The OCSE is not the UN nor has any ties to the UN. It is an inter-governmental organization like NATO. The UN bogeyman isn't everywhere and out to get you despite what you believe.
For the federal govt. to enter in an agreement that defines any procured or policy not dictated by the Constitution is effectively void and cannot be enforced.
Well, you know, except for that obscure, little Supremacy clause, right?
Yes, his state's laws mean jack and shit in comparison to agreement made by the US with the OCSE. It's this thing called the "Supremacy Clause". Abbott is waving his dick around to grandstand and nothing more.
International agreements and treaties trump state law. It's this little thing called the Supremacy Clause:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
So if Abbott really cared about voter intimidation why didn't he come out and warn the Tea Party when they announced they would be sending observers to polling places? Yep, that's because this is just political grandstanding.
That must mean the state and local governments are rotten through and through. And that sounds about right.
Yep, history of the US basically confirms it. The 19th and early 20th century was riddled with political machines who dominated municipal, city and state governments. Anyone who claims that local governments are more responsive to local needs has their heads up their asses. They are just as bought and paid for by corporate and other special interests even to this day.
At the same time with them gone the federal tax rate could probably be lowered since they are the biggest welfare queens when it comes to Federal funds from tax money.
Of course it's a feature since only an idiot wouldn't know that your phone is an active radio transmitter. Also, if you couldn't be tracked how exactly would you expect the cell network to know which towers to hand you off to while you were moving?
Which some people are perfectly fine with. Isn't it better that these companies use mature, well-debugged BSD code rather than rolling their own shit that is usually many times worse because they were going to avoid the GPL anyway?
Because the movie and music industries are controlled by huge multinational megacorps. Sure the individual music or movie divisions themselves might be smaller relatively but the parent corps of Disney, Vivendi, Viacom, Sony, News Corp, Time Warner and Comcast have enormous of amount of money and power at their disposal. Anyone of which completely eclipses the revenue and employee count of even the largest video game companies like Activision/Blizzard, EA, etc. The video game companies are peanuts compared to any of those huge media conglomerates.
Yep. The right-wing routinely implements policies that make the government less able to do its job properly and then at the same time whines about how inefficient the government is. The saddest part is all the people who eat this shit up not realizing that they are being played.
Which is great and all but doesn't address what I said. You can not fly everywhere. Driving is still required. Also, flying to the city that is 30 minutes away that I can just drive to on I-35 would be both extremely expensive and a huge waste of fuel.
Good for them? How does that have any relevance to the fact that the "Bridge to Nowhere" was popular among Alaskan citizens which is why Palin was a major supporter until she rewrote history when running for VP 2 years later? Oh right, you probably thought incorrectly that I was an Obama supporter or had to interject an inane "but the other side is just as bad!!!" comment.
Why is this stupid comment modded as "interesting"? Pretty much every country on earth has airplanes. Secondly, it is not practical or possible to fly to all destinations. Many trips would still require driving to the final destination after flying.
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Except that the "permitted by law" part isn't referring to what you think it is. It is in reference to the laws of the national government.
The OCSE is not the UN nor has any ties to the UN. It is an inter-governmental organization like NATO. The UN bogeyman isn't everywhere and out to get you despite what you believe.
But that would require this guy to actually understand the difference. Trailer park rednecks aren't that smart.
For the federal govt. to enter in an agreement that defines any procured or policy not dictated by the Constitution is effectively void and cannot be enforced.
Well, you know, except for that obscure, little Supremacy clause, right?
So you've made sure to complain about the US observers who loiter around polls in international elections, right? Right?
Yes, his state's laws mean jack and shit in comparison to agreement made by the US with the OCSE. It's this thing called the "Supremacy Clause". Abbott is waving his dick around to grandstand and nothing more.
International agreements and treaties trump state law. It's this little thing called the Supremacy Clause:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
Maybe re-read your Constitution?
So if Abbott really cared about voter intimidation why didn't he come out and warn the Tea Party when they announced they would be sending observers to polling places? Yep, that's because this is just political grandstanding.
That must mean the state and local governments are rotten through and through. And that sounds about right.
Yep, history of the US basically confirms it. The 19th and early 20th century was riddled with political machines who dominated municipal, city and state governments. Anyone who claims that local governments are more responsive to local needs has their heads up their asses. They are just as bought and paid for by corporate and other special interests even to this day.
At the same time with them gone the federal tax rate could probably be lowered since they are the biggest welfare queens when it comes to Federal funds from tax money.
Sure they did:
How were they caught? NetFlix failed to remove references to the pirate site in the subtitles.
No. Google is actually pretty silent about this unlike Mozilla trumpeting every version number inflation.
Why? They can just ask for the far more precise location data straight from the telecoms who are more than willing to give it up.
Of course it's a feature since only an idiot wouldn't know that your phone is an active radio transmitter. Also, if you couldn't be tracked how exactly would you expect the cell network to know which towers to hand you off to while you were moving?
Which some people are perfectly fine with. Isn't it better that these companies use mature, well-debugged BSD code rather than rolling their own shit that is usually many times worse because they were going to avoid the GPL anyway?
Or the 100s of millions of electronics that get shipped each year by boat from China and Taiwan? Yeah, there isn't anything all that tough about this.
Not to mention that these same media companies have their hands deep in advertising as well.
Because the movie and music industries are controlled by huge multinational megacorps. Sure the individual music or movie divisions themselves might be smaller relatively but the parent corps of Disney, Vivendi, Viacom, Sony, News Corp, Time Warner and Comcast have enormous of amount of money and power at their disposal. Anyone of which completely eclipses the revenue and employee count of even the largest video game companies like Activision/Blizzard, EA, etc. The video game companies are peanuts compared to any of those huge media conglomerates.
Brilliant libertard parody.
In comparison to the imaginary jailbreaks for the Paperwhite?
Yep. The right-wing routinely implements policies that make the government less able to do its job properly and then at the same time whines about how inefficient the government is. The saddest part is all the people who eat this shit up not realizing that they are being played.
Which is great and all but doesn't address what I said. You can not fly everywhere. Driving is still required. Also, flying to the city that is 30 minutes away that I can just drive to on I-35 would be both extremely expensive and a huge waste of fuel.
Good for them? How does that have any relevance to the fact that the "Bridge to Nowhere" was popular among Alaskan citizens which is why Palin was a major supporter until she rewrote history when running for VP 2 years later? Oh right, you probably thought incorrectly that I was an Obama supporter or had to interject an inane "but the other side is just as bad!!!" comment.
Why is this stupid comment modded as "interesting"? Pretty much every country on earth has airplanes. Secondly, it is not practical or possible to fly to all destinations. Many trips would still require driving to the final destination after flying.
Since when did South Korea, China/Hong Kong, Japan, etc stop being part of Southeast Asia? Methinks you need to relearn your geography.