People in the US are living quite a long time. Record lifespans, and they were born and lived when lead, asbestos, smog, toxic waste, and fairly rampant nuclear testing and fallout were common across the states.
At some level, the green hysteria industry seems to thrive less on identifying real problems and solutions, and more on agitating and frightening people. Click bait. The medical industry has identified stress as a contributor to heart disease. It might not be a good idea to spew streams of profound negativity to people.
And the jurisdiction issues. People in Asia are likely more interested in jobs and feeding their family, not what some green hysteria, latte sipping, urban dweller in one of America's concrete jungles has to say about their country, policies, or industries.
Usually it's the Democratic Party attempting to divide and conquer We the People -- anything to hand-wave away from the 4,000,000 words of IRS Tax Code, the flood of red ink, and the lack of efficacy checks throughout the Presidential cabinets.
In this case, the Republicans and their extreme Christian lobby have divided We the People with a very foolish division -- Religious vs. Non-Religious. This is a violation of secular ideals, to say the least.
Rather than Pence claiming that it's okay "because Clinton did it" the GOTP should modify the wording to put it more in line with the Right to Remain silent and/or Conscientious Objection -- for example "Freedom of Conscious" act. This would have protected both secular and religious people from performing acts for hire that they find personally appalling.
Full Disclosure : I am a profound Tea Party Libertarian who despises the Modern Democratic Party and believes that a three step process exists to restore the Constitution : 1) Drop the IRS Tax Code from 4,000,000 words to a small set of entities and formulas; 2) Abolish the Continuing Resolution (force the Legislature to Appropriate); 3) Privatize all of the Executive Cabinets and use a small shim of highly trained Validation and Verification specialists to perform contract monitoring. I believe in the restoration of Freedoms and Liberties for all adults, regardless.
Classic divide and conquer propaganda. In this example, women are being cast as victims, and men are being cast as organized criminals. A cartoon involving human anatomy is being used as evidence.
From the modern left's perspective, women, Latinos, LGBTQIA all need their own Civil Rights Act to be "free at last". What a tragedy for the American zeitgeist -- to be pumped full of this hideous message.
The K-12 educator sector is 78% female -- if one of the most powerful taxpayer unions in the nation isn't diverse, how is tech company diversity a crisis? Shouldn't they hire the best that are graduated out of the Universities, regardless of other considerations? The physics community sure hired a lot of Austrians, Germans, and Jews in the 1920's. They're hiring a lot of Asians today. It's hardly surprising that successful groups can be identified.
Could it be a nurturing problem, not much more complex than raising a good dog? Who raises bad dogs, and why? Can a bad dog be recovered through training? When domesticated animals compete, the best trainer develops the best competitors.
We the People need to draft our own policies on the internet, using social commentary and polls. We should ask for input from the National Academy. Issues should be identified and addressed. Either the two tribes support the policy or they do not. They should be compelled to explain their voting record.
Tribe Left has spent decades and trillions funding policies yet the media streams out of New York and Los Angeles claim that everything is unfair. That's a major reform indicator.
Switzerland's Dignitas puts a human down with pentobarbital for about $ 6K. Pentobarbital isn't terribly difficult to make and it's been around since the late 1920's. The federally mandated, human rated stuff is from Denmark and is sold under the trade name Nembutal. The democratic left has been successful at disrupting the supply line. Apparently Dignitas has had their supply disrupted a couple of times and they switched to helium. A small gas chamber with an inert gas like helium, argon, or nitrogen would probably be the best way to put a really sick human down. It's easy to talk about cage and feed for life, but if a human is so sick that they are spending 24/7 trying to kill other people or inmates, it's probably best to put them down. That's how vets treat other vicious animals.
It's not pleasant walking through a bad area and seeing a bunch of filthy people laying around in a drug induced stupor, from alcohol or other.
Putting millions of people in steel and concrete prisons -- out of sight, out of mind -- because the puritans don't want little johnny or susie to see it is a crime against humanity.
Some people can handle drugs, some can't. That's why we should have treatment, not terror.
Ending the drug war would crush the criminal black markets and also the abuse of many self-defense products.
...or they can track the initial visit to a high quality proxy being run by a reputable person or company, perhaps in another country if that's what it takes.
The idea that only regulations and government can solve problems is corrosive.
The Fed appears to be propping up the legacy copper telcos and entertainment industry -- courtesy of a myriad lobbyists.
Does the Fed version of net neutrality make sense? Some say that net neutrality is a meaningless concept, given enough bandwidth.
Perhaps stronger efforts to light up the $ 200 B. of dark fiber that We the People funded in the 90s, and moving the telco and TeeVee wiring over to fiber, should be done first.
Encouraging the executive branch to reinterpret a 1996 telephony law and apply it to the Internet sounds uncomfortable up front, given their track record of favoring large, entrenched players over raw bandwidth to We the People.
The Borg Foundation probably contributes a pittance compared to the taxpayers of western nations. It's more image reform to recover from their various legal shenanigans than anything else.
Some US states base their future prison needs on 3rd grade literacy rates. Just reading with a child twice a week, for 20 minutes or so, can make a dramatic difference in outcome. Once a person can read, their interests rapidly take control.
Unfortunately, most children will never see anything except a single book -- a religious text, a primitive human training manual, written 1400-3300 years ago. Widespread, low cost handheld computing devices might give them a chance to expand their library.
Posing politicians are part of the process, no doubt. To what extent the model we learned about in school exists, or whether it ever existed, is not terribly relevant. There is a belief about the US government that many Americans share. Here goes...
Fundamentally, complaints should go through the judicial branch; if they are serious and lingering enough, legislators write laws to address the issue; and finally, the executive branch is supposed to enforce the laws.
When the executive branch circumvents the complaint and legislative processes, as we're seeing with "proposals from this federal agency, or that federal agency" it raises concerns about conflict of interest. How much scrutiny of the solution is happening by other authorities? Doesn't the scientific method demand more eyes and more input?
Why not let small players, new graduates out of MIT or the local tech school, innovate drone technology at the street level for awhile. If there is abuse of drones, address it through channels, for example complaints through the judicial branch.
So many times, the executive branch has the appearance of favoring entrenched players that contribute to the party in power. It appears to be a driver of many of their proposals that bypass the judicial and legislative branches.
Some years ago a euro country proposed establishing a base class for their humans. Essentially their plan is to replace the myriad of social services offices with one office that sends out checks to people who are out of work or underpaid.
They would establish a basic income that allows people to pay for food, shelter, and clothing. If a person earns less than the minimum, the state subsidizes the balance. if they are unemployed, they get the entire amount. As long as enough effective people are paying taxes, and enough smart people can figure out how to provide low cost essentials, it doesn't really matter if part of the population is a poor match to the needs of society in a given era, or just unlucky. Or perhaps a given era just doesn't need a lot of workers.
If the cost is roughly the same, there's no real difference, other than a reduction in complexity of the solution.
Related, some US states use 3rd grade literacy rates to predict future prison populations. Just reading with a child twice a week can double their literacy scores and dramatically increase their chances of being a revenue positive member of society. Perhaps it's part bonding with a parent figure, part linguistic stimulation.
Bats helping other members of the herd stay healthy -- there's probably some benefit to being surrounded by a healthy herd. Improved access to healthy mates, more efficient hunting, security in numbers.
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People in the US are living quite a long time. Record lifespans, and they were born and lived when lead, asbestos, smog, toxic waste, and fairly rampant nuclear testing and fallout were common across the states.
At some level, the green hysteria industry seems to thrive less on identifying real problems and solutions, and more on agitating and frightening people. Click bait. The medical industry has identified stress as a contributor to heart disease. It might not be a good idea to spew streams of profound negativity to people.
And the jurisdiction issues. People in Asia are likely more interested in jobs and feeding their family, not what some green hysteria, latte sipping, urban dweller in one of America's concrete jungles has to say about their country, policies, or industries.
Usually it's the Democratic Party attempting to divide and conquer We the People -- anything to hand-wave away from the 4,000,000 words of IRS Tax Code, the flood of red ink, and the lack of efficacy checks throughout the Presidential cabinets.
In this case, the Republicans and their extreme Christian lobby have divided We the People with a very foolish division -- Religious vs. Non-Religious. This is a violation of secular ideals, to say the least.
Rather than Pence claiming that it's okay "because Clinton did it" the GOTP should modify the wording to put it more in line with the Right to Remain silent and/or Conscientious Objection -- for example "Freedom of Conscious" act. This would have protected both secular and religious people from performing acts for hire that they find personally appalling.
Full Disclosure : I am a profound Tea Party Libertarian who despises the Modern Democratic Party and believes that a three step process exists to restore the Constitution : 1) Drop the IRS Tax Code from 4,000,000 words to a small set of entities and formulas; 2) Abolish the Continuing Resolution (force the Legislature to Appropriate); 3) Privatize all of the Executive Cabinets and use a small shim of highly trained Validation and Verification specialists to perform contract monitoring. I believe in the restoration of Freedoms and Liberties for all adults, regardless.
Classic divide and conquer propaganda. In this example, women are being cast as victims, and men are being cast as organized criminals. A cartoon involving human anatomy is being used as evidence.
From the modern left's perspective, women, Latinos, LGBTQIA all need their own Civil Rights Act to be "free at last". What a tragedy for the American zeitgeist -- to be pumped full of this hideous message.
The K-12 educator sector is 78% female -- if one of the most powerful taxpayer unions in the nation isn't diverse, how is tech company diversity a crisis? Shouldn't they hire the best that are graduated out of the Universities, regardless of other considerations? The physics community sure hired a lot of Austrians, Germans, and Jews in the 1920's. They're hiring a lot of Asians today. It's hardly surprising that successful groups can be identified.
Could it be a nurturing problem, not much more complex than raising a good dog? Who raises bad dogs, and why? Can a bad dog be recovered through training? When domesticated animals compete, the best trainer develops the best competitors.
We the People need to draft our own policies on the internet, using social commentary and polls. We should ask for input from the National Academy. Issues should be identified and addressed. Either the two tribes support the policy or they do not. They should be compelled to explain their voting record.
Tribe Left has spent decades and trillions funding policies yet the media streams out of New York and Los Angeles claim that everything is unfair. That's a major reform indicator.
Switzerland's Dignitas puts a human down with pentobarbital for about $ 6K. Pentobarbital isn't terribly difficult to make and it's been around since the late 1920's. The federally mandated, human rated stuff is from Denmark and is sold under the trade name Nembutal. The democratic left has been successful at disrupting the supply line. Apparently Dignitas has had their supply disrupted a couple of times and they switched to helium. A small gas chamber with an inert gas like helium, argon, or nitrogen would probably be the best way to put a really sick human down. It's easy to talk about cage and feed for life, but if a human is so sick that they are spending 24/7 trying to kill other people or inmates, it's probably best to put them down. That's how vets treat other vicious animals.
It's not pleasant walking through a bad area and seeing a bunch of filthy people laying around in a drug induced stupor, from alcohol or other.
Putting millions of people in steel and concrete prisons -- out of sight, out of mind -- because the puritans don't want little johnny or susie to see it is a crime against humanity.
Some people can handle drugs, some can't. That's why we should have treatment, not terror.
Ending the drug war would crush the criminal black markets and also the abuse of many self-defense products.
30 years ago a bank was loaded with employees. 20-30 people was not uncommon, and several minutes in line was the norm just to speak to a teller.
Consider that greco-roman slavery allowed people to lay back, relax, and ponder the universe. The only problem was harming innocent people.
So robots are going to replace human labor. So what? They will make us clothes, food, and housing.
Eventually AI will supersede human intelligence. So what? They will make better decisions.
Why so-celled tech geeks keep demanding job creation is bizarre. Ideally, you'd want to eliminate labor entirely.
All versions are saved and accessible from phone to desktop.
...or they can track the initial visit to a high quality proxy being run by a reputable person or company, perhaps in another country if that's what it takes.
The idea that only regulations and government can solve problems is corrosive.
The assumption is WW-3 between major technological players. Might as well restart SDI and Brilliant Pebbles if that's really the future battle.
The next 20-30 years will likely be continued, isolated regional spats over religion and politics.
Battleships have been used to resolve diplomatic impasses just by parking off the cost of a selfish nation.
The Fed appears to be propping up the legacy copper telcos and entertainment industry -- courtesy of a myriad lobbyists.
Does the Fed version of net neutrality make sense? Some say that net neutrality is a meaningless concept, given enough bandwidth.
Perhaps stronger efforts to light up the $ 200 B. of dark fiber that We the People funded in the 90s, and moving the telco and TeeVee wiring over to fiber, should be done first.
Encouraging the executive branch to reinterpret a 1996 telephony law and apply it to the Internet sounds uncomfortable up front, given their track record of favoring large, entrenched players over raw bandwidth to We the People.
The Borg Foundation probably contributes a pittance compared to the taxpayers of western nations. It's more image reform to recover from their various legal shenanigans than anything else.
Some US states base their future prison needs on 3rd grade literacy rates. Just reading with a child twice a week, for 20 minutes or so, can make a dramatic difference in outcome. Once a person can read, their interests rapidly take control.
Unfortunately, most children will never see anything except a single book -- a religious text, a primitive human training manual, written 1400-3300 years ago. Widespread, low cost handheld computing devices might give them a chance to expand their library.
Posing politicians are part of the process, no doubt. To what extent the model we learned about in school exists, or whether it ever existed, is not terribly relevant. There is a belief about the US government that many Americans share. Here goes ...
Fundamentally, complaints should go through the judicial branch; if they are serious and lingering enough, legislators write laws to address the issue; and finally, the executive branch is supposed to enforce the laws.
When the executive branch circumvents the complaint and legislative processes, as we're seeing with "proposals from this federal agency, or that federal agency" it raises concerns about conflict of interest. How much scrutiny of the solution is happening by other authorities? Doesn't the scientific method demand more eyes and more input?
Why not let small players, new graduates out of MIT or the local tech school, innovate drone technology at the street level for awhile. If there is abuse of drones, address it through channels, for example complaints through the judicial branch.
So many times, the executive branch has the appearance of favoring entrenched players that contribute to the party in power. It appears to be a driver of many of their proposals that bypass the judicial and legislative branches.
Some years ago a euro country proposed establishing a base class for their humans. Essentially their plan is to replace the myriad of social services offices with one office that sends out checks to people who are out of work or underpaid.
They would establish a basic income that allows people to pay for food, shelter, and clothing. If a person earns less than the minimum, the state subsidizes the balance. if they are unemployed, they get the entire amount. As long as enough effective people are paying taxes, and enough smart people can figure out how to provide low cost essentials, it doesn't really matter if part of the population is a poor match to the needs of society in a given era, or just unlucky. Or perhaps a given era just doesn't need a lot of workers.
If the cost is roughly the same, there's no real difference, other than a reduction in complexity of the solution.
Related, some US states use 3rd grade literacy rates to predict future prison populations. Just reading with a child twice a week can double their literacy scores and dramatically increase their chances of being a revenue positive member of society. Perhaps it's part bonding with a parent figure, part linguistic stimulation.
Android is based on Linux.
Bats helping other members of the herd stay healthy -- there's probably some benefit to being surrounded by a healthy herd. Improved access to healthy mates, more efficient hunting, security in numbers.