Jesus you people are silly. The easiest and most cost effective method for implementing this is to have the odometer read and input into the same database your tag information goes into. When you renew your tag every year, your odometer is read and you owe n $$$. This is not the greatest idea to come out of the administration so far. They would already garner tax dollars from the tax on electricity, which your usage will increase due to using an electric vehicle. I would much rather you take that $200,000,000 along with the supremacy clause and kick my local mass transit corp in the teeth as well as the local counties so that we can move around Atlanta with something resembling dependable mass transit that actually covers the sprawling 30ish counties of the metro area.
you don't have to be convicted to have something like this totally fuck your life. RE: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/arizona-couple-suing-bathtime-photos-prompt-wal-mart/story?id=8624533
The case was tossed out, however, their 3 young children were taken away for a month, they were registered as sex offenders, they spent well over $75,000, the wife was suspended from her job for a year, and then you have the added mental repercussions. Didn't you actually read the article a few days ago about the FBI spending 41% of it's manpower on child porn?
and again, it's not a matter of congress changing a law, as the preceding decision would still be binding.
The Republicrats spend billions to convince people that there can be only two. I can't compete with that, even if I'm right. It's actually cheaper and easier to just move to another country to improve my quality of life. If enough instant runoff systems can be instituted on a local scale, then we'd be free of the two-party hold, but even that gets massive push-back from the Republicrats because they know it could lead to 3rd parties as well.
I had the very same thoughts. Leaving and taking up residence elsewhere. However, truthfully, it would just be running away from a problem and not facing it head on as it should be. Yes, the parties have millions and millions of dollars to throw around to fight against additional parties being added to the system, but you have the power of word, you have facebook, you have petitions, you have the ability to work to change the system. That is the defining beauty of the US system. Instant runoffs could definitely help, but only a few places use the system and it needs to become more widespread, but as it does so, it will meet opposition by the parties just as strongly as any movement to add n number of new parties. I despise the party system.
no, you said the decision would be overturned. It would not be. It would still be binding on whatever case the decision was based on. Congress can rewrite the law all they want, but SCOTUS can continually, with near impunity, interpret that law anyway they want to as long as they can provide some form of constitutional justification.
The real solution is a multi-party system. But that would never happen. The entrenched parties agree on nothing, unless you start talking about systems that would hand any power to 3rd parties.
If you want more parties, convince more people to vote other than Democrat/Republican, it's the only way it's going to really happen.
I do not believe a corporation is a person anymore than I believe and car is a person. Neither of which are. However, there is justification (in their minds) for what they have done.
yes, IF the law is changed. Any ruling on a law that predates the modification of that law is then no longer binding IF the ruling pertained to the specific portion of the law that was changed.
Technically speaking, the court's job is to interpret the laws created by congress. Therefor, the interpretation of a law is the law since decisions trickle down from SCOTUS to the lower courts and cannot be overturned by lower courts.
reality IS defined by the words on the paper that SCOTUS says is the law. SCOTUS upholds a shitty law, you violate that law, in reality, you are punished for that violation. In our current reality, corporations are considered people and thereby gain the rights of a person to influence the system as they see fit.
You toss this term "moron" around quite a bit. I think the word you are looking for is actually "ignorant" seeing as how moron tends to denote somone that can't actually help being "stupid or lacking in good judgement". Yes, the US media is well known for bandying around words such as "socialist/socialism" etc and using them incorrectly. And I will agree that it is most definitely so that they can scare the populace into agreeing with them, siding against certain policies or groups or to keep them scratching their heads. The most important thing that I try to make people understand is that, the current news media seen daily in the US is ENTERTAINMENT. It is funded by advertisements, it is meant to keep you watching. Once you begin to see it like you would "Friends" or "House" or "Eureka" it all makes more sense and just becomes another one of those shows you don't watch.
They are working on it. Currently, they have this thing called the constitution that they have to contend with. Give it a few more years, and I can assure you, 1 song will land you a minimum of 1 year and since you will most likely be committing the crime across state/federal borders, it will be a federal crime.
yes, they do. They can do this by "purchasing" services from subsidiaries that lose money, thereby showing a "loss" to the bottom line on both accounts. They also "hide" money via payoffs to unions such as I.A.T.S.E. They also film movies in the 44 or so states that offer massive tax incentives. They film and receive massive tax breaks, then artificially inflate the "cost" of the movie/show so that they can show it as a loss. Additionally, they intentionally film movies and shows that will lose them money and never be published or seen by anyone other than the post-production crews so that they can artificially "decrease" their profit margins to force their company into lower corporate tax brackets.
I've done quite a bit of software work for the film industry in the advertising and administration departments as well as the film unions. These folks toss around money like they just printed it on one of the back lots, and it's just so they can better hide the real profits they make.
rooting a phone so that you can do what you wish with the hardware is NOT the same as allowing an application root access.
something Android fanatics seem curiously unwilling to discuss.
Amazingly you have Android users discussing it with you...I'm an android user. Have I rooted around in my phone? Yes. Are there things on my phone that I dont want? No. Can I wipe my phone clean and install a new OS flavored the way I want it, with only the applications I want and storing only the data I want? Yes.
The whole point of an open source OS being more secure is that, If it for some reason is sending off data I dont want it to, I can MODIFY the OS to stop doing it. On the other hand, you're fucked with your closed source OS's.
umm yes you can. By knowing the distance you are from a set of towers at specific times, I can tell exactly where you are. It's simple triangulation. What most people really don't get is, phones have been doing this for years. Having once been employed by a wireless carrier as a Nokia Certified Technician, I could, at the time, access a phone's tower connection log and see where that person went by reading the distance, time and directional heading of the towers they connected to. The towers themselves track each connection, a directional path and a distance to the phone that is connected. This information is commonly used to judge whether tower pods are being over burdened or resources are being under utilized and thus better used elsewhere. As the years have progressed, this information that was once only useful to the carrier, has become useful to marketing firms and thusly, is being sold to them.
It sounds like the log you are looking at is just tracking a list of useable towers and their locations for faster handoffs/handshakes.
Most common use in carpentry for measuring: 16" on center for wall studs. Bit more of a pain in the ass to say "40.64 centimeters". We also use "square feet" instead of "meters square". Non decimal numbers are far easier to deal with when you are doing tons of mental math constantly.
In land area, not in population centered areas. The amount of road signs that would need changing just boggles my mind. In just the area I live, there are literally tens of thousands of signs and I am not even in the highest land area/populated cities. There are 46,876 miles (75,440 km) of JUST major Highways (Eisenhower intestate system), then add to the the state roads, state highways, streets, etc. The cost alone to change all those signs would be devastating to most state's fiscal budgets, not to mention it would cut into the federal bailout monies for mega corps.
We learned the metric system along with the imperial system here. Some of us use both on a regular basis, some don't. Our vehicles have our speeds marked in Miles per hour as well as Kilometers Per Hour. But changing the entire system over for this country, just not cost effective.
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"t's cheap, doens't spoil, it actually preserves other food"
Actually, that's salt, not sugar. Sugar can only be used as a preservative is hypertonic solutions such as syrup and jellies etc.
"and it's somewhat addictive"
Sugar, unlike tobacco and various other drugs, has no inherent addictive properties.
Sugar is a necessity in the human diet, however, it needs to be natural sugars from fruits and certain veggies. Your standard bleached sugar and pure cane sugars are not in that category and are not the best for our physiology.
The real argument here is not whether sugar is toxic in and of itself, but are the levels we ingest detrimental to our health. And the answer to that is undoubtedly yes. My father has adult onset diabetes, and I am hypoglycemic. Both of us fight our sugar levels constantly, reducing and increasing as needed. We have to watch carefully how much sugar we intake in our diets.
I had 6 years of latin beginning in the 6th grade and ending in the 12th. From a public school, in one of the lowest ranking, educationally challenged states in the U.S. 2 years of an offered foreign language is mandatory, whether you learn it or not, is up to you. We also had 2600 student in a school built for 1500, so if a "burger flipper" slipped through, I cannot blame them.
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We already pay for the road system. It wasn't given to us for free ya know.
Jesus you people are silly. The easiest and most cost effective method for implementing this is to have the odometer read and input into the same database your tag information goes into. When you renew your tag every year, your odometer is read and you owe n $$$. This is not the greatest idea to come out of the administration so far. They would already garner tax dollars from the tax on electricity, which your usage will increase due to using an electric vehicle. I would much rather you take that $200,000,000 along with the supremacy clause and kick my local mass transit corp in the teeth as well as the local counties so that we can move around Atlanta with something resembling dependable mass transit that actually covers the sprawling 30ish counties of the metro area.
Only if you don't happen to be named Dave.
you don't have to be convicted to have something like this totally fuck your life. RE: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/arizona-couple-suing-bathtime-photos-prompt-wal-mart/story?id=8624533 The case was tossed out, however, their 3 young children were taken away for a month, they were registered as sex offenders, they spent well over $75,000, the wife was suspended from her job for a year, and then you have the added mental repercussions. Didn't you actually read the article a few days ago about the FBI spending 41% of it's manpower on child porn?
The Republicrats spend billions to convince people that there can be only two. I can't compete with that, even if I'm right. It's actually cheaper and easier to just move to another country to improve my quality of life. If enough instant runoff systems can be instituted on a local scale, then we'd be free of the two-party hold, but even that gets massive push-back from the Republicrats because they know it could lead to 3rd parties as well.
I had the very same thoughts. Leaving and taking up residence elsewhere. However, truthfully, it would just be running away from a problem and not facing it head on as it should be. Yes, the parties have millions and millions of dollars to throw around to fight against additional parties being added to the system, but you have the power of word, you have facebook, you have petitions, you have the ability to work to change the system. That is the defining beauty of the US system. Instant runoffs could definitely help, but only a few places use the system and it needs to become more widespread, but as it does so, it will meet opposition by the parties just as strongly as any movement to add n number of new parties. I despise the party system.
The real solution is a multi-party system. But that would never happen. The entrenched parties agree on nothing, unless you start talking about systems that would hand any power to 3rd parties.
If you want more parties, convince more people to vote other than Democrat/Republican, it's the only way it's going to really happen.
I do not believe a corporation is a person anymore than I believe and car is a person. Neither of which are. However, there is justification (in their minds) for what they have done.
yes, IF the law is changed. Any ruling on a law that predates the modification of that law is then no longer binding IF the ruling pertained to the specific portion of the law that was changed.
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
This gives congress the specific power of determining who is and is not a citizen of the United States.
Private companies do. Public companies do not.
Technically speaking, the court's job is to interpret the laws created by congress. Therefor, the interpretation of a law is the law since decisions trickle down from SCOTUS to the lower courts and cannot be overturned by lower courts.
reality IS defined by the words on the paper that SCOTUS says is the law. SCOTUS upholds a shitty law, you violate that law, in reality, you are punished for that violation. In our current reality, corporations are considered people and thereby gain the rights of a person to influence the system as they see fit.
You toss this term "moron" around quite a bit. I think the word you are looking for is actually "ignorant" seeing as how moron tends to denote somone that can't actually help being "stupid or lacking in good judgement". Yes, the US media is well known for bandying around words such as "socialist/socialism" etc and using them incorrectly. And I will agree that it is most definitely so that they can scare the populace into agreeing with them, siding against certain policies or groups or to keep them scratching their heads. The most important thing that I try to make people understand is that, the current news media seen daily in the US is ENTERTAINMENT. It is funded by advertisements, it is meant to keep you watching. Once you begin to see it like you would "Friends" or "House" or "Eureka" it all makes more sense and just becomes another one of those shows you don't watch.
They are working on it. Currently, they have this thing called the constitution that they have to contend with. Give it a few more years, and I can assure you, 1 song will land you a minimum of 1 year and since you will most likely be committing the crime across state/federal borders, it will be a federal crime.
yes, they do. They can do this by "purchasing" services from subsidiaries that lose money, thereby showing a "loss" to the bottom line on both accounts. They also "hide" money via payoffs to unions such as I.A.T.S.E. They also film movies in the 44 or so states that offer massive tax incentives. They film and receive massive tax breaks, then artificially inflate the "cost" of the movie/show so that they can show it as a loss. Additionally, they intentionally film movies and shows that will lose them money and never be published or seen by anyone other than the post-production crews so that they can artificially "decrease" their profit margins to force their company into lower corporate tax brackets.
I've done quite a bit of software work for the film industry in the advertising and administration departments as well as the film unions. These folks toss around money like they just printed it on one of the back lots, and it's just so they can better hide the real profits they make.
Atlanta....
I live in stupid country and have limits and experience throttling by comcast, clear and my wireless carrier.
Stupid Country = U.S. Nothing here we can really do about it atm.
something Android fanatics seem curiously unwilling to discuss.
Amazingly you have Android users discussing it with you...I'm an android user. Have I rooted around in my phone? Yes. Are there things on my phone that I dont want? No. Can I wipe my phone clean and install a new OS flavored the way I want it, with only the applications I want and storing only the data I want? Yes.
The whole point of an open source OS being more secure is that, If it for some reason is sending off data I dont want it to, I can MODIFY the OS to stop doing it. On the other hand, you're fucked with your closed source OS's.
umm yes you can. By knowing the distance you are from a set of towers at specific times, I can tell exactly where you are. It's simple triangulation. What most people really don't get is, phones have been doing this for years. Having once been employed by a wireless carrier as a Nokia Certified Technician, I could, at the time, access a phone's tower connection log and see where that person went by reading the distance, time and directional heading of the towers they connected to. The towers themselves track each connection, a directional path and a distance to the phone that is connected. This information is commonly used to judge whether tower pods are being over burdened or resources are being under utilized and thus better used elsewhere. As the years have progressed, this information that was once only useful to the carrier, has become useful to marketing firms and thusly, is being sold to them.
It sounds like the log you are looking at is just tracking a list of useable towers and their locations for faster handoffs/handshakes.
my tipping point was 2 years ago.
Most common use in carpentry for measuring: 16" on center for wall studs. Bit more of a pain in the ass to say "40.64 centimeters". We also use "square feet" instead of "meters square". Non decimal numbers are far easier to deal with when you are doing tons of mental math constantly.
In land area, not in population centered areas. The amount of road signs that would need changing just boggles my mind. In just the area I live, there are literally tens of thousands of signs and I am not even in the highest land area/populated cities. There are 46,876 miles (75,440 km) of JUST major Highways (Eisenhower intestate system), then add to the the state roads, state highways, streets, etc. The cost alone to change all those signs would be devastating to most state's fiscal budgets, not to mention it would cut into the federal bailout monies for mega corps.
We learned the metric system along with the imperial system here. Some of us use both on a regular basis, some don't. Our vehicles have our speeds marked in Miles per hour as well as Kilometers Per Hour. But changing the entire system over for this country, just not cost effective.
Actually, that's salt, not sugar. Sugar can only be used as a preservative is hypertonic solutions such as syrup and jellies etc.
"and it's somewhat addictive"
Sugar, unlike tobacco and various other drugs, has no inherent addictive properties.
Sugar is a necessity in the human diet, however, it needs to be natural sugars from fruits and certain veggies. Your standard bleached sugar and pure cane sugars are not in that category and are not the best for our physiology.
The real argument here is not whether sugar is toxic in and of itself, but are the levels we ingest detrimental to our health. And the answer to that is undoubtedly yes. My father has adult onset diabetes, and I am hypoglycemic. Both of us fight our sugar levels constantly, reducing and increasing as needed. We have to watch carefully how much sugar we intake in our diets.
I had 6 years of latin beginning in the 6th grade and ending in the 12th. From a public school, in one of the lowest ranking, educationally challenged states in the U.S. 2 years of an offered foreign language is mandatory, whether you learn it or not, is up to you. We also had 2600 student in a school built for 1500, so if a "burger flipper" slipped through, I cannot blame them.