2013-03-24
Focus on #1
Focus on #1
That would be you ... of course .... the universe is built around individual atoms.... it exists to provide a space for them... you are one of them The universe exists to serve you, to fascinate you , to nurture you.
My focus is this entry is to ask... what is the biggest, , most profound , most compelling , issue facing humans today ? Where can the biggest dent in the universe be made ?
I would love to hear your thoughts on this ... what do you think is #1 big picture issue for humans to deal with..... ????
Here is mine
With more and more abundance available to humans .... with the world becoming less violent every day .... what can be done to provide a fulfilling existence for each and every human ( and sophont ? ) ?
The problem of boredom and idle viciousness
the Clockwork Orange effect
Things that would help...
Interstellar travel
That would be you ... of course .... the universe is built around individual atoms.... it exists to provide a space for them... you are one of them The universe exists to serve you, to fascinate you , to nurture you.
My focus is this entry is to ask... what is the biggest, , most profound , most compelling , issue facing humans today ? Where can the biggest dent in the universe be made ?
I would love to hear your thoughts on this ... what do you think is #1 big picture issue for humans to deal with..... ????
Here is mine
With more and more abundance available to humans .... with the world becoming less violent every day .... what can be done to provide a fulfilling existence for each and every human ( and sophont ? ) ?
The problem of boredom and idle viciousness
the Clockwork Orange effect
Things that would help...
Interstellar travel
2013-03-23
Can we use fewer police and cheaper police ?
Can we use fewer police and cheaper police ?
Why are police force personnel generalists ?
A policeman issues tickets , arrests people , kicks down doors and eats doughnuts.
Why can't these functions be specialized ? and contracted out on occasion ?
Speed traps can be roboticized. They are not about safety anyway. They are revenue generators. Police should not spend time pursuing victimless crimes. Prostitution , drug use and sales, .... are none of the police's business.
Plus a *real policeman* should have job description as follows:
Protects the public from danger... risks life if necessary.... held responsible for mistakes made ...
Who am I kidding ???? Such people do not exist.....
Anyway... everytime you read about the police... ask yourself... did this action need to be done ? If it needed to be done : what kind of professional ( or non-professional ) was required.
99guspuppet 99cheappolice
Why are police force personnel generalists ?
A policeman issues tickets , arrests people , kicks down doors and eats doughnuts.
Why can't these functions be specialized ? and contracted out on occasion ?
Speed traps can be roboticized. They are not about safety anyway. They are revenue generators. Police should not spend time pursuing victimless crimes. Prostitution , drug use and sales, .... are none of the police's business.
Plus a *real policeman* should have job description as follows:
Protects the public from danger... risks life if necessary.... held responsible for mistakes made ...
Who am I kidding ???? Such people do not exist.....
Anyway... everytime you read about the police... ask yourself... did this action need to be done ? If it needed to be done : what kind of professional ( or non-professional ) was required.
99guspuppet 99cheappolice
What do you do if asked to *Stomp Jesus*
Stomp Jesus
http://townhall.com/columnists/toddstarnes/2013/03/23/university-apologizes-for-stomping-jesus-n1546901?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
The above link references a class where students were asked to stomp Jesus. This exercise was in poor taste and probably steps over the line regarding the power balance between teacher and student.
I think the important part is that many people have learned to be professional victims. They have brought being offended to a fine , fine art. I find it tiresome. Don't participate if you don't want to. Walk away. They are stomping on a piece of paper. If Jesus exists ( which I doubt ) .... then Jesus can take care of the infidels.
I don't think the university should have apologized.
99guspuppet 99stomponjesus
http://townhall.com/columnists/toddstarnes/2013/03/23/university-apologizes-for-stomping-jesus-n1546901?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
The above link references a class where students were asked to stomp Jesus. This exercise was in poor taste and probably steps over the line regarding the power balance between teacher and student.
I think the important part is that many people have learned to be professional victims. They have brought being offended to a fine , fine art. I find it tiresome. Don't participate if you don't want to. Walk away. They are stomping on a piece of paper. If Jesus exists ( which I doubt ) .... then Jesus can take care of the infidels.
I don't think the university should have apologized.
99guspuppet 99stomponjesus
2013-03-18
What if Human Caused Global Warming is real ?
What if Human Caused Global Warming is real ?
Let me hasten to say that I feel that human knowledge is too sparse for GW to be acted on. There is too much uncertainty. And there is even less certainty about HCGW ( Human Caused Global Warming ).
Thought Experiment
Let us pretend that GW is caused by humans. That the sea level is going to rise and cover NYC. That hurricanes and tornadoes will ravage the lands. That sweltering heat will kill all the plants ..... What should a thinking person do ? ( Assuming it is not too late )
#1 Stop having babies. Each new human is a massive addition to the HCGW effect. We are not likely to run out of existing babies any time soon. And no more pets.
#2 Stop using energy. Stop driving. Stop buying big refrigerators. Don't heat or cool your house. Get lots of leaves to build a nest to cuddle up in.
#3 Stop having wars. This one is so obvious I have nothing to say.
#4 Stop raising farting cows, doing so much farming, .....
#5 Stop celebrities, pundits, green activists from flying all over the world and using limos.
What fun !
99guspuppet 99earthismelting 99globalwarming
Let me hasten to say that I feel that human knowledge is too sparse for GW to be acted on. There is too much uncertainty. And there is even less certainty about HCGW ( Human Caused Global Warming ).
Thought Experiment
Let us pretend that GW is caused by humans. That the sea level is going to rise and cover NYC. That hurricanes and tornadoes will ravage the lands. That sweltering heat will kill all the plants ..... What should a thinking person do ? ( Assuming it is not too late )
#1 Stop having babies. Each new human is a massive addition to the HCGW effect. We are not likely to run out of existing babies any time soon. And no more pets.
#2 Stop using energy. Stop driving. Stop buying big refrigerators. Don't heat or cool your house. Get lots of leaves to build a nest to cuddle up in.
#3 Stop having wars. This one is so obvious I have nothing to say.
#4 Stop raising farting cows, doing so much farming, .....
#5 Stop celebrities, pundits, green activists from flying all over the world and using limos.
What fun !
99guspuppet 99earthismelting 99globalwarming
2013-03-17
Stupid Laws in America and around the globe
I will be updating this from time to time as I think of even more stupid laws and regulations..... stuff a sophont2 would laugh their head off about..... maybe life is a comedy to keep us entertained...
most of these laws have an element of *IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN*
I do not believe children are more or less important than any other sophont ... so this particular chant pisses me off.... *It's for the children*
Society cares what you ingest...
Yes .... stupid laws about drugs... possessing drugs, injecting drugs , eating Big Macs , drinking a large slurpee,
Society groups you
These are laws about protecting woman or compensating blacks or making gays especially protected. Bah Humbug.... every sophont is entitled to life , liberty , the pursuit of happiness , own property ( including their own body )
Racism would be on it's way to extinction if I could short circuit all these groups that claim special privileges.
Society freaks out about sex over and over
Sophonts should be protected from violence , force , fraud...... not what they do with their bodies, or who they consensually interact with, or how many they have in the pile-up,
Society cares about Marriage
Why ?
Guy marries a guy , a cow , a tribe of pygmies.... I don't care...
Woman marries 16 guys , a cow , a tribe of pygmies, a girl scout troop.... I don't care
Society says babies are cute
Maybe... So what ? They should be protected the same way everyone else is. They contribute much less than a 30 year old physics genius. We are not going to run out of babies anytime soon. If humans cause global warming, babies are the main factor.
99guspuppet 99stupidlaws
most of these laws have an element of *IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN*
I do not believe children are more or less important than any other sophont ... so this particular chant pisses me off.... *It's for the children*
Society cares what you ingest...
Yes .... stupid laws about drugs... possessing drugs, injecting drugs , eating Big Macs , drinking a large slurpee,
Society groups you
These are laws about protecting woman or compensating blacks or making gays especially protected. Bah Humbug.... every sophont is entitled to life , liberty , the pursuit of happiness , own property ( including their own body )
Racism would be on it's way to extinction if I could short circuit all these groups that claim special privileges.
Society freaks out about sex over and over
Sophonts should be protected from violence , force , fraud...... not what they do with their bodies, or who they consensually interact with, or how many they have in the pile-up,
Society cares about Marriage
Why ?
Guy marries a guy , a cow , a tribe of pygmies.... I don't care...
Woman marries 16 guys , a cow , a tribe of pygmies, a girl scout troop.... I don't care
Society says babies are cute
Maybe... So what ? They should be protected the same way everyone else is. They contribute much less than a 30 year old physics genius. We are not going to run out of babies anytime soon. If humans cause global warming, babies are the main factor.
99guspuppet 99stupidlaws
2013-03-05
How to fix U.S. manufacturing ? Big Picture
I read a blog entry by Paul J.Heney with interest ....
http://www.pneumatictips.com/2769/2013/02/featured/looking-down-the-road-at-manufacturing/
Paul is a smart good looking guy and has lots of influence.... so I was worried when he said that we should look to the government for solutions.
#1 Government programs have a high failure rate... often the only winners are the friends of the politicians... The record of the government is pretty mediocre and most of the folks who take government jobs are at the low end of the bell curve.
#2 Academics are a major source for great ideas. They often suffer from the myopia of having a safe job..... no *skin in the game* so to speak.... Check out what Nassim Nicholas Taleb ( author of *The Black Swan* ) has to say...
#3 Why focus on U.S. manufacturing ? We are now a world economy and should look at what is best for all of humanity... the greatest good for the greatest number. This is not at odds with making people in the U.S. successful. Not in the long term anyway. It is time for sophonts to escape tribalism and thinking controlled by the amygdala. Free individuals........ free information ....... allow the flow of ideas, money , creativity unimpeded by nation states and grasping politicians.
#4 Please consider directing your readers to look at privately funded efforts such as Singularity University or Khan Academy. or similar. This is the age of the internet, the cloud.....
99guspuppet
http://www.pneumatictips.com/2769/2013/02/featured/looking-down-the-road-at-manufacturing/
Paul is a smart good looking guy and has lots of influence.... so I was worried when he said that we should look to the government for solutions.
#1 Government programs have a high failure rate... often the only winners are the friends of the politicians... The record of the government is pretty mediocre and most of the folks who take government jobs are at the low end of the bell curve.
#2 Academics are a major source for great ideas. They often suffer from the myopia of having a safe job..... no *skin in the game* so to speak.... Check out what Nassim Nicholas Taleb ( author of *The Black Swan* ) has to say...
#3 Why focus on U.S. manufacturing ? We are now a world economy and should look at what is best for all of humanity... the greatest good for the greatest number. This is not at odds with making people in the U.S. successful. Not in the long term anyway. It is time for sophonts to escape tribalism and thinking controlled by the amygdala. Free individuals........ free information ....... allow the flow of ideas, money , creativity unimpeded by nation states and grasping politicians.
#4 Please consider directing your readers to look at privately funded efforts such as Singularity University or Khan Academy. or similar. This is the age of the internet, the cloud.....
99guspuppet
Unlocking Cell Phones see the big picture
Unlocking Cell Phones see the big picture
Read this link for some background.
http://www.zdnet.com/white-house-its-time-to-legalize-cell-phone-unlocking-7000012106/?s_cid=e550
A cell phone is hardware.... it really exists in meat-space. It can be owned. The owner should be able to use it as a cell phone. The owner should be allowed to saw it up with a chainsaw. The owner should be free to drop it in a spinning food processor. The owner should be able to move the phone to another network.
If the phone is leased... then someone else owns the phone. They can dictate how the hone is used.
If someone has signed a contract ... then they should be held to it's terms. The terms should be made very , very clear and not be designed to trick the customer. If trickery is employed... then it is fraud. I have heard a salesman say ...... "don't worry about the small print.. you will not have to abide by the small print" This is fraud because the saleswoman is not going to be around later to absolve you of any agreements you violate.
The government ( at any level ) does not have to have a dog running in this contest. There is nothing here for the government to have to sort out. And many of us know that the government makes issues more convoluted and poisonous than they were to start with.
Free people are polite , courteous , honest ........ anarchists are free
99guspuppet striving to be Sophont2 wanting to be an omegadog
There are Alpha dogs ( control freaks ) , Beta dogs ( sheeple ) and Omegadogs ( I want to be free and extend that courtesy to others )
999omegadog 999sophont2
Read this link for some background.
http://www.zdnet.com/white-house-its-time-to-legalize-cell-phone-unlocking-7000012106/?s_cid=e550
A cell phone is hardware.... it really exists in meat-space. It can be owned. The owner should be able to use it as a cell phone. The owner should be allowed to saw it up with a chainsaw. The owner should be free to drop it in a spinning food processor. The owner should be able to move the phone to another network.
If the phone is leased... then someone else owns the phone. They can dictate how the hone is used.
If someone has signed a contract ... then they should be held to it's terms. The terms should be made very , very clear and not be designed to trick the customer. If trickery is employed... then it is fraud. I have heard a salesman say ...... "don't worry about the small print.. you will not have to abide by the small print" This is fraud because the saleswoman is not going to be around later to absolve you of any agreements you violate.
The government ( at any level ) does not have to have a dog running in this contest. There is nothing here for the government to have to sort out. And many of us know that the government makes issues more convoluted and poisonous than they were to start with.
Free people are polite , courteous , honest ........ anarchists are free
99guspuppet striving to be Sophont2 wanting to be an omegadog
There are Alpha dogs ( control freaks ) , Beta dogs ( sheeple ) and Omegadogs ( I want to be free and extend that courtesy to others )
999omegadog 999sophont2
2013-03-03
When will police be penalized for lying ?
When will police be penalized for lying ?
I mean *personally* penalized... as in having to financially compensate victims of their perjury ???? Not money that comes from the taxpayers.... it should be money right out of their own pockets..... forget about suspensions or hand slaps or firing..... make them pay $$$ every time.... nothing will get their attention more quickly and forcefully than this.......
It should happen here ....
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/03/jury_finds_occu.php
Nothing justifies lying... ever
999guspuppet
keywords 999lying 99perjury
I mean *personally* penalized... as in having to financially compensate victims of their perjury ???? Not money that comes from the taxpayers.... it should be money right out of their own pockets..... forget about suspensions or hand slaps or firing..... make them pay $$$ every time.... nothing will get their attention more quickly and forcefully than this.......
It should happen here ....
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/03/jury_finds_occu.php
Nothing justifies lying... ever
999guspuppet
keywords 999lying 99perjury
2013-03-01
Government operates roads like a pinball machine
PINBALL MACHINE
Lots of flashing lights and holes where you can lose your game ball. Ball gets batted around a lot.
I sometimes drive north on Santa Fe in the Denver, CO metro area. The powers that be have set up a speed trap. It is a photo radar van. It is located right after the speed limit drops from 50 mph to 25 mph with a few blocks. The added bonus for the revenue collectors is that it is a *fines doubled* area. Another added bonus is that is located in the chaos of a construction zone. Picking out small signs advising the speed limit and the presence of a radar trap are is unlikely in the welter of competing visual cacophony. Road construction in the Denver area most resembles western cow patties ( excrement ). #1 Located randomly over the landscape #2 Suddenly appears ... gooey and hardens into an intractable mess. #3 Stinks #4 Never cleaned up #5 Sustenance for vermin
Government employees and VIPS are self-selected. They love to push people around. They love to be officious. What could be grander than a road project that gives everything they want plus they get to SOPM.
The above is unconscionable and chips away at the happiness of the planet's sophonts.
Update 2013m03d31
Returning from Littleton, CO on a Sunday ( Easter ... no less ) I encountered the same speed trap on Santa Fe. This is set up to collect fines ( $$$ ). There are no workers on the ( endless ) project... no equipment ... other than the radar van. I was going 40 mph. I do not know if I was one of the lucky ones. I am dropping a note to Hickenlooper and whatever city that speed trap resides in.
Later....... on the very same return trip.... I exited I-70 at Lowell ( going west ). I wanted to turn left at Lowell. No way I could do that. There were 7 cop cars blocking the ramp. I had to turn right. Everyone looked relaxed. I could not discern if there were civilians involved. No apparent reason for 7 cars to be clustered unless they were waiting for a doughnut order. I stopped and asked them why they were lounging around. ( That last sentence was a lie & joke. ) I am writing this from my office and not from jail.
99guspuppet 99roads 99speedtrap
99SOPM spend other people's money 99waitingForDoughnuts
Lots of flashing lights and holes where you can lose your game ball. Ball gets batted around a lot.
I sometimes drive north on Santa Fe in the Denver, CO metro area. The powers that be have set up a speed trap. It is a photo radar van. It is located right after the speed limit drops from 50 mph to 25 mph with a few blocks. The added bonus for the revenue collectors is that it is a *fines doubled* area. Another added bonus is that is located in the chaos of a construction zone. Picking out small signs advising the speed limit and the presence of a radar trap are is unlikely in the welter of competing visual cacophony. Road construction in the Denver area most resembles western cow patties ( excrement ). #1 Located randomly over the landscape #2 Suddenly appears ... gooey and hardens into an intractable mess. #3 Stinks #4 Never cleaned up #5 Sustenance for vermin
Government employees and VIPS are self-selected. They love to push people around. They love to be officious. What could be grander than a road project that gives everything they want plus they get to SOPM.
The above is unconscionable and chips away at the happiness of the planet's sophonts.
Update 2013m03d31
Returning from Littleton, CO on a Sunday ( Easter ... no less ) I encountered the same speed trap on Santa Fe. This is set up to collect fines ( $$$ ). There are no workers on the ( endless ) project... no equipment ... other than the radar van. I was going 40 mph. I do not know if I was one of the lucky ones. I am dropping a note to Hickenlooper and whatever city that speed trap resides in.
Later....... on the very same return trip.... I exited I-70 at Lowell ( going west ). I wanted to turn left at Lowell. No way I could do that. There were 7 cop cars blocking the ramp. I had to turn right. Everyone looked relaxed. I could not discern if there were civilians involved. No apparent reason for 7 cars to be clustered unless they were waiting for a doughnut order. I stopped and asked them why they were lounging around. ( That last sentence was a lie & joke. ) I am writing this from my office and not from jail.
99guspuppet 99roads 99speedtrap
99SOPM spend other people's money 99waitingForDoughnuts
*FREE* internet from the government is not free
http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/2369?n=17139527.IOruAm
Above is a link to a petition asking the USG ( US Government ) to provide free internet....
Such a scheme is NOT free......
#1 It costs the taxpayers... it reduces choices
#2 It is implemented by the most mediocre and incompetent organization on the plant
#3 The USG has a long history of bait and switch... of offering some goodies and then adding so many strings to the offer that people lose freedom , they lose their health and some of them lose their lives.
I am 61 years old as of 2013 and I have long watched the USG make the world a sadder , less exuberant place. The USG teaches children to become slaves to the state.
Remember... goodies from the government are never free... there is always a catch....
99guspuppet
Note: the petition mentioned at the top does NOT give you a chance to vote against it. Typical...
Above is a link to a petition asking the USG ( US Government ) to provide free internet....
Such a scheme is NOT free......
#1 It costs the taxpayers... it reduces choices
#2 It is implemented by the most mediocre and incompetent organization on the plant
#3 The USG has a long history of bait and switch... of offering some goodies and then adding so many strings to the offer that people lose freedom , they lose their health and some of them lose their lives.
I am 61 years old as of 2013 and I have long watched the USG make the world a sadder , less exuberant place. The USG teaches children to become slaves to the state.
Remember... goodies from the government are never free... there is always a catch....
99guspuppet
Note: the petition mentioned at the top does NOT give you a chance to vote against it. Typical...
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