From the land that brought us REAL Ford Falcons have since put underpowered engines underhood and OVERSPEED indicators in the instrument cluster and the "Five Under Limit" crusade. So much for the old "Know Your Rights" campaign. It's becoming like a prison over there...Oh, wait...
It is not what that Jew did in the past that the world hates him. It is what that Jew will do. If Jeff were the one who will cast the Antichrist and the False Prophet (govenment-media-commecial-entertainment-industrial complex) into the Lake of Fire (that means spoiling all the fun and games of the world oligarkhij), he would be just as hated and despised as he.
[/oralfroth]
Now back to our blather about the fox guarding the henhouse.
I take it that members of the CCP are finally being ill-affected by piracy. It is not 'communism'; it is called Socialism with Chinese characteristics. This must be one of those characteristics.
Governments criminalizing actions, objects and conditions drive the engines of history. Today, it is child pornography. Tomorrow, it could be your ancestry, your physical appearance and/or your matters of conscience.
First they came for those with KinderPorn. I did not have it so I was quiet. Then they came for those with strong encryption. I did not have it so I was quiet. Then they came for those with balanced molar equations. I did not have it so I was quiet. Then they came for those with slacker philosophy. I did not have it so I was quiet. By the time they came for me there was no one else left to speak.
It is no accident that these are the same exact people that complain that they are not paid enough to afford housing outside the "affordable" (read: high crime) zones and are not paid enough to afford cars that won't attract cops due to poor condition and/or overdue inspection. If a person wants enough money to not have to live like a slob, on must be prepared to run oneself into the ground. The PDA is merely the tool to assist in the burial.
The reason for security being valued more than liberty nowadays is that the ovine masses are being told that to think that they cannot enjoy their toys if they be dead. As long as they have the fruits of their labor, the Bill of Rights be damned. "Live free or die" is now reserved for troublemakers.
People are being taught their place. "Bend that head down to the work and shut up" is the unspoken rule of the day. There are too many people that want the money (economic liberty) but not the values (political liberty). What they need is a massive infusion of "political alcohol dehydrogenase" (political liberty as defined as freeing their minds from their overseas ways) as part of the naturalization program. Can't have one without the other. I would rather have Asian juries itching for nullification (who value political liberty) than juries comprised of Anglo soccer-mom and career dad rubberstampers (who fear for their careers, properties and toys - CPT's) for the prosecution.
Political liberty is a necessary (tolerated) evil until such time that the security infrastructure be perfected. This is merely part of the process of perfecting said infrastructure. Only troublemakers believe that every human being has dignity and inherent worth.
Just watch. Congress will be wrenched by the MAFIAA lobby to delcare war on Canada. I can hear the mumbling of their lobbyists: "Damn Hoser Pirates, we'll fix their wagons!"
Imagine Rick Moranis being renditioned to Fumbuqistan and waterboarded to extract information on who else succeeded in defeating this.
The DC ROTUNDA is beginning to look more and more like a toilet seat cover, but the flusher does not work ('cause it's made by Diebold).
You are not alone on this. I've been saying that a different set of marginal tax rates should apply to different forms of income. There is wage income. One works and get paid, repeat. It is a continuous cycle that has the societal side-benefit in combatting idleness. There is capital gains, money put to genuine risk and if all goes well, there is a return on investment. IP income neither involves the compelled constant cycle of activity of wage income, nor the pain of risk arising from the entrusting of one's assets to another that describes capital gains. More often than not, the outcome of IP income usually comes to this: Work, work, work, sit on one's own backside, get paid, get paid, get paid.
It has become prostitution that keeps paying after services have been rendered. More times than not, the requisite character change (see Ralph Peters' Spotting the Losers: Seven Signs of Non-Competitive States) may not occur and the situation becomes the 'devil's workshop' because of new-found idleness arising from becoming wealthy enough not to work (Paris Hilton, Brittney Spears and other entertainment and/or trustifarian people).
A possible exemption from the new marginal rates could be applied if the owner is determined to be unable to work by reason of a physical disability that prohibits major life activities (blindness, wheelchair bound, etc.) Disabilities arisng from other conditions would be judged by a higher standard to prevent abuse.
Furthermore, 'limited times' (the clause in the Constitution which is the wellspring of IP law) must be understood in the context of human lifetimes, not institutional lifetimes. 'Life plus' terms encourage idleness on the part of heirs. This has been proven time and again to cause antisocial behaviour.
Let us review first principles. Democrats and Republicans are merely two wings of one party, the Money Party. The problem is that too many people (look in the mirror) are doing too well to care and do not wish to forfeit their CPT's (careers, properties, and toys). Nothing will change until these understand that economic freedom without political freedom is a mockery of both. These have adopted the 'Chinese model' by default. Until there is a manifestation of both virility and liberty mindset (a.k.a. testosterone and alcohol dehydrogenase), these might as well bend their heads down to the work and produce, because these have through negligence have let the 'nail that sticks up' to be hammered flat.
Let me don the Faraday cap of human behaviour (a.k.a. tinfoil hat). [foomp.....GLING!] It's pressure from WIPO and their ilk to dry up the supply of pirate-friendly hardware....until proven otherwise.
Ah, yes, Insular cases, Downes v. Bidwell that ruling gave us the doctrine that the Constitution does not follow the flag (see Justice Harlan's dissent). As for the military being soft, I am aware that one of the questions that a is asked of potential recruits is that if ordered, would one be willing to fire upon our own citizens. 'Tis disturbing to say the least.
With the enhanced protection should come enhanced taxation, perhaps a separate tax system for IP income.
As for the Ben Franklin thing, I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who said that. Seriously, the last time that this republic could have been rebooted was the Great Depression. What are draino bombs and ANFO buckets against current domestic security training and hardware? Now if enough people lost their homes and positional goods, that may be a possibility.
This is not only true for the adopted. There is a geopolitical angle to genetic testing. What of those who had radical name changes during the Ellis Island process? What of those who were trying to cast off their former identities for fear of persecution? The only practical reason that anyone would use genetic testing for ancestry purposes is to obtain an alternate citizenship. Many nations have become wise to this some time ago. They are looking for at least a bachelor's degree AS WELL as an unbreakable document chain long before any talk about issuing a passport on the basis of genes. What would be the motivation to obtain an alternate citizenship? Is it that the good old US of A will not be for us as it once was for our forbearers?
Many of our forbearers came here with the idea of casting off old identities and becoming Americans which sometimes included rhinoplasties and namechanges . Nowadays with the current interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, statutes and caselaw as a suicide pact, their children and grandchildren (read: some of us) are having second thoughts about remaining here. It's like what has been happening to Argentina since 2001. Even so, Europe is having more problems with Islamic extremeism than in the USA. Sounds like 'frying pan into fire' to me.
Ever since the Lemba people in southern Africa were found to have Levitical ancestry has the 'genetics for ancestry' thing become such a hot topic. The reason is that for some of them, it became an express ticket to Israel and its citizenship which for them was a relative step up in the quality of life. As for information sharing or leakage, it would be rather macabre to be informed that one has been found a carrier for Tay-Sachs, Gaucher's and/or other such genetic disorder by receiving a letter from the Israeli consulate about applying for citizenship. Rest assured that such will NOT happen. Any hint of Christianity will disqualify emigration to Israel, yet that hint did not protect them from the Nazis [non applicat lex Goduinis]. Many tried to convert their genes away but it did not work. Read up on the inventor of Zyklon-B, Fritz Haber. For those still living, Google "Beresford Decision" and "Israeli citizenship". Genes may get you in, but theology shall certainly screen you out.
The simple fact is that will all that good fortune, these sorts are afraid the something will take them away from their toys. These have alread done due diligence to make it impossible to take their toys away from them (family limited partnership trusts and other such legal devices). Call these institutions for what they are: cheat-death clinics. Moreover, the radio advertisments for these should nauseate any person with a conscience: "Make sure you are around to enjoy your 401k and not your children." One can hear them say: "The kids can go to hell! They are nothing more than black holes of the financial universe!" It's that Me Generation $#!7 playing out. There is a cure for that sort of arrogance, I will leave that to people's imagination.
Let me give our border control overlords some ideas. (Everyone groans)
Think of it as a credit score but in reverse. Zero is Kansas Wheatfield Apple Pie Granny. Eight hundred is Osama binLaden. Everyone starts at four hundred because everyone is suspect (carceral mentality indicative of government). There are activities that lower one's score:
* home ownership and positional goods possession (shorthand for my usual rant list) * remotely observed talk about finances * lack of ethnic food purchases * pork consumption * remotely observed evangelical church, Orthodox or Hasidic synagogue attendance * NASCAR, baseball and (gridiron) football game attendance * Being found expressing one's agreement of the current admninstration * Masonic Lodge membership (this one's the trump card)
Activities that raises one's score are:
* renting one's residence * eschewing positional goods possession * purchasing ethnic foods * not consuming pork products * soccer/squash/cricket game attendance * remotely observed mainline Protestant church, Reform or Reconstructionist temple and/or masjid (mosque) attendance * sporting male facial hair (including and mouth-gasket goatees) * wearing of hats * blogging * participating in political protests * driving hybrids * Insistence on using public transit where driving would be more efficient * riding bicycles for personal transportation * facial piercings * tattoos (other than military art) * Use of compact fluorescent lamps * Volunteering at non-profit organizations * General vociferousness a.k.a. being a 'loud-mouth' (Frequent among petite female college students) * ACLU or other 'troublemaker organization' membership (this one's the other trump card)
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From the land that brought us REAL Ford Falcons have since put underpowered engines underhood and OVERSPEED indicators in the instrument cluster and the "Five Under Limit" crusade. So much for the old "Know Your Rights" campaign. It's becoming like a prison over there...Oh, wait...
It starts with cleaning up the spectrum and the pipelines. Do we smell appeasement in the war on terror?
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It is not what that Jew did in the past that the world hates him. It is what that Jew will do. If Jeff were the one who will cast the Antichrist and the False Prophet (govenment-media-commecial-entertainment-industrial complex) into the Lake of Fire (that means spoiling all the fun and games of the world oligarkhij), he would be just as hated and despised as he.
[/oralfroth]
Now back to our blather about the fox guarding the henhouse.
I take it that members of the CCP are finally being ill-affected by piracy. It is not 'communism'; it is called Socialism with Chinese characteristics. This must be one of those characteristics.
Governments criminalizing actions, objects and conditions drive the engines of history. Today, it is child pornography. Tomorrow, it could be your ancestry, your physical appearance and/or your matters of conscience.
The USA federal criminal statute had been amended to include computer generated CP (18 USC 2256, 2258). http://www.cyber-rights.org/reports/uscases.htm
First they came for those with KinderPorn. I did not have it so I was quiet.
Then they came for those with strong encryption. I did not have it so I was quiet.
Then they came for those with balanced molar equations. I did not have it so I was quiet.
Then they came for those with slacker philosophy. I did not have it so I was quiet.
By the time they came for me there was no one else left to speak.
That is why there is a civil rights infrastructure to put said bullies in their place.
Has the DA made his jury pool tainting statement?
[sarcasm: socioeconomic darwinist]
It is no accident that these are the same exact people that complain that they are not paid enough to afford housing outside the "affordable" (read: high crime) zones and are not paid enough to afford cars that won't attract cops due to poor condition and/or overdue inspection. If a person wants enough money to not have to live like a slob, on must be prepared to run oneself into the ground. The PDA is merely the tool to assist in the burial.
[/sarcasm]
Nothing short of an absolute radical change in human nature will do away with said meme.
CAUTION: May contain rants.
The reason for security being valued more than liberty nowadays is that the ovine masses are being told that to think that they cannot enjoy their toys if they be dead. As long as they have the fruits of their labor, the Bill of Rights be damned. "Live free or die" is now reserved for troublemakers.
People are being taught their place. "Bend that head down to the work and shut up" is the unspoken rule of the day. There are too many people that want the money (economic liberty) but not the values (political liberty). What they need is a massive infusion of "political alcohol dehydrogenase" (political liberty as defined as freeing their minds from their overseas ways) as part of the naturalization program. Can't have one without the other. I would rather have Asian juries itching for nullification (who value political liberty) than juries comprised of Anglo soccer-mom and career dad rubberstampers (who fear for their careers, properties and toys - CPT's) for the prosecution.
[sarcasm]
Political liberty is a necessary (tolerated) evil until such time that the security infrastructure be perfected. This is merely part of the process of perfecting said infrastructure. Only troublemakers believe that every human being has dignity and inherent worth.
[/sarcasm]
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Just watch. Congress will be wrenched by the MAFIAA lobby to delcare war on Canada. I can hear the mumbling of their lobbyists: "Damn Hoser Pirates, we'll fix their wagons!"
Imagine Rick Moranis being renditioned to Fumbuqistan and waterboarded to extract information on who else succeeded in defeating this.
The DC ROTUNDA is beginning to look more and more like a toilet seat cover, but the flusher does not work ('cause it's made by Diebold).
You are not alone on this. I've been saying that a different set of marginal tax rates should apply to different forms of income. There is wage income. One works and get paid, repeat. It is a continuous cycle that has the societal side-benefit in combatting idleness. There is capital gains, money put to genuine risk and if all goes well, there is a return on investment. IP income neither involves the compelled constant cycle of activity of wage income, nor the pain of risk arising from the entrusting of one's assets to another that describes capital gains. More often than not, the outcome of IP income usually comes to this: Work, work, work, sit on one's own backside, get paid, get paid, get paid.
It has become prostitution that keeps paying after services have been rendered. More times than not, the requisite character change (see Ralph Peters' Spotting the Losers: Seven Signs of Non-Competitive States) may not occur and the situation becomes the 'devil's workshop' because of new-found idleness arising from becoming wealthy enough not to work (Paris Hilton, Brittney Spears and other entertainment and/or trustifarian people).
A possible exemption from the new marginal rates could be applied if the owner is determined to be unable to work by reason of a physical disability that prohibits major life activities (blindness, wheelchair bound, etc.) Disabilities arisng from other conditions would be judged by a higher standard to prevent abuse.
Furthermore, 'limited times' (the clause in the Constitution which is the wellspring of IP law) must be understood in the context of human lifetimes, not institutional lifetimes. 'Life plus' terms encourage idleness on the part of heirs. This has been proven time and again to cause antisocial behaviour.
Let us review first principles. Democrats and Republicans are merely two wings of one party, the Money Party. The problem is that too many people (look in the mirror) are doing too well to care and do not wish to forfeit their CPT's (careers, properties, and toys). Nothing will change until these understand that economic freedom without political freedom is a mockery of both. These have adopted the 'Chinese model' by default. Until there is a manifestation of both virility and liberty mindset (a.k.a. testosterone and alcohol dehydrogenase), these might as well bend their heads down to the work and produce, because these have through negligence have let the 'nail that sticks up' to be hammered flat.
Let me don the Faraday cap of human behaviour (a.k.a. tinfoil hat). [foomp.....GLING!] It's pressure from WIPO and their ilk to dry up the supply of pirate-friendly hardware....until proven otherwise.
Ah, yes, Insular cases, Downes v. Bidwell that ruling gave us the doctrine that the Constitution does not follow the flag (see Justice Harlan's dissent). As for the military being soft, I am aware that one of the questions that a is asked of potential recruits is that if ordered, would one be willing to fire upon our own citizens. 'Tis disturbing to say the least.
Dreamchasing is so #FFC0CB.
With the enhanced protection should come enhanced taxation, perhaps a separate tax system for IP income.
As for the Ben Franklin thing, I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who said that. Seriously, the last time that this republic could have been rebooted was the Great Depression. What are draino bombs and ANFO buckets against current domestic security training and hardware? Now if enough people lost their homes and positional goods, that may be a possibility.
Fear not, there are certainly more than enough of us /.ers outside the jurisdiction thereof to undo this exquisite little inconvenience.
We are China, Alcohol dehydrogenase^W^WWesternness is futile, you will be obsoleted.
I guess that means birth certificates are meaningless, EH?
This is not only true for the adopted. There is a geopolitical angle to genetic testing. What of those who had radical name changes during the Ellis Island process? What of those who were trying to cast off their former identities for fear of persecution? The only practical reason that anyone would use genetic testing for ancestry purposes is to obtain an alternate citizenship. Many nations have become wise to this some time ago. They are looking for at least a bachelor's degree AS WELL as an unbreakable document chain long before any talk about issuing a passport on the basis of genes. What would be the motivation to obtain an alternate citizenship? Is it that the good old US of A will not be for us as it once was for our forbearers?
Many of our forbearers came here with the idea of casting off old identities and becoming Americans which sometimes included rhinoplasties and namechanges . Nowadays with the current interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, statutes and caselaw as a suicide pact, their children and grandchildren (read: some of us) are having second thoughts about remaining here. It's like what has been happening to Argentina since 2001. Even so, Europe is having more problems with Islamic extremeism than in the USA. Sounds like 'frying pan into fire' to me.
Ever since the Lemba people in southern Africa were found to have Levitical ancestry has the 'genetics for ancestry' thing become such a hot topic. The reason is that for some of them, it became an express ticket to Israel and its citizenship which for them was a relative step up in the quality of life. As for information sharing or leakage, it would be rather macabre to be informed that one has been found a carrier for Tay-Sachs, Gaucher's and/or other such genetic disorder by receiving a letter from the Israeli consulate about applying for citizenship. Rest assured that such will NOT happen. Any hint of Christianity will disqualify emigration to Israel, yet that hint did not protect them from the Nazis [non applicat lex Goduinis]. Many tried to convert their genes away but it did not work. Read up on the inventor of Zyklon-B, Fritz Haber. For those still living, Google "Beresford Decision" and "Israeli citizenship". Genes may get you in, but theology shall certainly screen you out.
The simple fact is that will all that good fortune, these sorts are afraid the something will take them away from their toys. These have alread done due diligence to make it impossible to take their toys away from them (family limited partnership trusts and other such legal devices). Call these institutions for what they are: cheat-death clinics. Moreover, the radio advertisments for these should nauseate any person with a conscience: "Make sure you are around to enjoy your 401k and not your children." One can hear them say: "The kids can go to hell! They are nothing more than black holes of the financial universe!" It's that Me Generation $#!7 playing out. There is a cure for that sort of arrogance, I will leave that to people's imagination.
Let me give our border control overlords some ideas. (Everyone groans)
Think of it as a credit score but in reverse. Zero is Kansas Wheatfield Apple Pie Granny. Eight hundred is Osama binLaden. Everyone starts at four hundred because everyone is suspect (carceral mentality indicative of government). There are activities that lower one's score:
* home ownership and positional goods possession (shorthand for my usual rant list)
* remotely observed talk about finances
* lack of ethnic food purchases
* pork consumption
* remotely observed evangelical church, Orthodox or Hasidic synagogue attendance
* NASCAR, baseball and (gridiron) football game attendance
* Being found expressing one's agreement of the current admninstration
* Masonic Lodge membership (this one's the trump card)
Activities that raises one's score are:
* renting one's residence
* eschewing positional goods possession
* purchasing ethnic foods
* not consuming pork products
* soccer/squash/cricket game attendance
* remotely observed mainline Protestant church, Reform or Reconstructionist temple and/or masjid (mosque) attendance
* sporting male facial hair (including and mouth-gasket goatees)
* wearing of hats
* blogging
* participating in political protests
* driving hybrids
* Insistence on using public transit where driving would be more efficient
* riding bicycles for personal transportation
* facial piercings
* tattoos (other than military art)
* Use of compact fluorescent lamps
* Volunteering at non-profit organizations
* General vociferousness a.k.a. being a 'loud-mouth' (Frequent among petite female college students)
* ACLU or other 'troublemaker organization' membership (this one's the other trump card)