There was no way that this was "misconstrued" as a threat. The cop knew damn well that the guy didn't yell any threat, he was being a typical asshole cop. That's why you should never, ever trust a cop - because their job is to terrorize the population into submission.
Sorry, but doing an engine swap is NOT "making a road worthy prototype". Yes, those EV conversion kits are cool and I may do one someday (weight / range being an issue, as well as cost), but again your friend is just doing the work someone else did - he's not "developing" or "making" anything.
No, your co-worker did not produce a fully functional, 100% legit, electric-only vehicle. He bought a conversion kit to turn a car he already owned (which is 90+% of the engineering costs) and swapped the gasoline engine + gas tank for an electric motor + battery pack. That's like claiming that I "produced" a new invention because I plugged my TV into a portable generator instead of the wall socket.
Their books weren't overpriced but their cd's / dvd's / blu-ray's were obscene. When you see Border's charging $40 for a new movie and you can walk into Best Buy down the street and buy the same exact thing for $20, there's no reason to buy non-book items from Border's.
So as part of your solution, you're going to pay for the cost of that mandatory access for everyone, right? Because the hell you're going to forcefully take money out of my paycheck (that already gets raped badly enough by the government) to pay for other people's luxuries.
Like Mrs. Thatcher pointed out almost 30 years ago - "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money".
Most lower income kids in the US have plenty of electronic luxuries - I'd be very surprised to find a low income house that doesn't have a computer and the internet.
I dunno, I think Angry Birds causes more frustration for people than enjoyment. No one believed me when I told them I'd beaten the original, Rio, and almost finished Seasons because most people find them so hard to complete the more challenging levels.
Except as governments have shown time and time again, they don't give a flying (no pun intended) fuck about what citizens think. Now if a few dozen government sanctioned terrorists got their kneecaps broken or some such, that would at least get the attention of the thugs and cause them to think twice even if the ones giving the orders still ignored it.
It's not about being ashamed of your body - it's about someone FORCING you to get naked for their viewing pleasure. It's tantamount to rape. There's a huge difference with CHOOSING to show your body to people and someone forcing you to do it.
Actually previous incidents disagree with you. People have been arrested for calmly doing what you said - but the TSA decided that once you get in line, you're not allowed to change your mind and back up without going to jail.
I'm waiting for Anonymous or some other group to start posting names and addresses of TSA employees to allow citizens to deal with things in a more uh "direct" manner. I simply refuse to fly while this bullshit exists, but I wouldn't be upset if someone used some old school mob tactics to teach the TSA a little humility.
Seconded. I also refuse to fly as long as the TSA (or any similar group) exists. What's sad is that if people just stood up as a group and said "We won't fly until this shit stops" the airlines would bleed money so fast that the TSA would vanish almost instantly.
Two things - given how many calls tech support gets on a daily basis for forgotten passwords, if I was on a jury I wouldn't assume that they were lying. Also, you can always go with "During my arrest, they lost my flash drive containing the keyfile - it's impossible to decrypt now".
First, it's not debatable that a "second hand sale is a lost sale". People who buy second hand can't / won't pay $60+ for a game (hence why they're buying used - did you think it was because they just wanted the scratches on the disk and missing instruction manual?) If they want to increase sales to the people who buy used games, they need to lower prices. It's not like they aren't making billions and billions of dollars already.
Second, if you buy a game that has a single-player mode, you ARE paying for unlimited game-play from now until your copy of the game / your system stops working. Online games, you're right, you are paying for a limited amount of server time. However, decent companies realize that servers don't cost THAT much and keep them up for a very long time (Diablo, Diablo II, and Starcraft come to mine - all up for more than a decade). Decent companies realize that there's a reason to provide a good experience for your customer and they can also make a profit off those older games still as a result.
Not to mention that for a few thousand years artists created plenty while only getting paid once (if at all) for their work instead of being paid millions of times for doing one item of work.
And you're only saying that they're "being obstructionist" because they're actually supporting the policies that they said they would when they got elected and aren't just bowing down and letting the Messiah do whatever he wants.
No, what you can say is that the US has refused to allow the building of any new nuclear plants for decades. If you have one technology essentially banned from being used in new structures, it's only common sense that something else will overtake it.
Except that professors who only write on the board often (though not always) run into the problem of going too fast, thus leaving your scrambling just to copy things down without really listening to what they're saying. I prefer professors who use powerpoint (or post pdf / text files of their lectures online) so that I can focus on the lecture and take notes on what's important but still get the full text of the lecture as well. My currently school (in grad school, atteneded there for my bachelor's as well) also has every room set up so that all audio and anything done on the pc / overhead projector is recorded and posted online for download.
First off, that's Germany, not the US. Secondly, citizens (at least in the US) have very little power over the government these days. The two controlling political parties get to choose who runs, get to choose who gets government financing for campaigns, get to choose who gets to speak on TV during debates, etc. That's why so many Americans have given up on voting - because it doesn't mean a thing to politicians since you can't actually change what they do.
You're also highly overestimating those in the military - considering it was only a few decades ago that US troops murdered US students (this was done under orders, not some troops going renegade) for daring to try to change things, there's no reason to expect that they would think twice about murdering any US citizens the government told them to. All they have to say is that magic word "terrorist". Government is some other people - they're politicians and soldiers who think that they're superior to everyone else and can do anything they goddamn please. That's why the US has the second amendment allowing citizens to have weapons - to help keep the government in check (sadly no amount of firearms helps when the government has tanks and bombers, not to mention an unconstitutional standing army of hundreds of thousands who's job is to kill anyone they're told to kill without question).
The problem is that they system doesn't work and ironically, only those in control of the system can change the system. But you keep your delusions of having control.......wasn't it in Gladiator where the someone told the emperor to keep the senate around to keep the population docile and under the illusion that they had some say in the government?
Ah yes, because not bowing in submission to the other party is "being obstructionist". I despise both parties, but you can't try to argue that Democrats didn't go in with an arrogant attitude and do everything they could to isolate Republicans.
And that Obama can't get the republican congress to agree to anything unless its the exact position of the republican congress
Well ain't karma a bitch? Obama walked in and spent the first half of his presidency telling the Republicans to go fuck themselves and that he didn't need or want their cooperation because he had a majority and could cram anything he wanted down their throats. How could he NOT expect this once they gained a majority?
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There was no way that this was "misconstrued" as a threat. The cop knew damn well that the guy didn't yell any threat, he was being a typical asshole cop. That's why you should never, ever trust a cop - because their job is to terrorize the population into submission.
Sorry, but doing an engine swap is NOT "making a road worthy prototype". Yes, those EV conversion kits are cool and I may do one someday (weight / range being an issue, as well as cost), but again your friend is just doing the work someone else did - he's not "developing" or "making" anything.
No, your co-worker did not produce a fully functional, 100% legit, electric-only vehicle. He bought a conversion kit to turn a car he already owned (which is 90+% of the engineering costs) and swapped the gasoline engine + gas tank for an electric motor + battery pack. That's like claiming that I "produced" a new invention because I plugged my TV into a portable generator instead of the wall socket.
Their books weren't overpriced but their cd's / dvd's / blu-ray's were obscene. When you see Border's charging $40 for a new movie and you can walk into Best Buy down the street and buy the same exact thing for $20, there's no reason to buy non-book items from Border's.
So as part of your solution, you're going to pay for the cost of that mandatory access for everyone, right? Because the hell you're going to forcefully take money out of my paycheck (that already gets raped badly enough by the government) to pay for other people's luxuries.
Like Mrs. Thatcher pointed out almost 30 years ago - "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money".
Most lower income kids in the US have plenty of electronic luxuries - I'd be very surprised to find a low income house that doesn't have a computer and the internet.
Given the state of the US, I wouldn't be opposed to some sort of basic competency test before people are allowed to have a child....
I dunno, I think Angry Birds causes more frustration for people than enjoyment. No one believed me when I told them I'd beaten the original, Rio, and almost finished Seasons because most people find them so hard to complete the more challenging levels.
Except as governments have shown time and time again, they don't give a flying (no pun intended) fuck about what citizens think. Now if a few dozen government sanctioned terrorists got their kneecaps broken or some such, that would at least get the attention of the thugs and cause them to think twice even if the ones giving the orders still ignored it.
It's not about being ashamed of your body - it's about someone FORCING you to get naked for their viewing pleasure. It's tantamount to rape. There's a huge difference with CHOOSING to show your body to people and someone forcing you to do it.
Actually previous incidents disagree with you. People have been arrested for calmly doing what you said - but the TSA decided that once you get in line, you're not allowed to change your mind and back up without going to jail.
Good thing I recently became a gun owner!
I'm waiting for Anonymous or some other group to start posting names and addresses of TSA employees to allow citizens to deal with things in a more uh "direct" manner. I simply refuse to fly while this bullshit exists, but I wouldn't be upset if someone used some old school mob tactics to teach the TSA a little humility.
Seconded. I also refuse to fly as long as the TSA (or any similar group) exists. What's sad is that if people just stood up as a group and said "We won't fly until this shit stops" the airlines would bleed money so fast that the TSA would vanish almost instantly.
Wait, you mean the US occasionally still uses the Constitution? I thought that had been outlawed years ago..... huh, who'da thunk?
Two things - given how many calls tech support gets on a daily basis for forgotten passwords, if I was on a jury I wouldn't assume that they were lying. Also, you can always go with "During my arrest, they lost my flash drive containing the keyfile - it's impossible to decrypt now".
First, it's not debatable that a "second hand sale is a lost sale". People who buy second hand can't / won't pay $60+ for a game (hence why they're buying used - did you think it was because they just wanted the scratches on the disk and missing instruction manual?) If they want to increase sales to the people who buy used games, they need to lower prices. It's not like they aren't making billions and billions of dollars already.
Second, if you buy a game that has a single-player mode, you ARE paying for unlimited game-play from now until your copy of the game / your system stops working. Online games, you're right, you are paying for a limited amount of server time. However, decent companies realize that servers don't cost THAT much and keep them up for a very long time (Diablo, Diablo II, and Starcraft come to mine - all up for more than a decade). Decent companies realize that there's a reason to provide a good experience for your customer and they can also make a profit off those older games still as a result.
Not to mention that for a few thousand years artists created plenty while only getting paid once (if at all) for their work instead of being paid millions of times for doing one item of work.
And you're only saying that they're "being obstructionist" because they're actually supporting the policies that they said they would when they got elected and aren't just bowing down and letting the Messiah do whatever he wants.
Why would you think that a small box you find is a bomb? No, seriously - why the fuck would you think that?
No, what you can say is that the US has refused to allow the building of any new nuclear plants for decades. If you have one technology essentially banned from being used in new structures, it's only common sense that something else will overtake it.
Except that professors who only write on the board often (though not always) run into the problem of going too fast, thus leaving your scrambling just to copy things down without really listening to what they're saying. I prefer professors who use powerpoint (or post pdf / text files of their lectures online) so that I can focus on the lecture and take notes on what's important but still get the full text of the lecture as well. My currently school (in grad school, atteneded there for my bachelor's as well) also has every room set up so that all audio and anything done on the pc / overhead projector is recorded and posted online for download.
First off, that's Germany, not the US. Secondly, citizens (at least in the US) have very little power over the government these days. The two controlling political parties get to choose who runs, get to choose who gets government financing for campaigns, get to choose who gets to speak on TV during debates, etc. That's why so many Americans have given up on voting - because it doesn't mean a thing to politicians since you can't actually change what they do.
You're also highly overestimating those in the military - considering it was only a few decades ago that US troops murdered US students (this was done under orders, not some troops going renegade) for daring to try to change things, there's no reason to expect that they would think twice about murdering any US citizens the government told them to. All they have to say is that magic word "terrorist". Government is some other people - they're politicians and soldiers who think that they're superior to everyone else and can do anything they goddamn please. That's why the US has the second amendment allowing citizens to have weapons - to help keep the government in check (sadly no amount of firearms helps when the government has tanks and bombers, not to mention an unconstitutional standing army of hundreds of thousands who's job is to kill anyone they're told to kill without question).
The problem is that they system doesn't work and ironically, only those in control of the system can change the system. But you keep your delusions of having control.......wasn't it in Gladiator where the someone told the emperor to keep the senate around to keep the population docile and under the illusion that they had some say in the government?
Ah yes, because not bowing in submission to the other party is "being obstructionist". I despise both parties, but you can't try to argue that Democrats didn't go in with an arrogant attitude and do everything they could to isolate Republicans.
And that Obama can't get the republican congress to agree to anything unless its the exact position of the republican congress
Well ain't karma a bitch? Obama walked in and spent the first half of his presidency telling the Republicans to go fuck themselves and that he didn't need or want their cooperation because he had a majority and could cram anything he wanted down their throats. How could he NOT expect this once they gained a majority?