It would take well over 100 years for existing guns to start to dry up. I have an antique that works perfectly from 1896. It has not even begun to wear out at all. It is one of the first Ivers Johnson pistols ever made.
The availability of guns simply is not the problem. We live in a nation that pressurizes people and is short on both morality and mercy. The predictable consequence is violence.
That is true.Alcohol alone is a bigger killer than illegal gun use. And if we consider tobacco it is even worse and then we could consider fast food which is murderous in itself and the soda industry kills its share as well. And dare I say that every emergency room sees a lot of deaths from recreational dope use. Anybody care to guess on how many die from coal exposure, auto exhaust and other common issues? And the world can easily live without dope,cars, soda, alcohol or coal being used at all.
Mr. Assage has no need of a pardon. You can bet that if he is ever arrested or the victim of an "accident" that all kinds of materials will be made public. Maybe the feds should offer him one heck of a job with a huge paycheck.
Spying that can not be done from within the US can usually be done from outside the US by agencies that do not officially relate to the NSA. In other words laws to limit such activity would only be meaningful if we have universal enforcement from other nations. It is the same as the torture of POWs. If they are not tortured by us it is all too easy to hand them over to a nation that is happy to torture them for us. Such nations do not have limits on the methods used. This is surely going on right now and certainly went on in Vietnam as well.
Think about it a bit. The US does not want wealth transfered to enemies with whom we are at war and the various war power acts do permit the feds to regulate transfers of wealth. There are also issues with people trying to be invisible to the IRS by accepting pay in unusual forms.
The title is the exact opposite of the truth. We are not what we eat. We are what we do not poop. So our father's chemistry is also that which he did not poop.
Given this insight we can make a correction to a common insult. He is not worth a ##### should be expressed as He is worth what he did not ####.
If people start keeping more bee hives it might be the worst notion of all. To a degree that diseases are in play in the decline more hives might act as a bridge that spreads the diseases more vigorously. I wonder if African killer bees are showing signs of decline as well and whether they would pollinate crops efficiently.
Waking a prisoner every hour to make certain that he is not dead is torture pure and simple. It makes no difference at all whether a prisoner has passed away and it will be obvious at the morning head count anyway. The body will not decompose in the few hours between meals. Keeping books, and radio and television away from inmates is also torture. It is obviously designed to induce mental illness and inmates should be able to sue over such barbaric actions. God forbid an inmate should read a book when he can not sleep thus improving himself.
And i have to wonder at how stupid authorities can be, Do they expect that a convict will behave well after such treatment or upon release will the be putting a man full of abuse, rage and depression on the streets? I know if I were treated like that I would want to kill people and I might not even care which person I killed, harmed or whatever.
I think that in almost all of the US law enforcement has been corrupted into a posture of resisting change and sustaining the status quo at any cost. Beggars on the sidewalks are bad for business and therefore get arrested. Chronic drunks and the mentally ill are also unpleasant and dampen business and therefore get arrested. Wives feel threatened by prostitution and therefore prostitutes get arrested. And it gets worse. Laws may regulate what you can grow for food in your front yard and even in your backyard. Style of clothing can also get you arrested easily. The young folks that like to have their underwear sticking out of the back of their jeans often find out about that. In some suburbs even the paint on your home is subject to approval in advance by the city. The line between perpetuating a certain view of what the city should look like and enforcement of what all people call crime no longer exists. Palm Beach,Florida makes it illegal to feed the poor. Would you believe that? It is a theory similar to laws about feeding the pigeons. The city feels that is the poor are fed it will attract more poor people. And the same county has made it illegal to beg or even hold a sign asking for help.
Any determined person can create a single shot pistol using epoxy without the need of a 3D printer. The Germans in the end days of WWII could not get enough lead to make bullets and used oak to make the slugs. So essentially one can make a pistol with a bit of gun powder, a piece of hardwood and some modern resins. It has always been possible to make crude weapons quickly and easily. Laws won't stop that.
I'll sing the song again. The Amazon workers displaced by robots may not be able to shop at Amazon any more. The speed of job elimination is accelerating and we are not hearing a thing about changing social policies to maintain our nation.
Now take a peek at the various repair manuals that are directly or indirectly important in your life. Suppose that you need a new bevel gear for your Skill Saw. You can now print that gear or have any company that has the equipment easily print that gear, So things that are normal and usual like a parts warehouse for Skill Saws can no longer justify its financial existence. And the idea of supplying parts being part of the gain in selling an item also goes up in smoke. Even places like auto parts stores may start to dry up as 3D printing advances, Any way you look at it millions upon millions of jobs will vanish due to 3d printing. That is not a bad thing as long as we take care and design a society in which displaced workers can be safe and happy.
Ford is not simple mined enough to do that. Their lawyers would strangle them. Unsafe acceleration violated traffic laws and God forbid a crash takes place Ford would be wide open to liability.
Yes businesses must have buyers and buyers must have money. So the people get a real pay check from the government and the businesses pay the taxes to support it all. Lousy businesses go bust as people will tend not to support them. Good businesses thrive as people do support them.
If you lived in England in 1400 the people belonged to the land. After the age of revolutions that changed and land belonged to people. It was a total reversal in social policy. In 1950 the burden of production fell upon people and people had variable value and consumed in variable amounts. Now we have another reversal at hand. People will be needed less and less as far as creation and production but will be valued more and more as consumers. Reversals can have odd effects. For example a person thats that saves part of their income will be valued less than a person who quickly spends their income.
In 1985 we built robots capable of amazing things. But the techs needed to service the robots, the computers that drove them, and the initial expenses were a huge barrier. Only very large companies could use these machines. Japan was kicking our fannies with stupid robots that ran off of camshafts and repeated one task only. But they were cheap, could be serviced by a mechanic, and did the job nicely.
So what American small businesses need is a robot that is reliable and can be suddenly serviced. It is like the air conditioner in a restaurant. If it screws up you need service right now and must be back on line in an hour or so and repairs must be cheap as well. We are now at about that point. They can be affordable and a spare can be close at hand such that if a breakdown occurs the robot can be quickly replaced by another robot in a matter of moments. The station that the robot occupies simply needs to know what program the robot is to run and you are up and running. It could be quicker than removing a cook that just keeled over from a heart attack.
Really we strive to eliminate human employment.
I like drones and frankly would like to see them more in use within US borders. Drones can be used for very high quality crime prevention and control. We are reaching the point at which many criminals will be forced into a much more law abiding life style. Low level criminals may be slow to catch on but once it becomes clear that drones can take their freedom away they may be forced into a more normal way of life. Drive by shootings may be one of the first crimes to vanish as they are so easy to detect and long prison sentences would surely follow.
Any progress made with wind, wave or solar will be fought by the traditional power industries. We have all seen pictures of bird kills from oil spills. We can not know the chaos caused by coal or nuclear. But how quickly do complaints come after a bird hits a windmill?
Also make note that real solutions are always avoided. Loss of our environment is directly related to population. If we install tight birth control regulation we can actually do something about almost all of our intractable environmental difficulties and most social issues as well.
Notice how issues can be converted by this example: Right now we have all kinds of conflicts with our borders and migrant farm workers. The farmers claim they can not get American workers. What they really mean is that they feel that they can not pay the needed wages for American workers. If we reduced our population through enforced birth control from 350 million to 80 million we would need about 75% less farm laborers. We could eliminate 75% of agricultural pollution. We could also eliminate 75% of the housing and streets covering our nation. Wildlife would prosper. Our air and water would be far less polluted. And employment would not be an issues as reduction by birth control means that we would have many seniors needing help from the younger folks in society. And it gets even better. Seniors need less food than younger folks. They also purchase less common goods and things like automobiles as well. Any way you look at it our greatest threat is population and our greatest relief is in planned population shrinkage through birth control.
So we are to conceive the notion of two singularities merging to become one. But a singularity has zero size and therefore has zero location. And even though the two combine the size will stay the same. If i tried to make an equation with this mess it would read huge nowhere of zero size plus another huge nowhere of size equals another nowhere no larger than either of the original nowheres. So there we have it 1 plus one now equals 1. I think I need more meds.
Confinement in decent mental hospitals is required for some people. Giving more freedom to some patients amounts to murder by neglect. And the distinction is not between those that appear to be coherent and those beyond speech or reason simply because there are some disorders in which the patient is fine for weeks on end and then goes into psychosis and endangers themselves and everyone else as well. Some patients with bi-polar disorders are like that. Also when LSD made it to the streets years ago there were some people who had radical flashbacks, suddenly for several years after the dose that caused the issue. These folks could be a very real threat to themselves and others and some would only go off the deep end once or twice a year. To think you are a butterfly and fly out a window on the tenth floor is one thing but sometimes the sidewalk below is crowded and you become a human bomb killing several when you hit.
It is not possible to protect your privacy anymore. However you may be able to find the source of a leak and take legal action. Keep a ledger and put one piece of data on every site that is different and record when and where you did that. For example if you put data that says you earn $75.500 per annum on one site and that number crops up elsewhere you can know who leaked it. You can also spell out a supposed middle name unique to every site. If the initial of your middle name is A then be Alfred on one site and Albert on the next. Your birth date can be one day different across many sites. One day you may get mail or a phone call that returns a bit of false data. Then get your lawyer busy.
What French courts declare has about as much meaning to me as what a Nigerian Court decides or maybe one of those courts from one of the strange Arab nations that most people don't even know exists. If the French Courts have emotional bowel gas who gives a hoot as long as they keep it to themselves.
Contractors operating under color of authority directing (ordering) people to pull into a parking lot is a kidnap. I would seek arrest warrants for all involved. The notion that all people complied without feeling they were under threat in itself is proof of coercion. Did these contractors make it clear that they were a private company or did they imply that they were government workers?
The prejudice against any person who has ever suffered from depression or any other mental illness is severe. That is why most mental patients do not reveal their history. By forcing revelation of this medical issue these folks are going to be barred from all kinds of job opportunities and have a social stigma for life. Even worse the prejudice is so blatantly obvious. Here we have anti terror law enforcement acting against a mental patient when there has bee no terror issue at all against the US by mental patients unless our government is saying that Muslims are insane.
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It would take well over 100 years for existing guns to start to dry up. I have an antique that works perfectly from 1896. It has not even begun to wear out at all. It is one of the first Ivers Johnson pistols ever made. The availability of guns simply is not the problem. We live in a nation that pressurizes people and is short on both morality and mercy. The predictable consequence is violence.
That is true.Alcohol alone is a bigger killer than illegal gun use. And if we consider tobacco it is even worse and then we could consider fast food which is murderous in itself and the soda industry kills its share as well. And dare I say that every emergency room sees a lot of deaths from recreational dope use. Anybody care to guess on how many die from coal exposure, auto exhaust and other common issues? And the world can easily live without dope,cars, soda, alcohol or coal being used at all.
Mr. Assage has no need of a pardon. You can bet that if he is ever arrested or the victim of an "accident" that all kinds of materials will be made public. Maybe the feds should offer him one heck of a job with a huge paycheck.
Spying that can not be done from within the US can usually be done from outside the US by agencies that do not officially relate to the NSA. In other words laws to limit such activity would only be meaningful if we have universal enforcement from other nations. It is the same as the torture of POWs. If they are not tortured by us it is all too easy to hand them over to a nation that is happy to torture them for us. Such nations do not have limits on the methods used. This is surely going on right now and certainly went on in Vietnam as well.
Think about it a bit. The US does not want wealth transfered to enemies with whom we are at war and the various war power acts do permit the feds to regulate transfers of wealth. There are also issues with people trying to be invisible to the IRS by accepting pay in unusual forms.
The title is the exact opposite of the truth. We are not what we eat. We are what we do not poop. So our father's chemistry is also that which he did not poop. Given this insight we can make a correction to a common insult. He is not worth a ##### should be expressed as He is worth what he did not ####.
If people start keeping more bee hives it might be the worst notion of all. To a degree that diseases are in play in the decline more hives might act as a bridge that spreads the diseases more vigorously. I wonder if African killer bees are showing signs of decline as well and whether they would pollinate crops efficiently.
Waking a prisoner every hour to make certain that he is not dead is torture pure and simple. It makes no difference at all whether a prisoner has passed away and it will be obvious at the morning head count anyway. The body will not decompose in the few hours between meals. Keeping books, and radio and television away from inmates is also torture. It is obviously designed to induce mental illness and inmates should be able to sue over such barbaric actions. God forbid an inmate should read a book when he can not sleep thus improving himself. And i have to wonder at how stupid authorities can be, Do they expect that a convict will behave well after such treatment or upon release will the be putting a man full of abuse, rage and depression on the streets? I know if I were treated like that I would want to kill people and I might not even care which person I killed, harmed or whatever.
I think that in almost all of the US law enforcement has been corrupted into a posture of resisting change and sustaining the status quo at any cost. Beggars on the sidewalks are bad for business and therefore get arrested. Chronic drunks and the mentally ill are also unpleasant and dampen business and therefore get arrested. Wives feel threatened by prostitution and therefore prostitutes get arrested. And it gets worse. Laws may regulate what you can grow for food in your front yard and even in your backyard. Style of clothing can also get you arrested easily. The young folks that like to have their underwear sticking out of the back of their jeans often find out about that. In some suburbs even the paint on your home is subject to approval in advance by the city. The line between perpetuating a certain view of what the city should look like and enforcement of what all people call crime no longer exists. Palm Beach,Florida makes it illegal to feed the poor. Would you believe that? It is a theory similar to laws about feeding the pigeons. The city feels that is the poor are fed it will attract more poor people. And the same county has made it illegal to beg or even hold a sign asking for help.
That first sentence is a bit twisted. It can be taken two ways. I doubt you mean that you want school shooters to be the majority of shooters.
Any determined person can create a single shot pistol using epoxy without the need of a 3D printer. The Germans in the end days of WWII could not get enough lead to make bullets and used oak to make the slugs. So essentially one can make a pistol with a bit of gun powder, a piece of hardwood and some modern resins. It has always been possible to make crude weapons quickly and easily. Laws won't stop that.
I'll sing the song again. The Amazon workers displaced by robots may not be able to shop at Amazon any more. The speed of job elimination is accelerating and we are not hearing a thing about changing social policies to maintain our nation. Now take a peek at the various repair manuals that are directly or indirectly important in your life. Suppose that you need a new bevel gear for your Skill Saw. You can now print that gear or have any company that has the equipment easily print that gear, So things that are normal and usual like a parts warehouse for Skill Saws can no longer justify its financial existence. And the idea of supplying parts being part of the gain in selling an item also goes up in smoke. Even places like auto parts stores may start to dry up as 3D printing advances, Any way you look at it millions upon millions of jobs will vanish due to 3d printing. That is not a bad thing as long as we take care and design a society in which displaced workers can be safe and happy.
See what happens when you fail to burn devil worshipers at the stake! Round them up a deep fry them and the problem is solved.
Ford is not simple mined enough to do that. Their lawyers would strangle them. Unsafe acceleration violated traffic laws and God forbid a crash takes place Ford would be wide open to liability.
Yes businesses must have buyers and buyers must have money. So the people get a real pay check from the government and the businesses pay the taxes to support it all. Lousy businesses go bust as people will tend not to support them. Good businesses thrive as people do support them. If you lived in England in 1400 the people belonged to the land. After the age of revolutions that changed and land belonged to people. It was a total reversal in social policy. In 1950 the burden of production fell upon people and people had variable value and consumed in variable amounts. Now we have another reversal at hand. People will be needed less and less as far as creation and production but will be valued more and more as consumers. Reversals can have odd effects. For example a person thats that saves part of their income will be valued less than a person who quickly spends their income.
In 1985 we built robots capable of amazing things. But the techs needed to service the robots, the computers that drove them, and the initial expenses were a huge barrier. Only very large companies could use these machines. Japan was kicking our fannies with stupid robots that ran off of camshafts and repeated one task only. But they were cheap, could be serviced by a mechanic, and did the job nicely. So what American small businesses need is a robot that is reliable and can be suddenly serviced. It is like the air conditioner in a restaurant. If it screws up you need service right now and must be back on line in an hour or so and repairs must be cheap as well. We are now at about that point. They can be affordable and a spare can be close at hand such that if a breakdown occurs the robot can be quickly replaced by another robot in a matter of moments. The station that the robot occupies simply needs to know what program the robot is to run and you are up and running. It could be quicker than removing a cook that just keeled over from a heart attack. Really we strive to eliminate human employment.
I like drones and frankly would like to see them more in use within US borders. Drones can be used for very high quality crime prevention and control. We are reaching the point at which many criminals will be forced into a much more law abiding life style. Low level criminals may be slow to catch on but once it becomes clear that drones can take their freedom away they may be forced into a more normal way of life. Drive by shootings may be one of the first crimes to vanish as they are so easy to detect and long prison sentences would surely follow.
Any progress made with wind, wave or solar will be fought by the traditional power industries. We have all seen pictures of bird kills from oil spills. We can not know the chaos caused by coal or nuclear. But how quickly do complaints come after a bird hits a windmill? Also make note that real solutions are always avoided. Loss of our environment is directly related to population. If we install tight birth control regulation we can actually do something about almost all of our intractable environmental difficulties and most social issues as well. Notice how issues can be converted by this example: Right now we have all kinds of conflicts with our borders and migrant farm workers. The farmers claim they can not get American workers. What they really mean is that they feel that they can not pay the needed wages for American workers. If we reduced our population through enforced birth control from 350 million to 80 million we would need about 75% less farm laborers. We could eliminate 75% of agricultural pollution. We could also eliminate 75% of the housing and streets covering our nation. Wildlife would prosper. Our air and water would be far less polluted. And employment would not be an issues as reduction by birth control means that we would have many seniors needing help from the younger folks in society. And it gets even better. Seniors need less food than younger folks. They also purchase less common goods and things like automobiles as well. Any way you look at it our greatest threat is population and our greatest relief is in planned population shrinkage through birth control.
So we are to conceive the notion of two singularities merging to become one. But a singularity has zero size and therefore has zero location. And even though the two combine the size will stay the same. If i tried to make an equation with this mess it would read huge nowhere of zero size plus another huge nowhere of size equals another nowhere no larger than either of the original nowheres. So there we have it 1 plus one now equals 1. I think I need more meds.
So now we could marry the chimp of our choice. Wait! i already did that. My first wife must have been some sort of monkey!
Confinement in decent mental hospitals is required for some people. Giving more freedom to some patients amounts to murder by neglect. And the distinction is not between those that appear to be coherent and those beyond speech or reason simply because there are some disorders in which the patient is fine for weeks on end and then goes into psychosis and endangers themselves and everyone else as well. Some patients with bi-polar disorders are like that. Also when LSD made it to the streets years ago there were some people who had radical flashbacks, suddenly for several years after the dose that caused the issue. These folks could be a very real threat to themselves and others and some would only go off the deep end once or twice a year. To think you are a butterfly and fly out a window on the tenth floor is one thing but sometimes the sidewalk below is crowded and you become a human bomb killing several when you hit.
It is not possible to protect your privacy anymore. However you may be able to find the source of a leak and take legal action. Keep a ledger and put one piece of data on every site that is different and record when and where you did that. For example if you put data that says you earn $75.500 per annum on one site and that number crops up elsewhere you can know who leaked it. You can also spell out a supposed middle name unique to every site. If the initial of your middle name is A then be Alfred on one site and Albert on the next. Your birth date can be one day different across many sites. One day you may get mail or a phone call that returns a bit of false data. Then get your lawyer busy.
What French courts declare has about as much meaning to me as what a Nigerian Court decides or maybe one of those courts from one of the strange Arab nations that most people don't even know exists. If the French Courts have emotional bowel gas who gives a hoot as long as they keep it to themselves.
Contractors operating under color of authority directing (ordering) people to pull into a parking lot is a kidnap. I would seek arrest warrants for all involved. The notion that all people complied without feeling they were under threat in itself is proof of coercion. Did these contractors make it clear that they were a private company or did they imply that they were government workers?
The prejudice against any person who has ever suffered from depression or any other mental illness is severe. That is why most mental patients do not reveal their history. By forcing revelation of this medical issue these folks are going to be barred from all kinds of job opportunities and have a social stigma for life. Even worse the prejudice is so blatantly obvious. Here we have anti terror law enforcement acting against a mental patient when there has bee no terror issue at all against the US by mental patients unless our government is saying that Muslims are insane.