. Other items need to be considered as well. If i order a bulldozer to a job site there is a huge issue with parking the tractor and lowboy that transports the dozer. A flying drone could deposit the dozer and wait nearby in many cases where a large truck and trailer could not fit in well. Or we may see the air ambulance effect ruin it all. It seems that a rescue helicopter for a trauma victim ads about 5K per mile over a car type ambulance.
Why would anyone have a windows machine around? My tribe does not support monsters nor evil doers. Freedom insists that I run Linux. Freedom is my buddy and you should get to know about Freedom.
When a person chooses to use a cell phone or other device while driving there is clearly a reckless disregard for the life of others and it is criminal. The right wing may have ruined any hope of the family using the civil courts. In some states there is a concept that only financial dependence justifies a right to sue for damages. In other words if it was a student who requires support rather than a parent supporting a wife and child then no suit may be allowed. Conservatives have actually created a right to murder without penalty in some states.
The theory that travel was motivated by finding new sources of fish and game and was commercially sensitive goes a long way in explaining the lack of records of the contacts with the new world. One gets to Iceland and brings back prize catches and obviously hides information about where the game was taken. As more vessels figure out where the new gathering grounds are located more adventurous vessels reach out further trying to maintain better yields. Maps were either nonexistent or well hidden. And then we have the ship wrecked folks. Life at sea has always involved survivors being stranded on unknown shores. Chances are that people from many nations and regions were ship wrecked somewhere in the Americas from time to time. Breeding with locals was sure to follow. Then we also have the issue of records. Many races did not recognize native people as human kind. If they brought back a native to Europe they might be recorded as livestock or property rather than as persons. It is next to impossible that many hundreds of ship wrecked soul were not washed up on American shores over the centuries. Native Americans did capture and keep people as slaves and chances are it was common for ship wrecked survivors to be taken into bondage.