Well with these fiscal fuckups, we won;t be able to afford one much longer. At that all we'll be able to afford is spying on the citizens, bombing brown non-christian people and helping the oil companies who are going to need a huge bailout with the price of oil. But never fear, these guys are the fiscally responsible crew who love to spend money on getting re-elected, whether tax breaks for the rich or 10's of millions of our hard earned dollars spent to tell us how wonderful they are.
Probably the privacy commissioner for interfering with the economy, but not until after the election. This government exists to serve corporations, not the people. Though if Bell's media division doesn't give the Conservatives favourable press who knows.
You said going back to the founders ideas as found in the Constitution and the founders, Jefferson I believe, founded the Democratic Party. Of course it was the Republican Party that massively expanded the Federal government in the 1860's, even going so far as to put Federal troops in the States Legislators buildings to force through Constitutional Amendments to expand the Federal power. Me, I'm not American and have a right wing party in power who continuosly pass unconstitutional laws that are knocked down by our Supreme Court as they believe the only thing government should be doing is spying on dissidents, making sure we don't have fun and just generally keeping tabs on the citizens. Bastards have also ran a deficit since they've been in power and now that they're claiming that the budget (very late) is balanced they're going to give money out to buy votes and bring us back into deficit.
Ah, the only rich white males have any rights camp. Much has changed since then, conservatives are no longer tared and feathered, black people are considered people along with red and yellow people, women are allowed to own property, vote and refuse sex. Free speech has been expanded to everyone instead of only Congress, papers include virtual papers in electronic form. Rights such as owning a firearm are denied a large part of the population due to stupid rules like getting caught with an illegal plant and so on.
Actually only one side was rational and relatively sane, the other side figured that God was on their side, that they could put nukes on the oppositions borders with no blow back and when the blow back happened (tit for tat, they put nukes close to the opposition as well) the crazies came very close to starting Armageddon. The same crazies seem to think that they can bomb anyone they feel like it and no one else better even think about it unless their religious believes might lead to the rapture.
Waiting until war was inevitable also gave the west the moral high ground rather then now a days where bombing people on the other side of the world seems ordinary and preemptive war is looked on favourably. We are fast becoming the bad guys, at least morally and we're also harvesting the results in the middle east and perhaps soon at home. Good for the fascists who are salivating at the increasing police state.
As a revolution, the American one was a complete failure, not even getting within a few thousand miles of Parliament little well replacing the King. It did evolve into a successful war of secession though leading to an independent country. As for the French, well the AC summarized it pretty well. As others pointed out there has been a few successful non-violent ones but it seems as soon as the violence starts things go down hill.
He's right, programs get replaced by better more efficient programs. As an example I bet that the NSA hasn't sent someone up a telephone pole to physically tap a phone line in ages as that got replaced by co-locating at the phone company. Tapping telegraph lines also likely got canceled.
That's true. They can either force the telecommunications companies to pay for the data collection, who will of course pass the costs on to their customers but is not a tax. Or they can become more self-financing, selling drugs and weapons is one traditional way for the 3 letter agencies to self-finance or they could do insider trading as they get all the insider intelligence. Since Reagan proofed that selling weapons to your enemies is a good election tactic they may go that route.
From what I understand, currently dark energy is too weak to have local effects, with local being as large as our local cluster of galaxies. Some do postulate that it will (continue to) increase to the point it will overcome all forces ripping even atoms apart.
It's a border line case but from the article I think the photographers were in the right to limit their business to traditional weddings. When the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that denying gay marriage was unconstitutional they also stated that priests and such can not be forced to perform them but marriage commissioners, JPs, etc can be fired for refusing. It's always hard when rights conflict, I'd hate to be a judge in those kind of cases.
You're never forced to do business with people who you consider evil. Just like the vegan who turned down a job, you can turn down a job where you might be forced to serve someone you consider evil, which includes opening a public business. As for the photographer, if he is freelance, he should be able to pick and choose, but if he works in a wedding chapel and sells wedding pictures, well he should photograph anyone who gets married in his place of work. Printers can refuse to print objectionable material but if the West Baptist Church only wanted some parking signs printed or some such innocent material printed, you should have to print it as you are open to the public and the WBC is part of the public It's pretty simple, the choice to serve the public means serving all the public
Trying to have wars in a world with nuclear weapons is like trying to have gangs of roving banditos in a nation where everyone carries around rifles and handguns. It's just not possible, and anyone who tries won't last very long.
I guess that is why places like the middle east and Afghanistan are so peaceful.
And yet not once has the second amendment stopped your government from ignoring the Constitution that you referenced up the page. The British Monarch could assert her supremacy if she was doing it with the support of the people, eg an unpopular government that refused to call an election when their term ran out. The American people could assert their supremacy just by sitting down and refusing to serve the rich, not much need for guns though handy if the government sicked the troops on the strikers, which historically has failed to stop the government and the rich's hired goons. Back when the Constitution was written it was generally considered that a standing army led to tyranny and a militia was a better choice, so what used to be a requirement (free men owning and being proficient in arms) became a right.
Good point, though there was quite a few service jobs created. Every rich person had a house full of servants and if you were an attractive young woman, there was usually something to sell.
In other words, can you say "Luddite"? Sure you can...
So what you are saying is that because our great-grandkids, around the end of the century, will once again be fully employed, based on history, we should be happy that our kids and grandkids will be unemployed?
Congratulations, you figured out why I mentioned 1 mile crater rather then 800 ft crater. While it is true that certain types of meteorites burn up or disintegrate, many are chondrites, stony or iron. Lots of small iron meteorites have been found, along with slightly bigger stony and chondrites. The biggest difference between the Earth and Moon is that the smaller meteorites hit at terminal velocity and don't create much more then a pit. The Earth, while obviously not getting many micro-meteor hits, does get hit by a fair amount of meteorites. Consider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
When did the US army start using Imperial units? Imperial gallon = 160 fl ozs = 4.54 litres, one of many English gallons= 128 fl ozs = 3.78 litres. IIRC you used a weird sized inch as well which after switching to the Canadian inch of 25.4 mm back in the '50's, lives on as the surveyors inch. Besides everyone knows it was the Russian army that kicked the Germans arse.
Not if you honestly don't need to pay taxes. Quit working and you don't have to pay. Don't even have to quit working, just reduce your income below the minimum for paying taxes. If everyone sat down, refused to work and pay taxes, there would be change.
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Well with these fiscal fuckups, we won;t be able to afford one much longer. At that all we'll be able to afford is spying on the citizens, bombing brown non-christian people and helping the oil companies who are going to need a huge bailout with the price of oil.
But never fear, these guys are the fiscally responsible crew who love to spend money on getting re-elected, whether tax breaks for the rich or 10's of millions of our hard earned dollars spent to tell us how wonderful they are.
Probably the privacy commissioner for interfering with the economy, but not until after the election. This government exists to serve corporations, not the people. Though if Bell's media division doesn't give the Conservatives favourable press who knows.
Compared to AT&T's pre-government-backed monopoly, yes.
You said going back to the founders ideas as found in the Constitution and the founders, Jefferson I believe, founded the Democratic Party. Of course it was the Republican Party that massively expanded the Federal government in the 1860's, even going so far as to put Federal troops in the States Legislators buildings to force through Constitutional Amendments to expand the Federal power.
Me, I'm not American and have a right wing party in power who continuosly pass unconstitutional laws that are knocked down by our Supreme Court as they believe the only thing government should be doing is spying on dissidents, making sure we don't have fun and just generally keeping tabs on the citizens. Bastards have also ran a deficit since they've been in power and now that they're claiming that the budget (very late) is balanced they're going to give money out to buy votes and bring us back into deficit.
Ah, the only rich white males have any rights camp. Much has changed since then, conservatives are no longer tared and feathered, black people are considered people along with red and yellow people, women are allowed to own property, vote and refuse sex. Free speech has been expanded to everyone instead of only Congress, papers include virtual papers in electronic form. Rights such as owning a firearm are denied a large part of the population due to stupid rules like getting caught with an illegal plant and so on.
For much of the world there are 5 continents, Eurasia, Africa, Australia (Oceania), Antarctica and America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Actually only one side was rational and relatively sane, the other side figured that God was on their side, that they could put nukes on the oppositions borders with no blow back and when the blow back happened (tit for tat, they put nukes close to the opposition as well) the crazies came very close to starting Armageddon.
The same crazies seem to think that they can bomb anyone they feel like it and no one else better even think about it unless their religious believes might lead to the rapture.
You know in 1939 we went to war to stop countries from bombing the shit out of other countries due to paranoia and wanting to expand their countries.
Waiting until war was inevitable also gave the west the moral high ground rather then now a days where bombing people on the other side of the world seems ordinary and preemptive war is looked on favourably. We are fast becoming the bad guys, at least morally and we're also harvesting the results in the middle east and perhaps soon at home. Good for the fascists who are salivating at the increasing police state.
As a revolution, the American one was a complete failure, not even getting within a few thousand miles of Parliament little well replacing the King. It did evolve into a successful war of secession though leading to an independent country.
As for the French, well the AC summarized it pretty well.
As others pointed out there has been a few successful non-violent ones but it seems as soon as the violence starts things go down hill.
He's right, programs get replaced by better more efficient programs. As an example I bet that the NSA hasn't sent someone up a telephone pole to physically tap a phone line in ages as that got replaced by co-locating at the phone company. Tapping telegraph lines also likely got canceled.
That's true. They can either force the telecommunications companies to pay for the data collection, who will of course pass the costs on to their customers but is not a tax. Or they can become more self-financing, selling drugs and weapons is one traditional way for the 3 letter agencies to self-finance or they could do insider trading as they get all the insider intelligence. Since Reagan proofed that selling weapons to your enemies is a good election tactic they may go that route.
How many actual revolutions have improved things?
More likely "plasma" which is much more common then "gas"
From what I understand, currently dark energy is too weak to have local effects, with local being as large as our local cluster of galaxies.
Some do postulate that it will (continue to) increase to the point it will overcome all forces ripping even atoms apart.
It's a border line case but from the article I think the photographers were in the right to limit their business to traditional weddings.
When the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that denying gay marriage was unconstitutional they also stated that priests and such can not be forced to perform them but marriage commissioners, JPs, etc can be fired for refusing.
It's always hard when rights conflict, I'd hate to be a judge in those kind of cases.
You're never forced to do business with people who you consider evil. Just like the vegan who turned down a job, you can turn down a job where you might be forced to serve someone you consider evil, which includes opening a public business.
As for the photographer, if he is freelance, he should be able to pick and choose, but if he works in a wedding chapel and sells wedding pictures, well he should photograph anyone who gets married in his place of work.
Printers can refuse to print objectionable material but if the West Baptist Church only wanted some parking signs printed or some such innocent material printed, you should have to print it as you are open to the public and the WBC is part of the public
It's pretty simple, the choice to serve the public means serving all the public
Trying to have wars in a world with nuclear weapons is like trying to have gangs of roving banditos in a nation where everyone carries around rifles and handguns. It's just not possible, and anyone who tries won't last very long.
I guess that is why places like the middle east and Afghanistan are so peaceful.
And yet not once has the second amendment stopped your government from ignoring the Constitution that you referenced up the page.
The British Monarch could assert her supremacy if she was doing it with the support of the people, eg an unpopular government that refused to call an election when their term ran out.
The American people could assert their supremacy just by sitting down and refusing to serve the rich, not much need for guns though handy if the government sicked the troops on the strikers, which historically has failed to stop the government and the rich's hired goons.
Back when the Constitution was written it was generally considered that a standing army led to tyranny and a militia was a better choice, so what used to be a requirement (free men owning and being proficient in arms) became a right.
Good point, though there was quite a few service jobs created. Every rich person had a house full of servants and if you were an attractive young woman, there was usually something to sell.
In other words, can you say "Luddite"? Sure you can...
So what you are saying is that because our great-grandkids, around the end of the century, will once again be fully employed, based on history, we should be happy that our kids and grandkids will be unemployed?
Congratulations, you figured out why I mentioned 1 mile crater rather then 800 ft crater.
While it is true that certain types of meteorites burn up or disintegrate, many are chondrites, stony or iron. Lots of small iron meteorites have been found, along with slightly bigger stony and chondrites. The biggest difference between the Earth and Moon is that the smaller meteorites hit at terminal velocity and don't create much more then a pit.
The Earth, while obviously not getting many micro-meteor hits, does get hit by a fair amount of meteorites.
Consider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Consider the number of craters over a mile across on the Moon.
When did the US army start using Imperial units? Imperial gallon = 160 fl ozs = 4.54 litres, one of many English gallons= 128 fl ozs = 3.78 litres. IIRC you used a weird sized inch as well which after switching to the Canadian inch of 25.4 mm back in the '50's, lives on as the surveyors inch.
Besides everyone knows it was the Russian army that kicked the Germans arse.
Not if you honestly don't need to pay taxes. Quit working and you don't have to pay. Don't even have to quit working, just reduce your income below the minimum for paying taxes.
If everyone sat down, refused to work and pay taxes, there would be change.