Obama's broken promises: 1 - He said we'd stop snatching people off streets. Provide a Right to fair trial. (Reality: No longer have Miranda rights even for U.S. citizens.) (Can be held indefinitely w/o trial)
2 - Right to Privacy (They now spy on us via warrantless wiretaps and track our cellphones) (Patriot Act renewed by Obama.)
3 - No interrogation. Close Guantanamo. (Revoked - it's still open and now they interrogate American citizens there too, so they can be held without trial.)
4 - End the war. (Reality: Now it's been extended two more years.)
My guess is that the former Soviet Union received a lot of American dollars in the 90s, as well as an explosion in new businesses, and that's why they have the latest technology (fiber) to their homes.
>>>Because everywhere else in the US doesn't have other natural disasters.
Not compared to California. The worst "disaster" we have here (northeast) is 3 feet of snow, and all you have to do is wait for it to melt off the roads (usually 2 days or less)...... But if your roof falls down on you, or a tidal wave buries you under 2 stories of water..... well that's it.
>>>However, do the people outside the door have the right to record said argument?
Yes they do. Words uttered loud enough that nearly people can hear it on a public street can be recorded, either via audio means or written on paper. Same applies to unprotected wireless leaking out of your house. It's how various politicians have had their cellphone communications caught over the years, and it's nobody's fault but their own.
It's an underground reservoir with a "hole" in it, due to excessive internal pressure.. That type of stuff happens a lot during Earth's history. Why do you think we find mastodons and other preserved animals in oil pits? Because they got trapped by naturally leaking oil.
Sure why not? Then when in the 1970s Ford experienced exploding Pintos, we could have drug the Ford Owner and his top-level managers into court for Manslaughter. In my humble opinion, it's what they deserved for knowingly deciding to let people die, rather than fix the flaw.
Instead they just got a fine, which didn't hurt them at all. Not justice.
Is is easier to bribe a single agency (example: EPA) then to bribe the ~10,000 courts that are spread across this continent. By creating the regulatory agency you merely make the corporations' job easier - locate the EPA Chair and grease his palm.
>>>The banned words are based on relatively recent social mores, not the meaning and origin.
1066 is recent? That's when using Anglo words became "bad" and Frankish words "good". It's why we say we are eatingg venison, beef, and pork, not deer, cow, and pig.
And here are the stats to back you up. Note the U.S. is #2 when compared to other continent-sized federations.
Russian Federation 8.3 Mbit/s U.S. 7.0 E.U. 6.6 Canada 5.7 Australia 5.1 China 3.0 Brazil 2.1 Mexico 1.1 Mbit/s
And if you prefer to look on a state-by-state basis of the EU, US, and Canada then you get: 1 Sweden 13 Mbit/s 2 Delaware, Romania,Netherlands,Bulgaria 12 3 Washington,Rhode Island 11 4 Massachusetts 10 5 New Jersey,Virginia,New Hampshire,New York 9 6 British Columbia,Colorado,Connecticut,Arizona, Slovakia 8 Mbit/s
Replace the Anglo-Saxon word "shit" with the Frankish word "poo" and then everything will be a-okay. (Yes our US FCC really is that stupid and inconsistent.)
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Can we blame Obama? The last time a major disaster happened in the gulf, we blamed George Duh Bush for not acting fast enough. Surely we can say the same about Obama (it took 8 days to send government cleanup ships).
Nope. Although I did do war*dialing* back in the 80s (like in the movie WarGames). According to wikipedia, "The popularity of wardialing in 1980s and 1990s prompted some states to enact legislation prohibiting the use of a device to dial telephone numbers without the intent of communicating with a person," so I guess that makes me a criminal.
Of course wikipedia also claims the movie invented the term "wardial" but I suspect that term existed before the movie did.
I also suspect this is why my modem died an early death (the internal switch no longer hung-up the phone).
No. To Quote Obi-Wan Kenobi: "You did that to yourself." YOU chose the path of saying the earth would be destroyed by the Gulf spill - I did not do anything.
Laws and Courts. The Laws make certain actions (like polluting water or stealing private data) illegal and the Courts enforce those laws via enacting punishment for the criminals.
>>>Google seem to think that their bottom line is more important than users rights to privacy.
Bullshit. It was Google was *voluntarily* told the world what they had done, and were erasing the data. If they were as you described, the managers would have kept silent and just kept collecting.
>>>t's my opinion that this is yet another example of why government oversight of privacy standards is not only a good idea, it's a necessity.
It's my opinion that this is yet another example of why government oversight of privacy standards is a BAD idea. Last time the US "overlooked" data they used it to imprison several million innocent Americans during WW2. Then they used it to do radioactivity experiments on blacks without their knowledge. Then they used the data to round-up Americans and throw them in Guantanamo Bay prison w/o trial. And so on.
Believe it or not, I trust Google more. Even if they do abuse the data, they don't own a police force to drag me off to jail or a laboratory
Large? The Gulf is actually quite small compared to the Earth. For example the animals living along Maine's coast have no clue there's an oil spill happening. Also let's not forget that prior to 1800, it was common for the Earth to "belch" oil all over the place, creating giant pools of oil both on land and in the ocean. On his journey to Philadelphia as first president, Washington had to detour around several tarpits (oil) to get there.
That was the natural state of the world, until man came along and cleaned it up. It helps if you study history instead of hyperbole.
Government regulatory agencies sound good in theory, but in reality they are often mere puppets of the corporations that bribe them, so they don't work.
I'd rather see Google's corporate license revoked. Let them operate as a proprietorship whose owner(s) have full liability for his company's actions, and then I can sue the bastard in court for theft of my data. Or even better - boycott the company and drive them into bankruptcy (as happened to Circuit City).
>>>As if the government alone is the enemy of freedom.
STRAWMAN ARGUMENT (poor logic). I don't recall saying government was the "only" enemy of freedom. Those words never left my mouth. Here's what I said: ".....places like the US have a constitution to chain the government & prevent abuses. Governments don't protect individual rights - they trample over them."
I never said government was the only enemy of individual rights. For example there's communists, that would desire to make citizens little more the Serfs of new Masters (see USSR, China, Communist Eastern Europe, Cuba, and so on). Plus there's tyranny of the majority, as in Athens when Socrates was executed by the Demos simply because they didn't like his speeches. And so on.
As for corporations and HMOs, there are an invention of government politicians, so why are you surprised they are so often evil in nature? Evil begat evil. I'm not shocked.
Walk through the door? More like you were standing inside your house and yelling, "My name is ___ and my password is ____ and I'm visiting the following sites: (insert list)." The neighbors are not to blame if they can hear your loud mouth, and neither are any passersby.
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You make it sound like Obam's done nothing wrong.
Obama's broken promises:
1 - He said we'd stop snatching people off streets. Provide a Right to fair trial. (Reality: No longer have Miranda rights even for U.S. citizens.) (Can be held indefinitely w/o trial)
2 - Right to Privacy (They now spy on us via warrantless wiretaps and track our cellphones) (Patriot Act renewed by Obama.)
3 - No interrogation. Close Guantanamo. (Revoked - it's still open and now they interrogate American citizens there too, so they can be held without trial.)
4 - End the war. (Reality: Now it's been extended two more years.)
Agree. Transmitting from a chip to PC or vice-versa, is no big deal. The fact he put it inside his body doesn't alter that ability.
My guess is that the former Soviet Union received a lot of American dollars in the 90s, as well as an explosion in new businesses, and that's why they have the latest technology (fiber) to their homes.
"extending from northern Vancouver Island to northern California"
>>>Because everywhere else in the US doesn't have other natural disasters.
Not compared to California. The worst "disaster" we have here (northeast) is 3 feet of snow, and all you have to do is wait for it to melt off the roads (usually 2 days or less). ..... But if your roof falls down on you, or a tidal wave buries you under 2 stories of water..... well that's it.
>>>However, do the people outside the door have the right to record said argument?
Yes they do. Words uttered loud enough that nearly people can hear it on a public street can be recorded, either via audio means or written on paper. Same applies to unprotected wireless leaking out of your house. It's how various politicians have had their cellphone communications caught over the years, and it's nobody's fault but their own.
>>>This oil leak is not a natural occurrence.
It's an underground reservoir with a "hole" in it, due to excessive internal pressure.. That type of stuff happens a lot during Earth's history. Why do you think we find mastodons and other preserved animals in oil pits? Because they got trapped by naturally leaking oil.
The millions of natural-born Americans who were thrown-in "relocation camps" because they looked Japanese, or had German-sounding names.
Sure why not? Then when in the 1970s Ford experienced exploding Pintos, we could have drug the Ford Owner and his top-level managers into court for Manslaughter. In my humble opinion, it's what they deserved for knowingly deciding to let people die, rather than fix the flaw.
Instead they just got a fine, which didn't hurt them at all. Not justice.
Is is easier to bribe a single agency (example: EPA) then to bribe the ~10,000 courts that are spread across this continent. By creating the regulatory agency you merely make the corporations' job easier - locate the EPA Chair and grease his palm.
>>>The banned words are based on relatively recent social mores, not the meaning and origin.
1066 is recent? That's when using Anglo words became "bad" and Frankish words "good". It's why we say we are eatingg venison, beef, and pork, not deer, cow, and pig.
And here are the stats to back you up. Note the U.S. is #2 when compared to other continent-sized federations.
Russian Federation 8.3 Mbit/s
U.S. 7.0
E.U. 6.6
Canada 5.7
Australia 5.1
China 3.0
Brazil 2.1
Mexico 1.1 Mbit/s
And if you prefer to look on a state-by-state basis of the EU, US, and Canada then you get:
1 Sweden 13 Mbit/s
2 Delaware, Romania,Netherlands,Bulgaria 12
3 Washington,Rhode Island 11
4 Massachusetts 10
5 New Jersey,Virginia,New Hampshire,New York 9
6 British Columbia,Colorado,Connecticut,Arizona, Slovakia 8 Mbit/s
Replace the Anglo-Saxon word "shit" with the Frankish word "poo" and then everything will be a-okay. (Yes our US FCC really is that stupid and inconsistent.)
Isn't it amazing how many different shapes a "rack" can have?
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Can we blame Obama? The last time a major disaster happened in the gulf, we blamed George Duh Bush for not acting fast enough. Surely we can say the same about Obama (it took 8 days to send government cleanup ships).
Nope. Although I did do war*dialing* back in the 80s (like in the movie WarGames). According to wikipedia, "The popularity of wardialing in 1980s and 1990s prompted some states to enact legislation prohibiting the use of a device to dial telephone numbers without the intent of communicating with a person," so I guess that makes me a criminal.
Of course wikipedia also claims the movie invented the term "wardial" but I suspect that term existed before the movie did.
I also suspect this is why my modem died an early death (the internal switch no longer hung-up the phone).
>>>You're stretching my words
No. To Quote Obi-Wan Kenobi: "You did that to yourself." YOU chose the path of saying the earth would be destroyed by the Gulf spill - I did not do anything.
Laws and Courts. The Laws make certain actions (like polluting water or stealing private data) illegal and the Courts enforce those laws via enacting punishment for the criminals.
>>>Google seem to think that their bottom line is more important than users rights to privacy.
Bullshit. It was Google was *voluntarily* told the world what they had done, and were erasing the data. If they were as you described, the managers would have kept silent and just kept collecting.
>>>t's my opinion that this is yet another example of why government oversight of privacy standards is not only a good idea, it's a necessity.
It's my opinion that this is yet another example of why government oversight of privacy standards is a BAD idea. Last time the US "overlooked" data they used it to imprison several million innocent Americans during WW2. Then they used it to do radioactivity experiments on blacks without their knowledge. Then they used the data to round-up Americans and throw them in Guantanamo Bay prison w/o trial. And so on.
Believe it or not, I trust Google more. Even if they do abuse the data, they don't own a police force to drag me off to jail or a laboratory
Large? The Gulf is actually quite small compared to the Earth. For example the animals living along Maine's coast have no clue there's an oil spill happening. Also let's not forget that prior to 1800, it was common for the Earth to "belch" oil all over the place, creating giant pools of oil both on land and in the ocean. On his journey to Philadelphia as first president, Washington had to detour around several tarpits (oil) to get there.
That was the natural state of the world, until man came along and cleaned it up. It helps if you study history instead of hyperbole.
Government regulatory agencies sound good in theory, but in reality they are often mere puppets of the corporations that bribe them, so they don't work.
I'd rather see Google's corporate license revoked. Let them operate as a proprietorship whose owner(s) have full liability for his company's actions, and then I can sue the bastard in court for theft of my data. Or even better - boycott the company and drive them into bankruptcy (as happened to Circuit City).
>>>As if the government alone is the enemy of freedom.
STRAWMAN ARGUMENT (poor logic). I don't recall saying government was the "only" enemy of freedom. Those words never left my mouth. Here's what I said: ".....places like the US have a constitution to chain the government & prevent abuses. Governments don't protect individual rights - they trample over them."
I never said government was the only enemy of individual rights. For example there's communists, that would desire to make citizens little more the Serfs of new Masters (see USSR, China, Communist Eastern Europe, Cuba, and so on). Plus there's tyranny of the majority, as in Athens when Socrates was executed by the Demos simply because they didn't like his speeches. And so on.
As for corporations and HMOs, there are an invention of government politicians, so why are you surprised they are so often evil in nature? Evil begat evil. I'm not shocked.
Walk through the door? More like you were standing inside your house and yelling, "My name is ___ and my password is ____ and I'm visiting the following sites: (insert list)." The neighbors are not to blame if they can hear your loud mouth, and neither are any passersby.