It is true that the war on drugs is not getting as good a result as it could get. The same error was made in prohibition. Going after the user with the full power of law rather than going after dealers is the real answer. If we make it clear that a life long set of penalties will be applied on the very first, tiny violation the use of dope will fall to almost zero. For example a life long ban on the operation of any type of motorized vehicle might be applied on the first offense. An ongoing parole fee could be stacked on as well. The idea being that designing the system so that a one time user would live a life with very low wages would send a powerful message. No inheritance or other way out of low wage existence would be allowed. When people see friends and family members forced to live a very restricted life due to a drug conviction the message stays in stark view at all times.
Society has seen a trend of hiding punishments rather than making punishments visible. For example we have teens that leave school during the school day without permission. A semester of wearing a pink, jail like uniform to school as well as duties such as picking up litter or shoveling snow off school sidewalks with their friends looking on would break up that nonsense quickly. The same is true of executions. Instead of hiding executions the effect upon the public will only work if those executions are very much in public view.
Mathematics, chemistry and physics use formal languages. Terms and consequences are concise but rather difficult to deal with. Informal languages such as we speak daily are sloppy but efficient and rather easy to understand by comparison. It is that slop that makes informal languages so useful. Imagine E= MC squared if you have no clue what E, M or C mean at all. It might take decades to ascertain what the equation means..
If NY does this a new type of business will be created in which transfers of cash flow to branches outside of NY and are then converted to or from bitcoins. One could even work this into a charge card in an automated way. In other words NY will have the lead yanked out of its pencil.
The ability to run over objects ten feet in height means this critter is getting close to being able to run over homes. At its weight it could be a crushingly good weapon eliminating entire suburbs like Godzilla smashing homes with its feet. Remember the guy who stole a tank and crushed cars all over town?
Actually the distance traveled is not important at all. The question is which age driver is most likely to kill someone. The cause might be excessive miles driven by teens or it might be from being high or making out while driving. In a senior it might be a heart attack or stroke that causes a fatal accident. But the logic is that keeping a teen from driving is more likely to save lives than keeping a senior from driving. And there are other factors as well. Data on who causes minor accidents might point at seniors who have milder wrecks due to slow driving habits rather than catastrophic crashes.
I think we could agree that suicide bombers have always been useless. My notion of game theory tells me that murdering others by blowing myself to bits and pieces is far less than a win, win situation. Maybe suicide bombers could have a convention or mass rally and blow themselves up in unison. That ought to teach us a thing or two!
We have large craters opening all the time in certain parts of Florida. Suddenly forming sink holes swallow people and homes in a single gulp. It seems that we have sucked so much water out of the ground that collapses occur suddenly. One poor guy went under with half of his home and it was deep enough that his body could not be retrieved. In effect the man fell into hell on his own bed.
The half dead public employees that we call the FBI hope to justify their existence in any way possible. Creating notions of future horrors is part of their attempt to explain themselves. They could not even catch Abe Hoffman when he testified before congress under a false name while on the ten most wanted list. They certainly have done little to stop white collar crime as well. And that mess back in Dallas in 1963 does not reflect nicely on them either.
Exotic dancers will probably do well over the next century or so and call girls can do well if they are really sharp looking and smart enough to handle the trade. Very few jobs will exist for humans in any area of work much sooner than most people think. Obviously society will have to pay people not to work. Freedom might become a much more real concept when people are freed from monetary demands. The very notion of concepts such as socialism, communism and capitalism will become quaint and obsolete concepts.
The very basic fact that all people need to confront is that "TECHNOLOGY IS DESIGNED TO ELIMINATE HUMAN EFFORT". We are at the toggle point at which technology may actually pay off for humanity. So far the advance of technology has caused as much pain as joy.
Obviously criminals will resist electronic money. And those who knowingly invest in criminal enterprises will also resist to the bitter end. Electronic money raises the specter of eliminating almost all money based crime. Whether it is running dope or cheating on income taxes electronic money can make it impossible.
So next we have the issue of powerful individuals who just happen to invest in criminal enterprises. If a US senator owns a chunk of a bank and that bank happens to make money from a drug cartel will that senator try to cripple electronic money? Are we at the point that we can confront the degree to which criminal organisations own businesses?
We might also run into issues such as the government itself having financial transactions with organised crime.
For the first time in history we do have the potential to eliminate almost all crime. We are about to discover that to many people freedom means the freedom to be criminals. I'm not so sure we can look into that mirror.
After considering the concepts in the article I propose that these scientists shift into research for more effective aspirin as a careful reading of the material will leave almost all people with a glorious headache. Talk about trying to put the ocean in a paper bag!
After observing Texas politics and legal system it occurs to me that their waste water has rushed to their heads and lodged there permanently. Rick Perry might be explainable in this light. Dat boy been sniffing his own poop for so long his brain has cracked. It might also explain baby Bush's mental status.
More bars, more restaurants, and more dry cleaners makes my point. Bars are negative. Eating in restaurants is negative. And forget dry cleaners! Bars are a disaster as alcohol is now seen as the greatest killer in America. Restaurants are part of the health and obesity epidemic. And dry cleaning should be illegal. Not only are the chemicals used bad for the environment but imagine the transportation required for people to run back and forth to get their laundry. A city is nothing more than a cancer which inevitably reaches out and destroys rural areas. Yes, a city can support a museum. That way people can go see a stuffed animal that used to be common on the very ground underneath the museum.
Never spend a penny on alcohol and don't even drink it if it is free. Avoid restaurants! Your wallet will love you and your waist line will look better as well. And if it isn't wash and wear don't allow it in your home.
I have a friend that immigrated from Europe. He wanted to start a business and realized that businesses do not comply with numerous laws so he actually asked the clerks in the court house which laws it was customary to ignore. They replied that they could not tell him which laws he could break and that he had to figure that out for himself.
People will use drones with or without the blessing of governmental agencies. Even police departments might be seen as commercial in nature as much of what they do involves taking in money for the city or county more than public safety or crime prevention.
Injuring three people and denting a wall in order to get rid of a car thief sounds ok to me. Maybe we could design an electric device that simply cooks car thieves right in the driver's seat when they try to drive the car. But until then we can replace the innocents injured rather easily and just maybe other creeps will notice that car thefts often cause the death of thieves.
Being able to track people really could have a negative effect on national security. For example one might determine locations where a lot of people with advanced degrees in physics or know to have special ability in subjects such as high powered lasers congregate. The workplaces of many of these folks could easily be national defense facilities. People know to specialize in encryption might also congregate at certain workplaces. Even purchasing certain books may lead to individuals that an enemy might want to target or even corrupt or kidnap.
Every now and then humanity actually does something good. It is rare enough that I am in shock. I'll bet money that the people who benefit will make important contributions that effect all of us.
When people die the county coroner complies death certificates and they are filed with the counties. So why is it that the dead are not taken off agency lists? My brother in law had his driver's license voided 16 months after he died. A police officer reported that his medical condition might make him an unsafe driver and it took Florida about twenty months to process it and deliver the notice. This reminds me of those lawyer ads that state that if you have died due to using a medical product you have limited time to file a suit.
Oddly computer chess programs may already meet this criteria. The programs usually apply a weight or value to a move and a weight and a value to the consequences down stream of the move. But there are times when the consequences are of equal value at some event horizon and random choices must be applied. As a consequence sequences of moves may be made that no human has ever made and the programmer could not really predict either. As machines have gotten more able the event horizon is at a deeper level. But we might reach the point at which only the player playing white can ever hope to win and the player with black may always lose. We are not in danger of a human ever being able to do that unless we alter his brain.
We have all read of situations where Google Glasses have been snatched off a wearer's head. At the very least it is assault and battery and probably grand theft as well. In some states those charges might get they key sort of thrown away as even with a plea bargain a five year sentence on a first offense would be easily justified. My state has special laws that protect people over 65 and such an event might really cause a 20 year sentence to be applied or in a three strike state it might mean life without hope of parole. So why is it we are not hearing of people with huge legal problems after assaulting a Google Glass wearer? Even a grab and run theft of a smart phone can be seen as strong armed robbery which carries a 15 year sentence. Where are our courts on this?
We can't do it simply by eliminating fossil fuel use. We also need to return large areas to swamp and forest conditions and shrink the surfaces ruined by roof tops and blacktops. We will need a reduction in population as well which will tend to lessen the amount of trash and trash hauling. And if you think it completely through what we do is take energy and send it to an end point such as an air conditioner which turns that energy into heat again. So the end use of electricity needs attention as well.
This is why the car anti pollution laws have failed. Newer cars pollute a lot less but we produce more and more cars every year so that the total pollution amount rises. If our goal had been to have far less cars on the road with far smaller engines we would have had a more effective law but the auto makers would have had a fit. There is more money in over powered, over sized, cars. In the late 1960s we needed people to go to tiny cars with tiny motors instead of a monster Pontiac Judge with a huge V8 engine and so over weight that it couldn't get out of its own way with tires too skinny to stop and brakes that were a bad joke as well. Yet the auto industry raved about such cars. And who could live without a Corvette with holes in the hood for the carbs to stick through and a blower to make absolutely certain you would die at high speeds.
Over time I have used a lot of passwords at a lot of different sites as well as on storage devices. There is no way i could ever recall many of them. A judge might as well order me to walk on water and raise the dead. This type of thing tells me that the judge has not have a lot of time on computers or he has a memory that is long term, photographic in nature.
Some things don't change. The spooks payed a lot of attention to black folks when civil rights were blooming as an issue.. Apparently they still seek to spy upon the NAACP and other civil rights workers.
Quite a bit of this twisted behavior comes from the second half of the law and order mission. Any thoughts or actions that cause change also generate a certain amount of disorder. And that gets the covert agents excited. Protest is seen as a threat to the establishment. Even a quiet life can be seen as a person trying to remain secretive. If a new religion starts to attract members you can bet the government will be all over it. And a company like Tesla that produces a wonderful product that challenges the powers that be is always at great risk.
Maybe we need term limits up and down the public employee spectrum. Not only elected officials but military and civil service workers might have a fixed length of employment. That might bust up some of the nonsense that we see these days.
The very last group we want doing this research is one under military control. The potential for abuse is obvious. Does anyone trust the military not to use this technology on soldiers who have not been injured? The potential to create a zombie warrior with no concern for his own survival would be too tempting. Or perhaps one wants an assassin. The idea of helping the mentally impaired is wonderful but let someone other than the military maintain control of this technology.
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It is true that the war on drugs is not getting as good a result as it could get. The same error was made in prohibition. Going after the user with the full power of law rather than going after dealers is the real answer. If we make it clear that a life long set of penalties will be applied on the very first, tiny violation the use of dope will fall to almost zero. For example a life long ban on the operation of any type of motorized vehicle might be applied on the first offense. An ongoing parole fee could be stacked on as well. The idea being that designing the system so that a one time user would live a life with very low wages would send a powerful message. No inheritance or other way out of low wage existence would be allowed. When people see friends and family members forced to live a very restricted life due to a drug conviction the message stays in stark view at all times. Society has seen a trend of hiding punishments rather than making punishments visible. For example we have teens that leave school during the school day without permission. A semester of wearing a pink, jail like uniform to school as well as duties such as picking up litter or shoveling snow off school sidewalks with their friends looking on would break up that nonsense quickly. The same is true of executions. Instead of hiding executions the effect upon the public will only work if those executions are very much in public view.
Mathematics, chemistry and physics use formal languages. Terms and consequences are concise but rather difficult to deal with. Informal languages such as we speak daily are sloppy but efficient and rather easy to understand by comparison. It is that slop that makes informal languages so useful. Imagine E= MC squared if you have no clue what E, M or C mean at all. It might take decades to ascertain what the equation means..
If NY does this a new type of business will be created in which transfers of cash flow to branches outside of NY and are then converted to or from bitcoins. One could even work this into a charge card in an automated way. In other words NY will have the lead yanked out of its pencil.
The ability to run over objects ten feet in height means this critter is getting close to being able to run over homes. At its weight it could be a crushingly good weapon eliminating entire suburbs like Godzilla smashing homes with its feet. Remember the guy who stole a tank and crushed cars all over town?
Actually the distance traveled is not important at all. The question is which age driver is most likely to kill someone. The cause might be excessive miles driven by teens or it might be from being high or making out while driving. In a senior it might be a heart attack or stroke that causes a fatal accident. But the logic is that keeping a teen from driving is more likely to save lives than keeping a senior from driving. And there are other factors as well. Data on who causes minor accidents might point at seniors who have milder wrecks due to slow driving habits rather than catastrophic crashes.
I think we could agree that suicide bombers have always been useless. My notion of game theory tells me that murdering others by blowing myself to bits and pieces is far less than a win, win situation. Maybe suicide bombers could have a convention or mass rally and blow themselves up in unison. That ought to teach us a thing or two!
We have large craters opening all the time in certain parts of Florida. Suddenly forming sink holes swallow people and homes in a single gulp. It seems that we have sucked so much water out of the ground that collapses occur suddenly. One poor guy went under with half of his home and it was deep enough that his body could not be retrieved. In effect the man fell into hell on his own bed.
The half dead public employees that we call the FBI hope to justify their existence in any way possible. Creating notions of future horrors is part of their attempt to explain themselves. They could not even catch Abe Hoffman when he testified before congress under a false name while on the ten most wanted list. They certainly have done little to stop white collar crime as well. And that mess back in Dallas in 1963 does not reflect nicely on them either.
Exotic dancers will probably do well over the next century or so and call girls can do well if they are really sharp looking and smart enough to handle the trade. Very few jobs will exist for humans in any area of work much sooner than most people think. Obviously society will have to pay people not to work. Freedom might become a much more real concept when people are freed from monetary demands. The very notion of concepts such as socialism, communism and capitalism will become quaint and obsolete concepts. The very basic fact that all people need to confront is that "TECHNOLOGY IS DESIGNED TO ELIMINATE HUMAN EFFORT". We are at the toggle point at which technology may actually pay off for humanity. So far the advance of technology has caused as much pain as joy.
If I have it correctly there is no longer a single new typewriter manufacturer in the entire world.
Obviously criminals will resist electronic money. And those who knowingly invest in criminal enterprises will also resist to the bitter end. Electronic money raises the specter of eliminating almost all money based crime. Whether it is running dope or cheating on income taxes electronic money can make it impossible. So next we have the issue of powerful individuals who just happen to invest in criminal enterprises. If a US senator owns a chunk of a bank and that bank happens to make money from a drug cartel will that senator try to cripple electronic money? Are we at the point that we can confront the degree to which criminal organisations own businesses? We might also run into issues such as the government itself having financial transactions with organised crime. For the first time in history we do have the potential to eliminate almost all crime. We are about to discover that to many people freedom means the freedom to be criminals. I'm not so sure we can look into that mirror.
After considering the concepts in the article I propose that these scientists shift into research for more effective aspirin as a careful reading of the material will leave almost all people with a glorious headache. Talk about trying to put the ocean in a paper bag!
After observing Texas politics and legal system it occurs to me that their waste water has rushed to their heads and lodged there permanently. Rick Perry might be explainable in this light. Dat boy been sniffing his own poop for so long his brain has cracked. It might also explain baby Bush's mental status.
More bars, more restaurants, and more dry cleaners makes my point. Bars are negative. Eating in restaurants is negative. And forget dry cleaners! Bars are a disaster as alcohol is now seen as the greatest killer in America. Restaurants are part of the health and obesity epidemic. And dry cleaning should be illegal. Not only are the chemicals used bad for the environment but imagine the transportation required for people to run back and forth to get their laundry. A city is nothing more than a cancer which inevitably reaches out and destroys rural areas. Yes, a city can support a museum. That way people can go see a stuffed animal that used to be common on the very ground underneath the museum. Never spend a penny on alcohol and don't even drink it if it is free. Avoid restaurants! Your wallet will love you and your waist line will look better as well. And if it isn't wash and wear don't allow it in your home.
I have a friend that immigrated from Europe. He wanted to start a business and realized that businesses do not comply with numerous laws so he actually asked the clerks in the court house which laws it was customary to ignore. They replied that they could not tell him which laws he could break and that he had to figure that out for himself. People will use drones with or without the blessing of governmental agencies. Even police departments might be seen as commercial in nature as much of what they do involves taking in money for the city or county more than public safety or crime prevention.
Injuring three people and denting a wall in order to get rid of a car thief sounds ok to me. Maybe we could design an electric device that simply cooks car thieves right in the driver's seat when they try to drive the car. But until then we can replace the innocents injured rather easily and just maybe other creeps will notice that car thefts often cause the death of thieves.
Being able to track people really could have a negative effect on national security. For example one might determine locations where a lot of people with advanced degrees in physics or know to have special ability in subjects such as high powered lasers congregate. The workplaces of many of these folks could easily be national defense facilities. People know to specialize in encryption might also congregate at certain workplaces. Even purchasing certain books may lead to individuals that an enemy might want to target or even corrupt or kidnap.
Every now and then humanity actually does something good. It is rare enough that I am in shock. I'll bet money that the people who benefit will make important contributions that effect all of us.
When people die the county coroner complies death certificates and they are filed with the counties. So why is it that the dead are not taken off agency lists? My brother in law had his driver's license voided 16 months after he died. A police officer reported that his medical condition might make him an unsafe driver and it took Florida about twenty months to process it and deliver the notice. This reminds me of those lawyer ads that state that if you have died due to using a medical product you have limited time to file a suit.
Oddly computer chess programs may already meet this criteria. The programs usually apply a weight or value to a move and a weight and a value to the consequences down stream of the move. But there are times when the consequences are of equal value at some event horizon and random choices must be applied. As a consequence sequences of moves may be made that no human has ever made and the programmer could not really predict either. As machines have gotten more able the event horizon is at a deeper level. But we might reach the point at which only the player playing white can ever hope to win and the player with black may always lose. We are not in danger of a human ever being able to do that unless we alter his brain.
We have all read of situations where Google Glasses have been snatched off a wearer's head. At the very least it is assault and battery and probably grand theft as well. In some states those charges might get they key sort of thrown away as even with a plea bargain a five year sentence on a first offense would be easily justified. My state has special laws that protect people over 65 and such an event might really cause a 20 year sentence to be applied or in a three strike state it might mean life without hope of parole. So why is it we are not hearing of people with huge legal problems after assaulting a Google Glass wearer? Even a grab and run theft of a smart phone can be seen as strong armed robbery which carries a 15 year sentence. Where are our courts on this?
We can't do it simply by eliminating fossil fuel use. We also need to return large areas to swamp and forest conditions and shrink the surfaces ruined by roof tops and blacktops. We will need a reduction in population as well which will tend to lessen the amount of trash and trash hauling. And if you think it completely through what we do is take energy and send it to an end point such as an air conditioner which turns that energy into heat again. So the end use of electricity needs attention as well. This is why the car anti pollution laws have failed. Newer cars pollute a lot less but we produce more and more cars every year so that the total pollution amount rises. If our goal had been to have far less cars on the road with far smaller engines we would have had a more effective law but the auto makers would have had a fit. There is more money in over powered, over sized, cars. In the late 1960s we needed people to go to tiny cars with tiny motors instead of a monster Pontiac Judge with a huge V8 engine and so over weight that it couldn't get out of its own way with tires too skinny to stop and brakes that were a bad joke as well. Yet the auto industry raved about such cars. And who could live without a Corvette with holes in the hood for the carbs to stick through and a blower to make absolutely certain you would die at high speeds.
Over time I have used a lot of passwords at a lot of different sites as well as on storage devices. There is no way i could ever recall many of them. A judge might as well order me to walk on water and raise the dead. This type of thing tells me that the judge has not have a lot of time on computers or he has a memory that is long term, photographic in nature.
Some things don't change. The spooks payed a lot of attention to black folks when civil rights were blooming as an issue.. Apparently they still seek to spy upon the NAACP and other civil rights workers. Quite a bit of this twisted behavior comes from the second half of the law and order mission. Any thoughts or actions that cause change also generate a certain amount of disorder. And that gets the covert agents excited. Protest is seen as a threat to the establishment. Even a quiet life can be seen as a person trying to remain secretive. If a new religion starts to attract members you can bet the government will be all over it. And a company like Tesla that produces a wonderful product that challenges the powers that be is always at great risk. Maybe we need term limits up and down the public employee spectrum. Not only elected officials but military and civil service workers might have a fixed length of employment. That might bust up some of the nonsense that we see these days.
The very last group we want doing this research is one under military control. The potential for abuse is obvious. Does anyone trust the military not to use this technology on soldiers who have not been injured? The potential to create a zombie warrior with no concern for his own survival would be too tempting. Or perhaps one wants an assassin. The idea of helping the mentally impaired is wonderful but let someone other than the military maintain control of this technology.