>>>The victims are the people who have to pay more for their taxes or health insurance to cover the increased costs of paying for treatment of the various diseases caused by smoking
By that reasoning, the government should be able to tell you to stop eating hamburgers, fries, et cetera. Also they should be able to limit your intake to just 2000 calories.
The newer codecs produce very nice quality on VCD (700 megabyte)-sized movies. It's standard 720x480 DVD resolution, but instead of MPEG2 they use MPEG4.
There's a well-known case about a psychologist (sorry forget his name... it was back in the 60s), who deliberately acted insane to get himself committed. He wanted to see what it was really like to live in the asylum. Problem: When he decided his observations were done, and he tried to prove he was "sane" to the staff and just doing an experiment, nobody listened to him. They refused to let him out.
No government, no corporation, no person should have that kind of power. There needs to be a point where that power ends (prison term has ended), and the person is allowed to be free, rather than enslaved for life.
BTW:
The psychologist did eventually get out, but it required a lawsuit and the backing of his university; else he probably would have died there. A sane man trapped inside a flawed system.
If only it were that simple. What if the "child" that was "raped" is a Lolita-type that deliberately seduces and encourages older men into her bed? Seems to me they should both be in jail..... or better yet, allow an exception for sex that is consensual, as when Jerry Lee Lewis had sex with a 14 year old (whom he eventually married).
POINT: The world is not black-and-white. Neither should be the punishments. A life sentence for doing what Nature designed us to do (procreate like rabbits/ rut like Romeo & Juliet) is ridiculous and foolish. I'd say 10 years top.... 20 if its a repeat offender. But not life.
While the justices' oath is fidelity to the Law, the People still hold the ultimate authority, and they can modify Unjust Laws via the following methods:
- petition their Member State's government to nullify U.S. laws that are unconstitutional or anti-liberty (example: Massachusetts & other New England states refused to return escaped slaves to the south, in direct defiance of the Congress) - jury nullification to block unjust laws, free the person under trail, and thereby check the power of government - election of representatives to Congress to rewrite the legal code
Precisely. I haven't flown on an airplane since 1999. Not because I am boycotting planes, but because I've never traveled anywhere that required flying. Almost everywhere I go is within one days drive (16 hours or less). The only exception is when I drove to Alaska, but driving the Highway was the whole point of the trip.
It's also nice when your employer hands you a big fat check. Getting almost $1000 to drive to Minneapolis and back is better than getting $0.00 if I had flown instead.
Technically you have a choice, but given the monkeys that work for security today, they probably don't know that. They will insist vehemently that you HAVE to be scanned, just as they held-up this guy for carrying a lot of cash (not an illegal act): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0SXuclz47Y
People in authority often make-up laws ("You must comply") right on the spot even when the actual law says otherwise.
I work in defense and would gladly give-up my job if the U.S. vs. Whoever war ended next month. Peace is preferable to war, and I can learn to do something else (maybe coding for Linux or ReactOS).
The police have a hard time understanding that their job is to enforce ALL the laws, even the ones in the Pennsylvania Constitution: "The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man, and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty."
Recently some people were handing-out pamphlets in front of the Philadelphia court house, and cops asked if they had "permits" to hand-out material. The people handed the cop the Constitution and said, "Here's my permit," to which the cop said that doesn't apply on the public street in front of the court house!
The cop swore to uphold the law, but apparently he thinks Constitutional law isn't valid law ("Doesn't apply here").
"the" comes from the Germanic pronouns der, die, das, des, and so on. It used to have a purpose, to indicate gender of the noun, but now it's just a filler word because saying, "Girl ran after ball and up hill," sounds wrong to our ears.
My omputer. My PC. My Mac. My Amiga. My Linux. My porn archive.
I don't know 'bout that asshole, but this here niga loves them ho's and their fatt-ass backs. Ugh. And double up: Ugh ugh. - I also loves those Asian bitches with their bigass nipples on teeny-tiny titties. And their clitties are huge and sensitive. Man! Their squeals sound like little girls when I give 'em a little something-something in the poot-tay. The white hos ain't bad neither, though I still prefer my sistas.
That was fun. Reminds me of my youth in the 90s. Uh oh. Here come the Philly police - gotta run.
Not according to both wikipedia and apple.com. Both say you need 10.5, which means I could not run it on my 10.4 mac, so I was using an old outdated browser which displayed web pages as garbage. Apple basically abandoned me and other 10.4 users. They don't like to support anything older than 5 years.
Another solution is to buy a classic Amiga 500 (one piece computer). Standardized hardware == easy plug-and-play. Just like a PS2 or Xbox or Gamecube. My copy of Wing Commander may not on my Windoze PC, but the Amiga version runs perfectly with no headaches.
I've found that Win98 is still too "new". I tried and could not get the classic Wing Commander game running. I guess I need to try my Windows 3 laptop instead.
Everything works on Mac, because Apple doesn't support legacy stuff. They assume any Mac older than ~5 years is obsolete, and therefore moved to 64-bit addressing long ago.
(No I'm not trolling. I'm bitter. I had to toss a perfectly good Mac G4, just because Apple stopped supporting it, and its ancient Safari 2 browser could no longer render the web properly.)
>>>everyone would replicate the newest, coolest, best car. And nobody would pay for it.
People always forget the Replicators require energy and according to E=mc^2, replicating anything like a car would probably run-up your electric bill to about $5,000. Not as expensive as a human-built car, but still not "free".
As for paying the designers, they'd still get paid for "programming" the replicator to produce different car designs, which they'd sell like we sell software today.
DVD previews don't bother me, but not being able to try something before I buy it, does.
With the car I can take it for a testdrive on the interstate, and see if it's worth laying-down my money. With a DVD I cannot. Back before the internet was widespread, I got burned so many times buying movies that had "Awesome movie! 5 stars!" reviews, only to discover it was complete crap that I'd never want to see again. ~20 bucks down the drain. Again and again.
Now the internet has changed the balance, so I no longer need to throw away my cash on "5 star movies" that are complete garbage. I can watch the movie myself, and then if I like it, buy it. And if I don't, then I suffer no financial loss.
Oooo-kay. He submitted year-after-year to the Virginia government laws to abolish slavery (which of course got turned down every time). He was firmly anti-slavery (as we many of the Founders like Washington, Adams, etc) He added the Right of Freedom of Religion to the Virginia Constitution, in spite of stern opposition from the official State church. He (along with his successor) paid off the U.S. National Debt for the first and only time in history.
He formed the Democratic Party. He founded a university and allowed several of his students to attend for free. When Washington was burned to the ground, he denoted his entire personal library to rebuild the LOC. He stood against the power of Megacorps and the Central Bank, and vetoed it out of existence (I wish our current president would do that).
TJ not a good guy? YES he was. I wish he was running for president today. He'd have not only my vote, but also my free services as a volunteer to help him succeed. Jefferson was not a perfect man, but he was still a far better president/statesman/freedom fighter than any we've had since 1900.
Yes but Jefferson also added "Jesus Christ" to the end of his presidential signatures, NOT a standard practice at the time.
Jefferson did lots of things that were non-conventional... like wearing casual clothes to State dinners. He was radical, but far from being an atheist (or anti-christian) as many modern textbooks falsely claim. After I finished college I really thought Jefferson hated both God and the Church. It wasn't until I started reading his actual letters/writings that I discovered the college texts/profs had essentially lied.
Not me. I learned the U.S. Founders were "Deist" and believed in a Supreme Creator but not christianity or Jesus. It wasn't until I was an adult and started reading the actual letters/writings that I discovered how wrong that is. The textbooks we have used these last several decades are simply wrong. They DO need a rewrite.
(Not that I think the Texas proposal is the solution.)
Guess what? You're wrong. I know of several high schools and at least one college that does exactly what you describe - they let the children go to the source material and read the actual words. Of course the teacher doesn't let them "flounder" around the internet. She assigns the reading material.
The advantage is the students learn the ACTUAL words of the historical figures, rather than have it filtered (and censored) by textbook writers. The students read Jefferson's words about how he thinks the Church is corrupt, but he still believes Jesus was the messiah, rather than a textbook summary that falsely-claims Jefferson was an atheist (or deist).
Most of the Founders identified themselves first as Englishmen, and then when their English rights were trampled, by the location of their newly independent States - Virginian, Pennsylvanian, Massachusettsian, and so on. In fact Vermont remained an independent Republic for quite a few years before finally joining the new Union of States.
They viewed themselves the way Member States of the EU view themselves today - first citizens of the State, second of the union.
At least California's actions (banning texas books) only affects California. Over here on the other side of the continent, my person, my property, and my rights remain untrampled. Let Californians be Californians and run their own affairs. It matters not to me.
But vice-versa, neither should Californians interfere with the politics of Utah (as they tried to do ~2 years ago). It is NONE of their business.
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>>>The victims are the people who have to pay more for their taxes or health insurance to cover the increased costs of paying for treatment of the various diseases caused by smoking
By that reasoning, the government should be able to tell you to stop eating hamburgers, fries, et cetera. Also they should be able to limit your intake to just 2000 calories.
BUT I prefer to live in freedom, not slavery.
The newer codecs produce very nice quality on VCD (700 megabyte)-sized movies. It's standard 720x480 DVD resolution, but instead of MPEG2 they use MPEG4.
There's a well-known case about a psychologist (sorry forget his name... it was back in the 60s), who deliberately acted insane to get himself committed. He wanted to see what it was really like to live in the asylum. Problem: When he decided his observations were done, and he tried to prove he was "sane" to the staff and just doing an experiment, nobody listened to him. They refused to let him out.
No government, no corporation, no person should have that kind of power. There needs to be a point where that power ends (prison term has ended), and the person is allowed to be free, rather than enslaved for life.
BTW:
The psychologist did eventually get out, but it required a lawsuit and the backing of his university; else he probably would have died there. A sane man trapped inside a flawed system.
If only it were that simple. What if the "child" that was "raped" is a Lolita-type that deliberately seduces and encourages older men into her bed? Seems to me they should both be in jail..... or better yet, allow an exception for sex that is consensual, as when Jerry Lee Lewis had sex with a 14 year old (whom he eventually married).
POINT: The world is not black-and-white. Neither should be the punishments. A life sentence for doing what Nature designed us to do (procreate like rabbits/ rut like Romeo & Juliet) is ridiculous and foolish. I'd say 10 years top.... 20 if its a repeat offender. But not life.
While the justices' oath is fidelity to the Law, the People still hold the ultimate authority, and they can modify Unjust Laws via the following methods:
- petition their Member State's government to nullify U.S. laws that are unconstitutional or anti-liberty (example: Massachusetts & other New England states refused to return escaped slaves to the south, in direct defiance of the Congress)
- jury nullification to block unjust laws, free the person under trail, and thereby check the power of government
- election of representatives to Congress to rewrite the legal code
Precisely. I haven't flown on an airplane since 1999. Not because I am boycotting planes, but because I've never traveled anywhere that required flying. Almost everywhere I go is within one days drive (16 hours or less). The only exception is when I drove to Alaska, but driving the Highway was the whole point of the trip.
It's also nice when your employer hands you a big fat check. Getting almost $1000 to drive to Minneapolis and back is better than getting $0.00 if I had flown instead.
Technically you have a choice, but given the monkeys that work for security today, they probably don't know that. They will insist vehemently that you HAVE to be scanned, just as they held-up this guy for carrying a lot of cash (not an illegal act): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0SXuclz47Y
People in authority often make-up laws ("You must comply") right on the spot even when the actual law says otherwise.
I work in defense and would gladly give-up my job if the U.S. vs. Whoever war ended next month. Peace is preferable to war, and I can learn to do something else (maybe coding for Linux or ReactOS).
The police have a hard time understanding that their job is to enforce ALL the laws, even the ones in the Pennsylvania Constitution: "The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man, and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty."
Recently some people were handing-out pamphlets in front of the Philadelphia court house, and cops asked if they had "permits" to hand-out material. The people handed the cop the Constitution and said, "Here's my permit," to which the cop said that doesn't apply on the public street in front of the court house!
The cop swore to uphold the law, but apparently he thinks Constitutional law isn't valid law ("Doesn't apply here").
"the" comes from the Germanic pronouns der, die, das, des, and so on. It used to have a purpose, to indicate gender of the noun, but now it's just a filler word because saying, "Girl ran after ball and up hill," sounds wrong to our ears.
My omputer. My PC. My Mac. My Amiga. My Linux. My porn archive.
I don't know 'bout that asshole, but this here niga loves them ho's and their fatt-ass backs. Ugh. And double up: Ugh ugh. - I also loves those Asian bitches with their bigass nipples on teeny-tiny titties. And their clitties are huge and sensitive. Man! Their squeals sound like little girls when I give 'em a little something-something in the poot-tay. The white hos ain't bad neither, though I still prefer my sistas.
That was fun. Reminds me of my youth in the 90s.
Uh oh. Here come the Philly police - gotta run.
>>>Safari 3.0.4 runs on 10.4.x
Not according to both wikipedia and apple.com. Both say you need 10.5, which means I could not run it on my 10.4 mac, so I was using an old outdated browser which displayed web pages as garbage. Apple basically abandoned me and other 10.4 users. They don't like to support anything older than 5 years.
Another solution is to buy a classic Amiga 500 (one piece computer). Standardized hardware == easy plug-and-play. Just like a PS2 or Xbox or Gamecube. My copy of Wing Commander may not on my Windoze PC, but the Amiga version runs perfectly with no headaches.
I've found that Win98 is still too "new". I tried and could not get the classic Wing Commander game running. I guess I need to try my Windows 3 laptop instead.
Or DOSbox as a last resort.
Correction:
>>>I had to [sell] a perfectly good Mac G4
Everything works on Mac, because Apple doesn't support legacy stuff. They assume any Mac older than ~5 years is obsolete, and therefore moved to 64-bit addressing long ago.
(No I'm not trolling. I'm bitter. I had to toss a perfectly good Mac G4, just because Apple stopped supporting it, and its ancient Safari 2 browser could no longer render the web properly.)
The 32-bit Windows XP only sees 0.99 terabyte (from the article). Win98 probably has the same limitation.
>>>everyone would replicate the newest, coolest, best car. And nobody would pay for it.
People always forget the Replicators require energy and according to E=mc^2, replicating anything like a car would probably run-up your electric bill to about $5,000. Not as expensive as a human-built car, but still not "free".
As for paying the designers, they'd still get paid for "programming" the replicator to produce different car designs, which they'd sell like we sell software today.
DVD previews don't bother me, but not being able to try something before I buy it, does.
With the car I can take it for a testdrive on the interstate, and see if it's worth laying-down my money. With a DVD I cannot. Back before the internet was widespread, I got burned so many times buying movies that had "Awesome movie! 5 stars!" reviews, only to discover it was complete crap that I'd never want to see again. ~20 bucks down the drain. Again and again.
Now the internet has changed the balance, so I no longer need to throw away my cash on "5 star movies" that are complete garbage. I can watch the movie myself, and then if I like it, buy it. And if I don't, then I suffer no financial loss.
Not a good guy? Not a good president?
Oooo-kay. He submitted year-after-year to the Virginia government laws to abolish slavery (which of course got turned down every time). He was firmly anti-slavery (as we many of the Founders like Washington, Adams, etc) He added the Right of Freedom of Religion to the Virginia Constitution, in spite of stern opposition from the official State church. He (along with his successor) paid off the U.S. National Debt for the first and only time in history.
He formed the Democratic Party. He founded a university and allowed several of his students to attend for free. When Washington was burned to the ground, he denoted his entire personal library to rebuild the LOC. He stood against the power of Megacorps and the Central Bank, and vetoed it out of existence (I wish our current president would do that).
TJ not a good guy? YES he was. I wish he was running for president today. He'd have not only my vote, but also my free services as a volunteer to help him succeed. Jefferson was not a perfect man, but he was still a far better president/statesman/freedom fighter than any we've had since 1900.
Yes but Jefferson also added "Jesus Christ" to the end of his presidential signatures, NOT a standard practice at the time.
Jefferson did lots of things that were non-conventional... like wearing casual clothes to State dinners. He was radical, but far from being an atheist (or anti-christian) as many modern textbooks falsely claim. After I finished college I really thought Jefferson hated both God and the Church. It wasn't until I started reading his actual letters/writings that I discovered the college texts/profs had essentially lied.
Not me. I learned the U.S. Founders were "Deist" and believed in a Supreme Creator but not christianity or Jesus. It wasn't until I was an adult and started reading the actual letters/writings that I discovered how wrong that is. The textbooks we have used these last several decades are simply wrong. They DO need a rewrite.
(Not that I think the Texas proposal is the solution.)
Summary: "Wouldn't work."
Guess what? You're wrong. I know of several high schools and at least one college that does exactly what you describe - they let the children go to the source material and read the actual words. Of course the teacher doesn't let them "flounder" around the internet. She assigns the reading material.
The advantage is the students learn the ACTUAL words of the historical figures, rather than have it filtered (and censored) by textbook writers. The students read Jefferson's words about how he thinks the Church is corrupt, but he still believes Jesus was the messiah, rather than a textbook summary that falsely-claims Jefferson was an atheist (or deist).
Not really.
Most of the Founders identified themselves first as Englishmen, and then when their English rights were trampled, by the location of their newly independent States - Virginian, Pennsylvanian, Massachusettsian, and so on. In fact Vermont remained an independent Republic for quite a few years before finally joining the new Union of States.
They viewed themselves the way Member States of the EU view themselves today - first citizens of the State, second of the union.
At least California's actions (banning texas books) only affects California. Over here on the other side of the continent, my person, my property, and my rights remain untrampled. Let Californians be Californians and run their own affairs. It matters not to me.
But vice-versa, neither should Californians interfere with the politics of Utah (as they tried to do ~2 years ago). It is NONE of their business.