So now we will have secret indictments to match secret arrests, secret jails and prisons, and the topper secret trials.
Just seeing this nonsense is exactly why we need Wiki Leaks in high function. We are supposedly a government by the people but now the people are not allowed to know what the heck is going on.
Isn't this the sort of abuse that causes nations to have revolutions?
This young man only filmed what was going on in his own room. I doubt that there was malicious intent but even if there were malicious intentions the act of suicide is 100% upon the person who kills himself. I see no crime at all in this. We take all people as being the same and the fact that someone is unusually fragile or under social pressure does not go back to a party that simply activates and already broken person. The gay guy could as easily have been proud and boastful about being gay as humiliated or embarrassed. These days it is like if you win a tennis match and the other player can't handle the loss and kills himself it is somehow your fault for winning the game. It just makes no sense at all.
Of all things that can be measured we know that the best students tend to come from the most expensive homes. If a teacher gets a lot of affluent kids in a class the test scores will be just fine. If a poor neighborhood feeds the school then the test scores will be inferior.
That is something that can be measured and verified. But the methods used to evaluate teachers are very subjective and prone to great error. Teachers need to walk off the job when these evaluations are made of them.
I can hardly believe it but as an officer in a condo association who could in theory write a large check Homeland Security now demands my Social Security number and a driver's license to be on file with them. I do not have to do that unless I am an authorized signer. The joke is that our condo association really doesn't handle big money. And far from being able to ship money to terror groups we always have a large number of people looking for any financial linkage as well as our books going through a CPA all year long. And although we might handle a couple of hundred thousand in a years time the total sum at the end of the month wouldn't buy you most BMW or Mercedes Benz vehicles anyway. they have turned "follow the money" into follow the chump change.
I hasten to offend in every way I can the Heartland Institute. I hope they spend a vast fortune trying to sue me. I'm willing to do most anything to expose these creeps and could care less whether I win or lose a law suit with them. Fact is I am immune from bad consequences to a civil court. I intend to remain immune as well. In my state a person on Social Security, disabled who only owns one home and one vehicle can not be touched by a civil suit. So if these think tank types wish me to let up on them they better give me a small fortune so i would feel some sorrow if they win in court. I think these creeps rape babies. They might be the ones who murdered that Ramsey child. They might even have murdered Nicole Simpson. Worse yet I suspect they are Republicans.
I took a lot of crap when I mentioned several years ago that some sort of GPS like circuits existed within printers and probably many computers as well. But this article confirms it. If a printer gives its location it must know its location. Sometimes as in the Iraq war certain printers simply existing was enough to get a smart bomb delivered suddenly. The reason was that some printers and computers are expensive and not normally purchased except by governments or powerful companies. Running a major company or any governmental office was enough to earn that smart bomb. That goes back to Desert Storm and is not a recent development.
Obviously if you go to a store and pay cash for a printer the store nor the manufacturer does not have your address unless the device can get the information on its own.
I predict that some operating systems and also some encryption software is government sponsored in such a way that they have a handy back door into everything done on a PC.
I am just so very eager to put the guy in jail and pay taxes to keep him there. Boy does the public win on this or what? maybe 100K to get him investigated and tried and then $30K a year to lock him up. Wow! Don't we win big on this one? Maybe we could win a little less often.
It may be time to halt international travel. The world is made to small by high speed travel. every tourist brings risk as well as potential for an epidemic.
In addition to stopping tourism and business travel I guess it would mean that wars would be by robots only. We just can't have any fun any more.
You are absolutely correct. I have worked in sales and we took pride into making customers into victims. In the more aggressive organisations we were told word for word that the money in the customers pocket was ours and we should do whatever it takes to get it. Slogans such as "rip their lungs out" were not all that uncommon.
In the real world if a product is good enough you can't keep it a secret no matter how hard you try and the buyers will beat a frantic path to your door to make the purchase. The simple fact is that most products are simply worthless junk.
The first clue is price. If you are looking at that expensive vacuum cleaner being demonstrated in your living room and check around a bit you will see one party paid four times as much as the guy on the next block. Some fancy beds are like that as well. One guy pays $1500 and the next house paid $7500 for exactly the same bed from the same salesman. The companies attitude is that the guy did a good job in the home where he charged $7500. When you get 30% of the take you have a big reason to charge the big bucks. If you actually publish prices you don't need to have salesmen like that.
Try buying a car and asking to see what others at the dealership have paid for that model. They will escort you to the door or have a take over salesman step in. The way you get to be the take over guy is by proving you can rip lungs out better than other salesmen.
Sadly all very large planes are inherently unsafe. The simple reason why is that it is rare to have rescue and medical personnel in numbers large enough to deal with an incident. Imagine one of these huge planes sliding off a runway during a landing and the sheer numbers of injured people that need to be rescued is beyond local capacities. We had a commercial jet go down in the Everglades just west of Miami and getting wounded people out was at least a twelve hour affair. Many died due to our inability to get to them quickly enough. The worse scene would be more than one of the huge planes striking each other even on the runways. Anybody got 1,000 ambulances for a fast response?
The idea of PPM measurements was implemented in order to avoid crushing the American auto industry. It is a lousy method and protectionism is not a good idea. But a nation addicted to full size Lincolns and Cadillacs could not compete with the tiny imports if total particulates were measured. Frankly forcing tiny engine on the auto market could lower national fuel use. A car can go down the highway with a total of 40 bhp. and a weight of under 1500 lbs and get great mileage. We still will need mandated pollution control systems as cancer and death to the general public absolutely go up as emissions increase.
In my area we have I-95 and a breeze that almost always flows from the east. There is a large cancer difference for people living just east of that highway as opposed to people living just west of that same highway. Worse yet the nature of cancer and other diseases is that the cause and effect may be decades apart. A degree of pollution that seems meaningless may suddenly cause disease to bloom and sweep you or anyone else away. Fairness demands that we force vehicles to either not be used much at all or that we make certain that they have small, well controlled engines.
Keep in mind that the public forces car sizes and weights and not auto factories. There can be as much money made on a 900 lb. 38 bhp car as on a Ford 350 diesel with blowers and all kinds of weight and thirst. If we allow the public to dictate car and truck designs we are dead already. We have a savagely uneducated general public.
Teachers are in for a hard ride. Parents also will be challenged. I have ranted at times about the nation having one eighth grade American history teacher who pipes the course to the entire nation. Most subjects can be easily taught that way. Then the next awakening is that if we only need a handful of teachers to cover the nation it follows that the learning machine-computer could as easily be at home as in an expensive brick building.
That is when the strife really breaks out. We will be putting great pressure for families to have one parent at home, a stable home, with adequate income and children that are willing and eager to be educated. What will tend to follow is that any home that can not have a full time parent at home will be called a "bad" home and the pressure will be for the "bad" families to pay for facilities that resemble a traditional school situation whereas the more affluent neighborhoods will feel oppressed if they are forced to support the schooling of less fortunate people.
This is a serious cultural issue. Currently we often offer the illusion of education which is not wise or fair but it is in line with the reality that most people will never be really employable as technology continuous to displace labor. There is a tendency to think of those that can not absorb technology as a lost group that will never be self supporting. Once that is in mind the idea of spending tax dollars to educate these folks appears to be completely wasteful of tax dollars.
If we could arm those drones to knock out whaling vessels without having them spill oil upon sinking it would be wonderful. Any guy that shoots at a whaling vessel will be not guilty if I'm on the jury.
I mean to offend no one but simply stating my belief will upset many people. A good child in a good home can -learn easily. Two parents with solid incomes are needed. One must be able to pay close attention to the child constantly.
Single parents or income challenged families or families with a child with issues or even homes with too many children will make e-learning a poor choice.
As usual this will become almost racial in its perception.
What we have already are classes that have what amounts to a guard observing the class while media and computers educate the kids individually. Spanish classes in some schools are already automated.
This will also mean the elimination of teaching as a career or source of livelihood.
And finger pointing is going to take place. The only reason for that classroom and guard to exist are the troubled families. More fortunate families can have pure e-learning at home which will pretty much eliminate the cost of education. Even college can be done this way for almost no cost at all. Old Ivy may be in deep trouble. What about our teachers? And then there is school staff to consider, cleaners, lawn workers, cafeteria workers all vanish and the construction trades used to build and repair schools will also suffer.
Yet when a quality education can be provided almost free of tax dollar input just how can we justify traditional schools tom serve only troubled homes?
It is almost like declaring lack of affluence and stability to be some sort of crime against society.
Can this material keep from leeching out into the environment? How about a fire? Would we have cadmium spreading all over the place?
I guess if one gets enough cadmium solar cells are no longer of much use at all.
Try to stay local. In my area the Catholic Church is about the best at feeding the homeless and similar acts of charity. Ask a couple of homeless people in your area where they get the most help and support that charity.
If you have more time than money then doctor visit rides for those in need is a great way to help people.
So the plant has cooled down a bit but the workers at that plant will be dying off for years to come. They were not paid to glow in the dark and die of cancer.
In Florida we had a serious law suit over one hag's string bikini. She was old, skinny as a rail, shrunken and as ugly as a loaf of coyote poop. She was so bad looking that other seniors at the pool could not handle it and her condo was dumb enough to tell her she must wear an old fashioned bathing suit. She sued and won.
The point being that although protection from misleading ads might be a blessing people do not always really want an eyeful of reality. Can you see it now "Buy this unremarkable, poorly designed, expensive, new car that will require a live in mechanic and a bottomless bank account." By your friendly local new car dealer.
As a society we have never been able to really tell the good guys from the bad guys even under intense scrutiny. The credit industry would be reckless if they took these types of associations into account in relation to loans and interest rates.
It is not a "freedom of association issue" as that clause is aimed at government and not at non-governmental situations. People and I suppose companies as well are free not to associate with individuals based upon their personal associations.
Somehow society needs to look at frightening facts. We now know that many innocent men have gone to prison and surely to death row for rape. The chances are that we would find many more innocents across the entire legal spectrum who have been wrongly convicted and punished. If we were getting false convictions for rape just imagine how many people who were convicted of armed robbery must exist. After all, armed robbers usually have a mask, watch cap, dark glasses or numerous other foils designed to stop a positive ID from being made. The terror of a gun and the speed at which armed robberies take place probably makes an ID of a crook really shaky at best.
Anyone who thinks that they know bad guys when they see them would have a really hard time explaining Spiro Agnew or Richard Nixon or the overwhelming devotion to a young Adolph Hitler during his rise to power.
First let me say that by far the worst place to park a car is at a beach parking lot. People who are going swimming usually lock their wallets in the car and every crook in the world knows it. Health clubs are next on the list as people usually feel that the lockers in gyms are not secure so they lock their valuables in the car.
I have the advantage of being a professional, industrial model maker and built a steel safe that was welded into the floor of my vehicle. It did lock with a good pad lock in such a way that when locked a lock cutter could never touch the locks jaws. It would have been unreasonably difficult under any conditions to remove and open the safe. Better yet if the lock was damaged in an attempt to force it open a milling machine would be about the only way to cut into the walls of the safe. I carried a lot of gold back then and needed to have a severely secure spot that could harbor a bunch of gold about twice the size of a pack of smokes. If you have machine shop skills you can do a similar build but you will need to build it to fit in your vehicle. If you have a mechanic drop your gas tank you could use bolts into the receiving holes of some of the commercial lock boxes sold in places like Wall Mart or Home Depot. That way the crooks can't get at the ends of the bolts and the tops of the bolts are covered by the safe, while the bottoms of the bolts are covered by your gas tank.
We should not consider control of crime as "control of everything". We want cops to catch all criminals in all instances of crime. If a law is poorly worded so that it can be misapplied then the sheer numbers of those held in jails and prisons will force us to write more reasonable laws. But catching criminals, cheats and liars will always make it a better world. Freedom does not include deciding what laws you can break and when you can break them.
The crack in the wall that leads to this nonsense is the idea that cartoons or depictions of characters who are of legal age but give the illusion of being under age may be a crime. Once that nonsense crept into law it was only a matter of time before efforts began to place bans on all kinds of computer generated entertainment. The real crime is the ongoing waste of tax dollars on this nonsense.
Doctors, nurses and others really take a serious risk in trying to help patients infected with this virus. Now those who are likely to be called in during an outbreak can be inoculated in advance of the emergencies. Ebola is such a wicked virus and so difficult to control that this is a real blessing to humanity.
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So now we will have secret indictments to match secret arrests, secret jails and prisons, and the topper secret trials. Just seeing this nonsense is exactly why we need Wiki Leaks in high function. We are supposedly a government by the people but now the people are not allowed to know what the heck is going on. Isn't this the sort of abuse that causes nations to have revolutions?
This young man only filmed what was going on in his own room. I doubt that there was malicious intent but even if there were malicious intentions the act of suicide is 100% upon the person who kills himself. I see no crime at all in this. We take all people as being the same and the fact that someone is unusually fragile or under social pressure does not go back to a party that simply activates and already broken person. The gay guy could as easily have been proud and boastful about being gay as humiliated or embarrassed. These days it is like if you win a tennis match and the other player can't handle the loss and kills himself it is somehow your fault for winning the game. It just makes no sense at all.
Now the uber morality wizards will have to apply their opinions as to the moral issues raised by this threatening discovery.
Of all things that can be measured we know that the best students tend to come from the most expensive homes. If a teacher gets a lot of affluent kids in a class the test scores will be just fine. If a poor neighborhood feeds the school then the test scores will be inferior. That is something that can be measured and verified. But the methods used to evaluate teachers are very subjective and prone to great error. Teachers need to walk off the job when these evaluations are made of them.
I can hardly believe it but as an officer in a condo association who could in theory write a large check Homeland Security now demands my Social Security number and a driver's license to be on file with them. I do not have to do that unless I am an authorized signer. The joke is that our condo association really doesn't handle big money. And far from being able to ship money to terror groups we always have a large number of people looking for any financial linkage as well as our books going through a CPA all year long. And although we might handle a couple of hundred thousand in a years time the total sum at the end of the month wouldn't buy you most BMW or Mercedes Benz vehicles anyway. they have turned "follow the money" into follow the chump change.
I hasten to offend in every way I can the Heartland Institute. I hope they spend a vast fortune trying to sue me. I'm willing to do most anything to expose these creeps and could care less whether I win or lose a law suit with them. Fact is I am immune from bad consequences to a civil court. I intend to remain immune as well. In my state a person on Social Security, disabled who only owns one home and one vehicle can not be touched by a civil suit. So if these think tank types wish me to let up on them they better give me a small fortune so i would feel some sorrow if they win in court. I think these creeps rape babies. They might be the ones who murdered that Ramsey child. They might even have murdered Nicole Simpson. Worse yet I suspect they are Republicans.
I took a lot of crap when I mentioned several years ago that some sort of GPS like circuits existed within printers and probably many computers as well. But this article confirms it. If a printer gives its location it must know its location. Sometimes as in the Iraq war certain printers simply existing was enough to get a smart bomb delivered suddenly. The reason was that some printers and computers are expensive and not normally purchased except by governments or powerful companies. Running a major company or any governmental office was enough to earn that smart bomb. That goes back to Desert Storm and is not a recent development. Obviously if you go to a store and pay cash for a printer the store nor the manufacturer does not have your address unless the device can get the information on its own. I predict that some operating systems and also some encryption software is government sponsored in such a way that they have a handy back door into everything done on a PC.
I am just so very eager to put the guy in jail and pay taxes to keep him there. Boy does the public win on this or what? maybe 100K to get him investigated and tried and then $30K a year to lock him up. Wow! Don't we win big on this one? Maybe we could win a little less often.
It may be time to halt international travel. The world is made to small by high speed travel. every tourist brings risk as well as potential for an epidemic. In addition to stopping tourism and business travel I guess it would mean that wars would be by robots only. We just can't have any fun any more.
You are absolutely correct. I have worked in sales and we took pride into making customers into victims. In the more aggressive organisations we were told word for word that the money in the customers pocket was ours and we should do whatever it takes to get it. Slogans such as "rip their lungs out" were not all that uncommon. In the real world if a product is good enough you can't keep it a secret no matter how hard you try and the buyers will beat a frantic path to your door to make the purchase. The simple fact is that most products are simply worthless junk. The first clue is price. If you are looking at that expensive vacuum cleaner being demonstrated in your living room and check around a bit you will see one party paid four times as much as the guy on the next block. Some fancy beds are like that as well. One guy pays $1500 and the next house paid $7500 for exactly the same bed from the same salesman. The companies attitude is that the guy did a good job in the home where he charged $7500. When you get 30% of the take you have a big reason to charge the big bucks. If you actually publish prices you don't need to have salesmen like that. Try buying a car and asking to see what others at the dealership have paid for that model. They will escort you to the door or have a take over salesman step in. The way you get to be the take over guy is by proving you can rip lungs out better than other salesmen.
Sadly all very large planes are inherently unsafe. The simple reason why is that it is rare to have rescue and medical personnel in numbers large enough to deal with an incident. Imagine one of these huge planes sliding off a runway during a landing and the sheer numbers of injured people that need to be rescued is beyond local capacities. We had a commercial jet go down in the Everglades just west of Miami and getting wounded people out was at least a twelve hour affair. Many died due to our inability to get to them quickly enough. The worse scene would be more than one of the huge planes striking each other even on the runways. Anybody got 1,000 ambulances for a fast response?
The idea of PPM measurements was implemented in order to avoid crushing the American auto industry. It is a lousy method and protectionism is not a good idea. But a nation addicted to full size Lincolns and Cadillacs could not compete with the tiny imports if total particulates were measured. Frankly forcing tiny engine on the auto market could lower national fuel use. A car can go down the highway with a total of 40 bhp. and a weight of under 1500 lbs and get great mileage. We still will need mandated pollution control systems as cancer and death to the general public absolutely go up as emissions increase. In my area we have I-95 and a breeze that almost always flows from the east. There is a large cancer difference for people living just east of that highway as opposed to people living just west of that same highway. Worse yet the nature of cancer and other diseases is that the cause and effect may be decades apart. A degree of pollution that seems meaningless may suddenly cause disease to bloom and sweep you or anyone else away. Fairness demands that we force vehicles to either not be used much at all or that we make certain that they have small, well controlled engines. Keep in mind that the public forces car sizes and weights and not auto factories. There can be as much money made on a 900 lb. 38 bhp car as on a Ford 350 diesel with blowers and all kinds of weight and thirst. If we allow the public to dictate car and truck designs we are dead already. We have a savagely uneducated general public.
Teachers are in for a hard ride. Parents also will be challenged. I have ranted at times about the nation having one eighth grade American history teacher who pipes the course to the entire nation. Most subjects can be easily taught that way. Then the next awakening is that if we only need a handful of teachers to cover the nation it follows that the learning machine-computer could as easily be at home as in an expensive brick building. That is when the strife really breaks out. We will be putting great pressure for families to have one parent at home, a stable home, with adequate income and children that are willing and eager to be educated. What will tend to follow is that any home that can not have a full time parent at home will be called a "bad" home and the pressure will be for the "bad" families to pay for facilities that resemble a traditional school situation whereas the more affluent neighborhoods will feel oppressed if they are forced to support the schooling of less fortunate people. This is a serious cultural issue. Currently we often offer the illusion of education which is not wise or fair but it is in line with the reality that most people will never be really employable as technology continuous to displace labor. There is a tendency to think of those that can not absorb technology as a lost group that will never be self supporting. Once that is in mind the idea of spending tax dollars to educate these folks appears to be completely wasteful of tax dollars.
Maybe if we can understand orangutans we just might learn to understand republicans.
If we could arm those drones to knock out whaling vessels without having them spill oil upon sinking it would be wonderful. Any guy that shoots at a whaling vessel will be not guilty if I'm on the jury.
I mean to offend no one but simply stating my belief will upset many people. A good child in a good home can -learn easily. Two parents with solid incomes are needed. One must be able to pay close attention to the child constantly. Single parents or income challenged families or families with a child with issues or even homes with too many children will make e-learning a poor choice. As usual this will become almost racial in its perception. What we have already are classes that have what amounts to a guard observing the class while media and computers educate the kids individually. Spanish classes in some schools are already automated. This will also mean the elimination of teaching as a career or source of livelihood. And finger pointing is going to take place. The only reason for that classroom and guard to exist are the troubled families. More fortunate families can have pure e-learning at home which will pretty much eliminate the cost of education. Even college can be done this way for almost no cost at all. Old Ivy may be in deep trouble. What about our teachers? And then there is school staff to consider, cleaners, lawn workers, cafeteria workers all vanish and the construction trades used to build and repair schools will also suffer. Yet when a quality education can be provided almost free of tax dollar input just how can we justify traditional schools tom serve only troubled homes? It is almost like declaring lack of affluence and stability to be some sort of crime against society.
Can this material keep from leeching out into the environment? How about a fire? Would we have cadmium spreading all over the place? I guess if one gets enough cadmium solar cells are no longer of much use at all.
Try to stay local. In my area the Catholic Church is about the best at feeding the homeless and similar acts of charity. Ask a couple of homeless people in your area where they get the most help and support that charity. If you have more time than money then doctor visit rides for those in need is a great way to help people.
So the plant has cooled down a bit but the workers at that plant will be dying off for years to come. They were not paid to glow in the dark and die of cancer.
In Florida we had a serious law suit over one hag's string bikini. She was old, skinny as a rail, shrunken and as ugly as a loaf of coyote poop. She was so bad looking that other seniors at the pool could not handle it and her condo was dumb enough to tell her she must wear an old fashioned bathing suit. She sued and won. The point being that although protection from misleading ads might be a blessing people do not always really want an eyeful of reality. Can you see it now "Buy this unremarkable, poorly designed, expensive, new car that will require a live in mechanic and a bottomless bank account." By your friendly local new car dealer.
As a society we have never been able to really tell the good guys from the bad guys even under intense scrutiny. The credit industry would be reckless if they took these types of associations into account in relation to loans and interest rates. It is not a "freedom of association issue" as that clause is aimed at government and not at non-governmental situations. People and I suppose companies as well are free not to associate with individuals based upon their personal associations. Somehow society needs to look at frightening facts. We now know that many innocent men have gone to prison and surely to death row for rape. The chances are that we would find many more innocents across the entire legal spectrum who have been wrongly convicted and punished. If we were getting false convictions for rape just imagine how many people who were convicted of armed robbery must exist. After all, armed robbers usually have a mask, watch cap, dark glasses or numerous other foils designed to stop a positive ID from being made. The terror of a gun and the speed at which armed robberies take place probably makes an ID of a crook really shaky at best. Anyone who thinks that they know bad guys when they see them would have a really hard time explaining Spiro Agnew or Richard Nixon or the overwhelming devotion to a young Adolph Hitler during his rise to power.
First let me say that by far the worst place to park a car is at a beach parking lot. People who are going swimming usually lock their wallets in the car and every crook in the world knows it. Health clubs are next on the list as people usually feel that the lockers in gyms are not secure so they lock their valuables in the car. I have the advantage of being a professional, industrial model maker and built a steel safe that was welded into the floor of my vehicle. It did lock with a good pad lock in such a way that when locked a lock cutter could never touch the locks jaws. It would have been unreasonably difficult under any conditions to remove and open the safe. Better yet if the lock was damaged in an attempt to force it open a milling machine would be about the only way to cut into the walls of the safe. I carried a lot of gold back then and needed to have a severely secure spot that could harbor a bunch of gold about twice the size of a pack of smokes. If you have machine shop skills you can do a similar build but you will need to build it to fit in your vehicle. If you have a mechanic drop your gas tank you could use bolts into the receiving holes of some of the commercial lock boxes sold in places like Wall Mart or Home Depot. That way the crooks can't get at the ends of the bolts and the tops of the bolts are covered by the safe, while the bottoms of the bolts are covered by your gas tank.
We should not consider control of crime as "control of everything". We want cops to catch all criminals in all instances of crime. If a law is poorly worded so that it can be misapplied then the sheer numbers of those held in jails and prisons will force us to write more reasonable laws. But catching criminals, cheats and liars will always make it a better world. Freedom does not include deciding what laws you can break and when you can break them.
The crack in the wall that leads to this nonsense is the idea that cartoons or depictions of characters who are of legal age but give the illusion of being under age may be a crime. Once that nonsense crept into law it was only a matter of time before efforts began to place bans on all kinds of computer generated entertainment. The real crime is the ongoing waste of tax dollars on this nonsense.
Doctors, nurses and others really take a serious risk in trying to help patients infected with this virus. Now those who are likely to be called in during an outbreak can be inoculated in advance of the emergencies. Ebola is such a wicked virus and so difficult to control that this is a real blessing to humanity.