I think if you looked at the real motivations of the purchase, "investing" in iPads for teachers...and principals...and superintendents will be near the top.
If you can't see how a huge fine is worse than a vacation at state expense or how any official action by the Executive Branch is entirely attributable to Chief Executive you are the one with faulty thought processes.
Governments benefit directly from drug prohibition. Many top officials in Mexico have become wealthy from cartel money and probably the majority of lower employees partially live off it. In the US prohibition secures millions of law enforcement jobs and asset seizure has become a business that generates billions of dollars per year. On a deeper level capitalists require that government maintain a maximally productive workforce, so this conflict between governments' and citizens' interests can't be resolved.
Based on Breivik, you Europeans must have delayed puberty to your early 30s. Strange, I thought for reasons of public safety adulthood was delayed until after death...
Individuals spend many years of their lives working to pay for cars. Since the collective doesn't hand them out for free, your view borders of fascism, since corporations get a mobile workforce at low cost, and the state maintains control of movement to make sure that workers don't divert from a straight line between garage and workplace. State and corporate agents of course are mostly unaffected by vehicle restrictions and monitoring.
Starting soon ISPs will be throttling and terminating connections at the request of copyright enforcement firms. This will probably affect internet users on a scale not seen before. While a lawsuit is higher stakes, most people should begin implementing evasive procedures now.
It may be difficult to find room in the market and come up with initial capital, but after that initial success I doubt the money is very difficult. "Hard-working" business owners love talking about how much they had to invest, but never mention their embarrassing profits that pay of the investment in a few years.
A state with a default use tax is at least demonstrating an assumption that it will be collected (though the default was probably enacted relatively recently). In states with mass non-compliance you really would be a sucker for paying. From the perspective of the taxpayer any additional sales tax collected will disappear without a trace, because the state should have planned to fully fund itself through normal collections of in-state products retailers and income taxes.
Suspected terrorists are assassinated. Putting down kids for playing DoS with Anonymous is a little controversial, so the government will have to settle for putting them in jail for decades with little evidence. At least until drones can fire precisely into basement windows.
DAs and LEOs then hold solemn meetings about online safety, warning girls and their parents of danger of being prosecuted--though they themselves are the only ones leering at and terrorizing kids!
I'll believe the danger when it makes it into the top 1000 causes of injury or death. Like higher than toothpicks. If the aircraft threat is real cockpits need to harden pilot visual capability immediately, because weakly regulating retail availability of lasers will do nothing to stop terrorists.
A normal person is not going to spend $1000 on a laser. Normal people do spend that much and more on automobiles, and usually have no idea at the massive amount of destructive energy they are semi-consciously directing. Are car manufacturers morally responsible for the millions of people their products kill?
The average Joe does not buy a $1000 laser. "Training" does not cure irresponsibility, so what you really advocate is a ban, so that no one needs to be responsible. (Of course police will be able to buy expensive "non-lethal" crowd control lasers)
Actually it seems like some politicians are creating the problem because they want to cash in from further privatization. Annual postage increases of a few cents are no big deal but the government's veto of increases for 2 years has cost the USPS billions of dollars.
I don't want to encounter pictures of cats, i.e. girl porn. Segregating such quasi-bestiality and other perversions like facebook, blogs, etc. into an.xx domain would go much further into cleaning things up than trying to structure the internet around the mystification of human biology.
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not having to worry about your home or car being ruined, burgled, or tampered with
More like that possessions will be damaged through accident or disaster. The only sane people worrying are insurance underwriters.
People probably smell like shit to dogs all the time.
I think if you looked at the real motivations of the purchase, "investing" in iPads for teachers...and principals...and superintendents will be near the top.
If you can't see how a huge fine is worse than a vacation at state expense or how any official action by the Executive Branch is entirely attributable to Chief Executive you are the one with faulty thought processes.
Governments benefit directly from drug prohibition. Many top officials in Mexico have become wealthy from cartel money and probably the majority of lower employees partially live off it. In the US prohibition secures millions of law enforcement jobs and asset seizure has become a business that generates billions of dollars per year. On a deeper level capitalists require that government maintain a maximally productive workforce, so this conflict between governments' and citizens' interests can't be resolved.
Based on Breivik, you Europeans must have delayed puberty to your early 30s. Strange, I thought for reasons of public safety adulthood was delayed until after death...
Individuals spend many years of their lives working to pay for cars. Since the collective doesn't hand them out for free, your view borders of fascism, since corporations get a mobile workforce at low cost, and the state maintains control of movement to make sure that workers don't divert from a straight line between garage and workplace. State and corporate agents of course are mostly unaffected by vehicle restrictions and monitoring.
Starting soon ISPs will be throttling and terminating connections at the request of copyright enforcement firms. This will probably affect internet users on a scale not seen before. While a lawsuit is higher stakes, most people should begin implementing evasive procedures now.
It may be difficult to find room in the market and come up with initial capital, but after that initial success I doubt the money is very difficult. "Hard-working" business owners love talking about how much they had to invest, but never mention their embarrassing profits that pay of the investment in a few years.
A state with a default use tax is at least demonstrating an assumption that it will be collected (though the default was probably enacted relatively recently). In states with mass non-compliance you really would be a sucker for paying. From the perspective of the taxpayer any additional sales tax collected will disappear without a trace, because the state should have planned to fully fund itself through normal collections of in-state products retailers and income taxes.
Amazon, the beefy company that eats physical retail stores for breakfast
Come on, the main beneficiary from reduced sales at Amazon would be Walmart, which has 10x the revenue.
The law isn't too concerned with justice. You can be imprisoned for drugs found under the back seat of your car.
Suspected terrorists are assassinated. Putting down kids for playing DoS with Anonymous is a little controversial, so the government will have to settle for putting them in jail for decades with little evidence. At least until drones can fire precisely into basement windows.
DAs and LEOs then hold solemn meetings about online safety, warning girls and their parents of danger of being prosecuted--though they themselves are the only ones leering at and terrorizing kids!
Americanism compares favorably to the ideologies those bases were built to oppose: Nazism, Stalinism, and Islamism.
I'll believe the danger when it makes it into the top 1000 causes of injury or death. Like higher than toothpicks. If the aircraft threat is real cockpits need to harden pilot visual capability immediately, because weakly regulating retail availability of lasers will do nothing to stop terrorists.
A normal person is not going to spend $1000 on a laser. Normal people do spend that much and more on automobiles, and usually have no idea at the massive amount of destructive energy they are semi-consciously directing. Are car manufacturers morally responsible for the millions of people their products kill?
You can't cut steel with it, you can't weld with it, or really do anything practical with it
Exactly. They need to sell more powerful lasers!!!!
The average Joe does not buy a $1000 laser. "Training" does not cure irresponsibility, so what you really advocate is a ban, so that no one needs to be responsible. (Of course police will be able to buy expensive "non-lethal" crowd control lasers)
Kid could throw a rock and gouge out your eye too. Seems what you really need is for kids to be leashed and licensed.
Actually it seems like some politicians are creating the problem because they want to cash in from further privatization. Annual postage increases of a few cents are no big deal but the government's veto of increases for 2 years has cost the USPS billions of dollars.
I don't want to encounter pictures of cats, i.e. girl porn. Segregating such quasi-bestiality and other perversions like facebook, blogs, etc. into an .xx domain would go much further into cleaning things up than trying to structure the internet around the mystification of human biology.
If Netflix added porn it would be more competitive...
Solar contraptions are a fad. Tariffs are best used to protect fundamental industries like paperclip fabrication.
Aren't these "innocents" mostly freelance spies?