It is no great news that Texas has a warped political and legal system. The danger is that this nonsense might actually work in a Texas court room. Tor has no part in this in my opinion. If she has a gripe it is with the person that stole the pics.
I'll harp on it again. People love crime. People want to cheat their insurance companies just as insurance companies love cheating the public. The idea that both parties must be both honest and transparent are simply un American . And insurance companies have a lot of things to look at. Your eating and drinking habits not only effect your life and health insurance but also effect your car insurance as well. People that have heart attacks or strokes make for big car crashes. Your Home owners insurance should be effected if you or others smoke in your home.
So the trick is to fool the system. People won't vote for crime and corruption even when they love it. So the answer is to elect the most rotten, corrupt and lazy to office under the guise that they are wonderful people. To that end I am forming the Committee to Elect Rick Scott. I can think of no worse, more corrupt or wrong headed man in the nation to put in a powerful position. Maybe we could get him elected president and that way we can be assured of plenty of crime and idiotic behavior in our future. Hell, we tried electing good people and look at the mess we are in. So help me elect a real monster, Florida governor Rick Scott.
It will be interesting to see how China handles social policies and worker displacement. In the US we haven't begun to develop any plans at all. It is obvious that we are about to replace almost all human employment. Without new economics and new shifts in our entire system we will have chaos.
Does anyone think that America is already suffering? Now with robotics China can ship even cheaper junk that has already destroyed American jobs. So can a Chinese robot work cheaper than an American robot? Is there anyone out there who really gets what is starting to occur? If we do not change some of our basic beliefs we will perish in agony.
Anything that society can't deal with becomes surrounded by rituals. For example we can make one heck of a ritual over applying the death penalty. It is like prisons that seal off all roads within miles of the prison near the hour of execution supposedly to ward off the stampede of would be friends that supposedly will try to rescue the subject.
Now pollution is getting the same nonsense. Most pollution is obvious. If it pollutes just shut it down. No need to decide which source is least or greatest at all. If it pollutes simply end it. One business may be spewing carbon monoxide or even carbon dioxide while the next spews sulpher. We need no study or debate over which is worse. If it pollutes kill it. If that happens to shut down almost every business in town then great. You have just solved the traffic problem. There is more than one way to clean up the neighborhood.
Going after the head of the chain does not work as a police strategy. We saw this in prohibition and it is being repeated in the drug problem. The guy that got caught in a speak easy or got caught with an illegal bottle of booze did not have great fear and continued in the behavior. The same is true with possession or use of small amounts of drugs. This leaves the demand side in high gear and creates a lucrative market for suppliers. If we went the exact opposite way and applied harsh consequences, without exception, for use or possession of small amounts of dope very few people would want to run the risk.
The problem with child porn is that it is hard to agree on exactly what constitutes child porn and we do have some insane courts in the US.. The twelve year old boy getting caught having sex with a thirteen year old girl is a tragic example. Both the boy and girl were charged with child rape as neither could consent to having sex due to their age.
Frankly I doubt that there is so much exploitation of children for sex that society needs to be in an uproar. Maybe in other nations it is a problem but I don't see it here. I have seen very young girls trying to prostitute themselves which tells me that poverty is a huge problem in the US..
The companies complain that they don't like the expense of hiring skilled workers. In a way that demonstrates equality as they also hate paying for unskilled workers. So one way or another they want to import workers who will work and eat cat food and sleep in a ditch. Then the companies complain that nobody loves them.
When someone doesn't want to play nice only fools play nice in return.
Yes it might increase the risk but it may meet the law. But once the legal waltz begins who will argue that an electronic tether is less real than a piece of string?
As usual the real issue is progress and not the argument put forward. The flack about drones has nothing at all to do with drones. People want to be able to get away with things. Whether it is adultery or robbing a gas station most people fear the truth in their lives. Taking real responsibility for our thoughts and deeds is not on the table for debate. It should be.
There comes a time when a doctor sees so many bad things in the X rays that there is no starting point or point at which any health can be sustained. If a person has degraded to the level of being a conservative republican there simply is no starting point for their rehabilitation or return to sanity. People in this state of depravity are dangerous and yet we have no laws that allow us to confine them until they lash out directly and harm someone. Their denial of global warming for the last 15 years will certainly cost us human lives and yet they will proclaim that they were only being responsible in delaying programs that might moderate the crises. Of course their response will be that I must be a communist as I have challenged one of their beliefs. I use Linux which apparently gets me on an NSA watch list already.
Probably the most savage quake ever to occur in the US was in Missouri before many European types were in that state. Oklahoma is a bit close and I am wondering if we are about to see a super quake in that region again. The consequences would be awful. Native Americans who occupied tents or other lite weight shelters did not have bricks and concrete falling on them. modern buildings would have no chance in that severe a quake.
No more humans working as parking valets! The trend continues. Make note that agencies do not consider the availability of a trade just the fact that if the job were available the person is able to do it. Therefore you are not disabled even if every trade you can work in is eliminated by technology. You might be blind and confined to a wheelchair but by god you can still weave one heck of a buggy whip and therefore can not be classified as disabled even when no buggy whip factory exists. And being that you are not disabled that nasty court order compelling you to pay child support puts you into a perpetual legal death with plenty of cell time. After all you could be making those buggy whips to feed your kids!
It doesn't take much of a quake to cause a lot of harm to a home. What do you do when a foundation or a slab cracks? How about water pipes that start leaking at the joints or a lovely crack in a ceiling. This is a classic case of industry not being able to contain negative effects upon others and is probably actionable. Loss of peace of mind and loss of property value re enough to generate a huge law suit. Florida has already had one man swallowed alive in his bedroom by a sinkhole. Those sinkholes are caused by pumping water for an increasing population that leave voids below towns and suburbs. The city of Naples Florida is so undermined with caves, partially emptied by water pumping that any home in the area is at risk of suddenly sinking.
Yes, autonomous drivers are a wonderful invention but no one is focusing on the social changes that must take place. We are eliminating employment at an ever increasing pace. If we fail to make provisions for keeping people above water without regard to whether they work or not we are going to bring down our society into the worst collapse of all times. If we generate poverty we will generate rebellion and chaos. Meanwhile we have people chained to dogmas who are in denial about what is occurring. And here we have China 3D printing ten homes in a day with one fairly small machine. The trades are about to take a really hard hit.
I can't live without all the wonderful Russian women asking me for money and those wonderful purchases I make from Russia. Translate that into I don't give a hoot if Russia stays off the net for a century or two.
Prison is all about money. When we see convicts not being rehabilitated it is simply because the powers that be do want convicts to exist. Think of how many public employees are sustained by our jail and prison systems. Private companies also make big bucks off of prisons. Other state jobs are created dealing with the families of convicts. Some towns are totally dependent upon the local prison for employment. The tax man can justify taking your money because of the costs of crime and punishments. Does anyone actually believe that we have a prison system that nobody likes or wants?
Now for the traffic cops : Is the primary reason for traffic cops to increase public safety or is it really to raise money? If it is really about public safety why not give the fines generated to cancer and disease research and treatment? That might stop some of the rogue cops from writing tickets out of hatred and meanness. A cop that writes lots of tickets is the one likely to be very well treated on the job. Money or job security or racial hatred are not reasons to issue tickets.
After major surgery when one starts to return to consciousness the personality seems to lag behind a bit. You will still recognize your internal voice but you just are not present as a person. It is sort of a lovely experience. You have always been you. And now you are sort of awake and can think but the "you" is sort of missing for a few minutes. It is like a vacation and something to look forward to.
The other effect is that you are so far under during major surgery that even dreams are blocked out. In effect you are dead. And that is pretty real as my surgery involved stopping my heart and being on a machine for six hours. The difference between being alive and dead at that point is theoretical and from that perspective death is no problem at all. You do not feel, think or notice a thing. Under lite anesthesia vivid and happy dreams take place for me. I had a dental assistant think that I was fighting to wake up and she was trying to help me but the opposite was true. I was fighting to stay under and finish my dream. I do understand why Michael Jackson loved Propocol.
The important part, if one receives such a notice is to make certain that everything appears on other sites such that take down notices have no power at all. Matter of fact we could teach people that the fastest way to expose information is an order to take down the information.
Bicycles can be an art form in themselves. To look right a bike needs a very naked look. The idea of electronic systems on a bike will not be popular in my opinion. Now a system inside a car that makes a public record of how the car approached bicycles might be acceptable and not intrusive in a car. Lite weight and a clean look at all of the bike is what sells. Many bicyclists will not even keep fenders on their bikes as it spoils the entire designed goals.
Assuming that an individual can be located within a moderate sized population area then one might find him simply by the size of his electric bill in the past. For example if he usually has had an electric expense of $75. plus or minus six dollars then the size of the homes needed to be looked at drops to a few unless his electric use is smack in the center of the bell curve. In a suburb with 7,000 homes maybe only 70 have a typical electric bill of $75. dollars. Also time of day for electric demand might further narrow the search. We might find his hourly, historic power bill and study only the homes that follow a similar time pattern. Then we have past mode of payment, regardless of the name used. He might have a habit of always paying cash or always using a money order for example. If we find a home that matches all of the above past habits then we would have him cold rather easily. Another little trick is to look at people who pay power bills but have no driver's license or do not own a car. Bad guys know all too well that most people who do not drive will never interact with a cop whereas all drivers end up talking to a cop even if someone only dents their fender. Investigate just a bit and finding people can be rather easy.
And yet we have people in prison for viewing anime because the line drawings bring to mind children in American minds but not in the Japanese artists who draw these cartoons. Talk about thought police and people being put in prison for no reason at all!
If history has taught us anything at all it has taught us that Austria has a tendency to be way over the edge of reasoning in its legal practices.
The reason the car analogy is correct is that in fact the average car will at some point be used to commit a crime. For example driving a bit drunk is a crime. Forgetting to make a timely renewal on the cars insurance is also a criminal act. Speeding is a crime as well. Therefore the average car is sold with the seller knowingly being an accomplice to the crimes.
A more sane interpretation would require the party to know clearly what crime would be committed as well as a rather precise accounting of what the seller knew, time, place, etc. in advance of the crime.
We don't have a clue as to what breaks down or how well it breaks down or the time involved. Tire rubber is one example. Rubber is shed in a dust like form as tires contact the road. Scientists were wondering about the build up of powdered rubber near major roads. It turns out that most if it vanishes and the conclusion was that bacteria were digesting the synthetic, tire rubber.
Matter of fact i would think that pulverized, waste, plastic would be a good material as an admixture for road surfaces.
The motor industry just can not mentally change quickly enough. That is why they fear Tesla and people like Google. Just about every inch of every car made needs to be replaced with more modern ideas and materials. Detroit is stuck making metal frames and body panels that have no real reason to exist these days. And with gasoline as expensive as it is we can say that gasoline and diesel also need to be cast out. The Detroit mindset is to put a new look on a vehicle and really change little at all. They haven't even put a decent ignition lock on a car in all of automotive history. Detroit has earned its demise by clinging to past designs and ideas that never were practical to begin with.
People are so fed up that bicycles and scooters are taking over in many cities.
There is an outside power outlet at my local grocery store meant to be used for maintenance tools. The homeless direct each other to the power outlet and it creates an unintended consequence. It increases the presence of chronic drunks and addicts as well as the mentally ill and those who can not get employment due to criminal records. It doesn't make shoppers feel safe at all and is a negative for the business as well.
It does mean that some sort of charging stations need to be placed near the homeless camps. It might make a good church project if a power source and a can of beans could be maintained near the camps. As a general rule one can find the homeless in wooded areas very close to a grocery store that sells beer, wine etc.. If it is a 24 hour store they like it even better.
I hate the employers that whine that they can't get good help. The reality is that most employers are not able to pay for skilled or reliable workers. People with tremendous skills and good work habits are available but they do demand real pay. The cabinet shop that wants to hire workers for $10. per hour has a big problem. The cabinet shop that pays $60. per hour gets an entirely different type of worker. Offer $200. per hour and you can create world class cabinets.
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It is no great news that Texas has a warped political and legal system. The danger is that this nonsense might actually work in a Texas court room. Tor has no part in this in my opinion. If she has a gripe it is with the person that stole the pics.
I'll harp on it again. People love crime. People want to cheat their insurance companies just as insurance companies love cheating the public. The idea that both parties must be both honest and transparent are simply un American . And insurance companies have a lot of things to look at. Your eating and drinking habits not only effect your life and health insurance but also effect your car insurance as well. People that have heart attacks or strokes make for big car crashes. Your Home owners insurance should be effected if you or others smoke in your home. So the trick is to fool the system. People won't vote for crime and corruption even when they love it. So the answer is to elect the most rotten, corrupt and lazy to office under the guise that they are wonderful people. To that end I am forming the Committee to Elect Rick Scott. I can think of no worse, more corrupt or wrong headed man in the nation to put in a powerful position. Maybe we could get him elected president and that way we can be assured of plenty of crime and idiotic behavior in our future. Hell, we tried electing good people and look at the mess we are in. So help me elect a real monster, Florida governor Rick Scott.
It will be interesting to see how China handles social policies and worker displacement. In the US we haven't begun to develop any plans at all. It is obvious that we are about to replace almost all human employment. Without new economics and new shifts in our entire system we will have chaos. Does anyone think that America is already suffering? Now with robotics China can ship even cheaper junk that has already destroyed American jobs. So can a Chinese robot work cheaper than an American robot? Is there anyone out there who really gets what is starting to occur? If we do not change some of our basic beliefs we will perish in agony.
Anything that society can't deal with becomes surrounded by rituals. For example we can make one heck of a ritual over applying the death penalty. It is like prisons that seal off all roads within miles of the prison near the hour of execution supposedly to ward off the stampede of would be friends that supposedly will try to rescue the subject. Now pollution is getting the same nonsense. Most pollution is obvious. If it pollutes just shut it down. No need to decide which source is least or greatest at all. If it pollutes simply end it. One business may be spewing carbon monoxide or even carbon dioxide while the next spews sulpher. We need no study or debate over which is worse. If it pollutes kill it. If that happens to shut down almost every business in town then great. You have just solved the traffic problem. There is more than one way to clean up the neighborhood.
Going after the head of the chain does not work as a police strategy. We saw this in prohibition and it is being repeated in the drug problem. The guy that got caught in a speak easy or got caught with an illegal bottle of booze did not have great fear and continued in the behavior. The same is true with possession or use of small amounts of drugs. This leaves the demand side in high gear and creates a lucrative market for suppliers. If we went the exact opposite way and applied harsh consequences, without exception, for use or possession of small amounts of dope very few people would want to run the risk. The problem with child porn is that it is hard to agree on exactly what constitutes child porn and we do have some insane courts in the US.. The twelve year old boy getting caught having sex with a thirteen year old girl is a tragic example. Both the boy and girl were charged with child rape as neither could consent to having sex due to their age. Frankly I doubt that there is so much exploitation of children for sex that society needs to be in an uproar. Maybe in other nations it is a problem but I don't see it here. I have seen very young girls trying to prostitute themselves which tells me that poverty is a huge problem in the US..
The companies complain that they don't like the expense of hiring skilled workers. In a way that demonstrates equality as they also hate paying for unskilled workers. So one way or another they want to import workers who will work and eat cat food and sleep in a ditch. Then the companies complain that nobody loves them. When someone doesn't want to play nice only fools play nice in return.
Yes it might increase the risk but it may meet the law. But once the legal waltz begins who will argue that an electronic tether is less real than a piece of string? As usual the real issue is progress and not the argument put forward. The flack about drones has nothing at all to do with drones. People want to be able to get away with things. Whether it is adultery or robbing a gas station most people fear the truth in their lives. Taking real responsibility for our thoughts and deeds is not on the table for debate. It should be.
There comes a time when a doctor sees so many bad things in the X rays that there is no starting point or point at which any health can be sustained. If a person has degraded to the level of being a conservative republican there simply is no starting point for their rehabilitation or return to sanity. People in this state of depravity are dangerous and yet we have no laws that allow us to confine them until they lash out directly and harm someone. Their denial of global warming for the last 15 years will certainly cost us human lives and yet they will proclaim that they were only being responsible in delaying programs that might moderate the crises. Of course their response will be that I must be a communist as I have challenged one of their beliefs. I use Linux which apparently gets me on an NSA watch list already.
Probably the most savage quake ever to occur in the US was in Missouri before many European types were in that state. Oklahoma is a bit close and I am wondering if we are about to see a super quake in that region again. The consequences would be awful. Native Americans who occupied tents or other lite weight shelters did not have bricks and concrete falling on them. modern buildings would have no chance in that severe a quake.
No more humans working as parking valets! The trend continues. Make note that agencies do not consider the availability of a trade just the fact that if the job were available the person is able to do it. Therefore you are not disabled even if every trade you can work in is eliminated by technology. You might be blind and confined to a wheelchair but by god you can still weave one heck of a buggy whip and therefore can not be classified as disabled even when no buggy whip factory exists. And being that you are not disabled that nasty court order compelling you to pay child support puts you into a perpetual legal death with plenty of cell time. After all you could be making those buggy whips to feed your kids!
It doesn't take much of a quake to cause a lot of harm to a home. What do you do when a foundation or a slab cracks? How about water pipes that start leaking at the joints or a lovely crack in a ceiling. This is a classic case of industry not being able to contain negative effects upon others and is probably actionable. Loss of peace of mind and loss of property value re enough to generate a huge law suit. Florida has already had one man swallowed alive in his bedroom by a sinkhole. Those sinkholes are caused by pumping water for an increasing population that leave voids below towns and suburbs. The city of Naples Florida is so undermined with caves, partially emptied by water pumping that any home in the area is at risk of suddenly sinking.
Yes, autonomous drivers are a wonderful invention but no one is focusing on the social changes that must take place. We are eliminating employment at an ever increasing pace. If we fail to make provisions for keeping people above water without regard to whether they work or not we are going to bring down our society into the worst collapse of all times. If we generate poverty we will generate rebellion and chaos. Meanwhile we have people chained to dogmas who are in denial about what is occurring. And here we have China 3D printing ten homes in a day with one fairly small machine. The trades are about to take a really hard hit.
I can't live without all the wonderful Russian women asking me for money and those wonderful purchases I make from Russia. Translate that into I don't give a hoot if Russia stays off the net for a century or two.
Prison is all about money. When we see convicts not being rehabilitated it is simply because the powers that be do want convicts to exist. Think of how many public employees are sustained by our jail and prison systems. Private companies also make big bucks off of prisons. Other state jobs are created dealing with the families of convicts. Some towns are totally dependent upon the local prison for employment. The tax man can justify taking your money because of the costs of crime and punishments. Does anyone actually believe that we have a prison system that nobody likes or wants? Now for the traffic cops : Is the primary reason for traffic cops to increase public safety or is it really to raise money? If it is really about public safety why not give the fines generated to cancer and disease research and treatment? That might stop some of the rogue cops from writing tickets out of hatred and meanness. A cop that writes lots of tickets is the one likely to be very well treated on the job. Money or job security or racial hatred are not reasons to issue tickets.
After major surgery when one starts to return to consciousness the personality seems to lag behind a bit. You will still recognize your internal voice but you just are not present as a person. It is sort of a lovely experience. You have always been you. And now you are sort of awake and can think but the "you" is sort of missing for a few minutes. It is like a vacation and something to look forward to. The other effect is that you are so far under during major surgery that even dreams are blocked out. In effect you are dead. And that is pretty real as my surgery involved stopping my heart and being on a machine for six hours. The difference between being alive and dead at that point is theoretical and from that perspective death is no problem at all. You do not feel, think or notice a thing. Under lite anesthesia vivid and happy dreams take place for me. I had a dental assistant think that I was fighting to wake up and she was trying to help me but the opposite was true. I was fighting to stay under and finish my dream. I do understand why Michael Jackson loved Propocol.
The important part, if one receives such a notice is to make certain that everything appears on other sites such that take down notices have no power at all. Matter of fact we could teach people that the fastest way to expose information is an order to take down the information.
Bicycles can be an art form in themselves. To look right a bike needs a very naked look. The idea of electronic systems on a bike will not be popular in my opinion. Now a system inside a car that makes a public record of how the car approached bicycles might be acceptable and not intrusive in a car. Lite weight and a clean look at all of the bike is what sells. Many bicyclists will not even keep fenders on their bikes as it spoils the entire designed goals.
Covert operations tend to allow actions to come into play. If they find a problem person will they suddenly develop really bad health or worse?
Assuming that an individual can be located within a moderate sized population area then one might find him simply by the size of his electric bill in the past. For example if he usually has had an electric expense of $75. plus or minus six dollars then the size of the homes needed to be looked at drops to a few unless his electric use is smack in the center of the bell curve. In a suburb with 7,000 homes maybe only 70 have a typical electric bill of $75. dollars. Also time of day for electric demand might further narrow the search. We might find his hourly, historic power bill and study only the homes that follow a similar time pattern. Then we have past mode of payment, regardless of the name used. He might have a habit of always paying cash or always using a money order for example. If we find a home that matches all of the above past habits then we would have him cold rather easily. Another little trick is to look at people who pay power bills but have no driver's license or do not own a car. Bad guys know all too well that most people who do not drive will never interact with a cop whereas all drivers end up talking to a cop even if someone only dents their fender. Investigate just a bit and finding people can be rather easy.
And yet we have people in prison for viewing anime because the line drawings bring to mind children in American minds but not in the Japanese artists who draw these cartoons. Talk about thought police and people being put in prison for no reason at all!
If history has taught us anything at all it has taught us that Austria has a tendency to be way over the edge of reasoning in its legal practices. The reason the car analogy is correct is that in fact the average car will at some point be used to commit a crime. For example driving a bit drunk is a crime. Forgetting to make a timely renewal on the cars insurance is also a criminal act. Speeding is a crime as well. Therefore the average car is sold with the seller knowingly being an accomplice to the crimes. A more sane interpretation would require the party to know clearly what crime would be committed as well as a rather precise accounting of what the seller knew, time, place, etc. in advance of the crime.
We don't have a clue as to what breaks down or how well it breaks down or the time involved. Tire rubber is one example. Rubber is shed in a dust like form as tires contact the road. Scientists were wondering about the build up of powdered rubber near major roads. It turns out that most if it vanishes and the conclusion was that bacteria were digesting the synthetic, tire rubber. Matter of fact i would think that pulverized, waste, plastic would be a good material as an admixture for road surfaces.
The motor industry just can not mentally change quickly enough. That is why they fear Tesla and people like Google. Just about every inch of every car made needs to be replaced with more modern ideas and materials. Detroit is stuck making metal frames and body panels that have no real reason to exist these days. And with gasoline as expensive as it is we can say that gasoline and diesel also need to be cast out. The Detroit mindset is to put a new look on a vehicle and really change little at all. They haven't even put a decent ignition lock on a car in all of automotive history. Detroit has earned its demise by clinging to past designs and ideas that never were practical to begin with. People are so fed up that bicycles and scooters are taking over in many cities.
There is an outside power outlet at my local grocery store meant to be used for maintenance tools. The homeless direct each other to the power outlet and it creates an unintended consequence. It increases the presence of chronic drunks and addicts as well as the mentally ill and those who can not get employment due to criminal records. It doesn't make shoppers feel safe at all and is a negative for the business as well. It does mean that some sort of charging stations need to be placed near the homeless camps. It might make a good church project if a power source and a can of beans could be maintained near the camps. As a general rule one can find the homeless in wooded areas very close to a grocery store that sells beer, wine etc.. If it is a 24 hour store they like it even better.
I hate the employers that whine that they can't get good help. The reality is that most employers are not able to pay for skilled or reliable workers. People with tremendous skills and good work habits are available but they do demand real pay. The cabinet shop that wants to hire workers for $10. per hour has a big problem. The cabinet shop that pays $60. per hour gets an entirely different type of worker. Offer $200. per hour and you can create world class cabinets.