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Bad example, because it actually is tracked who owns and uses a car.

And certainly if I was going to go buy a car to mow down a bunch of pedestrians, I'd go title and register it at the MVA after I buy it from some guy on Craigslist for $500.

Here's how effectively cars are tracked: despite the law, 1 in 7 drivers are not insured.

Lies
Exxon
Oil is the most taxed industry in the US. The lies about it not paying taxes and getting money from the government are getting tiring.

You don't like GE not paying taxes, blame green energy subsidies written specifically for them. Exxon is funding GE's non-tax bill.

first google result for smokers:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-04-08-fda-tobacco-costs_N.htm

Vanderbilt University economist Kip Viscusi studied the net costs of smoking-related spending and savings and found that for every pack of cigarettes smoked, the country reaps a net cost savings of 32 cents.

A Dutch study published last year in the Public Library of Science Medicine journal said that health care costs for smokers were about $326,000 from age 20 on, compared to about $417,000 for thin and healthy people.

You should listen to your dad more often

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/04/fingerprint-evaluations-reliable-998-of-the-time/1

Can someone help me, I'm from old Europe, what's a 'power outage'?

This should refresh your memory.Or this. Or this. Or, this.

And New Hampshire has a population of 1 million and a House of 435 representatives.

What New Hampshire has is a gerontocracy.

State legislators are paid $200 for their two-year term, plus mileage, effectively making them volunteers. The only other benefits are free use of toll roads and of state-owned resorts. A 2007 survey found that nearly half the members of the House are retired, with an average age over 60.

Government of New Hampshire

A 91-year-old GOP state legislator in New Hampshire has resigned after saying people with mental illnesses should get a one-way trip to Siberia.

State Rep. Martin Harty, who turns 92 this month, made national news recently when he touted eugenics as a way to get rid of "defective people."

N.H. state legislator resigns after remark about mental illness [March 2011]

" 'The Internet has enabled copyright owners to make available their works to consumers around the world, but has also enabled others to do so without any compensation for copyright owners"

I think we all know where this is going. Total extinction of any notion of "fair use" so that every image you ever did a right click-->save to file on will be an independent criminal act punishable by not more than 5 years in jail and a $50,000 fine.

Let me tell you what this industry fears the most. Let me tell you what makes the execs in this industry shit their pants and drink too much after work. The idea that you will chose to do something else with your time. The notion that you will choose to spend the half million of so waking hours you have over the course of your life doing something else.

If they can't get those away from you because your attention was directed elsewhere, doing something more engaging, then they're fucked. You want one of my precious hours to look at your Desperate Housewives / Jarhead crap ? You should be so lucky.

I used to just think that people who did mass downloading when they *could* have bought the stuff were total assholes who would just cheat any and all the systems of civil society which make things tolerable for everyone. I still sort of think that, but what I don't think is this represents a good application of our justice system and my tax dollars -

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/18/downloading-case-cant-pay/1997127/

What I think is this is a sado-system designed to turn even the meekest and most law abiding of our citizens, the ones that get up every morning to got to their underpaid , dead end jobs just to keep their noses and their children's noses slightly above water, into criminals.

This is a system run by the financial elite solely for their benefit . Elites whose mega-crimes go completely unpunished no matter how globally catastrophic their effects and how many people's lives are completely destroyed by their criminal actions. This is a system whose prosecutors look and look at those crimes but can't find anything but reasonable doubt, while the ordinary citizen can be assured they will be punished beyond any definition of reason and beyond all any definition justice for the even the meekest and most innocuous of infractions.

To the publishing houses and record companies and entertainment business and especially to Mickey Mouse and all the diseased and dysfunctional special interest politics he has come to represent to my generation I say this- we're going to take yoru out. We're going to decimate your industry and leave you with nothing- no customers, no interest, no money, and no power.

There's exactly nothing you can do to stop it, counter it, co-opt it or benefit from it. The future in no way includes you irrespective of how broadly you interpret the word "includes". You're all walking dead men, grotesque corpses staggering around, wailing for blood but finding none.

I think you forget the $600 billion in tax increases passed in January of this year. And those taxes are heavily weighted to the upper end of the income scale. The Democrats got their tax increase, but they wanted even more - and don't want to talk about cuts at all...

Wait - what? I guess the $600 billion tax increase approved by the GOP and Democrats in January doesn't count as a compromise on tax increases? The President and the Democrats got their tax increase in January - now how about matching levels of cuts?

Actually, they didn't rob a convenience store. It was later determined that the robbery was entirely unrelated to them, though suspect 2 was in the same store within minutes of the robbery. Incredible? Yes.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/19/7-eleven-robbery-boston/2097915/

The regulators requires that money laundering is kept in check.

Unless it's carried out by HSBC, in which case the regulators merely require getting a cut.

"So I went ahead and settled this argument. I looked at the standard for Bitcoins. I saw that the standard indeed didn't establish or guarantee any sort of value for Bitcoins."

You have settled nothing. From USA Today:

"In essence, Bitcoin is similar to the "gold standard," the monetary system in force before modern central banking started to take root in the 1930s. Under the gold standard, each unit of currency was worth a certain amount of gold, leaving governments few means to increase the amount of currency in circulation."

From Paul Krugman (who I think is an incompetent fraud, but just in case you like him):

"In effect, Bitcoin has created its own private gold standard world, in which the money supply is fixed rather than subject to increase via the printing press."

From the Austrian school of economics:

"In short, Bitcoin addresses all of goldâ(TM)s shortcomings... In fact, since Bitcoin is a global network, it would retain its full value between banks on differing continents!"

(But of course, that would depend on a rational market... exactly my original point.)

Face it. Economists from EVERY school of thought disagree with you.

Seriously, I am done here.

Verizon changed the subscribers phone so the FBI could FIND them, not retrieve information FROM the phone.

How is this any different from the use of a GPS tracking device attached to someone's car. The Supremes decided that GPS tracking devices need warrants. They even suggested in that ruling that warrants would be required to tracka smartphone.

Your post doesn't address mine. You've referenced some general atmospheric effects of CO2 and aerosols, I was talking about the '70s "global cooling" scare:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/2008-02-20-global-cooling_N.htm

What color is the sky on your planet? It sure as hell ain't blue.

GP is a link to the abstract of an actual peer-reviewed scientific paper published by Science in 1971.

What fucking part of "If sustained over a period of several years, such a temperature decrease over the whole globe is believed to be sufficient to trigger an ice age.", published in 1971 is too hard for you to understand?

I guess Google really is too hard for you to understand, else you'd find out about a Washington Post article at that time that indicates one James Hansen was involved with that paper.

The very same James Hansen who today is such a global-warming Chicken Little. I wonder how much extra money hsi flip-flopping extremism makes him on the lecture circuit?

The sad thing is, you probably really do think you're more intelligent than most.

Unfortunately, you're a deluded resident of Lake Woebegone - not even smart enough to know how dumb you really are.

Seriously.

You made up crap about the global cooling scare from the 1970s being the province of "crackpot[s]", and when presented with an actual peer-reviewed, published scientific paper (that involved one of today's biggest global-warming scare mongers), directly demonstrating how deluded you really are, you don't even bother reading (I hope you didn't bother reading - because if you did read it than English had best be about your 97th language or you're dumber than an anencephalic howler monkey...) and you don't even have the sense to put your finger up your ass and start shouting "LA LA LA LAL!!!! I can't hear you!"

Nope.

You post some nonsense directly refuted by what that paper SAYS.

You post that paper is not about what it claims, and isn't from when it was published.

You're a fucking moron.

You really are.

Good Lord. You're the Thalidomide baby of mental masturbation.

Your post doesn't address mine. You've referenced some general atmospheric effects of CO2 and aerosols, I was talking about the '70s "global cooling" scare:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/2008-02-20-global-cooling_N.htm

Uh. No.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2012/10/03/american-airlines-seats/1610189/

The work in question was either done in-house by American Airlines employees or in a contractor's facility in North Carolina. Unless North Carolina is now part of China, your fear mongering is just that.

And bicycling is faster.

Would this be the same Dianne Feinstein that voted yea on a bill that limits the government's power to regulate guns? Not to mention that the regulations on the sales of games with mature content to minors is working very well and that the percentage of video games with a mature rating is pretty low. So yeah, Dianne, keep pursuing tougher regulation on video games instead of tightening regulations on guns - that definitely seems like the logical stance for a senator to make.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/04/05/kfc-kentucky-fried-chicken-boneless-fast-food-chicken/2011419/

Yes, the life argument was bad, but so were the arguments supporting a Martian origin.

You have been misled in how well supported they are.

"While the claim remains highly controversial" http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8004

"At first ALH84001 was misclassified, so it wasn't until 1993 that researchers even realized the rock came from Mars. That was interesting enough, because at the time fewer than a dozen Martian meteorites were known to science. But ALH84001 also turned out to be much more ancient than the other known Martian meteorites. At 4.5 billion years old, it dates from a period of Martian history when liquid water — a requirement for the presence of life — probably existed at the now barren planet's surface. It made sense to ask: Could there be fossils of ancient Martian microbes, or maybe traces of them, preserved in the cracks and pore spaces of ALH84001? The NASA scientists proffered four reasons to support their view that the answer to that question is "Yes."" http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-08-06-mars-life_x.htm

Sorry to say, the both the life and the Martian origin hypotheses reek of frivolous science and sadly, they stink.

The TSA says they are all about the war on terror.
But their actions prove they are only interested in conducting a War on Diginity.

Groping children
soaking a man in his own urine
Arresting people for wearing watches with exposed gears
Arbitrary strip-searches
Detaining people armed with flash cards
Forcing mothers to drink their own breast milk
Forcing a woman to remove her nipple ring with pliers
Requiring women to remove their bras
Requiring a woman to remove the brace on her sprained ankle and then making her walk on it to prove it was sprained

The list of abuses is into the thousands. Every once in a while they get a taste of their stupidity. But it isn't anywhere near enough.

Who's "Provocative Action"?

March 29 2013 - Hagel says U.S. has to take North Korean threats seriously

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Thursday that North Koreas provocative actions and belligerent tone had "ratcheted up the danger" on the Korean peninsula, ...

March 28 2013 - US sends nuclear-capable B-2 bombers to SKorea

The U.S military says two nuclear-capable B-2 bombers have completed a training mission in South Korea ...
...
The U.S. says the B-2 stealth bombers flew from a U.S. air base and dropped munitions on a South Korean island range before returning home.

March 26 2013 - U.S. Army learns hard lessons in N. Korea-like war game

The Unified Quest war game conducted this year by Army planners posited the collapse of a nuclear-armed, xenophobic, criminal family regime that had lorded over a closed society and inconveniently lost control over its nukes as it fell. Army leaders stayed mum about the model for the game, but all indications -- and maps seen during the game at the Army War College -- point to North Korea.

March 20 2013 - U.S. flies B-52s over South Korea

The U.S. Air Force is breaking out some of its heaviest hardware to send a message to North Korea.

A Pentagon spokesman said Monday that B-52 bombers are making flights over South Korea as part of military exercises this month.

March 19 2013 - S. Korea, U.S. carry out naval drills with nuclear attack submarine

South Korean and U.S. forces have been carrying out naval drills in seas around the peninsula with a nuclear attack submarine as part of their annual exercise, military sources said Wednesday, in a show of power against North Korea's threat of nuclear attack.

The two-month field training, called Foal Eagle, has been in full swing to test the combat readiness of the allies, amid high tension on the Korean Peninsula in light of a torrent of bellicose rhetoric by North Korea. It kicked off on March 1 and runs through April 30.

March 17 2013 - Troops remember sacrifices of Cheonan sailors

Halfway through the around-the-clock Key Resolve drills Friday, 8th U.S. Army Commander Lt. Gen. John D. Johnson remained full of energy as he underscored that the allied forces were ready to cope with North Korean threats.

...
Despite their hectic schedule, the troops gathered early in the day to pay respects to the 46 deceased crewmembers of South Korean corvette Cheonan, which was sunk by North Korea's torpedo attack on March 26, 2010.

March 12 2013 - First day of SK-US military exercises passes without provocation

Around 10,000 ROK troops and 3,000 US soldiers, including 2,500 reinforcements from US Pacific command in Hawaii, are taking part in the military exercise, which will continue through Mar. 21. Another 10,000 US soldiers will be deployed by the end of this month for the Foal Eagle exercises. Also flown in to participate in the exercises were B-52 bombers and F-22 stealth fighters, which boast the world's highest levels of performance. These two kinds of aircraft can maneuver throughout Korean airspace without landin

they've gotta be getting to the point where even China isn't going to take their crap for much longer. They WERE trying to destabilize the region. NOW they're trying to destabilize the entire world.

I just hope that china is even a fifth as annoyed with him as the rest of the world is.

I think you'll find China is much more annoyed with US forces being in SE Asia and are currently working to exert their own influence in that region - particularly the South China Sea. For example: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/03/27/china-military-south-china-sea/2023947/

I think they would be delighted if US had to pull forces out of South Korea to de-escalate the situation - which, despite reported threats against the US mainland, is actually the key thing the North Korean keep saying - "get of out Korea - none of your business"

I don't know why you'd assume China would be an ally in this battle - the US doesn't actually have many of those left after testing the limits in Iraq/Afghanistan and most of the world seeing that China is clearly the #1 superpower within the next 10-20 years.

China will "intervene" (as in attack the North Koreans at our request) if we ask, so long as we promise to take care of the refugees.

I wouldn't be too sure. The way China has been acting towards its neighbours lately, I wouldn't be surprised if North Korea ratcheting up the tension is part of a bigger plan.

Gold isn't even at historic highs, for that it would have to be 1:1 with DOW, and it's nowhere near

That's not really a reasonable comparison. First, the Dow is a bit arbitrary -- it follows only a specific group of 30 companies that are supposed to represent the US economy. Here are a couple of articles at different times about what would have happened if Apple had been added:
when apple was up: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/perfi/stocks/story/2012-02-15/apple-stock-dow-jones-industrial-average/53109426/1
when apple went down: http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/03/05/apples-not-in-the-dow-thank-goodness/

Basically, that would completely change the value of the Dow and we would all be panicking right now, as the down dropped with Apple stock. On the other hand, around the election, people would have been crowing about the stock market hitting all-time highs.

So apart from comparing an historically trackable value, like gold, to an arbitrary measurement like the Dow, they also track different things. You're comparing gold's value to something which is trying to track the overall US economy. And the US economy is MUCH bigger than it was at the turn of the last century. Gold shouldn't mirror the US economy. If it did, THAT would be a definite bubble.

> but the ENTIRE TRANSACTION HISTORY OF EVERY BITCOIN is known to all. This is completely unacceptable.

You can't have authority without accountability.

Maybe if Congress / Government was accountable we wouldn't have over $1.1 TRILLION _missing_!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/missing_money/

Or bank scandals:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/hsbc-money-laundering-argentina_n_2902430.html
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/brokerage/story/2011-12-08/mf-global-corzine/51732752/1

Kind of sad when you have websites like this:
http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/mostcorrupt

A possible meteor has been spotted streaking through the sky over the East Coast, The American Meteor Society and Twitter users are reporting.

"It basically looked like a super bright shooting star," said Robert Lunsford, fireball coordinator for the society, based on the reports coming in to the organization's website. "I saw some people mentioning fragments and naturally every color of the rainbow."

The society, based in Geneseo, N.Y., was researching about 400 reports received as of about 10 p.m. ET Friday from nine East Coast States and Canada of sightings that took place somewhere shortly before 8 p.m. ET through shortly after 8 p.m. ET, Lunsford said. The number of reports marked a possible record over the number of reports the group received about a fireball that streaked over Baltimore on Halloween several years ago, Lunsford said.

Late Friday, Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environmental Office said the flash appears to be "a single meteor event." He said it "looks to be a fireball that moved roughly toward the southeast, going on visual reports."

"Judging from the brightness, we're dealing with something as bright as the full moon," Cooke said. "The thing is probably a yard across. We basically have (had) a boulder enter the atmosphere over the northeast."

Twitter exploded Friday evening with reports of meteor sightings from the South to New England.

Some Twitter users also reported that the meteor crashed somewhere near the Delaware-Maryland border, but the society had no information on that, Lunsford said.

AccuWeather.com (@breakingweather) tweeted that there have been several unconfirmed reports of a large meteor being spotted from Florida to Massachusetts between 7:55 p.m. and 8:03 p.m. ET.

Reports of a fireball that streaked over the Albany, N.Y., area shortly before 8 p.m. headed south or southeast was reported by Examiner.com.

The fireball was green and had a "fairly long tail," the Examiner reported, adding that it lasted for a few seconds.

Lunsford of the American Meteor Society said it is more common for meteors to cross the sky in the evening this time of year because a certain area of the sky known as a radiant is at its highest point above the horizon during February, March and April.

"We have reports going back to 2005, and the months of February, March and April have a lot of evening fireballs," he said.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/22/meteor-east-coast/2011893/

They give antibiotics to animals because it causes them to fatten up faster.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-06-29-antibiotics29_ST_N.htm

It has nothing to do with animals being sick. It has everything to do with money and lack of regulation. They are not even using the crap drugs, they are using the latest-of-the-latest final-line-of-defense antibiotics now. 95+% of all antibiotics used overall are used for these purposes. *Nothing* to do with illness.

... Obama's had car trouble.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/05/president-barack-obama-presidential-limousine-limo-stuck-dublin-ireland/1

He should get a harley.

I was just posting something to this effect but I'm glad I read further in the comments thread.

There are MANY reasons that EA has been having problems lately and Sim City isn't really one of them. If you notice, even despite the intermittent ongoing issues, Sim City has sold 1.1 million copies in 2 weeks and is still going strong as many people who have waited for the launch issues to die down start picking up their copies. I fucking hate EA and I despise their DRM platform and while I would LOVE for this to be the reason dude was ousted, it just looks like coincidence to me with regard to the timing. That's not to say that this isn't a straw/camel's back scenario but I just can't see that this was THE reason.

No problem.

Considering the bleeding wound which is life in Iraq today you were trying for sarcasm, weren't you?

Wow, sucks to be them.

Buoyed by an increase in oil production and declining violence, Iraq's economy is showing signs of life.

Iraq has boosted oil production to 3 million barrels a day with the help of international oil companies. That's up from the 2.5 million barrels before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. The government expects to expand capability to 10 million barrels a day in six years, which would put it at the top of world oil producers.

Baghdad streets are jammed with late-model cars, and restaurants and cafes are open well into the night. People have more disposable income and can buy an infinite array of consumer goods. "There is a sense money is percolating," says Kevin Carey, a senior economist at the World Bank.

The International Monetary Fund forecasts Iraq's economy will grow 11.1% this year to about $144 billion . . .

Last year, Iraq attracted $55.67 billion in foreign investment and other commercial activity, a 40% increase from the previous year, according to Dunia Frontier Consultants. . . .

Last year, China's investment and other business activity in Iraq was valued at more than $3 billion, according to Dunia. South Korea ranked No. 1, with about $12 billion in Iraq, according to the report. A South Korean real estate developer is in negotiations on a deal potentially worth $35 billion to build 500,000 housing units and related infrastructure, according to Dunia.

. . . consumers are ready to spend. Stores are jammed with microwaves, computers, air conditioners and wide-screen televisions.

"In one day, we might sell 75 cars in this showroom," says Ali Alrobaiy, a marketing official for a large car dealer in Baghdad. "It's a huge market.". . . ---- Iraq's economy shows signs of growth

How?! How will they get by without Saddam to destroy villages with chemical weapons, steal the oil money to buy arms and build yet another palace? Who will replace the genius of his sons?

Dear Mr Blair. . .

How are "we" (yes I am a doctor" colluding with the government? The government programs - medicare/medicaid pay pennies on the dollar.

The AMA limits the supply of doctors by controlling the "standards".

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-03-02-doctor-shortage_x.htm
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/25/american-medical-association-opinions-columnists-shikha-dalmia.html

Some reporting has suggested that one of the early anti-abortion pushes was doctors trying to eliminate the competition (midwives, moon-tea peddlers) and increase demand for their services (live birth = more medical care than an abortion):

http://studentsforlife.org/prolifefacts/history-of-abortion/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_abortion
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/abortionuslegal/a/abortion.htm

There are two excuses for you not knowing this
1) willful ignorance
2) you're not an AMA-trained doctor

How long before all RC helicopters (and all hobby RC planes for that matter) will be banned ?

They are already trying in Texas and in New Hampshire. Notice the inclusion of drones by name in the legislation, and the lack of differentiation between government use and private use.

This article from a few weeks ago shows that two other state legislatures, specifically Florida and Virginia, are attempting a legislative fix to drone use, though those attempts are targeted specifically at government use of drones. The mayor of Seattle cancelled the Seattle PD's drone program and ordered the chief of police to return the ones they'd already bought to the manufacturer for a refund.

With that said, attempts to block government use of drones are probably doomed to failure, since the FAA has already been directed by the 112th Congress to integrate drones into the national airspace via HR 658 (relevant section here,) and police departments across the nation are buying them in droves, despite what happened in Seattle. The DHS's "loan a drone" program, coupled with DHS's $4M grant program to local law authorities to acquire drones, would strongly suggest that government use of drones is here to stay.

Given the push/pull legislative wars being driven by the privacy vs. public safety debate, I doubt that banning RC aircraft is a viable legislative option. What is (probably) going to happen with RC aircraft is what has already happened with other "hobbies" that are deemed to be a threat to public safety (think: greenhouses that could be used for growing pot, legal chemicals that could be used to manufacture illegal drugs, model rockets that could be weaponized.) Purchases of RC aircraft and related equipment will be tracked at the point of sale and those records will be forwarded to the feds, where the purchasers will end up on an FBI watch list, just like the purchasers of the above-mentioned items.

Posted 4/7/2004 7:05 AM : http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-04-07-surgeons-video-games_x.htm

Researchers found that doctors who spent at least three hours a week playing video games made about 37% less mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the task 27% faster than their counterparts who did not play video games.

"I use the same hand-eye coordination to play video games as I use for surgery," said Dr. James "Butch" Rosser, 49, who demonstrated the results of his study Tuesday at Beth Israel Medical Center.

Interesting paper on it here, from 2011

http://mcm.dhhq.health.mil/Libraries/NewsDocuments/Medical_Simulation.sflb.ashx

The "mosaic" of issues, Lyon said, includes a malfunctioning valve on the pilot's upper pressure vest, the size and shape of hoses and connectors in the pilot's gear and, for a period, a charcoal filter that the Air Force installed after the problems began to try and catch potential contaminates.

Instead of re-evaluating the system when experts first brought it to the Air Force's attention, they decided that the recommended fixes would be too expensive on the already overbudget jet and they basically said 'fuck it' and let one of our servicemen die. Now, experienced Air Force fighter pilots (not exactly the type known to be sissies) across the country refuse to fly this jet because it is unsafe. But that's pretty damned good, right?

It's not as stealthy but we are a defensive military.

Stealth is the most bullshitted word in the military. It is like talking about synergies in business. It is a sales pitch, nothing more.

There is no such thing as stealth. The reflection signal is just weak, but that doesn't mean it is not detectable. Any modern radar can detect these planes. You don't see "a little goose" traveling at Mach speeds! Stealth my ass.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-10-26-serb-stealth_x.htm

We used a little innovation to update our 1960s-vintage SAMs to detect the Nighthawk

A 60s missile with a tiny circuit upgrade to lock on weaker signals, deemed noise back in the "good old days", hits a then-modern "stealth" aircraft. Modern SAMs can take down any stealth aircraft, including B-2. Only the old, useless SAMs operated by uneducated military will fail. But then you can evade those with any aircraft , including F18s.

There is a reason why no one cares about stealth anymore - it is called cruise missiles. Those are the only tech that can actually take out fixed anti-air installations. As for mobile SAMs, yeah, only HARM, luck (countermeasures) and outdated old-tech SAMs can save an aircraft from it.

There was a hospital or nursing school, I believe, that wanting to target gay males for nurses. They advertised on Facebook a special number that was only targeted to the gay males on facebook but the advertisement didn't mention that. When an applicant called the number for an interview, they immediately knew he was gay.

Similarly, my wife subscribed to Netflix for some years, and likes to tell people that based on their advertising, they obviously had her classified as a gay male. This wasn't really surprising, considering her taste in (mostly old) movies. I've also wondered whether they knew about me, and whether I'm in their records also as a gay male. (Not that there's anything wrong with that, as they say. ;-)

Corporate and government info-gathering efforts are somewhat known for making this sort of inference. The biggest screwups are often when they fail to distinguish people with the same (or sometimes just similar) names. Perhaps the funniest example of this in recent years was when Massachusetts' senator Ted Kennedy ran into problems on a commercial flight because the airport workers had his name on a list of suspected terrorists, and didn't recognize his name as belonging to a well-known senator.

Kennedy correctly commented that if he had this trouble, how are average Americans going to get treated? Of course, we've read a lot about that over the past decade.

Rape Trigger?

That can't be right

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2010-07-14-roy-rogers-horse_N.htm

They're bleeding staff right now. Statistics show how their coverage chagned when Bush threatened to bomb their headquarters. It was probably a bluff to manipulate them, but still, a distinct change shows some bias. The real question is "who's funding them and what's their motive?" just like Fox News' pretend right-wing slant and MS-NBC's pretend left-wing slant.

Found another story about this indecent. It indicates that "...which the Weeknotes was customized in light of Lecerf's epilepsy, with the gas and brake controls moved to the steering wheel)." from USA today http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2013/02/14/newser-wild-ride-france-drive/1919139/. The Manual (Found at http://www.globalcars.com.au/site/uploads/Renault_Laguna_ENG.pdf) does indicate that the automated version has an Neutral gear. It also indicates that shifting to neutral and then pressing the ignition should stop the engine. There is also a park for the automatics... I suppose if they moved the gas and brake they may have moved the gear-shift (thought it's not stated). If that was the case and the disability controls were malfunctioning (likely) then your screwed. Of course you could throw the keys out the window From the manual, page 2.5 titled "Starting/STOPPING THE ENGINE (continued)". "If the card is no longer in the passenger compartment when you try to switch the engine off, the message “card absentlong press” appears on the instrument panel: press button 1 for longer than two seconds"

That's exactly the crux of the matter - Ron Paul is acting, and I believe he is confused into thinking that he is justified in pursing a trademark claim because last time he pursued a claim over his name he was justified

He isn't confused. He's going after the domain on the same ground as many others before him:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/ericjsinrod/2005-04-20-hillary-clinton_x.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2000/jun/02/news.juliaroberts
http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1291&context=chtlj

Turning to any -- and I mean ANY -- higher power to subvert that desired price is, by definition, appealing to a governing body to impose some form of regulation.

You do realize libertarians aren't anarchists, right? They believe in law (such as the courts), arbitration, contracts, government intervention to enforce private property rights. This particular cases hits all those. ICANN has a set of rules that a domain owner enters as terms of doing business -- this is a contract. If you found in breach of those rules, ICANN can take away your domain. Ron Paul's people are claiming the current owner of the domain has breached those rules. This isn't a matter of regulation. It's a matter of arbitration of existing contracts. For instance, another "contract breaking example" would be if a company hired you to perform a task for some fee. You perform the task and then they don't pay you. Is it then sacrilege for the libertarian employee to appeal to authority because they broke the terms of the contract? Hardly.

Just because you use another arm or governing body instead of the official United States government does not mean you aren't using the State.

*bangs head on wall* Libertarians are not anarchists

Wait wait wait. I'm confused. You see, you're using the R word and your calling it a "rule" but I think the word that Ron Paul and most libertarians like to use is "regulation" and then they spit because it leaves a dirty taste in their mouth

There's leagues of difference between "breaking contractual terms you make with a place of business" and "government imposing its will on industry". This ICANN name stake thing is not uncommon. Hillary Clinton arbitrated to get her name back as well way back in 2005: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/ericjsinrod/2005-04-20-hillary-clinton_x.htm

And in a libertarian world there would be no rules. Money and the free market would set the rules.

*bangs head on wall* Libertarians are not anarchists

Kickstart?

We can't change or influence the weather in any way! That means doing anything is futility itself.

I love this shit! Of course we can change and influence the weather. But unfortunately, actually being informed of the world around you is not a requirement for public office. Cloud-seeding has been going on for a while. The Chinese used it to affect the weather during the Beijing Olympics. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/weather/research/2008-02-29-china-weather_N.htm

surveillance that is implied by Obamacare Well this should be amusing. What the frack are you babbling about now?

He's probably talking about stuff like this and this and this, among other things.

Meanwhile, what authorities are allowing on Egyptian television, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/02/09/fear-of-assassinations-haunt-egypt-opposition/1905675/

CAIRO (AP) — Watching the events in Tunisia, where a leading anti-Islamist politician was shot to death this past week, members of Egypt's liberal opposition are fearfully asking: Could it happen here too?

Their fears of a renegade Islamist attack on any of the top opposition leaders have been hiked by religious edicts issued by hardline clerics on TV saying they must be killed.

Islamic democracy functions like this: One man, one vote . . . once.

Once they get in power, the first order of the day is to kill off any opposition. There is never a real election again.

http://www.space.com/19708-mars-rover-curiosity-rock-drill-sample.html

http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/1902009

And a Bonus link!

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=l8O1j2EBkqI&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dl8O1j2EBkqI

And by the way, very few people care about this shit except gun nuts like you.

Nope, nobody else cares. Not one bit.

Vulcan is supposed to be in the 40-Eridani-System, which is about 16LY away from us and it's a trinary system. But scientists think that it may host a habitable planet :)

So not all is lost ^^