Yeah that's pretty typical of Michael Moore. Like one of Babylon 5's Minbari he never lies, but he never tells the Whole truth either. For example in the movie Columbine 9/11 he presents a speech from Charlton Heston to show how evil guns are, plus how heartless Mr. Heston is to give this speech after the school shooting.
But if you look closely you'll see Mr. Heston's tie changes color about 5 times, because Mr. Moore took 3 speeches from 3 different cities, that were given BEFORE the tragedy occurred. Then he used creative editing to rewrite what was said, and presents it as a single speech given after the shooting happened. Propagandist.
>>>Why don't we just call speeders on the highway as getting an additional "tax?"
Punishing/fining people for speeding, stealing, and other things makes sense because those acts are harmful to the victims (or potential victims). But my decision to not insure my body harms no one except myself... just as smoking dope harms nobody except myself... or eating fatty food harms nobody except myself (hence why it is legal). "It's MY body," to quote the feminists when they protest in favor of abortion.
These are all private, personal matters which the Union government has no business interfering with. I should not be punished/fined/taxed/whatever.
>>>What is wrong with this accusation is that showing the videos and internal papers is that someone's feelings are hurt (i.e. next of kin, grieving civilians back home, etc.).
Not really. Prior to the release of the video, the friends & family of the dead journalists had no idea what happened to them. The US Government lied and said "we don't know" while keeping the video secret. The release of the video at last brought closure to the friends/family because the journalists were no longer MIA. The next-of-kin now know the ultimate fate of their friend/relative.
As for the war, let me put this in terms you can wrap your little brain around:
The War in Afghanistan is a waste of time, money, and lives. It never should have been started.
(takes hammer to Kindle). Seeya Amazon. You've joined the list of other companies I blacklisted, including MS, Yahoo, Google*, Comcast, et cetera. Yes underage sex is bad, but if there's no victim then there's no crime. Also you don't have a right to erase books from MY unit that I purchased. I'll stick with the old-fashioned paperbacks and ASCII downloads to my laptop.
Yeah Perfect Dark's single player mode was rather crappy, but Goldeneye's single player recreated scenes from the movie and was a lot of fun.
It's only drawback is the lo-res 704x320 graphics but if you play it on an emulator, you can set it up with higher resolutions like 704x640. I do that with Zelda Ocarina of Time and it looks... well not beautiful... but better than on the original N64.
Pretend you enjoy dancing at the clubs. Or maybe try some other things like taking a Health class at the local school. There's 30 girls for 1 guy in that major. (Basically the inverse of engineering.)
Neither do I want the inevitable yearly charge for constant upgrades to the latest Cloud software. I bought MS Office *once* for ~$80 and have been using it for thirteen years. (Likewise I bought Final Fantasy 10 for $20 and have been playing it for ten years. In contrast Final Fantasy 11 requires a ~$5 per month constant fee.) No thanks. I want to OWN my software not rent it.
Let's bring the soldiers home so they can't accidentally kill children, journalists, or innocents. Or get killed themselves. And I don't mean two years from now ('bama's schedule) but immediately. Tomorrow. The Soviets wisely stopped fighting in Afghanistan when they realized it's hopeless to civilize that mountain country, and we should too. We'd save a LOT of lives.
>>>you didn't know that in war civilian sometimes get killed?
Of course. But that doesn't excuse the Pentagon lying about it and pretending war is as clean as a hospital room ("surgical precision to avoid civilian casualties" they claimed). It's good to have these videos exposed to reveal the lie.
That's what I'd like to know. I had no idea one could eat bone. Is it ground to a powder first, and then water added? Sounds like a good way to get lots of calcium.
>>>So, Moore put up six percent of the bail-- but publically claims he "posted Julian Assage's Bail". Gosh.
Yeah that's pretty typical of Michael Moore. Like a Minbari he never lies, but he never tells the Whole truth either. Like in the movie Columbine 9/11 where he presents a speech from Charlton Heston to show how evil guns are and heartless Mr. Heston is to give this speech after the tragedy.
But if you look closely you'll see Mr. Heston's tie changes color about 5 times, because Mr. Moore took 3 speeches from BEFORE the tragedy and used creative editing to rewrite what was said. Moore conveniently does not mention that.
Although I don't like Michael Moore (he's comparable to a propagandist) he sometimes does the right thing. His mid-90s movie about manufacturing an excuse to declare war (and give the president a boost in popularity) was very good. And this act to bail a Reporter out of jail and protect the Right to a Free Press is also very good.
Without wikileaks we wouldn't know that US Soldiers were killing innocent journalists and children (the Pentagon denied the event happened). That Hillary Clinton was stealing credit card numbers from foreign diplomats. The content of the ACTA treaty to make backing-up your CDs or DVDs or MP3s and illegal act. And on and on and on.
Democracy can not work when the people are kept in the dark about what their public servants are doing.
>>>force him to pay for roads he doesn't use, police he doesn't need, or libraries he doesn't want.
People don't pay Road Taxes if they don't drive, because they don't pay gasoline taxes. (Duh.) People do use police every time the car drives past the house, and scares-off potential burglars or murderers so that is a legitimate tax, just like funding for armies and navies are legitimate taxes (provides defense of property and life).
And I agree they should not have to pay for Libraries if they never use them. Libraries should be user-fee supported just like how Video "libraries"/stores operate. You can't walk into Blockbuster and just borrow a video - you have to pay a fee. The same should be true for libraries (and in fact many libraries do charge fees).
There is no other proper way to interpret laws than to read them literally. If that leads to unintended consequences (aka loopholes), then modify the laws rather than try & twist their wording into nonsense.
Punishing/fining people for speeding, stealing, and other things makes sense because those acts are harmful to the victims.
My decision to not insure my body harms no one except myself... just as smoking dope harms nobody except myself... or aborting a fetus harms nobody except myself (hence why it is legal). It is a private, personal matter which the Union government has no business interfering with. I should not be punished/fined.
The point is that I don't have to buy a $35-40,000 Acura when a $15-20,000 Honda will do the same job (get me to work). Likewise the typical mid or lower-income family doesn't need a 100 Mbit/s line when 4 Mbit/s is enough. There's no reason for the FCC to make the minimum standard higher then 4.
If you're happy with 750k (me) or 3000k (him) why should the government call us "deprived" or "poor"? Worse: The FCC is planning to spend billions of OUR dollars to upgrade us to faster speeds (4000 minimum). Except neither I nor the other poster want that tax burden - we're happy the way we are. It's annoying to have politicians forcing us to spend money we don't want to spend. And yes that is their goal (read the Obama/FCC Broadband Plan.)
>>>Optical fiber comes to mind. You don't need multiple frequencies for that one to be the equivalent/superior to the bandwidth of the old definition of broadband.
Wow. I don't think I've ever seen such a dumb statement on this "news for nerds" site. Frequencies are frequencies. The medium (fiber or coax or twisted pair) is irrelevant. If your optical fiber is confined to 100 kHz (bad glass maybe) then it won't be any faster than a standard 100 kHz DSL line (twisted pair).
>>>VHS quality is 2 Mb/s. DVD quality video is 8 Mb/s. HDTV is 27 Mb/s
Not even close. VHS is analog and not comparable. Mass-produced DVDs average just 3-4 Mbit/s. And US-HDTV averages just 10 Mbit/s. It's even lower for cable and satellite HD channels - more like 8.
PLUS since all those use old MPEG2 codecs, the bitrate is about twice what it needs to be. The modern MPEG4 codecs used on the web can do the same quality at only half those rates (2 and 5 Mb/s for dvd and hd). While having high-def is nice, I don't think it's necessary to define that as the "minimum" standard for all americans, even the poor. Watching the Kardashians in HD is not a necessity.
>>>I know, you're just using terms you don't understand
Amazing then that I have 2 college degrees in electrical & general engineering. Wonder how I could have done that if I didn't understand the meaning of the technical words? Hmmm. Answer: Because you're wrong. .
>>>I've never heard them called narrowband before your post.
I can't help you lived in a cave. 14k and 28k modems on phonelines were considered "narrowband" because they were only 4 kHz wide. That's even more narrow than an AM station (10) or FM station (200) or TV station (6000 kHz) or DSL (100,000 kHz and up). Nobody would have ever called those old phoneline modems as "broadband".
All power comes from the People, and is given to the government with their consent. Likewise the People have the right to take-back that power and dissolve said government. Hence government is merely a servant accountable to the citizens.
No because I'm a Pro-Choice person and this is anti-choice. It's forcing me to buy a product I don't want. It's no choice.
I can avoid the car insurance requirement by simply not driving, but there's no way for me to stop existing. I object to being forced to fall on my knees and suck Nationwide or Allstate or any other Corporation's phallus ("oh please sell my insurance & rape my wallet of $5000 Mr. CEO, else government will fine me"), especially in a country that is supposedly "free" and "celebrates liberty". That is not liberty. That is being demoted to a Serf (someone else runs your life and you are just a puppet).
Okay maybe I went a little overboard there. But hopefully it made you think. This requirement is nothing more than Corporate Welfare giving them guaranteed sales to 110 million homes. (I thought Democrats were against that?)
>>>then gave certain people a tax break if you qualify [with health insurance].
FALSE. The revised IRS form will have a line that reads, "Do you have health insurance or belong to HMO?" If you answer 'yes' then nothing happens, but if you answer 'no' you will have to pay either $750 or $950 EXTRA on your taxes (depending on income). This is not a tax deduction or credit. This is a tax penalty aka punishment aka fine.
>>>That would be (amongst others), Article I, Section [general welfare clause]
The author of the Constitution disagrees with you, and being the author he would know better than anyone what he meant. "There is nothing more natural than to start with a general phrase, and then follow it with a qualifying phrase that narrows its focus to a list of particulars." - James Madison. A decade later he wrote: "To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."
In other words the Congress can only exercise the ENUMERATED powers underneath the general welfare clause, not everything under the sun. And if you have doubt of that, simply read amendment 10: "...powers not granted to the US are reserved to the States..." In other words the power to Require Hospital Insurance does not belong to the Congress. It belongs to the 50 State Legislatures.
People don't pay Road Taxes (gasoline tax) if they don't drive. People do use police everytime the car drives past the house.
and I agree they should not have to pay for Libraries if they never use them. Libraries should be user-fee supported just like how Video "libraries"/stores operate.
>>>The same way it's possible to force him to pay for roads he doesn't use, police he doesn't need, or libraries he doesn't want. It's like people never heard of taxes before.
>>>Where the hell were you limited government people 5 years ago?
Voting for Harry Browne (L). Maybe you should not make assumptions that we were doing nothing and/or approved of George DUH Bush.
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Yeah that's pretty typical of Michael Moore. Like one of Babylon 5's Minbari he never lies, but he never tells the Whole truth either. For example in the movie Columbine 9/11 he presents a speech from Charlton Heston to show how evil guns are, plus how heartless Mr. Heston is to give this speech after the school shooting.
But if you look closely you'll see Mr. Heston's tie changes color about 5 times, because Mr. Moore took 3 speeches from 3 different cities, that were given BEFORE the tragedy occurred. Then he used creative editing to rewrite what was said, and presents it as a single speech given after the shooting happened. Propagandist.
Or more simply: "Liar."
>>>Why don't we just call speeders on the highway as getting an additional "tax?"
Punishing/fining people for speeding, stealing, and other things makes sense because those acts are harmful to the victims (or potential victims). But my decision to not insure my body harms no one except myself... just as smoking dope harms nobody except myself... or eating fatty food harms nobody except myself (hence why it is legal). "It's MY body," to quote the feminists when they protest in favor of abortion.
These are all private, personal matters which the Union government has no business interfering with. I should not be punished/fined/taxed/whatever.
>>>What is wrong with this accusation is that showing the videos and internal papers is that someone's feelings are hurt (i.e. next of kin, grieving civilians back home, etc.).
Not really. Prior to the release of the video, the friends & family of the dead journalists had no idea what happened to them. The US Government lied and said "we don't know" while keeping the video secret. The release of the video at last brought closure to the friends/family because the journalists were no longer MIA. The next-of-kin now know the ultimate fate of their friend/relative.
As for the war, let me put this in terms you can wrap your little brain around:
The War in Afghanistan is a waste of time, money, and lives. It never should have been started.
(takes hammer to Kindle). Seeya Amazon. You've joined the list of other companies I blacklisted, including MS, Yahoo, Google*, Comcast, et cetera. Yes underage sex is bad, but if there's no victim then there's no crime. Also you don't have a right to erase books from MY unit that I purchased. I'll stick with the old-fashioned paperbacks and ASCII downloads to my laptop.
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* I recommend Lycos instead.
Yeah Perfect Dark's single player mode was rather crappy, but Goldeneye's single player recreated scenes from the movie and was a lot of fun.
It's only drawback is the lo-res 704x320 graphics but if you play it on an emulator, you can set it up with higher resolutions like 704x640. I do that with Zelda Ocarina of Time and it looks... well not beautiful... but better than on the original N64.
Fake it.
Pretend you enjoy dancing at the clubs. Or maybe try some other things like taking a Health class at the local school. There's 30 girls for 1 guy in that major. (Basically the inverse of engineering.)
I don't want my information in the cloud.
Neither do I want the inevitable yearly charge for constant upgrades to the latest Cloud software. I bought MS Office *once* for ~$80 and have been using it for thirteen years. (Likewise I bought Final Fantasy 10 for $20 and have been playing it for ten years. In contrast Final Fantasy 11 requires a ~$5 per month constant fee.) No thanks. I want to OWN my software not rent it.
I have a better idea:
Let's bring the soldiers home so they can't accidentally kill children, journalists, or innocents. Or get killed themselves. And I don't mean two years from now ('bama's schedule) but immediately. Tomorrow. The Soviets wisely stopped fighting in Afghanistan when they realized it's hopeless to civilize that mountain country, and we should too. We'd save a LOT of lives.
>>>you didn't know that in war civilian sometimes get killed?
Of course. But that doesn't excuse the Pentagon lying about it and pretending war is as clean as a hospital room ("surgical precision to avoid civilian casualties" they claimed). It's good to have these videos exposed to reveal the lie.
That's what I'd like to know. I had no idea one could eat bone. Is it ground to a powder first, and then water added? Sounds like a good way to get lots of calcium.
>>>So, Moore put up six percent of the bail-- but publically claims he "posted Julian Assage's Bail". Gosh.
Yeah that's pretty typical of Michael Moore. Like a Minbari he never lies, but he never tells the Whole truth either. Like in the movie Columbine 9/11 where he presents a speech from Charlton Heston to show how evil guns are and heartless Mr. Heston is to give this speech after the tragedy.
But if you look closely you'll see Mr. Heston's tie changes color about 5 times, because Mr. Moore took 3 speeches from BEFORE the tragedy and used creative editing to rewrite what was said. Moore conveniently does not mention that.
Although I don't like Michael Moore (he's comparable to a propagandist) he sometimes does the right thing. His mid-90s movie about manufacturing an excuse to declare war (and give the president a boost in popularity) was very good. And this act to bail a Reporter out of jail and protect the Right to a Free Press is also very good.
Without wikileaks we wouldn't know that US Soldiers were killing innocent journalists and children (the Pentagon denied the event happened). That Hillary Clinton was stealing credit card numbers from foreign diplomats. The content of the ACTA treaty to make backing-up your CDs or DVDs or MP3s and illegal act. And on and on and on.
Democracy can not work when the people are kept in the dark about what their public servants are doing.
>>>force him to pay for roads he doesn't use, police he doesn't need, or libraries he doesn't want.
People don't pay Road Taxes if they don't drive, because they don't pay gasoline taxes. (Duh.) People do use police every time the car drives past the house, and scares-off potential burglars or murderers so that is a legitimate tax, just like funding for armies and navies are legitimate taxes (provides defense of property and life).
And I agree they should not have to pay for Libraries if they never use them. Libraries should be user-fee supported just like how Video "libraries"/stores operate. You can't walk into Blockbuster and just borrow a video - you have to pay a fee. The same should be true for libraries (and in fact many libraries do charge fees).
>>>You're taking the constitution literally
It's the Law.
There is no other proper way to interpret laws than to read them literally. If that leads to unintended consequences (aka loopholes), then modify the laws rather than try & twist their wording into nonsense.
Punishing/fining people for speeding, stealing, and other things makes sense because those acts are harmful to the victims.
My decision to not insure my body harms no one except myself... just as smoking dope harms nobody except myself... or aborting a fetus harms nobody except myself (hence why it is legal). It is a private, personal matter which the Union government has no business interfering with. I should not be punished/fined.
Yes I know they are the same.
The point is that I don't have to buy a $35-40,000 Acura when a $15-20,000 Honda will do the same job (get me to work). Likewise the typical mid or lower-income family doesn't need a 100 Mbit/s line when 4 Mbit/s is enough. There's no reason for the FCC to make the minimum standard higher then 4.
The point he was making:
If you're happy with 750k (me) or 3000k (him) why should the government call us "deprived" or "poor"? Worse: The FCC is planning to spend billions of OUR dollars to upgrade us to faster speeds (4000 minimum). Except neither I nor the other poster want that tax burden - we're happy the way we are. It's annoying to have politicians forcing us to spend money we don't want to spend. And yes that is their goal (read the Obama/FCC Broadband Plan.)
>>>Optical fiber comes to mind. You don't need multiple frequencies for that one to be the equivalent/superior to the bandwidth of the old definition of broadband.
Wow.
I don't think I've ever seen such a dumb statement on this "news for nerds" site. Frequencies are frequencies. The medium (fiber or coax or twisted pair) is irrelevant. If your optical fiber is confined to 100 kHz (bad glass maybe) then it won't be any faster than a standard 100 kHz DSL line (twisted pair).
>>>VHS quality is 2 Mb/s. DVD quality video is 8 Mb/s. HDTV is 27 Mb/s
Not even close. VHS is analog and not comparable. Mass-produced DVDs average just 3-4 Mbit/s. And US-HDTV averages just 10 Mbit/s. It's even lower for cable and satellite HD channels - more like 8.
PLUS since all those use old MPEG2 codecs, the bitrate is about twice what it needs to be. The modern MPEG4 codecs used on the web can do the same quality at only half those rates (2 and 5 Mb/s for dvd and hd). While having high-def is nice, I don't think it's necessary to define that as the "minimum" standard for all americans, even the poor. Watching the Kardashians in HD is not a necessity.
>>>I know, you're just using terms you don't understand
Amazing then that I have 2 college degrees in electrical & general engineering. Wonder how I could have done that if I didn't understand the meaning of the technical words? Hmmm. Answer: Because you're wrong.
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>>>I've never heard them called narrowband before your post.
I can't help you lived in a cave. 14k and 28k modems on phonelines were considered "narrowband" because they were only 4 kHz wide. That's even more narrow than an AM station (10) or FM station (200) or TV station (6000 kHz) or DSL (100,000 kHz and up). Nobody would have ever called those old phoneline modems as "broadband".
>>>And what natural law implies this?
All power comes from the People, and is given to the government with their consent. Likewise the People have the right to take-back that power and dissolve said government. Hence government is merely a servant accountable to the citizens.
No because I'm a Pro-Choice person and this is anti-choice. It's forcing me to buy a product I don't want. It's no choice.
I can avoid the car insurance requirement by simply not driving, but there's no way for me to stop existing. I object to being forced to fall on my knees and suck Nationwide or Allstate or any other Corporation's phallus ("oh please sell my insurance & rape my wallet of $5000 Mr. CEO, else government will fine me"), especially in a country that is supposedly "free" and "celebrates liberty". That is not liberty. That is being demoted to a Serf (someone else runs your life and you are just a puppet).
Okay maybe I went a little overboard there. But hopefully it made you think. This requirement is nothing more than Corporate Welfare giving them guaranteed sales to 110 million homes. (I thought Democrats were against that?)
>>>then gave certain people a tax break if you qualify [with health insurance].
FALSE. The revised IRS form will have a line that reads, "Do you have health insurance or belong to HMO?" If you answer 'yes' then nothing happens, but if you answer 'no' you will have to pay either $750 or $950 EXTRA on your taxes (depending on income). This is not a tax deduction or credit. This is a tax penalty aka punishment aka fine.
>>>That would be (amongst others), Article I, Section [general welfare clause]
The author of the Constitution disagrees with you, and being the author he would know better than anyone what he meant. "There is nothing more natural than to start with a general phrase, and then follow it with a qualifying phrase that narrows its focus to a list of particulars." - James Madison. A decade later he wrote: "To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."
In other words the Congress can only exercise the ENUMERATED powers underneath the general welfare clause, not everything under the sun. And if you have doubt of that, simply read amendment 10: "...powers not granted to the US are reserved to the States..." In other words the power to Require Hospital Insurance does not belong to the Congress. It belongs to the 50 State Legislatures.
P.S.
People don't pay Road Taxes (gasoline tax) if they don't drive. People do use police everytime the car drives past the house.
and I agree they should not have to pay for Libraries if they never use them. Libraries should be user-fee supported just like how Video "libraries"/stores operate.
>>>The same way it's possible to force him to pay for roads he doesn't use, police he doesn't need, or libraries he doesn't want. It's like people never heard of taxes before.
>>>Where the hell were you limited government people 5 years ago?
Voting for Harry Browne (L).
Maybe you should not make assumptions that we were
doing nothing and/or approved of George DUH Bush.