I'd use a mod point, but I want you to personally take the hit instead of some AC. I guess that you have never worked or been around autistic people....or you're deliberately trolling for an idiotic joke, for which you need to be kicked in unmentionable places and suffer multiple cheap shots.
You almost make sense, but then you need to think about which side has the most guns and is more paranoid about people taking them away. It ain't the left.
In any case, you more or less just described Washington, DC, with people who have a vested interest in supporting or opposing your viewpoint and probably won't get violent over it. Other than a handful of crazies this year, America went to war with itself ONCE in 200+ years, and handled some pretty testy stuff without many shots fired (civil rights, as bad as it got at times, could have been a LOT bloodier). Not many countries can lay claim to that.
Sooo....why live there? You have justed listed several of the many reasons why it would take a TON - and I am talking seven figures a year, or HIGH sixes - of money for me to move to a big city. Cost of living, not being able to really own my own home, no grass that God didn't plant, smog, Cost of living, yankees (baseball and people, sorry a little Southern prejudice leaking through), SNOW, bad food (of course, I'm a "outmigrated" Louisianian with ridiculously high standards), Cost of living...
I live on half an acre and feel cramped, I'd probably turn even crazier if I had to live with all that.
Get the heck out of the city, man, and move to someplace where people and climate is warmer and you got room to move.
Mod down.
Here is a serious oversimplification and overstatement of percieved infringement of liberties. If it is happening, it isn't to the level which you are supposing. Watch your slippery slope.
London should be used as a comparison, but as the Brits and Americans are SO different when it comes to security (note the issue of gun crime comparisons...ALL of them), I'm not so certain that what happens in one city WOULDN'T have a near-opposite effect in the other.
What liberty is given up here? Is this a true "right to privacy" case when you can be recorded IN PUBLIC? The cameras don't prevent anything in the first amendment.
Not being facetious here, but simply quoting Franklin on the issue doesn't cover it. I'm not an anti-privacy advocate (I REALLY wish that it was more explicit in the Constitution, not an interpretation of the court). I think that the idea of government surveillance needs some SERIOUS checks (watching the watchmen), but I'm not going to go overboard that they are trying to control everything that we do.
I have personally always been of two minds on the matter.
I believe that it's a ton of FUD that people are thinking that we're in the midst of creation of an awful big-brother type government. We have way too many people, and we're way too paranoid to let that happen. You need a semi-complacent population (you listening Britain??) that almost WANTS a nanny-state type surveillance for that sort of thing.
Do I think that international calls should be monitored with known/suspected terrorists? You bet your boots I want those heard. Do we need warrants for them? To a point, but there are quite a few spur-of-the-moment issues that occur here, and I doubt that anyone (including the government) understand the complexities of what is going on. Plus, there can be an argument for such a call being a military matter and falling under any President's purview as C-in-C.
That isn't to say that I am comfortable with the entire process and don't think that there may be some level of abuse or semi-dubious legality.
However, keep in mind that ANYTHING this administration has done in the last few years has had several automatic, thoughtless reactions from both sides of the aisle in attack and defense, with very little concept of historical reality and context(my common complaint of journalism, where it seems that everything happens in a 4-8 year vaccuum).
I could probably find arguments from the mouths of liberals (I typically use the term "leftist" to describe the extreme ones) that would counter each category listed above. Same with crazy right-wingers.
I LIKED SM 2 for the original Nintendo (and it remains my favorite Mario game to date [Which is relative, considering the only other Mario game I ever liked was Mariokart]...and it wasn't really a "Mario" game, just a Japanese game that switched out some Mario characters).
Wait...we're not talking about that Super Mario 2, are we?
Wait, the eminent domain decision (which the left side of the court was for, and the right against) made sense? McCain-Feingold? Refusing to hear a case on the assault weapons (scary-looking guns) ban?
You have an interesting definition of "making sense."
Quote that may help him
"The only consistent feature of your dissatisfying relationships is you." What else in your life do you break, buddy-pal-friend-o-mine?
I always wondered if terraforming could just be done my massive planting of hardy fauna. A ton of trees (like a rainforest), should drastically change even weather patterns...I always thought that it would be an interesting experiment for a lander to plant - and tend - some cacti or something and see what would happen over time.
I do think that the time span is a bit idealistic, and doesn't account for the Law of Unintended Consequences, but the idea is sound.
Re-gerrymandering districts is more about incumbency protection (on BOTH sides of the aisle, often cooperating - there are stories about this that repeat themselves every ten years).
Georgia just completed its own cases...Louisiana had a particularly notorious case of blatantly obvious (even to the most hard-lined) one that literally snaked halfway around the state.
I don't necessarily agree with the "proportional" proposal unless there was some way to keep it local - I want someone who leaves nearby as my rep, not someone who is in the same party miles away. Neither the opposition NOR someone who doesn't live close by will have my political interests primarily at heart. Of course, someone who lives closely AND is in the same political boat probably won't, either...
Someone is going to get their 15 minutes of fame out of this by asking some poignant and unanswered question that people are going to view over and over. What WILL be answered are "blah" questions offered by clean-cut "respectable"-looking folks, half of which I could easily believe are plants. Crazy people/conspiracy theorists/tattooed whackos/Green Party folks won't get airtime.
Wow, talk about your incorrect oversimplifications.
Maybe look into how the consumer is out of the insurance-drug company-doctor-government loop on medical insurance, and how it doesn't truly subsist of a free market.
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I'd use a mod point, but I want you to personally take the hit instead of some AC. I guess that you have never worked or been around autistic people....or you're deliberately trolling for an idiotic joke, for which you need to be kicked in unmentionable places and suffer multiple cheap shots.
You almost make sense, but then you need to think about which side has the most guns and is more paranoid about people taking them away. It ain't the left.
In any case, you more or less just described Washington, DC, with people who have a vested interest in supporting or opposing your viewpoint and probably won't get violent over it. Other than a handful of crazies this year, America went to war with itself ONCE in 200+ years, and handled some pretty testy stuff without many shots fired (civil rights, as bad as it got at times, could have been a LOT bloodier). Not many countries can lay claim to that.
Sooo....why live there? You have justed listed several of the many reasons why it would take a TON - and I am talking seven figures a year, or HIGH sixes - of money for me to move to a big city. Cost of living, not being able to really own my own home, no grass that God didn't plant, smog, Cost of living, yankees (baseball and people, sorry a little Southern prejudice leaking through), SNOW, bad food (of course, I'm a "outmigrated" Louisianian with ridiculously high standards), Cost of living...
I live on half an acre and feel cramped, I'd probably turn even crazier if I had to live with all that.
Get the heck out of the city, man, and move to someplace where people and climate is warmer and you got room to move.
Mod down. Here is a serious oversimplification and overstatement of percieved infringement of liberties. If it is happening, it isn't to the level which you are supposing. Watch your slippery slope.
London should be used as a comparison, but as the Brits and Americans are SO different when it comes to security (note the issue of gun crime comparisons...ALL of them), I'm not so certain that what happens in one city WOULDN'T have a near-opposite effect in the other.
What liberty is given up here? Is this a true "right to privacy" case when you can be recorded IN PUBLIC? The cameras don't prevent anything in the first amendment.
Not being facetious here, but simply quoting Franklin on the issue doesn't cover it. I'm not an anti-privacy advocate (I REALLY wish that it was more explicit in the Constitution, not an interpretation of the court). I think that the idea of government surveillance needs some SERIOUS checks (watching the watchmen), but I'm not going to go overboard that they are trying to control everything that we do.
I have personally always been of two minds on the matter.
I believe that it's a ton of FUD that people are thinking that we're in the midst of creation of an awful big-brother type government. We have way too many people, and we're way too paranoid to let that happen. You need a semi-complacent population (you listening Britain??) that almost WANTS a nanny-state type surveillance for that sort of thing.
Do I think that international calls should be monitored with known/suspected terrorists? You bet your boots I want those heard. Do we need warrants for them? To a point, but there are quite a few spur-of-the-moment issues that occur here, and I doubt that anyone (including the government) understand the complexities of what is going on. Plus, there can be an argument for such a call being a military matter and falling under any President's purview as C-in-C.
That isn't to say that I am comfortable with the entire process and don't think that there may be some level of abuse or semi-dubious legality.
However, keep in mind that ANYTHING this administration has done in the last few years has had several automatic, thoughtless reactions from both sides of the aisle in attack and defense, with very little concept of historical reality and context(my common complaint of journalism, where it seems that everything happens in a 4-8 year vaccuum).
I could probably find arguments from the mouths of liberals (I typically use the term "leftist" to describe the extreme ones) that would counter each category listed above. Same with crazy right-wingers.
This is kind of like King Kong vs. Godzilla. Both are big and bloated and it doesn't matter which one wins...we all lose.
They're just making it official he's crazy. Heck, I'm a "right-wing nutcase" and I think the guy is off his rocker.
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I LIKED SM 2 for the original Nintendo (and it remains my favorite Mario game to date [Which is relative, considering the only other Mario game I ever liked was Mariokart]...and it wasn't really a "Mario" game, just a Japanese game that switched out some Mario characters).
Wait...we're not talking about that Super Mario 2, are we?
Yeah, but less fake.
Wait, the eminent domain decision (which the left side of the court was for, and the right against) made sense? McCain-Feingold? Refusing to hear a case on the assault weapons (scary-looking guns) ban?
You have an interesting definition of "making sense."
Quote that may help him "The only consistent feature of your dissatisfying relationships is you." What else in your life do you break, buddy-pal-friend-o-mine?
So what would Cuba be like if Castro weren't there over the last 50 years?
I always wondered if terraforming could just be done my massive planting of hardy fauna. A ton of trees (like a rainforest), should drastically change even weather patterns...I always thought that it would be an interesting experiment for a lander to plant - and tend - some cacti or something and see what would happen over time.
I do think that the time span is a bit idealistic, and doesn't account for the Law of Unintended Consequences, but the idea is sound.
I've read too many comics.
The first thing that I thought of was, "man, that's a super-villain just WAITING to happen."
Hello, Brainiac.
There was a rather interesting story written in the 50s or 60s about prostitutes being sent up to Mars to help relieve the crew.
The most interesting part? It was written by CS Lewis (not sure if it was in his pre-Christian days or not).
Ummm..."Europe" and "tax-free??"
Sure. Yeah. Whatever.
Re-gerrymandering districts is more about incumbency protection (on BOTH sides of the aisle, often cooperating - there are stories about this that repeat themselves every ten years).
Georgia just completed its own cases...Louisiana had a particularly notorious case of blatantly obvious (even to the most hard-lined) one that literally snaked halfway around the state.
I don't necessarily agree with the "proportional" proposal unless there was some way to keep it local - I want someone who leaves nearby as my rep, not someone who is in the same party miles away. Neither the opposition NOR someone who doesn't live close by will have my political interests primarily at heart. Of course, someone who lives closely AND is in the same political boat probably won't, either...
You AGREE with incumbent protection? Unless I'm reading this wrong, you support the status quo. Argh.
Someone is going to get their 15 minutes of fame out of this by asking some poignant and unanswered question that people are going to view over and over. What WILL be answered are "blah" questions offered by clean-cut "respectable"-looking folks, half of which I could easily believe are plants. Crazy people/conspiracy theorists/tattooed whackos/Green Party folks won't get airtime.
"...it is indicative of something other than an overabundance of video gaming."
I'll go out on a limb here and call it bad parenting.
Wow, talk about your incorrect oversimplifications.
Maybe look into how the consumer is out of the insurance-drug company-doctor-government loop on medical insurance, and how it doesn't truly subsist of a free market.