>>>Now if someone is doing something illegal on video, threatening illegal action, or inciting others to illegal action, then that should be removed. Saying "Go build one of these and throw it at a government building" should not be allowed.
The U.S. Supreme Court has already said that such speech is protected by the first amendment. They said the only time it would be outlawed, is if the person was actually holding a gun or weapon and saying, "I'm going to kill you." The case where they made this decision involved a black protestor in Chicago saying he was going to kill President Johnson. The U.S. Supreme Court found him not guilty and released him from jail.
>>Bull crap. Thomas Jefferson was a president who had to handle Muslim piracy with warships, which escalated into the First Barbary War. The Europeans didn't have any stake in the middle east when the Moors invaded Europe, which created the sentiment of containment that sparked the crusades. >>>
I fail to see how events of 200 or 800 years ago have any relevance to present events. The young men who join terrorist armies are not fighting because of some ancient war. They are fighting because of *present* U.S. on Arab slaughters that are within their living memory.
Law 1 is redundant because the Constitution already protects rights. Here's a better version:
Law 1: The Representative shall obey the Constitution. Law 2: The Representative shall obey the wishes of his constituency, except when doing so would violate the First Law. Law 3: The Representative shall obey his own moral code, except when doing so would violate the First or Second Law.
Since it's over a month old, I wouldn't consider it a dupe. There are MANY people who never saw the original article. Also it covers different topics (per-click charges vs. speech censorship).
But the Declaration is exactly that - a declaration. It doesn't have the power of law and does not limit the UN's ability to..... for example..... pass a law forbidding websites that oppose Genetically-modified foods. OUR Bill of Rights says, "Congress shall pss no law abriding freedom of speech....." The UN does not have the equivalent, and therefore may pass any law they please.
People like Presidents Obama and Romney sign the UN treaties and give them force of law. That's what is happening with the ACTA..... the UN makes the treaty, the president signs it, the senate approves it, and then the UN Law becomes U.S. Law which is enforced by the U.S. armies.
I believe it's time to apply the Sherman Antitrust act. Time to break-up Comcast, Cox, and other monopolies, turn-over control of the fiber optic bundles to the Member State government's roads authority, and then LEASE the lines to whatever company each customer chooses (Comcast, Apple, Honda, GM, Microsoft, Walmart, etc). We need to return to the days of Dialup where ISPs merely *used* the lines but did not own them.
No censorship either. Who the hell does the UN think it is? It doesn't represent the People of this planet. We don't even have a voice in the UN Assembly to make our objections be heard. And where's the UN Bill of Rights that forbids censorship of speech, the press, and expression?
The UN politicians are as honest as other men, not more so, and all the more dangerous since their power is not subject to the Elective control of the people, or the Shackles of a Constitution with enumerated rights. Time has shown that their power grows steadily and more expansive in reach. The UN politicians are setting-up a World Oligarchy without boundaries in its power.
Yeah it is. Read amendment 9 (non-enumerated rights are reserved to the people). Also amendment 10 which reserves powers to the Member States, and one of those powers include a legally-protected Right to privacy in their constitutions. I know California has it, my own state has it, as do many others.
>>>That's why it can be amended.
True. Something we need to do more often, rather than just ignore Constitutional law. Also: I wouldn't say it "allowed" slavery. States that had slaves were punished by only having 3/5th as many representatives in Congress as non-slave states. A few northern states abolished slavery just so they could gain more power in Washington.
Because we keep killing Arabs. We've been killing Arabs ever since we first attacked Iran in the 1950s and overthrew their democratic government (replacing it with a dictatorial government). More recently we starved a million Iraqi children by blocking food shipments into their country (90s) and directly killed or maimed another 2 million during Bush's Iraq War. Then we bombed Yemen and bombed Libya, killing about 50,000, and permanently disabling another 200,000 with blown-off limbs, after which we set-up a dictatorial government run by the military & religious dictators.
No I don't know why they would hate us? (That was sarcasm.)
Law 1 is redundant because the Constitution already protects rights. Here's a better version:
Law 1: The Representative shall obey the Constitution. Law 2: The Representative shall obey the wishes of his constituency, except when doing so would violate the First Law. Law 3: The Representative shall obey his own moral code, except when doing so would violate the First or Second Law.
I think the government should stop hassling the little people and going after the Megacorps/banks that owe billions or even trillions in backtaxes. (But of course the government never does that, because the politicians are corporatists... bought and paid for. The politicians only go after the citizens, not the real billion-dollar thieves.)
Example: Warren Buffett. He owes over a trillion in taxes over the last decade, but do we see President Obama going after him? No. They act like best friends and Obama praises Buffett for creating the "Buffett rule" to be passed in Congress.
>>>One really doesn't have to pay VAT for exports to outside of EU
Exactly. But never mind trying to explain that to a Brit. They killed William Wallace, raped his countrywomen for sport, and suppressed the Scots like they were black slaves. Then they did the same thing in Ireland, raping their redheaded women. Also China. India. Canada. Australia/Aborgines. And parts of Africa (grabbing them and shipping them all over the world as slave labor). The British have NEVER apologized for any of it. They think what they did was angelic, when it was really demonic.
>>>Yes, and if you're buying from a UK business it is essentially the same as traveling there, buying the item and flying home
We were discussing California not the UK. And you're flat wrong. The law says you are not under any obligation to pay California or UK sales tax. And if you disagree and still insist I should be paying taxes to the fucking UK Parliament, even though I have nobody to represent me, then yopu are just an ANTGI-democracy fcukign tryrany. Youy ncan go to hell. Andnyoru OParliamanet can go toh hell. And toyur proedcufgts cna go to hell too! Batafdrd Engoslisyh asrrtogant pricdk./
No my Commodore 64 has an S-video output, with 80 columns (via GEOS), and perfectly clear without any blur. Just as clear as a DVD. Why are we even arguing about this? The fact is that the IBM PC is dead, while my C64 is still in use. Stop trying to make out like the Atari 800 or Apple II or C64 were junk machiens that never shouldahve edxsited. They were all AWESOME machines....while the IBM PC was about as exciting as using a toaster.
So go fuck off. And I will continue enjoying those classic 8 bit machines, just as I enjoy classic 8 bit Atari or NES or SMS.
For the same reason I translate "felo de se" to "act of suicide" when I am quoting Thomas Jefferson's comments about the Supreme Court. And no I didn't really like Blade Runner. I don't think life is such a sucky mess that the main character had to mope-around like one of the Twilight vampire. (Frankly I think the cop should have taken some prozac or something, because that's just not normal behavior.)
Yeah but there's a huge difference between microwatts of radio or TV waves passing through you, and 1/4 to 2 watts of cellphone waves passing through. (Plus the fact cellphone waves are small enough to interact on the cellular level, while radio/TV waves are many meters long and barely has any effect on your body.)
And as for the sun..... well we all know how dangerous it is. Best to avoid it, unless you want to end-up looking like that trucker where half his face looks "melted" and damaged.
If I was at home I could access my facebook and share a youtube video of the TSA (and also Canadian police!) patrolling Chicago parks during the recent conference. There's also youtube videos of TSA stopping cars, yelling at the passengers, and performing illegal warrantless searches.
>>>But there is documented, solid and confirmed evidence, by university scientists, that not only was there thermite....
No. There isn't. Being an Alex Jones listener and reader of his site, I've perused nearly all the information of 9/11. NOBODY has produced a single crystallography scan that indicates thermite detection. Well maybe ONE person has, but in science one is not enough. There needs to be independent verification by multiple scientists. That does not exist.
>>>it takes at least 2000 degrees (F) to do what is claimed.
Since the steel girders folded in half, and the burning floor collapses, clearly it was hot enough. Note: The steel doesn't actually have to melt to lost integrity... it only needs to be weakened to the point it can no longer hold the weight of ~50 floors above it.
No. What is selfish is insisting we should only have ONE choice: The government. You want the government to run every damn thing, even my doctor (under universal healthcare, he would only be allowed to do procedures pre-approved by the government). I am not just pro-choice on abortion, but also pro-choice on EVERYTHING.
In cases where there can't be a choice (water, sewer, roads) then it makes sense to have government handle the task, or have a regulated monopoly like Baltimore Gas & Electric. But in all other cases, I think we should let the private market handle it. FURTHERMORE I DO NOT WANT the FBI, NSA, CIA collecting all my data about every flight I take. Which is what we have now with the TSA collecting the info and sharing it will all their DHS partners.
You're joking right??? If a corporation was donating money, they'd be donating MILLIONS of dollars not a few thousand.
What you are looking at is donations from WORKERS at those respective companies. Just as when *I* donate money, it appears I'm donating from ABC Company (my employer). Look at Ron Paul's top donors: U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marines..... those aren't the military branches giving money (they are forbidden to do so). It's the individual soldiers supporting their favored candidate.
>>>Speed up the SLOWEST part of a personal computer or server, which traditionally IS harddisks?
Eliminate the need to use the hard disk like pretend RAM and it doesn't matter if your HDD is slow as snails, because your computer will be doing all its work out of memory. (Ya know, like computers used to do back before HDDs were commonplace.) The ideal would be 0KB of pagefile on the HDD, and working completely out of DRAM.
>>>Solid state hard drives are so freaking amazing performance wise, and the experience you will have with them is so transformative, that I don't even care if they fail every 12 months on average! >>> "A fool and his money are soon parted." - Thomas Tusser. This guy's wasting thouands of dollars ond rive she KNOWS will fail. In contrast I've spent about $200 on external USB disk drives. None of have died, but even if they did die, I only lost a little bit of money not 10x that amount on SSDs.
Then it wouldn't matter how fast or slow the hard drive is, because there'd be no need for treating it like memory. As for SSDs, I think they are too costly. A disk drive at 2 terabytes costs around $130. The same in an solid-state drive would be thousands of dollars.
Final thought: It's kinda silly to be afraid of terrorists. The odds that your airplane will be hijacked are LOWER than the odds of a spacerock falling from the sky & hitting you. POINT : It's silly to be afraid of nonevents that, for all practical purposes, never happen.
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>>>Now if someone is doing something illegal on video, threatening illegal action, or inciting others to illegal action, then that should be removed. Saying "Go build one of these and throw it at a government building" should not be allowed.
The U.S. Supreme Court has already said that such speech is protected by the first amendment. They said the only time it would be outlawed, is if the person was actually holding a gun or weapon and saying, "I'm going to kill you." The case where they made this decision involved a black protestor in Chicago saying he was going to kill President Johnson. The U.S. Supreme Court found him not guilty and released him from jail.
>>Bull crap. Thomas Jefferson was a president who had to handle Muslim piracy with warships, which escalated into the First Barbary War. The Europeans didn't have any stake in the middle east when the Moors invaded Europe, which created the sentiment of containment that sparked the crusades.
>>>
I fail to see how events of 200 or 800 years ago have any relevance to present events. The young men who join terrorist armies are not fighting because of some ancient war. They are fighting because of *present* U.S. on Arab slaughters that are within their living memory.
Law 1 is redundant because the Constitution already protects rights.
Here's a better version:
Law 1: The Representative shall obey the Constitution.
Law 2: The Representative shall obey the wishes of his constituency, except when doing so would violate the First Law.
Law 3: The Representative shall obey his own moral code, except when doing so would violate the First or Second Law.
Since it's over a month old, I wouldn't consider it a dupe. There are MANY people who never saw the original article. Also it covers different topics (per-click charges vs. speech censorship).
But the Declaration is exactly that - a declaration. It doesn't have the power of law and does not limit the UN's ability to..... for example..... pass a law forbidding websites that oppose Genetically-modified foods. OUR Bill of Rights says, "Congress shall pss no law abriding freedom of speech....." The UN does not have the equivalent, and therefore may pass any law they please.
People like Presidents Obama and Romney sign the UN treaties and give them force of law. That's what is happening with the ACTA..... the UN makes the treaty, the president signs it, the senate approves it, and then the UN Law becomes U.S. Law which is enforced by the U.S. armies.
I believe it's time to apply the Sherman Antitrust act. Time to break-up Comcast, Cox, and other monopolies, turn-over control of the fiber optic bundles to the Member State government's roads authority, and then LEASE the lines to whatever company each customer chooses (Comcast, Apple, Honda, GM, Microsoft, Walmart, etc). We need to return to the days of Dialup where ISPs merely *used* the lines but did not own them.
No censorship either. Who the hell does the UN think it is? It doesn't represent the People of this planet. We don't even have a voice in the UN Assembly to make our objections be heard. And where's the UN Bill of Rights that forbids censorship of speech, the press, and expression?
The UN politicians are as honest as other men, not more so, and all the more dangerous since their power is not subject to the Elective control of the people, or the Shackles of a Constitution with enumerated rights. Time has shown that their power grows steadily and more expansive in reach. The UN politicians are setting-up a World Oligarchy without boundaries in its power.
>>>like the Right to Privacy - not in there
Yeah it is. Read amendment 9 (non-enumerated rights are reserved to the people). Also amendment 10 which reserves powers to the Member States, and one of those powers include a legally-protected Right to privacy in their constitutions. I know California has it, my own state has it, as do many others.
>>>That's why it can be amended.
True. Something we need to do more often, rather than just ignore Constitutional law. Also: I wouldn't say it "allowed" slavery. States that had slaves were punished by only having 3/5th as many representatives in Congress as non-slave states. A few northern states abolished slavery just so they could gain more power in Washington.
>>>what do they hate us for?
Because we keep killing Arabs. We've been killing Arabs ever since we first attacked Iran in the 1950s and overthrew their democratic government (replacing it with a dictatorial government). More recently we starved a million Iraqi children by blocking food shipments into their country (90s) and directly killed or maimed another 2 million during Bush's Iraq War. Then we bombed Yemen and bombed Libya, killing about 50,000, and permanently disabling another 200,000 with blown-off limbs, after which we set-up a dictatorial government run by the military & religious dictators.
No I don't know why they would hate us?
(That was sarcasm.)
Law 1 is redundant because the Constitution already protects rights. Here's a better version:
Law 1: The Representative shall obey the Constitution.
Law 2: The Representative shall obey the wishes of his constituency, except when doing so would violate the First Law.
Law 3: The Representative shall obey his own moral code, except when doing so would violate the First or Second Law.
I think the government should stop hassling the little people and going after the Megacorps/banks that owe billions or even trillions in backtaxes. (But of course the government never does that, because the politicians are corporatists... bought and paid for. The politicians only go after the citizens, not the real billion-dollar thieves.)
Example: Warren Buffett. He owes over a trillion in taxes over the last decade, but do we see President Obama going after him? No. They act like best friends and Obama praises Buffett for creating the "Buffett rule" to be passed in Congress.
>>>One really doesn't have to pay VAT for exports to outside of EU
Exactly.
But never mind trying to explain that to a Brit. They killed William Wallace, raped his countrywomen for sport, and suppressed the Scots like they were black slaves. Then they did the same thing in Ireland, raping their redheaded women. Also China. India. Canada. Australia/Aborgines. And parts of Africa (grabbing them and shipping them all over the world as slave labor). The British have NEVER apologized for any of it. They think what they did was angelic, when it was really demonic.
>>>Yes, and if you're buying from a UK business it is essentially the same as traveling there, buying the item and flying home
We were discussing California not the UK. And you're flat wrong. The law says you are not under any obligation to pay California or UK sales tax. And if you disagree and still insist I should be paying taxes to the fucking UK Parliament, even though I have nobody to represent me, then yopu are just an ANTGI-democracy fcukign tryrany. Youy ncan go to hell. Andnyoru OParliamanet can go toh hell. And toyur proedcufgts cna go to hell too! Batafdrd Engoslisyh asrrtogant pricdk./
No my Commodore 64 has an S-video output, with 80 columns (via GEOS), and perfectly clear without any blur. Just as clear as a DVD.
Why are we even arguing about this? The fact is that the IBM PC is dead, while my C64 is still in use. Stop trying to make out like the Atari 800 or Apple II or C64 were junk machiens that never shouldahve edxsited. They were all AWESOME machines....while the IBM PC was about as exciting as using a toaster.
So go fuck off. And I will continue enjoying those classic 8 bit machines, just as I enjoy classic 8 bit Atari or NES or SMS.
>>>that film noire translated as black film?
For the same reason I translate "felo de se" to "act of suicide" when I am quoting Thomas Jefferson's comments about the Supreme Court. And no I didn't really like Blade Runner. I don't think life is such a sucky mess that the main character had to mope-around like one of the Twilight vampire. (Frankly I think the cop should have taken some prozac or something, because that's just not normal behavior.)
Yeah but there's a huge difference between microwatts of radio or TV waves passing through you, and 1/4 to 2 watts of cellphone waves passing through. (Plus the fact cellphone waves are small enough to interact on the cellular level, while radio/TV waves are many meters long and barely has any effect on your body.)
And as for the sun..... well we all know how dangerous it is. Best to avoid it, unless you want to end-up looking like that trucker where half his face looks "melted" and damaged.
If I was at home I could access my facebook and share a youtube video of the TSA (and also Canadian police!) patrolling Chicago parks during the recent conference. There's also youtube videos of TSA stopping cars, yelling at the passengers, and performing illegal warrantless searches.
>>>But there is documented, solid and confirmed evidence, by university scientists, that not only was there thermite....
No. There isn't. Being an Alex Jones listener and reader of his site, I've perused nearly all the information of 9/11. NOBODY has produced a single crystallography scan that indicates thermite detection. Well maybe ONE person has, but in science one is not enough. There needs to be independent verification by multiple scientists. That does not exist.
>>>it takes at least 2000 degrees (F) to do what is claimed.
Since the steel girders folded in half, and the burning floor collapses, clearly it was hot enough. Note: The steel doesn't actually have to melt to lost integrity... it only needs to be weakened to the point it can no longer hold the weight of ~50 floors above it.
>>>Typical selfish libertarian asshole.
No. What is selfish is insisting we should only have ONE choice: The government. You want the government to run every damn thing, even my doctor (under universal healthcare, he would only be allowed to do procedures pre-approved by the government). I am not just pro-choice on abortion, but also pro-choice on EVERYTHING.
In cases where there can't be a choice (water, sewer, roads) then it makes sense to have government handle the task, or have a regulated monopoly like Baltimore Gas & Electric. But in all other cases, I think we should let the private market handle it. FURTHERMORE I DO NOT WANT the FBI, NSA, CIA collecting all my data about every flight I take. Which is what we have now with the TSA collecting the info and sharing it will all their DHS partners.
You're joking right??? If a corporation was donating money, they'd be donating MILLIONS of dollars not a few thousand.
What you are looking at is donations from WORKERS at those respective companies. Just as when *I* donate money, it appears I'm donating from ABC Company (my employer). Look at Ron Paul's top donors: U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marines..... those aren't the military branches giving money (they are forbidden to do so). It's the individual soldiers supporting their favored candidate.
>>>Speed up the SLOWEST part of a personal computer or server, which traditionally IS harddisks?
Eliminate the need to use the hard disk like pretend RAM and it doesn't matter if your HDD is slow as snails, because your computer will be doing all its work out of memory. (Ya know, like computers used to do back before HDDs were commonplace.) The ideal would be 0KB of pagefile on the HDD, and working completely out of DRAM.
>>>Solid state hard drives are so freaking amazing performance wise, and the experience you will have with them is so transformative, that I don't even care if they fail every 12 months on average!
>>>
"A fool and his money are soon parted."
- Thomas Tusser.
This guy's wasting thouands of dollars ond rive she KNOWS will fail. In contrast I've spent about $200 on external USB disk drives. None of have died, but even if they did die, I only lost a little bit of money not 10x that amount on SSDs.
Then it wouldn't matter how fast or slow the hard drive is, because there'd be no need for treating it like memory.
As for SSDs, I think they are too costly. A disk drive at 2 terabytes costs around $130. The same in an solid-state drive would be thousands of dollars.
Final thought:
It's kinda silly to be afraid of terrorists. The odds that your airplane will be hijacked are LOWER than the odds of a spacerock falling from the sky & hitting you. POINT : It's silly to be afraid of nonevents that, for all practical purposes, never happen.