Not all of us were cowards and tried to convince our elected representatives that it was a shitty law but they didn't listen. I will give you that there were an awful lot of cowards though.
I have thought about similar schemes and while I like the idea of requiring people who are net tax payers (your method) it seems to fall flat in that it would exclude a large swath of the current voting population, namely senior citizens who receive social security , medicare, etc. Then again I may have misunderstood what you were saying but even then it is a grey area where there will be lots of fighting as to who gets to vote.
Personally I would prefer a basic competency test for voting that has some simple questions like:
What are the 3 branches of government?
Who is the current president?
Who is the current vice president?
Who is/are your state's current senator(s)?
What branch of government writes the laws?
All budget bills must originate where?
How many senators does your state have?
Then just require that every question be answered correctly before someone can vote and if they don't get them all correct they can't vote until the next election. I would have a larger pool of questions so that such as switching out knowing your senators with knowing who your representative in the house is but still that is pretty simple.I want people who have at least the most basic understanding of how our government works to vote, instead of the people who have not clue what so ever which seems to be a large fraction of voters today. Then again people would say that this also disenfranchises voters but if someone is so incompetant that they couldn't memorize 10-15 answers to simple questions (multiple choice at that) they they should have learned in grade school or become aware of if they were paying any attention to anything then I don't want to trust them to remember who they want to vote for.
I'd pay to see the Emperor force lightning JarJar. In my mind I am picturing something like don't taze me bro but it keeps going until JarJar is a smoldering cinder.
So I guess there will now be a "special extended digitally remastered unseen original footage director's uncut edition" that everyone will have to buy.
There is even a simple solution to that as well. We have lots of traffic lights with LEDs in them here in Minnesota now and they all seem to work fine in our long cold snowy winters. They make devices that almost completely surround the light to shield it from snow and they work great and even the non LED traffic signals have them (as long as I can remember traffic lights have had the shrouds around them here).
Just look at the difficulties when they were trying to close military bases. Congressmen always wanted to keep "their" base open.
Well I know for sure that the base in my state is needed because those pesky Canadians keep sneaking into our country to use our amazing health care system. We need to keep them and their poutine out to prevent the adulteration of our freedom fries.
Or that seems to be the thinking in congress when it comes to the military. It is really a sad state of affairs when you have the military saying they don't want or need something and they get more of it while at the same time the military is requesting other things and not getting them. A perfect example is this recent story I saw where brand new planes are being flown straight to the boneyard for decommissioned planes in the Arizona desert.
$10,000 is what I paid for my previous car and by most standards it would have been considered a luxury car being a BMW 540i. It lasted until it the automatic transmission failed at 260,000 miles and got it with 101,000 miles on it so it had a good life that I probably substantially shortened by beating on that car (it was fun). A price point of $10,000 should get you a very nice used car especially since luxury brands seem to drop like rocks in resale value.
I get the feeling that the old collector car market is either going to be crushed by regulation (you can only own them if you don't drive them) or they are going to become more expensive as they get around all sorts of new regulations and rules like this. I was just familiar with the British positive ground vehicles not having dealt with some of the other ones. Then again by having an old British car I get the joy of dealing with the Lord of Dark so it isn't a panacea.
The again, I'd say knowing the leaders of all the G8, even G20 countries is basic knowledge most adults *should* have.
I fear that you ask for too much. It would be nice if the voting population in the US was that informed but I bet most of them couldn't name their current sitting elected representatives to the US congress (house and senate).
You do know that you can dispute anything on your credit history at which point it becomes the problem of those who put it there to demonstrate that it was actually you. Since the stuff in question was placed there was all done fraudulently they are going to have a very hard time proving that it was you so no you won't get dinged.
So we are advised to go through all the hoopla to 'ensure' our good credit. Screw it. If the guy used my name, or if twenty other wastes of oxygen do so, it isn't my problem if I don't let it be my problem.
That is the approach I have taken. I put the onus on them to show that I am the person who owes them money, unless they are my mortgage or credit card company I don't and they don't call or write me letters since I make my payments. At this point I don't need any additional credit so fuck'em. My dad has taken a similar approach a number of times as well (where do you think I learned it from) and hasn't had any issues.
I have a simple solution. I have even written my legislators about it but they don't seem interested.
Solution:
Make it a crime for any business or institution to use your social security number for any purpose other than for taxation or receipt of social security benefits. Punishable by a fine of $1,000,000 per incident. Even better is to make it so that 50% of the fines go to the individuals who's social security numbers are being misused.
Do that and suddenly no one will care what your social security number is since it will only be used for it's intended purposes and if it gets out won't be something that gives an attacker the keys to the kingdom for your identity.
That actually happened to my wife. She got a call from American Express stating that we were in default on a card she had taken out and bills were being sent to an address in Las Vegas. They demanded that we pay in the most aggressive legal way they could. I told them that it isn't my fault that they didn't do their due diligence in giving out credit and that since it was a credit card we were only liable for up to $50 of it and I wasn't going to even pay that since neither of us had ever been in Nevada let alone Las Vegas. I then mentioned that if I ever heard from them again I would be filing charges against them for attempting to defraud me and would also be filing a complaint with my state's attorney general. Never heard back from them. I do the same thing with the idiots who keep buying someone's bad college loan debt that was accrued 14 years before I was born who happens to share my name. Some new company seems to buy it every 2-3 years and then they start calling or sending mail so I don't know if it is a scam or not but I treat it as if it were one.
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Not all of us were cowards and tried to convince our elected representatives that it was a shitty law but they didn't listen. I will give you that there were an awful lot of cowards though.
I have thought about similar schemes and while I like the idea of requiring people who are net tax payers (your method) it seems to fall flat in that it would exclude a large swath of the current voting population, namely senior citizens who receive social security , medicare, etc. Then again I may have misunderstood what you were saying but even then it is a grey area where there will be lots of fighting as to who gets to vote.
Personally I would prefer a basic competency test for voting that has some simple questions like:
What are the 3 branches of government?
Who is the current president?
Who is the current vice president?
Who is/are your state's current senator(s)?
What branch of government writes the laws?
All budget bills must originate where?
How many senators does your state have?
Then just require that every question be answered correctly before someone can vote and if they don't get them all correct they can't vote until the next election. I would have a larger pool of questions so that such as switching out knowing your senators with knowing who your representative in the house is but still that is pretty simple.I want people who have at least the most basic understanding of how our government works to vote, instead of the people who have not clue what so ever which seems to be a large fraction of voters today. Then again people would say that this also disenfranchises voters but if someone is so incompetant that they couldn't memorize 10-15 answers to simple questions (multiple choice at that) they they should have learned in grade school or become aware of if they were paying any attention to anything then I don't want to trust them to remember who they want to vote for.
And now off for some interesting reading.
I'd pay to see the Emperor force lightning JarJar. In my mind I am picturing something like don't taze me bro but it keeps going until JarJar is a smoldering cinder.
So I guess there will now be a "special extended digitally remastered unseen original footage director's uncut edition" that everyone will have to buy.
Why would the National Association of Marlon Brando Look Alikes commission a study like that?
There is even a simple solution to that as well. We have lots of traffic lights with LEDs in them here in Minnesota now and they all seem to work fine in our long cold snowy winters. They make devices that almost completely surround the light to shield it from snow and they work great and even the non LED traffic signals have them (as long as I can remember traffic lights have had the shrouds around them here).
It could be worse. I mean they could have pages for each card in the various collectable card games.
I find that logic applies to just about everything. If you have to have a good adjective as part of a name, the product or company probably sucks.
I think you forgot some air quotes around wonder.
the social group which found him unacceptable just so happens to be the biggest, most paranoid government in the history of mankind.
Unfortunately the next administration will make this one's efforts seem like child's play.
It is the person at the gun range that enforces the rules for safe shooting. If you go to one they are basically god and you do not question them.
Oh man my wife will be pissed then since we were saving that for retirement. New sports car and a really nice 40 in the north woods here I come.
Just look at the difficulties when they were trying to close military bases. Congressmen always wanted to keep "their" base open.
Well I know for sure that the base in my state is needed because those pesky Canadians keep sneaking into our country to use our amazing health care system. We need to keep them and their poutine out to prevent the adulteration of our freedom fries.
Or that seems to be the thinking in congress when it comes to the military. It is really a sad state of affairs when you have the military saying they don't want or need something and they get more of it while at the same time the military is requesting other things and not getting them. A perfect example is this recent story I saw where brand new planes are being flown straight to the boneyard for decommissioned planes in the Arizona desert.
$10,000 is what I paid for my previous car and by most standards it would have been considered a luxury car being a BMW 540i. It lasted until it the automatic transmission failed at 260,000 miles and got it with 101,000 miles on it so it had a good life that I probably substantially shortened by beating on that car (it was fun). A price point of $10,000 should get you a very nice used car especially since luxury brands seem to drop like rocks in resale value.
I get the feeling that the old collector car market is either going to be crushed by regulation (you can only own them if you don't drive them) or they are going to become more expensive as they get around all sorts of new regulations and rules like this. I was just familiar with the British positive ground vehicles not having dealt with some of the other ones. Then again by having an old British car I get the joy of dealing with the Lord of Dark so it isn't a panacea.
I wouldn't imagine it would be that difficult given what some people have been doing with these plus an arduino or Raspberry Pi.
I wonder how these devices will work on vehicles with positive ground. It looks like it might be time to invest in older British cars.
Not even that in most states. There are no requirements to register a firearm if the seller isn't a FFL holder in my state.
The again, I'd say knowing the leaders of all the G8, even G20 countries is basic knowledge most adults *should* have.
I fear that you ask for too much. It would be nice if the voting population in the US was that informed but I bet most of them couldn't name their current sitting elected representatives to the US congress (house and senate).
You do know that you can dispute anything on your credit history at which point it becomes the problem of those who put it there to demonstrate that it was actually you. Since the stuff in question was placed there was all done fraudulently they are going to have a very hard time proving that it was you so no you won't get dinged.
So we are advised to go through all the hoopla to 'ensure' our good credit. Screw it. If the guy used my name, or if twenty other wastes of oxygen do so, it isn't my problem if I don't let it be my problem.
That is the approach I have taken. I put the onus on them to show that I am the person who owes them money, unless they are my mortgage or credit card company I don't and they don't call or write me letters since I make my payments. At this point I don't need any additional credit so fuck'em. My dad has taken a similar approach a number of times as well (where do you think I learned it from) and hasn't had any issues.
He got better.
I have a simple solution. I have even written my legislators about it but they don't seem interested.
Solution:
Make it a crime for any business or institution to use your social security number for any purpose other than for taxation or receipt of social security benefits. Punishable by a fine of $1,000,000 per incident. Even better is to make it so that 50% of the fines go to the individuals who's social security numbers are being misused.
Do that and suddenly no one will care what your social security number is since it will only be used for it's intended purposes and if it gets out won't be something that gives an attacker the keys to the kingdom for your identity.
That actually happened to my wife. She got a call from American Express stating that we were in default on a card she had taken out and bills were being sent to an address in Las Vegas. They demanded that we pay in the most aggressive legal way they could. I told them that it isn't my fault that they didn't do their due diligence in giving out credit and that since it was a credit card we were only liable for up to $50 of it and I wasn't going to even pay that since neither of us had ever been in Nevada let alone Las Vegas. I then mentioned that if I ever heard from them again I would be filing charges against them for attempting to defraud me and would also be filing a complaint with my state's attorney general. Never heard back from them. I do the same thing with the idiots who keep buying someone's bad college loan debt that was accrued 14 years before I was born who happens to share my name. Some new company seems to buy it every 2-3 years and then they start calling or sending mail so I don't know if it is a scam or not but I treat it as if it were one.