Ignorance is like cheap. Cheap has no lower limit nor does ignorance. I maintain that ignorance can be every bit as dangerous as insanity. So when do we commit the Tea Baggers to the funny farms? If we do not lock these conservatives up they will hurt themselves and others as well.
Obviously the powers that be are out to crush Julian. But how is it that portable phone makers, cell phone makers, and large numbers of banks and institutions that all have publicly claimed safety and are so easily hacked are not considered the enemy. We are now finding out that cell phones that claim to use all kinds of frequency hopping to shield calls really don't shield calls at all. Even the US military is lax in protecting data as are hosts of social institutions. So who exposes more data, Wiki Leaks or your standard cell phone suppliers?
Let us all bow and kneel to the great corporations. They can do no harm, even when they do it over and over again.
The US has never had any real kind of economy at all. From 1619 until 1860 we lived off of newly discovered resources and slavery. Following the Civil War we survived as a nation by paying starvation wages, using child labor, and substituted wage slaves from the former concept of slavery. Then to make matters worse we began to taper off the rape and pillaging of foreign nations. The idea that all of us must earn our daily bread is so repugnant to the privileged classes that it is not even a consideration. This is not an anti US rant at all. Most nations have existed in a similar mode although the way they exploit and plunder others may have varied in the apparent details.
I don't think we are very likely to see the upper classes wanting fair pay and fair rewards for their efforts.
Do I think default to outside debtors is a threat to the US? It probably is the smartest of all paths we could take.
Online banking and bill paying are wonderful tools as is online shopping. PayPal offers excellent protection as well. The time savings by use of the net can be far greater than the time losses doing things one should not do. Like all tools simply use the net intelligently.
The real issues have to do with money. The system can not afford to catch most criminals as it represents an expense every time they are caught. For example most cops know how to catch oodles of drunk drivers but the mayor won't allow it. We had two cops that simply watched people start their cars as they left a bar in the wee hours. When pulled over almost all proved to be drunk. When the cops learned who worked in the bar and what they drove the arrest rates approached 100% for all customers leaving after 1 PM. The cops were ordered to stop that practice. Another method was surrounding a poverty infested neighborhood late at night. They stopped all cars coming into the neighborhood in the wee hours and the burglars and dope buyers and sellers sank like a rock. Again the cops were ordered to stop that practice.
Really all one need do is set up covert surveillance on known drug addicts and stick to them for a couple of days. Not only will you get them for buying, selling and delivering drugs as well as possession you will also catch them at all kinds of crimes related to getting money to survive or money to buy dope. The truth is that the cops must overlook a lot of crime as it would bankrupt every state if they reeled in all they could catch.
Business and crime are becoming the same thing. Go to Main Street and get inside businesses and most of them are criminal in nature. So why is it that we must allow an over abundance of complex contracts? How about a fairness stamp of approval for all contracts assigned by a neutral board? Expecting individuals to plow through endless layers of trick wording and legal jargon is proof enough of bad intentions to me. Those bad intentions need to meet justice head on.
As I understand it minimum wage laws are the law of the land and no contract absolves anyone from minimum wage. Further it defrauds the public in that Workers' Compensation is cheated as well as Unemployment Insurance Agencies are denied their working capital. Criminal fraud should be applied to those who use unpaid interns.
Growth and over population are at the root of this. We can not destroy nature and yet we need land urgently to raise crops and house the ever rising population. Science can not save us form total stupidity. Roll back birth rates and leave larger sections of the land unaffected and free of human uses or else we will pay a price we can not afford.
Degrees must be respected to be of value. Beware of programs offered that use unusual accreditation orgs. Also make certain that not only the school is fully accredited but that the departments of your trade are also fully accredited. You may have to pry and do research to get the real answers but even major universities tend to have some departments that are not accredited. Private schools tend to have their own nonsense accreditation services which they control.
You can learn without degrees but you better be able to point to some wonderful, past results or your salary will suffer. Going to a lot of the nonsense schools that are now common will make you look like a village idiot to potential employers.
If a person posts a so-called secret just how can they know the material is authentic and truly a national secret? After all, many times sources think they are handing you big deal types of information when in fact they are not. Since there is no verify the secrets phone number it seems that it is very much like the commercial truck driver not knowing what is in every box in the back of his truck. He only becomes guilty if he actually knows he carries illegal cargo.
Mr. Manning is correct. It is a reporters job to report and spy type agencies jobs to keep information secret. The reporter carries no guilt.
Oh woopie, woopie do. Oh yeah! Drag the poor guy across the ocean. Give him a fair trial. Then lock him in a Fed. prison for five years. That way we can have the thrill of trashing a million bucks of tax payer money and make up for it by not heating 1000 seniors homes in the winter or denying six kidney transplants or cancer treatment drugs for an American mom. Or maybe we can deny 1000 wheel chairs to crippled kids just to lock up this mad dog violator.
Whether it is some demented jerk causing needless suffering to animals or a cop who abuses his position everyone seems to really hate decency and fair play. It is time we encourage every individual to film and voice record as much as they can, everywhere.
Today we saw a congressman resign over sending pics on the net. I for one make him look like a lily white virgin. Probably half the people in America get funky in some "non- approved way". How about all the tender heads get used to their own actions and words being available for all the world to see? If you do it or say it why not own up to it? Maybe you'll find out you are just like everyone else.
Many people now carry debit cards and use them almost exclusively instead of cash . My bank has strong guarantees against thefts from my card and they will pay any bill not payable with a debit card by bank check and they even pay for the stamp. It works great, saves time and money and is a superior way to get things done it is all a free service. The single fault found so far is that an accidental double click can pay a bill twice and it tends to not be reversible. It saves me at least an hour a month and a trip to the post office as well as a lot of postage fees. If PayPal can match that one would be a fool not to use it. For long distance buying go from your debit card though PayPal and you have the bank as well as PayPal backing you up if you are shafted by a seller.
Newspapers,TV and magazines have all been victims of the budget cutting mentality until they no longer function well. Newspapers can no longer support reporters to the degree they used to. Local TV and Radio stations struggle to survive and no longer offer the traditional types of programs. Only programs cheap to produce are on air. Magazines have been crippled by the costs of materials and shipping and no longer can fund large reporting staffs.
What we are seeing are businesses following the same path that the right wing advocates in government. Budget cuts are the same thing as quality cuts. Quality cuts drive everything further down the sewer.
The idea that cops and most other public employees have any right to privacy at work is totally off the wall. The public must have the ability to observe, record and publish any actions of police and most other public employees on the job. Just why is it that cops want to hide their actions? The only issue I have at all is in any sudden reaching into pockets or purses when a crime is at hand. That might get someone shot but is no reason for arresting them. Cities need to be as eager to prosecute top level employees as well as cops with the same vigor as other law breakers.
I hate ticket cams. But I also dislike idiots. If you hit someone in the rear it is only because you made a huge error. The person in front of you as you should know may slam on their brakes at any given moment. If you are driving properly you will be focused and be able to make a safe stop. It is your fault 100% if you hit someone from behind.
Now chime in and tell me that scatter brained idiots need t o drive as well as good drivers.
There are several problems but charge time is still one of them. We have crowded gas stations with lines at times already. Suppose that we had a twelve minute charge time as opposed to the three minute fill time for gasoline. It would be enough to clog cities with cars that could not move from lack of charge. Then there are the numerous power generating stations that would be needed to supply electricity to the charging stations.
It gets worse. Even if each car must gather solar energy on its roof to propel the car spinning electric motors still heats the environment. Really population is at the root of all of our woes and population size can not be regulated without totalitarian systems of government.
Maybe it is more important for universities to find ways to keep people from reproducing than designing better batteries.
There are a lot of factors that influence kids as far as success in school is concerned. In an affluent family the child may not have much in the way of chores or work assigned to them. In a poor family a child may be up at 4 am throwing newspapers to help feed the family. The diet and medical care available to the poorer folk may also hold their children back. The ability to hire tutors or send kids to educational camps in the summer can have a huge effect. Even the emotional security of knowing that plenty of money is at hand to keep a home secure and running well can boost a child's abilities.
In the US the trend is to bully the teachers and point a finger at them. This law in India seems to be an attempt to bully private schools and point a finger at them.
The hard fact is that if the US closed down all private schools and forced the super rich to place their kids in the exact situations with the poor kids that the public school system would improve by leaps and bounds. No rich man could bear to see the conditions and dangers in many public schools let lose upon their child.
The old school type of society is being confronted by modern life. The supporters of what has been are in terror that their morals, values and institutions are ready for the dumpster. The old guard can't handle it and is trying to fight back. They can't win as we have such a huge percentage of students that will either flunk out or drop out that the threat of loss of education is not as big a stick as it used to be. This stuff is building towards a confrontation.
Too much government or poorly run government is a real pain in the chops but it is nothing compared to not having enough government. Left alone the American public will tend to turn life into a warped, horror story in short order. And the issues that are caused by too little regulation can be far reaching. For example we are now beginning to deal with over crowded prisons that are a consequence of too little aid to the unfortunates in our nation. The expense of true prevention is far less a burden than the expense of trying to repair the inevitable consequences of neglect. Tax cuts can be really, really expensive in the long term. And the long term is now.
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Maybe they could reduce the sting of the bee as well while they are designing it.
Ignorance is like cheap. Cheap has no lower limit nor does ignorance. I maintain that ignorance can be every bit as dangerous as insanity. So when do we commit the Tea Baggers to the funny farms? If we do not lock these conservatives up they will hurt themselves and others as well.
Obviously the powers that be are out to crush Julian. But how is it that portable phone makers, cell phone makers, and large numbers of banks and institutions that all have publicly claimed safety and are so easily hacked are not considered the enemy. We are now finding out that cell phones that claim to use all kinds of frequency hopping to shield calls really don't shield calls at all. Even the US military is lax in protecting data as are hosts of social institutions. So who exposes more data, Wiki Leaks or your standard cell phone suppliers? Let us all bow and kneel to the great corporations. They can do no harm, even when they do it over and over again.
Ok, so we write a file name that self executes and wipes the drive when it pretends to unlock the contents.
The US has never had any real kind of economy at all. From 1619 until 1860 we lived off of newly discovered resources and slavery. Following the Civil War we survived as a nation by paying starvation wages, using child labor, and substituted wage slaves from the former concept of slavery. Then to make matters worse we began to taper off the rape and pillaging of foreign nations. The idea that all of us must earn our daily bread is so repugnant to the privileged classes that it is not even a consideration. This is not an anti US rant at all. Most nations have existed in a similar mode although the way they exploit and plunder others may have varied in the apparent details. I don't think we are very likely to see the upper classes wanting fair pay and fair rewards for their efforts. Do I think default to outside debtors is a threat to the US? It probably is the smartest of all paths we could take.
Online banking and bill paying are wonderful tools as is online shopping. PayPal offers excellent protection as well. The time savings by use of the net can be far greater than the time losses doing things one should not do. Like all tools simply use the net intelligently.
The real issues have to do with money. The system can not afford to catch most criminals as it represents an expense every time they are caught. For example most cops know how to catch oodles of drunk drivers but the mayor won't allow it. We had two cops that simply watched people start their cars as they left a bar in the wee hours. When pulled over almost all proved to be drunk. When the cops learned who worked in the bar and what they drove the arrest rates approached 100% for all customers leaving after 1 PM. The cops were ordered to stop that practice. Another method was surrounding a poverty infested neighborhood late at night. They stopped all cars coming into the neighborhood in the wee hours and the burglars and dope buyers and sellers sank like a rock. Again the cops were ordered to stop that practice. Really all one need do is set up covert surveillance on known drug addicts and stick to them for a couple of days. Not only will you get them for buying, selling and delivering drugs as well as possession you will also catch them at all kinds of crimes related to getting money to survive or money to buy dope. The truth is that the cops must overlook a lot of crime as it would bankrupt every state if they reeled in all they could catch.
Business and crime are becoming the same thing. Go to Main Street and get inside businesses and most of them are criminal in nature. So why is it that we must allow an over abundance of complex contracts? How about a fairness stamp of approval for all contracts assigned by a neutral board? Expecting individuals to plow through endless layers of trick wording and legal jargon is proof enough of bad intentions to me. Those bad intentions need to meet justice head on.
As I understand it minimum wage laws are the law of the land and no contract absolves anyone from minimum wage. Further it defrauds the public in that Workers' Compensation is cheated as well as Unemployment Insurance Agencies are denied their working capital. Criminal fraud should be applied to those who use unpaid interns.
Growth and over population are at the root of this. We can not destroy nature and yet we need land urgently to raise crops and house the ever rising population. Science can not save us form total stupidity. Roll back birth rates and leave larger sections of the land unaffected and free of human uses or else we will pay a price we can not afford.
Degrees must be respected to be of value. Beware of programs offered that use unusual accreditation orgs. Also make certain that not only the school is fully accredited but that the departments of your trade are also fully accredited. You may have to pry and do research to get the real answers but even major universities tend to have some departments that are not accredited. Private schools tend to have their own nonsense accreditation services which they control. You can learn without degrees but you better be able to point to some wonderful, past results or your salary will suffer. Going to a lot of the nonsense schools that are now common will make you look like a village idiot to potential employers.
Those that don't like facts or data collection about issues like global warming probably will be thrilled to end sat service to NOAH.
If a person posts a so-called secret just how can they know the material is authentic and truly a national secret? After all, many times sources think they are handing you big deal types of information when in fact they are not. Since there is no verify the secrets phone number it seems that it is very much like the commercial truck driver not knowing what is in every box in the back of his truck. He only becomes guilty if he actually knows he carries illegal cargo. Mr. Manning is correct. It is a reporters job to report and spy type agencies jobs to keep information secret. The reporter carries no guilt.
Is Heisenberg spinning in his grave? I do have serious doubts that governments will ever allow fool proof encryption to be in the hands of the public.
Oh woopie, woopie do. Oh yeah! Drag the poor guy across the ocean. Give him a fair trial. Then lock him in a Fed. prison for five years. That way we can have the thrill of trashing a million bucks of tax payer money and make up for it by not heating 1000 seniors homes in the winter or denying six kidney transplants or cancer treatment drugs for an American mom. Or maybe we can deny 1000 wheel chairs to crippled kids just to lock up this mad dog violator.
Whether it is some demented jerk causing needless suffering to animals or a cop who abuses his position everyone seems to really hate decency and fair play. It is time we encourage every individual to film and voice record as much as they can, everywhere. Today we saw a congressman resign over sending pics on the net. I for one make him look like a lily white virgin. Probably half the people in America get funky in some "non- approved way". How about all the tender heads get used to their own actions and words being available for all the world to see? If you do it or say it why not own up to it? Maybe you'll find out you are just like everyone else.
Many people now carry debit cards and use them almost exclusively instead of cash . My bank has strong guarantees against thefts from my card and they will pay any bill not payable with a debit card by bank check and they even pay for the stamp. It works great, saves time and money and is a superior way to get things done it is all a free service. The single fault found so far is that an accidental double click can pay a bill twice and it tends to not be reversible. It saves me at least an hour a month and a trip to the post office as well as a lot of postage fees. If PayPal can match that one would be a fool not to use it. For long distance buying go from your debit card though PayPal and you have the bank as well as PayPal backing you up if you are shafted by a seller.
Newspapers,TV and magazines have all been victims of the budget cutting mentality until they no longer function well. Newspapers can no longer support reporters to the degree they used to. Local TV and Radio stations struggle to survive and no longer offer the traditional types of programs. Only programs cheap to produce are on air. Magazines have been crippled by the costs of materials and shipping and no longer can fund large reporting staffs. What we are seeing are businesses following the same path that the right wing advocates in government. Budget cuts are the same thing as quality cuts. Quality cuts drive everything further down the sewer.
The idea that cops and most other public employees have any right to privacy at work is totally off the wall. The public must have the ability to observe, record and publish any actions of police and most other public employees on the job. Just why is it that cops want to hide their actions? The only issue I have at all is in any sudden reaching into pockets or purses when a crime is at hand. That might get someone shot but is no reason for arresting them. Cities need to be as eager to prosecute top level employees as well as cops with the same vigor as other law breakers.
I hate ticket cams. But I also dislike idiots. If you hit someone in the rear it is only because you made a huge error. The person in front of you as you should know may slam on their brakes at any given moment. If you are driving properly you will be focused and be able to make a safe stop. It is your fault 100% if you hit someone from behind. Now chime in and tell me that scatter brained idiots need t o drive as well as good drivers.
There are several problems but charge time is still one of them. We have crowded gas stations with lines at times already. Suppose that we had a twelve minute charge time as opposed to the three minute fill time for gasoline. It would be enough to clog cities with cars that could not move from lack of charge. Then there are the numerous power generating stations that would be needed to supply electricity to the charging stations. It gets worse. Even if each car must gather solar energy on its roof to propel the car spinning electric motors still heats the environment. Really population is at the root of all of our woes and population size can not be regulated without totalitarian systems of government. Maybe it is more important for universities to find ways to keep people from reproducing than designing better batteries.
There are a lot of factors that influence kids as far as success in school is concerned. In an affluent family the child may not have much in the way of chores or work assigned to them. In a poor family a child may be up at 4 am throwing newspapers to help feed the family. The diet and medical care available to the poorer folk may also hold their children back. The ability to hire tutors or send kids to educational camps in the summer can have a huge effect. Even the emotional security of knowing that plenty of money is at hand to keep a home secure and running well can boost a child's abilities. In the US the trend is to bully the teachers and point a finger at them. This law in India seems to be an attempt to bully private schools and point a finger at them. The hard fact is that if the US closed down all private schools and forced the super rich to place their kids in the exact situations with the poor kids that the public school system would improve by leaps and bounds. No rich man could bear to see the conditions and dangers in many public schools let lose upon their child.
The old school type of society is being confronted by modern life. The supporters of what has been are in terror that their morals, values and institutions are ready for the dumpster. The old guard can't handle it and is trying to fight back. They can't win as we have such a huge percentage of students that will either flunk out or drop out that the threat of loss of education is not as big a stick as it used to be. This stuff is building towards a confrontation.
I wonder why this is not evident after an MRI.
Too much government or poorly run government is a real pain in the chops but it is nothing compared to not having enough government. Left alone the American public will tend to turn life into a warped, horror story in short order. And the issues that are caused by too little regulation can be far reaching. For example we are now beginning to deal with over crowded prisons that are a consequence of too little aid to the unfortunates in our nation. The expense of true prevention is far less a burden than the expense of trying to repair the inevitable consequences of neglect. Tax cuts can be really, really expensive in the long term. And the long term is now.