Explain to me how telling me that I cant have a 32oz soda at the locally owned pizza parlor is letting corporations have free reign over our lives?
Explain how forcing me to pay thousands of dollars over the course of months to open said pizza parlor is letting corporations have free reign over our lives?
Explain how increasing my taxes to purchass thousands of acres of land as an "investement" and then telling me I'm not allowed to access that land is letting corporations have free reign over our lives?
That's just a tiny set of examples hitting millions across the county.
You are an idiot that is buying into the bullshit being shuffled onto you. Wake up.
It has nothing to do with Constitutionality, dont you get that? It has everything to do with a "living document" that is "outdated", and that these people are far more capable of choosing for you how you should be living.
Hollywood is trying to help put a stop to all the killings. They are speaking out constantly about all those nasty guns. Thankfully their movies glorifying nasty guns and cultures of hate and violence make them wealthy and influential enough to speak out about how bad those things are.
I think you're discounting this like Blender.org as well. These are open source platforms that allow Joe Nobody to put together quality looking products from their basement. You get people working on games collaboratively and you could see titles spreading that are very low cost, but highly lucrative for the designers. As more and more of the technology to create games becomes free or easily accessed by the masses, the masses will have greater influence on games.
Prove to me that game development is all shifting to multiplayer.
Do you have any idea how massively popular single-player storyline driven games are? Do you have a clue how many are currently in development? I will grant that many of these will have a multiplayer component that is supported, but in many cases that optional component will go unused by the majority of the people that purchase the game. Look at just these franchises that for evidence: Dues Ex, Resident Evil, Theif, HalfLife, Aliens, Prey, Elder Scrolls, Grand Theft Auto, Need for Speed, Gran Turismo, Tom Clancy (Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, etc), Tekken, Sonic, Assassin's Creed, Mortal Combat, Age Of Empires, Civilization, SimCity, Mass Effect, *** Tycoon (Rollercoaster, Farm, Zoo, etc.), Doom, Spore, Farcray, Max Payne, Baldur's Gate, Diablo, Flight,....
Like I said, some of those were/are played multiplayer. But the majority of people that bought games from these franchises never even tried to play them multiplayer because the development is/was all centered on a storyline or single-player objective. Most people couldnt give a rat's ass if there even is multiplayer in the games and yet these are among the highest grossing games in history.
So your suggestion is spend untold tax dollars to create a bureaucracy of federal, state and local entities that must monitor and adjust every online sale in real time, bidirectionaly, in order to generate tax dollars.
Would be even nicer if they spent the effort they've consumed on gun debates, laws and regulations and instead invested that level of attention to education. Our local town has spent millions of dollars to buy up 10's of 1000's of acres of scrub brush land as "investments", fences it, hires rangers to ensure that no one can enter it, and then votes to enact excise, use and sales taxes to offset the loss from the investment. There's a recurring council meeting to discuss ways to promote the area for geese migrations. The EPA is studying locusts... in Eqypt. The examples go on indefinately. But they need more of my money?
This is not a matter of needing more money to do the right things. It's a matter of ending the use of money on stupid meaningless bullshit and using instead on things that actually matter.
If the government would get out of all of the venues they shouldnt be in, and would stick to the limitations that were purposefully placed on it, it could easily function on less than we all pay now. Not to mention the gross waste inherent in government, with the leaders of agencies and departments at every level of government scrambling every quarter to make sure they spend every penny they were budgeted so they dont risk a smaller budget in the next quarter. There's no incentive to be efficient. There's no reward for operating within their means. And then there are the endless asinine projects out there like evaluating the potential damage to property values due to duck farts or something.
Government doesnt need more money. They just need to try to be marginally rational with the money they already get.
How do you propose that small businesses ensure that they are in compliance with all state tax codes? This doesnt hurt companies like amazon that already have a team of software engineers to run their online presence. It hurts a used bookstore run by a 60year old whose son in law puts a website up for him. At that point that business has to weigh the amount of money and time that will need to be invested to ensure they are (and remain) compliant, against how many online sales they even make. Does that encourage commerce? Does it help keep small businesses viable? Not remotely. And for what gain? So that states can spend more money on stupid unnecessary shit and not be forced to actually limit their own growth?
Why is it that you try so desperately to keep the morons from doing stupid things except in the case of voting? If they are too stupid to be granted the ability to print a gun then they are too stupid to be allowed to decide the laws and leaders that govern me.
At some point, laws don't stop people. And making more laws doesn't help.
At very few point do laws stop criminals. If a person is willing to kill you with a firearm, he's not likely to get too hung up on using a legal firearm to do it.
But there's no regulation limiting may access to or right to own or distribute design schematics for those same things. In the case of Defense Distributed, they are currently licensed to build and distribute standard firearms, but not arms govered by NFA, like automatic weapons, suppressors, etc. But the question is can Defense Distributed still provide designs for NFA weapons. I would contend that the answer is yes.
I would equate this to writing or distributing a manual on how to make acetaminophen tablets, or how to correctly dose and administer morphine. There's nothing illegal about the knowledge, but you must be properly licensed to actually act on it.
If we define the solar system as the sun and everything that primarily orbits the sun, however, Voyager 1 will remain within the confines of the solar system until it emerges from the Oort cloud in another 14,000 to 28,000 years
So you're among the millions that think all we need to do to solve this whole thing is just give them a big hug. Maybe offer them an icre cream cone or something?
At some point you and millions of others are going to need to come to terms with the fact that there are bad people out there in the world. And no amount of hugs, or laws, or regulations, or sanctions, or aid programs, or anything else changes that simple fact. And bad people dont respond to heartfelt crap that came off of a Hallmark card. Sometimes the world sucks. It's unfair. It's unfriendly. It's reality. There isnt a 'right' answer.
No, the problem is that in America many can see that the Captain has the boat headed right at the iceburg, but many more refuse to believe that the thing out there is in fact an iceburg because their massiah would never stear them in such a direction.
We have a populace that sees this man as an infallable savior, more than willing to give him more power. That same populace is ignorant to the reasons the Constitution checked the power of President and Congress, and ignorant to the fact that every power they allow this administration to grab will be transfer on to ALL following administrations, no matter how tyranical.
In the end the people are the only ones to really blame.
It says everything about the award, and the current state of the institution. To give the award to a person who has not earned it simply to say "fuck you" to anyone else for any reason shows a disregard for the spirit of the award, not to mention childish petulence. If your reason for the award is accurate then its even more appauling than simply because they bought into propoganda about Obama's intentions rather than judging the man on his actions. Even if everything Obama said he would bring were found to be completely true in the future, the FUTURE is the time to present the award, after a validation of the promises.
Maybe it would help if you actually investigated anything for yourself rather than believing in an out-dated group that has morphed into something largely political.
Here's the easy version for you, if you care to educate yourself before spouting off like a moron again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies
What's the problem with people like you who assume that the only blunders in the Nobel awards have been for the Peace prize? There are 4 listed here for chemistry rizes alone, and dozens more in areas other than the peace prize: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies
Perhaps the family of Dr. Crick reexamined the value of a Nobel Prize when a Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to Barack Obama for simply promising to be a nice guy, sans any actual significant personal accomplishments in humanitarian arenas. In many ways the Nobel Prize has become somewhat of a joke, even if one were to discount the award presented to President Obama.
And your leadership seems to agree. That's why they are also more valuable, and therefor warrant being protected by teams of people with full auto assault weapons and large clips but you and I are not able to legally obtain the same protections.
You're an idiot. I am not saying that it should be news because of this person's status. I'm saying that it's being reported on because of it. I dont agree with that, in fact I abhore it. My whole fucking point was that it is wrong to dismiss this bad behavior of govt agents, and the level of wealth of the victim is and should remain wholly irrelevent.
I guarantee you that if Homeland Security took something from some destitute single mom, and the media got wind of it, they'd be all over it. Stop letting your envy get in the way of real life.
And you'd be wrong. This shit happens every day at the border and at airports, and even along roadways. People doing absolutely nothing wrong are pulled over and detained for hours, goods are confiscated, possessions are damaged. I personally know of one person who was pulled over in Colorado for speeding (4MPH over...) and sat on the side of the road with her 2 kids under 10years old for SIX FUCKING HOURS in 90+ degree heat while DEA tore her car apart. She politely pointed out a procedural error of the officer that pulled her over and the next thing you know there's a DEA officer there. Why? Who the fuck knows. He was chatting with my friend being all friendly and said he had a drug dog in training in his vehicle, and would it be ok to just use this as a training excercise and let the dog sniff around the car. Believing she had nothing to fear she agreed. The dog reacted to something, or more likely to nothing, and they treated it like a full on smuggling incident from that point on and had multiple state patrol and DEA vehicles there in minutes.
They never had any reasonable suspicion and never found anything, and you never heard shit about it even though it's been in letters to the editor for 3 major news agencies.
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Explain to me how telling me that I cant have a 32oz soda at the locally owned pizza parlor is letting corporations have free reign over our lives?
Explain how forcing me to pay thousands of dollars over the course of months to open said pizza parlor is letting corporations have free reign over our lives?
Explain how increasing my taxes to purchass thousands of acres of land as an "investement" and then telling me I'm not allowed to access that land is letting corporations have free reign over our lives?
That's just a tiny set of examples hitting millions across the county.
You are an idiot that is buying into the bullshit being shuffled onto you. Wake up.
It has nothing to do with Constitutionality, dont you get that? It has everything to do with a "living document" that is "outdated", and that these people are far more capable of choosing for you how you should be living.
So just shut up and let them make things better.
And there's a hell of a lot more plastic today than in the 1940's, proving that plastic helps reduce the murder rate as well.
Hollywood is trying to help put a stop to all the killings. They are speaking out constantly about all those nasty guns. Thankfully their movies glorifying nasty guns and cultures of hate and violence make them wealthy and influential enough to speak out about how bad those things are.
I think you're discounting this like Blender.org as well. These are open source platforms that allow Joe Nobody to put together quality looking products from their basement. You get people working on games collaboratively and you could see titles spreading that are very low cost, but highly lucrative for the designers. As more and more of the technology to create games becomes free or easily accessed by the masses, the masses will have greater influence on games.
Prove to me that game development is all shifting to multiplayer.
....
Do you have any idea how massively popular single-player storyline driven games are? Do you have a clue how many are currently in development? I will grant that many of these will have a multiplayer component that is supported, but in many cases that optional component will go unused by the majority of the people that purchase the game. Look at just these franchises that for evidence: Dues Ex, Resident Evil, Theif, HalfLife, Aliens, Prey, Elder Scrolls, Grand Theft Auto, Need for Speed, Gran Turismo, Tom Clancy (Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, etc), Tekken, Sonic, Assassin's Creed, Mortal Combat, Age Of Empires, Civilization, SimCity, Mass Effect, *** Tycoon (Rollercoaster, Farm, Zoo, etc.), Doom, Spore, Farcray, Max Payne, Baldur's Gate, Diablo, Flight,
Like I said, some of those were/are played multiplayer. But the majority of people that bought games from these franchises never even tried to play them multiplayer because the development is/was all centered on a storyline or single-player objective. Most people couldnt give a rat's ass if there even is multiplayer in the games and yet these are among the highest grossing games in history.
The government would never get anything done...
Good. When was the last time they did something that increased freedom? I'd rather they butt out and let us live our damn lives.
No, you dont. Not yet. But more people like you make it more and more likely that everyone will eventually be forced to submit. Please stop.
So your suggestion is spend untold tax dollars to create a bureaucracy of federal, state and local entities that must monitor and adjust every online sale in real time, bidirectionaly, in order to generate tax dollars.
Fucking brilliant. What could possibly go wrong?
Would be even nicer if they spent the effort they've consumed on gun debates, laws and regulations and instead invested that level of attention to education. Our local town has spent millions of dollars to buy up 10's of 1000's of acres of scrub brush land as "investments", fences it, hires rangers to ensure that no one can enter it, and then votes to enact excise, use and sales taxes to offset the loss from the investment. There's a recurring council meeting to discuss ways to promote the area for geese migrations. The EPA is studying locusts... in Eqypt. The examples go on indefinately. But they need more of my money?
This is not a matter of needing more money to do the right things. It's a matter of ending the use of money on stupid meaningless bullshit and using instead on things that actually matter.
And the government does need the money...
No, it doesnt. That's the lie you've bought into.
If the government would get out of all of the venues they shouldnt be in, and would stick to the limitations that were purposefully placed on it, it could easily function on less than we all pay now. Not to mention the gross waste inherent in government, with the leaders of agencies and departments at every level of government scrambling every quarter to make sure they spend every penny they were budgeted so they dont risk a smaller budget in the next quarter. There's no incentive to be efficient. There's no reward for operating within their means. And then there are the endless asinine projects out there like evaluating the potential damage to property values due to duck farts or something.
Government doesnt need more money. They just need to try to be marginally rational with the money they already get.
How do you propose that small businesses ensure that they are in compliance with all state tax codes? This doesnt hurt companies like amazon that already have a team of software engineers to run their online presence. It hurts a used bookstore run by a 60year old whose son in law puts a website up for him. At that point that business has to weigh the amount of money and time that will need to be invested to ensure they are (and remain) compliant, against how many online sales they even make. Does that encourage commerce? Does it help keep small businesses viable? Not remotely. And for what gain? So that states can spend more money on stupid unnecessary shit and not be forced to actually limit their own growth?
Why is it that you try so desperately to keep the morons from doing stupid things except in the case of voting? If they are too stupid to be granted the ability to print a gun then they are too stupid to be allowed to decide the laws and leaders that govern me.
At some point, laws don't stop people. And making more laws doesn't help.
At very few point do laws stop criminals. If a person is willing to kill you with a firearm, he's not likely to get too hung up on using a legal firearm to do it.
But there's no regulation limiting may access to or right to own or distribute design schematics for those same things. In the case of Defense Distributed, they are currently licensed to build and distribute standard firearms, but not arms govered by NFA, like automatic weapons, suppressors, etc. But the question is can Defense Distributed still provide designs for NFA weapons. I would contend that the answer is yes.
I would equate this to writing or distributing a manual on how to make acetaminophen tablets, or how to correctly dose and administer morphine. There's nothing illegal about the knowledge, but you must be properly licensed to actually act on it.
If we define the solar system as the sun and everything that primarily orbits the sun, however, Voyager 1 will remain within the confines of the solar system until it emerges from the Oort cloud in another 14,000 to 28,000 years
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?MCode=Voyager_1&Target=Beyond
So you're among the millions that think all we need to do to solve this whole thing is just give them a big hug. Maybe offer them an icre cream cone or something?
At some point you and millions of others are going to need to come to terms with the fact that there are bad people out there in the world. And no amount of hugs, or laws, or regulations, or sanctions, or aid programs, or anything else changes that simple fact. And bad people dont respond to heartfelt crap that came off of a Hallmark card. Sometimes the world sucks. It's unfair. It's unfriendly. It's reality. There isnt a 'right' answer.
No, the problem is that in America many can see that the Captain has the boat headed right at the iceburg, but many more refuse to believe that the thing out there is in fact an iceburg because their massiah would never stear them in such a direction.
We have a populace that sees this man as an infallable savior, more than willing to give him more power. That same populace is ignorant to the reasons the Constitution checked the power of President and Congress, and ignorant to the fact that every power they allow this administration to grab will be transfer on to ALL following administrations, no matter how tyranical.
In the end the people are the only ones to really blame.
It says everything about the award, and the current state of the institution. To give the award to a person who has not earned it simply to say "fuck you" to anyone else for any reason shows a disregard for the spirit of the award, not to mention childish petulence. If your reason for the award is accurate then its even more appauling than simply because they bought into propoganda about Obama's intentions rather than judging the man on his actions. Even if everything Obama said he would bring were found to be completely true in the future, the FUTURE is the time to present the award, after a validation of the promises.
Maybe it would help if you actually investigated anything for yourself rather than believing in an out-dated group that has morphed into something largely political. Here's the easy version for you, if you care to educate yourself before spouting off like a moron again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies
What's the problem with people like you who assume that the only blunders in the Nobel awards have been for the Peace prize? There are 4 listed here for chemistry rizes alone, and dozens more in areas other than the peace prize: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies
In many ways the Nobel Prize has become somewhat of a joke, even if one were to discount the award presented to President Obama.
Perhaps the family of Dr. Crick reexamined the value of a Nobel Prize when a Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to Barack Obama for simply promising to be a nice guy, sans any actual significant personal accomplishments in humanitarian arenas. In many ways the Nobel Prize has become somewhat of a joke, even if one were to discount the award presented to President Obama.
And your leadership seems to agree. That's why they are also more valuable, and therefor warrant being protected by teams of people with full auto assault weapons and large clips but you and I are not able to legally obtain the same protections.
I guarantee you that if Homeland Security took something from some destitute single mom, and the media got wind of it, they'd be all over it. Stop letting your envy get in the way of real life.
And you'd be wrong. This shit happens every day at the border and at airports, and even along roadways. People doing absolutely nothing wrong are pulled over and detained for hours, goods are confiscated, possessions are damaged. I personally know of one person who was pulled over in Colorado for speeding (4MPH over...) and sat on the side of the road with her 2 kids under 10years old for SIX FUCKING HOURS in 90+ degree heat while DEA tore her car apart. She politely pointed out a procedural error of the officer that pulled her over and the next thing you know there's a DEA officer there. Why? Who the fuck knows. He was chatting with my friend being all friendly and said he had a drug dog in training in his vehicle, and would it be ok to just use this as a training excercise and let the dog sniff around the car. Believing she had nothing to fear she agreed. The dog reacted to something, or more likely to nothing, and they treated it like a full on smuggling incident from that point on and had multiple state patrol and DEA vehicles there in minutes.
They never had any reasonable suspicion and never found anything, and you never heard shit about it even though it's been in letters to the editor for 3 major news agencies.