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Mask and PPE suppliers are still in a massive shortage, also, even with extra production lines up and max capacity reached.
What do you think we will do? what do you think will actually happen?
It seems to me though that the entire problem with the united states government we have is the fact that we have only two parties, not that each capitalizes on polarizing extremes in values and personality at one end of a spectrum. These parties primarily oppose one another out of creating the illusion of choice, but in the process they become invested in the process, resulting in team dynamics and competitive political activity by each party. The people are still powerless, but the discrimnatory competition between the parties creates a political economy that rewards good leadership and thoughtful compromise.
Requiring them to unify at the level of the executive takes away the conflict incentive. Only if these individuals can truly be trusted to be idealists who differ with one another in principle but are rationalists good at compromise, would this unification plan be good. In that event, it would be a golden opportunity for the nation and it would result in a powerful, dynamic, responsive government and a golden era. But in the event that two pragmatists are elected, they will self-deal and act without scruple of any kind. In the event that the presidential candidate turns out to be a tyrant, the vice president becomes an antipapal character who runs a shadow government, leading to the potential of attempted overthrows of government in order to instill the vice president as president.
And in some parts of the country, some of this does happen. Some lands are managed and the debris put into bio-fuel systems. But the same cannot be said of those poor souls who live around or near the 60% of land which is under control of the tyrant- lambasted in the media, ignored in the statehouse.
Every year now it seems, massive forest fires sweep through regions on the west coast, as quickly and as pleasantly as the winter rains. Efficiently and directly, from the western US coast alone, as much as 1/26th of all human global carbon dioxide production enters the atmosphere*(0.68billion tons california alone, 26gt globally estimated production. GT= 1 billion tons) Every year, more carbon, more handwringing, and more sitting around deliberating over how to punish everyone else. Every year more fires. The fires spread. Billions of dollars in insurance money, federal expenditures, and new investments infuse the region subsequently. Everyone breathes deeply. This is normal. This is catharic. This is natural. This is the way of the forest. Everything will be ok. Because we can rebuild, and rebuilding is always healthy, we are healthy. Why, it's practically japanese.
The private forest owner, whose livelyhood comes from his forests NOT burning, is blamed. The wealthy are blamed for suppressing socially oriented thought. But let's be honest. The private offices at the statehouses have a revolving door, and the private citizen is a tourist and an exhibition there, not an integral component of society. It's terribly sad, and there's no political theme that can change this. Everyone, for election, rebrands as citizens first, and the moment they sit down, the lobbyist replaces them. We may as well elect the lobbyists.
The most well known range encoding algorithm is probably the one used in 7zip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Markov_chain_algorithm
however burrows wheel transform based compression appears to improve over Lempel-Ziv. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transform
Many of the best performers of the calgary challenge have been Burrows-Wheel transform based algorithms http://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html
but it was patent encumbered until 2017. http://www.compressconsult.com/szip/ Michael Schindler's szip with patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US6199064B1/en