Religious belief is a personal and cultural survival trait under many circumstances.
The amygdala of an atheist- faced with "interesting" evidence of the supernatural or a flat out deity would weight the facts accordingly.
0) "This isn't be real. You are mis-observing reality in some way"
And the rest of the brain kicks in ideas why... 1) it can't be real so what else is it? 2) I'm probably dreaming. 3) It's much more likely that I'm having a psychotic break or hallucinating. 4) Someone is playing a prank on me. 5) etc.
Actually solar and coal with CO2 capture are getting pretty close.
Germany, In Euros hard coal 63â"80 PV power plants 78-142
and
UK, in pounds Solar farms 125â"180 Coal with CO2 capture 100â"155
--
Coal causes 4,000 direct deaths per year and pollution from plants without pollution control measures cause tens of thousands of premature deaths annually.
Besides the radioactivity from coal- coal fires render and will continue to render more land uninhabitable than Chernobyl and Fukishima combined. Just one coal fire (burning for decades) has rendered as an area (700sqkm) as large as Fukishima uninhabitable. As a bonus- it pollutes a huge area with mercury and other pollutants.
I don't mean to give solar a pass (lots of rooftop deaths) (and we really don't know the down stream pollution effects or how much land will be rendered uninhabitable yet if we use a LOT of solar). My point is that solar is getting cheaper every day- batteries are getting better every day- and the cost of the two is getting fairly close (unless you want to burn raw brown coal with few to no pollution controls- then coal is half the price).
Personally- I've gotten a MUCH better bang for my buck from going to some CFL and mostly LED Bulbs (I esp. like the 900 lumen G7 3000K A19 factor bulbs. At $12.50ish they pay for themselves very quickly and as a bonus I've never had to replace one yet).
http://solarcellcentral.com/co... "As can be seen from the chart at the left, solar cell prices have come down by a factor of 100 over the last 35 years. (The reason for the small increase between 2005 and 2008 was because of a polysilicon shortage.) The 2013 average price is expected to be $.74."
"First Solar's stated goals are to be under $.55 in 2014 and to be about $.40 by 2017. "
When continuing maintenance costs are considered, solar is already less expensive than cheap coal after 19 years. Coal plants have a higher annual maintenance cost than solar. This is more relevant to municipal plants. A homeowner might be dead or move before the payoff is realized.
I own one solar panel as an experiment.
It generates a maximum of 178 watts (but an average of about 100 watts) between 10am and 6pm right now. I have to wipe it off about twice a month. It saves me about $2 per month averaged over the year but the largest savings are in the summer. I bought it 3 years ago and it will take 19.44 years to pay off (if it makes it- I think the micro inverter will break first). But it's made me aware of solar.
Robotic soldiers will do exactly what they are ordered to do by a small subset of humans.
That's a more realistic danger in a thirty year window.
Fire on civilians? No problem.
Kill children? No problem.
Kill old people? No problem.
Kill every human within a selected 1 square kilometer area? No problem.
And we already have robots capable of recognizing humans, that have weapons, with autonomous movement. The only real challenges are operational duration, potential jamming, and maybe virii.
For example, some poeple with a damaged amygdalas will head towards dangerous things because one part of the brain says, "Whoop! Something interesting there" and then the amygdala makes you fear it or like it, etc. Without the amygdala you only know it's interesting.
Oddly, without the emotional weighting, other people with damaged amygdala's lose the ability to make logical decisions. Without the emotional weighting- they dither. Everything is equally important.
So, when a person has a strong belief in something- the amygdala weights contrary facts as unimportant or even dangerous while supporting facts are weighted as important and good.
You really need to find some other belief they have to get into their brain. For example, some religious people believe that making human beings suffer is bad. So if you can humanize another group and then show that some behavior the person is doing is making the other human suffer, then they can change their mind.
A religious person has a fundamentally different axiom. They believe there is a real deity and usually also believe that their deity cares about the believer's existence and how they behave. Anything that doesn't agree with that axiom- or worse- is perceived to threaten it- is downweighted or even made fearful/dangerous by the amygdala.
Is that If "ANY" human can do it better or "many humans" or "most humans" or "all humans (even dumb ones) who don't have a brain injury that has broken one of the subsystems:
Such as Brainstem (Medulla Oblongata, Reticular Activating System, Pons.) Cerebellum â" balance, smooth movement, and posture Thalamus Hypothalamus Limbic System Amygdala Hippocampus
---
Any human is a pretty high bar. There are probably a couple thousand humans on the plant right now that pretty much no other human being can duplicate their intelligence.
If we can get something as smart as a jack russell terrier- I'd be happy to call it strong AI. I'm certain we can eventually get to "most humans" tho not as fast as this person is speculating. Some robots might never be as intelligent as a few human beings. Even if they are super smart- they may not be intelligent in the same way as those humans. And robots might be more intelligent than humans in some ways humans won't be able to comprehend.
"Extroverts make up between 60 to 70 percent of society and introverts account for 20 to 30 percent, according to Dr. Ed Diener from the University of Illinois."
http://www.psychologytoday.com... "Researchers estimate extroverts make up 50 - 74 percent of the population. These âoesocial butterfliesâ thrive under social stimulation. "
(the very lowest end in line with your example).
I guess it depends on how you define it and it may have changed over time. Myer's brig has gone from 75e/25i to 49.3e/50.7i that you list.
The curious press a button that shocks them at least once; The masochistic press the button many more times, over and over, with rising passion and obsession until with a wild cry of raw lust their body shudders with intense release and they hear the soft singing of angels.
I think with several years of child porn and drug sales buzz about Tor being "the place to be" that the presumption is changing to one where when you put up a Tor server, you know a lot of illegal stuff is going to happen when you put one up. Probably multiple illegal events in the first hour you put one up.
Personally, I wish they get over the drug insanity and legalize most drugs for consumption under some circumstances. Even the most highly addictive drugs are well under 70% addictive. Yes- some people's lives would be destroyed but we are destroying a lot more people's lives by criminalizing them and making them unemployable.
However, the child porn is an abomination and Tor needs to make an effort to stop it or it will grow to the point that it endangers Tor. (too late, eh?)
My impression of Tor is that it's used by people at political risk and people who do illegal activity- mostly drugs and child porn.
What's the degree of criminal activity over your average ISP? The degree of criminal activity could arguably show intent to aid and abbet.
Sure- a VW could be used in a robbery, but it's clear that they are not sold as a brand to help robberies.
Sure- a random ISP could be used to abet criminal activity, but it's clear they are not intentionally aiding any crimes. (you could argue You Tube intends to allow massive copyright violation-- the only reason I can't see they haven't been busted is that they are a large corporation).
But with Tor, you know when you put up a node that illegal activity will be conducted over it. People are not using Tor to post on Facebook.
In fact- it's child porn which is leading the charge to pierce Tor's anonymity. Just google "how common is child porn on Tor" and you can see articles about law enforcement agencies in multiple countries breaking into Tore as a result of child porn.
Indeed- that's what they found this person guilty of-- "Ferrying Child Porn".
If it hadn't been one of 250,000 requests, I might agree with you.
Besides- who is most likely to make use of a right or law like this?
Am I going to take the time and effort to remove information that I played ultimate frisbee and dnd in 1999?
Most likely only information that a person considers negative is going to be removed.
Of course- the striesand effect is in play here. I know more about o'neal now than I did before and just as Oliver pointed out- the main thing I know about O'neal is that a BBC article about his criminal misbehavior was removed from the internet.
However- less likely to occur for the other 249,999 articles.
"while a Facebook employee was the lead researcher, there were co-authors affiliated with institutions of higher education â" University of California, San Francisco and Cornell University â" that most certainly adhere to the requirement."
"PNAS (the journal) has a policy requiring IRB ethics review for all published studies that experiment on humans, regardless of whether academic or corporate[1]. A Cornell press release[2] says this work was also funded by the Army Research Office, which is inside DoD, and DoD *also* requires IRB review before publication for any human subjects research."
So facebook's research violated the law because it included the work of scientists covered by federal law and the use of federal funding.
Likewise, the journal violated it's policies by allowing the studies to be published.
I hope it puts a large ugly black mark on the careers of the scientists who participated as they clearly have no moral compass and people like them should be kept away from science.
It's spiked this sharply 5 times in the last 1 million years alone.
That's the pattern- it's like an EKG- hard upstroke of CO2 and Temperature followed by a gradual fall in the co2 and temperature.
It's likely it did 7 times but there isn't co2 data for the spikes at 900,000 and 975,000 years ago.
The Co2 Levels are higher than they've been in over a million years and are rising (and have been rising) for decades. I think we can agree on that.
And most of that increase is due to Chinese use of coal and less forests (in large part due too many people encroaching on the wilderness).
I don't know about you- but I can't do jack about Chinese use of coal and no one seems to be seriously ready to talk about reducing the population (indeed the "max" population estimate has been creeping up over the years).
Sure- I use LED and CFL Bulbs. But just about anything else I do is going to be like a spec of dust in the face of the other trends. Chinese pollution is so bad that it's still visible sometimes after crossing the pacific ocean and it's always measurable now.
Remember- the person being refused was a friend who wasn't charged or arrested.
The only effect of the officer refusing to accept a $20 was that your friend remains in jail until you bring $15.
It was very enlightening. If you miss the cutoff time (which I made only because my friend managed to get a message out to me as they were being arrested), then they ship you from the central jail to some other jail where you could be stuck for another 24 hours minimum before you are released.
Apparently there, they make sure you get all your normal non narcotic prescription drugs. The food is slightly better (apparently it was bologna and stale bread) and the cells warmer (apparently in the 60's in the first jail for germ/health reasons and perhaps to make it miserable*) and the beds softer (bare wood or metal vs a cheap mattress).
You cant make or receive calls for a long time after being arrested- about 8-10 hours. At that point extremely expensive collect calls are possible.
*Apparently the first jail is intentionally miserable to dissuade casual offenders from wanting to be arrested again.
They had a sign up to that effect. A small number of People were going out to find change all evening. Usually from cab drivers apparently.
Pretty sure it was the $15 in (2) below...
Sec. 103.027. MISCELLANEOUS FEES AND COSTS: GOVERNMENT CODE. (a) Fees and costs shall be paid or collected under the Government Code as follows:
(1) filing a certified copy of a judicial finding of fact and conclusion of law if charged by the secretary of state (Sec. 51.905, Government Code) . . . $15;
(2) cost paid by each surety posting the bail bond for an offense other than a misdemeanor punishable by fine only under Chapter 17, Code of Criminal Procedure, for the assistant prosecutor supplement fund and the fair defense account (Sec. 41.258, Government Code) . . . $15, provided the cost does not exceed $30 for all bail bonds posted at that time for an individual and the cost is not required on the posting of a personal or cash bond;
Wow... it's neither very good (since many disabled people have incomes under $15,000 per year- that's WAY under the poverty line because companies won't HIRE them (increased insurance costs, don't cha know).) nor is it at all fair (in the sense of "morally right".
You must be posting from opposite land!
I'm not religious but here's some quotes to remind you about "fairness" in the morally right sense.
Proverbs 31:9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Ecclesiastes 9:11 Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.
Peter 3:8 Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Mark 12:28-31 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, âoeWhich commandment is the most important of all?â Jesus answered, âoeThe most important is, âHear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.â(TM) The second is this: âYou shall love your neighbor as yourself.â(TM) There is no other commandment greater than these.â
Quran Those needy ones who are wholly wrapped up in the cause of Allah, and who are hindered from moving about the earth in search of their livelihood especially deserve help. He who is unaware of their circumstances supposes them to be wealthy because of their dignified bearing, but you will know them by their countenance, although they do not go about begging of people with importunity. And whatever wealth you will spend on helping them, Allah will know of it. (2:273)
Allah does not love the arrogant and the boastful, who are niggardly and bid others to be niggardly and conceal the bounty which Allah has bestowed upon them. We have kept in readiness a humiliating chastisement for such deniers (of Allah's bounty) (part of 4:36 and all of 4:37)
Give to the near of kin his due, and also to the needy and the wayfarers. Do not squander your wealth wastefully; for those who squander wastefully are Satan's brothers, and Satan is ever ungrateful to his Lord. (17:26 - 27)
Dozens of deaths and the knew all along their products were killing their customers and they threatened relatives of some of their customers with lawsuits to shut them up when the customers died.
Also, a graph that included the last 8 years would show a break down of the correlation of co2 levels and the temperature.
That's probably a temporary effect- the ocean heat sink is only so big. But it's happened before ( on the same graph- two rises ago the Co2 spiked way above temperatures for a short period).
When I look at all the graphs it looks like the "correct" temperature of the earth is 72f- about 10 degrees hotter than now. It's just a question of when (not if) temperatures go back to that level.
In any case, unless we are going to reduce the population, there isn't much we can do that's really going to work.
Christopher Reeves was fine until he was a quadraplegic.
Most of us start off healthy and some of us "lose" and become crippled.
We can take a harsh attitude and basically consign the losers to misery and death to avoid paying an extra.002% higher taxes (probably less) or slightly higher taxi cab fares (maybe a few cents per trip for all the healthy passengers).
Personally, on moral grounds- I'd prefer to help the downtrodden and the ill. And on a "risk" basis, I'd prefer to pay infinitesimally more taxes and slightly higher prices on the off chance that I have the bad luck to become disabled.
Even more so when you consider that there is like a 90% chance you'll become disabled when you are over 80. If you live- you will be disabled- and it will be at the worst possible time.
And when the services screw over 51% of the population, the next election cycle the population tends to push back.
If Uber and Link kill taxi service and enough of the populace is screwed- they will face government compulsion because the "government" is really just the will of the winning voters.
As for your solution, Nothing is ever as as simple as you think. It's good to think up ideas. Yours is interesting. But you have to presume
* adverse selection * active opposition * regulatory capture
The government goes bad over time. Things start off fair but go down hill over a couple decades due to the above.
But privately held companies go bad *very quickly* compared to the government. We have a long history of privately held companies doing very evil things (even releasing products they knew would kill lots of people).
At the least we need a strong government, harsh penalties, and strict enforcement to keep private companies in line. The government needs to be a couple orders of magnitude greater in size than the largest corporation.
And in the end-- the above factors will still apply and things will end bloody. Always have. Always will.
Slashdot Mirror
ha ha.. I see what you did there.
But seriously, no.
Religious belief is a personal and cultural survival trait under many circumstances.
The amygdala of an atheist- faced with "interesting" evidence of the supernatural or a flat out deity would weight the facts accordingly.
0) "This isn't be real. You are mis-observing reality in some way"
And the rest of the brain kicks in ideas why...
1) it can't be real so what else is it?
2) I'm probably dreaming.
3) It's much more likely that I'm having a psychotic break or hallucinating.
4) Someone is playing a prank on me.
5) etc.
Actually solar and coal with CO2 capture are getting pretty close.
Germany, In Euros
hard coal 63â"80
PV power plants 78-142
and
UK, in pounds
Solar farms 125â"180
Coal with CO2 capture 100â"155
--
Coal causes 4,000 direct deaths per year and pollution from plants without pollution control measures cause tens of thousands of premature deaths annually.
Besides the radioactivity from coal- coal fires render and will continue to render more land uninhabitable than Chernobyl and Fukishima combined. Just one coal fire (burning for decades) has rendered as an area (700sqkm) as large as Fukishima uninhabitable. As a bonus- it pollutes a huge area with mercury and other pollutants.
I don't mean to give solar a pass (lots of rooftop deaths) (and we really don't know the down stream pollution effects or how much land will be rendered uninhabitable yet if we use a LOT of solar). My point is that solar is getting cheaper every day- batteries are getting better every day- and the cost of the two is getting fairly close (unless you want to burn raw brown coal with few to no pollution controls- then coal is half the price).
Personally- I've gotten a MUCH better bang for my buck from going to some CFL and mostly LED Bulbs (I esp. like the 900 lumen G7 3000K A19 factor bulbs. At $12.50ish they pay for themselves very quickly and as a bonus I've never had to replace one yet).
http://solarcellcentral.com/co...
"As can be seen from the chart at the left, solar cell prices have come down by a factor of 100 over the last 35 years. (The reason for the small increase between 2005 and 2008 was because of a polysilicon shortage.) The 2013 average price is expected to be $.74."
"First Solar's stated goals are to be under $.55 in 2014 and to be about $.40 by 2017. "
When continuing maintenance costs are considered, solar is already less expensive than cheap coal after 19 years. Coal plants have a higher annual maintenance cost than solar. This is more relevant to municipal plants. A homeowner might be dead or move before the payoff is realized.
I own one solar panel as an experiment.
It generates a maximum of 178 watts (but an average of about 100 watts) between 10am and 6pm right now. I have to wipe it off about twice a month. It saves me about $2 per month averaged over the year but the largest savings are in the summer. I bought it 3 years ago and it will take 19.44 years to pay off (if it makes it- I think the micro inverter will break first). But it's made me aware of solar.
Robotic soldiers will do exactly what they are ordered to do by a small subset of humans.
That's a more realistic danger in a thirty year window.
Fire on civilians? No problem.
Kill children? No problem.
Kill old people? No problem.
Kill every human within a selected 1 square kilometer area? No problem.
And we already have robots capable of recognizing humans, that have weapons, with autonomous movement. The only real challenges are operational duration, potential jamming, and maybe virii.
The amygdala assignes emotional weights to facts.
For example, some poeple with a damaged amygdalas will head towards dangerous things because one part of the brain says, "Whoop! Something interesting there" and then the amygdala makes you fear it or like it, etc. Without the amygdala you only know it's interesting.
Oddly, without the emotional weighting, other people with damaged amygdala's lose the ability to make logical decisions. Without the emotional weighting- they dither. Everything is equally important.
So, when a person has a strong belief in something- the amygdala weights contrary facts as unimportant or even dangerous while supporting facts are weighted as important and good.
You really need to find some other belief they have to get into their brain. For example, some religious people believe that making human beings suffer is bad. So if you can humanize another group and then show that some behavior the person is doing is making the other human suffer, then they can change their mind.
A religious person has a fundamentally different axiom. They believe there is a real deity and usually also believe that their deity cares about the believer's existence and how they behave. Anything that doesn't agree with that axiom- or worse- is perceived to threaten it- is downweighted or even made fearful/dangerous by the amygdala.
Is that
If "ANY" human can do it better or "many humans" or "most humans" or "all humans (even dumb ones) who don't have a brain injury that has broken one of the subsystems:
Such as
Brainstem (Medulla Oblongata, Reticular Activating System, Pons.)
Cerebellum â" balance, smooth movement, and posture
Thalamus
Hypothalamus
Limbic System
Amygdala
Hippocampus
---
Any human is a pretty high bar. There are probably a couple thousand humans on the plant right now that pretty much no other human being can duplicate their intelligence.
If we can get something as smart as a jack russell terrier- I'd be happy to call it strong AI.
I'm certain we can eventually get to "most humans" tho not as fast as this person is speculating. Some robots might never be as intelligent as a few human beings. Even if they are super smart- they may not be intelligent in the same way as those humans. And robots might be more intelligent than humans in some ways humans won't be able to comprehend.
It appears to be in dispute. I was going to reply to this and I kept running into 60% to 70% of people are introverts figures.
Like here
http://www.marshallparthenon.c...
"Extroverts make up between 60 to 70 percent of society and introverts account for 20 to 30 percent, according to Dr. Ed Diener from the University of Illinois."
http://www.psychologytoday.com...
"Researchers estimate extroverts make up 50 - 74 percent of the population. These âoesocial butterfliesâ thrive under social stimulation. "
(the very lowest end in line with your example).
I guess it depends on how you define it and it may have changed over time.
Myer's brig has gone from 75e/25i to 49.3e/50.7i that you list.
The curious press a button that shocks them at least once; The masochistic press the button many more times, over and over, with rising passion and obsession until with a wild cry of raw lust their body shudders with intense release and they hear the soft singing of angels.
Al Schopenhauer
I think with several years of child porn and drug sales buzz about Tor being "the place to be" that the presumption is changing to one where when you put up a Tor server, you know a lot of illegal stuff is going to happen when you put one up. Probably multiple illegal events in the first hour you put one up.
Personally, I wish they get over the drug insanity and legalize most drugs for consumption under some circumstances. Even the most highly addictive drugs are well under 70% addictive. Yes- some people's lives would be destroyed but we are destroying a lot more people's lives by criminalizing them and making them unemployable.
However, the child porn is an abomination and Tor needs to make an effort to stop it or it will grow to the point that it endangers Tor. (too late, eh?)
My impression of Tor is that it's used by people at political risk and people who do illegal activity- mostly drugs and child porn.
What's the degree of criminal activity over your average ISP? The degree of criminal activity could arguably show intent to aid and abbet.
Sure- a VW could be used in a robbery, but it's clear that they are not sold as a brand to help robberies.
Sure- a random ISP could be used to abet criminal activity, but it's clear they are not intentionally aiding any crimes. (you could argue You Tube intends to allow massive copyright violation-- the only reason I can't see they haven't been busted is that they are a large corporation).
But with Tor, you know when you put up a node that illegal activity will be conducted over it. People are not using Tor to post on Facebook.
In fact- it's child porn which is leading the charge to pierce Tor's anonymity. Just google "how common is child porn on Tor" and you can see articles about law enforcement agencies in multiple countries breaking into Tore as a result of child porn.
Indeed- that's what they found this person guilty of-- "Ferrying Child Porn".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
So they gave change for stealing?
Still stealing is more likely than a bribe for reduced charges and then you don't tell your friend about it.
The weird thing is that they made change for whatever occurred.
If it hadn't been one of 250,000 requests, I might agree with you.
Besides- who is most likely to make use of a right or law like this?
Am I going to take the time and effort to remove information that I played ultimate frisbee and dnd in 1999?
Most likely only information that a person considers negative is going to be removed.
Of course- the striesand effect is in play here. I know more about o'neal now than I did before and just as Oliver pointed out- the main thing I know about O'neal is that a BBC article about his criminal misbehavior was removed from the internet.
However- less likely to occur for the other 249,999 articles.
"while a Facebook employee was the lead researcher, there were co-authors affiliated with institutions of higher education â" University of California, San Francisco and Cornell University â" that most certainly adhere to the requirement."
http://www.hawaiiweblog.com/20...
Meanwhile..
"PNAS (the journal) has a policy requiring IRB ethics review for all published studies that experiment on humans, regardless of whether academic or corporate[1]. A Cornell press release[2] says this work was also funded by the Army Research Office, which is inside DoD, and DoD *also* requires IRB review before publication for any human subjects research."
So facebook's research violated the law because it included the work of scientists covered by federal law and the use of federal funding.
Likewise, the journal violated it's policies by allowing the studies to be published.
I hope it puts a large ugly black mark on the careers of the scientists who participated as they clearly have no moral compass and people like them should be kept away from science.
Dude,
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6ftZ...
It's spiked this sharply 5 times in the last 1 million years alone.
That's the pattern- it's like an EKG- hard upstroke of CO2 and Temperature followed by a gradual fall in the co2 and temperature.
It's likely it did 7 times but there isn't co2 data for the spikes at 900,000 and 975,000 years ago.
The Co2 Levels are higher than they've been in over a million years and are rising (and have been rising) for decades. I think we can agree on that.
And most of that increase is due to Chinese use of coal and less forests (in large part due too many people encroaching on the wilderness).
I don't know about you- but I can't do jack about Chinese use of coal and no one seems to be seriously ready to talk about reducing the population (indeed the "max" population estimate has been creeping up over the years).
Sure- I use LED and CFL Bulbs. But just about anything else I do is going to be like a spec of dust in the face of the other trends. Chinese pollution is so bad that it's still visible sometimes after crossing the pacific ocean and it's always measurable now.
You are probably right. It's odd that they kicked in $10 to make change for money they stole instead of stealing $140 or $160.
Some "unwritten" rule I guess.
lol.
you are hysterical man.
And I mean that in both senses of the word.
Thanks for the laugh.
Remember- the person being refused was a friend who wasn't charged or arrested.
The only effect of the officer refusing to accept a $20 was that your friend remains in jail until you bring $15.
It was very enlightening. If you miss the cutoff time (which I made only because my friend managed to get a message out to me as they were being arrested), then they ship you from the central jail to some other jail where you could be stuck for another 24 hours minimum before you are released.
Apparently there, they make sure you get all your normal non narcotic prescription drugs. The food is slightly better (apparently it was bologna and stale bread) and the cells warmer (apparently in the 60's in the first jail for germ/health reasons and perhaps to make it miserable*) and the beds softer (bare wood or metal vs a cheap mattress).
You cant make or receive calls for a long time after being arrested- about 8-10 hours. At that point extremely expensive collect calls are possible.
*Apparently the first jail is intentionally miserable to dissuade casual offenders from wanting to be arrested again.
Nope.
They had a sign up to that effect. A small number of People were going out to find change all evening. Usually from cab drivers apparently.
Pretty sure it was the $15 in (2) below...
Sec. 103.027. MISCELLANEOUS FEES AND COSTS: GOVERNMENT CODE. (a) Fees and costs shall be paid or collected under the Government Code as follows:
(1) filing a certified copy of a judicial finding of fact and conclusion of law if charged by the secretary of state (Sec. 51.905, Government Code) . . . $15;
(2) cost paid by each surety posting the bail bond for an offense other than a misdemeanor punishable by fine only under Chapter 17, Code of Criminal Procedure, for the assistant prosecutor supplement fund and the fair defense account (Sec. 41.258, Government Code) . . . $15, provided the cost does not exceed $30 for all bail bonds posted at that time for an individual and the cost is not required on the posting of a personal or cash bond;
Sounds more like a bribe took place than a bail bond filing fee.
Had a friend who was arrested and there was a $15 filing fee.
They wouldn't make change.
They wouldn't accept $20's.
Seriously.
In related news, they have discovered the manager had his office hidden behind one of the arcade games.
Wow... it's neither very good (since many disabled people have incomes under $15,000 per year- that's WAY under the poverty line because companies won't HIRE them (increased insurance costs, don't cha know).) nor is it at all fair (in the sense of "morally right".
You must be posting from opposite land!
I'm not religious but here's some quotes to remind you about "fairness" in the morally right sense.
Proverbs 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.
Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Mark 12:28-31
And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, âoeWhich commandment is the most important of all?â Jesus answered, âoeThe most important is, âHear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.â(TM) The second is this: âYou shall love your neighbor as yourself.â(TM) There is no other commandment greater than these.â
Quran
Those needy ones who are wholly wrapped up in the cause of Allah, and who are hindered from moving about the earth in search of their livelihood especially deserve help. He who is unaware of their circumstances supposes them to be wealthy because of their dignified bearing, but you will know them by their countenance, although they do not go about begging of people with importunity. And whatever wealth you will spend on helping them, Allah will know of it. (2:273)
Allah does not love the arrogant and the boastful, who are niggardly and bid others to be niggardly and conceal the bounty which Allah has bestowed upon them. We have kept in readiness a humiliating chastisement for such deniers (of Allah's bounty) (part of 4:36 and all of 4:37)
Give to the near of kin his due, and also to the needy and the wayfarers. Do not squander your wealth wastefully; for those who squander wastefully are Satan's brothers, and Satan is ever ungrateful to his Lord. (17:26 - 27)
Wow- would have expected GM to be on the list.
Dozens of deaths and the knew all along their products were killing their customers and they threatened relatives of some of their customers with lawsuits to shut them up when the customers died.
But aye!
Also, a graph that included the last 8 years would show a break down of the correlation of co2 levels and the temperature.
That's probably a temporary effect- the ocean heat sink is only so big. But it's happened before ( on the same graph- two rises ago the Co2 spiked way above temperatures for a short period).
When I look at all the graphs it looks like the "correct" temperature of the earth is 72f- about 10 degrees hotter than now. It's just a question of when (not if) temperatures go back to that level.
In any case, unless we are going to reduce the population, there isn't much we can do that's really going to work.
It's really more of an insurance situation.
Christopher Reeves was fine until he was a quadraplegic.
Most of us start off healthy and some of us "lose" and become crippled.
We can take a harsh attitude and basically consign the losers to misery and death to avoid paying an extra .002% higher taxes (probably less) or slightly higher taxi cab fares (maybe a few cents per trip for all the healthy passengers).
Personally, on moral grounds- I'd prefer to help the downtrodden and the ill. And on a "risk" basis, I'd prefer to pay infinitesimally more taxes and slightly higher prices on the off chance that I have the bad luck to become disabled.
Even more so when you consider that there is like a 90% chance you'll become disabled when you are over 80. If you live- you will be disabled- and it will be at the worst possible time.
And when the services screw over 51% of the population, the next election cycle the population tends to push back.
If Uber and Link kill taxi service and enough of the populace is screwed- they will face government compulsion because the "government" is really just the will of the winning voters.
As for your solution, Nothing is ever as as simple as you think. It's good to think up ideas. Yours is interesting. But you have to presume
* adverse selection
* active opposition
* regulatory capture
The government goes bad over time. Things start off fair but go down hill over a couple decades due to the above.
But privately held companies go bad *very quickly* compared to the government. We have a long history of privately held companies doing very evil things (even releasing products they knew would kill lots of people).
At the least we need a strong government, harsh penalties, and strict enforcement to keep private companies in line. The government needs to be a couple orders of magnitude greater in size than the largest corporation.
And in the end-- the above factors will still apply and things will end bloody. Always have. Always will.