Hacking, Terrorism, Ligitiousness
- From: "Richard H. Shulman" <richardshulman5@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 05:54:32 -0800 (PST)
HACKING, TERRORISM, LITIGIOUSNESS COSTS 15475 - Richard H. Shulman
WAR RISKS & HIGH GAS PRICES
For a lift home, we entered a garage. Almost all its cars were vans,
about half again as big as the last car I had owned. The scene was
bizarre. It also was disgusting. The selfish people who own those
cars waste scarce gasoline and foul the air, but complain about the
high price of gasoline and of medical treatment that their over-
consumption and over-pollution raise. Many of them also complain
about the cost of fighting jihad, financed largely by rising gasoline
prices and by immigrant jihadists allowed to stay, thanks to the
liberal-business-immigrant lobby that many of the complainers probably
support.
WHY PEOPLE ARE NOT INFORMED
People mostly depend upon television news rather than newspaper
reporting. A producer of network news programs told me of the changes
she has see in what sort of news is presented.
Formerly, the news presenters did some of the active reporting and
story writing. Now the presenters merely have to look presentable.
They mispronounce words in such a way as to indicate that they don't
understand them. They depend upon the script, so they are thinking of
their next question, without listening to the guest, whose answer to
the first question may also answer the next one that the interviewer
asks nevertheless.
More important, the broadcasts have reversed the ratio of several
times as much hard news as soft news. Advertisers and corporate
owners censor reporting. No wonder people are not informed! That is,
they are not informed about the major issues of the
day.
HACKING, TERRORISM, LITIGIOUSNESS COSTS
Besides official cyber warfare, hackers destroy or degrade corporate
and government records. Restoration and defense is expensive.
Terrorism, of course, is requiring costly defenses and delays, largely
because we don't take the offensive. Thus the people whose pressure
keeps the government from pursuing other Islamo-fascists and N. Korea,
and complain about the expense of fighting in Iraq, keep us diverting
funds to defenses probably largely futile.
Litigiousness is destroying whole companies and industries and
inducing others to establish costly record-keeping to prove they
followed customary protocol. Thus doctors practice defensive
medicine, with its side-effects, raising medical costs. When you
change telephone service with Verizon, you must wait for "third-party
verification." Most corporate calls now are recorded. The extra
procedures produce errors. What formerly took a few minutes now takes
an hour. One's leisure is eroded, one's patience frazzled.
We brought down crime rates, but are paying heavily to protect against
crime and
greed.
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