What is our plan for zero-occupancy vehicles?

Saturday, July 6, 2019

There is simply no excuse today for not enforcing occupancy-based performance measures for all transportation modes, including AV deployments. A vehicle with zero occupants should not be treated the same as a vehicle with one occupant, or two occupants, regardless of its level of automation. The existence of reliable consumer technology for verifying occupancy means that there is no longer any excuse for federally sponsored AV deployments to be exempt from reporting on occupancy. Such a course correction will result in new opportunities for local and state agencies to safeguard and improve the performance of their road networks, and for auto companies to fully participate in solving the problem of traffic congestion.

Source: What is our plan for zero-occupancy vehicles?

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No plan.

No plan is needed because the marketplace will figure it out.

Certainly any Gooferment plan is doomed to fail if for no other reason that Crony Capitalism!

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Google Shuts Down Traffic To Mercola.com – LewRockwell

Friday, July 5, 2019

Who is Dr. Joseph Mercola? Well, he’s a well-known doctor who left the mainstream medical industry and has changed the lives of many through various avenues, and one of those avenues is through spreading information and awareness. Mercola.com is one of the most popular sites that has been providing information that the powerful elite, mainstream media, and big pharma definitely don’t want you to know about.

Source: Google Shuts Down Traffic To Mercola.com – LewRockwell

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Time to apply some market discipline to the Big Techs.  And what about reviewing their reliance on the common carrier exception on content?  If they are exercising editorial control on ANY content, then they are responsible for ALL content!  Try that on for size, Big Boys.

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Ep. 42 Former Military Intelligence Sergeant Donnie Gebert Explains That a Direct Republic Is Now Possible – Bob Murphy Show

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Like the Matrix, you cannot be told about a 3-hour conversation with Donnie Gebert; you must hear it for yourself. But here’s the blurb from his book: “All members of a direct republic sign…the constitution/social contract. This contract states you will not engage in murder, rape, theft, and basic crimes against humanity. Once signed, the individual becomes their own representative and places social contributions directly into the funding pools for the social projects they approve of.”

Source: Ep. 42 Former Military Intelligence Sergeant Donnie Gebert Explains That a Direct Republic Is Now Possible – Bob Murphy Show

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Great concepts expressed!

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Vin Suprynowicz » Blog Archive » I’m sure it says in the Constitution ‘The President’s motives must be Politically Correct.’ Keep looking, it has to be in there somewhere . . .

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Let me get the straight: The Chinese Communists, with all their resources, still haven’t compiled and translated a basic biography of Donald Trump? He knew the Post Foundation considered the Mar-A Lago estate in South Florida a white elephant that they couldn’t afford to properly maintain, at the cost of several million greenbacks per year. (The U.S. government turned it down as a tax-funded “Winter White House”; even the Smithsonian turned it down.) So when Marjorie Merriweather Post’s descendants put the property on the market at $25 million, Trump offered . . . 15.

They snorted at this upstart. The nerve! And he was even proposing to let Jews and blacks play golf there! (Play back that part where they claim Trump, a former New York Democrat whose grandchildren are Jewish, is a “racist,” will you?)

But when they couldn’t find anyone else to meet even THAT price, they grudgingly went back to Trump . . . who proceeded to tell them “You had a chance at 15 but you turned it down. My offer is now $12 million.”

Outraged at such tactics, the Posts turned him down AGAIN, . . . and paid the price again, eventually selling to Trump for . . . $8 million.

Source: Vin Suprynowicz » Blog Archive » I’m sure it says in the Constitution ‘The President’s motives must be Politically Correct.’ Keep looking, it has to be in there somewhere . . .

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Love the story about DJT45!

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VETERANS: Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee gives vets back some of their money

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

2019-Jul-02

A-5609/S-3960 (Land, Freiman, Armato, Johnson, Mukherji, Milam, Mazzeo/Sarlo, Addiego) – Increases gross income tax deduction available to veterans from $3,000 to $6,000.

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Is Putin Right? Has Liberalism Lost the World?, by Pat Buchanan – The Unz Review

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Why is liberalism failing? Several causes, said Putin. Among them, its failure to deal with the crisis of the age: mass and unchecked illegal migration. Putin praised Trump’s efforts to secure the U.S. border:

“This liberal idea has become obsolete. It has come into conflict with the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population. … This liberal idea presupposes that … migrants can kill, plunder and rape with impunity because their rights as migrants have to be protected.”

Source: Is Putin Right? Has Liberalism Lost the World?, by Pat Buchanan – The Unz Review

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I like Pat on a “common sense” foreign and domestic policy.

I wonder if the “culture war” is lost?

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Democrats are having a socialist moment, but it won’t last :: Jeff Jacoby

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Socialism is profoundly at odds with the American experience, and always has been. The Mayflower passengers who settled in Plymouth sought to build a socialist society avant la lettre, one in which, as Governor William Bradford later recounted, there would be no private ownership of property and “all profits and benefits” were to be part of “the common stock.” The settlers wanted a system in which everyone would work for the common good, and there would be no inequality of wealth. What they got was a painful lesson in socialism’s failures, with rising levels of hunger, corruption, and persecution. Only after the colony reversed course in 1623 and established private property rights did its fortunes change for the better.

Source: Democrats are having a socialist moment, but it won’t last :: Jeff Jacoby

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Every time “socialism” comes up, think “Mayflower Compact”!

Every time Communist Bernie Sanders or the other “Socialists” promise free stuff, think “North / South Korea”, “East / West Berlin”, “Venezuela”, or genocide!

Argh!

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Fed Up with Facebook? Here are 6 Alternatives – Make Tech Easier

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

So, you’ve finally had enough of Facebook – privacy issues, time drains, relationship-straining political debates, and all the rest. Still, social media is a valuable tool, so what are your other options?

Source: Fed Up with Facebook? Here are 6 Alternatives – Make Tech Easier

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Best way to get the big techs under control!

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Taylor Swift ‘Sad and Grossed Out’ by Big Machine Acquisition – Variety

Monday, July 1, 2019

Taylor Swift has described herself as “sad and grossed out” by Scooter Braun’s acquisition of Big Machine Records, which holds the rights to her entire catalog up through 2017’s “Reputation,” calling the deal “my worst case scenario.” Swift said she was shocked to first learn of the transfer of her work through news accounts Sunday morning. Braun declined Variety‘s requests for comment.

Swift posted her impassioned reaction in a Tumblr post, which reads:“For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. Instead I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in. I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past. Music I wrote on my bedroom floor and videos I dreamed up and paid for from the money I earned playing in bars, then clubs, then arenas, then stadiums.

Source: Taylor Swift ‘Sad and Grossed Out’ by Big Machine Acquisition – Variety

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Sounds like Scott Borchetta as evil as any record executive industry could be?

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Acosta Tries to Embarrass Trump, but the President Had the Perfect Retort

Monday, July 1, 2019

“No, not at all,” Trump shot back. “I don’t really care about offending people. I sort of thought you’d know that.”

Source: Acosta Tries to Embarrass Trump, but the President Had the Perfect Retort

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Pretty funny zinger.

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