It's more the result of increasingly tyrannical government that prosecutes thought-crimes. Looking at information has victim and therefore no provable perpetrator. Of course for a long time in most places the pre-crime of leaving the keys in your car has been punishable, so maybe it's nothing new.
They aren't going to let civilians buy it. Just like tasers it is a completely innocuous technology...that is far too dangerous to be in the hands of the public.
Huh, I clearly was not being intelligible, because we do agree! The person I was responding to was using the "do what you are told or stay home" argument, which I was trying to show was exactly what the terrorists say, and obviously not right.
Having your throat cut by a terrorist is also potentially required if you board a plane. Can't really object, because you can always take a bus, train, car, or whatever else. Conclusion: if you decide to fly sit quietly to facilitate throat-cutting.
You couldn't pay more if you wanted to because private companies simply refuse to build the infrastructure and won't let the people own the lines either. Remember, while these subsidies only give the hicks the opportunity to have another monthly bill, the real beneficiaries are the contractors and ISPs receiving the piles of cash, and the profit-margin on these projects is never specified.
Tax is not that much of a consideration--in most states it is around 6%, not an insane 20% like the UK--and shipping can wipe out any savings. When shopping online for an item with a manufacturer-set price out-of-state retailers are a clear choice, and people near borders do cross them when saving on tax is worth it. But while you can avoid paying a lot of sales tax, your state will balance its budget at your expense one way or another.
The difference would probably be noticeable when manipulating large video files, just like the best mpg would be significant if you drove 1000s of miles or operated a fleet of vehicles.
The government will just sit back and let inflation fix everything. Moderate inflation of 100% or so. Social security, savings accounts, pensions, the price of bread have little meaning for Congressmen anyway.
With state sponsors of terrorism like Pakistan and Iran and USA-backed terrorist incubators like Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, reducing terrorism seems unlikely. Luckily the threat would be pretty negligible if the US did nothing, so success has and will always be assured!
Yeah, setting up poor kids for taking abandoned property is really fine police work. Hopefully those kids learned to maintain more control, and do home invasions and muggings instead.
That happens behind the scenes. The new "know your customer" provisions are an inconvenience for the general citizenry, making it difficult to even open a low-balance checking account, and of course do nothing to stop criminals (and may even help terrorists go under the radar, since the government protects the dumb ones from opening accounts that could be used later to track them and their associates).
A government needs active support too. As people work under the table, stop cooperating with police, and as government employees' morale decreases things gradually fall apart. If a governor declared independence or if there were a coup everyone would go on watching TV, and would find the news entertaining.
The incentive for food and shelter is a lot more pressing than voting. You are being disingenuous if you don't admit that an ID requirement will mean that almost all people without cars will end up not voting. And it is pretty clear that Republicans are the ones with the strawman argument, since cheating in elections is practically the only political strategy they have left.
If everyone had to get a special voting ID the number of eligible voters would drop 90%. No one would bother to go through the bureaucracy and pay good money for the privilege to vote for two worthless parties.
Most legal internet video is intentionally crappy quality, and most music is still expensive. $5 is not cheap for an album with at most 4 songs that are bearable to listen to when Netflix offers unlimited streaming movies for $8. I suggest content creators avail themselves of the internet free-for-all to save themselves money too, and maybe come to realize that the best they will ever do is hardly worth anyone's time, let alone money.
Sex and depictions of sex are old enough to have been foreseen by the writers of the Constitution. Certainly when the branches of government agree they can do whatever they want, but wrong is wrong.
Free speech doesn't need a point or to be pleasant. Your comment certainly doesn't bring a smile to the face. And your point? Elect someone to ban a single video game? Or is it really to repeal the 1st Amendment and set up a censorship board that will determine what can be published to protect you from troubling your mind?
Most people weren't granted an installation disc, and if with such a precious treasure in hand who knows if Microsoft will be so kind as to bless the installation as "genuine".
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It's more the result of increasingly tyrannical government that prosecutes thought-crimes. Looking at information has victim and therefore no provable perpetrator. Of course for a long time in most places the pre-crime of leaving the keys in your car has been punishable, so maybe it's nothing new.
They aren't going to let civilians buy it. Just like tasers it is a completely innocuous technology...that is far too dangerous to be in the hands of the public.
Huh, I clearly was not being intelligible, because we do agree! The person I was responding to was using the "do what you are told or stay home" argument, which I was trying to show was exactly what the terrorists say, and obviously not right.
Having your throat cut by a terrorist is also potentially required if you board a plane. Can't really object, because you can always take a bus, train, car, or whatever else. Conclusion: if you decide to fly sit quietly to facilitate throat-cutting.
You couldn't pay more if you wanted to because private companies simply refuse to build the infrastructure and won't let the people own the lines either. Remember, while these subsidies only give the hicks the opportunity to have another monthly bill, the real beneficiaries are the contractors and ISPs receiving the piles of cash, and the profit-margin on these projects is never specified.
They build a $600 million K-12 school and pay prison guards more than your doctor.
Yes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wrote an ruling upholding sterilization by force, also for the "benefit of society".
Sales tax is not paid by Amazon. Your point about the government aid it has received would be better used to condemn it for income tax avoidance.
Tax is not that much of a consideration--in most states it is around 6%, not an insane 20% like the UK--and shipping can wipe out any savings. When shopping online for an item with a manufacturer-set price out-of-state retailers are a clear choice, and people near borders do cross them when saving on tax is worth it. But while you can avoid paying a lot of sales tax, your state will balance its budget at your expense one way or another.
The difference would probably be noticeable when manipulating large video files, just like the best mpg would be significant if you drove 1000s of miles or operated a fleet of vehicles.
The government will just sit back and let inflation fix everything. Moderate inflation of 100% or so. Social security, savings accounts, pensions, the price of bread have little meaning for Congressmen anyway.
Those people can work all they like, but they are more stupid for not demanding the money they are worth than the rest of us are lazy.
With state sponsors of terrorism like Pakistan and Iran and USA-backed terrorist incubators like Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, reducing terrorism seems unlikely. Luckily the threat would be pretty negligible if the US did nothing, so success has and will always be assured!
For the organized criminal elite in power extortion is certainly a good thing, for the demos not so much.
Yeah, setting up poor kids for taking abandoned property is really fine police work. Hopefully those kids learned to maintain more control, and do home invasions and muggings instead.
That happens behind the scenes. The new "know your customer" provisions are an inconvenience for the general citizenry, making it difficult to even open a low-balance checking account, and of course do nothing to stop criminals (and may even help terrorists go under the radar, since the government protects the dumb ones from opening accounts that could be used later to track them and their associates).
A government needs active support too. As people work under the table, stop cooperating with police, and as government employees' morale decreases things gradually fall apart. If a governor declared independence or if there were a coup everyone would go on watching TV, and would find the news entertaining.
The incentive for food and shelter is a lot more pressing than voting. You are being disingenuous if you don't admit that an ID requirement will mean that almost all people without cars will end up not voting. And it is pretty clear that Republicans are the ones with the strawman argument, since cheating in elections is practically the only political strategy they have left.
If everyone had to get a special voting ID the number of eligible voters would drop 90%. No one would bother to go through the bureaucracy and pay good money for the privilege to vote for two worthless parties.
Most legal internet video is intentionally crappy quality, and most music is still expensive. $5 is not cheap for an album with at most 4 songs that are bearable to listen to when Netflix offers unlimited streaming movies for $8. I suggest content creators avail themselves of the internet free-for-all to save themselves money too, and maybe come to realize that the best they will ever do is hardly worth anyone's time, let alone money.
Sex and depictions of sex are old enough to have been foreseen by the writers of the Constitution. Certainly when the branches of government agree they can do whatever they want, but wrong is wrong.
You can thank the ocean god that they are regularly and constantly replaced with fresh ones
Free speech doesn't need a point or to be pleasant. Your comment certainly doesn't bring a smile to the face. And your point? Elect someone to ban a single video game? Or is it really to repeal the 1st Amendment and set up a censorship board that will determine what can be published to protect you from troubling your mind?
Most people weren't granted an installation disc, and if with such a precious treasure in hand who knows if Microsoft will be so kind as to bless the installation as "genuine".
Or just eliminate the sales tax. No "genius" or "fee" required.