Florida here, and will be voting for Badnarik, thank you very much.
Unless you believe that your single vote will be the deciding one, and your state will hinge on a single vote (hint: It won't be.) then there is no reason to vote for a "major" candidate that you don't agree with. Vote for the person you believe is most fit for the job, and stop trying to pick horses.
The 750 suits come just a few days after Internet researchers released a study that found peer-to-peer traffic had remained constant or risen up to the early days of 2004, despite the pressure of recording industry lawsuits.
Sounds like a page from Bush's playbook: If something isn't working, keep trying the same thing even more aggressively!
ID theft is only a problem because we place so much importance on our identities. One person can get a home loan. The other can't. One persan can get health insurance. The other can't.
The simple example is insurance. Insurance rates should not depend on the individual. The whole point of insurance is to spread the risk and cost of rare catastrophic events. Each should pay an equal share. When you get a system like today which is so perfect as to analyse each person's risk and charge him accordingly, why have insurance to begin with?
Identity theft is only a problem because we attach so much weight and importance to our individual histories. If we would stop screwing people over for life after things like bankrupcy, or when they fall ill, there wouldn't be a need to get other people's "clean" identities.
As someone who can't even get health insurance because of some mysterious "red flag" in my past, I can see why someone could get desperate enough to try to become someone else! I can't even imagine a scenario where I couldnlt open a checking account because I made a few mistakes as a young adult.
Identity theft won't stop until this "you are your credit score" mentality goes away!
And, if FBI agents show up at that poster's house tonight, drag him into a white van, and ship him off to Guantanamo Bay, legally and without having to tell anyone about it, how would you know that he's wrong.
I've got to give you the "post of the day" award for this one. Good stuff, you're exactly right. To think you are so important that you need to be reached 24/7 is the height of selfishness and hubris.
Too bad.. These days, well-reasoned kids like this are likely to get pepper sprayed and dragged away in handcuffs for their disobedience. Sure, not as bad as Kent State, but we're getting there.
Oh, and before all the RTFA nazis flame away, I did:
"Nine of the 19 9/11 terrorists obtained their licenses illegally in Virginia, and that was quite an embarrassment,"
They might have _obtained_ them illegally but they were still valid and let them pass security easily. Having a valid RFID inside a valid license will not stop anyone from Doing Bad Things (tm).
Virginia government officials need to keep reading this until they get it:
THE 9/11 HIJACKERS HAD VALID DRIVERS LICENSES. THE 9/11 HIJACKERS HAD VALID DRIVERS LICENSES. THE 9/11 HIJACKERS HAD VALID DRIVERS LICENSES. THE 9/11 HIJACKERS HAD VALID DRIVERS LICENSES.
Stop using the hijackings to justify your pet police state!
You act as if "Taxpayers" is a big club of equal-minded people.
Who has an interest in decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels and coal-burning power plants? Taxpayers.
I have already decreased my own dependence on fossil fuels down to what I consider a reasonable level, at what I consider a reasonable cost. And anyone else can do this any time they want. Why should I be forced at gunpoint (which is what taxes are) to pay for someone else to enjoy a decreased demendence on fossil fuels?
Who has an interest in increasing the size of the market for these products so economies of scale can lower their prices? Taxpayers.
If they are decent products, they will sell themselves. Why do you want to take my money at gunpoint and artificially "increase the size" of some market?
Who has an interest in lowering electrical demand so the possibility of power shortages decreases? Taxpayers.
Anyone interested in lowering their electrical demand may already do it. Why take money from me at gunpoint so to force other people (at gunpoint) to lower their electrical demand?
Answer to all your questions: NOBODY WINS.
This has been your libertarian lesson for today. Thank you.
You don't pass laws to grant freedom. By default you are free to do whatever you want, and laws exist to selectively place restrictions on this freedom. The only way you get freedom back is to REPEAL laws, not pass new ones!
Easy and fun: Every time someone comments about something in a box, or somethin
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This is a rectangular (Equidistant Cylindrical) projection, where latitude and longitude lines are parallel and spaced evenly. It introduces a great deal of distortion near the poles, and doesn't really, and is neither conformal nor suitable for navigation. It does make a pretty picture though!
Friday, July 23, 4004 NEW YORK (AP) - A new organization has been created to promote the copying and redistribution of stone sculptures. Calling itself the Free Sculpture Foundation, or FSF, the group aims to "free" works of art which until now have been "hoarded" by stone copyrighters.
"How can you copyright a piece of rock?? It's the earth, man!" Hippie and founder Richard Stoneman said he got his idea from a recent Slashdot post, "3D Printing in Stone, or Copy a Sculpture in Rock". Great works such as those by Michelangelo will be among his first projects.
Industry groups are not impressed. Chiseled Sales, Inc. spokeswoman Hillary Rocken announced the formation of a trade group opposed to Mr. Stoneman's band of fredom fighters. The Rock Is Available Association, or RIAA is set to lobby government officials to crack down on these "rock robbers". "The talented sculpturers we represent are losing hard earned profits by these thieves. Stone may come from the earth, but that shouldn't stop us from selling it," Rocken said in a prepared statement.
The debate is not likely to go away any time soon. Shortly after the formation of the FSF, a new rival group was formed, calling itself the Open Stone movement. President Erock S Raymond called for a meeting of the minds between business and stone consumers, noting the benefits of opening up the hardware "blueprints" to great works of art.
But the only person I know who is into Carnegie's stuff. Has the book it would seem has even been to classes and shit. Is a complete and total asshole. ...but did he know how to use complete and understandable sentences?
Shouldn't spyware already be covered by laws against spreading viruses? Spyware is software installed on my machine without my knowing it, and this is exactly what happens when a virus spreads. What's the difference?
When it's distributed by a business, it's called spyware, and when it's distributed by a 14-year-old, it's a virus. Is this asinine or what?
Hmm... the #1 bidder, someone named GWBush2004, lives in Yucca mountain, and has 77,000 tons of something he wants to get rid of.....
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Although right now OpenGL is all that's out there for low-cost portable embedded 3D software, no one is going to develop with it until hardware support emerges. Who wants a handheld 3D mapping device that takes 10 seconds to redraw a frame using an ARM9 software renderer?
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Florida here, and will be voting for Badnarik, thank you very much.
Unless you believe that your single vote will be the deciding one, and your state will hinge on a single vote (hint: It won't be.) then there is no reason to vote for a "major" candidate that you don't agree with. Vote for the person you believe is most fit for the job, and stop trying to pick horses.
The 750 suits come just a few days after Internet researchers released a study that found peer-to-peer traffic had remained constant or risen up to the early days of 2004, despite the pressure of recording industry lawsuits.
Sounds like a page from Bush's playbook: If something isn't working, keep trying the same thing even more aggressively!
I've said it before.
ID theft is only a problem because we place so much importance on our identities. One person can get a home loan. The other can't. One persan can get health insurance. The other can't.
The simple example is insurance. Insurance rates should not depend on the individual. The whole point of insurance is to spread the risk and cost of rare catastrophic events. Each should pay an equal share. When you get a system like today which is so perfect as to analyse each person's risk and charge him accordingly, why have insurance to begin with?
Identity theft is only a problem because we attach so much weight and importance to our individual histories. If we would stop screwing people over for life after things like bankrupcy, or when they fall ill, there wouldn't be a need to get other people's "clean" identities.
As someone who can't even get health insurance because of some mysterious "red flag" in my past, I can see why someone could get desperate enough to try to become someone else! I can't even imagine a scenario where I couldnlt open a checking account because I made a few mistakes as a young adult.
Identity theft won't stop until this "you are your credit score" mentality goes away!
And, if FBI agents show up at that poster's house tonight, drag him into a white van, and ship him off to Guantanamo Bay, legally and without having to tell anyone about it, how would you know that he's wrong.
Are you his next-door neighbor or something?
I've got to give you the "post of the day" award for this one. Good stuff, you're exactly right. To think you are so important that you need to be reached 24/7 is the height of selfishness and hubris.
Too bad.. These days, well-reasoned kids like this are likely to get pepper sprayed and dragged away in handcuffs for their disobedience. Sure, not as bad as Kent State, but we're getting there.
Welcome to America. Your dissenting opinions will not be tolerated. You shall not disrupt the Democrat/Republican/Corporate one-party system.
Conform and be silent, or be arrested. These are your only options.
Oh, and before all the RTFA nazis flame away, I did:
"Nine of the 19 9/11 terrorists obtained their licenses illegally in Virginia, and that was quite an embarrassment,"
They might have _obtained_ them illegally but they were still valid and let them pass security easily. Having a valid RFID inside a valid license will not stop anyone from Doing Bad Things (tm).
Virginia government officials need to keep reading this until they get it:
THE 9/11 HIJACKERS HAD VALID DRIVERS LICENSES.
THE 9/11 HIJACKERS HAD VALID DRIVERS LICENSES.
THE 9/11 HIJACKERS HAD VALID DRIVERS LICENSES.
THE 9/11 HIJACKERS HAD VALID DRIVERS LICENSES.
Stop using the hijackings to justify your pet police state!
A true "utopian" tax rate would be zero percent.
You act as if "Taxpayers" is a big club of equal-minded people.
Who has an interest in decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels and coal-burning power plants? Taxpayers.
I have already decreased my own dependence on fossil fuels down to what I consider a reasonable level, at what I consider a reasonable cost. And anyone else can do this any time they want. Why should I be forced at gunpoint (which is what taxes are) to pay for someone else to enjoy a decreased demendence on fossil fuels?
Who has an interest in increasing the size of the market for these products so economies of scale can lower their prices? Taxpayers.
If they are decent products, they will sell themselves. Why do you want to take my money at gunpoint and artificially "increase the size" of some market?
Who has an interest in lowering electrical demand so the possibility of power shortages decreases? Taxpayers.
Anyone interested in lowering their electrical demand may already do it. Why take money from me at gunpoint so to force other people (at gunpoint) to lower their electrical demand?
Answer to all your questions: NOBODY WINS.
This has been your libertarian lesson for today. Thank you.
You don't pass laws to grant freedom. By default you are free to do whatever you want, and laws exist to selectively place restrictions on this freedom. The only way you get freedom back is to REPEAL laws, not pass new ones!
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Oh well, that post was pretty incoherent.. Too early to make complete sentences.... Need coffee.....
This is a rectangular (Equidistant Cylindrical) projection, where latitude and longitude lines are parallel and spaced evenly. It introduces a great deal of distortion near the poles, and doesn't really, and is neither conformal nor suitable for navigation. It does make a pretty picture though!
Plants and animals die every day, and have for millions of years. All of a sudden it's a problem we need to solve?
You can't take your own popcorn into a movie theatre, why is it such an outrage that you can't take your own food into the Olympics?
Bad thing X is happening "there". Same thing X is happening "here". Therefore, X is not so bad.
Friday, July 23, 4004
NEW YORK (AP) - A new organization has been created to promote the copying and redistribution of stone sculptures. Calling itself the Free Sculpture Foundation, or FSF, the group aims to "free" works of art which until now have been "hoarded" by stone copyrighters.
"How can you copyright a piece of rock?? It's the earth, man!" Hippie and founder Richard Stoneman said he got his idea from a recent Slashdot post, "3D Printing in Stone, or Copy a Sculpture in Rock". Great works such as those by Michelangelo will be among his first projects.
Industry groups are not impressed. Chiseled Sales, Inc. spokeswoman Hillary Rocken announced the formation of a trade group opposed to Mr. Stoneman's band of fredom fighters. The Rock Is Available Association, or RIAA is set to lobby government officials to crack down on these "rock robbers". "The talented sculpturers we represent are losing hard earned profits by these thieves. Stone may come from the earth, but that shouldn't stop us from selling it," Rocken said in a prepared statement.
The debate is not likely to go away any time soon. Shortly after the formation of the FSF, a new rival group was formed, calling itself the Open Stone movement. President Erock S Raymond called for a meeting of the minds between business and stone consumers, noting the benefits of opening up the hardware "blueprints" to great works of art.
But the only person I know who is into Carnegie's stuff. Has the book it would seem has even been to classes and shit. Is a complete and total asshole.
Somehow I don't think you can sustain yourself through unemployment by eating all that self-rightiousness, no matter how much ketchup you dump on it.
Be happy you are one of the 5% who were fortunate enough to be born into privilege.
First, you say the report is ridiculous, then you go on to admit, point by point, that everything in it is true. So which is it?
Shouldn't spyware already be covered by laws against spreading viruses? Spyware is software installed on my machine without my knowing it, and this is exactly what happens when a virus spreads. What's the difference?
When it's distributed by a business, it's called spyware, and when it's distributed by a 14-year-old, it's a virus. Is this asinine or what?
Hmm... the #1 bidder, someone named GWBush2004, lives in Yucca mountain, and has 77,000 tons of something he wants to get rid of.....
Although right now OpenGL is all that's out there for low-cost portable embedded 3D software, no one is going to develop with it until hardware support emerges. Who wants a handheld 3D mapping device that takes 10 seconds to redraw a frame using an ARM9 software renderer?