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Pre-Crime education and prevention

No. It’s not Sci-Fi but real life. It seems IBM has written some analytical software that will predict if criminals will re-offend. Read here. It always surprises me in these threads how many people are happy with this sort of system. They always think it won’t be used on them.

This is being used in Florida to target education and prevention programmes. Nope. I don’t know what that means either but it scares me. A computer is predicting I am going to offend despite me doing my time, or whatever, and the State is going to force me on a training course or put a tag on me or something stronger. Very Orwellian.

Now I’m all for computer prediction software and I’m all for using it as a tool to aid our beleaguered police force. Anything that saves the poor chaps from suffering from RSI from ticking all those diversity boxes is fine by me.

In fact I think I will write my own code that will predict if politicians are lying, stealing, self serving scum. First of all you need some algorithms to calculate this out. I’d tell you what algorithm I use but it’s proprietary.

Basically though, simply feed in your politician’s history and it will calculate to several decimal places the way he works. I can assure you that it’s worse than Mr or Mrs Average criminal and way, way worse than Mr or Mrs Average. No education camps for them though or even prevention programmes. In fact we could go one step further in reducing crime and replace all Party MPs with trained monkeys. Always vote the party line and kiss the leaders butt. Again algorithms based on history from ‘They Work for You’. Any missing bananas are easy traced. Let’s face it they don’t need to know anything, they don’t need to understand anything and anyone that says otherwise just has to look at the voting records over the last decade.

The one for criminals will be rolled out here soon although it won’t be as accurate as our MP one which surprisingly won’t be.

Let’s not confuse the issue with Facts

Over the last few months Mother Nature has taught us a few lessons. Not that we are listening though.

The first was that despite all our hysterical climate change cultists we are not going to be treated to warm winters and searing summers for a while anyway despite their bleatings to the contrary and their attempts to confuse us with scientific data that does not hold together under even the most casual scrutiny. Hell it would all be over now if our useless Politicians had not latched on to it as a way for us to be fleeced of more money and with the bonus that the stupid among us, which is quite a lot, would thank them for it.

The second over the last five days is that according to my calculations (based on this) more CO2 has been spewed into the atmosphere than Europe has since the Industrial Age.

Lightning strikes somewhere on Earth every minute of the day. Dissipating Gigajoules of Energy daily totalling several nuclear strikes.

Earthquakes regularly kill hundreds of thousands and destroy our strongest buildings. Tsunamis and Hurricanes kill millions and devastate millions of square kilometres. Diseases kill billions, destroy lives and, so far, remain undefeated.

That is not including any of the wonders that the Universe has not yet shown us. What is yet to come?

So it kind of puts into perspective our laughable attempts to control the planet by reducing our CO2 output which would devastate our civilisation and doom us to an evolutionary step backwards until our descendants decide that enough is enough and start, belatedly, to continue forward again.

On the other hand we could just give them a smaller project to work on such as keeping volcanoes under control. After all even after everything they do it is our CO2 that is changing the planet not theirs.

And while we are at it can someone explain how tons of noxious fumes thrown thousands of miles is not hazardous but cigarette smoke at 2 parsecs is a killer?

We need to wipe this cult out now before it is too late. Like all religious nuts facts are irrelevant and they play on our good nature. We laugh and tolerate them as the fools they are but soon the laugh will be on us and it will be one hell of a ride for our children. We are not going to like the descent either.

Not just for an apocalypse

This shelter is designed for an apocalypse. Not just the burning down of society as arranged by Gordo and his ilk but things like an asteroid strike or whatever is going to destroy the world in 2012.

But I say lets have one now. For $10M you could have your own cult HQ or secret lair and you wouldn’t have any feral scum causing you problems in the middle of the night.

The ultimate in secure accomodation. I’m surprised that most billionaires and cult leaders don’t have one at that price. There are so many benefits for them.

Google still snooping

It seems Google is still trying to gain information on everybody. It’s new browser, Chrome, stores a unique identifier so it can report back browsing habits. Google has agreed to remove it. I wonder though what happens if the user doesn’t upgrade. Does it still report back? They should be fined for violating privacy laws.

Still, I hope that includes any unique ID stored in its new OS. I’m looking at having a trial of that soon. I see it being a viable competitor of Windows.

Google need to be watched very carefully. They clearly can’t be trusted any more than MS or the government.

The future of public transport?

Public cars are part of a revolution in public transport which has been used in Germany and now being rolled out for use in the US. The Car2Go scheme is a way forward towards a viable public transport system which does not force people to be herded like cattle and spend time waiting for scheduled starts and stops.

I feel that this can be expanded to cover home to destination and back again no matter where you are in the country. It will require infrastructure but no more than we are spending now. It just needs to be spent more effectively.

Only problem though is that this requires parking facilities near the drivers destinations. Probably OK for Germany and the US but not so OK for most cities in the UK. Parking spaces are just not built into any UK cities now and instead are being removed by councils in their paranoid green agenda. We would need another way to handle the cars when they get to their destination. It’s not impossible.

Is that a car on the horizon?

Could this herald the appearance of the transport many have us have waited 40+ years for?

DARPA has invited proposals for a flying car. (h/t Ivan)

Isn’t it ironic that when a flying car has the funding to get developed our economy is in such a state that nobody but the military can afford one. So Mr Jetson better be a millionaire, be working for the government or maybe have been putting away pennies since it was first mentioned.

One funny though. In the article it says that ‘it’s not just an ordinary car, but an off-road one to boot’ Duh!

Solar Power

Solar Power is one of the few power resources that is going to be practical for us. It is the only renewable resource that we can count on for the future. Despite this I keep being told it is not practical nor is it cost effective. My replies have always been that it is practical and it is cost effective when implemented correctly.

The problem is that we don’t implement these things correctly. We have a massive infrastructure set up around hydroelectric, fossil fuels and nuclear which we have to consider and we waste our money on political items like windmills.

Solar Power can be used now to augment our existing infrastructure and take the load off our shared infrastructure and lessen our bills. Only problem being is that the initial setup is expensive. Well, Yes and No, there are many ways to utilise the power of the sun without spending too much money. We just need to ensure we consider other options when building houses and in everyday utility. Using solar ovens is common in Africa and Asia. We can cook without electricity and it cooks just as well. In northern climes we can orientate the house, when building of course, so the sun is utilised to it’s maximum and install solar heating panels. Not solar panels but a pipes and the like to heat water.

Then as solar panels become more flexible, cheaper and more efficient we can incorporate those into our existing pre-built houses. Here is another step in making this practical, flexible panels, we can coat a dome with this and we don’t need to power the solar panel array around to follow the sun. Or, as I suggested in an earlier post, we can coat everything with these flexible coats, pre coloured to suit your home, and thus your entire outside, the house, garage and shed can be generating power for you for free.

Until we finally get space based solar panels but that is a different story.

Soylent Green

Soylent Green isn’t quite here yet. Although you would think that it is heading this way from the MSM hype.

What we do have however is grow your own nutrients. It seems Algae is the new Green Crop. Now I know that we in the west go all squeamish when we think about food. For some reason we need to know it looked nice before it was killed, dismembered and made into portions.

However, Algae isn’t just about growing food. It is a efficient and effective way to transform waste into something useful. I think I might look at getting a small reactor. By small I mean large enough to process a single council snoop. I can always expand later if I need to.

Power assisted suits

Power assisted suits are another item that seems to have been talked about for a long time without appearing on the market. Here is an article (h/t Ivan) that says they will finally be on sale in 2012 for £8,100.

The article describes the suit as a RoboCop suit and says ‘Japanese scientists have created a power-assisted suit which could make users as strong as Robocop or Iron Man’ Sounds great but RoboCop was armoured and could withstand bullets and rocket fire. Iron Man was pretty much the same and neither actually existed outside movies and comics. As you can see by the photographs no armour, not even a piece of cardboard printed like armour as shielding. So as strong as two made up suits. Sounds really accurate and clearly defined. The article says it will reduce the users physical effort by 62%. Still a long way to go then for either fictional suit. I wonder if that means the power ramps up your effort by giving that 62% boost ori it gives 100% of what a human gives but can be driven by weaklings like me. Somehow I suspect if you put Arnie in there working at 100% it wouldn’t boost his strength to 263% of his power. I also wonder about the power requirements. RoboCop and Iron Man both had fictional power units that kept them going. Everything from Japan runs on AAA batteries.

On the plus side, I can imagine that they would be extremely popular at £8K. A power multiplier with the ability to be deployed by the Fire Brigade that would be able to batter down doors, lift furniture and fallen items off victims and quickly deployed. Never mind the million and one everyday uses for garages, building sites and manufacturing plants etc.

Why has it taken so long? Why is it still two years away? How many AAA batteries does it take?

Maybe it is me

I look at this unicycle. It may not seem like much but it is a achievement to get a unicycle to do all these things. Something that advances our understanding of robots and real time control systems.

But what can practical use is it?

I can’t think of anything at all. Everything I think of could be done better with a scooter or a skateboard. I can’t see the streets with even a few of these or any building with them as internal transport. What good are they?