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+1 insightful. You can bankrupt Circuit City or Apple or even Microsoft via boycott. You cannot bankrupt the Monopoly known as government. They just suck the money direct from your paycheck.
Somebody else wrote: >>>US to get to Hawaii then current [strike] compel you to submit to a security screening.
"Laws that are contrary to the Supreme Law (constitution) are nullities." - Thomas Jefferson. "Laws declared unconstitutional are voided from the day of their creation; as if they never existed." 1810s Supreme Court. and: "We are not bound to obey or enforce the unconstitutional Fugitive Slave Act. We declare it nullified." - The Legislatures of the following Member States: MA, CT, VT, and PA during the 1840s. These states became places of asylum for people like Harriet Tubman.
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>>>Flying isn't a right.
Yes it is. Read Amendment 9. Also 4 (which forbids congress from strip-searching or fondling Americans w/o warrant.) Plus it would be impossible for me to attend a Friday meeting in California if I had to travel by car or train (2500 miles is a frakking long distance).
Flying is the only option to get from MD to the west coast, and the government has no more right to block me from using a plane, than they do to stop me from drinking alcohol, or having sex with the same gender.
Censorship is the last resort of the Tyrant (or Oligarchs) to cover-up his deeds. A bullet is the last resort of the Patriot, in order to end the censorship.
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Round-up natural-born citizens and put them in concentration camps? Nope.
That happened in WW2 and nobody balked. Instead they praised democrat FDR's initiative and labeled him "best president ever". The average American simply doesn't understand the need to fight for individual rights, especially if the rights being violated are somebody else. "I am not asian, so it does not concern me." "I am not muslim, so it does not concern me." "I don't fly, so it does not concern me."
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>>>This is the classic example of an [unconstitutional act by the U.S.] and it's time for the politicians to do their jobs, [obey their oath], and [stop shredding the Bill of Rights]. >>>
Fixed that for you.
Especially amendments 4, 9, and 10. We the people should try to make the US more like the EU - most of the power remains reserved to the Member States while the central government's powers are few and limited.
I'd rather force these young ladies through the Naked Body Scanner than do a patdown. (pulls out iPhone) Click. BTW body scanners are likely to cause skin cancer. Not for casual tourists but definitely for business travelers and frequent fliers, since the X-rays are concentrated on the surface. Yay? Pilots are refusing to go through them.
Your American odds of dying in an airplane bombing (either on-board or in a skyscraper), are 1 in 500,000. That is about the same as your risk of drowning in a tsunami. And of course if you move to the mountains or don't fly, the odds drop to near-zero.
I think I'd rather take that infinitesimal risk, rather than take the 1-to-1 risk that some TSA officer will be playing with my penis, touching my wife's boobies, and/or fondling my kid's pussy. (Sorry for the frank language but I believe in speaking the brutal truth.)
I also think the US Transportation Secretary can go eat a bullet. "This is okay," he says. No. No it is not.
Well it certainly ruined the X-Files episode that was done in one long take, but it worked well for Babylon 5's "Intersections in Real Time"* (approximately 10 minutes per take). Like a filmed play. And no we don't need a law, besides it would be unconstitutional even if one was passed.
* *trivia: IIRT was supposed to be the season 5 premiere, but the WB/PTEN/TNT mess forced JMS to move the episode forward, in case the show got prematurely canceled. He didn't want to end on the original "Sheridan captured by president Clark" 422 episode.
CGI was exciting when I first saw them adapt it for Babylon 5's spaceships (instead of models) and of course Jurassic Park's dinosaurs. It provided a new means to do things that had been impossible before.
But now it's old hat. Like the space shuttle launches I never watch. (yawn). Let's get back to focusing on the story so that, even if CGI did not exist at all, the movie or show would still be entertaining.
"We're being litigated and my lawyer has stuck a size-12 boot in my mouth," because he had posted Karen's email online, and she felt she had been defamed. (Well yeah, that's what happens when you steal students' discs and threaten a lawsuit against a blogger; you get publicly embarrassed.) Anyway the case was later dropped.
>>>summer vacation in the [Pennsylvania] Appalachian mountains was popular among upper class New Yorkers...
Fixed that for ya.
Western Carolina is cooler than the eastern side, but still hot. I remember spending my entire Carolina summer trapped in a room, because the outside felt like a sauna, and would have gladly moved further north to NYC or rural PA.
>>>Even if they charge no taxes at all, the presence of the company will bring in income tax, sales tax from employees and all the stuff they buy and all the temporary construction workers in the area. >>>
Disagree. This is the same logic flaw politicians make when they justify building a new sadidum for the football/baseball team. They spend MORE money building the structure than what the stadium generates in the nearby neighborhood. Likewise the thousands of dollars collected from the ~1000 additional workers will not offset the loss of millions handed-out to Google, ATT, et cetera.
>>>middle class democrats, who would not tolerate...glossing over the history of slavery and civil rights movement.
They are the ones who conveniently forget the 1st Civil Rights movement of the 1770s-90s (when blacks were no longer "slaves" under UK law & gained equal status north of Washington DC), or the 2nd Civil Rights movement of the 1870-80s when blacks were elected to Southern Legislatures, or the 1900s when a Democrat-run Supreme Court issued a decree that forced the entire nation to adopt racial Segregation.
Or the 1950s and 60s filibusters by democrats like Senator Byrd to block the passage of the 3rd era of Civil Rights laws.
Net Neutrality would not be necessary if we had true choice for consumers among many companies.
But since we instead have monopoly (like Comcast) or duopoly (Comcast/Verizon), that creates the need for the government to regulate and impose net neutrality, the same way they impose it on the Telephone monopoly.
Dirty coal is why ACEEE.org ranked the EV1 and other electric cars as no cleaner than a Prius and about 10% dirtier than an Insight Hybrid or Civic CNG.
I've had EV activists tell me "clean coal is the answer!", because the factories remove 99.9% of the pollutants, but so far it's not had much impact cleaning the air.
I lived in Charlotte for a year. It's a major city, but the culture is not much removed from the rural lifestyle of guns, NASCAR, and church. (Good thing I like two out of three of those things.) It was dull compared to someplace major like Boston or Washington or San Francisco.
>>>There's a big lawsuit to stop the place(s) in NY from being built...
Ahhh yes... environmentalists practicing NIMBY. I guess this is democracy in action but it appears to be shooting self in foot - the building would create jobs and possible future growth if Tech/internet companies (like IBM) relocate near the data centers.
"The heart of the suit involves a ruling last month by the Somerset Town Board, after a preliminary assessment, that the project did not merit a full-blown study under the State Environmental Quality Review Act. 'Environmental, zoning and planning laws aren't meant to be set aside when a pet project comes along,' said the attorney who filed the suit in State Supreme Court on behalf of Mary Ann Rizzo, owner of a 117-acre farm across the street."
I thought Google and the rest were looking for cool zones like Western New York and upper New England. The air conditioning bill in Carolina will be lower than California, but not by much.
I wonder if Western NC and VA residents will still be stuck on dialup, or if they'll finally get an upgrade since they are so close to the data stores?
>>>You could always install your own if you really want it.
Which can cause it's own annoying problems. Anybody know how I can re-install WinXP on my Ubuntu laptop? It appears all the NTFS partitions were erased when I installed linux, so every time I try to run the Compaq XP Recover CD, it gives me an error: "Not enough free space."
A bit annoying because I'd like to restore windows prior to selling the laptop on ebay (it will get higher bids). I guess I could advertise the laptop as "comes with Windows!" and just throw the CDs in the box to leave the Buyer to figure it out, but I'd rather restore it myself prior to sale.
The 70s and 80s IBM used to be much, much bigger than it is now.
You'll find numerous buildings scattered across the US that once belonged to IBM, but no longer do, because of IBM's shrinking profits (mainly due to their loss of the IBM PC business, but also other downsizing). Another analogy is that Microsoft might end-up like Kmart, who was once the #1 retailer but is now increasingly irrelevant.
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+1 insightful. You can bankrupt Circuit City or Apple or even Microsoft via boycott. You cannot bankrupt the Monopoly known as government. They just suck the money direct from your paycheck.
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>>>US to get to Hawaii then current [strike] compel you to submit to a security screening.
"Laws that are contrary to the Supreme Law (constitution) are nullities." - Thomas Jefferson.
"Laws declared unconstitutional are voided from the day of their creation; as if they never existed." 1810s Supreme Court.
and:
"We are not bound to obey or enforce the unconstitutional Fugitive Slave Act. We declare it nullified." - The Legislatures of the following Member States: MA, CT, VT, and PA during the 1840s. These states became places of asylum for people like Harriet Tubman.
>>>Flying isn't a right.
Yes it is. Read Amendment 9. Also 4 (which forbids congress from strip-searching or fondling Americans w/o warrant.) Plus it would be impossible for me to attend a Friday meeting in California if I had to travel by car or train (2500 miles is a frakking long distance).
Flying is the only option to get from MD to the west coast, and the government has no more right to block me from using a plane, than they do to stop me from drinking alcohol, or having sex with the same gender.
Not surprised.
Censorship is the last resort of the Tyrant (or Oligarchs) to cover-up his deeds.
A bullet is the last resort of the Patriot, in order to end the censorship.
Round-up natural-born citizens and put them in concentration camps?
Nope.
That happened in WW2 and nobody balked. Instead they praised democrat FDR's initiative and labeled him "best president ever". The average American simply doesn't understand the need to fight for individual rights, especially if the rights being violated are somebody else. "I am not asian, so it does not concern me." "I am not muslim, so it does not concern me." "I don't fly, so it does not concern me."
>>>This is the classic example of an [unconstitutional act by the U.S.] and it's time for the politicians to do their jobs, [obey their oath], and [stop shredding the Bill of Rights].
>>>
Fixed that for you.
Especially amendments 4, 9, and 10. We the people should try to make the US more like the EU - most of the power remains reserved to the Member States while the central government's powers are few and limited.
I'd rather force these young ladies through the Naked Body Scanner than do a patdown. (pulls out iPhone) Click. BTW body scanners are likely to cause skin cancer. Not for casual tourists but definitely for business travelers and frequent fliers, since the X-rays are concentrated on the surface. Yay? Pilots are refusing to go through them.
Comming soon: tsaporn.com
Here's a preview:
http://www.infowars.com/inverted-body-scanner-image-shows-naked-body-in-full-living-color/
Your American odds of dying in an airplane bombing (either on-board or in a skyscraper), are 1 in 500,000. That is about the same as your risk of drowning in a tsunami. And of course if you move to the mountains or don't fly, the odds drop to near-zero.
I think I'd rather take that infinitesimal risk, rather than take the 1-to-1 risk that some TSA officer will be playing with my penis, touching my wife's boobies, and/or fondling my kid's pussy. (Sorry for the frank language but I believe in speaking the brutal truth.)
I also think the US Transportation Secretary can go eat a bullet.
"This is okay," he says.
No. No it is not.
supposed to be using the latest in tech and see themselves as living on the edge of software innovation.
I do. I live on the tail edge:
~500 megahertz K6 laptop w/ ~192K RAM
;-)
-single core P4 desktop w/ 512K RAM
-750k DSL and 50k dialup
-Word 97
-WinXP
-frequent use of floppies
-no HDTV television w/ old-fashioned antenna
Well it certainly ruined the X-Files episode that was done in one long take, but it worked well for Babylon 5's "Intersections in Real Time"* (approximately 10 minutes per take). Like a filmed play. And no we don't need a law, besides it would be unconstitutional even if one was passed.
*
*trivia: IIRT was supposed to be the season 5 premiere, but the WB/PTEN/TNT mess forced JMS to move the episode forward, in case the show got prematurely canceled. He didn't want to end on the original "Sheridan captured by president Clark" 422 episode.
CGI was exciting when I first saw them adapt it for Babylon 5's spaceships (instead of models) and of course Jurassic Park's dinosaurs. It provided a new means to do things that had been impossible before.
But now it's old hat. Like the space shuttle launches I never watch. (yawn). Let's get back to focusing on the story so that, even if CGI did not exist at all, the movie or show would still be entertaining.
Mr. Starks aka Helios:
"We're being litigated and my lawyer has stuck a size-12 boot in my mouth," because he had posted Karen's email online, and she felt she had been defamed. (Well yeah, that's what happens when you steal students' discs and threaten a lawsuit against a blogger; you get publicly embarrassed.) Anyway the case was later dropped.
Yes but (1) my phone doesn't have internet and (2) The cost of cellular/wireless is is about 5 times higher. $7 versus $40.
If I could find a plan that was less than $30, I'd sign-on but it doesn't exist.
>>>summer vacation in the [Pennsylvania] Appalachian mountains was popular among upper class New Yorkers...
Fixed that for ya.
Western Carolina is cooler than the eastern side, but still hot. I remember spending my entire Carolina summer trapped in a room, because the outside felt like a sauna, and would have gladly moved further north to NYC or rural PA.
>>>Even if they charge no taxes at all, the presence of the company will bring in income tax, sales tax from employees and all the stuff they buy and all the temporary construction workers in the area.
>>>
Disagree. This is the same logic flaw politicians make when they justify building a new sadidum for the football/baseball team. They spend MORE money building the structure than what the stadium generates in the nearby neighborhood. Likewise the thousands of dollars collected from the ~1000 additional workers will not offset the loss of millions handed-out to Google, ATT, et cetera.
>>>middle class democrats, who would not tolerate...glossing over the history of slavery and civil rights movement.
They are the ones who conveniently forget the 1st Civil Rights movement of the 1770s-90s (when blacks were no longer "slaves" under UK law & gained equal status north of Washington DC), or the 2nd Civil Rights movement of the 1870-80s when blacks were elected to Southern Legislatures, or the 1900s when a Democrat-run Supreme Court issued a decree that forced the entire nation to adopt racial Segregation.
Or the 1950s and 60s filibusters by democrats like Senator Byrd to block the passage of the 3rd era of Civil Rights laws.
Inconvenient history indeed.
Net Neutrality would not be necessary if we had true choice for consumers among many companies.
But since we instead have monopoly (like Comcast) or duopoly (Comcast/Verizon), that creates the need for the government to regulate and impose net neutrality, the same way they impose it on the Telephone monopoly.
Japanese-style DSL with 100 Mbit lines? That would be sweet.
Dirty coal is why ACEEE.org ranked the EV1 and other electric cars as no cleaner than a Prius and about 10% dirtier than an Insight Hybrid or Civic CNG.
I've had EV activists tell me "clean coal is the answer!", because the factories remove 99.9% of the pollutants, but so far it's not had much impact cleaning the air.
I lived in Charlotte for a year. It's a major city, but the culture is not much removed from the rural lifestyle of guns, NASCAR, and church. (Good thing I like two out of three of those things.) It was dull compared to someplace major like Boston or Washington or San Francisco.
Charlotte ranks #24 out of 210 markets.
Too hot.
But when the place in Maine or Hampshire or Vermont opens-up, I'll be first in line.
>>>There's a big lawsuit to stop the place(s) in NY from being built...
Ahhh yes... environmentalists practicing NIMBY. I guess this is democracy in action but it appears to be shooting self in foot - the building would create jobs and possible future growth if Tech/internet companies (like IBM) relocate near the data centers.
"The heart of the suit involves a ruling last month by the Somerset Town Board, after a preliminary assessment, that the project did not merit a full-blown study under the State Environmental Quality Review Act. 'Environmental, zoning and planning laws aren't meant to be set aside when a pet project comes along,' said the attorney who filed the suit in State Supreme Court on behalf of Mary Ann Rizzo, owner of a 117-acre farm across the street."
Do any of these modern laptops come with modems for those of us stuck on dialup (mainly in hotels)?
I thought Google and the rest were looking for cool zones like Western New York and upper New England. The air conditioning bill in Carolina will be lower than California, but not by much.
I wonder if Western NC and VA residents will still be stuck on dialup, or if they'll finally get an upgrade since they are so close to the data stores?
>>>You could always install your own if you really want it.
Which can cause it's own annoying problems. Anybody know how I can re-install WinXP on my Ubuntu laptop? It appears all the NTFS partitions were erased when I installed linux, so every time I try to run the Compaq XP Recover CD, it gives me an error: "Not enough free space."
A bit annoying because I'd like to restore windows prior to selling the laptop on ebay (it will get higher bids). I guess I could advertise the laptop as "comes with Windows!" and just throw the CDs in the box to leave the Buyer to figure it out, but I'd rather restore it myself prior to sale.
The 70s and 80s IBM used to be much, much bigger than it is now.
You'll find numerous buildings scattered across the US that once belonged to IBM, but no longer do, because of IBM's shrinking profits (mainly due to their loss of the IBM PC business, but also other downsizing). Another analogy is that Microsoft might end-up like Kmart, who was once the #1 retailer but is now increasingly irrelevant.