If it is ok for a business to make changes in other peoples' materials then the reverse is also true so if I want to make huge changesd in Marriot's web pages that should not be illegal at all. good for one is good for all.
I seriously doubt that you will ever be challenged putting food on the table. You might have trouble buying new Beemers and the like. But if you are a good scientist chances are that you will be very much sought after and have job security as good as any super star in any field. Build a big name and you will be an asset to academic institutions even if you don't do much at all. To them your name on a door may be a great selling point to attract students and funding. Like all other fields you will be in competition despite it not being so obvious in academia.
Society is circling the bowl just waiting for that big gulping sound as it goes down the drain. Nature is being destroyed. The quality of life is already destroyed for most people. Labor is so precious that it is unaffordable in a world that craves labor but does everything it can to beat labor down. It is a new form of slavery. People in the computer industry should be able to see it. Many have slept on or under their desks and had horrid diets of pizza and junk food while slaving away endlessly nights, days, weekends and holidays. Yet inflation makes it near impossible to save enough for retirement while traditional measures such as purchasing land and homes has also failed people completely. Many areas in the nation are being so covered with roads that health and human activity are squashed and while needing less roads more roads are being built as local economies usually can not self sustain without constantly seeking growth and gathering money from outside the local area. Want a hamburger? The meat comes from Argentina, the cheese is shipped in from Malaysia and tomato is so expensive that you don't get a slice on the burger. All of this is created using high technology devices and planning yet the cost keeps rising sharply and the quality and product size keeps getting less. The eve of destruction need not be posted on the tenement walls. We need to tattoo it on the foreheads of the population as they are too brain warped to hold a thought.
I see nothing at all wrong with a science teacher stating that some people have a mystical view of the universe that has no place in science as it is unproven material. The teacher can go as far as saying evolution is a fact as we can produce it in a lab and study it actually happening.
These farmers sound like they would be living directly under the spinning blades. How far has any portion of a windmill blade been known to fly during a tornado or whatever in modern times. If anything windmills just might slow some winds a bit.
As for property values the value of a farm usually depends on whether it is a money maker or not. How would these farmers feel about a coal fired plant or a nuke that close to them?
No matter what it seems protests will always be part of life these days. I wouldn't mind a wind tower in my yard one little bit. A tall one would be a conversation piece.
The more that governments, courts and lawyers get involved in the computer industry the higher the costs to the end user. Companies can not be in constant litigation or in taking steps to avoid legal entanglement without passing the cost to the end users one way or another. It doesn't matter if it is hardware, software, or simply regulating transmission or use of products all cost get passed on to the end users.
The net may well be the one place where a wild, wild west mentality might be best for everyone concerned. There are also concerns about exactly what steers the law to go after one and not another. For example the punishment of spam operators is so sporadic and rare that it is legal tokenism. So who is to say that legal actions don't have politics behind them when prosecutions are rare?
I think the Healthcare laws will pass the Supreme Court as written or very close to as written. The reason I think that is that insurance companies and hospitals are probably already deeply invested in all that must be changed in a few months. To go back would be a huge expense. Then we would see our very expensive congress tied up for a year or two hashing out the same material. I would also think that many doctors have changed the way their practice works or hired new help or partners in planning for the change. The insurance companies must be thrilled at the prospect of millions of new policies being sold. There are a lot of forces at work that would tend to push the process along. The right wing would also take a huge hit if health care was delayed. I see no way for a political candidate to advance without being very much in favor of universal health coverage.
I think this tech might be a bit far away from us. But imagine injecting tiny blobs into the body that could create a new heart or younger brain. And then there is that twelve inch part that I was born a bit short of.....
There are so many things wrong with what happened to this kid that I scarcely know where to start ranting but the most glaring is expulsion. Cussing in school was something that might get you a detention sentence to an hour of study hall after school for a day or two but expulsion for cussing is beyond sanity. There need to be some school employees fired for pulling this absurd crap.
The notion that teacher somehow reflects upon the school is absurd. If we allow that kind of reasoning think of what would flow from it. The bank fires tellers for being gay. After all the tellers personal life reflects upon the bank and some customers are offended by gays existing in business. Or John must be fired as an emergency room employee because he races motorcycles on his day off and racing motorcycles is not good social policy and it reflects upon the hospital. Or a cop can not be a swinger because sexually liberal people are a bad reflection on the police department. It is endless. It is a witch hunt and worse yet in court that school district will bleed tax dollars. If I were on a jury this teacher would walk away with 100 million bucks in the wink of an eye.
Deer hunters don't usually use a 30-06. They like a bit of meat left on the deer after it is hit. There are deer hunters that use 22 rifles on deer which I consider cruel. many states now allow shotguns and muskets only for deer as bullets from rifles travel too far and the woods get crowded in deer season. But a cartridge smaller than a 30-06 would be a far better choice.
I have a pistol grip twelve guage shotgun. Defending the home is pretty easy but hearing might be an issue forever if set off indoors and then there is all that remodelling and the carpet is way too bloody to save every time. But the fun part is waiting until the burglars get completely inside before revealing yourself and seeing the looks on their faces as you shred them into chunks.
Well in Florida racial prejudices seem to be assigned in regions. For example Miami has an enormous Cuban population so we see large numbers of Cubans in jail in Dade County. Move 50 miles north to Palm Beach and we have more black folks and a mix of Spanish types. You will find Mexicans and Puerto Ricans and south Americans but not so many Cubans. Another fifty miles puts you in Martin County where we have large numbers of Nicaraguans and Mayans. It seems that many of these folks don't like each other very much. Prisons in northern and central Florida have way too many black inmates. those prisons also tend to be more brutal. But for inmates brutal sometimes works out. In south Florida there is howling and screaming 24/7 and it drives other inmates up a wall. but in other parts of the state the howling and screaming guys get beaten to sleep which is a boon for almost all of the inmates. Yes, officials will deny this. I have an errant step son who has been sampling Florida prisons for decades. He must love it as he keeps going back for more.
In the future always avoid marriage and what ever you do don't have kids. I know this may sound wrong to you now but a few years of having a family will change your mind forever.
White Americans really usually have no clue about the nature of Africa or it's problems. We almost seem born that way. But for my two cents the climate and insects in Africa would steer me to want to do indoor crop production in a very controlled and well contained environment. Raising everything in Africa seems to be way too challenging. Here we don't have elephants or even camels eating our gardens at night. We don't have to play tag with cobras while picking strawberries either. And Africa has insects that are just way too hard to deal with as well.
Then if we get past all of that and we have a indoor fish farm and tomato factory what do we do with the huge number of workers in agriculture that are always left out when better production takes place. We did that in India. Given a few tractors, pesticides and fertilizer we displaced so many farm workers that we kicked off mass starvation as the now unemployed farm workers now had no money to buy food and the farmers exported the crops.
Nothing is easy in Africa.
There is an element of faith in science. I was in college in the mid and late 1960 era. Many of the things we were taught concerning science turned out to be less than true as science advanced. When one views science as a continuum one begins to realise that one must be immersed in the stream of science as it advances and makes new inroads and casts off false facts once considered part of science. But it is that willingness to stay within the flow and acceptance that gets you to the point where you get the new learning and cast off some of the old. So in a way one is signing up to stay within a belief system. Religion goes through a very similar process. For example Catholics have pretty much completely dumped limbo and purgatory as part of the practice of faith. It took over sixty years to weed limbo and purgatory out of the faith. Eating fish on Friday is another practice also now largely displaced. Science and religion both evolve.
The deal with conservatives is that they suffer from unusual fears and change just drives them up a wall. They chant the same old trash year after year. Go to 1950 and the entire pile of conservatives would rant endlessly that they must be in power because Social Security would soon crash like a ton of bricks. Obviously that was nonsense. Now that people are living a lot longer we might see another issue with Social Security about 2040 and some changes just might be called for but chances are it will all be just fine. So we end up with 100 years on conservatives ranting about SS with all of their rants being total vapor ware.
So now we discover that our government considers hacking into other governments systems and stealing military and diplomatic information is fine but we draw the line as other governments messing around with our corporations and their potential profits. This is like Twisted Sister teaching a Sunday school class. Something is out or order.
During the cold war we were fed some bad information. In engineering you are very lucky to get a Romanian or Polish engineer. In engineering the education was first rate. Meanwhile most Americans seem to think that only the lowest of the low came out of the iron curtain nations. Subjects such as history got scrambled by the various dictators but engineering was highly valued. I suspect we are now seeing this from other nations most Americans think of as backwards. The abilities of engineers in South Korea, Taiwan and many other places is very advanced.
Actually many of the supposed privacy rights now claimed would not have enjoyed legal protection in the 1960 era. For example a car on public streets or that could be seen from other private or public property would never had any expectation of privacy to begin with. People in view from a public place are fair game. If you are out and about you can be filmed, studied, etc..
The current wave of privacy nonsense is off the wall stupid. Suppose that you feel that I am compiling records about you on my PC and take me to court. You can bet a search will be made of all the files on all of the devices in my home. So where is my privacy right? You get to have my private material ransacked in minute detail based only upon your supposition that i have reports about you on my PC.. And it gets worse. The courts have gone insane and can force me to surrender passwords to help you search my drives under a very real fear of perpetual imprisonment. Yet, just like rape, there is no penalty if i have no records about you on my gear and your accusation was a figment of your imagination. The privacy advocates appear to be the worst enemies of privacy. Does it dawn upon them at all that I can turn around a get the same legal process and accuse them of storing information about me forcing you to reveal every tidbit on your drives, CDs, DVDs etc..
The greatest fantasy of all is that we can allow people to reproduce as they see fit. Without severe controls on the number of children born all of the negatives will continue to build and crush us. Employment, wealth distribution, crime, addictions, pollution, urban sprawl, death of oceans -- all will get worse and worse until the bitter end.
Really a debit card at a good bank pretty much takes cash out of your life already. Currently I keep about $30. per month and everything is direct deposit and almost all of my bills and expenses can be paid with the debit card online.
The greatest benefit arrives when we all go cashless. Most crime vanishes. A burglar can't get by as he can't sell his loot. Your life becomes transparent to law enforcement and you simply have no way to accept illegal deposits.
The flip side is that the criminal mentality is compelled to commit crimes so they adapt to change. Expect more computer fraud as these criminals certainly intend to keep stealing one way or another.
I use Linux exclusively. First it can turn a slow PC into a much faster PC compared to Windows. It does not crash. It is stable and less likely to be hacked or invaded.
Now what is the sticking point? Lack of polished, full featured programs holds Linux back. We have office programs that are wonderful but when we stray from that things get a bit harsh. For example we have powerful chess programs but they are no where near as pretty or as functional as what we see available for Windows. Programs for musicians exist in Linux but they require quite a learning curve and are not at the level of programs created for Windows.
For Linux to really sweep the PC market we might want to draw users in by the hobby. For example if we have a lovely chess program as powerful as anything written for Windows we can pull then chess community exclusively into Linux. If we create superior, prettier, easy to use suits for musicians we can draw them into Linux as well. We have the huge advantage of free software and that is the key. By having enviable programs freely available you can bet your last penny that we can get market share for the desktops.
Evaporative cooling works well in hot and dry climates. In humid climates it is not that good a choice. For a large building they would need large towers with powerful fans (think helicopter) creating a slight vacuum in the up draft to encourage evaporation. Usually intake water temperatures will drop only a few degrees and that slightly cooler water is then pumped into a chiller which eats electricity big time. The water chilled in the chiller is usually about 55 degrees and is pumped through coils that act like the opposite of a radiator in your car. This requires water treatment and should only be done in areas that have water low in calcium.
Frankly I doubt that Georgia is the right place for this type of cooling system. Perhaps they have done something different than what i think they have done.
Obviously this process is expensive and materials produced at this point would be for research alone. But if the processes can be automated materials with really shocking new abilities will be produced. If we get any benefit in products common to use by the public I'd bet that 25 years before anything at all appears might be a good guess.
Worse yet it is called strong arm robbery and can carry a lot of years in prison even on the first offence. Somehow throwing people in prison for this kind of crime seems like a great idea to me.
Some crimes are under valued. For example countless gasoline would be saved if people could bicycle about without having their bicycles stolen or needing to take time to constantly secure them. The damage to society from simple bicycle theft if greater than that from bank robberies. There are also considerable numbers of deaths and injuries that occur in the process of bicycle thefts. We need a minimum sentence on all bicycle thefts of several years in prison to stop this common crime.
In essence society needs to demand and enforce the notion that a person be in control of their behavior at all times. We have gone from a nation that did not need to lock their doors at night to a nation that is forced to secure belongings constantly in the last five decades.
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If it is ok for a business to make changes in other peoples' materials then the reverse is also true so if I want to make huge changesd in Marriot's web pages that should not be illegal at all. good for one is good for all.
I seriously doubt that you will ever be challenged putting food on the table. You might have trouble buying new Beemers and the like. But if you are a good scientist chances are that you will be very much sought after and have job security as good as any super star in any field. Build a big name and you will be an asset to academic institutions even if you don't do much at all. To them your name on a door may be a great selling point to attract students and funding. Like all other fields you will be in competition despite it not being so obvious in academia.
Society is circling the bowl just waiting for that big gulping sound as it goes down the drain. Nature is being destroyed. The quality of life is already destroyed for most people. Labor is so precious that it is unaffordable in a world that craves labor but does everything it can to beat labor down. It is a new form of slavery. People in the computer industry should be able to see it. Many have slept on or under their desks and had horrid diets of pizza and junk food while slaving away endlessly nights, days, weekends and holidays. Yet inflation makes it near impossible to save enough for retirement while traditional measures such as purchasing land and homes has also failed people completely. Many areas in the nation are being so covered with roads that health and human activity are squashed and while needing less roads more roads are being built as local economies usually can not self sustain without constantly seeking growth and gathering money from outside the local area. Want a hamburger? The meat comes from Argentina, the cheese is shipped in from Malaysia and tomato is so expensive that you don't get a slice on the burger. All of this is created using high technology devices and planning yet the cost keeps rising sharply and the quality and product size keeps getting less. The eve of destruction need not be posted on the tenement walls. We need to tattoo it on the foreheads of the population as they are too brain warped to hold a thought.
I see nothing at all wrong with a science teacher stating that some people have a mystical view of the universe that has no place in science as it is unproven material. The teacher can go as far as saying evolution is a fact as we can produce it in a lab and study it actually happening.
These farmers sound like they would be living directly under the spinning blades. How far has any portion of a windmill blade been known to fly during a tornado or whatever in modern times. If anything windmills just might slow some winds a bit. As for property values the value of a farm usually depends on whether it is a money maker or not. How would these farmers feel about a coal fired plant or a nuke that close to them? No matter what it seems protests will always be part of life these days. I wouldn't mind a wind tower in my yard one little bit. A tall one would be a conversation piece.
The more that governments, courts and lawyers get involved in the computer industry the higher the costs to the end user. Companies can not be in constant litigation or in taking steps to avoid legal entanglement without passing the cost to the end users one way or another. It doesn't matter if it is hardware, software, or simply regulating transmission or use of products all cost get passed on to the end users. The net may well be the one place where a wild, wild west mentality might be best for everyone concerned. There are also concerns about exactly what steers the law to go after one and not another. For example the punishment of spam operators is so sporadic and rare that it is legal tokenism. So who is to say that legal actions don't have politics behind them when prosecutions are rare?
I think the Healthcare laws will pass the Supreme Court as written or very close to as written. The reason I think that is that insurance companies and hospitals are probably already deeply invested in all that must be changed in a few months. To go back would be a huge expense. Then we would see our very expensive congress tied up for a year or two hashing out the same material. I would also think that many doctors have changed the way their practice works or hired new help or partners in planning for the change. The insurance companies must be thrilled at the prospect of millions of new policies being sold. There are a lot of forces at work that would tend to push the process along. The right wing would also take a huge hit if health care was delayed. I see no way for a political candidate to advance without being very much in favor of universal health coverage.
I think this tech might be a bit far away from us. But imagine injecting tiny blobs into the body that could create a new heart or younger brain. And then there is that twelve inch part that I was born a bit short of.....
There are so many things wrong with what happened to this kid that I scarcely know where to start ranting but the most glaring is expulsion. Cussing in school was something that might get you a detention sentence to an hour of study hall after school for a day or two but expulsion for cussing is beyond sanity. There need to be some school employees fired for pulling this absurd crap.
The notion that teacher somehow reflects upon the school is absurd. If we allow that kind of reasoning think of what would flow from it. The bank fires tellers for being gay. After all the tellers personal life reflects upon the bank and some customers are offended by gays existing in business. Or John must be fired as an emergency room employee because he races motorcycles on his day off and racing motorcycles is not good social policy and it reflects upon the hospital. Or a cop can not be a swinger because sexually liberal people are a bad reflection on the police department. It is endless. It is a witch hunt and worse yet in court that school district will bleed tax dollars. If I were on a jury this teacher would walk away with 100 million bucks in the wink of an eye.
Deer hunters don't usually use a 30-06. They like a bit of meat left on the deer after it is hit. There are deer hunters that use 22 rifles on deer which I consider cruel. many states now allow shotguns and muskets only for deer as bullets from rifles travel too far and the woods get crowded in deer season. But a cartridge smaller than a 30-06 would be a far better choice. I have a pistol grip twelve guage shotgun. Defending the home is pretty easy but hearing might be an issue forever if set off indoors and then there is all that remodelling and the carpet is way too bloody to save every time. But the fun part is waiting until the burglars get completely inside before revealing yourself and seeing the looks on their faces as you shred them into chunks.
Well in Florida racial prejudices seem to be assigned in regions. For example Miami has an enormous Cuban population so we see large numbers of Cubans in jail in Dade County. Move 50 miles north to Palm Beach and we have more black folks and a mix of Spanish types. You will find Mexicans and Puerto Ricans and south Americans but not so many Cubans. Another fifty miles puts you in Martin County where we have large numbers of Nicaraguans and Mayans. It seems that many of these folks don't like each other very much. Prisons in northern and central Florida have way too many black inmates. those prisons also tend to be more brutal. But for inmates brutal sometimes works out. In south Florida there is howling and screaming 24/7 and it drives other inmates up a wall. but in other parts of the state the howling and screaming guys get beaten to sleep which is a boon for almost all of the inmates. Yes, officials will deny this. I have an errant step son who has been sampling Florida prisons for decades. He must love it as he keeps going back for more.
In the future always avoid marriage and what ever you do don't have kids. I know this may sound wrong to you now but a few years of having a family will change your mind forever.
White Americans really usually have no clue about the nature of Africa or it's problems. We almost seem born that way. But for my two cents the climate and insects in Africa would steer me to want to do indoor crop production in a very controlled and well contained environment. Raising everything in Africa seems to be way too challenging. Here we don't have elephants or even camels eating our gardens at night. We don't have to play tag with cobras while picking strawberries either. And Africa has insects that are just way too hard to deal with as well. Then if we get past all of that and we have a indoor fish farm and tomato factory what do we do with the huge number of workers in agriculture that are always left out when better production takes place. We did that in India. Given a few tractors, pesticides and fertilizer we displaced so many farm workers that we kicked off mass starvation as the now unemployed farm workers now had no money to buy food and the farmers exported the crops. Nothing is easy in Africa.
There is an element of faith in science. I was in college in the mid and late 1960 era. Many of the things we were taught concerning science turned out to be less than true as science advanced. When one views science as a continuum one begins to realise that one must be immersed in the stream of science as it advances and makes new inroads and casts off false facts once considered part of science. But it is that willingness to stay within the flow and acceptance that gets you to the point where you get the new learning and cast off some of the old. So in a way one is signing up to stay within a belief system. Religion goes through a very similar process. For example Catholics have pretty much completely dumped limbo and purgatory as part of the practice of faith. It took over sixty years to weed limbo and purgatory out of the faith. Eating fish on Friday is another practice also now largely displaced. Science and religion both evolve. The deal with conservatives is that they suffer from unusual fears and change just drives them up a wall. They chant the same old trash year after year. Go to 1950 and the entire pile of conservatives would rant endlessly that they must be in power because Social Security would soon crash like a ton of bricks. Obviously that was nonsense. Now that people are living a lot longer we might see another issue with Social Security about 2040 and some changes just might be called for but chances are it will all be just fine. So we end up with 100 years on conservatives ranting about SS with all of their rants being total vapor ware.
So now we discover that our government considers hacking into other governments systems and stealing military and diplomatic information is fine but we draw the line as other governments messing around with our corporations and their potential profits. This is like Twisted Sister teaching a Sunday school class. Something is out or order.
During the cold war we were fed some bad information. In engineering you are very lucky to get a Romanian or Polish engineer. In engineering the education was first rate. Meanwhile most Americans seem to think that only the lowest of the low came out of the iron curtain nations. Subjects such as history got scrambled by the various dictators but engineering was highly valued. I suspect we are now seeing this from other nations most Americans think of as backwards. The abilities of engineers in South Korea, Taiwan and many other places is very advanced.
Actually many of the supposed privacy rights now claimed would not have enjoyed legal protection in the 1960 era. For example a car on public streets or that could be seen from other private or public property would never had any expectation of privacy to begin with. People in view from a public place are fair game. If you are out and about you can be filmed, studied, etc.. The current wave of privacy nonsense is off the wall stupid. Suppose that you feel that I am compiling records about you on my PC and take me to court. You can bet a search will be made of all the files on all of the devices in my home. So where is my privacy right? You get to have my private material ransacked in minute detail based only upon your supposition that i have reports about you on my PC.. And it gets worse. The courts have gone insane and can force me to surrender passwords to help you search my drives under a very real fear of perpetual imprisonment. Yet, just like rape, there is no penalty if i have no records about you on my gear and your accusation was a figment of your imagination. The privacy advocates appear to be the worst enemies of privacy. Does it dawn upon them at all that I can turn around a get the same legal process and accuse them of storing information about me forcing you to reveal every tidbit on your drives, CDs, DVDs etc..
The greatest fantasy of all is that we can allow people to reproduce as they see fit. Without severe controls on the number of children born all of the negatives will continue to build and crush us. Employment, wealth distribution, crime, addictions, pollution, urban sprawl, death of oceans -- all will get worse and worse until the bitter end.
Really a debit card at a good bank pretty much takes cash out of your life already. Currently I keep about $30. per month and everything is direct deposit and almost all of my bills and expenses can be paid with the debit card online. The greatest benefit arrives when we all go cashless. Most crime vanishes. A burglar can't get by as he can't sell his loot. Your life becomes transparent to law enforcement and you simply have no way to accept illegal deposits. The flip side is that the criminal mentality is compelled to commit crimes so they adapt to change. Expect more computer fraud as these criminals certainly intend to keep stealing one way or another.
My 3d printer will be programmed to spit out lego blocks by the thousands.
I use Linux exclusively. First it can turn a slow PC into a much faster PC compared to Windows. It does not crash. It is stable and less likely to be hacked or invaded. Now what is the sticking point? Lack of polished, full featured programs holds Linux back. We have office programs that are wonderful but when we stray from that things get a bit harsh. For example we have powerful chess programs but they are no where near as pretty or as functional as what we see available for Windows. Programs for musicians exist in Linux but they require quite a learning curve and are not at the level of programs created for Windows. For Linux to really sweep the PC market we might want to draw users in by the hobby. For example if we have a lovely chess program as powerful as anything written for Windows we can pull then chess community exclusively into Linux. If we create superior, prettier, easy to use suits for musicians we can draw them into Linux as well. We have the huge advantage of free software and that is the key. By having enviable programs freely available you can bet your last penny that we can get market share for the desktops.
Evaporative cooling works well in hot and dry climates. In humid climates it is not that good a choice. For a large building they would need large towers with powerful fans (think helicopter) creating a slight vacuum in the up draft to encourage evaporation. Usually intake water temperatures will drop only a few degrees and that slightly cooler water is then pumped into a chiller which eats electricity big time. The water chilled in the chiller is usually about 55 degrees and is pumped through coils that act like the opposite of a radiator in your car. This requires water treatment and should only be done in areas that have water low in calcium. Frankly I doubt that Georgia is the right place for this type of cooling system. Perhaps they have done something different than what i think they have done.
Obviously this process is expensive and materials produced at this point would be for research alone. But if the processes can be automated materials with really shocking new abilities will be produced. If we get any benefit in products common to use by the public I'd bet that 25 years before anything at all appears might be a good guess.
Worse yet it is called strong arm robbery and can carry a lot of years in prison even on the first offence. Somehow throwing people in prison for this kind of crime seems like a great idea to me. Some crimes are under valued. For example countless gasoline would be saved if people could bicycle about without having their bicycles stolen or needing to take time to constantly secure them. The damage to society from simple bicycle theft if greater than that from bank robberies. There are also considerable numbers of deaths and injuries that occur in the process of bicycle thefts. We need a minimum sentence on all bicycle thefts of several years in prison to stop this common crime. In essence society needs to demand and enforce the notion that a person be in control of their behavior at all times. We have gone from a nation that did not need to lock their doors at night to a nation that is forced to secure belongings constantly in the last five decades.