What's a criminal to do? Gone will be the good old days where a man could feed his family by ripping off one car a week. And our prison system will have to lay off workers and buy less products to feed those that live off of the supposed criminal, justice system.
And not only have companies like GM failed to provide strong locks for cars they have ignition switches that kill the owners of such cars.
I don't want to get too real here and put folks into shock but compare the morals of car thieves to executives at GM and keep Ford in mind as well for those lovely Pinto gas tanks and don't forget the Corvaire by GM that could flip in a low speed corner all on its own. Could it be that car thieves have better morals than car companies?
Education is in a bind. In order to educate properly young people must deal with facts. Facts are often stress inducing and belief challenging. And it really doesn't matter much which nation we are in. For example American history and American heroes are glorified in traditional schools. Yet a fair description of the US could well point to a corrupt, violent and almost psychotic nation. Some topics are really off limits as violent reactions from the communities or ethnic groups would be almost certain to occur. If a teacher were to give a lesson that included that the US could never have survived without various forms of slavery in the past it would not be calmly considered as information but be taken more as a call to arms by several groups. Then a teacher could point out that the Americas were a sudden opening of a huge group of natural resources and that the ability of the people had little to do with the initial wealth of the nation. And it is not just the history class that could be seen as alienating youth from their heritage. Simply by stating that Carl Marx was the creator of progressive income tax so that to a degree the US is Marxist in nature would shock the heck out of many people. So how does a teacher teach? If the kids read Romeo and Juliet there is a line that says Juliet would have dome better if she had learned to fall back a bit. That line means she should have had sex with more people. Parents get upset if they are bright enough to know Shakespeare's language. And one of Joseph Conrad's classic novels can no longer be mentioned as the title contains the N word. The word niggardly is kept out of classrooms as many black folks think it has something to do with race. We need to insulate teachers from the public, the politicians and the corporations as well.
Laws become more and more invasive and complex to match the size and density of populations. It is not political theory but a simple observation of fact. With large, denser, more complex, cities and suburbs a bad actor can do such great harm that much more scrutiny has to be applied. Imagine some really hot nuclear dust being tossed out a window in such a way that a large part of a major city was off limits to humans for the next 200,000 years. Or it might be a bacteria or viral attack. The Oklahoma courthouse bombing is a tiny example. One can only dread what might have ocurred if McVeigh had more skills and better explosives. Look at the drastic expense that we might suffer if a major bridge or tunnel was a target. We are now compelled to be much more watchful of people if we intend to survive. These events can not be supposed to just not happen anymore. Think of the high school suicide shooters and how a batch of them act out from time to time followed by a period in which that issue feels like it goes a way for a while and then it happens again. We can't explain such behavior but we surely had best be prepared as well as we can to prevent it.
We may have the worst Supreme Court in American history. Yet these blind, old right wing, hogs who look for all the world like a bunch of adle brained, badly dressed drag queens in their black robes may well have tossed us a huge pile of peanuts.
You see these geniuses declared that a corporation is a person. Therefore we can assume that a corporation and a person have exactly the same status in law. So if an ordinairy citizen can be compelled to hand over all kinds of information by a court then so can an incorporation.
And beyond that any corporation that acts outside of public interest can have its corporation nulled. I'll bet many people feel that a swat team operating as a corporation is against the best interest of the public and that we can sue to dissolve those swat teams. The fact that they do not want to be free and open with their information indicates that they have guilt or liability and need to be put under scrutiny in the courts.
Toss in the lives lost by murderers who were drunk or were drunk when they were murdered. Toss in the number of convicts whose lives effectively ended by felony convictions caused by drink. Then toss in the people who die from alcohol but not from excessive use of alcohol. Much like tobacco it is not always the heavy user or long time user that gets sick from use.
Combine the totals with the number of people ruined and killed by the use of dope of various types or the incorrect use of prescription or over the counter medications and one can easily draw the conclusion that substance abuse is our worst social problem and even our greatest threat to national security as well.
How many convicts does it take to bankrupt a nation? How many welfare recipients did not do well in life because of things like dropping out of school in order to take dope or get drunk?
And here it is again, one more huge issue that resists any sane solutions.
I probaly have at least 12 old drives and probably can't recall the password on most of them. So does the judge hang me even though I'm telling the truth?
Up until about 1985 phone sales thieves were more than welcomed to Florida as long as they did not make sales within the state. Local politicians were only concerned with money being brought into town and had no concern about losses by people in other states or nations. Although there was a bit of a crack down it really remains somewhat true today.
Cyber crime on an international level may well benefit towns in other nations. After all the thieves buy pizzas at local restaurants and cars at local car lots. Trying to get other nations to spend money stopping cyber theft is not likely to have great success. When we see nations like Russia or China allowing a lot of cyber crime we would either have to put trade sanctions in place or cut their access to the net which would be quite difficult. Organized cyber criminals will simply move to other nations and keep right on doing what they do just as some American phone sales scams are conducted by American sales people working in Burma and other nations. That call that sounds like your neighbor may be quite international these days and it may be your neighbor all those thousands of miles away.
In Canada does one have to show loss in order to win? In the US one needs to be able to demonstrate real financial harm to get compensation in a slander suit.
If the universe can to be in an instant then we could easily believe that it will end as quickly as it began. It is like a baby at birth with its forst gasp of air and an old man at death with his last gasp of air. Both gasps take about the same amount of time.
We have too few drones and too many people. The loss of a person here or there shouldn't be taken so seriously. Obviously we let people freeze in their own homes and perish in our shrubs and sidewalks so why the heck does a drone whacking off the odd head now and then worry us much at all?
If they love the powder they will refuse anything that limits the high or the frequency of getting high. I wish i could say that therapy is worth a hoot but so far what I see is cell therapy (the iron bar type) works better than a two thousand dollar a day rehab. Catch them the first time and lock them down until they are forty years old and some can be turned around. Twenty years in a cell can get one past the memories of getting high.
This reminds me of the clothes dryer scam where people sent money and got a clothes line. Harvesting stray energy is real enough. But harvesting meaningful amounts is another kettle of fish. And the con men may just be planing their way out of court by demonstrating that stray energy actually can be harvested. Hold a neon tube under a power line and the tube will glow. Long insulated lines strung in the air will build up enough charge to keep an LED lit. But how many people have a ten mile long wire in the air?
Don't be so quick to dismiss the idea of vigilantes. Law enforcement simply can not do the job in all too many cases. And even when the cops catch bad guys we get stuck with huge court expenses and if we punish that is a money killer as well. So you have a problem with dope turning your neighborhood into a hell pit. All of a sudden you start finding users and sellers hanging from street lamps. The problem goes away! The cops can't do that. Got a problem with cars getting broken into? Can the cops solve it? And when vigilantes start asking who is doing what in a community you can bet they get answers.
Do you somehow believe that a majority in a voting booth are always better than a mob in the night? Both are forms of government. One is efficient.
Climate disruption may also refer to human lives splattered all over by wind storms created by warming whether man made or nature made or both. If a hurricane or tornado scrambles your poop before it leaves your body you will feel disruption more acutely than if your wallet blew away.
Considering that the US and Europe were slammed to the dirt by lack of business regulation and enforcement it seems reasonable to me that we insist on far tight regulation and enforcement and more severe penalties for breaches as well. In essence the government encourages crime by issuing penalties that are far less than the money gained by criminal, business, behaviors. GM is a huge example of that right now with the ignition switch murders. That is serious enough to seize the assets and sell of everything GM owns and put executives under the prison.
Recording of a voice in Florida is often illegal. I doubt that it matters whose property it is on or whether it is an employer or not. It is a felony and the civil suit might be a real stunner.
Capitalism may have some joys but it also is like a cancer that causes a lot of damage as it feeds upon people. Maybe the only people with enough power to get pay for teachers are the students themselves. How long before teachers, covertly, get students to strike or protest the pay issues?
In fact an accurate title would be "The Supreme Court Doesn't Understand". These dullards do not even understand that free speech is not money nor that corporations are not people. And congress is even more mindless. The phrase advise and consent means exactly that. If congress advises the president not to install an official the constitution still requires them to consent to the appointment. The language could not be simpler. Nowhere was the congress instructed to consent or deny an appointment. The founders were smart enough to realize that the advice of congress could be mindless and worthless and that the president always has the right to appoint.
Then there is my favorite " The right to bear arms". Just what lame fool decided that bear means own or possess or that some people could be excluded? To bear means to carry. It really is that simple. You have the right to carry arms. It is that simple. That does not mean open or concealed or limited right to carry. You simply have the right to carry arms.That means that seniors, people who have finished prison sentences, and anyone who is considered mentally competent at the moment is allowed to carry a gun or rifle. I know a lot of people don't like that but seriously how can the term "bear" be confusing?
Weapons of war are not operated nor expected to have the same safety features as drones for civilian uses. There is also no mention of the size or weight of drones that have crashed. Many of these four hundred might have been a few ounces and fallen at very low speeds or fallen while being under heavy fire.
I'll bet that in the US people flying hobby drones inside their homes have suffered some minor injuries as it is a common hobby. But is there even a single incident within the US of any drone of size causing injury to a human being by "falling out of the sky"?
There has been a commercial drone making deliveries from the US into Mexico that has been in operation for some time.
We also fail to note that drones save lives. Drones have prevented our war fighters from suffering wounds or death in numerous cases. Drones are being used to locate lost children and hikers and to spot poachers and thieves. Drones are also being used to inspect bridges and places that are risky for humans to reach. I would rather a twenty pound drone working for the local news channel crash than a six thousand pound copter with a pilot and newsman crash doing the same task. And as far as urban and suburban crime detection and prevention we may live in a far nicer world when drones can record numerous events. And the guy that causes that wreck in his car may well want to think really hard before telling lies on the witness stand. He might turn that greedy law suit into a twenty year prison sentence for perjury.
Try to get a paranoid schizophrenic to carry a phone that collects his information. Obviously you would have to weld the smartphone to the guy as it is the very first thing he would focus on getting out of his life. A substantial number of mental patients feel that nothing at all is wrong with them or that they just have an insignificant, tiny, issue.
It has been known for decades that the CIA has developed sources of income that are automated and unstoppable. Various agents were charged with setting up businesses that paid into the CIA on a regular basis and it was so covert that if the agent and his superior both dropped dead the income continues. For example a car dealership may pay a "supposed loan" back to a bank once a month for 30 years. Even if the business is sold the payments will continue. The agent that set it up need no longer be involved. By repeating this process with investments and covert accounts the budget of the CIA could never be revealed with only the tax dollars known as income. One would imagine the NSA has done something similar. Such projects help to shield new weapons development as the public expenses do not report the excess income and weapons development can continue without foreign scrutiny.
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What's a criminal to do? Gone will be the good old days where a man could feed his family by ripping off one car a week. And our prison system will have to lay off workers and buy less products to feed those that live off of the supposed criminal, justice system. And not only have companies like GM failed to provide strong locks for cars they have ignition switches that kill the owners of such cars. I don't want to get too real here and put folks into shock but compare the morals of car thieves to executives at GM and keep Ford in mind as well for those lovely Pinto gas tanks and don't forget the Corvaire by GM that could flip in a low speed corner all on its own. Could it be that car thieves have better morals than car companies?
Education is in a bind. In order to educate properly young people must deal with facts. Facts are often stress inducing and belief challenging. And it really doesn't matter much which nation we are in. For example American history and American heroes are glorified in traditional schools. Yet a fair description of the US could well point to a corrupt, violent and almost psychotic nation. Some topics are really off limits as violent reactions from the communities or ethnic groups would be almost certain to occur. If a teacher were to give a lesson that included that the US could never have survived without various forms of slavery in the past it would not be calmly considered as information but be taken more as a call to arms by several groups. Then a teacher could point out that the Americas were a sudden opening of a huge group of natural resources and that the ability of the people had little to do with the initial wealth of the nation. And it is not just the history class that could be seen as alienating youth from their heritage. Simply by stating that Carl Marx was the creator of progressive income tax so that to a degree the US is Marxist in nature would shock the heck out of many people. So how does a teacher teach? If the kids read Romeo and Juliet there is a line that says Juliet would have dome better if she had learned to fall back a bit. That line means she should have had sex with more people. Parents get upset if they are bright enough to know Shakespeare's language. And one of Joseph Conrad's classic novels can no longer be mentioned as the title contains the N word. The word niggardly is kept out of classrooms as many black folks think it has something to do with race. We need to insulate teachers from the public, the politicians and the corporations as well.
Laws become more and more invasive and complex to match the size and density of populations. It is not political theory but a simple observation of fact. With large, denser, more complex, cities and suburbs a bad actor can do such great harm that much more scrutiny has to be applied. Imagine some really hot nuclear dust being tossed out a window in such a way that a large part of a major city was off limits to humans for the next 200,000 years. Or it might be a bacteria or viral attack. The Oklahoma courthouse bombing is a tiny example. One can only dread what might have ocurred if McVeigh had more skills and better explosives. Look at the drastic expense that we might suffer if a major bridge or tunnel was a target. We are now compelled to be much more watchful of people if we intend to survive. These events can not be supposed to just not happen anymore. Think of the high school suicide shooters and how a batch of them act out from time to time followed by a period in which that issue feels like it goes a way for a while and then it happens again. We can't explain such behavior but we surely had best be prepared as well as we can to prevent it.
We may have the worst Supreme Court in American history. Yet these blind, old right wing, hogs who look for all the world like a bunch of adle brained, badly dressed drag queens in their black robes may well have tossed us a huge pile of peanuts. You see these geniuses declared that a corporation is a person. Therefore we can assume that a corporation and a person have exactly the same status in law. So if an ordinairy citizen can be compelled to hand over all kinds of information by a court then so can an incorporation. And beyond that any corporation that acts outside of public interest can have its corporation nulled. I'll bet many people feel that a swat team operating as a corporation is against the best interest of the public and that we can sue to dissolve those swat teams. The fact that they do not want to be free and open with their information indicates that they have guilt or liability and need to be put under scrutiny in the courts.
Toss in the lives lost by murderers who were drunk or were drunk when they were murdered. Toss in the number of convicts whose lives effectively ended by felony convictions caused by drink. Then toss in the people who die from alcohol but not from excessive use of alcohol. Much like tobacco it is not always the heavy user or long time user that gets sick from use. Combine the totals with the number of people ruined and killed by the use of dope of various types or the incorrect use of prescription or over the counter medications and one can easily draw the conclusion that substance abuse is our worst social problem and even our greatest threat to national security as well. How many convicts does it take to bankrupt a nation? How many welfare recipients did not do well in life because of things like dropping out of school in order to take dope or get drunk? And here it is again, one more huge issue that resists any sane solutions.
I probaly have at least 12 old drives and probably can't recall the password on most of them. So does the judge hang me even though I'm telling the truth?
There are several Linux distros that are current that will run on old 386 pCs.. I don't know if Pi can do what you seek to do without add-ons etc..
First, can it work? Next, will the wall be so heavy that it sinks?
Up until about 1985 phone sales thieves were more than welcomed to Florida as long as they did not make sales within the state. Local politicians were only concerned with money being brought into town and had no concern about losses by people in other states or nations. Although there was a bit of a crack down it really remains somewhat true today. Cyber crime on an international level may well benefit towns in other nations. After all the thieves buy pizzas at local restaurants and cars at local car lots. Trying to get other nations to spend money stopping cyber theft is not likely to have great success. When we see nations like Russia or China allowing a lot of cyber crime we would either have to put trade sanctions in place or cut their access to the net which would be quite difficult. Organized cyber criminals will simply move to other nations and keep right on doing what they do just as some American phone sales scams are conducted by American sales people working in Burma and other nations. That call that sounds like your neighbor may be quite international these days and it may be your neighbor all those thousands of miles away.
At least it is not in Detroit.
In Canada does one have to show loss in order to win? In the US one needs to be able to demonstrate real financial harm to get compensation in a slander suit.
If the universe can to be in an instant then we could easily believe that it will end as quickly as it began. It is like a baby at birth with its forst gasp of air and an old man at death with his last gasp of air. Both gasps take about the same amount of time.
We have too few drones and too many people. The loss of a person here or there shouldn't be taken so seriously. Obviously we let people freeze in their own homes and perish in our shrubs and sidewalks so why the heck does a drone whacking off the odd head now and then worry us much at all?
If they love the powder they will refuse anything that limits the high or the frequency of getting high. I wish i could say that therapy is worth a hoot but so far what I see is cell therapy (the iron bar type) works better than a two thousand dollar a day rehab. Catch them the first time and lock them down until they are forty years old and some can be turned around. Twenty years in a cell can get one past the memories of getting high.
This reminds me of the clothes dryer scam where people sent money and got a clothes line. Harvesting stray energy is real enough. But harvesting meaningful amounts is another kettle of fish. And the con men may just be planing their way out of court by demonstrating that stray energy actually can be harvested. Hold a neon tube under a power line and the tube will glow. Long insulated lines strung in the air will build up enough charge to keep an LED lit. But how many people have a ten mile long wire in the air?
Don't be so quick to dismiss the idea of vigilantes. Law enforcement simply can not do the job in all too many cases. And even when the cops catch bad guys we get stuck with huge court expenses and if we punish that is a money killer as well. So you have a problem with dope turning your neighborhood into a hell pit. All of a sudden you start finding users and sellers hanging from street lamps. The problem goes away! The cops can't do that. Got a problem with cars getting broken into? Can the cops solve it? And when vigilantes start asking who is doing what in a community you can bet they get answers. Do you somehow believe that a majority in a voting booth are always better than a mob in the night? Both are forms of government. One is efficient.
Climate disruption may also refer to human lives splattered all over by wind storms created by warming whether man made or nature made or both. If a hurricane or tornado scrambles your poop before it leaves your body you will feel disruption more acutely than if your wallet blew away.
Considering that the US and Europe were slammed to the dirt by lack of business regulation and enforcement it seems reasonable to me that we insist on far tight regulation and enforcement and more severe penalties for breaches as well. In essence the government encourages crime by issuing penalties that are far less than the money gained by criminal, business, behaviors. GM is a huge example of that right now with the ignition switch murders. That is serious enough to seize the assets and sell of everything GM owns and put executives under the prison.
Recording of a voice in Florida is often illegal. I doubt that it matters whose property it is on or whether it is an employer or not. It is a felony and the civil suit might be a real stunner.
Capitalism may have some joys but it also is like a cancer that causes a lot of damage as it feeds upon people. Maybe the only people with enough power to get pay for teachers are the students themselves. How long before teachers, covertly, get students to strike or protest the pay issues?
In fact an accurate title would be "The Supreme Court Doesn't Understand". These dullards do not even understand that free speech is not money nor that corporations are not people. And congress is even more mindless. The phrase advise and consent means exactly that. If congress advises the president not to install an official the constitution still requires them to consent to the appointment. The language could not be simpler. Nowhere was the congress instructed to consent or deny an appointment. The founders were smart enough to realize that the advice of congress could be mindless and worthless and that the president always has the right to appoint. Then there is my favorite " The right to bear arms". Just what lame fool decided that bear means own or possess or that some people could be excluded? To bear means to carry. It really is that simple. You have the right to carry arms. It is that simple. That does not mean open or concealed or limited right to carry. You simply have the right to carry arms.That means that seniors, people who have finished prison sentences, and anyone who is considered mentally competent at the moment is allowed to carry a gun or rifle. I know a lot of people don't like that but seriously how can the term "bear" be confusing?
Weapons of war are not operated nor expected to have the same safety features as drones for civilian uses. There is also no mention of the size or weight of drones that have crashed. Many of these four hundred might have been a few ounces and fallen at very low speeds or fallen while being under heavy fire. I'll bet that in the US people flying hobby drones inside their homes have suffered some minor injuries as it is a common hobby. But is there even a single incident within the US of any drone of size causing injury to a human being by "falling out of the sky"? There has been a commercial drone making deliveries from the US into Mexico that has been in operation for some time. We also fail to note that drones save lives. Drones have prevented our war fighters from suffering wounds or death in numerous cases. Drones are being used to locate lost children and hikers and to spot poachers and thieves. Drones are also being used to inspect bridges and places that are risky for humans to reach. I would rather a twenty pound drone working for the local news channel crash than a six thousand pound copter with a pilot and newsman crash doing the same task. And as far as urban and suburban crime detection and prevention we may live in a far nicer world when drones can record numerous events. And the guy that causes that wreck in his car may well want to think really hard before telling lies on the witness stand. He might turn that greedy law suit into a twenty year prison sentence for perjury.
Why not simply try it on some bald folks and see how it works?
Try to get a paranoid schizophrenic to carry a phone that collects his information. Obviously you would have to weld the smartphone to the guy as it is the very first thing he would focus on getting out of his life. A substantial number of mental patients feel that nothing at all is wrong with them or that they just have an insignificant, tiny, issue.
It has been known for decades that the CIA has developed sources of income that are automated and unstoppable. Various agents were charged with setting up businesses that paid into the CIA on a regular basis and it was so covert that if the agent and his superior both dropped dead the income continues. For example a car dealership may pay a "supposed loan" back to a bank once a month for 30 years. Even if the business is sold the payments will continue. The agent that set it up need no longer be involved. By repeating this process with investments and covert accounts the budget of the CIA could never be revealed with only the tax dollars known as income. One would imagine the NSA has done something similar. Such projects help to shield new weapons development as the public expenses do not report the excess income and weapons development can continue without foreign scrutiny.