Most of the fishing accesses I know of around Bozeman are just wide spots along the highway where it happens to cross a river. I'd like to know how they think they're going to close 'em, even those on public land. -- I haven't seen anyone guarding the access over here at Fairweather (north of Three Forks), but if they did, that would go to show how ridiculous this is -- under normal conditions, there's no one 'guarding' it anyway; it's just a dirt road down to the riverbank, with a pile of concrete and rocks that does duty as a boat ramp, and if you fall in the river that's your problem.
If you go into an unsupervised national park, you are only doing what we all used to do, up until a few decades ago. No one was there to keep us 'safe' but our own common sense.
I'm reminded of the current fad of helicopter parenting, except applied by the gov't to adults, in case there *might* be Scary Places.
I had the same thought. Instead of affecting everyone, just have their own private network for their private content. Subscribe to the VPN, get its content and its DRM. That will protect their content about as well as can be (assuming there'll be some breaks in the system, but that's not our problem) and does no harm to the rest of us.
Hosting isn't bought by the day, or even the month most of the time. Even my piddly little webhosting account is bought by the block of six months. Do you seriously think a shutdown saved anything on their probably-annual hosting contract??
The Park Service appears to be closing streets on mere whim and caprice. The rangers even closed the parking lot at Mount Vernon, where the plantation home of George Washington is a favorite tourist destination. That was after they barred the new World War II memorial on the Mall to veterans of World War II. But the government does not own Mount Vernon; it is privately owned by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association. The ladies bought it years ago to preserve it as a national memorial. The feds closed access to the parking lots this week, even though the lots are jointly owned with the Mount Vernon ladies. The rangers are from the government, and they're only here to help.
So you wanna fix this? Don't apply Obamacare to the oppositions' districts. Apply it only where people want it (well, at least where their representative says they want it).
Side thought: I do wonder about the overreach into intrastate commerce.
I don't have insurance, because I can't afford it. (Check out what it costs if you're self-employed. It's more than I make.) Last time I needed emergency medical services, I paid for it out of my own pocket, and it was still only a fraction of the cost of a single month's insurance.
If I'm forced to buy this mandated insurance -- fact is I'll have to stop eating. Cuz there's no room in the budget for it, and because I do own a pot to pee in, per the gov't site I'm not eligible for the waiver thing. Guess it's time to retire, blow my savings, and go on welfare.
Not only that, but consider the fact that 99% of the USDA site is informational -- it takes care of itself and is changed seldom to never. At worst it uses a little bandwidth, which I'm sure the gov't buys in bulk, so a website shutdown is negligible savings. To the contrary -- someone (probably a marketing specialist) was paid to write that prejudicial and inflammatory copy on the shutdown page.
I expect you're right about it costing more to 'shut down' some of these depts, than just leaving stuff to take care of itself would have. Do they really believe the parks will implode if they're not watched over every minute of every day?!
You might also enjoy http://www.usa.gov/shutdown.shtml Note the prejudicial language, and the inverted descriptions (so it *sounds* like essential services are shut down, and only if you read to the end of each blurb do you learn that THOSE services are not affected).
My guess is they hired a marketing consultant to write this.
Now that you mention it, I vaguely recall that there *have* been lawsuits over mail that got used by some 3rd party, such as the recipient showing it to a tabloid. I believe at least one tried to call it 'copyright infringement', given that under current US law, anything you write is automatically copyrighted.
And while I agree with you, I think the issue is more fundamental; it's inherent in free speech: once I speak (mail, email, whatever) words, I can't bring them back, nor prevent someone else from 'quoting' (scanning, reusing) my words -- short of resorting to the courts, like this.
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Most of the fishing accesses I know of around Bozeman are just wide spots along the highway where it happens to cross a river. I'd like to know how they think they're going to close 'em, even those on public land. -- I haven't seen anyone guarding the access over here at Fairweather (north of Three Forks), but if they did, that would go to show how ridiculous this is -- under normal conditions, there's no one 'guarding' it anyway; it's just a dirt road down to the riverbank, with a pile of concrete and rocks that does duty as a boat ramp, and if you fall in the river that's your problem.
If you go into an unsupervised national park, you are only doing what we all used to do, up until a few decades ago. No one was there to keep us 'safe' but our own common sense.
I'm reminded of the current fad of helicopter parenting, except applied by the gov't to adults, in case there *might* be Scary Places.
The reason article mentions a link..
http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/sitemap.shtm
This goes to the obvious sitemap.
Which works fine for a few seconds, until it magically redirects to the "no one home" notice.
In meatspace, it puts a halt on anyone in uniform, unless they have a valid warrant. I've seen it work, even with an out-of-control dept.
The fbi.gov page under "violation of rights" is the best explanation I've seen in normalspeak.
No. I make about a third of that, but I own enough assets that per the form I messed with, I don't qualify.
"...the exchange will send the money directly to the insurer every month."
Gotta love a guaranteed income.
Privacy is what tells you you're a person, rather than being property. Property can be 'inspected' any time the owner wishes.
Somewhat in anticipation of unwanted tracking of this nature, I have a new user-agent in my browser, which reads:
U.S.Code/Title 18 Sec.241-242
While the cite was meant for meatspace, I see no reason it shouldn't apply in cyberspace.
I had the same thought. Instead of affecting everyone, just have their own private network for their private content. Subscribe to the VPN, get its content and its DRM. That will protect their content about as well as can be (assuming there'll be some breaks in the system, but that's not our problem) and does no harm to the rest of us.
Use 'value' instead of 'wealth' and see if people understand better. My car's value doesn't go up just because the price does.
Me, I want to know where they're buying web hosting by the day. ;)
Annual contract, more likely.
See also
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/pruden100413.php3
and
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell100413.php3
[In my observation, Mr.Sowell is rarely wrong.]
Hosting isn't bought by the day, or even the month most of the time. Even my piddly little webhosting account is bought by the block of six months. Do you seriously think a shutdown saved anything on their probably-annual hosting contract??
"The majority still accept government authority, period."
And there's the problem. The power is no longer with The People.
They even helpfully closed parks they don't own!
from http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/pruden100413.php3
The Park Service appears to be closing streets on mere whim and caprice. The rangers even closed the parking lot at Mount Vernon, where the plantation home of George Washington is a favorite tourist destination. That was after they barred the new World War II memorial on the Mall to veterans of World War II. But the government does not own Mount Vernon; it is privately owned by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association. The ladies bought it years ago to preserve it as a national memorial. The feds closed access to the parking lots this week, even though the lots are jointly owned with the Mount Vernon ladies. The rangers are from the government, and they're only here to help.
I do wonder if suppliers, being savvy about this timing, raise prices just in time to benefit from it.
Sure, but how many? Tenth of a percent or so, at a reasonable guess? :(
Which I only believe if they pay for hosting by the day. Since it's more likely an annual contract...
So you wanna fix this? Don't apply Obamacare to the oppositions' districts. Apply it only where people want it (well, at least where their representative says they want it).
Side thought: I do wonder about the overreach into intrastate commerce.
I don't have insurance, because I can't afford it. (Check out what it costs if you're self-employed. It's more than I make.) Last time I needed emergency medical services, I paid for it out of my own pocket, and it was still only a fraction of the cost of a single month's insurance.
If I'm forced to buy this mandated insurance -- fact is I'll have to stop eating. Cuz there's no room in the budget for it, and because I do own a pot to pee in, per the gov't site I'm not eligible for the waiver thing. Guess it's time to retire, blow my savings, and go on welfare.
The very people whose pay should get halted FIRST.
Not only that, but consider the fact that 99% of the USDA site is informational -- it takes care of itself and is changed seldom to never. At worst it uses a little bandwidth, which I'm sure the gov't buys in bulk, so a website shutdown is negligible savings. To the contrary -- someone (probably a marketing specialist) was paid to write that prejudicial and inflammatory copy on the shutdown page.
I expect you're right about it costing more to 'shut down' some of these depts, than just leaving stuff to take care of itself would have. Do they really believe the parks will implode if they're not watched over every minute of every day?!
You might also enjoy
http://www.usa.gov/shutdown.shtml
Note the prejudicial language, and the inverted descriptions (so it *sounds* like essential services are shut down, and only if you read to the end of each blurb do you learn that THOSE services are not affected).
My guess is they hired a marketing consultant to write this.
Also I'm wondering how long before these drops become 'targets' for law enforcement.
Now that you mention it, I vaguely recall that there *have* been lawsuits over mail that got used by some 3rd party, such as the recipient showing it to a tabloid. I believe at least one tried to call it 'copyright infringement', given that under current US law, anything you write is automatically copyrighted.
And while I agree with you, I think the issue is more fundamental; it's inherent in free speech: once I speak (mail, email, whatever) words, I can't bring them back, nor prevent someone else from 'quoting' (scanning, reusing) my words -- short of resorting to the courts, like this.
Congratulations. You've reinvented FidoNet.
Someone also once pointed out that a great deal of what's hawked as 'ethnic delicacy' is actually 'starving peasant food' in its region of origin.