Just imagine if we can fix spinal cords how many layoffs will occur in the wheel chair industries!. And home health aids may be less in demand as well as many people confined to chairs need a lot of help in the homes.
This is one time that technology replaces workers that the world can rejoice and even giving more hope to the injured is in itself so vitally important.
Now if we could just find a way to eliminate funeral workers -----
Take a hard core right wing idiot like Florida Governor Rick Scott, who is one of the sickest republicans alive and give him power over libraries. Guess what he did!!!!! The poor often don't have net access or computers of any kind nor know how to use them. So you make all social benefits by computer only forcing the poor to go to the libraries. That may be quite expensive as our libraries can be far from the bushes in which the poor sleep around here. Then when they get to the library they will often find a two or three hour wait before it is their turn. And it just keeps getting better. They have no mail addresses or stoves or refrigerators so food stamps are out. And the state will chop off any benefit which they might be entitled to simply because they can't get mail. Knowing that the state sends out numerous mails requiring a time demand answer. Then we have the next treat. The public library is open to all which means the poor and alcoholics and dope addicts try to stay inside the library for many hours during the hot days in Florida. But even in the various fugues and trances caused by untreated mental illness, addiction, malnutrition and a host of nasty diseases these folks get a slice of revenge. Between the isles in the stacks they urinate, take a dump if they are not leaking directly into the chairs and sofas. I guess Rick Scott has figured out that they save on water bills if the poor don't use the toilets but use the floors instead. So what the right wing has created is what used to be a jewel of civilization called the library and made it into a stinking useless joke filled with the lowest classes of people who do not read a thing while they are there.
Well China will not be able to bomb Nicaragua due to heavy Chinese investments. The US is the same. If china went to war with us they would create a financial crash for their own people. The greed that drives investments may well prevent wars.
The program creates programs according to need. Think about that. It means that more and more programs will be written by machines. Once experience is gained and multiple products carry this ability we may see more software than we can imagine being produced for the cost of a few pennies in electricity.
Like most of the House and Senate we have an example here of people wanting to sell out their nation in order to bag some money for their home boys. To them it doesn't matter if tax dollars are wasted or progress is ruined such that other nations get ahead of us. It only matters if they drag the bacon through the dirt back to their nest. I wonder how much Dick Cheney gets paid from this sort of theft. No bid contracts are really suspicious.
It is unlikely that many business owners know or could know without great effort and expense whether any defects in license or ownership exist when they purchase software. I think that before any punishments or fines can take place there must be some evidence that a person is doing wrong knowingly. The intellectual property mess with all its complexity and legal issues should not be put upon the end user of the product who in many cases has no way to know or even find out if he is doing wrong. Keep in mind that many businesses are quite small and even a ten dollar expense can be a harsh issue for them therefore lawyers and expert opinions may not be available to them.
The idea of patents going in to play was to enable an inventor to benefit from his work. Now we are seeing some information that patent protections stifle economies and progress. Both views are probably correct when applied to specific patents. A patent can work for or against progress.
Here is the catch. We can't stand still and debate nonsense philosophies while the world moves on. Socialism or capitalism become the dance that all players get in set with. The reality is that technology is taking us to a world where ideas like socialism and capitalism simply have no validity at all. Human workers are vanishing. Pensions and retirement plans are also usually nothing to count on or value. With companies going off shore and merging and the like the notion of stock in a corporation is not likely to be valid either, We need to urgently start to get rid of these concepts for good. They no longer are valid. Many bright people can not confront this issue at all. But it is real and it is happening right now. So we need to be done with all that nonsense otherwise people will repeat useless behaviors. For example when a suburbanite has an issue they call a congressman. But congress is no longer a living entity. They are way too busy fussing over who is the most savage capitalist and being bribed to stay in their jobs. Soldiers can not count on the VA when disabled. Our wealth is murdered by inflation and endless outcries from the public make it next to impossible to use land that one owns. If you think your company will honor its pensions then you are foolish. Social Security will pay out as it should but the value of the money will make those checks a joke.
We need to eliminate the house and the Senate completely. And we need to burn our law books and rewrite the entire body of law that applies everywhere, to everyone, every time. How can we have law when our leaders who approved of torture have not been tried for war crimes? Even Richard Nixon was guilty of felonies yet there was no jail for Nixon. His vice president Spiro Agnew was convicted of receiving bribes. Make note that Agnew did not go to prison. Yet we put people in prison for cashing a bad check or shoplifting some junk items. Just like the Arab nations our legal heritage is in the crazy ward or junk yard.
OK, I have no problem with the study that indicates that some people are better suited to academic pursuits than others. I also have no issue with reports that the expense of the home severely effects what students will accomplish. In other words rich kids tend to do better than poor kids.
But none of these facts do a thing to make things better without action. Facts without acts become trivia. So just what can we do to make the poor kids' homes more stable? How do we control violence and drug use in poor communities? How do we fund real mental health clinics for the poor? How do we make the ghetto a happier, friendlier place for a kid to live?
You can bet your last penny that anything we try to do to help out will be jumped upon by the right wing to close it or defund it. And even if it is private citizens or private groups that try to help you can bet that the powers that be will fight it tooth and nail.
There is no higher proof of what I am saying than Palm Beach County passing laws to prevent feeding the poor. It is like the pigeon fighting types of laws. If you feed the homeless and poor you will attract more to the area and therefore it is illegal to feed them. Then you pass more laws to prevent begging. You spend tax payer dollars telling the public never to support the poor with spare change.
St. Augustine has not been very popular in Florida for a couple of decades. It used to be about the only grass planted here. Bitter Blue and other, better grasses are now popular. Watering restrictions alone would have limited the use of St. Augustine but the big factor seemed to be runners and also insect vulnerabilities. St. Augustine also grows way too quickly if rain and summer sun are just right. Mowing a lawn every three days is tiresome and expensive.
My county has limited residential fertilizer use already but we suffer from agricultural run off from the sugar cane industry.
Due to excessive development and population we can no longer be effective in storing rain water. If we store a bit too much the farms flood and some homes as well. If we store just a tiny bit too little we go into water restrictions. Every year we dump huge amounts of rain water into the sea. Yet no government agency will buck the developers and shut down building permits which is exactly what we need to do.
I have lived in Florida for 59 years and can tell you that at times the state is pretty much like an insane, psychopath who is loaded up on meth.
So yes there is always corruption in play here. But when it comes to what seems to be over regulation keep in mind that most of Florida will have violent storms rather frequently. We build against a very real wind hazard. Some serious design challenges exist if one needs to safely mount solar collectors. Windmills would really have to be special as winds that gust at 200 mph will rip most things right out of the ground and your windmill may well become a missile that hits other homes. Our roofs have very little pitch to avoid being crushed by wind. They also tend to have very little overhang for the same reasons and our rafters must be far stronger than in other states. People in most states would be shocked if they understood the design differences require in our homes. Despite all of this we do have people going solar. It is just a bit more difficult here.
The education crisis in the US is one of a long list of problems that have to many barriers to be solved. We have moral, legal and social issues that simply arrest the educational process. Yes, America is way behind. But we would not do to our kids what some other nations do to theirs to increase educational levels. For example Japan has been known to apply a crushing load to students that American parents would never allow. In some nations the fear of poverty or hope of escape fuels a keen desire to acquire education.
On top of that there are nations like China that can educate huge numbers of young people. We are in the predicament of a A high school size team faces when they play against a 5A size school. It isn't pretty to watch as the huge 5A school has so many students who try out for the teams whereas the tiny school has to beg just to get one kid to join the team.
The US is not in a competitive position and is not likely to be in a competitive position for many decades. The very nature of the issue is that once a nation slips a bit it is next to impossible to regain top position. We also have no loyalty among our investor class. Even if a product or process happens to be developed in the US it will probably be produced offshore and the money made also deemed to be taxable in nations other than the US,. And with technology taking jobs we have an even stranger issue. We used to worry about whether our workers could out produce another nations workers or if they could pay their workers less than we do. Now the question is whether our robots can produce cheaper than their robots. The price of products is disconnecting from the price of human labor. Quality is also disconnecting from price. A fifty dollar Times or Casio wrist watch may be a better product than many fancy watches that cost tens of thousands of dollars. And the less expensive watches involve almost no human labor at all.
And here caring for Alzheimer's patients was one of the few up and coming employers of a large segment of the population. But I say who needs Alzheimer's? We have the House of Representatives and the republic right wing and they are ding bats enough for us. We need no more brain dead in America.
If you picture the way they set these delivery systems up it will make sense to you. Picture a unit serving a circle of users that surround the unit. If there are a lot of users in the circle your speeds shrink. Identical equipment serving the same size area with less users allows better service. At a certain point in order to be somewhat competitive a very busy circle will be divided into smaller circles and your speeds will jump suddenly. That is why you see ads from service providers bragging that they doubled their delivery speeds. But now with more and more uses found for computer like equipment that cable is also carrying voice or phone traffic, alarm system traffic and replacements for cable TV traffic. As demand increases near you they will install more equipment in order to avoid loss of customers. Essentially cable companies and net services only respond when forced to respond by other players in the market delivering better service. Things like poverty and race come into play as a neighborhood able and willing to buy lots and lots of services will be "usage dense" while poor areas will only be able to pay for less services and therefore not have density-demand issues. Essentially all aspects of the US system always react with a downward push towards the unfortunate. The wicked part being that the unfortunate probably need a lot more information services than the fortunate even though they may not know it.
We do seem to have people in endless strife in the mid east. Maybe a whopping Ebola outbreak would be just the thing to calm them down for quite a while. And we might also enjoy a mass outbreak in N. Korea as well. A really nasty germ in just the right place might help humanity.
Is this pulse recognition closer to Morse code or bar code? Obviously pulse code recognition could go beyond binary bit codes but the hardware must be seriously different from what we have now. It could even be analog.
Obviously there are a few people affiliated with mid eastern mad bombers and the like. There are also revolutionaries among us without such affiliations. Then there are just plain bitter people who strive to bring down the nation.
Often behaviors can be quite similar among these people. For example if I keep hammering at "release the secret files concerning the JFK murder" it may be because I am a patriot who wants to know the truth. It may be because I wish to bash and weaken America due to my own personality quirks or it just could be that I think that somehow I am aiding the mad bomber nuts.
The catch is that without investigation and getting deep into a persons life just how can a government know who is trying to bring it down?
Personally I see people that deny climate change as committing acts of treason or crimes against humanity. I also see those that simply want to maintain the status quo at all costs as criminals. And i really do think we need to have every single document concerning the JFK , BFK and MLK murders displayed before the public. And i am beyond words that people in the Bush administration are not on trial as war criminals over the use of torture. We only have the right to ask the name and rank and serial number of a captured enemy and we do not even have the right to ask them that over and over again. We set those rules and we betrayed ourselves by failing to follow them.
Apparently the young man committed suicide due to the threat of severe charges and punishments. The real challenge is the way the legal system works. The common tactic is to charge a defendant with a stack of really off the wall charges and force a plea bargain for much more accurate charges. A person who really would face a year or two in prison is faced with a prosecutor threatening 60 years or more. Many personalities will fold and make a deal. Addicts are particularly vulnerable as they have urgent desires to get out and get loaded as soon as possible. There is also a public display element in that convictions and sentences make great newspaper fodder but inmates appeal and bargains are struck to avoid a retrial in many cases.
Think about it. A bad person breaks into a home with people sleeping at night. The charge could be burglary which usually gets one probation for the first offense. Or the exact same crime can be called home invasion and the person may be in prison for 75 years. The prosecutor says plead to burglary and we won't charge you with home invasion. The bad actor doesn't want to die in prison so even if innocent will tend to plead guilty.
So the only real cure is to require all charges to be filed before anyone interviews the bad actor. Then disallow any changing of the charges. Or we could dump the entire idea of allowing plea bargains.
MIT has been doing a great job of educating the type of youth that craves education. They should stick to their method. So very often the subject a student hates the most just happens to be the subject the student needs the most. A course in touch typing would have been good for me in grade school but I loathed the idea of such a boring course. These days the degree of learning that an MIT student needs is almost impossible to reach. Fortunately there are a few young people who enjoy getting half crazy in chemistry and physics and mathematics. These are the students that colleges are built to serve.
The tipping point for me was the use of torture. I really don't mind the endless spying so much but when we get to the point that we allow any degree of torture I begin to believe that we all have some sort of responsibility to be in rebellion. In the 1960s and early 1970s we saw groups form that were in serious rebellion against our government. Our latest wars and lack of decent behavior are making those rebels in my generation look more and more like they were right all along. Whether it is foreign hostiles or prisoners in American jails all people deserve reasonable treatment. Keeping people in isolation and breaking their minds through endless boredom is simply never acceptable and the public should not allow it at all.
In a concentration camp one gets some awful housing and some really awful meals usually ending in an execution. In the US one may not be fed at all and get no housing at all and not even receive a coup de grace but allowed to wither and suffer for decades before exposure and neglect finish one off. How innocent are we really when compared to other nations?
I do feel that the Arabs are getting a raw deal in relation to the west and Israel there needs to be some really deep thinking going on.
For example it is just dandy to have a timer and an auto launch ability on these small missiles but where does it lead? If one finds that most often the hostiles are not near the launch site the launch site will still be hit hard and probably some other place, perhaps randomly selected, in hope of getting the point across. Naturally hatred will result and it may be that large area saturation bombing starts to take place. And if that level of strike does not work the US and Israel are faced with two choices. One is pulling out and letting the region descend into total chaos and violence. The other more drastic choice is total war and the elimination of the regions existence.
Considering the military history of the US as well as the ability and the readily available weaponry this conflict could end when places such as Palestine are simply exterminated. The suicide bomber like tactics are not something well addressed by a conventional military as uniforms are not used. But we are very, very good at things like carpet bombing or fire bombing major cities. I am suggesting that the terror tactics can never lead to any victory unless the US somehow decides it is OK to lose the region which is very unlikely.
Companies are probably breaking all kinds of laws when they sell things to an 11 year old without parental consent. So who needs the protection? How about dad discovering that his 16 year old has racked up $1,500 in one month on cam girls?
One answer to many problems is a strong, national ID card. A simple computer check could contact the card holder anywhere at any time in such a way a wayward child would be detected right away.
The US has shot itself in the head by forcing most genetic researchers to work in foreign nations. We are now somewhat of a cripple due to right wing forces and their idiotic moral wizardry. Mega billions of cash are lost to us as other nations acquire patents and develop products. While the right wing pondered the theoretical joys of morality in a stem cell other nations applied science and funding. The right wing in the US has turned us into Clown Central or maybe we should call it the Bad Comedy Club.
Robotic automobiles are just one small example of what will happen quite rapidly now. Governments do not confront the problem and almost no group at all gives voice to the problem. We are going to eliminate almost 100% of human employment. And that is a good thing as long as our financial structure is built around the change. A few sociologists have made statements about how this rather drastic change will come upon us.
Basic concepts that we are familiar with will vanish. Capitalism will be a quaint, old, failed idea.
And all nations will shake under this transition. Yesterday we had concerns that American business and American labor might not be able to compete with the cheap, labor pool in China. All of a sudden that issue is self extinguishing. Instead of our factory competing with their factory now we have the question " can my robot work cheaper and better than your robot?".
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Just imagine if we can fix spinal cords how many layoffs will occur in the wheel chair industries!. And home health aids may be less in demand as well as many people confined to chairs need a lot of help in the homes. This is one time that technology replaces workers that the world can rejoice and even giving more hope to the injured is in itself so vitally important. Now if we could just find a way to eliminate funeral workers -----
Take a hard core right wing idiot like Florida Governor Rick Scott, who is one of the sickest republicans alive and give him power over libraries. Guess what he did!!!!! The poor often don't have net access or computers of any kind nor know how to use them. So you make all social benefits by computer only forcing the poor to go to the libraries. That may be quite expensive as our libraries can be far from the bushes in which the poor sleep around here. Then when they get to the library they will often find a two or three hour wait before it is their turn. And it just keeps getting better. They have no mail addresses or stoves or refrigerators so food stamps are out. And the state will chop off any benefit which they might be entitled to simply because they can't get mail. Knowing that the state sends out numerous mails requiring a time demand answer. Then we have the next treat. The public library is open to all which means the poor and alcoholics and dope addicts try to stay inside the library for many hours during the hot days in Florida. But even in the various fugues and trances caused by untreated mental illness, addiction, malnutrition and a host of nasty diseases these folks get a slice of revenge. Between the isles in the stacks they urinate, take a dump if they are not leaking directly into the chairs and sofas. I guess Rick Scott has figured out that they save on water bills if the poor don't use the toilets but use the floors instead. So what the right wing has created is what used to be a jewel of civilization called the library and made it into a stinking useless joke filled with the lowest classes of people who do not read a thing while they are there.
Well China will not be able to bomb Nicaragua due to heavy Chinese investments. The US is the same. If china went to war with us they would create a financial crash for their own people. The greed that drives investments may well prevent wars.
The program creates programs according to need. Think about that. It means that more and more programs will be written by machines. Once experience is gained and multiple products carry this ability we may see more software than we can imagine being produced for the cost of a few pennies in electricity.
Like most of the House and Senate we have an example here of people wanting to sell out their nation in order to bag some money for their home boys. To them it doesn't matter if tax dollars are wasted or progress is ruined such that other nations get ahead of us. It only matters if they drag the bacon through the dirt back to their nest. I wonder how much Dick Cheney gets paid from this sort of theft. No bid contracts are really suspicious.
It is unlikely that many business owners know or could know without great effort and expense whether any defects in license or ownership exist when they purchase software. I think that before any punishments or fines can take place there must be some evidence that a person is doing wrong knowingly. The intellectual property mess with all its complexity and legal issues should not be put upon the end user of the product who in many cases has no way to know or even find out if he is doing wrong. Keep in mind that many businesses are quite small and even a ten dollar expense can be a harsh issue for them therefore lawyers and expert opinions may not be available to them.
The idea of patents going in to play was to enable an inventor to benefit from his work. Now we are seeing some information that patent protections stifle economies and progress. Both views are probably correct when applied to specific patents. A patent can work for or against progress. Here is the catch. We can't stand still and debate nonsense philosophies while the world moves on. Socialism or capitalism become the dance that all players get in set with. The reality is that technology is taking us to a world where ideas like socialism and capitalism simply have no validity at all. Human workers are vanishing. Pensions and retirement plans are also usually nothing to count on or value. With companies going off shore and merging and the like the notion of stock in a corporation is not likely to be valid either, We need to urgently start to get rid of these concepts for good. They no longer are valid. Many bright people can not confront this issue at all. But it is real and it is happening right now. So we need to be done with all that nonsense otherwise people will repeat useless behaviors. For example when a suburbanite has an issue they call a congressman. But congress is no longer a living entity. They are way too busy fussing over who is the most savage capitalist and being bribed to stay in their jobs. Soldiers can not count on the VA when disabled. Our wealth is murdered by inflation and endless outcries from the public make it next to impossible to use land that one owns. If you think your company will honor its pensions then you are foolish. Social Security will pay out as it should but the value of the money will make those checks a joke. We need to eliminate the house and the Senate completely. And we need to burn our law books and rewrite the entire body of law that applies everywhere, to everyone, every time. How can we have law when our leaders who approved of torture have not been tried for war crimes? Even Richard Nixon was guilty of felonies yet there was no jail for Nixon. His vice president Spiro Agnew was convicted of receiving bribes. Make note that Agnew did not go to prison. Yet we put people in prison for cashing a bad check or shoplifting some junk items. Just like the Arab nations our legal heritage is in the crazy ward or junk yard.
Perhaps a magnetic field could secure the position of a liquid metal alloy thus insuring that it doesn't drift to an unfortunate location.
OK, I have no problem with the study that indicates that some people are better suited to academic pursuits than others. I also have no issue with reports that the expense of the home severely effects what students will accomplish. In other words rich kids tend to do better than poor kids. But none of these facts do a thing to make things better without action. Facts without acts become trivia. So just what can we do to make the poor kids' homes more stable? How do we control violence and drug use in poor communities? How do we fund real mental health clinics for the poor? How do we make the ghetto a happier, friendlier place for a kid to live? You can bet your last penny that anything we try to do to help out will be jumped upon by the right wing to close it or defund it. And even if it is private citizens or private groups that try to help you can bet that the powers that be will fight it tooth and nail. There is no higher proof of what I am saying than Palm Beach County passing laws to prevent feeding the poor. It is like the pigeon fighting types of laws. If you feed the homeless and poor you will attract more to the area and therefore it is illegal to feed them. Then you pass more laws to prevent begging. You spend tax payer dollars telling the public never to support the poor with spare change.
St. Augustine has not been very popular in Florida for a couple of decades. It used to be about the only grass planted here. Bitter Blue and other, better grasses are now popular. Watering restrictions alone would have limited the use of St. Augustine but the big factor seemed to be runners and also insect vulnerabilities. St. Augustine also grows way too quickly if rain and summer sun are just right. Mowing a lawn every three days is tiresome and expensive. My county has limited residential fertilizer use already but we suffer from agricultural run off from the sugar cane industry. Due to excessive development and population we can no longer be effective in storing rain water. If we store a bit too much the farms flood and some homes as well. If we store just a tiny bit too little we go into water restrictions. Every year we dump huge amounts of rain water into the sea. Yet no government agency will buck the developers and shut down building permits which is exactly what we need to do.
I have lived in Florida for 59 years and can tell you that at times the state is pretty much like an insane, psychopath who is loaded up on meth. So yes there is always corruption in play here. But when it comes to what seems to be over regulation keep in mind that most of Florida will have violent storms rather frequently. We build against a very real wind hazard. Some serious design challenges exist if one needs to safely mount solar collectors. Windmills would really have to be special as winds that gust at 200 mph will rip most things right out of the ground and your windmill may well become a missile that hits other homes. Our roofs have very little pitch to avoid being crushed by wind. They also tend to have very little overhang for the same reasons and our rafters must be far stronger than in other states. People in most states would be shocked if they understood the design differences require in our homes. Despite all of this we do have people going solar. It is just a bit more difficult here.
The education crisis in the US is one of a long list of problems that have to many barriers to be solved. We have moral, legal and social issues that simply arrest the educational process. Yes, America is way behind. But we would not do to our kids what some other nations do to theirs to increase educational levels. For example Japan has been known to apply a crushing load to students that American parents would never allow. In some nations the fear of poverty or hope of escape fuels a keen desire to acquire education. On top of that there are nations like China that can educate huge numbers of young people. We are in the predicament of a A high school size team faces when they play against a 5A size school. It isn't pretty to watch as the huge 5A school has so many students who try out for the teams whereas the tiny school has to beg just to get one kid to join the team. The US is not in a competitive position and is not likely to be in a competitive position for many decades. The very nature of the issue is that once a nation slips a bit it is next to impossible to regain top position. We also have no loyalty among our investor class. Even if a product or process happens to be developed in the US it will probably be produced offshore and the money made also deemed to be taxable in nations other than the US,. And with technology taking jobs we have an even stranger issue. We used to worry about whether our workers could out produce another nations workers or if they could pay their workers less than we do. Now the question is whether our robots can produce cheaper than their robots. The price of products is disconnecting from the price of human labor. Quality is also disconnecting from price. A fifty dollar Times or Casio wrist watch may be a better product than many fancy watches that cost tens of thousands of dollars. And the less expensive watches involve almost no human labor at all.
And here caring for Alzheimer's patients was one of the few up and coming employers of a large segment of the population. But I say who needs Alzheimer's? We have the House of Representatives and the republic right wing and they are ding bats enough for us. We need no more brain dead in America.
If you picture the way they set these delivery systems up it will make sense to you. Picture a unit serving a circle of users that surround the unit. If there are a lot of users in the circle your speeds shrink. Identical equipment serving the same size area with less users allows better service. At a certain point in order to be somewhat competitive a very busy circle will be divided into smaller circles and your speeds will jump suddenly. That is why you see ads from service providers bragging that they doubled their delivery speeds. But now with more and more uses found for computer like equipment that cable is also carrying voice or phone traffic, alarm system traffic and replacements for cable TV traffic. As demand increases near you they will install more equipment in order to avoid loss of customers. Essentially cable companies and net services only respond when forced to respond by other players in the market delivering better service. Things like poverty and race come into play as a neighborhood able and willing to buy lots and lots of services will be "usage dense" while poor areas will only be able to pay for less services and therefore not have density-demand issues. Essentially all aspects of the US system always react with a downward push towards the unfortunate. The wicked part being that the unfortunate probably need a lot more information services than the fortunate even though they may not know it.
We do seem to have people in endless strife in the mid east. Maybe a whopping Ebola outbreak would be just the thing to calm them down for quite a while. And we might also enjoy a mass outbreak in N. Korea as well. A really nasty germ in just the right place might help humanity.
Is this pulse recognition closer to Morse code or bar code? Obviously pulse code recognition could go beyond binary bit codes but the hardware must be seriously different from what we have now. It could even be analog.
Obviously there are a few people affiliated with mid eastern mad bombers and the like. There are also revolutionaries among us without such affiliations. Then there are just plain bitter people who strive to bring down the nation. Often behaviors can be quite similar among these people. For example if I keep hammering at "release the secret files concerning the JFK murder" it may be because I am a patriot who wants to know the truth. It may be because I wish to bash and weaken America due to my own personality quirks or it just could be that I think that somehow I am aiding the mad bomber nuts. The catch is that without investigation and getting deep into a persons life just how can a government know who is trying to bring it down? Personally I see people that deny climate change as committing acts of treason or crimes against humanity. I also see those that simply want to maintain the status quo at all costs as criminals. And i really do think we need to have every single document concerning the JFK , BFK and MLK murders displayed before the public. And i am beyond words that people in the Bush administration are not on trial as war criminals over the use of torture. We only have the right to ask the name and rank and serial number of a captured enemy and we do not even have the right to ask them that over and over again. We set those rules and we betrayed ourselves by failing to follow them.
Apparently the young man committed suicide due to the threat of severe charges and punishments. The real challenge is the way the legal system works. The common tactic is to charge a defendant with a stack of really off the wall charges and force a plea bargain for much more accurate charges. A person who really would face a year or two in prison is faced with a prosecutor threatening 60 years or more. Many personalities will fold and make a deal. Addicts are particularly vulnerable as they have urgent desires to get out and get loaded as soon as possible. There is also a public display element in that convictions and sentences make great newspaper fodder but inmates appeal and bargains are struck to avoid a retrial in many cases. Think about it. A bad person breaks into a home with people sleeping at night. The charge could be burglary which usually gets one probation for the first offense. Or the exact same crime can be called home invasion and the person may be in prison for 75 years. The prosecutor says plead to burglary and we won't charge you with home invasion. The bad actor doesn't want to die in prison so even if innocent will tend to plead guilty. So the only real cure is to require all charges to be filed before anyone interviews the bad actor. Then disallow any changing of the charges. Or we could dump the entire idea of allowing plea bargains.
MIT has been doing a great job of educating the type of youth that craves education. They should stick to their method. So very often the subject a student hates the most just happens to be the subject the student needs the most. A course in touch typing would have been good for me in grade school but I loathed the idea of such a boring course. These days the degree of learning that an MIT student needs is almost impossible to reach. Fortunately there are a few young people who enjoy getting half crazy in chemistry and physics and mathematics. These are the students that colleges are built to serve.
The tipping point for me was the use of torture. I really don't mind the endless spying so much but when we get to the point that we allow any degree of torture I begin to believe that we all have some sort of responsibility to be in rebellion. In the 1960s and early 1970s we saw groups form that were in serious rebellion against our government. Our latest wars and lack of decent behavior are making those rebels in my generation look more and more like they were right all along. Whether it is foreign hostiles or prisoners in American jails all people deserve reasonable treatment. Keeping people in isolation and breaking their minds through endless boredom is simply never acceptable and the public should not allow it at all.
In a concentration camp one gets some awful housing and some really awful meals usually ending in an execution. In the US one may not be fed at all and get no housing at all and not even receive a coup de grace but allowed to wither and suffer for decades before exposure and neglect finish one off. How innocent are we really when compared to other nations?
I do feel that the Arabs are getting a raw deal in relation to the west and Israel there needs to be some really deep thinking going on. For example it is just dandy to have a timer and an auto launch ability on these small missiles but where does it lead? If one finds that most often the hostiles are not near the launch site the launch site will still be hit hard and probably some other place, perhaps randomly selected, in hope of getting the point across. Naturally hatred will result and it may be that large area saturation bombing starts to take place. And if that level of strike does not work the US and Israel are faced with two choices. One is pulling out and letting the region descend into total chaos and violence. The other more drastic choice is total war and the elimination of the regions existence. Considering the military history of the US as well as the ability and the readily available weaponry this conflict could end when places such as Palestine are simply exterminated. The suicide bomber like tactics are not something well addressed by a conventional military as uniforms are not used. But we are very, very good at things like carpet bombing or fire bombing major cities. I am suggesting that the terror tactics can never lead to any victory unless the US somehow decides it is OK to lose the region which is very unlikely.
Companies are probably breaking all kinds of laws when they sell things to an 11 year old without parental consent. So who needs the protection? How about dad discovering that his 16 year old has racked up $1,500 in one month on cam girls? One answer to many problems is a strong, national ID card. A simple computer check could contact the card holder anywhere at any time in such a way a wayward child would be detected right away.
The US has shot itself in the head by forcing most genetic researchers to work in foreign nations. We are now somewhat of a cripple due to right wing forces and their idiotic moral wizardry. Mega billions of cash are lost to us as other nations acquire patents and develop products. While the right wing pondered the theoretical joys of morality in a stem cell other nations applied science and funding. The right wing in the US has turned us into Clown Central or maybe we should call it the Bad Comedy Club.
Robotic automobiles are just one small example of what will happen quite rapidly now. Governments do not confront the problem and almost no group at all gives voice to the problem. We are going to eliminate almost 100% of human employment. And that is a good thing as long as our financial structure is built around the change. A few sociologists have made statements about how this rather drastic change will come upon us. Basic concepts that we are familiar with will vanish. Capitalism will be a quaint, old, failed idea. And all nations will shake under this transition. Yesterday we had concerns that American business and American labor might not be able to compete with the cheap, labor pool in China. All of a sudden that issue is self extinguishing. Instead of our factory competing with their factory now we have the question " can my robot work cheaper and better than your robot?".