You don't seem to understand the judicial system one bit. If I were to kill someone, would you say that killing someone is legal until a jury tries me for it? Laws specifically say whether something is legal or not, the question is whether or not the NSA has broken the law.
The proper way to refer to the situation is to say that the NSA has allegedly performed wiretaps illegally.
It's a fairly well known case. While the guy was later convicted on other charges due to searches because of his arrest, he was specifically arrested for making a burning bush joke.
It would seem to me that these incidents could be related to the cell phone tower; or it could be a very sad coincidence.
That was what I'm thinking. 7 people getting a tumor all at the same time is certainly indicative of something, but unless we start looking at tumor incidence in all the OTHER buildings with cellphone masts, we can't just come out and blame it on cellphone masts in general.
Maybe that particular mast is malfunctioning? Maybe there's something else in the building causing it?
I think the problem is that the Democrats (and the Republicans) DO see Americans as "big babies". Except that they feel their job is to protect the babies from the mean old world instead of forcing us (allowing us?) to grow up.
When this thing finally fails, NASA should make every attempt possible to bring the ISS back to Earth in (approximately) one piece. We really need to know why all these things keep failing out there, and hopefully learn how to make them more robust. Stuck mirrors, jammed wheels, dead solar panels, useless antennae... do we even bring back failed satellites to see what went wrong or do they all just deorbit and burn? We can't go pick up the mars rover to see what's wrong with it, but the ISS is certainly within reach.
This is more like... well, imagine if that movie Stargate had been called RIFTS. No change to the plot, just call it RIFTS because there's this gate to other worlds.
To be more clear about what's happening here for the non-gamers, let's pretend we were releasing a Star Trek game. Except there was no teleporting, no Vulcans, no warp, no spaceships, no Klingons, no hot green babes... but you could use a phaser.
Cowboy Bebop. In the US, you can get the original 6 DVD series, or the 2 "Best sessions" discs, or the new "remix" release with remastered video and 5.1 surround audio.
Or even Ah, My Goddess. AnimEigo is re-releasing the OAV with remastered video this summer. I'll be buying it (again) because stupid sappy love stories without over-the-top fanservice are my thing, plus geekiness points for representing the universe as a computer and Urd/Belldandy/Skuld as Sysadmin/Tech Support/Programmer, respectively.
Of course, I have friends who started watching anime way before me, and have a couple of VHS fansubs of AMG, three legit copies of it on VHS (two worn out and unplayable), at least one copy on LD (plus extras from when AnimEigo were basically giving their LDs away as death frisbees) and the first DVD release of the show, so I'm not yet to the point of throwing that much money at a series over and over, but HD will be coming soon...
But when the talk is about teenage pregnancy, the statistics thrown around almost always include 18 and 19 year olds. It makes the numbers bigger and scarier than the problem really is.
those age twelve and under
So why should we not assume that when someone brings up child pornography that they're counting all the 17 year old myspace camwhores flashing their tits just to make sure that the problem sounds as big and scary as possible? As long as the masses assume the worst in every case, thats the effect it has. Of course, we know they're doing this, thanks to the arrests of a number of these girls for exactly that have made the news recently... various not-quite-18-year-olds taking naked pictures of themselves for boyfriends or the hell of it, and being arrested for exploiting themselves. You can bet they're counted in these child porn statistics even though they're nowhere near your "innocent little girl" ideal.
While this is true, 'eventually' may be 100 years. Its been almost 90 years since the last big flu.. and it could be 90 more before there's another.
And? If you're in America, check your gas pump. This is exactly the thinking that has led us to increasing gasoline prices. "There's plenty of oil", "there won't be a crisis for years and years", and "if we run out of oil, the magic invention fairy will hit us with something new". Meanwhile, we still haven't reached the cost of gasoline in Europe and people are already sobbing and whining and begging for anything to be done to make it cheaper... except for coming up with new fuels.
Sure, there might not be another flu pandemic for 100 years, but when it happens, do you want the problem to have already been solved, or do you want 50% of your crisis control staff turning purple and falling over dead at their posts?
And exactly what constitutional freedom is being sacrificed here?
The constitutional freedom that says "if it ain't in here, it's a freedom" aka, The Ninth Amendment.
I'm sick and tired of people who keep repeating the same old shit over and over "oOoOoOoOo it's not in the constitution, you don't have a right to it". Yes, I do. The right to privacy (except where the government is specifically permitted to violate that), the right to not have the government bully me around (except where the government is specifically permitted to do so), and so on. I have those rights, it says so right there.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
"The Congress shall have power... To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states... To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries".
And so we have copyright that lasts around 100 years. Now, explain in 1000 words or less how your statement justifies preventing me from designing or building electronic equipment just because I'm not Comcast?
Now, if we find ourselves in a situation where large numbers of people are making serious money and trying to avoid taxes, then all bets are off and the IRS could come down on the whole thing pretty hard. I just don't see that happening.
Or if we end up in a situation where the government owes lots of money and its leaders come down on the revenue generating parts to find more money, fast...
Also of note, Gaps in Health Insurance: An All-American Problem.
The average "Health" insurance policy isn't the answer, it's the problem.
Before the War (when the government froze wages, forcing companies to turn to "alternative" benefits to attract employees), preventative healthcare (yearly checkups, vaccines, etc) was perfectly accessible to the average person. Back then, people didn't rush their baby to the ER because it coughed, and somehow a significant portion of them managed to survive. Back then, if you were worried about being in an accident and losing a leg or something serious, you bought "major medical" insurance.
Enter "health" insurance. Which insures that you'll always be healthy, which is ridiculous on the face of it. Regular checkups, sick kids, the flu... just about everyone sees the doctor sometime and thats not even including cancer, broken legs, and other things that used to be the provenance of major medical insurance. Naturally, insurance that always pays out is an incredibly bad bet. So to make their money, they take in as much money as possible and hold it in investments for as long as possible, before paying out as little as possible. This is a terrible deal for everyone but the insurance company (unless the stock market takes a dive, and then it's just terrible), but the insurance companies prosper anyway, because of the above: the vast majority of working people expect to be insured by their employer. This lets the insurance companies' costs to the patients be partially hidden by the company providing their policy to their employees. And of course, on the doctors' side, the larger insurance companies hold the fact that they bring to the table millions of patients on their insurance plans against the doctors as well.
Some might say "so? Just don't use the insurance". This problem is of the chicken-and-eggs variety (which do you kill first?). If a doctor stops taking insurance, their masses of insured patients will go elsewhere. A small handful of doctors have opened cash-only shops, mostly being regarded as either "botiques" for the rich, or "clinics" for the poor, neither of which would be frequented all too often by the middle class. Of course, the patient could give up their insurance and use their newfound cash to pay for healthcare out of pocket, but they would have their own set of problems. Doctors are often seen as "inflating" charges for uninsured patients to make up for low payments by insurance companies. While this is certainly true in a good number of cases, it's not the whole story: Most of the major insurers contractually set the doctors' charges for uninsured patients, through a simple little clause that requires the doctor to never charge uninsured patients less than they charge the insurance company. Thus, if the doctor charges the insurance company $100 for an office visit so that they can get $20 back, the doctor is required by the contract to charge the uninsured patients at least $100. After all, if the doctor thinks an office visit is worth $50, then they shouldn't try to charge the insurance more. This has the (probably fully intended) side effect of scaring the patients into staying on the insurance: after all, everyone knows how EXPENSIVE it is if you aren't insured.
So my answer is to somehow abolish what we now know as health insurance. Return to the days when the doctors could set their own rates for what they do, and patients could make their choices on the free market. Return to the days when insurance companies offered policies that measured risk, rather than offered a guaranteed payout. Sure, some patients will band together and make agreements with a doctor ("I employ 3000 people. Give them a 10% discount and I'll send them all to you") and I'm fine with that as long as it no longer reaches the point where these groups are ordering how the doctors will treat non-members.
Until then, we're living with a market distortion so large that socialist medica?? is merely an insect smeared upon the windshield of a runaway ambulance.
In general, Ads don't ruin anything. Whiners ruin things.
That said, flash ads ruin websites. Especially flash ads that stretch out over text. Floating DIV ads that block your content ruin websites. Noisy ads ruin websites. Ads that cause seizures ruin websites. Sites with more ads on the screen than content have been ruined by ads.
per having a judge issue a subpeona to get your GWB bobblehead dool surfing habits revealed.
A) In a SANE world, he'd have been held or released on the basis of his actual infringement (flying through Bush's Secret Magical Zone). Websurfing habits would not come into play because it would have nothing to do with it.
B) How would the judge issue a warrant to get their past websurfing habits? Is this the real secret that Bush is hiding from us? That the NSA employs Timecops? If so why don't they just go back in time and kill my gr
Look up Bush's reactions to the Minutemen, a group which fits every definition of a well regulated (and armed) Militia. It's clear that he has no love at all for the second amendment, even when it's being used in the way you claim it's supposed to be used for.
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that the methods used are illegal.
You don't seem to understand the judicial system one bit. If I were to kill someone, would you say that killing someone is legal until a jury tries me for it? Laws specifically say whether something is legal or not, the question is whether or not the NSA has broken the law.
The proper way to refer to the situation is to say that the NSA has allegedly performed wiretaps illegally.
imprisoned for mocking Bush.
It's a fairly well known case. While the guy was later convicted on other charges due to searches because of his arrest, he was specifically arrested for making a burning bush joke.
It would seem to me that these incidents could be related to the cell phone tower; or it could be a very sad coincidence.
That was what I'm thinking. 7 people getting a tumor all at the same time is certainly indicative of something, but unless we start looking at tumor incidence in all the OTHER buildings with cellphone masts, we can't just come out and blame it on cellphone masts in general.
Maybe that particular mast is malfunctioning? Maybe there's something else in the building causing it?
I think the problem is that the Democrats (and the Republicans) DO see Americans as "big babies". Except that they feel their job is to protect the babies from the mean old world instead of forcing us (allowing us?) to grow up.
When this thing finally fails, NASA should make every attempt possible to bring the ISS back to Earth in (approximately) one piece. We really need to know why all these things keep failing out there, and hopefully learn how to make them more robust. Stuck mirrors, jammed wheels, dead solar panels, useless antennae... do we even bring back failed satellites to see what went wrong or do they all just deorbit and burn? We can't go pick up the mars rover to see what's wrong with it, but the ISS is certainly within reach.
I just want to see how they work the box in.
;)
The box is easy. Now, how are they going to work in the ! marks over enemy heads?
This is more like... well, imagine if that movie Stargate had been called RIFTS. No change to the plot, just call it RIFTS because there's this gate to other worlds.
To be more clear about what's happening here for the non-gamers, let's pretend we were releasing a Star Trek game. Except there was no teleporting, no Vulcans, no warp, no spaceships, no Klingons, no hot green babes... but you could use a phaser.
Next week, maybe I'll get to trade group sex for herpes.
Why trade? Some people manage to get both.
The best option would be for me to cut the line running under my lawn and keep cutting it until they pay me or move the line somewhere else.
It's still got a bluray drive in the cheap version, it just doesn't have HDMI+HDCP, so you can't watch (some of) your bluray discs in full resolution.
Cowboy Bebop. In the US, you can get the original 6 DVD series, or the 2 "Best sessions" discs, or the new "remix" release with remastered video and 5.1 surround audio.
Or even Ah, My Goddess. AnimEigo is re-releasing the OAV with remastered video this summer. I'll be buying it (again) because stupid sappy love stories without over-the-top fanservice are my thing, plus geekiness points for representing the universe as a computer and Urd/Belldandy/Skuld as Sysadmin/Tech Support/Programmer, respectively.
Of course, I have friends who started watching anime way before me, and have a couple of VHS fansubs of AMG, three legit copies of it on VHS (two worn out and unplayable), at least one copy on LD (plus extras from when AnimEigo were basically giving their LDs away as death frisbees) and the first DVD release of the show, so I'm not yet to the point of throwing that much money at a series over and over, but HD will be coming soon...
relish buying the same thing over and over again
Funny, I've always wondered why Star Wars never made it in the US as a mainstrWHAT? New DVD Editions and this time Han shoots first?! Sold!
Wait, where was I?
When the talk is about child pornography
But when the talk is about teenage pregnancy, the statistics thrown around almost always include 18 and 19 year olds. It makes the numbers bigger and scarier than the problem really is.
those age twelve and under
So why should we not assume that when someone brings up child pornography that they're counting all the 17 year old myspace camwhores flashing their tits just to make sure that the problem sounds as big and scary as possible? As long as the masses assume the worst in every case, thats the effect it has. Of course, we know they're doing this, thanks to the arrests of a number of these girls for exactly that have made the news recently... various not-quite-18-year-olds taking naked pictures of themselves for boyfriends or the hell of it, and being arrested for exploiting themselves. You can bet they're counted in these child porn statistics even though they're nowhere near your "innocent little girl" ideal.
While this is true, 'eventually' may be 100 years. Its been almost 90 years since the last big flu.. and it could be 90 more before there's another.
And? If you're in America, check your gas pump. This is exactly the thinking that has led us to increasing gasoline prices. "There's plenty of oil", "there won't be a crisis for years and years", and "if we run out of oil, the magic invention fairy will hit us with something new". Meanwhile, we still haven't reached the cost of gasoline in Europe and people are already sobbing and whining and begging for anything to be done to make it cheaper... except for coming up with new fuels.
Sure, there might not be another flu pandemic for 100 years, but when it happens, do you want the problem to have already been solved, or do you want 50% of your crisis control staff turning purple and falling over dead at their posts?
And exactly what constitutional freedom is being sacrificed here?
The constitutional freedom that says "if it ain't in here, it's a freedom" aka, The Ninth Amendment.
I'm sick and tired of people who keep repeating the same old shit over and over "oOoOoOoOo it's not in the constitution, you don't have a right to it". Yes, I do. The right to privacy (except where the government is specifically permitted to violate that), the right to not have the government bully me around (except where the government is specifically permitted to do so), and so on. I have those rights, it says so right there.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Why it's the responsibility of healthy individuals to subsidize your illness?
I dunno. Why don't you ask Aetna or Humana or United Healthcare? After all thats what THEY do.
Do you just not realize that your privatized insurance and his socialist insurance are the same shared hallucination?
"The Congress shall have power ... To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states ... To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries".
And so we have copyright that lasts around 100 years. Now, explain in 1000 words or less how your statement justifies preventing me from designing or building electronic equipment just because I'm not Comcast?
attacks on civilian shipping
Shortly thereafter, the global average temperature will fall a few degrees?
Now, if we find ourselves in a situation where large numbers of people are making serious money and trying to avoid taxes, then all bets are off and the IRS could come down on the whole thing pretty hard. I just don't see that happening.
Or if we end up in a situation where the government owes lots of money and its leaders come down on the revenue generating parts to find more money, fast...
Also of note, Gaps in Health Insurance: An All-American Problem.
The average "Health" insurance policy isn't the answer, it's the problem.
Before the War (when the government froze wages, forcing companies to turn to "alternative" benefits to attract employees), preventative healthcare (yearly checkups, vaccines, etc) was perfectly accessible to the average person. Back then, people didn't rush their baby to the ER because it coughed, and somehow a significant portion of them managed to survive. Back then, if you were worried about being in an accident and losing a leg or something serious, you bought "major medical" insurance.
Enter "health" insurance. Which insures that you'll always be healthy, which is ridiculous on the face of it. Regular checkups, sick kids, the flu... just about everyone sees the doctor sometime and thats not even including cancer, broken legs, and other things that used to be the provenance of major medical insurance. Naturally, insurance that always pays out is an incredibly bad bet. So to make their money, they take in as much money as possible and hold it in investments for as long as possible, before paying out as little as possible. This is a terrible deal for everyone but the insurance company (unless the stock market takes a dive, and then it's just terrible), but the insurance companies prosper anyway, because of the above: the vast majority of working people expect to be insured by their employer. This lets the insurance companies' costs to the patients be partially hidden by the company providing their policy to their employees. And of course, on the doctors' side, the larger insurance companies hold the fact that they bring to the table millions of patients on their insurance plans against the doctors as well.
Some might say "so? Just don't use the insurance". This problem is of the chicken-and-eggs variety (which do you kill first?). If a doctor stops taking insurance, their masses of insured patients will go elsewhere. A small handful of doctors have opened cash-only shops, mostly being regarded as either "botiques" for the rich, or "clinics" for the poor, neither of which would be frequented all too often by the middle class. Of course, the patient could give up their insurance and use their newfound cash to pay for healthcare out of pocket, but they would have their own set of problems. Doctors are often seen as "inflating" charges for uninsured patients to make up for low payments by insurance companies. While this is certainly true in a good number of cases, it's not the whole story: Most of the major insurers contractually set the doctors' charges for uninsured patients, through a simple little clause that requires the doctor to never charge uninsured patients less than they charge the insurance company. Thus, if the doctor charges the insurance company $100 for an office visit so that they can get $20 back, the doctor is required by the contract to charge the uninsured patients at least $100. After all, if the doctor thinks an office visit is worth $50, then they shouldn't try to charge the insurance more. This has the (probably fully intended) side effect of scaring the patients into staying on the insurance: after all, everyone knows how EXPENSIVE it is if you aren't insured.
So my answer is to somehow abolish what we now know as health insurance. Return to the days when the doctors could set their own rates for what they do, and patients could make their choices on the free market. Return to the days when insurance companies offered policies that measured risk, rather than offered a guaranteed payout. Sure, some patients will band together and make agreements with a doctor ("I employ 3000 people. Give them a 10% discount and I'll send them all to you") and I'm fine with that as long as it no longer reaches the point where these groups are ordering how the doctors will treat non-members.
Until then, we're living with a market distortion so large that socialist medica?? is merely an insect smeared upon the windshield of a runaway ambulance.
In general, Ads don't ruin anything. Whiners ruin things.
That said, flash ads ruin websites. Especially flash ads that stretch out over text. Floating DIV ads that block your content ruin websites. Noisy ads ruin websites. Ads that cause seizures ruin websites. Sites with more ads on the screen than content have been ruined by ads.
per having a judge issue a subpeona to get your GWB bobblehead dool surfing habits revealed.
A) In a SANE world, he'd have been held or released on the basis of his actual infringement (flying through Bush's Secret Magical Zone). Websurfing habits would not come into play because it would have nothing to do with it.
B) How would the judge issue a warrant to get their past websurfing habits? Is this the real secret that Bush is hiding from us? That the NSA employs Timecops? If so why don't they just go back in time and kill my gr
Ah but how many of those were on American soil?
Chalk these subpoenas up with tiger repellant in the excellent idea hall of fame!
Look up Bush's reactions to the Minutemen, a group which fits every definition of a well regulated (and armed) Militia. It's clear that he has no love at all for the second amendment, even when it's being used in the way you claim it's supposed to be used for.
Hmm...
cat constitution.txt | grep -i "privacy"
It would appear that particular aspect of the document is missing.
Thanks! You just proved that the federal government has no right to invade my privacy. Have a nice day!