We already have some people who believe that our universe is simply an illusion created by some sort of computer program. It could be that our notion that physical laws exist at all is simply part of the illusion. It goes without saying that if all we see is simply an illusion we have little reason to be motivated to do anything at all. There is no gain no matter what we do or believe.
Really, I know people need work but isn't it enough to simply say that a person with a severe emotional problem murdered a bunch of people. One can investigate the purple, flying Jesus out of it all and in the end it will come down to a mentally ill man acting out with great rage and hatred. Do we really need to spend millions to come to that conclusion?
Never is a very long time ! I doubt that Bill Gates jumped into this project while being deaf, dumb, blind and stupid. Heat is a challenge as is water supply. I can tell you that Florida is forced to dump billions of gallons of fresh water every year as we simply can not contain our tropical rains. One day some investors may pipe that water to ares that need it. My local spillway often has to dump 1.5 billion gallons a day and there are many spillways and canals tasked with removal of excess water.
A developed, specific skill is not the same as general skills. Duh ! That is about like saying that a person who is a musical genius might not do well with foreign languages. There are all kinds of abilities and as the savants demonstrate one can be a super genius in one area and unable to walk to the corner store and return home without being totally lost. There are also some really challenging tests with the colored blocks that psychologists have used for decades. Being able to remember the colors and geometries of all six sides of a cubs and solve a complex puzzle quickly can be more strenuous than many test subjects can tolerate.
In 1960 I had a 125 cc Vespa two stroke. It gave me about 110 mpg. Many cars at that time only got six miles per gallon. So the cars might be burning 17 times as much fuel. If one compared the total pollution per mile driven the car might have looked pretty awful. There is a political reality that was never fairly addressed. Huge cars burn a lot more gas than tiny cars. If both use up to date pollution controls the smaller cars will win every time. But politics being what they are the US wanted the big car manufacturers to prosper. The reality is that restricting vehicle weight and size and engine power and size would have saved us from a tremendous amount of pollution. The same thinking prevails. The coal industry wants to burn coal. The excuse is investments and jobs. but what needs to be the only consideration is the effect the product has on the earth.
The notion that governments and committees can somehow act to make things better in reference to technology is over the top dangerous. Obviously even the US can not keep corruption from being the driving force in government. the notion that such groups could make things better with laws and regulations is sick. To start with a technology that is disturbing and disruptive can turn around and be a wonderful technology. Uber is an example. Numerous groups described Uber as a beast from hell. Now we find that it works far better than taxis at less than half the price to the user. We can all imagine the fights that will break out when over the road transport goes robotic. Fortunes will be made and lost as well. Instead of trying to regulate technology what the government can do is make certain that every single person in the nation has a decent income whether they work or not. As long as buyers have money to spend businesses can make sales. If a large number of people have no disposable income then businesses will collapse. Other areas can be controlled as well. Quality fish products are vanishing from our store shelves. The export of every bit of fish and shell fish is now standard policy as many areas of the world can pay more for seafood than Americans can. The simple answer is to disallow the sale of any seafood products to foreign nations or companies. This will increase the health of US fishing grounds and the abundance of fish and allow the fishing industry to make a living selling their product at much lower prices. This type of social planing is something that government is equipped to deal with. Items that involve technology or science are not well dealt with in a voting booth.
I am glad that I am at an age that I do not have to compete with foreign scholars. Family pressures, cultural expectations and a huge urge to get away from poverty creates eager students with an unreasonable drive to place highly in every field. They make fine scholars. I am also rather shocked that the US does not understand just how excellent foreign universities may be. Even in the US schools shine in places we would not expect to produce good schools. The U. of Texas has been active in bleeding edge technology lately. I find that astounding in a state with such rancid political beliefs and actions.
First you tell the truth and that offends the right wing to their core. That truth then challenges a pile of false beliefs that can cause a conservative to fall apart completely. . On top of that you attack the cherished fantasy that if Trump says something it must be true. It is as if you are trying to kill these mental midgets.
But then you fail to really grind into the meat and raw nerves of the right wing. After all, pollution is a consequence of human activity. Humans can only change their activities so much without the world crumbling in their imaginations so it is obvious that what is really called for is the shrinking of the size of the human population. That might involve all the Satanic stuff like birth control, use of condoms or even abortions or that sinful morning after pill. So what is really being pointed out is that all the topics that liberals want to have as standards in the community seem to be correct and all the really repressive nonsense sought by the right wing is exactly what is causing the horrors around us. Now run to your meaningless voting booths and place that limp vote for the freak of your choice. You'll really have to go some to get a leader worse than Trump in power.
There are situations where discrimination is blatant and severe remedies are called for. However there are situations that are really hard to get right. For example if you have a hard and fast rule that anyone who misses work or is late five times in one year is fired and you stick to that rule you might find that people with young children are adversely effected. But that same rule would also get rid of people who drink too much. The employer need not look at the sex or marital status or age of the employee in question. So just how would the employer know that a certain group was adversely effected by the rule? Then we come to another hurdle. There are plenty of Americans who weigh 300 lbs. or more. Can a 95 lb. female flip a 3oo lb. person over her shoulder and carry him 80 feet down a ladder? For that matter can a 120 lb. man do the same thing? So would allowing the smaller folks to fill fireman's positions you would be either requiring far more employees to respond to a fire or sentencing larger people to burning to death. And those fat folks are tax payers as well.
Another place where we see the problem is when a cop confronts an individual of certain ethnic backgrounds. A white suburbanite will tend to comply with a cop's orders. But a young black male will tend to move a lot, walk about, make all kinds of rants and gestures. He will not want to be told anything by a white officer and very little from a black officer as well. That walking about and ranting is excessively dangerous to cops. Suspects are known to spin about and shoot cops. The same is true of a foot chase. If the suspect has a gun in the front of his shirt he can spin and fire before a cop can react. Yet fairness also requires that all people are treated the same. In my state not so long ago anyone who ran from a cop could be gunned down with no questions asked. Very, very few people would try to run from a cop. Now the cops are not allowed to shoot simply because a person is running and now most younger suspects run creating a life and death hazard every time they run.
Mr.Musk is a hero and is saving lives. Thank God we have a few real leaders in this nation. Meanwhile we have Trump and a broken government without enough brains or good intentions of getting anything done. Imagine if this was Miami with twice the population of Puerto Rico and the people had no water for three weeks. Incidents like New Orleans and Puerto Rico stand out as a strong proof that the US can not protect its people.
Frankly the entire history of the US is all about information and the use of information created and used by others. When the Spanish, French, English, Native People and others came together in the US we tended to use the best stuff the other groups had or adopt features of their stuff to our stuff. The mixing and conglomeration of various peoples allowed us to have strength and knowledge beyond our nations enemies. It enabled our survival as well as our progress.
Today the wrapping on the packages is looking different but inside the same wonders still reside. For example the sciences and engineering positions in our universities have serious numbers of people from Pakistan, India, and the Pacific rim nations making breakthroughs daily. We are being enriched tremendously by foreign scholars. In the mechanical sciences and arts we seem to love French, Italian and German designers for mechanical as well as styling considerations. We also are getting schooled on how to build cars by Japanese and S.Korean car industries. One way or another these advanced people are carrying data with them that they acquired back home, It is more and more data building every minute of every day. We need all that we can get.
We have a president who is a full blown lunatic and he has a staff filled with criminals. Law enforcement is essentially in servitude to Trump and his criminal staff. somehow that leads many normal people to want to keep the government from knowing a damn thing about them or their communications with others. Maybe we should limit the powers of our government until such time as the criminal acts of government employees are brought to the full light of day and internal programs put in place to catch criminals far more easily.
Fox news is nothing but a continuous stream of lies and political ads and manipulations. Rush Limbaugh is also nothing more than a political operative. So how do we call out and punish these people and their absurd lies? For example trump claiming for seven years that Obama was not a US citizen was a lie inserted into Trump's political dialogue even when trump admits that it was a lie. To me that means Trump should be in prison. And how do we deal with those who bombarded us with crooked Hillary slogans now that it is known that Russian agents were often the ones pushing those lies. Is the ignorant citizen who makes such claims innocent when compared to foreign powers who spread the lies all along? Toleration of lies can destroy all of us.
Yes job displacement will only accelerate and millions will no longer work in our society. So just how could we make it worse? First denial is everything. By using denial we can build a catastrophic disaster out of a fairly simple problem. We must change our entire economic and belief systems to assure that the jobless do not suffer or regret the changes. One choice is planing and action. The other choice is not to believe it and get to the point at which all hell breaks out. considering the nature of the right wing in America you can bet that no progress will be made and all hell will be upon us.
It is no wonder that Netflix is making large gains. The programming at Comcast has been so lousy for the last year that people are seeking better choices.
Think about it. It is inevitable that some city gets a dirty bomb event. The financial consequences could destroy the national economy. From the federal government's point of view importance attaches to keeping the city, the insurance companies and the banks solvent. It matters little that the people die off early from all kinds of wretched diseases so they simply lie to keep the people functioning as they were before the event knowing that the deaths and losses will occur over decades and be less of a hazard to the system as a whole. If you don't believe the government would do that look at Puerto Rico and the US virgin Islands today. These people are being murdered by an absurd type of relief effort. Puerto Rico already had a huge problem. The nation is bankrupt and has been disallowed declaration of bankruptcy by the US courts. In order to pay their huge debt these people would be severely taxed and they are poor to begin with. As they are US citizens and fully able to migrate into the US proper any sane Puerto Rican would come to the mainland leaving less and less Puerto Ricans to pay the billions in debt. Now on top of that we have a hurricane that destroyed the nation. So they need many more billions to get up and running. That means huge taxes so why the heck would anyone stay in Puerto Rico? Obviously bankruptcy is one very good answer. Or simply abandon the island and have everyone come to the US. Meanwhile the US almost seems to be setting them up for mass executions by a very slow and foolish relief effort. Frankly I like Puerto Rican people. They are colorful, vibrant and generally hard working. I have also found them to be quite polite and humble. we could learn a lot from these good people.
China will find out all too soon just how big a driver global warming really is.. It is more of a horror story than most people think and the consequences will vary in time and location but those consequences tend to be severe. Ask Puerto Rico or the people of California with out of control fires due to climate change. And the big brother of pollution is over population. Pollution is a consequence of human activity. The more humans the more human activity and that ensures more and more pollution. If China cut its population in half they would have a serious drop in pollution.
The EPA as well as other government agencies are gagged and can not point out health safety facts to anyone including the public. If a private company starts taking measurements and releasing the results I fear that the government will do them great harm.
While California burns, Houston drowns and the virgin islands and Puerto Rico barely exist now the fact that global warming is creating these horrors is hardly mentioned. And in addition to big government squashing descent , we also have the oil, coal and gas industries who could be very dangerous to anyone reporting air quality issues, Look at what they did to Flint. The fact that people were being poisoned and suffering brain damage fro water full of lead meant nothing at all to local or federal agencies. Just why are we supposed to trust our government?
In boxing a foul is a foul. Whether it is intentional or accidental the penalty remains the same. there are numerous people with absurd beliefs who try like crazy to get others to adopt their belief system. usually they are just plain wrong but sometimes they really seek money or power. There is simply no way to sort them all out. Sometimes people seek power as they feel they are the only one who can set things straight. They may justify all manor of wrong behavior trying to acquire enough power to accomplish their goal. so let the wrong headed speak and then denounce them as the idiots they are instead of gagging them before they get their message out. Even the manifestos of some notorious criminals have held bits of information that the public needs to consider. even from a prison cell let them speak out.
Yes people are free to say absurd and evil things. That in no way implies that they can not be severely punished for those lies. For example spouting nonsense about Obama not being an American citizen should have resulted in severe fines and long stays in prisons. The sad truth i that so many Americans are criminals that we have no way to afford arresting and convicting millions more even when their crimes are blatant and revealed to all the public. We still have idiots insisting that Hillary is guilty of hundreds of felonies. And here i am so ignorant that i believe one is guilty when a trial judge says you are guilty. If a court finds you innocent the reality is that you are innocent.
Here we have another sick man killing a bunch of people. There is no understanding him as at the time he did what he did it probably made sense to him although it was idiotic in nature. To understand this guy you would almost have to be him. So where is the real conspiracy? The lack of health care in the US for the mentally ill is abysmal. Decade after decade reasonable funding for mental health simply never happens and the consequences sometimes are the horror stories we all see on the news. When will the US properly fund care for the mentally ill? And it gets worse. there are always debates over the sanity of this type of criminal. Well, here is a news flash. If you have an urge to start shooting people you are insane. Normal people should never feel a desire to go out and shoot strangers. the same is true for sex offenders. The creep that molests a baby simply can not be sane. Sane people do not want to sexually harm babies. So we can spend billions debating whether each bad actor should be treated as ill rather than as a criminal and the system keeps rolling along with a huge path of the dead and wounded in its wake. It is so simple. A person's desires define their degree of sanity. To anyone out there that is having strong urges to harm others simply get to a hospital and demand that you get help.
Yes and 100% of humans will also be contaminated with pesticides and other chemicals as well. The idea that there is a toggle point that may be reached where not only bees but humans begin to drop dead seems to be unthinkable for many right wing types. Just like global warming they will stay in denial until total disaster forces them into a real view of the world.
It is the families of inmates that end up paying the huge phone charges. It is like being punished because you have a family member who did wrong.
One thing I am sure of is that almost an idea designed to solve problems in the criminal justice system will tend to make things worse. My observation is that some personalities simply can not obey rules. for quite a few inmates they need to be isolated permanently in a prison for people who will never be released. For example stealing a car should always result in a stiff sentence. Some people actually need to know that their life will be ended for committing certain crimes. I do not mean use a death penalty. What I do mean is that street criminals need to know that they can easily be sentenced to life with no hope of release at all. for example would you possess heroin if you knew that any types of possession of heroin would send you away for life with no hope of parole.
Investors are free to invest where they choose to invest. If one is invested in brick and mortar stores and the earnings are challenged simply move your investment to another company whether it is on-line or in Bangladesh or whatever. That is one basic nightmare about capitalism. The wealthy may have zero concern for the effects of where they choose to invest or not invest.
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We already have some people who believe that our universe is simply an illusion created by some sort of computer program. It could be that our notion that physical laws exist at all is simply part of the illusion. It goes without saying that if all we see is simply an illusion we have little reason to be motivated to do anything at all. There is no gain no matter what we do or believe.
Really, I know people need work but isn't it enough to simply say that a person with a severe emotional problem murdered a bunch of people. One can investigate the purple, flying Jesus out of it all and in the end it will come down to a mentally ill man acting out with great rage and hatred. Do we really need to spend millions to come to that conclusion?
Never is a very long time ! I doubt that Bill Gates jumped into this project while being deaf, dumb, blind and stupid. Heat is a challenge as is water supply. I can tell you that Florida is forced to dump billions of gallons of fresh water every year as we simply can not contain our tropical rains. One day some investors may pipe that water to ares that need it. My local spillway often has to dump 1.5 billion gallons a day and there are many spillways and canals tasked with removal of excess water.
A developed, specific skill is not the same as general skills. Duh ! That is about like saying that a person who is a musical genius might not do well with foreign languages. There are all kinds of abilities and as the savants demonstrate one can be a super genius in one area and unable to walk to the corner store and return home without being totally lost. There are also some really challenging tests with the colored blocks that psychologists have used for decades. Being able to remember the colors and geometries of all six sides of a cubs and solve a complex puzzle quickly can be more strenuous than many test subjects can tolerate.
In 1960 I had a 125 cc Vespa two stroke. It gave me about 110 mpg. Many cars at that time only got six miles per gallon. So the cars might be burning 17 times as much fuel. If one compared the total pollution per mile driven the car might have looked pretty awful. There is a political reality that was never fairly addressed. Huge cars burn a lot more gas than tiny cars. If both use up to date pollution controls the smaller cars will win every time. But politics being what they are the US wanted the big car manufacturers to prosper. The reality is that restricting vehicle weight and size and engine power and size would have saved us from a tremendous amount of pollution. The same thinking prevails. The coal industry wants to burn coal. The excuse is investments and jobs. but what needs to be the only consideration is the effect the product has on the earth.
The notion that governments and committees can somehow act to make things better in reference to technology is over the top dangerous. Obviously even the US can not keep corruption from being the driving force in government. the notion that such groups could make things better with laws and regulations is sick. To start with a technology that is disturbing and disruptive can turn around and be a wonderful technology. Uber is an example. Numerous groups described Uber as a beast from hell. Now we find that it works far better than taxis at less than half the price to the user. We can all imagine the fights that will break out when over the road transport goes robotic. Fortunes will be made and lost as well. Instead of trying to regulate technology what the government can do is make certain that every single person in the nation has a decent income whether they work or not. As long as buyers have money to spend businesses can make sales. If a large number of people have no disposable income then businesses will collapse. Other areas can be controlled as well. Quality fish products are vanishing from our store shelves. The export of every bit of fish and shell fish is now standard policy as many areas of the world can pay more for seafood than Americans can. The simple answer is to disallow the sale of any seafood products to foreign nations or companies. This will increase the health of US fishing grounds and the abundance of fish and allow the fishing industry to make a living selling their product at much lower prices. This type of social planing is something that government is equipped to deal with. Items that involve technology or science are not well dealt with in a voting booth.
I am glad that I am at an age that I do not have to compete with foreign scholars. Family pressures, cultural expectations and a huge urge to get away from poverty creates eager students with an unreasonable drive to place highly in every field. They make fine scholars. I am also rather shocked that the US does not understand just how excellent foreign universities may be. Even in the US schools shine in places we would not expect to produce good schools. The U. of Texas has been active in bleeding edge technology lately. I find that astounding in a state with such rancid political beliefs and actions.
First you tell the truth and that offends the right wing to their core. That truth then challenges a pile of false beliefs that can cause a conservative to fall apart completely. . On top of that you attack the cherished fantasy that if Trump says something it must be true. It is as if you are trying to kill these mental midgets. But then you fail to really grind into the meat and raw nerves of the right wing. After all, pollution is a consequence of human activity. Humans can only change their activities so much without the world crumbling in their imaginations so it is obvious that what is really called for is the shrinking of the size of the human population. That might involve all the Satanic stuff like birth control, use of condoms or even abortions or that sinful morning after pill. So what is really being pointed out is that all the topics that liberals want to have as standards in the community seem to be correct and all the really repressive nonsense sought by the right wing is exactly what is causing the horrors around us. Now run to your meaningless voting booths and place that limp vote for the freak of your choice. You'll really have to go some to get a leader worse than Trump in power.
There are situations where discrimination is blatant and severe remedies are called for. However there are situations that are really hard to get right. For example if you have a hard and fast rule that anyone who misses work or is late five times in one year is fired and you stick to that rule you might find that people with young children are adversely effected. But that same rule would also get rid of people who drink too much. The employer need not look at the sex or marital status or age of the employee in question. So just how would the employer know that a certain group was adversely effected by the rule? Then we come to another hurdle. There are plenty of Americans who weigh 300 lbs. or more. Can a 95 lb. female flip a 3oo lb. person over her shoulder and carry him 80 feet down a ladder? For that matter can a 120 lb. man do the same thing? So would allowing the smaller folks to fill fireman's positions you would be either requiring far more employees to respond to a fire or sentencing larger people to burning to death. And those fat folks are tax payers as well. Another place where we see the problem is when a cop confronts an individual of certain ethnic backgrounds. A white suburbanite will tend to comply with a cop's orders. But a young black male will tend to move a lot, walk about, make all kinds of rants and gestures. He will not want to be told anything by a white officer and very little from a black officer as well. That walking about and ranting is excessively dangerous to cops. Suspects are known to spin about and shoot cops. The same is true of a foot chase. If the suspect has a gun in the front of his shirt he can spin and fire before a cop can react. Yet fairness also requires that all people are treated the same. In my state not so long ago anyone who ran from a cop could be gunned down with no questions asked. Very, very few people would try to run from a cop. Now the cops are not allowed to shoot simply because a person is running and now most younger suspects run creating a life and death hazard every time they run.
Mr.Musk is a hero and is saving lives. Thank God we have a few real leaders in this nation. Meanwhile we have Trump and a broken government without enough brains or good intentions of getting anything done. Imagine if this was Miami with twice the population of Puerto Rico and the people had no water for three weeks. Incidents like New Orleans and Puerto Rico stand out as a strong proof that the US can not protect its people.
Frankly the entire history of the US is all about information and the use of information created and used by others. When the Spanish, French, English, Native People and others came together in the US we tended to use the best stuff the other groups had or adopt features of their stuff to our stuff. The mixing and conglomeration of various peoples allowed us to have strength and knowledge beyond our nations enemies. It enabled our survival as well as our progress. Today the wrapping on the packages is looking different but inside the same wonders still reside. For example the sciences and engineering positions in our universities have serious numbers of people from Pakistan, India, and the Pacific rim nations making breakthroughs daily. We are being enriched tremendously by foreign scholars. In the mechanical sciences and arts we seem to love French, Italian and German designers for mechanical as well as styling considerations. We also are getting schooled on how to build cars by Japanese and S.Korean car industries. One way or another these advanced people are carrying data with them that they acquired back home, It is more and more data building every minute of every day. We need all that we can get.
We have a president who is a full blown lunatic and he has a staff filled with criminals. Law enforcement is essentially in servitude to Trump and his criminal staff. somehow that leads many normal people to want to keep the government from knowing a damn thing about them or their communications with others. Maybe we should limit the powers of our government until such time as the criminal acts of government employees are brought to the full light of day and internal programs put in place to catch criminals far more easily.
Fox news is nothing but a continuous stream of lies and political ads and manipulations. Rush Limbaugh is also nothing more than a political operative. So how do we call out and punish these people and their absurd lies? For example trump claiming for seven years that Obama was not a US citizen was a lie inserted into Trump's political dialogue even when trump admits that it was a lie. To me that means Trump should be in prison. And how do we deal with those who bombarded us with crooked Hillary slogans now that it is known that Russian agents were often the ones pushing those lies. Is the ignorant citizen who makes such claims innocent when compared to foreign powers who spread the lies all along? Toleration of lies can destroy all of us.
Yes job displacement will only accelerate and millions will no longer work in our society. So just how could we make it worse? First denial is everything. By using denial we can build a catastrophic disaster out of a fairly simple problem. We must change our entire economic and belief systems to assure that the jobless do not suffer or regret the changes. One choice is planing and action. The other choice is not to believe it and get to the point at which all hell breaks out. considering the nature of the right wing in America you can bet that no progress will be made and all hell will be upon us.
It is no wonder that Netflix is making large gains. The programming at Comcast has been so lousy for the last year that people are seeking better choices.
Think about it. It is inevitable that some city gets a dirty bomb event. The financial consequences could destroy the national economy. From the federal government's point of view importance attaches to keeping the city, the insurance companies and the banks solvent. It matters little that the people die off early from all kinds of wretched diseases so they simply lie to keep the people functioning as they were before the event knowing that the deaths and losses will occur over decades and be less of a hazard to the system as a whole. If you don't believe the government would do that look at Puerto Rico and the US virgin Islands today. These people are being murdered by an absurd type of relief effort. Puerto Rico already had a huge problem. The nation is bankrupt and has been disallowed declaration of bankruptcy by the US courts. In order to pay their huge debt these people would be severely taxed and they are poor to begin with. As they are US citizens and fully able to migrate into the US proper any sane Puerto Rican would come to the mainland leaving less and less Puerto Ricans to pay the billions in debt. Now on top of that we have a hurricane that destroyed the nation. So they need many more billions to get up and running. That means huge taxes so why the heck would anyone stay in Puerto Rico? Obviously bankruptcy is one very good answer. Or simply abandon the island and have everyone come to the US. Meanwhile the US almost seems to be setting them up for mass executions by a very slow and foolish relief effort. Frankly I like Puerto Rican people. They are colorful, vibrant and generally hard working. I have also found them to be quite polite and humble. we could learn a lot from these good people.
China will find out all too soon just how big a driver global warming really is.. It is more of a horror story than most people think and the consequences will vary in time and location but those consequences tend to be severe. Ask Puerto Rico or the people of California with out of control fires due to climate change. And the big brother of pollution is over population. Pollution is a consequence of human activity. The more humans the more human activity and that ensures more and more pollution. If China cut its population in half they would have a serious drop in pollution.
The EPA as well as other government agencies are gagged and can not point out health safety facts to anyone including the public. If a private company starts taking measurements and releasing the results I fear that the government will do them great harm. While California burns, Houston drowns and the virgin islands and Puerto Rico barely exist now the fact that global warming is creating these horrors is hardly mentioned. And in addition to big government squashing descent , we also have the oil, coal and gas industries who could be very dangerous to anyone reporting air quality issues, Look at what they did to Flint. The fact that people were being poisoned and suffering brain damage fro water full of lead meant nothing at all to local or federal agencies. Just why are we supposed to trust our government?
In boxing a foul is a foul. Whether it is intentional or accidental the penalty remains the same. there are numerous people with absurd beliefs who try like crazy to get others to adopt their belief system. usually they are just plain wrong but sometimes they really seek money or power. There is simply no way to sort them all out. Sometimes people seek power as they feel they are the only one who can set things straight. They may justify all manor of wrong behavior trying to acquire enough power to accomplish their goal. so let the wrong headed speak and then denounce them as the idiots they are instead of gagging them before they get their message out. Even the manifestos of some notorious criminals have held bits of information that the public needs to consider. even from a prison cell let them speak out.
Yes people are free to say absurd and evil things. That in no way implies that they can not be severely punished for those lies. For example spouting nonsense about Obama not being an American citizen should have resulted in severe fines and long stays in prisons. The sad truth i that so many Americans are criminals that we have no way to afford arresting and convicting millions more even when their crimes are blatant and revealed to all the public. We still have idiots insisting that Hillary is guilty of hundreds of felonies. And here i am so ignorant that i believe one is guilty when a trial judge says you are guilty. If a court finds you innocent the reality is that you are innocent.
Here we have another sick man killing a bunch of people. There is no understanding him as at the time he did what he did it probably made sense to him although it was idiotic in nature. To understand this guy you would almost have to be him. So where is the real conspiracy? The lack of health care in the US for the mentally ill is abysmal. Decade after decade reasonable funding for mental health simply never happens and the consequences sometimes are the horror stories we all see on the news. When will the US properly fund care for the mentally ill? And it gets worse. there are always debates over the sanity of this type of criminal. Well, here is a news flash. If you have an urge to start shooting people you are insane. Normal people should never feel a desire to go out and shoot strangers. the same is true for sex offenders. The creep that molests a baby simply can not be sane. Sane people do not want to sexually harm babies. So we can spend billions debating whether each bad actor should be treated as ill rather than as a criminal and the system keeps rolling along with a huge path of the dead and wounded in its wake. It is so simple. A person's desires define their degree of sanity. To anyone out there that is having strong urges to harm others simply get to a hospital and demand that you get help.
Yes and 100% of humans will also be contaminated with pesticides and other chemicals as well. The idea that there is a toggle point that may be reached where not only bees but humans begin to drop dead seems to be unthinkable for many right wing types. Just like global warming they will stay in denial until total disaster forces them into a real view of the world.
It is the families of inmates that end up paying the huge phone charges. It is like being punished because you have a family member who did wrong. One thing I am sure of is that almost an idea designed to solve problems in the criminal justice system will tend to make things worse. My observation is that some personalities simply can not obey rules. for quite a few inmates they need to be isolated permanently in a prison for people who will never be released. For example stealing a car should always result in a stiff sentence. Some people actually need to know that their life will be ended for committing certain crimes. I do not mean use a death penalty. What I do mean is that street criminals need to know that they can easily be sentenced to life with no hope of release at all. for example would you possess heroin if you knew that any types of possession of heroin would send you away for life with no hope of parole.
Simply make arbitration illegal and require a full court action for every case. Oops, I forgot, America can not afford courts.
Investors are free to invest where they choose to invest. If one is invested in brick and mortar stores and the earnings are challenged simply move your investment to another company whether it is on-line or in Bangladesh or whatever. That is one basic nightmare about capitalism. The wealthy may have zero concern for the effects of where they choose to invest or not invest.