Apparently there is a strong case to be made that traffic fines are a covert source of taxation. Therefore we need to make laws that insure that the cities, states and counties lose a bit of money every time a ticket is written. We must insure that there is no financial motive for traffic law enforcement.
This a a huge example of the rut that modern times impose upon us. Unfair, unreasonable, traffic enforcement just might be the only way we have to prevent criminal chaos from ruling the streets and businesses of our nation. I doubt that the public has any awareness of how laws actually cause crimes. Here is an example: A state makes laws that no felon may receive any form of welfare or public support. Next the courts rule that a felon will be released after 36 months in prison. Then the economy caves in and nobody can get a job. The felon is released on his due date. naturally he can not get any job at all. He also can not get Unemployment Insurance or any form of welfare. Society goes blind and pretends that the newly released inmate will just calmly starve to death in the rain without committing another crime. The inmates release carried a parole requirement that he work and have a place to live. They might as well have required him to walk on water. Then when he inevitably breaks the law the judge will point out how the felon has failed to reestablish himself in the community. That is even more absurd than it sounds as the parole officer would never allow the former convict to relocate himself in a county in which work was available. And booby prize of the century goes to the state of Utah where a 12 year old boy impregnated his 13 year old girlfriend. Then the state decides that since both were legally children they raped each other. I wonder whether for purposes of trial they will be tried as adults.
There is no way to keep information of the net. Laws that attempt to do that are limp to the point that Viagra will not help.
How about Europe getting the point that we all have to live with our past. We own that information as does everyone else in the community. And yes, if I am about to hire a person, date a girl, or make a loan or investment I do want to know all of the criminal history of the person in question. And yes, even if they were 13 years old when they butchered heir neighbor I still insist on that information being public and easily obtainable.
South Florida has a population of greater than 6 million. Not only do we have nukes right on the beach we also have garbage mountains, graveyards that go back 150 years, chemical wells, and every other pollutant that a city tends to have. All of this is less than five feet above sea level. Most of it may be only two feet above sea level. The topography is such that the area will flood from the Atlantic all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. The region will not be habitable inland or on the coasts. Keep in mind we get high tides, spring tides, and hurricanes with surges as well as very tall waves. In other words a house on stilts would not help. Houseboats would have about a two year life span as tropical storms are common.
So what you may say. Who gives a hoot about South Florida? the catch is that the pollution that would take place may well be enough to destroy the Atlantic ocean completely. South Florida also produces fruit and vegetables even in winter and there is no other part of the continental US that does that. On top of that the investment and mortgage value of south Florida is on a scale large enough to completely destroy the US economy if we go under.
I told the clerk at the grocery store yesterday that I actually found a tiny piece of clam in my Campbell's Clam Chowder. I asked if i should call Homeland Security. It was clear to me and her as well that finding a bit of a clam in their soup was so unusual that perhaps Homeland Security should investigate and find out just why somehow they accidentally added a tiny piece of clam to their Clam Chowder.
Now I am in legal jeopardy for reporting that which I really did say in public? Does that make me more liable than when I say that Chrysler cars and trucks fall art way too easily? How does that compare to saying that the US House of Representatives has a lazy, stupid and corrupt majority. Does that get me a citation for contempt of congress? Am i being unfair or just warning my friends that some bad products are on the market? And don't get me started about GM allowing lethally bad parts to remain on the road in their cars. Can i be sued for using the word murder?
Local governments seem to universally have an answer for areas at risk. Simply issue tons of new building permits. Got a huge fire problem? Isn't it obvious? You simply need tens of thousands of new homes in the hot spots. Got a beach that is vanishing? What the heck, just bang out some really expensive homes on those beaches or maybe put a nuclear reactor on that beach. they work under water don't they? Got a really dangerous, active earthquake zone? Move your high tech companies smack dab onto the fault line. That way when the earth shakes all those companies can crumble and bankrupt the nation and probably touch off a world wide depression. Do you have sink holes swallowing homes? That proves you need a lot more homes on the spot. That way they can suck even more water out of the ground causing more sink holes. And why waste the sales potential of homes that have a view of lava flowing down the side of a volcano. They should be multi million dollar homes every time. That way we can get rid of foolish rich people, bankrupt insurance companies which tend to own our banks, and set of an economioc holocaust. It's all about growth. More building permits, more growth, more pollution, more tragedies, hell it's the American way.
Imagine us trying to teach a robot morality when humans have little agreement on what is moral. For example would a moral robot have refused to function in the Vietnam War? Would a drone take out an enemy in Somalia knowing that that terrorist was a US citizen? How many innocent deaths are permissible if a valuable target can be destroyed? If a robot acts as a fair player could it use high tech weapons against an enemy that had only rifles that were made prior to WWII? If many troops are injured should a medical robot save two enemy or one US soldier who will take all of the robot's attention and time?
When it comes to moral issues and behaviors there are often no points of agreement by humans so just how does one program a robot to deal with moral conflicts?
A recent patent filing suggests that Japan may well own the battery market in the very near future. Tesla might want to license that battery technology or even buy their batteries from Japan. It seems to be a night and day breakthrough.
It would be a money maker if a tiny drone could carry six ounces of heroin or cocaine across the border. The money is sufficient to cover the occasional loss of a drone and one need not pay a mule to smuggle the substance. It may also be a lot harder to catch and convict the sender of such drugs. That also means that chemical or germ warfare could be a huge threat. But now the rabbit is out of the hat. We could not regulate drones out of existence as many people could easily build one from scratch. Maybe we could have high altitude drones that strike any site launching a drone.
No way do you want a Glock decal in your window. Thieves love finding guns in homes or under car seats. Guns registered to an address or an individual and Harley Davidson motorcycle registrations increase your chances of a burglary or robbery.
And the law itself causes a lot of crime. The law takes all the fun out of things. No longer can one hide a bear trap under a window sill. And even if you enjoy the heck out of gunning down an intruder it is vital that you act all hang dogged and make it clear that you just hated emptying your gun into an intruder. Look at the nonsense applied to George Zimmerman. there we had a man who was attacked and had an attacker trying to bash his head apart on the concrete and people still got upset that he shot the trash that was attacking him. Go figure.
So many new materials are popping up that it is very hard for a business to take action as the next new thing might be a better path for a company to take. Batteries are the same way. We seem to have a better battery breakthrough about once a week. How does a large business take advantage of such a situation. Any machines or software that people purchase may well appear as a dumb move as better materials pop up instantly.
My only objection to mass surveillance or data compilation focusing on a subject has to do with different levels of legal privilege. If we are all allowed to do investigation, surveillance and data acquisition then I think it is wonderful. Good people will simply shine and lesser people will appear as they are.
There are other elements in play as well. We may now have a lie detector that works quite differently than past lie detectors and people in a court room may not be able to lie or cover up anything any more. Imagine going to renew a driver's license and having a device ask you if you have driven drunk or under the influence of illegal drugs in the past three years? How about employers asking the same question? How about politicians being asked if they received compensation for their votes? Or how about stock brokers asked if they have acted in the buyers' best interest? Or husbands and wives asking about adultery? How about school kids being asked if they have listed all the names of anyone who gave them drugs? Or how about parents being asked if they have had sexual contact with children?
Can we live in an honest society? Honesty might be the greatest social experiment of all times.
You are dead on about costs not being considered.. And it is not just in new products either. It has been understood for many decades that gasoline and diesel exhaust cause a lot of death and disease and that environmental clean up was required. Yet there has been no effort to define what one more mile of road or one more car or truck burning fossil fuels generates in negative costs. Both individuals and businesses have trouble with issues they do not wish to confront. Burning fossil fuels and global warming are both issues the public wishes to not understand. Half the yokels are just getting a tiny bit comfortable with the concept of evolution.
Now watch all the powers that be in California to strive to attract ever more businesses and new residents to California thus insuring that their tribulations and disasters will grow ever more frequent and vicious in effects. And make note that no political figure will sound off about stopping building permits and asking businesses to leave California. No matter how awful it gets the traditional machine will just keep trying to do the same old, wrong, thing.
A glance is all that it takes to generate an attack by some animals. To notice is to challenge seems to be the idea in play. We see the same thing in ghetto youth when the words you noticed me are the opening salvo in a fight. This extends into conflicts such as stop and frisk laws. People walking can be "noticed". Therefore those who walk are more prone to police searches and arrests. The rich are not noticed as they use cars. Drug deals in a ghetto occur on sidewalks where people are noticed. Drug deals behind mansion walls are not noticed.
So what we are really up against is just how can we observe and study the actions of every person without regard to economic status, race or other factors. The worst people often are never noticed at all until the damage is in great proportions with folks like bankers and Wall Street brokers.
I have lived in Florida for 55 years. Even a one foot rise in sea levels would be a serious disaster. South Florida in particular is almost at sea level and any spring tide or storm already brings losses. Salt water intrusion threatens our water supply for many millions of people and places like the Everglades would be exterminated by salt water rising just a few inches.
Considering the potential earthquake disasters on the west coast perhaps that land should be reserved for farming only and the population moved to a safer area. For example a major quake in San Francisco really has the potential to bankrupt the US. Imagine the billions in insured losses that would have to be covered. But instead of rational behavior they will probably build more nuclear reactors on the beaches.
We do expect and demand that the public change their lifestyles quite a bit. First we need less babies. Then we need to make certain that energy demands decrease for each individual. But we have large businesses that are corrupt and pay off politicians in order to deny global warming. Wyoming is the latest example. They don't want global warming taught in the schools. Frankly these issues bite deeper than politics and things could get really nasty. Not only are we going to be harmed by the nay sayers but they are putting our children and grandchildren in harms way. At some point this issue could cause violence to break out within our nation and many nations are likely to go to war as their suffering increases.
Guns can be a work of art and adding stuff to them can be like painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa. It is not just about being reliable and quick to deploy it is also about screwing up the designs made by some very dedicated gunsmiths. Even utility weapons such as the AK-47 are valued because they simply can't be drowned or clogged with dirt and simply tend to work every time under really wretched conditions. Imagine how bad an AK-47 would have been all these years with a pile of electronics inside it. Chances are your average Viet Cong would not be carrying replacement batteries when his Ak-47 needed charging.
You can bet on almost all aluminum in cars being replaced by carbon fiber. The one exception being engine parts as that seems to be more difficult. But as far as reclaiming carbon fiber after the cars life ends I suspect that carbon fiber could be crushed and shredded as an additive for concrete or asphalt and thus sequestered over and over again for centuries. Who knows? Maybe we will see 3d printed homes created with shredded carbon fiber put in place by quadcopters or bots.
Think about the size of an army that China can deploy. We have zero ability to even dream of a one on one combat situation with a traditional Chinese army. Fielding mechanical warriors of various types would be our real hope other than using nuclear bombs are other weapons of mass destruction. Or the US could put two million soldiers on the line and watch them be swarmed over as a trivially, small force.
Then there is the problem of cost. And it is not just for the full military responses. An effective border control is an economic back breaker. We could easily put automated devices on our border with Mexico which would shout out a freeze until a custodial officer arrives and if movement continues simply execute the target. We could make it next to impossible to violate our border and save millions in patrol costs continually. The same could be done at sea to protect restricted waters from foreign exploitation by whaling or fishing vessels.
And then there is the drive by shooter issue so common in parts of California. Imagine punks firing into a home when suddenly a robotic warrior pops up with a very good weapon blazing at the offenders car.
I know, all you who whine about guns, I repeat the problem is only that the wrong people are getting shot. Anything that gets the right people shot is a blessing.
Polyurethane foam homes have already been built. Usually it involves a bag full of air and a coating being sprayed on the bag. Now we could do this with a hoard of quad copters. We could even hold burlap in place suspended from quad copters while special shapes were formed.
Obviously foam homes are energy efficient and very low maintenance. The shock is that they can also be quite strong and wind resistant as well. The thickness of the foam shell is only limited by the dept of your wallet.
Blinking red lights have not met the uniform traffic code for 50 years and exist only due to local budget issues.
And bicycles are not treated equally on the road. For example most cars will pass a bike in a no passing zone. In some cases a no passing zone may last for several miles and you don't see a line of cars crawling along at 12 mph. which they would be doing if they actually obeyed the law. And then we come to the Interstate hwys. and turnpikes. Notice that they almost always have "no bicycles allowed" policies. I am not certain that one can travel the short distance from Ft. Lauderdale to Miami, no matter how far one detours, on a bicycle without breaking the law. All roads that connect are bicycle banned roads. Further, just why can we not have bicycle paths along all hwys.? Perhaps a safety rail should be in place and the bike paths should be a few feet removed from the car traffic.
Further it is not just bicycles. There are vast areas that you can not legally reach by foot. And there is also the loss of ability to use a horse or horse and buggy to travel as our ancestors did daily.
Consider the notion that as a nation we might be all better off if private cars and trucks were banned and people able to use bicycles everywhere. Regulated public taxis and the like could serve those who are impaired. Are you aware that it is next to impossible to go to prison in Florida for stealing a car unless you have a long arrest record? What do you think the court does with a bicycle thief? Not much!
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Apparently there is a strong case to be made that traffic fines are a covert source of taxation. Therefore we need to make laws that insure that the cities, states and counties lose a bit of money every time a ticket is written. We must insure that there is no financial motive for traffic law enforcement. This a a huge example of the rut that modern times impose upon us. Unfair, unreasonable, traffic enforcement just might be the only way we have to prevent criminal chaos from ruling the streets and businesses of our nation. I doubt that the public has any awareness of how laws actually cause crimes. Here is an example: A state makes laws that no felon may receive any form of welfare or public support. Next the courts rule that a felon will be released after 36 months in prison. Then the economy caves in and nobody can get a job. The felon is released on his due date. naturally he can not get any job at all. He also can not get Unemployment Insurance or any form of welfare. Society goes blind and pretends that the newly released inmate will just calmly starve to death in the rain without committing another crime. The inmates release carried a parole requirement that he work and have a place to live. They might as well have required him to walk on water. Then when he inevitably breaks the law the judge will point out how the felon has failed to reestablish himself in the community. That is even more absurd than it sounds as the parole officer would never allow the former convict to relocate himself in a county in which work was available. And booby prize of the century goes to the state of Utah where a 12 year old boy impregnated his 13 year old girlfriend. Then the state decides that since both were legally children they raped each other. I wonder whether for purposes of trial they will be tried as adults.
There is no way to keep information of the net. Laws that attempt to do that are limp to the point that Viagra will not help. How about Europe getting the point that we all have to live with our past. We own that information as does everyone else in the community. And yes, if I am about to hire a person, date a girl, or make a loan or investment I do want to know all of the criminal history of the person in question. And yes, even if they were 13 years old when they butchered heir neighbor I still insist on that information being public and easily obtainable.
South Florida has a population of greater than 6 million. Not only do we have nukes right on the beach we also have garbage mountains, graveyards that go back 150 years, chemical wells, and every other pollutant that a city tends to have. All of this is less than five feet above sea level. Most of it may be only two feet above sea level. The topography is such that the area will flood from the Atlantic all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. The region will not be habitable inland or on the coasts. Keep in mind we get high tides, spring tides, and hurricanes with surges as well as very tall waves. In other words a house on stilts would not help. Houseboats would have about a two year life span as tropical storms are common. So what you may say. Who gives a hoot about South Florida? the catch is that the pollution that would take place may well be enough to destroy the Atlantic ocean completely. South Florida also produces fruit and vegetables even in winter and there is no other part of the continental US that does that. On top of that the investment and mortgage value of south Florida is on a scale large enough to completely destroy the US economy if we go under.
I told the clerk at the grocery store yesterday that I actually found a tiny piece of clam in my Campbell's Clam Chowder. I asked if i should call Homeland Security. It was clear to me and her as well that finding a bit of a clam in their soup was so unusual that perhaps Homeland Security should investigate and find out just why somehow they accidentally added a tiny piece of clam to their Clam Chowder. Now I am in legal jeopardy for reporting that which I really did say in public? Does that make me more liable than when I say that Chrysler cars and trucks fall art way too easily? How does that compare to saying that the US House of Representatives has a lazy, stupid and corrupt majority. Does that get me a citation for contempt of congress? Am i being unfair or just warning my friends that some bad products are on the market? And don't get me started about GM allowing lethally bad parts to remain on the road in their cars. Can i be sued for using the word murder?
Local governments seem to universally have an answer for areas at risk. Simply issue tons of new building permits. Got a huge fire problem? Isn't it obvious? You simply need tens of thousands of new homes in the hot spots. Got a beach that is vanishing? What the heck, just bang out some really expensive homes on those beaches or maybe put a nuclear reactor on that beach. they work under water don't they? Got a really dangerous, active earthquake zone? Move your high tech companies smack dab onto the fault line. That way when the earth shakes all those companies can crumble and bankrupt the nation and probably touch off a world wide depression. Do you have sink holes swallowing homes? That proves you need a lot more homes on the spot. That way they can suck even more water out of the ground causing more sink holes. And why waste the sales potential of homes that have a view of lava flowing down the side of a volcano. They should be multi million dollar homes every time. That way we can get rid of foolish rich people, bankrupt insurance companies which tend to own our banks, and set of an economioc holocaust. It's all about growth. More building permits, more growth, more pollution, more tragedies, hell it's the American way.
It would have been far better if a drone had gunned him down. That way the cop would not have been at risk.
Imagine us trying to teach a robot morality when humans have little agreement on what is moral. For example would a moral robot have refused to function in the Vietnam War? Would a drone take out an enemy in Somalia knowing that that terrorist was a US citizen? How many innocent deaths are permissible if a valuable target can be destroyed? If a robot acts as a fair player could it use high tech weapons against an enemy that had only rifles that were made prior to WWII? If many troops are injured should a medical robot save two enemy or one US soldier who will take all of the robot's attention and time? When it comes to moral issues and behaviors there are often no points of agreement by humans so just how does one program a robot to deal with moral conflicts?
A recent patent filing suggests that Japan may well own the battery market in the very near future. Tesla might want to license that battery technology or even buy their batteries from Japan. It seems to be a night and day breakthrough.
It would be a money maker if a tiny drone could carry six ounces of heroin or cocaine across the border. The money is sufficient to cover the occasional loss of a drone and one need not pay a mule to smuggle the substance. It may also be a lot harder to catch and convict the sender of such drugs. That also means that chemical or germ warfare could be a huge threat. But now the rabbit is out of the hat. We could not regulate drones out of existence as many people could easily build one from scratch. Maybe we could have high altitude drones that strike any site launching a drone.
No way do you want a Glock decal in your window. Thieves love finding guns in homes or under car seats. Guns registered to an address or an individual and Harley Davidson motorcycle registrations increase your chances of a burglary or robbery. And the law itself causes a lot of crime. The law takes all the fun out of things. No longer can one hide a bear trap under a window sill. And even if you enjoy the heck out of gunning down an intruder it is vital that you act all hang dogged and make it clear that you just hated emptying your gun into an intruder. Look at the nonsense applied to George Zimmerman. there we had a man who was attacked and had an attacker trying to bash his head apart on the concrete and people still got upset that he shot the trash that was attacking him. Go figure.
So many new materials are popping up that it is very hard for a business to take action as the next new thing might be a better path for a company to take. Batteries are the same way. We seem to have a better battery breakthrough about once a week. How does a large business take advantage of such a situation. Any machines or software that people purchase may well appear as a dumb move as better materials pop up instantly.
My only objection to mass surveillance or data compilation focusing on a subject has to do with different levels of legal privilege. If we are all allowed to do investigation, surveillance and data acquisition then I think it is wonderful. Good people will simply shine and lesser people will appear as they are. There are other elements in play as well. We may now have a lie detector that works quite differently than past lie detectors and people in a court room may not be able to lie or cover up anything any more. Imagine going to renew a driver's license and having a device ask you if you have driven drunk or under the influence of illegal drugs in the past three years? How about employers asking the same question? How about politicians being asked if they received compensation for their votes? Or how about stock brokers asked if they have acted in the buyers' best interest? Or husbands and wives asking about adultery? How about school kids being asked if they have listed all the names of anyone who gave them drugs? Or how about parents being asked if they have had sexual contact with children? Can we live in an honest society? Honesty might be the greatest social experiment of all times.
You are dead on about costs not being considered.. And it is not just in new products either. It has been understood for many decades that gasoline and diesel exhaust cause a lot of death and disease and that environmental clean up was required. Yet there has been no effort to define what one more mile of road or one more car or truck burning fossil fuels generates in negative costs. Both individuals and businesses have trouble with issues they do not wish to confront. Burning fossil fuels and global warming are both issues the public wishes to not understand. Half the yokels are just getting a tiny bit comfortable with the concept of evolution.
Now watch all the powers that be in California to strive to attract ever more businesses and new residents to California thus insuring that their tribulations and disasters will grow ever more frequent and vicious in effects. And make note that no political figure will sound off about stopping building permits and asking businesses to leave California. No matter how awful it gets the traditional machine will just keep trying to do the same old, wrong, thing.
A glance is all that it takes to generate an attack by some animals. To notice is to challenge seems to be the idea in play. We see the same thing in ghetto youth when the words you noticed me are the opening salvo in a fight. This extends into conflicts such as stop and frisk laws. People walking can be "noticed". Therefore those who walk are more prone to police searches and arrests. The rich are not noticed as they use cars. Drug deals in a ghetto occur on sidewalks where people are noticed. Drug deals behind mansion walls are not noticed. So what we are really up against is just how can we observe and study the actions of every person without regard to economic status, race or other factors. The worst people often are never noticed at all until the damage is in great proportions with folks like bankers and Wall Street brokers.
I have lived in Florida for 55 years. Even a one foot rise in sea levels would be a serious disaster. South Florida in particular is almost at sea level and any spring tide or storm already brings losses. Salt water intrusion threatens our water supply for many millions of people and places like the Everglades would be exterminated by salt water rising just a few inches.
Considering the potential earthquake disasters on the west coast perhaps that land should be reserved for farming only and the population moved to a safer area. For example a major quake in San Francisco really has the potential to bankrupt the US. Imagine the billions in insured losses that would have to be covered. But instead of rational behavior they will probably build more nuclear reactors on the beaches.
We do expect and demand that the public change their lifestyles quite a bit. First we need less babies. Then we need to make certain that energy demands decrease for each individual. But we have large businesses that are corrupt and pay off politicians in order to deny global warming. Wyoming is the latest example. They don't want global warming taught in the schools. Frankly these issues bite deeper than politics and things could get really nasty. Not only are we going to be harmed by the nay sayers but they are putting our children and grandchildren in harms way. At some point this issue could cause violence to break out within our nation and many nations are likely to go to war as their suffering increases.
Guns can be a work of art and adding stuff to them can be like painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa. It is not just about being reliable and quick to deploy it is also about screwing up the designs made by some very dedicated gunsmiths. Even utility weapons such as the AK-47 are valued because they simply can't be drowned or clogged with dirt and simply tend to work every time under really wretched conditions. Imagine how bad an AK-47 would have been all these years with a pile of electronics inside it. Chances are your average Viet Cong would not be carrying replacement batteries when his Ak-47 needed charging.
You can bet on almost all aluminum in cars being replaced by carbon fiber. The one exception being engine parts as that seems to be more difficult. But as far as reclaiming carbon fiber after the cars life ends I suspect that carbon fiber could be crushed and shredded as an additive for concrete or asphalt and thus sequestered over and over again for centuries. Who knows? Maybe we will see 3d printed homes created with shredded carbon fiber put in place by quadcopters or bots.
Think about the size of an army that China can deploy. We have zero ability to even dream of a one on one combat situation with a traditional Chinese army. Fielding mechanical warriors of various types would be our real hope other than using nuclear bombs are other weapons of mass destruction. Or the US could put two million soldiers on the line and watch them be swarmed over as a trivially, small force. Then there is the problem of cost. And it is not just for the full military responses. An effective border control is an economic back breaker. We could easily put automated devices on our border with Mexico which would shout out a freeze until a custodial officer arrives and if movement continues simply execute the target. We could make it next to impossible to violate our border and save millions in patrol costs continually. The same could be done at sea to protect restricted waters from foreign exploitation by whaling or fishing vessels. And then there is the drive by shooter issue so common in parts of California. Imagine punks firing into a home when suddenly a robotic warrior pops up with a very good weapon blazing at the offenders car. I know, all you who whine about guns, I repeat the problem is only that the wrong people are getting shot. Anything that gets the right people shot is a blessing.
Polyurethane foam homes have already been built. Usually it involves a bag full of air and a coating being sprayed on the bag. Now we could do this with a hoard of quad copters. We could even hold burlap in place suspended from quad copters while special shapes were formed. Obviously foam homes are energy efficient and very low maintenance. The shock is that they can also be quite strong and wind resistant as well. The thickness of the foam shell is only limited by the dept of your wallet.
So maybe you want we should kill people with no data at all! Or maybe we should kill people knowing a lot less about why we target them.
So elderly Japanese folks are intelligent enough not to make babies. And here my 90 year old grandma was eager to get knocked up again.
Blinking red lights have not met the uniform traffic code for 50 years and exist only due to local budget issues. And bicycles are not treated equally on the road. For example most cars will pass a bike in a no passing zone. In some cases a no passing zone may last for several miles and you don't see a line of cars crawling along at 12 mph. which they would be doing if they actually obeyed the law. And then we come to the Interstate hwys. and turnpikes. Notice that they almost always have "no bicycles allowed" policies. I am not certain that one can travel the short distance from Ft. Lauderdale to Miami, no matter how far one detours, on a bicycle without breaking the law. All roads that connect are bicycle banned roads. Further, just why can we not have bicycle paths along all hwys.? Perhaps a safety rail should be in place and the bike paths should be a few feet removed from the car traffic. Further it is not just bicycles. There are vast areas that you can not legally reach by foot. And there is also the loss of ability to use a horse or horse and buggy to travel as our ancestors did daily. Consider the notion that as a nation we might be all better off if private cars and trucks were banned and people able to use bicycles everywhere. Regulated public taxis and the like could serve those who are impaired. Are you aware that it is next to impossible to go to prison in Florida for stealing a car unless you have a long arrest record? What do you think the court does with a bicycle thief? Not much!