Employers should have nothing to say about what employees do off the time clock. The sick part is that if she left the phone at work the employer would insist that they had the right to contact her to report to work suddenly if required. I've been there. The employer says i am to stay near my phone all weekend in case an emergency comes to pass. I told the employer i would be off shore fishing and would keep fishing with or without an emergency unless I was paid to stay near my phone. I never allowed employers to pull that kind of crap on me.

I can see NYC to LA costing $80. but in state trips should be far, far cheaper by train. How about LA to San Francisco for $6.?

So what I am reading is that our federal and state governments have policies designed to squash solar energy while putting on a public posture of encouragement of solar energy. Sometimes humans are so depressing it makes a man want to jump off a ledge.

So pay your friend for the companionship while he happens to haul your new sofa. You know how it is. If you buy her a fancy meal for $100. you may be her lover but if you hand her $100. you are a John and she is a hooker. Sometimes law is composed by idiots.

So can some sort of underwater vehicle ride those waves and travel long distances? Or maybe we can stick some sort of power generator down there that will spin from those waves. What can mankind screw up next? What if we find a way to dampen all of those deep waves? We could have a planet suffering from deep wave deprivation.

These days quite a bit of the more expensive equipment comes to you on a lease and is serviced by techs in the field as part of that lease. What individuals are allowed to service on a machine is governed by contract. Large farm equipment is now handled this way in many cases. Frankly I'm not so certain that these types of situations benefit farming or the public. It is astounding to watch just how much work some of these mega machines can do but it also allows new players to get involved in food production and delivery and each new player gets a slice of the pie. High food prices are the consequence.

Since we apparently have a seriously large system that is flat what are the forces that would cause a flat universe to perpetuate itself? Rotation might offer an explanation but there is also the notion that some force pressing from the top and another force pressing from below might cause a flat universe. Let the speculation begin! If the universe is like a flat sea can the universe cascade over the edge?

If we docked seven or eight cruise ships or super tankers that would stop more pollution that all the autos in the US cause. How much pollution does burning coal amount to? Yes, beat up cars pollute more than newer, better cars. But even the elimination of all cars will not get us to where we need to be in regard to pollution.

Obviously no one wants global warming. If the UN was involved in some crazy sort of conspiracy to take over the world just why would they want a severely damaged world? If I wanted to take over the world I would want every inch of it to be lovely, healthy and productive. Many people simply can not face the reality that global warming is going to slam us really hard. All of our best efforts can only take a bit of the edge off of the tribulations that warming and rising seas will heap upon us.

Driving will soon be a historic trade. Computers really can do the job. And what people fail to mention is that the shortage of drivers has a lot to do with DUI or DWI laws that keep a lot of truckers locked out of the industry. Many people get one DUI ticket in a car or on a motorcycle but for a trucker that one incident can lock him out for quite a few years. Tickets are another issue as driving constantly usually means more tickets and tickets can make a driver an insurance nightmare for a trucking company. But big rigs are the least of it. Taxi cabs and Uber types as well as those that operate farm equipment are also being replaced by robotic devices. Yet no plans are being made to aid people whose trades are eliminated by technology.

Paired drivers are common in the trucking industry. One can sleep while the other drives. There are regulations concerning hours in the cab and hours at the wheel but most truckers know exactly how to work their logs to get them more hours driving and less hours resting. Imagine two trucks working together such that drives can change trucks at rest stops. The truck log may show them at the wheel for only eight hours but they are driving the other truck for eight hours as well. The second drivers can also swap trucks. These drivers often earn by the pennies per mile driven so you can see why they want to cover such large distances every day.

Law is one thing and order quite another. My view of the cops is that they are aware that they can no longer hold the line and are in a sort of panic. What is orderly is often confusing and very subjective whereas what is legal is usually more sharply defined. Part of the problem is money. Tax payers don't like to pay taxes and as a consequence we do not require college degrees for cops. The consequence is that we end up with some pretty primitive personalities working as cops. Sloppy language results in sloppy thinking. For example police have to be instructed on how to stay safe and stay alive. But the cops on the receiving end of the training falsely translate that training into an idea that they must have absolute safety. Absolute safety is not available for any type of employment much less being a cop. That is why we are seeing cops that are a bit quick to get violent and their training amplifies the problem. For example if they shoot a suspect one time should they really be trained to keep shooting until the subject is down and not moving at all? The public is also at fault as in days gone by any person who ran for any reason was subject to being shot so very few people tried to run. Now running from cops is common and the cops do not shoot simply because a person is running and that exposes cops to a lot more risk. And these three strikes laws cause a lot of violence as well. A bad guy has nothing to lose by running if a third incident will get him life without hope of parole. Cruel and unpleasant jails also assure and create violence as resisting arrest is sort of logical if one is about to be dropped into some kind of degrading hell pit. There is plenty of guilt to go around and as much guilt falls on the tax payers as upon the criminals.

NYC and the areas near NYC are so badly thought out that fixing the city can't be done. One would need to start with a giant wrecking ball and remove everything ever built there and then set a population cap on an entirely new city to be built in its place. If one looks at NYC and considers things like trees per acre then the problems become more obvious. One can spend months in NYC and never touch land. the land is covered with concrete and black top. Zero nature pretty much equals zero quality of life. And worse yet you really can't use that wrecking ball. how many millions of tons of asbestos are in the old buildings in NYC. How many other toxic issues would occur in that rubble? How many caskets and bodies would have to be moved or burned? My impression of NYC is that it appears as if some psychopath dedicated to horror for humanity designed and built the city.

Really the discrimination stuff is a pretense of fairness rather than an actual effort to be fair. Look at it this way. You have 20 applicants for one position. You sort through the pile and discriminate until you find the person that matches what you seek. You have your own values that you have established which are probably quite misleading. For example most of us consider past accomplishments as a signal of what to expect from a person. That is nonsense. People change and the fellow that was behind may have made special efforts to make sure they are superb at the tasks at hand. Even former convicts, who most people consider bad, may well be top drawer people who were placed in such a difficult circumstance that crime was the best or only choice for them a couple of years ago. All of us like to feel comfortable and assured that we are not hiring some sort of freak but when you think about it those nuts who run back into a building and gun down people that they worked with all passed interviews and probably back ground checks as well. We even had a Florida cop who enjoyed dragging young women into the woods and taking them apart with an ax. He had passed muster at more than one Florida police force.

I am shocked that more people do not see what is happening. Big power is in deep doodoo. And some consumers who are slow to change over to new ways will get hit with super expensive power bills. If big power wants to stay in place they will need to provide very cheap electricity compared to current rates. Chances are big power can't do that.