the idea that i can be arrested and printed for applying for an ad, and then can't get the prints destroyed, is ridiculous.

everything about this situation needs to be reformed. every law that led to it needs to be struck down. and, everybody involved in it needs to be fired.

listen.

i'm a civil rights activist.

i'm eager to take advantage of the situation, in an attempt to throw these laws out....this is an opportunity to take some legislation down and broadly use the courts to reform the system....

so, i decided i had to finish filing the rest of the information i had in that temp document before i could get to working on the court stuff, which was youtube comments until december, 2016. that's done, now, so i should be able to work through it relatively linearly. and, because i want to do everything all at the same time, i want to give it until the end of the week, or maybe even the beginning of next week, to wait for some information to come to me by mail. for example, i don't want to file the civil case against the cops until i know whether or not i'll be launching a constitutional challenge around the print destruction.

i mean, i could end up with a large number of court cases to deal with.

i also haven't touched the vlog camera in almost two weeks, so i need to recalibrate with that.

but, i intend to get the paperwork around the motion filled today, anyways.

again: i didn't "predict" anything.

i'm not a psychic, i'm a logician.

and, i'm perfectly comfortable with being wrong.

the new government in quebec wants to put an emphasis on selling it's electrical generation. these are trains running from quebec to windsor, so it's a good opportunity to make the point that local energy production should be prioritized over dirty energy being shipped in - in fact dumped - from alberta.

fuck alberta's oil - support ontario's hydro.

so, maybe quebec could look at passing a ban on diesel powered trains in order to prop up it's own interests.

the only possible explanation is corruption.

the diesel industry has somebody working in the government, or something - it's the same stupid thing over and over again, you have to fight them on every project, at every level.

we have a massive grid, that is exporting electricity for free.

why the fuck would we want diesel?

california should block the sale of these dirty diesel trains to backwards canada.

it's 2018, and they spent a billion dollars on diesel-powered trains running through the quebec & ontario hydro grid.

what a bunch of fucking retards.

this was a perfect opportunity to transition, and they completely squandered it.

https://www.thestar.com/business/2018/12/12/canadas-state-railway-set-to-give-order-to-siemens-over-bombardier.html

the key thing, of course, is making sure that it's both fully electric and fully sourced from renewable energy.

they included links from vancouver to seattle, montreal to boston, toronto to buffalo and toronto to detroit, but if we were going to take part in this at all , we'd have a line from montreal to toronto that either goes through or extends to ottawa - as something like half our population lives in the st. lawerence seaway & great lakes area.

and, we've been bad at this.

for some reason, our politicians have historically insisted on building high-speed rail over diesel, and then not understood why nobody supports it. there's also a specific company called bombardier that we keep sinking money into - and they've just repeatedly failed at actually manufacturing anything.

as bad as it always was, we don't have the yankee excuse, any more. they're doing it. we're not.

north america is far behind on this - these systems already exist in europe and asia.

but, the americans are actually taking some positive steps.

yo've got this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail

...which is probably extendable to portland, eventually.

indeed, there's a system being built in the northwest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_Corridor

they're building something from houston to dallas, with an extension to tulsa.

there's a boswash line being built, including extensions to pittsburgh and buffalo:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Corridor_ne.PNG/300px-Corridor_ne.PNG

then a line from washington to jacksonville:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Corridor_se.PNG/220px-Corridor_se.PNG

there's a line in florida that could be connected to jacksonville.

there's a midwest line:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Corridor_chi.PNG/300px-Corridor_chi.PNG

it's really canada that's kind of lagging, here, which is frustrating because our population transfers are so much less complicated - we would really just want a line from quebec city to detroit, with extensions to ottawa and sudbury, as well as a line from winnipeg to edmonton, although if we got the government to sit down and do this, they would no doubt want a "transcanada line" - and bore through the rockies if they had to.

this is the answer. it's halfway built. but, people have to use it.

airplanes don't have a direct solution in terms of emissions - it's not completely out of the realm of plausibility to redesign the way that airplanes function, but because the planes require a large infusion of energy to lift, there is not a way to port the existing technology.

so, if we could build runways on the top of skyscrapers five miles into the sky, we could kind of glide from place to place, but that's not much of a solution for obvious reasons.

if you look around online, you'll find various schemes trying to take advantage of things like angular momentum to get lift-off, but these are approaches to creating efficiencies - they are not sustainable solutions.

the disappointing reality is that air travel as we know it probably won't present a sustainable option for itself until we find a way to manipulate antimatter. it's the thrust. you need a way to create a lot of energy all at once, and we only really know two ways to do that - combustion or nuclear fission, neither of which are desirable. i've been arguing for years that the future is anti-matter, and we actually do have a reservoir of it not far from us...

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/08/antimatter-belt-found-circling-earth

when anti-matter and matter interact, it produces pure energy in truly frightening quantities. so, you'd just need to find a way to harness it - a problem, because touching it in any way causes it to explode. still. if we could...

in the mean time, could we combust something else? that's a good question. for a long time, people were talking about hydrogen, but it's not well suited for airplanes. in theory, we could potentially find some way to convert electricity into a chemical storage and then combust it into something safer to emit, but it obviously opens up questions around whether what we're emitting is really safe, and the technology simply isn't available to us.

so, when it comes to air flight, there's not a way to "change the system" - this is something we need to do less of. and, what are some better options?

well, if you're going to a city on the same continent that isn't very far up the interstate - new york to washington, los angeles to seattle, montreal to toronto - is there any reason you have to fly? probably not. you may want to argue there's no ethical consumption in capitalism and get on your plane with a clean conscience, but that would just make you an asshole - not an idiot, exactly, because the truth is that you probably don't actually care, which is why it was so easy to convince you, in the first place. this isn't stupidity, so much as it's malice. take a train.

now, i don't have exact numbers in front of me, but i'm certain that if we focused on building a high-speed electric rail system, and then brutally taxed local air travel, it would drastically reduce emissions at minimal cost to anybody's convenience. the key is in ensuring that the rail system is actually fast, and actually sources from clean electricity. that's the best answer we're going to come up with - fly less, ride more. and, you have to come to terms with that - the choice is in your hands, with this.

that leaves the issue of intercontinental flights as a problem, and there may not be a way around it. even if we could built boats that operate at the speed of sound, we probably wouldn't want to. could we build tunnels under the water? maybe - depends where. but, intercontinental flights might be something we can't get rid of. we don't need zero carbon, remember - we just need to get below a certain level.

local flights, though, are something that should stop. there's no solution to this - and it's largely unnecessary. we just shouldn't be doing it.

i need to know, though.

is flying first-class going to be considered unconstitutional?

"the charter of upper class privileges and partial enumeration of things that rich people take for granted"

it just comes off as comically first-world.

i've never been on a plane before, and i don't expect i ever will be. so, it's not like it's a ballot issue for me.

really, it's more like it's...it's something that is so far removed from any lived experience i've ever had or ever will have that it doesn't strike me as actually real.

and, you'd think the government has important things to concern itself with, right?

requires railways to install voice and video recorders in locomotives 

umm.

that's the bill of rights act, right?