No opinion on these is being expressed here. Just suggesting these ought to be thought about… by everybody.
- Why are spies treated differently during war than is every other participant in that war? All sides have spies. All sides have soldiers. All sides have guns. All sides have Old Men in the positions of Decision sending the Youngsters out to die. All sides want to kill each other. Why are the spies automatically shot while everyone else is a Prisoner of War, protected by international agreements and even subject to the Red Cross dropping by to make sure they’re being well treated?
- How can there possibly be a legal war?
- What’s an Illegal War? What does any one do about such a thing?
- Why has every lawyer I’ve run the following statement by agreed with it (I mean every one): “90% of all lawyers exist only to protect us from that same 90% of all lawyers?”
- If the preceding is true, why is that tolerated by the rest of us?
- Why is it that Microsoft makes so incredibly much money that they were able to recently spend $62 BILLION to acquire a so-so-but-very-major game company, but can’t fix 20+ year old bugs in Publisher, Word, Paint, Media Player or IE / Edge?
- When according to the law-of-the-land America is a Constitutional Republic, why does everyone (especially at election time) call it a Democracy?
- Why doesn’t the typical voter know the difference?
- Why doesn’t the media know the difference? Or if they do why don’t they at least say the difference? How about laughing at candidates who proclaim it a Democracy? They look for reasons to laugh at candidates all the time anyway, right? (And why do they do that? Isn’t that influence pedaling? [which is illegal, by the way])
- Shouldn’t every one holding high public office know the difference?
- Should there be any education or other requirements for a person to get the right to vote?
- If America is a Democracy, how come it always comes down to nothing more than a war between two political parties instead of between the various opinions of the People? Is that a democracy?
- Why are the Two Parties allowed to suppress the other 30-some official political parties America has?
- When elected offices are at their heart just another job, why aren’t there Job Requirements that have to be met before one can run for that office?
- Why does the news media black-out any and all news about the other 30-some political parties(1) in America, such as the Libertarians, Green Party, Peace and Freedom, Constitution Party, etc., etc., from early in the election year until the day after the election? Should that be allowed? Tolerated? Isn’t that disenfranchising those voters?
- Can some one swear under oath to uphold and defend the constitution without being able to pass a test on it?
- If the President of the US expresses some silly statement (and they all express some silly statement at least once in a while — that in itself has to be excused) clearly demonstrating an obvious level of ignorance about the Constitution or the United States itself, how should one react to that?
- If one of the jobs of the Supreme Court of the United States is to watch-dog Congress and make they do nothing illegal (per the Constitution), then is it not a conflict of interest for Congress to have any say what so ever on who sits on that Court? Is that not stacking the Court?
- Same for the Executive (the President, that is to say). If the Supreme Court is also supposed to watch that office, the how can the President be allowed to appoint any one to that court, even as a temporary appointee?
- When Apple makes their laptops and desktops to such a quality that they will last 20 years or more (physically, electronically), why do its customers tolerate the company forcing them into retirement after only 8 years, more or less? (By obsolescing the operating system, by new versions of the OS no longer supporting the “old” equipment, which is entirely optional on Apple’s part, by the way.)
- Why do Big Businesses and Banks on the Internet insist that you can only use their website with the very, very latest (or at least a reasonably recent) version of what-ever (OS or Browser, usually) for “security reasons,” yet the very, very latest is not necessarily more secure? In fact (I could name some specific examples) sometimes the latest is less secure than the previous version, but the Bank still refuses to talk to your more-secure-but-older version. Why is that? (Perhaps related to item 4 above, the lawyers?)
- Did you know all security is an illusion? It’s largely based on the average person simply not knowing how to get around it. Whether that’s a computer password or a door lock or even a live guard at the gate. All of it can be “gotten around.” So what’s the point? (There is one, unfortunately, but think it through anyway!)
- When every website ever crafted uses Cookies and Cookies are absolutely, 100% harmless, (they are — I know) why do I have to acknowledge the use of Cookies? Why should I even care? Especially when there are real security issues on the Internet that are quite ignored?
- You know that insufferably long “leave a message at the beep or press 5 to …” blah blah blah message you get when the other person didn’t answer his phone? How many millions of hours world wide are wasted waiting for that message to wind down to where we each can say our say and get on with it? After all these decades don’t you think we all pretty much know how to leave a message by now?
- If we’re not expected to know (by now) how to leave a voice mail, then how come computers, tablets and phones come without any instructions at all? Where are you supposed to go to get instruction on how use the new innovations that let Apple’s stock value go up but have utterly confused a million and a half users who were quite satisfied with the pervious version?
More of these sorts of observations and questions at another time. That’s enough to ponder for the moment.
Ponder, ponder, ponder…
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(1) If you look it up on the Internet you will find various opinions on how many political parties there are. Anything from 3 to more than 30. It depends on where the author of that website drew the line on what makes a “serious” party or how thorough the author wished to make his list. Serious parties, there are 3 or 7, depending on how you count and define them. Total, there are over 30 registered. But ponder this: who gets to decide what’s a “serious political party?” On what basis?