Data collection and spying are going to force society to take all kinds of steps. As the ability to detect increases the number of violations will become ever more obvious. So now we are left with a very serious issue. It is impossible to enforce the laws when you can catch all the violations. Suppose as a simple example that we can catch ten million Americans cheating the IRS. There is simply no way to process and convict ten million people with any kind of fair judicial system. So most people would effectively be allowed to continue cheating while others would be punished. How does nepotism, racism, bribery and all manner of wrong do under such conditions.? We already detect far more people than we dare imprison and imagine what cops can do simply by sweeping up people and demanding even more people be reported by those detained ? I have already seen a situation in which a drug house was untouchable operated on the border of a public high school. The cops as well as the school were all very aware of the busy drug house and it was simply untouchable. It had reached the point at which an arch shaped window was in stalled so buyers could by dope in a drive through in plain view of everyone. Why authorities allowed that drug house to operate in plain sight I do not know but if they arrested everyone that purchased drugs in that drive through it might have bankrupted the city. What will happen when the slumbering public becomes aware that society gives some criminals a free pass?

The fact that school bands create much better students has been well understood for many decades. That doesn't mean that our screw ball society has done anything with that information. First music breaks up boredom. Apparently having something to do stops a lot of drug use and other crimes in general. Then a school band relies upon cooperation. Obviously a band will not sound very good with a lot of kids out of tune or playing the wrong note so every band member has a serious incentive to help every other member. Basic behaviors are also taught. Showing up on time with your instrument, your music and your complete uniform are all part of school band programs. And if you look at playing an instrument as a very competitive action things become even more obvious. What other form of performance in which competition takes place also completely avoids violence? Football, soccer and even track events all involve pain and certain forms of violence. For minority groups the individuals become valued for their ability and performance. The white student can highly value and respect the brown black, red or yellow student who stands out for excellence. There is no student that could not help themselves through being in a rigorous band and concert group all the way from 3rd. grade through college. Then we have a world dynamic as well. If Americans are illiterate for math, science and the arts they are even more in worse shape with their knowledge of music. Ask your next door neighbor why Chopin is so highly respected and there is a 99% probability that all you will get is duh. That leads to a life long lock down on the ability to associate with truly educates people. So our dullard students are left with a life of drinking beer and getting into all kinds of negative lives with high mortality rates.

The Romanian army used to have each field gun machined individually with the bolt that acts as a hinge for the breach have a unique thread. In the event of a position being compromised in battle simply removing the bolt made the weapon useless. Sometimes simple traditional methods are pretty darned effective.Oddly since each bolt was unique traditional machinists could not make that many unique threads. They actually had gypsies that were admitted into the factories at night that somehow knew just how to make each thread unique.

If we help Tesla to grow fast we are also helping everyone else by getting fossil fuel vehicles off the road sooner. Since global warming and pollution threaten all life on Earth such actions are more important than the usual capitalist diatribes.

Maybe I'm really wrong but wasn't a similar idea around during the Carter administration and halted due to potential dangers?

Mental health related actions also have legal restrictions just as physical disabilities do. Unless a crime is committed I can't see a way that a school board can force mental health treatment or examination. Frankly many people choose to be mentally ill even when effective treatments are available for their particular condition. If a person controls their actions even though their affect may be disturbing to others I'm not so sure that this school board has not taken a very bad and expensive path for itself. With the stigma applied to the mentally ill even a 48 hour hold for observation can ruin a person's career permanently even if the evaluation shows him to be in fine health.

Somehow no matter how hard they try there is simply that Germanic compulsion to get everyone goose stepping in perfect order. The world changes and sometimes new ideas work better than older ideas. But the economics are such that any change hurts someone. Winning does not imply unfair competition. One excuse for a taxi commission has always been a need to know roads in a city. Now we have GPS and punching in the address routes the driver. On top of that we are about to eliminate human drivers anyway. Change is painful and when everything gets monetized there is a tendency to lock down any hope of change for the better.

There is already one full size helicopter, drone, making a daily repeat run from The US to Mexico. It is able to fly at any altitude that a human piloted helicopter can fly. For that matter the average commercial aircraft flying passengers is effectively a drone with a pilot only as backup these days. We will need a new label for low flying drones to distinguish them from larger drones. We also need to gain knowledge on items like fuel consumption for heavy lifter type drones. For example my super market gets a tractor trailer load a day or more from a central warehouse about 50 miles away. A drone lifting the same weight and bulk just might be fuel efficient due to slow highway traffic. Cost may determine use more than legal issues. Other items need to be considered as well. If i order a bulldozer to a job site there is a huge issue with parking the tractor and lowboy that transports the dozer. A flying drone could deposit the dozer and wait nearby in many cases where a large truck and trailer could not fit in well. Or we may see the air ambulance effect ruin it all. It seems that a rescue helicopter for a trauma victim ads about 5K per mile over a car type ambulance.

Why would anyone have a windows machine around? My tribe does not support monsters nor evil doers. Freedom insists that I run Linux. Freedom is my buddy and you should get to know about Freedom.

When a person chooses to use a cell phone or other device while driving there is clearly a reckless disregard for the life of others and it is criminal. The right wing may have ruined any hope of the family using the civil courts. In some states there is a concept that only financial dependence justifies a right to sue for damages. In other words if it was a student who requires support rather than a parent supporting a wife and child then no suit may be allowed. Conservatives have actually created a right to murder without penalty in some states.

The theory that travel was motivated by finding new sources of fish and game and was commercially sensitive goes a long way in explaining the lack of records of the contacts with the new world. One gets to Iceland and brings back prize catches and obviously hides information about where the game was taken. As more vessels figure out where the new gathering grounds are located more adventurous vessels reach out further trying to maintain better yields. Maps were either nonexistent or well hidden. And then we have the ship wrecked folks. Life at sea has always involved survivors being stranded on unknown shores. Chances are that people from many nations and regions were ship wrecked somewhere in the Americas from time to time. Breeding with locals was sure to follow. Then we also have the issue of records. Many races did not recognize native people as human kind. If they brought back a native to Europe they might be recorded as livestock or property rather than as persons. It is next to impossible that many hundreds of ship wrecked soul were not washed up on American shores over the centuries. Native Americans did capture and keep people as slaves and chances are it was common for ship wrecked survivors to be taken into bondage.

Yes some backwards fool can point out that the net provides opportunities to see sexual content and therefore enables sin. And that makes as much sense as saying that if we allow right handed people to keep their right hands we enable masturbation and therefore the old fart should demand that the right hand be amputated from everyone in his nation. Frankly religion normally involves something more than a pile of completely ignorant, brain impaired zealots babbling with absurd logic and obvious hatred and fear. If we lived in a just an able world we would lock the population of these nations in a mental ward until we had a way to help them. Since we do not live in a just and able world chances are these folks will be nuclear ash before it is over.

Don't let it bother you one bit. The government you see and know is not really the government under which you live. Allowing populations to have beliefs and votes is just a dog and pony show to keep the hoople heads calm. Ask yourself why so many tens of thousands of documents relating to the death of JFK are still top secret. Realizing the importance of just that one moment in time just how could information over 50 years old need to be secret. That is about as absurd as stamping top secret on plans to make a common bow and arrow. You know, quite a few people can make a bow and arrow and have been doing so for thousands of years.

If we use machines to auto track every plate, all the time, then publishing that information would not warn a criminal that they were being watched at all. After all we are all being watched. I see more of an issue with people who live a lie and can't explain to a spouse why they park in certain places over and over again. Really it is only truth that people are worried about. Can people exist without their lies and cheating? Do honest people fear observation?

In areas with fast growth detailed maps of every inch of the roads will require an accumulation of data almost hourly. For a specific map to be updated hour by hour may offer a billing opportunity for a major data service. Assume your car drives you to work at 8 am.. When it is time to return home the computer will need to know if any alterations or conditions have occurred during the day. Since most of us repeat patterns in daily driving those routes may update themselves while the vehicle is at rest. But any variation in routes would call for some sort of advanced route request so that one could get in the car and be transported without delay. Many sales organisations have craved a new street or new dwelling directory for decades and it has never happened yet. I live in a region in which new roads and homes crop up daily and it often takes maps months before those new streets appear. One can get a list of new building permits from the city or county but there is no map to guide one and the new places may be months from completion. The sales community would love daily mapping of their region.