We had a politician running for President that said we should close these bases. He asked the question, "Why are we sending tens of billions of dollars, no strings attached, to Pakistan, which gets funneled to terrorist, which we then turn around and spend more money to fight?"
He was laughed off the debate stage as a loon, supposedly because some of his supporters claimed that 9/11 was an inside job. He got MUCH more support than that media darling, Guilliani, but it was repeatedly claimed that he didn't have a chance.
I expect the same thing to happen in the next election. Anyone that opposes the centralization and consolidation of power will be smeared.
You obviously aren't paying attention to what is going on. I say this, because you seem to be assuming that we are headed to ANY sort of security measures. It has been quite clear for a while that what we're headed toward is security theater designed to cowl the public, and enrich some well connect x-ray machine manufactures.
Janet Napolean has just added a different dimension to this power move. She is "actively promoting research into the psychology of how a terrorist becomes radicalized". Uh-huh? And what will she do with this new psychological information? Can you say "re-education camps"? Any chance that they will find those "evil Christians" and other conservatives are being radicallized?
He didn't try a handful of "random" restaurants. He tried a few restaurants within walking distance of a university. I don't think any of the best restaurants in my city are anywhere near any university. The available clientel doesn't seem to be able to afford or care for real food.
Funny, the authentic German foods I've tried I found disgusting. I detest authentic Italian, French food is pretty but tastless, and I fail at understanding how the English haven't all starved to death. Same with the authentic Indian restaurants. I do like the authentic Chinese restaurants, and I find the Mexican places to be fair to middlin'.
You don't think that it might have something to do with being socialized to the type of food you grew up with? Nawh! Much better for your karma to bash American food.
That would be a hard one, apqvist. Unfortunately, not charging the hijacker will mean the child dies when the plane flies into some random political target. Would you stand by and let the child die in a fiery plane crash?
BTW, what commercial airline do you fly on where there is 20ft of free space, anywhere? Even in first class, all the flights I've been on have people packed shoulder to shoulder.
There were reports last night that the terrorist are making statements to the fact that they are laughing their asses off right now. They spend a few thousand putting some C4 in a printer cartridge. We spend BILLIONS to treat the entire flying population like cattle. Some pundit came on to say that he thought they were blustering. The terrorist are defeated and this was just an attempt to try to claim a victory.
WTF!! They fucking WON! They spent basically nothing, and risked less. I get to spend hours waiting in a line to be gate-raped by someone in a government make-work program. From the jack-ass terrorists point of view, THAT'S FUNNY!! No way in hell they are dumb enough to go screwing with the situation now. They've got us where they want us.
And state clearly that if the inspector touches your junk, you're going to send them a bill, just like all your other customers. Just because they're the TSA does not entitle them to a freebie.
Murder would still be illegal Mr.. Just because you impose a "one child per family" limit does not mean parents would be allowed to go throwing unwanted babies in dumpsters.
Nor do you have to be a psychoanalyst to figure out what motivates Senator Hatch.
This will make the heads of tea-party voters watching Fox News explode (implode?), a conservative senator who wants to create more government debt and bigger government.
Huh? The Tea Party was motivated into action by "conservative senator[s] who wants to create more government debt and bigger government". They were able to replace many of them in the past election. Why the hell would it make their heads explode at this point?
Furthermore, consider how the old school Republicans are trying their best to diminish the power of the Tea Party candidates. The were refusing to support Renee Elmers in the recount process until they were called out on it. From their perspective, they had enough votes for a majority, and didn't need to lose even more control.
But the cable company doesn't sell me an infinite resource. They clearly sell me a stated amount of bandwidth. If they don't have the resources to service the bandwidth for which they are collecting compensation, they should be arrested for theft.
The TSA agent I know personally (brother of a friend) came running out at a party to show me his badge like a child who had won a participation trophy.
The screening I went through, the screeners looked like they were vagrants who were given uniforms for the day. They rudely dumped the contents of my wife's purse on a counter, then piled it on top of the purse and handed it back to her. The other three agents just stood around slouching.
The TSA is the most unprofessional bunch of jokers I've ever run across. I smile pleasantly at them, because I know the goons have the ability to make my life very difficult while I'm under tight time constraints.
So the hijackers need to arrange for a seat right at the front, wait for that door to be opened, then jump up and charge through it in the few seconds before it gets slammed closed again. That's a very risky plan. It would take great luck to pull off.
That needs to be amended:
then jump up and charge through it while wrestling his way past the pilot/flight attendant that is currently in the doorway, and doesn't know what you're up to, but will still be angry from being groped "for security" and is now even angrier that he/she went through the groping but still some idiot terrorist wannabe got on the plane and is trying to invade the cockpit in the few seconds before it gets slammed closed again. Meanwhile, the other pissed off passengers in first class have taken note of the terrorist actions, and are in a mood to do some groping of their own, which involves the terrorist's kidneys.
I'm just sayin' that people have about reached the end of their patience.
The difference is that the cosmic radiation I get will be traded for a benefit. I will actually get somewhere. The hit I take from their machines gets me nothing. The only thing the machines do is empower the police state by getting people more accustomed to being subjugated.
Post 9/11, how many shots do you think the terrorist would get off before being swamped by an onslaught of angry fists, ala any zombie movie you care to watch. A few people would die, but the terrorist would begin to reconsider once the bloody, mangled, bacon swabbed body of their late comrade was dragged out for display.
That would be the logical conclusion of the argument. The modifier is that it is not possible to have a society without SOME form of government. If a duly elected representative government pulled back completely and decided not to provide police services, then gang leaders would arise and impose their own controls (it has occurred in every instance where there has ever been a power vacuum).
The point is to acknowledge the fact that requiring someone to build a ramp is in fact conscripted labor. It is not being built by pink fluffy bunnies. Admit that we are trading one ugliness for another, and then find some way to codify when and how we demand work from one set of people to benefit another set.
What I see now is people saying, "srand($X) is bad. Let's make srand($Y) pay to fix it. Except, I don't like how much it is hurting srand($Z), so let's make an exception for them." To me, that is just an ugly way to write an algorithm or run a society.
The purpose of OUR government is supposed to be to expose the power and allow it to be controlled by the people. Concentrating the power, as has been happening over the last generation, allows fewer and fewer people to control it.
I keep hearing the Republican leadership say that the Tea Party wanted to reduce spending. The emphasize that point ad nauseum. What they keep trying to ignore is that the Tea Party strongly emphasized reducing government. There is a close recount here in NC between Renee Elmers and Eldridge (sp?). The Republican National Committee was initially refusing to support her. She was a Tea Party supported candidate. It seemed clear to me that the Republican leadership's stance was clear. "We'll let the Tea Party candidates play, as long as we get enough R's to have a majority, but we don't want to many of them screwing up the games we're playing."
I'm going to keep voting for Tea Party candidates as long as they keep talking about rolling back government. Not every bat-shit crazy idea they come up with will get passed, but there will be some backpressure against the current leaders that have never met a government program that they didn't like.
I read the article. It is very clear that the pilot is not an mechanical engineer.
A door built of.050 6061-T6 aluminum, constructed with recessed hinges and a flush mount doorknob, removable reinforcement ribs that were not attached to the door skin on the pilot's side, and installed flush to the door jamb with a pressure seal would overcome every objection he raised. From the pilot side, a simple shoulder push would make the door skin fold out like cardboard. The unattached ribs slide out of their slots in the door frame, and the pilot walks away. From the passenger side, there wouldn't be anything to hold onto to pull it, so it would be VERY difficult to pull the skin off the frame. Pushing it shoves the skin against the ribs, whose retaining slots do not go all the way through the door.
A passenger cabin depressurization would suck the skin out as easily as the pilot could push it out.
In non-emergency use, the door, locked from the pilot's side, works like any other door.
The door would weigh about the same as the cardboard contraptions they use now. I could make one in my workshop in a day or so. For the airlines, this would be trivial.
That feels good to say, but do I have a RIGHT to demand that I make your life easy enough live without assistance. You have a RIGHT to not be forced into slave labor. How do you have a RIGHT to demand work from me? Yes, your wheelchair bound life would be much easier if I do things to accommodate you. No doubt about that. The question is if you have a RIGHT to demand that I do those things, because if you can force me to do those things on demand, then it is slave labor.
Your assumption is that the laws will be used to force compliance with the ADA and help the disabled. How naive.
The law will be used to: -raise the entry bar for new competitors -eliminate competition from all of those pesky small sellers -eliminate free speech -demonize target groups
You don't understand the mindset of these people. They are in control, and if you don't want to comply with their demands, then you are obviously just a "greedy capitalist". Remember that nothing is impossible for the person that doesn't have to do the work.
Consider Obama's moratorium on oil production in the Gulf of Mexico. Whether it was right or wrong is not the question here. The question is, "What is the impact to the livelihood of people living in the area?". Vallerie Jared is on record as saying something to the effect of the oil will still be there in six months. She was completely oblivious to the exhorbitant daily rate that the oil platforms lease for, the ability to move the platforms to other areas, and the cascading effects of moving the platforms and all the jobs that support them.
Economic consequences are secondary to government functionaries, as they work in a world of regulatory edicts.
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We had a politician running for President that said we should close these bases. He asked the question, "Why are we sending tens of billions of dollars, no strings attached, to Pakistan, which gets funneled to terrorist, which we then turn around and spend more money to fight?"
He was laughed off the debate stage as a loon, supposedly because some of his supporters claimed that 9/11 was an inside job. He got MUCH more support than that media darling, Guilliani, but it was repeatedly claimed that he didn't have a chance.
I expect the same thing to happen in the next election. Anyone that opposes the centralization and consolidation of power will be smeared.
You obviously aren't paying attention to what is going on. I say this, because you seem to be assuming that we are headed to ANY sort of security measures. It has been quite clear for a while that what we're headed toward is security theater designed to cowl the public, and enrich some well connect x-ray machine manufactures.
Janet Napolean has just added a different dimension to this power move. She is "actively promoting research into the psychology of how a terrorist becomes radicalized". Uh-huh? And what will she do with this new psychological information? Can you say "re-education camps"? Any chance that they will find those "evil Christians" and other conservatives are being radicallized?
He didn't try a handful of "random" restaurants. He tried a few restaurants within walking distance of a university. I don't think any of the best restaurants in my city are anywhere near any university. The available clientel doesn't seem to be able to afford or care for real food.
Funny, the authentic German foods I've tried I found disgusting. I detest authentic Italian, French food is pretty but tastless, and I fail at understanding how the English haven't all starved to death. Same with the authentic Indian restaurants. I do like the authentic Chinese restaurants, and I find the Mexican places to be fair to middlin'.
You don't think that it might have something to do with being socialized to the type of food you grew up with? Nawh! Much better for your karma to bash American food.
That would be a hard one, apqvist. Unfortunately, not charging the hijacker will mean the child dies when the plane flies into some random political target. Would you stand by and let the child die in a fiery plane crash?
BTW, what commercial airline do you fly on where there is 20ft of free space, anywhere? Even in first class, all the flights I've been on have people packed shoulder to shoulder.
There were reports last night that the terrorist are making statements to the fact that they are laughing their asses off right now. They spend a few thousand putting some C4 in a printer cartridge. We spend BILLIONS to treat the entire flying population like cattle. Some pundit came on to say that he thought they were blustering. The terrorist are defeated and this was just an attempt to try to claim a victory.
WTF!! They fucking WON! They spent basically nothing, and risked less. I get to spend hours waiting in a line to be gate-raped by someone in a government make-work program. From the jack-ass terrorists point of view, THAT'S FUNNY!! No way in hell they are dumb enough to go screwing with the situation now. They've got us where they want us.
And state clearly that if the inspector touches your junk, you're going to send them a bill, just like all your other customers. Just because they're the TSA does not entitle them to a freebie.
>>>killing less valuable babies
Murder would still be illegal Mr.. Just because you impose a "one child per family" limit does not mean parents would be allowed to go throwing unwanted babies in dumpsters.
Really? Where do they throw the abortion victims?
Nor do you have to be a psychoanalyst to figure out what motivates Senator Hatch.
This will make the heads of tea-party voters watching Fox News explode (implode?), a conservative senator who wants to create more government debt and bigger government.
Huh? The Tea Party was motivated into action by "conservative senator[s] who wants to create more government debt and bigger government". They were able to replace many of them in the past election. Why the hell would it make their heads explode at this point?
Furthermore, consider how the old school Republicans are trying their best to diminish the power of the Tea Party candidates. The were refusing to support Renee Elmers in the recount process until they were called out on it. From their perspective, they had enough votes for a majority, and didn't need to lose even more control.
But the cable company doesn't sell me an infinite resource. They clearly sell me a stated amount of bandwidth. If they don't have the resources to service the bandwidth for which they are collecting compensation, they should be arrested for theft.
The TSA agent I know personally (brother of a friend) came running out at a party to show me his badge like a child who had won a participation trophy.
The screening I went through, the screeners looked like they were vagrants who were given uniforms for the day. They rudely dumped the contents of my wife's purse on a counter, then piled it on top of the purse and handed it back to her. The other three agents just stood around slouching.
The TSA is the most unprofessional bunch of jokers I've ever run across. I smile pleasantly at them, because I know the goons have the ability to make my life very difficult while I'm under tight time constraints.
So the hijackers need to arrange for a seat right at the front, wait for that door to be opened, then jump up and charge through it in the few seconds before it gets slammed closed again. That's a very risky plan. It would take great luck to pull off.
That needs to be amended:
then jump up and charge through it while wrestling his way past the pilot/flight attendant that is currently in the doorway, and doesn't know what you're up to, but will still be angry from being groped "for security" and is now even angrier that he/she went through the groping but still some idiot terrorist wannabe got on the plane and is trying to invade the cockpit in the few seconds before it gets slammed closed again. Meanwhile, the other pissed off passengers in first class have taken note of the terrorist actions, and are in a mood to do some groping of their own, which involves the terrorist's kidneys.
I'm just sayin' that people have about reached the end of their patience.
The difference is that the cosmic radiation I get will be traded for a benefit. I will actually get somewhere. The hit I take from their machines gets me nothing. The only thing the machines do is empower the police state by getting people more accustomed to being subjugated.
No thanks. Freedom is an attitude.
Post 9/11, how many shots do you think the terrorist would get off before being swamped by an onslaught of angry fists, ala any zombie movie you care to watch. A few people would die, but the terrorist would begin to reconsider once the bloody, mangled, bacon swabbed body of their late comrade was dragged out for display.
Not me. There is no way to convince me that these machines have been properly tested.
I'll opt for the pat down, and if the screener goes to feelin' me up, I'm going to bill him and the TSA just like one of my regular customers.
(They're acting like they're doing a great service for our country, but I can't see why that would entitle them to a freebie.)
You have to get that military grade explosives to the correct C-level, so I think the direct answer to your question is, "A suprisingly small amount."
Besides, whatever it costs will be spread across a small increase in gas prices. 8*(
That would be the logical conclusion of the argument. The modifier is that it is not possible to have a society without SOME form of government. If a duly elected representative government pulled back completely and decided not to provide police services, then gang leaders would arise and impose their own controls (it has occurred in every instance where there has ever been a power vacuum).
The point is to acknowledge the fact that requiring someone to build a ramp is in fact conscripted labor. It is not being built by pink fluffy bunnies. Admit that we are trading one ugliness for another, and then find some way to codify when and how we demand work from one set of people to benefit another set.
What I see now is people saying, "srand($X) is bad. Let's make srand($Y) pay to fix it. Except, I don't like how much it is hurting srand($Z), so let's make an exception for them." To me, that is just an ugly way to write an algorithm or run a society.
The purpose of OUR government is supposed to be to expose the power and allow it to be controlled by the people. Concentrating the power, as has been happening over the last generation, allows fewer and fewer people to control it.
I keep hearing the Republican leadership say that the Tea Party wanted to reduce spending. The emphasize that point ad nauseum. What they keep trying to ignore is that the Tea Party strongly emphasized reducing government. There is a close recount here in NC between Renee Elmers and Eldridge (sp?). The Republican National Committee was initially refusing to support her. She was a Tea Party supported candidate. It seemed clear to me that the Republican leadership's stance was clear. "We'll let the Tea Party candidates play, as long as we get enough R's to have a majority, but we don't want to many of them screwing up the games we're playing."
I'm going to keep voting for Tea Party candidates as long as they keep talking about rolling back government. Not every bat-shit crazy idea they come up with will get passed, but there will be some backpressure against the current leaders that have never met a government program that they didn't like.
I read the article. It is very clear that the pilot is not an mechanical engineer.
A door built of .050 6061-T6 aluminum, constructed with recessed hinges and a flush mount doorknob, removable reinforcement ribs that were not attached to the door skin on the pilot's side, and installed flush to the door jamb with a pressure seal would overcome every objection he raised. From the pilot side, a simple shoulder push would make the door skin fold out like cardboard. The unattached ribs slide out of their slots in the door frame, and the pilot walks away. From the passenger side, there wouldn't be anything to hold onto to pull it, so it would be VERY difficult to pull the skin off the frame. Pushing it shoves the skin against the ribs, whose retaining slots do not go all the way through the door.
A passenger cabin depressurization would suck the skin out as easily as the pilot could push it out.
In non-emergency use, the door, locked from the pilot's side, works like any other door.
The door would weigh about the same as the cardboard contraptions they use now. I could make one in my workshop in a day or so. For the airlines, this would be trivial.
Having attended a "historically black college", I would answer with a very enthusiastic YES!
Most blantantly racist place I've ever been in my life.
That feels good to say, but do I have a RIGHT to demand that I make your life easy enough live without assistance. You have a RIGHT to not be forced into slave labor. How do you have a RIGHT to demand work from me? Yes, your wheelchair bound life would be much easier if I do things to accommodate you. No doubt about that. The question is if you have a RIGHT to demand that I do those things, because if you can force me to do those things on demand, then it is slave labor.
Your assumption is that the laws will be used to force compliance with the ADA and help the disabled. How naive.
The law will be used to:
-raise the entry bar for new competitors
-eliminate competition from all of those pesky small sellers
-eliminate free speech
-demonize target groups
You don't understand the mindset of these people. They are in control, and if you don't want to comply with their demands, then you are obviously just a "greedy capitalist". Remember that nothing is impossible for the person that doesn't have to do the work.
Consider Obama's moratorium on oil production in the Gulf of Mexico. Whether it was right or wrong is not the question here. The question is, "What is the impact to the livelihood of people living in the area?". Vallerie Jared is on record as saying something to the effect of the oil will still be there in six months. She was completely oblivious to the exhorbitant daily rate that the oil platforms lease for, the ability to move the platforms to other areas, and the cascading effects of moving the platforms and all the jobs that support them.
Economic consequences are secondary to government functionaries, as they work in a world of regulatory edicts.