First Episode of Reason.TV

I was watching the fist episode of Reason.TV which is related to the Reason magazine. I have never subscribed to the magazine but I have looked at it from time to time. The first show was about Gridlock Hell on wheels. You can view it here

After watching it I got to thinking what would be another way to reduce traffic. How about the flying cars that I have been hearing about my ENTIRE life. Also I know one major reason why we do not have flying cars is the FAA would not allow that. Now if we did have flying cars what would be some of the benefits??? I would bet more land would become available because if everyone with a personal car was flying around and the roads would not need to be so wide a 8 lane highway probably could be cut down to 4 lanes if not 2 lanes since the only traffic would be the transportation of large items like delivery trucks and other things that would not be economical to fly around. So less roads would mean that less money would be needed to keep the roads running, which would mean that you would have to pay less taxes since taxes currently fund the roads. If you we used flying cars you would not have traffic jams except maybe to land if a lot of people were landing at the place but that would be very extreme since people could land from 4 directions at one time. Another benefit would be the time everyone would save. In the show Drew used one persons commute that was 16 miles and took 1 1/2 hours now lets say he earns $30 an hour which being a graphic artist I would not be surprised if it was more. So that daily commute cost him $90 a day which lets say he works 261 days a year and comes out to be $23,490 a year just for this one person. That is all lost productivity for one person. With that extra time people would be more efficient.

I think with more free time people would become more creative and with the creativity someone could invent the next great life changing invention, or paint a great masterpiece, write a great song, or look at a problem and figure out a cure for cancer, or just something simple like a father watching his son hit a home run at a little league game.

With all these benefits what is stopping this the FAA, yes the government is because some moron that thinks he or she has power does not want to give up that control.

Allowing sick people medicine

This is a fairly controversial topic in the world we currently live in and I personally don't see why anyone could condone not allowing people to make their own choices on what substances to use to make them feel better.

This morning I was made aware that Gov. Sptizer has changed his mind on medical marijuana for sick people specifically people with debilitating diseases for example Multiple Sclerosis, AIDS, and cancer. With our current medical knowledge we cannot cure these diseases and the people that are stricken with these terrible diseases are in extreme pain. I hope that no one ever has to go through this pain but this is real life and I know that people every day are diagnosed and are suffering with diseases.

As some of you know I am no fan of Spitzer or really any other politician but Spitzer is beginning to realize he made a mistake with medical marijuana but not because he thinks people should be able to make their own decisions on what people can put in their own bodies but because who wants to be on the side saying a dieing person cant take this substance because it could what kill them (I have never heard of anyone dieing from smoking marijuana). The people with these diseases do not have the time or the energy to fight for this that is why people like you and I need to stand up and say let them do what they want as long as they do not hurt other people.