No, it is ELITIST bullshit that they are spewing. Making blanket judgements based on what someone like Ezekiel Emanuel told them to say. It doesn't matter if it is true or not, they believe it, because they were told by someone who knows better than anyone else. And it is "better" depending on who you ask, just don't ask the patient, doctor, health insurance company or anyone immediately involved in your health care (lack of) choices. It IS better for the DNC as it provides a nice new entitlement to ensnare unsuspecting weak individuals into a lifelong servitude of voting for the candidates the Party Dictates they vote for.
If people are willingly and intentionally running red lights, because of some sort of need to "beat the system" or whatever lame excuse, they need to be hit with a steep fine (one month cop salary) AND 40 hours community service. Make it painful to be in a hurry.
The above solution is enough to make it safer, idiots ignoring the rules of the road need to be caught, because they are the ones that are causing the problems. I have no sympathy for people's willful arrogance in situations like this.
DRM doesn't prevent anything in the long run. Eventually, people figure out instead of having to load a broken DRM version, you can go and Bittorrent a cracked version that isn't annoying. From the days of "Page 3, fourth paragraph, third word" (scanned manual) to the current versions, it has NEVER worked.
I understand, your point is it keeps the honest people honest. However, that is not the purpose of most DRM. If it were, then DRM would assume criminals would be criminals, but most DRM doesn't assume that at all.
The wiggle room I'll give the NSA and other "Security" Agencies is enough to make the noose around their neck comfortable, but not enough to take it off completely. What the NSA has done, is created enough wiggle room to take the noose off their necks, and put it on everyone else's necks.
They say they "only" collect Metadata, well isn't that fine and dandy! I'm in the industry, and given enough metadata, you can reconstruct the data you need, and often better detail than it was before. And in the case of Databases, metadata IS the valuable bits needed to form the surveillance state. Since the data being monitored and collected can easily be tied back to a person / group, you've done nothing except remove the data only one step away from being a breach of the 4th Amendment, and nothing else. The same intrusion happens, and you're not fooling anyone, except those that parse words very carefully. Like Clapper's famous "non-lie".
I would disagree with you, vehemently. The idea of natural rights is founded in our Declaration of Independence, enumerated in the clause:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
Taking the foundation of our country, the right to establish a governance, and everything else that was listed in that Declaration, and saying that our Constitution doesn't have "natural right", is completely why they included the First Ten Amendments. If the law said we didn't have the right to free speech, and you're supporting ONLY the "law" (as your position indicates) then you have no "free speech" and it isn't a right.
It is people like you scare the crap out of people like me, because you think rights are allowed and/or established by law, rather than exist above and apart from the law. The moment you talk about "legality" when speaking to rights, you've lost me.
The first ten Amendments enumerate natural rights, and were inserted because of concerns of people like you.
I guess you missed the part where 6 Million Americans have lost their coverage due to ObamaCare already, and of the few that actually tried to enroll during the first two months, NONE of them are guaranteed coverage, simply because the website didn't function at all. Imagine, NOT ONE CUSTOMER is guaranteed coverage they think they bought.
Yeah, it is worse than two wars on Americans. Two wars had little effect on everyday life in America. Losing Health Care Coverage is a big deal to a lot of people. Sorry your bigotry against Americans is blinding you.
Given enough "meta data" you can actually construct a reasonable facsimile of what the data actually is. In some cases, it is more valuable than the data itself.
It isn't that they use the same "phrases" it is that the "source" of national news is boiled down to two or three News Agencies at best, and they are all reading from the same "script". The lefties don't like Faux news because they don't follow the script as much as they others. The righties don't like the others because they are patsies for the left.
And for all those that make fun of Faux, I have yet to see anyone make fun of the much more ridiculous MSNBC talking heads.
And to both, I say, get your news raw and unfiltered. Then you won't be fooled by the MSM attempts at propogandizing the news. And for a good example, during the DC Boat Yard shooting, there was more than one attempt to pin "Assault Rifles" on the shooter as the event was unfolding. Unfortunately, for the left wing agenda, there were no rifles used at all. In short, all news media is biased, some are just more open about where their bias is.
The thing about "Constitutional Rights", especially the first 10, is that they were including as "natural rights", because assumption of rights by government never happens. The first Amendment isn't a constitutional right, it is a natural right to speak your mind without government interference. It isn't constitutional, it just enumerated for clarity and so that government cannot ever say it isn't a right. Same with the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th. These are rights, not granted by government, but are supposed to be guaranteed by government. IT is the duty of government agents to DEFEND these rights, not usurp them.
The moment a agent of government stop defending these rights, and starts infringing upon them, is the moment they have become a traitor and treasonous.
If you mine gold. You don't pay taxes on it until you convert it to currency. There is no way the Government knows how much you have, unless you tell them.
Which has already proven to be less harmful to the USA than when the DNC rammed Obamacare (is that "racist") through, without even reading it ("must vote for it, to see what is in it"). So far, Oregon spend 300 million to enroll 44 people, good FUCKING use of tax dollars.
And, just to remind you, Hillary, and Company supported the wars. And saying she didn't know GWB was lying, that is just remember, her Husband was President and knew all about Saddam and OBL, so she SHOULD have known. But then again "What difference does it make!!!!!"
I'm sorry, you see a difference between Socialism and socialism slow? Because I don't. The two parties are more closely aligned than either of them admit. To the point where I can't tell the difference sometimes. GWB was worse than BHO, except on the things BHO is worse on, than GWB. In both cases, we haven't stopped the "worse" of either, and haven't held on to the "good" side of either.
The only difference is the rate we progress towards tyranny.
The People are the Militia, this is already established. This was the Minutemen view, average people to be "ready at a minute's notice". This requires regulation (order, not codes of laws). When read with this understanding, it is almost an imperative of the people to be armed, and ready to revolt against tyranny, at a moment's notice. The state no longer fears the populace, because the populace has become dependent upon the state. We already have the most of the necessary ingredients for tyranny in place. The last bit is taking away the rest of the arms the people have. AND you have the people (a large number) clamoring for "Assault Weapons Ban", "Hand gun ban" at every tragedy.
Thus, the old quote "They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Tyranny, creeps and sneaks upon us and before we know it, we've voted in a tyrant who will not cede power ever. The left feared tyranny under GWB, and the right fears it under BHO, the problem is, both are only partially correct. They miss the point, the ingredients already exist. They hate the other guy's tyrant, but do not rightfully fear their own.
Well that is because the Nanny State and professional babysitters promises them a warm bottle, a blankie and a cuddle in return for votes.
No, this is NOT a troll, this is exactly what happens when people figure out they can get stuff for "free" if they vote correctly. Conditioned response. Pavlov's Dogs etc etc etc.
No, this has to do with extending "establishment" clause beyond logic. Ten Commandments are part of at least three major religions, so which one are we establishing? If it is about ANY deity, then my rant applies equally. If it is just against the Judeo/Christian/Muslim dieties then these people are intolerant ass wipes.
The funny thing is, many, perhaps most, of my Atheist friends do this thing called "Santa Claus" and "Tooth Fairy" for their kids. They would be better off making Festivus poles and airing their grievances.
Actually, this is a clever sort of attack. It is the one where every public email address of the goverment becomes a spam bucket of inane email conversations, such that if you include them in the BCC field for every email you send, it overwhelms these in boxes with more stuff than they can troll through, making it completely useless.
The problem is that our current bureaucracy is such that it inherently protects the ruling elected class from accusations of tyranny, while providing the services needed to be a tyranny. This is why the players change from Republican Tyrants to Democrat Tyrants, giving the illusion accountability. There is no accountability. The whole IRS, Benghazi, ObamaCare, Patriot Act etc etc etc going back to Nixon proves this. Nixon was held accountable, because he went beyond the Bureaucracy's protection.
The only fix I can see is that we need to get rid of the career Bureaucrats, which is, of course, impossible. We're screwed.
There is still yet another reason to trust OpenSource code, risk of being exposed. If you're the NSA, and you're inserting illicit code into Open Source, then you're at a very high risk of being exposed as a mole. This risk, being a known mole is too high for a "real" spy. If I were a spy agency, I wouldn't risk any assets for such a short term gain. Once exposed, a mole will have no trustworthiness AND all associations would likely become suspect. Basically, you're risking the whole operation on the assumption nobody is looking for you and therefore you won't be discovered.
Further, if I was the NSA, I would be looking at the raw code, looking for backdoors inserted by other agencies (Russian, Chinese, Israeli, Canadians), and I would assume that these other countries would be doing the exact same thing.
Combined with the above, these two assumptions (risk of exposure, looking for compromises) is sufficient to take the approach that the code is not likely compromised on purpose. This is not to say, that there are no risks, just that they aren't likely to be intentional.
Great, I expect you to work seven days a week, 365 days a year. The whole idea of a "weekend' is due to that "sabbath" rule. Same for holidays, I expect you to work, without overtime/double time. In fact, i suggest you protest against the whole idea of "holy days" since... that is religious.
And while you're at it, protest the names of the days of the week. Because obviously the naming of the days of the week is causing you to worship Norse Gods, and Month names cause you to worship Grecko/Roman gods. Further, I also expect you to protest many of the products you buy since they are also named after deities (Nike, Mercury...). And you better stay out of all the cities named after saints... and lest we also forget Corpus Christi Texas.
No, the protests by Atheists has nothing to do with anything logical, just their fear of the imaginary sky-men... except when it doesn't.
All Taxes are regressive. ALWAYS. Liberals always talk about "equity" of taxes, but they never realize that taxes themselves are regressive. The rich can always avoid taxes via their wealth. The poor can never avoid taxes. Targeting the rich at their wealth, does nothing but hurt those that it is designed to help.
If you want to punish the successful, reward failure, you're going to have a really backwards country. And since you are a liberal, I doubt you'll ever understand this simple little truth.
You want successful tax policy, tax things society doesn't want, like cigarettes. Tax the use of things like gas and use that to build public transportation, if that is what you want. But what you'll find is eventually those taxes diminishing as people quit the activities you're taxing.
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Well, there is always Dire Straits "Money for nothing" which seems appropriate here.
No, it is ELITIST bullshit that they are spewing. Making blanket judgements based on what someone like Ezekiel Emanuel told them to say. It doesn't matter if it is true or not, they believe it, because they were told by someone who knows better than anyone else. And it is "better" depending on who you ask, just don't ask the patient, doctor, health insurance company or anyone immediately involved in your health care (lack of) choices. It IS better for the DNC as it provides a nice new entitlement to ensnare unsuspecting weak individuals into a lifelong servitude of voting for the candidates the Party Dictates they vote for.
Welcome to Soviet Amerika!
If people are willingly and intentionally running red lights, because of some sort of need to "beat the system" or whatever lame excuse, they need to be hit with a steep fine (one month cop salary) AND 40 hours community service. Make it painful to be in a hurry.
The above solution is enough to make it safer, idiots ignoring the rules of the road need to be caught, because they are the ones that are causing the problems. I have no sympathy for people's willful arrogance in situations like this.
DRM doesn't prevent anything in the long run. Eventually, people figure out instead of having to load a broken DRM version, you can go and Bittorrent a cracked version that isn't annoying. From the days of "Page 3, fourth paragraph, third word" (scanned manual) to the current versions, it has NEVER worked.
I understand, your point is it keeps the honest people honest. However, that is not the purpose of most DRM. If it were, then DRM would assume criminals would be criminals, but most DRM doesn't assume that at all.
The wiggle room I'll give the NSA and other "Security" Agencies is enough to make the noose around their neck comfortable, but not enough to take it off completely. What the NSA has done, is created enough wiggle room to take the noose off their necks, and put it on everyone else's necks.
They say they "only" collect Metadata, well isn't that fine and dandy! I'm in the industry, and given enough metadata, you can reconstruct the data you need, and often better detail than it was before. And in the case of Databases, metadata IS the valuable bits needed to form the surveillance state. Since the data being monitored and collected can easily be tied back to a person / group, you've done nothing except remove the data only one step away from being a breach of the 4th Amendment, and nothing else. The same intrusion happens, and you're not fooling anyone, except those that parse words very carefully. Like Clapper's famous "non-lie".
I would disagree with you, vehemently. The idea of natural rights is founded in our Declaration of Independence, enumerated in the clause:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
Taking the foundation of our country, the right to establish a governance, and everything else that was listed in that Declaration, and saying that our Constitution doesn't have "natural right", is completely why they included the First Ten Amendments. If the law said we didn't have the right to free speech, and you're supporting ONLY the "law" (as your position indicates) then you have no "free speech" and it isn't a right.
It is people like you scare the crap out of people like me, because you think rights are allowed and/or established by law, rather than exist above and apart from the law. The moment you talk about "legality" when speaking to rights, you've lost me.
The first ten Amendments enumerate natural rights, and were inserted because of concerns of people like you.
I guess you missed the part where 6 Million Americans have lost their coverage due to ObamaCare already, and of the few that actually tried to enroll during the first two months, NONE of them are guaranteed coverage, simply because the website didn't function at all. Imagine, NOT ONE CUSTOMER is guaranteed coverage they think they bought.
Yeah, it is worse than two wars on Americans. Two wars had little effect on everyday life in America. Losing Health Care Coverage is a big deal to a lot of people. Sorry your bigotry against Americans is blinding you.
Given enough "meta data" you can actually construct a reasonable facsimile of what the data actually is. In some cases, it is more valuable than the data itself.
It isn't that they use the same "phrases" it is that the "source" of national news is boiled down to two or three News Agencies at best, and they are all reading from the same "script". The lefties don't like Faux news because they don't follow the script as much as they others. The righties don't like the others because they are patsies for the left.
And for all those that make fun of Faux, I have yet to see anyone make fun of the much more ridiculous MSNBC talking heads.
And to both, I say, get your news raw and unfiltered. Then you won't be fooled by the MSM attempts at propogandizing the news. And for a good example, during the DC Boat Yard shooting, there was more than one attempt to pin "Assault Rifles" on the shooter as the event was unfolding. Unfortunately, for the left wing agenda, there were no rifles used at all. In short, all news media is biased, some are just more open about where their bias is.
The thing about "Constitutional Rights", especially the first 10, is that they were including as "natural rights", because assumption of rights by government never happens. The first Amendment isn't a constitutional right, it is a natural right to speak your mind without government interference. It isn't constitutional, it just enumerated for clarity and so that government cannot ever say it isn't a right. Same with the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th. These are rights, not granted by government, but are supposed to be guaranteed by government. IT is the duty of government agents to DEFEND these rights, not usurp them.
The moment a agent of government stop defending these rights, and starts infringing upon them, is the moment they have become a traitor and treasonous.
So, you still believe that McVey blew up OK City Building? Cute!
If you mine gold. You don't pay taxes on it until you convert it to currency. There is no way the Government knows how much you have, unless you tell them.
Oh, and ALL taxes are regressive!
The reason many policies were cancelled is because they were so bad they didn't pass the minimum requirements for policies under the new law
Elitist bullshit. I am so glad you can speak for everyone else, about every policy that was ever canceled.
Which has already proven to be less harmful to the USA than when the DNC rammed Obamacare (is that "racist") through, without even reading it ("must vote for it, to see what is in it"). So far, Oregon spend 300 million to enroll 44 people, good FUCKING use of tax dollars.
And, just to remind you, Hillary, and Company supported the wars. And saying she didn't know GWB was lying, that is just remember, her Husband was President and knew all about Saddam and OBL, so she SHOULD have known. But then again "What difference does it make!!!!!"
I'm sorry, you see a difference between Socialism and socialism slow? Because I don't. The two parties are more closely aligned than either of them admit. To the point where I can't tell the difference sometimes. GWB was worse than BHO, except on the things BHO is worse on, than GWB. In both cases, we haven't stopped the "worse" of either, and haven't held on to the "good" side of either.
The only difference is the rate we progress towards tyranny.
Tim McVeigh was a patsy.
The People are the Militia, this is already established. This was the Minutemen view, average people to be "ready at a minute's notice". This requires regulation (order, not codes of laws). When read with this understanding, it is almost an imperative of the people to be armed, and ready to revolt against tyranny, at a moment's notice. The state no longer fears the populace, because the populace has become dependent upon the state. We already have the most of the necessary ingredients for tyranny in place. The last bit is taking away the rest of the arms the people have. AND you have the people (a large number) clamoring for "Assault Weapons Ban", "Hand gun ban" at every tragedy.
Thus, the old quote "They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Tyranny, creeps and sneaks upon us and before we know it, we've voted in a tyrant who will not cede power ever. The left feared tyranny under GWB, and the right fears it under BHO, the problem is, both are only partially correct. They miss the point, the ingredients already exist. They hate the other guy's tyrant, but do not rightfully fear their own.
Well that is because the Nanny State and professional babysitters promises them a warm bottle, a blankie and a cuddle in return for votes.
No, this is NOT a troll, this is exactly what happens when people figure out they can get stuff for "free" if they vote correctly. Conditioned response. Pavlov's Dogs etc etc etc.
No, this has to do with extending "establishment" clause beyond logic. Ten Commandments are part of at least three major religions, so which one are we establishing? If it is about ANY deity, then my rant applies equally. If it is just against the Judeo/Christian/Muslim dieties then these people are intolerant ass wipes.
The funny thing is, many, perhaps most, of my Atheist friends do this thing called "Santa Claus" and "Tooth Fairy" for their kids. They would be better off making Festivus poles and airing their grievances.
Actually, this is a clever sort of attack. It is the one where every public email address of the goverment becomes a spam bucket of inane email conversations, such that if you include them in the BCC field for every email you send, it overwhelms these in boxes with more stuff than they can troll through, making it completely useless.
We are already ruled by tyrants, they are the Bureaucracy. Try to fire them and see how tyranny works.
The problem is that our current bureaucracy is such that it inherently protects the ruling elected class from accusations of tyranny, while providing the services needed to be a tyranny. This is why the players change from Republican Tyrants to Democrat Tyrants, giving the illusion accountability. There is no accountability. The whole IRS, Benghazi, ObamaCare, Patriot Act etc etc etc going back to Nixon proves this. Nixon was held accountable, because he went beyond the Bureaucracy's protection.
The only fix I can see is that we need to get rid of the career Bureaucrats, which is, of course, impossible. We're screwed.
There is still yet another reason to trust OpenSource code, risk of being exposed. If you're the NSA, and you're inserting illicit code into Open Source, then you're at a very high risk of being exposed as a mole. This risk, being a known mole is too high for a "real" spy. If I were a spy agency, I wouldn't risk any assets for such a short term gain. Once exposed, a mole will have no trustworthiness AND all associations would likely become suspect. Basically, you're risking the whole operation on the assumption nobody is looking for you and therefore you won't be discovered.
Further, if I was the NSA, I would be looking at the raw code, looking for backdoors inserted by other agencies (Russian, Chinese, Israeli, Canadians), and I would assume that these other countries would be doing the exact same thing.
Combined with the above, these two assumptions (risk of exposure, looking for compromises) is sufficient to take the approach that the code is not likely compromised on purpose. This is not to say, that there are no risks, just that they aren't likely to be intentional.
Great, I expect you to work seven days a week, 365 days a year. The whole idea of a "weekend' is due to that "sabbath" rule. Same for holidays, I expect you to work, without overtime/double time. In fact, i suggest you protest against the whole idea of "holy days" since ... that is religious.
And while you're at it, protest the names of the days of the week. Because obviously the naming of the days of the week is causing you to worship Norse Gods, and Month names cause you to worship Grecko/Roman gods. Further, I also expect you to protest many of the products you buy since they are also named after deities (Nike, Mercury ...). And you better stay out of all the cities named after saints ... and lest we also forget Corpus Christi Texas.
No, the protests by Atheists has nothing to do with anything logical, just their fear of the imaginary sky-men ... except when it doesn't.
All Taxes are regressive. ALWAYS. Liberals always talk about "equity" of taxes, but they never realize that taxes themselves are regressive. The rich can always avoid taxes via their wealth. The poor can never avoid taxes. Targeting the rich at their wealth, does nothing but hurt those that it is designed to help.
If you want to punish the successful, reward failure, you're going to have a really backwards country. And since you are a liberal, I doubt you'll ever understand this simple little truth.
You want successful tax policy, tax things society doesn't want, like cigarettes. Tax the use of things like gas and use that to build public transportation, if that is what you want. But what you'll find is eventually those taxes diminishing as people quit the activities you're taxing.