I don't recall there being 2 books? Of course I haven't read any of them, so I don't know. (Tried to read LOTR book 1 but got bored during the initial 100 pages.)
If you know you have a disease like AIDS, and you deliberately infect people with it by inserting your penis into their pussy, then you are committing murder via a biological weapon. You can and will be charged. (Also you are physcially attacking someone with your body on top of theirs... which is a rights violation all by itself.)
But my neighbors' decision to not to get vaccinated doesn't harm me at all, since I'm already wearing the equivalent of a condom (I'm immune to polio, typhus, etc). And my neighbor is not physically assaulting me. My neighbor is just minding her own business.
>>>Slashdot: providing anti-social weirdos a soapbox, since 1997!
If I have been hit with a multimillion dollar fine as they did with Jamie Thomas, then what do I have to lose? I'm already a wage slave for the rest of my life, where every dollar I earn goes to paying-off that fine.
So as long as I *already* have a life sentence, I might as well go kill the RIAA CEO. What are they going to do? Give me *another* life sentence? I'm already beyond their ability to touch me. (It's kinda like that movie D.O.A. where the guy was already poisoned, already sentenced to death, so he could murder the men who poisoned him without restriction.)
>>>If you want gold so badly, just buy goddamn gold already,
I did. But I don't like to see my neighbors getting ripped-off. If they have $100,000 stashed away, they will lose about 30% of purchasing power (value) over the next ten years thanks to the Fed running the dollar printing press. It's depressing to watch my fellow citizens lose money like that.
>>> there is way too much money circulating (or way too little gold) to move away from fiat money
Nonsense. You fix $2000 worth of paper == 1 ounce of gold, and then hold it there for the next century. Don't run off the presses. Don't inflate the money supply. Don't devalue people's personal savings based in dollars. Simple.
>>>There's no need to get some metal involved who's only real values are 1. Shiny and 2. Doesn't corrode.
3. Can't be devalued by the central bankers. Gold is a fixed supply. They can't just suddenly create 1 trillion gold bars out of thin air (as they routinely do with paper). Number 3 is the key reason why it's a superior way to store wealth.
>>>Give me $10 and I'll look at it for ten years, and it will be worth $10.
No it won't. At current rates the 2022 10 dollar note will be worth only ~7 dollars in purchasing power due to the Fed's printing press devaluing it. Put another way your savings account will have lost ~30% of its value. Inflation is a hidden tax that slowly but surely strips-away the citizens' saved wealth.
To be more precise: The pedicab makes money without paying the gasoline tax, which funds the roads. Maybe the government should add an additional tax on this deadbeat... also bicyclists, horse-drawn carriage riders, and EV drivers. (That was sarcasm.)
You're probably right, but on the flipside if it wasn't for Manning various families would still think their fathers/husbands were "missing" somewhere in Iraq. They would never have known that the U.S. military was covering-up the fact they killed those journalists and were hiding the evidence. I think any person who exposes a coverup of that magnitude deserves to be thanked. Just as we thank the people who exposed Watergate, Irangate, and the government guns being shipped to druglords in Mexico.
>>>Attempting to create your own transcript is a violation of rule 6(e) of this grand jury
They also claim we're not allowed to camera-record, audio-record, or pen-and-paper record our conversations with police/government officials. (And have arrested people for doing it and/or taking their property and erased them.) But the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in August 2011 that the Constitution is a higher law, and it clearly states the People have the inalienable right to freedom of speech and freedom of the press to record/discuss what the cops & government officials are doing to them.
>>>American means someone from America, not someone from the USA.
So what are we supposed to call ourselves instead? United Statesians?!?!? Until you can come-up with a better name, we'll just keep saying Americans. And US. And EU. And RF.
>>> Kim Dotcom made his fortune by providing a service that was used to circumvent paying for content.
If he's such a horrible person, why was he able to get ~50 top-of-the-charts singers (and musicians and audio engineers) to perform a Megaupload song for him? If he really was hurting these people, they would have refused to do the ad. But instead they helped write, sing, and produce it.
I suspect your attack is without merit. Dotcom no more wanted to hurt people than does Googlemail or the Amazon Cloud (which is also used to share content w/o payment). If anybody is guilty here it's the U.S. government for overstepping its legal authority. Last I checked its juris diction ends at the border or the 14 mile oceanic limit.
>>>so you end up with a single source for your news...
Only if I lived in a vacuum. Apparently you think the only way to get news is through a daily paper delivery, but we also have this thing called TV. And radio. And the internet. I hear a WIDE range of views.
Warren Buffett will be better than Rupert Murdoch how? The so-called Buffett rule/law he is pushing very conveniently helps Buffett avoid paying income taxes. He's just as big a jerk as Murdoch.
>>>by saying 'that is how market operates' you have given up any control you may have gotten out to 'market' w/o even thinking about consequences
Better than handing control of the newspapers/radio/television to the government. At least I have some influence over the market ("No I don't want your shit Comcast, No I don't want your damn Microsoft Office, No I don't want your stupid GM car, No I don't want your communist-leaning newspaper."). I don't have jackshit control over the government and its various companies.
They get my dollars even when the govt-owned company sucks ass. Right now I'm paying for Amtrak trains that I'm not even riding. It would be better if Amtrak were private, and then I'd know ZERO of my dollars were going there. I sure as hell don't want a government-run news company. Bollocks on that.
Yeah I know what you mean. I told my magazine publisher I only want even-numbered months, because those are the "special" issues with designated themes, and therefore better. But they wouldn't budge. Insisted I MUST buy the odd-numbered months too. Fie on them!
People still read newspapers. E-ink or LCD newspapers. If the newspaper can't find a way to convert from wood to electronic, then it probably deserves to die since it's being inefficient.
That's how the market operates... give the customer what he/she wants or else don't get purchased & go out of business. BTW my two local papers were owned by the same company. They cut costs by merging the two papers since they were basically redundant.
>>> That paper shit they pass around on wall street has nebulous value. If someone wants to give you millions of dollars for your company, let them give you millions of actual dollars.
Irony. Dollars are paper too. In fact the paper dollar has lost 97% of its value since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913... most of it just since 1972. Contrast that with the 1800s when the paper dollar lost just 2% of its value (because it was tied to gold & silver... real goods that can't be run off a printing press.)
Probably nothing. Even the largest nukes were blown-up high above the ground, to avoid throwing-up a lot of dust, and they were less than 1/10th as powerful as the 1800s Krakatoa volcano
>>>What? A store is private unless it is owned by government facility.
Well. You're wrong. There are many categories in the law, but to boil it down to the largest 3: Private, public, and public facility. "Private" is your home or business or farm. "Public" is the government which is collectively-owned by the people.
And "public facility" is a private area that has been voluntarily opened to the public, such as a store or bar or mall. It differs from a private home, because you don't have to let black people into your home. Or women. Or people under age 21. You are allowed to discriminate. BUT the moment you open the doors to everybody, such as converting your home or office into a store or restaurant, then you go from "private" to "public facility" and you are no longer allowed to refuse service.
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I don't recall there being 2 books? Of course I haven't read any of them, so I don't know. (Tried to read LOTR book 1 but got bored during the initial 100 pages.)
If you know you have a disease like AIDS, and you deliberately infect people with it by inserting your penis into their pussy, then you are committing murder via a biological weapon. You can and will be charged. (Also you are physcially attacking someone with your body on top of theirs... which is a rights violation all by itself.)
But my neighbors' decision to not to get vaccinated doesn't harm me at all, since I'm already wearing the equivalent of a condom (I'm immune to polio, typhus, etc). And my neighbor is not physically assaulting me. My neighbor is just minding her own business.
>>>Slashdot: providing anti-social weirdos a soapbox, since 1997!
If I have been hit with a multimillion dollar fine as they did with Jamie Thomas, then what do I have to lose? I'm already a wage slave for the rest of my life, where every dollar I earn goes to paying-off that fine.
So as long as I *already* have a life sentence, I might as well go kill the RIAA CEO. What are they going to do? Give me *another* life sentence? I'm already beyond their ability to touch me. (It's kinda like that movie D.O.A. where the guy was already poisoned, already sentenced to death, so he could murder the men who poisoned him without restriction.)
>>>You are confusing "public accommodation" but private ownership which is expressly defined in the Commerce Clause
I wasn't talking about the U.S. Constitution. I was talking about New York Law which calls them "public facility"
>>>If you want gold so badly, just buy goddamn gold already,
I did. But I don't like to see my neighbors getting ripped-off. If they have $100,000 stashed away, they will lose about 30% of purchasing power (value) over the next ten years thanks to the Fed running the dollar printing press. It's depressing to watch my fellow citizens lose money like that.
>>> there is way too much money circulating (or way too little gold) to move away from fiat money
Nonsense. You fix $2000 worth of paper == 1 ounce of gold, and then hold it there for the next century. Don't run off the presses. Don't inflate the money supply. Don't devalue people's personal savings based in dollars. Simple.
>>>There's no need to get some metal involved who's only real values are 1. Shiny and 2. Doesn't corrode.
3. Can't be devalued by the central bankers. Gold is a fixed supply. They can't just suddenly create 1 trillion gold bars out of thin air (as they routinely do with paper). Number 3 is the key reason why it's a superior way to store wealth.
>>>Give me $10 and I'll look at it for ten years, and it will be worth $10.
No it won't. At current rates the 2022 10 dollar note will be worth only ~7 dollars in purchasing power due to the Fed's printing press devaluing it. Put another way your savings account will have lost ~30% of its value. Inflation is a hidden tax that slowly but surely strips-away the citizens' saved wealth.
To be more precise: The pedicab makes money without paying the gasoline tax, which funds the roads. Maybe the government should add an additional tax on this deadbeat... also bicyclists, horse-drawn carriage riders, and EV drivers. (That was sarcasm.)
You're probably right, but on the flipside if it wasn't for Manning various families would still think their fathers/husbands were "missing" somewhere in Iraq. They would never have known that the U.S. military was covering-up the fact they killed those journalists and were hiding the evidence. I think any person who exposes a coverup of that magnitude deserves to be thanked. Just as we thank the people who exposed Watergate, Irangate, and the government guns being shipped to druglords in Mexico.
>>>Attempting to create your own transcript is a violation of rule 6(e) of this grand jury
They also claim we're not allowed to camera-record, audio-record, or pen-and-paper record our conversations with police/government officials. (And have arrested people for doing it and/or taking their property and erased them.) But the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in August 2011 that the Constitution is a higher law, and it clearly states the People have the inalienable right to freedom of speech and freedom of the press to record/discuss what the cops & government officials are doing to them.
>>>American means someone from America, not someone from the USA.
So what are we supposed to call ourselves instead? United Statesians?!?!? Until you can come-up with a better name, we'll just keep saying Americans. And US. And EU. And RF.
>>> Kim Dotcom made his fortune by providing a service that was used to circumvent paying for content.
If he's such a horrible person, why was he able to get ~50 top-of-the-charts singers (and musicians and audio engineers) to perform a Megaupload song for him? If he really was hurting these people, they would have refused to do the ad. But instead they helped write, sing, and produce it.
I suspect your attack is without merit. Dotcom no more wanted to hurt people than does Googlemail or the Amazon Cloud (which is also used to share content w/o payment). If anybody is guilty here it's the U.S. government for overstepping its legal authority. Last I checked its juris diction ends at the border or the 14 mile oceanic limit.
Or we could have a license-burning bonfire. That would be fun. I'll bring the marshmallows.
>>>so you end up with a single source for your news...
Only if I lived in a vacuum. Apparently you think the only way to get news is through a daily paper delivery, but we also have this thing called TV. And radio. And the internet. I hear a WIDE range of views.
Warren Buffett will be better than Rupert Murdoch how? The so-called Buffett rule/law he is pushing very conveniently helps Buffett avoid paying income taxes. He's just as big a jerk as Murdoch.
>>>by saying 'that is how market operates' you have given up any control you may have gotten out to 'market' w/o even thinking about consequences
Better than handing control of the newspapers/radio/television to the government. At least I have some influence over the market ("No I don't want your shit Comcast, No I don't want your damn Microsoft Office, No I don't want your stupid GM car, No I don't want your communist-leaning newspaper."). I don't have jackshit control over the government and its various companies.
They get my dollars even when the govt-owned company sucks ass. Right now I'm paying for Amtrak trains that I'm not even riding. It would be better if Amtrak were private, and then I'd know ZERO of my dollars were going there. I sure as hell don't want a government-run news company. Bollocks on that.
>>>I'm amazed people like Rush Limbaugh have not stepped in to have their own newspaper printed in a region.
Well there is one "person like Rush" who created an online newspaper: Glenn Beck. So you can scratch your amazement: It's already been done.
Pluto is too small to be considered a planet, binary or otherwise.
Yeah I know what you mean. I told my magazine publisher I only want even-numbered months, because those are the "special" issues with designated themes, and therefore better. But they wouldn't budge. Insisted I MUST buy the odd-numbered months too. Fie on them!
People still read newspapers. E-ink or LCD newspapers. If the newspaper can't find a way to convert from wood to electronic, then it probably deserves to die since it's being inefficient.
That's how the market operates... give the customer what he/she wants or else don't get purchased & go out of business. BTW my two local papers were owned by the same company. They cut costs by merging the two papers since they were basically redundant.
They stole money from the taxpayer's treasury. To the tune of $100 per U.S. home.
>>> That paper shit they pass around on wall street has nebulous value. If someone wants to give you millions of dollars for your company, let them give you millions of actual dollars.
Irony.
Dollars are paper too. In fact the paper dollar has lost 97% of its value since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913... most of it just since 1972. Contrast that with the 1800s when the paper dollar lost just 2% of its value (because it was tied to gold & silver... real goods that can't be run off a printing press.)
They should have been left to die, rather than bailed-out. (i.e. Vote no on TARP rather than help GS.)
Probably nothing. Even the largest nukes were blown-up high above the ground, to avoid throwing-up a lot of dust, and they were less than 1/10th as powerful as the 1800s Krakatoa volcano
Hmmm.
Also it must have been hit by a whole heck of a lot of spacerocks, since 2/3rds of the surface is water. That's a lot of impacts.
>>>What? A store is private unless it is owned by government facility.
Well. You're wrong. There are many categories in the law, but to boil it down to the largest 3: Private, public, and public facility. "Private" is your home or business or farm. "Public" is the government which is collectively-owned by the people.
And "public facility" is a private area that has been voluntarily opened to the public, such as a store or bar or mall. It differs from a private home, because you don't have to let black people into your home. Or women. Or people under age 21. You are allowed to discriminate. BUT the moment you open the doors to everybody, such as converting your home or office into a store or restaurant, then you go from "private" to "public facility" and you are no longer allowed to refuse service.