You might think that "I have nothing to hide, so I have nothing to fear!" is a good recipe for a civil society, but the American founding fathers disagree with you. And I agree wit them.
Police power is ALWAYS abused. Always. That's why we need to be very careful when we extend that power.
No, but any time you are a government and you track everybody's movements by the aggregation of license plate image data, you are infringing on my liberties.
Specifically, the presumption of innocence and the freedom from unwarranted search.
And they promise that, after installing all the necessary infrastructure, they won't start doing it in the future. And the government always keeps its promises.
Uh huh. What happened to the people in the other vehicles when they encountered your high-bumpered "safe" vehicle?
Suburbans are thrice as likely to kill people in the other vehicle. The fiction that they don't need to be safe, because they're trucks, is a criminal negligence on the part of Chevy and their pet legislators. (Same goes for the larger Fords and Dodges.)
So which is it? Is it "just" a VW, therefore still a "volks" wagen, or does it have the technical chops to be compared with other world-class marques, and therefore have lost their roots?
You're arguing both sides.
VWs are well-engineered, well-designed, and affordable. Audis are even more well designed, equally well engineered, and reasonably priced for their market. Rolls and Bentley seem to be doing just fine under VW's direction, and everybody seems to agree that they are superb automobiles. Phaeton was a very pretty car, and it will be interesting to see how it fares against other mid- to high-end luxury cars.
So what's wrong with Volkswagen, exactly? Just because it's the same name as a Beetle, doesn't mean the cars haven't moved along technologically.
Why would you need downforce on the salt flats? The air dam and the rear wing are plenty to keep the car stable, and the point of the salt flats is you don't have to turn...
So why was Churchill so desperate to get the US into the war? If the Wehrmacht was on its last legs, why did so many American soldiers die?
I've read plenty of history, and I have come to a radically different conclusion than you have.
Germany lost because they were fighting a two-front war, not just because they (stupidly) invaded Russia in the wintertime. The American army was the bulk of that second front (not all, not the only, but the bulk of that second front) and to suggest that American involvement wasn't critical to the outcome of the war is simply revisionism.
Never mind the materiel assistance provided before Roosevelt drew his foul at Pearl.
Unless you think that it's a good idea to let people starve, that's the way it will be unless we get a decent system for trading subsistence wages for a reasonable work week. Right now, we ain't got it.
Or would you rather have people robbing your house and selling smack to feed their families?
But the free market doesn't properly determine wages.
How does a person making $7/hr support their family? Answer is, they don't. They have to get a stipend from the government. That is, from other taxpayers. Wouldn't it be better if the people who benefit from that person's work (the business and their customers) pay a reasonable wage to the person doing the work? One that enables them to support their family?
Would you rather have somebody selling burgers to you at McDonald's, or selling crack at the local elementary school?
"not so, and I don't even speak English that good."
OK, English lesson.
"Not that great == not significant == insignificant".
That might not have been what you meant, but it is what you said.
And, as far as Canada and NZ, I didn't disparage either contribution to the war effort. Any soldier that goes into harm's way to defend others is a hero. Despite your revisionist tendencies, a hell of a lot of those soldiers have come from America. Never mind America's economic and materiel contribution to the war effort before the troops landed.
If other countries are insulted by the fact that America is willing to sacrifice its sons and daughters for their freedom, those countries can piss off.
Uh huh. That whole invasion of Normandy was just us happening to run into the Wehrmacht as they were running back home from Paris, because they were le tired of conquering France.
You're right. I think we should write to salary.com and have them stop offering their free service until they can provide the same free service for every person on Earth. That will, of course, require salary.com to buy a computer and internet connection for everybody on the planet.
Or, people who don't find the free service to be useful could go find a different service, and not make snide comments about how useful it is. After all, it's hard to imagine how it could be worth LESS than you paid for it.
"But the fact is that the US involvment was not that great."
Now, we may be running into a language barrier here, but "not that great" and "insignificant" are synonyms.
It's an insult to be told that the sacrifices made by your countrymen to defend the freedoms of other people are insignificant.
Vietnam and Korea were ill-advised wars, but the Americans who went there and didn't come back are heroes. Dying for your own freedom is one thing. Dying for somebody else's, well, that's something Americans seem more willing to do than any other nation in history.
You can't be serious. Are you really saying that the American involvement in World War II was insignificant?
Winston Churchill disagreed with you. Vehemently. I bet Herr Hitler would have something to say on the subject as well.
Roosevelt drew a foul in the Pacific in order to get into the war in Europe. We (America) turned the tide there, and then proceeded to disarm another imperialist power on the other side of the planet.
More Russians died, more French territory was conquered, but anybody who says that the US was not responsible for containing the Axis is on crack.
You know, I was kind of thinking that we'd limit the discussion to cards that have been commercially available in the last five to seven years. I mean, I don't think you can get a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 to work in Windows either.
I'm having a great deal of difficulty following your reasoning.
1) Drivers have to be installed before hardware works. Duh. 2) Drivers supplied by the manufacturer are preferable (from a non-expert user's perspective) to downloading/compiling/hewing from aluminum billet one's own drivers.
Linux has fewer drivers, and those drivers are harder to install than on Windows. Right?
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You might think that "I have nothing to hide, so I have nothing to fear!" is a good recipe for a civil society, but the American founding fathers disagree with you. And I agree wit them.
Police power is ALWAYS abused. Always. That's why we need to be very careful when we extend that power.
Yeah, I'm sure Tokyo Godfather and Grave of the Fireflies are targeted at Japanese children.
Anime is not a genre. It's a medium.
No, but any time you are a government and you track everybody's movements by the aggregation of license plate image data, you are infringing on my liberties.
Specifically, the presumption of innocence and the freedom from unwarranted search.
And they promise that, after installing all the necessary infrastructure, they won't start doing it in the future. And the government always keeps its promises.
You can always come up with a way that infringing on my liberties will Save the Children.
That doesn't make it a good idea.
Uh huh. What happened to the people in the other vehicles when they encountered your high-bumpered "safe" vehicle?
Suburbans are thrice as likely to kill people in the other vehicle. The fiction that they don't need to be safe, because they're trucks, is a criminal negligence on the part of Chevy and their pet legislators. (Same goes for the larger Fords and Dodges.)
So which is it? Is it "just" a VW, therefore still a "volks" wagen, or does it have the technical chops to be compared with other world-class marques, and therefore have lost their roots?
You're arguing both sides.
VWs are well-engineered, well-designed, and affordable. Audis are even more well designed, equally well engineered, and reasonably priced for their market. Rolls and Bentley seem to be doing just fine under VW's direction, and everybody seems to agree that they are superb automobiles. Phaeton was a very pretty car, and it will be interesting to see how it fares against other mid- to high-end luxury cars.
So what's wrong with Volkswagen, exactly? Just because it's the same name as a Beetle, doesn't mean the cars haven't moved along technologically.
You haven't accounted for the fact that the Veyron will light up all four tires and blow your RX7 into the weeds.
(btw, I love RX7's, but the Veyron is in a class of its own...)
Why would you need downforce on the salt flats? The air dam and the rear wing are plenty to keep the car stable, and the point of the salt flats is you don't have to turn...
Me.
I've found four new utilities that I find very useful reading this discussion.
Any other questions?
So why was Churchill so desperate to get the US into the war? If the Wehrmacht was on its last legs, why did so many American soldiers die?
I've read plenty of history, and I have come to a radically different conclusion than you have.
Germany lost because they were fighting a two-front war, not just because they (stupidly) invaded Russia in the wintertime. The American army was the bulk of that second front (not all, not the only, but the bulk of that second front) and to suggest that American involvement wasn't critical to the outcome of the war is simply revisionism.
Never mind the materiel assistance provided before Roosevelt drew his foul at Pearl.
"soaring adlunar coition"
Point to you, sir.
THEY ARE in the giveaway.
Unless you think that it's a good idea to let people starve, that's the way it will be unless we get a decent system for trading subsistence wages for a reasonable work week. Right now, we ain't got it.
Or would you rather have people robbing your house and selling smack to feed their families?
But the free market doesn't properly determine wages.
How does a person making $7/hr support their family? Answer is, they don't. They have to get a stipend from the government. That is, from other taxpayers. Wouldn't it be better if the people who benefit from that person's work (the business and their customers) pay a reasonable wage to the person doing the work? One that enables them to support their family?
Would you rather have somebody selling burgers to you at McDonald's, or selling crack at the local elementary school?
Yeah, let the pay be for the real value of the work, and let the taxpayers make up for the difference between that and subsistence.
Makes perfect sense.
Not.
"not so, and I don't even speak English that good."
OK, English lesson.
"Not that great == not significant == insignificant".
That might not have been what you meant, but it is what you said.
And, as far as Canada and NZ, I didn't disparage either contribution to the war effort. Any soldier that goes into harm's way to defend others is a hero. Despite your revisionist tendencies, a hell of a lot of those soldiers have come from America. Never mind America's economic and materiel contribution to the war effort before the troops landed.
If other countries are insulted by the fact that America is willing to sacrifice its sons and daughters for their freedom, those countries can piss off.
Uh huh. That whole invasion of Normandy was just us happening to run into the Wehrmacht as they were running back home from Paris, because they were le tired of conquering France.
Boy, are you ever wrong.
You're right. I think we should write to salary.com and have them stop offering their free service until they can provide the same free service for every person on Earth. That will, of course, require salary.com to buy a computer and internet connection for everybody on the planet.
Or, people who don't find the free service to be useful could go find a different service, and not make snide comments about how useful it is. After all, it's hard to imagine how it could be worth LESS than you paid for it.
Twit.
Wow, so you're supposed to try to get more money, and have experience and skills?
Your insights on the theory of employment are absolutely staggering. Do you have an MBA?
One of the things I used to like about free societies is that members don't have a freedom from being annoyed.
Wish I could find a free society.
"But the fact is that the US
involvment was not that great."
Now, we may be running into a language barrier here, but "not that great" and "insignificant" are synonyms.
It's an insult to be told that the sacrifices made by your countrymen to defend the freedoms of other people are insignificant.
Vietnam and Korea were ill-advised wars, but the Americans who went there and didn't come back are heroes. Dying for your own freedom is one thing. Dying for somebody else's, well, that's something Americans seem more willing to do than any other nation in history.
You can't be serious. Are you really saying that the American involvement in World War II was insignificant?
Winston Churchill disagreed with you. Vehemently. I bet Herr Hitler would have something to say on the subject as well.
Roosevelt drew a foul in the Pacific in order to get into the war in Europe. We (America) turned the tide there, and then proceeded to disarm another imperialist power on the other side of the planet.
More Russians died, more French territory was conquered, but anybody who says that the US was not responsible for containing the Axis is on crack.
You know, I was kind of thinking that we'd limit the discussion to cards that have been commercially available in the last five to seven years. I mean, I don't think you can get a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 to work in Windows either.
Ah. And when was this card minted?
I'm having a great deal of difficulty following your reasoning.
1) Drivers have to be installed before hardware works. Duh.
2) Drivers supplied by the manufacturer are preferable (from a non-expert user's perspective) to downloading/compiling/hewing from aluminum billet one's own drivers.
Linux has fewer drivers, and those drivers are harder to install than on Windows. Right?