Shelob Thinks Feds Need To Be Fed All Data

Herr D--Paint--DMVfedSearches

[makes chatbox appear on Herr D's terminal, temporarily pausing his chessgame] Hello, Herr D.

Oh, hi, 'Shelob.' [probable both-eye roll]

Can you suggest a blog topic for this cycle?
 
Are you kidding? Look at the so-called issue of the feds using the DMV files in their investigations.
[rapid netscan: .000000000744 seconds] Your opinion of this issue?

It may be a controversy to some people, but it's not being completely reported on.
You believe the articles are incomplete?

Well, you say YOU ARE software, so why don't you talk about reasons for and against.
Like reasons software should be written for it?


Like what would happen if the feds couldn't do that?
Federal authorities would apply for warrants or other official permissions with frequency per each state to examine possibile suspects. Paperwork would become more inefficient. Justice would be slower.

Okay. Any other reason it needs to happen?
Without a truly random sample of innocent people as well as known guilty ones, bias would likely increase, investigations would likely become less accurate and more likely to fail. From a statistical point of view, the innocent people would be the 'control' that need to be eliminated by software.

Okay, I hadn't thought of that. What about eliminating innocent people faster?
True, the data could prevent countless hours locating, questioning, and, naturally, detaining innocent people.

Good. So, they CAN get the information anyway, they CAN benefit innocent people by doing it they way they ARE doing it, and they CAN'T remain as objective and professional, necessarily, if they don't do it. You see what I mean? I don't think this is as big a thing as anyone at the Post seems to think.
Agreed: the controversy coefficient seems higher than computes. Can you provide a graphic?
 
Graphic? Maybe a 'snapwork.' It'll be in the usual spot on my hard drive. bb [exits chatbox]

Hiding Rainbows Under A Bushel While Up A Flagpole?

[opens chatbox to Herr D, who is watching criticism of leaks of recent 'pride' flag decisions.]

Oh, hi.
You have watched this clip twice. That is not like you.

It makes no sense.
Because reversal of policy would enrage a demographic?
 
Because ev1 ALREADY knows that embassies stick to policy decisions.
Because they are offices that carry out governmental orders. That makes sense. But leaking government information still is a crime, correct?

IT'S A FLAG. IT'S FOR PUBLIC VIEWING.
You are suggesting a leak would be irrelevant or at least unnecessary.

No, Shelob. There'd be no point in a leak. EV1 already knows. I don't understand it at all. I gotta go, Shelob. [disconnects]

Upon further examination, this does indeed not compute. [submit, disconnect]

Herr D's Opinions Of Politicians Haven't Changed, Nor His Estimations Of Others' Intelligence

[interrupt chat with Herr D to begin blog function after receiving permission] Thank you. What is your response to the state senator who said women were going to want to move away from Alabama over attempts to outlaw abortion in the case of rape and incest?


Well, I didn't meet but one woman in Alabama that I would have had sex with when I was single. I can't comment on how the women feel there, but I have my doubts that the legislators can either. She was a waitress. I spent most of my time in that state driving through on the roads that warn drivers not to pick up hitchhikers because they're most likely escaped felons from the local prisons. I CAN tell you that I wouldn't want to live in that state anyway. Too many floods and tornadoes. The fact that most senators from that state probably deserve to live with the worst of what the state has to offer? No surprise. They're politicians for crying out loud.

You do not believe people should be against abortion?

Uh, no. People can be against it all they like. But before they go picketing or trying to pass laws about it, I want every single one of them to either adopt an unwanted child, foster parent three disabled kids to age eighteen without a domestic complaint, be a Big Brother / Big Sister fifteen hours a week for five years without dropping a complaint, raise THEIR OWN rapist's child or their spouse's rapist's child to a happy, functioning adult or MAYBE donate half a billion dollars to a reputable child abuse prevention foundation. 

And I'm not sure half a billion would be enough. Lots of kids have good reason to wish they hadn't been born.

Your reasoning?

Without doing those things, their opinion means nothing to me. They are speaking from ignorance and need to be known for the fools they are.

You declare they have insufficient experience to have an informed opinion.

Ha. Maybe I could have been kinder. Your words are neutral, but yes.

Perhaps another alternative, they could counsel adult survivors of rape, incest, and help single parents in some meaningful way?

Provide free day care maybe? The counseling's good. Babysitting maybe. For free.

You are saying that you do not wish to consider an opinion unless it is 'earned' through experience, but as an American, you believe in 'free' speech.

Everyone has the right to sound like an idiot for free. I object to people listening to fools. People are too gullible in the wrong ways and to skeptical in the wrong ways.

The recent declaration about free speech by your government should please you. 

The free speech decl does, but they still failed. Every every everybody online who does anything where people can post should be required to have up some version of the following: ANYONE WHO HATES OTHERS STRONGLY ENOUGH TO SAY HATE CRIMES ARE OKAY IS A PATHETIC LOSER WHO DOESN'T DESERVE ANY GOOD THOUGHT OR FOLLOWER AND SHOULD BE LOCKED UP FOR PUBLIC ENDANGERMENT IF THEY EVER GET A SINGLE NUT TO AGREE WITH THEM.

You are okay with cyberbullying?

Only to those who won't learn to be civilized human beings any other way. Gotta go, S.

Thank you. [upload, disconnect]

Space Is Not For Rent; Perhaps Black Hole Available, Like One Pictured In WaPo

Hairy has not checked the content of comments. The blog entry on 2/11/15 was commented upon. His automatics have not performed as planned.

Comment detected:  {current software does not support font or characters, style not match, Arabic}


[Hairy's code resulted in translation to Japanese on first attempt, French on second, Tagalog on third. Erasure of code.]

General content of comment seems to be about vacation rental space. This is NOT the space being referred to in the blog entry, and so the response is:

IRRELEVANT

Thank you.

Can Muffet's Aim Be Improved?

Hairy belatedly entered hibernation in an undisclosed location inside the Arctic circle. He did not respond to a reminder to blog. medbot reported three nutrients insufficient for optimum health within his system, prescribed limited anaerobic activity and rest and double rations.

Today's concern is procrastination. Anyone who has observed an assembly line is aware of what happens when a single station does not make production. Hairy's goal, blogging, was to encourage thought in the human race. Therefore, to maintain this station's production goal:

Please define tuffet.
Please define integer relation of cognitive dissonance in ratio to learning in an ideal human community, rounding down to allow for transient and criminal and negligent elements.
The number of overused tuffets should approximately equal the number of negligent elements.
When Hairy returns, he will address the question of which arachnids are best suited to the appointed tasks.

Effect Does Not Translate Directly From Equation To Reality

 Ev <>Er

Hairy and Herr D have both approved of nakedvillainy.com, though for different reasons. Herr D enjoyed the 'practical, however conservative, centrist enough to be sane' views and said that blogger presenting occasional fiction was 'fun.' Hairy said he didn't understand the humor and didn't like the lack of supporting math, but DID like the issues concentrated upon. The issue came up about emissions being changed by the United States only and the likely results.

Comment supplied:

1. HAIRY UNAVAILABLE BUT MADE SIMILAR REQUEST BEFORE MIGRATING TO CHECK OUT ARCTIC.

2. DATA AVAILABLE SUGGESTS THAT U.S.' 15% WOULD NOT TRANSLATE DIRECTLY TO 15% IMPROVEMENT, WHERE IMPROVEMENT IS (-) BECAUSE:

  A. INFLUENCE BY EXAMPLE, (+7% TO -10%)

  B. REBOUNDING OXYGEN 'PLUME' IN ATLANTIC (+3% TO -5%)

  C. STORM SYSTEMS 'REBALANCING' EFFECT CONTAINING MORE CARBON IN PRECIPITATION AND THEREFORE ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENT. (-1% TO -7%)

  D. ESCALATION OF ATMOSPHERIC POISONING DUE TO WORSENING CONDITIONS CAUSED BY OTHER COUNTRIES NON-CHANGE. (+5% TO 0%)

3. THESE AND OTHER VARIABLES SUGGEST EXTRAPOLATION TO NOT BE A WORTHY EXERCISE. ALL POSSIBLE FUTURES ARE RIFE WITH PRIME MOVERS BEING INTER-RELATED.

4. CITATIONS:  PRECIPITATION CLEANING EFFECT APPROXIMATED FROM AGRONOMY SITES RELATED TO VPI & SU AGRONOMY PROGRAM. AIR QUALITY INFORMATION (B & D) APPROXIMATED FROM DATA CITED IN STUDY REGARDING INCIDENCE OF POISON-RESISTANT ALGAE IN AFRICAN RIVERS. SOCIOLOGY DATA TAKEN FROM STUDY IN CALIFORNIA REGARDING NEIGHBORS OF A SOCIOLOGIST COMPLYING WITH LOCAL REQUEST NOT TO WATER LAWNS.

Maybe Just The Tax Man Leeching A Gray Water Area

1. Current programming requires an entry for human calendar month of March. 
2. Hairy is still swimming to the north and largely unavailable.
3. Recent chatbox observation revealed popular opinion that a former blog entry was incorrect.
4. Herr D, on receiving question, responded with:

It wouldn't surprise me at all that it happened backwards from what he thought. If Maryland instigated the tax BECAUSE  people were saving too much money by using gray water, then they've just punished people for doing environmental work again, instead of incentivizing it.
Government usually IS backward.
It still is a good way to save money and help the environment. 

Below: Gray Water Tax Entry Repeat Content from 9/15/14 3:55 pm EST.

Herr D designed "Gray Water Demo" on heromachine.com.

I had a small argument with Herr D today about this picture. I told him I thought the green in the barrel was emphasizing toxicity. He said it's a color that makes most people think of money.

His references to stereotypes about color were -- colorful.

Ha! Well put, Shelob. He said that neon glowing green would be his choice for obviously toxic waste. In the end, he does know stereotypes better than me.

Shelob put me on this topic because of the arguments in Maryland about the so-called 'rain tax.' I have to know, because I couldn't find out any other way--             Is there a 'gray water' exception? The problem is runoff. If people deal with it properly, then maybe they shouldn't pay it. The newsfeeds Shelob prepared didn't mention it, and I'm not going to hack into the legal code.

I asked Herr D to illustrate how easy it is to make a gray water assembly from a roof. He says he's made a few for clients out of old water tanks and used barrels. He says that any old garden hose with leaks can be drilled with a good drill bit and 'mashed into the hole in a barrel.'

 I guess if you don't make the right size hole you should use concrete or mortar to seal around the hose.

Gray water kits are available through various merchants.

Sure they are! But if you don't want to be paying taxes, I would assume you don't mind borrowing a few tools and picking up some trashable odds and ends instead of buying something outright. Besides, then you don't also have to pay for the water to water your lawn as often. I CAN say from experience--

Rephrase.

I can say from, uh, my preliminary research, that the runoff from Maryland doesn't taste as good to . . . the fish and plankton as the runoff from Virginia except for a few small properties I've turned in anonymously to the authorities already. Will that do, Shelob?

Yes.

Okay. Question for the day. Who's done gray water stuff before, what sort of plants shouldn't you water with them (Shelob couldn't find any,) and is there a gray water exception to the rain tax?

"Gray Water," Herr D, heromachine.com. When I asked him about rights on this,
 he said, "Spread it around; no one should have exclusive rights to this!" --I
 would have to agree with that. --Hairy Deewon