Unless we're talking murder or some serious crime, you're probably going to have a hard time getting the police interested in investing the resources to try to identify the perp and hunt them down and arrest them.
True. They are too busy with traffic violations and small quanity drug possession charges.
Nostalgia can be fun, but this is too far. If I'm still playing PS2 games 30 years from now instead of whatever awesome stuff will be out then, I hope my kid shoots me.
I suspect in the next 2 or 3 years all old tech games will go away. Things like checkers, chess, cards, board games, every low tech one will be replaced with a $3 electronic disposable device.
Any cuber worth a damn will be able to identify that the cube has been tampered with within two minutes (significantly less if he or she is a speed cuber).
True. When I was a kid, I would solve them for people all the time. If I said, "It can't be done, you have either taken the cube apart and put it together wrong or you changed the stickers", and many times they would not believe me. Sometimes, I would fix the cube, and then solve it.
One cube had the same color duplicated on the same piece, and the person would not believe me.
Remember the days when websites would yell at you telling you that you needed to use a certain version of an OS, with a certain version of a certain browser, with the latest pre-alpha VRML plugin and 1024x768 resolution?
Now, you don't even need a computer to browse the web.
That is progress.
I use Safari at home and Firefox at work (both with flash blockers), and I can do anything.
Back when Microsoft tried to take over the web, I had many issues with many sites. I don't remember the last problem I've had viewing a website.
And this is without government regulation or anything.
Probably, but I don't know that speed is everything to the average user.
For most "average users" lack of speed is the only reason they get rid of spyware and stuff and/or get a new computer. The later part I mean because the current one is too slow because of the spyware.
It's time to split eBay into two sites - Pro and Casual Sellers.
Isn't this already done? Craiglist and local papers, etc, for casual buying and selling. And use Google or a known company for a more professional business transaction. You know, stuff like being able to do returns, warantee, service, support. Does any of these "normal business practices" exist in an eBay "Pro seller" world? And from the "Pro Seller's" POV, they get no protection from eBay from bad customers.
Personally, I don't understand eBay's success. I've heard of people, many on this thread, that have had limited success with eBay for a period of time, but then things change, and they give up.
Now here's the math, if A + B > C then eBay will probably send out apologies and make a good effort to please these power sellers. However, if D*E
Thats fine an good, but what ever happened to at least the illusion of "The customer is always right?"
With the ilks like RIAA, MPAA, eBay, Neo-cons, oil, Microsoft, etc, its "The bottom line, those poor top 1% wealthy people, and shareholders are always on our mind", the customers don't matter because they don't have too many other choices, now do they?
I would guess that my rant is about as effective as just screaming like Roger Daltrey -- "Meet the old boss, same as the new boss". We're not fooled, but then again, it seems like its just SSDD.
It's not. This guy was an amateur looking at the problem a decade ago.
I've talked with the local head government transportation guy, and he said the term that they called this phenominon is the "accordian effect".
I think main motorways should be allowed to use the shoulders when traffic is backed up (w/o rumble strips). But you can get in some legal trouble if you do that today.
I also just think that cars don't scale well, and we just need a better way to get from point A to B.
It's not the Twinkie Defense. Hans is claiming he didn't murder her, not that some bizarre psychological condition associated with being a geek should mitigate his action in some way. The psychological aspect is used only to explain why he acted so strangely and why those strange actions are not indicative of guilt. Basically, it didn't even occur to him that those actions might be seen as acting guilty.
From what I can tell, the prosecution has absolutely not proven Hans' guilt beyond the shadow of a doubt. They have not met the standard of proof required for a criminal conviction.
IANAL, and I don't know too much about this case, but from what I know:
1) In a murder case like this one, odds are someone close to the victim is suspected and odds are someone close to the victim did it.
2) There is no real hard evidence in this case. There is no body or witnesses. There is no physical evidence pointing to the fact that Hans murdered anybody.
3) There is no clear motive for Hans to of killed his wife.
4) There is strange stuff like his car seat missing, extra clean stuff, a book on murdering someone, and other crap like this.
The defense is silently ignoring #1. Because most interstate illicit drug traffickers are white males looking "normal" with possibly out of states tags, does not make much for the prosecutors in court. The police to get the arrest/search or whatever, but this is not evidence.
#2 is purely the prosecution's burden. If there isn't any, well the defense can just rest its case and wait for the not guilty verdict.
#3 same as #2
#4 With the lack of #2 and #3, we can all agree that Hans is a strange geek where having books about murder, removing seats of cars, and any other strange thing can be witnessed by any weird geek caught at any given moment (similar to #1).
To me, my intuition says that he killed her. But I have yet to of heard anything sufficient as evidence of guilt in a trial, and honestly, I think it was either premature or wrong for the trial to of even gone this far.
I hope I didn't have any facts incorrect here. If so, mod me as -10 wrong.
If men are really that useless, this must mean that women really suck at selecting a sexual partner.
Both men and women pretty much suck at selecting sexual partners. The reasons for the sucky selection process change over time. Sex is just sex, reproduction, child raising, and relationships are a different dimension.
His first four points are all about a lack of standards:
1. Cordless tools and equipment--all with different kinds of battery packs and chargers. 2. Flashlights and other small electrical devices that run on exotic batteries. 3. Cellphones that all come with different chargers and power-supply units. 4. AV equipment that has different types of hookups and remote-control protocols.
With household stuff (plumbing, wires, 2x4s, doors, etc), its amazing how interchangable these things are. I don't know if there is an external standards behind it, or if they just evolved that way.
I can't think of any car where I actually had to remove a tire just to change the battery (Does anyone know what car Jamie was talking about?).
The biggest problem with peripheral rendering is that it HAS to be directly effected by head tilts. Peripheral images MUST stay peripheral. The only product...
Circular polarized glasses are not affected by head angle. Even works upside down. They are "achromatic" to boot, no ghosting or strange colors, but they are still goofy glasses, and it a requires dual rear projection setup.
I tend to disagree. Companies are willing to pay for theoretical products that are outside the box, especially if you have the sofware and hardware knowledge to build a virtual prototype. The big problem is that many employees are fearful of taking the risks to find that reward.
For industry-types out there: I do have about 3 theory papers ready to sell and consult on going deeper into some of these thoughts:)
I've never really worked "in industry", kinda been instutionalized since grade school (either in schools, working for them, or similar environments). In these worlds, we ask/beg/plead^H^H^H^H^H^H send proposals to the government for funding. Slightly different worlds.
My experience over the years was ALWAYS with static images that were raytraced. They looked great, but it wasn't until I experienced raytraced animations (high res, many reflective and transparent layers with multiple light sources and a sun-source) that I really saw the benefit and how it would aid in gaming.
All this is fine, but I think we will have to wait another 20+ years for computers to be fast and cheap enough before this becomes a reality.
The next step: a truly 3D immersive peripheral video system, maybe a curved paper-thin monitor?
The quality/cost is variable, but these things are available today. Shutter glasses, linear and circular polarized glasses, there is a TV on the market right now that offers a degree of 3dness w/o glasses (I can't find the link to it now).
Its definitely more fun dreaming about what will come in the computer world, than dealing with the "Why the fsck doesn't this work like it should?" today.
If I infringe your copyright you still have both the work and its copyright. The difference is if you're caught you have a small criminal fine with stealing but a large civil penalty with copyright infringement.
I dunno, it may be all BS, but a lot of consumer videos start with an FBI warning saying that they will come and get me if I watch the movie wrong with specific criminal punishments/fines, and the like.
As it stands, I think the safest (illegal) way to acquire new music and videos is standard shoplifting. I knew a friend who was big into "quasi-organized" shoplifiting when he was a teenager, and stole tons of crap and when he was caught, he was basically told not to do it again (community service, etc, he was a minor).
A minor caught today with a shared drive with some Britney Spears MP3s may never see the light of day. Or will never get out of debt for the fines and court costs.
Good old fashioned theft seems best today. Its less than copy infringement.
DRM tends to punish your paying customers as much (or more) than those stealing it. When your business model punishes your customer the result will be decline and eventually failure.
This is so true.
I think everything is more or less on a continuum. I don't drive an armored truck, but the banks use them. I don't have a safe in my house (I think I should more for fire, but thats irrelevant), but most businesses have safes.
As it stands now, an overpriced CD needs to have unbreakable end to end DRM (and it should cost more!).
No, CDs are disposable, commodity crap, and should be priced as such and the cost should be low enough and the ease of legally acquiring said CD should be easy enough that torrent sites should not be the most efficient and cost effective means of acquiring the material.
I download whole "discography" torrents, especially for older artists, because I want to take a look at their whole career. There is no affordable "legal" comparible product on the market. Some of these box sets, are way overpriced, same with TV series on DVD. I told my mom outright not to buy me any more X-Files on DVD because they were $100/season and not worth the money, even if it wasn't my money.
I think the best alternative, is a service model, where you pay X/month (where X is much less than my income), and you can have access to quality (not MP3) recordings, and when you run out of storage, you delete the crap you don't want, or redownload it if you miss the song or whatever. Hell, offer MP3's at a lower rate, thats fine too. How about DVD-Audio? Sure, there are the great multi-channel, and really high bitrate DVD-Audio, but guess what? They can have standard "CD quality" 2 channel 16bit/44.1kHz PCM data, but at CD quality there are about 6 CDs worth of music on DVD-Audio.
Most commuters have to change a typical CD or listen to it again before going to and from work. The format is too short considering the technologies out there.
There are so many options (including the sue your customer one), out there, but these assfucks would try to push 8-tracks on us if they could. Lets get with the times people! I mean, wax cylinders and cassettes and 78 RPM records went away for a reason. There was superior technology out there, and the public wanted that.
Today, there is superior technology out ther, and the public still wants it, but the media "owners" are not meeting the demands of the industry, and they should either adopt or simply go out of business -- just like any other industry.
I'd be all for filling my pockets if that were the case.
The thing is that like in my area peanuts were subsidized by the government for basically ever. They stopped the subsidies, and many of the farms (think Planters, peanuts) went out of business due to foreign competition. Some of the American peanuts are actually better, and growing those is still practical, but the generic peanuts can be grown in other places cheaper.
The sad thing about subsidies, is they are like welfare or whatever. You become dependant upon them, and then when the rug is pulled from under your feet, you don't know what to do.
In a free economy, these subsidies don't exist. With corn, its great for feeding people and animals (minus the HFC, sugar is better), but with the interest in biofuels, the whole thing is being muddied by these subsidies. Its impossible to tell what the price of corn is.
Oh, and Mickey Mouse will be just OK. I mean how much money does Disney make off of Steam Boat Willie today? Copyright (and patents) have a place, but the Happy Birthday copyright is just silly. Many patents are silly. Its not the method or the idea that is really important, its the public's desire for said method and idea, and the ability to satisy that demand at a reasonable price. Which means not just thinking, but actually doing and producing./rant
Damn, beat me to it, the 4th amendment is in my buffer waiting to be pasted.
Also, what I don't get is if the government is after somebody sooooo bad, why is it such a burden to get a warrant?
I mean, many of my emails (and/. postings) could have other meanings when taken out of context.
So, Big Brother, what is so difficult about getting a warrant? Also, I don't want you wasting your time reading people's email. When there is a crime, there is always evidence after the fact. Take said evidence, get a warrant, and abide by the law, like everybody else is supposed to do.
I find it funny how nobody says anything like "Let's get those terrorists!"
I don't think its worth the president's time and efforts (nor things like what they did to Clinton) to investigate stuff. Bush got away with it, deal with it.
I would look into getting back the middle class.
I would look into alternative energy sources.
I would look into limiting the power of those special interest lobby groups. I don't know how they get so much done, but these things are typically NOT in the public's interest, but to a few (rich people's) private interest. It kills me with things like the corn lobby has done.
I would look into health issues, which in turn means considering drug and alcohol abuse as health issues, not criminal ones.
I would have a few people just conveniently "disappear" (Much easier, quicker and cheaper than investigations and stuff).
I would look into bringing states rights back, instead of the trend for the feds to do stuff. State laws are great, because they are like competition in the free market. They can learn from each other. The feds say something, and it takes a LONG time before they admit they were wrong (if ever). Its much easier to change states than countries.
I would end the Iraq war (duh).
I would also never get elected. I'm almost 100% in line with Ron Paul, but it seems like he has no chance to win. I'm not even near a Republican, but RP is sharp, and its ashame that someone like him cannot get elected. Maybe look into election reform? Multi-party system? I dunno. Like I said, even if I was squeaky clean, I would (and never the people I support) seem to get elected, so I'm in some kind of minority that just does not get any representation.
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Unless we're talking murder or some serious crime, you're probably going to have a hard time getting the police interested in investing the resources to try to identify the perp and hunt them down and arrest them.
True. They are too busy with traffic violations and small quanity drug possession charges.
Protect and serve, or something like that.
You would potentially kill someone to keep your $1000 TV?
Every time I've shot someone taking my TV, they dropped the damn thing as they were dying, and broke it.
Nostalgia can be fun, but this is too far. If I'm still playing PS2 games 30 years from now instead of whatever awesome stuff will be out then, I hope my kid shoots me.
I suspect in the next 2 or 3 years all old tech games will go away. Things like checkers, chess, cards, board games, every low tech one will be replaced with a $3 electronic disposable device.
will they pry my private encryption key passphrase.
Any cuber worth a damn will be able to identify that the cube has been tampered with within two minutes (significantly less if he or she is a speed cuber).
True. When I was a kid, I would solve them for people all the time. If I said, "It can't be done, you have either taken the cube apart and put it together wrong or you changed the stickers", and many times they would not believe me. Sometimes, I would fix the cube, and then solve it.
One cube had the same color duplicated on the same piece, and the person would not believe me.
Remember the days when websites would yell at you telling you that you needed to use a certain version of an OS, with a certain version of a certain browser, with the latest pre-alpha VRML plugin and 1024x768 resolution?
Now, you don't even need a computer to browse the web.
That is progress.
I use Safari at home and Firefox at work (both with flash blockers), and I can do anything.
Back when Microsoft tried to take over the web, I had many issues with many sites. I don't remember the last problem I've had viewing a website.
And this is without government regulation or anything.
Next up, standards for multimedia on the web.
You can't grep dead trees!.
Yes you can. You just need quotes, and a lot of patience.
[me@my computer] grep "dead trees"
If you wait long enough, everything you ever wanted will appear.
Probably, but I don't know that speed is everything to the average user.
For most "average users" lack of speed is the only reason they get rid of spyware and stuff and/or get a new computer. The later part I mean because the current one is too slow because of the spyware.
becoose-a foo getooeys scun fur FTP ettechments zeese-a deys.
Um gesh dee bork, bork! Ir, thet's becoose-a zeere's nu sooch theeng es un FTP ettechment? Iff yuoo ere-a refferreeng tu leenks, zeen I'm nut evere-a ooff uny furoos checkers thet ootumeteecelly doonlued und check HTTP leenks ieezeer. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
Cun unybudy trunslete-a thees intu sumetheeng thet mekes sense-a?
It's time to split eBay into two sites - Pro and Casual Sellers.
Isn't this already done? Craiglist and local papers, etc, for casual buying and selling. And use Google or a known company for a more professional business transaction. You know, stuff like being able to do returns, warantee, service, support. Does any of these "normal business practices" exist in an eBay "Pro seller" world? And from the "Pro Seller's" POV, they get no protection from eBay from bad customers.
Personally, I don't understand eBay's success. I've heard of people, many on this thread, that have had limited success with eBay for a period of time, but then things change, and they give up.
Now here's the math, if A + B > C then eBay will probably send out apologies and make a good effort to please these power sellers. However, if D*E
Thats fine an good, but what ever happened to at least the illusion of "The customer is always right?"
With the ilks like RIAA, MPAA, eBay, Neo-cons, oil, Microsoft, etc, its "The bottom line, those poor top 1% wealthy people, and shareholders are always on our mind", the customers don't matter because they don't have too many other choices, now do they?
I would guess that my rant is about as effective as just screaming like Roger Daltrey -- "Meet the old boss, same as the new boss". We're not fooled, but then again, it seems like its just SSDD.
Tailgating is a problem too.
:)
I've slowed down a bit and put on my hazard lights when I have a tailgater.
They seem to avoid that like the plague
It's not. This guy was an amateur looking at the problem a decade ago.
I've talked with the local head government transportation guy, and he said the term that they called this phenominon is the "accordian effect".
I think main motorways should be allowed to use the shoulders when traffic is backed up (w/o rumble strips). But you can get in some legal trouble if you do that today.
I also just think that cars don't scale well, and we just need a better way to get from point A to B.
It's not the Twinkie Defense. Hans is claiming he didn't murder her, not that some bizarre psychological condition associated with being a geek should mitigate his action in some way. The psychological aspect is used only to explain why he acted so strangely and why those strange actions are not indicative of guilt. Basically, it didn't even occur to him that those actions might be seen as acting guilty.
From what I can tell, the prosecution has absolutely not proven Hans' guilt beyond the shadow of a doubt. They have not met the standard of proof required for a criminal conviction.
IANAL, and I don't know too much about this case, but from what I know:
1) In a murder case like this one, odds are someone close to the victim is suspected and odds are someone close to the victim did it.
2) There is no real hard evidence in this case. There is no body or witnesses. There is no physical evidence pointing to the fact that Hans murdered anybody.
3) There is no clear motive for Hans to of killed his wife.
4) There is strange stuff like his car seat missing, extra clean stuff, a book on murdering someone, and other crap like this.
The defense is silently ignoring #1. Because most interstate illicit drug traffickers are white males looking "normal" with possibly out of states tags, does not make much for the prosecutors in court. The police to get the arrest/search or whatever, but this is not evidence.
#2 is purely the prosecution's burden. If there isn't any, well the defense can just rest its case and wait for the not guilty verdict.
#3 same as #2
#4 With the lack of #2 and #3, we can all agree that Hans is a strange geek where having books about murder, removing seats of cars, and any other strange thing can be witnessed by any weird geek caught at any given moment (similar to #1).
To me, my intuition says that he killed her. But I have yet to of heard anything sufficient as evidence of guilt in a trial, and honestly, I think it was either premature or wrong for the trial to of even gone this far.
I hope I didn't have any facts incorrect here. If so, mod me as -10 wrong.
Most people use LCDs not CRTs which makes no difference because the backlight is constant on LCDs. This is even addressed from a link from a link off of Blacke's about page here: http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/07/facts-and-fallacies-on-black-google.html
If men are really that useless, this must mean that women really suck at selecting a sexual partner.
Both men and women pretty much suck at selecting sexual partners. The reasons for the sucky selection process change over time. Sex is just sex, reproduction, child raising, and relationships are a different dimension.
His first four points are all about a lack of standards:
1. Cordless tools and equipment--all with different kinds of battery packs and chargers.
2. Flashlights and other small electrical devices that run on exotic batteries.
3. Cellphones that all come with different chargers and power-supply units.
4. AV equipment that has different types of hookups and remote-control protocols.
Wasn't stuff like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchangeable_parts noted as a mark of progress?
With household stuff (plumbing, wires, 2x4s, doors, etc), its amazing how interchangable these things are. I don't know if there is an external standards behind it, or if they just evolved that way.
I can't think of any car where I actually had to remove a tire just to change the battery (Does anyone know what car Jamie was talking about?).
Either its an urban legand, or something, but I've heard where there is a fairly popular car that you need to remove the front tire to do at least some basic maintenance -- ah, google seems to know http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_replace_a_battery_in_a_2001_Dodge_Stratus
The biggest problem with peripheral rendering is that it HAS to be directly effected by head tilts. Peripheral images MUST stay peripheral. The only product...
:)
Circular polarized glasses are not affected by head angle. Even works upside down. They are "achromatic" to boot, no ghosting or strange colors, but they are still goofy glasses, and it a requires dual rear projection setup.
I tend to disagree. Companies are willing to pay for theoretical products that are outside the box, especially if you have the sofware and hardware knowledge to build a virtual prototype. The big problem is that many employees are fearful of taking the risks to find that reward.
For industry-types out there: I do have about 3 theory papers ready to sell and consult on going deeper into some of these thoughts
I've never really worked "in industry", kinda been instutionalized since grade school (either in schools, working for them, or similar environments). In these worlds, we ask/beg/plead^H^H^H^H^H^H send proposals to the government for funding. Slightly different worlds.
My experience over the years was ALWAYS with static images that were raytraced. They looked great, but it wasn't until I experienced raytraced animations (high res, many reflective and transparent layers with multiple light sources and a sun-source) that I really saw the benefit and how it would aid in gaming.
All this is fine, but I think we will have to wait another 20+ years for computers to be fast and cheap enough before this becomes a reality.
The next step: a truly 3D immersive peripheral video system, maybe a curved paper-thin monitor?
The quality/cost is variable, but these things are available today. Shutter glasses, linear and circular polarized glasses, there is a TV on the market right now that offers a degree of 3dness w/o glasses (I can't find the link to it now).
Its definitely more fun dreaming about what will come in the computer world, than dealing with the "Why the fsck doesn't this work like it should?" today.
fscking pays better than dreaming though.
Whatever, I thought this was about this ticket: http://www.mugshots.org/misc/bill-gates.html
If I infringe your copyright you still have both the work and its copyright. The difference is if you're caught you have a small criminal fine with stealing but a large civil penalty with copyright infringement.
I dunno, it may be all BS, but a lot of consumer videos start with an FBI warning saying that they will come and get me if I watch the movie wrong with specific criminal punishments/fines, and the like.
As it stands, I think the safest (illegal) way to acquire new music and videos is standard shoplifting. I knew a friend who was big into "quasi-organized" shoplifiting when he was a teenager, and stole tons of crap and when he was caught, he was basically told not to do it again (community service, etc, he was a minor).
A minor caught today with a shared drive with some Britney Spears MP3s may never see the light of day. Or will never get out of debt for the fines and court costs.
Good old fashioned theft seems best today. Its less than copy infringement.
DRM tends to punish your paying customers as much (or more) than those stealing it. When your business model punishes your customer the result will be decline and eventually failure.
This is so true.
I think everything is more or less on a continuum. I don't drive an armored truck, but the banks use them. I don't have a safe in my house (I think I should more for fire, but thats irrelevant), but most businesses have safes.
As it stands now, an overpriced CD needs to have unbreakable end to end DRM (and it should cost more!).
No, CDs are disposable, commodity crap, and should be priced as such and the cost should be low enough and the ease of legally acquiring said CD should be easy enough that torrent sites should not be the most efficient and cost effective means of acquiring the material.
I download whole "discography" torrents, especially for older artists, because I want to take a look at their whole career. There is no affordable "legal" comparible product on the market. Some of these box sets, are way overpriced, same with TV series on DVD. I told my mom outright not to buy me any more X-Files on DVD because they were $100/season and not worth the money, even if it wasn't my money.
I think the best alternative, is a service model, where you pay X/month (where X is much less than my income), and you can have access to quality (not MP3) recordings, and when you run out of storage, you delete the crap you don't want, or redownload it if you miss the song or whatever. Hell, offer MP3's at a lower rate, thats fine too. How about DVD-Audio? Sure, there are the great multi-channel, and really high bitrate DVD-Audio, but guess what? They can have standard "CD quality" 2 channel 16bit/44.1kHz PCM data, but at CD quality there are about 6 CDs worth of music on DVD-Audio.
Most commuters have to change a typical CD or listen to it again before going to and from work. The format is too short considering the technologies out there.
There are so many options (including the sue your customer one), out there, but these assfucks would try to push 8-tracks on us if they could. Lets get with the times people! I mean, wax cylinders and cassettes and 78 RPM records went away for a reason. There was superior technology out there, and the public wanted that.
Today, there is superior technology out ther, and the public still wants it, but the media "owners" are not meeting the demands of the industry, and they should either adopt or simply go out of business -- just like any other industry.
If you played at the big table, you'd understand.
/rant
I'd be all for filling my pockets if that were the case.
The thing is that like in my area peanuts were subsidized by the government for basically ever. They stopped the subsidies, and many of the farms (think Planters, peanuts) went out of business due to foreign competition. Some of the American peanuts are actually better, and growing those is still practical, but the generic peanuts can be grown in other places cheaper.
The sad thing about subsidies, is they are like welfare or whatever. You become dependant upon them, and then when the rug is pulled from under your feet, you don't know what to do.
In a free economy, these subsidies don't exist. With corn, its great for feeding people and animals (minus the HFC, sugar is better), but with the interest in biofuels, the whole thing is being muddied by these subsidies. Its impossible to tell what the price of corn is.
Oh, and Mickey Mouse will be just OK. I mean how much money does Disney make off of Steam Boat Willie today? Copyright (and patents) have a place, but the Happy Birthday copyright is just silly. Many patents are silly. Its not the method or the idea that is really important, its the public's desire for said method and idea, and the ability to satisy that demand at a reasonable price. Which means not just thinking, but actually doing and producing.
Damn, beat me to it, the 4th amendment is in my buffer waiting to be pasted.
Also, what I don't get is if the government is after somebody sooooo bad, why is it such a burden to get a warrant?
I mean, many of my emails (and
So, Big Brother, what is so difficult about getting a warrant? Also, I don't want you wasting your time reading people's email. When there is a crime, there is always evidence after the fact. Take said evidence, get a warrant, and abide by the law, like everybody else is supposed to do.
I find it funny how nobody says anything like "Let's get those terrorists!"
I don't think its worth the president's time and efforts (nor things like what they did to Clinton) to investigate stuff. Bush got away with it, deal with it.
I would look into getting back the middle class.
I would look into alternative energy sources.
I would look into limiting the power of those special interest lobby groups. I don't know how they get so much done, but these things are typically NOT in the public's interest, but to a few (rich people's) private interest. It kills me with things like the corn lobby has done.
I would look into health issues, which in turn means considering drug and alcohol abuse as health issues, not criminal ones.
I would have a few people just conveniently "disappear" (Much easier, quicker and cheaper than investigations and stuff).
I would look into bringing states rights back, instead of the trend for the feds to do stuff. State laws are great, because they are like competition in the free market. They can learn from each other. The feds say something, and it takes a LONG time before they admit they were wrong (if ever). Its much easier to change states than countries.
I would end the Iraq war (duh).
I would also never get elected. I'm almost 100% in line with Ron Paul, but it seems like he has no chance to win. I'm not even near a Republican, but RP is sharp, and its ashame that someone like him cannot get elected. Maybe look into election reform? Multi-party system? I dunno. Like I said, even if I was squeaky clean, I would (and never the people I support) seem to get elected, so I'm in some kind of minority that just does not get any representation.