Here is the link to my book on global warming and climate change in MS Word Format. The title is Global Wierding: From Climate Chaos to A Stable Hot Planet in A Hundred Years Or Less.
This is an EBook with hundreds of embedded weblinks and an appendix full of additional resources, also as weblinks.
Just paste this link into your web browser and you will be able to get to this book on my dropbox account where you can read it or download it.
The book is a summary of several different facets on the subject of clmate change, including a summary of the current knowledge, global climate modeling, solutions prioritized by current costs and potential for cost decreases over time, peak oil, Chinas role and future in mitigating global warming and climate change, the politics of getting legislation passed in the U.S.. and much more.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29300285/Global%20Warming%20Trebuchet.doc
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Link To My Book On Global Warming and Climate Change
Here is the link to my book on global warming and climate change in Adobe Acrobat format. The title is Global Wierding: From Climate Chaos to A Stable Hot Planet in A Hundred Years Or Less.
This is an EBook with hundreds of embedded weblinks and an appendix full of additional resources, also as weblinks.
Just paste this link into your web browser and you will be able to get to this book on my dropbox account where you can read it or download it.
The book is a summary of several different facets on the subject of clmate change, including a summary of the current knowledge, global climate modeling, solutions prioritized by current costs and potential for cost decreases over time, peak oil, Chinas role and future in mitigating global warming and climate change, the politics of getting legislation passed in the U.S.. and much more.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29300285/Global%20Weirding.pdf
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Comments On Metaphysics and What The Bleep Do We Know
Comments On Metaphysics and What The Bleep Do We Know
As it turns out, What the Bleep Do We Know has an extensive website with much internal knowledge as well as links to other books, seminars, community activities etc.
http://www.whatthebleep.com/index2.shtml
I have read 3 of the books on their list, and plan on reading Dean Radlins Entangled Minds, (not on their list yet) which scientifically documents and proves psychic phenomena (also done very well in the extended version of the documentary) and states how psychic phenomena (telepathy, clairvoyance, etc) can be explained by the principles of Quantum Physics. (not definitively proved to be Quantum Physics at work yet, but can be explained as such).
For example, neurologists have proved that given the speed that the human eye and brain perceives a 90 mile hour plus baseball leaving a pitchers hand, perceiving it, transferring the information to the brain, and reacting by swinging the bat, it is theoretically impossible for anybody to hit the ball with any consistency. But the mind uses quantum physics to visualize and see where the ball will be by projecting the whole event backwards in time. At the quantum level, there is no such thing as time. It moves forward or backward. Our consciousness creates the direction of time. Since consciousness is universal and we all tap into that, our personal consciousness remains congruent with universal or collective consciousness.
Another example: Dean Radlin’s group placed hundreds of computer programs that are random number generators around the United States several months prior to 9/11. These
I plan to read this, and if it is not too technical, make it one of our books for our bookclub, if everybody agrees. (My next book will still be the one on 50 ways to live longer.)
I have the Quantum version, i.e. extended 3 disk set of What the Bleep, if anybody wants to borrow it.
The overall viewpoint of this documentary is that consciousness is universal and that it transcends all religions.
How far each of us raises our consciousness depends on us, our environment, our willingness/ability to forge new relationships, overcoming our fear of losing old relationships either by maintaining them and making new ones or just moving on if need be, our willpower and social/psychological support in overcoming our personal addictions and old habits, over willingness to learn, and on and on. As a result of watching this, I am thinking of finding a TM group and joining it as well as a Reiki group. I found a Reiki group that meets once a month but have not found a local TM group yet.
I should point out that the teachings of Jesus were featured prominently in one part of the documentary by a theologian whose name escapes me right now.
I would like to also point out that if superpositioning of matter, a characteristic of quantum theory really exists and entanglement of quantum matter really exists, then the expansion and subsequent collapse of the quantum level waveform that comprises all of the information in your body and brain when you die could be seen as a scientific means for reincarnation. The dreamlike state that exists before reincarnation in which one can be with their dead friends and relatives occurs in the expansion of the information into the waveform at the quantum level. I know this makes no sense to you now, and I have used terms that have no meaning to you. But if you see the long version of the documentary, and do some reading, it may make sense.
These principles of quantum physics and the fundamental structure of consciousness at the the Planck level could also be a means for God to communicate with us and for us to communicate with God in a way that is not limited to space/time limitations. I would be interested in the similarities between prayer and meditation, since experiments have been done showing that meditation can dramatically affect the results of scientific experiments, and even cause scientific instruments to be directed by meditation. (In the documentary.) If this is being done through consciousness, and prayer is also a form of providing coherence or direction to consciousness, than it could be a way of communicating with God, it's obvious intention, but now explainable via science.
I am not a quantum physicist and don't understand this material at the mathematical level. But having read a few books written for the layman, and researched the web, I have not found any Quantum physicists saying anything radically different than what I have read so far. There appears to be consistency in the various works. In other words, I can find nothing that says its all a scam. And I know there is a lof of money being invested by banks and governments on creating cryptographic codes that will use quantum computers (none currently exist) to code and decipher such codes, because the codes are too complex for any ordinary computer to decipher in any short amount of time. And much of what we use today, computers, lasers, etc., would not be here if not for an understanding of quantum physics. These underlying principles of quantum physics, ii.e. entanglement at a distance, a single particle being in multiple places at the same time until observed, etc., have all been scientifically proven by experiments (shown in the documentary).
As it turns out, What the Bleep Do We Know has an extensive website with much internal knowledge as well as links to other books, seminars, community activities etc.
http://www.whatthebleep.com/index2.shtml
I have read 3 of the books on their list, and plan on reading Dean Radlins Entangled Minds, (not on their list yet) which scientifically documents and proves psychic phenomena (also done very well in the extended version of the documentary) and states how psychic phenomena (telepathy, clairvoyance, etc) can be explained by the principles of Quantum Physics. (not definitively proved to be Quantum Physics at work yet, but can be explained as such).
For example, neurologists have proved that given the speed that the human eye and brain perceives a 90 mile hour plus baseball leaving a pitchers hand, perceiving it, transferring the information to the brain, and reacting by swinging the bat, it is theoretically impossible for anybody to hit the ball with any consistency. But the mind uses quantum physics to visualize and see where the ball will be by projecting the whole event backwards in time. At the quantum level, there is no such thing as time. It moves forward or backward. Our consciousness creates the direction of time. Since consciousness is universal and we all tap into that, our personal consciousness remains congruent with universal or collective consciousness.
Another example: Dean Radlin’s group placed hundreds of computer programs that are random number generators around the United States several months prior to 9/11. These
I plan to read this, and if it is not too technical, make it one of our books for our bookclub, if everybody agrees. (My next book will still be the one on 50 ways to live longer.)
I have the Quantum version, i.e. extended 3 disk set of What the Bleep, if anybody wants to borrow it.
The overall viewpoint of this documentary is that consciousness is universal and that it transcends all religions.
How far each of us raises our consciousness depends on us, our environment, our willingness/ability to forge new relationships, overcoming our fear of losing old relationships either by maintaining them and making new ones or just moving on if need be, our willpower and social/psychological support in overcoming our personal addictions and old habits, over willingness to learn, and on and on. As a result of watching this, I am thinking of finding a TM group and joining it as well as a Reiki group. I found a Reiki group that meets once a month but have not found a local TM group yet.
I should point out that the teachings of Jesus were featured prominently in one part of the documentary by a theologian whose name escapes me right now.
I would like to also point out that if superpositioning of matter, a characteristic of quantum theory really exists and entanglement of quantum matter really exists, then the expansion and subsequent collapse of the quantum level waveform that comprises all of the information in your body and brain when you die could be seen as a scientific means for reincarnation. The dreamlike state that exists before reincarnation in which one can be with their dead friends and relatives occurs in the expansion of the information into the waveform at the quantum level. I know this makes no sense to you now, and I have used terms that have no meaning to you. But if you see the long version of the documentary, and do some reading, it may make sense.
These principles of quantum physics and the fundamental structure of consciousness at the the Planck level could also be a means for God to communicate with us and for us to communicate with God in a way that is not limited to space/time limitations. I would be interested in the similarities between prayer and meditation, since experiments have been done showing that meditation can dramatically affect the results of scientific experiments, and even cause scientific instruments to be directed by meditation. (In the documentary.) If this is being done through consciousness, and prayer is also a form of providing coherence or direction to consciousness, than it could be a way of communicating with God, it's obvious intention, but now explainable via science.
I am not a quantum physicist and don't understand this material at the mathematical level. But having read a few books written for the layman, and researched the web, I have not found any Quantum physicists saying anything radically different than what I have read so far. There appears to be consistency in the various works. In other words, I can find nothing that says its all a scam. And I know there is a lof of money being invested by banks and governments on creating cryptographic codes that will use quantum computers (none currently exist) to code and decipher such codes, because the codes are too complex for any ordinary computer to decipher in any short amount of time. And much of what we use today, computers, lasers, etc., would not be here if not for an understanding of quantum physics. These underlying principles of quantum physics, ii.e. entanglement at a distance, a single particle being in multiple places at the same time until observed, etc., have all been scientifically proven by experiments (shown in the documentary).
Uniquely Functional Websites
Uniquely Functional Websites
With a gazillion websites out there, I realize another list of the best websites is ridiculous. But since MySpace is a social networking site, perhaps a short list of the most unique and interesting social networking sites or just plain totally cool and functional sites might be helpful.
First, if you are looking for lists of social networking sites in a number of different categories, such as music, books, movies, cars, whatever, try the following:
Wikipedia article listing social networking websites
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
A list of over 350 Social networking sites in numerous categories
mashable.com/2007/10/23/social-networking-god/
Just type in “social networking sites” in Google to get all kinds of other info such as reviews of the top ten sites. Etc.
If you would rather socialize by meeting people first, try meetup.com. Here you can find a group that meets locally or regionally, or post interest in getting people to join up and form a new group. You can find groups by searching by subject or searching by city, city area, etc. This will work better if you live in a large urbanized area. These are generally not boring things like city council meetings, church groups, etc. but rather non-traditional groups. Groups are not posted here unless the group wants it posted. Meetup does not find groups and advertse them. It just serves as a central location for groups that are trying to find members or people trying to form new groups.
If you want to create a list of favorite sites that looks like Google Chrome in style and can be shared with your friends, or find friends with similar websurfing interests, try Stumbleupon.com. You create a profile. Then you check off boxes on your interests in a number of categories. Then you click on the stumbleupon icon. If you like what you see, click on thumbs up to put the site in your favorites, or click on thumbsdown or just click on stumbleupon to pop up another random site that matches your criteria. As you add sites, it gets smarter about your interests. Once you get enough favorites, you can see who has similar profiles. Then you can stumbleupon their favorites and if you like them, you can add them to your favorites.
ProjectVulcan is a site that has point source pollution data for individual factories, powerplants, roadways, and neighborhoods updated on an hourly basis. It uses a dataset updated from data obtained from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite. You can download the data as well as a program that integrates this data into Google Earth, so you can look at individual pollution sources within the context of Google Earth or you can look at maps of summarized pollution levels by type of pollution and city, county, state, etc.
Pandora is a unique internet radio station in that you can type in the names of musical artists and turn each artist into a radio station. You can then create a mix of these musicians by clicking on those you want to create a mix for. You create profile and can share or view others profiles. You can also go the traditional routes of picking radio stations by genre and adding those to your favorites.
Digg is a unique website because as an aggregator of lists of various websites, it is created by the votes of users. If you see a website you like, you can vote to put it on Digg. If enough people vote for the same site, it ends up on Digg. Digg categorizes sites in a number of different ways to make it easy to find content.
Shelfari and LibraryThing are a couple of sites for cataloging, inventorying and sharing you lists of books you have read, own, or want to read. Book choices come from Amazon.com or from The Library of Congress or many other choices. You don’t have to type in anything except a partial book title and create your profile. There are also book websites that allow you to exchange books with others. See the mashable.com list of social networking sites above and go to the list of book websites to find these sites.
I Heart Movies is a site for sharing your list of movies you own, have seen, etc. on line with others and getting reviews, previews, etc. It is similar to some of the book websites discussed above in functionality.
IMDB.com is the best source for info on movies, documentaries, etc. However it is not a social networking site. You can list all of your movies on IMDB by creating a password. But to share this info. With others you would have to give people your individual password which would also allow them to edit your list, something you are not likely to want just anybody to do. So if I was doing this I would use something like I Heart Movies for my movie lists and then include a link to IMDB.com so I could get info. I can’t find on I Heart Movies on specific movies.
You can also use some of the websites that allow you to pimp out your MySpace page to create a list on your MySpace page of links to all of your movies. In other words, each title in the list is a link to that movie on IMDB.com. Your list can be in words or as thumbnail images. You can do the same thing for books and music. Books will be linked to Amazon.com. Type in myspace layouts, myspace generators, or myspace editors in Google and a huge number of sites to help you edit your myspace page will pop up.
At this point I have not included websites on Bittorrents, free on-line television, free on-line movies, DVD copy programs, free or almost free telephone services, dating sites, etc. Hopefully, I will update this blog from time to time to include info. On such sites.
With a gazillion websites out there, I realize another list of the best websites is ridiculous. But since MySpace is a social networking site, perhaps a short list of the most unique and interesting social networking sites or just plain totally cool and functional sites might be helpful.
First, if you are looking for lists of social networking sites in a number of different categories, such as music, books, movies, cars, whatever, try the following:
Wikipedia article listing social networking websites
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
A list of over 350 Social networking sites in numerous categories
mashable.com/2007/10/23/social-networking-god/
Just type in “social networking sites” in Google to get all kinds of other info such as reviews of the top ten sites. Etc.
If you would rather socialize by meeting people first, try meetup.com. Here you can find a group that meets locally or regionally, or post interest in getting people to join up and form a new group. You can find groups by searching by subject or searching by city, city area, etc. This will work better if you live in a large urbanized area. These are generally not boring things like city council meetings, church groups, etc. but rather non-traditional groups. Groups are not posted here unless the group wants it posted. Meetup does not find groups and advertse them. It just serves as a central location for groups that are trying to find members or people trying to form new groups.
If you want to create a list of favorite sites that looks like Google Chrome in style and can be shared with your friends, or find friends with similar websurfing interests, try Stumbleupon.com. You create a profile. Then you check off boxes on your interests in a number of categories. Then you click on the stumbleupon icon. If you like what you see, click on thumbs up to put the site in your favorites, or click on thumbsdown or just click on stumbleupon to pop up another random site that matches your criteria. As you add sites, it gets smarter about your interests. Once you get enough favorites, you can see who has similar profiles. Then you can stumbleupon their favorites and if you like them, you can add them to your favorites.
ProjectVulcan is a site that has point source pollution data for individual factories, powerplants, roadways, and neighborhoods updated on an hourly basis. It uses a dataset updated from data obtained from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite. You can download the data as well as a program that integrates this data into Google Earth, so you can look at individual pollution sources within the context of Google Earth or you can look at maps of summarized pollution levels by type of pollution and city, county, state, etc.
Pandora is a unique internet radio station in that you can type in the names of musical artists and turn each artist into a radio station. You can then create a mix of these musicians by clicking on those you want to create a mix for. You create profile and can share or view others profiles. You can also go the traditional routes of picking radio stations by genre and adding those to your favorites.
Digg is a unique website because as an aggregator of lists of various websites, it is created by the votes of users. If you see a website you like, you can vote to put it on Digg. If enough people vote for the same site, it ends up on Digg. Digg categorizes sites in a number of different ways to make it easy to find content.
Shelfari and LibraryThing are a couple of sites for cataloging, inventorying and sharing you lists of books you have read, own, or want to read. Book choices come from Amazon.com or from The Library of Congress or many other choices. You don’t have to type in anything except a partial book title and create your profile. There are also book websites that allow you to exchange books with others. See the mashable.com list of social networking sites above and go to the list of book websites to find these sites.
I Heart Movies is a site for sharing your list of movies you own, have seen, etc. on line with others and getting reviews, previews, etc. It is similar to some of the book websites discussed above in functionality.
IMDB.com is the best source for info on movies, documentaries, etc. However it is not a social networking site. You can list all of your movies on IMDB by creating a password. But to share this info. With others you would have to give people your individual password which would also allow them to edit your list, something you are not likely to want just anybody to do. So if I was doing this I would use something like I Heart Movies for my movie lists and then include a link to IMDB.com so I could get info. I can’t find on I Heart Movies on specific movies.
You can also use some of the websites that allow you to pimp out your MySpace page to create a list on your MySpace page of links to all of your movies. In other words, each title in the list is a link to that movie on IMDB.com. Your list can be in words or as thumbnail images. You can do the same thing for books and music. Books will be linked to Amazon.com. Type in myspace layouts, myspace generators, or myspace editors in Google and a huge number of sites to help you edit your myspace page will pop up.
At this point I have not included websites on Bittorrents, free on-line television, free on-line movies, DVD copy programs, free or almost free telephone services, dating sites, etc. Hopefully, I will update this blog from time to time to include info. On such sites.
A Fair Proposal For Reducing The Incidence of Texting and Driving
A Just and Equitable Way to Reducing The Incidence of Texting and Driving
The problem is that if we make it a law not to text and drive as 18 states have done, including the State of Illinois, where do we stop? Should listening to the radio, CDs or audiobooks be against the law? Should talking to somebody in the front seat be against the law? Should driving without enough sleep be a crime? Anything that distracts your attention from the road can contribute to the likelihood of an accident. It all depends on the driver. Experienced drivers can prioritize and know how not to get too emotional or intellectually absorbed in other pursuits while driving.
On the other hand, texting and driving is a special case because it requires taking one hand off the steering wheel AND your eyes off the road temporarily.
So your mind, eyes, and hands are all where they should not be. Studies have shown that texting and driving ranks right behind drinking and driving as a major cause of accidents.
As in all crimes, the punishment should fit the crime. While texting and driving is dangerous, it is far more dangerous in some situations than in other situations. In this sense, it is unlike drinking and driving, where you are a danger to everybody on the road all the time you are driving, not just for a minute or two. Not wearing a seat belt could also be considered more dangerous than texting because you are certain to get injured if you do not wear a seat belt and get in an accident. Also, wearing a seat belt protects you from the other driver of the other car, not just yourself. It is not certain that you will cause an accident while texting. For example, texting in traffic is far more dangerous than texting on the open road where the nearest car is a few hundred feet away and you are in the right hand lane. Odds are if you have to stop suddenly you are going to go off the road or hit the other cars rear bumper off center, reducing the accident seriousness. Perhaps the most dangerous situation is texting while in traffic and while driving at high speeds. The only thing worse than this would be to add in rain or snow and darkness, i.e. nighttime driving.
I am not sure that the law against texting and driving is routinely enforced, even in States where it is a primary offense, such as Illinois. This means you can be stopped and arrested for texting even if you were not doing anything else wrong, like speeding. The reason is probably because of the sheer number of people who text and drive. It has been estimated that as many as 50% of people with cell phones do some amount of texting and driving. Another reason is that unless you are actually just staring at your phone, officers may be reluctant to arrest you. Finally, unless the office is immediately behind you, it is difficult to determine that you are texting and driving. You could be looking at your coffee. The officer actually has to observe you for awhile, and odds are you would figure out you are being followed and stop texting before he can stop you and arrest you. Unless the officer can produce an arrest, he is not going to get credit for an arrest.
So even though texting and driving can be dangerous, it is not always at the same level of danger. Although it is always somewhat potentially dangerous. About the only time it is not dangerous would be if you were stuck in traffic going a few miles per hour, or in a low speed zone with no other cars or pedestrians around. But then you would have to be certain of that, meaning you would have to be looking up and down from your cell phone a lot to determine that. How many people who text and drive actually look up and down frequently from the road to their phone while texting?
So here is what I suggest. I think it should remain against the law to text and drive, but I think there are some things that can be done to make the punishment fit the crime, to make sure the law is actually enforced, as well as things that can prevent accidents from happening in the first place when people are texting and driving.
First of all, to discourage the part of texting where you are actually typing, build apps into all cell phones that convert speech to text, and allow playback and editing of the message with simple steps like a verbal STOP command. ERASE WORD command. ERASE SENTENCE command. REPLAY message command, A SEND command, and so forth. These would be verbal commands that you can do using a Bluetooth device, so both hands are always on the wheel. If you are using this method to text, it should not be a crime.
Secondly, require all cell phones sold after a certain date to have GPS in them and enabled whenever you are texting and moving at a speed over 5 miles per hour. Whenever you text, the phone would record your GPS coordinates so it would keep a log of the length of time it took to compose the text message and the distance covered. (It would not keep a log of the actual text.) Of course, this could not serve as evidence that you were texting and driving because the log of texted calls can not determine whether you were a passenger or a driver, unless you were caught in the act of texting . However, if a record is established that the text messages in the log were recorded during the period in which you usually drive to work, and the court establishes that you were at work on those days, and that you regularly drive to work, the combination of these pieces of evidence could be used to prosecute you for texting and driving. More importantly however, the phone log could be used by the judge to merit appropriate punishment. If the law is structured to give the judge a great deal of lee way in assessing the amount of the fine or punishment, such as a wide dollar range, the law could truly be made so that the punishment does meet the crime by allowing the judge to take into consideration things like how often you texted and drove, how much you texted and drove during each trip, etc. While it is not likely all of this evidence would be routinely used, it could be used in cases where there was a serious accident and people were injured or killed. And by so doing, and by knowing you can be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and the punishment does get more serious depending on the results and the frequency of breaking the law, people would begin to get the message that they should only text and drive when it is really necessary and they should use a speech to text tool instead of hands and eyes off the wheel approach.
The problem is that if we make it a law not to text and drive as 18 states have done, including the State of Illinois, where do we stop? Should listening to the radio, CDs or audiobooks be against the law? Should talking to somebody in the front seat be against the law? Should driving without enough sleep be a crime? Anything that distracts your attention from the road can contribute to the likelihood of an accident. It all depends on the driver. Experienced drivers can prioritize and know how not to get too emotional or intellectually absorbed in other pursuits while driving.
On the other hand, texting and driving is a special case because it requires taking one hand off the steering wheel AND your eyes off the road temporarily.
So your mind, eyes, and hands are all where they should not be. Studies have shown that texting and driving ranks right behind drinking and driving as a major cause of accidents.
As in all crimes, the punishment should fit the crime. While texting and driving is dangerous, it is far more dangerous in some situations than in other situations. In this sense, it is unlike drinking and driving, where you are a danger to everybody on the road all the time you are driving, not just for a minute or two. Not wearing a seat belt could also be considered more dangerous than texting because you are certain to get injured if you do not wear a seat belt and get in an accident. Also, wearing a seat belt protects you from the other driver of the other car, not just yourself. It is not certain that you will cause an accident while texting. For example, texting in traffic is far more dangerous than texting on the open road where the nearest car is a few hundred feet away and you are in the right hand lane. Odds are if you have to stop suddenly you are going to go off the road or hit the other cars rear bumper off center, reducing the accident seriousness. Perhaps the most dangerous situation is texting while in traffic and while driving at high speeds. The only thing worse than this would be to add in rain or snow and darkness, i.e. nighttime driving.
I am not sure that the law against texting and driving is routinely enforced, even in States where it is a primary offense, such as Illinois. This means you can be stopped and arrested for texting even if you were not doing anything else wrong, like speeding. The reason is probably because of the sheer number of people who text and drive. It has been estimated that as many as 50% of people with cell phones do some amount of texting and driving. Another reason is that unless you are actually just staring at your phone, officers may be reluctant to arrest you. Finally, unless the office is immediately behind you, it is difficult to determine that you are texting and driving. You could be looking at your coffee. The officer actually has to observe you for awhile, and odds are you would figure out you are being followed and stop texting before he can stop you and arrest you. Unless the officer can produce an arrest, he is not going to get credit for an arrest.
So even though texting and driving can be dangerous, it is not always at the same level of danger. Although it is always somewhat potentially dangerous. About the only time it is not dangerous would be if you were stuck in traffic going a few miles per hour, or in a low speed zone with no other cars or pedestrians around. But then you would have to be certain of that, meaning you would have to be looking up and down from your cell phone a lot to determine that. How many people who text and drive actually look up and down frequently from the road to their phone while texting?
So here is what I suggest. I think it should remain against the law to text and drive, but I think there are some things that can be done to make the punishment fit the crime, to make sure the law is actually enforced, as well as things that can prevent accidents from happening in the first place when people are texting and driving.
First of all, to discourage the part of texting where you are actually typing, build apps into all cell phones that convert speech to text, and allow playback and editing of the message with simple steps like a verbal STOP command. ERASE WORD command. ERASE SENTENCE command. REPLAY message command, A SEND command, and so forth. These would be verbal commands that you can do using a Bluetooth device, so both hands are always on the wheel. If you are using this method to text, it should not be a crime.
Secondly, require all cell phones sold after a certain date to have GPS in them and enabled whenever you are texting and moving at a speed over 5 miles per hour. Whenever you text, the phone would record your GPS coordinates so it would keep a log of the length of time it took to compose the text message and the distance covered. (It would not keep a log of the actual text.) Of course, this could not serve as evidence that you were texting and driving because the log of texted calls can not determine whether you were a passenger or a driver, unless you were caught in the act of texting . However, if a record is established that the text messages in the log were recorded during the period in which you usually drive to work, and the court establishes that you were at work on those days, and that you regularly drive to work, the combination of these pieces of evidence could be used to prosecute you for texting and driving. More importantly however, the phone log could be used by the judge to merit appropriate punishment. If the law is structured to give the judge a great deal of lee way in assessing the amount of the fine or punishment, such as a wide dollar range, the law could truly be made so that the punishment does meet the crime by allowing the judge to take into consideration things like how often you texted and drove, how much you texted and drove during each trip, etc. While it is not likely all of this evidence would be routinely used, it could be used in cases where there was a serious accident and people were injured or killed. And by so doing, and by knowing you can be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and the punishment does get more serious depending on the results and the frequency of breaking the law, people would begin to get the message that they should only text and drive when it is really necessary and they should use a speech to text tool instead of hands and eyes off the wheel approach.
You Can't Stop Terrorism. You Can Only Slow It Down A Little.
You Can’t Stop Terrorism
The U.S. Federal government is spending billions of dollars on two fronts to prevent terrorism. It won’t work. It will only delay when such an event occurs.
The government thinks it can prevent terrorism on airlines, and prevent terrorist weapons from getting into the country via freight barges, railroads, etc. But the number of avenues that are available to terrorists for doing terrorist acts is actually quite enormous. This is primarily due to the centralized nature of energy and transportation. For a very good accounting of this see the somewhat dated book ‘Brittle Power” by Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins.
But you say “There hasn’t been a major terrorist attack in the U.S. since 2001.” Take a look at the rest of the world, especially London, India and Pakistan which have all had major attacks since then. So far major terrorist acts have been stopped by a combination of Intelligence, counterintelligence, advanced surveillance technology and two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which have served to minimize the proliferation of terrorist training camps. But this is now backfiring in Afghanistan where the Taliban now have a very strong foothold and new training camps are forming in the mountainous areas that serve as the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Intelligence and surveillance techniques, along with efforts to freeze funds going to terrorist groups have worked to date because terrorism is still in its primitive organizational stage. The number of terrorists and their financial and technical resources have been limited. But as long as nations like the U.S. keep increasing the gap between the rich and poor nationwide and globally, as long as rich nations continue exploiting the non-renewable natural resources of third world and emerging nations without any consideration of the forms of government that exist in these nations, as long as global instant communications and information and technology transfer via the world wide web and via corrupt black markets gets larger and larger, the efforts of terrorists will grow until a critical mass is reached.
A recent assessment of terrorism by various U.S. intelligence resources has concluded that the probability of a major nuclear or biological strike in the U.S. will grow to exceed 50% within the next 1900 days, or 5 years.
While terrorists may claim their motives are religious, they are really the newest geopolitical force for change in the world. Their goals are geopolitical, and their alliances with governments are difficult to determine because these are very opportunistic organizations. As the world depletes its supply of non-renewable resources like fossil fuels, minerals, and fresh water, there will be national conflicts to obtain such resources at the expense of other powerful nations. Since a global nuclear war is not an alternative, much of what happens in this arena will play itself out in terrorist acts. This will happen unless a world government forms and a long term global plan emerges on how to deal with global resource depletion, and determining which advanced technologies to save resources, stop global warming, and clean up the air will be implemented and in what sequential order these things will be implemented in.
The U.S. Federal government is spending billions of dollars on two fronts to prevent terrorism. It won’t work. It will only delay when such an event occurs.
The government thinks it can prevent terrorism on airlines, and prevent terrorist weapons from getting into the country via freight barges, railroads, etc. But the number of avenues that are available to terrorists for doing terrorist acts is actually quite enormous. This is primarily due to the centralized nature of energy and transportation. For a very good accounting of this see the somewhat dated book ‘Brittle Power” by Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins.
But you say “There hasn’t been a major terrorist attack in the U.S. since 2001.” Take a look at the rest of the world, especially London, India and Pakistan which have all had major attacks since then. So far major terrorist acts have been stopped by a combination of Intelligence, counterintelligence, advanced surveillance technology and two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which have served to minimize the proliferation of terrorist training camps. But this is now backfiring in Afghanistan where the Taliban now have a very strong foothold and new training camps are forming in the mountainous areas that serve as the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Intelligence and surveillance techniques, along with efforts to freeze funds going to terrorist groups have worked to date because terrorism is still in its primitive organizational stage. The number of terrorists and their financial and technical resources have been limited. But as long as nations like the U.S. keep increasing the gap between the rich and poor nationwide and globally, as long as rich nations continue exploiting the non-renewable natural resources of third world and emerging nations without any consideration of the forms of government that exist in these nations, as long as global instant communications and information and technology transfer via the world wide web and via corrupt black markets gets larger and larger, the efforts of terrorists will grow until a critical mass is reached.
A recent assessment of terrorism by various U.S. intelligence resources has concluded that the probability of a major nuclear or biological strike in the U.S. will grow to exceed 50% within the next 1900 days, or 5 years.
While terrorists may claim their motives are religious, they are really the newest geopolitical force for change in the world. Their goals are geopolitical, and their alliances with governments are difficult to determine because these are very opportunistic organizations. As the world depletes its supply of non-renewable resources like fossil fuels, minerals, and fresh water, there will be national conflicts to obtain such resources at the expense of other powerful nations. Since a global nuclear war is not an alternative, much of what happens in this arena will play itself out in terrorist acts. This will happen unless a world government forms and a long term global plan emerges on how to deal with global resource depletion, and determining which advanced technologies to save resources, stop global warming, and clean up the air will be implemented and in what sequential order these things will be implemented in.
Survey Your Staff on How to Save Money, Increase Revenues (A comedy)
Survey of Selected Staff For Ideas on How We Can Save Money, Increase Revenues, and Help Stimulate Consumer Spending and the Economy
This survey is strictly voluntary and confidential. We will tabulate the results of the survey and let the group know the statistics only, not how any individual survey was done. The surveys will be destroyed and all that will remain will be the statistics.
For those of you who are more outspoken than others in our group, we encourage you to make fun of the answers as you fill out the results at the table. You are allowed to let others know how you voted, but do not have to do so.
Please mark your favorite or best answer with a plus sign (+) and your least favorite or worst answer with a negative sign (-). For each question, we will verbally let everybody know the answer that ranks highest by vote total for both positive and negative, and the number of votes.
For some questions, you will notice that there is one answer that is a potentially good or real answer, in our mind at least. That is to say it is not designed to be funny. The other answers are meant to be funny. You do not have to rank the “good” answer as the highest. You may do so if you wish.
1. Our Company should raise additional revenue by:
a. Having a bake sale.
b. Having a yard sale. Literally.
c. Selling tickets to a demolition derby.
d. Putting slot machines in the offices.
e. Making the toilets in the offices Paid, i.e you have to put a quarter in the slot for the door to open.
f. Renovating and converting the upper floors to a museum.
g. Letting street musicians play at our stores with the company taking a 30% cut of the action.
h. Extend the street musicians idea to other street people offering other types of cash only services.
2. Our comapny should start slot machines, etc. because:
a. We gotta do something about these outrageous fuel and health care costs.
b. It just might be legal.
c. Ka-ching. Ka-ching Baby.
d. I don’t think we should do this.
3. In lieu of pay raises, our company should:
a. Distribute an Anti-Depression toolkit full of wonderful ideas on how to save money like eating peanut butter instead of lobster.
b. Invite Warren Buffet to a big meeting of all our employees on how to invest in selected stocks when the market hits bottom (AGAIN), i.e. When will it hit bottom, and what stocks to invest in?
c. Enroll all employees in the Wisconsin Cheese log of the Month Club.
d. Tell everybody that it’s OK to donate less to the United Way this year.
e. Send one of those Sincere Employee letters from our CEO that says “Now Look – You still have a job, so be happy.”
4. Our Company should cut costs by:
a. Putting up signs that say :Wear boots and use snow tires this winter because we’re not gonna plow the parking lots and sidewalks.
c. Ask every restaurant in the 6 county region to donate their excess or used cooking oil so we can turn it into biodiesel fuel.
d. Put solar panels on all our buildings.
e. Farm out our health care plan to a small startup company in the Phillipines called “Psychic Health Care, Inc.”
f. Farm out all of our telephone customer care services to a startup firm in India called “Wuddadiddautay.”
5. To stimulate consumer spending, our company should:
a. Just say “What the Hell – If the Feds can spend money like a bunch of drunken sailors, so can we” and give all its employees big raises.
b. Tax the top 1% of its employees and redistribute these funds to the bottom 95% of its employees so they can buy gas and pay off some debts.
c. Tax the bottom 95% of its employees and redistribute these funds to the top 1% of its employees because we know these high income earners will wisely and prudently invest this extra income in American firms that will create American jobs for people that will spend this money in America, thus generating additional tax revenue which can be used to reduce your taxes and lower prices for you.
d. Sell lottery tickets at all of our stores because you know that whoever wins the big one is gonna spend a boatload of money here in the U.S. at American firms that employee only American workers who themselves also only spend all of their money only at American firms with American workers, who etc. etc.
e. Lobby Congress to pass a major infrastructure bill because it will create jobs and give Americans money to spend.
6. Which of the following would you most like/least like to receive from the CEO this year:
a. A one way train ticket to Detroit
b. A round trip ticket to Oak Park.
c. Five one dollar lottery tickets.
d. A pink rubber ducky.
e. A blue toy submarine.
f. Zig Zag rolling papers.
g. 3 cookies, 2 apple pies, a small diet coke and a double cheeseburger from McDonalds
h. A bottle of Redline Power Rush 7.
7. Which of the following is your favorite and least favorite holiday tradition.
a. Watching Christmas Vacation starring Chevy Chase.
b. Watching “A Christmas Story” sixteen times in a row on TBS.
c. Spending the whole day pondering why you keep making the same stupid mistake every year of letting your divorced, single and alcoholic Uncle Harry come over and spend time with the family.
d. Eating too much, drinking too much and sleeping too much so that you once again end up at the emergency room.
e. Driving around the city with your family looking for something that’s open.
f. Knowing in advance there’s nothing open, driving around the city with your family anyway just to see if there’s anybody else doing the same thing.
g. Going to the movies with your friends and family.
h. Watching Babe Lewandowski show you how to go ice fishing on TV.
i. Sitting on the recliner with the cat on your lap drinking egg nog and watching the icycles flicker from the glow of the fireplace.
j. Going to CVS or Walgreens. They’re open.
7. Please rank the following as to the importance to you as the meaning of the holiday season to you. You many rank them a to g, all of them a if you think they are of equal importance to you, or not rank some of them at all if some of them are not important to you.
a. a time for personal prayer and personal reflection.
b. a time for quality time with friends and relatives.
c. a time to spread Gods message to others.
d. A time to teach Gods message to others.
e. A time to personally help people, be they neighbors, friends, or relatives, that are less fortunate than your self or your family.
f. A time to give financially to those less fortunate than yourself or your family.
g. A time to study the Bible, Quran, Hinayana, Tripitaka, Vedas, Gitas, or other religious book used by your religion.
h. A time to celebrate your faith with others, either communally in a place of worship or privately with your family and friends.
This survey is strictly voluntary and confidential. We will tabulate the results of the survey and let the group know the statistics only, not how any individual survey was done. The surveys will be destroyed and all that will remain will be the statistics.
For those of you who are more outspoken than others in our group, we encourage you to make fun of the answers as you fill out the results at the table. You are allowed to let others know how you voted, but do not have to do so.
Please mark your favorite or best answer with a plus sign (+) and your least favorite or worst answer with a negative sign (-). For each question, we will verbally let everybody know the answer that ranks highest by vote total for both positive and negative, and the number of votes.
For some questions, you will notice that there is one answer that is a potentially good or real answer, in our mind at least. That is to say it is not designed to be funny. The other answers are meant to be funny. You do not have to rank the “good” answer as the highest. You may do so if you wish.
1. Our Company should raise additional revenue by:
a. Having a bake sale.
b. Having a yard sale. Literally.
c. Selling tickets to a demolition derby.
d. Putting slot machines in the offices.
e. Making the toilets in the offices Paid, i.e you have to put a quarter in the slot for the door to open.
f. Renovating and converting the upper floors to a museum.
g. Letting street musicians play at our stores with the company taking a 30% cut of the action.
h. Extend the street musicians idea to other street people offering other types of cash only services.
2. Our comapny should start slot machines, etc. because:
a. We gotta do something about these outrageous fuel and health care costs.
b. It just might be legal.
c. Ka-ching. Ka-ching Baby.
d. I don’t think we should do this.
3. In lieu of pay raises, our company should:
a. Distribute an Anti-Depression toolkit full of wonderful ideas on how to save money like eating peanut butter instead of lobster.
b. Invite Warren Buffet to a big meeting of all our employees on how to invest in selected stocks when the market hits bottom (AGAIN), i.e. When will it hit bottom, and what stocks to invest in?
c. Enroll all employees in the Wisconsin Cheese log of the Month Club.
d. Tell everybody that it’s OK to donate less to the United Way this year.
e. Send one of those Sincere Employee letters from our CEO that says “Now Look – You still have a job, so be happy.”
4. Our Company should cut costs by:
a. Putting up signs that say :Wear boots and use snow tires this winter because we’re not gonna plow the parking lots and sidewalks.
c. Ask every restaurant in the 6 county region to donate their excess or used cooking oil so we can turn it into biodiesel fuel.
d. Put solar panels on all our buildings.
e. Farm out our health care plan to a small startup company in the Phillipines called “Psychic Health Care, Inc.”
f. Farm out all of our telephone customer care services to a startup firm in India called “Wuddadiddautay.”
5. To stimulate consumer spending, our company should:
a. Just say “What the Hell – If the Feds can spend money like a bunch of drunken sailors, so can we” and give all its employees big raises.
b. Tax the top 1% of its employees and redistribute these funds to the bottom 95% of its employees so they can buy gas and pay off some debts.
c. Tax the bottom 95% of its employees and redistribute these funds to the top 1% of its employees because we know these high income earners will wisely and prudently invest this extra income in American firms that will create American jobs for people that will spend this money in America, thus generating additional tax revenue which can be used to reduce your taxes and lower prices for you.
d. Sell lottery tickets at all of our stores because you know that whoever wins the big one is gonna spend a boatload of money here in the U.S. at American firms that employee only American workers who themselves also only spend all of their money only at American firms with American workers, who etc. etc.
e. Lobby Congress to pass a major infrastructure bill because it will create jobs and give Americans money to spend.
6. Which of the following would you most like/least like to receive from the CEO this year:
a. A one way train ticket to Detroit
b. A round trip ticket to Oak Park.
c. Five one dollar lottery tickets.
d. A pink rubber ducky.
e. A blue toy submarine.
f. Zig Zag rolling papers.
g. 3 cookies, 2 apple pies, a small diet coke and a double cheeseburger from McDonalds
h. A bottle of Redline Power Rush 7.
7. Which of the following is your favorite and least favorite holiday tradition.
a. Watching Christmas Vacation starring Chevy Chase.
b. Watching “A Christmas Story” sixteen times in a row on TBS.
c. Spending the whole day pondering why you keep making the same stupid mistake every year of letting your divorced, single and alcoholic Uncle Harry come over and spend time with the family.
d. Eating too much, drinking too much and sleeping too much so that you once again end up at the emergency room.
e. Driving around the city with your family looking for something that’s open.
f. Knowing in advance there’s nothing open, driving around the city with your family anyway just to see if there’s anybody else doing the same thing.
g. Going to the movies with your friends and family.
h. Watching Babe Lewandowski show you how to go ice fishing on TV.
i. Sitting on the recliner with the cat on your lap drinking egg nog and watching the icycles flicker from the glow of the fireplace.
j. Going to CVS or Walgreens. They’re open.
7. Please rank the following as to the importance to you as the meaning of the holiday season to you. You many rank them a to g, all of them a if you think they are of equal importance to you, or not rank some of them at all if some of them are not important to you.
a. a time for personal prayer and personal reflection.
b. a time for quality time with friends and relatives.
c. a time to spread Gods message to others.
d. A time to teach Gods message to others.
e. A time to personally help people, be they neighbors, friends, or relatives, that are less fortunate than your self or your family.
f. A time to give financially to those less fortunate than yourself or your family.
g. A time to study the Bible, Quran, Hinayana, Tripitaka, Vedas, Gitas, or other religious book used by your religion.
h. A time to celebrate your faith with others, either communally in a place of worship or privately with your family and friends.
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