If they weren't collecting it before it is a new tax. What new services are they going to add? Bullet trains? Free university? Oh, right, $150,000 prison guards.
Inflation? If taxes are a percentage of income or purchase price they already constantly increase with inflation. Increasing the rate itself means that your standard of living falls, and with the moderately advanced state of medicine "state of the art" treatments rarely improve anyone's quality of life except the millionaire specialists who come up with them.
Except sales tax is regressive, and just reduces the state income tax burden on the wealthy. Any "Democrat" who supports it is actually a good distance to the right.
Because newegg reviews are more pertinent? Maybe your complaint was particularly valid, but investigating reviews and removing them would in general consume resources and alienate customers. Staying mostly hands-off and making reviews voted unhelpful less visible isn't a bad policy.
Your assumption that government has good intentions is naive. Organized crime and pedophilia overlap government to a large degree, and "law enforcement" operations are almost always to shut down rivals or for empty propaganda purposes. And by the point the drone technology gets that cheap GPS miniaturization will as well, and will still be the more effective option. (Not that satellites or drones are any more legal).
The government owns the road? What feudal country do you live in? I also really have a hard time believing that if some random person (possibly a stalker, serial killer, burglar, boss) put a tracker on your car you wouldn't feel that your privacy was violated or feel that the appliance added was more than a chalk mark on a part that touches the ground.
suppose that some alien culture abducted a bunch of human beings, and bred them down to the point that their decendants were hairy retarded love slaves as your dog is.
The cost of the terminal would be paid by the retailers, and they are cheap too. If the card companies and retailers who take the losses don't care why should the government? Europeans like chip-and-pin because they like living in a locked-down society.
A transfer of lots of data from India is probably enough to warrant throttling your connection. From the ISP's perspective you are stealing food out of their multi-millionaire investors' mouths by doing that anyway; saying that they are stopping piracy means the government and legal systems have their back unconditionally.
The lawsuits weren't working and were too expensive. Now you will be paying every month for your connection to be spied on and crippled. I also doubt you will be very amused having no internet for a month and then having to take a day off work to take the class, knowing that it is the final step before you are cut off the internet for the rest of your life.
That might be an argument in India for the time being, but is completely laughable in the Western countries that have pervasive video surveillance. And even in India people should be far more concerned with the drones with missiles under their wings watching them.
Blame evolution. Some species have males that are identically or even more attractive than females, but not homo sapiens. A game with naked men or Justin Bieber in a hoodie: which would females actually buy?
Pornstars do have a place in my heart, but a lot of the producers are already getting paid back the money they invest by "auditioning" the girls they cast, before they get 100% of their badly-made videos' revenue.
From the government's perspective 9/11 was like Christmas. No need to speculate about future "misuse" of this project; the intent of the project to begin with is to misappropriate funds and authority.
Why dismiss that? Certainly resources are finite, and there seems to be no benefit to population increases--we certainly don't have the four Albert Einsteins we are due who could find a way to teleport us to work.
Dude is in his 60s. Rapid mental and physical decline is inevitable even in the event of an "Alzheimer's" breakthrough, which would be literally a miracle, since "breakthroughs" in medical science mean extending your life for 6 months. Your only hope is too freeze yourself before 30! And even then, don't get your hopes up.
The market for marijuana is a lot bigger than for heroin or cocaine, so if you can move a lot you can earn a lot. Of course when we've had several coke-snorting Presidents, measures taken to boost their dealers' incomes is suspect anyway.
It is pretty uncomfortable just as a person having a camera pointed at you. Unlike the rest of us who are subject to increasing government surveillance, cops are getting paid, so they should probably just suck it up. It's also hard to follow procedure perfectly all the time, because reality is messy. High-priced lawyers can often use minor errors to get their clients off, and video could help more criminals go free. But all things considered I don't see how filming them can be prohibited, though they may not like it.
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If they weren't collecting it before it is a new tax. What new services are they going to add? Bullet trains? Free university? Oh, right, $150,000 prison guards.
So you think the "service" Congressmen provide justifies their $200,000 salaries (and the million dollar+ slush funds that come with the office)?
Inflation? If taxes are a percentage of income or purchase price they already constantly increase with inflation. Increasing the rate itself means that your standard of living falls, and with the moderately advanced state of medicine "state of the art" treatments rarely improve anyone's quality of life except the millionaire specialists who come up with them.
Except sales tax is regressive, and just reduces the state income tax burden on the wealthy. Any "Democrat" who supports it is actually a good distance to the right.
Because newegg reviews are more pertinent? Maybe your complaint was particularly valid, but investigating reviews and removing them would in general consume resources and alienate customers. Staying mostly hands-off and making reviews voted unhelpful less visible isn't a bad policy.
Your assumption that government has good intentions is naive. Organized crime and pedophilia overlap government to a large degree, and "law enforcement" operations are almost always to shut down rivals or for empty propaganda purposes. And by the point the drone technology gets that cheap GPS miniaturization will as well, and will still be the more effective option. (Not that satellites or drones are any more legal).
The government owns the road? What feudal country do you live in? I also really have a hard time believing that if some random person (possibly a stalker, serial killer, burglar, boss) put a tracker on your car you wouldn't feel that your privacy was violated or feel that the appliance added was more than a chalk mark on a part that touches the ground.
suppose that some alien culture abducted a bunch of human beings, and bred them down to the point that their decendants were hairy retarded love slaves as your dog is.
This would explain a lot
He is probably referring to this recent event, which does indicate that some terrorists take no pride in their work anymore.
The cost of the terminal would be paid by the retailers, and they are cheap too. If the card companies and retailers who take the losses don't care why should the government? Europeans like chip-and-pin because they like living in a locked-down society.
A transfer of lots of data from India is probably enough to warrant throttling your connection. From the ISP's perspective you are stealing food out of their multi-millionaire investors' mouths by doing that anyway; saying that they are stopping piracy means the government and legal systems have their back unconditionally.
The lawsuits weren't working and were too expensive. Now you will be paying every month for your connection to be spied on and crippled. I also doubt you will be very amused having no internet for a month and then having to take a day off work to take the class, knowing that it is the final step before you are cut off the internet for the rest of your life.
That might be an argument in India for the time being, but is completely laughable in the Western countries that have pervasive video surveillance. And even in India people should be far more concerned with the drones with missiles under their wings watching them.
Licenses cannot be lost in a fire. Or can we burn down a record company to make all their holdings public domain?
Blame evolution. Some species have males that are identically or even more attractive than females, but not homo sapiens. A game with naked men or Justin Bieber in a hoodie: which would females actually buy?
Pornstars do have a place in my heart, but a lot of the producers are already getting paid back the money they invest by "auditioning" the girls they cast, before they get 100% of their badly-made videos' revenue.
From the government's perspective 9/11 was like Christmas. No need to speculate about future "misuse" of this project; the intent of the project to begin with is to misappropriate funds and authority.
Traffic on your commute getting worse?
Why dismiss that? Certainly resources are finite, and there seems to be no benefit to population increases--we certainly don't have the four Albert Einsteins we are due who could find a way to teleport us to work.
He opposed Islamists like bin Laden for decades. It's OK if he does all that stuff, because he's one of the good guys!
Your mom is in high school? I can see why you'd be jaded with life already if you are reading slashdot at age 4.
Dude is in his 60s. Rapid mental and physical decline is inevitable even in the event of an "Alzheimer's" breakthrough, which would be literally a miracle, since "breakthroughs" in medical science mean extending your life for 6 months. Your only hope is too freeze yourself before 30! And even then, don't get your hopes up.
What about the contamination of the world's fisheries with mercury from coal plants, which does pose a significant risk to health.
Sprouts should be banned. They are a known disease vector and an abomination.
The market for marijuana is a lot bigger than for heroin or cocaine, so if you can move a lot you can earn a lot. Of course when we've had several coke-snorting Presidents, measures taken to boost their dealers' incomes is suspect anyway.
It is pretty uncomfortable just as a person having a camera pointed at you. Unlike the rest of us who are subject to increasing government surveillance, cops are getting paid, so they should probably just suck it up. It's also hard to follow procedure perfectly all the time, because reality is messy. High-priced lawyers can often use minor errors to get their clients off, and video could help more criminals go free. But all things considered I don't see how filming them can be prohibited, though they may not like it.