You really think Stalin, Kim Jung Il, Pol Pot, or Fidel Castro were "sharing" with the rest of their so-called equality societies? Call me a redneck all you want. You simply ignore the truth. In capitalism, man exploits man. In communism, it is the exact opposite. The difference is liberty to play the game or not.
The people screwing with the sales rep are wrong, and they should know better. A "smart-gun" should be a choice people have, and the market can sort that out. If some of these guys cross the line and find themselves with a felony, removing their gun rights, they shouldn't be too surprised.
What exactly is wrong with cutting and pasting? How much time do you REALLY have to formulate a persuasive essay in THIS venue? Do you have some copy-pasta that proves Feinstein isn't a liberty-hating piece of shit? If you do, I welcome the counter copy-pasta as part of the discussion. The fact remains a lot of politicians swore to uphold the constitution (which, at its core says that government doesn't decide what government is) then make a career of armed robbery to buy votes and championing ideas like disarmament of the public.
Here's the real irony: Liberals say that only the police and military should have guns. Liberals at their core really hate the police and military.
Ohhhh nice! Forget the issue and attack the poster! Leftist playbook, page 3.
Socialists can't allow people to own firearms. It stands in the way of an omnipotent government. Since leftism are ideas that are SO GOOD, they have to be mandatory and enforced by a powerful government, liberty is incompatible with their ideals. Free speech, property rights... all that has to go away for a leftist agenda to be successful.
And by successful, I mean everyone totally fucked except The Party elites.
It cracks me up when people call Che a "revolutionary". Some elite dudes telling you what you can have, when you can have it, what you can do, and where you can do it... that sounds a LOT like every government BEFORE the enlightenment and "government as a social contract among free people in a state of nature". Just another king. Leaving people the fuck alone to arrange their own affairs, THAT is revolutionary.
"spying" has come to include all stuff we don't like.
personally, i think the laws should be clear in that police don't need to look at anything unless a crime has been reported. but that isn't the law. and it isn't the policy in any city I've been to.
there are CCTV cameras all over cities... but mount one to a plane and its so different?
right and wrong doesn't come down to degrees. This part here: "especially so when something as powerful as the government does it". So because they are good at it, that is a problem?
Either police looking at stuff even when no crime has been reported is wrong, or it isn't. Deal with THAT. Stop getting wrapped up in what implementation they are using or how efficient they are. It isn't MORE wrong because they are now 64% efficient at looking at stuff vs %35 with the previous techniques.
Mass Surveillance is a meaningless term. Each person is free to set the threshold for "mass" at whatever level makes them angry and is likely to shift when topics shift from heroin dealer to kidnapper. A cop with a camcorder in a helicopter at 1000 feet is likely so "surveil" a city block at one time... that is Mass Surveillance for those living in that block.
punished for... what? for looking at stuff that is outside in plain view from the sky?
take out the snowden stuff. forget the nsa for a minute. leave out the drone aspect.
you are left with cops looking at stuff that is outside. i know i'm supposed to drum up some popular anger right now, but i really just can't.
would you be mad if a cop in a helicopter was flying around the city at 1000 feet and looking at stuff that is outside? at what level of efficiency of cops looking at ANYTHING cross the line from normal cops doing normal cop stuff to stuff to shit your pants over?
1: only 3-5 in the US are allowded to come to your house, shoot your dog, take all your belongings, put you in a cage, and/or kill you.
2: only 3-5 entities can wait till you build a company, then show up at the last minute to tell you "you didn't build that!", then procede to tell you how to run your company. And if you don't follow instructions... well see point 1.
The distinct branches of government are only of value to a free society when the branches oppose each-other to act as "checks and balances".
Blaming the mayor is like blaming one dead hard drive for a failure of the raid-1 array. Sure, that one bad disk is a problem but if the overall system was doing its job, then the news story would just be about a mayor trying something stupid and failing (an email from the SAN about a disk that needs to be replaced).
If cops showed up at this guy's house, it took all 3 branches of government to completely lose their shit.
Before we get all silly, please remember that the police had a WARRANT to search the guys house. So any discussion of the "rule of law" needs to remember that the legeslative and judicial branches are also full of shit.
No just bitching about the executive abuse of power.
at which point, all combinations of blocks and arrangements have been exhausted, the blocks thoughoughly used-up and worn-out, the $40 set must be tossed into the garbage.
Free market principles? How about plain old freedom?
How about the enlightenment principle that government can't simply make up whatever laws it wants. There is no such thing as liberty if a local dictator can tell you what lightbulb to make or how to sell cars.
Why not force the regular car dealers to also bundle horse buggy whips with all car purchases to protect the horse-buggy-whip establishment.
This is another uber ridesharing story with different players. North Korea only has one dictator at a time. In the US we have thousands, spread across 4+ levels of government.
someone's going to label you as paranoid here. but the patriot act was passed to "target terrorists" and was used to target everyone. the cellphone owner is the only person who should have the option to "kill" the device.
so diluted that, statistically speaking, they may not contain a single molecule
...but THAT is what makes it so effective! Looks like Dice and _roo are in teh pockets of big pharma and big grocery !!!1!
Here's another alarming trend: people are starting to use "homeopathy" to mean "holistic, nature-based, alternative medicine". When you tell them what homeopathy really means you will get "well that's not what it means to me! i mean in the more general sense" or "meanings change over time!".
Looks like we have a marxist! Now.. what were you saying about a long track record of people being locked in, unable to escape the one-party system, the gulags, and the purges?
if it spills into the public property, then there is a problem. if the trash is completely on the stores property, the market will likely take care of it.
require them to pay their employees
the deal worked out between the person selling labor and the person buying labor is between those parties, and not your / our / my business.
dump hazardous chemicals wherever
again, if the chemicals get off the property then we have a problem. if the chemicals stay on the property, not your / our / my problem.
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Who are you to say what Cletus can get or what he can do?
If I have to choose between Cletus having a gun and YOU deciding who gets what because you think you are the smartest person... then I choose Cletus.
You really think Stalin, Kim Jung Il, Pol Pot, or Fidel Castro were "sharing" with the rest of their so-called equality societies?
Call me a redneck all you want. You simply ignore the truth. In capitalism, man exploits man. In communism, it is the exact opposite. The difference is liberty to play the game or not.
The people screwing with the sales rep are wrong, and they should know better. A "smart-gun" should be a choice people have, and the market can sort that out. If some of these guys cross the line and find themselves with a felony, removing their gun rights, they shouldn't be too surprised.
What exactly is wrong with cutting and pasting? How much time do you REALLY have to formulate a persuasive essay in THIS venue? Do you have some copy-pasta that proves Feinstein isn't a liberty-hating piece of shit? If you do, I welcome the counter copy-pasta as part of the discussion. The fact remains a lot of politicians swore to uphold the constitution (which, at its core says that government doesn't decide what government is) then make a career of armed robbery to buy votes and championing ideas like disarmament of the public.
Here's the real irony: Liberals say that only the police and military should have guns. Liberals at their core really hate the police and military.
Ohhhh nice!
Forget the issue and attack the poster! Leftist playbook, page 3.
Socialists can't allow people to own firearms. It stands in the way of an omnipotent government. Since leftism are ideas that are SO GOOD, they have to be mandatory and enforced by a powerful government, liberty is incompatible with their ideals. Free speech, property rights... all that has to go away for a leftist agenda to be successful.
And by successful, I mean everyone totally fucked except The Party elites.
It cracks me up when people call Che a "revolutionary". Some elite dudes telling you what you can have, when you can have it, what you can do, and where you can do it... that sounds a LOT like every government BEFORE the enlightenment and "government as a social contract among free people in a state of nature". Just another king. Leaving people the fuck alone to arrange their own affairs, THAT is revolutionary.
I'm going to charge Netflix for the rights to transit my network.
ohh i see a problem all right.
"spying" has come to include all stuff we don't like.
personally, i think the laws should be clear in that police don't need to look at anything unless a crime has been reported. but that isn't the law. and it isn't the policy in any city I've been to.
there are CCTV cameras all over cities... but mount one to a plane and its so different?
right and wrong doesn't come down to degrees. This part here: "especially so when something as powerful as the government does it". So because they are good at it, that is a problem?
Either police looking at stuff even when no crime has been reported is wrong, or it isn't. Deal with THAT. Stop getting wrapped up in what implementation they are using or how efficient they are. It isn't MORE wrong because they are now 64% efficient at looking at stuff vs %35 with the previous techniques.
Mass Surveillance is a meaningless term. Each person is free to set the threshold for "mass" at whatever level makes them angry and is likely to shift when topics shift from heroin dealer to kidnapper. A cop with a camcorder in a helicopter at 1000 feet is likely so "surveil" a city block at one time... that is Mass Surveillance for those living in that block.
punished for... what? for looking at stuff that is outside in plain view from the sky?
take out the snowden stuff. forget the nsa for a minute. leave out the drone aspect.
you are left with cops looking at stuff that is outside. i know i'm supposed to drum up some popular anger right now, but i really just can't.
would you be mad if a cop in a helicopter was flying around the city at 1000 feet and looking at stuff that is outside? at what level of efficiency of cops looking at ANYTHING cross the line from normal cops doing normal cop stuff to stuff to shit your pants over?
1: only 3-5 in the US are allowded to come to your house, shoot your dog, take all your belongings, put you in a cage, and/or kill you.
2: only 3-5 entities can wait till you build a company, then show up at the last minute to tell you "you didn't build that!", then procede to tell you how to run your company. And if you don't follow instructions... well see point 1.
All of those entities are governments.
Now THAT is a monopoly.
ahh... in a clear case of a government attacking its citizens, some douchebag shows up to bitch about corporations.
The distinct branches of government are only of value to a free society when the branches oppose each-other to act as "checks and balances".
Blaming the mayor is like blaming one dead hard drive for a failure of the raid-1 array. Sure, that one bad disk is a problem but if the overall system was doing its job, then the news story would just be about a mayor trying something stupid and failing (an email from the SAN about a disk that needs to be replaced).
If cops showed up at this guy's house, it took all 3 branches of government to completely lose their shit.
No, it proves that the "rule of law" is a bullshit concept.
Before we get all silly, please remember that the police had a WARRANT to search the guys house. So any discussion of the "rule of law" needs to remember that the legeslative and judicial branches are also full of shit.
No just bitching about the executive abuse of power.
The labor market is a market. They have labor to supply.
Borders don't keep the jobs in any more than they keep people out.
at which point, all combinations of blocks and arrangements have been exhausted, the blocks thoughoughly used-up and worn-out, the $40 set must be tossed into the garbage.
congrats. you "beat" legos.
If someone is going around the office saying "fuckin fags should get married", they should also be fired.
reminds me of the old joke.
Q: what is the first step to determining if the area is now safe to un-mask?
A: ask the new guy if you can borrow his rifle for a second.
The only danger is if they send [them] to that terrible Planet of the Apes.
Wait a minute....
Don't confuse GOP with conservatism. The union-side of the Democrat Party doesn't give a shit about the environment. See how that works?
A corporation will line up for gov't teat faster than anyone. Wrong is wrong.
Free market principles? How about plain old freedom?
How about the enlightenment principle that government can't simply make up whatever laws it wants. There is no such thing as liberty if a local dictator can tell you what lightbulb to make or how to sell cars.
Why not force the regular car dealers to also bundle horse buggy whips with all car purchases to protect the horse-buggy-whip establishment.
This is another uber ridesharing story with different players. North Korea only has one dictator at a time. In the US we have thousands, spread across 4+ levels of government.
someone's going to label you as paranoid here.
but the patriot act was passed to "target terrorists" and was used to target everyone.
the cellphone owner is the only person who should have the option to "kill" the device.
so diluted that, statistically speaking, they may not contain a single molecule
...but THAT is what makes it so effective!
Looks like Dice and _roo are in teh pockets of big pharma and big grocery !!!1!
Here's another alarming trend: people are starting to use "homeopathy" to mean "holistic, nature-based, alternative medicine". When you tell them what homeopathy really means you will get "well that's not what it means to me! i mean in the more general sense" or "meanings change over time!".
Uh oh!
owns the property and the means of production
Looks like we have a marxist!
Now.. what were you saying about a long track record of people being locked in, unable to escape the one-party system, the gulags, and the purges?
storefront clear of trash
if it spills into the public property, then there is a problem. if the trash is completely on the stores property, the market will likely take care of it.
require them to pay their employees
the deal worked out between the person selling labor and the person buying labor is between those parties, and not your / our / my business.
dump hazardous chemicals wherever
again, if the chemicals get off the property then we have a problem. if the chemicals stay on the property, not your / our / my problem.
"it needs to"
How fucked up has the world become where everyone gets to decide what a store owner "needs to" do but the store owner.
Because it isn't bad technology, it simply made bad choices.
Actually, the real Gandhi was much more racist than I am.