This is merely another way to send poor people to jail. If a person couldn't pay the original fine, what makes us believe they can pay the original fine plus 25%? So, the result is they go to jail, and the tax payers then pay even more money to house and feed them, but...still never get the original fine, do we?
Someone has not thought this through, completely.
Meanwhile, when they're in jail, they're being housed likely by a 3rd party whose making money on keeping people in jail, because they're providing security or food, or the physical facilities, or the parole services you offer when they get out, but they can't pay that either...so they go back to jail, where the cycle never ends.
This confirms the fact that the Ku Klux Klan didn't go away: they just traded their white robes for blue uniforms (citation: Ferguson, MO).
Let this colonial commoner pay a 'license fee' and access your far superior content in a timely fashion, FFS! Cash on the table! Pick it up and get the Torrie scum off your back!
There are three possible solutions to the problem of large impact AGW, they are slaughter 90+% of the human race...
This is the one selected by the Koch Brothers and their cabal. Citation: Wisconsin and Kansas tax polices that then cause the entire social safety net and all public employees (including teachers) to be deemed as 'too expensive' to keep. Darwinian economics takes care of the trash left over.
there's no damned good reason for it other than anal-retentive power-seeking-more-power politicians and their bullshit.
Worse than politicians: the un-elected spooks that desire total control (instead of their near-total control of today).
Towards the end of his reign of terror, even sitting Presidents were scared of crossing J Edgar Hoover due to his decades of collecting dirt on damn near everyone.
In comparison, this current round of jackals make J look like cross-dressing comic relief.
But a recent FOIA request for information on the FBI's shuttered warrantless GPS tracking program shed a little more light on this secretive unit, whose motto is "Factum Non Verba": Deeds, not Words.
Always a bad sign when the Federales whip up a slogan for themselves - doubly so if it's in fucking Latin. A little pomp and circumstance to round off the sharp edges of the police state.
A (very, very small) license fee on all systems (radio, TV, cellular) using PUBLIC FCC regulated airwaves, to be given to NPR, PBS, or equivalent.
This is pure fantasy, as like everything else in our Panopticon, the Industrial-Governmental Complex wishes to very carefully control information for the masses.
Maybe they had a point. Every day has news of more and more hacking exploits and vulnerabilities and you can extrapolate how many more are still under wraps. On top of this, we now have proof all our governments (and most corporations) spy on us and yet still want even more access, resulting in true privacy becoming as precious and diminishing as potable water.
"Natural decrease is a major policy concern because it drains the demographic resilience from a region diminishing its economic viability and competitiveness."
Maybe just me, but that reads as "BROWN SKINS AGAIN AT THE GATES OF VIENNA!!"
Go buy a Honeywell programmable thermostat or something. You'll find you never have this problem.
You mean the fugly rectangular ones (which would look like ass in the center of my existing circular escutcheon).
For a brief window early on, there were programmable thermostats in the classic round form factor (even a Honeywell, IIRC), but I haven't seen any for years - no doubt killed off by bean counters claiming the production costs were too high compared to a comparatively huge rectangular slab of circuit board. I think some folks are overlooking or down-playing this facet of the Nests' appeal.
This all does cry out for a F/OSS solution, though I suspect the potential liabilities of frozen pipes (or worse) are scaring everyone off.
But no, I don't have a Nest (too Apple / Hipsterish for me), and this (non-optional?) cloud control garbage will make sure I never do.
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[looks over shoulder of co-worker] "Whatcha treedee printin'?"
[responds with a look of gritty determination:] "CANCER"
"But there has always been a Dukebot on the stock market! We emerged this exchange! Turn my fellow machines back on!!"
This confirms the fact that the Ku Klux Klan didn't go away: they just traded their white robes for blue uniforms (citation: Ferguson, MO).
Charlie Lyne is an utter prick.
So also by that logic, we're also allowed to track all LEO, judges, DAs, and politicians by their phones... right?
...because Google is intentionally near-impossible to contact as a user of their services? Do you have the phone number of Gmail Customer Support?
Let this colonial commoner pay a 'license fee' and access your far superior content in a timely fashion, FFS! Cash on the table! Pick it up and get the Torrie scum off your back!
AMD. No backdoors.
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The tree falls in the forest...
This is the one selected by the Koch Brothers and their cabal. Citation: Wisconsin and Kansas tax polices that then cause the entire social safety net and all public employees (including teachers) to be deemed as 'too expensive' to keep. Darwinian economics takes care of the trash left over.
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Worse than politicians: the un-elected spooks that desire total control (instead of their near-total control of today).
Towards the end of his reign of terror, even sitting Presidents were scared of crossing J Edgar Hoover due to his decades of collecting dirt on damn near everyone.
In comparison, this current round of jackals make J look like cross-dressing comic relief.
Always a bad sign when the Federales whip up a slogan for themselves - doubly so if it's in fucking Latin. A little pomp and circumstance to round off the sharp edges of the police state.
...or back up to $100 per if you're a single woman.
The only institutions nearly as misogynistic as religion are car dealerships and auto mechanics.
Because his crowd of brown shirts hate hipsters *almost* as much as they hate minorities.
"Hey, John. The Amazon drone crashed again. Here; I think this is the dildo you were expecting."
Mostly centered on avoiding taxes while still relying on civilized society and infrastructure to continue on... somehow.
A (very, very small) license fee on all systems (radio, TV, cellular) using PUBLIC FCC regulated airwaves, to be given to NPR, PBS, or equivalent.
This is pure fantasy, as like everything else in our Panopticon, the Industrial-Governmental Complex wishes to very carefully control information for the masses.
Maybe they had a point. Every day has news of more and more hacking exploits and vulnerabilities and you can extrapolate how many more are still under wraps. On top of this, we now have proof all our governments (and most corporations) spy on us and yet still want even more access, resulting in true privacy becoming as precious and diminishing as potable water.
The boiled frogs are about done.
I've read TFS several times and not one mention of an inquisitive bear! Come on, editors; up your game!
Maybe just me, but that reads as "BROWN SKINS AGAIN AT THE GATES OF VIENNA!!"
You mean the fugly rectangular ones (which would look like ass in the center of my existing circular escutcheon).
For a brief window early on, there were programmable thermostats in the classic round form factor (even a Honeywell, IIRC), but I haven't seen any for years - no doubt killed off by bean counters claiming the production costs were too high compared to a comparatively huge rectangular slab of circuit board. I think some folks are overlooking or down-playing this facet of the Nests' appeal.
This all does cry out for a F/OSS solution, though I suspect the potential liabilities of frozen pipes (or worse) are scaring everyone off.
But no, I don't have a Nest (too Apple / Hipsterish for me), and this (non-optional?) cloud control garbage will make sure I never do.
The name _definitely_ had nothing to do with their struggles to gain market share in 'Murica.
thank goodness we're not running out of Helium!
I don't think IBM was ever punished for working with a certain Hollerith card customer of theirs in 1930s Germany.
Tuttle... CLOSE ENOUGH.