This has been in all of my RSS feeds all day. Some of those feeds claim that an empty truck was recovered. I'll wait a little while before I decide that all the cobalt was recovered.
Snowden was a trusted agent of the NSA (or one or more of the NSA's contractors). I asked " Please explain how the same tech empowers you to snoop on the federal government," Do you, personally, have the resources, the knowledge, or the training to start sifting through NSA's communications in the same manner that the NSA snoops on you? If you don't personally have those resources, are you capable of commandeering the required resources? Which citizens of the United States might possess the capability to go head-to-head against the NSA?
"I agree that tech helps those in power, but it also empowers the week."
The NSA is "empowered" to snoop on your most intimate relations. Please explain how the same tech empowers you to snoop on the federal government, or any part of it's agencies and organizations.
You are quite the optimist. With today's technology, a locked down population is unlikely to be able to throw of the yoke of tyranny. And, government will be improving on today's technology, of course. Given a few decades of round the clock surveillance, mandatory forced indoctrination in the school system, and enforced thought policing, how are people ever going to regain their freedom?
If the US falls to tyranny, there will be something equivalent to Europe's Dark Ages. It will be a long, long, LONG time before the pendulum swings back the other way.
Federal money goes to PP. If PP didn't get federal money, then PP would have to close up around 1/3 to 1/2 of their operations. The federal government is SUBSIDIZING Planned Parenthood, which in turn, commits the murder of millions of babies.
Taxpayers are subsidizing abortions, it's as simple as that.
In Texas, when the state mandated that an abortion doctor meet certain standards before he could perform an abortion, PP complained that they would have to close about 25% of their clinics. If, as you say, abortion only accounts for 3% of their services - why close up shop in a location that is no longer able to perform abortions?
"Well regulated" did not mean an army. It meant the MILITIA. As I have already said, every citizen who was an able bodied male, between the ages of of 18 and 40 were by default members of the militia. Whether their relationship with the mlitia and/or the army was formalized by an enlistment, they were still members of the militia.
"Well regulated" refers to the ability to follow orders, to march in formation, to hit your target, and to maintain fire discipline. Generally, the local militia included fathers and sons, uncles and nephews, neighbors and friends. Men who knew each other, who grew up with each other, and taught each other how to handle their weapons safely. These men would drill at established times, much as the National Guard or the Army Reserve do today.
We have indeed lost some of that "well disciplined" bit. But, that doesn't change the fact that all able bodied males (as well as women who volunteer) are still members of the militia.
I assure you, there is no misunderstanding on my part. Please refer to the writings of one Thomas Jefferson.
Want an abortion? The law protects your "right" to murder your baby. Just stop expecting taxpayers to subsidize that murder. It's your side that mandates that government be involved in the murder of the defenseless. Just defund Planned Parenthood, and stop bringing multi-million dollar lawsuits every time a reasonable law is passed.
"Ah but it is a police state, just not one in which you're likely to be dragged from your bed in the middle of the night."
Really? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePEttC-Tsys They kicked the door in, and when a sleeping man opened his eyes to see what was going on, they murdered him, in front of his wife and his baby. You can do your own searches - an old veteran in a nursing facility was murdered for refusing to take medications. Cops like to shoot first, and ask questions later. If your name is associated in any way with a drug investigation, your life if forfeit.
Maybe police don't kick doors down in the middle of the night in your neighborhood, not routinely. But every major police department in the United States relies on the same tactics. Attack in the wee hours, just like the Army does, taking advantage of night vision gear, surprise, and overwhelming firepower. Make one move they don't like, and they open fire. 71 shots fired in this case - then they refused to allow any medical service personnel to enter until they were certain that the "suspect" had bled to death. 71 shots, to make certain that a sleeping man was dead. Imagine that.
Uhhhh, you seem to be putting the cart before the horse. The UN didn't cause the US to take an anti-drug stance. It was the US that coerced the rest of the world to go along with this "War on Drugs" thing. Don't blame this fiasco on the UN, it's all of our own making.
You should read the correspondence of the founding fathers. They spell out very explicitly that the right to bear arms applies to individuals, and that the purpose of that right is to curb an oppressive government. The "militia" includes all able bodied men between the ages of 18 and 40, not just members of an established militia.
There is no misunderstanding on the part of gun rights advocates. The misunderstanding is intentionally spread by the gun control crowd. Government is not meant to have control over any man's ability to defend himself, period. We have made exceptions for dangerously violent people, and the mentally infirm - everyone else is entitled to carry the same weapons that the police forces are authorized to carry.
Unless you are a few years older than I am, I doubt that you remember living in a "FREE AMERICA". During the McCarthy days, you were "free" to associate with card carrying communists, of course, but the moment any of the McCarthyites found out about it, you would be dragged through an ugly media trial. After your character had been thoroughly destroyed, you were then free to actually join the party. A lot of black folk might chime in here, to remind you of the many ways that they were "free". In my lifetime, black people were denied service in white restaurants, denied seating at the front of buses, and denied access to necessary public spaces such as restrooms.
I believe that what you actually mean is, you can remember a time when you were completely unaware of civil rights violations all around you. I also remember such a time. Life was wonderful when I was five years old, and my greatest achievements included learning to ride a two-wheeled bike, and passing the test to get into first grade.
What is there that dictates that an artist should be compensated every time a song is played? The rest of us are paid by the hour, by the job, under contract, or whatever. What is so special about artists, that they should be paid in perpetuity for having done a performance?
The REAL problem is, the artists get such a small piece of the pie, in comparison to the major labels. When a song becomes a global hit, the label makes billions, the artist gets a few million as a reward for enriching the label. And, all the REST of the artists are left believing that entertainment should pay big.
Dude - if you love music, play your music. If you love money more than you love music, maybe you should lay your guitar aside, and learn how to make a living. Musicians are cool and all, but FFS, we don't owe you a living for singing and playing.
Colorado . . . isn't that just downhill a little bit from God's Country? You can almost kick the truck out of gear, and coast from Cheyenne down to Denver. Yep, I been there! I thought it was pretty noisy, though, with all those prairie dogs running around.;^)
Alright, I'm done being a wise guy - yeah, there is a lot of quiet in the mountains. City folk might experience that, once or twice in a lifetime.
Amazon should just stop selling in New York to protest the taxes.
What's that? New York has more than 20% of the nation's population? So what? You mean that Amazon might prefer to collect and pay the taxes, rather than lose ~20% of their business? Imagine that . . . .
No, there is no true "waterproof" concrete. But, you CAN choose mixes that are less porous than others. The average driveway is poured with 3000 lb concrete, which may or may not actually be 3000 pound if you have a cheat supplying the concrete. When the concrete arrives on site, it's usually watered down, making your questionable mix even sorrier.
Specifying your mix to a high grade, then adding some good stuff tends to make the concrete stronger, more resistant to cracking and spalling, AND less porous. Less porous concrete will pass a lot less water, or none at all, depending on location, water table, and other minor details.
Oh - digging a hole 50 feet deep can get expensive. It depends on whether you are following OSHA guidelines or not. There are a LOT of deep holes in this world that were dug before OSHA ever existed. My father in law dug a number of them. Ever heard the term, "Colder than a well digger's ass"? Admittedly, FIL never dug a well that was dug out at the bottom to create a larger room, or chamber, but he certainly dug some wide enough to provide room for a man to sit on the bottom in a nice cushioned chair. Maybe enough room for a very small end table to hold your beer, too.
It isn't being advertised as a "sensory deprivation chamber". It's being advertised as a sound testing chamber. You are deprived of one sense, and one sense alone, in this chamber.
Dig a hole about forty or fifty feet deep. Make a monolithic pour of waterproofed concrete. Install the insulation and the anechoic surfaces. You'll want at least a couple soundproof hatches in the access tunnel, maybe three or four, to eliminate noise from the wind or whatever.
With your own chamber in your back yard, you can deprive yourself anytime. When you tire of that, you can use it to hide your armory, or your gold, or dead bodies. Whatever needs to be hidden, you've got the place to hide it. Plan for the future though - a guy never knows just how many people he might meet who desperately need to be bludgeoned to death!
Are you sure that deaf people don't hear ANYTHING? Or, maybe they simply can't hear the same way you or I do?
I know for a fact that deaf people can sense vibrations, and sound is nothing more than vibration. Your ear is specially designed to make sense of a particular type of vibrations.
What about bone induction?
I googled "hearing without ears" and got a boatload of hits. Some look pretty interesting, some look less interesting. Try it yourself.
Doesn't matter what the law says. If anything from any source is using my computer for any purpose which was hidden, disguised, or obfuscated from me, then it is an illegitimate use. Full disclosure, with explicit permission, or it's illegitimate.
Agreed - but you can't convince the unwashed masses. It's great having a "trusted repository" from which to pull almost all your applications. It's even better that you can browse the source code before compiling, to be halfway sure that the software does what it claims, and nothing "extra".
Admittedly, I'm not qualified to really examine all that source code, but I can and do browse through it from time to time.
There are precious few CB radios on the air any more. I haven't fired my own up in years. Today's new generation of truck drivers don't seem to use them, REACT and other emergency groups no longer seem to monitor them, police and sheriff's offices don't monitor them. My remaining radio is actually a converted 10 meter rig, a Ranger. I mostly monitored other frequencies, because I was tired of the welfare radio cretins who have nothing better to do that troll and bait the airwaves with racist and other stupid nonsense. Oh - the sexist nonsense - every female who makes a peep on CB radio is branded a bitch or a whore. The dregs of society seem to be on the CB these days, everyone else has moved on to something "better" - like Facebook, I guess.
If anyone can seriously claim that I'm wrong, I may drag the old Ranger out to find out for myself.
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This has been in all of my RSS feeds all day. Some of those feeds claim that an empty truck was recovered. I'll wait a little while before I decide that all the cobalt was recovered.
Snowden was a trusted agent of the NSA (or one or more of the NSA's contractors). I asked " Please explain how the same tech empowers you to snoop on the federal government," Do you, personally, have the resources, the knowledge, or the training to start sifting through NSA's communications in the same manner that the NSA snoops on you? If you don't personally have those resources, are you capable of commandeering the required resources? Which citizens of the United States might possess the capability to go head-to-head against the NSA?
"I agree that tech helps those in power, but it also empowers the week."
The NSA is "empowered" to snoop on your most intimate relations. Please explain how the same tech empowers you to snoop on the federal government, or any part of it's agencies and organizations.
You are quite the optimist. With today's technology, a locked down population is unlikely to be able to throw of the yoke of tyranny. And, government will be improving on today's technology, of course. Given a few decades of round the clock surveillance, mandatory forced indoctrination in the school system, and enforced thought policing, how are people ever going to regain their freedom?
If the US falls to tyranny, there will be something equivalent to Europe's Dark Ages. It will be a long, long, LONG time before the pendulum swings back the other way.
Why repeat that lie?
Federal money goes to PP. If PP didn't get federal money, then PP would have to close up around 1/3 to 1/2 of their operations. The federal government is SUBSIDIZING Planned Parenthood, which in turn, commits the murder of millions of babies.
Taxpayers are subsidizing abortions, it's as simple as that.
In Texas, when the state mandated that an abortion doctor meet certain standards before he could perform an abortion, PP complained that they would have to close about 25% of their clinics. If, as you say, abortion only accounts for 3% of their services - why close up shop in a location that is no longer able to perform abortions?
Lies, and damned lies.
"Well regulated" did not mean an army. It meant the MILITIA. As I have already said, every citizen who was an able bodied male, between the ages of of 18 and 40 were by default members of the militia. Whether their relationship with the mlitia and/or the army was formalized by an enlistment, they were still members of the militia.
"Well regulated" refers to the ability to follow orders, to march in formation, to hit your target, and to maintain fire discipline. Generally, the local militia included fathers and sons, uncles and nephews, neighbors and friends. Men who knew each other, who grew up with each other, and taught each other how to handle their weapons safely. These men would drill at established times, much as the National Guard or the Army Reserve do today.
We have indeed lost some of that "well disciplined" bit. But, that doesn't change the fact that all able bodied males (as well as women who volunteer) are still members of the militia.
I assure you, there is no misunderstanding on my part. Please refer to the writings of one Thomas Jefferson.
Want an abortion? The law protects your "right" to murder your baby. Just stop expecting taxpayers to subsidize that murder. It's your side that mandates that government be involved in the murder of the defenseless. Just defund Planned Parenthood, and stop bringing multi-million dollar lawsuits every time a reasonable law is passed.
"Ah but it is a police state, just not one in which you're likely to be dragged from your bed in the middle of the night."
Really? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePEttC-Tsys They kicked the door in, and when a sleeping man opened his eyes to see what was going on, they murdered him, in front of his wife and his baby. You can do your own searches - an old veteran in a nursing facility was murdered for refusing to take medications. Cops like to shoot first, and ask questions later. If your name is associated in any way with a drug investigation, your life if forfeit.
Maybe police don't kick doors down in the middle of the night in your neighborhood, not routinely. But every major police department in the United States relies on the same tactics. Attack in the wee hours, just like the Army does, taking advantage of night vision gear, surprise, and overwhelming firepower. Make one move they don't like, and they open fire. 71 shots fired in this case - then they refused to allow any medical service personnel to enter until they were certain that the "suspect" had bled to death. 71 shots, to make certain that a sleeping man was dead. Imagine that.
News flash: We do not have a black president. We have a half-white president, who was groomed and approved of by the entrenched party.
Uhhhh, you seem to be putting the cart before the horse. The UN didn't cause the US to take an anti-drug stance. It was the US that coerced the rest of the world to go along with this "War on Drugs" thing. Don't blame this fiasco on the UN, it's all of our own making.
You should read the correspondence of the founding fathers. They spell out very explicitly that the right to bear arms applies to individuals, and that the purpose of that right is to curb an oppressive government. The "militia" includes all able bodied men between the ages of 18 and 40, not just members of an established militia.
There is no misunderstanding on the part of gun rights advocates. The misunderstanding is intentionally spread by the gun control crowd. Government is not meant to have control over any man's ability to defend himself, period. We have made exceptions for dangerously violent people, and the mentally infirm - everyone else is entitled to carry the same weapons that the police forces are authorized to carry.
Unless you are a few years older than I am, I doubt that you remember living in a "FREE AMERICA". During the McCarthy days, you were "free" to associate with card carrying communists, of course, but the moment any of the McCarthyites found out about it, you would be dragged through an ugly media trial. After your character had been thoroughly destroyed, you were then free to actually join the party. A lot of black folk might chime in here, to remind you of the many ways that they were "free". In my lifetime, black people were denied service in white restaurants, denied seating at the front of buses, and denied access to necessary public spaces such as restrooms.
I believe that what you actually mean is, you can remember a time when you were completely unaware of civil rights violations all around you. I also remember such a time. Life was wonderful when I was five years old, and my greatest achievements included learning to ride a two-wheeled bike, and passing the test to get into first grade.
"What good is a phone call if you are unable to speak?"
I'll take door two, and a blue pill, Moe!
What is there that dictates that an artist should be compensated every time a song is played? The rest of us are paid by the hour, by the job, under contract, or whatever. What is so special about artists, that they should be paid in perpetuity for having done a performance?
The REAL problem is, the artists get such a small piece of the pie, in comparison to the major labels. When a song becomes a global hit, the label makes billions, the artist gets a few million as a reward for enriching the label. And, all the REST of the artists are left believing that entertainment should pay big.
Dude - if you love music, play your music. If you love money more than you love music, maybe you should lay your guitar aside, and learn how to make a living. Musicians are cool and all, but FFS, we don't owe you a living for singing and playing.
Colorado . . . isn't that just downhill a little bit from God's Country? You can almost kick the truck out of gear, and coast from Cheyenne down to Denver. Yep, I been there! I thought it was pretty noisy, though, with all those prairie dogs running around. ;^)
Alright, I'm done being a wise guy - yeah, there is a lot of quiet in the mountains. City folk might experience that, once or twice in a lifetime.
Are you really sure of that?
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/medical-and-healthcare/news/bone-conducting-implant-could-help-deaf-people-hear-normally/1015171.article
It seems to depend on how and why a person went deaf.
Amazon should just stop selling in New York to protest the taxes.
What's that? New York has more than 20% of the nation's population? So what? You mean that Amazon might prefer to collect and pay the taxes, rather than lose ~20% of their business? Imagine that . . . .
Hey, whatever blows your skirt up. I'm not terribly judgmental!
No, there is no true "waterproof" concrete. But, you CAN choose mixes that are less porous than others. The average driveway is poured with 3000 lb concrete, which may or may not actually be 3000 pound if you have a cheat supplying the concrete. When the concrete arrives on site, it's usually watered down, making your questionable mix even sorrier.
Specifying your mix to a high grade, then adding some good stuff tends to make the concrete stronger, more resistant to cracking and spalling, AND less porous. Less porous concrete will pass a lot less water, or none at all, depending on location, water table, and other minor details.
Oh - digging a hole 50 feet deep can get expensive. It depends on whether you are following OSHA guidelines or not. There are a LOT of deep holes in this world that were dug before OSHA ever existed. My father in law dug a number of them. Ever heard the term, "Colder than a well digger's ass"? Admittedly, FIL never dug a well that was dug out at the bottom to create a larger room, or chamber, but he certainly dug some wide enough to provide room for a man to sit on the bottom in a nice cushioned chair. Maybe enough room for a very small end table to hold your beer, too.
It isn't being advertised as a "sensory deprivation chamber". It's being advertised as a sound testing chamber. You are deprived of one sense, and one sense alone, in this chamber.
Phhttt.....
Dig a hole about forty or fifty feet deep. Make a monolithic pour of waterproofed concrete. Install the insulation and the anechoic surfaces. You'll want at least a couple soundproof hatches in the access tunnel, maybe three or four, to eliminate noise from the wind or whatever.
With your own chamber in your back yard, you can deprive yourself anytime. When you tire of that, you can use it to hide your armory, or your gold, or dead bodies. Whatever needs to be hidden, you've got the place to hide it. Plan for the future though - a guy never knows just how many people he might meet who desperately need to be bludgeoned to death!
Are you sure that deaf people don't hear ANYTHING? Or, maybe they simply can't hear the same way you or I do?
I know for a fact that deaf people can sense vibrations, and sound is nothing more than vibration. Your ear is specially designed to make sense of a particular type of vibrations.
What about bone induction?
I googled "hearing without ears" and got a boatload of hits. Some look pretty interesting, some look less interesting. Try it yourself.
Doesn't matter what the law says. If anything from any source is using my computer for any purpose which was hidden, disguised, or obfuscated from me, then it is an illegitimate use. Full disclosure, with explicit permission, or it's illegitimate.
Agreed - but you can't convince the unwashed masses. It's great having a "trusted repository" from which to pull almost all your applications. It's even better that you can browse the source code before compiling, to be halfway sure that the software does what it claims, and nothing "extra".
Admittedly, I'm not qualified to really examine all that source code, but I can and do browse through it from time to time.
There are precious few CB radios on the air any more. I haven't fired my own up in years. Today's new generation of truck drivers don't seem to use them, REACT and other emergency groups no longer seem to monitor them, police and sheriff's offices don't monitor them. My remaining radio is actually a converted 10 meter rig, a Ranger. I mostly monitored other frequencies, because I was tired of the welfare radio cretins who have nothing better to do that troll and bait the airwaves with racist and other stupid nonsense. Oh - the sexist nonsense - every female who makes a peep on CB radio is branded a bitch or a whore. The dregs of society seem to be on the CB these days, everyone else has moved on to something "better" - like Facebook, I guess.
If anyone can seriously claim that I'm wrong, I may drag the old Ranger out to find out for myself.