- YELLED at children that, if they don't answer questions, they'll be taken to jail - thrown hot coffee on airplane pilots' faces - stripped an old woman naked - stripped another old woman naked (same airport) - stripped an old man naked - jailed a mother in a glass cage for an hour, because she was carrying breast milk (causing her to breakdown & cry, plus miss her plane, and eventually forced to dump the milk (which was meant to feed her newborn at home))
- forced a mother to demonstrate what her pumping equipment was for (in a public restroom), otherwise they would toss it in the trash - stolen passenger property - "lost" passenger property - included a taped note on a woman's dildo which said, "Get your freak on girl" - included a taped note on some marijuana saying, "Come on son. Stop this."
- dumped a handicapped person's colostomy contents all over the floor, because they insisted he "must remove it or not be able to fly" - touched women's boobs - touched men's penises - been charged with sexual assault - been charged with running prostitution rings - caught asking women to walk through a scanner 4-5 times in order to capture the nude images
- captured and jailed a Ron Paul supporter because he was carrying $5000 in donations from St. Louis to Reagan Airport in D.C. (Note: carrying cash is not a crime worthy of being arrested... especially on an internal flight) - and on and on.
I'm too tired to continuetyping, but maybe you should get off your lazy ass and READ THE NEWS once in a while. The SA is in every way deserving of being called "thugs" or "east german stasi" or other epithets.
- stripped an old woman naked - stripped another old woman naked (same airport) - stripped an old man naked - jailed a mother in a glass cage for an hour, because she was carrying breast milk (causing he to cry, miss her plane, and eventually dump the milk which was meant to feed her newborn at home)
- forced a mother to demonstrate what her pumping equipment was for (in a public restroom) - stolen property - "lost" property - included a taped note on a woman's dildo which said, "Get your freak on girl" - included a taped note on some marijuana saying, "Come on son. Stop this."
- dumped a handicapped person's colostomy contents all over the floor, because they insisted he "must remove it or not be able to fly" - touched women's boobs - touched men's penises - been charged with sexual assault - been charged with running prostitution rings - caught asking women to walk through a scanner 4-5 times in order to capture the nude images
- captured and jailed a Ron Paul supporter because he was carrying $5000 in donations from St. Louis to Reagan Airport in D.C. (Note: carrying cash is not a crime worthy of being arrested... especially on an internal flight) - and on and on.
I'm too tired to continuetyping, but maybe you should get off your lazy ass and READ THE NEWS once in a while. The SA is in every way deserving of being called "thugs" or "east german stasi" or other epithets.
Sometimes politicians say stupid stuff. Like when Obama said there are 57 states.
I don't agree either with Paul (slavery is too strong a word) or Obama (there are only 50 states), but I do think universal healthcare is theft. I don't have the right to visit a doctor, get handed a bill, and then go-round taking money from my neighbors' wallets to Force them to pay my bill. Neither does the government.
Pay your own damn bills. And if you're poor, we'll help you out with Food Stamps, unemployment, medicare, and so on. But that's it. It's a *safety net* to catch you when you fall and help you get back on your feet, not an entitlement. A privilege not a right.
>>>The constitution also states that federal law overrules state law
Citation please.
You won't find it, because the constitution makes it VERY clear the federal government's powers are..... and I quote the Author of the Constitution James Madison..... "few and specifically enumerated". The Constitution also states the federal government's commerce authority ends at the state border, and anything Inside the state falls under the juris diction of the People who live there, and the Legislature.
That is why in my state it is legal to sell natural unpasteurized milk..... the Congress can not arrest these farmers unless they carry the milk across the line. AND why Congress has no authority to arrest marijuana users inside the state of California (or New Hampshire or Vermont or.....).
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but both Ron and Rand support same-sex marriage, drug decriminalization, and race equality (their patients are blacks, hispanics, asians, etc). Why? Because that's what the 10th amendment says..... the power lies with the People and their legislatures, not the central government.
Go search youtube for the video "Ron Paul Compassion" where in the doctor provided free healthcare to a black couple, even though he was living in segregated Texas and risked losing his job by disobeying the law/rules of the hospital. He even covered the cost of the bill Himself.
I LOVE when people spout MSNBC or DNC talking points. It makes them as easy to "shoot down" as the FAUX News people.
Answer: NO.
Rachel Maddow in mid-2010: "Would you have voted for passage of the Civil Rights Acts?"
Candidate Rand Paul: "Yes. Though I disagree with certain portions of it, I think overall the bill was a positive good, so I would have voted for passage of the bill."
Note these are ot exact-quotes but quoting from memory. The video is on youtube if you need a cite. Being at work I cannot access youtube myself, but since you're an engineer I'm sure you can figure-out how to use their search engine. Peace.:-)
P.S.
Oh and while you're at it, you might want to search for videos from black people who AGREE the civil rights bill was over-reach. (Such as Dr. Thomas Sowell and Walter E.Williams.) Why? Because they don't want to serve white people in their private buildings, churches, or homes. As is their right as free individuals (even if I think it's wrong.)
There are 50+ politicians in the House or Representatives' "Liberty Caucus" (started by Ron Paul). So definitely more than 2.
And there's also some support from crossover Democrats like Dennis Kucinich who stood side-by-side with Paul on TV and said the undeclared Libya War was unconstitutional, the Fed needs to be audited (done), and the TSA violates our basic liberties.
I didn't have to agree with everything Clinton said to vote for him in 1992. Nor must I agree with everything Senator Paul says in 2012, in order to support him. It is a "false choice" to say you must be in 100% agreeance with someone to like them.
BTW what's wrong with scrapping the Federal Reserve? It's really just a private monopoly whose sole purpose is to serve the bankers and the megarich. Furthermore it has devalued our dollars by 97% since it was created. We were better off from the year 1800 to 1913 when the Fed did not exist (and our dollars did not devalue at all). My position is anti-monopoly in all facets of life. The Fed is no exception.
Not according to the Supreme Court which has, in more cases than I can list here, asserted time and time again that freedom to travel is ONLY restricted when crossing an international border (and then you can be subject to a warrantless search).
People have always had a Right to travel, whether it is by foot, wheeled vehicle, horse, ship, or plane. Just as you have a right granted by nature to open your mouth and speak. It is YOUR body and you may use that body however you desire (except not to harm others). Including thinking, speaking, eating, working, or traveling.
I've been listening to Rand since 2009 (when he first announced his intention to run). His ideas are more "calm" than those of his father. I have yet to hear any Rand position that I would object to.
The government only has the powers given to it by the People of this land. If I can not touch your breast or crotch, neither can the government.
BTW there's already a law that allows airports to remove TSA from their buildings. So far I've only heard of one airport that considered evicting them. (And the government responded by saying that airport would be removed as a travel destination, if it followed through.)
Government is not eloquence or reason: It is force and intimidation. See the medical marijuana users who, even though they followed California law, were arrested anyway by U.S. police violating the 9th and 10th amendments.
If the U.S. revolutionaries had operated like that, we'd still be British. At some point you have to trust your fellow compatriots and share documents, otherwise you'll never get anything done.
BTW not even Fox Mulder followed the "Trust No One" mantra you quoted. He trusted his partner Scully. He trusted Deep throat and his partners. He trusted other conspiracy people he met along the way.
>>>When the file comes from a trusted source, it's not stupid. You have to trust someone eventually
Exactly. If I got a file from a Ron Paul activist, and it was someone I knew, I'd run it without hesitation. How would I know the Paulbot friend had been arrested and his/her account was actually the DHS in disguise?
I thought late-90s era Microsoft told the U.S. Court that they can't "unbundle" features from their OS? Hmmm.
>>>I think they were trying to reduce cost of the base OS
Perhaps but it's still doubtful it will be as cheap as Apple's ~$30 OS cost. And they have to pay the same MPEG licensing fees as microsoft. How does Apple sell its OS so low priced?
Well that sucks. I like DVDs because you pay once--play forever. I won't buy a laptop or PC if it doesn't include the player.
As for $$$ for Media Center: This just gives me another reason to buy a second Windows 7 PC and store it away. First reason was Win8's lousy phone-style interface. Having to pay to play DVD or MP4 files is reason 2. (I can't wait to see surprises 3 and 4.) WIN8 will likely be the Vista of the 2010s.
With the amount of energy they are squeezing into modern batteries, they are becoming almost as dangerous as a small diesel tank inside your phone or laptop. A random short can lead to a sudden release of all that trapped energy.
>>>It's like the PC business all over again..... margins are so small and there's nothing to differentiate one from another
Never thought of it like that. The old IBM PC has evolved into a commodity item like shavers or microwaves. I guess it's only a matter of time until I can get one at Walmart for sub-100 dollars.
For good reason. In the 80s Microsoft/IBM was producing boring crap (16 colors and sound that went "beep"), while the real innovators were Atari and Commodore/Amiga (128 colors in 1979, 4000 colors and near-CD sound in 1985, plus preemptive tasking).
In the 90s Microsoft produced more crap (Windows 3), or blatantly copied the Mac OS (Win95 with trashcan, shutdown procedure, shortcuts, programs directly on the desktop, etc), or driving companies into oblivion through Embrace, Extend, Exterminate.
Then the 2000s arrived with the shitty Win M.e., followed by the decent Windows NT 5.1 (XP), and the pile of crap named Vista. My brother bought a brand-new PC with Vista, but because it came installed with Microsoft's recommend 1/2 gig of RAM, it randomly froze-up for 2-3 minutes (hard drive thrashing).
Microsoft is the worst platform I have ever used in the last 30 years of experience. It isn't "fanboyism". It's a shitty company producing shit. Like Yugo. Or Hyundai.
The REAL issue is that Russia asked to be part of the defensive system, in order to protect their citizens living on the western part of their territory, but the U.S. said "No. Go away."
Why would the U.S. include all the other European countries but not Russia? Clearly there's an agenda here to restart a new cold war, and thereby jumpstart the defensive corporations. War == money for them.
The president and prime minister are both pretty pissed that they were excluded from participating. They feel that Russia should be share in the missile defense.
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So uninformed. The SA have:
- YELLED at children that, if they don't answer questions, they'll be taken to jail
- thrown hot coffee on airplane pilots' faces
- stripped an old woman naked
- stripped another old woman naked (same airport)
- stripped an old man naked
- jailed a mother in a glass cage for an hour, because she was carrying breast milk (causing her to breakdown & cry, plus miss her plane, and eventually forced to dump the milk (which was meant to feed her newborn at home))
- forced a mother to demonstrate what her pumping equipment was for (in a public restroom), otherwise they would toss it in the trash
- stolen passenger property
- "lost" passenger property
- included a taped note on a woman's dildo which said, "Get your freak on girl"
- included a taped note on some marijuana saying, "Come on son. Stop this."
- dumped a handicapped person's colostomy contents all over the floor, because they insisted he "must remove it or not be able to fly"
- touched women's boobs
- touched men's penises
- been charged with sexual assault
- been charged with running prostitution rings
- caught asking women to walk through a scanner 4-5 times in order to capture the nude images
- captured and jailed a Ron Paul supporter because he was carrying $5000 in donations from St. Louis to Reagan Airport in D.C. (Note: carrying cash is not a crime worthy of being arrested... especially on an internal flight)
- and on and on.
I'm too tired to continuetyping, but maybe you should get off your lazy ass and READ THE NEWS once in a while. The SA is in every way deserving of being called "thugs" or "east german stasi" or other epithets.
So uninformed. The SA have:
- stripped an old woman naked
- stripped another old woman naked (same airport)
- stripped an old man naked
- jailed a mother in a glass cage for an hour, because she was carrying breast milk (causing he to cry, miss her plane, and eventually dump the milk which was meant to feed her newborn at home)
- forced a mother to demonstrate what her pumping equipment was for (in a public restroom)
- stolen property
- "lost" property
- included a taped note on a woman's dildo which said, "Get your freak on girl"
- included a taped note on some marijuana saying, "Come on son. Stop this."
- dumped a handicapped person's colostomy contents all over the floor, because they insisted he "must remove it or not be able to fly"
- touched women's boobs
- touched men's penises
- been charged with sexual assault
- been charged with running prostitution rings
- caught asking women to walk through a scanner 4-5 times in order to capture the nude images
- captured and jailed a Ron Paul supporter because he was carrying $5000 in donations from St. Louis to Reagan Airport in D.C. (Note: carrying cash is not a crime worthy of being arrested... especially on an internal flight)
- and on and on.
I'm too tired to continuetyping, but maybe you should get off your lazy ass and READ THE NEWS once in a while. The SA is in every way deserving of being called "thugs" or "east german stasi" or other epithets.
And of course nobody will read Rand Paul's actual postition, because it's waaaay down here at the bottom of the page.
Dang.
I guess this is how TV media falsehoods
spread, and the truth never gets heard.
Sometimes politicians say stupid stuff. Like when Obama said there are 57 states.
I don't agree either with Paul (slavery is too strong a word) or Obama (there are only 50 states), but I do think universal healthcare is theft. I don't have the right to visit a doctor, get handed a bill, and then go-round taking money from my neighbors' wallets to Force them to pay my bill. Neither does the government.
Pay your own damn bills.
And if you're poor, we'll help you out with Food Stamps, unemployment, medicare, and so on. But that's it. It's a *safety net* to catch you when you fall and help you get back on your feet, not an entitlement. A privilege not a right.
>>>The constitution also states that federal law overrules state law
Citation please.
You won't find it, because the constitution makes it VERY clear the federal government's powers are..... and I quote the Author of the Constitution James Madison..... "few and specifically enumerated". The Constitution also states the federal government's commerce authority ends at the state border, and anything Inside the state falls under the juris diction of the People who live there, and the Legislature.
That is why in my state it is legal to sell natural unpasteurized milk..... the Congress can not arrest these farmers unless they carry the milk across the line. AND why Congress has no authority to arrest marijuana users inside the state of California (or New Hampshire or Vermont or.....).
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but both Ron and Rand support same-sex marriage, drug decriminalization, and race equality (their patients are blacks, hispanics, asians, etc). Why? Because that's what the 10th amendment says..... the power lies with the People and their legislatures, not the central government.
Go search youtube for the video "Ron Paul Compassion" where in the doctor provided free healthcare to a black couple, even though he was living in segregated Texas and risked losing his job by disobeying the law/rules of the hospital. He even covered the cost of the bill Himself.
I LOVE when people spout MSNBC or DNC talking points. It makes them as easy to "shoot down" as the FAUX News people.
Answer: NO.
Rachel Maddow in mid-2010: "Would you have voted for passage of the Civil Rights Acts?"
Candidate Rand Paul: "Yes. Though I disagree with certain portions of it, I think overall the bill was a positive good, so I would have voted for passage of the bill."
Note these are ot exact-quotes but quoting from memory. The video is on youtube if you need a cite. Being at work I cannot access youtube myself, but since you're an engineer I'm sure you can figure-out how to use their search engine. Peace. :-)
P.S.
Oh and while you're at it, you might want to search for videos from black people who AGREE the civil rights bill was over-reach. (Such as Dr. Thomas Sowell and Walter E.Williams.) Why? Because they don't want to serve white people in their private buildings, churches, or homes. As is their right as free individuals (even if I think it's wrong.)
There are 50+ politicians in the House or Representatives' "Liberty Caucus" (started by Ron Paul). So definitely more than 2.
And there's also some support from crossover Democrats like Dennis Kucinich who stood side-by-side with Paul on TV and said the undeclared Libya War was unconstitutional, the Fed needs to be audited (done), and the TSA violates our basic liberties.
I didn't have to agree with everything Clinton said to vote for him in 1992. Nor must I agree with everything Senator Paul says in 2012, in order to support him. It is a "false choice" to say you must be in 100% agreeance with someone to like them.
BTW what's wrong with scrapping the Federal Reserve? It's really just a private monopoly whose sole purpose is to serve the bankers and the megarich. Furthermore it has devalued our dollars by 97% since it was created. We were better off from the year 1800 to 1913 when the Fed did not exist (and our dollars did not devalue at all). My position is anti-monopoly in all facets of life. The Fed is no exception.
>>>privilege
Not according to the Supreme Court which has, in more cases than I can list here, asserted time and time again that freedom to travel is ONLY restricted when crossing an international border (and then you can be subject to a warrantless search).
People have always had a Right to travel, whether it is by foot, wheeled vehicle, horse, ship, or plane. Just as you have a right granted by nature to open your mouth and speak. It is YOUR body and you may use that body however you desire (except not to harm others). Including thinking, speaking, eating, working, or traveling.
Nice FUD.
I've been listening to Rand since 2009 (when he first announced his intention to run). His ideas are more "calm" than those of his father. I have yet to hear any Rand position that I would object to.
The government only has the powers given to it by the People of this land. If I can not touch your breast or crotch, neither can the government.
BTW there's already a law that allows airports to remove TSA from their buildings. So far I've only heard of one airport that considered evicting them. (And the government responded by saying that airport would be removed as a travel destination, if it followed through.)
Government is not eloquence or reason: It is force and intimidation. See the medical marijuana users who, even though they followed California law, were arrested anyway by U.S. police violating the 9th and 10th amendments.
Yeah that's why I said diesel tank. They don't explode, but instead burn like a battery.
How do you do that when the programmers are changing the code (and therefore the hash) every week?
If the U.S. revolutionaries had operated like that, we'd still be British. At some point you have to trust your fellow compatriots and share documents, otherwise you'll never get anything done.
BTW not even Fox Mulder followed the "Trust No One" mantra you quoted. He trusted his partner Scully. He trusted Deep throat and his partners. He trusted other conspiracy people he met along the way.
>>>When the file comes from a trusted source, it's not stupid. You have to trust someone eventually
Exactly. If I got a file from a Ron Paul activist, and it was someone I knew, I'd run it without hesitation. How would I know the Paulbot friend had been arrested and his/her account was actually the DHS in disguise?
Pennies is significant?
PONDER: If Windows 8 doesn't come with media center/MPEG codecs, does that mean my web browsers will no longer play embedded videos?
I thought late-90s era Microsoft told the U.S. Court that they can't "unbundle" features from their OS? Hmmm.
>>>I think they were trying to reduce cost of the base OS
Perhaps but it's still doubtful it will be as cheap as Apple's ~$30 OS cost. And they have to pay the same MPEG licensing fees as microsoft. How does Apple sell its OS so low priced?
>>> their win media player (sigh) is still the best 'free' solution for judder and jitter free playback
Really? I've always found VLC to be better. MS-WMP won't even play mkv files.
Well that sucks. I like DVDs because you pay once--play forever. I won't buy a laptop or PC if it doesn't include the player.
As for $$$ for Media Center: This just gives me another reason to buy a second Windows 7 PC and store it away. First reason was Win8's lousy phone-style interface. Having to pay to play DVD or MP4 files is reason 2. (I can't wait to see surprises 3 and 4.) WIN8 will likely be the Vista of the 2010s.
With the amount of energy they are squeezing into modern batteries, they are becoming almost as dangerous as a small diesel tank inside your phone or laptop. A random short can lead to a sudden release of all that trapped energy.
>>>It's like the PC business all over again..... margins are so small and there's nothing to differentiate one from another
Never thought of it like that. The old IBM PC has evolved into a commodity item like shavers or microwaves. I guess it's only a matter of time until I can get one at Walmart for sub-100 dollars.
+ 1 insightful.
>>>us-versus-them platform fanboyism
For good reason. In the 80s Microsoft/IBM was producing boring crap (16 colors and sound that went "beep"), while the real innovators were Atari and Commodore/Amiga (128 colors in 1979, 4000 colors and near-CD sound in 1985, plus preemptive tasking).
In the 90s Microsoft produced more crap (Windows 3), or blatantly copied the Mac OS (Win95 with trashcan, shutdown procedure, shortcuts, programs directly on the desktop, etc), or driving companies into oblivion through Embrace, Extend, Exterminate.
Then the 2000s arrived with the shitty Win M.e., followed by the decent Windows NT 5.1 (XP), and the pile of crap named Vista. My brother bought a brand-new PC with Vista, but because it came installed with Microsoft's recommend 1/2 gig of RAM, it randomly froze-up for 2-3 minutes (hard drive thrashing).
Microsoft is the worst platform I have ever used in the last 30 years of experience. It isn't "fanboyism". It's a shitty company producing shit. Like Yugo. Or Hyundai.
The REAL issue is that Russia asked to be part of the defensive system, in order to protect their citizens living on the western part of their territory, but the U.S. said "No. Go away."
Why would the U.S. include all the other European countries but not Russia? Clearly there's an agenda here to restart a new cold war, and thereby jumpstart the defensive corporations. War == money for them.
The president and prime minister are both pretty pissed that they were excluded from participating. They feel that Russia should be share in the missile defense.