Yep, health outcomes of African-Americans are poor because of their genetics.
Now what century was it where that sort of argument started being used to explain the differences between whites and blacks?
Couldn't possibly have anything to do with their general worse social outcomes, which are on turn caused by historic and continued racism, both overt and systemic. Nope, just their "bad genes".
It is definitely not genetics. The black population in Canada has the same longevity as whites. What lowers our averages are the smokers. Thank God for smokers. They tend to die young (60's) and are not the chronic financial drain on our health-care system.
Our biggest cost to the health care system is cancer treatment. Second most is kidney / heart failures.
Do not forget that an electric drivetrain is more efficient than an ICE drivetrain:
ICE drivetrain is 30% efficient per unit of energy source Electric drivetrain is 90% efficient per unit of energy source
This means batteries need to have 30/90 = 1/3rd the energy density of gasoline for the electric vehicle to have the same energy usage at the wheels as the ICE vehicle.
Also: 1. An electric vehicle can be more aerodynamic than an ICE vehicle so an electric vehicle suffers less drag and therefore there is an efficiency gain over the ICE vehicle. 2. Electric vehicle can have regenerative braking systems which converts the kinetic energy back into stored electrical energy which makes an electric vehicle more efficient than an ICE vehicle on roads with varying gradients.
Therefore, the battery energy density is a major factor in the range of the vehicle but it is not the only factor.
Electric taxi cars are now replacing standard gasoline powered vehicles. The car can be slow (trickle) charged overnight, or with higher current, in about 1 hour.
Hit the Republicans and stress reelection depends on network neutrality, so does international traffic about finance, medical exchanges, working realtime with operating theatres and more.
You have not shown the dangers of ignoring network Neutrality
Just as the Trade agreements are being signed and do not include the USA, not because of intent,but because the USA under Trump wants the world to play by the US rules. The world will create their own internet system, redirecting traffic to not pass through the United States. The world can't follow the American rules regarding shaping of traffic. Simply put, what is good for one nation would become the rule for all nations. Inernational commerce, and so many other services (medical, educational, etc. are going to be impacted by the FCC's cow-towing to Trump.
Canada has a merit based immigrant system. If you are not sponsored, it depends on many factors -- education, health, age, language, city to be domiciled, skills, marriage status, children.
If immigrant to be sponsored, it can be parent to grandparent, cousin, brother (in-law), sister(in-law), with some additional rules.
In an ideal world, violent criminals and thieves would go to jail. Not that I mind a few escaping if I don't have to pay taxes to lock them up.
But it's also a fact that we make too many "criminals." We jail people for drug offenses that harm only themselves, for consensual sex between adults, even for unpaid parking tickets in some cases. Our sentences are Draconian. A journalist who filmed protests that damaged property in DC is essentially facing a life sentence (60+ years) -- he expressed support, but never participated in any property damage.
If he made bail, cut, and ran abroad across a porous border, I wouldn't blame him one bit -- in fact, I'd applaud and cheer for him. No sense risking a life sentence in front of a biased court.
I'd rather have a few violent criminals escape "justice" than have a tight border that can potentially be used to keep political criminals from escaping.
Some illegal stuff that is imprisonable in the USA is not so elsewhere. I know of someone arrested for importing undersized lobsters into the USA. Against the law he got one year in jail. In other countries, it would be a stiff fine with possible six month suspension of permit to allow importation of seafood.
No one is forcing the things down our throats -- in fact, over-prescription of opiods has been better at getting people hooked than any drug dealer. Want to go after someone; go after Purdue Pharma and similar firms.
Immigrants themselves? The diversity in my city actually makes it an interesting and wonderful place to live and adds to its art, science (yes), and culture.
And that diversity is most apparent where I live. In the street, we are bilingual French/English, and at home, add a third language. I also relish hearing Portuguese, Russian,Spanish,German, Hebrew, Chinese and Arabic. I occasionally treat ourselves, my wife and I, to a meal one of those cultural restaurants.
You Americans have a richness and cultural chance to include Spanish in your abilities to converse. And instead, many of you treat people with a second language as shit.
What to know what is causing opiod dependencies? The high cost of medical care. A patient who needs physio for pain and for rehabilitation can't afford the physio, so the doctor prescribes opiods. After 3 weeks on opiods, addiction is guaranteed.
Food from the 1850's tasted better than today's gmo products.
My example is the tomato 10 years ago, a tomato from the grocers was deep read, juicy, and flavourful. Today it is crunchy, durable, can handle rough handling in the grocery bag, and tasteless. It seems that gmo'd tomatoes were engineered to be insect resistant and dry. I remember slicing a pre-gmo tomato and the juices were leaking over the saucer/plate. Today, I can slice a tomato, and the saucer/plate doesn't even get wet. Our forefathers had better tasting food then, compared to what we have today.
I agree. Someone who defines bullying as rude behavior has never actually experienced bullying. I can deal with a few rude coworkers. One actual bully would be enough for me to leave a job.
Physical violence, physical intimidation, or threats of physical violence is definitely bullying. Bullying can be verbal, but that is harder to define. Verbal bullying can take the form of a boss or coworker yelling, swearing at, and insulting someone. For example, if you go into work every day and have your boss yell at you saying that you are a f***ing idiot and can't do anything right, I would classify that boss as a bully.
Having coworkers fail to say please and thank you is definitely not bullying.
It can also be bullying by isolation. Someone wants you to suffer, so meetings are held where you are not invited, and the topics concern your responsibilities or areas of expertise. In corporations, there is a lot of jealousy, and jealousy breeds bullying.
Oh I know, right? But the big fact you danced around is, Linux is just better than the others. It's faster and more reliable. Otherwise top 500 would not use it. Like, they tried to use Windows, they really did. Microsoft was paying academic institutions to install it and providing teams of free engineers. Still didn't do it. Why? Windows can't handle the load, it can't run continuously under load. It just gets more and more unstable then it falls over. Even when it does stay up, it can't touch the storage, scheduling or memory management efficiency of Linux.
Microsoft now offers Linux for servers, so I am told. Many of their cloud platforms run on Linux
I noted a 10% increase in the cost of many goods last week, two weeks before black Friday. Consumers are not stupid, they will wait to shop in January.
I'm Canadian. We spell words with the u (colour). Our browsers with add-in dictionaries keep us spelling the Canadian way. And because of the French Quebec influence, centre will always be centre. And we try not to end sentences with a preposition (somewhat losing battle when spoken) but we try to be correct when written.
eg; Spoken: There are 4 cars to choose from vs Written: There are 4 cars from which to choose.
I eat food from two bowls rather than I eat from two bowls of food. (are the bowls made of food?)
It's way too easy for someone to sneak in an extra box of fake ballots to rig an election.
It's hard to rig an election with a single box of fake ballots. It's also hard to bring in thousands of boxes without anybody noticing.
Imagine a fake box was introduced. It could succeed because of low voter turnout. Typical US voter turnouot is so low that the box with fake ballets would not raise suspicion. The sum of the votes, including the fake ones will be less than the total of eligible voters for that polling location.
It's also pretty unreasonable that criminals can't just be forced to admit guilt. Think of all the wasted time giving criminals due process of law.
Wrongfully accused individuals are suddenly criminals? Give me a break. He looks like a criminal, walks like a criminal, dresses like a criminal, but he is a university professor. Doesn't matter that he is a professor, let's prosecute.
Putting aside AMD's very newest chip for a moment, there are basically three different kinds of use cases:
A) I want the best performance I can get within my $X budget.
B) it's a server serving many clients (lots of threads)
C) It's a single thread and I don't care how much it costs because I'm spending taxpayer money, I want the very fastest single-thread performance, cost be damned
Intel specializes in case C. Raw single-thread performance, cost be damned.
AMD will give you more cores for the dollar, so it competes well in case B, servers running many threads. AMD also traditionally costs significantly less, so it fits case A, getting the best CPU you can within a certain price range.
That's a generalization, though. It's best to compare one CPU model to another, evaluating based on the needs of your specific application and budget.
Intel must have a second source for it's products. AMD was the patent holder for the virtual logic that Intel licensed. AMD needed a second source for it's chips. Intel is good at reducing chip lines and circuitry to nanometers. Intel is not a design king. They buy designs. AMD is a vendor and also a purchaser of designs.
The cost of education has skyrocketed to the point that it may have just become a bad investment. The cost of graduate degrees if one is required to get student loans to complete leaves you with years and years of debt. If you aren't lucky enough to land a high paying job as soon as you complete you degree you are left struggling to make the investment in education worth it. Basic economics-high cost means people won't buy. Numbers will most likely continue to fall as cost rises.
The cost is astronomical, because America believes in "For profit" universities, with major streams of revenue such as Students, football teams, stadiums etc. Your neighbours to the north and south graduate phd's or master degree students for $2000/semister. No big Ivy league school at $40k/yr
That's the position that I find myself facing. I have a MS in a technical field but in order to advance my career, I'm looking at having to get an MBA that will only open career paths that I don't really want.
I prefer to remain technical but there's a ceiling that's difficult to break through without going that route.
LK
You will be obsolete by age 55, and scrounging for work as a consultant. That is what I have seen of people who did not create their own long term business.
I'm going to pipe in here. One key thing I see in Linux distros as we know them is that they have within them a baseline that you are given the tools to enhance the very thing that you are using. This is sort of by design as that's kind of a 10,000 foot view of what FOSS is about. Now you don't have to do that, but you still have that option if need be. Chrome OS and Android, along with all the other appliances running a Linux kernel do not have this. A Linux distro, Linux OS (not just a Linux kernel) encourages you or at the very least gives you enough room to, expand the world that you are working in.
I know folks on here like car analogies, so Linux is like an engine. A distro is a car, Chrome and Android are buses. Both do the whole getting you from point A to point B thing and both contain an engine, but a car isn't a bus for a whole lot of other reasons. Chrome OS and Android are users of the Linux kernel and nothing more. And honestly, I'd bet a pretty penny that we'll eventually see Linux dumped for Fuchsia, Chrome and Android to finally merge, and for Blink to slide even further away from being open as Android-ness creeps into the various parts within Google's already complicated web browser stack.
As I see it, Gnome is going to be for Linux as the Ford or GM is for cars. KDE for Linux is like Honda, Toyota, BMW, and the high end or European vehicles. Whatever else is there is for those Linux unique interface enthusiasts.
Fibre is really cheaper to install than copper, and offers the bandwidth that the city needs. For example, the future will be with online water meters, electric meters, gas meters, and alarm / heating / ac systems all controlled remotely. Have a fire in an condo building, be able to poweroff the building rapidly.
Of course AT&T will want to sue the city because it wants to keep that communication system to itself.
The coming generation is going to have to decide -- big corps control the internet, or control by cities. Cities tend to be "by the people, for the people", vs the big corporations.
I didn't know there were companies in the US that had the power to imprison a person for not complying with them. Please enlighten me as to what companies have the same coercive power as a government (or, as you put it, "worse").
Curiously, would you want to try to sue a corporation if you had to go through a special court owned and operated by said corporation? I'm guessing not. Yet if we sue the government, we are using a court system that is run under the same institution. Personally, I would rather not consolidate all the interested that could potentially act against me.
It always amuses me when people distrust the people who run corporations while at the same time trust the people who run governments, as if the two are run by completely different kinds of people.
What will happen is that the global Radio network will enter the local market and provide both advertising at a lower cost and around 8 minutes per hour of local news. Want to know about church bazaars, or special activities. Forget it, instead you will get more tripe and propaganda than you could ever get in a dictatorship society.
Since Uber does food deliveries, I could see Amazon competing with Uber. Do home parcel deliveries and food deliveries with the same driver.
Alternatively , imagine if my home was an Amazon depot for a radius of one mile (1.6km). Parcels could be delivered to my home, and the owners would advise me as to when to deliver them to their domiciles. I could benefit from some part-time work, and the Amazon parcel owner could get his item when he arrives home from work. It could work well in densely populated areas (condos, high-rises, commuter villages, etc.)
The EIA may be wrong, but the owners/investors of generating plants that use fossil fuel are not. They don't invest when they see no return, and since they do not invest, the government does not provide incentives either. Sometimes I think that the government actually pays for the generating station, and sells their share to investors for $1.00
Perhaps I have to use a touch pad that punctures my finger and takes a blood sample. It will check the dna of my sample, and if it matches what is on file, I will be able to log into the system. Perhaps, in lieu of the blood sample, a saliva sample would suffice. Blow into a straw and if the dna matches, voila-- access.
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Yep, health outcomes of African-Americans are poor because of their genetics.
Now what century was it where that sort of argument started being used to explain the differences between whites and blacks?
Couldn't possibly have anything to do with their general worse social outcomes, which are on turn caused by historic and continued racism, both overt and systemic. Nope, just their "bad genes".
It is definitely not genetics. The black population in Canada has the same longevity as whites. What lowers our averages are the smokers. Thank God for smokers. They tend to die young (60's) and are not the chronic financial drain on our health-care system.
Our biggest cost to the health care system is cancer treatment. Second most is kidney / heart failures.
Do not forget that an electric drivetrain is more efficient than an ICE drivetrain:
ICE drivetrain is 30% efficient per unit of energy source
Electric drivetrain is 90% efficient per unit of energy source
This means batteries need to have 30/90 = 1/3rd the energy density of gasoline for the electric vehicle to have the same energy usage at the wheels as the ICE vehicle.
Also:
1. An electric vehicle can be more aerodynamic than an ICE vehicle so an electric vehicle suffers less drag and therefore there is an efficiency gain over the ICE vehicle.
2. Electric vehicle can have regenerative braking systems which converts the kinetic energy back into stored electrical energy which makes an electric vehicle more efficient than an ICE vehicle on roads with varying gradients.
Therefore, the battery energy density is a major factor in the range of the vehicle but it is not the only factor.
Electric taxi cars are now replacing standard gasoline powered vehicles. The car can be slow (trickle) charged overnight, or with higher current, in about 1 hour.
Hit the Republicans and stress reelection depends on network neutrality, so does international traffic about finance, medical exchanges, working realtime with operating theatres and more.
You have not shown the dangers of ignoring network Neutrality
Just as the Trade agreements are being signed and do not include the USA, not because of intent,but because the USA under Trump wants the world to play by the US rules. The world will create their own internet system, redirecting traffic to not pass through the United States. The world can't follow the American rules regarding shaping of traffic. Simply put, what is good for one nation would become the rule for all nations. Inernational commerce, and so many other services (medical, educational, etc. are going to be impacted by the FCC's cow-towing to Trump.
Canada has a merit based immigrant system. If you are not sponsored, it depends on many factors -- education, health, age, language, city to be domiciled, skills, marriage status, children.
If immigrant to be sponsored, it can be parent to grandparent, cousin, brother (in-law), sister(in-law), with some additional rules.
In an ideal world, violent criminals and thieves would go to jail. Not that I mind a few escaping if I don't have to pay taxes to lock them up.
But it's also a fact that we make too many "criminals." We jail people for drug offenses that harm only themselves, for consensual sex between adults, even for unpaid parking tickets in some cases. Our sentences are Draconian. A journalist who filmed protests that damaged property in DC is essentially facing a life sentence (60+ years) -- he expressed support, but never participated in any property damage.
If he made bail, cut, and ran abroad across a porous border, I wouldn't blame him one bit -- in fact, I'd applaud and cheer for him. No sense risking a life sentence in front of a biased court.
I'd rather have a few violent criminals escape "justice" than have a tight border that can potentially be used to keep political criminals from escaping.
Some illegal stuff that is imprisonable in the USA is not so elsewhere. I know of someone arrested for importing undersized lobsters into the USA. Against the law he got one year in jail. In other countries, it would be a stiff fine with possible six month suspension of permit to allow importation of seafood.
How does a porous border hurt you and me? Drugs?
No one is forcing the things down our throats -- in fact, over-prescription of opiods has been better at getting people hooked than any drug dealer. Want to go after someone; go after Purdue Pharma and similar firms.
Immigrants themselves? The diversity in my city actually makes it an interesting and wonderful place to live and adds to its art, science (yes), and culture.
And that diversity is most apparent where I live. In the street, we are bilingual French/English, and at home, add a third language. I also relish hearing Portuguese, Russian,Spanish,German, Hebrew, Chinese and Arabic. I occasionally treat ourselves, my wife and I, to a meal one of those cultural restaurants.
You Americans have a richness and cultural chance to include Spanish in your abilities to converse. And instead, many of you treat people with a second language as shit.
What to know what is causing opiod dependencies? The high cost of medical care. A patient who needs physio for pain and for rehabilitation can't afford the physio, so the doctor prescribes opiods. After 3 weeks on opiods, addiction is guaranteed.
Food from the 1850's tasted better than today's gmo products.
My example is the tomato
10 years ago, a tomato from the grocers was deep read, juicy, and flavourful. Today it is crunchy, durable, can handle rough handling in the grocery bag, and tasteless. It seems that gmo'd tomatoes were engineered to be insect resistant and dry.
I remember slicing a pre-gmo tomato and the juices were leaking over the saucer/plate. Today, I can slice a tomato, and the saucer/plate doesn't even get wet.
Our forefathers had better tasting food then, compared to what we have today.
I agree. Someone who defines bullying as rude behavior has never actually experienced bullying. I can deal with a few rude coworkers. One actual bully would be enough for me to leave a job.
Physical violence, physical intimidation, or threats of physical violence is definitely bullying. Bullying can be verbal, but that is harder to define. Verbal bullying can take the form of a boss or coworker yelling, swearing at, and insulting someone. For example, if you go into work every day and have your boss yell at you saying that you are a f***ing idiot and can't do anything right, I would classify that boss as a bully.
Having coworkers fail to say please and thank you is definitely not bullying.
It can also be bullying by isolation. Someone wants you to suffer, so meetings are held where you are not invited, and the topics concern your responsibilities or areas of expertise. In corporations, there is a lot of jealousy, and jealousy breeds bullying.
...it's quite literately the only logical choice
Oh I know, right? But the big fact you danced around is, Linux is just better than the others. It's faster and more reliable. Otherwise top 500 would not use it. Like, they tried to use Windows, they really did. Microsoft was paying academic institutions to install it and providing teams of free engineers. Still didn't do it. Why? Windows can't handle the load, it can't run continuously under load. It just gets more and more unstable then it falls over. Even when it does stay up, it can't touch the storage, scheduling or memory management efficiency of Linux.
Microsoft now offers Linux for servers, so I am told. Many of their cloud platforms run on Linux
on January 6. Problem solved.
I noted a 10% increase in the cost of many goods last week, two weeks before black Friday. Consumers are not stupid, they will wait to shop in January.
I'm Canadian. We spell words with the u (colour). Our browsers with add-in dictionaries keep us spelling the Canadian way. And because of the French Quebec influence, centre will always be centre.
And we try not to end sentences with a preposition (somewhat losing battle when spoken) but we try to be correct when written.
eg;
Spoken: There are 4 cars to choose from vs
Written: There are 4 cars from which to choose.
I eat food from two bowls rather than
I eat from two bowls of food. (are the bowls made of food?)
It's way too easy for someone to sneak in an extra box of fake ballots to rig an election.
It's hard to rig an election with a single box of fake ballots. It's also hard to bring in thousands of boxes without anybody noticing.
Imagine a fake box was introduced. It could succeed because of low voter turnout. Typical US voter turnouot is so low that the box with fake ballets would not raise suspicion. The sum of the votes, including the fake ones will be less than the total of eligible voters for that polling location.
It's also pretty unreasonable that criminals can't just be forced to admit guilt. Think of all the wasted time giving criminals due process of law.
Wrongfully accused individuals are suddenly criminals? Give me a break. He looks like a criminal, walks like a criminal, dresses like a criminal, but he is a university professor. Doesn't matter that he is a professor, let's prosecute.
Putting aside AMD's very newest chip for a moment, there are basically three different kinds of use cases:
A) I want the best performance I can get within my $X budget.
B) it's a server serving many clients (lots of threads)
C) It's a single thread and I don't care how much it costs because I'm spending taxpayer money, I want the very fastest single-thread performance, cost be damned
Intel specializes in case C. Raw single-thread performance, cost be damned.
AMD will give you more cores for the dollar, so it competes well in case B, servers running many threads. AMD also traditionally costs significantly less, so it fits case A, getting the best CPU you can within a certain price range.
That's a generalization, though. It's best to compare one CPU model to another, evaluating based on the needs of your specific application and budget.
Intel must have a second source for it's products. AMD was the patent holder for the virtual logic that Intel licensed. AMD needed a second source for it's chips. Intel is good at reducing chip lines and circuitry to nanometers. Intel is not a design king. They buy designs. AMD is a vendor and also a purchaser of designs.
The cost of education has skyrocketed to the point that it may have just become a bad investment. The cost of graduate degrees if one is required to get student loans to complete leaves you with years and years of debt. If you aren't lucky enough to land a high paying job as soon as you complete you degree you are left struggling to make the investment in education worth it. Basic economics-high cost means people won't buy. Numbers will most likely continue to fall as cost rises.
The cost is astronomical, because America believes in "For profit" universities, with major streams of revenue such as Students, football teams, stadiums etc.
Your neighbours to the north and south graduate phd's or master degree students for $2000/semister. No big Ivy league school at $40k/yr
That's the position that I find myself facing. I have a MS in a technical field but in order to advance my career, I'm looking at having to get an MBA that will only open career paths that I don't really want.
I prefer to remain technical but there's a ceiling that's difficult to break through without going that route.
LK
You will be obsolete by age 55, and scrounging for work as a consultant. That is what I have seen of people who did not create their own long term business.
I know so many people who graduated in a STEM field who then go for an MBA to advance their career.
Rich parents or benefactor allows or helps.
I'm going to pipe in here. One key thing I see in Linux distros as we know them is that they have within them a baseline that you are given the tools to enhance the very thing that you are using. This is sort of by design as that's kind of a 10,000 foot view of what FOSS is about. Now you don't have to do that, but you still have that option if need be. Chrome OS and Android, along with all the other appliances running a Linux kernel do not have this. A Linux distro, Linux OS (not just a Linux kernel) encourages you or at the very least gives you enough room to, expand the world that you are working in.
I know folks on here like car analogies, so Linux is like an engine. A distro is a car, Chrome and Android are buses. Both do the whole getting you from point A to point B thing and both contain an engine, but a car isn't a bus for a whole lot of other reasons. Chrome OS and Android are users of the Linux kernel and nothing more. And honestly, I'd bet a pretty penny that we'll eventually see Linux dumped for Fuchsia, Chrome and Android to finally merge, and for Blink to slide even further away from being open as Android-ness creeps into the various parts within Google's already complicated web browser stack.
As I see it, Gnome is going to be for Linux as the Ford or GM is for cars. KDE for Linux is like Honda, Toyota, BMW, and the high end or European vehicles. Whatever else is there is for those Linux unique interface enthusiasts.
Why do we need all these toys and why do we need toys connected to the internet. Really.
Being that connected is a curse. And that curse has you on your cellphone at family mealtimes or at any mealtime.
Those who eat and text are the ones who become overweight -- forgetting how much you consumed while distracted.
Fibre is really cheaper to install than copper, and offers the bandwidth that the city needs.
For example, the future will be with online water meters, electric meters, gas meters, and alarm / heating / ac systems all controlled remotely. Have a fire in an condo building, be able to poweroff the building rapidly.
Of course AT&T will want to sue the city because it wants to keep that communication system to itself.
The coming generation is going to have to decide -- big corps control the internet, or control by cities.
Cities tend to be "by the people, for the people", vs the big corporations.
I didn't know there were companies in the US that had the power to imprison a person for not complying with them. Please enlighten me as to what companies have the same coercive power as a government (or, as you put it, "worse").
Curiously, would you want to try to sue a corporation if you had to go through a special court owned and operated by said corporation? I'm guessing not. Yet if we sue the government, we are using a court system that is run under the same institution. Personally, I would rather not consolidate all the interested that could potentially act against me.
It always amuses me when people distrust the people who run corporations while at the same time trust the people who run governments, as if the two are run by completely different kinds of people.
What will happen is that the global Radio network will enter the local market and provide both advertising at a lower cost and around 8 minutes per hour of local news. Want to know about church bazaars, or special activities. Forget it, instead you will get more tripe and propaganda than you could ever get in a dictatorship society.
Since Uber does food deliveries, I could see Amazon competing with Uber. Do home parcel deliveries and food deliveries with the same driver.
Alternatively , imagine if my home was an Amazon depot for a radius of one mile (1.6km). Parcels could be delivered to my home, and the owners would advise me as to when to deliver them to their domiciles. I could benefit from some part-time work, and the Amazon parcel owner could get his item when he arrives home from work. It could work well in densely populated areas (condos, high-rises, commuter villages, etc.)
The EIA may be wrong, but the owners/investors of generating plants that use fossil fuel are not. They don't invest when they see no return, and since they do not invest, the government does not provide incentives either. Sometimes I think that the government actually pays for the generating station, and sells their share to investors for $1.00
Perhaps I have to use a touch pad that punctures my finger and takes a blood sample. It will check the dna of my sample, and if it matches what is on file, I will be able to log into the system. Perhaps, in lieu of the blood sample, a saliva sample would suffice. Blow into a straw and if the dna matches, voila-- access.