Given this premise -- perhaps it's not coincidence that the McMartin Preschool witch-hunt took place about the time news media was most rapidly expanding from something you got a half hour of twice a day, to one of the major focuses of local TV stations.
I would put it that the entire foundation upon which government rests is the voluntary protection of individual rights, property, and/or money as the foundation for the common good.
Because the common good comes more from retaining our rights than from giving them up.
Like, any Walmart. Perhaps as many as 3000 people in the store at any given time, lots of flammables, and unless you're in the front third of the store, no direct route to the exits (due to the convoluted shelving layout in the middle of the store; you can't get there from here) and can you imagine screening each and every shopper as they enter and exit, confiscating water bottles one by one? Not to mention all those chemicals handily in the laundry and automotive departments; why bring your own when Walmart kindly provides 'em for you?
Yeah, lots easier than an airport.
Or, heck, fly your little Cessna over that packed outdoor sports arena, flinging handfuls of nails and ball-bearings out the window as you pass overhead. Who needs chemicals when you have Home Depot?
I think it'd be a good thing too. Not only as you say, his child having lost its way, but because it's one less target for stockholder speculation in an industry that doesn't need any more boom and bust.
In my observation, the worst threats to individual liberty and property rights don't come from above anyway -- they come from little tin gods at the local level (who are necessary to enforce laws from on high as well). City and county zoning and planning, regulatory and local commissioners are the most destructive forces. They're the ones that implement and enforce what the state and federal laws allow (and sometimes beyond), and have the boots on the ground to enforce their edicts.
I could give you a whole slew of examples from Los Angeles County alone, but the most broad and egregious in recent times was an edict about privately-owned wells. I'm no longer there to hear it firsthand but I gather the gist is they've decided the county owns the ground water (there don't seem to be any water rights per se) and therefore own your well. In an area where without private wells, rural land is worthless and uninhabitable. I suppose they plan to enforce this by putting a meter on every well and charging by the gallon, and no doubt our tax bills (I still own property there) will get dinged those costs, at the usual 3x-the-going-rate that contractors to the county wind up being paid. Meanwhile, we still get to absorb the power bills and the cost of building and maintanance (an average rural well there costs $40,000 or more in the first place, plus another 10 grand any time the pump goes out). Meanwhile, a lot of poor rural housing (mostly owner-occupied) was declared illegal for lack of permits that were not required when the houses were built... funny how land speculators were sniffing along right after this'un.
Conversely, a couple years ago Cascade County MT (where I grew up) decided that 90% of their local regulations were variously BS or cruft, and simplified them as much as possible. So if you want to live in a railroad car, go for it. I worked with them on some aspects of the new codes.
I'd actually given that some thought -- if I wind up in one of the smaller counties, the population is small enough that if I ran for public office, I could campaign literally door-to-door to every household. (And if I did -- I figure my duty as a representative is not "this is what I'll do for you", but rather, "what do you need?")
Montana may have no access to a seaport, but it controls a good part of the national rail network, and has sufficient resources for export tariffs, and that no citizen ever need go hungry.
And I don't see distance as a drawback -- what business does the state have regulating anything larger than a county, which in MT are about the size of NH?:)
I've wondered why they chose NH for that -- seems to me a state with more resources and more space, and already more rooted in a culture of freedom and independence, might have been more appropriate, not to mention having more ability to sustain itself if need be. WY or MT or ND, maybe.
So, don't help them grow their own vit.A, but provide it as a 'fix' off the Walgreen shelf? How is that not creating a dependency?
Further, do you think that vit.A on the Walgreen shelves got there for free? Not hardly, and very likely the processes for manufacturing it are encumbered by their own patents, not only for materials production but also the tools involved.
My first thought was difference in room temperature, warmer therefore higher evaporation in the router room, which means even given the same water, the seedlings dried out and died almost immediately after sprouting. Which is what the pic looks like, too.
What are the numbers on hot air balloons? That's basically the same principle -- displace cooler air with less dense hot air, ie. less of it in the same space.
Does it actually need to be vacuum, tho? How about just pumping out =some= of the air to achieve sufficient buoyancy? basically a hot-air balloon via pump rather than heater.
Do they tack into the wind or what, when they have to fight prevailing winds? (Or would it be more cost-effective and not much slower to simply go round the globe downwind?)
And I'm wondering why the compressed-gas notion never came into play back in the Graf Zeppelin days...??
If I dig a pond, and fill it with water I own rights to, and pay property taxes on that land, then buy fish from a hatchery and stock my own pond with fish I paid for -- I still need a fishing license to fish in my own pond for my own fish.
How does that have anything to do with overfishing? since I provided 100% of their habitat out of my own pocket, and paid for the fish as well??
"Basically, you have reached a conclusion without actually knowing the facts of the case, and then reinterpreted the evidence to support your conclusion."
Isn't that precisely what "parallel construction" does to create "evidence" ?? Isn't that what slashdotters were roundly condemning just a couple weeks ago ??
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Until they tie 'em into the car's ignition interlock...
Simpler than that, how the hell does your mechanic test-drive or even move your car within his shop?
And if he's got an override gadget... soon enough so will the bad guys. (Define 'bad guys' however you wish.)
Which is to say... Remove the one you KNOW about.
Which is all dandy cuz that's data you aren't going to need next year, or give a damn about backing up.
"This is a reminder that the government is to serve the People, not the other way around."
Exactly.
Given this premise -- perhaps it's not coincidence that the McMartin Preschool witch-hunt took place about the time news media was most rapidly expanding from something you got a half hour of twice a day, to one of the major focuses of local TV stations.
I would put it that the entire foundation upon which government rests is the voluntary protection of individual rights, property, and/or money as the foundation for the common good.
Because the common good comes more from retaining our rights than from giving them up.
Or more accurately, could bust into =everyone's= house looking for possible bad guys...
I wonder what would happen if one were to arrive at the screening station wearing a t-shirt with "U.S.Code Title 18 Sec. 241-242" emblazoned on it.
Like, any Walmart. Perhaps as many as 3000 people in the store at any given time, lots of flammables, and unless you're in the front third of the store, no direct route to the exits (due to the convoluted shelving layout in the middle of the store; you can't get there from here) and can you imagine screening each and every shopper as they enter and exit, confiscating water bottles one by one? Not to mention all those chemicals handily in the laundry and automotive departments; why bring your own when Walmart kindly provides 'em for you?
Yeah, lots easier than an airport.
Or, heck, fly your little Cessna over that packed outdoor sports arena, flinging handfuls of nails and ball-bearings out the window as you pass overhead. Who needs chemicals when you have Home Depot?
I think it'd be a good thing too. Not only as you say, his child having lost its way, but because it's one less target for stockholder speculation in an industry that doesn't need any more boom and bust.
In my observation, the worst threats to individual liberty and property rights don't come from above anyway -- they come from little tin gods at the local level (who are necessary to enforce laws from on high as well). City and county zoning and planning, regulatory and local commissioners are the most destructive forces. They're the ones that implement and enforce what the state and federal laws allow (and sometimes beyond), and have the boots on the ground to enforce their edicts.
I could give you a whole slew of examples from Los Angeles County alone, but the most broad and egregious in recent times was an edict about privately-owned wells. I'm no longer there to hear it firsthand but I gather the gist is they've decided the county owns the ground water (there don't seem to be any water rights per se) and therefore own your well. In an area where without private wells, rural land is worthless and uninhabitable. I suppose they plan to enforce this by putting a meter on every well and charging by the gallon, and no doubt our tax bills (I still own property there) will get dinged those costs, at the usual 3x-the-going-rate that contractors to the county wind up being paid. Meanwhile, we still get to absorb the power bills and the cost of building and maintanance (an average rural well there costs $40,000 or more in the first place, plus another 10 grand any time the pump goes out). Meanwhile, a lot of poor rural housing (mostly owner-occupied) was declared illegal for lack of permits that were not required when the houses were built... funny how land speculators were sniffing along right after this'un.
Conversely, a couple years ago Cascade County MT (where I grew up) decided that 90% of their local regulations were variously BS or cruft, and simplified them as much as possible. So if you want to live in a railroad car, go for it. I worked with them on some aspects of the new codes.
I'd actually given that some thought -- if I wind up in one of the smaller counties, the population is small enough that if I ran for public office, I could campaign literally door-to-door to every household. (And if I did -- I figure my duty as a representative is not "this is what I'll do for you", but rather, "what do you need?")
Montana may have no access to a seaport, but it controls a good part of the national rail network, and has sufficient resources for export tariffs, and that no citizen ever need go hungry.
And I don't see distance as a drawback -- what business does the state have regulating anything larger than a county, which in MT are about the size of NH? :)
I've wondered why they chose NH for that -- seems to me a state with more resources and more space, and already more rooted in a culture of freedom and independence, might have been more appropriate, not to mention having more ability to sustain itself if need be. WY or MT or ND, maybe.
So, don't help them grow their own vit.A, but provide it as a 'fix' off the Walgreen shelf? How is that not creating a dependency?
Further, do you think that vit.A on the Walgreen shelves got there for free? Not hardly, and very likely the processes for manufacturing it are encumbered by their own patents, not only for materials production but also the tools involved.
My first thought was difference in room temperature, warmer therefore higher evaporation in the router room, which means even given the same water, the seedlings dried out and died almost immediately after sprouting. Which is what the pic looks like, too.
Good info, thanks!
I do hope the current effort succeeds. All sorts of practical uses for a heavy lifter that doesn't need roads.
What are the numbers on hot air balloons? That's basically the same principle -- displace cooler air with less dense hot air, ie. less of it in the same space.
Does it actually need to be vacuum, tho? How about just pumping out =some= of the air to achieve sufficient buoyancy? basically a hot-air balloon via pump rather than heater.
Do they tack into the wind or what, when they have to fight prevailing winds? (Or would it be more cost-effective and not much slower to simply go round the globe downwind?)
And I'm wondering why the compressed-gas notion never came into play back in the Graf Zeppelin days...??
This is state law in Montana:
If I dig a pond, and fill it with water I own rights to, and pay property taxes on that land, then buy fish from a hatchery and stock my own pond with fish I paid for -- I still need a fishing license to fish in my own pond for my own fish.
How does that have anything to do with overfishing? since I provided 100% of their habitat out of my own pocket, and paid for the fish as well??
"Basically, you have reached a conclusion without actually knowing the facts of the case, and then reinterpreted the evidence to support your conclusion."
Isn't that precisely what "parallel construction" does to create "evidence" ?? Isn't that what slashdotters were roundly condemning just a couple weeks ago ??
So we're all in agreement, even if there was confusion during quick-and-dirty slashdot conversation.
So then -- explain what you meant??