you have no right to travel by air. even to petition your government. the federal court claimed you have available alternatives that are "just as good". apparently we're expected to get on a horse and take 3-5 months traveling from the west coast to the east coast. it was good enough in the 1800s, the last time the judges did it, dammit. and you Hawaiians and Alaskans? Better work on that side stroke. (It takes ID for Alaskans to go through Canada.)
liberal here having the value of neoconservative? because his policies aren't any different other than having better PR wrapped around them. And i haven't heard too much about how bad the wars are recently... yet they're still ongoing with no "timetable" for withdrawal. seems like Cheney's wet dream to me.
q: what's the first thing you feel after you shoot a civilian? a: the recoil of your rifle.
desensitization and social acceptance.
it's also the reason space operas are more popular than other military sci-fi and naval / aerial battles are more popular than infantry: it's more clinical. things go boom cleanly and you can avoid confronting the facts of death.
i'm not saying that snipers are inherently evil or that it isn't a necessary function, but i'd rather not encourage the development of sociopathic behavior any more than the actuality of the job does on its ow n.
maybe that's because NZ don't topple democracies in the middle east, or install dictators, or direct those dictators to use weapons of mass destruction on their neighbors and own people, etc. no, they must hate us inexplicably. that way we don't have to question our behavior.
i'm an American and I will no longer fly anywhere until we, as you so eloquently put it, "chill the f*ck out". I will no longer voluntarily financially support these sorts of policies. All that was needed to prevent future airline hijacking was to change the policies that said to appease hijackers (because before 9/11 hijackers generally wanted money, people let out of jail, or to be taken somewhere), allow pilots to carry guns, put a few air marshals on flighs, and screen luggage / bags for explosives. All the rest of the measures are either security theater or are there for other purposes which I do not support.
ID is not necessary. Intrusive, exploitative searches are not necessary.
I would love to spend some money and stimulate the economy by engaging in tourism, but I will not do so by air until some things change. My boss already knows that I will not fly for business any more.
This, pretty much. Though the trust model is "good enough" for the vast majority of online business transactions. It's just that some things people want to do with certs from the CAs (and some business transactions) are not appropriate for it given the precedent for governments reading people's mail.
but think about how much more effective they would have been if they had today's governmental "tools". Oh, wait: at least one of your exemplars did have a beta version. Hitler used IBM proto-computers everywhere.
The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor.
he also promised to close gitmo, stop torture, wind down the wars, and stop warrantless domestic spying, thus ending all the unconstitutional and illegal activity of the bush adminstration. instead he's continued all that, enshrining it into the bipartisan concensus of how government ought to act.
he's fail whaling pretty hard on many of his campaign promises.
The Black Belt needs help. The slums of the inner-city need help. Some white areas (Appalachia in particular) need help. And at the end of the day, it's a national security issue.
The House then passed the Senate bill verbatim. Now they're passing a reconciliation bill, under Senate rules, that cannot be filibustered.
point of information: if the House had passed the Senate bill verbatim there would be no need for a reconcilliation bill. there are differences between the two bills.
1950's tax rates were only necessary to pay off the war debt, something we've no concern for these days... simply have the Fed put a few more trillion in the federal account from the bit bucket.
1950's unionization levels were higher than today in part because there was a legitimate need for the unions with respect to protecting workers' human rights. today the largest union sector is state and local employees, hardly an underprivileged class.
1950's life expectancies were fine. the major improvement in life expectancies came about with the introduction of antibiotics and sanitation. growth in life expectancy in the last decade or three has been anemic at best despite the ever-growing share of GDP expended on it. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html
so yes, lets put the civil rights act into the constitution where it belongs, clean up a few other things to make our laws and constitution internally consistent, and return to the fiscal responsibility of the past. thank you very much.
because people on the left side of the political spectrum *nevar* do any of the dishonest things you mention. and they hold no beliefs that are contradictory. i didn't know the liberal hive mind had been established, but apparently it has and all its beliefs are internally consistent and no members of the political left are outside its membership.
exactly. using reductio in the other direction leads one to the conclusion that there is *no* source for information that can be trusted at all. of course it also leads you into a nice Nietzchean brain in a vat / evil genius conundrum.
If AP wrote it and the idiots at stormfront were the only group to carry it, then it would still be AP news, and would still be on the AP site after the embargo. Hence it would still be credible. Such a hypothetical case would be newsworthy as an exemplar of the extent to which our media are more ostrich like than ever before. (Now, I wouldn't put it past *any* random group of asshats like stormfront or dailykos to claim that some garbage they wrote came from the AP, but then the AP would slam them with a nice trademark lawsuit [at least].)
Terry Pratchet also covered this in "Making Money". I can't remember which. The deus ex were the ancient golems discovered in the protagonist's s.o.'s archaeological dig. The golems were able to work diligently and tirelessly 24/7, but had no needs of their own (robots, idealized). One would think that the golems could be used to make everyone's lives better. However people predicted that with so many more golems the golems would put everyone out of a job, thus impoverishing everyone. It's a counterintuitive catch-22. In the end, they buried the golems outside town and based the value of their currency (which the protagonist had destroyed a la our financial crisis earlier in the story) on the unused available productive capacity of the golems.
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you have no right to travel by air. even to petition your government. the federal court claimed you have available alternatives that are "just as good". apparently we're expected to get on a horse and take 3-5 months traveling from the west coast to the east coast. it was good enough in the 1800s, the last time the judges did it, dammit. and you Hawaiians and Alaskans? Better work on that side stroke. (It takes ID for Alaskans to go through Canada.)
http://www.papersplease.org/wp/
http://www.papersplease.org/gilmore/
kthxbai.
liberal here having the value of neoconservative? because his policies aren't any different other than having better PR wrapped around them. And i haven't heard too much about how bad the wars are recently... yet they're still ongoing with no "timetable" for withdrawal. seems like Cheney's wet dream to me.
i'm confused... what exactly has Obama done differently to embody this backlash?
per Shooter, the movie
q: what's the first thing you feel after you shoot a civilian?
a: the recoil of your rifle.
desensitization and social acceptance.
it's also the reason space operas are more popular than other military sci-fi and naval / aerial battles are more popular than infantry: it's more clinical. things go boom cleanly and you can avoid confronting the facts of death.
i'm not saying that snipers are inherently evil or that it isn't a necessary function, but i'd rather not encourage the development of sociopathic behavior any more than the actuality of the job does on its ow
n.
I see i have offended a moderator with facts and such.
If my post was troll, then so too was the post i allegedly trolled.
Sticking your head in the sand will not make the problems caused by your actions to go away.
maybe that's because NZ don't topple democracies in the middle east, or install dictators, or direct those dictators to use weapons of mass destruction on their neighbors and own people, etc. no, they must hate us inexplicably. that way we don't have to question our behavior.
i'm an American and I will no longer fly anywhere until we, as you so eloquently put it, "chill the f*ck out". I will no longer voluntarily financially support these sorts of policies. All that was needed to prevent future airline hijacking was to change the policies that said to appease hijackers (because before 9/11 hijackers generally wanted money, people let out of jail, or to be taken somewhere), allow pilots to carry guns, put a few air marshals on flighs, and screen luggage / bags for explosives. All the rest of the measures are either security theater or are there for other purposes which I do not support.
ID is not necessary. Intrusive, exploitative searches are not necessary.
I would love to spend some money and stimulate the economy by engaging in tourism, but I will not do so by air until some things change. My boss already knows that I will not fly for business any more.
This, pretty much. Though the trust model is "good enough" for the vast majority of online business transactions. It's just that some things people want to do with certs from the CAs (and some business transactions) are not appropriate for it given the precedent for governments reading people's mail.
good catch. pretty arcane and misnamed process.
and wtf do student loans have to do with health care?
but think about how much more effective they would have been if they had today's governmental "tools". Oh, wait: at least one of your exemplars did have a beta version. Hitler used IBM proto-computers everywhere.
http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
it wasn't harmless to the Japanese Americans in WWII. nor was it harmless to the Jews in Nazi Germany just a few years before.
http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
http://www.palantirtech.com/government/videos/mortgage-fraud
he also promised to close gitmo, stop torture, wind down the wars, and stop warrantless domestic spying, thus ending all the unconstitutional and illegal activity of the bush adminstration. instead he's continued all that, enshrining it into the bipartisan concensus of how government ought to act.
he's fail whaling pretty hard on many of his campaign promises.
lolwut? channeling your inner Cheney?
point of information: if the House had passed the Senate bill verbatim there would be no need for a reconcilliation bill. there are differences between the two bills.
on a single story. well, maybe not ever, but damn, i've never seen so many +5 modded comments in a single story, many of which deserved -1 redundant.
actually i'd prefer pre-FDA, pre drug prohibition (which was sold using race baiting tactics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Narcotics_Tax_Act, which are certainly not claimed ideals of the political left...)
1950's tax rates were only necessary to pay off the war debt, something we've no concern for these days... simply have the Fed put a few more trillion in the federal account from the bit bucket.
1950's unionization levels were higher than today in part because there was a legitimate need for the unions with respect to protecting workers' human rights. today the largest union sector is state and local employees, hardly an underprivileged class.
1950's life expectancies were fine. the major improvement in life expectancies came about with the introduction of antibiotics and sanitation. growth in life expectancy in the last decade or three has been anemic at best despite the ever-growing share of GDP expended on it.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html
so yes, lets put the civil rights act into the constitution where it belongs, clean up a few other things to make our laws and constitution internally consistent, and return to the fiscal responsibility of the past. thank you very much.
nice.
because people on the left side of the political spectrum *nevar* do any of the dishonest things you mention. and they hold no beliefs that are contradictory. i didn't know the liberal hive mind had been established, but apparently it has and all its beliefs are internally consistent and no members of the political left are outside its membership.
exactly. using reductio in the other direction leads one to the conclusion that there is *no* source for information that can be trusted at all. of course it also leads you into a nice Nietzchean brain in a vat / evil genius conundrum.
If AP wrote it and the idiots at stormfront were the only group to carry it, then it would still be AP news, and would still be on the AP site after the embargo. Hence it would still be credible. Such a hypothetical case would be newsworthy as an exemplar of the extent to which our media are more ostrich like than ever before. (Now, I wouldn't put it past *any* random group of asshats like stormfront or dailykos to claim that some garbage they wrote came from the AP, but then the AP would slam them with a nice trademark lawsuit [at least].)
Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
did you use the new cover sheet?
sorry, /. farted and put my response under your post rather than AC's
Terry Pratchet also covered this in "Making Money". I can't remember which. The deus ex were the ancient golems discovered in the protagonist's s.o.'s archaeological dig. The golems were able to work diligently and tirelessly 24/7, but had no needs of their own (robots, idealized). One would think that the golems could be used to make everyone's lives better. However people predicted that with so many more golems the golems would put everyone out of a job, thus impoverishing everyone. It's a counterintuitive catch-22. In the end, they buried the golems outside town and based the value of their currency (which the protagonist had destroyed a la our financial crisis earlier in the story) on the unused available productive capacity of the golems.