My congressional rep is a pretty far right "We gotta stop the terr'rists" type.
The Bill-of-rights-defending Tea Party may be staunchly law-and-order but they are even more staunchly individual-rights and (except for abortion, gay sex, and maybe drug use) they are strongly in favor of individual rights and privacy, especially rights like "peaceably assemble" and the right to communicate without being snooped on wholesale.
Considering that a LOT of the "tea party" candidates (the one from my area included) voted against defunding the NSA, I'm gonna have to call BS on that statement.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
You can tell your relation that the main flaw in her thinking is that she presumes herself 100% legal.
... and to preemptively cover the inevitable response of, "dur dur dur, never done anything wrong, dur dur dur," wrong and illegal are not necessarily confluent; sometimes you can do everything right and still be guilty of breaking some law.
That isn't actually a reason, though. It just says 'some other people a long time ago also thought they shouldn't'. It just asks the question 'why should the US constitution say that?'.
If anyone ever actually asks you that, start going through their pockets without asking; I'm betting they'll figure out the "why" pretty damn quick.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Long story short? Unless the government has demonstrable cause to read/know the full text of "everything", it's none of their fucking business.
The Government declared the Constitution of the United States of America as a "worthless piece of paper".
Considering that "worthless piece of paper" is the only document that actually authorized a federal government, I'd say that's a really bad idea on their part.
FYI, when someone's being arrested and the cops tell them, "you have a right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you," they mean it literally.
Time to setup our own encrypted wi-fi/radio/microwave/personal satellite based communication networks. Bypass the wired choke points and go above everyone's heads. Although they can intercept radio waves, encryption could protect the message in the transmission. Where are Amateur Radio operators when you need them?;-)
Minding their P's and Q's - it's currently illegal to use encryption on amateur bands. There is a petition filed with the FCC to reverse that rule, but as far as I've seen no action has been taken in that regard.
The researchers believe that the experiments indicate a promising future for robots in behavioral studies.
The lesson here is clear: simply inebriate (or medicate) the populace and our nature aversion to robots that are too lifelike becomes a thing of the past. Voila; "uncanny valley" problem solved!:p
Road Trips suck. That is why we have other methods of travel.
Matter of opinion - I love 'em. Great way to see a lot of the neat shit we have in this country.
If you have so little vacation you might realize why your idea is not practical.
Practical enough for me - I plan shit. Like taking vacation over a holiday weekend, so I can turn 3 days into 5 or 6 without burning my whole time-off wad. YMMV, of course.
I have family on other continents, so I can't just say I am not going.
Sure you can - nobody's got a gun to your head (at least, I hope they don't, and if they did I can't imagine why you would want to visit them). What you probably mean here is that you won't say you are not going, because the priority of seeing your family in a timely, convenient manner trumps any desire to protest against being treated like chattels. That's your decision to make, and though I disagree with the rationale I understand that we all don't share identical priorities.
How would we protest such a thing in meaningful way? I am not opposed to the idea, I just don't think the two of us yelling about it would be much use.
I gave a couple ideas, didn't I? 1) don't fly. 2) If you have to fly intercontinentally, plan ahead and do it from another country. Or maybe consider booking shipboard passage, if such a thing still exists.
That's what burns my ass when older people (not necessarily you) brag about how they went to college and paid it off with a minimum wage job back in the 1960's, when you could pay for a year's tuition with 3 week's pay; meanwhile accusing today's generation of being bad with money for not being able to do the same, even though these days it would be damn near impossible to pay for a semester's worth of education on 6 months pay at minimum wage.
When I was a lad, and went to college, I lived in a van, down by the river!!!
Aah, much better.
Man, how I miss that fat-ass cokehead's comic stylings.
May have been a few years later - 40 was a long time ago for me....
... which was likely a very, very different economy than it is today, depending on how long "a long time ago" really was.
That's what burns my ass when older people (not necessarily you) brag about how they went to college and paid it off with a minimum wage job back in the 1960's, when you could pay for a year's tuition with 3 week's pay; meanwhile accusing today's generation of being bad with money for not being able to do the same, even though these days it would be damn near impossible to pay for a semester's worth of education on 6 months pay at minimum wage.
Again, not saying that's what you've done here, but your post gave me the opportunity to bitch.
So you consider adding 3 days to a trip to be feasible?
If you actually plan the shit, yea. Think of it as a bonus roadtrip.
I am going to guess you get way more vacation than the average american.
Less, probably. In fact, I receive so little vacation time that I've taken a total of one 4-day trip in the last 3 years.
Thing is, I'm one of those (apparently) rare souls who flat-out refuses to compromise his morals for, well, pretty much anything. Fuck convenience, fuck cooperation - I've got a right to be who I am and live the way I want (so long as I don't infringe on anyone else's right to do the same, naturally), and by Odin's beard, I'm a-gonna. If that means I don't vacation or travel as much as others, so be it. I sleep easy knowing that I haven't given up anything important to me just for the sake of convenience.
A large enough group doing it would simply result it becoming illegal. I once made the mistake of telling the American border guard I had done that when returning from a flight back into Toronto. That resulted in a huge wasted of time and lots of accusations that I was up to no good since I prefered to avoid his coworkers. Now I just tell them I was on vacation and omit that the vacation included travel outside of Canada.
Yea, and doesn't that piss you off? It should. Like, to the point that you, I, and as many other people as we can muster work together to protest such an egregious violation of our rights.
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My congressional rep is a pretty far right "We gotta stop the terr'rists" type.
The Bill-of-rights-defending Tea Party may be staunchly law-and-order but they are even more staunchly individual-rights and (except for abortion, gay sex, and maybe drug use) they are strongly in favor of individual rights and privacy, especially rights like "peaceably assemble" and the right to communicate without being snooped on wholesale.
Considering that a LOT of the "tea party" candidates (the one from my area included) voted against defunding the NSA, I'm gonna have to call BS on that statement.
It's all done for the sake of the children.
... and/or 'protecting 'Merica.'
No, Goldman Sachs will not curb the excesses of the NSA. They have already found a way to profit from the excesses of the NSA.
FTFY.
As Cardinal Richelieu allegedly said,
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
You can tell your relation that the main flaw in her thinking is that she presumes herself 100% legal.
... and to preemptively cover the inevitable response of, "dur dur dur, never done anything wrong, dur dur dur," wrong and illegal are not necessarily confluent; sometimes you can do everything right and still be guilty of breaking some law.
That isn't actually a reason, though. It just says 'some other people a long time ago also thought they shouldn't'. It just asks the question 'why should the US constitution say that?'.
If anyone ever actually asks you that, start going through their pockets without asking; I'm betting they'll figure out the "why" pretty damn quick.
This is why:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Long story short? Unless the government has demonstrable cause to read/know the full text of "everything", it's none of their fucking business.
Government's trump card: National Security Letter
The People's trump card: Constitutional Supremacy Clause
The Government declared the Constitution of the United States of America as a "worthless piece of paper".
Considering that "worthless piece of paper" is the only document that actually authorized a federal government, I'd say that's a really bad idea on their part.
You should never, ever talk to police.
EVER.
FYI, when someone's being arrested and the cops tell them, "you have a right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you ," they mean it literally.
Time to setup our own encrypted wi-fi/radio/microwave/personal satellite based communication networks. Bypass the wired choke points and go above everyone's heads. Although they can intercept radio waves, encryption could protect the message in the transmission. Where are Amateur Radio operators when you need them? ;-)
Minding their P's and Q's - it's currently illegal to use encryption on amateur bands. There is a petition filed with the FCC to reverse that rule, but as far as I've seen no action has been taken in that regard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_noun
Learn the difference, numbnuts.
For those who don't get the reference (which I was immediately pulling up as soon as I saw the topic title; sorry for the low quality):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezEMnzmDYZU
Good ol' Ted, taken from us far, far too soon...
"This tastes... familiar..."
The researchers believe that the experiments indicate a promising future for robots in behavioral studies.
The lesson here is clear: simply inebriate (or medicate) the populace and our nature aversion to robots that are too lifelike becomes a thing of the past. Voila; "uncanny valley" problem solved! :p
Hey, it works for fat chicks...
Zebrafish to robot leaf fish: "Shoo ain't sho tuff! C'mon, come get yershelf shome of thish! Aahl kik yer ash, er, tail!"
Seriously, how is "booze lowers inhibition" newsworthy? The fact that it's as true for fish as it is for mammals?
sleeping like koalas
The aquatic version of a dirt-nap?
a wetnap?
Road Trips suck. That is why we have other methods of travel.
Matter of opinion - I love 'em. Great way to see a lot of the neat shit we have in this country.
If you have so little vacation you might realize why your idea is not practical.
Practical enough for me - I plan shit. Like taking vacation over a holiday weekend, so I can turn 3 days into 5 or 6 without burning my whole time-off wad. YMMV, of course.
I have family on other continents, so I can't just say I am not going.
Sure you can - nobody's got a gun to your head (at least, I hope they don't, and if they did I can't imagine why you would want to visit them). What you probably mean here is that you won't say you are not going, because the priority of seeing your family in a timely, convenient manner trumps any desire to protest against being treated like chattels. That's your decision to make, and though I disagree with the rationale I understand that we all don't share identical priorities.
How would we protest such a thing in meaningful way? I am not opposed to the idea, I just don't think the two of us yelling about it would be much use.
I gave a couple ideas, didn't I? 1) don't fly. 2) If you have to fly intercontinentally, plan ahead and do it from another country. Or maybe consider booking shipboard passage, if such a thing still exists.
You could also make an ass of yourself in the security line, but personally I wouldn't recommend it.
How about you? I'm open to suggestions here, let's get the ball a-rollin!
That's what burns my ass when older people (not necessarily you) brag about how they went to college and paid it off with a minimum wage job back in the 1960's, when you could pay for a year's tuition with 3 week's pay; meanwhile accusing today's generation of being bad with money for not being able to do the same, even though these days it would be damn near impossible to pay for a semester's worth of education on 6 months pay at minimum wage.
When I was a lad, and went to college, I lived in a van, down by the river!!!
Aah, much better.
Man, how I miss that fat-ass cokehead's comic stylings.
Who's to say it's a guy?
... now I'm frightened...
Hey, good for you, buddy.
Way to do things right and not be a dick about it. World needs more people like that.
May have been a few years later - 40 was a long time ago for me....
... which was likely a very, very different economy than it is today, depending on how long "a long time ago" really was.
That's what burns my ass when older people (not necessarily you) brag about how they went to college and paid it off with a minimum wage job back in the 1960's, when you could pay for a year's tuition with 3 week's pay; meanwhile accusing today's generation of being bad with money for not being able to do the same, even though these days it would be damn near impossible to pay for a semester's worth of education on 6 months pay at minimum wage.
Again, not saying that's what you've done here, but your post gave me the opportunity to bitch.
Sure, but question 2 was secondary. Technically, I am more interested in an answer to question 1.
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=multi+core+music+production
Have fun.
Clear your cookies?
That plus changing user agent is how I get past the view limitation on Gannett-owned sites.
Electric razors give me a rash. I can only shave every two days as it is.
Man, what's it say about me when I shave less often than a guy who goes by the handle "Beardo the Bearded?"
LOL, "Cloudy with a 50% chance of homicide" sounds like it would be a great album title for the non-existent death metal group, The Whethermen
So you consider adding 3 days to a trip to be feasible?
If you actually plan the shit, yea. Think of it as a bonus roadtrip.
I am going to guess you get way more vacation than the average american.
Less, probably. In fact, I receive so little vacation time that I've taken a total of one 4-day trip in the last 3 years.
Thing is, I'm one of those (apparently) rare souls who flat-out refuses to compromise his morals for, well, pretty much anything. Fuck convenience, fuck cooperation - I've got a right to be who I am and live the way I want (so long as I don't infringe on anyone else's right to do the same, naturally), and by Odin's beard, I'm a-gonna. If that means I don't vacation or travel as much as others, so be it. I sleep easy knowing that I haven't given up anything important to me just for the sake of convenience.
A large enough group doing it would simply result it becoming illegal. I once made the mistake of telling the American border guard I had done that when returning from a flight back into Toronto. That resulted in a huge wasted of time and lots of accusations that I was up to no good since I prefered to avoid his coworkers. Now I just tell them I was on vacation and omit that the vacation included travel outside of Canada.
Yea, and doesn't that piss you off? It should. Like, to the point that you, I, and as many other people as we can muster work together to protest such an egregious violation of our rights.
Jawohl!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anvil_firing
A surprisingly popular hobby here in the midwest.