Why only limit to vaccination database? Alcohol kills much much more individuals and is clearly a public hazard. Tracking those who buy alcohol and who consume has will reduce the number of casualties by 10 to 15 thousand people in United States alone. The annual cost for alcohol-related traffic accidents totals more than $50 billion per year. The #1 and #2 killers in US are cardiovascular diseases and cancer. We should monitor all those who do not exercise enough because they are a clear public hazard as well.
Next thing you will hear that all the Americans who live within 100 miles from the US Border, including west and east seashores, do not have constitutional 4th and 5th amendment. At least that what DHS is trying to project by setting border checkpoints. Probably 80% of US population live within 100 miles from US borders.
Guess that the next revelation will be that American's calls are getting intercepted, recorded and archived, but never kept for more than 5 years, unless NSA is involved in lawsuit. We know that all calls recorded in UK, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman islands, Iraq so far.
Tens of millions of those without cable will get access to affordable quality cable through the marketplace.
Over half of thous without cable Americans can get free or low cost cable service using their State's Cable Providers Marketplace.
You can't be denied from coverage when you get sick or make an honest mistake on when you talk to operator. You also can't be denied coverage or television for being lazy or charged more for being lazy. You can't be charged more for being a woman either.
Small businesses can get tax credits for up to 50% of their employees cable television installation costs, assuming employers allow to watch obamacable at work at least one hour a day.
Young Adults can stay in parents house and watch cable free until they turn 26. 82% of adults without cable will qualify for free or low cost cable.
ObamaCare helps to curb the growth in cable spending. Your Obamacable bill will be cheaper than cable bill
Instructions to politicians dictating what to vote for is a fine idea and a great tool to accountability.
It will be even better when crowds of taxpayers will be directing how to spend taxes and what taxes to collect. That is when the democracy will start.
Just think about it: The government knows income and expenses of every household with scientific precision.
Voters, however, use the ballot system inherited from Helenic era.
In the closed session, reduction of certain phrases will be presented as a "win" against the terrorsm because only real terrirsts would be searching for banned concepts, rights? Since there are less searches, there is less work for a three letter agencies. So.... it will be presented that the current status quo... works. Just like TSA theater.... works too.
That is not the problem. Problems will start when people with one half of the brain will know that they are being monitored, but, at the same time, with other part of the brain will genuinely think that they are free.
Not trying to be a flamebaiter, but one constitution, which is the basis for the laws applies in all of the 50 US states. Missouri basically said, 2nd amendment applies, any laws that try to limit anything are basically void.
Again, when Roe Vs Wade law or Gay marriage law became federal laws applicable to any state, even the state that does not consent. So how fucking come one federal law is applied and pushed through the throats, while some other laws are just optional.
By the way, encouraging debate opponents who do not agree with one's position to move to different state, country or planet is essentially claiming moral superiority and saying that unless you think the same way I think, your opponent does not deserve to live in your neighborhood.
So there is a difference between citizens versus other people? Except that the Constitution has never separated "We the People" into citizens and non-citizens. In fact slaves were considered as the ones who did not have a voting rights back then. I would say that to be completely fair, US should be much more careful about the rights of those who do not have US citizenship because those people, non-US citizens are much more vulnerable, and much less represented and protected than US citizens.
P0RN is will always be a good niche for certain type of clientele. Leaves no electronic trace also, does not require electricity and information in such type of magazines will rarely result in additional search in internets.
If Apple infotainment is great why don't we see it in the airplanes. We don't see it because it is damn too expensive.
I do respect Apple's commercial acumen, quality, design and innovations, but I don't own any of the apple's products nor am I planning to, and I have tried..... No offense to Mac owners and I have heard a lot about their quality and durability.
When someone is buying and Iphone, it is easy to bury equipment depreciation to service provider fee. When someone will buy a car in the nearest future, apple infotainment will be one of the many junk services that people will just cross out. I quietly hope that Apple infotaintment will take the same place among junk fees and services such as extended gold service plan, super coated seat protection, anti-theft glass engravings, floor plan fee and other.
If fact of donations will be confirmed, then Comcast lost in the court of public opinion.
The merger should not be approved on the ground of anti-trust laws, unfair competition and reduced choice by consumers.
At the minimum this should send a message to the future senators who will be tempted to take donations of the big business.
If EU switches to open document format, significant part of the market will consider European advice. They get many things wrong but this one they got right.
The proprietary documet standard could be comparable to the proprietary railway track gauge. Can you imagine paying an extra royalty because you are using "specially measured" difference between the wheels.
The problem for Microsoft is that at some point, very soon they will figure out that it does not matter which operating system is on user's PC. I fully expect that in 5-10 years most of the users will not know what operating system they are using.
I have found one non-scientific observation about climate change conferences, which I am quoting in full:
"I just Googled 'climate change conferences 2014':
New York - Sep.
Beijing - May.
Peru - Dec
Brazil - May.
Iceland - Jun.
Bonn - Mar.
Las Vegas - Jul.
Queensland - Sep/Oct.
Venezuela - Nov.
By then I got bored.
It would appear that the best way to see the world on expenses and rack up plenty of air-miles is to become a 'Climate Change Expert'.
While the cellphone kill switch is a fascinating and debatable idea, with trepidation I am waiting for the first study for human kill switch devices. We saw those prototypes in the movie The Running Man. They no longer need to be intrusive and look like dog collars. They can be discreet and miniature like cardiac pacemakers. The kill switch needs not be messy and explosive: all you do is switch off the current.
Human Kill switches have enormous potential. If widely adopted, billions of dollars could be saved. For all kind of fugitives from justice. For example, Mr Snowden would not be an issue, nor any stolen information in his laptop or his head. You no longer go the hard way through extradition, all you do is let the authorization not to explode unlast. Application opportunities are just... boundless: kill switches can be customized to have automatic Taser installed, for example. Or, another thought: there would be no need to have vehicle kill switches, because it would be possible to control the driver who is controlling vehicles. Police would have no need to carry handguns anymore, because you could carry remote controllers.
We are talking not billions but trillions of dollars in savings here.
True, they will lose 950,000 jars in sale if the would donate. Also, corporations typically carry insurance for events like this and it will compensate for the loss.
Any insurance premiums, retainers or even uninsured losses are also desirable because you can write off against taxes.
If you donate, you can still get some tax deductions based on the cost of the goodies donated. To transcribe from corporate thinking: it is more profitable to claim insurance reimbursement than give it to charity, plus ensure that your own sales are not cannibalized, and absence of litigation. Other decision is hard to justify.
In fact, corporations do that all the times.
One-time pads are considered a symmetric encryption and considered as insensitive to MITM. Also one-time pads, if implemented properly, are considered unbreakable because you will be getting a bona fide random text. Not truly random, but theoretically considered unbreakable.
For a simplistic explanation, think of Bitcoins as golden coins.
You can own gold coins/bitcoins physically (keep gold coin in your pocket or keep BTC private keys in your posession). You can also relinquish your gold coin to the bank and have a bank note stating that they owe you a gold coin.
In terms of Bitcoin, MtGox acted as a de-facto bank, where BTC owners gave away (or transfered) BTC to Mt Gox and had a false sense of security that their assets were "there". MtGox victims basically entrusted their private key to the third party (MtGox).
Now, let's assume, the bank who kept gold was robbed, by someone who dig to the vaults and silently removed gold. The bank kept telling you that, according to their records, you still are the owner of the gold, while in reality they would not be in position to repay you. MtGox did the same thing: their real assets were stolen, while their "paper" records were showing existence of the BTC.
This is a simplistic explanation, but, to be sure gold/bitcoins did not just disappear. They only sit in the possession of other owners.
Excelent idea, but not everyone will benefit. There is a large number of people who work in the offices and campuses and their vehicles are in very predictable locations. UPS/Fedex trucks come to the offices during the day anyway.
UPS/Fedex can very efficiently, very fast drop the packages to the trunks of the cars. Awesome idea. The negative side of idea is further loss of privacy.
Many municipalities already have vehicles equipped with ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) equipment. Also, all toll roads (aka EZ pass) have databases of individual cars passing these roads. The logical step was to put everything to one database and to put a plate number scanning camera on every road. Currently DHS analysts have access to each and every database in the country and their problem is that they have to keep too many passwords and analysis is cumbersome.
To overcome that very soon you will hear oh so well predictable story about left or right militia disgruntled member in some sort of terrorism attempt who was known to law enforcement, but because east coast database was not "talking" to the west coast database he was not caught in a timely manner.
Mr Clapper stated eloquently that "they had to be upfront about mass surveilance". He is right if you want to do something unconstitutional you have to do it openly, and they tried to do it.
Yeah, making snow in Russia... Only in Russia...
The cost of Olympic games is more than $50 Billion, or approximately $500 per Russian citizen, that is including babies and retired people. Had most of Russians been asked whether they agree to donate $500 per person they would have told "No". So they blew $50 billion... That is not entirely correct since this $50 billion has transformed to the salaries of the workers, organizers and security, cost of construction materials and the profits for organizers. So it is not all gone to waste. However Olympic games has always been a classic and favorite way of spreading the wealth... upwards.
in 50 years we will hear about Russia's summer Olympic games in Arctic pole.
They Should consider building a dual purpose atom accelerator (Lepton Accelerator). One purpose would be research of the particles by colliding them. The secondary purpose would be defense of the earth from meteorites. Once you accelerate a ton of atoms to the speed of light you, then, can direct the accelerated beam towards meteorite and destroy it. This new accelerator can be valuable defense installation. Also easier to justify the funds needed and take them from military budgets.
I can see that in 50 years we will be building particle accelerator with the radius of the earth, 6378 kilometers or circumference of 40,000 kilometeres. Based on my approximate calculations, if current technologies are used we could achieve 21 PeV or 20734 TeV in such accelerator.
The government will have a say whether you can or cannot do certain work, based on your browsing history and the smart-cross-analysis of your in house conversation, as well as the analysis of the people who visited your house and the people you visited. Everyone will have a file with the smart-condensed analysis of your life.
Except all those things that we are referring as "will" in reality already "is " reality, without you ever knowing precise details or boundaries. But you already knew you have a file on you, right?
For people who don't need the car other solutions will be developed. Real time face recognition has already passed the test/pilot phase. Precise safety measures are yet to be developed and will be introduced later.
Will the next step will be regulated departure time? For the greater good a decision will be made when you can stay and when you can leave your home. We all know that late departure causes drivers to be aggressive and irritated, causes excessive speeding and other unacceptable behavior.
Here is how this will work. Drivers will get the allotted time for departure, for example, between 7:30 AM and 7:40 AM. If you are late to start driving at that time your car will notify you to stay in the garage, because of the traffic jam or other traffic hazards your car will be creating. You will have alternative to leave home at the premium tax rate, though.
Now that your departure time slot has been assigned and established, your smart home will automatically wake you up at 6:30 AM and monitor your movement to be sure you are on schedule, unless you have applied for a morning sex time with your wife.
Unscheduled fornication will automatically raise your healthcare premium due to the higher risk of unsanctioned pregnancy.
If this is not a conspiracy to use powers at the same time denying their enemies, the Americans, due process and potentially exculpatory information, then I do not know what is.
All these programs HAVE NOT ENDED, because all of them cost money, which was borrowed by increasing the debt.
As long as US has any debt, US is still paying for the programs initiated. That is the hole point that all the initiatives need to be paid with your future dollars. Yor ollars WILL be taken from you in the form of higher taxes or through devaluation.
A good example is Germany who just recently finished paying WW1 debts.
All those programs can be boiled down to the scheme to go after YOUR money in one shape or in another
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Why only limit to vaccination database? Alcohol kills much much more individuals and is clearly a public hazard. Tracking those who buy alcohol and who consume has will reduce the number of casualties by 10 to 15 thousand people in United States alone. The annual cost for alcohol-related traffic accidents totals more than $50 billion per year. The #1 and #2 killers in US are cardiovascular diseases and cancer. We should monitor all those who do not exercise enough because they are a clear public hazard as well.
Next thing you will hear that all the Americans who live within 100 miles from the US Border, including west and east seashores, do not have constitutional 4th and 5th amendment. At least that what DHS is trying to project by setting border checkpoints. Probably 80% of US population live within 100 miles from US borders. Guess that the next revelation will be that American's calls are getting intercepted, recorded and archived, but never kept for more than 5 years, unless NSA is involved in lawsuit. We know that all calls recorded in UK, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman islands, Iraq so far.
Tens of millions of those without cable will get access to affordable quality cable through the marketplace. Over half of thous without cable Americans can get free or low cost cable service using their State's Cable Providers Marketplace. You can't be denied from coverage when you get sick or make an honest mistake on when you talk to operator. You also can't be denied coverage or television for being lazy or charged more for being lazy. You can't be charged more for being a woman either. Small businesses can get tax credits for up to 50% of their employees cable television installation costs, assuming employers allow to watch obamacable at work at least one hour a day. Young Adults can stay in parents house and watch cable free until they turn 26. 82% of adults without cable will qualify for free or low cost cable. ObamaCare helps to curb the growth in cable spending. Your Obamacable bill will be cheaper than cable bill
Instructions to politicians dictating what to vote for is a fine idea and a great tool to accountability. It will be even better when crowds of taxpayers will be directing how to spend taxes and what taxes to collect. That is when the democracy will start. Just think about it: The government knows income and expenses of every household with scientific precision. Voters, however, use the ballot system inherited from Helenic era.
In the closed session, reduction of certain phrases will be presented as a "win" against the terrorsm because only real terrirsts would be searching for banned concepts, rights? Since there are less searches, there is less work for a three letter agencies. So .... it will be presented that the current status quo... works. Just like TSA theater .... works too.
That is not the problem. Problems will start when people with one half of the brain will know that they are being monitored, but, at the same time, with other part of the brain will genuinely think that they are free.
Not trying to be a flamebaiter, but one constitution, which is the basis for the laws applies in all of the 50 US states. Missouri basically said, 2nd amendment applies, any laws that try to limit anything are basically void. Again, when Roe Vs Wade law or Gay marriage law became federal laws applicable to any state, even the state that does not consent. So how fucking come one federal law is applied and pushed through the throats, while some other laws are just optional. By the way, encouraging debate opponents who do not agree with one's position to move to different state, country or planet is essentially claiming moral superiority and saying that unless you think the same way I think, your opponent does not deserve to live in your neighborhood.
So there is a difference between citizens versus other people? Except that the Constitution has never separated "We the People" into citizens and non-citizens. In fact slaves were considered as the ones who did not have a voting rights back then. I would say that to be completely fair, US should be much more careful about the rights of those who do not have US citizenship because those people, non-US citizens are much more vulnerable, and much less represented and protected than US citizens.
P0RN is will always be a good niche for certain type of clientele. Leaves no electronic trace also, does not require electricity and information in such type of magazines will rarely result in additional search in internets.
If Apple infotainment is great why don't we see it in the airplanes. We don't see it because it is damn too expensive. I do respect Apple's commercial acumen, quality, design and innovations, but I don't own any of the apple's products nor am I planning to, and I have tried..... No offense to Mac owners and I have heard a lot about their quality and durability. When someone is buying and Iphone, it is easy to bury equipment depreciation to service provider fee. When someone will buy a car in the nearest future, apple infotainment will be one of the many junk services that people will just cross out. I quietly hope that Apple infotaintment will take the same place among junk fees and services such as extended gold service plan, super coated seat protection, anti-theft glass engravings, floor plan fee and other.
If fact of donations will be confirmed, then Comcast lost in the court of public opinion. The merger should not be approved on the ground of anti-trust laws, unfair competition and reduced choice by consumers. At the minimum this should send a message to the future senators who will be tempted to take donations of the big business.
If EU switches to open document format, significant part of the market will consider European advice. They get many things wrong but this one they got right. The proprietary documet standard could be comparable to the proprietary railway track gauge. Can you imagine paying an extra royalty because you are using "specially measured" difference between the wheels. The problem for Microsoft is that at some point, very soon they will figure out that it does not matter which operating system is on user's PC. I fully expect that in 5-10 years most of the users will not know what operating system they are using.
I have found one non-scientific observation about climate change conferences, which I am quoting in full: "I just Googled 'climate change conferences 2014': New York - Sep. Beijing - May. Peru - Dec Brazil - May. Iceland - Jun. Bonn - Mar. Las Vegas - Jul. Queensland - Sep/Oct. Venezuela - Nov. By then I got bored. It would appear that the best way to see the world on expenses and rack up plenty of air-miles is to become a 'Climate Change Expert'.
While the cellphone kill switch is a fascinating and debatable idea, with trepidation I am waiting for the first study for human kill switch devices. We saw those prototypes in the movie The Running Man. They no longer need to be intrusive and look like dog collars. They can be discreet and miniature like cardiac pacemakers. The kill switch needs not be messy and explosive: all you do is switch off the current. Human Kill switches have enormous potential. If widely adopted, billions of dollars could be saved. For all kind of fugitives from justice. For example, Mr Snowden would not be an issue, nor any stolen information in his laptop or his head. You no longer go the hard way through extradition, all you do is let the authorization not to explode unlast. Application opportunities are just... boundless: kill switches can be customized to have automatic Taser installed, for example. Or, another thought: there would be no need to have vehicle kill switches, because it would be possible to control the driver who is controlling vehicles. Police would have no need to carry handguns anymore, because you could carry remote controllers. We are talking not billions but trillions of dollars in savings here.
True, they will lose 950,000 jars in sale if the would donate. Also, corporations typically carry insurance for events like this and it will compensate for the loss. Any insurance premiums, retainers or even uninsured losses are also desirable because you can write off against taxes. If you donate, you can still get some tax deductions based on the cost of the goodies donated. To transcribe from corporate thinking: it is more profitable to claim insurance reimbursement than give it to charity, plus ensure that your own sales are not cannibalized, and absence of litigation. Other decision is hard to justify. In fact, corporations do that all the times.
One-time pads are considered a symmetric encryption and considered as insensitive to MITM. Also one-time pads, if implemented properly, are considered unbreakable because you will be getting a bona fide random text. Not truly random, but theoretically considered unbreakable.
Hopefully, in several years his call will be remembered and he will be shown the door
For a simplistic explanation, think of Bitcoins as golden coins. You can own gold coins/bitcoins physically (keep gold coin in your pocket or keep BTC private keys in your posession). You can also relinquish your gold coin to the bank and have a bank note stating that they owe you a gold coin. In terms of Bitcoin, MtGox acted as a de-facto bank, where BTC owners gave away (or transfered) BTC to Mt Gox and had a false sense of security that their assets were "there". MtGox victims basically entrusted their private key to the third party (MtGox). Now, let's assume, the bank who kept gold was robbed, by someone who dig to the vaults and silently removed gold. The bank kept telling you that, according to their records, you still are the owner of the gold, while in reality they would not be in position to repay you. MtGox did the same thing: their real assets were stolen, while their "paper" records were showing existence of the BTC. This is a simplistic explanation, but, to be sure gold/bitcoins did not just disappear. They only sit in the possession of other owners.
Excelent idea, but not everyone will benefit. There is a large number of people who work in the offices and campuses and their vehicles are in very predictable locations. UPS/Fedex trucks come to the offices during the day anyway. UPS/Fedex can very efficiently, very fast drop the packages to the trunks of the cars. Awesome idea. The negative side of idea is further loss of privacy.
Many municipalities already have vehicles equipped with ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) equipment. Also, all toll roads (aka EZ pass) have databases of individual cars passing these roads. The logical step was to put everything to one database and to put a plate number scanning camera on every road. Currently DHS analysts have access to each and every database in the country and their problem is that they have to keep too many passwords and analysis is cumbersome. To overcome that very soon you will hear oh so well predictable story about left or right militia disgruntled member in some sort of terrorism attempt who was known to law enforcement, but because east coast database was not "talking" to the west coast database he was not caught in a timely manner. Mr Clapper stated eloquently that "they had to be upfront about mass surveilance". He is right if you want to do something unconstitutional you have to do it openly, and they tried to do it.
Yeah, making snow in Russia... Only in Russia... The cost of Olympic games is more than $50 Billion, or approximately $500 per Russian citizen, that is including babies and retired people. Had most of Russians been asked whether they agree to donate $500 per person they would have told "No". So they blew $50 billion... That is not entirely correct since this $50 billion has transformed to the salaries of the workers, organizers and security, cost of construction materials and the profits for organizers. So it is not all gone to waste. However Olympic games has always been a classic and favorite way of spreading the wealth... upwards. in 50 years we will hear about Russia's summer Olympic games in Arctic pole.
They Should consider building a dual purpose atom accelerator (Lepton Accelerator). One purpose would be research of the particles by colliding them. The secondary purpose would be defense of the earth from meteorites. Once you accelerate a ton of atoms to the speed of light you, then, can direct the accelerated beam towards meteorite and destroy it. This new accelerator can be valuable defense installation. Also easier to justify the funds needed and take them from military budgets. I can see that in 50 years we will be building particle accelerator with the radius of the earth, 6378 kilometers or circumference of 40,000 kilometeres. Based on my approximate calculations, if current technologies are used we could achieve 21 PeV or 20734 TeV in such accelerator.
The government will have a say whether you can or cannot do certain work, based on your browsing history and the smart-cross-analysis of your in house conversation, as well as the analysis of the people who visited your house and the people you visited. Everyone will have a file with the smart-condensed analysis of your life. Except all those things that we are referring as "will" in reality already "is " reality, without you ever knowing precise details or boundaries. But you already knew you have a file on you, right? For people who don't need the car other solutions will be developed. Real time face recognition has already passed the test/pilot phase. Precise safety measures are yet to be developed and will be introduced later.
Will the next step will be regulated departure time? For the greater good a decision will be made when you can stay and when you can leave your home. We all know that late departure causes drivers to be aggressive and irritated, causes excessive speeding and other unacceptable behavior. Here is how this will work. Drivers will get the allotted time for departure, for example, between 7:30 AM and 7:40 AM. If you are late to start driving at that time your car will notify you to stay in the garage, because of the traffic jam or other traffic hazards your car will be creating. You will have alternative to leave home at the premium tax rate, though. Now that your departure time slot has been assigned and established, your smart home will automatically wake you up at 6:30 AM and monitor your movement to be sure you are on schedule, unless you have applied for a morning sex time with your wife. Unscheduled fornication will automatically raise your healthcare premium due to the higher risk of unsanctioned pregnancy.
If this is not a conspiracy to use powers at the same time denying their enemies, the Americans, due process and potentially exculpatory information, then I do not know what is.
All these programs HAVE NOT ENDED, because all of them cost money, which was borrowed by increasing the debt.
As long as US has any debt, US is still paying for the programs initiated. That is the hole point that all the initiatives need to be paid with your future dollars. Yor ollars WILL be taken from you in the form of higher taxes or through devaluation.
A good example is Germany who just recently finished paying WW1 debts.
All those programs can be boiled down to the scheme to go after YOUR money in one shape or in another