That may have been true 100 or more years ago, but the rise of the welfare state along with unfettered immigration makes for vast numbers of people who cost a country more than the value they create there.
I know, right? All those unoriginal authors, expecting to use the alphabet somebody else invented without paying for it. They should be creating their own alphabets, not infringing on the god given right of the Romans to protect what is rightfully theirs.
You've never tried writing off a portion of a residence as a work expense, have you? By all means though, continue your ignorant rant. People like you are amusing.
Regardless of the intent of the perpetrators at the top, it was sold to the masses as protection from terrorists, despite the fact that far more Americans died in auto accidents than at the hands of terrorists in 2001.
Quite right. The US government isn't into petty crime. They don't extort pennies from citizens through common thuggery when there are trillions of dollars to be made by maintaining a perpetual state of war.
If governments want to retain the right to declare things secrets, they should be more choosy about what they classify as secrets. When it turns out that the things they called secrets were corruption, that tends to make the citizenry not trust anything else they've declared secret either.
I'm no cryptology expert, far from it, but that was my first thought as well. If you can analyze the data by using guesses as to what the unencrypted data looks like, then encoding twice would make that magnitudes more difficult, as you'd have to analyze the output of every conceivable key.
Sadly, everything you posted is true. Everybody who is a part of the health system, from patients to doctors to hospitals to insurance companies to suppliers are all guilty of creating an amazing modern healthcare system that nobody can afford.
If a non-stamp collect goes to not-collecting stamps conventions and loves to talk about not-collecting stamps with their peers in their spare time, then yes I'd qualify that as a hobby.
Many atheists love to talk about atheism, go to speakers to hear them talk about atheism, etc. It does have some of the same markers as religion.
State and local governments are worse? When is the last time a city started a war that killed tens of millions? Government is a necessary evil, but make no mistake, it is evil. The larger the government, the greater the evil it can perpetrate.
In which case the petition is simply further evidence that the Obama administration is as corrupt as the one before it and therefore still serves a purpose.
I wish you were correct, but the word "liberal" changed long ago. Instead of supporting LIBERty, modern American "liberals" are all about massive cradle to grave nanny government, in which this type of spying and control over the citizenry is to be expected.
The hippies that protested Vietnam and the man have long since been replaced by "liberals" that fear freedom and want everything tightly controlled. (Except for marriage and abortion, those are separate topics)
You think a national gun ban would create a barrier to importation of guns to the US? We can't keep drugs out, what makes you think guns are any different?
That's such archaic thinking. Congress abdicated their duties to the bureaucracy long ago. Three letter agencies have their own rulebooks which hold the same weight as a law passed by congress. CIA, FBI, IRS, DEA, ATF, DHS, FDA, Departments of Education, Agriculture, you name it. Those bureaucracies can do just about whatever they want without congressional oversight. If they go overboard? There's a momentary outcry, some sacrificial lamb gets fired, everybody forgets about it in short order, and the march toward totalitarianism continues on unabated.
More laws are passed in this country than any person can keep up with. I'd have to dig it up, but there was some research done on the number of laws the average American breaks every day without doing anything truly "wrong" and doesn't even realize it.
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That may have been true 100 or more years ago, but the rise of the welfare state along with unfettered immigration makes for vast numbers of people who cost a country more than the value they create there.
I know, right? All those unoriginal authors, expecting to use the alphabet somebody else invented without paying for it. They should be creating their own alphabets, not infringing on the god given right of the Romans to protect what is rightfully theirs.
So what you're saying is that we can never afford an interest rate hike? Sounds like a solid plan...
You've never tried writing off a portion of a residence as a work expense, have you? By all means though, continue your ignorant rant. People like you are amusing.
I was quite confused by that statement as well.
That's what scalable architectures and cloud services are designed for. Expand and contract as necessary.
I've seen that requirement from banks, and a gym of all places.
I never played Myst, point and click games annoyed me. But isn't Bioshock just Myst in realtime with some FPS thrown in?
Vicious housepets?
Regardless of the intent of the perpetrators at the top, it was sold to the masses as protection from terrorists, despite the fact that far more Americans died in auto accidents than at the hands of terrorists in 2001.
Quite right. The US government isn't into petty crime. They don't extort pennies from citizens through common thuggery when there are trillions of dollars to be made by maintaining a perpetual state of war.
If governments want to retain the right to declare things secrets, they should be more choosy about what they classify as secrets. When it turns out that the things they called secrets were corruption, that tends to make the citizenry not trust anything else they've declared secret either.
I'm no cryptology expert, far from it, but that was my first thought as well. If you can analyze the data by using guesses as to what the unencrypted data looks like, then encoding twice would make that magnitudes more difficult, as you'd have to analyze the output of every conceivable key.
Really? So there's opportunity for patients to demand higher care than the system can support?
"I went on WebMD and think I might have PROBLEM X, I demand a CAT scan!"
And if healthcare is free, nobody ever has to pay the price for the obesity?
With no economic incentive to keep their individual costs down, Americans have proven they will overuse any system provided to them.
Sadly, everything you posted is true. Everybody who is a part of the health system, from patients to doctors to hospitals to insurance companies to suppliers are all guilty of creating an amazing modern healthcare system that nobody can afford.
If a non-stamp collect goes to not-collecting stamps conventions and loves to talk about not-collecting stamps with their peers in their spare time, then yes I'd qualify that as a hobby.
Many atheists love to talk about atheism, go to speakers to hear them talk about atheism, etc. It does have some of the same markers as religion.
How brilliantly obscure.
This isn't 'Nam.
State and local governments are worse? When is the last time a city started a war that killed tens of millions? Government is a necessary evil, but make no mistake, it is evil. The larger the government, the greater the evil it can perpetrate.
In which case the petition is simply further evidence that the Obama administration is as corrupt as the one before it and therefore still serves a purpose.
I wish you were correct, but the word "liberal" changed long ago. Instead of supporting LIBERty, modern American "liberals" are all about massive cradle to grave nanny government, in which this type of spying and control over the citizenry is to be expected.
The hippies that protested Vietnam and the man have long since been replaced by "liberals" that fear freedom and want everything tightly controlled. (Except for marriage and abortion, those are separate topics)
You think a national gun ban would create a barrier to importation of guns to the US? We can't keep drugs out, what makes you think guns are any different?
That's such archaic thinking. Congress abdicated their duties to the bureaucracy long ago. Three letter agencies have their own rulebooks which hold the same weight as a law passed by congress. CIA, FBI, IRS, DEA, ATF, DHS, FDA, Departments of Education, Agriculture, you name it. Those bureaucracies can do just about whatever they want without congressional oversight. If they go overboard? There's a momentary outcry, some sacrificial lamb gets fired, everybody forgets about it in short order, and the march toward totalitarianism continues on unabated.
More laws are passed in this country than any person can keep up with. I'd have to dig it up, but there was some research done on the number of laws the average American breaks every day without doing anything truly "wrong" and doesn't even realize it.
Wow. Are you saying that for any statement which is not immutable, you include the word currently?
Get the fuck over yourself, Mr. Pedantic.