Then don't live in an area with an HOA. HOAs only have the power that you agree to give them. If people stop buying houses in locations with HOAs, then people will stop creating HOA's to "protect property values". Personally, a property that I can't use as I wish isn't of much value at all.
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But OK, we have lost something if you look at it from the perspective of people getting out there, building sites, sharing all sorts of useful info, or whatever it was that we thought people were going to do on the Internet. That never really happened, but is that so surprising?
What do you mean? Every hobby has an associated website or more, and a community where people share their projects, personal experiences, documentation, etc. All this takes place on forums and wikis, not social networks like facebook, which is one of the big reasons why facebook doesn't appeal.
The difference between psychopathy and sociopathy is like the difference between X-rays and gamma rays. They're the same thing, called by different names in different contexts. If your high energy photon came from the nucleus of an atom, it's a gamma ray. If your high energy photon came from the electron shell, it's an X-ray. Similarly, if your theoretical framework presumes that this personality disorder is due to physical defects you call it psychopathy. If your theoretical framework presumes that the personality disorder is due to upbringing, you call it sociopathy. Two different names for the same phenomenon.
Yes, people who operate machines would not have jobs without the machines. But when the machines are replaced by robots that do not need operators, what are they to do? If you re-employ all of them to maintain the robots you haven't really gained anything.
Sure, it didn't happen with the first significant efficiency gain, but what of future gains? Yes, if the labor of one man can support the lives of 10 men, we can find something for the 9 other men to do. What happens when that ratio changes to 1 in 100? 1,000? Do you really think we can extrapolate from the industrial revolution to future where the vast majority of economic activity is automated?
And unlike the traditional nightstick, they won't generally break your bones or cause skull injuries when they are used on you.
Try dropping your skull 5.5ft onto concrete and get back to me on that. Tasers do not give you a chance to break your fall. I'd rather get a couple broken bones than risk ventricular fibrillation or a grand mal seizure. VF will kill you out right, and one grand-mal seizure significantly increases your risk of future seizures.
Tasers aren't safe just because Taser International says so.
That's today. I live within walking distance of downtown in the largest city of my state. It's very frequent that a vehicle will pass by and cause my DTV to drop out for a couple seconds. That's with a UHF antenna and amplifier. Not every vehicle, not every day, but it's often enough that I watch low def analog cable in preference to OTA free HD TV when a program is available on both.
What do you mean "far"? We already have the highest prison population in the world, measured both per capita and in absolute magnitude. 1/4 of the world's prisoners are Americans, and 1/2 of those are African Americans(who are only 1/7 of our population). We wage war on our own citizens under the guise of the war on drugs. 86% of federal prisoners are there for victimless crimes. And if you choose to peaceably assemble with a message not approved by our corporate overlords, you're met with a boot and a nightstick. How could this not be a police state?
The trouble is, you have 300 million people, so the level of people being pissed needs to be rather high for anything to happen.
With the best propaganda system in the world, that's simply not going to happen in the US. Even if people get pissed off, the media are masters of misdirection. You can't defeat that. Look at how easily they turned the death of Hostess from a story of vulture capitalism to one of selfish unions. Look at how we've been imprisoning pot smokers for nearly a century, for absolutely no reason, and we're only now seeing a few tiny cracks in this terribly harmful policy. Look at how people actually believe that Obama represents anyone other than the extremely rich who got him where he is today.
Democracy simply doesn't work unless the people are well informed, and the rich spend an incredible amount of money keeping us misinformed. It's not as simple as calling your congresspeople. We have to counteract the effects of billions of dollars of propaganda, and millions of dollars of campaign contributions. We also have to overcome mathematical flaws in our system such as first past the post elections.
The odds are very, very highly stacked against political change in the US. We can change the skin color of our president, but we can't change who he represents.
It seems that the FCC is relying on citizen complaints for enforcement. I think a great opportunity is to be had by a Myth TV plugin that automatically checks the RMS amplitude of the commercials and forwards a complaint if it's outside of spec. Clearly we can't rely on the FCC to actually monitor the airwaves for enforcement, but we could do so ourselves pretty easily.
Simpler tax schemes such as a flat rate on retail sales are much, much more difficult to game.
No, flat sales taxes are the easiest to game. All the rich have to do to avoid paying tax is to spend a lower proportion of their income than poor people do. Which they already do anyway. Sales taxes are regressive taxes.
I'm not sure why a well adjusted individual would be embarassed by poor search results. There's no reason, save our puritanical heritage, that seeing a stray cock and balls would be any worse than seeing an elbow or ear.
You can always tell the parents by their irrational, fear based approach to the world. Most of our biggest problems stem from parental overreactions and politicians taking advantage of them. Whether it's the war on drug users, the quality of science education, immigration reform, internet freedom, the private prison industry, FUD targeted towards fearful parents is a major vector for injustice.
Your argument in favor of censorship presumes a society where censorship is enforced by law. Try to come up with an argument where censorship is beneficial based on its own merits. I can't find one.
Censorship is not parenting. Censorship is the abdication of parenting. Your job is to equip the kid to deal with an ugly world, not to shield him from it.
And yes, I don't believe that seeing goatse actually harms anyone of any age, gender, sexual preference, or religion in any significant way. Momentary disgust will not scar your child for life.
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So if he's not getting extradited, and there are no charges in the UK, is McKinnon a free man?
There's no such thing as "clean" fossil fuels. All fossil fuels contribute to CO2 pollution.
Then don't live in an area with an HOA. HOAs only have the power that you agree to give them. If people stop buying houses in locations with HOAs, then people will stop creating HOA's to "protect property values". Personally, a property that I can't use as I wish isn't of much value at all.
But OK, we have lost something if you look at it from the perspective of people getting out there, building sites, sharing all sorts of useful info, or whatever it was that we thought people were going to do on the Internet. That never really happened, but is that so surprising?
What do you mean? Every hobby has an associated website or more, and a community where people share their projects, personal experiences, documentation, etc. All this takes place on forums and wikis, not social networks like facebook, which is one of the big reasons why facebook doesn't appeal.
Are you fucking insane? Or one of those hardcore American evangelical Christians
What do you mean "or"?
The difference between psychopathy and sociopathy is like the difference between X-rays and gamma rays. They're the same thing, called by different names in different contexts. If your high energy photon came from the nucleus of an atom, it's a gamma ray. If your high energy photon came from the electron shell, it's an X-ray. Similarly, if your theoretical framework presumes that this personality disorder is due to physical defects you call it psychopathy. If your theoretical framework presumes that the personality disorder is due to upbringing, you call it sociopathy. Two different names for the same phenomenon.
from what we have seen these things couldn't hit a barn the size of Kansas, much less target the USA with the thing
I'm more worried about what the US government will do in response to the percieved NK threat than the actual NK threat.
Yes, people who operate machines would not have jobs without the machines. But when the machines are replaced by robots that do not need operators, what are they to do? If you re-employ all of them to maintain the robots you haven't really gained anything.
Sure, it didn't happen with the first significant efficiency gain, but what of future gains? Yes, if the labor of one man can support the lives of 10 men, we can find something for the 9 other men to do. What happens when that ratio changes to 1 in 100? 1,000? Do you really think we can extrapolate from the industrial revolution to future where the vast majority of economic activity is automated?
And unlike the traditional nightstick, they won't generally break your bones or cause skull injuries when they are used on you.
Try dropping your skull 5.5ft onto concrete and get back to me on that. Tasers do not give you a chance to break your fall. I'd rather get a couple broken bones than risk ventricular fibrillation or a grand mal seizure. VF will kill you out right, and one grand-mal seizure significantly increases your risk of future seizures.
Tasers aren't safe just because Taser International says so.
That's today. I live within walking distance of downtown in the largest city of my state. It's very frequent that a vehicle will pass by and cause my DTV to drop out for a couple seconds. That's with a UHF antenna and amplifier. Not every vehicle, not every day, but it's often enough that I watch low def analog cable in preference to OTA free HD TV when a program is available on both.
What do you mean "far"? We already have the highest prison population in the world, measured both per capita and in absolute magnitude. 1/4 of the world's prisoners are Americans, and 1/2 of those are African Americans(who are only 1/7 of our population). We wage war on our own citizens under the guise of the war on drugs. 86% of federal prisoners are there for victimless crimes. And if you choose to peaceably assemble with a message not approved by our corporate overlords, you're met with a boot and a nightstick. How could this not be a police state?
The trouble is, you have 300 million people, so the level of people being pissed needs to be rather high for anything to happen.
With the best propaganda system in the world, that's simply not going to happen in the US. Even if people get pissed off, the media are masters of misdirection. You can't defeat that. Look at how easily they turned the death of Hostess from a story of vulture capitalism to one of selfish unions. Look at how we've been imprisoning pot smokers for nearly a century, for absolutely no reason, and we're only now seeing a few tiny cracks in this terribly harmful policy. Look at how people actually believe that Obama represents anyone other than the extremely rich who got him where he is today.
Democracy simply doesn't work unless the people are well informed, and the rich spend an incredible amount of money keeping us misinformed. It's not as simple as calling your congresspeople. We have to counteract the effects of billions of dollars of propaganda, and millions of dollars of campaign contributions. We also have to overcome mathematical flaws in our system such as first past the post elections.
The odds are very, very highly stacked against political change in the US. We can change the skin color of our president, but we can't change who he represents.
It seems that the FCC is relying on citizen complaints for enforcement. I think a great opportunity is to be had by a Myth TV plugin that automatically checks the RMS amplitude of the commercials and forwards a complaint if it's outside of spec. Clearly we can't rely on the FCC to actually monitor the airwaves for enforcement, but we could do so ourselves pretty easily.
Simpler tax schemes such as a flat rate on retail sales are much, much more difficult to game.
No, flat sales taxes are the easiest to game. All the rich have to do to avoid paying tax is to spend a lower proportion of their income than poor people do. Which they already do anyway. Sales taxes are regressive taxes.
Just eliminate the corporate tax altogether
The only reason this is hard is because Congress is so busy sucking the cocks of all the special interests out there
So you complain about special interests but want Congress to give the biggest possible gift to the biggest special interest group in the country?
So if someone thinks that gogle *should* pay 2.5 billions more, create a tax code that MAKES THEM.
I'd love to. Once I create that tax code how do I get it passed into law when Congress is under the complete control of billion dollar corporations?
There are no such restrictions on the iPhone.
If people are pissed off at how much tax they pay, change the laws.
Oh, well if it's that easy...
Are you stupid?
You mean selling her own property for a profit? God forbid.
I'm not sure why a well adjusted individual would be embarassed by poor search results. There's no reason, save our puritanical heritage, that seeing a stray cock and balls would be any worse than seeing an elbow or ear.
You can always tell the parents by their irrational, fear based approach to the world. Most of our biggest problems stem from parental overreactions and politicians taking advantage of them. Whether it's the war on drug users, the quality of science education, immigration reform, internet freedom, the private prison industry, FUD targeted towards fearful parents is a major vector for injustice.
Your argument in favor of censorship presumes a society where censorship is enforced by law. Try to come up with an argument where censorship is beneficial based on its own merits. I can't find one.
Censorship is not parenting. Censorship is the abdication of parenting. Your job is to equip the kid to deal with an ugly world, not to shield him from it.
And yes, I don't believe that seeing goatse actually harms anyone of any age, gender, sexual preference, or religion in any significant way. Momentary disgust will not scar your child for life.
For being "far removed", you can still run ancient versions of DOS on modern hardware.