If this happens to be the Italian long-legged sac spider (Cheiracanthium mildei), this is like putting someone in a round room and telling him to relieve himself in a corner. These spiders like the indoors and instinctively crawl up walls and nest where the wall meets the ceiling. Gravity must play a role in that ability. If that lost spider happens to be a fertilized female looking for a place to lay her eggs, NASA is going to have a problem. It's just poisonous enough to merit medical attention, even for those who may not be allergic to spider strikes (invenomations).
Spiders, grease gun, cosmic rays, space jockeys. I don't like where this is going.
Until they learn that (s)he routed through China, Russia, and/or some other nation that is not so friendly to USA interests. Let's see Fort Meade earn its keep. If (s)he used TOR this will be the acid test.
The liquor lobby will not relinquish its monopoly on the sole legal nonprescription depressant.
There were a number of UN conventions on narcotics starting in the early 1960's. There were two reasons for this. First was organized crime. Second was the idea that substance abuse would lead to an unproductive populace. It is instant gratification chemically achieved instead of the delayed gratification involving blowing one's heart out chasing $CURRENCY more commonly known as hard work, the rat race, achievement, or graduation from mother's basement. A nation full of druggies bodes not well in paying its government's debts to lenders domestic and foreign.
As for the 'my body, my choice' argument, that ended when you received your social insurance reference number (Social Security Number in the USA). By having accepted the benefits (however coerced), you became government property. The rest is history. This is the argument posited by the patriot and militia movement in the USA.
The problem is that naturalization may make people American on paper, but it cannot correct the potential for identity dissonance in the case of those who are visibly different. Can the Idea of America truly overcome what one sees in the mirror to the ironclad satisfaction of national security policy? Americans must come to grips with the following; the very reason that some people have excelled in their chosen field may derive from worldviews that have the potential to conflict with the oath of naturalization.
Cameras and typewriters are used for innocent activities most of the time. The only time they are investigated is in forensics where they have been used in a crime. A bullet is only usually tested for ballistics after someone has died from its impact. If you didn't shoot the gun, why are you worried ?
Distrust of government is what separates us and this is where we must agree to disagree. Good fences, in this case 5000km of saltwater, makes good neighbors.
This sounds like the equivalent of "registering" typewriters with the government in nations once behind the Iron Curtain. It is no different than obtaining ballistic signatures from firearms at the manufacturer level. Yet one more reason to distrust governments.
On of the points that history teaches which without fail falls upon the deaf ears of Homo Sapiens is that perfect worlds invariably involve the slaughter of significant percentages of human populations.
Common sense: People can flee a burning building, but none can outrun a shockwave. Nothing is more politically (in the MaxWeberian sense) effective than explosives. How would governments exercise authority without brassclad measures of explosives sitting behind slugs of lead? How would armed forces kill people and break things without flying metal cases filled with explosives? Go ask William Ayers. That is why there is Bombers Row in FCI Florence if one be not put down like the patron saint of white males in Terre Haute on 6/11/01.
There is less of a need to regulate because purchases are traceable (even if there are no tagging agents in the materials). There have been so many foiled plots and the following is the reason. Some 'chemicals of interest' are still sold to the general public because the outlets (like Home Depot) that sell such commodities have cameras at the checkout (albeit for different reasons). Security images and sales receipts can be cross indexed by time stamp to get the faces of people buying such should one use cash. Fuel is everywhere but oxidizers are not. Show me where you can buy HTH or Solidox without some camera in view or the clerk asking for ID? As long as the purchase of critical chemicals are traceable (cameras at the checkout or other locations or ID checks), the process of manufacturing explosives will be difficult to obscure.
In the realm of hacking, this is why it would be inappropriate to purchase components like wireless network interface controllers in a 'monitored environment' by reason of the MAC address which with a little police work can be traced to the purchaser (NEED I SAY 'SARAH PALIN EMAIL HACK'?). That is yet another reason to crack down on computer shows (like gun shows). There's no safe hacking from any wired location: DSL (the other end of the line has a fixed address on the subnet beyone PPPoE), cable (MAC address in box already registered to user), or dialup (Caller ID or realtime/ billing ANI and police patrol attention despite U.S. v Katz).
'Cool America' A weak America is a cool America until there is a Rwanda. A strong America is a cool America until there is a Hallibur^XA strong America is never cool.
1. The Stasi set the standard for internal security 2. Fly planes into buildings to scare people into submission 3. Pass appropriate legislation 4. ??? 5. Profit!
Most Americans just don't get that in much of the world, ethnicity actually means something pretty profound to the average person.
This is precisely why ethnic slurs offend. Ethnicity is a gestalt. Physical appearance, language, religion, ideology, and folkways are bound in an inseparable unity. To tamper with one part is to violate the integrity of the whole. The very process of naturalization requires the adoption of values different from one's nativity. For some, the resulting identity dissonance may be too great to handle in the long term. Therefore some may attempt to retain their native intentions. For some, this leads to the spectre of unnaturalized minds in naturalized bodies. For others, it leads to attempting to fit in by modifying one's body via surgery, such as rhinoplasty, epicanthoplasty, and blepharoplasty. In the process of trying to fit in, people who appear exceedingly different will excel and achieve greatly. If this were not so, would anyone be reading this on the Internet?
In the USA there is now a critical mass of those who are different who have risen to great heights. However, when they look in the mirror, they cannot help but be reminded that they come from a place that has values that differ, sometimes greatly from the ones that they adopted under oath. Enter human nature with respect to temptation resistance and the potential for disaster involving national security is great.
It's one of biggest reasons why people on our own soil betray our trust to foreign governments. The only way we can override that in most cases is to stop being so limp-wristed toward people who break our espionage and export laws, and start seriously ruining the lives of people who break these laws
This already has been happening to Jews in the USA (Jonathan Pollard and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg). Of course an Irredeemable Protocols Believer will say that these instances are merely for public consumption to dissuade belief in a Jewish conspiracy. However, this is beyond the scope of this posting.
I have been saying this for years that the oath of citizenship taken does not rewrite DNA. Where the Fourteenth Amendment says "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" the judiciary would best serve by interpreting the clause as "and subject to the ideological jurisdiction thereof". The irony of citizenship apart from certifiable ideological naturalization has become ever more clear in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark. It should be just as much a hassle to naturalize in the USA as most other nations so as to serve as an incentive to get ALL parts of one's mutable condition naturalized. Not all nations permit naturalization (especially in the Persian Gulf), and it is no accident that such nations have trade and budget surpluses pouring into sovereign wealth funds.
The nagging problem is that China holds a critical percentage of federal debt and an obscene trade surplus. This has impaired the sovereignty necessary to do what is proper from a national security perspective. Perhaps what is deeper still is that we are seeing a revisit of the clash of civilizations the likes of which has not been witnessed since the mingrations of Indo-European peoples from the grasslands of West Asia some several millenia ago.
The right to speak one's mind without retaliation from government does not exist in a political state of nature. Remember whence cometh the quote "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down".
In this age of political correctness, there are carved out exemptions from the VTL (Vehicle and Traffic Law) of various jurisdictions.
Once upon a time, there was DWM, i.e. Driving While Minority. This used to be an offense until the ethnic defense organizations became powerful enough to lobby (extort) legislators, hire lawyers to defeat charges in court, and have judges impeached who convicted offenders.
Since DWM has been effectually been repealed this created new lacunae (loopholes). These VTL exemptions hold for th usual infractions (failure to signal, Failure to yield, Failure to keep right, improper passing, speeding, etc.)
VTLX-MO - VTL Exempt - Minority Operator. To charge such individual with the offense would raise the spectre of DWM. Charges are dropped and exemption stands.
VTLX-LV - VTL Exempt - Luxury Vehicle. If the person can afford to drive such a vehicle, (s)he can afford to hire a busload of lawyers to tie up the judiciary until the sun leaves main sequence.
VTLX-CN - VTL Exempt - (La) Cosa Nuestra - Black SUV's with tricolor reflective emblems on back. Stay far way from these if substances such as lead, concrete, and/or hydrofluoric acid are not part of your diet.
VTLX-DO - VTL Exempt - Diplomatic Officer - Immunity of the most obnoxious order in theory; I have found diplomats to be more courteous than expected. More often than not, these keep to the right on multilane highways. YMMV
VTLX-SC - VTL Exempt - Senior citizen - This one thinks that by virtue of living through the Great Depression, the Second World War and the Draft gives him/her an exemption from VTL.
VTLX-WV - War veteran (Korean Conflict and earlier) This one thinks that his/her service to his/her country places him above such petty regulations, for in his/her mind he made it possible for that jurisdiction to exist as it has without interference from a hostile foreign power.
VTLX-BB - Bitch Box - Absolutely fscking spoiled Ethnic-American Princess who thinks that the plastic card with her face on it is a title deed to all the asphalt, concrete and steel that comprise the transportation infrastructure, i.e. 'owns the road'.
Don't forget these two factors: weight and horsepower. That's why Chevys were so popular with the old hotrod crowd. How can one tell the difference between an anaemic 283 or 305 and a heavily doctored 400 smallblock using factory parts on the outside without a teardown? Chryslers were no different; a muscular stroker LA (340 bore w/360 crank) can be dressed up to look like any garden variety 318. Since this is Slashdot, I would expect someone here to say the same 'driving dynamometer' devices used for smog inspection can also 'read' horsepower. That info can be forwarded to the insurer (for rate adjustment or cancellation of policy on the basis of 'vehicle tampering').
Today's computer controlled vehicles are not much different. However, if the crash investigators (or the OBD readout during vehicle inspection) find a modified ROM in the engine control module, the insurer may try to balk. They will say that the modified ROM changed the engine which was not reflected in the VIN so that the proper rate was not charged (read: motorist was not properly 'ripped off').
What the insurers are trying to assemble through data mining is a PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND CHARACTER INDEX. Older people tend to be more responsible than younger people. Married people tend to be more responsible than singles (even more so when $BIOLOGICAL_TAX_DEDUCTIONS are involved). Women tend to be more responsible than men (why the glass ceiling needs to continue existing). College educated people tend to be more responsible than those who were by circumstances beyond their control denied a college education. Homeowners tend to be more responsible than renters. Rural residences tend to be less densely driven than urban or suburban residences. Credit ratings are 'the cherry on top' where attempting to determine a persons 'character and standing'. The bottom line is "More worries, less throttle". These factors are used to assign risk, THEN relevant info like one's driving record, vehicle make and model, use purpose, and miles driven are factored. So youthful unmarried non degreed male renters residing in urban locations who live cash and carry despite clean driving records get to subsidize the rest. What if these ratings just happen to play into a certain way where these begin paralleling ethnic lines? If so, where the hell is ACORN and other troublemak^Wcommunity organizers on this issue?
There is a grain of truth that Volvos are engineered to be safer cars and it reflects in the insurance rates. However, if sufficient numbers of aggressive or otherwise more loss-prone motorists drive Volvos, that will change.
The unwritten rule of auto insurance is: "The car makes the driver and the driver makes the car". I.E. The car (marketed with certain behaviors in mind despite disclaimers which serve to protect the manufacturer from litigation arising from suggested operation) makes the driver (operate such as the adverts suggest despite disclaimers) and the driver (through driving records) makes the car (by generating empirical data which insurers use to rate vehicle makes, models and equipment).
What will become of this is "Meaner looks means higher insurance rates".
There was someone in my neighborhood that had a 1970 Ford Torino with the headlamp doors. The grill was damaged and so the owner decided to do something creative. He removed the grille and grid from the doors and painted the outlines of cartoon eyes with mean-looking eyebrows. He told me that he was going to make teeth from plastic and metal parts and use a vacuum motor to make the teeth gnash upon goosing the accelerator. It never came to pass. However, it may give somebody 'ideas' if they have such a car.
What else? Make the land-line telephones go RING-RING....RING-RING...RING-RING...? Farce us to watch Coronation Street? Drive on the left side of the road? Install more surveillance cameras?
I can hear it now: "I for one welcome our stiff upper lipped overlords!"
Include language on one's Facebook or other social networking site that says to the effect that using this information to terminate, or demote or deny employment or other opportunities may result in legal action.
How about the classic case of Curbside Shopping Network(TM)? Pick up a PC from the curbside, bring it home, connect mains, kbd, mouse, screen, and power up! And all the mitching and boaning about ID theft. [sigh of disgust]
It is this sort of semantic ambiguity that that powers much humor. On the flip side, there is a radio advert I frequently hear about a cancer treatment center. Within the monologue, the protagonist says:
"I'll have an oncologist for the rest of my life at Saint Vincent's..."
One could perceive a macabre irony when one realizes the survival rates of various neoplastic disorders coloring the phrase rest of my life.
Let us not forget the price that was (and still being) paid for all that perfection. The very liberties that allow you to read this post does not and cannot exist in a political state of nature, the finest expression thereof we all had witnessed this past summer. People in uniform fought and died to carve out this realm in which we live and enjoy. The greatest freedom of all is the freedom to fail without fearing bad things coming from the government as a consequence.
The measure of a culture is what happens to people's humanity in their quest for achievement.
I have a sack of marbles from which I will proceed to fill my mouth in order to speak properly...(klik-kla-klak-glug-gug-gack-mmm-mmmphl)
It's not a surveillance cahmerah; it's a BEHAVIOUR MUHDIFICATION DEVOICE...
The lettah kyuuu (Q) is too heavily linked to terrorism for the ahverage Yahnkee to handle discrately since 11 September 2001. It occuhrs freyquentlay in trahnsliteraytion from the Arabic: Al Qa'ida.
One must not forget that there also exists the DemAAAAhnd DrAAAAAhft.
Slashdot Mirror
If this happens to be the Italian long-legged sac spider (Cheiracanthium mildei), this is like putting someone in a round room and telling him to relieve himself in a corner. These spiders like the indoors and instinctively crawl up walls and nest where the wall meets the ceiling. Gravity must play a role in that ability. If that lost spider happens to be a fertilized female looking for a place to lay her eggs, NASA is going to have a problem. It's just poisonous enough to merit medical attention, even for those who may not be allergic to spider strikes (invenomations).
Spiders, grease gun, cosmic rays, space jockeys. I don't like where this is going.
Until they learn that (s)he routed through China, Russia, and/or some other nation that is not so friendly to USA interests. Let's see Fort Meade earn its keep. If (s)he used TOR this will be the acid test.
NOTE: USA-centric content.
The liquor lobby will not relinquish its monopoly on the sole legal nonprescription depressant.
There were a number of UN conventions on narcotics starting in the early 1960's. There were two reasons for this. First was organized crime. Second was the idea that substance abuse would lead to an unproductive populace. It is instant gratification chemically achieved instead of the delayed gratification involving blowing one's heart out chasing $CURRENCY more commonly known as hard work, the rat race, achievement, or graduation from mother's basement. A nation full of druggies bodes not well in paying its government's debts to lenders domestic and foreign.
As for the 'my body, my choice' argument, that ended when you received your social insurance reference number (Social Security Number in the USA). By having accepted the benefits (however coerced), you became government property. The rest is history. This is the argument posited by the patriot and militia movement in the USA.
The problem is that naturalization may make people American on paper, but it cannot correct the potential for identity dissonance in the case of those who are visibly different. Can the Idea of America truly overcome what one sees in the mirror to the ironclad satisfaction of national security policy? Americans must come to grips with the following; the very reason that some people have excelled in their chosen field may derive from worldviews that have the potential to conflict with the oath of naturalization.
Cameras and typewriters are used for innocent activities most of the time. The only time they are investigated is in forensics where they have been used in a crime. A bullet is only usually tested for ballistics after someone has died from its impact. If you didn't shoot the gun, why are you worried ?
Distrust of government is what separates us and this is where we must agree to disagree. Good fences, in this case 5000km of saltwater, makes good neighbors.
This sounds like the equivalent of "registering" typewriters with the government in nations once behind the Iron Curtain. It is no different than obtaining ballistic signatures from firearms at the manufacturer level. Yet one more reason to distrust governments.
How about some perchloroethylene and granular calcium hypochlorite (usually called HTH)?
Double bonds in carbon break easily and monatomic oxygen rushes in for the loose electron pairs!
C2Cl4 + Ca(ClO)2 yields CaCl + 2COCl2 [skull_bones.svg]
Now watch the feds ban perc sale to the general public, notwithstanding DC v. Heller.
On of the points that history teaches which without fail falls upon the deaf ears of Homo Sapiens is that perfect worlds invariably involve the slaughter of significant percentages of human populations.
Common sense: People can flee a burning building, but none can outrun a shockwave. Nothing is more politically (in the MaxWeberian sense) effective than explosives. How would governments exercise authority without brassclad measures of explosives sitting behind slugs of lead? How would armed forces kill people and break things without flying metal cases filled with explosives? Go ask William Ayers. That is why there is Bombers Row in FCI Florence if one be not put down like the patron saint of white males in Terre Haute on 6/11/01.
There is less of a need to regulate because purchases are traceable (even if there are no tagging agents in the materials). There have been so many foiled plots and the following is the reason. Some 'chemicals of interest' are still sold to the general public because the outlets (like Home Depot) that sell such commodities have cameras at the checkout (albeit for different reasons). Security images and sales receipts can be cross indexed by time stamp to get the faces of people buying such should one use cash. Fuel is everywhere but oxidizers are not. Show me where you can buy HTH or Solidox without some camera in view or the clerk asking for ID? As long as the purchase of critical chemicals are traceable (cameras at the checkout or other locations or ID checks), the process of manufacturing explosives will be difficult to obscure.
In the realm of hacking, this is why it would be inappropriate to purchase components like wireless network interface controllers in a 'monitored environment' by reason of the MAC address which with a little police work can be traced to the purchaser (NEED I SAY 'SARAH PALIN EMAIL HACK'?). That is yet another reason to crack down on computer shows (like gun shows). There's no safe hacking from any wired location: DSL (the other end of the line has a fixed address on the subnet beyone PPPoE), cable (MAC address in box already registered to user), or dialup (Caller ID or realtime/ billing ANI and police patrol attention despite U.S. v Katz).
'Cool America'
A weak America is a cool America until there is a Rwanda.
A strong America is a cool America until there is a Hallibur^XA strong America is never cool.
1. The Stasi set the standard for internal security
2. Fly planes into buildings to scare people into submission
3. Pass appropriate legislation
4. ???
5. Profit!
Get a law degree and pass the bar exam.
If one is not disappeared in the process.
Most Americans just don't get that in much of the world, ethnicity actually means something pretty profound to the average person.
This is precisely why ethnic slurs offend. Ethnicity is a gestalt. Physical appearance, language, religion, ideology, and folkways are bound in an inseparable unity. To tamper with one part is to violate the integrity of the whole. The very process of naturalization requires the adoption of values different from one's nativity. For some, the resulting identity dissonance may be too great to handle in the long term. Therefore some may attempt to retain their native intentions. For some, this leads to the spectre of unnaturalized minds in naturalized bodies. For others, it leads to attempting to fit in by modifying one's body via surgery, such as rhinoplasty, epicanthoplasty, and blepharoplasty. In the process of trying to fit in, people who appear exceedingly different will excel and achieve greatly. If this were not so, would anyone be reading this on the Internet?
In the USA there is now a critical mass of those who are different who have risen to great heights. However, when they look in the mirror, they cannot help but be reminded that they come from a place that has values that differ, sometimes greatly from the ones that they adopted under oath. Enter human nature with respect to temptation resistance and the potential for disaster involving national security is great.
It's one of biggest reasons why people on our own soil betray our trust to foreign governments. The only way we can override that in most cases is to stop being so limp-wristed toward people who break our espionage and export laws, and start seriously ruining the lives of people who break these laws
This already has been happening to Jews in the USA (Jonathan Pollard and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg). Of course an Irredeemable Protocols Believer will say that these instances are merely for public consumption to dissuade belief in a Jewish conspiracy. However, this is beyond the scope of this posting.
I have been saying this for years that the oath of citizenship taken does not rewrite DNA. Where the Fourteenth Amendment says "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" the judiciary would best serve by interpreting the clause as "and subject to the ideological jurisdiction thereof". The irony of citizenship apart from certifiable ideological naturalization has become ever more clear in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark. It should be just as much a hassle to naturalize in the USA as most other nations so as to serve as an incentive to get ALL parts of one's mutable condition naturalized. Not all nations permit naturalization (especially in the Persian Gulf), and it is no accident that such nations have trade and budget surpluses pouring into sovereign wealth funds.
The nagging problem is that China holds a critical percentage of federal debt and an obscene trade surplus. This has impaired the sovereignty necessary to do what is proper from a national security perspective. Perhaps what is deeper still is that we are seeing a revisit of the clash of civilizations the likes of which has not been witnessed since the mingrations of Indo-European peoples from the grasslands of West Asia some several millenia ago.
The right to speak one's mind without retaliation from government does not exist in a political state of nature. Remember whence cometh the quote "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down".
Consider the following:
In this age of political correctness, there are carved out exemptions from the VTL (Vehicle and Traffic Law) of various jurisdictions.
Once upon a time, there was DWM, i.e. Driving While Minority. This used to be an offense until the ethnic defense organizations became powerful enough to lobby (extort) legislators, hire lawyers to defeat charges in court, and have judges impeached who convicted offenders.
Since DWM has been effectually been repealed this created new lacunae (loopholes). These VTL exemptions hold for th usual infractions (failure to signal, Failure to yield, Failure to keep right, improper passing, speeding, etc.)
VTLX-MO - VTL Exempt - Minority Operator. To charge such individual with the offense would raise the spectre of DWM. Charges are dropped and exemption stands.
VTLX-LV - VTL Exempt - Luxury Vehicle. If the person can afford to drive such a vehicle, (s)he can afford to hire a busload of lawyers to tie up the judiciary until the sun leaves main sequence.
VTLX-PC - VTL Exempt - Politically Connected - Self explanatory.
VTLX-CN - VTL Exempt - (La) Cosa Nuestra - Black SUV's with tricolor reflective emblems on back. Stay far way from these if substances such as lead, concrete, and/or hydrofluoric acid are not part of your diet.
VTLX-DO - VTL Exempt - Diplomatic Officer - Immunity of the most obnoxious order in theory; I have found diplomats to be more courteous than expected. More often than not, these keep to the right on multilane highways. YMMV
VTLX-SC - VTL Exempt - Senior citizen - This one thinks that by virtue of living through the Great Depression, the Second World War and the Draft gives him/her an exemption from VTL.
VTLX-WV - War veteran (Korean Conflict and earlier) This one thinks that his/her service to his/her country places him above such petty regulations, for in his/her mind he made it possible for that jurisdiction to exist as it has without interference from a hostile foreign power.
VTLX-BB - Bitch Box - Absolutely fscking spoiled Ethnic-American Princess who thinks that the plastic card with her face on it is a title deed to all the asphalt, concrete and steel that comprise the transportation infrastructure, i.e. 'owns the road'.
VTLX-SS - Spoiled Son - Male analogue of VTLX-BB.
I remember hearing a joke about Corvette drivers during the mid 1980's:
Q: What is the difference between a porcupine and a Corvette?
A: The porcupine has the pricks on the outside.
Don't forget these two factors: weight and horsepower. That's why Chevys were so popular with the old hotrod crowd. How can one tell the difference between an anaemic 283 or 305 and a heavily doctored 400 smallblock using factory parts on the outside without a teardown? Chryslers were no different; a muscular stroker LA (340 bore w/360 crank) can be dressed up to look like any garden variety 318. Since this is Slashdot, I would expect someone here to say the same 'driving dynamometer' devices used for smog inspection can also 'read' horsepower. That info can be forwarded to the insurer (for rate adjustment or cancellation of policy on the basis of 'vehicle tampering').
Today's computer controlled vehicles are not much different. However, if the crash investigators (or the OBD readout during vehicle inspection) find a modified ROM in the engine control module, the insurer may try to balk. They will say that the modified ROM changed the engine which was not reflected in the VIN so that the proper rate was not charged (read: motorist was not properly 'ripped off').
What the insurers are trying to assemble through data mining is a PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND CHARACTER INDEX. Older people tend to be more responsible than younger people. Married people tend to be more responsible than singles (even more so when $BIOLOGICAL_TAX_DEDUCTIONS are involved). Women tend to be more responsible than men (why the glass ceiling needs to continue existing). College educated people tend to be more responsible than those who were by circumstances beyond their control denied a college education. Homeowners tend to be more responsible than renters. Rural residences tend to be less densely driven than urban or suburban residences. Credit ratings are 'the cherry on top' where attempting to determine a persons 'character and standing'. The bottom line is "More worries, less throttle". These factors are used to assign risk, THEN relevant info like one's driving record, vehicle make and model, use purpose, and miles driven are factored. So youthful unmarried non degreed male renters residing in urban locations who live cash and carry despite clean driving records get to subsidize the rest. What if these ratings just happen to play into a certain way where these begin paralleling ethnic lines? If so, where the hell is ACORN and other troublemak^Wcommunity organizers on this issue?
There is a grain of truth that Volvos are engineered to be safer cars and it reflects in the insurance rates. However, if sufficient numbers of aggressive or otherwise more loss-prone motorists drive Volvos, that will change.
The unwritten rule of auto insurance is: "The car makes the driver and the driver makes the car". I.E. The car (marketed with certain behaviors in mind despite disclaimers which serve to protect the manufacturer from litigation arising from suggested operation) makes the driver (operate such as the adverts suggest despite disclaimers) and the driver (through driving records) makes the car (by generating empirical data which insurers use to rate vehicle makes, models and equipment).
What will become of this is "Meaner looks means higher insurance rates".
There was someone in my neighborhood that had a 1970 Ford Torino with the headlamp doors. The grill was damaged and so the owner decided to do something creative. He removed the grille and grid from the doors and painted the outlines of cartoon eyes with mean-looking eyebrows. He told me that he was going to make teeth from plastic and metal parts and use a vacuum motor to make the teeth gnash upon goosing the accelerator. It never came to pass. However, it may give somebody 'ideas' if they have such a car.
What else? Make the land-line telephones go RING-RING....RING-RING...RING-RING...? Farce us to watch Coronation Street? Drive on the left side of the road? Install more surveillance cameras?
I can hear it now: "I for one welcome our stiff upper lipped overlords!"
Management and labor in partnership and rich communication? Not all of us originate from a culture grounded in 'wise paternalism'.
When people try to repeal the laws of supply and demand, people die.
Include language on one's Facebook or other social networking site that says to the effect that using this information to terminate, or demote or deny employment or other opportunities may result in legal action.
What nation is the second largest holder of US government debt and has the largest trade surplus with the USA?
How about the classic case of Curbside Shopping Network(TM)? Pick up a PC from the curbside, bring it home, connect mains, kbd, mouse, screen, and power up! And all the mitching and boaning about ID theft. [sigh of disgust]
If the ballot box fails (wink-wink), there is always the jury box. We will not discuss the other box over insecure circuits.
It is this sort of semantic ambiguity that that powers much humor. On the flip side, there is a radio advert I frequently hear about a cancer treatment center. Within the monologue, the protagonist says:
"I'll have an oncologist for the rest of my life at Saint Vincent's..."
One could perceive a macabre irony when one realizes the survival rates of various neoplastic disorders coloring the phrase rest of my life.
Move over Derek Wadsworth, it's more campy sounding than the second season of Space:1999.
Let us not forget the price that was (and still being) paid for all that perfection. The very liberties that allow you to read this post does not and cannot exist in a political state of nature, the finest expression thereof we all had witnessed this past summer. People in uniform fought and died to carve out this realm in which we live and enjoy. The greatest freedom of all is the freedom to fail without fearing bad things coming from the government as a consequence.
The measure of a culture is what happens to people's humanity in their quest for achievement.
Assuming London (+44 171) 'Marblemouth' accent.
I have a sack of marbles from which I will proceed to fill my mouth in order to speak properly...(klik-kla-klak-glug-gug-gack-mmm-mmmphl)
It's not a surveillance cahmerah; it's a BEHAVIOUR MUHDIFICATION DEVOICE...
The lettah kyuuu (Q) is too heavily linked to terrorism for the ahverage Yahnkee to handle discrately since 11 September 2001. It occuhrs freyquentlay in trahnsliteraytion from the Arabic: Al Qa'ida.
One must not forget that there also exists the DemAAAAhnd DrAAAAAhft.
Spit! SPitt! SPEWWWWWW! (ting! ting ting! kla-klakk!) (huff-puff-huff!) BAACK to NYOO YAWK TAWK!