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  1. Flamebait? I must have struck a nerve.

  2. Re:Pretty big differencfe on For the First Time Ever, the FAA Is Trying To Fine a Drone Hobbyist · · Score: 1

    You gave reasons why they should, many of them valid and reasonable, but you did not say what gave them the power. I did not ignore your answers, you avoided the question. I can give you lots of reasons why the federal government should regulate speech, but I cannot tell you why they have the power to do so, because they don't.

  3. Re:Pretty big differencfe on For the First Time Ever, the FAA Is Trying To Fine a Drone Hobbyist · · Score: 1

    Basically, your answer boils down the the FAA has the authority to regulate intrastate airspace, because they do! What gives them the authority and constitutional power? Has it ever been tested in court?

  4. Re:Pretty big differencfe on For the First Time Ever, the FAA Is Trying To Fine a Drone Hobbyist · · Score: 1

    Technically it does. But the FAA is trying to regulate drone operators, not the sky.

  5. You managed to pretty much totally avoid the question. What gives the FAA the power and authority to regulate intrastate airspace?

  6. It might make sense, but he has a valid point. What gives the FAA the authority and constitutional power to regulate all airspace?

  7. Re:wow on For the First Time Ever, the FAA Is Trying To Fine a Drone Hobbyist · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What are you talking about? It's one of the major benefits of authoritarianism. When everything is illegal and the enforcers are given broad discretion in determining which laws to enforce, it gives the executive branch a massive amount of power. In other words, it's exactly the type of setup that the left and the democratic party is in favor of.

  8. Re:Pretty big differencfe on For the First Time Ever, the FAA Is Trying To Fine a Drone Hobbyist · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there's some Supreme Court precedent for this, but what gives the FAA the power to regulate all airspace? Particularly, flights that don't involve interstate travel.

  9. Re:Pretty big differencfe on For the First Time Ever, the FAA Is Trying To Fine a Drone Hobbyist · · Score: 1

    I don't really see how the FAA has the authority to do anything if he does not operate across state lines.

  10. Re:Gun nuts on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    I'm still looking for the version that does not say "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" shall not be infringed. The framers could have used militia in place of people, yet chose not to. Your argument fails.

  11. Re:Gun nuts on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    No, it says the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infinged.

  12. Re:Gun nuts on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    Not sure if you're American or not, so I'll try to explain:

    The 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees that each citizen has the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.

    In reality, the 2nd Amendment says nothing whatsoever about self-defense. It just says that citizens have the right to keep and bear arms and it shall not be infringed, period. That's an extremely important distinction.

  13. Your gas leak analogy is stupid... on Ask Slashdot: How To Back Up Physical Data? · · Score: 1

    ...your papers would not be destroyed, you would have had your id in your wallet on your person. Locks don't smolder, and your key would still fit the lock in the door that got blown out of it's frame.

  14. Re:Actual data. Kudos. on HealthCare.gov Back-End Status: See You In September · · Score: 1

    In your big sky dreams, man.

  15. Re:Does it make me a bad person... on Australian Exploration Company Believes It May Have Found MH370 Wreckage · · Score: 1

    The 19th century spanned 100 years. It is difficult to understand what region or time period you happen to be referring to. Leftism and Stalinism are both leftist. I suppose an anarchist government would not have state owned and controlled media, but that supposes that the political spectrum is linear.

  16. Re:Does it make me a bad person... on Australian Exploration Company Believes It May Have Found MH370 Wreckage · · Score: 1

    It pretty much requires state owned and controlled media. There is no freedom of speech or the press.

  17. Re:Actual data. Kudos. on HealthCare.gov Back-End Status: See You In September · · Score: 1

    In my experience price controls always work great, and they are one of the most effective ways government can manage an economy. Just look at Venezuela.

  18. Re:Does it make me a bad person... on Australian Exploration Company Believes It May Have Found MH370 Wreckage · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm not a liberal. I'm a leftist.

    Finally, someone gets it and is now willing to admit it. You do realize that leftism requires a strong element of propaganda? You should just read Pravda and never go anywhere else.

  19. Re:Healthcare.gov is really big deal. on HealthCare.gov Back-End Status: See You In September · · Score: 1

    My plan had better than gold level coverage. The problem is that it didn't have maternity coverage and a few other things that are worthless to me. Many people who had their non-compliant plans cancelled had good or even excellent coverage.

  20. Re:-1 Copied from Republican Talking Points on HealthCare.gov Back-End Status: See You In September · · Score: 1

    Nope, I'm still right here, Buddy, in the same situation I was before. You can sit there in your church in Montana, and pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist, but it does. I'm glad the law worked for you, but it still fucked me and a lot of others.

  21. Re:"What difference on HealthCare.gov Back-End Status: See You In September · · Score: 1

    This law was completely built on false promises and you know it. We don't need to keep working on it, it's the law, and it's mandatory. Why is anyone still uninsured? Maybe if the Affordable Care Act was actually Affordable it would be working better.

  22. Re:Healthcare.gov is really big deal. on HealthCare.gov Back-End Status: See You In September · · Score: 1

    I've done this for you in the past. I'm not going to do it again. You are older than myself. You have built capital and wealth. I am trying to build capital and wealth. I am required to subsidize your health care now. Of course my insurance is now a worse deal than yours. My insurance went from $180 to $455 a month. My deductible went from $500 to $1000, prescription coverage got worse, and max yearly out of pocket went from $2000 to $3000. Dean Care, Green County WI.

  23. Re:-1 Copied from Republican Talking Points on HealthCare.gov Back-End Status: See You In September · · Score: 0

    Hey asshole. Take your head out of your ass. This law hurts people. Lots of people. You need to take off your Mao hat, lose the Che shirt, and start listening to people. I'm sorry if real people like me get in the way of your utopia, but this is not the first time I've seen you accuse someone of lying about being poorly impacted by the Affordable Care Act. This law is shit, and you know it.

  24. Re:-1 Copied from Republican Talking Points on HealthCare.gov Back-End Status: See You In September · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Your "help" made my insurance unaffordable. Stop calling yourselves progressive. You're really totalitarian fascists. Progressive is newspeak.

  25. Re:"What difference on HealthCare.gov Back-End Status: See You In September · · Score: 1

    What about the other 45.3 million we told didn't have insurance?