Just off the top of my head thinking about what law is and what law
does. Like everything it is fundamentally about what a conceptual or
real thing is all about: It is all about two things. What a thing is
and what a thing does. It is object oriented.
My
definition: Law is a top down design for bottom application. Bottom
application is implementation and enforcement of the intent of law and
its definition of its terms. The law works to control regulate either
positive or negative objectives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law
There
is a bottom up assembly in the making of law. It is the formulation of
law by those to whom the law will apply in choices of self governance.
Some sort of social structure in which this formulation takes place.
Once basic structure for making law is established like an operating
system then application programs are designed to create laws. These
application systems in operation produce feedback for (either or both)
modification of the application program and operating system.
In
the Information Age more people are learning the structural framework
of Operating System and Application Program and applying it as a
metaphor model for an increasingly wide range of conceptual systems.
This
is the way I see it: Law design structure framework is an Operating
System and a multitude collection of Application Programs. What law is
and what law does.
There is an ambiguity conundrum in
the structure of law. It is designed to be precise but where precision
fails it must be subject to judgment in application. That is the
problem.
Who and how should the law be judged?
It
is a feedback design loop that judges the law itself as well as its
application. When must the Operating system be updated? When must
application programs be changed?
The whole "Law" thing
viewed as a Problem Domain is in the bigger picture a Problem Domain of a
Social Operating System and its Application Programs. Putting it in
that frame subjects it to analysis in the terms of precise definitions
and meanings that domain. For example: Private and Public. Public
being Open Source and Private being --well--- being Private and
Proprietary in some degree of Ownership. Stakeholder is a concept of
the Information Age that relates to "Ownership" concepts of Public and
Private. The Public has a "Stake" in the Private sector Operating
Systems and Application Programs. That is an interesting point of view,
point of entry to the Private Domain. One that the Private Domain has
its own view regarding their prerogative's. A private view that they
own and are a stakeholder in the Public Sector Operating System and
Application Programs.
Who "Owns" What? What rights to
what property that is real or conceptual or has a real/conceptual
binding in terms of definition that ranges from absolute to whatever can
be "proved" to the extent of "fact". To the extent of whatever "proof"
or "fact is defined to be and mean?
Interesting thoughts on a Sunday Morning. A time every week to think about such bigger things.
The
bottom line of these thoughts is: The Law system has a fundamental
"Feedback Control Loop" failure. A failure of implementation at the
point of application that does not result in modification of the
Application```
Feedback Loop to modify system function
operation has both bug and a feature aspects depending on what entity
benefits from either aspect.
As a bug Feedback Loop
performs serves to identify and correct macro system rule design for the
overall improvement of systemic operation to accomplish the benefit of
system objectives. Or, below Operating system level modify Application
Programs to introduce exceptions to a rule within the domain of the
Application Program to benefit Application Program purpose and
objective.
Failure of the Feedback Loop to function
for Operating System and/or Application Program design intent is a
feature to entities that do not want change because it is not in their
self interest. What is a feature to that entity is a bug to a mority.
If the majority stakeholders in a system do not want a change in the
Operating System because it is not to their benefit then it is a good
thing....(unless they elect Trump but that is another matter related to
deceit).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
When
established methods to modify Operating Systems and Application
Programs do not work for the benefit of user groups there are options!
Social Media is a weaponized tool.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-biggers-student-walkouts_us_5a942e1ae4b02cb368c4382e
Monday, February 26, 2018
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Domain Awareness Center (DAC)
https://thebaffler.com/latest/oakland-surveillance-levine
There is big money in surveillance in the city. It is the state Fusion Center extending down to the local level. The state Fusion Center is an extension down from Federal security agencies. It is all connected. The same sensor feeds that go to the DAC are the feeds sought by state and federal level agencies. It is the "last mile" to connect up to what they already receive on an individual mass data total awareness plan that drives the capture, monitoring and recording of personally identifiable communications.
While the all invasive, pervasive intelligence gathering system is obviously assembling itself piece by piece its existence is something that is intentionally obscured. It is for out own good because...we can't handle the truth of what it take so to defend ourselves from the bad guys. Don't ask what is being done, don't tell.
It is one thing for the public to demand surveillance for its own protection. It is another for authorities to decide that it is needed for public safety and impose it. To impose it and not tell the public exactly what is being collected. One of the cornerstones of intelligence is not to let the enemy know capabilities. The enemy in this case is the public because among the public are the real enemies of our society. Those criminals should never know the capabilities because they can take counter measures.
Individuals that we wish to protect the public from are not that smart in the first place. Institutions such as Wells Fargo are that smart and know exactly how to avoid the law and evade it. Institutions should be surveilled. Their private records entered by stealth by those that seek to protect us from public public enemies. Maybe they are? I hope so. Don't ask don't tell..........
"Plans for this surveillance center had been roiling city politics for months, and the outrage was now making its presence felt. Residents, religious leaders, labor activists, retired politicians, masked “black bloc” anarchists, and reps from the American Civil Liberties Union—they were all in attendance, rubbing shoulder to shoulder with a group of dedicated local activists who had banded together to stop the DAC. A nervous, bespectacled city official in a tan suit took the podium to reassure the agitated crowd that the Domain Awareness Center was designed to protect them—not spy on them. “This is not a fusion center. We have no agreements with the NSA or the CIA or the FBI to access our databases,” he said."
Of Course there are no agreements with Federal or State level intelligence entities. I don't have and agreement with them to share the contents of all my emails and other personal information that may be gathered relating to me by local government entities gathering "total information" on the public to fight street crime. Local government is using the same stuff made for the Federal and State agencies.
It is all on a "need to know" basis. We do not need to know. They know for us.
"Oakland had initially contracted out development of the DAC to the Science Applications International Corporation, a massive California-based military contractor that does so much work for the National Security Agency that it is known in the intelligence business as “NSA West.” The company is also a major CIA contractor, involved in everything from monitoring agency employees as part of the agency’s “insider threat” programs to running the CIA’s drone assassination fleet. Multiple Oakland residents came up to blast the city’s decision to partner with a company that was such an integral part of the U.S. military and intelligence apparatus. “SAIC facilitates the telecommunications for the drone program in Afghanistan that’s murdered over a thousand innocent civilians, including children,” said a man in a black sweater. “And this is the company you chose?”
SAIC? I'm suprised! Nobody knows who or what SAIC is. Only a major contractor to intelligence agencies! People who want to know can find it all on the internet, even a man in a black sweater. Black sweater? Is that a dog whistle for hoodie?
There is big money in surveillance in the city. It is the state Fusion Center extending down to the local level. The state Fusion Center is an extension down from Federal security agencies. It is all connected. The same sensor feeds that go to the DAC are the feeds sought by state and federal level agencies. It is the "last mile" to connect up to what they already receive on an individual mass data total awareness plan that drives the capture, monitoring and recording of personally identifiable communications.
While the all invasive, pervasive intelligence gathering system is obviously assembling itself piece by piece its existence is something that is intentionally obscured. It is for out own good because...we can't handle the truth of what it take so to defend ourselves from the bad guys. Don't ask what is being done, don't tell.
It is one thing for the public to demand surveillance for its own protection. It is another for authorities to decide that it is needed for public safety and impose it. To impose it and not tell the public exactly what is being collected. One of the cornerstones of intelligence is not to let the enemy know capabilities. The enemy in this case is the public because among the public are the real enemies of our society. Those criminals should never know the capabilities because they can take counter measures.
Individuals that we wish to protect the public from are not that smart in the first place. Institutions such as Wells Fargo are that smart and know exactly how to avoid the law and evade it. Institutions should be surveilled. Their private records entered by stealth by those that seek to protect us from public public enemies. Maybe they are? I hope so. Don't ask don't tell..........
"Plans for this surveillance center had been roiling city politics for months, and the outrage was now making its presence felt. Residents, religious leaders, labor activists, retired politicians, masked “black bloc” anarchists, and reps from the American Civil Liberties Union—they were all in attendance, rubbing shoulder to shoulder with a group of dedicated local activists who had banded together to stop the DAC. A nervous, bespectacled city official in a tan suit took the podium to reassure the agitated crowd that the Domain Awareness Center was designed to protect them—not spy on them. “This is not a fusion center. We have no agreements with the NSA or the CIA or the FBI to access our databases,” he said."
Of Course there are no agreements with Federal or State level intelligence entities. I don't have and agreement with them to share the contents of all my emails and other personal information that may be gathered relating to me by local government entities gathering "total information" on the public to fight street crime. Local government is using the same stuff made for the Federal and State agencies.
It is all on a "need to know" basis. We do not need to know. They know for us.
"Oakland had initially contracted out development of the DAC to the Science Applications International Corporation, a massive California-based military contractor that does so much work for the National Security Agency that it is known in the intelligence business as “NSA West.” The company is also a major CIA contractor, involved in everything from monitoring agency employees as part of the agency’s “insider threat” programs to running the CIA’s drone assassination fleet. Multiple Oakland residents came up to blast the city’s decision to partner with a company that was such an integral part of the U.S. military and intelligence apparatus. “SAIC facilitates the telecommunications for the drone program in Afghanistan that’s murdered over a thousand innocent civilians, including children,” said a man in a black sweater. “And this is the company you chose?”
SAIC? I'm suprised! Nobody knows who or what SAIC is. Only a major contractor to intelligence agencies! People who want to know can find it all on the internet, even a man in a black sweater. Black sweater? Is that a dog whistle for hoodie?
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Simple CryptoCurrency BlockChain Explanation
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/cryptocurrencies-dont-make-sense.html#comment-2924123
Short, simple, comprehensive. It is all about a chain of transactions. Transaction, the action, the verb aspect of the conceptual abstraction of the "thing' nature, the noun called money. It is a pure transaction management based monetary system.
While first and foremost it is a transaction based system operating on a time line (time is a pure verb, always moving). The "thing"part of the transaction is the ID account of two owners.
At any smallest instant of time and space (in a time frame where all transactions simply do not operate conceptually analogous to "Absolute Zero" in the real physical world) all movement of CryptoCurrency (the same as current "real money") all currency is "savings". Like potential energy. Stored. That is a theoretical concept of currency in a monetary system but it is a framing of the concept that might contribute to understanding it.
At that "Absolute Zero" stage currency is a pure noun thing absent any verb action. It has no relationship to anything other than itself because it is only the existence of time that provides the relationship "secret sauce" of any single unique "thing" to another "thing". It becomes a thing with only a relationship to itself. An infinite "Do Loop" where no thing ever gets done because there simply is no time in existence over which to do it.
What has to be enhanced in the CryptoCurrency system is the same "thing" as in the current monetary system of money: The inherent nature of the the "thing" the smallest granular unit of monetary transaction exchange.
That unit has to have an "Thing" identity attribute that substantiates its existence on the same level as as the BlockChain substantiation of the timeline TransAction monetary exchange between accounts.
The structure of the monetary system must be the golden trinity. Like the trinity of physical world and the conceptual world we use to comprehend it. The same as the abstract concept of natural language we use to express real things in conceptual thought.
Subject/Verb/Object. Two unique identity thing in a binary relationship with an action connecting them.
A part of the game is the action. The other part of the game are the actors. Some people look at the game for the action foremost , others look with the actors foremost in what they are choosing to perceive in the relationship of thing to action. They are points of view of the beholder.
The important thing is that what the beholders of the real game of objects and actions between them is that real structure relationship of the game is balanced between the harmony of the object(s) and the action.
In the game of Money the perception of the game is highly weighted to the action side to the extent that the public perception of this abstract concept is that it is a thing of action. Money is spent with the focus on spending, the action of money. Others, a dwindling number, spend money but perceive it primarily as a thing to saved, not spent. Saved to grow or apply to deferred gratification.
What is saved as a thing has to have a strong identity. As strong as the identity of the action of spending the thing.
A stronger identity of the thing called currency is required. An enhanced unique stand alone identity of the thing itself other than the primary attribute of and action of what it can be converted into as another form of money.
The third part in a tri-part monetary system is a leg where money is conceptually independent of its action attribute. Where this "other side of the coin" exists. The identity of what a unique unit of currency exists in a one to one relationship, but in a separate domain state of being as well as a domain state of doing.
A and accounting triad record of
All money uniquely identified at its most granular unit level of One
All uniquely identified accounts that all money at the granular unit level of One is associated with as "Ownership
All uniquely identified transactions in time implementing the spending of units of money that are changes in account ownership of units of currency in the currency account.
In this triad the unique object of a unit of currency does not move. It has no verb action identity. It does not pass from hand to hand. It is static state. The ownership account that each unique unit of currency is related to does not change either. Only the transaction is the moving part that connects the two things.
It is a meme that money goes so fast. That is a perception of money in action. Transaction are a pure timeline of the tracks of money. The currency itself and the account itself are only the historical repositories of the history of two fixed thing objects. Objects that may be aggregated or divided in one to many or many to many fixed relationship ways.
That is how to keep track of where money has been in transaction time as well as where it is in an instant of time snapshot as short that any smallest instant of time (zero temperature time) it takes for it to be spent between any two accounts and the spending accounts connected connecting to a change of ownership in the record of all currency uniquely identified to be in existence at the most granular unit level at a frozen instant of time.
The action leg of the triad is well designed
The object leg of the triad needs to be better designed to bring the system into balance and integrity of design.
That is the way I see this thing.
Naturally.
A thing of three part natural conception.
Short, simple, comprehensive. It is all about a chain of transactions. Transaction, the action, the verb aspect of the conceptual abstraction of the "thing' nature, the noun called money. It is a pure transaction management based monetary system.
While first and foremost it is a transaction based system operating on a time line (time is a pure verb, always moving). The "thing"part of the transaction is the ID account of two owners.
At any smallest instant of time and space (in a time frame where all transactions simply do not operate conceptually analogous to "Absolute Zero" in the real physical world) all movement of CryptoCurrency (the same as current "real money") all currency is "savings". Like potential energy. Stored. That is a theoretical concept of currency in a monetary system but it is a framing of the concept that might contribute to understanding it.
At that "Absolute Zero" stage currency is a pure noun thing absent any verb action. It has no relationship to anything other than itself because it is only the existence of time that provides the relationship "secret sauce" of any single unique "thing" to another "thing". It becomes a thing with only a relationship to itself. An infinite "Do Loop" where no thing ever gets done because there simply is no time in existence over which to do it.
What has to be enhanced in the CryptoCurrency system is the same "thing" as in the current monetary system of money: The inherent nature of the the "thing" the smallest granular unit of monetary transaction exchange.
That unit has to have an "Thing" identity attribute that substantiates its existence on the same level as as the BlockChain substantiation of the timeline TransAction monetary exchange between accounts.
The structure of the monetary system must be the golden trinity. Like the trinity of physical world and the conceptual world we use to comprehend it. The same as the abstract concept of natural language we use to express real things in conceptual thought.
Subject/Verb/Object. Two unique identity thing in a binary relationship with an action connecting them.
A part of the game is the action. The other part of the game are the actors. Some people look at the game for the action foremost , others look with the actors foremost in what they are choosing to perceive in the relationship of thing to action. They are points of view of the beholder.
The important thing is that what the beholders of the real game of objects and actions between them is that real structure relationship of the game is balanced between the harmony of the object(s) and the action.
In the game of Money the perception of the game is highly weighted to the action side to the extent that the public perception of this abstract concept is that it is a thing of action. Money is spent with the focus on spending, the action of money. Others, a dwindling number, spend money but perceive it primarily as a thing to saved, not spent. Saved to grow or apply to deferred gratification.
What is saved as a thing has to have a strong identity. As strong as the identity of the action of spending the thing.
A stronger identity of the thing called currency is required. An enhanced unique stand alone identity of the thing itself other than the primary attribute of and action of what it can be converted into as another form of money.
The third part in a tri-part monetary system is a leg where money is conceptually independent of its action attribute. Where this "other side of the coin" exists. The identity of what a unique unit of currency exists in a one to one relationship, but in a separate domain state of being as well as a domain state of doing.
A and accounting triad record of
All money uniquely identified at its most granular unit level of One
All uniquely identified accounts that all money at the granular unit level of One is associated with as "Ownership
All uniquely identified transactions in time implementing the spending of units of money that are changes in account ownership of units of currency in the currency account.
In this triad the unique object of a unit of currency does not move. It has no verb action identity. It does not pass from hand to hand. It is static state. The ownership account that each unique unit of currency is related to does not change either. Only the transaction is the moving part that connects the two things.
It is a meme that money goes so fast. That is a perception of money in action. Transaction are a pure timeline of the tracks of money. The currency itself and the account itself are only the historical repositories of the history of two fixed thing objects. Objects that may be aggregated or divided in one to many or many to many fixed relationship ways.
That is how to keep track of where money has been in transaction time as well as where it is in an instant of time snapshot as short that any smallest instant of time (zero temperature time) it takes for it to be spent between any two accounts and the spending accounts connected connecting to a change of ownership in the record of all currency uniquely identified to be in existence at the most granular unit level at a frozen instant of time.
The action leg of the triad is well designed
The object leg of the triad needs to be better designed to bring the system into balance and integrity of design.
That is the way I see this thing.
Naturally.
A thing of three part natural conception.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Designated Forestland save
Representative Buehler;
copies to: Bend City Manager, Bend City Mayor, Two Bend City Council Members, others.....
copies to: Bend City Manager, Bend City Mayor, Two Bend City Council Members, others.....
The Deschutes County Assessor reports at this link that within the city of Bend (County Code Area 101) there are 87 acres of Designated Forestland. Investigating this situation reveals official reasons for this designation applying to specific properties totaling 43.4 acres of Designated Forestland within the city. (Additional properties are unknown) It also reveals substantial inappropriate property tax avoidance that deserves attention and correction to assure that all citizens of the city pay equitable property taxes that support both the City of Bend and Deschutes County.
I ask that you review this matter and introduce appropriate legislation for its correction. Specifically the exclusion of property within a city from eligibility for Designated Forestland assessment that has the intended purpose of protecting forestland from the pressures of urban growth. This following analysis is related to the city of Bend and Designated Forestland within the city limits. In accordance with applicable OAR and ORS this situation may exist in any Oregon city.
I submit this analysis for your review of the fairness of a few Bend property owners taking advantage of a tax assessment that was never the intention of legislation to extend into cities. It is a tax avoidance that should not apply to any city residential area. It promotes large acreage city tax lots with extreme reduction in property taxes. A 2 acre minimum is required in addition to a residence, if any. A 3 acre homesite property in Bend is a luxury of the affluent. Fair and fine if they pay the same property tax assessments as the rest of the city residents. If their true intent is to grow harvest timber on their city residential property for commercial sale they should be free to do that or any other permissible residential zone property use without an extremely substantial inappropriate tax reduction incentive.
In your current position you represent all citizens of Bend and in the future perhaps all citizens of Oregon. I look forward to your reply stating a position on Designated Foresland assessment for property in the city of Bend or any other city in Oregon and the introduction or support of legislation to prohibit this assessment for residential zoned city properties. What owners of these properties do not pay in county property taxes either the rest of county residents make up as an addition to their taxes or, depending on how the accounting is done, the county and Bend get that much less in tax revenue. Either way it is private self interest gain at public expense over the long period of time it takes to grow a tree to maturity for commercial harvest.
As a citizen voter I expect my representative, senator and governor to always support public interest in the face of blatant narrow and self interest attempts to gain personal benefit at public expense.
Name
Bend, Oregon
email
cell
Designated Forestland Analysis -
Twelve of a total of the 36 properties at this link are located on Bachelor View Rd, a residential zoned neighborhood in Bend, have a total of 43.4 acres of Designated Forestland. In accordance with this Department of Revenue link the acreage is assigned a property tax assessment value of $77.07 per acre 2017-18 at this link Owners of these properties are entitled to this Designated Forestland property tax assessment by submission and assessor approval of this Application for Designation as Forestland form 150.309-024 (rev. 03/17) as required by this link: ORS 321.358
Among all the requirements of this Application the applicant must own all least 2 contiguous acres of land and answer this question: “Is the predominant purpose of this land to grow and harvest trees of a marketable species?” If the answer is “no" the application is not approved. When approved by the assessor the applicant’s property tax assessment in accordance with Oregon Forestland Values for 2017 -2018 (Eastern Oregon) are an MSAV of $77.07 per acre regardless of weather the land is located in the most remote part of Eastern Oregon or in a residential neighborhood with expensive residences in Bend.
The "Forestland Owner" signs this Application Declaration:
"As owner of the above described land, I indicate by my signature that I am aware of the potential tax liability involved when the land ceases to be designated forestland. I declare under the penalties of false swearing (ORS 305.990(4) that I have examined this application (and any accompanying documents), and to the best of my knowledge, it is true, correct and complete.”
When the Application is approved there is no requirement that any trees already exist on the property, only the required management plan for planting and growing them to maturity for market sale. The assessment carries a tax liability of 5 years at the property tax rate that the property would otherwise be taxed. That liability to be invoked for reasons specified in the Application.
The following is a single example of the property tax implications of a Designated Forestland assessment on three residential zoned bare land lots under the same owner located on Bachelor View Rd. in Bend. Three lots on Bachelor View Rd. under the same ownership.
Property Acres RMV Assessed Tax -2017-18 Designated Forestland since at least
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/117545 2.12 $807,520 $2,163.00 $52.30 1993
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/241568 3.23 $796,430 $248.00 $22.60 2004
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/241569 2.89 $796,430 $222.00 $22.19 2004
Totals: 8.24 $2,400,380 $2,633.00 $97.11
This bare land contiguous property on Bachelor View Rd. does not have an associated Designated Forestland assessment of $77.07 per acre but is assessed at a probable representative normal assessment value for properties in this area without Designated Forestland assessment rates.
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/244200 .99 acres, RMV: $280,610, Assessed Value: $141,200 (50% of RMV) Tax 2017-18: $2,190.95.
If the three example properties were assessed approximately as the above contiguous property then their assessed value would be estimated at about $1,200,000.00 (50% of RMV). Applying tax at $15.00 per thousand would would result in a 2017-18 county property tax of $18,000.00 instead of $97.11. Note that the three example properties in the city of Bend have been taxed at the Designated Forestland rate since at least 1993 and 2004.
The Designated Forestland assessment example of 3 properties gives an astounding property tax reduction. The basis for this assessment of $77.07 per acre is that the owner has declared under false penalties of swearing and intent to grow timber for commercial sale. These are overhead views of the same properties displaying the degree of progress toward eventual timber harvest for sale and profit at maturity.
The real profit of the Designated Forestland intent to grow trees is not for timber but for more than 200,000 in tax savings over the period of ownership!
The following is an analysis of the 9 remaining 12 properties on Bachelor View Rd. have Designated Forestland (DF) acreage assessed at $77.07 per acre. It is to be noted that unlike the straight forward assessment of bare property with DF, properties with a dwelling have a combine assessment of the DF acres at $77.07, with dwelling acreage and residence assessment at normal rates. The degree of reduction in property tax is not as readily evident due to the combining of taxes but is apparent in the disparity between RMV and Assessed value.
DF Residence RMV Total Assessed % Av Tax 2017-18
Property Acres Acres Land Structure RMV Value of RMV
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/117550 6.9 1.09 $765,180 $701,120 $1,466,300 $551,031 37.6% $8,616.38
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/117551 4.36 1 $1,221,720 $784,000 $2,005,720 $671,895 33.5% $10.491.77
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/117552 4.81 1 $964,680 $368.930 $1,333,610 $410,330 30.1% $6,433.17
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/117569 3.72 1 (lot) $739,380 $0 $739,380 $136,396 18.4% $2,135.16
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/162127 2.60 2.4 $697,650 $449,360 $1,147,010 $569,230 49.6% $8,898,078
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/189042 2.50 1 $129,400 $788,340 $917,740 $694,842 75.7% $10,874.83
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/200999 1.74 1 $2,030,810 $1,194,440 $3,225,250 $972,034 30.1% $15,148.93 (3.88 acres open space)
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/205941 5.57 1 $6,300,810 $499,710 $6,800,520 $687,488 10.1% $10,740.43 (6.86 acres open space)
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/208548 2.96 1 $535,100 $1,458,560 $1,993,650 $989,168 49.6% $15,414.78
Total Designated Forestland acres for all 12 properties is 43.4 acres. They are assessed at $77.07 per acre and would otherwise be assessed at least $200,000 per acre and a rate of about $15 per thousand.
43.4 acres at $77.07 per acre = $3,345.00 X $15 per thousand = $50.17 per year
43.4 acres at $200,000 per acre = $8,680,000.00 X 15 per thousand = $130,200.00 per year
Subsequent to this analysis I have discovered three additional properties in Bend in a residential zoned area on McClain Dr, Bend that have Designated Forestland acreage.
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/244558 3.58 1 $630,860 $593510 $1,224,370 $534,425 43.6% $8,292.47
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/169808 1.99 1 $1,327,120 $781,820 $2,108,990 $729,583 35% $11,386.90
Note: fails to qualify for the 2 acre minimum requirement
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/183021 8.22 0 $493,510 $0 $493,510 $633.00 00.1% $28.
Note the tax history since 1996: https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/TaxInformation/183021
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Another Property Tax Avoidance Trick -- Box Stores in Deschutes County
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/theres-much-smarter-way-cities-plan-futures.html
"Often, the harm a giant corporation or big-box store does to a community doesn’t seem to be measured using traditional indicators. Box stores will use what’s known as the “dark store tactic” to reduce or eliminate their tax responsibility, LaVecchia explains. Since the big-box chain-store business model is to build a purpose-built store that has no resale value, the store, they argue, should be compared with stores that are closed, so a brand new Lowe’s might be valued as closed and compared to other closed stores. With this tactic, big-box stores “are winning big slashes in what they owe in property tax, and in some cases cities have to refund back property tax,” LaVecchia says. Not only is the company not paying tax into the community, the company is extracting ever more resources from the community."
What about Box Stores in Bend? Time to take a look at their property taxes and monitor them for attempts to change. Initially it looks like they are paying their fair share.
Costco
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/164843
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/164843
Walmart
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/125122
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/192590
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/121251
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/192591
Home Depot
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/117923
Lowe's
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/117907
"Often, the harm a giant corporation or big-box store does to a community doesn’t seem to be measured using traditional indicators. Box stores will use what’s known as the “dark store tactic” to reduce or eliminate their tax responsibility, LaVecchia explains. Since the big-box chain-store business model is to build a purpose-built store that has no resale value, the store, they argue, should be compared with stores that are closed, so a brand new Lowe’s might be valued as closed and compared to other closed stores. With this tactic, big-box stores “are winning big slashes in what they owe in property tax, and in some cases cities have to refund back property tax,” LaVecchia says. Not only is the company not paying tax into the community, the company is extracting ever more resources from the community."
What about Box Stores in Bend? Time to take a look at their property taxes and monitor them for attempts to change. Initially it looks like they are paying their fair share.
Costco
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/164843
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/164843
Walmart
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/125122
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/192590
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/121251
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/192591
Home Depot
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/117923
Lowe's
https://dial.deschutes.org/Real/Index/117907
Sunday, February 4, 2018
Hiding Stolen CryptoCurrency
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-03/how-do-you-hide-stolen-cryptocurrency
CryptoCurrency uniquely identifies two things in the public ledger: A transaction and an account. A transaction is the identification of an action. The account is the identification of a thing. A second thing is required in the cryptocurrency system. The third thing is a simple as identifying unique discrete units of currency with a digital serial number.
The unique discrete digital currency unit of exchange would exist in a separate public ledger documenting and validating the existence of total units of exchange in the monetary system. The proposed system that I have frequently described in this blog. Every transaction would express itself in two places: The accounts of two transactors ( actually a single thing because it takes at least two to define a transaction). The other place is the record of all uniquely serialized units of digital crypto currency in the monetary system. All currency in all transaction accounts always equals the total currency in the crypto currency system. Once cryptocurrency has been created it lives forever as a debt free unit of exchange in the monetary system.
The basic structure of the current cryptocurrency system defeats the unique identity of a unit of exchange (analogous to the serial number on a paper dollar bill with a variable associated value printed on it). In the current ctyptocurrency system the equivalent of that paper dollar bill is a piece of cryptocurrency is torn off a unit of the currency and traded in a uniquely identified transaction.
That is exactly the problem to be overcome to relate a change in ownership of a variable amount of cryptocurrency to the portion of a uniquely identified single unit (nominal value of 1 each).
The end objective is to create a record relationship that would enable the identification relationship between a single whole unit (value of 1) of the cryptocurrency to all the owner accounts that own a portion of that unit.
It is a conundrum of a mutually exclusive state of being. In the current crypto system is seems like it cannot be done. On the other hand the current cryptocurrency system seems like the poster child that defies the concept "it cannot be done". It is being done.
The problem is that there is not the third leg of a fundamental logical structure in which there are three things. The same structure our natural language as well as our artificial languages and all things in the universe are built on.
They are built of the fundamental unique base of two things and an action implementing the relationship between them. Two nouns and a verb. More fundamentally a binary relationship of two things that are connected by an action (which is a thing but we call it an action) that is called "Time"
A single thing cannot exist without a binary relationship to another thing in the action domain of Time. Unless of course we take the whole problem domain of existence to a different dimension but that is beyond the real world of time and space. Where all is everything or nothing because there is not time. I can't go there. Some think they can. Either way it is out of this world thinking and certainly beyond cryptocurrency.
The solution to the problem is to timestamp a transaction between to unique account entities as well as relate it to the variable amount amount involved as identified in a third record recording all current owners of a portion of the whole cryptocurrency whole unit of 1.
In other words that is the exact problem of recursive relationship. The relationship of the whole to the sum of its parts. There is the key to knowing the relationship of everything. Including the exact knowledge of the fractional cryptocurrency owning entity.
If all currency only has value to an owning entity that is ultimately a unique human being or a unique human being in joint ownership with two or more human beings then the problem domain becomes:::::.......
Who owns a piece of this specific "rock". Collectively we all do. Just a matter of dividing it up as a function of a system to do that. All currency is savings at the instant of time (really small) that it is not within the infinitely small state of time it is "Spent" moving from one owner to another.
CryptoCurrency uniquely identifies two things in the public ledger: A transaction and an account. A transaction is the identification of an action. The account is the identification of a thing. A second thing is required in the cryptocurrency system. The third thing is a simple as identifying unique discrete units of currency with a digital serial number.
The unique discrete digital currency unit of exchange would exist in a separate public ledger documenting and validating the existence of total units of exchange in the monetary system. The proposed system that I have frequently described in this blog. Every transaction would express itself in two places: The accounts of two transactors ( actually a single thing because it takes at least two to define a transaction). The other place is the record of all uniquely serialized units of digital crypto currency in the monetary system. All currency in all transaction accounts always equals the total currency in the crypto currency system. Once cryptocurrency has been created it lives forever as a debt free unit of exchange in the monetary system.
The basic structure of the current cryptocurrency system defeats the unique identity of a unit of exchange (analogous to the serial number on a paper dollar bill with a variable associated value printed on it). In the current ctyptocurrency system the equivalent of that paper dollar bill is a piece of cryptocurrency is torn off a unit of the currency and traded in a uniquely identified transaction.
That is exactly the problem to be overcome to relate a change in ownership of a variable amount of cryptocurrency to the portion of a uniquely identified single unit (nominal value of 1 each).
The end objective is to create a record relationship that would enable the identification relationship between a single whole unit (value of 1) of the cryptocurrency to all the owner accounts that own a portion of that unit.
It is a conundrum of a mutually exclusive state of being. In the current crypto system is seems like it cannot be done. On the other hand the current cryptocurrency system seems like the poster child that defies the concept "it cannot be done". It is being done.
The problem is that there is not the third leg of a fundamental logical structure in which there are three things. The same structure our natural language as well as our artificial languages and all things in the universe are built on.
They are built of the fundamental unique base of two things and an action implementing the relationship between them. Two nouns and a verb. More fundamentally a binary relationship of two things that are connected by an action (which is a thing but we call it an action) that is called "Time"
A single thing cannot exist without a binary relationship to another thing in the action domain of Time. Unless of course we take the whole problem domain of existence to a different dimension but that is beyond the real world of time and space. Where all is everything or nothing because there is not time. I can't go there. Some think they can. Either way it is out of this world thinking and certainly beyond cryptocurrency.
The solution to the problem is to timestamp a transaction between to unique account entities as well as relate it to the variable amount amount involved as identified in a third record recording all current owners of a portion of the whole cryptocurrency whole unit of 1.
In other words that is the exact problem of recursive relationship. The relationship of the whole to the sum of its parts. There is the key to knowing the relationship of everything. Including the exact knowledge of the fractional cryptocurrency owning entity.
If all currency only has value to an owning entity that is ultimately a unique human being or a unique human being in joint ownership with two or more human beings then the problem domain becomes:::::.......
Who owns a piece of this specific "rock". Collectively we all do. Just a matter of dividing it up as a function of a system to do that. All currency is savings at the instant of time (really small) that it is not within the infinitely small state of time it is "Spent" moving from one owner to another.
Saturday, February 3, 2018
Ultrasonic Wristband
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-wins-patents-wireless-wristbands-track-warehouse-workers/
It operates like Chirp. I could see other applications of this simple technology coming. Now they are here.
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1176829519333181968#editor/target=post;postID=4980115168659141099;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=0;src=link
What is interesting is that the workers hands placing an item in a location might also be traced. Either placing or taking an item requires something to connect the identity of an item to a specific location. The item would need a sonic chip. High value items at least. Like the things attached to an item that sound the alarm if leaving a store unpaid.
https://www.google.com/search?q=sonic+signal+location+detection+triangulation&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial
It operates like Chirp. I could see other applications of this simple technology coming. Now they are here.
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1176829519333181968#editor/target=post;postID=4980115168659141099;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=0;src=link
What is interesting is that the workers hands placing an item in a location might also be traced. Either placing or taking an item requires something to connect the identity of an item to a specific location. The item would need a sonic chip. High value items at least. Like the things attached to an item that sound the alarm if leaving a store unpaid.
https://www.google.com/search?q=sonic+signal+location+detection+triangulation&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial
CATL Battery Production and China Play in the World Super Bowl.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-01/the-breakneck-rise-of-china-s-colossus-of-electric-car-batteries
Good for China! Good for CATL! Out-compete, out perform! Primary purveyors of good stuff to the world. Better than being number 1 in the capacity to deal death and destruction.
WWII was to a great extent a strategy of a war of attrition. Build and replace the planes, ships, tanks, armament faster and longer than the enemy could. The cold war was an economic variation of the strategy. What if China builds a better economy, society, quality of life for the greater number of people than the USA. Key idea: The greater good of all....in China. What a novel idea for the USA that politically, socially and economically favors and defines as social success the 1%. The 10%?
The social responsibility of governance is to society....the greater good of society.
China should institute a measurement of "Gross Greater Good" indexed to the increased living standard of 80% or 90% of its population in terms of health and other quality of life standards. Then let the competition with the USA begin! Of course the powers that be do not want to compete on that playing field. How about the majority of Americans?
Ah, the Super Bowl of competition to attain a greater quality of life for the greater good of all....or at least more than 1%.
The metric for winning will be who dominates and wins the title of holder of the worlds reserve currency.
Go China. I feel that I am sitting in the home team stands cheering for the other side. Let the best team win and win all the fans that support it regardless of where they sit, stand and live.
On the other hand look at the terrible social control of government over the "People's Republic" that portrays governance in China as the "Republic's People".
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/china-surveillance/552203/
The USA should obviously fear that the government would do such things! That is the rice bowl of free private enterprise and financial predation that belongs to the USA government owned /Private Enterprise operated complex that uses surveillance to extract more profit from the public.
What is the measurement of governance success and what means of measurement are to be used? How much the government/business complex can extract or how much it can serve?
Be afraid of China! Be very afraid! The USA has so much for its citizens to fear. Government should be afraid of its people!
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/rex-in-latam/552197/
China is a thief: It stole the American business model:
“China, as it does in emerging markets throughout the world, offers the appearance of an attractive path to development,” he said. “But in reality, this often involves trading short-term gains for long-term dependency.”
Stolen for the benefit of whom? It is the "People's Republic of China".
The USA? We are proudly number one in warfare!
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176381/tomgram%3A_william_astore%2C_taking_war_off_its_pedestal/
https://www.salon.com/2016/03/29/we_are_the_death_merchant_of_the_world_ex_bush_official_lawrence_wilkerson_condemns_military_industrial_complex/
Yes, but that is what we are best at doing!
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176382/tomgram%3A_dilip_hiro%2C_america_first_actually_means_china_first/
Good for China! Good for CATL! Out-compete, out perform! Primary purveyors of good stuff to the world. Better than being number 1 in the capacity to deal death and destruction.
WWII was to a great extent a strategy of a war of attrition. Build and replace the planes, ships, tanks, armament faster and longer than the enemy could. The cold war was an economic variation of the strategy. What if China builds a better economy, society, quality of life for the greater number of people than the USA. Key idea: The greater good of all....in China. What a novel idea for the USA that politically, socially and economically favors and defines as social success the 1%. The 10%?
The social responsibility of governance is to society....the greater good of society.
China should institute a measurement of "Gross Greater Good" indexed to the increased living standard of 80% or 90% of its population in terms of health and other quality of life standards. Then let the competition with the USA begin! Of course the powers that be do not want to compete on that playing field. How about the majority of Americans?
Ah, the Super Bowl of competition to attain a greater quality of life for the greater good of all....or at least more than 1%.
The metric for winning will be who dominates and wins the title of holder of the worlds reserve currency.
Go China. I feel that I am sitting in the home team stands cheering for the other side. Let the best team win and win all the fans that support it regardless of where they sit, stand and live.
On the other hand look at the terrible social control of government over the "People's Republic" that portrays governance in China as the "Republic's People".
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/china-surveillance/552203/
The USA should obviously fear that the government would do such things! That is the rice bowl of free private enterprise and financial predation that belongs to the USA government owned /Private Enterprise operated complex that uses surveillance to extract more profit from the public.
What is the measurement of governance success and what means of measurement are to be used? How much the government/business complex can extract or how much it can serve?
Be afraid of China! Be very afraid! The USA has so much for its citizens to fear. Government should be afraid of its people!
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/rex-in-latam/552197/
China is a thief: It stole the American business model:
“China, as it does in emerging markets throughout the world, offers the appearance of an attractive path to development,” he said. “But in reality, this often involves trading short-term gains for long-term dependency.”
Stolen for the benefit of whom? It is the "People's Republic of China".
The USA? We are proudly number one in warfare!
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176381/tomgram%3A_william_astore%2C_taking_war_off_its_pedestal/
https://www.salon.com/2016/03/29/we_are_the_death_merchant_of_the_world_ex_bush_official_lawrence_wilkerson_condemns_military_industrial_complex/
Yes, but that is what we are best at doing!
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176382/tomgram%3A_dilip_hiro%2C_america_first_actually_means_china_first/