Yes some backwards fool can point out that the net provides opportunities to see sexual content and therefore enables sin. And that makes as much sense as saying that if we allow right handed people to keep their right hands we enable masturbation and therefore the old fart should demand that the right hand be amputated from everyone in his nation.
Frankly religion normally involves something more than a pile of completely ignorant, brain impaired zealots babbling with absurd logic and obvious hatred and fear. If we lived in a just an able world we would lock the population of these nations in a mental ward until we had a way to help them. Since we do not live in a just and able world chances are these folks will be nuclear ash before it is over.
Don't let it bother you one bit. The government you see and know is not really the government under which you live. Allowing populations to have beliefs and votes is just a dog and pony show to keep the hoople heads calm. Ask yourself why so many tens of thousands of documents relating to the death of JFK are still top secret. Realizing the importance of just that one moment in time just how could information over 50 years old need to be secret. That is about as absurd as stamping top secret on plans to make a common bow and arrow. You know, quite a few people can make a bow and arrow and have been doing so for thousands of years.
If we use machines to auto track every plate, all the time, then publishing that information would not warn a criminal that they were being watched at all. After all we are all being watched. I see more of an issue with people who live a lie and can't explain to a spouse why they park in certain places over and over again.
Really it is only truth that people are worried about. Can people exist without their lies and cheating? Do honest people fear observation?
In areas with fast growth detailed maps of every inch of the roads will require an accumulation of data almost hourly. For a specific map to be updated hour by hour may offer a billing opportunity for a major data service. Assume your car drives you to work at 8 am.. When it is time to return home the computer will need to know if any alterations or conditions have occurred during the day. Since most of us repeat patterns in daily driving those routes may update themselves while the vehicle is at rest. But any variation in routes would call for some sort of advanced route request so that one could get in the car and be transported without delay. Many sales organisations have craved a new street or new dwelling directory for decades and it has never happened yet. I live in a region in which new roads and homes crop up daily and it often takes maps months before those new streets appear. One can get a list of new building permits from the city or county but there is no map to guide one and the new places may be months from completion. The sales community would love daily mapping of their region.
Terrorists of any flavor really had better not be effective. If the terror nuts in the Arab states were much of a threat they could easily be totally destroyed. They are dealt with in milder ways only because they are not effective terrorists. If we thought more highly of their abilities we would have the option of exterminating their nations completely. Their ace in the hold is that we don't want to kill innocents. But if they ever became a serious threat we would not be concerned about non-hostiles being killed at all. They have no clue as to how easily we can crush their nations.
Not only should cops and squad cars be mandated to have extensive cams working at all times we need exactly the same thing in our jails and prisons. Abuse by guards as well as inmates should be made impossible. And we need voice as well as video. No cop should ever be able to blackmail an inmate or make deals with inmates under any conditions. And inmates should find it vastly difficult to conspire with other inmates. The days when a guard could force a prisoner to have sex or sell drugs within the prison or be rewarded for being an enforcer for the guards needs to come to a total end. Secrets are evil in and of themselves and secrets perpetuate crime as well. To enable the Truth to set us free we need to turn on very bright search lights.
There you are on a public road plainly displaying a license plate and you have some expectation of privacy! That is just plain nuts. Obviously people in public view are not in any form of private state. A license plate makes an even more public declaration of where you probably are. This nonsense has gotten so off base that people have no clue as to what private really means.
Waltz to your local PD and fill out a complaint for criminal fraud. You probably will have to push a bit but they may have no choice other than to investigate and those charges may well rock Att"s world.
If that fails file a suit in court. You might claim loss of use and enjoyment of your home. A lawyer may help. But realize that ATT must mount a response and sanity may rule the hour as mounting that defense will cost ATT a fortune. Quickly settling with you may prevent them from having to produce quite a few witnesses, pay lawyers, pay for travel and lodging in your town and numerous other expenses. If a judge finds merit in your claim he just might slap ATT really hard and that possibility may cause them to pay. Also make certain the press gets step by step updates as the publicity for over billing may cause its won horror show for ATT
All systems fight against change. In this case concepts concerning money and wealth are somewhat challenged and one would expect governments to push back hard. I'm not saying it is right it is simply predictable. If you sit down and figure out a way to have people email each other in such a way that the messages can not be had by spies you will find out suddenly just how deeply governments reject privacy in communications. There will be a knock at your door and they won't be kidding one bit. Anything new has to fight to stay alive. If not much like the owner of Segway one will have a mysterious accident or sudden catastrophic medical event. In the US we have some sort of shadow government in play and vital issues are no longer mentioned in government. Find one politician willing to talk about birth control and over population in the US.
Frankly the expense of protecting long lines is prohibitive. A person with a tiny bit of knowledge can disrupt power lines with ease.. Most people who commit such acts are pretty stupid and will get caught but a few do understand how to do such thin gs who are not so stupid.. They could be big trouble for all of us. Train rails have the same issue. Lots of exposure in remote areas makes them an easy target. Drones could be a big help in this matter.
Yes, we all need to share the love of a company that insists upon importing labor while hording money in off shore accounts. But to really be totally offensive and obnoxious they claim that this is good for America while screwing everyone in sight.
Now please remain calm. Please do not get upset or disgruntled and actually do anything to stop this wonderful cluster that is using us without lube.
The online auctions tend to sell store stock from failed stores and the batteries have been on the shelf way too long.
The catch is that the batteries may seem fine at first and you give the seller a good rating but after a few days the battery shows its true quality. Local stores often have good stock but they price gouge. I can buy a new portable phone as cheaply as buying a replacement battery. Radio Shack can't figure out why they are sinking. Check their prices and you will know why they are in trouble.
I would not accuse US employers of being on the moral side of any stick. There are a few good employers but most that think they are good are rotten to the core. And there are also plenty of evil employers who wish harm on everyone in every direction. Both the coal and the tobacco industries have demonstrated over and over again that they are willing to be mass murderers if the money crosses their palms. We have little discussion of the reality of severe psychopaths operating major corporations within our society. I wonder if the deaths and disabilities caused by tobacco exceed the losses in WW11 as far as the body count goes. We put concentration camp guards on trial and hang them but could it be that the management of tobacco companies should be tried in the same fashion for crimes against humanity.
The expense of the housing in which a student lives has been a great predictor of success in schools. Expensive dwellings indicate an ability to spend and that means that service providers will invest more in hopes of capturing an account. Such homes can spend freely for expensive services such as HBO, Showtime, alarm systems and being the phone service as well. Whereas poor communities simply can not afford such things.
It is not income levels that one measures. After all for the rich taxable income is shielded in such a way that wealth increases while tax statements may reflect no income at all. The people between the rich and the poor are the ones that tend to be forced to report incomes with accuracy. It is difficult to coerce the poor into reporting income as prison can be a step up compared to their free lives and for such folk prison can only punish the tax payers.
So now the democrats need to warn the FCC not to take actions that might offend future democrats. After that the very, very pissed off left might want to warn the FCC that if anything is done that they don't like they will eat your babies for breakfast from the skulls of republicans.
Threats should not exist at any level regardless of how quietly they are made.
Any modern satellite can get photos of you from space. Any plane passing over can also snap pics as well. Beyond that anything in public view is fair game. Obviously if you are concerned about privacy you should have a roof and walls around you. Can you imagine a balloonist shooting pics of his voyage and accidentally getting people in the background of the pics? In essence if anything is private it needs to be tightly held aside and never shared with anyone in any way. Many people are expanding the concept of privacy rather foolishly. We are also encouraging all manner of crimes by disallowing voice recordings in many situations. How many seniors have been violated by dishonest sales tactics in their homes? Yet it is a crime to record voice. It is time for people to take responsibility for their deeds and words instead of allowing people to commit all kinds of crimes and encouraging lies.
There is almost nothing that can not be used as a weapon by a dedicated enemy. It doesn't have to be a new invention or high tech for that matter. And lots and lots of seemingly trivial actions can make for worse problems than something like a car bomb. What we need to do is learn to interpret and spot people who operate with bad motives.
Usually the public fears an attack that can be seen to have radical and easily seen consequences. But many attacks could be hardly noticeable at all. For example the French used a gimmick that would slice a tire that could be easily tossed onto a street during WWII. Not only did the Germans have trouble dealing with ruined tires but businesses were severely effected as were factories that needed workers and deliveries to be on time. It was a small attack but it was ongoing. Any bright person could dream up numerous attacks that would be next to impossible to detect and could be done over and over again. We can surely spot people likely to do harm and then study them in depth to see what they are up to. Even selling small amounts of dope of any kind attacks a nations ability to survive as dose selling illegal guns on the street.
Mr. Assange needs to remain in a protected environment. I do not think the US government or someone acting t the request of the US government will be reasonable or fair with him. The US is infested with a lunatic right wing as well as a military establishment which simply has absurd beliefs as far as security is concerned. Mr. Assange has done no wrong and did all of us a huge service by getting a little bit of information to the public. If they can they will kill him or bury him in a prison under conditions designed to drive him insane.
These thieves belong on the World's Dumbest Criminals TV show.
It's very hard to understand some nut breaking in your home and finding powder in that fancy vase and trying to snort your grandmother's ashes. But i do think people screwed up enough to break in a medical lab and steal deadly plague materials while taking zero precautions to keep it contained may top the charts for stupidity. It is rather like Larry, Moe and Curly with a severe suicidal and homicidal personality changes.
On the other hand Ebola widely distributed in the Arab nations might be the way to stop all the fussing.
I rant frequently about the issue of automation-robotics. The elimination of human labor is not a bad thing. But the shock we are about to go through must be moderated. The depth of the changes about to take place is too deep to be understood. Do not assume that their are tasks that machines can not do. Obviously current investments tend to cause development in areas where huge savings can be seen. Fast food workers are a serious target for a robotic wipe out. Imagine keeping one or two very pretty young girls to smile and great the public while all other tasks are automated in your McDonalds.
We are about to see notions such as capitalism vanish. Ideas such as buying stocks and bonds will also be so convoluted as to remove them from human involvement. The real cross over is not when the machines can do all the work. It is when machines become self funding and begin to acquire ownership that we will see a massive change. Imagine that even right now a wealthy person could set up a computer as if it is a self owned, living entity and load it with programs that cause it to buy and sell stocks on its own. At regular periods a portion of the profits could be used to buy more or better computer equipment as dictated by the machines profits and needs. The human responsible could not stop the machine or its money so to speak. So the designer of the system could only observe the build up of wealth by the machine. The machine could even pay taxes. The effect would be that all money earned is removed from the wealth pool of humanity. Concerns for down stream effects upon humans would not be a consideration. Now imagine a large number of these machines running various AI programs and judging which programs are fit to keep running. No label the computer THE COMPANY and allow it to form smaller companies under it each having the ability to invest and sustain itself and grow, Imagine machines capturing all the worlds financial markets. After all, these machines do not have to support human expenses.
The pro pot crowd often makes reference to George Washington and other founders raising hemp. The hemp they raised for rope and fabric wasn't any good for getting high either. I suppose if you smoked a huge drum of it you might get a mild buzz but no reasonable amount of exposure would give you a buzz. Tobacco is actually worse in that regard. Picking tobacco leaves can put enough nicotine in your system to make you quite ill and that is without lighting it up.
In Florida even the stark raving insane are found capable of intent and fit to stand trial. And I am certain that this genius is able to assist in his own defense as well.
As far as i can tell any accused person in Florida that can form one or two words is fodder for execution. There may be cases where a person is so far gone that he makes sounds like a pig feeding at a trough and nothing at all intelligible might be found unfit for trial but it must be rare. If they have an IQ of 20 and can breath unassisted and are at least twelve years old Florida has no problems punishing them which we all know corrects their behavior 100% of the time.
There is always that strange force that drives people into evil. It is sneaky and persistent. So we have California who has better environmental protections than any other state but also is stuck with the curse of capitalism. Only growth appears to offer financial survival and in order to have growth and money they are willing to let the environment be ruined.
The sad fact is that in reality California is over populated. Worse yet those large numbers of people live in an excessively dangerous place where mega catastrophes are certainly going to take place rather frequently. Earthquakes, mud slides, floods and a severe fire problem that is ongoing topped by the sad fact that this is the type of terrain likely to have a new volcano form or an old volcano erupt make California a bad place to build anything at all. Now imagine the worlds largest battery factory in a catastrophic event and think about what might occur.
If anything California needs to condemn large areas of land and tare down homes and businesses and return the land to an untouched condition. If you want to see insurance companies and banks collapse just imagine the chain of events if the San Francisco area was destroyed by a major quake. It could bankrupt the entire nation.
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Yes some backwards fool can point out that the net provides opportunities to see sexual content and therefore enables sin. And that makes as much sense as saying that if we allow right handed people to keep their right hands we enable masturbation and therefore the old fart should demand that the right hand be amputated from everyone in his nation. Frankly religion normally involves something more than a pile of completely ignorant, brain impaired zealots babbling with absurd logic and obvious hatred and fear. If we lived in a just an able world we would lock the population of these nations in a mental ward until we had a way to help them. Since we do not live in a just and able world chances are these folks will be nuclear ash before it is over.
Don't let it bother you one bit. The government you see and know is not really the government under which you live. Allowing populations to have beliefs and votes is just a dog and pony show to keep the hoople heads calm. Ask yourself why so many tens of thousands of documents relating to the death of JFK are still top secret. Realizing the importance of just that one moment in time just how could information over 50 years old need to be secret. That is about as absurd as stamping top secret on plans to make a common bow and arrow. You know, quite a few people can make a bow and arrow and have been doing so for thousands of years.
If we use machines to auto track every plate, all the time, then publishing that information would not warn a criminal that they were being watched at all. After all we are all being watched. I see more of an issue with people who live a lie and can't explain to a spouse why they park in certain places over and over again. Really it is only truth that people are worried about. Can people exist without their lies and cheating? Do honest people fear observation?
In areas with fast growth detailed maps of every inch of the roads will require an accumulation of data almost hourly. For a specific map to be updated hour by hour may offer a billing opportunity for a major data service. Assume your car drives you to work at 8 am.. When it is time to return home the computer will need to know if any alterations or conditions have occurred during the day. Since most of us repeat patterns in daily driving those routes may update themselves while the vehicle is at rest. But any variation in routes would call for some sort of advanced route request so that one could get in the car and be transported without delay. Many sales organisations have craved a new street or new dwelling directory for decades and it has never happened yet. I live in a region in which new roads and homes crop up daily and it often takes maps months before those new streets appear. One can get a list of new building permits from the city or county but there is no map to guide one and the new places may be months from completion. The sales community would love daily mapping of their region.
Terrorists of any flavor really had better not be effective. If the terror nuts in the Arab states were much of a threat they could easily be totally destroyed. They are dealt with in milder ways only because they are not effective terrorists. If we thought more highly of their abilities we would have the option of exterminating their nations completely. Their ace in the hold is that we don't want to kill innocents. But if they ever became a serious threat we would not be concerned about non-hostiles being killed at all. They have no clue as to how easily we can crush their nations.
Not only should cops and squad cars be mandated to have extensive cams working at all times we need exactly the same thing in our jails and prisons. Abuse by guards as well as inmates should be made impossible. And we need voice as well as video. No cop should ever be able to blackmail an inmate or make deals with inmates under any conditions. And inmates should find it vastly difficult to conspire with other inmates. The days when a guard could force a prisoner to have sex or sell drugs within the prison or be rewarded for being an enforcer for the guards needs to come to a total end. Secrets are evil in and of themselves and secrets perpetuate crime as well. To enable the Truth to set us free we need to turn on very bright search lights.
There you are on a public road plainly displaying a license plate and you have some expectation of privacy! That is just plain nuts. Obviously people in public view are not in any form of private state. A license plate makes an even more public declaration of where you probably are. This nonsense has gotten so off base that people have no clue as to what private really means.
Waltz to your local PD and fill out a complaint for criminal fraud. You probably will have to push a bit but they may have no choice other than to investigate and those charges may well rock Att"s world. If that fails file a suit in court. You might claim loss of use and enjoyment of your home. A lawyer may help. But realize that ATT must mount a response and sanity may rule the hour as mounting that defense will cost ATT a fortune. Quickly settling with you may prevent them from having to produce quite a few witnesses, pay lawyers, pay for travel and lodging in your town and numerous other expenses. If a judge finds merit in your claim he just might slap ATT really hard and that possibility may cause them to pay. Also make certain the press gets step by step updates as the publicity for over billing may cause its won horror show for ATT
All systems fight against change. In this case concepts concerning money and wealth are somewhat challenged and one would expect governments to push back hard. I'm not saying it is right it is simply predictable. If you sit down and figure out a way to have people email each other in such a way that the messages can not be had by spies you will find out suddenly just how deeply governments reject privacy in communications. There will be a knock at your door and they won't be kidding one bit. Anything new has to fight to stay alive. If not much like the owner of Segway one will have a mysterious accident or sudden catastrophic medical event. In the US we have some sort of shadow government in play and vital issues are no longer mentioned in government. Find one politician willing to talk about birth control and over population in the US.
Frankly the expense of protecting long lines is prohibitive. A person with a tiny bit of knowledge can disrupt power lines with ease.. Most people who commit such acts are pretty stupid and will get caught but a few do understand how to do such thin gs who are not so stupid.. They could be big trouble for all of us. Train rails have the same issue. Lots of exposure in remote areas makes them an easy target. Drones could be a big help in this matter.
I do get a lot of targeted ads and I don't mind them at all. Many times the ads offer products that interest me.
Yes, we all need to share the love of a company that insists upon importing labor while hording money in off shore accounts. But to really be totally offensive and obnoxious they claim that this is good for America while screwing everyone in sight. Now please remain calm. Please do not get upset or disgruntled and actually do anything to stop this wonderful cluster that is using us without lube.
The online auctions tend to sell store stock from failed stores and the batteries have been on the shelf way too long. The catch is that the batteries may seem fine at first and you give the seller a good rating but after a few days the battery shows its true quality. Local stores often have good stock but they price gouge. I can buy a new portable phone as cheaply as buying a replacement battery. Radio Shack can't figure out why they are sinking. Check their prices and you will know why they are in trouble.
I would not accuse US employers of being on the moral side of any stick. There are a few good employers but most that think they are good are rotten to the core. And there are also plenty of evil employers who wish harm on everyone in every direction. Both the coal and the tobacco industries have demonstrated over and over again that they are willing to be mass murderers if the money crosses their palms. We have little discussion of the reality of severe psychopaths operating major corporations within our society. I wonder if the deaths and disabilities caused by tobacco exceed the losses in WW11 as far as the body count goes. We put concentration camp guards on trial and hang them but could it be that the management of tobacco companies should be tried in the same fashion for crimes against humanity.
The expense of the housing in which a student lives has been a great predictor of success in schools. Expensive dwellings indicate an ability to spend and that means that service providers will invest more in hopes of capturing an account. Such homes can spend freely for expensive services such as HBO, Showtime, alarm systems and being the phone service as well. Whereas poor communities simply can not afford such things. It is not income levels that one measures. After all for the rich taxable income is shielded in such a way that wealth increases while tax statements may reflect no income at all. The people between the rich and the poor are the ones that tend to be forced to report incomes with accuracy. It is difficult to coerce the poor into reporting income as prison can be a step up compared to their free lives and for such folk prison can only punish the tax payers.
So now the democrats need to warn the FCC not to take actions that might offend future democrats. After that the very, very pissed off left might want to warn the FCC that if anything is done that they don't like they will eat your babies for breakfast from the skulls of republicans. Threats should not exist at any level regardless of how quietly they are made.
Any modern satellite can get photos of you from space. Any plane passing over can also snap pics as well. Beyond that anything in public view is fair game. Obviously if you are concerned about privacy you should have a roof and walls around you. Can you imagine a balloonist shooting pics of his voyage and accidentally getting people in the background of the pics? In essence if anything is private it needs to be tightly held aside and never shared with anyone in any way. Many people are expanding the concept of privacy rather foolishly. We are also encouraging all manner of crimes by disallowing voice recordings in many situations. How many seniors have been violated by dishonest sales tactics in their homes? Yet it is a crime to record voice. It is time for people to take responsibility for their deeds and words instead of allowing people to commit all kinds of crimes and encouraging lies.
There is almost nothing that can not be used as a weapon by a dedicated enemy. It doesn't have to be a new invention or high tech for that matter. And lots and lots of seemingly trivial actions can make for worse problems than something like a car bomb. What we need to do is learn to interpret and spot people who operate with bad motives. Usually the public fears an attack that can be seen to have radical and easily seen consequences. But many attacks could be hardly noticeable at all. For example the French used a gimmick that would slice a tire that could be easily tossed onto a street during WWII. Not only did the Germans have trouble dealing with ruined tires but businesses were severely effected as were factories that needed workers and deliveries to be on time. It was a small attack but it was ongoing. Any bright person could dream up numerous attacks that would be next to impossible to detect and could be done over and over again. We can surely spot people likely to do harm and then study them in depth to see what they are up to. Even selling small amounts of dope of any kind attacks a nations ability to survive as dose selling illegal guns on the street.
Mr. Assange needs to remain in a protected environment. I do not think the US government or someone acting t the request of the US government will be reasonable or fair with him. The US is infested with a lunatic right wing as well as a military establishment which simply has absurd beliefs as far as security is concerned. Mr. Assange has done no wrong and did all of us a huge service by getting a little bit of information to the public. If they can they will kill him or bury him in a prison under conditions designed to drive him insane.
These thieves belong on the World's Dumbest Criminals TV show. It's very hard to understand some nut breaking in your home and finding powder in that fancy vase and trying to snort your grandmother's ashes. But i do think people screwed up enough to break in a medical lab and steal deadly plague materials while taking zero precautions to keep it contained may top the charts for stupidity. It is rather like Larry, Moe and Curly with a severe suicidal and homicidal personality changes. On the other hand Ebola widely distributed in the Arab nations might be the way to stop all the fussing.
Perhaps Microsoft should rename Explorer something like "Rancid Arm Pit oF a Dead Whore.".
I rant frequently about the issue of automation-robotics. The elimination of human labor is not a bad thing. But the shock we are about to go through must be moderated. The depth of the changes about to take place is too deep to be understood. Do not assume that their are tasks that machines can not do. Obviously current investments tend to cause development in areas where huge savings can be seen. Fast food workers are a serious target for a robotic wipe out. Imagine keeping one or two very pretty young girls to smile and great the public while all other tasks are automated in your McDonalds. We are about to see notions such as capitalism vanish. Ideas such as buying stocks and bonds will also be so convoluted as to remove them from human involvement. The real cross over is not when the machines can do all the work. It is when machines become self funding and begin to acquire ownership that we will see a massive change. Imagine that even right now a wealthy person could set up a computer as if it is a self owned, living entity and load it with programs that cause it to buy and sell stocks on its own. At regular periods a portion of the profits could be used to buy more or better computer equipment as dictated by the machines profits and needs. The human responsible could not stop the machine or its money so to speak. So the designer of the system could only observe the build up of wealth by the machine. The machine could even pay taxes. The effect would be that all money earned is removed from the wealth pool of humanity. Concerns for down stream effects upon humans would not be a consideration. Now imagine a large number of these machines running various AI programs and judging which programs are fit to keep running. No label the computer THE COMPANY and allow it to form smaller companies under it each having the ability to invest and sustain itself and grow, Imagine machines capturing all the worlds financial markets. After all, these machines do not have to support human expenses.
The pro pot crowd often makes reference to George Washington and other founders raising hemp. The hemp they raised for rope and fabric wasn't any good for getting high either. I suppose if you smoked a huge drum of it you might get a mild buzz but no reasonable amount of exposure would give you a buzz. Tobacco is actually worse in that regard. Picking tobacco leaves can put enough nicotine in your system to make you quite ill and that is without lighting it up.
In Florida even the stark raving insane are found capable of intent and fit to stand trial. And I am certain that this genius is able to assist in his own defense as well. As far as i can tell any accused person in Florida that can form one or two words is fodder for execution. There may be cases where a person is so far gone that he makes sounds like a pig feeding at a trough and nothing at all intelligible might be found unfit for trial but it must be rare. If they have an IQ of 20 and can breath unassisted and are at least twelve years old Florida has no problems punishing them which we all know corrects their behavior 100% of the time.
There is always that strange force that drives people into evil. It is sneaky and persistent. So we have California who has better environmental protections than any other state but also is stuck with the curse of capitalism. Only growth appears to offer financial survival and in order to have growth and money they are willing to let the environment be ruined. The sad fact is that in reality California is over populated. Worse yet those large numbers of people live in an excessively dangerous place where mega catastrophes are certainly going to take place rather frequently. Earthquakes, mud slides, floods and a severe fire problem that is ongoing topped by the sad fact that this is the type of terrain likely to have a new volcano form or an old volcano erupt make California a bad place to build anything at all. Now imagine the worlds largest battery factory in a catastrophic event and think about what might occur. If anything California needs to condemn large areas of land and tare down homes and businesses and return the land to an untouched condition. If you want to see insurance companies and banks collapse just imagine the chain of events if the San Francisco area was destroyed by a major quake. It could bankrupt the entire nation.