Lets Fire All the Traffic Cops!!!

It would be a very simple thing to add a simple transmitter/receiver, smaller than a beeper to every vehicle. It would constantly relay the position of the vehicle to receiver located in every lamp post. Cost would be like $5 a vehicle after ten years. The expense would be in the infrastructure of lamppost receivers and wiring a city wide traffic network and computers to process the data. In the long term is a hell of a lot cheaper than what you pay in property taxes to pay the salaries of traffic cops and meter maids.
Basically the result would be if you violate a traffic law you get automatic tickets. Everyone would naturally have a few free tickets, especially in the beginning. You can't break the speed limit for any significant amount of time. You can't make illegal turns. You can't park your car where you shouldn't. We can fire all the traffic cops and meter maids!!!! (Can I get a HELL YAH?).

Of course there is the drawback and that is we need to give up a little privacy but really how much would you care once you reap the benefits? One thing, there wouldn't be any need for car chases. The cops would simply follow from a great distance and wait you out. Probably let you go home and sleep it off, then knock on your door to arrest you in the morning. There would be no more stolen cars, it would be impossible to steal one. A computer would be able to spot seriously drunk drivers within minutes by how bad a person is driving and they can quickly be stopped from killing themselves or worse you. And all those bastards that cut you off and don't know how to drive will get their just rewards.

But surely you say something like this could be hacked and forged. Sorry nope. You see with enough resolution on the positional transmitters you can't forge a signal. There is no encryption or anything special. A computer knows where and when the last signal was to within about six feet. If you turn the signal off, that sends up a red flag. With every vehicle out there transmitting a signal, it's easy to detect the ones driving down the street without one. If you try to change your signal to look like someone else that's easily recognized, as that signal appeared in that location out of nowhere. It might be possible to swap signals but it would be simple enough to correlate all vehicles that get within an overlapping radius. Sure there would be minor issues at first but nothing too serious.

The reason this will never happen is that city governments and the police department make too much money off traffic fines. It has little to do with protecting the public and everything to do with paychecks.

Drugs should be Legalized

The anti drug laws are a racket. A whole bunch of people pulled the wool over the publics eyes. The simple truth is drugs are cheap to make. The people making money on the shit are the proponents of anti drug laws. These laws create a market. Take something cheap that people will want, and then figure out how to limit the supply, economics 101. I'm going to set you straight even though you wouldn't believe me. If all illicit drugs were legalized for recreational use far more problems would go away than would be created. Take the money out of it. Now I'm not saying we should allow any sort of marketing the shit, in fact pushing the shit should be what's illegal. Crime would drop dramatically, I'm talking about 80 percent or more. You have any idea how much money we as a society spend on police and prisons, not to mention the actual expense of stolen or damaged property? Take a look at the tough love campaigns, cracking down on crime and drugs, and you'll see that the police, judges, lawyers, and the prison guard unions lobbyist are the chief promoters; you would shit your pants if you saw actual dollar amounts. You think you have to worry about the drug crazy lunatics? Those that couldn't function would lose their jobs. If they can panhandle $10 a day then with cheap legalized drugs they can purchase more than even the hardest drug user could consume with just that little bit of money and still have enough for something to eat. Psychedelics? PCP? For those sad souls I'd require them to go to some safe room or something where they can be monitored or strapped down but they can fry their brains as much as they want. At first there would be lots of OD's and that would cull the ranks. Then you get the chicken shit stupid people that will try it because it's legal. Good riddance. The number of crack whores and tweekers walking the streets would plummet. The rates for AIDS infections would at least be cut in half. A whole lot of people would lose a lot of money and society would save money and we'd all be safer. I truly believe this. I myself indulge with alcohol, never tried anything else, don't want to. Just think about it, drugs aren't the problem, money is the problem.

Love Advice for Other Men

(From someone completely unqualified)

Most guys don't know what real love is, but what I find more startling, is that I discovered a while back is that even more women do not. Women are sluts and whores. I've tried to disprove it but I can't. The longer you live the more you will realize this. Maybe there are a few out there that are not. But on chance if you found one, you could never prove it to yourself, so don't delude yourself, your never going to find someone worthy of you. Women are insecure creatures, far more than you and I are and as a consequence will always hurt you. Women always talk about how dishonest men are but women are the biggest liars, they lie not only to you but to themselves. They seek what they want to be. They don't even realize the games they play. The only solution to your happiness is to be the better person. Find a woman, don't look too hard, and just unconditionally love her. She will hurt you left and right and keep on hurting you and herself in an endless attempt to prove that you don't love her. Do what you need to do for your own sanity, womanize, drink, gamble, or whatever. There will be good and bad times. She will at times love you but her doubt will always get the better of her, because her love is conditional. But you just selfishly keep loving her no matter how unworthy she is, for in this at least, you will know true love.

Life After Death

I'm currently reading "What Dreams May Come" by Richard Matheson. I'm really enjoying this book. I highly recommend it to everyone. It's my idea of a true romance novel. It concerns itself with the afterlife and I just feel like chiming in on the subject.

I believe in good and bad and hence I am a moralist. Good for goodness sake. I really have a problem with the whole notion of an afterlife. I believe in the here and the now and to make the best of it as if that's all that there is. While I doubt there is an afterlife it's certainly possible. If it does exist, most would probably not recognize it as such.

Back on to my point, I strongly object to religion and it's overwhelming concern with an afterlife and it's focus on it being a reward. If we assume there is an afterlife, I conclude we aren't suppose to know. All that stuff about being accountable for your sins in the afterlife is shit. If you do good things only because you seek to be rewarded with an afterlife in heaven then that doesn't make you good. If there is a god and a heaven, then you can't know they exist because if you did you wouldn't behave the same. In many ways it would take away your choose. You would be doing good deeds only for the most selfish of reasons. If there is a god then he meant for us not to know, at least for sure, because that's free will, and free will is the soul. I'd rather not believe and risk damnation by choosing to be the person that I am, than to believe and have no choice.

Publication System

For the past year I've been getting all sorts of ideas about how to apply point to point software for all sorts of things. One such idea is a direct replacement of the old Usenet bulletin board system; you know, the alt.*, comp.*, misc.*, and other such message groups. It's sort of like a combination of Usenet and the web, but it's more of a direct publication system. The other application is a scaled down version of it used for personal ads.

The only problem with such a system and why you haven't seen them is all the spam they would attract. But I believe the solution to that is an automated trust group based system. Basically everyone catalogs and flags everyone else to various degrees. When you read a personals ad and it isn't categorized you flag it. If it's spam you flag it as spam, Everyone does this and their lists get swapped and you compare other people results with your own and the computer automatically establishes a trust factor as far as how accurately a person catalogs ads. You can also have hierarchy's of catalogers that more of less vouch for each other and that's when it becomes really effective. It would be pretty much automatic unless you decide to look at unreviewed ads or improperly cataloged ads. I'd imagine at first there would be quite a bit of spam but it would die off once it's realized how effective the system is. People establish anonymous reputations based on what they publish, how long they have been publishing, and how often they publish.

The only weakness is a minor one, if computer hijackers hack into people computers and assume their identity to post spam. But that can probably be mitigated by noticing the number of posts a person makes, stammers would sent tons of messages and it would be flagged immediately as suspicious. The system is redundant so there really isn't any cheating. Say someone chooses to sell out and allow certain spam though, you'd notice this and that persons reviews are trusted less and you start relying on other people reviews more. Other than power users that volunteer that take on more complicated reviewing and sponsoring tasks, it's really an automated system a user can choose to ignore and just know that it will work 99.9 of the time.

Blockbuster Weekend

I left the keys in the ignition of my motorcycle and several hours later it was totally dead. I've tried recharaging it many times but it looks like one of the cells must have been toasted though I can't see how. Anynow I can't get a an maintenance free battery until next week and it looks like I'll be mostly housebound this weekend. Other than going to the corner bar doesn't look like I'll be able to get out much and it looks like it's going to be a nice weekend. Maybe I'll ride my bicycle down to the beach or something and check out all the tourists. Just have to remember to bring a ton of sunblock.

Anyone know of a good hat shop here in LA? I like baseball caps but I need a sized hat because the normal adjustable ones with the hole in the back tend to leave a rising sun mark on the back of my head. Hmm, that's neat idea for a product for bald guys, hats with designs built in that intentionally tan patterns on the head, this might also apply to shirts and other items as well. Probably would work even better at tanning salons. A temparary tan tattoo...